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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.
The undernated Steamship Lines beg to announce that, as from the 1st December, 1937,
be there will an increase of Passage Farcs between Europe and the Far East.
Full particulars may be ob
tained on application to the Line
concerned.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1937.
WHEN TRAVELLÄNG
INT
GERMANY
AND ON GERMAN SHIPS
British India Steam. Naviga REDUCE YOUR EXPENSES CONSIDERABLY
tion Co., Ltd.,
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Ltd.,
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GOLF CLUB.
LADIES SECTION,'
NOTICE .
The Annual General Meeting of the Ladies' Section of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club will
be "held in the Helena May Institute, ΟΠ MONDAY, 8th -November, 1937, at 11 a.m.
By Order of the Committee,
By Carrying Our
REICHSMARK TRAVELLERS
CHEQUES
THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC.
Incorporated with Limited Liability in USA.
4, Des Vœux Road, Central,
"THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
The
Tenth Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Saturday, 6th November, 1937, commencing at-2:00-pic.
The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
J. W.-WHYTE SMITH, Hong Kong, 1st Nov., 1937.
Hon. Secretary.
$707
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE
CO., LTD.
HONG KONG.
NOTICE.
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CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN. AND MORTGAGE
CO., LTD. § HONG KONG.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the China Provident Loan and Mortgage
Notice is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Ltd., holding partly paid Co., Ltd., holding fully paid shares will be held at the shares will be held at the Jacobean Room, 1st Floor, Hong Jacobean Room, 1st Floor, Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on Monday, 8th November, 1937 a Monday, 8th November, 1937 a 12.30 o'clock in the afternoon, 12 o'clock noon, when the sub.
when the sub-joined Resolution joined Resolution will be pro will be proposed as a Special posed as a Special Resolution:
Resolution:
That 15,633 shares of $5.60 each of the authorised. Capital of the Company · unissued" be cancelled, and the issued
capital of the Company be reduced from $4,421,835.00 divided into 589,578 shares of $5.00 each fully paid and 294,789 · shares of $5.00 each upon which the sum of $2.50 has been paid 'to $2,210,917.50 divided into 589,578 shares of $2.50 each fully paid and 294,789 shares of $2.50 cách upon which 75 cents per share shall be deemed to have been pald and that such reduction be effected in the following
manner :-
1s
(a) By cancelling Capital which has been lost or unrepresented by available assets to the extent of $2.50
per share upon each of the 589,578 fully pald shares of the Company which have been issued,', and to the extent of $1.75 per share upon each of the 294,789 partly paid -shares-of-the-Company which have been issued. (b) By releasing the holders
the " said partly paid shares which have been lasued from Hlability in respect of their shares. to the ex- tent of 75 cents per share.
of"
294.789
By Order of the Board, 3. C. GUTERRES,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 30th Sept., 1937.
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That 15,633 shares of $5.00
MARRIAGES
BANKS: STEEL-On Oct. 18. 1937. at All Souls', Langham Place, William Eric Banks, son of Mr. Walter Banks and the late Mra: Elizabeth Banks, to Audrey Mabel Pringle Steel, younger daughter of the late J. W. Steel and Mrs. M. Steel, of Hong Kong. BLASON. RAYNEROB Oct. 12. 1937, at St. Brelade Church. Jersey, Charles Henry Blason,
matter of treaties, agreements and pledges has become nau- seatingly notorious, pledges her word to support two dictatorships in Europe and those dragooned nations have given a reciprocal
undertaking: Thus, within the space of a few hours has the international situation been en- tirely altered, and altered for the dismal worse.
Once again it is loft to Britain to take the lead, supported, it i: devoutly to be hoped, by the United States of America, Frane und Russia, and not one of thes great nations is mean enough to
WOOD WIT.
It is worth noting at this stage
that
is
which every nation governed according to a liberal constitution has proved its earn- estress in the cause of peace, whilst every nation governed by the policies of imperialism and dictatorships has perpetrated provocative acts calculated to stir up strife. As nations get the governments they deserve, so it is within the power of each people to expel their puppets whom they have armed with authority. Millions are craving for emancipation. The pity of it is that competent leaders endowed with the requisite courage are lacking-or, on the surface, seem to be. Perhaps in this connection the conference in Brussels will not be entirely abortive if frankness characterises its deliberations and fearlessness its recommendations.
But at this juncture it is reasonable to say quite frankly that the conference is doomed. The "alpha and uniega of the matter is epitomised in the official
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JAPANESE FIRE ON DUMMIES
Clever Ruse Angers Enemy
طيب
Thousands of machine-gun and rifle bullets, several band grenades and other death-dealing missiles were wasted by Japanese armed forces at Range Road in Shang- hal, as the result of a clever ruse of an ingenious on the part
Chinese soldier.
The incident took place directly in front of the Pantheon Theatre. a district until recently held by
the Chinese. When the Japanese attempted to oust the defenders entrenched behind a sandbag and barbed wire barricade there.
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three Chinese soldier rigged up "dummy" soldiers and by means of ropes contrived to constantly move them so effectively that the Japanese were completely fooled. Meanwhile his comrades withdrew to a second barricade some one hundred feet
results.
WHILE HIS COMRADES
MOURNED
"Dead" Squadron Leader Returns
On October 12, six planes set out from Nanking to bomb the Japanese. positions at Tangku, North China. Only five got there. The squadron leader, Major Sun Tung-kang lost his propellor in mid-air and unable to continue, he saluted his comrades and went down. The newspapers chronicled the heroic death of one of China's best pilots,
On October 18 Major Sun re- command
ported for duty, but instead of bringing his plane, he brought a
fine Airedale terrier and a story of vicissitudea
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WHAT HAPPENED
readily. But
before
marching off, Major Sun left in- with the.. curious structions peasants to take good care of his plane, as he would shortly be returning for it. In the event that the Japanese came first, however,
It seems that when the propellor they were to set fire to it. broke, Major Sun and his bomber decided to try and save the plane Instead of baling out with their parachutes, and by means of glid-vincial border awny to watching succeeded in making a perfect land. Fully expecting to fall into the hands of the Japanese, the two airmen were very relieved to find that the only witnesses of their landing were two Chinese peasants and a number of fishermen, who
JAPANESE AROUSED For two hours the Japanese poured rifle and machine-gun fire on the deserted barricade, but the "dummy" soldiers held their own. Thoroughly aroused, the Japanese then detailed 30 men to launch an indicidual attack. but they were driven back by withering machine- gun fire from the second Chinese barricade. Four were killed and seven wounded.
Shortly afterwards a second at- tack was launched with the same results.
Angered by their fallure; the Japanese then decided to conduct the third raid under cover of night. Creeping stealthily. three Japanese
approached within grenade-throwing distance of the barricade, and succeeded in. partially destroying 15.
Triumphant at last, the marines
marines
ENCOUNTER HARDSHIPS During the journey to the pro- which was their destination, the party encounter- ed many hardships. Heavy rains fell, turning the surrounding coun- tryside into a muddy lake. For twenty-four hours they waded through It-shivering, hungry, but still hopeful. During the day they were compelled to go into hiding viewed them with some suspicion. The reason for their attitude, as Japanese snipers were rife in Major Sun explained, was because the vicinity, and at night when these simple country folk. had they resumed their march, they never seen the uniform of airmen had the searchlights from before, and took them to be Japan-Japanese gunboats along the coast ese. Consequently a long argu- to contend with ment ensued in which the country- However, luck was with them and men held stubbornly to the view they arrived at their destination. that no self-respecting Chinese safely, where Major Sun fulfilled ever wore such strange garments! all his promises to the men arid
have
incor- them Fortunately for the two airmen,. arranged to a detachment of Chinese coastal porated in the frontler guards. To guards arrived when the argue-show their gratitude, the guards ment showed signs of becoming volunteered to return, to their l'ugly, and these men were able to original base to help recapture it
convince the peasants that Major for China, Sun and his companion were in-
of Charleston House, St. Aubiz pronouncement of the Japanese rushed the barricade, only to fin deed in the service of China.
(formerly of Hong Kong), to Ann Alice Rayner, of CULT House, St. Aubin, Jersey, ACKNOWLEDGMENT
it deserted except for three lifeless The chagrin of the dummies.
of the plot miny a chuckle to-day!
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Government to the effect that it will not tolerate any interfer- ence by foreign Powers in the attackers is causing the instigator were heading south. They had+bombing. Two passenger couches Mr. and Mrs-Thomas Tam and Sino-Japanese situation." Chinn,
family express their deep--on-the-other-band-has-clearly| gratitude to friends and re-intimated that she is willing to latives for flowers and letters accept the proper mediation of of condolence received during
foreign Powers, thereby demon- their bereavement.
strating her honesty of purpose in Far Eastern affairs.
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BIRTH LANDALE-On November 2, 1937
For our part we feel we are to Louisa wife of David Fechoing the sentiments of liberal
Landale, a daughter.
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each of the authorised Capital he
The Daily Press.
of the Company unissued he cancelled, and the issued
capital of the Company be reduced from - $4,421,835.00 divided into 589,578 shares al i $5.00 each fully paid and- 291,789 shares of $5.00 each i upon which the sum of $2.50 has been paid to $2,210,917.50 divided into 589,578 shares of $2.50 each fully paid and 294,789 shares of $2.50 each upon which 75 cents per share shall be deemed to have been paid and that such reduction be effected in the following
友之國中
HONG KONG, November 3, 1037.
THE DOOMED
CONFERENCE
it is significant and symptom tie that before the delegates have: actually taken their sents at the Nine Powers Treaty Conference table in Brussels that Italy las (a) By cancelling Capital intimated her willingness to join which has been lost or with Germany and Japan in a is unrepresented by pact against Communism, Pui available assets to the in positive, language it amounts
manner:—
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Rose-
DOG LET OUT Captain Yates, residing at No.
4, Humphreys Building, was fined $15 by Mr. K. M. A. Bamett at the Kowloon Police Court yesterday for allowing his bulldog to be seen in Carnarvon Road on October 14 without lead or muzzle.
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Two traffic accidents were re-
ported to the police on Monday, Sub-Inspector Edwards states he -knocked down Leung Ching, 58, at Connaught Road Central as the man was trying to run across the road. He was taken to the Queen Mary Hospital.
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corporate action of free men as by a ruler who has taken over from them the right and barden of decision.
TRAIN BOMBED Major Sun then boarded a train- AIRMAN TAKES COMMAND for Nanking, but his adventures. The coastal guards comprised did not end there. During the some 200, led by a captain, and journey the train was subjected to evacuated a northern port when zuffered as a consequence, but the locomotive being the Japanese took possession, and owing to their leader had deserted them, to spared, the train was eventually-- serve the enemy they sald. Some able to proceed on its way. were accompanied by their wives and children, to say nothing about an Airedale terrier, which later became the protege of Major Sun.
The guards had
defnite plans, either, did they have any money or food. They were clad in thin cotton uniforms despite the cold, so when Major Sun promised them work, food, warm clothing and a hearty welcome in his na tive province, they fell under his
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THE JEAN WEEMS INCIDENT
Arrived at his headquarters' base, Major Bun said: "We are all pre- pared to worry the life out of the enemy all along "the coast, but I haven't haven't had a bath and changed my shirt for days, so I'll remedy that little matter first. We've got to be clean to make a clean job of it." With this face- tious remark he left headquarters closely followed by his newly ac quired canine pet,
FOREIGN LANGUAGE.
minded people when we declare that the great masses of the world are heartily sick and tired Lof all the ridiculous
stepping, fag-flapping nonsense which has given so much free copy" to directors of amusement concerns during the past few months. Its very childishness is pitiable. How grown men in
London, Nov. 2, their sober senses con wilfully
Asked in the House of Commons make such fools of themselves is
for a statement regarding the absolutely incomprehensible. Britain is regarded by the bombing and sinking of the s
Apparently the tolerance of the world in general as the test case. Jean Weems, Mr. Anthony Eden, liberal nations of the world in It is the State in which the Foreign Secretary, stated that the British Ambassador at Hendaye regard to the goose-stepping principle of voluntary action is
had already lodged Burong flag-Happers has given those most ingrained, and it is the protest with the Insurgent au- masters of burlesque the im-community whose safety and thorities, who have undertaken at pression that they are anth fear-wealth are
make a most searching most conspicuously once to fully awe-inspiring fellows that exposed to new hazards by the Inquiry, and the British Consul at they have scared the world stiff.
Barcelona had been instructed to emergence of Air Power and submit a full report .concerning representatives abroad bad led to Any stiffness occasioned by other factors. Our whole dis- the incident. them has been on account of position leans to giving freedom
Meanwhile, the British Govern- laughter.
ment was establishing contact and spontaneity the fullest play. Perhaps this doomed 'conference both in personal life and
with the French Government with a view to considering arrange- in Brussels will bring the whole industrial enterprise. The sements international mess up to a head.
measures to strengthen cess of that method depends on against alr attack now in force We hope so. The sooner the whether the citizen will of his under the Nyon Agreement. tion in the Far East and in which is obtained claewhere by what was intended. He repiled present most unsatisfactory posi-own accord perform the service Mr. Eden was asked whether Europe is straightened-out the compulsion, and whether trades that it was exactly how he should better. The world is sickening and industries will adapt thema- regard it on his present informa- through lack of security.
$2.50 extent of
per to an agreement to stand-united | PHYSICAL FITNESS/ share upon each of the for Fasciam, Nusism and Im-1 AND MORAL IDEALS 589,578 fully paid shares perialism against the Populai Front.
of the Company. which have been issued, and
to the extent of $1.75
of
the
This sabre-rattling challenge
The Prime Minister, when he
in
this case of piracy was typical of
selves to the ends of common tion.- prosperity no effectively as under Reuter.. the "centralised dictatorship.
measares of
The test of whether spontani- eous patriotism and public spirit
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bave
-GENERAL CHU
Shanghal, Nov. 2: General Chu spoke in Manchester recently, exist in our democracy to a Yao-hua, a divisional commander. to the Democracies of the world found his text in the familiar sufficient degree. confronts
who was seriously wounded in at- per share upon each of would be humourous but for the issue of Liberty and Authority. I here and now. We do not re- tempting to commit suicide on the 294,789 partly paid fact that it is well known that Nothing distinguirhes nations quire a gigantic Army upon the October 28, for the fall of Tazang, shares of the Compatty even fools have to be taken more sharply than the ratio in scale of the Great War, because is not yet out of danger, according
to a hospital report. which have been issued. Į seriously, sometimes when there which these respective principles the strategic conditions
The bullet which penetrated his (b) By releasing the holders is a likelihood of their, making divide the control of life. Whole wholly changed. But we need a ribs has been extracted but there peoples, Mr. Chamberlain sufficiency of trained men for are still bits of a broken bone sald 294,789 | mischief. partly paid shares which China has striven for peace as said, "have willingly given up combatant service, and, in the lodged in between the ribs and a have been issued from no other nation, with the notable their liberty in order to secure
case of the Army and the Terri-broken blood vessel in his chest has not yet been successfully closed Every efficiency." Half of Europe has torial Force we are a long way liability in respect of exception of Britain.
up, the report states. of having them. If their shares to the ex-nation in the world has appre- become convinced that the two short.
It has now been revealed that tent of 75 cents per ciated the genuineness and things are incompatible, and in "liberty" proves to be all but two regimental commanders Col righteousnes of, Her plea and the other half there are many universally interpreted as the Chin Lin and Col Pang Han-chen It is admittedly, right to throw the protection of and one battalion commander Col nation has sincerely res- open minds. every
Hsieh Ting-hsin were killed during pected it, with the glaring excep- the chief question that awaits home and country on someone the bloody engagements in the
from this age- else's shoulders, the voluntary Kwangra and Chenchiahong sec tion of militaristically maniacal { an Japan. Now Japan, a nation whether security and prosperity svitem is left without a leg to tors in the latter part of October.
Central News. whose perfidious conduct in the can be as well attained by the stand on.
share.
By Order of the Board,
C. GUTERRES,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 30th Sept., 1937,
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BROADCASTS
B.B.C. Arrangements
London, Nov.2. Arrangements for BBC broad- casting to be made in foreign languages, were announced by Sir John Simon, the Home Becretary In the House of Commons to-day. He recalled that the Ullswater Broadcasting Committee recom- mended that the appropriate use of languages other than English should be encouraged, and en- quiries made since by British
the conclusion that broadcasts from England would be welcomed, particularly in Spanish and Portu- guese, by listeners in South Amer- lcun countries, and in Arabic by listeners in the Near East.
Replying to a question, Bir John' “Simon said that German, Italian and other languages would not be excluded, but a beginning would be made in the three languages mentioned.
The B.B.C., fully realising the importance of the issues involved, had been examining the problem for some time, and made it clear that if the Government decided to take action on the lines of the Ullswater recommendations, it was desirable for the Corporation to undertake to provide a satisfactory. service at speedily, as possible. The Government had now requested
the Corporation to take action.
In had been agreed that nothing. should be done to prejudice the existing Empire service. New trans- mitters would be needed, and brought into use, only a limited service would be possible. Details would be announced shortly. It was added. Reuter.
until they were constructed and
Ching Yat-long, -lorry driver, re- parts that he had a similar acci- dent in Des Vouex Road near the Naval Depot, The victim was Chan' Pul. 54, who was taken to Queen Mary Hospital with scalp injuries.
the