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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN THE GOODS of MINNA ZOE ELLA FORREST late of De Vere Hotel, Palace Gate, Kensing. tou, in the County of Mid- 'dlesex, in the United King. dom, Widow, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Or. dinance No. 2 of 1897 made an order limiting the time for credi. tors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 2nd December, 1937,
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under- signed on or before that date.
DEACONS,
Solkiort for the Executor, 1. Des Voeux Road Central, - Hang Kong,.
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IN THE SUPREME" COURT OF HONG KONG
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IN THE GOODS of Florence Charlotte Pain, late
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CHINA PROVIDENT
LOAN AND MORTGAGE 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 Co., Ltd.. holding fully paid shares will be held at the Jacobean Room, 1st Floor, Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on Monday, 8th November, 1937 a 12 o'clock noon, when the sub joined Resolution will be pro-
of Nelmes Gate, St. Botolph | posed as a Special Resolation: Road, Sevenoaks -County of Kent,
deceased.
IS
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the in Widow,
NOTICE
HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, made an Order Imiting the time for. creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 27th day of Novem ber, 1937.
All "Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under. signed on or before that date.
Dated the 29th, day of October, 1937.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Solicitars for the Executors, The Hong Kong-and Shanghai Bank Building. Hong Kong.
·NOTICE.
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The undernoted Steamship Lines beg to announce that, as from the 1st December, 1937, there will be an increase of Passage Fares between Europe and the Far East.
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Full particulars may be ob tained on application to the Line concerned.
British India Steam Naviga.
tion Co., Ltd.,
CO.,
LTD.
HONG KONG
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that un Extraordinary, General Meeting of the Members of the China Loan and Mortgage Provident Co., Ltd., holding partly paid be held at the shares will Jacobean Room, 1st Floor, Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on Monday, 8th November, 1937 a 12:30 o'clock in the afternoon, when the sub-joined Resolution Special will be proposed as
That 15,633 shares of $5.00 each of the authorised Capital | Resolution :- of the Company unissued be. cancelled, land the issued the Company be capital of
$4,421,835.00 reduced from f 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 each upon which 75 cents per share shall be deemed to have been paid and that such reduction be effected in the following
manner —
(a) By cancelling Capital which has been lost or. unrepresented by available assets to the
$2.50 extent of
per 5% share upon each of the 589,578 fully paid 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 issned. (b) By releasing the holders
of the said 204,789 partly paid shares which have been issued, from Hability in respect of their shares to the ex- tent of 75 cents per share.
By Order of the Board, J. C. GUTERRES,
Secretary... Hong Kong, 30th Sept., 1937..
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nothing to indicate that the status of those two nations has
chinged suthiciently to make their attitude to the present conferenc a tatter for alarr.
Of Japan's deflection the same might be said. It is not unusual for Japan to be out of, or to The Annual Dance will be walk out of, conterences. Inv held in the Peninsula Hotel on fact, she has worn a track for Friday, 19th November from 9 herself. Thus for such conduct p.m. to 1.30 am. A special has not plunged the world into
modation.
T. P. SAUNDERSON,
chaos.
H.K. CONDEMNS JAPANESE RUTHLESSNESS.
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NO SENSE OF HUMOUR The problem of internal affairs might have been solved by com- promise, by one alde yielding its privileges and adjusting Itself to
the new economic and political situation, but to achieve such a
There is no sense of humour in
ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW
(To The Editor, "The Hong Kong Daily Press"}, Dear Sir,-The letter, over the which name of Frank Madeira appeared in your issue of this morning is, to my mind, the only bright spot about this undeclared war. It was so thoroughly fanny!
neither antl-Chinese
Like your correspondent I am nor pro- Japanese, and like him I feel I know all about this game that is going on up north, but there the resemblance ends. I do feel that some good will result from Brussels Conference, and as for
the
China being the scape-goat, isn't the boot rather on the other foot? Our learned friend visualises a that
comes about or not the world has. New now its eyes opened to a China, and it. as your correspon- dent claims he was "merely using common sense" personally doubt. whether he has any at all! why is he not yet wakened up to the- fact that in New China the gallant Nipponese have a force to reckon a with?
ferry will run from Kowloon at 2 a.m. on the 20th.
However, her policy re- solution requires the comprising Members of the Club and garding the present issue as spirit. If that is not present, members of St. Andrew's-Society undoubtedly caused a confusion there is the natural reluctance to who wish to participate in this which she and her pact-partners surrender power or wealth.-be- function are requested to com.
are doing their best to make cause of a fear of loss of prestige. municate with the undersigned worse confounded. That this is Japan, and therefore no way of at an early date in order to actually the case was demot correcting abuses by caricature, New Japan, but whether facilitate arrangements for accom-strated in no uncertain manner cartoons and humour - which ex- by the very uncertain language aggerates and pillories abuses. employed by the British and Life is lived in the solemn minor key. It must be remembered that American delegates at the open-those who govern the country are Hon. Secretary.
5701ng of the conference. They not responsible to the party which both seemed in a quandary about has the majority in the diet. what should be done and how to Parliamentary government as we go about trying to do it. Their know it does not exist, hopes were as devout as their situation is by revolution. That is ntiments were wobbly. They a normal method when those with seemed to be putting the question the privileges refuse to share but in this case it is not likely to to each other and all and sundry happen though the discontent may ultimate result? "I suppose Ger- "Where do we go from here?"
Never more
so than at the present time was that old saying, "He who hesitates is lost of more significance. As well na Japanese, through his historical is my turn to play the role of the
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友之 國中
HUNG KONG, NOVEMBER 5, 1937.
WHERE DO WE GO
Another way out of
such
And as for China fighting to the last man, the last bullet, why does not Mr. Madeira "wait and see" before being so certain about the
be deep enough perhaps to justify many sald that way back in 1914.” it. That is because loyalty to the Whether she did or not the fact every other remains that Germany lasted for throne transcends consideration Itle-not merely four years, and it is my considered the opinion (Oh no, Mr. Madeira,i6- patriotism which animates
China the whole world, not only tradition. This allegiance is woven awaits but has every right in into his religion. It is his religion demanding of its Statesmen a-Shintolamand is acquired with formula for the solution of the all the spiritual fervour that the people are capable of experiencing, present Sino-Japanese problem.
STATE OF EMERGENCY and for Japan to state that she
Japan therefore sought a way
"know all this time!) that China has only to fight as she is doing now
for another three months
(and I know she can and will do to) and Japan will not knów whether she's coming or going!
In conclusion,
Madeira Mr.
..
rest as
"FIGHT FAIR."
Hong Kong, November. 4
He may will not tolerate. interference by out of her impasse by creating this fears he might start something
"disastrous."" any foreign power is nothing state of emergency, which would sured: "only things that count car short of vapid pomposity. Japan justify the government taking ove: start any disaster-Yours, etc." must listen to reason, and, for all the commercial industrial and financial activities and administer- the sake of suffering humanity ing the whole in the Interests of and the security of all concerned the nation as a whole. No one be- in the Far East, the sooner the believes that these powers will right word is spoken, definitely ever revert to those who formerly useful. The present war is merely
possessed them. There were other incidental to the greater issue. the hetter.
CHINA HAS GONE FORWARD factors too in this decision, there and deliberately.
Now let us return to China. If Procrastination can only result
was overwhelming ambition-for
one thing is certain in this world the appetite, grows with what it feeds upon. Formosa, Korea and it is that China during the past forward at Manchuria having been swallowed five years has gone
FROM HERE?·· Nothing could be clearer than China's case and claims at the present stage in word affairs yet
in further ignoble bloodshed. in the most there seems to bewildering confusion in inter- national political circles.
V
restraint which is deeply eloquent of absolute sin- cerity, China's brilliant delegate to the Brussels Conference, His Excellency Dr. Wellington too,
!
STEEL PRODUCTION IN INDIA
By to establishment of the Steel Corporation of Bengal, the Indian Iron and Steel Company
the
reasons. for these its adventure
magistrates.
There was a buoyancy and vigour which manifested itself in ex-
China while travel had become easy and
COMMUNİSM
That 15,633 shares of $5.00
up there was no reason to suppose accelerating speed in every depart there would be any serious ob- ment of her national lire. Her each of the authorised Capital
stacle to the appropriation of roads and railways were being ex- of the Company unissued be
North China. Then there 'was tended in every province, and con- cancelled, and the issued
fear deep-seated fear which trol from Nanking was being et- of fectively exercised over the pro- possession capital of the Company be
necessitated reduced from $4,421,835.00
strategic positions against Russia. vincial rulers and divided into 589,578 shares al
has laid bare the tacts and last year advanced an appreciable. The army then was supported in $5.00 each fully paid and calmly stated China's considered stage nearer to its goal of farge. 294,789 shares of $5.00 each policy, whilst at the same timescale steel production. How great upon which the sum of $2.50 indicating the worthy sentiment are the advantages which the has been paid to $2,210,917.50 of sweet reasonableness in the latter company expects to derive divided into 589,578 shares of matter of negotiations based on from the proposed steel plant, $2.50 each fully pȧld" and
proper footing.
is when it begins operations in 294,789 shares of $2.50 tach simply standing firm for her about three years time, upon which 75 cents per share sovereign rights as becomes a made clear by the chairman, Mr. shall be deemed to have been nation fully seized of its respon- | Leslie Martin, at the meeting re- hardly beleve it. "Well" he said truth. One has only to go through paid and that such reduction sibilities not only to its own cently held in Calcutta. At pre- to terms." be effected in the following people but to the rest of the sent, he said, the company's DUAL PERSONALITY
manner :-
(a) By cancelling Capital which has been lost or is unrepresented
avaliable assets to the extent of $2.50 per share upon each of the 589,578 fully paid 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
world.
-
Chinu
Was
been
was not very secure, posion silice about 15 to 50 per cent, et its output of pig-iron had to be absorbed by exports, the chiel markets having hitherto Japan, the United Kingdom, and America. In this danger factor of a predominant dependence, on exports" lay the principal justi- lication of the new steel works, for experience had shown that ex- port demand was liable to ex- treme changes. While indicating that the immediate outlook was triglit, and that there was not at
But it was not intended to be a panding commerce and industry very serious matter at first. has deceived Japan into thinking safe. that she was negligible as a mill- One of the charges levelled merchant in Kobe asked me if it against China by Japan was that were true that China was really she was consorting with and en- united. When I assured him that couraging Communism. No state- It was emphatically true, he could ment could be further from the
tary factor. A highly educated
"La that case we will have to some, Kwangsi, to
that city
2 dual
see the tremendous efforts that were made to drive out the so-called communista from that province in 1934 when Chu Tze Tung · very Teh und Mao
Japan then possesses personality--both of which phases nearly succeeded in over-running the whole place. The magistrate are quite genuine and sincere ex- pressions of the nation's character. In Klang and at Nanchang told This was admirably illustrated last
me of this struggle and we could August in Tokyo. While a meeting
sce, not dozeris, but hundreds of was proceeding in the Imperial block houses placed along the University of
to pro- routes specially constructed to deal mote international understanding with the communist menace.
We all know how General Chiang a picture was being shown at the Kai-shek succeeded and how these and advance cultural co-operation,
the war two generals Chu Teh and Mao Imperial Theatre from zone. It depicted the destruction Tze Tang had to flee to Kweichów of the Nankai University surely then to Szechuïn and finally to a most wanton and stupid pro Bharis. This so called Communism ceeding even if taken by itself but
was
an really
expression
of
no bourgeois class in China to dis-
which
is
is
Communism. repugnant to Since rural reconstruction became the main issue for the Nanking
* Contrust the attitude of Japan. It can be epitomised in a phrase; I won't play. Its childishness is its... "sole recommendation. Whilst purporting tu court earnestly the goodwill and co- operation of the world in the matter of trade relations, Japan apparently imagines that a smug solutionist policy in relation to foreign policy is something which is purely domestic to her and cannot possibly have anything
when linked with the activities in agrarian discontent. It was econo- whatsoever to do with other
their own University at that very mic and not political. There is of the sald 294,789 nations. The simple fact is that the moment any sign of a slacken-moment it seemed to me to sug-
ing in the demand for pig-iron, sest insanity. Thus we see Japan possess Family life partly paid shares which the position is entirely the re- have been issued from verse. Whilst a nation's trade Mr. Martin alluded frankly to the seems to behave on two, perhaps, fundamental in China's social life
OPPORTUNE MOMENT Hlability in respect of policy may be regarded as freight position as a possible more ethical levels. their shares to the ex- purely domestic matter which cause of concern.
Japan then launched her at- Freight, he said, is a difficult tack upon China because the mo- Government there has been but text of 75 cents per concerns no other nation, yet her
foreign policy must command the problem just at present, particu-ment was opportune-Russia was little of this so-called communism. share.
ROMAN CATHOLIC SYMPATHY attentive interest of all nations larly for the Far Eastern ports, preoccupied with internal troubles.
It is significant that the Roman with which she has diplomatic and you must realize that it is Europe was distracted over Spain, relations. In a word, no nation one thing to be well sold on paper and China was emerging from her Catholic bodies in China have ex-
twenty years of misrule under the pressed their sympathy with China.... of the standing of Japan can do but quite another to get the pro-war lords, and was becoming a They certainly would not have united nation under the done so had they believed the as the pleases in the Far East ducts away and realize your pro really or any other zone, regardless of fits. The position, is being care-Generalissime Chiang Kai-shek Nanking Government was com
certainty → the feelings and interests of fally watched, and at the mo- In another two years Chind would munistic in character. There was foreign countries.
ment it is satisfactory in, that the have become formidably strong no evidence in China
and powerful In a sense Japan is not in the government headquar- summer, of It is a first principle of juris shortage in shipments to any one fighting a defensive war. She is ters in Kaling this prudence that he who will not market is at present absorbed in seeking to establish strategic lines any bellicose spirit against Japan. plead must take the conse. others, with the result that no in North China for the inevitable Rather they approached the com- this ing contest in spirit of resignation. clash with Russia. From quences" and "lie who remains stocks are left on our hands.
China is another a challenge that must be accepted silent presunies assent." So in The company, moreover, has point of view
Belgium. There is no real quarrel if the honour of the country was the councils of nations. It is not been immune from labour with her. All these incidents, to be upheld There were no not particularly grave that Italy trouble, two lightning strikes broken treaties and such things illusions about the cost that would
excuses. They have to be paló. and Germany have decided, to having taken place during the are merely mere speak frankly, to boycott this year. While no further strikes are far removed from the main. But all the parties in China are
Issue, Japan then is not seeking now naturally united. very vital Brussels Conference. have occurred, Mr. Martin admits to expand, she is striving to retain front, or a really national govern- Other conferences have got that the position is still not free what she holds in Manchuria and ment functions because the state
for that purpose North China is along quite well without their from anxiety in this respect.
By Order of the Board, J. C. GUTERRES,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 30th Sept., 1937.
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