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PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public that as Major D. H. Steers, The Thirty-third Annual Geo- Auction to be held on Monday, O.B.E., R.E. has left the Colony, eral Meeting of Shareholders the 11th day of Apru, 1938, at 3 all communications in respect of will be bold at the Offices of p.m., at the Offices of the Public the Hong Kong Rifle Association Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., Works Department, by Order ol
should be forwarded to the under Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank His Excellency the Governor of
Building, on Wednesday, the 6th signed. one Lot of Crown Land at Mong
April, 1938, at 11 a.m. for the Kok Tsui in the Colony of Hong
purpose of receiving the report el Kong for a terin of 75 years, with
the General Managers together with a Statement of Accounts to the option of renewal af Crown Rent to be axed by the
31st December, 1937.
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G. P. MURRAY,
Capt. & Bt. Major,
Hon. Secretary, H.K.R.A.
Surveyor of His Majesty the Garrison Adjutant's Office, KING, for one further term of 75|| years,
not
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis. posal of the lot the purchaser (it the applicant), will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be pre sent at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, $200.00 in cash. This sun will be refunded on payment of the purchase price.
Command "Headquarters.
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The Transler Books of the Company will be closed from 6666 23rd March to 6th April, 1938
hoth days inclusive,
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EDITORIAL
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
WEDNESDAY,
| CORRESPONDENCE INDIAN SCOUT
CROONERS AND SINGERS
WALKING
Sir--In recent programs relayed AROUND WORLD
Mr. Tse Tsan Tal's family wishes to tender their heartfelt thanks to ali who extended their sympathy and condolences in their recent sad bereavement, attendance by our local broadcasting station at the funeral and for floral were records of well known tenors. tributes sent.
in their efforts to croon
The Daily Press
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HONG KONG, April 5, 1938,
PROBLEMS IN EUROPE
Much has been said and written
DI the objectionable noise the crooner is reputed to vent upon
MAULED BY TIGER
IN ABYSSINIA
APRIL 6, 1938.
QUESTION OF HOME LEAVE DISCUSSED
(Continued from Page 6)
Owing to
business
the extra offering it was decided at the end Fifty thousand miles in a dozen of the year under review to pur- the ears of the classica loving com-countries is the present achieve-chase the Seistan rather than pay munity, but I think it is high timeļment of a 22-year-old_South In- the prevalling market Time Char- the crooner made retallaton on hia dlan, K.M. Raj Kumar, who having | ter rates. own behalf,
set out from the Madras Presi-
the to render
INVESTMENTS
Our Investments have fluctuated.
BENEFIT FUND
The crooner has been, and is dency nearly six years ago to walk. the sport of numerous writers. around the world, is still at it. He greatly with the trend of the local have read articles lamenting the arrived in Hong Kong recently market, and it was deemed ad- efforts of them
from North China and called at visable to bring them into this Ac- count at the market rate as at classies. Perhaps the effort has the Daily Press office yesterday. been somewhat below par but not. Raj Kumar is a scout and under-December 1937, and I have to ad- adventure in order to vise that they now stand at higher I am sure, so lamentable as the took the
learn as much d's possible, by values than shown in this Account."" attempt by these notorious singers.
direct contact. of the various Two of our vessels the Haiching to eroon modern dance tunes.
human races. Like most other and Haiyang were in port during As the crooner is distasteful to globe walkers, his ambition is to the September typhoon and due to lovers of classical singing.-I pre-write a book on his travels after the care exercised by the Captain sume crooning critics are lovers of he has visited every country in the and Officers they came through classical and good singing so are world.
unscathed and I am quite sure the efforts of the great singers From India Raj Kumar visited their efforts will be appreciated by objectionable to me as a crooner: Perala, Asia Minor, Egypt, British you all. and I feel sure that all crooners East Africa. Abyssinia, Returning will agree with me, when I say to Egypt from Abyssinia he en- A promise was made to our doat- leave the crooning to the crooners.deavoured go to Europe via ing staff some years ago that when Surely these great men are bet-Spain, but the civil war prevented it was possible to formulate a British recognition of the Auste. able to earn a living other this. He therefore returned to beneft fund for them, provident tro-German anschluss has been than to resort to that which is India and proceeded East in the or otherwise out of earnings, it formally declared. The rabid considered to be beneath them:direction of Burma.. Blam and would receive our close considera- vapourings and bitter recrimina- but perhaps creening is not so bad Malaya. from where he went on to Hon. NOTICE 15
Britons after all. Even noted singers op-|North China by steamer. of panic-stricken
I am pleased to state that the HEREBY
have given place to reason. It is pear to think that there is more Owing to the Sino-Japanese Consulting. Committee and Gen- GIVEN that the ORDINARY
realised that the union of the two in crooning than just noise. YEARLY MEETING of the
hostilities he was unable to tour eral Managers consider the time German peoples' who were separ- I persist in the contention, that the interior but made his way to has arrived
when this matter Society will be held at the HEAD.
ated by an artificial barrier in the crooning is not for such mer as Hong Kong by sCL. From here should be attended to. The Fourteenth {OFFICE, Union Building, Hong
Ordinary
fcrm of an independent" state Tauber.
he hopes to go to the Philippines, or any singer
this
With this in view I have to ad- New Guinea and Australia the
thing Kong, on WEDNESDAY, 13th tieneral Meeting of the Share.
and vise that we are working out and class: neither do their efforts be
finally visit the American con-defnite scheme to safeguard their APRIL, 1938 at 11 a.ku, for the holders in the above. Company nothing on earth could have pre-come them.
tinent and Europe.
interesta. and although a Bonus Should any reader be uncen- purpose of receiving the Report will be held at the Company's vented it—not even war.
Raj Kumar has had many ex-un salaries of 15 per cent. has been A realistic view of the present vinced of this, or need proof. I sug-periences during his travels, of the Directors and the State Office at the Jordan Road Ferry
Inpaid since March last to our Cap- ments of Account to 31st Decem-Pler on Thursday, the 14th April, situation would appear to make rest that he on she listen to re- Abyssinia he
was mauled by Itals and Chief Engineers, and 25 further coups in future, with the cords of Derrick Oldham in his ger and almost lost his life. In per cent, to all other certificated her, 1937, and of declaring Divi 1938, at 11:00 am. for the puubject of remaking the map of rendering of "Can I Forget You" Burma he was robbed of all his ranks, it is now proposed to pay
pose of receiving the Report of Central Europe to something like from the screen play "High Wide worldly belongings by bandits.
Into a Special Fund out of the sum The SHARE TRANSFER the Directors together with aits pre-war shape. # great And Handsome." and Richard Tau- |
carried forward, a further Bonus BOOKS of the Society will be Statement of Accounts up to the
payment of 10 per cent, în ordinary CLOSED from 26th MARCH 31st December, 1937.
certi- to 13th APRIL, Both Days in The
icated Officers still serving with unbroken service during 1937. thus 6669clusive.
making a total Bonus of 25-per cent. on their salaries to Masters and Chief Engineers and 35 per
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BEKANNTMACHUNG.
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Das Gesetz ucher die Meldep ilicht der deutschen Staatsange. hoerigen im Ausland ist am
3. Februar 1938 verkuendet wor den. Sein Wortlaut kann bel den deutschen Konsularbehoerden eingesehen werden.
dend, etc.
By Order of the Board,
.A. W, HUGHES,
General Manager, Hong Kong, 14th March, 1938.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
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SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG AND YAUMATI FERRY CO., LTD.
Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Month, the 4th April to Thurs: day, the 14th April, 1938, both days inclusive,
THE HONG KONG AND YAUMATI FERRY
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ber's "Night And Day." I may Already Germany is a greater add that it was these records that
provoked me into this protest. nation than she was in 1914. she continues to expand she wil In conclusion, I would like to undoubtedly, before, long. regainsay that although I am a croone: her old position as the greatest-I do not profess to be a singer individual power in the world. I do appreciate good singing. 1 That would appear to be another am a crooner because my voice
The transfer from joint control cent. other certificated ranks for German capacity will allow nothing better to undivided naval control, in ac- the greater part of last year. natural thing. for the
composed of 75.000.000 and because it is part of my pre-cordance with the decision of the A further initial grant will be virile. ambitious Teutons whose fession; and by it I endeavour to Government last July, involves the necessary in order to provide in a CO., LTD.,
capacity for work and effort are a living. I do not try the eventual withdrawal from the Fleel tangible form some provision for well known.
classics, because they demand LAU TAK PO,
Air Arm of the Royal Air Force those who have served us faithfully Will a great and powerful Cher-
greater respect than a bad render-officers who during the last fifteen and efficiently over long periods Managing Director.
ing. many be a menace to the world?
years have supplied 30 per cent, of and our Auditors are working on this Scheme which we hope will Hong Kong, 26th March, 1938.
Judging by 1914 the answer is Why should they who are cap-its pilots, states The Times. 6646 obrious. but the position of Jable of good singing
The Navy will have to provide become effective at an early date.
CONDITIONS OBSCURE Europe today differs greatly from crooning? Imagine, if it is possi-pilots to take their place, and this
Future trading conditions 19:4 in that the vast armaments ble, Richard Tauber crooning "with Bability coincides with the pro8-
ace now in progress has placed Harry Roy and the "Ballyhooll-pect of large expansion of the still uncertain and obscure-more Naval Air Branch-the term is vessels are now appearing in our the whole continent in a state of gan". preparedness. whereas In 19:4
Kipling sald. East is east and taken from the official Admiralty trades and I think you will realise Germany was far ahead of other
the near fu- that your Consulting Committee west is west and never the twain announcement-in
consolidation rather shall meet. This quotation may ture, in common with every other believe in countries in this respect.
than in ever optimism as, to the aptly be appiled to crooning and branch of the fighting Services.
There are five aircraft carriers future trend of trade in this vicin- singers, and the crooners to their now under construction, which are ty crooning.
credited with a capacity approach- The Chairman then proposed the E. W. P.
ing seventy aircraft each. Every adoption of the repor, and ac new man-of-war which joins the counts. This was seconded by Mr. fleet. or older ship which is MO-IN. V. A. Groucher and passed, Mr dernized, has accommodation for Kirby being the only dissentient. more aircraft than her predeces
IS HEREBY JUNK ATTACKED
BY JAPANESE
Das Melderegister fuer den GIVEN that the SIXTY-NINT I Amtsbezirk des Deutschen (ien ORDINARY YEARLY MEET eralkonsulats in Hongkong ist ING of the Company will be angelegt worden.
A report was made to the police named Kwok by a junk master.
along-
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resort to
The question, however, is: Can
prolonged indefinitely? Obviously it cannot. It is an economic im- possibility. Trade and prosperity begotten of armaments expendi- persistence in the folly car and ture are
and mainly artificial.
will only bring about economie GREAT WAY GOVT.05
Hong Kong. April 5.
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Die Meldep' held at iis HEAD OFFICE.Chol-lee, residing at Reclamation the present armaments race be singing. Leave the singing to the flicht wird hiermit fuer die im Union Building, Hong Kong, on Street. Kowloon. that while his Amtsbezirk lebenden deutschen WEDNESDAY, 13th APRIL, boat was in Chinese waters in the einschliesslich der ehemals 1938, at 11.20 a.m., for the pur- vicinity of Hong Kong recently, a Oesterreichischen Staatsangehoeri pose of receiving the Report of Japanese destroyer came
side, and removed 200 plculs of gen mit sofortiger Wirkung in the Directors and the Statements vegetables and Some other articies kraft gesetzt.
Fuer die erste of Account to 31st December, to the total value of 8200. Meldung lacuft die Frist am 1937, and of declaring" Dividends,
After removing these articles, 15. Mai 1938 ab.
the Japanese boat went away.
Hongkong, den 5. April 1938
Der Deutsche Generalkonsul
Gipperich..
etc.
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be| CLOSED from 26th MARCH
6673
to 13th APRIL, Both Days in clusive.
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THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS,
LIMITED.
«{Incorporated in Hong Kong).
GAMING HOUSE
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On the motion of Mr. Flemming. seconded by Mr. Brown, the fol- It would not be an over-estimate towing were elected to the Con- to place the Navy's need of aft sulting Committee; Sir Robert Ho pilots at more than double the Tung. Mr. M. H. Turner and Mr. H. number now qualified; and. in v. Wilkinson
re-elected auditors,
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collapse. Warships. army corps,
RESISTING kombing planes. bombs, fteld guns -all these things once manufag. REORGANISATION tured become liabilities on the state. They must be maintained
Shanghal, April 4.
view of the parallel expansion in On the motion of Mr. Wright Wong Chuen, 31, shop fokl. of but they give no return-they pay i The Great Way Municipal Gov-
every branch of the sea Service seconded by Mrs. Martin, Messrs. 38. Wai Ching Street. appearedne dividends.
ernment at Pootung, formed under now in progress, it has been gen- Lowe, Bingham and Matthews and before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at The armaments race was start- auspices of the Japanese forces in erally realized that other sources Messrs. Linstead and Davis were the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday ed by the dictators in order, it is Shanghai. is resisting reorganiza- besides the ordinary officers' list By Order of the Board,
on charges or keeping a common said, to right their wrongs. Irtion by the Reformed Government of the Royal Navy and Royal Mar- A. W. HUGHES, gaming house, and possession of that be so, placation at this time Nanking. It was current hereines would have to be tapped.
tion of the Fleet Air Arm from today. General Manager, po pul lottery tickets. Sergeant is tantamount to the admittance
YOUNG MAN'S JOB -
he Royal Air Force. North prosecuted. Defendant
by the democracies of the doctrine Mr. Su Sih-wen, a Formosan, who
There are also good prospects of pleaded guilty and was fined 850. that might is right. Thus, Ger
Flying is chiefly a young man's is mayor of the Pootung muni- and Italy are convinced cipality, will be transferred to be lob. The Admiralty have there- retention for longer periods, and of ships for those who nust be secretary-general of a new puppet fore followed the example of the of naval air units-though not. of Woo Wal-man, 65. was com- today that concessions mitted for trial on a charge of the forced out-they can only be gain- regime of Greater Shanghai, to Air Force in inviting entry for a course,
which the Pootung regime will be limited period-seven years in the prove their efficiency.
These should prove attractive to possession of 76,400 heroin pills, by ed by power. And they wil con- Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the tinue to acquire that power, by absorbed "Mayor Su is not en Navy as agaifist four years of the
young men, from the universities R.A.F. chuslastic of his new post or the Kowloon Magistracy. yesterday. hook or by crook."
That was to be expected. since perhaps, who only realize the at- coming merger. · J. Whyatt prosecuted for the
it was largely the Admiralty's ex-tractions of a seafaring Me too To show that he is fit for office.perience-that an
efficient naval late to enter the Navy by the or- Crown.
Mayor Bu is increasing revenue by airman could not be produced un- dinary channels. The Naval granting licences to opium resorts der three years' continuous sea- Branch will accept them up to the
gambling houses.(Inter-air service that led to the separa- age of twenty-three.
Hong Kong, 14th March, 1938.
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NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
many
Naturally, there wil then come a time-in the not too distant future probably when Germany will consider herself strong enough to demand the return of her old and colonies. If it is the intention of national). Magistracy yesterday in the case those who hold those colonics to
return them when that time comes Minister, is a great admirer of I (in order to prevent war) a good Duce and he is said to have no deal of trouble might be saved by less admiration for Herr Hitler. wasting no further time on the It is to be hoped that admiration matter.
will not find expression in submis- One thing seems clear: There b.sion to all demands made by to be no truce in the arms race them.
of LA
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Year. İy Meeting of Shareholders of The Hong Kong and Shanghải |
A remand till Monday, April 11. Hotels, Limited, will be held at NOTICE IS HEREBY at 230 p.m. was granted by Mr. the Registered Office of the Com. GIVEN that the SEVENTY. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon pany (Exchange Building, Des SECOND ORDINARY, YEAR. in which Ohuen Ah-lung was Vocux Road Central, Hong LY MEETING of the Company charged with the murder
at it: HEAD Ting-mul. Kong), on Wednesday, the 6th will be held day of April, 1938, at 11.30 a.m., OFFICE, Union Building, Hond Kong, on WEDNESDAY, 13th for the purpose of receiving, a Statement of Accounts and the APRIL, 1938, at 11.25 a.m., Report of the Board of Directors for the purpose of receiving the for the year ended on the 31st Report of the Directors and the -December, 1937, and re-electing Statements of Account to 31st December, 1937, and of declaring a Director and the Auditors.
Dividend, etc.
The
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Hankow, April 4.
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PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
Capt. Vincent Schmidt, the well-¡return to the Colony prior to going known aviator, is at present in the to Manila. Colony. He is passing through on his way to Europe.
until every alleged wrong done to The conservative elements
The many friends of Mme. Germany by the treaty makers of Great Britain are evidently willing
Montargis will be sorry to learn that she 1s
Co- A group of foreign correspon-1919 has been righted That policy to go a long way to prevent war.
leaving the Mr. O. D. Terrel, connected with lony for health reasons very dents and members of the local has been thrust upon Germany That is an excellent thing. but foreign press were entertained at with the cordial backing of Italy would Britons today go to war in rubber interests in Haiphong, has shortly. It is expected that after The Transfer Books of the
was exploited by defence of the Empire? If the arrived here on a business visit a holiday in her native France she SHARE TRANSFER
a. tea party by General Chen who feels she Company will be closed from
Britain in the war. When Ger- answer is in the affirmative then and is staying at the Gloucester will return to the Colony again. Mme, Montargis will be accom- Friday, the 18th March, 1938, BOOKS of the Company will be Cheng. Director of the Political
CLOSED from 26th MARCH Department of the Military Affairs many and Italy have been fully a fl-mer foreign policy now would Hotel.
to call probably prevent a lot of trouble
panied by her husband, the well- to Wednesday, the 6th April.
to 13th APRIL, Both Days in Commission, at three o'clock this satisfied it will be time
another disarmament conference later on. On the other hand. If
known local exchange broker, afternoon. 1938, both days inclusive.
-not until then.
Mesdames the British Cabinet's enthusiasm clusive.
General Chen during the recep-
Mr. K. Kuether, from Hankow, foreign If that view is correct and if to prevent war is based on the Means, E.L. McLendon, H.L. Wilson tion, explained to the
certainty that war means social and Miss EL, McCarthy, who are arrived in the Colony by plane on members of the fourth estate the Britain's policy is to prevent war
taken up re- great significance of the Extra- at all costs, the most reasonable revolution, that would appear to travelling together, left the Colony Monday. He has
Gloucester Hotel ordinary National Congress of the course would appear to be one be a short-sighted view and one yesterday for Shanghai and Japan jsidence at the
Mr. best calculated to disintegrate the where they will remain till the and will probably be here for about Kuomintang which has just been of immediate appeasement.
end of the month. They will then a week, 6103. adjourned-(Central News).
F. C. BARRY,
By Order of the Board,
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES, Secretary.
General Manager Hong Kong, 2nd March, 1938.
Hong Kong, 14th March, 1938. 60631
Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Empire.
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