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TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938.
HONG KONG NOW GUARDS CHAPELD DAMAGES FOR BANISHEES GET
ADVERTISEMENTS. TEA EXPORT
EXHIBITION
MODERN ANGLO-AMERICA
and
CHINESE GRAPHIC ART
at
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS GOVERNMENT BILLS,
THE HONG KONG "JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
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CENTRE
MR. K. WILLIAMS
100 Years Of Public Worship
Replacing Shanghai an the chief export centre, Hong Kong has witnessed the shipment of 700,000 KING AND. QUEEN AT cases of Chinese tea, valued at more than $4,000,000 abroad since CENTENARY SERVICE "the beginning of the tes senton, according to Information from the
Editorial and Eusiness Office::
15-19, Queen's Road Central, Tel 30251
Night Editor (Wanchal Office):
Tel. 24511.
in the next few
Britain and Rugala, it is stated, are the chler buyers of Chinese black tea this year.
and the Princess Royal.
PRISON TERMS
Action That Lasted One Appeared Before
For 17 Days
Damages of one farthing were awarded to Mr. Keith Williams, the financier, by a Jury in the King's Bench Division recently at the 'close
were
Puisne Judge Twelve Years Ago
Three banishees were severally"
Ipstead
(By Air Mall) | local. Chinese tea merchants, states
of an action which lasted 17 days sentenced to imprisonment with London, May 7. the Central News.
The damages
awarded hard labour by the Pulsne Judge, The King, as
Colonel-in-Chief, against Brig. Gen. Guy Livingston, Mr. Justice Lindsell, at the Crim- This figure represents the first joined with officers and men of of Pipcot.
Sonning-on-Thames, nal Sessions yesterday. few consignments exported. More the Brigade of Guards in com- Berks, and
Lau Wing and Wong King-kee, Mr. Bernard John is expected to be shipped abroad memorating the centenary of the Brady.
of Park-lane, W. for alias Tse Kwan, were given four months. It is opening of the Royal Military fraudulent misrepresentations con-years and three-and-a-half years, generally believed among the tea Chapel, Wellington Barracks-bet-cerning the shares of the Aero-respectively, both having been sent merchants that the expert of teater known today as the Guards' nautical Corporation of Great Bri- away for fe. this year will not likely be affected Chapel at a service held yester- tain. Brig.-Gen. Livingston was a The former's criminal record by the war should the present rate day. The King was accompanied director of the corporation and Mr. began from 1932, since when he be kept up."
had returned from banishment a by the Queen and also present at Brady its technical consultant. the service were Queen Mary, the The jury found that there was number or times. He pleaded that Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. no case against Mr. Ludwig Ehrlich, he had asked to be sent to Canton
anancier. of Carlos-place. W., nor but the inspector had Past and
despatched him to Swatow. present officers. against the corporation. N.C.O.s, and men of the five re-
His Lordship: I don't believe it. Summing up: Lord Hewart, the giments of Foot Guards were, Lord Chief Justice, suggested that It is a ridiculous story. present at the service, and the the evidence showed that the re-
* SERVING TERM scarlet tunics of the troops made presentations made by M. Brady
Wong had numerous convictions a colourful display. Nice former and Brig.-Gen. Livingston were CONTEMPTIBLES chaplains of the Brigade
of untrue to their knowledge and were and numerous returns from ban- ANNUAL SERVICE [Guards, "including the Rev. Robert made to deceive Mr. Willams. Aishment against him
Armitage. D.S.O who held the similar remark applied to the re-serving a sentence of six weeks for London, May 18. The London section of the Old in the congregation.
position from 1890 to 1894, were presentations of Mr. Ehrlich, al- larceny. He will begin his 31 years
at the expiration of that term. though to a much less extent. Contemptibles Association held its
Chau Fu, alias 14 Sang, who was THE ROYAL FAMLY
"But," he added, "are you in the annual service at St. Paul's today,
The King and Queen made the smallest degree satisded that the found in the Colony on April 11 ed to the Cenotaph where another Palace by motor-car and were
"You may think he has wholly ten years in January, 1934, had a service was held and wreaths lald. cheered on arrival by a
crowd falled to make cut any such case, record dating back to 1926, "when Following the Contemptibles which lingered on in the bright You may think, on that important he was fined $5 or ten days by His marched 800 League Frontiers-sunshine to give them another side of his case, that it is all Lordship (then a Magistrate) fer- men-(Reuter),
Besides tea, a large quantity of túng oil has also been exported through Hong Kong.
OLD
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and VIA
after which 7000 members march-short journey from Buckingham plaintiff was in fact misled? after having been sent away for
WAR-TORN AREAS
TO SEE DRAMAS
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TENDERS for DOLLARS
Hankow, May 16. current in this Colony, for tele-
To further war-time publicity, graphic transler, on the Lords London Office: 53, Fleet Street the Ministry of Education has de- Commissioners of His Majesty's
THE MAY HALF-YEARLY | Treasury, London, up to and for GENERAL MEETING. of the sum of £200,000, will be VOTING MEMBERS will be received by the Treasury Chest held at the Club House, Happy Officer, Command Pay Office,
Valley, on Tuesday, 31st May, until 10:15 am. on the 17th
1938, at 5.30 p.m.
ensue.
May, 1938.
ALL MEMBERS are cordially The tenders to state the total invited to attend and participate amount (in pounds sterling). in any discussion which may No telegraphic transfer will be made for less than £100, but tenders for sums above that amount to suit the convenience of the tenderers will be consi. dered.
By Order of the Stewards,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 14th May, 1938.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
Miscellaneous Proceedings
No. 27 of 1938.
IN
of
THE MATTER SANDAKAN LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY (1922) LIMITED
and
IN THE MATTER of the Companies Ordinance, 1932.
HEREBY
NOTICE IS GIVEN that a Petition presented to the Supreme Court of Hong "Kong on the 12th day of May, 1938 for confirming the reduction of the Capital of the above Com pany from H.K. $500,000.00 to H.K. $250,000.00. is directed to be heard before His Honour Si
·Alasdair · Dunçan Atholl Mac. Gregor, Knight; Chief Justice, on Wednesday, the 25th day of May, 1938, at 10. o'clock in the forenoon.
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Any creditor or shareholder o the Company destring to oppose the making of an Order for reducing the Capital of the sald Company under the above Ordin- ance should, appear at the time of hearing by himself or his Counse
for that purpose..
or
A copy of the Petition will be furnished to any creditor shareholder · of the Company re- quiring the same by the under signed on payment of the re gulated charges for the same.
DEACONS, Solicitors for the Company, Des Voeux Road Central,
Hong Kong.
The tenders to be in duplicate, and in scaled covers, addressed to the Treasury Chest Officer, Com. mand Pay Office, and endorsed "Tenders for Government Bills, etc."
ELO.L
Hovo Koma, HAY Li, 1938.
cided to organise two Itinerant dramatic 'troupes to give circuit
cheer on their departure.
"moonshine; and that he well ex-arceny. /
The next year he was banished The King wore morning dress pressed himself in the course of and the Queen was in pastel grey. this remarkable book "Money for Ave years and since then he had Queen Mary, in oyster grey, and Sense." of which I have read a retumed a number of times and the Princess Royal, in blue. had great deal, when he wrote: "I ahad been convicted of other offen- arrived earlier: they were follow-man loses a lawsuit he can blame ces, at present serving a sentence ed by the Duke and Duchess of the lawyer, the judge or the jury for lottering with intent to commit Gloucester, the Duke in morning but if you fail to make money in a felony.
Sentence of 21 years was in- dress and the Duchess wearing life there is no one to blame but blue.
posed, to begin at the end of his The jury were exempted trom current term. further service for 10 years.
THE KING'S GIFT
performances in small towns and After Psalm 122 had been sung villages in the fighting zones. Major Sir Nevile Wilkinson, late Member of the troupes are Coldstream Guards, read the les- now undergoing a course of train-son. I Kings' vill. 22-30, and the ing and will proceed on their hymn "Praise. my Soul, the King JAPAN "ON THE tour shortly. (Central News). of heaven" was sung.
WRONG FOOT"
A
dedication.
yourself.""
SWEDISH-AMERICAN TERCENTENARY
Mr. J. Whyatt. Crown Counsel prosecuted.
GERMAN SECRET
Commemorative Stamps POLICE BAFFLED
There followed the
In connexion with the celebra- by the Chaplain-General to the
Agents of the Gestapo-the Ger- Forces of six silver candlesticks tion of the tercentenary of the first LITTLE over a fortnight age pulous enemy, has not only held sented by, the King and of an
hands of a powerful and unscru- for the altar which had been pre- Swedish colony in America, which man secret police-who are active was established on or about April in Britain, are being out-man- at Bournemouth, England.
an Englishman who Kho Sin-kle, the young Chinese Up but repulsed the Japanese electric organ presented by the 5. 1638, near the spot where the oeuvred by
dity of Wilmington (Delaware) works in a little office in London. forces in their attempt to drive ladies of the Brigade of Guards. tennis champion, surprised, a huge south in Shantung:
now stands, special postage stamps He la Mr. C. B. Bonner, a former crowd by defeating F W. Austin.
have been issued in Sweden, and schoolmaster, and he publishes a ***D15 the title-holder and British ace.
hard
to win the British
courts championship.
According to £ press report "the vast crowd sat in amazement as Kho time and again caught
Austin on the wrong foot."
Japanese political and my YOUNG LION AT will remain on sale for a period monthly magazine called
leaders have been reluctantly forced to tell their deluded countrymen that the task of "civilising" China, which was so
JAPANESE DISILLUSIONED
LECTURE
Wahre Deutschland" "The True of approximately six months.
Engraved by Professor Olle Germany"), which contains articles Hjortzberg. of the Post Ofee by members of the German Free- Printing Department, Stockholm, dom Party, a secret organisation of the first value of the series, 5 ore Liberal-minded Germans which, in Talk On Monsters
green, shows the meeting between spite of the Nazi regime, still exists These words apply to the
Excitement was caused among Governor Printz, of "New Sweden," in Germany. prowess of Young China on the
an audience of eblidren at the as the colony was called, and an So far the party, which broad- field of sport but they also typift fare the world realised what had Royal Institution.`. London, when Indian chief; and on the stamp casts in Germany from its own The right to accept or reject | general as it has watched Young which will call for every ounce of was brought into the lecture hall. Ing from Gothenburg in the au-all efforts of the German police to Any or all of the Teaders is China putting up
reserved.
Copies of Forms of Tender can be had on application.
"Persons
for
the attitude of the world in.
tremendous
1
and successful fight at a much
more serious business-the defence
of its country, and liberty against aggression.
slightly entered into and which was expected to be all over be-
happened, is going to be a long and slow business and a
task
Japan's strength and demand the. concentrated application of all her military and economic resources.
Of course, they have not quite reached the stage of admitting Those who were surprised at the that their self-appointed task will strength and skill of the young never be completed, in fact, that Chinese tennis player have been it will lead to the destruction of skill, courage and endurance with even more amazed at the strength. Japan herself.
There
allon, cub from the London Zoo of 15 ore brown is shown the sall-short-wave transmitter, has defied
..
Mr.
which his countrymen have stood unrest in Japan-disappointment frightened of the crowd and the left and a cavaller extending the
the hand of friendship on the right. to explain that he was publishing
The occasion was a lecture by Dr. tumn of 1637 of the vessels Kelmar round it up.
Gestapo agents in London are Julian Huxley en "Rare Animals." Nyckel and Fazel Grip, carrying the
The children sat in breathless earliest Swedish settlers to the ceaselessly trying to discover clues silence. They had been warned by New. World.
here of the identity of the anti- Dr. Huxley not to applaud, because i On the 20 ore denomination, Nazis in Germany who month by
is ari tendering
em-month succeed in smuggling out the beast is of nervous tempera-printed in red, there (Bills) are hereby notified that
ment, but they clapped delightedly biematical design depleting two articles to Mr. Bonner.
colonists upholding the national Mysterious visitors, cali on having regard to the provisions
after he had gone out again. of the Acts 22 George III Cap.
The cub, whose name is Max, arms of Sweden, with an Indian Bonner and, on clumsy pretexts. are signs of growing did not enjoy his visit. He was carrying the pipe of peace on the try to get information..
A man posing as a refugee called 45 and 41 George III Cap. 52
up to the Japanese, who claim the that the much-vaunted power of spotlight. He sprawled on
The old, Swedish church at a book about what was happening Teader is subject to the express | dubious distinction of being world the Japanese military machine ground and had to be helped out
champions in the matter of waging had not succeeded in crushing of the room by his harness and Wilmington appears in the 30 ore in Germany. Could Mr. Bonner
hia tall.
design; and a portrait of Queen put him in touch with as many re- The cub was exhibited so that Christina, in whose reign the fugees as possible in London?
effected, is the Visitors like these And Mr. Bon- and heavy punishment in the of living and increasing burden of children could see the faint spots colonization was initial stages of the contest, China taxes; surprise that Japan fias so common to all baby lions and subject of the remaining value, 60 ner surprisingly unhelpful and the
times ore red-brown.
Gestapo goes on guessing how the has battled manfully on in the few i
friends and sympathisers probably a survival from
when their ancestors lived in defence
Finland, which also participated German Freedom Party maintains of those fundamental among the great assembly of
forests and were spotted.
in the founding of the settlement, its communications with London. rights which are held so dear by "amazed onlookers which are
fa to issue 1,000,000 copies of a 1. every independent nation,
watching the desperate struggle.
SEA SERPENTS
the acceptance of any such
condition that no Member of
the British House of Commons
shall be admitted to any share
or part in or to any benefit to arise from the Contract thereby made for the allotment of such (Bills).***
"The provisions in question do not apply to Contracts en. tered into by any incorporated Company in its corporated capacity and made for the general benefit of the Com. ралу."
T. L. ROGERS,
Colonel, R.A.P.C. Treasury Chest Officer, His Majesty's Treasury Office, Hong Kong.
NOTICE
6786
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SUN, SHING COMPANY
29, Des Voeux Road Central Will open on
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18th. We specialise in Clocks, Watches, Cameras, Binoculars and Photographic Goods of every description. Repairs A Specialty. INSPECTION CORDIALLY
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war.
China like a peanut under a steam INDISMAYED by early reverses roller; irritation at the rising cost
Shanghai saw the next stubborn struggle but, although China fell back, she again refused to admit herself finally conquered.
|
A
WITHHELD,
PLEDGE
"A GERMAN who was disa- + tisfied with Herr Hitler's regime, was discussing the situation the other day with A Jew.
"Hitler hasn't done what he
promised." complained the German.
Well, anyway," retorted the Jew, "he's kept all his promises to us Jews."
GORT ENGAGED
The engagement is announced of the Hon. Jacqueline Vereker, only daughter of Gen Viscount Gort, T.C. Chief of the Imperial Gen- eral Staff, and Mr. Michael Her- ron Weaver, of Craxton Wood, Ledsham, Wirral, Cheshire.
Mr. Weaver, an old Etonian, was captain of Cambridge University ski team in 1933, and was warmly praised for his courage in an in- cident during the international Universities ski-ing contests at Sestrieres in that year.
He collapsed after completing #aw dugongs, about a mile in his lap of the relay
Her opponent had figured on EXCUSES have been made by Dr. Huxley also brought some commemorative stamp having | DAUGHTER OF LORD a swift and decisive victory in the hundred in efforts to pure white gophers, rodents from face value of 34 maarka.
and around Felping explain why the China incident" Alberta, which gave shrill cries GROUND
where the ground has been drawn out for as many like birds throughout the lecture, CUNNINGLY had been cunningly months as it was expected days a black kite that rustled its wings, PREPARED prepared for the would be necessary to beat China a sub-species of house mice from
struggle which to her knees and sue for peace.
the Faro Islands, and spiny
planned to Japan had
bring
Many of the most important ant-eater, half mammal and half about.
facts about the military situation reptile, which hissed loudly as the China was beaten in the first in China have been deliberately keeper, held it up by its claws. set. but contrary to Japanese withheld or misrepresented in the Part of the lecture concerned hope of pre-the origins of mythological mona- expectations the rubber was by no means finished.
INFORMATION venting further ters. There had been, a great deal DELIBERATELY weakening of of talk lately about the Abomina- morale among ble Snowmen, reputed to be large, the " Japanese hairy. naked men living above people, but it is utterly impossible the snow line on the Himalayas. A third contest took place at to explain away the fact that Showing
slide of the double the mermaid was perpetuated by
travellers who Nanking, which also resulted in a China is still resisting the aggres-footmarks that gave rise to the Japanese "victory" (accompanied sor, and not only offering re- legend, Dr. Huxley argued that aquatic mammals found in tropi- race, but when he recovered he by an orgy or frightfulness' which istance but infileting heavy they were the tracks of a large cal sess. They appear to stand up struggled on through intense cold staggered humanity when the punishment on the invader.
bear which put its hind paws into in the water carrying their young to finish the lap.
at their breast.
Miss-Vereker, who was born in i appalling. facts leaked out). but
China's unity bas actually been its front paw. marka
Budes were also shown of four
The unicorn, he said. might 1014, was a debutante five years still Young China-to the amaze-consolidated thànks to Japanese ment of a sympathetic world and aggression and a political parties types of sea serpents. One was the have been based on the oryx, an ago. the angry disappointment of are rallying now under the banner Moha Moha, seen in Northern antelope with long pointed horns. Japan-battled bravely on and not of the Kuomintang. All party Australia in 1890 by a school Although it has two horns, it ap
Sentence of six months, bard only refused to sue for peace but rivalries have completely vanished teacher and attested by other pears, when seen sidewise, to have relected offers to that end made
as well as only one. Since in mediaeval times labour was imposed on Lan, Cheung, China has once again achieved white eye-winesses
theunicorn's horn was thought 25, by Mr. Edwards at the Central on behalf of Japan by a third things which outside observers natives.sending
MERMAID LEGEND // to have wonderful medicinal pro Court yesterday when he appeared party
watch with amazement-and most
how on remand on a charge of having Dr. Huxley suggested that this pertis Dr. Huxley told FOR NEARLY 10 months China of them with the hope that her
has been anghting for her aggressor will be caught again and and similar monsters might have mediaeval travellers encouraged embezzled $104.13 from the Wing national life and to the amaze again on the wrong foot and been shoals of porpoise, glant the legend when they brought Long rice firm and fraudulently ment of those onlookers who eventually admit the frightful cuttle-fish, basking sharks or rib back tusks rom the East and sold converted $280 entrusted to him by
Liu Bank bon fish. He also described how them as unicorn's horns.. expected her speedy defeat at the blunder of her stupid' crime.
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