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PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 20th day of June, 1938, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Or der of His Excellency the Gov. erflor of one Lot of Crown Land at Argyle Street, in the Colony of Hong Kong for of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fxed by the Surveyor of Hir Majesty the KING, for one for ther term of 75 years.
not
A term
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser wil KI the applicant). be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale," the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200)· In cash. This sum will be refund. ed on payment of the purchase
rrice.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
Argyle Street.'
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Locality.
No. of Salo.
Kowloon Inland Lot No. 40%.
G.
Boundary.
Мелит
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Да рет
sale plau
Contents in.
square feet
Annual
Rental
About
Square fast
57,000
004
Jpast Prize.
R.
6061
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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HONG KONO, JUNE 16, 1938.
PROBLEMS FOR
THE PUPPETS
PTIMISM is a well-known Jap-
OPTIM
anese "tralt and that it still exists is shown by a statement made several days ago by Mr. Koki Hirota, recently deposed Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Japanese Cabinet.
"We are looking toward a steady development of the new Govern- ments in Peking and Nanking. which, when merged into one ad- ministration will constitute 31 regime sturdy enough to take
care of all affairs of the territory under their respective jurisdic tlon." declared Mr. Hirota.
its influence to other parts of China so as to eliminate any influence which the Kuomintang. regime may exercise in some re- mote locality."
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1938.
CORRESPONDENCE THE EDUCATION OF THE
AN APOLOGY -
[The Editor of the Hong Kong Daily Press)
Sir.--The "March of Time" on- nounced as an added feature in the programmes at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres for Tues- day and Wednesday had previously been passed by the Censor in its entirety.
The Management now regrets [ that owing to circumstances, be- yond its control the film was sud- denly recalled and only allowed to be screened. In silent form without sound or commentary.
GENERAL AMUSEMENTS,
LIMITED. CHAS. 9. ROSSELET, Manager.
Hong Kong. June 14.
NOTES FROM · CHENGTU
Anti-Opium Measures
(From Our Own Correspondent)
ARMY OFFICER
Changes In The Staff College Training
Little more than a year ago the Army appeared to be stricken with a wasting disease, and there was talk of the breakdown of the voluntary system. Today the supply of recruits is within, measurable distance of meeting a demand swollen above the normal by the de Aciencies of the lean years that have gone before. Many factors bave contributed to this result, writes a military correspondent in the Manchester Guardian.
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The prospective recruit is obvious. The age of officers entering ly not unmindful of the improve the junior wing will be pro- ment in the material prospects of gressively reduced until it is under a military career. The deteriora thirty: the length of the course tion in the foreign political situa-will be one year instead of two: tion has not been without its and the number of vacancies each this doubled. By effect; soldiering today, antor year will be tunately, appears in the light of a means we shall get an adequate more purposeful occupation than it supply of junior staff officers, and [dd a few years ago. But, in the a larger number of officers will and scope for their legitimate long run, the most important fac tor is probably the continued flow ambitions,
of the tide of Army_reform.
W
The senior wing. which
to be housed at Minley Manor THE LATEST REFORM The stax and higher command near Camberley, will take about who will a year* of the Army, the key posts of the 65 officers service, are for the most part held be trained for command as well by officers holding the "p.a.c." cerns for senior stan appointments.
Chengta, June 6-To furthertificate, which denotes that they Candidates will be nominated, and ure graduates of the Staff Colleges although the majority will be assist the greater policy as desired by the National ice to the Staff College is by a is not an essential qualification.
production at Camberley and Quetta. En-graduates of the junior wing this
the Government,
Farm
Credit
IMPROVING STATUS
"That Government, it is anticlill assign another $4,000,000 to
Bureau of the central authorities yearly examination open to all
officers who are recommended as Buch a course, lasting a year. pated. will, in due course, extend szechuen so as to enable needy
auitable.
and attended by officers with wide A proportion of pass vacan experience representing the Terr!. farmers to have larger capital to des are reserved for those who torial Army, the Royal Navy, the operate their holdings.
head
the
examination results: Royal Air Force, and the Domin-
Ezechuen may apply for loans at
Farmers in different parts of the remainder are distributed by a tons, as well as the Regular Army,
of system
nomination amongst should become something that we nominal interest but, on harvest those who qualify. It is shall have to deposit their pro
some have not hitherto had in this evidence of the keenness of om
country, a real school för training ducts in government warehouses
cers, as well as of the professional in the higher art of war. until their promisory notes pre
Once more Mr. Hore-Belisha bar value attaching to a ps.c. certi paid.
acate, that the number of can- shown that he is tackling the didates qualifying each year has problems of the Army with cour- Somie 400 or more primary school been largely in excess of the num
[age and imagination. The present teachers in Chengtu this summer ber of vacancies-about three to scheme should go a long way to-
to give up their
wards improving the prospects and will be asked
FAR TOO OLD
the status of soldiering as a pro- annual vacation, so that their time may be contributed to a special One result has been that the fession. summer school for adults of the average age of officers passing out
With the relegation of a pro- city who are illiterate.
of the Staff College has risen to 36 portion of the platoon commands years, which is far too old for a to warrant officers, and the con-
It is notorious that Japanese spokesmen have a complete dis- regard for facts. Even so, it is: remarkable that Mr. Hirota, who was still Foreign Minister at the time he made the above statement. should admit, by making this States,ught-hearted prediction. that he
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IN THE GOODS of Arthur Maxwell Swyny, late Vallambrosa Rubber Federated Malay
Co.
one.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
LIF INTERIM DIVIDEND of FOUR per cent (4%) for the six months ending
· General Manager, deceased was so utterly unaware of the 30th, Jane, 1938 amounting to
true state of affairs prevailing in FORTY cents per share on the
the so-called "occupied" areas in NOTICE IS HEREBY China, Fully Paid Up Shares and TEN GIVEN that the Court has, by cents per share on the Partly virtue of Section 58 of the ACTUALLY the areas in North Paid Up Shares of the Company Probates Ordinance 1897, made China, supposed to be under will be paid on MONDAY. the an Order limiting the time for Japanese control, are in an ab Chengtu have to be given tuition Junior staff, appointment. Another sequent decrease in the establish-
solute state of chaos.
4th July, 1938, on which date creditors and others to send in Dividend Warrants may be obtheir claims against the above tained on application at the estate to the 2nd day of July, Registered Office of the Company. 1938. Exchange Building, 4th Floor.
both days inclusive,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of p.m., at the Offices of the Public Company will be closed from SATURDAY, the 25th June to Works Department, by Order of |SATURDAY, the 2nd July, 1938, His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Argyle | Street, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at`s Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor af His Majesty the KING, for on further term of 75 years.
not
By order of the Board of Directors,
W. L. McKENZIE,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 14th June, 1938.
G
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While the rallways and large
state
It is estimated that at least 150,000 adults and 30.000 children
iT
in simple reading, and it is hoped that this will be gradually done.
•
•
A detail of national air force in
is that many excellent officers who ment of officers foreshadowed in had striven for years to pass the Secretary of State's speech in through the bottle-neck, and fall the House of Commons, on March cities are held by Japanese troops
jed, tended to become disappointed 10. the commissioned ranks of the the interior is in a Szechuen has responded to call or/men. And yet, all the while, the Army will need more than ever to supply of trained staff officers has be recruited from the best talent anarchy the provincial government to as been a long way short of the de- available. stéh as North China sist in the suppression of poppymand, with the result that the
It is perhaps not too much has not seen since growing as one of the sati-oplamp.s.c. oficer was hustled
the future round to hope that in the middle of last measures. Along the frontier dis
from one staff job to another, the Army may undergo a process !tricts where the police force is not the staff was in danger of be. of democratisation similar to that The roads are impassable for very effective, poppy growing har coming a select circle of special
which has occurred in the Civil
STATE OF
ANARCHY
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under century. signed on or before that date.
Dated the 8th day of June. Anything in the nature of com-been found going on as usual, injusts, out of touch with the fight. Service. The public schools have-
1938.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER. Solicitors for the Administrator, The Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building, Hong Kong.
*
6065
PUBLIC AUCTION “
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser (if
will the applicant), be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in.
PARTICULARS AND CON. cash. This sum will be refunded DITIONS of the Sale by Public ⚫on payment of the Purchase Auction to be held on Monday,
the 20th day of June, 1938, at 3¦ p.m., at the Offices of the Public"
price..
1 No. of Baie.
Registry No.
Lorality.
Bandary
Yessure-
muuta.
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Annual
Zanda
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Repulse Bay Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty KING, for one further term of 75 years.
Kowloon Inland Lot
No. 4093.
Argyle Street.
ft
Ar per
sale plain
About
Contents in
45,000
Square feet.
516
33,750
* Upset Price,
THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN
GOLD MINING CO., LIMITED. (Incorporated in Queensland),
طيسية.
the
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the purchaser (11 not the applicant)," will
mercial transport while the rivers spite of orders against it, are little better
Even
the Japanese military
The air force will distribute cir
{ing troops.
no monopoly of the qualites that The Staff College is now being go to make a good officer. transports have been raided arculars advising destruction of the divided into a junior and a senior driven out the roads and rivers crops of this season and, in case wing.
necessary, it will take measures to and limited to the rallways.
The talk of the Japanese armies wipe out the plants Itself. controlling - vast areas in North
Magistrates of the districts likely
China is simply ridiculous and the bebe visited by the air police have OVER HUNDRED
been warned to afford co-opera-
Idea (held by Mr. Hirota) that the in the present drive against
6044 Peking and Nanking Governments the to the stort this deadly
are pushing ahead with pro- drug.
grammes of reconstruction and economic development is fust pleasant piece of fiction,
Д
Chinese herbs and other medi cinal plants are now being pre pared in Chungking for medic- use according to modern labora- tory method; and now pills and
QUESTIONS ON ORDER PAPER
Reassembling Of Commons
RUBBER ESTATE STOCKS TO BE LIMITED
Anticipates Coming Into Force Of Agreement
BIRTHS BUCHAN-At Colombo on May 18.
"The bighly nervous and com- 1938. to Freda (nee Kimpton) wife of David Buchan, of the pletely befogzed elderly gentlemen Hong Kong and Shanghal sitting in solitary glory in their Banking Corporation-R 800. empty office building in Pelping mixtures put up in new style take DOONG-On May 22, 1938, at the these gentlemen who form that the place of cups of soup bolled
International Hospital. Han-headless entity, the so-called 'Pro- from the herbe as having kow, to Mully, wife of Charles visional Government of China. the practice for centuries of pre-bles tomorrow and there are over mittee has authorised the estates A. Doong, a son.
are doing nothing whatsoever and scriptions from Chinese doctors 100 questions on the Order Paper of all signatory countries as from. control nothing at all" according
which the Ministers will be called July 1 to keep stocks equivalent DEATH
ANGUS-On June 5, 1938, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, Captain Percy Y. Angus, ma- rine surveyor, beloved husband
to E. well-informed foreign ob- of the old school. server..
whether their "IT IB doubtful
writ runs more than a dozen of Tsume Angus, aged 57 year. miles outside the city walls, or
IN MEMORIAM
HERRGESELL In ever loving memory of Wilhelm Herrgesell, who passed away June 8, 1933,
Gone but not forgotten.
ANCIENT CHINESE
WEIGHTS
whether their names even иге
LIMITED CONTROL
districts
These
NEW GOVERNOR
Londen, June 13.
London, June 14 Reuter is rellably informed that The House of Commons reassem-the International Rubber Com-
Japon to answer.
to one-quarter of the 1937 stan- Chief interest is attached, how dari assessments. ever, to a statement which it is This move merely anticipates OF HUPEH ...assumed the Prime Minister will the coming into force of the arce- make in answer to a private notice ment next year and, it is under- Hankow., June 14. General Chen Cheng, Director of question by the Opposition Leader, stood, is not connected with the
At
known to the vast majority of the Political Department of the arding the bombing of British question of the Buffer Pool as military affairs Commission, has merchant ships in ports and tor-
some market circles suggest.
The their countrymen.
authorisation aims "Nor is this surprising seeing been appointed to succeed General ritorial waters of the Government
or of Spain by aircraft serving in the avoiding a sudden increase at the how limited is the control exer- Ho Cheng-chun as Chairman
end of the year in estate stocks cised in the country the Hupeh Provincial Government. Cause of General Franco.
Messrs. Tao Hai-hain, and Tsu According to present arrange from the present peripissable level, the by Japanese army It Fu have been appointed Commis-ments the House of Commons will which amounts to only seven and self, which is their stoners of the Departments of proceed at the end of question time a half percent of the standard Education and Finance. (Inter with the business of supply and in assessments, while it will also Several Chinese weights of the one and only support.”....
the Committee of Supply will dis- alleviate the labour, situation.get The only portions of North (national)
cuss votes for the Colonial Office The majority of rubber brokers 6062 be required to deposit with anthird and second centuries BC.
have been purchased, by the China where the Japanese can be
and Coloniel and Middle Eastern welcome the action, but prices authorised officer who will be pre Science Museum, South Kensing said to exercise any control at all ing to find Mr. Hirota so optimis-services.
have not been affected,-(Reuter). sent at the sale, the sum of two ton.
are East Hopei, Chahar and Sul-tle. Possibly he has been mis'ed
It is expected the recent unrest hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. Recently a good deal of interest yuBIL
by the ciz in Jamaica and the question of In the two former they have │CIRCUMSTANTIAL cumstantial Palestine will claim principal at-
TRIAL FLIGHTS TO This sim will be refunded on has been taken in the anelent
establishing their hold!
STORIES
stories of linear measures of China, but the been
tention.
NORTH AMERICA scores of "ayment of the purchase price.
study of the weights has been for the past two years.
On Wednesday the Board of neglected. The two, however, are two areas are garrisoned chiefly million (and billion) ven com Trade vote will give opportunity
French And German PARTICULARS OF THE LOT closely related, for the capacity by "Manchukuo" troops and as panies being formed to undertake for a question regarding the Van
Test Services measures were based on the linear they border on Manchuria. are in the
development of Zeeland report to be raised, and foot, and the standard of weight any case accessible to Japanese North China, from banking to on Friday when the yote for the
Lisbon, June 14. bristles. appears to have been based on the reinforcements at any moment.
The Portuguese Government has of Buiyuan is held by bodies weight of graff contained by the
It is quite true that elaborate Ministry of Transport is down for
discussion another report, regard-granted permission to the German Mongol Irregulars who are of plans to that end are being madeing which many members will be Lufthansa company to make use of standard capacity vessel.
There seems to have been much doubtfut loyalty and only likely to by Japanese financiers and in anxious to hear that action is con- the ports at Lisbon Zand, in the confusion before the reign of gain fall in with Japanese wishes as trialists in co-operation with the Huang Ti (249-210 B.C.) who long as it suits their own pur- Commander-in-Chief of the Jap templated-the Bressey report on Azores, for carrying out trial fights anese expeditionary forces in planning of Greater London's to North America between June established a regular system of pose.".
trame arteries will certainly be and October North China. Kİ weights and measures, a fact which
the subject of debate. (British The same privilege has also been But the promoters of these en-
Wireless), is stated on a bronze weight, just IN THE REST of North China the
granted to Air France for Bever acquired by the museum and made Japanese armies hold only the terprises are feeling far from
trial flights to North America pro- in the 28th year of his reign. rallways and, large towns and they happy as to the security of their
vided that, in the event of a re- This weight, which is of 64 Chi-are constantly being harassed by Investments
Bome day, perhaps the Japanese H. M. 8. Enterprise sailed for sular service, being inaugurated, nese ounces, is bell-shaped, but guerilla banda.
will realise that China never Home yesterday according to her Lisbon will be used as the starting others, made of white "Jade, are in In view of these facts, which are
schedule:
point in Europe- (Transɔcean). 6068 the shape of tortoises.
common knowledge, it is astonish never can be conquered.
the
NOTICE is hereby given that the Share Regliters of Company will be closed from Tuesday, 21st June, 1938, Wednesday, 29th June, 1938 (both days inclusive).
By Order of the Board, DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants, Local Secretaries. Hong Kong Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE, 4th June, 1938.
to
6045
No, at Bata.
Bural Building
Lot No. 410.
Registry No.
Bay
Locality.
Repasd.
Boundary
Measure-
мелья.
(N.) 1.] X{W.
male plan.
Contents in
Bquare foot
Annus!
Rental.
Upast Price,
About
650
11,380
economic