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H. K. HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the above Society will be held at the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- son & Co., Ltd. (by kind per mission), on Monday, the 19th December, 1938, at 5.15 p.m.
The Annual Show of Flowers and Vegetables will take place on Tuesday, the 7th, and Wednes. day, the 8th March, 1939.
J. T. BAGRAM,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 6th December, 1939. 2011
General Managers, Indo-China
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
MESSRS. BUTTERFIELD
& SWIRE,
Agents, China Navigation
Co., Ltd.
2012
OFFICIAL NOTICE.
PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A
SHIP'S NAME.
1, John Johnstone Paterson of Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., General Managers, Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., 1.td. Hong Kong, hereby give notice that in, consequence of change of Ownership, I have applied to the Board of Trade, under Section 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, in respect of the ship 'HAI LI" of Shanghai Official num. her 161574 of gross tonnage 3,395 tons, register tonnage 2,055 tons, heretofore owned by The China Merchants S.N. Co., Shanghai, for the permission to change her name to "MING SANG" and to have her registered in the new name at the Port of Hong Kong as owned by The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.
Any objections to the proposed change of name must be sent to the Registrar of Shipping at Hong Kong within seven days from the appearance of this ad vertisement.
Dated at Hong Kong, this 6th day of December, 1938.
(Signed) J. J. PATERSON.
U.
2010
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HONGKONG, DECEMBE 7, 1938.
'BLOOD ALLEY
KDITORIAL
NEW FRENCH ENVOY
M. Henri Cosme's Career
Of interest is the announce- ment that M. Henri Cosme, French Minister at Athens, has been promoted to succeed M. Paul-Emile Naggiar (who has been appointed to Moscow) as French Ambassador to China. M. Cosme served in China in 1927 as Counsellor of Embassy at- tached to the French Legation in Pelping. Shortly afterwards, he
ITALIAN ARMS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1938.
DEMOCRACY IN CHINA SERIES-III
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FIRMS WATCHED MANCHUS AND DECLINE OF DEMOCRACY IN CHINA
BY AMERICA
Washington. Dec. 8. Administration officials are stated to be watching "closely the efforts of Italian armaments firms to push sales in Salvador which is within easy air raid distance of
the Panama Canal
The Italian Government does. not maintain a military or air mission there but the sales staff of the Italian arms firm, consisting of four men, headed by a colonel
of the Italian Army Reserve, is felt to be larger than any anticipated
(CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY)
During the domination of the Manchus the Chinese people were deprived of the right of participation in the government of the coun- ry. Our democratie institutions dwindled into mere local (adminis trative village roundig) or commercial and professional or occupa- tional guilds.
The fact that there were Chinese in the Manchu, governmental apparatus did not alter the fundamental truth "because these men were part of the renegade mercenary, Manchu Bureaucracy which served. their conquerers in their own interests and against the in- terests of their fellow countrymen and their country.
was one of the Arst French diplo- / Profits would warrant and suspl- Sun Yat-sen wäred his sternest flight after the overthrow of the
NCE AGAIN, Shanghai's "Blood mats entrusted with the establish- ONCE AGAIN, totement of official relations between France and the National Govern- limelight as a result of a most
fracas serious
which
cccurred ment of China
After holding various posts in shortly after midnight on Sunday,
which Italian Europe and America, M. Cosme for in the course of soldiers and marines and French, several years was chief in Paris of British and American service-men the Department of America' and were involved. The latest clash is later, with the rank of Minister described as the worst ever seen in Plenipotentiary And Class, the this notorious Shanghai thorough- Department of Asia at the Qua! d'Orsay. He was promoted to the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary "BLOOD ALLEY," the nickname 1st Class In. May. 1936, and ap for Rue Chu, Pao-san, is a pointed to Athens at the end of street less than fifty yards in that year. length on the French Concession
M. Coame served brillantly in side of Avenue Edward VII the the French ranks during the Great
War and was awarded the Med aille Militaire in 1018 after having made good 2 most dangerous
fare,
SCENE OF CONSTANT
ly of Greatwood Chislehurst," WARS" In the County of Kent. England, deceased,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, made an Order limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 28th day of Decem. ber, 1938.
All Creditors and others art accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under. signed on or before that date.
Dated the 30th day of Novem. ber, 1938.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Executors, Hong Kong & Shanghai
Bank Building, “
Hong Kong.
1906
CALL.*
CHINA UNDERWRITERS,
LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that Call of $1.00 per share has been made upon all members holding shares upon which $5.00 per share only has been already pald, and will be payable `on or before the 15th March, 1939 to the Bankers of the Company Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, at Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong.
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Dated 1st December, 1938. By Order of the Board of Directors, HERBERT R. STURT,
Managing Director,
DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 12th day of Dec., 1938, at 3 P.,, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at 1999 Grampian · Road, in the Colony
of Hong Kong for a term of 75
years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal
URBAN COUNCIL MEETING
street which forms the border between the Concession and the Central District
of the International escape from a camp of prisoners Settlement It received its "title" in Germany. He also holds the as the result of constant squabbles, rank of Omicer of the Legion of invariably accompanted by blood-
Honour. shed, which occur almost regularly between habitues of the dozen or more cabarets which line both sides of the road. These places, frequented mostly by service-men
at various nationalities other than Chinese and Japanese, have proved
MACAO TAKES
PRECAUTIONS
It was learned from a reliable
a thorn in the side of the authori-source yesterday that the Macao ties ever since their establishment milltary authorities have ordered a dozen years ago, but. In spite of the defences along the border to this and of publie outeries, no steps be strengthened. in view of the have been taken to suppress them. tension in the Chungshan district.
cfon is aroused that it is subsidised by the Italian Government.
Relations between the United States and Salvador have been strained for nearly a decade. Reuter.
ONLY 500 PEOPLE ESCAPED FROM KOWKONG
Only about 500 out of 100,000 civillans in Kowkong were able to escape when the town was occupied by the Japanese on December 3, according to Mr. Chan Quan-fai, chairman of th Kowkong Chamber of Commerce, who fled here on Monday, says "Central News,"
When he left Kowkong, Mr. Chan said, the town was enveloped in flames. He said that the Japanese attack on Kowkong came all of a sudden and consequently the civilians could not evacuate in
time.
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It was against this same former Manchu Bureaucracy that Dr. Maachus. "But like Shih Hwang-ti, the first unifler of all China, the selfless patriot, Sun Yat-sen, was defeated by the Bureaucracy who then grouped themselves around Yuan Shih-kai after the 1911 Re- volution had overthrown their master, the Manchus,
13 2
the
The Partament tant was in- could have any meaning augurated by Dr. Sun Yat-sen be- parallel for the situation that was came a tool in the hands of unfolding itself in China and was the Manchu Bureaucracy and, likely to influence the entire world through the manoeuvres of the situation. corrupt politicians, the Nationalist Wu San-kuel was a traiter gen- leader was forced to seek a base eral of the last Ming Emperor. H in Kwangtung. Parliament, left in was stationed at Shankuikwan as the hands of the Bureaucracy, de- garrison commander when generated until finally the Antul disastrous agricultural conditions clique, headed by the infamous prevailing during the last years of Hsu Shih-chang, - : "
the bought up the en-
Ming Dy. BY PERCY CHEN Chinese peasan- nasty caused the tire lot of M.P.'s and got himself elected. "President of the Chinese volt and Peking was besieged and try to rise in re- Republic." This was only possible taken. because the Kuomintang, or Peo ple's Nationalist Party, had been proscribed. and its members ex- pelled from North China or driven underground.
LEADER OF REBELS
The leader of the rebels, L4 Tze- cheng. proclaimed himself Em- peror. It was to restore power to Relief measures for the refugees In the "Great Revolution of the Bureaucrats and the Emperor in Kowkong are being contem-1925-1927, the Kuomintang moved that Wu San-kue! surrendered plated by the Kowkong Guild into control of the entire territory without a Aght to the Manchu Hongkong, but as all communica- of the Chinese Republic. And they Prince Nurkichu, and then turned tions with the town have been were opposed by the ex-Manchu puppet and assisted the Manchus... severed, it will be difficult to carry Bureaucrats either openly, allied to to subjugate his countrymen and out these measures.
the northern militarists, or secret his country. China remained sub- ly, working within the Kuomintang ject to allen rule for about 250 itself or the Nationalist Govern years. mental apparatus.
for a representative After 1929, there was a great in body of Chinese citizens, divorced fux of these" elements into the trom the prejudices of the party
SOVIET-JAPANESE RELATIONS
The need
Barbed-wire and sand-bag bar- WHILE it is yet too early to ascer- ricades have been erected, and the
Tokyo, Dec. 38. tain who were responsible for border guards have been increased, Settlement of the question is Party and the Government and politicians, the official, Bureaucrats. this latest episode.
their influences became stronger and the military circles, was felt telegrams General Chang Wel-cheung.
essential for the preservation of which have come to hand would magistrate and concurrently com- normal Soviet-Japanese relations with the result that China's In- during the Liang Kwang crisis. It indicate that the Italian marines mander of guerilla units of Chung- and
ternal structure was so weakened was later felt even more during. consequently the peace of were at fault, but, until the results shan, has ordered the armed forces, East Asia, says a Foreign Office
that Japan was able to strike in the crisis at Blan when General- of an inquiry which is to be in- in the district to take strict pre-spokesman in a statement on the Manchuria. These elements were issimo Chiang was confined. In. stituted, are made public. It would cautions against any Japanese in- Soviet's reply of November 28 to directly responsible for the polley both instances, however, the elder be unfair to pass any decision on vasion. General Chang has re the Japanese proposal to conclude of "non-resistance" to the Japan-Kuomintang statesmen and mem- the matter. The cables received turned from a trip to Macao where a new Soviet-Japanese Fishery Con-ese invasion of Manchura and bers resident all over the country. Indicate that, after a group of he conferred with the circles con- vention in accordance with the
were the spear-head of the drive as well as overseas, were barely French police has halted, at the cerned on the rellef of war re- terms agreed on in the autumn to accept Japanese terms at the able to avert major disasters which point of the pistol, a truck full fugees in Chungsban. ......
of 1938. He declares that the price of the loss of Chinese sover- would have had the effect of open- of Italian soldiers and marines who More civilians are leaving Shek-reply appears to indicate that the elgnty. It was only the strengthing our frontiers to the invasion. were attempting to leave the Frisco ki. The buses leaving Bhekki for Boylet is seeking to nullify Japan's of character of General Ohiang for the Japanese. Cafe after having badly beaten two Macao are fully packed with pas-fishery rights based on the Treaty Kal-shek that prevented the suc The intrigues of the ex-Manchu foreign officers of the Frenchsengers. Japanese planes have of Portsmouth, which could never cess of the fo.mer Peking poli-Bureaucracy to create a kivil war Municipal Police and broken the been making daily reconnaissance be tolerated, therefore, fresh in. ticians and ex-Manchu" Bureau-between the Central Government windows of two cabarets, an flights aver
the Shekki-Macao | structions had been sent to the crata. And to many are known and the Lang Kwang (Kwangal Italian marine shouted to a French highway during the last few days."
Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, the extent of the promises of per-and Kwangtung) ended in failure. service-man, "Túnis! Corsica!" He
Reuter,
sonal aggrandizement that were A working basis was found to end is also alleged to have hurled in-
made to Chiang Kai-shek it be the estrangement between Nation- sulting remarks at British soldiers who were present in the cafe at
would acquiesce in their nefarious alist China, Attempts to rabotage. schemes. Events have shown that the gallant resistance that wis the time.
their temptation bore no fruit, being nered to the Japanese in- for Chiang Kai-shek had beenvasion of Sulyuan by both Yen- AT THE
The Director of Ambulance ac- when Franco-Italian relations knowledges with thanks the fol-
nurtured in the womb of the shan and Fu Tso-yi by these same are by no means free of disturbing lowing donations and gifts:-
A fine of $50 was imposed by Nationalist movement in which the ex-Manchu Bureaucrat elements influences, nothing could
Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the welfare of the people and of the was the direct cause of the mis- done more to arouse Individual feel-Mr. Fung Kong Un $200, and Mrs. Watts, of Carnarvon Road, who Peking politicians and
New Zealand, £1,000-$15,933.61, Kowloon Court yesterday on E. M country are the main tenets. The understanding of Generalissimo which naturally were strongly rebottles) $25.-For Relief Work. ings than such insulting remarks, Dunbar (for purchase of hot water
Manchu Chiang's intentions as to National Was summoned for "dangerous Bureaucrats could only offer per-salvation. sented by the French. The result
driving in Chatham Road on the sonal power, oppression of the As a result of this misunder was that a free fight,
HK Tramways. Ltd. $200. Mrs. evening of November 6.
masses of the Chinese people, standing. Generalissimo". Chiang. Dunbar $100, Anonymous $100, Mr. In'volving service-
Defendant pleaded guilty. Mr. squeeze, personal fortunes. And was confined by Chang Kauch- men of four. nations,
Fung Ki Cheuk $100, Mrs. Fung KJ. Whyatt, Crown Counsel, pro- these could only lead to alienation lang. Nevertheless, with the Cheuk $50, Mr. Ng Taze Mel $20,secuting, stated that the defen- of the support of Young China, the clearing up of the misunderstand- ensued, during the
Mr. Man Kal $20, Miss J. W. Buck-dan had run into a 15-year-old inevitable ise of another revolu-ing by direct talks with represen- course of which a score of shots well $10. Mr. T. B. Wilson $10, Mrs.boy... who were fired.
WILS The casualties include Savage $5, Mr. Chol Kau $3, Mr. Li radiator of the car for a distance tary dictator. This would be tol-armies, and the Communist Party, on the tionary movement to oust a mili-tatives of the former Manchurian. two French police sergeants, a Sing Wang $2, Mr. Ho Sui Ping $1. of more than 100 feet before the lowed by civil war (as was nearly the seeds were laid for the final Russian member of the French
One Fortieth (per BC.M.P.) $1. vehicle Municipal Police, and three Chin
was brought to a stop. ese constables, in addition to three medical supplies and food for dis-taneously.
Post Office Staff for gifts of The boy was killed almost instan- Italian soldiers and An Italian
tribution in the New Territories marine.
and outlying districts,
Chinese clothing.
PRESENT
MOMENT
have
INSULTS RESENTED
PROMPT ACTION has been taken by the Italian authorities, who, An application for an eating a result of the trouble, have |
"Blood Alley "*
out of ing. bounds for all Italian forces in the
DONATIONS, GIFTS ACKNOWLEDGED
FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT SEQUEL
'ar
carried
I
THE WEATHER Yesterday was for the most part fine, the temperature averaging degrees, and the minimum being no less than 64.
Women's Club-Rice,
at a Crown Reat. to be fixed by house licence for No. 228 Hollywood declared
Per Mrs. 8. Wong-babies cloth- the Surveyor of His Majesty the Road, ground floor, was refused at
National Women's Relief Asso- KING, for one further term of the meeting of the Urban Council future and who also have issued clation-2 sacks of rice. -24 years less the last three days held yesterday.
orders confining the marines to International Medical Rellet
The total rainfall for the year thereof.
The following were present: barracks after 6 p.m. dally for an Association-12 sacks of medicalis 55.34 inches, against an average of 84.21 inches. There has been no Intending bidders are advised Mr. RR. Todd (Chairman), Hon. indefinite period. These steps have supplies.
Mr. Oeing Em-tin per The rain in Hongkong since November that immediately after the dis Dr. P. 9. Selwyn-Clarke, Hon. Mr. been taken to keep the Italians out posal of the lot the Purchaser RM. Henderson, Mr. F. C. Hall, of trouble and to prevent the re-Steam Laundry Ca-iodine, Ban-11, except for a few drops four
days ago. The dages, Lint, Cotton Wool, Mercuro- (if not the applicant), will be DR. A. de Castro Basto, Mr. owners of the wrecked cabarets chrome and Acid Boric Pulv. required to deposit with a B. Wong Tape and Mr. Tang Shu!-
C., F. Bellamy, Dr. 8. N. Chan, Mr. Likewise are to be compensated. authorised officer who will be in.
MEANWHILE, according to the present at the sale, the sum of Fifteen Ucences were granted by messages, Blood Alley" has two hundred dollars, ($200). In the Counch between November 22 resumed business and it enjoying cash. This sam will be refunded and December 5. These included a roaring trade, which has been on payment of the Purchase six for swine, three
made more conspicuous by the eating houses and offensive trades. absence of the Italian forces. and one each for restaurants, food WHILE the situation has eased for
price.
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each for
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT factories and food preserving esta-
No. of Sale.
Locality.
land Lot No. 9841. Registry No.
New Kowloon In-
Kowloon Inlaud, Opposite New
Lot No.
2802, Grampian Road.
Houndary
Mesere.
menta.
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As jor
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Square feet.
ADAUL!
Rental..
∞ Upset Price
AboutTM*
18,960
160
6,989.
blishments.
currence of such incidents.
TRAVEL ASSOCIATION The Chairman of the Hongkong
threatened in 1936 between the unification of the country and for Liang Kwang, and the Central the creation of the National United Government) and the intervention Front for National salvation, of Japan to "are" the Central These two major events in 1936 Government, The hist and final dealt a severe blow to the hopes triumph would then have been "the of the ex-Manchu Bureaucrats appearance of another Wu San- within the Nationalist Government kuel" and the bloodless subjugation and outside it. And they began of China by the Japanese.
openly to prepare for participation In the critical days during which with the Japanese for intervention the question of civil war between by the use of armed forces in Norta. the Liang Kwang and the Central China and Shanghai The will of
·Government hung on the balance, the people, however, had been ex- Young China was not asking "Who pressed and real unification re- would be China's Franco?" Neither sulted in a cessation of a twenty- the Spanish civil war nor any year period of Civil wars in which other Western European situation Chinese fought Chinese,..
SHOOTING MISHAP with thanks the following subtric Road, has reported to the Travel Association acknowledges Mr. A. Vannini, of 141, 143 Elec-GERMÁN SUBJECT scription for the period 1938-1939. police
H.K. Tramways, Ltd. $250.
MEN OF WAR IN HARBOUR
the time being, there is no assurance that trouble will not recur, in "Blood Alley" in future: and, until the French Concession authorities consider it wise to take war were in harbour yesterday:-- The following British men-of- steps to purge the place, it is quite Dorsetshire, reasonable to believe that the pub-Diana, Thanet, Thracian, Decoy, Westcott, Dunean, hastic have not heard the last of this Dainty. Delight, been received by the Hongkong notorious thoroughfare.
Duchers · Bal- Government from the Secretary of State, for the Colonies that the
COLONY'S RESPECTS TO QUEEN MAUD Telegraphic information
funeral of Her late Majesty the
mouth. Fulkestone Lowestoft, Herald, Cicala, Tarantula, Scor- plon. Medway and submarines of the fourth flotilla.
Queen of Norway will take place Dr. H. L. Lá, of No. 5: Caine Road, to-morrow. All flags on Govern-has reported the theft from his In addition, there is one Ameri- ment buildings and launches will residence on Monday night of can ship, the Pope, one French, be flown at half-mast from 8 am, money and jewellery to the total the Argus, and the usual Chinese 2009 to sunset,
value of $272,
craft.
CAUTIONED
GENEROUS GIFT that while out shooting
FOR REFUGEES game at Sha Kiu, Pingshandis-Paul Stefan Locamandi, a Ger- The "Hongkong Daily Press" trict, in the New Territories, on man subject, residing at the Euro-learns that Mr. William Cummings, Sunday, he accidentally shot a girl, pean YM.C.A., Was ́ cautioned by caterer to the 2nd Battalion, the Li Ting-lin, aged 15.
Mr. R. A, D, Forrest at the Cen-East Surreys, from Hongkong to The girl was not seriously intral Court yesterday when he ap- Shanghat - récently, last Saturday jured, and was treated at the Un peared on a summons for entering presented to the refugee camp at Long Dispensary.
the Colony without a valid pass-Up Long 700 lb., of beef, and mut- port.
ton from Australia, ten bags, "of Detective-Sergeant P. H. Lough- rice and 1,000 lb. of bread. This lin said that defendant arrived in gift is much appreciated by those Hongkong on November 19 and in charge of the camp fust as much immediately went to the Registra- an it is by those benefitting there. tion Office to register himself. On by examination, his passport was found to have contained no Bri- The monthly meeting of the tish visa, which is required for Chinese Chamber of Commerce Austrian and German subjecta. was held at the Chamber.building? he was unaware of the new re-bers Mr. Chan Chok-ching and Mr. Defendant told the Court that yesterday, at which two new mem- gulation
Chan But-po were admitted."
PARKING CHARGES Pleading guilty to the summons for parking their cars in excess of the time limit allowed, B. Asting- ton and H. B. Jordan were fined $8 and $4 respectively, by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Court yesterday.
in Pedder Street, H. B. Powis, was For leaving his car unattended
fined $4