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EDITORIAL
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. The Daily Press Iron Lung Gives Sufferer
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of Cuthbert Bernard Parkes Parry, late of 5, The Drive Hove, in the County of Sus- Bachelor. sex, England, a deceased.
NOTICE 15 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 claints against the above estate to the 5th day of January, 1939.
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.
Dated the 9th day of December, 1938.
JOHNSON, STOKES &
MASTER,
Solicitors for the Administrators, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building, Hong Kong.
NOTICE.
SPÉCIAL CHRISTMAS
EXCURSION.
HONG KONG to SHANGHAI
and RETURN.
ROUND TRIP TICKETS available from 15th December, 1938 to 15th January, 1939.
"A" SALOON – HK$120- .. Return.
"B" SALOON HK$100- Return.
MESSRS. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Managers, Indo-China S.N. Co., Ltd.
報軻
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Tel. 24511. Lonuon Omce: 53. Fleet Street
E.C.4.
Hoxoxong, Dzonмber 12, 1938.
MODERN CHINESE
DRAMA
CAPTIVATES COLONY
(BY THE PIT")
Only Chance Of Life
Lord Nuffield's Noble Gift
To The British Empire
The so-called "Iron Lạng” is a device whereby the muscular set of breathing can be carried on artificially when the muscles which normally perform that act are paralysed. It is thus a means of pre- serving life until such time as 'muscular activity has been recovered: and in fact many lives have been preserved in this way.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1938.
Hello
& Goodbye
BY A.W. HYER-
Everybody is happy! Mall and more mall arrived in the past three days by the two air lines and seven vessels which called here from practically every corner of the world. Air France
IT WAS GREAT FUN to greet the party was in session in honour of Ville de Damas, Al: France's Commander and Mrs. A. H. Spur- plane, which arrived from Hanoi reon, R.A.N., who were married on on Thursday at 12.30 p.m.
Friday morning and were leaving Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kadoorie | to: a honeymoon in Japan. came back from a honeymoon trip. Mr and Mrs. J. C. Finch were through Indo-China. Now the journeying for a short visit in whole family is in Hongkong for Shanghai, and they too, were given the Christmas season.
a gay send-off by friends. A chattering passenger chewing M.V. Canton
THE NEW P. & O. steamer Canton
new pet monkey. The air ride was ane and he or she raised a soud
certainly had her baptism of continuous yap about the journey farewell parties on Saturday mom- which ended all too soon..
Ing before she sailed at noon for Mr. H. Z. Walter in the Trame the south and Europe.
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| Department of the Eurasia Avia-
Major-General and Mrs. W. Hon Corporation. Yunnan, stopped Bartholomew, who are returning to by on his way to Shanghai where London, were surrounded by of he will do his Christmas holiday-cers and many tends.
Obviously, however, the success Empire are to be supplied with of the mechanism depends upon it. Those with experience of prac- Its being immediately available. tice in country districts know how There are few more tragic possi- | difficult it may be to transport on a cracker was Mr. M. Kuam's Filltles than the fallure to find an patients to cities, and how much TN. Europe two years ago, I hap-iron lung in time to effect salva- therefore depends upon the equip
tion.
ment of the local cottage hospital. pened to meet a young Chinese
The It is this possibility which en-
wild improbability of who was connected with the China
gif Anding an iron lung in cot- Travel Service. I am naturally in- dows Lord Nuffeld's latest
tage hospital as things have terested in art and asked him how with its virtue. He has secured many theatres there were in Shang- hai, "None," was his reply. "How can that be?" I asked in amazement. "Surely
be" there must
many theatres?" for I knew that Mei Lan-fang, the famous actor, often 2012 had appeared in that city. And I "Oh. the young man so. Chinese theatres? Yes, there are about fifty in Shanghal alone." My yourg Chinese friend must have been thinking I meant Eu- ropean theatres.
MESSRS, BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents, China Navigation Co., Ltd.
CALL
CHINA "UNDERWRITERS,
LIMITED.
יו
NOTICE is hereby given that 2020 a Call of $1.00 per share has
CHINA LIGHT AND POWER CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO
told
Some time after. I met Mr. Au- yang Yit-stng, founder of China's modern drama; and together we spent many pleasant hours visiting theatres in London and in Paris.
Last week, I was delighted to
know that Mr. Auyang was in Hongkong. Still undaunted and as active as he was twenty years ago, he founded the arst group of Chin- ese for the production of modern Chinese plays. He told me, "Twenty
years ago, we organized the 'Spring
been made upon all members holding shares upon which $5.00 per share only has been already paid, and will be payable on or before the 15th March, 1939 to the Bankers of the Company, Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Dramatic Club' in Shanghai that the tragic search shall never Corporation, at Queen's Road and, in spite of trials and tribula-again take place, and thus has Central, Hong Kong.
tions during that time, we have re- undoubtedly raised a heavy bur den of anxiety from the minds of mained true to our ideals-these
doctors throughout are anti-aggression and anti- feudalism. As China still has traces of feudalism, the introduc- For the disease with which the tion of modern drama naturally nse of the Iron lung is associated has met with many obstacles. The is infantile paralysis, the coming
Two respirators shown at the LC.C. exhibition. The latest
·Drinker." and 'on the right a jacket respirator.
Dated 1st December, 1938. By Order of the Board of
Directors,
HERBERT R. STURT,
SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDIN. ARY GENERAL MEETING of the above named Company will be held at the Head Office, St. George's Bullding, Victoria. Hong 1999 Kong, immediately following the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Company to take place on Wed nesday, the 21st day of December, 1938, at Noon, when the sub- joined Resolution will be pro- posed as an Ordinary Resolution. vtz :-
"That the Authorised Capital "of the Company be increased
parents and the country.
Ing.
A very pretty and quiet passen-
M.V. Rays
ger was Mrs. H. Desberough who FRESHLY PAINTED and
visits here a few days before con- tinuing northward to a holiday in Shanghal.
Empress of Canada
over-
hauled, this luxurious Dutch ship left on Friday, at 5 pm,
Mr. and Mrs. Falt San-sung were very pleased about their proposed Joumey on this motorship. This.
FRIDAY, NOON when this liner couple will represent China in for Van-Johannesburg. Mr. Sung being the a full Consul-General in this delightful
departed heading couver, she did not carry passenger ist..
city,
Sailing to Manila on a business trip was Mr. M. A. Malcolm for the company of the same name.
War
I.
Two world renowned visitors have been visiting the Colony and sulled away to Honolulu via the Empress. Mr. and Mrs. Garard Van
Miss C. A. Wood was the centre Barkelow-Hale, two cosmopolitan er a pleasant party just before this people, who have been travelling ship departed. Durban is the des- about the world since July and are tination of the charming lady who now on their way home to Santa has been attached to the Barbat, Mr. Barkclow-Hale has Memorial Hospital. Airs. painted many beautiful murals in Ferguson 14 accompanying Miss the States and his latest works are wood to the South African city, stood until now. needs no em-
the designs in the State Building in We also saw Mr. and Mrs. W. E. phasis.
Salt Lake City... His charming wife Dennison, of the Chase Bank. Every cottage hospital will posts British and outstanding for her sess its tron lung, and will thus be work during the World War. Her boarded a launch to go back to At the very last minute as we in a position, where transport of maiden name, Kathleen Burke, is Blake Pier, we spotted Mr. and the patient cannot be permitted, remembered in connection with the Mrs. R. J. Young who sailed for to send out the apparatus at a Red Cross.
Dulban. Mr. J. S. Ku, of Anderson Meyer, moment's notice.
Infantile paralysis tends in most went to Shangahi on a business call on Saturday and went dashing The President Coolidge paid a
Managing Director. movement has, however. continued, of which in most cases is sudden cases to run a course like other visit in the Empress of Canada. down to Manila very at dawn on Since the outbreak of the war, the and secret, so that disaster is at inesses, so that the degree of per-He expects to be back in the Colony Sunday. She will be back from the
Chungking Notes
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(From Our Own Correspondent}
Chungking. Dec. 3. It is learnt from a local source ***to Fifteen Million Dollars by that Lieut.-Commander G.P.C. "the creation of One Million Ball, of H.M.S. Falcon will short- "New Shares of the nominally leave for Chengtu. **value of $5 each and that
Owing to the scarcity of automa- "such New Shares be issued tic telephones, the authorities have "at such time or times and on" been obliged to call in the phones, "such terms and conditions as of unnecessary subscribers. They "the Director in their absolute promise, however, that the phones will be installed again as soon as "'discretion shall see fit."
available. By Order of the Board of Directors, NOEL BRAGA,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 9th Dec., 1938.
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EWO COTTON MILLS LTD.
An interim dividend of 75 cents
a share on the Ordinary shares
has been declared. This will be
payable on the 30th December,
1938.
The Transfer books will be closed from the 22nd December to the 30th December, 1938 in. clusive.
A new issue of 150,000 Ordinary shares will be made at $14 per share to Shareholders on the Share Register on the 30th Dec ember, 1938. ...
The amounts due must be paid on or before the 25th January, 1939 by Shareholders resident in the Far East and on or before the 2nd March, 1939 by other Shareholders.
The nett profit for the Erst nine months of 1938 is approxi- mately Chinese: $4,500,000.
JARDINE, MATHESON
& CO., LTD.,
a. December, 1938,
General Managers.
Chungking has many oplum ad- dicts. During the past week, the police detained some 900 unregis- tered addicts.
activities of the Chinese modern hand often before the danger has dramatists and the actors have beert realized; says the "Times." become intensified. They have One great mierit of the gift is the gone into the interlor and fact that small as well as great
the backbone are
of the paganda dramatic
groups of which we hear so much. There are many such groups 'co-operating
by the 25th.
manent damage, if any, is less
south on Saturday but we will have than the degree of damage which
Off for a vacation via Canada, de- all the news for you fong before existed when the illness began.
parted Mr. and Mrs. H. Hall and then Thus there is hope in those cases their merry family, The Public
which respiration
has
been
Works Department here will be pro- hospitals throughout the British affected that, if artificial breathing, without hip services for the next CORRESPONDENCE
with the political departments of British Fund
the Chinese armies. The Chinese masses love drama. Thus, pro- paganda can be put over in this method with success."
In Hongkong. the
For Relief Chinese Of Distress
modern drama is captivating a wide public and the contingent of
Was
Brought forward $217.458.05, The
can be maintained, recovery of na-six month.
tural breathing will take place.
Shanghai bound and a short call
L
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In any case the sufferer is given took Mr. A. S. Gubbay North ith CHINA LIGHT NEW by the Iron lung the only chance Empress: It was a short hello for ISSUE OF SHARES of life which remains to him: Lord
brother and sister, Mrs. Nuteld has never offered a nobler Kadoorie. Just returning from the glft.
south the day previous to his sail- ing.
Speed Pays In The Air
Faster French airliners have stolen thousands of passengers from British planes on the luxury London-Paris air route, it is revealed by Croydon Air- port traffic figures for twelve months.
They prove that speed pays in
Tourist Bureau
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To the Editor, "The Hongkong
Dally Fress"]
Dear Sir, I notice in your paper this morning that another new
WE TOLD YOU SO! The trave: issue of shares is being made by business in and out of this Co- the China light and Power Com- lony grows each month, Mr. I. T.pany which leads me to wonder Sawamura has arrived from Toxyc how much longer are we Kowloon to open a new Bureau of the Ja- consumers to be charged such high, panese Tourist Agency. At the rates for our electricity co present you will find this office with the consumers of the Iccated in the N.Y.K." Imperial Airways
SATURDAY 5.15 p.m. Capiala H. B. (John) Collins brought the lines. Imperial Always, British Dephinus to Kai Tak Airways and Air France, and cover Mr. Paul Buergin, of the General two periods of six months, April to Motors Co., arrived from a business September in 1937 and 1938.
visit in Rangoon,
red Jag-
kong Electric Co. Instead of giv- ing the consumers a reduction in charges as the "Hongkong Electric Co. does from time to time. the China Light and Power raise new capital, so that the annual profits' in relation to the capital remain unaltered.
Bir Elly Kadcorle and Sons, who
control the destinies of this com- pany by virtue of their sharehold-
Its actors and actresses has grown H.K. Telephone Co., Ltd., $2,500; Ho to include many veterans of the wing. $200; Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Chinese stage and cinema.
Shewan, $100: The Dedication of For the last five years dogged the Military Chapel of St. Barbara, efforts kept a "cadre of these en- Stanley, 589.34; The Staff of Kwan thuslasta going, but, after the war Cheong Ho, $58.50; Metsrs. B. & S.. began, the "South China Drama $5,000: Mr. and Mrs. R. Millar, Study Club" was founded by a $10; Miss Lam King Fong, $5: group of dramatists, and, in plays Miss Chau Bo Yee, $5; Miss Lam well-known to Young Chinese such Yuet Ming. 32; The Bun Yee Girls' as “Protect Marco Polo Bridge" by School, $20; Anonymous, $50; The the air. Ma Yen-hslang and "Thunder and China Bros.' Hat Manufacturing The figures relate to three air- Storm" by Chap Yu, a deep im- Co., $1,000; Martin Ray, $10: Miss pression
made upon Mr. Ho Ping-ju, head of the
the A. Ray, $10. North China Journalists War
theatre-going public.
The Class 6B of The St. Paul's Service Corps, who have been
Since then dramatic clubs in the College, $14; Messrs. Andersen and working in the various war areas schools of Hongkong have grown Ashe, $100: The Staff of The Wan
In April 1937 Imperial Airways' Mr. W. Latrille was the other In North China, arrived here yes-like mushrooms. The outstanding Kee Godown. $100; The Pawn slow luxury airliners, biggest in the passenger on the Delphinus, and ings, isque new shares on which terday and is reported to be estab-
are the "July 7th Dramatic Club Broker's Association, $1,000: The world, carried five times more pas he is on his way back to Yunan
they and other shareholders receive ishing a branch office of his corps
of the South China Middle School; Plece Goods Merchant Guild, $500: sengers to and from Paris than Of interest, to everyone is the 10 per cent. Interest-but ignore us here.
and the "Dramatic Club of the The Nurses, Staff and friend of the British Airways, and twice as many "All-Up Air Mail Service" which consumers who make it possible for Students Relief Association." The H.K. Sanatorium Hospital, 31,000: as Air France.
the Imperial Airways are putting this high return to be paid. Coffins containing the remains pioneer members of the South Chun Tak Girls School, $150; Miss
Then British Airways scrapped into force. This
As this is a public utility company of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Young, who China Dramatic Club willingly give Ip Tze Far, $5. -
their British planes, bought faster Christmas that your mail is carried whose charges are highest in the met their tragic death in the ill-
a hand in production to help the Miss Grace Macdonald, $30; The United States, machines bringing homeward via air service at such Colony, the Government should re- fated aeroplane Kwellin, which
Staff of Cable & Wireless, Ltd. Paris within one and a hair hours low rates. was attacked and wrecked by One of the leading spirits of the $350; Tung Wan Wan 111; The Tal of Croydon. Japanese airmen, arrived here two modern dramatic movement is Lu Ping Theatre and Tai Ping Thea- From 320 passengers a month
Kwelyang. Mr. Tun, a cinema actor of many years' trical Troup. $1.357.25; The Staff of they jumped in four weeks to 650, WHEN THIS P. & O. steamer left charges. I hope other household- Young's father is chairman of standing. I spent a delightful the HK. & Whampoa Dock Co. finished September with 070, Air for Japan on Friday she was ers will air their opinions on this Directors of the Young Brother's evening at the Phoenix Theatre Ltd., $858; Lee Sing Kao, $100; M. France were still 1,200 a month travelling very light as far as matter. Banking Corporation.
last month at the play given by Heap, $25; Wong Chaknam, $5. below rival Imperial Airways.
passengers "were concernec. How-
"SOCIALIST."" the Club and I felt the warmth of Total: $231.919.15.
ever, a large and Joyous goodbye Hongkong, December 10.
days ago from
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students.
In order to give information the enthusiasm of, the young play- about shipping in the Szechuen ers like Miss Lo Kwan-yuk,. Mr. rivers, the Szechuen Navigation Chang Ying. Miss Au Ol, Mr. Ng Affairs Bureau will issue weekly a Wut and Mr. Lu Tun himself. pamphlet. Five hundred coples of
the first issue are being sent to the various, public, civil and govern ment offices in Szechuen, in order to assist in navigation.
JAPANESE ATTACK
REPULSED.
..
in March this year the fast new French planes cutting the Paris time to one and ́s quarter hours arrived. By April the French were carrying more than Imperial vic in the early twenties. The It was the spirit of the "Old
Airways--compared with only half, as many the previous April... technique and artistry of their The Japanese have made several Every month since April the acting showed promise of genius of attempts to attack Hokshan but French have beaten us for traffic. the Chinese for adaptation, while without success. On December 7| And British Airways, last year car-- the hand of the producer Indicated at 7 a.m. about 300 Japanese, es-rying as little as a nith of imperial Since August this year. the
a groping for undertsanding of the corted by two gunboats, tried to Airways traffic ended September Chungking Winter Garment Rats-meaning of western dramatic art. wedge in Kanchu both from land with only 270 fewer. ing Association has succeeded in what it satisfied the audience I and sea. Artillery fire was in the Total passenger lists in six
80,000 cotton-padded have no doubt. collecting
The story was meantime clearly audible from months, last year and this sum up jackets and a contribution of $420, poignant drama in, which a brother Sunwal and Hokshan till 10 am.the story 000 from local citizens.
and sister fall in love unaware of when they were severely repulsed. "Air France Imperial British their close relationship.
Two Japanese planes flew over 1937 Tienho and Kanchu dropping a
1938 number of bombs.
.
ARMS POSSESSION
But it is clear that, even in
Hongkong, the youth of China are
A remand of three days was searching for the new, And in granted by Mr, Q. A. A. Macfadyen modern Chinese drama we shall be
S.8. Chitral
ARMY,
is
the
fuse this new application for new Issue of capital unless the copsum- er receives a reduction in the Light
R.A.F. EXPENDITURE HAS
GONE
UP £100,000,000 IN LAST SEVEN YEARS
The following figures given in written answers recently show ex- penditure on the RAF and the Army during the past, eight years:
.1931
1932
1933
7,602 14,171 4,801 10819... 9,283... 5,883
1934
1935
1936
Suffering from injuries received when she was run over by a motor
1937 (Estimate)
1938
at the Kowloon Court on Saturday spared the incongrulty of a Chin-Chinese cast. I ́understand that car in Queen's Road Central on when Lam Ming, unemployed, was ese "Little Lord Fauntleroy.", How- | Tolstoy's· "Anna" "Karening”: was Saturday morning, an 80-year-old charged with the possession of a ever, it would be interesting were produced in Shanghai and scored woman named Chậu Ho was ad- revolver and five rounds of am-Bernard Shaw or Shakespeare pro- a great success with the Chinese mitted to Queen Mary Hospital for 2020munition.
duced in Chinese and acted by a theatre-goers."
treatment.
RAF.
£
ARMY.
2
17,403,181
38,445,496.
.16,595,068
35,978,239
16,240,708
$7,468,970
17.161,763
39,603,545
27,095,886
44,515,872
49,393,821
54,195,080
54,575,100
63,120,000
(80,575,100)*
(82,174,000)*
70,575,000
85,357,900 (128,475,000)* (106,500,000)*
· Figures marked * indicate the net total of the estimated expen- diture before deduction of issues from the Consolidated Fund, In accordance with the Defence Loans Act. 1937.