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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 28th day of November, 1938, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Aberdeen, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 yenra, with the option of re newal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of HIN Majesty the KING, for one further term of 76 years.
THE “HONGKONG || TELEGRAPH, ⠀⠀ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1938.
Questions in Commons
Affecting
British
Interests in Far East
LONDON, Nov. 23. ASKED IN THE House of Commons whether he had yet received a satisfactory reply from the Japanese Government in connection with assaults on British subjects in Shanghai, Mr. R. A. Butler replied that Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador was continuing to press for satisfaction for all outstanding cases of importance, adding that there had been an improvement in the relations between the British and Japanese authorities in Shanghai.
Intending bidders are advised Exhibited for sale at The Little Shop, that immediately after the dinpo- sal of the lot the Purchaser (it match will add distinction to your not the applicant) will be required evening frock. We make them in to deposit with an authorised the latest styles, 12 Des Voeux officer who will be present at the-Reuter. Roud Central. folny Arcade, MALAYAN MOTORS 100 Clouces sale, the aum of two hundred 31767. U-drive dollars, ($200) in cash. This aum service. Driving lessons. Complete will be refunded on payment of automobile repairs under European engineering spiceialists. Cars bought, the Purchase price. sold and exchanged.
ter
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WANTED TO BUY. SECOND HAND ARTICLES wanted -Planos, refrigerators, motor ears, radios, furniture, etc., guarantée seli for you within short period. Tele- phone 22126, The Hongkong Second- hand Arllcies Agency,
FOR SALE.
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MOTOR CARS, ETC.
INVEST in
en Austin. 1933 Ten-
BRITISH NEWSPAPERS IN NORTH CHINA
London, Nov. 23. Mr. R. A. Butler replied in the affirmative in the House of Commons PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. to-day when he was asked whether
No. of Sale.
Registry No.
Locality
Aberdeen Inland
Lot No. 117.
Between Aberdeen Inland į Lots Nos. 4 and 7, Island
Road, Aberdeen.
Boundary Measurements
I w.
frel feet feelfleet
as per sale
plant.
$3,750
$58
Contents in
#q. feet.
Annual
Rental
Upset Price!
About
Four de luxe saloon, $1,200 or near REGISTRY WEDDINGS
offer. Apply Box No. 504, "long- kong Telegraph,"
LOST.
STRANGE CASE OF THE YOUTH WHO CAUSED AN "INCIDENT"
(Continued from Page 6.)
Two Chinese weddings took place at the Registry yesterday before Mr T. J. Gould, Deputy Registrar of Marriages.
Mr. Mui Hoh-cheung, civil servant of the Kwangtung Provincial Gov-
any representations had been made to the Japanese Government at the re- fusal of postal facilities for British newspapers in the occupied area of North China.
Mr. Butler added that the newa- papers affected were the Tsingtao Times, and the Peiping and Tienisin Times.
COLONY'S
LEPER PROBLEM
Cannot Transfer New Victims To Sheklung
As regards the Taington Times, deliveries
were now proceeding The impossibility of transferr
little inter- smoothly, except for a
ference which has been brought to ing lepers to the old Sheklung the notice of the Japanese-Reuter. lepers asylum has placed another
INTERFERENCE WITH
BRITISH SHIPPING
London, Nov. 23, Asked whether the Government
the British note
ad considered the Japanese reply to concerning inter- ference with British shipping on the Yangtse, as satisfactory, Mr. R. A Butler, speaking in Commons to-day said the matter was under consideration by Halifax.
the House
of
burden on the shoulders of the Hongkong Government.
Lepers have been gathered Into the settlement at Kennedy Town in in- reasing numbers recently and they have not been passed on to China-- from where most of them hail-36
in normal times, because of trans- Viscount port difculties, and because it is doubtful if there is still a settlement ni Sheklung.
had
A wire fence is to be erected round
Foreigners' Movements To Be Restricted
Chungking, Nov. 24 The movements of fore- igners in Szechuen will be severely restricted if the new regulations of the pro- posed Provincial Govern- ment are strictly enforced.
These give a list of the towns, including a number of important provincial cen- tres outside of Chungking and Chenglu, which foreign- ers will not be allowed to visit. The usual interior travel passport visas will not be issued to foreigners for these places-Renter.
Copper Restriction Is Not Surprising
Sterling Recovers On Foreign Exchanges
THOUSANDS SUFFER BY NEW LAND REFORMS
Slovakia's Reprisals To Hungary's Measures
Vienna, Nov. 23.
In consequence of th anti-Crech and anti-Slovak land reform measures Hungary adopted by reportedly throughout the territory awarded her under the Vienna agreement, thon- sands of people have been added to the massca of aprooted humanity which, since the world war, have be- come refugee victims, shuttlecocked between rival imperialisms and na- tional revolutions in Europe.
Simultaneously the tension tween Czechavakia and Hungary. for fortnight, has
which hus become
ኤር 8
be-
The Slovak Government has im- mediately replied with reprisals to The the Hungarian land reform. land reform, as reported here fore- pre-war the reconfiscation of Hungarian estates which, under the regime of Dr. Masaryk and Dr. Benes the Caecho-Slovak Government con- Ascated after the world war and dis- tributed no small farms, which were, Czech world war colonised by legionaries, with a sprinkling of Slovaks.
Hungary apparently has deelded to deprive these colonists of the farms
to
Into
the
re-
and
them LOST.-Night of November 23rd/
expel 24th from "Hillcrest", Peak, white
new state of Czecho-Slovakia, Mr. Buller said he was not in a Siamese kitten with brown markernment, married Mis Chan Yu-stu,
Czecho-Slovakia has adopted Reward to finder. G. Miskin, Flat
of 4 Shui Wah Fong Road. The wit-position to make a statement.
tallatory prestige measures, part of No. 10, 114, The Peak.
London, Nov. 23. nesses were Messrs. Chan Leung- Answering Mr. Wardlaw Milne, the Kennedy Town Settlement to
which will provide new homes for of British prevent the inmates from wandering
To-day's announcement respecting restrictions ming and Mui Po-chee:
of the thousands who may be expelled from Mr. Buller out and again becoming a danger to reintroduction of copper
restriction Hungary. Mr. Ng Hong-yal, sanitary inspec- trade in North Chinn,
surprised the market only in that it Slovak Government has placed
The tor, married Miss Chiu Yuct-hing, said that the British Government was the population.
aware of the difficultles confronting Gloucester Road, 233
came earlier than was generally ex- the property of all Hungarians living teacher, of
A similar problem 1s faced with
pected, for the present British Interests there, and The witnesses were
Slovakin statistical in Hongkong.
in the hands of Aryan Messra, Mak Yu-chiu and Yeu Shlu- taken, and would continue to take) regard to lunatics. Whereny hitherto, position of copper led to the wide-
Canton has accepted feeble-minded
custodians, preparatory to property such action as was
and spread appropriate to kohg.
bellef that such action would outright confiscation if, and when persons taken in charge here and protect those interests.Reuter,
found to be of Chinese nationality, be necessitated sooner or later,
Hungary really confiscates the farms that haven of refuge is closed since decision of the producers is capable
Interested circles admit that the and expels the colonists.
Meanwhile, according to reports the Japanese entered Canton. Trans-
"bearish" interpretation, from Hust, of having fers were made up to last month,
the Hungarian-Polish however, so that there has not been
envisages no substantial Im-common frontier agitation continues
instance, จ opace. For
Polish nn undue addition to the Colony's provement in consumption accommodation since then.
terrorist on Tuesday attacked
and however, appears destroyed building near Toron, optimisticket,
disposed, and greeled frontier point, while smugglers on the announcement with an apprecl- the same day were caught bringing .714able advance in prices. Sentiment from Hungary propaganda and food 1244 on the whole of the metal exchange packages, labelled "To our brothers 1/0 seems to be brighter, tin also sharing in Carpatho-Ukraine.--Trans-Decan.
an upward trend-Reuter. 1/3.3/32 .1/34
event entered his boats in the Macao regatta and carried off a number of the prizes, while the latter regarded himself as a sort of hero, and went
EXCHANGE
Selling
T.T. London Demand
13. 2.27/32 .Io. 2.27/32
.53
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T.T. Australia
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to take things in his own hands, and after formally addressing a letter to the Governor demanding the release of Mr. Summers, prepared to take home to Hongkong probably laugh- action. He waited until it was ing in his sleeve at the discomfiture known that Governor Amarni had of the Portuguese authorities. Kone
aboard the U.S. frigate Fly-
By the Home Government the mouth as the guest of the American affair
with yo T.T. Shanghal not regarded was commodore at the regatta which was much unconcern. The Portuguese T.T. Singapore
her soon to be held in Macao harbour. Queen convoked advisers to
TT. Japan to dia- Captain Keppel's plan was a des- cuss this unwarranted invasion of T.T. India
the ber dominions, The gist of the perate one, and involved seizing
TWIN U.S.A. matter was that Lord Palmerston TT. Manila prisoner by force. He mustered 115 mat of his men and within four minutes finally agreed to offer an apology to T.T. Batavia
men,
Mr. but fifteen
to the found himself released was that the widow of the alnin T.T. France from prison. The affair had not, soldier received a pension of £20
been without
bald by the bloodshed however, been
was puld year which for Portuguese soldier by name of Superintendent of Trade at Hong- Roque Borrache was killed, three kong until her death in this Colony others wounded, and a girl of twelve, on October 12. 1858. In addition, the daughter of the gaoler, Bo the British Government bestowed a frightened that she jumped to her grant of $500 to each of the wounded death.
soldiers, and £50 to the gaoler for the loss of his daughter,
With an "Indemnity" such as this was closed the "Ineldent" which might have
of a
a sum
176 Nom T.T. Germany
Switzerland
Buying 28 4 m/s L/c London .67% 4 m/e D/p do. m/s L/C U.S.A.
.521A
T.T. Bangkok
149% | 4 m/s Franco .110 30 d/s India
of the landing of the first boat's Portugal, and the payment hus i TT. Salgon
of
crew Summers
HONGKONG OPINION
of money to
thin
One con.Imagine what excitement had more serious repercussions thon the forcible release, of Mr. Summers it did. occasioned at that time.
The con-
As for Mr. Summers, his stay in sensus of opinion in Hongkong was Hongkong was terminated soon after, that Captain
Keppel in the and the next news we have of him right and the Governor of the neigh- is his appointment on January 23, bouring Colony entirely in the wrong, 1853, as Professor of Chinese Langu- In fact, as the longkong Regialer of age and Literature in King's College,
wns
June 12, 1849 stated: "his (the London. He continued in this post
Governor of Macao's) seizure of the for a number of years, and was the person of Mr. Summers was neither author of one or two text-books on more nor less than as gross an art Chinese studies. His death in Eng- of kidnapping Bs ever
was com-land some time in the nineties of the mitted under false pretences of last century closed a professorial legitimate authority." Captain Kep- career of some eminence; but which pel and Mr. Summers himself, how-unfortunately is mostly remembered ever, did not consider it as so seri- by the tempestuous incident of his ous: for the former soon after the boyhood.
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The
STERLING'S RECOVERY
in the
London, Nov. 23.
Following yesterday's rather un-
.4.60% happy experience, sterling displayed
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STOCK MARKET REPORT
considerably more buoyancy to-day. The Hongkong Stock Exchang
Trading was quieter and only a official summary issued at 12.30 pm. little early official support was need-yesterday, says: ed to keep the sterling-dollar rate
at an even keel.
The market
was quietly steady with further buyers. Sales were re- The sharpness of yesterday's deported of Electrics at $50, China cline in sterling terms of the dollar Lights (Old) at $10%, and Trams at was the subject of much discussion, $18.
and some criticise the feeble resis- tance put up by the British control. assert that
the
On the cont
contrary, others
was
pound depressed by inter- national politicni considerations, causing a renewed drift of Continen-:
towards the dollar, tal selling balance
of this un-
and while the
"hot" money
ти погану
was
setting, it will not be regretted in the long run, and did not warrant the Exchange Fund literally throw- ing good money after bad.—Reuter.
Powers Lose 50% Of Trade In Manchukuo
Raubs $0.10
Buyers
11.K. Tramways $1655
Peak Trams (Old) 63,
China Lights Old) $10.40
Vibro Piling $5,00
H.K. Govt. 4% Loan 8% pr. K. Govt. 34% Loan per.
Sellers HK. & K. Wharves 3118 18. Hotels $0.40 II.K. Lands $35
Watsons $74
Baits
II. S. 1otol $0.30
HK. Tramways $1014 China Lights (Old) $10%
1.K. Electrics 130
Antamoks Ps_48
Baguio Gold P. 2311⁄2 Benguet Consol, P. 12.40
Coce Grove P. 0033
Consolidated Mines Demonstrations Ps. 20 LKL. 14. .05
Ban Maurielo Ps. 1.72 United Paracales Pr. 45
exports Into Manchuria have in- creased."
Expressing the opinion that the Chunging. Nov, 24. situation in Manchuria would be re- Commenting on the Open-Door in peated in China proper, the spokes- China, a spokesman of the Foreign man declared: "The only means Offee stated yesterday evening: whereby the Powers will be able to "The Powers have lost 50 per cent. keep the Open-Door in China is to of their trade in Manchuria since the restore the house to its own maater." Japanese occupation, while Japanese Reuter.
German Credit Agreement To
Be Extended To Austria
London, Nov. 21.
A supplementary agreement was added to the Anglo-German Credit Agreement of 1938 during a meeting here to-day, concerning which an official communique was issued to-night in the following
terms:
"The advisory committees provided for in the Gorman Credit Agreement of 1938 for the purpose of discussing matters of mutual interest arising from the agreement, met in London between November 15 and 23. During these meetings agreement pertaining to short-term bank credits awarded by foreign banks to banks and commercial and industrial concerns of the former Austrian State, were signed, this providing to those who wish it, similar treatment as that accorded short-term bank credits under the German Credit Agreement of 1938"
It was further decided to extend this agreement to May 31, 1939-Trans-Ocean.
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