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NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the above FOR SALE--Selection of used Society will be held at the Board gramophone records, operatic, classical and others, incl. complete Room of Mesars. Jardine, Mathe- album sets. List on application. son & Co., Ltd. (by kind permis- Box No. 500, "Hongkong Telegraph."{sion) on Monday, the 19th Decem-
her, 1938, at 5.15 p.m.
ARMS POSSESSION
The Annual Show of Flowers. and Vegetables will take place on
the 8th. March, 1939.
Man Described as A Tuesday, the 7th, and Wednesday,
Hired Assassin
YEAR'S HARD LABOUR:
"The defendant said that he had been hired by another man for $30 to stab some person who was to be pointed out," "declared Inspector A.
Carey at the Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday, when he prosecuted a 10-year-old youth. Yuen Chiu-ping, who was charged before Mr. E. Himsworth with unlawful possession
of arms.
J. T. BAGRAM,
Hon, Secretary. Hongkong, 6th December, 1933.
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MEMEL REPERCUSSIONS
(Continued from Pape
parties-ins
·
20 eundidates. Each
party is presenting the electors with
bookią giving details of their candidates, with one candidate to the page,
Voters may put a whole booklet into the ballot box, or make a list by selecting individım! candidates.
The German Party sectured 24 seats in the 1935 elections, when Germans were not permitted to circulate electioneering propaganda.
No incidents have been reported during the polling.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
The Nazl leuder, Herr Neumann that an EXTRAORDINARY
appealed for discipline and order GENERAL MEETING of the above-among his followers in un eve of the Inspector Carey said that at 2.15 nmed Company will be held at election speech at Heydekrug, six am. on December 5, a constable on the Head Office, St. George's miles from the German frontier. duty in Taku Street, Yaumati, saw Building, Victoria, Hong Kong, two Chinese hiding in the shadows. The connable went up and managed immediately following the Ordin- to intercept one of them, the defen-ary Yearly Meeting of the Com-is the same as the Reich storm-
dant. When he was searched,
Pany to take place on Wednesday,
dagger was found concealed In his the 21st day of December, 1938, at Noon, when the subjoined
Kirdle,
The defendant said that he had Resolution will be proposed as been hired by another man, the one who had escaped, for $30, to stab Ordinary Resolution, viz:- some person who was to be pointed out. He did not know the man's hame, nor where he lived.
Inspector Carey said he nad been instructed to Rak for h severe sentence. There was no doubt the mon was a hired assassin,
Mr. Himsworth imposed a sentence
of 12 months' hard labour.
FOUND WITH FIREARM
In Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen's Court,
Det-Sergeant C. Mottram applied
All over Memelland, Neumann Ruards, whose uniform, but for the colour and absence of the swastika,
suburbs and outlying villages, where troopers, patrolled various districts.
Voting a brisk in Memel and ita
distributed to those who had voted by midday, about half the population had gone
10 the polls. Badges represented Borussia, the Britania of Memel Germans,
When the polls were closed it was estimated by the German Party that
95 per cent of the electorate voted, which compared with 91.3 in 1935.-
That the Authorised Capital of the Company be increased to Fifteen Million Dollars by the creation of One Million New Shares of the nominal value of | Reuter, $5 each and that such Now Shares he issued at such time or times and on such terms and conditions as the Directors in their absolute discretion shall see Bt."
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London, Dec. 11. The Memei elections are being watched with close attention in Lundon says the Sunday Times diplomatic correspondent, who adde Hly Order of the Board of that if the Nazis succeed in obtain
overwhelming majority, of which there is every indication, the possibility of Memel territory being included in the Reich before Christ- mas is by no means excluded.
for a three days' remand in the case Directors, against Lam Ming, 40, who WOB
charged with unlawful possession of
i revolver ELITO five rounds of ammunition.
Kranted.
The remand พกง
Lám-was- alleged to have had the revolver and ammunition on his
person at Yaumati on December Det-Sergeant Mottram said that
THE
H.E.
NOEL BRAGA,
Secretary.
מלת קנון
The
The correspondent says that there are signs that Memel Nazis, if their election hopes are fulfilled, intend to been petition the Relch Government for
formal
recognition of the territory as German. In this innnner they would
VOLUNTEERS
pleased to authorise the award of
The Governor his
members of the Hongkong Voluntee. Defence Corps: CQMS H. L. Lock-adopted in Austria. At the request of the Merel Government, German hart, Cpl. T. Seddon.
troops might then, it is feared, cross the border from East Prussia.
Thefts From
Safe
Two Visits By Thief Reported
Mr. T. H. Lunson, of the Dairy Farm, Pokfulam, has reported to the police that some person entered his quarters between November 21 and 28, and stole, from a locked safe, the sum of $57,
Another $50 was stolen from the safe between December 1 and 8.
Mrs. F. Barnes, residing at 37, Granville Road, reports that between midnight and 6.30 am, on Saturday, someone broke into her house and
stole a gold rosary,
Mr. Silen, of 23, Jordan Road, first floor, reports the larceny of clothing) valued at $47.
Yuen Chal-wan, merchant, of No. 10, Fuk Wah Street, third floor, re- ports that between 1 a.m. and 1.15 .m. on Sunday, someone broke into his house and stole money, jewellery and clothing valued at $240.
Mr. Rose, of the PW.D., reports that between 8 p.m. on Thursday and
December 12, 1938.
Don't
spend
6 p.m. on Friday, someone stole a half your life
water meter valued $50 from a wall at the rear of Halphong Street The Government.
stolen meter is the property of the catching
Mr. Mcintyre of No. 18, Peak Road, reports that about 5.20 pm. on Royal Naval Recreation Club ground Saturday, while journeying from the at Causeway Bay, he lost an overcoat valued at $30.
Radiomen Schul, of the U.S.S. Pope, reports that between 12.30 am. and 0 a.m. on Sunday, he lost * pocketbook containing $145 in Hong-. kong currency.
SERVICES GOLF TOURNMENT AT FANLING -
on
Leading results in the individual | events in the United Services Golf meeting, which
were played Thursday and Friday last at Fanling, by kind permission of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club, were as ful-j low:
36 toles Championship Scratch.-L. Col. E. P. C. Collin 70-4-60-150; Cppt. F. R. Darry RN. 3+7=102.
34 1tolos andicap-Lt. Col. C. Craw- ford-Jones (18); Lt. Cdr. D. C. Ingram, R.N. (1).
10 Holes Handicap (Old Course) -Capt. W. G. Harvey (10), 67,
cold
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19 ifoles Handicap (New Course).-Co. while the Mediterranean was being T. L. Rogers (JB), 60.
Veterans Competition 18 Hales Handi- thrown into increasing disturbance by Jones (18): E/Capt. A. K. Dibley, R.N. occupying France, Hiller was on the cap, Old Course)-Lt. Col. C. Crawford Italy's demands. which were pre- (14) led 10.
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FANLING CHAMPIONSHIP
In the semi-final
"We don't know what direction it will take. Since Munich and the destruction of Czecho-Slovakia he has had so many choices open that his trouble is which to take frst: whether it should be Memel or plonship of the Royal Hongkong Golf Ukrainians against, Poland, or the of the cham-Danzig: whether to stir up the Polish Club at Fanling yesterday. A. E. Transylvanian
population thing points to an early resumption against Rumania, None can tell, but every- of Nazi aggression, and no concerted resistance is being made against It."
further enquiries were to be made. ¡ Eftelency Medals to the following be following closely the methods Lissaman beat K. S. Robertson
ARMED RAID IN WANCHAI
Three men, armed with scissors and a file dagger, entered the third floor of No. 390, Hennessy Read, Sunday morning, robbed occupants of money and a pair gold earrings, and escaped.
His Excellency the Governor has on appointed Mr. V. D. Sorby lo be a Member of the Volunteer Advisory of Commission in place of Mr. A. G.
Langston.
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was round in 73 and Nelther Lithuania nor Poland could
won comfortably. Robertson knock- oppose by force German occupation.
ed his opponent's ball in
at the Mr. Churchill added that he had Bearing in mind Czecho-Slovakia's Lissaman had three two's.
ninth' but in the last nine holes never seen such division upon foreign fate, Lithuania might be willing to
policy in Britain in his lifellme. ngree to the territorial change in re-first nine holes and was out in 17 It was hampering the whole progress Key played especially well in the The country was deeply divided and turn for concessions for trade through Memel.
or 38.
of national defence-Reuter."
There might thus be negotiated n revision of the 1024 Memel Conven- tion to which the guarantors, Britain, Franee, Japan and Italy would be naked to agree.--Reuter.
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