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TUESDAY JUNE 17, 1921

PAYMENT SUSPENDED."

CHINESE MERCHANTS BANK POSITION.

RECEIVER APPOINTED.

Posted up on the glass doors of the Chinese Merchants Bank, Ltd., whose head office. faces Chater Road, were a number of notices in English and Chinese which reveal

TERRIBLE DEATH.

EUROPEAN COMMITS SUICIDE

KOWLOON TRAGEDY.

Found With His Throat Cut...

A ghostly discovery was made by a Chinese boy at No. 2, Leys Lodge when he went to wake up) his master, Mr. William George Dowse, about 8.30 this morning

{MR. "LOWE'S WILL INTEREST ON ESTATE LEFT TO WIFE,

DIQUEST FREE OF DUTY,

THE CHINA MAIL.

COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY'S TRADING.

Lust Year's £1,538,000 Profit.

(Reuter's Service)".

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London, June 16.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. E. D. Shanks of the Kow- loon Tong Scheme Company was fined $5 at the Kowloon Magistracy i this morning for failing to have the rear lamp of his motor car proper. ly illuminated.

A Chinese coolic was removed from injuries caused by being to hospital yesterday suffering knocked down on the Castle Peak Road by a motor car owned and

what has been done so far follow-The boy found his master was not Lowe, chartered accountant who past eighteen months after paying driven by Mdme Lily,

pay

ing the announcement of ment suspended" last Thursday.

One notice in Chinese, dated June 16, infonus the public that the Hongkong Supreme Court has appointed a provisional receiver and liquidator (broadly translated) to surpervise the affairs of the Bank. Two other Chinese notices which also hore the bank's chor, had English translations by their side.

Under date of Juns 15 and appearing over the signature of P.p. Chief Manger, K. C. Lau, (sgd.) S. lu Sze To was the

following

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Advice has been received

this day from the Saigon office of this Bank to the effect that a provisional Judicial Liquidator has been appointed by the French Court at Saigon un the 14. inst who is now taking charge of the affairs of that

office."

Made out in a similar manner is a notice concerning the New York office which reads:-

June 14, 1924. "Advice has been received from the New York office of this! bank this day to the effect that the Superintendent'o' he Bank- } ing Denutment of the State of New York has taken change of the affairs of that office and will act as Receiver."

Details of App'ication.

A petition for the winding-un of the Chinese Merchants Bank, Ltd. | has beentaade by a Chinese named Tong Set-kwin, described as an

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in the bedroont so he went to the bathroom. There he saw the door was ajar and pushing it open dis. covered to his horror the body of Mr. Dowse lying on the floor in pool of blood. Mr. Dowse had deep gash in his throat almost from ear to ear add a'open, razor (nounced all probate. was seen nearby.

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Mr. Dowse, who was a young man of 23 years, was a native of Clapham, London, and came out to Hongkong to join the Police or October 5, 1922. About six weeks ago he purchased his discharge from the Police and joined the China Light and Power Company as electrician. He was engaged with this figm at the time of his

death.

At the annual inspection of Police last Wednesday, "the late

Mr. W. E. L. Shenton of Mesers, Deacons, solicitors, has applied for At a meeting of the Dunlop upbate in the case of the will of Rubber Company, Sir Eric Geddes the late Mr. Arthur Rylands said the net trading profit for the debenture interest is £1,588,000, left gross estate valued at $200,176.. not including a deficit of £888,000 In Chung, a greaser on the There are three executors and on the American Company in 1923. s.5. Carnarvonshire, was com

Sir Eric Geddes emphasised that mitted for trial by Mr. Hamilton trustees appointed Mr. Shenton, the proposed reduction of capital at the Kowloon Magistracy this Mrs. Lowe and Mr. John Sest merely expressed relative values morning on a charge of having Harton hut Mr. Harsten las re-as now established and represent- unlawful possession" of two ed no fregh losses. The net automatic pistols and 150 rounds deficiency is £11.353,000. The re- of ammunition. The chief provisons of the will, which was made at the Peak Port was adopted.

'Later.

. Six mistresses of fishing boats Hospital May, 26 of this your and signed by two

Sir Eric Geddes, referring to the were fined $2 each at the Marine of the fact that the parent tyre com in the harbour yesterday." Their Court this morning for dredging best of $10,000), free of all reduce the capital, said that this shrimps and other Bah-A: the BISEMES as witnesses, are the pany is opposing the scheme to

excuse was that they were catching euth. duties, to his wife and lus was sufficient to block the scheme, sanie court the Chinese master of Personal effects; the bequest of Negotiations with a view to ass. Van On was cautier for 50 to Frank Herold Lowe; and settlement hard hitherta proved anchoring in the direct purely the placing of his real estate into unsticaessful

to the Southern Fairway and th the hands of his trustees on the Sir Arthur Dacres declared that causing an obstruction He said following terms:--

under the reduction scheme the he could not go in closer parent tyre company, holders of

According to the Jepan C. preference shares, were asked to sacrifice £630,000 which would Chronicle, shy bachelors be made as a gift to the ordinary been much perturbed lately by and shareholders, but they would co-impression that some of their lady operate in the friendliest terms for friends had become supercilious and did not desire to see them. discussing an alternative scheme.

matter of fact, it is the NAM PAK HONG MARKETS.

(a) That all income from it Dowse was specially com- shuld be paid to his wife during mended by H.E..the Governor fewidowhood and a half of it to her Ko work performed in diming the remainder of her life in endeavouring to arrest armed the ovent of her remarrying, robbers in Shing Wong Street (b) Subject to his wife's interest thout a year ago when he himself in the estate during her lifetitas, was shot in the breast.

dll of his children who attained the Sholly after being discharged from hospital, he fell ill with 21 (in the case of song) and attain that age, or marry in the double" pheumonia and was almost given up by the doctors, but he children of any deceased child of of danghters) also the male à remarkable recovery.

his under the same conditions,

The late Mr. Dowse was known)

to his many friends in the Police should take that share which as a man of very retiring disposi-parent parents would have tion and was a non-smoker and a teetotaller,

Two letters were found by the Police in his bedroom. One was

other to a person in Australia.

insurance agent of 180, Queen's addressed to his mother and the Rond Central. It is stated that the halance, standing at the credit of his curreat accuint with the Bank, together with interest, amounts to (Hongkong) $,73 1. In the words of the application, the applicant says that the connary is mmable

to pay its debts and in the circum- stances, it is just and equitable tikt it would be wound up.'

Thursday, July 3, has been fixed i as the day for hearing the petition. The Off Regiver has been appointed Praviland Ligaið ilor. ; and his application for the appoint- | ment of a Murterad angoistent as Į special managerbiashida meproved; He has forward the application.

Or

taken.

RETROSPECTIVE ?,

ABOUT THE RENTS

ORDINANCE.

Royal Irish Constabulary. It is

Mr. Dowse was formerly in the MORE stated that he applied to re-join the Hongkong Force but his application is said to have been

refused.

PORTUGUESE FLIERS.

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DUE IN MACAO THIS AFTERNOON.

NOTED "TO, HONGKONG,

of Mr. John Feming to be appoint- Cap. Brito Paes, Lieut. Sarmento

ed at a renumeratiei tebe fixed by

The retrospective nature

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ladies who are the sufferers,

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new complaint known This morning's Nam Pak Hong through the present style of head clochema" having developed,

terms, were as follows quotations. basis usual guild Rear. The wearer of a clocke hát. gets in the habit of holding back Sugar, average quality, per picul the head and looking down the The constant strain so netFutures" No. 24 rough nose,

delivery $10.43, fatigues the nerves that presently white July August delivery $10.33, Septem-the patient cannot recognize even ( ber delivery $10.23. "Spot" people whom she knows perfectly.

The habit persists even No. 24 rough white $12.50, No. 24 well. fine white $14.20, No. 18 Tough when the hat is taken off. Con- brown $11.70, Java "brown $11.20. sequently the fashion is not ex Flour, her sack of 50 iba:pected to last much longes, except Sperry's XXX $9.50, White Greens in very exclusive circles. $272, Nutmeg Orange $2.68, Kingfisher $2.55. Maize $2.60, Big Gun $2.68 Tiger Shield $2.86, Globe $2.60, Okd/" Mill $2.60, $2.62,

Reindeer $2.62. Melon or

otherwise of the Rents Ordinance

Anien mear of 1924 was the chief

bone of contention at the Fall Dayton $2.68. Molluge Fairy $258, Court case this morning in which Sovereign $2.82. Mr. C. G. Alabaster"K.C, for the tenants of a row of houses in First Street,uppeals against the decision of Mr. Justice Gompertz in making ¦ an order for possession.

Mr. Eldon Potter K.C., for the landlords, said that under the

SILK.

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new Ordinance it was necessary The Silk which left here by the that a certificate should be obtained P. & O. R.F. "Plassy" on May 17

was

The sight of a Sergeant of the "Specials'

attempting to break into his own home in Hongkew aroused the suspicion of a Russian constable on Wednesday evening. says the. N. C. Daily News. though the former was in "full Rice, average quality, per picul uniform with insignia and pistol, Kross for net: No. 1 Siam long the Russian nevertheless approach white $3.50. No. 1 Saigon longed him and in broken English

asked for

an explanation. white $7.80.

His Wils simple enough. wife

in hospital, having recently presented him with a child and the arah had gone out the back door after springing the Yale lock on the front door and latching the netted screen door. Finding these conditions the Re serve officer thought it cheaper to slit the screen and open the door with his latch kry than gato a hotel for the night. His own latchkey iconvinced the S.M.P. regular that the proceeding, though irregular, was nevertheless perfectly honest.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. J. H. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has resum- ed his duties at the Colonial Office says a Reuter, cable frum London dared Jung 16,

de Beires and Alities Manoc! from the Building Authority that was delivered in Marseilles on the Court at some fare date sale Gouveia, the Formgasse aviators it was desirable to reconstruct. June 16 at 6.30 am., a transit of ject to Mr. Finning giving seemity | who are flying from Lisbon to I

therefore was to the extent of $10.000.

current

In Shanghai.

Now

impossible! 30 days. notice to with the

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DEPUTY STILL MISSING

ROME, June 16. In connection with the Matteotti affair the Communists are posting appeals to the working classes and

Macau are de at their final for destination to-day. According to quit 10 comply What would, but for the control the latest advices, their plan was law because the certiffente could t leave Haiphong this homing not be obtained before the notice nd the Municipal Police Forvirs

Judging by the-dength" of "time to quit was served, have been a serious "ogi oqi a lead Taken By Captain Oy, the If this Act were to be made bank took på Vesterdays the French Ace who has reached retrospective all kinds of diff connern wilected being the Clanese Tokyo, they will not arrive at cities would be met with said Merchants Mund, Ltd., which les Macko till this afternon. How Mr. Patter. In the case they had its head office in Hongkong and ever, arrangements have been before then the landlord had branches of pla bombe of Singo made for the Portuguese Consul given three months notice and discussing the advisability of a and Kinge, Ronds and at 10 General in Hongkong to be notifi- under Section 4 (I F) of the general strike.

The entire police force of the North Szerdain: Read:

ed by cable as soon as they arrive Ordinance ho was entitled to

pation is being organised to find There pussesssion. An.. Mr. Tang, the four sister Colony,

the missing deputy alive or dead. Ordin- in the Hongkong has more than usual suggestion assistant neue ger (who is

ROME, June 16. itself that it was, to acting in the place of las chief, interest in the event as an in-ance who has goor, to Hongkong), and Portuguese community

vitation, in the name of the Consul be taken retrospectively and In consequence of the nationa!

Mr. M. J. Quist, Netherlands of Section 22 of the 1923 Ordinance agitation over the Matteotti case eived a private euble bam Hof Hongkong, has been sent to the expressly protected, the man who Signor Mussolini has appointed Consul General in Hongkong, has

temporary directory of long stating that the head office airmen.

the returned, from a year's leave of When the Consul was had previously sold his property Fascist movement, composed of absence and resumed charge of was formed to suspod payment, interviewed by the China Mail free from monthly tenancies.

reason for this this morning, he expressed an Surely it was not contended that eleven members, the object of the Consulate-General yesterday, An o'ylock in the opinion that the fliers might come this protection had been suddenly which is to ensure that the strength

of Fascism shall be used in accord aftemom an official cable was here but they were not likely to removed on March 7. received tym the head lice order. bring their plane on account of Mr. Alabaster's contention hadance with the direction of the

leaders.

9. when Mr. W. E. Clark, the the lack of landing facilities for been that everything that was

[Italian public opinion is pro- popular Harbour Master at the an aeroplane. However, if he was passed. before March 7 was informed that if was desired to wiped out. His (Mr. Putter's) foundly shocked at the kidnapping port, was married to Miss Olgan bring the aeroplane here he would contention was that there were in the streets of Rome a week ags Jelvakova, late of Hankow, and

of the Socialist Deputy, Sig. Tomsk, Siberia. The seek the assistance and permission passages in the Ordinance which Matteotti, by Fas cists. His fate Vincent H. Gowen officiated. At 12.80, the ron began, some of the Hongkong Government. showed clearly that it was intended

is still a mystery.) · epositors alsh evidently having During the week-end, Macão has to he prospective..

ROME, June 17 received private information froin been busy preparing to receive the This closed the hearing of the

Several arrests in the Matteotti Hongkong, Up till a 'clock intrepid visitors. Workmen have appeal and the Court reserves yesterday afternoon

900 been clearing a landing site and a judgment. ereditors rushed to the Ningpo large number of trees have been

but giving o

ing the suspension of payment in Shanghai until further notier. UP

till o'clock last night no further

ables had been received.

syno

felled..

Road branch and a smaller number Three balls at the Leal Senado, i visited the North Szechien Road Government. House and the himb and were told that no für Military Club, respectively, will Ther payments Would be made until form the principal entertainment further notice, which would be for the airmen and the Colony will published when further instrucs | be in jete during the three days of tions had been received from their stay, Hongkong. The police

Going To Canton? WETA Evidently the Portuguese Ayers: called in, a Central Station detach-

CORRESPONDENCE.

HONGKONG LANDLORDS

PENALISED?

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Sir, What landlords in Hong

ment under Dhet. Sub-Insp. R, M. are going to Canton as well. [To the Editor of the China Mail.] Yesterday's Canton Gazette con- Tinkler, and a Bongkew quad tains a circular to the effect that under Det.-Sub-Inep. R. W the Portuguese Consul and com Yorke, and made every possible munity in Canton invite the foreign kong need is some civic spirit. Not attempt to persuade the crowds to communities and their Chinese finger was raised when_cach disperse, allowing nobody to enter friends to be present at the recep- stage of the present Rents Ordin- the premises, which were closed. tion on the Tai Sha To field ance was framed. So what is the! There was no violence and but (where D'Oisy landed) on the day use of crying over spilt milk now? little disorderliness, although song reception at the Canton Club the Protective Association when the of the airmon's arrival and the If there had been a House Owners' depositors managed to get behind following day.

the counters. They were, how i ever, cleared away by the polics, "and the staff were working lust

first Ordinance was passed; we could have got legal und technical jadvice and made united opposition. But no. Now that we are encum-

miglit, adjusting the accounts. Living in Sam-Fu-Clin-Street, on bered with all kinds of regulations The China Press, in its account, the morning of the 12 inst. with some of us are losing money be Haya that deposits in the bank's the Chinese Merchants' Bark on cause we cannot realise the full Shanghai deposits totalled up the Second West Dond, and in the extent of property we have proximately $800,000, and that afternoon of the same day the bought. What prevents us? The about $20,000 was paid out be woman was told that she could no law, of course, But I say serve us twaan 12.30 and à p.m. on Thurs-longer cash her money from the right. It is not, too late yet to ahy Inst.

hank, says the Canton Gazette. heed the writing, on the wall and Canton Sequel.

Covered with grief for what she pull together. Two hundred dollars; which was lost, the woman committed suicide Youră atestare measu the savings during her whole life, last Saturday, evening. She was

DANIEL was deposited by an old woman later on ́tescued, however,

"Hongkong,"3

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A preny wedding took place at

St. Mark's Church, Wuhu, on May

Rev.

case include Signor. Dumini; conducted for 'Signor Fillipelli Secretary to Signor Rossi, who who left "Rome aboard the Pisa" has just resigned the headship of train. The police stopped and the Government press office and searched the train ar Lodi, but the directorate of the Fascist Fillipelli had vanisfied. Party.. .:

It is reported that a warrant has also been issued for the arrest of

Signor Rossi.. whose where-

to

Telegrams despatched Placenza and Milan ordering his arrest elicited the information that Fillipelli hired a car at Piacenza

abouts, however, are unknown. whence all trace of him has been

An exciting search is being lost.

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