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TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1929.

NANKING IS CALM

WHITE LINES

IN 'KOWLOON

SOVIET ULTIMATUM NOT

FEARED.

MORE MISUNDERSTANDING

SUMMONSES FAIL

THREATS RESENTED

ultimatum.

Nanking, July 15.

THE CHINA MAIL,

ROUND THE CINEMAS] SHADOWS BEFORE.

"A THIEF IN THE DARK"

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

IN "CHINA MAIL"

MYSTERY DRAMA

1

Theatre;

was unperturbed.

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek minde a re- lines opposite the Railway Station. ture of a gang of side-show crooks port ul. Kuomintang headquarters this! Capt. Bakewell said that when he morning. The details of his report are not divulged, but it is learned reliably that he anounced the Government had already adopted a definite policy re- garding Russia, and the programme would he carried out regardless of re-

Social Functions To-day-Hong Kong Hotel and Jewel thieves, "ghosts," secret stair-Peninsula Hotel-Dinner Dances, Captain R. H. Bakewell, Somerset The National Government leaders Light Infantry, and Mr. A. A. woye, sliding panels and spiritualistic 8.30 p.m.; Repulse Bay Hotel Din- are quite calm regarding the Soviet Xavier, No. 300, Kowloon Tong, materialisations, coupled with hilarious ner Dance,

owners of cars, were yesterday comedy situations, all go to make up Mr. Hu Han-min, interviewed, stat-;

which will be shown to-day and to- ed that the Government resented the summoned at the Kowloon Police the story of "A Thief in the Dark" threatening attitude of the Soviet, but, Court for causing an obstruction by morrow at the Queen's Theatre.

parking their cars outside the white!

The author has painted a vivid pic

which attempts to steal a fortune in drove up to the Ferry wharf he jewels from an encentric old recluse and found that all the parking space his pretty granddaughter. The crooka provided for private cars outside do not succeed and their leader, after the Railway Station and against the murdering the old jewel-collector, pays Kowloon Gedowns was occupied. Hehe penalty in a most unexpected man then went up to the Indian constable duly, when on traffic

rent developments,

Officials in the Foreign Ministry are reticent owing to the absence of Dr. C. T. Wang, but it is believed it is cer- tain no action will be taken before Dr. Want's return towards the week-being Mr. Xavier, end.-Reuter.

Still Going

Peking, Yesterday. A message from Changchun says the Chinese authorities are now clearing out the Russians from the pinces south- ward of Harbin.

ner,

The all-star cast is headed by George the latter Meeker, of "Four Sons" fame, and pointed to the north end of the Doris Hill. Mecker enacts the role of parking space. He then saw an- a young gangster who finally becomes other car just behind his, the driver regenerated through love.

The comedy contingent is headed by After the constable had pointed Majorie Beebe as a servant, and Noak

Young. kleptomaniac, towards the end of the parking Turner, a coloured butler.

and Raymond space, he (Captain Bakewell) park- ed his there as near as possible to the next car. Mr. Xavier parked his car behind.

Several Soviet employees of the rail- The Indian constable said that he way from Changkawan and Chang-understood that Captain Bakewell

chun,

PLEASE DON'T WASTE WATER

Tokyo, Yesterday.

was intimating that there was no! room in the parking space. He merely pointed to that area outside the Railway Station.

car outside

no room. In any

DOWRY AGREEMENT

DISPUTED LAND TRANSFER IN COURT

KUALA LUMPUR CASE

Entertainments To-day Queen's "A Thief in the Dark." To-day World "The American Venus": Po-day "Star "Adventure Mad."

To-day Majestic "Rose Marie."

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N. INTERIM DIVIDEND_of TWO DOLLARS per Share for the six months ending 30th June, 1929, will be payable on on which Theatre; FRIDAY, 2nd August,

date Dividend Warrants may be at the Theatre; obtained on application

Company's Office, 3, Chater Road. Theatre;

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 20th July, to. THURSDAY, the 1st August (both

during days inclusive) period na Transter of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Diectors,

Lammert's Auction July 17-At Sales Room, house- hold furniture, 2.30 p.m.

July 20-At 241, Nathan-rd, (Top Floor) Kowloon, valuable house furniture, 11 a.m.

July 22-At 10, Carnavon Bldg., Kowloon, household furniture, 11 am.

Home Mail To-day-Outward for Shanghai, Japan and Europe via Siberia ("Chenonceaux"), 3 p.m...

BRITISH G.O.C.

CONCLUDES TOUR OF INSPEC- TION IN SHANGHAI Don't "Ask a Policeman"

Kuala Lumpur, July 4. Addressing Captain Bakewell, His

LEAVES FOR HONG KONG An interesting suit was taken Worship remarked that he could

up in the Supreme Court to-day

Shanghai, July 10, chun have been sent to Harbin, includ-not expect a Policeman to give him (saya the "Straits Times") before

The 6.0.C. China. Command of the ing the station master from Chang authority to park his

Mr. Justice Farrer Manby, the British Army, Major-General J. W. the white line when it was clear parties being Mr. D. V. Kandiah, Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., left A Harbin message states that the that there was families of the ousted Soviet officials case there was the notice board post inspector of Weights and Mea-Shanghai for Hong Kong yesterday sures, Kuala Lumpur and Mrs. morning by the B. & S. 2.s. "Sing- are preparing lo leave for Russia.ed up to warn motorists,

Kandiah, plaintiffs and Dr. J. H.A.D.C., Lieut. D. R. M. Cameron of the kiang." He was accompanied by his Reuter.

Captain Bakewell replied that be Ponnambalam (first defendant) Cameron Highlanders, and his cypher What Japan Says

did so in the belief that the con-and his wife, who is a daughter officer, Lieut. T. V. Beer, of the Somer- stable understood. He did not want of the plaintiffs (second defenset Light Infantry. Capt. D. T. Kirk- Being Monday, editorial comment is still lacking, but Press despatches to park his ear there without asking dant). The plaintiffs asked for & patrick of the Royal Army Pay Corps of Moscow's ultimatum to China are somebody. Had he been told that declaration that a piece of land left by the same ship to join the China given prominence with big head lines, he could not he would have had to in Ampang-road, where the de-Command Headquarters at Hong Kong. of which some are sensational,

find somewhere else.

fendants now lived, was held in There was no ceremony at the depar- The Foreign Office has not yet re- On the other hand, said His Wor- trust by his daughter, the second ture of the G.O.C. yesterday, in con

ship, the constable had not given defendant, and for an injunction trast his reception on his arrival a satisfactory explanation why he restraining the first defendant here a few weeks ago, says the "China pointed to the north end of the from transferring, charging or now seen all the forces under bis com

Press." Major-General Sandilands has parking area. In the circumstances otherwise disposing of the land, mand, having inspected the Shanghai the two summonses must be with- for an order that the first defen-area on his way north, where he in- drawn.

dant should transfer the land to spected the Tientsin Area, comprising the second defendant or to trustees troops at Tientsin and Peking. appointed by the court, and for an order restraining the first defen- dant from disposing of the land after transfer without an order of the court.

meo

ceived official confirmation of the ub timatum and therefore withholds com- but admits it is less aptimistic of a peaceful settlement than on Satur day when it appeared the danger was blowing over.

In the meantime Consular despatches from Manchuli state that Japanese ́travellers arriving there report that movements of troops and troop trains are visible at every station eastward of Karimska at the junction of the Chin-

WATER FILTERS

ese Eastern Railway and the Amur DRIPSTONE ALLEGED TO BE A

Railway.

The Foreign Office reiterates that its policy is one of very close watchful waiting and of strict neutrality, a readiness to protect its own interests

if menaced and also under no circum-

DANGEROUS ABOMINATION

L

The Hon. Mr. A. S. Bailey ap- peared for the plaintiffs and Mr.

A DOCTOR'S CONDEMNATION M. N. Mallik for the defendants.

As outlined by plaintiffs' coun-

"That dangerous abomination,sel, the facts of the case are as fol- stances to allow disturbances to spread the dripstone." These words are lows:-In 1924 the plaintiffs agreed

southward of Changchun.

While

Miltary Thoughts

withholding official com-

ment well-placed military observers express the belief that the Soviet ul- timatum is intended to force China to

negotiate, rather than being a hostile threat, therefore they anticipate that the present dispute will be settled with out resort to arms, as Moscow is keen- ly desirous of preserving peaceful re- lations with her Chinese neighbour.

The same observers point out that the available Soviet troops, though numeri-

(and

CHRONIC MALARÍA

{DOCTOR RECOMMENDS LEMON

JUICE REMEDY--

ALSO ENTERIC CASES

An Army doctor writes to the "Morning Post" (London)

I

which

L. S. GREENHILL

Secretary. Hong Kong, 16th July, 1929.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

Anction

Tinstructions to sell by Publie

ON MONDAY, the 22nd July, 1929,

commencing at 11 a.., -

at No. 10, Carnavon Building, Kowloon,

A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE. (Catalogues will be issued.) Terms: Cash on Delivery. - On View from Sunday, the 21st

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 15th July, 1929.

July, 1929.

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

ELLERMAN LINE.

From EUROPE.

The Steamship,

"CITY OF TOKIO" having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are informed that all goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra-hazardous -Go- downa of Holt's Wharf, whence deli- very may be obtained.

Claims Ne

will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andelivered after 22nd July, 1929, will be subject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersign ed on or before 29th July, 1929, or they will not be recognise.

All broken, chafed and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays dr Fridays, between the hours of 10.45 a.m, and noon, within the Free Storage period of One Week. No Fire Insurance has been effect-

Bills of Lading will be countersign-

THE BANK LINE, LIMITED, General Agents. Hong Kong, 16th July, 1929.

ed.

ed by,

LLOYD TRIESTINO N. CO.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

actually contained in a report on to the Betrothal of their daughter

I was much interested in the re- the health of Penang signed by who was then 16 years of age to marks in your issue of the 18th inst. Dr. Smart and confirm a suspicion the first defendant. The plaintiffs on lemon juice as a preventive and which many of us have felt but entered into an agreement with remedy for smallpox in Chile. few liked to voice. Is not water, their daughter to give her as dowry, have used lemon juice in the treat- in Kuala Lumpur anyhow, mach according to Ceylon custom, the ment of acute febrile diseases for 50 and a years. It a specific in cases of safer when drawn fresh from the sum of $10,000 in cash

In pneumonia of all degrees and in my tap than when put through any piece of land in Parry-road. kind of filter? Dr. Smart thinks February 1925 the parties agreed vast experience, both aboard and at that in Penang at any rate it is, to sell the Parry-road land and home, it is a preventive of those for he says:

buy a piece of land in Ampang-insidious cases which lead to pleuri- "The quality of the water re-road. The plaintiffs paid over to sy and empyema. If taken i cally inferior are far more efficient and mained good, though it is still, in Dr. Ponnampalam $6,000 out of the very early stages it frequently up-to-date than the Chinese, and there many houses, exposed to the the dowry money to buy the Am-aborts febrile diseases and certainly

pang-road land. It was bought | shortens the attack. ford would be fully able to hold their perils of the domestic filter, or

possibly own if concentrated

in April, 1925, and registered in at the three that

dangerous more

I always gave it in enteric and strategic points, Vladivostok, Blavoves- abomination, the dripstore. Yet

the name of Mrs. Ponnampalam. dysenteric cases as a matter of rou- chenk, and Manchali. Unless there are Government always used

The Parry-road property was sold tine treatment because it is anti- unexpected developments, the military may still, for aught the writer in January 1926 for $6,500. The scorbutic and prevents coagula- authorities therefore appear to be con- knows) to supply a filter of this plaintiffs advanced to the first de-tions of the blood, I have never had The Motor Vessel. fident that hostilities are unlikely.- description as part of the neces-fendant $4,000 for he erection of what is called "enteric leg" after I

sary furniture of a Government British Views

a bungalow on the Ampang-road adopted it as a routine method of officer's quarters. Its drawbacks site, thus giving the defendants a treatment. London, Yesterday.

Chronic malaria is a very difficult The sinister possibilities of the Far are obvious. It is wide open at total sum of $16,500. After the

bullt the plain-disease to eradicate and leads to all Eastern situation are given promin- the top, thus exposing the waterhouse had been ence to in the newspapers.

put in it to contamination from tiff's entered into an

agreement sorts of complications. It yields to The Labour "Daily Herald" trusts the dust of the kitchen and serv Ponnampalam, that the land and juice if used for a month. I gave with their daughter, Mrs. the intensive treatment of lemon

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being that even new China may recognise ing room, moreover the porous

landed at their risk into the Godowns that her actions are unwise and that stone of which it is composed is bungalow should be considered lemon juice in whiskey (half to one

of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Russia will remember that ultimatums so rough as to be impossible to that the land. be held on trust by aspirin in the early stages of preu- Kowicon, whence and/or from the part and parcel of the dowry and glass) and hot water with 10grs. of Wharf & Gedown Company, Ltd at are dangerous things. The journal keep perfectly clean, while even. hopes that the League of Nations will if the filter itself were always cution of a valid dowry deed In must be used for the first three days unless notice to the contrary be given

Mra. Ponnampalam until the exemonia. The whole juice of a lemon:

wharves delivery may be obtained. bring pressure to bear on China with

Optional Cargo will be forwarded the view

kept covered, the receptacle into to securing an amicable

which

| accordance with the Thesawalami the theoretically settlement.

and afterwards as an occasional before 16th instant. The "Daily Telegraph" days that it water drips cannot be, but must Law. The agreement was sign drink with barley water throughout

ed, the first defendant being pre-the treatment, be exposed to atmospheric Con- sent. The marriage took place in October 1926. In spite of the one

Reuter.

is to be expected that a vigorous.pro test and demand for restitution will tamination. follow actions which, on whatever In these circumstances,

clean

"VIMINALE ”?

From Trieste, Venice, Fiume, Spalato, Brindisi, Port Said, Suez, Masinga, Karachi, Colombo, Penang & Singapore,

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after

I do not remember ever having the 22nd inat. will be subject to rent.

All claims against the vessel must

Doubted they were taken, were un- sometimes finds the "Company's" agreement in March 1927, and lost a case of pneumonia in the doubtedly high-handed ou the part of dripatone used by hens as a con- April 1927 Dr. Ponnampalara sent Army when it was taken early. a signatory to an international agree-venient refuge for laying a strav to the plaintiffs through his law. If the lemon juice treatment is before the 1st prox. or they will not

The Rev. and Mrs, J. F. Peat of

he presented to the undersigned on or

recognized.

be

All broken, chafed, and damaged

where they will be examined on the Goods are to be left in the Godowns,

22nd inst. at 10 a.m, by our surveyors Messrs. Goddard & Dougins.

No Fire Insurance has been effect.

Bill of Lading will be countersign-

BODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents. Hong Kong, 16th July, 1929.

ed. M

ment, but the Soviet note oversteps the

repudiating the adopted as a routing method early limits of diplomacy which aims at egg and this zeems to be quite a vera letters peaceful removal of agreements.

sensible method of utilising the agreement, he claiming that the in acute febrile disease I would not The "Daily News" says that the encumbrance. As for the other Ampang road land was bought be surprised if the mortality from with his own money. Later by neumonia among otherwise healthy from a Russian army in Manchuria, in well while they are kept scrupul- his wife, the first defendant, it is Russian ultimatum is very different types of filter, they are all very exercising undue influence over subjects be reduced 75 per cent. connection with which Japan would ously clean but this needs daily.

alleged, had the land transfer- have a world to say, but in the in- supervision? One has heard horred to himself on the day on the Methodist Mission, Singapore, ed by terests of world peace it is extremely rible stories of filters allowed to which the second defendant at are spending a holiday at the Kroh desirable to avoid a Russian, Japanese become green and slimy within. and Chincus triangle of this kind Some of them are true and the

In Upper Perak. tained her majority. Reuter.

Mr. Kandiah gave evidence in German Opinion

game is simply not worth the candle when one sees the elabor-the morning, and when the hear Berlin, Yesterday, The Vorwaerts" says the Sovieta ate precantions taken by the ing was resumed in the afternoon are faced with the most difficult situa- Hydraulic Branch of the P.W.D. Mr. Bailey said that he under tion of a decade. The alternatives are to bring as clean water from the stood that the first defendant was prepared to re-transfer the land to the second defendant and to settle the matter out of court,

His Lordship thought that the

aldered more definitely by counsel and and adjourned the hearing till the

next day.

to riak war with China in her | tap. Malay Maik

(Russia's) difficult; economic condition.

or to let Vladivostok and the Pacific

coast fall into Japan's lap like ripe

fruit. The paper expresses the opinion CHINA AND BRITAIN question of dowry should be con-

that the Bolsheviks will possibly finally appeal to the League to save them from a hopeless war-Reuter.

Later cabled on page 1]

MR. T. V. SOONG

PekingYesterday

Both Chinese and forel state that Mr. T. V. Soong, the Finar Minister, has resigned B

Shwashanghai Yesterday hi. IV sau intervie Reuter, denies his

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