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SPORT NOTICES

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

NOTICE

that an EXTRAORDINARY

GENERAL MEETING of the Yot-

J

THE

COMPANY MEETINGS

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP

COMPANY, LIMITED.

MEETING of the Sharehold

HE ORDINARY GENERAL

Ing Members of the Hong Kong ers in the above Company will be Jockey Club will be held at the held at the Company's Offices, P. Club House, Happy Valley, Vic- & O. Building on WEDNESDAY, toria, in the Colony of Hong June 4, at 11 am. for the pur- Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 4th pose of receiving the Report of day of June, 1930, immediately the General Managers together! after the Half Yearly Meeting of with a Statement of Accounts to Voting Members, for the purpose the 31st December, 1929.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the) of considering, and if thought fit, passing the following resolu- Company will be CLOSED from tion -

both 29th of May, to 4th June, "That the present unincor- days inculsive.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO., porated members Club known

General Managers. as the Hong Kong Jockey Club be incorporated and registered

Hong Kong, 17th May, 1930. in Hong Kong under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance as a company limited by guarantee and that the пате af auch company shall be the Hong Kong Jockey Club and that the draft Memorandum and Articles

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INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY, LIMITED.

of Association contained in the T

CHINA MAIL.

Hotel Strathcona

VICTORIA. - BRITISH

COLUMBIA

Make this Hotel your headquar, ters while visiting Victoria, B.C. Ideally situated and within easy access to all the famous Beauty Spots in and around Canada's Island Resort,

The Hotel where personal service naukes your stay enjoyable.

HATES MODERATE.

GENERAL NOTICES

BANK HOLIDAYS

TN Accordance with, Ordinance

No. of 1912, the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS on TUESDAY, the 3rd of Juna (The Birthday of His Majesty the

Hong Kong, 29th May, 1930.

THE FORTY-NINTH ORDIN-King).

ARY GENERAL MEETING printed document submitted to of the Company will be held at the meeting and, for the pur the Offices of the General Man-

pose of identification subscrib-agers, Messrs. Jardine Matheson ed by the Chairman thereof be & Co. Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong approved and adopted as the Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th Memorandum and Articles of June, 1930, at Noon for the pur- Association of the Club as In-pose of receiving the Report of corporated and that the same the Directors, passing the Ac- be subscribed by the existing counts, and electing Directors Stewards of the Hong Kong and Auditors. Jockey Club and registered as such and that the company be registered without, the addition Company will be CLOSED from of the word Limited to its name the. 11th June to 2nd July, 1930,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

as being an association which both days inclusive.

intends to apply its profits in promoting its objects and which prohibits the payment of any dividends to its members and

that the existing Stewards of the Hong Kong Jockey Club do forthwith after the incorpora- tion and registration of the Bald company transfer and assign all the property effects benefit and

By Order of the Board,

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Managers. Hong Kong, 28th May, 1930.

SPORT NOTICES

STORIES OF SPIES AND THEIR METHODS.

JACK JOHNSON'S SECRET SERVICE "CAREER”.

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WAR REVELATIONS.

London, April 15., Truth is stranger than fiction. This cliche applies peculiarly to dozens of stories in "Secret War," a true book about the espionage system used in the Great War by the Allies and the enemy, and writ- ten by a former American war cor- respondent.

There are stories of beautiful, |fascinating and tragic women, who of gathered, secret information; crooks whose natural bent Was to work in underhand ways; of patriots who were fervour that YEARLY GEN-made the ever-present risk of sud-

liabilities of the present unin- HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB corporated Hong Kong Jockey

Club to the company so incor-i porated and registered."

NOTICE

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO HE HALF

fired

器 with

of fiction writers seem poor indeed.

GIVEN that a further ExtraordinTERAL MEETING of Voting den death seem paltry, of schools ary General Meeting of the Hang Members will be held at the Club of spies both In Germany and in Kong Jockey Club will be held at House, Happy Valley, on WED- Allied territory, and all sorts of WESTOVER-STEVENAGE, With the same place on MONDAY, the NESDAY, 4th June, 1980, at 5.30 queer stories that make the efforts an hour from London. In healthy neighbourhood, SCHOOL for GIRLS 23rd day of June, 1930, at 5.00 p.m. and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders o'clock in the afternoon for the received in the House of the Principal. purposs of receiving a report of Individual care and attention. For the proceedings of the above men- Particulars apply to:

tioned meeting and of confirming, if thought it, the above mentioned resolution,

MISS RUTH CULLEY

(Camb. Higher Local). Camb, Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER,

(National Frodel Higher Certificate).

MISCELLANEOUS

Copies of the proposed Memoran- dum and Articles of Association are open to the inspection of members and can be seen duri the usual business hours at the office of the Secretary, Mr. C. B. Brown, Messrs. Linstead & Davis, Alexandra Buildings, Hong Kong, YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and and at the office of Mesars. promptly printed, "China Mall" Deacons, 1. Des Voeux Road Cen- Office. No. JA, Wyndham St. Teletral, Hong Kong, the Club's Soli- phane 20022.

citors, and at the Club House, Happy Valley, Hong Kong.

Dated the 21st day of May, 1980.

By Order of the Stewards,

ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE

For the best Permanent Finger & Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladles & Gentlemen. Pedder Bldg. 1st foor. Room 5 Tel. 26169. Opposite entrance HK. Hotel

·

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Kodaks and Cameraa.

Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and

Enlarging. ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price. Moderate.

A Trial Order is Solicited.

A. SEK & CO.

Tel. No. 28459.

26A, Des Voeux Road C Hong Kong.

JUST. RECEIVED. SUTTON'S FERTILIZERS

Al Garden Fertilizer "Simplex” and “Dynamic” at $2.00 per tin of 341b8,

also

Clays Fertilizer at $1.50 per tin Ichthemic Guano at 1.25 par tin Slug Slayer at $1.25 per tin GRACA & CO.,

Dealers in Garden Seeds Postage Stamps, Toys, Picture Hooks

SHAM STREET, 65 6202HONG KONG.

THE

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

By Order,

•

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary Hong Kong, 19th May, 1930.

No Names Given.

No names are given, for obvious reasons, but the stories are just as thrilling without the names of the characters who played their parts 20 cleverly,

:

There is the story of the German master spy, who was a woman. An officer of the American. Secret Ser

LAMMERT BROS. vice wrote of this woman that she

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND BURVEYORS,

- Public Auctions-

was, "a, beautiful blonde, of great intelligence, who speaks many languages, and enjoys a great as cendancy over the clients of the house."

"The House" was one in Antwerp where, throughout the war, she trained spies to work for the Father HE Undersigned have received land. And this (according to the Tinstructions to sell by Pablle author of this book) is how she did

Auction

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held (weather permitting) at Happy 4, Valley on SATURDAY, 7th June, and on MONDAY, 9th June, 1930, commencing at 2 p.m.

The frat ball will be rung at [1.80 p.m. on both daya.

***MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE

Members are notified that they and their ladies must wear their badges prominently displayed.

No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclo-

sure.

upor

ON THURSDAY, June 5, 1930, commencing at 5.15 p.m., at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.

A Collection of About · Three Thousand Stamps Including Rare Asiaties, etc. On View from Wednesday, June 1980.

Terms:--Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, May 31, 1930,

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Publis Auction

ON FRIDAY, June 6, 1930, commencing at 230 p.m.

at their Sales Room,

Duddell Street,

A Quantity of

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE.

it.

CHINA ENTERTAINMENT & LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

ISSUE OF 23,636 FULLY PAID SHARES OF $10.00 EACH.

UP

THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST IS NOW OPEN AND WILL CLOSE ON OR BEFORE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11th, 1930.

The primary object in floating the Company was to establish, maintain and operate a first class and up-to-date cinema theatre in Hong Kong.

It is also intended in due course, should conditions warrant It, to operate cinema theatres in Kowloon, Canton, Shanghai and elsewhere in China,

The Company has acquired the valuable site situated in the heart of the city known as Inland Lot No. 16, formerly the property. of the Hong Kong Club, afterwards occupied by the CORONET THEATRE and by the YEE SANG FAT BUILDING fronting Queen's Road Central, Wyndham and D'Agullar Streets.

Apart from an imposing entrance hall with a main frontage on Queen's Road it is proposed to utilise the site for modern shops and stores on the ground floor with office accommodation and/or restaurants properly equipped with all modern convenienceș.

It is proposed to equip the cinema theatre with 1,200 confort- able seats, the most up-to-date system of air cooling for the hot weather, and lifts-to the dress circle. It is intended to spare no expense for the comfort of the patrons.

Applications for Shares to :-

Bankers:

THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING

CORPORATION

Prospectuses may be had from:-

Auditors:

Messrs. PERCY SMITH, SETH AND FLEMING

Solicitors:

Messrs. RUSS & CO.

Registered Office:

No. 36, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong. and also the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.

what she was doing in the Swiss capital,

Bella Donna received this nick name because of her eyes "great luminous black orbs which were prominent features of the lobby in celebrated hotel during four years of untold espionage and intrigue by a score of nations." She was allow ed to steal the details of an attack in Alance from a good-looking young

man.

This young man reported to his

their lives for ten dollars a day. Others, of course, received much more, although rates of pay were generally graduated according to social rank.

The Germans usually paid pro- bationer agents 100 dollars a month, plus expenses, plus a bonus for an important and dangerous mission.. The Austrians were the meanest. They had a habit of depositing a certain aum in a bank to the credit of a spy, who then went off and did

All the pupils were smuggled chief afterwards. "Once I thought his job. If he succeeded, he came to the house and kept away from it was all off. When she was search-back to collect the money.

If ho each other during training, secrecying me she tickled!"

did not succeed, the money reverted

in everything being her first rule, Details of the attack were duly to the Austrian Government.

Intensive. Training.

communicated to the Germans, who

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HOTEL GUESTS

At the Hong Kong

Hotel

}

June 1, 1980.

Meásra. E. J. Carmichael, Challot.

Megars. S. Grulsamer, H. Glover, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Gall.

Messrs. D. Hernandez, J. L. Hunter.

Mr. J. E. Joseplt. Mr. E. N. King.

"Fraulein gave the new pupll & concentrated on the position, and sort of intelligence test to find out the attack was launched many miles what he knew and could know; to the north of the supposed post- | his capacity, memory and presence fion, with great success. of mind. If he passed that grilling |

Jack Johnson. his troubles began.

All nationalities work for all na- "Through' waking hours he was tionalities in this great International scientifically cramined by one Gerspying system. man expert after another with in- "But," says the author, "the formation about British, French and most comic American spy was American armies, how they were or neither Russian nor German, but Messrs. B. M. Armstrong, L. C. ganised, what equipment they used, American born and bred. He was Admiral and family, Mr. and Mrs.

Jack Johnson, the negro prize- | G. Audit. and what guns.

"No modern' school has a more fighter. The former world cham- Mr. D. G. Bruce. complete collection, of models forpion sought refuge in Spain, where demonstration; types of warships, he taught boxing, engaged in wreat- dirigibles, ..aeroplanes, ships, ling bouts, played in the movies, and weapons of all sorts, coloured charts strutted about with a dashing police of uniforms and badge rings... dog in attendance."

"The groundwork mastered, the He wanted to do something for Badges admitting non-members

course grew even more secret. his country, so went to the Secret to the Members' Enclosure and

Mysterious men described only as Service in Spain Apparently he Club Rooms at $5 per day for

of the German middle-class,' visited introduced himself with the re Mr. H. C. Lamond, Miss H. Gentlemen and $2 per day for

the pupil in his secluded room to mark: "I guess you know I'm hot Lille. Ladies, are obtainable through Comprising

I know all the Messrs, H. G. Moles, O. Margen- Teak Hatatands, Desks, Electric teach how, when he had gathered dog in this town. introduc- the Secretary-

the knowinest people in Madrid. Isteri, Mr. and Mrs. W. D, Meyer, Ition by a member,. auch Table Fans, Chesterfield Couch information, to accomplish member to be responsible for pay- and Armchairs, Pianos, Gramo-harder task of getting it back to can find out about how they supply Mr. and Mrs. G. Mak, Mias M..

the German submarines or dope the MacDonald. ment of all chits, &c.

phones, Records, Cameras, Chinese Fraulein.

Invisible Messagde, mules the Spaniards sell to France, Badges admitting to Members' Hand Paintings in Blackwood

They allowed him how to write, or whatever you want to find out. Enclosure will not be on sale at Frames, Curtos, Ornaments, Car-

bali-pointed pen, in-.I want to be secret service man. Messrs. F. G. Sellers, C. A. pets, Rugs, Rattan Tables and often with a the Race Course.

Stelbel, H. W. Sun, W. Smith. Members can obtain, upon ap-Chairs, Clocke, Oil Paintings, Pic-visible messager on paper, handker That's what I'm cut out for."

chiefs, margins of newspapers, and "Fraid Fll Hit 'Em.".

Messrs, C. R. W. Thomson, W. plication to the Secretary, badgestures, etc.

Teak Sideboards, Dinner Wag- how to bring out by chemical re "Jack," says the authtor, "was Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Tan Ek- (limited to two) for the free ad mission to the Members Enclosure gun, Extension Dining Tables, Ice agents the further instructions he sufficiently encouraged, and de-keat, Mr. and Mrs. Tong and party.

Mr. R. A. Wolton.. of wives, Lady relatives and Chest, Cooking Stoves, Dinner would receive from time to time, parted promising much news of Ger Crockery, Glass Ware, Cutlery, written between the lines of ap man plots in Spain. He told a good friends. Names must be stated

parently innocent letters. They many of his friends that his ambi- Kitchen Utensils, etc. when applying. Pewte

Teak, Iron and Brass Bedsteads taught him secret ciphers."

tion was attained. But he turned with Mattresses, Wardrobes with And her advice was Interesting in no Information. Bevelled Mirrors, Dressing Tables, "Be good," she would say, and be: He explained it this way: Y'see, Chests of Drawers, Wardrobe careful Keep sober. Above all these. German sples are all so 'fraid PUBLIC. ENCLOSURE A Trunk, Washstands, Commodes, remember that in secret service he I hit 'em that when they see me The price of admission to the Curtains, Baby Cofa, etc., etc. lives longest who lives alone.” comin' they just run right away. Public Enclosure de $1 per day for d

Fraulein, apparently, was ruth-Course, I can't get information leas, and did not herself from" em if they run away!" all persons including ladies, und is payable at the Gate.

observe too closely her ad The author describes some of the Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Including

monition to be good." She hundreds of ways used by spies for are admitted half price Joss Tables, Carved Curie 18credited with having shot in sending messages. They were

Bookmakers, Tie Tas men, de Cabinets, Tea Foys Jardinieres, cold blood one of her pupils who dia will not be permitted to operate Chairs Oplum Stools, Tables appointed her within the precincts of the Hong Couch, etc

On ne pretext will children be permitted in either Enclosure dur Ing the Meeting

A Fine Collection of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE

Kong Jockey Club daring the On View from Thursday, June Race Meetings.

By Order

~C_R_BROWN,

5, 1950

TermsCash on Dollvery

LAMMERT BROS.;

Auctioneers

Secretary, 1g. 31 May, 1980. Hong Kong, Jung:

hidden in false teeth, shoe heels, the plaster casing of a broken arm, wigs, coat collare, neckties, tooth- brushes, between safety-razor blades, in candy, and lead pencils.

Mr. J. E. Nixon. Mr. D. Reyes.

FACTS ABOUT INDIA.

Area-1,805,000 square miles. Population. 819,000,000, which 296,487,000 live in amall vil ingea,

Religion-The chief religions are Hindalem, with 215,785,000 adher- ents, and Mohammedanism, with 68,785,000.

Languages-222 spoken.. Education-22,000,000 able read and write.......

Voters, 7,400,000 in British IndiaMA

Defence British troops: 60,5 Royal Air Forcs:@ 250 officers' and 2,000 men, Indian

Bella', Donna, Then there is the story of Bella Donna, "natural-born lobby vamp," who was also employed by the Ger- An interesting section of the

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