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TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1931.

'Phone 20022

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COMPANY MEETINGS

HONG KONG REALTY & TRUST COMPANY, LIMITED.

(Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances of Hong Kong.)

SPORT NOTICES

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE CHINA MAIL.

RACE

EETING will be hold (wea- THE THIRD EXTRA

ther permitting) at Happy Valley

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN on SATURDAY, 18th April, 1931,

NOTICE HEINARY YEAR ON SATURDAY 118

LY MEETING of SHAREHOLD. ERS of the Hong Kong Realty &1 Trust Company, Limited, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company. Exchange Building (2nd floor), Des Voeux Road Central. Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 15th day of April, 1931, at 11.30 .m., for the purpose of receiving Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Rond-for the Year ended 31st December, Spring Jumble Sale on Friday, May 1930, and re-electing Directors and E. Contributions of clothing, etc the Auditors. gratefully received at the Church Hall an Wednesday and Saturday morn Ings.

WANTED.

MISCELLANEOUS

ARCHITECT, qunified. European, knowing R.C. calculations, with many years' local experience, open for en-

G.P.O. Write

Box RA, gagement. Hong Kong.

YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed--"China" Mail" Once, No. 3A, Wyndham St. Telo. phone 20022.

TO LET.

TO LET-Ground Floor, Nu. Ba, Des Voeux Road Central. recently in the Occupation of the Netherlands Inlin Commercial Bank. Can be divided to suit tenants' requirements. Apply to David Sasoun & Co., Ltd.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the COMPANY wil be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 8th day of April, 1931, until WEDNESDAY, the 15th day of April, 1931, Both days inclusive.

By Order of the Beard,

C. F. V. RIBEIRO,

Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, 23rd March, 1931.

GENERAL NOTICES

CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

LIANG CHI-HAO, Managing Director, pursuant to the TO LET To prospective visitors to England Ident accommodation in the power vested in me under Article Centre of 5 of the Articles of Association of theatre land, etc. Good English fare this Company intend to offer to Moderate charges. .61, Clarendor the Shareholders on the register Road. Holland Park, London, W.11

on the 20th April, 1931, the re- G. B. Colson.

maining 20,000 Ordinary Shares

West End

TUITION GIVEN

The first bell will be rung at pm.

SET FREE BY THE KAISER.

A British Officer's Parole.

UNIQUE EPISODE.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE, At his home in, Totland Bay, Isle Members are noted that they of Wight, where he lives with his and their Indica must wear their two sisters and a brother, I learned badgen prominently displayed, (writes a Daily Telegraph corres-i

No one without a badge will be pondent) the full story of the re- admitted to the Members' Enclo-markable war experience of Major sure. Badges admitting non-R. C. Campbell, of the East Surrey members to the Members' Enclo-Regiment, which was referred to in aure and Club Rooms at $5 for Sir John French's "Ibinry" in the Gentlemen und $3 for Ladies (both Daily Telegraph. including tax) are obtainable As stated by Sir John French, through the Secretary upon intro- Major Campbell, who was wounded duction by a member, such member at Mons and taken prisoner, was to be responsible for payment of granted a fortnight on parole by the all chits, &c.

ex-Kaiser in order that he mighti visit Britain to see his mother, who was seriously ill.

Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will not be on sale at the Race Courac.

He is believed to have been the Members can obtain upon ap-only British prisoner of war to be plication to the Secretary badges released on his own parole while (limited to ONE) for the free ad- fighting was still in progress. mission te the Members' Enclosure of wives, Indy relatives

and friends, Names must be stated when applying.

Capt. Campbell (as he then was) has been told off with his company to hold a bridge at all hazards. Nearly all were shot down, and

On no pretext will children be Capt. Campbell himself received permitted in either Enclosure dur- four wounds. ing the Meeting.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.

Petition to the Kalser.

when The Price of admission to the Two years later,

Capt. Public Enclosure is $2 includ-Campbell was a prisoner in a war reached him of the ing tax, for all persons includ-camp, newa ing ladies and is payable at the serious illnces of his mother, and he made the request to came home Gate.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform to see her before she died. The refusal was in the ordinary routine of affairs. are admitted half price.

Bookmakers, Tie Tuc men, &e will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.

Burc.

Tiffin will be obtainable in the of the nominal value of $10.00 Restaurant in the Public Enelo- ench issued by the Company at par in proportion to the existing shares held by them respectively on that date.

TUITION.-Private Lessons given in Book-keeping. Shorthand. Typewrit ing. English, Music and French Apply to 6, Aimai Vilas, Kowloon. 1931.

ENGLISH

LESSONS given to Students with particular attention to pronunciation, by English Barrister (Middle Temple). Apply Box No. BRO, c/o "China Mail."

ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE

For the best Permanent Fluger and Marcel Waves, Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladles and Gentlemen.

Pedder Bldg. at aor. Room 5. Tel. 25169.

Opposite entrance H.K, Hotel,

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Kodake and Cameras.

Flims, 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. 23459, 26A, Des Voeux Road, C. Hong Kong.

YOU

ARE INVITED TO INSPECT OUR STOCK OF ASIATIC FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

POSTAGE STAMP IN SETS, SINGLE PACKETS, BAGS AND IN APPROVAL

SHEETS..

GRACA & CO., Dealers in Postage Stamps, Philatelic Goods, Picture, Postcards, Toys, &c. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, P.O. Box No. 620. HONG KONG.

HONG KONG HEIGHTS

For the information of visitors the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:-

Island.

· Victoria Peak

Fest.

1828

Bignal Station

1774

Mt. Parker

1734

Mountain Lodge

1725

¿The Eyria

1726

Peak Hotel

1305

Talkoo Sanator

1000

Mt Davis

877

Bowen Road (aker)

297

Foot:

Timoshan.

*-8124

Kowlon Peak

1971

Dated this 13th day of April,

LIANG CHI-IIAO,

Managing Director.

CLAREMONT

PRIVATE HOTEL.. Austin Road, Kowloon. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Cleb. Four minutes from ferry

by bus.)

Suites of rooms (single and double), hot and cold water Bystem, all modern sanitation, private bathrooms attached. EXCLUSIVE TABLE entirely under European management.

Hotel has a splendid aspect in one of the fireat locations in Kowloon, away from noise, yet easily accessible.

Terms very moderate. Reserva- tlons by letter or cable.

CLAREMONT

Tels.: 67389 & 57385 (Private). Telegraphic Add: "Fern" H.K. Our motto is "SERVICE."

OUR

LADIES' TAILORING

DEPARTMENT

undertakes to execute orders FOR MAKING DRESSES & GOWNS on latest styles with- in 16 hours..

LOVELY SILK STORE No. 2, Stanley Street, Tel. 22100, (Adjoining D'Aguilar Street.)

VEASONABLE

PRICES

By Order,

C. P. BROWN,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 11th April, 1931.

But he Interested the

German

censor of prisoners' letters, a kindly man, who assured him that the only possible way would be to make a petition direct to the Kaiser. He went so far as to help him write the petition.

To Capt. Campbell's great joy it reached the Kaiser and brought per- mission. The prisoner was to have a fortnight's leave at home. He was, of course, to reveal no secret, that was part of his parole, and he was to return to Germany.

Once the leave was granted tho Germans did their best to make

LAMMERT BROS. matters as easy as possible. Capt.

AUCTIONEERS. APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS.

Public Auctions

Campbell was escorted to the Dutch!

frontier and supplied, with the necessary money to make the jour-

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YOU act wisely and risks in selecting this whisky from the multitude of stimulants

Its flavour denotes wholesomeness, and every drop has been matured and refined by greal age. A whisky remarkable for a delicacy

of bouquet and singular mellowness which earn the enthusiastic praise

of connoisseurs. Analysts repeatedly subject it to scientific test, the result being an invariable endorsement of its excellence. Remember that for nearly a century 'the most eminent doctors have emphatically endorsed its usefulness,

ney. He was in time to see his DANCE MANIA IN

mother, and it was a great comfort

to her in her last hours.

At the end of the fortulght he

THE Undersigned have received returned to Germany.

Tinstructions from Mr. John S.

Later he was one of a party of Smith, the proprietor of the Sta-fifteen war prisoners who escaped tion Hotel, to sell by Public Auc-from a camp at Magdeburg by tun- tion,

ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY,

nelling their way out. They walked towards the North German const hoping to get away by Aen to Denmark.

IRELAND.

"During the last fifteen years an writes an Evening News correspon- increased number of young girls | dent.

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have brought shame and ruin on They became friends almost im- themselves, and shame and sorrow mediately and have been about to- on their families. It is to be fear-gether a great deal ever since. ed that the traditional purity of Lord Brougham was in the Scots

Guards the Irish maiden, so long her

for a short time. He is greatest charm and proudest title hoping to enter politics and to to fame, is seriously threatened, stand for Parliament. unlesa a change for the batter comes soon.

"No one wants to deny the reasonable amount of young a

Strongly Denounced by Cardinal.

"SITTING-OUT" EVILS!

The enten pastorale of the Some of them were soon recap-Roman Catholic hierarchy read in commencing each day at 10.30 a.m. tured. Capt. Campbell was one of Ireland some time ago sternly con- plenture and amusement. It does the two last to be acized after he demn the waye of many of the had been at liberty seventeen days, young people of to-day, where he hiding in ditches and

April 23, 24, and 25, 1931,

at STATION HOTEL,

Nos. 65 and 67, Nathan Road,

Kowloon.

A Quantity of

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

comprising

FURNITURE

could by day and making progress

under cover of night."

HOTEL GUESTS

AT THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

April 18, 1981.

Teak Hatstand, Chesterfield Couch and Chair, Large Arm- chairs, Bookcases, Side Boards, Folding Screens, Long Mirrors, Pictures, Clocks, Brass Fenders, Brass Ware, Ornament, Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, Flower Stands, etc. Teak Dining Tables, Round and Square Tables, Dining Chairs, Teak Sideboards, Dinner Waggons,

Mr. E. Arregger, Mrs. Adair, Ice Chosts, Filters, Dinner Crockery, Glass Ware, E. P. Miss E. M. Adair, Dr. M. E. Aager, Cutlery, Table and Ceiling Fans, Mies Z. V. Antonova.

Mesara. N. C. Barber, W. G. Teak and Iron Bedstead, Teak Bree, S. E. Britton; W. Bennett, Double and Single Wardrobes with Miss E. K. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. 5. D. Begg, Mre. M. Bird, Mr, and Bevelled Mirror Doors, Mantle Pleces, Dressing Tables, Marble Mrs. A. Brostedt, Mrs. J. Stratton

Brown. Top Washstands, Chest of Drawers, Deaks, Rattan Ware, Linen and Blankets, etc.

etc.

Electric Lights and Fittings, Porcelain Wash Basins, Shanghai Baths, Cooking Stove, Gas Stove, Water Tanks, Planta and Ferns in Pota, etc.

also Chubbs Safe, Piano by Moutrie,

and

A Quantity of BLACKWOOD WARE. Terms: Cash on Delivery: On View from Tuesday, April 21,

1981.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers Hong Kong, April 18,-1991.

AN INTRODUCTORY, HISTORY by

·A. EL CROOK, QBE, M.A. W. KAY, MA.

W. L. HANDYSIDE, MA, B

*PRICE $Z 00:

NOW ON BALE AT THE PUBLISHERS.

The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd.

China Maff Offices.

Messrs. H. A. Campbell, R. J. Callen, E. J. Collins, Mrs. H. M. Cavender, Mr. and Mrs. Henri

Coste.

Mr. M. F. Depre, Mr. and Mrs. A. Drouth.

Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Edwards.

Cardinal MacRoy, Archbishop of Armagh, said that among the young generation there is "a craze for pleasure and excitement, an impatience of parental control, and in certain districts something ap- proaching a mania for dancing.""

"The truth is," he said, "the country le still suffering from the effects of the excitement and moral laxity caused by the Great War, and intensified in the period of the Black and Tans, and during the

civil war.

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"Add to this the distraction--not any stronger word-of to pictures and broadcasts and the demoralising effects that must in- evitably be produced by the vast quantity of printed stuff that is poured into this country week-end,

every

By

them good, and they are

entitled

to it, provided it be innocent. In- nocent

the pleasure is only pleasure that leaves no remorse

behind."

His estate marches with that of Lord Lonsdale in Westmoreland, and he has a house in Culross Street, Grosvenor Square, which is now being done up.

At the present moment he and Miss French and a party of young people are cruising in his, yacht up and down the Madeira Coast. They are expected back at the end of this week.

The Bishop of Down and Connor, in his pastoral, aaye that modern The wedding will take place in. civilisation has increased the op- London after a very short engage-

of portunities

sin. Immoral meat. magazines, seductive papers, novels, pornographic literature, and indecent pictures are emis aries of Satan-assassins sent by the devil to take the supernatural life of the soul,

PRESIDENT VON HINDENBURG.

When He Nearly Resigned.

was re-

That President von Hindenburg was within an inch of resigning "Even the present travelling the Presidency last July

vealed by the Minister of Agricul- facilities make a difference.

in reply to an bicycle, motor-car, and 'bus, boys ture, Dr. Schiele,

now travel great allusion made thereto by the Ger- and girla can

Nationalist leader, Herr distances to dances, with the re-man

in sult that a dance in the quietest Hugenberg the Reichstag. country parish may now be attend President von Hindenburg appar ed by undesirables from a distance.ently threatened if the emergency "And here let me refer to What decrees enforcing the agricultural

Misses S. and J. Farmer, Mr. I am assured is a great and com- programme were to be rejected by B. C. Field, Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. mon source of evil-the parking of the Reichstag that he would re- W. Friedberger.

motor-cars close to dance halls in sign as an alternative to dissolv- Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Gibson, Mr.badly-lighted village streets or oning the Reichstag which, however, and Mrs. F. Groves, Miss Yourndarkcountry Guller.

...

Mesars. H. Hobdon, W. D. Harris, G. M. Hemsworth, David K. Hislop, Mr. and Mrs. J. L Hunter, Miss S. Higgins.

Mesers. P.. N. Jester, J. E. Joseph, Mr. and Mr. F. A. Joseph, Mr. and Mrs. D. Jenkina,

Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Kerr.. Mr. and Mrs. 8. H. Langston." Mias M. Murphy.

Mr. F. H. Neale.

Cars 30 seemed at the moment a highly

undesirable course.

roads. placed are used, I am told, by, the young people for sitting out in the Intervals between the dances.

Idleness and Mischief.

It will be recalled that the Reichstag did reject the decrees but at the last minute it was "I believe that those in charge found more expedient to dissolve of dance halls are bound, even in Parliament than to allow Presi charity to the young people them-dent von Hindenburg to resign. selves, to see to it that such an occasion of sin should not be al- lowed. The cars ought to be park- ed at a considerable distance from

the hall, and one or two elderly

Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Parsons, people put in charge of them, and, Mr. and Mrs. B.-C.. Palfreeman, If necessary, paid for looking after Mr. and Mrs. R. G. P. Perry, Mr. them. and Mrs. N. J. Perrin,

The

-MISS VALERIE FRENCH

Engagement to Millionaire Peer.

The engagement between Lord young generation have Brougham and Vaux and Misa Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Rebertson, grown up during a period of un-Valerie French will be announced. Mr. G. M. Roberts, Mrs. M. Brest, excitement, and laxity, and definitely soon, says a mail week

they are exposed to temptations paper.

Brougham is one of our youngest peer, having attained his majority

Mesare, P. Smart, P. H. Suckling, and dangers that are largely new. Miss French is the granddaughter J, Stevenson, Mr. and Mrs. E. To make matters worse, many of of the late Earl of Ypres. Lord Stone, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sykes. them, unable to and employment Mr and Mrs. J. H. Taggart, are condemned to Idleness; and Miss E C. Tarrant, Mr. and Mrs. Idleness, we all know, it's fruitful A Tarrant, Lady H. M. Tothill, mother of mischler. The result has been, I fear, a lowering of the Mr. and Mrs. J. Tully

moral tono

Mr. EK. Boddam Whethan

in October last when he inherited

a fortune estimated at £1,000,000.

He first met his bride-to-ts at a dinner party a few months ago,

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ness and

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