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HONG KONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1935.

LOCAL ESTATE

Late Mr. D. A. Judah Leaves $68,000

David. Aaron Judah, otherwise known as David Alroy Judah, Inte

OCEAN PORT

SUPERVISION

ORDER DISMISSED

WITH COSTS

(Continued From Page 1)

CYCLOPEAN CAVES OF

CENTRAL ASIA

'Pit Of Vanishment "

SUBTERRRANEAN LABYRINTH

OF ZANKUR PASS

One of the world's largest caves→→→→

of No. 3 Upper Wood Street, Cal January 16 of this year and the cutta, India, who died on Septem-manager had read a report which dealt only with the liabilities of ber 19, 1930, at the age of 35 years,

the company and lacked suff-the Ken-I-Goot Cave Is situated left local estate to the value of

in the Zankur Pass in Russian $68,800. Letters of Administration ciency of detail. The Companies

Turkistan, Central Asia. The have been granted to Mr. Harold Ordinance requires that a full

atatement of a company's position words "Kon-1-Goot" means "Plt of John Armstrong, for the use and

be given and not an account of Vanishment." benefit of the mother of the de its several branches. There The cave has been widely known censed.

was also some difficulty as to far beyond the borders of Central whether the head office was in Asia since time immemorial. Num CONVERTING WHAMPOA TO Hong Kong, Canton, or Shang-erous tales, fantastic stories and hai, and an item concerning the scientific suggestions have been transfer of $20,000 had been created about this cave in the course omitted from the statement of of a number of centuries. Even (Continued from Page `1):

account. Furthermore, the three ancient Arabian documenta mention Besides discussing ways and branches, Hong Kong, Shanghai. the treasures allegedly hidden in its means for the early completion of and Canton, had separate capitals Canton-Hankow Railway, the man- of $614,000, $186,000 and $20,000, aging directors of the three sec-respectively. If branches of a tions will discuss the construction company were permitted to have of a branch line from Wongsha in separate capitals then it was not suppose that Canton to Whampoa on the Pearl unreasonable. to River in connection" with the deve-they could have separate issues, lopment of that town into a deep-of shares as well. In this case water port. The proposed line is nl-they would soon lose their identi ready being surveyed by the Rail-ty with the parent firm and be-

come separate companies. way Administration.

-"FAILURE TOO SUDDEN"

underground labyrinthe,

Human skeletons and skulls found this cave and preserved in the Tashkent Museum, are over 1,000! years old, according to scientista.

The Koh-I-Goot Cave consists of a number of subterranean cells in-| terconnected by a network of cor- ridors. Some of three colls reach 20 metres in length, 20 metres th "width, and 45 metres in height.

The object is to enable goods from! Mr. Lo went on to say that the They can be entered only with the! the Yangtze valley and Hunan to failure of the company was too aid of ropes, because all corriders be conveyed direct to Whampoa, sudden after the strong position it are cut by steep underground pits. where transhipment can be made

The analysis of ores taken from on one this cave revealed the presence of

to all parts of the world. Wham- had held for a considerabe time.

The total profits made poa harbour is at present only deep enough for coasting vessels draw-Year's working has been as much large deposits of zine manganese ing fifteen to eighteen feet, and as $440,000 and the dividends iron, silver, and tin in the soll of

paid $370,000. During the years Kon-1-Goot. must be further dredged to accom- 1983 the reserve fund had accu- According to approximate estim-1 mulated $35,000. "Seeing it was ates, the cave contains about 15,000) In anticipation that land values so prosperous its sudden fallure tons of lead, 50,000 tons of silver, in Whampoa will rise after it hasi Inexplicable."

and 350,000 tons of manganese.

modnie ocean liners,

GRAPHITE IN UKRAINE

been converted into a deep-waterMr. G. Shi, in supporting Mr. port, the Kwangtung Board of Lo, said that a savings bank of River Conservancy, the Provincial this kind, trading as it does with Department of Reconstruction, and the poorer classes of the public,

One of the world's largest the Canton Municipal Government should observe a stricter code of graphite plants has been built in are jointly surveying the land in law than any other organisation. Zavalievsk in Ukraine. With the the river town. Eight-tenths of He said that the assets of the beginning of operation of this the surveying work has been com- company runs into millions, the works, the Soviet Union will no pleted.

bulk of which is in Canton and longer depend upon the import of Toutaide the jurisdiction of this

graphite. Court. A sum of $700,000 had been remitted to the Canton office from Hong Kong at one petitioners. The company, accord- time, and this had been investing to Mr. Potter's account did notį. ed in lands and buildings. Secur-have a sudden demias, neither was ities, indeed, but extraordinarily it a fact that the situation of the Mr. Li Hsiao-sheng, a member hard to realise.

head office was obscure. The head: of the South-west Political Coun-

office was in Hong Kong as the cil, called on his colleagues this He suggested that the Canton Articles of Association, showed. merning and imparted to them the officials had disposed of this money The liquidators had not had a chance

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panese negotiations which he had Kong depositors. He said it was turned down at the menting | gathered. at Shanghai. He also would be, advisable to exert when he was suggested `as sultable informed members of the views of every effort to have this of carrying out the duties of liqul-

Mr. Hu Han-min on the pro-Ja-money returned to Hong Kong dator, appears and petitions for a panese policy of the Nanking The reason why they asked that a supervision order to be made. Government. In general, Mr. Hu supervision order', should « be made ORDERS HAVE LOST VALUE" ta not in favour of such в policy, was because they did not want any- "Supervision orders have lost. It is likely that the leaders here thing to go astray. The order much of their former valuë,{

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circular telegram would ensure that a correct report"continued Mr. Potter," and In] this

afternoon clarifying, their would be given; and, in addition, if any case if my learned friends stand on this momentous issue.“ would act as a tonic to the officials, had and grounds for protest}

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already commenced, and all that we in Ghambers and stated their ob- ask is that it should continued jections." How can confusion at a under the supervision this meeting at which the candidature Court." Mr. Shi concluded.

of the petitioner was turned down His fourth round score

Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C. In appeal- be grounds for an order?" equalled only by Boyer, in the ing against the order being granted Mr. Potter further stated that latior's second round.

said that he represented 898 credi- there had been no reduction in capi- Boyer and Arthur Havers, an-tors of the Insolvent bank whose tal and that a financial crisis, cou- other British contender, tied for claims amounted to $868,688, and pled with the fail in value of securi second place with an aggregate of contrasted this with the 160 creditles, was the whole reason for the 267-Reuter.

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