1922-04-26 — Page 2

THORNYCROF

JOHN L THORNTOROFT 1. 00., LIMITED. SHIPBUILDERS AND Enginimas,

LONDON, BO TRAMPION AND BASINGSTON,

Shanghai Office: 10. Kinkiang

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

15 B.H.P. 30 B.H.P. 50 3.H.P. Engines

In Stock

For quotation apply-

SHANGHAI OFFICE.

Bathing Parties

will soon be starting.

Choose your bathing suit from our new stock and be ready for a swim

The newest styles in plain colours and fancy stripes at prices.

Ranging from $3.50 $15.00 each.

MACKINTOSH

& CO.,

LTD..

Men's Wear Specialists.

Alexandra Building Des Yeux Road

WAYGOOD OTIS LIFTS

For particulars and quotations apply toi

The Sole Agents-DODWELL & CO., LTD

TELEPHONE 1030.

MACHINERY DEPARTMENT.

Summer Dress Materials

AT

WHITEAWAYS

Dainty Summer Materials original pattern tono.

GE SELECTION OF NEW VOILES

Is PLAIN COLORS AND FANCY DESIGNS "From $1.95 a Yard

TOOTAL'S PIQUE 44ins, wide White and Colors $2.50 YARD

TOBRALCO in White and Colors $1.50 YARD

Terms Cash,

No Credit Allowed,

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

THE PRINCE IN JAPAN,

ADDRESSES FROM THE DIET.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26TH, 1923

IN CHINA,

נדי

INTIMATIONS

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

in each payable

Your Royal Highless, in order to make] A MEMORY OF FALKENHAYN me" feel at home" are particularly re- membered and shall ever be cherished by When Hix Royal Highness, reached me as most precious souvenirs of my forews the following note on the late

A reader contributes to the M... Daly | SANDAKAN LIGHT AND POWER CO. Tokyo he required Prince Tokugawa, Pro-eign tour.

(1993), LTD. ** General Falkenhayn's connection With sident of the House of Peers, and Mr.

China It is therefor a special pleasure, for Oku. President of the House of Repreme to meet Your Royal Highness againstructor to did Chang Chih-turg's braves tended to incorporate forthwith is isning a Fakeithayn: He way artillery in: NO 13 Company Vich it to the sentatives, who were accompanied by soon and to renew the delightful fellow. When Prince Henry of Prussia came up Prospectus dated the 18th day of April, 199%, a soms twenty numbers of both Houses, ship which we then enjoyed together. the Yangtze in the spring of 1900 he took ropy of which har tem with the Begia Both Presidents presented, addresses of feel happy also at the thought that in been sent out to China in disgrace by his here on application. 32 per Share on

a great fancy to Falkenhayn who had trar of Companies, wolcute, to which the Prince, responded welcoming you here an opportunity is Imperial Yobbyness because he couldn's clotment, 82 per bare on the 30th June, 1942. for 40,000 Shecriptions at to $1 per live in the thuarit of the Artillery on his afforded me of acquitting myself in a means. Prince Hoary recognized. what and 65 per Share a subsequent demand measure of the indebtedness under which Big Willie was too stupid to, that Fat The sabedription Kat is now open and yil I have been placed.

kenhayn was an artillery gelus,Prince bo CLOSED on :-) Hotry" went to Taingtao where the Gor-

Copica

call be inspected generou Trubbel thick was wintly

and forms of

can be obtained at about the Boxers and wanted the Tsing the Office of the Company's General Managery.

Mesare, SuEWAN, with great difficulty persuaded his august

& Co. St. George's tav fortifications laid out properly, and

Bust Building Chater Rand, Victoria, Hongkong brother to consent to Falkenhayn

This Notide is not to be regarded as a leaving Wachang and going there. There he did invitation to the public to subscribe for

wall that Prince Honey Big Willie to form issued therewith.

and the Gor. Shares, and application will only be received on the footing of the full prospectes and in the ernor, between thera College or give him a head War Office weinstate him and put him in the Wor

Dated 20th April, 1999.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers. St. George's Building. Hongkong. *(984

PRINCE TOKUGAWA'S (SPEEDU, Prince Tokugawa, on behalf at the House of Peld "Your Royal Highness

We feel it a great privige respect fally to welcome Your Royal Highness, to "the enpatal of Japan."

"i am sure these sentiments are fully shared by the people in general in this country. The visit of a Prince of Wales is an avent unprecedented in our history, and From our first introduction into the the enthusiasm displayed in welcoming A Comite of Nations, the relationship beYour Royal Highness is as widespread as tween Japan and Great Britain was it is spontaneous. The whole nation to marked with great cordiality and fually day bails your person and your visit as crystallised in an alliance which has stood a happy embodiment of the traditional job. a test of twenty, years

friendship, so long existing between the two nations.

On the occasion of the European trip of our Crown Prince, the Government and people of Great Britain as well as ber Court recorded him in

seception the warmth of which he Japanese people will never forget: uni which, will remain" a bright page, in the history of our inter relationship

On the heels of that happy evens Your Royal Highness bits now graciously undertaken your preset arduous trip to this far of country to convey a message of good will and friendship to cur Im perial Court, it is beyond all doubt that this exchange of courtegies between benescent effect upon the peoples concerns the two courts will not only have the most but contribute in ag small measure to the peace of the world.

Speaking in all sirerrity on behalf of the members of this House who all share the sentiments I have expressed. I beg Your Royal Highness graciously in accept vur warmest greetings,”

FROM LOWER HOUSE. The Lower House, followed in its ex- pressions of welcome, the address present- vd by Mr. Oku stating:

To His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. May it please Your Boyal High-

neay:

upon

ر هم مور

"In slew of the signature of the Quadruple Treaty on the occasion of the epoch-making Conferetes of Washington, it may not be amiss for me to dwell here wn the high and honourable role played in the past by the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in the interests of peace in the Far East and upon the admirable spirit of loyalty manifested by hoth countries in living up to all its obligations. And I have every confidence that, when this agreement shall have been superseded by a new instru- meat of wider scope, the same spirit of loyalty will be manifested by the four confidence, that the traditional friendship Powers concerned. I may add, with equal between our two Island Empires, which has been confrmed by the test of time and H

1

of the

7

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

ACTION No. or-1922.

Falkenhayn Eved in Hankow just beyond where is now the Custom Houar - Deakin's ten hong, if I am not mis- taken...olton saw him and, his wife walking on the Bund with their two little boys both of whom were as extravagant as their papa when they grew up, and both of whom. I believe,

bot themasiven through debt. Hoffmann shot himself in Shanghai in 1908-9, also debt, Fuchs got divorced. His wife was Spanish and Bernsterff died in a bungalow near Kobe IN THE GOODS of LEUNG KUN alas

moutarde, "Old Count

Saturday er two or three years before the war. The Count was a great pal of mine. He was educated in England and was

was known to un naval blokes in Hankow as the Eng

wonder what he would have been if he ishran who spoke German so well. He more English than Palmerston had lived. The last time I saw Falken. consecrated by the ordeals of the great hay, he and Bernstorff and Fuchs were war, will ever remain enshrined in the tory

hoching at the Hankow Club bar prepar hearts of our people. There is not the Tsingtao.

to Falkenbayn's departure for least doubt that the present visit of Your looking man.

He was a remarkably fine

Royal Highness will have the happy offfets of further strengthening this warm and constant friendship.

"I do not feel sure that you will find your sojourn in this country as interesting as I did mine in yours, but I do feel sure. that the whole nation is hent upon, mak- ing your stay in Japan as enjoyable as possible.

"I now raise my glass and ask the

#48

DESTRUCTION OF IMPERIAL HOTEL, TOKYO,

TWO TRAGIC DEATHS.

LEUNG PING KUN ali LEUNG YUET WA late of No. 26, Prays East Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong Lime Manu- facturer deceased.

Between LAM LEUNG SEI alins LEUNG CHINGOI Plaintiff and LEUNG WA HANG and LEUNG LUNG WA Defendants.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 11th day of April, 1922, Mr. JOHN HENNESSEY SETH of Victoria. in the Colony of Hongkong Accountant was appointed administrator pendente lite "of the estate and effects of LEUNG KUN

alias LEUNG PING KUN alias LEUNG- YUET WA'late of No. 26, Praya East, Victoria, in the Colony, of Hongkong Lime Manufacturer deceased, the owner of the Wai Son frm, and that no person except the-said- JOHN HENNESSEY SETH F persons authorised by him is empowered to sell or otherwise to deal with any part of the assets, of the said deceased or the Wai San Factory in Ping Chau. said firm including the lime made in the

The fire at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Its my high privilege to tender to

on April 16th, broke out at 3.10 p.m. and Your Royal Highness' a bearty welcome in the name of the House of Representatives assemblage to drink to the health of our rapidly spread. The flames, swept by a which delegated that honour to me by a illustrious guest, in which I would include free wind, soon enveloped the sanex and unanimous resolution adopted prior to 1 to request that he will accept for himacft ful new structure under construction, cost--

that of his Royal Parents-and-I-venture the main building, endangering a beauti

ing 7,000,000 yen. powerless.

prorogation last month.

"The time-honoured bonds of friend- ship which united our two Great Island alliance for over a score of years, and our Empires were drawn still closer by an relations have never ceased to grow in in- timney and cordiality. The heartfelt prayer of every Japanese is that the link forged between our peoples may remain forever unshaken.

All the people of Japan, high and low, are profoundly grateful to the Royal Family and people of Great Britain for the enthusiastic welcome extended to His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince when ho visited that country. Never was the heart of Japan more completely filled with joy than on this occasion of wel coming your Royal, Highness, to these shores,

We have no doubt that the present iour of your Royal Highness will have the effect of further strengthening the friendship of Great Britain and Japan and will notably contribute to the peace

of the world.

"I now respectfully tender on behalf of the House a sincere welcome to your Royal Highness. "

ין

and carry back to his August Father the Assurance of our highest esteem and re

increasing prosperity of the British gard together with our sincere wishes for Empire,"

PRINCE OF WALES. "YOUR MAJESTY AND YOUR IMPERIAL HIGHNESS.-1 so deeply moved by the warmth of Your words of welcome, and the recollection of the reception accorded to me when I landed on your shores this morning and later as I passed along the streets. of this great capital is still so vivid in my mind that I am at a loss for words in which adequately to express my thanks and my appreciation.

"It is with the greatest gratification that I hear from Your own lips that Your

Imperial Highness cherishes such pleasant memories of Your visit to England last year. I shall not fail to convey what You have said to Their Majesties the King and Queen, and I feel sure that it will be a matter of equal gratification to Them to know that their endeavours to make You feel at home were so fully appreciated.

I have looked forward with feelings of | lively anticipation to my visit to Japan, not only because I hoped to renew that happy companionship with Your Imperial Highness which began so auspiciously last year, but also because I wished to scu with my own eyes a country of which I had

The firemen were

Dated this 12th day of April, 1922.

GEO, E HALL BEUTTON & CO; Solicitors for the Plaintiff (840

Mr. F. Moeller, the contractor for the He attempted to escape by reaching the new hotel building, is reported to be dead.

roof. The firemen placed a ladder in an attempt to rescue. Mr. Moeller, who, on reaching it, fell out managed to grasp a Yung. The fames enveloped him. The hose men played a stream of water at him. but this was futile. Mr. Moeller fell Cap'ain E. R. G. B. EVANS, C.B., through the flames on to the ground. capacity of 300 guests, was completely By four o'clock the old hotel, with a gutted. Among the guests of the hotel were some 20 or 30 of the Prince of Wales's suite and a number of officers of H.M.S. Renown, who were attending the Imperiai

Garden Party.

and an old resident, was burned to death. M. Milliaresay, a former Greek Consul Some 15 Bremen were injured, six of them

seriously.

1i

A CUSTOMS SEIZURE OF

MORPHIA. EXPLANATION FROM BRITISH

EXPORTERS.·

THE PLINCE'S RESPONSE. His ROYAL HIGHNEsq, said: Gently men, deeply appreciate the welcome which you have extended to the to-day on behalf of the members of the House of Peers and the House of Representatives, beard so much, a country so famous as recently there were six 3-lb. tins bearing

and am glad of the opportunity of meet

ing the distinguished Representatives of the Imperial Diet.

The International Anti-Opium Associa ton reports that, in a large seizure of morphia made by the Maritime Customs.

well for its natural attractions as for the tmely,

&

prom net position to which it has in a namely, J. A. Wink & Co., London. This brief period of years attained among the firm was written to asking for a verifies. nations of the world.

tion of their labels and wrappers, and the "Of the sincerity and whole-heartedness following is their reply:-

1 need not assure you with what feel ing of intense pleasure I landed ha Japanese soil at Yokohama yesterday, and of the welcome extended to ma I am in "We are in receipt of your letter enclos I am looking forward with the deepest no doubt whatever. I know full well that ing a brown paper wrapper and label. interest to the next few weeks, during not only Their Majesties the Emperor and We recognize this as our label and the which, through the bospitality of His the Einpress and Your Imperial Highness brown paper is without doubt our originál Majesty the Emperor. His Government and but also the whole Japanese nation wish wrapper. people, I hope to gain much sympathetic to make my visit a happy one. I am con

reply to your inquiry as to the knowledge of your country, where I am fidont that my sojourn, brief though it is, British trade in torphia we may tell you sure I shall make many friends,

will be one of unalloyed pleasure and that that during the past three years there "Not the least of the reasons for which I shall carry away with me from your have been practically go direct transse I have boca looking forward to my visit beautiful land none but the sunniest of tions with Japan. You are probably to Japan is that it enables me to renew memories. the friendship which I formed 1st year

tins of our manufacture may have been obtained from the United States."

D.8.0., R.N,

will deliver his Lecture on THE DOVER PATROL illustrated by maguifccnt slidea

"in "the

ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH HALL NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON

on

FRIDAY, APRIL 8, at 9 PM. Commodore Bowden-Smith, C.B., will preside..

Admission (by ticket only) 81,... Tickets may be obtained at the Star Ferry, at The Vicarage or from Mr. 4. C. Wilcox, King's Park Bids.

Proceeds for Naval Benefits. (990

P. & O. S. N. CO.

STEAMERS FOR STRAITS, COLOMBO, ACS. TRALIA, BOMBAY, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS & LONDON. Through Bills of Lading issued for Batavia, Persian Gulf, Continental, American and South African Ports."

for the above Ports.

1

Silk and Car and Tra for Jinly; Franco-

shipped at Bombay into the Mail Steamer pro-

oceding direct to Marseilles and London.

‡

Parcels will be received at this Office until

contenta.

3 r., the day before sailing. The and value of a packages are required.

For further particulare apply to

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE

&:00,,

Agentz.

900:

awaro that exportation from this countryTHE Stennisbip DUNERA," Capta

Walker, carrying His Majesty's Mails "Your Imperial Highntes has been is only possible by Home Office permit, will be despatched from this Port on or about in London with His Imperial Highness pleased to refer in terms of high appre and no permit is granted for Japan unless W DNESDAY, 3rd MAT, 1999, takinga the Prince legunt. I regard this friend ciation to the Anglo-Japanese Alliances a request is received, together with an Passengers: ship as a symbol of the ties of sympathy Twenty years have passed sine that undertaking that the morphia will be which bind our countries together, and Agreement first came into existence, yours consumed in Japan and will not be and London (under arrangement; will be tran- am confident that, as my friendship with fruitful in momentous events in both East exposed. His Imperial Highness is firmly founded and West. I recall with gratitude the We consider it probable that the t-lb. on mutual regard and rates, so nothing 10yalty with which through good and evil will arise to impair the good relations days, Japan Bas observed the tica and happily existing between Great Britain obligations created by the Alliance, and I and Japan.

feel assured that in the changes which "Gentlemen, 1 thank you once again have recently taken place nothing of our

* SHANGHAI TRADE, for the words in which you have greeted old friendship will be lost. I have no Messrs. Ilbert & Co.'s latest Plesn me, and I wish you all success in your doubt that the Quadruple Treaty into Goods Market Report says:--- isbours."

which the older. Agreement is about to be The market shows no signs of recover. FROM PRINCE TO PRINCE,

merged will result in a deepening not ing from the listless state into which it only of the traditional sympathy between las fallen and we are left with little or The following historic exchange of com- your country and; mine but also of the no matter or comment on the wook's pliments and assurances of good will were good relations between the Four Powers trade. A scattered business in Greys and made by His Imperial Highnese The which are parties to it.

Whites of insignificant volume has been DAIRY Prince Regent of Japan and His Royal I am confident that in the cause of done for the nearer Yangtze ports, the Highness the Prince of Wales at a bar-civilization and, Kumanity, Japan will quantities involved being usually only a quet at the Imperial Palace at Tokyo: always be found in close co-operation, with fow bales or casa of well-established chops ways taken to keep the Great Britain, and it will be a soures of which are "YOUR ROYAL HIGH-It is with the deepest gratification to me if

my visit

mother sentiments of profound gratification and contributes in any way to foster the axist,

any and Alla really constintea the sincere regard that, on behalf of Mying friendship between our two nations. August Father, I extend this evening a

I now raise my glass and ask the business Of girl business there most hearty news as the guest, not merely of the Court Majesty the Emporor Your Majcaly Needless to say, the continuous movement welcome to Your Boyal High assemblage to drink to the health of His little that the dealers scarcely and it recory to keep up their daily calls. but of the whole nation of Japan.

PRINOR REGENT.

་

and Your Imperial · Highnemi. -I would

ployed not bulk of the

ia

It is logs than a year ago that I paid also beg Your Majesty and Your 9f heavy bodies of troops to within close visit to your wonderful country and Imperial Highnea to accept for His Proximity of Peking, together with the received, at the hands of the Royal Court, Majesty the Emperor and Toitselves the pre-rattling" that is taking place in the government and people auch magnificent assurance of the highest esteem and rother sections of the country, hospitality and such war welcome as gard of Their Majesties the King and the whether the outcome be war or peace, thus sole, cause of the stagantion, and moved most profoundly the people of my Queen of England and of myself together the situation as it presents itself to-day distant homeland. The delicate attention with our sincere good, wishes for the in to the native merchaats both hera and and solicitado manifested by. Their creasing prosperity of the Empire of in the interior is such a to completely Majaotten the King and the Quees, and Japan."

kjustify their inaction,

· Hongkour, ‹April 24th, 1992.

FARM NEWS

FISH Direct from the Scottish Fisheria

FULITE, HADDocks, Kittens,

BUTTER

Different grades to suit different lentok

"DANT!?!

DAITMAID "ŠKANBOCK"

· THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD

Storage Co, LTD,