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INTIMATIONS.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

CANTON, LTD..

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

N iba FIFTY-THIRD ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at the Head Offee, Usos BUILDING, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 19TH MAY, 1926, at 11 O'CLOCK A... for the purpose of receiving ha Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to $1st Decaman, 1925, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be OLOSED from MAY 13TH to MAY 28TH, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board, PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager.

Rongkong, May, Srd 1928.

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BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE

COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. "

TOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

SIXTIETH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office, USON BUILDING, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 1ST MAY, 1926, at 11.15 ... for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Stateraents of Account to 31at DECEMBER, 19:5, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

to MAY

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MAY 12 287, both lays inclusive.

By Order of the Board, PAUL LADDER.

General Manager. -

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Hongkong, May 3rd, 1926.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

N FIFTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY

YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 25TH MAY, 1926, at 11.20 for the purpose of receiving the

INTIMATIONS.

THE HONGKONG - DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 4TH, 1926

DULCIPEL

CURES

AND

PREVENTS

HONGKONG

FOOT.

If it is the question of the Distribution of Wealth we all know that, men associated in a commen venture must give nad take; and if most of us, con- sider it more blessed to take than to give: most of us also know it does not pay to be too greedy.

This may be why we have just seen a general strike, which every theorist knows is a revolution, breaking down before the disgusted firmness of the minjority. It is also the reason why the revolutionaries and their intended victims. ara nów con- verting measures to re-establish the ukl state of affairs. The truth is that all this talk of parasitical classes will never really convince the English. Parasitical indivi.

Tenders are being invited for repairs FAR EASTERN CABLE to the steam launch Fictoria.

H.E the Governor has appointed Mr. PW, Tratman to Be Official Receiver in" Bankruptcy.

Two Chinese cases of small-pox and one Chinese case of diphtheria were report- ed during the 24 hours ended. May 21st.

Three men have been arrested by the police in connection with a robbery in amatshed at Taipo, late on Friday night.

It is notifed that the name of C. E. Richardson & Co. (Swatow), Limited, has been struck off the list of Companies

registered in Hongkong.

duals there are, in every class; tyranny and exploitation occur in all walks of

A burglar atole $720 from the third But the life, and under all systems.

floor of No. 222, Queen's Road Central, essential feature of economic activity is

early on Friday morning. It is be that it is co-operative, even uncon-lieved that he gained access by way of sciously so. The merely predatory activi. the skylight. ties are few and ephemeral,

can rid

There was a large attendance at the Repulse Bay Hotel on Saturday night. every table being booked. To-day there will be special tea-dance at the Hotel from 4 to 6p.m.

HE. the Governor has appointed the Rev. G. R. Lindsay to be a member of the Board of Education during the absence from the Colony of Mr. Benjamin Wylie or until further notice.

The theory of the general strike pre- supposes that society by a great shake

itsell of its leaders, as of burden, but the middle class showed that it could carry on temporarily without the Trade Unionists. A little more organisa tion and training, and the middle class could have done the work of the Trade Unionists and left them idle, as an equally large number of men was formerly left free for war service not so long ag The answer to a charge of parasitism was a in quequr. And then, like wise men,cial Co., Ltd., will, unless cause is shown having shown their mutual independence. to the contrary, be struck off the register they found how much better off they were and the company will be dissolved,

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Hagort of ths Directors and the Stilaments of A. S. WATSON in mutual dependence, and went back to

Account to 31rt DECEMEZ, 1925, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MAY 19TH to MAY 2871, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board, PAUL LAUDER,

Gasera Manager.

Hongkong. May 3rd, 1926,

& CO., LTD.

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PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that

the ANNUAL ORDINARY GEN- FRAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of

will be held at the Hoxe

the above Comongkong, on FRIDAY. TH LONG HOTEL, MAY, 1996, at 11. for the purpose of receiving the

with a 8 Peport of the Directors together

of Accounts for the Year

ended 30th Arziz, 1928.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be OLOSED from MONDAY, 24TH MAY, to MONDAY, 3tar MAY, 1996, both days Inclusive.

JP

JAN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Amagers. Hongkong, 18th May, 1946.

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INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD.

THE FORTY-FIFTH ORDINARY GEN- THE

ERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the (ffices of the General Manigers. Heutra. JARDINE, MATH & Co., LTD. Pedder Street, Hongkong, on T11 RSDAY, the 10ra JUNE, 1926, at 1 Nocs, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Direc tors, passing the Account, and electing Fire tors and Anditora.

The TEANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 3ap to 24TH JUNE. 1926, both days inclusive.

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By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 20th May, 1926.

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SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.

DE LINDOCHINE beg

THE BANQUE AD Interested in SAFE

DEPOSIT, that they have actually in their New Building, 5.QUIN' ROAD SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES at the Yearly Rate of $8 for the Small Size and $1 for the Large Size. Please Apply to The CASHIER.

TO. LET.

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OMFORTABLY Furnished BOOMS

HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

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business.

It is notified that, at the expiration of three months, the General Commer

A nine years old Chinese girl, of Lamont's Lane, Wanchai, died at the Government Civil Hospital on Satur- day from the effects of scalding. A quantity of boiling water fell on her the previous day.

Mr. J.B. Hamilton.. of Kowloon The real danger is in extreme pugnacity Dock, is leaving for Home on Friday. on either side. The wild men of the He has been for many years a familiar wealthier classes may be set upon destroy.figure on the Bowling greens both of ing the Uniona in' this moment of their the Dock Co. and of the K.B.G. Club. weakness. Probably it could be döne, bur only to bring into being some other form of association, infinitely more dangerous, which would have to be recognised in the end. It would be better to encourage the Unions themselves to. amalgamate and sweep away a multitude of foolish and wasteful caste distinctions. The pretence that "trades" are a mystery into which one can only be slowly and painfully APPELBOOM-On May 18th. at the Vicinitiated should now be dropped. Tech-the Secretariat of Chincae Affairs to sup

toria Nursing Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. C. APPELBOOM, a son nical training should be universal and port the petition in favour of the con Hense-On May 21st, 1928, at Caver- sham, Oxon, to Mr. and Mrs. A. S. HERSEE (David Sassoon & Co., Ltd. Hongkong), a son.

[3591 HEATHS. GARDNER.-On May 17th, at Tientsin,

following.

BIRTHS.

apprenticeship reduced to a minimum There should be a national minimum wage. With the advent of labour-saving machinery everywhere, labour should be operation. ROBERT more and more mobile, as well as more BOYLES CARDNER, of The Crittál and more productive" And the sooner we Manufacturing Co., Lid (China Branch).

get to the point when the capitalist leaders of an industry can deal with the runk and file as a whole, the government holding a watching brief for the com- munity, the sooner shall we escape from these recurrent and unnecessary crises.

These reflections have an application also to local conditions. The Chinese are shrewd judges of character, and bave a wonderful eye for facts. Whatever may have been the case in the 10th century,

MOORE On May 18th, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, EMY MARIA MOORE

Hongkong Office: 1a, Chater Road. London Office: 131, Fleet Street, B.C.

The Daily Press.

HongKore, Mat RATE; 1926.

BACK TO BUSINESS.

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it is by now perfectly clear that England has no Imperialist designs in China. It is not the power, but the will for aggres- sión which has been lacking in the last

A volume of signatures and chops from Chinese tenants is being prepared for submission to the Government through

tuation of the Ordinance restricting rentals in Hongkong. The petition in English was submitted two weeks ago.

NEWS.

PEKING POLITICS.

NORTHERN LEADERS TO DISCUSS SITUATION FULLY!

PEKING, May end. Marshal Wa Pei Fu recently wired to Marshal Chang Tao Lin asking him to assist to maintain Yen's Cabinet.

Chang Tao Lin replied that he and Wu Pei Fu must avoid all misunderstandings,

Therefore he must state his position with the greatest frankness. He does not op pose the Yen Cabinet, but he cannot sup. port it.

EMPIRE DAY.

CELEBRATION TO-MORROW.

To-day is Empire Day, but as it i also a public holiday the usual school celebrations have been postponed until

to-morrow.

At 1-8.m. on Tuesday there will a service at St. John's Cathedral for thi youngsters at which, a special address on the meaning of Empire Day will be delivered. There will also be a service. at the Roman Catholic Cathedral.

At St. Joseph's College there will be distribution of prizes for the best" essays on the subject of Empire Day.

Following the service, the remainder of the day will be observed as a holiday. At most schools outings have "been ar fanged... The Central British School, Chang Tso Lic. suggests that he. WKowloon. Stanley Sebool and other Eng- Pei Fu and other military leaders and the lish Schools on the Hongkong side are most prominent civilians should hold a giving bathing picnics. conference in Peking to discuss the situa tion fully.

It is likely that a wreath from H.E. the Governor will be laid, as is cus- tomary, at the Cenotaph this morning. Harbour will ba dressed in honour of the Day

A cable from Peking on May 15th re- ported:-Dr. W. W. Yen oficiallyThe warship in

sauned the post of Premier this after- noon. The Cabinet issued 'a' notification that Tano Kan has resigned, as from May 1st, and that the Cabinet from to-day President,

THE H.V.D.C. fakes over the functions of the effect. Dr. Yen issued, at mandate recor-ADVISORY COMMITTEE APPOINTED. structing the Cabinet, which will include Dr. Sze, the retiring Ambassador in Washington, as Foreign Minister.]

who later issued a mandate to the same

M.P.'S FOR PEKINO.

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LATER

It is reported that 300 Parliamentariaus are, now on their way to Peking from Hankow, having been given $400 for "travelling expenses by Wu Pei Fu

This coincides with reports from other sources to the effect that Wu Pei Fu is no longer heeding the Parliamentarians clamour for the restoration of Trao Kun

and the Constitution, realising that this is not likely to be a serious obstacle to a political settlement.

Chang Teung Chang and Pi Shou Cher are, expected to leave for Peking from Shantung in a few days."

FAR EASTERN RAILWAYS.

QUESTIONS OF THROUGH SERVICES TO EUROPE.

TOKYO, May 22nd. Commenting on M. Selebriakov's visit to Tokyo the spokesman of the Foreign Office slated to-day that the only points

Following the recent maceting at Govern- ment. House of business men of the Colang for the purpose of considering ways and means of improving the stun- dard of eficiency of the Hongkong Volan- teer Defence Corps, the following have heen appointed to act as an Advisory Committee:-.

ILE. the General Oficer Commanding. (Major-General CC Luard, C.B., C.M.G.), Chairman.

"Messrs. R. M. Dyer, D. Abbes, F. R. Marsh, H. G. Hegarty, G. W. Sewell, F. M. Crawford and A. Morley.

COLONY'S FINANCES.

STATEMENT FOR JANUARY.

The Financial Statement for Januar shows a credit balance of $8,455,109.32. against $,114,462.08 at the end of Decem ber.

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The revenue from January 1st to 31st was $1,666,210.77, compared with $1,085,571.45 for the same period last year. The expenditure for the "nionth amounted to $1,294.384.13, as against

1,646,604 last year.

HONGKONG.

During the morning service at St. Andrew's Chirch yesterday, the Bishop of Victoria (the Right Rev. C. R. discussed were the questions of through GRAND NATIONAL WINNER IN Duppuy), who was the preacher, licensed trains to Europe and avoiding competi Mr. John H. Hunt, O.B.E, (Secretary tion in freight rates on the South Man- of the European Y.M.C.A., Kowloon) churian Railway and the Chinese Eastern as a Lay Reader. At the evening ser- vio at St. Andrew's the Vicar (the Rev. G. R. Lindsay) admitted two adults by Baptism into the Christian Church.

Railway.

PROBABLE VISIT TO FANLING'.

STEEPLECHASES TO-DAY.

For the first time in the Colony's Both points were agreed on in prin-history, a man who rode the winner of ciple, though the former is dependent on the Chinese.

M. Selebriakov is leaving tor Manchuria

The various sections of the St. "John Ambulance Brigade held a preliminary parade at the Sockunppo Recreation to-morrow for the purpose of discussing Ground yesterday morning in prepara- the details fully at Mukden and Dairen tion" for the parade to be held on the with the authorities concerned. Murray Parade Ground next Monday at 5.30 p.m., at which H.E. the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.OMG.). will

- DISARMAMENT FROBLEM.

TOKYO, May 23rd.

the Grand National at Aintree is in our midst. He is Mr. James Younge Mac-.. kintosh, who rode Wild Man From Borneo, the winner of the Aintree Race in 1805. Mr. Mackintosh hopes to b

this afternoon, bat it is unlikely that he, Present at Fanting Hunt Steeplechases

will be seen in the saddle as he has done little riding on the fat or across country since the victory of Wild Man From Borneo, 21 years ago..

THE SPANISH AVIATORS.

CAPTAINS LORIGA AND GALLARZA RECALLED HOME.

THERE are in every nation and class. twelve months. Nor do we wish to

present Lang Service Medals to Mr. E. JAPAN'S STRONG OPPOSITION TO

AMERICAN PROPOSAL. wild men," whose shrill cries of alarm dictate to South. China the form of Ralph, Assistant Commissioner, and Dr. and warning distress their more normal government or the political theories she w. V. M. Koch, District Surgeon, who, neighbours. The conservative and wealthy should adopt. These are her own affairs.completed ten years service, last Septem

It is reported this morning that the 4-Roomed FLAT in CARMARTON BUILD classes, are burdened with members who What we do maintain is that there is an ber.

Japanese military authorities strongly INGS, KOWLOON-Apply to HUM PHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO. | serram Bolshevik" at anyone who economic solidarity between. Hongkong

The disappearance while on a steamer

oppose America's suggestions regarding LTD, Alexandra Building

shows the least departure from normal and Canton, as great na between Liver-

MANILA, May 2nd:" standards, if workmen exhibit the usual pool and Manchester, or Soochow and between Penang and Port Swettenham

Captain Loriga, the Spanish aviator, human desire to do less work for more Shanghai. Our common interests far of Mr. J. H. B. Smith, formerly assist disarmament, particularly the abolition of

board the Portuguese light cruiser with Private Bathroom and Private Pay they are accused of meditating all outweigh our antagonism. Why infict ant. editor of the Straite Echo, is re- conscription, owing to a voluntary army

mutual damage in a vain attempt to ferred to by the Valay Mail of May being more expensive than a conscript will leave for Macao on Wednesday on Verandab TO LET with Good Board at the the crimes of every revolution.

Republica. change the farts1 Canton is not ruined, 13th. This paper states that Mr. Smith, one. ene of the Best Beacher and next to the

nor are we, by this estrangement, but we who was en route to Australis, boarded are both poorer than we need be. The the Alang on the evening of Tuesday, but Japan is unable to. strike and boycott will never succeed in May 11th, at Penang for Fort Swatten- ham. He was last seen at 1 a.m-some ruining Hongkong, nor if they did, would.

hours after the steamer bad left, Penang they make any difference to the political status of this colony. For that purpose one of the crew reclining a chair COMMANDER BOTVED ARRIVES AT Governor-General Wood.

reading. Next morning no trace of Mr. no methods, could be less appropriate,ith could be found. His bed had not

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THE DANISH FLIGHT,

The Danish

NANYUAN.

PELINO, May 22nd aviator, Commander

He says that he will attempt a flight to Manila if his plane can be repaired Captain Loriga and Gallazza went to Baguio to-day to pay their respects to

Two of the Manila streets have been named at their honour.

official is so foolish as not to know that financial difficulties as he had a draft en Fortunately, most Englishmen regard regular charges on a trade duly protected an Australian bank for something like Botved, arrived at Nanyuan, at 11.30 ment by cablegram to pack their planes the wild men in both camps with calm and encouraged are far more productive £700. It is, however, stated that he was contempt, for though our theories are of public and private wealth than disorder in poor health and bail been under treat nearly, aways wrong we have a very tena and illegal exactions Let us all face menz and observation in the Penang

hospital prior to his departure cious grip on the real facts of a situation. facts and get back to business.

to-day.

It is understood that the Danish air men will leave for Mukden on Tuesday.

Captains Gallarza and Loriga have been instructed by the Spanish Govern

and return on the first steamer leaving the Philippines The first liner, to leave Manila for Spain will be the Spanish mail boat Tegesps, which is scheduled to sail on May 32at:3