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NEW ADVERTISE MENTS.

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. THE FIFTH EXTRA RACE T MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAFFT VALLET O

MAY, and MON. SATURDAY, COTE DAY, 99TH MAY, 1929, Commending at 2.30 2.x. Both Days.

The First Boll will be Rung at 2 r.. The Charge for Admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1,00 Per Day for all

including Ladies.

Soldiers and Sailers in Uniform Half

Price

Members are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain "Admission to the Members Enclosure.

Each Member has the right to in troduce 2 Nan-members the Members

Tickets for whom can be Enclosure. obtained from Mears. LaSTEAD & DANS,

25.00 Each Per Day Up to FRIDAY,

THE MAY, 1998, «

for Admission for Ladies to the Members Encloeurs will be $200 Bach Member can obtain, apon application to the SECRETARY Badges for Admission of Ladies Free of Charge,

Bookmakers, Tie Tac. Moa, etc., will not be permitted to operate with- in the Precincts of the Boro KONG JOCIET CLUB during the Race Meeting.

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ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT CLUB.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the EXTRAORDINARY

NOTI GENERAL MEETING previously advertised for FRIDAY, TE HAY, at 6 r., for the purpose of confirming Bpecial Resolation the Bxtraordin ary Resolation passed, "on FRIDAY, 11 MAY, will be held at the CLUB Hous on TUESDAY, 29TH MAY, at 6 F.X.

By Order of the General Committee,

R. J. VEENALL,

Hon. Secretary.

[6261

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY. OF CANTON, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NOTICE IS FIFTE OF

"OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society wil be held at the Head Office, UNION BUILDING, Hong Kong. on FRIDAY, 25 MAY, 1928, at O'CLOCK AL, for the purpose of receiv Ing the Report of the Director and the Statements of Account to 31st DecKM- BER, 1987, and of declaring Dividenda, eto,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOBED from TH MAY to 25TH MAY, Both Dayu inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDEE,

General Manager, Hong Kong, 1st May, 1928. [6205

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY-NINTH 08 DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Ufice, UNION BUILDING, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 25TH MAY, 1928, at 11.13

of purpose receiving

INTIMATIONS.

REUTERS, LIMITED. :

KG MENDE in Appointed MANAGER of our Hose Fore BENCH from MAY 31st, in the Absence of Mr. J. L. HENRY, On Lear

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REUTERS, LIMITED,

W. TURNER, General Manager.in the Far East

(6249

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY,

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN No. the that

Certificats 3467 dated 50th Atuust, 1900, for 23 Shares of this Company Numbered 1851-24875 registered in the Name of Ms. MARION LEGGE has been LOST OF DESTROYED, and should

this Cervicals nat be produced to the Company before the 19TH JUNE, 1928, New Certificate for the said Shares will be inued, and the Old Certificate No. 3467 will be thereafter treated by this Company as Null and Void.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.

Hong Kong, 11th May, 1998. [6241,

INTIMATIONS.

FOR SALE.

TEWSPAPER : PRINTING NACHINE. In thoroughly Pages at Ono Time of the Average Size Good Order. Capable of Printing Four Newspaper-Apply Rox 8117, c/o Daily

[6117 Prasa Ulice.

TO LET.

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KOWLOON.

62011

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Alexandra Buildings.

Farished 5 Roomed

TO

NBUNGALOW, MAGAZINE DAY Tennis Cears, Modern Sanitation. LET for 6 Months from Jar JUNE. Moderate Bental to Suitable Teman Apply: Box No: 1133, a/ Hong Kong

(6133

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HONG KONG.

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TIL. C. 3009.

BY DADIL OF TUY SUPREME COURT.

DARTICULARS and CONDITIONS

PART

of SALE of the following property namaly all the right title and interest of

the Defendant, FUNG BAU YU in the

Valuable Propertice situste at TSUN WAN. New Territory in the Colony of Hong Kong and known as

1.-D.D. 433 TSUN WAN LOT

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-DD. 453 TSUN WAY LOT

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To a Sota XT

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IN ONE LOT

FRIDAY,"

THE 25TH DAY OF MAY, 1928,

A $ O'CLOCK. I.M.

BY

Mr. E. V.M.B. Da SOUSA, Auctioneer AT THE

CHINA AUCTION_ROOMS, 4. DUDERLL STREET, VICTORIA, Hoxe KONG. Forfarther Farticulars Apply to

Masam, HASTINGS, DENNYS AND BOWLEY, Solicitors for the Vendor or to M2. E. V. M. E na SOUSA, Auctioneer. Hong Kong. 15th May, 1928, 0255

Beport of the Director the NEW SHOPS

ments of Account to 31st DecxMBIR, 1927, and of declaring Dividenda, etc

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 9 MAY to 5TH MAY, Both Days' inclusive.

By Crder of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager. Hong Kong, 1st May, 1998. [6206

BRITISH TRADERS' INSUR- ANCE CO., LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company lil be held at its Head Office, UNION BEILDING, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY: PETH MAY, 1999, 11.20 of Trociring the Report of the

the SIXTY-SECOND

•for the Perfectars and the State-

ments of Account 10 31st DecZMAZE,

1927, and of declaring Dividends, ete.

TO LET

1

46, NATHAN ROAD,

KOWLOON.

OFFICES

TO LET DAVID HOUSE.

APTLY TO

S. J. DAVID & CO. DAVID HOUSE,"

67/69, Dis Vœux BOAD CITYRAI,

The TRANSFEE BOOKS of the PREPAID Company will be CLOSED from 9TH

MAY to 25TH MAY, Both Days

melusiv

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager, Hong Kong, lat May, 1928. [6207

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The Daily Press.

Hoxe Koro, MAY 19TH, 1928.

IMAGINATION AND THE EAST.

THE theory of the "Yellow Peril"

has exercized a strong fascination

MEDALS.

IT NEVER VARIES!

BOLE AGENTE:-

over the minds of many Europeans A. S. WATSON

& CO., LTD.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. PHONE C. 616.

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MAY 19th, 1928.

and even pulling his leg. The suave merchant prince after des- cribing the mysterious unity" of all Asiatics ""from Turkey to

CHINESE IN THE STRAITS.

DEATH OF ADMIRAL SANDEMAN.

Korea," in face of European 359,262 IMMIGRANTS LAST COMMANDER AT HONG KONG. aggression, best expressed in the phrase Asia for the Asiatics,

YEAR.

comes back to Indo-China as the RECORD TEAR AT ST. JOHN'S nidas of future trouble. "Japan

bas obvious designs on Indo-China. She covets the immerse rice planta- tions of Cochin China; the phos phates of Cambodia; the rich coal fields of Tonquin; and not least the incomparable Bay, of Along which she hopes to turn into the first paval base of the Far East and so neutralise Hong Kong and Singapore. France has too many enemies near at home to make any serious effort to keep Indo-China,

ISLAND.

The annual report of the Secre tary for Chinese Affairs, Straits Settlements, for the year 1 17 states that during the year the number

from

"The death is announced by Reuter cable of Rear-Admiral Henry George Glas Sandeman, C.M.G., at the age of 50.

Rear-Admiral Sandeman joined. H.M.S. Britannia na & Naval Cadet in 1881. He later served as Flag-

Lieutenant to Admiral Sir J. 0. Hopkins, G.C.B., in North America and the West Indies, and in the Mediterranean.

He commanded H.M.S. BritanniaTM during the earlier part of the war, and was appointed Commodore and Senior Naval Officer at Hong Kong in 2018 He retired in 1918.

of immigrants arriving China in the Straits Settlements totalled 339,932, an increase of 3.06 per cent over the figure for 1996 This number of immigrants during a year has never been exceeded.

During the year there were no but on the other hand England restrictions on immigration. PAS would never allow Japan to estabsage rates for the first six months MARIA THE WILD RUSSIAN. lish herself there. And this brings of the year were normal, but later

us in sight of the world war for the control of the Chinese market, the first phase of which may be England and France against Japan with America coming in on the side of the former and Russia joining

the latter."

TO GO BACK TO HARBIN.

SHANGHAI.

manner After the

ода

in which

were lower than usual especially from Amoy. The comparative pros- perity of the staple industries of Malaya, combined with the ex- tremely unsettled conditions obtatn- ing throughout the year in those Maria Ivesuff, 36-year-old Russian southern provinces of China from woman, devastated her home at 100 which the bulk of the immigrants Seymour Road while in a state of afternoon last This is the kind of book upon to Malaya come, was the principal intoxication

week Mrs, Antipenko, tenant of the are formed cause of the increase. which many ideas

The number of Chinese im-above premises, felt entirely will- at Home of the Far Eastern situa-migrants, who proceeded direct to ing to pay the expenses of deport tion. "Out here the thing is laugh- Fenang was 57,418 as compared ing Maria from Shanghai to any In a single day Peking or with 49,390 in 1928; of these 3,808 place out of reach of Seymour Canton can order a hundred chiefs continued their voyage to Rangoon Road and for "this purpose Mrs. Antipenko proceeded to the Pro- to set in motion the hundred armies and Calcutta..

advise the visional Court to authorities as much.

able.

of Saigon, of Singapore, of Java,

Female Immigration, „ of Haiphong, of Calcutta, of

58,157 adult female "immigrants It sounds like an arrived or

17.8 per cent. Madras, etc

.MOTO

Maria is an old offender and was ordered to be detained in custody

Arabian Nights Sultan for whom than in 1008; the percentage pending the completion of arrange-

to women

men Was 93.3

tion expenses.

.

armies spring into being out of the of

ments to deport her to Harbin, dust as he stamps his foot. The against 19.7 in 1996 and 31 in which is quite far enough to satisfy problems of the Far East are grave 1919, the record year. The figures the complainant who announced and complex. Here and there Asia include 753 Hailam women, who her willingness to pay all deporta

were accompanied by 145 girls. Giulia may strike perilously near

The immigrants included 9,550 the truth, but the book appears, SI a whole, to resemble the purple infants under the age of one year: patches of DE QUINCEY'S "Opium 7,172 landed in Singapore, 3,526 of whom were reported as leaving for Eater when the dream stricken

other ports; the balance, therefore, Englishman flies in terror from the

was 3,646 as compared with 3,380 imaginary horrors of China and the as compared with 3,380 and 2,389

in the two preceding years. East.

One Chinese case of smallpox was reported on Thursday from Kowloon:

We regret to announce the death, at the maternity ward of the Vic- toria Hospital yesterday morning, of Mrs. Barridge, the wife of Sergeant Major Barridge, R.E.

The number of women immigrants arriving in Penang by steamer was 8,994 as against 7,769 in 1990 and the number of children, male and female, under the age of 14, was 7,379 as against '7,035.

185,188 Chinese deck passengers left-Singapore for. China; the ex-

over emigrants returning to that cess of immigrants from China

country was 204,064 or 58.8 per cent of the total arrivals Unlawful Bocieties..

There was

WEATHER REPORT.

The weather report, forecast and remarks issued by the Royal Obser- vatory, Hong Kong, at 5.50 p.m. yesterday state:--

The "anti-cyclone is central over 5.W. Korea The depression over Indo-China is unchanged. -

Local forecast:-Easterly winds, moderate, overcast, rain,

Thirty-five women and girls were admitted to the Malacca Po Leung Kuk Ward of whom 4 remained at the end of the year.

A Chinese boatwoman who was found to have 29 tagls of prepared opium concealed on her person was yesterday fined $2,000 with the alter during the year among the Hok of Ordinance No. 143 (Women and

native of six months' hard labour.

.:

Among the passengers leaving the Colony yesterday by the & Taiping for Manila and Australia were Mr. and Mrs W. K. Reynolds, Mr. H, L. Jackman, Mr. E. Cock, and Dr. and Mrs. Shellabear.

no serious outbreak

kien unlawful societies. Minor dis- turbances occurred between differ ent sections of the Bin Gi Hin Society and between rival clans but ao serious clash took place between

Sin Guan Beng the Bin Gi Hin and its rival the

who have thought much about the Far East and have possibly passed through it but not lived there for any length of time. It forms the subject of a brilliant and rhetorical book, dria Gialla (Yellow Asin) recently written by Signor MARIO APPELITE, a distinguished Italian. of Chinese penetration the fact that Signor APFELIUS has travelled the Chinese "dwell apart, forming extensively in the Far East, but his separate colonies, compact and views are coloured by an initial homogeneous units of Chinese life, altipathy to the Yellow Races, and subject to their own laws and dis- particularly the Chinese, which he cipline and strictly faithful to the evidently allowed to become some spirit and usages of the Mother thing of an obsession. Otherwise, Country. Each is organised on to take one example, he could not military basis, under a chief to

it owes implicit obedience?" bave written in the following

A Chinese reading that passage strains of the Chinese eye: "Its peculiar shape, its narrow crooked might say with a bland smile to the look and fixed glany stare, even European who showed it to him: That is all very true, with one when most expressionless, sectus to wiak cunning. It is an eye made reservation; he has by a slip of the count piastres and control pen written Chinese instead of balances and before its hard im English. Look at that part about penetrable gaze Western intelligence the spirit and usages of the Mother recoils baffled and paralysed." That Country, and as to the military sarely expresses the emotions of a basis, isn't that your Volunteer ighly strung person who has ob- Defence Corpa?" To return to the

A large number of the gang rob- Ordinance No. 172 (Female Domes- A lecture on "Charles Darwin's tained his ideas of the Chinese remarks about the eyes, while s from the "Mr. Wo" type of European often refers to Chinese Theory of Evolution will be given beries which occurred during the tie Servants); there was one pro- fiction and drama. Not one Euro- eyes as "dreamy" or "soft" or by Mr. Ng Tai Ping, of the Hong year were the work of criminals secution of a mistress for pean out of a hundred thinks such even bovine" in moments when Kong University, to-morrow at 3 connected with Cantonese unlawful tarily causing hurt. A conviction things of the boy," or the amah, a "boy" for his own ends is im. p.m. in the Modern Literary Asso-societies, especially of the Heng was obtained and fine of 850 was Agent, & Cantonese, was shot dead were convicted of voluntarily caus or least of all of the pleasant penetrably stupid, it is generally eiation, Caine Road. All interested group. On July 16, & Protectorate imposed In Penang two women, in New Bridge Road quite close ing hurt to mui-tssi. Both appeal- ed to the Supreme Court. One mannered people with whom most supposed that the "Berce blus eyes" are welcome.

to the Protectorate.

absconded before the appeal was dismissed.

to

The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Lieut. J. W. Hale, R.N., of the Kai Tack Aerodrome, to Miss M. Trend, of Stoneyhurst, Haslemere, Surrey, who is en route to Hong Kong by the ss. Glenogle

WAS

There were 19 prosecutions in Singapore under sections 8 and 13"

Girls Protection) and 7 convictions

In Penang there. were obtained. were two prosecutions under the Ordinance. Three Cantonese women were convicted of offences against.

of imprisonment. In Malacca there girls and were sentenced to terms. 4 prosecutions under the In September an outbreak of hostilities occurred between two Ordinance and 3 Chinese males and main Ticchiu unlawful societies one Chinese woman were sentenced

Hui-trai-Cases. Teo Kheng. At least 13 persona the Sin Tong Hoa and the Hox to terms of imprisonment. were murdered either by shooting Eleven mui-tasis, were detained or stabbing and many more were in the Home under section 10 (1) wounded during the 12 days that of Ordinance No. 143 while two the disturbance lasted.

were detained under section 4 of

were

volun-

of us work every day of our lives of a foreigner are terrifying to a A Chinese, named Charles King, as much of Ah King's slipway, was removed

Both Penang and Malacca were People who know the East some Chinese cursed with

Repatriation: times bring accusations of childish imaginative fear as Signor APT to the Government Civil Hospital free from unlawful society distur

on Thursday evening suffering from bances during the year.

Fifty-one destitute and infirm APPEARANCE is Ereything to a mentality and lack of courage, and LIFE

Protection Of Women And Girls."

Chiness inmates of Tan Tock Seng's Indo-China particularly intrigued injuries received when he

knocked down by a motor-car, stated

repatriated at a cost. Hair Waves done by MA BETEN fighting quality against the Chi-

Hospital were Clain of Hore Kore Horz), impours nese, but wild generalisations about him. He sees in it, the probable

in the police report to have been The number of inmates remain- This Greatly. 2 PRATT BUILDING, Machiavelian characteristics are cause of the Conflagration in the driven by Mr. H. Westlake, of the ing in the Po Leung Kulk Home of $1,030.60 by the Government. HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. KOWLOOK. TEL

Kandang Kerbau, Bingapore, at Seventy-seven sick and aged Chinese [842

Pacific," and the World War,

Volunteer Defence Corps. conspicuously absent.

the end of 1926 was 84; during 192 were repatriated from Penang at NOTICE..

a cost of $1,348.91 which was borne Our imaginative Italian, referring which, incidentally, he preaches

SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS

1928/1929..

2945.

the end of the year:

At

Trade conditions which were good

Kritish Mr. J. P. Robinson, Hon. Secrethore were 133 admissions and 131 OUSE TO LET. Bix Heautifully Boom to the ubiquity and fecundity of with the vehemence of

by public subscriptions Foot Level. Rent Inclusive: $198. the Chinese, continues: "They Israelite" holding forth on the tary of the Kowloon Cricket Club, discharges, leaving, 66 inmates at partly by Government and partly ISTS NOW OPEN for MEM Partly Furnished. Tenant can hate

BRES to Subscribe for BUB Furniture on Easy Terman-Apply Borawarm everywhere they have flood-prophesy of the Great Pyramid, entered the French Hospital on the beginning of the year

Thursday to receive treatment for & SCRIPTION GRIFFINS for Beason 347, e/o Hong Kong Dally Press, 247ed the Straits Settlement; they are The book contains a long chapter en arm. The injuries were due there were 21 inmates in the Po at the beginning of the year, suffer. in the Dutch Indies and Indo on a conversation which the author to a fall caused by Mr. Robinson's Leung Kulk Home, Penang; there ed during later months with the

They regard French had with a lending Chinese of Indo- dog rushing out and jumping up to were 129, admissions and 122 dir TITIES: 1 Sun Ra, Indo-China as the natural annex China, whom one cannot altogether greet him as he was alighting from charges, leaving 21 inmates when No.), Dome. Brug Kong of the Chinese Republic, Signor acquit of politely playing up to a ricksha near his home early in the year ended. Apply Bez No. 43, Hong? APPELIUS sees as a sinister feature the fervid imagination of his guest the afternoon.

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1928/1929 and bara been Posted at the RACH COURER, STARLES (Causeway Bay), HONG KONG OLUB, and BECKETARY'S OFFICE,

By Order

Acting Secretary.

ER. FORSYTH, Hong Kong, 18th May, 1925. [6259

Daily Press.

China

At Moderate Rental,

(Continued on next Column).

fall in price of rubber and tin,

The

disturbed political conditions in China were not reflected to any appreciable extent in the Colony.

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