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INTIMATIONS.

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,

.. LIMITED,

N°

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL ORDIN. ABY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of the above Com rany will be held at the HONG KONG HOTEL, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 7TH JUNE, 1929, ■t 11 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 30th Ara, 1929.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From SATURDAY. 1ST JUNE, to FRIDAY, 7 JUNE, 1929, Both Days inclusive. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hong Kong, 28th May, 1909. [7849

INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGA.

TION CO., LIMITED..

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HE FORTY-EIGHTH ORDIN

TARY GENERAL MEETING of

the Company will be held at the Office of the General Managers, Masasa, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. LTD.. PRODEZ

Srizer, Hong Kong, un WEDNESDAY, the 19TH JUNE, 1929, st NOON. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 19TH JUNE to SAD JULY, 1929, Both Daya inclusivo,

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

General Managers. Hong Kong, 24th May, 1929. [7830

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINĖ.

TEMBERS are Requested to sead

Mheir Applications for the

above Before FRIDAY, 31ST MAY, it is proposed to CLOSE the LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS on That Date.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 23rd May, 1929. (7834

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WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore- east and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 348 p.m.,

stated:-

News and Views.

The total output of the Kailen Mining Administration's 12ines for the week ending May 11 amounted to 20,045 tons, and the sales during the period to 70,620 tons

As a result of inquiry lasting | from November to March, the River ( Steamers Commission appointed by | the Hong Kong Government bas ratified itself that certain the Colony from Shanghai by the Bewitched Older.

serious irregularities' exist in the Werk anticyclones remain over operation of some river steamers as N. China and to the cast of Japan.the direct result of the employ The trough of relatively low pres-

Local. Forecast: E. moderate, fine to cloudy.

BIRTH.

winds,

HARBIMANO May 29, at St. Paul's Hospital, Hong Kong, EVELYN, wife of G, A. HARRI MAN, of a son (Michael).

Sir Henry Pollock returned to

Empress of France.

fonday in Kowloos when she was A Chinese woman was killed on knocked down by a motor lorry in Waterloo Road. Her body was taken to the Kowloon Mortuary.

WUCHOW TO BE EVACUATED?

| HOSTILES FORCES CLOSING ∙IN

"

DISSENSIONS IN KWANGSI CAMP.

A belief in sorcery still persists in the French countryside, and is A collection of curios, will be sold

the cause of many dramas. Not by auction" in Lammert Brothers'ong ago a whole family was nearly burned to death becaUSE, when sales room on Friday at 2.30 p.m. warned that their harn was burn-

(Wa Tr: Yat Pao.) ing, the farmer and his wife were convinced that an effort was being themselves in their home. Now & made to bewitch them, and locked The Nanking troops, under the farmer named Bailly, living in are being concentrated at Shishing. command of General Li Ming Shui,. Breton village near Saint Bricus, From there they will proceed to has shot his neighbour ne revenge for an alleged spell cast by him. Wuchow will be made. General Ya Dosing and then an advance on "I have a grudge against my neigh Tack Pak, a native of Kwangsi, but. bour," he explained, for he has it, I see electricity in it, and it Shck is expected to direct opera- bewitched my cider. When I drink an ardent supporter of Chiang Kai burns my stomach. He ought to tions. He has been in telegraphic have kept quiet; so much the worse for him."

gure from Indo-China to the Pacise ment of unsuitable masters." The is stationary. The typhoon appears engagement of such men is to the to have filled up.

advantage of both parties. It is admitted that there are shipowners who prefer a master who will coun- tenance any irregularity which in creases the carnings of a ship, and it is also admitted that men can be found ready to accept engagement on these crooked lines. We note

Capt. Thompson, the commodore of the Straits Steamship Company's that Shipping and Engineering, feet and captain of the express Shanghai weekly devoted to news and comment oa mercantile marine affairs, has some very scathing ob servations an-those members of the profession who thus bring grave discredit upon an honourable call ing. They, have no sense of respon sibility, little self-respect, and no desire other than to obtain tem porary employment sufficient to

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HONG KONG, MAY 29, 1029. ·

QUEER HAPPENINGS

AFLOAT.

provide them with funds for drink- ing. Their chief refuge appears

steamer Kedah, is leaving Singa Pore on retirement by the P. and O. Mores, on May 30.

cost a

of dynamite yesterday

Unlawfully fishing with the aid Chinese fisherman. his life. He was found, lying in a small dinghy, groaning in agony, and was taken to the G.C.E. by a fishing boat but his wound was in such a bad state that he succumbed a few hours

afterward.

The number of Chinese

communication with General Fan Shek Sheng, who is in command of the Hunan forces, and has asked him to undertake a simultaneous drive from Chaoping, 50 miles North-west the West River, joining it a few of Wuchaw and on a tributary of miles above Wuchow. A number of gunboats will support the Canton advance.

troops at Wachow will retreat west- It is expected that the Kwangsi ward, hut if they manage to elude Fan Shek Sheng they will probably find themselves confronted with the Yannanese forces who are advancing unopposed into Ewangsi.

What Oliver Baldwin Thinks.. Duka Mainichi, Mr. Oliver Bald- In an exclusive article for the win (son of the British Prime Minister) states his reasons why he does not support his father. In murt he says: We live in Eng- land to day under what is called the capitalist system which, after 150 years' existence in its present form, im-has succeeded in producing 2,300,000 to be Hong Kong, whence the migrants arriving in Singapore of prosperous people and 40,000,000 authorities are apparently unable during April was 50,738, making who live more or less in a state of

110.637 for the year. to deport them if they are British more than half as many at arrived wish to alter these things, there is This Sgure is economic insecurity. To those who

An Agrement With Fan Shek Sheng? subjects. Such mea get neither in the whole of the previous three but one party open to them, the employment Dor

Under the pressure of recent de- encouragement! months and more than 6,000 grenter one party whose face is set definite- from the large and reputable Only 19,011 Chinese deck passengers party to which I have the honour torn by internal dissensions and than the arrivals in April last year.ly against Capitalism-that is the feats the Kwangsi party is being British and Chinese shipping com left for China during the month an to belong." He denounces his two factions have emerged, the THE report of the River Steamers panics, but there are a number of that the net gain is round about father's Government as Govern Wuchow faction headed by Wong Commission published a few days Chinese concerns which are prepared

97.009 for the month.

ment which disguste humanity by Shiu Hung and Weng Kuk Cho and go was much more interesting to engage them-simply because they

cialistic opposition to the capitalis selling the country's soul to Mamthe Linchow faction by Wu Ting. mon. Further, he states his to Yang and Lai Woon Im. It is res than a casual glance would reveal. must in order to obtain the neegs The purpose for which the Cama-sary official licence to carry pasen- mission was established was gera to and from Hong Kong.

Now the strange thing is that such as to suggest that its findings while the Government of this Colony would be of very general interest. can and does insist upon certificated is officers being carried on these ships November last to consider the it does not and cannot insist that status of river trade certificates as they be men of good standing in master and mate issued by the Hong their profession. No self-respecting Kong Government, the agreements member of the China Const Officers made between owners and masters Guild who had any regard for the

The Commission first met

not

himself as tic system of Government, but shows moderate Socialist, denouncing "Russian Communism and Syndicalism."

ported that the latter have come to

Twenty-eight new electric fans were installed in the Queen's Theatre on Monday night, and the majority of

an agreement with Fan Shek Sheng.. The capture of Wuchow is not them were in action for the first

likely to be delayed for more than performance yesterday. They add

a few days and already names are the audience, and it will not be Artificial Wool, very materially to the comfort of

being mentioned for the principal surprising if during the hot In a London office recently a few ed that these will go only to Kwang- posts in the province. It is expect- weather, many people will be found willing to pay for wo cents ninsoared individuals were inspects men and General Li Ming She the privilage of sitting in the cooling samples of a new product which is being named Director of Dis- quite apart from the merits of the will interest, many business nuen in bandment and Reorganisation and Another recent alteration to the picture which may being shown.

the North of England, particularly Yu Tack Pok as Chairman of the in the West Riding. We are a Provincial Government. Theatre is the erection just inside customed to learning of new sub- Pei Chung Hsi Directing the the entrance of two new box. Not long ago there was talk of Mr. stitutes for existing commodities.

Retreat, According to

Industrial circle, but these have not yet been

more recently the fibre grown on a Kwangai military headquarters has Devonshire farm as an adjunct to already been moved from Wuchow, the cotton industry, and now it but General Pei Chung Hai is stil The Bishop of Singapore off seems it is the turn of wool in the West River port personally various irregularities which it is a Mary's Church, Kuala Lumpur, of which is a waste vegetable tain points just over the Kwang- ciated recently at the wedding at This artificial wool, the basis directing the withdrawal from cer- publicly declared are deliberately of Mr. Stephen Herbert Gerard material, is chemically changed into tung border still held by Kwangsi practised in order to increase the Trower, of New Serendah Rubber a staple which is claimed to possess troops Rearguard actions are ex- Co., and Miss Gertrude Elena elasticity, strength, and softness of

but the main forces are retreating to Liuchow..

the

and master and crew and the notice well-being of "the service would offices for the back stalls and dress Ford's substitute for rubber, and and Commercial Daily Press the

given to terminate these agreements, the system of discharge and pay. ment of wages of native seamed, the method of measurement of river steamers for passenger certificates,

accept a salary on the understand-taken into use. ing that he was to refund part of it, nor would he countenance the.

the carriage of large numbers of earnings of certain ships engaged Mary, daughter of Mr. E. W. F. texture allowing of competition and Pected at Dosing and Fungchuen

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in river trade. If it were possible and Mrs. Gümas. The church was co-operation with the real thing. agents, the system of embarkation to make compulsory the engagement decorated and the service was fully Lest it be supposed that modern of passengers and loading of cargo, only of members of the Guild for choral. The Bishop was assisted research tends to rendor Australia's and the employment of uncertified service with Chinese owners, this 31. Barron was "best man," Misa mutton it should be added that this by the Rev. O. B. Parsons, Mr. J. millions of sheep useful only as pilots." Nothing here--on the face organisation could itself deal very Marjory Gardon bridesmaid, the new artificial wool is intended for of things-to suggest that the find-swiftly and effectively with such of Lisses Warley flower girls and mixing purposes in the manufac ings of the Commission would have its members found engaged in or given away by her father. A goods. "It is to be marketed at Master Gilson page, The bride ture of blankets, suitings, and like any interest whatever outside the condoning dishonest and dangerous reception followed at the Lake Club something like a third of the cost comparatively small circle of per practices. But since the only quali- where the principal toast was pro- of eenroon wool, sons directly concerned in river fcation at present called for is the Frost. The Hon. Mr. A. S. Bailey The Tin Industry.

posed by the Hon. Capt. Meadows trade. Yet, as a matter of fact, possession of a "ticket," even if proposed the toast of the brides some of the matters investigated the owner of that certificate may maids and Mr. Barron replied. The and reported upon are of great be physically incapable of discharg honeymoon is being speat at Bukit interest to the British, community ing the duties usually expected, he

Fraser. generally,

meets the requirements of an owner Commanding to Kill There are many shipa engaged on whose business methods are not of

M

EVACUATION LIKELY. [THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

"SHAMEEN, May 28. It is reported that the robel leaders at Wuchaw are preparing to evacuate the town. The Kwangei troops are retreating.

SWATOW RETAKEN.

NANKING AND FUKIEN TROOPS CO-OPERATE.

According to news received a Canton, Swatow has been taken by Fukien and Nanking troops under. who only left Shanghai on the 23rd the command of Yang Tang Fai.. instant arriving at Amoy two days later. Swatow was held by pro- Kwangsi troops under Hsu King as to what has become of his force. Tong, but no details are available

or whether there was any fighting.

Reuter quotes an authority on the tin industry to the effect that a severe crisis is threatening which British enterprise and initiative may avert. Mr. Lochner advocates an agreement between European- The jury of the Assize Court of owned mines for controlling produc Chine river and coast services the cleanest.

Aix-en-Provence in France is of tion and marketing. Prices must which, while flying the British The problem thus presented is aedly constitutes the crime. A wo- continue to exceed the demand, opinion that the intention undoubt-come down if supplies of the metal fing, are not the property of British very difficult one to deal with, and man named Negrel, who persuaded therefore output must be rationed owners. These vessels are operated since neither the Chinese owners her lover, a farm labourer named and a central selling organisation by Chinese shipping companies, and nor their British employees can be Jaume, to kill her husband has been established. These views do not for various reasons their owners expected to co-operate with thevitude, while the murderer has been at the annual meeting of the British sentenced to ten years' penal ser agree with those expressed recently find it either essential or convenient authoritics, some form of coercion sentenced to only seven years. M. Metal Corporation. It was then to carry British officers on the would appear

and Mme. Negrel had a farm at Pen- stated that although there was un to be necessary nes-Mirabeau Jaume entered their doubtedly an over-production of bridge and in the engine-room. Legislation with regard to the cm-service in 1991, and five years later tin, there is a regular increase in Many queer irregularities occur in ployment of masters is ruled out on the favours of the farmer's consumption, which may be expect this branch of the shipping in- by the Commission as impracticable, Negrel so far organised the crime authorities have recently confirmed, wife. The Judge recalled that Mme.ed to overtake the output. Other dustry. The report of the "Com-on the advice of the Attorney- that she wrote down her instructhis view. Feasible explanations of mission shows that ship's articles General, and the are often incorrectly kept, and the

China Coast tions for Jaume on a piece of recent trouble in the industry are names of men appearing on those Officers' Guild is not in a position paper, adding verbally: "Kill him somewhat difficult to find, but the

like you killed the chicken." It

true position appears to be that articles give little indication of the to take action against men who are was, however, found that Mme. increasing rationalisation is keeping identity of the men actually on not members of its organisation Negrel was to a certain extent mea- production ahead of consumption, Sanitary Board, the Chairman (Mr. At yesterday's meeting of the board. There appears to be no legal machinery by which pressure or owners who are not employing

tally irresponsible.

even although demand is steadily N. L. Smith) said that it was still growing All reports agree that impossible to go ahead with a dis- consumption is distinctly encourag cussion of the plans for Kowloon ing. This is particularly the case Tong Market. The plan submitted with regard to America, and a re by the P.W.D. to Mr. Carie, his predecessor in the chair, had secro-

can be brought to bear upon ship its members. But surely it should Death of Mr. Fulford. ping companies and masters who be possible to make some simple

not BO.

Swatow will be sent to take a share

Part of troops who have 'taken- in the offensive against Kwangsi.

KOWLOON TONG MARKET.

PLAN FOR PERMANENT

STRUCTURE, J

ed to be of too temporary a nature

satisfy the Board,

HEALTH OF THE COLONY.

are wilfully lax in such important amendment to the regulations under Mr. H. E. Fulford, C.M.G, matters. A ship's articles are sup- which permits to engage in the whose tragic death at Melbourne is cent lasue of the bulletin of posed to be an accurate and in passenger trade are at present announced, retired from the British the Anglo-Oriental Mining Corpora fallible record of the identity and issued? If, as it appears, the fact Consular Service in China in 1917, tion, contained interesting informa rating of every member of the is clearly established that certain his last post, being that of Consultion on this point. It was stated ship's company, but in the China Chinese shipowners are engaged in General in Tientsin. Mr. Fulford that consumption in America so far

The second plan for a more per river trade this is frequently not irregular practices, this constitutes joined the Consular Service in 1880 this year is considerably in excess of half an hour before the meeting. manent structure had only arrived the case. The articles are supposed unfair competition with those who at the age of 21. He travelled ex- estimates During the first three It would be circulated to the mez to set forth the terms of emplar are not resorting to such illegalities. tensively in Manchurid with Messra. months deliveries have been at the bers of the Board for approval and presentative of the owners) and protection against dishonest rivals, 1890-2 he was Acting. Consul at 25 an estimate of 7887 tone had been be held at the next meeting. ment offered by the master (as re- Law-abiding persons have a right to James and Younghusband. From rate of 7,907 tone per month, where discussion on the subject could accepted by those signing on, but and by refusal to grant trading per- Chungking. Between 1893 and 1804, regarded as optimistic. The bul-" in the river trade this is frequently mits unless satisfied that licencees and from 1899 to 1000 he was Acting letin stated that there is no reason Mastere are sometimes will conform to accepted standards Chinese Secretary. He was promot for supposing that "hidden stocks" engaged by Chinese "owners on the Government could put an effect Consul-General at Mukden" in are being accumulated. In fact, it agreements terminable by twenty- tive check upon the practices it 1900, and between theo and his re-adds

that consumere nowadays four hours' notice, and the Com- deplores. Beatricting the appoint- tirement acted in that rank at carry lighter stocks than formerly. raission is of opinion that such a ment of masters to members of the Mukden, Tientsin and Hankow. The growth in consumption is stated system does not "always" attract China Coset Officers Guild would Mr. Furford, na Australian, to have come principally from the In good type of officer. Moreover, be a very simple way out of the whom be married in 1897, died in automobile and tipplate industries.

fear of practically instant dis difficulty, for that body could then 1928. They bad one daughter, who, The total output of automobile were reduced to five new cases and missal frequently restricts any guard the honour of the profession we believe survives. Mr. Fulford "unite" in the six months October, four deaths Three more cases. action which a master may consider as closely as the prestige of doctors was educated at the Melbourne 1028 March, 1920 was 2,442,840, were, however, reported on Mon- $12

necessary" when the interests of a and solicitors is guarded by their Grammar School, and took up his against 1,512,308 in the same period day ship are opposed to those of the organisations What is practicable residence at South Yarra, Mel 1927-28. The increase is 6%. Tin- There were three cases of diph- owners." Pilate are carried en in Singapore can be murely made to bourne, after his retirement. He plate is now consuming tin at the therin (two fatal) and three. of these-rivez steamers, but are not apply to conditions here in Hong war Consul-General at Tientsin dur-rate of 3,500 tons per year more enteric Three more enteric cases licenced, nor have they the necessary Kong, and another Commissioning the greater part of the Great than a year ago. The conclusion (two Indien and one Chinese) qualifications to justify their reshanud be annointed to so into the War. and Mrs, Fulford, it may he arrived at is that during the port, vera, also notified on Mender cognition as oficers, although this question of detail, and make re-recalled, took a very active part m few months we may expect sub- Threo deaths from ibiuenza and is a position they have been often commendations to the Government organizing local War Charites, in- stantially increased buying from one from meningitis also appear in known to assume,

accordingly.

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