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PUBLIC AUCTION.

PART Sale by Public Auction

►ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

to be held on MONDAY, the SSTI DAY of OCTOBER, 1929, at 3 F.x. at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Fis EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of OROWN LAND at Wong Nu Chung in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the optien of renewal at a Crown Rent to "be Axed by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY TER Kire, for ons farther term of 75 yodra.......

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Bale,

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1929.

B.

WEATHER REPORT.

Testerday's weather report, fore. cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 4.30 p.m., stated:-

!

under the present system as CBING The Colony had a clean bil of Trespassing for Alpinista.

KAI SIEK, and it becomes a ques- tion of either falling back into the confusion of the pre-Kuomintang

The anticyclone remains certain

ers or of some War Lord taking over S. Manchuria. The typhoon upon himself the divinity that is situated more than 300 miles doth hedge a King," and above east of N. Luzen, moving slowly all kings the Chinese "Son of

northward. Fresh monsoon will continue along the south-east coast of China and over the N, Chian Sea.

Local Forecast -N.E." winds, fresh, fair,

A Manila message received at 7 o'clock last night reports a typhoon

19 deg. Lat. N., moving N..

Heaven.

"

health on Tuesday,

"

The appointment of staff officer for operations at Hong Kong has been added to the list of those car- rying the privilege of free or assisted passages for the wives and families of the holders This privilege is granted only to naval or marine officers appointed for ly to succeed. But in YUAN SHIOrvice definitely on shore, and not Kar's time Republicaniam was a for Fleet duties. new thing. Revolutionaries were

It may be said that where FUA SHI Kat failed no one else is like

{

The cruiser Carysfort has been re-

sense of

The Italians have a humour. An English climber about to visit the Alps wired the Duce to ask whether he was likely to enjoy

unfettered freedom to cross and recross the Swiss "frontier."" Ho

received a courteous reply to the effect that he was "freely allowed to make excursions over the borders provided he kept within the re- strictions contained in the regula tions in force." Now, here lies the humour. For the restrictions re-

in about 127 deg. Long, E., and then proclaiming their power to duced to a care and maintenance ferred to are presumably those

BIRTH,

AMERICAN VISITORS

TO-DAY.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO WELCOME, BUSINESS MISSION.

Chartered by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce specially for a "round the Pacific cruise" for

representative businessmen from al! the cities on the Pacific coast and from various industrial and coma-

create a new China, but now" they status at Devonport Dockyard to which permit the crossing of the mercial centres of the United The Carysfort frontiers only at certain selected States, the steamship Malolo, of the Mateen, Line, is dye in Hong

have had their chance and have failed to achieve that unity which

undergo repairs.

GIBSON.-On October 21, to Rev. they declared would be established. / Chine port of the relief crews for points; and those points are chiefly Kong to-day. The vessel will come

and Mrs. T. CAMPBELL GIBSON, English Presbyterian Mission, Switow, twin sons. (8344

The people want peace, and there fore may submit to, some heavy handed son of the soil like FESO YU BIANG or to a proved adminis trator on the provincial scale like

had been chosen to take out to the Eighth Flotilla, but owing to the development of defects the Cam- brian bad to take her place.

An alarming increase of suicides

road passes of comparatively low

altitude. So that what the Italian

alongside the Kowloon Wharf at

noon and, after the usual medicat permission really amounts to is that the, climber can cross the frontier inspection has been completed, st 18.30 p.m. those wishing to meet quite freely if he confines his moun friends amongst the visitors will

Editorial and Business Offices: 11: YEN HS SEAX, just as Europe in Berlin is recorded in the per- taineering to places which he could be free to go on board. A. delega-

12.

Ice House Street. Tel. Central Night, Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. Central 4811. London Office: 21, Bride Labe,

Fleet Street, E.C. 4.

The Daily

Hoxo Koxo, OCTOBER 24, 1929.

When the

at Chinemutu.

י

Inclosed in a letter locked in the

reach in a pony-trap. The Alpiation from the Hong Kong Generat Club should be very grateful for Chamber of Commerce will welcome this indulgence, but probably its

the party. members will continue perversely to ascend the Matterhorn and the Mente Rosa and carelessly to put down an ocenional foot on Italian

The visitors' primary object 13 not to advertise California but fo

gain insight into the industrial, economic, and other phases of the life and resources of the countries

J

once submitted to Hounsone, tinent statistics for the first semes Tupons, and Harsatzes. The poster of the current year, with eight ibility is a real one in these days | hundred, of whom two-thirds are of famine, economic chaos, nad men and the remainder women. dissatisfaction with the Ruomia- Apparently the most unattractive tang. On the other hand, the month for those tired of life is May. alternative of evolving a civilian when six suicides were reported government On

Republican lines daily. cannot be ignored in face of the big psychological background of Chinese contempt for warriors and PASS ruled by tam dewanee German cruiser Em- soil (or) show or rock as the case

The Kuomintang "unified the which barried Pacific shipping ear-side of the watershed. There is one to be visited. The travellers, who country on, its promise to suppressly in the world war-visited New consolation. The summit ridge of

number over 300, have already. the War Lords. It succeeded by Zealand recently, the Arawa tribe the Monte Ross is probably not creating War Lords of its own, but of Maoris formally sealed peace very regularly patrolled, and the spent twelve days in Japan and the rise of the Young China Party with the Germans. The ceremony only penalty likely to be suffered eight days in North China, and, and the Re-organisationists is a

was carried out at Chinemuta. Afor trespassing there is a nasty look the itinerary provides for two days WHAT OF "YOUNG CHINA"? protest against a renewal of the old banner depicting a Maori warrior through a telescope.

in Hong Kong, the Malolo boing conditions quite as significant as the defying Germany, was placed in a

casket.

due to leave at 6.p.m. on Saturday The container was fitted Calendar Reform. "PUBLIC opinion is in favour of overthrow of the Kwangai cliquo with two padlocks and the key of

and the discomfiting of Fexo.

Mr. O. N. Solbert, secretary of

for Manila Other countries to be one was given to Capt. Vin Ar- the American Committee on Calen-visited include French Indo-China, China's need at present is ad- GOLD & PRIZE peace and unification," declared

General TANG SHENG CHI on the eve ministrators whose interests begin nauld af the Einden who promised dar Reform, when in London re- Siam, Straits Settlements, Java,

to take it to President Von Hin-cently, said the action of the Inter- of setting out with the Fifth Army and end in their respective tasks.

denburg. The other key was re- national Chamber of Commerce at

Australia, New Zealand, Fiji Is Her politicians are unfortunately to deal with the rebellious elements the men who have fought, for the itself is to repose in their church tion in favor of a fixed Easter and ian Islanda.

tained by the Arawas. The casket Amsterdam in adopting a resolu-landa, Samoan Islands and Hawai-" in the North. Curiously, the revolution and are better as orators

improved calendar has again focus. The Journal of the San Francisco very same sentiments are expressed and pamphleteers than in the rou-

ed upon the attention of business Chamber of Commeros states that tine task of running local and cen- by the rebels in their referencestral departments of government, Án

men throughout the world the need Mr. O. C. Moore, past-president of the Central Government and its American education is not the best safe of the legal advisers of the human activities, and particularly inspired the cruise, is supported by of these two innovations. "All the San Francisco Chamber, who methada As for that very vague training for the work of presiding Salvation Array in London is the over the affairs of a rural area in late General Bramwell Booth's

those of business and industry, that Mr. R N., Lynch, vice-president and evasive thing known as "public China. It is here that FENO's official nomination of his successor.

have to be planned according to a and general manager of the opinion," a Chinese correspondent, strength lies. He is an adminis- The letter will be kept for a time fixed programme are seriously ham. Chamber, in our issue of Tuesday, described trator, Chinese to the backbone, and during certains legal adjustments,pered by the ever-varying number Businessmen Wish to Get Together, at some length the growth of a new in his own country. But there are. General Booth's nominee, whose gorian calendar adopted in most and shore excursions for the party understands exactly what is wanted and then will be destroyed, unopen of days preceding Easter," said

Mr. Solhert. "The present Gre. Arrangements Lor sight-seeing "Young China Party," which aims signs of a new race of civilian ad. identity has been the subject of European countries in 1582 was an at replacing the present Kuomin-ministrators, working a color oficials the world over, will never but now requires improvement to and although at the express wish of in Hong Kong have been made by speculation on the part of army onward step in the right direction, the American Express Company tang dictatorship with

be known. This was revealed by democratic and liberal regime. The ton, for example, the Government and salvation methods. The International Cham- have been arranged, the President stituted local authorities. In Can-General E. J. Eiggins, newly elect fill the needs of modern business the visitors no official functions complaint against the Kuomintang has shown an increasingly civilian Army, when he arrived in Quehee.ber of Commerce, its -

is that it has degenerated into a tone, but the evolution of both a yes, I also have a letter deposited new Civil Service and forms of mere coalition of War Lords, in- focal self-government must of neees with the lawyers, but it does not dependent of civilian control, who sity be a slow process. Unless there my successor; it merely states

the way

in which he shall be is a growth of the spirit of publië are pursuing their ambitions in

named." General Booth was sup- service, upon which such a system planted 'ns a Commander before he exactly the same manner as the must be founded, the alternatives died by General Higgins. Peiyang group of Generals. The are either a continuance of the pre- Kuomintang has, moreover, allow-sent chacs or the rule of a new dynasty, which might begin weil ed itself to be made a Russian and but would probably end in the Communist tool in the past, and manner of the Ming's, the Man still bears signs of that taiat. The chus, and all of China's many

Imperial Housee. Young Chine Party has ΚΟΥΠΑ affinity, therefore, with those Re organizationists within the Kuo- mintang, who are seeking to eject The Vessel is stranded on the Northboth CHIANG KAI SHEK and the Coast of the Island of Hawan, on a Huominchun "War Lords" of the Sandy Beach about One Mile East of North. It is eday to argue that

Chinese politics are moving in

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WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, PHONE C. 616.

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3 J.M., at the 04.com of Public Works Department, by Order of H ExoZLENCY THR GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Shamshuipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, com mencing from lat July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Best to be fixed by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY THL KING, for one farther term of 24 years loss three days,

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sata.

Registry No.

Locality.

c.

New Kowloon Island

Inland Lot No. 1934, Lot No. 1281. Opposite New Kowloon

Aplin Street, Sham-

*odinys“

Boundary

Measure-

ments.

fLft ft It

As per

salo plan

Annual

Rental.

About

Contents in

5,000

Square feet.

7,500

Upset Price.

NOTICE.

THE BANKS of the

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COLON'T

After THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24TH, They will be prepared to Receive and will Pay Out MEXICAN AND BRITISH DOLLARS on the Same Basis as the Notes of the Issning Banks.

[E638

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,

THE SEVENTH EXTRA BACE MEETING will be head (Weather Permitting) HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 26z¤ OCTOBEN, 1929, Commencing

2.

The First Boll will be Bung at 1.30 r.x. The Charge for Admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1.00 for all Persoza Inalading Ladies.

Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform Ralf

Price

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

Each Member, bar the right to is. troduce

2 Non-members to the Members' Enclosure, Tickets for, whom can be obtained from Moura. Lisread & DATIS, at 38.00 Each Up FRIDAY, 25TH QOTOKER, 1029.

to

The

the

to

FOR SALE.

IN ONE LOT,

THE STEAMER

**HUNG-ON," 3,274 tons Regt. loaded with a Cargo of Hongay Coal, as she now lies, with Anchors, Cables, Windlass and Winches. and all Stores.

LAMKO LIGHTHOUSE, at the Western End of HAINAN 8rmura, în about 28 Fect of Water,

LAM CHI FONG, 40, Bonham Strand West,

or to

D. A. PURVES, Prince's Building, Ice House Street. [8492

"PEAK MANSIONS."

ITUATED within Two Minutes Walk from the Tram Station and overlooking the Bouthern Side of the Island. Beady for Occupation,

Five-Roomed and Six-Roomed APARTMENTS

with all Modern Convenienone, Drying Rooms and Out-bonses, Two Lafta.

Also

PRIVATE GARAGES TO LET. Situate at the Rear, of PEAK MANSIONS} Separate Compartments including Light and Water. Apply to CREDIT FONCIER

D'EXTREME-ORIENT,

4TH FLOOR, FROM BANK BUILDING,

THE TIME FOR

BLANKETS

IS HERE, BUT WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD THEM. P

for Admission for Ladies Amber" Enclosure will be $2.00. Each Member can obtain, upon Ap- plication to the SECRETARY, Badges MEMBERS of the Committee at- tend at the Society's Room, for Admission of 9 Ladies Free of Charge. CRY HALL, EVERY MONDAY and Bookmakers, Tie Tac Mon. to THURSDAY, 10.30 to receive will not be permitted to operate with in the Precincts of the HONG KONG GIFTS of BLANKETS, Part-worn

Clothing, etc.

JOCKEY CLUB during Race Meeting.

NO CHILDREN ALLOWED IN - EITHER ENCLOSURE ON ANY PRETEXT.

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HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

(EST. 1889.) (848a

a more

cirele; that one of these days n "liberal minded" General will throw in his lot with the new ex-

penents of civilian rights and that others will tumble along, just as they did when the Fengtien War Lords collapsed before the Kuomin- tang. Having been converted to the new party the soldiers will again take charge, the hore ardent civilians will accede, and so the tragedy will go on ad infinitum.

with more or less self-con-

News and Views.

H.E. the Officer Administering the Government is tal ng a party to see the Warwick Revue Company to the Theatre Royal this evening ITA High Lights."

it

There will be a Tea Dance at the Helena May on Thursday, October 31 at 5 p.m. Tickets 50cts. each including ten. Tables must he booked in advance.

re of the San Francisco Chamber, in cent Congress passed a resolution a letter to the Hong Kong Cham- urging that the nations who have ber, states that businessmen will be not yet done so, should form their welcomed on board, and it is national committee to investigate hoped to arrange group meetings ou partially calendar reform in their questions of special interest or respective countries, and that the significance. League of Nations should convene For the purpose of sight-seeing, an International Conference to uc- the party has been divided into gotiate without further delay three groups, and the shore ar solution to the much desired im-rangements provide for drives provement. Similar action was round the island and New Ter- Six indictments are the State's taken by the 1.C.C. on three other ritorice, excursions to the Peak, and Attorney John A. Swanson's answer occasions, namely, at London in a visit to Canton. to the Chicago "bomb trust." Mr.1921, Rome in 1923, and Brussels in Swanson, himself the victim of a bomb attack just prior to his elce tion, ordered the arrest of six men

Bomb Trafic in Chicago,

1025.

who, he charges, are leaders in the Looking Back 25 Years,

trust," and whom he holds respon-

sible for many acts of violence Several months ago I mentioned recent months. An under-cover man against persons and property in in this column the existence of a for the State's Attorney won the lators to

scheme formed by European specu-

and is reputed to have purchased fan-fan shops, and open a casino confidence of members of the gang. monopoly of Macap, shut down the the gambling

secure

on Monte Carlo lines. It seems

POLAR WEATHER STATIONS.

200-YEAR-OLD "VISION COMING TRUE.

two hombs from them." It was

Lord Thomson, the Air Minister, largely on the strength of these that a sufficiently tempting offer informed a conference of Empire fawful possession and sale of ex- Colonial authorities to look far- purchases that the charges of un- has been made to the Portuguese weather experts in London about Dr. Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, plosives against the six men were ourably on the subject, but as the who, a couple of centuries ago, sug- made. The penalty for persons con- syndicate is of foreign nationality gested that observation stations victed is imprisonment from five to the matter has to be referred to would be necessary in the north 23 years,

Lisbon. A contemporary gives the and south polar regions, name of the leading spirit in the "That," said Lord Thomas, "is ̈ enterprise us Mr. John Barnes, anot being overlooked. distinctly English name, but I un- derstand that the enterprise French-unless two bids are being it is this French syndicate which made for the monopoly-and that

The Poincaro Touch,

ሰነ

Capt. M. R. J. Maxwell-Scott, D.S.O., who was in command of the until the end of last year, has been 8th Destroyer Flotilla in Canton

appointed Captain- Superintendent M Briand is too vid a hand at castle-on-Tyne. He succeeded Cas zudden defeat he has experienced. of Contract-Built Ships at New-polities to be at all dismayed by the

Ralph Elict on October 11.

"

has a capital of two million francs at its back-Hong Kong Daily Prats, Oct. 24, 1904. Looking Back 50 Years.

When Sir Hubert Wilkins was chance a descendant of that worthy over here I said: Are you by any bishop?" He said: 'Of course 1. I have studied his writings them treasured in the family' with the greatest care; we have

The incident, however, has a much Can China be governed by a

wider interest than that of mero political party? The readiest an-

According to the vernacular domestic politics. It indicates the wer, capecially of the European Press, General Li Trung Jen and persistence of what may be called

One of those writings was called observer, is a decided negative. Genera Wang Shiu Hung, two of the Poincare spirit in regard to

Mathematical Magic, in which Power, it may be fairly urged, is the Big Four of the Kwangsi Franco Germa relations, дв

the bishop prophesied a lot of held by the Generals and Generals Clique left the Colony for Mar- against the more conciliatory The other day, whilst passing things that are happening now. Arc appointed to the nominally illes by the sa, General Metzinger Driand attitude. It indicates the along Hollywood-road, I observed This remote descendant, Sir Hubert civilian headships of provincial on Tuesday, Accompanying them active strength of that spirit which a Celestial picking up a dead rat, Wilkins, was really inspired to governments. CHEN MING Sau in are Mr. Kan Kai Hou, the former deliberately sent negro troops into which had been thrown into the make his explorations, first in the Kwangtung, Ho Chiar is Hunan, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs occupied territory in Germany, street. Curiosity led me to ask the Arctic, and then in the Antarctie. and now Li MIND SHUI in Kwangsi

in Hankow.

which tried to dig coal from the reason of her doing this. The re- by, his desire to fulfil the wishes are cases in point. They take the

Ruhr mines with bayonets, and ply. was that Chinese women cat and realise the visions of the civilian offices and rule by virtue who has been placed on the retired Wiesbaden last month as soon as thick black hair.

Lieut.-Comdr. Edward Enright, which ordered French troops into rats to encourage the growth of Bishop of Cheater two centuries

Rata are also ago." of armies which ove loyalty to it, with the rank of commander, the British troops had evacuated prepared in a certain way of dry-" them personally and to no one

A Polar Year. was one of the original group of that territory. The same type of ing, and are used by women after else. Iu the North, under FENGfficers selected for promotion to mind that insisted upon a little a confinement, as they are supposed

Dr. G. C. Simpson, director of Yu HSIANG, CHAND SUCH LIANG, commissioned rank as mate on the village street being called "Rue de to be very nutritions. Rats thus the British Meteorological Office, and Yew Hat SHAN the same con introduction of this scheme in 1012. la Fleur" instead of "Blumen- prepared are called lap lo aku. So said it was proposed to hold ditions prevail to an ever greater Of the 44 officers promoted to mate strasse has put M. Briand out of Sha are need as a medicine for "Polar Year" in 1932. "Some na degree. Iu Yunnan and Szechuen during 1913 only two now remain office because he is not "strong" pot-belly. They are thrown into a tious," he said, "will send expedi perpetual strife goes on between a tho active list of whom Com- enough in dealing with perdalions pan over the fire and dried to a tions to the North and some, I petty warriors. What civilian has mander James Figgins, serving in Albion" and her representatives. cinder, then ground to powder, and hope, to the South. any chance under such a system? the depot salp Titania in China, isFor weeks past the French Press mixed with congee or gruel. Thus "We cannot allow the whole of The unfortunate thing is that

has been bitterly denouncing Mr. prepared they are administered to the exploration to be done by far. these War Lords have no idea of

Snowden's attitude ou reparations. children suffering from the above, abedience to a Central Government

eigners." and Mr. Macdonald's "firation" Cockroaches also, those most re with the United States with regard pulsive of creatures, find their way

a naval reductions. By forcing the resignation of M, Briand on the decoction is made of the bodies, first day of the resumed legislative divested of wings, head, &c., and session, the die-hards" in the this is given to children who are Lord Thomson, in the course of French Chamber have certainly in suffering from fever, fright, &c. his opeech, said: "I am convinced The fame of this valuable article that in the years to come airplanes phases of international affairs hang chung. We have long and airships, properly guided by which were developing in very been convinced that the Chinese are meteorological stations, will be interesting manner. Exactly how deficient of the sense of smelling able to save an immense amount of much harm they will have done de and are deaf to loud noises; now fuel and seek out favouring winds fends upon the composition of the we begin to think there must be a and follow routes hitherto undream. next French Cabinet, and the length slight defect elsewhere.-Honged of in flying around the surface of its life.

Kong Daily Press, Oct. 24. 1870. of the world.

one.

Lady Gollancz, who was taken to even when that Government is bospital grief-stricken after the presided over by a fellow soldier. recent tragic death of her son, CHIANG KAI SHER, the militarist Leonard, died at Torquay last head of the Government, has been month. Mr. Gollancz, a metal mer assailed in turn by the "Kwangai chart, who went to Torquay about clique," FENO YU ESIANG and now three months ago with his mother, an alliance of "Ironsides," radical fell from a window of his hotel, and posed sudden check upon many politicians and the remnants of his was fatally injured. Lady Gollancz old antagonista. "He has proved a

was overwhelmed by his death redoubtablo opponent, but the that she became seriously ill. Her latest coalition is extremely formid-hushand, Professor Sir Hermann able and his enemies are hydra Gollancz, the Hebrew scholar was headed. It is very doubtful whenlo prostrated by the shock, but ther anyone else would do as well," was reported to be recovering.

into the doctor's medicine room.

to induce the Canadian and Aus

Dr. Simpson added that he hoped

tralian Governments to send out expeditions: