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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1930.

· (CANTON BRANCH --SZE WAI & 00, Lor Tv SUM HOLD, CANTON,

'PHONE NO. 13850.).

FOUR MILLIONS UNCLAIMED.

FORGOTTEN FORTUNES.

Forgotten fortunes totalling near-i

RECLAIMING VAST SEA AREAS.

FRENCH AND GERMAN PLANS.

[UNITED PRESS.]

the oficiale that bands of ly £1,000,000 lie in the hands of 400-MILE DYKE IN NORTH SEA, chequer, which every sear beusfits to the extent of more than a quar- ter of a million pounds by the

European countries, ever, feneful failure of an army of stockholders to claim the interest on Government of the looming menace of over- population, are organizing gigastic This extraordinary fact is dis-projects for the reclaiming of the closed in official figures, which, how ever, do not giver the full total of these unclaimed dividends.

stock.

The amount of the unclaimed dividends is certainly large," said City authority. The Bank of England authorities alone can say just how Large it is.

They are not likely to make the figure public for the obvious reason that to do so would bring an avalanche of spurious, or at any rate frivolous, claims from all parts of the country."

The present practice of the Bank where anclaimed stock is concerned is to wait until a claimant.appears. and then to advertise for other elaimants to the same stock.

The late Sir Edward Hamilton stated that of a total of 68,000 let ters sent by the Bank of England notifying conversion of stock, 12.700 were returned through the Dead Letter Offre, and only 1,200 of those letters could be reposted to new addresses.

Unclaimed Funds amounting to nearly £8,000,000 were veredited to 10,000 recounts, forty of which re- presented holdings of more than £10,000 each.

One holding in Consols and Reduced Threes amounted to £157,893-yet no claim was ever made

Why is it that so many people who own valuable property forget it completely One reason is that many of these stockholders go abroad and are never heard of again.

great submerged plateaus off the Atlantic coast, with a view to dumping their increasing broods of Fast areas of inhaditants into potentially fertile farm and garden

CHINESE MAGICIAN.

MYSTIFIES AUDIENCE AT THEATRE ROYAL.

WAN WAN SAN AND HIS TALENTED TROUPE,

Those who went to the City Hall last night to see Professor Wan Waa San and his Wonder Workers of oriental magie could not but have been impressed by the art and subtlety displayed by the Professor and bis troupe. Some of the acts were both novel and mystifying and won the well-deserved applause of the audience.

Among the best acts of the lands.

night's programme were some items Persuaded by the successful reby the Professor himself. The ag sults of the indomitable Dutch that parent ease with which he catches huge tracts of land may be recon- doves from empty space with a but quered from the sea, France plans terdy net appears to be more than f acres of marshland at the mouths himself admits in the course of one to dry up and cultivate thousands an illusion, though the Professor of the Loire and the Gironde.of his acts that the hand is faster Great submerged plains adjoining than the eye."

The troupe consists of some very the Brittany coast are also con- sidered in the enormous enterprise fine Chinese nerobats.

The upside

to be undertaken. It is thought down Juggler provided some very that the task will be comparatively amazing fents before the interval easy in the regions of the three but if anything the second half of islands of Oleron, Re and Neirmou- the programme was even better than "The iron boy appears tiers, where tens of thousands of the first. acres may be reclaimed by a simple to be absolutely insensible to pain and the spear dodging net is an- system of dykes uniting the ex tremities of the three islands with other worth going a long way to the mainland. The territory jace. The mezic is mainly oriental

The company will repeat their volved is declared by engineers to be as rich as that of the reclaimed Programme tonight. portion of the Netherlands.

U.S. DIPLOMAT'S DEATH. ALLEGATIONS OF POISONING

A committee of investigation was sent to Holland last year by the French State railway, and its meni hers were greatly impressed with the work accomplished by the in- dustrious Dutch, in drying up the

[UNITED PLESS.] Zuyder Zee. They returned of the opinion that fow, if any technical

Washington, April 2-It Wa3 obstacles barred the way of French learned to-day that the Depart engineers in the plan to duplicatement of Justice has commenced an in France the specess of the Dutch.

The German Scheme. Germany, characteristically, bas formed a similar notion, titanic in Then there are those people who conception and exhaustive in de through illness or old age, forget tail. The Germans have organized that they possess Government stock, what they are certain is a feasible and there are hundreds of people plan for draining and placing under who, when they die, omit to lease

cultivation over fifty million acres any reference in their wills to that prevent covered by the North possession of the scrip.

A surprising claim came before Sea. This region lies between Den the courts some years ago in which mark and the English cast in the it was disclosed that an English-cinity of Norfolk. It is planned to construct dyke over 100 miles woman died in Marseilles at the age long, and 73 feet, high, designed to of ninety-eight who, although en-

exclude the sea from this entire titled to £56,000 In the Funds, and

area.

investigation into the death of Mr. Basil Miles, diplomat and econo-, mist, in a hospital here in 1928.

The inquiry is based on reports that after a hernia operation, Mr. Miles was poisoned

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to more than £20,000 accumulated Whether Denmark and England CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.

dividends, was constantly borrow-would agree to this wholesale an ing money from her relatives.

It was quite evident that the nexation of territory by Germany large deposits had escaped her

memory.

Since the Finance Act of 1921 the Commissioners receive all dividends unclaimed for five years, although the stocks still stand in the helders flames, and continue to do so until ten years have passed.

Moverover, since that year all re demption money for War Loan es not claimed within one year of the date of redemption have been transferred to the Commissioners.

JULIAN OIL CO. SCANDAL.

FURTHER CHARGES AGAINST EXPRESIDENT.

[UNITED PLESS.] -.

Los Angeles, April 2-By a Court decision rendered to-day, Sheridan C.-Lewis, former presid ent of the Julian Oil Co., · must

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The former remains to be seen. country might well lay claim to regions. lying near her présent coastline, and the latter's well. known jealousy in preserving her TERMHOUSE insular position might be called into the PEAK, Modern Sanitation Apply to KWONG SANG HONG GLASS FACTORY

(929 play in this process of evaporating SECRETARY, PO Box 22. the Channel barrier. If neither Gér- country objected, however. many would see her arable land aren nearly doubled in size by the successful completion of this pro- ject.

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well known football coach of Notre Mrs. Knute Rockine, wife of the POSITIONS VACANT. Dame University, expressed anLZO- ment to-day when informed that

stand trial on additional charges Dr. C. J. Barborks of the Maya. before going to prison on the re- Brothers' clinic at Rochester, Min- latively minor conviction in cod-nesota, was en route here to treat nection with which he recently sur- her husband, rendered.

This is a new development in the already highly involved affairs of the $100,000,000 oil concern the collapse of which, in 1927, affected thousands of investors on the West Coast.

When Mr. Buron Fitts, district attorney, reopened the Julian Oil Co. case recently and brought about the indictment of a group of new defendants with a threat of further investigation reaching as far as Shanghai, Lewis hastily surrender- ed on an earlier conviction against which he had appealed.

His surrender, and expressed intention to go to prison as soon as possible, was avowedly with the purpose of preventing a forced appearance before the grand jury. The prosecuting officer admitted that this move tended to break the investigation.

that

To-day's decision meant Lewis would encounter new diffi- culties and a possibility was seen that, in order to prevent himself from receiving additional fines and prison sentences, Lewis might re- verse his decision not to turn State's evidence and the district attorney's investigation might re ceive unexpected assistance, ⠀ .

The Daily Mail, received a dis patch from Calcutta to the effect that a bride of three years and a groom of seven had been married at Chinsura, to escape the impend. ing operation of the anti-child mar riage act. The mother carried her baby girl to the ceremony. The dis patch said the rush to evade the act continued unabated, most of the couples being aged between aine and twelve.

"Mr. Rockne is feeling fine," she exclaimed. "He has a little as- thma but his condition is excellent.

don't know what this is all about."

Meanwhile telegrams from Chi cago said that Dr. Barborka, hav- ing arrived there by neroplane, had boarded a train for Florida. His last word to the reporters was to reiterate that he had received long-distance telephone call from Mr. Hockne, asking for his attend. ture of the ailment. ance but saying nothing of the na

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