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INTIMATIONS.

INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGA. TION COMPANY, LIMITED,

"THE FORTY, NINTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, MIRI JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD, PEDURE STAKET, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 18TH JUNE, 1930, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Director and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11TH JUNE to 20 JULY, 1930, Both Days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

JARDINE, MATHESON

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General Manageft

Hong Kong, 28th May, 1930. (9481

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

NOTICE.

THE HALF YEARLY GENERAL

TESTING OF VORNETAL bees will be held at the CLUs House, HAPPY VALLET on WEDNESDAY, 4TH JUNE, 1930 at 5.3 P.M.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary,

Hong Kong, 19th May, 1930. [9438

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held (Weather Parmitting) at HAPPY VALLEY an SATURDAY, 77H JUNE, and on MONDAY, 9th JUNE, 1930, Commen.

eing at 27.M.

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MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE

Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.

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No one without & Badge will be admitted to the Mambera' Enclosure, Badges admitting Non-membere the Members Enclosure And Clab Rooms at $5.00 per day for Gentlemen and $2.00 per day for Ladies, are btainable through the SICRETARY upon introduction by Member, anch Mem- For to responsible for payment of all Chits, &s.

Badges mitting Members' Enclosure will not be on sale at the Race Course.

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IT NEVER VARIES!

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Members can obtain, upon applicatica A. S. WATSON

to the SECRETARY. Badges (limited to Two for the Free Admission to the Member's En-losura of Wives, Lady relatives and Friends. Names must be stated when applying.

On no protest will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during The Meeting.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure $1.00 per day for all Par BODs including Ladies, and is payable at

the GATC.

Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform are admitted Half Price.

Bookmakers, Tie Tac Men, etc.. in the Precincts of the HONG KONG will not be permitted to operate with- JOCKET CLEA during the Race Meeting, Fy Order,

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THE HISTORY and RECORDS--

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1930.

WEATHER REPORT.

Depressions lie over N. China

and Indo-China.

Local Forecast:-Southerly winds; moderate; fine to showery,

* News and Views ★

Recently several hundreds of students at the University of Penn- sylvania in West Philadelphia. Assembled on their campus for the annual Ivy Week ceremouïes, which included this year the burning ip A police effigy of two professors.

The capital ship to-day is probably the only ship which can stand up Festerday's weather report, fore-with any reasonable hope of success cast and remarks, issued by the to aerial and submarine attack. Royal Observatory at 3.35 pm, The problem would be inuch simplër stated:-

On May 24 Walter Hagen and to solve if there should be a real Joe Kirkwood thrilled a good sized of about 1,000 acres, half in Canada man, alarmed by the size of tho

An International Peace Garden growth of confidence in inter- gallery on the Ibaraki links near and half in the United States, is crowd, attempted to disperse it by national agreements and the deveKobe, Japan. They played 18 holes the goal of the National Associa- riding through it on his motor- lopments of the International Court match conditions, Kirkwood heat- tion of Gardeners. Could anything cycle. When he had been reseved by other policemen more than 200 for the settlement of disputes. Thein Hager by.one up, 11 holes being be more inspiring than the picture students were arrested on a charge

halved. They were all square at this project unfolda? the 13th hole, but Kirkwood took p the 14th and 15th, Hagen reduc ing this lead at the 17th, where Kirkwood was one over par. The Australian got into trouble at the Sth hole, picking his ball up. This is the short hole with water hazard, and Hagen also foundered here, taking six strokes against a par three. The stroke return follows:

DIRTH.. FLYSY.-On May 25, at Chefon, to Mr. and Mrs. G. FLYxy, of the C. M. Customs, a daughter.

Editorial and Business Offices: 11, Jee House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office)

Tel. 24511. London Office: 53, Fleet Strect,

E.C. 4.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, JUNE 4, 1930.

DEFENCELESS BRITAIN.

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latter would mean the abolition of war, from which the abolition of battleships would naturally follow. Mr. ALEXANDER, in declaring that the section of the Treaty which limited the number of large cruisers "most important," admitted that the arrangement made with the United States was likely to be severely criticized in England, but thought the advantage of having brought to an end undoubted com- petition in this class of cruisers was a real "compensation for Great Britain."

in

"TWO YEARS AGO.

Par

4 4 5 5 3 4 4 3 4 Hagen 3 5 5 4 3 4 4 6 4 Kirkwood..... 3 3 5 5 3 4 4 -4

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of rioting. A friendly magistrate discharged them from custody al A task which is not expected to most as fast as they 'were brought. be finished for 200 years has been into the police station, until áfr. started behind canvas screen | Lemuel Schofield, Director of the covering a small recess in Westmins- Department of Public Safety, inter- ter Cathedral, London. Skilled Į vened, instructing the police to dis workmen are engaged in this recess regard the magistrate's orders, The walls of the cathedral. The mosaic his own constable to arrest My putting mosaic work on the bare magistrate retaliated by ordering

will illustrate, on a background of Schofield for "obstructing justice," gold, incidents in the life of the and when the latter was arraigned Virgin, and will probably cost before him he remanded him on bail- £1,000,000 to complete. This great of $1,500 to appear for trial. Mr. task was "authorised some months Schofield, "however, had the last. ago by Cardinal Bourne, and an word, for at his direction the police annual allowance was made for the ejected everybody from the police work. The designs ze the work of station, including the magistrate. Mm. G. A. Pownall. Progress is at present slow, as the amount allocat- ed is comparatively small, and the work costs about £3 a square foot. It may be possible to finish the task in less than 200 years if more money is forthcoming. The work will be handed down from artist to artist as it progresses.

Two years ago to-day Peping was startled by the news that CHANG Tso LIN, ruler of Manchuria, to whom they had said good-bye the day before, had been blown to pieces Te Prime Minister had little dif-in his train as it entered Mukden, ficulty in replying to the Opposition where he had held despotic sway attack upon the London Naval for sixteen years. To-day, the Treaty. The fact that in London, spirit of CHANG TSO LIN still The announcement was made Washington and Tokyo critics of dominates the Three Eastern Procently by the American Publishers

Association that a total of Gold! the various Governments all com- vinees, and it may be said that, he $269,000,000 was spent by adver plained that their particular coun-is is vital as any living man in tisera in newspapers in the United try had the worst of the bargain control of Manchuria. His eldest States during the year 1999. This is the greatest record ever made. showed that the arrangement arriv-son, CRANG RUH LIANG, is the The automobile industries alone ed:at must be a remarkably equit. nominal head of Manchuria, and spent upwards of $61,000,000 a

Mr. BALDWIN's paint re-old CHANG's friends are still the cording to the statement. lating to legislative procedure in power behind the throne.!! regard to the Treaty was not a strong one, and. Mr. MACDONALD very easily replied to that complaint. Finally, Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL declared that Britain has been left in a helpless state of vulnerability such as has not been seen since the days of the genial Mr. Parys-this in spite of the fact that the Prime Minister had already declared that the Admiralty was perfectly entis- fied with the arrangement made, and was confident that the Depart ment could discharge ita duty to the country. With that definite nasurance behind him, it was only proper that Mr. MACDONALD should have received the support of a sub- stantial majority.

A shooting tragedy occurred in Summertown, Oxford, last month, when Mr. A. C. MacPherson, an accountant, was found in bed suffer. ing from terrible wounds caused by 2 revolver which was by his side, His landlady took him a cup of tea at 9.30. Half an hour later the heard a revolver-shot. Mr. Mac- Pherson, who served in the war, was in Japan at the time of the earthed for the introduction of a wire- quake in 1927. He was with the firm less telephone service between Wel of Pearson, Mackie & Co.. Kobe and lington and Sydney, states Sir both ports will hear of his sad end Prime Minister. It is hoped that Yokohama, and many friends in Joseph Ward, the New Zealand

with deep regret.

those wishing to communicate with London will be able to get switched through from Sydney.

Since referencz was naturally, 186 to 1999 of the DIOCESAN

made to the attitude of the BOYS' SCHOOL and Orphanage. With

this question, it Compiled by the Rev. W. T. FEATHER Thirty Illustration and Photographe, Admiralty on

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A prehistoric hunting accident.

has been revealed by the discovery at Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary, “of“ bones believed to belong to a now extinct species of wild animal. A woman's arm bone, ezcircled by a primitive bracelet, was among the relics, and it is suggested by the director of the local museum that. the woman lost her life in the wilde. She was probably devoured by a. wild beast.

The wife of Canada's youngest bishop, who has charge of the Mac kenzie River Anglican diocese, which extends inside the Arctic Circle, ra- ports that Eskimo giris have suc cumbed to city fashions and are showing distinct preference for Paris and New York creations. Silks and satins may not take the

bovers at or below zero, but never- place of fur when the thermometer theless they warm the heart of the Arctic maiden who is now getting more than occasional glimpses of modern styles in feminine dress from various popular magazines.

It was recently revealed that the.

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which Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, the

All the 30 water-colour sketches. lawn tennis champion, has been ex- bibiting at the Grand Central Galleries in New York, have been bought by collectors or patrons of For the purpose of investigating art for £20 each. This was the Erst the extent of the invention before exhibition of her art that she has allowing the inventor a free hand, held in America. Mrs. Helen Wills. the Italian Government has pro- Moody (formerly Miss Helen Wills) hibited what is intended to be the is shortly expected in England to final experiment at Positano by a defend her championship title at young Italian, Saverio Natella, Wimbledon. Painting, next to tra- who claims he is able to tap the nis, is her greatest interest. inexhaustible supply of electrical! Oxford, with its great collection power from the air. Natella de If it were not for the vivid of stories about Dr. Spooner, pro- clares that he has dzcovered electric' Hertzian memories which old CHANG left behably bents Cambridge in regard to waves existing in a certain strata

waves different from hind, his more progressive son might absentmindedness; but Mr. Blak-of air at a certain altitude. Ac have made grent changes in the ene tells one or two tales of Camcording to Natella, in these belts bridge pundits which deserve to Three Eastern Provinces. As it is, be remembered. "One celebrated positive and negative waves are generated by the rotation of the ho has not dared antagonize his mathematician," he says, was re-

stars. He claims that he has con father's conservative friends, and puted to be so immersed in his structed antennae which are able to subject that be called on his own Manchuria remains much the same wife, to the surprise of the maid intercept these waves, enabling the as if CHANG. Tse Lix were still servant; and there is a legend that generation of power at any moment one afternoon Mrs. happening claims that the wave belts cover

for any length of time. living. There was real concern

to go to her room, and finding her! when the news came of CHANG TSO husband's trousers lying on the bed, other planets as well as the carth. LIN's assassination that anarchy rang the bell with no small anxiety

A scheine. for assisting the British to find out from the servant, whether would follow in Manchuria. But

her master had been seen to go shipbuilding and shipping indus the Japanese acted firmly to prevent out. She feared the worst. Antries by buying up and scrapping disorders, and the associates of the other don went into chapel one day all vessels of twenty years and older Five Power Naval Treaty was not with his clothes-bag on his hack: has been proposed by a Sunderland printed on vellum, nor, owing to old War Lord proved able men. he had mistaken it for his hood." firm and is being taken up with the the haste with which it had to be Board of Trade by Dr. Marion prepared, was the very best quality After the first hysterical period,

Phillips, one of the members of Par-paper used. Mr. Stephen Gazelçe, CHANG HSEUD LIANG was made un

liament for Sunderland. A pool Keeper of Papers at the Foreiga. crowned king of the district, and

would be formed and owners would Office, said, "The paper used was. the Manchurian Government resum-

undertake-not to sell to foreign not our best. We should have liked onyers, whilst Lloyd's would in- to have had the treaty on a very ed ita even tenor. There were two

quinquennial crease premiums on aged vessels and fine gilt-edged paper. This, how- distincs groups in the organization sessions of the International Counso reduce the handicap of British ever, was impossible because of the is worth while quoting the views progressive and the other rigidly dynasty, between May 25 and June emament might also assist employ-used instead a good hand-made cil of Women at the Vienna Hof-owners of modern vessela in com greater length of time needed to built up by CHANG TSO LIN, one burg, former seat of the Hapsburg petition with foreigners. The Gov-print on this quality of paper. of Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER, First conservative. The progressives were. The principal aim of the con- ment by making a grant or loan cream-laid parer supplied to the Lord of the Admiralty, win re-headed by YANG YU TING, Chief gress is to take up the task of to buy up and scrap old tonnage special specifications of the Station

catablishing lasting peace among immediately. There are over a milery Office. "Vellum is seldom used cently expressed the opinion that of Staff, and the conservatives by nations." The congress will be pre-i lion tons of shipping more than for documents of this kind now that although the results of the London CHANG Tao HSIANG, Governor of sided over by the Marchioness of twenty-five years old and over two all treaties are printed. Printing, Aberdeen and Temsir, President of millions more than twenty years on vellum is inclined to leave a the general evolution of disarma Kirin Province. Before he came to the International Council.

i old.

smeared effect." ment," they were "by far the Eower, CHANG HSEUR LIANG had greatest step ever taken in that favoured the progressives, but his direction." The First Lord spoke servative. Soon he came to dis- father's death made him more con- in an exclusive interview granted to the United Press, during which trust the rising power of Yang Yu he reviewed and analyzed there was called to the palace in Mukden TING, and one day that young man sults of the Conference. Three

to play mab-johngg-and a shower points in particular

of bullets ended his life. phasised. First, whereas the Wash-

The secret of who killed CHANG ington Treaty resulted in a race for large cruisers to affect the loss solved after two years, but it is Tso LIN has not yet been definitely

of power due to the scrapping of battleships, the London Conference now generally agreed that a group -by limiting all combatant cate nivance of Japanese Army officers of Japanese, probably with the con- gories of ships for the three greatest in Mukden, planned and executed the affair The, assassination be the limitation figures actually tical issue in Japan, and assisted in came an important domestic poli-

agreed to in London are very much

the overthrow of the Seiyukai According to Mr. Botelho, of 18, lower than those which Britain un Government. CHANG TO LIN, who Mosque Street, someone stole from successfully proposed at Geneva in

him between 12 pm on Monday rose from bandit leader to and 8

A coolis formerly employed in | wall"-Hong Kong Daily Press, 1927. Thirdly, even though com,

a.m. yesterday, one silk the Kowloon Godowns wanted to June 4, 1905... plete Franco-Italian, agreement was lived like

supreme power in Manchuria, had jacket valued et 83, a pair of white visit the place yesterday, but an-

a petty king. In his drill trousers at 82, a purse and other coolie who was in charge of Looking Back 50 Years. not reached at the London Confer-"

death he was treated as a Royal keys at 83 and 882 in money, some workmen there objected, with A most complete change is im-- ence, both Power's were able to come

bringing the total value up to $70, the result that a Eght followed. pending, we learn, in the whole ruler, and his son succeeded him to London to discuss the possibility -

The trespasser received a nasty-stab scheme of education in this Colony. as if by Royal right. More than Pte. Snowden, of the Somerset on the neck which necessitated his It will he remembered that Sir John of an agreement, which is more

Light Infantry, was bitten by a removal to hospital, while the as Pope Hennessy, in his speech at the then was accomplished at Geneva in making his tomb, and a like amount Cave of the same regiment at

a million dollars was spent up brown terrier dog belonging to Lt. sailant was taken into custody, Central School on the annual prize

day, referred to the subject of Eng- 1027, when not even the participa for his funeral, Contrary to pub Stonecutters Island yesterday and Joan Bennett is the most recent fish teaching, and mentioned that he tion of France or Italy was securi lished reports, however, his comb is was taken to Whitfield Barracks for contribution

"Bennett had applied to the Secretary of not equal in splendour to that erect treatment. The animal was remov- family has made to the world of State for permission to build five ed to Matankok for observation. neting. Her father, Richard Ben new schools for English teaching The fact that the London Con- ed for. Sux YAT SEN in Nanking.

nett, is one of the most distinguish solely, and that Sir Michael Hicks- ference extended the battleship It is unlikely that CHAND TRO LIN, Of great interest to those who ed stars of the American stage, and Beach and sanctioned the expendi- holiday commenced at Washington if he had lived, would have given frigerator is the announcement of bare, both have played on stage This amount, it is satisfactory to are contemplating installing a ro hor sisters, Constance and Bar-ture of $10,000 for this purpose. is most important. The holiday even nominal allegiance to the Messrs Reiss Massey & Co. to the and screen. Joan's latest role is i learn, is to be taken from the will give time for reflection during

aring Government at Nɛnking. Tie nadir are och idea

a small number of "Kelvinator "' man in “Puttin' on the Kits," the bowever, will scarcely suffice for the five years on one of the greatest a hearty dislike of Southerners," models which were bought before lig musical production now show-construction of the buildings unlesa naval problems of the day, namely, ciples. It appears moze probable for which reason, no revision of

and scorned Kuomintang prin- the slump in local currency, and ing at the Queen's Theatre. Miss they are of a very cheap description Bennett made her bow as an actress indeed, but probably there will be as to how the Powers who depend that if the old man had not been price has been necessary and no in the New York stage production, little difficulty in getting the ap | chiefly on a navy for defence are killed, Manchuria would have be-lineresse made. It is advisable. "Jarnegan," in which her fatherpropriation of a larger amount

to deal with the problem of the come an independent area, with its however, to make enquiries without starred Bulldog. Drummond,

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* Local Notes and Events ★

Tsui Wai Teing, a. Chinese female, of 2, Woodland Terrace, was removed to the Government Civil Hospital in an unconscious condition suffering from the effects of an overdose of opium.

Lee Han Fan, aged 29, and a

aromaved to the Kwong Wah native of Chui Chow, employed as a tallyman on the ss Kronviken, Heapital suffering from a broken nose as the result of a fall from the deck of the steamer into the No. 2 | hold, a height of some 30 feet. ..

*

The manager of the Man Cheung Looking Back 25 Years hardware store,

102, Des Voeux

Writing about earthquakes the. after 8 o'clock last night, some per Mr. James Bulgin, formerly of the Road Central, reports that shortly Editor of the Doncaster Gazette, son broke open one of the show-China Mail, says: I once ex- cases in the store and stole two perienced a very severe earthquake Knives valued at $10 each.

in Hong Kong. On that occasion The manager of Messrs. Cherry built of granite, was so great that, the swaying of the house, solidly

Sunday and 1.20 p.m. on Monday, on to the bedstead to keep myself & Co., Mr. T. Sahurai, reports that sometime between 4.50 p.m. on

on jumping off the mattress on which I was sleeping, I had to hold some person entered his shop by from falling. Pictures suspended breaking the lock of the front door on the walls of the room were not and stole clothing to the value of only swinging sideways, but two or 800. Attempts to break open two three long, separate sections of a sales in the premises, proved an-Japanese screen, suspended on nails successful.

at the top corners, actually tore- out some of the nails from the

that

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sanctioned, for the Special Fund. could hardly be applied to a more. useful purpose-Hong Kong Daily Press, June 4, 1880.