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INTIMATIONS.

HONG KONG FOOTBALL --ASSOCIATION.

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ANNUAL GENEBAL MEETING of the above Associa- tion will be held in the OFFICES, Tu FLOOR, FRENCH BANK BUILDINGS, st 1,30 P.M., on MONDAY, JUNE 30, WE FOLLANDS,

Hon. Secretary,

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CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

TOTICE IS. BEREBY GIVEN

NOTIC TRAORDINARY

GENERAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the CHINA PRO). VIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held on WEDNESDAY, Tx 187H DAY or JULY, 1930, in the Company's Board Room, ALEXANDRA BUILDING, HONG KONG, at 12 O'CLOCK NOON, for the parposs of considering and, if thought fit, passing the following Resolations:-.. 1. That the Capital of the CHINA

PROVIDENT LOAN MOSTOÄGE" COMPANY, LAMIrzn, be increased from $3,000,000 to $4,500,000 by the creation of 300,000 Shares of $5.00 cach and that the 300,000 Shares of $5. each ball each rank for dividend and in all other respects pari pasu with the existing Sharos of the Company.

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Resolation being passed, 294,789 Shares shall be issued and offered in the first instance by the Directors at par to existing Shareholders oa the Register of the Company as at the 18th day of July, 1930, rateable the proporation of ONE Bhars for every TWO Shares held by such Shareholders, and in the event of any of not being taken up by the Share holders within the time stipulated by the Directors, the Board shall be empowered to allot them or dispose of them as they in their discretion deem expedient in the interest of the Company.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1930.

"THE GIRL FRIEND" STUDENT'S ESCAPE EASTERN NEWS IN

AT THE STAR.

A BRIGHT AND SNAPPY SHOW.

Mr. R. Salisbury made a happy choice when he started his season at the Star Theatre, Kow- loon, hast night by presenting "The Girl Friend."

With no plot to speak of as is

usual in this type of musical farce, the play is carried from scene. t. scene in ever increasing merriment, and last night there was a continu ous ripple of laughter throughout the house at the Star. The show is very brightly staged-pleaty of pretty girls, tuneful songs, and fine dancing.

FROM KIDNAPPERS.

BRIEF.

SHOOTING_AFFRAY IN SHANGHAI.

PARS FROM EVERYWHERE.

Construction work of the railway

VICTIM SHOOTS HIS GUARD, from Mukden to Jehol will be com- menced during August, according, to the Chinese Press The cost of Coolness and daring on the part the construction of this rail of Wang Thung Nyi, son of Gen-way is estimated at approximately eral Wang Zu Kung, former com- $15,000,000, $9,000,000 of which will mander of the 18th Hupch Division be contributed by the authorities under' Marshal Wu Pei Fu, were of Frentien Province. responsible for the wounding of a kidnapper on June 22 and the escape of the young mun from the clutches of what is believed to be

desperate gang.

Wang Zu Kung was, until his graduation a few days ago, a stud- Mr. J. Grant Anderson as Rich-ent of the Shanghai Law College ard Dennison is a host in himself, in Route Père Robert and he was and is responsible for most of the preparing to go home to spend the comedy, in which he is ably assist summer with his parents. Several ed by Mr. John Mills as a hotel days ago, it appears, he met an clerk.

amah who was formerly in the em

The other parts are all well sus-ploy of his family and naked her tained, and altogether. "The Girl Friend" is a bright and tuneful show, and is well worth seeing.

According to the Chinese Press, Marshal Wu Pei Fi, the former Peping warlord, has failed in hir attempts to lead his troops down the Yangtze because the provincial authorities have threatened to arrest him and send him to Nanking for punishment. Marshal Wu is said to be at Suiting at the present time.

In H. M. Supreme Court Shang- hai before Judge Sir Peter Grain last week Mrs. H. Young petition- to go to his home at 407 Shanhai.ed for divorce from her husband, kuan Road to do some washing, for Mr. S. Young, After domicile of him, little suspecting that she was respondent had been established a member of an armed kidnapping the case was adjourned to allow of the appearance of petitioner, who was unable to attend court. Mr. E. T. Maitland appears for peti- tioner

The Star is comparatively cool be held on MONDAY, the 30TH DAY these hot nights, and the manage-gang. of JUNE, 1930, at 3 P.M., at Offices of the Public Works Department, ment have thoughtfully provided by Order of His EXCELLEROY THE fans for the audience. There was GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CHOWN LAND at Shamshuipe, in the Colony a very good and appreciative house, of 75 and if the ather shows come up to of Hong Kong, for a seri years, commencing from 1st July, 1888, the standard of "The Girl Friend," with the option of renewal at Crown

Last Saturday night, the woman suggested that they should visit a circus at the corner of Carter and Avenue Roads. Little realizing his danger, Wang accompanied her

fot the mid 194789 Shares Beat to be fixed by the Surveyor of Hi Mr. Salishury ought to have a very and, after the show, the amah TS to hand over General Chao Keng

NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From MONDAY, THE 7TH DAY or JULY, 1830, to WEDNESDAY, TE 16TH DAY or JULY, 1930, Both Days inclusive.

Dated this Twenty-sixth day of June, 1930.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

D. L. KING,

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"HARSHIPS SUFFERED THROUGH UNJUST LAWS.?

The hardships that the Chinese in Australia suffered through not being able to bring their wives into the country were stressed by Mr Surg, Chinese Consul General in Australia in a recent speech in Brisbane.

marked that it was late and that Wang should pay a visit to house to have a cup of tea.

her

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A Hankow telegram to the Chin- ese Press says that the Japanese General there has definitely refused Ti, former Tuchun of Hunan, and Mr. Chang Ying Hua, former Minister of Finance, to the Chinese authorities and that, as a result, pedestrians leaving the Japanese Concession were being subject to.

search,

Agitation is still going on in Chinese circles against the "inva- sion" of the Chinese market by Swedish match merchants and the latest allegations to be made are to the fact that the latter are con. templating the opening of a factory in Chowkadoo, Chapei. Chinese merchants have left for Nanking to request the Government to forbid this and so save the Chinese in- dustry,

Demand for $100,000. Thus decoyed, he went to this place, in Sinza Road, and found waiting for him three men and a woman, all armed with pistola. He was politely told that he had batter keep quiet and that he could not leave the place without permission and a suggestion was made that he should write to his father ask ing the latter to pay $100,000 for his ransom. Wong demurred and said that his father was too poor,

The South Manchuria Railway to pay, whereupon he was told that

cern in Japan with a capitaliza- the must write the letter in order Company, the largest business con- to help the gang, and the letter tion of Y.440,000,000, announces a said that the sum could be reduced sweeping dismissal of 876 men out sensational cut has been affected, to 850,000. Realizing that it would of a total of 8,500 employees. The be,dangerous to refuse, Wang wrote, it is said, in conformity with the the letter, which was taken away rationalization principle upheld by Chinese Government had

the organization. These men will specially appointed Mrs. Sung and by a man, who apparently was the Dr. Mitsugu Sengoku, president of Miss Mary Obong to investigate leader of the gang.

receive retiring allowances averag and report upon the condition of Chinese family life in Australia.

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He appealed strongly to the Aus- tralian people to recognise the in justice of forcing his countrymen Australia to live as exiles from their families. He urged that this legislative ban was largely respon. sible for any immorality that might be attributed to some of the Chi- nese residents.

The

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After he had finished, Wang wasing Y.5.366 a person.

If the Chinese who were now put into a small room at the back resident in Australia were allowed

The Nanking Government has to bring their wives here it would of the house where there was co-decided to construct a big athletic stantly a member of the gang left stadium" at the foot of Purple to guard him.

be found that their morality would be on an equal plane with that of Australians.

He hoped that the women of Australia would press the Common- wealth Government to do justice in this matter.

Another matter which Mr. Sung referred to, more in sorrow than in

anger was the insult that was offer-

Stimulated by the defeat of the Chinese athletes in the recent Far Eastern Olympic Games in Tokyo, all Chinese papers in Nanking have. become very emphatic about lateyecessity of encouraging sports

Mountain near Nanking at a cost of 500,000 yuan. A preparatory The text afternon, at about two

committee will shortly be appoint 'clock, Wang feigned to be asleeped to start construction work. and his guard, seeing this, laid his fully loaded automatic pistol on a small table and left the room. Grabbing the pistol, Wang pointed ed to his corntrymen by compelling it at the guard when the latter re- them when arriving in Australia turned to the room and, when the to have their finger-prints taken.

He explained that in China this process had never been applied to any except criminals, and it, there- fore, was a cause of great offence to his countrymen. As a result of his representations, the Fiji "Gov- ernment had abolished this prac- tice, as had also New Zealand.

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kidnapper tried to seize this from him, he fired several shots, one of which struck his assailant in the

arm.

Other members of the gang, who all spoke the Ningpo dialect, hear- ing the shots, rushed up and they opened fire on the young man but none of their shots took effect. Wang continued to return fire and the kidnappers fled, taking with them the wounded man.

The Special Detective Branch are now working

on the case.

CHINESE WATERS.

QUESTION OF FISHING LIMITS.

among the Chinese.

General Chang Chun, Mayor of Greater Shanghai, has denied state- ments circulated by the Japanese Press to the effect that he is ad- vocating peace between the National Government and the Peping Coali- tion, and, in an interview with the Chinese Press, he says that rumours of this sort are being disseminated view to assisting the counter- with revolutionaries. General Chang pre- diets that the anti-northern cam- paiga will be over in a month.

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The Portuguese who came out to India did not return, and Anally the of casca of poaching by foreign,Wang states, will be signed this stream of emigration lasting for particularly Japanese, fishing boats two centuries not only drained in China's territorial waters, the

The Malayin Rotary movement Portugal of Ler best and most ad. Ministry of Agriculture and Mining which found its birth in Kuala venturous blood, but so reduced her male population as to throw at Nanking, in a communication to Lumpur, and which rapidly spread to the neighbouring states of Ferak her out of the rack of first clase the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sug-

on the North and Penang in the European Powers.

gests that the limits of China's South, bas at last found ETJISAROEA JAYA, MAKASSAR 6th July 7th July Amor & SWATOW Even after the Portuzuese as a

Singapore in Power had disappeared from India, territorial waters should be definite welcome men of Portugal were still enlisting ly fixed and foreign Governments

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It is pointed out that owing to

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as soldiers and fighting all over the country. I remember seeing some- where a copy of an order issued by the East India Company to the the present uncertainty, foreign pore's well-known citizens sat down TJIKARANG ... effect that Army chaplains should Governments in answer to Chinese know Partuguese in order better to Administer spiritual comforts to British troops,

Many words in Hindustani relat ing to mattern of war and ordnance have a Portuguese origin.

protests have often set up the excuse that their fishing vessels were cruising outside China's terri- torial waters

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