1930-07-12 — Page 1

Page

Library, Supreme

Court

Langhong Hai

wan

Lanaging DirectSE.

MASON'S

DELICIOUS

O.K.

SAUCE.

Hongkong Daily Press

ESTABLISHED 1857.

No. 22,456 號陸拾伍百肆仟式萬弍第日柒拾月陸年午庚

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JULY 12,

1930.

'SAVED!”

It's worth being shipwrecked if your rescuers carry ALLSOPP'S

DARK MUNICH BEER

Sole Agents:

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd.

(Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances of Hong Kong.)

ICE HOUSE STREET.. TELEPHONE 20075.

HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS

JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONG Kong, Canton and MACAO STHAMBOAT CO., LTD., AND THECHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

HONG KONG-CANTON LINE. Sallingsfrom Hong Kong: Daily, at 84.M. &10.00P.M. {. Sailings from Canton: Daily, at 8 A.M. & 4.30 P.M.)

Bunday 110.00 P.M.only) (Bandsys 14.30 P.. only)

HONG KONG-MAÇAO LINE. SAILINGS From HONG KONG-Daily at 8 am..32 p.m. (Sundays excepted) 'SAILINGS From M ́A ́ ̈¤ A 0 — Daily at 8 am & 2p.mp. (Bundays exceptad)

EXCURSION TO MACAO:-

BUNDAY, 12TH JULY,:

8.8. SUITAI "

Will depart from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf at 9 ́A M..

and from Macao at 4.00 P.M.

Nork-All Steamboat Company's Steamers are fitted with Wireless.

TELL THE SHROFF

to make out a Chit for $7.50 sad send it with- your Home Address to

11, Ica Xouse Street, In return, we will send

you the Weekly Press

for Mix Months,

ARTS &

CRAFTS.

MANUFACTURERS OF

ETCHED, STAINED AND LEADED GLASS

FOR

INTERIOR DECORATIVE

WORK

ARTS & CRAFTS,

-LIMITED.

(INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.)",

1-3, WEIDEM ST.

-PHOTO 24173.

Where to have Tiffin- To-day?

LANE CRAWFORD'S RESTAURANT.

MENU

Today's Tiffin-$1.35.

Vegetable Clear Soup

2Pickled Fish.

8.Scrambled Or-brain and Egg. on Toast

www

---Grilled Voal Chop and

Saratoga Chipe

-Boast Capon and Corned

Ox-tongue

Ha Yen Chow Fan

蝦仁炒

-Roast Potatoes

-Vegeta arrow

10.-Biscuit Glace with Nestle's

Creem

11-Fruit 12 Tea 18.-Coffis,

Registered as a Newspaper at the" General Post Office in the United Kingdom.

·陸拜路 日式拾月柒年借百九仟麼 Price

UNDER THE PUNKAH.

The More We Are Together.""

No, ladies and gentlemen, you will be greatly disappointed if you expect me to publish the names of the twở silly asses recently report. ed in this paper as having been seen wandering aimlessly up and down the highways and byeways of Happy Valley. Possibly it was

Br J PENN..

sometimes somehow."

Pride and Prejudice.

But this is not the sort of bank would like to be a member of→ I want to join, or promote, one of those concerns such as the Editor was describing the other day. As outfit where

a partner puts in $10,000 and draws out $100,000 without anybody making facetious remarks about it. One of those banks where the manager has a being a generous sort of cove--lete his principals in on the deal with Op of those banks which him. don't isate balance-sheets and whose clients are only too pleased to think somebody is enjoying a quiet little gamble with their money. That's the sort of bank I would like to be in..

A Bored Meeting.

✪

I can imagine what happens at a meeting of the Board of Direc tors-they must meet occasionally, otherwise how would they know one another?

The cause of this outrageous afront-this unspeakable insultis not known, nor is the matter of any "matériel" importance, What does matter is that never, since the animals came out of the ark, has the British hon been so shame- fully humiliated by Bolshevik craft and" dastardly cowardice. The British Government must send a battleship squadron-two squadrous Mutt and Jeff; it may have been-ten, what does money matter little futter with exchange, and-- Marshall and Suelgrove, or Negretti supported by the Royal Air Force and Zambra, or Pip and Squeak, and an Expeditionary Army of at lenst a million men. Not until this or even Jack and Jill. I don't is done shall we in this far-fung koow and I don't care who they fragment of Empire feel that, after were. Besides, why all this fuss all, we do count for something about "two jackasses strolling about Happy Valley when there are- [We fear the hot weather has affected our correspondent's tex- per, for the next five lines of this paragraph are exceedingly liver ish," and are deleted accordingly -ED.]. The fact is the Times is not what it used to be, and it never was, nor ever will. What do those fellows squatting comfortably in Printing House Square know about China as compared with us men HERE ON THE SPOT, un official eyewitnesses, so to speak, with our long listening cars to the ground, fully primed with up-to- the-minute information from two cr more sides of every one of the forty-seven different varieties of war-fronts! The Times can only base its views about China on want we fellows have ALREADY WRIT- TEN on the subject-WE who have to risk, our lives daily mid shot and shell to glean the very latest news of Feng, and Yen, and Wu, and Fu, and the 4,763 other War Lords with whom we are in close and constant contact. What is banker. It seems da awfully sim-adjourn as aforesaid and meet this Times, indeed 1" And why?

An as for Reuter, it is quite easy to show how unfair and prejudiced he is. Week after week he sends out a lot of stuff about doings and sayings in this and that public assembly, but has he once zent & cable to London reporting the pro-

Chairman: Well, Gentlemen, ceedings of our Sanitary Board?

here we are again! Has he ever cabled even sum- mary-I don't say a full, but a Choras: Ai-yah ! condensed report of any of the

Chairman: As there appears to comments on current affairs appear-be do other business before the ing in these Notes? Has he ever Beard. I move we do now adjourn troubled to send a cable to London to the nearest shark-fin soup em- reporting our football finals, our porium. heavyweight-boxing matches, or the

Chorus: Ai-yah ! Spey Royal Cup? No, no, NOT draws in the competition for the It's always the Times says this, or Ramsay MacDonald did that, or a great crowd, at Hoylake--but never a word about Fanling. This a gross partisanship, and the British Government should take immediate action and by sending out a few battleships take this cable business into its own hands and show that it is determined to stand no nonsense.

Ye Banks and Brays.".

I am not a Chinese. And, I am not a banker. But if I were Chi- nese, I think I would like to be a

от

men, I dropped ten million

Manager: By the way, gentle-

exchange yesterday, but I suppose it is not necessary for me to do more than mention the fact?

Chorus: Ai-yah ! Chairman: Does that mean that you let us down as well?

Manager: Alyah! ..... Chairman Well, gentlemes, we must be bold in the face of ad- versity. It seems from what our manager tells us that many mil lions of our clients' money has gone phut, but we must not take tais calamity too much to heart. There are plenty more milliona where those came from, and pend- ing their receipt I propose we again this day month.

like to ask if our manager may be authorized to advance a lakh just

+

Chairman: Thst concludes the business, gentlemen, and I thank you for your attendance.

Lecal War News.

THE

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL; HONG KONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL.

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL:

HOTELS,

LIMITED.

IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS,

LITS, PEPING.

The Only Hotel in CANTON Directly under European Management.

THE VICTORIA HOTEL

SHAMEEN

Guider and Trips arranged for

and Special Care

Taken of TOURISTS. Cable Addreza: “ VICTORIA:”.

LONDON'S LOVELIEST SUBURB ROYAL RICHMOND

18 Minutes. Fram Town. BINGHAM HOUSE. HOTEL PETERSHAM HOAD, RICHMOND,

ONDERFULLY tasted in this Most, Delightful Oldworld Town.

Unexcelled in Europe.

The Hotel is Well Furnished and anjoys a Happy Home-like Atmosphere Fires in Bedrooms Cuisine claimed to All Public Rooms are Spacious, Gas

be Quite Exceptional,

Terms From 3 Guficas Single Per Week. NO EXTRAS, Inspection invited by Resident Proprietor.

N. LAZARUS,

OPTICIANS

18, Queen's Road Central

Single Copy, 10 ets. Per Month, $3,"

BATHING COSTUMES

in the Latest Styles and Colours

are obtainable from

THE HONG KONG SPORTING ARMS & AMMUNITION STORE,

5-6, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE.

FOR SALE..

COLLECTIONS OF POSTAGE STAMPS

MOUNTED IN BOOKE.

ALL DIFFERENT, WITHOUT DUPLICATE, --- 500 Stampa...$43,500 Stampe.$60. 1,000 do. ..8 4,000 do. 75 1,500 do, 185,000 do. 100 2,000 do.

do. 150 20 6,000 2,500 do. 40 10,000 do. 500. 3,000 do. 50

GRACA & CO., Dealers in Postage Stampa, Religious Goode, Garden Bissils, Toys, do, do, No JA, WYNDHAM STREET, PO Box No.820. HONG KONG.

Two London Hotel

Rembrandt

Rubens

These flotulé bru xixunted in the most desirat.in positions way of morowe · fượm all parts of London. Under one cumugeisest nad highly recommended they offer the marimum of Juxuriosa rifinement, combined with the intak hotel. Improvements at very" reasonabis rates. Bedrooms with Private Bathroouw · All rooms are, hosted and have hot ash, cold ranuing THEF, Ma

HOTEL RUBEN3, Buckingham Palace-mad, “facing Buckingham Palaca.

HOTEL REMARANDT, South Kensingtoo, lacing the Victoria and Albert Museum, TARIFF ON APPIZGATTON TO MANAGER)

TEA. INDIGO:

FIBRES

BRISTLEES

OILSEED

Sold on oom- mission

British and Continental

HIDES & SKINS | Marketa. RUBBER, DRUGS ' COTTON WOOL &amples ORES, MICA vained. Bart GUMS, AND GENERAL

PRODUCE

ports for con dignments in. ...dicate.

ple job banking. What I mean to say is, what is there to it, really1 Vice-Chairman: I think this is A Few Minutes from the Famens Park, Just walk into the palatial pre- my shout, gentlemen, but as I am Terraces, and Bridge. Station Omaibas LONDON SELLING ACENTS The Yappler We'll Be

mises of the acarest bank you can rather short this week, I would passes the Dooriver, the Tie from The inore I think about those think of say, the Shuttered Bank

the Hotel Gardens, Terandah, Public

Overlooking the wandering jackasses seen down Corporation of Hindu Koosh

Rooine, and many Bedrooms, is incom- and Andalusia. What do you see to carry me over the end of the parable. The River. View is Admittedly Happy Valley way the more con- there i Crowds of jovial, good month vinced I am that [Quite, quite looking fellows, well-fed and nicely- Chorus: Ai-yah!

elad, without a wrinkle or a grey ED.]. and that being so, hair among the whole lot of them. appeal with confidence to all sen- Some of them are a bit bald, hut able, sober, and fair-minded- men that. comes partly from sitting to join me in foreing the British under the punkah too long without Government to take action forth-

a rest, and also from their curi ous habit of scratching the apex of with, instead of standing supinely the dome meditatively. before. tell- quiet on the Icehouse Street Latest reports indicate that all with folded hands in its pockatsing a client what his overdraft is.. like Humpty Dumpty on the magic

front, but a strained situation exists on the. Wyndham Street sect carpet waiting for something to turn up, like Macaulay.

tor, and at any moment there may "The so- All day long they put down be news of a severe engagement: called British Government, with columns of figures in a book and The forces taking part in this new its spineless inactivity, is like a copy them into another book, and jellyfish which needs telling where then at the end of a year, make a gaged on the Icehouse Street front, contest are not those recently en- to get off," and I propce to tell it speech regretting that owing to the but It has been reported,

quite independent groups. most unswerving loyalty of the staff it Their leaders are distinguished lit credible authority, that a British has not been possible to declare terateurs, and since the pen is nose has been punched, and. British a bigger dividend than that de mightier than the sword, some dea blood shed. This is intolerable.clared for the preceding period. perate fighting is expected.

on.

་་་་་

Diary of Coming

Events.

To-day.

(July12)

Commemoration of the Republic

of Chine.,

Queen's Theatre: Love."

Melody of

World Theatre: "Dream of Love" (at 2.30 sud 7.15 p.m. Chinese film, "Sparrows of War").then

Star Theatre: 12 Miles Out" at 5.30 p.m. At 8.15 p.m. Mystery show by Nicola

Central Theatre: "The Lady Lies."

Majestic Theatre Valley of the Gianta:" ",

KEYMER, BON & CO., (Import Dept.) Waitefriars, London Teg.: "Keymer London" Eat. 1884.

Courtesy, Comfort, Service and Luxuries of Modern Hotel

Construction

THE HOTEL RIVIERA

MACAU

Cable Address -“ Biviera, Macau."

Tides: High, 12.07 am and 9.39 Sale of Crown Land K-LL-No- THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

amy Low, 3.14 a.m. and 5. p.m. 2364 at PW.D. cffices, 3 p.m.

Sunday,

(July 13.). Fourth Sunday after Trinity.

from Havana."

Queen's Theatre: Girl from

World Theatre: Home James !!! Star Theatre: "Valencia." Central Theatre: Night."

"Roadhouse

Lighting-up Time:-7.11 p.m. Religious Services, Sailorg and Soldiers' Home Servicemen's Bible

Water Polo:-1st Div. Navy u. RA; 2nd Div.: University, v.. Fukien Club.

European Mail-Outward Europo vid Siberia (Pres. Pierce), 6 p.m."

Tides: High, 1.09 am, and 10.46 a.m.; Low, 4.31 a.m. and 0.33 p.m. Tuesday, (July

from Havana."

Queen's Thenth

World Theatre:

Taward:

Acting."

Lawn Bowls-let Div.: 0.8.C.C. Class, 3. p.m.; Social Hour, 8.30 . "Kowloon B.G.C., Police R.C. v. p.m.

European Mail:

"Girl from

erybody

C.C.C., Kawloon Docks R.C. Recreio, K.O.C. Taikoo R.C Europe vid Negapatam (Kidder- Star Theatre: "Big City." 2nd Div. C.C.C. † 0.8.C.C.;- Taî-

koo RC Electric R.C., Kow- pore).

Tide High 13:400 m and 10-12

icon B.G.C. Boys H.K.YC, La.m.; Low, 3,53 .. and 5.57 p.m. Beercio G

Tea Dance Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m..

Dinner Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

European Mail:- Inward; Europeri Negapatam (Bengal Maru); Europe vid Siberia (Pres Wilson); Outwarde Europe via Siberia (Dardanus), 2.30 p.m.

|

Monday. (July 14.)

Queen's Theatro: Girl from from Havana,"

World Theatre: Home James!" Star Theatre: Valencia Contral Theatre "Roadhouse Night."

dat

Central Theatre:Roadhouse jaar

Kowloon Cricket Club, 6. p.m.

Dinner Dance Peninsula Hotel, 8,30 pm

- European Mail:-Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Chenan ceaux), 2.30p.m.

Tides: High, 1.24 a.m. and 11.29 .; Law, 5.08 a.m. and 7.10 p.m.

Assurance by Monthly Paymenta. Benefits of Life Apparanós brought within reach of those to whom the payment of s karge sum yearly, -half-yearly or quarterly may be an inconvenience.

Liberal conditions sa to Loën, Surrender, and Paid-up Policy Value.

Apply to

DODWELL & CO., LTD. FÅGENTS, ⠀ QUEEN'S BUILDING.

THE HON. TREASURER,

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY,

THE PEAK

Enclosed please find cheque for twelve dollars, being subscription to your Society for the current year.