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CHINA COAST OFFICERS'

GUILD

AND

MARINE ENGINEERS' GUILD.

OF CHINA.

COMBINED MEETING will

Abe held at the GUILD OFFICES, 67, Das Vaux ROAD, CENTRAL (David) HOUSE) TO-DAY, THURSDAY, 17:H JULY, 1930, at FIVE O'CLOCK PAM

All Members are requested to attend.

T. T. LAURENSON,"

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930.

WEATHER REPORT."

Yesterday's weather report, fore-posals. When they finally moved cast and remarks, issued by the they suggested that hours should be A general election is, therefore, Royal Observatory at 5.23 p.m., takeri on a fortnightly basis, which a thing all the parties who have stated:-

means that allowing for the short any Sense of responsibility left! shift on Saturdays or the holiday would avoid as long as they can. on alternaté Saturdays, men may But it is also becoming more and still work an eight-hour day as at more evident that the present stats

uncertainty in German politics is desired by German Reaction, parti- cularly by the Right Wing of the People's party, which, although re- presented in the Government Couli

,waited too long before they suggest. | be found that, relatively to the ed a compromise on the first propopulation, the German losses would

prove the heavier.

The typhoon is situated near Oshima, moving north-east. The depression remains to the north west of Hong Kong.

* News and Views *

Whisky!! Local Forecast:-S. and SAV. present but average only seven and of barbariam, disillusionment, and Hungarian throne to the Duke af. It is constructed entirely on the

Dewar's.

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PUBLIC AUCTIUN. DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

the Sale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the Elar DAY of JULY, 1920, at 3 pc, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Hia EXCELLENCY THE Gorzanos, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Shamshuipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY TEX Kato, for one further term of 24 years less three days.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Kowloon Inland,

No, of Bale,

Lot No. 1358,Registry No.

Cheung Sha Wan

Locality,

G.

Boundary

Measure.

ments.

NELW.

As per

salu plan.

Contenta în

Square feet.

Annual

Rental

** Upset Price,

81601

PUBLIC AUCTION,

B.

70

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17,924

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be held on MONDAY, the 21ST DAY

of JULY, 1930, at 3 P., at the Oficer

Victoria

Label

TYPHOON WARNINGS,

winds; fresh; squally; overcast; a half hours a day over the fort generally rain.

night. This sounds rather too good to be true, and the miners are in- tensely sceptical about it. The House of Lords, by insisting upon The following typhoon warning the "spread-over" amendment, has tion, has done more than any other Governments had always declined in Joliet, Illinois in return for

have been received by the American Consulate-General from the Manila

Observatory-

Manda, July 16, 9 am.-Cyclone or typhoon 6. of Nahs, moving E.N.E.

Put the Labour Government in an embarrassing position, and the political reaction to its killing of the Coal Bill is likely to be lively,

An extraordinary rumour W*43 A bicycle-works, built under the current in London last month that technical supervision of the well- the object of the visit of Count known English firm "B.S.A.", will Bethlen to London was to offer the be opened in Moscow next October.. Gloucester. There was no confirma- English model, and will produce

authoritative tion in

quarters. annually 230,000 bicycles of the When fr. Malone asked the Prime English type. Minister why Count Bethlen had been invited to be the guest of his

A new airplane propeller of re- Majesty's Government, Mr. Mac vclutionary design is offered by a Donald replied: His Majesty's convict at the State penitentiary to say why Government hospitality his release. He has refused various party to make the work of the was or was not offered, and he was inancial offers for his invention, Government impossible. More afraid he must adhere to this rule insisting that the only price he will in the present instance." An consider is freedom. He has been menacing than for many years is

authority in close touch with Hun- the movement for a veiled semi-garian affairs in England after has 13 more to serve. The pro- at the penitentiary for 15 years and. dictatorship in Germany, or forwards declared that there was nopeller is constructed to use every exploiting

The

possibilities

truth in the report. of

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HONG KONG, JULZ, 17, 1830.

LORDS KILL THE COAL

Finest Scotch Whisky of Editorial and Business Offices: 11,THE news from Germany appearing emergency, but the violence of the

Great Age.

in cables elsewhere, although sen-Fascists (and although not quite so sational enough, is not really sur-much,. of the Communists), the prising. The BRCENING Govern-

almost daily bloodshed, the help ment has long been recognised as lessness of a Government that has one which has no real friends in not a friend left in the country, the the country. Moreover, German immense but lethargic and sullen politics lately have shown a very resentment of the working class, unfortunate tendency toward phy- and the general pessimism, gives sical violence, and well-informed | reaction its great opportunity observers of German affairs have Whether the danger is averted or long ago declared that the only not will depend mainly upon the reason why the Reichstag has not strongest of all the German parties, been dissolved is the certainty that the Socialiste. The last Cabinet a general election would be accom-was, at least, broadly representa panied by bloodshed. The Berlin tive. Its financial policy was (as correspondent of the Manchester events since then have proved) on Guardian has described the patience the whole right, and at least it of the German public in the face did not have any excessive pretea of the political hooliganism every sion to strength of will, quickness where, as pathetic. It is rarely of resolve, and other manly quali

ties. It was rather easy-going, and that anything ever happens to a National Socialist, as the German did its best without much pose. Fascists call themselves (except fuss or cant. It was not exactly when a Communist gets hold of popular, but it certainly did not Even when caught by the achieve the intense unpopularity of him).

the present Government-an un- measure as its critics in the House police these hooligans get off light popularity which now appears to of Commons represented it to be, ly. As a rule German justice is have reached a most critical stage. the House of Lords should have slow and lenient. Assault and acted drastically long ago. 1. battery are treated with very mild stead, they amended the Bill sentences.

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& CO., LTD.

BILL..

AFTER being before Parliament for six months, the Coat Bill has been killed by the House of Lords. The mensure hns

not been at all

popular, but it is one upon which an elected Legislature has passed a favourable opinion, and an unclect- ed Chamber refuses to endorse it. If the Coal Bill were as bad a

What would be con-

The romance of a political con- version was recalled by the an

ounce of horsepower. It consists of four blades, each connected separ-

A toy balloon released at Cater-ately to a hollow central shaft. As ham, Surrey, on May 21 has been the outer shaft revolves, the blades. returned by post from the United move back and forth along the States. The envelope has the New length of the shaft. The man, who York stamp and is dated June 4. says the idea came to him in a With the balloon was a postcard dream, has never seen a modern air- which stated that the balloon was plane except in distant fight. picked up on a roof in New York, and that the finder was M. J. ral, of 107 West Eighty-sixth Street, New York.

Cambridge is awaiting with amused speculation the final verdict of the Chinese Tripos this year. There was only one candidate, and Is the world to be shortly freed there is only one among the dens examine. from the most common source of suficiently learned to danger to human lifecoal gas The complication is that the tripes poisoning Dr. Bertelsmann, the is in two parts, and by evil fortane chemical expert of the Berlin gas the candidate prepared ona aretion, works, declared in a lecture at the while the examiner made ready for World Power Conference in Berlin him in the other. Consequently he recently that at the experimental has done no papers. Will he be gas institute at Gossen, near Berlin, given a degree? a process had been perfected for the elimination of the dangerous carbon,

Miss Ishbel MacDonald, tha elements from ordinary gas fuel Premier', daughter, had an alarm without deteriorating its heating ing experience during her brief stay While boating qualities or making it more ex-at Lossiemouth. pensive. It was hoped, he said, with her father and several friends that in the near future it would on Spynie Loch, near Elgin, the be possible to introduce the new boat struck a submerged tree root poisonless gas into Germany. First and threw Miss Ishbel overboard. of all, however, certain adjustments Fortunately the mishap occurred at had to be made which would obviato a shallow part of the loch. Miss any alteration in the 'design of the 1shbel was helped back to the boat and she suffered no ill-effects from millions of gas stoves and meters.

her immersion. Miss Ishbel said Fifty-four American bricklayers that she was standing up when the and other building workers have boat struck." It was nothing," she stated. The mishap might have arrived in Moscow with the az- nounced intention of assuming happened to anybody on holiday- Soviet citizenship and assisting in didn't think anything of it as industralization work.

all, and I am none the worse.”. Some of these Americans, it is understood,

of the Public Works Department, by WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. mutilated, others call ic-by weaken- sidered murder in England is nouncement that Lady Noel-Buxton, automobile factory which is being bachelor girl. The dauntless star

Order of Ets ExCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR,

of One Lot of CROWN LAND A Prince Edward Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of En MAJEST THE KING, for one further term

of 15 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale.

Registry No.

Locality.

No. 2365, Adjoining Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2286,

Kowloon Inland Lot

Prince Edward

Rond,

Boundary

Measure.

ments.

As per

sale plan.

About

Contenta in

Square feet;

Anuus!

Rental.

Upset Price i

110

8,000

NOTICE."

THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC

CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN sbat Certificate No. 12293 for 50 Shares Nos. 391629/391878 issued in the Name of MUK KING TAK has been declared LOST and should the rame

usually considered manslaughter in Germany. Even a Communist when

ing the clan es upon which the Labour and Liberal members of the lower House were most, insistent. The House of Lords includes among ita pumber some great coalowners who are as keenly alive to their National Socialist who kills division as a Liberal twenty years interests as are the miners' repre- Communist usually get off with two sentatives in the House of Commons.or three years. Carrying arms Complaints were made that Lord without a licence is a luxury that

wife of the ex-Minister of Agricul- ture, had been adopted as Labour candidate for North Norfolk, where he has killed a National Socialista by-election caused by the elevation usually gets off with only three or was caused by the elevation of her husband to the peerage. When Mr. four years' imprisonment, while & Noel Buxton first contested the ago his most ardent opponent was Miss. Felham-Burn, a young Con- servative who led a march of young women round the constitutency he costs no more than a small fine.hind a banner bearing the legend, MELCHETT had made & most mis-

"No Noel for North Norfolk." chievous apeech in the Upper Cham-Libe and slander, the chief means

Mr. Buxton was attracted rather be produced before the 22nd JULY.ker in which he asserted that by which many persons are incited than repelled by the political 1930, it shall he deemed CANCELLED negotiations were going on in South to violence in Germany, are treated ardour of his fair antagonist, and sought an acquaintance, which Wales between the mine-owners and almost with benevolence by German sulminated in their marriage in Judges. A newspaper cap call the miners in regard to the "spread-

1914. Lady Noel-Buxton at first over." This statement was

almost anyone a scoundrel, a liar, declined. nomination in the" by phatically denied by the Executive a thief, a spy, a traitor, or a paid election, but local pressure induced her to alter her decision, and as of the Miners' Federation, who agent and get off with a fine of a

Reuter told us a few days ago she declared that there was absolute few pounds. There have been some was successful. unanimity among the men in op. public demands for more drastic position to any calculation of penalties (the success with which working hours other than by the hooliganism is stamped but in Eng- land has been the subject of a good deal of envious comment in Berlin), but so far at least nothing has been done to stop Germany from

and of NO EFFECT.

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HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

FOR Bensons given to Bbareholders, -at-the-Annaal-General Meeting

of the Company, held on 7th MAY, 1980, the Directors have decided to CANOEL all the Existing

Share Certificates and to REPLACE them by New Share Certificates of a different Colour.

All Shareholders are therefore re- quested to wand their Share Certificates. to the Registered Office of the Company ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,

at

Kons, forthwith to that the New Share Certificates may be prepared and issued to them in lieu of the Certificates now held by them which will be Cancelled.

By Order of the Board, JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

pisemnell General Mausgere, Hong Kong, 20th June, 1920.

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"PEAK MANSIONS”

day.

ет-

It is on this question of "spread over that the House of Lords has defined public opinion-as repre-

are of Russian origin. They have Cupid has found out Bebe Daniels, been assigned to work on the who is no longer Hollywood's built in Nijni-Novgorod for the of "Rio Rita," went meekly to the construction of Ford automobiles... altar recently with Ben Lyon, the talkie actors Her bridesmaids were Marion Davies, Lila Lee, Betty Compson, "Adela Rogers, Constance Talmadge, Diana Fitzmaurice, Marie Mosquini, and Mae Sunday-

in the

A special workshop for the re- storation of priceless tapestries in the Vatican is to be set up in the new Palage of Fine Arts that is now under construction Vatican City. The first tapestry to The King of Spain recently sign- be restored will be that of Raphael ed a decree creating a dukedom for portraying the blinding of Magus, Don Gabriel Maura, the eldest son Enas, from which practically all of Don Antonio Maura, as a post- the threads of gold were removed at bumous honour to the memory of the time of the sack of Rome, the former Prime Minister. Usuel- Raphael's criginal sketches for ly a dukedom is created only" in these tapestries are in the Victoria the case of the descendants of Prime and Albert Museum, and are the Ministers who had been assassinat-. property of the British Crown, and ed, such as Prin, Canovas, Canale- before the restoration is undertaken jas, and Dato. Don Antonio Maura an expert is to be sent to Londan died of cerebro-haemorrhage in 1926. from the Vatican to study the pic. but he had been wounded on two tures there. Other tapestries of occasions by would-be assassins and Raphael are subsequently to be these circumstances have been taken. restored.

into account.

*Local Notes and Events

Biz-roomed & Fire-roomed, Apartments, sented by an elected Chamber-by continuing to be what it i-Land Investment & Agency Co.,

insisting upon an amendment to paradise for hooligane

PRINCE EDWARD ROAD. HOWLOON,

Detached and Sema-detached Villas Modern Construction with Garage,

* CAMBAY BUILDINGS" Flats with Modern Convenience.

COMPREHENSIVE AND

PLETE REPORT

of the

The Directors of The Hong Kong

Ltd. have declared an interim the Coal Bill in regard to workingThe Fascists in Germany have dividend of 82 per share, payable hours The House of Lords pro- become a public plague. Some of on August 6. poses that the 71-hour working day, them are well-meaning, but the

Among the passengers arriving by the Empress of Russia from Shang hai was Mr. C. G. Mey, represent ing Messra, L. Rondon & Co., Ltd. Mr. Mey in making a stay of about two weeks in the Colony."

waxworks. Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill and Lester Lonergan are featured, Others prominent in the cast include Russell Gleason, Gus tay von Seyffertitz, Eugenie Besser

and Walter Rogers, under Berthold Viertel's direction.

plus one winding-time, may be movement as a whole is so charged Pleading guilty to a charge of

Seven Faces," "Fox Movietone spread over a fortnight of 60 hours. with the dread felt by a bour-riding his bicycle in a reckless The House of Commons insists that geoisie that is being depressed to manner, a Chinese youth was fined all-talking picture, coming to the there be no alternative to a definite the economic level of the proletariat 83 by Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at Queen's Theatre to-day, will prove 74-hour day. Advocates of the with the-bank clerks”, the shop- the Kowloon Magistracy. It was a delight to those who find a fas "spread-over"

say that rigid re-keepers', the students' horror not stated that the defendant rode the cination in waxwork exhibite; and cognition of the legal working day only of poverty but also of losing rouchine" with one hand off the because of its dramatic qualities it will mean increasing the cost of caste-that it continually overflows handle.

will prove equally attractive to coal by 10 per cent, whereas by the with a terrible raucour, and, being

those who are fond of novel situn- COM-spread-over" system the increase without guiding ideas or any pro- On account of the inclement tions. The action centres about in cost of production will be very gramme other than a kind of weather, the open-air band concert the Musee Patrouchy, a Parísian much less. Whether this is so or romanticism, it can find no outlet arranged by the Kowloon Residents net is an arguable proposition, but save in high-sounding phrases and Association, which was to have been the known and definite fact is that general turbulence. It is natural beld on the Kowloon Football Club the Miners Federation, and the that such a movement should attract ground. last night, was postponed. Government, are opposed to the those who love rowdyism for its own It will take place on Wednesday “spread-over,” while the House of sake as well. The movement has, next, weather permitting, Lorde insists upon it.

indeed, become

4. próblem not so Critics of the Labour Government much for the politician as for the have regretted that it did not take policeman. The outrages committed The timely arrival of the police. the opportunity when framing the by the German Fascists cause yesterday prevented a would be Bill-of introducing methods of bruises, wounds, or even death Communist demonstration calculating miners' hours which almost every day. It is quite taking place, at Queen's Road near me alegor to the more likely that if the number of the Central Market The police logical and fairer Continental those killed and injured in the took into custody two persons who systems, and would have made fights and outbreaks of the German were said to be just about to start agreement on & commen European political factions during the last demonstration. It is believed months were compared that on the persons of the detained standard casier to reach. The twelve Government and the minere, how with the number of those killed men were found red Mag and a quantity of communistic pam ever, acted strictly on precedent, and injured in the Indian troubles and the coal-owpers very foolishly during the same, period, it would ' phlets.

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barracks was surprised to see

of loaves through the air and landing in secluded spot in the yard. Getting into hiding, he decided to await long when he saw a coolie go and results, and had not been watching

pick up the bread, with which he was marching off when the scntry detained him and handed him over to the police. Charged before Mr. G. N. Orme at the police-court yez terday with stealing 2lbs. of bread, the coolic was convicted, and sen- tenced to three weeks' hard labour. Hong Kong Daily Press, July 17, 1905. Looking Back 30 Years.

manteaus,

A disgraceful, scene amongst the coolies occurred on Peddar's Wharf yesterday morning at about a quar ter-past six o'clock. A European gentleman was coming ashore from the French steamer Tangis in

man, having with him two port

When the beat got alongside the wharf about a dozen coolies rushed from the Praya on into the boat, all but capeizing it to the wharf, down the stops and

and nearly precipitating the gentle. man into the water. As it was, he had to drop a hat which he was carrying in order to save himself." Looking Back 25 Years.

All this time, a Sikh constable, No. from For some time past the soldiers 578, was standing on the wharf stationed at Murray Barracks have with his back against one of the been missing stores from their bamboos supporting the shed, talk

ing to and at the Bo larder, but it is only once in a stable, and not attempting to exert while they are able to pounce upon himself in the least until his atten the culprits-barracks coolies. Of tion was drawn to the case by ans late bread has been disappearing other European

The gentleman,

in a remarkable manner, and if a who was in the sampan made a Tommy chanced to go to break remark that a similar thing hap fast a little late, he generally found pened to him the last time he came that his share had vanished. On in Hong Kong Hong Kong Daily Sunday, the sentry on duty at the - I'rras, July 17, 1830.