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The "REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY. the 31ST JULY, to THURSDAY, the 7ru AUGUST (Both Days inclusive), during which period No Transfer of Shares can be registered,

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Secretary. Hong Kong 17th July, 1930.

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WEATHER REPORT. „

Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory, as 1.50 p.m., stated:-

The typhoon passed a few miles to the S. of Gap Rock on a NW.

track at 3 p.m.

Local Forecast Cyclone gules;

moderating; overcast rain.

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

The following typhoon warnings

Hong Kong Such a system is successfully in operation in Macao and Shanghai-why not here? As to the safety of such deposits, there can be no question. With every post office a bank in which an

occasional dollar could be put away, every inducement and convenience is offered to thrifty folk of the humbler classes to put their savings

in an absolutely safe place. The idea seems worth consideration. It certainly offers the definite security which" Victimised Depositor" de-

News and Views ★

A Soviet tribunal has sentenced" to death Kasymoff, the former Pre-- sident of the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan: Sharipoff, the former Prosecutor for Uzbekistan; and two

Sentence of three years' penal It was recently announced that other persons, after a trial which servitude was passed by Mr. Justice the Compagnie Générale Trans-began last March in a theatre at noche, at Glamorgan Assizes on atlantique has given an order to Samarkand. The prisoners were Dorothy Violet Mays, a 28-year-old the St. Nazaire shipyards for the accused of" failing to observe class married woman, who pleaded guilty construction of a 60,000-ton liner. principles when administering jus- to stealing a fur necklet, worth She is to be 1,000ft. long. 111ft. tice and being sometimes "swayed." £46, the property of Samuel Hall, in the beam, and will draw 37 ft. by anti-Soviet Nationalist Jean- The engines will be 120,000 horse-ings." The Soviet Prom describes Ltd., at Cardiff. Detective-Inspec-

The vessel should be in recent times. The theatre was

have been received by the American manda, and speculation with detor Davies, of Cardiff, read out power, designed to give a speed of the trial as the greatest local overt

Consulate-General from the Manila Observatory:

Manila, July 23, 6.30 p.m.-

posits is ruled out. If galy the thrifty Chinese realised that their little savings are more profitably invested at three per cent. with a

several previous convictions against

He said she was an expert shop- Mays, who was arrested in London,

lifter Since the Cardiff offence Typhoon in about 117des. Long. E

Mays, with another woman who had and 17deg. Lat. N., moving W.

not been traced, had committed. Manith, July 24, 10 a.m.-Typhoon

offences in Cambridge, Hull, Hali in about 116deg. Long. E. and

of doubtful stability, the problemfax, Reading, and 19deg. Lat, N.,.moving N.W.

The extro typhoon warnings, raised by our victimised correspon issued by the Radio Office yesterdent would soon settle itself. · day, are as follow:-

11.45 3.Typhoon about 100

concern which is sound than at four or five per cent. with one which is

Manchester,

99 knots. ready for service in April, 1933.

The world's richest bachelor, Mr. John Nicholn's Brown, is to marry

Miss Anna Kinsolving, of Bal who is now 20, inherited a fortune timore. When a baby Mr. Brown,

of £20,000,000 from his father and stealing property worth more than

his uncle, who died within e fow £300. Mays wished those charges todays of each other. Judicious in be taken into account. Passing sen vestments are said to have great-

packed with young people, who fre quently interrupted the proceedings with applause and other expressions of their keen interest. A specially composed tribunal had been sent from Moscow.

In the course of a leading article headed "The United States of India," the New York World wel-

mles S.E. of Hong Kong, moving DOOM OF THE "DOYEN "tence Mr. Justice Roche, said:ly increased this amount. As a comes the second volume of the In-

NNW

3.23 p.m.-Centre passing a few

miles S. of Gap Rock on N.W.Tae Foreign Minister at Nanking, track. Wind at Hong Kong may increase somewhat but full typhoon Dr. C. T. WANG, recently made a force not anticipated.

simple announcement which may be more significant than it seems on the surface. It will probably prove! the death-blow to the Diplomatic Corps in Peiping, an institution which has existed since the Boxer rising and, to A

lesser extent,

DEATH.

HAYNES.At Matilda Hospital, on

July 24. beloved wife of Mr." F. H. W. HAYNES, aged 30. The funeral will take place at 5 p.m. to-day (Friday). [9674

It is at

The time has come when you millionaire baby, Brown was the dian Report as a sincere approach, should go to penal servitude. You subject of many articles in British to a colossal problem." The Report are embarking on 1.

course of and American newspapers before (Bay the World) is conservative crime."

the war, for extraordinary precau- in temper, but proposes a plan of

bold magnitude. .. tions were taken for hia safety. A maid was kept whose sole function lebat clear that its main principles have been well tested in other lands. was to sterilise the china from which the boy took his meals. His A country so large, populous, and milk came from an artistocratic diversfied as India cannot be pro- cow so carefully tended that the perly governed except on the same milk cost £3 a quart to produce, federal principle that has worked

Seeing a man clad in a bathing suit in a pond on Wanstead golf links, a police officer approached and found 53 golf balls lying at the side of the pond The bather, Albert Brown (30), a caddie, was

before that time. Dr. WANG merely charged at West Ham with stealing Since he has grown up, Mr. Brown 50 well in the United States, Cana stated that hereafter he will not the balls, which were valued at $1 has lived in virtual retirement. da, Australia, and Brazil. The use.

receive official declarations from the

The Australian and Canadian Pro-

Editorial and Business Offices: 11,

10s, and was fined 30s. He plead-iss Kinsolving is a niece of two of the Provincial Governments as Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. doyen of the Diplomatic Corpsed that he had "fished" the balls bishops and of the well-known pol: training fields is logical. Night Editor (Wanchai Offce): speaking on behalf of the entire

out of the water, but would have tician, Senator Bruce, of Maryland. Tel. 24511.

group of diplomats in China. taken them to an official of the London. Office: 53, Fleet Street, Each Minister must hereafter

E.C. 4.

Chub in the hopa of getting some speak for himself alone.

recompense.

The Daily Press.

Hoxe Kova, Jury 25, 1930.-

SAFE DEPOSITS.

Speaking at the meeting of the Royal School for Naval and Marine Officers' Daughters, Admiral of the Flect Six Osmond Brock said that

vinces wen; through a long tutelage before achieving federation and Dominion status. The New York Times commented on the spirit of genuine sympathy shown in the Re port, and the "kindly recognition of the aspirations of the Indian people."

at least of the "serious limitations

I pointed out that some to Indian self-government contained in the Report are necessary in order

It is not considered likely that the Diplomatic Corpe will make any serious protest against this more. For all practical purposes, the Corps has been non-existent for some years, and Ministers of im Fortant Powers have not hesitated fat no period in the history of the Plane of the same model as that and to defend the Provincial 15

to address the Chinese Government" direct. The Diplomatic Corps, as existing in China, had its counter-

The first non-stop flight from New York to Mexico City was made last month in 16hr. 33min.-at an aver age. speed of 133 miles an hour-by Colonel Roberto Fierro, a Mexican military airman. His machine was a low-winged Lockheed Sirius mono-

in which.. Colonel Lindbergh flew from the Pacific to the Atlantic of education. Even after the Napo-coast in 14 hours a few weeks ago Colonel Lindbergh few from Wash leonic wars, when naval officers

British Navy hnd there been so many officers with children in need

to safeguard the rights of minorities

opposed to the Central Legislature. The Baltimore Sup finds the Com- mission's conclusions and proposals a good deal less briliant and satisfactory than was its study of the situation." The Telegram and script condemn the report as nega tive and disappointing.

part only in more backward coun- were discharged in thousands the ington to Mexico City in the Spirit Nor those massive, subterranean tries. Dr. WANG objects to the need was not so great. Officers be. of St. Louis in December, 1927, Lus | Evening Post and the Boston Tran-.

tered Ofice of the Company, EXCHANGE WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. vaults, designed to resist fire, flood,

BUILDING, 4TH FLOOR,

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tween 30 and 40 years of age were being sent ashore through no fault of their own and compelled to take

at stated meant there`

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How to keep domestic servants

Local Notes and Events *

practice because he considers it and thieves-but sums of money reflects discredit upon the Govern which can be safely deposited in ment he represents. His announce another's keeping in the sure and

ment is daring only because it is

A gift of a gold medal to a peer certain knowledge of immediate made at a time when China is employment in civil life, which was the text of a little speech made was made in a will recently. Mr. was very difficulty to find. In nd-by Miss Margaret Bondfield, Minis Ayerst Henham Hooker, F.LC, recovery on demand. A few days divided into several camps, at war dition, naval officers were now tor of Labour, when she opened a

F.C.S., of Outwood, near Nutfield. Victimised Depositor" with each other.

Surrey, bequeathed "the gold medal marrying much younger; it was an domestic science training centre at for gallantry and humanity," con- wrote to this paper suggesting that i Before the rise of the Nation exception to find an officer-unmar-

Newbold Breches, Warwickshire. ferrod on him by the British Gov. the Government should supervise alists, the Diplomatic Corps in old ried after the age of 20. That She wished to remind mistresses, ernm at in 1850, to the Earl of the working of Chinese banks which Peking was a powerful group. It might be a good thing for the coun

she said, that it took two to make Cromer," "as a mark of my love a happy household. It had to be and admiration for his father, the invite the public to open savings was composed of all the diplomats ry, added Admiral Brock, but it remembered that times had changed, first Earl, from whose hand I re accounts. Our correspondent arged in the capital, who met

were officers with and those people who thought they ceived it. And for his mother, who that the Government should have intervals and decided upon joint families they could only with could treat their servants in the decorated me with it, it being my war desire that it should be held in his authority to inspect the books and action, after which the doyen would might be possible to adfit to the would find that they were beating family

difficulty support. He hoped it way they could before the

ng An heirloom.” Mr. accounts of savings banks from time address the Chinese Government school a target number of pupils their heads against a wall" If Hooper formerly lived in Cairo. to time, and if any intringement with the full support of all im at reduced fees. Admiral Sir Wil only mistresses would remember The name of the first Earl of and show a Cromer will always be associated be detected the delinquent should "portant nations behind his remarks, liam Goodenough, chairman of the this," she continued, suffer the penalty of a heavy fine Foreign nations, however,

desire to co-operate with the Minis with the making of modern Egypt. committee,, in an appeal for more are support from the younger officers try of Labour in their efforts to where he was British Agent and Information.and indefinite suspension of busi-

mare, responsible for the gradual and their wives, said the school assist these girls, two-thirds of the Consul-General. The present Earl servant problem would be done is Lord Chamberlain of the Royal We fear that in these days dissolution of the Diplomatic was the only school for the daugh

Household. of retrenchment the Government Corps than the Nationalists. The

away with." ters of naval officers. will not be inclined to take further tendency- has been more and more unremunerative duties upon its to make representations direct to shoulders, necessitating & consider the Chinese Government rather than able extension of its small army

resort to group action. Fpreign of Civil Servants. Yet it is a fact countries naturally do not have that some of the "Chinese banks precisely the same attitude toward pursue business methods which China. Their interests are different, expose depositors to risks which and their policies are somewhat they do not realise, and should not diferent. Several years ago they be expected to run.

felt that in the common interest it The main trouble, of course, is was important to unite on all that persons in humble circumstances important matters, and this who manage to save a few dollars plains the origin of the Diplomatic are attracted by the rates of interest Corps, and was its sole excuse f offered by certain banks. The existence. foreign banks in the Colony have After the World War, however,

Five Chinese were charged before special savings deposit branches international interests became still Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday morn- which are as sound as the institu- more divided, Germany and Russia ing with being in possession of pne tions themselves, and an account were outside the Corps for seara, revolver, one automatic pistol, two can be opened with one-modest and the Soviet representative never automatic magazines, four daggers dollar. Here deposits are as safe acted with the other Powers. The and nineteen rounds of ammunition be à Communistic demonstration some time near the old bed of the Yellow River. They state first nations to act alone were ac-

Acting on information received a as the most nervous could desire, cused of "treachery to the common

A week's formal remand was ap- but the interest paid is a little interests," but this accusation was plied for and granted. The case

posse of plain-clothes officers made that the diamondiferous area is lower than that offered by some never taken very seriously, except will be heard in due course before their appearance on the Wanchai large and, in their opinioa, rich.

in China. While the arrangement

Reclamation just as the demonstra concerns whose speculative methode may have been useful at one time, two magistrates. It was stated that

tions were about to begin, In -when successful-bring big profits, it was always unwieldy Some the men were arrested in Wong Nei

addition to detaining six men, but may also involve heavy losses. small nation, with practically no Chong Road.

interests in China, could prevent It is possible, too, that working- united action by the Powers, giving,

police seized a quantity of alleged class people are diffident about Chinese officials the false impres Pleading guilty to a charge of going into the palatial premises of sion that the major Powers were assaulting a man living at 625, divided. The deyen of the Diplo Reclamation Street and stealing a the foreign banks to open an acmatic Corps was often the Minister count with one dollar which, at of a small nation with little or no pair of shoes there, a Chinese was best, may never reach the thousand real interests in China. At present sentenced to six months' hard by Det-Insp. C. P. Fallon before

who holds the position solely belabour-at-the-Kowloon-Magistralson HagIRENCY, WAgranted yes to 1000 hundreds by As a compromise between Govern-cause of his seniority in long resid36aterdag swastated by Inspec ment inspection of Chinese savings ence in China. Dr. WANG an- tor Fallon that accused broke into terday. It was stated that the every steamer. He estimates the nounces that hereafter, the Diplo the house at three o'clock in the cartridges were found by Mr. J. S. million, and recoinmends that the banks, and the possible paycholomatic Corps will be recognized, only gical as well as financial prejudice as socially useful. Eis an- morning on July 18, and in the Dinner's son in a tin which was baggage of all Chinese passengers against the great banking institu- nouncement is not so sensational as course of a struggle, picked up a kept in an unused dog, kennel in should be searched in order to the back yard, and they were avoid the introduction of mere. -*-*- trom in the Colony, why not crimbit might appear, us for years the broken penknife and woun

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the doyen is the Dutch Minister

labour for the man.

the

been retained for the defence and

the case will be heard on July 31.

Looking Back 25 Years.

Two prospectors-German-have Six men were taken into custody lately passed through Chinking their way to Shanghai. on Wednesday when the police o

They have been camped for prevented; what was intended to

"Red" literature.

the

An application for the confiscation of 28 rounds of ammunition, made

They have some specimen stones with them which, though small, are of very good colour. They are, of course, very reticent as to their plans-Hong Kong Daily Press, July 25, 1905.

Looking Back 50 Years,

Acorrespondent writes to the

Journal de Saigon calling attention, Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kow. to a number of counterfeit dollars introduced into that Colony by the

who

number of such bad dollars at: 2.

1880.