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that the Business horetofore carried on by KAWABJI SOŽABJI PAVET at No. 32, WYEDHAM STREET, HONG.Kowa, under tho Style or Firm Name of "K. B. PATRI will in future be carried on under the Stylo or Firm Name of "K. 8. PAVRI & SONS".

Dated the 27th day of May, 1991.

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ARMY CONTRACTS. EALED TENDERS will be roceived at the Office of the OFFICER COMMANDING, ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS, Hong Kong, at 12 NOON

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ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be beld at the Offices of the General Managers, Maks. JARDINE MATHESON & Co,

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By Order of the Board. JARDINE, HATHESON & Co., LTD.,

General Managers. Hong Kong, 27th May, 1931.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1931.

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore- "enst and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at op.m., stated :-

The anti-cyclone has moved. to the south-east of Tokyo. Depres sions remain over Tongking and, to

the north of Korea.

MARRIAGE.

Editorial and Business Offices: 11,

Ice House Street. Tel. 30251.

Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

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London Office: 53, Fleet Street,

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podo or navigation, and, perhaps under the eye of some senior who hopes to be flying his Beg in the future and is already selecting a prospective staff. Only a most ex- ceptional man can adapt himself at once to new duties and strange environment, and compete with those to whom it has all been familiar sineo boyhood.

News and Views

The Aristocrati

Body and Boul

More Schoolboy "Howlers."

Finland's Rum Runners.

|SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local and Far East. Finland being A prohibition country, there is a great deal of

Local Court case,

Tage 7. rum running along the

coast

Hong Kong Stock Market: Crou- There is an efficient coast guard | cher & Co.'s daily report.. Page 7. service, however, and recently the police acized in Finnish terri Shatin railway disaster; further torial, waters a large rum-runner evidence at enquiry," Page 7. with a cargo of 22,000 gallons of | alcohol. The police report that

China Cosat offers changes in Page 12. about 3000,000 gallons of alcohol personnel, const waiting to be landed, and the now lying off the Finnish

To-day's wireless programme. authorities are taking elaborate

Fago 3. precautions and very strong mea sures to prevent amuggling.

A Model City!

WAB Once D millionairo-at any rate in franks-and his wife, Three years ago M. Maurise. Basile lost

Prospective purchaser of puppy: "Is he well brod "Lady, if any of your neighbours has got a dog you'd like to see snubbed, this dog It has sometimes been suggested will do the job for you!” Local Forecast -E or variable that promotion from the ranka winds, moderate; fair.

should, except in very unusual Dry Year cases be made only while ratings Richard Walter Richardson, the aro still boys or ordinary scamen.licensee of the Robin Hood Gos

дго port, who succeeded his mother as A clever boy from the training licenses in 1878, has drawn thou BURNS TWENTYMAN.On May 21, squadron, after a course in navi-sands of glasses of ale and poured

at Shanghai, WILLIAM STEWART gation and mathematics could probout counthu bottles of spirita dur BURNE to GLADIS MURIEL SIN-ably take his place either in a group has never tasted a drop of any ing his 'years' experience, yet he CLAIR, eldest daughter of the of the somewhat older direct-entry intoxicating liquor. late Mr. JAMES R. TWENTYMAN, endets, who do about six months' of Shanghai, and The Hall, training before becoming midship-

There is an interesting story bo- Kirby-Misperton, Yorkshire.

men, or even with midshipmen A Home paper gives the follow- | hind a remarkable model of Kouen who have been, through Dartmouthing answer to a Correspondent" which is to be one of the exhibits Studious-No, I should not advise at the Fronch, Colonial Exhibition. college and the training cruiser. you to go on the stage; Covent GarIt has been made by a man who As that carly stage what he lacked den holds bigger rewards than in theory could still be picked, and Drury Lane. The last list of wills in many practical tasks he would shows that Pavlova left £14,000 and

a fruit merchant left £132,000. It his fortune. Faced with the ne have the advantage. Two objections is more blessed to refresh the body cessity of earning a livelihood, he decided to return to one of his that might be arged are, firstly, than the soul." that the kind of inds who would

schoolday hobbies-making modela of ships. In a short while he no- be promoted net, as a must useful

quired suc' à reputation, for fine Here are a few American school workmanship that the leading ships stimulent on the rest of the train: boy bowlers" published by the ping companies began to give him ing establishment, and, secondly, New York American. A goblet is orders for reproductions of their that expenses borne by parents of 2 male turkey. Matrimony is a linera in miniature. Among col. endete in the early stages of the place where souls suffer for a time lectors of such "toys for grown- on account of their sins A spins- ups" examples of his work are naval career, would have to filter is a bachelor's wife, Queen highly prized. Mine, Basile is his on the state in the form of grants Elizabeth as so fond of dresses principal assistant. As so many that she was never seen without

cargoes reach Rouen frem British and scholarships.

one. Socrates died from an over-ports, it is certain that large nuir Our forefathers bers of business men from England dose of wedlock. are not living as long as they did. will be interested in M. Basile's In the United States, prople aro put to death by elocution.

masterpices when they visit Vin. center. It measures more than six. teen metres (52) feet) across, ench metre repr.conting a kilometro We have not got women sitting (nearly 1,100 yards.) On the river A judges yet," said Sir Ernest thore are 1,000 "pices (ships, Wild at the Old Bailey, but I barges, &c.), and on dry land more am afraid they will se very hard than 10,000. It has taken five when they do." Most men, and months to make the model. many women, will echo this judi- rial dictum. It is also probable New Confidence Trick, that women judges would take a now view of the relative import calendar af crime. ance of the various offences in the An intelligent woman would perhaps explain with candour and penetration than an intelligent man why she would be harder than a man.

The Badly Press.

HONG KONG, MAY 28, 1831.

LOWER DECK PROMOTION.

Two strong committees appointed by the Admiralty are considering the not-unrelated questions of the entry of cadets and promotion from the lower deck, and it is to be A REUTER cable a few, days ago hoped that the appointment direct announced that the Admiralty had to aeling-sub-lieutenant or acting decided to abandon what was called lieutenant, according to age and qualifications, will prove successful, the "Mate Scheme" of naval pro-Ta "elimb through the hawse-pipe," motion to commissioned rank from as the old idiom put it, has always the Lower Deck. The scheme was been a difficult task. A handful of instances, of which those of BARLOW initiated shortly before the war, and Sir CLOUDESLEY SHOVEL Ore

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A. S. WATSON & CO., and under its operation a number most famous, are often cited, but more

·LIMITED. ·

UNION INSurance soCIETY OF CANTON, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.). NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. Aerated Water Manufacturers, neing-mate NOTION 18 HEREBY GIVEN No

that the FIFTY-EIGHTE TEL, 20436, ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING

of the Society will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, Hora Kona, on FRIDAY, 29TH

TEL. 57139.

MAY, 1991, at 11 O'CLOCK AK., for THE CHINA SUGAR REFINING

the purpose of receiving the Report

of the Directors and the Statements

of Account to 31st DECEMBER, 1930, | and declaring Dividends, ota.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 11TH MAX to 29TH MAY, Both Daye

CO., LTD.

(IN VOLUNTARY Laquidation). N that in

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of Section 187 parensaco 2) of the Companies Ordinance 1911. Company will be held in the BOARD GENERAL MEETING. of the

ROOM of Mesta. Jardine, HatkESON By Order of the Board, & Co., LTD, Pedder Street Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 27TH MAY, 1931, at PAUL LAUDER,

12 NOON, for the purpose provided General Manager.

for in the sald Bection." Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1981, [687

inclusivo.

No

of advancements to the rank of

were made from

specially recommended ratinge, After a period of training the acting-mates were confirmed in their rank and later they became lieuten. ants, being then placed on equality in the Navy List with those who had obtained that rank from cadet entry. The scheme has not

decision to make a change will cauro been particularly' successful and the

few regrets,

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they have to cover over thres hún- dred years of history. Wo know well in Hong Kong the type of men, well educated and well con ducted, now serving in the Fleet, and it is certainly right that there should be a real chance for the able youngster whose parents were not in a position to enter him na n cadet.

Hard" Sex,

Red" Propaganda By Wireless,

by a writer in the Echo de Paris, A cry of alarm has been raised concerning the wireless propaganda

When

Sport.

U.S. Baseball results......

Page 10.

Golf hinta.

Page 11.

Fanling golf results. Home cricket résulta. Latest local Derby betting.

Page 11.

Page 10.

Page 10.

Раде 31.

Local water-polo programme.

Latest Cables.

Derby Acceptances. Page 0.

signation as Foeriga Minister.

M. Briand has withdrawn his re-

Page 0.

With unexpected and almost dramatic suddenness an agitation against the cut in civil servants' salaries in Japan appears to have subsided.

.. Page 9.

The American Government has

replied to the Nanking. Government through Dr. C. C. Wa, the Chinese Minister to Washington, regarding the extrality problem.. Page 9.

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Martial law has been proclaimed following a serious outbreak at San Sebastinn by Communists and strikers, who compelled the with drawal of all public vehicles.

Page, 9.

An attempt to reach a height of ten miles in a balloon with ณ hermetically scaled gondola has been started by a Belgian aeronaut, life in the hope of being able to Professor Picard, who is risking his

mako a scientific study of the stratosphere (rarefied upper at- mosphero),

Роде 3.

Stalin's Pipe..

Paris-A new trap which is s variant of the old couidence trick has been laid for foreign visitors Four Roumanians and a Greek who were arrested in the Place de la Concorde have revealed to the police the procedure in this new form of robbery. One of them would accost a prosperous-looking foreigner and, under the pretext the time, engage him in conversa of asking him for a match, or for

Stalin shows an increasing ten- tion. As they talked a man would dency to be photographed with a ucted by the Soviet Govern- pass by and drop a pocketbook, as pipo in his mouth is unlike ment. For some time past, ho if accidentally. The first man that Stalin smokes a pipe out of says, Jisteners have heard every would run and pick it up and, any feeling of admiration for Mr. evening Russian station, from hastily stuffing it into his pocket, Baldwin, but the fact remains, which siches on Russian policy return to rerumo his "onversation. however, that his pipe gives him and the Besses of the Soviet ro But within a few acconds the man gime have been broadcast in French

siveness, and does much to obliter- an expression of Baldwinesque pen. and English. Under the Five

to the harshness of his features. Year Plan the Bolsheviks are now

Pipe-smoking in Russia is a rare erecting very powerful broadenst

habit. The climate and the herme- ing stations. One of these, which in foreign banknotes was missingtically-sealed rooms.in winter aro is shortly to begin to operate as from it, and accuse the other two against it. In fact, Stalin and international post, has an of having stolen them. The first Radek are the only two prominent WHES wireless broadcasting was.

aerial power of 500 kilowatts, while man, by way of proving that ho Russian politicians who are inve Until the rank of mate was first introduced in England, there tion, with an aerial power of 60 his own noterase for examination. this is a short-wave sta- was not guilty, would hand over adjoining

torate pipo-sinokers, and with created there was no way by which a were people who believed that it kilowatts. The result of the Rus. The foreigner, anxious to avoid

Stalin the habit is comparatively new. Moreover, the Man of Steel sian enterprise will be that, un-

is true to his Bolshevist principles.: But as his pocketbook Ho smokes only Russian pipe. other countries, they will be able was handed back to him the other tobacco-a villainous, smelly mix- to interfere very seriously with all two would begin, what appeared to turo known (18 "nachorka." other broadcasting and make their be a violent quarrel, which invari-

Radek is more catholic in hie propagande drown out all cla 4ably ended in one chasing the other

Lastes He believes in buying, or plea is therefore, made that along the rond. That would be France should lose no time in con. the last the visitor saw of either, than one British journalist in rather borrowing. British. More ['structing Goadcasting stations as and on examining his pocket-book Moscow has obtained a "coop" powerful as that now placed at he would find that all the notes it from Badek in return for a tin of the dismal of the Bolsheviks, contained had disappeared. cigarettes or a packet of tobacco,.

BROADCASTING AND READING.

an

who had dropped the pocket-book would be back on the she the article was handed back to him he would pretend that a large sum

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. naval rating could obtain commis- would have an adverse effect upon loss, their example is followed anything like a scene, usually did

JOHN FLEMING, C.A...

Joint Liquidators. Hong Kong, 20th May, 1931. [769

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

It was

sioned rank. In the Array no such the reading of books. anomaly prevailed; Sir WILLIAM argued that many who had hitherto ROBERTSON, Sir HECTOR MACDONALD been fairly steady readers would and many other valuable if less find themselves to satisfied with the faisous officers had joined as pri- broadcast programmes that they valen, and it was rightly felt that would abandon their, häbit of resd. similar opportunities should be ing. In actual fact, reading has given in the Senior Service. In increased, probably as a result of point of fact very few mates have broadcasting. Each year a large BEVENTH EXTRA HACE MEET-rin beyond the rank of lieutenant-number of books is published, and ING, to be held on SATURDAY, 6ra commander. Promotion to that rank, the general demand for books at Juni, 1981 (Weather Permitting), may be obtained at the RACE COURSE, provided the necessary examinations both public and private libraries

THE CHINA FINE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LTD. ..... (IncourolaTED IN HONG KONG.)

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

【OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTY-SECOND ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING AFF PROGRAMMES and of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, UNION BOLDING, HONG KONG, on FRIDAY, 29TH MAY, 1081, at 11.15 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statentots of Account to 31st December, 1930, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from lite MAY to 29TH MAY, Both' Days inclusive.

By Order of the Boat), FAUL LAUDER

General Manager. Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1981. [688

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Local Notes and Events ★

Hong Kong Club and Oathaway Bat are passed, is automatic, but the increases. How far this corres BTABLE.

Entries CLOSE at 12 O'clock Noowext step is the Belcher's Brook of ponds with the general advance of on THURSDAY, 28m May, 1831. the Navy. And here the mate is ¦ education, or how much of it is duo Charged with the theft of aj. A Chinese was admitted to the handicapped, competition among to the influence of the literary talks wooden box containing clothing, the Kwong Wah Hospital yesterday officers is extraordinarily keen and regularly broadcast, it is difficult property of So Shun, of 49, Pakhoi with internal injuries which are he is competing against the pick of to say. But that the influence of Street, a Chiness was sentenced to said to have been sustained during these broadcast literary talks is two months imprisonment by the a fight. His condition is reported beneficial to the community nobody Kowloon Magistrate yesterday. doubts.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

BUBBORIPTION GRIFFINS AND AUSTRALIAN POKIES

HE Bpbscribers to the

SATURDAY, 20TH MAY, 1931.

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"rather serious.”

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men who have been trained officers since boyhood. The educa tion of a naval officer is a very intensivo one. It is begun in the Librarians in rarious parts of One can of cerebro-spinal mén- With a previous conviction early teens, and from the start those England state that broadcasting has ingitis was reported on Tuesday. against him, a Chinese, who was who intend to gel promotion to been responsible for a considerable During the week eaded May 23, charged before Mr. W. Schofield at The List of Bonerie NOON on commander must set their minds part of this increase in reading. thero were five cases of enterio Contral Magistracy yesterday with to the task At 'successive stages Listeners who hoar intelligent die fever, one fatal caso. of diphtheria, the theft of a quantity of lead a few months' seniority can be courses by some of the best authors two cases (one death) of cerebro picked up, and none of these must and critics in the country can be missed if the foundations of hardly fail to be impressed. Alter success are to be truly laid. Thero wards they inquire of their book- art, of course, many distinguished seller or at their library for the

A reward of $1,000 is being offer offers who developed into, after books they have heard discussed. Ited for the arrest and conviction of of the Company will be held at its CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME being the despair of their term is now customary, in many public the person or persons who murder

∙BRITISH TRADERS' INSUR, NANCE COMPANY, LTD.

INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG,) NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

the

SIXTY-FIFTH

ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING

HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, Howe Kong, od FRIDAY, 29TH MAY, 1981, at 11.20 am, for the purpose of receiving the Beport of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st Deceiver, 1980, and of doslaring Dividends, ete,

*: The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 11 MAY to 29rn MAX, Both Days inclusive.

By Order of the Board, TAUG LAUDER

General Managers

Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1931.

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spinal fever and 88 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis,

connected with the Young Men's ed the Council, urging it to do its duty at a seasons, regardless of conquero "It places us in a

Christian Association have address-

very embarrassing position," the Council have replied, refusing, with but two membors dissenting, to change their practice-Hong Kong Daily Press, May 29, 1908. Looking Back 50 FORTS

practical and clear honded to 00 The Hon. W. Keswick is far too easily induced to take an unduly piping from the Taikoo Dockyard, sanguine view of the future of was sentenced to six months' hardly echo the boliova, expressed in China. Nevertheless we can hard- labour. The piping, it was stated, his neat and felicious speech at the was retreived by the defendant City Hall on the 10th inst, that from a rubbish heap................

before long. there will be powerfu} converts in China" to the import ance of following Western Idens. That the Chinese are moving, and that any movement in China. must this Colony are facte. that cannot operate indirectly to the benefit of

be gainsaid. The faith, which Mr... Keswick expressed in the progress

Looking Back 25 Years.

officer and even of their superiora libraries, to set aside on specialed Mr. B. G. Carstairs at 2, Luna down to lieutenant days But such shelves books that have been men-Duilding, Kowloon, on May 21. Shanghai is being confronted youthful remissness takes living tioried in the latest talks, and hence The “buy” and anah, who were with a rather pretty problem, one down, and in any case the early those in charges of the libraries are detained by the police until Ture that has so many sides to it that training, tells

of Hong Kong we also endorse ; it is affording excuse for a very we believe it is destined to go on A man who only able to judge fairly accurately whe day, have now, been released joins in the promotion stakes well ther their public bus been influenced It is reported locally that, follow- entertaining correspondence in the increasing in wealth and popula on in the twenties is severely by what they heard on the wireless. Kong between representativos of the cipal Council, it appears probe due-to-progres in the adjoin. ing a meeting recently in Hong newspapors. The Shanghai Munition. How far this growth will handicapped. His whole education It has been very noticeable, that, Canton Government and the agent cutes Chinese gamblers with fairing Empire is, however, a little. has been different, has had different after a recent series of brondeat of a foreign firm of munities manu ly steady enthusiasm, but relaxes problematica!! But how Much ends in rice; he Ands the best of lactares by SirhursJEANS the purchase by the Canton party because it would then appear so under the pressure of events.

facturers a contract was signed for the legal pressure-during-race week-no-the tortoise "doms and that only hit new contemporaries well estab-astronomy, for example, there was or G.81,000,000 worth of bombs, very inconsistent with the doings Hong Kong Daily Press, May 28, lished specialists in gunnery, "toran immediato demand for his works. - grenades, thells and ammunition. of the foreigners. Somo persons 1881.