1931-08-13 — Page 8

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

HONG KONG FOOTBALL CLUB.

THE

THE 447 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of MEMBERS will be held at the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (By Kind Permission)

on FRIDAY, 14TM AUGUST, 1981,

st 5.80 r..

1047]

II. M. MOTAVISH,

Hon. Becrotary.

COOL! REFRESHING!

OLD METALS WANTED.

ELLERS of OLD METALS (Not

Iron and Steel) are invited to

particulars

Quaalitics available, sts, to Exporter.- Box No. 1046, e/o Hong Kong Dally Press,

write giving fall

NOTICE.

HAVING

(1043.

THIRST-QUENCHING

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931.

THE

HILLMAN

WIZARD

1S

HERE

of

DRINKS THAT WILL

HELP YOU TO KEEP

"OOOL!

THE CAR OF

THE MODERNS

rosigned from the Position of COMPRADORE

to MR. P. M. PINGUET AND COMPANY, I havo soverod my Connection with that Firm as from 26TH JULY, 1931. * 1084)

(Signed) HQ, SAI MAN.

NOTICE.

WE, the Undersigned, heroby

confirm our Notice dated 26TH JULY published in the Local, Press that 3, HỌ BÀI MAN is No Longer connected with Our Firm.

P. M. PINGUET & CO. Dated August 8th, 1981. [1042

·HONG KONG REALTY & TRUST COMPANY, LIMITED.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of 30 Cents Per Share has been declared payable or TUESDAY, 1ST SEPTERERA NEXT, on and after which Date Dividend Warrante", may be obtained open application at the REGISTERED OFFICE of the Com- PADY, 2ND FLOOR, EXCHANGE BUILDING, DER VOREX ROAD CENTRAL

NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be OLOSED) from THURSDAY, 27 Avouer, to MON. DAY, 3187 Acover, 1981, Both Days inclusive,

By Order of the Board,

U. F..V. RIBEIRO,

Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, 5th Aug, 1931.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

[1033

THE Undermentioned Certificates

for 150 Old Shares in this Com pany registered in the Name of the Late IBAAC SAMUEL PERRY have boea LOST or DESTROYED; and should three Certificates not be produced to the Company before 2013 AUGUST, 1931, New Certificates for said Shares will be issued and the

the

WATSON'S

DELICIOUS

LEMON SQUASH

MADE FROM REAL

CALIFORNIAN LEMONS,

PURE CANE SUGAR AND THE PUREST OF PURE SPARKLING WATER.

WATSON'S

TONIC WATER

INVIGORATING AND

THIRST-QUENCHING, A

PERFECT "MIXER"

WITH LIME JUICE OR

GIN.

For reliable Information about the whole of the Far East use the

DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE

OF

Old Certificates Nos. 6746 dated 2nd. | CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO. June, 1911, and 6785 dated 27th July, 1911, will be thereafter treated by thin Company no NULL and VOID.

Certificate No 6746 dated 2nd June, 1911, for 50 Shares Nos. 38501/39550.

Certificate No. 6765 dated 27th July, 1911, for 100 Sharer Now. 36901/96960 and 129645/129694.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.

[979

Hong Kong, 20th July, 1931.

CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME- ORIENT. MORTGAGE BANK AND ESTATE AOINTA

- PEAK MANSIONS",

Five-roomed Apartments

Six-roomed

PRINCE EDWARD BOAD, KOWLOON,

Detached, and Semi-detached. Villas

Modern Construction with Garage,

*

SCAMBAY BUILDINGS Tinte with Modern Convenience

AGENCIES,

The London Uffice of the HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, 53, FLEET STREET, EC.4, is constant ly receiving Enquiries from Home Manafectarers regarding Suitable Firms to set a Agents for their producte in Hong Kong ad Fonth China.

If Loca Companies desirous of taking ap farther Agencies will let us know the Line in which they aTO interested the information will be forwarded to London and passed an to interested parlíos na soXL+ portunity offan,

This Berrics is offered to our Readers without charge and, of course no obligation is incurred on either ride,

The Required Information should be - sent to the

· HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, LID, 71, Tom Hevin Brazer,

CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO, THB PHILIPPINES, Etc. ̈

This Large Volume of approximate. ly 2,200 Pages gives, in addition to jhe Usual Liste of Firma, an Alphabetical Lists of Residents in the Far East containing the Names of nearly

20,000 FOREIGNERS. Arranged, with the initiala as wall as Surnames in strict alphabe tical order.

CLASSIFIED LIST

OF

MERCHANTS,

ANE

MANUFACTURERS

for the whole of the Far East arranged, with addresses,

in alphabetical order. Alphabetical lists of Cable

Addresses.

List of Agencies held by

Far Eastern firms.

LARGE EDITION SMALL EDITION

$12

HONGKONG-DAILY PRESS, Lid, 11. Ice House Street, Hong Kong.

Local Agents:

GILMAN & Co., Ltd.

NEW BANK BUILDING.,

MARRIAGE.

[A.P.B.]

Mr. and Mrs. WALTER F. HARRIS

announce the marriage of their daughter, MURIEL, to Mr. WILLIAN KENNETH DAVY, of the Bukit Pulai Rubber Estate, Jebore, F.M., on July 10, 1931, at the Cathedral, Singa- pore, F.M.S.

DEATH,

SCOTT-On August 11, suddenly, at Dundee, Captain ALFRED JAMES Scorr, late China Navigation Co., Ltd. (By cable.) (1050

Editorial and Business Offices: 11

Ice House Street. Tel. 0251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. 94531. London Oke: 53, Fleet Street,

E.O. 4.

★ News and Views ⋆

we all know which way a show-of hanily would go, if "the dole ! and such-like luxuries, were at stake. But the wiser Ministers know per- foetly will that if national bank- ruptcy, did come the working classes) would be the worst sufferers. Thoy Journalism by Stopwatch realise, moreover, that the British working classes are aware of this, and have no intention of letting get to such a pass, not even to please dole experts and Mr. JAMES MAXTON.

matters

set

In British Watersi

Real Gold.

Now Refrigerant..

Saving the Green.

Thanks largely to its determined defence by the House of Lords, Camberwell Green is to remain -green and not: te be turned into a railway station. It was rather sUT- prising that in these days, - when England has become no generally aware of the importance of her few urban open spaces, designa should have been made for the destruction of one so well-known.

course.

Oxford Gents.

In America the "stop-watch" has As in the worst periods of the become an integral part of the inflation, so, too, the present crisis journalist's arcana. It is used to is producing its harvent of storica. register the length of articles and Here is one which comes from short stories. At least one popular Vienna. On Black Monday an aris magazino heads its every feature tocratic but agitated spinster enter. with the schedule: "Reading time: ed the portals of the Austrian Way France is Rich.

·13 min. 15 sees." The stop-watch, | National Bank. Taking £500 worth One of the mast fantastic miseun... As an initial move to too, is used to register the effect of Austrian gold schillings from a coptions about the French is that Britain's finances right a three- «of statesmen's speechos.

neatly tied, sack, she inid them be- they are a purely pleasure-loving fore the cashier. "I want thero | party conference has been suggest

The fact is that the people. changed for American dollars," яhe ed. Very rightly the Conservatives

Baid. "But why, noble dametraverage Frenchman spends a most laborious day, and, owing to the have rejected the proposal. Such A shark about eft, long caused. replied the cashier. What you inadequacy of his wagce, this is a conference could do no good. If bathare to make a dash for salety have is gold-real gold. Why do followed in thousands of cases by the Labour Party has a clear and when it appeared off the aborts at you want to change it, for paper a laborious night in a second em

Blac Anchor,

dollars" lew miles from

"Give me dollars, ployment. Aa, for the French work- efficient plan the Conservatives wil! Minehead. Many hathers were in please," said the woman firmly ng woman, she accepts a twelve or support it in the Nations in the water at the time and after This is only Austrian gold. Who fourteen honrs day as a inatter, of terests. Such a policy can be pub renching the shore they did not knows what may happen to Austrian licly stated and then judged on its venturo" back in the water for gold!"

#ome time. The shark, which was merits. But it is mò, uc calling the biggest seen in the vicinity, iato. accrot consultation rival" polieruined about Blue Anchor Bay

Tho introduction into England of before disappearing.

The Corporation of Oxford City ticians whose opinions, would not

new refrigerant, which is colder.

are extremely sensitive to questiona be allowed to effect the issue. No

than ito, may, in 'course of time, ravolutionise methods of packing of status. They have recently in is going to accept rèspon-

and marketing certain kinds of siated upon a local barber altering" sibility without control. Nor does It is a remarkable fact, that com- perishable foodstuffs, It is a form his shop sign from Gents Hair munal troubles in the Indian of "carbonic acid snow."-solidi-

cutter to "Men's Haircutter" anyone believe that a mixture of Native States are rare, and there fed carbonic acid gas--and has the They have based this insistence, not Conservative and Labour ideas, fore, the rioting between Hindus advantage of being not only colder

upon any desire to eschew class with a dilution of Liberalism, is and Mohammedana which occurred than ice, but lighter. Also, when it hatred, but upon a wish to preservo in Kashmir is of particular interest, evaporates, it passes off as a harm the purity of our English tongue.. likely to effect a care. Quite pos- The Maharajah, Sir Hari Singh is less gas instead of melting into This, in the corporation of a univer- sibly Mr. SNOWDEN may be able to not in a position in which he inde water. It has been widely used insity city is highly becoming. The balance his budget,. if he is allow-it easy to deal with such disturb the U.S.A. for some years past. word "Gents," they affirm, does Ances. He is himself a Hindu (to Apart from ordinary uses it is being not exist. They are correct in this ed to do the job in his own way, be precise, a Rajput), but the employed in connection with some

affirmation. Here at least is `n case but he will certainly fail if he is Mohammedans among his subjects remarkable quick-freezing experi- fine distrust of class distinctions.

where culture clasps hands with a pinde to consider the susceptibilities outnumber the Hindus by some ments, for which amazing results As a matter; are claimed in the preservation of of fact. bis family has not yet been foodstuffs, including fresh soft fruits of Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, Sir thing like four to one. HERBERT SAMUEL, and their respec- connected with the country for as like strawberries. The time may long as a hundred years, the come when a aummer glut of straw- tive parties.

founder of the house, Gulab Singh, herrien enn be preserved for winter having been placed there by the consumption--just as wo preserve Sikh conqueror, Ranjit Singh.

one

The possibility of an emergency government, can also be dismissed. Coalitions do not work, A" group

Rioting in Kashmir,

..

the summer surplus of eggs,

Earl of Athlone.

1

were Experts Fail:

[A woman doctor declares that most of the unrest and much of the illness in England are due to the

fact that women can neither `cook nor shop efficiently.]

When man his helpmeet's failings

Attempts to criticise

He fears her stricken wailings,

The tears in, anguished eyes; But woman, lovely woman,"

Is wholly void of ruth And can be quite inhuman In ladling out the truth.

Her words lika vitriol dropping - Must scar the victim's soul, Proclaiming woman's shopping

A failure on the whole.

of masterful men of divergent To Encourage Chinese Boxing, outlook only makes for bad

An appeal is being made to all "Had it not been for the brother government. In human affairs it Chinese newspapers soliciting their of our Queen, we should have had is impossible to plan the perfect aid in furthering a project to raise war in South Africa," declared Mr. one million dollars for the estab- Arthur Barlow, former Chairman line of action. The only course is lishing of a School for Sports Train- of Committees of the South African to put a good man in charge and ing, the said school to be known House of Assembly, recalling the give him a free hand. At times he

as the National Athletic College. flag controversy at a Rotary Iun. General Chang Tze Kiang, of cheen at Cape Town." It was en- will blunder but, if the job is not Kiangsu, and Mr. You Ying Gien, tirely due to the Earl of Athlone beyond human power, he will carry are making themselves responsible that we settled the flag question it through. If a number of well-for the work entailed in raising the in South Africa, and now that he funds. Already land has been par- has left the country. I think that meaning and distrustful colleagues chased at Kiangwan, and it is pro- I may mention the fact," "Mr. Bar- prevent him making his blunders posed to erect the school on this low continued. The Labour mem- he will gut nowhere, because blun- site. The building will house somebers, he explained, approached the two thousand students, all from | Governor-General requesting him to ders and master-strokes are in various provincca of China, and the exercise his influence to bring about. IPES extricable. It is the hardest thing chief sport to be taken up will be a settlement. The Earl of Athlone. Bad cooking, reckless spending,

Chinese boxing. This, says General after firat refusing as the King's Chang, is not only a means of representative to have anything to exercising one's body, but is also do with the matter, realized the an invaluable aid in self-defence. necessity of averting a crisis, saw Chinese boxing, should be mastered General Hertzog and General by the youth of the country in Smuts and members of the Cabinet. order to make them physically fit and worked so hard that he brought to fight for their national cause. the two sections together.

The Daily Press.

Hong Kong, August 13, 1931.

imaginable to get together a demm a statesmen to govern & country. The old method was to let the King choose bis ministers. Now the icador of the largest political party, picks his colleagues from among his as sociates and supporters. At least they have much in common io ideals, outlooks, and loyalties, THE Economy Committee of Mr. though a lender must often give

THE LABOUR' PARTY IN

DIFFICULTIES..

office to a man he dislikes and dis- truats.

And when it comes to table

The sad results reveal That she is quite unable

To cook a docent meal.

These two, it is confest, Achievo a common ending In sickness and unrest. Come, housewives, buckle to it

And find a better plan, For if you cannot do it,

Well, who the dickens can

TOUCHSTONE.

*Local Notes and Events

The Colony had a clean bill of health for Tuesday.

If the Labour Party cannot for- mulate a policy satisfactory to the House of Commons, the nation and its own supporters, it will have to make way for another party. If that party does not mucceed in Five boat people were fined $10 carrying the support of the House each by Comdr. G. F. Hole at the of Commons, it can dissolve Par Marine Court yesterday for anchor- liament and seek a majority. ing their boats inshore near the

The Labour Party is in a bad | Chiu On Wharf, predicament because it has adopted an unsound policy-a policy calcu lated to attract the selfth and the shortsighted voter to the general detriment. Labour has had to re- can be surprised to find dismay and nounce its own policy, and no one

dissensions among its supporters.

nounced of Clayton Leonard Seitz, The forthcoming wedding in an- of the Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon, and Lilla Rita Gallaway, ca route to Hong Kong on the s.s. President Wilson.

The quarantine restrictions im-. 4 passenger jumped overboard froin the Yaumati ferry Man Yee posed against arrivals from Swatow on Tuesday." The only evidence of on account of cholers have been re- the suicide was a splash, the search moved. proving fruitless and it is not known whether the supposed suicide was

a

man.or" a woman..

...

From the Files.

RAMSAY MAODONALD'S Cabinet has warned the Prime Minister that there has got to be drastic retrench- ment if national bankruptcy is to be avoided. And let us state at the outset that the necessary steps to preserve British standing and credit will be taken. It appears that an- other £120 millions have to be found if the Budget is to be balanced, or in other words, if the Government in to meet its Habilities. It did not need the investigations of the Economy Com mittee to reveal the fact that looner or later this crisis would have to be Inced. There is a point at which extra taxation defeats its own end. The layer of golden eggs. becomes indisposed and rude treat- ment will only have most serious consequence The Government has been repeatedly warned that ile spendthrift policy could have but August is never a pleasant place, on Tuesday, some unknown person was not present and it is believed told the men to refrain from des-

PRESIDENT HINDENBURG.

THERE is one German to whom, in this hour of trial, the British people will extend a special sym- puthy, and this is the eighty-three year old President. Berlin in

To anyone connected with German officialdem it must be at the present moment a miniature hell of days of strain and sleepless nights.

Doubtless Marshall HINDENBURG

A house-boy, employed at Kow- loon Tong, was taken to hospital on Tuesday after having been bitten by a chow dog. The animal was seized and removed to the Matankok depot for observation.

A Chinese woman, living at 10, Centre Street, alleges that, while she was walking in Hollywood Road

A steak and kidney dinner has Lane, Crawford's Restaurant on been arranged to take place atj Wednesday, August 19, at 7.30 p.m., when the trophies recently won in the Motor Cycle Reliability Trial will be presented. Applications for tickets (82 each) should be made to the hon. treasurer not later than Saturday, August 15.

Looking Back 25 Years

M. Lebermante, a scaman on the Italian cruiser Calabria, was charg ed at the Police Court yesterday with behaving in a disorderly manner at Headquarters House and The case in which Wong Kai Sang with assaulting Dhula Singh, an was charged with stealing $10 from orderly to the General. The evi a fellow passenger on the Kowloon dence showed that the defendant Canton Railway was brought up and three comrades untered the before Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon grounds of Headquarters House Magistracy yesterday, but the de- and helped themselves to flowers fendant, who was out on $500 bond, out of the gardens. The orderly that he has absconded: A warrant troying the plants, and to leave was issued for his re-arrest.

the grounds. Defendant refused,: and picking up a stone threw it Two banishecs were sentenced to

at the orderly, striking him on the 12 months' hard labour by Mr. ters to demolish the matsheds they ant told his Worship that a number Another attempt to force, squat-lip, which was cut open. Defend Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy have built on Crown Land at Wong of Indians beat him with sticks yesterday. It was stated that one neiekong was made by the P.W.D. and threw stones at him. A fine of of the men had been banished for when a raid was made on Tuesday. 895 was imposed-Hong Kong Daily ten years, having been in Apparently a warning had been re-reas, August 12, 1908. almost continuously since 1928. The ceived and only one arrest was other had returned to the Colony made. This man appeared before. twice.

threw corrosive acid on her facs and legs. She was removed to the Government Civil Hospital.

Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Looking Back 10 Years, Court yesterday and was fined $10 In June last we had ocession to, and ordered to destroy his matshed. follow up a suggestion of the Bang- kok paper re the establishment of

one end, but no attention was paid to danger signs. The Labour Party held obstinately to its belief that

the pockets of the rich are in: would far sooner be walking the exhaustible," The irresponsibles broud acres of Neudeck, his ances tral East Prussian home, which, would add: "If we do have bank-like Bemerside to Haig, was repur ruptcy and revolution, so much the chased and restored to him by the worse for the aristocrate and the German nation. Yet so well dis

ciplined is his life, so strong his bourgeois-the poor will be all sense of duty, that the President right!" To this day a large secprobably does not feel the strain so tion of the Labour Party will never Acutely as his Ministers, who are half his age. The foundations of consent to the needed reductions at Germany may be shaking, but Pro- the expense of "social services "— sident HINDINwurg does not alter

The twelfth anniversary of the a postal service in Siam. We are they would sooner face consequences his habits. He goes to bed at the

birth of the German Republic was glad to learn by the Advertiter. which they have neither the know. He takes his usual morning walk.

nmo time. His sleep is untroubled.

celebrated at Shameen on Tuesday that His Majesty the King bas when the German Consul-General, given instructions for the establish. ledge nor the imagination to under- On the study tablo at which he

Dr. Wagner, and Mrs. Wagner, ment of a pastal service in the were "At Home" to their nationals; Kingdon," Whether or not 'Siam' spends most of his day stands the stand.

printed text from his "military

and friends at their residence. The will enter the Postal Unico, how- Leaving the economic issue it is cadet days: Work and pray. A Chinese pleaded guilty to a entire German community were erer, remains to be seen, but we see interesting to examine the possible And this rock-like man finds con- charge of shop-lifting at the Con- present, the officials of the different no reason why this ster should not large number] follow vle 'other," It carried out, solation in work and prayer. He tral Police Court yesterday. Ac- Consulates and a political reactions to the present did not even abandon his holiday. cording to the palico the defendant of Chinese and foreign business as we trust it will be, this will be aituation. Even within the Cabinet In these days of storm he is the was seen to slip a bathing costume people, and representatives of the an important step in advance, and symbol of calm, and as such his în a tin box at the Wing. On Co.'s Provincial Government Toasts and wo hope it will be speedily followed Presence is worth a Rechtbank in store. He was sentenced to three speeches were the order of the day, by the constraction of the projected itself, His military merits may, be months imprisonment and also and Dr. Wagner expressed great telegraph line to the frontier of questioned. He will go down to seven months for having returned pleasure at being host to such a British Burais-Hong Kong: Daily history as a great President. from banishment.

varied and distinguished assembly. i Press; August 12, 1881.

.

the isso appears to be ** For

**For or Against National Bankruptcy. Among the wild men, outside the responsible Ministers of the Crown

A verdict of "Suicide" was re- turned at a Coroner's inquiry, con- ducted by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy vesterday. Tho deceased was a mui, tai, who was found hanging over her bed at 33, Contrà Street. Medical evidence showed that the girl was well nourished.