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ADVERTISE

PUBLIC WORKS' DEPARTMENT..

TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that.

SHALED TENDERS in Triplicate which should be clearly marked "Tender for Naw Kowloon Quarry Loi- No. 1 will be recatrod at the Colonial Becretary's Oos antil Noon of MON- DAY, the 28 day of NOVEMBER 1981, for the coupation for period

:from, íha, date of notifica commencing Hon of acceptance of tender and ending

1994, of the

pices

on all ground as shown, coldnred

or percal of

rad on a plan signed by the Director of Public dated 27th

and subject to the sonditions which can be ascertained at the offer of the Director of Public Works.

Upset annual fee $1,200.

Each tender must be accompanied by a receipt to the effect that the tanderer kaë deposited in the Colonial Fresancy a sum of $100 ss » pledge of "the búna Ader of his offer, which "sam. whall be forfeited to the Crown in the event, of the tenderer, whose tender' is accepted, refusing to carry out the terms and conditions of his tender.

On the acceptance of a tender the deposits of unsuccessful ten lerera will "be returned to them,

"Form of tender and further: partien- lars can be obtained from the office of

the Director of Public Works,”

The Government does not bind itself

to accept the highest or any tender.

HAROLD T. CREASY,

Director of Publio Works.

BRITAIN'S BEST

BEERT

WHITBREAD'S

DOUBLE BROWN

ALE

ACCUS:

PHONG KONG

6th November, 1931.

G.

B.

PUBLIC AUCTION,,

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Pthe Sale by Public Auction DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

to be held on MONDAY, the 16TH DAY of NOVEMBER, 1931,8 FM t the Offices of the Publie Worki Depart ment, by Order of His ExcLLINOT, QUE GOVERNOR, of Ons. Lot of CROWN LAND at Shamchnipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 5 Fors, commencing from 1st July, 1209, Wiks the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to be fired by the Surveyor of Ha Mazure 701 Kmo, for one furtäer term of 2 years less the last three daya thereof.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Registry No.

Locality

Lot Na 165kā

Junotion of 1 Po Road and

Ho Street.

New Kowloon inland

Boundary,,9

Mesa

mente.

As per

sala plan.

About.

Contante in

Equare foot

Annual

Bont

Upest Price.

333

5.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

FINE

BROWN

DOUBLE BROWN

WHITBREAD

LONDON

SOLE AGENTS:

CHOCOLATES

to take home-

to take back and munch on the sofa till cooktail time. Take the best, 'man," don't stint ber to-night. Take only.

ROWNTREES

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· MARRIAGES.

BIRTH.

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JOHANNESEN.-On November 6, at

Shanghai, to Mr. and Mr. V JOHANNESEN, a daughter.

and accep

of

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1931.

life, extreme the upsetting of

ONU BOS

News and Views

Tale of the Day!'

Car Chaking, by "Plans,

To top airmen from flying low over Brooklande motor racing truck

..

The All-Copper House.

A new use for copper hos zabely been discovered. We have now the all-copper house. At the Building Exhibition recently held in Berli (over 100 of these houses were sold.

Ab Cologne an' all-copper, church. has been built. Has a use for the

found 1

DISORDERLY RIOTS AT DUBLIN

ANTI-IMPERIALISTS OBJECT

TO POPPY WEARERS

MEGKOMITOY" W KOLLAKE" HAGOREL]

LONDON, Nov; 11- Disorderly scenes occurred ab Dublin when attempta ware made to hold meetings by an anti-Im- perialistio organisation, despite the Compulsory Appandia Ramovala,

proclamation banning them. Thoro Will the rumoval of appendices were skirmishes between police atid in childhood. become compulsory? civilane, several baton charges were The suggestion sounds gruesome, made and special forces patrolled Arst suggestion of vaccination to tio orowds of Republicans and but probably not more so than the the city during the night to pres vent trouble between the antagonis- our grandfathers. At any rate, it armistice poppy wearers. serious, proposal at the clinical con- has just been put forward as a gross of surgeons at present sitting

revorani of dovenoya standards of human China seems fortunate in having low records of anything similar to tho Satanium of Europe building Yos, fir. We never I see you're putting up a new It is always mid of China thapus anything up but new one. Morais unlimited:. superstition very little religion and no enthu sinem on the subject. All that has to be done is laid down, and the during races the Clerk of the Courseworld's surplus silver at last been performance the prescribed h-arranged that a policeman will be on duty armed with field glasses. ritual" is a completo safeguard He will take the identification lat. "ngniust all fortune and the operatering of any plane interfering. sion of the unseen. For thou with the racing sands of years the position has been Underwear of the Underworld. athbilised. The dethronement of theOne of the bright spots in a gon- Emperor the Hight Priest, upon erally depressing outlook is the whom fell the duty of performing spectacle of American justice sole trial of Mr. Al Capone. The propitiatory and devotional rites maly endeavouring to arrive at the was la religious na wall as a civil gangster's liability for income tax in New York. The advocates of revolution. Since the Emperor cussing the cost of his underwear, their case by statistics. In the by exploring his wardrobe and dis compulsion sought to strengthen. was banished the land has had civil without any mention of the ne- United States alone 25,000 people War and many tribulations No tivities which produced the money died from appendicitis in 1995. doubt old-fashioned Chinese.connect

for it is really one of the most This argument can become convinc- these misfortunes. with the modern tory of gangdom. Incidentally,

astonishing things in the whole hising only when the surgeons can tell

reforms. Canton has an active being "gentleman's gentleman” to society for the suppression of profession A Big Shot's valet a. gangster must be a highly skilled superstitious practices and a stromu must know how to care for delicate ous effort was made to stop the and radiant silken underclothing

At the same time he must be no celebration of the last Chinese Newmaan, engineer in order to deal year. The attempt failed, but with the bullet-proof armament.

Pen Toonomy?

what the deaths. rate "will be among the children for whose benc compulsory operation." file they now propose; to introduce:

Wilkins to Try Again."

GRANDI'S VISIT TO AMERICA

FEAR OF ANTI-FASCIST

OUTBREAK

(REUTER' AMERİCAN SERTICI

New York, Nov, 10. Undaunted by the difficulties fo experienced in the Nautilus, Sir monstrations endangering the life Owing to fear of anti-Fascist de- Hubert Wilkins, the explorer, is of the Italian Foreign Minister contemplating another submarine Signor Grandi, when he arrives on voyage to the Aretic. In a letter Monday to confer with President to Mr. Simon Lake, the American Hocver, he will be met at the piar submarine inventor. Bir Hubert ex by a heavily armed guard and ruah- pressos his firm intention of maked in a closed car to Pennsylvania. another Arctie submarine yoy station where he will untrain for suitable vessel. age 48 Boon as he can obtain Washington without the customary

civic reception.

Hiring a Memory...

A National Labour candidate during the recent election engaged A well-known music-ball memory- man" to answer political questiona that the Anti-Nationalists, on the of historical fact. It is understood other hand, are taking lessons in how to forget historical facts as quickly as possible.

Cyclists End Long Trek.

:

BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED

POSITION STILL IMPROVING

(THROUGÏÏ NEUTER'S. AGENCY.]

LONDON, Nov. 11. A further fall of 18,000 in the total of Britain's unemployed_00 curred daring the week ending Nov. 2.

while societies of that kind may not achieve success the steady leavening of Westernizain fast breaking up

Economy is making its appear China's religious system.

We allance in all sorts of strange ways, know something of the wars of re The nibe of the Home Civil Service LITTLE-STRAUSS-On November 7ligion in Europe. The differences are the latest objects to be affecteding at The Peak Church, Hong over which men fought now som for general use, stainless steet peas The Service has been notified that, Kong, GRETEL STEArse to JOHN minute, and often ridiculous, but will shortly be supplied. These, BARGRAVES LITTLE. ・・・ [1448 WHITE MIDDLETON On October resembled the un-modernised parts much longer life than ordinary steel: three centuries ago, when Europe the official notification anys, have a at Shanghai, CATHERINE FLOR of China of to-day, heresies provok DONALD, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Middleton of Kod not disputations, but persecu en ons ahould outlast at least 12 ziamnir, Scotland, to MICHAEL ans and burnings. We are all that they are long lived; becaus ordinary steel nibs. It is as wall aware of the political and indus an explanatory note explains that PAIL, son of Henry John White trial revolution in progress to-day the new pens may at first neem of Spalding, Lincolnshire.

throughout China. The religious slightly less flexible than their steel revolution, caused by the rapid forerunners; but that this tenda disintegration of old beliefs, may disappear in use." have not been merely curious and in- teresting, but volcanic reactions. It A Lutyens Prin is not suggested that Sataniem will become the faith of China, but theed & pun, which is so neat and stone and J. E. Barrell, are the Bir Edwin Lutyens has perpetrat Two motorcyclists, W. John blank atheism of the Communist simple that one feels it must have first to complete the 10,000 miles' and of the "advanced intellectual,' will not be enough. There is no con made before. At dinner re journey from England to the Cape, sign of a modern restatement of his immediate neighbours in a cou-

cently he was heavily engaged by vin Cairo. They took five months either Confucianism or Bhuddism.versation about the Liverpool Ca

to make the trip. A sandstorm.`iz Neither the one nor the other seome thedral. As their interest in ar

the Nubian desert and encounters with lions and leopards in the game) to porgess an enthusiast, far less chitecture was more curious than.

COLOGNE, Nov. 10 areus provided them with adven- -Circumstantial reports of a mys HOND KONG, NOVEMBER 12, 1933; Missipps make slow frogress, and anal straw cants when a woman

a vital reformper. The Christian academic, he became bored. The tures and other memorable incid terious maasing of Hitler'a storm NOVEMBER

despite the efforts of the Society for asked him Tell me, Sir Edwin,

enta. They were lost for two days troops converging on Breslau in all the Suppression of Superstitious exactly how would you describe the Forest and had to light fires to scare according to the Buaialist organ in the jungle areas of the Namanga manner of conveyances and afoot, practices, the tendency is for super-architectural style of the new Cathe wild animals away In the Up-Rheinischezeitung," has immenss stition to gain ground at the ex- thedral Sir Edwin assumed d ideals of the older faiths. pense of the great truths and high look of stern gravity "I'm afraid I cannot explain it to you by word of mouth," he said, "but if you will give me a pencil and cribe it." The pencil and paper piece of paper I shall try, to des

were brought, and then very sole mnly he wrote down the word, "Wrenaissance."

A.S. WATSON & Co., The Daily Press.

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DAVID S. ROBB,

Joint Hon. Secretary.

THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918), LTD.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS GENERAL MEETING of the Pof the Bale by Public Anstian to above-named Company will be held be held on MONDAY, the 16rs DAY of at the Head Office of the Company, NOVEMBER. 1931, 2 P.M. ut the Offion of the Public Works Department, GEORGE'S BUILDING, Victoria, Order of His ExcxLLAKOT THE GOVER Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, the 1st 202, of Ons Int of CROWN LAND DAY OF DECEMBER, 1981, at Noon, at Junction of Argyle Street and when the subjoined Resolution will Waterloo Road. in the Colony of be proposed as an Ordinary Hong Kong for a term of 75 yours, Resolution, viz with the option of renewal at a Őrown- Bent to be fixed by the Burveyor of Em Marasti za Kine, for one further. term of 75 yeara,"

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Bals

Kowloon Injana-Lot.

Registry No.

Locality.

No. 2657074

Junstion of

Waterloo Hood..

Argyle Strest and

Boundary

Mekaars-

ments.

As per

sale plen

Upeat Price.

About:

Contents in

1,280,000

15,266

Square feet,

Annual

Rental

266,000.

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"That the Authorised Capital of the Company, be increased to #Ten Million Dollars by the "creation of One Million New "Shares of the nominal value of $5.00 excl.and that such. New Shares be issued at such time.or times and on such terms and cond tionk na the Directors in their absolute discretion shall see it.": SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers. Hong Kong, 10th Nov., 1981. [1441

THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB, DARY FORMS for AFT PROGRAMMES

and the THIRD EXTRA RACE MEETING to be held at MAÇÃO SUNDAT 22 NOVEMBER 1981 (Weather Por mitt ng), may be obtained at the Brosrs CLUK Tax Loss KON JOOLEY OLUS

STABLES, or at the Offices of Messrs.

SUPERSTITION.

THE CHILD AND THE FILM.

Baby Princean Walking.

COMMUNIST PUTSCH IN

GERMANY

per Sudan long stretches of bog dy excited Republicana whose Reichs- made it necessary for them to dig banner fighting organisation, fin cut their machine very frequently, stated, is preparing for all emargen. On two occasions their sidecar was cies in view of the apprehensions wrecked.

recently expressed by Nazis that n Communist putsch was impending.

FIELD OF REMEMBRANCE.

Gough's Best One.

flippancy (which is far from my I hope I shall not be accused of

nature) if I cap the epigrams from Prebondary Gough's sermons with

(BRITISH WIRELESS BEEVICA) what he said about-the-ner Prayer! Book, writes a London Correspon

EUGAT, Nov. 10- dent. There were, he said, things The lawns by Westminster Abbey prayer for the dead, the second the membrance in which the public may.. The did not care, for, the first the are being used as a Field of Be prayor for the League of Nationa: plant Flanders poppy" emblems. but, he added, it was his pious This afternoon, Field Marshal hope that the prayer for the cne Lord Plumer placed a cross there would soon include the prayer for to the memory of his troops of the the other:

Second Army,

* Local Notes and Events

from the files.

Looking Back 25 Years.

Ir may seem curious that there should recently have been an out break in Finland, one of the most civilised and cultured countries in Europe, of that degrading and horrible cult known as Satanism. Tux question what type of film is The discovery of a number of dead suitable for the young is not an easy one. The adventures of Jack bodies with curious wounds and the Giant-killer may have as dis- mutilations suggest that there had tressing an effect upon a sensitive Princess Margaret, second daugh been not merely stupid revelling child as a gangster and police fight ter of the Duke and Duchess of i a Broadway night club. But the York, who was a year old on but abominable crimes, based upon Liverpool licensing justices are so August 21, has begun to walk. a fanaticism that did not stop short impressed by the general unsuit- Though not yet able to get along at human racrifico. Reuter con- ability of the films attended by by herself she has several short sidered the matter of sufficient children in the city that they have walks in front of Glamis Castle, general interest to cable a report may well have wide social conse-has, also begun to speak.

decided upon a regulation which holding the hand of her nurse. She to the Far East, and the account quences. They have decreed that written by Mr. A. E. "W. MASON, no child under sixteen, even if ac the well-known novelist, which we shall see a film unless it has been companied by a responsible elder, reprint to-day throws light on these classified by the British Board of amazing occurrences.

Film Censors aflm-- Helsingfors is the capital of Fin- that is, a film fit for universal ex- hibition; and the most urgent.re. land. It is a town of 290,000 in presentations of the cinema indis habitanta and has an immense uni- try in the city have failed to move

The National Committee of the News has been recrived in Shang. veraity of one hundred and fifty them from their stand. There are Y.M.C.As of China has received a hai that Mr. Antonio Venturini, professora, and over two thousand fat. The classification of the Board Mr John Peuman, one of the lead for the past two and a half years, obvious difficulties about such a cablegram announcing the death of Italian Vice-Consul in Shanghai, students. No doubt it as many of Censors is at the best rough- of those intensely superior intel and ready one, and into the Aing businessmen of Paris, Ontario. has been promoted to the Italian. lectuals who have quite outgrown category--as fit only for adults are Mr. Penman had been for many Legation, Mr. Venturini, who was

consigned many films of first-rate religion--the belief in the universal importance both in their narrative years interested in Christian work married to Miss Delgreco, daugh supremacy of a reasonable Being-interess and in their artistic claims.in China, especially in the work ter of the former Commander of and "are, paradoxically, prone in Morever, in our way of earlier of the YM.C.A. He was the sole the Italian Navy in China, several their leisuro momente to super- late an age to deny the child the

adolescente sixteen may seem too donor of the Y.M.C.A. building at months ago, returned to Shanghai stition, or belief in potent and un- right to risk the same sort of enter. Hankow which has been engaged in last week from his honeymoon with moral beings, who can be cajoled tainment as his elders get. Finally, meeting the needs of the Chinese his bride. and deceived by odd forms of all film censorship as it is known more than ten years.

the strict leghlist will complain that young men of that community for ritual. To a paychologist, perhaps, in England is without statutory the appearance of Satanism, black basis, and that any extension of

She left Hong Kong for Cantor during the evening, and, in the magic and kindred practices at Board of Censors through the com: gan" was received at the editor: darkness, ran too near the side.

the jurisdiction of the private Helsingfors might be less surpris plaisance of local authorities will ial offices of one of the Shanghai The danger was seen too late, and Shewan, Tomes hong, was married Mr. M. A. de Figueiredo, of the ing than to a casual visitor to this merely perpetuate and extend an Russian papers a day, or two 480 before anything could be done to on Sunday to Miss L. M. Rde santre of light and learning, illogical system. But these argur following publication of a story later philosophical beliefs,

aground, in the Capsing Pessage was a very hospitable wedding

broker who resides in Kowloon. It entertainment that even tho adnit in the NC. Daily News that Efforts to get her off at that time many guests attending, including Mr. Mason suggests that Satanistas no means of prejudging, and mysterious women had been amnproved fufile, and it was found, the Right Bey Bishop Possoni, and

that too often turns out on experi is only found in Roman Catholic ence to be quite unfitted for the ing herself by giving false calls to after she had been in that position to Consuls of Portugal, Russia, countries, since its rites imply a young who are taken to see it to the letter, the woman con a short time that there were two ferry boats was specially engaged to physicians late at night. Accord-

and Nicaragua, One of the Star travesty of the Mazs, and it is not The Home Office in its reports on siders that Shanghai life is too dull feet of water in her forehold. A convey the large party back to Italy have seen many instances of take advantage of the Board of tinue my calls on the physicians" port for assistance, and two steam reception Mr. and Mrs. de Figueire denied that Franco, Spain and to question in 1923, and 1995, so she i wished to add bit of boat was despatched back to this Kowloon for the reception. A taval

strongly urged "local authorities to excitement" to it. I shall con-

band was also engaged After the the cult

But Helsingfors today, Censors' classification, to insist that she wrote, and I shall trouble launches and a number of cargo do left for Macao Hong Kong Scotland, the wintry land of Scans should bear their labels in the re brigade and the police, dinavia, New England, and Eng at least that the children should sender of the letter, and to find from her The captain reports that

their poster publicity and to ensure too In an effort to trace the lighters were sent to take cargo Daily Press, November 13, 1006, land (especially Lancashire) have not flock to films designed only for out whether it was written by as there is not much damage done to

Looking Back 30 asra always had witches in plants, and their elders Liverpool is taking insane person, of purely out of the vessel, and it is hoped that the witches without the witches sub effectual, and her example, should baper handed it over to the Kong Daily Press, November 15, stern steps to make this advice malicious motivas, the editor of the would be got off last night-Hong bath implies a contradiction in bo widely nated.

French police.

menta fail before the undoubted

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A Missive signed “ A Lady Hooli

Influential Liverpool shipowners are about to acquire a fleet of tear sailing ships on which to give thres prentices, with a view to fitting. years training to 1,000. British ap them for posts as officers of the mercantile marine, There is not only a shortage of British officers at present, but there are no fewer than 600 alien officers and 200 alien ships. apprentices on British merchant

PEROT SMITE, SITE & FLEXIO, & Der hygiene, the latest science, and still mensca to the child of a type of } (which appeared at the same time prevent it, the steamer wai Silva, daughter, of a well-known

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