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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,

·LIMITED--·

NOTICE.

TO Inte cars will run after 12.05.

No NIGHT of SUNDAY,

18TH NOVEMBER.

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY

CLUB,...

NOTICE.

THAUN Votog. Members ƊHE HALF YEARLY GENERAL

will be held at the CLUB HOUSE, HAPPY VALLEY, OF MONDAY, 2820 NOVEMBER, 1931, at 4.30 p.m.

All memberi are cordially invited to attend, and participato in any discussion which may ensue."

By Order of the Stewards, C. B. BROWN,

Becretary.

Hong Kong, 12th Nov., 1981. [1480

THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.

REMINDER.

TANTRIES for the THIRD EXTRA

E TAGE MEETING, to be hold

ab KALIO a SUNDAY, the 220p NOVEMBER, 1933, will CLOSE' a 12 O'CLOCK NOON on MONDAY, the 10TH NOVEMBER, 1981.

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ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT CLUB

THE OPENING REGATTA 'will take pinon TO-DAY, SATURDAY, the 142 NOVEMBER. Friends of Members are cordially invited to be present. First Ladies' Race staris at .8 p.m.

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By Order,

R. J. VERNALĻ, " Hon. Secretary.

THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER

CO. (1918), LTD...

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that an EXTRAORDINARY

BORESOL

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FOR MEN

Delightfully soothing

& contains those

antiseptic &

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MAY BE AD

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A.S. WATSON & Co.,

LIMITED.

GENERAL MEETING of the For reliable information abou

above-named Company will be held at the Head Office of the Company, ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, Victoria, Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, the lar DAY OF DECEMBER, 1981, at Noon, when the subjoined Resolution will "be proposed Ax Resolution, viz.:-

01

Ordinary

"That the Authorised Capital

the whole of the Far East use the

DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE

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"of the Company be increased to] CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO

**Ten Million Dollars by the "creation of One Million New "Shares of the nominal value of $5.00 each and that such New "Shares be issued at anch time or "times and on "such terms and "conditions as the Directors in their absolute discretion shall sou fit.** SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers.. Hong Kong, 10th Nov, 1981. [1443

CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME. ORIENT. MORTGAGE BANK AND ESTATE ASINTH.

"PEAK MANSIÓNS " Bix-roomed & Fire-roomed Apartments PRINCE EDWARD BOAD, KOWLOON,

Detached and Semi-detached Villas Modera Construction with Garage:

"CAMBAY BUILDINGS" Fisteile Mödan. Conveniences

"People Who Matter"

PEOPLE WHO MATTER to the advertiser are the people who can afford to buy bi goods.

Most of these people buy and read the

Hong Kong Daily Press,

81AM,

CHINA,

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO, THE PHILIPPINES. Etc.

This Large Volume of approximate." 17 1,200 Pages gives, in addition to the Usual Lists of Firms, an Alphabetical Lists of Residents in the Far East containing the Names of nearly

20,000 FOREIGNERS. Arranged, with the initials as well as. Surnames in strict alphabe tical order.

CLASSIFIED LIST

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MERCHANTS,

AND

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1931.

HOW PERFECT YOUR

SKIN COULD BE

Vibrant with health, joy to yourself and to others-ft is loveliness to others that counts. Tour'an be all this if you keep "your skin Bualtky,“

All soaps wash the dirt off and desolve the greasy perspira times, in which it sticka.

ONLY WEIGHTS COAL TAB SOAP 'disinfects the skin, and preserves its health,

Agents; GILMAN & Co., Ltd HONGKONG BANK BUILDING,

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BIRTHS.

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*News and Views

Tale of the Day.

Passer-by: Breakdown " Moborist: "No; smash-up."

Underground railways of London. This station was designed in 1901 to contain ten reciprocating engise units of 8,500 kw encli, ingaan ourdazio. With what was considered than best practicund the time. At tho, laat moment the plan to here reciprocating engines was changed and turbines were installed. It is interesting to note that by the end | Dole Insidents, of Wib present year this power, Haro are two recent dols inci- station will accommodate 185,700 dents which are vouched for by kw, of turbine plant on exactly the

a London magistrate.

A Labour Exchange officer was same floor space, as was originally hightly exasperated by n allotted to 55,000 kw. of engine who had been drawing the dole drivon units. The output per regularly and cheerfully for months, square foot of "engine-room area has and said "Are you doing any

thing to and work!" been increased, therefore, from less She replied pertly: "That's an than 1.89 kw, to over 5.72 kw, } improper question, You ought to know by now that it's your business to find me a suitable post-not mine to look for it."

well

The Housekeeper,”

A man who was sumaroned for not obeying the maintenance order for his wife and child admitted he drow 175, for himself, D for his housekeeper, and 3s, for each of their children.

"He left his wife and child quite provided for but predted by the regulations of the Ministry of Labour which allow a man to claim benent-for-a-resident-housekeeper who looks after his young offspring.

This seems to be one of the strangest examples of how far our benevolent State will go on record.

Mrs. Gien Kidston,

The announcement of the engage- ment of Mrs. Glen Kidaton, the Glen Kidston, to Mr. E. O, R. widow

pl. Lieutenant-Commander Shefteld. Sir Berkeley and Lady Sheffield's second son, has been

made.

Furthermore, the steaua for the. whole of this extra power has been obtained without increasing the dimensions of the boiler hours; | owing partly to the higher efficiency of the mode British turbines and to the equally British) better boilers, and higher steam pressure. Other less well-known stations in the London area give even more impressivo illustrations of space economy in relation to power.

But, after all, it is economy in operation by which modern machi. nery stande or falls.

Here the British-built turbing comes out of this lost. Not only is the turbine inherently more efficient than the reciprocating steam engine (or for the matter of that, the internal combustion, engine), but DOS REMEDIOS-On November 8, at from the nature of its construction Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs it can utilize ntear expanding Ato. H. Dos REMEDION, A SON,

through far greater ranges of pro- PRICE-On November 3, ar Shane-sure and temperature. There are hai, to Mr. and Mrs. JAMES F.many British turbines "working PRICE, & daughter, ZDA. with a steam pressure of 1,500 lb.

It will be remembäred that Lieut.- per square inch, while steam ten-Commander Glen Kidston, who was peratures up to 450 degrees C. and Focus of 29 in and over are quite Canon. The record for pressure and temperature of a turbine in general, use is at the moment, held by a Parsons turbine built for the Dunston power station. This has a

British thermal units, or an over- all thermal efficiency of 36.8 per cent. But this record will prob- ably soon be surpassed.

Nothing has he said here about the use of the turbine in water power scheme, but the same great engineering firms in Great Britain that produce the steam turbine manufacture the hydraulic form. It would be invidious to mention here the names of these firms, which have a world-wide reputation in electrical engineering circles, but it may be recorded as a matter of historical interest that, just as the name of STEPHENSON still exists among locomotive building firme, so, the firm of 'C. A. Parsons & Co., Ltd., founded by the inventor of the turbine, is in the forefront of manufacturers of turbines of alf classes.

DEATHS. Arturz-Or-November-19 at the Peak Hospital. STEWART ALLAY ARTNER of Gibb, Livingston & Ca., Ltd, aged 40 years.

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famous racing motorist and air- man, was killed in an acronique ocident in South Africa in May

last.

*

Gaucher says he in guilty and entiat pay for his orime, and the sooner it is over the better. His counsel proponos to petition" for the commutation of the death penalty,

MANCHURIA

SITUATION

(Continued from Page D)

SIMON MATSUDAIRA... CONVERSATION. -

LONDON, Nov. 19. Sir John Sinion this evening had a long conversation with Mr. "Middle-aged woman wants clean. Matsudaira, the Japanese Ambas ing or washing."-London adversade, in London: The proceed ings have not been divulged, bus

Ambiguous.

tisment.

Tale of a Giantsas..

it is undelstood the interview was agreeablo on both sides.

It is also understood that Mr.

"A Strong Man Wantod" is a lively fantastic tale of a giantess who is adopted by an English peer. Matsudaira may possibly attend She becoines & professional boxer: the Paris meeting of the LeagueTM champion heavyweight of the world, Council, together with Mr. Yoshi- and fills the role of the strong man

wanted to save the peer and hiszawa, the Japanese Minister at family from bankruptcy.

Geneva, Indigestible.

Following a recent disturbance 40 Communists were arrested in Warsaw. A number of them had to be transferred to hospital suffering from acute indigestion due to swal lowing great quantities of paper in on effort to conceal documents from the police.

In the House of Commons, to- night, Capt. Anthony Eden, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, no noureed that so far as his informa. tion went the fighting at Nomi River Bridge had now ceased. The Cantonese forces which advanced against Nanking had likewise with

The documents which remain-in- tact showed that now efforts are drawn, and hostilities between the being made by Moscow to kibale North and South were no longer printing press of a very up-to-date Communism in Poland. A Recret proceeding.

Captain Eden postpoped hid am type and manufactured in Moscow swer to a question regarding the was discovered:

establishment of a new authority in Manchuria

being so closely bound with China") and Japan economically.

SOVIET TROOPS ON MANCHURIAN BORDER

(Wah The Fat Pao.)

at

Ma Soo.-Aged 19 years. On April heat consumption of only 9,280 murderer determined to be ripomts, but not creasing into Chi- !

4, at Pelping -WINGROVE.-On November 5, Gzo: CHRISTOPHER WINGROVE, son of the late Gronor R. Wixanove and of Mrs. WINGROVE, of Havant, Hants, England, aged

48 years.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 14, 1931

A GREAT ENGLISH INVENTION.

יו

PWLLHELI.

10 be

Murderer Determined to Die.

The astounding spectacle of a tined is on view in Paris, Georges Gaucher," twenty, ecndemned to death for ↑ dissolute youth of

Avenue Mozart, has resolutely re- the murder of a jeweller in the fused to appeal against his sen- tence, na is done by all murderers in France.

A COMPROMISE PLAN?

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. Tremendous interest has been. aroused by the official hint that a compromise plan is to be advanced to the League Council meeting on Monday next.

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Mr. Castle, Under-Seeretary for Foreign Affairs, expresses optimism that the plan will be acceptable to both China and Japan, but has refused to disclose details.

HARBIN NOV. 13. Russia is reported to be increas. ng her garrison forces along the Ainur River by 20,000 Soviet troops. They are taking up station

FEMININE IDEAS Blagonaschensk, Chita and other

LONDON, Nov. 12. Concrete feminine ideas regard. nexe territory

ing the Manchuria situation, are Russian diplomatic authorities in embodied in a resolution of the Manaburia explained, in connection Women's International League, ask- with this, that the Soviet Governing the British Government to urge ment had no other purpose than to the League Council to uphold the strengthen hor border defence principles of the Kellogg Pact, and neutrality in position and would still maintain to invite Russia to participate in the Sino-Japanese the deliberations in view of her imbroglio.

(Continued on previous Column.)

★ Local Notes and Events

The dollar was quoted on demand yesterday at 18. 60/160.

Two cases of typhoid and one of diphtheria were reported on Thursday."

Tennis

The Ladies' Doubles Championship semi-final will be played on Wednesday, November 18, at 2.14 p.m., and not to-day an previously announced.

second floors of 119. Temple Street, The verandabs of the first and collapsed yesterday morning but

"The half yearly general meeting of voting members of the Hong the Club House, Happy Valley, on Kong Jockey Club will be held at Monday, November 23, at 6.30 p.m.

.....

From the files.

of

In is a commonplace of the engin eering world that the age of steam SAM AND THE PEOPLE OF

Inter Interport cricket match be is passing and the future belongs

tween Hong Kong and Shanghai Looking Back 25 Years, 11 a.m. to-day and will be continued sturta on the H.K.C.C. ground at to electricity and oil. We all hope SA is a horse, and for thirteen

It is with the greatest pleasure we on Monday and Tuesday (comumene note the fact that the Portuguese- that this is true for everyone is years he has faithfully served the

ing 10.30 a.m." on these days.) Government have, at last, resolved, aware of the benefits derived from people of Pwllheli by pulling their

Lunch interval will between 12.45 4 ameliorate the condition these sources of power. Electricity

dusisurt for them. In addition to

stumps will be drawn at 4 p.m. am, and 1.30 p.m. each day while the inhabitants of Macao, whe is, however, still, the child of served abroad, not, indeed, as fortunately no one

this he is a war veteran, having

Entrance to the publie stand in 30 Proclamation appeared in the last deserve certainly a botter inte. A steam for in the vast majority of cavalry charger, but in some bum-Men from the Mongkok Fire Station

was injured.centa including tax.

number of the Boletim de Governo power houses the electric generating city that took him near enough to

ble and necessary capacity-a cape- rush to the scene and soon cleared

de Macau, inviting the facлenses plant is driven by steam engines the danger-zone for him

the débris..

According to a Nanking report to emigrate to Mozambique either the $10,000,000 shipping loan, ar- under contract of service or as free of the type invented by an Eng-wounded. The time has now come

ranged between Mr. T. V. Soong, emigrants. They will be employed ishman, hardly less great, then people of Pwllheli's dasteart, not erected on the summits of East Ship Owners Association, will be partments or as inspectors or ser

when no can

The Commander of the F.M.S: Minister of Finance, and Mr. Yu Ya on their arrival by the Government no longer pull the Herald reports that flags have been Ching, Chairman of the Chinese either as clerks in the public de MICHAEL FARADAY, the founder of because he is unwilling, but because Brother, Chu Lu Lok Taland, Flood floated in a short time. "Half of the geants in the police force, etc. The electrical engineering.. When Bir he is aged. His joints ary stiff. CHARLES PARSONS constructed his him. Those who are

bis eyes are dim: old age is upon they have no navigation signi-sation of a Chinese shipping bank, tageous, and liberal; two months' Point and on Saw Chau-Island but loan will be used for the organi, conditions offered are very advan original steam turbian in 1884 he for the government of Pwllheli are responsible

ficance.

while the other half will be dis advance of pay" is to be given to conferred on the electrical industry faced with the necessity of replac

tributed among the Chinese steam.ench emigrant before his departure, the possibility of enormous expan-er horse or break with the past Kong Hotel Grill Room for the

A special dinner will be served ship companies to finance naviga- his passage back to Magno, at the ing Sam. They must buy a young

from 7.30 this evening at the Eong tion. sion. The old steam engine of and buy a motor-car. In any case convenience of those attending the

expiration of his contract, being Watt, with its

guaranteed. Frea emigrants will pylinders and Sam enn no longer earn his keep Theatre Royal performance of Concession in Shanghai police have they may take their families with The detective force of the French only receive a free passage, and pistons, had reached a limit of a

What is to be "done" with him 7

"Dear Brutus." The charge will succeeded in bringing to light an them if they so choose. The Lis o Acting, perhaps, on the example few thousands of horse-power, a set in the highest places in regard

24 per cover.

impudent fraud in which many bon Government have placed the limit imposed by mechanical con

to the expenditure of public funds,

people are believed to have been Transport Triumphante, shortly ex- Riderctions. In the modern power might realise something towards Yat Sen and High Advisor of the making a specialty of sending, to their destination.

the suggestion was made that Sam,The body of the inte. Ma victimised. It having come to their pected, at the disposal of the Mnene Soo, former associate of Dr. dun notice that a gang of persons were station it is the turbine, cither paying for his sessor: There 18 Mukden Government, who died in through the post, to the interior thus takon by the Lisbon Govern Government to convey the emigrants steam or hydro, that is to be demand in Belgium for the car Peiping on April 4, has been about the time of the Champions ment to better the conditions of the The action found. For all units of more than less a sum than four pounds. was the International Cemetery, Hung- inquiries were made and several itself to the approbation of all cases even of aged horses and no brought to Shanghai for burial in races, bickets of imaginary clubs Macaenses will, so doubt, commend 3,000 kw. the turbine has the field offered for him in that country. to itself.

Whether, had the offer been accept. Jan Rond

suspects were arrested. Canfront sensible people, and, we wish the To any engineer conversant with ed. Sum would have yielded four:

A naval manœuvre, in

od with ovidence, the latter told the Macno Government every success in power-station practice the state certain; what is certain is that the more than 10 war craft will take was and confessed that they used Kong Daily Press, Nov. 14, 1931.

pounds worth of edible meat is not

which police where their printing press their noble, humane efforts,--Favo rent that without the steam turbine offer was made. If the people of Part, is being held near Nanking to send out a list of prizes, the the electrical supply industry as Pwllheli had been merely callcu under the personal direction of winters" of which were supposed Looking Back 30 Years. we know it to-day could not exist Sam might have been shipped Admiral Chen Shao Kuin, Vice power at the rate at which it is been easier to balance by the price, it is expected will be concluded Subsequent raide to the seizure of words currency reform" are now To furnish electric Belgium and the local budget have Minister of the Navy. The maneu Canton, Harbin and Tongking. It is not only in China that the now consumed by large communities of his caress. As soon, however involves the existence of generating na the project of so disposing of

a completa act of printing apparatus adays familiar. In various coun $12tations with capacities ranging his was known

and 8,000 tickets on which were tries there appears to be much talk In view of this year's poor rice up to several hundred of thousands public in the general crops caused through the unprotten" English Amerian Chub $8 of kilowatte.

There are already gistered. Those who, for thirteen cedented floods in the various pro-

respondent to-day tells us that the turbines of over years had been relieved of them ducing, provinces, a ban has been ***Shanghai Interesting Club," etc. French Government is deserting 150,000 kw. capacity each, and, of rubbish through the agency of San placed by the Administrative Yuan course, no reciprocating steam or refused to tolerate the iden of his on the exportation of rice and other

copper for nickel, in about a year's time, and his forecast of one and oil engine could be constructed that serving at last only to provide Bel rains to foreign countries, states copper coinage" Whether the suga adus pieces with central holes. would approach such a size

In spite of the immense power cheap joints. To their averlasting

gian butchers with tough but the Chinese Press.

gestions that have been made will something like China's caah, is very. the stum turbine generates, it is honour the people of Pwllheli insist

porsuade the British authorition to interesting, especially as a similar exceedingly compact. There is aed that Sam should not only not be an attempt to derail the Shanghai-ful. They are as sensible as the notes that the approaching sub- Suspected of being concerned in depart from that isolation is doubt-88eation has just been made in great saving of space and, there sold to Belgium, but should be pro- Nanking night express on October are interesting, but we can quite stitution in Franco of nickel for.

the case of the British penny. Hu fore, of the capital cost of an in- vided with an honourable liveli-18 by removing part of the railway see that a large section of the pub copper in the coins of five and ten stallation. British turbines, are hood until death came to him in the tracks near the Boochow Station, lic, acountoreed to regard the penny centimes will leave Great Britain noted for this economy. A striking natural course. In this they show two workers of tho Bhanghai-jas a part of the Constitution almost, almost alone ampong, western couns example is turnirhed by the history el themselves to be decently grate Nanking Line were of the Lots-Road power station, ful for faithful service, even from aratat in Soochow and brought to change. Hong Kong Daily Press, trics in the possession of a large-

but under will be disinclined to ask for any which supplies current för thea horse.

Shanghai for trial.

Nov. 14, 1800.

(Continued on previous Column.)

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