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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT CLUB.

"TREVESSA" TROPHY,"

THE I7 bi-annual mod for Ship?'

Lifebosis, will be mailed an Thursday, 24th Marsis, starting at 4 p.m.

Any ship of a Company having officer or responsible <Agents in Hoog Kong and which is in port on the day the race may eater any numbor of bouts.

All entries should, if poarible, be in the bands of cha Hon. Secretary, RE.K.T., by noon on the day of the race and competing boata should be at the starting lise by 330 p.m. Pont Entries however will be received.

CourseStart from Channel Rook, thenes to Kowloon Rock (P), Mark off Yaobe Club (8) Mark boss of Cest Beck Bracon (P), finish norous. Yacht Club line having mark boat to Port and continue sailing until gandre for fish.

A launch will leave Queen's Status Pier at a p.. for the convenience of members and the general public.

1) B. J. VERNALL,

Hon. Sooratary, B.EE.Y.C.

#i1th February, 1931. '

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONG HONG

PROBATA JURISDICTION.

IN

LATE

THE Boone or ARTHUR INNOCENT KELOWNA IN THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUmbia, Canada, DECEASED,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the Court has, by virtue of the Provisions of Section 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claims against the above Estate to 10TH MARCH, 1932.

All Creditors and Others are Bécord: ingly hereby required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that date.

DEACONS

Solicitors for the Administrator 1, Des Voeux Road Central',

E»ng Kong.

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HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

GENERAL MEETING will be held on FRIDAY, 4TH MARCH, at 11 am, in the Sanitary Board Room, 3rd floor, Post Office,

THE ANNUAL

Mr. Southor has kindly consented to take the Chair.

@ [1847

A. RARE: OPPORTUNITY" FOR COLLECTORS.

FOR SALE-The, well-known and famous collection of the late Dr. Silva Mendes, consisting of valuable and rare ancient Chinese statuary, furniture, paintings, Kwangtang pot- tary, bronzeg, procelain, water colours and oil paintings by G. Chiunory, Lam-Kwa, M. Baptista, etc, elo. All the above may be seen by appointment.

Please apply to

"Mr. P. DA SILVEIRA-MACAO.

ANNOUNCEMENT,

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WE have pleasure in announcing we have appointed Massis, A. GOEKE & JOMPANY our Sole Agents for Hong Kong and "Sonth, China

Pat Pro Société Internationale do

Placements,

R. A. COCHRANE WATSON, Maäager for the Far East.

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Agenta:

"GILMAN & CO., LTD.

WEATHER. REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by. the Royal Observatory at 5.10 p.m.. stated:-

The anti-cyclone appears to be central to the N.N.3. of Poiping and to be spreading southward. The depression is passing into the Pacific to the east of Hokkaido.

Jaxal Forecast:--N winds, fresh; overcast, drizzle and miat at first, improving later.

U.

Editorial and Business Offices: 11

Ice House Street. Tel. 0231. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel, 24011

London Offer 12, Float Street,

KO. 4

The Daily Press.

.HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 25, 1932.

SOME PERILS OF

PROFITEERING.

Ir is to be hoped that the United States Government is in a position to deny and disprove the allega- tion that American firms and bankers are quietly profiteering in war material, and that the autho..

rities are doing their best to dis- courage public discussion of this matter. The Baltimore Sun accuses the British and French Govern ments of complicity, but it is in- predible that the National Govern-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25,

Tale of the Day.

1932

News and Views

permitting such traffic. If con- tricts are placed by Japan, others will be offered by: China. To refuse those would involve difaulties with the Chiness Government and with the firms thus losing business The latter would no doubt do their

A lady once sent the manuscript heat by means of publicity, to rouse of a book, she had written to Dr. moral opinion against the action Johnson, asking him for his opinion of their more fortunate rivals, and of it, and mentioning that she had moral opinion enn still be dan-several other irons in the Bre. gerous. If America for instance. Put this with the other irons," starts supplying China Japan would was. Johnson's reply.

a

at onos declare a blockade of the Chinese ecast and exercise the usual rights of search for contraband of war. This would constitute direct violation of the American doctrine of "The Freedom of the Sens," and Washington would he faced with the alternatives either of losing the Chinese market and inoosing the Chinese people, or of employing "her fleat to protect the munition ships, with the possibility

That's So, Too.

Link With London's Fast.

A link with London's past will be severed at the end of the prosent month, when Carter's hairdrassing shop in Fleetwtreet passes under a new management.

Weekly Half Holiday Planned for

Farmors.

At the forthcoming annual oon- vention of the United Farmers of Alberta, one of the questions to bo discussed will be a proposal that a... The shop, which has bean in the half holiday each week be instituted hands of one family for over obduring the summer months for the years, forms part of the half-tim- tillers of the soil. This would make bered Seventeenth-Century gatoa radical change in the farmers'

If you think your ateak is tough,house which leads from the Innerlife, but the U., F. A. of Wetaski- think how tough it would be if you Temple to Flest-street. On the first win, which is submitting this ro- had no stook," maya a pign in an floor of the gatehouse there is a solution to the conference, believes Arizona lunch-room.

room with a magnificant plaster that the farmers should be given A coiling" known as Prince Henry's more opportunity for taking part Room, which probably served as the rouncil chambor of the Duchy of Cornwall during the reign of James

ovonta.

current

FREE!

HANDY LITTLE

in community events, such as busi-BOOKLET ALL ABOUT mass conferences, picnics, swimming parties and addresses on

DOGGY AILMENTS, SPECIALLY COMPILED BY THE MAKERS OF THE FAMOUS

America's Big Sport Ten,

Every year the Americans publish a list of their ton. best sportsmen,

Oction for Pork.

Bolton, one

of Lancashire's chist cotton spinning centres, is today buttering its frying pans in view of possible debt hatter of yarn for

I. through the Hungarian war debts has been frequented by journalists Bacon.

como about For many generations Carter's of awkward

GGNGER WANCES. On

situation, which made payment in and meinbers of the legal profes- puroly business grounds-if a view currency impossible.

sion, To-day editors and judges, six inches beyond the and of the The Hungarian weavers asocia including the Lord Chief Justice, ness is taken the Powers would betion is idle for lack of Bolton yarnare numbered among its patrons. compiled by the vote of 600 repre- well advised to maintain, & genuine Bolton weavers on the other hand, The new management will, it is un-sentatives of different branches of

nra idle for need of markets. But doratood, continue to use the pre-sport. neutrality. But whether the arms the Hungarian weavers can supply mises for hairdressing concerned can be persuaded jata such an attitude is another matter, The dilemma is awkward. To the Hoovan Ministry, for example, the obvious comments that will be pasa ed upon this traffe if it is anne- tioned will be more than merely galling, especially in view of the coming Presidential election. If the matter had been kept quiet it would have been so different, but someone has "belled the cat.”

pork which their representative in merchants to accept in Lancashire is pressing the Bolton The matter is now before the Man payment. cheater wholesale co-operative so city which is trying to put through

a £10,000 deal.

Car Sounds for Photo.

Blowing Up Millions.

the blowing up of British ammuni- Referance in n London Paper to tion dumps in France after the war

The 1001 liat is made up as fol lown: Peroy Beard (hurdler), Barney Berlinger (Decathlon cham- pion), Clarence de Mar (Marathon runner), Thomas Hitchcock (polo), Helene Madison (swimmer), Helen

brought an interesting letter from Wills (tennis), Ellsworth Vince the senior partner of the film on (tannis), Francis Quimet (golf), Vic trusted with the task..

Professor Low, the scientist, pro- The informant gives the financial Williams (middle distance runner), from motor-car, exhaust-pipes at other his firm blow up about duced photographs of the sounds A.B.C. of those operations. Alto and Barry Wood (footballer). Spelthorne Sessions when Charles 400,000 tone of ammunition in Brioludes no baseball player. Tennis It is surprising that the list in- Richard Fairey, of Iver Heath, bish dumps.

is the only game honoured with two par which made an excessive noise.tions was about £163,000,000. Bucks, was summoned for driving & The original value of these muni representatives. The magistrates dismissed the castane dump alone £3,500,000 worth of Mr. Fairey is the designer of the ammunition was blown into the air. famous Fairey aeroplane and is The scrap metal collected from the Company. chairman of the Fairey Aviation "crater" realised only £500..

Hong Kong has overy reason view this alleged rush to munition the belligerents with apprehension, We avoid all strictures; except on the business and political aspects, for these are quite serious enough. Though we may gain for a timeDance, Little Lady."" at the expense of Shanghai, our

Commenting on prosperity as a port and an em-stop Commemoration Balls at Ox

& movement to

In

Star's. Bush from the Earth.

Vast numbers of stars rushing. away from the earth at a spead of 12,000 miles & second were described by Sir Arthur Eddington at the Royal Institution.

"Outsida The turnover of the firm during

galaxy of these oparations was,

roughly, star, he said, "there exist ex- ternal "glaxies, oach containing

A French Embargo,

our own

14

QUORN DOG REMEDIES

CALL AT THE

HONGKONG DISPENSARY

TODAY

&

AND ASK FOR ONE

YOUR DOG 18 YOUR FRIEND AND IT IS YOUR DUTY TO KEEP

HIM FIT

porium is bound up with the potenford University this year because £3,000,000. Of this sum the British many millions of stars. These are A. S. WATSON

to

abandon these

f|

+

and prosperity of South China of the economic crisis, "Isis," the Government received £1,700,000.

undergraduate journal, under the and of the whole of the Far Enst.honding, Dance, Little Lady,'

Although the firm had foreseen a A long war, which is a real sanggests that it would be a defen it finished up with a loss.

profit for itself of nearly £2,000,000 ibility is the struggle is nursed by tist gesture

dancer,

"After operations had started the the armament traffic, means exhaus

French imposed an embargo on the "Furthermore, if the recommend export of steel scrap, so that, steel tion and bankruptcy for China and ation to economist in luxuries were scrap, already sold forward at £ possibly for Japan where vast sums accepted universally, what are we per ton to England, had to be siori- of British and American money are to hope for the interests of the ficed for 30 a ton to French stoel invested,

Even the grecuiest pro- the waiters who have been employed

dance bands, of the" caterers, and of works. fiteer should be able to see the in recent years 1′′ dangers arising from prolonged | war in the East; the increase of chac in China; the arreat of moderniantion; the growth of Communism, and the advance of Russia's political and economie designe But while the profiteer is ona who sees nothing beyond his

him official benediction. till, there is no excuse for giving If China and Japan can settle their differ- ences, once and for all, there is a chance of peace in the Bast and commerce criough to satisfy all nations. Should any ship laden

either belligerent, good luck to the with munitions be on the way to j

hostile cruiser that sends it to the bottom of the set.

"

ment in England would involve 40 PER CENT. OF HOMES

itself in such intrigue. Quite apart from any question of the ethics of the matter, the danger of exposure

WE beg to announce we have is too great and the consequences been appointed Bolo Agents too dire to be risked. The shange

for the SOCIETE INTERNATION- from the high rectitude of Colonel ALE DE PLACEMENTS, BASLE,

for the territory of Hong Kong and South China, for the sale of INTER NATIONAL INVESTMENTS DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES.

"A. GOEKE & CO., China Building, Hong Kong

Telephone No. 22221. «

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NOTICE

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG }

CHILDLESS.

11,000 PEWER BIRTHS THAN

IN 1013.

יי

"

to be found running away from 129 almost unanimously; and the fur ther away they are the faster they

recede.

"It is not difficult to ase that the recession is the effect of a general. expansion of the universe."'

There could be little doubt, added Sir Arthur, that this astronomical phenomenon of the expanding uni verse was the main alue by which we could ultimately unravel the mechanism of the atom,

An Oval Plg.

anxious

دلم

Even if we allow for a certain pictorial exaggeration by artists patrons, the immense weight and to please their broeder.

sizes of some of the early cattle. are still impressive.

Stratosphere. Flight to Bet Record, "Ha'p'ny

"Tram Rates Retained Seeking to break the altitude re- in Glasgow,

cord of Prof., August Ficcard, ap Austrian inventor, Mr. Hany Ha'penny train rides are to be Braun, and Count Theodor Zichy retained at Glasgow despite à gen- of Hungary are completing ar oral rise in tramway and bus rates, rangements for a stratosphero flight the municipal transport authorities rising from Austria this month. have decided. Twopenny street car The fight is primarily for experi- inres now become 23d.. and the mental purposes. The balloon will minimum bus fare is increased to be Atted with apparatus for dis some sort of natural

A few look as if they are wonring 140.

plus-tours "1 patching radio messages. The goh-others are coloured liko trout; the It is stated that the object of in-dola is of new construction and is Castle Howard priza ox, bred by creasing the short-distance bus fares calculated astronomically to leave the then Earl of Carlisle, bulges in from the overcrowded, buses to the safely land by means of an Ameri-ox weighed well over a ton; and is to divert short-distance travellers the balloon during the descent and fall directions while the Blackwell trámcars.

ean-patented parachute.

there is a parketly over priza pig.

小

*Local Notes and Events

One case of Small-pox was re- ported on Tuesday.

H.B. the Governor is to open the new Po Leung Kuk at Leighton Hill Road at 4 pm, on March 4.

-CRU

When the case against an Ameri-

Beaman named H. Forsberg, belonging to the ss. Royal Arrow, was called at Contral Magistracy yesterday morning, it was found Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, Puisne that the man had failed to put in Judge, arrives from England after an appearence, His bail of 830 P. and . 8.8. Rajputant. long leave this morning, aboard the

was accordingly, estreated. It was! stated that the man whe arrested for being drunk and behaving 'in a disorderly manner in Wanchai.

From the files."

Looking Back 25 Years.

& CO., LTD. Established 1841

1512

JUVENILE OFFENDERS,

CALIFORNIA OPENS PRISON CAMP.

County goes the distinction of hav- Riverside, Calif.-To Riverside

ing the first industrial prison camp for juvenile offenders in California. So successful has been this method of handling, such prisoners that stale authorities, praising it highly- have recommended its adoption by uther counties.

What with crowded conditions of stato ponal institutions for boys and the impossibility of committing con- victed youths to county jails or stato prisons, juvenile courts have been faced with a knotty problem in the disposition of boy law- breakers.

Two years ago Judge Oakley E. Morton, Riverside Juvenile Court; The sporting public as well us the Mr. C. W. Mathews, county proba- numerous members of the Victoria Recreation Club will bo pleased to tion officer; the county supervisors! learn that the Government have at and other citizens, decided upon the " last granted the Club the site near

Murray Pier It is expected that formation of a juvenile department the division all between, the Naval

*

TIMON's original, notes to Japan The German population figures on the impropriety of her action, to the silence, and anxious dis- largest towns the deaths last are causing some anxiety. In the

The forthcoming wedding is an- association of Amerian from ForNovember exceeded the births, and need of Mr. James Howell, en Eastern entanglemente, of the past in all. German large towns there Miss Pipita Lawrence, Kowloon gineer on board 8.8. Seistan, and week, has, on" the surface, an were only 104 births to each 10,000 Docks. ominous appearance But, it must

At Central Magistracy yesterday Yard extension and the new V.R.C.in the county industrial camp which of the inhabitants, against 103

a Chinese, who was charged with site will be finished within a month, had been established several years. be remembered that the United deaths.

The total output of the Kailan, the possession of illicit opiumi to then a matshed will be erected as States traditionally avoids foreign

Mining Administration's mines for the value of over 84,000, was fined a temporary club house pending the previously. Fn, 1000 the surplus of births over the week ending February 8, 1982, 825,000 or a year's hard labour by erection of a permanent building, aritanglements, and the people of deaths in Germany was about amounted to 355-metric tons, and Mr. Schofield, A. woman WON that country

010,000, in 1930 it had fallen to the sales during the period to originally changed in connection.

The boys were always kept sepa are deeply averne from war.

418,000; and in the first half "of 68,774.-metric bons. No doubt the quick re-last year it was 140,000. It is cati-

with the case but on the man ac pany has declared a dividend for with the recent construction of a The Japan Life Insurance Com-rato from the men in camp, but version to cautious policy his mated that the surplus for the whole

cepting full responsibility, she was We have been asked to state that discharged. Another woman who The net profit, for the year amount last year at the rate of 12 per cent. tended to start these reports.

of 1931 is only 300,000.

owing to an unfortunate omission had 6 Laels of the drug in her pos- ed to Y.080,845-Hong Kong Daily was 1 per 1,000 of the population... Bhips regarding the Mamak months in default, while in the

The number of marriages in 1030 no mention was made to entries by session

was fined $700 or four Press. February 25, 1907, more than in 1981, but births fell Hockey Tournament

1932. third case a man who pleaded guil- Looking Back 50 Years. from 1,038,750 in 1013 to 1,020,999 | These will be cordially welcomed by to the unlawful possession of 38 in 1930.

and entries should be forwarded to tacle of the drug, was fined $1,000 Forty per cent of all the couples Mr. O. England White, c/o Gor- or six months in default. married in Germany during the ment Radio Office, as soon as pos past seven years are childiem.

Bible.

Firms in America and elsewhers CERTIFICATE NO. 18395 for High- that number war munitions among"

torn Sharer, 24 per Bhare paid their products are of great import up. Numbered 77675/77500 and 80725/-

ance and axercise, no doubt, con-

·90727 in this Society, standing in the name of Mas. CHENG FUN SZE of siderable influento

upon affair. Shanghai has been Declared LOST, and if at the Expiration of One Month To ask them to forego the profits from the date hereof the above Docu- aftured by catering for the nét da mont be not forthcoming the Said of a Sino-Japanese war is to de- of No Effect, and a NEW Certificate mand a heavy pecuniary sacrifier, for the said Shared will be issued in its specially at a time when business. stand by the Society.

PAUL. LAUDER,

General Manager. Hong Kong, 20th February 1987,`,

nos dive to the gravo political [1886 complications that may arise from

Certificate will be deemed cancelled and

in bad: It is difficult, however, to

The Reich Health Department

for

new camp for adults, to a location many miles from the previous site in the San Jacinto mountains, the The weather at yesterday's racO

Inttar has been kept solely for juve- I meeting was bright and genial and niles. Prisoners in both the camps,

rather more pleasant for the on-

ATE

Jockers than the previous day's of which Mr. E. C. Wickerd in greeting the winner on both occa with fire again good sport superintendent, caloulates that the German popula-era that the Horticultural Society's away stakes. Mr. St. Andrew' finishes. The Exchange Flate fell road building Boys sent to the We are asked to remind read sions. Sualight also won the Fly with fair fields and well-contested

employed at tion is now declining at the rate show is being held to-day week, stable furnished the winner in two and the same owner won the Ger

to Mr. Grammont's. Strathpeffer, camp arð Thursday, March 3. Entries close races. Huntaman in the Bourry

of 1.6 per 1,000. persons a year.

...

from 16 to 18 years of age.

The population of Great Britain at noon to-day, and intending ex- taken and Craftsman in the Parsee an Plate with Shell The Pro Inmates average 25 in camp at all at last year's census was 44,700,485, hibitors who have not yet filled in Cup Mr. Honry Sub Ross won fessional Cup and Town Plate were times No convicted youths of long. imagine that any 'Foreign Offes is while the population of Poland, the necessary forms and sent them the Broker's Cup. Luck deserted taken by Mr. Fail's stable, the

the last ten years from 20,858,000 to Road, Central, are asked to do so scored no win. Hong Kong Daily scoond with Shamronk, warm cheers moms few boys of this type being, Germany's neighbour, has risen in to the Hon. Secretary, at 11. Queen's. Mr. Gordon on this occasion and he former with Bunlight and the experience in crime are included; 31,927,000:

Press, February 25, 1982.

(Continued on previous column) sent to the adult camp

at once.