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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE.

STEPHEN'S COLLEGE

SATHLETIC SPORT will be held at Stanlay on Saturday, March 19th, at 9 Y All Old Boys are cordially invited. Old Boys' Rado, 440 yards Raos for Visitors from Hong Kong Schools.

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HONGKONG WAR MEMORIAL. NURSING HOME.

THE official opening of the Nursing Home by E.E.. The Governor and Lady Peel will take place on Wednesday, 10th March, at 4 p.m.

The Committee of Management cordially invite all ex-native servico Mou and their Lady relatives to attend the ceremony.

"LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

Bocretaries,

(1089

ST. PATRICK'S SOCIETY OF HONG KONG

A FINAL PRACTICE DANCE

will be held in the Peainauls Hotel, Rose Room, on Wednesday, March 16th at 5.15 p.m.

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Mombers and Friends are asked to attend.

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G. P. MURPHY,

P. T. MAHONY,

Joint Hun. Bebretaries.

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

WEDNESDAY 18TH MARCH, 1982.

Patrons are notified that

NO DINNER DANCE will be held at the abovo Hotel

ou WEDNESDAY,

18TH MARCH, 1932.

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THE HONGKONG SILANG HAL HOTELS, LTD.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

of the Snis by Public Auction to be held on TUESDAY, the 29rn DAY of MARCE, 1982, at 3 m., At the Offices of the Public Works

Department, by Order of HU

Hong

EXCELLINGT TE GOVERNOR, of Oas Lot of GROWN LAND at Moust Cameron, in the Colony of Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fired by the Surveyor, of B18 MAJESTY THE Kixa, fər one further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale.

Registry No.

Locality.

Rural Building

Lut No. 388.

Mount Cameron.

Boundary

Mesauro-

ments.

N. 8.1 BW.

As per

male pli

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Contents in

Equare foot

Annual

Rental

2,720

* 1 Upset Price,

About

18,500

8. B. KING

IN

THE PESSIMIST

COMPLAINS

Nothing, to do but work Nothing to mt but joad Nothing to wear but clothes To keep one from going nude

• looku na thangh this King' God paronis had eme Audy thoughts whan they ohoso bin Arst two names. What ho naked was zori, coal, smbition-you know appeilio for fo and thinga.

Well, the stomach rules the blood, the blood rules the feelings, the foolings are what give us enjoyment of all things, what puts iba stomach. in a good mood! "Maconochia's

Pan-Yan

King of Pickles

GILMAN & Co. Iru Aarura,

4.7.13

WEATHER REPORT,

The weather report, forecast and remarks issued by the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong, at 3.20 p.m. yesterday state:-

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The anticyclone is probably central near Shanghai. it ap PCNFR to be weakening and moving castwird.

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Locat forecast:-N.E. winds, fresh. overcast with drizzle or mist, probably improving.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932.

neases would seem to be a complete vindication of capitalism, Only pationcs appeared necessary, and every one would obtain by an easy and natural process, not merely material comfort, "but coonomie security. Utopia tould come upon us, like this growing of corn, be. enuse the world was learning that honesty, and humanity were goodi business.

Tale of the Day.

News and Views

The Workman: Rome wasn't. built in a day, you know.

Edgar Wallace's Assets.

TH

For

The White Streak.

An important seob in the estate Mount Pleasant Post Office, the of Mr. Edgar Wallace will be the big branch of the G.P.O., has a. The Toroman: And don't forget,royalties on his books. These will, mystery of its own in the exhibi- ,f,, wasn't foreman. "on

that job probably bring in at least £5,000 tion of the P.O. Arte Club. either.

a your for several years.

The mystery is a problem picturo. probato purposes a capital value a design for the cover, of 'n Civil has to be placed on these nasots., Service magazine. When Father Takes the Baby.

which may produce money for a "Under the magazine's title" is a Fathers were given instruction in generation:

black square with a white stronk the handling of babies at a South- Probably more than £1,000,000. in the contro. Beneath this is the gate, N., lecture, life-sized was carned by Mr. Wallace in the quotation: "A thing of beauty is dummy was used for demonstrenat last 20 years, and although it & joy for over!!

"is not expected that he will leave

High Prices.

A

there are abnormal liabilities to liquidate,

A reporter asked the "chairman, Mr. Samuel B. Hancock, what the design represented.

Mr. Hancock, who'in the last 10 years had five oil paintings at the Royal Academy, did not know.

The arcretary, Mr. W. C. R Martin, did not know.

The assistant secretary also gave

Mr. Wallace nipo made far mores out of his theatrical writing than he lost. "The Ringer." his first big abccoon, brought him a consider." able sum in Poyalties-although it up. only a comparatively small propor- i tion of what the play actually earned.

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Unfortunately things have gong wrong... The Garden City civilish tion envisaged by the Quakers of England and Henry Ford of America has failed to materialisations. Some of us blame war debts and

One of the lecturers, Dr. Dorothy commensurate fortune, an appre- reparations. The scarcity of gold Catchpole, advised the fathers to ciable sum should be realised unless and other currency troubles; wars keep away interfering, though well- and unrest in the Middle and Far meaning, relatives. Enst; gross and unreasonable, de- manda by labour; manipulation by speculators and national tariffa have been indieted, individually,

Some interesting details of New and collectively, for the present

York life are to hand from a a business visit stress. They are all contributory correspondent on

Without these evils, some

there. inherent in the competitive system

He writes that it is nothing un-,,

Canada was asked by the New of production, others arising from usual to hear a man say that he

foundland Government to buy tho such psychological defects A is practically broke and then to

120,000 square miles of Labrador class hatred and racial suspicions, ascertain that instead of being The precision that tonnis des "for £27,500,000, it was revealed in humanity might have gradually worth $90.000,000 he has to eke out mands makes necessary total abstin correspondence tabled in the House reconstructed civilisation, brick by a miserable existence on a

enes-even from beer. Of this the of Commons. brick. The problem of over-produo- | $5,000,000 !

tannis player is awary, as well as Canada refused for financial rea- tion might have been amicably Despite the unemployed and the

are competitors in other sports. psons, whereas Newfoundland for settled by world Conferences and long "bread line" seen. nightly in The person who says one cocktail the same reasons is anxious to sell. agreements, sometimes between gov.the centre of Times-square, there or one glass of beer does not make

"If circumstances had been more ernments and often between co-aro till many signs of luxury.

one's eye co-propitious, A. Cabinet Committee any difference, in merein interosta, The rubber re

would have been appointed to co- Most of the theatres are crowded. ordination and balance is wrong, no sider the proposal," it was stated. Sents are expensive, the popular least from a tennis point of view," shows charging as much as $8 for a-Helen Wille Moody. godu sent.

· CAURON,

mere

striction scheme, associated with. Lord STEVENSON'S name, and the sugar convention arranged by Mr. CHADBOURNE, seemed to be fore

Fashionable night clubs are full. runners of a system of quota pro-and money is spent "thers lavishly, duction of the world's need, A relatively small interest like the diamond trude has been able to regulate production and distribu- tion without imposing hardship either on those who need this com 11modity for commercial purposes or on those who have bought diamonds as an investment.

Editorial and Business Offices:

Ice House Etreet. Tal. 30281. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel: 24811. Load

Office: 13. Flent Street,

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, MARCH 16, 1932.

WE MUST STUDY RUSSIA !.

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Gas Masks for All

Orders for millions of gas maaks aro understood to have been placed by the French Government as part vf defensive preparations against possible fuburu attacks, Distribu- tion will be made through chemists, who will be able to lay in stocka

for sale.

The Russian Government set out in the Five-Year Plan to make Russia self-supporting; to produce, not for profit but to maintain the whois population at certain standard and then to have a surplus for foreign trade. The Plan has been pursued with a clumsiness, a brutality, a degree of incompet. ence, corruption, and disregard for The Hong Kong dollar was quoted; hm auffering characteristic of at 19, 44d. on demand yesterday.

the Russian ruce, Similar pro- Lecases have "shaken. Russia in the

The

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A Glass of Beer in Tennis.

Valentine Baby Charms the Queen, After opening the new maternity block find electrical treatment de partment of West Middlesex Hos- pital at Isleworth, the Queen_mado the nequaintance of Valentine Haу- wood, the first baby born there..

He was born on Valentine's Day," said the mother.

"Ta. that why you named him Valentine?" asked the Queen.

Upon Mrs. Haywood" replying, "Yes," the Queen remarked: think it was a splendid idea." "

Labrador for Sale, ;

Young Men for the Jungle.

mountains of Sarawak, on

In the torrid jungies and on the the north-west coast of Borneo, eight or ton, Oxford Undergraduates, all under 30 years of age, will this year collect rare plants and inves tigate animal life.

They will pitch their camps in tho forcat and on the mountains in Northern Sarawak, and the plants they bollect, will be brought to Ox- ford for further study.

The expedition is being sent out by the Oxford University Explora tion Club, which last year dispatch ed an expedition to the icy wilda of Arctic Canada,

Local Notes and Events

St. Stephen's College athletic

Saturday at 2 p.m.

are asked to note that no dinner Patrons of the Repulse Bay Hotel

dance will be held there to-night.

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WATSON

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THEHONG KONG

DISPENSARY.

S. AFRICAN CHINESE CONTRIBUTE,

GOVERNMENT ASKED TO CARRY ON DEFENCE,

Four Chinese were charged before Murphy intimated that under 4 Mr. Bebofeld at Central Magis special provision of the Ordinance, tracy in onection with an alleged attempt to export a large quantity it might be found necessary even- of illicit opium. The charge tually to bring the case before two

Mauking,, March 10,–Å sum £2,230 sterling is ucing remitted to drawn and he was accordingly dis view of the gravity of the offence the Central" "Government through charged while the three remaining to-day. defendants were remanded until, and of the probability that the the Hong Kong and Shanghai maximum sentence of two years' Banking Corporation from over- hard labour might be asked for. The accused were romanded.

Following an application made by Mr. M. M. Watson on Saturday, The President and Committee of 3fr. Wynne Jones, at the Central St Patrick's Society are laying Police Court yesterday. confirmed to-morrow-St. Patrick's Day. wreath on the Cenotaph at a.m. his sentence of 8150, or one month'a hard labour and three months' hard labour, imposed on Lo Kwab, a The total output of the Kailan S. Army pensioner, who was con- Mining Administration's mines for victed of cruelty to a four-year-old the, Week ending February 27, child. the sales during the peried to 80,150 amounted to 63,400 metric tons, and

past, and show how little the Shay sports will be held at Stanley on against the fourth man was with Magistrates sitting together, this in In his address to the Hong Kong has changed in essentials. Rotary Club the Rov. E. L. ALLEN

savagery of VAN the Terrible and did a useful service in stressing the PETER the Great was repeated by need for taking a diepassionate and LANIN, and in. Each instance pro soher view both of the defects ofgress and modernisation was the what is loosely called "the capital objective. Russia was out of date ist system," and the exact nature and must be westernised against and significance of that great her will! But despite defects the economic experiment, the Five-Year Scheme is showing signs of succesÁ. Plan. These subjects have been Arandy it is becoming a menace enveloped in an atmosphere of preto adjacent countries. If the Plan judice, Interested propagandiste is in essential so good that it here sought to maintain that enables Russia to compete already capitalism is like the sun, neces with nations of greater natural metric tona. Bany and unalterable, while what emeicney and more perfect equip over comes from masin must ben

ment, it is high time that the the mark of the beast.

merits of this Plan were examined, TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN N° that the THIRTEENTH OR.

Russia's political crimes have and applied with wisdom and fores DINARY MEETING OF SEARE been of the darkest and most sight throughout, the world. HOLDIES will be held

The Soviet Registered Office of the Company No. abominable nature.

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THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED,

at tbo

By Order of the Board of Directors,

KAN TONG PD,

Chief Manager.

(1888

Hong Kong, 1st March, 1939.

from the files.

Looking Back 25 Yerin...,

seas Chinese resident in Soulk Africa as a contribution to the peo ple's fund for the resistance of Japanese invasion. According to a cablegram received here this morning, further substantial sup-' port to the Government is promised." When a Chinese Ind was brought before the Kowloon Magistrate yes-

The message exhorts the national terday on the charge of the theft of copper strips valued at $5 from tices of the Pence was held at the defence of China's soil.

A meeting of His Majesty', Jur. arthies to fight till the last for the The annual speech day of the Messrs. Blackburn and Blackmore, Magistracy yesterday afternoon to Ying Wah Girls School takes place 247, Nathan Road, it was stated consider an application from J. E. tomorrow at 7 m. in the Hall of that the defendant had an elder, Barker for the transfer to him from the Hop Yas Church, Bonham Road brother working in the store and when Dr. Wong San Yin will pre-ho, therefore, hd free acess to it. license to sell by retail intoxicnt one Patrick Roberts of the adjunct sent. the certificates.

He was sentenced to receive ing liquors on the premises Nog 10 and 92 Queen's Road West, under. the sign of "The Western Hotel." Mr. F. A. Hazeland "presided and CONTROL OVER VESSEL LOST there were also present Сари

FOR TWO DAYS, Captain Lyn

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WELL-KNOWN ARTIST IN yesterday with obtaining, two fuse Charge bofore Mr. Schofield

HONG KONG

boxes and a switch from a shop at the junction of Gloucester and O'Brien Roads by falso pretences, a Chinese was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.

MR. A. SHESTER.

strokes.

Arrested by the Singapore Pre- ventive Service on board the s.s. Anhui, on which he was sergeant of | tain Badeley, the Russian pirate guard, V. V. and Messrs E. Di C. Wolle, Tyrain, a young Russian, pleaded H. A. R. Craig and C. D. Mel- guilty to a charge of being in poss83. bourne. No police objection, was Ision of non-Government opium. He raised and the application was was fined $5,000 or one year's granted.-Hong Kong Daily Press, Two cases of small-pox and one rigorous imprisonment in default by March 18, 1907. Monday. During last week there Criminal District Judge.. of diphtheria were reported on Mr. G. C. Dodd, the Singapore wore 14 cases (7 deaths) of small- Pox 6 cases ( deaths) of diph- heria, 3 cases (2 deaths) of care. bro-spital fever and 46 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis,

PLUNGING THROUGH

HEAVY SEAS....

New York, March 8-Plunging. through heavy Atlantic seas is a

10, Des Voeux Road, Central, at 3.00 government has proved itself the p.m. SATURDAY, the 10 MARCH, 1832, for the purpose of receiving the enemy of liberty, of religion, of Report of the Directors together with civilisation as we know it in the Statement of Accounts for the year East and the West. And yet, as ending 31st December, 1931.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Mr. ALLEN pointed out, the Soviet Company will be CLOSED from appears to have hit upon an econo SATURDAY, 12TH MARCH, 1932, to SATURDAY

mic system that may prove, when 19 MARCH, 1931) (both days inclusive), during which perfected, for more in harmony period no transfer of shares can be with modern world conditions than

An artist well-known in the Far registered.

ship that cannot, stop. She is the capitalism. We have to face the East, in the person of Mr. not that the Five Year Plan Sister, is at present in the Colony

Looking Back 50 Years.

American collier H. F. de Bortle ben, which for nearly,pwo' days has despite its hideous beginnings may and is staying at the Repulse Bay

We have already referred to the Owing to the unsettled weather, alarming increase in esrious crime, been steaming completely means be the forerunner of an advinça no Hotel...

the annual Kowloon Marathon Raco no less than, és por cert, which has less important to humanity than the Mr. Shister recently arrived from

has been postponed to Monday been the result of Governor Sir trolled. March 21, starting at 4.30 p.m. Industrial Bewolution, and equally Singapore where, he has painted

has deen decided to held the race tion. This naurally suggests en It John Pope Hennessey's administra

A rescue vessel is following in impossible to a. arrest...

many pictures of leading Chinese

The official opening of the Hong on this date under all weather conquiry as to the jail accomodation order to take off the 34 men aboard Britain's dark Satanio mills

Kong War Memorial Nursing Home ditions, and competitors are asked and the method of dealing with the collier as soon titizens. He is the painter of the by H.E. the Governor and Lady to be a "Bt. Andrew's Church, such of the criminals as are con- safely be lowered. RAFT Programmes and Entry

Forms for the Second Extra of a century ago, have developed portrait of Sir Ceoil Clementi Peel will take place this afternoon Kowloon, as near four o'clock as cad. Base Meeting to be held on Saturday, indo large and airy workshops, which now adorns the Great Hall at 4 p.m. The Committee of Man- possible. Further entries will be nor, keeping, the figures carefully i

His Excellency the Gover and Monday, 26th and 28th Marstaffed by employees enjoying a had the Hong Kong University and Agement cordially invite all ex- accepted by the Hon. Secretary, out of view, thus endeavoured to delben is smashed, but the crew 1938 (weather permitting), may be

active service men and their lady St. Andrew's Club, up to to-mori thake out his case: obtained at the Secretary's Office, the standard of wages, education, lei. only recently he pasted another relatives to attend the ceremony,

Sir Richard Club House, Happy Valley, the Hong sure, comfort and consideration, picture of Sir Cecil for his family.

Maodonnell adopted the expedient dare not heave, lest the giant waves Kong Club, the Sports Club, and the

of discharging prisoners from jail now running sink the ship. There Btables, Village Road.

unknown except to a narrow circle Another like picture by thin

Passengers leaving by the Em- With the arrest of two men and after serving one third, one-fourth, fore the collier continues her hend Thursday, 17th March, 1930.

Costello, Capt. and Mrs. A. J. alleged to have boon broken up their sentences By that means he eighteenth century The model fache was Governor of the Starts Holland, Hadagio fire-arranted people was brought in doubt decroneed the daily aver sine the Waite Stex lince Adriatie factories, of Birmingham, Coventry-Settlements, and High Gulmission-George and Lady Lambert, Dz before Mr. Wynne Jones yesterday jage number of prisoners, but he in- året sighted her near Nantucket aad Roading and the enlightened er of the F.M.S. before Bir Cee and Mrs. W. B. A. Moore, Mr, and in connection of: the abduction of creased the total number of admisshon, off the coast of Massachusalts,

Mrs. T. E. Peare, Mr. C. Thwaites, four children who have since bean elons to gnol."-Hong Kong Daily ond Mr. and Mra. F. M. Weller. recovered. Detective Inspector J. Press, March 16, 1892.

yesterday.

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The rudder of the H. F. de Bar-

Entries alone at 19 o'clock Noon on of upper class persons in the artist is that of Sir Hugh Cimo prose of Janan included Mrs. G. E. a woman, kidnapping ring is one fifth or even one twentieth of long course, which she has pursuad

By Order,

CB BROWN,

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Becretary.

efficiency of many great rota busClementi,

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