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TIMBERS are reminded that Closing Coraiso, and. Interport rowing will take place on SATURDAY NEXT, APRIL 2ND.

Laanches will leate Queen's Plor

at 9.15 P.M. for the accommodation

of members and their friends.

R. J. VERNALLA

Hon. Secretary.

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY

CLUB.

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Forros for the Third Extra Bace Mooting to be held on Saturday, 9th April, 1039, (weather permitting), may be obtained at the Becretary's Offen, the Club Houso, Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Club, the Sports Club, and the Stablos, Villege Rond.

Entries close at NOON TO-DAY”.

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Secretary

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NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Mem- bers of the abovo named Company will' be held at the Hongkong Hotel, Poddar Street, Victoria in the Colony of Hong- kong at 11.30 o'clock in the forenoor on SATURDAY the 2nd day of APRIL 1939 for the purpose of considering and if thought it passing as Extra. ordinary Resolutions the following. Resolutions.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1932.

Tais of the Day,

News and ViewS

They were standing before a large painting untitled "Echo" in an art

· KEKALON LARTIG

"I suppose," said one man, "it is appropriate to depict Echo as a woman, because she always has the last word."

"On the other hand," returned the second man, an echo speaks only when spoken to."-Los Angeles Times. "

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Vampire People.

"no" far as sithor, side can, turn it to its own advantage. Nations are all tar removed from the stage int which they will unreservedly place. their interesty in the hands of the League and "the League itself has. a long way to go, before it will Inspiro such conddenoo. But the League is a focus of world opiniony: and both China and Japan have shown themselves throughout very seeritive to world opinion, China has, in Lord Lyrror's phrase, "placed her case unreservedly in the hands of the Longue," while Japan knows perfectly well. that Washington and Geneva, in con- junction, wield an economic power that would be dangerous to defy. The hope of China and Japan, as of all the world, is that the League of Nations' Commission will be able to suggest a salation of the Man churian" problein,' That in a far more important task than the ap- portionment of, blame for pastence in London. " incidents. The two nations have to share the earth and share it peacefully... Neither fighting nor the boycott weapon cari decide the issue." The Report will fail or succeed upon its merits. Let the Commissioners be mistaken in their facts, or binksed in their judgment, and their pronouncement will be GILMAN & Co., Ltd., Agents.condemned ad ignored. If the

report be fair, and wise, and penic trating, the recommendations will, in the end, prevail. The Simon ACKNOWLEDGMENT:

Report upon Indin called forth the Mrs, OMAR KITCHELL and family yells and execretions of famatics, tender sincere thanks to their at the shere merit of that dock friends for the many kind ex-ment made it the ordinary man'a pressions of sympathy in their recent bereavement, also for

HUMBER

SNIPE

See them at the DURO GARAGE

in Nathan Boad, Kowloon.

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Doral tributes sont and attend- Aace at the funeral.

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Queer vampire people who prey on those with whom they came in contact" word mentioned by Dr. Mary Chadwick, the psychologist, at the Professional Nursing Confer

There are extraordinary people who seem to be able to suck the energy from those around them," she said. "You' generally find that this vampiro person is A woman with a great desire for getting peo- pie into her power, She is often the type of woman who wants very much to be a man,”.

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The Stirling Castle Drum.

A dramatic act of restitution fok lowed the showing of the Alp "Mons" in London. A. Hamburg was much man in the audience moved by an incident which port guide to the India problem, and,rayed the loss of a drum by the alowly what has been recommended Argyll and Sutherland Highland will, with inevitable modifications, | ers He had that very drum him- prevail. Such a Report is needed [self! upon Manchuria and Shanghai,

„Ân essential to the success of the Comision is that it should gain the respect and confidence of both parties. It is, therefore, a great London Offs: 3, Floet Bereot, pity that Land LYTTON should allow

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Editorial and Business Offices: 11,

Ice House Street. Tal. 30951.. Night Editor (Wanchai Offee):

"Tel: 94811."

The Daily Press.

PIPES. fecret to the

HONG KONG, Manon 31, 1932,

1. That the Articles of Assoolation] STATESMANSHIP. NEEDED.

of the Company be altered' in manner following

(a) by the deletion of Article 81 and by the substitution of the following Article to be known

Article 84 in its place. (84) Each Director other than the ex-officio Director shall be paid

I would seem impossible that fighting between the Chinese and Japanese should start again after a truce of, nearly a month We have

It came into his possession from a friend who had found it hidden in a lonely bush between, Ham and Roye

Shocking awakening:

The ohier theatre at present, the Now Theatre, is not very now, for it came into being largely through the offorts of the undergraduates, of the late Lord Curzon, and the late Arthur Bourchiar..

An amusing incident occurred last month in a coroner's court in London. A doptor, while giving evidenos, faluted. He was carried "out and laid flat on a table in an adjoining room, and another medi cal man went out to render aid,

Recovering consciousness, the dee- tor started up with a cry from the table on recognising that the Good riotous nights at a little theatre on".

Samaritan" bending professionally over his prostrate form was no other then-Sir Bernard Spilsbury..

1:

Twelve Mon Bay "Yes."

pop-

Twelve blushing maidens" ped the question" at a leap year ball as Toronto on February 29, at which it was agreed that the Leap Year's Day privilege should be taken advantage of.

All 19 proposals wore accepted and the names of the couples pub-

icly announced.

A Silly Billy.

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Farmer Booth, of Sibney, Lincoln- shire, has a goat named Billy who, the other day, tried"Arst to behave like Mary's little damb, and then noted the goat so thoroughly that he was arrested by the police.........

At Spilsby Police Court it was stated that be

30:

Walked to Sibsey Sahool Gave the children a

display.

Stood on his hind legi. Tried to stand on his head, Failed,

Falked away in disgust, Met two Indies,

gym

There is also far more modern Playhouse, which Mr. J. B. Fagas directed. And undergraduates of a provious generation will remember

the other side of the river.

There the brass instruments of the orchestra had the ball-schaped portion covered with wire gauza to prevent well-aimed missiles lodg ing thoroin.

Thousand Miles an Hour.

Sir Alan Cobham, who has such wide experience in aviation, pre- diets with confidence that in a few years' time we will dy at the rate of 1,000 miles an hour,

To the members of the Royal Em pire Society he gave an alluring, it somewhat imaginative, picture of flight in the future. At 1,000 miles an hour, he explained, you would be able to get round the world in a day.

Starting from London after braakfast, one would arrivo in America in time for breakfast, and, following the westward

course, Bach halt would coincide with that 108a).

The Master of Sempilt spoke of the ease, with which autogyros are handled, and recalled that Dr. Help Shaw, the distinguished en- gineer, who is in his 70th year, told him he bad thought of getting one, as he imagined it was the only type he could land without crash- ing.

Began to repent his tricks, Scared the two ladies (who in 167,000 Fewer Babies. formed the police), and

Tried to butt a constable. Farmed Booth was ordered to five shillings.

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Sixty-seven thousand fower little Germans came into the world in the first nine months of 1931 tha pay in the same period in 1930. Thie birth-rate is the lowest on record, and the rate was still lower in the last quartar of 1931.

Afterwards the Hamburg man wrote to the commanding officer of hirnoff the luxury of making morn the Argyll and Sutherland High- than purely formal speeches. Every landers, offering to restore the word that he uttera is being sub-drum. Today it hangs in Stirling fiercest scrutiny and Castle and records the battle hoa- Criticism. An early remark about ours of the regiment for more than the functions of the League may

a century," have been true, but its utterance was unwise. Lord LYTTEN W presumably selected for this most difficult task because, as, a former, Mr. James Agate told an excel Governor of Bengal, he has know.lent story against himself at a then. ledge of the East, if not of the Fatrical dinner recently; he sat bolished a veritable reign of terror in

So far no sign has been side Mige Lilian Braithwaite. given of the inscrutability, and the A little while ago;" said Mr. power of coining polite" phrases Agate, "I was fortunate enough to

East.

Second Best.

.

It is estimated that the total in- crease in the population of Ger- many, which is more than 83,000,000, during 1031 will be found to bo not much more than 300,000

In Poland, whose population is half that of Germany, the increase

500,000.

Capt Lothar Von Arnauld de la Periere, who recently retired from the German Navy, was the doughtiest foe we had in the war, As a submarine captain he establis

the Mediterranean,

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In those waters and in the Atlan tie he claimed to have sunk 300,000

Germany has now a lower birth- rate than France. Sweden has the lewest birth rate in Europe, and Great Britain the next lowest.

It is stated that 40 per cent, of

THE HONGKONG

DISPENSARY

POLICEMAN IN TROUBLE.

MISCONDUCT PROVED.

The case in which a Shantung

out of the funds of the Com got used to the idea that the menutog nothing and pleasing find myself alone with Miss Braith tons of shipping, and this total," the married couples of Germany | palicè constable is charged with the .pany as remuneration for his Armistice is as final as "that of everyone, that are essential to good white. I hastaned to avail mysel it is understood; is accepted by the have no children.

line of Article 105.

Our

services the sum of $2,000.00 November 11, 118, and that the per annum and such remunera tion shall be deemed to scorus pointe at issue will gradually he de die in diem and be payable settled, because"neither side wants by half

7 yearly instaliments. (b) By the insertion of the figure renewal of hostilities.

15,000,00 the place of the Shanghai correspondent writes of figures $10,000.00 in the fifth the expectation of a trade boom, 2. That the foregoing resolution and, whateven may happen to Man- shall be retrospective and shall chutia the worst of Shanghai's take effect from the 1st., day of

troubles would appear to be over. January 1932.

the AND NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY Unfortunately, though GIVEN that a further Extraordinary flames have died down, the embers General Meeting of the Members of

Where hostile arhies the above named Company will be are alive.

held at the same time and place on

1932 for the purpose of receiving a

war

fare each other the dunger to peace

No

diplomacy in the Far East doubt Lord LXTTON's speech at Nanking delighted the Chinese Government, but there must have been a very different reaction in Japan. Platitudes and dull speeches are annoying, and it is much to ask that an able man should hide his light under a bushed, but there are occasions to which commonplaces aro more suited than the peals of wisdom that a great pro-4onsul is able to dispensé.

MARKET.

MONDAY the 18th day of APRIL is imminent. Negotiations are slow HONG KONG STOCK Report of the proceedings at the and difficult, both sides are alert abovementioned meeting and of con- firming if thought as Special Resolutions the above mentioned Resolutions.

Dated this 15th day of March 1032,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managera..

(1963

HONG KONG CLUT

NOTICE.

1.

YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL

QUOTATIONS.

WAS

1of this rare opportunity.

"My dear lady, 1 said, 'May 1

tell you something I have wanted to tell you for years that you are th second most beautiful woman in the United Kingdom?!

larceny of a dollar and with mis- Admiralty. Von Arnauld, however,

conducting himself as 4 police was a chivalrous fighter, and derive Days on Ledge...

officer was concluded before Mr. J. Dazed and exhausted after a A. Fraser at the Kowloon - Magis- name never figured on our "black terrible five days marconed on a tray yesterday afternoon, when the spite the havoc he wrought his

slippery lodge over a 500ft pre-

"I naurally expted that Mish list."

man was discharged on the count of Braithwaite would ask wao," my When seen in Germany a few cipico in the Paarl Mountains, opinion, was the woman who came years ago he was in command of Cape Province, the 2-year-old stealing but was found guilty of before her. And I had prepared the new cruiser Emder. He was climber, Bostic August, was carried myself with a name to which it regarded as the best all-round sea- into, Paarl Hospital by a party of would have been interesting to see man in the Reichsmarine. Miss Braithwaite's reaction

"But she asked no such question, Sho moraly looked at me with her charming smile and said, Thank you. I aball alwaya' cherish. that, coming from the second-best dru- matic eritie."

Wedding Dress as. Shroud,

What was to have been her wed- ding dress was used as a shroud for Miss Mary Cook (28), of Wood thorpe, Derbyshire, who was buried at Clay Cross. She was to have been married on a Wednesday, but died on Saturday after two days

to slights and indiscretions, and ren! statesmanship is needed to pilot the "Conference through the shoals. On the other, hand' there in hopp in the obvious desire of! both sides to avoid war. This may The market was again quite fea he doubted, but a tree of such tureless yesterday morning, and length is unlikely to be merely a tested in one or two investiment illness.

although some interest was mani- cover for military preparations, stock, the rest of the list The other side would long ago have neglected-

Bales. known if such plans were incubat

Hongkong Bank, $1,450, 91,460 THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEARLYing, and there would have been en

and $1,475. TGENERAL MEETING of the abrupt ending of this uneasy full, Members of the Hong Kong Club will be held in the Club House on THURSDAY, the 21st MARCH, 1932, at 6.80 px.

By Order, TA. HOBERTSON ·

Lieut. Col.,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1998.

of

An immense aniount must depend upon, the League. of Nations' Com- mission. It is somewhat unfortu- nato that, it is being called the Lytton, Commission, for it is b international body, drawing its 1979 authority

from the League Nations, and the Chairman in the only Britishi representative. Its duty is to enquire into the rights and the wrongs of the Sino- Japonces dlash, particularly in Manchuria, and to report to the League Council. This report will be anxiously awaited by the whole

THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS. & SHIPBUILDERS OF

HONG KONG

world, and by the Far East in particular, Many experienced people

NOTICE OF MEETING MEMBERS are hereby notified that the ANNUAL GENER. AL MEETING will be held in th will no doubt say that China. und Boome-of-the-LaJapan are best left to themselves, THURSDAY, MARCH 8ler.at 6 p.m.

A. L. LANDSBERT, 2016).

Hon. Secretary:

and that in any case neither of "them" will take the leant notice of: what the League says, except in

Hongkong Lands, 8781 to 878). Hongkong Realties, $10.00. Star Ferrios, 802 to 802. Telephones (P.P.), $94..

Buyers, Hongkong Bank, $1,485. Union Insurance, $450, China Underwriters, $4. “Dougiases, "$284.

Benguets, $12.10.

K.K. and K. Wharven, 8142. Providenta (old), $4.70 ex div. Frovidents (new), $21 ex div. Hotels, (rights), $2.60. Hongkong Lands, $78]. Chinese Estates, #05. TR Electrics, 872) Hongkong Trams, 821.

Macao" Electrics, $23. Cemanta. (combined), $161. Watsons, $16). Binceres, $15.) Amusements, 2001. Constructions. (now), $1.86.

Heynette Hollers:

HX and K. Wharves; 8144 Malabon Bugari, 122. South China Enterprises, $10.

There is a legend that his father was a French officer, who was cap tured in the war of 1870, but this

rescuers.

August and another climber lost their way among the mountdina. friend lost his footing and fell

is incorrect. Von Arnauld comes to his death in the gorge, of a French Huguenot family

which sought refuge in Germany

after the revocation of the Edict Wives Will Know.

was born at Posen and is now in of Brussels are to be paid by postal of Nantes. The redoubtable Lothar All workers employed by the city his 40th year.

Oxford's Theatres.

misconducting himself and ordered to pay a fine of $100 or to go to prison for two months in default.

The prosecution was conducted by Mr. D. Caltrop, ABP, asiated by

Inspector Ellis, Officer: in Charge of Mong Kok police station. The defendant was represanted by Mr. MA. da Silva...

It will be recalled that the proso- cheque. Wives are delighted by cution" alleged that the defendant Cause they will know how much went into a house in Argyle Street. their husbands earn, but the trade on February 16 last, and after steal- unions are dissatisfied.

ing & dollar from a drawer, drow When the new Prince of Wales' Union delegates used to stand at his revolver on the men who remon- strated with him. It was alleged Theatre at Oxford is built-it is to the pay offices and collect from the hold over 2,000 people-the city workers his subscription. It is fear.that the men took away the con- of spires will be well equipped ed that members will not be ao stable's revolver and hold him until

the arrival of an Inspector. dramatically, a

prompt now in paying,,

Local Notes and Events

The Hong Kong dollar was quot- ed at 1s 3d yesterday.

The proposed Painting Exhibi- tion, arranged by St. John's Hall of the University, will not take place in St. Paul's Girls' Collage owing to difficulties of transport.

From the files.

Looking Back 25 Years.

The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines far is Excellency the Governor will the work ending March 12, 1982, be "at home" at Government House amounted to $1,639 metric tons, and on Thursday April 14 from 4:30 the sales during the period to 94,1014 metric tons.

p.m. to 6 p.m.

One case of smallpox, one of¦ It is well known that the Police diphtheria and one of cerebro, of Hong Kong have employed the spinal Jover were reported on system of fingor prints to assist in Tuesday. During last week there the identification of prisoners. The word 17 cases (7 deaths) of small results have been very satisfactory, Box case of diphtheria","a" etses and it is rather hitereating to and of enterie fever, à enses (1 death) that the sciones has been developed of cerebrospinal fever and 43 to meet peculiar local conditions death from pulmonary tuberculosis. In one station it has been customary

Defendant's Story.

As yesterday's hearing of the case „the defendant went into the witness

box and gave a completely different. version of the affair)

.1

He said that on February 16 at 10.30 in the morning he was a passenger in bus travelling along Nathan Road towards the- Kowloon. Ferry. When it stopped at Argyle Street a man named Ng Heung called him by his number. He des conded from the bus and was fold by the man that there was a "small matter in the Mong Kok market, he of some value. Hong Kong and that as a detective from You. Daily Press. March 31, 1007.

mati he needed his help.

to take foot prints, as well and as the lines on the skin on the sole of the foot can be classified in a similar manner, this new aid in the detection of criminals is likely to

Looking Back 50 Years.

The two men went along Argyle Street to the junction of Beclama tion Street, where a crowd of ten According to the Peking corres- men set upon the constable and took pondent of the North China Daily away-bis revolver end-held-him-un- News, -n-counor has complained of 'til an Inspecctor Laine along. He the corruption of the native Cus tried to explain to the Inspector toms officials. It would appear that what had happened, but was unable the memorialist objects to the sys-to make himself understood. tem of farming out the revenue, Mr. Fraser, at the conclusion of approves of the foreign customs the evidence, held that the defen system, and naks for an edict to the dent should be discharged on the affect that however truck may be col count of larceny but that the charge ected, all must be given to the of misconducting himself as a police Emperor-Hong Kong Daily Prear oficer wits proved, and sentenced March 81, 1982.

him as stated above,