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drawn to the torms of the airanlar letter date the 1st January, 1989, addrossod by the Company's General Managors. to the Members and dealing with the offer of Unissued Shares to the. Company's Capital to the Shareholders:

Bhareholders are rominded that the latent data for doceptands of the raid offer in the 20th April 1983; and that Loceptances or renunciations in favour of a nomines accompanied by an appropriate remittance miast roach the Company's bankara, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation on or before that data otherwise their right to accept or renounco will lapnoj

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,.

-21011 General Managers.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

CHEE YOURTH EXTRA RACE THE

MEETING will be held (wosthor permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 23D: APRIL, 1982,.com" mending 11. Pre

The First, Bell will bo Rung: at 15 p.m.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. Members are polifled that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.

No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Mambors Enclosure.

Badges, admitting Non-Members to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $9.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax): are obtainable through the SECHE TARY upon Introduction by a Member

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Member to be responsible for

bot, All Chits, cio..

admitting to Members! do NOT be on, sale at the |

Elacloruro Base Course,

On No Prstart will Children be permitted in either. Enclosure during the Morting.

Tifins are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone 21920:

PUBLIO ENOLOSURE

The Prios of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $200, including: Tax, for al Persons, including, Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.

Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform are admitted Half Prian, "

Bookmakers, To Tao Mex, eta. will not be permitted to operate with- in the Presinota of Tus Ecko Kona JOCKEY CIDR during the Race Meeting. Tifins will be obtainable in the Rei- taurant in the Public Enclosurd

By Order,

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Acting Secretary.

Hong Kong, 18th Aprik: 1032.

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WEATHER REPORT..

Yesterday's weather report. forecast' and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory as 7.15 p.m., stated:-..

The anti-cyclone is now cen- tak over the eastern part of the Sea of Japan. The northern depression is moving eastward and is now central to the north of Dairen, The depression in the China Sea appears to be entering the Annam coast to the south of Tourane and Alling

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The Daily Press

HONG KONG, APALL 18, 1932,

Hongkong, on Tuesday. the 19th, THE LEAGUE AND WAR. April, 1932, at 11.30 A.M. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with A Statoment of Accounts for the year endad 91st. October, 1937.

PCCTEDINGS at the annual mesting (of the Hong Kong Brunch of the

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, APRIL 18,

Potant.""

One abing most of us kapw is that the needs of war re sown in times of ponco. Wat is

the inevitable harvest of mistakes,

and weaknesses and selfishness dur-Tale of the Day... Ling popee..

A dangerous and silly doctrina"{"

Did you get my check.

News and Views

od day and night shifts, knocked off two months of the time, and collect.

Yon, twice. Once from you und trel his premiti uf 200,000 kronen"

that "all way is wrong. Diance from the Bunk?” Jana of Are wagh an unjust warti

till prevalent among vase sections of the, American population that Colonek Lindbergh was the first por- son to cross the Atlantic by air," writes a London journalist.

The Deb'a' Dilionary.

The following is, from a woman's page is a home paper and is pub lished without prejudice," as the lawyers say when they wish to write something nasty:- Darling: The popular form of ad

dress used in speaking to a per- son of the opposite sex whoan name you cannot recall at the

moment.

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Teachers Ask Changed Salary

Bezi

"Allowances for teachers? families. "aa parh, of their sakurica, ia rto. be- recommended at the next fonchers? saltry "auttlemout, aegotiations for which will commence this mouth

The London School of Economics is already carrying out an experi

mant wherein toncheru · racciva, „in addition to their salaries, a family Allowance for children in full-simo attendance at an approved school. The allowances urs from £30 to £60: per nnum por child.

Was England wrong to resist the Bonour to Whom Honour Spanish Armada, or WELLINGTON-AI AD atured that the nation is when he crushed NAPOLEON the in. ehrablo war-monger, or GONDON and WARD when they put down the | Taiping Robellion? Are the police

I was once present at a lunch. wrong in their way on crime? And

party in New York when my neigh, where dois polising end and warhour, a pretty young girl, declared begin? The great son fight in the that she was thrilled to death at in which the British. Fleet brokathe prospect of meeting Lindbergh that afternoon Fancy shaking the power of the slavo-trading Day

hands with the first man to fly the

Said the Amerigno to the English- af Algiers was hardly policing, and Atlantic! she said, ecstatically.

"Here is the amaliast stool tube in the world" exhibiting N what does the pacist say of the I've already had that bonour, I

Jolt A marked paragraph an-length of metal with the circumfer frontier ware that preserve India replied. "No? Do tell," she said.

nouncing the engagement of your once of a slender pin You've really met Lindbergh from invasion? Is a perpetually No, I anawored. It was about

best boy friend to the dumbelt he.

the Englishman to aggressive neighbour to be tolerated the time Lindbergh was in the nurier. One who tells an unpleasant weeks later-"Quits wrong. Here mos. at your coming out party.. American-through the post, a few

is the smallest stor tube in the,

You will find is threaded world through yours."...

for ever, or is it lawful to break jhia power for mischief 7

names

sery, There were two of them. Their

Alcock and werd Brown

They happened to British.

***You're crazy, she cried, pity-

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Britain One Up..

Daub: The portrait of a woman' you hata by a painter who never asked you to eit for him. Coyiter: Provocative modesty.. Heel: Woman's sole remaining man,

pedestal

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truth. be Personality: The Consolation Prize

in a Beauty Competition. Ambidextrous: Not letting your right hand know who is holding your left. Chivalry The High Resolve of "overy" man to protect every woman against every other man.

"And she honestly thought T

The struggle for peaks is long and difficult matter, and the great | preblom to-day is to secure tingly. machinery for settlement of disputo between the civilised nations. Wenk was." und muddled thinking is the great: ast enemy of penee Suppose, for Joxample, France had allowed, that warlik sydunt. ABDUL KHM to extend his cruel and uncurseinto. sway over North Afrien Would that have led to penze and justice and humano conditions in shee

The First. Success."

Kreuger achieved his first suc- cesses in lifa as a building contrac,

Here is an anecdote characteristic of his energy.

Mistakes.

When a plumber makes a mistako be charges twice for it. When a He had a contract to build a lands? And yet there were senti- owner insisted on a penalty clause what he wanted because he has

large warehouse in Stockholm. The lawyer makes a mistake it is just mentalists ready to sympathise of 5,000 kronen for every day in change to try the case all over with that picturesque villain and excess

of the stipulated time again. When a doctor makes Krengos demanded a similar pre- to condemn France for her war ofmium for every day he could out mistalo he buries it. When a judge libration in North Africa. Such off persons are equally on the side of the Dartmoor mutineers, the kid nappers of the Landinna baby and the Bias Bay Pirates.

The League of Nations provides machinery fof the settlement of dis- putes between major powers, hut its coercive strength is limited by the extent to which its members ara ableyor willing to commit them selvea Dealing with minor" and backward nations the task of cor- cion is entier, and it is only by coercion that wars car be stopped and abuses righted: To insist, for

example, that slavery shall cease in Liberia and that certain other nations close their dangerous drug factories is a gravo"contravention.

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As it was winter and building had not begun, the owner agreed. Kreuger then surrounded his con- struction with canvas walls, instal led a special hadting, system, work

Baid

the

rivalry which has the virtue of This is story of international being true.

The makers of this amazing wisp of steel, Mesars. Accles and Pollock, Ltd, of Oldbury, Birmingham, sub- mitted to the Daily Mirror a length of the American thibe with theirs" stuck through it

It is as Ane as a strand of human hair, and is actually a seamless steel tube through which air has been invisible tubing, was placed in a pumped. A length of this almost

tank of water, air was forcodi through it and bubbles occurred.

Old Man Thames may be a mere makes a mistake it becomes the law gargle up against the Mississippi if the land."; When preacher, but Messrs Accles and Pollock's nakes a mistake nobody knows the Ameriran friend is going to be hard difference but, when the printer Det to it to send back that hair of makes a mistake-Good Night.

stou with yet a finer, one through

it

Local Notes and Events

has been added to the list of autho- The name of Mr. H. T. C. Colman rised architects..

The anniversary social of the Kowloon Union Church will be held in the Church Hall on Friday, April 22.

Dinner was held at Messrs.. Lane, their intention of being present at The Hong Kong Football Club Over fifty persons have signified Crawford's restaurant, Exchange the seventeenth anniversary of Building on Saturday night, a large Anzac Day which will be held on number of members and guests Monday: April 25.

Anzac Day being present.

commemorates the landing of the combined Australian and New Zon The Licensing Board is to meet land troops at Gallipoli and the One case of amallpox, one of on April 2 to consider an appli-heroic deeds which followed. of the principles of sovereignty and enteric fever and five of cerebro-cation by Mr. P. I. Newman for a elf-determination: Unintelligent spinal fever were reported on Fri-publican's licence, without bar, in pacifism is, in daeb, a very dan-| | day;"

respect of the eighth door of gerous creed because there is still

Gloucester Building. a large minority, of individuals and | nations who have to s trented like children and made to behaye. For nu lenst a generation to come there will have to be sune and wise uso)

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Rotary Club, Rotarian E. R. Dovey, At to-morrow's meeting of the The Register of Shares of the League of Nations Society showed

F.I.C, will deliver an address on added to the list of auditors under The following names. have been Company will be closed from that there had been plenty of useful Wednesday, the 18th. day of April,

"Chemistry and the Community." the Companies Ordinanc-Mr. to Tuesday, the 19th. day of April, and unobstrusive work on behalf of

A. E. Pearson, Mr. F. W. Mackie, 1982, both days inclusive, during the unusp of praen. It is true that which period no transfer of shares con anthing very spectaculna had beer of armaments. That, however, is and the Tai Hong Steamship Co.,

It is notified that the hamen of Mr. W. Lackic, and Messrs. Pear- The Yeo Wo Restaurant, Limited, son, Mackie & Co. bo registered.

done. They had been so JOHN D. HUMPHRAYS & SON,

very different from competition in Ltd, have been struck off the meetings, with fiery speeches, the armaments between Powers who Register. General Managers, Hongkong, 7th. April, 1992. [2071

torical resolutions and the shouting ought to be co-operating, through of denunciatory slogans, every time the machinery of the League of La clash between Chinese war-lords Nations in keeping the would-be was rumoured; and even the bigger disturbers of the peace in their gonflict between China and Japan proper place. bad, seen the Society outwardly quiescent. This was all to the gond for nothing does more harm and provokes more mischief than the well-meant efforts of the pugnae. ious pacifist, with his superficial climour about issues of which heTHE LARGEST STRUCTURE IN knows nothing, and can know noth

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

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SHANGHAI CHINESE AND SECURITY.

OBJECTION TO PLAN FOR "FREE CITY.

H. E. the Governor has appointed Although the majority of think- the Hon. Mr. Willinen Henry Belling, men in England are disposed

Mr. M. T. Johnson to be a member Hon. Mr. C. G. S. Mackie.

to be a Member of the Authorized to look upon the proposals of the Architects Consulting Committee present Ministry for H.E the Governor has appointed, during the absence on leave of the reduction of armaments, which they a general of the Harbour Advisory Com

purpose to submit to the forthcom mittes, vice the Hon. Mr. C. G. S.

ing Peace Conference at the Hague,

The Shanghai Chinese Ratepayers Mackie, resigned.

A little better han quixotic, they Association in accordance with a re H.E. the Governor has appointed have been equally well disposed to solution passed by the annual meet Lieut. F Wright, Hong Kong throw no obstacles in the way ofing issued a statement on the secur Whilst driving her motor car in of his Honorary Aides-de-Camp., not desire that there should appear the cardinal points in which are as Volunteer Defence Corps, to be one fair discussion: and certainly deity of the International Settlement, Upper Albert Road on Friday, during the absence on leave of to be any divergence of opinion on Mis Zimmern knocked down a man

Lfollows: named Cheung Fung Cheung, who received a cut on his head.

Lieut. H. Owen Hughes.

the part of Great Britain as to 1. The condition under which the the needlessness under present con-practice has developed of excluding. The Rov. Father Byrne, B.J., will ditions of keeping up a hago mili Chinees armed forces from the In- The total output of the Kailan deliver a lecture to the Hong Kongy display-Hong Kong Dailyternational Settlement has been

Press, April 18, 1907. University Education Society this Mining Administration's mines for evening at 8 p.m. in the Union the week ending March 28, amount Assembly Hall. The subject will! Looking Book 30 Years. ed to 103,022 metric tons, and the be "A Lady Doctor Opens the sales during the period to 97,464 Class-room Windows." metric tons.

is open to the public,

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changed. This practice now con- stitutes a direct menace to the se curity of the Settlement.

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The Settlement a in no The lecture United Chapter No. 1, 841 took sesses no sovereignty. It is an in- The ceremony of consecrating songs an independent state and pos

place at the Freemasons Hall,tegral part of China sat apar by Hotel takes pleasure in announcing Hong Kong University Engineering shortly after nine o'clock, and after trade in the country.

The management of the Peninsula The third general meetings of the ing

Zetland Street, on Saturday even- the Chinese Government for the The proceedings commenced residence of foreign nationals who the price of the dinners in the Rose f April 22, at 8.30 p.m. in Room chapter Had been gone through, e ficting national interests in the that as from Monday, the 18th inst., Society will be held on Friday, the usual ceremony of opening the Room will be reduced from $30K"

3. Inasmuch as phere are con···· $5.

Hong Kong University, copy of the original charter from Settlement, it can be likened to the The presidential address entitled the Grand Chapter of Euglish Balkan Pehinmale, and is not in n "Bridge Foundations will be de Royal Arch Freemasons was read, position to resist the military in Owing to the very heavy rain livered by Mr. A. E. Fenwick, and the ceremony of consecration tervention of any of the Powers in-

protective consecrating officer, noted as Zoccupation" recently affected by one Most Excellent Companion A. Gof the interested Powers affords a Morris as H., Excellent Companion good example on this point, The wedding took place in Yoko- W. M. B. Arthur as J. Most ExIn order to maintain the pros ham, on March 31 of Mr. Denys collent Companion J. T. Chater as parity of the Port, the Chinese Consequent upon the heavy rain. Morley, of-the-Hong Kong Univer Beribe B., and Companion-Government shall resume all the fall yesterday accompanied by a sity, and Miss Winified Meadows, Parker as Director of Ceremonies. obligations of a territorial sovor strangely low temperature for this formerly of Hong Kong After-the-This-noble and imposing ceremony eign

served after the meeting. All inter- lent Companion C. P. Chater, the in the balance. The" which fell yesterday niternoon, the B.Sc., A.M.L.C.E. Tea will be was then performed. Most Excel terested. Its security is therefore

Inter Sports Competition, between the 1st Battalion of South Wales Borderers and H.M.S., Hermes, did not take place?******

ested aro welcome.

abla of seeing, two sides to a quee-

Prague, Apr. 11.-The huge power tion, and becomes white with anger after five minutes of argument.

plant at Koenigsgraetz which sup plied a large area with electric our- This Hong Kong Society has been rent, collapsed this morning, a part studying world problems, talking of it toppling into the Elbe river about them, disseminating public and destroying a large stone bridge. tions on the subject; and attending The plant has been completed in to the social problem," where the 1916, at a total coat of 100,000,000 careful investigations of a group of kronor, and was the largest plant. members have had potent influence in the Austrian empire and later in A local Pénes group is also being the Czechoslovakian republic. How formaed. It in to be hoped that the ever, it was soon found that its sito said group will bury itself less had not been well thosen, and many with the one-sided-writings of million were mentinaboring up- authors of the type of BERTRAND its foundations, hollowed out by the RUSSELL, and NORMAN ANGELL, than Elbe in the course of the years, with a study of War, its history The authorities hnd not been un-time of the year a representative of ceremony at the British Consulate, bas never been performed in Hong. The proposal of creating a and caused and the principles of prepared for the disaster. It was Observatory last evening and was Christ Church, Bishop Haslett of visitors from other chapters, in dream of the die-hard group; the Daily Press called at the Royal the wedding was solemnised at Kong before, and a goodly number free city in Shanghai in a rosenter strategy. Most of the persons who known that the building could not informed that between 1 p., and officiated, assisted by the Bey Waddition to the petitioners for the but should be denounced by the war have never considered first long. Last night the order was 0 pm yesterday 2005 inchess of Buncome Mr. and Mrs Morley formation of the chapter, were pre Chinese people. The opposition the amazingly complex problems, given to evacuate the plant, and to and falen, while the 'nverse have just passed, through Hong sont and assisted in the cerationy, voiced by the United States is there

What is War 1" and "What is

temperature for that period was Kong on their way to England on Hong Kong Daily Press, April 18,fore most reasonable and shoulde about 07 degrees..

holiday.

meet with our hearty support.

denounos

DAR result no lives were lost.

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