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ADVERTISEMENTS.

CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION,

THE Ofoes and Stations of the CHINESE MARITIME CUS TOMS for Kowloon and Distrlat will:- be CLOSED to PUBLIC BUSINESS on the 9 JULY, 1939, being a CUSTOMS HOLIDAY.

-E-N.-ENSOR - Commissioner of Chinese Customs, Kowloon and District

York Building,

Hong Kong, 4th July, 1632.

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M.C.L. CROSS-WORD PUZZLE COMPETITION.

A series of Crossword puzzles, six in all, will appear in the South China Morning Post and the Hong Kong Daily Press in July, August and September next.

They will be published once a fortnight starting on July 7th, ie, on July 7th and Zist, on August 4th and 18th, and on September 1st and 18th.

The entrance fee will be $5. for the series.

A prize of $50 will be given to the competitor who solves all the puzzles correctly or with the fewest mistakes.

in the event of more than one competitor tying, the prize will be divided.

The balance of the entrance fees will go to the funds of the M.C.I..

Entrance fees which will be duly scknowledged must accompany the first solution sent in.

The competition will be in the hands of a judge who will enter into no correspondenes concerning it and whose decision will be final

The correct solution of each puzzle will be published in the same issue of each paper as that in which the next puzzle of the series appears.

Entrance fees and solutions are to. be sent to "Fuder," e/o the Helena May Institute, Hong Kong, and envelopes must be marked "M.C.L.X. Word" in the top left hand corner.

No competitor msy send in more thaa ono solution of any puzzle. Every solution must reach the judge within 6 days of the pablication of the puzzle.

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Date of first puzzle-July 7th.

NOTICE,

I have THIS DAY commenced business as Stock and Share Broker on my own behalf at Ex- change Building, Srd floor under the style of JOSEPH & Co.

H. B. JOSEPH, Member HLK. Stock Exchange.

NOTICE.

to the possibility of contracting Cholera from eating Uncooked Veget ables and Fruit.

*

J. H. GELLING, Secretary, Sanitary Board.

-22nd Jane, 1982.

6% FIRST MORTGAGE DEBEN.

„TURES (KAILAN BÖNDS). PAYMENT of the HALF-YEARLY

JULY, 1982, will be made on Pre sentation of Coupon No. 40 at any of the undermentioned Banks, vis. 200 HONGLONG AND SHANQUAL BANKING CORPORATION.

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Increased taxation is to be one and

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News and Views

That Gentle Bound.

A new machine, it is claimed, induces sleep by means of a low, humming sound.. Would a mosquito in the room answer the same pur- pose!

Golf Links and Pyramids,

Writes a cynie:

President Hoover,

EX-EMPEROR STILL AT

LARGE.

| ABYSSINIAN TROOPS DESERT COMMANDER.

The President of the United Staten is classed in a new book

Paria, June 17.-According to ad- "The Truth About Hoover”, as, a great statesman and a couragebus vices from Djibouti, the situation leader. The author, Herbert Corey, in Abyssinia continues to be ob finds that no President, with the scure. A strong cordon of troops Fexceptions of Washington and Linhas been thrown around Addiv]

colaj has ever been so persistently

or untruthfully maligned. Corey Ababa to prevent friends of the ex- predicte that Mr. Hoover will Emperor Lij Yassu from entering emerge from the economic crash as

IS

SHANDY

IN THE WORDS OF MILTON ** DELECTABLE - BOTH

·TO BEHOLD AND TASTE:" WHEN IT'S MADE WITH

WHITBREAD'S

Gainous Hoyyan Pravince is mpa Britain's Best Beer

Egypt is making a great push. Coming across Franco by train he did from the World War with the capital. The ex-emperor whe observed such notices as "Egypt reputation enhanced through clari. is raising an army in the moun for Sport" printed on boards at fied perspective. the edge of woods and in meadows. Į I suppose this kind of thing, catches a few bored people who suddenly remember that Egypt la the one country whose golf courses they have never tried.

Modest Mis; Earhart,,

a half milliards but there is a

grand deadlock over the figure of the economies Presumably Ger many is to make good the residue t

The common, people of all lands want a way out of the economic impose They want security of the currency, and they want prospects of employment. There is not a Frenchman or an American who would not burn every paper ad- vantage, sealed and signed at Ver- sailles, or in any of the fifty other places where conferences have been held, if the reward were to be awakening from this nightmare of want and uncertainty in a world of plenty. The spirit in which British people are meating the ap- peal to convert their war fann hold.

Empire Day was an appropriate choice for the preliminary perform. inga, to pay income tax promptly-ance of the Royal Tournament, offi- hind her," says a London diarist, rainy season which makes large- to do anything the Government cially inaugurated by the King and "and I veritably believe that this sole military operations on

Queen to-day.

wonder-woman, for whom flying the part of the Governmen troops im- asks is not to be found only in

The best episode of the Tourns-Atlantic has no terrors, was frigh-possible-Trans-Ocean Kuo Min. Great Britain.

All are ready to ment was the presentation of the tened. As the cheering went on and on she crouched down and seemed first Prior of Wales as an infant to be trying to make herself invisi sacrifico sham rights and useless to the Welshment at Carnarvon by ble. At last she stood up and gave Į

Edward I. assets, and to get back to reality

a timid little bow, and then, turn- Soldiers Can wear, naturally

ing up the collar of her opera cloak, and the solid civilisation that wo enough, the military costumes of

the long age better than the civilian ske buried her face in her program know before the War.

supers" of the stage could, and me." this was all done very well indeed, "There was never a more modest with the vastly tall Captain J. B. heroine." F. Martyn as the first Edward, whose nickname was shanks."

ROAD CASUALTIES IN

ENGLAND.

The danger to life and limb from

motor traffic in large cities is a problem which ia taxing severaly the brains of the authorities in Great Britain. Last year, in the whole country; there were 6,001 persons killed and 202,189 injured. Compared with the figures for 1930, these show a decrease of 614 in the

The Royal Tournament.'

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ed to be meeting with success, and it is stated that the Government troops who were sent into the hills with orders to recapturo Lij Yassu Casanova" at the Coliseum Lon. have gone over to him, leaving the don had its greatest moment of ex-minister of war, who was in charge citement just before the curtain of the expedition, to return alono rose, when Miss Earhart took her to the capital and face the wrath place in the stalls amid cheers of the Emperor Belassi. which must have been heard in It is, however, not expected that Trafalgar Square.

¦ Lij Yasu will make a move on the

TO 17-

BECAUSE THIS BKER

IMPARTS

AN

APPETISING COLOUR AND THAT DELIGHTFUL FLAVOUR

AND AROMA OF THE

"I sat almost immediately be capitanofore the makes a Finest Kentish Hops

"Long.

Briand Memorial,

BIRTH-RATE FALL IN

BRITAIN.

the

FIRST QUARTER'S RETURN SHOWS LOWEST FIGURE.

London, June 14. The lowest birth rate in Britain since the

More modern, and more thrilling, were the antice of the motor-cycle | The friends of the late Aristide! establishment of civil registration acrobats of the Royal Corps of Briand have opened a national is revealed in the Registrar. Signals. These men are every bit subscription to erect a monument General's quarterly returns pub. as daring in their "atunte as which will celebrate his work for lished to-day.

The returns show that the 152,212 professional dirt-track riders. peace. By a curious irony they

have chosen a site on the Paris live births registered during the Deauvilla road, which is annually first quarter of this year were 7,451 the scene of more fatal motorcar less than the number for the cor- accidents than any other road in responding period in 1931.

The deaths registered were 183,420.

Jobless Open Shop in Adelaide.

Showing both enterprise and de-France. termination, the unemployed in Adelaide have opened a sales depot

Atmosphere!

is

the

on Rundle Street, the chief shop- ping center. There is keen public interest in the undertaking. The

The extent to which the audi. Coliseum where: Casanova Governor, Sir Alexander Hore toriums of London theatres will showing is Venetian than' number of killed, but an increase Ruthven, has paid an unofficial visit i continue to transform themselves to Lyceum ("The Miracle ") is Gothic. resemble the atmosphere portrayed One is to one's seat by an eigh- on the stage should prove an amus. teenth-century clad lady in a mask, ing speculation. Far more of the and a taxi is secured by a man in a tricorne hat; who might have been *(Continued" on" next_column.) i one of Casanova's own lackeys.

to the shop and made purchases, and he says he intends to go again. The windows and the inside shelves are well stocked with homemade products of all kinds.

Local

and

General

FROM WHICH IT IS BREWED.

TRY IT AND INHALE A

Breath of Home

DON'T SIMPLY CALL FOR A SHANDY DEMAND AND

ENJOY A

"Whitbread Shandy'

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HONG KONG STOCK MARKET.

* YESTERDAY'S OFFICIÁL

QUOTATIONS,

for broke into her. bedroom between 3 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. on Sunday and stole from an unlocked drawer a

A decidedly better feeling per platinum bangle valued at $100. vaded the market at yesterday Another report of petty theft is to morning's session, partly induced by the effect that Mr. W. Anderson the extraordinary success attending of Lycemun Buildings had a set of the Conversion Scheme at home Mr. William Jackson, lato Secre earphones valued at 920 stolen from and its repercussion on the London him, while a third report states Stock Exchange, the Intest, news change and a very old resident of that Mrs. Burke of 47A, Peking from that centre indicating ad- the Colony, has established himself Building has lost a clock valuedvances in all sections: as a Stock and Share Broker, trad at 800. ing under the name and style of the the Hong Kong Stock and Share Agency on the third floor of Exchange Building,

Sentence of six weeks hard labour

was passed at the Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday on a Chinese who was concerned in the theft of n The christoning of the Customs quantity of packets of 1,000. razor catter Fei Hsing, a sister ship of blades, from the Kowloon Godowna the Wah Being, which was launch recently. The man admitted that Kinngnan Dock Shanghai, to-day said he only took packets of 25. It was originally arranged to hold The police stated that the defendant the Fai Hsing christening ceremony was a former employee of the Go postponed. on June 22, but it was subsequently downs and some time ago he had

been charged with theft and dis charged being also dismissed by the Company

Bales, he Union Waterboats, $191, Providents (Old), $5,10, Ewo Cottone, Tis, 13.46. China" Lights (Old), '819.85/193. Hong Kong Ropes, $12.80/$13. Buyers.

Hong Kong Banks, $1,480. Canton Insurances, 81,250. Union Insurances, $440. China Firo Insurances, $600,

·H,K, and W.-Docks, ́818; Providents (Old), $5, Hotels (Old), $11, s. Ewa Cottons, Tla. 13,40,

of 24,224 in the number injured. Before the outbreak of the world war in 1914, an engagement in which THERE is a certain bland simplicity 18 persons were killed and 553 aisut the proposals presented to wounded would have ranked as a the German delegation at La battle, but this is n battle-if the sanne. Germany is to find four term may be used—which takes placo milliard marks to be put into a every day of the year, and Great European Restoration Fund, That Britain in not peculiar in this is to wind up her. Anancial regard. The casualties are the price [2849 liabilitica under the Treaty of humanity must pay for mator

Vorenilles.

Miss N. Robinson, a nursing It will take a good transport in modern civilisation,

Mr. Que Tai-chi, the new Chinese Professor R. D. Jameson, of Minister to Great Britain, return | Tsinghua University, Peking, and sister of the Government Civil Hos- many years to liquidate the debt,

A more detailed statement on ed last week to Shanghai from Mra. Jameson will sailed from pital has made a report to the THE Sanitary Board wishes to but it has the advantage of bring street accidents in London shows Nanking. He was due to sail for Shanghai on July 3 by the Swedish Police to the effect that soins onG

draw the attention of the public ing the end of. Germany's war that the number of persons killed London via Canada on July 4,

East Asiatic ms. Tamara Europe. They will spend some time other nations in during the first quarter of this year

on the Continent, after which they General Chiang Teo-pin, Chinese was 314; and 10,865 were injured. Minister to Tokyo, who was to have will go to Amarica, returning to

China in a year's time. It is not mentioned whether any The number killed - and injured left for Japan last week by the other nation is to pay into this during the corresponding quarter Dollar str. President Taft, has postponed his departure until to fund, nor are details of its pur- of last year were respectively 290 day when he will-sail by the Pretary of the Hong Kong Stock Ex: [2810

pose published. Reuter with great and 0,043. An analysis shows that aidost Adams, THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & tactfulness points out that no direct 10 persons were killed and : 4,043 |10)

MINING COMPANY, LTD. ́‚ | meption-of the-United States is injured by private motor cars Daring the four days ending on Bunday 20 cases of cholera were (INCORPORATED in tax UniteD

made. What a comfort it must be during the first quarter of this notied (fuller details elsewhere in KINGDOM).

to a Foreign Secretary to have year; 96 were killed and 1,838 this issue) There were also two Messra. Reuter's, Ltd., ready to injured by trade and commercial cases of diphtheria, one of email make discreet pronouncements and vehicles; and 33 were killed and pox four of enteric and one of

Tueningitia. intelligent anticipations! What a 1,603 injured by motor-cycles. As

A. Tiontain message states that late President Li Yuan-hung, das led a petition with the Tientsin District Court, charging her so and daughter-in-law with deser tion and embezzlement of proper ties left by the former president.

Captain E. K. Boddam Whethum,

MrJohn-Bernard-Prentis-was D.SO., who was Senior Officer of admitted to the local Bar yesterday

Jealousy is believed to be the mo- the West River Flotilla in China, morning. The Attorney General 1920-31, has been appointed to the (the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster tive for an attempted murder which command of H. M. Second Destroy admitted and in granting the ap Shanghai, last week. The victim was K. C.) moved that Mr. Prentis be occurred in the French Concession, er Flotilla, which was recently transferred from the Mediterranean plication the Chief Justice (Sit. a beautiful young Chinese girl who, to the Home Elect

Joseph Kemp) congratulated until her death, had been living Prentis and wished him hicle. with a man named Sino La-les in a house off Kus Pere Hue. When Iow Kowloon Inland Lot Và h 1809 which is: aituated near New The body of Mr. T A. Henry, tored another tenant's room where

Siao La-lee wis out, the girl en Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1814 Uni who was drowned whilst swimming several persons were smoking opium. Chau Street was sold at the 2.W.D. of Laichikok on Friday afternoon, Buddenly the room was broken into yesterday at the upset price of was recovered near the Standard by two gunmen who, upon seeing Three Chinese were brought be. 14,890, there being no bidding. Mr. Wat found at so sya Bunday her drew pistols and fired. When wan Street purchased the lot. Another body that of a Chinese disappeared, but the girl was found tracy yesterday on a charge of pe

youth-was recovered from the bar lying on the floor, her body being along Castle Peak Rond on Sunday It was stated that in this case, the that she had been struck by bullate There was a slight motor accident bour (off Shamshuipo) es Gaturday. riddled. An examination revealed Afternoon when a car driven by (Cheung Bam-yin) went out swim in five places. She was immediately Yee Tung Chuen collided with an ming on Friday afternoon and bad taken to the Lester Chinese Hos other car near the railway crossing. been reported as missing.

pital, but little hope was held for

Marketa developed further.. A Chinese named Ma Sai Yuen re- coived injuries to his right eye and At Central Magistracy yesterday, her recovery: The French police strength in the course of the day.

are investigating.

Breyten Bad quite a few issues have been was taken to the Kowloon Hospital two Chinese were charged in con

marked up for treatment. His condition was nection with the burglary at the

Sales not found to be serious premises of B. 5. Heera on June To Stella Benson the found, it

26, when property to the value of trying to play anap with a pione Hong Kong Bank, $1,500.

Union Insurances: $442/445, A report has been made to the $2,000 was stolen, Inspector Judge)

Hotels (Old), (41110, police by Mr. A. H. Potts of High Murphy porsecuted while Mr. L. I griove to find the Puisne Judge, House, Mount Davis, to the effort P K Kenble was for the second

Humphreys, $18.4020/20 Star Ferriss, 4pm. last Saturday, some one on a charge of unlawful receiving broks into the house and stole two The first defendant had alranty diamond rings, two wrist watches, pleaded guilty to two charges o a brooch, a pair of sunglasses and arcony and Inspector Murphy stas 818 in money, The '** Eaul "?" was sed that he proposed to put the - Hồ valued at over $3,000 and two ser man (in the box to prove the car) led breach vants--who-have- since absconded against the second defendant. Care suspected set of moon

Tiantain, Bhangbai

INTEREST due on the lay neat way of settling with the bogy. the result of accidents caused by Mme. Li Yuan-hung, wife of the ed recently, will take place at the be had taken part in the theft but

man of Europe, Uncle Sam, and pedal-cycles 10 persons were killed paying him off. A European Re and 1,720 injured. 114 persons were storation Fund-with one contri, killed through crossing the road butor, and presumably a Committee, without due care; 34 lost their lives not elected according to proportion, through hesitation or faltering; and of payments made, to administer 25 were killed as the result of Tiontain and the Fund. Germany paya and the passing between, behind or in front Hong Kong leading Powers of Europe dispose of stationary vehicles.

only. An excellent arrangement.

CHARTERED Bask or ...INDIA, AUSTRALIA' ÄND

BANQUE DE

L'INDO-CHINя.

Banque ButoN POUR

L'ETBANDSK

Hong Kong

Tientsin and Bhanghai only. The Interest, less Income Tax at 5/- in' the £; will be ——

Ox 220 DimanTURES I

Per Coupon (Gross) Less Tar at 5/- in the

Net Amount Payable

Or £100.DanENTURES :

Per Coupna (Gross) Loss Tax at 5)– in the £.

O 2500, DankNTURES:

Per Coupon (Grona}"

*. d. 12, 0.

3,0.

8,0

£30, 0.

£15. 0.0.

Loss Tax at 5/-in the £8. 15, 0.

The only hitch is that Germany is refusing to pay. There, seems to be some talk of promising two milliard marks, but, it may have been in anticipation of some such demand that the stop-gap Govern ment of Herr von Parze, without roots in the political system of,

·PARTNER · CHARGED.

A FAKED" ROBBERY ALLEGED.

Germany, was put into power. The fore Mr. Franer at Kowloon Maria Ip. Shui Shan of 165, Cheung Sha watchman at-3.30 p.m. on Bunday the smoke gleared, the gunmeni, had

Coalition Prime Minister may ac

Net Amount Parable £20 copt -according to plan, and then larceny of $500 on the moming

the Nazis fury will be unleashed. July 2 Lausanne is the last chance for a It will be recalled that a report reasonable settlement of this war of a highway robbery in Taipo Net Amount Payable £11.50reparations problem-and the an Road was made to the police on Payment will

I be made in Loos wor is a bill of four milliard that day. The officer who was de- Currency at the Demand Baring Hate marks to bankrupt Germany. It is failed to make inquiries into the Present of the Day the Coupons mad. It is childish. Surely it is hold-up was not satisfied with the Due notios will be given when the time that honest Middle West information supplied by the thres old Talon may be exchanged for a farmers and hard saving French persons who were supposed to be new one, with Coupons Nos. 1 to 60 peasants were told, and made to eye-witnesses. He had the three that sometime between 2.30 p.m. and defendant, who is on bail of 825019 game of snap you should be attached.

By Order

THE KAILAN MINING

DMINISTRATION,^^^^|| *B.-L. NATHAN

General Manager.

12843

understand, that this searching of men searched and a $100 note was national pockote is suicidal. For found on one of them. The note all her armaments and the Reparo was tied to the man's leg The tions that political lenders call a police allege that this was part saorou right, France's Budget shows the money stolen.

a deficit of sight milliead froase. The defendante, were remande

of

case way remanded £forsk.week..

10.

grudge,

For not unlike the fles, and wife To try ons is his lot in life............

Were he not trying it is said,

ould not earn his daily And as he ging all the day Why not be snappy when at plagt

- Hong Kong Trama 11.

Star Ferrice, $80, Taumati Ferries (Old) $331. Yaumati Ferries (New), #32). China Lights (Old), #19). Hong Kong Electrics, $72. Telephones (P.), 322, 4 Coments (Combined), 18.10. Hong Kong open $12.80. Dairy Farins, 8274 Watsons (Old), #14: Watsons (Now), #13]. Lane, Crawfords, $5.70. Constructions (Old), #5.10..... Hong Kong Government Loans,

per cent, premium,

Ballers.

South Chms fetorn "B," Hotels (Old), #11.10. Humphreys, #15).

AFTERNOON SESSIÓN,

Hong Kong Electrics, #791.

Buyers. Providents (Old), '35,10. Humphreys 15 STERE Hong Kong Beatties, $111 Ewo Cottons. The 13.60% Lane Crawfords. $8. Constructions (Old), 85.20