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ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE HONG KONG LAND

INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.

AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of

TWO DOLLARS per share for the six months ending 80th June. 1982, will be payable on FRIDAY, 12th August, on which date Divi. dend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Offices, 8 Chater Road.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 2nd August, to THURSDAY, the, 11th August (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

T. 8. GREENHILL,

Bocrotary, Hong Kong, 25th July, 1932. [2408

HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE OF INTERIM DIVIDEND.

TO IOR IS HEREBY GIVEN

of FOUR Per Cant. (4%), mount- ing to FORTY Cents per Share on the Fully-paid up Shares and THIRTY Conte per share on the Partly-paid up Shares of the Company, for the Six Months ended 80th June, 1932, will be paid on MONDAY, the 8th August, 1982, on which date Dividend War- rants may be obtained on application at the Registered Office of the Company, Exchange Building, 4th

Floor.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 1st August to MUN DAY, the th August, 1932, both days inclusivo.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

W. L. MCKENZIE,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th July, 1932. [2890

HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of

A 50 cents per Share kas boon declared payable on MONDAY, 15th AUGUST next, on and after which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained upon application at the Registered Office of the Company, Canal Road East, Bowrington. Hongkong.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER of MEMBERS of the Company will be closed from SATURDAY, 30th JULX, SATURDAY, 18th AUGUST, 1982, both days inclusive.

to

By Order of the Board,

L. C. F. BELLAMY,

General Manager, Hongkong, 22nd July, 1932. [2388

THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & MINING COMPANY, LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.,

NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF 6% FIRST MORTGAGE DEBENTURES (KAILAN BONDS),

ISSUE OF NEW TALONS WITH

COUPONS Nos. 41 To 60

ATTACHED..

S. B. KING

IN

THE

PESSIMIST

COMPLAINS

Nothing to do but work Nothing to eat but jood Nothing to wear but clothes To keep one from going nude

looks as though this King's Uod-parents and

ante

Rudy thong his when they chose his Arwi two nanics. What he lacked was zost, zoal, Ambition-you known appetita for life and things. Well, the 'stemach' rules the 11ood, the blood rules the foalings, the foelinge are what give us enjoyment of all things-, what puts the stomach in a good mood neonoclito

Pan-Yan

King of Pickles GILMAN & Co, Lan, AGENTS.

DEATHS.

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HARDER.-On July 16, at Shanghai,

Hans Harder, aged 37 years.

BRAMELD-On July 17, at Shanghai,

ARTHUR JOHN

MASTERMAN

BRAMELD, aged 48 years. Dearly heloved husband of Phyllis

Brameld.

Editorial and Business Offices: 1.

Ico House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai, Office):

Tel. 9431). London Office: 63, Fleet Street,

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, JULY 26, 1932.

"SLOW BUT SURE" AT GENEVA.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1932,

lost strength. If the Allied Powers slowly disarm," down to a. defen- sive minimum the Franco-German frontier should, in the course of

time, resemble that of Canada and ! A de Valers Story. the United States,

since the German

News and Views

A story current in Dublin con- ceras Mr. de Valera,

Out of Old China.

The objets d'art which Sir John Mullens is selling in London come from a collection of Oriental bric-a bree which in part is composed of Chinese ornaments collected by Lady Mullens father, and in part, represents purchases made by Sir John Mullena, himself a consider able connoisseur.

That may sound Utopian, and the French

The Irish loader is a model of all rightly say: "We take no chances"; the virtues. He is an ascetic, and neither drinks nor smokes, but he but the World has progressed is ruled by superstitions, and Ire militariats quently consulta Mrs. Erskine Childers, who is supposed to have dreamed of world dominion. For the gift of second sight. Mrs. Childers is the widow of that strange, romantic Englishman who fought for us against Germany and then threw in his lot with Mr. de

One of them is a large, circular! Valera to fight against us after the mutton-fat" jade plaque which

i have given to General Gordon...

centuries the Anglo-Scottish border was no gentle place. The Disarma- ment Conference is, moreover, on

The pieces are few in number, and have never yet appeared in an, auc- tion room.

the Speech House, Royal Forest of Deau, I measured a splenilid spiko of bloom six feet sight inches high with still twenty inches of un. expaniled bells which will grow six to eight inches higher.

During my walk of about six miles in the woods 1. met but one person, a resident of an isolated cottage buried deep among oaks and beeches. This noble 20,000-nere forest, full of beauty and interest, still awaits discovery by the nature. loving holiday-makers.

the right lines when it distin, war. She is an American by birth.the Emperor of China is said to Denver's First Train. guishes between offensive and de

fensive armaments. Experts may

Orpington Trousers

Most people, I think, will be glad pick holes, but the structure re-that there is nothing in the rumour that sailors aye to have trousers of mains. If France and Germany had a different cut.

It would be ridicûtõus to change impregnable frontiers both coun-them," a naval officer was telling tries would feel safe, for neither me last night, "for how else could a man roll up his trousers to his seriously covets the other's terri-knees conveniently? Anyway, the matelots would not care about the change; they're rather proud of their *bell-bottomed breeks not that they are as bell-bottomed as they used to be.

tory.

The Marshal Trips.

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Denver, U.S.A. is to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of its frst train. Some of the original passengers will get out of A young Judge's Marshal of the old cars, drawn by the old Assize on the Northern Citeakettle" locomotive, and go up- cuit-it was not Lord Birken-town to a very different hotel in a head-was recently warned by Sir rockaway stage coach. From the Herbert Stephen, the Clerk of frontier village of 1882, Denver has Assize, that the County of Lancaster grown into an imposing metropolis, must be called the County Painting. The railroads may logically paint to This unnerved the young man, it as the finest example of what they who startled the court by addressing can do-Denver being the largest the foreman as "Foreman of this American city without water trans grand Inquest for the County Fales-portation. tine of Lancaster."

ter.'

The German opposition to the Hooven proposals must therefore be

When nearly every man made

The Judge, Mr. Justice Mackin- taken as a move against the Verhis own clothes the Beau Brummellson, was amused, but the Under- Harrow Speech Day, sailles Treaty and not against of the Fleet vied with one another

Sheriff was horrified. as to who could get the biggest

"Young man," he said, Disarmament. Earlier resolutions' fiare over his ankles. Some of

we them used to look like blue Orping-don't mind that mistake in the town against chemical and bacterial war-tons walking along the jetty-but of Lancaster, but, for goodness' sake, don't repeat it in Manches fare and limiting the size of tanks that's a long time ago, had been accepted, presumably with unanimity, and Sir HERBERT SAMUEL's plea for an all-round re duction of expenditure was no accepted. The Ceference, is my in slowly in the right direction. World opinion is behind it. Tho smaller Powers aro vociferous. They have no armaments and can-

not

afford such luxuries; they would like to see all on their level, The matter is less simple for the Great Powers, with age-old rivalries to consider and difficult commitments to face. The great necessity is n drawing together of Western Powers into an indivisible group among whom war has been genuinely forcaworn. Then a world force of allics would emerge suf. feintly strong to oppose its will

on

"rogue" nations. The real problem is, in fact, the endling of distrust, expressed in terms of com petitive armaments, between the units of Western civilisation. In this direction progress is being THE second session of the Geneva

made. Popular opinion-the opin Disarmament Conference has conion of ordinary men and women cluded, and, on the whole, satisis determined that this shall be factory progress has been made.

Cheese From Grass,

Alfalfa now is being utilized in

Wisconsin in the manufacture of cheese. The new process takes it directly from field to factory, eliminating the cow as middleman.

Speech Day at Harrow School says a Home paper, will include the speeches and prize distribution in Speech Room, cheering on the steps, and school songs. There will be an exhibition of drawing in the art school, and the band of the Royal Air Force will play on the terrace,

The Crompton articulation prizes The wild foxgloves are blooming awarded for clear speaking into the with more than ordinary luxuriance microphone have been won by E. F. this year, anys a writer in a HomeKingsley and D. O. Beale, equal, paper. In Russell's Enclosure, near seniors; and A. P. Hay, juniors.

Down in the Forest.

Local and General

The Hong Kong dollar remained unchanged yesterday at 18. 31d. on demand.

Two cases of cholera were ported over the week-oad.

re-

Mr. W. W. Jnekwood, associate general secretary of the National Committee of YM.C.As. China left for Peitaiho...to spend his holiday.

According to a report made to the police by Mr. C. M. Manners, eleven packages of chisels, worth #100, have been stolen from No. 51 Godown at the Kowloon Godowns.

"

A proposal to place the Shanghai Woosung Railway under the control of the City Government of Greater Shanghai has been rejected by the

king telegram.

car

While driving his along! Proceedings instigated by the Hennessey Road on Saturday, Mr. Cathay Match Company against A. Thompson, engineer-in-chief of Him Loong, 53. Des Voeux Road the Tytam Pumping Station, struck Wost, for infringement on trade down a young Chinese who was re- marks on match boxes, were with. moved to the French Hospital. Hia drawn by Mr. O. E. C: Marton, be- a injuries were not regarded as fore Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones yes

terday when Mr. Marton explained that since the serving of the mum- mons, the parties have come to an agreement,

Borious.

Ja

The City Government of Greater Shanghai has issued orders to the Bureau of Public Safety to takeį every step to effect the arrest of Hu Li Fu and others who were con censed with him in the establish. nient of the Chape puppet government.

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The work of overhauling and re- pairing the Chinese cruiser. Fai Ying, is now being considered, and it is stated that Commander Wong Tak Sau is planning to engage en- gineers in Hong Kong to under Two fishermon were fined $10 or tako the job. It will be recalled one week's imprisonment each by that the Fai Ying was reported to the Marine Magistrate for using have been sunk by Cantonese sero- bright lights when fishing in Kow. planes off Hainan recently, but the loon Bay, while a boatman who was renort was later denied. She is shore at Tai Hing wharf was fimod porarily out of commission. $20 or two weeks' imprisonment.

Mr. Hoover's proposals which,in-achieved; that both political and niatry of Railways, anys a Nan-changed with mooring his craft in- only badly damaged, and tem-

cluded the prohibition of aerial strategical problems shall be solved.

attacks upon civilians, ebemical, incendiary, and bacterial warfare, and the limitation of artillery

The significant appointment of Permanent Disarmament Confer ence was the acceptance of a World demand.

KOWLOON DOCK FERRY LAUNCH.

RIJNS INTO JUNK IN THE

HARBOUR.

For having boarded the 8.B. Kalyan without the permission of the master, an unemployed Chinese was fined $10 or one week's im- prisonment by the Marine Magie- trate yesterday.

According to a Nanking telegram General Chang Fa Kuei, comman- der of the Fourth Army Corps (the "Ironsides"), has tendered his re- signation and signified his intention to go abroad,

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WOMAN'S PLUCKY FIGHT.

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KOWLOON OUTRAGE-

a desperato fight and during in

The Japanese marines having An order has been issued by the evacuated the "D" arco, namely, Early yesterday morning, thro

Government, forbidding the Japanese Cemetery, Chapel, and armed robbers entored the flat in Central. government officials to resort to the the castern approaches thereto, in

308, Nathan Road, occupied by practice of employing their own accordance with the peace agree- calibres and the weight of tanks.

men and saying that the employ ment, a new census of that district Miss Reppu, a Japanese masseuse. were duly carried, but the effec-

ment of subordinates must be based will be taken by the Greater Shang- but met with unexpected resis- tiveness of the resolution was

upon the "merit" system. Officials hai Bureau of Public Safety. In

tance. The plucky woman put up diminished by the opposing votes

ignoring the order will be severely view of the fact that there are more Japanese residents in the "D" aren of the Russian and German repro-

dealt with.

than any other part of Chapei, the fong struggle, one of the man made santatives. No one takes the

Kwong Fu, a storekeeper on the Chapel Publie Bureau has issued 'a action seriously. Russian

Ad-

.B. Hydrangea, was fined 830 or proclamation in Japanese language, use of a heavy chisel. The struggle. During the week-end a thief enter-one month's gool by Mr. W. Scho- saying that a new census is being ended only when tenants of the mittedly the Government of Suviet

ed a cabin occupied by Mr. Har field in the Central Polica Court taken for the purpose of preventing floor below,, their attention attract Russia does not seek the happinces

land, Chief Officer of H.M.S. Pear yesterday when he was charged with unscrupulous persons and undoair- and prosperity of the capitalist

leaf, alongside the Royal Naval stealing 10 lb. of red lead from ables from hiding in the district cd by the commotion and sound of world," but welcomes on the con-

There was quite some stir in the Dockyard, and stole a fountain pen the ship. Loo Shiu Sam, a coolie, and urging Japanese residents to breaking glass, rushed to the re-

and pencil valued at 830.

who admitted receiving the stolen assist the officers taking the census.

soue. The robbers abandoned the trary distress, war and every pos- harbour yesterday about 10.45 a.m.,

property, was fined $50 or 6 weeks'

attempt and fled, gaol.

A steady increase in the revenues NOTICE 18 BEREBY GIVEN sible human ill, because such mix when a Kowloon Dock ferry which

In Jordau Road, up which h that the Talons at the foot of fortunes tend to produce the

of the City Government in. Chapei was endeavouring to escape, was crossing the harbour at the the Debentures must now be detached and surrendered to the TIENTSIN curious conditiņus in Russia, which time ran into a junk. The force of

day, a 16-year-old Chinese boy was following the Japanese evacuation of the gangsters was overtaken, and * revealed in a report submitted to seized by a Mr. Silva, a young OFFICE of the Kailan Mining are good for Communists, but the collision almost tore the junk

charged with the unlawful posses the Mayor by Mr. Kun Huang Portugurso who. ofcupying the Administration to be. exclisnged fur

sion of an umbrella which was be- Chang, director of the City Gov-floor underneath Miss Beppus, was now Talons with Coupons Nos. 41 to atrociously bad for everyone else. in half and she quickly became

lieved to have been stolen. Inspec- ernment's Chapei Tax Collection 60 attached.

Russia must be ruled out as a water-logged. made in person

tor Rusevil, explained that a de Office. According to Mr. Kuo, the among the first to come to her h Application must be

tective saw the boy trying to pawn City Government's revenues in or through Bank or other duly seekor for, peace and goodwill.

The junk was prevented from

the umbrella which was unusual Chapei totalled from 800,000 to

Two Escape, authorised Agent: applications made. Germany's opposition, on the other sinking only by the fact that the

procedure on a rainy day The Ind $100,000 before the recent Sino- through the post cannot be dealt

The other two who had taken a hand, is a political move of an bow of the steam ferry remained

was cautioned in view of his nge, Japanese hostilities, but, after the different direction of fight, made with.

All Talone must be listed on the entirely different nature. Despite held fast through the interior of

and the Inspector was directed to cessation of fighting, there was a retain the umbrella until the owner sharp shrinkage in these revenue Police investigators who have been an escape along Nanking Road. proper form which may be obtained jingo hysteria Germany probably it. Ropes were passed seross the

could be found.

awing to the decrease in Chapei's on application,

As the old Talons have to be wants peace and disarmament as junk to prevent it from sinking, but

population. The alaughter house supplied with a description of the forwarded by the Kailan Mining much as any other nation and at assistance from another vessel had

St. Joseph's Collego and Alexander that before the war. Now, however, Beppu, are searching for an

men as they had appeared to Miss James Hunt (18), a student of tax dropped only to 40 per cent, of Administration to the Transfer Office the outset of the session her date- to be procured to separate the two before the Marine Magistrats yestar- Hertenm (16), wore-bound over by conditions are improving and the and all Stations have been warn

of the Company in London, the exchange will take approximately gates gavo cordial support to the eight weeks for completion:

THE KAILAN MINING

· ADMINISTRATION,

E. J. NATHAN,

General Manager.

NOTICE.

WFRENCH BUILDING,

Ehave this day removed to

IOT FLOOR,

vessels,

3

She

Holding the damaged junk up by ropes, which were passed around its

Hooven proposals. But what Gor- many is fighting for primarily is her place as a great power.

has been disarmed, and her attitude bull. the Kowloon Dock ferry later is that she would like to see the towed it across the harbour to Kow Teet of the world follow suit; fail-

loon.

ing that she desires the removal Seven or eight Chinese were of the restrictions placed upon hor aboard the junk, but fortunately armaments. An encouraging factor nobody was injured. in_the_position_is_the_French.Ad-

hesion to the Hoover proposals,

5, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRALesion to the

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German attitude, if long views are taken, really strengthens the hands of the Disarmament party in France. The opportunity is still open for all to disarm; if it de refected aponer or later the [24.0 German - Samson will regain his

ILD CERTIFICATES.

Of the Societe Internationale de Placements, Basle. (Local agents Mesara, Gocke & Co.).

Saturday's (July (23) official quotation in Bauls. £2-198. Od.

A competition shoot will take place at Kowloon Tong Range on Saturday, July 30, at 2.30 p.m.; Suhday, July 31, at 10 a..,; and Monday, August 1, at 10 e.m. Ranges 200, 300, and 400 yards.

General Chiang Kai Shek has issued an order forbidding feasts of any kind during the period of the Communist-bandit suppression cam- paiga. Officials, civil or military, found disobeying this order will be severely punished.

A fine of $10 or one week's im prisonment was the senterice meted

pulseruese who was charged

Before Mr. Wynne-Jones pester-

sistance.

ed.

one

day with dumping rubbish in the Mr. Schofield yesterday when they revenues are steadily increasing. harbour without the permission of were brought up on charges of the

Just before sight o'clock thin theft, of one South China Athriatie the Harbour Master.

An, order has been issued by the morning, au amah who lived on Association Bathing. Club meinher Mayor of Greater Shanghai to the the premises with Miss Reppu, was Clothing to the value of $23 was ship card each Hunt, who denied Commissioners of Public Safety sent ant by her mistress to make stolen from Mrs. Mayer's residence a charge of theft of a pair of shoes and Social Affairs, instructing them market purchases for the day. Thi on the ground floor of 4, Jordan from a Club member, gave evidence to adopt adequate measures to put appears to have been known to the Road early on Sunday morning, by-on-his own behalf. He was dis-an-end-to-the-labour troubles which robbers who, dovining zuse-for- athief who is supposed to have charged on that count

have been existent since the cessation socuring entry were near at han entered through the front door,

of the Sino-Japanese hostilities. but out of sight, when she return- News, has been received of the The order states that although the' | ed. which had been loft open.

death in Shanghai, from the effects enforcement of martial law in, As soon as she opened the door, Leung. Kin, 22, was sent to gaol of heat, on Friday last, of Major Chinese-controlled territory has been they forced their way in after her. for nine months by Mr. Wynne Robert Linton Ritchie, O.B.E., relaxed considerably since the war, In the hall they were met by Mins Jones yesterday on charges of the I.A.M.C. He joined the China the martial law regulations have Beppu who bravely resisted Sho theft of a packing case from Mr. Command early in 1830, being post- not been abolished and all public received a cut in the forehead, R. Mackay Wood of 33, Bowened to the British Military Hospital, meetings and processions must be probably from the chisel with Road Defendant, who was also Shanghai, as Medical Specialist, strictly prohibited unless permission which her immediate assailant was charged with returning from banish and is survived by his widow, at is obtained from the authorities con- armed, and also another injury in ment, was acon walking with the present in Shanghai. Eis is the cerned beforehand. In conclusion, the left wrist. packing case on his head, outside second heat stroko death within a the order instructs the Commision- Miss Beppu has been removed to the house, by Mr. E F. Buttress, week among the British troops in era of Public Safety and Borial Hospital, but although the injuries who lives with Mr. Wood, and who Shanghai. A Quartermaster-Ser- Allairs to take drastic measures to one mceived were serious enough, recognised the box as part of the geant of the R.A.S.C. also died suppress unlawful meetings of it is not thought that her, condi- garage property.

from heat exhaustion.

strikers, etc.

tion caeusions any great concern.