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NOTICE.

HONG KONG TELEPHONE .CO., LTD,

ELEPHONE Subscribers

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asked to note that the Auto- atic Exchanges at Fanling and Aipo Market are now in operation. A fee of 10 cents por call is barged in respect of calls made

Central, Peak, and Kowloon Hatriots to subscribers on the new rohanges (including Fanling Golf lub).

For full particulars of the ional service see the preface of the elephone directory, or communicate with the Company.

NOTICE.

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TO "KELVINATOR" OWNERS.

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8 the undersigned have ceased to represent the Kelvinator Corporation, all requests for Kelvinn tor service, etc, should be

to:

KELVINATOR SERVICE,

made

3, NANKING STREET, KOWLOON, Telophone 58630,

REISS, MASSEY & CO., LTD., 7, Queen's Road, Central,

1st August, 1932,

Hong Kong,

NOTICE.

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TOTICE I HEREBY GIVEN

Not as from lar AUGUST. 1982, We have transferred our Agency for Cigarettes and Pipe Tobacco in Hongkong and South Chinn to Messrs. DODWELL & CO., LTD.

3410)

CARRERAS LIMITED, D. MACKENZIE,

Far Eastern Manager.

NOTICE.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Agents in Hongkong nad Bouth China for Mesars, CARRERAS LIMITED, Londen, Cigarette and Pipe Tobacco Manufacturers ns from 1ST AUGUST 1932.

N° that We have been appointed.

DODWELL & CO, LTD., QUEEN'S BUILDING, Tal. 28021.

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

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that an INTERIM DIVIDEND of FOUR Por Cent. (4%), amount- ing to FORTY Cents per Share on the Fally paid up Shares and THIRTY Coats per share on the Partly-paid up Shares of the Company, for the Sir Months ended 30th June, 1932, will be paid on MONDAY, the 8th August, 1982, on which dato 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 ULOSED from MONDAY, the 1st August to MON DAY, the 8th August, 1932, both days inclusiva.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

W. L. MOKENZIE,

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

HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

When your train runs into

Victoria

have your own car meet it.

Before you go home choose your own model Hillman or Hamber from our stock, and learn to handle it in Hong Kong; wo will arrange that a similar car will meet you anywhere in Great Britain or on the Continent when you arrive.

GILMAN & CO..

LIMITED.

Have the car you want when you want it most, on leave.

BIRTHS.

A.P.B. 12.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.

beon born in Brussels in March, 1805, and the other, inscribed with the name of Donat Boulanger, A man bearing that name is said to bo` a well-known Canadian Communist born in Quebec in May, 1894,

The documents released by the

| Chinese authorities proved conclu. prove sively, if documents can anything, that the authors were fomenting deeply involved in labour trouble at Shanghai, and in addition were engaged in sodi- tiona netivities in conjunction with the Red" Armics and other Com munist organisations throughout the country. They were charged at the Kiangau Second Branch High Court with being concerned to gether in propagating doctrines. irreconcilable with the form of government in China, with intent to injure the Republic of China." They first claimed Belgian and Swiss nationality. subsequently

claims which were repudiated by both Consulates, and in conse quonce the Court ordered their extradition to the Chinese autho ritics, and on August 14 they were handed over to the Shanghai Car-

SELF-On June 24, at Shanghai,rison Headquarters and transferred

to MONICA MARY H. SELF (née DIXON), wife of LIONEL J. SELF, the gift of a daughter. HOPKING-On July 21, at Shang- hai, to Mr. and Mrs. C. H. HOPKINE, a son. SCHUMACHER-01 July 25, at Shanghai, born to Mr. and Mrs. A. E. SCHUMACHEL, a BOB.

IVORY WEDDING. HAMILTON-BROADLEY. On July 28, 100%, by the Rey, Harry Roper, M.A.. at Manston Parish Church, near Leeds, CHAKI EX HAMILTON

ANNE to GRACE BROADLEY.

DEATH. DIERCKS-On July 17, at Peitaiko, CHRISTIAN WILHELM DIERCES, in his 83rd year.

Editorial and Business Office: 11

Ice House Street. Tel. 90261. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. 94511. London Oke: 63, Fleet Street,

1,0. 4.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, AUGUST 2, 1932.

THE NOULENS CASE.

EUROPEANS in China will not feel muchi sympathy with the attempt of the NOBLENS to escape from the or- dinary procesies of Chinese law. Whether their nationality be Swiss or Belgian, both of these powers have relinquished extra-territorial rights, and having gained political

to Nanking for trial. They were in the hands of this Court for some four months during which they were occasionally examined, and were then transferred to the Soochow Civil Court for further examinations which took place in camera, and, later retransferred to Nanking, for the trial which is now taking place.

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The Best.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1932.

News and Views

What's the beat mouth to married in "

Ket

Death of Kenneth Grahame.

Kenneth Grahame, the gentle genius whose book, "The Wind in "Octombruary," "Don't be silly; there's no such the Willows," with its "Mr. Bad ger," "Mr. Toad," "Mole" and month."

Water Rat has delighted thou "Exactly."

MRS. JOHN DON-WAUCHOPE.

A new portrait of Mrs. John Don-Wauchops, wife of the heir of Sir John Don-Wauchope, Bt., Convener of Midlothian County Council. She is a daughter of Mr. F. Plaw, of Craig Mount, Peebles, Scotland, a dister of Mr. W, L. Plew, night Editor of the Hong Kong Daily Press, and is a piece by marriage of Air Chief Marshal Sir John Salmond,

sands of parents and chikiren, haa died suddenly at Pangbourne.

Cheaper Gambling.

Gambling at Monte Carlo is to cost less.

A table has just been inaugurat- ed in the main room at the Casino where the minimum stake is one

shilling. For years the minimum stake has been two shillings.

This step has been taken to on able gamblers to try out ous systems at a lower cost.

Another Sweep Record?

vari.

The British public is subscribing

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"Already there is every prospect that the subscriptions may reach or exceed the record total of £4,128,498

for the Derby sweepstake."/

Where Lions Drop in for Tea,

Few people have more unwelcome guests than the citizens of Butinba, on Lake Albert, the port for the Belgian Congo and the Sudan.

A large number of lions and ted pards have invaded the district and are entering the houses, even break, ing down mosquito gauze windows' on the verandas. The menace is so serious that polico have been in- structed to take notion. There np. pears no reason for this unusual invasion.

More German Wheat,

Germany has so increased her wheat acreage that she no longer needs to import grain for making bread, declared Baron von Braun, the Minister for Agriculture, in a broadcast speech.

Nobody in the world," said the Baron, is now able-as was the case only a few years ago-to force (Continued on next Columną.

Local and General

The landslide just beyond the 19 mile stone on Castle Peak Road has been cleared and the road was again opened to traffic yesterday.

As soon as the definite date for the trial was fixed they commenced a hunger strike which is now end ed. During, the strike a number of Chinese and foreigners have signed an appeal. "In the name of the simplest rights of elementary justice and humanity, in the name of the irrefutable right of all men and women to political freedom,

The death occurred on June 28 for the transfer of the case of

uf Mrs. Gertrude Clarke, wife of PAUL and GERTRUDE RUZGG (which-Dr. Francis Clarke, M.D., barrister appears to be their proper name) to at-law, formerly of Hong Kong and

Weihaiwei. Shanghai in accordance with their demands, or else their complete liberation." This is, however, matter for the Chinese Court to docide, and foreigners are the first to cry out against outside inter- ference with or pressure upon the Shanghai Courts, yet there seems to be no hesitation in signing a petition designed to bring pressure to bear upon a court in Nanking.

The charge is one of the utmost gravity affecting the well-being of every foreigner in China, and the crime if proved is punishable by the death sentence not only in China, but in many other places ng well. If ws act upon the, tradi- tional British assumption that the secused in this case are innocent TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN NoThat ad & Gay Gene objectives by that concession the Meeting of the Members of the above necessary price mus, ba paid. The until they are proved guilty, in named Company will be held at the

casa is, however, of significance spite of forged passports and an Office of Mesers. Showan Tomes & Co., St. George's Building, Victoria and a recapitulation of its history array of documents which if not in the Colony of Hong Kong, onthould be of interest. Many months also forged reveal widespread Com- WEDNESDAY, the Tenth day of August, 1932, at Three o'clock in the age the Chiness authorities pub munist conspiracion, we can still find no reason why the trial, an afternoon for the purpose of consilished a dossier of the papers dering and, if thought it, passing the seized in the raid after the arrest

open one, should not proceed. If they are proved guilty then they following resolation as an Extraor dinary Resolution

of the, NouLENS on June 15, 1031.

deserve little sympathy for this That the articles of Association These documents numbered 211, and of the Company be altered in manner following"-

there were also 1,081, papers and implies that they were involved in (a) By the deletion of the whole of books in English, German, Russian, activities which would not merely Article 28 of the Company's Japanese, and Chinese. They were jeopardise the lives or liberty of two persons of uncertain nation- Articles of Association owing seized immediately after the arrest the substitution of the following Article in its place.

which took place-in-the-Interality, but of hundreds of thousands

of January, 1992, each Director

98. From and after the lat day national Settlement and, which wea other than the Managing Direc- carried out by the Municipal

tor shall be paid by way of Police. Mr. and Mrs, NoULENG remuneration for his services at

if not millions of Chinese.

the rate of $2,000.00 per annum were proved to have five joint An Atblatio Romance.

and such remuneration shall be aliases, deemed to noorso de die in diem.

and shall be payable by half yearly instalmenta

aliases

The Oriental Cinema, which opened on Sunday with "One Hour With You," was greeted with capacity houses by residents of the Wanchai district in which it was situated.

Admitted to Kowloon Hospital a young Chinese yesterday was who was bitten by a monkey kept at 84, Wuhn Street. The animal was removed to Mataukok for ob Bervation,

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Work од Plie new gunboats The now census taken by the Greater Shanghai Bureau of Public Kiangning and Haining, which are to the Safety in the "D" area recently being built at the Kiangnan Dock evacuated by Japanese troops and Engineering Works shows that there are at present order of the Ministry of Navy, is only 601 families with 2,037 Chinese being hurried so that the vessels

us on our knees by meana residents in that district, a reduc may be launched on October 10, China's National Day. The vessels tion of 70 per cent. when compar ed with the district's population will each he 128 ft. long and 20 hunger blockade.”

The Government intended to keep before the Sino-Japanese hostilities. ft. wide. They will be capable, it

is stated, of doing 12 knots an grain prices stable throughout the

carry three-inch

year by an increased tariff on hour and will

"hard" wheat and rice used for

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Miss Eila Holwell, the younger daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Kirkby, guns, Gomes, of Shanghai, has passed the examination for the B.A. de- gree of Oxford University, taking "second" in the Honour School of, Jurisprudence. Miss Kirkby Gonce intends to continue her law studies in the Inner Temple with the view to be called to the English Bar.

At a meeting of the Trustees of fodder and limitation of the im- the Beit Memorial Fellowships for parts of barley. Medical Research the Senior Fel- lowship in Tropical Medicine (value £1,000 per annum was awarded for

one

further year) to Edward Declining Trade with N.E.I.

The extent to which Great Bri- Hindle, M.A. (Cantab), Ph.D., F.R.S. (Edinburgh). Original Beit 'tain's export trade to the Nether- Fellow (1910-1912). Milner Re- lands East Indies has shrunk, both The inauguration of the Federa-search Fellow, London School of actually and relatively, is stated in tion of China National Salvation Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, a report for 1931, issued to-day by Associations is expected to take 1924. Member of the Kala Azar the British Chamber of Commerce Miss Josephine Scripps, daugh place shortly in Shanghai, a com Commission of the Royal Society to for the Netherlands East Indies to the "little short of calamitous,"

In 1929 Great Britain's share was ter of Mr. Scripps of the Scripps-mittee having been appointed by North China, 1025-1997. Howard Newspaper Syndicate, ar the various public bodies to make rived on the President Jackson the necessary preparations. A cir- from Manila yesterday. She is cular has been issued by the pre- on route to Shanghai.

paratory committee, urging the Government to recover the lost territory in Manchuria and Jehol by force.

Owing to a scarcity of live stock the Kiangsu Provincial Government is reported to have insured a pro- tion of buffaloes used for agricul- clamation forbidding the exporta tural purposes.

adinission.

in

Judgment for plaintiffs was given 11 per cent., in 1931 it was 7.0 per by the Commissioner, Mr. A. cent. Krisel, in the United States Con- Japan's share was 168 per cent., sular Court, Shanghai, the case compared with 10.9 per cont. of Messrs. Andersen, Meyer & Co., 1929. She has now displaced Hol- Ltd. ."Whitey" Smith, dealing land as principal supplier, Hol with an unpaid bill for an electric land's share in 1931 being 15.3 per refrigerator. The court awarded cent, compared with 17.8 per cent. plaintiffs costs and interest, which in 1929. amounted to Tle. 1,131. Mr. C. S. Fleming. Franklin, of Messrs. Frankling & Allman, appeared for Defence! plaintiffs and Mr. Smith appeared in person, admitting that he had not paid for the refrigerator.

A Chinese woman sought to end her sorrows, caused by the loss of $600 which was swindled from her, by throwing herself into the Har A young married woman of 18, bour. She was stopped in the net

The cost of the defence of Mrs. following a quarrel with her hus by a wharf coolie at the Lan She stated that band, committed suicide by tak- Cheong Wharf.

Barney cost about £5000. The brief ing an overdose of opium. She was i she handed the money to a specu-

of Bir Patrick Hastings, K.C., is The death occurred in Peitaiho understood to have boon marked at rushed to the Government Civil Intor in Japanese coppers, who

on the night of July-17 of Mr. Ca figure around 1500 guineas, with for life. The man, however, dis- Hospital, but died shortly after promised her $10 to $20 a week

the capital was W. Diercka, a respected member of daily refreshers of 200 guineas, appeared once banded to him.

the foreign community of Tientsin, following a brief illness. The lato An order has been issued by Mr. Diercks had for many years Road and Rail Accidents. General Tai Chi, the Shanghai and been a member of the Chinese

Mr. O Stanley, in the Commona Gendarmerie Commis, Customs service and, during the

that in 1031 the forbidding unscrupulous time when the late Mr. B. Lenox stated Woosung

of

persons killed Britain persons to falsely represent them Simpson took over the Tientsin number

in street selves as his subordinates for the Customs some time ago deceased Grest

served as Chief Tidowaiter: He cidents by horses and vehicles was purpose of carrying on illegal busi- ness, such as opium traffic, etc. leaves a widow, & son (Mr. A. W. 6801 and on the railways 339. The order warns the public imme. Diercks, of the North-China Daily The numbers injured were 202,119 diately to hand over to the police Neun) and two daughters, all of and 22,888 respectively. persons who approach them with whom are in Shanghai, the intent of exacting money by describing thomaelves as officials of theGendarmerie Commission's

Mr. Merry, the Hong Kong re- presentative of John Dickenson & Co., Ltd., left for Shanghai yes- terday and will be away until the end of the month. His addreas will of. The Palace Hotel, Shang-

hai,

sioner,

in

де

The fourth annual British Em- pire Garden Party was held at Roehampton Club on Wednesday, July 7 About 3,000 people were It is learned that the engagement present among them being H.E. and several individual

the Governor of Hong Kong and

An unfortunate accident tock Nelson's Fingship. will be announced shortly of Mr. Lady Peel.

place last Sunday afternoon in the Out of the 211 documents seized, Pater D. Howard, the English A Chinese amah, employed at office.

swimming pool at Luna Park, Admiral Sir George Hope, pre Shanghai when Mile Lydia Niki siding at the annual meeting of the AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO According to the official statement Rugby captain, and Mile Doris Murray Barracks, was accidently

The death occurred in Peiping tins dived into comparatively Society for Nautical Research, at GIVEN that a further Extraordinary issued six months after the arrest, Metaxa, of Marseilles, one of the shot in the right buttock on Sun-

day afternoon by Lance Corporal last week of M. Maurice Aram, of shallow water and struck her head the Royal Naval College, Green- General Meeting of the Members of

Lee of the South Wales Borderers. the 'Peking Electrie Tramway Co. on the bottom. The force of the wich, referred to the success of the the above named Company will be seventy dealt with Revolutionary two French girls who won the wo held at the same time and place on activities in China; eighteen with men's doubles championship at Wim-Tho wound was fortunately not and a partner of the Asiatic Arts impact rendered her unconscious scheme for the restoration of the FRIDAY, the Twenty-sixth day of similar plans in Korea; fourteen bledon. Mr. Howard gained his in-serious need the woman was treated Gallery, at the age of 43-Decens and the scalp was badly lacerated Victory. The Society had raised Aug Report of the

aut, 1987, for the purpose of reobi

ing of the 20th, died in St. Michel's lanoff. A doctor who happened to For the whole period of 10 yente proceedings

at with the Philippine Islands; four-ternational "cap" in all four Eng-at the Government Civil Hospital.ed, who was taken ill on the morn-She was dragged out by M. Svet- £105,000 for that scheme he said.

the cost · of '.... ad....... the above mentioned Meeting and of tron; with Indo-China's ten with land matches in 1030, and captain-The death occurred at the Matilda Hospital in the afternoon. A man be in the enclosure sewed up the during which the work had been had been less confirming it thought Rotation the Straits Settlements; one with the England Rugby Fifteen Hospital on Sonday of Miss Biddy of cheerfer-disposition; be was a wound and Mile. Nikiting was proceeding -resolution as a Special Resolution.

Mlle Eliza Marsh, daughter of the late lover of books, possessing some very taken home. The young lady is ministration Dated this Twenty-eighth day of Formosa and one with Indonesia against Ireland last year.

Captain Peter Ryncs Marsh and rare editions of books on Chine danseuse from Harbin, who had than 34 per cent, and sincs Jaly, 1982,

There were two passports bearing Metaxa, a tall girl of twenty-one, Mrs. J. Marsh. Much sympathy He came to Chinn frst in 1912, opened her Shanghai engagement the close of the appeal less than -By Order of the Board,

the photo of Mr. NOULENE, one of combines tennis with scholarship, will be extended to Mrs. J. Marsh leaving when the Great War broke at Tkachenko's on Saturday night. per cent. In other words, of the Belgian origin issued in the name for she holds a degree in letters and and her family for the loss they had out to join the French Army. He It is said that it will be a week: £105,000 subscribed by the public sustained. The funeral took place returned in 1919 and lived in Pei before she will be able to resume considerably more than £100,000 had

her work.

been spent upon the ship:" ping since of Horssens, stated that he had philosophy,

yesterday.

jving a

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BALVES

Becretary,