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HE CERTIFICATE dated 27th Beptember, 1883, for One Sbara $20 Paid-up Numbered 9690 in this Company standing in the Name of HOF CHUN of Foochow has been declared LUST, and if at the Expira. tion of Ore Month from the Date hereof the above Document be not forthcoming the Said Certificate wi i be deemed CANCELLED and of No Effect, and a NEW Cortificats for the Said Share will be issued in its stend by the Company.

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Hong Kong, 14th December, 1932,

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IN THE SUPREME COURT of HONG KONG,

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ARCHIBALD MCCALLUM, -LATE' OF TAX Bailwat QuAR- TER, HUNGHOM, KOWLOON IN THE COLONY or Hone Koxa,

PERMANENT WAY, INBRECTOR, DECBABED

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the Couet hat, by virtus q? Section 58 of the Probate:Ordianños 1687 (No. 9 of 1897), made-nay. Onlar limiting the Time for sending ing Chaina to or against the above Estate to the STH DAY OF JANUARY, 1932.

Creditors and Claimants are "heraby required to send their Clalma to tas Undersigned by the above Data.

Dated this 19th day of December, 1972.

T. M. HAZLERIGO,

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1932.

News and Views

against aircraft

Modernising the Turk,

The confusion due to thousands of Turks possessing the same name ika Ali, Mehmed or Suleyman, will disappear when Parliament passes the Government Bill compelling all Turks to choose a family natae,

Those Conferences.

to the Disarmatuent,, Conference amounted respintively to £18,000, £5,000, and 4.500.

Sang for his Passport.

The world's champion optimist, Erie Malpas, a 23-year-old Aus- tralian bank clerk, left Dover on landing there recently with less than £1 in his pocket.

Everest Expedition's Doctor.--

IF THERE WERE NO DUST!

THE SKY WOULD BE

BLACK÷~~

PARTICLES THAT HELP TO MAKE THE WEATHER ·

Dr. Willisar Molean, the young, London doctor, whom the Royal Geographical Society invited to join next year's Mount Everest Expedition, has accepted the invi tation. He had already given up When a shaft of bright sunlight He intends to make his way his practice in the West End in penetrates through some aperture Boross Europe, Asia (including order to tako up an appointment of light reveals the existence of into a darkened room, the beam

Japan), and America, keeping

as head of the Jerusalem Hospital dust particles. Millions of particles, himself by singing in the streets,

of the Church Missions to Jews, visible to the naked uye

however, are so small as to be in "The authorities would not give¦ and he has already left for Jerusa-

It has been proved by scientific

Mr. Hore-Belisha, Financial Se erotary to the Treasury, told the

me a passport at first, for they tem. Thus when he joins the Ever-experiments that the Boating dust. House of Commons that he under- stood the expenditure for the Otia

said I could not maintain myself est Expedition next spring it will in the atmosphere contributes very Iargely to the weather conditions. a London practitioner By means of an ingenioun little- wn Conference, the Lausanne Con-in a foreign country," he said to be not ng

a reporter.

but as a medical missionary,

instrument which contains a pump, ference, and the British Delegation

Tens, filter papers and a glasa "I sang The Rosa of Tralee în

Ha will be the second missionary plate divided off in millimetres, the office, and I got my passport., to have taken part in Everest ex-samples of air can be sucked into peditions, for Dr. Howard Somer- the apparatus and the number of "In 1951 I toured Australia, vell, of the London Missionary So- dust particles determined. Such New Zealand, and

Tasmania, ciety hospital in Travancore, was determinations have yielded very covering 10,000 miles on my bicy-a member both of the 1992 and 1924 interesting results.

who is parties. Dr. McLean,

It has been found, for example, thirty-three, was born at Durham. that in a crowded city 100,000 dust His father is the Rev. William particles a cubic coatinistra is by MeLeno, vicar of Bodiam; Bus- no means an exaggerated figure:

Evon over the wastes of the At- lantic Ocean. the number of cust particles, a cubic centimetre in anti- "mated at more than 2,000.

New Rules for Air Pilots.

Airmen as well"ar seamen will be affected, by the alteration in the hise of the terms "port" and "star board" which will be enforced by the Merchant Bhipping Act from January 1 next. To the pilot look, ing forward port will become star baard, and vice versa.

The change will concern flying. boats and seaplanes, and the Air Ministry has issued instructions for learning the new Act. Pilota of these craft are to be trained at a duming wheel and tiller until they have become accustomed to the change...

Bussian Split the Atom.

atom..

cle.

Hair Powder.

The free usa of hair powder in the closing years of the 18th cen tury nearly caused a revolution, A recipe against that revolution

sold last month as a curio.. sity by Glendinning's, London.

In 1796, there were 50,000 hair dressers in the country and each one, it was calculated, used one pound of flour a day for hair pow-' der, amounting to 18,250,000 pounds & year, or equal to 6,314,950 quar- tern loaves. These, at 8d.. each,' made a value of £1,246,421..

At the end of the eighteenth con- tury there was a cry for bread in the land, The Privy Council res-

T

BOX.

Murder Trial-in France,

"' Members of the jury, I put it to you..

Counsel for the prosecution was

The Unuse of Dust, There are four operating factors. which keep our atmosphere for ever charged with dust particles..

making his final speech. The court: They are ge at Perpignan, France, was silent but for his incisive words.

A man was on trial for murder, accused of the slaying of a young, girl. Hardly a cough.

Suddenly there was a movement in Court. A shout:...

"Ta five minutes I shall be dead !!

The young Spaniard who was be-

(1) The action of winds blow- ing over the earth's surface,

(3) Shooting stars, which dis integrate 'on approaching the up per layers of the atmosphern.

(3) Evaporation of spray.

Ocean

(4) Volcanto dust. Investigation has shown that the beautiful colouring, effects to be Russian scientists, who used the

seen at sunrise and sunset are same methods na Dr. J. D. Cock roft and Dr. E. T. 8. Walton em-tricted puddings and pies, and ing tried leapt upon the prosecut largely due to the amount of dust ployed at Cambridge last April, George 111, had meal and rye mixing counsel, aiming violent blows in the air. Fog particles, which have succeeded in splitting the ed in the royal household bread at him. Police and warders rush-are ostinated to be about 0.001in. At Yarmouth the Mayor issued ed forward and ever-powered him.

diameter, have some kind of duet proclamation against the use of Then, while he was being held, particles for their nucleus, while wheat flour for hairdressing. the young man made a sudden the interval known as twilight is "essentially due to the dusty medium. In 1798 a City of London man movement and Awallowed some through which the light rays pass.

broken glass. aing. It was a substitute for the invented a powder for hairdres-

He was rushed to hospital, flour powder. He claimed a pa- where, after treatment, he recover tent for this epoch-making article, ed. Be was brought back to court, and Sir John Scott, the Law Off-, where sentence of death was pass car, was engaged to make in fulled upon him. legal phraseology a report on the Unmoved, the murderer, Hamon invention. It was this document Gimeney, aged 28, defied the judge, which was sold at Glendinning's, shouting that he would chent the and it fetched £ 10s.

guillotine yet.

The Ukrainian Physio-Technical, Institute at Kharkot report to Stalin, the Soviet Dictator, that gade of Scientists split the atom on Oct. 10 the High Voltage Bri- for the second time that this has been achieved anywhere.--

The Cambridge success. was achieved by Dr. Walton, who is not 30, and Dr. Cockroft, who is 34. They worked in, the Cavendish la- boratory under. Lord Eutherford,

Local and General

French Concession, Shanghai, in There were 188 accidents in the

November.

Despite bad weather, Poppy Day in Singapore realised $7,975.00 from.

Mr. W. F. Arndt, of the Dollar Co., is returning to Canton from San Francisco on the 19th inst.

Ir is difficult to believe that the harm's way, instead of in a stip sales of the flowers alone. Japanese-naval proposals, submit ted over the week-end to Geners were conceived in anything bät spirit of grim irony. They aro interesting and significant as an expression of the Japaneso attitude towards disarmament in particular and European statecraft in general Summed up Japan's meaning is as follows, "We are quite content with our nasal position, and we wilk only reduce our fleet if we are left

Raindrops and hailstones have been examined under a microscope and found to contain a lust particle which probably served as a centro of condensation,

Atmosphere dust also plays a very important part in the formation of clouds. Water vapour is always present in the atmosphere, and

when condensation takes place the minute particles of floating dust-not. as nuclei for the water vapour to condense on.

When condensation is sufficiently vigorous the water vapour becomes small globules of water, with the dust speck as their contre, and no- the clouds are, formed.

If Dust Disappeared,

If all the dust particles could sud-

Chen Fu Mu, former superintendent; the proposed West Band Honam denly be eliminated from the at-

A warrant for the arrest of Mr. Canton, December 13.-Plans for:

of the China Merchants' Steam Bridge, were discussed by members/mosphere, our weather would becomp. Navigation Company, has been of the Bureau of Public Works yes a very strange affair. There would issued by the National Government, terday with the contractor of the Pearl Steel Bridge at the Bureau's Office.

Miss Smith, of 10, Bowen Road, was attacked und bitten by ar Almatian dog belonging to Mr. R Johnson, of 5, Bowen Road, on Mon day. The animal was later remov éd to Kennedy Town for observa-

tion...

The construction of port facilities at Hulutao, at the terminus of the Tahushan Tungliang Railway, will be temporarily suspended on pay ment of part of the loan by the South Manchurian Railway Com

Vice Admiral Mitsumasa Yonni, newly appointed Commander-in- Chief of the Japanese Third Im- When Vice Admiral Frederic C.pany to the Dutch company which perid Squadron, arrived in Shang-Dreyor takes over command of the undertook the project, and the hai last week.

China Station, says Truth, prob works taken over by the Manchu ably about the end of January next, kuo authorities, Captain (Algernon U, Willis will succeed Captain T. B, Drew as flag- exptain in the Bont

Mr. Soulakichi Komatsubara, 54, managing director of the Nippon

be little or no precipitation, no fog, sunrise and sunset colours would be lacking, while the sky would ap pear nearly black, the sun and a dark background. moon appearing resplendent against-

A notable example of how "in-- tense volcanic action, and the con sequent impregnation of the atmos phere with dust, can affect the whole envelope of air for several years was afforded by the volcanic. eruption at Krakatos, near Java, in August, 1883

The dust roso 20 miles into the air and was carried to every quarter- of the globe, taking years to de Chan Chi, a butcher's assistant cend. In the winter of that year at the Central Market, who was in- and the following year remarkable ̈volved in a fracas on Saturday night | twilights and sunsets were seen alb Abeggar who was summoned beat Kennedy Town, when Ng Kam over the world. Beautiful coron fare Mr. Grantham at the Central, Chan, a fellow worker, was mortal- appeared around the sun and moon, Police Court yesterday, was statedly wounded by a knife driven into while the clouds were often of a to have had 627 in His possession his left side, was brought before greenish hue when searched. The defendant told Mr. Wynne-Jones, yesterday and the dissemination of wir mis the police that he had begged the charged with murder. Det.-Sergt. dust in the upper atmosphere an entire sum from pedestrians in the O'Donovan in charge of the case, doubtedly plays an important part street. He, was ordered to pay a secured a week's remand for further in the intensity of the sun's rays fine of $5 and to be sent back to enquiries.

ss recorded at surface level. the country1.

The second reason for Japan's proposal is that the Powers, while rejecting everything else, might pos sibly be beguiled iuto considering this concession. It is something of a ghot in the dark but its clever. ness ties in the fact that there arcms to be a strong prejudice in DAVI! circles carriers. This is understandable, though rather on the lines of the mid-Victorian opposition to steam, armour, and accurate gunnery as against sail-drill and such evolu tions, as repel boarders," and "abandon ship.' No naval officer rolishes the idea of finding himsell in a floating hangar, well out of

dasigned for the forefront of the battle. A suspicion arises that this gallant and human instinct cannot fail to stimulate a full apprecia. tion in the Senior Service of the tactical and 'strategical limitations of serial warfare at sea. This attitude is further supported by the equipment of one or two sea planes to the large sex goidy ships, which mergs ny suggestion that

Yusen Kaisha, who has been suffer- the Flect is not air-minder. Naval and military publications showing from ulceration of the stomach, No Ladies tickets will be issued. proportionately stronger than he clearly this tendency to undervalue died last week.

Tiffins, Teas and Refreshments will fore." The section relating to the offensive qualities of the air. bo obtainable at the Bacs Course at battleships cannot be taken at all arm, and to relegate the aeroplane

The Hong Kong University ressonable prices.”

12887. seriously. Even a Labour Governmerely to scouting duties. Thus Medical Socket will hold its annual:

dinner aral dance at the Hong ment would amoli a rat when offer.

Japan soes in an alliance

of Kong Hotel Roof Garden on Batur pacifist idealist, which is india day, December 17, at 8 p.m. criminately against all warships, and professional conservatism an Cases of notifjable discută, report- opportunity of abolishing a branch ed last week wore as follow: of warfare in which she is distinctly. Smallpox 1,(1 death) diphtheria Two goods lorry drivers, who had i inferior.....

5, (3 deatha); en(skin death). Tace along the Shaukiwan Road The third reason, which dovetails There were Bladeaths from pul- on the 16th of last month, were into the second, in that marini attack monary tuberculona. On Monday 3 stopped by Trafic Sergeant. Hughes near the Quarry Bay Police Station. from floating hangars is the cases of diphtheris were notified. only possibla couros of danger to

Summoned before Mr. Wynne-Jones Japan With four thoushad miles of ocean between her and the United General Agent in Japan for Land in a manner dangerous to the Mr. G.W Gordon, formerly yesterday for driving at a speed

A fine of 250 was imposed at: States, with Gus, Manila and Everett Inc. Has been elected public, they were each fined $15.

Nottingham Assizes on Dr. James ed abolition of air-craft carriers bases by her diplomacy Japan's Steamship, Agente (China), Ltd., General Li Tani Hain, Director of Hong Kong emasculated as naval Managing Director of the Ocean

Isaac Lyons, of Nottingham, who There are three considerations position, is impregnable. The only newly organised: British firm which Military Training Who Brently tintine, the Russian Envoy was wounding Harold Horst Hitchin, We understand that Count Panwas found guilty of maliciously which no doubt prompted the raft laughed for tires will set as steamship agents and signed his post and left Nanking is hamitted to the conference held at a Kilvington poultry farmer, by

Aircraft launched from large and brokers in Shanghai. Japanese Government to advance strongly convoyed aircraft carriers.

now in Hong Kong. He will pro Macao, by the Plenipotentiarica of shooting him, this proposa).

The first, and Aircraft of to-day could do little,

ceed shortly to his native home in the Treaty Power That there He was also ordered to pay the 5. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

simplest, is that Great Britain but if the dreams of science be Mr. G. H. Gandy, a surveyor at Kwangsi. The former Kwangs have been conferences is certain, costs of the prosecution, and Mr. THE

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Seven of these ships, in realised in the future as in the the Port Developments Office, was military leader told Press represen and that terms have been offered to Justice Humphreys ordered his de for 75 shares in this Company,

past, aircraft of a speed at present yesterday fined 15 by Mr. Wynne- tatives that his departure from Nan. Yob is almost so. Dount Pontistine tention until-the one was paid. unbelievable, flying through the Jones on a summons charging him king was entirely prompted by ill was refused all communication at Mr. AM Ward, Junior counsel registered in the name of Chow Peng deceased, burrs been declared 1081 cruisers Courageous, Glorious and stratosphere, miles above the sur with speeding in the controlled aroness liver trouble. He will not at Pekin so that it would seem likely for the defence, read a document that His Excellency would consent which hu leader, Mr. Norman Bir- If at the expiration of one month Farious, vessale of immense sise face of the world, may in a few of Garden Boad Mr Gandy, while tend the Third Plenary Session,

years time present a deadly mace admitting the offence, declared that

to pressure being brought to bear Kett, C., had received -- from on Yob, whiliskires refusal of the Hitchinsonko m from the date hereof the following and amazing speed The United even to distant Japan. But super- he was going uphil and could have Share certificates be not produced to States has four, including the aircraft of this nature would still pulled up in ten feet if necessary of the death at his home near to strengthen Lord Elgin's position might have been some doubt that News was received in Bingapore Emperor to frenz with him will tend In this Hitchin asid that there the Company, namely Certificate for Lexington and Saratoga, 33 knot require a base under thousand

Minehead, Homerset, of Cluptam E. in not having made the same futile Dr. Lyons may have been respon 35. share" Ho... 56108/56129 and armoured ships of 33,000 tons and miles from their objective, and the Certificate for 50 No an 8-inch gun armament, and two aircraft carrier is tirer. natural 56180/56229, new Certificates for the smaller pipe of about the same roosting place in time of war. said shares will be issued by the size as the Hermes Japan-has so Warfare with the submarine and Company and thereafter NO big aireraft carrier that played a tance aviation eliminated, woul

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visors to the aircraft

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY,

THE New School. Your opens Janu ary ard. Entrance Examination for New Students on SATURDAY, December 31st, at 9.20 a.m.

ed a reduction of one capital ship in exchange for four of ours and the same number from Americs British efforts to get the submarine abolished altogether have been met

[-] with the cool suggestion, that Japan should be allowed, under treaty, For Prospectus apply LA Hoi Tang, Raq, Montre Banker & Co, 20, Des forty-two per cent, increase in her Voeux Hoad Central, or The Warden,ration of these posts of the sen

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, - But the real subtlety of the Japenase note lies in the suggest

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The

from the files.

LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS

DOCTOR FINED FOR SHOOTING

INJURED MAN'S LETTER

ut of the Central J Bryatt Watson formerly of the humiliating attempt. We hear that, sible directly or indirectly, for the

that in response Singapore Pilot Servico, from which Admiral Beymour, has taken up his unhappiness of his domestic life.

the now Halph he retired a few years ago. Cap. position again off the factorico He added datin

Als film A Night, thin. Watson, who was about, 88, than we, hope matters will soon be FOTEL

#hown for one years of age), "had been iff with brought into a satisfa

have not had cancer for some time Ho was in We hear that 1.1 Count Pontis-

ity of meing this ex- the Pilot Service for nine or ten tine will proceed to Bhanghai Dra

body, should avail years, having previously been a cap shortly in the Bussian warship of course. the final showings 10-) tain in the employ of the A.P.C. Amerion Hong Kong Iily Pren briety.

for a number of res)

December 14-1657

Irons? And