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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE.

[OTICE is hereby giren that we have thin day appointed

Messrs. Biomason & Co, to act as our sole agents in Hongkong, Canton

and Macao..

GÉTZ BROS, & CO.,

SAN FRANCISCO.

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NOTICE.

Noida relinquished the OTICE is hereby given that wo

Agency of Messrs. Getz Bros. & Co., San Fancisco.

YUE LEE YUEN,

6th Floor, China Bldg.

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January 21st, 1933.

THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.

NOTIC

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FORTY-FIFTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEET- ING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will he held at the Offices of Magers. Jardins, Matheson & Co., Ltd. on TUESDAY, 14th February. 1939 at NOON for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1982:

to

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from "TUESDAY, 81st January,

TUESDAY, 14th February, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be register- ed.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

L. 8. GREENHILL, Secretary. Hong Kong, 20th January, 1933.

G.

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SALE OF OLD MATERIAL. THE Public Works Department is prepared to receive Tenders for the purchase of a quantity of Old Material comprising

Brass, Copper, Zine, Wrought Iron and Mild Steel Borap; V.LR. Wire; Manila Rope; Belting; Rubber; Porcelain. Olenta; Accumulators,

Batteries and Cells; .2 Smoke Machines (pipe testing) 3 Tipping Waggona (one metre gauge-2 ton capacity) 2 Staam Road Roller Wheals.

Tender in duplicate (WHICH --MUST BE MADE ON OFFICIAL FORM ONLY) under cover marked TENDER FOR OLD MATERIAL, P. W. D.", to be lodged at the Colonial Secretary's Office, not later than Noon of Tuesday, 31st January, twenty one days after that date, required.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1933.

ELIZABETH ARDEN has made guessing ages an impossibly difficult game..

She has taught women to hold on to youth, not to hide theravages of age with cosmetics but to keep their skin. young, firm and fresh by scientific

care.

There is now a special display of these preparations at Watson's in the new Elizabeth Arden salon, where a trained assistant will show the

you correct use of these aids to Beauty.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY

EST. 1841.

Editorial and Busness Offices: 11,

Ice House Strest. Tel. 30251.

Tel. 24511.:

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The Daily Press

HONG KONG, JANUARY 21, 1033.

A. VISION OF INDIA

Sin ALFRED WATSON, the able editor

MR. PEPYS IN HONG KONG

· 14th-This day up betimes and 1 am much zujoiced to find it be some- what warmer though still mighty chilly. To my office and having act all in order I go across to the great shippe Ranchi to bid friends good bye. Later to the office again and

o to the Valley where I do play Krickett and this first time for four years do find a real slow bowler doth bowl at ma to my great con- tent. But all is over too soon!· A close, match which we win upon the laat ball of it, and after all very merry, in the Pavilion. To my Clumber where I bathe and trim myself and up the Peake to an ex- cellent dinner and mighty good fellowship. And so very late to bod.

15th, Lord's Day.-Lay late and after, to the Barro where is a plea-

America's Radio.

News and Views

With advertising talk estimated to consume one-fifth of the day's broadcasting time in the United States, it becomes plain that all that annoys the American radio listener is not static.

England's Wonderi

The motorcar age has produced a boy of eleven who has travelled all over England but Las never been in a train. A railway jaunt would probably give him as big a thrill as that his parents got on their first, motor ride...

simple!'

The splitting of the atom is quite eant fire, and soon comes Creed simple when explained by Lord and we drink a glass or two of Rutherford. The passage of the sherries sack which. I do find more invisible neutron into the nucleus comforting than Hollands these cold of the atom, said he, is like an in- days. After nuncheon for a long visible man passing through Pic walk upon Sir Cecil's Ride, but is cadilly Circus: his path can be the end come not to its full extraced only by the people he has tremity but turn short down to Taat

pushed aside. Tag Mui, where we take a tram and so home. And I am mighty pleased that I have found so pleasant a track whance the view be excellent, and in one place the reflection of pino trees in the Taikoo reservoir do have the most beautiful effect and I would I could have painted it. Į But I resolve to take the walk again.

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Finger Prints.

Roman Relics from the Thamas.

Valuable relies recovered from The recent death of, ex-Superin- the River Thames during dredging tendent Collins enlla to mind that. operations at Cliveden and Boul he was the man who organised the tor's locks were on exhibition at a Bertillon Buger print system at: meeting of the Thames Conservancy Scotland Yard, and built it up so Board in London recently. They faithfully that it is now regarded. included an Anglo-Saxon spear- as the finent in the world. It head of the sixth century, a Roman is somewhat startling to learn. pewter vase of the third century, & that the C.I.D. boasts to-day roasting-spit of the seventeentha collection of early 9,000,000- century, and a pike-head of the prints of known and unknown fifteenth century;

Rare Bestowals.

Scotamen, cordially approved the choice of the King for the vacant Thistle. It was the late Duke of Roxburghe's death that caused the vacancy in the great Scottish Order of Knighthood, and one Lowlander has been succeeded by another. Bir Herbert Maxwell, to whom the honour has fallen, is young at 57, and still writes as well as ever he did. He will not be the only com- moner in that distinguished Order. but he will only find one compan- ion, Sir John Maxwell Stirling- Maxwell. In the Order of the Garter Sir Austen Chamberlain is the only commoner; in the Order of St. Patrick there is none.

What Books Can Do.

criminals. Are the characters of our neighbours so completely. aatonishing? The uncompromising truth-as Superintendent Collins. might claim of the tell-tale prints. that became a passion with him is that the Scotland Yard collec.. tion represents a dossier of the rascality and criminality of the world. He also devised the system of telegraphing finger prints by code which was subsequently super- seded when wireless photography became possible.

Mussolint as a Boy.

Mussolini, the ideal of Fascist: Rome, was not an ideal hoy, for his father has kept the bad as well as the good-evidence concerning his amazing off-spring. A letter of complaint, written by one of Mus solini's village schoolmasters to hin, father when the future Italian

leader was but has been with- drawn from the Fascist Exhibition" at Rome in case it breeds indiscip- line among budding Fascists.

It is sometimes interesting to trace the practical effects that fol- low praise or denunciation of a widely read book. Men like Rous seau, Tolstoi and Karl Marx bäve

A temporary teacher had taken coloured the législation of countries charge of Mussolini's class during and even perhaps of An Age the illness of the regular master. through their books; and on a The newcomer set the class to write: smaller field uone can deny the-in an essay on Time is Money." In fiuence of "Little Dorrite" on the two minutes. Mussolini banded in abolition of Debtors prisons, or of his paper. It read:-Time is

Oliver Twist on the reform of

money and shouldn't be wasted-80- local government. -

I'm going home to study because

you think that's logical" The the exams are coming on. Don't.

master in his letter to Mussolini's. father described this as insubordì- nation and suspended his attend- ance at school for ten days.

Britain's Sweet Bill, t

Britain is spending £1,000,000 Confectionery weekly on sweets. manufacturers report a substantial increase of trade, and one firm has taken on 900 employees to help to produce the 350,000 tons of sweet- meats yearly consumed in Britain. The output to-day is nearly 16th.-Up early, but somewhat double that of 25 years ago. The stiff after my walk. To my offrepinics of doctors has changed, and whard I do find a list of Golf fix they now praise the health-giving tures and some admonitions for be properties of sweets, half of those haviour at Fanling which I do per- which are eaten being chocolates. ceive to be pretty drastick, but as the I supposo mighty necessary, lack of consideration for others | Study-by-Mall Fortune. shown by some members being A fortune of £112,474 was left by amazing. After reading this, to Dr. William Briggs, proprietor of my papers when to my great dis- the University Correspondence Col content the knocking upon the lego, who died at sen last June, upper floor is resumed and I can Tens of thousands of ambitious neither bear myself speak nor us young students enrolled under his the telephone. So to the Clubbe scholastic banner and received their where presently I eat my nuncheon first start in life from him during with some friends. This evening the past thirty to forty years.. He am much yexed that I do praetermit had a genius for preparing stu-lian Government has made the is Now comes the news that the Ita- an important engagement and I dente for graduation, and during self puts it, the Indian has a unique foar I'do suffer from Hong Kong that period there was hardly a sinland of Capri a bird sanctuary. gle hamlet, village or town in the Has Dr. Axel Munthe's "The Story capacity for doing without what

17th-This day most foule with kingdom without a student of the are regarded as the prime neces-drizzling rain and yet raw and cold University Correspondence College of Ban Michele's joined the august sition of life. Sir ALFRED is in withal and I am minded that the in it. danger of emulating those well-offica is the most comfortable abode intentioned soula who taught the upon such a day. Reading there in the newes-sheetes I learn a default- untutored Polynesian the need for ing banker is discovered to be the cotton clothes, alcohol, and fire-Professor of Political Economy at which seems mighty arms, thereby setting him on the Harvard,

strance to me that they do appoint happy highroad of discase and ex-

Professor without dus enquiry into tinction. How easy to say that an his antecedents. But this, says Indian industrialism would avoid the Creed Inter, is merely bustle. And ills of the European system; that in that line I do admit we cannot there would be no "dark satanic comparo with the people of Ameri- milk," but only the modern facque and especially in the matter of tories, in which employees and am marriage. For it seems that Mrs. ployers are a happy family, and Fair, an actress of the moving where it is proved that honesty and pictures doth marry upon a day and humanity are rattling good busi- two later does enter proceedings for nese. Are theres not dozens of Eng.& divorce. This day the King's and how well the balance sheets Port and I am glad of it. This the rebels to death. He expressed tongs, was convicted by Mr. H. R compare with those unhappy under-night at the Clubbe much discouse surprise that neither the Plenipo: Butters and fined $250. Faller de takings where the masters sweat and anon comes Mr. Northern who tentiaries nor the Admirals had tails of the case will appear on and the men strike?

Surely the dines with me and tells me the news paid him a visit.-Hong Kong Daily Monday. Indian capitalist will see where of Shanghai which by his account Press, January 21, 1858. wisdom lies?

'memory.'

From the files.

LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS

circle of such literature

Local and General

A serious fire broke out in a cár- penter's shop at the French Mission Building, Pokfulam, on Thursday night. The shop was completely destroyed. The chuse of the out break is at present unknown

Mr. Alabaster, of the Consular establishment, is now attached to H.MS. Inflexible as interpreter. Yeh boastfully acknowledged to this At Kowloon Magistracy yesterday gentleman, that he had decapitated the Chinese woman who was charg 100,000 nm since 1854. He suggested with ill-treating a mui tai by

1983, and must remain open for of the Calcutta Statesman,-recently lish industries run on such lines, great shippe Devonshire returns toed that the Allies should put all burning her with a pair of hot

if

For form of tender and further particulars apply at the Office of Superintendent of Accounts and Stores, Public Works Department.

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Secretary. Hong Kong, 20th January, 1983. [265

made a brilliant analysis of the Indian economic situation, which we report elsewhere in this issue. At the same time he offered solution of the problem. In India

We all know perfectly well that the beginnings of Eastern indus trialism are repeating the old evils Japan and in India factory con- of sweating and child labour. In ditions are, often appalling, and the

do seem to be a protty foule place in this weather. Very tired and I fear I do fall asleep in my chair LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS over a glass of strong waters for

Tuesday night at the Theatre very weariness.

Royal the Italian Opera Company 18th-Up betimes and to the gave Pedrotti's opera Tutti in office but again a most foute day Maschera."

This popular opera

same noxious

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Statistics compiled by officials of the Ministry of Interior, reveal thak, farmers constitute 78 per cent, of the population of Kiangsu and Chekiang 90 per cent of that of Anhui, Honan, Hunan and Sze chuen, and 50 per cent. of that of the remaining provinces with the exception of Mongolin, Thibet and Sinkiang.

mes

Before Mr. Schofield at the Cen-- tral Magistracy yesterday, four Chi- were charged with having operated a bogus business firm and with having obtained 1,800, umbrellas The Shanghai-Tsingpu long dis from a shop at West Point. Detec tanco telephone service was formally tive Sergeant Kinnear, who pro- inaugurated by the Ministry of secuted, told the Court that as Communications last week. Tsing- result of further investigations, pu is a city to the south of Bung. three charges would be preferred king, on the Shanghai-Hang- against the accused The case was chow-Ningpo Railway.

remanded for a week.

where the land is already over burdened the population is increas ing at the rate of three, millions GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.

a year, while only 30,000 are being TOTICE is hereby, given that absorbed into industry per annum. old arguments, heard century and naught in the newes sheetes save has been several times performed in

Certificato No. 224 for 40 shares The outcoms must be, Sir ALFEED People wouldn't come into the tence of death. But of this I am sent company in previous season king official has been appointed to China Merchants Steam Naviga We understand that a new Nan- The Executive Committee of the ago, are trotted down the street, talk of this young man under sen- Hong Kong by a part of the pre- in this Company, numbered 13793 to 13532 registered in the urme of CHAN contends, a steadily diminishing factories unices they like them," not minded to write until the matter Signor Cioci as Abdala Signora take charge of the Invoice Office in tion Company has sent a petition Doroten, and Signor Hong Kong in place of Mr. Wen to the Ministry of Communications YING is alleged to have been lost or standard of living, unless India "it koops the children out of mis- in debated of the Council and a de Bilini destroyed,

chief,"

and in any case we should cision made. Dinod and after writ Patieran as Martello, have all spYing Ham who has been assigned requesting it to appropriate funds. is industrialised and becomes self have to close down if wages were ing in my chamber but I feel all put peared in the characters before, and to command some troops along the for the recovery of the Yangtze * Application has been made to the

Board of Directors for the issue of a sufficient, on the lines attempted, raised or hours shortened, and then out and unable to settle my mind, the performance on Tuesday, so far Lung-Hai Railway, with headquar- wharf. The Ministry is reported Duplicate certificate, and it, within with disastrious results, in America, everyone would be worse off than at and I doubt not. I have taken some as those parts are concerned, a rotors lab Haichow,

to have. devided, to instruct the thirty days from the date hereof, no

petition of previous performances. and with inhuman ruthlessness in present." Even in Hong Kong rheum from the weather.

Ministry of Finance to comply. Claim

or Representation in respect of

A fine of $1,500 with the alterna with the request of the China such original certificate is made to the Russia. Great Britain is, indeed, stop mui tai being worked, satire with a heavy rheun, uper my chest sweetly as over, while Signor Ciocci was imposed by Mr. Schofield at pany and to detail men to discuss special legislation was needed, to 19th-This morning I do wake Signora Bilini was graceful and

charming as usual and sang tive of seven months' hard labour Merchants Steam Navigation Coin- Board of Directors, they will then taken to task for failing to realise ly for their own good, of course, which indeed the apothecary, Mr. had full command of his magni- the Central Magistracy yesterday on the matter with the Committee of proceed to deal with such application. the industrial potentialities of twelve hours or more, seven days a Polling, tells me that a many suffer ficent voice-Hong Kong Daily a Chinese for being in dawful the Company.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

week, and through the nights. The in the same way. But if they all Press, January 21, 1883. Indio, and," not. J. N. WONG,

promoting League of Nations organisation was do drinke of the

possession of 20 tools of opium. It "Black Country, beside which the told by Indian magnates that the draught as he mixee for ine, then Looking Back 25 Years.

was stated that the drug was found Yorkshire, Lancashire and Midland country could not afford to amalior- may the Lord pity them, for I am

secreted in specially-made pockets A plut to establish a provisional areas would be inconsiderable specks League standard.

rate conditions, far less adopt the hard put to stomack it.

lin, canvas jacket, ?

Korean Independent Govenment. At the These were the office this day and very busy. Later en the map.

Yesterday Messrs. Jardine, Mathe-

in Shanghai was uncovered by the Sir ALFRED admits men who support, politically, the reading in the newes sheets I am son & Co received news from the

Antiquities of historical value, Kobe police as a result of the 60 that such a policy would not have simple GANDHI, not to bring back shocked at the number of accidents North of the wreck of their steamer valued at over 87,000, which form- day's examination of Cho Yo Ka helped Lancashire, but over the break the British raj which puts Hinkler has perished, which is the Capt. This

his beloved spinning wheel, but to in Sying and I much fear is 1. Vile Sang which is commanded by ed part of the collection of a (51) who was arrested aboard the future of British manufactured some check upon profiteers.

The Kik Sung wealthy Chinese merchant living in Presidoat Hoover on October 10. the Chinese City, were stolen last His exernination, claim the police, products in India he is cheerfully

revealed the fact he was secetly unhopeful. India with her re and a wealth producer. for all can- seems there is fear ho has crashed Brothers, and fears are entertained, whom made good their escapes be recruiting sources, au and below the ground, vision, There is little sign of such Clubbe 1 learn that the man Tseng The Chief Engineer, Mr. F. I. Pin-Nantno Public Safety Bureau.

cerned, if run with generosity and in the Alps. This evening at the that she will become a total wreck.fore the arrival of members of the Hawaii, where he boarded the American liner. His two brothers should wipe the floor with all in-quality in Indian industrialism, has boon, reprieved and will serve a kerton, and five of her Chinese crow

are also Shanghai, concerted in dustrial rivals, East and West, once

but much of the short-sighted life sentence. And I much hope that are missing. The steamer Fan Sang The report of the Medical Officer the scheme. her own mills, mines, and factories British history, when the human age others to compass the donths wired to proceed to the wreck and ended January 19 is as follows: Bask

harshness of the worst age of the clemency, shown will not encour which is proceding North, was of Health for the twenty-four hours get going behind prohibitive tariff factor was eliminated and men and of their enemies by deputy. This on the lookout for survivors ned), 1 diphtheria, 1 of paratyphoid ing teachers, with a total of 4,000

Two cases of small-pox. (1'import-

In December last, over 100 retir÷ walla Foreign markets are of less women became cogs of a machine, evening early to my chamber where the vicinity, Hong Kong Daily and 2 of cerebrospinal fever. Quar years of service, were presented at importance than an Indian market, The Government of India is wise I cat a bite of food and then to bed Press, January 21, 1908,

in seeking to strengthen the where I drink long glass of

antino restrictions have been im County Hall with a letter of ap- stimulated by implanting now de natural village life of India and Jambica rhum well-seasoned with

posed by the Government of the preciation from the London County mands for luxuries and necessities not to found new Detroits, Boltons sugar and a plenty lemon juice,

"Straits Settlements against arrivals Council in recognition of long

in the native mind.

and Pittsburgs With cheap elec which is indeed not only palatable Whipshade for nuncheon with an from Hong Kong on account, of and faithful service in the work of education." The best record was tric power, roads, irrigation and but healthy and doth drown the old friend who tells me that Shang-small-pox.

held by two women teachers, Miss Quite apart from any parochial the improvement of crops, the land memory of the naughty medicine Mr, bai is not to her mind fit to be com

Judgment for the plaintiffs was Emily Louisa Jones, of Park Walk concern for British, industry, or them the old life of ease and sim-no doubt it wrought some good.

will still support its people, giving Pelling did give me, though I make pored with Hong Kong, where she

in very glad to find herself. And I given by Mr Justice Wood yester Elementary School, Cheless, and am of much the same mind myself,day in two claims against Mr. E. Miss Kate Maria Wilkins, a

HONG KONG FOOTBALL. ASSOCIATIONS.

INTERPORT PROGRAMME

hursday, January, 28th,

Hong Kong v. Shanghai

Club Ground.

Saturday, January 28th,

Shanghai ». EL.K. Chinese

Club Ground.

Mónday, January 30th, 1

Bhanghai'r."United Service

Kowloon Ground.

All matches start at 3 p.m. sharp. Booking for the 26th & 28th for the vered and uncovered "stands will Fat Assers. Anderson on Monday;

more extraordinary se he was upon which carries a cargo of about Industry can be a splendid thing, the first stage of his flight. But it 3,000 tons of coal, stranded off the week by five armed robbers all of

many Koreans in

tain fissures in Sir ALFRED's. splen- plicity without the insecurity of–90th - This day 16 a little late | Take evening women, thews that my D. Shanle which came up in the bar of the unat

Arrear the eye in draught, and war, and plague,

industrialism in Upon such foundations a true and as I was not fully restored. Yet 1 Lady A. Bailey be safe, but none of Summary Court. In the first case whom final stable industrialism might slowly do think the rhum hath done the Mr. Hinkler, and now a pilot who the claim was for $500.15 by the vice. The be built a better and more paying business, and I make a note to drink searched for him gone a missing. To Kowloon Furniture Company being by Cap proposition than any unsightly another possett to-night. This day the Clubbe to do on my garments balanes for good sold and deliver of the

appola peculative factories grown more fair, and at that the sun for dinner and later to the King's jed, while in the second maso the teek cduty mods discantant chinesa plece, though after nun-House, to see the Fountain of rolnim was fores for droves sup loucester inalschoon 211 kreys over pretty fast. To Youth! But of this I must write to mlied by Reveille, of

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