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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE.

THE HONG KONG & WHAMPDA DOCK CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of Shareholders, will be held in the Office the Company, 2 Queen's Building, Hong Kong, on - MONDAY, 27th MARCH, 1999, at Noon, for consideration of the Direc tors' Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1932.

The Share Register and Transfer Books will be c'ozed from the 20th to the 37th Marob, 1933, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directori,

E. COCK,

Chief Manager.

Hong Kong, 10th March, 1983.

HONG KONG CLUB.

NOTICE.

(067

THE FIFTH YEARLY DRAWING TV

$800 Bach) of the Hong Kong Club, payable on Saturday, the 30th Septem- ber, 1933, will be held in the Club House, at 10 o'clock, A.M., on Monday, the 20th March, 1933.

Bearers of Debentures are invited to attend the Drawing.

By order.

T. A. ROBERTSON, Licat Col.,

Secretary,

Hong Kong, 8th March, 1953. ** [556

NOTICE..

THE Undersigned is prepared to THE Undefers to purchase the undermentioned properties:-

Section 3 of Inlant Lot No. 1589

(No, 20 Leighton Hill Road). Section 8 of Taland Lot No. 1589

(No. 10 Leighton Hill Road). Each section compriser an area of approximately 1170 square feet.

Particulars may be obtained on ap- plication to the undersigned at the Courts of Justice.

~850]

T. M. HAZLERIGO,

Official Trustee.

THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

D

(GATT), ED E

WHITBREAK

LTO LONDON,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1933.

GOOD FOR HIM AND GOOD FOR YOU

SINCE

SEVENTEEN HUNDRED & FORTY-TWO:

SOLE AGENTS:

ATTEMPT TO KILL CHEN CHAI TONG

Bomb Thrown At Swatow

OUTRAGE BY SUPPOSED RED

the

Swatow, March 10.. An attempt to murder General Chen Chai Tong this morning came very near

to success. Just after the ship in which the Capton Goncralissimo WILS making voyago from the Southern capital had anchored, a bomb was thrown by man who had been tavelling as a deck passenger,

Apparently the assassin's him was diverted by a man standing car bim, who seized his arm, but un- fortunately the bomb exploded as it fell, some distance away three men being killed

and several wounded.

* News and Views ⭑

Six V.C.s at a Dinner.

British G.E.Q. in Cairo.

near

|SUMMARY OF NEWS

General.

Six holders of the Victoria Cross

Another attempt on Mr. Roose- attended the reunion dinner of the quarters in Egypt, which

The British Army General Head-velt's life WOS made on Fri- 6th North Staffordshire Regiment at present housed in the former Frightened

aro day.

Page 0. at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent,

hoarders in" New Edon Palace Hotel; They were Colonel J. V. Campbell Ezbekich Gardens, are shortly to be $85,000,000.

the York returned, up to March 8, (the Tally-ho V.C.), Captain transferred to a building near the Unwin, A.N., Flight-Lieutenant

Kosr el-Nil Barvacks. The transfer Alan Jerrard, Sergeant J. Thomas, Sergeant E. A. Egerton, and Cor is due to the fact that the present Hong Kong Stock

building is not suitable one for | 13′ Report, |poral Coltman.

¿ its purpose. It is situated in a not The Seven-a-Side Rugger tourna vory desirable neigbourhood and ment, organised by the Hong Kong abuta on the native quarter. bomb was found on a window sill Club ground this afterpa

A Football Club, takes place on the

Dementia Bridgeitis." Ely Culbertson, one of America's foremost exponents of Bridge, on edn summons to arriving at Los Angeles, has receivG.HQ building on January 26.

nour the main entranco of the

divorce action to give evidence as.

appear, in A

114 Bridge alienist."

Ho will be called on to testify

how far a man is justified in going when his wife leads after he has bid a "spade."

"hearts

Umbrella Protector.

of Mill Hill School, had an effective The late Sir John David McClure,

C. Nelson Allon, with having deve The suit obarges the defendant. loped dementia bridgeitis," des who take the game too seriously. cribed as a malady afflicting those

Mrs. Allen complains that, follow-brella ing a heart" load, which she

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Local.

Exchange week- Page 12.

Page-10- The partnership case which has, been before the Chief Justice eince Monday concluded yesterday, when defendants. judgment with costa was given for Page 7 The Borderers' "A" beat the H.M.

nicans of protection against on un-

took to carrying in his pocket a ment. welcome exchange of umbrellas. S. Falmouth yesterday by 30-0 in

Huving suffered several losses, he the soven-a-side

ruggor tourna-.. bright yellow tio-on label, in bold

Page 10, The General's bodyguard at once

characters:

By eliminating M. W. Lo in the secured the murderer, who is

"No, Sir! This is not your ampionship of the Colony J. A. Cas- semi-final of the Open Singles Cham- thought to be a "Red" He was at once removed to Military Head-made, ther husband kicked over the handle before leaving his umbrella all-Indian final in the history of the This label he used to slip over the mate, S. A. Rumjahn, in the first sumbhoy qualified to most his club- quarters for examination as to ac- complices, and associates.

table and otherwise humiliated her. in the club rack,

The devire was never known to Tournament. The score was 6-4, 6-3, Hong Kong Cricket Club Tennis- fail.

6-9 in his favour.

Page 10. Far East, Chang Hugh Linng's resignatioir

A Marred Welcome."

new

The Dentist's Chair.

Dentists have adopted a chair. They are to occupy to them." The event creates a most painful selves. "At Guy's Hospital, in fu- Mr. Reginald McKenna sensation, especially na the city wasture, all the dentists are to sit at

du fete and claborate preparations had been made to give General Chen Chai Tong a cordial welcome Writing on March 6th, our Swatow correspondent saya:-

Pleasant news has arrived that General Chen Chai Tong will be here soon on a visit of inspection, and elaborate preparations are being made to extend him a hearty welcome. He is coming via Hoiluk foong and, according to information, will afterwards proceed to Chaoyang where his presence is urgently need ed. His further, itinerary has not been made known to the public. Already white cloths with black characters are flying in prominent places signifying "hearty welcome to Generalissimo Chen."

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. where his presake in urgently need

ANNOUNCEMENT.

Est. 1841.

The engagement is announced of Mr. G. P. MURPHY, of the P.W.D., to VIOLET, the youngest daughter of Capt. and Mrs. T. HARD, R.A.P.C., Hong Kong,

DEATH

WITHERE-On February 8, at Herne Hill Mansions, LENRY WITHERS, Inte of the P. & O. Company's Service, in his 96th year. Cremation at Golder's Green. No Flowers.

That the Forty-fourth Ordinary Editorial and Business Office: 11, Yearly Meeting will be held at the Company's Offices, P. & 0. Building,

Ice House Street. Tel. 30251.

on WEDNESDAY, 18th March, 1933 Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

at 11 am. for the purpose of presenting

Tel. 24511

To move the naval dockyard is obviously impracticable. It could only have been done, if the post-war | boom had been the beginning of a new ora, and not a brief interlude between great depressions. With its docks and its workshops it is too solid to transplant, though surely some of the land in the region of the Commodore's offices might be surrendered, at a price, and a modern block erected further enst, out of the proceeds? The Murray Parade ground is the worst anomaly on the Island, especially in view of the fature development of the City

thetrtement of Accounts to 31st London Offee: 53, Fleet Street, Hall site. Nearly an acre of most

Report of the Directors together

December, 1932 and electing Directors. and Anditors..

The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 2nd March to 18th March, 1939, both days inclusive, during which period o Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agente. Hong Kong, 15th Febra:ry, 1933,

(412

THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER

CO, (1918), LTD,.

E.C. 4.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, MARCH 11, 1933.

DOG IN THE MANGER.

ONE of the Colony's most perplexing NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. problems was raised with commend- NOTICE is hereby given that, at able vigour by the outgoing Pre- the Company held on 6th-Marob, sident of the Kowloon Residents 1933, a Call of $2 per share was Association, in his speech on Thurs made upon the registered holders of 1938-Issue Shares allotted on 31st day evening. Large areas of the

Meeting of the Directors of

Share has been paid up.

January and 15th February, 1988, best land in Kowloon are occupied and on which the sum of $3 per by the military, who do not seem Such call shall be payable to the to make much use of them, or, at Bankers of the Company,. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking lenst, they could easily compress

Hong Kong, 7th March, 1938,

COLNSHIRE REGIMENT.

the

SWATOW NOTES

CUSTOMS AND POST OFFICE STAFFS TO CONTRIBUTE TO WAR" FUNDS.

(From Our Qyn Correspondent.)

Mr.

their work. The dental department famous chairman of the Midland has been accepted and Chiang Kai

Reginald McKenna, the has just been re-equipped, and be- Bunk is now in his 70th year, al-Shek has taken over full commaned side each dental chair a stool has though he been provided for the operator, ad-younger.

looks many years in NChina,

Page 9- justable so that he is on a higher

Fierco fighting is reported to be Mr. McKenna has always been level than the patient and able to fond of exercise, and to this fact, going on at Kupeikow get much the same angle and elbow no doubt, his comparatively youth-

Page 0. room as when standing. assumption that what Guy's does lege and University days he was On the ful appearance is due. In his col to-day the rest of the profession a keen and useful athlete, and was will inevitably spread to the private that won the Grand and Stewards will do to-morrow, the new style, a member of the Cambridge crews practitioner. They, too, are doubt Cups at Henley in 1887. less subject to the varicose veins and foot trouble which is one of the chief reasons for the change.

Kowloon Supplement Pleases

K.R.A.

at

in politics, he took to fencing, and Later, when he became interested

hud many a bout with the foils, one of his opponents in this pastime being Sir. Charles Dilke.

Misled by the Moon.

Mr. C. E. Terry, the new presi; dent of the Kowloon Residents' Association, made a very pleasing A very rare occurrence in Morocco reference to our Kowloon Supple-marked the end of the mouth's fast ment in the course of his remarks of Ramadán. The Moors were wait the annual meeting of the ing to see the new moon which K.A.A. on Thursday.

would indicate the conclusion of the He said that it was very gratify-fast, but the weather being cloudy ing to find that the importance of the moon sts invisible over the Kowloon had been recognised by greater part of the country. At one of the leading local newspapers, Larache to the south of Tangier, who were producing a daily Kow-however, the sky was clearer. loon Supplement in which particular | Some of the faithful there endeav- attention was paid to the affairs oured to telephone the glad tidings and needs of Kowloon. He hoped to the louded districts, but for that the supplement would grow in some reason the telephons did not. SWATOW, March 6. size and that at some future date functions normally. The result Beginning from March 1 the Kowloon might have its own news that in the French zone the fast Chinese members of the staff of the paper. G. M. Chistoms are to play their very pleasing to find that there was have done, and the customary lamb In the meanwhile it was lasted 24 hours longer than it should part in the Sino-Japanese dispute at least a daily supplement.

ancrifice did not take place. in the form of monetary contri- has been decided that for a period butions. For the time being, it of two years, they shall contribute It is understood that the amounts wards the country's "war" funds. five per cent of their salaries to-

thus collected will be remitted to Nanking.

Post Office Aide,

Local and General

.

Seven cases of small-pax, two of enterio and one of typhoid were re- ported on Thursday.

The annual general meeting of members of the Hong Kong Club will be held in the Club House on Friday, March 24th, at 5.30 p.m.

Quarantine restrictions have been

of small-pox.

Our Swat-ow-correspondentr being made for the forthcoming ports that great preparations DTG visit of General Chen Chat Tong

Page B From Canion comes the news that preparations are afoot to send. troops to help in the Jehol cam a strong contingent of Canten paign... Canton women are to sup- ply an aeroplane.

Page 1.

Dr. Li Shu Fan is to ask a serier of searching questions relating to the small-pox epidemic at: Thes". day's meeting of the Sanitary Board,

Page 7. the Chinese Y.W.C.A.

The annual general meeting of yesterday. In addition to routine was held business addresses were given by two Y.W.C.A. delegates from Gene- va, Miss van Asch van Wijck and Miss Charlotte Nervin. Page 6.

from the files..

LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS

The determination of the East India government to assume the Adamans as a convict station for the mutineers, has caused a survey made of the group by Lieut. Blair in 1797 to be exhumed from the archives of the Company-Hang- kong Daily Press, March 11, 1888,"

LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS

imposed by Shanghai against arof the Report of the Medical Mis We have to acknowledge receipt rivals from Hong Kong on account sicnary Hospital at Fatahan, in connection. with the Wesleyan Mis- sionary Society, and in charge of.. that the hospital is doing & large Dr. Wenyon. The report shows amount of useful work. During the year the total number of cases treate

valuable ground, neither useful nor ornamental, remains immolated. "Soldiers must have a parade ground," is the reason for its con-

The annual meeting of, the Hong tinued preservation in its present into posee it in fare what pany, Limited will be held at the

In the case of the staff of the Kong and Whampoa. Dock Com state, though inside the dockyard different. They must contribute offices of the Company (Queen's there is a full-size football pitch, ten per cent of their salaries, but Building) on March 27, at noon. seldom used till the evening. We only for a period of six months. all know the somewhat rigid atti

At Tuesday's meeting of the Hong

Members of the Nantao Public tudo of Admiralty and War Offico

General Chem Chat Tong's Visit.

Kong Rotary Club, Mr. G. B. Gif-afety Bureau last Saturday ap ford Hull, Resident Engineer on the prehended 15 persons who were al towards their respective properties, the visit of Chen Chai Tong and will give "A few observations on.

Reference is made on page 8 to Shing Mun construction scheme, leged to be concerned in operating but if left to the local naval and the attempted assassination of the Dams,"

a plant for the manufacture of military authorities,

red pills (opium substitutes). The ed was 11,202, of which 7,114 were a working Canton Genaralissimo..

arrested persons will be charged - Hongkong Daily Press, March 11,

new cases and 4,148 old cases.

would soon be arranged, agreemont for the use of this lond

fore the Nantao District Court.

1883.

The Whitfield Barrack site is ARREST OF ANGLO-INDIAN hampering the natural development

SUBJECTS of Kowloon, whole or in part by the War Office, such of the ground that was not

If surrendered in

reserved for open spaces would be quickly covered by builders, and provide in rates sufficient for quick repayment of the purchase price.

The difficulty of the War Office

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

RUGBY, March 0.

A report has been made to the Police by Lau. Pak Kwan, of the od down a woman while riding his Wanchai Fire Station, that he knock motor cycle in Pokfulam Road on Thursday.

An old Alleynina dinner will be held on Monday, March 20, at 8

communicate with Mr. B. E. Edgar, p.m. at the Hong Kong Hotel. Those who wish to attend should

Nanking, March 4-Baron Jules. Belgian Legation in Mexico, hasi Guillaume Chargé d'Affaires at the Looking Back 25 Years. been appointed Belgian Minister to Cricketers and lovers of Cricket China. The new Minister is due to have all been rejoicing at the fact arrive here on April 3, Guillaume was Counsellor at the HH, Maharajah Jam Sahib of Baron that next summer will again see Belgian Legation in China prior to Newanagar, otherwise and better the Republican regime.

known as K.8. Ranjitsinhji, playing for Sussex again, and it is not too. Following the announcement that much to say that there will probably the Chinese Government would not be record gates at Brighton when, take part officially in the Chicago the popular Indian prince re- Road on Thursday, The dog, north, the Ministry of Industry with a fire shovel than many fist- was bitten by a chow dog in Jordan of the political situation in the an old saying, but it is a good one, A Europour Ind. nazed P. Major World Fair in view of the gravity appears for his old county. It is which is owned by Mr. Millington has given the necessary permission

that Ranjitsinhji can but better

arrested" by the Police and taken so privately. of 3, Cox's Path, Kowloon, was to various industrial bodies to do class cricketers with a hat. He to the depot at Mataukok.

certainly is an absolute magician with a batHongkong Daily Press. Six measures relative to precon of the confiscated goods depart Chang Shao Lieh, former chier

March 11, 1008). tions and defere along the China ment of the Greater Shangha coast and various rivers have been Bureau of Public Safety, who was devised by Geporal Chiang Kai-sentenced by the Nantto District BRITISH RELATIONS WITH shak, Chairman of the Military Council, and delivered to his sub ordinates to net on.

REPLYING in the House of Com tary, Mr. Stanley Baldwin said

inons for the Foreign Secrae, Queen's Road Central.

Germany, that his attention had been drawn- subjects; Naidu and Mambian, in to the arrest of two British Indian

ready in communication with com The British Ambassador was al

had been learnt unofficially that petent German authorities and it Neidu; had now been released.

Court to four years and six months imprisonment and fined $2,000 for

officers, has filed an appeal with misappropriation of a large quar" the Soochow High Court against ity of apium seized by the Bureau's

HOLY SEE

FARITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

Corporation, at their Head Office, themselves into much less space authorities is that the building of Queen's Band, Central, Victoria, Hong Kong, on 31st March, 1983. Quite unintentionally insult has now barracks is an expensive matter By Order of the Board of Directors been added to injury by building which cannot be undertaken while

NOEL BRAGA,

solid and spacious hábitations for Army Estimates are cut to the last Secretary.

mules on a site regarded with green shilling. But the argument hardly [346 envy by builders, and opposite to

carries weight when the valué of that sorry structure, the Central find by civil developments, and a The Devil's Decision:

the sites occupied has been magni- British School. The whole troublesale would provide amply for new FIRST BATTALION THE LIN. is that both Victoria and Kowloon accommodation. The great uncer will no doubt do justice to two good During his visit to his own Duchy of Cornwall, the Prince of Wales are, like the proverbial schoolboy, tainties and stringencies of the things for which it is particularly A series of regulations govern growing so fast that garments once present time are grounds enough famed-ita cream and its pics.ing the arbitzion of labour to TENDERS are invited for the fol. well fitting havé, become ugly and for temporary delays, but if Hong enn make a pit out of almost any Central Kuomintang, the Greater the Jocal court's decision..

Cornish housewives, it is claimed, bles having been promulated by the -5(t). “Alborations, etc. to Clothing".

Kong continues to grow and to thing: the diversity of the ingredi Shanghai Bureau of Social Affairs When the dockyard and the prosper, it will become the imperents they use, is said to have kept has drafted a set of rules to govern Mr. J. R. Hiutor, manager of REPLYING to a question in the (2), Repairs to Boot",/ Forms of tender may be obtained on

barracks were built, what appeared tive duty of the Government to free the Duchy free of one undesirable the enforcement of the regula Messrs. Büttorfeld and Swire and ley Baldwin said that he was hap application to the Officer Co-mandings to be ample allowance was made for number of sites both on the Long ago, runs the story, the

popular Secretary of First Battalion The Line leshire Regi: the expansion of Victoria.In those Island and the Peninsular that court Devi decided to visit Cornwall, but During Wednesday six casco of to the Shanghas office is leaving tween the British Government and Thursday Club, being unustored by to say there were no longer day ment,Shamshtipo Camp, Kowloon,ays when Trauport depended Well be surrendered by the, Ad-when he heard of the local pies small-pox one of diphtheria and for that port on Sunday, March 12, the Holy See

subjects of controversy at issue bo¬ Hong Kong by whom tenders will be received until 12 Noon, Saturday, 18th almost entirely upon coolie labour, miralty and War Office, without pic, herby-pie, lamby-pie, piggy were reported to the local Medical companied by Mre. Hinton. We baby-pie star-gazynie, parsley three of meningitia (op imported) to take up his post. He will bo March, 1983.RE

it would have been absurd to have impairing, the security of the pio," and what not it struck him Officer of Health. Of the small-pox understand that Mr. F. W. Johnson, The right is reserved of rejecting all

8. isolated the army and navy in, say, Colony, and to its immense econo they might tako a fancy to try dexes three were from Kowloon, who has already arrived in this city (666 the Causeway Bay-Sookunpoo area. mic advantage.

villy-pie.

So he remained in Devonshire.

one from Shaukiwan and two from from Shanghal, will succeed Mr. the Victoria district.

Hinton as manager of B. & 5. here

T

oring Contracte:

or any tenders

restrictive.

visitor

I

tions.

آمد.

Roosy, March 9.

Commons yesterday Mr Stan-

It was hoped that the appoint. ment of a Minister would facili tate an early settlement of any question which might still require treatment.

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