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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

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NOTICE.

WATER SUPPLY.

HONG KONG AND KOWLOON.

IT is hereby notified that commenc

ing on MONDAY, lat, MAY, and antil further notice, the hours of supply will be as follows:-

a.m... and 4.30 p.m.-7.30 p.m.

R. M. HENDERSON,

Water Authority.

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, Hong Kong, 27 h April, 1933.

NOTICE.

AS from April 29th, 1933, we have

removed our offices to ibo

National Bank Building, 3rd Floor, corner of Ice House Street and Des

Voeux Road, Central.

EXPORT PETROLEUM COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, LTD.

Waiting

for Thirsty Throats

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NOTICE.

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N and after the 29th Apri3, 1983. our address will be SA, Des Voeux Road, Central, The National Bank Building, 3rd Floor, ASSOCIATED PETROLEUM CO. Formerly ASSOCIATED TRADING CO

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THE HONG KONG SOCIETY.

FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

OTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held in the Poard. Room of Messrs. Jardins, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, on THURS. DAY, the 4th MAY, 1933, at 5.16 p.m.

By Order of the Committee,

F. G. MAUNDER,

Hon, Becretary.

Hong Kong 27th April, 1933,

It is requested that nominations for the Commitice and various Offices, daly proposed and seconded be for warded to the Secretary bofore the Meeting.

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REMOVAL OF office.

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8 from the 16th inst., we have removed our Office from St.

George's Building to Sa, Des Voeux Road Central, eis. The National & Commercial Savings Bank Building, at the corner of Ice House Street and

Des Voux Road, entrance in Ice

Bus: Street

NOTICE.

SATISFYING

AND

REFRESHING

FORMAZONE

THE NON-ALCOHOLIC CHAMPAGNE

ITS DELICIOUS TANG AND INDIVIDUAL FLAVOUR IS AN INDISPENSABLE FEATURE OF EVERY DANCE OR PARTY.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

AERATED WATER

MANUFACTURERS

Est. 1814.

London Offee: 63, Fleet Street,

E.C. 4.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY APRIL 28, 7933

Editorial and Business Office: 11, wing of enforced leisure since the Ice House Street Tel. 30951. greatest economic effort in British Night Editor (Wanchai Office): |

history. In January this year Tel. 24511.

unegi- 175,000 more persons were ployed than in January, 1932, and the number in employment-a significant figura to watch-had fallon 70,000 in the course of the year. In the coal industry produc- tion was the lowest in modern timis

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, Artit 28, 1903.

DEAD SLOW IN THE FOG.

excopt in 1931 and 1928, when the late Mr. A. J Coox, the Mad Hátter of politics, stunned the industry, and started a disruption of world markets that in no small degree hasted the slump. There

COMMUNICATIONS IN MANCHUKUO

New Unified Control of Electrical Systenis

NIPPON MANCHUKIO

"AGREEMENT

*News and Views

Too, Too Marvellous!

Then you can have a dressing gown "out with breathless preci- sion," or a coat which is "terribly smart, and gives a new and exait ing line. Still another is "dla- borately casual and desperately But those with a "posi tively pampering lining," "big" hearted and comforting," seem to promise rare and lasting friend ships. And yet well, are poote really practical peoplot

smart."

Poets in the Sales' Catalogues,

SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local.

As from Monday, May 1st, the.

Time was when elevenpence three-hours of water supply will be a farthing was a powerfully perm, to 9 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. to 7.30 sunsive weapon at sales, and in p.m.

Page 1. It has been rather choorless those days articles of clothing were labelled "chic, attractive, smart, to-day," says the Stock Exchange becoming, of unbeatable value. Official Report.

Page 13. And people bought them. But

A dastardly daylight robbery oc- nowadaya ordinarily modest adcurred at Yaumati on Wednesday jectives have become dowdy, and when an old woman was nearly poots write the catalogue sales robbed of $140. talks Who would not "Tall for the net, the robbers blinded their

beach attire in which the merchant

tells you that you'll galvanise victim with pepper. the beach!" And altogether ma gical seems the coat described as casual, vivacious, and ineffably kindly".

In carrying out

Page 11. Our correspondent from Yunnan. gives a by no means optimistic pie- Brigands ture of the conditions. are still giving trouble and rise in food prices cause widespread dis tress..

Pago 7. A mention is made in the Kow week

All loon Supplement of the protest

which has been forwarded to officia

The text of the statement issued by the Japanese Government simul teously in Tokyo and Changchun Announcing the signing of an agree- iment between Japan and Manchu Time is Money. kuo regarding the creation of the Although France complains of

it was Electrical Communications Company hard times,

operating in Manchuria is as follows:- 1,251,638 automobiles in 1939, as "A state's system of communien-compared with 1,109,006 in the pre- vious year. This would seem 00 tion should be considered as con

show that auto owning is no long. A Tragedy of Coincidence. stituting its nerve system and the

or dependent upon prosperity. A Within the space of one same can be said with even greater car is no longer a luxury, but a four great cricketers died. force of its electric communications, necessity to people who can't afford were close personal friends and all such as telegrapha, telephones, etc. to waste the time they once re great all-rounders. It is closely bound up with the quired in gotting from place to national defence and the mainten place. ance of peace and order; it also plays an important role in the cul- tural and economic development of the country.

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William IV. Statue.

Permission has been granted by the Court of Common Council of the City of London to the Streets Two Distinct Systems." Committee to remove, if necessary, the statue of King William IV., "As regards the means of elect the junction of King William tric communications in Manchuria, street, Cannon-street, hnd Grace however, those in Kwantung Leased church-street, in order to make sub- Territory and in the South Man- ways for pedestrians. It was stat- churia Railway Zone have hitherto ed that the cost would be £3,000. been under the management of The statue was erected in 1844 to Japan, while those in the other re- commemorate the opening of Lon-i gions of Manchukuo have been un-don Bridge by William IV. and

Quean Adelaide. der that of Manchukuo itself.

Royal-and Versatile

circles about noise made in residen- tial districts by the now cabarets

Page 11.:

Walter Forbes's death, as the result of a street accident, occur red first. He was a magnificent A noted philosopher and a former : shot and an athlete who could | friend of the great Count Tolstoy throw the cricket ball a hundred is now in the Colony. An inter- yards out of a tub. As Freddy view with this gentleman appears. Thesiger, Lord Chelinsford cap in one Kowloon Supplement. tained Oxford in 1890 he died three daya later. Lionel Palairet, who died two days later was in the same elevon, and himself cap tained Oxford three years later. He, too, like Thesiger, could play any ball game. The last of this truly great four was, of course, "Ranji"

Page 12.

An instructive and interesting cis- cussion of Education for Peace was held last night by the long Kong Peace Group. The discussion. was opened by Rev. Father G. Page 7. Bye,

General,

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Page 10.

The Organising Committee of the Trials of a Mannequin's Coiffure.

World Economio Conference will As fashion still deartands ameet in London on Saturday, "As a result, there have existed

smooth head "for evening wear,"

Page 9. within one and the same area two

From Budapest comes the tale of women always flock to see demon- It is authoritatively learned that distinct systems of this end in an exiled Russian prince who is, strations of new hair lotions. One President Roosevelt is preparing a rivalry with each other, leaving making a living in a novel way. of the latest Buide for keeping resolution for presentation to "Con- much to be desired in their so Having worked in nearly every ench aparate and particular hair ordinated functioning. There was country of Europe as waiter, movis in place was exhibited in the West gress authorising a new moratorium also an inevitable duplication of actor, saxophone player and factory End, when six young women with on War, Debts until after the World Puge,9 Mr. Justice McCardie was found capital investment and much un-hand, he now moves an audience immaculate coiffures paraded be Economic Conference. necessary competition on both sides, to tears and laughter with a fore a large audience. To prov seriously hampering the develop graphic recital of his experiences that, the setting lotion was affici-shot dead in his London residence Page 1. and then takes up a collection. ent, the chief mannequin-a tall on Wednesday night. ment of a well organised system of Locking always to his own resource blonde draped in futuristic beach Probable starters and jockers in "electric communication in Man

fulness, there is one experience com pyjamas-hung for 30 seconds sus the One Thousand Guineas," churia.

mon enough to exiles that has never pended by her ankles from a rail The Japanese and the Mancha-befallen this prince-he has never fixed seven feet above the floor.

Far East. kuo Govertiments, therefore, recog-found himself in a situation where Her perfect coiffure survived the

A message from Dairen states mising the need of amalgamating he couldn't find something to do test very creditably, and nothing that the Japanese have ceased ac

more could be asked of it. the means of electric communica to bring bin bed and board. tions in Manchuria undar a unified control, respectively Authorised their representatives, namely, Gen Muto, Japanese Ambassador in Hsinking, and Mr. Hsieh, Manchu- kuo Minister For Foreign Affairs, to sign an agreement on March 28,

On Wednesday two cases of small" 1933.

of meningitis were "The purport of the agreement pox and one

reported." is to establish an electric communi- cations company of Japan-Manchu

The Bishop of Victoria is hold- kuo, a joint concern, in which both Governments are to subscribe to the ing a Confirmation Service at 11

Kowloon. capital of the projected company hym. on Sunday, at St. Andrew's contributing the means of electric communications belonging to them in the Kwantung Leased Territory

Local and General

The Shek O Development Co.,

Remarking that side-betting was not gambling as the chances taken were even, Mr.. Wynne-Jones -nt Central Magistracy discharged a Chinese who appeared with several others on a charge of gambling at dants who played were each fined 30; Staunton Street. Those defen- $3 while the keeper was fined $50.

"Why do you tell a stupid lie?

good press." Even the London was a slight recovery last year and and the South Manchuria Railway Ltd. will hold its 12th annual gen You are not blind," remarked Mr. Zone and in the other regions of feral meeting. at York Building at Wynne Jones at the Police Court

mastery

better relations between and men, but there optimism must end, for the temporary advantage in currency is now being nullified. Ship building in 1939 was oue-third

5.15 p.m. to-day.

Manchukuo respectively, the re- maining amount of the capital be- The wedding will shortly take ing subscribed by the public. The place between Major Alexander agreement is to be ratified by Japan Caulfield Jebb, of the Peak Hotel, and Manchukuo. Its text will be and Miss Grace Edith Thacker, of

A have removed Our Offices to the Enterprise, initiative, nad all the what it was in 1931, and the lowest published after the exchange of the Colaba, Bombay, India.

MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN'S Budget is dull and has not received a SHEWAN, TO LES' & CO.

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Timer charges the Chancellor with Jack of imagination, "considering the essential soundness of the financial situation in Britain."

rest of the qualities that have been the guiding stars of America, are DENNYS & CO. I truly admirable, especially for

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newspapers. In Fleet Street Mr. CHAMBERLAIN's drabness compares ill with the provocative magic of Mr. LLOYD Gronar's budget of 1909-the People's Budget. But in

S from the 22nd day of April, we

National Bank Building No. 84, Des Voeux Road Central (Entrance, Ice Honge Street), 2nd floor.

Hong Kong, 22nd April, 1933.

HONG KONG ENGINEERING &

CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

statesmanship as in war and in commerce, there is the day for at- tack, cad the day. for conserving

North Ordinary Icarly Meet

TOTICE is hereby given that the ing of Shareholders of the Hongkong Engineering and Construction Com pany, Limited, will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & and marshalling forces. There are Matthews, Mercantile Bank Building,

even occasions when masterly in- Queen's Road (Central), Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 3rd May, 1933, at activity, in Lord Hudane's tactful 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Phrase, is the proper course. The

for the Year ended on the 31st Decem: ber, 1932, an electing Directors and Auditors.

The Transfer Book of the Company will be Closed from the 28th April to the 3rd May, 1933, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board, B. ALVES,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 19th, April, 1933.

of

ratification.”—

IN HONG KONG TO-DAY

for the past fifty years. The Clyde instrumenta had to go back to 1880 for equal) Rengo. figures and Belfast produced one "owa lamb” of 5,800 tons. This is not surprising when it is recalled. that two million tons of British merchant shipping are laid up, and every line is fighting the sub sidised rivals of Amerien, Japan, and other Powers, Cotton has been hit both by Indian tariffs and Japanese dumping, particularly in South America, and of our rail, ways little need be said. In that sphere Labour troubles have added

red pepper to the mess of skills. Moreover, it must be remembered that Great Britain is in better position than most of her potential clients

overseas,

far

and

CLOUDY.

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKS, ISSUED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY "AT 5.58 P., STATED : —.....

PRESSURE 18 HIGHEST IN THE, SHA OF JAPAN TO THE NORTH WEST

DEPRESSIONS OF TOKYO

ARE SITUATED TO THE NORTH EAST OF HOKKAIDO AND BETWEEN SOUTH JAPAN AND THE BONING, TH

LOCAL FORECAST E. AND 8.E. WINDS, MODERATE; CLOUDY GEN- ERALLY.

KING'S GIFT TO DEAF.

The Hong Kong Area Sports Board will hold a boxing tour nament at Shamshuipo to-night. The finals of the Army individual championship will be decided, and the first bout will commence at 7.45.

A meeting of the Hong Kong Practical Peychology Club will be held at Lane, Crawford's Restaur- tnt at 6 p.m. to-day when the speaker will be the Rev. G. K Carpenter, M.A.

Directors and a Statement of Accounts Times no doubt has reasons of a little can be expected in the way weighty nature for its pronounce of that mutual help called foreign ment, and we shall all read them trade. However, as the budget with avidity when the appropriate shows, the country is holding ite numbers duly arrive in the Far own. East. Having read we may be convinced. Without daring to challenge such authoritative opinion it may, however, be as well to con- sider some reasons for the Chan- cellor's caution. The economic posí [797 tion in England now resembles the West Front in 1916 and 1918. We were then holding our own but doing little more, and big enter prise, like Nova CHAPPELLE on the one side or the Verdun Offensive TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN on the other, has hardly been en

that the Provisional Certificate dorsed by history. No. 67/4908 dated. Hongkong, 14th Unemployment is the key próbleib | pass, like an over-long winter but day, on behalf of the Royal Ear Central Magistracy on a charge of

TONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION:

N

TODAY, 10, 90s restored in

Bank numbered. 65952

the name of Mrs. Josephine Calista Thom, has been Lost or Stolen, and should this certificate not be produced to the Bank before 27th May, 1933, a

VALUABLE STAMP SALE IN AID OF HOSPITAL

Sometimes boldness succeeds at a desperate moment, Was not Mara. thon won in this way? But whe- ther he be right or wrong. Mr. CHAMBERLAIN has strong reasons to hold the position, giving no more than a little help and relief here and there a small concession to the income taxpayer, a penny for the beer drinker (one can hear the pious indignation of the teetotal London, April 11 Valuable trades") and something for the stamps given by the King from his railways by the tax on heavy collection will be in a stamp sale at Glendinings, London, on Tues

Hospital

yesterday when an elderly woman who was brought before him on a charge of hawking without license, pleaded that she was blind. A caution, his Administering Worship said: "If you are blind, As you say yon are, it would be most unsafe for you to hawk."

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When a Chinese was brought. Mr. Wynne-Jones on a charge of loiter ing on board the as. Kwong Fook Cheong, the prosecution officer in formed His Worship that the de fendant should have been brought before the Marine Magistrate. His Worship accordingly remanded the case for 24 hours in order that the defendant be charged in the Marine Court.

tivities on the Great Wall front.

Page 1. Ex-Foreign Minister Yoshizawa is of the opinion that there is no possibility of direct Sino-Japanese negotiations.

Page D. An American adviser has been appointed to the, Chinese Mint nt.

Page 8. Shanghai, «.

A Japanese version of the fighting in the North will be found on

Page 0..

from the files.

LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS

We take the following from the Leeds Mercury:The Electric. Tale- graph brings us the following an- nouncement: On Change the Ministerial crisis has somewhat in- terfered with business. It has, however, caused a rise of 1s in saltpetre, and sales exceed 2,000 bags. Odds guns and blunder busses but this is a strange result of the carrying of an amendment moved by Milner Gibson, and se conded by John Bright. The men of peace have raised the price of munitions of war; intelligence which may indeed be pleasing to the ears of the men of Birmingham," but which will be heard with dis may at Manchester and Ashton, and won't meet with any "great favour in the West Riding.-Hong. Kong Daily Press, April 8, 1888. Looking Back 25 Years.

thousand people perished including women and children, for many of these boats men had their families. on board as well as the crews. The money value of the damage dotie They put down at upwards of Thr 1,000,000. This estimate cannot be greatly exaggerated for, along the eight hundred yards of the British Bund alone, thirty wrecks can be counted, many of them junks of the largest size-Hong-Kong Daily Fres, April 5, 1008

An organ recital will be given in A summons. against: Captain St. John's Cathedral by Mr. Norman Donald, master of the ss., Frederick Mason, A.R.C.O., Fook On, and Lan Wah Ping, the LT.C.L, assisted by Mrs. N. owner, for having used the vessel

Several hundreds of Chinese lives Mathicson (contralto) at 5.30 p.m. for the importation of 1,540 teels have been lost by an unannounced to-day, a collection being taken in of raw opium was withdrawn at flooding of the Han River. The aid of the Cathedral organ fund. the instance of the Revenue Depart

amount of low will never be known. ment. Revenue Officer Ward told The native papers say that some A 4-year-old lad, son of a junk the Magistrate, Mr. Schofield, at small steamers and seven hundred man, was taken to the Government Central Magistracy yesterday,"

that

big boots with innumerable sam Civil Hospital on Wednesday he could give no reason for the pans were destroyed. Some two euffering from injuries to his hands procedure. Mr. F. H. Loseby a as a result of interfering with peared for the defence. machinery at the A.P.C. installa tion, at North Point:

Convicted on a charge of stealing a purse containing 816 and some For the For the reconstruction of the Canton and Annam money from a Tung Wah Hospital, the hospital through passenger to Annam from directors have received donations | Canton, a Chinese was sentenced to totalling over 8131,500 from me wix months hard labour by Mr hers of the 1933 Board of Directors, Wynne-Jones at Central Magis and from local firms and residents. tracy yesterday. It was stated the Further donations are anticipated. defendant committed the theft while the complainant was standing With 17 previous convictions when Road West looking at

5,17 against him, a Chinese youth was a stall. Defondant admitted three, brought before Mr. Wynne Jonce at previous convictions for larceny hawking vegetables without a Sentence of six week hard of the day. Every suggestion and there are many signs that we are The sale is the muggestion of Mr. license. A fine of $25 was imposed labour was imposed by Mr. Wynne expedient, honestly put forward enduring a much greater thing than Geoffrey Duveen, who takes a great with the alternative of six weeks" Jones at Central Magistracy_yes terday on a Chinese who was has the relief of unemployment a na seasonal slump A painful reinterest in the hospital. Ab the imprisonment its ultimate aim. By the rise and birth of humanity's social and present time there is a rare 25 cent

wo charged with stealing gold watch fall of unemployment is the economic system may be in pro Uruguay ataing dated 1830, valued A petition was presented to His and money to the value of 236

RUGBY, April ung up to $200, on its way Excellency the Governor on from Lau Tak nt, the Tai Chang

Wednesday by member Restausaste test

Sir Philip Bassoon in stör The company at the sale will be asked to bid for the stamp, and consisting mostly of manufacturers incket, ou one of the hat racks in House of Commons, said that nego

hen the hammer. Talig) hagen with factories on the mainland the restaurant, and the defendanttiations for regalar British

Baking for time to carry out the thon took the article and money.mercial air service to a various newly promulgated anti-The defendant, who was represent Australia are proceeding fire regulations in knitting faced by Mr. C. Y. Kwan, had had torily, but he is not

indrder that their business in previous conviction in 1913 and anticipate definitely

the service will, comm y not be affected

had been banished for five years.

lorries.The Great Depression may

(Special Air-Mail Service)

new certificate for the share will be position judged. Unemployment grsaaʼriving, enantuanly ones from China to be sold for the centrineso Knitting Mills Association, that the complainant --hung-hig]

Jeanedy and the aforessid Pronsical

in England had reached. 2,900,000 of peron and sanity, Tite wisest Certificate No. 67/4909 will be there the end of last January men admit that they are in a fog- after treated by this, Corporation That was 91,000 more thanking No one knows whet Null and Void.

September, 1931, when we went off or what the gold standard. Allowing three, not Mr. to a family, it means that a town his h the size of Nottingham, or Kow wisd 1759 loon, has been drawn under the

By Order of the Board of Directors:

LAN. MURPHY, Acting Chief Manager,

AGUE, NO

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