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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

WILLIAM POWell Ltd.

TOTICE is hereby given that the Thirty-second Ordinary General Heating of Shareholders will be held In the Registered Office of the Com. pany, 8, Des Voeux Road, Central, on Thursday, 25th May, 1933, at 11.80 am. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the your ended 28th February, 1923 and afecting Directors and Auditors

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 15th May, 1933 to 26th May, 1933 both days inclusive during which period no transfer "of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board,

W. L. ALEXANDER,

Secretary.

Hongkong, 10th May, 1933.

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UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.

NOTICE.

MATRICULATION & SENIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.

NOVEMBER, 1933.

NOTICE is hereby given that the

above examinations will begin on MONDAY, November 13th, 1933. Forms of entry and copies of the Regulations and the Syllabus can be obtained on application to the Registrar, University of Hong Kong.

Entry forms duly fiild in, should reach the Registrar, together with the statutory fee on or before Monday, July 3rd, 1933.

The fee for the Matriculation & Senior Local Examinations will be H.K. 80. Candidates offering more than five subjects will be charged an additional fee of $1. for each subject go offered.

An additional foe of 85 will be charged for EACH of the following subjects:

Foreign Languages other than French and Portuguese. Higher Mathematics, excluding Coordin s'e Geometry. Hygiene and Physiology,

The following scholarships, further particulars of which may be obtained from the Registrar, will be awarded on the results of the Matriculation Examination**

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(1) Two King Edward VII Scholar^ abips of the value of £10 per annum, open to British subjects only.

(2) Ons Belilios Medical Scholarship

"A" tenable in the Faculty of

Medicine of the value of $40 for the first year and 70 for the second year of tenure.

(3) One Hong Kong Government Educational Scholarship, open to BOY candidates from Hong 'Kong Schools

(4) One Hong Kong Government Educational Scholarship, open to GIRL, candidates from "Hong Kong Schools.

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(5). A limited number of Hong Kong Government Studentships in Training, open to candidates from Hong Kong Schools. (6) Two Montargis French Prizes of

the value of 850 each.

Bound copies of Examination Ques. tion Papers, set at past Examinations, may be obtained from the Registrat at $1 per sot.

W. B. FINNIGAN,. Registrar.

9th May, 1933.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,

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The

Daly

Press

HONG KONG, MAY 11, 1933.

HONG KONG PRISON

SYSTEM

ORIGIN OF LOCAL CARBARETS

How the "Invasion

Began

WHY CABARET GIRLS ARE CALLED “INSTRUCTRESSES'

[SPECIAL TO THE "DALT PRESS.")] While cabarets were unknown in "Hong Kong a few years ago, to-day the mention of the word "cabaret is aufficient to cause unending dis-

cussion between people holding divergent views on the subject. Many of those who are for or against the cabarets, have not thu faintest idea how these institutions came to be established in Hong Kong and in the article below it is hoped to trace the beginning of the cabaret movement here and the struggle for existence which it had

MAY

11, 1933

News and Views

Now French Cruiser..

meeting.

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SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local

The recent shooting outrage in nese newspaper proprietor had a to death had its sequel at Central miraculous escape from being shot

10-Pound Salmon in the Thames. The new French oruiser, Emile There in a salmon weighing Lonalhurat Terrace in which a Chi- Bertin, is to be launched at - St about 40 pounds somewhere in the Nazaire on May 9. This 6,000-ton Thames, vessel was laid down in 1931, and This was revealed by Lord Des her estimated speed is 30 knots borough, Chairman of the Thames Magistracy yesterday when a Chi-

The armament will consist of Conservancy Board, at the annual nino 8-inch guns firing, shells of

nose was charged with attempted 130lb. weight. These guts, which will He stated that a number of Heu muder..

"Page 7. be mounted in triple turrets, ara cho salmon imported from believed to be superior in ballistic Danube were placed in the Thames for 1932 states that Revenue easily the The Colonial Treasurer's report qualities to all others of the same in 1900. There was no doubt that exceeded expenditure and the public libre he cruiser wir also ho they were still in the river. They finances are in a satisfactory con had been seen at Abingdon, and dition. A summary of the Report some had attained a size of over appear on

Page 7. 20 pounds and ane 40 pounds.

armed with six anti-aircraft guns.

Municipal Cat Farm.

Paria The Paris Municipal Council has decided to establish a stud farm for cata. It will be placed under the care of an expert, whose duty it will be to carry out

process of selection. From an administrative point of view, the only cat worth breeding is one whose instinct is to kill rats, an instinct which is not inaste in—unless all cats, and the ultimate purpose of the farm is to produce a supply of pedigree ratters.

Tale of Yesterday,

"He had dined wall but unwisely in a Fort hotel. At last the time came for him to go home, and he left the hotel by a side exit.

to put up and the obstacles over which it seems to have triumphed.

Long before the coming of cabarets, the Chinese of the educu ted class had taken to dancing but the only opportunity they had had of enjoying this pastime in public was at the tea-dances provided by the local hotels. With dancing, as with everything else in China, the women were at first a little bit he hind so that quite a number of young people found themselves with out dancing partners.

A few local enthusiasts encouraged West Point girls to take up dancing and at one time many of these girls were to be seen in local dancing. places. In fact they were so pre dominant at one place, which is no valler. "It's in the parking-place Oh, yesh, I have," said the re- longer functioning, that the pram looking for." prietors had to ask the cooperation of patrons not to bring along girls from West Point.

Private Clubs.

ed to have spread rapidly, and with The dancing craze, however, see the closing of several hotels and res taurants following the strike and boycott of 1923, the number of places where one could enjoy a tea-dance and in order to meet their needs or a dinner-dance became limited those who were fond of dancing and last minute captures, were far formed themselves into cliques and too numerous in times past, and ran private clubs where they could assaults on warders though infre- dance to their hearts' content. But quent gave an unpleasant impreto lighten it, in one or two of these the bill was a pretty heavy one and sion. The printing shop ans once places, the, non-dancer was made described by a gaol medical officer welcome and to enable him to learn and the attack penned by a foreign instructresses were employed. as a "foring bed for tuberculosis," the finer points of the art, dance

dislike the place, though obviously partners was still being felt and journalist, who had good cause to this time, the shortage of dance unfair and highly coloured, was whenever the instructresses were not not wholly devoid of truth.

actually teaching, members danced with them is a probably the Credit is, therefore, due to those reason why cabaret aris in Hong who have brought about an obvious Kong are still referred to na "dance improvement, but the problem will instructreeses." not be solved till the completion of the new prison at Stanley. It is good neither for a neighbour hood of a big city to have a gaol in its midst, nor for prisoners to be in such surroundings.

A

At

Approaching, a policeman he said falteringly, Officer, I'm looking for a parking-place."

The Policeman looked at him severely.

"But you've no car, sir," he said.

Not Oricket.

A special correspondent describes the growth and development of

Tea for Two.

The deference which members of cabarets in Hong Kong, from pri Parliament were accustomed to re-te dance clubs, ceive from constituents visiting the

Page 8. A happy event occurred at the House of Commons is disappear-Jockey Club stables on Monday ing. Some constituents interpret when Wild Life, one of the best literally the term your obedient racing ponies in Hong Kong threw servant with which the candidate a foal, Navy Hall is the sire.

he be Socialist-con-

Page 10. cludes his letters and bis -election address.

A pensioner of the local. Police Force committed suicide yesterday A North Country member had a by throwing himself into the har "green card" handed to him by an bour. Financial embarrassment is attendant. To send in such a card

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to a member is equivalent to ring-believed to be the motive. Page 7. A number of dog owners were ing the door bell of his residence when one is making a call. The fined $5 each for allowing their card, in this instance, bore the dogs to roam about unmuzzled. names of two constituents, and un- der the heading "business".

Page 7. Lane, Crawford's Limited, report written Ten on the Terrace.". profit of $87,987,86 for last year which is to be allotted to reserve and depreciation fod. Page 13.

Synthetic-Boat Race? -

WAR

General,

Mrs. Moody, the World's lady

When Oxford and Cambridge meat in the Boat Race next year from they may use craft manufactured synthetic wood. That, at least, was the possibility envisag tennis champion will defend her ed. This comparatively new mate title at Wimbledon this year. rial has already been successfully

Page 10. A man-eating lion, for instance, used in the construction of small

US Baseball and Davis Cup would possibly yield to persuasion boats, and experiments are now in Tennis Cup results are on page 10. that it was if it were gently pointed out to him progress which have in view its ap- There is a likelihood of a London- unkind to sink his: plication to aircraft as a whole Shanghai air-service" in the near fangs in a tigar. The rogue ele and not simply to aviation acces- future, phant could, perhaps, be taught to sories. Plastic material is invad

-Page 9. consider the, feelings of others." He ing every avenue of manufacture, should be told that putting his foot from that of gear-wheels to that: playing the game. on a python while it slept wasn't of artificial flowers, and the day appears to be not far distant when we will live in homes that are synthetic from the very founda tions.

To crocodiles, it should be tact fully explained that lying in the water with all but their eyes and nose submerged, and looking like for the thing well perhaps he logs, is nothing short of deceit. As would be too thick skinned!

Far East.

A Japanese owned pony won the Shanghai Spring Champions,

Page 1. It is reported that Japanese. troops have crossed the Luan River, north of Luanchow. Page 1. Sir Miles Lampson has completely recovered from his recent illness.

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The Editor of the Harbin Herald" has been requested to leave Man chukup territory on account of his anti-Manchukuo policy.

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Mr. W. Reid Dick, R.A., the not- Sculptor's Blind Model. ed Glasgow sculptor who makes Better Manners in the Jungle.

London his home, is exercising his talenta in a good cause in the latest piece of work he has undertaken. report states a desire to learn boy whom he selected from about It is not a Cruelty Prevention It is a bust in marble of a blind more of natural history that fills 60 pupils at a school for the blind theatres where lions stalk the in the North of London, and when hartebeeste, and tigers spring upon it is completed he will present it quaggan, and pythons swoop from as a gift to the school, for the bene- giant branches it would seem fit of the funds of which it will It is the thrill of battle and death Inter be sold. He has already do that attracts the public, especially cided to name it simply "The Blind children."

Child." The 12-year-old boy cho sen by Mr. Reid Dick to be his. We observe the following account

LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS model is, though totally blind, a of the discovery of Gold in British keen cricketer and footballer. The territory. Much excitement exists games are taught at the school with on Vancouver Island in consequence the aid of specially constructed of the alleged discovery of rich gold balla filled with bells.

Instead of going out to capture, shoot, and film these savage ani- mals and reptiles, the Hollywood hunters ought to make an effort to instil the spirit of peace and good will into the jungle.

Local and General

The Colony had a clean bill of health on Tuesday as regards neti fiable disease.

Owing to the continued indisposi. tion of Mr. Butters, Mr. Wynne Jones presided at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.

From the files.

Financial difficulties, however, caused many of these places to close down. The rent for a place in the city was pretty high, the salary of instructress, musicians and servants totalled such a big figure that mem bers found that on the whole they The description of the new prison were being asked too much and so at Lai Chi Kok for women" may duly backed out. Up to this point

deposits to the northward, in the rouse a doubt in some minds as to these dance places were strictly for

British possessions. The pricise AN increase in the number of whether the Government is not members only. One institution.

Jocality of these reported gold dis- made an experiment. They kept a persons convicted and sent to prison making prison too attractive a pro

coveries, Capt. J. In unable to de- is capable of either a pessimistic or position for persons undergoing number of instructresses for mem

signate; but according to repre an optimistic explanation. Crime Punishment and used to a lowers who had to pay a pretty high

sentations, they are located between may be on the increase, or the standard of living. The problem is fee to belong, and, in order to ligh

Fort Hope and Thomson's River, ten the bill, encouraged visitors to showing more Rut easy, for those who think that come along with their own partners,

cribed as a perfect nuisance by River. It is represented that per polico

and do not exceed four or five days may be

Pavement bootblacks were des: fourney from the month of Frazer's efficiency In this Colony the

the prospect of severe penalties is on the understanding that such [802 latter assumption

no deterrent to crime are under a visitors did not dance with the "in-

Sergeant Guild in the Central ops with canoes can approach with is this safe

delusion. There are kleptomaniacs, structresses" employed by the in-

Court yesterday when he charged in ten or twelve miles of the dig one, zad last year was notable

two with obstruction. It was stated gings, although, in so doing, some for a number of smart Erreste

and other forms of maniacs, includ-stitution. This scheme provided

that they assembled outside the pretty strong rapids will have to and much skilful collection of ing persons impelled to the crime cheap dancing for many people and

Sincere Co, Wing On Co., and Sua be encountered. Report has it that evidence. The only weakness in the Pasions, there are niso old lags inmediately proved very popular,

Company, and the last named Arm miners are getting out from $25 process of the law, locally, appears

and those who had no partnera to and professional criminals, who

had complained to the Police. The to 80 per day each; and that Ta- IN THE SUPREME COURT OF to be in the actual conducting of cunnos go straight, but a great bring along sometimes joined up as

the Crown cases, and the Law So-many persons, when committing services of the instructresurs.

members to avail themselves of the Cheung was in mid-stream on

As the Yaumati ferry Manfined Ba or five days, while the other and twelve dollars each-Hong eldar of the two defendante was dian women are panning out ten HONG KONG

ciety's recommendation on the neces- what they are doing and weigh

their first crime know perfectly well When the Public Began.

Tuesday, a Chinese passanger threw allowed to go with a caution. sity for an experienced and full-

himself into the water, but was

Kong Daily Press, May 11, 1838. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE time Crown Prosecutor has been their act. Moreover, human nature bers who had to bring their own suicide, Fang Ying Yeung, is only Tokyo Imperial University Com-political agent has soon the other

very carefully the consequences of members only, and friends of mem-ashore to Hospital. The would-being to Dr. Miyabe, professor of Originally the places was open to rescued by a seaman and taken been sinking year by year, accord

The ground level of Tokyo has LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS, or KHAN SAHIB NAWAB justified. KHAN, FORMABLY OF TIM

is adaptable, and the experienced partners. Gradually, however, the 16 years of age::

The use of the telegraph 28 & HONG KONG POLICE. Fo.cz, According to the report of hands know how to make them membership increased sufficiently to BUT LATE OF VILLAGE SAHADR the Superintendent of IN THE DISTRICT OF LUDHIANA the number of persons sent to It is therefore doing no good ser- more instructresses.

paring investigations made in the monstrated in China: The other Prisons selves fairly comfortable in gaol. permit of the ongaging of several The wedding will shortly take doctor finds there is a general sub-threatened to develop into a rising, PUNJAB INDIA, AAST. SUPE, prison on ounviction last year num vices either to the community or foot a heavy bill, while the casual Basilea, Lyttelton Road, Hong the Marunouchi district marked the Keang Poo, situated on the for

It was found,

autumn of 1988 and last year, the day a popular movement which DECEASED

however, that members still had to place between Mr. Alex Kipke, of sidence of two millimetres while courred in a town called Chin. hered 6,361 compared with 5,921 in to those in revolt against it, to visitor, coming along with his own Kong, and Nars Luise Buttstaedt, greatest subsidence of 16.5 millime Canal, near the one that thres 1831. Persons held on remand, or make prison. pleasant. N

TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN because no surety was forthcoming,

that the Court has, by virtue of increased to 1,379 as against 202, avoid making the convict a worse bership at this time, and, left with the Peninsula Hotel, and Miss Luba the doctor thinks, insofar as the secret society which has become The difficulty, however, is to Many people resigned their mematid between Mr. Serge Peacock of reason for this change is given, hat members of the White Lily Set" partner, spent next to pbing of 1858, Avenue Joffre, Shanghai tree (over six inches). No definite Yellow River. It seems that three Section 58 of this Probates Ordinance a reflection of the big drive against person, physically and mentally, a number of dance instructresses do Goldsbaeff, of 50, Nathan Road, Maranouchi sinking a concerned, very powerful in the province of 1887 (No. 2 of 1897), made an Order limiting the Time for sending in Olaine opium smugglers,

when he leaves then when he enters ing nothing each night, the pro to er,against the bore Estate to the

The inhabitants of the gaol were prison. The State has obviously noprietors conceived the idea that

that it may be to the big buildings.

Kiang, were arrested and sent to *30ca DÃY of MAY, 1933

kept busy and the production of right, for example, to sentence.

the Viceroy. Tso Tsung Tang, to well over eighteen million Govern man to a term of imprisonment, sundry, if a sum of fifty cents a before Mr. Wynne Jones at Central the Place de la Concorde, Paris and hearing of the arrest, the populace there girls might dance with all and When a Chinese youth appeared A swan has been "" srrested" in be dealt with at Nanking. On ment forms was no mean achieve and in addition to permanently dance was paid to them for the agistracy on Monday on a charge taken to the nearest police station, of Chin Keang Foo created a dis ment. If a small Colony like Hong impaired health owing to

privilege. Kong, without democratic govern sanitary conditions and bad food trance for members and their able him to and the man who em crowd by alighting on the Stras midable became their threats and of possession of 496 spurious coins, Early in the morning the swan turbance, clamouring for the fe Meanwhile, the cheek at the en-he wag remanded 48 hours to ea- attracted the attention of a large return of the prisoners. So for § 8. MOBINDER SINGH, out, and all the queries and The question of the mental harden friends" began to be relaxed, as ployed film as carrier. He was bourg statue after circuling the so menacing their attitude that the correspondence arising therefrom ing of the character into deter with the diminishing number of brought before the Court again yes rest equare. A policeman under-telegraph, which runs through the needs eighteen million forms, and mined hostility to society, is members, such conscientiousnessterday and the Police told Mr. took its capture. Time, and again town was set in motion by the 82,000 books annually, the number grave and practical consideration would impair the attendance. MacLaren that the youth had the bird evaded him to the enjoy Authorities to communicate with printed for the Home Government Criminals are an enormous expense, Gradually more and fore members absolutely refused to help the ment of the crowd. Finally, he the Viceroy, who promptly despatch- FANLING HUNT AND must run into astronomical figures! not only in the goods they steal, of the public attended this enterre Afurther remand was succeeded, and took his suspleied several hundred troops to

RACE CLUB

However, besides priating, other but in the precautions that have to Prieing institution and cheerfully THE following dates have been gols.

ous loiterer in a public place” un overawa“ the "people-Hong Kong suitable industries went on in the be taken against them. Hollywood paid a dollar for two dances. tentatively ifod for Steeple

stars spend fortunes in securing the Hong Kong, there was such a Some of them earn a fixed aiary In the middle of a production agen

In the early days of cabarete, in

der hie arm to the lock-up,¦ Daily Prets, May 11, 1903, chass Mootings at Kwants during the in reference ta Victoria Gaol, that children. The hunting down of always a rush whom the hand struck certain number of dance tickete per movie actor Yoshim

The Superintendent states curtly, safety of themselves and their soarcity of partners that there was plus a bonus if they can return the Irlo Studios. Kobe, a ponular At the opening of the Swatow

Looking Back 35 Years, (1988–1984 season,

* it was " again overcrowded" and crime, and the building up of avi- up. It was perhaps this rush on week others are naid a fixed sum has disappeared, He is

workshop accommodation is inade dence are most costly matters in the part of the patrons that encour for each dance. One place charges of Mr. Naohiko Bekiya, member

wa. Post Office, our Swatow correspon quate. Discipline was good, only salaries, expenses, fees and public aged proprietors of subsequent their patrons 84 per night, which the House of Peers and

grandson deist adde, Taotai Liang delivered 903 punishments being awarded to time." Hong Kong is mercifully cabarete, to start. Quite & number includes entrance fees, refreshments of his love affair with a waitree of dwelt upon the awakening and an address in Chinese followed by in view an able speech in English Ho over six thousand occupants. Thers free from orime on a big scale, have come into existence recently and as many dances as the visitor a Kyoto exle who also bas han opening at China, upon the incen were only two chcapes, and those thanks primarily to an alert police and it shows that there are not chooses to have. Other places charge peared, he is believed to be hiding tives to prostesswhich her inter from Lai Chi Kok, which also sug force, but good prison grate that draatio improvements" 'thas denis severely,

sufficient dance girls in Hong Kong, either $1 or 50 cents for entrance fee somewhere with her N-light discours with the W hava baon made. The state of making them, if possible

and many irla bave been brought and asta rule & dollar for three thrown the cause of their elons had plas

the Colony from Shanghai. dances. And to show that the ment. The only curious point at the img Victoria Gnol has long been a characters, even nga

estik het cirls are mostly Chinese cabaret as come to stay in Hong tached to their fight is that in the tame serious problem, The riots of 1931 Lalinations is of

Creditors and Claimants are heroby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned by the above Date.

Dated this 9th day of May, 1983,

Administrator,

NOVEMBER.

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1984,

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Kowloon..

| Kong, very place is packed prac screen play Horikawa, was taking by the Teda timly every night. »

the role of a cafe patron who elopes Hong

with

and

before her

upon ample of now being, emulsted