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"ATOTICE is hereby given that on

Monday, 2nd instant the sup ply of electricity to Prince Edward Road and Boundary Street from Grampian Bead to the Kowloo Canton, Railway and in Waterloo Road from Boundary Street to Argyle Street will be interrupted at 2 pm. for about an hour.

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ALL RANKS " DANCE

IN AID OF.

MINISTERING CHILDREN'S

LEAGUE

(MILITARY BRANCH)

WILL BE HELD IN THE GARRISON LECTURE HALL

ON.

FRIDAY, 28TH OF MAY, 1938. Lt. Col. E. J. de C. BOY8,"M.C. and the Officers lat Bn. Lincolashire Regiment bave kindly lent their dance band for this occasion. DANCING 8.30 P.M. to 1.A.M ADMISSION $1. Ladies by Courtesy: Refreshments Free.

Prizes for Spot Daucer. Launches will cunrey dancers from Stonecutters, Shamabuipo, and Kow loon home from Camber at 1, a m The whole of the proceeds will be devote to the Minisering Children's League.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE GOODS OF THEODIRE OZANNE OGIER LATE GRIET OFFICER

"Kwoxe SAI"

8. B.

AND

VICTORIA, IN THE COZONT OF Hoo Kono, MERCHANT SEAMAN, DECH&#XD.

TOTICE IS HEREST GIVEN

N that the Court han, by virtue

of the Provisions of Bection 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the time for Creditore and Others to send in their Olaims against the abova Estate to the 15 JUNE, 1933.0

All Creditors and Others are accord- ingly hereby required to send their Usims to the Undersigned on or before that date.

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DEACONS,

Solicitors for the Administrator 1, Des Vooux Boad Central, Hong Kong.

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Will France relinquish her doc trine of security Not with Fascist Italy over the border and signs of & rebirth of the Triple Alliance, without any chance of a now Triple Entente, The French spokesmen also say that France desires peace, but she has no reason to suppose that either Italy or Germany have

similar ideals! Their country has suffered too much, the people will take"

no risks a second, time. The Franco-German: deadlock is

IN THE MATTER OF THE CHINA Night Editor (Wanchai Office); supposed to be the impenetrable

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CO. OF HONGKONG

LIMITED.

(IN LIQUIDATICN)

FOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 181 of the Companies Ordinance 1911, that a meeting of the 1 reditors of the Chine Agency and Trading Company of Hongkong, Ld. (In Liquidation) will be held at the Company's premises. Pedder Building Pedder Street,

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, MAY, 19, 1933.

obstacle at the Disarmament Con- ference. But Russia's neighbours can hardly be expected to take the Soviet Republics and their Red Arny on trist. If a solution was impossible when Germany was quiescent, Russia still in chaos, and the Far East comparitively quiet, is there any hope with the Nazi fury in Germany, the Far East

NAVY 'DOWN ON ITS UPPERS”

Admiral Tyrwhitt's Warning

SHORT OF SHIPS, MEN AND MONEY

(Special' Air-Mail Service)

LONDON, May An outspoken comment on Bri- tain's present naval position was made by Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, at the Loudon Press Club's Navy Night" dinner last night.

"We used to sing a chorus," be said I cannot remember all the words, but it ended up

By jingo if we do, We've got the ships, We've got the men,

*News and Views

***Eanji's "* Irish Home,

The now Jam, Sahib of Nawan- agar, nephew and successor of the late "Ranji," has decided to gent his uncle's beautiful Irish residence, |_ Ballynahinch | Castle, In Conne

mara.

It was here that Ranji spent the happiest times in the later yeara of his life. For after the loss of the night of one eys the whole of the enthusiasm he had devoted to cricket was transferred to fishing And at Ballynahinch he killed many a fine fish.

The French Embassy.

An interesting history attaches to the French Embassy at Albert-gate, where M. Corban has taken over the ambassadorial duties laid dowa by M. de Fleuriau.".

The site of this famous house was, once occupied by an old, bridge which crossed the West Bourne, and hard by was the White Horse Ina And we've got the money too.' and a row of cottages. *I am afraid that now we have That farseeing town-pisoner, not got any of those three vital Thomas Cubitt, saw possibilities, thinga There is no doubt that asand erected the two large houses far as the Navy is concerned we are one on either side of the gate. down on our uppers. We are short of men, we are short of ships, and there is not a bob in the locker.

"It is a big jump to come down from the Three-Power standard to what they call parity.

"However, there is a bright spot overywhere. I can assure you the

Navy as it is today is as highly efficient as it is possible for it to be. But I sincerely wish there was a lot more of it.

What we want are cruisers. We have not enough to defend our trade

routes

I wonder if you know that at the present moment one-third of our cruisers are obsolete and ought to be scrapped.

The Two Gibraltars." Cynical Londoners, knowing only a little of history, dubbed them "the two Gibraltars," because, it was said, they would never

taken."

A Lord Mayor's Day.

|SUMMARY OF NEWS

Losal.

We publish on page 12 the Bishop

A recital of the engagements of Hanoi's description of the final during a typical day in the life stage of his journey by Air-Orient of the Lord Mayor of London, airplane from Marseilles to Saigun. Sir Percy Greenaway, may serve Vivid pictures are given of India, as an illustration of the arduous Burma and Siam nature of his official duties,

At 10.30 he received the judges at the Central Criminal Court. At 11 he went to Guildhall towel London. At 1 o'clock he presided Belgian children visiting

come

An account of the history and development of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co. appears on our Kowloon Supplement,

The Colony's Mace was placed on at the Court of Common Council the High Court table, in front of at Guildhall, at 3.45 at a Mansion the Acting Chief Justice, when the House meeting in connection with Criminal Sessions opened, The the Save the Children Fund, leav Mace will in future ho produced at ing for a Masonic Lodge at 4.30. Criminal Sessions and when the

In the evening he was the guest Full Court is sitting. of the Coachmakers' Company at dinner at Grocers' Hall. He pro- ceeded from there to Fulham Town Hall for the Mayor's reception, and the end of a perfect day' was the ball of the Gold-smiths' Company

A Characteristic.

Page 7" Convicted on eight charges of robbery, three Chinese were each sentenced to two years' hard labour by Mr. Justice Wood at the Criminal Sessions yesterday. Page 10.

Miss G. E. Thacker, who has inNG. arrived in the Colony, was yester day married to Major A. O. Jebb, R.A.M.C., at the Peak Church:

Page 7. The scene in the Lord Chief Justice's Court on the day follow-

General. ing was a striking tribute to his According to reports to hand, personal popularity. Few men President Roosevelt is preparing to have attained to ermine in the define how far he may be willing. King's Courts without the law to commit the. United States in leaving its unmistakable impress on helping to engure international character, but there was not

an security.

Page 9. atom of dry or narrow legalism be

President Roosevelt has requested" about Sir Henry McCardie. in other men is often irritating.

One, characteristic he had which Congress to authorise the expendi

ture of Q.$3,300,000,000, for 4. When he was telling a good story gigantic public works programme. he would stop before he reached the point, and laugh aloud as he

lished the foke that was com ing."

It was an engaging way, but not one to be imitated.

But they were. That on the eas torn side of the Gate was bought by George Hudson, the railway king. It was his home for a few years, and when, in 1848, he went bankrupt, it became the French Embassy, which it has remained

aver since,

The other has for many years now been the home of Mrs. Ar- thur Sassoon.

King Faisal in England.

King Faisal's stay at Bucking hem Palace will take place some what sooner than was at first an- ticipated

He will arrive on June 15 and atay the orthodox three days pro vided for Royal visits.

Another thing you, perhaps, do not know. The whole of the crui- sers we have got now are not-as many as Admiral Jellicoe had when commanding the Grand Fleet in the war, and at the same time there were sixty cruisers hunting the Ger- man cruisers in the Southern Seas.

"It is all very fine, to say that ships can be built if war comes. I do not think the next war will last four years. I do not think that there will be time to build ships. We shall be done in if we cannot what we breathe through.. protect our trade routes, which are Royal Tipping.

Sir Walter Raleigh said, If you live in an island it is obvious you have got to be able to protect the water found that island and command, it is well

"I hope I shall live long enough to see all our shipbuilding yards and dockyards once more theming with men and once more building ships right and left, so that we shall have the strongest Navy in

the world."

Role of Capital Ships...

Oratorical Statistics,

Mr. Churchill is apparently one

Page 9. Details of how Herr Hitler's speech was received by the world | appear on page 9.

Tar East

Shilmenches is reported to have |been captured by General Hattori's

troops. Particulars on page 1.

The Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo

of the most voluble members of Railway have met in full payment the House of Cbramons. Since the of the, 1908, loan,

Fago 1. beginning of the session in Novem It is reported that Toshio Shira ber last he has, according to the tori will be appointed Minister to "Parliamentary Gazette, spoken Sweden. 106 columns of Hansard.

Page 1.

At the head of the list is Bir and Mr. Lansbury comes next with Hilton "Young with 154 columns,

two private visit in Scotland in Afterwards he will pay one or company with Sir Francis Hum-128. phrys, the High Commissioner in P

Mr. Attlee, who is never at a loss on any subject, gave the House 109 columns, and the ebul-

One of the questions which dis-lient Mr. Buchanan 108. turb the traditional impassivity of 301 Questions, Oriental potentates when they stay with the King and Queen, in the An insatiable thirst for informa- amount of tips which are necessary. tion prompted Mr. Tom Williams to ask 301 questions, Mr. Marton being a very poor second with 164.

The story runs how the ex- Khedive gave £500 when he spent three days at Windsor Castle, much to the annoyance of his hosts.

The result was that when King George as Prince of Wales stayed at Abdin Palace, in Cairo, he tipped to a like amount.

JJ

The researches of the Parlia- mentary statistician further reveal that out of a possible 148 divisions. Capt. Margesson was absent from only two, and Mr. Duggan trom

three.

Local and General

On Wednesday, one case of small- pox from the New Territory, one case of typhoid and one case of meningitis were reported to the local health authorities.

CANTONESE GANGS IN SINGAPORE

FEUD ENDS IN MURDER TRIAL

SINGAPORE, May 13. Interesting light was thrown on the feud between rival gange in Singapore which ended in 8 free fight in a coffes shop and had its sequel at the Assizes during the past three days, when two Chinese stood their trial for murder. It was alleged by one witness that the, ac- cused were members of a gang of The Second Sea Lord (Vice-Ad- miral Pound) amplified Admiral

Cantonese who raided a coffee-shop at Lorong Lalat and attacked a Tyrwhitt's contention." Capital

group of Chinese owing to a quarrel about girls. One man was stabbed ships, he declared, were a necessity, and, in two or three years, there was going to be "the hell of a fight"

U.S. Court for Ching, will leave not long afterwards. Three other Judge Milton D. Purdy, of the so seriously that he died in hospital about whether we built them or not.

Shanghai for Tientein on May 20The fight is believed to have been

persons were injured. A "In case of war," he continued.

in the & Tungchow. He is due in the outcome of a feud between two "two-thirds of our cruisers would

Tientain on May 23 and will rival gangs. of Cantonese. have to be on the trade routes. To

probably hold session the following A Chinese who was in the coffee- defend, or exercise control over a The wedding will shortly take day, vital area we should have left what place between Mr. Edmund Cecil

shop, at the time, "aid he saw capital ships there were, and one. Humphreys, a dental surgeon, of 6,

Mr. H. A. de B. Botelho, who when the row started and ran away. knives used." He became frightened

remembered that truisers cannot go Lucille Oldfield, of B. Block, Ken Supreme Court on Wednesday had od Germany's desire for pence was HITLER's statement is a tacit into, the line and fight the capitalnedy Road..

his first case at Central Magistracyroup of men who went up to a reiterated, and Germany's willing avowal that he and his followers ship.

tables at which some Cantonese yesterday when his client, with an.. ness to disarm was proclaimed have been playing with the idea of some people advise asd the enemy Chinese was sent to prison for two theft of a Mah-Jongg set and with Then the Bght started, the men as- "If we had no capital ships-s For the theft of 13 mangoes, a other man, was charged with the were seated and he heard one of the men question those in the shop. There were, in the cabled sumo, thrust her deance of the Ver-wald souths and joined with the changed at Central Majoutary, yes i dants were bound over. och defen- ing their fitte at the start

to his yee- maries, no provocative phrases, na sailles Treaty to the point of war. main fleet to attack ours there terday, "I wished to help, myself

--The coffee shop assistants tried glorification of war, no repudiation.

to them," the defendant pleaded. When a coolie was charged at to stop the fight but they were thera of the Versailles Treaty, Germany was represented as the sacrificial

Central Magistracy yesterday with selves drawn into it. Sentence of two months hard obstructing the Police, it was stat numbered about 20 men but only The gang which came to the shop. labour was imposed by Mr. Wynne-ed that he tried to evade arrest four came into the shop, the others lamb rather than the rampart lion

Jones on a Chinese who was charged by jumping into the harbour. The

Victoria, Hong Kong, on Thursday, HERR HITLER AND EUROPE aflame, and the Five-Year Plan re-

the 8th day of June, 1933, at 3 o'clock P.M. For the purposes provided for in the said Section.

LAU YUK WAN,

Liquidator.

Dated the 17th day of May, 1933,

CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED.

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· (INCORPORATED in Hoxe Kora),

TUTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ninth Anneal Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of China Underwriters, Limited, will be

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HEAR HITLER's speech was more

building Russian military, power.

Perhaps the only hope lies in the

1

oonciliatory than had been expect very badness of the position. Herr third of our cruisers. And be it Conduit Road, and Miss Irene was admitted to practiss, at the He saw the two accused among a

Thursday, the 25th day of May. 1983 about Poland

at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors frontier. and a Statemet of Accounts for the

-year ending 31st December, 1932, and'

of electing Vircofors and Auditors:

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would be the end of the British Empire.”

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS

(Special Alz-Mail Service)

with the theft of two powder boxes from a shop at 186, Des Voeux Road Central.

..

incident occurred near the Canton staying on the five foot-way! Wharf, and the Cholie was said

Fight Over Giriz. to have discarded a parcel, con

· Lee Ah Mang mid he knew the taining opium while in the water. He was sentenced to three weeks Becond accused and used to visit imprisonment, two previous convic him at his house in Lorong Pisang. tions having been proved

On December 14, 15 and 18 about 4 pia on each day, he went there, A dance in aid of the Minister staying about half an hour each,

His speech at leasts jettisons that extreme clamour of his party. Germany has disarmed," says the Chancellor." She has not," is the reply of French statesmen," had held at the Offices of the L'ompany, of recent Nazis eloquence. Nothing an inerossed war appropriation is Hong Kong Bank Building, 44, Doi: Voux Head Central, Hong Kong. on appears to have been said either passed. Where does truth lie? The Until it changes the Eastern pirit is wrong.

nothing can be done. Both sides

Two hundred cases, of Chinese make out a watertight cass, but all- April 28-Wt. Master-at-Arma J. exhibits intended for the Chicago But if no hurma has been done the this wrangling leads in one direcH. Sharman to Cormorant (May 1). World Fair left for America in the

tion. Canada and the United-Daily Telegraph, va deadlock regains.

Dollar as President Cleveland, Germany States leave the frontier to look April 29-Lt. (EXNE. DaltonThis was the second shipment, the affirms her old standpoint and the after itself. They take it for grant to Sussex, J. Fitzgibbon to Devon- first having been sent on April 29ing Childrens League (Military time. On December 15 the accused claims that have caused the crisised that neither is going to attackshire Daily Telegraphics last.

April 26.Comdr MOD. Germany demands equality in each other, because, some

Ellwood to Pembroke (May 22) and W. A. Whitaker to Suffok; Lt. J. armaments, whatever that may

C. Elworthy to Pembroke mean. The only practical inter

May 1-Engr.-Comdr. C. E. Lowe to Osprey. pretation can be an equality of ex- penditure, and that leaves open the insoluble conundrum, what are armaments: Where does peaceful

The Transfer Books of the Company with he closed from 18th May unto 28th May, 1933, both daya inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

HERBERT E. STURT,

Managing Director. [823

Hong Kong 15th May, 1939,

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

·RANKING CORPORATION:

N

that the Provisional Certificate

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN industry cease, and war-like arma No. 57/4900 dated Hongkong, 14th ments begin 1;; "Equality of arma- January, 1913 for one share of this mente" is the slogan" of the Ger- Bank numbered 65852-registered in the name a bit Josephine Calists man Goverments and it has all the

Thom, hat beau Lost or Stolen, and

should this certifies to not be producea cua nguoien of the politics to: the Bank before 17th May, 101

* war ery. "Is it equality with France, new certificate for the place will

with Poland or or with Engl Ised, and the aforesaid Provisional Certificate No. 67/4009 will be there. Latvia after treated by this Corporation as Nel and Void

By Order of the Board of Directors.

N.MURPHY. Acting Chief Manager

as German 1

of aggressɔTI

of fortune gives a military advan- tags Until that spirit spreads to Europe, wars will continue as for the Inst two thousand years. Peace can be restored, but in Europe the provincialism of individuals, their eloquence, their cynical inter- pretations of motive, their long 'memories, -- bar the door. - Since

the cry of ancient Rome, "Car thage must be destroyed," there, has been nothing like this Franco German rivalry of the mast sixty years. The diré necessity arising from the economic crisis, and, the shadow- of communiam, ♬ stalking

in hand

ENGAGEMENT

G. DH FLOWERDEW

MISS BISHOP

Al-Mail Service)

marriage

Branch) will be held in the Garrison had a wound on his head and ex- Lecture Hall on Friday, May 9 plained to witness that he had re Thess. Carthage is expected at commencing at 8.20 p.m. By kind crived it during a fight over soms 7.a.m. to-morrow (Friday) morn permission of Lt. Col. E. J. de C. girls between his party and the rat- ing and will proceed to Buoy Roys, M.C. and the officers, the fan chair makers, who were Kheks. Al. instead of to Kowloon Wharf. band of the 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Accused said his side suffered defeat Passengers will be landed at the Regiment will be in attendance but they were going to fight again P&O pier The Cathage will Admission will be 82 (ladies by On December, 16, when witness leave for London at noon on Satur courtesy), and after the, dance, at visited the accused man, there were day, from the buoy leak Tra1am launches will comfrey dancers three or four other persons there. from Stonefatters, Shanghaine and Witness was told there would be, a Mr. J. A. 8. Alves, Chairman of Kowloon, home from the Camber fight that night. The men mention- the Sub-Committee of the Poultry

ed they were going to have téa and. Section of this British Empire Fair, The case in which lour Bhanghai witness went to the coffee shop,ga; will broadcast a 15 minute talk Chinese, mil men, employed by the it was frequently visited by the from the Broadcasting Studio on Day Poultry Farming in Hong Kong, char and the New Territories at 9. joki o'clock, to-night...

While a tailor was sleeping on a ween seat at Blake Pier his shoes cere

ya! stolón Hes was told by a

F. nearby that they had been “tal The Away *. On Wednesday- the tailor saldad, saw his informant wearing the shoot. hter of and had bin årrekted. Charged ber

More

ano, were

the man was sentenced mont

Brigand, two women were meth" Witnem perte proceeded, to

with- assaulting a follow | the shop where he saw the second- before Mr. Bocused and his friends. Then as

ensued, weapons: being used brat, accused used.

gone

of the ur