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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

THE KOWLOON TAXI COMPANY.

NOTICE.

WE beg to announce that, from

Int June, 1933, the above Company will run taxicabs (Austin 10) Team the New Terry wharf at Jordan Road, Kowloon.

Tariff......SO cts, for the First mile

3 cts, for every subsequent quarter mile.

For Taxica's Phone No. 56363 Garage

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PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,

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TOTICE is hereby given that the ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF Share- holders will be held at THE HONG KONG HOTEL, Hong Kong. FRIDAY, the end JUNE, 1933 at 11.30a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 30th APRIL, 1933.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 27th day of May, to i FRIDAY, the 2nd day of June, 1933 both daya inclusive.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS

SON,

General Managers.

Hong Kong, 22nd May, 1933.

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THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING CO., LTD. (INCORPORATED IN QUEENSLAND). - NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF FIRST INTERIM DIVIDEND.

TOTICE is hereby given that

First Interim Dividend of Six

Pence per share on account of the

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1933

Dewar's

WHITE LABEL

White Labe WEST SCOTCH W OF GREAT AGE.

On Dewar & So

PERT

SOLE AGENTS:

DISTILLERS.

financial year ending 31st March; A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

1934 ba been declared by the

Directora

of

the Company in Brisbane, payable to Shareholders on Brisbane and the Registers at Singapore on Thursday, 15th June,

1933.

Notice is also hereby given that the Singapore Transfer Registers will be closed from Friday, 9th June to Thursday, 15th June, 1933 (both days inclusive) for the preparation of Dividend Warranta,

By Order of the Board,

DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants,

Local Secretaries. Hongkong Bank Chamber, SINGAPORE, 15th May, 1993.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD,

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the ELEVENTH

ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Lounge adjoining the Company's Restaurant 1x Fluor. Exchange Building, Hong Kong, un SATURDAY, 10ra JUNE, 1933, at 11 am.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 30TH MAY, 1931 to 10TH JUNE, 1943, Loth clays inelusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors A. W. BROWN,

Manager & Secretary, Hong Kong, 24th May, 1:33, .[604

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

THE EXTRA RACE

BIRTH.

THE CITY HALL

Demolition of Theatre

Royal

* News and Views *

Irish Sweep Change."

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The Adventurer.

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The Irish hospitals' sweepstake will be on the. Cambrid geshire this year instead of the Cesarewitch.

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The True Benefactor.

SUMMARY OF NEWS

to

General.

The One Safe Place,

Fraulein Marga von Elzdorf, the well known German airwoman, was Railroad accidents resulted in We understand that demolition

Preparations for crossing the killed on Sunday in a crash land- work on the West wing of the City only one fatality among passengers Atlantic in a small boat fitted with ing at the Aleppo aerodrome.

in 1812. bicycle pedals are being made by

Page 1. Hall, .., the old Theatre Royal, in the United States

be De Mr. Edward P. Tierney of Sal Relations between Germany and is likely to start within a week. "Safety First' seems to

ford. Ha estimates that the jour-Austria appear to be becoming The question of closing in Wardley department, at least, in which the

noy from Liverpool will take 60 strained.

Page 1. Street is also under consideration, iron hors" outdistances It will be remembered, of course, "horseless carringe." Perhaps one days.

Viscount Ishii, who is going to similar London Mr. Tierney started

World attend the that the whole of that site is to b might add that these really is one t

venture some years ago. But his Economic Conference, arrived at devoted to the new premises of the safe place in the United States

craft sank. Since then, however, New York from Washington on Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank the railway train.

he states he has learned much about Sunday, and talked of little else ing Corporation. The sketches of

his novel kind of, "boat.

than the Chinese anti-Japanese the new premises" and the model

boycott.

Page 1. shown at the British Empire Fair

President Roosevelt has planned have already made the public ac

to deliver th war debt Massage to quainted with the magnificent de sign which has been prepared, and

A certain Maj.-Gen. Johnson Congress before the adjournment the pulling down of the Theatre

Page 9. Royal is the first definite step to

Hagood, of the United States is which is scheduled for June 10.

The Danzig elections, although" wards the start of Hong Kong's

being permitted by the War De- partment of his country to prove biggest huilding.

his system for putting recruits carried through in an atmosphere into the battle line in ten days pf considerable excitement passed Page 9. instead of six months? A correspond-off without serious disturbances. ent asks whether this benefactor

the Two Rodosto, winner of has of the humen race, when he got the boys into the trenches, will Thousand Guineas and a favourite produce another "system showing for the Derby has been scratched how to make a similar time reduce and will not take part in the Page 1. Epsom classic.

Latest Derby betting will be found on

Page 9. The final acceptances and jockeys for the Epsom Derby will be found on Page 9.

"The destruction of the old hui!

The race will be run on October 25, and the draw will begin on

October 21.

As in the ease of the Derby ing will arouse many memories of sweep, the names of horses includ the A. D. C. and Philharmoniced in the first acceptances will go trintiphs, of scanty audiences for into the drum.

angry musicians of world wide

fame, and, perhaps most of all of

Dr. Jesse Frederick'

Steiner,

the wild nights, when St. Andrew's The Flay Bill. Ball, really was St. Andrew's Ball, and you could, at about 1 am..professor of sociology at the Unition in getting them out. when things had properly warmed and" the the pipes up, hear shouting down at West Point and up" on the Peak!

versity of Washington, has estimat ed America's recreation bill dur ing the period immediately preced- ing the depression was, conserva- tively, $10,165,857,000 annually, This hints at a possibility that the old axiom works both ways and THE LATE MR. J. G. that all play and no work takes

business a dull boy. THOMSON

VERDICT OF SUICIDE WHILE OF UNSOUND MIND

Peiping, May 19-Yesterday af- ternoon before Mr. S. G. Beare an inquest was held concerning the death of Mr. J. G. Thomson, Chief ecountant of the Peiping Liaoning Railway:

Divorce in Canada.

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Divorces in Canada reached new high record figure in 1933 when 887 marriages were dissolved-860 by the courts of eight provinces and 27 by Parliament, which is the only tribunal, competent to grans divorces in Quebec.. The increase was 203 over the total for 1831, but only twelve above the figure There is no record of Dr. J. W. Grice, the deceased's for 1930. nedical attendant, testified that the number of Canadians who he had kauwn the late Mr. Thom sought relief from marital pro

He blems under the easier divorce laws son for eight or nine years. had viewed the body on in the pre-of certain states of the United In 68.7 per cent, of the States. sence of the Coroner at the German- American Hospital and recognised cases the petitioners were wives. But does anyone think that aeria! it as that of John George Thomson. According to the latest census there Dr. Grice stated that he had were 4,049 divorced males and disarmament is a practical pro-treated the deceased repeatedly for 3,392 divorced females in Canada. position? To throw out speeches nervous he

Divorced persons who had - ried numbered 669 and 580 respec- like Dr. Nowboxx's, is like firing

tively.

a Tower musket at a fighting plane, You are not unlikely to hurt your

Eat, 1841.

the

BELL-On May 11, 1833 at Wellington Nursing Tientsin, to Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Bell, a son,

DEATH.

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The Three Sisters.

Charlotte Bronte 'would have been more than a little startled if she had known that, 60 years after her death, she would be the central figure in more than half-a-dozen

plays.

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Satire on Hindenburg,

Gandhi broke his fast at noon, yesterday, by sipping a tumbler of fruit juice."

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Page 1. Erish Sareep details will be found Page 9. Far East. General Feng Yu Hsiang has now condescended to explain his recent assumption of the leadership of the Page 1. anti-Japanese Allied Army."

Local.

was

The present Bronte "boom" in London is another instance of the fellow my leader" tendency in the The modern theatre. Already, Brontes of Haworth" and "The Brontes" have been produced; now "Wild Decemberg"-the

A curious case in which a widow C. B. Cochran is to stage Clemence Dane's title is, a quotation from Emily Bronte and at least four other accuses her husband's adopted sou plays are in preparation, or ready of forging a deed of assignment, property was opened yesterday be- for any interested producer, in and seeks recovery of her husband's England and the United States.

Charlotte loved theatre-witness fore Mr. Justice Wood in the Page 7 The inquest on the death of a her famous description of Rachel Supreme Court. in "Villette" but the Three Sie- ters of Haworth, working at their Chinese boy who was killed in an novels in that dreary parsonage, accident on Taipo Road on May 4

Magistracy. The verdict "death through negligent driving." could never have anticipated this took place yesterday at Kowloon

Kowloon Supplement. type of posthumous fame.

From June 1, the A.A. patrol will be removed from the City Hall to Opponents of the new regime in Chater Road to supervise the Car arising from them. He last sa him before his death at about 10

Germany are conducting a cam- Park behind the H.K.C.C. ground. Page 2. paign-needless to say, a whispering Full details appear on 'clock on the day he died. His ima

From to-day there will be a re- campaign-against President Hin pression then was that he was not Cottages in the Strand. normal but that he was much bet Concurrently with a housing ex denburg. They allege that he is zular daily passenger service by the Page 6. THOMSON,At Tientsin, on

Thomson, 17, John George

May self, or some innocent neighbour, ter than he had been the day beibition which is being organised prepared to sign any document Vehicular Ferry. The time table The story of how a licensed but your target is perfectly safe, fore. At three p.m. he received a C.A., Chief Accountant and

hawker was alleged to have deceiv A German business man had aned a police messenger by making General Manager,

Peiping- unless it comes close, shuts off its telephone message from the Hos at the new Building Centre in Herr Hitler puts before him, and appears on Liaoning Railway.

engine, and asks to be hit. Win.pital saying that an accident had Bond Street this month, two model they have invented this story:

happened to his patient and he workmen's cottages are, to be plac- France dismantle her gigantic air-went there immediately. He founded on show in the Strand. They appointment with President Hin him to put a Police stamp. 5- are to be erected on part of the denburg, and, arriving punctually forged hawker's licence was related Central him dead with a bullet wound on the vacant site near Bush House to the was kept waiting in the ante-room. to Mr. Wynne-Jones at force (3,000 aircraft, 1,087 first right side of his head, which was

the To pass the time he took out

Magistracy yesterday when a Chin line planes), Will Italy

con-obviously the cause of death. The design which recently won

a large packet of sandwiches and beese hawker was charged with hav- ing obtained $104 in all from three wound was situated in front and Building Centre's prize for gent,

or Japen, or

above the right ear, and was sur- dweiling which could be let to the gap to eat them.

When he was half way througn: Chinese by giving them forged Meissner, the President's hawkers licences in exchange. Even if the miracle were accom-rounded with powder burns. The average workman at an economic

Page 7. plished there are still the civil bullet had passed directly into the rent and at the same time give a Herr

On the ground that there were brain and blood from the nose and return on the capital outlay.Com State Secretary, came in. "The

already sufficient licencees in the planes that could soout and drop mouth indicated fracture of the base prising each a kitchen scullery, a President will see you now,"

locality, an application for a liquor a few bombs. And then there would of the skull. The wound could have sitting-room, three bedrooms, and said.

licence by the Excelsior Restaurant be the secret preparations, the been self-inflicted. verdict of a bathroom, the cottages will cost

was refused. The Police stated no more than £225, and the ides borderline, craft," and all the suicide while of unsound mind was

that they also objected owing to the is that their display in the heart irritants of any form of artificial returned,

fact that the place was near of London will help to give encour

Page 7. suppression.

Dancing academy. agement to the building of small

The first night fete of the V.R.C houseo

will be held on Friday and the Programme of events together with some of the names of competitors Page.10. appear on

Editorial and Business Office: 11

Ice House Street, Tel, 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. 21511. "London Office: 53, Fleet Street:

E.C. 4.

The Baily Press.

HONG KONG. May 30, 1933.

AIR DISARMAMENT

DR. NOLDONY, the German, delegate to the Disarmament Conference, has put forward a plea for the complete abolition of military avia tion and the prohibition of aerial bombardment. The American dele-

Russia!

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The German rose and, being economical, left his sandwiches on the chair neatly covered by a squai of white crinkly paper..

Herr Meissner, however, inter

Local and General

As long as the spirit to hate and

throughout the country,vened.. to fight your neighbour is alive

The only danger which I appre- "Forgive me," he said, "If I Disarmament will be about

hend is that the proposed setting throw this paper away. You see, faithfully observed na Prohibition. Whilst digging foundations for

in the Strand will dwarf them to if the President comes in he'll want The dilemma seems hopeless. No the new Industrial Academy of the

to sign it." one will disarm, and the inevitable Kwangei University, a number of puny insignificance. end to international competition in workmen discovered an old tomb such weapons is their use. Of what believed to be that of an old-time

& This tomb is in the form of a avail are pence protests and de-prince. monstrations; of men and women declaring that they will not fight to a height of over 10 feet and When a government gives the order, circular in shape. The width of a government controlled by some the roadway leading tomb

enables or to the strous hater of the human race abreast. like LENIN, the planes attack, and counter attack. "The people." would have as much say as hogs in a bacon yard.

T MEETING will be held (Webgate supported this view, adding megalomaniac leader, or some mon-

Permitting at HAPPY VALLEY on MONDAY, 5ти JUNE, 1933, commencing at 2.00 p.m

The First Bell will be Rung at

1.30 pm.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.

No One without a Bades will be Admitted to ths Afembers' Enclosure.?

Badges admitting Non-Hembers to the Members' Enclosure and Club, Rooms at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) are ob- tainable through the SECRETARY upon the personal application of a Member, such Member to be responsible

that aerial disarmament must be absolute. Captain EDEN, for Great Britain urged that for Colonial police work, bombing, planes had

Civilised nations with Imperial an immense advantage over any commitments must have armaments, other punitive methods, and ho just as a professional boxer must would not commit the British Em- have strength and skill. But who pire to an abandonment of aircraft would be afraid to live next door to GEORGES CARPENTIER OF to the for such purposes, The German heavy-weight champion of the delegate had emphasised the decí- British Army? Holland for all her great Colonial Empire has no fear of the British and French navies Nor has Belgium of the French Army. There are no outstanding

sive power of aeroplanes in war. "One fleet of bombing planes could

for all visitors introduced by him, sad ravage and destroy a country."

for Payment of all Chits, etc

The Secretary & Office, 3rd Floor, No one doubts this, and no one has disputes between them.

admitting

to

The Franco-German tension re-

Gloucester Building. (Tel 27794), will much faith in anti-aircraft de mins the barrier to a settlement close at 12 O'Clock Nooo.

Badges

Bace Course,

cross and in the centre, it is raised

The Colony had a clean bill "of walk health during the week-end.

The entrance of this tomb faces. the east, and is 40 feet in length The tomb itself is built of bricks, engraved with the characters

Chung" and "Kung." ,etc.

"There are some symbolic charac ters, which are very difficult to decypher.

So far, no other relics have been found, and the University Authori ties have temporarily sealed up this tomb and are waiting for ex- perts to decide its age and period.

MT. PARISH ROBBERY

TWO MEN CHARGED WITH THE OFFENCE.

At to-day's meeting of the Rot- ary Club, the speaker will be Mr. CM. Manners, his subject being

Transportation."

With all its faults, England is still the best country for the duke or the dustman-Mr. Churchill.

Comm. A. D. Bianconi, Italian Consul General is suffering from

WRONGFUL DISMISSAL

INDIAN WATCHMAN CLAIMS WAGES.

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Before Mr. Justice Lindsell, Puisne Judge, at the Supreme Court yesterday, a claim för wages was made by an Indian Watchman, Sajan Singh against Bhagat Singh

a slight attack of influenza and Bugga and Co. of 19, Connaught has had to cancel all social and Road Central.. The Civil Service Cricket Club official engagements. He is going will hold a Whist Drive in their on well, but rest is required and club, house, Happy Valley at 8.30 he has been absent from his office to-night.

since Friday. He is expected to return to work at the end of this

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Plaintiff, who was represented "by Mr. F. C. E. Rendall, stated that he was employed by defendants a a monthly wage of $35 and was wrongfully dismissed. on May 4, He had received no wagen for March and April and therefore elaimed 8140 and costs.

Vice Admiral Sir Frederic Drey-week. eft. Commander of the British,

Regulations governing the or.

His Lordship gave judgment Zor in Hankow, has returned to Shang-ganisation of the Central Mint 73.52, being wages for March and Asiatic. Fleet, who has been visiting hai aboard H.M.S. Kent..

Advisory Committee have been drafted by officials of the Mini April and four days in May. He on reasonable grounds and diamisa try of Finance and will be releas found that plaintiff was dismissed ed to the press after being ap proved by the Central Government. ed the claim for one month's wages The Committee composed of 35 in lieu of notice, Chinese and foreign bankers, is ex- pected to be formally inaugurated on June 1, according to a telegram from Nanking.

Gen. Chiang Kai Bhek issued a circular order to the provinces that no troops be stationed in Con- fucian temples and that full pro tection be given to them...

Unfortunately it seems impossible thing between & Government which does nothing at all and one which goes right off the deep end Mr. J. M. Keynes,

BIG OPIUM SEIZURE.

The recent burglary at No. 63, Members' fences. One or two cities might be of the armament, tariff and frontier Mt. Parish where silverware and Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the protected, "and planes can meet problems in Europe. If the Four a camera were stolen had its sein the world of today to find any

FOUR CHINESE CHARGED, On No Pretext will Ohildren bo plances, but who believes that Power Pact became a reality, then a quel at Central Magistracy yester just and dispassionate view of the day when two Chinese were charg

To mark the 150th anniversary permitted in either Enclosure during planes, speeding at, perhaps, 400 Versailles Treaty would becomeed with the offence.

Before Mr. Wynne-Jones at Cen ibe Meeting.

The complainant was Mr. W. L.

of the declaration of peace between Great Britain and the United tral Magistracy yesterday Chang Tiffins are obtainable at the lump.h silenced and camouflaged possible. The Great Powera would

States 60,000,000 special postage Ning, 55, coxswain, Chao fing, House provided they are ordered from into invisibility-all real

pos- no longer need to angle for the Walker of the P.W.D.

According to Detective Sergeant the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone

support of small and bellicose O'Donovan, the theft was commit According to a telegram from stamps of the face value of three 45, engineer, Teang Chi Ting, 35 21920.

sibilities can really be stopped nations, while American co-operated in broad daylight on May 12. Lanchow in Kansu, the situation, cents were put on sale in post offi compradore, and Yip Tam Po, 33, PUBLIC · ENCLOBURE. The Price of Admission to the Public We all know the perils of aerial tion with Europe would be facilitat The first defendant, when arrested, in the Sinkiang Province has con- ces throughout the United States tallyman, were charged with im Enclosure is 32.00 indading Tax, for warfare and to avert this new

od Two great military systems, book the police to the hillside near siderably improved. The allied last month. The design by Mr. A. porting opium on board the s all Persona, kabluding: Ladies, and cin

in Russia and Japan, both Wanchai to recover the silverware, Mohammedan forces have now with R Meissner was personally, select Kwong I payable at the Gate.

aword of Damocles overhanging aggressive and efficient, will have but nothing was found. Later the drawn to the east to wait for &ed by President Roosevelt, himself Chief Preventive officer Buller, an expert philatelist, and shows prosecuting, asked for 24 hours Boldiers and Balore in uniform arealvilisation the British Empire not the least hesitation in exploit-second defendant came to the sta-settlement.

Washington's headquarters at remand, saying that nearly 10,000 admitted Hall Price.

Bookmakers, Tie Tac Men, eta, would doubtless abandon a useful ing for their own advantage, the tion with the camera, and as a re

sult of this voluntary act," "the" Convicted on a charge of trespass Hasbruck House, Newburgh, New taels of opium were seized, and will not be permitted to operate with weapon in frontier warfare. After diaunton and suspicion that now Police were not pressing the charge ing, on the grounds of the Gav York, from whence the proclame that the Monopoly Analyst's re

menaces Europe. For this cause against him

arnment Civil Hospital, a Chiness tion of peace was issued on April port was not yet ready. It is pos JooKET ULus during the Race Meeting.

prisonment by Mr. Schofield at is seen flying from the standard and preferred.

The case was adjourned until Central Magistracy yesterday. The in the background is a view of the defendant said he had gone there river and surrounding mountains, this morning, Mr. Hin Shing

appearing for the defence. The stamp is printed in purple, to sleep!

in the Precincts of THE HONG KONG all we have done without aero alone, Germany with her Eastern His Worship (Mr. Schofield) finnd was sentenced to one month's im- 19, 1783, The Stars and Stripessible that other charges may be

planes for a very long time, and border open to attack, Great the first defendant 8100 with the there are always tanks and armour-Britain, Italy and France have alternative of three months hard overy camed to stand together and labour. The second defendant was maintain the peace of the world. discharged.

By Order,..

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-0. B. BROWN,

Hog Koop, 29th May, 1933,

Secretary,

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