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ADVERTISEMENTS

· KOWLOON COAL DUMP,

A MASS MEETING of property

owners and tenants of premises in Kowloon will be held at the Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon on Ta'ay, the 1st Angost, at 5 30 Pf, in order to support the protest that is to be presented to the Governor in Council in regard to the above.

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THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT.& AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED."

N INTERIM: DIVIDEND OF TWO DOLLARS per share for the six months ended 30th June, 1993 will be payable.on WEDNES DAY, 16th August, on which dato Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Offices 3, Chater Road.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY the 4th August to TUESDAY the 15th August (both days inclusive) during which period 20 transfer of shares registered,

сад be

By Order of the Board of Directors..

L. S. GREENHILL,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 28th July, 1993.

SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL

COUNCIL

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION,

APPOINTMENT OF ASSISTANT MASTER.

APPLICATIONS are invited for

the post of Assistant Master (Foreign) in the Council's Education Department to teach Woodwork, Drawing, and general subjects. Candidates must be fully trained and certificated, and must possess either the City and Guilds Certificate

น

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

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for Baby Therefore

give him the Best

that is

Cow & Gate

Milk

Food

The Finest Product of its Kind..

Awarded 30 Gold, Silver & Bronze medals. It has received the highest awards at all exhibitions.

Babies Love it

may be obtained from all Chemists and Stores."

SOLE AGENTS:

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

DEATHS.

COLEMAN,-On July 21, 1933, drown. ed at Pootoo, John Froude O'Reilly Coleman, of the Shang for teachers of Mapul Training orVAN LEEUWEN.-On July 7, 1833, hai Fire Brigade, aged 28 years." the diploma of the Board of Ex-

L. J. S. van Leeuwen, 2, Rem aminers for Educational Bandwork brandtlaan, Heemstede, Hol- A single man is required, preferably. „land, aged 51. between 2 und 30 years of age.

The selected candidate would he required to commence duty on January 1, 1934.

The salary offered in Tis. 360 per mensam for three years, but for University Graduate possessing all the above qualifications the salary is Tls. 400 per mensem for three years." The selected candidate will be r8- quired to pass an examination by the Council's Medical Examiner in Shanghai as to physical fitness and serve a period of probati n of from three to six months before confirma- tion of the appointment which will be under local service conditions.

Applications, stating nationality, age, qualifications and experience, together with copies of testimonials Covering ability and character should be forwarded to the Secretary, Municipal Council, Administration Building, Shanghai, not later thau August 31, 1933.

By order,

Editorial and Business Office: 11

Ice House Street. Tel. 30251

Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. 24511.

London Office: 33, Fleet Street

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, JULY 31, 1933.

BRITISH COMMERCE

ON THE MEND

It would be a pity if the very natural and proper attention that has been given to the World J. R. JONES,

Monetary and Economic Confer Secretary.

ence were to cause people to lose (1025 sight of the progress now being

steel goods.. torcars and parts, and iron and'

MONDAY, JULY

LATE GENERAL MUTO

REMAINS TAKEN BY CRUISER TO JAPAN

News and Views *

stir Xərva,

There was one delegate, a bar- tender, who looked like being a promising customer, He started aff well by consuming half a bottle of rum each morning "ss # bracer."

But something apparently shook stormed his nerve. On the third morning he took to lemonade, and remained faithful to it ever after.

DATRAN, July 30," THE entire city bowed in silence when, at 7.90 p.m., the special train bearing Gen. Muto's remains and official mourners into Dairen from Changchun.

A huge throng assembled at the wharf where, amid a most, impres sive ceremony, the body was trans fered to the cruiser Hirato which departed for Japan at 8 p.m.

WAR MATERIAL IN

AUSTRIA

All Returned To Italy

LONDON, July 29. CAPTAIN! Anthony Eden, Under: Secretary for Foreign Affairs, answering à question in the House of Commons, yesterday, said that all the Hirtenberg war which the Austrian Government un- dertook to send back to Italy, had been returned, and he was happy to state that the incident was now. closed-British. Wirglen Service,

material

BRITISH VESSEL DETAINED

REVOLVER SMUGGLING BY CHINESE

Tokyo, July 29.

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The Faston Letters,

Lord Riddell's effort to raise £3,000 for the national purchase of the remainder of the Paston Letters should command success, They are! as important to students of late mediaeval English history as the renowned Luttrell Psalter to lovers of an earlier period.

..

Many are by, about, Sir John Fastolf, the 13th century prototype of Shakespeare's blustering knight, and in one the brave wards occur: And, if they will not dread nor obey that, then they shall be quit by Blackbeard or Whitebeard, that is to say, by God or the Devil.”

No wonder that Shakespeare should cause Prince Henry to dub his Falstaff "that old white-beard- ed Satan!"

The Boger Fry Exhibition.

Mr. Roger Fry has, in his exhibi tion at Messrs. Agnew's galleries, which opens on July 11, plunged himself into things Greek."

A visitor this describes it- In a room cool with alectric fans, I gazed, early this morning, on IT is reported from Dairen that views of the Temple of Zeus Olym

the British vessel "Glenogle," pios and of Delphi, which I remem- 9,313 tons, was ordered to be deber as a forbidding spot. Mr. Fry tained outside the port this after has looked upon it in more kindly noon as the result of a confession mood, and the olive trees and the by members of the Chinese crew, suo make it less grimi who were arrested ashore, that there was a large quantity of con traband armg and ammunition aboard the vessel.

The smugglers when arrested had with them 104 revolvers and 16,400 rounds of ammunition.-Reuter.

PARLIAMENT RISES FOR RECESS

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PARLIAMENT TOse to-day for

LONDON, July 20 the summer recess and, unless members are recalled for any

Acropolis) are other characteristic Athens and the Piraeus (from the landscapes, and there is a fine still for it includes a statue of a Greek life, also with a classical flavour athlete.

There are only two portraits in. the whole exhibition, and in them the artist seems to have adopted quite a new method, for they are academic, even Royal Academic, in

That of

startling suggestion of the Inter their smooth neatness. Sir James Currie has about it a John Redmond.

back with a blue-green tie and an Mr. Augustine Birrell, lounging expression of philosophic calm,

Conference Drinks.

In one

Economic Conference was an un- direction the World doubted failure in the matter of the consumption of drinks.

Alas, for the marvellous list of the sun which was to have made drinks from every country under every delegate feel at home.

Lemonade and orange squash have been the favourites; and of the imposing array of national for the Conference scarcely more wines that were gathered together than four half-bottles have been consumed by delegates themselves. Capt. de Havilland.

victory in the King's Cup was de- Capt. Geoffrey de Havilland's servedly popular. As designer he has been famous ever since the appearance of the de Havilland air craft helped to redress the balance of mechanical air-power during the

war.

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LE TOUQUET IN ONE HOUR

'THE PRINCE'S AERIAL VISIT

(Special Air-Mail Service)

LONDON, July 11. The Prince of Wales has spent this week-end at Le Touquet, and has taken part in the golf competi

The tions of the Buck Club. smaller of his two aeroplanes ar- rived at Berck aerodrome on Fri- day evening with luggage and at- tendants, and then returned to London in readiness "for the Prince's fight on Saturday. His visit may be said to mark the opening of the summer season at this resort, and his mode of travel the modern way of reaching the seaside place which combines to many advantages.

Comfortably Mada,

By air, Berck is just an hour's" Before that our pilots had been traveller can arrive at his hotel in journey from Croydon, and the fighting gallant but hopeless Le Touquet within two and a half battle against the German flyers hours of leaving his home in Lon with their faster and more trust don. A visit of this sort has just worthy machines. A Pioneer,

been made by a party whose mem- Always a pioneer-Capt. de Haviland only 7 hours out of London. bers spent 24 hours in Le Touquet. land made (and crashed) his first In one of the Heracles liners of machine in 1910-he has been a Imperfal Airways, which on certain pioneer of private flying,

most comfortably made. days serve Berck, the journey was airy, quiet saloons tea was served In the on the outward journey, and an return. Luggage, surrendered to elaborate four-course dinner on the

direction, was no further trouble the company at the start in either

to, the traveller (except for a few minutes at the Customs examina- tion) until he claimed it from the omnibus at the end of the journey.

He is a great believer in air tour- ing, travelling by air when and wherever possible. When his eldest son, Geoffrey, whs at Stowe, he was taken to and from school in the first of the series of Moths."

Mr. de Havilland and both her sons are pilots.

QLD, Chief Hatizes.

The man with " load of secreta" retired from Scotland Yard last

month.

involves details which never reach It is a position unique in the ser- vics, for 95 per cent of the work the public.

An Attractive Plass," With no easy a means of travel been responsible for the safety of Its character is almost unique in Humphries, who for five years has be advanced without reservation. He is Detective-Inspector Charles the attractions of Le Touquet may the Royal Family and who has also France. No other place seems to C.I.D. and the various military ity of the sand dunes and the un- heen a liaison officer between the combine so successfully the simplic- and naval intelligence departments, developed plage with the magnifie- He has occupied a position in ence of the casino, and the opulence- the police service known as "D.D.I. of the golf club which has three A Division, which embraces the streets and small shops with the of A Division "officer-in-charge of courses; the quaintness of narrow Houses of Parliament, Buckingham grandeur of a new town hall in Palace, and all the Government the decoration of a semi-circular Efteenth-century Norman style and buildings.

delightful buildings and in town to have spent most covered market. Le Touquet seems money its prosperity has brought in of the

autifully laid out and equipped. planning. Part of the old towa remains; all the rest has been be A breesy day on the front be comes calm and sheltered in the "forest" five minutes' walk away. When the tide is out bathing may be had in the fine swimming pool in the centre of the front. "There" are hotels of every class, including some of the luxury type, very good racecourse and a tennis club with many courts. In the slack years of depression the town has preserved its character and its re- putation for entertaining those who seek entertainment. It now looks forward to resuming its close con- tact with this country.

became

Inspector Humphries (Continued at fuot of next column)

The improvenient in exports and production of iron and steel May, 1932, 151,325 tons of iron goods is specially notable. In and steel were exported: in May of this year the quantity was special reason, it will not reassem 178,639 tons. This is an imble until November provement of 18 per cent. As to The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay looks less Thack ayan than usual. value, the increase was 15.8 per MacDonald, leaves to-day by air The treatment of the hands known as "the chief with the closed accompanied by a fall in imports, spend the first part of his holiday. cent. The rise in exports was for Lossiemouth, where he will masterly.

34.4 per cent. in value, showing of 11 per cent. in quantity and British Wireless Service. how greatly the face of the in- dustry has been changed by the recently imposed tariffs. This change is, also reflected in the figures for production of iron and steel since the beginning of this year. In December last the out- put of pig iron was 284,600 tons and of steel ingots and castings, 430,100 tons. In May this year these figures were respectively 339,900 tons and 599,600 tons. When it is recalled that the aver-

these goods age monthly output in 1992 for 297,800 tons and 438,100 tons it Was respectively will be appreciated that & con- siderable, change bas taken place in the fortunes of this industry One inust go back to 1930 to find rande throughout the world of the monthly average (610.500 tons) natural forces of recuperation. In which exceeded the output of Great Britain there are for the steel castings and ingots in Mey PUBLIC AUCTION.discerning many signs of recovery last.

in trade. Among them are the better igures for overseas trade; no fewer than 640 new factories During the past twelve months the improvement in output of the were opened in Great Britain and iron and steel industry: the build during the same period 166 exten- received ing of new factories; the decline sions to factories were made. Of in the figures for unemployment; these new concerns 122 were of more favourable reports at com- foreign origin, another testimony pany meetings; and, a

very to the effect of the new tari significant pointer, the better policy of Great Britain. Against showing of railway

traffic."

the number of new factories must Some of the statistics on which be set the closing of 355 existing one may base a reasoned optim factories. ism will be given here.

But the net increase

THE Undersigned have. Instructions from

THE HOLDER OF BILL OF SALE

TO SELL BI PUBLIC AUCTION

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tion of a general upturn in busi- of 285 new factories is an indica

ness.

CHANG WATCHES TENNIS FINALS

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PARIS, July 29.

MARSHAL Chang Hauch Liang of Paris yesterday morning and inspected the aerial defences later lunched with the Chinese Am bassador to Paris, Dr. Wellington Koo, and the Chinese Finance Minister. Mr. T. V. Soong.

Davis Cup games-Reuter.

In the afternoon, he watched the

320,000. A large contribution to the increase of employment has try, but every important branch been made by the building indus of industry was doing better in May than in many preceding months.

Local and General

One case of diphtheria was rE- ported on Friday.

Dr. Edmund Lewis Roid, M.B. B.S. (Aberdeen), F.R.C.S. (Edin burgh), and Dr. Chan Wah, MLB, BS. (Hong Kong) have been added to the Register of Medical Prac- titioners of the Colony.

In commemoration of the Aholi tion of Slavery in the Empire, a dinner is being given at the!

Bincera Company Roof Garden, this ciety. It is expected that two eyening by the Anti-Mui Tsai So. hundred people will be present..

Ranpurn were Lieut. T. C. C. Lloyd, Among the passengers who left for England on the P. & O. 3.8 R.N., Formerly of H.M. Submarine Odin and Payr-Comdr. G. L. O Davis, R.N., of HMDestroyer Keppel.

quote the railway

To complete our survey we will ** traffics," for this year. These are the figures by the four great railway systems a motor accident on, Saturday night for the money, taken each week

A boy of 13 was injured following of the country. They are both in Queen's Road East, near Swatow for passenger and goods traffic Street. The boy ran into the road and are gross figures, that is, for to cross in front of the car. The the "take"

from the pavement and attempted

Four companies are still show-to avoid an accident.". The boy was

only. The

Big driver swerved but he was too late ing alight decreases against the removed to the Government Civi corresponding week of 1932, but Hospital for treatment. the falls are now quite small. Those who keep a close watch on the trend of traffics are confident now slowly on the mend. The that the companies fortunes are position may be set out thus. It

The Government Gazette

pigeons and doves...

Mrs. R. Albrecht and family of five were passengers for Singapore by the s.8. Ranpura on Saturday.

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accused of defrauding Kwok Yok, a Kwak Ho, 47, married woman, 62-year old widow, of $180 by means of the "fying the white pigeon trick, was on Saturday morning dis- charged by Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central Magistracy.

yesterday with having assaulted Au Charged at Central Magistracy:

Ying Pun Market, with a chopper, Cheong, 0 Market Elder at Sai fishmonger named Mak Man Chau was remanded in police custody

that he was taking up too much until to-day. It was stated that de- fendant had been told by the Elder space with his stall. him lose his temper and it is This made alleged that he attacked Au Cheong with a chopper.

STOLE A PAIR OF SHOES SHOP-LIFTERS GETS SIX

WEEKS:

Charged at the Central Police Court on Saturday with having stolen. pair of boots from n counter at the Wing On Company

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ex-seaman named Chan Kai hard labour, Defendant pleaded Ming was sentenced to six weeks guilty. He was arrested by a Chi- nese constable while attempting to

Police Station that be bad stole pawn the shoes at the Yuan Hing Pawn Shop and admitted at the

them,"

sent to "Overseas" by Mrs. N. A. || ipa.” Green, a local

ocal

lady.

His Secrets;

the interesting monthly magazine The July number of "Overseas," published under the auspices of the Overseas League, copies of which taina a clever and amusing photo had just arrived in the Colony, con graph of local interest. The pic

U.S. BOND ISSUE is called "An Amateur ture Photographer in Hong Kong," and depicts a wall child in apparent

Easthampton, Long difficulties with her camera in en nounces that in future the close ject. The subject is the child's 500 million dollar bond issue in

Island, July 30. The Treasury has planned a an- deavouring to photograph a sub- season for partridges and quails amah, who, if one is to judge from August of denominations as low The returns of overseas trade

tober, both days inclusive, and the picture, on either side of the aman, shall be from the 1st day of the expression on her face, is not as fifty dollars, announces Mr. TUESDAY, AUG. 1, 1933 ports increased by 2.2 per cent. in May this year show that im-

February to the 15th day of Oc enjoying the experience.

In the Woodin-Reuter. period extending from the 1st day is a Teddy Bear and a doll. The Ar. 12 O'CLOCK NOON

In these days of technological is understood that there is a de- of March to the 14th day of Sep- photograph appears to have been and exports 1.8 per cent. as com- unemployment, i.e., unemploy.cline, each week over the figure tember, both days inclusive for taken on the Peak Road, and was pared with May, 1932. Strict ment caused by men being dis- for the take in the corre AT THEIR SALES ROOM,'

comparison between the two placed by machinery, one must spending week a twelve-month months is, however, not possible, not place too much emphasis on before. The average weekly de- 8 TABLE SINGLET KNIT-ing days than in the same month guide to trade. There is, never-month of January, for February. for last May had two more work the returns of employment as a cline this year is given for the TING MACHINES OF THE of 1932 A feature of the returns theless, some connection between and for the period March-April- MEE WAH KNITTING & for the first five months of this the two sets of figures. It is, May. The figures are in thou- DYEING.CO. year is the "relative improvement therefore, well to state that the sands of pounds. Beginning with

in export trade as compared with improvement in (Stored in the Fremises of the exid imports. In this period the which has been recorded monthly the relative figures are £88, £73,

employment, Mee Wah Knitting & Dyeing Co. visible adverse balance of trade since January last was continued £48. The L.N.E.R. figures are the largest railway, the L.M.S., situate on Kowloon Inland Lot No 1678, Tam Kung Road, Kowloon.)

was 100 millions, as compared at an accelerated rate in May. 292, 249, 286. The Great West- with 120 millions in 1982 and At the end of January there were ern Railway figures, declined thus: 2149 millions in 1981. Both ex- 9,285,000 insured persons in em £42. £32, £20 The Southern ports and imports of manufac ployment; in May this figure had Railway is primarily a passenger- fured goods were higher than in been increased by 372,000 to carrying line. Here the figures Among exports of 9,657,000... During the same four are £20, 231, and 27. The traf mods to increase months the number of registered fics for June are not yet complete, unemployed has declined by over but such as they are they tell a

(Continued on next column) still more cheerful story

4, DUDDELL STREET.

ERMSI-CASH on Dulirazy.

LAMMERT BROS

AUCTIONEERS

May 1982,

a routing nature,

His reminiscences might be worth a fortune but they will never be

Hong Kong to-day by the written

Among the passengers leaving

Board to be held to-morrow, a letter At a meeting of the Sanitary

MacKichan to be a member of the Rolfe, & very well-known resident. tor Humphries might tell. Before from the Government relative to Sanitary Board during the absence Mr. Rolfe is proceeding to Hono- he was appointed to the command the appointment of Mr. A. B. President Grant is Mr. OH, But there are wo stories Inspec from the Colony of Mr. L. C. F. lulu where shortly after his arrival of A Division he was concerned in Bellamy will be discussed. The re- is to marry Mrs. Dorothy Ball- two prominent murder investiga- mainder of the business will be of reich (nee Clarke). Mrs. Ballreich, tions.

with her mother, Mrs. W. Clarke, Ha arrested Lieut-Colonel Nor spent a short holiday in Hong man Rutherford for the murder of pleased to approve the provisional teresting to note that Mrs. Clarke le land Park in 1918,

His Majesty the King has been Kong early in the year. It is in Major Miles Charles Seton at Hol- appointment of the Honourable an expert golfer, and was at one. He also solved the murder of Commander Joseph Bornerd Newill, time the Lady, Amateur Champion William Whiteley, the big London temporarily an Official Member of riage and honeymooni Mr. and Mrs des D.S.O.. R.N., (Retired), to be of California. After their mar store magante. the Legislative Council in the place Holte will take up residence in of the Honourable Commander Hong Kong and expect to arrive George Francis Hole, BP.N.(Be here about the middle of October. from the Colony, with effect from daughter and will probably remain. tired), who is temporarily absent Mrs. Clarke will accompany her 14th March, 1933.

in the Colony for a few months.

Why was the leading lady" so She got four bouquets. annoyed after the performance 1

Yes but she had paid for fire