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HEW ADVERTISEMENTS

AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY,

MONDAY, AUGUST 78.

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What the Store will be closed with the following exceptions:-

E beg to notify our customers

Exchange Restaurant, Will remain Corner Blouse Kowloon Branch

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open as usual,

Feak Store Until 10.

Provisions Department, Exchange Building-from 8 a.m. until 9.30.

Side Entrance).

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD:

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE Gooss or ATWOOD,

THORNE, LATE OF THE MYNDE (FORMERLY THE MOUNT) CLEON IN THE COUNTY or MONMOUTH, England, Esquire, DICIASID,

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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of -Section 58 of the Prolates Ordinance 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Oreditors and Others to send in their alsime against the above Fatate to the 30TH Day of AUGUST, 1933.

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

Dated the 3rd day of Angus“, 1931.

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,

10331

Solicitors for the Executors,

Prince's Building,

Ice Henso Street,

Hong Kong.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.

IN BANKRUPTCY.

THE TAI HING KNITTING FACTORY.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933

THE LOVABLE FRAGRANCE

OF

YARDLEY LAVENDER.

One of the most delightful perfumes you have ever known and one of which you will never tire.

The same refreshing fragrance is woven through an entire series of delightful preparations all of the finest quality obtainable.

WE HAVE THE FINEST SELECTION OF THESE FAMOUS PREPARATIONE IN THE COLONY, AND WE ARE OFFERING THEM TO THE PUBLIC AT COMPETITIVE PRICES.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

BIRTH..

THE HONG KONG

DISPENSARY

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VALENTINE-On August at War Memorial Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs R. K. Valentine, a son. [473

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An Anti-War Conference is to be held in Shanghai of all places, as if any European or American public nian of the least import- ance could find time to make the. journey to Shanghai. A British OR SALE BY TENDER IN

ONE LT the stock-in-trade, Editorial and Business Office: 11peer, no doubt of unimpeachable. furniture, fixtures, machinery and Tee House Street. Tel. 30251 record, is coming out to preside,

FOR

effects now on the premises formerly occupied by the Tal Hing Knitting Factory at Lo Lung Haug, Hung "Hom standing on Kowloon Intend Lot No. 1527, together with the goodwill of the business formerly carried og by" the said kuitting factory, and also the premises regis. tered, in the Land Office as Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1527.

Tenders will also be received separately for (1) the purchase of the premises, Kowloor Inland Lot No. 1527 and (2) for the stock-in- trade, furniture and machinery now on the said premises, and for the goodwill of the business.

Tenders should reacli the Officin l'eceiver's Office not later than noon

on WEDNESDAY the 30th instant, and should be accompanied by a deposit of $5,000.00.as security for the due performance of the terms of the tender.

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The Official Receiver does not bind himself to accept the bighest or any Xtender.

Orders to inspect the said premises may be obtained on application at

this office.

Dated this lat day of August, 1933.

EL AGASSIZ,...

Official Receiver & Trustee...

BANK HOLIDAY.

Raccordance with Government

Ordinance,

The EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the TRANSACTION of PUBLIC BUSI- BESE on MONDAY 72H AUGUST 1988. THE FIRST MONDAY IN AUGUST, AN

Night Editor (Wanchai Office): London Office: 53. Fleet Street,

Tel. 24513.

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, Acoust 1, 1933.

·LEST WE FORGET

Nineteen years ago to-day, Great Britain declared war on Germany, but in 1933 anniversaries are out of fashion.

Particularly is

but no one seems to know any- thing about him. The assembly will also be trancated owing to the summary arrest of five Korean delegates by the Japanese Govern- ment. Quite seriously we suggest Hong Kong as the proper venue for the Conference, and same. of the sessions could be held at Repulse Bay. That at least might prevent the delegates fight- ing among themselves.

DR. ETLANK

Pays Extended Visit

To Canton

Awkward.

News and Views *

· Rent Collector's Wife: "What are you looking so worried about, Horace?"

(From Our Special Correspondent)

Rent Collector: The landlord's become a client of our firm, and if Canton, Aug. 3. Dr. E. Tank, a former depart-I don't collect my rent I get the

sack for inefficiency." ment chief of the Reich Ministry

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occupation of Mr. John Scott, of York. Armed with a box, a fork and a pot of varnish; be scours the country in search of webs. his purpose lives on gorse bushes suspended in a wheel type of web from six to twelve inches in dia- meter. With the use of varnish on

He Ands that the best spider for

of Foreign Affairs and trusted | Collecting Cobwebs.

Gathering spiders' webs for use official of President Paul von Hindenberg, was guest of honour in making theodolites and other scientific instruments is the unusual last evening at a dinner given by Mayor Liu Chi Wen and Mr. Kan Chieh Hou, Inspector General of Foreign Affairs. Amongst those present were Mr. Chen Yu. Jen (Engene Chen), member of the South-west Political Council and other high officials:

The distinguished German visi-a fork he collects the webs and tor will leave this afternoon for when the varnish is set puts them Sai Chui Mountain on the West River, famous for its beautiful scenery. He will spend one week on this trip and will then leave for Germany.

Dr. Tlank has been staying in Canton for the past ten days and is much impressed by the muni- cipal progress of the City. He "came to the Far East via Suez and Indo-China and will probably return to Germany by way of Japan and the United States..

THE C.N.C. STRIKE

Translation. Of "

Manifesto

Canton, Aug. 3. Strikers of the China Naviga- tion Company, Ltd. have issued a manifesto to the world setting forth their struggle with this Company. A. free translation of the manifesto is as follows:-

We stewards einployed by the comprades on ships of the Chins Navigation Company, Ltd., are often oppressed by our employers who de mand a

large sum of money before hiring ne. Our wages are very meagre and we are dismissed without their giving us our pay in arrears.

"We demanded satisfaction, but the Company ignored us. Police from the French Municipal Council boarded the steamer Woosung where 126 stowards were employed. As a result of a tussie some of us were injured and several were missing. We hope the Government and people every- where vio, support us in our dispute with the China Navigation Company. Ltd."-Central Press.

BOOTLEGGERS

JOIN IN

TO SUPPORT. RAISING OF

PRICES

NEW YORK, Aug. 2. NEW YORK City bootleggers are "patriotically supporting President Roosevelt's efforts to raise prices, according to the New Fork Evening Post which announ- ces that they have considerably raised their prices for liquors.— Reuter.

in boxes..

Dawa Notes.

Mr. Noble Rollin, the warden of the bird station in. Glanton, Northumberland, assisted by amn teur ornithologists in many parts of the world, is engaged in the task of charting the dawn song of the birds all over the globe.

Amateur en-

For over a year he has been work- ing on his theory that the dawn song of the birds encircies the globe in a great wave of wild music which never ceases. thusiasts are mailing him reports which will enable him, he hopes, to draw up a chart, timing the song of cach species of bird.

Self-Criticism.

US NOW”

CAMPAIGN » ·

ANOTHER PROSPERITY

DRIVE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.

increase

cam-

con-

sense of the terms. The answer is | that the new eldek is a luminous оDe to one. The hours, from twelve, are simply great coloured lights, or reflectors. The "hands" are lines of electric light bulbs, A NATIONAL "Buy Now"

paign effort to which burn for a minute, then go out, and the line further on is then sumption, which is vital to illuminated to burn in ite succes.sident Roosevelt's campaign is now sion for one minute. The hour being planned. "hand" operate, in the same way, but of course more slowly. "movement" is regulated by a synchronized electric motor.

What Would Mollere Bay?

Fre

According to Genera! Johnson, Theit will be carried on side by side.

The cinema, which recently made its first appearance

in French

with the "Higher wage. Shorter Hours" movement which 19 The keystone of the President's mass employment scheme,

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General Johnson believes that the real test of the blanket code policy will come within the next three weeks.

The announcement by Mr. Jesse

Jones, Chairman of the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation that the R.F.C. will help the banks, to ex- pand the credit industry is also regarded as of the greatest signi- ficance.

politics with the construction of a projection room in the Chamber of Deputies, is now rapidly making its way into Parisian diplomacy, art. and music. In at least one import. ant embassy, motion pleture shows are frequent feature of social gatherings. In the Louvre Museum. construction of hu auditorium specially designed for the projection In some quarters it is believed that it marks the beginning of of films has just been completed. Finally, plans have been announced Government subsidies for different for the presentation of motion pie branches to enable than to sustain the higher pay-rolls, which is the ture programmes once a week in

Opéra Comique, French avowed object of the blanket code, the National theatre of light opera until increased sales and bigher The new directors of the Opéra prices will carry the cost. Comique feel that certain filmed A method of settling disputes; operettas would have a definite which will be applied to every place among the stage perform-code, has been created for the first ances, and that the popularity of time by the appointment in the such films would help to reduce the cotton textile industry of a Plan- theatre's deficit. And now there is ning and Supervisory Committee, even talk of giving occasional film headed by General Johnson him- performances in that sacred pre-self. cinct of the stage, the Comédio Française!

Ffims and Schools.

Ankither encouraging sign is provided in the fact that there were only 233 business failures for the week ended July 27, the lowest gure of the year, as compared with 609 for the corresponding week in 1932-Reuter,

Last year was notable for the free way in which poeple called bankers and business men names. Stimulated by the support of the This year the bankers and business London Teachers Association, the men are calling themselves names. British Alm trade are considering This has bow shown in the self.

the possibilities in educational film criticism at the American banking production. The first step in the inquiry. Mr. Owen D. Young and organisation of a national film ser- AL SMITH IS PESSIMISTIC- vice for classroom education will others have also castigated busi ness practices. Now Mr. Sam A. be a conférence to which repre: FAILS TO SEE HOW RE- Lewisohn, chairman of the board of sentatives, of the educational Bu COVERY ACT CAN WORK the American Management Associathorities, the film makers, the ap-

New York. Mr. Alfred E. Smith, tion attacks his colleagues for paratus makers, and the all-im- their ostrich-like attitude toward portant providers of finance have former Governor, writing in the

been invited.

The immense poten current New Outlook, asserts he legislative problems. "Unlike many other business men, he takes it for tial value of the Glm as an educa might be old-fashioned" but he granted that an insurance system tive agency is generally recognised, cannot understand how the Nation- for the United States is coming. and the conference will endeavour al Recovery Act can possibly If Know Thyself" is the passport to disccver how this can best tic work."

"I have never hesitated to recom Many find educational to self-improvement, bankers and realised business, men are improving rapidly. films have, of course, been producmend the extension of government ed in recent years, but what is now activities to meet the needs of a needed is a graded sequence of films growing population in an age of in- suitable for complete courses of dustrial. invention,”

"Mr. Smith juvenile instruction.

Paris' Big Ben

H

The Last Phase,

low.

Parisians are seldom concerned over the time of the day. There

writes, "but this plan goes beyond is inherent in the French tempera-

anything my imagination can fol ment too great a capacity for enjoy ing fully the present moment to Towards the end Ellen Terry If its terms are carried out permit any particular preoccupation was a prey to the terror that she literally, the tendency will undoub with the passage of the hours The night go mad. Mise St. John tedly be to cripple initiative, lega absence, hitherto of any outstanding writes:

lize and even officially encourage The B.B.C. had arranged a timepiece in Paris is probably "ex-

monopoly, raise prices and require plained by some such scruples, and special Ellen Terry programme on higher tariffs to maintain the new at the same time explains the ex- her eightieth birthday, and J ceptional interest taken in the microphone bad been installed in structure. In such a triumph of bureaucracy, the little man would début of what is authoritatively the house where she was staying be lost in the shuffle. described as "the biggest clock in One of the latest "portables" was

"I am in favor of applying thes the world." Certainly it is one of brought down in order that she curb to industry where necessary, the tallest," for it is placed about might listen to the programme. I two-thirds of the way up the Eiffel recall as the most poignant mo- but not of placing the heavy, para- Tower, at the height of 638 feet, ment of my life hearing the mad lyzing hand of the Government upon all the business enterprise of the with Fay and it measures 63 feet in diameter. Besides is unusual dimensions, Compton as Ophella, downstairs, nation. I believe in good public however, the French version of while upstairs the fair Ophelia of administration, but I know its

Big Ben has other claims to distinction. For although it is visible from almost any point in Paris, it has no face, no hands, and no works at least not in the usual

scene from "Hamlet,*

1878, now a distraught old woman

was playing Lear. Never on any stage did Ellen Terry appear in dramatic than that.

晶 scène more

Local and General

The Moors, under Abdul Krim, made a nighty bid to drive France and.Spain out of North Africa and Friends of Dr. J. N. Seymour, create an Arab Empire. The South for many years a resident of Tokyo, American states have been pour-will be sorry to learn of his death ing out, blood and treasure; on Jund 18 at Farnborough, Hamp Greece and Turkey settled old difficulties, to the former's ex- treme discomfiture. China has known little of peace for fifteen years.

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Chinese delegates from the South Son Islands attending the Fifth National Congress of Kuomintang were entertained to tiffin by Mr. Shih Ying, Mayor of Nanking,

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Shanghai-The marriage took place at H.M. Consulate General of Mr. Arthur Senor Hudson, son of Mr. Arthur Joseph Hudson, of: Burton-on-Trent, and Mrs, Stells Haupt. The honeymoon is being spent is Tsingtao,

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limitations. I am in favour of re- storing conditions which make business leadership possible rather than of looking to the Government to provide it

THE CHARHAR SITUATION

PEIPING, Aug. 2.

One case of meningitis was re- REPLYING to certain statements made by Marshal Feng Yu ported on Wednesday,

Hsiang's representative yesterday, a spokesman of the Peiping Branch of the Military Council declares that it is Feng Yu Hsiang who is blocking the return of General Sung Chen Yuan to Charhar, The spokesman further said that if Marshal Feng is really sincere in desiring the return of General Sung Cheh Yasn, he should have evacuated Kalgan and Hsuanhua long ago instead of filling them with irregulars and bandit troops, thereby causing General Sung Chel Yuan to hestitate to go back

Bemarking that it was an extra ordinary thing to steal, Mr. Wynne- Jones at Central Magistracy yes terday morning offered an unem ployed Chinese the choice of paying 5 fine or going to prison for a wack for the theft of two bundles of shavings. The stuff was the property of the Hong Kong Farmi- ture Store in Queen's Road Central

This apathy is a great pity be cause wars are made, not by sud- den and pnexpected crises; not by ill-tempered monarchs and ministers, or by generals anxious to test their professional skill, but by the pursuance of lines of policy which lead to national conflicts. that the case with regard to the Sometimes the collision is caused Great War. The whole of that by drift, sometimes by the defi- unpleasant episode is in most parts berate pursuit of an objective with of the British Empire relegated the determination, if need be, to to Armistice Day morning. Aus substitute battles for diplomacy. tralia and New Zealand celebrate Great Britain and France were the memory of the landing ou able to settle the Fashoda inci- Gallipoli, but most people in dent. because it was an isolated Britain can recall only two dates, incident, and neither Britain nor the beginning and the end. Ask the United States, had any inten- 11042 when Jutland was fought, when tion of letting the picturesque

the great attack on Gallipoli was Alabama cause a war. launched, when Baghdad and Japanese policy in Manchuria Jerusalem were taken, when the is, however, a perfect example of Czar abdicated, or when Lord a war policy. Where peaceful The natural tendency is for Kitchener was drowned, and methods fail force is employed. groups of nations to fall into & people will stare at you blankly Thirty years ago neither Russia state of mutual irritation, grow Only those directly concerned will nor Japan would concede an inch. ing to an armed tension, when & remember. Sometimes there is Both were determined to control trifling incident provokes an ulti an output of war films or war Manchuria and the inevitable war matum. If the peoples of the books, mostly on the lines of was fought. As long as Chang World want peace they will have

What Price Glory

and Tso Lin allowed Japanese inter-

to strive for it. If Governments Goodbye to All That," interests full play he was permitted are left to themselves they will spersed with ponderous apologia his share in the Government settle nothing, but back each by this or that celebrity, or his The death of Chang Tso Lin is claim by armaments, and yet dearest friend...

too controversial & subject to call more armaments, War has strong But while the distaste for the for more than mention, but when advocates, mostly among those subject of the Great War is ap-his son opposed Japanese pre- who see the drama of it, but will parent it is very dubious how far dominance his policy was counter-

neither do the fighting nor live there is positive anti-war feeling ed, and, ploughing through all in the lands that are often its in the world today. What there cpposition, Japan has created cause. These dealers in heroics INTERIM DIVIDEND of is shows little sign of activity, and Manchukuo, and is now seeking are more dangerous than control- 50 cents per Shere has ben declaral payable on WEDN+SDAY, public support. Robert-Graves by the purchase of the Chinese lers of economic interests involv EDFAUGUST ner, on and after chose the title of his book well Eastern Railway to obliterate ing political questions, for com "hich date. Dividned Wariants may when he called it "Goodbye to Russian influence. That is a

merce has a shrewd idea that Registered Office of the Company

obtained upon application at All That. We wish to thrust it deliberate and intelligent war while there is always a chance of Anal Road East, Powrington, Hong aside, and say that it is all in policy. The case of Britain and profiteering, here and there, the dead past and there is no dan Germany was a mixture of deli- wealth comes with peace, poverty NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ger of war to-day. But there are berate contest of interests, of and revolution with war. at the REGISTER of MEMBERS certain realities that cannot be playing with fire, and of the tradi. when crises arise, following Remanded on a charge of robbery are believed to be ez soldiers, enter un the Company will be closed from

disposed of. at will and tional muddle of a Liberal Cabinet long-standing hostility, fanned by in, Queen Victoria Street ned through the front door, which that TRINE DAY, 9th to TCESDAY;

CBEAUGUST, 1985, both days the more they

disre some of whom knew what might propaganda; national interests August, 1931, a Chinese Mae yester. the other, maai the greater their dan be expected, and

the rest cheer and honour, become involved, war day discharged by Mr. Wynne-Jones front entrance,

hatreds in the Central Police Court De Chin' residence, in krait enters your room, fully repeating war with Ger- hysteria and racial

out, many is impossible

erupt, and nothing can stay the tective Inspector Murphy told the Rue Fo

Magistrate that he had been in Du VarThere has been no cessation of accumulated resentments and instructed to withdraw the charge as streets in humanwar sing

of blunders and the mitresses-m the caso could - by stray

not be.loested..

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An exhibition of illa is shortly to take place at the Y.M.C.A., Cantoke all the various stages of to Chathaaled that Marshal Feng silk manufacturer will be shown, Tu Hsiang retently lured Teng and from removing it from the cocoon Wen, a former subordinate" officer An unemployed Chinese naided to the finished article ready for under General Ma. Chan Shan to Ise Hing was fined $50, or one wear. The different stages of pre-Kalgan and had him summarily month's hard labour, by Mr. Scho-paring will be demonstrated by com field yesterday morning for the un-petent workers. It is hoped also to lawful possession of 103 rounds of exhibit other goods, and examples ammunition. Mr H. Le Dennys, for of handicrafts by women workers the defendant, admitted the charge will be a special featura Theatr cal but pleaded that the stuff had been entertainments sideshows are added given to defendant by a clanaman attractions offered to the public. who had since disappeared.

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shot because Tung Wen was, RUS. pected of unfriendliness towards Marshal Fong's movement: Router.

WOMAN STEALS A LAKH

A warrant has been issued by the Canton police for the arrest of" A Chinese woman was fined 150! A sensational round-up in Tien Wong Kit Ling, a woman living at by Mr. Wynne-Jone's yesterdays of a band of armed robbers No.5, Kau Yuk Road, Canton, who morning for keeping sly brothel was carried out on July 21 in the

is said to have absconded with one at No. 62; Gage Street Detective morning by the French Police hundred thousand dollars, the pro- Sub-Inspector McEwen said that appears that at about 8-8.m six perty of different people who had there were eight girls in the place Chinese armed bandits gained a subscribed to a Joan association and that defendant got 85% from cess into the residence of Tien organised by the woman mention each of them monthly, An order Sheng Chun ex general of the edg was made for the place to be closed Second Kuominchun Army the These loan associations are very But down.

g commander of which way, Hu popular, in - Ching Yi. Five of the robbers, who to the

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