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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

HONGKONG TRAMWAYS,

LIMITED.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of 50 cents per Share has been declared payable on WEDNESDAY, 23RD AUGUST next, on and after which date Dividend Warrants" may be obtained upon application at the Registered Office of the Company. Canal Road East, Bowrington, Hong Kung.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER of MEMBERS of the Company will be closed from WEDNESDAY. 9th, to TUESDAY, AUGUST, 1933, both days

ONES

inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

W. F. SIMMONS. Beerétury,

Hong Kong, dat August, 1939.

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NOTICE TO CONSIⱭNEES,

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION Co.'s STEAMZA "KIDDERPOKE."

ARRIVED HONG KONG ON 6TH AUGUST, 1933.

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.

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CONSIGNEES of Cargo, by the

above-named Vessel are hereby in- formed that their Goods are being landed' and placed AT THEIR RISK in the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon where each Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and Delivery can be obtained as the Goods landed,

Optional Goods will be landed Eora naless Instructions have been given to the contrary Sir Hours before arrival of the Steamer.

Goods not cleared within 8 days in- eluding data of arrival will be subject to Rent.

No Fire Insurance will be affected by na in any case whatever.

Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's surveyors, Messrs. GODDARD & Douglas, at 10a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, within the Pree Storage period.

Consignees are specially notified that it is necessary for's Revenue Officer to be present at the examination of damaged dutible cargo.

All Claims against the Steamer muel be presented to the Undersigned on or before 27th August, 1931, or they will not be recognized.

No Ohims will be admitted after the

Goods have left the Godown. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co.,

Agents.

Hong Kong, 5th Aug., 1933.

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NOTICE TO, CÔNSIUNEES,

OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO, LTD

AND

CHINA MUTUAL - STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

ONSIGNEES par Co.'s Vensel

"DEUCALION"

FROM UNITED KINGDOM

VIA SINGAPORE

are Bereby notified that their Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowicon, where it will be as Consiguser risk and subject to Terme and Conditions of Storage at Holt's Wharf, The Cargo will be ready for Delivery from Godown on and after

4th August

Optional Cargo will not be landed here anless Notice has been given prior to port to port to the final port of call to which the option extends,

Steamer's arrival, but carried on fron

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1933

THE LOVABLE FRAGRANCE

OF "

YARDLEY LAVENDER.

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

you 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 PREPARATIONS IN THE COLONY, AND WE ARE OFFERING THEM TO THE PUBLIC AT COMPETITIVE PRICES. -

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

THE HONG KONG

· DISPENSARY

EST. 1841.

Editorial and Business Office: 11

Ice House Street. Tel. 30251

Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. 2451)..

London Office: $3. Fleet Street,

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THE FIGHTING SERVICES

(Special Air Mail Service)

LONDON, July 18,

APPOINTMENTS

Surgeon-Lt. J. W. Caswell to Kent, August 99; Sub-Lt. K. H. J. L. Phibbs to Gnat (on relief) and Q. A. Carline to Dorset (on re W Sub-Lt, Acting commg.); D. F. B. Maspratt to Suffolk (Aug. 5) and J. M. Parker and A. R. C Butler to Dorsetshire August 2;. Engr. Lt.-Commr. C. T. Phillips to Rodney (July 15) D.. T. July 14; L-Commr. K. H. T. Peard to Hawkins, July 23,

NELSON'S LOG BOOK IN

THE VICTORY

Nelson's personal log-book was yesterday handed over by the Prime Minister to Sir George Hill, Directer and Principal Librarian of the British Museum, as the gift of Lord Wakefield to, the nation.

The book is the modest log which

Nelson personally kept in the Vie tory from May 13 to October 20, 1805. He made the last entry in it on the day before Trafalgar. It is paper-covered, resembling an exercise book, with blue-grey mar bling on the covers, and a green silk ribbon worked into the bind- ing, The entries are in the Admiral's hand. The last two

ara :-

Fi

Sunday, October 207 a.m. 30 deg. .04. Fresh breeze S.S.W.

Rain, 8 p.m. 30 deg. 06. moderate breeze W.N.W.Y

to

The book was acquired by Lord Wakefield from the direct deacen- dants of Nelson's youngest and favourite sister, Catherine, whom he left the sword of honour. presented, to him by the City of London. after the Battle of the Nile. The sword has been given by Lord Wakefeld to the Guildhall Museum.

PROMOTIONS TO COLONEL

lay will do no harm. To the

Three lieutenant-colonels are to modern architect, verandahs are out of date, high ceilings are

them. Lieutenant-Colonel. Robert wasteful and unnecessary, steel day promoted to colonel. One of frame structures can be lighter Turner, D.S.O. relinquished and therefore, less space is taken command of the 2nd Battalion, The by thickness of wells. Ahead Durham Light Infantry on June looms the prospect of glass build-27 at Barrackpore and becomes ASings of cabist shape, with steel colonel at the use of a once a

years with his regiment and on skeletons

the Staff. The other two, promo- strength.

Provided foundations will stand it, Hong Kong with its restricted areas is pre-eminently the place for the tall building, and the won

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, AUGUST 8, 1935.

RE-BUILDING HONG KONG

We have

undreamed of

of

RICHEST MAN IN BRITAIN

Late Sir J. Ellerman's Huge Fortune

ESTIMATED AT THIRTY MILLIONS

(Special Air-Mall Servico)`

FUTURE OF CHINA

Developing Into A Modern Nation

BRITISH PROFESSOR'S

ADDRESS

(Special Air-Mail Service)

། : STAFFORD, July 18. "China is trying to convert an ancient civilisation into a modern LONDON, July 18.

nation," declared Professor P. M. Sir John Ellerman, the shipping Roxby, of Liverpool University, magnate, reputed to be the weal-president of the Geography Sec- in Britain, died ation of the British Association, in thiest man Dieppe. He was 71.

the course of a lecture on China which he gave on Saturday at the haemorrhage. Sir John had been geographical exhibition arranged ill for some time, but appeared to by the Staffordshire Education be recovering. Accompanied by Committee in conjunction with in- Lady Ellerman, he went to the spectors of the Board of Educa Hotel Royal, Dieppe, about three tion. weeks ago to recuperate.

Death WAS due to cerebral

A relapse" occurred, and a doctor was summoned from London. Ht arrived an hour after Sir John had died in his room at the hotel. Sir Joha. had been attended by Dieppe doctorate

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The body was taken aboard a private yacht in the early hours of this morning for transport to Eng land. The yacht was sent gut from England, and arrived at Dieppe about midnight.

At various periods of his life Sit John Ellerman owned or controlled The largest private shipping în- terests in the world;

As a civilisation, said Professor Roxby, China was the oldest in the world, but as a nation in the sense that we understood the word the

was modern indeed.

"We hear a good deal about the political troubles in China and they are very real," continued Professor Roxby," but while there is a great deal of confusion there is, at the same time, a great deal of real,, solid constructional work going on in China,

The revolution now going on in

revolution China-a

essentially

TRADE MARKS ACTION

Wool Yarn For China HEARING AT MANCHESTER

(Special Air-Mail Service)

"London, July 1s

In

›restrain

the Madchester Chancery Court yesterday the Vice-Chan cellor, Sir Courthope Wilson, K.C., began the hearing of an action in which Messrs. H. 'G," Dixon and Son, Ltd, merchants and shippers, 75, Whitworth Street, Manchester, claimed injunctions to Messrs. George Richardson and Co., Ltd., merchants and shippers, at Bradford and Manchester, from infringing four trade-marks in clay, 33, from passing off as of the plain- tiffs manufacture or merchandise woollen yam not made or sold by the plaintiffs, and from breaking. an agreement not to sell or export to China woollen yarn in paper bundles other than paper bundles so got up as to prevent confusion aris ing in the minds of Chinese buyers between the plaintiffs' and the de fendants paper bundles. It is an- ticipated the trial will occupy several days.

Mr. J. Bennett and Mr. A. Walma-

ley. instructed by Messrs. Boote, Edgar, and Rylands, appeared for. the plaintiffs: Mr. R. Moritz, K.C., and Mr. C. E. R. Abbott, instruct by Messrs. Grundy, Kershaw, Sam- son and Co.. represented the de fendants.

Sir John's nephew flew to Dieppe yesterday. He and Lady Ellerman will accompany the body to Eng-social, economic, and cultural, as Mr. Bennett said both firms ex--„ land. All formalities have been well as political-could not, in the ported knitting wool-yarn to Shang- carried out, so that there shall be nature of things, be accomplished | hai, where the plaintiffs had. » as little delay as possible, and the in less than four or five genera- branch house and the defendants coffin was sealed up before being tions. The development of com did business with a firm named carried on board,

munications was one of the most. Siemssen and Co. Deklers came to vital problems in the future of Shanghai from all parts of China to China.

buy from the importing houses; about 70 of them had trans-

with actiong

the plaintiffs. the Mess,Dixon used upon

of wrappers.

their goods ticket with a picture and certain Chinese characters. In 1997 they made this more distinctive and put black printing at the top. The same get-up was combined with dif

series of ferent pictures in a tickets, and each dealer took the particular one he fancied; if he wanted an exclusive mark he could choose a special pictorial effect.

Emphasising the value of geo- graphical approach to the under More than 200 acres of the most standing of some of the problems valuable real estate in London': of the world, Profesor Roxby said,

Large brewery interests;

whatever view they might take Newspapers and periodicals; and about China, he thought no OBA Several big trust companies. could doubt that it was a part of Starting business life as a char the world that was going to be tered accountant in the City, be most important in the lifetime of added one interest to another until the children in the schools to-day. his fortune was reckoned in fens Although China had been up-side- of millions. In his early twenties down fairly frequently as a nation, he was already a wealthy man, she had managed to maintain her-

£65,000,000 in 1916,

self for 4,000 years. Such a nation

was not going to vanish but would surely play a bigger part in the life of the world,"

(They were

In 1916, when he amalgamated the Ellerman and the Wilson declared that he was the richest

extraordinarily steamship lines. Sir John himself man in Britain. He said his for- gifted and intelligent people who tune amounted to £35,000,000. Ho were now beginning to organise a nation as we made arrangements with the in themselves into come-tax authorities to

aúnderstood the term. certain sum in 1918, twice that amount in 1917, and one-and- a-half times the sum in 1918.

Death, duties, on this sum would amount to £15,000,000. Moreover,

Sir John Ellerman's income at probably in the neighbourhood of tions are from the RA.O.C. and the time of his death was estimate the sum mentioned, although it is advance Lieutenant-Colonels Leoned at £1,000,000 a year. His total believed that Sir John made large ard C. Lewis, O.B.E., and Hugh fortune is reputed to be in the settlements on his son and family. Warwick, D.S.O., at the age of 5f neighbourhood of $30,000,000, and 34 years' service approximately

According to the latest available statistics an income-tax of a penny for bath. Colonel Lewis has been

yields £4,875,000. If the above forecast of Sir John's fortune proves correct it will mear that the death duties payable will be Equal of 3d Income Tax, equivalent to a threepenny income. This fortune will mean as enor-tax on all the taxpayers of the mous windfall for the Exchequer, 'land. '

der "is that recently completed at Hong Kong, for some time and structures are not higher than Colonel Warwick is an Assistant Director and A.A.G. at the War they are. The mighty mass of Office. By these promotions Major masonry designed for the Hong Percy W. Kidd becomes lieutenant- Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor-colonel. Majors Lewis G, Robin- poration is to lead the way inson and Valentine O. Beuttler, D.S.O. are also promoted lieut. lowering height, and no doubt colonels in the R.A. others will follow.

COMMAND OF THE TORRID

L P.

it is believed that few men of very large means will be found to have left so liquid an estate..

Local and General

On his return home from

his ent.

£

A Complaint in 1981. Messrs. Dixon's tickets and goods" were well-known in China. Early in 1937 they discovered that the des fendants were sending to Shanghai woollen yarn under a ticket which was practically the same as that used by the plaintiffs. They com- plained and the defendants under- took to alter the general lay-out so that no confusion, would arise in the That minds of Chinese buyera. undertaking had not been kept. Between the mark Srst objected to and the mark which the defendants: had since used there were slight. differences, but in some respects the latter was more like the plaintiffs'. The imitation was so close as to constitute a very bad case of pass ing off

British people have it firmly in their minds that a building is a permanent creation. our Tudor and Queen Anne houses, black and white cottages of the fifteenth century, and churches of Norman and even At the moment, however, the Saxon origin. We are apt, per-problem for the architect is no haps in consequence, to overlook easy one quite apart from any that as a matter of fact old houses, question of anticipating future All broken, thafed and damaged Goods even in England are rare most improvements. It is by no means they will be examined on any Tossdays have been pulled down to make certain that much of the local and Fridays between the hours of way for more up-to-date struc- material for new building is what 10.43 A.M. and Nous within the Free tures. Here the life of a building is wanted to-day. Nor is labour. Bhorage period

No Claims will be admitted after the has generally been short, and will always as dependable and skilful Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, be so in the future unless modern us the scientific builder requires. and all Goods retasining undelivered architecture marks the limit of The tragic verandah collapse in after the 10th August, will be rabject development, having solved all, Huppy Valley, and the demoli All Claims against the Steamer must and perfected all, so that Hong tic is needed to prevent similar be presented to the Undersigned on or Kong has only to finish its pre-occurrences showed lamentable before the 24th Aug., 933 or they will sent reconstruction and then we inability to carry out a compara Aug. 31, 1924, from the Royal yacht equipping it with electric sp director of the bank's local office, Shanghai about 860,000lb," of woollen

are to be left in the Godown, where

to Bent.

Lieutenant-Commander,

The Christian Publishing Skipwith, from Portsmonth Bar- rack, the destroyer Torrid, in the for the advertising of Italian silk, felt that they could not see their racks, assumed command on Tues- mission at the Chicago Exhibition House to whom it was submitted,

Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Dr. Giuseppe Goris, a well-known, way to publishing the book.. Firs Portland, in succession to Licut. silkman in Italy, arrived at Toke. Commander R. Dalby He last hama by the Empress of Japan to served afloat in 1929-39 as first inspect the silk industry of the lieutenant of the destroyer Van- country. quisher in the Mediterranean. En- tering Osborne College in January, 1916. Lieutenant-Commander Skip with went to sea in 1919, as mid- shipman of the Emperor of India. He was promoted to lieutenant on can, unlike any previous age, con- tively simple piece of work. Victoria and Albert, and after a sider ourselves housed for ever. Furthermore comes the question commission in the Royal Sovereign Three of the oldest houses in how long is this or that build- was appointed in 1927 as first [10 8 Hong Kong are Flagstaff House. ing expected to last? If that lieutenant of the river gunboat Bishop's House, the residence of problem could be answered, much Widgeon on the Yangtaze. In the spring of 1029, during unrest along the Bishop of Victoria, and would necessarily be solved. But the Upper River, he was sent up Government House. The latter in that direction questions of from his ship at Chingaha in com- is a fine example of traditional & human and incalculable factor mand of a hired tug to evacuate Colonial architecture, in the clas- intervene. Was it imagined for foreigners from Changteb, and aring arrived, from Hamburg and sical manner, but as we all know example that the present Hong brought hack arty of, refugees

successfully. Ports of call, Consignees of Cargo are its days are more or less num-Kong & Shanghai Bank building. hereby notified that their Goods are bered. Despite its dignity and would be pulled down in fifty A PIONEER FLIGHT being landed and placed at their risk into the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf spaciousness those who live in it years?. It is a fine structure, but and Godown Company's godowns at have for a long time felt the circumstances have changed since

improvements, the early eighties. Kowloon, where Delivery may be absence of modern

not be recognised,

No Fire, Insurance will be affected. ·

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRY,

Areata,

4th August, 1933:

HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

BE Moto: Vessel

Mr. Herbert Clement Dixon, the managing director of the plaintiff company, said in the latter part of 1927 he decided it was very advis- able to alter their marks and make them quite distinctive and dif- ferent from anything else that was going into the market. He per- ronally devised the present lay-out and submitted it to the firm's re- presentatives in Shanghai, who up- per had been used since without proved of it, and that form of wrap- change except that, after the first complaint to Messrs. Richardson, Shanghai.-The local branch of cautionary panels were put at the a Changchun native bank, estab-sides-oblong panels on black with lished on the third floor of a build. English lettering. He had in mind ing in 288 Ningpo Road, was raid that different tickets would be re- The construction work of the ed by police last Friday. A search quired from time to time, and be foundation of the air beacon to be of the premises resulted in the die devised the new get-up such a erected on Hachibus Mountain,covery of four sets of opium smok manner that it could be used in behind Kobe, has been completed. ing paraphernalia and about forty various forms. Under wrappers so The next stage. consists in ounces of the drug Li Lin Shu made up the firra had exported to paratus capable of producing light was arrested. He was brought he yarn. In January 1931, he com- fore the Chinese court on Satur plained to the defendants about aggregaing 343,800 candle power.

day and fined. $200 for opium the mark they were then using. In an interview. Mr. HP Richardson According to the Japanese Pasmoking.

very handsomely and plainly ac pers, a young German. lady in

While taking a walk with a fel knowledged that they had been Tokyo, employed as a governess, attempted to commit suicide, owing low-sailor, Arnold Mester. a fire misled. He said the defendante to unhappiness in a love affair:man on a German freighter in had adopted the market without The story as told is that on the voy Kobe went mad, He stripped and any notion that it was like the age out she fell in love with attempted to Bling himself into the plaintiff's, and he would hiter it Jewish passenger, but found his re- water at Kyobashi. Even after into each a form that there would ligion an obstacle to their marriage, being taken into the police deten ba no question between them in the An undertaking to that Since the Hitlerite cade be- tion room the madman continued future. came popular, the situation had be his violence, destroying various ar effect was embodied in the "corres come so unbearable that she took ticles therein. After a cunguka pondence. The 6,000 miles formation flight paison. Medical aid being sumtion between the police and the Mr. Moritz bad not concluded his. of Mr. Dixon staff of the vessel he was sent to cross-examination of the Italian flying boats is a moned.

the Inaba insane asylum.

when the case was adjourned. notable achievement in the history All arrangements have been com

The Japan Chronicle reports Optional Cargo will not be landed

Bince his work with the Lytton kera, unless Notice has been given 48 in all Hong Kong buildings, the seen here in the last six or seven size of the adventure have caught pleted in Changchun for the im bours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried time comes when; if capital is years leaves little regret for old the public imagination, and the pending goodwill flight from Tokyo, that 28 priests in grotesque black Commission, Dr. O-Walter Young. on from port to port to the final port of available, new premises are an Hong Kong. Whatever the far skill and precision with which the to the Manchoukuo capital by the attire who were rounded up by the has been locked at somewhat ask ance in Japan, and we learn from Korean aviatrix, Misa Keigen Hayama police while they were No Claims will be admitted after the economy. The City Hall another distant past may have done, in conducted have impressed the Boku. The flight, is scheduled to gathering in a grove and confer the Mainchi that when he landed Goods have left the Godowns, and all of our veterans was certainly not our own era architecture has been parts who anticipated more casual start on August 7. Miss Boku will ring secretly, are alleged to have from the Baikal-mara after a tour take off from the Haneda Interna confessed to the authorities that in Manchuria, the authorities Goods remaining undelivered after the built for futurity. Its demolition growing, both from the scientific ties than the squadron suffered. tional Airport and step en route they are adherents of the Nichiren temporarily seized "eight: reels Thunday, 10th Angust, will be subject has revealed that the cement was and artistic etandpoints. Light, The only serious accident of the to Changchun at Osaka, Tachiafai, sect, and, in revolt against other of cinema Elm still undeveloped. All broken, chafed, and damaged mainly sand, which crumbles strong, free of useless ornamenta fight, at Amsterdam, had little re- Unrusan, Seoul, Heijo Shingisht religions, they were conspiring to After the authorities have develop- Goods are to be left in the Godowns, away at the touch of a pick. Nortion, it relies on grace and har-lation to the hazards of the jour and Makden, reaching her destina burn the Zojoji temple in Shiba ed them, they will be inspeced in ney,, but it was reasonable to ex- tion on August 12, the will fly and to assassinato Mr. Gumper order to see that there is nothing where they will be examined on Wedata was Beaconsfield Arcade much mony of proportion, while within, pect that the difficult and danger 230 borse power machine named Yamamuro, Lieutenant-General of that it would be inadvisable to day, 9th August at 10 am, by our

elimination of waste space, pro- ous stage from Reykjavik to Cart the Blue Swallowing

the Salvation Army,

show in America. We understand Burreyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas sounder.

To comply with the General Bonded Apart from these two sur per orientation of windows, better right: would have been attended

that films developed in these cir Warehouse Regulations, consignees must vivals, till a few days ago, a good roofing, plaster and wood made

deal of the Central District will insect proof by scientific treat that the Labrador fogs were nego. He was ordained as long ago a Japanese who, after guiding them probably be rebuilt during the ment, artificial lighting based on a tiated in such orderly formation, 1890 by the late Dr. Richard to a Sukiyaki restaurant of Osaka, All Claims must reach na before the next ten years. There was a time testing of human eyesight, and a A fight on this scale was bound to Glover of Bristol. To illustrate ran away with their money to the lected the money from his victimes Thereday, 31st Au ust, 1983, or they will when Hong Kong buildings were hundred one one other devices be attempted sooner or later, but the facility with which the old Con value of Y.25, on Sunday evening and left the place on a pretext to not be recognized.

No Tsurance will be 'affectel, definitely ahead of Shanghai. This make for that physical comfort now it has been accomplished so fucion type of Chinese can com The strangers were, accosted by the the restaurant men that he would could hardly be claimed to-day; and ease in work, that lie at the successfully and with so little nose essays, it may be stated that Japanese who offered them his ser bring other foreigners, but never ostentation the future of military this wood pastor once submitted an vice as guide when they landed at tame back. Eventually the Ger though with architecture in a foundations of the steady efficiency and civil aviation is at once more 34.8.8 containing 100 sermons, all the American Hatoba. After en man Consulate of Kobe paid the transitional state a few years de required in modern business.

sharply defined.

on the Prodigal Son, and all differ joying sakiyaki, the Japanese col account for them.

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KULMERLAND "

obtained as soon as the Goods are landed. Repairs are a heavy factor, and a Such re-building as we have aviation. The nature and the

call to which the ion extends."

tc Bent

when damaged dut'able. goods are “examined, so

have Revenue Officer in attendance

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Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

Hong Fiar, in Aug, 193 [1050

Agents,

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seven stages of the flight have been

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the discipline of the navigators Lars passed away recently aged 70. staying at Kobe were taken in by a well: by calamity, and it is a tribute to One of the oldest Chinese pas Four sailors of a German vessel cumstances seldom come out very