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VICTORIAN ERA

IN CANTON

Canton Girls Again Criticised

IN FUKIEN

19th Route Army Victory

FIERCE FIGHTING CANTON SHERIFFS JAPANESE GOODS

SENT TO PRISON IN CANTON

Alleged Acceptance Strict Restrictions

Of Bribes

Being Imposed

COUNTER OFFENSIVE AFTER A CHECK

SEVERAL COUNTY MAGIS. ONLY METHOD TO STOP

TRATES IN GAOL

DUMPING

REMOVE POWDER AND PAINT

(From Our Special Correspondant) (From Our Special Correspondant) (From Our Special Correspondent)

Canton, Aug. 13.

Japanese goods are seized daily by the National Salvation Asocia- tion, which reported discovery, of matches, electric bulbs, mush

Canton, Aug, 13. Women employees in Govern- ment offices particularly in the Provincial Department of Fin- ance Commissioner, Ou Fang Pu, who orders that the female staff in his Department should dress simply and dignifiedly.. manicured finger-nails, powder and rouge, fashionable dresses, and ultra-modern coiffeur,

Canton, Aug: 12. Reinforced by fresh troops, the

Canton, Aug. 18. 19th Route Army have recaptur ed Lien Chien in Western Fu-

Two sheriffs of the Canton kien by launching an offensive District Court were found guilty from Lungyen, about 40 miles of accepting bribes while in south-east of Lien Chien and the office and were sentenced by the headquarters of General Tsai Canton Special Court to twelve Ting Kai.

and thirteen years' imprisonment rooms, tinned goods and sun- The Government troops were respectively. The defendants are dries. Some of the seizures are obliged to effect a strategic re-Tsoi Shau Wy, former Chief made at local shops, while others without having coloured and treat Lien Cheng a week ago Sheriff, who gets thirteen years owing to the overwhelming on- prison sentence, and Lau Chung slaught of the Communist forces Yu who is given twelve years'

The imprisonment. under Pang Teh Huai. arrival of two other divisions at Lung Yen made it possible to launch a counter-offensive. on Lien Cheng which was captured on August 11..

It is reported that about 5,000 Reds were killed in the last

ties.

A third defendant named Leung Ching, who was arraigned for the 8&me offence together with the other two, was found not guilty and was acquitted.

are effected from junks and river arriving here from steamers Hong Kong..

Some goods bearing a foreign label and mark other than from Japan are also seized as manu- factures from that country, as officials of the National Salvation Association charge that the goods are really imported from Japan but have undergone & label or package at Hong Kong

ties

different

"

Mr. Ou Fang Pu holds the view that civil servants working. for the welfare of the "Govern- ment should dress frugally in- stead of vieing with each other to become the most fascinating and stunning. This order should not have created any ripples ex-

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FLOWER VASES."

has an

In accordance with the Three- battle, while the 19th Route Year Plan, Government officials

the powder and paint cept that the words. Remove. - Army also suffered heavy casual who are found to be corrupt or

or. Shanghai. It may be true offensive and humiliating mean.. The Communiste

were to have accepted bribes will be that Japanese goods are shipped ing in idiomatic Chinese. forced to flee to their Fukien severely punished, the judgment here after a change of label has stronghold in Changling, west of of the Special Court stated. The

Literally such expression is Lien Cheng.

Criminal Code provides death been made elsewhere, but this A squadron of bombers under penalty for officials guilty of tak practice has caused much hard-plain, but the female officials Wing Commander. Wu Chien ing bribes, but in view of ex ship to importers of non-Japanese insist that taken idiomatically Wen flew daily from their base in tenuating circumstances they are merchandise which is subjected and figuratively those words.

to seizure on suspicion.

denote the retirement of a pro- « fessional beauty, (such as a sing Swatow into southern Kiangsi given heavy prison sentences, the

Consignees of such commodi- song girl; actress or dinner se and western Fukien to observe judgment decreed. the movements of the Reds, Several county magistrates are

may eventually claim companyiat) to a domestic and whose main force is now in now in gaol because of their their wares but they have to go married life. They therefore fee. Juichin, southern Kianger and oppression of the people, levying and negotiation before their pro- same footing or referred to as the through much routine application offended being placed on the Changting, western Fakien. illegal taxes or committing acts latively much smaller scale. It The Communist military depots of maladministration. As initiat party is reclaimed. In the mean foregoing professional classes of

ed by General Chen Trai Tong, time, temporary seizure often beauties. SCHULDT.-On August 11, to Ixx-is to the reports of the Big Five Bre often bombed.

banks that the commercial con-

the Three-Year Plan stipulates brings about deterioration of the GART, wife of G. SCHULDT, at

Chen Chung Ming's Activities.. the Victoris Hospital, a son.* munity looks for an indication

severe penalty for negligent and goods or loss of profit by inability of the whole country's economic

dishonest officials, though, so far to make prompt delivery to the Canton, Aug. 12.

In any case, the expression only minor officials are found to buyers." well-being. In a rough and ready

Remove Acting upon, information re have violated these new stipula

the powder and On the other hand, the Aaso paint affords interesting discus. way this is shown, by their half- yearly dividends. The mid-ceived from General Tea Ting tions.

ciation claims that Japanese sions in tea-shops, Government. goods will be dumped in Can- and Party organs, literary circles summer dividends, being only Rai, Commanding the 19th Route

ton.unless un efficient checks and newspaper offices, How- ioterim, are naturally not so Army, the Kwangtung Provincial conclusive a guide as the final Government has issued a general

made and that the best résistance dividends at the years end. It notification warning the public

against Japanese aggression is by is, however, good to notice that and Government bodies to keep a sharp watch on the activities

the boycott of her goods. after one of the leanest six of Chen Chiung Ming, who is months on record two only of the trying to stir up trouble in Big Five banks have deemed it Fukien. expedient to make a fractional Several henchmen of Chen reduction in their interim pay-Chiung Ming are very active in ments. It is useful to contrast Shanghai, Foochow, Amoy, Swa- the recent interim payments with tow and Macao, and are said to those of a year ago and the final be plotting against the local dividends for 1932. They are authorities. The administrative as follows:-Barclays, interim, organs under the provincial 1932, 7 per cent.; final, 1932, 7 government are ordered to keep per cent.; interim, 1933, 7 per sharp watch. cent. Midland, 8 per cent., 8 per cent, 8 per cent,," West- minster, 9, 9, 9; Lloyds, 6.2-3, 5.1-3, 6; National Provincial, 8, 77 per cent,

Ice House Street. -Tal. 30251 Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. 24811.

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NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF

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TOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN

NOTICE cond Interim Dividend

of six Pence for share on account of the fluancial year ending 31st March, 1934 hay teen declared by the Directors of the Company in Brisbane payable fo Shareholders on the Registers 'at Brisbane and Singapore" on Thursday, 14th September, 1833.

Notice is also hereby given that the Singapore Transfer Hegisters will be "closed from Friday, 8th September to Thursday, 14th September, 1933 (both days inclusive), for the preparation of

Dividend Warrants.

"By Order of the Foud,

DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants, Local Secretarics.

Hongkong Bank Chambers,

SINGAPORE, 3rd August, 1983,

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AGENCIES. The London Uffice of the HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, 33,

London: Office: 63, Fleet Street,

E.0.4

The Baily Press.

HONG KONG, AUGUST 14, 1933.

HOW BRITISH BANKS

STAND

The half year that has just closed has once more demonstrat ed the casential soundness and prosperity of the British banking: system. It cannot, of course, be maintained that there has not been some decline from the

This comparison of the three half-year periods is useful as it probably throws light on the re- duction in the latest interim de-

a

Chen Chiung Ming has been living in retirement since his break with Dr. Sun Yat Sen in

1922. He has made several ats: tempts to stage a comeback but is ostracized by all Kuomintang leaders-Central TM Pren

FLEET STREET, E.0.4, in conubaas standard of prosperity of five or claration of the two last-named bills which was £2.168. 6d. per

ly receiving Enquiries from Home Manufactorms regarding Suitable Firess to act as Agents for their prodnets in Hong Kong sa Fonth China.

side..

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The Baquired Information should. B mint to the”

11. Jen Hocam Staust

SUNG CHANGES HIS MIND

WILL REMAIN GOVERNOR

OF CHARHAR

Peiping, Ang. 12. Due to the persuasion of Mar- shal Chiang Kai Shek, General Sung Cheh Yuan has given up his announced intention to resign the Governorship of Charhar as soon as he reaches Kalgan and com- pletes the rehabilitation of the Province.

He has not yet left for Kalgin, but is expected to go there at any

time.

General Feng Yu Hsiang told a journalist that he was leaving

(Continued on

ever, it is said that the order was drafted by a secretary of the Department who has no inten- tion of making fun at his lady colleagues, yet this ambigenous statement becomes a joke on the Kalgan in a day or two, but when girls in Government offices who asked where he would live, realready have a reputation 88. plied. It is not a very im-flower vases For objects of

decoration. portant matter where I live."- Reuter."

RAIL TRAFFIC RESUMED

Peiping, Aug. 18.

It is officially stated that the through railway traffic from Pei- ping to Shanhaiwan will start

to-morrow morning."

At present, only one freight train, and one passenger train run each way daily-Reuter.

Local and General

Dus case of enteric and one of meningitis were reported on. Eri 'day.

cent, for the first half of 1932 had sunk to only 138. Bd. per cent, for the past six months. On short loans; and bills the rates earned by the banks have, it is calculated, fallen far short of that necessary to cover expenses,

The most remunerative sénroe of banking income is, generally, that earned on advances. Here, The name of Mr. Robert Philip again, the return has been very Shaw has been added to the local small in the fast six months. list of authorised arellitects Not only has the rate on ad Owing to ordered arrangement vances been lower than in the there will be the usual tes dance same period last year, but the and dinner dance at Repulse Bay amount that it has been possible Hotel to-day, but not on Tuesday, to lend has been substantially less. This has led to the banks increasing largely their portfolion

the 18th inst

Engaged mostly as copying on filing clerks, some of these young ladies are among the best dressed and prettiest women in Canton. Those employed by the provincial, treasury lead their fellow sisters in other departments in fashion, chic and poise.

RETIREMENT OF

WGFENG

DECIDES TO LIVE AT TAIAN

Peiping, Ang. 18." Feng Yu Hsiang has appare "By an unfortunate misprint the|ly accepted are invitation from article which appeared in our issue Han Fu Cho to resume his abode of Saturday on the good govern ment now prevailing in Kwangsi at Taishan, China's Baered was hooded "Good Government in Mountain in Shantung. Kianggi. We hope," however, that our printer has made an intelligent According to a telegram from troubled province. anticipation of affairs in that | Kalgan, Feng Yu Hsiang has decided to go to Talan, South of Taitian and is leaving by specia train tonight or morning. Sung Cheh Ynan accompanying him so far. Perping.

Reuter

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Edward Newhouse P.A.S.I., Chartered Surveyor, to be an Assistant Director of Public His Excellency the Guvernor basWorks, with effect from the fou

sionally and pending instructions

been pleased to recognize, provi

December, 1932, ****

six years ago. In the present banks. In both cases there were world slump, in which world reductions in the final payment export trade has fallen by two of these banks for 1932. The thirds of its value in three years, interim dividends just declared it is understandable that bank-have been adjusted to equal half It Losi Companies desirous of taking | ing, which thrives on foreign the total dividend for 1982. It up further: Agencies will let trade, is doing well if it only would seem, therefore, that the know the Lines in which they are interested the information will be holds its own. The figures for object in view was the equalis forwarded to London and passed the first half of 1939 show that

ing the

half-year payments. on to interested parties as op the British banks have in no Whether this be so or not, it is portunity offers. :

essential particular, been shaken, a principle of British banks as This Service is offered to our Reader and that they are in a strong far as possible to equalise their without charge and, of course position to take advantage of the dividends, so that the share no obligation is incurred on either inde, revival, which so many holders may receive in lean years signs portend for the near future approximately what they do in Much of the soundness of more prosperous times. The im- British banking arises from its plication of these adjustments is HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, L: structure. It is so organised that that the directore of the banks it avoids the waste and insecurity in question anticipate paying a . Ener Kor

total dividend for 1983 equalling of investments, and at the pre from the Sesretary of State for the due to a multiplicity of unite that of last year, and is indicative sent moment they have a greater Colonies, Mr. Fabio Rios a Consul when party of Chinese Revenue judicious competition for busi- of their faith that in the coming proportion of their assets in this Generat for Panama in Hong Officers raided the house, a Chinese DONT FORGET ness, while, on the other hand, six months no further deteriora

it escapes the evils that are in tion of their position is likely

a number of years. To give one The Pure Cane Moinesca Com: herent in monopoly. The British

Closely associated with bank example only, which, however, is banks are organised in two ing proper is the work of the illustrative of the rest, the aday were fried 30 at the Central Magistracy on Saturday for unlaw groups of five banks, at the head discount companies. The three ditional investments of the fully sending, by post, a parcel of which, and outside these principal discount companies have National Provincial Bank have contaming sample of molasses, groups stands the Bank of Eng- also declared their dividends for increased from less than 40 which noted and damaged other

postal packages. land--the Bankers Bank. The the first-half of 1989, and in each millions to nearly 270 millions. first g

group consists of the Big case the rates are unchanged Happily there has been in Misc A. White who some little Five banks, these being (in Here too, the shareholders have recent weeks an improving de, time so met with an accident which resulted in a fracturöd" sim, alphabetical order) Barclays, reason for gratification, for the mand for advances, sad there areng good recovery M Lloyds, the Midland, the half-year just closed must have good grounds for believing that White is the wife of Mr. A. White, National Provincial and the been the leanest period the this tendency will continue on assistant master at King Westminster. The other five money market has known for There could be no more ain College and Lecturer in English at the Hong Kong Technical Institute, banks not be mentioned by name many years. The average dis

and with her husband returned to Hongong from furloughin England a low, monłku azo

THAT WHEN You are at Home you can get the HONG KONG DAILY PRESS at SELFRIDGES:

which in turn leads to in-

form than has been the case for Kong.

indication

as their business while both count rate for certain types of in sound and prosperous, is on a (Continued at foot of next column), bank

activity.

In an attempt to escape arrest

named Leung Lai leaned out of the first floor window of No. 9, Temple Street, Taumati He received in- juries to his legs and whi sont to the Kowloon Hospital for treat- ment.

THE S.S. TUNG SANG AFFAIR

STRONG PROTEST OF MANCHUKUO

Harbin ug.. vigorous pro authorities with the

waters near Holin, and after con- fiscating the cargo decamped with 10 Russian emigrants who where en route to Manchukuo lodged by

The protest was handed over ernment in conn by Mr Shih Lui Pen, a repress. Tung aentative of the Foreign Ministry when to M Slavatsky, the Soviet boarded the vessel Congal-General here--Reuter. (Continia