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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Not at a Meeting of the Board
of Directors of Green Island Cement Company Limited, hell at Exchange Building, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, on Thursday, the 21st day of September, 1933, a call of #375 per share was made upon all the members kokiing shares, whose names : appear in the Company's register of bareholders on the 21st day of Soptomter, 1833, upon which only $3.75 per share bas been paid, and it was determined that such Cail abonli be pati on the 15th day of December, 1933, to the Company's Bankers, The Hong Kong & Shanghai Barking Cor- poration at their Head Office, Queen's Road Central, Victo is, aforesail.
Upon presentation at the office of the Company of Bankers' receipt for the payment of such Call, together with the Certificate of hares, a note of the payment will be englored on the Certificate.
Dated this ist day of Sex.tem ier,
1031,
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By Orior of the Board,
ALLAN KEITH,
"Secretary.
R. H. K. Y. 0.
CIRCULAR TO MEMBERS.
N- connection with the forruation of Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in Hong Kong, members who are interested are invited to attend a meeting at the Yacht Club, North Point on Thursday, 28th September at 5.0 p.m.
It is hoped that Members will give their enthusiastia support to the B. N. V. R. and details of the organ. ization will be explained, at the meeting when Members will also have the opportunity to ask questions.
Members are invited to bring along any friends who are interested..
A, L. SHIELDS,
. Commodore.
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The Tenders to state the Total Amoent fin Pounds Sterling) No Telegraphic Transfer will be made for less than £100.
The Tenders to be in Duplicate, and in Sealed Covers, addressed to the TREA SURY CHEST OFFICER, COM- MAND PAY OFFICE, and endorsed TENDERS FOR GOVERNMENT BILLS, etc."
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Copies of Forms of Tender can be bad on application,
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THE PRESIDENT'S ANXIETY
Mr. Roosevelt's national recovery campaign is now being hamstrung by strikes. The President is worried, and the rest of the World with him. for most of us realise that new- found prosperity in America would react favourably in all other coun tries. Nothing is worse for indus- try than strikes and lockouts.
be admitted to any share or part in After the war Britain threw away or to any becaût te arise from the Con her markets by a long series of tract
OBITUARY
Dr. Annie Besant
A FOUNDER OF THEOSO-
PHIST MOVEMENT
London, Sept. 28. Dr. Annie Besant Theosophist writer and lecturer died" Bombay to-day aged 85.-British Wireless
Service..
A WOMAN OF GREAT
COURAGE
Rev. Frank Besant, long ago in
TAX ON RICE
Guard against Foreign Dumping
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, Sept. 21. To prevent subterfuge by rice merchants, the Provincial Depart.. ment of Finance announced to- day that the tax on rice shall be 60 cents national currency per picul or 133.33 pounds...
ANTI-JAPANESE
BOYCOTT
And Measures That
Are Followed
(From Our Special Correspondent)
NEWS SUMMARY
Members of the Yacht Club who are interested in the proposed for- mation of a R.N.V.R unit in Hong.. Kong are invited to attend a meet- ing at the Yacht Club on Thursday, September 25, at 5.30 p.m. Pago 10-
totalled 1.45 inches.
A Swatow correspondent reports that there is a considerable water shortage in that town. Payo
The rainfall between 4.p.m. on.. Wednesday and Canton, Sept. 21.
p.m. yesterday Page 7 Boycott of Japanese goods in
The complete list of entries for Canton is going on unabated the Colony's Swimming Champion- through the Kwangtung National ship events, arranged by the V.R.C. Salvation Association, and two appears on page 10.
The death is announced of Dr. The official notification pointed shops in Kung Yat Chung Road.
Annie Besant, the well-known theo- out that in recent years there (near Shameen) are alleged to sophist leader.
See page 3. have been heavy exports of rice be secret depots of Japanese The Annual Aquatics of the Hong Kong Area Board was held at the from Siam and Indo-China with goods.
The proprietors and employees and at the conclusion prizes were, V.R.C. bath."yesterday afternoon the result that Chinese farmers. Ever since the young wife of the find it hard to dispose of native of these shops were taken by given away by Mrs. O. C. Borrett
Page 10. the mid-Victorian age, was parted rice. Prices of foreign rice are, inspectors of the National Salva
A verdict of death from natural. from a husband with whom the low, and native growers have totion Association to the Chen Tong had a complete incompatibility of reduce the price of their product Sub-Police Station for examina-causes was returned by the jury at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday in tion. It is said that the two the enquiry into the death of a mind and temperament, Mrs. Be to compete with imports. sant's life has been wrapped in Imposition of rice tax, the shops carried large quantities of Chinese who was serving a prison controversy. disciples applauding
Page 11. passionately what critics have notification says, is to protect the Japanese goods in stock some of sentence at Laichikok
The Country Club forms the sub- vigorously condemned. Disciples farmers from the dumping of which were wrapped up in other
ject of an article by our". Kowloon and critics might at least agres foreign cereals. Chinese farming foreign packages.
correspondent.
Page 11. Executive officials of the A Chinese who was seen to "lift" Association are acting as judges, a ten dollar note from a fellow prosecutors and sheriffe in hand-countryman's pocket by the use of clever sleight of hand trick was ling seized goods suspected to be sent to prison for six months, of Japanese origin. Two or three times a week, hearings are given Hong Kong Stock to claimants who dispute that official report. their property are not" from Japan.
in conceding to Mrs. Besant the
courage of her convictions, startl-villages are in great distress on ingly as these have varied at dif- account of the foreign competi- ferent stages of her development. tion, it is said, and if no measure Dr. Besant was, for instance an is taken to stem such importa, early protagonist of birth control, rice planters in, Kwangtung will storm of opposition against this have to give up their farming and
face bankruptcy.
drawing upon herself a particular
sphere of her activities.
It required courage in the eigh- teen-seventies for a woman to as sociate herself with the political and religious radicalism of the
Rice merchants in Hong Kong have petitioned-for the abolition
"
of this tax and are assured of the Genuine Japanese merchandise "infidel" Bradlaugh; it required support of local rice guild, al-are confiscated and sold by auc- courage, later on, to break this though the Provincial Depart-tion. Proceeds are kept by the Association for anti-Japanese close comradeship-in-arms and toment of Finance will not hear of pass over to the opposite. camp of it.Apart from affording protec
activity. Fabian Socialism; it required. most
tion to rice farmers, the tax yields good returns.
courage for a thinker who had assalled the claims of supernatural and dogmatic religion with the greatest vehemence to own that she had been converted by Mme. Biavatsky, the motorious medium,
to a system of supernatural beller far more staggering to the ordin-
ary intelligence than the most ex treme forms of the Bibliolatory or designed not so much to relieve and rejected in youth. Courage
debtors as to persuade people to put their savings into buying goods they really need. The farm rellef programme is intended not merely to raise the prices of raw materials but to give the farmer more pur- chasing power. "And the todes for industry are meant essentially as instruments for enabling consump-" tion to catch up with production. Thus it is not enough to put men. back to work They may merely increase overproduction. To be effective under the theory which is the core of the recovery pro-, gramme, their wages must be sufficient at least to buy the pro- duct of their labour---or its equi valent in other commodities. In- deed the effort is to obtain a posi- tive gain for consumption as com- pared with production. But that is what has not been happening. The depression tended to accelerate cost cutting by the use of machines In place of labour. And in the recent revival, prices have mount- ed faster than wages, production faster
than
re-employment.
A
survey by the Labour Bureau shows that in the last few months there 'has been in the United States a
rook (Bi made for the allotment of tabour conflicts, culminating in the mi, he, trarinions in question do not General Strike of 192, and the Apply to
entered into by any Coal Strike, from which the Incorporated Company in its corporated mapacity and made for the general benefit British industry never recovered. of the Company."
If American Labour has been in-production increase of 55 per cent. fected with the madness that slezed the British Trade Unions fourteen years ago, the position is (18 3 serious
W. J. H. BILDERBECK,
Colonel, R.A.PC, Treasury Chest Officer. His Majesty's Treasury Office, Hong Kong.
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DAIRY FABM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
NOTICE.
and a rise of only nine per cent, in industrial employment.
The Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production records än Increase of 46 per cent. from March to June while the American Federa. tion of Labour estimates that only 1,500,000 out of 13,000,000 unem-
the Puseyism that she had tried
In any case, the Ministry of Finance in Nanking will impose a duty on rice, and in Kwang- tung a collection is being made by the Department of Finance ahead
of the step to be taken by Nan king. Provincial officials see no reason why an exemption should has been rewarded at any rate by be made for rice merchants in a wide influence over large bodies this province or. Hong Kong. of listeners; the Theosophical So- ciety is what it is to-day almost
entirely through Mrs. Besant's zeal, perseverance and amazing political acumen.
During all her public life Mrs. Besant was:a/-prolific writer and she has written a library of books on political and theosophical 'mat- ters. She was deeply versed fr Indian mysticism and a study of her works would give A wide grasp of the subject.
Mrs. Basant has also, taken great part in Indian agitation, often coming in coriflet with the authorities.
BETTER NEWS .. FROM CUBA
Englishman Reported Safe
Havana, Sept. 21. The Cuban Government have confirmed the report that 500
Public Bodies Help rebels, under Captain Blas Fier-
nandez, are surrounded by Gov- erment troops in Camaguey Province.
Canton, Sept. 21. Many public, bodies are sup- porting the provincial department
It is learned that the English- of finance in its collection of rice man Hughes who was kept a tax. Women organizations are en- thusiastic about this levy and have; prisoner in his mill at Soledad, is made public a statement in the in- no immédiate danger. The press upholding this tax.
besiegers of his mill have depart- ad
Rice tax bureau will be ́estab aished, besides Canton, in Kong- moon, Swatow, Pak Hot, Shum Chun etc. The local bureau will be located at Ha Giu. Po near the rice shops,
Her selection of a young man Krishnamurti, as the reincarna-
The new rate is 80 cents Shang tion of the Buddha, and her hai currency for 100 eattles of im- adoption of him Into the Theoso- ported grains of rice-Central phical sect... led to prolonged Press," | litigation by his family who
strenuously objected.
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THE NEXT TEST MATCHES
Australian Board Of Control In Conference
Bydney, sept. 21. The "Australian Board of Con- trol met 'to-day concerning the 1934 tour to England. Mr. Oxlade presided and: matters were dis- cussed before 'tea in a private meeting held in camera.
After dinner a cable was com- piled to be sent to the M.C.C. pro- bably to-night but nothing is yet available for the Press.
Mr. Jeanes announced later that the Board was continuing nego- tlations but otherwise did not re-
veal "anything regarding the re- mainder of the proceedings. Reuter.
CLEAN UP THE REDS!
A message from Washington Gen. Tsai Ting Kai To states that the United States
Lead Expedition Navy Department yesterday or- dered four destroyers to proceed from Guantanamo, on the south coast of Cuba to the more troubled spots on the Islande. Reuter.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Krishnamurti was described by the Bishop of London, who with characteristic broadmindedness, met and talked with him at length, as "a very ordinary young The Colony had a clean bill of man. Later he denied all super-health on Wednesday, natural claims made on his behalf and retired into private life.
Her Biographer.
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Canton, Sept. 21. The 19th Route Army is on hot pursuit of the remaining Reds, at Shun Chang and Shao Wu in nor- thern Fukien. General Tsai Ting Kai, commanding the . 19th Route
Army, has established his feld quarters at Yerping in the present drive against the Reds. As a first step, General Teal Further evidence was taken by cleared up, the bandits in Hu Lo Mr. Balfour yesterday in the case Mountain near Tenping. The pre- in which two Chinese named Lasence of such gangs would hinder
Yuet and We Shin-military, operations. ending 4 p.m. yesterday was 1.45 wing are charged in connection The air force of the 19th Route with an armed robbery at 278 Des Army are assisting in the fight and Voeux Road West. The case was daily follow the track of the The wedding is announced to adjourned until this afternoon. take place shortly of Mr. AA Friedman. mining engineer, DI Baguio, PL, to Miss Ethel Stearns, en route to the Colony on the se. President Coolidge,
The rainfall for the 24 hours Hung
inches.
enemy. It is expected that, the Reds in northern Fuklen will be In attempting to alight from" a
cleaned up in a very short time, moving" tram, a Chinese girl or
Troops of the first group army about 8 years of age was knocked in southern Klangal will push
· unconscious near Bowrington northward after the present Tayu Wong Sam, 30, who admitted he Fortunately, she suffered no
Canal at 9.30 p.m. yesterday. conference between high omcers at the front and Lieutenant General was employed to look after a sly-furies, and after receiving attén Misa Pei Nan, chief of, staff of the brothel at 15, Shanghai Street, was tion, she was taken home by her drat group army. After the con- ned 8250 or four months by Mr. mother who was on the tram ar ference, is over, General Miso will
return to Canton Central Press. Wynne-Jones in the Kowloon Police the time.
Court yesterday.
ini
Probably the best biography of Mrs. Besant is that by Mr. Geoffrey West. who takes 133 through scene after scene of this strange blographical drama with admirable narrative skill and with a critical aloofness that is on the whole again, though in places a loss to his book. He has not tried to please either the enthusiasts or the detractors of Mrs. Besant's personality and achievements; he has tried to be scrupulously fair and to pass a balanced, if inevite abiy rather frigid. judgment sways towards partiality with her supervision those who directly | same period ..
Our contemporary concludes by agitation in India; others that Kong.
in his account of her work" and 29, at 3.30, to consider the format articles."Enquiries were pursued
tion of a RNVR unit for Hong with the result that he was charged Chinese telegram from Peiping. beneft set themselves to make the
"China" Press "quotes a saying:
though his critique of theosophic
before Mr. Wynne-Jones with the stating that Mr. T. 7. Soong is For that reason it is impera-dogma is piercing, it comes from
theft of a quilt and other articles. tive that everything possible be done to help employers, under- tional religious conceptions to ap
imprisonment, stand clearly the essential pur- preciate them quite justly.
State adventuring in the sphere of industry is always a desperate remedy. The State is an extra- vagant employer, hnd where it
Members of the Yacht Club are School to see the headmaster, Li SOONG FOR PEIPING invited to attend a meeting of the Shiu Ying, a former student, was Returning to the Tung. Nam
works by means of subsidy and ployed went back to work in the some readers will feel that heYacht Club on Thursday, September|uspected of the theft of certain Shanghai, Sept. 21.
BE Cold Storage plant at No: best of their good fortune, while
7384 and 88, Connaught Road Central, formerly belonging to competitors left outside are wilfully Hong Kong Cold Storage, Ltd. tan obstructive. boon acquired by the Dairy Farm, Iow wid Cold Storage Co., Ltd., who are as from the 16th September, 1933, carrying on the business of Cold Storage there. Outstanding accounts "are to be paid to the Dairy Farm, Io
and Cold Storage Co., Ltd. -
J. D. THOMSON, Becretary. DAIRY FARM, Ion & COLD STORAGE. Coy' LIED.
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NOTICE. WE' have This Day appointed M. FUNG-PING FAN to
bs the Secretary of this Company in place of MR. HENRY LOWCÓCK. resigned.
CHINESE ESTATES, LTD.,
LI YAU-TSUN,
Chairman of Directors. 18th September, 1938.
11802
As one of the leading American newspapers puts it:
**The recovery campaign is suffering from faith without un- derstanding. That also means faith without 'works. For some are selfishly hampering and many are failing in their at- tempt to aid the great national
effort because they do not really understand its purpose, Too many codes have been accepted under coercion or as patriotic gesture. As a result too many are being evaded of fulalled. In letter rather than spirit. There are all kinds of tricks and all kinds of honest mistakes.”·
pose of N.R.A. Economically that purpose is improve the demand for goods, to incrense consump tion in relation to productio! Morally it is to improve the ethic of business, to end unfair com- petition.
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The
mind too remote from tradie radiator 'cap from a car in Bonham He was sentenced to "six weeks' planning to visit Peiping in view of
Charged with the larceny of a Road a Chinese named Chan Wai was bound over by Mr. Schofield
The case in which three Chinese, at Central Magistracy yesterday Chan Kan, Wong Kwai-chi and and was ordered to be sent back to Hui Kwong are charged with swind- the country woman
small baskets.
the urgent financial problems in North China-Reuter
"A" dispute "over" afsh contract public was sought by prizes, cous
ling the Tung Wah Hospital over was dealt with by the Chief Jus- pons, rebates and every form of
the price of the removal of human ; tice, Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Supre- ingenious stunt. When in addi-
A fifteen-year-old boy named Au remains from the new G. CH. sibe me Court yesterday. The tion the share-gambling mania Leung was fired 85 by Mr. Balfour at Pokfulam to Aplichat for re Chow Lee Fish: Stal of Central at Central Magistracy yesterday on burial was continued before Mr. | Market," sued for $315.66 balance The last sentence is a hard one. siezed America, and industry began a charge of cruelty to a chicken. Schofield yesterday and after fur due on fish sold and delivered to American business, and in fact all to be run, not for the sound ac- Inspector Smith said that, he was ther evidence had been taken, hear Wing Hing Firm, of 16, Lee Yuen MAHA de B. business to-day, tends to be con- cumulation of a steady profit year carrying chickens in two ing was adjoured until this after Street West.
Botelho, of Leo Almada and Col ducted on the Red Indian system, by year, but in to inflate or de-pa
appeared for plaintiff and Mr. H You go for your rival with toma-date the market value of the Canton, September 21. The first The murder of a Chinese wo-L. Dennys, of Dennys and Co., re- hawk and scalping knife, for the shares, the causes of the great Kwangtung Independent division man, Fung Man, aboard a sampan presented defendants, who were very joy of the thing, zielther giving crash become painfully apparent, under Lieutenant General Huang beer the northern end of the stated to be a firm of compradores. Jen Huan has fought altogether Yaumati Typhoon Shelter on the The defendants filed a counter- nor asking for quarter. Thus the Industry cannot be run on such
94 battles against the Communists night of September 10, was recall- claim for $908.77 for breach of In its simpleat, terms the goal or chain stores advanced into Ameri-tines. America, with her natural in western Fuklen. As a result, fed at Kowloon Magistrácy yester- contract, stating that by plain- the recovery programme is to make can towns, wrecking, or absorbing wealth, with the amazing energy this crack division has occupied day, when three men Chu Lam, tin's refusal to sell them nigh-85 demand equal supply. It is to en- the smaller trader, and ruining the and ingenuity of her people, and Waping and Shanghang, once earth coolle, Chu Fan employ they had contracted to do, they
stronghold of the Reds Theseed, and Lam Yau, grass cutter, were compelled to obtain the fish- courage the buying which will local banks. They fought e each many other natural advantages, troops are now engaged in the re-were charged before Mr. Wynne- from other sources at a higher start the wheels of industry, to other, and were often enough will cannot do it. Until business ethics habilitation of those ares sich as Jones: On the application of De- price. After hearing the evidence,
bulkling on forta, opening motor tective-Inspector C. Rozeskwy, the Felis Lordship, gave - judgment "for" stimulate
consumption until it ing to cut profits if only to drive change American prosperity will roads abolition of gambling, judis accused were Temanded in Police, plainting, with costa, in claim and balances production. Innation is out the rival The support of the fail to return.
cial reforms etc-Central Press. custody to Saturday morning
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