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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

BOY SCOUTS, ANNUAL SWIMMING SPORTS

3 P.M. TO-DAY

IN THE V.R.C. BATH

All parents and friends warmly

invited.

G. T. WALDEGRAVF, Commissioner,

COMPANY RESULT

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THE HONGKONG & CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED. -

UBJECT to andit, the Directors of the Hongkong and Cantos Ice Manufacturing Co., Ltd., will recommend that the loss of $1,825,82 made during the year ended 81st July, last be deducted from the sum of $8,71801 carried forward from last year's accounts, thus leaving a balance of $6,892.69 to Carry forward.

Buildings and Machinery have been depreciated to the extent of $10,000.00, while the sum of $1,315.80 was expended under the heuding Repairs and Renewals during the year.

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ARMISTICE DAY

11TH NOVEMBER, 1933. THE space on the ground floor of

the Law Courts under the North remadah and including the pavement, will be reserved for those who took part or had relatives who took part in the Great War, but who are ineligible to view the Ceremony from the Hong Kong Club. Admis alou will be by ticket. Accommoda- tion is limited to 300. Applications for tickets should be made to the Staff Captain, Chien Command, by 8th, November, 1928. Members of the Servicos and the Police abould Apply through their Commanding Officers.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE "GOODs or

WILLIAM

JENKINS, LATE OF Tez MENTAL HOSPITAL, VICTORIA IN TAX COLONY OF HONG KONG, ENGINEER, DECEASED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the Court has, by virtue of Section 59 of Probates Ordinance 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their' Claim against the above Batate to the 18th Day of NOVEMBER, 1939.

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

that date.

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Dated the 20th day of October, 10 33 JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Administrator,

Prince's Building,

Ice House Street,

Hong Kong.

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HONG KONG, OCTOBER 71. 1933.

TRAFALGAR DAY

27

There has been in our history no more statesmanlike act than the

naming of London's pivot space after the battle of Trafalgar, and the placing there of the most dominant monument in the Em- pire. Thus the battle, its victor, and the significance of bath. Is fixed in the hearts of British people. Of all battle anniver- saries Trafalgar alone is generally IN THE SUPREME COURT OF remembered. -Waterloo Day is for-

HỒNG TONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE GOODS OF FANNY ELİZA

No

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtus of the provisions of Section 68 of the Probates Ordinance No. %of 1897, mads an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Other to send in their Claims against the above Estate to the 18TH day ni NOVEMBER, 1933

gotten, except by the Army, and who recalls when the Armada was beaten, or what day of

the

evaded, by the weaker antagonist, unless a favourable moment arrives, but the enemy is de- prived of the advantages of un- contested command of the sea. Again and again British admirais had to face the problem of inflict Ing decision on an 'elusive enemy. And not infrequently, let us forget, the boat was on the other leg! When we call to mind long lines. of ships under sal, dependent upon: the wind, the bäffing nature of the problem of flinging a whole feet upon its antagonist, and pinning it, can be realised. The danger of a scattered squadron being eaten piecemeal by a smailer force was a nightmare to all but the boldest spirits, and for a

generation lines of ship, in close

order,

salled past each other firing furiously, until they drifted apart and the weaker" made" of, out of sight. Slowly the problem was solved, largely by Rodney, and the great French sailor Suffren by the manoeuvre of "breaking the line."

OBITUARY

Colonel Kinnaird Watson

FUNERAL TO-DAY

The death occurred last night

at the War Memorial Hospital of

Kinnaird Watson, the AD.ST., China Command..

If Gossip We Must

Colonel Watson, who had beet FIRST AID FOR TRADE

in Hongkong for the past two years. was taken ill about three days ago and was removed to hospital. His condition however, did not improve and he sank rapidly." The news of his death came as a great shock to everyone.

particular paper in a hurry, but surely it is easy enough to take's rough tracing-even if the only paper available is 'Bromo!

K

BY "NINA"

mory about the stocking caps they're just exactly like the knitt-- ed tea-cosies in pink and green Berlin wool that you can find in any English farmhouse, the sort of farmhouse that has a cuckoo clock and a leather-covered horse- hair sofa in the parlour (Do you wonder the family sits in the kit- ehen?)

In these days of depression, how the tailors of the Colony must be blessing the Commodore." Sixty white frocks, with sixty blue col- | FLOREAT BRITANIA! lars and sixty blue belts, all to be finished by eight o'clock on Batur- There seem to be more and The funeral, with full military day morning. And by eight more British cars in the Colony honours takes place to-day · éom- |... o'clock on Saturday night. sixty

overy week. The Hongkong Hotel mencing at 12.15 outside Welling white froekts with sixty blue col- told me to-day that they have al- ton Barracks. One battalion from lars will be ready to shed their

ready sold six out of a recent de- 4 BOOK TO ORDER the South Wales Borderers will be ¦ nautical glory and turn, Cinderel-

livery of eight Vauxhalls, and Dod- | in attendance arid thẻ firing party la like. into sixty plain white wells are going a roaring trade in will also be from the South Wales tennis trocks. (Only what about Morrises. Humber Snipes are in- } Borderers.

the people who don't play tentus? crensing almost daily. Which re- Must they continue in the styleminds me who are the fortunate

CORRESPONDENCE "Nursery 1906"?) It will cer

tainly be a great day-flag-sell- ing all the morning, tiffin in the Tamar, an afternoon at the Races, [All letters intended for, publi-and then the Navy Ball If we cation" must be accompanied by the aren't all looking fairly haggard name and address of the writer, not by midnight. I'll be suprised! for publication, unless so desired Still for the privilege of going to but as evidence of good faith.-ED.] sea in a destroyer next week one.

can put up with a lot even with HONG KONG AND LORD the prospect of a North East mon-

· BEACONSFIELD'S

soon. And won't it just be rough, too? (Did I hear somebody say- BIRTHDAY

ing "Gour grapes"? I'm afraid you're right!)

DO THE REITUE OF THI "HONG KHÔN là DAILY PRESS."]

Sir,-The other day I was standing in Hughenden Shurch- yard beside the grave of Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, when the sexton of the church spoke to me. On learning that I was, from Hong Kong, he remarked that years 350 a wreath was regularly sent from Hong Kong (presumably " through the Hong Kong Primrose League); and placed in Disraeli's pew, in the church on the anniversary of his birthday.

Wreaths Were received from all over the world on this day but apparently Hong Kong's was the only one to be singled out for this honour.

The sextion did not know the reason why. I wonder if any of your readers do?

In any event, I think the incid- ent is worth recording,,

Yours,

E. R. PRICE. High Wycombe, Bucks, 1st October, 1933,

THAT GREAT QUESTION!

Of Body-Line Bowling

• Adelaide, Oct. 20. A special meeting of the Aus- tralian board of Control has been convened for November 16, to dis-

cuss the M.C.C. cable regarding bod

line bowling, following the dissatis-

A PROTEST®

day for

Saturday should be a new fashions, for all the youth and beauty will be at the Races, But I hope not many of us do, even with secret shame, what one woman confessed to most cheer- fully the other day. This was at a bridge party, and, someone had admired her frock.

"Oh, do you like it? I had it copied from a sketch in the Tatler --you remember we saw it in the Club that evening??

"But however did you remem- ber hw it'went? It looks most in- tricate."

<r,

"I cut out the picture and gave it to the tailor. I always do, if I see anything I like!"

And not one of us there had the moral courage to tell her she was committing

for a. crime which a London Club would have blackballed her.

MUST IT BE?

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owners of that glorious one I saw at Fanling on Tuesday? And will they be hurt if I say it reminds me irresistibly of a tomato-juice

cocktail?

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And since we have wandered somehow to England, may I It commend a book that I have just. re-discovered? (No, not "England. their England"-I'm sure you've already read that). But if you

chaften koad" by Donald Maz-

love peace, and the leisure and charm of the English countryside, if fairy-tales appeal to you. I wonder on what principle peo- drawings as delicate as the étch- ple choose, the colour schemes of ing of frost on the window-pane their cars? Is it just haphazard-above all, if you are Kentish** ly, or do they seek for some kind ¦ beg, borrow or steal "The En of harmony? Take the case of the M-Gs Of course, red hair well. It was published as long. has been wedded ta green ever since Queen Mizabeth discovered its fascination. (Do I tell you of the distracted young bachelor 1 met touring the shops in search of a grasa green cushion, to put under a new tortoiseshell cat? | TALKIE TOPICS

effective Quite true! And most when he'd got them trained to sleep together.) But to get back

aro as 1927, but it fases nothing by that. Kent is a County that changes very little; even in a gen- eration that can "produce Caval- cade.

What a mass of good Alms

The

Man

from

allow-

to charge so much to pay their

to M-Gs. There remain still a there have been lately! The Good black one and a blue one. The Companions,

Rasputin black is easy-he's dark himself. Toronto. King Kong, and he likes em sinister. But and the Empress. The Kid from will somebody tell me if the blue Spain-my entertainment one's owner has blue eyes? And ance is feeling the strain badly. f not, why not? There might be I suppose the big cinemas have something in this theory that each person has оде colour way (rents must be high in the scheme that is theirs alone—not centre of the City), but it comes just the colours they affect,. but I hard when a party of aix costs the colours they are. I used to you ten dollars and the film turns have a friend who thought of out to be a dud. In future I everyone abe met in terms of the shall take all my friends to the rainbow, but when she told me I Oriental at thirty cents a was maroon and yellow ochre with just a touch of scarlet, 1 lost faith in her completely!

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CARS AND COLOURS ON HATS AND MEMORIES

Who will be the first brave It happens too often here; Iwoman to sport one of these new have seen mutilated papers with-

"stocking" caps in Hongkong? I in the last few weeks at Shek O, was home a couple of years ago, Fanling, and the Hongkong Club. when the knitted cap craze had all places where people are sup

just caught on. I remember say- posed to have intelligence to read the rules and the common "cour-

I tesy to obey them. know it may be hard to get a copy of that

me

Beat!

We wont last week to see a revival of Sunshine Susie. Perhaps I was prejudiced (don't you always hate in advance a book or a person someone tells you you gre, sure to like?), but I thought it not so good" as Marty Me, Renate Muller's later film. Perhaps it suffered from age--talkie technique pro- ces seemed when eventually sp- peared here. But I must say we are usually well served with the

new aims. Cavalcade is still on at the Marbla Arch (after a run of

ing vaguely that they reminded twenty-five weeks!), while Hell of something-whereat the Below is at the Stoll, with The woman with "me chuckled glee-Bign of the Cross and The Good fully. But there's no trick of me- Companions billed to follow.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

One case each of diphtheria, scar- faction of several members of the let fever and enteric were reported Board who state that M.C.C. al-on Thursday... though agreeing that bowling di- rectly at the batsman would be an

offence and against the spirit of the game, did not give any definite assurance that these tactics would not be used.-Reuter.

But both of these p

NEWS SUMMARY.”

Mr. Johnny Heard, the popular local jockey, met with a motor se- ident yesterday, but fortunately escaped with minor injuries.

Page &

In addition to offering evidence of

A debate That capital punish ment should be abolished" will be held on Tuesday 24th. October, 1933 at 8.30 p.m., in Room R, Main The scouts' annual swimming Building, University. Mr. R. Wool- an alibi, a Chinese charged.. with sports will be held at the V.R.Cley and Mr. Y. &. Chan, the pro-armed robbery at the Criminal See- to-day commencing at 3 p.m.

posers, will represent HK.U. Arte sions yesterday said that it was his Association. while The Hong Kong twin brother who was known to the University Graduates' Association other participants of the robbery. will be represented by Mr. B. V.

Page 6. Gittins and Dr. N. P. Karanjia

A cordial welcome to Dean The meeting will be open to the Swann, on his return from leave, public..

wes extended at an At Home, held yesterday at the, Cathedral Fall."

Page 10. Church Services for

Herr M. Mohr, Attache at the German

Consulate-General in the German Legation at Peking. Shanghai is to be transferred to

According to a cable received in

All Cretitors an!. Others are socant manship, in tactics, in strategy, was The French Revolution had largely dependent for its life upon mer-who with his wife and four children has arrived in. Peking for a visit ley on Saturday, November 4th "ap-·

ingly hereby required to sand their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that date.

The First Sea Lord, Sir Ernlie Chatfield, who was Lord Beatty's Flag Captain at Jutland, has broken the accustomed silence of his position to assure Britain that

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grandson of Dr Jacob Gould SHANGHAI WINS

admirals were in their own battles opportunity fell. His fame paraly thwarted by disloyal colleagues..

zed Villeneuve, his opponent, as Nelson served his apprenticeship Napoleon paralyzed all but some Hongkong yesterday from London,

More than 600 refugees from ROWE, LATE OF 35, WEEE year should recall the resounding during the War of American: In-three or four of the men who Mr. D. J. N. Anderson, the well- Changli, Yubien, Fushan and other the 19th Sunday after Trinity ep WORTH ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, triumphs of Rodney and Hawke dependence, when, against the fought him. It is in IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY that, in their time saved England superior fleets

this light known local cricketer has passed points along the Peking-Mukden of France and FORMERLY OF No. 1, FAWCETT

that Villeneuve's personal bravery the Bar.

bis intermediate examination for Railway line have arrived in Peking Pear on Page 11.

during the last few days. It is knowledgments of the Radio Wire-

Our Macao Supplement gives apro STREET, FULHAS IN THE COUN† and the British Empire?

Spain, admirals of astonishing and weakness in command have

stated that_brigands living off the TT OF MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND, Trafalgar Day remains the peak sidil had to spoil invasion cam- SPINSTER, DECEASED.

to be reconciled. This is not the of British naval achievement; to palans, and defend overseas pos- place to discuss the details of the girl made a better wife her sister people were forced to leave their Warm tributes are paid to the off- "That the old-fashioned Chinese tions so intolerable there that these tralia, Tasmania and New Zealand.. farmers and villagers made condi- les programme received from Ans- the popular mind because of the sessions. They did it by rigid Trafalgar campaign, but to point debste between the Hong Kong my were killed, whilst houses quality of the programmet meer curious and dramatic incidents of efficiency and wariness. During out that the century-old lesson of University Club and the Y's Men's and crops were burned. The local at Fanling appear on Page 10.

of to-day" will be the subject of homes to seek refuge elsewhere. ciency of the transmission and the Golf starting times for toETTÓW Nelson's death, to the Navy be- the French Revolutionary wars British Sea power applies to-day, Club on November 2 cause Trafalgar is the focal point Britain was constantly confronted

authorities are taking measures to and the whole subject should be

Volunteer Orders appear on Page· accommodate these refugees. when all that went before in sea-with dangerous coalitione at sea.

studied, especially in a naval port News has been received in the

The programme for the 12th Colony that Sergeant Chappell, Mr. Jacob Gould Schurman, III, Extra Race Meeting, at Happy Val perfected by a spirit which Nelson, sapped the efficiency of the French chant and naval shipping:

left for Home on the Naldera, died and is alone among Fleet commanders Ficet; which had stood high in the

shortly before reaching Port Said. Minister and Mrs. Johnson. He

guest of the Arnerican pears on Page12 has known how to inspire. The War of American Independence,

Much sympathy is extended from expects to remain for about two history of the British Navy is a but it was a hard-fighting force.

for his widow and family. local military and civilian circles weeks M. Schurman is the very human one. There are de even though Napoleon's inability feats as well as victories; there to understand naval warfare ham

A false alarm was sent through to Minister to China and

Schurman, formerly American are the struggles between mediocre pered the commanders, left the. the Navy was never more efficient day at 6.56 p.m. from a house in he is travelling around the world Volunteers Interport

the fire Brigade at Wanchai rester ambassador to Germany, with whom commanders and brilliant sub-fleets starved of their needs, and and never more zealous than to-Leighton Hill Road. The burning, Dr. Schurman is now in Shanghai ordinates; of great commanders, placed on them impossible tasks. day. On the other hand, "the of jos paper on the roof gave rise visiting his daughter, Mrs. James deliberately betrayed by men who Nelson's fleet was, however, one of nation must begin to take stock to the fear that a fire had broken McHugh, wife of L. McHugh of refused to understand and obey in-

the Fourth Marines. the few perfect instruments of war of its defence position and consider structions. Through the seventeenth in history, comparable to the whether, in the light of recent century the unruly adventurers of Pyrrhic phalanx, the Roman Le-events, it is maintaining its naval THE

Exchange Restaurant on Friday into a disciplined force.

Annual Dauce will be hold in Elisabeth's age were slowly welded glon, the fronsides and Napoleon strengta in accordance with it 3rd November, 1939, from 9 p to eighteenth century came develop-

· *|" polley". Lord Beatty has himself Trafalgar was the culmination endorsed this warning. In a world Main hers of the Club and Members ment of seamanship, improvements of the mightiest game of strategic that has turned its back upon dis of St. Andrew's Bociety can obtain in material, and the slow solution, chess ever played, with the At tickets from the undersigned or from

armament and conciliation, there any member of the Reel Club Com of tactical and strategical prob-lantic and Mediterranean, as the is no other course open to a Mari- mittee at a cost of $3.50 each for lems. England, in the many ways board, and a score of feets and Ladies and 35,00 for Gentlemen opthat done, gesterally, had the bases for the places. It was con- more to the weapon, in spirit the time Empire, than to turn once Dance musis by the Cheern Band. superior feet, but the French, in trolled from Whitehall by Harhan same, though in material changed

D, LE PROPHET,

particular, knew as well as cur an amazing veteran of eighty and beyond recognition, which has Hon. Secretary own Bervice the theory of A Fleet Nelson was the one of the group of served us faithfully for centuries

in Being," under which battle la able admirals to whom the greatest

Dated the 20th day of October, 1988. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, "Solicitora" for the Executor,

Prince's Building,

Toe House Street,

Hong Kong.

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THE HONGKONG REEL CLUB.

12.0

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In the Grand Army.

past

out,

later

Shoot

... 813 points

80%

The interport shoot between the The Okujira; a 7,500-ton Japan-

At a luncheon given at Shanghai Volunteers re- Singapore, Hongkong and Shanghai eso submarine depot ship which has been under construction at the to Mr, 1. Millard by the directors led tears (Hottish Companies) Yokosuka "naval yards since last of the China Institute the Inter- The scores were:==/ April, will probably be launched on | national Relations at the Chinese Shanghai or about Nóvember 21, according Bankera Club, Mr. Millard, re

Singapore. to "Rengo

cently returned from a visit." to Hongkong Europe and America, gave his Hongkong fired off laat week, the A NATIVE Fascist Party has opinion on the world situation. local team beings a been founded in the Netherlands Regarding the Manchurian situs | 1.1. Capt. EL R. Forsyth Indies, its reported simms being the Lion, he thought Chins should wait

Lt. A W Brown

sional ruler of the sonadto song for the ones contant der Stopani Thomson freedom of Java under a constitu- for an opportune time before apply- COMB Cothill

Pipe Major Mackie), Panembahan Senopati and the the of the League Covenant. But

•Palson formation of a league of indepen before the economie and other

wood Opl. Logan according to a report relayed from Chins could have little hope of dent princely realma in Indonesia problems of the world, were solved, Piper H. C. Watum

Eiper Watson was top 8OOTER The Hague

outside amistance, 2nd

107 pointa

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