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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

REGIMENTAL DEBTS ACT.

NOLONEL AHK WATSON,

deceased. Notice is hereby given that all creditors and other persons having claints against tha estate of Colonel A. H. K. WATSON, who died on the 20th day of October,

· 1933, are hereby required to send their claims or demands in writing to the undersigned on or before the 13th day of November, 1933, after which dato the Committee of Adjustment appointed under the Regimental Debts Act, 1503 (58 Viet, e. 8) will proceed to distribute the nusets of the decensal among the persons entitle thereto, having regard only to the claims and demanda of which they shall have had notice; and they will not be liable for the assots of the deemsed or any part thereof so dis- tributed to any person of whose debtä claim they shall not then have had notice...

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Dinted this 93ril day of Octaber, 1933,

Signed R. M. W. MARSDEN,

Lieutenant Colonel

President of the Committee of

Adjustment, Headquarters, China Command.

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THE HONGKONG REEL

CLUB.

PECIAL General Meeting To-Day 5,90 P.M. at Mesors, Jardine Vatbcaon" & Company's Board-room.

BUSINESS:

New Club House Scheme,

E. D. MATTHEWS,

Secretary, R.H.K.G.C..

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24th October, 1938.

THE HONG KONG AND CANTON ICE MÄNU- FACTURING CO., LTD, “

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the Twelfth Ordinary that Yearly Meet ng of the Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Lower Albert Road, on Wednesday, the 8th November, 1933, at 11.45 am. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with State. ment of Accounts, and re-electing Directors and Auditora.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 26th October, to the 8th. November, 1933 both days inclusive,

By Order of the Board of Directors, J. D. THOMSON, Secretary,

Hong Kong, 23rd October, 1933.

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THE TRADE POSITION

machinery. To a certain degree) Chiria is in a vicious circle, in that she cannot afford to buy the mearis of restoring prosperity.

However,

it

with business at is co-day' Western firms are ready to take long odds on any order.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BIRTH

STEINERTo Mr. and Mrs. Kurt M, Steiner at the Nanking Uni- versity Hospital, Nanking, on October 17, 1933, a daughter, Barbara,

NAVAL WEDDING

Lt. Dommett, R.N.

and Miss Kimber

A very pretty, wedding, of con- siderable interest to Naval circles,

MARRIAGES. HOWELL, MACDONALD, — On October 13, 1933, at HB.M. Consulate General Shanghai, took place at St. John's Cathe

dral yesterday afternoon when

CANTON SILK INDUSTRY

Reason Why Quality

NEWS SUMMARY

The jury, not being able to come to a unanimous verdiet over the armed robbery case that was oo

cupying the Chief Justice's Court

at the Criminal Sessions, was dis-

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Does Not Improve charged and a new trial was or

The weights and handicaps for the Macao Races to be held on Sun-

and afterwards on October 1. Miss Mary Millicent Joan Kimber,. (From Our Special Correspondant: day at Aeria Prota Race course are

who arrived here by the ss. Ani- tenor about a week ago was mar- ried to Lleut. Thomas William

Canton, October 23, Erskine Dommett, R.N., a popular

Silk merchants Bre interested officer of HM.S. Berwick..

The Rev. Dean Swann officiated gard to its improvement and are only in making profits without re- assisted by the Rev. Dodwell,chap-responsible for iain of HM.S. Berwick,

the decline of this industry, explained Mr. Hau Tung Ching, committee member of the Kwangtung Provincial Government. in an address at the weekly memorial service this

of

at Holy Trinity Cathedral, by the Very Reverend Dean A. C. S. Trivett, M.A., D.D., Engh Wharton, younger son of Mr. G. C. L. Howell, Indian Civil Service (retired), to Barbara Christle, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mac- Donald, of Shanghai. FERAGEN LUNDEGAARD,--On

The bride was given away by October 12, 1933, at Uranien- Captain Sedgwick, R.N. of HMS. Berwick, while the bridegroom was borg Church Golo, by the Re-attended by Lieut. Alcock, as best verend Lexow Breck, Andreas Ferageń, Deputy Commissioner Chinese Customs Service, to Kirsten Lundegaard, both of Arendal, Norway.

DEATHL

17.

HUON LOUIB.-On October

1833, at St. Marie's Hospital. Shanghal. Huon Louis of the French. Municipal Police.

OBITUARY

Sir John Fortesque

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WELL-KNOWN ARMY HISTORIAN

Cannes, Oct. 23. The death occurred here to-day. of Sir John Fortesque, the Army historian, after an operation.- Reuter:

John William Fortesque, the fifth son of the third Earl Fortes- que, was born on December 28, 1859. He was the noted historian and was librarian at Windsor Cas- tle from 1995 to 1928. Sir John's works are very widely read, his many publications including such volumes as the "History of the 17th "Lancers," "A. Short Account of Canteens in the British Army "Six British Soldiers," ""The Em- pire And The Army," and "His- torical and Military Essays."

DEATH OF CAPTAIN A. H. STEWART

Former Officer of Douglas

S.S. Co:

News has been received in the Colony of the death at Home on saturday of Captain A. E. Ste- wart, formerly master of the ss. Haining of the Douglas Steamship Company.

CANTON STREET- SLEEPERS

Y

MAD.

After the ceremony, brother on- cers formed an arch of swords un- der which the happy couple pass ed to a waiting motor ear which was drawn by ratings from H.M.S. Berwick, to the Hongkong Hotel where the reception was held.

The toast of the happy couple was proposed by Captain Sedg- wick, after which the bride, using her husband's sword, cut the beau- tiful wedding cake which was in the form of a model of EMS. thanked the large gathering for Berwick. The bridegroom then their attendance, congratulations, felicitations and presents."

Later Lieutenant and Mra. Dom- mett left for Reprise Bay where the honeymoon is being spent.

morning.

given on Page 10.

Supplementary Estimates totall- ing $3,340 will be submitted to the Finance Committee of the Legisla- tive Council on Thursday. Page 7

share quotations appear in Page 13. The Stock Exchange report, and

Motoring Notes are on Page 2 The wedding between Lieut. T.. w, E. Dommett, 1.N., of H.M.S. Berwick, and Miss Mary Kimber took place at St. John's Cathedral yesterday.

*Page 8. The draw and starting times for the R. H.K. Golf Club appear on Page 10. The woman who was summoned on three charges concerning the keeping of an unregistered mui- tsai, and with ill-treating her, was.. and fined $200 by Mr. Wynne-Jones at

Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.

'Page 19. The claims for inclusion in the interport cricket team, of four- Kowloon players are analysed by our Kowloon correspondent.

Discussing his main theme the necessity of regulating big and small industries, Mr. Hau said that the silk industry in Kwan- tung is operated in a small scale without requiring machinery of modern producing process that in many cases owners of silk flatures have made money.

"This is due to the fact that the silk merchants based their profits between the prices of raw silk cocoons," Mr. Elgu" gaid. "I merchants press down the price of the price of sily declines, the

cocoons. In consequence, they al ways make profits regardless whe- ther silk prices are going up o coming down.”

dustries, big or small,

Among the large gathering pre- sent were: Capt. and Mrs. Sedg-

Mr. Hay went on to say that to wick, Comdr. Lindsell, Lleut-revive the silk industry improve- Comdr. Boutwood, Lieut.-Comdr. ments are necessary and stressed and Mrs. McBrayne, Capt. de the necessity of regulating all in Berry, R.M., Lient. Comdr. and Mrs. Given, Comdr. Bryant, Capt, and Mrs. Blandford, Burg. Lt. Comdr. Barton, It. and Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Gregory and Mrs. Taylor, Warrant Engineer Osborne, Warrant En- gineer Avis, Lieut. Norman, Lieut. Evans, the English Rugger inter- national, Lieut. "Parsons, Lieut. Winslow, Lieut. Doughty, and Lieut. R. Vickery.

ANTI-COMMUNIST CORPS

Formed by Fukien Women

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Canton, Oct. 23.

CHINA GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

Harrison Retains

Title

Shanghai, Oct. 23.

J. W. Harrison, the holder, yes- terday won the China Amateur

ou Championship with an aggre

gate of, 305.

The runner-up, A. R. “Blako.

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be passed to hit for doing a public I think a vote of thanks should

service," said Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy when a youth, was charged with stealing a. quantity of tar felting from the Shamshuipa Barracks. Defendant was cautioned.