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IN. THE SUPREME Court of HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE GOODS OF VASILEY LEONTIEVITCH ZOLOT. ZEFF, LATE OF 32 PAO SHAN LI. Cover ROAD, TIENTSIN, IN THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA, MERCHANT, DICHASED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Not the Chart has, by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Ordinanca No. 2 of 1897, made" an Order limiting the time for Creditors' and others to send in their Claims against the abore Estate to 4T JANUARY, 1934

All Creditors and others are scoord. ingly hereby required t send their Claims to the undersigned on är before that date.

DEACONS

Solicitors for the Administrator,

1, Des Vratx Road, Centrbi,

Hong Kung.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE Goods Cr HENRY MAITLAND KING, LATE OF 23 TER AVENTE, ALVERSTOKK IN THE COUNTY OF HANTA FORKEKLY OF CERBIGLLWYDIG DKYBISK IN THE COUNTY OF DINBI--H IN THE UNITED KING- LIEUTENANT IN TEL DOM,

ROYAL NAVY, DECEASED,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

NOTIOR

that the Court has, by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the time for Creditors and others to send in their Claim against the above Estate to "330 JANUARY, 1934,

All Creditors and others are ascert ingly hemby required to send their Claims to the undersigned on or before" thai date.

DEACONS,

Solicitors for the Executors, 1, Des Voeux Road, Central,

Hong Kong.

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"STILL A RAY OF HOPE"

FATAL AIR

CRASH

Husband Of Famous Writer

For Settlement Of Fukien Trouble

London, December 7.

The death occurred here to-day (From Our Special Correspondent) of Francis Ayscough, husband of Florence Ayscouch the well known writer.--Reuter.

LORDS DEBATE ON FREE STATE

Lord

Carson Intervenes

the

Canton, Dec. 7. Despite the feverish war preparations and the mobilisa- tion of troops between Fukien and Nanking during the last few days, it seems now pos- sible that there, is still a ray of hope for a peaceful settle- ment instead of having to resort to arms. Ever since the authorities of the South- west took up the part of medi. tator between Fukien and Nanking, the situation has been cunsiderably eased.

rc-

London, December 8. "The Irish question was raised in the House of Lords to-night by Lord Danesfort, who asked what

According to reliable action was to be taken to protect the undoubted rights of a British ports from official circles, the subject to appeal to Privy Central Government at Nan Council.

king has signified its approval He declared that recent Irish

of an amicable settlement pro- State legislatfor. Torbidding such

op- an appeal was a breach the 1921 vided the leaders of the treaty..

posing faction at Fukien could come to reasonable terms, with Nanking.

"

Lord Carson who is in poor health, and now rarely attends at the House of Lords, received a sympathetic hearing. He said the It is stated that Mr. Chang Oath had gone, the other promis-Chi, a member of the Central ed safeguards had been abolish-

NEWS SUMMARY

"Around the wicket" the weekly

Colony by L.B.W." appears on

Chinese Pilot Killed discussion about cricket in th

(From Our Special Correspondent)

Page 10.

There was a meeting at Latta Canton, Dec. 7. Crawford's presided over by Bishop The headquarters of the Canton Hall to attend to the affairs of the Air Force received information Victoria Home and Orphanage, on yesterday of a fatal air accident

page 6. to a fighting plane belonging to the 3rd Flying Squadron of the Canton Ar Fleet stationed at the Tai Yu mountain pass.

While flying from Shiuchow 'to

The charging of a Russian Guard before Mr. Balfour yesterday ap- pears on page 7.

H.E. the Governor presented P. Namhung, the plane, piloted by Lieutenant Wang Ket suddenly Sherevera the Bronze Medal for got out of control when upon gallantry. Particulars appears on nearing its destination and made a page 7. nose dive from a height of one

Recorded B.B.C. programmes have been received in the Colony thousand feet. The plane crash- ed to the ground and the pilot

and will be sent out by Z.B.W. að was instantly killed.

Lieutenant Wang was a graduate regular intervals. The first pro- from the Canton Military Flying gramine will be put on the air or

Wednesday next.

Page 8. All items of supplementary ex- School, and had been in the ser- vice of the Canton Air Force for several years. The remains of the penditure which came before the deceased will be conveyed to Can-Finance Committee, yesterday were Page 7. ton for burial,

approved.

Vatican City, December 7. It is stated that the Pope will

create some seven new Cardinals before the conclusion of the Holy Yess. This will probably include Monsignor Constantini who

Delegate to

recently Apostolic China-Reuter,

FAREWELL TO CHINA

from time to time and now the Executive Council, will be Sir last temalaing safeguard name commissioned to Hong Kong ly. the right of appeal to the to confer with the envoys of Privy Council had gone. He urged

It is also learned that after an inter- Lord Hailsham. replying, said view with the delegates from

portant by

ed that the Government should the Southwest. consider the whole question.

Was

Miles Lampson's Parting Message

the debate had been rendered im- Kwangtung and Kwangsi Mr.ing farewell to

the

warm tribute....

"Intervention of

Lord Carson to whom he paid a Chang Chi will proceed to Canton and to interpret the opinion of the Central au thorities towards the Fukien revolt to the leaders here.

UNENVLABLE POSITION Proceeding, he said it was an unenviable position for any "mem-

."

The houseboy employed by Mrs. Hunter, for whom the Police, had Page 7. heen king, has been arrested.

An R.A.F. plain crashed in the New Territories yesterday.

Page 7.

Farther legal argument W16 heard yesterday in a claim before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Puisne Judge, against. a Chinese bank and, sitar- natively, the guarantors of a draft on the bank for $700, Pazo 7-

:

BRITISH SHIP- PING TRADE

Grave Menace Of Foreign Competition

motion

Nanking, December 7. Sir Miles Lampson who is say. Chins to-night after seven years as British Minis- ter to China, expressed deep regret at leaving the country and men- tioned as a source of gratification, the present satisfactory Sing-Brit -ish relations. He paid tribute to

London. December 7. the immense vitality and resource

Coincident with the of the Chinese people in sur-

tabled before the House of Com- of the mounting the dificulties criticisms which he could only

ing immediate action by the Gov despite the

the shipping justified sonal representative of Messrs. the conviction that say were undoubtedly

ernment to assist

Код Alexander with regard to a series of actions Sun Fo and Wang Ching Wei, uncertainty of the immie, would

¡annual Shaw's" address at the ture, the Chinese people industry, the which he could make no attempt will return to the capital with succeed in their task of constructs meeting of the F.&O. stressed

The Government had consist in a few days. He will carrying a modern Chinese state.

"Unity, stability and reconstruc- the grave menace of subsidised.

Mr. Jen Yu Wen, who came

Spanish to the merchant. Thus it ber of the Government to reply to here from Nanking as the per- past two decades; · and" expressed mens for discussion to-day, urg-

HEITMEYER.-On 5th December, seems that each language has an

of Mr. H. Heitmeyer, a son

1930, to Thelma (neo May) wife idiom reflective of same charac- the world

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THE GIFT OF TONGUES

When a stone is thrown into a

',

to defend.

west.

achieved, the sooner

reconstruction completed This is not only the wish of my country- men and my hope, but it is the fundamental principle of British policy in the Far East"-Reuter.

The American White-Jones Aci

enabled the participation of any

teristic essential for

progress.

One

essential

in regards to ently taken the view that under with him an important letterton should be the watchwords of foreign competition with which .. Language study should be borne the terms of what was called the to the Nanking authorities China to-day, and the sooner real British shipping is faced. in mind: the difference between Irish Treaty, it was not competent from the leaders of the South unity is

for the Irish Free State Govern- mastering a language and acquirment without the refutation of its from the leaders of the South-stability would be attained and ing a smattering of several lan-honourable obligations and dis guages. It is a popular misappre-regard of the terms to which it had set its signature, unilaterally hension to conceive that the learn- to abrogate the right of a petition ing of a language involves merely for special leave to His Majesty in

Privy Council. the power to express one's wants in the foreign idiom. This is an accomplishment in itself and its acquisition entails a mental train.

J;

"AIR SQUADRONS

ORGANISED

Shanghai, December 7. With the appointment of Gen- erat. Chang Chinchung as Paci

01 Imperial Acation Director of Cekiang and concurrently Commander-in-Chief "As the validity and the effect of the Punitive Forces against of the Free State statute might be Fukien, it is rumoured that Gen raised for judicial determination eral Ho Ying-ching Minister of by the Privy Council it would be War, is being sent to Cheklang to improper for him to suggest he help, direct the punitive drive. had even an opinion about it.

In the absence of a decision to the contrary, the Government did not propose to recognise the ac tion taken in breach of treaty rights.

and and

REVISION OF LEAGUE

any Shipping. American line in Conference in the world under threat of the United States gov. ernment, otherwise excluding from all American ports, the line par- ticipating.

Hod. Alexander dhaw, said t was ridiculous that an American line which recently Invoked the Act should at present be attack- shipping trade be- ing British tween British Possessions in the t Far-East, particularly Hong Kong, Singapore, Colombo, Penang and

Italy Not Likely To Bombay.

Take Initiative

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He did not favour a general of Empire policy of reservation trade, to British ships, nor thought that subsidies were permanently Rome, Dec, 7. exfective, but where such compe- It is learned from well inform-tition existed, he suggested that: ed quarters that despite the pre- the Empire Governments cor remptory nature of Italy's demand, cerned, including Great Britain signor Mussolini has no intention should be empowered to provide trade between "them should not of taking the initiative in revision by an order-in-council that the of, the League constitution.

The decision of the Fascist Grand be carried in vessels of the part Council, it is said, should be in- cular Powers from which the dan- terpreted 34 an Invitation to ger proceeded --Reuter,

Meanwhile, indicative of the usual pre-war tension, a state of emergency, has been declared in various strategic cities in North Fukien. A strict search of pedes trians, shops and students After referring to the answer rigid censorship of mails

instituted. given in the Commons by the Do-telegrams have been

foreign Powers to submit new pro- minions Secretary yesterday, he while public gatherings and para said he believed there were, indes have been banned,

posals that can be discused through the Free State, a very large numį. Fearful of aerial bombardment | diplomatic channels or at a meet- ber of people who were jealous of by the Government Forces, the 19th. Route Army has.. organised Irish honour and who were an-

lous to see the obligations under two air squadrona, commanded by taken by them observed.

Liu Chih-yes and Teng Ao-ming,

Reuter.

The British : Government pro-

foundly regretted any divergence of opinion between the Govern ment of the Free State and their own, or any divergence of interest between the two countries. The interests of both were best served by the closest association between the two countries-British Wire-

Iegs.

ing of the League Council,

It is officially denied that the Grand Council will draft a scheme or the reform of the League- Reuter.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

JAPAN'S TRADE COMPETITION

Seriously Affecting" Home Manufacturers

There had been a long series of legal decisions which laid it down that the right of a subject to petition His Majesty for special leave to appeal could not be taken ing that is not be despised. The away by an enactment by the Le- real purpose, however; of a know-gislature of any Dominion without ledge of a foreign tongue should be express authority

Statute. to aim at acquiring the ability to appreciate the thoughts expressed pond, ripples spread over the whole in the literature of that people and surface. In the same way com-

to understand their culture and munication between different civilization.

As a writer has well nations by wireless and travel said:

"Language is a gateway to by land; sea and air. and knowledge, but the path beyond the close contact stimulated by the gate must be trodden, or the trade is such that what happens acquisition of the key will have been scarcely worth the endea- in one country is bound to cause

vour." repercussions in the others. In this sense the world is quickly

When all is said, the dictum falling into one "single pattern.

that acquaintance softens pre- From this viewpoint there is Judice can better be applied to much truth in what Bignor Alanguage-study than in anything Bacci said the other day at the else in the relationship between Rotary Club of the inventive to languages. A good knowledge of one learning languages these days. As or more foreign languages often he pointed out, among other not only forms a useful qualifica- things, the study of languagestion, as Mr. Bacct has shown from at this stage of world civilization his own experience, but also it and progress serves one very useful serves to open up unique opportu purpose, for “If a comparative dities in many ways undreamt of knowledge of foreign languages in one's provincialism. The most was to be more divulged between Unguistic Europeans are undoubt----- TOTICE is hereby given that at a the different peoples, a great uni-edly the Russians and Dutch with

Meeting of the

Board of vergal understanding would be Germans, following close. The may know. But in spite of these Directors of Green Island Cement Compasy, Limited, hold at Exchange reached, and the many unneces- Germans are well-known for their sight hindrances, the English have Building, Victoria, in the Colony of sary tributions through which the efforts to speak the language of always been able to learn a foreign Hong Kong, on Thursday, the 21st day world is passing to-day would be the countries in which they trade; tongue when necessary. of September, 1833, d' Call of $3.75 per

If not fuently, at least enough to The ubiquitous Chinese, like the share was made upon all the members avoided.". holding shares who names appear in There сам be no reasonable satisfy the requirements of contact, English, are equally quick at lan the Company's register of share holders on the gist day of September, doubt that languages are exceed- People hold the conviction that Euage-study. Most of the Univer- 1933, upon

which only $3.75 per share ingly necessary to those who desire the British are the worst linguists sities in China to-day are more

Nanking, December 7. has been paid, and it was determined.

Government delegates, that such Call should be paid on this a clearer insight into foreign life, in the world. But this is a fallacy,inclined than before to give an

Chang Chi, Ma Chao- 10th day of December, 1933, to the learning and customs. Also, the for they are as capable of learning Impetus to the study of foreign Li Kau, strest coole, charged Messrs. Company's Banker's, The Hong Kong study of languages is essential to foreign languages as any. The in-languages, in proof of which wit before Mt. Hamilton, yesterday, taun, Chen Chao-ying and Wang &Shangbai Banking Corporation at their Head Office Queen's Road professional men and women who sularity of the British may be a ness the presentation of "Faust" by with the theft of a purse contain- Lu-yl, are expected to leave for ing #20 in Chinese money from a Shanghai to-night en route to Centrai, Victoria, aforesaid

wish to get into closer touch with hindrance, and, because they are the German Community of Rong cabin on the 6. Hydrangea, the Hongkong, Canton and Kwangsi Upon presentation at the Office of

English, beyond“ z "the men who go down to the sea Kong in the auditorium of the St. property of Leang Suk-hing, mar- to consult with the Southem lea- the Company of Bankers' receipt for other lands.

ried woman, was sentenced to two ders regarding the political situa. In reply to supplementary ques- sions, be said the Governary the payment of snob Call, together doubt has come to be recognized in ships, acquiring power, wealth Paul's Girls' School, in which 3 months imprisonment. Inspector tlon, an with the Certificate of Shares, note in this Twentieth Century as the and prestige in every part of the number of young Cantonese took Hourihan said complainant left the Meanwhile preparations are be-were keenly watching this Intense and were actively of the payment will be endorsed on

purse on the table in the cabin. ing rushed for the holding of a competition the Certificate.

Lingua Franca as Latin was in the world it may lead them to expect part.

Defendant was working on board plenary session of the Central considering the question. Dated this 1st day of September

the ship with several others. After Executive Council of the Kuo- Regarding negotiations, it was taking the money he divided it with mintang in Hanking on December the Government's view that ne five other coolies. Only $2.40 was 20. It is undersood that the segotiations among industrialists recovered. Mr. Hamilton remark- sion may eventually turn into should be allowed to proceed first

several leaders Router made British Wireless

1933.

1997).

COMPANY LIMITED.

By Order of the Board,

ALLAN KEITH,

Becretary.

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"

One case of meningitis was re- ported in the Colony for the 24 hours ended Dec. 8

London, December 7. "I saw this woman carrying a

Colonel Colville, answering... a bunch of newspapers and handing them out to three small children to question on behalf of the Presid hawk," said Sub-Inspector Smith ent of the Board of Trade, said Amoy, December 7. whan charging a woman, Li Kam, he had received reports of com- It is reported here that the 30, in the Central Police Court petition from Japan in the var

of United Kingdom Japanese military authorities have yesterday with siding and abet ious colonial markets, affecting a sent some agents to Foochow to ting "I ask your Worship to number confer with General Chen Min- take a very serious view of it," manufactures other than cotton shu about the assistance to be Defendant, said her husband died textiles, including:

asbestos, offered by Japan in return that last year and she had three child-

́cement' sheets, the Fukien government will not ren to support. The woman allow any foreigner to invest cautioned.

cement made up.. money or to establish military base along the coast of the province. Central Press,

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cotton goods and rayon goods, cycles: and cyclə' parta, galvanised iron sheets, hardware.".

felt hatr

pottery and tiles, rubber footwear. soap and beer.

Middle Ages and even more re- the English language to be spoken A cosmopolitan trading port like cently. Someone once said that wherever they visit, first as do Hong Kong, given the aid of the German is of great worth to the Americans. Then, too, the average University should be an excellent scientist, Italian to the artist, Briton is reserved and is chary of centre for the study of foreign ed that stealing from ships was a Peace Conference demanded by to see what progress could be

serious offence. French to the diplomat and repeating any foreign phrases he, languages.