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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB, ANNUAL TENNIS' TOURNAMENT.

ENTRY

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SATURDAY,

CLOSE

00

JANUARY, at 6 P.M.

NOTICE.

13th

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Company advise that they have opened an Office in Canton situate at 37. The Band and that Mr. 8. V. GITTINS has been appointed Acting District Manager there.

E. J, R, MITCHELL, Macager, SourH, CHINA,

MANUFACTURZEN Life Insurance Co. of TORONTO, CANADA.

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CANTON CONSULAR

DISTRICT

NOTIFICATION"

REGISTRATION OF BRITISH SUBJECTS FOR THE YEAR 1934.

Tent in the Canton district HE attention of British subjects is directed to the provisions of Article .910 of the China Order-in-Council, 1895, which provides for the compul sory annual registration of all British subjects during the month of January,

British subjects are requested either

to present their passports personally,

or send them by a responsible British

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934.

You Dare Not Take

a Chance With His HEALTH-

COW & GATE

BUILDS HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

Children fed on this food are always happy. The stream of vigorous young life runs in their veins-their limbs are strong and. firm-they are vital and active even in the heat.

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OBITUARY HUGE FRAUD IN FRANCE NEWS SUMMARY

M. Pierre Delagorce Two Millions Sterling Involved

Paris, January 3.

The death has occurred at the age of 88, of the famous historian. M. Pierre Delagorce, author of the History of the Second Republic the Second Empire and the French Revolution-Reuter.

"CAPTAIN" G. C. C.

CROOKSHANK

Daressalaam, January 3. Captain G. C. C. Crookshank. Royal Navy, was killed by an ele- phant on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro while alming big game in Tanganyika

A feature of the tragedy was that throughout the expedition Capt. Crookshank insisted that no game was shot-Reuter."

JACOB WASSERMANN

[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright.)]

Vienna, January 2. The famous German novelist Jacob Wassermann succumbed to an attack of heart failure at his country seat in Styria, aged sixty. Wassermann was one of the most

•idely read' German au- thors and most of his books have been translated into foreign lan- and won recognition abroad. This is especially true of his novels "The Gooseman" and "The World's Illusion" which some years ago were literáry best sellers in England and the United States. -Transocean Kuo Min.

subject to this Consulate-General be COW @ GATE MILK FOOD guages,

tween the hours of 10 am, to i p.m and 9 p.m. to 4 pm. in order that the endorsement of registration may be made thereon.

Attention is drawn to the irregu larity of entrusting British puas porta to any person not of British nation- ality, and under no circumstances should these documents be transmitted by chit book or post.

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SOLE AGENTS.

A. S WATSON & CO., LTD.

EST. 1841.

Editorial and Business Office: li

Ice House Street. Tel. 3025)

His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs acting under the authority of the China (Registra tion

Fees Amendment) Order in- Council,

Was 1933, which duly exbibited in this Consulate General on the 29th December 1933, has fixed the fee at presant payable on registra tion and for every renewal theroof at Fifteen dollara (H. K. $15.00) for married and unmarried persons whose gross incomes exceed $400.0 and London Office: 53, Fleet Streek. $300.00 a month respectively and thie

into fee

comes

1st January, 1834

force on

HERBERT PHILLIPS,

the

Consul-General.

H.B.M "Consulate-General,

CANTON.

„lat January, 1934.

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NOTICE.

THIS is to inform the public in

general, and lessees of Claude Neon Lights. Federal Inc., U.9A in particular, that we are, from December 31st, 1933, unrier mutual arrangement, ceasing to act for the Claude Neon Lights, Federal Ina, U.S., Shanghai, and that from January 1st, 1934, all re quests for service should be addressed direct to the Claude Neon Lights, Federal Inc. USA, 269, East Broad way, Shanghol, and all payments of rentals should be made to Messrs. Tae & Hodgson, National Bank Building, Central, Vaux Road BA, Des Hongkong. Tab ADVERTISING & PUBLICITY BUREAU, LTD.

St George's Bldg., Hong Kong

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ANNUAL BACE MEETING, 1984 (241 x, J6rH, 27th, 28rx FEBRUARY AND 3RD MARCH)

Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

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The Daily Press.

Boso Koyo. JANUARY 4, 1934,

HONGKONG'S EMPTY

FLATS

What does

ness of labour and materials on

as well as more old-fashioned apartments, in which case many landlords will be where they were, or even worse of than they were in the first place before they re-

built

SAFETY FIRST IN BRITAIN

[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press (Copyright.)]

Paris, January 3.

The monocled Russian. crook Stawisky, principal actor in the mammoth financial scandal, which

RUSSIA NOT TO BE OUTDONE

the newspaper Liberte terms Another Piscatorial

fraud

the biggest

since the Panama scandal, is still at large despite a vigorous all-night search by secret service men.

A sequel to the scandal is that the well-known music hall, the Empire, one of the most famous variety halls in Europe closed down yesterday since its owner Henri Hagotte was a close friend and agent of the monocled Stawisky. Hagotte who is also wanted by the police is at large.

Those bardest hit by the Bayonne fraud are insurance companies. The bonds, said to involve two million pounds sterling, were issued on behalf of the Municipal pawn Broking establishment of Bayonne which, like similar establishments in Paris and elsewhere in France,, is operated under State control, The bonds are said to have been issued without proper security. The presentation of bonds of sixty million franca by an insurance company led to the discovery of the frand-Transocean Kuo Min.

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INHABITANTS AGHAST

Paris, January 2 Thirty thousand inhabitants of the town Bayonne are aghast to find themselves facing losses to- with talling 200 million francs to-day's disclosure of a mammoth swindle tardily uncovered in the municipal loan office. The direc- tor of this institution Tessier confessed to have forged Bulgari- an Government securities, boldly within the city them printing

off limits

them and passing assisted by an impressively beard- ed and monocled Russian emigre, Serge Alexander Stawisky who did the selling while the director of the loan office tolerantly clos- ed both eyes. Stawisky is still at large with most of the swindled

Puzzle!

[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright. )]

Moscow, Jan. 3.

The fame of the Loch Ness monster, which has now strayed to all parts of the world is reflected by almost regular daily coments.

Reports in the London Times: ap- pear to have made the Soviet ex- tremely jealous. They are defcr mined to have their own monster "a better and beger one." News- papers triumphantly report that some fisherman in the Black Sea near Eupatoria sighted the Rus- sian monster which is said to be at least 100 metres long, with a head resembling that of a dog The panic stricken" shermen, aus- pended work and sailed home as if in stampede.-Transocean Kuo- Min.

BLOW TO COTTON -INDUSTRY

France Reduces Export Quota

"If Gossip we must" appears on Page. 1.

A review of the entries in the China Fleet Boxing Championship appears on Page 7

Yesterday Training Gallops' ap- pears on Page 10.

Home Football chatter giving dope on the strengths of various Clubs at Home appears on Page 11.

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'Progress in Aviation" is" the title on an article which appears on Page 4.

"Around the Courts" appears, on Page 6.

A special case which has been given separately from court cases in "Around the Courts" refers to death the: Nurse's

st Victoris

Hospital and appears on Page 7.

Z.B.W. Wireless Programme ap- pears on Page 4.

Hockey Matches Page 10.

appears оп

Special Supplement dealing with

Echoes of 1859 appears on Page Cuisine appears on Pages 2 and 3.

2

For storing kerosene and gaso

unlicensed premises at lene at Laichikok, Mr Woo Ching-po. of Queen's Road Central was aned 4500, Page 7.0

Yesterday's Interport Football trial game appears on Page 10.

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SACRAMENTO VALLEY

PROCEEDING

Fire Completely Extinguished

London, Jan 3. The cargo fire on the British steamer, "Sacramento Valley," now appears

been to have

Com- pletely extinguished, according to a radio message received by the owners, the Reardon, Smith Line. Ltd, yesterday.

The message, sent out by the Captain, states that the ship is proceeding.

The fire occurred while the ves sel was in the Pacific, about 1,500 London, January 3. Exports of cotton plece-goods miles out from San Francisco, on was bound and yarns to France are seriously | January 1. The ship affected, according to the Man- for Japan and China with a cargo chester Chamber of Commerce, of cotton from Ban"Pedro, on the by the official announcement made Gulf of Mexico.-Reuter.

December 31, the in Paris an effect of which is to reduce allot-" ments to the United Kingdom by The Government is considering of Bayonne are not quite whether he is still wearing his the matter. A meeting of export

ers will discuss the position in beard and monocle" or not.

Manchester, on Friday-Reuter.

New Regulations For millions although the inhabitants 75 per cent.

Road Signs

London, Jan. 3.

If, instead of rebuilding in close- lying districts, landlords had faced the competition of new blocks of flats in more recently developed All road trafić signs throughout Britain are to be standardized as a districts, such as Prince Edward,

result of new regulations which "Road and Kowloon Tong, by mak-

have now come into force, based ing modern improvements, lower-on recommendatioris of a depart-

mental committee. ing their rents and stomaching the

sure

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LOCAL AND GENERAL

One case of meningites was re-

hours ended January 2.

resultant attentuation in their not conform is illegal The regula ported in the Colony for the 24 Nathan Road at 5.30 p.m. yesterday!

comes, they would have been in much sounder positions to-day..

Not all landlords whom we have Interviewed share the view we have outlined that the present Colony-wide vacancies are due to indiscriminate building, though it

has support in many quarters. some put it down to the depres- sion and the consequent renting out of rooms to stray tenants, and also the sharing of houses and flats by families who are on in-

The erection of signs which do

tions definitely provide that warn- ing signs must be used only where they are urgently needed. This, however, does not apply to the new sign "Major Road Ahead," which it is suggested should be used free- 17.

It is anticipated that the gen- eral adoption of the new approved signs and, in particular, of the major road ahead sign will lead to a greater safety on British Wireless,

roads.-

The agricultural show organised by the New Territories Agricul- tural Association is to be held at Shek Wu Hul on January 6 and 7' next.

The Ictthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Joao Mariano Pinto, clerk of the Mercantile Bank and Maria Esmeralda de Souza of 3 Ashley Road,

RISE IN RUBBER ing held on January 5, at timate terms.

Others are of the

sand vacant flats.

SHARES

Not Justified Says The Times

As the Bt. George's Ball is be- the Peninsula Hotel, there will be no dinner dance in the Chinese Re- staurant of the Hongkong Hotel that night.

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OT

one

NOT YET EXTINGUISHED The Master of the s.s." Sacza-

mento Valley has advised her owners that the fire is not yet ex-

to Honolulu Reuter. tinguished and he is proceeding

GOVERNMENT CONTROL IN RUSSIA

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.)]

may

Moscow, January 2.

There was some excitement in

A stronger control of the party when a motor bus caught fire near and the Government apparatus is Messrs. Lane Crawford's branch. due from the Communist Party Happily very little damage Was Congress called for the end of January which has to pass on laid reform done to the bus.

measures already down by the Political Bureau of Rear- the Central Committee. Ip Leung, a shop foki, charged ganization measures will close" the before Mr. Hamilton, at the Cen-door to party membership: "untli tral Magistracy. yesterday, with the present rigorous purging of having assaulted girl named the party ranks has been com Cheung Ying-yin, (10) in Beiche:pleted. The number of members

$25 Street, was fined

be reduced nearly to one. month's imprisonment. The de- third." In order to form a solid fendant said the child spilt some spearhead of attack on the second" water on him and he hit her with Five Year Plan, the party eprol- & broom...

lers will be authorized to accept only. "activists", Russiana whose outstanding performances in fac- Chan Lain was sentenced to 12 tories, offices etc. have been ac- by Mr. knowledged after long observation months' imprisonment Hamilton, at the Central Magis-by a special party of examiners, tracy yesterday, for having re- The party will undergo a trans- turning from banishment. He al formation in work shops, collec-

atives, and the Red Ariny. so received three months on

will be committee charge of larceny of 38 cents from governing a man in Queen's Road West The nominated for each. sentences were to run consecutive-

The Manufacturers Life Insur- ance Company has opened

Canton office at 37, The Bund. and Mr. 8. V. Gittins has been appointed Acting District Manag- 13.

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JAPANESE GIRLS ENTER CATHOLIC FAITH

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According to the latest figures which we have been able to obtain, there are in the neighbourhood of a thousand unoccupied European- style fiats in the Colony at the present moment. This is quite ari Impressive figure but it is not at all surprising when the strenuous opinion that it is due to the steady building that has been going on dwindling of the white population owing to the reductions in staffs during the past few years is taken

necessitated in so many Brms. into consideration appear anomalous is the building. The first of these views has a good deal of reasoning in it, but it which is still being undertaken on every hand despite the vacant flats has always been going on, and, while admitting. that this sub- all too apparent on every hand.

On a charge of stealing a four- It is difficult to account for this letting is becoming more general,

London, Jan. 3. Four cases of enterie, two of ubiquitous activity. It may be due we do not think it accounts for

The continuous rise in rubber meningites and one each of diphtain pen from an unknown Japan-

Paris, January 2 therla and septicemia were report-ese. Wong Pul, 22 unemployed, was week discharged by Mr. Balfour in-the partly to the comparative cheap more than a few of these thout

Unfortunately shares was the subject of a warn-

Both daughters of the new Also 47 Central Police Court yesterday. Japanese Ambassador to France, we have not in hand the latest ins note in London Times," which ed in the Colony for the

points out though the consumption ended December the market just now, though more population figures, but the dwindl of rubber has encouragingly in- deaths by tuberculosis occurred Defendant said he picked up the Sato, have entered the Catholic probably the incentive lies in the ing of the white population. 1fcreased during the last year, pro- during the week. DEAFT Brogrammes now wish of tenants for newer and any must surely be comparatively ready and may be obtained at more modern flats for the fairly negligible, and to both these argu- the Secretary Office, Gloucester rentals they still have to payments the fact can be applied that Building; the Olab House, Happy Valley: the Hong Kong Club; the Landlords have a human wish to there is an enormous increase in Sports Club; and the Stables. get the largest return they can the numbers of Chinese who are. on their property and they are no longer satisfied with their wedded to the bellef that if they aforetime dwellings and are oc- Members are reminded that no rebuild on this property, they will

cupying. 'European houses and horse is eligible to enter for Buy race be able to compete without any nats. These Chinese tenants may meeting of the Club until an Offcial mculty against the owners of almost be said to have saved the Racing Certificate shall have been

less up-to-date blocks of flats: situation for landlords. obtained in respect of the horse.

All Members intending to enter and when they do rebuild they

Taking into consideration the Griffins at the Annual Afeeting are invariably increase the size of the requested to apply for Official Bac apartment houses, and, ipso facto, large number of Hats that remain ing Certificates in respect of much the number of fats in existence vacant it is most surprising that Griffins without delay, Also, Mem bers who have not yet registeredo it goes on, the incentive seemrents have not come down appre- racing names or colours wi-oblige ing to act as a centrifugal force cably: many good flats have beentary for the Colonies, leaves to- by doing so at their earliest con that makes the steady building in venience.

crease more and more rapidly the longer it continues The reckon ing will have to come, Secretary, there seem to be indicat

1934 It is alrea cat hand

121841 will

Entries will close at 8.00 p.m. on Saturday, 20th January, 1934

Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Hong Kong, 2nd Jant

vacant for more than half a year, and it certainly seems a futile. policy to prefer to have a flat vacant rather than lower the rent, even if it does show a smaller cen- centage on property than had been

#rected

ration still exceeds consumption Many shares have now reached Only 1.53 inches of rain was re-Queen's Road Central looking at Mitsu just completed her nine-

levels only justifiable by a much higher price for rubber than at present-Reuter.

SIR P. CUNLIFFE LISTER

Leaves For Tour In East

Africa

pén and as nobody claimed it, he faith at Brussels, according to to- walked on. A district watchman day's "Echo de Paris." Mies Fusa said he saw the defendant in is twenty one years old and Miss corded during the month of De- pedestrians, pockets and he sus teenth year Both were received cember. The biggest fall occurred pected him of being a pickpocket. into the Holy Roman Church in on the 18th when 73 inches were

He saw the defendant extract the ceremonies including the baptism there recorded, and altogether

pen from a Japanese gentleman's by the Papal Nuncio in the Bel- were 25 fine days when no fall pocket under cover of a news glum capital and the bestowal of was recorded at all

paper which be held in his left a special blessing sent from, the Pope for the occasion Transo- hand.

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Contestants in the Open Con- tract Bridge Tournament are re- minded that the third round will be played at the Sports Club on Friday 5th instant, at 5.30 p.m. In the Consolation Tournament, Com- petitors are reminded that the third round will be played at the Eborts Club on the same day.

SPAIN TO BUILD SUBMARINES

(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press (Copyright.}],

The intention of a Chinese to plant a dagger in another man's house, was suggested by police when they prosecuted So Lin, un- employed, before Mr. Balfour in the Central Police Court yester day, for the possession of the wea pon at 51, Baf Street. Defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced

Madrid, January 2. to six weeks hard labour. Det Sergt. O'Donovan said the man A bill for the construction of sub- was arrested on Tuesday morning.marines and auxillary ships to the The dagger was found wrapped value of 150 million pesetas will cubicle. Two days ago the defend-nish Parliament according to a ant gave information to the police Eoliday announcement made by that daggers would be found in the Marine Minister in the course

gena, Transocean, Kuo Mint another man's house and this of his inspection tour in Carta- Rare Misa to dnvestigations.

London, Jan. 3. Bir Phillp Cunliffe Lister Secre-

A Hoklo Asherman, Wong, Ma- day by Imperial Airways for Cairo chan has been arrested by the en route for East Africa, where he Cheung Chan police, and charged will meet officials and non-officials with murder of a sampan woman and take the opportunity of study who disappeared between Decem up in paper under a bed in his shortly be presented, to the Spa- ing the administrative machinery her 27., and December 29. It is be- In East Africa He will be absent leved that the woman has been about six weeks. Most of the tour murdered by drowning, but up to will be made by air, British Wire- the present her body has not been

found