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HEW ADVERTISEMENTS

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

TUTICE is hereby given that the

Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corporation will be held in the Board Boom of Meners. Jardins, Matheson & Co., Ltd., 18, Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Saturday, the 24th February, 1934, at 11.3 m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement' of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1993;

The Registor of Shares of the Cor- peration will be closed from Monday, the 12th February to Saturday, the 24th February, 1984 (both days inclusive), during which period ne transfer of shares can be registered. By Order of the Board of Directors,

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager.

Hong Kong, 5th February, 1984.

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THE HONG KONG BRANCH OF ENGLISH ASSOCIATION, THE

THE

HE Fourth Mecting of the Session

1933-34, will be held in

THE HELENA MAY INSTITUTE

AT 5.30 P.M.

on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

(TO-MORROW)

Tun HON. SIR HENRY E. POLLOCK,

K. C., LL. D.

will speak on

"KIPLING'S POEMS.""

Those who wish to have tea in the lecture hail, must order in the day before from the Matron of the Helena Max, Institute (Tel. No. 221F0).

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ROBERT K. M. SIMPSON,

Hon. Sec. & Treasurer.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HỌNG. KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE GOODS WALTER HENRY GRACE, LATE OF THE JUNIOR CARLTON CLUB PALL MALL QITY OF WESTMINSTER AND OF VILLA LA CATA CANNES ALPES

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY,

“IT RELISHETH THE HEART IT LIGHTENETH THE MIND"

HOLINSHED'S

CHRONICLES 1577.

OBITUARY

Mr. L. H. McCormick

Miami Beach, Florida, Feb. 3. The death occured "here yester- day of Mr. Leander Hamilton McCormick, author, sculptor and inventor-Reuter.'

FEBRUARY 5, 1934.

CONTINENTAL

NEWS

CABLE

TO HELP GERMANY'S POOR

יןי

"WHITE SATIN" FIRES IN CANTON order to show their gratitude

GIN!

BURNETT'S

CELEBRATED

LONDON DRY &

OLD TOM GINS.

RIFT BURNE

NDONIJDRY -

COMPARE THE PRICE- 919 TOM GIN

THE QUALITY IS

BEYOND COMPARE!

(4.3.WATSON & Ga kuji

SOLE AGENTS

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

ENGAGEMENT

EST. 1841.

for

the railway company

(the

CORNWELL-TURNER.-The en-Southern is distinguished in this

announced of gagement is Lucy, second daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. Turner, of Shanghai, and Albert Edward, youngest, son of Mrs. and the late Mr. F. Cornwell, of Andover, Hants, England.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The Relatives MARITIMES

FBANCE,

GENTLEMAN RETIRED DECRAGED."

Nhat the Court has, by virtue of

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Section 59 of Probate Ordinance 1897, made an Order liraiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claime against the above Estate to the 26TH DAY of FEBRUARY, 1934,

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

Dated the 20th day of January, 1934.

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Executrix,

Prince's Building.

Ice House Street,

Hong Kong

(9910

NOTICE.

HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE

ASSOCIATION.

Not the ANNUAL GENERAL

$220,000 Damages Last Week

NOBEL PRIZE CANDIDATL

[Special to the Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright3]

Warsaw, Feb. 3.

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daly Press" (Copyright.)1

Feb. 3. Th 1er German hospitality, prominent members of the British colony,

The famous Polish marshal P- including the staff of the Embassy sudski is proposed as a candidate und the Consulate-General, have for the year's Nobel Peace Prize resolved to assist in the winter by the Juridicial Faculty of the relief scheme successfully launch-University of Cracow. ed by the German Government at the beginning of this winter. The Britishers, under (From Our Special Correspondent)

patronage of the British Ambassa- Canton, Feb. 4.. dor, on Wednesday next at the Theatre wil Destruction of houses by fire is Kurtuerstendamm daily occurrence in Canton. The stage

comedy. upusually dry weather is respon-Nothing But The Truth." which sible for the fires in different parts promises to be a brillant social of the city especially in the crowd-event. ed sections, and in each outbreak at least ten or twelve houses were burnt down,

"

an American

4)

In a telegram to the Nobel the Prize Committee, the Faculty de- clares that Pilsudski, by concluding non-aggression pact with the Soviet Russia and Germany, ren- dered signal services towards the cause of peace in Europe. Trans ocean Kuo Min.

The cast is composed entirely of Eritishers and the proceeds will go to the German Relief Scheme. Transocean Kuo Mir

Last night the famous Nam Yuen Restaurant in Man Cheong Hong near Sp Pat Po was partial-A TUOUSAND MARKS REWARD ly destroyed by fire.

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHTS

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

Bremen, Feb. 3. The second mid-Atlantic floating stage to serve as a landing place Damages to the restaurant and [Special to the "Hong Kong Dally

Press" (Copyright.)]"

for aeroplanes, and to relieve the the

houses are surrounding

Munich, Feb. 3,

West Phalen from time to time," estimated to be about $100,000.

A thousand marks reward was will be put into service shortly. Other Are outbreaks during the offered on Saturday by the State Negotiations for the purchase of week-end occurred at Ho

Government for information lead-the Shwarzen Fels are nearing Street, White Cloud Road and Houng to the capture of an unknown completion. Fook Street. The total loss of miscreant who fired two shots on property during the week amount January 20, at Archbishop Faul- ed to be about $220,000. The re haber's palace. brigade had a very busy time.

Pun

Happily the water-works were

functioning well and gave a good supply in fighting the fires.

The fire brigade of the Bureau of Public Safety has ordered a Dre boat from London for service on the Pearl River. Constructed at a cost of over $100,000, the boat recently arrived at Hong Kong and will steam up to Canton sometime this month.

TO REDUCE BANK NOTES

IN CIRCULATION “

2

Experts say that the mysterious shooting was committed with a snail calibred pistol. No damage

was done.-Transocean Kuo Min.

CHI CHANG IN GERMANY

[Special to the Heng Kong Daily

Press" (Copyright.)]

Frankfurt, Feb. 3.

is

Chi Chang. president of the Academy of War at Nanking, and now travelling through Europe

studles, mliitary pursuing specially well-known in Germany for the defence of Ku Pel Ku against the Japanese troops.

The necessary transformation will be carried out in the same

NEWS SUMMARY

The Mortlock-Niblock wedding which was solemnised by Dean Swann on Saturday has been re- ported on Page 8..

Home Football Results Page 11. Training Gallops. •Page 2.

A squall capsized a sugar-cane junk over the week-end and three Page 15. were drowned.

A full account of all the Cricket games played over the week-end is given on.

Page 7. Hockey played over the week- end has been fully reported on Page 10.

Accidents reported by the au- thorities of the Safety First Cam- pain on Page S

Regulations for traffic a Happy Valley for the Annual Race Meet- ing on Page 7.

Appointments in the Gazette on Page 2.

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Yachting results over the week- end appear on page 10...

Diary of Local Events appear on раже 5.

On

Cinema Diary appear on page 5. Around the Courts appear page 6.

tist.

Lesson Sermon of Christ Selen- Page 4. the The football played over week-end, Including the Interport trial, has been fully reported "on page 10.

Saturday's Rugger is given on page 2.

WEDDING AT CATHEDRAL

yard as the West Phalan was re- constructed. This proves that the Member of Bank Staff West Phalan has succeeded in the

purpose for which she was intend- el sa that the dangers of the trans-Atlantic fight from now' will considerably lessened, "Trans- ocean Kuo Min.

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A "FEME" MURDER

[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright;}],

Berlin, February 2

Married

MORTLOCK-NIBLOCK

There was a large gathering at St. John's Cathedral on Saturday when Miss Kathleen Niblock only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Nib- lock, late of Singapore, but now of Upper Bassett, Hampshire, Eng- land; was married to Mr. Douglas Walter Mortlock, sub-Accuntant of Investigations into the murder of Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, in eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W, T. a carpenter named Katuser Nowawes near 'Berlin. revealed Mortlock of, Tonbridge, Kent.

The Very Rev. Dean Swann and that it is a case of teme" mur- der committed by Communists. the Rev. J.L.C. Isard, of Tonbridge, Kattner was formerly a confidenti- a school fellow of the bridegroom, al friend of Thaelmann who is officiated at the wedding... about to be tried shortly for high The bride who was given away treason, and Kattner had been by Mr. W. P. Douglas, M. 1. Mech called as witness for the Public, E., Superintendant Engineer of the Proseculor. Kattner has of late Singapore Harbour Board, wore frequently received threatening a cream pan velvet ankle-frock. letters from Communist sources with a cloak of the same material. and had been ordered to disapa hand-made veil and a crown of

before the pear to Russia

case orange blossoms. She carried a comes up for trial

Since he had sheaf of arum Hlies.

The

Misses bridesmaids, the carry out the orders, he had been Davidson and Miss Brown, were foully murder. Four leading func- dressed in mauve organdie ankle- tionaries of the former Communist high frocks, with velvet conta to match, and bonnets trimmed with Party including Theelmann's suc- cessor, the infamous John Scheer,

violets. violets,

Chi Chang paid a visit to the Chinese Institute at Frankfurt and (From Our Special Correspondent)

was received by the Director, Dr. direction that cares to use it.

Canton, Feb. 4.

Rouselle and his staff who gave In 1919 an advance to unifica- W.

Banknotes sealed up by order of address of welcome in the of Chinese language, his collabora- tion was made by the appoint-the Provincial Department ment of the Electricity Commis-Finance on December 8 represent tors being the carsator of the other distinguished. ing a month and a half rent col-University.

and officials

Anally Chinese stoners, whose duty it was to pro- lected by landlords will be unseal-

students of the University mote, regulate, and supervise theed on February 6, and the land- supply of electricity. They were interest from the government.

lords will receive eight per cent. Rouselle emphasised the cordiality

of relationships between instructed to map out the whole Such notes, though sealed by the and Germany.

Chi Mr.

Chang replied country into districts in each of authorities, are deposited with the everywhere in Germany he had

landlords. which a joint electricity authority diminish the number of banknotes

as the object is to found complete understanding of neglected to heed the warnings or was to provide and secure a cheaprculated in the market and to the special national problems of China and hoped that what he had seen at the Chinese. Institute at Frankfurt will assist to the inten- sification of friendly relationship

China and Germany. between Transocean Kuo Min

of the late Mr. Andrew M. Simpson thank all friends most sincerely for their kind expressions of sympathy

and for oral tributes. 44. Bingham

Dundee, Terrace. Scotland.

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Editorial am! Husiness Office

Tee House Street. Tel. 30281

(Wanchai Office): Night Editor

Tel. 24511.

The Daily Pr

TESS.

and abundant supply. Later it stabilise those in circulation. was recognised that the powers of

these Commissioners were inade-

Hosa Koso, FRBRUARY 5, 1934.

interlinked lines extending all

main

over

"NATIONAL GRID"

Good

have

-China

that

at

A COPYRIGHT WORD

Each carried a posy of

Mr. T H A. McCarthy, of the P. and O. Banking Corporation. formerly of Singapore, perform- ed the duties of, best man, while. Mrs. W. P. Douglas was' the The groom- Matron of Honour. men were Messrs. R. A. Jardine and F. H. King.

Leipzig. Feb. 3. The word "whisky" is the term for spirits peculiar to England and Scotland, and therefore must not spirits' pro-

After the ceremony a reception. be used for similar duced and sold in Germany, is the was given by Mr. V. M. Gray- decision

Court burn. Manager of the Hong Kong of the Supreme here.

Bank, at St. John's Place, at which This ends a protracted legal dis- a large gathering of friends were

whisky distillers against a German

The honeymoon is being spent in travel. The bride's going away Arm-Reuter.

dress was a nigger brown ensemble.

Britain, these lines to be fed with enlarging existing stations a num-jeaders of the former Republicana pute brought by British firms of present.

..

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN MEETING of the members of this Association will be held in the Board

The country has been divided Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, & Co., Ltd., on THURSDAY, st FEBRUARY, 1934, at 6.30 p.m., to pass and adapt the Accounts for the acar ending 31st DECEMBER 1933, ýnd to elect Officers, etc.

By Order,

that " a

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LEIPZIG FAIR SUCCESS

"

seven

LOCAL AND GENERAL

One case of meningitis is reported for the 24 hours eaded February 2

Major J. F. Jebens has succeeded

the British Legation: Guard.

According to an announcement in the Gazette, the Naval Volunteer Ordinance comes into cperation to-day.

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BERLIN SHARE MARKET

"Continues Lively

quate to their purpose and in 1926 two towers erected on the oppo- was site shores, each 487 feet high. Electricity Supply Act carried through Parliament, It is The span here is over 3,000 feet, CONFISCATION OF ARMS London Office: 63, Fleet Street to this Act that the "Grid" owes

progress has also been B.C. 4

Its

the existence, also

Central made in the concentration of the [Special to the "Hong Kong Daily

Press" (Copyright.)] iri large stations, Electricity Board which, under the generation

Vienna, Feb. 3. Commisstoriers, administer it. selected for their efficiency or for In connection with the conâsca-

suitability of The Board was required by the their

position. tion of arms in possession of the dissolved Republican Societies that many of the smaller

taken place Act to construct a great system of Naturally

lately transmission and less economical stations have Schwecht and the neighbourhood, Great been closed, and in addition to many arrests have been made. Among these are the well-known current from a limited number of ber of new stations have been including Major Eifler and Captain large generating stations. An-built When the Board began its Loew.

approximately Members of the dissolved socie- The linking of all the important other important function "of the work there were

ties appeared before a Court on electrical power stations in Great Board was to work that system as five hundred generating stations Saturday, charged with having laid Britain is now complete and the a commercial enterprise. that is throughout the country engaged hand grenades in children's homes.

Sentences from six to country enters on a new industrial to say, they were to act as whole-in public supply. "The total num-

months were imposed--Transocean erzi This system, known as the sale dealers in electricity for the ber contemplated when the pro- Kuo Min.

gramme of reorganization is com- "National Grid." is of such supply to the distributing under- moment for the future of British takings (municipal or commercial) plete is 135. industries, and its erection during which retailed light and power to

Press" (Copyright.)] the last five years has been of the pubile. The first duty of the into ten main areas and in them [Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Major Wolman as Ceramandant of

Leipzig. Feb. 3. value to such

electrical plant Board is now practically finished central power stations generate

[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (copyright.)] · manufacturers,

short All through the countryside of the current. In addition to these Success is proved by the fact

that the Leipzig World Merchan in the completed scheme there are dise Fair, opening on March 4, the

Beriin, February 3. résumé of this achievement will be Great Britain one may see

The share market continued this work. evidences of

also 273 transforming and switch-promises to be on a greater scale Over given here.

Hvely thougn in some cases-prices Up to the period of the war the twenty-six thousand light steel ing stations necessary to render than for several years past, the

It is notified in the "Government tended to drop owing to profit

taking. The turnover was much the transmission the supplies available to the dis number of exhibits registered for the Technical and Building section British electrical supply industry towers carry.

larger than usual, on Saturdays. was in a somewhat chaotic con-lines of the "grid." These towers, tributing authorities. The trans-being aiready 35 per cent. greater Gazete" that at the expiration of a mission cables are capable of than last year. Tool-making ma-three months from January 27,

continuation of favourable econo dition. It was owned by a large or "pylons," are not without

household furniture shows an in- Banking Company, Ltd., will, amic reports, for instance that of number of

small, overlapping touch of gracefulness, and in set carrying quantities of energy up chines is 50 per cent, higher and 1934, the name of the Wah Namae optimistic tone is due to the companies or municipal authori- ting them up every care has been to 50.000 kliowatts, in each circuit crease of 25 per cent. No depart-less cause is shown to the contrary, goods traffic on German railways toment is showing a smaller increase be struck off the register and the for 1933 which were considerably "HUMPHRETS ESTATE, AND

company dissolved. ties. Some rendered very efficient taken to preserve the amenities of from one part of the

than 10 per cent.

Fixed interest securities FINANCE CO., LIMITED.

At any rate " the another.

The amount of space rented al- service, others the reverse. Their the locality.

per cent. ready is twenty-ave

While walking along Chatham mostly quiet though a demand for OTICE is hereby given that the charges varied considerably. After traveller about the country to-day

about £27 millions, which is above last year's figure. Trans-

Road, near the European Y.M.C. foreign investments was evident, ANNUAL ORDINARY the war the same impulse towards passes through a different coun-

A., Kowicon on Saturday evening, Throughout the whole week mar- GENERAL MEETING of Sharo- unification and coordination, tryside from that of five years within 21 per cent of the original ocean Kuo Min.

Mrs. Stafford Smith had her black kets kept growing firmer and had. holders will le held at the Hong which resulted in the railways ago, for in no part of Great Bri-estimate of the Electricity "Com-

Leather handbag, Containing 818.-a continued effect with the im- The present plant Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on MON-

Culprit, however, was seen by German Pollah non-aggression DAY, the 12th February, 1931, at being brought under one, led to taln. except the far north of Scot-missioners.

Press" (Copyright.)]

Major R. G. Lochner, M.C, of the Numerous reports about the 11.80a.m. for the purpose of receiving legislation aiming at securing the land, is it possible to travel far will, it is expected, be able to deal (Special to the *Hong Kong Datty 80, matched by a Chinese. The petus given by the news of the

the without going under some of the with the expanding output for the

Bucharest, Feb. 3.

South Wales Borderers,

economic trend during 1933 pub- the Report of the Directors together fruits of co-ordination in

Wolf packs beleagured the town caught him." ;;

Ilshed together during the week with a Statement of Accounts for the sphere of electrical supply: Chier many thousands of transmission next ten years, in which period year ended 31st December, 1938.

Each pylon carries from it is hoped to bring up the pre- of Pruth on Saturday, holding up

show the improvement in the out among such fruta is the saving of cablés.

The National Economic Com-look to be definite, substantial and Tho TRANSFER BOOKS of the the consumption of coal This three to seven cables and in some sent consumption of about 225 the streets for hours till the police and shock troops marched out of

and shot down the mission is reported to have drawn, continuous. Company will be CLOSED from

Call Money 44 to 51. Young Loan WOW ERA AV up plans for the reclamation of TUESDAY, 3 th January to MON- saving has, of course, been of some congested districts. duplicate by units per head to about 500 units. Barce

The prevailing snowstorms and waste land in northern Kiangsu, weaker at 951. Reichsbank un- DAY 12th February, both days loss to the railway companies, for lons have had to be erected to Last year the amount of electricity majority. inclusive.

power, instead of passing about carry cables in excess of seven. generated for public consumption lack of food throughout the According to the investigations re changed at 1051 Dye Trusts im JOHN D'HUMPHREYS the country in the form of raw The visitor to London who enters was 12,248 million units, a figure country has driven hundreds of oently instituted by this organisa-proved 1 to 1271 Salzdetfurth

& BON,

coal in trucks, now passes over It by ship, sailing up the Thames, which it is anticipated will be the ravenous beasts into various ion, no less that 13,000 000 mow of Potash unchanged at 149, German before have sach numbers been Commission has decided to convert man Mineral Oils, rose 1 to 1054, General Managers, the wires of the "grid" in the form at Dagenham passes under cables more than doubled by 1940. By lonely hamlete last week, but never land is still unclaimed which the Steel Trusts higher at 43%, Ger-

000 annually.

145 Transocean Kug. Min. of electricity. On the other hand of the ""Grid" connecting. Essex then the electrical era" will be known to hold up an entire town into cotton fields to yield $100,000, and Blemenshalake Jumped 24 to

-Transocean Kuo Min. Hong Kong, 23rd January, 1984.

electricity is made more available and Kent, These are carried on well under way,

. E. S. UPSDELL

Hon. Secretary.

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area

The total cost of construction, is

HOLD UP BY WOLVES!

who

than in 1932.

pact.

were