NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
aja.
Sworn Monsarer's Offices will
Ted to ST. GEORGES BUILDING, 1er Floor (Entrance in Chater Ros) as from dru FEB- RUARY, 1934.
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DIOCESAN BOYS SCHOOL.
TELEPHONE 57777.
P. O. Box 33.
Headmaster :--
G. B. B. SAROENT, M.A.
Next Term Starts on MONDAY,
... MARCH STU
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New boy shoald attend, for tests, on SATURDAY, MARCH 3RD at 9.00 P.M.
Entry forms and prospectuses may be obtained from the Headmaster.
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THE DAIRY FARM, ICE AND COLD STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE is Leraby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of The Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Company Limited will b held at the Company's registered office 2, Lower Albert Road, Victoria, Hong Kong, on Tuessy, the 20th day of February, 1984 at 11 am. immediately afterthe Annual General | Meeting for the purpose of consider- ing and, if thought fit, passing with or without modification the following resolution as a Special Resolution:-
That the Articles of Associatiou of the Company be altered by deleting the figures $7,000,00 in the third line of Article No. 91 of the Company's Articles of Associa tion and Bubatituting in the place thereof the figures 370,000.00.” Dated this 20th day of Jundary, 1934.
By Order of the Board.
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J. D. THOMSON,
Secretary.
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB,
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1934, 24TH. 28TH, 27TH, 28TH FEBRUARY,
AND 38D MARCH, 1834.
Saturday 24th, Monday 26th, Tuesday 27th, and Wednesday 28th February, the first bell will be rung at 11a, and the first race will be run at 11.80 a.m. On Saturday. -the 3rd March, the first bell will be rung at 1.30 pm, and the first rage, will be run at 2.10 p.m.
The tiffin interval will be taken after the fifth race on the first four days.
MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE
Members are reminded that they and their ladies must wear their bad- ges prominently displayed throughout the Meeting.
HONG KONG " DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1934.
“Has a ripe, mellow sort of taste, hasn't it, Dick ?'
"And just bitter enough.
∙to make your e
hungry for all the food that's com- ing,” s
All the world over. WHITBREAD'S PALE ALE retains its 'delicate flavour, brilliancy and exhilirating tone. It can be iced or served at
desired any.
temperature.
It
represents British Pale Ale in its most delicate and attractive form,
WHITBREAD'S
PALE ALE
BOLE AGENTS
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
EST. 1841.
Editorial and Business Office: 1
Ice House Street. Tel. 3025)
gium during the war and, mean- while, doing much to stimulate Belgian trade. Not until Belgium
Night Editor (Wanchal Office) became stabilized economically did
Tel. 24511.
London Office: 63, Fleet Street.
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The Daily Press.
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King Albert cease his constant labours and then only partially
Belgium is a constitutional and
hereditary monarchy and Albert never would have ascended the
TESS. throne had not three deaths taken away the heirs between himself The succession and the kingship.
HONG KONG.FEBRUARY 19. 1934.
KING ALBERT
King Albert of the Belgians
dead and
the to
whole Belgian of the
nation we express our deep sorrow, at On another their great loss.
No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure.
Badges admitting non-members to the Members Enclosure and Club page we give details of how King. Rooms at $10.00 per day including Albert met his death in a moun- tax-or 840.0) including tax for the
Not only Meeting (ladies €5.00 and $20.00 taineering respectively), are obtainable through Betglum, but the whole world the Secretary upon introduction by a Member, such Member to be responsi- has lost a fine figure of a man- ble for all chits, etc.
one of the leading figures in the World War.
Badges admitting to Members' En- closure will NOT be on sale at the. Race Course.
The Secretary's Office, 3rd Floor Gloucester Building. (Tol. 27794), WILL CLOSE AT 10 a.m. ON THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, AND AT 12.30 pm ON THE FIFTH DAY.
A limited number of Tiffins will be obtainable each day at the Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy, Telephone No.
21920.
On ne pretext will children be per- nitted in either enclosure during the first four days of the Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE."
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The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is 84.00 per day including tax for all persons including ladies,
→ and is payable at the Gate, M
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are
accident,
King Albert came nearer to being the Hellenic conception of
Model the
Prince than any monarch of modern times. He was more than merely King of the Belgians; he was their fellow- their citizen. their co-worker, friend and their comrade-in-arms When his people strug- gled he struggled with them; when they fought he fought with them; when they underwent periods of economic privation and sufer- Ing. he laboured ceaselessly and to relieve their indefatigably misery.
as well.
The hardships and suffering admitted to the Public Enclosure at which the Belgians went through $1.00 per day including tax.
Bookmakers, Tie Tac men etc. will in the war told on their king and not be permitted to operate within the left him sad, grave, reflective, and precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
Tiffins will be obtainable in the Hestaurant in the Public Enclosure.
SERVANTS' PASSES. Fasses for Servants will be issued on application to the Secretary, and Floor, Gloucester Building.
in the years following the great conflagration he had lost his once famous dash and looked much older than his years, for King Albert was right in the thick of the fighting, having personally ted his miniature army to stem the
Employers are requested to distri great German avalanche, ordering bute them with discrimination and to endores their names on the passeɛ..
advances, carrying out retreats. Servants are not permitted in the fighting, struggling, striking and Mambers Enclosure except for passing hoping. And after the Allied vic- through on their duties but must tory to which King Albert contri- remain in their employers' standis.
"buted so vallantly, he remained to Any persons found loitering with Bervants passes in their possession build a new Belgium upon what will forfeit the same and will be was practically the ruins of the removed from the enclosure
is vested in the male posterity of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha King Leopold had three daughters but no sons. Albert be--- came king on December 17, 1909, after the death of his father.
King Albert cared little for pomp and ceremony. He preferred the democratic life of a citizen to that of a prince. He indulged in few pleasures and even his chief hob- bies were of a practical nature- colonization and engineering. He did much to improve conditions in the Belgian Congo and even wrote a volume about the 'district. He was deeply interested in mechanics and sometimes he would spend hours in machine. shops, talking with the mechanics, asking ques- tlons "and "using the tools himself. During national catastrophes, like the occasional flooding of the River Scheldt, King Albert gave practical assistance to the victims, helping to carry them out of the "danger zone and helping to ad-
minister first-aid.
The brightest spots in his post- war life were the marriage of his successor to the throne, the Duke of Brabant, to Princess Astrid of Sweden and the marriage of his favourite child, Marle. Jose, his only daughter, to the Crown Prince of Italy. The marriage of Marie Jose, one of the most bril- lant held in Europe since the war," did much to erase some of King Albert's sadness.
When his war-ravished land was restored, his cities re-built and his people back on a financial footing, King. Albert eased on his labours and began to travel In 1930 he made a visit to the near.... East. Once more he began to take up aviation, of which he had been so fond before the war. On his trip to the near-East he flew from Cairo to, Bagdad and back
No
DEVALUATION
- OF FRANC
Demanded By Deputy Moutet
(Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press")
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18y Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra phic Messages Ordinance, 1991- ceived, February 18, 4.30 a.m.)
Paris, Feb. 17.
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
Bulgarians Now Russians
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press {Copyright.)]
on
in
MEAGRE STATEMENT
NEWS SUMMARY
Several Caer Clark Cup matches were played during the week-end, the Hong Kong Ladles Hockey... Club defeating the C.B.S. by six clear goals, while the St. Andrew's Geneva, Febrcary 17, Ladies proved too strong for the A communique Issued on Satur-
Recreio "B", winning by four the League day night by
of goals. Full report appears on Nations
11 Secretariat about the Page 11. session of the Saar Committee that ended on Saturday afternoon is very meagre.
It merely states
Moscow, February 17. Dimitrof. Peport and Tanoff that the memorandum submitted the three Bulgarian Communists by Knox has been received" and. Further devaluation on the tried for complicity in the burning
the committee thoroughly examin- French franc to the extent of 10 of the Reichstag but who were
cd all questions raised. The Com- por cent is demanded by the Radi- | acquitted--were admitted to Rus- munique also states that a series
star ext Socialist Deputy "Moutři, ina
citizenship
Friday
of legal questions will be laid be- letter to
fore an expert Impartial lawyer Premier Doumorgue in response to applications made by which he states that France must relatives of all three and after but does not say that a special emulate the example set by Great their native country, Bulgaria, had legal committee will be appointed. Britaiu and the United States and refused to receive them back or to Enquiry among delegates gives Japan in order to enable
the recognise their citizenship It re-grounds for belleving that the fol- French export industry to compete leased by the Reich.--Transocean lowing are three points on which successfully in the World's markets. Kuo Min.
expert opinion is wanted. 1. Who Transcean Kuo Min.
are entitled to vote at the Flebis- elte? 2, Will the vote be taken by Municipalities or by Districts? 3. What authoritative powers will be bestowed on the plebiscite com- mittee.Transocean Kuo Min.
DUTCH DEFENCE IN FAR EAST
'Holland Will Rely On Her
Own Resources"
A
The Hague, February 17, In the Dutch Senate yesterday the Minister for Defence, Dr. L. N. Deckers, declared that the Nether- lands had not entered, and did not Intend entering" any defence treaty in the Far East.
Holland, he said, would depend upon her own resources for defen- ce interests.
The statement arcse from re- ports regarding a secret Anglo-Dut ch treaty in view of a "possible conflict in the Pacific-Reuter.
SPAIN AND THE VATICAN
Relations Become Strained
(Special to "Hong Kong....
Daily Press"}
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(Hy Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra phie Meiangas Ordinance, 189.` ceived, February 18. 4-80 am:)
TEXTILE WORKERS DISMISSED
Paris, Feb. 17, Seven hundred textle workers Were dismissed ох Friday for threatening to go on strike after having received an alternative from the league of Textile Employers of Roubaix and Tourcoing that ceas- ing work on Monday would” be !! equivalent to losing their work permanently. The disheartened workers immediately appealed to the local unemployed reller com- mittee and are preparing to carry their ease before the Labour courts.Transocean Kuo Min.
GERMAN SHORT-TERM
CREDITS
Berin, February 17. Negotiations which started or February 5 regarding German short-term credit ended in an agreement on Friday.
The agreement is to take effect on February 28, when the existing agreement comes to an end. The new agreement
goes on +411 February 28, 1935 and combines a volume of credit amounting at the present rate, to 2.6 milliards of Marks,
This agreement is very satis factory from the German point! of view. since it makes
no pro- visions for a reduction in the volume of credit as did the two This is a preceding agreements.
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NEW LAW IN SWEDEN "
Oslo, February 17. The law admitting women to all state and church offices even in- cluding diplomatic servies was de- finitely passed by the Upper House. It is now considered that its passage through the Lower House is certain. Should this prove correct no profession except «military service will be closed to
women-Transocean Kuo Min
GERMAN-POLISH TRADE
AGREEMENT
Warsaw, February 17. The German-Polish, provisional trade agreement recently signed to cover the "duration of the com- mercial Treaty negotiations has been renewed till the first of March-Transocean Kuo Min.
BIBLE OF THIRD REICH
Able Seaman Alfred Thomes. Fowler of HM.S. Medway was on Saturday sentenced to six months' Imprisonment and ordered to be dismissed from the Sevice by G Naval Court Martial on chargés öf stealing a gold wrist watch and chain, the
property of Lt. M. Griffiths and of unauthorised en try of cabin No. 49.
Page 5.
Results" of the week-end football will be found on Page 10.
نویدیا
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Home Football results are pub- lished on Page 2
.Particulars of Saturday's train- ing gallops "at Happy Valley ap- pears on Page 3.
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The funeral of Mr. A. G. Ursell, chargeman of shipwrights, Naval Yard, took place on Saturday.
Page &
An increase In the Colony's credit balance is revealed in the October, figures of revenue and expenditure published in the Gazette.
Page 11.
"A full programme of league', cricket matches was carried out over the week-end. The results, in detall, will be found on Page 10.
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Results of Fanling and Canton Races appear on Page 7
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Only two cases are on the Febru- ary calendar of the Criminal · Ses- sions which open this morning at 10 o'clock. James Leslie Bryant, a private of the Lincolnshire Regi- ment, charged with making a false afidavit will come before the Acting Chief Justice, while Tong Wing kwok, charged with wounding with intent and wounding, will appear before the Puisae Jadge, Mr. H. E. Lindsell,
Paris, February 17. A translation of "Mein Kampf" that is "My Struggle," Hitler's book partly autobiography partly a statement of the National So- cialist political creed was publish- ed in Paris on Saturday for the first time. The semi-oficial Petit
The forthcoming marriage between Parisien refers to the book as Elmer Loyd Davis, Radioman of
The Bible of the third Reich" indespensable to all who aim at the U.S.S. Mindanao, and Labrada understanding the personality and Herera Saniog, of the Hotel Troca-
great advantage to Germany at the moment when the stimula- Madrid, February 17.
tion of her economic situation, Relations between Spain and the Vatican are somewhat strained in
and Increased Imports of raw materials must be financed. consequence of the recent address
Moreover, Germany's present delivered by the Papai Nuncio in difficulties in meeting her short the Madrid Cathedral in the
term creditors were realised and cised certain Spain laws. course of which he severely criti-it was agreed that no further
It is understood that the Span- repayment of these credits plans of the German Chancellor. dero, Kowloon, is announced.
expected before February, 1935-Transocean Kuo Min. arrangements made in the last had worked agreement, which
MILITARY ADVISER TO CHINA excellently, resulted in a payment of about 500 million marks with- out making any large inroad into stock for foreign exchange. Transocean Kuo Min.
ish Government sent a Note to the Vatican protetting against the Nantco's utterances and pointing out that all churches in Spain are the property of the State and are put at the disposal of religion's bodies solely for the purpose of worship and not for political pur- poses.
Informed quarters assume that the proposed appointment of an Ambassador at the Holy See will be postponed for the time being.
Transocean Kuo, Min.
POPE REBUFFS
HITLER
Vatican Breaks Of Negotiations
Vatican City, February 18. Negotiation between the Vatican and Germany for the completion of the Concordat "signed last sum- mer have been suspended and Hert Buttmann, the Reich representa- tive, has returned to Germany.
It is understood that the Vatican told him that under present cir- cumstances the negotiations could not lead to any conclusion.
The main points hitherto un- settled are:
J
Hitler's desire to reduce the existing Catholic Associations on the grounds that some are partly political.
Secondly. Baden's attempt to suppress the Catholic schools.
Thirdly, the paganistic tenden cles of Germany to-day-Reuter.
GOVERNMENT
LEIPZIG TRADE FAIR
Leipzig, Feb. 17.
At the World Trade Fair which is opening at Leipzig in March many industries from the Saar re- gion will be strongly reunited and coupled together, this being in- tended to provide one more con- tact of solidarity of the Saar with ke Reich. To dispense with any character of passive demonstra- tion vice-Chancellor von Papen, who himself is a native of the Baar and a deputy, in the Reich, will pay a personal vise to the Baar part of the exhibition.- Transocean Kuo Min,
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ELECTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN
Kabul, February 17. The young king Shir, Shah de- creed general elections for the National assembly, All male Afghans over 20 years of age are. entitled to vote but only men be- tween 25 and 70 years of age who are able to read and write "and who are of good standing are ad- missible to become Deputies- Transocean Kuo Min.
SAAR PEBLICITE
*
of
London, February 18, The Berlin correspondent "The Times" reports that General von Seeckt has accepted the in- vitation of the Nanking Govern- ment to go to China as Military Adviser and is preparing to leave for China in March.-Reuter.
ULM FLIES OVER THE
TASMAN SEA
الله
The forthcoming marriage is an- nounced between Bruno Hermano Luebeck, "Missionary, of Kityang, and Katherine Elizabeth Bahn, Missionary and Nurse, of the same address.
His Excellency Monsignor Piani, Aplostolic Delegate in the Philippine Islands arrived in Hong Kong on Friday by the 'President Jefferson' from Manila, and sailed for Italy co Saturday by the Kafori Maru'. Many friends and members of the local clergy as well as the Consul General for Italy assembled on board to bid him farewell,
* Bydney, February 18. The Tasman Ses, known by
The Raab Australian Gold Mining Bylators as a grave venture, has Company, Ltd., reports that their been crossed solo for the second output for the four weeks ended time by Charles T. Uim, who 30th January, 1934 amounted to arrived here at 6.10 p.m. to-day 2,031.00 ounces from New Zealand, which he left
Mr.
at 5.30 am. in his aeroplane The Haining, after being.
Faith in Australia.“
refloated at Swatow, returned to Uim accompanied. Sir the Colony on Friday, last and went Charles Kingsford-Smith on his into Kowloon Docks for minor 2,000-mile ploneer fight in June repairs. She will resume her regu 1928 (Pacific) across the Pacificar coastal service next week. Reuter,
SOCIALISTS RIOT IN
NEW YORK
New York, February, 18. The American flag was torn in a scuffle at a mass meeting of 20,000 Socialist workers at Madi- Square Garden called last night to protest against the 'sup-
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Local estate valued at $382,638.36 was left by Mr. Antonio Luis Alves, of 41, Granville Road, Kowloon, who died at the Canossa Hospital on January 10 last,
It is announced in the "Gazette" vised to exercise his power of dis- that His Majesty has not been ad-
allowance with respect to the fol- lowing ordinances-an Ordinance amend the law relating to
to
Whether or not detachments of pression of the Socialists in Aus-Opium," and "An Ordinance to
Geneva, February 17,
Foreign Police will be quartered in the Baar. territory during the plebiscite next
80 year
as to guarantee order, or whether Instead the local police will be reinforced beforehand are matters that cannot be decided before the middle of March at the earliest because the League of Nations special Baar Plebiscite Committee adjourned on Saturday till next month, without axing a definite date for reassembly. President Bunday February 11th-His Ex-Knor the Saar Government Com- missioner presented an exhaustive cellency and Lady Peel attended report but proceedings at the by Capt. Walter were present at session were not made public the Meet of the Fanling Bunt.
Monday February 12th-Lady
HOUSE
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one man was stabbed and three
-
The demonstrators used chairs consolidate and amend the law re- 25 weapons in the fight, in which lating to Miscellaneous Licences," Tenders to Round Head off women and nice men, including Jubilee Street" are invited in the two
Press photographers. Were Gazetto." Full particulars of the beaten or felled with chairs work required to be done can be
Reuter
RUBBER RESTRICTION
The
SCHEME
Agreement In Sight
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London, February 17. Amsterdam correspondent
life was more active than that of Peel was "At Home" to the Hal- the King of the Belgians. For | cyon club at Govertiment: House. years he made it a practice to rise
Tuesday February 13th-Ha Ex-ed by Capt. Walter were present of the Financial Times under. at § 2m2 and to be either at work
cellency and Lady Peel attended at the Rugby football match be stands that further progress, to in his private study by 7 am or by Capt. Walter and Mr. Plicker tween Bhanghat and Hong Kong. wards restriction was mad, at a to be out riding or doing some-
17th The meeting of the International As- paid an informal visit to the Chin Saturday February thing-in 'connection with, his ese. New Year Faizi, rim Rev. Spence Burton, and The Rev.sociation for Rubber Culture in old He, together with his Queen, kingly duties. By: 10 am. every Wednesday February 14th-HH Reed Russell lunched at Gov- the Dutch East Indies, though cer- made trips to the United States.
day he was ready to receive Excellency and Lady Feel attend- |ernment Entise. His Excellency tain dificulties have stilj, to be to South America, and other sec-listening and asking questions
visitors of all description, talking, ed by Capt. Walter were present and Lady Peel attended by Capt. overcome:
The general impression is fairly Secretary.
at the Meet of the Fanling Hunt, Walter were present at the Rugby
'the "ultimate Hons of the world, thanking the
The King of the Belgians is. | Thursday February 15th-His football match between Shanghai favourable as to agreement.--Reuter (2313, nations for aiding stricken Bel- dead. Long live the King.
Excellency and Lady Feel attend-1 and the United Services,
Br. Order,
C." B. BROWN,..
Hong Kong, 11th February, 1924
had it the office, of the Public Works Department.
Tender for the construction of a reinforced cement concrete framed Building at Hung Hom for the storage of oil at the Government Store is invited in the "Gazette,'
CHINESE MILITARY "MIS- 'STON NOW IN TURKEY
Istanbul, February 17. The Chinese Military Mission, headed by General Yang si Jen,. Commandant of the War, School, at Nanking, has arrived here from Germany.
They are proceeding to. Angora to make contact with thờ Turkish. military authoritieste
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