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HEW ADVERTISEMENTS

CHINA PROVIDENT, LOAN AND

MONTAGE 00., LTD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the

THIRTY-SEVENTH OB. ! DINARY ANNUAL MEETING of Shareholders in the Company will be held in the Company's Roard Room, 3rd Floor, Exchange Building, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 21st March, 1934, at NOON, for the purpose, of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Röport of the Directors for the year ended 31st December, 1933, electing Directors and Auditors, and for the transaction of any other Ordinary business of the Company.

NOTICE is also hereby given that the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from Monday, 12th March. 1934, until Wednesday, 21st March, 1984, hot days inclusive, during which period no transfers of shares €2872 be registered.

By Order of the Board,

D. L. KING,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 26th February, 1934,

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CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD

NOT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FOURTH ORÐIN. ARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Registered Offices of the Cou.. pay, King's Theatre Building, 5th floor, on Wednesday, the 21 st day of March, 1934, at 12 o'clock noon to receive the Directors' Report, and Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1933, to elect Auditors. and to transact such other business. as may be properly transacted at an Ordinary General Meeting of the Company.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1934.

Dewar's

WHITE

LABEL

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OF GREAT AGE,

Dewar&So

DISTILLERS.

PER

"The Whisky of Quality & Age"

Sale Agents:-

And Notice is further hereby given|| A. S. WATSON & CO, LTD.

that the Register and Transfer

of the Company will be closed from

the 12th to the 21st day of March,

.1984, both days inclusive.

LIANG CHI HAO, ·

Managing Director. Hong Kong, 28th February, 1984.

THE HONGKONG FIBE INSURANCE COMPANY

LIMITED.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE Sixty-fifth Ordinary, General

Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on TUESDAY, the 27 MARCH, 1034, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with & statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1933.

The Share Register and,, Transfer. Books will be closed from the 13th to the 27th March 1934, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltp.

General Managers,.. THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE

. Co., LTD. Hong Kong, 6th March, 1934.

HONG KONG CLUB,

.NOTICE.

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Est. 1841..

Editorial and Business Office: 11

Ice House Street. Tel. 30251 Night Editor (Wauchai Office)

Tel. 24511.

term creditors who meet next month, to ciscuss the matter. There is also a suggestion for the conversion of the Young Loan from its high rate of interest to

London Office: 53, Fleet Street 3 to 4 per cent. The month of

--E.CL

The

Dress remembered

Daily Press.

Hosa KONG, MARCH 21, 1934.

WHITHER EUROPE?

The

U.S.A

February showed a large deficit in Germany's exports. This was probably due, in part, to the world shrinkage in trade. It must be that both Great Britain and, recently, the United, States of America," have adopted a form of managed inflation, and the recent inflation of the.

must have undoubtedly affected German exports. At the same time, Germany has decided to remain on the Gold Standard, the reason given is that it helps her in the purchase of raw materials. This may be so, but there must be other potats to be taken

into consideration when working out the costings of goods for export.

ing in Europe and no matter from

War clouds appear to be gather

what angle we look at it, the news from Europe received during the We venture to think that the past few days, both from Reuter main reason why Germany does and Transocean, is distinctly

not adopt a mild form of inflation is because in that country, to put disquieting.

diplomaticit vulgarly, "they have had some," `manoeuvres going on are intense, having some ten years ago inflat- and while Great Britain is doing that it fell below the value of ed the Mark" to such an extent her best and keeping calm-she waste paper. It ruined the whole even sent the Lord Privy Seal of the middle class, and any re- around the Powers of Europe re-

turn to than system would Jos Herr Hitler the confidence. hd cently to discuss matters and help high esteem the public hold him to calm troubled waters-it ap-

in to-day. pears that the Powers on the

Germany has replied to France's "Alde. Memoire" Disarmament,

Death Of Dowager Queen Emma

| ALL HOLLAND IN MOURNING

(By Telegraph, Copyright, Tele graphic Massagea Ordinance, 2594-

Received, March 20, 7-50 p.m.).

The Hague, March 20,

All Holling mourns the loss caus- ed by the death of Dowager Queen Emma, which occurred on Tuesday morning shortly after 8 o'clock. Although her medical attendants on Monday warned the family to prepare for the worst, the patient's condition greatly improved during the night so that momentary, hopes for her recovery" which were en- tertained proved illusive.

Queen Emma, whose charitable work and consistent activity in promoting art, especially painting

THE STAVISKY SCANDAL

British Detectives Asked For Aid

Tele- 1894-

World Cable News In Brief

(Special to Hong Kong Dally "Press")

(By Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphic klessages Ordinance, 1894.. Beceived, March 20. 4.80 p.m.}

ریلو

!

WAR ON UNEMPLOYMENT

of the

to

Beriin, March 19, Herr Wuhelm Meyer-Foerster, the author of one of the most po-

Berlin, Maren 19. pular stage play of all time, “Alt-

The declaration of a summer's Heidelberg" died to-day after a

war or unemployment will be short liiness at the age of 72 years. ceremoniously broadcast to all At present his play is shown night-, German working men by Hitler on ly at the popular, “Plaza" Theatre | Wednesday. The Chancellor will the eastern suburbs of Berlin to sound the call to battle surrounded Fucked houses.-Transocean Kud by vast arsenal of cement Min.

mixers, ditch digging machinery. etc., etc. in the mid-point of the (Specul to. "Hong Kong

GERMAN UNIVERSITY IN Daily Press")

glunt construction 'project between Munich and Salzburg. (By Teleph, Copyright,

PRAGUE

Workers graphic Messages Ordinance.

Prague, March 19.

and employers of every great in- Received, March 20, 1.00 p.m.)

The principal of the Czech

dustrial plant in Germany will sit Paris, March 20. University autocratically took side by side in factory assembly Seven prominent people involved possession to-day of the buildings halls, equipped with special loud in the Stavisky scandal were trans-belonging to the German Univer speakers to hear the speech out- terred from the prison at Bayonne sity in Prague. The action was lining the nation-wide ight to Parls on Monday night. Iron rounded on the High-school law

unemployment, An Introductory where, as is generally known, in- of 1920, which had not yet been Minister of Propaganda, Goebbels speech will be given by the and music, made her universally | vestigations will be continued.

put into use by the Government who will broadcast a description popular. She was seventy-five These prisoners thclude Tissier, оп account of the unclear state years of age, having been born on director of the Baycrine pawnbrok-of legality." The senate of the August 2, 1858. The late Dowagering establishment, du Bary and German University at once lodged super-modern macadam stretches..

mammoth road building activities while speeding over Queen Emma was a daughter of Dadus, journalists, Layotte, theatre protest with the reigning Prince Von Waldeck-director: Cohen, pawn valuer: Gue-against this

specially equipped Pyrmont, and came to Holland at bin. insurance director, and de-

Transocean Kuo Min. twenty-one years of age as Con- Brasses, ex-director of the pawn- sort to the seventy-year-old King broking establishment at Orleans. William III. The widowed monarch Bonnaure, the Deputy, has not left had already been married to the Bayonne because the state of his German Princess Sophia of Wuer-health does not allow the journey temberg. The royal marriage re- At the same time, Garat is on his sulted in one child, Princess Wil-way from Pau' to Paris, helmina, now the reigning Queen Although of Holland.

three months have When William“, III.

gone by since the Stavisky scandal dted in Noreinber" 1999, Queen arst broke out and a full month Emma took over the regency for since Judge Prince was murdered her nine-year-old daughter and at Dijon, tangible results of Police reigned till her majority was at investigations and of the committee tained in 1898. After retiring from of inquiry appointed by the Cham-

KING "AND QUEEN OF SIAM the duties of the State the Dowager ber, are exceedingly meagre.

Rome, Mar. 19. Queen Emma put her energies into Paris Police have called to their Queen of Siam visited the Minis- Their Majesty the King and work for promoting happiness to aid a number of leading detectives the rank and file of the people. from Scotland Yard's intelligence try of Corporation. being familiar figure at public hospitals, exhibiticus, and musical concerts, using her influence to

By concentrating the whole of ocean Kuo Min, widen the interest of the Dutch the inquiry in Paris, it is hoped people in everything that might that a new chapter in the Stavi- contribute to the betterment of sky affair will be opened and re-

Concrete Holland's future. Transocean Kuo sults of a more

nature obtained-Transocean Kuo Min.

Min

The Hague, March 20, The death occurred at 7.25" a.m., G.M.T.. of the Queen Mother Emma Reuter.

The Hague, March 20. at seven minutes after the a- The Queen Mother died calmly nouncement that the state of her health was hopeless.

Queen Wilhemina, the Price Consort, and Prince Waldeck, her brother were present at her death- bed-Reuter...

OBITUARY

Maj. Gen. E. J. M. Stuart-Wortley..

service,

ANGLO-SOVIET

TRADE

The

Moscow To Ratify. Agreement

Tele-

(Special to "Hong Kong Dally Press") (By Telegraph. Copyright, graphic Messager Ordinance, 1894- Received, March 20,7.30 p.m.}

London, March 20,

Kuo Min.

the Government action. Transocean

CEREMONY OF CANNONIZATION

Vatican City, March 19.1 at the ceremony of the Cannoniz- His Holiness the Pope presided ation of B. Cottolengo, Pompilio. Pirrotti and Marguerite Redt in the St. Peter's Cathedral. The Pope was loudly cheered by the large congregation of pilgrims-Trans

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The visit lasted nearly one hour.-Trans-

in

I

can-

COL. KARCZ AT HANNOVER Hannover, March 19,

Karcz, the chief of the Cavalry Colonel of the General Star

Department of the Polish War Ministry, afrived here .ta-day ac companied by the Polish Military Attache for inspection of the Ger- Military Riding Academy.— Transocean Kuo Min.

UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE

Small Decrease Over 1933

IRON GUARDS ON TRIAL

"Bucharest. March 19. The trial of fifty two members of the Iron Guard organisation charged with having plotted the assassination of the late Premier Duca opened here on Monday, be- fore a military court consisting of

London, March 20. four Generals. Sixty-two lawyers Employment in Europe general- represent the defendants while no 13 improved but very slightly last less than 703 witnesses are to be year as compared with the peak called. The trial is expected to year of unemployment in 1932 last at least a week-Transocean according to the statistics issued Kuo Min.

to-day by the British Ministry of Labour Gazette.

600 PRISONERS RELEASED....

Munich March 19,

The British figures improved by some 220,000, the German figures

850,000

and France by a

A total of 600 prisoners have by been released from Bavarian con- thousand. centration camps on the occasion The position in Holland, Italy of the recent anniversary of the and Austria, deteriorated.--Reuter. National Revolution iri Bavaria whichi was belebrated on March 9.|

According to a police statement i

the prisoners dismissed were chief- NEWS: SUMMARY

The Trade Agreement recentlyly those who are assumed to have i signed between England and Russia

mended their ways-Transocean will be rauded by Moscow on

Kuo "Min. Tuesday next, after which it comes into force immediately.

It is stated that Russia will Tangier, March 20. thereupon place orders' in England The death occurred, to-day of for twenty thousand tons of steel Major General Edward James pipes valued at £1,000,000 to be Montagu Stuart-Wortley-Reuter.

delivered within six months. This The Hon. Edward James Mon- will be the first really large Soviet tagu-Stuart-Wortley was born in order placed in Britain.Trans- 1857. He was educated at Eton ocean Kuo Min.. and in the Afghan War 1879-1880 he was mentioned in despatches. He also served in the Boer War in 1881 and was military secretary to Sten. Valentine Baker in Egypt in 1882; AD.C. to Gen. Bir Evelyn Wood in Egypt 1883-1884; served throughout the Nile Expedition in 1884-85 and was mentioned, two times in despatches with two clasps at the battle of Abu Kipa and

THE Ninetieth Yearly. General Continent are more or less rude.but there appears to be nothing Gubat and was in reconnaissance i

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Meeting of the Members of the Hong Kong Club will be held in the Club House on Wednesday, the 28th March, 934, at 6,30 p.m.

By Order,

S. R. KERR,

Secretary,

Hong Kong, 10th March, 1934.

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as witness the many disturbances we hate had during the recent months. Of late we have had the following:-

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The Jugoslavian Group or the Little Entente. Here it appears that Jugoslavia "is playing the waiting game-waiting to see from which side she is going to get the most.

new in the reply, and bath France under Sir Charles Wilson to Khar- and Germany are as adamant as

touri. He commanded A bat- rattling has not actually started, ever, vis-a-vis each other. Sabre

talion of rifles at the relief of Ladysmith and in operations in the but France's military budget for Orange River Colony. He was next year is a very large one.

military attache at Paris 1901-1904 high in Germany, so high in fact National enthusiasm is extremely

and commanded the North Midiand division in 1914 in France and that even Hitler appears to be Belgium and Egypt. somewhat nervous lest that en- thusiasm might carry his flock away. He has issued a note of warning and

taking stern measures to check demonstrations of any nature.

ها

Rome last Sunday, made a speech Mussolini, in a setting of ancient

on the ambitions of the new Italian Empire, and, cornmenting sald "that on the speech, the Daily Telegraph passage in the. speech has given rise to so many observations in diplomatic circles. as 'the somewhat mysterious' references to tinent." :

the African Con-

no

DR. GOEBBELS APPLAUDED

At Meeting Of National Socialists

Tele 189

ARAB LEADERS SENTENCED Jerusalem, March 19. Seventeen Arab leaders of anti- Zionist riots which claimed 25 fives last October, were sentenced here on Monday to terms of" im- prisonment ranging from Ave to ten months for "resisting the forces of the state." However, since defense counsels immediate- ly applied for leave to appeal, all prisoners were provisionally re- leased after a stern cautioning by the judge-Transocean 'Kuo Min.

UNIQUE CATASTROPHE

Bucharest, March '19

Trees, houses and streets of the

A verdict of death by attempted abortion was returned at the con- clusion of the Coroner's enquliy into the death of Mrs Wheeler

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Allan

Chinese friends of "The Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood were hosts at a tes party given at the Chinese Mer- chants Club.

Page 1.

Miss M. Alexander a passenger on the Empress of Britain and Capt. Law were the speakers at the Rotary Club yesterday.

Page

Page 8.

February will be found on Page 11

Trade figures for the month of

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village of Jigoreni suddenly start- The jury falled to be unanimons ed moving on Monday in one of at the close of the murder trial the most unique catastrophes of yesterday, recent Roumanian history. With-" out warning forty-eight buildings slowly topped over to the ground while the terrified population ded for the open countryside. In the general shifting of the soil a deep Home Football notes and fore- stone well travelled" at hundred caste are published on Page 6 metres with nelther break or splash. Of tall trees abading the village square only bush-like tips

...The result of yesterday's semi- the remain showing. while / several final tennis match " in the open. streets disappeared entirely. Scient doubles championship, appears on isis explain this movement of the

Page 10. work of. subterranean springs for which this neighbourhood is fam- ous Transocean Kuo Min.

(Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press) .(By Talegraph, Copyright, graphic Messages Ordinance, Received, March 20, 7.30 p.m.)

Berlin, March 20. Great

applause greeted words of Dr. Goebbels on Monday night at Bertin's gigantic palace

PRINCE GOES TO of sport, when addressing leaders ground as being due to vast sapping

RHODESIA

Tour In The South.

Completed

Having completed a six weeks whirlwind, tour of 4,000 miles by. That, However, comment that the speech attract Prince George is leaving the Union is not all the rail and 2,500 miles by motor, matter" in the following terma ca for Le Journal sums up the of 8. Africa to-night to

Rhodesis.

visit

worthiess.

BUILDING STRIKE ENDS

Then Italy, Hungary and Austria have signed a pact with an outlet

of the National-Socialist more ments, the Minister for Propagan for the two latter countries to the

da reviewed the political situation

LOCAL AND GENERAL sea. The pact. however, appears

after fourteen months' experience to go a good deal beyond pure

in applying the principles on which economics and undoubtedly verges

National-Socialism was founded. Dr. Goebbels explained that Na-

Three cases of small-pox, one of on to politics... This is criticised

.. Madrid, March 19. { diphtheria and tional-Socialism as a world philo- The strike of construction work- epinal fever were reported for the two of cerebro- in yesterday's cables by the

sophy could only be understood ers ended on Monday after the 24 hours ended on March 19. German semk- official

when viewed as whole, while trade untons had accepted the orgen, Diplomatische Korrespondent, and

criticism of individual parts de home Ministry's offer involving Mafeking, March" 20.

tached from their setting was the introduction of a 44 hour week further, a statement on the situa

The many friends of Mrs. A. W. for building trades. This does not Smith... wife of Sub-Inspector tlon so far as Czechoslovakia is

that we make mistakes. The only retention of present wages based she has successfully undergone an "We admit" said the minister, however solve the question of the Smith, will be glad to learn that concerned is to be made next week

man who makes no mistake is the on a 48 hour week, so the conflict operation for appendicitis at the by Dr. Benes who appears to be

man who does nothing. Nobody may break out again in the near French Hospital, and is progress- "Mussolini does not demand an He in an excellent position for bar understanding but obedience."

received a hearty mes- can be run oven by an automobile future. The strikes of métal work-

ing favourably. "'. gaining, either with Germany, the

sage of farewell from General who does not attempt to cross the ers and electrical workers at Bar- Added to all this, the time is Hertzog on behalf of the Govern street. Nobody can make mistakes celona will probably be settled Little Entente or the Three coming for the plebiscite of the ment and the people of the Union with economic measures who does temporarily on the same basis-

Saar Basin, and already several of 8. Africa-Reuter, Power-Pact...

not concern himself with econo- Transocean Kuo Min. committees have met to regulate During the last three weeks in the voting and defining various

mics at all. We are of the opin- ion that a

Government which Germany, the Relchsbant shares | Points intd down in the Versailles

does much and shows great cour- has no right to extinguish the 210, Temple Street, Kowloon: Mr. Treaty, All this looks very well, but what effect will the result of

nege areem amb Lab are swaage has a right to make its mia-light because 艱 happens to William Jorge, clark, of Caroline the voting have in Europe next

takes, but we deny any might by have" thrown shadows or to Hill, to Miss Anita Seto, of 169. January when the actual Plebis-no a

xiety and responsibility and the infantile ailments. arregar

to those who do not share the an- kill a child because it suzers Tam Kung Road, Kowloon City: cite takes place?

Childhood's Dr. Helmut Heinrich. Eng. Prof., nsar sons To ensual au to burden of wons and enthusiasm for allments merely prove that the of Tung Cht University. Woosung, Germany has recently concluded queue a on a service to criticise, this Govern- child is alive."--Transoccan & Trade Agreement with Poland SumaUĮ sosedord TELA pue ment's mistake, (Applause) One Min.

Kuo Shanghai, to Miss Leiselotte Zinke,

of Germany:

have dropped from 170 to 145, and indications are that Germany is on the brink of another Bnancial She hopes to obtain fur- ther time or credit from her short

crists.

The weddings are anounced to take place of Mr. Alfred Dewald Wilson Mooney, clerk, of 324, Nathan Road, to Miss May Lau, of