1935-03-12 — Page 8

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS..

NOTICE.

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE.

BRIGADE

THE Annual Inspection by His Tolley The Governor has been arranged for Tuesday, March, 12th at 5.30 p n. the South China Football Ground. aroline Hill (By kind permission of the Committee),

Members of the Public interested in the Brilage and its activities are respectfully invited to attend

4:

NEW YORK BREIGHT BUREAU TRANS-PACIFIC, FREIGHT HURMAU HONGKONG.

JOINT FREIGHT TARIFF No. 6, DATED 15TH NOVEMBER, 1983,

is hereby

HONG KONG TELEPHONE

"CO., LTD

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the TENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING" of HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held on Tuesday. the 12th day of March, 1935, at the BOARD ROOM of the Company, Second Floor, Exchange Building, Hong Kong, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Acconnta and the Report of the Board of Directors, for the financial year ended 31st December, 1984, and re-electing two Directors and the Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the lat March to the 12th March, 1935, both days inclusive.

Dated this 29th day of January, 1936.

By Order of the Board,

W. L. McKENZIE,

Secretary.

NOTIC, by given Ffective 14, Des Voeux Road Central,

freight quoted in the above tariff will

be increased 10%.

A revised tariff will be issued at an early date.

[3325

THE HONGKONG & WHAМРОД

DOCK CO., LTD.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders will be held in the Office of the Company, 2, Queen's Building, Hong Kong, 00 Monday, 25th March, 1985, at Noon, for consideration of the Directora Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December,

1984.

-The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 18th

to 25th March, 1935, both days

inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

E. COCK,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 12th March, 1935.

(3327

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the Forty-Sixth Ordinary

Yearly Meeting will be held at the Company's Offices, P. & U. Building.

Hong Kong.

(8214

STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

Company will be CLOSED from 2ND The TRANSFER BOOKS of the MARCH, to 14TH MARCH, 1985, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

} J. D. THOMSON,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 21st February, 1985.

(8230

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSUR- ANCE COMPANY LIMITED,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1935.

DEATH CHATER-On March 11, 1935, at Marble Hall, Hong Kong. Lady Maria Christine Chater aged 58, the wife of Sir Catchick Paul Chater, Kt., GMG.. Puh- eral passes the monument at 4.30 p.m on Tuesday, March 12.

[3328

Editorial and Business Office: 1. Ice House Street. Tel. 30351 Night Editor (Wanchai Office) a

SENSATION IN PEIPING

Girls Taken In Police Raid

Pelping, Marca 11. The determination of the local authoriales to suppress all com- munist elements was London Office: 53, Fleet Street monstrated to-day when a number again de

Tel. 24511.

£.0.

The Baily Press.

BONG KONG, March 12, 1935.

SHIPBUILDING STANDARDS

The

SALE OF THE CHINESE

EASTERN RAILWAY

Satisfaction In London Business Circles

London, March 11. • representing Man Chu Kuo, ini- Businessmen connected in atialled the Chinese Eastern Rall- interviewed variety of ways with the Far East, way transfer agreement and pro- by Reuter, express tocol at 8.30 pm at the official cf police, accompanied by mem"

satisfaction at the conclusion of residence of the Foreign Minister. bers of the anti-Communist the sale of the Chinese Eastern!

The Protocol governs the part or Pelping and District Rallway as it is calculated to im-

Bureau

!

Kuomintang, raided the Dormi- i prove Russo-Japanese relations and payment and purchase price inf

tories of Tsinghua University, ten miles outside Pelping, at 6 am, and arrested eight men and two women students. who will face charges of participating In the Communist movement

Both the girls arrested were daughters of well-known officials. One is a daughter of a member of the C.ER. Kuomintang and the other a daughter of a high official of the Customs at Foochow.

CANTON NEWS ITEMS

Public Works Reviewed

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Canton, March 11.

A review of public construction was made this morning by Mr. Man Shu Shing, Municipal Com- missioner of Public Works, at the weekly memorial service" of the Canton City Government.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.1.140.000 tons more than the ton-servatory was completed at a cost

an

prospects of peace in the Far East.

Russian circles are ·equally pleased at the removal of a pos- sible cause of strife. In this con- nection the Russians are easier in mind than a year ago when the apparent ascendancy of the chau- vinist temper of the young hons of the Japanese military party caused serious misgivings. It is felt that Russo-Japanese relations have materially improved since that

The recent Federation of British

NEWS SUMMARY

A pretty wedding took place. yesterday afternoon at the Union

Miss Church, when

" Margaret Schwald became the bride of Mr. L. R. Cramer of the National City Bank.

Page 7.

The draw for the first round of the Adamson Cup 1s published on

Page 10.

The A.D.C. are producing Noel Coward's "The Young Idea" at the China Fleet Club Theatre early in April.

Page 7.

goods and It is learned that The Coroner's enquiry into the

guaranteeing Japan's note

the circumstances surrounding the Eerformance to the Soviet, of the death of a Chinese who was knock- " terms of payment by Manchu-ed down by a motor car driven by kuo will be Introduced in Privy Mr. Ainsworth was concluded yes- March 15. I willterday when the jury returned a Council on come up in the plenary session verdict of manslaughter against of the Privy Council on March 20, the driver.

* Page 6. and if Approved will be signed on.

22. simultaneously March

with signature of the transfer agreement and protocol.- Reuter

the

CHINA PROTESTS

Nanking, March 11. China has protested to Moscow against the transfer of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the

agreement

A Coroner's quiry was held into the circumstances which sur rounded the death of a sanitary coolle's wife who was strangled in the coolle quarters "of the Arsenal Street market.

Page.&

The

second 'Extra Berlos ot for which it is reparted will be Ladies Race of the Royal Hong initialled in Tokyo to-morrow be- Kong Yacht Club was sailed under tween the Soviet Ambassador and unfavourable conditions Page 10. Manchukuo Minister, Mr. Tin Shih Yuan.

Mr. Ting Hsin Chuen, Counsellor to the Chinese Légation in Tokyo, Some observers, while welcoming arrived this morning on leave and the sale, emphasise that it does not, saw Mr. Wang Ching Wei at noon touch fundamental issues. for questioned in regard to rumours example the nationalist fever that 2, Chiang Tso Fin is return- Mongolis and Sino-Japanese nero-ing shortly. Mr. Ting Hsin Chuen tiations, the outcome of which is said he had no information in the keenly awaited.

It is believed that the British Government is paying attention to the Far East with special assiduity.

Reuter.

NO BRITISH COMMENT

London, March 11. British official quarters decline to comment on the initialling of the Chinese Eastern Railway trans. fer agreement as the matter is considered to be of no direct con- cern to Britain-Reuter.

AGREEMENT INITIALLED

Tokyo, Mar, 11.

M. Turenev, representing the US.S.R. and Mr. Ting Shih Yuan,

The police simultaneously rald-time. ed Yenching University entering We have come to look upon 1934 as a moderately good year in the without search arrest warrants the Industries mission to Manchuria THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD shipbuilding Industry after three dormitories of girl students. Ap welcome the sale and say that the parently the Kirish they were hitherto uncertain state of the years of operation at only a frac- tion of its capacity. Lloyd's Regis-searching for were absent for no CER. is equally bad for business ter Annual Summary of Mercantile arrests were made.

and social organisation of Russo- Beuter. shipbuilding, published recently,

Japanese relations. It is believed however gives another view. It

that the general restoration of the C.E.R., which 1s indispensable, states that the tonnage launched NOTICE is hereby given that the THIRTY NINTH ORDIN-

must produce orders for machinery In which British Arms hope to ARY YEARLY MEETING of the British yards during 1934 was

share. Register Shipbuilding Returns Shareholders in the Company will be the third lowest recorded by Lloyd's beld at the Company's Town Office, 2 Lower Albert Road, on THURS since the first issue in 1888. It is DAY, 14TH MARCH, 1985; AT true that the figure for the year NOON for the purpose of receiving was nearly three-and-a-half times the Report of the Unrectors together larger than the total for 1933, but with statement of Accounts declaring 1933 happened to be the worst a Dividend and Re-electing Directors year ever recorded by the Society and Auditors.

and so the improvement, although

Inspir considerable," was not such as to

much enthusiasm. mercantile tonnage put into the water was less than one quarter-of that launched-in 1930, the indus- try's peak year. But perhaps it is not reasonable to compare the work of the industry to-day with its activity during the extraordi- nary decade that ended in 1920. When again are we likely to read. as we did in 1920, that "nearly four million tons of mercantile tonnage are under construction in

The Cantor Observatory will be British yards," and that the work in hand is "400,000 tons more than formally opened to-morrow, Mr. that which was in hand at the end Man announced. Located at the of the last quarter and about new suburb at Shek Pel the ob

nage building twelve months ago?" of $349,810." "Mr. Man said that on Wednesday, 15th March 19THE Sixty-sixth Ordinary

It is necessary to come to more the meteorological station is not 11 a.m. for the purpose of presenting

General Meeting of Share. the Report of the Directore together holders will be held at the Offices of recent times to obtain a true pers an object for adornment or with a Statement of Accounts to 81st the undersigned on Friday, the 29th Pective. Since 1920 the productive indication of cultural progress but March, 1935, at Noon. for the pur- capacity of the industry has been a necessity for mariners. In the by the past, Canton depended on weather pose of receiving the Report of the substantially curtalled General Managers, together with a operations of National Shipbuild reports and forecasts from statement of Accounts for the year ers Security, and the maximum Royal Observatory in Hong Kong., ended the 31st December, 1934, annual output may now be taken as their reports are broadcast The Share Register and Transfer as about 1,500,000 tons, the nearest through the Hong Kong radio Books will be closed from the 15th approach to that in recent times station..

Mr. Man went on to say that to the 29th March, 1988, both days baving been in 1830, when the

mercantile output from British collection is being made of the 20 inclusive,

yards closely approximated to that per cent. surtax on municipal JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,LTD.

figure. But 1830 was an abnormal land rates to provide a fund for General Managers,

year as 44 per cent. of the total the dredging of the East Creek) tonnage THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANOS

then launched was for which is used to drain away rain Co., LTD.

owners residing abroad Nearly 50 water. During heavy rains two per cent. of the ships built for ex-years ago, the Shao. Pak suburb was flooded resulting in drowning CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND Hong Kong, 8th March, 1935.

port consisted or oil tankers for Norwegian owners. Such a large of several persons and collapse of proportion of orders for foreign houses. The East Creek will be account is not likely to come again,videned and deepened

In a talk before the South-west in view of the tendency everywhere for shipowners of each country to memorial service. Mayor Lu Ch order tonnage from their own Wen also discussed the projects Municipal nationals. The proportion of the undertaken by the tonnage launched in this country Government. Mr. Liu said that for export in 1934, for example, the new electric plant at Sal was just a trifle over 10 per cent. Chuen will be completed on March Ruling out. therefore, any sudden 28. To facilitate the operation of evival of world trade, the pros- the plant, a whart has been con- from British yards in the im-the landing of coal and other mcdiate future will not materially gonds and a godown is also com- exceed the million mark, and in pleted at a cost of 333,104 the light of that standard of com- Mayor Liu said that a new parison, 1034 cannot be looked boller has been added to the old upon as such an uncommonly poor plant on the Bund so as to give year. Even assuming a reasonable a better electrical supply during centinuity of the better tone that the summer when the demand is developed in the industry within bound to increase

The mayor said that two public the past eighteen months British shipbuilders will be inclined to hostels are under construction

One of them costs $45,000 and can regard a highly satisfactory year,

December, 1934 and electing Directors and Auditors.

The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 2nd March to 13th March, 1935, both days inclusive, during which period zo Transfer of Shares can be registered. By Order of the Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.

Agents.

Hong Kong, 21st February, 1935.

F8276

LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

N

that the FIFTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, King's Theatre Building, 5th floor, on Wednesday, the 20th of March, 1935, at 12 o'clock Noon to receive the Directors Report, and Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1934, to elect Auditors and Directors

:.

1935-1936.

[3314

EALED Tenders will be received

SE at the Royal Naval Hospital, until 10 am. on the 18th March, 1985; from persona desirous of sup plying Beef, Mutton, Fowls, Pork, Cheese, Pure Cow's Milk, Ice, and the year ending 31st March, 1986.

Printed Forms of Tender and far ther particulars can be obtained at the R. N. Hospital

the

malter

Reuter.

The Ladies Section of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club are holding the Spring meeting and Frize Giving at Fanling on March 18, 19 and 21.

Page 10.

Litigation was begun before the Chief Justice at the Supreme Court yesterday over salvage costs claim- ed by the owners of the ss. Apoey and the Shun Chi for the towing. of the ss Asia.

Page 6.

CHINA'S RIGHTS

Nanking, Mar. 11.

that China's protect declares the Chinese Government which is

The annual general meeting of the joint owner of the Railway the Children's Playgrounds Asso- regards the transaction as illegal ciation which was held at the and without binding force and Board Room of the P.WD. when as such the sale

affect 8ir Thomas Southern presided.

Page 7. Chinese rights, and any manner.

cannot

interests.

further declares The protest that the Chinese Government continues to reserve all its rights and interests in the CER Reuter

RECORD CROWD HEARS DR. SVEN HEDIN

Lecture On Survey Of Central Asia

1

Further progress was made in the open Singles Tennis champion- ship yesterday on the Club ground when all the better known players won their way into the next round- Page 10.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A new air mail service between Liverpool and the Isle of Man for the conveyance of letters, letter packets, and postcards has been started.

A new air service covering the Special to the Hong Kong Da Is Lama) and made sketches of all distance between Zurich and Lon- Press" (Copyright).3. the sacred buildings in Trashi-don in three hours will be opened

Shanghai, March 1.

lumpa and later discovered the on April 1 jointly by a Swiss com- Dr. Sven Hedin- who has just fountain heads of the Indus and pany and the Imperial Airways.

to carry- completed a long survey trip for have their sources between the passengers along the new line will

Brahmaputra Hiver, both of which The planes destined the Chinese Government into Cen-Bath and 84th longitudes north of heading hotels, fitted with auto- tral Asia spoke to "standing room

matic steering devices. The line Nepal only" in the Wa Lien Teh Hall at the Royal Asiatic Society yesterday than 2,000 years ago, Alexander routes passing via Lille and Basle The speaker explained that more will be a double one, one of the afternoon in one of the most m-

believed he had found the source and the other via Paris and Basle. teresting lecture heard here for of the Nile River when he came some time.

upon the Indus River at the ex-

Members of Japan's commercial In his lecture yesterday he treme and of his famous march to mission to Brazil, which is sailing visualized the day when the Atlan tie and Pacific Oceans would be 2,000 years later, when I was lucky terday began a series of meetings India. However it was not until for South America on April 8, yes-

extend from the China coast to the Indus hundreds of miles from Japan can increase the purchase Atlantic coast in Europe.

where Alexander believed he had and use of Brazilian products i Summarizing briefly his travels found the source of the Nile, that order to expand sales of Japanese in Asia, Dr. Hedin.told his audience actual fountain head was revealed products to Brazil.

his journey, in 1893, across Asia to the western world," Dr. Hedin from Orenbury through the Kirgis steppes. Pamir and the Takla makan desert and finally to Pei.. ping, via the Lob-Nor country. On this trip he lost his entire carayan and two men who died of thirst on the Takla-makan. On this journey, which took four years to complete, . Special to the Hong Kong Dally he explored the glasiers of the

Press" (Copyright).] Mustaghata, and the mountains around the sources of the Yark-

and to transact such other business other provisions, and necessaries for Pects are that the annual output | structed at a cost of $85,160 for linked by a motor-road that would enough to find the source of the 'to determine the extent to which

as may be properly transacted at an Ordinary General Meeting of the Company.

And Notice is further bereby given that the Register and Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 12th to the 20th day of March, 1935, both days inclusive.

LIANG OHI HAO,

Managing Director.

18803

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

The right to reject the lowest or any tender is reserved.

A. T. RIVERS, Surgeon Captain, Medical Officer in Charge Royal Naval Hospital, Hong Kong

11th March, 1985,

18322

THE, HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

said.

China United Press (by Mail).

MANCHDKUO'S PROTECTIVE

TARIFF

Tientsin Feb. 28

At to-day's meeting of the Rotary Club the speaker will be Mr. H. C. Macamara, and bis sub- Ject is Law and Its Prophets."

The Ordinary Yearly meeting or as one in which they launch behold 360, and the other one can

shareholders of the Hong Kong & tween 750,000 and 1,000,000 tons accommodate 400 The total

Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., will be Even on the basis of the modified public hostels are under construc

held at the office of the Company, 2. Queen's Building, on Monday, standard outlined above, the year tion. One of them costs $45.000

the ruins of an ancient Buddhist

The high "protective tariff” on | March 29. under review offers ample scope and can hold 350, and the other and Darla, and later discovered one can accommodate 400. The OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

for improvement, and it is not im that the share capital of the

probable that 1835 Will show a total public hostels will be able to city in the Taklamakan desert, Imported goods from China Pro- A few years later, in 1899, ne per into Manchuria levied by the better return. It is encouraging to provide sleeping quarters for came down rioin the north in what Manchukuo government is havwo cases of diphtheria ar were Company having been consolidated Bo that every four of the issued shares of

note from Lloyd's figures that the 4000 homeless or destitute people was then Chinese Turkestan and ing serious effects on the sales of case of cerebro-spinal fever were the Company of $2.50 each now RAFI Programmes and Entry British share of the shipyard workFinally the Mayor

DRAF the SECOND

crossed the Tarim River to Lake various Chinese native goods in reported to the Health. Authorities during the 48 hours ended March that the examination papers of constitute one $10.00 share. Share Extra Race Meeting, to be held on of the world has been improving

Lob-Nor, On the north shore of North China, Vag holders are requested to send in their SATURDAY, 2310 MAROH steadily, the mercantile tonnage 1,060 doctors practis

this lake he found evidence of The export of straw hats, mat- carefully existing 8bare Certificates for cancel 1938 (weather permitting), may be launched in the shipyards in medicine are being

Chinese civilisation of the 3rd cen- tings and native-made cloth has lation to the Registered Office of the obtained at the Secretary's Office, Britain during 1934, representing traded. The examination Company Exchange Building, Des Gloucester Building: The Club House, 47.5 per cent of the world total, held on February 17 The test is try BC. From there he crossed practically come to a standstill as

determine the fitness of the Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong Happy Valley the Hong Kong Ulah compared with

per cent. When this has been done Certificates the Sports Club; and the Stables, in 1963 and 25.8 per cent, in 1932. doctors practising Chinese medi

Bhan wong Road.

for the new denomination will be Entries close at 13 o'clock NOON

issued to them.

By Order of the Board,

TCAT BECK

on THURSDAY, the liri MARCH,

By Order.

33211

C. B. BROWN.

Secretary

Faris Mar. 10.

The French(reply questions concerning European Pact was ha

Ambassad

nnounced

Chinese

Tiber travelling southeast and made two unsuccessful attempts threate to reach Latása.

Ommit!

of the tartı

the livel

2 his other ties are the?

дебе

and

#Manchukpo

without

China United Fred (b Mat),

10

#The

Hong

Kong Universit ates Association will hold

ual General Meeti

arch 13, 193

Jacobean

Str Wi

Graduates

Hong Kong Univers