1935-06-21 — Page 8

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

In the Matter of The Companies Ordinance, 1882,

AND

In the Matter of The On Hing Company. Limited.

(IN VOLUNTART LIQUIDATION)

NOTICE is hereby given that the

creditors of the above-named Company which is being voluntarily wound up, are required, on or before the 6th day of July, 1985, being the day for that purpose fired by the undersigned, liquidators of the maid Company, to send their names and addresses and the particulars of their debts or claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors, if any, "to the liquidators office, No. 10. Hing Lung Street, Victoria, Hong Kong, and, if so required by Notice in writing from the undersigned liquidators, are by their solieitora, to come in and prove their asid debts or claime at such time or place us shall be specided in such Notice, or in default thereof they will be excluded from the beneft of any distribution made before such debts are proved,

Dated the 21st day of June, 1985.

LI KING CHO

TSUI PUI CHUEN KWAN FOOK MAN CHAN PAK HING

Liquidators.

(3620

HONG KONG BREWERS & DISTILLERS. LIMITED.

N

Editorial and Business Office: 1),

Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office);

Tel. 24511, London Office: 53. Fleet Street,

E.O. 4.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, JUNE 21, 1935."

EMPIRE AND TRADE

2

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1935.

THE HAUPTMANN

CASE

Brief Laid In Court Of Appeal

The

}}

burden

Trenton, June 20.

́ ́SPAIN'S WAR WEAPONS

To Be Made At Home

(Special to "Hong Kong

· Daily Press">

2894

In a calm and legal atmosphere, contrast with the strikingly in

(By Telegraph, Copyright, T emotional scenes at Flemington, ¦ graphia | Marangua Ordinamon, Hauptmann's lawyers presented to Received, June 30, 7-30 p.m.) the Court of Errors, and Appeals a

Madrid, June 20. lengthy brief in support of their All national arms and ammura- contention that A re-trial 15tion factories and the entire Justifled. The brief laid the armament industry of Spain are heaviest emphasis on the charge

to be placed in the service of na- that the State wrongfully used It is right that the thoughts in

direct the tional defence under the minds of visitors from the varying theories at the trial con-control of the War Ministry, ar- Dominions during Empire Trade cerning the child's death,

nounced the War Minister Gil Week should be of business. A

of the State's Robles in a speech on Wednesday closer co-operation between the evidence, according to

the brief.

night. business men of Australia and the

was that the child was killed when British Empire was suggested by

it was dropped from the kidnap- Mr. Lyons and comprehensive plan for the development of the

per's ladder, despite which Wilentz resources of the British Empire was mooted by Mr. Forbes. Mr. Thomas was genial, as always, yet contrived to in that there was such a thing as British agriculture and that it would be foolish to forget the trade of the rest of the world. Certain practical difficulties which have been explored in council are covered in these suggestions. Most nations nowadays aspire to self sufficiency --an economic ideal which is more for national than international trade-and the Dominions as much as any. It is all done in the friend- Hest spirit, but some of them do j'not make it easier to trade with. them. There were indeed. these tentative beginnings at Ottawa: but fiscal tariffs are still high and preferences are still small.

}

TOTICE is hereby given that the. Third Ordinary Yearly Meet- ing of Shareholders will be held in the Company's Board Room, 3rd Floor, Rutton Buildings, 7; Duddell Street, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 26th June at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Directore Report and Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December, 1934.

Every one would be glad to see the Dominions have as much of the trade with the Mother Country as possible with due care always to the British farmer-but if the ar- rangement is to be satisfactory to both sides there must be give and take also. Neither Mr. Lyons nor Mr. Forbes have much reason to complain in the progress in the British Market If we go into the actual figures. Take the meat trace for instance. Argentine has long had the lion's share; but if we take the six years 1929-1934, we find that our imports of beef from the Argentine fell from 8,587,000 cwt. to 7,073,000 cwt: or from 19 to 66 per cent, whereas the share of [8618 Australia and New Zealand rose from 9 to 23 per cent. There has

The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be Closed from 19th June to 26th June, 1985, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors, E. M. BARRETT,

*Secretary. Hong Kong, June 19th, 1935.

NOTICE.

THE WORLD STATE FELLOWSHIP

7

OTICE IN HEREBY GIVEN

been an all round fall in prices. Argentine's import values fell from £23.3 millions to £11.9 millions in that time. A rise was noticed in

the Australian and New. Zealand imports as against the Argentine. This was from £2.2 millions to £3

No that The World State Fellow-millions." The home producer who

ship was established on the First Day of June, 1985, by its Members in accordance with its Constitution.

THE WORLD ŠTATE FELLOWSHIP,

B. S. WOODRUFF,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 14th June, 1985.

[8605.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY

THE

BRITISH SECTION

NOTICE

NEW GOLF RECORD

54

contributed 10,817,000 cwt, in 1929 sold rather less-10,592,000. cwt.---

|

summing up espoused an en- tirely different theory, namely that Hauptmann had killed the child before removing him from the crib..

UNFAIR PROCEDURE ·

The recent opinion of the Court of Errors and Appeals granting & re-trial to a negro was cited in support of this contention.

Although the Court did not make any ruling on this point in Its decision, the Court observed that it was unfair to inject a new theory in a murder trial after the case had proceeded on a different theory because it deprived the defendant of his right of cross- examination on the new theory- Reuter.

THE PRESIDENT

OPPOSED

By House Group

Washington, June 19. Drastically modifying the Ad- ministration's proposals for the

Senfor G Robles

STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER

BY NO QUARTER

Strike the cat's crupper, what a rain we've been having! Can History's pages show the like? There was, to be sure, the mighty rain of Senlac, where the bail. stones came down so thick that they called them Wil. liam's Arrows. Then there was the Great Rain in 1557, after the Devil's Black Frost, when the mighty Ox" of Kensington was roasted whole on the frozen Thames. That was a Rain, if you like." Sir Walter Raleigh, got in with his little Cloak Act when the floods were only a day old, but a week or so later, Noah's Ark might have look- ed to its laurels, and a seag il flew away with the Royal Mace.

и

Or again, if we garner from the threshing floor of the past, there

was the Tarashing Rain of Mar- seilies, in the days of the little Corsican when the

Mayor of Toulon hid his head in the bed- clothes, and the beacons blazed from Cannes to Calais,-- : **

. THE EDITOR. Stop! Stop! I am certain you are making all this up.

Why do you try and fool your readers in this ridiculous and uri-, dignified manner? Aren't there enough stirring facts for you, to draw upon in real History without making up these contemptible falsehoods?

MYSELF, (Sonorously.) William the Conqueror, 1088 to 1087, Wu- Ham the Second, 1087 to 1100 Henry-

1

EDITOR. (Hysterically), No, No! Go on, with the first lot, please.

We're getting a bit nervy in the pffice these days. God! this heat; the White man's Burden; Hoal Solt Qui Gungha Din, and all that When the Rains are over. I go Home, thank heaven. But Cuh- ningham stays. Cunningham al- theways stays.

DEEP SEA CONTROVERSY

Every weapon making works employing more than 300 but less than 1500 hands will be placed under the supervision of an Arm: Officer. Ike connection with Cabinet meeting. held on Wedies- day to discuss the four year plan for perfecting the nationa?" de- The recent reports of a shark on fence forces will in future be one side of Hong Kong, and a manufactured by Spanish nation-Sword Fish on the other, have ai military.---

raised a storm of controversy in Hong Kong. As usual there is a strong body of Doubting Thomasses, wao refuse to believe

Transorean Kuo Min.

2. And the young men with their charlots, and the tax collectors, "and the sellers of merchandise.

3. But behold there came upon the land a mighty pestilence which destroyed the people, and

there

NEWS SUMMARY

"No Quarter gives a very | humorous account in this week's,

Straight from the Shoulder,

Page 8.

Three Indiang were in court yes- terday arising out of an assault in which one mari stayed in. hospital for over a fortnight. Yesterday's hearing had an unexpected twist.

Page 6.

F.B." Bowls notes together with yesterday's Bowls results will be found on

Page 10,

Several tennis matches were played yesterday in the Civi~ sion, South China and the Indians went down heavily to the Univer- sity and KC.C. respectively.

Fage 10.

Mr. H. C. Macnamara, the well known barrister-at-law gave a very interesting and enlightening talk was no more good in the land.

on Is Law Reasonable" to the past 4. And there rose up a people students of Wah Yan College yes- that lived not a long way of interday.

Page 8. the land which is called Kowloon. And they testifled agalast the dwellers in high places, saying:

5. Lo! We are utterly contound- ed by these lofty men. They toll not, yet their raiment is very fair: They spin not, yet their houses are not as our houses..

6. the pillars thereof are very tall, and the linteis are are .of Sycamore CH. 2.

1. Now there was a great drought in the land; and it came to pass that the dwellers in the land of Kong, and those in the, land of Kowloon had no waţèr.

2. But the men of Kowloon were very wrath, for there was water with them, but the oppressors,

even the men of Kong, took it from them, saying:

3. "Is water for the pigs? Is Myrrh for the Hittites?" And they mocked them.

4. But the men of Kowloon were very wrath, and took counsel to gether saying, one to the other, "wait therefore, until such time as the rain shall come,

5. And it was so.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There was a clean bill of health the Colony for the 24 hours end- Ing June 19,

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange have received a cable from Messrs. Derrick & Co. local Secretaries in Singapore of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Ltd announcing the output for the four weeks end- ing June 15, 1935 to be 1749 Ounces.

In a report to the police, Messrs Turner & Co., Princes Building state that Chu Waf Man, office coolte has owned up to the theft of twelve pairs of shoes, valued at $40 which were discovered missing from the office. All the stolen shoes have been recovered.

abolition of unnecessary holding TOURIST TROPHY that either of these denizens of hold the men of Kowloon's thirst in the course of a fight at Au Tan

companies, the House Inter-State Commerce sub-Committee to-day reported to the full Committee of the House a Bill providing for the regulation of the holding "com. panies.

Almost simultaneously, President Roosevelt at his usual newspaper conference, reiterated that he was heartily in favour of the eventual elimination of holding companies, as provided by the recently passed Senate Bill

Under the amended Bill, as re- ported by the House sub-Com- mittee, the Security Exchange Com- mission generally could require each holding company system to conane its operation to one inter- Kraded utility system, and it the Security Exchange Commission

1934; but the value had fallen by about 10 per cent. As regards the beel trade the business with, the Dominions is expanding whereas the same cannot be said of the Argentine, which is contracting. finds such limitation unnecessary In mutton arid lamb Australia and

in the public interest, it is to re- New Zealand which had 60 per cent. of the trade in 1929, had 80quire a limitation of operations to a number of intergraded per cent, in 1934, and in the same utility systems as it Ands may be period Argentine's share dwindled included in the holding company from 27 to 14 per cent. Great Brisystem consistently with the public tain. by the way, contrived" to in- crease her production of mutton;

but still produces less than she im-

ports.

H

Buch

interest.

COMPANY TAXES Another variation proposed by the House sub-Committec was the An Increasingly large share or provision that holding companies, the British market is being obtain-all or which must register with the ed by Australia and New Zealand Security Exchange

#

Commission.

EVENT

Won By Stanley Woods

London. June 18.

The Light weight motorcycle Tourist Trophy race over the Isle of Man mountain course was won for the 7th time by Stanley Woods. He was riding à Italian Guzzi machine and the average speed

the Deep were ever seen at all Others suggest that the Sword Fish, was probably a Taipan with an exceptionally long and sharp nose.

I cannot accept the verdict of the first school of thought. It is no new thing for bathers in the Colony to be attacked by strange Marine Monsters, and is recently ago as last August, Dr. Axel Auf- gang was attacked by a shoal of spawning Octopuses, Octopi or octoporum. The infuriated Doctor shrieked out the Athanasian Creed in Cape Dutch, à performance that so frightened the creatures that they ran for the mouth of the harbour.

was 74.46 miles per hour.

Tyrell Smith on a Rudge second 10.87 miles per hour.

In June, 1927, a Round-Rumped GE. Mott on a Rudge third at Bass (Bottomley's Haddock) enter 69.37 miles per hour..

ed Repulse Bay, and was mistaken The new Imperial fourth, Rudge by a local mation for her husband In 1912, 'a Coastguardsman was Arth, Excelsior sixth.

One competitor D.J. Pirie crash-attacked, and eaten by a clutter ed during race and died of in- of infuriated Kipper, juries. British Wireleni.

THIEF CAUGHT

Prompt action by Inspector A. Murphy, of the Hong Kong Police Force, resulted in the arrest of a thief in Queen's Road, yesterday, when Chau Nim. (28) was endea- vouring, to make his get-away.

My own theory is that the alleged Swordfish was in fact a Chinese. mutinous submarine, hitherto unreported, which had lost its way, and suddenly thrust bathers its periscope through a arm. Will this remain an unsolved mystery of the deep? THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES

OF THE PEAK

1. In the days of old, when pros- He had unsuccessfully attempted perity was on the land, behold the to steal $500 in nates from Lal people set up high places, and the Yam, a shop fokl, of 29 Wing Lok | mighty men did live therein. Street A hue and cry, was raised by the latter and the robber ran away, being chased for some dis- tance.

HE Public are hereby notified that the Motor Coach which leaves Shum Chna at 7.28 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays in the meat trade. If that ten-should have to pay after December will not run after Sunday, June 23rd. dency were to be increased arti-12, 1937, a corporation income tax ficially still further at the expense of 15 per cent. on any dividends R. D. WALKER,

of the foreign producer, we should received from subsidiaries or other Manager and Chief Engineer.have to be sure of gaining some holding companies or their sub

[3617 adequate compensation for the cor-sidiaries.

responding loss those foreign Mr. Samuel Havburn, chairmuti markets. Like Bouth Africa which of the full Committee, hopes the Has a reasonably low tarif we all will be reported to the House make no complaint against New by the end, of the week, where Zealand, but the Australian case in efforts will be made, undoubtedly. more difficult. There protection to restore the so-called “death has gone a little mad, and secks to sentence clause " which would mean Percy Alliss, of Beaconsfield, won foster industries out of all relation the eventual dissolution of the cor-. the Scottish Open Golf Cham-to their economic value. It Aus-porations "pionship at Gleneagle to-day with tralian policy would consent to The amendment also authorises a record low aggregate score for a concentrate upon such industries the Security Exchange Commission probability be charged this morn- firat class championship. Allissas are appropriate to Australian to require divestment of non- ing. also created a new record in the conditions, there would be a better utility property only where it finds final round.

chance of profitable dealing. It its retention would be inconsistent For the four rounds Allies took would be unwise and impossible to with the public interest, but may a total of 273 strokes, which is a force these things. Both sides can not compel the scrapping of foreign

Londen, June 19.

record low aggregate, while in the final round he established a new course record with a 66.- Reuter.

BRITISH INDUSTRIES

FAIR

London, June 19.

the

It been decided to hold London and Birmingham sections of next year's British Industries Fair simultaneously, the period ar ranged being February 17th to 28th British Wireless

only be persuaded to steps which are in their own interest, although we should like to see the interest of the British Empire as a whole come into the calculation. »

RUNAWAY CRUISERS

Shanghat, June 18. It is reported that Nanking is sending warships to the South, as far as Amoy or Swatow to meet and escort the runaway cruisers which are at present in Hong Kong Reuter

J

holdings Reuter.

INCREASE IN TAXES

Washington, June 19

A general increase in taxes, es- pecially on the largest personal incomes, imposts on larger in heritances and gifts, and a gra duated tax on corporations, in lieu of the preserit flat rate, were re quested by President Roosevelt in a special surprise message to Con gress to-day Reuter

the

Attracted by the commotion, Inspector Murphy came towards the scene, and saw the man run-

ning from his pursuers. He caught him, and the man will in all

TROTSKY'S SON

(by Telegraph; - Copyright, Tate. rouble Messages Ordinance, 150 Received, June 20, 4·50 p.m.)

Amsterdam, June 20. That Trotsky's son was being kept imprisoned in Soviet-Russia in retaliation for his father's op- positional activities is asserted by Mre Trotsky in a letter published in the Marxist organ, "Nieuwefar- kel here.

OBITUARY

London, June 19, The death has occurred of two

interesting personalities, Viscoun- tess Pirrie, and the Earl of Devon. Viscountess Pirrie was appoint- ed President of the well-known firm of Belfast shipbuilders, Messrs.

Buttering from severe head in- 6. And when the rain came be-juries, believed to have been caused

was slaked, and they drank might- village on Wednesday, Tang.. Yau tily, and they laughed in their Wan. 41, an unemployed ex-sea- beards.

man, was admitted to the Kow- 7. For the children of Kong were loon Hospital about 7.35 pm on parched; and their feet were as Wednesday night, and died about the feet of goats.

4.55 am on Tuesday. The police

..

8. Is it not written in the book were Informed of the fight, and of the prophet Nokwartah; Those are looking for a man named who live in the highest placesTang Luk Pak, 25, a farmer, who shall, be utterly cast down, but the is alleged to have been the assai-

shall triumph in the lant.

meek man

plains,

9. There shall be a sign, even a A charity concert will take place mighty fish through the

which shall cleave at the European YMCA on June waters and strike 30 under the distinguished patron- them.

10. And it was 80.

TAILPIECE. Poet's Furge

Bring hither the juice of toma-

age of Lady Southorn and MIX, G., R." Sayer. The entire proceeds from the concert will be donated to local charities. The concert is promoted by Mr. D. G. Wolf of the Gloucester Hotel Orchestra, and the following artists will take part: The Gloucester Trio, Miss Pat Sin-

toes! Bring Sherry, and much Wor-claire

cester Sauce!

I toil. in the throes

Of attempts to compose, Bring hither the neck of a Horse! Last night in a palace of Sin,-- I followed the art of Terpsichore,

My póre little pome

Lay neglected at home, While master grew loving and

liquery,

It is vain! And the muses must

weep

For the loss of a pen which is

dead,

While I tug in despair

At my mouse-coloured hair, 'And cool my deplorable head..

BILL APPROVED -...

(Contralto), Mr. G. F.. D'Aquino (Tenor), Mr. B. Muir (Baritone), Miss O'Keefe and her dancing pupils, members of the Lincolnshire Band, and others.

SHOULD CHINA ABANDON SILVER

Policy Advocated

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

Nanking, June 15.- In an article entitled "Should China Not Abandon the Siver Standard?", Professor Chao Lan- Ping, well-known economist, ad-

Washington, June 19. The Senate to-day passed the Social Security Bul by a vote of 78 Vocated that China should aban to 6.

The Bill will new, go to a con-

don the Bliver Standard In order to prevent a financial panic,

In his treatise, Pro!. Obao

ference of both Houses with a view pressed the opinion that

Harland and Wolf, on the death to arriving at a' compromise upoDaconomic difficulties of China do

of her husband at sea in 1924.

The Eart of Devon was Rector of Honiton and the owner of 10,000 acres of land. He succeeded his brother, who was also a clergy man, only four months ago...... feuter.

WANG INTERVIEWED

Shanghai, June 20 Mrs. Trotsky states that her son Wang Keh Min left for Felping had remained in Russia following at 4 pa Interviewed before his his father's banishment, working departure he said he would stop- as a civil engineer at a technical over in Tientsin and denied that Ho Ying Chin la resigning from college and never concerned him- self with political affairs

the Military Council.

•Reuter Trasancean Huo in

the Senate's amendments.

Two important

not arise 'so much from the out- modifications | flow of silver or the unfavourable have been made by the Senate, one foreign trade balance) as trom dealing with the private, pension the high exchange rates charged systems and the other eliminating in this country. the sale of anuities by the US. Treasury

This high rate of foreign ex- change, Prof. "Chao explains, is the direct result of the policy of cur- rency devaluation adopted by the

The Senate rejected the amend ment which would have given Pre- sident Roosvelt discretionary power various Powers, and the Silver to pay to the War veterans the Policy of the United States. bonus they are demanding in any way he chose Keuter.

Washington, June 19, The House of Representatives has passed the Wagner Labour Bill Reuter

In order to cope with the situa- tion, China must go on the Silver Standard and lower the exchange rate, so what the prices of foreign imports will go up and the market for native products be expanded. The export trade of China. then be encouraged and promoted China United Press (by mass);