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Will Not Ba Responsible for any Debta or Liabilities whatsoever incurred by His Wife, Mas. P. O'NEILL, and that She has No Authority to Pledge His Credit or to Act as His Agent..

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24th July, 1935.

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LOST.

THE Public is hereby notified

that a Bill of Lading, No. 6. for One Drum Fireclay ex S.S. "SHANTUNG" arrived 18th July, 1935,

marked

has been

PAGAN ★ CO., LTD.,

261, King Food, Shanghai, China, No. Let.

18691

lost and is warned against negotiat ing this Bill of Lading which is declared null and void.

R.

HIN FAT & CO., LTD. Hong Kong, 28rd July, 1985.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 19TH Day of JULY, 1935, at 8 at 'the 'Offices of the Public Works Depart- meat, by Order of H ExcaLLiyor THE GOVERNOR, of O. Lot of CROWN LAND at Mount Kellett in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at Crown Rent to be fired by the. Sarveyor of Hi Mamedy the KIQ, for one further term of 75 years.

is

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale.

Registry No.

Rural Building Lot No. 391,

South West of Rural Building Lot No. 187,

Mount Kellett Road.

Locality,

Boundary.

Measures

meats.

As per

sale pian.

About

Contents in

Square feet.

Annual давця:

Rental.

Upset Price.

114

1389r

1,200

HONGKONG FOOTBALL"

ASSOCIATION,

CLUBS, Referees and Lineswen wishing to join or retain their membership are reminded that in accordance with the new rule the closing date Low overdue but sub-

ject to their application being received

BIRTH

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1935.

FLOOD RELIEF WORK

In Wuhan Area

[Special to the "Hong Kong. Daile

Press" (Copyright),1,

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GLOUCESTER BUILDING

EXCITEMENT

Overpowering Fumes From A Refrigerator

Great excitement was caused in

Hankow, July 17. As a result of the inundation of Wuchang and Hanyang, the local authorities to-day announced that over 100,000 persons bave been the Gloucester Building arcade rendered homeless and destitute. | yesterday evening, when fumes The provincial, and municipal began to emerge from the pre- Party Headquarters in Hankow mises of the Wine and Spirit De- sent a joint telegram to the Cen- partment of Messrs. Gilman and tral Kuomintang" Headquarters in Co. situated along the

passage

MIDDLE SCHOOL NEWS SUMMARY

STUDENTS

A maximum temperature of over 90 degrees has been recorded for the past few days, the "highest reading being, taken on Saturday,

Back From Military won at 4 pm. 91.9 degrees were

Training

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Prem" (Copyright)]

Shanghai, July 18,

A total of 2,000 students from Shanghai middle schools went to Soochow Military Training Camp

and

at

Nanking asking that Party workers way just opposite the Gloucester while, Mr. Brooks" together with back, here yesterday in two con-

throughout the country be in- structed to contribute a part of their salaries for flood relief be-

HALL-On Sunday, July 14, at theginning this month.

Maternity Hospital, Singapore,

to Catherine, wife of Alexander Hull. a son.

DEATHS

FERNANDEZ IRURE--On July 5, Luls Higinio, aged 41 years, Examiner Customs Service, Wuchow. Funeral at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday the 24th inst. from 'Mortuary Chapel, R.C. Cemetery, Hong Kong. All friends are cordially invited...

[982 MANASSEH.-Adrian Manasseh, in London, brother of Mr. E. S. Manasseh, of Singapore.

Meanwhile, it was decided at a Stud meeting at the Provisional Headquarters of the President of the Military Affairs Commission yesterday, that members with the rank of General shall contribute

15 per

cent of their monthly salarles. Colonels 10 per cent, and Captain 5 per cent. The contribu- tions will be used for the purchase

of rice and other foodstuffs to be distributed among the refugees.

Indicative of the stern. deter- mination of the authorities to do all in their power to prevent a flood, Mr Li Cheng. an officer ttached to the Wuhan Garrison Headquarters, was executed yes- terday by order of Generaj" Yeh Peng, Garrison Commander for the Wuhan Area, on a charge of culpable negligence of duty while supervising protection work on the

Editorial and Business Offor: 11,

Ice House Street. Tul. 30261, Night Editor (Wanchai Once):

Tel. 24511. London Oftes: 83, Fleet Street, Changkung Dyke.

E.C. 4.

The Daily Press.

Press ment, left for uningow this after-

HONG KONG. JULY 24. 1935.

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NEW SHIPS AND OLD

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lounge.

A large crowd collected at once. composed in the main of Euro- peans who were customers in the lounge.

News of the outbreak spread rapidly and people desert- ed the lounge of the Hong Kong Hotel to rush to the scene.

thing was amiss was given at 6.20 The first indication that some

o'clock in the evening when acid fumes were noticed to be escaping from under the main doorway.of "Finlaters' depot" and the staff of Gloucester Building lost, no time. in getting four hoses playing on to the doorway.

It was not until ten minutes later that someone rushed to the alarm Box on the pavement of Gloucester Building, to call "the Fire

Brigade. When the Fire Brigade arrived under the com- mand of Superintendent A. H. Brooks, they at once smashed the glass plating of the two windows fronting the arcade, in order to allow the acid fumes to escape...

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was registered. Although this reading in uot near the mark re corded last year (93.1 degrees on July 18) the sultriness of the wea ther experienced has been intensi- fed by the close proximity of a typhoon.

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Great difficulty in affecting an entrance to the seat of the out-

had paid $145 for the girl, and Allegations that the defendant break was experienced as the fumes emanating from the shop, on April 9. Tanned by exposure had employed her for an immorat were overpowering, but after the

healthy open-air life while purpose, ware made by Inspector hoses had been directed on to the

undergoing their three-months' K. W. Andrew, of the S. CĈ. A... intensive military training

when prosecuting Ng Yee Mui, rear portion of the shop for a

Soochow, 1,993 of

married woman, before Mr. W... them arrived

Schofield, at the Central Magis. ather firemen entered the pre-

tingents-by

tracy yesterday with having on mises when it

the morning and May 18 at No. 327 Queen's Road Was ascertained

afternoon trains. that the fumes were issuing from

West, second floor, with others In high spirits, many a refrigerator placed near the

of the not in custody, taken part in at youngsters were greeted by their transaction, the object of which back entrance.

While water was continually parents at the North

was to transfer the possession or played on the refrigerator, some

The three-months' outdoor life custody of girl, Li Wwan Ying, twenty odd cases of wine and

under rigid military discipline has aged 16. for a valuable considera- Page 6. improved their physique consider- tion.

stated, They

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Station

spirit were removed into the yard

observers. at the rear of the premises out of

ably, harms way, and as soon as the appear to be tri excellent health. fumes were under control the re-

Waking at 4.30 am, every day frigerator was removed also.

in response to a call by the bugle, Fifty seven minutes after receiv-the students marched out to the ing the alarm, the through call drill ground for roll call. After "that, all was over" was given at this, they returned to their quar- the Central Fire Station.

ters for breakfast, arids following

In the

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Tong Kwan, master of a second hand goods shop, was fined 850 for lars, the property of Mr. O, H receiving a pair of stolen binocu- Taylor, when he was appeared bo tore Mr. W. Schogeld yesterday afternoon..

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It is thought that a short circuita rest, they underwent two-hours' was responsible for the outbreak.stiff military training!

A verdict of Not Guilty" was The damage sustained to the pre-afternoon the students went" returned by the jury at the mises is estimated to be about through further routine drills | Criminal Sessions yesterday in the $2,000.

from 4 to 5 p.m. every day. This trial of So Shing, alias So Pat has been the routine for the past

of Sundays when they were given three months, with the exception

day of

Mr. C. de S. Robertson, manager and Spirit Department), who was of Messrs. Gilman & Co. (Wines on the scene not very long after the outbreak, told a "Dally Press" representative that fortunately the books of the firm had been sent

RED CROSS WORK

Not many minutes after the up to the head office and there- General Chang Chun, Chairman

arrival of the Fire Brigade, the fore escaped damage. The shop Emergency Unit of the Hong Kong | suffered damage and the stock in of the Hupen Provincial Govern-

Police Force came on the scene | both the front windows" Was with Sergt. A. Wass in charge. | smashed when the plate glass was noon to inspect the Wuchin Dyke, They at once, moved the crowds broken in order to let the fumes which is another principal de-

from the immediate vicinity fence of Hankow against the flood

of escape. Some correspondence and peril. Several leakages were. dis-assistance in laying the hoses into lying.

the outbreak and gave valuable | miscellaneous articles that were on the desk were ruined covered during General Chang's

the shop. inspection and were immediately repaired.

To care for the sick nood" "re-

fugees, the medical department of FURTHER FUNDS

the Wuhan Garrison Headquarters has set up a temporary hospital are also

A certain uneasiness was expressed" by August 1st with dues they will be in the House of Lords recently while ambulance corps accepted. Entries for the League, regarding

the Naval Agreement sent out to handle emergency For Mass Education will be treated in the same manner with Germany, while opinion in as above.

Britain appears to be that it is China United Press (By Mail)

The Cluba who have not yet based upon the breach of a Treaty. nominated their "representatives for On that point, however, Lord

MANNING L. BAILTON,

Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, 23rd July, 1935.

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the Council are requested to do so Londonderry says that we are a without further delay.

1" practical people" and that the agreement was a fortunate thing. Whatever may be thought of these moral accommodations, they have been made and Britain has giver. up the Disarmament Clauses of the Versailles Treaty and also waived her opposition to submarines; in which arm the Germans “have asserted claims which are well- I nigh unlimited.

As these things have been settled once and for all,

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that it would be useless to expand upon

cases.-

CANTON TO HANKOW 36 HOURS

B..

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

2nd

(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Fress" (Copyright).]

by water.

GIRL STUDENTS

In Protest Strike

which

was

JUNIOR BOYS

The students were drawn from the ranks of the local junior middle schools and the first year students of the senior middle schools.

The next batch of students will be picked out and sent to the Boochow military training camp next summer.

San, alias So Cheuk King, for the

Voeux Road Central, third floor, manslaughter of Wong Pak Kin alias Wong Cheuk Lam at 157, Des

on September 9, 1931. Page 6.

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A charge was brought agaiust Chai Tam for the murder of Chan: Hang Tak, before Mr. Justice Lindsell yesterday. The accused who is stated to be have been suf- fering from a delusion at the time of crime is being defended by Mr. Tung Fan Lo.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL

College and university students are required to undergo only three weeks' military training as part of their extra-curricula activities. Academic credits will be given... A dinner dance will be held at

The advent of

The mid-summer Repulse Bay Hotel to-day. resulted in deaths from high fever last bus leaves Repulse Bay ap I of six students while at the Soo-am. chow military training. camp. Another youngster, was drowned when swimming in a river.-- China United. Press (by mail).

KWANGTUNG BONDS

Legislative Yuan.....

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The fortnightly whist drive and tombola, held under the auspices or the Royal Engineers Old Com-" rades Association will take place in Wellington Barracks, in the open alr, on Monday, July 29, at 9 p.m.

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(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily

Press" (Copyright).] -

Kwelyang, July 16. Nanking, July 16.--. Dissolution of the Provincial (From Our Special. Correspondent) According to detailed reports Girls Middle School in Kweiyang

Fifteen cases of enteric fever submitted to the Ministry of Edu- has been ordered by the Provincial

Canton, July 23,

(une death) one of puerperal fever cation by the various provincial, Government as a result of the stu-construction Bonds for the 24th tuberculosis were reported for the The $5,000,000 Kwangtung Re-(Imported) and 55 deaths trom municipal and district authorities. dents agitation against the new fiscal year were approved recently week ended on July 20 a total of $20,000,000 will be avail-acting principal appointed by the at a regular weekly meeting of the able for use in the promotion of; provincial department of educa mass education in China. during ton,

The funeral of Mr. Fernandez Changsha," July 15. the 24th scal year.

At regards the issue, it was Irure who died in Wuchow last Beginning this month, the joint"

Chen Shou-Halen, principal of learned that its purpose will be to Friday, takes place at the Roman Of the $20,000,000 it is learned, rail-motorbus transportation sys-only $2,400,000 will be appropriated resignation

the school recently submitted his increase the capital holdings of Catholic Cemetery this evening tem between Canton

duly cane-sugar, soda manure, sulphuric when, all friends are invited to Han by the Central Government and accepted by the provincial author-acid how will enable

passengers. 10 $800.000 by the four Boxer. Indem-itles. Yang Shou-Hsun. pro works, cotton and paper mills as

factories, Borated water-attend. travel from one dty to the other nity Refund Commissioris, Muni-fessor at in 36 hours.

the Central Uni-well as to finance the hyaro- an Interim Dividend of £2,10.0, them in these columns, but there

cipalities and districts." The scheme 13. under the aus-

versity, Nanking, was appointed to electric plant at Yungyuan, 30 leaving for Canton to-day.

The Japanese gunboat Säga is per Share, subject to deduction of is point on the importance of

succeed Chen, but because of his.miles above here. Income Tax, has been declared for which we must still insist and this pices of the Kwangtung and Eu-

"connection with the University the HALF YEAR ending. 30th, might aptly be called the soporinchan provincial authorities. The

Yang is not yet able for the time JUNE, 1935 at the rate of 2/2.1/2 effect of these arrangements upon uninnished section of the line be-

being to come to Kwelyang." per Dollar.

Parliament and upon the nation,

tween Shaokuan and Hankow is THE DIVIDEND will be payable without beating about the bush 40w almost complete, and it is after MONDAY, 19th the British Navy is fast approach-expected that by the end of 1936- AUGUST, 1935, at the offices of ing the point of superannuation rail from Canton to Pelping. This It will be possible, to travel by the Corporation, whear shareholders and no effort is being made to are requested to apply for Warrante. renew it. It was not so long agone will be longest north-south

THE REGISTER OF SHARES that the First Lord of the Admir-railway in China. of the Corporation will be CLOSED alty made a statement which, no

At present passengers must tra- from MONDAY, 29th JULY to doubt, he did not mean to be SATURDAY, 10th AUGUST (both misleading but which, nevertheless.tang and Pingshih a distance of vel by motor car between Hsiao- days inclusive), during which period had that unpleasant effect. It is been laid, it will take anothero her appropriations decided upon of the school seals which they re- 15 While the roadbeds. Dave transfer of shares can be registered.

quite true that at the present we age but it is also a fact that in Gave thirteen capital ships under year before the rails can be "fald.

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V. M. GRAY BUEN. Chief Manager.

Hong Kong, 10th July, 1935.

·DELICATELY FRAGRANT

Toilet

And Nursery

Cutleura Talemen, pure, anti- leptio and medicated with balanaIIC essential oils, Is indispensable to the comfort of every member of the fam fly Get the beneficial results of these essences by dusting on Cuff-

cara Taleum-see how cuol and refreshed your skin in, free from any chafing or feritation. Truly betaeficial to the skin and especially recommended for babies.

Sample each Soup. Ointment and Talcum on receive of 2 de, Adryway) MAIRE

NOT WANTED:

An-

MORE NEW SCHOOLS Of the provinces, it is learned, that Shangtung and Kiangst have

per cent. per annum and will be ceived the following selling and The bonds will bear interest at Mesars. Benjamin and Potts re- decided to appropriate $800,000 each, Szechuan, Hunan and Shensi

redeemed in five years, beginning buying rates from their Manila $600,000 each. Hopel, Sink'ang.

January 1, 1936. Sinking funds for Agents yesterday morning:-Ben- In order, therefore, to have a these bonds will be derived from guet Consols. 12.20, -12.10: Kwangtung and Yunnan, $300,000 responsible man in charge of the the surplus of the Kwangtung tamoks, 78, 78; Bangulo Galas, each

Some provinces have dec'd- school affairs, the Department of Cement Factory at Bichuan. ed to appropriate from $10,000 to Education appointed Mr. Wang

25 .25; Gold Rivers, 48, 417. $200,000 each, thus making the to- Shou-Lun, chief of the Second Bec- Fund Custody Committee will be It is also learned that a Sinking. tal from all the provinces $9,300,000, tion of the Department, to be act-organised to keep the monthly surnamed Chan, aged 77 years, The body of a Chinese woman, With the addition of a sum of ing principal, $500,000 appropriated by the Cen-

surplus of the cement factory in who was killed as a result of being When Wang arrived at the question while the tral Government for mass educa-school several days ago, the stud-Provincial Bank will be entrusted outside an unnumbered house on Kwangtung knocked down by lorry No. 4216 tion in the front er provinces, and ents declared strike and possession with the redemption of the bonds. the Taipo Main Road has been removed to the Kowloon Mortuary, **INSANE IMPOSTOR" The accident occurred on Sunday.

Mr. A. C. Jeffreys, of the Bong Special to the "Hong Kong Daily

Press" (Copyright).10.

Kong Telephone Company, has re- ported the theft of 500 yards" of Tientsin, July 12. General Ma Chan Shan, form-Cheungshawan Road, No. 34 Nan- telephone wire, connecting, No. 229 er commander of the Anti-Japan-chang Street, No 45 Fuk Wing ese Volunteer Forces in Manchuria, Street and No. 115 Apllu Street. declared that Ma Jung, who claims between 1 p.m. on July 20 and 8. to be his "father," is insane and am, on July 22. The value of the that he is an Imposter.

wire 13 $5.20. According to a petition to the

by the various municipalities and fused to turn over to the new act- districts, the grand total will reaching principal. no less than $20,000,000.

All efforts at mediation having According to the reports sub-falled, the Kweichow provincial mitted by various provinces, a total] Government issued instructions on of 48,938 maks education schools July 13, ordering the temporary will be established throughout dissolution of the school. Pending. China during the 24th fiscal year. reorganization of the school, the Thina United Pres (by mas}; authorities are stated to have ap- po'nted Ho Shou-Fisien, dean of the school, to take charge of af falzs...

NANKING POST FOR MR. HU

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court, Ma Jung, who is suing the One case of diphtheria, two or family, stated that Ma Chan Shan (human) were reported for the M General for "desertion" of his enteric fever and one of rabies ran away from home at the age hours ended on July 22, of 12 When he heard that his "son" had become famous he de- cided to seek support from him But his request was refused

According to General Ma, how

a very short space, seventeen months, to be exact, we shall see this number reduced to four. So count be evaded. It was plain in far as the cruisers are concerned his speech that Lord Beatty found- the number of six-inch gun shiped his trust in the invocation of which are kept in commission are the Escalator Clause, but turning of very much smaller fighting to Lord Londonderry, who repre value than those belonging to some sents the Government, we find that "other, Powers. Lord Lloyd's grave it deemed inadvisable to invoke the account of our destroyers in the clause at the present functure, it Mediterranean was challenged by being stated that such a step might Lord Strabolgi. The public would prejudice the "prospects of success perhaps be better able to form an of the Agreement. If there had (From Our Special Correspondent) health and partly to observe the in- opinion when it is stated that been no conversations the Board) within the past eighteen months of Admiralty would certainly in- a Naval Exercise in the North Sea voke the Escalator Clause if only

Canton, July 23.

ternational altuation. With Mr. Hu Local vernacular papers to-day la Dr, Wang Chung Hui, Judge of the was abandoned because the old to save the cruisers of the Hawkins continued to publish reports that Permanent Court of International destroyers which were to have class from destruction, Further Mr. Hu Hen Min, former President Justice. Apart from being a jurist, taken part were judged to be more it would be the natural reply of the Legislative Yuan, would Dr. Wang is a keen observer of in- unequal to the strain involved. to this new menace of the sub-soon return to Nanking to accept-ternational relations and advises Then again in the Exercises in the marine, for though they are past a high govemment post. This re-Mr. Ha on the world stuation, ever, his real father, Ma Tun, died A small are broke out at one Atlantic, when heavy weather was their prime, these cruisers would port is not denied here in official i Shodla Mr. Bu return to China, at the age of 57, while Ma Jung o'clock yesterday afternoon at 13, encountered, the modern destroy do very well as convoy ships. Ara circles.

སྐ་ Dr Wang will accompany him to is 73 He added that funeral Queen's Street, first floor, occupied through with flying they then to be saved or are these One of the reports came from Nanking. Their homecoming is notices were issued to all friends by the Nam Wah paper shop colours while the old ones had to perfectly good ships to be sacrificed, Shanghai, being published by the scheduled to be some time in at his father's death He admitt-In answer to the call, three. run for shelter!

This Naval Agreement has the also the renewal of the battle feet. English

for a scrap of paper? There is China Press, Chinese-owned September or October. It is saided that he was originally from applicances were despatched to language" - dally. The that General Chiang Kai Shok, Feng Jun district, but, said he the scene of the outbreak, but to be considered. Tor unless the sources are from non-omatal Chairman of the Military Affairs moved to Liaoning and Hunt upon

the Inmates of the with misleading comparisons be opportunity is taken under the quarters, and it tablished that Commission has accepted sub- ten districts many year

hous had "already put, out, the tween what a new and what is old. Escalator Clause, to accelerate re- the story was not released by Nan- stantially the views of Mr. Hu. He thermore, General

with buckets of water. Does It then beguile the country banding we shall probably be king.

A has lived in Hong Kong for three: that bears no resemblance Into postponing the dire necessity faced with the double task of Mr. Hu Han Máin is at present in years without achieving anything, the

Geneva, Switzerland, “Həy

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effect of lulling the nation to steep

of re-building," the Fleet? Tuls is buliding new ships and renewing:

a question which must on no ac- | old ones.

ing there partly for the sake of his. Nankin

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QUEEN'S ROAD FIRE

which was gaid to have from a short circuit in the rear of the building,”” caused damage to the extent of $100)