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DEATHS

JOHNSTON—On August 21, 1935. at the General Hospital, Singa. pore. Mrs. Ada Johnston of Derbyshire, widow of Thomas Johnston.. Liverpool, also mos ther of Mrs J. Airlie and Murial Johnston Aged 81, Deeply re- gretted.

LINGARD-On August 18, 1935, at

Chleng Ma!,

Henry Siam, Lingard, aged 37, husband of Margaret Lingard (née Mill- gan).

ENGAGEMENT. MELCHERS CROOT.-The engage- ment is announced of Hans H. P. Melchers, younger son of the jate.Karl F. Meichers and Mrs. Melchers of Shanghai, and Lella Croot, of Hong Kong, only daughter br Mr. and Mrs. Horace Groot, of Petersfield, England.

WOLFE-MARSH-The engagement is announced of Noel Wolfe, elder son of Mr. and Mrs S. W. Wolfe, of Shanghal and Freda elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Marsh, of Ch'nwangtao.

MARRIAGE JOHN-LE BARS-The marriage between Mr. Roy Powell John and Mile. Gorgette le Bars took place at Swansea on August' 1. 1035.

Editorial and Business Orice: 11,

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

NEW TOBACCO

PLANT

Chinese-Made Equipment

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daliy Pres" (Copyright).3-

Shanghai, Aug. 20.

POLICY IN CHINA

Mission To Start Soon

(Special Air Mall Service)

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NEWS SUMMARY

Cheng Tik-ming, a schoolmaster. appeared before Mr. Wynne-Jones. yesterday at the. Kowloon Magis- and WHE remanded for tracy seven days, on: an allegation that, being a member of a co-partner- ship with Chan Cheung-ling, 30. schoolmistress, he did on various dates between April 1 and August'

pleted next year, giving China a through trunk lne from south to north to link up with the Tran-16 siberian to Europe.

embezzle Bums DI maney amounting to $54 belonging to the partnership. Page 6.'

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One may motor from Shanghal to the heart of Central China and

A test case involving the for hundreds of miles in other directions where, until recently, a terests of four shipping.com- wheelbarrow truck was the only panies operating on the Kong- beneficial changes moon run was, heard before Mr.

road.

The

London, Aug. 8. Great hopes go with Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, the Government's chief financiat expert, in the mission to A a tranch of the Philippine China on which he starts Chinese Tobacco Company opens Saturday. The omcial announce here to-day" as 426 Paoting Road. ment of his duties, seems to have The parent Company, known as the been kept intentionally vague.

Cigarette It is an open secret that the keen Philippine. Aromatic Manufacturing Company, has had mterest taken by, Mr. Runciman a short but rapidly growing his- and Mr. Neville Chamberlain is wrought by the new communica- Macfadyen at the Central Police tory." It was founded in Manila largely responsible for his being tions, coupled with eager social and in 1919 when modern machinery sent. This is unquestionably the educational campaigns, are attested was hardly known. From a small most important move that Great by many of old residents in the Buctory laboriously producing Britain has made in the Far East once isolated interior of China. But the debit side is unfortunate for many years. a:veral thousand cigarettes and

The disastrous con- ly heavy. cigars a day, the parent company It is, indeed, high time that we,

Silver.Purchasing Act, in draining has grown so rapidly that it now bestirred ourselves. The famous sequences for Chine of America's producing no less than 8,000,000 policy of surrender of all our rights away China's allver and raising the cigarettes and cigars in an eight-in China, proclaimed by the For-cost of her exports, are too well hour day! The managers of the eign Office in December, 1926, broke known to need detailing. In the parent company realizing that down for reasons too long to be China offered a good market for their products, planned two years ago, to open a company here.

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detailed here; but, briefly, because past 12 months in spite of the heavy export tax on silver imposed It was founded on a mirage, on the last October, China is estimated to assumption of conditions in China that never existed. Even the For have lost 300,000,000oz of silver. eign Office, in secret. scarcely denies its failure.

BRITISH POLICY OF DRIFT No Power, not even America,

self-constituted limited at China's

patron, has shown the slightest inclination to follow our lead. In recent years

MODERN FACTORY The result of their plans is their modern factory, representing an inves.ment of $500,000 which is opened to-day. Despite its high output, which will be the start, only 10 hands are em- ployed. All the machinery used is of the latest automatic type, but our policy has been undisguisedly

When Mr. T. one of great interest is a Chinese- one of drift. made cigaretie machine which pro-Econg. China's brilliant Finance London Office: 53, Fleet Street, auces 1,200 cigarettes a minute and Minister, was in London in 1933 he which is in every way comparable remarked "saustically to English "Your Government's policy in China is simply to save" itself trouble. That does you no good, and us no good.”

Tel. 24511.

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The Baily Press.

Hong Kong, August 28, 1936.....

SUNKEN TREASURE..

There's gold in the sea, untold Dillions im lustrous bars and gleaming specie, that still tempts Inventive then to wrest alluring

with the American machines.

The factory also possesses mo- derr

for the sanitary facilities workers and will have its own res- taurant later on. Complete first- aid equipment is at hand in the event of accidents.- Thine United Pren (By Mail)

friends:

her troubles

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Court yesterday, when 18 Chinese, eight unemployed men, a farmer

with fating to pay their fares and seven widows, were charged

when travelling on the steamer guet from Kongmoon" to Hongkong an August 26. Page 6.

A mysterious telephone mess- age, received by the father of the girl in the early hours yesterday

girl named Mercedes fold of the kidnapping of a Portu- guese Ribeiro, aged 17 years. who left her home at 128 Lockhart Road. Wanchal to attend the 9 p.m. at the Oriental performance

Page 7. Theatre.

A heavy fine was imposed on a Chinese who was convicted on a summons of breach of the Trade Mark Ordinance by Mr. E. I the Kowloon Page 6. Wynne-Jones at Magistracy yesterday.

some

** THE COMMUNIST ENEMY " The evil was aggravated by the preceding land boom. in Shanghai, which has tied up immense suma in now frozen assets. The upshot has been shortage of cash; restricted trade and widespread bankruptcy. A loan to China has been discuss- ed, but it is difficult to know what form it could take, as merely to lend her money to buy silver would

At the YMC.A. bath yesterday, further raise the price of the metal, and thus increase instead of lessen the Lincolnshire Regiment held their annual Aquatic Swimming which produced Past years of civil war and mis-sports government, and Communist as thrilling finishes.

The Aggregate was captured by cendancy in sorae of the richest parts of the Yangtze Valley, haveH O. Wing with 24 points with

Page 10. told heavily on China's trade. "A" Company & close second. Compared with 1933 (which had been worse, than 1932) exports last

from $612,000,000 Year fell

Mr. G.P. "De Martin spoke at $535.000.000, and Imports from the meeting of the Rotary Club "The Influence of $1.345,000,000 to $1,030,000,000 The yesterday on Customs revenue, at $334,645.408, Language upon Thought" wherein was only a little below that of 1934, the speaker stressed that no man one Tauguage more the and more than in 1932. But this is born to

another he speaks was due to increased tariffs, which than

language he has learned. Page 7. are becoming dangerously high.

The Government has lately abol-

to

Events have justified the sa casm. Since early this year in creasingly serious reports have been reaching London of China's economic d'mculties and of Japan's growing ascendancy over Hey. BOATMAN ROBBED Without taking the latter too ser

sationally, it was felt by the most Chan Sul, aged 39, a boatman, careful observers that Great Britain Living on a licenced sampan usual had reached a crisis when she must ly lying at Tai Ping, Chinese terether bestir herself actively and ritory, reported to the police yes constructively in China, or accept terday that he left Un Long by the the gradual decay, possibly the ished many of the iniquitans taxes intended to be declared in the fortunes from Neptune's swirling creek at about 9 am, on August 28 extinction, of her vast interests in on exports, but will, of course. Board, held yesterday afternoon, matter of the Industrial & Com-grasp. Attempts of the British and was making his way to Tar) that country, still greater than have to wait for its reward. Im a letter received from the Colo-

In spite of her many d'faculties, Ping in Chinese territory. As he those of any other Power. was nearing Tsuen Tai Tsul and when he was almost three quarter China has to-day a better oppor

a stronger will, to set her house in pany's Bund at Mong Cheong, he saw another boat coming towards order than at any time since the him with a man standing at the Revolution of 1911. bow of the boat holding a revolver

(IN LIQUIDATION)

Third and Final Dividend is

mercial Bank Ltd. (In Liquidation).

steamer Ophir to salvage the safe of the lost liner Lusitania mark the beginning of a new chapter in

At the meeting of the Sanitary

Ports of food are nearly half of the ntal Secretary's Office relative to adverse trade balance. This in a compulsory Inoculation country which could easily be help. was laid on the table.

GRAMS (NLT) will be available to their debt by the 20th day of the thrilling log of modern ocean of a mile from the Luen Tak Com-tunity, and among har leading men ing to feed its neighbours!

senders of cable messages between HONG KONG and GREAT BRITAIN.

These telegrams, for which the minimum charge is for 95 words at ONE-THIRD of the FULL RATE, must be written in Plain Language Figures, Commercial Marks and abbreviated expressions are allowed up to one-third of the, number of chargeable words in the text and signature) and clearly marked" NLT before the address, will be delivered on the morning after the date of despatch. Thus a telegram despatched in Great Britain on the lat will be delivered in Hong Kong on the morning of the 2nd.

Creditors who have not proved SEPTEMBER, 1985, will be exclud- ed from his dividend.

Proofs should be sent to the under-

signed at 6, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong-Kong, on or before the 30th day of September, 1985.

Dated the 7th August, 1935.

tressure seekers.

Nobody seems to know the value of the contents of the Lusitania's safe. At the time she crossed the streaking path of an enemy sub- marine's torpedo in 1915, the vessel was reported to be carrying gold

specie.

in his hand.

The boat came alongside the sampan and Chan Sul was ordered to came aboard, after which his J. HENNESSEY SETH,

Aboard her were many hunds were tied and he was sent 8. HAMPDEN ROSS, wealthy travellers who, in secord-

down into the hold. He stated Joint Liquidators. ance with the custom of voyagers that he saw about nine persons in 13796 in the war zone, are believed to all on board the boat.

have entrusted jewels and other

3.10. yesterday he Was released valuables to the Lusitania's purser, near the same spot where he was Something new in ocean salvage held up and put aboard his own operations is being used to retrieve sampan. He found that $1.20 in these speculative riches. A stair-money was missing and some way encased in long, steel tube ex- articles valued at $8.60. tending, from the surface to the Lusitania's

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DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL FOUNDED 1869.

Headmaster

Hong Koat.

Boy.

Singapore, August 21. Fearl's Hill area of Singapore

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MOTOR. ACCIDENTS

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The Communists have at last been drives-out of Central China, but innumerable mobile bands,

catch, very dimcult te ravaging the West and North- West, thus necessitating that ter-. rible drain for military operations which seems never-ending.

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dogs.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL

SEVEN YEARS' GOVERNMENT It is a very notable fact that the Government is still substantially the same as that set up by the Nationalists in 1928, when they

In Nanking Budget for 1935-36 A dinner dance will be held at conquered Peking and moved the capital to Nanking No previous military costs are $293,014,600 out Repulse Bay Hotel to-night. The Government had maintained itself of a total of $857,354,006. Nanking last bus leaves Repulse Bay at 1,

will be lucky if she gets off for this, a.m. At about 48 long. True, there has been a

succession of so-called Fresidents which, moreover, does not include in Peking; but while their authority the provincial armies.

There was a clean bill of health dwindled to the spate of no more Altogether, China's armies num-, for the 24 hours ended on Monday. than Peking's c'rcumference, that ber at least 2,000,000 men, probably of Nanking had steadily increased. many more. Until the crushing

One case of diphtheria (fatal) "The history of the Nanking internal taxation has been

15 cases of enteric fever (4 futal) régime falls into two clearly mark-down; and agriculture revives, the and 57 cases of tuberculosis (all A deck, some. 30

ed periods from 1928 to 1931, and

soldiers cannot be disbanded for fatal) were reported to the Health from then onwards. At the outset want of work to give them and authorities for the week ending on is being combed by the Health fathoms, under the sea's surface, is Department who, following Mrs. the medium through which the

the Kuomintang (the central party there's the rub. In spite of the August 24. of Nationalism created by the late efforts of leading men in - many C.B. EF. J. Fuller's death from small-Ophir's divers intend to grope their Sargent, H. A. Cantab.

pox on Sunday, are searching for way down, the eerie corridors in Mr. B. E. Maughan, residing at Dr Sun Yat Sen) were plainly in provinces, oficial inertia, nepotism Next term starts on Monday, further cases.

the barnacled bulk of the old Cu-14 Ventries Road, reported to the toxicated by success, anti-foreign and corruption are a drag on DTS-

end towards the provinces in- How Mrs. Fuller developed, the harder. Using powerful September 9th at 8.30 am.

police yesterday that

They New boys tests willbe held on disease is a mystery at present. drills, the expedition hopes to pry driving his car along Commaught tolerant and unpractical Saturday, September 7th at 9.00 She had been vaccinated-bat the lid of this supposedly lucrative Road Central when a Chinese man, proclaimed new reforms every day,

seven days too late. It is thought treasure chest by removing the Chak Chung suddenly ran

most of them wildly idealist, nearly she picked up weeks ago before she cinated.

and lasted, with Ittle interruption, haunting Chinese fear of Japan was in a serious condition. Jenner the front part of the car. The Her husband, warder in the

Can the Lusitania divers parry man received slight injuries to the down to the eve of the Japanese Mane'urta has gone, Inner Mong was immediately rushed to the lla is going, the northern districts Royal Naval Hospital, where he P. O. Box 83. Singapore Prisons, and her young the thrusts of Neptune's trident, left thigh and left arm and he That calamity in some

invasion of Manchuris,

inside the Great Wall are virtually was later reported to be out of Ways 3761 daughter, who were both vac- the storms, the currents, the press received treatment at the Govern- proved a blessing in disguise. If a Japanese protectorate, and, when danger. No informa polsoned

cinated about two weeks ago, areing depths which beset whoever ernment Civil Hospital

brought the politicians to a sharp Tokio commands, Nanking clearly able as to how he was poisoned. in isolation.

dares invade that wily warden's

In another report, Tang Wal, realisation of the suicidal folly of dares not disobey. What more? The last case of a European realm? Records af modern sea living at 37 Canton Road, stated their quarrelling..

the Chinese, and others, are ask- The annual general meeting of suffering from smallpox in Singa-salvage provide promising prece- that he was driving his car No.

the Mamak Hockey Tournament, Two conspicuous symptoms showing. pore occurred many years ago.

dents. Only last year a British 343 along Cane Road when he the new frame of mind. Except It is, perhaps, to this problem will be held at St. Andrew's Church expedition recovered $5,000,000 in collided with car No. 1368. Both with the Communists, against that Bir Frederick Leith-Ross will Hall, Nathan Road, at 6 pm on bullion from the wreck of the liner cars were damaged slightly but no whom every man's hand is raised, most turn his attention. No Wednesday, September 4. Laurentic, a wartime torpedo vic-one was injured.

BJL.

Entry forms, prospectuses and all particulars hay be obtained from the Headmaster. Telephone 67777.

OFFICIAL NOTICE. –

· PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A HIP'S NAME

I, George Lewis Staw, of Antung,

the

electric

he Was

out

gress.

CHINA'S FEAR OF JAPAN Over all prospects good and bad

Commissioned Gunner H D

Jenner of HMS. Delight, was found aboard his ship yesterday suffering from the effects of poisoning, according to a report

disease, two safe through a rent in the liner's from a passage way near the Ball of them still-bor: In riine! alike—and the good are most truly | iskued by the naval authorities was vac-side and with the aid of the Ophir's & 6. Buliding and was struck by months civil wars broke out again deserving of attention-bangs the this morning. When found he

CRAZED KILLER

Manchuria, hereby givé notice that in consequence of a stipulation in the purchase agreement, I have applied to the Board of Trade, under Section 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, in respect of the ship TEXACO XI of Hong Kong, Official number 118489 of gross tonnage 1460 tons, register tonnage 884 too, heretofor owned by The the week-end. Texas Shipping Company (China)

Ipoh, August 19, ---- Third victim of a maniac for whom the police are combing the district, a Tamil's headles borly was found a mile from Ipoh ever The body had been thrown into a

derricks rame the strongbox.-

tims. Probably the greatest tale of successful salvage is that of Italian divers who recovered $5,000,000 17 gold from the P. & O. liner Egypt sunk in collision of the Uabant 13 years agoj p

The fact that this highly proßt- able adventure was carried on in fathoms of exposed water

BETTER TIME BY AIR

there appears a general under material help can be given China standing that there must be no with any permanent benent until more civil war. And China has this universal suspicion has been passed through two colossal crises d'asipated, a suspicion, be it re- friendship of China, and the re without serious disturbance of the membered, which exists just as cent dismissal of Gen. Maza Government..

strongly between Japan and the Inspector of Military Trainin West as between China and Japan, of large numbers of the belll

It is all-important to realise that politically, minded subordin Japan has her own case against the officers is a great score for the Real unincation has yet to be West, some of it certainly just. Japanese moderated.

Canton still mostly she must have markets and raw In Nanking, too, the disastrous-

GREAT WORK ALREADȚ

!. DONE

Singapore, August 21 Beginning yesterday, the N.1.L.M. air service is being operated as has the K.L.M. ser vice between Holland and Java for achieved.

Limited, of Hong Kong, for the pér. stream by the new Kampar Road, augur well for the Ophir exped the past few months-with Douglas paddles its own cance. The West materials, and China is the only ness of prepetual bad blood: with":

mission to change her name fo #SHINHWA", and to have her registered in the new name at the Port of Hong Kong, as owned by. MyWolf

Any objections to the proposed change of name must be sent to the Registrar of Shipping at Hong Kong within seven days from the appearance of this advertisement,

Signed GEO, L. SHAW. Dated at Antung, Kanchuria, this 10th day of Angust, 1985, 3

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Two bodies with heads eat off had been previously discovered in the Batu Gajah district, en belonse

All three murdered men belonged to the Nadar caste.

MURDEROUS FRENZY

The killer is believed to be suffer- ing from religious and homicidal aania, and other members of the caste are in terror of their lives-

Strong detachments of police are hunting down the murderer,

Three man have already been questioned.

tlon working at only half that aircraft.

of the British divers should unlock to fly between Singapore and

best-minds.

depth. If the vaunted steel tube This means that it is now possible and North-West remain sadly region in which she can be sure Japan has long been evident to the

chaotic. But piecemeal restoration of finding them.

And Japan is in a position to Here, surely, is room

time-h do exactly as she likes That we

Far East; must work to get the co-operation of Japan, and not act in deffance of her, is too obvious to be ignored.

the past, but the normal practice through- ught three but China's history in every emer each fitted with gence from chaos following on a

dynesty's downfall.

the lid to the Lusitania's conjec- Bateria in 3 hours instead of så is not only a necessity in a country tured riches, there is almost cer-bours, the time taken by the Fokker 20 times the size of Great Britain, tain to be a sudden demand for aircraft of the charts of the Spanish Main Judging by legends that have sprung up since the days of the Spanish conquests, the retur from a modern salvage Jõb have been mere pin pirates who roved the 400 Years Ago.

one tie ser f100 Bingspore s

was tob expected

feconomic

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48K FOR A MEDIATOR

The omens are not infe

Hirote the Japanese Minister; undoubtedly desires

the that