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CHINA UNDERWRITERS,
LIMITED.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1935,
R.E. AQUATIC SPORTS
Challenge Cup Won By No. 1 Section
YEARLY TERROR SINGAPORE'S STARVING NEWS SUMMARY
IN FLORIDA
Hurricane Takes Heavy Toll
Miama, Sept. 4.
PEOPLE
Letter To The Press
to carry on business of life insurance of $1.00 per share has 【OTICE is hereby given that a in Hong Kong and intends on or after the 6th day of October, 1935, to been made upon all members holding apply to the Registrar of Companies shares upon which $4.00 per share for the release of the deposit made it only has been already paid, and that respect of auch business under the the same will be payable to the gineers held their annual Aquatic has wirelessed that the latest es familles on the verge of starvation
terms of the Life Insurance Com panies Onlinance, 1907. AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that any objections to the said release must be made in writing to the Registrar of Companies before the said 6th day of October, 1985.
Dated the 4th day of Sept., 1935.
T. MOFFATT, Authorised representative of the Ning Shao Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
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ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT
CLUB,
"TREVESSA" TROPHY
THE
THE 24th bi-annual race for ships' Life Boats will be sailed on Monday, the 7th October next, start- ing at 4 p..
Any ship of a Company having ofice or responsible agents in Houg Kong and which is in Port on the day of the race, may enter any num ber of boats.
All entries should, if possible, be in the hands of the Hon. Sec.. RHKYC. by Noon on the day of the race, and competing boats should be at the starting line by 830 p.m Post entries, however, will be received.
Course: -Start from Charinel Rocks, thence to Kowloon Rock (P) Mark of Yacht Club (S), Mark off Cult Rock Beacon (P), finish across
Bankers of the Company, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, at Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, on or before the 6th September, 1935.
Dated 81st May, 1935.. By Order of the Board of Directors,
HERBERT E. STURT,
At the European Y.M.C.A. bath
yesterday evening, the Royal En-
Swimming Sports.
There was a large attendance and amongst those present were Lt. Col. H. M. Fordham (acting Chief Engineer) and Mrs. Fordham, Major and Mrs. Edwards, Major Duchesne, Capt. and Mrs. G. Thomas, Capt. and Mrs. Gillespie,
Capt. and Mrs. Eley.
The Challenge Cup was annexed
of
Managing Director.
(3778 by No. 1 Section with 38 points, Miama. Owing to the destruction
with No: 3 Section a close second with 35 points.
The following were the results: Inter. Section Relay:-1st No. 1 Sretion, 2nd. No. 3 Section, 3rd. No, Editorial and Business Office: 112 Section. Time:-3 min. 16 secs.
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanensi Office):
Tel. 24511.
London Office: 63, Fleet Street,
E.C. 4.
100 Ydrs. (Breast Stroke)-1st ist. L/C. Buckton, 2nd. Sapr: Dun- can, 3rd. L/C. Tongkins. Time:- 2.30 1/5 secs.
Diving (Inter. Sect.-1st. No. 1 Section, 2nd. No. 3 Section, 3rd. No. 2 Section.
Diving (Individualist. L/C Stevens, 2nd. Sapr: Jordan (L), LPSS. 3rd. L/C Dunk
The Daily Press.
Boxa KONG, SEPTEMBER 5, 1935.
RECOVERING AN ART
Film production in England was despaired of as a departed indus- try and a lost art for several years
*
100 Yards Chinese)-1st. Chan Shun, 2nd. Lee Bul.
Diving (Chinese):—1st. Cho Tung
Fok.
of bridges. The wind has reached a velocity of a hundred miles an hour.
1
Meanwhile an order has been sent by President Roosevelt to the Army, Navy and Red Cross to render all aid to the sufferers in the disaster.
The hurricane, which is Flori da's yearly terror, appears to have struck with frightful severity at Keys as well as elsewhere. Fears increase hourly that a terrific death roll may be revealed when the rescuers ultimately penetrate the devasted areas,
Most of the damage appears to have occurred at Keys where sur- vivors report that walls of water Afteen feet high
The fact that there are many cases are dealt with on their English-speaking men and their merits.
On receiving the petition I ask 14 revealed in the following lettered the honorary secretary of the to the editor written by Mr. John Singapore Rotary Club to send it Laycock, says the Singapore Free to the Salvation Army for their Press."
views and they have returned it
they
The monthly committee meeting of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce was "held at the Chamber's Headquarters yesterday afternoon, when the Chairman, Mr. Wong Kwong Tin presided.
Faze 7.
A
Mr. J. Medina and J. Cavanagh are the new pair bowls champions of the Colony by virtue of their win over the Duncans in the final yesterday.",
Page 10.
The Taipo slander case, in which. with their comments. They state a bride claimed $1,000 damages for that so far 227 cases have appeal remarks alleged to have been pass- ed to them for relief from theeft at her wedding ceremony, end- Rotary Club ever since this funded at the Supreme Court yester was administered by the Salvation day when the claim against Lee Army. The petition sent to me Bang, first defendant, was gives the names of 35 additional missed; cases who have not previously ap second defendant, was ordered to peared on their list, making a pay $250 damages and costs.
Page 8. total of 262 cases.
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NOT EXTRAVAGANT ·
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in-
dis-
and Les Kwal Sang.
-Page 6.
Several Treasury prosecutions for unstamped receipts and split- ting accounts came up for hearing before Mr. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday, Sergeant J. G Whitcroft, attached to
A search party at Florida Keys
tamate of the dead as a result of the hurricane is between 400 and 500.
The whole of the harbour and fishing settlement has been wiped
Pending the adequate function out, as well as thirty miles of railing of the Singapore Silver Jubilee way track. A special train con- Fund Mr. Laycock urges a public taining 600 ex-Servicemen engage appest for the immediate relief of ed in road building are marooned the distressed and suggests that 'seventy miles to the south
money be sent to the Singapore pur- Rotary Club Fund for this pose, to be distributed by the
Army, Salvation
Mr. Laycock writes as follows:
gir-On Aug. 19.I received a Taking the first 200 cases as a
Six months hard labour was pctition signed by 51 persons. All basis of calculation, the rent bi the signatures were in English and per month for 200 cases is $948. passed upon Cheng Lok Ming, 28, 7 Mongkok by the locks of it they are prac- These first 200 cases dealt with by unemployed, of No. tically all Straitsborn people. the Salvation Army represent 770 Road. "second floor, when he ap They say they are all family men, individuals If. 15 cents per head peared before Mr. Wynne-Jones at some with as many as eight to 10 per day were allowed for the the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday dependents to care for. They state maintenance of these people, on a charge of harbouring an un- that they represent the most piti- | $3,485 would be required per married girl, Lau Mel Sin, aged 18) ful cases or local unemployed. I month. It is quite possible (says" between August 13 and 24. am prepared to believe that, gen- Brigadier Lord) that the figures erally speaking, this is a true thus given, which are gross, "may statement. They say
are be subject to reduction on utterly destitute. They have often vestigation." to go starving and they are "In constant fear of being turned out
When I look at the figures as continuously on to the street for arrears of
given by Brigadier Lord I cannot Pearce, 2nd. Sapr: Crossan, 3rd pounded the little islands. Hurri-rent. They write to me to ask I say that they are extravagant. Treasury department, prosecuting. cane warnings are tying to Flori- can find any means of helping They represent a fent bill of less da. Ships are keeping their part them to get some temporary re- than $5 per month for a family windows boarded up. The hurrief: hoping that at some future and a food bill at 15 cents per day
Mrs, Alina Rocha, of No. 169 Sal time when the Silver Jubilee Fund on ita present
per head. This seems to me to Yeung Chol Street, first floor, was cane, if it keeps
come pretty near the starvation the complainant In a summons their assistance. course, is likely to roar in from starts to function it will come to
level anyway, I spend more on my
against Mrs. Marie Solding, of No. $100 PER MONTH
dogs-There are, of course, other York Road, Kowloon Tong, alleg- The only fund now available for sources of help. The Catholicing that she was assaulted by her petitioners is the Rotary Club Protestant Church of England as
on the Star Ferry on August 23, in Unemployment Fund. That fund funds permit: other denominations Thomson at the Kowloon Magis summons heard before Mr comes to somewhere round about help members as able; and the tracy yesterday. The hearing was $100 per month. Of course this is coldren's Aid Societies do their adjourned sine die owing to the not the only charitable purpose best. Bome cases have been dis- absence of defendant. Page 6. which the Rotary Club assists and posed of by the Destitute Strang- after all, the Rotary Club members
Ald Fund. Brigadier Lord
Charged before Mr. Schofield at are only few la'number. It is a lives and forty-seven have been fund for the relief of feal distress other funds where the conditions Fu. of the Hong Kong Police, Chan Seventy-five men have lost the sad thing to think that the only / Doints out that, as much as posst the Central Police Court yesterday ble, applicants are referred to with assaulting P. C. C467, Mak injured In & burricane which
at present comes from the pockets governing such funds appear to be Yee, 38. widow, and Chan Yau, 40, struck with suddenness and fury of some 100 men who meet once a to-day.
fullled.
unemployed, both pleaded they did week at tiffin. Even so, the exorts The casualties were suffered in
A MORAL DUTY
not know the complainant was a of the Rotary Club seem small, yet the War Veterans rellef camp on it cannot be expected that the
When all that is said "and done, police officer.
dis- They were. <Special to "Hong Kong
Page. 6. Daily Presa").
the islands near Key West, where Rotary Club should take on its this town has a moral duty to see charged with a caution. (B) Telegraph, |Copyright,
evacuation was commenced yes- shoulders the whole of the town's
that its people are not allowed to 1894 terday when reports of the near-burden in the way of relief for un-
ale of starvation and want. It Ordinance.
Found “Guilty” by the jury and graphic Massagna
ness of the storm were first re-employment and distress,
has moral duty to itself to see that sentenced to 18 months' hard Received, September ¿, 7.30 p.m.)
ceived.
at the "last Criminal Geneva, Sept. 4...
Now, sir, it is no use referring some relief is given in cases of this labour Motorboats are rushing to the to the Silver Jubilee Fund and peal to the public to put up some accepted a bribe of $50, Cheng nature. Will not you make ar ap Sessions en a charge of having The President of the Disarma-
the United States vituperating the people of Singafunds for the immediate relief of King "U, an" interpreter of the ment Conference Mr. Arthur Hen-camp from
pore for not subscribing more
150 Yards (Freestyle): 1st, L. C..
L/C Revel
25 Yards (Chinese)-1st. Chan
Kai Fook.
150 Yards (Medley) ist. L/C Tongkins, 2nd. Sapr: Grindley, 3rd. Sapr: Duncan. Time: 2.36 secs.
25 Yards Freestyle):—1st. Sapr:
the Gulf and strike Georgia.
Veteran survivors from-Mate-
Yacht Club Line, leaving mark boat following the War and while we Cable, 2nd. Sapr. Crossan. Time: cumbekey state that every building people such as. these unfortunate church helps in certain cases; the
to Port, and continue sailing until Gunfire for finish......
A launch will leave Queen's Statue Pier at 3 p.m. for the convenience of members and the General Public.
K. S. ROBERTSON,
Hon Secretary.
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were acting the long European-124 secs. drama America had seemingly re- "Inv'tation duced us to the role of supers on
Relay:-1st.
has been crushed like a matchbox Bast as a wall of water surged across Lancs. (2nd. Batt, 2nd. Royal Ar-the-island-washing-victims to the sea. The wind ripped the people's the screen, and when a British-tillery. picture was sandwiched into the Inter-Coy Relay:-ist. 22nd Com-clothing to shreds.— programme, its apologetic techni-pany, 2nd 40th Company.
enter.
!
EARLY REPORT
Jacksonville, Sept. 3.
que quite cancelled the audience's Consolation Race (50 Yard)— native good will. The story of 1st. 8apr. Jordan (R)., 2nd. Sapr. Great Britain's struggle once more
to be a power in the shadowy world of films is arduous and studded with disappointments and
POWER OF ATTORNEY mistakes; what really matters is
NOTICE is hereby given that on account of transfer to other duties the Power of Attorney issued to Mr. L H. G. Frost sa District Accountant for The Texas Company (China) Ltd., at Hong Kong has been Cancelled and recalled.
Similar Power of Attorney has been Issued to Mr. F. D. Pope who has been appointed District Accountant at Hong Kong to succeed
· Mr. L. H. G. Frost.
THE TEXAS COMPANY
By
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(CHINA) LTD.,
f
P. F. LE FEVRE,
General Manager. Hong Kong, Sept. 4th, 1985.
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
that
NOTICE is hereby given other duties the Power of Attorney issued to Mr. B. C. Lawrence as District Manager for The Texas Company (China) Ltd., at Hong Kong has been Cancelled and recalled.
THE TEXAS COMPANY (CHINA) LTD.,
By:
P. F. LE FEVRE;
General Manager. Hong Kong, Sept. 4th, 1935.
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC 00., LTD.
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that with astonishing resilience, it has succeeded. Next year, it has been stated, if only one quarter of the schemes for new studios in the London neighbourhood mature, the accommodation for producers will be enlarged by a third. It is a well-known fact that America's
White.
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CANCELLED
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big, advantage laid in the ease with which her most lavish enterprises derson has revoked the meeting Naval Station at Key West, tax-
always Bg of the bureau on Wednesday, ing aid to the survivors of were financed, for
the freely. It must be recognised that unemployment and distress, let us Sanitary Department, was success- flattered to which had been summoned for the disaster, who are without food or this fund is not popular. There 12 months? In England, news-viction before the Chier Justice. say to cover the period of the next ful in an appeal 'against his con- Business has been
week meet the latest Hollywood whim. first
the League of water and who may be beyond are, no doubt, reasons for this. In
the reach of assistance for some any case, the present point is that far less deserving objects. If all Justice J. J. Harden in the Crimin- papers raise funds in this way for Sir Atholl MacGregor, and Mr. Things in Britain have progressed Nations session, according to a
by the League time yet. The weather is still funds are wanted immediately for the local newspapers will start this al Court of Appeal yesterday. 50 far that now, although the City report issued is not likely to overload the in-
very heavy and the task of the the immediate relief of distress Secretariat.
The Silver Jubilee Fund is not yet dustry. London's business man and
Mr. Henderson, had been per-relief boats a hazardous one,
SHIP'S DANGER insurance compan'es are showing suaded apparently by the other.
in operation and will not for some Notwithstanding the mountain-time produce any income available more disposition to
their members of the bureau that in offer
are running off for distribution and for relief. purse. With a score of film pro- view of the Abyssinian question ous seas which
steamers Limon, jects checked for lack of a stage, and the general situation as re- the coast, the
NO DISCRIMINATION there, would appear to be little or gards disarmament, a meeting of Reaper and Platano have fought i no risk in advancing funds, and the bureau, would be of little their way to a point off the reef will not make, or join in making. dole for workers now starving in
practical use. Transocean Kuo Min
the cinema is a form of investment which brings something above the immediate return,
One trusted American
Trade fallows threan saying is they have another which is to the effect that for every foot of tim shown abroad a dollar's worth of trade is booked at home. Not only is the cinema a nation's best form of "display advertising " but it also has a subtle, Indirect persuasion and "pulling power," "
ELECTION IN HOLLAND
appeal, I cannot think that the well springs of charity will prove to have drled up completely. The same charitable hearted people who put up $330,000 in March for the maintenance of the University I ask, therefore, whether you in Amoy cannot refuse a poor little
,
CHAIRMAN OF CHAHAR
Tientsin, Sept. 3. General Chin Teh-chen and Mr.
station: General Chin stated that I will send you later the petition after a brief stay in Peiping, he received by me and the report of will return to Kaigan to officially the Salvation Army thereon, so assume duties as acting chairman that you can see for yourself the of Chahar. The oathtaking cere- position.-Yours, etc..
where the passenger vessel, Diade, an Hes stranded,
appeal to the public to raise singapore. I think the position Biao-Chen-ying left this afternoon pounded severely funds for the immediate relief of only need be put before them for for Peiping. Interviewed at the by the combers.
the distressed. For such a pur- them to recognise the obligation. They are standing by the appose there is no need to create parently doomed ship but have any new organisation. The Rotary been unable to attempt to trans- Club Fund, small as it is, is ad- fer the Dixle's passengers. They ministered by the Salvation Army. | must wait for the storm to sub- There could be no better adminis-
side..
tration; no racial, religious or Amsterdam, Sept. 4. The Dixie went ashore in the denominational discrimination of Tuesday's "city councillors elec- path of the hurricane which did any kind is permitted and ali tion in Holland, resulted in con- so much damage near Key West, siderable gain in influence by the and her wireless was put out of Social Democrats in three of the commission-soon after she called
By Telegraph, Copyright, Tein rape Amaanges Urdiñancë, » 1894, Received, September 4, 7-20 p.m.)'
The British film, now preferred | largest cities.
for Immediate assistance, She
Coast Guard cuttèrs are fighting
by the well-versed public at Home Here three Social Democrats had aboard 235 passengers and a is making headway in formerly and thre representatives of crew of 118. unpregnable markets elsewhere. It Clerical parties were elected, in was only just recently that the Rotterdam. All four councillors their way towards her manager of the world's largest elected were Social Democrats. The ship is pounding heavily on cinema in New York booked in while at the Hague a compromise the reef, on the southern tip of advance the complete list of six was reached whereby two Social Florida. teen productions which one British Democrats, one Liberal, опе "enter. Arm contemplate for the foreign Catholic and one representative. trade in 1935. The order was a
of the Christian Historical party tribute to the determination Bri were elected. tish studios have at last gained to Transocean Kuo Min make pictures which do not toll the wake of other people's ideas, but which represent subjects which are frankly and naturally British,
GLASGOW PORT PROSPERITY'
London, Sept 3. Considerable general expansion:
·FOOD PRICES IN GERMANY
(Special to “Hong Kong Dally, Press")
ره
J. LAYCOCK.
Singapore, Aug. 29.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
mony for all the members of Cha- har provincial government will be decided after his arrival at Kalgan, General Chin added.
Questioned as to when General Sung Cheb-yuan will come to Pel- ping and assume new duties as garrison commander for: Peiping”. and Tientsin, General Chin said that General Sung has not yet re- celved mandate of formal appoint- ment from Nanking and so for the
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE
Two cases of diphtheria, one of | Hetherington, of Oakleigh Park, time being he will not go to the enterie fever and one of puerperal London. Witnesses to the wedding old capital foyer were reported to the Health were · Staff Sergeant, and Mrs. General Chin further said that Authorities for the 24 hours ended | Stokes. The honeymoon is being | after his return to Kaigan he will on September 3.
spent in Tientsin. The bride-make a journey to Peiping upon groom's father is Major William General Bung's assumption, of Four cases of diptheria (one Boyd Shannon, D.8.0.
office.- death), fourteen of enteric fever
Central News Agency. (3 fatal and Imported),. pne. (fatal) of puerperal fever and 81 deaths from tuberculosis gore re- (By Telegraph, Lopyright, Teleported to the Health Authorities graphic Massage Ordinance, 1891 for the 24 hours ended on August Received, September 4.7.30 p.m.) 31
Berlin, Sept. 4. In order to prevent the rise of
The Great Northern Telegraph liustrating the improvement of prices in important foodstuffs Company Limited) inform us that heavy industries on the Clydeside, during the forthcoming winter, the following unclaimed telegrams was announced at a meeting to the Minister of Agriculture-de-are lying in their offices Fan day of the Clyde Navigation Trust, creed that retail prices charged for | hinalex, from Kobe; Maruki Co. During the past year, the total beef, sausages and eggs must not c/o Shokin, from. Tajimi; and net registered tonnage of vessels exceed the price level prevailing Cheong Wo Co., Hollywood, from arriving at and leaving the port at the end of March 1935. Since | Nagoya, London, Sept 3 was 13,689,071-and increase on the the decree is mainly intended yo The Duke of York, who repre- previous year of 681,103 tons, or safeguard the interests of the The Bented the King at the funeral 5.23 per cent. The total tonnast poorer population only certain of Queen Astrid in Brussels this of goods imported and exported special classes of higher r morning, flew back to London this was 6,480,970-an Increase of 384,- meat had been exempted from the
decree 518 tons, or 596 per cent afternoon. ——,
Chaocean Kuo Min
IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that an Interim Dividend of One Dollar per Share has been declared for the six months ended Efith June, 1985, and will be payable on and
28 SEPT. who have a point of view, a history. after MONDAT, EMBER, 1985. Dividend Warrants and a culture about which the may be obtained on application at world is not incurious, and to the Company's Registered Office, succeed the British must continue P. & O. Building.
to develop the newest of arts in THE REGISTER OF SHARES their own way. of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, 10th SEPT- EMBER, to SATURDAY, 21st SEPTEMBER (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Os, LTD.,
Agente Kong Kong. 29th August, 1985.
DUKE OF YORK"
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in the trade of Glasgow as a port.
British Wirden.
Two further cases of dog bites have been notified to the police authorities. Mr. Roberts, of 98 Robinson Road, has reported that his mongrel dog bit a man, Kwok Kuen, who subsequently received medical treatment. Le Yee, a visitor to a house in Matauchung Road, Kowloon City, was bitten by & dog belonging to Huf Sau Kia In the first instance the animal was sent to Kennedy Town for observation and in the second to Mataukok.
Shanghai, Sept. 3. Mr. Tan We-hakeh has been. commissioned by the ministry of communications to negotiate for the inauguration of the direct long- disance telephone service between china and the United States,
Mr. Tan will leave for Azerica 9th Sept aboard the sa Empress of Japan. He will inspect the took place quietly Hanitary Inspector A. Austin has machinery for the long-distance Supreme reported to the police that while telephone service in nine provinces driving his car. No. 816, in Nathan in the country which has already Cecil Road on Monday he collided with been ordred there by the minis Halls Lorry Slight damage was try of communication. Central News: Agency
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