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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE

NOTICE.

HE conditions of the 8th Race on the second day" (12th Octo- ber) of the 9th Extra Race Meeting have been amendol to include "E" class ponics.

The conditions now read-H.-5.30 P.M. FUKIEN HANDICAP.- Winner $100. Second $175. Third

$100. For China Ponies, "E" Class and Subscription Grillins of this Club of this son tlist have not won a race at Race Meetings of f this Club. To be ridden by Jockeys who have not won ten races any where at any time, No Whips or Spurs" allowed. Entrance $5. ONE MILE,

By Order,

CB. BROWN,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 24th September, 1935.

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MACHINE GUN TROOP, H.K.V.D.C. GYMKHANA

are reminded that entries clone at Noon to-day. Entry forms can be obtained from A. H. Potts, Stock Exchange.

INTENDING competitors

MR

NOTICE.

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R. JOHN E. POTTER, has brun Admitted a Partner in our firm as from July 1st, 1935.

LEIGH & ORANGE.

(3825

HONG KONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.

ANNUAL GENERAL

TESTING of the above

Society will be held in the Board Room, Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Co., Ltd, on Friday, 27th September, 1935, at 5.45 p.m. for the purposes of receiving the Annual Report and statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st August, 1985, and of electing office-bearers for the ensuing (3832 year, etc:

THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINIING COMPANY, LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN QUEENSLAND) NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF FIRST INTERIM DIVIDEND. NOTICE is hereby given that a First Interim Dividend of Four Pence per share on account of the financial year ending 31st March, 1936, has been declared by the Directors of the Company in Bria- bane, payable to hareholders on the Registers at Brisbane and Singapore on Monday, 30th September. 1935..

NOTICE is also hereby given that the Singapore Transfer Registers will be closed from Tuesday, 24th September, to Monday, 30th Sept ember, 1935, (both daya inclusive), for the preparation of Dividend

Warrants.

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By Order of the Board,

DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants,

Local Secretariss.

Hong Kong Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE, 13th September, 1935.

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NO.530

(2)

BIRTH

XAVIER-On September 19, 1935. at St. Marie's Hospital, Shang- hal, to 'Mr. and Mrs. J. F Xavier, a son.

ENGAGEMENT GABERMAN-FISAREVSKY.-The engagement is announced of Mack, second son of Mrs. J. Gaberman and the late Mr. J. Gaberman, of Shanghal, and Anna, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Pisarevsky, also of Shanghai.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1935.

PARADE OF THE SIR FREDERICK

MANNEQUINS

And Tea Dansant

East and West met yesterday at the Gloucester Hotel when, in

tea connection with the

dance

held there. Mrs. Eisle Soong's Mannequin Parade also held the and attention of a very large BEECHING-ROLLS-The engage-cosmopolitan crowd.

ment is announced between Mrs. Soong had on the parade Edgar Beeching and Phyllis six pretty girls "all gowned in the Rolls, both of England.

latest Chinese fast-ons. Semi- alto- European styles were gether neglected and the latest bunch wear was also on display. Many a feminine heart missed a beat when one after another the models quickly changed from morning gown to an evening one, cut in ultra-modern fashion,

DEATHS

September 18, FORTARIA.-On

1935, at her residence 478 Scott Road, Anna Josepha de Rod- rigues Portaria, aged 54 years, the dearly-beloved wife of Mr. F. P. de Portaria. PRENTICE-On

19. September 1935, at 193 Route Gustave de Boissezon, Shanghai, Jane Ann, aged 88 years, wife of the late John Prentice.

MARRIAGE

HUNTLEY DAVIDSON-BARRATT

-On September 17, 1935, ut the German Church, Shanghai, by the Reverend H. G. Newsham, M.A.. Robin Huntley Davidson to Dorothie Winifred Barritt,

Editorial and Business Omée: 11

Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanena Omice):

Tel: 24511. London Office: 53, Fleet Stree

E.C." 4.

The Baily Press.

HONG KONG. SEPTEMBER 25, 1934.

CHINA AND SILVER POLICY

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The materials were all washed with "Lux" soap flakes before being cut and all stood the wash- ng extremely well.

Throughout the parade Mrs. Soong commented on the dresses ob display and gave hints here and there as to the washability of the materials with "Lux" soap. The Emporium Band was in attendance and before and after the parade the large gathering took to the floor.

SUDDEN DEATH IN PEIPING

M. Henri Wilden

LEITH - ROSS

Entertained At Capital

Nanking. Sept. 14. - A tea party was given in honour of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross

and Ludy Leith-Ross at 5 p.m. to-day by Dr. H. H. Kung. Minister

resid Finance, at the Ministry

ence.

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FRENCH

TENNIS ACE " IN HONG KONG

Prospect Of Exhibition Games Here

that played by Perry against Mas- M. Henri Cochet, the famous French tennis player, arrived with kell, the Davis Cup coach, when his wife yesterday morning from the former was training for the Indo-China by the s.s. Taying and | Davis Cup.

Neither player would thus be in- is staying at the Gloucester Hotel He is sailing for Manila on Septem-fringing any of the rules govern- ber 29 to play in exhibiton games ing play between amateur and pro-

fessional. there.

M. Cochet will be back in Hong

Many high Chinese officials were invited to meet the guished visitors.

After attending President Wang the Wal- Ching-wel's dinner at chlapu Building this evening. Sir Kong about October 18 and is try- Frederick and Lady Lelth-Rasing to make arrangements. for accompanied by Sir Alexander Filipino professionals to return with Cadogan proceed to Shangha! by him for exhibition games in Hong

Kong and Canton. the 11 p.m. train.- Central News Agency.

CANTON WAITING

(From Our Special Correspondent;

ure

here

Canton, Sept. 24. Advocates of Anglo-Chinese co- operation making prepara- Sir Frederick tions to welcome Leith-Ross when he comes in the early part of October. is believed here that he comes, to China to bring about more closer trade relations between China and Britain.

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It

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The Kwok Wah Po, leading lo.. cal paper, this morning, published a Shanghai dispatch stating that Japanese officials in Shanghai are. most anxious to know that is be- ing discussed between Sir Freder- ick and Chinese officials.

Japan reported that

wishes have a clear field in China and do not relish further British trade activities in this country.

been Canton has

urging the Ministry of Finance to obtain $5,000,000 from the British Boxer Indemnity Fund for reconstruction belleve here Om cials M. Wilden, who had been Minis- that if the British economic ad- ter since July, 1930, had been ill viser visits Canton he will 'notice a good part of the past year and the industrial progress, here during the early part of this sum-the necessity of more funds for mer he had been pulled down by further reconstruction work. pneumonia: He had fully recover-

Pelping. Sepi, 24..

M. Henri Wilden, French Minis ter to China, died during the night The end came suddenly, due to heart failure.

days ago he WOS

He collapsed suddenly last night in his Legation home:

Mr. James A. Moffett, head ofed recently, however, and appeared

in good health. the Federal Housing Administra-

on, who has been investigating Not many the suver problem at the request playing goli. of President Roosevelt, is reported to have said that the purchasing policy of the United States. Govern- ment has not seriously affected China, says "The Financial Times" pay of August 27. That it accords with remains.

state with a guard of honour from

Guard Legation the

Streams of visitors called at the French Legation all day long to respects before M. Wilden's The body is lying in

until the

the views of the silver sponsors in the United States, if they have any outlook beyond the purely funeral arrangements are made.

Last night M. Wilden, who was domestic sphere, may be accepted

the Peiping Club, without question. But there is a President of considerable body of responsible transacted club business by tele- has phone. Half an hour later he was opinion which American wholeheartedly condemned the dead. Government's programme as futile. and damaging.

An uneconomic

LONG SERVICE

It is thirty five years since he ideal could be lightly disregarded first came to Chine and took part were it not that the efforts to in the march of the Seymour carry it to a conclusion in practice Column from Tientsin to Peiping have nad repercussions in other for the relief of the Legations. He parts of the world, the seriousness was awarded the Legion of Honour

not contemplated for his services.

of which was

when the policy was conceived and to which, one is forced to believe a blind eye is still being turned.

The drop in the price of silver from a level inflated beyond its currency value is attributed by one school of thought to the same causes as have acted on the gener- at level of prices. Another view, to which SIT Henri Deterding directs attention, is that the fall in the metal has been due to legis- lative measures adopted by various countries for curtailing the cur- rency use of silver. No matter how

strongly either view is held, there is less disposition to disagree with the contention that "sharp move-

M. Wden afterwards served 17 the Consular Corps in Chungking. Chengtu and Yunnan. From 1917

to 1925 he was Consul General at Shanghal. and then Minister to Bangkok and Teheran, returning in December 1929 to succeed M

Martel as Minister.

He was 56 years of age. Reuter.

BANKER LEAPS TO DEATH

NOTICE is hereby given that the

Houston, Sept. 24. above trade marks are pro-

Mr. James A. MacTvane, second tected by registration in Hong Rong in class 8 is respect of flashlight ments in the price are damaging to Vice-President of the Chase Na- batteries. It has been brought to the silver-using countries. It is tional Bank in New York, the attention of the Brighty difficult to reconcile the statement mitted suicide by leaping from the Battery Company the registered of Mr. Moffett with the known tenth floor of his hotel.- proprietors of such marke that there facts. In a letter to "The Financial Reuter,"

are on the market in Hong Kong Times" a reader, lately returned

flashlight batteries to which the above trade marks so nearly resem bling same as to be calculated to doceive is falsely applied.

from China. attributed the de- pression In that country mainly to ine sudden increase in the sterling

value of the local diver currency

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com-

purposes.

game.

NEWS SUMMARY

A silver watch and chain valued. at $40 and subsequently pawned for $1.50 featured in a charge of larceny which was heard before the Kowloon Magistrate yesterday. Defendant, an unemployed man also faced two further charges of and illegal pawning. receiving The first charge relating to larceny was subsequently withdrawn, de- fendant being convicted of the two Page 6. ther counts.

"Problems of Kwangsi" was the subject of an interesting paper read yesterday at the weekly timin of the Rotary Club at the Hong

Some Kong Hotel.

interesting points regarding the reorganisa- tion of the province were made known.

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Cochet is said to be planning a similar procedure as he adopted with considerable success in Singa- pore, when he gave lessons to

Local estate amounting to $231,- young aspirants of the With the help of Filipine pro- 000 was left by Mr. George Henry Cochet has been French tennis fessionals whom he hopes to bring Bosch, merchant, late of Sydney. champion four times, in 1928 an- up with him on his return from New South Wales, who died at Gor-

1934.

Page 7. nexing both that and the United Manila, Cochet will thus in a post-don. near Sydney, on August 30,- Sates championship, and also the tion to give lessons to all and sun- Wimbledon championship in 1927 dry in Hong Kong.

Three instances of breach of the and" 1929. Together with Jacques In addition the public will be Brugnen, he has secured the dou-afforded the opportunity of seeing Registration of Persons: Ordinance bles championships both in his na- this tennis wizard in play against brought Paul Joseph Dedieu 43. tive country and at Wimbledon, a fellow professional, and an ex-merchant, 117 Austin Road, of this combination being then one hibition staged in this manner, is France: Rudolf Lederhofer, 31. of the greatest doubles teams in sure to have good support from the merchant, 117 "Austin Road, of the world.

sporting pubike of Hong Kong. It Austria; and Nguyen Yan Nghiep. would be more than worth the 26, of 42 Old Bailey, of Tonkin. Indo-China, before Mr. Macfadyen while for Cochet to arrange some-

in the Central Police Court yester- thing of this nature. In any case,

Sub-Inspector Nolloth pro- Cochet is leaving for Manila some day. four days hence, and until his re- secuted. turn no definite plans have yet been fixed.

LOCAL MEETING

8. A. Rumjohn the local cham plan may be seen it is stated, up against this ex-Wimbledon wizard in an unofficial "contest, as it would have to be in the form of a prac- tice game for Rumjahn, similar to

ANOTHER TRAGEDY

NEW GIANT PLANES

Shanghai, Sept 24. For the purpose of expanding business in the coming year, the

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Three cases of dog bites were re- ported to the police.

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The many friends of Mr. Garren, of the US. Navy Purchasing Office, Shanghai, and Mrs. Garren, will Shanghai, Sept. 24.

learn with great regret of "the Mr. Kenneth D. Abelstein of the

of their twelve-year-old Dollar Steamship Company, was

death found shot dead in the bathroom China National Aviation Corpor- daughter, Lucille, which occurred ation has decided to purchase at the Kowloon Hospital on Sep- of his home by a servant at 6

planes, tember 22. severn} o'clock this morning. A letter was found addressed to his mother, who is supposed to have salled and

Seattle for Shanghai a few days

It is not yet known whether the Boxer Committee can appropriate the $5,000,000 to Canton.

CAPE TOWN FLIGHT DISAPPOINTMENT

(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally

Press" (Copyright).3.

Cairo, Sept. 23. The British flier, Campbell Black and

McArthur lils companion who have been missing since they took off from here on Sunday :n

!!

the course of their attempted record flight from London to Capetown and back, arrived on camels on Monday afternoon at the town of Kabushla 150

north miles

of Khartum.

They reported that their plane crashed on Sunday near Kabushin but they succeeded in jumping off with parachutes, landing safely on the western bank of the Nila Transocean Fun Min.

Mr.

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INNER MONGOLIA, DISPUTE

from

Nanking, Sept. 24.

On

giant Sirkosky which will be commissioned the Shanghai-Canton airline, ac-

the Board of the meeting of cording to a decision reached at Directors. With the arrival of the new planes, the whole route wi be covered in six hours. Central News Agency.

the. Central

authorities

04 the

Mr. Chao Pel-Hen, Vice-chalz-measures relating to the mediation man of Mongolian and Tibetan of the recent West Banner dis- Affairs Commission, is expected to pute, according to Information arrive here from Pelping to-mor- from the Commission. row morning by train to interview central News Agency.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL

Three cases of enteric fever were reported for the 24 hours ended on September 25.

Two cases of diphtheria (both fatal). eleven

Li Po Chun, driver of private car No. 4341, has reported. to the police that while driving along Glouces- ter Road on Monday, he knocked down a boy named Cheung Tol Lol, of enteric fever aged nine years who received in (three deaths), one of cerebro-juries to his body. The boy was spinal fever (fatal), one of typhus admitted to the Government Civli fever and 46 deaths from tuber- Hospital in a serious condition. culosis were reported to the Health Authorities for the week ended on September 21.

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APOLOGIES TO JAPANESE

"Incident Closed”

Shanghai, Sept. 21, The Japanese Consulate yester- day announced that the case in- volving an alleged legal search of the house of Mr. Genzo Kumahe, 11/151 East Yalu Road, by a joint arty of Shanghai Municipal Po- lice and French Municipal Police a week ago, was considered closed. following the receipt of a formal letier of apology from Mr. Stirling of Secretary-General Fessenden,

This ex- the Municipal Council. pression of regret was received be- fore the Consulate-General fled a protest, the announcement, em- phasized.

According to the Consulate-Gen- The official"in charge of the search erai's communique to the press,

and be reprimanded party will

to prevent the measures taken recurrence of such incidenta. This brings to a close an affair that agitated the local Japanese com- unity for a week and led to a

PLANE CRASHES

The Klangs Provincial Govern- Khartoum, Sept. 23.

ment is erntemplating the con- Campbell-Black and Mr.

struction of two new railways to McArthur crashed yesterday morin-

The Kiangsi Provincial Govern-ink Nanchang, with Pinhgiang and 15g 31 miles northward of Khar- ment has secured a loan of $800.000 Kanchow, in southern Klangsi. demand tror drastic action being toum. The airmen landed in their from four Chinese banks in order The authorities are planning to parachutes unhurt and arrived by to meet the budget defcit. 'camel at Kabushia railway station. this afternoon.

1:

Mr. J. W. O. Davidson has taken It is reported that the machine

over the duties of HLM. Consul in was burnt out but the fliers jump-ehanghai in succession to Mr. A. D. ed out as the aeroplane fell and Elackburn, who has been appoint landed safely on the west bank of ed Acting Chinese Counsellor to the Nile. They are now proceed- HM. Embassy. ing to Athara by goods train.- Reuter

GERMAN STUDENTS FOR CHINA

poned.

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restrictions have" Quarantine been imposed against arrivals from Bangkok on account of Cholera.

pay for the necessary railway materials with mineral ores pro- duced in Klangst. It is estimated that the proposed Unes will be completed within five years.

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sent to the Consul-General, Mr Itaro Ishil, by a delegation of the Federation of Japanese Street Asso clations.

COUNCIL'S REGRETS The Communique in ful: read: "The Secretary-General of the

His friends in Shanghai will re- gret to learn that Sir Leslie Hud-Municipal Council, in a letter dated son who returned to India in the September 17. and addressed to th Lady Bell, the wife of Sir Charles middle of last month, had almost Japanese Consul-Gentral, Mr. Ishii, Bell, is seriously in the P.UMO. immediately to leave on medical expressed the Council's regrets over Hospital, and in consequence, her advice in order to undergo an the illegal entry into a Japanese home by a member of the Shanghai departure for Mongolia was post-operation in England. Sir Leslie

salled in the Kaiser-1-Hind from Municipal Police on September 11 August 24 and was into which case investigations have Bombay on

been carried on by both the Con- carried from his car to the steam-

sulate-General and the Municipal Berlin, Sept. 23

er in an invalid chair.

authorities. The communication Two German students named

was received before the Consulate- NETHERLANDS CONSUL

Klimmek and Emme have left for TO VENEZUELA

A Dinner Dance will be held at Mr. and Mrs. Lapper of Tientsin China under the system of the ex-

ates the sincerity with which "the Notice is sccordingly hereby given

change of university students be the Repulse Bay Hotel to-night. have been informed of the bad General filed a protest, and indie- Shanghai, Sept. 24.

tween Germany and China. They The last bus leaves Repulse Bay at news from Home in regard to their Council is 6:eking to settis the

son, who sustained a serious ac-

affair. The officer involved will be that henceforth 'proceedings will be

Groenman, Netherlands.

edent when riding a motor-cycle. reprimanded, while steps will be commenced immediately against any or advocates of a higher price, tor Consul Generat in shanghai, left will study at the Tsinghua Univer-am.

A third student |- person, firm or company dealing in

At Measts. Lammert Brothers The latest news is reassuring, and taken to prevent the reoccurrence sach batteries bearing such false ver has been that it would raise here this morning aboard the ss.sity, Pelping.

auction rooms, a valuable lease indicates that he is making favour of such an incident, according to trade marks contrary to the pro- the purchasing power of countries Talpingen route to South Amer named Schertz will follow in visions of the Merchandise Marks like China. Yet, between 1928 and ica to assume his new post as

Three Chinese students from the hold property. registered in the able progress. Mrs. Lapper plans the letter. 1031, when the price was rapidly Netherlands Minister to Venezue- Ordinance No. 4 of 1890.

a large Tsinghus University are due in Land Office as Bub-Section No. 3 to go to England via Siberia very falling, business activity in China ja. He was been off by

of Bection G, of Marine Lot No 1. shortly. Dated the 19th September, 1985. was increasing for the reason that gathering of Chinese and foreign Berlin in October.-

which was scheduled to be put up Reuter.

for publie auction: was postponed BRIGHTI BATTERY COMPANY | commodity prices in terms of silver fr'ends-

No 805, Canton Road,

until further notice.

Kowloon. HEAD OFFICE & WHOLESALES

DEPARTMENT:

No. 367, Shanghai. Street Tel. 57888 Kowloon.

Bole Agents:-

H. M.

as a result of United States policy. One of the principal arguments

Mr.

'entral News Agency.

When currency were advancing. the reverse movement in the price of the metal set in commodity

to a crliical situation. In the light- levels began to decline. Last year, according to the general manager et experience, which has shown of the Bank of China, China's im- that a rising movement in silver porta decreased by $316,000,000 benefits China only insofar if it is despite the higher price of the accompanied by a similar swing of metal. Accentuation of the op- commodity prices, it must be hoped posing trends of sliver and com- that the United States will modify modify prices and the heavy drains policy accordingly.

[The letter referred to above of the metal-some 200,000,000__028 [8818 were exported last year-have led given on page 7 of this issue?'

EMAIL & SONS, China Building, Bong Kong.

December.

HUDSON RIVER DEATH PROBE

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"The Acting Police Commission- er. Major Bourne, visited Mr. Ishii and explained the incident. As The engagement was recently the result of their conversation on announced of Miss Eisie Marguerite how to prevent such incidents, it Howell and Flight Lieutenant Gll-was decided that a conference shall The annual general meeting ofbert Bartholomew, R. A. F. Lan be held between Japanese Consular the Hong Kong St. Andrew's Bo-guage Officer of the British Em-Police and Shanghai Municipal au- ciety will be held in the Board bassy, Miss Howell, says the "Pek-horities to formulate a definite Room, Messrs, Jardine, Mathesoning and Tientsin Times," is a clever plan. More:wer, in view of the New York, Bept. 24. An autopsy reveals that Mr.. & Co., Ltd, on Friday next at 3.45 young artist, and her caricatures of fact that investigation has es- Wing-lock Wel, whose body was p.m., for the purpose of receiving the Tientsin Jockeys will be re- tablished that there was no malice was the annual report and statement membered by the local residents on the part of the Municipal Bo- found in the Hudson River, drowned and there is no evidence of accounts for the past year and She is also a miniature painter and lice, and that the incident was the

electing office bearers for the com- has shown her work at the Pelping outcome of a mistake, the

is now consid:red closed " of foul play

Institute of Fine Arts exhibitions. Reuter.

ing year.