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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,

OCTOBER 8, 1935.

NEWS SUMMARY

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BANK HOLIDAY.

Iordance with Government

The

EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the TRANSACTION of PUBLIO BUSI NES8 on THURSDAY, the 10th OCTOBER, 1835 (The Anniversary of 4be Chinese Republic).

Hong Kong, 7th October, 1935.

NOTICE.

THE PUBLIC

THE

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"Monday, 7th October, 1995, at

2.30 p.m. at TAMMERTS SALES

OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE

NEW HEAD OFFICE

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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION ON 10TH OCTOBER, 1985.

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Hong Kong.

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Secretary, Hong Kong, 7th October, 1935.

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HONG KONG. OCTODER . 1930.

AN APPEAL TO REASON

Shipping occupies a prominent

plight

are well-known for an

1 more Or

FOR ABYSSINIA

Comparison Of Methods

By South-west

Canton, October 7.

with ambassadors at Nanking and In invading Abyssinia. Italy is Tokyo, and abolished Kuomintang following Japan's example.. inį organs. Manchuria and Japan is respon sible for starting the pggression ball rolling, declared Mr. Chou Lou, Chancellor of Sun Yat-sen University and ranking member of the South-west Political Coun- cil in an enlarged

memorial service at Chungshan Memorial

Hall this morning.

Stating that no rellance should be laid on treatles guaranteeing peace, Mr. Chou stressed that a nation must depend on itself for existence and salvation. He said that the resistance by Abyssinia has brought about international support.

"Most active In supporting

Ethiopia is Great Britain." Mr. Chou continued. "At the League of Nations, Britain is champion- ing collective security as regards the Italo-Ethiopian dispute Even France which has been friendly to Italy has agreed to join 'cause with Great Britain.

For their own interest, other

also supporting! Abyssinia. The condition of sup- port is that Abyssinia is deter- mined to fight."

countries

are

NO SUPPORT

On the other hand, there is no support; even verbal, given to China by the other. Powers, Mr. Chon said. At the beginning of the Manchurian dispute, the League of Nations, he recalled, urged the Japanese troops to withdraw to their original posi tion, sent a Mission to Manchuria

to investigate the dispute and re- fused to recognize the bogus Manchukuo and denied interna- tional postal and railway service with that puppet state,

Aman humiliated himself be fore he was humiliated by others, and a nation first degenerated itself before being invaded by other countries. The foreign powers have no less reasons, foN supporting China than Abyssinia and have no less investment in this country than in the other, but they back up Abyssinia be- cause of her dear-cut stand and strong determination. trast Nanking is submitting the enemy"!

worse.

As a con- to

SITUATION WORSE

ITALY TRANSFORMS

SALT WATER

For Use of African Workers

Good work was performed by the skipper of the rescue tug, Kau Bing, yesterday morning, when in answer to a message received at the Harbour office that a picket bout belonging to the USS, Black Hawk was in dimenities near Cust Rock off the Kowloon foreshore, and „in danger of" being badly damaged, he manoeuvred' closely and towed the drifting craft to safety. Sa close to the foreshore did the two vessels approach be- dertakings

Rome-One of the proudest un Bince then it has been found

of Premier Benito possible to raise the load trans= ". fore the tow line was connected Mussolini's labour anta" in East ported daily from 100 to over 1,000 that it appeared at one time that Africa in connection with Italy's tons. This result has been reach- the Kau Sing would stick fast in nullitary preparations there, is the ed largely through the work of the

roadmakers. the shallow waters in the vicinity. approaching completion of a huge alion

Altogether Page 7. evaporation, distillation and elec- over 80 milles of roadway have been tricity generating plant which will relaid, nearly 50 miles widened, transform the waters of the Redland 180 miles of entirely new high- Ses into pure, fresh drinking water Ways constructed. Magniücent Central at the rate of 1.000 tons a day stone bridges now span once im- The salinity of the Red Sea is passable torrents and gorges; one

of them has a span of 133 meters, end another of 76 meters -

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A gallant plece of work on the part of Ilam. Din, a Police reservist

Magistracy has been brought to and interpreter at the

the notice of the police authort-lated to be 4.2 per cent, increas ties when he rescued a woman ing with depth.)

A special technical process will from drowning in the harbour,

Insure delivery of the water at a near the Shamshui Po Praya Wall

temperature of 60 degrees Fahren belt a figure which is claimed here to be exceptionally low for those torrid zones.

on Sunday afternoon. Page 7.

Mr. Chau deplored the fact that

An application. for the forfeiture since Mr. Wang Ching-wel resum- ed, the presidency of the Executive spools with

ot 135 cases of cotton thread on

"Horseshoe" mark, Yuan with external support the pursuant to Section 11 (2) of the situation in Nanking has become Merchandise Marks Ordinance, was South-west

Mr. Chou recounted the made before Mr. Macfadyen in the proposals: namely Central Police Court yesterday by severe punishment to those who Mr. F. G. Nigel, appearing on be- have betrayed the country, de- half of Central Agency. finite foreign policy and effective Limited.

Page 6. resistance to the enemy, but Nan- king has rejected them..

method of smuggling "Nanking asks us to co-operate oplum into the Colony was reveal during the present situation," Mred by Revenue Officer Ward before Chau disclosed. "What we want Mr. W. Schofield. at the Central to co-cperate is to save the coua Magistracy yesterday, when

A

rew

the

La

Itallan prestige, it is claimed.

The problem of water supplies, so important on this hat desert coast, had to be tackled im- mediately, and the thirst of thou- sands of men and quadrupeds quenched from plants which had been bullt to satisfy only hundreds will rise in East Africa, the Hed. Since the Erst batch of workmen dea and the Indian Ocean with the arrived early in the year. 63 new of this plant. since wells have been sunk, 15 reopened completion Itallan warships and mercantile end 12 reservoirs constructed. vessels will no longer be compelled while 25 others will shortly be to draw water supplies from completed. Six water works have French Djibouti or British Aden

SEX MONTHS' EFFORT During the last six months army of over 25,000 Italian work- men has been labouring in the arid lowlands and on the cooler plateaus of the Italian colonies of

try and not to acquiesce in bar- Nai, married, woman, was charged Eritrea and Somaliland, whose tering away national territory and with possession of ten taels of pre-fronters make the Ethiopian bor- rights.

On. pared oplum on the steamer Yuet der. The balance of their labours has just been struck and the re- sults are published in a report sent to Signor Mussolini by General Emilio De Bono, the Hign Com missioner for Italian East Africa.

"For example, Feng Kuo-chan and Tsao Kun as presidents of China urged ünification, but Dr. An Sun Yat-sen turned a deaf ear to their entreaties and established a revolutionary govemment in Can ton. President Yuan Shih-kai after accepting Japan's 21 De mands advocated unity to ward off foreign invasion,

but agala Dr. Sun launched an expedition to overthrow 'Yuan,

"A second world war is

fast

"Taking the opposite action, the Nanking authorities signed

the approaching, and we have to rely Shanghai and Tangku truces," on ourself to save the nation from Mr. Chou added. "Further, Nan- perdition. It is impossible to co- king has resumed postal and operate with those who are bent railway communication with on selling the country." Manchukuo, replaced ministersion News

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OBITUARY

THE SILENT, GUIDE TO HONG KONG, WHAT IT 18: The "Silent place amongst the industries which Guide" consists of a large have suffered most by the de- illuminated street map of Hong pression and have shared least in Kong (18 feet by G feet). The map, the general recovery. This indus- which is coloured is painted un a

try is distinguished from others in ground glass background, behind that it was already languishing which are over 5000 small lamps. before the slump and that its At a convenient distance from the troubles are not merely domestic large map is a small switchboard but universal. The causes of its containing a number of six inch. gluas panels for Subscribers' cames, exaggerated economic nationalism address and telephone numbers, has insisted that every nation must 'each with its own button switch. possess

less self- WHERE IT WILL BE At the sufficient mercantile marine, and outrance to the Star "Ferry wharf where no natural demand"existed (Hong Kong side) where it will be for more ships, lavish subsidies seen by 90% of the tourists and have been poured out from the other visitors arriving at Hong Kong, public purse. Subsidies inflated besides the many thousands of tonnage far beyond the actual or residents who make daily use of the prospective requirements of Inter-MacLean, D.S.O., who has died at

busines".

precipitously, and further subsidies of his brother-in-law, Joan Oglivy WHAT IT WILL DO: Anyone kept the ships in commission. In of Inshewan, at the age of 58, was wishes to and the location of an the result there is about 50 per distinguished as a leader of dea- office, hotel, theatre, bank, shop or cent. more tonnage than in 1913 troyers during and after the war. "other business in Hong Kong He to carry a smaller volume of trade, He was the only surviving son

MacLean, whose "sons at distin-

Vice-Admiral C. K. Maclean

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Glasgow, Sept. 16. Vice-Admira: Colla Keuneth

DEATH OF FAMOUS COMPOSER

London, Oct. 6.

Sir Frederic Cowen, the noted compost and conductor, died here

to-day.- Heuter.

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he

best organized with a capacity-of 27,218 cuble meters dally. Work is well advanced on the new Asmars aqueduct which will supply 1,500. cubic meters daily; on three aque duets at Dogall; on pumping plants at Massawah and Cheren; and on a big cement cistern in the Bay. of Dakyat,

TECHNICIANS "

The presence of so many special- 1sts among 25,000 workmen in East

Tung-hi, was fined $50.. or, in de- 18-year-old student, Lat

Africa is explained by the technical nature of much of the plants in fault, two months hard labour, by Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon

course of erection. At Asmara 86 The greatest push of Italy's civit Kometers of automatic telephone. Magistracy yesterday, when tan labour corps is being made lines are being fald, 212 kilometara, pleaded guilty to having assaulted Eritrea. Concerning the port of of telephone air line have been an 18-year-old girl, Li Shek-ying. Massawaft, the sole outlet to the completed. 38 radio telegraphic at Tin Sum village. Kowloon City, sea of the colony equipped with stations and II electric-photo cir-

modern plant. many last Wednesday.

alarming cults set up. Page: 6.

stories of the chaotic conditions

It is known that Italy is concen- Arrested at the entrance of the reigning in the port have Been cut-trating a powerful air force in Star Ferry Wharf after they had velves admit that as a result of the ditional proof of this is to be found rent in Italy. The Italians them Eritrea and Somaliland, and ad attempted to rob a

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passenger

ticable roads into the interior, and

Perhaps

in the increased ground, facilities about to board a bus on the No. 1 nuge quantities of men and materi route, three unemployed men, Hot which were poured into it, which have been provided. Air- Ping-nam. 24, Chul Nui, 1, and certam amount of congestion did dromes have increased from three Choi Chuen, aged 17, were brought uur in Massawah. This was to nine and emergency landing before Mr. Macfadyen at the Cen- partly caused by the lack of prae- grounds from 10 to 26. tral Police "Court yesterday. thousands of men were pat t index of all this activity is to de the most Impressive charged with loitering with intent.

WOTK on road-making. To-day. Page 6.

seen in the increase of the metro- the hundreds of motor vehicles politan population of Eritrea which snipped from Italy are running has risen from 4,528 to over 55,000 with heavy loads over highways, (wirich includes the 25,000 odd where once it was impossible to workmen from Italy) in the st pass. Consequently, the unloadins six months of the year. capacity of the port has ren from 300 to 3,800 toms per day.

TRANSPORT PROBLÉM

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Star Ferry on their way to and from national trade. freight rates fell Auchletsh, by Forfar, the residence servatories of Leipzig and Berlin. defendant were jailed for aiding faced by the Italian authorities in execution provides for an increase

He accompanied Her Majesty's Орега, Philharmonic Concerts, 1888-1892, 1871-77, conducting the

was conductor of the Melbourne

Sentences of about ten month hard labour were imposed on an unemployed Chinese when he was convicted by Mr. E. I, Wynne-Jones the Kowloon Magistracy on

If the water problem was more urgent in Eritrea it was perhaps Born in Kingston, Jamaica, of charges. of entering a house and

more' dimcult to solve in. Somall- English parentage, he studied in escaping from police custody. It

The transport problem was one land. The programme of work London. under Bir Julius Benedict will be recalled that in connection and Sir John Goss, and at the con-

with this case two relatives of the of the most urgent that had to be drawn up and how in course of

and abetting the defendant to

Eritrea. It was Inadvisable to up to 100 cubic meters day of the allow the young conscripts to stay Mogadishu distillation plant, the escape,

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for long in the debilitating atmus- : construction of another plant with The story of how a servant stap- phere of the coast and they had double this capacity: the construe Centennial Exhibition, 1888-1889 bed his employers, Sanitary In- to be got as quickly as possible to tion of large water deposits near

spector and Mrs. G. H. Sherrif

the higher ground inland. In the Somaliland-Ethiopian, frontier

Halle, as conductor of the Mon-

and Bradford concerts, of

Magistracy yesterday, when before the

monic Society in. 1900. Manchester,

Mr. W. Liverpool.

Schofield," the servant, Philhar Chung Kwong, aged 46, was charg- He distinguished

ed with wounding them at No. 11 himself at musical festivals all

Bay View Mansions, Causeway Bay, Over the country until 1924. His oratorio.

Page 8 Ruth, is one of his best known works.

goes to the switchboard where he and about 6,000,000 tons, or about o: Major-General Charles Smith succeeded the late Sir Charles with a kitchen knife on Saturday January only some 260 motortrucks; portable distillation plants and and arranged laid up. Great Britain can in no guished themselves on active ser chester, Liverpool, Philharmonie morning, was told at the Ceritrar/ were in the colony. most of them water-carts capable of following

portant scale.

demand

CANTON-NANKING RELATIONS

unsuitable

for transport work troops in movement.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

In connection with the special floor, collapsed and died while celebrations in Canton on October; climbing up the bill near the Peak 10 and 11, the Kowloon-Canton Signal Station on Sunday." Railway will run extra express trains between Kowloon and Can-

the following times- ton on October 9, 10, 11 and 12 at

Up Train-Kowloon dep. 6.43

Canton afz. 10.05. p.m. Down Train. Canton dep

fnds the names of subscribers, one-tenth of the world total: are properly classified alphabetically. Be presses the ap- sense be held responsible for these vice. propriate button and the subscriber's developments, since her tonnage is name on the panel board immediately smaller than in 1913, and it is only cadet in July, 1890, and received He entered the Royal Navy as a lights up. At the same time, on the during the current year, under the his large street map, a coloured lamp

Drst independent command. will show the exact position of the pressure of immediate necessity, the destroyer Lee. at Chatham, in office or shap, etc., he is looking for, that she has resorted to the ex-september. 1903. and the quickest route will also be pedient of a subsidy on any im- From 1900 to 1909 he command- indicated by lighting up the road to

ed the gunboat Dwarf on the West be taken right the way from the Star In granting the £2,000,000 sub-Coast of Africa, Ferry to his destinati, Bus and sidy to tramp shipping the Govern-He was promoted to be comman execution of a well-laid scheme. tram routes will be shown by special ment laid down the condition that der'in 1910. During the next three coloured lamps Subscribers' names, British

He was at the bombardment 1 will be in Chinese as well as English deavour to secure a better adjust the Highflyer, flagship in the

ship-owners should en-years he was executive officer of Zeebrugge on May 11-12, 1917, and if desired, and an attendant will be ment of world carrying capacity to East Indies, and in November. received the DS.O.

of Ostend on June 4-5, 1917, and

Canton, Oct. 7.

A woman, Bing Chol, aged 32 stationed at the switchboard to give the

To show its goodwill towards

an amah al years, employed as assistance to strangers if required.

for freights. In pursuance of this stipulation an shire on the China Station.

1913, he joined the cruiser Hamp-

Canton, the Central Authorities From October, 1917; Captain in a telegram received here over

No. 94 Nathan Road, second floor. WHAT IT WILL COST: The International Shipping Conference

¡ is belleved to have committed aervice is free to the general public, was called at the beginning of the took part in the search for the mand he retained until the peace, not be submitted to the Fifth Kno P.m.; Kowloon, arr. 9.49 p.m.

After the war broke out she flotilla in HMS. Spenser, a com- the four South-west proposals can- Maclean commanded a destroyer the week-end stated that although

6.35 of the above address. She was suicide by jumping from the roof and only a nominal charge will be year, to which a proposal was sub- made to subscribers of $30 per year mitted that each nation shouldden in the Indian Ocean and and he was made a C.B. in Febr- mintang Congress in the name of

picked up alive and taken to the per names panel. This fee will in- make a pro rata contribution per in escorting the Australian convey

Kowloon Hospital, where she died." clude a free insertion of the sub.

The wedding is announced to the Central Executive Committee and then came home to join the scriber's name, address, particulars of

RETIRED IN 1932

they can be introduced in the intake place shortly of Mr. Joseph his business, agenies carried, etc. in The proposal does not seem to

Grand Fleet.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 In May, 1932, he was appointed dividual capacity of the Bouth-west Anderson Parrish. Executive Assis-hours ending at 10 am, to-day to PROMOTED CAPTAIN THE SILENT GUIDE DIREC-have been generally popular, and In June, 1918, Commander Mac- of Staff and Maintenance can send resolutions to the 'Congress. TORY" which will be published in an alternative plan has now beeh Lean

to H.M.S. Victor for duty as Chief leaders. Many representatives cantant of the Standard Vacuum-Oll talled 0.23-inch. The total since

Company, residing at 18. Peak January 1.78.43 inches, conjunction with the "Silent Guido"

was promoted to captain, I tain in the Portsmouth. Command. and which may be obtained from the advanced, whereby each country and a few months later he was

The National Government also Road, and Miss Cecilie Mary Cole- In September, 1924. "he attendant at the Star Ferry for ten would voluntarily lay up an agreed appointed for special

was urged the South-west to unite for man, of San Francisco, "en route" cents. The Directory will contain a proportion of its tonnage. By thus Dover.

service at selected for the command of the & common front and solidarity to the Colony by the President was reported to the Health Au- * small replics of the large illuminated sterilising some of the surplus it is

Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Fotillas. In reply the South-west leaders Hoover map for recording, with a pencil, say anticipated that the remainder sperations were being planned for a commodore. He was promoted the motions, in the name of the Combined -nava and military and hosted his broad pennant as state that they prefer to introduce

Mr. R. K. Stride, driver of. position or route located on the large would earn higher freights to the

a landing on the Belgian coast, to rearadmiral in July, 1927, and southerners are quite willing to to the police that while driving in Central Executive Committee. The private car No. 4475, has reported. map.

and Captain MacLean took charge for two years from October. 1928, cooperate with the Central au Castle Peak Road on Sunday he Union will hold its Annual Social launches which were to have laid Yangtse. THE "SILENT GUIDE" inven- tlon which appears eminently rea-of the training of the 90 motor was Benlor Naval Officer in the thorities for the sake of saving the knocked down a woman, Hul Fong Function in the form of a Dance

COTI towards the eliminating redundant

scheme

for tonnage.

common advantage. The sugges

uary, 1919.

February, 1932, a few months after his promotion to vice-admiral.

Vice-Admiral MacLean was

tion is the property of the Tell The sonable will probably be under World Publishing Co., Button consideration at another meeting House, Duddell Street, who will be of the Conference though recent huge screen of smoke to cover. He retired at his own regucat in pleased to reserve name panel apaces experience has shown the extreme the movements of the landing on application. Patents have been difficulty of securing international force." applied for, The installation, which agreement on anything especially His Instruction. In station-keep- is expected to take six weeks from at the present moment when the ing to this large flotilla and his made a C.V.O. in 1924 in recogni- the time when the names of intend- international political situation is working of the boats in divisions tion of his services as Chief of ing subscribers have been collected, so involved. Economic nationalism were highly commended by Ad- Stat at Portsmouth in organising is in the hands of Messrs. H W. is still in a militant mood; has it miral Sir Reginald Bacon, then In the Naval Review at Spithead Buckingham & Co., Tai Ping ret been suficiently chastened, by command of the Dover Patrol, and The French Government made Building

the consequences of its own tally it was a great disappointment him an Officer of the Legion of PUT YOURSELF ON THE MAP to listen to the behests of reason? when circumstances prevented the 1 Bonour for his work in the war,

country.

BRITISH AMBASSADOR ON TOUR

Bir

Pelping, October 7,

leaving early next week on a visit Alexander ... Cadogan ⠀⠀・ is

to Nanking and Shanghel Kleuter

Only one case of enteric fever

thorities for the 24 hours ended on October 6.

The Hong Kong University

6 years, who received alight In-on Saturday, October 12, 1935 at Juries to her face and lega. She 8.30 pm, in the Great Hall of the received treatment at the Kowloon University (by kind permission of Hospital. Mr. AT Edwards, the Vice Chancellor). Members driver of private car No. 3436, hag and Life Members are free-Quests reported that while driving along 1/- per head. Queen's Road, East, on Sunday, be collided with car No. 68. His car

help was slightly damaged,

The Ben Lines Bernevis" from Leith, Middlesbro'; Antwop,

London and Afraite left singapore

Chu 8xa-po, 56, married woman, for this port on October 6. and is residing at 30 Third Street, 2nd due to arrive there on Cetaber 12

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