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Berlin, Jan. 26.
will be held at the Office of Messrs.graphic Messager Ordinancs. 183-0 Jandine, Matheson & Co., Ltd, on Deceived, January 26, 70p.m.) Wednesday, the 12th February, 1936, at NOON, for the purpose of receiv ing the Report of the Directors to gethor with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December,
1935.
The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from Monday, the 3rd February 1936, to Wednesday, the 12th February, 1936, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 27th January, 1936.
The Immense 18-ton bell that will tóll to announce all important events of the Olympic games when next August and
held in Berl'n
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1936.
BIRTH
CHOLLOT.-On January 30, 1936.
at the Hospital Ste. Marie. Shanghai to Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Chollot, a son, Marc.
NEWS FROM HANGCHOW
Hangchow.
Amidst numerous hardships, ban- ditry, floods, epidemics, topogra
Editorial and Business Office: 11phical difficulties the Nanchang-
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Ediger (Wanenal Office):
Tel, 24511.
Yushan Section of the Chekian. Klangsi Rallway was formally de clared completed on January 7 marking another big stride in the inland London Office: 53. Fleet Street, development of China's
E.C. 4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KUNG, JANUARY £. 1936.
GOOD RESOLUTIONS
communications,
While tramc will be opened be ginning Jan. 10, a ceremony, it is karned, will be held at Nanchang January 15 to celebrate the com- pletion of the line.
FUNERAL OF LATE KING ON TUESDAY
Service To Be Broadcast
From Daventry
GREAT DEMAND FOR SEATS
"London, January 25.
The BBC announces that the funeral service for King George will be relayed from St. George's Chapel, "Windsor, and will be - broadcast from the Empire Station, Daventry, between 1.15 pm. and 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Descriptive broadcasts of the funeral service will also be relayed from Westminster Hall and St. James Palace between 3.30 am. and 10.45 a.m.
The Cheklang-Kiangsi Railway s really an extension of the Hang- chow-Kiangshan Railway, the con struction of which has been run. sidered a singular feat in the bls. tory of Chinese railway develop- ment, as it was totally built by Chinese labour and with Chinese private capital. The project for the extension of the Hangchow- Kiangshan Railway from Yushan to Nanchang to link up the two provinces of Cheklang and Kiang si" was formulated in early 1935 jointly by the Ministry of Railways,
A. Royal dinner party has been end the Cheklang and Klangsi Provincial Governments, Construc-arranged at Buckingham Palace en Monday at which the King wil tion work was formally started in
entertain the foreign monarchs July in that year.
and heads of the foreign delega- t'ons attending the funeral.
A thousand seats to view the Royal funeral, are being sold at prices varying from two to ten guineas. The demand is described as much greater than even on Jubilee Day. A hun- "dred foreign visitors are among the seat buyers. All post offices will be closed and there will be no letters, deliveries or collec- flon between 930 m. and 2 p.m. on Tuesday,
It has become almost the fashion to disparage, or even to deride, the making of good resolutions for the opening of another year. That may be partly the result of the modern pose of taking even serious things lightheartedly, partly the distortion of a real reluctance to make any display of deeper feel- Great hardships were encounter ing. The scoffer sometimes overed by the railway authorities in leaps himself· by proclaiming the survey and construction of the paradoxically his resolve to make Nanchang-Yushan Section. It nu resolution for the New Year. was said that during the period Just so people who are secretly from May to August in 1934, when Half afraid that there may be Klangsi was still in the grip of something In the superstition, communist banditry, the engineer which they deprecate seek courage ing corps carried out, their survey in deliberately spilling the salt and work in disguise, but were still in- in going out of their way to walk terrupted on several occasions. under a ladder. And yet, when all is said and done, every one of us feels in his heart that a New Year Is a new starting point. There is
new
future aim.
BANDIT OUTRAGES
Following the trail of the food disaster coldemics broke out last autumn. Work was almost halted when about 80 per cent. of the workers fell sick, while upwards of
month.
Was
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ANOTHER MUD BATTLE
Hong Kong Beats
Chinese
Shanghai, Jan. 26. The Hong Kong football team beat the Shanghai Chinese by three goals to one.
It was another mud battle. The first half was scoreless although Shanghai Chinese missed numer ous opportunities.
Hong Kong opened the scoring. In the sixtieth minate with Lee Wai. Tong netting from a rentre from Bickford,
Eight minutes later Lee Wal Tong capped a brilliant solo effort with a glorious goal, and then Talbot natced with a first timer when he received from Gosano.
Shanghai reduced the lead, Suen netting five minutes from the end. Bliss, Wong Mei-shung and Hill replaced Leung Wing Chul, Eeltrao
The Admiralty has arranged for į The Ambassador in London. Sig-and"Leonard- a destroyer escort to meet at the nor Grand, represents the Gay- | Reuter.
Royalties and heads of the States
attending the funeral.
ernment.
Mr. Norman Davis, chief Amer-
ican delegate to the London Na- val Conference, will represent the United States at the funera the late King.
(Earlier results on page 10)
of came into the possession of the Government when the Bank's new site was purchased.
Chica will be represented at the King's funeral by the Chinese Minister, while Prince Chula Cha-
Two fatal accidents occurred 'ai
The King left London to spend the week-end quiety at h's prikabongse, nephew of the former the Colony on Saturday. The first
was at Kennedy Town when vate residence in Fort Belvedere, King of Siam, will represent Biam.
It is announced that Prince | Chinese lad. Lum Yan-wah, aged Sunningdale. Berkshire...
killed by Bus No. 606 The whole of the First Guards Frederick of Prussia, the youngest was Brigade at Aldershot, comprising of the ex-Kaiser. will repre- shortly after 1.30. It appears
sent the Hohenzollerns At the that the Coldstreams.
boy was playing with battalion each of
and
funeral of King George, and that some others under the verandah West Scots, Queen's Royal
M. Litvinoff will head the Soviet and ran into the roadway in front Yorks are coming to London on
delegation.- Monday for funeral duty. "and a
of the bus... Reuter. of detachment of all regiments which King George was" Ca'onel-
Chie: will participate in
"ufer.
the
The other occurred at Causeway ÄT WESTMINSTER HALL
Bay, near the terminus of the No. London, Jan. 25." 5 bus route. A Chinese female.. Yesterday and to-day thousands Mak H. whe had been worship- visited Westminster Hall to payping at the Tin Hau Temple, was SIMPLE SERVICE
their last respects to the late struck by the rear of bus 024 as
killed out it was
turning and monarch. Landon, Jan. 25.
The crowds
reaching the right. The arrangements have prac-
steps of the Hall formed queens tically been competed
Tues- The Royal train day's tuneral.
Windsor
12.15
arrive at m., and the gun-carriage will be drawn by bluejackets from nation.
at
the
route.
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the door
Hits
the
Peiping's population has passed
the 1,500,000 mark, according to the latest official census. The in- crease this year is largely due to the unsettled conditions around the city.
t
In the course of the construc- tion of the section there had been a cloud of witnesses to that effect. less than ten bandit outrages.rocession
built by the en- New calendars must be installed: Block-bouSUR
new account-gineering corps to protect them- diaries and books must be begun; letters and selves were demolished by the cheques must forget the old figure bandits, and on one occasion more and laboriously learn to put on than 100 railway guards, workers the new. However reluctant the and engineers were killed
o sixes and eights and marched Mrs. M. E. de Souza Remedios strong-minded objector may be to But banditry was not the anty
up the steps to
when Proprietress of the Kowloon Nur
with acknowledges acknowledge It. the New Year obstacle to the construction of the
June great
floods
they divided into two single les sing "Hom #brusts its
his section. Lust newness upon
walking past the tatara'que,
grateful thanks a handsome do- attention until after a period caused by torrential rains und
The scene in the interior of the nation in money from Mr. R. V. often lamentably brief, it has mountain freshets swept over the
The King, the Royal Princes and Hall was most solemm and impres-Couto of Kone. Japan. flattended out into the feature-line and wrought enormous havoc. lessness of any old year of them Many sections of the newly-com-foreign monarchs will walk imme-sive and the silence almost eerie,
by
As the mourners pused out al-. the
Owing to the Funeral cf all. In that opening spell no one pleted roadbed as well as many diately behind, followed
bead
Majesty
George V. King Queen and the other indies in most everyone turned his need feel shame or scruple in bridges were destroyed.
for a last look on the scene which special children's cinema show in come the treating the New Year as what it
Impressed their minds for the rest aid of St. John's Ambulance) ar- landaus, and then will- really is, an arbitrary but none
detachments from the three ser-
ranged for Tuesday, next will be the less outstanding opportunity
vlees. About 3,000 troops wil par- of their lives.
postponed until Friday, January for a fresh start, based not or any
ticipate, including over 1.000 Foot Reuters Bulletin Sercien.
IILGRIMAGE TO HÅLL
31 at the same time. which reached Berlin on Saturday ignoring of what has gone before,
Guards lining the mile and a hat,
London, Jan. 24. morning after being transported by but on a clear-eyed recognition of 1.000 died of contagious diseases.
The simple service 'at St. The Duke and Duchess of York easy stages on specially construct-old errors and past shortcomings But in spite of all these hard-
George's Chapel includes the paid a visit to Westminster Hall ed motor lorries from the foundry ond directed to the correction of ships construction- pushed in Bochum-Ruhr where the cast
ahead steadily, until the whole King's favourite hymn "Abide with at 5.30 p.m. yesterday and walked was formally handed over to the
That is all well, the cynic will section was completed early this me The Dean of Windsor will round the catafalque. By 7 p.m. read the Lesson, and the Arch-102,000 people had passed through German Olympic committee on still say: but in a week, or less,
The section measures a total dis-bishop of Canterbury assisted by the Hall.
Admissions to the Hall on Satur- the good resolutions will have Sunday forenoon at 11.30 a.m. pre-
take day totaled 150,770, making a total (4155 Paratory to
being hung in the tone the way of their predecessors tance of 382 kilometers, Starting the Archbishop of York and the
Mr. W. B. Walters of the Chi the service."
for the two days of 31,702. When Fuerer Tower" is now
under and the young year will already from Nanchang, it passes through Bishop of Winchester, will
Company. Ltd., Lentang, Liangchiatu, Wenchia-
TWO MINUTES' SILENCE
the doors were closed shortly after Tung Tobacco construction on the Reichs sportbe old in failure and disappoint- fe.ds where
midnight another queue began to Mukden, who has been seriously ill been Two minutes alience has the Olympic games ment. Candour cannot deny that chuen. Chinhsien, Hslafuchi, Teng-
form for the reopening at 8 am. with pneumonia at the PUM.C., will be held.
that may be so, but "dear Brutuschtafu, Yingtan, Kuelchi, Hotanfu.
Jengfeng, Fantoling. fixed for 1.30 p.m. in London on
The national pilgrimage was' so Peiping, is recovering. Mrs. Wai- Is at hand with his medicine of flyang, At the ceremony which attended
and Tuesday.... Shangyao, Lingchi, Shachi that falling common-sense 10%
great, that the authorities decided ters has arrived to be with her he handing over of the bell on sickness. The New Year is not to Yushan where it links with the The prayers in the special Or-
that to-day's queue should not close husband. Sunday, Secretary of State, Dr.
Hangchow-Klangshan Railway. blame for fallure to use it properly
der of Service for the commem- until 1 p.m. on Monday.— Lewald, pres.dent of the organisa-
The notable products along the aration of King George, issued by Reuter.
Word, has been received in Pef- 25 a fresh starting-point. Fault
section include paper, beans, cloths special command for use in all
Roy tion
ping announcing that Dr. and correction lie not in the op- Olympic games in Berlin in 1936, portunity but in the user of it. In in Shangyao. rice in Yiyang and churches, refer to the Queen as
Chapman Andrews, the explorer, Berlin, Jan, ‘26.
and his wife are sailing for China complimented and cordially thank-that recognition Hes the effective Kueichl, Overrun by communis-"Mary, the Queen Mother."
Chancellor Hitler will attend a ed Bochumer Verien for the gener- 'counter
bandits in recent years the various
in the 5.8. Empress of Japan on FOREIGN DELEGATES
memorial service to King George
bell-casters' art and recalled thaɛ
The following will represent the at the English church in Berlin April 4 and expect to arrive in come poor and devastated, but it ment on the New Year and is expected that the opening of Italian armed forces at the fun-
on Tuesday at which over two Felping on May 1. The Andrews'
are taking the house of Colonel: thirty-two years ago
was good resolutions. The man who Bochumer Verlen that had sup-
of Germany's leading and Mrs. Isaac Newell and intend- railway traffic will eventually bringeral of King George; Army: Gen-hundred has greatly resolved and quickly about economic recovery"
erar Grazioll; Navy: Admiral Can- officials will be present-
ed to be in Pelping for about two A city of dwarfs has just been plled,, three magnificent bells for falled is apt to distort and magnify he world exhibition at St. Louis the consequences of his early dis-
THROUGH TRAFFIC
tu Air Force: General Pellegrini.. Reuter's Bulletan Service.
months. discovered at Liteh and Wuchang near the railway between Hailar and which now are still in service comfiture. Falling into the tem- Already, the railway authorities and Harbin, according to a travell-In noted American churches, the poral "trap, he reflects gloomily have outlined a general plan of or who anived in Shanhaikuan,peaker hav ng as Reich Commis-that he must now wait a whole the economic development of the reports the Peiping "Chenpao." sloner, inaugurated them in St. year for the chance to redeem | section. It is understood that
this community there
himself. But it is for him to say passenger fares and freight rates are Louls Exhibition. around 800 men and women all Lewald declared that the tact
whether he will be the slave or have been fixed at the lowest«, under three feet in height and the that every German knows Schll-the master of time. New Year's possible. The third class fare from most extraordinary thing le. that fler's famous "Song of the Bell" in-Day may be a spectacular occasion Nanchang to Yushän is only $4.80,
According to a Police report its side, throwing the driver and the Empress Dowager, Princes and the women are on the whole dicated that as a nation Germans for the renewal of resolve, but it and from Nanchang to Hangehow issued on Saturday, Mr. J. Cooper, the rour occupants heavily on to Princesses of the Blood and com- sightly taller than the men.
The had always felt deep amnity for has no monopoly. In the essential | $10.
were i positions average freight per aged 54. quartermasser on board the road. The passengers cording to the traveller, these the nature of cells in which Ger- of opportunity every other day is metric ton kilometer has been fixed the s.s. Rajputana, was admitted taken to
the Government Civil thousands submitted by civilians dwarts are half civilized and dis- many has special symbolisation. a keen competitor. Ancient philo- between $0.17 and $0.59.
to the Government Civil Hospital Hospital but were not detained throughout the land were read on like to associate with people from The place reserved for the hang-sophy was insistent that virtue is To facilitate through traffic beat about 11:20 am, as the result A female with a scalp wound was the occasion.
ing of this bell, said the speaker, not a prize carried by assault, in tween this section of the Chektang or injuries sustained in a fall when the most hurt. The car was badiy have no culture of their om and is unique in the world and could che grand spasm of endeavour, Kingst Hallway and other railways the vessel was in Yokohama about damaged and one of its tyren
not be worthier-none that combat a disposition of heart and pine stations, including Nanchang two weeks ago. It is said that Mr. burst.
mind built up by the slow accre North, Nanchang South. Lenting. Cooper's injuria are considered; tion of rightly directed, If sing-Wenchiachuen, Tunghsiang, Ying- serious.
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committee of the eleventh
to the disparagement
13935ous gift of this masterpiece of the poured by unreasoning disappoint-districts along the 'section.have be-
Ac-
other parts of the country. They
look with suspicion on any thing
that is "modern" The railway mands more respect.- physician has selected thirty of Transocean Kuo Miù. these dwarfs for study at Harbin These "short people" are of the same race as the "giant' “Man- churians and it is believed that they have Been dwarfed owing to
the peculiar drinking water which is said to contain much fron.
A mural tablet to the memory of
Miss Fanny Davies, the pianist,
y inconsiderable, thoughts and tan, Kucichi, Yiyang, and Shang- deeds. The man who goes down yao have been designated as in early defeat with his New Year through 'traffic stationa.
resolutions has every other day of. Meanwhile, business offices will A woman "Bluebeard," who the year to fight in. In this, as he established by the railway ad- made off with the fortunes of her in everything else, "il faut recom- ministration at various big stations
si
7
BERLIN SERVICE
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell turned to the Colony by the
"Rajputana,"
مینه
The time-honoured Imperial Poem Party was held yesterday morning in the Phoenix Hall of the Imperial Palace of Japan in the presence of Emperor Hirohito. Poems written by Their Majesties,
selected from among
The "foreign woman who last week returned $200 to Dr, H. H Rung, Minister of Finance, for the
The Iorthcoming wedding to un-"free trips" which she had taken: nounced of Capt. Willam James on Government railways through re- Fennel, R. A. Mess, Kowloon, and Dasses" given her by friends, is a SA Miss Cynthia Maud Allen, residing Chinese, and a fiative of Shantung. at No. 8 Homuntin Hill, Kow.com She is Miss Lee La-chieh who was boru ond educated in America, but The section of the old City Hall 15 of Chinese parentage reports
do evangelistic work in the city, st Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor-resigned from Ginling College to poration during the erection
ed
of
Among local residents who feft nine "wives," has been arrested in mencer chaque jour." The right along the section to facilitate raftor Home by the "Rajputana" on which was occupied by the Hong the "China Times." She recently Kadlevka, Russia, and charged approach to the New Year lles, as way business. Co-operative so- with swinding. The police state usual, along the middle way. The cieties for the transportation and Saturday last were, Mr. and Mrs. that the woman, Anna Zavarikina, thoughtful man will neither des- distribution of the products along AV Baker, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. dressed as a man and paid court pise the occasion for the renewal the line will be organized under Origgs, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mycock, its new building is to be demo ish-
Dr, and Mrs. Carl E. Nurnberger was unveiled in Queen's Hall last to her victims. iramediately after of resolve nor despair if resolu- the joint sponsorship of the rail- and their sons,
Tenders for the demot on are have arrived In Pelping. Dr. month by the Rev. Pat McCormick, each wedding" Anna made her tions made are all too quickly way administration, the Co-opera-ANNA
Unable to overtake pubic car now being invited and will be re- Nurnberger, has come to join the "bride" drunk and escaped with broken. He may still fall back on tive Commission of the National all the money she had. Then she hle reserves, and find in the events Economie Council, and various No. 755 near Aberdeen on satur-ceived at the Colonial Secretary's Department of Radiology of the a written reply to Colonel would change back into her wo and claims of ordinary days, an banks. Special attention will be day at about 2 pm., the driver of Office intil noon on Monday, FUM.O. in the place of Dr. M. M MD Willams, who left during the Cruddas, the Secretary of State for man's clothing, thus making de- unfalling supply of opportunity for given to the transportation and public-car No. 100 then endeavour February 3, War, states that the issue of the tection by the police difficult, repairing and strengthening the distribution of Klangel rice and ed to get back to his side of the Tenders are also be'ng invited summer. Dr. Williams is now with road and in doing swerved too for the demolition of the Bank the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, new light machine-gun to British Doctors state that she is physical-good will which is the mainspring Cheklang salt
ly normal..
abruptly. The car turned over or House, St. John's Place, which Minnesota of endeavour.
Central News Agency. infantry will begin in 1937.
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