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HONGKONG TRAMWAYS

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LIMITED

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY TEARLY GENERAL MEETING |

TRAMWAYS of HONGKONG LIMITED will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Jaryline, Matheson & Co, Ltd., Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 28th day of February, 1936, at 12 o'clock Neon, to transact the ordinary business of the Company.

AND NOTICE 18 HEREBY ALSO GIVE that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 18th to THURSDAY, the 27th February, 1936, both days inclusive:

By Urder of the Board,

"

W. F. SIMMONS,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 3rd February, 1936.

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION -

TOTICE il bereby given that the M°

Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corporation will be held at the Head Office of the Corporation, No. 1 Queen's Rond Central, Hong Kong, on Saturday,

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of shares

DEATHS

MORTON. On January 30, 1938, at the Shanghai'General Hos- pital, Albert Hedly Merton,

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Assistant

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years. Station Officer, Shanghai Fire Brigade, beloved husband of and the Mara M. Morton, youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Mortar, CORBETT.-On Tuesday, January 28, 1938, at the Great Western Nursing Home, Shanghai, Har- rlet Sutherland Corbett aged 16 years.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1936.

DEPRESSION IN | A.O.F.C. FRAUD

TIENTSIN

Chinese Stores Close Down

Tientsin. Feb. 3.

TRIAL ENDS

Raven And Brown Sent To Prison

If Gossip We Must

The races at Fanling on Sunday Shanghai, Feb. 3. Preliminary nóice of appeal were attended by a large trowd About 700 Chinese stores in the Native City have closed down against conviction and sentence in spite of the bad weather which was most inclement in Hong Kong

which re- during the past six weeks owing has been led by F. J. Raven and to unfavourable business condiJ. W. Brown, President and Mana- during the morning tions, despite measures being taken ser respectively of the A.O.F.C..mained perfectly fine at Fanling to assist the merchants with loans, who were sentenced to terms of all day which according & survey made by the imprisonment to-day on charges Many

arising out of the collapse of that company.

local Business Tax Ofte.

Never before in the history of Tientsin business circles have so many shops closed during such a

London Omce: 53, Fleet Street short period and it is evident that

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The Daily Press.

BONG KONG, FEBRUARY 4,"1936.

EGYPT'S TRAVEL

the hard times now prevailing are unprecedented, the Tax Office revealed.

Restaurants, cloth stores and imported general goods stores oc- cupy a major part of the stores which have failed and which are not making attempts to reopen by taking advantage of the loans

offered triem.

In former boom years the total revenue received by the Business Tax Om.ce amounted to over $200,000 a month, while at present It has dropped to about 840.000.-

aion News.

REDS THREATEN

KWETYANG

Force Of Fifty Thousand

The appeal, it carried through,

will go

to the Circuit Court of

Raven and Brown cannot be re-

not to

30 often occurs. of of the well-knowns Hong Kong were there and a large fald entered for the Ladies

race, the largest entry of the day.

Mrs. Seth Bimith was there with her small son Martin who seem-

(BY "DAWN")

Appeals in San Francisco. leased on bail until their appealsed to be enjoying the racing very much, Mrs. Harrison was smart are granted.

-In court

this morning Raven, a brown tweed sult, and so too when asked if he had any state was Mrs. Lovat Mrs. Clough Tay- ment to make before sentence was lor I thought particularly strik- pronounced, nervously fingering a ing and smart in all black and was there with her husband. Mrs.

there, and Mrs. McAvoy, alway: | looking forward to the next one plece of paper, said he had been

Gerald Portman was another at so cheerful was in a bottle green on February 16. advised by his attorney

locked charming. take the witness stand because of tractive person there, and favour-ensemble and

ed navy blue so too did Mrs.

Peacock blue was worn by Mrs. the state of his health. But he

wore a very 51art

Bnd had a statement which he wished | Kayl who

Singer

Mrs. Dowling short navy check coat. Mrs. Scott to read, he said.

added a gay touch of colour to thought very smart" in a the gathering with her 'cerise en- and white check suit, semble and hat to match, and at- tinson in bottle green and brown,, tractive Mrs. Cavanagh Mainwar- spent a lot of time with Bir Char- les Little, the is quite a new ar- ing in her green salt with a scar-

Mrs. Car- rival in Hong Kong. These who bet jumper and hat. rington Sykes favoured navy blue decided to stay away on account. and Mrs. Beevor was in grey and of the bad weather missed a very black. Pretty Mrs. Conway was enjoyable meeting and we

RAVEN'S STATEMENT In this statement he said, that Brown, during the first four days of the trial was inclined to be truthful, but on the last day he broke down completely, and he was so dazed and muddied he did not know what he was saying, and agreed to anything and everything the prosecution said, "regardless of the fact or truth,

"I have nothing further to say except that I never knowingly or Intentionally committed any of the breaches of law of which I have" been accused. This is the whole truth,"

During the past fourteen years the 22nd February, 1936, at 11.30 the relations between Great Britain am. for the purpose of receiving the and Egypt. have been regulated on Report of the Board of Directors-provisional basis-determined by.. of a unilateral declaration on the part together with a Statement

It is to the in-. Accounts for the year ending, Slat of Great Britain

terest of both parties that this December, 1935.

"I said Raven. "Brown will tell The Register of Shares of the system should be replaced by a Corporation will be closed from settlement at once bilateral and

Felping. Feb. 3. you the truth this morning he will Monday the 10th February to Satur-permanent. The factor which has

Red forces are now threatening say that under cross examination Kwelyang from three directions last Friday he made a mis-state day, the 22nd February, 1986, (both hitherto frustrated the achievement

north: days inclusive) during which period of such an objective has been not

east. north-east ment. be the 11-will of successive British in the Car transfer

A large force a? Governments but the mercurial and south-east. registered.

Siteng Afty five ccndition of Egyptian politics. It is Reds reached

miles in North Kweiyang and By Order of the Board of Directors.

Impossible to negotiate a treaty

threaten to .move southwards, V. M. GRAYBURN,

with Egypt unless Egypt. is first of "Chief Manager..a stable. Events during recent while others threaten from Kwei- weeks have only served to confirm ping, thirty miles east-north-east

miles As soon as the statement was Hong Kong, 3rd February, 1936,

from Lung and fifteen the impression of Egyptian in-

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stability. The control of affairs south-east..

However, Yunnan forces are re-nounced sentence on Raven, and the formulation of policy have

BROWN SILENT fallen a prey to immature and un-ported to have arrived at Kwel-

Brown was then asked if he had alsciplined mobs of rioting school yang to strengthen the capital

defences and

aeroplanes | anything to say." some

Standing erect boys and students. Political par-

have also arrived there.

and facing the court calmly he tles of the most various com-

"I have no- said emphatically:.. plexions.naye been intimidated by

thing to say.” these demonstrations into the

Raven and Brown were then formation of what is euphemisti-

conveyed to the Ward Road gaol, cally termed "United Front."

where they have been treated ex- had T

"Front"!

given

actly like all the other American some preliminary evidence of

prisoners there. The cells contain B sense of common respon-

baths, but paly cold showers. sibility for. the orderly con-

Reuter. duct of policy and administration might have deserved some title is immediate respect. But as far as can be seen it is nothing but an "ad hoc" combination for the pur- pose of extracting a treaty from

THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY; LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

NOT

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE THIRTY. EIGHTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF THIS COMPANY will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jandine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Wednesday, the 12th February, 1936, at NOON, for the purpose of receiv ing the Report of the Directors to gether with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1986.

The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from Monday, the 3rd February 1936 to Wednesday, the 12th February, 1986, both days inelusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors F. H. CEAPNELL,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 27th January, 1936.

this

Great Britain.

It cannot be too clearly under stood that his Majesty's Govern-

It is stated that the total Red forces number fifty thousand, half of whom are armed with rifles. Reuter.

SINKIANG-SOVIET RELATIONS

Зарашевс Reports

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Peiping, Feb. 3. The Sinkiang government has agreement with concluded Soviet Russia for £ loan of $50.000.000, a Japanese dispatch from Tientsin clained yesterday.

Under terms of the agreement, ment in Great Britain has never at any time intervened to prevent money received by the Soviet from or delay the mstallation of a Manchukuo as part of the pur- responsible and stable system of chase price of the Chinese Eastern The Railway will be transferred to Bin- self-government in Egypt. form of the Constitution is, and klang, and in accordance with the always has been, a matter solely wishes of the Soviet Union, Sin- for the Egyptians themselves to kiang will set about increasing its determine. If the Egyptians want armaments and developing means a treaty, their arst task is to of transportation, the correspon- cstablish a Government qualified dent asserts, attributing his in- to negotiate one. To clamour. for formation to "a report "received in a treaty Arst is merely to sidetrack reliable quarters." DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL the essential issue. And to choose

Incidental to the loan, a secret military for the clamour a moment when political, economic and

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P. O. Box 93. the fate of North-East Africa agreement was signed between the happens to be in the melting potwo governments, according to this HE New Term will Commence on is surely the crowning folly. Were source.

Egypt to-day lu enjoyment of 'nien News Monday, February 10th.

«Now Boys' Texts will be held on Saturday, February, 8th at 9 a.m

There will be a revised scale of

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MANCHUKUO-SOVIET BORDER CLASH

Moscow. Feb. 1. Another border clash

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between reported

in the light of the events now be- ing enacted on the far side of the Anglo-Egyptian frontier If, on the other hand, Egypt Fealises, as she must, that the British con- pection is the sole guarantee of Manchukuan troops

THE SENTENCES

Shanghai, Feb. 3. F. J. Raven. former President of the A.OF.C. charged with em- bezzlement and convicted on Sat-

imprisonment.

In

J. W. Brown, former manager of the AOFC was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on the same charges.- Reuter.

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greeti Mr. Ro-

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thirty-six packages of art très-

the Falace Museum sures from were shipped to Nanking from Pelping on Tuesday by train.

According to information re- leased in Nanking, the Chinese art. treasures now being exhibited in. London will not be sent to New The there. York for exhibition exhibition in Burlington House, will be concluded in March and the entire collection will be ship ped back to China for display in Nanking.

According to the National Flood Relief Commission report, Chinese Overseas remitted total of $800,000 for relief work during the year 1935.

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Mr. Elizabeth Alice Way who died at the Court Hotel, Tientsin left local estate sworn under at $5,000. An application by Herbert Castle Barlon Way, lawful atter- hey, for scaling the certiged copy of the will has been granted

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Mr. C. Gordon Mackie, former head of Messrs. Mackinnon and Mackenzie 'in Hong Kong, who retired early last year, is to pay a visit to the Colony. He booked"

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At the Hong Kong Hotel on Sa-.. turday there was quite a large the crowd to be found both in

first on the Roof Garden and

floor. The cabaret was held in always draw 'seems to

a large crowd. the Roo! Garden which

There were severa f the well- known faces to be found there, there but the majority of people zeemed to be strangers

NEWS SUMMARY

Heavy sentences were imposed on two, men who appeared on re- aiand before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy yesterday, on a charge of larceny from the Page 8. person and receiving.

The C.A.AFA have selected 30 players to take part in the football trials in Hong Kong in order to select a Chinese team for the Olympic games. The names of local players have been included.

Page 10,

Four men, so Ping Sang. 32 un-

by the Corfu which left London on employed mason, Keung Hot Ham,

January 17:

25, coolle, Cheung Chiu, 34, road maker, and Kwok Kat Fat, 28, The total rainfall registered· at

Cement worker, appeared on re- the Botanic Gardens during Janu-mand before Mr. Macfadyen at the ary was 0.7inch. There were 26, days when no tall was recorded.

The schedule for the 1936 Flower and Vegetable Show has been issued. The show takes place on Thursday, March 5.

The new motor highway linking Tientsin and Factingfu, seat of the Hope provincial government, has been completed. The road is 470 Two

cises

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of Diphtheria, one

Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on A charge of assaulting a motor car. painter named Wong Yau Cheung, and were again remanded for two Page: 8. days.

In connection with an armed robbery which took place at a cowshed, at No. 12 Diamond Hill, Kowloon, on the morning of the December last, Tsang Kan wis brought before Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday and charged with armed robbery. Page 11

urday was to-day" sentenced kliometres in length and is re- case of Enteric Fever, one case of the American Court to five yearsgarded as one of the best examples Cerebro-Spinal Fever were report- of road construction in North eo to the Health Authorities for China.

the 24 hours ended on Sunday.

"The Belgian Consulate at Harbin An ancient clay lug containing 500 silver coins has been unearth is to be transferred to Mukden:- .M. Paul Nagglar has been ap en by workmen excavating for an extension to Moscow's under-pointed French Minister to China |0 ground railway. The coins, mint-as from December 18, 1835. ed in the seventeenth century, are believed to have been hidden dur- ing a revolt against Peter the Great

ASSASSINATION FEARS DISPELLED

M. Charles Lepissler, French Consul in Tientsin has returned to Tientsin from home leave.

The funeral of the late Mrs. E. Murphy, proprietress of the Empress Lodge, Kowloon who died at her residence yesterday morn- ing, took place at the Coloniał Cemetery, Happy Valley yesterday Page 6. evening.

Pelping, Feb. 3.

M. R. Blondeau, French Consul Fears entertained for the safety

in Shanghal, returned from leave

At the annual meeting of the of Mr... Wu Had-lin, a member of

ir France on December 31. the Mongollin-Tibetan Affairs To enable Tibetans to get a

Don Juste Garrido y Cisneros, Hong Kong Telephone Co., Ltd. a Bureau and Pailingmian Council, better knowledge of affairs of the

Spanish Minister to China, return dividend of 4 per cent. will be re- commended by the directors. Over assassinated Central Government, and other

f from leave on December 12. who was reported near Chang Pel a few days ago,toreign events, the Central Radio

Mr. T. E. Lacazo has been regis-million dollar profit was shown appear to be dissolving.

Station in Nanking will broadcast tered provisionally as Honorars in the working account of the last a weekly report in Tibetan The Consul for Guatemala at Hongyear. Arst broadcast. will commence on February 2 and will be repeated every Sunday evening,

A telegram has arrived from him, having been delayed three days. It is believed Mr. Wu is staying at Teb Wang's palace in Pankiang. Reuter

PEIPING PAYMENT TO":

EAST HOPEI

her integrity, what is the sense of from headquarters of the Soviet

Tientsin, Feb. 3. roting about the precise terms of Far Eastern army. Two Manchu-

The Pelping Railway Adminis- the connection amid so mencengkuan "companies approached the an emergency as this? It Nahas border on February 1 and. sent a tration is paying the East Hopes Pasha were to azord some palp-patrol into Soviet territory which Autonomous Government the sum able proofs of statemanlike capa was driven away by the firing of of $100,000 per month as protection elty, instead of inflaming the border guards. One Manchukuan minds of Cairo schoolboys he soldier was left dead.-

would render the path of accom-euter. modation much easier both for Egypt and for Great Britain, Order must begin somewhere before it 11 possible to discuss the rednements of liberty.

MOTOR ACCIDENT

MANCHUKUO MUTINY ALLEGATION

Hsingking, Feb. 3.0 The allegation that Soviet in- fluence were behind the mutiny of Manchukuo soldiers, reported by Reuter yesterday: is made in a communique issued by the Kwan- A motor accident occurred on tung Army headquarters to-day. the Wanchal Road shortly after 7 The ecmmunique states that a p.m. last night when a young hundred mutineers were command Chinese gizi was knocked down by ed by a ccore of mounted Sores In the fighting which ensued ten Japanese soldiers and two mutin- eers were killed and many, on both

de were wounded Berter

a motor car No. 3676 and sustained officers, minor injuries to her face and leg. She was immediately removed 10 the Government Civil Hospital and 16 was learned later that her in Juries were not serious.

money, it was stated yesterday by Lieut-Colonel Y. Ishii, Staff Officer of the local Japanese Garrison.

In return for this sum. Yin, agrees not to molest the railway revenues or interfere with "trafic on the line inside his territory, it was stated

Inior, News,

GENERAL SUNG IN HIS NATIVE DISTRICT,

Kong.

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Herr Hermann Kriebel, Germat Consul-General in Changhai, re- BOXER INDEMNITY FUND

turned from Germany on Decem-

Mr. John Littell, US Consul in Shanghai, has been assigned to the position of U.S. Consul at Kingston, Jamaica.

·!! Letters of Administration have ber 12.

Abdul Kadir been

granted to Rahumad, husband of Mrs, Eva Rahumad alias Fatima Rahumad Ella Eva Fatoma Rahamad who died intestate on December 11, at No. 118, Caine Road (2nd floor): sworn under at The estate was $2,900.

DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY

IN FRANCE

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M. C. Crepin. Acting French Con- an in Tientsin, has left Tientsin to return to his former post of Connil in Mukden.

GOOD NEWS FOR NANKING

Shanghai, Feb. 3.

Nanking Jan. 1. The 38th meeting of the Board of Trustees for the administration of the British Boxer: Indemnity Refund was held here under the chairmanship of Dr. Chu Chla hua, Chairman of the Board,

Among those present were Messrs. Calder-Marshall. T. K Tseng. J. Heng Lu and Chen Chi-

With regard to the application of the Kwangtung Provincial Government for a loan for the exploitation or a coal mine at Mr. Hsu Chung Chin, Vice-Pre- Yunkong, it was decided to grant sident of the Examination Yuan, the application on the following Paris, Feb. 2000)

arrived this morning aboard the onditions; Sunday was a busy diplomatic Jetterson from Hong Kong, and (1) That an investigat un be day in Paris, conversations begun declared that Mr. He Han-min was conducted regarding the quality on Saturday being unremittedly definitely going to Nanking but and quantity of the coal deposits continued,

that no date had been decided on and the security to be offered landin had a

for the loan Foreign Minister

Reuter,

(2) That the proposal for the conversation of 14 hours with the

construction of a branch railway Roumanian Foreign Minister Titu lesen. both statemen afterwards bere, who arrived here on Bunday to the mines be approved by me

For Monday Flandin has an ap-Farther additions to the gallery together visitlus King Carol will have a conversation with him. Ministry of Rallways.

Government Boris of Bulgaria, Frince Parl now assembled in Paris, were King Yugoslavia and the Roumanian of the branch railway Minister of Finance, Antonescu nitial administration Transocean News Service...

Union News

Tainan, Feb. 3, General Bung Chen-yuan arrived at his native district near the Shantung and Hopel border on Jan. 81, and was cordially greeted

ters for by the magistrate of the district,pointment with the Türkish and

General Sung scheduled to Hungarian Foreign Min

Mon, while on Tuesday. stay for a few days before return discussions on the Danub ing to the Northe

day Prince Rued ger von Ster Central Neus,

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by the Kwangtung Provificial