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THE RAPE AUSTRALIAN GOLD, HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI MINING COMPANY, LIMITED. !

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(INCORPORATED IN VEENGLAND).

BANKING CORPORATION

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THE Final Dividend declared for the Year ending Slut NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF December, 1985, at the rate of Thres INTERIM DIVIDEND. Pounds. Sterling at exchange 1/8 5/8 is payable on and after the 24th February, 1986, at the Offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants,

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TOTICE is hereby given that a Third Interim Dividend" of Four Peace per hure on account of the financial year ending 31st March, 1930, has been declared by the Directors of the Company in Bris baze, payable to Shareholders on the

By Order of the Board of Directors.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager.

Registers at Brisbane and Singapore Hong Kong, 22nd February, 1936. on Saturday, 14th, March, 1936.

NOTICE is also "hereby given that the Singapore Transfer Registers will be closed from Monday, 9th Marek, "to Saturday, 14th March. 1946 (both days inclusive), for the preparation of Dividend Warrants.

By Order of the Board.

DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants, Local Secretaries.

Hong Kong Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE, 15th February, 1936.

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NOTICE.

THE Stock Exchange will be Closed Τ

at 12 Nom on the 24th, 25th and 26th inst Race Days.

By Order of the Committee, VIVIAN.BENJAMIN,

Secretary.

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HONGKONG TRAMWAYS

LIMITED

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEY N

ORDINARN that the YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of HONGKONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co, Ltd., Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 28th day of February, 1936, at 12 o'clock Noon, to transact the ordinary business of the Company

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Tompany will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 18th to THURSDAY, the 27th February, 1936, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

W. F. SIMMONS,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 3rd February, 1936.

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC

CO., LTD.

NOTICE is hereby given

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THE HONG KONG

JOCKEY CLUB.

ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1936. 22ND, 24TH, 25th, 26th and 29TH,

FEBRUARY, 1936.

Saturday 2nd, Monday 24th, Tuesday 25th, and Wednesday 26th February, the first bell will be rung at 11a.m., and the first race will be run at 11.30 a zs. On Satur- day, 29th February, the first bell will berung at 1.30 p.m., and the first race will be run at 3.00 p.m.

The tiffin interval will be taken after the fifth race on the first four days.

MEMBERS BADGES AND

ENCLOSURE.

Members are reminded that they and their Ladies MUST wear their Badges, prominently displayed throughout the Meeting.

No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Members Enclosure, Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day including tax-or. $40.00 including tax for the Meeting (Ladies 35.00 and $20.00 respectively) are obtainable through the SECRETARY upeo introduc tion by a Member, such Tember to be responsible for all Chits, etc.

Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1936.

DEATHS

ULF-HANSEN-On February 17, 1986, at the Faber Kranken- haus, Tsingtao, Zlatta Alex- Androvna UK-Hansen (nee Kousnetzova), beloved wife of Mr. U. U-Hansen.

SILVA-On Tuesday, February 18, 1936, at the Bhanghal General Hospital, Augusta Maria Das Caldas e Silva, aged 73 years.

Editorial and Business Omce: 11

Ice House Street. Tel 30251. "Night Editor (Wanchst Office):

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OBITUARY

Mr. W. Adamson

LIT

held

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JAPAN'S RELATIONS

WITH CHINA

South-west Leader's Views

Canton, Feb. 24,

Genera! Iwane Matsul and

London, Feb. 23. The death has occured 01 Mr. wiliam Adamson. well-known Labourite, who was formerly Sec- retary for Scotland, having this ministerial position Labour Governments in 1924 1 1929-31. He had latterly been General Secretary of the Fife, Kinross and Clackmannan "Miners Association. He was the first min- er member of Parliament,

Mr.Adamson, who was born in 1863, was a native of Halbeath. Fife. He entered the mines at the early age of eleven years.

In 1890 he was appointed a de- legate to represent the branches IPS of Halbeath and Kingseat of the

Fute and Kinross Miners Associa tion. Subsequently he was elected v ce-president of the Association. during the tenure of which post-

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 25, 1936.

THE SENSE OF TAKING "PART

can

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when

foundes

Justice is needed in dealing with China. Japanese mi itary force of the Pan-Asiatic Federation, left may oppress China for a while but here to-day at 9 am, "for Nanking will certainly fat in the long run. aboard the Sunson monoplane of There are many dangers urking the South-west Aviation Corpora- in the path of Japanese aggression tion.

in China..

Numerous flaws in his federation and in the three-point programme of Mr. Koki Hirota, Japanese For- eign Minister, were brought out by Mr. Hsiao Fu-chen, grand o'd man of the Kuomintang, when he was Interviewed by General Matsui Festerday according to a state- ment of Mr. Hsiao as told to the Enton News this afternoon.

Criticizing the two plans as un-

War will not benefit. Japan, as the victors in the Great War are still suffering from depression.

NEWS SUMMARY

The disastrous collapse of houses. at Yaumati - way recalled at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, unemployed, when Lam So. 32, "was brought before Mr. Macfadyen, charged with the theft of 24 picces of clothing, a pair of vases and a wooden ornament, and with illegal pawning.

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Cheng Ha-yee, a mechante, was fined $50, in default six weeks' hard labour, by Ma W. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy yester- day, on a charge of possession of fix sharpened steel Instruments f for an unlawful purpose in Main Street, Shaukiwan,

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Mr. Hirota's polley asks China

Li Fuk. unemployed, appeared not to rely on any other power before Mr. W. Schofield, at the except Japan. There is no such

Central Magistracy precedent in international rela- charged with the theft of 5 Knit- yesterday,

ting machines and 2 electric machines.

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posed:

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tions. In desperation, China would seek support from anywhere. A drowning man will catch any straw and does not necessarily tion he acted for a few months as { acceptable to the Chinese peop❘ ask help from

The possession of 318 counterfeit the -man who interim president, In 1902 he was Mr. Hsiao conveyed observations

Hong Kong ten-cent pieces of the pushes him into the water. appointed assistant secretary of it: General Matsui as follows:

1935 issue was admitted by The Yu- the Association, and in 1908 Mr. In allegedly championing the Recognition of Manchukuo byuk, 22, unemployed, when he ap-

Pan-Asiatic movement. Japan up- Adamson was elected to take over

China is impossible. China and peared before Mr. 8. §. Balfour at the full reins of office.

sets the peace of the Far East. Dr., Japan cannot remain friends the Central Magistracy yesterday. It was in 1910 that Mr Adamson 8an also advocated Pan-Asiatic when Japan has seized Manchuria Five months' hard labour was im-

the movement but on the principle at and Jehol Democatic leaders

study first came prominently into

he "love thy neighbour." peace and

Sino-Japanese suppression of with profit a method recently de- Parliamentary vised and utilized by Soviet Rus-contested the West Fife constitu-good-will, while Japan is pursuing Communists, means that China is sia's rulers to inculcate in workers ency in the Labour interest. His polley of conquest and monopoly. not able to suppress the Reds or

"This is the mistake of the of every kind a sense of the part first essay into the realm of poli-

has not done anything at all. which their work plays in the ad- its was not a successful one, his Japanese War Office.

Under this scheme, North China will be vancement of their country. By a opponent; Mr. John D. Hope, theng Manchuria. Japan has

occupied by Japanese candidate being aced the friendship. good-wil and troops. curious anomaly, modern European then Liberal

In the December co-operation of China proper, dictators have understood more triumphant,

General Matsui is asked to re- clearly than most democratic election of the same year he was which has more people, territory i

the two leaders the tremendous social im-again forward as a candidate for and wealth than the four occupied cognize the fallacy of

China's good-will is doctrines, and remove barriers to portance of arousing in their pen-Parliamentary honours, and this provinces.

more valuable than the domina Sino-Japanese understanding.— ples feeling that they are active time he gained the mandate

tion of Manchuria.

Union News. participants in the work of sociey. the people.

The year's end in Russia was trom all parts of the Soviet Union marked by a continuous procession

to Moscow of workers' delegations,

of

For four years in the House of commons Mr. Adamson was leader which Mr. J. R. Clynes succeeded. of the Labour party, a post to

Mr. Adamson was the first min- ers' representative to be sent to Partament..

selected from those who had done the most and the work during 1935. These workers came to re- | Reuter. port to the Government their ne-

complishments, to discuss with Government leaders their succes- ses and their failures, and to de- The Secretary's Office, 1st Floor, vise ways and means of Improving EXCHANGE BUILDIN (Tel.during the coming year their own 27794) WILL CLOSE AT 1000 a.m.

work and that of the groups they ON THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, REG

Icpresent. at 12.00 NOON ON THE FIFTH

DAY.

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Gen. Rodriguez

Mar del Plata, Feb. 23. General Rodriguez. the veteran Argentine War Minister, died here

to-day.-

The Kremlin invited to Moscow Rruter, representatives of the most hum-

occupations.

A limited number of titing, will be obtainable each day at the Clubble as well as the more impressive House, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy, Telephone No. 21920.

Ou no pretext will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during the first four days of the Meeting.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. The Price of Admission to the

Publix is all persons Forty seventh Ordinary Yearly including tax for all persons inclad Meeting will be held at the Coming Ladies, and is payable at the pany's Offices, P. & O. Building, on Gate. Wednesday, 11th March, 1988, at 11 .m. for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1935. and electing Directors and Auditors.

The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 29th February to 11th March 1986, both days inclusive, during which period Transfer of Shares can be registered.

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Soldiers and Sailors ia uniform are admitted to the Public Enclosure at $1.00 per day including tax.

Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, etc., will not be permitted to operate with in the precincts of The HONG KONG JOCKET CLn during the Bace Meeting.

Tiffins will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public Enclosure.

SERVANTS' PASSES

And notice is hereby also given on application to the Secretary, 1st Passes for Servants will be issued that an Extraordinary General Meet-Floor, Exchange Building. ing of the ompany will be held at the same place immediately after the Servants' passes in their possession Any persons found loitering with

and

The delegations in- cluded milkmaids, tractor drivers cotton pickers, as well as engineers and excutives and artists. The humble workers were 25 cordially received as the most distinguished. They travelled in style, they were greeted at railway stations as important visitors," and

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SHANGHAI-CROYDON · AIRMAIL RECORD

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Landon, Feb. 24. The fastest time in tears- mission of mails from the Far East. Was established to-day when the correspondence which

was landed at Croydon by Air France machine.

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wed me tu talked with insepa left Shanghai on fon ay 1 and met and talked with Joseph Stalin and his principal associates. Newspapers, the radio, news reels fully recorded their journeys and. emphasized that every occupation, however lowly it may seem to be, makes an important contribution to the country's progress.

It requires lttle Imagination to comprehend the impression made by such receptions, not only upon. those selected as delegates, bat upon all workers. Every milkmaid

Steps are being taken for fur- ther speeding up in the trans- mission time. Reuter.

INTERNATIONAL CROSS- COUNTRY

The International Cross Coun- Ir Russia may well feel vicariously try Championship, which takes tion for a group of milkmaids. is the most important cross couin- honored by the Kremlin's recip place at "Blackpool on March 28," Every tractor driver may be trust try test in the world. The coun- ed to read with attention the Mos- tres affiliated to the International cow discussions of means for im- Cross Country Union are Belgium.

Toups doubtless feels a new sense and Wales, and invitations have cf participation

also to Finland and been sent in something larger than the routine of their Spain. The race is run in England dally work.

once every six years.

In occupy- sacri-

The chief feature of yesterday's

race meeting was the defeat of Royal Scot by Honeymoon Eve in the Hong Kong Derby, while King's Warden another favourite was also beaten by Gladiator.