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ADVERTISEMENTS.

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING. CORPORATION

THE Year ending Stat

"Final Dividend declared

December, 1985, at the rato of Three Pounds Sterling at exchange 1/3 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.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager.

Hong Kong, 22nd February, 1936.

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1936. 22ND, 24TH, 25TH, 26TH AND 29TH, FEBRUARY, 1936.

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ON Saturday 22nd, Monday 24th, Tuesday 25th, and Wednesday 26th February, the Grst bell will be rung at 11 a.m., and the first race will be run at 11.30 am. On Satur- day, 29th February, the first bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m, and the first race will be run at 2.00 p.m.

The tin interval will be taken after the Bfth race on the first four daya.

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

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1936.

TENNENTS

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PILSENER

$28.00

BEER PER CASE

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OF PINTS

DISTINCTION

Sole distributors

FAR EAST MERCANTILE COMPANY

Exchange Building-Tel. 2 453.

admitted to the Members Enclosure. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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

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Mesting (Ladies $5.00 and $20.00 THE HONGKONG & KOW. respectively) ure obtainable through LOON WHARF & GODOWN the SECRETARY upon introduc- tion by a Member, such Member to be responsible for all Chits, etc.^"

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

The Secretary's Office, 1st Floor, EXCHANGE BUILDING (Tol. 27794) WILL CLOSE AT 10 00 a. ON THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, and at 12.00 NOON ON THE FIFTH DAY.

A limited number of tiffins will be obtainable each day at the Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy, Telephone No. 21920.

On uo pretext will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during "the first four days of the Meeting.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.“

THE FORTY-NINTH ORDIN}

ARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be hald at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Thursday, the 6th March, 1936, AT NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 81st December, 1935,

The Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 21st February, 1936, to Thursday, the 5th March, 1936, both daya inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

F. H. CRAPNELL,

Secretary.

The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00 per day including tax for all persons includ. Hong Kong, 12th February, 1996 ing Ladies, and is payable at the

Gate.

Boldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted to the Public Enclosure at 81.00 per day including tax.

Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, etc., will not be permitted to operate with in the precincts of THE HONG KONG

JOCKEY CLUB during the Bace

Meeting,

Tifins will be obtainable in the Bestaurant in the Public Enclosure.

"SERVANTS' "PASSES Passes for Servants will be issued on application to the Secretary, 1st Floor, Exchange Building.

Any persons found loitering with Servants' passes in their possession will forfeit the same and will be removed from the Enclosure.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 17th February, 1986."

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The Daily Press.

"HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 23, 1936.

NAVAL PARLEY DINNER AT VOLUNTEER

DEADLOCK

Italy May Leave The Conference

London, Feb. 27.

Italy's departure, from the Lon- don Naval Conference is fare- shadowed by an official statement made after a meeting between Signor Dino Grandl, the Italian diplomat, and Mr. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary to- day.

"Owing to technical difficulties, like the size of battleships and the question of the gap between bat- tleships and cruisers, as well as on account of difficulties of procedure, the Italian delegation to the Naval Conference intimated it was not prepared at present to enter into p Naval Agreement.” the state- ment baldly asserted.

issues and the existence of sanc- tions against Italy.

HEADQUARTERS

No. 1 (Machine Gun) Company As Hosts

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Although greadly depleted in honoured to do so. He did not strength by the recent formation know what his predecessors felt of other companies ön

about the matter, but he always similax basis, the No. 1. felt it part of his duty to "muck (Machine Gun) Company ot in" with the HK.V.D.C. It was. the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence however, more of a previlege "so Corps, generally conceded to be to do" than a duty!" Although he | the "crack" company of the

corps, held a most enjoyable an- nual "steak end. kidney" dinner B Volunteer Headquarters last night. There was a large repre- sentative gathering present, which included notable personalities in the regular Army stationed in the Colony.

NEWS SUMMARY

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The seven-a-side rugger tourna went for the Blarney Cup will be» played off sometime next week. when the first and decond rounds: are scheduled to take place on Wednesday.

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Starting times for Golf at Fan- ling on the old and new courses. for to-morrow appear on page 6.

The question of competition be- tween trams and buses and the reason why the tender of the framways was rejected were fully dealt with at the Annual General Meeting of the Tramways Co., which was held yesterday. Page 7

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was what he termed a “King's Pivot' gives a very interesting Soldier" (and proud of the

resume of this week's football: greatly admired the Corps as a matches in which the chances of whole, and the individual members the various teams are analysed on for the

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time they spared for the Corps, These remarks applied equally as well to the Command - out as to the latest recruit.

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Charged with aiding and abett; ing three young boys to beg in' It was his job as well as theirs. Fedder Street in the vicinity of to look after the interests inherit-the Gloucester and Hong Kong

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MORE RECRUITS Col. H. B, I Dowbiggin, made an earnest appeal for more recruits

| Hotels, Fin Yu-tak, aged 34, a juggler, appeared before Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central Magistracy yesterday.

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The dinner was presided over by The "gap" mentioned in this Captain B, Owen Hughes, Officer |ed as Britishers "and to see that statement refers to the so-called Commanding No. 1. (M.G.) Com- no one else gets it." non-construction area between the pany, and the guest of honour was largest cruiser, 8,000 tons, and the Colonel H., C. Harrison, D.S.O.. smallest battleship, of 20,000 tons,

General Staff Officer, No. 1, other The "difficulties of procedure guests included Col. H. B. L. Dow- are understood to relate to politicat biggin, Commandant (H.K.V.D.C.). Í He said that he would like to be in described before Mr. W. Schofield, Capt. R. C. B. Anderson, M. C. & position to see the strength of Adjutant, (HK.VD.C.), Capt. H. the company twice as large when Westlake, M.B.E.. (Capt. Quarter-he addressed them next year several members of master, HK.V.D.C.), Capt. E. G. There, were Stewart, Capt. C. De S. Robertson, the company that were keen on MLM. G. S. M. Harrison, M.B.E., rifle shooting and had joined the Lt A. Urquhart, Officer Com-Local Rifle Association where they manding No. 3. Coy., Lt. J. Way, met outside competition, and he Officer Commanding. Motor M. G. appealed for more rifle enthusiasts

tu foln. Cny.. Lt. V. C. Branson, M.C., and C.8.M., C. E Terry, M.M.

It is understood that the con- ference contemplates continuing on a three-power basis. Reuter

REACTION IN FRANCE

London, Feb. 27.

It is feared that the Italian re- fusal to sign a naval treaty muy affect the French attitude, owing

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the French feeling over the Mediterranean issue.

The French delegates, had a long conference, with the American re-

Presentatives to-day and raised similar technical objections to a treaty to those Italy advanced. But it is intimated that France has not yet reached a final decision with regard to signature of the pact.

The prospects of a supplement ary Anglo-German qualitative naval agreement, which would be complementary to the existing Anglo-German quantitative cord, was enhanced when the Ger- man Ambassador to-day Informed Mr. Eden that German reaction was favourable to the suggestion

UNWELCOME STOWAWAYS Reuter

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NOTICE OF REMOVAL

NOTICE is hereby given that the

registered Office of the Ka Wah Savings Bank. Ltd, will be removed to No. 24, Wing Lok Street, Hong Kong, ou lat Marcb, 1936. TRE KA WAH SAVINGS BANK,

LTD.,

(In Voluntary Liquidation)

CHAN TAI JAM

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FUNG IU WING. WOO YEE TUG

(Liquidators),

GERMAN ADHERENCE

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London, Feb. 27.

A League of Nations conference 2 Singapore, recently, has been discussing stowaways. You might Mr. Autnouy Eden, Foreign Sec- imagine that it would be a difficunt retary, held a meeting with the job to obtain an unauthorised German Ambassador and the First passage on board an aeroplane. Lord of the Admiralty, Viscount And, in fact, hiding places for Monsell, to-day, which he hopes ordinary stowaways are few and far will secure German adherence to The League, however, is | any agreements which may be not worrying about the ordinary reached at the Naval Conference. "rolling stone," with a taste for adventure in distant countries but no money to pay his fare. The air companies are quite capable of looking after him. The League is on the track of much more elusive "game."

Mosquitoes, for example, are be- coming air-minded. Some of them, no doubt, awaken from a casual slesta and find themselves involun- tary passengers on board an air liner

bound for milder climes. But these people who have suffer- èd much from their too close at- tentions will be perfectly willing to ascribe even their aberrations to original sin inseparable from the species. It is difficult for a smart- [4239 ing victim to view any subject in an all-round, impartial spirit Submitting the mosquito question to the clear light of reason, it is IN THE MATTER OF HE CM. &pparent

PANIES ORDINANCE stowaway is liable to start a serious 1932

recrudescence of malaria a thou- sand miles away from his normal

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All this, of course, is a modern development of an old problem. I is perhaps a little hard on the mosquito to single it out as the only sinner, and malaria is not by any means the only disease carried

Mr. Eden also met Signor Grandi, the Italian Ambassador, who is chief Italian delegate to the con- ference this afternoon.~~ Reuters Bulletin Service.

REASON FOR ITALIAN NAVAL OBJECTION

London, Feb. 28. The difficulties of procedure which have been raised by the Italian delegation .10- the baval conference and as a result of which as well as of certain technical difficulties they are not for the present ready to sign the naval agreement BEC understood by newspapers to refer mainly to the Italian objection to actual sizna fure while the present political situation in Europe persists. The objections do not apply to tinuance of the process of draft ing the new agreement— British Wireless,

ANGLO-IRISH TRADE 'AGREEMENT

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Cel, Dowbiggin said that in a month's time he would complete 0. C'S WELCOME Addressing the gathering pre- 30 years in the H.K.V.D.C., and sent, after an enjoyable steak and during all that time he had not kidney dinner, Capt. Owen Hughes met anyone so keen to meet the guld that he was pleased to see members of the Corps as the Royal as many present: He had also to Ulster Rifles. He would be most Thank Col. Harrison for his pre-pleased if members of the Corns sence. especially as it was after a would take the first opportunity very strenuous day in the New to get to know the Ulsters. Territories with the regular army. When the time came for Col. Har rison to depart from the Colony, as it inevitably must, the Corps would always remember him for his keen and untiring work for the volunteers.

Capt. Owen Hughes also paid a great tribute to Col, Dowbiggin for his unselfish work for the Corps, and said that he was a splendid example that might well be copied by other members of the corps.

Refering to their new Adjutant, the speaker said that he felt sure Capt, Anderson would prove to be an asset to the ward-room in time of trouble.

Reference was also made to the depleted strength of No. 1. Com- pany, and stress was laid on the fact that unless they were careful their children" (No. 3. Company) would excel "their parents" which would be a highly unusatisfactory state of affaira!

Tribute was also paid by the speaker for the efficient, manner in which Capt. Stewart had man- aged the company in the absence

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A particularly mean theft was.

at the Central Magistracy yester day, when a woman, Li Chun, aged 30 years, appeared on charge of having stolen a diamond Ping, the property of Wong Po chun, married woman, from No. 73 Lockhart Road, second floor, on Page: 6 February 25.

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H.E. the Governor, patron the Hong Kong Rifle Association, tion This announcement has presented a cup for competi made at a meeting of the Council, a full report of which appears on..