ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE CANTON INSURANCE .. OFFICE LTD,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
HE Fifty Afth Ordinary General THE
Meeting of the Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Thursday, the 21st hiny, 1986, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG) NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE the ORDINARY TEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 22nd MAY, 1936, at 11 O'clock am, for the purpose of
IS HEREBY GIVEN
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1936,
ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Fung Kong Un beg
to announce that the marriage
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of their daughter, Stella, to Mr.
Chau Bing Kan will take place
at the Registry on Thursday,
DR. COLBERT QUESTIONED
May 21, 1936. No invitations Omission In Number
are being issued but all friends will be welcome at the Recep- tion to be held at the Hong
Kong Hotel at 4.30 p.m.
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Editorial and Business Office: 1,
Ice House Street Tel. 30251.
Of Marriages
DENIALS AT TRIAL
statement of Accounts for the year/receiving the Report of the Directors Night Editor (Wanchai Office: charging him with having ad-
ended the 31st December, 1935.
and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1935, and of declar
The Share Register and Transfering Dividend, etc. Books will be CLOSED from the 7th
The 8HARE TRANSFER to the 21st May, 1986, both days BOOKS of
the Society will be CLOSED from 4th MAY to 22nd MAY, Both Days inclusive.
inclusive. JARDINE, MATHESON&Co.,LTD.,
General Agents.. Hong Kong 30th April, 1936.
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CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG)...
TOTICE is hereby given that the
N Twelfth Annual Ordinary
General Meeting of Shareholders of China Underwriters, Limited, will be hold at the Offices of the Company, 4A, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong, on Monday, the 25th day of May, 1936, at Noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors and a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1945, and of electing Directors and Auditors.
The Transfer Books and Register of Members of the Company will be closed from the 18th May, 1926, to the 25th May, 1936, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directora HERBERT R. STURT,
Managing Director. Hong Kong, 13th May, 1936.
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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY. LIMITED.
By Order of the Board, A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 24th April, 1996.
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THE CHINA FIKE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG} NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN
that the SIXTY-SEVENTH (ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 22nd MAY, 1936, at 11 20 .m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1936, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 4th MAY to 22nd MAY, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board, A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 24th April, 1996.
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BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE
COMPANY, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG) NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE Ordinary General Meeting of THE
the Shareholders in the above Company will be held at the Com. pany's Offices, P. & O. Building, on Friday, the 29th May, 1996, at Noon for the purpose of receiving the
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Report of the General Managers N
SEVENTIETH that he Statement of A together with Accounts to the 31st December, 1935. ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING The Transfer Books of the of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 22nd MAY, 1936, at 11.25 a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1935, and of declaring Dividend, etc.
Company will be ULUSED from Tuesday, the 26th May to Friday, the 29th May, 1986, both days inclusive, DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 15th May, 1936.
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THE MACAO ELECTRIC LIGHTING COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOT
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 4th MAY to 22nd MAY, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager.
TOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY - FIFTH ORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL Hong Kong, 24th April, 1986.
MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS of the Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Mercantila Bank Building, Second Floor, Bong Kong, on FRIDAY, the Ta day of JUNE, 1936, at 11.80 è̟m.
The REGISTER of MEMBERS will be Closed from the 277 day of MAY to the 4rn day of JUNE, 1996, both days inclusive.
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CENTRAL RESERVE
BANK
Chinese Government's Intentions
Shanghai, May 20.
It is reliably stated that the
By Order of the Board of Directors, JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Chinese Government is planning
Secretaries.
Hong Kong, 20th May, 1936.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
to establish a Central Reserve Bank, according to a decree issued last November, in about a month's
time.
Until this materialises, detalls of the American silver purchases and Chinese holdings of gold and for- elgn exchange reserve, which are at present divided between three HAFT Programmes and Entry Government Banks, are not likely DHA Forms for
the Sixth to be published.- Extra Race Meeting, to be held on Reuter. SATURDAY, 30th May & MONDAY, lat June, 1938, (weather permitting), may be obtained at the Secretary a Office, Exchange Building; the Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club and the Stables, Shan Kwong Boad,
Entries close at. Iz o'clock. NOON on THURSDAY, 21st May, 1838.
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By Order,
S. ASLEAP,
Actg. Secretary
S.S. "WILLANDRA" will sail for MELBOURNE via SHANGHAI and NAURU IRLAND
about 23rd MAY
NORTH, CH'NA
RAILWAY:
Another Link Uuder Consideration
Ticntain, May 20,
Tientsin. May 20. The trial before the United States Court for China of Dr. John Colbert on a six-count indictment
ministered poison to his wife with London Office: 53, Fleet Street food, drink and medicine in
EC. 4.
attempt to murder her was con- tinued to-day.
Tėl, 24511.
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, MAY 2, 1935.
UNDER THEIR SKINS
The average man. who, to be sure, takes a good deal for grant- ed, commonly looks upon himself (with some complacency) as be-
longing to one race or another. Our newspapers no longer dare to speak of the English race for fear of offending the Scat, so they free- ly substitute the British race, al- though the ethnologist, might ob- feet that the British were the race, or races, which inhabited these Islands before the English came. Dare we speak of the Scottish race
when it is obvious that the native, say of the Lothians is nearer akin to the Yorkshireman than he is to the denizen of Argyll or Suther- land, and that there is more differ- ence between the East and West than of Scotland
between the North and South of Great Britain? Then can we say that there is a British race, or, when we look at the Norwegian, the Dane, or the native of Normandy. must we ad- mit that the difference between them and the British is only of language and nationality?
The matter is of some iraport». ance, because it tends again to be- come political That pure Celt. Mr De Valera, has succeeded in persuading the denizen of South- ern Ireland that he is racially dis tinet and unique, although their history suggests that the Irish are an amalgam of British, English, Scottish and Scandinavian.
was
Then
we have Herr Hitler persuading the Germans that they are a pure Nordic race, whereas it used to be thought that the Prussian was half-Slav and that he differed racially front the Saxon or the Bayarian. Signor Mussolini seems to "think that the. Itallians derive from the ancient Roman, although It used to be thought that the Savoyard
racially different from the Neapolitan. These popu- lar bellets have queer and some- Himes dangerous political results. Thus, for example, Mr. Baldwi defended the democratic experi- ment in India on the ground that the Indian was our Aryan brother. Yet there is no such thing as the Aryan race: the term was invent- ed to describe and embrace a. of languages. Moreover group. those who know India would be Inclined to testify that there is a
between deep racial gulf
the "Dravidians" of the South and the Some
fairer races of the North. would even detect a racial dimer- ence between the high castes and the low castes or out castes of the same province. These things, cer- tainly, are not sufficiently well de- fined or well understood to form the basis of such confident poli- tical generalisations.
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TIDE OF HOSTILE FEELING
MILITARY CAMP IN JERUSALEM
ARABS TO CONTINUE
Hong Kong Daily Press" Specia")
STRIKE
Jerusalem, May 28.
Since it was learned here on Tuesday that the Jewish im- migration quota, contrary to the Arab demands, had been raised- Instead of cancelled, tension in Jerusalem is at breaking point. The whole city gives the impression of a military camp.
Dr. John Colbert, cross-examin- ed, admitted that he was married four times. the Arst to the Call- fornian. Eleanor Bates. In 1985. whereas he told the District At- torney during the interrogation before the trial that he was mar- ried only thrice.
Accused denied that the omis-Meanwhile the Arab leaders have sion was due to fear of enquiry issued orders that the strike must into the circumstances of the first continue, stressing the impossibilty marriage, which was unhappy "and of meeting the British power with ended in divorce.
force, but express the hope of compelling respect for Arab rights by a peaceful strike.
All shops are closed and a mandate of the Government has forbidden the production, sale or carrying of knives or sticks which might be used for acts of violence. This measure is de- signed to check the acts of sabotage by the Arabs who have made hundreds of attempts at looting.
The second marriage was in 1913 with Clare Cutts which was alss dissolved and is still costing him hundred United States dollars monthly as alimony. The wife died.
third
The Jewish strike-breakers who ascharged the first steamer at Telaviv, were afforded the protec-
tion of a British cruiser. The Jews afterwards celebrated this with a festival, thus arousing bitter re- sentment among the Arabs.
CONFLICTING STATEMENTS
Accused denied that he predict-
For the time being the Mandatory ed the death of the third Mrs. Government have only been able Colbert before he Was sent * to protect the main streets, roads, hospital. He was unaware of the railway lines and public buildings, rumours that death was not due but have been unable to stem the
also
to natural causes and
10-rising tide of hostile feeling which aware that his brother-in-law bad the British residents here compare 5 stared.
with that in Dublin during the Irish Civil War.
Transocean News Servier,
Mr. A. R. Morrison (American attorney assisting Mr. Feltham Watson in conducting the prose-
GOVERNMENT LAWS cution) pointed out that the
Jerusalem, May 20. accused had stated in interroga- The Government has broadcast a Hon by Mr. Watson that he sum-notice to the effect that railways moned Dr. Grice immediately after and roads will be under control of the present Mrs. Colbert-was taken the military authorities and tress-
bed, whereas, according to evidence in Court. he called Dr. Grice, for the first time on Octo- ber 31.
Accused replied that the inter- rogation record was full of mis- takes.
Accused admitted, the similarity of blood pictures of cases of per- nicious anaemia and blood poison. ing, and admitted that acetanelid produced similar changes in anne-
mig.
RESPONDED TO TREATMENT
Accused ascribed the recovery of Mrs. Colbert in hospital to the treatment. adding that she was on the way to recovery before entry to hospital
Asked to explain why he stated her condition as "rather hopeless when writing to Dr. Grice on Nov- ember 20, accused replied that the comment referred to heart trou- ble and accused was, worried when he wrote the letter.
Accused denied telling anyone that Mrs. Colbert, was going to die,
He admitted that the. blood count at the German Hospital in Peiping on April 1 did not suggest pernicious andémia,,
The trial is proceeding.- Reuter
FINAL ACCEPTORS FOR DERBY
and carriage on persons of katves capable of being used for unlawful purposes.
Police have power to arrest with out warrant persons suspected of illegal possession of arms. Beuter's Hulletin Servier.
CHALLENGE TO THE ARABS.
Immigration Figure Increased.
"Hong Kong Daily Press" Special)
Jerusalem, May 19.
The aecree Axing the number of immigration certificates to be granted to Jer 1 has just been published.... and since the number has greatly increased, this "decree must be taken as a challenge to the Arabs, who insist on complete. suspension of all Jewish immigra~ tlon into Palestine.
Another murder took place in the Jewish quarter on Tuesday morn- passers on lines do so at their owning, when the son of the Jewish risk.!
Burgomaster was shot dead in the
CHINESE PAPER BANNED
Sellers Arrested In Tungsban
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, May 20,
For publishing unfounded and sensational news about Canton, the "Wah Kiu Yat Po," Hong Kong vernacular paper, was denied ad- mission to Canton tö-day. Beven news boys in Tungshan were ar Frested for selling this paper, and
all coples were conascated.
The news vendors did not know that the Hong Kong paper was placed under ban. as no copy was seized when the papers arrived at the Canton-Kowloon Railway station. The exact charge against The the paper is not known. offending news boys will be sen- tenced to ten days or two weeks' imprisonment at the penitentiary in Nam Shek Tau.
that
Although the "Wah Ku Yat Fo" has but a small circulation here as compared with other Chinese papers.
representatives of journal will come here this after- noon to seek the removal of the ban. The paper undertakes not to publish news detrimental to the Interest of Canton and not to re- lease. same to non-competitive
papers.
Police here are searching all news boys in an effort to eliminate the "Searchlight" from circulation here. The "Searchlight" is an outport semi-weekly paper, which is frank in its news of the political situation and the activities of high government omcials.
COMMERCIAL AIR SERVICES
Kwangtung-Kwangsi Link With Other Provinces '..
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, May 20. The South-west authorities are planning an extensive commercial
The Government also proclaimed Street. Two Arab strike leaders a penalty of three years' imprison-have been fined £25 each for hav-air service which will eventually ment for manufacture, possession ing incited to civil disobedience or carrying of daggers and one and non-payment of taxes.— year's imprisonment for ownership Transocean News Service.
THREE
AERODROMES
IN SARAWAK
Sultan Interviewed In Singapore
Singapore, May 20. The Sultan of Sarawak is pra- ceeding to England from Singapore on Friday..
WANG CHING WEI IN GERMANY Undergoing Treatment.At Hot Springs
link Kwangtung and Kwangsi with the provinces in the north-wes and the major cities in Central China
The South-west Aviation Cor- paration has already completed the Arst half of the programme, by es- tablishing two regular air services, one between Canton and Lung- chow, on the western border of Kwangtung near Annam, and the London, May 20. other between Canton and Nan-- Mr. Quo Tal-chi has returned ning, via Pakhol. The two routes from a week's stay with Mr. Wang which will probably be established Ching wel, who 18 undergoing next month will be between Nan- treatment at a well-known Germanning. and Kwelyang in Kweichow hot springa.
province and between Canton and Mr. Wang's general health has Foochow, Fukien much improved, but the German Recent negotiations between the surgeons, whom he consulted are" Canton and Nanking authorities Regarding oll, be said the o- fields at Balik Papan are estimated
unwilling to extract the bullet, have resulted in defnile "plans to to be exhausted in ten years' time which would involve a very serious bring the South-west into closer and that engineers are prospect-operation, until his constitution is ing for new fields, "but the results much stronger than at present. cities
With the exception of úccasional are not definite.- Heuters Bulletin Service..
pain, the bullet causes compara- tively, little inconvenience.** Beuter
Interviewed, he stated that three aerodromes in course of construction in the country were now almost completed.
HOPEI CHAHAR AFFAIRS
Yin Ju Keng's Regime To Be Abolished
Pelping. May 20. Mr. Chen Chung-fu, Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the Hopel and Chahar Political Affairs Council declared that in the Degotiations at Tientsin with the Japanese authorities, it has been definitely decided to abolish the As BOOTI East Hopel bogus regime. as the other problems including the new appointment of Yin Ju- keng are settled, the bogus regime
London, May 20. The following, are the final ac- ceptors for the Derby to be run at Epsom Downs on May 27:-
Squadron Castle, Rhodes Scho- The student in this field will be lar, Plaster Cast, Pay Up, Mendi-
cant Friar. Barrystar, disinclined to admit that national divisions and racial divisions ever Abjer, Noble King. His coincide. Mr. Julian Huxley, whose Walvis Bay, Magnet, interesting views on this subject Tajakbar, Balahissar, Mahmoud, will be abolished, added Mr. Chen. had been summarised. goes fur-Star Comedian, Monument, Haul-
!
tryn, Ormstead, Carioca, "Spinalot.
ther:
At the present day (he says) there exists no important human group which can properly be call- ed a race, and the use of the term not only has no useful application, but actually leads to confusion. both scientific and political:
The first part of this proposition
Midstream. Thankercon.
U.S. COURT IN
. CHINA
1
Jurisdiction Sought Io Offences At Sea
Washington, May 19.
A Bill has been introduced Into the House of Representatives by M. H. W. Sumers. Democrat of Texas, to extend the jurisdiction of the United States Court for Chiria over offences committed on the
High Seas. Couvert,
Grace. Raeburn.
Fearless
Fox, Belaethel, Boswell and
Flares.-- fleuter.
was as
The Bill has been approved by the Foreign Affairs Committee.
The measure provides that if of In regard to the problems of fenders are found in or are first Joint defence against Communist brought into a Chinese port, the Invasion, Mr. Chen declared that jurisdiction of the American Court as the Hopel and Chahar authort-there shall held.
Reuter ties are well-prepared to suppress the Communista and the latter are not li a, position to invade Hopel and Chahar provinces at the pre- sent time. there is no immediate need to discuss the problem.- Union News.
PROF. A. E. HOUSMAN DEATH IS REPORTED
Cambridge, May 2. Professor Alfred Edward Hous man, the author of "The Shrop- shire Lad," died in a Cambridge
FASCIST MOVE IN**
SWITZERLAND"
Investigation Fails To Gather Evidence
contact with the Yangtze River and the north-west. A Canton- Canton-Hankow and a Nanking service will be inaugurated in the near future, it is stated, and other plans are being made for services to Chengtu, Chungking, Sikang and Kunming
The Canton-Hanol air service. rights for which have been granted to the South-west Aviation Cor- poration by the Ministry of Com- munications, will probably be re- sumed about the middle of the month. However, definite arrange- ments await the return of Mr. Liu Pei-chuan, a member of the South- West Aviation Corporation, who is still in Nanking.
LOCAL AND GENERAL Sent by the Hume Pipe Authori- ties, Lau Tam, 50, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday A crushed hand suffering from which was caught in the machinery at the Hume Pipe Works,
.
The offices of the French Con2 sulate will be closed to the general public to-day, being the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord.
The Japanese destroyer Kard- kaya' is due here from Canton on Saturday and will stay two days.. The Saga will arrive on the Sun- day from Formosa and it is pre- sumed that the ships will meet to exchange crews before the Saga resinnes her duties on the West
Hong Kong Daily Press Specia?
Berne, May 20, The proceedings which were inaugurated by the Swiss authori-River. ties some time ago against Emillo Colombi and 19 other members of
In addition to the Tsangchow-seems to be going rather far. The more we see of mankind the less Shihchiachuan Rallway, the North | journalist may surely be allowed to are we emboldened to generalise China authorities are considering generalise with undiminished con-over their differences. Even Mr. the building of another railway to jfidence of the yellow races, the Rudyard Kipling, who link up Tientsin and Shihchia black races and the white races, proud of his race (or nation) as chuan, according to well-informed although ne can no longer be so any man, was driven, to admit: circles.
cocksure of the subdivisions: The But the things you will learn Discussions will be held between Japanese have the appearance of from the Yellow an' Brown, Mr. Chen Chuch-sen, Managing being a pure race, and in many They'll help you a lot with the Director of the Pelping Liaoning nations it does not seen fanciful to White, Railway Administration and the detect certain racial distinctions. Nevertheless, we shall continue to nursing home late last night at the, Fascist group "Adula" Tientsio Manager of the South Yet even here we must be careful be proud that we are English (na, the age of 17, He was a Fellow charges of having started a move- routine cruise. Menchuria Railway Company re-to distinguish what is from what is British) allowing others to be of Trinity College, and Kennedy ment for the cession to Italy of proud that they are Professor of Latin in the Univer- the Italian speaking Canton of Barding the technical assistance believed. Not every Englishwoman equally
Tessin were squashed for lack of to be rendered by the latter in the has large feet and protruding Danish, Dutch or Czechoslovakian.sity since 1911.
evidence. Professor Housman was unmar- building of these railways
teeth, nor is every Frenchman a Where should we be without our
Transocean" New Service, (4188 Union News...
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