NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.
BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. TIENTSIN
MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION No. 21/36.
VACANCY FOR DEPUTY ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
The British Municipal Council, Tientsin, is prepared to receive applications for appointment to The position of DEPUTY ELEC. TRICAL ENGINEER.
Candidates must be Chinese, who hold degrees in Electrical Engineering from recognized universities, and who have had several
experience years. Electricity Power Station work.
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NOTICE
LANE. CRAWFORD, LIMITED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FOURTEENTH OR DINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held in Exchange Building, Hong Kong! SATURDAY, 6th JUNE, 1936, at 11 o'clock a.m.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 29th MAY to 6th JUNE, 1936, both days inclusive.
By" Order of the Board of Directors,
A. W. BROWN,
Manager.
They must be conversant with Hong Kong, 26th May, 1936.
the control, maintenance, and re-
pair, of modern Steam Turbines, Alternators, Water-tube boilers
etc. They should also be able to supervise the
Transformer
Transmission and
systems, including
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installation of and Sub-stations
Distribution
overhead NOTICE mains of 3000 volts tension. A GIVEN knowledge of the construction, ORDINARY repair and test of domestic elec trical appliances is also desirable. In addition to thorough knowledge of English candidates must be able to speak the North. ern Chinese language fluently.
The successful candidate will receive a salary of $600. per month from the date upon which he takes up his duties in Tientsin. He will be upon probation for a period of six months from that Jate.
Applications containing reler
credentials, copies of diplomas and curriculum vitae"
ences,
of each candidate should be ad.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1936."
DEATH
-JENSEN -On June 4, 1938, Ely Elisabeth Jensen wife of F. V. Jensen, at War Memorial Nur-
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Editorial and Business Office: 11,
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The Daily
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SMUGGLING IN NORTH
CHINA
GERMAN AIR HONG KONG THE IDEAL NEWS SUMMARY
FORCE
"General Wever” Squadron
"Hong Kong Daily Press" Special)
Berlin, June 4. In commemoration of Lieut.- Geri Walther Wever, Chief of General Staff of the German Air Force, who died tragically when. the plane he was piloting crashed on the Dresden Airport, a squadron of pursuit planes will bear the name "General Wever."
Commenting on the honour con- ferred on the late General, the "German press states that this is the drst time that a squadron of
hil the new German Air Force
been named after a person we
was not a wartime ace, with the exception of Horst Wessel, the hero of the National Socialist Storm
Troops, who wrote the words to the famous song which has now become Germany's "second National Anthem and who murdered by Communists. ---- Transocean News Service.
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COLONY?
The Mui-Tsai Problem
In previous articles in these series we have dis- cussed the fact that "The Man In The Street" in Hong Kong does not have enough say in public affairs. and is therefore disinterested--to a great extent--in vital matters affecting the well being of the community of all
races,
Thefts in the Happy Valley dis- trict during the past six months were recalled before Mr. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yester- day when Lo Wa-so, 26, unemploy→ ed, was charged on three counts of burglary and. three alternativ charges of receiving stolen pro- Page 4. perty.
We regret to have to record the death of Mrs. Ely Elisabeth Jen- sen, wife of Mr. F. V. Jensen, of the Great Northern Telegraph Co.. which occurred at the War Memo-
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We arrived at the conclusion starvation for the whole family.rial Hospital early yesterday morn that the population. whether of But it or the other hand, you can Ing. Western or Eastern descent, will make a little money
by selling suffer terribly in subsequent gen- your daughter into a family wherz erations If something is not done
she will have a better chance of to encouragt the right type of happiness than in her own im- It is obviously healthy citizen to perpetuate his poverlähed home species more freely. On the other better that she should go. hand it is equally. or perhaps more urgent, that the very poor type of unhealthy citizen should be dis- couraged from breeding
30 pro- ufically.
PRIMARY CAUSES OF SUFFERING
dealing only
This all seems obvious enough. And yet those at the head of at fairs in this colony-as well as in many other parts of the world
taken up with with what are in reality symptoms of fundamental error that they entirely overlook the vital facts at the root of the trou- Ele.
Smuggling is a romantic" trade, but the smugglers now profitably active in North China have Hitle of the glamour usually associated with their calling. Netther skn nor courage is demanded of these
DRESDEN TRAGEDY who break the law under what
Berlin, June 3. mounts to police protection. Ever
Truce-a The Chief of the General Start Tungku since the HEREBY nebulous pact whose terms neither of the German "Air Force. Lieu-Seem 50 IS
Me- tenant-General Wever and that the ANNUAL China nor Japan has seen to
public-the demilitarized chanic Corporal Kraus lost their GENERALake
Uves on Wednesday. It is officially zone south of the Great Wall has MEETING of SHARE been a thieves kitchen. Recently announced. when the plane D- Uzon which Wever was plioting. HOLDERS will be HELD at: has become something wOTSE. the HONG KONG HOTEL, The creation of the "Independent crashed on the Dresden. Aerodrome
on TUESDAY, East Hope! Anti-Communist Au- immediately after taking off- Hong Kong, 16th. JUNE 1936, at 12 NOON tonomous Council." inspired and Transocers News Servic
protected by the Japanese military, for the purpose of receiving the
the scale and has increased Reports of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts. for the year ended 30th. April, 1936. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 6th day of June, to TUESDAY, the 16th. day of June 1936, both days in clusive.
JOHN DE HUMPHREYS & SON
General Managers.
dressed to "The Secretary & HONGKONG, 29th. May, 1936. Engineer, British
Municipal
Council, Tientsin** and forward-
ed so as to reach him not later]
"than Tuesday, 7th July, 1936.
By Order.
H. F. BARNES,
Secretary & Engineer.
Council Roem. Tientsin, May 28th, 1936.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG-
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PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS "of· CHARLES EDWARD ANTON late of Forthill House Broughty Ferry Scot land, Gentleman, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the
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enhanced the signlôcance roguery Trade
Tientsin in the enters this area
of
area.
AMSTERDAM DISASTER
Amsterdam. Jure 3.
Anancier van The prominent either Hengel, Director General of the the Austrian Creditanstalt, and well-known Austrian airman Cap- tain Brumowski, were killed here on Tuesday, when the sport-plane the latter crashed in piloted by landing on the Amsterdan aero- drome. Hengel was on his way to Amsterdam from Basel--- Tansocean News Servier.
through the coastal ports or by the Peking-Mukden Railway, which pierces the Great Wall at Shanha!- kwan. At the latter place there is a large Japanese garrison, and all along the coast the Chinese police
and Custom officials are, powerless to prevent flagrant breaches of those regulations whereon, in the last analysis, the financial credit of the Nanking Government, de- Japanese Foreign bends, The Office claims that this has nothing to do with Japan, who will not only take no action herself but will dis- courage the attempts of other Powers to check the abuse. Suave- ly ignoring all the facts of the case, the Japanese protest that they are not to be blamed for the laxity of Chinese officials or for the high tariffs which encouraged
MOVEMENT REVIVED smuggling by making it profitable.
Sir Frederick Maze, the Inspector- General of the Chinese Maritime Customs, in a statement published Tientsin, Jane 4.
recently showed how evadiye these.) Once again the "autonomous" excuses are by recalling that the movement inspired by the Japan- Customs, preventive service worked ese has been revived in Tientsin. efficiently until it was forced to Under the instructions of the disarm. He describes the present Japanese, the "Public Safe Asso- situation as serious and unprece- ciation the Asiatic Association" dented and as a contravention of and the "North China: Sel- the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1898; Government Promoting Associa- but he says that "it is no use ex- tion" have been extremely active pecting any improvement until the In the past few days.
Chinese Customs service is allowed These associations are headed to rearm its preventive vessels and by Kao Kin-wei Tsao Ju-ling and officers, and the railways cease "Lu Tsung-yu Tsao was vice- helping the smugglers by carrying Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1932 smuggled goods. and assisted Yuan Shih-kai in
Much of the smuggling moskover negotiations with Japan over the is in the hands of Japanese or issue of the Twenty-One Demands Koreans who even in 1915. He became Minister of tonomous" area
if the "au- were not under
provisions of Section 58 of Or Communications and concurrently Japanese control enjoy extra ter-
dinance No. 2 of 1897 made an order miting the time for credi tors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 26th day of June, 1936.
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All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under. signed on or before that date.
DEACONS, Solicitors for the Executors, 1, Des Voeux-Road C., Hong Kong.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEETING 1936
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Lu was Chinese Minister Japan between 1913-16 and sup- ported Yuan Shih-kal in monarchial movement All these persons are considered by the Chinese public as traitors.
Its
ritorial rights; and in cases where some proportion of the normal Customs rates are charged dis- to crimination-sometimes amounting to a reduction of 50 per cent.-is being made in favour of cargoes emanating from Japan. The scandal is of recent, origin. extent and 'the damage done not Posters and handb'ls have been only to the revenues of the 'Nan- to aiso these king Government but distributed by members at
China are associations in the Japanese Con- legitimate trade in cession and the Chinese territory clearly indicated. by Sir Frederick in the past few days.--
Maze. Broadly speaking, it, is pro- ducing with remarkable rapidity Union News.
One is three important results.
SHANGHAI MAYOR'S AT HOME
Foreign Minister Among The Guests
AIR CRASH
Chinese Pilot Killed In Canton
A Southwest. Aviation Corpora- tion machine crashed at the aerodrome in Canton yesterday afternoon. according to newa received in the Colony.
The Chinese pilot of the machine was kliled. ..
DEATHS DURING
VOYAGE
P. And 0. Purser And A Passenger
London, June 4. On the arrival of the P. and O. liner at Plymouth to-day, it was learned that the purser, Mr. Wil Ham Gentry, a popular officer of the P. and D. Company, had died on the voyage.
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In the practice of medicine a good doctor does not content him- self with merely treating the symptoms of a disease; he gets down to the primary cause, and f out the infected necessary cuts part so that the patient can start afresh with the source of poison removed.
With this analogy. before us let us consider the, subject which is so much in the public eye at the present time.
Of course slavery is against the first principles of British Ethics and it is therefore natural that the Home Government should send out a commission to enquire into the Mui-tsal problem.
social
DEALING WITH SYMPTOMS This problem has been with us so long, and causes much less suf- fering than many worse evils that we ourselves cannot wax as enthusiastic over the commis- sion as doubtless people in Eng- land would expect of us.
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A very unusual procedure was adopted in the Summary Court yesterday" when an application by the solicitor for the plaintiff to And nothing is going to prevent
give evidence in support of his this pathetic selling, or abandon-alient's case was granted. ing of superfluous babies as long as they continue to be born in Buch colossal numbers,
GÖVERNMENT MUST GET
DOWN TO ROOT CAUSE
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a
pick-pocketing of Alleged passenger disembarking from a steamer formed the subject of Is it wise for the Hong Kong charges against Lee Kiu. 30. wharf Government-who naturally is far coolie, and Lai Foo, 31, unlicensed more knowledgeable about local hawker, at the Central Magistracy problems than are officials at yesterday. Home.-to continue to treat symp-
toms
а "01 fundamental evil instead, of getting down to the root cause?
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A story concerning the theft and disposal of three mah-jong sêts." A wide dissemination of Eugenics was told by Inspector M. H. Hour!- In general, and Birth Control in han in the Central Police Court. particular is the only way we can yesterday when four Chinese were hope to improve the standard of charged before Mr. W. Schofield. living amongst the poorer classes in Hong Kong,
Miss Picton Turbevill, in her interesting talk to the Rotary Club said that "the trouble in England was that procedure was so slow that we cannot bring our laws up to the conditions of the 20th cen" tury quickly enough." And that is the trouble here. Conditions have
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MEMORIAL TO LATE KING
changed. Modern Science makes Premier's Appeal To
it possible to maintain life where formerly death would have taken its toll, but we have not realised the necessity for correspondingly adjusting the Birth Rate.
course.
Nation
Londen, June 3. In England at the present time
Broadcasting on the eve of the there are Birth Control Clinics run late King. George's birthday. Mr. In conjunction with many leading Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minis- hospitals where women are given ter, appealed to the members of the necessary advice as to the pro- the "one great family" to resolve per spacing of their families: as that long after their voices were well as ante-natal, and later infant still there would be some perman- welfare information, as a matter of ent memorial to King George, which would be for the service and Why should we withhold such happiness to future generations knowledge from poor Chinese wo-
and a Visible sign of the love of men who are British subjects, Į the late King's people living under British Rule? Burely they deserve as goot treatment as poor women at Home?
Things are slow enough in Eng- land in all conscience, let us rot be guilty of being even slower in Hong Kong in matters of such vital importance to the communi- to: or we shall never achieve our
"Ideal Colony".
Alec, here is a flagrant example of the too common practice of dealing with one symptom of an evil, and entirely overlooking the fundamental cause.
In short, if there were not "too many babies born to impoverished families who cannot give them a decent start in life, there would not be the incentive to sell the girl children as virtual slaves.
It is not in human nature abandon your offspring unless you are faced with the alternative of
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"AN ENQUIRER.”
LOCAL AND GENERAL
We hear that the Adjutant of A week later, Mr. Harry Foot, a the R.A.F. at Kai Tak, F/Lt, J. N. 48-year-old passenger bound to D. Anderson has been promoted to Brighton from Penang, died in his the rank of Squadron Leader. cabin and was burled at sea.—
Reuter.
[The P. and O. liner which ar- rived at Plymouth on June 4, ac- cording to the sailing list, was the Carthage which left Hong Kong on May 2 and Penang on May 9.)
FAMOUS NURSE
PASSES.
The Prime Minister commended the two schemes" adopted" by the Lord Mayor of London's Commit- tee; Arst, a statue to be erected between Westminster Abbey and the House of Parlament, in as
spot beautiful a
as any in the world, where it would stand for all the members of Britain's family, as well as visitors from abroad, to see; second, the provision of chil- dren's playing Belds throughout the country, for which there was an increasing need,
"Land-owners can give their land, and the rich can give their wealth, but I want to see a real offering of the people," and com- plete realisation that all classes of the country and the Empire are members of one family," said Mr. Baldwin...
Sanoh, Muangreong and Brajuab, the three Slathese tennis players Who are making an unofficial tour of the China coast at the invita- tion of Mr. Vilas Osatananda, Heuter, Telegrams addressed to Juanita Siam Trade Commissioner in Hong
here arrived
yesterday Hotel Kowloon Topacle.
from Kong. Manila and Schwartz Post Restante morning by the 8.8. Helios. They from Manila are lying unclaimed will play exhibition matches in at the offices of the E.E. Telegraph Hong Kong. Canton and Macao.
Co., Ltd.
A black chow dog owned by Mr. Weeks, of 320, Lockhart, Road, has been sent to Kennedy Town for observation. The animal bit a female servant, Chan Yau, about two weeks ago. After receiving the bite the woman left and it is not
Washington, June 3. The death has occurred of Miss Clara Dutton Noyes," one of the the elimination of British and most prominent figures in Anierl-known other foreign commercial interests can nursing.-
io North China, who cannot com- | lieuter. pete in a market flooded with duty-free contraband. The second
is a grave threat to the financial
Customs
whether she has been medically treated. The police are now trying to trace her.
While walking in Bebington Path at 7.15 on Wednesday night, Miss Chan, of 13 Babington Path, was robbed of her handbag con- taining $4 in money and mis- cellaneous articles.
Lt. Col. Garfinkel, former A.D.G. to the Governor-General of the Philippines, who arrived on the President Taft to meet his wife' and daughter, who are returning to Manila from "a short visit to
MEMORIAL FUND
Contributions Pouring In
London, June 3.
King George V Memorial Fand as opened to-day to-day on the an- niversary of the late King's birth- day with an appeal by the Lord Mayor on behalf of the National Memorial which is to take the form or a Statue in Westminster on á specially cleared site between the Houses of Parliament and West- minster Abbey and of playingdelda
throughout the country.
Japan, was entertained to tiffin yesterday, together with Mrs. Gar- ankel and Miss Nina Garfinkel, on the Jacobean Room of the Hong Kong Hotel by Mr. and Mrs. George Sulul, of New York. The guests included, besides L.-Col, Mra, and Miss Garfinkel, Mr. Geo. H. Potts, Comdr. and Mrs White. Mr. E. M.
Early subscriptions include 1000 Raymond, Mrs, L. Armann, Mr.
guineas from Lord Wakefield, an- Felix Ellis, Mrs. Rockholtz, Mr. A Mrs. M. Simon, Mr. and Mrs. other 1000 guineas from the Wake- Edgar. Mrs. A. Turner, Mr. and Shekury. Mr. J. R. Paton, Missfield Company and five-hundred Naomi Joseph, Mr. and Mrs. Harry guineas from Match Manufactur- Odell, Mr. Sidney Edgar Missing Firm Bryant and May. Grace Ezra, Mr. Harry Joseph, and L-Col. Sturdevant.
stability of the Central Govern- for either reduced tariff rates or ment of China. China's credit de-independent Customs in the North pends to a large extent on the in exchange for. à cessation of
revenues, on which a smuggling may shortly be made large proportion of her foreign "semi-officially," for Japan has loans are secured; and it is com-dicially denied her complicity-by
A warrant has been issued for The Second day of the above,"
Shanghai, June 4. puted that under present con- Tokyo to Nanking. The third re- POSTPONED from Monday, İst General Chang Chun, Foreign ditions' in North China the Centralsult of these events in North China the arrest of Leung Yat-lam. 30. Is the undermining of Japan's for the alleged embezzlement of prestige. Those Japanese who $5.100. the property of his master, June, will be held (weather Minister, and Mr. T. T. LA, director Government is being defrauded at permitting) on SATURDAY, 6th of the Intelligence Bureau, arrived the rate of £120,000 a week. The
The two Filipino fillers, Arnaiz JUNE, 1936. The First Bell from Nanking this morning and matter has already been made the have so often and so loudly pro- Ho Pak-choi, of 10, Mosque Street.
and de Calva, have not yet re are attending the reception in the subject of diplomatic protest in claimed their mission as a stabiliz- will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and
their specious Recent acting appointments made celved word that their permit to countries; and the evasive answers easily reconcile the first race will be run at 2.00 afternoon given by the Mayor of Tokyo, from China and from other ing force in the Far East will not
returned by the Japanese authori- words with a policy which aims in the Hong Kong Police are as ny over Indo-China and Borneo pm.
Hes indicate that connivance in at bankrupting the only firm follows:-Sub-Inspf. S. Bhepheard has been granted. Their depar- Approximately 1,400 Chinese and this soddy swindle is not merely Government in China, Japan's to Acting Inspector, Police Sergt. ture from the Colony on the next foreign guests have been invited.
an affair of local military action present policy in this context may Oliver to Acting Sub-Inspector, leg of their journey to Europe, General Chang Chun will be but a deliberate stroke of Govern-infiict grave financial loss on Lance Sergeant T. Hunter to Act- therefore, has been delayed again,
to-day. returning to Nanking on Sunday mental policy. Advices received In China; but it will do harm to her ing Police Sergeant. Lance Bergt. They hope, however to set off
Groves to Acting Folice Bergeant; London suggested that proposals own credit as a nation. [4471-Reuters,
By Order,
S. A, SLEAP,
Acfg. Secretary. Hong Kong, 1st June, 1936.
Shanghai, Mr, Wa Teh-chen, at the Civic Centre.
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The Prime Minister's broadcast to-night to the Nation and Empire on behalf of the fund was relayed throughout the United States.---- British Wireless..
Only one case of Enteric Fever was reported to the Health Ad-
Wednesday. thorities for the 24 hours ended on
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