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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1936.

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ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. KINDER-On August 9, 1936. at

HONG KONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED

NOTICE TO MONTHLY TICKET HOLDERS

Monthly Tickets will be on sale, in future, at the SHOW. ROOM of the HONG KONG ELECTRIC COMPANY in the Gloucester Building Arcade, in- stead of at Messrs Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

September Tickets will be on sale on the 29th & 31st August and the 1st & 2nd September,

1936.

The Showroom is open from 9. a.m. to 5 pm. except Satur days when it closes at 1 p,m,

HONGKONG TRAMWAYS

LIMITED

NOTICE TO SHARE.

HOLDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

INTERIM

AQ

DIVIDEND of 20 (twenty) cents per Share has been declared pay. able on WEDNESDAY, 26th AUGUST Rext, on and after which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained upon application at the Registered Office of the Company, Canal Road East, Bow rington, Hong Kong.

NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER of MEMBERS of the Company F. H. GLOVER,

vill be closed from WEDNES Acting General Manager, DAY, 12th, to TUESDAY, 25th Hong Kong, 15th August, 1936. | AUGUST, 1936, both days in

clusive.

All

IN THE

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ESTATE of Alexander Colbourne Little late of Victoria in the Colony of Hong

Kong, Architect, deceds- ed.

persons having claims against the estate of the above named deceased are requested to send particulars thereof to the Undersigned forthwith.

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Bracken, Churt, Surrey, Claude William Kinder, C.M.G., M.I.- C.E, Imperial Chinese Order of the Double Dragon. Mandarin Red Button. 2nd class,

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Shots Fired At CHINA RAILWAY LOAN NEWS SUMMARY

Soldiers

HILL-Walter Joseph, of Nab H. Gunmen Outrage In

Walderslade, late of Butterfeld

and Swire, Hong Kong, rud- dealy at Preston. on" August»5, .. 1939.

MARRIAGES LOWE-STEVENS. On August 8, 1938, at St. John's Church, Southwick-crescent, W., by the Rev. Cecil Grant and the Rev. P. Nichols, vicar, Percy Bruce, only son of Mrs, L. C. Lowe. of

Rivermead Court, London, S.W., and the late Francis H. Lowe, of Shanghai, and Halifax, to Anne Mary, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs: Edwin A. Stevens, of 1.

Burwood-place, Hyde Park, W. The marriage took place at St. Michael's, Broadway, of Mr. Arthur Leslie Robotham, of Harborn and Northwood, and Miss Margaret Joyce Patrick.

Peiping Street

BRITISH EMBASSY

ACTION

Pelping. Aug. 25. A number of gunmen, who up all the present have not yet been identified, fired seven shots from

motor car at three British soldiers here at midnight last night.

The Incident occurred as the soldiers were returning to their barracks in the Lexation Quarter from the cinem

They were proceeding along the main east-to-west. road, just north of the Legation Quarter, when a big closed car drove up from be-

REPAYMENTS

London Disappointed At

Low Interest Rate

"London, Aug. 25.

The Chinese Government an-

The

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Talma is at present anchored at Kowloon Bay pending instructiona from her owners as to where she is to go for repairs.

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"Consequent on the indisposition 01 His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, who is a patierit. at the Victoria Hospital suffering from an attack of shingles, the Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North was sworn in as Omcer Administering the

nouncement regarding the resump NANKING PEACE Government by His Honour the

tion of interest payment on the

Langhal and Kowloon-Canton rail-

ways has received a mixed, recep- tion in the London Stock Ex- change.

Bumours that the Lunghai rail-·

way will shortly be reservicing has so long been rife that the im- mediate effect was a fractional fall in the bonds, some quarters even expressing disappointment that the interest rate was not starting at better than 1 per cent.

The market attributes that the

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EFFORTS

Troops Ordered To Retire

Canton, August 25. Nanking troops Uning up the Kwangsi borders were instructed to-day to retire so as to remove any suspicion and to pave the way by peaceful means.

Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGre- Pure 1. gor, yesterday.

Delayed two hours by boisterous winds the Imperial Airways plane Dorado arrived here at 1.15 p.m. yesterday.

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Mrs. Adamczewski, wife of Dr. Adamczewski, residing at 377 The Peak, and her two sons aged nine and seven years, were admitted to the War Memorial Hospital suffer- ing from shock following a moter

The Peak Church on morning.

The Rev. H, E, Wynn omciated, hind, and the occupants thrus trend of the Lunghai bonds were of adjusting the Kwangsi situation/accident on Stubbs Road' opposite

assisted by Bishop Duppoy. out two revolvers and fred seven The bride was given away by shots at the tommies whe were her father, the Rev. V. H. Pat- then passing the Grand Hotel de rick. The honeymoon will be Pekin. spent abroad.

By Order of the Board,

W. F. SIMMONS,...

Secretary. Hong Kong, 4th August, 1936. 4601

Editorial

THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN

GOLD MINING COMPANY, LIMITED

(Incorporated in Queensland).

Dated this 26th day of August, Notice of Declaration of Interim 1936.

DEACONS,

Solicitors for the Executors, No. 1 Des Voeux Road Central,

Hong Kong,

46-40

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION

NOTICE IS

Dividend.

..

None of the soldiers were hit but a rickshaw man was struck on

over bought to its present position, resulting in the liquidation by stale "bulls," but many point out that the Lunghal interest will, within two years, be at least equal to the Kowloon-Canton Railway

pay-

The Central Authorities are taking a liberal attitude towards Kwangs in spite of the fact that Generals Li Tsung-lens and Pel Chung-hsl,

Kwangsi chieftains,

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Summoned at the instance of Dr. J. B. Mackle for having driven bus. care and No. 415 without due

the leg. though not seriously in- ments, although at the present the have not complied with Nanking / caution in Island Road near Shou-

and Business

Office:jured. 15-19. Queen's Road Central Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchat Office):

Tel. 24511.

London Office: 53, Fleet

E.C. .4.

Street

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, Avousr 28, 1936.

WHO OWNS THE AIR?

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declared that the yehlzie, bora no lcence plate, and because the night was overcast. and the street Indiferently lighted. the soldiers were unable to judge the nationa- lity of the attackers.

Lunghals are a better buy that the orders. Kowloon-Canton.

After the shooting the car drove

General Ching Chien, Chief-of- rapidly away and a Chinese · po-

A spectacular jump in the priceStaff of the Military Affärs Com- liceman who was on point duty of the Kowloon-Canton bonds sur-misalon. It is reported. has tele- about Ofty yards away tried unprised many who were not expect- | graphed to Generals' Li and Pel successfully to stop the car. He ing any immediate payment of to designate a certain place for a more than 1 or 2 per cent," but meeting with a view to achieving the market realises that the dis-national uniñcation— crepancy in the price movements Union News. in both the Lunghals and Kowloon- Cantons, are largely attributable to the difference in the amounts out- standing: Kowloon-Cantons amount to only. £171,000 plus drawn bonds 940.000 whereas Lunghals amount to £4.000.000. At present Lung- hais are 32 sellers and Kowloon 32 bid.

The British Embassy has made representations to the Chinese authorities, requesting that proper measures be taken to protect B- #ish lives and property.

All the three soldiers were mem- bers of the Worcester Regiment

Reister.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Interim Dividend of Four Pence per share on account of the financial year ending 31st March, 1937, has been declared by the Directors of the Company in Brisbane, payable on 11th maintained, with some of September, 1936, to Shareholders authority, during the earlier on the Registers at Brisbane and stages of the "air" cases, that Singapore on

the owner of land was the owner 10th September, HEREBY 1936.

of all that was above that land, GIVEN that the Cèrtlicate No. NOTICE is also hereby given

namely, the air, and that it was

gisters will be closed from Friday, 4th September, to Thursday, 19th September, 1936, (both days inclusive), for the preparation of Dividend Warrants.

There have been many highly forming the Embassy guard."

jo contentious caseB throughout the world on the sub- ject of air 'ownership. It was

5/NS. 7710 dated Hongkong 17th that the Singapore Transfer Re-respass to fly over that land and

By Order of the Board, DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants,

Local Secretaries. Hong Kong Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE, 14th August,

June 1922 for four shares of this Bank numbered 4932/4935 regis tered in the name of Mr. Duncan Murdoch Cameron and Certificate No. 6/NS. 7711 dated Hongkong 17th June 1922 for four shares numbered 93283/93284

And 132370/132371 in the name of Miss Elizabeth Beatrice Cameron have been Lost or Stolen, Yand should these certificates not be produced to the Bank before 6th September 1936, new certificates | 1936. for the shares will be-issued, and the aforesaid Certificates Nos. 6/NS. 7710 and 5/NS. 7711 will be thereafter treated by this Cor- poration as Null and Void,

By Order of the Board of

Directers,

Y. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager..

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

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ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY.

School opens on Monday, Sep. tember 7th. Examination for New Students at 9.30 a.m.

For Prospectus, for Boarders and Day-boys, apply Mr. Fang Man Sui or Mr. Chan Pak Luk, 2。 Messrs. H. Wicking, Princes Building (Tel. 30241), or The Warden,

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE that an Interim Dividend of One

Dollar

per Share has been declared for the six months ended 30th June, 1936, and will be payable on and after FRIDAY, 11th SEPTEMBER, 1936. Dividend Warrants may be ob tained on application at the Com pany's Registered Office, P. & Building.

THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 31st AUGUST, to THURSDAY, 10th SEPTEMBER (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be register- ed.

By order of the Board of Directors.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON

& CO.,LTD.

Agents. Hong Kong, 30th July, 1936.

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STANLEY.

DIOCESAN BOYS SCHOOL

Founded 1869,

4610

Hong Kong.

Headmaster-Rev. C.B.R. Sar- gent, M.A. (Cantab.).

Next term starts on Tuesday, September 1st at 8:30 a.m.

'New boys' tests will be held on Monday, August 31st at 9 a.m.

Entry forms, prospectuses and all particularsTM may be obtained from the Acting Headmaster. - Telephone No. 57777.

MOB ATTACK ON JAPANESE

Shanghai, Aug. 24. Sserious repercussions are feared as the result of an attack on four Japanese by Chinese mob at

Chengt. Szechuen, last eventus according to a brief report received

by the local Japanese naval au- thorities.

Reuter

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CHINA "GROWING”

RESPECTABLE”

NANKING PARDON FOR GENERALS

Nanking, Aug. 25. The Chinese press states the National Government has issued i mandate pardoning General Chen Ming-shu, former Governor of Fu-. | kien, and

Chi-sen, General LI former Governor of Kwangtung. who played an important role in the abortive Fukien revolt in 1932.

General Chen is London, Aug. 25.

at present "Really China is growing almost touring Europe and General Li is too respectable," smiled Mr. Quo believed to be residing in Hong Tai-chi, the Chinese Ambassador Kong.

This appears to be the first step when interviewed by Reuter Te- garding the recent loan settle towards a general amnesty for po- ments, and the popularity of litical offenders who formerly con- Chinese loans as compared with a tributed to the cause of the re- through that air without the con-

few years ago. Financial editors public. sent of the owner. Many cases,

give prominence to the latest Reuter,

the British courts to the effect however, have been decided in

settlements, the "Financial Times" featuring an article by F. K. Pan. Chief Secretary at the Chineze that the owner of the land docs

Ministry of Railways, which em- not necessarily own the air above

phasises the Importance the Chinese Government attaches to such land unless he utilises it..

liquidating debts and restoring the

Mantia, August 25. In the United States of

The Philippine Chinese General National credit, especially with the America this subject again came

view to obtaining fresh capital for Chamber of Commerce represent- up for discussion in the courta

the construction of new railways. Lag Chinese organisations through- out the islands met to-night and when the owners of the property

The Chinese Government is per- close to an airport claimed they

fectly sincere with its creditors. unanimously adopted a resolution owned 150 feet of air over it.

and only asked that they show a to open a fund immediately for atmilar spirit in the negotiation, the purchase of aeroplanes to be The airplanes, leaving and ar

and recognise the changed con- presented to General Chiang Kai- riving at the airport, Blew through cident.

ditions in both China, and the shek, on the occasion of his birth- that space, and the property

It is now reported that two world. Pan ended by saying that day in October, for national de-

fence. All Chinese in the Philip owners sued for damages for Japanese were killed, one was there were many indications in

Wounded and one is recent months of the increasing pines are expected to contribute trespass. Justice Bert E. Haney seriously

The three victims were

tendency to take a favourable view declared:

from Shanghai including two of the conditions in China, and Nanking's success in handling the pressment Renter.

southern revolt has created a good impression.

The sky has no definite location, and, like the sea, is incapable of private owner- ship. The owner of land owns as much of the air above him as he uses, but only so long as he uses it. All that lies beyond belongs to the world. *·

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Two of the victims were seriously two are Injured and "the "other missing.

"The Japanese Consular Poilce from Chunking are rushing to the scene to investigate.---Renter.

EMERGENCY CONFERENCE

Nanking, Aug. 25. Officials of the Chinese Foreign Office are reported to be holding an emergency conference to-mor- row, to consider the Chengta in-

missing.

WOMAN SHOT IN LEG

Armed Robber

Outrage

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AEROPLANE" GIFT TO CHIANG

Beuter.

GREECE HONOURS KING EDWARD

Many observers remark on the less disturbing character of Japan-

London, August 25. ese policy towards China since the

The Acropolis will be floodlit Tokyo mutiny on February 2, last during the stay in Athens of King while some observers regret the Edward whose yacht, the Nahlin, cancellation of a portion of the is due to arrive at Phaleron to- railway debts as condoning the day. The visit will last until principle of repudiation, but gen- Thursday.

erally the agreements are wel- British Wireles comed, and the Chinese difficulties make good is

and desire recognised.-

to

K: C. R. PLAN OUTLINED

Shanghai, Aug. 25.

son Hill on the afternoon of August 10, Yuen Wing, driver of the bus. was convicted by Mr. W. Schofield. at the Central Magistracy yester- day.

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Two privates of the 2nd Batta- Hon. East Lancashire Regiment, have been sentenced to 18 months" imprisonment with hard labour and discharged with ignominy from His Majesty's forces, according to the promulgated decisions yester- day of a District Court Martial which sat last week. Page 11.

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Amusement was caused at auction held yesterday at Messis. Lammert's when Chinese made bold bids to acquire old equipment of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps which included kilts. Page 1

An attractive programme has been mapped out for to-night at the "" bathi when the quadran- gular swimming went will be held.

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Another case of a man stealing

from a street sleeper came before the Kowloon Court yesterday.

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A comprehensive Year-Book has been issued by the Hong Kong Rifle Association which is review- Page 12. ed on

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr. C. Rodgers, aviator, arrived

in the Colony and is residing at the Repulse Bay Hotel It is un- derstood that Mr. Rodgers is con- nected with Imperial Airways, Ltd.

A dinner dance will be held on. the Open Roof of Reptilse Bay Lido weather permitting and at the Repulse Bay Hotel in event of bad weather, to-day at 9 p.m..."

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Mr. Ashton, the Assistant Secre- tary of the European Y.M.C.A., who has taken up his duties recently. 1s we understand, on the sick list and has been removed to the How- loon Hospital. He is suffering from an irritating rash on his arms."

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¡A flannel dance will be held by the local section of the Health, Strength, Sports and Athletic, Club " at Hotel Cecil on the coming Satur- day, August 29 from 9 p.m. to 12.45 from the Ministry and $200,000.m. Members and their friends are from the Railway,

admission

·welcome. ` at. This fund will be increased to charges. By kind permission öf $800,000 from June 1941 by an addi-Lent.-Col. R. M. Rodwell... and tional payment of $250,000 "from

Officers the Dance Orchestra of the the Ministry to "be used for 1st Bn. Royal Ulster Rifles will be amortization of the principal in attendance,

The amortization payment will commence on January 1, 1837 out of the balance of loan service fund remaining after payment of in- terest,

The principal of loan will be fully repaid within the maximum period

"

The return showing the number

of cases Notinable Diseases' which

The case presents an interest- ing phase of the mounting com- plexities inventions bring to modern existence. Legal minds

Four men, one armed with a will probably work out. new revolver attempted to perpetrate a ruler.. legislation to meet new condi. robbery in a busy section of Wan- tions. Certainly it seems that chat near Arsenal Street, at 11 am. some equitable adjustment satis- yesterday, but owing to the bravery" factory to airmen and landsmes of a woman, were forced to make a speedy exit without any material will crentually have to be made. Kain Traffic restrictions have been im-

The woman, Yip Wal Fam, of No, The Minister of Railways has a posed in Europe forbidding 3 Star Street, was shot in the legnounced the following offers con- foreign airmen to fly over another and seriously wounded when she ceraing the resumption of service rained an alarm. The other in-op bonds of the Canton-Kowloon country's territory. “

mates of the flat cowered before Railway loan 1905: It is fast becoming almost im before the pointed gup.

The first interest will be paid at possible to look up without seeing In spite of her leg wound. the the rate of 21 per cent. per an- an airplane. Few are the homes woman Yip souted for help, with num. for the first twenty years and where the approaching drone of the result that the desperadoes 5 per cent. hereafter with the pro- the serial combustion engine is Brew frightened and ran away.viso that during the first twenty lasted for the balance and will be notifiable 71 cases:

Three were armed with Scissor years should the net earnings of the railway amount to more than $200,000 per annum, the surplus will be used first to increase the Interest to the maximum 5 per cent. then for additional Amortization payments.

$

"The

wounded woman

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not familiar. It is not difficult blades, to envisage the rapidly nearing day and night when its hum moved to the Government Civil Hospital, where late enquiries re- may definitely disturb.

realed that she was progressing

Will the engineers overcome. the difficulties, which so far have prevented the silencing of motors before restive rural and suborban.

favourably,

There was a clean bill of Health P. O. Box 33. dwellers demand reasonable rein the Coloty for the 24 hour

ended on Monday.

4682gulation?

The first interest payment will be made on January 1, 1937 and an annunt loan service fund of $550,- 000 will be provided of which $350,-

000 w be from funda avaliable

of 50 years.

Four-fifths of the interest in ar- rears will be cancelled.

Non-interest bearing scrip will be

paid after complete amortization of principal of loan.

The Minister of Railways states that steps are being taken, to im prove the conditions of the railway and its administration with a view to benefitting both the Gov. ernment interests and those of bondholdera, Reuter.

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have been notified as having oc curred in the Colony of Hong Kong during the week ended August 22 is as follows:-Diphtheria 2 cases,

1 death, I imported; Enteric Fever 13 cases, 4 deaths, 2 Imported; Cerebro-Spinal Fever 2 cases, - 1 death; Tuberculosis (deaths), not

TYPHOON WARNINGS

The following typhoon warnings were despatched from Manila at 3.20 pm, yesterday through the American Consulate

Cyclone or typhoon S.W. 'of Nahs, moving WNW of NW.

Cyclone or typhoon over North China Sea developing.