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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

MARSMAN HONG KONG CHINA, LIMITED.

Notice is hereby given that the above named Company has Issued a Prospectus dated the 9th day of December 1935 a copy of which has been delivered to the Registrar of Com. panies for registration, in respect of the issue at par ol 600,000 shares of 10 each. The said Prospectus states among other things that the objects of the Company are as set forth in the Memorandum of Association which is included in the said Prospectus, and the objects therein mentioned for which the Company has been formed include the purpose ol engaging in the industry of mining in all its phases and the Netherland East branches in Eastern countries such as Indies, Malaya, China, the Colony of Hong Kong and the leased territories; and to finance develop and manipulate and manage, for any existing companies, any mines which after in- vestigation appear favourable for profitable exploitation.

Also to carry on business as consulting engineers to any gavérament or state or any municipal or other body in civil mechanical and electrical engineering; and to finance design "and construct engineering works of all kinds such as decks, harbours, bridges, railways, tramways, hydro-electric and power stations water works sanitation schemes and all works of public utility.

Also to aid any government state municipality corpora tion or company with capital and resources for the further. ance of any revenue producing projects or enterprises; And to hold and deal in any shares stocks and securities of any govern ment corporation or company and to invest and deal with the monies of the Company not immediately required upon such securities as may be determined by the Directors.

It is intended to appoint Mr. G.B. Gifford Hull as the Managing Director of the Company as soon as his present ob- ligations with regard to the works at Shing Mun are fulfilled.

The authorised capital of the Company is £500,000. divided into 20,000 A Shares of 10 each and 980,000 or dinary shares of 10%. each. ̧

The first Directors are: Jan Hendrik Marsman, Stan- ley Hudson Dodwell, Benjamin Shannon Ohdick, Thomas Burlington Wilson, George Charles Dankwerth and Gordon Burnett Gifford Hull.

The whole issue, and any future issue of the authorised capital, have been underwritten by Jan Hendrik Marsman for 2 total consideration of £27,500 under a Contract made be tween him and the Company dated the 8th day of December 1936.

This Notice is not to be regarded as an invitation to subscribe for shares. Its real object is to acquaint the gen eral public with the alms of the Company. Applications for shares will only be received on the footing of the full Pro spectus and on the forms issued therewith.

Bankers: The Hongkong & Shanghal Banking Corporation

and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China. Auditors: Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews. Solicitors: Messrs. Hastings & Co.

Brokers: Messra. Benjamin & Potts and Swan, Culbertson

and Fritz.

MARINA HOUSE, HONG KONG.

Dated the 14th day of December, 1936.

LANE, CRAWFORD,

LTD.

XMAS SHOPPING HOURS.

For the convenience of our customers, the undernoted hours of business have been arranged:

Tuesday, 15th tp Friday, 18th. 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, 19th

8.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 21st to Wed'day, 23rd

· 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Thursday, 24th

8.30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

NOTICE."

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H. K. HORTICULTURAL

SOCIETY.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the above Society will be held at the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe son & Co., Ltd. (by kind per. mission), on Tuesday, the 15th December, 1936, at 5.15 p.m.

J. T. BAGRAM,

Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, 1st December, 1936.

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SANDAKAN LIGHT &

POWER COMPANY. (1922), LIMITED.

Notice is hereby given that the FOURTEENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of Share, bolders will be held at the Head

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

GOVERNMENT BILLS,

etc.

DOLLARS TENDERS for current in this Colony, for tele- graphic transfer, on the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, London, up to and for the sum of £125,000 will beure. ceived by the Treasury Chest Officer, Command Pay Office, un- til 11 o'clock a.m. on the 15th 'December, 1936.

The tenders to state the total amount (in pounds sterling). Noj telegraphic transfer will be made for less than £100.

The tenders to be in duplicate, and in sealed covers, addressed to the Treasury Chest Oficer, Com mand Pay Office, and endorsed "Tender for Government Bills,

etc."

The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is re- served,

DEATH

HANDS.--On December 13, 1936, as

the result of an accident, Al- bert Douglas Harold Hands,

DECEMBER 15, 1936.

CHRISTMAS FAIR Archbishop Of Canterbury

aged 24 years, of Imperial Air Successful Function

At German Club

and Business Ofice! Editorial

15-19. Queen's Road Central Tel. 30251.

Night Editor (Wanchai Office);

Tel. 24511.

London. Office: 53. Fleet Street

E.O. 1

The Daily

Daily Press.

Hoso Kona. DROEMBER 15, 1936.

MORE ABOUT

DEFENCE POLICY

Apparently the leading article which appeared in these columns Coples of Forms of Tender can yesterday entitled, be had on application.

"Persons tendering för (Bills) are hereby notified that having regard to the provisions of the Acts 22 George III Cap. 45 and 41 George III Cap. 52 the accep- tance of any such Tender is sub. ject to the express condition that

"Defenc

Why and How". has, according to comments received from cer tain expert quarters, ergendered considerable interest even outside the Services, so we embark upon the following addendum

The facts were gleaned from the reports of a three days' debate

month, of which only cryptic

no Member of the British House in the House of Lords last of Commons shall be admitted to any share or part in or to any comments appeared in the cabled benefit to arise from the Contract news, thereby made for the allotment of such (Bills)."

"The provisions in question do Hot apply to Contracts entered into by any incorporated Com- pany in its corporated capacity and made for the general benefit of the Company.''

-L. J. LIGHTFOOT,

Colonel. R. A. P. C., Treasury Chest Officer, His Majesty's Treasury Office, Hong Kong

NOTICE.

This debute was chameterised by an unusual, but most welcome, verbosity on the parts of those entitled by experience to speak oa'the subject of Britain a. De- fence Policy. That the general issue is complex will be readily admitted by the layinan, even more readily by the expert. At this debate many

important points were contributed to the general subject.

At 4 p.m. on Sunday, the doors leading to the sale rooms in the German Club were thrown open.

and prospective customers were

admitted to the Christmas Fair.

Two rooms in the Club were rally decorated, and saīša tables set up, laden with beautiful arti- cles of every description. There was a large quantity of tastefully coloured ceramics, glassware and really exquisite Jewellery, In a Cottage" a lively, sale of Christ- mas-tree decorations and sweets proceeded, whilst the children crowded the toys" shop.

At 4.30, after beating the gODE, Father Christmas „came la, and, gathering all the children around him, surprised them. by knowing many of their petty misbehaviours during the past year. However.

Taken To Task

STRONG CRITICISM BY MR. ALDOUS HUXLEY

Thousands Attend Peace Meeting In Glasgow

The Archbishop of Canterbury, was laken to task in Glasgow re- cently by Mr. Aldous Huxley, one of seven speakers at a Peace Pledge Union meeting in St. An- drew's Hall

As "a man of letters, a man whose business it was to deal with words." - Mr. Huxley said where peace and war were concerned he

Put in these words, the sentence did not sound quite so good. "You begin to have certain doubts about the righteousness of contemporary War."

It might be that the Archbishop really believed that indiscriminate. use of Are bombs and high ex- plosives was the ministry of God. If he really did believe it, then

with kindly words of advice, the thought most people used the he should have the courage and

"book was closed," and each child received a lovely present

A tea lounge was open during the whole afternoon, and much frequeâted.

was

The sale, which was continued

yesterday morning, was conducted by the German Women's Organisa- tion, and the funds raised will be contributed to the Winter Relief

work.

COL. I. KIRKPATRICK DEAD

Collapse In Street

While walking in Buckhurst Hill, Essex. recently. Col. Ivone Kirk- patrick, of Laughton, collapsed and

died in the street. He was. 78.

•

His brother, the Rev. A. T. Kirk: patrick, died in a similar manner a few years ago.

unless

we

wrong words. Non-pacifists were constantly assuring us that we could not have social order or international Justice used. force.

In 1938 the word, "force" in re- lation to war had a very definite

meaning. It

travelling

meant high ex-

honesty to say so.

He did not question the ex- cellence of the Archbishop's in- tentions, but the act remained that about "force" and to speak "sword" when in fact you meant. high explosives, mustard gas, and fire bombs, was to mislead the peo- ple

for who looked up to you

plosive, mustard gas, aeroplanes at balf the speed of sound, and tanks travelling at 40 aldance. miles an hour across country.

Was it conceivable that we could attain international justice and social order by means of instru- ments which produced the maximum amount of indiscrimin- ate slaughter and destruction?

The truth was that nobody could believe any such thing, and that was why precisely so many people used picturesque words to conceal the facts of contemporary reality.

PORCE AND THE SWORD In a recent speech the Arch- bisnop of Canterbury made the following remark:-"The, use of force, of the sword, by the State is tection of the people." the ministry of God for the pro-

Consider this sentence carefully, The two Mr. Huxley counselled. ker

To use such words was, whatever one's intentions might be, to be gulity of a monstrous perversion of the truth. A man in "the Arch- bishop's position had no right to misleading use such vague and terms.

into

All who were concerned with the problems of peace and war should translate abstract words and ple- turesque figures of speech words, which expressed the con- créte facts of contemporary reality.

HUMBURG AND HYPOCRISY

Lord Ponsonby asked what all the rumour of war was about, and why all the poling up of aria- ments?

Were we going to fight France? Inpossible. We were always in

Were we going to consultation.

words were "force" and "sword." The first was an empty fight the United States? Unthink- we going to fight abstraction and the second was able. Were

Italy? We had the chance of Service picturesque anachronism....

her the other

day. "Sword" was a very fine word. fighting

family, Col. Kirkpatrick joined the A member of a well-known Irish

South Stafford Regiment in 1880. He served in the Nile Expedition four years later and was present at the battle of Kirbekan.

During the European War he commanded the 6th For instance, Lord Swinton Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling gave some encouraging details Fusiliers, and from 1915 until 1919 4880 of the progress of the air pro- served on the Embarkation Staff. gramme, especially in recruiting He was mentioned twice in des- and training personnel. In some Col Kirkpatrick married the countries, the production of a Hon. Mary Hardinge, a former chines has outstripped the train-maid of honour to Queen Victoria,

patches.

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It called no visions of knights but the Government sheered, off- shining armour: It evoked Were we going to fight Ger- memories of the Old Testament. many? One of the rules was that Unfortunately. for at least 300 you never fought the same nation years swords had played no part twice running. whatever in serious European wär- fare."

To talk about swords in relation

What those working for peace were up against were the most formidable of enemies-humbug

I have pleasure in announcing ing of the men who are needed who died in 1931. His elder son is to modern war was about as -sen- } and hypocrisy. The idea of calling

and

Stockbrokers

F

Mr. Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick, First Secretary at the British Emsible as to talk about ex-waggons the diabolical preparation for war

"defence" was an instance of it. in relation to modern transport. bassy in Berlin.

"HUXLEY TRANSLATION"

The issue was simplicity itself. "Let 118," Mr. Huxley said. There was no halfway house. "You "translate the Archbishop's vague must either have war or you must words into words renounce war. I want to see my misleading which actually represent the facts country go to the League of Na- This is how the sentence of concrete contemporary reality. tions and say-This barbarity is would unworthy: it an outrage on read If you translated It

man's conscience and an insult to are never "The use of force by the State his intelligence. We that is to say, the use of fire

bombs, mustard gas, and high ex- plosive dropped

by aeroplanes upon defenceless civil populations Is the ministry of God for the

protection of the people."

to handle them. It is almost us that Messrs. M. I. Ling and Y.

uneconomic to have the machines C. Leong have this day been

'without men of adequate expert- granted jointly and severally my

without personal power of attorney and ass as to raise men

assuring them adequate means of or against naval forces is a point that of my firm.

operating electively. The two which obviously appeals to the signed:G.A. HARRIMAN kinds of provision should be ordinary judgment: Ou the other closely correlated. In regard to hand it is more difficult to see G.A. HARRIMAN the proposals for a Ministry of where a line can be drawn in & COMPANY, Supply, Lord Swinton gave some view of the increasing extent to valid reasons for the contention which above-based aircraft are that at the present stage it could likely to influence the course of 11, Queen's Road Central not effect a great acceleration of naval operations and the flow of

the future the commerce in the narrow seas. output; as to Government profess an open

The question is so mind.

that it requires the most impar that as well as the most searching examination. A decision made under pressure of sty interest

London, Dec. 13. King George VI, It is stated, is demand for the separation of the save that of scientific truth might

danigerously mis. planning to make a prove

journey Fleet Air Arm from the Royal

through the Empire in 1937, and placed. Air Force, and was supported by

will be accompanied by the Queen While Lord Trenchard may and probably also by the ten-year- Assistant Director Of Lord Salisbury, who, is one who overrats the risk that the air old Princess Elizabeth. At Christ-

had been closely concerned with Plans

squadrons operating over the seamas, following the example of his the Government Investigation

Father (King George V); the new might interfere with those en- which led to the existing arrange.

to the Empire from Sandringham,

and at

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ROYAL NAVY

Another source of the friction that is inimical to efficiency came under discussion when Lord Trenchard resisted the renewed

well

involved

NEW KING TO TOUR EMPIRE

going to participate in it again."

Counselling his audience to work for peace, he mentioned that they might have to suffer for their views, but, he added, they will have

to have big 'prisons to hold us all.

CORONATION DATE UNALTERED

London, Dec 13.

In official quarters it is stated that the date of the coronation re- mains unaltered. King George VI will be crowned on May 12,1937-

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"

Captain F. R. Garside, who has ment, expressed the view that gaged in the direct defence of taonarch will broadcast a message 14,600,000 VISITORS TO A. D. H. HANDS, deceased; Office of the Company, Bank of been attending the senior officers the considerations which in the country, he is justified in the favourite country residence of war course at Greenwich, has been fluenced the original arrangement protesting against the strident King George V. where King George will all persons having claims, East Asia Building, Hong Kong appointed to the Naval Stam for appeared sill to hold good." It Propaganda which has been cu- VI will spend Christmas with the]

Tuesday, 29th December, the new post of Assistant Director should; however, be recognized played towards achieving a Qusen and the Queen Mother.---

against the estate of the late Mr. A.D.H. Hands, Imperial Air ways, "Ltd., submit same on or

December, before 31st

1936

to:-

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS (FAR

EAST), LIMITED PENINSULA HOTEL, KOWLOON.

4888

oй

1936, at 12 o'clock, noon...

SHEWAN TOMES & CO., General Managers, Hong Kong, 14th Dec., 1936.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

of Plans (Trade). Hitherto a com- mander, R.N., has been in charge of the section of the Plans Division dealing with trade questions. Up to 1928 there was a Trade Division

that conditions have changed

considerably,

Sailors are now more conscious of the value of aircraft in the

change

in the present system. However mach may be said for the possible benefits of a redistri- bution of responsibility, there is

4879 of the Naval Staff, which for res naval sphere, and owing to the nothing that can be said for some

sons of economy was merged in the Plans Division.

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SOVIET TO BUILD MAGINOT LINE

"THE_DOGS" IN A YEAR

Exchequer Gets £147,210

There were 14.811,427 attendances In the year ended June 30 last at dog-racing tracks licensed by the National Greybound Racing Club. The Exchequer received. B147,210 from those attendances as enter- of the methods that have been

London, Dee. 13.. tainment tax, states the "Morning The Boviet Government is plan- Post."... A captain is now technical development of aircraft manifested in pressing for it. If

Lord Aswith, President of the added to the Plans Division in view the two spheres more closely the clamour can be stilled; there ning to create a "Maginot Line"

Greyhound Racing of the increased attention now pald affect each other. It is not easy will be a better prospect of a similar to the wellknown French National

western fortifications of this name, Society, gave these facts recently to the study of trade protection. to draw the correct deduction agreed adjustment emerging from according to a special report by the at the Society's dinner in London,

Captain Garside was promoted in from this The Thirteenth Extra Race

increasing interconnec the thorough dispassionate re: Sunday paper "People" The two and said that the figures meant December last, while serving as tion. It may be interpreted to examination which is desirable. Meeting will be held (weather

lines will be built as defence that attendances had been roughly The volume as well as the against an attack on both the doubled in the year, seeing that permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY Dorsetshire in China. He is a mean that the Navy should, on Saturday, 19th December, gunnery specialist, and has been therefore, be given greater control vehemence of recent arguments eastern and western frontiers, now there was an average of only 1936, commencing at 2.00 `p.m.

In 1933 the attendance figure or squadron gunnery officer, 1st Battle over the air weapon wherever tends to cause a reaction adverse states the paper, which gives their two meetings a week,

total length as 2,000 miles." They The First Bell wil be ring at Squadron, and on the Australian this is likely to influence the to their purpose by creating the will provide accommodation for all racecourses licensed and ap Christmas 1.30 p.m.

Station. He served throughout the fulfilment of its role, or to mean impression that, if so much atten- not less than 3 minion soldiers and proved by the N.G.R.C. was 15,658, War in the battleship Orion in the By Order,

Grand Fleet, as midshipman, sub- that separation is even less wise tion is being given to the attain their construction is estimated to 698.

Many features of the Bettin leutenant, and lieutenant, and than of old. The advantage of ment of a local semration, the take Ave years French engineers.

who planned the Frach Maginot and Lotteries Act might be con. from April, 1918, was on the staff ses knowledge and experience pursuit of increased combination The will be employed us advisers demned, he said, but on the whole of Rear Admiral WE Good among personnej wie man air in general may be suffering from by the Soviet Government. enough, whose fing few in the Orton, for gunnery duties..

FANLING. HUNT AND

RACE CLUB.

Entries for the Meeting will close to-day at

THOMSON & COMPANY,

Chartered Accountants,

Secretaries,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 14th Doc., 1936,

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executive officer of the" cruiser

craft which have to operate with inattention:

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the benefits of the Act had cut weighed Its faults and omissions.

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