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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION ACTION NO. 184 OF 1936.
The Cellular Clothing Company, Limited
15.
The Hariram Silk Store
UNDERTAKING.
Pursuant to directions given by the Court in the above action I, Kauromal Hariram; the proprie. tor of the above named Defendant frm hereby undertake not to use the word "AERTEX" as descrip tive of or in connection with any clothing manufactured by my firm or any clothing, not being of the Plaintiffs' manufacture, sold or offered for sale by my firm.
E.C, 4.
The Baily Press.
Huko Koso, DICEMBER 18, 1836.
BRITAIN'S
PEACE POLICY
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1936.
ECONOMIC CONFERENCE ENGLAND'S
OF KWANGTUNG
$2,000,000 To Be Raised
REHABILITATION AND
- EXPLOITATION OF
HAINAN ISLAND
Canton.
A Kwangtung Provincial Econo- TOOK THE BLAME
FOR 35 YEARS
mic Conference will be convened in, the near future by the Kwang- tung Provincial Government to
problems relating GISCUSA
to
1
economic development in the pro Death Of Brig. Gen.
vince, according to a decision reached at a recent meeting be- tween Mr. T. V. Soong, member of the standing committee of the National Economic Council, and Kwangtung financial authoritica.
Among those to be invited to the conference, it was decided, will be managers of various government and private banks, chairmen of various commercial and industrial
financial and
"Bobby White"
A JAMESON RAID ECHO)
Brigadier-Gen. the Hon. Robert White-"Bobby Watte of the Jameson Raid has died at Hove, Sussex, at the age of 75,
W
COMING MAN{
Diplomat In The Making
HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
(ORDERS BY LT.-COL. R. C. B. ANDERSON, M.C COMMANDANT HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS)<
GENERAL HOLIDAYS Corps H.Q. will be closed for the Ohristmas Holidays on Friday and Saturday (December 25 and 26).
CORPS ORDERS
In view of the above holidays
Captain Anthony Eden, Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in His British Majesty's Government and Lord Privy Seal, has become a focal point of politicorps Orders will be issued on cal interest London regards An- thony Eden as the most promising of the younger British politicians. Product of country aristocracy, Eton, Oxford. a good regiment Whitehall and Mayfair, he might
have been as handsome and colour- less as A tallor's' dummy. But people who took him for a decor- ative dilettante were wrong. Eden la the perfect gentleman, indeed but with a difference; he has brains.
may be
to HQ, at an early": date.
No. 1 (M.G.) Company There will be no parade on Fri- day, December 25.
No. 2 (Scottish) Company Sunday, December 20; Firing of Part'H_S.M.G.C. at Stonecutters,
Launch leaves Queen's Pier at 8.20 a., and Kowloon. Pier at 8.30
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Thursday, 24th instant and Os, C. Units are requested to forward their orders on Wednesday, 23rd or not later than 10 a.m. on Thurs--a.m. day. December 24.
HEADQUARTERS STORES
The Quartermaster's Stores' at Volunteer Headquarters will be closed from January 1 to 4, 1937 for Annual Stock Taking.
RIFLES & BAYONETS
All rifles and bayonets must be
He joined up in the Great War returned to Store before December at the age of eighteen, emerging | 21. a captain and wearing the Mill- tary Cross. He and Hitler dis- covered in Berlin that they had faced each other on the same seg- ment of the battlefront. At Or-
For the second time within the last fortnight, Mr. Eden has given practical illustration of his sincere conviction that one of the greatest services the British Gov. ernment can render to the cause of Peace is clear, unambiguous statement of intention. At Led- mington the other might be defined the circumstances, un conditional and conditional, in which the arms of Great Britain to be worked out in the forthcom-
t conference, general principles | Mafeking, in support of the pro-dinner. might be used. They may," he said, 'and, if the occasion for rural rehabilitation and ex-fected Johannesburg rising, was
ploitation of Hainan Island are forced to surrender at Doornkop, among the Conservative benches understood to have been agreed the Boers secured possession of at the House of Commons. upon between Mr. Soong and dispatch box bearing on it the January, 1825, Kwangtung financial authorities name Capt. R. White. during their recent discussions.
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arose, they would be used in the defence of France and Belgium against unprovoked aggression in our existing accordance with obligations."
associations, and economic experts.
L
While detalled measures have yer
For the development of Hainan
For rural rehabilitation it has A few days ago in London he been planned that the government banks in Kwangtung, Including the took the opportunity of an Inter-Central Bank of China, the Bank Dated this 16th day of Decem national Chamber of Commerce of China, the Kwangtung Provin- ber, 1936.
gathering, at which the Belgian cial Bank and the Canton Muni- WITNESS to the signature of Prime Minister was the principal cipal Bank, will be instructed to guest, to declare in sentences extend credit loans to the farmers the said Kauromal Hariram (---
at low interests. which will leave the lasting mark Sa. E.S.C. BROOKS,
that was intended in the Clap celleries of Europe that the in- dependence and integrity of Bel Sd. HARIRAM SILK STORE, gium is a vital interest to this mation and that Belgium can count upon our aid were she ever the victim of unprovoked aggres sion. No ambiguity there.
HASTINGS & CO.,
Plaints' Solicitors.
K. HARIRAM, Proprietor.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
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The Thirteenth Extra Raco Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Saturday, 19th December, 1936, commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be rang at
1.30 p.m.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 14th Dec., 1936,
E.
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PUBLIC AUCTION ́PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 21st day of Dec., 1936, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, `by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at
worso,
It
operative Society will be organised with a capital of $2,000,000, which will be raised from commercial and
He will be remembered for his chivalry as much as his bravery.
When Jameson's force, which had marched into the Transvaal from
The contents of "White's box," as it was known, incriminated the leaders of the Johannesburg revolt and revealed their plans.
BLAMED ON ALL SIDES With other prisoners of the Raid, the Hon. R. White was sent to Eng- land for trial and sentenced to seven months' imprisonment.
ford he showed his talent for the unusual by taking First Class Honours in Oriental Languages. He still speaks perfect Persian and quoted from the Koran when he met the Arabian ambassador at
In 1924 he book hia place
From until the Mac- donald Labour Government came into power four years later. Eden worked as parliamentary private secretary to Bir Austen Chamber-
lain. This post enabled the ac complished young student of poll- tics to see the Locarno Treaty being built by the men who made. It. He heard all the Foreign Sec- retary's telephone calls, wrote dis- patches, and generally made him- Chamberlain's right-hand
On all sides he was blamed for self
BOX RESPIRATORS All box respirators must be re- turned to Company Stores before December 21.
PARADE
lat. Battery
"A" Section: Next parade will be at Belchers on Thursday, Janu- ary 14, 1997 at 6 p.m.
"L" Section: Next parade will be at Belchers on Friday, January 8. 1937 at 5.45 pm.
"M" Section: There will be no parade, on Wednesday, December 23.
Corps Enginoots Monday, December 31. Parade at Corps HQ. at 5.30 p.m. Lecture on D.E Lights.
Corps Signals No: 1 Blgnal Class will parade at Command Signal Office at 5.26 p.m. on Tuesday, December 22.
Machine Gan Troop There will be no parade on Tuesday, December 22,
Armoured Car Section. section will parade at HQ. on
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Island a Hainan Industrial Co-taking such dangerous evidence man at the green tables of Euro- Tuesday, December 22 at 5.30 p.m.
into action, and he made no reply.pean diplomatic conferences.
for Mechanical and Driving In- To have replied would have been. The discriminating among out-
struction. All ranks are requested to give away a friend.
siders first grasped his quality to attend at H.Q. on this evening when. in 1829, he spoke in de-in order to sign Camp pay sheets, fence of the Anglo-French naval which must be algned on this date. compromise.
overseas interests.. During the first stage of development emphasis will be placed on the improvement of communication facilities, the promotion of animal husbandry and the planting of rubber treča, sugar-canes, and other tropical plants.
- With regard to economic de-
velopment in Kwangsl it is learned
His silence had lasted 35 years when Colonel H."Marshall Hole,
His speech, deliver- the author of a book on the Raid, disclosed that Sir John Willough-ed extemporaneously, was one of by himself packed the dispatch the most trenchant and subtle ex- box with the code-book and positions of a diffcult subject that documents, and ordered it to be the Commons had ever heard placed in a squadron cart.
from so young a member. Colonel J. B. O. Stracey Clitheroe, who was acting as Staff Officer in Captain White's absence, objected.
that this was thoroughly discussed
Sir John Willoughby, said, how- between General Tsung-jen, ever, that he should want the box General Fal Chung-lust, General when he got to Johannesburg.
"It we don't get through we Huang Shu-Chu, and Mt. Soong during the latter's visit to Kwelin, shall all be shot, so what does it new Kwangai capital, while de-matter." he added.
tails of their discussions have not been divulged, it is understood that
"AM GRATIFIED"
Motor M.G. Section Parade at HQ. at 5.30 pm on Monday, December 21.
1st Year Men-C Class: M.G. Instruction. Indication and Re- Cognition.
"B" Class; M.G. Instruction-Ap- plication of Fire-Direct.
Camp Pay: Payment will be made at H.Q. on Monday, 21st instant at 8.30 p.m. All those who attended Camp are particularly requested to attend in order that the pay sheets
No less can Great Britain count on Belgium. "For all contritu-
People began to note his charm when, last year, he reported on a tions for peace," said M. van Zeeland, "for better, for,
mission of investigation in Berlin. That's
Plenty of young men have Eden's you can count on us.
background; a good many have how it is between Great Britain
his tact and charm; a few may be as smart. What else accounts and Belgium." This is the lan- guage of inalienable troth.
for his meteoric and precocious rise? For one thing, he has an corresponds to facts, to material
inünite capacity to make people THE ROLE OF CHANCE interests, to moral duties. If
Hike him. He is one of those per- this was an imperative obligation the establishment of branch Even in January, 1931, when this fectly balanced men, honest and While the intervening sea was office of the National Economic fact became known, Brigadier- disinterested. whom it is almost disülke. Among and sure defence, Council in Kwange to contralize General White refused to discuss impossible to still a strong
was economic reconstruction in the the affair..
Journalists at Geneva, he it is doubly imperative when that province has been agreed upon. defence has lost so much of its General Huang Shu-Chd and Mr.is out at last. I am gratified"
All he would say was, "The truth called "Lord Eyelash," not in de
riston, but as a compliment to his potency. No country in the Sung Yun-chang. Kwangsi Recon- Brigadier-General White served charm and his sartorial "savoir world has a greater interest instruction Commissioner, will prob- on the stam in the South African faire," and he is the most popular War. He was at the rellef of Kim- Englishman ever to come to the peace,
than Belgium; but none is ably be appointed director and
the
Foreign Once, League, In the occupation
which adores him,' no one ever more determined to protect its chief secretary of the branch office berley and respectively
Bloemfontein and Pretoria..
In 1914 he was working on the thinks or calling him anything but independence and the integrity capacity.
Stock Exchange when the Great"Anthony" of its soil. Our 'duty," said M.
War broke out. van Zeeland, "is to dissuade anyone from the temptation to attack us or to use our soil as a short eat."
in" a
Central News Agency,
concurrent
of
He was given command of the 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, generally known as the "Bankers Battalion." With that battalion. which he had raised, he served un-' til he was given a brigade in 1918. He was twice wounded-the second time in the Battle to Amiens Bill--and was six times mentioned in
FACTORIES BILL
While there is nothing new in
London, Dec. 1'. Chuk Un in the Colony of Hong the spirit of these mutual assur
The Home Secretary informed the Kong for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, ces, the manner in which they House of Commons that he hoped
have found expression, and still to introduce the Factories with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the more the political circumstances shortly after Christmass
British Wireless, Surveyor of His Majesty the of the hour to which they make King, for one further term of 24their impressive contribution, years less the last three days invest them with special signi- thereof.
ficance.
sen the war plan which necesar- Intending bidders are advised
Knowing what we do of the tated her armies hacking their that immediately after the dis extremely tangled situations from way through Belgium. No one posal of the lot the purchaser will which the occasions of war can say. But, at any rate, Great be required to deposit with an usually arise, it has been the Britain did not speak out, and authorised officer who will be pre general practice of all parties in the War Chiefs in Berlin made sent at the sale, the sum of two this country to eschew commit their fatal choice under illusions hundred dollars, $200.00 in cash.ments which would automatically as to Britain's fidelity to her This sum will be refunded on
bind us to take part. We re- pledges. payment of the purchase price.
serve, that is to say, a certain
PARTICULARS OF THE LO. freedom of action in almost all
No. of Bals.
New Kowloons. Registry No.
Inland Lot 1
Chuk Un.
Locality.
Boundary
Measure-
ments,
A per
sais plan
ft.
Contents in
Square feet.
10,000
Annual
Bental.
Upret Price.
our undertakings. But the case
dispatches.
He was a bachelor, a great walker, a great gardener, and non-smoker.
BALLET DANCER PASSES
Victim Of Rare Disease
a
Range Officer: Lt. T. P. Saunder- Bong.
There will be no parade on Thursday, 24th and Thursday 31st. December, a
No. 3 (M.G.) Company The following - will" 'Are" Rifs- Course. Table "B" at the Peak mange on Sunday, December 20
C.QMS. Fincher, Ptes, Abbas, Y. M. Chong, Shroff, Spencer, L/Cpl. N. Broadbridge, Ptes. Becker, Mann,.. Silva, Sprinkle.
Rendezvous at Lower Peak Tram Station at 8:45 am.
Dress Optional but Webbing. must be worn when firing.
Range Offer: Lieut. A. Urquhart. There will be no further parades until Monday, January 11, 1937.
MLG. Bn. Signals Subsections A, B and C; There will be no further parades at H.Q. until Wednesday, January 13, 1997. Subsection D: There will be zo further parades until Friday, Janu- ary 15, 1937.
Corps Infantry Parade on Tuesday, December 22, 1935 at 530 p.m. sharp at H.Q. Details sa per last week.
Camp Pay: All members of Corps: Infantry who attended Camp must. draw their Camp Pay on the 22nd instant.
Air Arm There will be no parades "after" the examination on Friday, Decem- ber 18, until further notice.
LEAVE
No. 2484, Tpr. J. K. R. Macgregor, M.G: Troop, is granted one month's leave from 15.12.39 to 14.1.97.
STRUCK OFF STRENGTH Leaving the Colony No. 2323, Pte. C. A. Mattos, Corps Infantry. No. 12 Platoon, w.ed. 18.12.38,
No. 2337, Pte. R. Kennedy. Re- Serve Section A we.f. 18.12.35.
STRENGTH
No. 2727; Gunner P. C. Walsh, D. Crestetner, Ltd.. ist Battery, A.Bec., 17.12.38.
(8gd.) G. 8. FRIZEL E, Captain. Adjutant, H.KVDC
A SPANISH · GUEST
There came into 8am Clemens One day recently, while Bir Thomas Inskip was accounting to early life one of those seemingly
the House of Commons and the trivial incidents, which, viewed in
bunger marchers were crowding the corridors, a distinguished retrospect, assume pivotal propor- tions. He was on his way home from the printing office when he Spaniard was holding forth to a group of M.P.3 upstairs. Senor Eduardo Ortega Gasset looks saw flying along the pavement a leaf from a book. He caught it and examined it. It was a lear something like the portraits of Oscar Wilde, and, if one can ac- from some history of Joan of Arc.
He had never heard of the sub-cept the improbable, not unlike a Ject before. He had never read retired" toreador. He is a brother of Jose Ortega y Gassét, whose any history. Now, however, there Eden is pro-League and pro-
rose in him a deep compassion for gifts as a philosopher, are more admired than imitated In Spain, peace, and his personal instincta
the gentle, Maid of Orleans. It are on the French side, not the
was an interest that would grow Eduardo is Doyen of the College of German-in fact, the whole set of his mind, culturally, is Gallic. He steadily for more than half a life-Lawyers in Madrid, and after be- collects the French classics of the "Recollections," the lovellest story
time and culminate at last in the ing a Minister in several of King Alfonso's Governments he became a member of the Drst Cortes and 16th and 17th centuries, the deli-
ever told of the martyred girl. cate early French etchings, while
was appointed Civil Governor of The Incident meant more than, that it meant the awakening of the Republie in 1931, his interest in all history-a passion which became the largest feature of his intellectual life. From the moment when that fluttering leat was blown into his hands his car- cer as one of the world's mentally elect was assured.—Albert Bigelow Paine, "Mark Twain, a Blography."
Proust, Rimbaud, and Verlaine.
But just as he is not an idle aesthete, so Eden is not a pure paciast. He falls into a rage when one calls him that. He loves peace, but he will not abandon this peace to its own resources. He wants to work for it and, II necessary, fight for It"
at Oxford, for choice, he read
He wants peace, not only be tween nations but within the
As a propagandist for the Gov ernment in this country he suffers from the disability of being unable to speak English. It is only, fair to say, however, that he speaks Spanish with a fluency that must be the despair of the shorthand writers of Spain In the midst of his recital of horrors, which was fairly put, he recalled an incident
nation. He believes that the social classes hús made between which caused a considerable sen- workers should be assured the the ideal of the nobility that existation in Madrid when it hap-
pened. fruits of their labour. One of his ed before the War and the popu
Just before the outbreak of the favourite saying is that, unless lar idéal of our own time. every worker is a capitalist, it is At 37, Eden is a member of the Civil War bis wife was sent a Adelaide, Dec. 12.
no wonder that he becomes an British Cabinet and the most basket of 2s as a present. The Mira Dimina, a well-known dan enemy of capitalism.
promising and popular polities in humorous mind might wonder at The defence of Belgium against cer of the Monte Carlo Russian
Eden' does not devote all his England. The quickness of his the strangeness of such a gift. Dut aggression is now plainly de. ballet, died here to-day at the age activities to politics. He likes to rise has its dangers, Britain hag a concealed beneath the eggs was s disease of retire to his home and the com- certain quaint tendency to vener- time bomb. His wifs, suspicious of clared to be a first principle of of 23 from the rare
leucocythaemia.
pany of his wife and his two boys, ate senility, in politics and there is the weight of the basket, discover- of unprovoked aggression against British foreign policy. We are
She was taken fil only a month of which the older now goes to a tradition that no man becomes ed the bomb and with admirable. Belgium is an outstanding excep- sometimes told by Continental go, when she left the stage in school Be likes to discuss the Foreign Minister until he has fill-presence of mind threw a mattress tion to this rule, and few will statesmen that Realism is the tears after dancing in Les Sylphi- newest work of French and Enged other cabinet posts and is sixty over it to deaden the explosion, need to be reminded that it was only atmosphere in which the des. Her mother was summoned it Hterature and he also interests at least. Eden may have to spend thereby saving her own life and only the violation of Belgian soil rulers of modern States can from America, and was due to ar- himself in selecting wines and twenty years getting old enough to those of several other people. In
rive here on December 21.
food. In France they call him be respectable. On the other hand the building Benor Gasset des which swept a virtually un-frame and carry out their policies.
Mira, whose real name was Ma- the best-dressed Englishnan, but the present National Government cribed this incident merely as one animous Great Britain into the This country can be realist, too,
daleine Parker, was a leading in England he is known as the is breaking up and will recon- of the many which served as a Great War.
when need be, and, we have no member of Colonel de Basil's ori most accomplished connoisseur, struct itself probably very soon. prologue to the outbreak of war.
And, if he is not pending the He is the coming man, and the There has been endless argu- doubt that this perfectly frank, ginal Russian Ballet Company.
Leucocythaemia is a disease of week-end flying to Paris, Berlin, prophets have it that he is almost ment as to whether, if Sir perfectly sincere declaration of Edward Grey had spoken out as Hritish policy will be accepted the blood, in which the white cor- or Moscow, he plays tennis at the sure to become Prime Minister puscles develop to an excessive Ranelagh Club Hir life repre- some day in the future, If his plainly ae Mr. Eden epoke yea throughout Western Europe as mount. The causes of the disease sent the compromise that a mod-fuck, his health, and the British
ern Englishman of the upper Isles themselves hold out 4892 terday, Germany would have cho a solid contribution to Peace. ****
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1,000
are unknown.
The day after his appearance at Westminster he left for Barcelona where his wife is looking after 80 children sent from Madrid. He is
taking him in dangerous places. & plucky man whose feet are
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