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British Ships
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Action, already too long de layed, to protect British shipping And notice is hereby given in the Pacific against foreign that, if within thirty days from Government-subsidized competi the date hereof no claim or retion is brought a stage nearer by presentation in respect of such the report of the Imperial Ship original certificate is made to the ping Committee. for the round trip.
This report is addressed to the Company, the Company will pro- Tickets are effective for the dayeed to deal with the application Governments of Great Britain of purchase only.
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By Order of the Board
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
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IN THE GOODS of Edith Frances Bernard; late of 61 Highfield Lane Southampton
Directors,
NOEL BRAGA,
..Secretary.
Hong Kong, 24th Dec., 1936.
PRESS BEATS THE THIRD TEST MATCH Mr. G. H. Potts.
REFEREES
TWO-ONE VICTORY
AT SOOKUNPOO
Press Beats Referees
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It was in 1885 that he first came to Hong Kong to join the firm of Russel and Co. remaining with them until their failure in 1900. when he went to Shanghai and opened the brokering arm of Ben-
The Critics and the Criticised AUSTRALIA IN STRONG POSITION min, Kelly and Potts. In 1906
to wit, the Press and the Referees -met one another in a friendly soccer match at Bookunpoo yester- day afternoon when, after a hard, ding-dong tussle, the Press team came off the better, winning the game by two goals to one. Lee Wal-tong. the Chinese Olympic footballer, very ably officiated.
Melbourne, January 4. The position, at the close of the third day's play in the Third Test, is that Australia, with five wickets down for 194 runs in the second innings, are 318 runs in the lead.
(Darling) for 122; 6 (Sievers) for (McCabe) for 183 8 130; 7 O'Reilly) for 190; 9 (Ward) for 200, Bowling Analysis”
M. R
Voce
A crowd of 4,000 were present in Allen. cloudy and bleak weather. The Sims wicket has vastly improved, but is Verity probably attil capable of eccentri- Robins. cities.
The Press team started the game with a rush and carried the ball Into their opponents' goal-arca and a corner was conceded to them, the ball being safely cleared from the
Commencing the day with three resulting kick. The Referees then
runs on the board for the loss of kept up an almost continual bar one wicket, Australia were 62 for rage on the Press goal but, during 3 at lunch in the third Test. a break through by the Press for Shortly afterwards, however, an- wards. 8. A. Gray ("Veritas") sent other message came in to the effect in a shot which the opposing cus- that the score was then 97 for todtan fumbled, the ball rolling 5-221 runs ahead of England.
Ward, a tall-ender, played a into the net. A few minutes later. the same player again scored courageous innings for his 18 runs, through a solo effort. The Re-scored out of 38 in 68 minutes, de- ferees kept up frequent attacks on fending stubbornly to gain valuable the Press citadel, but the half-time time on a wicket which was show whistle was blown before they coulding signs of rapid improvement
"", Voce started a day of thrills and their feet.
About ten minutes after resump- when he dismissed Fleetwood- tion of play, Clarke punted in a Smith with the third ball of the Australian left-hand of specific questions submitted to
the Committee by the four Gov Fress custodian, in trying to push googley bowler playing a protec- ernments concerning the pros-it over the bar, inadvertently puttive stroke to a high-kicking de- pects of the new service projected it into the net behind him. En livery and being caught by Verity to connect Western Canade with couraged by this goal, the Re-at backward point, 30.
ferees attacked strongly but it was Australia and New Zealand.
soon apparent that their efforts The report is encouraging, were dying as the Press succeeded in swinging the ball back to the opposite side of the field.
1906
in the County of Hants, CORONATION OF
formerly of St. Andrewes Kelvedon in the County of Widow, England,
Essex,
deceased.
NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN that the Court bas byl virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, made
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Westminster Abbey Preparations
London, Jan. 4.
The public yesterday paid the an Order limiting the time for last visit to Westminster Abbey as creditors and others to send in for eight months the doors closed their claims against the above, after the evening service and the estate to the 26th day of January, Dean and Chapter realsed on trol until September to the Crown. 1937.
The keys in the possession of All Creditors and others are the Dean will be handed over to accordingly hereby required to the Earl Marshal
Im send their claims to the under-medlate start will be made
building the "theatre" before the signed on or before that date,
and an
are
It seems plain that there is sufficient business on the trans
Pacific route, either already at
hand or within reasonabla ex-| pectation, to justify the provision of a cew British service by fast modern vessels, provided of course that the operating com- pany is given sufficient backing by the Governments to enable it to compete on something like equal terms with the American line now taking the cream of the traffic.
The British ships working on this route are, and have been for years, carrying a threefold handi- cap in their competition with their Americau rivala. Luvish Government assistance has en.
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A penalty for hands against one
of the Referees' defenders offered
8. A. Gray an opportunity to score a hat-trick but the ball was safely cleared by the goalkeeper. The Fress endeavoured to increase the score through several individual efforts until the anal whistle blew.
FAREWELL DANCE
Although the Englishmen were an their toes in the feld, the score steadily increased. both batsmen striving desperately to survive the critical period, before lunch.
The pair added 32 runs before
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Mr. Kelly separated from this firm and established himself in Hong. Kong. Six years later Mr.Potts returned from Shanghal and with. his brother, Mr. P. C. Potts, settled. down. Anally to brokering in Hong Kong under the firm name of Ben- jamin and Potts
1894 Plague Recalled
Mr. Potts memories go, back to the first great outbreak of plague in 1894 when he was one of the. band of volunteer workers who assisted the medical and sanitary authorities in cleaning up the in- Ofected areas He was also one of the first Naval Volunteers, a body which came into being in the
Leyland, Darling. b OReilly 17 eighties, when Hong Kong was Sims, e 'Brown, b Sleverd.
Ames; b Blevera
R. W. V. Robins, c O'Reilly, b
Sievers... Hardstaff, b O'Reilly G..O. Allen, not out .. Verity, c Brown, b O'Reilly
Voce, not out
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sukering from a Russian scare, and anticipating ап unfriendly visit from the Russian feet. In 1900, on the outbreak of the Boxer 3 Rebellion in China, Mr. Potts, who o was a member of the Hong Kong o Volunteer Corps' Force, after yo olunteering for the South African War and having his services de- clined offered them to the mill- Total (for 9 wkts. dec.)... 76 tary authorities here, who ac- cepted them. Sent North, he was Fall of the wickets; 1 (Worthing-engaged on transport work under ton) for 0; 2 (Barnett) for 14, 3 Major Ratcliffe and entered Peking with the British Force under (Leyland) for 58; 4 (Hammond) for 68; 6.(Sims) for 71; 6 (Robins) för General Gazelee For his services 71: 7 (Ames) for 76; (Hardstar he received a Captain's commis- sion in the Regúlar Army, but re- for 76: (Verity) for 76.
algned it on the subsidence of the w.rebellion and returned to broker-
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Bowling Analysis
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McCabe........... 3 Яtevers
Ward was caught by Hardstar at O'Reilly
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AUSTRALIA-2ND INNS. successful bowler, 38318.
Ward, who was attempting a big W. J. O'Reilly, c and b, Voce... hit, had played a courageous in-LO'B Fleetwood Smith, |nings lasting 68 minutes.
Verity, Voce v...
· Brown then joined Rigg and the 50 was hoisted after 88 minutes, the weather then being overcast. The pair were together at the lunch interval, which was taken with the score at 62 for 3. Rigg being 27 and Brown 13...
F. Ward, e Hardstan, b Verity K. E. Rigg. Lb.w.. b Sima....... W. A. Brown, c Barnett, b Voce J. H. Fingleton, not out D. G. Bradman, not out
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A farewell dance to the 2nd Bn. The East Lancashire was held at A later message stated that Aus- "the European YMCA at 8.45 last tralla were 97 for 5, but after that "
gether until the close of play. night. A large number of service | Fingleton and Bradman stayed to-
men attended the function and spent a pleasant evening, dancing to the music by the East Lanca shire Band by kind permission of Major W. E. B. Dowling.
AUSTRALIA-1ST INNS.
J. H Fingleton, Sims, b
Robins
Daled the 30th day of Decem. high altar where the King will be/abled the American company to Regiment will be leaving the Co-D. G. Bradman, c Robins, b
ber, 1936.
JOHNSON, STOKES &
MASTER, Soliciters for the
Executors,
Hong Kong..
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
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crowned.
Simultaneously, seats will be erected to enable the Abbey to congregation of accommodate a
Reuter
POPE PASSES MORE PEACEFUL NIGHT
General Condition Remains Unchanged
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HE.V.D.C. Commission He maintained his connection. bowever, with the Hong Kong Volunteers, in which he held the rank of Captain. Mr. Potts saw two big reclamation schemes car- ored out on Hong Kong's water- front and remembered well the days when the Praya was where Des Voeux Road now is and the
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In his earlier years Mr. Potts was an all-round athlete, winning 194 many honours for the high and broad Jump and in the hurdles. He was also a devotee of Rugbƒ#"+£7 Football and was for several years captain of the Hong Kong Foot- ball Club, which he was 'instru- mental in promoting. Last year Some unknown person took ad- he was elected a Life Member of vantage of the recent holidays to the Hong Kong Football Club in break into the offices of Messrs recognition of his splendid: SET- Little Adams and Wood, York vices towards the Club's activities. 18 Building, and indulged in a small both as a player and a Committee burglary. According to the Police, member, this marking the double it was reported that property to the jubilee of the Club and his asso- value of $30, which includes two clation with it. Parker fountain pen nibe, and a 1 desk clock, le missing.
1 The 2nd Bn. East Lancashire W. A. Brown, c Ames, b Voce
lony for Bombay on January 12
Verity....... by the Troopship Lancashire.
K. E. Rigg. c Verity. b Allen... S. J. McCabe, c Worthington, b
Voec
L. Darling, c Allen b Verity... M. W, Sievers, st. Ames, b
Robins..... W. A Oldfield, not out
all the British countries and most of all to Great Britain,
Happily during the past few w, J. O'Reilly, Sims, b Ham- months the four Governments
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hirild ships superior to anything which the British lines could afford out of their own unaided resources; this company receives 9.000 instead of the normal 3,000 from the United States Govern ment subsidies for the carriage of mail on a far more generous ecale than those paid to the Bri- tish company by the British have shown a more lively rea-F. Ward, st. Ames, b Hammond 4 Governments concerned; and lization of their responsibilities. finally it enjoys by United States Canada has increased her con- legislation a monopoly of the tribution to the mail service. lucrative traffic between San Australia and New Zealand have Francisco and Honolulu. If both passed legislation authoriz-bat. these conditions were allowed to ing their Governments to reply persist it could only be a matter to the exclusion of British ships for 7: 2 (Bradman) for 33; 3 (Rigg). San Francisco-Honolulu for 89: 4 (Fingleton) for 79; 5 of time, possibly a very short from time, before the British flag traffic by excluding, should' il would disappear altogether from prove necessary, American ships the transpacific route.
from serving the traffic between All these facts have been well the two Dominions. known both to the public and to the Governments for the last months
Vatican City, Jan. 4. His Holiness the Pope passed a
and more peaceful night
IN THE GOODS of Mary slightly better this morning. McGregor, late of 131 Ivor general condition, however, Road, Sparkhill in the City mains unchanged.--
of Birmingham, England, Spinster, deceased,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, made' an Order limiting the time for creditors and others to send" in
1937.
"
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"FEARLESS UNTO DEATH"
*WELS
Hero's Funeral Accorded
Sergeant Slater.
Shanghai, Jan. 4
His
re-
ago
After long discussions six with Dominion four years at least. They have Ministers and, others, the British been regarded by public opinion | Government agreed to co-operate with uneasiness and even alarm; in working out a policy for the
A hero's funeral was given Ber-but, until quite recently, the Gov-defence of British shipping in their claims against the above geant Michael Slater, 23-year-old ernments have seemed strangely the Pacific. The technical ques- ́estate to the 26th day of January, Canadian Officer of the Shanghal apathetic and reluctant to take tions affecting the economic
Police Force, killed in a gun-fight All Creditors and others are with gangsters, on December 31. any action unless driven to da prospects were referred to the accordingly hereby required to It was one of the most impressive : Canada, Australie, and New Imperial Shipping Committee, send their claims to the ander and most largely attended in Zealand, not unnaturally, waited which has now made its report; for a lead from the Government and Mr. Runciman announced a signed on or before that date."
More than 1,000 members of the of Great Britain, which, from few weeks ago that this report Dated the 30th day of Decem- municipal police force, the French replies given by Mr. Runciman would be made the basis of die- ber, 1936.
police and the British military
House of cussion between the four Goyern- units marched in the procession, fo questions in the
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Administratrik, Hong Kong.
LOCAL
many months.
silent crowds,
the route being lined by immense, Commons, appeared to regard inents, which the Government the maintenance of the British of the United Kingdom would do flag on this great ocean route as all in their power to bring to purely a matter for the Domi speedy conclusion. nions served by it.
Prominent among the official mourners was the British Consul- 4925 General, Sir John Brenan, and
Lady Brenan.
Six Canadian comrades of the
gallant officer acted aspall
MAPS beaters.
Peak District,
Kowloon,
Victoria,
New Territories.
He further gove, in saurance. This attitude the public has that he would not only take steps never been able to understand. to bring about an early decision, In the first place the preserve but would take action to help the The Chinese police detachment carried a large, white banner in- tion of the British merchant Dominions in the matter. After scribed with the words, "Fearless marine was felt to be a vital delays which have seemed, infer- unto death, in Engilah and British interest, no matter in minable there is now reason to what part of the world it was hope that a hard-pressed section working; and secondly it was of British shipping will be given realized that this particular route, before long the assistance which a link of growing importance in it urgently needs if it is to main- pire, was a matter of concern toernment-aided competition.
Chinese. Renter
Quarantine restrictions have been Imposed against arrivals from
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, Shanghat on account of small-pox the communications of the Em-tain itself against foreign Gov-
QUEEN MARY'S HEALTH
Rowing Successes
Rowing was another of his sporting activities and he stroked the victorious England crew in- the local international contest, while at tennis he was runner-up in various championship contests and winner of many handicap London, Jan. 3, events. He was for many years Queen Mary, who is still at an owner of racing pories and LA O'H. Fleetwood Smith did not Bandringham with the King and won many Derbies and Cham- Queen, is stated to have quite re- pions, both in Hong Kong and "The King's Fall of the wickets: 1 (Brown) covered from the cold which kept Shanghai, with
*!! ber indoors at Christmas time... Stable" British Wiretena..
He was a member of the Hong Kong Jockey Club and Chairman of the Macau Race Club.
Interested And Interesting
A group of interested and interesting racegoera photographed. at the Kwanit course-Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little (somewhat pensive in left foreground); Mr. and Mrs. Stanton (animatedly conversing with Someone, aff-camera); a Lady so engrossed in her race book that she didn't even look up though Mrs. Showan (extreme right) was confiding the latest."
Last, but by no means least, he was the Chairman of the Hong Kong Block Exchange and laid the foundation stone of the new build- ing in Ice House Street on May 17. 1933.
MACHINE GUN FIRE BY WARSHIPS Alarming Chinese Reports
Shanghat Jan,`47 Inquiries: in local Japanese cir- cles to-day failed to confrm alarming Chinese reports that 10 Japanese warships, on January 2, swept
shore of Taltsang eastern Kiangsu, with machine- gun fire for half an hour before proceeding up-river,
the
It was suggested, however, that the warships might have been conducing "target practice" OF TE- taliating after having been fired
Reuter.
PRINCE OF THE NETHERLANDS
Based in Amsterdam, Jan. 3
The title “Prince or the Nether lands" is to be conferred upon Prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biester- feld in the near future by, Queen - Wilhelmina according to reports in the Dutch news organs— Transocean News Service.
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