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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1937.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS | ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE FANLING HUNT AND RACE CLUB

The China, New Year Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at Kwanti Race Course on Sun- day, 14th February, 1937, 'com. mencing at 2.30 p.m. There will be seven races.

Additional coaches will be attached to the 12.12 p.m. and 1.25 p.m. trains to Fanling, and the 6.39 p.m. train to Kowloon. Tickets at $2 Include admission to the Public Euclosure, and may be purchased at the Kowloon Railway Station

THOMSON & CO.,

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NOTICE.

HONG KONG WATER

SUPPLY

It is hereby notified that com- mencing on Sunday, 14th Instant, the hours of supply to all districts on the Island will, be

6 a.m. to 9 p.m... R. M. HENDERSON,

Water Authority, Public Works Department, Hong Kong, 10th Feb., 1937.

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HONG KONG/JAPAN CONFERENCE

Foreign & Chinese Shippers›

NOTICE is hereby given that as from the 1st March. 1937. rates of freight from Hong Kong to Moll, Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya and Yokohama will be increased 20 per cent over current rates.

Schedules showing current rates as from the 1st March, 1937, are now in course of preparation, and will be issued shortly.

Jardine, Matheson & Co.; Ltd: Secretaries, Hongkong/Japan Freight Conference.

Secretaries and Treasurers. HONG KONG & SHANGHAI Hong Kong, 5th February, 1937,

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ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE,

STANLEY:

School re-opens on Monday, Feb, 15th. Examination for new students at 9 a.m. For Pros pectus apply --- CHAN PAK LUK, Esq.. FUNG MAN SUI, Esq..

Messrs. H. Wicking, Prince's Building.

Tel. 30241.

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or St. Stephen's College, Stanley.

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REMOVAL NOTICE

As from the 14th February, the Grand Dispensary will be situated at "the corner of China Building, in the premises now occupied by the Britannia Silk Store..... adjacent to Queen's

Theatre.

THE GRAND DISPENSARY,

LTD.

HUMPHREYS

5019

ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the ANNUAL ORDINARY

BANKING CORPORATION

Notice is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corpora tion will be held at the Head Office of the Corporation, No. 1, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, on Saturday, the 27th February, 1937, at 11.30 am. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1936.

The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from Monday, the 15th February, to Saturday, the 27th February, 1937 (both days inclusive) dur ing which perlod no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager..

BIRTH

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RECK-Op February 12, 1937. at

Home. to Mr. and Mrs. Fr. Reck, Jr., n daughter.

the War Memorial Nursing

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Editorial and Business Once: 15-19, Queen's Road Central Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai

Tel 24511. London Office: 53. Fleet Street

E.O. 4.

Office):

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 13, 1937,

MISTAKE OVER

A STYMIE

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Penny Used As

Inch Measure

A ponny played an important part in the golf match between Ox- ford University and Woking last month.

Having no measure to determina the question of a stymie-under Bin is pot a stymis-T, A. Bourn, a former English champion and run. ner-up for the British title, used a penny, in the mistaken belief that its diameter was lin.

As five pennies placed together {covered the distance between the balls he concluded that this was 3in

and the stymie rule did not apply. He picked up his ball to concede a

halved hole.

The diameter of a penny is, how

ever, The distance, there. fore, was in and the stymie rule should have operated.

If this had been known, N. B. Mitchell-Innes, the Oxford captain, woull have had to play with the and his partner. J. C, Lawrie, balls as they were and Boura's ball, which was hanging on the lip of the Lola, might sasily have been knocked in. As this was the 17th hole and the sides were level, a cor rect measurement might thus have given Bourn and his partner, Cept. C. G. B. Stevens, the match.

In cases whore players do not carry a score card, which usually measures Bin, a halfpenny, the diameter of which is lin, is often used to decide the question of a stymie.

city they give to a scientific dis- covery which makes of broad, casting a thoroughly unhygienic invention to which the old should never be asked to listen in silence, Mechanical music in place of oneself in- singing, reading to stead of following the robust

Hong Kong, 8th February, 1937. Talk-And Live Long! Victorian custom of reading

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HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED

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MORRISON'S ACADEMY

Gift Of An Old Boy

Morrison's Academy, Criei, which has benefited by the muni- Dcent gift of £70,000 from Mr. John Smith. is

one of those numerous Scottish institutions

their foundation to which owe self-made Scots with a passion for educatiʊzı.

In 1820 a former Chien boy called Thomas Morrison died in Edinburgh, leaving a fortune mode from building.

In his will he left a sum of money for the erection of an in- atitution which would serve 1440 promote the interests of mankind and to preserve the memory of his own good intentions."

It took his executors 40 years to Morrl-

Interpret his intentions son's Academy, opened in 1860.

was the result,

"Wee Macgregor's" School The school. altuated near Gal- Highland marauders have been hanged than low Hl, where more in any other part of Scotland, has a fine record for scholarship,

In the same district is Drum- mond Castle, the ancestral home of the Earls of Perth and of Sir Eric Drummond, the British Am- bassador in Rome.

Morrison's Academy has provid- ed Scotland with numerous pro- fessors, including Henry Drum- mond. But its most famous old boy is the late J, J. Bell, the im- mortal author of "Wee Macgre- gor." book which started the Scottish craze for tam o'shan- ters seen

every second year at Wembley during the Soccer inter- national invasion.

Mr. John Smith, the donor of the £70,000,000, is himself an old

boy and will be known to smokers as the creator of the well-known "Glasgow Mixture.”

RIBBENTROP AT-

FOREIGN OFFICE

London, Fea. 11. Herr von Ribbentrop, the Ger-

man Ambassador, had a conver-

sation

lasting nearly two hours with Lord Halifax, acting Foreign Secretary, at the Foreign Office to-

aloud, these things are not pro gress but part of the dance of A French physician at Nice death! Indeed, the whole busi- has just explained that nothingness of literacy becomes rather does more to promote a healthy suspect, for nothing keeps old NOTICE IS HEREBY | old age than a full and constant inen quieter than knowing how to GIVEN that the ORDINARY use of the lungs.

read and write, to the consequent YEARLY GENERAL MEET.

detriment of their essential lungs. day. of

But the wideawake telephone publicity department will not be serice in Berlin since just before slow to seize on the new argu Christmas, and although it is cus- ment, proving that even. bed-tomary for an Ambassador, after ridden centenarians can build up a long absence, to meet the Foreign loud long-distance calls: their health by sustained and

Becretary, it is generally agreed

ING of HONG KONG TRAM WAYS, LIMITED will be held GENERAL MEETING OF at the offices of Messrs, Jardine, SHAREHOLDERS will be held Matheson & Co., Ltd., Hong at the HONG KONG HOTEL, Kong, on FRIDAY, the 26th

Hong Kong, on THURSDAY,, day of February, 1937, at, 12 the 18th. February, 1937, at 12 o'clock noon, to transact the noon for the purpose of receiving' ordinary business of the Com the Report of the Directors to pany. gether with a Statement of Ac AND NOTICE IS HERERY counts for the year ended 31st. ALSO GIVEN that the RE. GISTER OF MEMBERS of

December, 1936,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 13th to from MONDAY, Sth. February ¦ FRIDAY, the 26th February to THURSDAY, 18th. February, 1937, both days inclusive. both days inclusive

By Order of the Board,

W. F. SIMMONS,

Secretary.

John D. Humphreys & Son,

General Managers.

Hong Kong, 30th. January, 1937 Hong Kong, ist Feb., 1937.-

5000

1991

This inspires 2 train thought, stimulated all the more because we know how particularly prevalent is talking in Hong Kong.

What carries off old people so steadily as respiratory complaints, and what better fortification can there be then lungs of brass? Nature, which is wiser than man,

IMPORTANT NOTICE|| the most suitable form of exercise

To FILMO (BELL & HOWELL) 8, 16 or 35 % CAmera, projecTOR

If

OR ACCESSORY OWNERS.

you own any of the above FILMO-EQUIPMENT please detach the coupon and mail it, to have, your FILMO-EQUIPMENT registered with us, gaining for yourself the following advantages:

1. Free annual cleaning and lubricating of camera-

and/or projector.

2-Trade in of used Bell & Howell Equipment. 3.- Receipt of FILMO TOPICS, Bell & Howell's

periodical on movie making.

4- Receipt of new catalogs, etc;

5.- Free correspondence counsel from the FILMO

DEPOT, Hong Kong.

To FILMO DEPOT, Hong Kong, Marina House,

Please typewrite or print

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It is very well known, that women live longer than men, and now we know why,

The Ambassador.returned to Bri- tain early last week after an ab-

that to-day's call was more than

a mere courtesy visit.

The only statement, which trans- pired is that there was an inter- change of views upon toples of mutual interest and that Herr von Ribbentrop was able, as a result of his recent visit to Berlin, to in- dicate the German Government's views thereon...

Maersk Line's New

There is a poetic justice in the physical penalties of secretive Dess, so that those who do not enter into the spirit of contem. poraneous existence, who say nothing they would mind being published, who tell reporters they have no statements to make, and who keep themselves to them. selves, are quickly destined for those quiet vaults in which they

Modern Cargo Vessels For can practise all their grim, un-

New York-Manila Route social arts to the full. But the quackers and braggers and muni- Two new

and modern motor ficent contributors to the com-ships are to fly the Danish flag for the Maersk Line from New York to Manila and return,

non pool, the men and women who rejoice to be the life and soul of the railway carriage, the holders-forth, and the open souls who gladly share the whole of their past lives-these shall live. They have shown an eager and appreciative spirit, and it is right that the extra length of days should go to them,

Motor Ships

· SLE-

cording to information issued re- cently by Melchers and Company, Ltd., agents for the line in Bnang- hat. The mv. Grete Maersk re

R.H.K. YACHT CLUB

New Year's Day Races

The Royal Hong Kour Yacht Club héid a race meeting on Chinese New Year's Day consisting of a race in the morning and one m the afternoon. Only amateur crews wore allowed and the meeting provided excellent ractor and's thoroughly enjoyable day including a tiffin at the Club for all taking part.

The following are the final results of the two races:

Dorthea (Lleutenant-Col. Reid)

Artemis (Me: Wood)

Carpenter (Captain Mey)

Lobo (Mrs. Edwards)

True Blue (Mr. Rouse) and Kittiwake (Miss P. King). Stella (Mr. Manning)

Sirius (Captain J. Newman) .....

Alisa (Car. Disbrowe, R.N.). Wintle (Mr. Carter) Diana

(Mr. Gifford-Hull)

Isobel (Major Dixon).

Cicada (MY. Coote)

Joss (Col. Muirhead)

Nannette (Lt.Cdr. Graves, R.N.)and Eve (Mrs. Hopkin-

son)

Bobena and Owl, D.N.F.

FORENOON · RACE

Points Pos.

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33

2

29

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8

9

17

10

14 12

12

Course:-Lyemun Beacon (P). Rumsey Shoal (8), Channel Rock (8), Club Line. Distance: 8.6 miles. Start: 11.00..

Finished Corrected

13.12.30

Dana, HI (Mr. J. Gifford-Hull).. Dorothea, H9 (LL-Col, 8. D. Reid)... Carpenter, A (Capt. D. M. Mey). Lobo, A2 (Mr. J. D. Pattullo)... Artemis, A4 (Mr. G. G. Wood). Eve, A5 (Mrs. 8. Hopkinson)..... Isobel. AT D.N.F.

Joss. AB (Mr. B. J. Garner-Smith). Cicada, A10 (Mr. F. B. Coote).......... True Blue. A11 (Mr. H. 8. Rouse), Kittiwake, A12 (Miss P. M. King). Ailsa, 13. (Comdr. Disbrowe, R.N.). Stella, YI (Mr. F..C.. Manning)........... Winkle, Y2 (Mr. B. 8. Carter)... Robena, Y4 D.NF. Widgeon, Y5 (Mr. L. Garner). Nannette, Y6 D.N.F. Birios, Y7 (Capt. J. D, Newman).

POS 13.12.30 1

13.25.15

19.20.14 3

13.54.11

13.41.17

14.00.52

13.47.58 13 13.29.40

2 13.18.48 14.01.56 13.49.03 15

14.00.41 13.47.47 12 14.01.40 13.43.48 14

13.42.14 0

13.55.08

13.55.04 13.42.10 8 13.59.18 13.44.13 11 13.49.33 19.33.04 13.59.14 13:42.48 18

13.51.09 13.94.40 5

13.57.32

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13.37.23

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AFTERNOON, RACE Course:-Channel Rock (P), Rumsey hoal (P) N. Mark on Line (P), Rumsey Shoal (8), Club Line. Distance: 5.3 miles. Start 18.00.

Diana, HI DNF.

Dorothea. H9. (Mrs. S. D. Reid) Carpenter, AI (Capt. D. B. Eley). Lobo, A2 (Mrs. E. R. Edwards).. Artemis A4 (Mr. G. G. Wood). Eve, A5 D.N.S.' Isobel, AT (Maj. B.-E. C. Dixon). Joss, AB (Col. J. Muirhead)

Cicada, A10 (Mr. F. 8. Coote)..... True Blue, A11 (Mr. H. S. Rouse).. Kittiwake, A12 (Miss P. M. King). Ailsa, 13 (Comdr. Disbrowe, R.N.).

· Stella, YI (Mr. F. C. Manning). Winkle, Y2 (Mr. B. §. Carter).. Robens, Y4 D.NF. Widgeon, Y5 (Mr. L. Garner). Nannette, Y8 (Lt-Cdr. Graves, R.N.).. Birius, Y7 (Mrs. P. M. Newman) Owl, G11 D.N.F.

17.31.18

Finished Corrected Pos.

17.20.00 17:18.544 1 17.27.34 17.19.37 4 17.25.36 17.17.39 17.29.14 17.21.17

17.26.24 17.18.27 3 17.33.20 17.25.23 14

· 17.31.36 17.23.39 11 17.29.44 17.21.47 7 17.29.53 17.21.56 8 9

2 5

17.22.011

17.35.10

17.25.00 13

17.32.46

17.22.361 10

17.31.50

17.21.401 6

17.38.05

17.30.18.

17.27.551 15 17.29.56 12

Von Ossietzky A Prisoner

Of The Gestapo

serves

a4

It is now evident that Cari vou | George's Hospital, Leipzig. The Ossietzky, the winner of the Nobel Columbia House at Berlin, which Peace Prize is being detained' in-| is formally a remand prison. is Germany not because the state of really a concentration camp. The bls health makes him unfit for women's at Jauer, In Silesia, also travel it demands, rather, that

a concentration camp he travel to a mountain sanato- for women suspected of subversive rlum) but because the German Į political activities. Beyond these. authorities fear that he might there is a number of small camps speak or write about his experien- | where prisoners who are engaged ces once he is across the border.in special labour are housed. He is in fact, a prisoner in the hands of the Gestapo, and there" e no certainty at all that he will not be sent back to a concentra- tion camp.

In all, therefore, Germany now has 21 main concentration camps.

The total number of inmates is

not known to the outside world. But that total is certainly many the officially admitted No sooner was the Nobel Prize times

There are awarded to him the

about 2,000 treatment Azure: of the prisoners in the camps be- prisonera at Dachau alone. The came worse. There can be little camp at Sachsenhausen is being doubt that this was an act of re-enlarged to accommodate 3,000 prisal on the part of the German

prisoners,

has accordingly implanted in the old the desire to instruct the next generation, and it does not really matter whether the advice is acted upon or not. What matters is that it shall be given, and given loudly and often.

How providential it is that at the end of a long life the quietest liver has plenty to recollect and relate, and the seeming paradox that those whose time is shortest seem in the least hurry to cate to their points is now revealed in a more intelligible light.

The very old are preparing for when they prowl about their clubs with buttonholing looks. It is the young who lack any excuse for copious speech and 1 who are rightly told to shut up. They cannot plead that they are aiming at longevity, and if they do they cannot expect sympathy, But the elderly can say, "Tiet me go on talking that 1 may go

will be placed on the same run, at the beginning of the year in INCOME TAX IN a later date, When the Grete the "Berlin Weekly," a periodical on living, and at once the man over the decline of public arg-Maersk arrives in Shanghaj In which is published with oficial who is trying to melt away ment in England, and the way May a celebration will be held on sanction for the enlightenment through the door becomes a kind every one retires into himself beard to which representatives of or British and American visitors of murderer, and has to sit down with a book or paper reflecting local shipp ng circles and press

to Germany. there are Now six once again.

what he feels already. All this representatives wil be invited.

It has been decided to Introduce camps with 3,181 inmates, of The vessels wil be primarily

"The Co- whom 3,694 are political prisoners, income tax in Kenya. It used to be thought that Mr. may pass, if the doctors give the Gladstone owed his splendid old word. They may not give it, for used for carrying cargo from the the rest Being ordinary criminals. lonial Secretary, in making the The truth is that the following announcement in the Commons, uge to

the thirty-two bites & their whole tradition is to treat back again but are fitted out with

camps still exist:-Dachau, Bach- Bald that the necessary legislation mouthful; but it would now seem speech with care, as the golden comfortable passenger

Lichtenburg. Bulza, was being considered-

British Wirden. that it was all that he said in thing they have made it in their dation for twelve people, in four senburg.

Welzheim, Fuhlebüttel, Bachsen- 1884 and all the other years that own case. But if they encourage double rooms and four single.

Capable of making sixteen knotshausen-Nordbahn. had quite as much to do with it. loosening of the flood-gates of

while fully loaded, the vessels con- Vulkanwerft-Stettin, The law, the ministry, the repressed reflection and recollec-tain strongrooms with a capacity Oranienburg (the old camp at was dissolved and the

has seats of learning, these are the

of 8,150 cubic feet of tales, silk Oranleburg

been com- new one spaces.

depleted and is now used); To homes of long Ille, and it is not

rooms, and refrigerated where a temperature of 10

the six "accidental that they are all call

green Centigrade can he main these must be added ings which tax the lungs in the

tained. Each vessel also contains separate concentration camps (in-

course of daily work.

deep tanks with a total capacity of cluding the notorious camp at 3,000 tons of oll, and the dead. Boergermoor) which are grouped bill creating a twenty-million- weight of the Crete Maersk is together at Papenburg. There are dollar Government corporation for given as 9220 tons on Lloyd's also two concentration camps, for making loans to dood victims-

and women Moringen

Bt Taider. Summer Freeboard.

All the inhumanities for which cently launched at the Vulcan authorities. Dock in Bremen where she WES There is Н widespread bellet the German concentration camps built, will sail from New York on that the camps are fewer in num- have been notorious from the be

that the treatment ginning still continue.. the first passage of her run to the ber and Far East on Apri: 10 and should of the prisoners has improved, arrive in Shangnal about May 28. According to # German official The second of the two new ships | statement which appeared at

Many heads have been shaken

ion, how greatly will the trim thoroughfares of Hong Kong be transformed.

As for the transformation in the clubs, lounges, the Legisla It will be interesting to test five. Council and the Urban the impartiality of our friends Council.the prospects are of ZBW by seeing what publi overpowering!

United States to the Far East and

accommo-

Brandenburg, Gotteszell,

KENYA

London Feb. 11.

LOANS TO FLOOD. VICTIMS:

President Roosevelt has signed a