NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.
HONG KONG, SWATOW AND AMOY FREIGHT CONFERENCE
FOREIGN & CHINESE
SHIPPERS
Notice is hereby given that as from 1st. APRIL, 1937, rates of freight from Hong Kong to Swatow and Amoy will be in creased 20 per cent over current rales.
The Tariff rates on Tranship. ment Cargo from United King. dom, Europe, Canada and U.S.A. will be increased by 20 per cent on and after the 1st. MAY, 1937. Full details of revised tariff rates are obtainable on enquiry at the offices of the undersigned. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. CHINA MERCHANTS S.N. Co., LTD. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP է: CO., LTD. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
THE HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that "the Power of Attorney dated the 29th day of March, 1934 given by Mr. Chau Man Chee other. wise Chau Man Chi to Mr. Mok Tat Huen to manage the Imports and Exports Department of the firm of Chau Yue Teng of China Building has by Deed dated the 6th day of March, 1937 been revoked.
Dated the 6th day of March.j 1937.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1937.
Editorial and Business Omies:
15-19, Queen's Road Central Tel. 30251.
Night Editor (Wanchal Office);
Tel 24511.
London Office: 53. Fleet Street
E.C. 4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, MARCH 9, 1937.
GERMANY AND
COLONIES
GEO, K. HALL BRUTTON
& CO.,
Germany's demand for the Solicitors for the abayenamed | return of her colonies is
Chau Man Chee otherwise definitely tabled in the European Chau Man Chì.
diplomatic debate.
THE HONGKONG
INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO N
5098
DESTROYERS
COLLIDE
TELEVISION SERVICE
Portsmouth Ships In Suitability Of Ultra-
Short Waves Mishap Off Malta
Three Portsmouth-manned de atroyers. the Active, Antelope and the Worcester. were involved in a collision off. Hurd Bank, Malta, states the "Evening News."
The Admiralty has issued this statement :
"While carrying out exercises off
Active's Malta, E.M.S. gear jammed, and she was in collision with HMS. Worcester.
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The broadcasts from the B.B.C.
Television Station at the Alexan- dra Palace are daily illustrating
the suitability of ultra-short waves as a medium for the transmission not only of high-definition pic- tures but also of speech and mu-
sic of realistic qualitý, Many viewers have remarked on the atcerins | faithful reproduction of the sound broadcasts accompanying the vision, transmissions, and the ques- tion is now being asked whether the BBC. could not extend the use of this type of transmission for the special benent of the music-lover and apply it in cages accompanying vision service is not necessarily required.
"Both these ships were damaged, and H.M.S. Antelope was also in- volved and received slight dam.
age.
"All the ships are returning to Malta under their own steam."
where an now
The report of a forthcoming German "memorandum on the subject, to be addressed to Bri- FIRE, the Dominions, France, Belgium, arid Japan, expects this document to set forth economic argumente as already clearly in- dicated in various inspired articles in the German press and from German news-agencies.
SHAREHOLDERS,
At the Nazi Congress in The Sixty-eighth Ordinary Nuremberg last September, Herr General Meeting of Shareholders Hitler insisted that the.economic will be held at the Offices of the recovery of Germany depended undersigned on Thursday, the upon re-possession of oversea 25th March, 1937, at Noon, for territories, though General Goer- the purpose of receiving the Reing followed with the more port of the General Managers, arrogant ussertion that the together with a statement of colonies were "stolen" Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1936.
The Share Register and Trans- Books will be closed from the 11th to the 25th March, 1937, both days inclusive.
THE FIFTIETH ORDIN ARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be heldier at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Fri day the 12th March, 1937, AT 11 "A. M., for the purpose of re ceiving the Report of the DI rectors and the Statement of
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Managers, Accounts for the year ended 31st The Hong Kong Fire Insurance
Co., Ltd. December, 1936.
The Transfer Books of the Hong Kong, 5th March, 1937.
"
from
mander H. R. Graham.
HOME RACE BETTING
Lincolnshire Handicap And Grand National
London, March 8.
The following are to-day's call-over prices for the Lincolnshire Handicap (March 17) and the Grand National (March 18) as cabled by 'Reuter
LINCOLNSHIRE
100/7 Montesano t. and G. 15/1 Takemy c. 100/6 1 100/8 Laurent and o. 100/6 Nipaway t. and o 18/1 Edgehill t, and o.. 20/1 Voltus t. and o 20/1 Scotch Trout t. and o. 20/1 Jiudo p. 22/1 L 28/1 Lost Scent t. and o. 33/1 Pricket t. and o.
F.A. CUP
·SEMI-FINALS
London, Mar. 8.
I
GRAND NATIONAL 12/1 Ready Cash t. and a. 100/8 Royal Mail o. 100/7 1. 100/8 Golden Miller o. 13/1 t 100/7 Delachance t and o 100/7 Didoric o. 15/1. 15/1 'Puckabelle o. 100/6 t 20/1 Ego a
22/1 Spionaud'o. 25/1 t.. -28/1 Misdemeanour t, and o.
28/1 Pencraik o. 33/1 t
50/1 What Have You? t. and o
M.C.C. MATCH
Sydney, Max. 8. Owing to rain there was no play In the semi-finals of the F.A. before lunch in the two-day match Cup to be played on April 10. between the M.C.C. and Combined. Wolverhampton or Sunderland will Universities.
OF THE 3rd FLOTILLA
In reply it can at oncę be slated
Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean
All three ships belong to the 3rd that the BBC. is, and has been for some considerable time, alive Fleet, and come under the com-
to the advantages of the ultra- short wave band for conveying mand of Captain (Destroyers) &.
readily a wide range of musical J. A. Miles, In the Codrington.
and harmonics. It .The Active and the Antelope are frequencies 1.350-ton ships of the Acasta class, may be remembered that two" or
meet Millwall, while West Brom- The M.C.C. batted after lunch, gineers experimented with an wich Albion will play Preston North | scoring 165 for 6 stụ close of play. and were completed in 1930. Com-three years ago the B.B.C. en- mander R. St. A. Malleson.com-~
ultra-short wave sender the aerial End at the Arsenal,
Hammond made 70 not out. mands the Active, and the Ante-
If Wolverhampton win the re- | Reuter. lope is commanded by Lieut.-Com-of which was installed on the roof
01 Broadcasting House. This play, the semi-final will be played station worked on six metres at Liverpool; if Sunderland win. place at wavelength. The work carried out the meeting will take was merely exploratory, and con-Huddersfield.— sisted in field strength measure- waves. with now and again a radiation of the National programme. The power of this station was only kilowatt, which made it difficult to predict the kind of service to be expected in urban territory if the power were increased. Fortunate- ly the new television station, with lis 3-kilowatt sound transmitter, 18
The Worcester, which was 'Com- pleted in 1922, dispiaces 1,120 tons. She was built under the war
programme. and emergency commanded by Lieut.-Commander ments using continuous
W. R. Marshall A'Dear.
RIFLEMAN ALLEN'S
DISCOVERY
13
Yesterday afternoon. Rifleman Allch of the. Royal Ulster Rifles, discovered the body of a Chinese man lying on the hillside at Cus- toms Pass, near Lion Rock, Kow+ toon City," and reported to the po-
Germany at Versailles. "The general opinion of British Press correspondents in Ger many. in interpreting this new statement of claim, was that, for the present, specific demands need not be expected, because lice. Hitler would not court a refusal Officers of the Criminal Inves- ho would be unable to challenge.tigation Department proceeded to
the scene to investigate the cale The body, according to a police But this interpretation by" no means dismisses the prospect of
report. was apparently decom- ม new problem. To-day the posed. diplomatic turning of a veiled demand may suffice, but what of to-morrow, or the day after to- morrow?
ing's word) her enemies' The replies by British Minis-tories if she had won. ters and Press to the Nuremberg speech were plain enough; it was that conecasions in the cause and of the economic Notice is hereby given" that of peace Hong Kong 26th February, 1937. the Forty-eighth Ordinary Yearly recovery of the German people
[5070 Meeting will
be held at the are impossible to a Germany in Company's Offices, P. &0. her present aggressive mood, Building, po Thursday, 11th making the pace in a new and March 1937 at 11 a.m. for the ruinous armaments race.
Company will be CLOSED from
Friday, the 5th March 1937, to
Friday, the 12th March, 1937,
both days inclusive.
5002
By Order of the Board THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC
of Directors,
F. H. CRAPNell,
Secretary.
HONGKONG REALTY AND TRUST CO., LTD. (Incorporated under the Com panies Ordinances of Hong Kong)
NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of Hong Kong Real ty and Trust Company, Limited, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, Exchange Building (2nd Floor), Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 10th March, 1937, at 11.30 a.m., for the pur. pose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the
CO., LTD.
purpose of presenting the Report To a Germany exhibiting good. of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December 1936 and clecting Di
rectors and Auditors.
will and readiness to co-operate with all her neighbours in a peaceful settlement, many con- cessions might be devised; but surrender to demands couched in the language of violence could be no concession whatever to
The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 27th February to 11th March 1937, both days inclusive, dur- peace. ing which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents.
Board of Directors for the year Hong Kong, 18th February, 1937,
ended on the 31st December, 1936, and re-electing twe Direc lors and the Auditors.
"
By Order of the Board.
F. C BARRY,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 3rd February, 1937.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
5008
The First Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Satur day, 13th March, 1937, com mencing at 2.00 p.m.
HONG KONG & WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.
In his Reichstag speech recently Herr Hitler
ments.
move
10
cause
now automatically answering many important technical ques- tions relating to the extent of ser- vice areas. Further experiments on the subject are being conduct-- ed by B.B.C. engineers, but no "plans for any immediate develop- ments of a public service on these lines have yet been made.
the
Reuter,
i
SCOTTISH RUGGER
TEAM
London, Mar. 8. The following have been select- ed to play for Scotland in the rug- ger match against England on March 20:-Marshall (Edinburgh Acas), Johnson, Dick, Macrae R. Henderson. Shaw, Ross, Logan, Gray, Inglis, Horsburgh, Melville, Young. Waters, G Shaw.
Renter
WALTER HAGEN
BEATEN
Wellington, Mar. 8. AJ. Shaw, golf champion of New Zealand. beat Walter Hagen by one hole in a £50 contest here to- day. Reuters Bulletin Service.
LIU LU YING'S TRIAL
Hankow, Mar. 8. "
It should be added that a large- scale extension of the ultra-short wave broadcasting of sound would certainly be complicated by at least two factors. In the first place, the BBC, is not the only user of the aether in this band of terri-wavelengths, for some of the other national services have. already vested interests there, Also there The Dominions won their rights st the difficult problem of. to control the territories which electrical Interference from they finally accepted ander man ignition systems of motor-cars to be solved. If such systems are date, by virtue of the heavy not atted with suppression devices losses in men and resources that they act, in operation. like ultra-
spark transmitters, as his case is regarded as an or- the German assault on the Em short wave
dinary one, but no date has yet pire exacted from them. At the causing very unpleasant noise in
been fixed for the hearing.— Peace Conference, Mr. Hughes neighbouring receivers.
Reuter. for Australia stood out for an hardly seems likely that a really
extension satisfactory
of vitra- short wave broadcasting could take nexation of New Guinea. the "C" mandate provoked his electrical ignition noise had been opposition which forced upon him place until the suppression of famous clash with President Wilmade compulsory by legislation...
Bat he finally accepted the
The
mandate on the assurance of
those who drafted its terms that **it was the equivalent of a 999 years' lease as compared with a freehold,"
Who can give that assurance mostly
It thus
CHINESE DISCUSS
PROGRAMME
Coronation Arrangements
The third meeting of the
Chinese Coronation Committee was
Commerce at 230 p.m. yesterday, and was attended by over twenty representatives of the different gulds and commercial. associations of the Colony, for the purpose of discussing matters connected with the day procession and also the
night procession
It is understood that the Government. will contribute $6,000
towards the illuminated hight procession on May 13 and 14.
On the first day of the Corona- tion celebrations, the grand dragon procession will pass Government House at 2 p.m. as planned.
ignored this reply. He repeater? now? The South African Gov-heid in the Chinese Chamber of that the demand by Germany ernment has, so far alone among for her colonies would be the Dominions, spoken out plain- "etemal" and he sought to ly, and said that it will certainly not surrender the South-West, Justify it by quite specious argu-
The Bound Table and would regard the return of discussing the Nuremberg speech Germany to Tanganyika also as 15053 on this point, emphasises the a menace to the Union. The ruling distrust of German policy, Aust.alian Government has so for remained silent, believing, suggests that the demand for re- turns of the colonies is a political we understand, that no German dissension in claims stretch so far an New
Guinea, The belief carf Europe and in the Expire, ond asserts that nothing is to be longer be regarded as sound. NOTICE IS HEREBY gained by vagueness or delay in The coming Imperial Confer- GIVEN that the Orilinary Yearly explaining to the German Gov-ence, or discussions outside it. Meeting of Shareholders will be crnment that the agitation is, should provide opportunities to held in the Offices of the Com.) and will remain, fruitless." convey that in no circumstances pany 2, Queen's Building, Hong Jailed-fist diplomacy, it says will Australia consider the sur- Kong, on Monday, 22nd March, with truth, becomes but the render of the mandate in New 1937, at Noon for consideration easier if the victime are inclined Guines to Germany, especially to of the Directors' Report and to draw back the frontier of a Germany which has made a Statement of Accounts for the concessions at which they will treaty with Japan of which the full terms are not disclosed. year ending 31st December, 1936. fight rather than give way.
There is no vestige of evidence Germany has possibly done the
New Delhi, Mar. 8. that any concession to Germany Empire a service by raising this
"The Foreign Secretary of the in her present truculent temper question, because the recent of-
there is considerable unrest in the would be anything but a signal ficial disposition in Australia, for Indian Government declared that Waziri district on the Northwest to Hitler to ask for more. But instance, towardé "ocking a there is no need to keep the ar- snook" at the Mother Country- frontier and the Government is gument this inadequate in assertion of some local right to considering, in consultation with ground. Germany elected for deny, when it suits a Dominion, the local authorities, what action should be taken to stop the sub- the aword in 1914 and lost the the principle of Imperial co-verdye activities which are carried
The First Bell will be rung at inclusive. 1.30 p.m.
Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 8th March, 1937.
5000
The Share Register and Trans. ter Books will be closed from 12th to 22nd March, 1937, both days
By Order of the Board of Directors,
E. COCK, Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937.
to
J
gamble. She had all her plans operation --- may
5079
for "stealing" (General Goer- more subdued.
Besides numerous decorated and Illuminated, "pal-laus" of wonder- ful creation, there will be monster gold and silver dragons, fighting lions and countless historical tableaux in gorgeous colours, and artistic designa Chinese Evening Press.
INDIAN FRONTIER UNREST
now become
on by the tribesmen Reuters Bulletin Service.
Liu Lu-ying, charged with com- plicity in two political murders. will be tried in the Hupeh District Court instead of the High Court,
FAROUK THANKS
SWITZERLAND
Basel, Mar. 1. King Farouk I of Egypt tele- graphed to the Swiss Federal Pre- sident, Dr. Guiseppe Motta, thank ing him for the cordial reception given him and his countrymen in Switzerland, Dr. Motta answered that the Swiss people were much gratified that the King and his entourage had felt much at home in Switzerland. Transocean News Service.
SHANGHAI TRAM STRIKE OVER
Shanghai, Mar. 8. Seven hundred tramway repair- men returned to work this morn- ing.following the example of the motor-men and conductors yester- day.
The decision to resume work was taken on the advice of the Chinese authorities-
Beuter.
VINES-PERRY
TENNIS DUELS
Denvers, March 8
In the tennis duels played here
In Colorado. Ellsworth Vines beat - Fred Perry 6-4, 6-4
Perry now leads 14 matches to 13.- Reiter.
NEXT OLYMPIAD
Geneva, Mar. 8. The International Olympic Com- mittee has "just met in Geneva. where are situated its headquar ters. Count Ballet-Latour spoke the theme comprehensively on "Olympiad 1940." He stated that the Committee in Tokyo had been given precise indications regard- ing the general organisation of the next Olympic Games. Herr Werner Klingeberg of 'Berlin had been sent to Japan as expert ad- 'viser, to ensure the detalls would be in accordance with the prin- ciples of the Central Committee-
"runancean News Service.
BOMB EXPLOSION IN TRAIN
Paris, Mar. 8, Shortly before the fast train to the from Marselles arrived
at the France-Spanish border, station cf Ceeberes, a bomb ex- ploded in one of the carriages in the rear of the train. In an instant the whole carriage was enveloped in flames Luckily all passengers had left the carriage to attend the passport formalities.
Police suspect a political atrocity in connection with the Spanish conflict. One Frenchman has been arrested who had been conducting himself in a strange manner in the neighbourhood for several days.
this ex-
A short time before plosion took place, a time bomb was discovered in the garden of the Spanish Consulate in Per- pignan.- Traninican News Service.
HEALTH RETURNS.
One case of small-pox, two of diphtheria, two of enteric fever and two of cerebrospinal fever to the Health were reported Authorities for the 24 hours ended. on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan O'Kieffe caught by our camera at the, Race Course.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.