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GERMANY

R: MITTANCES BY MAIL OR CABLE

IN FAVOUR OF

FOREIGN STUDENTS OR TRAVELLERS

EFFECTED AT

APPROXIMATELY HALF RATES,

THE

AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC.

Incorporated with Limited Liability lu U.8. A,

4, DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL.

NOTICE.

NOTICE by mutual arrange. ment Mr. P. Nettle has severed his connections with this Com- pany.

MALCOLM & CO., LTD.

5187

NOTICE. NOTICE Mr. H. M. Howell has joined our staff and will sign as Branch Manager.

MALCOLM & CO., LTD. 5188

HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

THE CHINA

FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LTD

NOTICE TO."

SHAREHOLDERS

·HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1937.

ADVERTISEMENTS

THE HONGKỌNG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS,

LIMITED. (Incorporated in Hong Kong)

NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of The Hong

Kong

and Shanghai Hotels, Limited, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company (Ex change Building, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong), on Thurs. day, the 15th day of April, 1937, at 11.30 a.m., for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Ac counts and the Report of the Board of Directors for the year ended on the 31st December, 1936, confirming the appointment of a Director and re-electing a Director and the Auditors.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Wednesday, the 31st March, 1937, to Thursday, the 15th April, 1937, both days inclusive. By Order of the Board,

F. C. BARRY,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 4th March, 1937.

$094

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CHIANG SHIH HOU'S

· FUNERAL

shek, Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission and President of the Executive Yuan

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Shanghai, April 19. that the SIXTY. All high military and civilian EIGHTH ORDINARY YEAR officials are flocking to Fenghua LY MEETING of the Company to attend the funeral of the late Mr. Chlang Shih-bou, elder OFFICE, Union Building, Hong will be held at its HEAD brother of General Chiang Kai- Kong, on FRIDAY, 16th APRIL, 1937, at 2.50 p.m., for the pur pose of receiving the Report of

Services will be held to-morrow. were Many wreaths and scrolls the Directors and the Statements sent to-day by Kuomintang mem- of Account to 31st December, bers and subordinates of General 1936, and of declaring Dividends, Chiang se last tribute to his etc.

brother. General Chiang is al- TRANSFER ready in Fenghua, his native town,

Union News. or a two-month leave.

The SHARE BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, Both Days inclu sive.

NOTICE is hereby given that the FIFTEENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of Share holders of the Hongkong Engi» |.... neering & Construction Company,

By Order of the Board,

A. W. HUGHES,

General Manager.

BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE TO

5137

Limited, will be held at the Hong Kong, 18th. March, 1937. Offices of Messrs. Lowe, Bing. ham & Matthews, Mercantile Bank Building, Queen's Road (Central), Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 14th April, 1937, At 12 o'clock (Noon), for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors and a Statement of Accounts for the Year ended on the 31st Decem ber, 1936, and electing Directors and Auditors.

The Transter Books of the Company will be closed from the 7th April to the 14th April, 1937,

both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,...

B. ALVES,

Secretary Hong Kong, 1st April, 1937.

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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the' ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, Union Build. ing, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 16th APRIL, 1937 at 2.80 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and

the Statements of Account - to

SHAREHOLDERS

IS

NOTICE

HEREBY GIVEN that the SEVENTY. FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 16th APRIL, 1937, at 2.55 p.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report "of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1936, and of declaring Dividend, etc.

The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, Both Days inclu sive,

By Order of the Board,

A. W. HUGHES,

General Manager. Hong Kong 18th March, 1937.

THE HONG KONG

JOCKEY CLUB

5138

Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Fourth Extra Race Meeting to be held on SATURDAY, 24th April, 1937 31st December, 1936, and of (weather permitting) may be ob

tained at the Secretary's Office, declaring Dividend, etc.

The SHARE TRANSFER Exchange Building: the Club BOOKS of the Society will be leuse, Happy Valley; the Heng CLOSED from 29th MARCH to Kong Club; the Sports Club; and 16th APRIL, Both Days incfmhe Stables, Shan Kwong Road.

Entries close at 12 o'clock, give.

NOON on Thursday, 15th April, 1937.

By Order of the Board,

A. W. HUGHES,

General Manager.

Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.

$195

By Order,

'C, B. BROWN,

Secretary.

*5188

BIRTHS FASTING. On April 7, 1937, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Fasting, a daughter. BROWN.-On April 8, 1837, at the Country Hospital, Shanghal, to Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Brown (nee Daphne Adam), a son.

ENGAGEMENT

BARTER-McCALLUM, The en- gagement announced of James Richard Godfrey, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Bar- ter of Newport, Mon, and Hannah Margaret. younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. McCallum, of 68 Campden Hill Court, Kensington, W.8.

MARRIAGE

Editorial and Business Office:

[15-19, Queen's Road Central,

Tel. 30251.

Night Editor: (Wanchal Office):

Tel. 24511.

London Omce: 53. Fleet Stree

E.O, '4.

The Baily Press

HONG KONG, APRIL 14, 1937,

FAREWELL TO

SIR ANDREW AND

LADY CALDECOTT

ROYAL NAVY

Commodore At Hong Kong

The appointment was recently made of Captain E. B, C. Dicken, OBE, DSC, to HMS Tamar. In command and as Commodore In Charge of the naval establish- ments at Hong Kong. He suc- ceeds Rear-Admiral C. G. `Sedg- wick, retired, who was reappoint- ed temporarily on his promotion to flag rank in July last.

Captain Dicken has attended the technical course since relin- quishing command of the cruiser Durban, in the Mediterranean. He graduated at the Imperial Defence College in 1933 and had formerly been Senior Officer of the Red Sea sloops. The DS.C. was awarded him for active ser vice at the Dardanelles and in the

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Parks He is the son of Admiral C. G. Dicken, retired.

If Gossip We Must

(BY PRUDENCE) |

The third" Extra Race Meeting, from a holiday, and looking very-

last Saturday was packed full of fresh and pretty. Beryl Fair was thrills, "staring from the moment there, delightfully cool in mow- when Ranger beat that staunch white linen Mrs. V. R. Gordon too was charming in white with a old favourite Able Amazon! I saw

blouse, and Miss Mrs. Alabaster and Rosalie look-blue-spotted ing very pleased with life after Tyrrell had a very dainty costume of white and a black choker-tie. drawing their winnings, and no wonder. Rosalle had the sweetest Mra. J. M. Purvis was very smart costume of chestnut-brown, belted

In a costume of ficcked blue-gray with a fascinating buckle of yellow with accessories of navy, and Mrs. crystal, and Mrs. Alabaster looked Bernard Brown very trim. in pale- most charming in navy blue. There fawn checks, will be a Battle Royal when Ranger challenges Strathroy at the next Meeting.

Another thrill came when the soldier pony discarded his pockey and bad every mafoo оп the course, chasing him, before he was anally headed into the paddock and captured, much to the joy of the crowd at the rails.

Hong Kong will regretfully Eastern Mediterranean Flag say Farewell to His Excellency Lieutenant to Admiral Sir Cecil the Governor, Sir Andrew Calde-Thursby, and the OBE in 1921 cott, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., and for service as Naval Attache In Lady Caldecott on Friday when they proceed to England on leave prior to His Excellency assuming the position of Governor Hamilton, D.&O., flying the flag of her marvellous long-shots and of Ceylon..

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Sir Andrew arrived in the Colony in December, 1935 and during his brief period of ad- ministration be endeared himself to the people of H.K. to such an extent that when news was received of his promotion to. Ceylon, the community raised a storm of protest and even went so far as to send a petition to the Home Government for the retention of Sir Andrew 48 Governor of this Colony.

A

EAST INDIES SQUADRON HMS. Norfolk, Captain L. H.

Mrs Charcher achieved datine- tion in a charming dress of flower pattern on black, Mra, Butterfeld too looked awfully nice in all- non, with a coatee of dark blue black, while Mrs. O. J. Shan-**

dire, Mrs. G. H. Gandy with a Mrs. Prentis in a coat of oatmeal- swagger coat of light blue, and cloth with a pattern of jazz em- broidery, all looked very delight- ful.

And those two lucky sisters must certainly have felt thrilled One Mrs. Roger Lindsell was there, of them certainly got one (if not looking very bright and fresh after two) of the big wins of the day, a long holiday at Home, and wear- while the other pulled of another ing a costume of pale ducks-egg

while blue linen,

Mrs. Leigh of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir

got the double agami

Garner was very easy to look at Alexander Ramsay, Commander- The climax came when Amberley | in dark blue with white. in-Chier, East Indies, is to be at

romped home to pay that. amazing One of the best laughs of-the Mauritius for the Coronation, and dividend. That is a pony i gen-afternoon HMS. Enterprise. Captain C. E. erally hack, and just abat once I "Boy" who sailed forth armed Was provided by the

Morgan, D.8.0.,

Mombasa.failed to

do so but so did the with a tray of tea for the Band. After the celebrations the Norfolk wife of the owner, and very sad Nothing daunted by the Band will join the Enterprise at Mom she felt at letting such a golden master wielding his baton, he pene- basa, and Sir Alexander Ramsay opportunity go west

trated right into the midst of the will transfer his fag to the latter

music, and endeavoured to park ship, the Norfolk returning home

his tray just where the wind were to recommission.

in full blast, playing "Tea For AMERICA SQUADRON AND THE CORONATION

Two.".

at

The ships on the America and West Indies Station will be dis- tributed

various among

ports during the period of the Corona- tion. Ordy the York, Captain H.

and the Dundee, Captain J. H E. Morse, DS.O., flagship of Ad-

Edelsten, will be at the base at Bermuda,

miral the Hon. Sir Matthews Best,

From May to 13 the Apollo,

In reply to the address of

Andrew said that he was very welcome on his arrival bere, Sir

pleased to hear that problems of serial communication were occu- Pying their proper place in the foreground of public attention. Captain M. J. C. de Meric, MV.O.. und

Is to be at Kingston, Jamaica; the concern, and since His

Dragon. Captain F. R. M. John- Excellency's arrival here aviation son, at Antigua; the Exeter, Com has made and is continuing tomodore H. H. Harwood, Q.B.E., at make such rapid advances that Nassau, Bahamas; the Ajax, Cap- it will be but a matter of a tain C. & Thomson at Trinidad; and the Scarborough, Comman- comparatively short time before der F. R. Bartre, at St. John's. Hong Kong will becomes as im- Newfoundland. The ships – will to Bermuda, portant an airport in the world afterwards return as it is a sea port to-day.

except the Dragon, which is to return home to go into” reserve. her place being taken later by the Orton, on relief in the Home Fleet by the new cruiser Southampton.

APPOINTMENT

Another important step for ward during Sir Andrew's ad- | ministration was the opening of the Jubilee Reservoir, and only yesterday His Excellency opened been made by the Admiralty:-

The following appointment" has

the Queen Mary Hospital which Lieuti (E)-J. B. Walsham, to is perhaps the most up-to-date institution of its kind in the Far East.

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These, however, are but only a few of the things that have happened in a year of changes. Sir Andrew's visits to Canton have already borne fruit and relations between Canton and Hong Kong bave become more sincerely cordial than ever. relations with Macao, too, have Our

1937 at H.BM Consulate- General, Shanghai, Elsie Mar- been strengthened by the recent garet Annand, daughter of visit of H.E. Senhor Barbosa Capt. and Mrs. S. Polkinghorn, and it is a well-known "fact that

and Shanghai Banking". Cor- poration,

KENNETT ANNAND-On Apr

Adventure.

CANTON'S FINANCE

COMMISSIONER

There was such a crowd of peo ple at Happy Valley on Saturday- Mrs. Alec Potts had a very at- tractive costume, as usual, and I feel sure that I caught a glimpse

Needless to say that what he got of Mrs. Benny Proulx, just back I was just a "raspberry, for one"!

The quiet chat of these young ladies at the Race Meeting on Saturday was apparently interrupted by the appearance of the cameraman'

MAINTENANCE SUMMONS

Indian Sued By Former Wife

U.S. ADMIRAL

IN CANTON.

· Official Visit Concluded

Canton, Apr. 13. Canton, April 13.

Concluding an omicial visit to Mr. T. I Boong, Finance Com-

Canton, Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, missioner

has of Canton, who

Commander-in-Chief of the Ameri been resting and recuperating in

can Astatic Fleet, left here this Shanghai, has been granted an

morning aboard the armed yacht- Label for Hong Kong, where he extension of three months' sick leave by the Nanking Central afternoon for failing to pay main will sail aboard USS. Augustus for--

Government. Mr. Theng Yang-Do. Mayor of Canton, has been ap- pointed to act as Finance Com- missioner." and has assumed: the

to A. C. Kennett, Hong Kong both Sir Androw and Lady 1 duties of his new once.

DEATHS

Caldecott have given their un stinted attention to the welfare of the Colony in general and the poorer classes in particular.

It is reported that no changes will be made in the administra- tion of the Department's affairs, and all important officials have been retained in their "present positions without change.

Mohamid Farid appeared before His Worship Mr. Schofeld at the Central Magistracy

yesterday

tenance to his former wife Marian the North. Farid.

During his visit here, Admiral In the witness box the defen- | Yarnell made official calls on Chin- dant said that he could not afford ese officials and attended banquets a solfelter to fight his case and 50 given in his honour. The admiral was fighting it himself. He said visited" all places of interest in that he was earning $150 a month Canton including a trip to Shek and was married again and that | Pel to see the beautiful buildings- it was impossible for him to pay of Sun Yat-sen University. the complainant any maintenance Admiral Yarnell will arrive in money as he had hardly sufficient chefoo on May 3 to direct the It is stated that the first questo meet his household expenses

manoeuvres of the American fleet. tion to receive the attention of He did not dare to come to Court in North Ching watera the new Finance Commissioner previously to ask for a reduction Inion News. Business Tax, a matter which has employers would discharge him.

as he was afraid that his present been awaiting solution for sonte months.---. Chinese Evening Fress.

will be the collection of the new.

PETTITT-Twin daughters born to Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Pettitt at

"I will do my utmost to pull the Wellington Nursing Home, mentsin, died on April 8, 1837. through the high duties to which I have just been sworn and in HODGES On March 29, 1937,

suddenly, at Ridgmount, Ep- the last words of this cath, I som, Julia Mary, widow of the | pray," "So help me God'"', said Rev. Herbert Cecil Hodges. His Excellency when he took formerly Dean of Shanghal Oath of Office here. Cathedral, aged 82.

We take the liberty to say that COLLINS-On March 30, 1937, et

Bournemouth, after a long Sir Andrew has lived tip to that illness, Robert Moore Collins, in every way, and while we for many years correspondent deplore the cruelness of Fate of The Associated Press in the which bas deprived us of so Far East and London. HICKS On March 30, 1937, at Popular and able an administion is the name given to the Messingham, the Rer. Canon trator, we take this last oppor house in Kim Keat-road, Singa- Walter Hicks, D.D., in his esth tunity of bidding His Excellency pore, where Dr. Sun Yat-sen lived year, youngest son of the late and his Lady Good-lock and God time working out schemes for the about 35 years ago and spent his Sir Francis Hicks, of Streatham Speed.

overthrow of the Tsing Dynasty. Hill; 8.W. Prebendary of Stow

·Followers of the Chinese leader Longa in Lincoln Cathedral,

have now bought the house and Commissary to Bishop of

plab to' renovate it and turn "it Qu'Appelle, General Becretary

into a memorial to Sun Yat-sen of North and Shantung Ma-

and the Chinese revolution.... sion.

SERCOMBE-SMITH-On March

JUNKMEN TURN ROBBERS

31, 1937, at The Links, Bud- An armed robbery report to the leigh Salterton, Thomas Ber- police last night stated that ve combe-Smith, dearly-loved men from a junk, numed with re- husband of läge Bercombe, vorvers, robbed another junk of Smith Pulare Judge (retd); fishing nets and jewellery together tate of Hong Kong and the with some money of Ho Le Island Federated Malay States, in his No further report has been made 19th year.

to the police about the case.

SUN YAT-SEN'S. HOUSE

"Home of the Chinese Revoin-

LINER SAILS

Port Said, April 12, The F.. and O. liner Viceroy of. India, which grounded off Port Bald on Saturday, sailed at 150

Reuter's Bulletin Service,

Previous to this hearing he did.

bis best unul five months ago le the reason why I am here in when money lenders were afraid Court this afternoon, I did not pay to lend him any more money. An her so she wrote a letter to the agreement was drawn up by his manager of my firm and informed Worship at the last hearing for him about the matter. He sent witness to pay his former wife $28 for me and spoke to me. I thought: monthly but she refused to accept I would be discharged but he gave this and demanded the full me another chance and paid all amount. Witness paid her for my debts to the money lenders, the one or two months but could not Loan Association, and I have now

afford to continue paying any fur- to pay back my employers with ther instalments. He suffered monthly tristalments of $50 which great hardships especially during is being deducted from my salary.

the last two months when he had I used to receive a salary of $200.

to support his wife, mother and two but now receive $150." children. E

On being cross examined by Mr. "I married my second wife on GK. Hall Brutton the defendant the March 8, 1935 according to said that he had a few debts to Mobommedan rites and the cer- pay at the present moment but dia tificate was digned by the Mohom not mention anything about them. medán Church, said witness. as he was afraid that his employers "Since 1982 my present financial would find out and that he would difficulties was not derived by my lose his fob as they had already squandering money I could not paid debt for him,

ter evidence had been heant: After azord to pay complainant and so she asked her solicitors to write his Worship ordered the defendant me a letter threatening me that to pay a monthly maintence of $30 she would put me in gaol unless to the complainant until his debt I paid her the money I owe. This to her was rudy, repaid.