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ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.
Notice is hereby given that -owing to congestion of cargo in godowns, due to diversion of Shanghai cargo to Hong Kong, typhoon damage and retardment of local deliveries, the Company is unable at present to guarantee godown accommodation for fur, ther through cargo consigned to Shanghai.
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary. 9th September, 1937.
5505
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHARE-
HOLDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on INTERIM DIVIDEND OF 15s (Fifteen Shillings) per Share on account of the year 1937 has been de clared payable on 22nd OCTOBER, 1937. on and
FRIDAY,
after which date Dividend War.
*ants may be obtained on appli
HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Repairs to Submarine cables, situated in the Cable Reserve be- and Star Ferry Wharf, Kowloon, will be carried out, commencing at 7 September. a.m. Masters are requested to steer clear of cable layingcraft: 9th September, 1937."
Blake Pier tween
the
10th
5567
GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC. "A"
TENDERS for DOLLARS current in this Colony, for tele- graphic transfer, on the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, London, up to and for the sum of £100,000, will be. received by the Treasury. Chest Officer, Command Pay Offi.e, until 10.15 am. on the 10th September, 1937.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1937.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. PHILIPPINE REVIEW
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of WILLIAM ARMSTRONG tate of 25, Record Road, Emsworth in the County of Hants, in the United King dom, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Ordin. | ance No. 2 of 1897 made an order limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 6th October, 1937.
All Creditors and others are ac- cordingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on
or before that date. "
DEACONS,
Solicitors for the Executrixes,
R.
FUBLIC AUCTION
PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 13th day of Sept., 1937, at 3 P.m., at the Offices of the Public Werks Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at. Lai Chi Kok in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one farther term of 24 years less the last three days thereof.
NOTICE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
Notice is hereby given to Con signees of Shanghai cargo shipped per s.s. "BENDORAN" arrived 8th September, 1937, from Lon. don and Ports of call, that owing to the hostilities in Shanghai, all cargo destined-for-that port and Northern ports with fran shipment at Shanghai, is being discharged at Hong Kong at the entire risk and expense of the Owners of the goods and that the liability of the carrier ceases henceforth.
W. R LOXLEY & CO. (CHINA), LTD.,
Agents.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the purchaser (if not the applicant), will Hong Kong, 8th Sept., 1937. be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be pre sent at the sale, the sum of two
1, Des Voeux Road Central, hundred dollars, $200.00 in cash.
Hong Kong
5566
CHINESE ESTATES,
LIMITED.
SECOND INTERIM
DIVIDEND."
NOTICE IS HEREBY
that a GIVEN
SECOND INTERIM DIVIDEND for the year ending 28th February, 1938, of two per cent, that is $2.00 per share, will be paid on al! shares in this Company on Satur day, the 18th September, 1937, at the Company's Office China Buildings, 5th floor.
"The TRANSFER BOOK. of the Company will be CLOSED from the 14th to the 18th September, 1937, both days in clusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
at
FUNG PING FAN,
Director & Secretary. Hong Kong, 8th Sept., 1937."
Q.
I.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
5560
PARTICULARS AND CON-
amount (in pounds sterLug). Auction to be held on Monday, The tenders to state the totaDITIONS of the Sale by Public
This sum will be refunded on payment of the purchase price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
No. of Bale
Inland
d Lot No. 2508 Went of New Kow- loon Inland Lot No.
1894, Castle Peak Rd.,
Lai Chi Kok.
Registry No.
Locality.
New Kowloon
Boundary
Measure.
ments.
As per
sale plan.
Contents i
Equare feet
Acanal
Rental
Uprot Price.
30,000
R.
$
9,000
5563
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO
RICKMERS.LINIE.
Notice is hereby given to Con.
per 5.8.
Hong Kong, Sept. 4th, 1937.
5547
A Dream Fades
Present Manuel L. Quezon's indirect bid for a Congressional re- appraisal of the Philippine situation, voiced in an interview, indicates that political Independence for the islands is losing some of its ap- peal.
Don Manuel is apparently inclining toward a: courageous rationalization of a grave situation. Even the intimation that unpre- dictable circumstances may force an abandonment of Island Inde- pendence called for both courage and statesmanship, of the first order, since it was on the independence Issue that he attained the commonwealth Presidency
.
From the time it was first promised, the Filipino's hope of nationality has been based upon the theory of collective security. would be guaranteed by the major powers with interests in the Far upon the hope that his political independence and territorial integrity East. That hope was blasted in September, 1931, when, in defiance at a mass of binding treaties and solemn covenants entered into by the great powers guaranteeing the political and territorial integrity of China, Japan struck the blow at Mukden which converted the entire province of Manchuria into the puppet empire of Manchukuo.
Japan And The Philippines
The belief of Dr. George C. Butte that the Philippine, Islands will eventually pass under the domination of Japan la entirely satisfied.
As Dr. Butte, who has spent a number of years in the islands in high official position, points out, the natives are racially related to the Japanese and they live in the domain in Japan's influence. Moreover, Japan needs the islands. It can afford to import products which the Filipinos have to sell. One of the reasons the United States is conferring Independence upon the possession is that several of our economic groups are demanding tariff from insular.. commodities.
Whether Japan will actually annex the Philippines is another question. The government of Nippon may find it more practical to leave the islands to self-rule,
"How the North China Affair | Further comment, we feel sure. signees of Shanghai cargo shipped | Arose" is the title of the more would be superfluous.
"Ursula Rickmers" expensive booklet (40 Sen).
When a nation starts to adopt arrived 1st September, 1937. With some knowledge of the Far such "scare tactics it must be from Hamburg and Ports of call, Eastern situation and blessed in a bad way. These booklets that owing to the hostilities in with a sense of humour, perusal
are being scattered all over the Shanghal, all cargo destined for of this amazing example of world in several languages in the that port and Northern ports mendacity is possible--but only hope presumably that a feeling with transhipment in Shanghai, į just. It represents forty-two of nauses will thereby be ongen- is being discharged at Hong pages of extra special pleading dered regarding Clána and all Kong at the entire risk and for world toleration of Japan's
'The way to things Chinese. expense of the Owners of the attitude towards China. From
meet such attacks is not to Imkucchino incident to goods and that the liability of the
wallow in the saine propagan- 5550 the carrier ceases henceforth. Anguat 20, when this publicationda sty as that which appears to
came off the presses in Tokio, be "home" to the Japanese. JEBSEN & CO.,
Agents.
the Chinese have been the nation that has nothing to fear aggressors incessantly. Nauscat has nothing to hide, and we feel ing instances of alleged Chinese that the greater the glare of brutality fill a large section of publicity that is thrown on to this blatant example of Japanese the present undeclared war the propaganda, whilst under the better it will be for China. The sub-heading. "Who Governs Central Government can be re- China." It is made quite clear lied "upon to see to it that every that all the terroristic regimes possible facility is granted to that have ever been. multiplied accredited Press representatives an astronomical number of times, I to see for themselves and write could not even approach in their despatches untrammelled magnitude to the enormity of by unreasonable restrictions. that "secret organisation" which. Otherwise the war of words will under the direct control of the become a very real and a very arch Bend Chiang Kai-shek, terrible feature of the present dominates all China,
conflict. And in order to facil- tate the accurate recording of the To say the very least- it is a ost frightening picture. How process of this undeclared war,
Central Government fever, that is not by any means furnish frequent and detailed
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 13th day of September, 1937, 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 Repulse Bay Road in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option ni. renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis
cation at the Society's Registered No telegraphic transter will be the 13th day of September, 1937, posal of the lot the purchaser
made for less than £100.
Office," Union Building, Hong Kong.
NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO The tenders to be in duplicate, GIVEN that the SHARE and in sealed covers, addressed to TRANSFER BOOKS of the the Treasury Chest Office, Com Society will be CLOSED from mand Pay Office, and endorsed MONDAY, 11th OCTOBER, to "Tenders for Government Bills, THURSDAY, 21st OCTOBER, etc." 1937, Roth Days Inclusive. The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is rese, ved.
By Order of the Board, "G. S. ARCHBUTT, Acting General Manager., Hong Kong, 8th Sept., 1937.
6504
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES AND UNDERWRITERS.
MAERSK LINE:
M.S.GERTRUDE
MAERSK
It is hereby notifled that thre m.8. "Gertrude 'Maersk" having cargo on board from the U.S.A. and ports of call for Shanghai, Hong Kong and the Philippines, sustained damages to ship and cargo in the Typhoon in the night from September 1st-2nd, 1937. In consequence thereof General Average has been de clared.
Consignees of General Average || cargo are requested to sign Lloyd's General Average Bond before Bs/L will be counter. signed for delivery,
JEBSEN & CO
Agents.
5569
at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the
Editorial" and `Business Omce:
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.
友之國中
HONG KONG, DEPTEMBER 10, 1837.
the
Ca
all that the Japanese propagan-ulletins embracing every matter dists have to say about the China
which is so outrageous that it has of interest in every section. No matter how difficult the organis-
to be chastised.
We now
(if not the applicant), will
ing may be and no matter how Public Works Department, by be required to deposit with an
come to the second considerable the cost, China's Order of His Excellency the authorised officer who will be THE WAR OF WORDS
effusion by the Foreign Affairs Government owes it to the re-. Governor of one Lot of Crown Present at the sale, the sum of Land
Entitled, putation and honour of the nation Already a great deal of con- Association of Japan. at Shamshulpo in the two hundred dollars, $200.00 in
What Happened
at Tung and the people that the world, Colony of Hong Kong for a term cash. This sum will be refund fusion has been caused by the of 75 years, commencing from ed on payment of the purchase obviously biased reports circhow?" the contents purport should be kept fully and secur
price. 1st July, 1898, with the option
enlated by a certain type of news to supply the answer. Sufficient ately informed as far as is bu agency which does not rely solely indication of the general tone of manly possible on every phase be fixed by the Surveyor of Hi PARTICULARS OF THE L01 upon the sale of its news to this booklet can be conveyed by of human, political and military Copies of Forms of Tender can Majesty the King, for one further
be had on application,"
of renewal at a Crown Rent to
term of 24 years less the last three days thereof.
that immediately after the dis Intending bidders are advised
posal of the lot the Purchaser
an
"Persons tendering jor (Bills) are hereby notified that having regard to the provisions of the Acts 22 George III Cap. (If not the applicant) will be 45 and 41 George III Cap. 52
required to deposit with the acceptance of any such authorised officer who will be Tender is subject to the express present at the sale, the sum of condition that no Member of two hundred dollars, ($200) In the British House of Commons
cash. This sum will be refunded shall be admitted to any share
on payment of the Purchase or part in or to any benefit to arise from the Contract thereby
price.
made for the allotment of such PARTÍCULARS OF THE LOT (Bills)."
"The provisions in question do not apply to Contracts en tered into by, any incorporated Company in its corporated capacity and made for the general benefit of the Com pany,"
R. H. SMYTH,
Major, R.A.P.C.
Treasury Chest Officer,
His Majesty's Treasury Office, Hong Kong.
5668
No. of Sale.
Registry No
Locality.
New Kowloon
༥་་་
Inland Lot No. 2501.
Tai Po Road, Shumshuipo.
Boundary
Measure-
ments.
As per
sale pizu
Annual
Rental.
Upset Price
Aboat
Contents in
Square feet.
28
5,434
5551
Registry No.
Locality.
No. of Sale.
South of Rural Building
Boundary 9
Measure
ments.
[12./12./16. ft.
As på
sale plan.
Contents in
Square feet.
Annus!
Rental.
About
10,000
114
os Upset Prios.
5549
with
balance its budget. However, stating that it contains page after interest.
reputable and independent page crammed with atrocity" news agencies operating in the stories written as, Jane Austin same field of journalism, it is might have written after visiting not difficult for the person of a house of ill fame average intelligence to discri- minate between what is news and what is propaganda.
There is certainly a war of words in progress to-day in the East which approximates to the war of warde which was waged some twenty years ago in the West.
If China so desired at the present time she could produce not inerely booklets at massive volumes numerous enough to reach library proportions con- Some of the beadings of these cerning atrocities committed by wild stories almost make the the Japanese soldiery in this and tears shout out of the eyes like in many other undeclared wars machine-gun bullets. Here are which that nation of military few:-"Atrocities of Mutinied terrorists liave perpetrated. But Chinese Soldiers": The Story to what purpose? of the Massacre Told by Two Women: A Treacherous Ac-
It is by now patent that the moral support of the world is on tion". Two Days in a Dust the side of China and that there Our comments on this most bin," and so on and so forth. is a concensus of opinion that important subject are prompted We need say no more on this
Japan is to blame for the ferri- by our receipt of two very nicely
Beore. As far as the art of proble depredations which have produced booklets issued for the paganda is concerned it is very transformied portions of China a edification of the world by the old and
very poor stuff.
smiling lands into blood-soaked Foreign Affairs Association of This body has never Japan.
About all these heartrending human shambles. will be held Arcia Preta, Macao, Leen conspicuous for its im stories, calculated to turn the
Sunday, 12th September, partiality, but in these latest world against China with loath to know is the truth. This she 1937, commencing at 2.00 p.m.
products the compilers-they are ing and disgust, there is one can do in a simple and dignified constructive point of great significance, manner which, of course, pre- The First Bell will be rang at not amusing or
enough to be termed authors-namely, that without exception chutes..the use of care tactics have set a new record in the every story has been called from such as commend themselves to By order,
way of dressing fiction to look one of the following sources, the the Japanese as manifested in this first propaganda onslaught like fact. But to them it is all Domei News Agency, the Tokio fact as "fact" is interpreted in Asahi, the Tokio Nichi-Nichi in the form of "atrocity
and the Yomiuri Shimbun. lets." 6550 Tapanese official circles..
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