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...... 14th Jan.
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Dairen, Tsingtao.
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20th Jan,
for Mars, Rotterdam, Har......... 8th Jan. F. MECKLENBURG" for Mara, R'dam... Bamburg... 19th Jan.
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Sailing for LONDON, ROTTERDAM, ANTWERP, HAMBURG and LEITH on about the 9th January, 1938.
or
Cargo will also be accepted on through Bill of Lading to the usual transhipment ports.
Tel. 29533
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JAPAN
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY JANUARY 1938.
Important Events
Events Of Past
Of Past Year
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SINO-JAPANESE
WAR · 1937
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Chronology
July 7 (midnight)-A battalion of Gen, Bung Cheh-yuan's 29th Route Army clashed with a battalion of Japanese troops when manoeuvring In the neighbourhood of Fengtal.
DISASTERS
Jan. 28
IN 1937
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SPANISH WAR
IN 1937
Floods in United States On February 8, the fal o fMalaga. chusing vast areas in the Ohio and to the Insurgents was announced. Mississippi to be evacuated.
On April 27, Guernica, the Ban- March: Four hundred were | que capital, was wiped out by killed, mostly children, in explosion | German aerplanes in General in a Texas School,,
Franco's service.
Mar, 16-18: Great foods is the On May 29 the German battle- Fen districts In England
ship Deutschland was bombed by Mar. 24-Imperial Airways liner, Spanish acroplanes.. Capricornus crashed..
July 18-Generalissimo Chlang Kai-shek made a statement. that' April, 2:-Collision between two China could not, sacrifice her electric trains near Victoria-seven" sovereign rights even at the ex-persons killed and several injured. pense, of war. Japanese demands refused.
July 20-200 Japanese civilians killed by Chinese militiamen. In Tungchow, Hopel.
August 8-Rumour denied that China intended to declaře à mora- torium.
August Hungiao Aerodrome Incident.
Saturday
August 14 "Bloody In Shanghai Stray shells killed 1.741 persons and injured 1,868.
August 23-Two shells fall in front of Wing" On" and sincere Company premises.: 215 Chinese and four foreigners killed.
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May 8-World's biggest rship. Hindenburg, destroyed near Lake- hurst, U. S. A.-34 killed.
persons
July 3:-Twenty-five lost their lives in an accident in
Brymbo Colliery, Chesterton.
Sept. 2: A typhoon, the worst in the history of Hong Kong, wrought havoc to Colony in the early hours, November 16:-The Dowager Grand Duchess of Hesse; the Grand Duke of Hesse; the Grand Duke's wife Grand Duchess Cecilie; and their two children, Prince Prince Ludwig, aged six, and Alexander, aged four, were killed In when an air Liner crashed Ostend.
August 26--Sir Hugh Knatchbull- Hugessen, British Ambassador to China, was seriously Injured by a December 10:-Thirty-five were Japanese air attack while motoring killed and "at least 40 injured in from Nanking to Shanghai. Later the worst United Kingdom Railway Sir Hughe went to the Dutch East disaster since 1915. Of the 35 Indles on a convalsecing trip and killed, 20 were men and six women, left for England from Hong Kong
The Edinburgh-Glasgow express on Dec.11 with his family.
crashed into the rear or August 30-Chinese planes RC-stationary passenger train from cidentally bombed the liner Pre-Dundee to Castlecary, near Fal- sident Hoover outside. Wookung kirk. One member of the crew, was El3led.
September 5—Japanese extended China Coast blockade.
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The engine of the express was thrown dowh the embankment and two coaches were telescoped and reduced to smithereens, A storm was raging af the time."
On June 19 Bilbao was captured by the Insurgents.
On July 1 there was disagree- ment as to non-intervention in Spain on the part of Germany- and Italy.
On August 25 Santander fell in thr hands of the Insurgents.
On October 21 Gijon, last strong- hold of the Spanish Government In North Spain, surrendered to Franco's forces.
On September 1. H.M.S. Havock
Spanish coast. was attacked by torpedo off the
On Sejtember 7. nine nations met at Nyon to discuss Mediterran- ean piracy.
OBITUARIES IN 1937
PROMINENT PEOPLE
Admiral Sir Murray "Anderson; Professor H. E. Armstrong;
Bir James M Barrie, Bart: Rt. Hon, Sir Plunket Barton; Sir Ger- vase Beckett, Bt; Miss May Brad- ford, leading Australian aviatrix: Duchess of Bedford; Bir John Bland-Sutton; Sir Robert Borden: Sir Edgar Britten. Commander of the RMS. Queen Mary: Mr. R. W Bingham.
September 8-Japanese planes bombed refugee train; 300- Killed.
Dee. 11:-Dollar liner President September 13-Japanese captured
Roover went aground Civic Centre, Shanghal.
near Hol- September 24-Japanese slaugh-shoto Island, off Fomosa, while en ter of innocents in Wuchingmiao route from Japan to Hong Kong. J. L. Conneau slum section of Hankow: over 200 he became a total loss. No lives killed.
were lost. The liner was of 21,936
October 12-Three Biltish Em- bassy cars machine-gunned by Ja- panese planes 14 miles south of Shanghaline
October 29-Three Royal Ulster
LOS ANGELES, PANAMA, NEW YORK, BOSTON, Riemen killed in western defence
PHILADELPHIA & BALTIMORE.
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If sufficient inducement offers" also other porte of call.
Arrivals from USA,
Sailings to U.S.A.
Int J.
-2nd Jan,
M.7. "ANNA MAERSK "
25th Jan.
M.V." TRITON"
27th Jan.
(All dates are subject to alteration without notice.)
EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION FOR. PASSENGERS
AT MODERATE RATES.
For Freight and Fassage please apply (---.....
JEBSEN & CO.
Canton, Shamcon, B.C. Agents. Hong Kong, Fedder Building.
Tel. 10916,
Tol. 28303.
How to get rid Of
Disfiguring Blemishes
How much younger would you look and feel if your skin was clear and entirely free from blemish ?
Pimples, spots, blackheads, enlarged pores, burning irri- tations and ugly complexion defects are woman's most com
mon
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PROMINENT WEDDINGS IN 1937
"; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Somer- set Calthorpe; Lord Castlemaine; Rt. Hon. Sir Austen Chamberlain;.
famous airman:
Lord Conway; Sir Reginald Crad- dock, M.P.; Lord Craigmyle; Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, K. C.; Colin Clive: M. Alexander Doumergue. ex-Presiderit of France;
JOBB" Drinkwater: Countess of Durham;
Dowager
Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam; Lord Ernel; Earl Ferrers: Admiral | Sir William Fisher: Sir J. Forbes- Juliana.Robertson;
November 24-Mass murder of civilians in Canton by Japanese January :--PrincesS planes; over 160 killed in Honam. only daughter of Queen Wilhelmina December 6-So-called autono- of Holland, and Prince Bernhard mous Government in Greater zur Lippe-Besterfeld, Shanghai inaugurated.
December 11-Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser Seized by Japan ese.. in Hong Kong territorial waters.
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June 3-HR.H. the Duke of windsor, ex-King Edward VIII, and Mrs. Wallis Warfield, in France.
November 17:-Prince Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein. only December 12-Japanese field bat-surviving son of the Grand Duke terles and machine-guns fred on H.M.S. Ladybird and ILM.S. Bee. One rating on Ladybird killed.
December 13 Japanese planes bombed and sank U.S.S. Fanay, 25 miles up river from Nanking.
December 13-Japanese announ- ced complete occupation of Nank-
ing.
and Grand Duchess, von Hessen und bei Rhein, and Miss Margaret Geddes, daughter of Sir Auckland and Lady Geddes.
December 2-Marquess of Cly desdale, son and heir of the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, and Lady Elizabeth Percy, daughter of the
late Duke and Duchess of Northum-
December 16-"Provisional (v-berland, ernment" formed In Peiping.......
December 21-Invasion of South China reported near at hand.
December 26--Japanese entered Hangchow.
IN THE NEWS IN 1937
Murders
Two ghastly murders, one in Pelping and the other in America. occurred in January.
The body of Pamela Werner, 17- year-old daughter of Mr. E. T. C. Werner, a former British Consul, was found mutilated under the city wall in, Peiping...
PALESTINE"
In July the report of the Royal Commission on Palestine was pub- Itshed. The main recommendations provide for termination of the pro- sent mandate and the division of the country into three parts.
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MAN WHO BROKE CENOTAPH SILENCE
Bir Samuel Hoare, the Home secretary, made a statement in the House of Commons, November 12 on the incident at the Cenotaph
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Bir Eric Geddes, Chairman of Imperial. Airways; Sir Edward Ger- man; William Gillette; Sir Alexan- der Grant;
A. G. Hales, author: Jean Har- low, famous film star; Joseph Hocking; Rt. Hon. John Hodge: Lord Holden; Dame Lady Houston; Sir Leicester Harmsworth, Bart; Sir George R. Hunter: Marquis of Huntly:
Lord Islington;
Sir Henry Jackson; M. P.; Lord Jolcey; Martin Johnson, famous big game hunter.
Earl Kitchener: F. B., Kellogg: Lord Kylsant;
General Ludendorf.
Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, **- Premier of Britain; Guglielmo Marconi;.. Thomas Masaryk: · Lt.- Col. Cyril McNelle (Bapper)+(An- drew Mellon;
Lord Ormathwaite; Viscount Peel, Chairman of the Royal Commission on Palestine, Earl of Perth; Luigi Pirandello: Bir Frederick Pollock;
John D. Rockefeller; Hon. Elihu Root: Lord Rutherford, famous scientist; Lord Rothschild; Lord Runciman; Frank Rutter.
Viscount Snowden; Sir Arthur Somervell; Sir squlie Sprigge; Lord Strathcarron; Canon HR.L. "Dick" Sheppard; Canon BE Streeter: Ion 'Swinley, famous, Shakespea- swift; Maurico. Ravel; rean actors. Mr. Justice Rigby'
Professor Henry Tonks; Lady Tree:
when, during the Two Minutes ageing" enemies. To
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Cleanse the skin with Cuti cura Soap twice a day. Its luxuriant, mildly antiseptic father is soothing and softening ; washes away pore-deep dust and grime which develop black heads, enlarged pores and ugly completion defects. And to
rid the skin of pimples, out- breaks, rashes or irritations use Cuticura Ointment direct on the affected part before washing with the soap. Its antiseptic action kills germs, soothes and heals and quickly clears the
skin.
Try this treatment to-day, sen how your skin begins to look clearer and fresher; your com plexion smoother, lovelier, more attractive than ever before.
Cuticura
For Clear Healthy Skin
Sold by all Chemists and Stores. Ask for Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. And for powder use Cuticura Talcum-exceptionally fine and pure, exquisitely perfumed,
The naked body of Charles Matt son, 10-year-old son of Dr.-W Mattson, of Tacoma, was found murdered in the woods Everett, Washington.
near
NOBEL PRIZES FOR 、
1937
per:
Very Rev. Foxley Nordia, Dean
Silence, a man broke through the pher, poet and novelist: Harry Miguel de Unamuno, philosn- guard of naval ratings and ran | Vardon, famous golfer; Frank Vost shouting towards the King.
Replying to Mr. Attlee, the” Bo- clallet leader, he said:
or Wertminster: Edith Wharton, "The man is named Stanley | Lord Wyfold; Storey, aged 43; who was respon- Bir Arthur Yapp, Secretary- alble for the disturbance in the General of the YMCA.;
Bir Basil Zaharoft Gallery of the House of Commons Prof. George Page Thoinson, ofan Jan. 21. He was in Cane Hill the Imperial College of Science, Asylum, Surrey, from Feb. 4 to London, was one of the winners of Sept. 21, on which date he escaped, this year's Nobel Prize for Physics and has since been at large. He shared the prize with Dr. Ciln- He fell forward through the ton J. Davisson, of the Bell Tele- ranks of the police, who thought phones laboratory, New York that he was fainting; then he get The Prize for Chemistry was up, and dived through the naval | divided, between Prof. Walter Norcontingent, shouting some such man Haworth, of the University of words as "No more wur" and ""This Birmingham, and Prof. Paul hypocrisy. He was immediatelydr. A. Barradale, a gardener or Karrer, of Zurich University, removed to a room in the Colonial Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. The Nobel Peace Prize was Once, and Special Branch officers has grown a beetroot weighing awarded to Viscount Cécil of were sent, for, who identified him 1241b, and claims that it is the Chelwood.
Fat once from his appearance.”.
Jarrest ever seen.
Gypsies and dealers were the chief buyers at the 800-year-old Bampton Fair, Devon, where the pontes which roam Exmoor
Dartmoor are mold.
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· PRESIDENT, LINERS SAIL
FREQUENTLY. -- REGULARLY
SAN FRANCISCO-
LOS ANGELES
via Kobe and Yokohama.
S.S. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE Sails SATURDAY, January 8th, Midnight
SEATTLE AND VICTORIA
via. Kobe, and Yokohama.
S.S. PRESIDENT JACKSON Sails FRIDAY, January 14th,
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Sailing Sunday, 9th January
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First Class Fafe to Sydney:
Return: £76.-0-0)
Slagle: £47.10.08.
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CONSIGNEE NOTICE.
88. "D'ARTAGNAN ·
BRINGING, CARGO, FL0M MARSEILLES, via SAIDON etc, ARRIVED HONG KONG on SUN. DAY, THN 20 DEO, 1987.
VONSIGNIES are
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
OCEAN STEAM BHIP CO, LÆÐ. UHINA MUTUAL STRAN NAVIGATION CO., LTD,
ONSIGNEES per Co's Vessel
*" AGAPENOR" FROM UNITED KINGDOM VIA SINGAPORE, DOU jaza whereby, not sed, that thar. Cargā
will
be discharged | fato Holis Wharf Kowloon, where it will b Consignor risk and subject to Terme and Conditions of Storage at Holt' Wharf The Cargo will be ready for
from Bodows
on, and after *2012 Ana
that their goods with the saception Optimedayo will not be funded here Noties has been givan prior ta of Opium, Treasure, and Valuables are Steamer's arrival, hot, carried on from being landed & stored into the Godowns port to port to the El port of sell to of the Harf Kork Kowloon Wharf which the option
ji & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, whones,
All broken, olla ac
fund damaged Goodr delivery may be obtained immediately are to be left in the Godowns, where
after landing to as they will be amsiained on any Tooldayı
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All claims must be sent in to us, on and Fridays betwpas, lis homes, of before the Tuesday, 4th January, 10.15
HOOM within the Free 1937, or they will not be recognized.
Bhim and
Clairse will be zadmittit after the Damaged Packager will be ormined by the Company Surveyor, Mears Goods 7 left the Bless Godown, Goddard & Dongles in the presence of and alls Goods remaining and
andelivered. the Consignees at 10:00 am, on Fri-after the Bik Jang, will be subject day, the Bist Dao., 1987--
100 1.10 Consignees must have Revense Officer in attendance when any dullable gods are examined by the Company's No Fire insurance will be affected Ery us in any case whatever."
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES CO.
Bong Kong, 26th Dec, 1937.
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be presented to the Undersigned on or
not be sacognised. before the 181, Jin, a big will
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29 Des., 1937.
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