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WHEN TRAVELLING

IN

GERMANY

AND ON GERMAN SHIPS

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1938.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS,

LIMITED, "

WILL STORY ALLEGED

Couple Accused Of Fraud

CORRESPONDENCE

HONG KONG SINGERS

(To the Editor, "The Hong Kong Daily Press")

Sir, The collection taken at the (Incorporated "in Hong Kong).

annual Armistice Day Concert When a man and his wife were given by the Hong Kong Singers NOTICE IS HEREBY charged with fraud "at Waking last November was donated to St. GIVEN that the Ordinary Year. recently it was stated that the Dunstan's to assist that institution

woman had" told the police that in its work for war-blinded men. ly Meeting of - Shareholders

she WD3 expecting £12,000,000 I should like, through your of The Hong Kong and Shangbal under a will.

(columns, to convey to the public.. Hotels, Limited, will be held at

Albert Staples and May Staples, of Hong Kong the grateful thanks the Registered Office of the Comet Liddiard House, Monument-jof Captain Sir Ian Fraser, express- pany (Exchange Building, Des road, Woking, were remanded for ed in the following letter recently

REDUCE YOUR EXPENSES CONSIDERABLY Voeux Road Central, Heng a week on five charges of obtain-received.

By Carrying Our

REICHSMARK TRAVELLERS

CHEQUES

THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC.

Incorporated with Limited Liability in U.S.A.

4. Des Vœux Road, Central.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY.

HONG KONG HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,

p.m.

of

His Excellency The Governor," THE ANNUAL SHOW Sir Geoffry Northcote, K.C.M.G., FLOWERS and VEGETABLES bas graciously consented to attend will be held at ST. JOHN'S Founders' Day at St. Stephen's PLACE (opposite the lower Peak College, Stanley, today at 3.15 Tram Station) on THURSDAY, the 3rd March, from 3 p.m. to Parents, Old Boys and all 6.30 p.m., and on FRIDAY, the friends of the College are warmly 4th March. from 10a.m. to invited to be present. An oppor4 p.m. tunity will be given for inspection of the new Preparatory School after tea.

6066

J. T. BAGRAM,

Hon. Secretary. 6059

THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

Kong), on Wednesday, the 6thing by means of fraud other than

day of April, 1938, at 11.30 am for the purpose of receiving Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors for the year ended on the 31st December. 1937, and re-electing a Director and the Auditors.

false pretences sums of money totalling £20. Ball in £20 each was allowed.

Staples alleged in evidence that the charges were a "frame-up" by his enemies.

Mr. L. E. Barker. prosecuting. sald that Staples told various people that his wife was entitled

The Transfer Books of the to a large sum of money under a Company will be closed from will. and certain sums were need- Friday, the 18th March, 1938.ed

to Wednesday, the 6th April. 1938, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board, F. C. BARRY.

Secretary. Hong Kong, 2nd March, 1938.

BIRTH

6003

BRENNEMAN.--On February 25. 1938. at the Country Hospital, Shanghal, to Mr, and Mrs. J. S. Brenneman, a son.

DEATHS

House

to obtain Somerset stamps and various documents.

He said it had been a long-con-} tested will, and mentioned the Duchy of Cornwall estate, saying| that the final cheque in his favour would be drawn by the Duke of Kent. They lent him money.

As nothing happened, said Mr. Barker, one of the people who lent money went to the police.) They interviewed Mrs. Staples, who said that she was expecting to receive 12.000.000; and gave the names of some solicitors in London who, she said, were acting for her. It was found that there was no such frin.

"St. Dunstan's..

Regents Park, N.W.1. Dear Dr. Ride.It is a great pleasure to receive from the National Institute for the Blind further most generous gift of twenty pounds which the

Picture taken during a family party gathering in Kowloon recently.

Hong Kong Singers are good WOMAN EXPERT THE KING AT THE

enough to forward for the bene- fit of war-blinded men, this amount being the result of a Concert and Collection. I am indeed grateful to you, the meta- the bers of your Committee, Hong Kong Singers, and the

VINDICATES THE

LITTLE OWL

people of Hong Kong for this Not A Menace To

splendid help.

of

Please accept the sense gratitude which I am endeavour- ing to convey as coming not from myself alone, but from my Council and above all my blind- ed comrades who will materially benefit by the interest taken in their welfare.

Song Birds

ARSENAL

Interest In New Guns

(BY AIR MAIL)

The King, accompanied by com-

FANTASTIC LEGEND'mander Charles Lambe. R.N., pald

· EXPLODED

a visit to the Royal Arsenal on February 16, states The Times. After a scientific inquiry lasting So far as the Arsenal authorities. 18 months and covering 34 coun- were concerned. the visit was no With every good wish for 1938. ties, Miss Alice Hibbert-Ware, the surprise; but the secret had been

Yours sincerely,

analyst has reported to the Br-well kept. (gd), Ian Fraser tish Trust for Orithology on the A few minutes afer 10.30a.m. the Chairman. the hab ts of the little owl, which Royal car unostentatiously entered the "outlawed" by the Home Office in the Arsenal. The King was met makes

Vice Admiral Sir Harold. total sum of money raised by the 1936 Her findings, published re-by

Brown. Sir Reginald Townsend She said that she would receive Hong Kong Singers for charities Cently, states:

Taat the little owl a not a (Director of Ordnance Factories). the money under the will of a Mr. during the last three years, well

and Mr. Francis Camegle, Chief McKinnon, of Notting Hill.

Does not attack game or poultry: Superintendent of Ordnance Fac- Does not kill birds ad mam-tories.

Tais

contribution

MANDEL-On February 26, 1938,

over $4,000; and while thanking menace to British song-birds; at his home in the Medhurst

When asked whether she knew the people of Hong Kong for their Apartments, Shanghai, Albert McKinnon by any other name, she support. in the past. I should like

The King was first shown one of (A1.) Edward Mandel, aged 57

to take this opportunity of re-mals to come back and feed on

the the new 3.7 anti-aircraft guns, in years, the dearly beloved hus-sald "No," but added that he was

readers that our carrion beetles attracted to a man of title connected with the minding your

which he showed great interest. band of Lucy Skinazi Mandel.

concert of part songs and

sea corpses. Royal Family

Regarding to last ading Miss 'The features of the gun were being given in the shanties is

briefly explained, and a demon- China Fleet Club on Wednesday Habbert-Ware comments:

This story, perhaps the most stration given of the method of next at 9.30 p.m.

The proceeds of this concert fantastic legend recently started loading. There followed long visits Jure to be devoted to the funds about any animal, runs counter to to the machine factory and the.

of the Sallors' and Soldiers all the evidence available, and in heavy gun factory. refugees? The position, as people Home,

cidentally to the known limita- who have taken the trouble to in- valuable work is so well known to tions of a bird's mind, which is

MALLECK-On February 26, 1938. at San Francisco: Nicholas

A search of wills in "Somerset House had failed to bring to light

Malleck, formerly of Foreign this one of McKinnon. Y.M.C.A. Shanghai.

ап institution whose

Press, paire know, la se grave and the the Hong Kong pubile and so much almost certains lacapable of any

The Daily Press.

友之國中

persistent inactivity of the au-appreciated by the sea-faring men such forethought."

thorities to callous, that an urgent who visit this port.

įcase for a petition to the Colonial

Omce, seems to be presented.

Large numbers of the refugees

now living in Hong Kong are peo-

L. T. Ride,

Chairman,

Hong Kong Singers:

QUICK-FIRING GUN

From the heavy gun factory the inspection proceeded to the light gun. factory, where the King's OUTLAWED IN 1936 ·

attention was particularly drawn The little owl was first intro- to, some naval quick-Bring guns: duced into England about 1874. A these included a little two-pounder prolifie breeder, It multiplied' which looked more like a beautiful HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

ple of means who are willing to [To The Editor, The Hong Kong rapidly and a report published by toy than ar, engine of destruction.. Notice is hereby given that the

Daily Press"] ·

the British Field Sports, Society in Visits were next made to the BANKING CORPORATION. Forty-ninth

pay well for houses. The result is

arms ordnance factory. Ordinary Yearly

that old tenants, those hard- Sir. The housing problem has 1935 accused it of being a killer of small-

where the mechanism for the meeting will be held at the Com-

working Hong Kong wage-earners. come up for public discussion at a song and game birds.

The following year the Home assembly of the component parts The Final Dividend declared jpany's Offices, P. & O. Building, Night Editor Wanchai Office); are literally kicked out at a month's propitious time. for the Year ending 3fst Decem on Thursday, 10th March, 1938,

notice. Some even plead with the I have been occupying my pre- Officet agreed to make a special of bullets and also a device for landlord to be allowed to continue sent flat for over a year during order withdrawing the bird from testing the weight and length of ber, 1937 at the rate of Three Jat it a.. for the purpose of London Office: 53, Fleet Street the tenancy at an increased rent, which time I have never failed to the protected 1st to any county. the bullets received especial atten-

Pounds Sterling at exchange presenting the Report of the 1/2.7/8 is payable on and after Directors together with a State- the 28th February, 1938 at the ment of Accounts to 31st Decem Offices of the Corporation, where ber, 1937, and electing Directors | shareholders are requested to and Auditors. apply for Warrants.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chiel Manager. Hong Kong, 26th Feb., 1938.

6054

HONG KONG TELEPHONE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE

The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 26th |February to 10th March 1938, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered:

By Order of the Board

of Directors.

Hong Kong, Feb. 18, 1938.

Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central, Tel. 30251

Tel. 24511.

E.C.4.

*HONG KONG, MäRCH 4. 18.

Features of interest at other

.

every council applying for it. A number tion. but all entreaties fall on deaf ears, pay my rent promptly They look for a cheaper house but month, and I have received notice of county authorities secured an factories were a torpedo igniter. order. Including Hampshire, Dorset, ja steel converter which gave a find none available, because these to vacate at the end of March.

Warwick-miniature have tried Devon, Gloucestershire.

arework display, and For over a week I have, meanwhile, been snapped up

various types of bomb moulds, at greatly increased rentals.

hard to find a place to move Into, shire and Worcestershire,

seems impossible to get The principal food of the little What is the result? Go into the but it

The King was cheered with hotels, the lodging houses, the anything suitable at a reasonable owl, according to Miss Hibbert enthusiasm at the factories which tenement houses, anywhere, in rent nowadays. The rents of all Ware, is insects, rats, mice, rabbits he visited, and a large crowd of Site praises it for employees gathered to wish him fact, where there is a roof above the flats I inspected were far be- and voles.

acting as a controlling factor farewell after he had signed the SCANDAL IN

four walls, and the answer will beyond my humble means.

jackets visitors' book. found there-an answer in human I am just one of Hong Kong's the plague of leather

The first recorded visit of a HONG KONG souls that will shock the con- thousands of office assistants and during 1936."

to make The analyst's results were check-Sovereign to the Arsenal was by I to jed by a special committee, which | George III in 1773. The first visit

HOUSING

some

un

IS HEREBY THE HONGKONG AND this journal has, so far, retrained GIVEN that the THIR. TEENTH ORDINARY YEAR-

¡KOWLOON WHARF AND

LY MEETING of HONG GODOWN CO., LTD.

KONG TELEPHONE COM. PANY, LIMITED, will be field

on WEDNESDAY the 9th day

of March 1938, at the BOARD

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS.

science. Educated families, men, can only just manage women and children who have ends meet. Now what am

Yours, etc..

"AT WITS END," Hong Kong, March 3, 1938.

ILLICIT STILL

and

estate sworn

C.N.A.C. KEEPS OLD SCHEDULE

In the stress and strain of the been brought up to live and move do? My family must be housed included Dr. W. E. Collinge, Keeper of George VI's reign will no doubt most serious confict in which the in clean decent surroundings, re- somehow; but where we are to of the Yorkshire Museum: J. C. F. satisfy him, both from the point Fryer, a Ministry of Agriculture of view of the volume of work in GIBB, LIVINGSTON two great Asiatic Fowers have ever duced to share a cubicle in a class find a new home I cannot see.

I heartily endorse the

Bug-laboratory director; and Mr. N. Bhand, which calls for two shifts & CO., LTD.. been engaged, the Government of of house far. beneath their stan-

this Colony may be forgiven for dard and station-hovels in which gestion put forward by Mr. J. P. Kinnear, head of the Bird Section, of workers, and from that of the Agents.

spirit of the workers themselves. domestic lapses which in it is impossible for them to prae-Braga in his eloquent letter, and British Museum.

The report concludes with the that the Arsenal is playing its part other circumstances would

tice the ordinary rules of hygiene I appeal to our Government to do

remark that the results coincide in the equipment of his Forces 6027 doubtedly receive severe criticism. and clean living to which they have something for us soon.

closely with those recorded 2.300 for any emergency which they That is one of the reasons why been used from their childhood.

years ago by Aristotle.

may be called upon to face. The physical, mental and moral !from criticising the scandalous effect of this sudden change must manner in which the small-pox be pathetic and will redound to jcpidemic was tackled-cr. to be the discredit of this Colony for all

LOCAL ESTATES more precise, has been left un-time. To whom is the duty of this

Robert John Hillier. Customs tackled. It would be making con-Government first and foremost?

the refugees or to

On charges of distilling spirit officer, late of flat No. 225, Em- the

The loss of several parts for the fusion worse confounded by otter To

this without a licence, possession of bankment

Building, Shanghal, new Douglas plane, which is now permanent ing comments on past lapses at a

population of

as suddenly time when the warmer

they apparatus for doing so, ferment who died on December 13, 1937, being assembled at Kai Tak, has weather Colony? As

local most of ing material and dutiable spirit | left the former, or

under made it necessary for the C.N.A.C. THE FIFTY FIRST ORwhich has set in promises to stamp came.

No. 19. Bridges Street, 282.300. Application by Edgar to keep to their old schedule. ROOM of the Company, Second DINARY ANNUAL MEETING out the disease. But, at a more them at any rate, will depart, at

solicitor, for sealing There will be two planes on the Floor, Exchange Building, Hong OF SHAREHOLDERS will be appropriate time, on the strength but the wage-earning community Chinese was fined a total of 8285. Davidson,

three grant of probate of the will of the Hong Kong-Chungking route and Kong, at Noon, for the purpose of held at the Office of Messrs. shall chastise the Medical and pointed out in his able letter in months

of a mass of evidence collected, we will remain, for, as Mr. J. P. Braga with the alternative of

six weeks' hard deceased has been granted by the not three as previously announced, the local office of the C.N.A.C. re- receiving a Statement of Accounts Jardinc, Matheson & Co., Ltd.. other departments concerned with yesterday's Daily Press. It forms labour by Mr. R. Edwards at Supreme Court.

Local estate to the value of ported yesterday. and the Report of the Board of en Friday, the 11th March, 1938, the whip of castigation in the hope the backbone of this Colony's com- Central Magistracy yesterday.

Revenue Officer J. L. Stephens 81,400, was left by James Morri- Planes will leave for Chung- Directors, for the financial year AT 11 A.M., for the purpose of that in the future the community mercial structure.

son, marine engineer. of 8.3 king. as usual, on Mondays and The problem is far too serious prosecuted. ended 31st December, 1937, and receiving the Report of the Direc.will not be continually exposed to

Scochow. China Navigation Co, Thursdays. The additional plane re-electing two Directors and the tors

the grave and totally unnecessary to allow any mercenary considera- and

Ltd, who died at Tangku, North is expected to be placed on the the Statement

of risk

influence the of death by foul diseasestions to

on December 27, 1936. route before the end of the month. Auditors.

Firm and Immediate action is im-in order to put an end to the high-China, Accounts for the year ended 31st 15 the result of governmental

Applica- The TRANSFER BOOKS of December, 1937.

omissions and ineficiency.

perative. We are at one with the handed practice of summary evic- domiciled in Scotland. Government in its declaration tion. Moreover, a scheme to ac- tion by George Gwinnett Noble the Company will be closed from

for sealing The Transfer

But there is one domestic pro-against rent restriction legislation.commodate the poorer class of re- Tinson, Books of the

blem-housing-which for some

of 2 testament- the 28th February to 9th March Company will be CLOSED from

Many factors make such a measure fugees in camps outside the city confirmation months past has been 1938, both days inclusive.

Causing impracticable. But, for the pur-limits would ensure that no fur- dative of the deceased has been

The quarterly, meeting of the Friday, the 4th March, 1938, to such serious disquiet. misery and poses of the present deplorable ther burden is placed on

the granted.

RE.O.C.A. was held at the N.C.O.'s Friday, the 11th March, 1938. alarm and promises to show still housing conditions, the Govern-capacity of a class of house which Kan Yi Chi spinster, late. of Mess "In Wellington Barracks, last further aggravation in the future ment can at least, prevent further is already trightfully overcrowded. San Chuen Village. Honam. Can- night. The report and statement that we should be falling in duty aggravation by refusing hospitality Unless some sort of action is ton, who died intestate at the age of accounts for the year ended if we did not press for immediate to refugees who are financially in taken immediately by the local of 52 on July 28, 1937, left local December 31, 1937, were read by action.

a position to travel further afield Government, this journal will give estate sworn at $1.000. Letters of the secretary. Mr. H. C. Green, and

to the estate of adopted. move administration Is the Government of this Colony and who would be gladly welcomed its hearty support to any

The secretary announced, that aware of the appalling housing in other parts of the British Em-made with a view to bringing the the deceased have been granted to conditions which have arisen inpire, until more houses afe built gravity of the position to the Kan La! Tin. ship chandler. of membership had showed an in- Hong Kong, as the result of the The Government can, as Mr. notice of the Imperial Govern Nos. 51 and 52 Connaught Roadcrease of 120 new members since

the beginning of the year. 6032 Invasion by a quarter of a million Braga points out, pass legislation ment.

ary, 1938,

Dated this 10th day of Febru

both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

Order of the Board,

W.L. MCKENZIE,

Secretary.

14, Des Voeux Road Central.

Hong Kong.

5901

F. H. CRAPNELL,

Secretary.

Kong Kong, 21st Feb., 1938.

decision.

Central,

solicitor.

R.E.O.C.A. MEETING

R