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Inceparaten with Limited Liedi'ity in U.S.A.

4. Des Voeux Road Central,

1HE MANUFACTURERS BANK OF CHINA, LTD (INCORPORATED IN CHINA)

NOTICE is hereby given that the Hong Kong Branch of the above-named Bank, established at P. & O. Building, Ground Floor, Des Voeux Road Central, is open for the transaction of business as from TUESDAY, the 29th of March,

1938.

R. C. RUGH,

Manager.

Y. Y. DUNN,

Sub-Manager.

33287.

TELEPHONES: Nos. 33283 -

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN THE HONG KONG AND

& MORTGAGE CO., LTD. !

YAUMATI FERRY CO., LTD.

NOTICE is hereby given that

The Fourteenth Ordinary the FORTY FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of Share General Meeting of the Share holders in the Company will be holders in the above Company held in the Jacobean Room, 1st will be held at the Company's foor, Hong Kong Hotel, Pedder Olike at the Jordan Road Ferry Street, Hong Kong, on WED. Pier on Thursday, the 14th April,

EDITORIAL

ADVERTISEMENTS, GOVERNOR OF

THE HONG KONG FIRE' INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS.

MACAO

Host At Luncheon Party

WIS the

CORRESPONDENCE

"OLD TIME MUSIC HALL"

TUESDAY, MARCH 29,

ARE PRIVATE

DOCTORS

1938.

YOUTH'S

FEARS

FOR FUTURE

POORLY PAID?"Nothing Is Worth

Enormous Amount Of

Much Trouble"

The fundamental anxiety

ot

Work, Done young people about the world and

have

cheon Club recently.

[To the Editor, "The Hong Kong Daily Preas"] Sir-Following my usual custom, His Excellency Dr. Tamagnini I omitted to read the comments of Barbosa, Governor of Macao, who ACWO on "The Old Time Music The Sixty ninth

"In comparison with the stand-its future was referred to by the Ordinary has been on a visit to the Colony, Hall" appearing in your issue of

Archbishop of York. Dr. Temple. host st an informal Friday the 25th instant until I had lard in other, countries, I General Meeting of Shareholder will be held at the Offices of the cheon party at Repulse Bay seen a performance; hence my be-often been appalled by the amount when he addressed the Leeds Lun- Hotel yesterday when His Ex-lated reply to that portion which of trouble and work that is, on undersigned on Tuesday, thecelleriey the Governor, Sir Geoffry deals with the sketch entitled "A the avenge, taken for a very small at the present time that many 29th March, 1938, at Noon, for Northcote, was the guest of honour.sister to assist her." the purpose of receiving the ReThere were 27 guests at the party. To a number of us, rightly or the cheapest place in the world young people were wondering if His Excellency Dr. Barbosa left wrongly, it appears that ACWO dis- for a man to be III." ald Profes- willy-llly into the maelstrom of port of the General Managers,

for Macao at 3.30 p.m. yesterday. Uked not only the sketch, but also

sor R. B. Hawes, speaking at the

another war. together with a statement

travelling by the Portuguese vessel the actress who took part therein seventh annual dinner of the

and with an air of authority, he, Singapore Medical

Schoolmasters were agreed that Accounts for the year ended the cinatti.

Practitioners' boys were apt to take the view or she suggests that the person in 31st December, 1937.

Society held recently.

that nothing was really worth question should never have played

He went on to say that the much trouble because of the un-

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The Share Register and Trans. ler Books will be closed from the 15th to the 29th March, 1938. both days inclusive,

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD... General Managers,

The Hong Kong Fire Insurance

Co., Ltd. Hong Kong, 7th March, 1938.

607%

other countries. If she had she.

War

the part.

remuneration...Singapore is about

a

H

It was, he said, particularly true-

they were going to "be thrown

she has co territorial designs in

The opinion of many with whom /private practitioner in Singapore | certainty as to whether they would could hardly be the moving spirit I have spoken is, that the sketch often had a great deal to do, and be allowed to do the things in the

he charged but a amall fee. "

world which they were being pre- of the Institution which made was in keeping with what one saw

The retiring president Dr. Ande pared to do. such a grand but pathetic effort in the far off days, and that it to outlaw

"One of the great guiding prin- and aggression. should be accepted as such If any gave a brief resume of the Society

since its inauguration

ciples of our civilisation," said Even within the Empire the ten-comment is needed on the persons "Our Society was founded in Dr. Temple. "has been the oppor- dency today is to draw together taking part therein it would only 1931, under the presidentship of tunity of devotion to Eberty and of separation. That is no paradox have been fair to say, that for the Hon. Dato Sir David Galloway freedom. But the idea of freedom but the practical expression of a actress, her ability to portray a

Vieris Itself being challenged, and it is fundamental democratic principle. role entirely opposite to her dis- with Dr. Albert Lim

Frasident, and a membership of being challenged on ethicar That spirit is even more manifest position is an accomplishment,

grounds by what have become the In the French Empire, and the I trust that in future ACWO will 94." he said,

"In going through the minutes dominant parties in other coun- same applies to America,

refrain from the bad taste of pass-

are vocar On the other hand, what is the ing unfair comments upon innocent of the Society during these seven tries and by what

minorities, in THE INDO CHINA STEAM position of the great dictatorships persons who are assisting in the years of its existence, I and that partles, although Dr. Albert Lim has most intim- our own country. jamong which Japan can now be work of charity.

classified?

ately associated with the activities "Young people are taking the They are trying to

of the Somety

view that the answer given to this' attain a position from which,

"He has been the guiding star challenge is halfhearted. It is not Fifty-seventh Ordinary happily, Britain and France as the

during these years working hard. only war that is overshadowing"" General Meeting of the Company chief colonial empires have leng

yet mostentatiously. With his our young people, but there is also will be held at the Offices of the

inborn modesty he has so for flatly economic uncertainty, and econo- refused to come into the limelight mic uncertainty saps the spirit of by being nominated as president.

adventure.

NAVIGATION.CO., LTD..

The

since advanced. Since no Power can today expand without en- General Managers, Messrs. Jar croaching on the territory of other dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., people it is injustice to weaker Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on peoples to permit such a thing to Thursday, 31st March, 1938, happen. It would be retrogresalon,

Herr Hitler thinks only in terms; noon, for the purpose of receiving

of powen Will he then stop "at the Report of the Directors,

Austria? We have won more in passing the Accounts, and elect a few days." he told the German ing Directors and Auditors.

The Transler Books of the Company will be closed from the 24th March to 14th April in. clusive.

By order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON &

CO., LTD..

General Managers. Hong Kong, 11th March, 1938,

608:

The Daily Press.

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HONG KONG, March 29, 1938.

1914,"

FAIR PLAY.

Hong Kong. March 28,

MANAGEMENT CHANGES

Imperial Chemical Industries

SOME MISGIVING

that they

are

"COGS IN GREAT MACHINE" "There is less certainty, today of "When the Society was first in-

finding a job for which you have augurated there was same misgiv-been trained, and there is nothing ing in the official quarters as to which so much saps the capacity whether we were setting up in

for performance as uncertainty of opposition to the local branch of your jumping-off ground. Young people Inst Saturday, "than It has been apparent for some the British Medical Association people are unfortunately forced to formerly in victorious wars. Ger- time that a concern of the size of

and whether the Bociety's activi-

realisation the is larger than in Imperial Chemical Industries could ties were to develop on the lines of merely cogs in a great machine many today

not continue indefinitely to be

the trade union. Assessment of Germany's claims organized so far as the ultimate

which they cannot control. "I say most emphatically that for expansion must be measured executive control and

"There is need for a great deal admini

it has done nothing of the kind. of sympathy towards young peo- in terms of the benefit that would stration was concerned on the

The aims and purposes as enunci-ple today. accrue to humanity. What would lines of a "one-man business.."

ated by the first president, were "They can go through a great be the benefit to the millions of states The Times. the Indigenous populations The board has indeed already that the practitioners should fos-deal of fe very light-heartedly. ter the bonds of friendship and but I am convinced that behind transferring to Germany her old recognized this in a progressive colonies, for instance?

decentralization of the admini- should live and work in harmony the light-hearted surface of their These peoples are now definitely stration since the merger:

not only amongst themselves but lives there is very often profound proceeding to advance

Government con- unhappiness, due to the fact that on de- The reorganization of the execu- also with our

they have not found what seems mocratic lines. very slowly it may tive now announced, which dis-freres.

them anything that may

| be. but definitely. It could not be tributes the functions of sole man- "In fact, our Society has acted to

otherwise. Is Hitler able to offer aging director, hitherto exercised | as Inison between the Govern-securely guide them towards the

them greater happiness and by Lord McGowan, over a mana-

ment doctors on the one hand and fuiflment of their own destinies or security than

they now enjoy? agement board composed of execu- the practitioners on the other up-enable them to be effectively of For the answer one must look to tive and non-executive directors, is holding the high ethical traditions service." the pre-war days,

a further step in that direction. of the profession and instilling an Exploitation was the aim of The need of reorganization harmonious spirit into our daily most European countries. Britain arises not merely from the size of work. From the foregoing, I think

will

with The the unt excepted when they set out the basiness, but also from the wide you

In a report made to the police, on their colonising quests in the range of its activities and the var Society has more than justified

Miss Helen Lindemann stated that 18th and 19th centuries, but in lety or technique involved in its its existence.

respect the best efforts of various productive processes.

"Doctors, years ago, were practi-while shopping in the Empress

this

agree

·HANDBAG STOLEN IN STORE

Britain paled before the German The last refort, for example, dis- cally all private practitioners Store yesterday morning she put methods. The history of German tinguished no fewer thari 10 with the exception of these who her handbag on the counter, and colonial adventure in Africa re-separate groups of products and were King's physicians or sur-when she turned round the bag. mains 1 frightful

memory--no 14 oversen merchanting and manu-geons. Then came. the advent of valued at $10, and which contained worse, however. than the exploits facturing companies, apart from state medical practice and the $10 in money and personal papers, of some other less great. European some half-dozen associated home birth of the specialist-the family had disappeared. Powers who still hold farge undertakings.

doctor was forgotten. colonies.

Presumably the intention is that PHENOMENAL ADVANCEMENT The fact is that the world has the various functions of manage-

NESDAY, 2015 APRIL, 1938, 1938, at 11.00 2.m. for the pur. IN DEFENCE OF advanced greatly in the post-war ment control, finance, labour, re- The advancement of medicine

at NOON for the purpose of post of receiving the Report of receiving a Statement of Accounts the Directors together "with and the Report of the Board of Statement of Accounts up to the Directors for the year ended 31st 31st December, 1937.

가

DEMOCRACY

1

As long as human greamess assessed in terms of wealth and

mankind is doomed to

по

em-

According to a Decree 1ssued "The advancement of medicine by the Central Government,

officials and

government ага allowed to draw ployees era on other lines of thought-search.&c. should in future be that the practice of medicine" has

double salary from the found of lines of toleration, of justice and handled by members of the board had to be split up into many spec-

while the government

holding fair play, of respect for fellow hu- specially qualified for the purpose.lal branches--this was inevitable. Concurrent positions. man beings less favoured by nature The step is one in the direction However in recently years, I noted of which Germany has learned of greater efficiency as well as of that there is a cry for the gep-

calamity ta millions of of the company, Lord McGowan,

endless ribic

December, 1937, electing Direc. The Transfer Books of the material and physical power alone naught. It would thus be a ter- greater continuity. The chairman eral practitioner or family doctor. | duty of the family doctor to note tors and Auditors, and for the Company will be closed from sufferings individually as well as people were Germany to be en- will hold the office of chairman of the who knows the history of these minor complaints and 16

transaction of any other ordinary, Month, the 4th April to Thurs

day, the 14th April, 1938, both business of the Company.

NOTICE also hereby given days inclusive. that the TRANSFER BOOKS. of the Company will be closed from SATURDAY, 9th APRIL, 1938 antil WEDNESDAY, 20th

THE HONG KONG ANE

YAUMATI FERRY

CO., LTD., LAU TAK PO,

APRIL, 1938, both days lucku. : sive, during which period no transfer of shares can be regis Hong Kong, 26th March, 1938. tered.

By Order of the Board,

J. C. GUTERRES,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 25th March, 1938.

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collectively or nationally.

A

trusted with their care while the the new management board. truly cultured civilisation German

nation's watchword should find its basis in a spiritual power and the accumulation of power and progress first and fore-glory for the Fatherland" most. Pursuit of material gain is

In the Orlent the same imperial

CZECHOSLOVAK STATESMAN

cases to the the family and all its ailments serious send the from A to Z. not only of the specialist before they develop into the major ones le. he is assigned the present camplaint but al previous history.

most important first on the sport' "After all is said and done, major role in the treatment of disease. troubles often start with very He acts us a feeder to the specia- minor complaints and it is the list."

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS

"

à necessary ingredient but it doctrine is being applied by Japan. should be a subsidiary, not the Domination is the purpose and guiding principle.

expansion the aim. It is. or should

Dr. Milan Hodza, the Premier of There lies one of the

chlef be,

the purpose of the great Czechoslovakia, who is 60, resem- | differences between the hope democracies to thwart these young bles Dr. Benes, the President, and "Managing Director.which democracy offers. or should imperialists' even if that means the late Dr. Masaryk in having offer, and the despair which must war. If a war is ever fought in been a professor before he becanie follow in the wake of the practical this Issue there is little doubt as a politician. Unlike them, he is application of Fascist and other to which side' the masses of Asia, not a Czech, but a Slovak. writes doctrines which seek advancement Africa and America will rally.

a Daily Telegraph correspondent, DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP purely along lines which adopt Viewed in this light, the far-

Besides being the agrarian ex-i Mr. R. H. G. Maynard, secretary Colony. Mr. Evans was formerly COMPANY, LTD. the sword as the bible.

sightedness of Mt. Neville Cham-

pert in his Own Ministry, Dr. of the Medical Department, has editor of The Hong Kong Daily The shortcomings of the de-berlain's declaration of polley, or The Ordinary General Meeting mocracies receive, strong emphasis better still, the attitude to Hodza also knows more than any left the Colony an nine months Press but for the past few years

He is travelling to Eng- he has been in North China. of Shareholders in the above when this line of reasoning is the British nation, is apparent. of his colleagues about Hungary. leave.

Mel Lan-fang, the Chinese actor Company will be held in the pondered. For one thing they are It has abandoned isolationism in Before the war he was a Slovak land via America and he left on Company's Offices, P. & 0.not blameless for much of the language that leaves no room for Deputy in the Hungarian Parlia-Saturday together with his family.

Mr. C. J. Roe has taken over Mr. and female impersonator, will, it The doubt as to its determination to Building, on Tuesday, the 5th Present troubles of Europe.

Although an implacable oppon- Maynard's duties at the Medical is understood. shortly visit Hong very fact that the Powers have strive for peace, falling which the

Kong. "He has just concluded very successful season in Bhang- THE INSTITUTION OF April, 1938 at Noon for the been classed into the categories of whole weight of Britain's power ent of Hungarian irredentism, he Department.

is personally popular in Hungary, purpose of receiving the Report "haves" and "have nota" appears and might will be hurled against where he was the arst Czechoslo- Mrs. E J. Walsh of Honolulu, ta hai. ENGINEERS AND

of the General Managers togettier to indicate that something is sadly those who would follow the opvak diplomatic representative, now in the Colony on a short

Amiss. That, however, with a Statement of Accounts to

Mr. N. Currie, well-known in so posite course. That is a refresh-

She is staying in the In Central European politics he holiday. reason for condemnation. It is in ing outlook. A similar declaration

local engineering circles, will be OF HONG KONG. the 31st December, 1937!

stands for economic collaboration Hong Kong Hotel. - large measure the outcome of past from President Roosevelt will en-

leaving the Colony for England. The Transfer Books of the misdeeds and the chief offenders sure peace

with Austria, Poland and Hungary, in the

He has world for

Two arrivals in the Colony yes- via America, on Friday. Members are requested to at Company will be closed frou were those who now complain another decade at least it may Internationally be is a 100 per

cent. League of Nations man.

terday were Mrs. E. W. P. Mil's teen here for a few years and It They la understood that he will go into tend the ANNUAL GENERAL Friday, the 1st April to Tuesday, most bitterly. More than a super-even be for another generation.

Recently his banning of the and Miss M. Monro Nicol. MEETING in the rooms of the the 5th April, 1938 both days cal view is therefore, necessary.

German Social Democrats', paper flew here from Chungking and business in Bcotland. The point is which group the most hope for the future?

Mr. Theo de Witte, the famous "New Advance" was taken as a have registered at the Gloucester Institution on Wednesday, March inclusive,

Great Britain is the chief "have" Dutch traveller, will deliver a friendly gesture towards Herr Hlt Hotel. 30th, at 6 P.M.

Power: but no

can accuse lecture on "The Vanishing Tribe ler. Dr. Hodza came here for the Britain today of wishing to extend of New Guinea Life of the Kaja Coronation. He then showed that

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SHIPBUILDERS

W. F. SIMPSON,

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.. General Manager.

Hon, Secretary, Hong Kong, 24th March, 1938.

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Mr. H. Sauerbeck, Assistant Managing Director of the Orient

on Sunday, in the

The many friends of Mr. D. J.Tobacco Manufactory C. Togenoh! ber empire at the expense of any Kajas" in Room K, Hong Kong his English, which is his eighth Evans will be interested to learn Lid.. left 6680 other country or race of people. University, on Thursday at 8.15 pm.language, is nothing if not fluent. i that he is now on a visit to the Scharnhorst, on home leave.