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Express"

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No. 4, Des Voeux Road, Cential.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE.

To Tsang Sau Yan. (of last known address No. 78, Tak Ku

| Ling Road-3rd Floor) of Messrs.

Tsang Kam Kee.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG HÙNG.

Will the above Tsang Sau Yan of last known address No. 18, 'PROBATE JURISDICTION. Tak Ku Ling Road, 3rd Floor, please call on me at No. 4, IN THE GOODS o

Duddell Street, re the completion ALEXANDER RITCHIE of Bathing Shed on Site No. 78. WOOD, othe wise known as South Beach. Repulse Bay, for RICHARD WOOD, late of which a contract was signed on Shanghai in the Republic of the 17th August, 1937. China, and of Hungjað, Should the said Tsang Sau Yan Rossie Island Road, Mont fail to call by Tuesday, the 5th rose, Angus, Scotland, Jour April, 1938, I shall be compelled nalist, deceased.

to take steps to complete the shed by employing another con. NOTICE is hereby given that tractor. Any sum of money due the Court has by virtue of the to the sald Tsang Sau Yan will provisions of Section 58 of Or he retained by me to defray the diusace No. 2 of 1897 made an cost of completing the said shed. order limiting the time for credi

1. E. LAMMERT, tors and others to send in their

4. Duddell Street. claims against the above estate to 30th April, 1938.

All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.

DEACONS,"

Solicitors for the Executor,

1, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.

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UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS.

The Thirty-third Annual Gen. eral Meeting of Shareholders

will be held at the Offices "of |

EDITORIAL

REGULATIONS

ADVERTISEMENTS. FOR SALE OF

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

HELIUM GAS

Germany Interested But No Opinion is Expressed

gas.

Applicants must further agree to

submit to their airships and plant being examined at any time by the American authorities.

SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1938.

Britain Not. DERBY FAVOURITE IS IN

Aggressive

BUT WON'T CONDONE AGGRESSION

London, April 1.

Speaking at a luncheon given

yesterday by the Foreign Press

Government

SPLENDID TRIM

Prospects Of Triumphs For

Boyd-Rochfort's Stable

specially rich in high-class three-year-olds,,

NOTICE is hereby given that the FORTY FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of Share""

| Association Lord Halifax, For- A visit to Freemason Lodge, Newmarket, has left me with the holders in the Company will be

Berlin, April 1. eign Secretary, said it would impression that Capt. Cecil Bard-Rochfort, who headed the list of held in the Jacobean Room, 1st

first-rate chance of repeating the Aeronautic circles here have so be a serious error to imagine that winning trainers last year, has |floor, Hong Kong Hotel, Pedder far. abstained from expressing an❘ there existed any fundamental feat in the coming season, writes a Bome correspondent. The stable

Street, Hong Kong, on WED- opinion concerning the new regula-cleavage between the British peo-

011 Its first-season performers are highly bred and show great pro- NESDAY, 20th APRIL, 1938, ons enacted by the United States ple and their

mise The stable is also fortunate in that it has retained some of at NOON for the purpose of authorities for the sale of bellum questions et foreign polley

It was a good sugury that he the best of its older horses, notably Boswell. Flares and Monument. receiving a Statement of Acconats

Under the terms of the new re- had nothing new to say as during.

Public interest is centred in Portmarnock, since he is the favourite and the Report of the Board of gulations applicants desirous of the last few weeks the barometer for the Derby. I was glad to find Sir Humphrey de Trafford's colt Directors for the year ended 31sfootalning a supply of hellum gas had remained stationary, said the

in splendid trim. He has thickened. At the moment I estimate that a certain sum as Foreign Secretary. The British na- December, 1937, electing `Direc-must deposit

he stands slightly less than 18 hands. tors and Auditors, and for the uaantee that all conditions at tion was at present intent on be

taching to its supply will be ob-coming strong enough to makę its

He is so well-turned and strong a preliminary race. This ought to transaction of any other ordinary served.

voice plainly heard in the councils that he is good to look oh from help us to decide whether Sir business of the Company.

of Europe.

every angle. I doubt whether Humphrey de Trafford's colt still Lord Halifax stated that there has ever been a more elegant | possesses the superiority over his. NOTICE is also hereby given

country suspected Britain of har son of Fairway. His limbs are ir stable companions which his two-, that the TRANSFER BOOKS

bouring aggressive intentions but reproachable, and he is clearly a year-old achievements lead us to of the Company will be closed

It is pointed out here that Ger- it was undoubtedly necessary to colt of robust constitution.

suppose. It is manifest that the from SATURDAY, 9th APRIL,many is particularly interested in make it quite clear that Britain

It is realised that it was a mis-stable will play an important part 1938 until WEDNESDAY, 20th the supply of hellum gas for the could never adopt an attitude o take to run him at Ascot when in the season's classic events,

of her trans-Atlantic indifférence towards aggression APRIL, 1938, both days inclu- purpose

| Zeppelin service but that it is neces-j elsewhere.—Transocean). sive, during which period n

sary to walt and see what practical TOLERATION NOT WEAKNESS transfer of shares can be regis consequences may ensue from the

London, March 31. tered.

practical application of the new

Viscount Halifax, addressing the regulations before expressing an Foreign Press Association at

Sir Gallabad III. out of Marguerite. opinion toncerning them (Trans- luncheon today,

declared that

MOST IMPROVED HORSE Thus he is own brother to the re- there was nothing weak in the

Portmarnock is by no means thedoubtable Gallant Fax and also to spirit of toleration or a desire to only classic hope in the stable. Fighting Fox, one of the best of RVOld means of diplomacy and offers in the Free Handicap, is a colt of olds.

war by exhausting every Unbreakable, placed 51b below him last season's American two-year- (Reuter).

This well-grown youurster is of great possibilities. Although he

unusual promise. The owner's Golden Fox is 2 Bine example of Gallant For's stock. The Fairway colt, Fairacres, from the dam of Alcazar, also pro- mises well, though he is a May foal.

Field's seven

By Order of the Board,

J. C, GUTERRES,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 25th March, 1938.

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(ocean).

Mussolini's life is a story of in- tense interest. It has been mostly a hard and bitter fight in which his supreme courage and deter mination overcame all obstacles. In his earlier political career he

doctrines WATSON.-On March 26, 1938, at preached many

until

BIRTH

the Country Hospital, Shang-finally he struck upon Faselam hai, to Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Wat- which, without doubt, saved Italy from chaos in the early post-war son, a son.

ENGAGEMENT

period.

MARRIAGE

From that condition he has built

BUOYANT BRITISH

24

13

ke was below par on account of

WELL-GROWN YOUNGSTER a cough. "But for that reverse

Mr. W. Woodward has 13 horses he would have an unbeaten re- ! the stable. Among his two- cord. I shall be surprised if he year-olds I was specially attracted does not maintain his reputation by a colt called Foxborough II., by at three years old.

cast in a bigger and heavier

mould than Sir Humphrey's colt, there is nothing gross about him REVENUE

His trainer is well entitled to be satisfied with the progress made Surplus to Meet Defence

by this colt, who, bred in America Expenses

by Mr. J. E. Widener, does not go London, March 31.back to any American strain. His.

Sand.

Mr. Marshall

4

NATE

in-

Rock pon sprinter of the season. I am wondering how he will shape with

Perhaps the

Mirza II. when they meet for the mast improved three-year-old in appearance in Arst time over a six-furlong track. Mr. J. H. Whitney has some well- the stable is Glen Loan, who

built two-year-olds among his 10. seemed likely last year to grow

Beach.

SHOTTER-STEAD.—Mr. W. Stead,

The revenue for the financial sire is Sickle and his dam Blue clade Foray, who is looking at his of Bombay, announces the en-up a great modern military state. year in Britain is shown at £872 Grass, who was by Prince Palatine best and may become the cham- gagement of his eldest daugh He is one of those misguided 580,005, and expenditure at £843..out of Hour Glass II, by ter, Rosemary, to Graham people whose gospel is the sword, 794.000. with a net realised surplus Drean, youngest son of Mr. and and he is able to think only in of £28,786,000. the official surplus Mrs, J. D. E. Shotter, of Shang- terms of military power. Thus, he of £9.480,000 being the excess of hal.

dreams visions of the glories of actual revenue over estimated re- ancient Rome and he looks with venue.

The realisea surplus. in NOTRICA-COHEN.-On March 24, envious eyes on the map of the

1938, by the Rev. Rabbi Brown.world, especially those parts of Itcordance with the Defence Loans Linda Cohen, of Shanghai, to marked in red.

Act of 1937, will be available for Jacques Notrica, of Los Angeles, He has said more than once that use in the coming year to meet California, USA.

the British are a décadent people. defence expenditure, which other. He himself revels in war, and "wewise would have to be met from WRIGHT. On March 24, 1938. at like it." he says on behalf of the borrowed monies.

the General Hospital, Shang-jItalian people.

The expenditure is. £19,054,000 hai. Florence Wright, beloved Does the Italian nation

below the estimates.

DEATUS

agree

up on the leg. He is now letting the Fairway. filly, Peeble ac-

down satisfactorily, and though being one of the best in the stable he already measures about 16 Mr. Widener has sent four two- hands in, he in lacking neither including two by Bickle, whose colt year-olds to join his older horses.

in strength nor balance. The

out of the One Thousand" winner, son of Loaningdale, who sired hira in his first season at the Roseway, looks likely to make his

NEW PATRON OF STABLE Mr. W. Murray's Trimdon colt, Grand Union, has done well since

stud, stands over a lot of ground. During the winter he has thriven, and fills the eye as a high-

mark.

mother of Laurence. Nareenah with him? If he bellowed out The defence expenditure from class young horse should do. 6,000 guineas was given for him at and Charles Andle, and wife of the question from the balcony of the budget revenue is £137,250,000, we are to have a surprise among the Doncaster sales. A new patron the late Harry Wright of Shef- the Plazzo de Venezia

a million while a further £84,750,000 has the three-year-olds Mrs. W. Mur- of the stable is Mr. R. Lehman, the field, Eng.

voices would ory in unison: "Yes, been spent from borrowed monies.

ray's upstanding colt, who was TALAN-On March 25, 1938, at 235 we do." But what would be the making the total defence expendi- bred at Sledmere, may be equal to

p.m. at his residence, Shang-answer in the hearts of the 40,-ture £282,000,000, an increase of

producing it. hai.

000,000 Italians after a few weeks: £76,000,000 over the previous year, MILES.--On March 26, 1938, at the of modern warfare in which there (Reuter).

General Hospital, Shanghal, is no victory and of which the Margaretta Alexandrovna, aged spolls are only death. destruction. 25 years. belove wife of R. S. G. pain, suffering and misery? Miles, Municipal Gaol.

Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., The Daily Press.

6660 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, on Wednesday, the 6th DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP April, 1938, at 11 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the report of COMPANY. LTD.

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15-19, Queen's Road Central. Tel. 30251

Tel. 24511.

London Office: 5 Fleet Street

E.C.4.

SUPERHUMAN VC. TO WED ENGLISH GIRL

American owner of Didoric, who is représented by the French-bred Xandover two-year-old, Gulliver. BROTHER' TO PERIFOX

Mr. I. 8. Gray has "pent a good- These three colts are the pick of looking Solario colt called Caval- their age at Freemason Lodge, aire.

Mrs. James Corrigan has several though there are others for whom When Mussolini decides, he can

the future should be bright. Mr. two-year-olds of genuine promise. be relied upon to carry out his

W. Woodward's Olympus, whom I and may have her best season since decisions. His vanity will let

greatly admired at this time last she became an owner of racehorses. nothing déter him. The Abyssin-ance." Captain R. F. 1. Hayward, as you could wish to see,

A V.C. of "superhuman endur-year, is still as good-looking a colt Major H. 8. Cayzer will be look- lan campaign is a case in point of Beersheba,

Ing for further successes with but his entire domestic policy South Africa, is

East Griqualand. I cannot believe that this brother Longriddan, and his wife should bears out that fact: In his own Linda Bowen, daughter of Mr. and his two outings last autumn, and expect to see such as Dytchley. Miss to Perifox did himselt justice in win races with Burdock. We may the Duce has completely captured Lower Eaves, Chapel-le-Frith, Dex-leave that form a

Mrs. Charles Brice Bowen." of I shall be surprised if he does not Ambrose. Light and Asterion in the the hearts of his emotional sub- byshire, states the Evening Stand- hind. jects. They will make any sacri- fices for him until they have been disillusioned.

blustering and dramatic fashion.

ard.

to marry

long way be-winning list.

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Lady Zia Wernher is fortunate the General Managers together Editorial and Business Office:

The Duke of Marlborough's River in having two half-brothers to Captain Hayward was awarded Prince, a colt of fine character and Precipation - the three-year-old The Ordinary General Meeting with a Statement of Accounts tr

It is with this man that Great while in command of a company, stayces

the Victoria Cross In April 1918 power, may become one of the best Blanford colt Holywell, and the of Shareholders in the above 31st December; 1937.

Britain is now negotiating in the according to the official announce must now regret that this son of Both colts are of a good stamp. of his age. His owner Hyperion two-year-old, Casanova. Company will be held in the

The Transfer Books of the Night Editor (Wanchai Office): hope of settling European pro- ment at the time, he displayed Rose Prince, a worthy descendant though they may not achieve the Company's Offices, P. & o Company will be closed from

blems by pacific means. In the

almost superhuman powers Building, on Tuesday, the 5th 23rd March to 6th April, 1938.

midst of such negotiations. the

of in male line of St. Simon, has no eminence of last year's Gold Cup April, 1938 at Noon for the both days inclusive,

Dietator true to type, dramaticaly of the rarest nature.

endurance and consistent courage classic engagements. Mr. Widener's winner. -announced on

I went out to the newly-formed Sickle colt, 81lver Spear II., whose Wednesday Italy was ready for an "implat buried, wounded in the head, and has done well since last season

In spite of the fact that he was conformation is that of a sprinter. Somerles Stud to see Precipitation.

This able and rapid war."

grand horse is in perfect rendered dear on the first day of operations, and had his arm shat-Two Thousand and possibly will be breeding career. By reason of his Portmarnock is to be trained for condition for the start of his

tered two days later he refused to opposed by Unbreakable and Glen breeding I regard him as perhaps leave his men (even although he Loan in that event. has a third serious injury to his time each of these colts is to have comes to the stud.

In the mean- the most valuable of all the new- head) until he collapsed from sheer

purpose of receiving the Report DODWELL & CO., LTD., of the General Managers together

General Managers.

with a Statement of Accounts to Hong Kong, 14th March, 1938. the 31st December, 1937.

The Transfer Books of the

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Company will be closed from THE HONG KONG AND Friday, the 1st April to Tuesday, the 5th April, 1938 both days inclusive.

YAUMATI FERRY CO., LTD.

The Fourteenth Ordinary

Hong Kong, APRIL, 1938.

WORKING FOR WAR

that

and that

"a new victory" was in store to Fascism,

The utterance Is ominousiv

M

physical exhaustion.

Throughout this period the enemy were attacking his .com-

significant. It cannot be dismiss ed as another piece of bluff bragging. It is neither. If it Signor Benito Mussolini. dicta-anything it is a threat, and tor. erstwhile army corporal, now grave threat at that. And if it Marshal of the Italian Empire, is is a threat, against whom is it General Meeting of the Share a much misunderstood man. directed but Great Britain?

pany's front without cessation. But PERSONAL · PARAGRAPHS Some call him a mere visionary.

Captain Hayward continued holders in the above Company others say he is the world's big-dicates not only that he has not trench to another with absolute

The Duce's speech clearly in-

move across the open from one will be held at the Company's gest bluffer and still others that turned from the direction of war disregard of his own personal attend Divine Service at St. John's ing through the Colony by the P. Office at the Jordan Road Ferry he never

His Excellency the Governor will | Amongst the many people pass clear notion in order to attain his aims, but Pier on Thursday, the 14th April, what he is doing or intends to do that he is actively working for safety, concentrating entirely on Cathedral tomorrow.

reorganising his defences and DIRECTORATE OF AIR 1938, at 11.00 a.m. for the par-that he makes decisions on the war.

encouraging his men.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. Hong Kong, 24th March, 1938.

SERVICES.

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A vacancy exists for the post of Marine Supervisor, Kal Tak Aerodrome.

has any

pose of receiving the Report of spur of the moment and carries The alternative for Great Bri-

them out regardless of the Directors together with

contain is complete submission to the sequences. Statement of Accounts ap to the

Italian demands. Mussolini knows| These opinions, mainly erroneous, that the peace of the world lles 31st December, 1937.

are attributable in large measure la his hands. He is willing to sell The Transfer Books of the to the inconsistency which has only at a price.

That price. Company will be closed from marked Mussolint's temperament

Britain and Applications will be received Month, the 4th April to Thurs

the ever since he took up public life. whole Empire are agreed, is too

It is useless to deny the iron prohibitive. up to the 14th April, 1938, by day, the 14th April, 1938, both

It would bankrupt days inclusive.

The Director of Air Services, Harbour Office, from candidates whose age is not more than 35,

and who hold a Certificate of Competency as Master.

to

*

and O. ss. Naldèra was Mr. Arthur

|V. Menken, who took "shots" of

A meeting of the English Asso-the bombing of the 0.88 Panay, elation will be held at the Helena

NEW GOVERNOR OF May Institute on Tuesday at 5.30 Mr. 0, Olivinsky, assistant

GIBRALTAR

p.zi. when His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote will leave the Colony tomorrow for manager of the Hong Kong Hotel. will attend. The speaker will be six months' holiday in Europe Professor R. K. M. Simpson and his it is believed he will viatt Switzer- subject "Rhetoric.”

land and France during his vaca- llon.

London, April 1, Sir Edmund Ironside has sur ceeded Sir Charles Harington, Governor of Gibaltar.-(Reuter Bulletin),

His Excellency the Governor will attend a reception of the Hong

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Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Bradbury. rave a small dinner party in hon, our of Mr. Een Bradbury, member of the Islington Corinthians, foot-

will of this remarkable. though the buyer. It would threaten the dangerous, man, but if he is any-foundations of the whole Empire THE HONG KONG AND thing he is no bluffer. Dure structure. It would be the end most likely event of the break-Kong Working Artists' Guild at 2.

has never bluffed in the past and of Britain as a great Power. down of the YAUMATI FERRY

negotiations with Connaught Road Central, on Wed- he is not likely to bluft in the But supposing Britain were Italy, the British Government will nesday at 4.30 p.m. future.

willing to take the risk and pay at least be able to face the future tłu Those who dub him a bluffer the price, what guarantee is there with a clear conscience. On such Dr. J. O. Hsia, who is connected ball team, on Thursday evening. forget one fundamental thing in that further demands will not be an issue there is no cause to with the Aluminium Union Ltd., of The guest of honour left the Co- his character-his vanity. Vanity forthcoming in the fature?".

doubt what the choice of the Shanghai, is at present on a bus-lony yesterday, together with other lends itself to boasting, but to Having explored and exhausted British people. and the Empire ness visit to the Colony. He is members of the party by the 6646 blu never.

every means to and peace, in the would be."

staring at the Hong Kong Hotel. R.M.B. Empress of Japan.

CO., LTD.,

LAU TAK PO,

G. F. HOLE,

Managing Director. Director of Air Services Hong Kong, 26th March, 1938.

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