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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.

LANE, CRAWFORD,

LIMITED.

T.S.S. "PRESIDENT. HOOVER"

The Asiatic Scrap Metal Cor NOTICE is hereby given that the Sixteenth Ordinary Yearly poration, having acquired title to Meeting of Shareholders will be the wreck of the above steamshi: held at Exchange Building, Hong "President Hoover', invites vids Kong, on Saturday, 28th May, on basis, "as is, where is and in damaged condition as of date o 1938, at eleven o'clock a.m.

The Transfer Books of the sale."-payment to be in US. Company will be closed from 14th Dollars or Sterling in New York May to 28th May, 1938, both against Bill of Sale in New days Inclusive,

"By Order of the Board of Directors.

A. W, BROWN, Manager. Hong-Kong, 2nd May, 1938.

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LANE, CRAWFORD', LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meet ing of the above named Company will be held at Exchange Build ing, Victoria, in the Colony o' Hong Kong on Saturday, the 28th day of May, 1938, at eleven thirty o'clock in the forenoon or so soon thereafter as the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Company convened at the same place on that day at eleven o'clock in the forenoon shall be concluded for

York." Bids close on May 16th, 1938 and must be cabled to The 'KEDGE-NEW YORK'. right is reserved to reject any or all bids.

GILMAN & CO., LTD., Agents.

SALVAGE ASSOCIATION,

LONDON.

MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION MUNICIPAL

BRITION

No. 14/38.

67471

the purpose of considering, and VACANCY FOR DIVISIONĀT.

i thought it, passing with 01 INSPECTOR POLICE FORCE without amendment the following resolution as a Special Resolu

tion

EDITORIAL

YOU'LL FAVOUR THE FLAVOUR OF

BARDETT'S GIN

DRY DISTILLED SIN

(BARDINKT ·

Mayer

BARDETT

Sole Agentar

L. RONDON & CO., LTD.

MARINA HOUSE

ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS.

held at the Offices of the under That the Regulations con applications from British Subjects tained in the Printed Docutor appointment to the position 1938, at Noon, for the purpose of signed on Friday, the 6th May,

****ment submitted to thi of Divisional Inspector in its

receiving the Report of the "Meeting, and for the purpost Police Force.

General Agents, together with s **of identification subscribed by

Candidates must be between 25 statement of Accounts for the "the Chairman thereof, and 35 years of age; with at year ended the 31st December "approved as the Articles o least 5 years police experience, 1937. **Association of the Company preferably with a sound' know. **in' substitution for, and to the ledge of traffic control and beat **exclusion of, all the existing work. "Articles thereof."

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HONG KONG, MAY 7, 1938.

RESCUED TREASURES

TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1938.

CORRESPONDENCE] US. “G-MAN”

A BOUQUET FOR THE POLICE:

(To the Editor, “The Hong Kong

Daily Press" been

LEARNS BRITISH METHODS

An American “G” mixa. (Govern ment, delsolive) is among the stat

Brassey's Naval Annual

Sir, I have sometimes heard students who have started the new THIS YEAR'S EDITION criticism of the local police and I term at the Hendon police college, Jam writing this letter to give them London.

"

Brassey's Naval Annual, Edited by Rear-Admiral H. G. Thursfield. Clowes: 25%.

a well-deserved pat on the back. He is Mr. Bernard Axers and On December 31, 1937. my wife he has come to England to learn

Brassey's Naval Annual In the discovered that nearly all her English methods of Criminal de- jewellery had been stolen and tection

forty-ninth yeër of its publication. duly informed the police. · After

His visit is part of an inter-maintains the quality of Its pre- It makes its appear. decessors. what I сал дот see was change arrangement between Sir

ance, according to the preface, as - months of persistent search and Philip Game, Commissioner of careful watching we, were, infor- Police for the Metropolis, and Mtion of the Navy Estimates for the soon as possible after the publica- med only last Sunday that the Edgar Hoover, head of the "" year, and as it reproduces them in culprit had been caught on M return from Canton. A gold watch and a diamond ring were reco vered and grateful I was for them as we had given up everything for last

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abstract, together with the White Detective Inspector 'Leslie, o Paper on Defence" and the First Croydon, has been selected to visit Lord's covering Statement in full,

as Scotland Yard's re-it is fully up to date as a America presentative but he will not go un- | book of reference.

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navn]

I consider. this fine work on the til September. He will undergo The usual comprehensive tables. American police giving full details of the men-of- part of the police and the detec-training with tives, and I am taking this opport-studenta unity to express my gratitude and appreciation.

LA TOBIAS.

Hong Kong. May 2, 1938.

LOCAL HEALTH

The health returns for the 24. hours ended midnight. April 29 show eight cases of small-pox, four cases of cerebro-spinsi men- Ingitis and two cases of measles.

The repart for the 48 hours end- ed midnight, Sunday, show the following number of cases:—

fever 1: Small-pox, 9; enteric measles 2; chicken-pox 1: cerebro- spinal meningitis 1: dysentery 2

EASTERN HEALTH

The Health Bulletin of Eastern Ports for the Week ending April 23

I.C.I. AND

DEFENCE

war of all navies, illustrated with. plans, elevations, and silhouettes,. are supplemented by the important naval documents of the year, such as the Anglo-German and Anglo- Russian Naval Agreements which extend the London Naval Treaty

ORDERS of 1936 to those countries-and the

Only A Minor Activity

JAPAN CRIPPLING HERSELF

Nyon Agreements for the anti- piracy patrol of the Mediterranean, says The Times.

The letterpress, which is divided Into Naval and Naval Air Sections deals with the year 1937 only, but an introductory chapter by the editor records subsequent navat events up to the date of publica- tion:

show the following number of in London, said that much mais.. Naval Treaty to

apprehension still existed with

cases:

Plague: Negapałam, 1.

5 Delhi 4; Haiphong E; Hanoi Si Macao 2; Hong Kong 115.

STOLE ROPE

Lord McGowan, presiding at the

The year has seen important de- annual general meeting of Im-

velopments in both spheres: In perial Chemical Industries. Ltd.. the former the extension of the Germany and Russia coincided with the gradual regard to the dependence of the whittling away of its provisions for limitation by reason of the non-cooperation of Japan.

programme.

"

Cholera: Allahabad 3: Calcutta Profits of the company upon arms 128; Madras 4; Delhi 22; Kanos 39.ment orders at home and abroad. Small-pox: Allahabad 1: Bom Only a very small percentage of

In the latter the Government's their activities was concerned The Fifty Seventh Ordinary

bay 81; Calcutta 127: Karachi 4;

decision to sweep away the system The British Municipal Council.

of divided control under which the Tientsin, is prepared to receive Meeting of Shareholders will be London Office: 53. Fleet Street Madras 24: Rangoon &; Cawnpore with such business.

"At the present time." he said, leet Air Arm has worked for the in common with other industria-last 15 years ends 2 controverKY lists in this country, it is our duty of long standing between Navy and to assist the Government in every Air Force. Such of the measures fathoms of way we can to execute and ex- necessary to give effect to that 35 For stealing

pedite the British rearmament decision as have so far been de- Manila rope, a fisherman, Wong.

vised the entry of short-term Bing, alias as Tai Hal, was sen-

But at the same time nothing officers for naval air duty and the tenced at Kowloon Court yesterday

more than a training as air pilots of men from to six months' hard labour and would please us The Share Register and TransER SINCE man's senses de for two years.

placed under police surveillance world situation in which none of the lower deck-are symptomatic.

...our products be required for war of the rapid expansion now under- fer Books will be closed from the veloped suficiently to appre-

Det.-Sergt. Brooks said that or defensive purposes. The main taken in the Fleet Air Arm. 22nd April to the 6th May, 1938, ciate art and beauty, it has been report was made in the Water tenance of peace and the avat

PRACTICAL PROBLEMS both days inclusive.

one of his aims in life to gather Police Station that 85 fathoms of dance of war anywhere in the

The editor reviews the year's together art treasures upon which

rope were stolen from the sa world are our greatest interest? JARDINE, "MATHESON & he and his fellow beings, in ther

Lord McGowan said that the progress in both naval and naval CO., LTD.,

hours of leisure, right gaze in Luceric, anchored in Wanchai Bay.

At 10 pm. on April 30 defendant Government's defence programme air spheres, and the names of other admiration and wonderment and

had, naturally, affected the de- regular cohtributors are also to be General Agents. derive courage, and inspiration to

The rope had been sold to a junk mand for their products, but they noted. face the future.

measure. define its

The practical problems, from the One of the most famous of these for $75. He had two previous con- could not

Most of it was indirect,

point of view of maritime inter- 6697 collections has been the gorgeous

They had been consulted on a national law, arising out of "Non- a new-fangled treasures of Chinese art which the Manchu emperors collected during removed from the threatened city number of defence schemes by Intervention is

reason of their unique technical international status are reviewed A. C." Dewar, the five centuries of their do- by boat, rail and truck.

In all some 19.000 cases were sent knowledge and wide-spread acti-by Captain

to safety up the vities, and certain contracts had who evidently has little sympathy Yangtze River, and been entered into, while others with recent developments in the Into the provinces of were being negotiated. They had methods of conducting internation- also undertaken, on behalf of the al affairs, and sees in them ne im- The task of removal was not ac- Government, to supervise the provement over nineteenth-century.

As actual running of certain plants practice. Complished without incident. all transport had been comman-when erected deered for the troops, most of the collection WEL entrusted to the British coaster Whangpu, which

The commencing salary will be A copy of the New Articles 450 dollars (local currency) per with the amendments and addi- [month, in addition to which the tions to the existing Articles candidate will participate in the anderlined in Red Ink can be henefits of the Superannuation Inspected at the Company's office Fund and will receive free quar or at the office of the Company's ers, a motor car allowance, free Hong Kong, 13th April, 1938. Solicitors, Messieurs Deacons, 1, aniforms and telephones, etc. Des Voeux Road Central, Vis-There is na pension attached to toria, aforesaid, at any time the appointment the employee, during usual business hours or on retirement," merely receiving application being made for that the amount due him from the LOVELESS. — TO Noreen purpose.

Superannuation Fund as a lump

By Order of the Board,

A. W. BROWN,

Manager..

sami.

The successful candidate will be upon "probation for the first six months of his service and at! 6750

the end of that time, should his work, and " conduct have proven

THE HONG KONG

JOCKEY CLUB.

satisfactory, he will be offered a contract in accordance with the conditions of the Staff Service

Notice is hereby given that Regulations.

BIRTHS

minion

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(nee Normally these works of art have Cooper) wife of Edward W. been enshrined in some favoured Loveless the gift of a son.spot but for the most part of the Peter Alan, at the Kowloon past Ave years, owing to the exigencies of the times, they have Hospital, on May 2, 1938.

8748 been hidden in packing cases and hurried from city to city, across miles of land and water.

TONNOCHY-On April 26, 1938, at the Country Hospital, to Mr.

and Mrs. Fred. A. Tonnochy, a

son.

MARRIAGE

In 1933, when the Japanese had

taken Manchuria and Jehol and had reached the Great Wall, it was decided to remove the collection from the Forbidden City in Pei- ping, where it was Housed in suit- able splendour, to the safety of the

J

was arrested.

victions

SAFETY IN

THE WEST

the West.

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New contributors include. Rear- Admiral Bansonetti, of the Royal INTERNATIONAL TRADE Italian Navy, who "contributes a Dealing with international descriptive chapter-timely enough, brought its precious eargo, from trade, Lord McGowan said that in view of the coineldence of its Nanking to Hankow

the situation in Europe and the appearance with the signing of the The work of loading the cases Far East had weakened confidence Anglo-Italian Agreement on his WAS constantly interrupted by which could otherwise be fully own Service and the special pro- Japanese air raids, which forced justified on economic grounds, and blems facing it. Captain Taprell the coolles to drop their loads and the expectation of a run to safety, while the Whangpu steadily increasing scurried to the shelter of British might be deferred. warships lying up the river.

hostilities

broke out

in

period of Dorling writes of the men of the tickets Nos. 100,001-101,000 in The Council will pay bit pas GEORGE KNIGHT. On April 27, South."

prosperity Merchant Navy. He would make 1938, at

HB.M. Consulate-THE COLLECTION was first stored clusive in the Lantao Handicap sage (First class) to Tientsin

Before their calling a rational service, by for a time in Shanghai, and General, Shanghai, before Mr.

the the extension of the Royal Naval Sweep to be held on 6th June, and, in case he is not offered a

A. G. N. Ogden, O.BE., Elsie then moved to the new capital ol

No guard was provided and the Far East, the Central Chinese Reserve and the creation of a 1938, have been lost, and that, contract at the end of his proba

Olding, elder daughter of Mr. Nanking.

tour British officers of the Whang Government was causing a wide Ministry of Shipping.

He points out the vital impor- pursuant to Rule 11 of the Rules tionary period, a return passage

and Mrs. 8. C. Knight, of While it was there part was lent put watched alone for over 50 hours spread increase in activity and a for Members Cash Sweeps, such of similar class will be given him.

Georgetown, P.E.T., Canada, to by the Chinese Government, to at a stretch without sleep.

growing demand for imported pro-tance to the country of the Mer- form the basis of RETURNING down the Yangtze, ducts.

chant Navy in war, and contrasts tickets have been duly cancelled He will receive half salary only

Clayton Henry, son of the late Herbert E. George, of Ingersoll, MAGNIFICENT that magnificent six days after completing the by the Stewards and will not be for the time spent in traveling to

"I am not prepared," said Lord with the evil times on which it EXHIBITION. exhibition Ont., Canada.

voyage without mishap. the Included in the draw.

Tientsin and payment of this will }

Chinese art whangpu was

McGowan, "to forecast the out has been allowed to fall in peace; Arst shelled by be calculated from, the date of his

come of the present situation, but a Service which is in fact, nation which was held in London during Japanese guns from the shore and there must come a time when the al in war and on which the de- embarkation,

then nearly blown out of the water commercial development of China Rezidence of the country is so This loan, valued at £10,000,000 by Japanese bombers in raids on will be resumed, and I cannot be complete,, should surely not be

Dated the 2nd day of May, 1938.

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By Order of the Stewards,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary,

I

In their letters of application applicants must give date and place of birth, education, experi ence in police work and position: held together with copies of refer ences and testimonials.

Applicants must pass a satis factory examination as to physical fitness by the Council's Medica

DONT FORGET Health Officers on arrival in

THAT WHEN You are at Home you can get the HONG

KONG

DAILY PRESS at SELFRIDGES.

Tientsin,

Applications should be address ed to "The Secretary and Engi-: neer, British Municipal Council Tientsin" and should be forward- ed so as to reach him not later than 12 o'clock. (Noon) Saturday, 28th May, 1938.

By Order,

on

H. E. BARNES, Secretary and Engineer. TIENTSIN, 12th April, 1938.

6780

DEATHS

EZRA On March 25, 1938, at

Paris,

EMATE

France,

Rosa

the winter of 1935-36.

of

in money but Irreplaceable in case British shipping widow of the late E M. Ezra of disaster, was taken to England

Moise Ezra.

brought back in the liner Ranpura

ון.

But her work was done and leve that any one nation will allowed to suffer so much from the

the last 20 years, beaut the advantages of the future.”"

Another Captain Dorling-con- and dearly-beloved Mother of in a British cruiser. When it was Britons may justly feel some pride be able to reserve for itself a neglect which has been its lot for

that a British ship and|

Japan was facing a great emer-tributes a history of signalling in a naval escort was provided for FEEL

British officers should have helped to save these rency, with the result that or the British Navy, and describes the CUMMING-At Chalmes Hospital, every part of the voyage, yet even SOME

Edinburgh, on April 13, 1938, then the precious cargo was mo: PRIDE treasures from destruc-dinary commercial activities were present organization of the signal more or less suspended. But the branch. An anonymous contribu tion after an operation, Waiter mentarily endangered when the

It may count as recompense, diversion of Japanese factories tor reviews the progress through Whitelaw Cumming, late of Ranpura went aground in the Bay

however small, for that sad day from industrial to war purposes the last 20 years of schemes for Asiatic Petroleum Co. (North 01 Gibraltar. China), Ltd.

Many people have wondered during the Boxer Rebellion, when had diminished supplies available opening the higher ranks of the what has happened to these price the British troops helped to des- for export, so that Japanese com Navy to men of the lower deck.

In the Naval Air Section, besides less treasures during the present troy the Summer Palace at Pei-petition throughout the world Sino-Japanese hostilities but it isning, a building whose artistic had, in most of the products, reviews of the material progresa in Now possible to state that they value on account of the treasures fallen to negligible proportions have been saved from destruction it contained-must have been, as and to tell something of their Mr. Bertrand Russell has sald,**

abotat equal to that of St. Mark's adventures, et

THOMPSON-On April 27, 1938, at Manila, Nadine, aged six years, daughter of "Mr. and Mrs.

Vernon Thompson.

FERGUSSON-On April 21, 1938,

air work in both British and for eign navies, several anonymous contributors write of the influence, The marriage will take place in in various respects, of air develop- Royal methods The Jetterpress concludes at 82, Desswood Place, Aberdeen, AT ONE TIME, when the Japanese in Venice and much greater than June in Singapore between Peter ments on naval operations, and John Bannerman Fergusson, Re- were advancing on Nanking, it that of Rheims Cathedral, John Dudley Johnson,

son of Major with a description, from the Gen- tired Commander of the Penin- seemed possible that they might But credit should also go to the Artillery, only sular and Oriental #team fall into the hands of the invaders, Chinese Government which did not General D. G. Johnson, V.C., DBO., aral Manager of Imperial Airways, Navigation Company.

but under the personal direction forget, when its capital and very M.C. and Mrs. Johnson, of Abbey of last year's transatlantic flights. of Madame Chiang Kai-shek and existence were endangered by fors House, Colchester, and Marion preparatory to the establishment MOBS-On April 19, 1938, at 83. General Chang Chun to whom eign invaders, to save the in- Georgina, daughter of Lieutenant of a regular service.

late 17th The book, is illustrated by a Dartmouth Road, London, NW,2. must go, the credit for this work, animate objects which represent Col. J. M. Wikele Harold Sevill Moss, beloved the pictures and vases jades and more truly than living, men, the Cavalry, LA and Mrs. Wikeley of series of excellent photographs, of

Ravensdale Hallaugh. Isle of Man new ships and aircraft. father of Arthur and Anna Moss. Ivories were once again packed and heritage of