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ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULARS AND CON- DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 17th day of Oct., 1938, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one. Lot of Crown Land at Kowloon Tsai, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July," 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of

24 years less the last three days

thereof.

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant), will be

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

AND UNDERWRITERS.

S.S. "CHENONCEAUX " Voyage 22-Return/1938.

NOTICE is hereby given that the above mentioned steamer having grounded on the 4th of October, 1938, four miles off Hongkong, General Average has been declared on all cargo on board front Japan Ports and Shanghai.

Consignees of cargo for Hong kong are hereby requested to sign a General Average Bond supported by two copies of the Average Deposit on the c. -original invoices, and pay a 40%

f.

value of the goods before the cargo can be delivered.

COMPAGNIE

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required to deposit with an MESSAGERIES MARITIMES, authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of

two hundred dollars, ($200) in

R. OHL,

Agent.

cash. This sam will be refunded Hongkong, October 11, 1938. on payment of the Purchase

price.

No. of Sale.

Boundary. Measure

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NDITORIAL

HOUSING COMMISSION

REPORT PRESENTED

Slum Clearance Expert To

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Be Appointed?

The Report of the Housing Commission, appointed in 1933 by Sir William Peel, the then Governor, laid before Legislative Council yes terday, contains several important recommendations, chief of which are that a permanent Town Planning and Housing Committee be set out, and the appointment of an expert from Home to advise on im- provements in the slum areas.

RECOMMENDATIONS

The recommendations are:- (1) That a permanent Town

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SEAMAN GIVES EVIDENCE

Murder Hearing Continues

A turther remand of five days was granted by Mr. R. Edwards in the case in which Li Man, allas at the Central Court yesterday wal-ram, unemployed seaman. was charged with the murder of Pun' Shing on August 4 at the Luen Hing Boarding House. No. 24, Connaught Road.

voluminous document and congree, increase the amount of avail-statement yesterday, said he would The Report is a detalled and these quarter will, in a small de L at the conclusion of his tains several interesting appen-able accommodation, their special call witnesses in his own defence. dices, including a table of average value will lie in enabling expert- and the hearing was adjourned for rates of wages for Chinese workers.ments to be made with a view to this purpose.

devising a more satisfactory type LA Man told the Court that he of dwelling.

had been living at the Luen Hing Planning and Housing Committee Section (3) of the Buildings Or of work for two years.

(VI) That Section 167 Bub-Boarding House and had been out The clerk' Town Planning and Housing mat. following be formed to advise Government ordinance of 1935 be deleted, and the for the boarding house had pre- bevented him from getting a job. substituted:-

Eventually he obtained a position (II) That a permanent Town (3) The provisions of Sections on a Taikoo tug and was to start Planning and Housing Sub-Depart-6 and 116, so far as they relate to work August 15. Accused ment of the Public Work Depart authorized architects, shall not ap-alleged that deceased had got an-

ters.

ment be created.

two sub-sections-

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1938. WEDDING AT CATHEDRAL

COMMANDER DONALD SCOTT.' R.N. (RETIRED), photograph- ed with his bride, formerly Miss Isobel Henderson, after their mar- riage in, the Lady Chapel. St. John's Cathedral, yesterday afternoon. (Photo. A. A. Khan).

ply in any case in which the other person to take the position FIVE YEAR PLAN

ary' work has been completed, St

(1) That, when that prelimin-Building Authority shall so decide. from him (accused)."

(4) Bulidings In accordance On September 2 he spoke to de- should be subject to review and with type plans. approved under

IV) That Government should encourage and, where necessary, assist the establishment, by chari table organizatiors, of "settle. ments" in the slum areas,

(V) That Government should

Meeting

ceased on the matter and they Outlined At Council quarrelled. Three days after the quarrel, he said, the clerk had told him that if he wanted a job he would have to stab deceased to, death.

Main items of the $13,135,000 five-year programme of public works announced

in Legislative

POLICING OF YANGTZEPOO, HONGKEW

S.M.C. Discussion With Japanese

criticism by an acknowledged ex-Regulations. prepared under the ipert from England.

direction of the Governor in Coun cf, and contained in Schedule O may be erected in any part of the Colony (Note: Schedule o will, pre-

He alleged that upon saying that i sumably, be prepared by the Town Planning and Housing Committee): he (accused) had no knife the Council yesterday were $2,000,000 clerk told him that he could get $2,200.000 for improvements to the for a new Government House, soon as possible put forward pro. Pun Shing, and told him after 32,000,000 for the Kowloon Hospital kew and Yangtzepoo, in the event

VII That Government shall as one in the kitchen to use against

Shanghal, Oct. 13. The question of policing the two- new Canton through road and Japanese-contolled areas. Hong- rosals for the provision of parks he had stabbed deceased nothing in suitable areas.

would happen to him he rani confined to works which, it is be. Of their being opened up under can be ananced from re-tax may be expected, is understood.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT AGASSIZ.-At the Canossa Hospi

tal on October 13, 1938. Edith consider the erection of expert Agassib, widow of the mental quarters for their Aslatie late E. 1. Agassiz, and daughter employees. While the provision of of the late Sir Charles Hobhouse, Bart. Service the Cemetery Chapel. Happy i Valley, at 5 pm.. October 14. No flowers.

Noow Kwloon Inland

East of New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2339, Kowloon Tsa).

Lot No. 2637.

Registry No!

Locality,

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As per

sale pian

Aboni

12,000

128

6 Upset Price.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

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PARTICULARS AND CON- ANTI-WAR

FEELING

IN JAPAN

WHILE ON THE SURFACE Japan is giving the appearance of

PUBLIC WORKS REVIEWED

The following extract from the report of the Director of Public Works for 1937, tabled in Legisla- tive Council yesterday. shows a summary, of works carried out during the year:-

BUILDINGS

ADVENTURE UNDER THE SEA

Mr. Jack Wooster Tells Of Thrills

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Deep-sea life and deep-sea adventure formed the subject of an address of exceptional interest by. Mr. Jack Wooster yesterday before members of the Y's Men's Club at St.

Extension. The following list is

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The hearing was then adjourned to October 18 at noon..

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NO CASE TO ANSWER

On the ruling of the Magistrate the Kowloon Court. Mr. "E. Himsworth, that he had no prima facle case to answer on a charge of allegedly stealing a fellow constable's money from the Police Training School, October 2, Shoo Chen-man native of Wel- halwel, was discharged yesterday.

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(1) Government House ...$2,000,000

LIST OF WORKS

(2) City Development

(3) Infectious Diseases

Hospital

1,000,000*

Į ∙1,000,000

(4) Kowloon Hospital (Ex-

tension)... (5) Addition, to Vehicular

Ferry Piers (including reclamation and re- sumption) ............ (6) Improvements to

2,000,000

585.000

2,200,000

Works completed were:-Queen Mary Hospital with Staff Quarters; Wanchal' Market: wholesale Mar- ket at Kennedy Town: Stanley Market; Fostal Kiosk at Stanley: Wireless Telegraph Station at Hung Hom: Sports Pavilion at Central British School: Kam Wah Francis Hotel Street Latrine; Shelter and Car Describing his recent visit to the Park at Garden Road: Car Shel-Sulu" Sea, where the famous black ters at Stanley Prison; Ta Ku Ling pearl shell is to found, Mr. Woos- Police Station: Latrine at Tsun ter told of his diving experiences Wan Market; Barricades to Police 40 feet under the surface and or Stations in the New Territories the activities of the Moro divers and the demolition of the old who are able to go down as far ARMY DRIVER Central Market, old Wanchai Mar- as 92 feet and stay under water ket and Queen's Gardens.

for 3 minutes at a time.

DISCHARGED Works under construction were: The speaker dwelt

some Driver Stubbs, of military am- and Work-length on the development of thebulance No. 4330, was discharged shops: additional block of flats at clam

shell industry and stated at the Kowloon Court yesterday Stanley Prison and the new Cen-that this was rapidly making pro-when he appeared there on tral Market. tenance, numerous minor altera-brought some of the shells to jon August 28. It was alleged that

gress. As he considered the Chi-charge of driving "without In addition to general main- nese the best artists, he had care and caution in Nathan Road due

tions. improvements and additions China to be painted and he hoped the ambulance had collided with a "Buildings during the year and re-Hongkong- were executed to Government later to establish the industry in eas pairs of varying magnitude were

Canton through Road from Castle Peak Road to Mäh Fu Ferry including Magistrate's ruling that he had no(7) Government Quarters 1,000,000

Shoo was also discharged on the

new Quarry case to, answer on a charge of (8) Air Raid Precaution's 1,000,000 allegedly breaking a window in (9) New Peak School .. the cell block at the Kowloon Court.

Government Stores

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DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday. the 17th day of Oct., 1938, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of W one Lot of Crown Land at To Kwa Wan, in the Colony in the prosecution of the present of Hong Kong for a term of 75 aggressive war against China. years, with the option of renewal conditions in that country have, at a Crown Rent to be fixed by according to competent observers: the Surveyor of His Majesty the resched point, where a social KING. for one further term of / revolution is no longer regarded as carried out to practically all Gov-the dangers of deep-sea diving and "case to answer,

75 years.

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis- posal of the lot the Purchaser

a nation united and enthusiastic

for

un impossibility should the Sino- Japanese hostilities continue any great length of time.

The Magistrate, Mr. Q. A. A

31

Peak Bungalows ...... (10). Rebullding of Police

160.000

150,000

fi

Stations and Police Training School ..... 700.000 (11) New Garages and

Quarters at Ken- nedy Town (12) Protective Works,

Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter

100,000

1

140,000

12,035,000

Compensations and re-

sumptions connected with the above

1.300,000

Total"......513,135,000-

circumstances as close to normal

to have been the principal subject discussed between Japanese repre- sentatives and the Shangha! Muni- cipal Council in a series of con- ferences carried on" for the past few months, says the "Shanghal Times"

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The Japanese authorities, It is stated, indicated that they would like to see Japanese police officers tu charge of one or two police stations in the northern and east- ern areas.

There is a growing fecting on the part of "Japanese civilians in those areas that peace time conditions · be restored.

Many Japanese feel that civil rather than military influence should now predominate in those areas.

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One very complicating factor of the discussion is that the Municipal Council is unable to recognise any Japanese regimes without the au- thorisation of the Powers-Reuter.

JAPANESE-CONTROLLED

REGIME OPENING

Shanghal Oct. 13, The opening ceremony of the new local Japanese-controlled re- gime will take place at the former Mayor's office at the Civic Centre: on Sunday.

The regime is headed by Fu Chunz-yao, well-known to the for-

"Mayor of Greater Shanghal," he will have jurisdiction over Chapel, Nantio and all territory

up to $2,000.000 gungkjarg, Quinsan, Footung, Nan-

Mr. Wooster went on to describe Macfadyen. ruled that he had no *To be spent in the period 1938-43eign community in Shanghai. Ar ernment Buildings damaged by he spoke of his adventures with severe typhoon, on September. sharks as well as his coral poison- ing experience, from the effects of which he had only just recovered. ARMY FUNERALS TO

Following the address, the

BE MECHANISED

The main streets in the towns and villages are almost daily filled

COLONY'S HEALTH with flag-waving demonstrations.

if not the applicant), will be celebrating the latest "victories," required

to deposit with an but the demonstrations. consisting dysentery, two of enteric fever shells which he had brought up Four cases of cholera, Ave or speaker displayed a number of, authorised officer who will be as they do of organized parties, and one case each of diphtheria, from the bottom of the sea and present at the sale, the sum of j

of school-cerebro-spinal mningitis, and puer-

had had beautifully painted. two "hundred dollars, ($200) in ARTIFICIAL

children and peral fever were notified in the cash. This sum will be refunded | DEMONSTRATIONS various pat Colony on Wednesday.

CHRIST CHURCH on payment of the Purchase

price.

↑ No. of Bale, j

Kowloon Inland Lot Remistry Nu

10.40$1.

Lot No. 1982

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Lot No. 85, To

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⚫riotic

3.550- clations, are too blatantly artificial as to deceive only the most

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A Fancy Dress ball for children will also be held when prizes will

tuilitary

Owing to the shortage of horses, funerals at Woolwich Barracks will, as far as practicable, be carried out with the aid of niechanised vehicles.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE Estimated cost new GoT-

ernment House Balance in excess

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Add, value of present

Government House, if sold, 150,000 sq. ft. at $8 per sq. ft. Available for other de-

velopment

722.500

1,200,000

$1,922,500

wel, Tsungming islands and Pac- [shan-Reuter.

COLONEL JACOMI IN SHANGHAI

Shanghai, Oct. 13.

The gun-carriage in future will

Colonel Jacomi, Commander-in- be drawn by a special army motor

Chief of the French Forces in The financing of the new Gov- China, passed through Shanghai van, which has been fitted with ernment House is not, however. yesterday en route from Tientaln rubber tyres to avoid unnecessary dependent on the actual sale of to French Indo-China in the Jean noise and shaking.

the sites referred to above. Money Laborde.Reuter. carried in another army motor; surplus balances which will be re- If necessary. wreaths may be can be found immediately from which will follow the gun-carriage plenished in due course when the at all funerals for which permus-sites are actually sold.

be awarded for the best costumes WELSHMAN'S

ART EXHIBITION EXTENDED

PARACHUTE RECORD

Nor does

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DUKE OF KENT AT MOTOR SHOW

necessary to sell all the sites in

London, Oct. 13. question if, as a result of further The annual, motor show at consideration of the development Earl's Court

was opened this of this area, it is thought prefer morning by the Duke of Kent who able to retain them or any parts arrived an hour earlier and toured of them for other purposes,

the exhibition. The Duke ... was Interested in the training of police BUYERS GRANTED

the drivers and

exhibition of aeroplane engines-Reuter, FREE VISAS

London, Oct. 13:

FETE credulous and casual observer, the date of their emancipation The annual Christ Church fet PARTICULARS OF THE LOT While political dissensions and further away than ever.

will be held in St. Andrew's Church anti-war demonstrations appear to To remedy the situation, the grounds on Saturday, November 5, have lost whatever vigour and out Japanese militarists have estab- commencing at: 4.15 p.m. for the spokenness they had, there is, as lished various Fascist organisa- purpose of raising funds for Christ a result of the growing economictions which proffer to stand for Church, Kowloon Tong dim ultles and sufferings caused the interests of labour-preaching There will be the usual attrac-ston has been given by the Gar- this proposal make it absolutely by the war, a rising fear and the doctrine that democracy and tions—stalls, side shows and riscu. Commandant. apprenhension which in time mayberty are the causes of a coun-cinema.. endanger the political structure of try's poverty and detrimental 'to Japan.

the national structure of Japan..

JUDGING BY THE INCREASING | FORTUNATELY, - THE JAPANESE LY SEVERE REGIMENTATION INTELLIGENTSIA are clearly of the whole national life" and seeing through this mask thought, the authorities in Japan pretence and understand that the have no illusions as to the pre-success of the Fascist regime, carious nature of the national means only their further im-"- unity and discipline of which they poverishment. The result has been which has been held at the Kami

Gwynne Johns, daring young 1869 boast as an unquestionable fact that large numbers of the pro- Ling Restaurant, West Point, since Welshman, recently created

peculiar to Japan, for the anti-war gressive elements among the Jap- last Saturday has been extended world's record for night-time Department of Overseas Trade sentiment, no longer-vocal, is none anese have been arrested or ac-ito Sunday in response to the delayed parachute jumping by sall that free passport visas will be that arrangements have been the leas real, and is dally increas-cused of dangerous thoughts" wishes of its sponsors.

ing to earth from an altitude of given, where required, to all bond-made for a course of anti-gas ing in intensity. Ever, since the for their opposition to the war. During the last few days there 118,000 feet.

fido overseas buyers visiting the lectures, including anti-gas volun- development of Japanese capital-The anti-war mavement has been many a good sale, Mr. He dropped for one minute and 1939 British Industries Fair, open-tary ald, to be given by various ism, there has always been a come Japari is gaining wider influence Fok Chi-teng purchasing a picture 25 seconds before he pulled the ing in London and Birmingham Instructors at the Headquarters of siderable number of people who not only among the civilian entitled, "I still say no" for $1,000 rip-cord at an altitude of 4000 on February 20.***

the Volunteer Defence Corps (by are definitely opposed to war.

elements in Japan and another entitled "On the way" feet.

This concession includes wives kind permission of the Comman The present Sino-Japanese con- ANTI-WAK, but even among the for $300

Braving the extreme denger of of buyers and children under 18 dant and Omcers) on Mondays at filct is a militarist war of aggres- MOVEMENT officers and men of Mr. Chau Man-chi bought a death in

10.30 conmencing October 24.7 the darkness, Johng years-British Wireless sion, which not only brings no

the Japanese army piece called Charms of Father-established the first mark for benents but inflicts incalculable in China, a number of whom have land for $800,

MA delayed parachute leaving at night ⠀ sufferings upon the people as arisen in opposition to war.

ever recorded. whole. As the

The fate of Japanese imperialist war goes on," INCALCULABLE, militarism Üles in balance. It grew

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ARABS KILLED IN PALESTINE

Jerusalem, Oct. 13:

ANTI-GAS LECTURES

The ARP. Oficer announces

fracas recently occurre between Japanese soldiers Taiwan soldiers in Amoy whic resulted in 30 or 40 casualties.

Johns accomplished his spec- tacular feat without injury. It was more than an hour after the jump

Five Arabs were shot dead and reason was because the was made that he was found, two three were wounded in terrorist soldiers could not tolerate miles from the Netherayon aera outrages in Terneslem within the longer the strong opp

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posed by the Japanese,