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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

CENTRAL BRITISH,

SCHOOL.

FORMER PUPILS' REUNION AND DANCE.

A dance for former pupils of the Central British School will be held in the School Hall (by permission of the Headmaster and Staff) on Saturday, 11th February from 9:00 p.m. Tickets ($1.50, including light refresh- ments) and "further information may be obtained from ;-

MISS M. HEAP, W. MULCAHY. Central British School Miss I, WOOLLEY, c/o Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

P. WILSON, :

c/o Dodwells & Co., Lid.

CHINA PROVIDENT

BIRTHS

to

ROWE.-At Muir, Johore,

Yvonne (nee Langley) and William Treza Rowe, the gift of a son. Peter.

KINROSS.-On January 6, 1939, at Pinner, to Helena (nee Carey), wife of Andrew R. Kinross, a daughter.

ENGAGEMENT

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YUAN-LO.--The engagement

announced between Alexander Chunthan, son of Mr. J. J.. Yuan. drector

EDITORIAL

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1939.

Hello & Goodbye | THE DEAD RETURN

- BYA.W. HYER –

The past two days have been the lull before the storm. because Sunday the Kowloon piers will be stormed with six yes-' sels arriving, besides the Imperial Airways expected about four o'clock on the same day. If you are at loose ends over the week- end, trot down to the waterfront and lesta the reason why so many people go travelling about on ships.

Air France

of the First S.&. Tak Sang Trust Co. of China, and China Exchange Co.. and Becee.

DOWN FROM SHANGHAI this THURSDAY, NOON the Ville de daughter of Mr. T." Y. LO.

steamer will arrive to-day, and Damas, with the tall handsome C.B.E., recently Chinese Minis-

It will have on board officers and Captain F Falachier, arrived from ter in Denmark, and grand-

troops from northern regiments, Hanol. daughter of the late Sir Chih- who will tranship to H.M. Troop-

Lofengluh. K.C.V.O.. formerly Chinese Minister to ship Dilwara due to leave Hong-

kong about 3 pm. on Monday.

8.5. E-Sang

chen

Another Arst visitor to our land

is Mr. R, Michon, of Paris. His first long ale fight was marvellous and he was highly excited about the days just passed and those to come His mission during the next

the Court of St. James'.

DEATHS BRAND-On December 30, 1938, at HOME AFTER A month's holiday six months in the Far East will

Foochow, Joan, wife of Henry in Shanghal arrived Mrs. L

be curios and antiques which he Shelley Brand.

Banes and her young daughter.

Intends to purchase for resale and DIAZ.-On January 11, 1939, at the Captala Bones "of the. Hongkong

private collectors in the French Shanghai General Hospital, and Kowloon Wharf and GodownI,

capital Francis Diaz, "aged f" year, In-Co. Ltd., found four weeks of

Father R. P. Vireondelet, of the fant son of Mr. and Mrs. Fran-playing bachelor a bit too much French Mission, was quite gay, and

and was on hand with smiles from

pleased witha

vacation his short LINDENAU.—On January 12, 1939. car to ear to greet his family.

which he spent in Indo-China, so nt the Paulun Hospital, S'hal, |

he informed the other Fathers out Erika Lindenau, aged 30 years, M.V. Terelberr

to greet him at Kai Tak. wife of Mr. Fritz Lindenau.

5.S. Carthage

cisco Diaz.

LOAN & MORTGAGE The Daily

CO., LTD.

this

NOTICE IS HERERY GIVEN that Certificate No. 8768 dated Hongkong, 30th January, 1924 for-392-shares of "Company, numbered -181285/ 181676 inclusive, registered in the name of Lee Hysan (dec'd) has been Lost or Destroyed, and should this certificate not be pro- duced to the Company before the 30th January 1939, a new certi"

be cate for the shares "will issued, and the aforesaid Certif 'cate No. 8768 will be thereafter: treated by this Company as Null and Void.

By Order of the Board

of Directors,

R. A. WICKERSON,

Secretary and Manager.

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE

CO., LTD.

Notice is hereby given that Mr. Reginald Andrew Wickerson has this day been appointed Secretary and Manager of this Company, in the place of Mr. J. C. Guterres.

By Order.

S. M. CHURN,

Chairman,

Hong Kong, 16th January, 1939.

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NOTICE.

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.

Mr. 0. EAGER has to-day resumed the Secretaryship of this Сострану.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

J. J. PATERSON,

Managing Director. Hong Kong, 19th January, 1939.

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HONGKONG, JANUARY 21, 1639, %

NEW LIFE FOR

HONGKONG:

SPICK AND SPAN, warm anc comfortable we found this Dutch motorship on Friday morn- Ing at 7.45 when she arrived from southern ports. That' pler waiting was mighty cold business.

WHEN THE P. and O. steamer

came into port on Friday morning at 7.30 o'clock, she really should have had a tunge of icicles about her decks. Ohi It was & chilly breeze that played. havoc with our feet.

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Smiles and bows greeted the re- turn of Mr. Yazama Yasuzo,

Cameras ground and clicked, large group of men waved and called their helios; finally, out of a mob.

the arriving we located visitor... Mr. Aw Boon-haw up from Singapore. Before he embarked N.YK.'s Number One in Hongkong. en his powerboat, flying the large Shanghai has been this gentle- "Tiger Bahn" insignia we were in- Iman's address for the past six formed his stay will be short and weeks, but from his beaming ap- jol a business nature.

pearance he seemed glad to be Mr. and Mrs. -T. C. King and back in warmer(2)' lands. their daughter found quite a num- Mrs. R. Levi arrived accompanied ber of well-wishers at the ship-by her two amans and was happy the dismantling 01 her side early yesterday morning. A that short visit to Singapore turned out Shanghai home is complete. This to be quite a holiday for the charming lady will take residence family, however Mr. King. number In the Colony, her husband who jene or the China Merchant Steam-welcomed her this morning will ship Co.. was on a business journey enter business in Hongkong. Thus In the south

we have two new residents. former-

of many years in the North, A handsome tall gentleman whe 15 Mr charmingly barked at as

HOUGH hostilities have been

Three years is a long time to be going on between China and

away from home and Miss C. J. Japan for the past eighteen months, it is a pleasure to learn Cohen, daughter of the famous

dress designer Josephine C. Cohen G. Yales, from Shanghal. The that the Chinese authorities, un-in Shanghai, decided she would Ocean Shipping affairs of" Jardine and Co., Ltd. in the Matheson come back from Journeying in

der the leadership of the Gen- eralissimo and Mme. Chiang Kal shek, have by no means abandon- ed

Life the New

Movement.

Lendon and Johannesburg. Pass- North keep him very busy and

from her

mother in the art of

Frid afternoon

SOCIETY WEDDING

ME. HỌ HUNG PONG, LỚN

THE STORY OF

A STRANGE

TRAFFIC

It must indeed have been an Hongkong, as a great world" port, | has been the entrepot for every eerle spectacle to see these "boat- marketable commodity on the face ing morgues" in Hongkong har- the earth. The machine-made bour, with their decks piled high their produce from the sombre factories with rows of coffins and of Sheffield, the cotton prints holds laden with neatly labelled from the looms of Manchester, and baskets and gunny baga of human {the astronomical infinitude bones. After arrival here, the var

other articles from the lous Chinese guilds would take West have been exchanged here charge, and the remains of their for the exotic, the rare and the compatriots who had died abroad commonplace of the East.

or

were sent back to the villages from whence they had departed years before filled with the hope of re- turning some day living-not as Hfeless corpses in a Yankee "bone

What is more, it has served. | ship."

since its founding "nearly, a cen-

tury ago, as the port of embarka-

tion for thousands of Chinese

emigrants from the hinterland.

This passenger traffic in sturdy This loathing of the emigrant peasants led to the development. Chinese to dying abroad is well some seventy years ago, of a illustrated in various superstitions.

of Mr. and Mrs. Ha Wing and grandson of Sir Robert Hosingular, not to say macabre, ex-For instance, among the inhabl-

Tung, and his bride, formerly Miss Tse Sau-hing, photo- graphed after their marriage on Wednesday. (Photo: Ming Xaen).

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SHAW PLAY AT UNIVERSITY

Good Acting And Production

(By "Rosette")

the tension of Import and export business. Of those who left via Hongkong for

"

the goldfields of

California, the

sugar plantations

BY T. PAUL

GREGORY

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tants of the Sz- yap. or "Four Dis- tricts (S.8.W. of Canton), which as "most people know is the locality whence come nearly 90

of Cuba and the capra establish- per cent. of the denizens of the ments of the South Seas, many innumerable Chinatowns" overseas. could never hope to return living there is a curious belief that cer- to their homeland.

tain objects are conspicuously un- lucky, and, if taken abroad, will certainly cause the death of the

It was in connection with these unfortunates who, dying overseas, were denied the solace of resting possessor,

One of these is the lowly um- In the hallowed sall of their native Tong-shan, that there arose this brella, and to this day all intend- unusual commerce, in which Hong-ing emigrants from Tol-shan. kong played a prominent part as Sun-wut and other parts of the

that such an article is not taken

A preview of "You Never Can the receiving and-the shipping of "Four Districts," are careful to see Tell" by George B. Shaw, produced corpses of overseas Chinese... by Mr. K. W. Salier and presented by the Hongkong University Arts Was afforded school Association children and the Press at the Great

Ex-

ana

on board ship as part of their luggage...

In fact, the most scrupulous care" is taken to see that any umbrella which may have been brought to Hall of the University last night| The trade, which soon developed Hongkong is either left here. ค when good acting and production into a most profitable branch of the Chinese hate to throw any work was seen.

the emigration trame, was, how thing away) sent back to the The play actually. "officially"

ever. strictly confined to the re- village in the country. The singu- ing through Hongkong, which she have brought him down to the Co-

opens to-night under the distin-patriation of those Chinese who lar practice is said to have more, Misslony visiting. He won't be here was glad to see once

guished patronage of His he is

had died in the United States or originated from an event in the Indeed, the movement is being Cohen, very chic in a grey costume

ong. (another bark and

cellency the Governor. All pro-her possessions, and those other early days of the emigrant traffic- carried out as strongly as ever.

ceeds will be in aid of the Chinese Sons of Han in Australia reported she would spend the next looking forward to a vacation, in

England shortly.

the Innocent request of a country Medical Relief Fund. AIMED at the rebuilding, re- year taking lessons

elsewhere were, like the Jews in wife who, admiring the metallic Passing through were Mr. and

A satire, the play was very Longfellow's poem. generally per-framework of her husband's new Juvenating and reformation af renowned

Mrs. L. Scheyven from the Belgian

cleverly enacted, the dialogue inmitted to keep undisturbed "the American umbrella, and, thrifty China from its very foundations fashion.

Consul offices in Shanghai. This

particular being witty. Miss Rose long, mysterious Exodus of Death." r. A. Stuckey is on his first and based on the ancient Chinese

nice couple embarked on the sa

Pau and Mr. Leslie Sung made a

peasant that she was, asked him classics, in defence of Chinese visit in the Far East, and heads Canton bound for Haiphong on

The reason for this was that to be sure to send it back to her morals against immorality and in- the Uganda Department of Agri-

hit in their portrayals of Gloria

As fate Clandon and Valentine, the dentist. British shipowners were not astute when it was worn out. decency, and advocating a clean culture in Mombasa and is taking

to participate in the would have it, she got the bones Miss Josephine Choa and Mr. enough

coveted co-operative life through volun- a leisurely vacation. Ultimately

Lim Kee-yao

and wholesale transport of dead Chi-back-not those of the 25 Dorothy tary methods, the New Life Move- he is due to arrive home in Lon.

Philip Clandon. the Inseparable nese back to China, notwithstand-umbrella, but those of her hus- ment has worked wonders indon, but not until he has spent

the earnest desire of the band, Hence, from that time on- twins were particularly good in ing Started by the Generalis time in Shanghal, Japan

their roles and they supplied most Oriental heart to be buried in ward, no other Chinese wives were simo in 1934. It has surged Canada."

ancestral soil, where his dust likely to follow her example. Major AS. Colley, of the H.K.S. of the humour. throughout China with a wave of

Back in the Colony arrived - Mr.

R.A., was fined $20 by Mr. Q."A, A.

The rest of the cast gave good would be perpetually respected. Curlously, enough, the frame of an enthusiasm such as has never be and Mrs. E. C. Norris, of the Gen- Macfadyen at the Kowloon Court accounts of themselves and

at umbrella is known in the Canton- con-jand

his spirit worshipped re been witnessed and it counts

eial Electric Co., on this Dutch yesterday, after he had pleaded tributed greatly to the success of Tsing-ming with the elaborate esc vernacular as the wat,

ceremonial fanfare of Chinese re- "bones." However, their cabin was guilty by letter to summonses for THE PRINCIPAL virtues of the empty and they were sprinting driving a private car without a

THE CAST.

ligious observance." New Life Movement arc

cour down the gangway before we could

lcence

Chatham Road on Mias Dorothy Clandon

On the other hand, the shrewd Lesy, service to one's fellow-men, offer hellos,

December 29 and for leaving" his Josephine Choal, Mr. Valentine. Yankees, with a prophetic: Instinct Honesty and respect for the rights

Macao-bound is the quiet little car unattended.

the dentist (Mr. Lesìle Sung), Maid (of future proflts, decided forthwith of others, high-mindedness and

A fine of $8 was imposed on Sub. (Miss Marjorie Ler, Mr. Philip to cash in on this desire of the Mrs. R. de Sylva and her young honour. To the end

Clandon (Mr. Lim Kec-yao), Mrs. emigrant Chinese to be transport- In America the duty of collect- PRINCIPAL that these principles daughter, where they will join the Lieut. J. H. Stuckler. of RMS.

might be applied to head of the family there where he Thames, who was summoned for Lanfrey Clandon Miss Yu Flung-led on his death to the land of ing and preparing the corpses of

is connected with the Lieut. Gov- failing to notify the police of kwan), Miss Gloria Clandon (Miss his ancestors, and proceeded to those Chinese who have died a ditions and in order to help the enor's offices and in charge of change of ownership of a car he Rose Pau). Mr. Crampton (Mr. Wu promote a business which by the strangers in the new land devol

had recently bought and for leav- Hel-tak), William, the Walter (Mr. eighties had soared and become ved upon the various Chinese guilds moral character of the Chinese troops.

ing his car unattended in Salisbury Yu Shuk-siu), 2nd Waiter (Mr: O. a lucrative enterprise. Road. Defendant explained that he did not know it was customary

China.

its followers in millions,

VIRTUES

actual existing con-

nation to attain its highest stan-

dard, Generalissimo

and Mme

vcssel

W

and.

DROVE WITHOUT. LICENCE

in

Chiang launched the New Life dertook an immensely difficult and in Hongkong for the man who Moyement Purely intended ürst

responsible task-a task hercu-bought the car to inform the police

as a local measure, it caught on lanean and almost impossible, but of the change of ownership. like wild-fire and little did the with the whole-hearted support of founders realize when it started the Chinese people, they cannot ! that it would spread" so quickly. fall to meet with success. LITTLE did they realize that the HONGKONG is a tertile field for

clarion call to the Chinese peo-

FROM THE POLICE

į REPORTS

a movement such as China's New ple for a cleaner life, for courtesy, Life. With the wide prevalence of Reports made to the Police last for orderliness in public places, in

immorality and gambling. evening included the following graft. government offices, on public con-

with the clearing of throats and Mr. W. G. Trabbe, care of the veyances, in schools, on wharves, In trains, and in the army, for the Spitting in public places, it would Chartered Bank, state that between elimination of graft, and the aban- indeed be a blessing were such a 8 p.m. and midnight 1st night an DEPORTED BUT donment of "squeeze" for less ex-movement to be introduced here. overcoat and a padded kid glove, was stolen. The travagance and more thrift, and We understand that there is a left in his motor car, parked in RETURNED

for the avoidance of spitting and branch of the Chinese New Lite Chater Road, Sentence of six months hard smoking in the streets, would meet Movement in the Colony but it ap-articles were valued at $71:

parently is not as active as ao- labour was imposed ότι

cleties of a similar nature in the Shing, 26, unemployed, when he "appeared before Mr.

interior of China.

R

}

Chau

with such a response.

streets and Edwards SMOKING 'in the

public places is considered un-

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the play..

(Miss

V. Cheung), Mr. Finch M'Comas (Mr. Luk Mang-hey), and Mr. Bohur (Mr. Oey Jauw-hong).

permit for one or more

mall and goods.

In

operating in San Francisco. fact, it was one of the avowed objects of these powerful organ!- zations to see that all Chinese on allen soll should have an honour- able burial in their native country.

TRANS-ATLANTIC

The trade originated in Bau and, to this end, they were accus- AIR SERVICE

Francisco about the beginning of

tomed to employ men whose task undertake "bone-collect- WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Reuthe 'Aftles, and, before the subse- was to ter) The State Department an-quent, decade had passed, there ing" expeditions throughout all the nounced yesterday that the was a well-established commerce Western States, wherever Chinese French Government had grant- with Hongkong. The vessels en- were likely to be buried.

The corpses were carefully disin- ed the United States a six-month gaged in this dead end of the

Ameri-emigration business were generally terred, and the bones scraped, companies totramp freighters, "and carried no washed and labelled and after- operate a trans-Atlantic afr other cargo but coffis, No living wards dispatched to Ean Francisco. can air transport

in these Here "they were stored in ware-" service to France for passengers Chinese would travel

remains "bone ships," as the craft were houses-the

of the [nicknamed. Neither was it pos-wealthy Celestial in his expensive Mr. Mac Chi, formerly of the De-sible to carry much other carge comin sharing space with the bas

on the trip; for any merchandisekets and sacks of those of his Mrs, Roberts, of No. 96 Robinson partment of Education in Canton.) especially flour, foodstuffs and the poorer brethren-until enough had Road, was at shopping at 14 Des is appointed Mayor of swatow a like, which came out with such accumulated to ensure the neces- Voeux Road yesterday when she the new appointee, Mr. Chang Yu- at the Central Court yesterday

tically unsaleable in China, the the journey back to the Homeland. charged with breach of the De-desirable and slovenly, though one HERE is an opportunity for Euro left her handbag on the counter. chao, has declined to accept the a ship, was soon found to be pracsary sum for chartering a ship for

pean and Chinese residents of This contained money and keys to post, may do as he wishes. In his own

Chinese affirming that the ghostly portation Ordinance;

The bag was! house. Spitting and the clearing the Colony to get together and do the value of $20.

News doubt stolen by ah unknown person. Chau was deported for 10 years of one's throat in public call for something which without

has been received from emanations from the dead would the United States that Miss Hilda 50 permicate all goods that they ar-reprimands, not from the police but will prove beneficial to Hongkong

from enthusiastic followers of the and its people. With mutual co-) A tiara pearl necklace, valued at Lee Ya-ching, who has been called would not only be unfit for use

movement CAN operation, a

be $75. and belonging to Miss F. R. the "Flying Agent" for China's but also unlocky as well

Consequently, the craft engaged Even in this age of debunking started which will go a long way. Dickson of No. 288 Prince Edward cause by American newspapers, bas

private in this gruesome trade would only age-old beliefs, there still persists Generalissimo Just

Chiang's Road was reported lost last even- completed tests for a

occasional trips to the a fervent longing in the hearts of movement has gone in China. For ing between Star Ferry Wharf and pilot's licence at Roosevelt Field, make

Long Island.

Colony, usually not more than once emigrant Chinese to rest in the a start, it might be well to follow the lady's residence.

or twice a year, when they would soll of their for fathers, and so Ed- and, though big strides have al- the practice adopted by the British

The rank of Chevaller of the unload coffins by the hundred. As there is still a trade in the ship- wards' at the Central Court yes-ready been made towards pro- Army some forty years ago, name Mr. Henry Chan, aged 26, was

Kowloon Hospital | Legion of Honour has been bestow- the charge for the transport of ping of coffins back to China. terday charged with snatching gress, there is still. much to be ly that, whenever a person was admitted to

the French Government these cankets was a high one, the The era of the chartered "bone a pair of earrings from a woman, done for China has lagged too far found spitting in a public place, he suffering from a fractured leg. He ed by Chung Yik, 22, unemployed, was behind. In starting the New Life was made to get a bucket of water was knocked down by a grey tour- upon Brother Antonin, Director of American shipping companies of ship," however, has passed and reminded for 72 hours for medi-Movement, however, the Generalis- and some soap and clean the place ing car which, however, did not the St. Francis Xavier College in that day managed to make a good lingers only as an episode in the history of a half-remembered past. thing out of it. stop after the accident. cal examination for caning. simo and China's First Lady un- 'which he had despoiled, "

in September 1937 and was

rested in Hongkong on Thurs day.

Nw Life Movement:

Rudeness and vulgar VULGAR

manners

are being MANNERS eliminated. It has DISAPPEAR

CANE FOR SNATCHER been по easy job

2 Appearing before Mr. R.

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Shanghal,

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