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EDITORIAL

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. The Daily Bras CHINESE NEW YEAR 報西剌孖 & SPRING FESTIVAL

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that Avraam Jakovlev Laihovetsky of No. 233, Nathan Road, Kowloon, is applying to the Governor for naturalization, and that any per son who knows any reason why naturalization should not bc granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong.

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THE STAR" FERRY CO... .LTD.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS.

NOTICE IS

HEREBY

GIVEN THAT THE FORTY. FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF THIS COM. PANY will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson &

Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central, Tel. 30251.

Night Editor (Wanchal Office);

Tel, 24511.

London' Office: 53. Fleet Street

EC.4.

Höxozono, FEBRUARY 23, 1939.

Co., Ltd. on Friday the 24th VIOLATION OF

February, 1939, at 11.30 a.m.

OUR FRONTIER

Ceremonial Observances

And Customs

(By T. PAUL GREGORY)

No national festival is customarily observed with more popular enthusiasm than the Chinese New Year....... The whole land is en fete; and on every hand is heard the traditional greeting: "Kung-hel! Faat-ts'ol! (Respectful congratulations! May you get rich:) The sincerity with which these words are voiced is im- pressive, and you are made to feel that the Chinese wish for material prosperity is indeed the general de- ways to be decided in the

sire of every human heart. violation "of & frontier 15

The fanfare of the occasion,! whether the violation was deliberate or not. This ques-are-crackers, however,

expressed by the salvoes of tion was raised locally in November last year when a

WILKINSON & GRIST,

for the purpose of receiving the Solicitors for the Applicant. Report of the Directors together

with a Statement of AccountsA for the year ended 31st Decem- ber, 1938.

CHINESE PERMANENT

CEMETERY ́AT”

TSUN WAN

Tenders are

of the above,

the

The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from Filday,

17th February. invited for the 1939, to Friday, the 24th Febru. construction of Sections A, and C. | ary, 1939, "both days Inclusive. By order of the Board of

· Directors,' C. M. MANNERS,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 30th Jani..., 1939.

$4

Particulars of the work are obtainable from Mr. T. 0, Tso of Messra. Tso & Hodgson, Solicitors Office. Plaus and specifications will be supplied on payment ef deposit of $100.00, but must be returned within one week, when the deposit will be. released.

Tenders to be sealed, marked

H.K. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

„ ነ

THE ANNUAL SHOW of

"Tender for Sections A. & C., FLOWERS and VEGETABLES Chinese Permanent Cemetery will be held at ST. JOHN'S Tsun Wau", and submitted and PLACE (opposite the lower Peak addressed to The Honourable The Tram Station) on Thursday, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs at 9th March, 1939, from 3 p.m. to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.6.30 pm, and FRIDAY, the 10th on or before 31st. March, 1939. March, 1939, from 10 a.m. to 4

The Principals reserve right of accepting whichever tender as they think it and do not oblige themselves to accept the lowest one.

the p.m.

ENTRIES WILL DEFI. NITELY CLOSE at the Hon.

THE CHINESE PERMANENT CEMETERY COMMITTEE.

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THE RAUR AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING CO., LIMITED (Incorporated in "Queensland). NOTICE OF DECLARATION

OF FINAL DIVIDEND

NOTICE is hereby given that

a Final Dividend of Ave pence,

seven pence per share for the

plus bonus of two pence, maklug

PERTINENT question al-

сод- ceals the fact that its original

לין

home, you begin to regard with understanding and sym- pathy that which was pre- viously misunderstood.

Japanese detachment crossed that it was a Spring Festival venerable

purport was agricultural---

the Shumchun River in sam-

Let us take, for instance, "the "Kitchen God" wha

that of the Immortal Jade Em- peror in the skies, and it is his

pans and occupied frontier designed to manifest general forms such a part of Chinese do- Post No. 12, on the British thanksgiving, at the sowing of mestic life. This deity is regarded side. As a result of im-the crops (and such it is now as an important link in the chain mediate investigation by the designated by the National connecting human events with

Government). military authorities, the Jap-

The relationship between duty to report once each year the anese were allowed to re-cross the Shumchun River into the New Year celebration and deeds he cheerved in the home in Chinese territory without be the agricultural practices of which he dwelt. The 23rd of the In the nation's farming millions 12th moon is the time at which ing interned or disarmed. extenuation of the mistake, is clearly revealed in the he makes Els annual ascent into

of the Japanese officer in charge customs former years." heaven, and, therefore, he is pro- of the detachment produced a For instance, in the time of priated with suitable sacrifices so map in which the frontier the Empire, usually some two that he will be bribed to speak New only of the good which he saw. between British and Chinese weeks before Chinese

and Ignore the bad, territory was shown to be in Year, every district magis- the region of Boundary Road trate and prefect of a prefec- RITUALISTIC PRAYER and Kowloon City.

tural city were obliged, 25 representatives of the Em-The last day of the lunar year peror, to take part in a unique for, at this time, all business deal- is perhaps the most important; ceremony, known as Ying ings must have been concluded to ch'un, or "welcoming the Spring."

VIOLATION of the frontier demarking Chinese territory from that of the Leased Territory by Japanese aircraft yesterday took place to a depth of nearly two miles. I

RETURN OF SPRING

WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 22, 1939.

GERMAN BUND LEADER ATTACKED AT RALLY

Hotel Workers Beaten By Six Storm-Troopers

NEW YORK, FEB. 21 (REUTER)-EXCITEMENT “AT THE BIG RALLY OF THE PRO-NAZI ··· GERMAN-" AMERICAN BUND,” which is being held in Madison. Square Garden, reached a frenzled peak when Isodore Greenbaum, a young hotel worker, leaped on to the stage and advanced upon Fritz Kuhn, leader of the Bund, who was in the midst of an anti-semitic tirade.

Six powerful storm-troopers

leaped on "Greenbaum, beat HAINAN TO

him and dragged him across the stage by his hair.

When Greenbaum was eventually rescued by the police his clothing was in shreds. He was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct.

During the Rally, bands blared and the audience sang German folk-songs and cheered at any references in the speeches to Hitler and Mussolini,

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ISOLATIONISTS RIDICULED

American Rights

Defended.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (Reu- ter)--"Immoral, UNSUCCESS.

ful and ultimately destṛnctive” is how Senator Pliiman des- cribed the policy of appease». ment in the course of a broad- › cast address.

He declared: "It is evident that no person can die more than the satisfaction of every one. And what is more important, all the once. His period of life is limit- gods of the home must be wor- ed and it is far better that he die shipped and thanked for their a few days earlier for Christianity,

Secretary's Office, Stock Ex.was not done for the purpose This prelude to the New watchful care. The usual time justice and liberty than live a change Building, Ice House of making an observation Year's holiday" was consider- for this ceremony takes place little longer in cowardice and de- Street, at NOON on THURS ried out by Japanese planes proclamation that Spring had re-tie prayer which is generally re-

flight as such had been car-ed to constitute the Imperiali at twilight, and there is a ritualis-generacy."

He ridiculed the isolationists, DAY, the 2nd MARCH, 1939,

during the early hours of the turned and reaffirmed the Im-peated on this occasion..

declaring that a firm defence of but intending exhibitors are re

One of the most interesting to American rights "throughout the quested to SEND IN THEIR mornings of February 13, 15 perial faith that tillage of the soll

and 16. On these flights, was the foundation of national my knowledge is used by women- universe" was the policy most like- planes appeared economy. As this ceremonial was folk in the district of Shun-tak-ly to keep the United States out Japanese

considerable that part of Kwangtung which is of war. from the hour of 5:30a.m. carried

pageantry. It must have aroused, the silk centre of the province

and it is reproduced here in as little interest.: Early in the morning of the day nearly as accurate representation

and to a foreign ear:

ENTRIES AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE.

MEMBERS who have not yet paid their subscriptions and ALL THOSE who wish to join the Society are requested to send

$5.00 to the UNDERSIGNED.

J.T. BAGRAM,

Hon. Secretary.

列

Hong Kong, 8th Feb., 1939.

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and spent upwards of an hour reconnoitring in the vicinity of Shumchun Market, the Casino, and Lowu village,

ONE WOULD assume that the result of these "obser- vation flights would be to establish the exact location of the British frontier posts, and that the railway siding south of the Shumchun River, and

ont

with

"Ying-bung, ying-hung, Paak-so a-kung: Taam-ngan yap-uk.

mentioned, each oficial, clad in of the country patots as possible his most gorgeous robes, escorted by an imposing retinue, was borne in a specially-con- structed sedan-chair through the East Gate of the city to the coun-j tryside some distance away. Here in an open field were placed two large paper Images of a man and

was a live ox already yoked to a plough,

financial year ending 31st March, THE BANK OF EAST ASIA. the lines of tents two mile a water buffalo, and not far away!

1939, has been declared by the Directors of the Company in Brisbane, payable on 15th March. 1939, to Shareholders on

the

Registers at Brisbane and Sloga

póre on 14th March, 1939.

LIMITED.

Notice is hereby given that the TWENTIETH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of this Company will be held at the

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south of the River were in British territory, When one

Upon reaching the spot, the takes these facts into con sedan-chair was lowered, and the "sideration,

does not official, there

on stepping forth, im- seem to be any other con-mediately - saluted the paper clusion to be drawn but that images. He then went up to where the violation of the frontier the live animal was standing, and,

NOTICE is also hereby given | Registered Office "of "the "Com. did not take place for lack of grasping the handles of the ploughj

that the Singapore. Transfer Re- gisters.. will be closed" from Wednesday, 8th March, to Tues- day, 14th March, 1939, both days inclusive, for the preparation of

Dividend Warrants.

By Order of the Board,"

DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants,

Local Secretaries.

Hong Kong Bank Chambers, Singapore, 11th Feb., 1939.

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THE HONGKONG "

ELECTRIC CO., LIMITED.

Notice is hereby given that the Fiftieth Ordinary Yearly Meet. ing will be held at the Company's Offices, P. & O. Building, on Thursday, 9th March, 1939,⋅ at 1a.m. for the purpose of" prc> senting the Report of the Direc tors together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1938, and electing Directors and Audi. tors.

The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 25th February, to 9th March, 1939, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be "registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors, "LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents.

"GIBB,

Hong Kong, 16th Feb., 1939,

knowledge of its definition.

and goading the ox into motion, ploughed a furrow in the soil, into which he sowed a handful of grain. On the following day the further

with,

CURIOUS CUSTOMS Many ceremonial observances

Taam-yap ngoh-tel shan-ts'ol tuk.

Heung-chue tani kwoh ngau, Ngnu taa! kwoh sni-khan-tati; Heung-kau hon moon-hau. Heung-men han kuk-wal. Fon tsom shuk taal kwoh ken T'it-ch'ul taap-m-pen."

"Ye, heroic ones, ye, herofeë ones, White bearded, gods (of longevity

and prosperity), Please entry on your back some

money into this house And leave it before the shrine of

our God of Wealth.

(0, ye goda) may our swine by your

grace grow larger than oxen, And our oxen bigger than the tow- bost that goes to the Western -Mountatos:

·

Our

May we raise up our dogs to guard

our doors; And our cats to watch over

garnered rice, May" our silkworms when matured

size Exceed in

the ordinary Сосрода And be so strong that they will withstand blows from an iron hammer1"

ANOTHER CUSTOM

BE USED AS A BASE

THREAT TO HONGKONG

(From Our Own Correspondent)

CHUNGSHAN, Feb. 21-Japanese-

| advance guards who made incur- along into. Po On County, via. Changmuktau, on "the" Cantoni - Kowloon Raliway, were repulsed by provincial" troops aided by militia. directed by Mr. Llang Pao-jen, the county magistrate.

It is reported, however, that some Japanese troops are still "in Namtan, south-east Po On. Chinese circles are inclined to believe that the Japanese forces may stay there to keep an eye on Hongkong A Chunghiat dispatch quote an American observer as saying that Hainan Taland might be used as a base against Hongkong.

JAPANESE PLANES

SHOT DOWN

AIR COMBAT

IN LANCHOW LANCHOW, Feb. 21 (Central). -The first air "combat over Lanchow," capital of Kanen,” took place yesterday afternoon, resulting in at least five Jap-. anese planes being shot down and four others heavily dam- ared.

Senátor Pittmah asked, "Didn't the British policy of appeasement surrender to the mercy of Hitler not only in Czechoslovakia but also Poland, Rumanía, Yugoslavia.

Thirty Japanese machines ir. What is there to three squadrons of nine, twelve and Turkey? stop his domination, if not conand nine, respectively, broke into quest, of these countries; what can the city in succession. They

Holland and Denmark do in re were engaged by Chinese pursuits. gard to Hitler's demanda? Does Over 80 bombe were dropped in- anyone doubt that Hitler has inside and outside the city. his programme of domination the Ukraine, even Siberia.

CONSTRUCTION OF AIRCRAFT

*After declaring that Japan was bent on the domination of East Asia, including the Islands in the

CAIRO, Feb. 21 (T/Ocean)-A Pacific, Senator Pittman made representative of the Polishi aircraft cryptic reference to Mussolini, as factories arrived in Cairo to-day to being by force of circumstarices" {conduct negotiations with the War in the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo triangle Ministry at the invitation of the and concluded that President (Egyptian Government. -British Roosevelt's policy was to avoid al- jaeroplane manufacturers have al- liances but to give the "oppressed ready sent in a tender for the government" all the help he could erection of a factory to engage i legally give short of war.

the production of seroplane bodies,

pany No. 10, Des Voeux Road

WE WILL NOT go into the Central, on Saturday, the 11th March, 1939, at 3.00 p.m. for the question whether the bombs purpose of receiving the Report dropped near the Lowu rail- ceremony of flogging the paper of the Directors together with a way bridge, which killed a images with a whip was performed. British policeman and wound-This was called the pin-ch'un, ér Statement of Accounts for the ed two others, was intended "beating Spring," and

was the

and for which they expect a or "the day for) the opening of year ended 31st December, 1938.

for the Casino situated nearly oficial fritimation that ploughing

small gratuity..

the year." In every household The Register of Shares of the two hundred yards away in of the fields was to begin forth-

Sometimes the youngsters de- there is feasting, chicken being Company will be closed from Chinese territory. It is not

scend upon the house. In such the favourite dish. In fact, 80. Saturday, 4th March, 1939, to necessary to point out that,

hordes that it is impractical to re- many. fowls are slaughtered oni Saturday, 11th March, 1939, if the bombs were intended

"Another custom which is com-ceive them all, and so the house this day, that the Cantonese have (both days inclusive) daring for the 4,000 poor refugees precede the New Year proper, and ing of the year is the singular one

monly observed with the last even-. holder may reply:

a saying: “T%-ol-shan to la! (The "God which period no transfer of shares housed in those building these commence with the worship in which children carry, lanterns of Wealth" has already come!)

then it is another example of of the Tso-kwan, or "God, of the and go about through the streets

Then the little brchin is bound the barbarism of the Samurai. Kitchen" on the 23rd of the 12th chanting a strange little ditty:

to say: We must concern ourselves moon. and culminate in the with a graver issue. And that | curious. customs of Nin-82-2- issue is whether the bombs maan, or "New Year's Eve.” dropped in the vicinity of the

For those who are non-Chi- nese, it is perhaps difficult to realize the significance of these customs, and their tre mendous hold upon the native heart Nevertheless, .... If you pause to study them in their true relationship with the natural piety of the Chinese

can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager, Hong Kong, 17th Feb., 1939

CALL

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CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that

a Call of $1.00 per share has been

pitched tents of the Royal Scots was an act done de- liberate in the intent to kill soldiers of His Majesty on British soll.

THE JAPANESE are adepts in the staging of border in- cidents and frontier violation. And it is well for us to re- member that the Japanese

"Maal-laan: madi-laan, ...Maal-to-tin-sa-a-maan;

Mani tuk-ok woon iseng-kwaai, Taeng-kwaal ling-jet ngoh tak saal.” "Beling laziness, selling laziness, Selling it to - New : Year's Eve of

next year

Selling badness and changing it tor

alertness:

Alertness and cleverness" in both

these we want to have”

"Tsol-shan lai 'tak... ch'i, Ko kwoh kau-nin shi”.

The God of Wealth although he

has come inte

Is better than the one who came to

your home last year." AN

No adult" could resist auch an eloquent appeal, and so we accept the proffered slip of paper, and in exchange place a coin in, the grubby little hand. We simile as In Hongkong. this custom is the child runs away to tell his seemingly in abeyance, although it" fellows of his good fortune and still persists in the country, where, we good humouredly decide to judging from the numbers of de- stay up a while fonger in order to lighted boys and girls whom I have await the next assault from these

"TS’OISHAN LAI!”

made upon all members holding China are reported to be from method

forces operating in South violation. The Japanese seen on various occasions march-harbingers of the "God of Wealth." shares, upon which $5.00 per the Japanese army which was cidents along well determined occupies a large place in the at- of provoking in- ing through the village lanes, it share only has been already paid, stationed in Manchuria for frontiers must be well known fections of rural youngsters," and will be payable on or before many years and no doubt not only to our local authori the 15th March, 1939 to the responsible for the carrying ties but also to Whitehall. Bankers of the Company, Hong out of some of those frequent in the present state of Far Kong and Shanghat Banking border violations into terri-Eastern and world tension Corporation, at Queen's Road tory of Soviet Russia.

where Indecision or irre- THIS IS the second time soluteness will be interpreted that the British frontier has as weakness, we may rest been violated by Japanese assured that HM Govern- armed forces in a manner ment will do everything in its which leaves little doubt that power to provide that such HERBERT R. STURT,

something more than care-tragic and dangerous" occur- Managing Director.lessness or inaccuracy was the rences shall not be allowed to

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Central, Hong Kong,

· Dated 1st December, 1938.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

Another practice connected with Chinese New Year's Eve - is the favourite ramp of young urchins of getting comahaw by calling upon, households and after announcing their pro- sence by shrilling in chlidish treble the words: "Trol-shan bit" (The "God of Wealth" has come!) hold out x slip of red paper upon which is well- Len the words "God of Wealth":

THE DAY OF DAYS

The New Year dawns, clear. and bright. All Chinese house- holds are up early; for this is the day of days, and no one would think of -tying abed, when perhaps the whole course of fortune for the year may be dependent upon an Individual's sets on this day. Every one dons, his best," and the Joyous atmosphere Is evident everywhere. 19 20 The second day of the new year In likewise zan important one" for it is popularly known as hol-nin,

Tab p'a yim-het Kau p'a ha-chi Shaang-kai-tani "chi-p'a" nin-ch'eb-

"Men fear the dislike of their fel-

lows, Does the summer solstice. And young chickens the second day. of the New Year's festivities.”

A BLEAK PROSPECT

Notwithstanding the fact that this age-old festival WAS! intended for general rejoicing. it is to be regretted that" an simosphere of pervasive sad-

mess overclouds the spirit of the occasion. For many pea=} sant households, the New Year: sabers in a bleak prospect: the coming of the enemy dur ing the autumn-when the rice was 'ready to be harvest- ed forced thousands to floo

... The ungarnered sheaves rutted _as they stood; winter plough-- Ing was impossible, and now as the people find their way: back to their ruined homes, they cry out in anguish against the invader with whom. they have no quarrel. But the Chinese peasant masses: Indomitable: happier years are in store, for them. For some day their victorious Mather land will enable them to cele

/ brate the happiest