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PARTICULARS AND CON. PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public | DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, Auction to be held on Monday, the 28th day of August, 1939, at 3 the 28th day of August, 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Oices of the Public. p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of His Excellency the Governor of Lot of Crown Land at one Lot of Crown Land at Wong Nei Chung, in the Colony Wong Nel Chung, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of of Hong Kong for 75 years, with the option of of 75 years, with the option of

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HONGKONG, AUGUST 23, 1939 -

EDITURIAL

Civil Design And Town Planning

INTERESTING TALK

AT ROTARY CLUB

"Civic Design "and Town Plan- ning" was the title of an interest- ing talk given yesterday at the Rotary Club tiffin at the Hong- kong Hotel by Mr. C. E Moore, B Arch, ARIRA,

TIENTSIN SILVER Major R. D. Walker, who, presid

RESERVES

ed, introduced the speaker and welcomed. visiting Rotarian Ed- ward Fang, of Nanking, and the following guests: Rev. J. R. Higgs,

Cat, Mullins (Fiji) and Mr. Ģ.

renewal at a Crown Rent to be renewal at a Crown Rent to be REMARKABLE but erratic Mr. H. Pegg, Mr. P. C. M. Sedgwick,

ixed by the Surveyor of His Ma. jesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.

Inteading bidders are advised that immediately after the dis. posal of the lot the Purchaser (If not the applicant), will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.

fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one fur ther term of 75 years.

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant), will be to deposit with an required authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of

conclusions were arrived

at by our Tientsin correspon- dent when he dealt with the question of the Tientsin silver reserves yesterday. The views expressed were purely his own and do not represent those not agree with them. of this paper: we frankly do

Fayne (Shanghai).

Mr. Moore said, in part:- City and town planning is an selence concerned with art and guiding the physical growth and arrangement of a town to obtain the maximum results both econo-

mically and socially.

The defect of most cities is not OUR CORRESPONDENT

the lack of town planning, but usually the piecemeal way it has government in North China teen done by the estate developers speaks of the "de facto two hundred dollars, ($200) in contrast with the Chung-in their private interests, without king Government, but he for-consideration of the community as gets that, apart from the National, or Central Govern- ment, in Chungking, which is

cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT PARTICULARS OF THE LOT both the de facto and de jure

No. 5548.

Inland Lot

Sing Woo

Toni Man Street.

Boundary 12

Measure ments.

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Et. It.

sale plan,

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4,500

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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

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Inland Lot

No. 6579.

Sing Woo Road.

Boundary Mestare ment.

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As per

sale plan

Cou ente in

Square feet.

Annual

Brotal.

* Upsat Price.

About

38

one's

11,260

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

government, there. is no other legal administration in China. Any other "government" that may be set up is a puppet, whether Japanese - sponsored or otherwise, and has no legal status whatsoever: therefore, It cannot properly be describ- ed as a "government" in any sense of the word.

a whole.

The objects of town planning are twofold:-

(1) Easy access from one part of the town to the other.

(2) The control of types of buildings so as to give the maxi- mum in order, health and efficiency in development..

WATER SUPPLY..

To achieve health a community must have a satisfactory (a) water supply (b) drainage and sewage disposal, (c) plenty of light and air in the work places and homes

the people (d) open spaces for

"recreation.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1939.

RE-BORN NATIONAL SPIRIT IN KW ANGTUNG: GLOWING STORY IS TOLD BY DR. TAM WAI HON

LORD HALIFAX looked serious as

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Leaders Training Corps Congress At Nam Hung

Special to the "Hongkong Daily Press"

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Dr. Tam Wai-hon, principal of the Canton Uni- versity Middle School, one of the seven representatives of Hongkong Chinese Middle Schools who attended the Leaders' Training Corps congress at Nam Hung near Shiukwan, the Kwangtung provincial capital, récent- "ly, in a special interview yesterday, gave the "Hong- kong Daily Press " a glowing account of a re-born national spirit in both unoccupied and Japanese do- minated districts of Kwangtung province which, he is sure, is sufficient to ensure for China in due course victory over the invader.

Leaders of party, political, remind them that the spirit of" he left Downing Street after a talk economic, military, and edu-tree China lives yet.

UNANIMOUS DECISION

with Mr. Chamberlain,

DOWNING STREET ACTIVITY

LORD HALIFAX LOOKS SERIOUS

LONDON, AUG. 22 (REU- TER) AMONG THE MANY CALLERS AT NO. 10, DOWN- ING STREET

MR. WAS ARTHUR GREENWOOD, DE- PUTY LEADER OF THE OP- POSITION.

Lord Halifax stayed to lunch with the Prime Minister. He looked serious on leaving No. 10, but gave a smile to photo- raphers as he walked to the Foreign Office to keep an ap- pointment with Mr... "George Lansbury..

Lord Chatfield called at the Foreign Osice in the after-

поод

cational affairs in the life of

the province attended the The congress was unanimous In congress. Dr. Tam was in a decision that the education of the third group of some 800 the common people should be pro- leaders in provincial life who moted with all haste, and there reported at Shiukwan for the were many who spoke in warning congress, and he was the only of the danger of illiteracy In war- principal of a Middle School time.

The education of children was

in Hongkong to attend. another subject discussed at great Representatives who attended length, and a resolution was pam- ed that the many walfs and or-

came from every section

of

the province, some from Chin- chow

the border of Indo Phans in the war-torn province Ching and others from Yuping on would be regarded as wards of the people and their upbringing

the Fukien border. Their common

purpose was spiritual mobilisation and education. assured. against the invader.

to

As a flat step, a school for such children has been started.

for 500 at ShimrwELTA The congress discussed measures already

be adopted relative to the children. and with time a chain wartime situation.

of such schools will be established throughout the unoccupied areas. of the province."

REMOTE PARTS

STUDENTS SENT OUT

High-school students and gra-j duates and university freshmen

The Journey overland to Shiu- and sophomores are being sent out,

kwan, Dr. Tam related. cccupied both boys and girls, into the rural 11 days, but from more remote districts of Kwangtung

parts of Kwangtung and Kwangs! Kwangst to acquaint the country for the congress was attended people with the present situation by representatives from all parts in China, to inform them of world!

of the present Fourth Military affairs, and to pass the watch-District-the journey has required. word "resist.".

and

20 days to accomplish.

Some of these students, the where there was formerly al-... FRENCH PREMIER

majority of these between 17 and ways some element of danger to Much has been said about the LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuter)-It 25 years of age, have given of contend with, Dr. Tam says that evils of the land and property is learned that M. Daladier, the their lives when apprehended by on his journey toi Shinkwan - and... speculator, but there is nothing French Prime Minister, has ac- the Japanese on a mission into an back he did not encounter even a wrong, so long as there is equal cepted the invitation of Mr. Leslie enemy-occupied district, but, in- rumour of robber or brigand, and chance of loss to the speculator Hore Bellsha, the British Secre- trepid as ever, they venture again travel is safe in districts where all and gain to the community. But tary of War to attend the peak and again to bring education and have united to resist the common when the name of the land specu- period of the British Army enlightment to the people and to enemy,

from Sept. to our mind he is manoenvrés lator comes

classed in the same category as Sept. 21.

There is too much profit taking. the jerry builder

the good of the community.

THE NATIONAL Govern- ment of China is the adminis tration officially recognized by

Lack of proper regulation of the the Powers and all dealings uses and bulks of bulldings has re- with China must be conducted suited, amongst other things, in 640 through that government and serious trafic congestion in many no other. Singular though it areas For instance in Kowloon may be, even the Japanese buildings originally erected for do- invaders have not withdrawn mestic uses are now converted into their recognition of the Chi-knitting factories and in Hongkong domestic buildings have been con- nese Central Government.

THE SILVER RESERVES inverted into shops on the ground

floor and offices above.. Tientsin are solely and ex-.

NOTHING WRONG clusively the property of the National Government and IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED

suggestions that the puppets ап Interim Dividend of

have any right to it are to be that Dollars one per Share has been strongly repudiated for, no declared for the year 1939, and matter where the silver may will be payable on and after be-in Tientsin, Canton or Thursday, 7th September, 1939. any other place it is still Dividend Warrants may be ablegally the property of the tained on application at the Com. Central Government. And for pany's Registered Office, P. & 0. that reason we do not in the

least agree with our Tientsin without taking into consideration Ronald Ian Campbell. "Minister inj Building,

correspondent, whose. state ment "that the silver, in the first place, was not voluntarily surrendered is incorrect. It handed over without was qualm or protest as a sign of many ways to beautify; but when the unity of the Chinese they comprise for the most part, people in the face of Japan's as they do in Hongkong. of masses aggression. Belonging as it or commercial buildings of that does to the Chinese people, style of architecture so prevalent Britain has as much right to in Hongkong called "compradoric,” hand over the silver to China's extensive areas enemies as she has to hand oyer Danzig to Germany.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Certificates Nos. NS.928 and NS.929 dated Hong Kong, 9th October 1894, for *50 shares numbered 3270/3279, 56190/56199, 20300/20304, 20305- 20309, 66258/66265, 69642/ 69643, and 52016/52025, Certi- ficates Nos. NS.2249, NS.2250 and NS.2251 dated Hong Kong, 10th November 1897, for 75 shares numbered 51251/51262, 51831/51863, 24471/24473, 16097. /IG101,3687/36101, 15974.

THE REGISTER OF 15975, 39071/39075, 33649/33653, 2016/2021, 34096/34099,

and SHARES of the Company will be 53746/53750, Certificate No. CLOSED from MONDAY, 28TH 5/NS.304 dated Hong Kong, 7th AUGUST, to WEDNESDAY, July, 1908, for. 62 shares num-6TH SEPTEMBER (both days bered 89265/89326, Certificate inclusive) during which period no No. 5/NS.2374 dated Hong Kong, transfer of shares can 13th November 1912, for 20 gistered. shares numbered 91879/91898, Certificate No. 5/NS. 2377 dated Hong Kong, 16th November, 1912, for 9 shares numbered 13556/13560, 65164/65165, 76695 and 62879, and Certificate Pro- visional No. 57/657 dated Hong Kong, 20th February, 1922, for 72 shares numbered 128802. 128873," all registered in the name of Rafael Perez, have been LOST or STOLEN, and should these certificates not be produced to the

be re-

By Order of the Board of Directors.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD.. Agents.

Hong Kong, 27th July, 1939.

Bank before the 26th August YOUTH KNOCKED

DOWN BY

MOTOR CYCLE

Not

17 to

DIPLOMATIC CHANGE LONDON, Aug. 22 (Reuter)-Mr

a lack of interest by the investor, Paris, has been appointed British but too much interest and too Hit-Ambassador in Belgrade.

tle principle.

Waterfronts, as the front door to towns and cities, can be used in

scale.

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PARIS. Aug 22 (T/Ocean)--The French Cabinet Council to be held on Tuesday afternoon at the War. will be followed on

Ministry

Thursday afternoon by the Minis- terlal Council at the Elysee, with the President, M. Lebrun. in the chair.

It is learned from well-inform-

that French sources. become blighted. ed

the

The Ministerial Council is expected to pass a number of economic Emergency decrees. to become valid in the event ̈at the international crisis

growing worse,

"Anglo-French Unity

UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG -SOME TIME AGO

BY JOSEPHE BRICE (Special to the "Hongkong Daily Press").

think no one can recall without a smile and a little pity the charming Essay of Lamb on "Christ's Hospital," his old school. I wish I could draw such a delightful picture of the University of Hongkong, my old school! But it is an unreasonable ambition: First and above all, I have not the gift of Charles Lamb, his golden pen, that God granted to him alone. Then No elty can have a high standard Premier, M. Daladier and the of civic art that has defective Foreign Minister, M. Bonnet will

he wrote his Essay 35 years after he had left Christ's. the present state of international

Hospital and "time had given a rosy and romantic at- IT IS UTTERLY impossible housing conditions on an extensive inform the French Ministers of situation, of the political and mili-

mosphere to his memories. Even when he describes OPEN SPACES to regard the silver deposits

the gloomy and sometimes cruel side of it, we feel question as a purely local

Thake open spaces, play tary negotiations in Moscow and

that he is regretting his young though unhappy days.. matter. A much broader and grounds, green belts of grass and the general military position in

And I must admit that I left our University but a 624 important issue is at stake trees. miting the number of Europe.

which involves the interests of houses to an agere, is to the vast

very little time ago and my remembrances are so investors of property third parties, parties to the majority

fresh that they cannot be distorted or discoloured. Nine-Power and other re- so much waste of good buliding

The last reason is that, even to by more frightful action. No levant treaties, who are being space on which to erect monstrosi-

ourselves, the past has a charm Heaven be praised! We never had kept informed of the progress ties; everything tends to be drag-

often undefinable but always real, any such scholar as a master and who must be given an of the Tokyo negotiations ged down to the level at which it

and Christ's. Hospital is a school But, on the other hand, we had a is Intellectually understandable to

MatthewField whose the man who has neither purified The Paris Monday afternoon such as there is none at present: "second opportunity to express their views. This being so, the perceptions, nor cultivated nis press stressed by big headlines the it is a new interest to have the name, Sugarer, was as sweet as his

mind,

significance of the British and spectacle of an unusual thing and as also was his character and his perpetual good- question cannot and must not

Where then are we going to end French. Cabinets meeting simulto compare it with the modern manners. His

product of our 'successive improve-natured smile was a source of joy be treated upon a bilateral in our wild scramble?. I was taneously.

and pleasure to the whole univer Anglo-Japanese basis, and speaking to one of your members. Special importance is attached ments.

The material side has certainly sity! And he used to impart on any arrangement arrived a before tiffin who passed a face in connection herewith to the ex- without the knowledge or tlous remark that the Government, change of opinions between the been very much improved: the his wide knowledge with such consent of the Chinese Gov- had a bee in its bonnet about town Premier, M. Daladier, and the Bri- University of Hongkong is a com- a condescending and comprehen-- ernment is void and cannot planning and had produced that tish War Secretary, Mr Hore-fortable university. Life is easy in sive indulgence that we heeded

place where the Union" his voice more than his words! and must bee in the person of the Town Belisha on Monday.

A great improvement may also 13-year-uld. Toishan boy. be recognized named Chiu Fing-yuen, had a naturally be repudiated Planning Committee. He could see Numerous Paris papers belleve provides everyone with cosy chairs,! miraculous escape from more ser- Britain's decision to exclude o future for it. As vested interest the British Cabinet is about to good books, ane games and dell be noticed in the moral standard take far-reaching new measures clous tea and cakes. The of the students which is really ious injuries, other than a fractur- the silver and currency ques- would prevent it dying.

Now, gentlemen, many years ago The Communist Boulevard paper enthusiasm for athletic exercises quite high! The University of ed right leg when he was knocked tions from the Tokyo parleys during the war. I learnt to fly, I "Le Soir headlines an article has also greatly increased; sports Hongkong is a very quiet miver down by a motor cycle in Hen-is the perfectly correct one

play an important part in university; never any scandal or serious was told by my instructors that London on the eve of decision. nessy Road last night and carried and, had everything to com- there was one insect which, ac

sity life, almost predominating in punishment, or solemn diresti- 579 rolling along the road under the mend it. She cannot allow ecrding to all the laws of aerosta-

fact, and I must confess that if ture" or expulsion. And I am machine, for several feet.

herself to be browbeaten any tics and aeronautics could not ay

lecture rooms are not deserted quite certain that there was not The accident occurred about 8.55 | more":

more often it is because sports any "petty Nero or future inhabit and the time has and that was the bee. Now the bee p.m. Mr. V. J. Smith, of No. 3 arrived for her to speak | doesn't know this bat just files,

meetings are carefully set for ant of the gallows; as there were Lamb's In Christ's Hospital different hours! Leighton Hill Road, was driving his

time. cycle combination, No, 389, tra plainly to Japan.

LABORIOUS

But was there ever any Bamuel velling east, when the boy sudden- ly "dashed across the road. The boy was carried between the wheels and the driver had to hal unce his cycle on one side before the boy could be freed

1939, new certificates for the 288 shares and the aforesaid, Certi. ficates Nos. NS.928, NS.929, NS.2249, NS.2250, NS.2251," 5/N$.304 5/NS.2374, 5/NS. 2377, and Provisional No. 57/657 will be thereafter treated by this Corporation as Nail and Vold. -

By Order of the Court of Directors.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager, Hong Kong, 26th July, 1939.

WIN

$50

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Carried Between

Wheels

IN THE MEANTIME, the proper thing for Britain to do

(Laughter),

SEVEN KILLED IN LONDON STORM Beven were killed and 22 injur ed in a thunderstorm, which, was adcompanied by

hallstorms,

Sard2 Give

SPEAKER THANKED Thanking the speaker on behalf will be to continue her sup of the Club, Rotarian W. A. Cor which swept London on Monday The University of Hongkong is Taylor Coleridge? Or even more

afternoon. In the east of they surely a laborious University, one amply any future port of the Chinese National nell said that town planning, was

sicfangor Government in accordance abject that was studied and Metropolis lightning struck a shed feels it at the first

James me leave to doubt with the wishes of the ma-followed by an increasing number in which 30 persons had sought However we never had Sub-Inspector J. Orem, who, hap- 1ority of British people and of people in Hongkong, and be shelter. In several parts of the Boyer or any such pened to be passing in his car, took put an end at once to the felt sure that Mr. Moores inter-city whole streets were flooded a violent person, bringing woe

negotia esting talk would help to stimulate that water, penetrated into cellars terror to the school charge and sent the boy to hos- obnoxious Tokyo

frightful menaces always that interest.

and ground foors, friOS pital

tions.

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ents,

iversity of Hongkong 1s