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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG,

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE GOODS of Marion Gilchrist Hoerter of Shanghai China, deceased.

Notice is hereby given that the

Court has by virtue of Section 58

of the Probates Ordinance 1897.

mode an Order limiting the time for creditors and others to send In their claims against the above estate to the 6th day of January,

1940.

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R.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 18th day of Dec., 1939, 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 near Diamond Hill, In

the Colony of Hong Kong for

a

term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, "1895, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be lixed by the Surveyor

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HONGKONG, DECEMBER 13, 1999

EDITORIAL

CORRESPONDENCE

H.K, SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

To the Editor, Hongkong Daily Press

SUGGESTION BY DEFENCE

"Mortgage › Action

是

Hearing

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939.

COMPLETE MANIFESTO OF SIXTH PLENARY

:

SESSION, KUOMINTANG

RECAPITULATION OF PRINCIPLES

Sir, I shall be much obliged

That the plaintiffs in the dia- FIXED AT FIFTH NATIONAL CONGRESS you will be so good as to publish puted mortgage action being heard in your next issue the enclosed

at the Supreme Court were im- coples of correspondence which I posters, that, they were not the have exchanged with an English Persons who signed the title deeds friend, who desires to

of the anonymous, regarding a generous property. was suggested by the donation he has just made to the defence when hearing was resum- Hongkong Society for the Protec-ed yesterday before the Chief tion of Children

Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor.

remain

R. H. KOTEWALL

FIGURËS SHOW JAPAN'S FAILURE My dear Kotewall. JAPAN'S DRAFT BUDGET

I am sorry to see the Hongkong mounting to

estimates for 1940-41, Society for the Protection of Chil- dren is behind in its finances for the fantastic figure of Yen 10,300,000,000,

the year. Although, On second thoughts, perhaps, it is encourag-

still

tles by those working in such a

and not the real owners

This week of discussion has been chiefly devoted to ways and means of reinforcing the ground-work of nation- al reconstruction. And we now wish to express our hope that no fellow-citizen will permit the changes in the face of world affairs to distract him from the full recognition " of the unassailable fact that we have passed the crisis of.. success and failure, nor be misled by fallacious advocacy of Defendant in the action is Fung palliatives in wartime. On the contrary, we must think in terms of fundamentals, strike at far-reaching issues and aim to set national affairs on a lasting and broadly-con- ceived basis.

Kai-sun, while the plaintiffs are Chan Kwok-nin. The later allege' Chan Ful-hing, Chan "Sik-tm and

respect of No. 300 Des Voeux Road that two mortgages executed in Central and No. 92 Wing Lok Street are fraudulent. and that

All Creditors and others are of His Majesty the KING, for. llustrate once more the ter-ing to learn that the utmost is be- they had been executed by a Accordingly hereby required to one further term of 24 years less send their claims to the under the last three days thereof... signed on or before that date.

Dated the 12th day of Decem

ber, 1939.

„JOHNSON, STOKES &

MASTER,

Solicitors for Edward Sheldon Wilkinson, one of the Executors named in the Will of the abovenamed deceased Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Hong Kong.

880

CHINESE ESTATES,

LIMITED.

FOURTH INTERIM

DIVIDEND.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a FOURTH IN. TERIM DIVIDEND for the year ending the 29th February, 1940, of two per cent, that is $2.00 per share, will be paid on all shares in this Company on Wednesday, the 20th December, 1939, at the Company's Office at China Building, 5th floor.

The TRANSFER BOOK of the Company will be CLOSED from the 16th to 19th December, 1939, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

FUNG PING FAN,

Director & Secretary. Hong Kong, 12th Dec., 1939.

875

R.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday the 18th day of Dec., 1939, at 3

Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land 'at

rific burden undertaken by ing made of the available facil- this small, poor and incompletely industrialised splendid cause. country in the drive for mil- domination of the Eastern Pacific intc which it has been pushed by those who rule it.

Intending bidders are advised that Immediately after the disitary 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. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT

ON

No. 1360; ill near Diamond Hill,

Now Kowloon Ininud

Tot No. 2746 South West of New Kowloon Inland Lor

Registry ND.. No. of Sals

Locality.

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G.

Beundary

Measure-

ments.

As per

sale plan

Contents in

Square feet.

Annual

Rental

Upset Price,

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

ING

2,610

THIS BUDGET, a good half of which is openly devoted to military expenditures (actual- higher) Is about eight. times ly the proportion is even that of 1931-32, covering the period which saw the initial invasion of Manchuria, and it is more than double that of the first year of large-scale hostilities in China. The in- crease over the figure for the present fiscal year is in the neighbourhood of Yen 200,- 000,000 or more than the total budget of any year before 1933.

KNOWN,

To overcome the financial diff- culty, I enclose a cheque for the year's deficit-3766-from my wife and myself.

#S

In any public acknowledgment Please treat this donation "Anonymous."

Yours sincerely.

My dear-

enclosing a cheque for $760 as a I have just received your letter donation from you and Mrs being the amount of the deficit of last year's working of the Hong- kong Society for the Protection children.

clansman Chan Chung-wah, who had charge of the property. with- cut the knowledge or consent of the plaintiffs.

For this our entire resources of brain and muscle must be called into play; it is only such a war effort that is needed to alone that the anxieties and insure victory. It is to this

urgency of the present hour should impel us--to gird our Mr. Eldon Potter, KC.. and the loins to the task of completing Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada. Jnr., in all the preparations neces- structed by Mr. C. D'Almada, re-sary for a re-fashioning of present the plaintiffs, while the the nation. Affairs political, defendant la represented by Mr.

economic and cultural are to H G. Sheldon, K.C., and Mr. H. be hencefortn transformed as C. Macnamara, instructed by Mr. this dominant principle de- M. M. Watson:

mands, and detailed resolu tions have been accordingly approved for immediate tran- slation into practice.

that when Chan Chung-wah ceas- Chan Sik-tin, second plaintifi. gave evidence yesterday and said

ed to be regular in his payments offrent last year. be asked the latter and was informed that the tenants were in arrears.

Your generosity and the promptitude with which you came to the assistance of the So- clety have touched me deeply, and I am sure will be a heartening encouragement to the officers and other members of the Society. on whose behalf I tender you both our most grateful thanks.

of

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PLANS PRAMED

In this manifesto we shall sketch the more important of the plans NOT SATISFIED

we have framed and indicate the Witness said that he was not trend of policy by the execution of satisfied and he wrote to bis which we aspire to acquit ourselves solicitors to find out whether the of our responsibility. property had been mortgaged.

бо

When Chan Ful-hing came from AS IS WELL

Sha Kan village in June. witness the ordinary income of the to send to the English and Chl-

I hope that you will permit me said they decided to try and collect Japanese Government

as much rent as possible from has nese Press for publication (omit Chan Chung-wah before taking long been insufficient to cover ting your name) your letter and proceedings. They did not inform its budgetary needs and ae- this reply, for I can conceive of no ficits have been met by the better means of calling the atten-wah's brother, because they were the third plaintiff, Chan Chung- issue of "red ink" bonds, i.e. tton of the public to the needs of not sure whether there was any- 878 by borrowing from the nation.

the Society than this fine lead thing. between the brothers. Despite increased taxation, taken by yourself and Mrs.

Witness denied that he had ever which is now reaching the With renew expression mortgaged the property and at- stage where even the long-warmest thanks on behalf of the therised such mortgage and stated Society and of the poor and suf- suffering Japanese citizen is fering children in the Colony.

that the signature on the docu- beginning to rebel, the deficit

ment. was a forgery, ' increases with each year, and Amounting with it the national debt. yen in 1930-31, the internal to 6,000,000,000 and external indebtedness of the country had, by 1936-37, grown to over eleven billions. Two months

was

PARTICULARS AND CON: DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 18th day of Dec., 1939, 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 Island Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 21 years.

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

of the Purchase price.

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estimated at

It ago

almost

21

of

I am,

Yours sincerely.

d. R. H. Kotewall

Gunda, both German subjects mar- ried to Chinese, were summoned before Mr. R. Edwards at the Cen- tral Court yesterday for failing to

Mrs. Nelh Zon-hon and Mrs. Lee

report to the authorities, within an

address and were each fined $15. appointed period, their change of

evidence.

1. The revolutionary mission of our Party consists in the rescue of our people from the perils that beset them and their rehabilita- an equal footing with all other t'on as an independent people on nations. The policy of Resistancë clded upon when it was as we are now waging it was de- seen at the time of the Fifth National Con-| gress in 1935 that significant and tangible progress had by then been achieved in Defence and in Recon-

struction, in the nation's ability to repel the invader and to put its own axairs in order at home. That MORTGAGE DENIED

convention published a ten-articled Chan Kwok-nin, in

manifesto which constituted a po- also denied that he mortgaged the|litical programme for the Party in property. The signatures, he said. were forgeries.

Witness denied that Chan Kwok- the one nin and Chan Chung-wah

were

The

first inking he had of the forged

apd same person. mortgage, he said, was when Chan Ful-hing told him of . In June this year.

Hearing will be resumed at 10 am, today:

GIFTED AND INDIVIDUAL ARTIST

billions, and the budget for 1940-41 calls for a further in- crease which will bring it to the stupendous total 28,000,000,000 yen.

CHARACTERISTIC of every new surtax on articles of daily Japanese budget has been the use such as tobacco, and military branches of the ad-modities and fuel. Gasoline battle between the civil and the general shortage of com- ministration for the lion's is carefully rationed and hard share of its appropriations, to come by. Cars burn syn- Of late years, the army has thetic mixtures, charcoal, and always received what it asked. even

weeds. The use of The procedure is roughly as acetylene in ordinary motor follows, Original estimates car engines was, when first are made by the various de- practiced, properly prohibited, partments and duly pared as dangerous. It is now

and some of her puplis, which has down by the Ministry of allowed and "becoming more and woodcuts of Erne Freedlander drawn many to the St. John's Cathedral Hall during the past two days, is being extended an- other day, providing an oppor- cent work of a gifted and indivi- tunity to view and study the re-

p.m., at the Offices of the Public PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. Finance. Ultimately, the re- and more general. Only two

To Kwa Wan, in the Colony of Hong

Kong for # terim

01 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be 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 required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) fo cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase

No. of Sale,

Registry No.

Locality

3

Garden Lot

Nu 108

Adjoining Rural Building Lot No. 395,

Island Road.

Boundary

Measure-

ments.

.ft. ft. ft.

As "per

sale plan.

Contents in

Annual Square feet.

Rental.

About

27,500

€4

Upset Price. | H

1,375

876

BUTTON FACTORY

26

were

WORK OF ERNE FREEDLANDER

The exhibition of the monotypes

has

dual artist.

Freedlander mirers in Hongkong and others ardent ad- who describe her, art daubs and blobs and utter tripe. Modern art of the type is yet im-

215 mere

its future revolutionary work. This manifesto contained a digest of all; the resolutions adopted by former conventions since the First. and upon it was based, the programme F or Resistance and Reconstruction drawn up by the Extraordinary Session of the C.E.C. In 1938. Its! ten articles were in brief:

1. Let

us influence mien

by!

giving full weight to moral values.

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2. Let us stimulate the pursuit of realistic studies $5 means to national stability. S. Let us expand the scope

of education in order t, foster the people's strength. 4. Let us by economic methods.. enrich the people's livelihood..

5. Let personnel be carefully alfted and selected, and a strict check be kept on the records of public servants. 8. Let us emphasize the sanc- tity of the Law in order to protect the people's rights, in respect of life and pro- perty, from the incursions of rash and unscrupulous Iitigation.

7. Let us attribute more Im- portance to the functions of the Examination Yuan and encourage the modern re- presentatives of the old- time censors in the fearless cxecise cf their preroga- tive against omical malprac- .. tices and in rendering artien- late the voice of public opizion,

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8. Let us stress administration

in the "frontier regions." to" the end that minorities may be absorbed into a strong national unity.

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9 Let us initiate constitutional gavernment, adjust the coun- try's internal administra- tive system accordingly, and thus reinforce the very foundations of the Republic. 10. Let us with all purity of in- tention full the Tsung'a Testament of infünction; re-. vive our people's selfcon-" fidence; establish honorable relations with all other coun- tries, in order that China as completely independent country may live with themn on terins of absolute equality: and so at last the ideal of a world commonwealth may become attainable.

ย

To Be Continued); ..

REFUGEES IN THE RECITAL BY

The

COLONY

returns of refugees and destitutes accommodated in 'the Colony in Government camps, etc... in Urban and Rural Areas for the week ending Dec,"9, showed a de- crease of 67 against the previous week.

Urban Areas (Civilians):

King's Park 1,302 against 1,307 on Dec, 2.

Ma Tau Chang 1,078 against 1,100.

North Point 1,418 against 1,418. Urban Areas (Boldiers):

In Hospital it against 8. Ma Tau Chung 730 against 733. Rural Areas:

Kam Tin 1,912 against 1,954. San Uk Ling 738 against 720, Gill's Cutting 377 against 384. Total 7,566 against 7,033 Dec. 2.

on

BARBARA GILMAR

AN ILL-CHOSEN PROGRAMME

As an effort to encourage musi

cal interest in the Colony, the Fecital by Barbara Gilmar and A. T. Lay, at the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden last night, was comp- mendable. However, in a pubile; performance, the artists must ex- pect to be taken seriously, and in this light praise or criticism must be offered honestly.

Advance publicity, notes of Bar- bara Glimar since she made her Arst appearance here last year have engendered high expecta- . tions, and it must be said that

perfectly understood-and must be GEN. HSIUNG PING last night those hopes were sadly for manifold reasons and the divi- sion of opinion may be expected.

Yet, the very fact that there is such controversy regarding her or shows that she has created some certain impression and there the tranquil currents of pursuit has been a very real upsetting of and appreciation in art circles.

ductions in civil expenditures | days ago, a despatch from stand. Those made in mil- Tokyo described the rejoicing itary expenditures are restor- among the people because the ed in the face of the clamour official ban on using coal for of the Ministries for War and household heating purposes Navy.

had been lifted-in the middle THE RESULTS have been of Tokyo's cold December disastrous; for the country's

Estimates for public health economy. At a time when and education have been cut Japan, like Germany, must to the bone.

export or die" and markets ALL THESE SACRIFICES are actually falling open to have been induced by the her, the proposed export sub- pursuit of Japan's "imperial sidies are not forthcoming, destiny" which, it was claim-

CHUNGKING, Dec. 12 (Reuter) confounded. Production is hampered by ed, would give her the riches

Ho Yao-tau, who recently went to -"In view of the absence of Gen.

VOCAL ACROBAT the impossibility of sparing of the East Asiatic mainland

The programme foreign exchange to buy raw and the South Pacific archi-

leaders," Gen. Hstung Ping, who to a vocal acrobat, Neither the Moscow by air to call on Soviet chosen one, and was more suited was an ill- materials, the drain of work-pelago. Even if this

signed the Tangku Agreement, has imagination, nor ers into the army, and the true, we know from the his

been appointed acting Director of hearing, can be strained to

the sense of "economy" shortages of gas, tory of other conquests that

ad.. electric power and coal. Es-the common people of Japan,

the Executive Office of the Gener-mire a singer trying heavy dram|2-- Six appliances were rushed to a pecially in the field of electric upon whose shoulders the

alissimo's Headquarters, it was tic pieces, such as the Tosca and PARTICULARS OF THE LOT button factory in Nam On, Sauki-power, in which the situation sacrifices, both of blood and be considered a great painter, she Chinese circles that Gen. Ho Ya coloratura morsels as Dellbes Les

officially announced today..

La Boheme arlas, and, almost in wan at about 4 o'clock yesterday is aggravated by the existence sweat, must fall, would be nos certainly a

therefore, gathered in the same breath, such delicate, afternoon when two buildings, of great private monopolies better off. But today even spectator cannot but derive a vivid fine artist. The housing the factory, were ablaze.

tau is likely to make a lengthy Filles des Cadiz and De Falla's which are making millions by the groups that would really impression of colour, which she Although considerable damage the operation of the quota profit and themselves

stay in Russia.

Jota.." to property resulted, two houses system, the situation is grow-meshed in difficulties which fancy, and cannot fall to note her en- uses with an almost Orientat

Barbara Glimar possesses a nd much machinery being daming desperate. Output of cot- seem insuperable because the freedom of conception.

good voice, but her singing ik aged, the fire was fortunately an-ton goods, wool, staple fiber, outstretched hand of their

pressionists, from Manet onwards, spoiled by dryness, bad placing of attended by the loss of life or in-silk, and chemicals has fallen greed, instead of closing com- usual sense, but always solid, bold condemned is now admired and ession.

Her work is never pretty, in the but work which was shunned and certain vowels, and lack of ex-. jury to people.

The flames were subdued by the

drastically. Markets are be- fortably on the desired wealth, and expressive in a broad man prized because it is better under- The items which could at least Fire Brigade and the police in lessing lost instead of gained, and has in China met resistance per. She does not attempt to stood. than an hour.

the Kansai

be enjoyed were the Delibes and industrialists, which not only prevents this copy nature, but to enlarge on it. lords of great textile mills of but is prying its sinister source of inspiration with her own time before she will be properly most at home...

Freedlander is a strange figure De Falla, in which, overlooking build unit, President Innu of Turkey and the Osaka region, are close to fingers loose from the fruits imagination to seek a certain ex-appreciated.

and blend her in local art, and it will take some these faults, she seemed to be Gen. Orbay have left: Ankara to revolt.

of past robberies and in-pression. ⠀ make a tour of Eastern Anatolia

However, she has THE ORDINARY POPULA- directly, their grip or

Mr. A. T,Lay rendered a Fanta- near the Soviet-Iranian frontiera,TION is feeling the pinch in throat of the Japanese nation

on the BETTER UNDERSTOOD

disturbed a sleepy art lite, which sia by Mozart and Blumenfold's 877 says Reuter.

cannot now stumber sweetly, and Impromptu in G flat Major, which: the increased price of rice, the itself.

as such a force, her work deserves were enjoyed by the small audi to be seen.-G.

price.

Registry No.

Locality.

Kowloon Infand

Lot No. 4810. Adjoining Kowloon Inland Lot No. 3009, Kowloon City Road,

§ To Kwa Wan・・

No. of Bale,

Boundary

Measure-

ments'

As per

Isale plan

unday

Rental

| Upset Price.

About

Contents in

5,000

92

3,760

BLAZE

1.

VIVID IMPRESSION Whether or not Freedlander can

Dispute raged in Europe from the first appearance of the Im-

It is

ence...

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