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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE
The Half Yearly General Meet Ing of Voting Members will be held in the Jockey Club Room, Hongkong Club Annex, on Friday, 17th May, 1929, at 5.10 p.m.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hongkong, 30th April, 1929. HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
Lammert's Auctions
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction
on MONDAY, the 6th May, 1929, commencing at 11 a.m.
ot Godowa No. 12, The Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, 157 Bales Newspaper, to be sold in small lots. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Fifth Extra Iaco Meeting to be held on Saturday, 18th May and on Monday, 20th May, 1929, (weather permitting) may be obtained at the Race Course, Hongkong Club, and Cause-Lee
tion, way Bay Stables.
Entries will close at 12 o'clock noon on Wednesday, 8th May,
1929.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that Mr. Archibald Ritchie. Charter- ed Accountant, has been admit- ted a partner in our Hongkong business from 1st January, 1929,
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Auctioneera.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received Instructions from Messrs. Yue Yuen to sell by Public Auc
on MONDAY, the 6th May, 1929, at 12 o'clock Noon.
nt their Sales Room, Duddell Street,
(for account of Lam Chun- successor to To Heung Hop}
500 Bags Java White Sugar, now stored in the godowns of The China Provident, Loan &
Mortgage Co., Ltd., Connaught Road, West. Terms: As Customary.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public Auc- tion,
on MONDAY, the 6th May 1929, at 3 o'clock p.m. at their Sales Room, Dúdde!! Street, Hongkong
KAI TACK MOTOR BUS CO., (1926) LTD.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
The Forty-eight Ordinary, Gen- eral Meeting of Shareholders will he, held at the Omers of the un- dersigned on THURSDAY, the 23rd May, 1929, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1928,
The Share Register and Trand fer Books will be closed from the 9th to the 23rd May, 1929, both days inclusive.
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WHIST DRIVES.
Whist Drives will commence at the Police Club,
"; Happy Valley
on Thursday, 2nd May at 8.30
and every succeeding, Thursday.
Admission
50 cents
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Secretary.
CHINA UNDERWRITERS" LIMITED.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
Our Offices are now situated at: HONGKONG BANK BUILDING
(ITII FLOOR)
in Des Voeux Road Central,
HERBERT R. STURT,
Manager. Hongkong. 29th April, 1929.
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For further Particulars and Inspection Orders, apply to the Undersigned:
Terms: As Customary.
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Auctioneers.
- PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction!
on TUESDAY, the 7th May, 1929, commencing at 11 am..
at No. 64, Nathan Road, Kowloon.
A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.
(Catalogues will be issued)
On View from Monday, the 6th May, 1929,
SATURDAY. MAY 4, 1929.
CHURCH NOTICES.
To-morrow the Fifth
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Sunday After Easter,
LOCAL SERVICES.
10
DARTMOOR SHEPHERD FOUND DEAD.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND THE OLD CONVICT,
POST OFFICE NOTICE
From
Shanghai
hni
INWARD MAILS.
Per
Shanghal and Swalow Oswestry, Apr. 3. U.S.A. Honolulu, Japan and Shang- David Davies, the famous "Dart- bal St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, moor Shepherd," was found dead Europe via Negapatam, papers only
on the road last night by two London 4th Aprü May 5th, 1929, 5th Sunday young men at Llanfechain, Mont-
Japan after Easter. Holy Communion
gomeryshire.
Australls and Manila am. Children's Service
It appears that, while the Lian-U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang- A.231. Peak Sunday School 10 fyllin Workhouse Master was ill azn. Mattins 11 a.m. Preacher: in bed, Davies, who was an in- The Dean. Holy Communion 12 mate, made his escape from that noon. Evensong 6 p.m. Preachor: institution, and walked in his slip- The Rev, H. V. Koop.
pers to the place where he was Shanghai and Amoy found dead, two miles from the Straits and London, parcala (Lon-
don 27th. March) Union Church, Kennedy Road, workhouse.
At the Inqueat a verdict
of Baigon Sunday, 5th May, 1929. Sunday death from heart failure was re- School 10 a.m. Morning Service turned.
..
Manila Straits
Japan'
Japan and Shanghai
Dus.
Nagpore Szochuen
May 4. .May 4.
Pros Van Buren
„May 4.
Kutsang
May 5.
Arhfurn Tanda
.May b.
May 5
President Taft
Pros Jackson
..May 6. ..May &
Porim
..May 4....
Linan
May 6.
Aeneas
May 0
Sphinx,
.May T.
Himalaya Haru! Athoa....
May
.May 7.
..May 8.
May 10.
.May 10.
.May 18.
May 18,
11 am, Preacher: Rev. F. C.
Canada, U.S.A., Japan and Shangha! Emp, of Asia Young. Sermon "Do Pro- David Davies, who was said to U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shanghai Fres McKinley fundis." Hymns 183, 734, 1, 600. be eighty years of age and earned Japan and Shanghai .... Evening Service 6 pm. Preach- his nickname of the "Dartmoor Manila
er: Rev. F. C. Young. Sermon "Moderation." Hymns 152, 184, 199, 678.
Kalyan
Shepherd" from
Pre. Taft
being put in
charge of the sheep at Dartmour, U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang- served more than half a century in prison, and each release was speedily followed by his arrest on new charge. In the course of
hai
Pros. Hayos
DUTWARD MAILS.
For
For
Firat Church of Christ Scientist,
Macdonnell Road, below Bowon his long record there will be Fort Bayard Road Tram Station. Sunday Ser- found many escapades similar to vices, 11.15 a.m. Subject "Ever-that during which he met his Java vin Batavia lasting Punishment." The Sun-death-escape from a workhouse, Saigon
day School le held on Sunday Davies's name became a house-Sam Shul and Wuchow Mornings at 10 o'clock Wednes- hold word when the severity of his Swatow
at sentences became known, and at- Amoy
a1
day Evening Meeting 5.30 pm. Reading Room above address open Tuesday and Friday, 10 a.m. at 12 noon.
"My friend the Home Secretary. Amoy and Formosa via Swatow Monday and Thursday, 5 to 7 p.m. The Public is cordially Mr. Churchill, and 1," said Mr. Amoy invited to attend the service Lloyd George, "the other day paid Japan.
Dartmoor. On that Straila, Mombasa, Lourenco Marques and visit the Reading Room. visit to
and South Africa Branch of The Mother Church, bleak, mist-sadden upland I saw The First Church of Christ an old man of 5 in convicts garb. Swatow
He had been sentenced to thirteen Japan, Honolulu, Canada, USA. Scientist, in Boston, Mass U.S.A. years' penal servitude. because,
C. & B, America and Europe via San Francisco under the influence of drink, he ́had' broken into a church_poor- box and stolen two shillings."
Lention was drawn to his case by Manila
Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Manila Mile End on November 21, 1910. Bangkok via Swatow
MRS. SEKAI MASSAGE
6. Wyndham Street, 1st floor,
Hongkong..
SPY QUEEN INTERNED IN ASYLUM.
A VICTIM OF THE COCAINE HABIT.
Mr. Churchill had already said
that the case had occupied his Shanghald Europe via Biberia attention for six monthia.
Date and Time.
Tai Poo Sek....Sat, May 4, 1.30 p.m. Thisnroea....Sat., May, 4; 2.30 p.m. Prosper : Sat, May 4; 3.30 p.m. .Sat., May 4, 4,30 p.m. ...Sat, May, 4, 6 pm.
Kochow
Sunning
Antung
...Sot., May, 4, 5 pm.
Pres. Van Buren Sat., May, 4, 5 p.m. Wisconsin
Kiangsu ....
...Sun., May 5, 9 a.m. ...Sun., May, 6, 9 a.m. Hozan Maru....Sun., May 5, 0 a.m. Kutsang Tanda
.
.Mon., May 6, 8.30 ani. ...Men,, May 6, 19.30 a.m.
་
Hakata Maru Mon., Hay, 6, 2,30 p.m. Hydrangea...Mon, May 4, 230 p.m.
Pres. Jackson
Farcels
Registration
Lotters
Mon, May 8,
....8 p.. 4.16 p.m.
.....5 p.m.
(Dua Ban Francisco 29th May).
.. Pres. Jackson ........Mon, May 6,......
Registration 5 p.. Letters
Both Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Fort Bayard, Holhow, Pakhol and Tonkin
Churchill were subsequently cor- rected by the Deputy Chairman of the Shropshire Quarter Sessions, at which the sentence was passed. The Deputy Chairmen pointed out of three that the sentence was
ten years penil servitude and years' preventive detention, not for the theft alone, but because. Berlin, Apr. 3.
of a long list of previous convic- Germany's most famous spy, ations. The sentence was imposed new Prevention of beautiful woman, head of the Ger-under the man Espionagu Service during the Crimes Act.
Mr. Churchill Explains.
Halphong...
Straits and Caloutta
Shanghai and Japan Balgon, *Straits,
Capion, India, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europo via Marseilles.**.
war, has now been interned in an asylum, in consequence, it is stated, of morphia and coenine taking,
Davies was released on January Bwatow, Amoy and Foochow Her identity was never really discovered, but she was known in 6, 1911, and sent to a job at Wrex- Amoy England as "Mrs. Captain Heinham, on condition that he held it Manila richsen," and in France as "Made- for six months, and did not leave Swatow moiselle le Docteur."-Ex. Tel. Co. without the permission of the Hoihew, Pakhui and Haiphong
The "Queen of the Sples" was authorities. By January 10 he Manila, Australia (except places. North of Brisbane) and New one of the most mysterious person-had left, and the police were again
Zealand via Brisbane alities of the War, and the French searching for him. On the 13th and English Secret Service were Mr. Churchill had to admit in the riever able to lift the mask and House that they had not yet found establish her identity.
him; while the country laughed Among the many nicknames quietly at the juke against Mr. which the agents gave her were:-Lloyd George and Mr. Churchili,
"The Blonde Lady."
"The Black Cat," and
"The Ited Tiger."
Manila, Sandakan,
..6 p.m.
Tuon, May 7, 8.30 am. .Tum., May 7,
..1 pit.
Kumsang
Parcels Lotters
Sphinx
„Tuós., May 7, 1 p.m.
Athos IIig
.Tuos, May 7.
K. P. O. Registration Letters
G. P. O, Registration
Letters
10 a.m
1.00 p.m.
.12.45 p. 1.80 p.m.
(Due Marsellies 8th June.)
Hal Ning......Tues., May 7,2 pm. Szechuen Tues., May, 7, 3.80 p.m. Près. Taft. Tues.,. May 7, 4.80 p.m. Wai Shing....Tues., May 7, `b`p.m.
Tean
Wed., May 8, 8.80 a.m.
Himalaya Maru Wod,, May 8. Registration......7th, 2.m. Letters.....May 8, 8.30 am. (Due Brisbane 25th May.)
Australia and New Zealand via Thursday Inland
Arafura
Mr. Churchill later explained why he had caused 'Davies to be
Dartmoor, and Manila
Certainly her claws stretched far released from over the frontiers, and no agent spoke of "the grotesque contrast Sandakan was ever really out of her sight. between thirteen years of prison
Amoy Frequently she sent one agent to on the one hand, and the theft of overlook another, unknown to him-twa shillings on the other." self.
1 learned further," he stated, "Irresistible Influence." LAMMENT BROS.,
One of the agents whom this tall that the convict in question was known in prison circles as 'the Auctioneers.blonde with nerves of steel coolly Dartmoor Shepherd,' that he en- sent to his death was the Greek,joyed a melancholy celebrity for Constantin Coudoyanis, who was
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction
on TUESDAY, the 7th May, 1929, commencing at 5.15 p.m. at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
A Collection of Valuable Postage Stamps. (Particulars from Catalogue) On View now. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMENT BROS.,
Auctioneers,
PUBLIC AUCTION,
Parcels
Registration
Letters
.Wed., May 8. .May 7, 6 ́p.m. 8th 8.45 a.m.
.8th 9.30 a.m,
(Due Thursday Island 23rd May.) Emp, of Asia Wod., May 8, 8.30 p.m. Hinsang....Thuro., May 9, 8.80 a.m. Kanchow...Thurs., May 9, 8.30 p.m. ..Fri., May, 10, noon Haiyang Kuelchow .Fri, May 10, 5 pm,
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Wei Hai Wel Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles Katyan
shot in the Bois de Vincennes In the prodigioon sentences he had May, 1916, for spying on behalf of endured, for his good behaviour and docility in prison, and for his Germany.
Coudoyanis thus described his unusual gift of calling individual sheep by name. His record of ruthless female chief:
record She is an unusually beautiful previous convictions- woman, and extraordinarily Intel-certainly not less terrible for its Manila ligent. She possessed of in-punishment than for its crimes credible energy, and exercises an was placed before me." irresistible influence upon all with whom she' deals.
A table of convictions showed that between 1870 and 1908 there
Sat., May 11. K.P.O. Parcels...May, 10, 4.30 pm. Registration...May, 17, 9 a.m. .10 2.1.
Lettera
G.P.O.
Parcels.......May, 10, 5 pm, Registration May, 11, 9.40 a.m. Lettera.....10.30 a.m. (Due Marseilles 8th June) Pres. McKinley Sat., May 11, 4.80 p.m.
Mon, May 18, .3 p.m. .4.15 pm.
Japan, Canada, *U.S.A,, "C. & "5. America and Europe via Victoria B.C.
Pres, Taft
Not even officers of the highest were nine sentences, including rank, who
were under her fifteen years' penal servitude for authority, ever dared to oppose her burglary; ten years for stealing Shanghal and Europe via Siberia commands. She has been known to watch and chain; seven years for give orders at the revolver's point, barglary; and five years for sten}-
ing £1 68. Cd. "Spying in Her Blood."* "She acts not from self-interest, The burglaries were nut of a but from inclination and passion," he added. "Spying Is in daring or professional character,"
blood."
her
Mr. Churchill commented, "the not armed, the She frequently made motor-car criminal was
wheel, amounts stolen were in all cases The Undersigned have received journeys, herself at the
The convict Instructions to sell, by Public through Holland, whence German very small
agents were sent to England. In throughout his life has been Auetion
Amsterdam and Rotterdam this nuisance, but not a danger ta elegant woman was a well-known society." figure,
on WEDNESDAY, the 8th May, 1929, commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
A Valuable Collection of Curios. comprising:
Porcelain Vases, Bowls, Plates, Flower Pots, Old Bronze Waro, Incense Burners, Lacquer Screens, Tables, Chaira, Boxes, Ivory, Crystal, Amber. Jade and Agate Ornaments, Embroidered Conts and Skirts, Silk Shawls, Black- Wood Joss Tables and Jardinieres, Chinese Hand Iron Pictures, Paintings, etc., 'ele. ·
Catalogues will be issued. Terins:-Cash on Delivery.
On View from Tuesday, the
7th May, 1929.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Never, however, was she alone.
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Parcels
Registration Lotters
(Duo Victoria B.C. Ord June). Prea. Taft
...Mon, May 18,
Registration Letters ...
Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Egypt and Europe via Maraelles
Hoctor
Manila
...5 pain.
.6 p.m.
„Tues., May 14, K. P. O. Registration .....
3 p.m.
G.P.O.
Letters
Registration Letters
.4.15 p.m.
....6 p.m.
(Due Marseilles, 12th June.) Pres. Hayes ...Sat., May 13, 5 p.m.
*Correspondence bearing vessel's name only,
During Good Friday and the "THE RIVER PIRATE." throws In his hand. Before the She was always accompanied by three following days the L.C.C. two herculean men, who were arm-Tramways carried nearly even ed to the teeth.
million passengers.
A. JUMBLE SALE
will be held in the Union Church Hall, Hongkong.
Friday,
on
May 10th,
at 2.30 p.m.
Proce ds towards Home Chariti- s.
GOOD ACTING BY VICTOR MCLAGLEN.
climax is reached, however, there are any number of thrilling in- eldents, admirably leavened with humour. The result is B Alm which fa not unduly overdrawn and which holds attention to the end.
Victor McLaglen is particularly as Sailor Frink; Indeed, has seldom acted better.
"The River Pirate," now show- Ing at the Queen's Theatre, is quite a good picture, well worth seeing. It has to do with life on good the waterfront of a big city and he of the friendship which springa Lols Moran makes a churning up between one of the good-little heroine, whilst Nick Stuart. hearted "toughs" and a lad whojas the honest, love-stricken lad had been wrongfully sent to a given a refreshing performance. reformatory because of a brawl in The other roles are also well which he was made the scapegoat, taken,
In addition, there is a good For a time the lad works with Sailor Frink, the notorious river news reel, Including Major Sa
record-breaking molor pirate, but, because of his love for grave's
as well as a Pathe the chief detective's daughter, who venture, has befriended him, he eventually comedy.
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