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CHINA MAIL, MARCH 31, 1938.
LONDON SHAREHOLDERS OF
ALHAMBRA INDO-CHINA S.N. CO.
COMMENCING TO-DAY
JOE PENNE CENE BAYMOND PARKTAKAKK
VICTOR MOORE
LEN BRODEY
ANN MILLEN
Directed by William A. Seitar » Produced by Edward Kaufman
· MICKEY MOUSE.
LIFE OF THE PARTY
SEX SWELL SONGS LE-A Hatime - of laughg1XX- the romance and glamour and smiling kovalloess: `ruar_lasping heart can stand!
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& DONALD DUCK in "HAWAIIAN HOLIDAY” A Walt Disney Technicolour Cartoon
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20th Century Fox Picture
JANE WITHERS in
"WILD AND WOOLLY"
Britain's Defence Alliance With Portugal
Lisbon, To-day.
The negotiations which the British military mission has been conducting here for four weeks with Portuguese military experts, have been shrouded in secrecy.
PROTEST: NEW SHIPS
THAT THE FLEET OF THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA- TION IS BELOW NORMAL REQUIREMENTS AND THAT EX- PANSION IS ESSENTIAL, WAS STRESSED BY THE HON. MR. J. J. PATERSON, CHAIRMAN, AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THAT COMPANY HELD THIS MORNING IN THE BOARD ROOM OF MESSRS. JARDINE, MATHESON AND COMPANY,
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Mr. Paterson also paid a glow. Without these very gallant actions ing tribute to the floating staff, the result must have been stark whose duties very often carried tragedy..
To complete the review of the Com- them into situations of grave pany's activities, Borneo Exporters danger.
GENERAL SURVEY
continued to restrict the shipment of The Chairman said: Few of us out timber and with sales further limited here to-day will forget the year 1937. by conditions in China our vessels in marked by the regrettable outbreak of this trade did only moderately well fighting between Japan and China in There was a further improvement on July, fighting which still continues. the Calcutta Line though much · had Up to that moment there had been to be spent to bring these ships up a great improvement in trade and to Simis requirements. It was again there seems little doubt that except found necessary to keep up our im- for the trouble mentioned the year portant connections by chartering the would have closed with prospects as ISLAMI for six months. bright as they were in January.
Casualties were heavy during 1937, With the outbreak of war the in-on the 11th March we lost. HOPSANG evitable dislocation of business fol- near Garanti Point on the Southern lowed, later a determination to trade extremity of Formosa, I told you of found new outlets.
this last year, and of course there are the TUCKW✪ and Wubu Hülk In the past the Chairman has dealt ve just referred to Three of the separately with each of our services, Chinese crew of HOPSANG were I am afraid it isn't possible to draw awarded the Royal Humane Society's so definite a line to-day for some have medal, the presentation was made by been suspended and others so merged His Excellency the Governor on the together that I can only give you a 24th February last. general survey of the whole. For the first seven months each line show- ed a satisfactory improvement over eral Managers have to thank
Once again the Directors and Gen- the corresponding periods of the past Floating and Shore Staffs for their mal trading conditions continued we care of the Company's property and should have been very satisfied with the interest they have shewn in the welfare of passengers and cargo which When war came to Shanghai Coasts so appreciated. But our gratitude al trades suffered but it was possible goes further than this. for in these abnormal times the staff has been call- to employ the larger part of OTEK
few years and I believe that had nor--
the final results.
STAFF THANKED
the
coasters in the Southern chartering ed upon to face circumstances not or No communiques have been published on the nego-markets though later a boom across dinarity associated with their daily tations, nor will officials make any comment. the Fear River stopped them from occupations and in all instances their
going up to Canton.
response under exceptionally trying Meanwhile a few of our smaller conditions often dangerous has been No official statement will be forthcoming, it is
vessels kept touch with the most im-courageous and practical.
that stated, until the negotiations yield a positive portant coast ports though you will It is no exaggeration to say
realize how difficult this was. These without the whole hearted co-opera- result.
ships did well
tion of His Majesty's Government and Certain quarters reveal interest- Despite the extensive area covered His Majesty's Navy, it would have ing details of an alleged agreement, by the war at no time did our ships been impossible to have operated our fail to run somewhere on the Coast River and Coastal services. Again and alch, however, must be accepted or Yangisze and it was only for the again both came to our help in those with reserve, since official quarters fortnight immediately following the delicate situations which arise în times refuse to comment.
bombing of the International Settle of stress and on the Yangtze in parti- ment of Shanghai on August 14th that cular. This Company stands greatly we had no ships in and out of that in their debt. port. To avoid the obvious danger
OBJECTION TO JEWISH INFLUX IN-COLONIES
These quarters state that The entrances into the ports of Lisbon and Porto, as well as the Bay of Lagos, are to be fortified.
At Cap Rocha and Cap Espichil, batteries of heavy guns are to be installed
AZORES FORTS
BUND BERTHS
NEW SHIPS NEEDED.
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it was decided to send all the Com- No new tonnage was contracted for pany's vessels except two small river during the year but further steamers steamers in dock to a newly created are badly needed to replace old vessels safety zone outside Woosung.
and maintain important connections, the problem is a very pressing one. As London, To-day.
Later calls at Shanghai were resum-you are aware we have had to char- ed, not however without the Manage-ter. other people's ships to carry Asked in the Commons whe- Construction of fortifications is ment and the Floating Staff having and I don't need to tell you the dis ther the
advantages of this." difficulties. Government would to be begin this year, and fortifica- to overcome innumerable
In December the charters of evolve some scheme to
offer tions on the Azores and Cape Verde Ships were berthed at the Band,
Turning to the Yangtze, in August three Vikens, which the Company has Jewish and other refugees from Islands will also be begun this year. the Chinese Authorities placed a boom been operating for the past seven Austria and similarly placed A military mission is to be ap- of sunken ships across the river near years, expired but as owners wanted European Countries a new home pointed to examine defence of the the Kiangyin Forts and we were left more than we could pay for longer in a suitable possession over-Portuguese colonies of Angola and with river steamers either side of the periods than we could afford to risk, obstruction. With very great enter they were not renewed and we have seas, the Colonial Secretary re-Mozambique.
prise those at Shanghai managed to chartered other ships for short periods. As I said at our last meeting orders
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the
plied that objections to the po- The land frontier between Por- reorganize the pieces and operate the licy of indiscriminate admission tugal and Spain is not to be for- two ends and the middle. Later fur- were placed in 1936 for two coasters of refugees, mentioned by the tifed.
Home Secretary on 22nd March, BRITISH GUARANTEES applied also to the Colonies. Britain assumes guarantees. for inviolability of this frontier, which Owing to climatic conditions and it is said, go far beyond existing the existence of large native popu-guarantees. lations, there was no territory in
able.
You have seen in the Press that the is about to be taken
two
ther barriers were imposed, before of the TAKSANG type and à small they were however it was possible to Upper River Steamer. But for the get some of our ships back to Shang- difficulty in obtaining steel all three hai where they have since been em- would have been in commission by played.
now, as it is the River Steamer LIWO over while
be TUCKWO and th Hulk MADRAS The
coasters should at Wuhu were destroyed by Japanese ready in mid-summer. The construc- The fortifications are to be fim-action, the ship was actually about to tion of all three was as you know the Colonial Empire where any anced by London by a loan not bear tow the imik higher by the Yangisse financed by a loan with the Hong large scale settlement was practicing any interest, and amortisation A claim has beel formulisted, is in Kong and Shanghai Banking Corpora
of which will be begun after ten the hands of His Majesty's Govern-tion, I am glad that during the year
Trans-Ocean.
ment and for the moment this aspect was possible to make substantial of the disaster must be considered as payments towards the reduction of this COMMONS QUESTIONS
subjudice. I do
wa.i to account, though at 31st December a Questioned in the Commons on put on record
efforts of sum of approximately $150,000 - still remained to be financed, to-day it is the British military the Master, the
and the crew
But even with these addi- to Portugal, the Under-Sein trying to
at the £125,000.
tions the Fleet is still below normal greatest for Foreign Affairs said
and expansion is esser milors and ten- tial been far greater-
FUTURE OUTLOOK: conducted them. am going to make no attempt. now beavery thanks and to forecast the future, we to Captain Jw.admit that the immediat
The Governors of number
colonies had recer
as to openings in thei
for individual cases of
Bessing
but
ings wer
that such open- to be few.
In another answer on refugees, the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, referred to the Un States Government's proposal said it was hoped to reply at very early date-British Wireless.
the Mission had only been The Portugal for a little more than boys, might nonth, and was not expected to in an affair
before May, he was not in a admiration are n
selves with
to state the results of the Hurt, OBE., the Admira tx Pilot who certainly not cheerful with
acquired a tug, the GHENYANG, and Japan engaged in
Our deenest sympat took off those on TUCKWO
could, however, say that good was being made in its dia ons with the Portuguese mili
british Wireless.
Ah Yuen, Messroom boy of HMS those who have sur LADYBIRD collected the Chime has re volunteers who mauned the CHEN here in the Far Eas YANG, going on the
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