THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 26, 1940,
PLAN FOR WANTED TO FIGHT AIR LANCASHIRE'S
WELFARE CORPS
RAIDERS WITH RIFLE
AFTER ESCAPING uninjured when he was
COLOSSAL
blown off a wagon in an air raid, a miner ran to ORDER
where rifles were being given out and cried: “Give me one of those guns. He can't do that to me and be selected to help Britain's work- get away with it."
Welfare officers with the right psychological make-up" are
crs.
tc
They will be given scholarshipsw. Daughtery to the
The story was told by Mr. G、 Minc- to universities such as Birming workers Federation conference at ham and Liverpool, where courses Blackpool to illustrate the fighting in this work have been begun, and will then return to the factor-pirit of the miners. les and workshops.":
A resolution from South Wales
was adopted urging the provision Mr. Ernest Bevin, Minister off air-raid shelters and calling on Labour, outlining the scheme said he miners to support, the L.D.V. Treasury sanctions has not yet and A.R.P. been given, but he is convinced those with the proper flair for the work can be of great value ir making the wheels of industry run smoothly and in increasing produc- tion.
One delegate, Mr. J. Elkes, sald he wanted to see armed guards at the collleries, and added that they had asked for anti-aircraft guns.
Mr. W. J. Sadler, who moved A selection board will choose the South Wales resolution (which the welfare officers from all ranks claimed the democratic adminis- of industry
ration of the A.R.P. and L.D.Y. Mr. Bevin feels there are far organisations), said the difficulty foo many accidents and that wel-they were up against was that the fare officers with a sympathetic L.D.V. was often in the hands of insight into workers' difficulties the gentry. will be able to decrease these.
I want to be armed and dis- in- An enormous number of people ciplined to meet a possible are being moved about the vasion. If we are disciplined we country on war work. and the can stand up to any aggressor," h officers will be able to help
in acided. problems concerning lodgings and Mr. J. Elkes declared that in his district on the south-east coast
billets.
The organisation of proper rest the men had stuck it well. periods în factories and the provi sion of rest rooms-particularly for women and girls-also need attention.
STOPPED WEDDING CHARGE
"I understand Hitler has put off the invasion. Well, I am go: ing back, and if he comes-l don't think he will shall be waiting on the coast for him." Mr. E. Edwards, the secretary, said the war was only a fortnight old when they put it to the owners
LOCAL SHARES
DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS
ETC.
Providents $414 b., $4:55 sa, LANDS, HOTELS & BLOGS. Shanghai Lands Sh.$12.60 b.. Humphreys $7.15 b. H.K. Realties $3.60 s.
PUBLIC UTILITIES H.K. Tramways $16 s.,
sa.
$15.05
Star Ferries $59 b. China Lights (Old) $7 b. China Lights (New) $4 b. H.K. Electrics (Old) $38 H.K. Electrics (New) $38%
$38% sa.
b.
Macao Electrics (Old) $17 s. Macao Electrics (New) $16 s. Telephones (Old) $241⁄2 5. Telephones (New) $10.15 b.
INDUSTRIALS Cements $16 s. H.K. Ropes $5 b.
STORES, &C. Watsons $8.80 b.
MISCELLANEOUS Entertainments $6.60 b. Vibro Piling $8 s, Marsmans. Inv. (H.K.) s/- 3/-
LAST DAY'S SALES 1,000 Providents @ $4.55 100 Hotels @ $3%
100 Trams @ $15.95
An order for 22,000,000 yards of cambrics has come to Lancashire from Java as the result of the
political changes in Hol-
|HONGKONG & SHANGHAI 'BANKING CORPORATION,
i
Authorised Capital Issued and Fully Paid-up Reserve Funds:
Sterling
Hong Kong Currency Re-
serve
.$50,000,000 .$20,000,000
.£ 6,500,000
.$10,000,000
|Reserve Liability of Pro- 2,
prietors
$20,000,000
HEAD OFFICE: Hong Kong.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: H. V. Wilkinson, Esq.. Chairman,
Bon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Deputy Chairman.
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land and the Dutch East. K. Bounfald, Esq., H. B. Morrison, Esq.
A. II. Compton, Esq., T. E. Fearos, Esq., Indies.
Hon. Mr. U, H.
C. C. Roberta, Esq., Dodwell, Hon. Mr. A. L.. G. Miskin, Esq.
Chlalhde Sir. Vandeleur M. Grayburn, Chief Manager.
The total value of the order is £000,000 and it represents one. o: the largest single transactions ever put through by Lancashire firms.' It will be carried out by 40
Amoy firms of manufacturers and 6 Bangkok
Bombay-
large number of spinners of Batavia
The Caloutta
BRANCHES:—
Ipoh Johore
Kowloon
Sobe
Shanghai
Kuala Lumpur Singapore London
Lyon
Bourabaya
Rangoon Selgon
Ban Francis
Maisoom
Bungel Patan!
Maulle
Tientela
Muar (Jchors) Tokyo.
Mukden
Telugtwo
Now York
Yokobama
Pelping
Penang
Swałow
medium American yarns. size of the order exceeds the Canton whole requirements of the United fo b.,Kingdom for 1938, yet it repreDairen.
Isents only .075 of Lancashire': Foochow !"all out" capacity
Haiphong for cottor.
Bankow goods production which coult Harbin indeed dispose of it in two day: follo for three.
The order will be handled by Currency and Fixed Deposits received Current Accounts opened in Local
14,500 workers without inter for one year or shorter periods in Local fering in the slightest with Gov-and other currencies on terms which ernment orders for the fighting will be quoted on application, forces.
All interests concerned in the execution of the order-manufac turers, spinners, bleachers and s.merchants--will be registered a: [the First Export Syndicate under the Cotton Board set up by the Board of Trade.
Negotiations are already in pro. grcss for further Java trade with Lancashire, the chief line:
ALSO up to date SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES in various sizes TO LET.
Hong Kong, 28th February, 1840.
HONG KONG SAVINGS
BANK.
FOR LONDON'S AIR being bleached and printed cloth Rules may be obtained on application
RAID VICTIMS
The Bahamas
and fancies.
AND
The Business of the above Bank la conducted by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. that there should be anti-aircraft
FOR THE HONG KONG guns for every colliery.
SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Midlands Resolutions by the
The 22,000,000, yards of cam-
V. M. GRAYBURN, district in favour of the Govern- ment taking over the coal mining sociation has cabled
Red Cross As-bric are being manufactured fo:
Chief Manager. Just before he was to be wed
between Sep-Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937, industry, and by Lancashire that the Lord Mayor's fund for relief
£1,500 to shipment to Java
tember and December. police interviewed a man at the Government should deal with of London air raid victims, bring- Rugby and he admitted he was the mines on lines similar to those already a married man. Then they that applied to munitions, were £2,000.
ing the total contribution to stopped the "marriage" at the en-remitted to the National Execu-
British Wireless. trance to 'the 'church.
tive,
Later Sidney Sturgeon, forty- five, ward orderly, of Ashcombe
BEEF"
Square, New Malden, Surrey, was “TROOPS TIRED OF charged at Rugby with making a false declaration at St. Andrew's Church, Ham, Surrey, for the purpose of procuring marriage Mr. Simmonds (Con.,) Duddes- with Doris Mabel Chinnock. ton, Birmingham) will ask the Superintendent Wood said Stu Parliamentary Secretary to the geon worked at an institution at Ministry of Food if he is aware Richmond, Surrey, where Miss "that the troops are tired of beef Chinnock, a Rugby woman, was a and the housewives are tired of mutton," and that butchers are The case was adjourned, báil being obliged to sell meat too soon being granted..
after it has been killed,
nurse
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EUROPEAN BITTEN
GAS CURTAINS IN
SHELTERS
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
Authorised Capital ... .$10,000,000.00- Paid-up Capital
5,598,000.00
in-Reserve and Undivided
2,903,201.56
Profits
HEAD OFFICE:-HONG KONG 10, Des Voeux Road, Central.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:-
Local authorities have been Mr. R. P. Nelson, of No. 26, structed to provide gas curtains Cumberland Road, was treated at in all public air raid shelters, ni the Kowloon Hospital yesterday to arrange that they shall br after being bitten by a dog owned available at short notice. Sir by Mr. S. May, of No. 25, Stafford John Anderson, Home Secretary Road. The animal was sent to said this in the House of Com-Hon. Sir Shou-san Chow, Chairman; Mautaukok for observation.
mons recently.
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WOMEN ON DAWN TO-DUSK WATCH
La Koon Chun, Esq., P. K. Kwok, Esq., Wang Yun Tong, Esq., Chan Ching- Shek, Esq., Li Lan Sang, Esq., Wong Chu Son, Esq., Kan Ying Fo, Esq., and:
ung Ping Wah, Esq.
Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chief Manager,
Li Tse Fong, Ey Manager
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-
Manila Melbourne
Imoy
Balavin
Seattle.
Samarang
Shanghai
Calcutta
New York
Singapore
Pari
Sourabaya
Pulping
Swalow
Родов
Sydney
Rangoon
Tlentein
Saigon
San Francisco
Kobo
FROM SUNRISE to nightfall women watch the Stay skies over the Suffolk village of Benhall for para-phong chutists. From nightfall to sunrise the L.D.V. takes Honolulu over. The women have formed their own corps be- Kowloon 'cause they insist on doing their share.
Oldest of the volunteers is near-the day and night. I wish the ly seventy and the youngest is,womenfolk of every other village
would do the same.'
seventeen..
Mrs. A. C. Pepper, farmer's wife, who has organised volun- teers in
one part of the village, THE CHARTERED BANK told a reporter: "Counting out OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA those women who cannot leave their homes because of tiny babies, membership is 100 per Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853. cent.
AND CHINA.
:|Paid-up Capital.
"Children at the village school Reserve Fund have made us white armlets bear-Reserve. Liability of Pro Ing the letters W.O. (Women Ob- servers).:
"Every week we have a meeting} over a cup of tea and work out a seven-day rota.
prietors..
*£3,000,000 £9,000,000
£3.000.000
HEAD OFFICE: LONDOŃ:" 38, Bishopsgate, E.C.244 Sub-Agencies In London: 117/122, Leadenhall Street, E.C.2. West End Branch: 14/16, Cockspur Street, B.W.1.
Manchester Branch::
52, Mosley Street, Manchester, 3..
"Each woman promises to go on duty for an hour at a time when she can do so without interfering! with the running of her houshold. If
AGENCIES AND BRANCHES: there are any last-minute]
Alor Star changes the volunteers work it Amritsar out among themselves.
Dangkok Bateria "There is only one thing we Bombay want now that is binoculars or telescopes."
Husbands Are Proud
Sourabaya
Hankow
Penang
Harblo
Rangoon
Hong Kong
Salgun
Hoila
Ipoh-
Beremban Shartghal
Caloutta
Karachi
Agencies:
Oliva Stroa Robn
** [Lobii,
Fairlie Plate Kuala Lumpur Taiping: Canton
Kuching Cawnpore Madras Manila Medan
Tientsin Tongkab
New York Pelping
..(Douket), Tsingtar Yakobsms
(Teking)
Mrs. Bloss, whose husband is a Colombo special constable, said: "Our hus- Delhi
Haiphong bands are glad to think we are Hamburg doing something and they don't
mind a cold dinner if we have to, FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General be on duty during the morning." Banking Business, transacted. V. Congr
* Mies." Diana Holland, aged CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and]
London
Exchange business transacted,
Every description of Banking and Luana granted on approved securities.
Current Accounts opened in Local Currency and Fixed Deposits received 'or one year or shorter periods in Local and Foreign Currencies on terms which will be quoted on application.
Safe Deposit Boxes To Let
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager,
THE WING ON BANK, LIMITED.
Head Office: Hong Kong. 26, Des Voeux Road, Central. Authorised Capital $10,000,000 LONDON BANKER8: Westminster, Bank, Ltd.
Foreign Exchangé and every description of banking business transacted.
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Current Accounts and Savings Accounts opened. Fixed Deposits received at rates which will be quoted on application.
Safe Deposit Boxes for hire,
PHILIP. GOCKCHIN,
"- Chief - Manager.
JUST RECEIVED.
FRESH SUPPLY
, י'
Best Varieties of”.
Reliable and1 Teated
from Button & Sons, Ltd. In pictorial packets
twenty, who is the chief or LED DEPOSITS received for One Flower & Vegetable Seeds ganiser, said: "We, are practical Year or shorter periods in. Local or Other Currencies at rates which wil women and some of us are crack be quoted on application. shots, But they won't let us SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in carry guns.
Local Currency and Sterling with in-| "The other day when we were terest allowed at rates obtainable on on duty we beat out a fire which application. was threatening a cornfield.",
Mr. E. R. Holland, who is chief of the local L.D.V., sald: "The wo
men are doing a grand job. Telephone 20022
Windsor House.
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Now that they have formed their observer corps it means that la watch is kept övéry; minute of
The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor and Trustee busi Income Tax overpaid, on terms which nesa, and claims recovery, of British
[may, bo ascertained at any of the
Agencies and Eranches. N
B. A. CAMIDGE,
Manager.
GRACA & CO.
Dealers in Garden Seeds; ostage Stamps, Picture books, & No. 10, Wyndham Street, Established 1896. Hong Kong.