HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorised · Capital
$50,000,000
Issued and Fully Paid-up ...$20,000,000 Reserve Funds: Sterling ......
Hong Kong Currency Re-
serva ... Reserve Liability of Pro-
'prietors
...2 1,500,000
.$10,000,000
$20,000,00
HEAD OFFICE? HONG KONG.
-BOARD OF DIRECTORSI
Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Chairman.
W. H. Lock, Esq.,
Deputy Chairman.
J. K. Bousfield, Esq.
G. Miskin, Esq.,.
A. 11. Complon, Esq.,K. 8. Morrison, Esq. L. J. Davies, Es... Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearse, Hon. Mr. 8. H.Dodwak:Hon. Mr. A. L, Shieldə, Sir. Vandeleur M. Grayburn Chiet Manager.
BRANCHES:-
Ipoh Jokóre
Ποπίσσα
Marcon Gaigon
San Francisos Shanghal
Kuala Lumpur Singapore
Bourabaya
Jungel Patanl
Amoy
Bangkok
BALATIA
Robe
Bombay
Caloutta
Canton
London
Obofoo
Lyona
Colombo
Malecon
Dairen
Manila
Foochow
Muar (Johore) Tokyo
Baiphong
Mukden
Telagtao
Now York
Yokohama
Peiping
Penang
Haskow flazbin
Tollo
Bwałow
Tientsia
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened in Local Currency and FIXED DEPO- SITS received for One Year or shorter periods Local and Other Currencies. terms which will be quoted application.
on
on
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various sizes To Let,
TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR business
undertaken
Hong Kong, 26th February, 1941.
The London Stock Exchange maintained fairly steady dertone yesterday but operators were cautious awaiting "Balkan developments. Business was main- ly centred on gilt-edged and Indian issues, which were firmly HONG KONG SAVINGS
BANK.
AND
held. Industrials were quiet. Steels were firmer and tobaccos and breweries easier. Kamfirs The Business of the above Bank is Libya had been increasing her crop yield at an astonishing rate. occasionally were easier but oils conducted by the HONG KONG AND Cereal and wine production, for rallied after an early decline. For- SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Rules may be obtained on application.
FOR instance, has been doubled in aeign issues tended to be slightly
THE HONG KONG few years, Wool, hides and skins, lower but Egyptian were half
SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
V. M. GRAYBURN, tuna fish and olive oil were being point higher-Reuter.
Chief Managar, exported in large quantities to
Hong Kong, 1st March, 1837, Italy. These are now being miss- ed, but at least Italians can say that nothing vital comes from
THE BANK OF EAST their empire.
ASIA, LTD.
Italian leaders still insist that those days will come true. It is only necessary for the Axis to win, they say, and the nightmare of British imperial trcops in Italian
If the worst comes to the worst. imperial domains will vanish for they feel sure that they could lose ever. Meanwhile, it is a hard and Albania, Libya, the Aegean' is- bitter struggle. Instead of expand-lands and East Africa and still be ing, the empire is, at the moment, victorious in the war. shrinking under the hammer blows of the enemy. Problems of strategical dangers and economic losses, however temperary, have to be studied.
Strategical Needs
SUICIDE USED HIS COLONEL'S REVOLVER
THE TURNING POINT IN CONVALESCENCE
Authorised Capital
Reserve and Undivided
When the crisis is past in illness recovery may still be a long way Paid-up Capital off. The real turning point for Profits the better comes when the patient begins to fill out and pick up noticeably from day to day.
"
.$10,000,000.00"
5,598,600,00
2,083,201.60
HEAD OFFICE:-HONG KONG 19, Des Voeux Road, Central..
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:~~ The decisive factor in that quick Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman; recovery is good food. When Li Koon Chun, Esq., P. K. Kwok, Esq. patients cannot take solid meals Wong Yun Tong, Esq., Chan Ching and have a disinclination for most Shek, Esq.. Li Lan Sang, Esq., Wong kinds of food, doctors give them Chu Son, Esq, and Fung Ping Wah.
Esq. Horlicks. Horlicks is so light, that
Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chief Manager, the most delicate stomach can as¬
Hon. Mr. Li Tse Fong, Manager,
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-
Manila Melbourne
Amoy Batavia
most finicky appetite responds to it. It is a complete food in itself, balanced, highly nutritious, full of the elements that the wasted body Bombay needs to restore shattered nerves Calcutta and build healthy tissues.
When the Fescisti said that Italy needed an empire, they were
Using his master's revolver, the speaking in terms of strategy and economy as well as prestige and batman to an Artillery colonel shot glory. Italy's position in the Medi-himself at a South-East Coast similate-it-so-delicious that the terranean is notoriously exposed, town, it was disclosed at the in- and it was as much to protect her quest. Adriatic coastline as for anything
Colonel C. W. Raw said his bat- else, it is held, that she stepped
Gunner Edward William across the sea to Albania. In that man way the gate to the Adriatic was Kelly, aged 52-had facial paraly securely locked and the key held sis through being kicked by
Keep Horlicks in the house al- Robe by Italy. The Greeks now think mule in Egypt some years ago. that they are threatening-to-breakThis had been aggravated be a ways. __Yon_can_get_it_to-day at down that door. Italians think blow on the jaw in the black-out. your store. otherwise. But the fact remains that in striking, at Albania the Italians' enemy is aiming at a good batman. vital spot in Italy's armour.
:
Libya, too, plays an important role in Italian Mediterranean pol- icy. Every move westward that the British make brings them nearer to Italy herself. The Italians are certain that the British are not going to get into the western part Here is one list quoted by Reu- of Libya, which is the really im- ter: Miss Cresswell (Rome), Mr. portant part from the viewpoint and Mrs. Reid (Naples), Mrs. of war strategy, but they know Waring (Rome), Miss Ercatt
that they must soon hold, fast, (Rome), Miss Robison (Rome), Major and Mrs. Barn and their son Adrian (Rome), and Mr Mrs. and Miss Adams (Florence),
Almost every Rome broadcast over the week-end has mentioned the morale of the Italian people In foreign broadcasts the assur ance has been given that Italy is not breaking down under the strain, but Italian broadcasts ap- peal to the people to keep up their spirits,
Rome radio said Federal secre- taries of all Italy reported to the secretary of the Fascist Party that the fighting spirit of the people was high.
EXPORT CONTROL PROSECUTION
a
Kelly was an extraordinarily
(5)
Having previously complained of sleeplessness, Kelly had just THE CHARTERED BANK
news that his wife received was ill.
Verdict: Suicide, while of un- balanced mind.
RICE EXPORT ALLEGATION
OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853..
Pald-up Capital Reserve Fund Reserve Liability, Pro-
prietors...
£3,000,000 £3,000,000.
£3,000,000
HEAD OFFICE: LONDONI 38, Bishopsgate, E.C.2. Sub-Agencies in London: 117/122, Leadenhall Street, E.C.1 West End Branchi
14/16. Cockspur Street, S.W.L
Manchester Evanchi.
52, Mosley Street, Manchester,."
So far as the mother country is concerned, neither the Aegean is- Appearing on a $500 bail for lands. nor East Africa, huge as it moving 93 bags of rice from Hong is, plays a vital strategic role. The Kong to Kowloon without a per- Aegean islands are now surround-mit from the Food Controller yes- ed by hostile Greek islands, by terday, Tam Shu, 36, master of the British fleet, centred on Crete, junk No. 1329, was remanded for and by an unfriendly Turkish 24 hours by Major A..N. Macfad-Aloe Star mainland. But British domination
yen at Kowloon this morning..
Amritaar.
Bangko
of the Eastern Mediterranean has never been in question and Italy. Inspector Cunningham will con- Bombay can do without the wine and rice duct the prosecution, while Mr. C. Cal and tobacco and wool that have to Y. 'Kwan will appear for the de- come from Rhodes and the other fence.. islands..
In the same way, Ethiopia, Was automatically detachod. from the metropole the minuto the war started. She could be. reachad only through the Buòz, Canal and through the Strait:of Gibraltar and around the whole of "Africa. But Britain controlled, both gateways.
SHE-KO
FOR SORES
AGENCIES AND
Hankow
Рододе
Balgon Hong Annx · · Rantoon Spok
Berstuben Karaohs
Bhanghai Singapore Hlang Agencies i Kobe
Rit Olive Bireet Kunis Launspus. Soŭrabaja
Madrus ***
BRANCHESI
Now Peiping
(Peking)
: Yakobame
· Pairlia Pince Kushing Canton Сенорого
Colorato Delhi Haiphong Hamburg-
1. FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General
Banking Businessïtransacted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS, opened and
· FIXIED" -DEPOSITS received for One Eczema, itch, cold sores, pim-year or shorter periodam fecal or ples, ulcers, boils, piles, and other Other Currencies at rates which win A fine of $100 was imposed on
Exports Bv Colonies
skin allments, all respond favou be quoted-on-application Chan Ying, 27, master of junk No.
ably to the healing excellence of SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with in 700Y, by Major A. N. Macfadyen From the viewpoint of present She-Ko, the aromatic ointmen tereat allowed, at rates, obtainable on at Kowloon this morning for pos economic supplies East Africa is of the Dr. Williams Medicine Com-application. Session of 10 bags of soya beans not extremely important to Italy, pany. Also for minor injuries such und two bags of ground-nuts at Inact Aull this colonies put to 16 fullscratches, abrasions, burns,
She Ko is rapidly curat the Yaumat Typhoon Shelter, yes, gother in 1939 (the last time full scalar, She terday, for the purpose of export-annual statistics were issued), ex- It is sold by chemists eve ing them from the Colony with ported only 208,000,000 Ilre worth
Antiseptic Curative. out a permit from the Food Con- of goods to Italy. Ethiopia had. troller
great potential resources and that
Seattle
Samaran
Haiphog Hankow Hoacials.
Kowloom
Magazaki New York Paris
Bbanghai
1
Singapore Bourabaya
Pelping
Bwatow
Penang
Sydney
Rangoon
Baigon
Vancou
London
Ban Francisco,
Tientals
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. Loan granted on approved, secrrilles.
Current Accounts opened in Local Currency and Fixed Deposlis received for 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,
1
Chief Manager.
the wing on BANK, LIMITED.
Head Office:. Hong Kong. 26, Des Voeux Road, Central. Authorised Capital $10,000,000
"LONDON BANKERS
Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every description of banking business transacted.
Current Accounts and. Savings Accounts opened Fixed Deposits received at rates which will be quoted on application..
Safe Deposit Boxes for hire...
PHILIP GOCKCHIN,
sky Chief Manager.
RICTORIAL HONG KONG
POSTAGE STAMPS, In commemoration of the
Centenary Of The Colony
Used on
FIRST DAY COVERS With views of Hong Kong in 1841 and 1941. -obtainable s
GRACA & CO
The Bank's Head Office in London Dealers in Postage Stamps Ga undertakes Executor and Truster bual den Seeds, Picture Books,
No. Wyndham:- Strast. Income Tax overpaid, on terins, which may be ascertained at any of the Amician and Brancheli
DRUG WEHA EVANS THOMAS,
Manager.
CHONG KONG,
stablished 1898.