THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 11, 1941.
DOCK DIVIDEND
Subject to final Audit the Direc- tors of the Hong Kong and Wham- pea Dock Co., Ltd. will recom- mend to Shareholders at the forth- coming Ordinary Yearly Meeting the following allocation amount at credit of Profit and Loss Account at 31st December. 1940, viz-Pay a Dividend @ 6% p.a. on 355,110 old shares $213,-
of the
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Woman's Will UNUSUAL Power Saves SHORT
Family
MOTHER, DAUGHTER and son, trapped in the basement of their bomb-wrecked home, were saved after rescue squads had tunnelled under four houses.
068.00: Pay Bonus thereon of 5% $177,555.00; Pay Dividend 0 6% p.a. for half year on 116,866 new shares $35,059.80; Pay Bonus thereon of 5% pa. for half yeared
$29,216.50; Place to Reserve $750,-
000.00, Pay a Bonus to Stan $70,- 600.00; and carry forward to next year about $200,000.00.
PROFIT-TAKING ON STOCK MARKET
But they were only freed because a sister insist- that they were in the basement. Officials had believed that no one was under the wreckage.
She did not know that it was
One of the most unusual of short subjects to come from Hol- lywood for some time is Warner Bros. "Cavalcade of Academy Awards," which will be shown at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres to-day.
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Every star who ever won an Academy Award is in it, and the mammoth parade starts as far back as 1928 when Jeanette Gay. nor won the first "Oscar" with her performance in "Seventh Heaven."
After the house was hit Mrs. A.】 Irene, with a tiny bottle of scent Beale almost wept for joy as she she found in her handbag, bathed heard the sound of shovels and the foreheads of her mother and Brief fashes of famous box of picks striking wreckage.
little brother to soothe them. fice performances follow with But outside, by a miracle, the each succeeding year, and the a demolition squad at work.sister of Mrs. Beale, who had story is grippingly told by "Oscar" unaware that anyone was trap heard of the damage, was telling himself; a role taken by Holly-
the demolition squad that she was wood's famous certain that her sister and, chil-Carey Wilson. dren were among the wreckage.
For a me no one believed her, the area had been officially
pleaded with them.
ped in the vicinity.
"No One Here"
Then the sound of someone mov
Interest on the London Stock Exchange yesterday was mainly centred on gilt-edged securities in ing overhead reached the three ne- | evacuated, but they woman had which further rises were register-cupants of the dark. dust-filled
ed though a little profit-taking room. fractionally reduced early gains India stocks made further head- way on good buying. hut
where business
small limit: zues. Chech
else-
was confined to Among foreign is- Brad Austrian loans were slightly higher Wall Street Was dull. Reuter.
UNIVERSITY ARTS PLAYS
The Hong Kong University Arts Association are
presenting G. B. Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion," preceded by a short Chinese play in English, "The Horsedealer's Story," on Saturday March 22. at 8.45
in the p.m.
University Great Hall, A special perfor- mance for schools will be given on Friday, the 21st at 7 p.m. The proceeds from both performances will be given to the Medical Relief Fund.
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To their horror the family heard a voice faintly in the dis- tance say, "It's all right, there's
ong here: they
were all evacuated before the raid." The frantie mother
her and daughter, aged seventeen, shouted for help but their Cries were not heard
Mr. Beale, the husband, had left the shelter for a few minutes be- fore the bomb fell, but has since heen reported missing,
The captain of the squad gave the order and the rescue workers began to tunnel through four houses to get to the basement. To their amazement they found the family exhausted and suffering from shock, but still alive.