|HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
|BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorised. Capital
.$50,000,000
Issued and Fully Paid-up ...$20,000,000 Reserva Funds:-
Sterling
Hong Kong Currency Re-
servo
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prictors
.£6,500,000
$10,000,000
$20,000,000
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Hon, Mr. J. J. Paterson, Chairman.
W. H. Lock, Esq., Deputy Chairman,
This was his story. "A U-boat broke surface
a hundred yards. K. Bonfeld, Esq., A. H Compton, Esq., away.
C. J. Davies, Eng..
to starboard as But the U-boat
and a torpedo
G. Miskin, Esq.,
K. 8. Morrison, Esq., Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearse,
Don Mr. B. II. Dodwell. Hon. Mr. A. L. Shielžie, Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn Chief!Manager.
*I went hard quick as I could. was quick, too, struck the ship on the port side.
"We put up a smoke screen, Batavia and Mr. Johrison,
my
AMOY Bangkok chief Bombay engineer, kept his engines at full Calcutta speed, although at one time his Chofoo 'shop' was full of water. Although Colombo
Canton
Dairen
she was listing to port, she was Foonhow trimmed, and brought back on Halphong an even keel."
flanker Harbin Iloilo
BRANCHES-
Bangoon Salgou
Ben Fesnaison Shanghai
ipou Jobors
Kobe Kowloon
Buala Lumpur Blupspore
Bungel Patund
Malacca
Bwacy
Manila
Tientsin
Muar (Johor) Tokyo
Mukden
London
Lyons
New York Poiplog
Peuang
Bourabaya
Tsingtao Yokohama
*13
Last night's London Gazette announced that Captain Rice, of
opened CURRENT ACCOUNTS Holden-way, Upminster, Essex,
FIXED DEPO Local Currency and and Chief Engineer Albert George' SITS received for One Year or shorter Johnson, chief engineer, of Beres-periods in Local and Other Currencies terms which will be quoted on ford Avenue, Bebington, Cheshire, lon are to be additional officers of the application. Order of the British Empire for
most saving "a without the help vessel.
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various valuable ship" sizes To Let.
of any other
Bombed
And here are two more reasons why the King is proud of his sailors:-
A ship commanded by Captain John Joseph Robinson, of Runs- wick Bay, Yorkshire, was raked by machine-gun fire and hit by a whole stick of bombs. She began to go down by the head.
TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR business undertaken.
Hong Kong, 20th February, 1941.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Business of the above Bank is conducted by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Rules may be obtained on application. AND FOR
KONG THE HONG SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chic! Manager, Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937.
Captain Robinson had his right hand torn; all the boats were But he got damaged.
the port lifeboat into the water. Having THE CHARTERED BANK first made sure that no one was
OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA left on board, Captain Robinson. with twenty-seven men, stood by
AND CHINA. waiting calmly for a rescue ship.
Captain Robinson is also made an officer of the Order of the British Empire,
Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853.
Paid-up Capital
John Henry Cook, of St. Andrew Reserve Fund Road, Gorleston-on--Sea, was Reserve Liability of Pro- master of an unarmed lightship
which was bombed and machine- gunned,
avoiding pay by a Norwegian warship on part of the Norwegian station as
near
ment of bus fare last Friday.
Accused boarded a No. 2 bus in Nathan Road,
Boundary Street, and told the conductor that he was a "foki" when asked for the fare.
The conductor insisted on sec- ing his pass. Accused was taken to the police station and charged
AMERICAN SEAMAN
STAYS AWAY Failing to answer a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner by fighting in front of the Blue Peter Cafe in Nathan Road last night, John Burns, 27, fireman had on board a President boat, h's bail of $5 estreated by
Mr. D. J. N. Anderson at Kowloon this morning.
AND
coas..
coast,
been For weeks
a story has
and trickling sweeping Norway through into Sweden that a phan- tom destroyer has been dodging playing round jokes on Naz! garrisons and out- posts, and generally upsetting the Norway's tem- of complacency porary Nazi inasters.
Norway s
the news that the Now comes surprise Easter raid first reported via Stockholm was undertaken by
There were no British losses, and oil depots, a factory and harbour works were destroyed.
"She's Here Again" The first
acts of the landing cut telephone and party were to telegraph lines, and take prison- ers the local leaders of Quisling's party.
The harbour which was raided a Norwegian warship under Nor- is in the same district as Svolvaer, wegian command in agreement the scene of the previous British and Norwegian raid on the Loio- with British naval authorities.
com- the Germans
ten Islands. It took pletely by surprise. according to reports reaching Stockholm from Oslo.
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The Berlin radio admitted that the local fish plant had been set on fire. It added:
"As weather conditions did not permit our bombers to intercept this raider, hunting for dead her- ring, it was able to get away."
One can guess at the conster- nation among the Nazi officers garrisoned on this part of the Norwegian cuast.
Lately some of them have found neatly-folded two-day. old copies of London newspapers alongalde
breakfast anusages, a
their
How did they get there? No Norwegian seained, to know-
But the whisper went round the coastline. It's our destroyer Sleipner. She's here again.'
Ran Gauntlet
Tales are being told in the Northern countries of how she has been turning the Nazl gauntlet to reach her own coastline, mining the entrances to hidden bays, de- stroying lonely outposts and cap- turing German small craft
There is no news so far about which warship was engaged in th's Easter raid."
But in Norway they'll be saying she was the phantom Sleipner, whose daring cheers up, thuse Norwegians, awaiting Überatt. from the aggressors.
A third of his crew was out of action, but Cook kept his ship on a good sea-mark, and "showed great courage and devo- tion to
duty." He receives medal
Civil of the the Division, O.B.E.
LOCAL SHARES
BANKS
Hong Kong Bank $1360 b., $1305
sa.
Bank of East Asia $72 b.
INSURANCES Canton Ins. $225 b. Union Ins. $395 sa, H.K. Fire Ins. $185 b.
SHIPPING Indo-Chinas (Pref.) $80 b. Indo-Chinas (Def.) $65 b. DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS,
ETC.
HK. and K. Wharves $90 b. H.K. Docks $15 b., $15.90 s. Providents $5.80 b., $5.85 s.,
$534/80 sa. LANDS, HOTEL & BLOGS. H.K, and S. Hotels $3.30
$3,32% sa,
H.K. Lands $34.60 b., $34.00
$342/60 sa.
b.,
prietors
£3,000,000 £3,000,000
£3,000,000
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON; 38, Bishopsgate, E.C:2. 117/122, Leadenhall Street, E.C.2. West End Branch: 14/18, Cockapur Street, S.W.1. Manchester Branch: ba, Mosley Street, Manchester, a
AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:
Alor Star Amritsar
Bangkok Baturin Bornbay
Calcutta
Agencies:
Hankow Ilong Kong
Iloilo Ipoh
Karachi Klang Kobe
Permang Rangoon Balgou Seremban
Shangha Blogsphem Bitineran
HEL
Taiping Tientsia Tongkab
(libuke:) Telugtao
Olive Street Kuala Lumpur Surabaya Fairlin Place Kuching Canton Onwupore Cebu Colombo Daiki
Haighing
Madras Manila Medan New York Palpit
(Poking)
་
Yokons
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business tranèacted. See CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One
Year or shorter periods in Local of
Other Currencies at rates which will be quoted on application.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened m Local Currency and Sterling with in- terest allowed at: rates obtainable on application,
The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor and Trustée busie : neas, and claims recovery of Britain
s., Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of the. Agencies and Branches.
H.K. Realties $3.20 b.. Chinese Estates $100 b.
"A PÚBLIC“”“ UTILITIESVIL HK Tramways $17.10 ba $17-
15 sa..
Star Ferries' $534. 6. China Lights (Old) $5.90 big HK Electrics (Old) Ex. Rts. 4. $22.40 b.
HK Electrics (New) $2134 sa: HK. Electrics Rights $11 sa. Macao Electrics $184 b Telephones (Old) X.D. $221⁄4” b. Telephones (New) X.D: $8.00
INDUSTRIALS Cements $141⁄2 b... $15 s. H.K. Ropes $8.15 b.. BASE STOREB, &C. Dairy Farms $181⁄2 b.. Watsons $10.05 b. SIL 9, $10%
PIELAST DAY'S SALES 7.H.K, Banks @ $1305 160 Union Ins. @ $395. 500 Providents @ $54 500 Providents @ $5.80) 500 Hotels @ $3.324 300 Lands @ $341⁄2•* 100, Lands @ $34.00 200 Trams @ $17.15. 19. Lights: (Old).@ $5,85 50 Electrics (New) @ $21 200 Electrics Rts. @$11.
W. H. `EVANS THOMAS,
Manager..
THE WING ON BANK, LIMITED.
Head Office: Hong Kong. 28, Des Voeux Road, Centrali 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,
Chief Manager
The China Mail
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