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The dinner amped at the suggestion of the Choilleial Executive Members
Commeil and Legislative Coa eit to afford the community an a tribute apportunity to my
to is Excellemey the Governor. Sir Mark Young, CRM.G., 'and Lady Voting in view of their impending departure from the
Tat Lis Colony will be Hengkeng Hotel ver Veinedne 7th. May 1947 at 8.
It will be led that the din ner is open to both ladies and gentlemen.
"Any member of the munity who desires to attend should apply to any one of the or before Mon following ol day, 28th April 1917:
BY ORDER
Of The Director of Disposals Far Eastern "Aren
(M.0.S.)
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Passes and Tender Forms may be obtained from The Hon. Mr. A. Morse, C.B.E.; the British Stores Disposal Board, Headquarters
Land Fervis Victoria Barracks (Entrance 50 yards west of Queen's Real Entrance to Harracks).
Hongkong & Shangkat
Banking Corparation,
The Hos. Dr. S. N. Chau.
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THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
Notice is hereby given that the Forty-fifth Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the members of this; Company will be hell at thei Office
Jardine,! of Messra.
. Matheson & Co. Ltd., on Monday! the 28th day of April, 1947, al Nuon, to reveive the Report of! the Board of Directors and Statement of Areunts for the
year
the Board of Directors,
5. Tenders must be deposited with the Board in sealed packets and marked "Tender No. 12" and addressed to the Chairman.
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Closing date for Tenders1-12 10pm, Wednesday, 23rd
April, 1947.
7.
The Chairman of the British Stores Disposal Board long la does not bind himself to accept the highest or any Tender,
WALTER M. WEINBERGER,
Chairman,
British Stores Disposal Bourd, Hong Kong.
THE HONGKONG
& CANTON ICE
MANUFACTURING
CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE
CHINA LIGHT & POWER COMPANY, LIMITED. REDUCTION OF CHARGES.
The charges for current will Yearly be reduced as from the 1st May,
1947:-
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1947.
DON JUAN
WILL BROOK NO
FRANCO "CONDITIONS"
London, Apr. 13.
The claimant to the Spanish throne, Don Juan, has made it clear that he will accept only “uncon- ditional transfer of authority" from" "General Franco, that he would rule as a constitutional monarchy and that equal rights would be restored those “unjustly debarred from public Itte."
In an exclusive interview with the Spanish affairs special correspondent of the Observer, pub- lished today, Don Juan pledges himself, in the event of his accession, to a policy of internal conciliation and liberation. equality before law, religious toleration and regional decen- tralisation, short of separatism.
Don Juan anid: "I do not seek arch or that of a dietator, Jain, the position of an absolute mon-
HARBOUR DEPARTMENT
NOTICE
tive.
3
wili
D.B.S.T.
London, Apr. 14. Double mummer time-two
ahead of standard Greenwich Mean Time-cont into-effect~~~throughout--the- United Kindon Sunday res cept in the Orkney Islands.
The country. reverts kommer time--one hour ahead of G.M.T. 2114 Aug. 10 Associated Presa.
to
Cargo Ships Immobilised
NO Flood
Damage Repairs
Wellington
Crashes In Watford.co
London, Apr. 14. An oxygen bottle hur- tled like a bomb through a bungalow roof as a
Hull, Apr, 13. The first of two Dutch floating cranes," which arrived at Hull from Amsterdam-to-repair-the- breach in the bank of the river Trent at Mor- ton, Lincolnshire, today had its huge jib erected in the Victoria Docks.
The jib had been dismantle Royal Air Force Wel- for the journey across the North Sen. Two ifts by the great dock- lington bomber crashed side crane were necessary before in a street in Watford, it was lifted into position and the
securing bolte rammed home, Hertfordshire, early Jan Derker, of Amsterdam,, Sunday,
skipper of the pontoon, helped with the sealing of the Walcheren dykes, which were blown during the war. Jie did not anticipate that the Morton gap would be dieult to close. The whole
the
16
as ever, ready to pave the way! for peaceful, complete and uncon- |ditionat transfer of authority."
In answer
to the question as hows the democracies could best facilitate a change of regime in Spain, Don Juan said:
"As a
The pilot
was killed in Spaniard above everything.
crash. Two other crew members could brook no foreign interfer-
Glsagow, Apr. 13. off cher in the internal affairs
parachuted to safety,
The oxygen Spain,
bottle ripped Seventy ships-twelve It is hereby notified that
two-footed hole in the bungalow With every sincerity. I can
ponteen-looking sealed tenders in triplicate which way that the polity followed by of which have cargoes of roof, thudding into the bedroom like a huge barge's 800 are immobilised or the owners, and other houses tons, of which the crane, weigh- should be marked "Tender for the powers in the Spanish east food
tons, can
up to 12 the purchase of the wreck of has been neliker wise nor effer here owing to a strike by were damnged by falling parts ing 100 tons the Japanese Yacht name
Paramount Duty
Glasgow dock labourers. of the plane, but no civilians were long at each lift. Work continued hurt.
today on the unknown", will he received at;
"The Spanish monarchy
They stopped werk three weeks the Harbour Offee until nươn
Possible cause of the crash and newly opened brenek in the River Wash, Welland bank ni Cowbit recognise the nalitical and social ago because the Ministry of other details were withheld by Crowland, where flood water on Friday, 2nd May, 1947.
rights of all Spaniards without bour had dismissed 500 dockers the Air Ministry but witnesses
on Friday swept away five of this distinction of class and will uns being redundant. The Minis said that the bomber appeared to
buffal tanks forming bar- hold these rights in a way which (trý has relused to adopt the re-disintegrate in the air. could challenge
riende. comparison with commendation by the Glasgow
The Press Association said that that of
the most
Troops of the Northern Com- progressive Pert Regional Director and mem- the pilot was believed to have mand were standing by with ad- countries.
bers of the Union that an inquiry been a Pole:
ditional Army tanks to form "I would certainly welcome on
on the points at issue be held.
Another R.A.F. plane crush reserve barrier when the breacli Defalls of her present con- agreement among the different
The dockers were so confident landed in
fog on a farm near is scaled again. It was hoped that dition are available on appllen- political forces providing for
that the Ministry would hold the Little Drifleld, Yorkshire. One of pile-driving would be
started political
with the aid of tion to the Salvage Allviser, peaceful and fruitful
Inquiry that plans for a return to
either tonight, evolution in Spain.
the crew of four was injured searchlights, or tomorrow morn- Harbour Office.
work had been made, should have dawned on
Associated Press. a long time ago. However, A Ministry of Labour spokes. Tenderers must deposit at the era of true peace has not yet man said today: "The Ministry the Treasury, Prince's Building, come nor will it come as Inn A the
31,000. (One Spaniards are not offered the op- and the offer of the negotiating dancy cannot be num of thousand dollars), which sum
portunity to bury their mutual focilities of the department is Reuter. haireds and feuds. shall be forfeited to the Hong
"This, to my mind, is the mon- Kong Government if the success archy's paramount duty and pur- ful tenderer falls to complete 70*c."Reuter. the transaction. The deposit will be returned to unsuccessful tenderers..
includes The wreck, which two boilers, will be solt as she lies in feci of water at Kum Tong, Kowloon Bag
The sucessful tenderers W}} be required to pay the purchase money to the Treasury within
acceptance of their tender.
18 burs of being advised of the
Government does not bind it- self to accept the highest or any tender.
Irreconsilable
4
»
Madrid, Apr. 13. The insistence of Don Juan, claimant to the Spanish throne,
in an interview this weekend that is bly prepared to accept an- conditional transfer
of
in political circles here as preted meaning that the twe will eon- tinue to be as irreconcilable as they were before General France's bill to nominate A1 inember of the Royal family as his successor.
still open but the question of
ing.-Router.
14
is in touch with the Union side whether or not there is redun- U.S. Loan For
reopened."
Berlin Threatened By General Strike
Berlin, Apr. 13.
frush General Franco was inter- The Berlin City, Administration faces tonight a crisis, in which the civil head refuse to resign in spite of an over-whelming parliamentary vote of "no confidence" in him and his "cabi- net" and the threat of a general strike which tomorrow way bring out half a million workers in a ten-minute protest against the de-Nazi- fication of the former war plant director, Dr. Otto Ostrowski.
"The waters have returned in J. JOLLY,
their old level," an official spokes- Harbour Master.man said. "We are not prepared to bundy worda with Estoril" Portuguese resort where Don Juan is living.)
Hongkong, 14th April, 1947.
HARBOUR DEPARTMENT
Sale of Ministry of Transport Vessel Tenders are invited for the purchase, as she lies, of the self propelled lighter V.I.C. 40.
The veteran Scelal-Democrat issued by the Berlin Free Trade
Lord Mayor wus defeated last Fri- Union Federation at the request day on a motion introduced by 'of 100,000 metal workers, which
once
Left Wing observers here were his own party, which won a ma- are angered by the de-Nazification particularly interested in Don Juan's insistence in the interview Jority in the city elections last and re-instatement of Dr. Van
Witzleben, director of the on the hereditary character of his October. elain to the throne,
After the vote, the "cabinet" | vast Siemens concern. Mort Leftist
Kroups
Dr. Witzleben's case has been inside presented a written request for Spain do not admit that Don Juan his resignation. He refused to go the basis of persistent criticism of has any right to claim the throne because the City constitution re-itish da.Nazilention polley in until a plebiscite held under quires a two-thirds majority of the Soviet-licensed German prers, neutral Government has decide all members cf such resolutions. and he appeared before two com whether Spain is to be a repubile The motion was carried by 85 missions in the British sector of
for a klugdom--Reuter,
Lighting:-- from 71.28 cents in triplicate to the Harbour "Welcome".
In respect of lighting and power supplies in the New Ter- ritories. proportionate reduc» | tions will be made and the new
Tenders should be submitted
Omee, Hong Kong, before noon on Friday-April 25, 1947.
Particulars:-
Length Breadth
Depth
70' 4"
18' 6" 9' 6"
·
Document
Oxford, Apr. 13. Dr. Salvador 'de Madariaga, former permanent representative
votes to 20, but there are 130 the city before his final clearance. members, which means that a Reuter. two-thirds majority requires 87 supporters,
His own party has now writ ten Dr. Ostrowski asking him to resign.
The Social Democrat leader, Dr. Kurt Schumancher, en- deavoured to mediate between the rival factions, whose split is crisis in producing a first-class
Norway
to
London, Apr, 13. When he innded at Northolt (London) airport today, the United States · Ambassador Oslo, Mr. George Bay, said that .. negotiations for x private American loan of $100,000,000 to Norway are now in hand. Mr. Bay is on his way to the United States.
"Norway badly needs dollars and we intend to nasist them in every way," he said, "They are cutting down imports on
xury 100ind concentrating.
blaiting collars to build up heir merchant fleet. 1 shall do all in my power to help the on through."--Neuter.
1
PORTUGUESE ESCUDO
and
Paris, Apr. 12. The new exchange rate on the Portuguese escudo was official fix- ed at 474.70 francs buyers 181.70 francs sellers for 100 c cudos. the official French Journal announced today."
The old rato was 477 and 493 franco per 100 escudos-Reuter.
Nazi Confidence In Laval Misplaced?
December. Notice I hereby given that the| ended st 1946, to elect Directors and to twentieth Ordinary appoint Auditors.
Meeting of the Shareholders in Notice is also given that the the Company will be held at the Offlees of the General Managers. Transfer Books of the Com-
to G4 cents per unit Mezzanine Floor, Windsor pany will be closed Tran the
House, on Tuesday, 15th April
Power
from 27.72 cenfs- 15th. April, 15-17, to the 29th 1947 at 11.30 am, for the pur- to 25 eens per unit April, 1947, both days inclusive,
pose of confirming the appoint- ment of the Board of Directors By Order of
and receiving their Report and Statements of Accounts for the
of the Spanish Government at the the party's Berlin organisation, year ending Bist July 1941, and
The vessel is at present im- League of Nations, said today but he, too, ls known to oppose that the statement on his alms Dr. Ostrowski's policy of coopera- the periods 1st August, rates will be charged for cur, mobilised due to lack of spares. for 1941 to 31st December, 1941 rent consumed during the Permission to view may be obby Don Juan, Spanish Pretender, tion with the Communist-led. So- and 1st October, 1945 to 81st month of May, 1947:
tained on application to the should "put an end to the hesita ialist Unity Party. July, 1946 and
re-elect to
Commissioner of the Dockyard, tions of those both in Spain and Bulk supply consumers are Royal Naval Dockyard, Hong the wisdom
cut of Spain who, while realising Directors and Auditors.
a monarchial solu- being notified direct of the de. Kong. By Order of the
tion, were affecting their Agree-
nevertheless reserved
The paper, made available by Another passage sold Laval told. Board of Directors.
because they feared a monarchy Juan would be constitutional and ments with this Company for
The successful tender will be would bring reaction la ita train open to free progress on liberal usually reliable sources, is dated a Vichy cabinet meeting he op. the supply of current.
required to pay the purchase
Aug. 9, 1943, and signed with the posed "at any price sending, a Sener Madarlags added: "This principles. money to the Harbour OBce is an excellent and welcome docu-
of Fritz Sauckel, "It is to be remembered that nome
Nazi single now.
French worker. within 48 hours of being ad- ment from Don Juan. It shows the chief need of the moment for hanged at Nuernberg The paper, sage, apparently alluded to by the slave labour recruiter who was Germany at any cost.". The pas- vised of the acceptance of the that nothing should be feared a solution to the Spanish question
at the 'de Drinun about reaction from the monarchy. Is not to replace the victors of represented as a report to Hitler, prosecution
LVES communicated to the Ver- trial, Buld do Erinon reported Franco has realized for a long the civil war by the vanquished.
C. E. TERRY, Manager & Secretary.
Hong Kong. 8th April, 1947
سمجھ.
VEHICULAR FERRY SERVICE
On and after the 13th April, 1947, the Vehlcular, Ferry Ser- vice will be operated as follows:
LEAVING HONGKONG
From 6.20 am. up to 9.40) p.m. Every 10 minutes
LEAVING JORDAN ROAD
From 6.40 am. up to 10.00 P.m. Every 40 minutes
THE HONGKONG & YAUMATI FERRY CO., LTD.,, Hongkong, 12th April, 1917.
Service Auction Rooms
Aactioneers, Burveyors, etc. Basement, French Bank Bldg.
A.E.B. do Socan, Auctioneer. Telephone 31867.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers, Surveyors and Appraisers. Peddor Building. Telephone. No. 20224;
Chinese Optical Co.
OPTICIAN .67 QUEENSTMROAD'C ̃§'
J. D. THOMSON
Secretary,
Hong Kong, 31st March, 1947.
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB
crease
By Order of the Board of Directors,
P. W. A. Wood, Secretary & Chief Accountant.
Hongkong, 12th April, 1947.
NOTICE.
tender...
A general strike call has been
Paris, Apr. 14. Pierre Laval, the Vichy chief executed after the llberation, was accused by his German mas- ters of "sabotage of Germany's fight for life against Bolshevism" in a charge communicat- ed to Adolf Hitler, according to a document dis- closed here.
to
The Ministry of Transport time that the danger for him camo Juan has to try to find a political Ferrand de Brinon, Vichy col- "Ambassador
Railles Court that sentenced Loval's works to Krug von Nidda,
does not bind Itself to accept not from Republicans, but from solution, which is midway belaborationist, to death two weeks Vichy." the highest or any tender. monarchists. The statement tween victors and vanquished."-----
makes the point clearly that Don Reuter.
J. JOLLY, Harbour Master.
Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Fifth Extra Race Meeting be held on Saturday, There is reason 26th April 1947 (weather per- that United States and Canadian mitting) may be obtained at the Dollars and Philippine Peson Secretary's Office. Exchange are being sent out of the Colony Building; the Club House, without a permit by post or Happy Valley; and the Stables, other means. Any such practico: Shan Kwang Road,
EXCHANGE CONTROL Hongkong, 11th April, 1947.
to bellavo
By Order,
C. B. Brown Secretary,
NOTICE TO MARINERS No. 8 of 1947
Hong Kong Harbour. constitutes an offence agalast Removal of Obstruction. the Defence (Finance) Ro-
D.B.S.T. Don't Mean A Thing To Hens
Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Apr. 13. Crofters and all country folk in the Orkney Islands, Scotland's biggest egg producing cen- tre, decline to recognise British Double Sum- mer Time.
ago.
of
Germany to
Von Nidda was German Consul
It tells a tale of dissension be- General and representative ut hind the Nazi war effort as the Vichy of the Embassy in Paris. retreat from Stalingrad and Associated Press. North Africa contimuoda talo į in which all the principal figures now are dead er condemned men --with Sauckal reporting that Laval had refused a demand for 500,000 πιάτο French slave labourers for Germany.
Threat From Germany?
Pure Sabotage
Hamburg, Apr. 13. Although the document states Max Reimann, Chairman of the that Laval had offered to make Communist Party, in the Brillah 1,000,000 workmen produce for Zene of Germany, announced to- Germany Inside France, it con-day that Socialist Unity to Party (fusion of the Communist
lains a latter from Sauskel
the
-Entries close at 12 o'clock gulations 1941, and a person Position: 040, 2.1 cables from noon on Thursday, 17th April gullfy of such an offence is
Kellett Ísland. F.S. 1947,
Jablo (a) on summary con-
Of the island's 24.000 populni Member of Parliament,. Bir Basil German Minister Schieler of Otto and Sorial Democratic partics al- viction to imprisonment for a Details: The submerged wreck
tien, 18,000 are courtry people. Neven Spence, is to make repro-Abetz Embassy in Paris saying: ready existing in the Soviet Zone) term not exceeding threa
The contend that their lives are sentations to the Homo Secretary. have lost all confidence in would be formed in the British in the above position has ruled more by the laws of the months or to a fine not exceed.
Al a publle protest against the good faith and good will of Zone in May. been removed.
hen than of the British Govern-double Summer Time held on French Premier Laval His To- He added that the new party ing $2,000 or to both such im. prisonment and fine, or (b) of Charis affected 3279, 459 "God's
ment. They put their trunt in Friday one man abstulued from fusal constitutes pure and simple will be a great force in Germany, Uma" and not double supporting an otherwise unanim-sabotage of Germany's fight for the "fores of which the Allies conviction on Indictment to im-
E.1.10318.
Summer Time.
our vote against Double Summer life against Bolshevism."
have to take into account. The prisonment, for a term not ex+]
In May, June, July and August Time. Ho was the postman, who Behind Laval's refusal, it said, new party will have some two DENNIS & Co., Ltd. ceeding two years or to a fine Authority: Harbour Master. the Orkneys have enero daylight | had heard, that ċivil kervants was "a totally false notion of the million members in Germany."
not exceeding $10,000 or to bothĮ.
under Greenwich time than-Eng- should, not participato in con. military and domestic condition Reuter; such imprisonment and fine.
J. JOLLY, land does under double Summer troversial issues.
* It also said that of the Reich," Time. Harbour Master.
"Orcadians are all, for being in Laval was soeking dissolution of
Catro, April, 10. of Sabri "Tomorrow, the Orkney County the British Commonwealth, but the French Fascist "grouph
Abu Alam Fachs, Harbour Department,
and Counch -to ask the Secretary, of on the question of double Summer Jacques Doriot
Marcel Secretary General of the Hong Kong, 14th April, 1947. State er. Scotland to' exclude the Timo they wish they held domin. Bucard, described as favouring¦ WAFD and Senate Opposition | entire group from the provisions ton status," one man, sald-Tau “unreserved, collaboration with, loader, died today: - United
of deuble Summer Time. Their ter
Germany."
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Hongkong. 14th April, 1947,