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$2
Repiles are awaling at our odicen for Box Nos. 240, 255, 280, 273, 274, 278, 283, 293,
EDUCATIONAL
CUTTING AND SEWING lessons given in English, French and Russian. Morning, afternoon and Shanghai after-office угоира. Fanhian School (12 years of exis- tence iu Bhanghai). 4, Cameron Road, Kowloon
BY ORDER
OF THE DIRECTOR OF DISPOSALS:
1: THE
FAR EASTERN AREA
(M. O: 8.)
BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD (HONG KONG) is authorised to receive TENDERS for the following:-
TUGS, LAUNCHES, LIFE BOATS, DINGHIES, ETC. LOCATED AT ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS, 620 WATER TRANSPORT COMPANY, SHANSHUIPO.
Lot No. 1 Lot No. Lot No. Lot No.
2
3
Lot No. 5
Lot No. C
Lot No. 7
14 foot Dinghy (No. D.986)
14 foot Dinghy (No. D.888)
14 foot Dinghy (No. 1014)
75 foot Pansongor Launch (No. N/N/R)
"3" Typo Launch (No. J.80)
"y" Type Launch (No. J.87) "D" Type Tug (No. 199)
LOCATED AT WING ON SHING YARD, CHEONG SHAWAN (NEAR LAI CHI KOK)
20 foot Motor Boat (No. N/N/4) B LOCATED AT H.M. DOCKYARD, KOWLOON,
10 foot Dinghy (No. N/N/5)
10 foot Dinghy (No. 3970)
10 foot Dinghy (No. 497)
18 fout Boat Drifter (No. N/N/6)
Lot. No.
Lot No. 1
-- WANTED
д
CLA
POSITION VACANT
Private Secretary with good knowledge et shorthand Lot No. 13. and typing. Apply with referen; at No. 14 Chairman, Fort No 12 tu;-The
Lat No. FG Eastern Freight Conference, P. & O. Buliding.
at No. 10
Lnt No. 11
10 foot Dinghy (No. 2370)
at No. 12
Ant No. 17
Lot No 18
Lot No. 19
Lot No. 20
Lot No. 21
Lo! No. 22
Lot No. 23
FOR SALE
FOR SALE 16 ewt. Army type Chevrolet Lorry in good condition. Apply Kowloon Docks,
SUITE:
10 foot Cutter Pulling (No, N/N/7) 24 foot Life Boat (No. 888)
24 foot Life Bont (No. N/N/8)
36 foot Harbour Launch (No. 44272) 10 foot Dinghy (No. 2346)
I foot Dinghy No. 1840)
14 foot Dinghy (No, N/N/D) 16 funt Drifter (No. N/N/10)
18 foot Motor Hont No. 7261 27 foot Whaler (No. 4250) 23 foot Life Bont (No. 29810)
Lot No. 24 2. No warranty is given in any way as to condition etc., $8501 Accept
FREE and lots will be bought as they le Buyer receives
Corma
CHESTERFIELD Brand-new. Cost $4501
PRESENT (91 x 16.)
Hours of inspection: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 289, tup, Prince Edward, 15-7.301 and Pridays, 10 nm. to 12 Noen and 2 p.m. to 4 pm.
p.m.. Phon, 57687.
VERY PINE pair of "Gorrz" or "Zeiss" 16 x 30) Binceulurs, $1001 x Do $300! 289. "Shipping (7 top. Prince Edward, (5-7.30 p.m.) Phone 57687.
WANTED TO BUY WANTED TO BUY. Second hand dance regards. Reply GPO Box 371 giving prices & titles of records.
POSITIONS VACANT APPLICATIONS are invited certinentel deck
and (of
from
or
a
diesel engineer officera foreign or Chinese nationality), ex-Naval Officers with five years i
more ser experience and holding full watchkeeping certificate for employment In the Marine Department of the Chinese Maritime Custama. Particulars of contract may be obtained from the Office of the Chinese Maritime Customa. Marina House, Queen's Roar, Central.
POSITIONS VACANT
Applicants for Tender Forma
4.
are required to deposit $100.00 with the Board at the time of applying for the Tender Form. This sum may be reckoned as part of the 10% deposit (See paragraph required to be remitted with any
of Page 1 of Tender Form).
tender.
5. The $100.00 deposits made by contractors not eventually wishing to tender will be returnable against receipt in the Board's offices of the original Tender Form issued,
6. Closing date for tenders:-12 Noon, Thursday, 25th May, 1947.
7. The Chairman of the British Stores Diapusul Board Hong Kong) does not bind himself to accept the highest or any tender.
WALTER M. WEINBERGER
Chairman,
BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD,
HONG KONG
LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers. Surveyors and Appraisers. Peddar Building Telephone No. 20224.
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned, have received instructions to sell by, Public Auction on
Friday, the 23rd May 1947 commoncing at 2.30 p.m.-
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1947.
THE
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE
CO., LTD.
NOTICE is hereby given that} the Forty-Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders will be held in the Jacobcan' Room of the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, Hongkong on Saturday, the 31st May 1947, at Noon for the following purposes, namely, to consider the annual and statement of accounta the balance sheet, and the reports of the Directors and Auditors thereon, to sleet Dl- rectors & Auditors in the place of those retiring, to declare a dividend and bonus, to appro- priate the balance of Profit and Loan Accounts, as-recommanded
the Directori, by transact business of the Company.
AND NOTICE is also given that the Share Transfer Re- glaters will be closed from 20th May. 1947 to lat May, 1947, both date inclusive,
Any
other
1
SENSATIONAL CHANGE SOON
IN FOREIGN POLICY?
Paris, May 20.
The Parts newspaper "Le Monde,” which often re- flects French Foreign Office views, forecast to- night a sensational change toward the East in -Britain's foreign policy, due to Britain's short-
age of American dollars.
The dollar shortage was obliging Britain to make purchases outside the United States, the paper said. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin, also desired not to increase the tension with Russia before the November Four-Power conference on the German peace settlement, "Le Monde" added.
which
"This in mind, the envisages
SABOTAGE?
Haynard, Calif., May 20, A concrete black which officere said apparently had been put on the tracks in a "deliberate attempt to wreck the train" overturned the en- gine and baggage car of the Western Pacifio "Feather River express at Decoto, California. Four crew mem- here 10cre injured.-United
#
Stripped
Her To
The Waist
London, May 20. Young doctor to pretty young applicant for job:- "Remove your upper
Both Ways garments please. It's just hetion of the Dark Continent, in Are Leading
To Death".
"Recent speeches of Mr. | thinking of transferring to Bevin have shown that he con- Africa her Imperial line of de- sitiera success of the confer- fence," the paper sald.
and and to ence to be Indispensable ordinary that success will result only the development and modernist-
'from conciliation
would like to practise from cluding irrigation, cultural now on," the paper said. amelloration, industrinl Coh-
of It was a question of develop struction, building ronde, two establishment of military basOS ing trade between the
Berlin, May 20. western and Atlantic countries, notably in Russlan on the
Helmut Strohm, who qualifles lumber, of which Britain has counts and the ralaing of the as an expert since he has made a great need for her reconstruc- standard of living, of the no-comfortable living for 22 months
on," in return for British ma- tive populations.
from the sale of American ciga- chines, "Le Monde" sald..
"This vast project
necarettes, today laughed off the Wor and A good Russian harvest also sitates close cooperatiun with
Department's import ban might provide Britain with France and Belgium, whose wheat, it added, although it African possessions are parti. predicted that "clever American
By Order of the Board.
A. D. LEARMONTH, Secretary.
HongKong. 12th May, 1947.
THE
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
..
could not amount to much.
"It is absurd to think that' Russia could supplant the Unit- ed States in this. America, for years to come will remain the | feeder of the world.
Pleasing
or not, it is true and Britain should accept it, with other na tions."
Line Of Defence
cularly important."--Reuter.
CALCUTTA RIOTS
The evening paper "L'In-19 p.m. transigeant said that Britain
and arson
In-
1
people" would find a way around! the law.
Lunky Strohm. (not his real name), like uncounted thousands
of other Berliners, has carved a soft life out of the occupation by: middleman between acting as Americans who want to buy valu. able German goods cheup fellow Germans who crave Ameri.
con smokes.
and
routine, you know."
The girl stripped to the watat and at back on the examining table as the doctor put a totho- scope to her cheat and back,
The doctor ended the examine- tlon and dismissed the applicant. A second girl applled for the job, but she baulked when sho atill had one plecy of othing on.
"Doctor" John Albert
Mann, 25-year-old druggist, appeared in court today on a charge of in decently assaulting two young women by examining them.
that The prosecution charged
he called a Mann set up what "temporary clinic" in a bombed- out building which he rented and conducted medical examinations without the knowledge of his cm- ployers, whom he claimed to re- present.
two
Evidence was given by girls whe applied for jobs, Nellie Audrey Barker, 22, and her ais- ter Dorothy, 23.
Mann was released on ball United Preas.
Calcutta, May 20. Rioting worsened in Calcutta today with 20 ahooling, bomb, acid-throwing cidents, involving three deaths and forty persona injured up to
There is no doubt in Helmut's Troops and police fired eight crafty mind that he is going to
an armed continue to do just that. in contemplating strengthening rounds to disperse her Imperial defence lines in crowd trying to burn a police
In clumsy English which he station, and the police fired has picked up daring the occupa- Africa.
will not stop until everybody has "Britain's interest in Africa again when a bomb was thrown tion he explained:
"There must be a way clover enough to cat and to live, Woman seems to confirm the fact that, at a train.
The pollee arreated 177 per American people can bring: ciga- with children can be forbidden to being incapable of assuring
rettes here. As long as the Ger- have American cigarettes, but she and sons today.-Reuter. protection of the
man people are hungry and will not let them starve. She will anyway. There is no risk. castern Mediterranean, she Isl
long as Americans want to buy do Batavia, May 20..
will Even if she is hanged. Both ways Director Albert Plesman of the things-silver, china--they
leading to death."-United Royal Dutch Airlines will arrive have to have cigarettes.
"The Black Market in Germany PreSL
Suez
HONGKONG
& WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE in hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meet- ing of Shareholders will be held at the Jacobean Room, Hong- Street, kong Ilotel, Pedder Hong Kong, on Saturday, 31st May, 1947, at 12.15 p.m. (or as soon thereafter as the Or be dinary Annual Meeting to held at Noon on that, date shall the have been concluded) for purpose of considering and, if
Bub- Natice is hereby given that thought fil, passing the
an Ordin- an Extraordinary General Meet- joined Resolution“ AB
ing of the Company will be ary Resotution:-
held at 18 Pedder Street (1st "That the Capital of the floor) Hong Kong on MONDAY Increased to the NINTH day of JÚNE. Company be $10,000,000.-by the creation 1947, at NOON, for the pur- and if of One Million Two Hundred pose of proposing Thousand additional new thought fit passing the
sub- shares of Five Dollars each joined resolutions as a special to be issued at such terms resolution, viz:— and conditions in every res- pect as the Company's Board of Directors may think fit." By Order of the Board.
A. D. LEARMONTH, Secretary. Single & Double Wardrobes, of Dressing Tables, Cheat Drawers... Single Double Hongkong, 12th May, 1947. Bedsteads with Hoxspring Mat- tresses, Kitchen Tables, Dining Tables, Sideboards, Chairs, Writing Tables, Glass Cabinets, Carved Camphorwood Trunks, Chinese Rugs, Carpet Runner, Chesterfield Sulte, Tables, Wicker Chairs, Blackwood Compound Steam Dynama Engines, Feed Pumps, Trans-Chairs, and Tea-Poys, Bed Side Tables, Desks, Curios, Glass formers, Gaugea, Binoculara, Binnacles, Tables, Chairs, Camp Ware & Cutlery etc. etc.
PUBLIC AUCTION
The General Post Office, BY ORDER OF THE DIREC- Hong Kong, Telecommunications TOR OF DISPOSALS FAR have immediate vacancies for EASTERN AREA, (M. O. S.) Wireless Operators and Mesars. Lammert Brothers of
Technicians as follows:-
WIRELESS OPERATORS: Class A. $260.—per mensem, Clans B. $200.- ... Clase C. $150.--- „
TECHNICIANS:
Class A. $260.-per mensen), Class B. $200,-,, Class $150.
plus standard rehabilitation and/or high cost of living al
lowances.
Pedder Building, Hong Kong, have received Instructions to sell by Auction at their Salca Rooms, Pedder Building-Base ment, at 10.30 a.m. on Thurs- day, the 22nd. day of May 1947 A LARGE QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS STORES
comprising:-
Applications should be made-Beds, Looking Glasses, Lamps, In writing with references, cer Lanterns, Old Batteries, Scrap tificates, etc., and passport size Tool Steel, Cable, Rubber, photograph to the Senlor Wire Canvas, Linen, Leather, Cork, less Engineer, General Post Etc., Ele.
Office, Hong Kong, got. later
than 28th May, 1947.
E. I. WYNNE-JONES,
Postmaster General.
Hong Kong, 21st May, 1947.
TRANSPORT
(stored in H.M. Naval Deckyard. Hongkong, and in Candy Store, Taikoo Sugar Refinery, Hongkong)
algo
Drums of Bitumen (stored
at E. S. B. D., Chatham Road, Kowloon)
Permits to view, Cataloguea,
It is hereby notified that scal-] Special Conditions of Sales etc.
ed lenders which should be may be obtained from Mesare, clearly marked "Tender for Lammert Brothers. Provision of Road Carrying
Motor Transport 3 ton capacity Inspection of the above Stores on hire to W.D" will be re- can be made between the hours ceived at the office of the Com- of 10.00 am. and noon and be- mander, Royal Army Service tween 2.00 p.m. and 4.00 pm. Corps, Queen's Road, Hong on Tuesday and Wednesday, Kong until noon on 28th May the 20th and 21st. May 1947. 1947 for the hiring to the War Department as required mechanically propelled vehicles for transport of W.D. Stores.
Vehicles will be required Hong Kong island and in Kow- loon and New Territories and offers may be made for cach area separately or for both areas,
Forms of Tender and fur ther particulars may be obtain-' ed from H.Q. R.A.8.C Queen's Road, Hong Kong.
WALTER M. WEINBERGER,
Chairman, BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL. BOARD, Hong Kong.
Beten's Beauty Salons
at their Sales Rooms No.35 Hankow Road. Kowloon.
A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising:--
ALSO
&
1 Pair New Ticntsin Carpets
1 Persia Rug
2 Steel Filling Cabinets
1 Upright Piano
1 Billard Table 9' x 6'
2 Treadle Sewing Machine
6 New Bread Cuttera
1 "Imperial" Typewriter 16"
1 "Columbia" Portable Gramo-
phone
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG AND YAUMATI FERRY CO., LTD. Notice is hereby given that the Eighteenth Ordinary Annual Meeting of the Company will be held at the Company's Office, 3rd Floor, 144-148 Des Voeux Rond, Central, Hongkong, on Saturday the 24th May 1947 at] 12.00 noon for the purpose of receiving the Report and State- ment of Accounts for the Year ended 31st December 1941 and for the period 16th September
to 31st December 1945,
Notice la also givon that the Share Register of the Company
On View from Thursday, the will be closed from the 15th 22nd. May 1947,
Terms: As Customary.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
nose Optical
G
OPTICIAN.
67 QUEENS ROAD C
YOURE RIGHT GRACE, THIS MAKES FALSE TERIM
REALLY CLEAN
That the Articles of Associa- tion be altered in the manner following:-
(a) Article 17 shall be can-
celled
here on June 8 for discussions with the Royal Netherlands Indies Airlines (KLIM)-United Press.
In the matter of the Companies Ordinances,
1932
and of EAST POINT. TRADING CO., LTD.
(In Voluntary Liquidation)
are
Wallace Has For World
A Plan Peace
San Francisco, May 20. What he described as "an overall plan for the abolition of war" was put forward tonight by Mr. Henry Wallace, former United States Vice-President and opponent of the present United States foreign policy.
Speaking in San Francisco; and must find the will. A de Opera House, the "birthplace" vastated and hungry world in
out of the United Nations, he sum crying
nat for United marised the plan 18:
States guns and tanks to spread
the velopment of a world security Noted Nazi
Escapes
NOTICE is hereby given that the Final General Meeting of the above-named Company will,
1. Military settlement. pro- more hunger, but for United be held at ita registered office viding for enforceable world States ploughs and machines to 16, Pedder Street, Hong Kong control of atomic energy, inter- fulfil the promise of pesco."-- third (b) In the
strategic Reuter. lae of on Saturday, 28th June, 1947, nationalisation of Article 71 the word "two" at 12 o'clock tioon for the pur- areas, disarmament in weapons shall be substituted for poss of having an account of for man's destruction and de- the word "three"
the liquidators, showing manner in which the winding-up system.
been conducted and the 2 (c) The following Article shall has
Political settlement, pro- be substituted for Article Property of the Company dis-viding for final liquidation of 76 76. Subject to any posed of, laid before auch Meet-fascism, settlement of civil special terms as to voting ing and of hearing any ex. upon which any shares of planation that the Company may have by the liquidators and to pass Issued or may for the following Extraordinary the time being be held, Resolution, viz:-- upon a show of hands every member present in one person shall have vote, Arid upon A poll every member present person or by proxy shall have ong vote for every share held by him."
been
By Order of the Board,
R. G. CRAIG.
Chief Manager.
.
Hong Kong.
in
May 1947 to the 24th May 1947 Dated this Ninth day of Mos, both days Inclusive,
By Order of the Board,
"
LAU TAK PO,
Managing Director.
1947.
THE INDO-CHINA
HONGKONG, 10th. May. 1947. | STEAM NAVIGATION
HONGKONG
TRAMWAYS
LIMITED
COMPANY, LIMITED, NOTICE OF GENERAL
“MEETINGTM SIXTY-SECOND OR- The NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN DINARY ANNUAL GENERAL that the Ordinary Yearly Gen- MEETING of the Company will eral Meeting of HONGKONG be held at the Offices of the Mesars, TRAMWAYS LIMITED will be General Managers, hold at tho Offices of Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Jardine, Matheson and Cam Foddor Street, Hong Kong, en pany, Limited, Hongkong, on Friday, 27th June, 1947, at: Thursday, the 29th day of May, noon, for the purpose of recoly 1947, at 12 o'clock Noon, to ing the Report of the Directors, transact the ordinary business passing the Accounts for the of the Company,
year ended 81st December, 1848, and electing Directors And, NOTICE IS HEREBY Auditore. ALSO GIVEN that the Rogis ter of Members of the Com Company will be closed from The Transfor Books of the pany will be closed from the Licensing votadon rangves Mas and pestiin. 16th day of May to the 11th the 20th June, 1947, to the 11th
You can trust your personal Beauty Problems your Per manont Waves, Shampoo, Seta, A tábler full of wenn witer. À mpfa' OF BIKRADENT will stirred up. While- Faciala, Manicure, The War Department does Tinting,
you sleep XTERÅDENT HUB 30 work. “ybla. not bind itself to accept, the Pedicure to Beten's expert lowest or any tender, and ro operators (1st floor) above serves the right to accept all Lago Crawford's. Tel. 25161. or any part of any tender.
S. P. PERRY
LA COL
Royal Army Beryles Corpa,
Service
Auction Rooms
Acctioneers, Burrüyüra,Veto.: Basement French Bank - Bidra
AIB. de Boyan, Anetiopew
ETKAPAKT ferides your Den reeth
by ke beries, naira epertraukia day of June, 1947, both days July, 1947, Inclusive. angningslove: Khoroughlya" pyyttably
Steradent
inclusiva.
- By Order of the Board,
Secretary
By Order of the Board. JARDINE, MATHESON
| General Malingersi
Hon Hous
And
ac
Vionna, May 20. wars in Greece and China Be- Otto Hartmann, prominent
Nazi may be given cording to the principles of the Goebbels-sponsored
United Nations Charter, fulfil- tor, escaped, from the city ment of aspirations of unfreed penitentiary on May 17 the peoples and growth of the third noted Nazi to break out World B of Human Rights. of gaol in the past three weeks.
"That the Books, Accounta and Documents of the Com. pany and of the liquidatora thereof be retained by the liquidatore, they undertak ing to destroy the same at the expiration of five years from the Dissolution of the Company,"
JOHN FLEMING, CA.,
A. RITCHIE, C.A.
Joint Liquidators.
Hong Kong, 21st May, 1947.
have
3. Economic settlement, pro-
Hartmann la sald to viding for a ten-year progrum- me of world economic recon- caused the death of 12 pro- struction underwritten by Unit- minent anti-Fascists by report- eb States resources and ad- ing them to the Gestapo during ministered by United Nations the Nazi heyday! Government agencies for the sole purpose of sources say he has probably raising the standards of living joined his frienda, SS General. and serving the general wol- Franz Richter and Franz Wizan- fare of the world.
sky, an Austrian Nazi, sume-- "Within Our Power" where cutside Vienna. Richter "All this is within our and Wizansky escaped from power Mr. Wallaco sald. prison in April.
An announcement Roya "The resources are available to -the United States and the ad- The Government fears these ministrative machinery is avall.] escapees will form the nucleus of another neo-Hitlerite group.” able to United Nations.
"The will is lacking. We canUnited Press.
FINAL NOTICE
PRE-OCCUPATION (ARMY) CLAIMS COMMISSION 'SEAC – HONGKONG SECTION
1, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all. Companies/Individuals who have not already filed their claim against the Army for unpaid. accounts. contracted prior to 25th December 1941 are requested to do so IMMEDIATELY.
"
All claimants will complete Army Form P. 1922, and submit originals or certifiedTM true copies of all documentary evidence in support of their claims.
3. Claims to be forwarded to A.D." Claims & Hirings, Room 205, 2nd Floor, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building, HONG KONG (Tel. No. 30009) and clearly marked "PRE-OCCUPA- TION CLAIM.”
Claims must reach the above office by the 31st, MAY 1947.
Lt. Col. H. VENIS AD Claims & Hirings
HONG KONG