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PUBLIC AUCTION
BY ORDER OF THE DIREC TOR OF DISPOSALS FAR EASTERN AREA (M.O.S.) Меанга Lammert. Brothers of Pedder Building, Hong Kong, have received instructions to sell by Auction at their Sales Rooms, Pedder Bulding Basement,
at 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday, the 30th day of July 1947:
A LARGE QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS STORES
Located at R. A. F. Disposals Site (393 Equipment Park, Mataukok Rond, Kowloon)
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned bave received instructions from the Cus- todian of Property to sell by Public Auction, commencing
10 a.m., on THURSDAY, the 31st July, 1947, at→
MESSRS. LAMMERT BROTHERS' AUCTION ROOMS,
PEDDER BUILDING, BASEMENT,
128 LOTS OF MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES, comprising- STORED AT KIN LEE GODOWN, WEST POINT.
at
Cotton Yarn: Wardrobes, Cabinets; Sideboards; Tables: Assorted Chairs: Settees Armchairs; Btools; "G. E," Refrigerator; "Zenith" Rádio: Iron Beds; Wooden Beds: Scrap Iton; Etc., Etc.
STOKED AT LAND TRANSPORT GARAGE, CAROLINE HILI,
CAUSEWAY BAY.
Hilman Car: Vauxhall Cars: Ford Cars and Van; Stude- haker Car and Lorry; Dodge Saloon: Sunbeam-Talbot Car. STORED AT LAND TRANSPORT GARAGE, HA HEUNG ST..
TO KWA WAN.
Buick Car; Ford Bus: Austin Car; Nash Car: Dodge Lorry; Plymouth Car; Vauxhall Car.
Brushes Wire, Shafts Flexible, Cutters Milling M. S. S., Anvils
Stands, and
Forges, Fan, Adaptors. Acciclene and Oxygen Cyl, Blow Pipes, Cuting and Welding, Bath Paraffin, Tanks Washing, Benchies Shoemaker Lost, Shoes Catpaw, Covers, The Auction is subject to the Conditions of Sale published Buffers, Rasps Rattail, Tyre Volume 2 No. 12, of 9th March, 1948.
In the Hong Kong (British Military Administration) Gazette Dough, Legs Benches Fitters,. Flage Semaphore, Handles
The above-mentioned articles will be open for Inspection at their respective Godowns on 29th and 30th July, 1947, between Permits will be issued by the Undersigned at their Auction 10 a.m. and noon and between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Inspection Rooms.
Detector, Sirena Hand Operated,
Trays Drip. Trolleys High
Pressure, Tubes Composition, Hong Kong, 28th July, 1947,
LAMMERT BROTHERS,
Auctioneers.
'THE' CHINA, MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1947.
THE HONGKONG & ∙KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD,
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION.
NOTICE is HEREBY NOTICE TO
GIVEN that an Interim Divi- SHAREHOLDERS.
dend of 42. 0. 9. per share (pelt after deduction of Hong Kong NOTICE is hereby given that Corporation Profits Tax) has the Fifty-sixth Ordinary Annual been declared in respect of the Meeting of the Members of this year ending 31st December Company will be held at the 1947, at a rate of 1/2 27/32d, Office of Mesaro. Jardine, per Dollar. Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Thura-
day the 7th August, 1947, ati THIS DIVIDEND WILL BE Noon, to receive the Report of PAYABLE оп and aftor the Board of Directors and MONDAY 11th August at the Statement of Accounts for the offices of the Corporation, whero year ended 31st December, Shareholders are requested to 1946, to elect Directors and to apply for Warrants. appoint Auditors.
NOTICE is also given that the Transfer Books of the Cam- pany will be closed from the 24th July, 1947, to the 7th August, 1947 both days inclu-
sive,
By order of the Board of Directors.
CHAS. E. TERRY, Manager and Secretary.
Hong Kong. 10th July, 1947.
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.,
on Thursday, 7th August, 1947,
at 12.30 pm, or at such time as
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from MONDAY 28th July to SATURDAY 9th August (both days. Inclusive) during which period no transfer of Shares can be registered.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
A. MORSE, Chlef Manager
(AND) W
CABLE & WIRELESS
LIMITED
For the convenience of Kowloon
the Ordinary General Meeting residents and air-passengers, an
to be held at the same place at Office
Noon shall terminute,
of
for. the reception for the telegrama to all parts of the purpose of considering and If world has been opened in the thought it passing the follow- Main Hall of
na Special Resolutions, Hotel.
Ing viz:-
"(1) That
the Authorised Capital of the Company (which
is now $8,000,000.00 consisting of
of 160,000 shares nominal value of $50.00 each, of which 90,000 shares have been
lo до
the Peninsula
HOURS OF OPERATION.
the 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily including
Sundays and Holidays. DEPOSITORS wishing to avall Issued), be increased to $50r themselves of this facility may 000,000.00 by the creation of 840,000 adultional shares of the
on application to the nominal value of $50.00 each, Branch Arcountant at our main and that such shares be issued office Union Building (Ground at such a Ume or times and Floor) Hong Kong. upon auch terms as the Com- pany's Board of Directors in their absolute discretion shall think fit.
"(2) That Article 19 of the Company's Articles of Associa tion be cancelled, and the follow- Ing substituted therefor:-
'19.
tion
-the balance of $60.00 per share, being the remaining hair of the nominal value plus the remaining half of the premium.
ciation
to
for
1st January,
VIET NAM CLAIM OF FRENCH LOSSES
"PORTSEA".
ON SHOW.
London, July 27. Britain's
neweat double- deck flying boat, the Portaca, has been on display public today.
to the
The Purtzen,
One of the Plymouth class now coming inte service on the British Overanas Airways Corpora tion's India and Far Eastern routes, weighs nearly 30 tons, bas accommodation for 22 passengers, and cruises at 170 miles an hour.-Renter,
Saigon, July 27.
Vict Namese military sources claimed that French casualties during the past six months' fighting In Indo-China totalled 88,000,
The first Viet Namese official review of the "gains
and losses" published in the organ of the Re-, sistance Committee of Cochin-China said: "In the last six months' the were destroyed in Cochin-China: French loanes were: 20,000 | Six aeroplanes, 20 tanks, 900 killed, 51,000 Injured,
108 rallway. and lorries, 90 boats, 11,000 captured prisoners of waggons and four engines, 4,180 War"
metres of railway track," The review added that the Viet Namese losses were in the proportion of one in 60 of the French lossCH..
The slatement continued: "Furthermore,
the
| categories of French
It also claimed the destruction of large quantities of telegraph lines, barrels of gasoline, rubber plantations, bales of rubber and factories of latex. following 'The destruction throughout
Rupplies Indo-China
three or four.. times the guros for Cochin- Chinn," the review stated.
Lincoln Documents To Visit Britain
Re-Conquest Plan
Destroyed
"We have
French
destroyed the
programme
of
re-
conquest of. Cochin-China, All
the Viet Namose people arO united behind Dr. Ho Chi Minh
Washington, July 27, and our liberation movement is Microfilm copies of the 20,000 papers comprising austained by all the democratic
the famous and priceless Abraham Lincoln peoples of the world. documents, which became public property "Meanwhile, the French have, here last night, will be sent soon to Great Brienly some traitors who support tain and other countries so that keen students statement concluded.
them outside the country," the of America's civil war history all over the The Viet Nam Salvation world will be able to study them at the same Army has appealed to the World time.
Protestant Congress meeting in The time limit, imposed by Oslo
to to send a delegation Lincoln's won Robert, who pre- Viet Nam in order to defend sented the documents to Congress Divine Justice."
Indian TUC Head
In Moscow
Moscow, July 27.
on condition that they remained The message which, according private for 21 years after his to the Viet Nam Radio, was death, expired at midnight,
Lincoin
sent in the name of Dinh Van
exports were ΕΦΟΣ bunched over desks in the Con- Tal, a member of the Viet Nam International Kreng Library to see what light branch of the on the life of the country's Civil Salvation Army, also requested War
the President documents the Oslo Congress to denounce
the would shed.
French atrocities in Viet As the clock struck twelve. Nam and pray for an early in- they had stood in the main read dependence for Viet Nam."
of the Library and Thirty Viet Namese delegates
Shiprad Amrit Dange, Pre-watched the Chief Librarian, Mr.
ing room
sident of the All-Indian Trade Luther H. Evans, swing open the are attending the World Federa- Union Congress, has arrived in doors ut the clonuly guarded tion of Democratic Youth meet- Leningrad after a five-day visit vault,
Ing at Prague, the Viet Nam to Moscow, according to "Taɛs, Valuable Data
Radio disclosed. The radio the official Sovlet news agency. Under the glare of are lamps,
Mr. Dange slated to a cor- newsreel cameramen, photogra
"The attack of phers, television operators anti respondent;
of scune. means
the Im-
the
staled that the
Central Executive Committee of the Viet Nam Youth repre senting more than 900,000 mem- bera sent
of E message "fraternal greethigs” to the
Prague Congress. Reutor.
the Dutch troops on the Indone radio microphones recorded
Republic by lan
Exactly in the same spot where arms suppiled by
alim pillars today, once stood periallats has made me urge the the Library of Congress rears its Indian working class to declare Widow Spriggs' boarding house, a vigorous protest.
TRADE PACT where a young, Jean Congressmari "I appeal to Indian workers, from Illinois, called Abraham
Sofia, July 27. members of all trade unions, Lincoln, had a sparse room and Government circles reported for the speediest possible agree- board,
today that a trade agreement meni to render no help to Dutch Historical experts do not expect has been signed with Austria.
emerge I urge any great revelations to
The "agreement for the ex- to refuse to lead from the documents, but they are change of goods and payments" the workers
koking for valuable data to fill munitions on ships, and to pro- dolails of the career and pri- resulted from conversations in vent Dutch ships intended forvate life of America's most re- Vienna in May, according to troops warring against the vered historical figure-Reuter. the officials-United Press. Indonesian Republic from leav- ing Indion ports.
troops on
Indian soll,
also suggest that the Executive Bureau of the World Federation of Trade Unions immediately urge all its affilia- ted trade unions to take resolute the Indonesian steps to help people in their just struggle for peace and freedom".—Reater,
SECRET SESSIONS
Athens, July 27,
Food Incentive To
-Ruhr
Miners
Berlin, July 28. American and British occupation authorities offer- ed the hungry miners of Germany's Ruhr a tempting food hand-out today if they get out more coal for the rusting industry of Europe. In the first stage attacking the of worn-out machinery in this all-important Ruhr problem, on most important fudi area of wes. which the fate of Europe may tern Europe-probably to be
the British
(c) Payment of the sum of $50.00 per share on acceptance Notwithstanding any of the of the offer shall be deemed to be the first call on such shares, provisions these Articles of Association no Shareholder shall and the balance of $50.00 por of the share shall be deemed to be the without the sanction
the Directors be catlijed at any time
balance payable, within to be registered as the holder of meaning of Articles 34 to 43 of more than one-tenth of the the Company's Articles of Asso- Capital of the Company issued for the time, being. Provided
(B) Subject payments nevertheless that the registre- being made on the due dates, of a transfer of shares such new shares shall rank as whereby the holding of any partly paid shares
from 1st Shareholder is increased beyond January, 1048, and as fully paid the said amount shall be con- shares from 1st Jul, 1948, clusive evidence that the sane-participating in dividend tion of the Directora to such in-the period
The United Nations Balkan hinge, an Anglo-American an- taken up at the forthcoming creased holding has been given 1948, to 31st June 1948, Sub-Commission, which has re-nouncement said production tar. Anglo-American conference in but shall not be evidence that to the extent of one quarter, and turned to Salonika from Yan- gets would be set and euch miner Washington. the Directors have sanctioned for the period 1st July, 1948, to nina in Northern Greece, has in the mines that meet it would any further increase by such 31st December, 1948, to the ex- held two secret sessions to dia- get (1) a 10-in-one package, like Anglo-U.S. Talks Shareholder in his holding," tent of one half the amount decuss the Albanian and Bulgarian the wartime GI ration, containpects of the Ruhr problem, it was Meanwhile, on the broader as- clared for existing shares in refusals to let it carry out in- ing 40,000 calories; (2) the pro NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that if the above resolution No. respect of the year 1948, and vestigations on their territory, mizes of normal rations never learned that these polata are be thereafter ranking for dividend the Athens news agency report kopt would now be honoured; and Americans; 1. nationalization
ing argued between (1) is duly passed as a Special and in all other respects parled today.
and (3) part of the foreign ex- Resolution, it is the intention of the Board of Directors in accor- of the Company..
passu with the existing shares The Sub-Commission yeater-change they get through export of the mines, which the Ameri day cabled the main Commissioning coal would be set aside to pur. cans believe should be settled only dance with the terms of the
on a Germuny-wide rather than at Lake Success, New York, chase food, clothes and other Special Resolutions passed
an area basla; 2. the sharing of (U) That where the share that Albania, Yugoslavia and things for them. the 7th day of March, 1935, to holder so desires, the full aum Bulgaria had, for two months, This was the first inducement costs, and 3. how much the Ger-, Notice is hereby given that offer as soon as possible after of $100.00 per share may be obstructed investigations in their held out in an effort to get pro mans should be allowed to man. David Abrahim Arzoony, com- the 7th day of August, 1047, paid up on acceptance of the territories. monly known as A. David of 70,000 new shares of the nomin- offer, and in
It was earlier reduction going in the rich but bad. age in the mines. such event, any ported that the Sub-Commission ly bombed and food-short Ruhr: 70 per cent of the costs, but this The Americans originally paid Stock Exchange Bldg.
7th al value of $50.00 each, being shares on which the full sum might shortly leave Greece-in
the British zone. Next will has been scaled down to 50 per- floor, is applying to the Gover-the present unissued Capital of shall have been paid up shall Router:
come housing and the replacement cent and the British were said to nor for naturalization, and that the Company, together with an rank for dividend and in all
be seeking to reopen the subject. Tickets (at $2.- each) for
·Tower, Blocks
person who knows any additional 20,000 new shares of other respects pari passu with
In offering bandouts to the Pulley, Housing, Binoculars, the Special Cash Sweep on the reason why naturalization should the nominal value of $50.00 each the existing shares of the Com-
miners the western' Parachutes,
not be granted should send a in accordance with the terms of pany na
zones were "Kwangtung Handicap" which
following somewhat the practice Knitted, Gauntlets Flying, Suits will be run at the above Meeting Written and signed statement of the above Resolution, making a 1948"
the facts
tho' in the Soviet Zone, where to the Buoying, Spectacles, Goggles, can be obtained at the office of
Colonial total of 90,000 now shares of
The offer will be made, by
German underground miner gets Blankets Mosquito Nets, Bcrap the Treasurers, 1st Floor, Ex-Secretary, Hongkong.
the nominal value of $50.00,
a Number One ration card plus each each, to the persons who on the Notice sent by peat to
Foxtra rations such as 10 pounds v tho 7th day of August, 1947, are shareholder, specifying
of flour, four pounds of meat a reglatered in the Company's number of shares to which the Share Register as the holders of sharoholder is entitled, and such
month and extra cigarettes pro. the 90,000 imued shares in the offer, if not accepted either, on
vided he is not absent more than three days during the month- Capital of the Company, behalf of such shareholder or
United Press. 121 the
of his nominee on or before 81st proportion one now, shore for cach abbre December, 1947, will be deemed will attend at 10 am on Mon- premium of $50.00 per share,
Messrs. Goddard & Dougins held by them respectively, at a to be declined. days and Thursdays' within the and to propose the following free storage period to survey further Special Resolution: damaged cargo, and consignees
Trolleys Electric Starting, Diaes, Capa Filler, Clenners Wick, Spreaders Flame, Frames Fet, Blocks Spring, Stretchers, Stande M. T, Engine, Changes Tyre, l'in
Spring Sprayer, Stands I'ump Semi-Rotary, Pumps Fueling, Washers. Union Male Brass, Nozzles Type G. Gauges Jennies, Lifters Valves, Cylinders Water Dist! Plant, Jacks Bottle, Lifting and Pillar Hydr. Base Platea, Jacks, Double Gear
Gloves,
Mittens
Metal, Bedsteads Iron, Mattres ses and Aircraft. Tyres Permits to view, Catalogues and Special Conditions of Sale, olc. may be obtained from Meagra. Lammert Brothers.
Inspection of these Stores at the above mentioned Location can ba made between the hours 9.00 am, and 1.00 pm. on the 28th and 29th July 1947.
of
Terms: 50% of the Purchase Money to be paid on the Fall of the Hammer and the balance to be paid on Thursday, the 31st July 1947..
WALTER M. WEINBERGER
CHAIRMAN,
BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD. (HONG KONG).
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB
Notice to Members
Double Tenth Race Meeting, October 1947.
change Building, and also at the Branch Office in Nathan Road, Kowloon over 50,000 Tickets sold to date.
By Order,
S. A. SLEAP,
Actg. Secretary
LAMMERT BROS
Auctioneers, Surveyors and Appraisers.
Pedder Building. Telephone No. 20224.
Service Auction Booms.
Auctioneers, Burveyors, etc. Basement, French Bank Bidg.. A.E.B. de. Bouss, Auctionser Telophone 81867.
any
NOTICE
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES HOLDING P. & O., B. L. & E. & A. BILLS OF LADING
oni
from
1st January,
Troubles
Communal
Take 8 Lives
•
Bombay, July 28. Eight were reported dead today in stray attacks in communal trouble spots of Calcutta and Lahore, capital of Punjab Province.
city.
A dispatch from Calcutta, In.) Act, today as they came out of din's largest city, quoted a Gov. the 6kh Golden Temple in
INTELLECTUALS ernment announcement that four Amritsar while on their way to
CON TRIAL Any of the shares which shall had been killed and 33 injured in the banned Punjab Sikh confer a number of assaults, including ence at Nankang Sabib, 80 miles not be taken up by the Com-firearm and bomb attacks in the west of Lahore.
Belgrade, July 27. pany's Shareholders in manner
Fourteen Slovene Intellec Five were injured when troops are requested to have their "(8) That the aforesaid 90,000 aforesaid shall be disposed of in From Lahore four deaths and opened fire twice to disperse tuals, including Professor Boria representatives present. Unless new shares shall be fasted such manner and at such time one case of injury by knife at crowds attempting to enter the Furlan, former Minister of consignees – representatives are subject to the following condi- or times and upon such terms tacks were reported. One case of temple where the conference was Education in the Yugoslav present-at-the-Survey-no claims | tions :-
as the Company's Directors shall arson was reported." can thereafter be admitted. (1) The amount due for in their absolute discretion see
such now shares shall be pay. It MACKINNON, MACKENZIE
able as follows :— & CO.
Agents B
P. & O. B. N. Co. B. L. 8. N. Co., Ltd. E. & A. 58. Co, Ltd:
(a) On receptance of the offor--$80.00 per share, being half the nominal value of $50.00 per - share plus half the pro- mlum of $50.00 per share.
(b) On the 10 June 1948
"(Continued at foot of wars Col).
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
CHAS. E. TERRY, Manager and Secretary.
Hong Kong, 10th July, 1947.
Is
held, despite the Government ban cigro-government during the A cable from Trivandrum, copi. Master Tara Singh, veteran war, will be tried on Tuesday tal of Travancore State which Sikh leader, said here that the by the Ljubljana District Court to be declared Independent conterence was being attended on charges of violating seven when the British withdraw from by about 10,000 people.
articles of law on “criminal ao- India-sald that, three leaders of The Sikhs, whom the division of tivity, against the people and the State Congress had been ar- the Punjab between the two new the State."SEAR
The exact charges were rested. They Include the organt. dominions threatens to split, havə sation's president. Mr. Patton announced, that they will march known today. Thenu, opp
sambel in relays to Nankana Sahib, until] Among the accused are ton- The pollen arrested 108 Sikhs, the Government ban on their con- chers, professora, a naval cap- under the Punjab Public Safety Deference 1 lifted-Reuter," tain and a sculptress-Beuter..
.not.