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now
POLICE NOTICE
The attention of owners, or
Regulation,
users of garages is drawn to
following
Traffic
Ordinance 40 of 1912:
|
"Reg. 140. No premises shall be used as a garage i ,without the
permission
of the Commissioner of Police,"
owners
от
usera
THE HONGKONG AND THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING KOWLOON WHARF &
GODOWN CO., LTD.
CORPORATION.
NOTICE 18. HEREBY GIVEN that an Interim Divi- dend of 42. 0. 0, per share (nett) after deduction of Hong Kong Corporation Profits Tax) has been declared in respect of the year ending 31st December 1947, at a rate of 1/2 27/824. per Dollar.
THIS DIVIDEND WILL BE PAYABLE on and after MONDAY 11th August at the offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants
..
OF
› NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE s harcby given thal the Fifty-sixth Ordinary Annual Meeting of the Members of this Company will be held at the Office of Menara Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Thurs- day the 7th August, 1947, at Noon, to receive the Report of the Board of Directors and Statement of Accounts for the your ended 3lat December, 1040, to elect Directors and to appoint. Auditors.
REGISTER THE SHARES of the Corporation
NOTICE is also 'given_that'] will be closed from MONDAY the Transfer Books of the Com- 28th July to SATURDAY 9th pany will be closed from the August (both days Inclusive) 24th July, 1947, to
the 7th during which period no transfer August, 1947, both days inclu- of Shares can be registered.
1
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
A. MORSE,
Chief Manager
of
BY ORDER OF THE ___LIQUIDATOR_
2. Al "garages"who have" not "complied
with Reg. 140 are requested to Mesura Lammert Brothers have permits. received Instructions to sell by starnge
apply for Failure to comply with the re gulation renders users of gar-f ages liable to prusdeution.
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE.
Hong Kong, 2nd August, 1947.}
NOTICE
.THE. CHINA COAST
NAVIGATING AND ENGINEER
OFFICERS' GUILD.
A meeting of members wil be held at the office, 3rd floor,) Union Building, 21 Pedder)
Street, on Tuesday, August 6th.,
1947, at 4 p.m.
Important agenda,
GEO. T. LLOYD,
General Secretary.
Hong Kong, August 4th, 1947.
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Property
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Hongkong
alve.
By order of the Board of Directors,
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CHAS. E. TERRY, Manager and Secretary, Hong Kong, 10th July, 1947.
THE HONGKONG &
GODOWN-CO., LTD.-
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5; 1947.
A FABULOUS ADVENTURE Prisoners
"Most
Dangerous Man"
How Musso Was
Rescued
Dachau, Aug. 4. The former SS Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny, awaiting trial as a war criminal, tonight re- vealed detalls of one of the war's fabulous adventure stories-how he located the secret) Italian prison where Mussolini was held in late 1943, captured the heavily guarded Duce with a handful of glider troops and sneaked back to Germany safely with his large bald prize. The scar-faced Skorzeny, regarded by some war- time SS units as a.heil to Hitler, will be tried with nine others here, beginning on Aug. 18, charged with having slipped behind American
Tells
MURDER IN:
PLANE
Istanbul, Aug, 3.
Seven Rumanian -elvilians and three officers, stated, by the Turkish police to have bsen fleeing from Bucharest, have been taken into custody after their plane made forced landing near, Channk, Turkey.
The police state that during the flight one, of the officers shot a mechanic dead when ko tried to compel the pilot to land on Ramanian spit.— Reuter.
lines in American uniforms and having killed WOMAN POET
American prisoners during the 1944 offensive. The man who was alleged to, had just gone ashore from an have been commissioned by Hit Italian cruiser in La Spezia which ler to kidnap Gen. Dwight Eisen- had taken Mussolini away from hower in curly 1945, has written the convicts' island. It now bei an impressive 3,600-word manu- come apparent that Badoglio was script entitled "The Mussolini constantly moving Mussolint from Event."
one place to another. Here is the story the most
Faked Girl Friend
1
GOVERNOR
His Story Attempt
Abnormal Demands
For Steel
Cleveland, Aug. 4 Despite recent price bocats in the steel Industry, mills pro-
to
Thwarted
Rangoon, Aug: 3. Prisoners in Rangoon Central Gaol, where a number of persons are detained in connection with the recent political assassinations, were re- ported today to have at- tempted a gaol break.
According to
KOWLOON WHARF & dangerous man in Germany 10-A-few-days-later, wo merived in the United States, can re-son that action had not beention of the country, have filed.
-day"-tells,
the Burmese bably will continue to face papers, the attempt was pre- adnormal demands by purchases vented by the authorities and several more months this year, none succeeded in escaping. the magazine Steel predicted on Press reports today sald" "that-
Dr Ba Maw, Premier of Burma Sunday.
during the Japanese occupation.. Indientions also show
that
who was arrested on Friday by more working aitops will be un-police investigating the murder able to purchase all the tonnage of General Aung San and six they seok especially with respect Cabinet Ministers, had been re- sheets, atrip tubular goods moved to Tharawaddy Gaol, 70
ralles -north and bars, the publication re- Members of Dr. Ba Maw's of Rangoon, ported SHA
family are under house arrest.. "Full Impact br. higher steel. Burmese Moslems today held. prices on the consuming indus-a condolence procession and
Mra, Sarojini Naidu, woman said. "For that matter, actual leaders.
New Delhi, Aug. S. for a few months," the magazine other
try will be impossible to nascas paid homage to the remains of General Aung San and the
assassinated poet, will be appointed Acting extent of the steel increase was |
political The Stato funeral committee Governor of the United Pro not possible of, determination estimate that 1,500,000 people, vinces until Dr. B. C. Roy, now even late last week for the rea-or one in 10 of the total popula "In July 1943 I was ordered to a fresh report that the Dice was turn to take over.
taken on some products by all the past fortnight-Reuter.
past the lying-In-state during She will be the first woman producers. the Fuchrer's headquarters in in Sicily. We travelled there only
With in to find that the report was false to act as Governor of an Indien aumers facing an estimated In-
steel con-- East Prussia; Adolf Hitler formed me that he was firmly re. Again we learned that an area province.
of solved not to leave his
Saint Maddalena, Mussolini, in the lurch and, to northeast of Sardinia, was parti. been referred to as the "Nightin five months of this year, ex
friend, surrounding prevent his extradition to the cularly closely guarded on Aug. gale of India," is a former Pro- pectations are that manufac Allies.
27. I went ashore there dressed sident of Congress and now a turers of durable and
a simple sailor,
capital member of, the Congress Work- goods will promptly pass along "But a Combineri sergeant salding Committee.
Pretoria, Aug. 3. he himself had escorted Il Duce When asked about her becom-{ customers."
the higher steel cost to their Field-Marshal -Jan Smuts, to the harbour that very morning ing, acting governor of tho
South Africa's Premier, return- where Mussolini took off in seo. United
The publication said the ex- ed here today from a visit to Provinces, she said: tent to which manufacturers of the Belgian Congo, during which plane.
"You are putting a wild bird in goods made of steel would ralso, he was decorated with the Grand "A further investigation show-
a cage." ed that the Duce
their prices was "uncertain" and Cross of the Belgian Star by was now held possibly in the area of the re-population of more than 66 products was
The United Provinces, neigh- added that the industry's general Prinae Regent Charles; somewhere in tho Appenines, bour territory to Tibet, has a rate of Increase on finished steel It was understood that Prince
tons of the highest Gran Sasso.
expected to Charles talked million, of whom over 80 per average about 10 percent,General Smuts
over "I invented that my girl friend cent are Hindus Router.
with the Regent's
• Associated Press.
plan to build a Royal residence in the Congo, where Belgian monarchs could spend Some time euch year.
"Mussolini was for Hitler not only an ally of similar political convictions but also his coe and only great friend:
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be Bay in the Colony of 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 Ordinary General Meeting
"Ancient Roman” to be held at the same place at
Hitler said he believed Mus. Noon shall terminate, purpose of considering and
for the solini to be the last of the an.
cicut Romans of thought fit passing the follow tradition. It is quite evident that ing as Special. Resolutions. I had accepted a task which of-
fered only a small chance of suc
and being
Rural Building Lot No. 165 Together with the damaged mesauage thereon known as "Mirador" Repulse Bay. Hong Kong.
on
Thursday
the 7th day of August 1947 at 3 o'clock p.m.
at
Pedder Building. Victoria, flongkong.
vizio
if
the Caesarian
"(1) That the Authorised C
"We were under strict orders was supposedly living near Gran Capital of the Company (which and let only five men
Sasso and begged an Italian is now $8,000,000.00 consisting secret, I and my adjutant, Karl ed me that the valley was en- into the friend to look her up. He inform of 160,000 shares of the Radki had luck on nominal value of $50.00 each, of Naples. We learned that a local hotel at the foot of Gran Sasso the Bay of tirely cordoned off and that the which 90,000 shares have been girl had a boy friend in a con had suffered eviction of all its
For further Particulars andIssued), be increased to $50-victs island in the bay. The two personnel. It was strongly rum- 000,000.00 by the creation of had hit upon a semaphore device oured that Mussolini was held in 840,000 additional shares of the to communicate with each other. this hotel. nominal value of $50.00 cach, The girl received news to the and that such shares be issued effect that leave for the present to cut
Conditions of Sale Apply
Messrs. Deacons, 1. Des Voeux Road, Central, Solicitors for the Liquids
tors.
or to Messrs Lammert Brothers, Pedder Building, Hong- kong,, Auctioneers.
NOTICE COSMO CLUB
It was an ideal spot off completely from the
at such a time or times and would be out of question since it of the world, more than 6,000 upon such terms as the Com-high personality had arrived on 1st above sea level and not a
road leading to it." pany's Board of Directors in the island, their absolute think fit.
12.
a
discretion shall "Later in Rome an italian
naval ofcer informed us that he,
Provided
to
·
Sheer Madness "We planned to land with gliders near the hotel. A strong detachment was to go up
the
wo
Mrs. Naidu, who has often their steel bills in the closing Smuts Visit To
Reds Take Wraps Off New Fighters
Moscow, Aug. 3. g
Congo
Informants added that Prince. Charles intended to spend part of each year in the Congo "dur- ing the period of his Regency. He was looking for a sultable site for a home, which Was Ilkely to be in the remote eastern mountainous district around
The Soviets today unveiled a parade of new jet Lake Rivu.-Router.
aircraft at the annual air forces exhibition. Six jet models in all were shown. Two'liyu-
shins were in the parade of jet planes, most of Eva Still Gyrating
which were Yaklovey and Miklyan jet fighters which were unveiled a year ago.
observers commented favourably
or
to...
(2) That Article 10 of the
"Konte Carlo, Aug, 3: Company's Articles of Associa--the balance of $50.00 per Avessano valloy and seize the The Soviets also displayed a Lavochkin conven-left the Riviera today by auto- Schora Eva Duarte de Peron tion be cancelled, and the follow-of the nominal value plus the action was regarded as sheer mod.
share, being the remaining half telephone station. Parachute:
tional fighter which climbed almost vertically. mobile for Switzerland, where ing substituted therefor:-
remaining half of the premium. ness
Three new types of four.engin."Aviation Day celebration, at- she will be the official guest of Ved transport were displayed for tended by Marshal Stalin and the Federal Government at (c) Payment of the sum of! "On Sept. 9, Allled radio re- $50.00 per share on acceptance ports claimed that Mussolini had engineer line. Three and four other high Government leaders. Berno Notwithstanding any of the of the offer shall be deemed to already been extradited. Never-engined glants of most of the So-at Moscow aerodrome today.
viet's principal designorg were respectators cheered enthusiasti of be the first call on such shares.theless we had to risk the ven- presented in the jet parade, in- cally when the planes appear- Bains, famous watering spot in
Hundreds of thousands provisions these. Articles
The first lady of Argentina Association no Shareholder shall and the balance of $50.00 per ture.
will spend tonight at Aix-les-------- without the sanction of the share shall be deemed to be the
"At noon on Sept. 12, we bad 12 dicating the emphasis the Soviet ed, forming their leader's name. the French Alps, and then will Members are reminded that the Directors be entitled at any time balance payable, within the gut, two planes and 108 men
is, putting on this type of plane, Another feature of the dis- proceed to Bellegarde on the Club Dance will be held un to be registered as the holder of meaning of Articles 34 to 43. of ready. No one was to open fire Tupaly and Lavochkin displayed forming the five-cornered bes
Yalclover, Sukhov, Ilyushin; play was a flight of 30 planes Franco-Swiss Wednesday, August, with the more than one-tenth of the the Company's Articles of Asso-
before I fred, :'
frontier orchestra engaged from 9.30 to Capital of the Company issued clation.
"I could see our
planes. None seemed to open up viet star above the aerodrome. morrow. goal-the 12-30. No reservations required for the time being.
"Liberation Day" was marked to maximum speed in the review by emphasis in the press and train will take Senora Peron to hotel. I gave the order to repast Stalin
From Bellegarde, a special by members and their guests, nevertheless that the registra (H) Subject payments lease the tow cables' when
and other leaders. on the radio on Russian sm- Berne.United Press... but those wishing to order sup- tion
on the due dated noted a grave error, a supposedly Only the Yaklolevs and Mikeyans bitions to make herself a leader shares being made per must notify the Steward in whereby the holding of any such new shares shall rank no flat slope clearly showed a slant displayed acrobatics and Alled in world aviation.
from lat of 40 degrees, I shoutied crash Shareholder is increased beyond partly paid shares.
Two famous -Russian
desig on their apparent speed and nets, Alexander Yakovlev and Urals in four hours and to the the said amount shall be con- January, 1948, and as fully paid landing......then the crash.
Sergel Ilyushin, were working southernmost town of Central .manoeuvrability, "We warmed out of the wreck 1948, clusive evidence that the sancshares from 1st Jul,
The Yaklovevs and Mikoyans fly 1,000 miles to the Eastern in Moscow-Reuters.
on a civil aircraft which would Asia in a day, it was announced tion of the Directors to such in participating in dividend for and rushed the hotel yelling performed acrobatics singly and creased holding has been given 1948, to
the porlod 1st January, Man! in Haito. (Stick 'em up)
"Nine of us put the wireless but shall not be evidence that to the extent of one quarter, and apparatus out of action and by
31st June 1948, the Directors have sanctioned
for the period 1st July, 1948, to now I could see, the well-known any further increase Shareholder in his holding.""
31st December, 1948, to the ox-head of the Duce framed in a
window. tent of one half the amount de- "The front portal was secured NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN clared for existing shares in by machine guns but-one of the that if the above resolution No. respect of the year 1948, and officers and I managed to shove (1) is duly passed as a Special thercatter ranking for dividend the guns, aside and jump over Resolution, it is the intention of and in all other respects pari them, forcing our entrance. the Board of Directors in accor of the Company
passu with the existing shares...
No Shots dance with the terms of the
"Mussolint and three Italian Spécial Resolutions passed, on
In a mock battle, twin-engined the 7th day of March, 1985, to holder so desires, the full sum the second gilder nosediving 200 craft with Hve ammunition and (1) That where the share. omcers were in the room. I saw raiders were fred at by anti-air- offer as soon as possible atter of $100.00 per share may be yards away. The third was pre- some trailed smoke in Buttery
advance.
PUBLIC AUCTION
BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTOR OF DISPOSALS FAR FASTERN AREA (M. Ọ. 8.)
Messrs. Lammert Brothers of Pedder Building, Hong Kong, have received instructions to sell by Auction at their Sales Room9, Pedder Building-Basement, at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday, the 7th day of August 1947:
A LARGE QUANTITY OF MIISCELLANEOUS STORES AND
VEHICLES
LOCATED AT R. A. O. C. DEPOT, SHAMSHUIFO
Tyre Covers, Iron Beds, Old Aluminium, Old Brass, Empty Cartridge Cases, Old Cast Iron, Tinned and Galvanised Iron, Wrought Iron, Steel Scrap, Old Tools and Cylinders, Old Canvas, Old Leather, Old Oil Skin and Webbing, Old Cotton and Woollen Rags, Old Blankets, Old Cable; Wire Ropes, Old Rubber and Tyres, Old Batteries, Box Ammo Trays, Ärmour- ed Water Hose, Pneumatic Wood Borers, Pneumatio Light Picks, Generating Set-ster (22 KW) and Scrap Metal LOCATED AT R. A. 0,0. 231 VEHICLE COY, CHATHAM ROAD, KOWLOON
Chevrolet, Dodro and Ford Trucks, Heavy Utility, Ford Jeeps and Matchless, Norton and Ariel Motor Cycles
ROAD, EAST, HONG KONG
by such
in wingtip-to-wingtip formations of three and five. They also participated in a realistic mock air raid as an intercepting force.
Air Battle:
५
The air battle was the most colourful part of a two-and-a- half-hour show, which included a mase parachute jump by 500 chutists, delayed jumps and for- mation fights to form a red stor and the word Stalin.
NO COUNTRY NOW SAFE FROM AIR ATTACK
"(By: Charles Corddry)
wski Washington, Aug. 4
The one-stop Tokyo to Washington mass flight of the glant Super-Fortresses showed clearly how open any country in the world is to air at- tack, military authorities agreed today an
Va-United Pressi The Super Fortresses hurdled manoeuvring over: Anchorage,
the 7th day of August, 1947, paid up on acceptance of the paring to land, As' yet no shot has night then realistic version of the North Pacific, refuelled at Milwaukee and › Martina
70,000 new shares of the nomin. offer, and in such event, any hurtled with a terrific impacted behind a hill and dropped Alaska and on the run to
been frei. Another glider crippled bomber, Two disappear. al value of $50.00 each, being shares on which the full sum the present unissued Capital of skalt have been paid up shall against the mountain alde, the Company, together with an rank for dividend and in all additional 20,000 now shares of other respects pari pasau with the nominal value of $50.00 each the existing shares of the Com In accordance with the terms of pany as from 1st January, the above Resolution, making a 1948. total of 90,000 new shares of Wa
out further resistance.
The hotel murrendered with smoke bombe in an accurate Washington could have carried
simulation of a crash.....
four tons of bombs apiece In- the Fuberer sent me as a token by powerful jet booster units, ment
The Lavochkin fighter, whoso tend of the excess crewmen, "I reported to Mussolini that standard engine was dugmented baggage and engineering equip of his loyal friendship. Mussolini permitted. Its greatest burst of There could be dozens flying embraced me and assured me that speed in displaying climbing the mission with not much more LOCATED AT RÈME COMMAND. WORKSHOPS, QUEEN'g" cach, to the persons who on the Notes sent by post to each would have put an end to his life. Startling Progress
the nominal value of $50.00 The offer will be made by had daily expected bla extra qualities only, less than those of difficulty than the seven-pane dition to the Allies but that he an elevator, squadron that completed the 7 7th day of August, 1947, are shareholder, specifying the beforehand. registered in the Company's nimmber of shares to which the Meanwhile a plane had land. The progress the Soviet avial hours. And these were combat 000-mile light in less than 84 Shure Register as the holders of shareholder is entitled, and such ed in the valley tutaminshed its tion industry has made since the planca-not tripped down B- the 90,000 Jasued shares in the offer, if not accepted either on landing gear! We cleared the war is to suy the least, startling, 20s like the three which Lleu Capital of the Company, behalf of such shareholder or makeshift landing place and an said one Alled observer, in the proportion of his nominee on or before 81st other Storch landed.
Another Baldi This show to: Major General Curtis Temay tenant GeneralBarney Giles, one now share for each share December 1947, will be deemed held by them respectively, at a to be declined. N
"In Patica Di Mare, three day, should impress on all of us and Major General Emmett premium of "$50.00;;.per share, MS,
planes awaited us and we climb the fallacy or under-estimating O'Donnell few from Japan to of the shares which shall ed to one of them and of wa Soviet aviation."
Chicago in 05 hours 45 minutos The in September 1948. Press
Gallotine and Serap Iron C
LOCATED AT RAS CUENTEAL SALES DEPOT,
SHAMSITUIPO
Water Sterilising" "Outfit":
LOCATED A
AT OLD SUB-ORDNANCE DEPOT, QUEEN'S ROAD,
WARA BAST HONG KONG Portable Love-type Boller
and to propose the Zollowing not be taken up by the Com- went to Germany,” United |;/A&third-observer: said:
Formalla to view. Catalogues and Special Conditions of Sale are etc., may be obtained from Messrs. Larmers Brothers
further Special Resolution:- ***(8) That the afor subject to the followi newshare=fially
6th. 10 Then amour
Inspection of thewey Stores at the above mentioned: Losa- tions can be made between the hours of 9.30 am and 1 HOUR and potwoon 8.00 p.m. and 4.00p.m. on the th Augit 1917.
Termat 50% of the Purchake Money to be paid on the Failable of the Hammer and the Balance to be paid on Friday, the Sihy ÁSUKUNÉ 1947.
follows
panya Shareholders in manner aid 90,000 aforesaid shall be disposed of In fasued such manner and at much time condor times and upon such terms 1 as the Company's. Directors shall dus for in their absolute discretion soo
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