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13.
POSITIONS VACANT
APPLICATIONS
are invited
LAMMERT-BROS
Auctioneer, Surveporn!
and Appraisers, Pedder Building. Telephone No. 20224,
PUBLIC AUCTION The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Autetion on
Friday, the 22nd August 1947
commencing at 2.80 P.M.
at their Sales Rooms No., 36 Hankow Road Kowloon.
from certificated deck and diese A FINE COLLECTION OF
engineer oficers (of foreign or Chincar nationality), ex-Nova! Omcers with five years er, more sca experience and holding
full watchkeeping certificate for eni- ployment in the Marine Depart ment of the Chinese Maritine
Customs. Particulars of contract may be obtained from the Office
of the Chinese Maritime Customs, Marina House, Queen's Road,
Central,
REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY Shipping Accountant, Portuguese Chimere. Reply giving ful details experience, salary expected, ele, Box No. 319, "Chion Mail".
FOR SALE
LADIES SHOES. Mar. Mirrors, Cocktail Trays, Riblions. Cattun Thrend, Raincoats, Sunglasses, Stationery, Sauce Pans, Cutlery, Powder Boxes, and other ladies' articles. V. M. Haminand & Co.. Union Bldg., Room 406.
HONG KONG STAGE CLUB
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
CENTRAL BRITISH
SCHOOL
The Autumn Tertn will commence on Monday, September 15th.
An Entrance Examination for) new pupils will be held at the School on Tuesday, September | 2nd, from 9.80 am, to noon.
Transport will be provided from the Star Ferry, Kowloon, at 9.00
Applications for admission to the school should be made to the Principal not later than Monday, August 25th. No candidate will be allowed to take the Entrance Examination unless such ap |plication has been, måde:
comprising:--n
In view of the large number Chesterfield Suites, Large of applications, already received, Office Writing Table 3' x 5' parents desiring admission for Steel Filing Cabinets, Sitting children who have not yet are Room Tables, Tea Poys, Easy rived in the Colony are asked to Armchairs, Opium Stools, Oscil register their names no early ating Table Fans, Chandelier, a possible; stating age, parti- Extension Dining Tables, Side culara of previous. education, Singic boards, Glass Cabinets, Chairs, and approximate date of arrival,
Divans with Extra Mattresses, Electrie Hot Plate,
W. MULCAHY, Single Iron Bed, Rain Coats,
Principal. Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Low Boys, Bed Side Cabinets, Hongkong, 18th August, 1947. Typist Tables, Double & Single Beds, Office Revolving Arm- chair, #n Table Ornamenta Ele.. Etc.
Alko
1 Checkometer Chèque Writer
2 Underwood Typewriters
I Remington Typewriter,
1 Silent Knight Electrle Re-
•frigerator
1-6 Person Canteen Set With 1 E.P. Cheese Dish and
Sauce Boat
1 Philco Refrigerator
1 Philips Radlo 7 Valves
Teak Bed Room Suite Teak Dining Room Suite Bronze Statue
1 Tientsin Round Carpet 81%
On View from Thursday, the There will be a casting meet- Ing for a Radio Play, "Mr. 21st August 1947..
10 Ternis: As Customary.
LAMMERT BROS.. Anelloneers.
Pratt's Waterloo", at 8.30 night 20th August
the Missions for Seamen, (next to the China Fleet Club).
PUBLIC AUCTION
BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTOR OF DISPOSALS FAR EASTERN AREA (M. 0. 5.) Menure.. Lammert Brothers of Pedder Building, Hong Kong, have received instructions to sell by Auction at their Sales Rooms, Pedder Building, Basement, at 10.00 nm, on Wednesday, the 20th day of August 1947:
A LARGE QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS STORES LOCATED AT "K" GODOWN OF THE HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD., KOWLOON.
Apparatus Buoyant, Kettles, Engine Refrigerating. Knap- sack Containers, Branch Pipes, Breeches Dividing 24", Com- pound Foam, Fire Foam Charges Nos. 1 & 2, Fire Extinguishers, Hoses Canvas, Hoses Suction, Nuzzles, Fire Pump Suction Adap tor, Canvas Straps, Rapes Steel Wire, Scrows Bottle E. & E., Shackles, Sings, Spreaders, Trays, Lega Wire, Snotters, Wire, Strops Steel Wire, Chains Steel, Cables Electric, Fittings Elec- tric Assorted, Doors Wooden Ladders, Drawers, Cupboards,
Locker Doors, Blackout Screens, Baking Tins, Bread Tins, Tubs, Steel Louvrea for Fan Blowers, Basins Metal, Water Closela and Pana, Sinks Steel and Porcelain, Buth Bricks, Asbestos Composition, Emergency Lights, Water, Condensers, Boxes Fuel for Water Conderṣers, etc. etc.
LOCATED AT H. M. NAVAL YARD, HONG KONG.
Froga Bayonet, Haversacks, Slings Rifle, Face Pleces, Tubes Connecting. Braces and Lamps 24" L.C.D
LOCATED AT H. M. NAVAL YARD, KOWLOON Cutter 20'
Permita to view, Catalogues and Special Conditions of Sale etc. may be obtained from Messrs. Luminert Brothers.
Inspection of these Stores at the above mentioned Locations can be made between the hours of 9.30 a.m. and 12 noon and. between the hours of 2.00 p.m. and 4,00 pm. on 18th and 19th August 1947.
Terms: 50% of the Purchase Money to be paid on the Fall of the Hammer and the Balance to be paid on Thursday, the 21st August 1947.
WALTER M. WEINBERGER CHAIRMAN,
BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD, (HONG KONG)
NOTICE
Will Firms please note that Dollar Directory
forms for the 1948 edition should be corrected,
and completed as soon as possible, and returned to the “CHINA MAIL" Office, Windsor House,
without delay.
13
PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME
Act, 1804,
of
„THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1947.
CUSTOMS UNION FOR EUROPE: CEYLON
BRITISH PARTICIPATION?
Attack On Monopoly Prices
Geneva, Aug. 18.
Prospects of an European customis union and the possibility of the United Kingdom's participa- tion were discussed by Mr. William L. Clay- ton, U.S. Under-Secretary of State for econo- mic affairs, and Britain's Secretary for Over-| seas Trade, Mr. Harold Wilson, during a
American "Plot" In
FLOOD DISASTERS
Colombo, Aug. 18. Thousands of persons were homeless today and casualties were feared
lengthy meeting last night, it was learned South China! high as a result of the
from reliable quarters today.
Washington, Aug. 18. The United Kingdom was sald The government in a drive to have stressed, the great dif. against high prices struck on feulties about joining on Euro. Monday at all price-fixing by peans watonis union but indicat. automobile tyre manufacturers ed the possibility, in principle, and steel companies.
of participation.
UNRRA PROTEST
the
the
Shanghal, Aug. 19. worst flood in Ceylon's The Commuulat Radio Inter-history.
repted here today charged that Planes werd used to drop Wedemeyer fact-Anding food to some in accessible dis- mission in Canton is a "signal tricts. A landslide at Hatton
of United States penetration in.
#
to South China" and predicted was feared to have killed several persons, while 'more than 20 direct clash of
Anglo.
persons were killed in another American Interests in that part huge, landslide at Kotma'e. of the country.
There was a third landslide at
"To dominate South China Nuwara Ellua, where a factory
coaualtics.
The Justice Department an. Mr. Clayton is scheduled to pro. Paris to London to nounced criminal information ceed from ander the
Shanghal. Aug. 18. nati-Trust Lawe meet Sir Stafford Cripps.
Mr. Wilson left Geneva this!· A majority of UNRRA per- against eight manufacturers of automobile lyres, a Tyre Manu- morning for consultations in Lon-sonnel in China has requested
Association don,
Central Committee facturers Trade
In the United States will have to Meanwhile, reliable well.in. Washington to resume relief expel British Influence first. on the catato was moved entire- and 10 individuals, accusing
fix the formed sources indicated that deliveries to North China im- This explains why Gen. Wede and caused a number of them of agreeing to
nothing short of a scheme en mediately and to remove meyer conferred with the United:
Floods were causing distress prices of tyres.
The Federal Trade Commis- visaging the eventual welding to. UNRRA employees, from an States Consul in Hongkong an sion meanwhile fasued an order gether of European economies "Intolerable position of sup- August 15 during his visit to North Colombo and more than a thousand men wero necusing steel makers of con- would be acceptable as a basis for porting one side in, the civi. Canton."
working day and night in an spiracy to fix prices and stifle implementation of the Marshall war,"
The broadcast again charged effort to prevent the Kelani competition. It ordored them plan.
An informaat told United that the United States govern-river from flooding the south to "ccase and desist." In A Customs union is the ultimate Press that members signing the ment recently signed an agree-part of the city.
the its realisation is petition included nearly all the meat with,
Portugueso It is believed the general elec- third action the Justice Depart-goal but until ment filed an Anti-Trust "ault more definitive,-on Immediate un. Australiana and Canadians, authorities in Macao where in tions, scheduled to begin on
what it called dertaking by European countries about half of the American em- Portugal allows break up
United August 23, may be postponed "legal arrangements" tending for a move in that direction is exployees and others.
States the use of Macao as a because of the disorganization to a monopoly in production of pected, the sources added.
The greatest complaint is scaport, while the United States caused by the floods-United This colour motion pictures.
It is envisaged that trade and that UNRRA relief is going appropriates US$3,000,000
to Press. case is directed against techni-tariff barriers between Europear. only to Nationalist China improve the port. Tblo Ja colour and Eastman Kodak-countries will be reduced as far as United Press,
generally believed to be one of Associated Press.
possible, though in stages, to en. able the development of a bayls for sound competitive economics, with steadily increasing produc tion and absorptive capacity.
to
China's Claim To Ryukyus
It is understood that participa. tion of the United Kingdom in a customs union is not expected by the United States as a "condition The influential Chinese mornine qua non" in respect of the
Shanghai, Aug. 19.
RUHR DECISIONS
Washington, Aug. 18. British officials forecast to day that the week-old Anglo- American Conference on Ruhr, coal production might finish its
the
the steps adopted by the United ARAB-JEWISH
recently COLLISION FEARED
States to Isolate Hongkong." | (Масло authorities
were quoted by the neutral press | na denying auch ̧ rumours). — United Press.
Paris, Aug, 18. Greta Garbo, the Rim star who arrived here along from London
it was stated here today--Reuter,
Jerusalem, Aug. 18. Palatine's 660,000 Jews wore warned tonight to be prepared for "resurgence of Arab violence" in the critical days continue into their third week.
Mr. David Romez, Chairmen
Hellenic Linco We, China Limited 0/0 Brutton & Co., Lin Solicitors, Windsor House, here-) by give notice that in confor- mation with owners nomencla- ture We have applied to the Minister of Transport, undering paper, "Sin Wan Pao," In an/Marshall, plan Implementation, work and deliver definite recom" last night-with no reporters or ahead" us iftor-racial clashes Section 47 of the Merchant editorial today, demanded that tough it is considered desirable, mendations for the stepping up photographers to meet hoe will The United States appreciates of the output of the German later go to her native Sweden and Shipping
In the government formally submit respect of the
Steamship a Chinese demand for the re- the technical dificulties of such a mines by next weekend-Rewi may possibly make a film there,
move for the United Kingdom, ter. Bulbul" HONG turn" of the Ryukyu Islands due to its Commonwealth struc "Empire KONG REGISTRY Official of which Okinawa is the printure, but eventual access would Number 147002 Gross tonnage cinal island to China. 507 tons Register tonnage 270
The paper claimed that cul-l zons, heretofore owned by Emm. turally, historically and anthro-trade. Yannoulatos (Far East) po'ogically the Ruykyus belong Limited, Mitre Street, London, E.C. 3 for permission to change her name to "Hellenic Bulbul" and to have her registered in the new name at the Port of HONG KONG GA owned by China
Hellenic Lines Limited.
Any objection to the proposed change of name must sent
be
Pan-American
the REGISTRAR} to OF SHIPPING at HONG KONG within SEVEN days from the appearance of this advertise-
ment.
Dated at HONG KONG, the 18th day of August 1947.
CHINA HELLENIC LINES LIMITED
G. M. STAMATELATOS
Director,
Service Auction Rooms
Auctioneers, Surveyors, etc. Basement, French Bank Bldg., A.EB. do Bouss, Auctioneer Telephone 81887.
Treaty Snag
British sources
Hungarian Secret Fund Allegation
of the Jewish National Council, in a statement to the Hebrew press, sald that the danger · would arlac if the United Na tions reached a solution of the Palestine problem adverse to Arab political aspirations.
He appealed to the "disai- dent" elements to cease their political activity-Reuter,
ANGLO-AMERICAN PROTEST
.
ne helpful from the viewpoint of
and freeing
world expanding
emphasise the to China but were "nipped off" United Kingdom's twin position from China by the Japanese, as an intra.Juropean and extra.
It sald that unleas the Chinese European
power which would regain possession of theso necessitate presumably the whole, Islands, the Japanese will Uso Commonwealth to enter the unlori.
Budapest, Aug. 18. these lelands as a springboard United Press.
Government officials said today that an investiga- for designs on Taiwan,-United
Parts Meeting
tion has been ordered of charges against the Press.
Budapest, Aug. 18. Parla, Aug. 18.
opposition leader, Father Stephan Balogh,
States Offcials of the United For the third time this month
that he misappropriated 200,000 forints Legation reported today that the three top flight American diplo.
($22,000) while Under-Secretary of State,
British and American diplomatic mats met this afternoon in the
heads will call on the Hungarlan Balogh, who resigned last May said that .Balogh American Embassy to discuss
would not be
Premier this afternoon to present ecznomic problems and to follow and recently emerged from rearrested,
complaints on the exclusion of the work of the 18-pation Euro-Urement to organize the indepen. "He knows too much," he ex-non-Communists from the August pean Economic Cooperation Cam-dent Hungarian Democratic plained.
81 elections.' Petropolis, Brazil, Aug. 18.
mittee.
Party, allegedly misused the Balogh said: "The whole thing! Premier Lajos Dinnyes will be The Inter-American Defence
Will Clayton, U.S. Undersecre-Prime Minister's "minority fund" in a political manoeuvre. The asked to correct the alleged eles Conference struck its first snagtary of State of Economie Affairs,
fund was for any purpose Ition abuses, in accordance with today when its committeo on bassador to
Lewis C. Douglas, American Am2 | "I am not worried, I have not thought most helpful for
the instructions from London the. Court of S. reduced
And "action in the case of threats James and Jefferson Caffery, U. conscience is clear" the 300-pound wanted a foreign corresponden
'an ounce becauso my country. For example, it we: Washington. or aggression", one of three Ambassader to France, met
It was announced that Dinnyes Committees appointed earlier to "closed" conferences.
priest retorted when advised of to write a favourable story about will assert that only 300,000 per- draft acctiona
the government's action. of an inter-
Hungary and we handed The three diplomata are ex-
hlin United Press. "There won't be any investiga. 1,000 forints, of course I didn't, Americ
mutual defence pected to send a detailed report
And I won't he tresty, failed to agree on a to Washington but are not expect.
arrested get a receipt. I apent 10 or 20
times 200,000 forints during my]
KRUPP TRIAL basis for approaching the pro-ed to announce their findings in either," Balogh said.
The Minister of Justice, Istvan two years as Under-Secretary; No- Paris-United Press,,
Frankfurt, Aug. 18. Ries, who is charged with the body can ask me to give an ac The trial of Alfred Krupp, investigation, refused to com-count of this. The retiring Premier the German arms king, and 11 ment.
usually destroys any trace of other Krupp directors is to be- "It is not our polley to discuss what he has used it for....The gin carly in October in Nurem- telephone," Ries said.
only on a larger acale.”—United | in the American Zone said to-
day. -Router,
blem.
A motion to consider one of}
the eight proposed treaty drafts Heated
submitted, to the Pan-American Union as a basis for the com-1
tion.
song have been disenfranchised.—
mttee's work was defeated un- Vienna Scene Pegally on the same thing is done in America berg, the German news agency
animously,
The committee will resume Its] deliberations tomorrow-Reuter.}
Vienna, Aug. 18. A heated scene occurred at today's meeting of the Four- BOY SCOUTS IN Power Allied Commission - on
ACCIDENT
the Austrian treaty when Mr. John Dodge, the United States Molsson, Aug. 18.
dissatis- Nine Belgian
delegate, expressing Boy Scouts faction with the delay in the PUBLIC AUCTION were injured today, some serl-work of the Commission, sald ously, when two narrow gauge that the Russians had hindered The Undersigned has received trains operating around the everything the Commission had
World Jamboree camp sell by Public crashed.
site tried to do, instructions to
according to a Auction on WEDNESDAY, tho The Scouts were rushed to
usually well-informed BOUTCO 20th AUGUST, 1947,
here. .com-the camp hospital where the mencing at 2.30 pm. at the pro- doctors said "some are serious dolegate, made an equally heat- M. Kyril Novikay, the Soviet mises of
THE BALALAIKA y Injured" but declined to dined reply. RESTAURANT,
close their names or numbers.- Nos. 19-21, Hankow Road, Urited Press.
Kowloon
A LARGE QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE & MISCELLAN- EOUS GOODS, Comprising: Single. & Double Wardrobes
with mirrors;
TUNNELS CONSTRUCTED BY THE JAPANESE Owners of property under Single & Double Beds with box which, or adjutent to which
spring mattresses;
there are tunnels, constructed Sideboards; Chests-of-drawers; by the Japanese during the
Dressing Tables;'
occupation of Hong Kong, are Sofas & Arm-chairs; Square hereby notified that the presence
Tables & Chairs;"
announced Mr. Dodge ther that he had been requested by the United States Government to return to Washington for con- sultation on the future work of the Commission. His place an the Council will be taken during his absence by his deputy, Mr. David Ginsburg-Router,
of
ENGINEERING BOOM PREDICTED
London, Aug. 19. of such tunnela should "boʻro-
British Government sources unid Extension Dining Tables & ported in writing to the Execua boom in the engineering indus
Chaira; Book-Cases:
tive Engineer 1/c Ronds and tries, especially in heavy machin EP.N.S. Ware: Cutlery, Glass Tunnelna, Pubile Works Departery, railroad cars and agricultural ware & Porcelainware, mant, Lower Albert Road, equipment, extremely likely”
mediately,
in the autumn na o result Table Lamps, etc., etc.
Britain's economic crisis produce The Public Works Department tion programme. will not undertake Bability for
Business leaders agreed with the any such tunnels unless they that the government's programme Sorecast, but with, the provision are reported before 1st Septem actually succeeds in boosting steel ber, 1947, and Hability for any production as plaanid-Associat damage due to such tunnels od Press which have not been reported by that date will be the reapon- ibility of the owners of the pro-
Also
1. "Gibson" Frigidaire.
1 Carpet 8 x 11: Palma & Flowers in Pols.
On View from Friday, the 15th August to Sunday, the August
17th
For Catalogues & further parti-perty concammedie culars apply 14
MR. A.E.B. DE BOUBAI The Auctioneer. Hong Kong, 14th August, 1947/
V. KENNIFE Director of Fablic Works
9016 July, 1947.
Tokyo. Aug. 1, The newspaper "Annfil" re- ported today that 15 young Ja- panesamen kidnapped two Ja panese women who had been Zriendly with Allied soldiers and reped them while borating them for thele #disgrace to the
Japanseo, United Press
A Foreign Ministry spokesmen Press.
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