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Abdullah El Wazir Disclaims Responsibility For
Cairo, Mar. 6. Imam Abdullah El Wazir, who proclaimed himself ruler of the Yemen after the overthrow of the Government on February 18, has disclaimed any responsibility for the murder of his pre- decessor, Imam Yahya Hamid-Din, the Egypt- lan weekly newspaper "Akhbar Él Yom" re- ported today.
the Forty-sixth Ordinary Yearly BY ORDER OF THE DIREC Meeting of the Members of this TOR OF DISPOSALS FAR Company will be held at the of Mcasra, Jardine, EASTERN AREA (M, V. 9.) Office Menara, LAMMERT BRO Mathesco & Co., Ltd., on Wed THERS of Pedder Building, nesday, the 17th day of March, Hong Kong, have received in-1948, at Noon, to receive the structions to goll by Auction at Report of the Board of Direc their Sales Rooms,
Fedder tors and Statement of Accounts The Building, Basement, at 10.00 for the year ended Sist Decem- s.m. on Thursday, the 11th. ber, 1947, to elect Directors and
to appoint Auditors. March, 1948:---
A LARGE QUANTITY OF OLD AND SURPLUS STORES
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Cycles, Canyan Tenta, (com piete Tent Flies and Poles, Seiteen, Fans, Microphones,
Notice is also given that the Transfer Booka of the Company will be closed from the 4th March, 1948, to the 17th March, 1948, both days inclusive,
By Order of the
Board of Directors,
Watchen, Baskets, Canvas, Hong Kong, 20th Feb., 1948. Timber, Hessian, Leather,
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THE HONGKONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING
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and accounts for: the past year
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of the Associa tion,
To elect officers.
T. P. WU,
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NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN❘ that the Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 5th March, 1948 to the 19th March, 1948 both days inclu- sive.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
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25th February, 1948.
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paper claimed to have obtained a report of the Arab League mission, which went to the Yemen to investigate the situation there after the Emir Seif El Islam Ahmed, son of the as- sassinated ruler, had declared himself "King" in definance of Imam Abdullah. ·
In the report, to Abdul Rah- according to a Reuter despatch man Azzam Pasha, Secretary-from Aden.--Reuter. General of the Arab League. Iman Abdullah was quoted as saying:
mi
"I swear by Allah and honour that I did not know of the murder of Yahya unt!! after I wan committed. I had nothing to do with it, I did not know about the plot. I did not covet the throne."
Arms Purchases
Murder
Franco
Wouldn't Like It
Hrussels, Mar. 6. The coming Anglo-French/ Benelux defence pact will con- tain statements that "no totall- įtarian slate would very much like to join in." British spokes-
men said on Saturday.
These indications were given by Sir George Rendel, Ambas- sador to Bellum, and Gladwyn Jebb, of the Foreign Office.
One of the questions to be worked
told the vill, Jebb
Cairo, Mar, G. Two Cairo newspapers re- port that the Government form-1 ed in the capital of Yemen after Associated Press, is to what the Imam Yahya wan killed extent the alliance will be open recently has threatened to ob to other countries,
tain arms from non-Arab coun
"We wouldn't exactly be trien if Arab states do not supjoin it tomorrow morning," he eager to have General Franco
י
The report asserted, accord-ply them. ing to the "Abkhar El Yom," that most members of Abdullah The daily "Al Misri" carried DI Wazir'e Government had the report from Jeddah Saudi condemned the murder
weekly and and the
"Akhbar E added that members of the Yom" added that the San Arab League mission were in- (Capital of the Yemen) Gov. clined to believe the Iman's as- ernment has threatened to get
arma from Britain. sertions.
Other press reports said that
the new ruler had rejected the suggestions for a plebiscite and had threatened the Arab failing the re. League that. cognition of his regime, he would seek foreign aid. Saud of King Iba
Saudi Arabia was reported from Aden to have adopted a neutral stand in the dispute between the two claimants to the Yemenite throne, saying that he would abide by the decision of the Arab League."
remarked.
The British delegates said the part would lay down the general principles of a defensive! military alliance. But it would not contain detailed provisions on that score.
Ways and means of imple- menting it would be loft for cral of the Arab League, told adu. No military advisors are Azzam Pasha, Secretary-Gen- | discussion after the pact, they
Al Misr!" in Jeddah that the attending.
The conference "was expect. British and American ambas-
adors in Cairo had told him ed to continue at least past the that their countries had no in. week ench" a Belgian
of Interfering in the said.-Associated Presa. tention Yemen's affairs.
He added that American and
dah had reiterated this attitude.
British representatives in Jed-
"Al Misti" said two British warships are anchored at The Emir Ahmed was still Jeddah and three American in his mountain refuge today. warships are due to trying to induce neighbouring there on Saturday-Associated triben to
unite with him Presa. against Alxfullah El Wizar,
NOTICE
THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD.
Ordinary Yearly General Meeting
arrive
Rice Hits Record Price
Shanghai, Mar. 7.
Quest For Highest Mountain
source
Shanghai, Mar, 7. Milton Reynolds. Chicago pen millionaire, arrived in China today in quest for the highest mountain in the world,
flew
record
Pilot Bill Odom, who around the world in time recently, set the mountain- hunting expedition's big four- engined ship down at 8hang. hai's Lunghua airport at 3.25| p.m.
3rd Floor
A large crowd was there to meet them. Stepping from the) Notice is hereby given that{
The price of rice hit the all-plane, Odom said with a smile: NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN the ordinary yearly general time high of CN13,400,000 per we had a beautiful trip all that the Ordinary Yearly Gen meeting of shareholders of the picut yesterday evening, with a the way across the Pacific" eral Meeting of the Company Company will be held at the spectacular jump of $300,000. The expedition, folatly spon-| will be held at the Offices of head office of the Company, 6 Although the authorities inl sored by Reynolds and. the Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Des Voeux Road Central, Hong-charge of food supplies declared Boston Museum of Science, will Company, Limited, Hongkong kong, on Monday the 16th that the hike was "entirely due move to Nanking tomorrow on Wednesday, 24th day of March, 1948, at 3.00 p.m. for to artificial manipulation," re-morning. March, 1948, at 12 o'clock Noon, the purpose of receiving and ports from rice-producing cen- Odom said they expected to
indicated arrive to transact the ordinary busi- considering the reports of the tres such as Wusih
at Lanchow, head- ness of the Company.
Directors and of the Auditors that prices in those areas have quarters of China's wild west- Acairo been skyrocketting during in a few days. Reynolds and. And, NOTICE IS HEREBY and the Profit and Loss
American and Chinese scientiste H. ALSO GIVEN that the Regis-count and Balance Sheet for the-laat two days
the year ending 31st December. Meanwhile, rice coupons are will photograph a peak close to of Members of the Com 1947, and for the appointment continuing to be issued to local Tibet, which is believed to be pany will be closed from the
as Shanghai's first the world's highest mountain 10th to the 24th day of March, of auditors and declaration of residents
dividends,
rice
rationing scheme moves yet unchartered. Some observers 1948, both days inclusive.
into top gear. Reuter,
think it is higher than Everest-Associated Press.
ter
By Order of the Board,
W. H. PATERSON,
Secretary Hongkong, 2nd March, 1948.
ENGINEERING SOCIETY OF HONG KONG
SYMPOSIUM OF TALKS
on
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The Register of Shares of
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From
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Is Serious"
Pearl Harbour, Mar, 0. Admiral Dewitt C. Hamsey, Pacifc Fleet Commander, sald to-
"Solid South" Hollow?
the
Philadelphia, Mar. 6, Carroll Reece, chairman of day he was inclined to agree the Republican National Com with Generals Douglas Mac- Arthur and Albert Wedemeyer that military aid to China was
necessary.
mitteo sald today there is a "good chance" that five Southern states would go Republican in the Presidential election.
He named the states Oklahoma, Virginia, North Ten-
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I do not know the State De- partment's policy in regard to military aid, and I don't want my statements to conflict with that policy" he told a press con- Carolina, Kentucky and ference after his return from
and added the Re aniessen, trip to China, "but the altuation publicans might even carry in Chind is morious.”
some states in the "Deep Ramsey, who inspected. naval South." Installations in the Western Southern states the "Solid Pacific, paid a brief visit to Nan-South" have traditionally king, calling on Genaralissimo
voted Democratic. Chiang Kai-shek,
He said he found Chiang an Reece sald Republican chances interesting personality with great in the South would have been devotion to his cause; he added | good even without a fight, in: that the Chinese. leader was inDemocratic party · ranks (over excellent health. Associated President Truman'a civil rights Press.-
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