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24th July --Our 2nd Lucky Day
In Commemoration of "Our 1st Anniversary.
We are pleased to announce that our 2nd Lucky Day falls on 24th July 1949-a date pre- viously chosen and written on a piece of paper and confided to our Solicitor, Mr. A. el Arculli, who The scaled it and kept it under lock and key. -breaking of the seal was carried out on 2nd August at noon in the presence of and witnessed by our soid solicitor.
Lucky holders of our 2nd Lucky Day receipts (24th July 1949) are requested within one month from today (before 2nd Sept.) to return such re- ceipts to our Companies in exchange for goods to the value of 50% of the receipts face amounts. Holders of our 1st Lucky Day receipts (13th July, 1949) are reminded that 15th August, 1949 is the limit for similar exchange of goods.
All Lucky Day receipts (both 1st & 2nd Lucky Days) must be exchanged before the respective stipulated expiry dotes and thereafter holders will automatically forfeit their own privilege and right to such exchange of goods.
VANSEN
COMPANY,
33-33A Queen's Rd., Central jointly with
KEENSEN COMPANY,
China Bldg., Queen's Ed., C. HONG KONG.
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESS
I thank the PRESS, both Chinese and Foreign, for their unstinted support in publishing
"THE BABE RUTH STORY
Without it we could not have hoped for the suc- cess this picture enjoyed at the Lee Theatre.
KOWLOON patrons will be happy to learn that this "finest of human stories" begins its run at the ALHAMBRA THEATRE on Saturday, the
5th of August.
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1949.
LINCOLN MESSAGE IN DANGER
SAYS MRS PANDIT
New York, August 3. ·
| The inspiring message of Abraham Lincoln and Jof- forson, by which the American people had come by their success, today appears to be in danger,
Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, India's Ambassador to India, said this to an audience at Columbia University today.
QUEEN'S QUIET
and your stand you
"Your atom hembs skyscrapers win
tile stead unless that message is
to heart taken
and put pracfice," she said,
About 2,000 persons were pre-
Victoria's Descendant A Nazi
Hamburg, August 3. Carl Eduard von Bachsen, and Goths, Duke of Coburg
Queen #great-grandson of
Victoria, was declared a Nazi follower by a Hamburg Court of Appeal today.
The 64-year-old Duke, who is in hospital, was tried in abrentia.
Under Hitler He was Presi.
the
Reu German dent Cross, an honorary leader of the Storm Troopors, a high officer in the Nail Motor and Reichstag Согра Aviation deputy until the end of the war and "Naxi party member after 1933.
The court fined him 2,000 marks.-Associated Deutsche
Preze.
Kent in the University Hall, and **** at the end of the address they
BIRTHDAY pluded Mirs. Fandit for sev-
Queen
London, August 3. Elizabeth will murk
|
eral minutes.
clone
The United States has great things and in destined to Pandit do greater things. Mrs.
her 40th birthday without cere-snkl. But the country is in great
need of the wisdom of the ages. mony at Buckingham Palace on
There is no point in nine nu- Thursday, a Palace spokesman
tion having the ability to dll the said today.
begging bowl of almost all other many others are nations while steeped in ignorance and poverty. shared. "Freedom should be The world's troubles today arise because we are selfish and he cause we attach a value to things that are really valueless."
means
However, chips
of the Juyal Navy will dress verail in British ports, which
Hags and bunting from stem to stern, and the King's tro" of the Royal Horse Cards will are a 11-gun salute in London's Hyde Park.
United States Navy ships in Bri- tish ports will Are 21 guns at noon, it was announced by A- mirai R, S, Jolly, Commander-in
Change Of Heart Called For
ACTRESS WEDS IN CHELSEA
of Chelsen.
CRITICISM IN AUDIT DEPARTMENT'S REPORT
Departure From The Regulations
A number of departures from the approved re- gulations were brought to the notice of the Hong Kong Government by the Department of Audit, according to the 1947-48 annual roport of the Department.
The report said that it was observed that in cer-
tain cases, paysheets for coolie labour had not been countersigned by some officer, other than the officer making the payments, who Atten- was present at the time of payment. tion was drawn to the General Order cover- ing this point and the Heads of Departments concerned stated that the correct procedure would be followed in future.
*xpens
carried out in the Stores Depart- ment, to Head 20, Miscellaneous Services, Sub-head 24, "High Cost of Living and Rehabilitation Al- lowances, as the payment was not in respect of work carried out directly by coolies, employed Government. The Accountant
in General has instructed that, future, provision for payments of this nature must be made under the sub-head of Expenditure to which such expenditure is to he charged.
In reply to an enquiry #s to the Luthority for and purpose of, an Advance account opened In respect of a steel contract, the Accountant General stated that the initial charge to this account was in respect of an advance of 30% of the value of the contract rice of a shipment of steel. In reply to
request for Stere: stated there was no can- ract, and that the service ad not been put out to Public Ten- tho der. It appears that owing to
the
contract, the Control of
of
of Expenditure for the steel, the Financial Secretary had given approval for the acceptance your 1949.50 for the
of any offers of steel made, and of the Tokyo office.
the departure authorized
Colonlai Regulations An uncertified
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In the
course of the
398
audit
of the counts of
Department
and
Supplies fudustry, in
in Italy and
and
mates The question of how far the} London, August 3. Department of Supplies, Trade
and The film actress, Angela Lans-and Industry, is considered to bury, who was refused a marriage, be bound by the normal re-
Hom copy of eeremony at London's Bow Parish gulations has been dealt with
of the Supplies, Trade and in- Tel Church because both she and her in the report on the Account agreement between the Director and 341.
future husband have been mar- ried before, will wed tomorrow ing methods of the Supplies, dustry Department, and t. private examination at Chapel of St. Columbus Trade and Industry Depart-
of the Government Rice Department, It was observed that of Colonial Audit, referred to ration was rerently forwarded to revocable letters of credit had at the the riverside district ment to the Director General firm, with regard to the distribue the Supplies, Trude and Industry been opired by the Larecter of Miss Lansbury, grond-daughter in paragraph 50 of the pre- this office, ondt Information was
the Trade of the famous Labour leader. Mr.vious annual report, and His requested as to whether this set- George Lansbury, flew the At lantic inst month with her fiance, patch of the 19th of March tract after public tender,
in Ross Mrs. Pandit salt that America the film actr Peter Shaw, in the where her grandfather Chtich, with a spiritual force equal to
worshipped regularly. the greatest in any other coun
St. Coluna un is a Church of |
But try.
that spiritual Today
Saitland pinces of worship. The ceremony will be performed by force is getting somewhat lim.
She wald In the course of
Dr.
R. K V. Scott, "You Address:
have Dr. Staf 6 that the Church her tremendous power, but power of Scotland permits Ministers to should be judged in terms of maizy a divorced person, pruvid- the ability to create,
ed he or she is an limoecht party In law. destroy. Human emotions are not controlled by material things.
Excellency the Governor's des- vice had been arranged by con-
The Australia to
to facilate the pur.
Chief of US. Naval Forces in the when she arst arose hod people / hope of being married
Eastern Auntie and Mediter- ranean, They will also fre the nalute B ports where British ships are tying, he added.
Princess Margaret's 19th birth- Plans for day is on August 21. it are inemplete but the annual
will birthday datice
be held earlier this year because the 21st
Sunday,
Palace falls од spokesman sald, The Queen will go to Balmtral Castle in Scotland on Friday--Associated Press.
aj
IL
Scots Girl Killed In The Alps
Mountain,
Engelberg, August 3.
She
not to
"The couple told me that they wished to be properly married The last war ended in defeat and make a really new beginning, ali found, rather than victory. and I thought the right thing to Calling for a change of heart, do was to consent," he added. Mrs.
Pandit said that Western Reuter.
1wo civilisation hus twice in
Into the world generations led
"Therefore, let us find some- thing on which we can plant our feet firmly and net together.
"No nation can take upon it- self a task which is not shered by others."
Wal
jan
The Key
The Indan
:
civilisation
Vatican On Japan Birth Control
rvice chase of cotton yarn and butter.
1049 to the Secretary of State, Director replied that this service has been request-
This
continued, hist department
to notice however, to bring all such infringements of the regulations as were observed during Audit examinations of the accounts of that depart ment during the period under review.
agreements
the
to
this
to the authority for would appear that,
not been put on to PublicA tender and a further request fi
made byed, as it woul Information has been this department, as to whethetheae purchases cannot be mude covering approval has been through the Crown Agents in ac- tained for dispensing with the cordance with Colonial Regula- of the Rege Intions covering this
the approval prestion 341,
Secretary of State should be ob- cedure.
tained for this method
of pur- chasing supplies.
Rice Transport
It Whe observeri examination Audit
1948.
during on
that AUIT!
Keys To Vaults
it was brought to notice that
Government
of the Colony not held in with the terms of
nartment, to the fact that the Liransport as a charge to public comlinations to the
to the Fee distributor,
Gov-
tion
the fact
et.penses
the
of the
Reran
Many instances of the manner in which the purchase of goods and the supply of services were contract ofter urranged withert public tender, and in some cases wrist written agreement, were amounting to $8.835.99 had been
reaght to notice, Apart from the charged to the Suspense Account the keys and combinations of the breach of regulation: ocensioned-tee, for Government lorries on Vaults, in which the main stocks
kept, were Trade and Industry De by this procedure. The absence of life to the Rice Section of the of the currency
ccordance centructor willten
for
month the placed this department
It
Colonial Regulation 293, by the subsequently
ere Accountant
General and two position of having difficulty in March,
lurries were that the Granspired that
principal of
officers of the verifying that payments made
ured for the transportation and other for goods local companies
appointed by distribution of rice, rugar, and services supplied were in order.
stances Information was request- It was necessary to draw the four in Hong Kong and Kowinion. Governor, and in these circum
An explanation was requested stances info the attention of the Director of Supplies, Trade and Industry De- to the authority for supplying ed as to whether the two officers. blic who actually held the keys and vaults, were Vatican City, August 3.
funde to The Vatican newspaper, "Os rates of pay of coolies employed it appeared that under the terms to be responsible for the safe servatore Romano," claimed to- by the Marketing Section of that
General A 34-year-old Glasgow secres that the answer to Communism lies trol in Japan plays into the Com-iinid down in the relevant Gov./hod eperated from August. 1940, vaults, The Accountant Ambassador said day that legislation of birth ron-, department, differed from those of a prev.us agement which custody of the contents
1 with the same rm ervering the replied that there was no ques-
tinn tion of himself being relieved that ernment circulars. In reply Dickie, in a searching of hearts, because munist hands and means
distribution of rice. the commis
il control of the tary. Miss Margaret
anti-was stated that the retes paid to sto part 15 the firm was to cover from the genel con was fatally injured in a mount has its roots in the frustration the Reds will outnumber
that individuals concerned differed frar sportation nd distribu- currency, and the system relating Engelberg lain fall near
on of hopes, in discontent, in tragic Communists by 1968,
thereto, but that it was imprac In an article submitted by the from those laid down by
Herbic Sunday, it was disclosed today. Inequalities.
ihat thrical
other or any The Pirestor replied that at
he, The remedy to apply is the National Catholic Welfare Coun-moment, on account o With three Swiss friends she Sermon on the Mount, but she cil, the "Osservatore" sald that at that these rates had been eed time that the orginal agreement senior official of the Government,
was made, ali transport was con- should be designated directly fell 400 feet down the Tillis asked, does the so-called Christ-the present session of the Japan-to in 1910. but that, me luure,
the represent
of Deputies the payments would be made at the trolled by Government and tha control the vaults. The Governor ese Chamber
therefore understood that subsequently approved the pro resolution was passed legalising normal rates Inid down by Gov-it was ther
The
Communists ernment, so-called pagans of birth control.. Miss Dickie, who was holiday word of God?
Government transport would be posal, that one key and combina ing in Lucerne, had climbed the the East, have found the message alone opposed the measure."
supplied without charge to the tion to the vauits should continue Rice distributor, the commission to be held by the Assistant Ac- 1,000-foot Tits peak with at
this mean", the "Os- "Doesn't this God." of
the Swise girl friend and the friend's
intended to cover the pro-countant General and another key being Communism can not be met inservatore" demanded, "that brother.
Party will a hysterical fashion. It has it Japanese Communist
This Department was informed vision of coolie labour in respect and combination by a designated roots reality and must be met forbid among its adherents the by the Financial Secretary that of distribution and transportation Senior Treasury official
The Accountant General han bewending they were joined by with reality.
means of birth control and what the expenses of the Tokyo office only. This explanation was ne-
also been instructed to draw up a Swiss man and all four were The key in
world happiness will be the consequences? In less of the Hong Kong Government cepted. ruped together,
the eds will have
in Japan
The attention of the Accountant rules governing the control and were to be Agent lies somewhere between Buddha than 20 years
The res- at their command
an absolute charged to the Suspense account Generat was drawn to the fact custody of valuables in the vaults, For set in during the descent and the atom bomb.
virtue of the fact Japanese Trade" and that the that certain sub-heads of ex-end the matter is being kept in and the two girls fust their foot-ponsibility of leadership devolv-majority by
authority of the Secretary of penditure, affecting four depart view. ing on an icy slope.
ing upon America is the great-thas the non-Communist populate was being sought for this rents, were being used in
est in history,
tion, by means of birth Miss Dickle died while being
enormously re- Suspense account. In reply. people should practice will and itself
was revealed be more department pointed out that which gave them the effect of claspection at the Queen will thus
resulted Hospital, since Suspense sub-head
and brought back to Engelberg. The the great lessons left to them by duced and
suns Increase of
deposited by pellents at ogainst three Swiss were injured but their leaders and, at the same casily overcome. Soviet Russia in this expenditure appeared to be in an unauthorized
Hospitals. be the funds available under these Government their condition is not serious. time, derive lesson from the in fact convinced that the masses anal expenditure.h-head sub-heads. TR (Puired, owing maintenance fees, were not being
of her population will be a de-met from an approved
factor in winning cisive
the of expenditure subject to Legis-to the practice of charging the remitted to the Accountant Gen-
de-cost of lative control tut, if it was
work the Anal battle of a worki war."
dene for, or eral, and did not, therefore, ap- The "Osservalore" said: "It sire to charge such expenditure stores supplied to, other depart-pear as a liability in the accounts of the Colony. The Accountant truly sad to see how the Japan to a Suspense Account, le ap-ments, in the first place to a de- ese people are playing into the proval of the Secretary of State partmental sub-head and subse- General has since agreed that in hands of the Communists by should be sought for this orangequently crediting, that same sub-future, all such deposits shall be
head by transfer, when funds be- paid into the Treasury, and accepting the proposals of cer- ment also.
from the other reimbursements to the deposit came available Aain
who have experis
shali The Financial Secretary re department's allocation. The mat- from the countries of the victors.
plied that this would be donster is being kept in view. Protests of the Catholic Church
but the authority has not yet highest authorities in 10 the
been seen. Provision has been Japan have passed in silence."--.
made, however, in the Est- United Press.
Associated Press.
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