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THE
NOTICE
HONGKONG
AND
SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION Ordinary Yearly General Meeting
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1958.
Franco Offers Medal To Decoy
Twenty years
ago
Girl In 1936
THE PICTURES THAT SPAN 20 YEARS OF HISTORY
Major Pollard, his daughter Diana (right) and Miss Watson.
TO BRING BACK AN ECHQ OF THE PAST
By. GEOFFREY LAKE
London.
THE cloak-and-dagger plot laid in London to smuggle General Franco into Spain on the eve of the Civil War re-echoed here last week- after 22 years.
For it
became known that the Generalissimo is handing out medals to the Britons involved in the conspiracy. And some of them are none too anxious to accept.
'Let past stay dead'
Captain Charles Bebb, of Carshalton, Surrey, the pilot who flow Franco from virtual exile in the Canary Islands to Spanish Morocco in July,
Russian Concern
Over
Caviar Supplies
Moscow, Feb. 27.
The Soviet Union is running into difficulties with its three most famous food delicacies-caviar, smoked salmon and canned crab,
Trouble for the caviar comes from the Caspian Sea, the most profile
the playground
whose sturgeon, the royal sh
tickle the cggs
palates of gourmets the world over.
The Caspian is drying up. Toe much of ithe waters of the HEREBY Volga, the Ural and other rivers NOTICE IS
which used to feed the Caspion GIVEN that the Ordinary have been retained by hugo Yearly General Meeting of dams and now flow into Irriga- the Shareholders of the Cor-tion projects.
poration will be held at the
Head Office of the CorporE-
tion, 1 Queen's Road Central, i
NOTICE
1936, hua already been to Spain to collect the Order of Civil Merit.
But Mrs Diana Smythies, who sal behind him on that flight from Croydon Airport, would rather let the past stay dead.
A report from Madrid about Captain Bebb's award led me to Mrs Smythies.
Tropical fish
I found her in Oxford, in a ancient
church, surrounded by books and tropical fish. There she told me of the flight that changed the history of a nation.
room overlooking an
These were the characters in her story:
The level of the Casplan has dropped 8 feet in the past 20
CAPTAIN DEDD, 53-year-old years.
Ard the fish have
operations manager of a charter dificully, even with specially-Arm at Croydon Airport. He bulli nih Hits and ladders, to
was the pilot who flew France cgotiate the dams in their fight
from the Canary Islands to upstream to their mating and
Tetuan in Spanish Morocco. spawning grounds So the
MAJOR HUGH POLLARD, sturgeon population is seriously
now 68 and living at Midhurst decreasing.
In Sussex, author and firearms expert, and father of
Salmon and crabs are having
journal, Яссиве
the same dimculties in mating. This week, the Soviet Literary Gazette, Japanese Ashermen of lying in wait almost net to net for the
Kanchutka saline famous they reach the mouths
as
of
Hong Kong, on Friday, the f 14th day of March, 1968, at HONGKONG ENGINEERING Siberian rivers to swim up-
Noon for the purpose of receiving
and considering the reports of the Directors and of the Auditors and the Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet for the year unded 31st December, 1967, and for the election of Direc
tors and the appointment of
Auditors.
& CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
Notice To Shareholders
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Thirty-accoud Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of the Hongkong Engineering & Construction THE REGISTER OF Co., Ltd. will be held at 12.80 SHARES of the Corporation | p.m. on Wednesday, 12th will be closed from Friday, March, 1958, at St. George's the 28th day of February to Building, Chater Road, 2nd 14th day of March, 1958, floor, Hong Kong. (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board. MICHAEL W. TURNER,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 10th Jan., 1058.
NOTICE
1. To receive the Directors' Report and the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1957.
stream to male.
The Japanese are also accused of using small mesh nets, so fine that they ealch the young calmen As they lenve their birthplace for the open sen.
The Japanese are reproached for taking Immature salmon out
of circulation before they even have a chance to mate.
Mensures to preserve salmos were agreed between Soviet and Japanese fishery delegations in Moscow last year.
DIANA POLLARD, then 19. who is now Mrs Smythies.
DOROTHY WATSON, Dlana's friend, Lhen 24. Sho helped with the chickens on the Pollard's form.
Tourist pose
"My father was approached through an English friend of a Spanish secret agent in Lon- don." said Mrs Smythies. "Ho was asked if he was prepared to make
plane trip ta somewhere on the west cuast of North Africa, posing as a tourist.
"Two English girls would have to go along to improve the tourist pose.
"Dorothy and I agreed to go. "If the salmon do not get to There were all sorts of cloak- the the spawning grounds and | and-dagger Incideḥts on
we, were not sup- millions of young fish do not get way which to the coilthy even rapacious posed to see. The most frighten- fishermen will find it useless to ing was when we were forced cast their nets into the salmon down at Cape Jube, after leav- shallows," says the journal. Ing Casablanca, and surround- ed by ferociously bearded Agreements
Moorish guards.
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"But the tourist pose worked, The nearest wo ever got to General Franco, was when we borreled a ship and knew he was in the hold. But we left Capialn Debb in Tenerife and caught a
The Literary Gazette believes the agreements do not go for enough. Nels should shortened, the distance between them increased. and meshes made larger to enable immature boot back to London," 10 salmon to escape the net with-
'Red Arrows out injury, il says.
2. To confirm the Interim Dividend of 10 cents per share and Bonus of cents per share.
For crabs, the situation la still
8. To annetion the recom- worse. According to the same "Scme time later I learned
mendation of the Direc- paper
"Japanese crab nets extend for miles before the tors as to the payment of territorial waters of the Soviet
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD. Notice To Shareholders
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Sixty-Fifth 4. To Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Company will be held on Thursday, the
a Final Dividend of 20 Union, barring the way of the cents per share and Bonus crabs to the coastal strip mating Okhotsk shore crabs, of 10 cents per share, and grounds.
the biggest in the world, are transact
other under the threat of extinction it ordinary business of the urgent measures are not taken." Company.
Ukry
At the same time the Literary Gazette reproaches Soviet näher- men fer their lack of initiative The Share Transfer Books in going out to get their crabs 18th day of March, 1968, at of the Company will be closed despite the
presence of the 11 a.m. at the Company's Re- from the 1st March to 12th Japanese. gistered Office, 4th Floor, P. March, 1058, both days in- & O. Building, for the tran- anction of the business of, an Ordinary Gonoral Meeting | Including the following:-
(1) To receive and consider
clusive.
By Order of the Board, ERNEST SAHMET Secretary.
the Reports of the Direc- Hong Kong, 25th Feb., 1958.
tors and of the Auditors, and the Profit and Loss Account for the year ended 31st December 1967, and the Balance Sheet as at that date.
(2) To approve the Dividend.
(8) To elect Directors.
(4) To appoint Auditors,
The Register of Members will be closed from Monday, the 3rd of Mareli, to Thurs- day, the 18th of March, 1058, both days inclusivo.
By Order of the Board,
F. H. FELL,
Sopratary Hong Kong, 18th Feb, 1958
our
Undoubtedly
zrab catchers should he reproached. They ought to
o out more boldly beyond the 12-mile zone, organised in a businesslike way, to catch the mature crabs with- in a 28-30 mile zone, and not yield priority to
anyone," 11 declares,
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that General Franco had be stowed on us varying degrees of the Order of the Red Arrows I have never bothered to collect the award.
"I did not know what Was happening when we set out on that trip, and I hava never been very comfortable about the sort of action. It provoked"
Major Pollard told me: course I had a pretty shrewd idea of what it was all about, but I had no qualms about tak ing my daughter and Miss
decoys. Watson along BS don't think they were ever very much danger."
MAIL Notices
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 by Atr
Plot TWO PLAYS
Mrs Smythios last work. She was a 'decoy' in the plot.
"I didn't know what was going on."
China Mail Entertainment. Gaide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
KING'S & PRINCESS: "And God Created Woman." Brigitte Bardot in a French picture of a woman indiscriminately seeking a bed-mate, STAR & METROPOLE: Legend Of The Lost." John Wayne, Sophia Loren and Rossano Brazzi search for treasure in the Sahara. LEE & ASTOR: "Campbell's Kingdom." Dirk Bogarde in an outdoor drama set in the Canadian Rockies. At 9.30 p.m. "The One That Got Away." Hardy Kruger as the only German POW to escape. ROXY & BROADWAY: "The Gift of Love." Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack in a sentimental Journey which introduces a new child star, Evelyn Rudie.
HOOVER & LIBERTY:
Elvis "Jailhouse Rock." Presley sings and fights through another film. QUEEN'S: "For Better For Worse." Dirk Bogarde
and Susan Stephen. A comedy. ORIENTAL & MAJESTIC: "The Enemy Below." Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens in a duel to the death at sea. CAPITOL: "Eagle Squadron." RITZ:
"Omar Khayyam." Cornel Wilde and Michael Rennie in Hollywood's version of the life of a great poet.
Audio
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Now obviously, when you aro invited to the Loke Yow Hali lo pronounce upon a Stage Club presentation aware that one of our leading companies at homo has recently played to a dop with the Phoenix, you are a little perlurbed.
COMPREHENSION
From the Files
25
years AGO
ONDON-The influenED
up, there are still more of
scared
playing havoo with the box office receipta of London The curtain
on the theatres. In addition to the re- inid Phoenix, a magnificent set built gular playgoers who are
who with fine sense
A
of frigid
all austerity, ideal in the sense that are if the play is going over, the crowded buildings. For dig- not actors have got to do it on their criminating folica who aro Own without sy alstance nervous, this is the Ideal time whatever from the business of to see all the best plays. There the stage.
is no difficulty about gotting and no ovET- scate any time, crowding to make things un- Street comfortable. If Harley The next point is, you have continues to take nu epidemics got to have a producer who lying down, and the fy main- knows his job, someone who lains its recurrent sovereignty, realises that the alage belongs to we may yet see the day when spoken drama, not Drury Lane all theatres will provide
gas-masks for their patrons. may even be extended to the east. At most West End houses now, there motor-driven sprinkler at which patrons aro exhorted to breathe deep and make themselves flu-proof.
realism.
To Naney O'Comell goes whatever credit any may road into the following.
This play was produced with such a sense of comprehension that I could take its place any where where great theatre is performed. Its theme was right, its Interpretation was correct, and the paradox of rising drama and impudent asides were there.
aro
☆
free! It
conse-
London-High prices allquent upon the fall in sterling Cre threatening to drive British dentists of the "gold standard" To show that the rhetoric of with a substitution of stainless drama in really concerned with ateci denture.
life, Fry created the Character
of Doto. This role was played
by Philippe Combes, With a
real sympathy (7 19 19 KANKING, The Central Pe- and an understanding rarelylitical Council a today
achieved in amateur dramo, (Feb. 27) discussing the re- Philippe Coombes ave a per-
formance such as I have rarely placement of
the teal by
岛
seen in his kind of play. She standardised silver dollar and
it is anticipated that the Coun proved she is not only an ac- cil will adopt the proposal. tress, but an actress of rarNO merit. She threw her lines into the air, played with them, and
It is pointed out that this will
not mean the immediate abell-
then threw them into the au- tion of the tael, but will mere- dience. A truly great perfor-ly establish a fixed rate of 71.50 mance which held the listeners tooi cents to the sliver dollar during an experimental period enthralled,
during which, it was agreed
Mr the discussions between T. V. Soeng and the banks, should last for several months.
par!
To play alongside such an artiste is at one time both a challenge and discourage- ment. Mavis Bartlett had the task of rendering that which calls for the convention- al chorus of grief that accom- panted the Athenian theme, themo in minor molit to more robust earthy Doto and Tercus Chromis, played by David Crease.
SPARKLED
the
pf
London-Scotland Yard combing London for a £7,000 the blue diamond, formerly property of an Eastern potent die, which was seized in
raid on Imash and grad jeweller's window in St Jame's Street. The only similar stones in the world are in possession of Her Majesty the Queen,
**
VE Alaka! O Hawall-That is not a mixed-up line of type: It is the name of Hawali's
Thus it was that the play sparkled while. Philppa Coom- bes was on the stage, and dragged a tle while she was off. Nonetheless, it was great atu for the theatre lover.
Antigone was passed into the paper, a copy of which has just experienced hande
of Ret been received. The English title Oblitas. A turper cast with of the paper is "The Leader of every part calling for individual Howali." It is a four-page pro- rehearsal presented a formid-duction, typically American able task, further to which, its layout type. Local news coupe of breakdowns during the lake precedence in the display, preparation for the first night with a little American and were obstacles which qualified foreign cables, The editor, Jonah a postponement, However,
Kumalat is a member of the play went on, and here again, Territorial Legislature and one you were fortunate in the pro- of the leading Hawallan manu- ducer. Mr Oblitas has that facturers of ukuleles. He claims mense of theatre you
do not to need only 12 letters of the often and in an amateur pro- alphabet on his notype mac- ducer, and a play of this kind hines, is just the sort he can come to grips with.
Honald Decent, with the ease
at
*
The report for presentation at
to
of style with just that aloofness the 48th annual meeting of the the play calls for, presented the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf theme. A really lovely voice, and Godown Co., Ltd, on Thure- stater-The in modern dress, he throws the day, March 9,
beg to submit long tragedy
the Directors ngo
shareholders their report with a audience.
Deborah Hurlbatt as Antigone statement of accounts for the made certain that as far as this year ended December 31, 1932. The profit on toorking was run is concerned, women n walk off with the night. It is $1,124,510.92 as compared with an awfully difficult part, calling $254,271.95 in. 1931.
for most sensitive interpretation. Yet she did it, and that magni- ficently.
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Dr pratens
The guards, Messy Mat- Callum, Haines, and Fry, had eight inches instead of the their case put by a most effec- the mere four-and-a-half--is to tive speech from Ian MacCallum be tried at the big open #olf in which he proved that the law tournaments at Florida works not for virtue but for Miami. It finds
Our leading Brush roward. I think I will mention amongst Hardy Kruger as Franz Van Were
Parade Arthur Personality
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8.15, The Top In Popular over at no notice at all to give ional, Veterans like Braid and I
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tion. Some even contend that, if any change is to be made, it should be in the direction smaller holes.
*
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*
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the The
Gerald Strickland took over the role of Creon, a rather
Japanese Davis Cup unsympathetic part but ono he players, Hiro Satoh, E. Nunol put over well,
and Ito will give public exhibi- Geoffry Lucas han A part tona in Hongkong test Friday that calls for long denuncia afternoon (March 3) at tions, but he stood so rigidly Hongkong Cricket Club. to give them. The senso of stand court has been placed 'at not so much tragedy as the ox- their disposal and it is hoped to two planation of tragedy, is what is arrange a programme of required. A less tones posture doubles and one single with Jiro would improve this role. David Satoh and Nunol to Agure in the Jordan as the incendice, and seats, including tex
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Märtin Hudson, as the page complete the cast.
As I said, the Oblitas seman of thestre brought out the real
Resettlement
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