THE HONGKOND AND
·SHANGHAI' BANKING,
CORPORATION, ANNOUNCEMENT
The Directors of The Hong- kong and Shanghai Banking that Corporation announce the profit of the Bank, includ- ing dividends received from subsidiaries, for the year eilded 31st December, 1960, after providing for taxation etc. amounts to HK842,190,- 000. It lo propgand to welte HK$4,000,000 off Bank Pre- mises and to pay a fittal divi- dend of 19.10/- per aharu leaving a balance, to bo car-
THE CHINA. MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY. - 25,' 1961.
SOLDIER-BANDITS RUN RIOT
UN troops in Congo unable to stop raids
Leopoldville, Jan. 24.
ried forward of HK$2,200,181. | An Irish United Nations official said here These figures are subject to Audit. The Group Becousita will be published at a later date. £1,278,341 has been transferred from Inner Ro- the Published
to
servan Resorve Fund which now stande at 215,000,000 after Including the additional share premium arising from the Jánuo of now sharos during the year.
It is also proposed to re- commend to shareholders at an Extraordinary General Meebing to be held after the Annual General Méoting on 10th March that each of the existing shares of $125 be subdivided into fivè shares of $20 each.
NOTICE
NOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Cor- poration will be held at the Head Office of the Corporn- tion, 1, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, on Friday, the 10th day of March, 1961, at Noon for the purpose of re- ceiving and considering the reports of the Directors and
today that about 600 U.N. troops were unable to stop "hit, grab, and run“ raids by 1,000 soldier-bandits in the eastern Congo province of Kivu. They operate in groups of five and 10 while loot- ing farms and houses and heating up Euro- peans and Congolese in outlying areas, Mr Fergus Fitzgerald, U.N..administrative officer in the province, told a press conference.
Bush-fires
ring town
The soldier-bandits were theoretically supporters of Mr Patrice Lumumba, but in reality they took orders from no one. Another UN. spokesman, in Elisabethville zwid
today that
UN. may withdraw their troops from the key Kalanga rall town of Luena, centre of bitter fight- ing between gendarmeric and Buluba ribesmen if the situation continues to deteriorate,
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Ten whites and up to Congolese sought refuge at the station guarded by Moroccan troops after a 10-minute attack by Balubas e gendameric headquariéra yesterday.
Perth, WA, Jan. 25. Cut off by a ring of bush- firon fanned by fierce winds the people of a small sawmill town south of hard radiood desperato ly today that the flames Hammarskjold, the U.N. Secre had destroyed their hostry General, appealed for the pital, school, hotel, and mony homes,
Then the radio went dead. Falling trees had already cut all telephone lines.
hud blown up.
of the Auditora and tho The last message, sent as the Accounts for the year ended 1,000 inhabitants of the town, 31st December, 1900, and for Dwellingup, huddled for safety into a small clearing not yer the election of Directors and
reached by the flammes, said the the appointment of Auditora.town's only petrol filling station
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from Friday, the 24th day of February to Friday, the 20th day of March, 1961, (both days in- clusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board, MICHAEL W. TURNER,
Chiot Manager.
Hong Kong, 24th Jan., 1961.
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION EXTRAORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Corporation will be held at the Head Office of the Corporation, 1, Queen's Roda Central, Hong Kobg, on Fri- day, the 10th day of March, 1961 at 12.15 p.m., or so seen nftorwards as the Ordinary Yourly General Meeting in concluded, when the sub- joined resolution, 1 will be ordinary proposed rosolution and the sub-joined resolution 2 wili, že priposedl as a special resolution:
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1. Ordinary fesolution
"That each of the existing shares of ond hundred and twenty-five dollars' in the capital of the bank to sub- divided into five shares of twenty-fiva dollars so that the capital of the bank shall looño hundred antillon dollars divided intó four million shares of twenty-five dollars each.”
2. Special Resolution
Three men eventually broke through the ring of flames and reached the Arefighters outside the town at dawn and reporini Dwellingup had been almost completely destrovod, The Australian Broadcasting Com mission reported.
It sald the three broko through in a car after soaking themselves with water, They re- ported, no casualties.
Volunteers
and paratroops bucked the efforts of the
re-
In New York today Mr. Dəy
return to Léopoldville area of
Mr Lumumba to stand trial. He is imprisoned near Elisabeth- ville.
In a nale, released today, to President Joseph Kasavubu. Mr Hammarskjold indicated that Mr Lumumba's detention had an Important bearing on current conciliation efforts. Congolese politicians have already arrived In Leopoldville for a preliminary meeting to- morrow aimed at working out among themselve a peaceful solution to the situation.
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Mother sentenced Sydney body
for drugging her daughters
Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 24
Mr Alan Fratantonio, mother of the "sleeping beauty" sisters today wán ziven the maximum sentence of one year in jail and a 1890 fue for drugging, her daughters into mystèrious comas.
Judge Albers A, Woldiṇan said÷there was no evidence that she suffered from mental illness which might have caused her to give the two lilile girls drugs.
The state maintained that Mrs Fratasitonts gave drugs to her daughters, Bernadette, 3, and Venita, 6, which caused the sleeping sickness which baffled doctors for months.
The judge maid that since a jury found the 20-year-old wornak kity seven weeks aro she had been examined by two paychiatrists and reports on her condlifon and her family were made by the próbation department and by the court Daychologist UPI.
Violent
fighting
Shan
states
Rangoon, Jan, 24. Violent fighting continuad in Burma's Shan states betwoon Nationalist Chinese armed bands and the Burmoso army, high Burmese military quarters disclosed today.
Mines used by the Chinese bands to blow bridges were American mude, Burmese sources reported as part of an increasing tendency to denounco foreign complicity in support of the Kuomintang groups.
The Nationalist Chinese have at least four "Dakota" aircraft They plan to work out a date which shuttle between the and agenda for a round table Chinese strong-points in Burma conference of most political and a supply baso in neigh opinion in the country-Reuter.bouring territory, Burmese muli-
tary efreies stated,
COLDER THAN HELL
Paradise, Jun. 24.
men, already weary after battl. It was colder than Hell to ing bushfires all through the weekend.
The fires are the worst in Western Australia's history. Nine small timber lowns near Dwellingup have already been evaeunted, and many people are homeless,
About 100,000 acres have bean burned out in the past five days,
-Neuter.
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day in town.
this Michigan
Paradise hat on estimated minimum of 20 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit).
Residents of Hell, a town near Detroit, on the other hand, basked In a comparatively moderate & degrees above zero.
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All planes spotted to date have been ring from the direction of Laos or Thailand, they added.
AS WELL-TRAINED The Chinese bands, which Burmese military quarters credit with being at least as well-trained and equipped as the Burmese Army units Dent against them, were now engaged in fighting between the Keng-
ung-Tachilek road and Meking,
the Burma-Laos border.
The Chinese have reportedly blown all bridges cn The Kengtung-road, which the Burmese Army used to trans- part reinforcements to its Bght- irve units.
The two-month-old Burmese operation was being hampered. in its attempt to liquidate the Kuoristang bands by the sup port the Chinese groups were Feceiving from various rebel bands.
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The Chinese recently dis- tributed money and arma Shan Insurgents encourage them to disrupt the behind-the- Hino services of the Burm?se froops
Two months after the start of the campaign, the Chinese appeared to have lost none of their fighting spirit.
The last battle omelolly an. nounced was on January 17. 900 Nationalist troops were engaged ngulust an unspeclåed number of Burmese forces. ANE.
U.S. missile test fails again
Cape Canaveral, Jan. 24,
The US. Air Force failed for
the third consecutive time today
to fire a new gipte, powerful model of the Atlas mizito over
a 1000-mile cœures.
On all three flights a fault has occurred about three minutes after launching when the two booster engines hava burned out.
Today's Atlas fall in the Atlantic only 100 miles cast of here.-Reuter.
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That pursuant to Section 4 (2) of. The Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Corporation Ordinanco re-
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Robber, #nounced here today. Bigar & Vest, 9 Coheed 11 Airow, 12-Etrucic, 14 Fi 16 Noted. Boats industrialists, have 16 Alone, 10 Amps, 20 Kinted, 24 Older, 25 Dosing, að Kyms, 37- slready brided the ex-monarch zers, 25 Dotard. Dawai k Rock, 2 is a Ever" "Belijen & Staklis, & Carrots, 7′′ Rawhide,: 10- Stain, -19 Walk out, T Fonda, 18 Rafeize, 17 Odies 19 Rraded, 21 To-da, 22 Diva,
By Order of the Board, -MICHMEL W. TURNER,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 4th dafi: sledi.
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U.S. inquires into Russian report
Washington, Jan. 24. The State Department said to- dny It hut! asked the Soviet Kovernment for clarification of a Savlet magazine report that 11 members of a U.S. · reconnals- stnice plane shot down by Soviet planes near the Turkish border more than two years ago had burachuted safely and were now In custody in the Soviet Union.
The report appeared in the January 15 issue of the Soviet weekly magazine Ogonyok. Reuter.
hoax
Sydney, Jan. 24. Sydney's "Budy in the trunk” (mystery was solved today as the grim hoax of a practical jokes.
New South Wales Gover ment medical omeris fold homicide detecliver today the human remains found In the buttered alcej trunk abandoned last night at the entrance- to Wynyard underground railway station in the heart of the city were anatomical specimens,
In the trunk hands, tome parts of many section
were three Angers, two feet, small toes, A of the top of a human skull, an arm and part of a leg.
Red lead
had been injected
to the veins, which medical officers sald was routine in medical instruction-China Mall Special,
Comets grounded
London, Jan. 24. British European Airways to- day announced that they have grounder their seven Comets when it was discovered that the hinge brackets of the wings of four of the planes
were faulty,
A BEA spokesman said the Comets would be replaced In today's and tomorrow's flights by Viscounts-AFF.
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