NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
BANKRUPTOY No. 13 OF 1914.
PUBLIC COMPANIES
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 19TH, 1915.
ZLANGBE RUBBER CO., LIMITED.
HOUSES
TO LET.
"TO LET-FURNISHED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that out $126.
TO. 4, STEWART TERRACE, THE PEAK, Re The KONG MAN CHRONG Firm of
NOTI Hongkong also trading as the Loo Chre
the FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL
Apply SANG CHAN Firm of Hongkong, the Yow MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in KEE Firm in Canton, as the Low KE the above Company will be held at No. 10, Sano Firm, and the Lon CESE SANG Canton Road, Shanghai, on THURSDAY, the Firm in Singapore and so the Lon Kongad April, 1915, at 4 r.. HENG and Lon. Mow SENG Firm in Penang,
master.
FIRST and FINAL DIVIDEND is. intended to be declared in the above
Creditors who have not proved their debts by the 19th day of May, 1916, will be excluded.
Dated this 16th day of April, 1916.
E. AM. WILLIAMS.
Trustee,
Care of LOWE. BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, New Gorerament Building,
Hongkong.-
1614
TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
8.8. "NIPPON MARU.” FROM SAN FRANCISCO, IA HONOLULU JAFAN PORTS AND SHANGHAI.
THE above-named Steamer having arrived,
Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified to send in their Bills of Lading for counter signatura, and to take immediate delivery of Cargo from alongside.
Cargo remaining anddivered on iast
20th
at Neon, will be landed at Consignen risk and arpense and delivery must then he taken from the Company's Godown.
on
No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected. No Claim will be recognised after the Goods. bare left the Steamer or Godown, and all Goods
95th remaining undelivered
inst. will be subject to rent and landingTM" charges. All chafed and otherwise damaged Cargo to be left on board or Godown, and examination of sawe will to be 1eld on 24th Insi, at 10 s.. All Claims must be filed on or before 2nd May, otherwise they will not be recognised
K. DOI, Acting Agent. Hongkong, 19th April, 1915.
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IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ORDINANCES 1911 AND 1919, and of
THE TOERANGIE RUBBER CO., LTD.
(IN LIQUIDATION), '—
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a
NENERAL, MENTING of the sbors named Company will be held at the Office of Mesars. Lowe, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, Now Government Building, Des Year Boad, Vistoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, en TUESDAY, the 20th day of April, 1915, at
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 10th to-the-gad April, 1015, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors.
J. A. WATTIE & Co., LTD.,.. Secretaries and General Managers,
1506
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
"II. Z Care of "Daily Prosa" Office. Hongkong, 16th April, 1916.
TO LET.
A Kimberley Road, Kowlook.
(508
HOUSE in TORRES BUILDINGS,
Apply to
SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION. Hongkong, 15th April, 1915,
Apply to→→
TO LET.
[801
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that OFFICE in Hotel Mansions. NOT FORTY-BECOND ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be hold at its Bend Office, No. 2, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 23rd April, 1916, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1914, and of declaring Dividende, &c.
HENRY HUMPHREYS, Alexandra Baikings, Hongkong, 4th April, 1975. ***
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 13th April to the 23rd April, both days inclusire. "By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE, Secretary.
*[484 Hongkong, vih Aprli, 1015,
CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD,
NOTICE TO-SHAREHOLDERS.
TO LET.
[478
A HOUSE at Oberatory Villas, Kowloon.
Apply to
"ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co. [303 Hongkong, 16th March, 1915.
TO LET.
GODOWN, No. 84, Praya East,
Apply
J
KWONG BANG HONG, Lm.
No. 248. Des Vaux Hoad Central.
[305 Hongkong, 18th February, 1916.
FORTY-NINTH TOTICH IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be hold at its Head Office, No. 2, Queen's Buikings Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 23rd April, 1015, at 12.15 r.. for the purpose of rooving the Report of the Directors together with the NFurnished and newly done sp
Statements of Account to 31st December, 1914, and of declaring Dividenda, &c.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 13th April to the 93rd April, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
Secretary. Hongkong, 9th April, 1915.
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THE ICHINA-BORNBO CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
12 o'clock Noox, precisely, for the purpose of SHAREHOLDERS of the abovs THE TWELFTH YEARLY MEETING having the account of the Liquidator, showing the manner in which the winding-up has been Company will be held at the Company's Offlo conducted and the property of the Company St. George's Building, at Noon on FRIDAY, disposed of, laid before sul Meeting, and of the 30th April, 1915, to receive a Statement hearing any explanation that may be given by of Accounts to 31st December, 1914, and the Report of the General Manager and Consulting the Liquidator, and also of determining by
Committee Consulting Extraordinary Resolution, the manner in which Committee and to elseta the Books, Accounts, and Documents of the and Auditor. A Company and of the Liquidstor thereof shall be dispored of.
E. A. M. WILLIAMS, Liquidator. Hongkong, 19th March, 1915.
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HONG KONG JOCKEY OLUB.
NOTICE.
THE
THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the sbows Club will be held on SATURDAY,
the 14th April, 1915, at 19:30 PM, at the Off of the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB, on the Gesand Floor of the HONGKONG CLUB ANNEIE, Chater Rood.
By Order,
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, 10h April, 1915.
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HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that NOFGENERAL MEETING of Members will be held in the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, CITY HALL. on MONDAY, the 28th April, 1915, at 4.30 P.M., when the following Resolution will be put and if carried will Eereafter form one of the Chamber's Rules and Regulations:-
"That Clanse IIT, of the Rules and Regulations of the HONGEONA GENERAL CHAMBIR "OF COMMERCE be altered ne from January
1st, 1916, to road 1-----
All Mercantile Firms, and persons
engagi or
or interested in the trade of Hongkong or China, shall be eligible for admission as Members in the manner berufter described, and on Bok payment of $60 for Firms, and
Por single individuals for the current year of their election, and a like annual Babscription thereafter, parable on 1st January.
By Order,
E. AM. WILLIAMS. Secretary. Hongkong, 16th April, 1918. ̈
NOTICE.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company bo CLOSED from the 16th April to the 30th April, 1915, both days inclusive.
THE CHINA-BORNEO Co., LTD.,
W. G. DARBLIN
General Kansgët. Hongkong, 13th April, 1916.
1494
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE SHARE CERTIFICATES Nos.
id
8410/2411 for 10 and 25 Shares and respectively, ambered 12739/12748 35868/35882 inclusive, standing in the register in the joint names of GEORGE ANDREW HASTINGS and JOHN BARHAM CAESLAKE, Solicitors Liverpool and Birmingham, haring beon LOST or DESTROYED, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that naless the Certificates be produced at the Office of the Company, Queen's Baildings, Victoria, Bong- kong, before the 24th April, 1916, New Certifleston for the said Shares will be issued and the Old Certificates will thereafter be held by the Company as Null and Void.
GEO, A. CALDWELL,
Secretary. Hongkong, 25th March, 1915.
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PEAK, TRAMWAYS COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that TICKETS available for Three Months issued on and after 1st May, next, the respective Prices will be na follows:-
Gentleman
Ladies
Children ...
$36.00
$18.00
... $12.00
TO LET-AT THE PEAK.
TO. 2 STEWART TERRACE,
Apply
H. E. POLLOCK,
Prince's Building, Hongkong, 20th January, 1915,
Kowloon,
TO LET
in Knatsford Termoe
A HOUSK
APIE HONGKONG LAND INVEFT.
MENT & AGENCY Co., Im Hongkong, let Marok, 1018,
TO LEN From 1st March.
GODOWN, No. 8, Daddell Swed
· Apply--
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A. B. AVARIA,
Care of E. PABANERIN
No. 1, Duddell Eltest. Hongkong, 2nd Fabemary, 1915,
NO
[241
TO LET.
MAGAZINE GAP,
"KENNELS,” No 189, MAGAZINE GAP, "HARFORD," Apply.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., Ltd. Hongborg, 31st March, 1915.
TO LET.
[54
ATS in Nathan Road, Kowloon. FENYRHEW," Minden Row, Kowloon, 6-Roomed House with Tennis Court.
le and 2, MINDEN VILLAS, Kowloon, 5-Boomed House with Tennis Chart.
FOUR-BOOMED HOUSES in Humphrey's Avenue, Gordon Terrace and Salisbury Avenge, Kowloon.
Apply to→
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., LAND, Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, dih March, 1915,
TO LET.
[280
HOUSES I CLIFTON GARDENS,
Conduit Road. OFFICES, facing the Harbear between the Hongkong Club and Fort Offies.
68, THE TEAK. THE RETREAT." 21, WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD. GODOWNS, New Praya, Kennedy Town. GODOWNS, as Wanchai Road, Apply, etc.,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO, LTD.
[38 Hongkong, 1st April, 1915,
TO LET.
INTIMATION
A. S. WATSON
& CO., LTD.
fail to thrill the imagination and impress the whole world. That the Allies will ultimately take Constantinople the confident Key of Europe "--is tis opinion of British and French military and naval experts, and the after-effects-
will be profound and far-reaching. Tur- key will be staggered by a blow at her very heart. Germany vill see the pluis for which she has schemed and poured out gold grumbla to dust, like the forts before British and French naval guns.. No longer will aho bo able to draw sop- -WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.plies through Turkey and Austria. Gone
ESTABLISHED 72 YEARS
WATSON'S
E
VERY OLD LIQUEUR SCOTCH
WHISKY
Another contingent of the Shropshir Light Infantry (Territorials) reached the Colony yesterday.
The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachio will speak at the meeting of the Hongkong Christian Union at Ying Wah College, 87, Caino Road, to-day at 5.30 p.m.
The International Banking Corpora tion of New York have declared a divi- May, dend of $3 per share, payable 1st making the total for 1914 of 80 per share. The heavy rain on Saturday afternoon stopped all out-of-door activities. The, Gymkhana vas postponed and football and tonnie fixtures could not be played.
Mr. C. L. Williams, American Consul at Nanking, has resigned his post. It is understood that Mr. Williams will resido in Peking and engage in the banking
will be her dream of Germanic pre dominance in the East, and the Turk, her deluded, if willing, dupe, will at fast, after generations of warning, be bundled bag and baggage out of Europe. The fall of Constantinople will also have a powerful effect on Italy, on the Balkan business. States, and Gresoca country, heart and....... soul with the Allies. The effect, we may be sure, will be all in favour of the Allies, while the opening of the Dardanelles wil enable Russia to receive those munitions
of war which she lacks, and Great
Britain to obtain the cargoes of wheat she needs
If it is true that the Russian
some two months, ago roverse
WCB
Our Celebrated Every old Liqueur Scotch Whisky is largely due to want of ammuni a blend of the best Pot | tion, the imperativa necessity oi | Distilled Scotch Whiskies. securing, a convenient trade route to
It is of great age, very fine, and mellow. Its superior quality has established its re- putation for over 30 years as THE LEADING SCOTCH WHISKY IN THE EAST.
THORNE'S
No.
OLD VÁT
SCOTCH
WHISKY.
As supplied to the House of Lords and House of Commons,
Rusia becomes evident,
The death occurred at Falmouth last month of Bandmaster W. T. Roberts, of the 3rd. Batt. D.C.L.I., who was with the regiment while it was stationed --in- Hongkong.
From and after the 28th April the sit tings of the Police Court will be held in the Court recently built on the site of the old Magistracy and to be known a
The Magistracy."
We regret to learn that MI. P. . Hodgson, Crown Solicitor, bas lost brother at the front-Captain Hodgson of the Lancashire Regiment, who died of wounds received in action.
In any case, is supremely desirable that Russia should have the equipment necessary to put additional forces promptly in the field against the new German formations, There can be little doubt that in the near Sheng Hui was opened at Shanghai last The General Synod of the Chung Huz
future we shall witness events of the week. The Rt. Rev. G. H. Landor, highest importance. Russia has passed Bishop of Victoria, is a member of the from the defensive to the offensive, and House of Bishops, which has a member- ngainst tho. Austrians has attained new ship of eleven. striking successSES. While the trench-war- fare in France and Belgium continuts unaltered, there is clear evidence that the initiative and ascendancy have been wrested from the enemy. The Allies will very shortly begin to exert greater pressure a pressure which this time will
ever cease until the German barbarians are hurled back, defeated and dismayed, into the Fatherland. The action of the
A.S. WATSON & CO., Allies in proventing commodities enter
LIMITED,
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, HONGKONO,
HONG ORG Ozica: 10%, Dm Tour Road C LONDON Gates: 191, Far Beam, E.C.
The Daily Pres
HONGKONG, ATEIL 19, 1915.
past
ing Germany will greatly help to shorten the war, and everything that is legiti- mate must be subordinated to that end.
Wastever we look, on land or sea, things are shaping satisfactorily. The British Navy as supreme ́mistress of the sea-- how done --•plendidlys - while · B«[tain's
The Hongkong Government Gautte" notifies that the names of the following companies have been struck off the register:The Hongkong Brewery Com- pany, Limited, and the Wo On Steam- ship Company, Limited.
During the absence?. VIE Isave of Mr.
or Macdonald, notice, Mr. W. Russell will act as Gov- ernment. Marine Surveyor, Mr. R. Hall as his first assistant, and Mr. J. B. Thomson as his second assistant.
James
until further
The British Society of Tokyo has
remitted 500 guineas to the Prince of
'Wales' Fund. Prince Fushimi is the patron and Sir W. O. Greene, the British Ambassador, the President of the Society, tributed by prominent Japanese mem The amount was almost exclusively con
bers
new Armies will determine the military situation in Europe. The brilliant and very important victory of the British at Neuva Chapelle-a battle in which the At to-morrow's moeting of the Sanitary Germans lost close upon 18,000, while Board correspondence will be submited some 2,000 more were taken prisoners relating to the report from the Seled has overjoyed the French. It was a most Commities appointed to consider the best magnificent feat of arms and we can. means of dealing with the present insani- quito understand why hats are taken off tary condition of certain lanes and to brave "Tommy Atkins" by passages which are used in summon by - all admirers in France Tho
same two or more tenants. bravery that characterised the men under
Mr. Arthur Peel, his Majesty's Envoy.
in
OFFICES in BT. GEORGE'S BUILDING this, one has to grasp two significant work of late.
Floor, Overlooking Harbour
and that the Price of Servants'. Punch Tickets || kamediate possƏRİON.
| available for 20 Rides will be $1.20. -
Season Tickets erpiring in April can be extended to April 30th, on same terms pro vála e now in foros, bat no three-monthly Season Tickets and no Annual Tickets will be issued. in April.
Apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co Hongkong, 3rd December. 1914,
TO LET
+39
TE HAVE This Day been appointed May next, daily return Tickets and AntiHE GROUND FLOOR of No. 6, DES
SOLE AGENTS for Hongkong and China by the TATA IRON & STEEL CO.. and are prepared to quote for Pig Iron and other Iron and Steel products.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. [491
Hongkong, 12th April, 1915,
ELECTRIC FANS... -DOZEN OVERHEAD FANS, complete with down rods, Attings, eto, end nearly A HALF A DOZEN DESK FANS Suitable for Hongkong Supply System: Will be sold separately or in a lot."
new:
Apply
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, The University, Hongkong,. Hongkong, 16th April, 1815,
FOR RENT.
[507
FOUR BOOK FOUST dood View of Harbour, Gas, Electric Light, Bolls, Moderate Rent, Option of taking over Fittings at Valuation.
Apply
MOUB ROOM HOUSE, Conduit Road,
* HOUSEHOLDEE," are of "Daily Press" Office. Hongkong, 14th April, 1916,
(193
Notice is further given that on sad after 1st | THE Tickets will be abolished,
By Order of the Directors,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Maragore. Hongkong, ist April, 1916,
TO LET..
* ALEXANDRA — BUILDINGS, VERY CONVENIENT OFFICES and BOOMS. Infnding a Fine Commodious Stribe
Apply-
SECRETARY, A. & Warson & Co., Iren. Hongkong, 23rd October, 1914. [66
QUEEN'S BUILDING,
TO LET the Bouth-West portion of the
FIRST FLOOR, including Trenamey on Ground Floor, lately In occupation of the German Bank,
GODOWN, No. 9, Iss House Birest, Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, La March, 1815.
135
VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, occupied by Madame Gains, etc.
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 10th February, 1915, [279 TO LET.
« DISHOP'S LODGE SOUTH,” No. 11,
Tas PEAK, Unfurnished, 5 Rooms, No. 2, BELILIOS TERRACE, with entrance on Conduit Hond
3 ROOMS, suitable for Offices, 1st Floor, Queen's Bead Conte 1
WESTWARD HO" Bonham Road. "EGGESFORD," Noe 194, The Peak, Cafarnished 16 Rooms), from 1st May, 1916.
MERION," No. 6, THE PEAK, Unfurnished (6 Roome).
ROOMS in BEACONSFIELD and 55, ELGIN TERRACE.
**HOGATE.” Austin Road, Kowloon,
HEILANDONAN," No. 54, Mouni Kəllətt
Bond. 6 Roems, unfurnished.
No. 2, DES VIEUX VILLAS, 61, PRA (Unfurnished),
ROOMS, suitable for Offices, on the First Floor of No. 3, Daddall Street
No.50, TE Prax (6 CAMERON VILLAS). Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Bed Floor, Alexandra Bullings. Boaghung 29th March, 1916,
THE WAR. THE man in the street during the few months has come to look upon the Great War as not only terribly painful the Duxe of WELLINGTON is to be found Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- That is mainly be their comrades of the present day. tiary at Bangkok, has been transferred hut painfully slow.
Tommy Atkins," like his mate, Jack to Rio de Janeiro in a similar capacity. cause (excusably enough) he has not been
a finish; The vacancy in Bangkok is to be filled able to realise the terrible and tremendous Tar," knows how to fight to task which the blustering War Lord of neither know when they are beaten. by the appointment of Mr. Herbert M.V.O., Counseller at his Europe set before the nations who refused Military France is full of praise for the Dering, to bend the Ence to his false doctrine that British troops, who have once more dis Majesty's Embassy at Rome. the sword in the roof of intellectual pro- tinguished themselves sa conspicuously,
Mr. J. E. Bingham, of Shangbai, gress and democratic wisdom. Although and reflected so much credit on their liquidator of the Siak Indrapera Rub- it may not be palatable-looking back country. The French, too, have displayed her Concessions Limited; rcosived, a upon eight months of horrors beyond great bravery, so have the Belgians in telegram last week from London announc human conception--to realise that the recent fighting, so much so that the Cering that the appeal of Dr. C. J. Nijhuis
The liquidator is. vital stages of the combat are in their mand may well consider themselves their has been dismissed. infancy, great and convincing comfort inferior in many respects. German artil no able to declaro a final dividerd until ja born of the knowledge that it is the lery is no longer a match for that of the he knows the expenses of the London beginning of the end. To be certain of Allies, and it has been chiefly all artillery liquidation.
Very significant is the
Shanghai papers record with deep fucts: that Germany embarked upon her fact that the allied armníes have taken up
regret the death of Lieut, Alan A. Drew, criminal adventure with the conviction the attack so far with most encouraging of the London Scottish, killed in action that a smart and short victory would be results. The enemy never expected sach on March 17 last.. Mr. Drew was well the result for her; that, on the other a rushing defeat at the hands of the known and had many friends in Shang- hand, Great Britain speedily settled hated Britishr as they experienced at hai. He came out to the firm of Probist, dewi to a plan of campaign which not Neuve Chapello, -or- s they suf- Hanbury & Co. about the year 1907, and only amazed and dismayed the entiny, fered at the hands of the French at remained there for three years, when he went home to go on the stage. He was This will It was beyond the imagination of the Les Eparges.
giye
a prominent member of the A.D.C., E& they must Imost loyal subjects of His Majesty then an idea of what
member of the Shanghai, Country, Cricket King GEORGE The might of the British expect in the near future." Starvation
and Rowing Clubs, and rowed in the first Navy was the backbone of the unprece- and constant exposure to Arctic weather,
and only hong four ever put on by his dented scheme to create a new and to say nothing of the ill-treatment mucted firm, the four winning the race. efficient army within six months or so; out to them by their officers, is not cón-
.enabled millions it has
of fight- | ducive to German victory. The men are ing men to be shipped in perfect doing all they can, though they nowing of Mr. William Dobbs, safety from every quarter of the realise that it is useless. It is versser in the service of the Public globe to the herds of battle. Victory no longer a seret that the power Works Department of Hongkong. Mr. will assuredly bo awarded to the beer of Germany is relatively much half of Europe, thanks to the patriotin and bravery of the men of low and high| station of life who have been prepare i to sacrifice their lives in the service of the cause of the Allies. We are, beyond mate victory impossible. German resist any doubt, on the eve of great events.ance shows greater and greater signs of For the time being our attention is weakness, and this fact is not being over The looked by Germany's enemies, divided between the war operations in
"wearing down" policy of General the East and on the Western front. The Jorse has proved to be the right one, forcing of the Dardanelles is one of those and this policy is to be maintained to the
bitter end. bold and drastic strokes which cannot
leas
News has reached the Colony from Australia of the death there by drown-
building
than it was last August She has Dobbs, who was on holiday, was bathing fought and is fighting still with amazing in the surf at North Steyne, Manly, and, courage - and stubbornness, but
battle means
that going beyond the danger flags, got into loss a every she cannot afford, and every fight, difficulties in a strong current. Observers even if ít is won, makes ulti- from the beach put on belts and went out to his aid, but Dobbs sank before they reached him. He rose and was een to be floating, but when his would-be rescuers reached him he was unconscious." He was brought to the shore, and several people, including a doctor, tried every means of resuscitation for over an hour but, anfortunately, without success.