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EDITORIAL
ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE INDO.CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE CO.,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
The Fifty-seventh Ordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Messrs. Jar dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.. Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on The Sixty ninth Ordinary Thursday, 31st March, 1938, at General Meeting of Shareholder noon, for the purpose of receiving will be held at the Offices of the the Tuesday, the Report of the Directors, | undersigned on passing the Accounts, and elect- 29th March, 1938, at Noon," for ing Directors and Auditors. the purpose of receiving the Re The Transfer Books of the port of the General Managers, Company will be closed from the together with a statement el 24th March to 14th April in Accounts for the year ended the clusive.
31st December, 1937.
By order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Managers. Hong Kong, 11th March, 1938.
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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
NOTICE ΤΟ
SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. Society will be held at the HEAD
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that ZOYA VASILIEVNA ANTO NOVA of No. 24, Broadwood Road, Victoria, Hong Kong, is applying to the Governor for naturalization, and that any per son who knows any reason why naturalization should not -be written granted should send a
the and signed statement of facts to the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong. .
WILKINSON & GRIST,
NOTICE
NOTICE.
OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kang, on WEDNESDAY, 13th APRIL, 1938 at 11 a.m., for the ---
purpose of receiving the Report Messrs. JOHN 1. THORNY.
of the Directors and the State. CROFT & CO., LIMITED, have ments of Account to 31st Decem moved their EXECUTIVE her, 1937, and of declaring Divi OFFICES to ST. GEORGE'S dend, etc. BUILDING, FIRST FLOOR.
The SHARE TRANSFER
HONG KONG. Tel. No. 22363-BOOKS of the Society will be #112 CLOSED from 26th MARCH fo 13th APRIL, Bath Days In- clusive,
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A. S. WATSON & CO.. By Order of the Board,
LIMITED.
A. W, HUGHES,
General Manager. NOTICE IS HEREBY Hong Kong, 14th March, 1938. GIVEN that the FIFTY-THIRD ORDINARY YEARLY MEET
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO.. LIMITED
NOTICE TO
Solicitors for the Applicant. ING of the Company (since)
6117 registration) will be held at the
| Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong on TUESDAY, the 22nd MARCH, 1938, at 11.30 A.M.
SHAREHOLDERS. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers NOTICE IS HEREBY together with a Statement of GIVEN that the SIXTY-NINTH Accounts for the year ended 31st ORDINARY YEARLY MEET
ING of the Company will be OCTOBER, 1937.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of held at its HEAD OFFICE. Owing to the very heavy in the Company will be CLOSED Union Building, Hong Kong, on SATURDAY, the 12th WEDNESDAY, 13th APRIL, crease-approximately 100%-in from Cost of Coal, The Hong Kong MARCH, 1938, to TUESDAY, 1938, at 11.20 a.m., for the par and China Gas Co., Ltd. are the 22nd MARCH, 1938, both pose of receiving the Report of reluctantly compelled to increase days inclusive,
HONG KONG AND CHINA
GAS CO., LTD.
their basic charges for Gas by 50 cents per 1000 cubic feet- approximately 11% comment. ing April, 1938. (As from MARCH meter readings.)
The present scale of discounts will continue in force, Hong Kong, 21st March, 1938.
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THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.,
4% DEBENTURES,
IS
HEREBY
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hong Kong, 4th March, 1938.
the Directors and the Statements "Account to 31st December, 1937, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be 6071 CLOSED from 26th MARCH
to 13th APRIL, Both Days in clusive.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
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PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of George Edwin Tucker, late of Shanghai in the Republic. of China, Exchange Broker, deceased.
NOTICE
IS
HEREBY
By Order of the Board,
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A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong,. 14th March, 1938.
BRITISH TRADERS'
· INSURANCE CO., LIMITED,
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS
HEAD
The Share Register and Trans fer Books will be closed from the 15th to the 29th March, 1938, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Managers,
The Hong Kong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. Hong Kong, 7th March, 1938.
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TOWNSEND.-On Feb. 14, 1938, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to
of Gwendolyn. wite Roger Raynham Townsend, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hallam, of London-the gift of B san. (Roger Raynham Junior).
DEATHS
MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1938.
THE MALADY
JAPAN'S
LOSS OF TRADE
Sunday, March 20, 1938.
Trade figures issued in Japan nowadays reveal a most troubled state of affairs and, with the passing of each month, the situation becomes more and more acute.
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It admitted that during the early period of the hostilities ex- ports from Japan more or less held their own. The same was true in the case of other lines of Japan's internal trade which had, since 1932, shown such a steady advance.
But from about the middle of November the decline set in, and since then it has been a continuous downhill journey. Despite all that the industrialists of Japan are doing, with the authorities lend- ing all the help possible, indications are that this downward trend. rather than being checked: will become steeper still, because the feeling against Japan, due to the ruthless war she is waging against China, is dally growing in intensity in all parts of the world.
To return, however, to the decline, which was first noticed in November. Exports have fallen, until there is an average loss of 20 per cent. in the export total, while an even more serious decrease is expected in the weeks ahead, because of factory difficulties and the absence of new inquiries.
The actual figures for the export trade may be somewhat of a surprise to those merchants who have been judging shipments by the amount of business they have done individually since December. It has to be borne in mind, however that the figures for the first two months of the year, made known recently, refer to actual ship- ments and that only when the March statistics are published will the stagnation of late January and February be reflected...
This picture of the export trade talls far short of the prospects this time last year, but, it is a loss which the militarists of Japan' have brought upon their own country and the country has only it-
self to blame for if the people had been firm enough at the outset
to, say "No" to all the outcries for war against China, the export trade, and consequently the finances of Japan, would not be at such a low sbb today.
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The export trade, however, is not the only section of the com-- mercial life of the country that has been affected. It is the same with the other section of trade shipping for instance.
Business has been so bad, that many of the major shipping companies of Japan are faced with ruin. The ships leave the home ports fully laden and from those parts of the world where Japanese cargos unloaded-and these are becoming increasingly fewer they return with empty holds, for rather than do business with the Japanese, the Chinese merchant-and a good many foreigners too- prefer to pay heavier charges to non-Japanese companies.
In the case of tramp steamers, leaders of shipping circles in Japan are urging the Government to grant a subsidy to operators, because many companies engaged in ocean shipping have been critically affected as a direct result of the Sino-Japanese hostilities. Although coastal shipping" is kept busy for certain reasons, the cargo movement in ocean services is disappointingly poor on ac- count of the recession, and this is causing a sharp fall in the freight market
This is not a problem that will be remedied in a week or a month. It will grow more and more acute with time, and, with the fortunes of war swinging steadily towards China, it may be readily seen what chaos and confusion is in store for Japan.
KEEP.-On Feb. 24. 1938. at 39, Kenton Court, W.14, Charles John Keep, aged 69. Once of Coolgardie, Western Australia, Japan, Ceylon, and during the War of Mincing Lane. MOORHEAD-On March 5, 1938.
at Crawley Wood House, Cam- Japanese propagandists would have us belleve that their people berley, Surrey, John Hercules are accepting the situation with stole calm. Our only remark la Murray Moorhead, late Com-that this statement is just as convincing as anyother Japanese at- missioner. Chinese Maritime tempt at propaganda.
Customs, eldest son of the late R. B.. Moorhead.
BREWETT TAYLOR-On March 4, 1938, at Cathay. Earlsferry. Fife. Charles Henry Brewett Tayler, 'late Commissioner. Chinese Customs Service, aged f 80 years.
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HONG KONG, MARCH 21, 1938.
HEROIC CHINESE
STUDENTS
Much has been written about
hour of need.
OF
MAN
REV. H. W. BAINES' SERMON
"The malady of man" was the subject of an interesting sermon preached by the Rev. H. W. Baines- at St. John's Cathedral yesterday- morning.
Taking as his text, "There la no- thing from without the man, that going into him can defile nim: but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defle the man."
(St. Mark, Chapter 7. verse 15), the preacher said:—
Our diet Sunday by Sunday this Lent is Real Religion. At least that is what we are aiming at and if this diet is found to contain a good deal of roughage' it may be good for the system.
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Real Religion led us first to that worship of the one true God in His pre-eminence and total claim upon Hie which is only heard and answered by continual spiritual. discernment or what is called singleness of mind. God is the Union of absolute..
power with | perfect goodness; always true; al- ways free. The sons of His crea- with tion made for communion Him and only as we are free can we hold cominunion to Him.
But that freedom for which we were made is not a shapeless license, a promiscuous ability. For the second discovery of real re- Hgion is Jesus of Nazareth as the measure of man.
MORE DIFFICULT It is part of the mercy of God" that we
are protected from the intolerable spectacle of God in His perfection by the sight of Jesus His beloved Son on whom our eyes can focus
To face the true condition of ourselves which is the third reality of, our religion is more difficult. This third reality follows inevitably from the first two.
DOCTRINE OF SIN Christianity is the Gospel of God in Jesus Christ. It is the gospel also for the freewill of men and his responsibility. With these two- doctrines goes its own doctrine of sin. Sin is a word belonging to the vocabulary of religion. It is with- out meaning to an atheist. It is
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS personal in me or you and it re-
His Excellency the Governor hast Rev. Fr. Jacquinot, who directs been pleased to appoint, provision- the Nantao refugee camp, returned ally, and subject to His Majesty's | to. Shanghal last week by the s.. pleasure, the Hon. Mr. J. J. Pater-Empress of Russia. son to be an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council for a fur ther period of four years.
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Dr. and Mrs," L. T. Ride salled for England on Saturday by the 8.8. Kaisel-I-Hind.
sults in breaking the true relation- ship with God for which we were made.
Not long ago it was a pulpit say- ing that the present generation had a weak sense of sin. That is no longer true as it was. The bland optimism of the post-war Sir Elly Kadoorie, K.B.E. the
years has withered for all except well-known financier. was also a bats and drug-addicts. You recall passenger for Shanghai by the the destruction of the Crystal same steamer.
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Palace by fire. Principal John Whale marked a parable in that. The engagement is announced
conflagration. "It was as though Mr. Reginald John Dearing, of the twentieth century were there Queen's Road, Hong Kong, and making an ironic comment on the The Hon. Dr. R. J. Valentine. Miss Jessie Perrins, of Shorncline, optimism of the nineteenth with Deputy Directy Director of Medical Kent, England. Miss Perrins is due its revolutionary idealism. Its beau Services, proceeded on leave on to arrive from England on
tiful phrases about man and his Saturday by the s.s. Kaiser-1-Hind. Rawalpindi on March 30.
achievements and its high-pitched He was
accompanied by Mrs.
expectations of a Utopia of uni- Valentine and their two sons.
versal brotherhood and prosperity Just over the horizon.
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His Excellency the Governor. Sir day, March 19, 1938 to bid goodbye It is we and our fellows, who Geory Northcote, will dine with and bon voyage to Dr. D.J. Valent-like babies, cannot make up our Lieut-Colonel O.H. Tidbury, M.Cine of the Medical Department who minds for what purpose to use our and Officers, 1st Battalion, The proceeding Home on leave. Dr pretty toys. Indifferently the same
Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Valentine, up to the time Dr. | laboratory. defeats disease and Cambridge's Own) on Wednesday Selwyn Clark arrived in the Colony threatens civilization. In one and was acting Director of the Medical and Sanitary Services,
at 8 p.m.
His Excellency the Governor will distribute the prizes at the annual sports meeting of St. Joseph's
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the same year we applaud the brave skill of a woman who flies the Atlantic alone and we recoll from the very same skill asphyxiat- ing and disemboweling defenceless children from the air in Spain and In China.
the deliberate destruction by the arowed an ardent desire to unite Japanese invaders of universities the people with the Government and other educational institutions so as to resist further invasion. in China. But, up to the present, The Kuomintang was deeply College at Caroline Hill on Friday little reference has been made to worried over the student' question. afternoon. Sir Geoffry will arrive..
WE ARE EVIL the losses among the students and organised them into a united at the ground at 430 p.m.
What need is there to accumulate themselves. gallant youths who body for mass training under Gov- have cast aside their pens and ernment supervision.
On Friday night, at 9.15, His evidence? As soon as we open books and taken up the sword in The movement was begun in 1932 Excellency the Governor and party our eyes, our plight is clear enough. the cause of their country in her and has progressed uninterrupted-will be present at the "Old Time Look out or in, and evil confronts the China you. Not only do we yield to evil, ly ever since. The students or- Music Hall Show" at
but we are evil. Unnaturally so. No section has rallied to China's ganked themselves into a strong Fleet Club Theatre.
The reality of our religion is not call with greater willingness and body of young men and women patriotism than the student classes whose aim was to work for nation- The many friends of Mr. E. 8. that we are suffering from an acute Abraham, the well-known local attack of sin just now, but that HEREBY and today there are thousands of at advancement. NOTICE
On the outbreak of hostilities bullion broker, will be glad to We are sinful.
To complete this third picture,⠀ GIVEN that INTEREST for GIVEN that the Court has, by GIVEN that the SEVENTY- students of varying ages and both
the SECOND ORDINARY YEAR.sexes serving in the army and eight months ago. the students learn that he is making good 31st virtue of Section 58 of
towards recovery. Mr. the reality of Man's Malady, we the six months ending MARCH, 1938, on the above Probates Ordinance 1897, made LY MEETING of the Company carrying out other essential work, were able to make practical use of progress
That their hours of study have their training and the Shanghai Abraham has been for some need one more touch, painted by Corps was time and is now convalescing on the hand of death. For death DEBENTURES will be payable an Order limiting the time for will be held at its
not lessened their ability to act War Time Service
seems to be the unfair trump card at the OFFICES of the COM creditors and others to send in OFFICE, Union Buliding, Hong when the occasion demands is created; an organisation which has the Peak.
always held by evil and gullt. The their claims against the above Kong, on WEDNESDAY, 13th shown by the fact that they have carded out invaluable service.
Mr. H. Mart Smith, from Call-deep humiliation of death awalts estate to the 11th day of April, APRIL, 1938, at 11.25 a.m., been among the foremost ranks ir Although it is no longer active: 1938.
around Shanghai, many of the formula. arrived in the Colony on all our achievements,.. for the purpose of receiving the repelling the enemy.
Heavy has been their sacrifice, students have accompanied the Saturday on the s.5. Conte Bian- Real Religion recalls us to the Jesus as the All Creditors and others are Report of the Directors and the
too, and a recent survey by the Chinese defenders into the interior camano. He will stay here for a One True God, to FRIDAY, 25th MARCH, 1938, accordingly hereby required. to Statements of Account to 31st China Weekly Review has revealed where they continue to render few days, it is learned, and has Measure of Man and now to the made the Gloucester Hotel his truth about ourselves which is that send their claims to the under December, 1937, and of declaring that up to the end of last year valtable help.
whatever may be to set in the signed on or before that date.
war headquarters. Dividend, etc.
more than 300 students had been At the beginning of the
All Chinese: banks in Canton scales' on the other side and what- Dated the 14th day of March,
killed and more than 5,200 wound-there were more than 30,000 college The SHARE TRANSFER
ed in action.
students, 100,000 middle school have suspended dealing in foreign ever our inextinguishable hope i BOOKS of the Company will be
Unfortunately these figures do students and 200,000 primary school exchange, which is taken care of Jesus, we are now suffering from CLOSED from 26th MARCH not tell the full tale of the havoc students registered in institutions in entirely by the Central Bank of the Malady of sinfulness. We are communion of Shanghat. These boys and girls China, Canton Branch, in accor-of a fallen race, we do ourselves to 13th APRIL. Both Days In-wrought among the flower
China's youth. There have been formed the nucleus of the present dance with the announcement of ain and corrupt our clusive.
March 14 by the Ministry of with God and man and we do so many serious battles since the student ranks in war service,
| unwittingly. period. covered by this survey, The story of heroic deeds con- Finance.
Bin is ours, and guilt is ours be-- The student movement in China stilates an inspiring tribute to the
On Saturday. His Excellency, the fore God, and we are related, to has had a long and eventful his-youth of China and to the soll- General Manager.
The incidents with the darty of its determination that the Governor wil proceed to Fanling death, as brothers but not always
as friends. Lodge for the week-end. 6097 Hong Kong, 14th March, 1935.Japanese during the past six years invader must be driven out.
PANY ON THAT DATE.
THE REGISTER OF DE *BENTURES will be closed from
to THURSDAY, 31st MARCH, 1938, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of DEBENTURES can be regis 1938.
tered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
*0. EAGER,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 18th March, 1938.
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JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Executrix, The Hong Kong and Shanghal Bank Building,
Hong Kong.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
tory.
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