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NOTICE.
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY
ADVERTISEMENTS.
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
NOTICE is hereby given that the FORTY FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of Share holders In the Company will be held in the Jacobean Room, 1st floor, Hong Kong Hotel, Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on WED.. NESDAY, 20th APRIL, 1938, at "NOON for the purpose of
receiving a Statement of Accounts
and the Report of the Board of Directors for the year ended 318* December, 1937, electing Direc ters and Auditors, and for the transaction of any other ordinary business of the Company.
NOTICE is also hereby given that the TRANSFER BOOKS
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HONG KONG, APRIL 10, 1838.
THE SUN SETS
ON JAPAN
drag on, Japan is finding her-
S THE HOSTILITIES in China
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1938.
If Gossip We Must
(BY PRUDENCE)
Easter Monday started off gally with wedding bells, and everyone I got up early that morning in order to be at the Cathedral at ten o'clock, for the marriage of Pamela Potter and Donald Harley,
It was auch a pretty wedding. The bride looked very sweet and dainty in a delightful dress of snowy embossed-satin, cut with a graceful simplicity of style which was most becoming. I much ad- mired the puffed sleeves, which
fitted closely at the wrists, and the self in an untenable position-way her vell fell from a narrow facing dimeulties which become | wreath of orange blossoms. Her more insurmountable each day.
When Japan started her undeclar- ed war on China, when she sent of the Company will be closed boatload after boatload of troops from SATURDAY, 9th APRIL, to Shanghal, her military leaders 1938 until WEDNESDAY, 20th felt that the occupation of North APRIL, 1938, both days inclu- China would be accomplished with-
out the alightest trouble. sive, during which period ne
But they erred grossly in their transfer of shares can be regis indgment and, though it has taken tered.
them half a year to realise to the full the determination of China's resistance, they are now awakened to the fact (unpleasant as it must be to them) that a United China can meet Japan on the field of war and emerge victorious.
For too long the Japanese had their way with China, but in pur suing their ruthless course they overlooked
Generalisaimo that
By Order of the Board,
J. C. GUTERRES,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 25th March, 1938.
6647
GENERAL CHI'S Chiang Kai-shek was busy welding
BRAVERY
IS RECALLED
the country together for the final |and decisive struggle.
ACTUALLY," at the time the Japanese war lords decided to
start occupying North China, the
Generallasimo had not quite ac-
During the absence of Mr. 0-GIVEN that an Extraordinary Japanese Invasion complahed his task, but these same
Enger, Mr. B. C. Field has been appointed ACTING SECRE. TARY and is hereby authorised to sign in that capacity.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
J. J. PATERSON,"
Managing Director. Hong Kong, 19th April, 1938.
6696
THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO.. LIMITED.
NOTICE TO.
SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE is hereby given that The ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING of Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, Queen's : Building, Victoria, Fong Kong, on THURSDAY, the 28th April, 1938, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a State ment of Accounts, and re-electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 22nd April to the 28th April, 1938, both days inclusive.
By Order, of the Board of Directors.
H. DA LUZ,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 15th April, 1938.
6694
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE,, LTD.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
The Fifty Seventh Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the under. signed on Friday, the 6th May, 1938, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the ~General Agents, together-with-a- statement of Accounts for the ear ended the 31st December. 1937.
The Share Register and Trans. fer Books will be closed from the 22nd April to the 6th May, 1938. both days inclusive,
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Agents.
Hong Kong, 13th April, 1938:
General Meeting of the Members the China Provident Loan & Mortgage Company, Limited will be held at the Jacobean Room,
Of Thousand Years Ago
sister Pat, as bridesmaid looked most attractive in brilliant tour- quoise blue with a wide-rimmed transparent hat which sulted her marvellously
Every Pew Filled
At the Third Extra Race meeting.
Mr. Eldon Potter looked very alim and elegant in georgette which had dark-hued flowers on
One of the first I noted was Mm.style, with belt and tie of emerald. ∙a ground of pale shell-pink.
M. H. Turner, who looked simply green. Mrs. Tinson, too, looked Every pew seemed to be filled stunning in a lovely costume of charming, with a sleek tam of when I arrived, and it was difficult black which was vested in palest straw which exactly matched her to discern details, but one of the tourquoise: zatin which exactly navy blue dress.
first I noticed was Lady MacGregor matched the cluster of dowers Mrs. Coppinger had a very dainty in a graceful stimmer dress, within her small square-brimmed tap dress, with flowers of green yellow the genial Chief Justice, and of black Mr. Taggart, too, look-and red on a cream ground. Mrs.
came with her ed very smart in brown crepe-de-] “Digger' Ellis was smart in black. Judy Emith, who Father the Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith. chine, with a bold pattern of bright and white and Mrs. Richardson A lovely gown of dark chiffon, Dowers, and a sweet little off-the-Scots looked extremely-charming- patterned with big flowers of deep face-bat.
In dark blue powdered: all over green and dark blue, was worn by
"Mrs. Dunbar led in Bear Claw in with ting white dots, and worn Mrs. Mackichen, and her daughter a most enchanting dress of eau with a sweet little blue hat. Sheona looked very
de-nil; with hat and shoes of Here From Canton young and pretty in very light green which white. suited her pale golden curls.
Contrasting Hues
J
й
came
Joan Armstrong had a very, uz- Mr. Purver, in most becoming
blue,
with Ma resting dress of black and white pastel with a "Batik pattern, and Betty Bernard Brown, who had an at- Anne, Diana and Patricia Dod-Fair was very 'alognee in a black tractive costume of mingled brown well looked like the "Three Graces" | costume with narrow bands of and yellow. Miss Margaret Hum- In slenderly atting dresses of con-white satin at the cuffs and open phrey looked very nice in but trasting hues, and Mrs. Dodwell | neck
tercup-yellow linen and a finger was charming in a dress of dower- In a costume of palest lime-length white cost. She, by the. ed georgette. 1
green with dainty shoes to match way, was in Cantor on that fatal Anne Dowbiggin looked charm-Kathie" King looked most en-air-raid-Bunday, and was shopping ing a leaf-green isce, and a most chanting; and her sister Jan wore in the town during the nrst inter- intriguing dress of dark blue woven a dress of softly blended rose and mittent air-raid of the forenoon. with silver was worn by Mrs. blue with a wide white bat.
She was very much struck by the Hampden Ross. Mrs.
nonchalant way in which the Can- Shields looked extremely smart in
Letter From Home
tonese almost ignore the raiders. a wonderfully-moulded dark-hued
Beryl Fair, trimly turned out in and carry on regardless of the costume.
a silmiy-cut dress of rust-brown, { fact that bombs are dropping only Mrs. Archbutt too looked very had just got a letter from ittle a few miles away.
Leslie Womack (opt smail and : brought her
She and her party got back to
DOW erstwhile, riding-pupils,
telling his Mother that
Andrew
war lords will derive little satisfac- tion from the knowledge that by their very action they completed for him what had been a monu- mental undertaking. in this time of trial the Chinese There is no denying that though 1st floor, Hong Kong Hotel, people like to recall the deeds of much had been achieved up to July Victoria, Hong Kong, on Wednes. General Chi Chi-kwang of the last year, it was the Japanese war of aggression that day, the 20th day of April, 1938, Sung dynasty. Had it not been for at 12.15 p.m., or so soon there his bravery and resourcefulness as COMPLETE brought about com- plete unity in China. the Commander-in-Chief of the UNITY the Annual General Chinese army against the dwarf ACHIEVED As soon 28 the Meeting convened at the same bandlia (as the Japanese were
Chinese rallied for a China would have nation-wide resistance the Japan- place on that day at noon shall then called), be concluded, for the purpose oil been overrun by them a thousand ese war lords realised they had I daughter Madeleine, who watched school in England) and was heard the raiders tame over the town:
embarked on a war which "they considering, and, if thought of years ago. passing the following Resolation as Ordinary Resolutions:
alter as
In the reign of Emperor Chia-would find difficult to finish, but chin. the entire Chinese nation rather than admit this they pro- was shocked by the repeated news ceeded apace to deceive their own despatches received from the countrymen and promised new towns along the entire coastlines territories-even a new empire-in of the Shantung, Klangsu, Fukien: return for temporary financial and Kwangtung Provinces telling assistance in the form of loans of the atrocities of the Japanese which would be repaid after a short and urging that reinforcements he immediately sent to the districts in distress.
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period.
1. That the Capital-of_th*
Company be increased from $2,210.917.50 divided into 884,367 shares of $2.50 each to $2,210,920.00
Like a flock of sheep the civilians divided into 884,368 shares
of Japan were forced to follow the of $2.50 by the creation of
Though the methods of warfare militarists, Most of them have one new share of $2.50 have undergone a great change, done nothing but follow ever since, and that such new share the dwarf bandits that infested but now, when it is too late, it has
·be issued at such time and the China coast a thousand years dawned on them that they have
ago were not unlike their descen- " backed the wrong horse." upon such terms and co dents that are now carrying on an EVEN AT THE OUTBREAK of the
2.
chic,
the proceedings with serious in- tentness.
The groom's brother, and Mr. Marton and Mr. J. E. Potter were most efficient as groomsmen, and Mr. Alec Pearce was a most de pendable Best Man,
of
her
al Shameen just a short time before
he was and saw and heard
the bombs
costume
of
evidently carrying on the good which fell on the sewing factory. work, as he had sent her a photo How nice it is to see Mrs. J. W. of himself taken at home, proudly Alabaster out and about again. mounted on quite the largest poest, and looking so well and pretty. I ble hcrsei That Peak Riding much admired her School which Beryl. Betty and į brown with a narrow pipping of Pamela Scott Harston used to run'] Irish green, and it is very good was auch-a-splendid-scheme, It is news that the twins are flourish-. Happy Valley seemed quite the a pity they did not start it againing. right place to go to, after the re- when they came back from "home- Good dividends, and some sur- ception was over, and the happy leave."
prise wins combined with glorious couple had departed on the A particularly attractive costume sunshine to make the East Meet-· honeymoon so a great many of us was worn by Miss Mellor. It was ing one of the best events of the met there later in the day.
brown with a tunic in the Russian season.
AT_THE_RACES.
ditions as the Directors undeclared war in China. They hostilitles there were a few in CORRESPONDENCE|
may determine.
of the inhuman 'deeds of the Im- tiam.”
CRUSHING DEFEAT
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MR. NAKAMURA'S REMARKS
[To the Editor, "The Hong Kong Daily Press"]
Sir--I congratulate Mr. Walt Hanming Chen on, his' admirable reply to the Japanese Consul- General's allly remarks.
The statement of Mr. Nakamura that foreigners are coming to ap preciate Japan's action is especial- ly ridiculous if he believes that foreigners are coming to approve of Japan's campaign of carnage and slaughter, as Mr. Chen so very aptly puts it. Foreigners do ap preciate Japan's action but not in the way that the Japanese Consul General hopes and would have them appreciate it..
FOREIGN OBSERVER. Hong Kong, April 19, 1938.
Farther complications in the shape of a fifth suit are being in- troduced to the game of bridge at a London-club. The sult, as used experimentally by experts, is green, with crowns as a design.
plundered, set fire to towns and Japan who opposed the project. villages, engaged; in wholesale These were the farsighted mer- That upon allotment of th slaughter of innocent people, and chants who saw that nothing but new share aforesaid, the raped women and girls india ruin for their country would follow shares in the Capital of the criminately, :
in the wake of such an unwarrant- Company be consolidated Artists' drawings of their bruta-[ed attack on a nation- whose only in such manner that every
lities at that time are almost iden- request to Japan was to "leave us two shares of $2.50 shall tical with present-day photographs alone to work but our own salva- constitute one share
operial Japanese Army in Tientsin, But those who dared question the $5.00 credited as fully Shanghai. Nanking. Hangchow, wisdom of the military were made paid; That the existing and other places,
Lu feel they were traitors to His certificates of shares be
Imperial Majesty and, if this did called in by the Directors When the disturbance created not “bring thèm back to the fold." and cancelled, and that by the bandits was at its height, ther more effective methods the Emperor commissioned Gener-j were adopted the confiscation-or new certificates be issued,
ál Chi to lead an army against mchey and property being just one subject to the provisions the invaders. In the first battle of them. of the Company's Article the General dealt a crushing As the war progressed, and as "of Association; AND that defeat to the invaders at a small more and more men and money were required, the simultaneously with such town in the Chekiang province.
This was followed by another MORE AND
people had to diz Consolidation as aforesaid,
into their pockets victory in which 2,000 Japanese MORE MEN the nominal Capital of the were slaughtered and -3,000 cap AND MONEY again and again to Company be increased from | tured The news soon spread to
meet the require- $2,210,920.00 divided into other points along the coast and ments of the country at a time of 442,184 shares of $5.00 the dwarf bandits retired to their emergency."
Such requesta were readily met each" to $4,000,000.on islands.
The soldiers who fought under at first, but as they became more divided into 800,000 share-
General Chi showed the same insistent even the most loyal sup of $5.00 each by the crea- kind of bravery as their descen- porters of the country revolted tion of 357.816 new shares dents, who are now fighting the against the idea of parting with of $5.00 each, and further unprovoked Japanese invasion. their all with no prospect whatever that such-new-shares-bej At one time when a battalion of of any return.
his soldiers were besieged by the Again themon effective issued at such-times-an^
Japanese, their food supply was methods came into force but now upon such terms and concat on and they had nothing to after nine months of fighting." ditions and with such right eat for several days, p
Japan anda herself rushing on to and privileges as the Direc Finally, they discovered a stock financial ruin. tors may determine.. of wheat flour hidden in a store, THERE IS NO more money to be
As foreign observers see it, the and a man volunteered to bake garnered the country has been' cakes. The cakes he made was buying, buying and buying but she outlook for Japán is indeed a dis- coarse and unpalatable; but they has lost the market for her own mal one. Perhaps, very soon, the saved the beleaguered force from goods. Her export trade is dead Land of the Rising Sun will be such Colony yesterday by the s.8. Van News Service, was held at the trying no longer, for the sun for the Heutes from Singapore He hacerman Clab yesterday evening. starvation. After the war, this and while Tokyo Is kind of cake, which was ironically to convince the populace that Japanese is fast disappearing be taken up residence in the Hour The guests Included the Consul named "Smooth Cake, became everything will turn out ac nind the clouds clouds which have| Kong Hotel. very popular. It is still consumedording to plan, their leaders in no sliver lining In large quantities by the men now China are daily demanding more 6675 fighting in North China—(CIC.).|men, more munitions and more
By Order of the” Board,"
J. C. GUTERRES,
Hong Kong.
Secretary
7th day of April, 1938.
6567.
to
continue the China money Campaign.
And to add to the dimculties of the invaders. The Chinese are now
HARRIED ON
*
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
harrying them on fronts. Faced with ALL FRONTS Onancial ruin, Miss Á. Myers arrived in the Professor W, I. Gerrard referred
Japan cannot hold Colony yesterday by the Yasukuni with regret to the impending de
Maru from Malaya. She is here, parture for Home of Rotarian Rev. out very much longer.
The soldiers in China must be on a short holiday and is traveil H W. Bainen "Rotarian HarrY fed, clothed and armed. The ing in company with Miss A. Ma Bites he said: "has been a bül- civilians at home are insisting on Jers. They are staying at the wark of the Rotary Club here."
Peninsula Hotel. some repayment.
A cocktail party in honour of
| Mr." Hang Melchers, · Far - Eastern
Mr. Raphaety arrived in the representative of the TransoceRa
General for Germany. (Herr H., Gipperleh) and representatives of And Japan has only herself to At the meeting of the Hole the various newspapers and news
Kong Rotary Club, the Chairman, services in Hong Kong blame.