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SLAREHOLDERS FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE
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ORDINARY Building, No. 2, House EIGHTEENTH Streel, Hong Kong, on SATUR MEETING of Shareholders in DAY, the 30th APRIL, 1938, the Company will be held at the AT 12 O'CLOCK, NOON, for Office of the Company, Queen's the purpose of receiving the Building, Victoria, Hong Kong, Report of the Directors together on THURSDAY, the 28th April, with a Statement of Accounts 1938, at Noon, for the purpose Report of the for the year ended 31st December, af receiving a
Directors, together with a State 1937.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of ment of Accounts, and re-electing the Company will be closed from Directors and Auditors. the 23rd April, 1938, to 30th April, 1938, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
R. P. PHILLIPS,
Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, 22nd April, 1938.
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.
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EDITORIAL
SMALL-POX NOT DESTRUCTION OF REPORTED SOOCHOW CITY-
SEVERAL KOWLOON
PROSECUTIONS
Several persons were summoned before Mr. Q.'A. A. Macfadyen, at the Kowloon Police Court yester- day. for failing to report amall- por KALACA on their premises. Senior Sanitary Inspector HL Lockhart prosecuted in all cases.
remanded till
Experience Of An Old Man
HIT BY BULLET
Soochow for his life after he had his left hand wounded us result of the Japanese air bombing. According to Wong. after the beginning of bostilities in Shanghai on August 13. Soochow became the object of frequent and reckless Japanese air bombing.
Many houses were destroyed and a great many people were killed. was completed The destruction when these bombins were followed by the barrages laid by heavy artillery. when the enemy came near the city.
There is a Chinese saying: "Up above there is beaven; here below there are Soochow and Hang- chow." That does not seem to be Ho Yee Mu. of 40 Yen Chow
the experience of sixty-four-year Street, was fined $10; Choi Limold Wong Mo-chi, who fled from of 306 Hal Tai Street, was ined $5; having two inmates suffering JAPAN'S
from small-pox and failing to re- port SECRET SHIPS Yan Hiu-miu, of 313, Lai Chi
Kok Road, was RECENT REPORT that Monday morning. when she plead- THE
Britain and the Uniteded ignorance of a small-pox case States had decided to invoke the on her premises: ""escalator" clause of the London Naval Treaty of 1938 in regard to the size and gun calibre of capital ships was not at all unexpected. Japan's persistent refusa) come into line with other Power:
by disclosing the details of her' ship-building programme, thereby holding aloof from a very sensibi provision designed to prevent tenant; world-wide competition in types of ships, had long ago been taken to mean that she was building battle- shipe of 40,000 to 45,000 tons, pos-fined $10... sibly armed with 18-inch guns
to
The treaty fald down a imit for battleships of 35,000 tons and 14- inch guns-16-inch guns if the other parties to the Washington Treaty, Japan and Italy. failed to agree to the smaller calibre before April 1, 1937.
There was no response from elther, with the consequence, that the 16-Inch gun mit is now
operative. ...
THE FIVE British battleshipp now building are being armed with 14-inch guns, and for various good.
reasons.
the
1.5
Leung Ylu-tong, of 43, Pel Ho It was Street, was Aned $25. stated that the Sanitary Inspec
tor found the
victim locked
up in a back room without any ventilation.
Li Chun, of 921. Portland Street, was Aned $10; Wong Sun of 23 Argyle, Street, and the principal Leung Yin-hing. were each fined $10 and Ip Sze, of of 1.000, Canton Road, and the nearest male relative were
each
Then followed the occupation of the city, and those who were lucky to escape death were killed in the most ruthless manner. Dead bodies of the old and young men and found everywhere. women were Wong saw several girls of the being student type killed by stabbed through the abdomen.
Once he was in the midst of a group of some thirty people trying to run away from the city. In the On Tuesday
street before the temple of the Small-per' cases are again show Goddess of Mercy, they came upon a Japanese searching party. In a ing an increase, the returns for the 24 hours ended midnight, Tues-flash, bullets were flying thick and Wong and his compatriots day showing no less than 39 cases. fast.
39 Cases ReportedTM
Of these, 21 cases were from vic-were being machine-ganned. toria, 14 from Kowloon, and two ench from Shaukiwan and Aber- deep
Other diseases notified duting cases of the period were five
cases of cerebro- measles, five spinal meningitis and one case each of diphtheria, enteric fever and dysentery.
ending
LAID AS DEAD People were falling all around Wong, and his left hand was hit by a bullet. He pretended to be dead. When the searching party came near him, he lay perfectly still and was not noticed.
After they had gone, he got up and made off toward the Soochow Hospital maintained by American missionaries. When he neared the neighbourhood, he saw that the buildings of Soochow University, maintained by American missionaries: were burned down.
The buildings of the hospital were destroyed either by fire or by What were left were
also
mountings had to be designed and
bombing. Moreover British Naval opinion materials provided beforehand.
It was hoped that the stater calibre would be agreed to by all
WEEKLY RETURNS Powers as a measure of economy. It was also necessary that the
the week Arst of
Returns for new British ships
midnight, April 16, show 58 cases should be laid down as soon
o: small-pox, with 56 deaths; ave possible after December 31, 1938.
meant that guns and cases of diphtheria, four deaths; which
one case
of scarlet fever; four cases of enteric ferer: 23 cases of measles, one death; Ave cases of chicken-pox: 18 cases of menin-
number of dead bodies. gitis, 11 deaths; six cases of dysen-nothing but broken walls and a tery, three deaths; and 109 deaths
Finally he found his way to a from tuberculosis.
small house in the compound of the Baptist Mission. There be found BM American missionary doctor tending the wounds of some fifty people. He dressed Wong's wrist wound and gave him a piece of bread, for he was des- perately hungry. Wong stayed in the house overnight.
has long held to the view that
properly "balanced capital ships of 35.000 tons cannot mount a suficient number of guns larger than 14-
BRITISH NAVAL OPINION
inch.
The "escalator" clause, permit- ting Britain to depart from the limitatioris and restrictions of the treaty cannot be put into practical effect until three months after all other Powers have been notified. The delay does not greatly signify, In any case, the two new capita' ships to be started under the 1938 programme would not have
.
EVADED PAYMENT OF BUS FARE Filipino Musician Fined Ten Dollars Arthur Sar, 22, Filipino musician, sppeared before Mr. K. M. A. Bar- nett at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday charged with evading payment of bus fare.
When he wanted to leave in the
THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1938. Macao Electric Company,
Reports Satisfactory Year
The annual meeting of the Macao Electric Lighting Company was held at the offices of Messm. Lowe, Bingham and Matthews. yesterday.
Mr. F. J. Gellion presided and amongst those present were Messrs. Wong Yiu Chew and N. G. Beals directors), Mr. G. G. N. Tinson... "representing the secretaries). Mr. J. Fleming and Mr. A. B. Raworth
(shareholders).
In his report the Chairman sald:-
After providing for Depreciation, pairs, particularly our Low Ten- a sum amounting to $4,028.30: the slon Aerial Net Work and Public net profit for the year totals $113,-Lighting equipment, also some of 258.76 which together with the sum the buildings. of $87,128.72 brought forward from the year 1936. makes the total amount available for appropriation $200.387.48.
All of the Company's plant and equipment has been maintained in good state. and efficiency.
Our revenue for the first quarter With this it is proposed to pay of this year is higher than the a dividend of $1 per share on 90,- corresponding quarter of 1937, and 000 shares, which absorbs $90.- I believe we can look forward to
000.00, and to pay the Government even better results on this year's of Macau 5 per cent of this amount working. (as per Article 15 of our Extension
OTHER BUSINESS Contract), which is $4,500.00, so leaving a balance of $103.887.48 to be carried forward to this year's account
I now propose that the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 1937 be adopted, and The results of the year are far when this has been seconded I wil better than the year 1938, and were be pleased to answer any question up to our expectations due to the you may wish to ask.
Mr. A. B. Raworth seconded the fact that the Electric Fiscalisation
was carried Taz question had been satiafse-proposal, which torily settled, the new law being animously. put into force from January 1, 1937.
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Mr. J. Fleming proposed the re- election of Mr. F. J. Gellion us Director, which was seconded by MORE CURRENT USED The kilowatt-hours sold, for the Mr. G. G. N. Tinson and carried Mr. N. G. Beale proposed the re- year showed an increase of 14 per-unanimously. cent over the previous year, and although operating on adverse ex-election of Messrs. Lowe, Bing- change rates we were able to ham and Matthews for the ensuing slightly reduce our operation costs year which was" seconded by Mr.
The number of new consumers A. B. Haworth and carried obtained during 1837 was a per animously.
The Chairman thanked those cent more than in 1936.
Unfortunately the bad typhoon present for their attendance and of September last cost the Com-stated that dividend eheques would pany a considerable amount in re- be mailed from Macau tomorrow.
MEDICAL UNIT REPORT
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WOUNDED SOLDIER'S STORY
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hospital where the X-ray appara- tug was installed. Then the mem- bers of our units rejoined and be the Japanese in a hand-to-band
simple but interesting engagement. gan our work in removing quite a number would of shrapnels and bullets.
INTERESTING CASE"
Bealizing that it
REFUSED TO SURRENDER" "The movement of our men were
be disadvantageous and dangerous to be dragged into a close combat; the Japanese hastily withdrew and carried with them In passing, it is to noted that only those munitions and food- could be removed while working in the Catholic stuff which Church Hospital; our relationship without difficulty. with the military hospitals was still maintained, as a part of our unit was still doing dressing there. We requested them to inform us so swift that some Japanese sol- as soon as new cases were coming.diers had found it too late to Bee During this period of leisure, we and so hid themselves among the did two operations, one was a pa-demolished houses. We started, a tient with-hemia and the other search and killed some twenty Both Japanese in a house by means of: Patients recovered. One interest-grenades, while those who were ing case of relapsing tever was not killed knelt down to beg for found during the first relapse and life.
"Later we encountered another successfully treated with neoar-
band of Japanese soldiers who re- spbenamine.
We designed a very simple boller fused to surrender, and so a clash At that tilled water for our own use. time only two-thirds of our men (costing only $1) and prepared cis-followed immediately.
H. DA LUZ,
with arteriovenous fistula. Secretary,
6703 Hong Kong, 15th April, 1938.
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 year ended the 31st December 1937.
The Share Register and Trang ter Books will be closed from the 22nd April to the 6th May, 1938. both days inclusive.
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JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
General Agents,
Hong Kong, 13th April, 1938.
NOTICE
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ENGAGEMENT
6694
BACON-FOX.The engagement is announced between Basil Mac- Leod, son of the late Lieut.-Col. F. T. Bacon, 11th Hussars, and of Mrs. Bacon. of Ellerston House. Farnham, Hants, and Dorothy Maud, elder daughter of the late Owen Gurney Fox. the Dorsetshire Regiment, and of Mrs. Fox, of St. Mark's Court, Abercorn Place, N.W.
DEATH
SENG-On April 12, 1938, at her residence, Shanghai. Mrs. T. F. Seng, are 69, the dearly beloved wife of Mr. T. F. Seng.. and mother of Mrs. Dorothy Chen, Mrs. Loy Chang, Mrs. Li-pin King, Mung-bing. Johnson. Henry, Charles, and Helen.
FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES
Two forthcoming marriages are announced:---
Mr. Gustave Otto Amann, en- gineer, and Miss Helen, Maria Gertrude Schmahl, both of No. 24 Conduit Road.
Mr. Eric Cox-Walker, marine oficer, 8.3. Foo Shing, care of Masara. Jardine Matheson and Co. Ltd., and Miss Eugenia Matveevna Gus, of No, tb Hankow Road.
LOCAL ESTATE
Det. Sergt. Scott, prosecuting, said that defendarit boarded hus No. 704 on the No. 6 route and did not pay his fare. Accused said that he had changed his trousers and left his money in the other. He forgot about it until be" was asked for his fare:
been laid down before the autumn. as the slips are not available. IT IS understood that alternative sizes and armaments have long been under consideration, but that there is no intention at present of exceeding the 15-Inch kun limit."
Larger vessels will necessarily be He was fined $10, ordered to more costly. Taking the average pay $0 for the interpreter's fees, price of warship building in Bri-" and pay 15 cents amends to the tain, ships of 35.000, 40,000 and Bus Company, 45,000 tons would cost about eight. ! nine and 10 million pounds, respec- tively.
In the United States four new battleships were authorised under the programmes for SEVEN NEW 1937 and 1938, while were more U. &. SHIPS "three
mentioned in tha President's message to Congress "on January 28, making a total of seven.
The original intention was that the first two of these, the North
GRANDCHILDREN
ih.
OF LORD KITCHENER
But when he insisted morning, the doctor advised him not to go. on leaving. the doctor dressed the wound.
Wong walked and walked till he arrived at Chinklang near the end of the month His wound had by now developed infection;" and at a hospital he was told that the whole, forearm would have to be cut am. He stayed in the hospital for two weeks, and after that, took a boat to Hankow, where he was admitted to one of the refugee camps. (China 'Information Cam
mittee).
BRAZIL BAN ON ALIENS
Since we have Ave medical stu-survived, but still we carried on dents in our unit, acting as nurses four fight, as we knew that our and dressers, the senior members enemy would be soon overpowered began to give lectures and deraon-owing to the lack of determined strations and actually conducted courage. The very moment I led clerkship for them..
HEAVY WORK
the fight my left arm was struck by a machine-gun bullet and on further advance my right arm On February 19 after the fall of was also pierced by another bullet. Hsinhsiang, the Lunghal line be-
CRITICAL POSITION came quite tense. We realized the
"Bleeding was so profuse. I importance of the, situation and with the prospect of heavy work nearly fainted, but I perslated in on hand, the junior members and leading the offensive in which a some of the unnecessary supples second bullet bit my left arm. Rio de Janeiro, April 19.
Slan on After that I could hardly hold were sent away to A decree has been signed in
February 21. All the doctors, as myself and was about to collapse. Brazil, banning foreigners from well as senior nurses, remained at Two of my comrades then carried holding, me ting of foreign asso-
the 62nd Ho Fang Hospital where me to the rear amidst the shower clations or societies except with
the old wounded soldiers have al of enemy bullets, We were also in the permission of the authorities ready evacuated so as to provide a most critical position, but it was Our reinforcements No. badges or tokens of foreign more space for the newcomers. On lucky that organisations may be worn in the same, day, a large number of came to our relief. The battle future.
The King has been pleased to ordain thal Charles Eaton Kit chener and Kenya Kitchener." minora, shall henceforth enjoy the same title and precedence as the son the daughter of an Earl, as would have been due to them had their father, Henry Franklin Chevallier Kitchener, (commonly Carolina and the Washington called Viscount Broome), survived should be 35,000 tons and be arm his father, Henry Elliot Chevallier,
fresh cases arrived packing the continued, but only for a short edwith 16-inch guns. They were Earl Kitchener, and thereby suc- The foreign press throughout hospital. We had a very busy day time and the Japanese troops estimated to cost about £14,000,000 ceeded to the title and dignity of Brazil will be controlled, while in doing dressings and first aid. gave way i confusion.
The North Carolina was fald Earl Kitchener; and to command 'foreign schools will be placed un- The Japanese had already arrived
that this concession and declara- down last October but work on her tion be recorded in his Majesty's has progressed very slowly. College of Arms--(The Times). . America may therefore decide to redesign all seven of these shilps and to give them 18-inch guns
each.
raw
Government
der
(Reuter).
supervision-
"The valley was heaped with the
on the northern bank of the Yellow dead and the wounded, and it was River. Sounds of cannons could with some difficulty to make out be heard. Order for evacuation of at ones whether they were corpoes all the wounded soldiers was re- of Chinese or Japanese soldiers. ceived by the military hospital an- Blood was streaming down the valley. After the battle was over, thority.
OLD SCOTS GUARDS THE HONG KONG LAND
This will mean a substantial in- cruisers now possessed by other
COLOURS FOUND
On February 23, all of us with it was found that two-thirds of our belongings squeezed into our battalion had been killed and INVESTMENT AND
crease in tonnage and an advance Powerz
Carried In Battle Of very crowded train, and left for wounded, but the casualties of the in price to about £20,000,000 But the ships she is building
cannot remain secret, for øver,
Blan. On AGENCY CO., LTD.
arrival at Blan, Dr. Japanese doubled the number. ship. A colossal figure indeed
II. with her lack of
Waterloo IT 18 possible and more than
Wong immediately arranged with "Finally, I wish to say that I, Ificely that Japan
some have almost recovered from my 13 also materials, particularly steel, and
London, April, 19.
the authorities and found During the absence of Mr. 0.
building ships within the pro-her already vast commitinents and Eager, Mr. B. C. Field has been
Three old Colours of the Royal more work in ahinyang, west of my wounds and am feeling appointed ACTING SECRE- An application made by . G. hibited "non-construction zone" of expenditure on armaments, she TARY and is hereby authorised G. N. Tinson for sealing certified the London Naval Treaty that is deliberately chooses to indulge in Scots Guards, which were carried Stan. We have been kept very most anxious to return to the 2 competitive race in types within the Battle of Waterloo and the busy there and is carrying on. We front to join in the gigantic copy of confirmation (nominate)
and 5,600 dressings up to March wish I would kill more invad- to sign in that capacity.
of the executive of the estate of This means she may be pro-Britain and America. It can only Peninsula War were received by have thus far done 106 operations struggle against allen inroads. T
and die for the cause of justice'. or be to her, own eventual financial the Duke of Gloucester today and the late Robert Alexander Birss, ducing light battle-cruisers
hung ceremoniously in Worcester the 20th, 1938 "pocket battle | detriment..
Cathedral,
We regretted very much that the retired
has been shipmaster,
“POCKET ships"
She has three months to decide armed
The flags, which were lost after five medical, students had to leave granted. J. J. PATERSON,
died at Deceased
Montrose, BATTLESHIPS" with 10-inch or if it is really worth her while bus Managing Director, County of Angus, Scotland, on July
12-inch guns, it is hard to say what will be her the Battle of Waterloo, were reus to continue their medical trains enjoyed much hearty co-operation than a decision. The Japanese mind justicently discovered in a house in ing. However, the whole unit have trom the authorities of the military
Worcester.-(Reuter);
worked quite coherently and have hospitals. Hong Kong, 18th April, 1938, 25, 1937, leaving local estate worn which would be more
match for the most heavily armed ripples with kinks
By Order of the Board of Directors,
6698 under $40,100.
between 8,000 and 17,500 tons.
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