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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS, ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. The Baily Pass.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LIMITED.
Notice is hereby given that the Fiffleth Ordinary Yearly Meet `ing will be held at the Company's Offices, P. & O. Building, on Thursday, 9th March, 1939, at 11 a.m. for the purpose of, pre- senting the Report of the Direc tors together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1938, and electing Directors and Auði. tors.
The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 25th February, to 9th March, 1939, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer ol Shares can be registered...
By Order of the Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON &. CO., LTD., Agents.
Hong Kong, 16th Feb., 1939.
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THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, "LIMITED."
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BANK HOLIDAYS. HONG KONG CRICKET
In Accordance with 'Govern
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cat Ordinance, THE EXTENNIS TOURNAMENT 1939
CHANGE, BANKS will bt CLOSED. for the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY & TUESDAY, the 20th & 21st February, 1939. (CHINA NEW YEAR HOLI. DAYS), '.
Hong Kong, 15th Feb., 1939.
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Entries close on SATURDAY, 18th February, 1939, xt 6 p.m.
CHINESE PERMANENT CEMETERY AT
120
TSUN WAN
Tenders are invited for the construction of Sections A. and C.
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, of the above.
LIMITED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY GENERAL MEET. ING of HONG KONG TRAM.
WAYS, LIMITED will be held at the offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 17th day
of February, 1939, at 12 o'clock noon, to transact the ordinary business of the Company.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY Notice is hereby given that the TWENTIETH ORDINARY ALSO GIVEN that the REGIS. YEARLY MEETING of thisTER OF MEMBERS' of the Company will be held at the Company will be CLOSED from
Particulars of the work are obtainable from Mr. T. 0..Tso of Messrs. Tso & Hodgson, Solicitors' Ofice. Plans and specifications will be supplied on Payment of deposit of $100.00. but must be returned within one week, when the deposit will be released.
Tenders to he sealed, marked Tender for Sections A. & C.. Chinese Permanent Cemetery, Tsun Wan", and submitted and addressed to The Honourable The Secretary for Chinese Affairs at the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs on or before 31st. March, 1939.
The Principals reserve the
NOTICE.
All claims against the estate of the late Majer R. Scott, The Royal Scots, Assistant Military Attache, British Embassy, should be forwarded to the President of the Committee of Adjustment at Murray Barracks, Hong Kong, NOT LATER than 11th March, 1939.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1939.
GERMAN BANDMASTER & JAPANESE PERFORMERS
BY PERCY CHEN PART I
IN THE OLD SYSTEM OF THINGS, WHICH YOUNG CHINA SINCERELY HOPES WILL PASS FROM HUMAN "KEN AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, the idea that War is the ultimate arbiter of human relations developed a technique of statesmanship in which the General Staffs frequently decided the life of nations.
China by the subjugation of have none of it. And Matsuoka.
The Japanese General Staff Asia, Nakano, leader of the Ko for long have been the real kumin, Domel, the Fasciata of rulers of Japan. The destiny Japan, wrote a series of articles WORLD'S BURDEN
of that country has rested in declaring. "Japan's only hope lese the hands of its generals and in securing an agreement with admirals. OF ARMAMENTS
Japan's General Great Britain, who alone can lo PUBLIC AUCTION.
WFFORTS to realize world peace Staff planned and organized gically be Japan's friend in ques through disarmament have for the day when they would tons of world polities and econo
mick" But Great Britain "would" proved to be far from successful
carry out their ambitions in PARTICULARS AND CON for, while certain nations have DITIONS of the Sale by Public (been sincere in this
respect, the Chinese people. To this professing their strong end, national economy, as well * HYMN OF HATE Auction to be held on Wednesday, others
The German bandmaster learnt the 22nd day of Feb., 1939, at 3 desire for peace have been arming as the military and naval p.m., at the Offices of the Public themselves to the teeth and rat-system and plans were con-his music in London. His name is Works Department, by Order of thing their subreg in a most alarm-ceived and gradually carried Joachim von Ribbentrop. :-And- ing mander. The result is that out. According to plans, when the Japanese tourbadours the rearmament race 13
controlled strategic areas in with them a musical score in now Japan invaded Manchuria, came to join his band they brought North China, and began the which the main motive was a
renewal
His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Mount stronger than ever before and ter- Cameron Road, in the Colony of riae sums are being spent on pre- Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, parations for war. with the option of at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years."
Intending bidders are advised
IT WOULD BE cult, in the annals of human folly, to dis-
went to Germany. -
war which was to have re-hymn of hate against Russia.. mained an "Incident."
That It was also anti-Chinese goës
cover anything quite so fantastic as the prodigious squandering of wealth of nations on the creation of Instruments for their mutualit
world has stage that it is
that immediately after the dis reached such
destruction but the
pany No. 10, Des Voeux Road the 17th February, 1939, both tender as they think it and do (if not the applicant), will be which desires to protect its sover- Registered Office of the Com. FRIDAY, the 3rd to FRIDAY. right of accepting whichever posal of the lot the Purchaser utterly impossible for any nation quest of France. The Key of this the Japanese racial theorists, the
Central, on Saturday, the 11th days March, 1939, at 3.00 p.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1938.
1939,
The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from Saturday, 4th March, 1939, to Saturday, 11th March, (both days inclusive) which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
during
By Order of the Board of Directors,
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Magager. Hong Kong, 17th Feb., 1939
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THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN
GOLD MINING CO.,-
LIMITED
(Incorporated in Queensland)
NOTICE OF DECLARATION
OF FINAL DIVIDEND
NOTICE is hereby given that a Final Dividend of five pence: plus bonus of two pence, making seven pence per share for the financial year ending 31st March, 1939, has been declared by the Directors of the Company in Brisbane, payable on 15th March. 1939, to Shareholders on the Registers at Brisbane and Singa. pore on 14th March, 1939.
NOTICE is also hereby given. that the Singapore Transfer Re. gisters will be closed from Wednesday, 8th March, to Tues. day, 14th March, 1939, both days: Inclusive, for the preparation oi Dividend Warrants.
By Order of the Board,
DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants,
Local Secretàrics. Hong Kong Bank Chambers, Singapore, 11th Feb., 1939,
CALL
144
inclusive.
By Order of the Board W. F. SIMMONS, Secretary. Hong Kong, 25th Jan., 1939.
THE STAR FERRY CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS. ·
NOTICE IS
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not oblige themselves to accept the lowest one. THE CHINESE PERMANENT CEMETERY COMMITTEE."
130
HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.
that
15 HEREBY
the
NOTICE GIVEN
FOUR TEENTH ORDINARY YEAR. LY MEETING of HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held on HEREBY TUESDAY, the 7th day of GIVEN THAT THE FORTY- | March, 1939, at the BORD FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY | ROOM of the Company, Second MEETING OF THIS COM Floor, Exchange Building, Hong PANY will be held at the Office Kong, at Noon, for the purpose of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & of receiving Statement of Co., Ltd. on Friday, the 24th Accounts and the Report of the February, 1939, at 11.30 a.m. Board of Directors, for the for the purpose of receiving the financial year ended 31st Deccm. Report of the Directors together ber. 1938, and re-electing two with a Statement of Accounts Directors and the Auditors. for the year ended 31st Decem- ber, 1938.
Company will be CLOSED from The Register of Shares of the
Friday, the 17th February, 1939, to Friday, the 24th Febru ary, 1939, both days inclusive,
By order of the Board of Directors,
C. M. MANNERS,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 30th Jan., 1939.
THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS,
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from 1939, both dayą, inclusive.” the 25th February to 7th March,
Dated this 31st day of Janu ary, 1939.
Order of the Board.
W. L. MCKENZIE, Secretary.
14, Des Voeux Road, Central.
required to deposit with an eignty and ward off, all possi. authorised officer who will be buity of foreign aggression to take present at the sale, the sum of precautions. Hardly a week passes two hundred dollars, ($200) in but the raport comes from one cash. This sum will be refunded quarter or another of new outlays, on payment of the Purchase fresh burdens and growing, budget ¡deficits. According to the annual price.
estimate published in the League of Nations, "Armaments Year PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Book" the world spent approx- imately €487,900,000 more ст Armaments in 1938 than it did
No, of Hale, į
Locality.
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Contents in
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For better or for worse accord-without saying. But Hitler has. ing to the Japanese point of view, said that we are a nation without everything went according to the the necessary moral fibre, to exist general outline of the plan. But in this grand new world dedicated was like the famous. Von it» Aryans-and the Tungus (as the Schlieffen plan adopted by the Japanese describe themselves). It German General Staff for the con-must be noted that, according to
plan, was the invasion of Belgium, "Tumgus" is a virile race of super- the breach of the Treaty guaran- Orientals to which the Japanese
Large groups, of teeing her neutrality, and the an-belong. nihilation of the French armies people live as together with the encirclement of pressed of course! In Mongolis, Paris, if not its capture. All this the Maritime Provinces, the Bai- was to take place before thekal region of Siberia, the Urals British had had time to come to and in Finland. fulfil "the terms of the Entente Cordiale and come to the aid of Japanese, was the main enemy in Soviet Russia, according to the
her ally. It is history that the von Asta. It was to drive the Russians Schlieffen plan miscarried.
away from Asia that the Russo- "THE TIMID STRATEGIST "
Japanese war was fought in 1905. The miscarriage lay not in the It was to drive them out of Asia during 1937, the figures for mill-plan itself but in the modification that Japan intervened in Siberia of the plan introduced by the and advanced even to the Lake Younger Molte, Chief of the Ger- Balkal region. It was to drive man General Staff in 1914. Some them out of Asia that Japan join- put the blame for the miscarriage ed Germany in the Anti-Comin- of the plan on the Commander of tern Pact. That Japan · ravaged the German First Army, VOD Chinese territory or all occasions Kluck. But again, the change of was, according to them, a second- direction of the advance of the ary
consideration, The main First Army, which brought them finally to the northeast of Paris Soviet.
enemy was Russia, Tiarist · or instead of sweeping round the west Bandmaster von
Ribbentrop side of Paris as the genius, von concurred in this view until he Schlieffen, had planned-was ac- was able to get the instruments cepted by Molte, "he timid rate of the Japanese performers to hit gist, Molte's change of plan was the right key. But the fallure of "
tary expenditures being £3.216, 700,000 and £2,728,800,000 for 1938 and "1937, respectively. The seven great powers-Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Japan. Italy and the US.S.Rpent 7.400,000,000 gold units last year. or 787 per cent of the world total In 1929, the same seven countries accounted for 2.800,000,000 out of 4.200.000.000 gold units, or only 166.7 per cent of the world total,
EVEN IN 1932, before the arma- ments race began, the world 125 expenditure was already colossal, yet to-day we look back upon it as an ideal to which we would, all of us, only too gladly return if we could, That, unhapplly; is more
PROF. F. E. ADCOCK than we can dare. But no one can refrain from asking himself how Professor F. E. Adcock, who si-much longer the nations can go rived from England by the sou standing not only the material Rawalpindi on Wednesday, is the but, the paychological strain. The guest of His Excellency the Governor at Government House.
process of piling up armaments, for whatever cause, must in time
the cause of the inadequate forces
THE "CHINA INCIDENT"
on the German right flank. "Make the Japanese to finish off the the right wing strong," the dying called for a modification of the *China Incident" in`a year' has
von Schlieffen had said: The Younger Molte (who was later entire plan of the Fascist, Powers destroyed the essence of the plan. known as "Molte and Sawdust in the Far East.
PART II
and proportion of fifty-three divi-The Continental Policy, the ad And in place of the preponderance:
slons of the main army-plus the seventeen divisions made available vance into China, is the policy of between. 1905 and 1914-to the the Japanese bureaucrats, the Born in 1886, Professor Adcock exhaust the resourCES of any eight divisions of the secondary militarists, the railway interests was employed in the Admiralty nation, resources which, as Mr. army, Molte, when the time came and the financiers. Gen. Minami. Intelligence Division during the Neville Chamberlain humanely for execution, deprived the main Governor-General of Korea and war, and became It-Commander, pointed out, should properly be
army of seventeen divisions and the real brain behind the "China
was ruined. "It
Incident," relied on this support... RN.V.R. He was president of the devoted to the advancement of the the plan
when he led the Kwantung Army Society for Promotion of Roman prosperity, and happiness of its Schlieffen-and-water."
The story of the Battle of the to take the field against the Chi- Studies from 1929-31, and is joint own people. 92 editor of the Cambridge Ancient
Marne is well-known Tactically nese in North China more than a TO ASSESS with any precision wed to the parade ground, the year ago. History.
the extent of the fall in Younger Molte demanded that his Gen. Minami gained the contin
HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.
COLONY HEALTH
RETURNS
WES
He is, now Professor of Ancient national standards of living advancing armies move shoulder dence of these elements in Japan History and Fellow of King's Col-through the cost of rearmament to shoulder. Von Kluck feared to because he assured them, through lege, Cambridge University. is not easy but the point must lose touch with the German Firth his "Dolharas" that cemilih circles It is understood he will leave obviously come where the pinch Army and wheeled inwards. The in China would obstruct resistance Hongkong next Tuesday..
can no longer be borne. The De- French Sixth, under the redoubt and would even to so far as to NOTICE IS HEREBY
mocratic Powers have done their able Gallieni, made the Germans sabotage Chinese resistance! It GIVEN that an Extraordinary
best to safe the world from wer halt by imperiiling their right was the force of our resistance LIMITED..
General Meeting of the Company
but, since their efforts have met The Battle of the Mame was and the quarters from which it (Incorporated in Hong Kong)
with such little success, they are fought. will be held at the Registered
came that gave Minami, Itagak |now engaged in competition which Offices of the Company, Ex-
THE ANTI-COMINTERN PACT and Co. the shock of their lives is not of their seeking and, which NOTICE
How the idea of the anti-Comin- The Japanese in the course of IS HEREBY - change Building, 14, Des Voeux
A further nineteen cases of they would willingly abandon if tern Pact was born will remain the war up to now have mobilized GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Road Central, Hong Kong, ou tuberculosis were reported to the the totalitarian states would agree known only to the Germans and more than 40 divisions. They have Meeting of Shareholders of The Tuesday, the 7th day of March Health Authorites on Wednesday, to disarm. Is it impossible to hope the Japanese. But In 1932 the used over 30 in China, leaving a Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, | 1939, at 12.15 o'clock in the in addition to seven cases of mea that a returning sanity may yet vigorous Japanese imperialist Yo- scant 28 per cent, to be added to Limited, will be held at the Re-afternoon or so soon thereafter ass, four cases of cerebro-mal bring to a tortured world relief suke Matsuoka, was delegate to the possible new divisions in the fever, three cases each of enteric from the hideous infiction under the session of the League of Na- event of a war with Boviet Rusi a. gistered Office of the Company the Annual General Meeting of fever and chicken pox and one which all nations are now grow. tions at which Sir John Simon ex-The carefully planned world con (Exchange Buliding, Des Voem the Company convened for that case of dysentery,
ing? CHINA UNDERWRITERS, Road Central, Hong Kong), on day shall have terminated for the
LIMITED.
Wednesday, the 15th day of purpose of considering, and li March, 1939, at 11.30 a.m., for thought fit, passing a resolution NOTICE is hereby given that the purpose of receiving a State as a special resolution altering in a Call of $1.00 per share has been ment of Accounts and the Report certain respects the Articles of made upon all members holding of the Board of Directors for the Association of the Company, shares upon which $5.00 per year ended on the 31st December, share only has been already paid, | 1938, and re-electing a Director and will be payable on or before and the Auditors. the 15th March, 1939 to the Bankers of the Company, Hong Kong and Shanghal Banking Corporation, at Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong.
ΕΠ
Dated 1st December, 1988.
By Order of the Board of Directors;
HERBERT R. STURT,
Managing Director.
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The Transfer Books of the Company, will be closed from Wednesday, the 1st March, 1938, to Wednesday, the 15th March, 1939, both days, inclusive.”
By Order of the Board,
F. C. BARRY,
Hong Kong, 15th Fe
1939.
137
Fall particulars of such pro posed alterations have been sen out to shareholders by post. A copy of the proposed special re solution giving details can be Inspected at any time during business hours at the Registered, Office of the Company.
By Order of the Board,
WL. MCKENZIE,
* Secretary. Hong Kong, 7th Feb., 1959.
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QUESTION AND ANSWER
Why tio I love, when loving anguish brings? Why do I stay to shaking torment bear? Wherefore, when every pulsing moment flings My soul to depths of fevered despair?
No night but sighs to find me tossing still, No day but shames to see me paler growing: For though I lavish faith with steadfast will My love heads not-oh, 'twas a wasted, showing t
“Away, poor fool, and cool your burning breath! Seek not to school the heart immuned to truth. For love that will not love deserves Its death- And you miss naught, but gain a falrer ́
Youth ALEC GREAVES
1934
celled himself in his masterly de- quest of the Japanese has been fence of Japan. Matsuoka visited ruined by the hecessity to divert Moscow on his way to Geneva, and more man-power from the poten- offered the Russians a non-aggres. Mal Russian front to seek a de- sion pact. This Iden was claion on the China front Fr courteously received by Litvinov, the secondary front, the who informed Dr. W. W Yen. Chi China has become the main front rese delegate to the League, and An the Japanese have too proposed the re-establishment of troops.
diplomatic relations ́between the "Victory # said Napoleon, “i two countries. It need not be said the side of the big I that Wang Ching,wel, at that time And we Chinese believe this. Prime Minister and Foreign Min-Japanese know it too. ister as well, came out in strong The German opposition. But, by rallying Kuo-ed at his "Tungus mintang members around him told you so," he said Dr. Bum Fo succeeded in bringing that had bett Chinese policies a step nearer the three fundamental policies.
respected father. Normal
his and
Ace
rela- tions between Chma, and Boviet Lom Russia were resumed in the Buring Viet of 1983/Matsuoka, sounded” the plly
дох
роль
ties of an anti-Boviet front. In.