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Notice is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corpora tion will be held at the Head Office of the Corporation, No. 1, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, on Saturday, the 25th February 1939, at 11.30 a.m, for the purpose of receiving the Re port of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Ac. counts for the year ending 31st UNNECESSARY December 1938.
London Office: 53. Fleet Street We are
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HONGKONG, FERRUA ¡Y 2., 1939
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to
read
A SINGULAR COINCIDENCE
New Year & Golden Gate Exhibition
-By a singular coincidence, the Golden Gate International *Exposition at San Francisco, took place on Saturday night. the eve
of the Chinese New Year and, from all indicationa, every effort is being made to 'make it as successful as possible.
The Chinese Covernment, througha
Daily Prem"}] Bir,It is interesting, the newspaper reports of "some. great men, like President Frank-
Roosevelt, lin D
for example, spouting the word Democracy with every breadth,
pccustomed to speak of the western democracies, mean- ing Great Britain, France, Holland. the Scandinavian States, and the United States of America But, notwithstanding this, we and the China National Tea Corpora~ | that, even in the so-called demo- tion, is being 'represented at the
claim cratic states, which
that Exposition and Dr. S. F. Lam, sub- their forms of government are manager of the Hongkong branch sharply distinguished from those of the Bank of China, has been seconded for this purpose. Dr. Lam litical power is distributed in so has been granted leave of absence complex a manner as to exclude from the Bank of China in order brutality
to represent the Chinese Govern- rigid classification. was displayed by a group
The Tsar was always an absc-ment enterprise, and one of his of plain-clothes Chinese lute dictator: Stalin is an abso-cutles will be to help in creating! police officers on Chinese New jute dictator. The Kaiser
ruled and enlarging the market for Chi Year's Day when they inter- a socialized state; Hitler rules a ese tea, which is one of the Re- rupted a dozen Chinese who socialized state. Italy is re-public's prime national products,
BRUTALITY of certain autocratic states, po
The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from Monday the 13th February to UNNECESSARY Saturday the 25th Febrpary, 1939 (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
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By: Order of the Board of Directors.
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager, Hong Kong, 6th Feb., 1939.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LIMITED...
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Notice is hereby given that the Fiftieth Ordinary Yearly Meet
were giving a dragon display peating a dictatorship repeated
in before for the benefit of a few score many times
that
Rome's ruled by political classes. England monarchy,
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of their fellow-countrymen In long history. France.. Village Road. Swooping down bureaucracy, remains on the "dragon" with a daring order of social
constitutional St.'s a would have put George to shame, these brave ruled by a hereditary aristocracy.
But what is Democracy? officers of the law broke up
According to popular inter- the little party and im-
pretation. democracy is. with mediately lashed out
ystem that Tests" their clenched fists and feet, sovereign power of the people and knocked a couple of the
collectively, the power being unfortunate tellows down. exercised by them either. Jumping on them, they took directly or indirectly through
elected representatives. handcuffs from their pockets
menacled several to- The laws are founded on free and
After that, a public motor all but minorities are all peace" means Use
the
Well acquainted with conditions in America and in China, Dr. Lam is peculiarly suited for the Work which he has been named to un- dertake and he carries with him the best wishes of a'host of friends who are confident that his mission will be à successful one.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
CHINA INDUSTRIAL ART CENTRE IN H.K.
1939.
Miss Liang Pao-Tse's Work In Dress Designs
Called by
American · newspapers the "Designing Ambas- sadress" but not the Phillips Oppenheim type-on her tour of study and inspection in the United State, na delegate of the Chinese Ministry of Industries, Miss Liang Pao-tse, fashion creator and industrial art expert, has recently established the China Industrial Art Centre in Hongkong.
NOTES FROM HOME
(From Our Own Correspondent)
LONDON, Feb. 12-How many old.
remember.. residents Hongkong "Odd Volumes" and "Fhysical Jerks?" The first was a bright group organized "by Dr. arid "Mrs., later Bir James and Lady: Cantlle with Mr. Skertchley at the Mount Austin Hotel (since used as a bar- racks), and the latter, a precursor of the "Keep Fit" classes, was also taught and drilled by that affer- vescing Scottish medica. Now we And a biography of Sir James Cantlle, by Neil Cantle and George Seaver (Murray 108. 6d. reviewed by Edward Shanks in the "Sunday Times" of February 5. We also owe a government concern which aims
to this energetic partner of Str at exporting Chinese tea tó föreign
Patrick Manson, and of Drs. Corvie, countries. It is capitalized by the In the studios of the Centre in Hartigan and Stedman, the Volun-" Ministry of Economic Affairs and China Building, Miss Liang and teer Medical Service Corps (now by the Provincial Goverments of her assistants have been, busily |RAM.C.T.) and the Hongkong Kiangsu Klangst, Hupeh, Human, engaged in turning out designs College of Medicine; later absorbed Arwel and Fukien, which are the tor dresses, dress materials, shoes, into the University of Hongkong: main tea production areas of curtains, carpets and other and it was he who rescued Sun Yat Cirina Officially, therefore, Dr. furnishing fabrics, and a repre 8en trom the Chinese Legation in Mr. Punch's learned.
The China Tea Corporation is
government concern.
MISS LIANG PAO-TSE
THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN |ing will be held at the Company's/gether, including two who had consent, and decisions are reach Lam is not a Chinese Government sentative collective of these de- London.
of argument been subjected to a headlocked by the process Offices, P. & 0. Building, on until
literally or the weighing of opinions in representative but he represents a signs applied in various ways are clerks (8.2.39) say that he would their eyes
displayed at the Exhibition of Chi- have made an excellent Minister of the Supply. The genial hospitality of at Thursday, 9th March, 1939, at bulged from their sockets. which the majority must pre-
nese National Products 11 s.m. for the purpose of pre-
Hua Nan College, No, 638, Nathan James and Lady Cantlle will long be remembered by old China senting the Report of the Dires.
Road, Kowloon.
hands. tors together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1938, and electing Directors and Andi.
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 anancial year ending 31st March, 1939, has been declared by the Directors of the Company in Brisbane, payable on 15th March, 1939, to "Shareholders on Registers at Brisbane and Singa pore on 14th March, 1939.
the
NOTICE is also hereby giyen 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 of Dividend Warra^ts.
tors..
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The Register of Members et the Company will be closed from 25th February, to 9th March, 1939, both days inclusive, during which period e Transfer 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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vehicle
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free to ta win support for their views and po-
THEFT CHARGE FAILS
A pioneer and a leader in her special sphere of work in China
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commandeered and the group was taken to lcies. This includes the right of the police station.
free assembly, free speech and a
At a cocktail party given by to introduce Lady Shenton at "The Boltons.". " SUCH TREATMENT was free Press.
SAPPER BOUND OVER Miss Llang seeks As an attitude to public affairs.
and popularise Chinese designs. South Kensington, to introduce Mr. entirely uncalled for as no
FOR ASSAULT
both traditional and modern, in Cecil E. S. Barclay, stepson of Sir attempt. was made to resist democracy is said to imply the
of Sappers Albert John Lea and foreign countries and, by privileg Robert Vansittart, and to celebrate in the approaching wedding- at arrest. The "dragon" could recognition of the principle
than equal social rights and oppor-Fed Coleman, both of the 22nd ed contact with art centres
ol Fortress Company. RE: appeared other parts of the world, to Chelsea Old Church on February. not have been more seven or eight feet long and,tunity on the one hand and apart from the drum-beater equal duties on the other. This before Mr. R. Edwards at the Cen- translate the best ideas and trends 16. of Barclay and Yvonne, only outlook is още in which thetral Court on Saturday charged for the benent of native manu- daughter of Sir William and Lady and cymbal clasher, there was essence is regarded to be the with stealing two pewter mugs factures. nothing to suggest that it respect paid to the individua: from a stali in Gloucester Road on
trusting Friday night. - came within the category of human personality, in
VALUABIE SERVICE
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WIVES BANNED
ON GOLF TOUR
Shenton, it was a pleasure to meet Mrs. C. G. Alabaster and to hear that her petite daughter, Rosalle, An additional charge of assault
The service which Miss Llang was to be married shortly, in Lon- a procession or that the traffic the moral instincts of the people was being obstructed. To be and having faith in their collecwas also preferred dn second de-lis rendering to Chinese industry don, to an onicer in the Kumaon is a valuable one which will cer- Rides, now stationed in Hongkong. publicly handcuffed is un-tive judgment. "It was more infendant
were many Hongkong It was alleged that the defen-tainly increase when settled con- There dignified and humiliating but this aspect that Abraham Lin
de.dants, with two other Europeans ditions return, for by being able to friends at this genial gathering to be handcuffed as in the coln had in mind when he
the dressed in civilian clothes, were anticipate market requirements and all appeared to be in the best case referred to was adding ned it as "government of insult to injury.
The men people, for the people, by the seen among the stalls in Glouces-everywhere she is gradually open of health and spirits.
'people."
ter Road. Lea was stated to have ing the way or wider domestic were carted off to the station
Again, democracy might des- taken two mugs from a stall and and foreign consumption of Chi- and, for all we know, were eripe the community of the people passed them to Coleman, who, in nese goods. held over the holidays, which themselves.who. while for a turn, passed them to a third Euro-
The display which Miss Liang is is "bad joss." The police brief moment of exercising the cean. One mug was recovered by presenting is to be regarded as an made a bad blunder.
franchise arc masters of their the foki, and. It was alleged, that indication of the wide possibilities CHINESE NEW YEAR is a fate and ean (collectively) change in an attempt to recover the second which art opens to industry.
so mug, the fcki, Tse Bik-shum was SHAREHOLDERS,
is her intention later on to hold time of jollity for those who the course of history if they
a more extensive show. are in a position to enjoy the will, for a space yield themselves struck on the nose by Coleman,
the will of DEFENDANTS' EVIDENCE NOTICE IS HEREBY
up in obedience to afford occasion and to
Miss Liang is a Cantonese girl. evidence," Lea (said he was Chartered Accountants, GIVEN THAT THE FORTY chance for those less for those whom they have set up in
walking with Coleman in Glouces and is the daughter of Mr. Liang United States team brought their authority over them. FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY tunate to make an extra Considering these and the facts ter Road, when someone threw a Ching, former president of wives to England on the occasion MEETING OF THIS COM penny, some honestly, some revealed in so many of the mug at him. He picked it up and the Bank of Communications and of the last match, an impression China's representative ht the had been created that British PANY will be held at the Office" dishonestly. In this case, it called democratic states, how and passed it to Cleman, who was of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & would appear that an attempt where are we to arrive for a can-walking beside him. Then two Chi-Nine-Power Treaty discussions in players would be given the same
Washington was made by a group of poor cise comprehension of the word nese approached. One hit Coleman to earn an honest penny and Democracy? to provide onlookers with a
By Order of the Board,
DERRICK & CO...
Local Secretaries.
Hong Kong Bank Chambers, Singapore, 11th Feb., 1939.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG
KONG
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PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of Paul Henry King residing at the Royal Hotel Guernsey in the Channel Islands and also care of Lloyds Bank Limited Guernsey, Retired Commis. sioner of Chinese, Customs, deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, made au Order Himiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above
estate to the 11th day of March, 1939.
NOTICE TO
Co., Ltd. on Friday, the 24th Febrpary, 1839, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the
same thing as a
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Accidents During Week-End
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"Wives will not be permitted to accompany the team of British professional
golfers going to America in the autumn for the Ryder Cup match. Because certain members of the
privilege.
"Our policy has always been that an international team should travel alone, and no change is contemplated,” Cmdr. R. C. T. Roe, secretary of the British Pro- fessional Golfers' Association, sald recently. He added:
on the chest, and accused them of Might it not be true to say that, stealing" the mugs.
De- Coleman said that while the FIRECRACKERS little enjoyment, but they in Earl Baldwin's words: Report of the Directors together
were not given the chance. mocracy is still an aspiration and were walking. two fellows who with a Statement of Accounts They tried to make an honest not a fact...what we have achley seemed drunk, came up and joined RESPONSIBLE for the year ended 31st Decem- living instead of becoming ed is a democratic framework of them. The other two were walking is not the in front; he and Tea were behind. ber, 1938.
charges on the community, government, which
democratic so- Buddenly two Chiuse approached
"It is my strong personal opinion The Register of Shares of the but they were prevented from clety." And again that the world and one struck him on the chest.
that wives should not be allowed." to: travel with a team playing in Company will be CLOSED from doing so.
de-He put his hand up for self-de- has never yet known a pure
fence, and hit complainant on the A firecracker, thrown into
aan international contest, The Friday, the 17th February, THE FOLICE were singular-mocracy?
patch to petrol, is believed to be objections are many. I shall adhere Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks nose. 1939, to Friday, the 24th Februly present on this occasion
Remarking that the first charge responsible for the destruction by to this view as long as I have democratic but they are generally notable of the Pan-American ary, 1939, both days inclusive.
naturally, inters was not proved, Mr. Edwards dis- are of a Lincoln Zephyr motor car, anything to do with the British for their absence on other bloc and one. occasions in this district, that he includes even Brazil and charged both defendants of the No. 1237, at the function of Peel team.".
"WOMEN UPSET EVERYTHING” where robberies, thefts and Mexico in his category, But how larceny charge. On the charge of Street and Hollywood Road shortly
"There was an éxample during snatching are rife and are are we to compromise the classi assault, Coleman was ordered to be after 10 am. yesterday.
Another accident for which are the visit in 1937 of the American fication of even Brazil which has bound over to keep the peace for perpetrated almost with im-
and adopted that six months, without a conviction crackers was responsible befell a Ryder Cup team, of how the gone Fascist punity. Many are the cases totalitarian form of government registered,
ten-year-old boy named 'Lau-ing. presence of wives can divide the of No. 77 Wellington Street third players into separate camps. A floor, on Saturday, when he suffer- good deal of the time. Walter ed severe injuries through a cracker Hagen, the captain, was occupied in composing quarrels and bursting in his hands.
smoothing out difficulties. At Carnoustie where members of the team ast different, tables during meals, Hagen said: "On these occa
By order of the Board of Directors,
C. M. MANNERS,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 30th Jan., 1939.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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where beggars go up to one's so pecullar to those directed by door, ring the bell and de-the Soviets, Fascists and Nazis? mand money, and, if the All discussion of political mat- householder is not disposed ters would gain in clearness if
JAY MARTIN.
MORE JEWS FOR SHANGHAI
LOST OR
the at
to give them a few cents, they there were less vagueness in re- The Lloyd Triestino liner Conte The following forthcoming mar-ring the bell, kick and bang gard to the use of the word De-Blancamano carried a record num. riages are announced:-
the doors and shout like mad-mocracy. Perhaps some of your ber of passengers when she arrived
GAMING HOUSE Capt. Alexander John Noel War-men." And not a policeman is readers can explain a more definite in Hongkong on Sunday bound for
CHARGE Shanghal. rack, of the Royal Army Medical to be found to stop them, meaning to the word.
sions womenfolk are a menace, In addition, to 850 Jewish re- Corps, residing at No. 40 Kennedy The police could well attend |,
fugees, there were over" 200 other Ng Shing, who was charged with they contrive to upset everything. Road, and Miss Florence Mary to these rascals rather than 1:
passengers on board. Inclusive of keeping a common gaming house Never again will I be associated Sharp, of "Prenton," Salisbury interfere with what, after all, Prior to proceeding Home for re- her crew, there was a total of 1,500 at 51, Cooke Street, 2nd floor, in with an American team if the Road, Famborough, Hants. Mr. is intended as a little amuse- commission and reft, HMB But-persons on the vessel a total Hung Hom district, and 23 fellow players are permitted to bring All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to 24 Shan Kwong Road, Happy
Chan Blu-fong, student, of No. ment for the public.
folk, which is due to take part in which exceeds her maximum coppersmiths, charged with gamb- their wives.". send their claims to the under Valley, and Miss Chu Tak-ning,
ling on Saturday night, appeared IN CONTRAST with the the naval manoeuvres in Singapore, capacity by about 400.
It is understood that the number before Mr. E. Himsworth at the "signed on or before that date.
of No. 22 Pilken Street, lat floor, actions of the police is the left a southern cruise...
of Jewish refugees in Shanghai Kowloon Court yesterday when fines Dated the 13th day of Febru. Kowloon; and Mr. Yung Kwok-yee, benevolent action of the Gov-
will reach about 4,000 with the ene Imposed of $75 on the first ary, 1939.
teacher, of No. 318 Lockhart Road, ernment which showed de-
addition of this latest batch. ""
defendant and one dollar on each Will the gentleman, who lost
brown leather cigar cane on Sun- ground floor, and
Chau Anite goodwill to the Chinese ers in future, it might well be
of the other 25 defendants
day while leaving the Royal Naval Yuet-fong, of No. 62 Lyndhurst people for their New Year by worth while abolishing the
Recreation Ground at the finish of Terrace, 2nd floor,
suspending the water restric-system whereby it is neces- The forthcoming Dog Show to be
a football game, comm tion regulations for a few sary for policemen to make a held in Hongkong on March 19
Sentence of three months im-the police? A man The Harmonies: Band of H. M. g days. A little more goodwill certain number of arrests gives promise of being an unnall- Kent, comprising 20 musicians, will on the part of the police each month, or be censured. ned success. Entry forms can be prisonment was passed by Mr. E. arrested by the
system is perfectly obtained at the omics of the Hon. Himsworth at the Kowloon Court article in his posse appear at a concert in the West would certainly not have The Lounge of the European YMCA been out of place. Mean ridiculous and the sooner it is Secretary, Hongkong Dog Bar, on Saturday on a man named Chiu brought before the
morning. He Boom 65, Stock Exchange Building Long, 31, convicted of begging. -to-morrow: at 8.30 pm
while, to avoid similar blund done away with, the better.
JOHNSON, STOKES &
MASTER. Solicitors for the Ex
Executriz,
Hong Kong & Shanghai
Bank Building,
Hong Kong.
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