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HONG KONG.
EXAMINATION · FÖR,
LOCAL CLERKS.
Applicants are informed that those slected to attend the examination on 11th April will be notified separately.
G.
·PUBLIC AUCTION
PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Tuesday, the 11th day of April, 1939, at ☎ p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of Lot of Crown Land at
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UNION WATERBOAT
CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
The Thirty-fourth Annual Gene eral Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, on Thursday, the 13th April, 1939, at 11 am. for the purpose of re-
No further applications can be Tai Kok Tsui, in the Colony ofceiving the report of the General
considered.
0.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
279
of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
Managers together with a State. ment of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1938.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 29th March to 13th April, 1939, both
DODWELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, General Managers.
- Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis. Į days-inclusive. posal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant), will be to deposit with an
· PARTICULARS "AND CON- required DITIONS of the Sale by Public authorised officer who will be Auction to be held on Tacsday, present at the sale, the sum of the 11th day of April, 1939, at 3 two hundred dollars, ($200) in p.m., at the Offices of the Public cash. This sum will be refunded TSE Works Department, by Order of on payment of the Purchase His Excellency the Governor of price.
one Lot of Crown Land al
Bondary .9%
Mesatare-
menta.
Contents in
Square feet
Ausun!
Rental
Upset Price.
Ma Tau Chung, in the Colony of PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Hong Kong for a term of 73. years, with the option of renewal 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 that immediately after the dis. posal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant), will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in. cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
New Kowloon Inland
Lot No, 4138.
Ma Teu Chung
Between
Kowloon In
land L
gu35 &
TRIE
Coung
Road, Ma
Boundary
Measure-
menta.
As per
ale plas
Annual
Rental.
About
110 0,660
7,245
Square feet.
Upset Price,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
No. of Bale.
Begistry No.
Locality.
3
Kowloon Inland
Lot No. 4134. Opposite Kowloon Inland Lot No. 3475, Bedford Rd.,
Tai Kok Tsui.
A por
sale plan
About
132
PUBLIC AUCTION.
"
57
0.1
277
IN MEMORIAM
247
TSAN TAI-In ever loving
memory of our dearest father, James Tse Tenn Tal, who pass-
ed away" on April 4, 1936.
-ways in our thoughts."
EDITORIAL
Spectators photogr, phed at the First Extra Race meeting held at Happy Valley recently.
(Photo by Leica).
AND
FINANCIAL
BY B.F.R.D.C.
Further Grants To H.K. Refugee Council
The Board of Administrators of the British Fund for the Reller of Distress in Cama, recently consi- dered certain further appeals for
Anancial assistance.
GERMANY'S 1939 BUDGET
No Presentation Of Cut- and Dried Figures To Public (Reuter) 3 April various guarantees amounting, to £123,099.000, including £40,000,000 for the promotion of exports, are
BERLIN.
·TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1939.
WANG CHING-WEI-THE VOICE OF A PUPPET
BY PERCY CHEN
The question that is always asked in Chinese cir- cles when Wang Ching-wel makes a statement is, "Why does he do it at this time?" Since Saturday the newspapers, owned or subsidised by Wang Ching- wel and his associates, have published an article en- The ap- titled Facts about the Peace Proposals.” pearance of this article has called forth a regular bar- rage of replies in the majority of the Chinese dates deprecating the sentiments expressed by Wang Ching- wel and attacking him for his treasonable utterances. In his article, Wang Ching-wet, Tokyo and Berlin, BUT SO FAR NO», opens with a" touching picture of REPLY HAD BEEN RECEIVED." the death bed statements of Mr.And this took place in December. Tseng Chung-ming. Mr. Tseng 1937.
was assassinated a few weeks ago by assallants who were reported to
Generalissimo Chiang, Gen.
have mistaken him for Wang Pai Chung-hsi, Dr. H. H. Ching-wei, Tseng's last state- Kung, Dr. Sun Fo, Mr. Chen. ments, according to Wang, were. Li-fü, Mr. Yu Yu-fen, Mr. Chu. "I dle with my mind at peace be-Cheng and Gen. Ho Ying- cause for the management of State ching and other leaders of affairs there is Wang Ching-wel: Nationalist China are not to and for the affairs of my family. be caught by the old tricks of
there is my wife."
the diplomacy of the past Wang Ching-wel has earned a century. Wang Ching-wel reputation as a fluent writer of the believed and still perhaps be- ancient Classical style: He uses the highest technique of innuendo leves that Japan wants peace to express his deepest meaning. with China based on any-
Esk we
And In placing these words into thing other than" surrender ourselves does Wang lier. But, he is also "entitled the mouth of his dying colleague then he is entitled to his be- Ching-wef-serve the rest of China to the disdain of Young China with notice that he has resolved to as incompetent if nothing take service with the Japanese as else. their puppet?
the outstanding features of the The Hongkong Emergency Re-
"Law the and
in published A1-fugee Council recommended to this 1939 Edge promulgated by law
Fund that It should make a grant; Gazetta” of NC$6,000.00 to the Canton Inter- It reveals that the Government national Red Cross Service Corp. has no intention of presenting towards two months' expenses, and cut-and-dried budget figures to the after considering à detailed report public.
The Finance Minister is au- of this Corps, in respect of their work for January, the Board a thorized to assume guarantees up cepted the recommendation of the to £16,000,000 for the promotion of E.R.C, and agreed to grant a dona-industries within the limits of the
Four-Year Plan. tion of NC$8,000.00.
The Daily Press.
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E.C.A.
HONGKONG, APRIL 4, 1939
sent to the ER.C.
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EXCELLENT WORK
In future, it will be very difficult to guess what Ger- arma"- mány is spending on ments and defence,
1. March: A Bunch of Roses
Chapi
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Wang Ching-wei knows bet- ter than anyone else that there is no chance of his "managing Stale affairs" in Nationalist China. He knows that there is no support for his proposals of peace among
beroic people who are fighting a grim battle against the Japanese. aggressors. Indeed Wang Chiar wel knew that, had an appeal been made to publie opinion on peace when he remained in China, the law of treason would have been invoked and arrest and trial would have been the measures taken by the Central Government to. enforce the discipline even of Ministers of State in time of
war..
But to say that Wang Ching-wel is incompetent is not enough. Merely to state that be is not just!- fled, on his own showing. in saying that the Supreme National De- fence Council "was resolved in. favour of peace" is also not enough. Wang in his statement." showed that the Supreme National Defence Council was resolved to ascertain whether the. Germans were speaking the truth when they claimed that peace was possi- ble between China and Japan which did not regard herself as | victorious.
And the people who have led the fight against Japan up to the present have a better right to speak for China than one who was clearly deceived or allowed himself to be deceived of the by the manoeuvres Are we justifled in assuming that
Germans and the JapanÉST, the words put into the dying
Wang Ching-wel has been the Tseng's mouth mean that "Wang Ching-wel will "manage the affairs most unsuccessful politician in of State" in Nanking as the head modern China. Every movement of the puppet regime which is now with which he has been associated being organized by the Japanese has failed. He takes his lessons. invaders? If that is a correct in-ever in this last statement, from terpretation then the rest of the the defeats of history. He cites Supreme National Defence Council when our country was oppressed by lang account of a meeting of the the defeats of China by Japan 6. National Airs; Reminiscences of held in December, 1937, and the the Manchu degenerates, he cites. Ireland (By Request)-Godfrey. deductions made from that meet the defeat, of Russia by Japan 7. Selection: Carefree-Berlin. ing merely serve as a plea to his when the Tsarist generals betrayed. 8. Violin Solo: Selected. Soloist, countrymen for leniency in the the soldiers and their country; he
2. Overture: Stradella-Flotow. 3. Waltz: Storles of the Vienna
Woods Strauss. 4. Sclection: Romeo and Juliet
Gounod.
5. Salu: D'Amour-Elgar: Entracte
Nails-Delibes.
L/C. A. Alsey.
9. In The Soudan-Sebet;
McGregor-Amers.
Wee
future.
corrupt
cites the 'defeat of France by Ger-
when again 3 many But Wang Ching-wel goes bureaucracy helped the Germans 10. Accordian Solo: Czardas-Mon-further to excuse himself for to defeat their country.
being regarded by
Wang Ching-wei, the enemy 11. Xylophone Solo: On the Track people as an advocate of of Democracy and the mouth
-Simpson Soloist Bds. R. Peace." He continues, "But'piece of the puppets, does not am I the only person who ad- know the might of a heroic
tl Soloist Bds. H. Sharrock.
Phillips,
chinka-Schirman Conductor:- H. B.
A.R.C.M.
Jordan,
SHANGHAI PEOPLE
"the
word
The ER.C. applied, to this Fund for a grant of $2,000.00 to cover the cost of storage of and shipping charges on 8,000 bags (500 tons) of cracked wheat, and after consi- dering a detailed report from the ER.C. on this matter, the Board BAND CONCERT AT decided to comply with this request and a cheque for $2,000.00 is being PENINSULA HOTEL By kind permission of Lt.-Cof, D. J. McDougall, M.C., and officers of The ER.C represented to this the 2nd Bn. Royal Scots, a Band INTERNATIONAL
Fund that the Secial Service Cen-Concert will be given at the Penip- tre of the Churches is doing ex-sula Hotel on Sunday, April 9, by UNDERSTANDING
cellent work in connection with re- the Band of H.M. 2nd Bn. The tugees in the Colony. The number Royal Scots, at 9 pm. The pro- MUCH AS IT IS to be re-
gretted and however def refugees dealt with from July gramme will be as follows: to September, 1938, was 2,392, pome fective are the methods which
of whom had to be interviewed are being employed to correct
several times, and of this total, It, there is no evading the fact 1,630 were assisted to leave the Co- PARTICULARS AND CON that the concept of inter-tony.
Seventeen familles, amounting to! DITIONS of the Sale by Public nationality to-day is at a very Auction to be held on Tuesday, big discount. In its place, a total of 52 persons, were referred the 11th day of April, 1939, at 3 the selfish spirit of national-te this body for investigation by p.m., at the Offices of the Publicism has raised its ugly head the ER.C., and this body has al- Works Department, by Order of and more and more as time ready spent over $2,000.00 on its re- His Excellency the Governor of goes on chaos, mistrust, dis-fugee work. The Board of Adrain- one Lot of Crown Land at content and greed for power istrators accepted the recommen for $1,000.00 is being sent to this 275 Mau Tau Kok, in the Colony of evil results of this canker dation of the ERC. and a cheque
Hong Kong for a term of 75 of nationalism--are becoming body through the E.R.C.
all too, evident. Events of weeks have years, with the option of renewal
the past few at a Crown Rent to be fixed by shown that the moral and mand, to the changing con- But with these must the Surveyor of His Majesty the legal right of small and weak ditions. KING, for one further term of nations to govern their own be allied the control of emo- 75 years.
affairs has become distorted tion and the will to be patient, Intending bidders are advised into a theory that all nations, Not until there is universal 12. Selection of Gipsy Airs: Bas-vocated peace? No! The fact people when led by military that immediately after the dis whether big or small, have dissatisfaction, with the use PARTICULARS AND CON.posal of the lot the Purchaser the right to do just as they of force in international dis- DITIONS of the Sale by Public (if not the applicant), will be wish and that the duty to-putes, however, will it be to deposit with an wards my neighbour" prin- possible for the proper spirit Auction, to be held on Tuesday, required
“MOBILIZE" the 11th day, of April, 1939, at 3 authorised officer who will be ciple, as far as it can be ap- of international accord to pre- as there is every reason to p.m., at the Offices of the Public present at the sale, the sum of plied to internatiorial politics, vall. When that time comes,
Determined to give solid support two hundred dollars, ($200) in is rapidly being set aside in Works Department, by Order of
cash. This sum will be refunded the efforts of some nations hope that it will before dis-
individuals to secure aster overwhelgas the world, to the National Government in the His Excellency the Governor of
on payment of the Purchase and
more power for themselves. it is reasonable to assume present war, the people of Shanghai one Lot of Crown Land at
price:
the same principles are being organised by the Shang If these circumstances are that
hat People's Mobilisation Movement to individual Ma Tau Chung, in the Colony of
and which apply allowed
which was formally established on to continue
A representative of the Movė-" rush along its present course, by nations in securing sans
and orderly ment, passing through Hongkong there can be only one fearful administration consequence-another world relations with their neigh-on his way to Chungking to report to the Government, stated that war, more terrible in all its bours..
of the aim of the movement is five- THE than the conflict aspects which shook the foundations such principles must also be fold-namely, to obey Dr. Sun's of security and civilization in fostered along ethical lines. Three Principles of the People, to
of Wider feelings of humanity support the Government in its war restored. memorable days thuse
The terms, according to the must be cultivated in order to policy, to enforce the People's 1914-1918.
German Ambassador, amount- THERE IS THEN admitted- bring about the realization of Spiritual Mobilisation, to generate
ed to a restoration of the. status quo ante." And Gen. Pai ly a pressing and urgent need a family of nations. In the Popular strength, and to weed out To attain the above aim, the re
Chung-hai remarked dziły when for the creation of an atmos-complex field of internationa!
revealed, vigorous
they were announced, “If there 278phere among the nations and relations, such Ideals may presentative
were the terms and nothing their statesmen in which in- take long to attain, but if campaigns will be started to publi-
elsc, "why should there be ternational differences can be communal accord could have cise the national cause and to
war?" and, non-plussed. Wang settled and understanding been secured in the past, organise the people. It is believed
Ching-weiwho had obviously between them secured. Can there is no reason why inter-that with the huge population of
Hed and reduced the real
seem terms to
Innections such a state of amity and national accord cannot be Shanghai, much could be done in equality among nations be secured in the present-day the way of national salvation work,
Actual work of the Movementfaltered, These are the terms that have been conveyed to us attained? It would be un- world. There is a feeling to
mittees under the Movement, in-
by Dr. Trautmann.”. -
At this time Wang Ching-wel wise to regard such aims as day that the concepts of will be entrusted to five subcom-
4 women's sub-committee and a According to Wang Ching-wel, all advocates that China should sur indications that they are not League Covenant, the Paris firm into a private limited Com. too idealistic and there are The Hague Conference. thecluding a students sub-committee, AN
went well at the meeting. Every-render to the forces of aggression pany with the name of Shewan beyond reasonable realiza- Pact and several other agrec-workers' sub-committee.
body agreed to call the Japanese and should conclude peace with Tomes & Co., Ltd., which will tion.The way of life of the ments have been more or less
and German bluff and see whether Japan. Among the masses of the Charged with obtaining the sum
there was anything in the trial Chinese, Wang Ching-wel is no continue to carry on our business individual to-day is the way eclipsed by this overbearing under the same management, the of personal freedom, of in- spirit of nationalism. How-
and the ever true that may be, it is of $12 by means of false pretences balloons that both the Germans longer a figure worthy of con- directors of the Company being dividual liberty
entire business of "peace the only supporters he can find are right to do what he wills possible that the difficulties from Mak Hung, on March 28, an and Japanese were nying. That sideration. It is considered that
unemployed, Lam, So; 32, was the the present partners.
Dated Hong Kong, 1st April, with himself and his own facing the world to-day pre-bound over in the sum of $50 for mediation and peace terms" among those already in camp of
possessions so long as he sent an opportunity for even one year and ordered to refund was the old game of the red her- the enemy. does not injure his neighbour. more lofty Ideals based on the money to complainant or, in ring across the trail was clear to And it will come as no surprise The same rules of conduct those solemn agreements of default, serve one month's addi- everyone except Wang Ching-wel to anyone if within the next few should apply to the life of the past which have been 80 tional Imprisonment, by Mr. E And to quote Wang further days Wang Ching-wel will become "On board the steamer, Dr. Traut the omcial spokesman for the nations, modified or elaborat ruthlessly discarded in a Himsworth at the Kowloon Magis-
marin telegraphed the message to Puppets/ ed as the circumstances de- spirit of self-aggrandizement, tracy yesterday.
Hong Kong for a term of 75 PARTICULARS OF THE LOT nationalism is permitted to units can be effectively used March 23 last. years," with the option of renewal
at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
ап
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis. posal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with "authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) Am cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase
price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
Begistry No.
Lavonliky.
and
Road
Lot No. 4133,
Junction of Ma- Tau Chung
-Kowloon Inland
Kwangsi Street, Ba ca nha Chung
Boundary
Measure-
FOODS
As per
sale pixin
Foot
Banara fest
“OKO"
hany
Bental
3,023
a Upecă Prior,
276
No of Sale.
Kowloon Inland
Registry No.
Lot No. 436. Junction of PakTai
Kok Road, Ma Tauj
Street and Vs Tau Locality.
་བ་
Boundary
birasüre
mente.
11.1
Ai per
aale plans.
About
Satents in
400
Annual Square feet.
NOTICE.
97
Rental._____
• Upact Price!
323
We hereby give notice that we have as from to-day converted our
1939.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,
Bank of East Asia Building
270
DEVELOPMENT
traitors.
is that the highest organ of leaders who are not afraid of the National Government has their destiny. Wang Ching- in Council resolved in favour wel does not know of the of peace."
lessons of the power of the of the people to "In his statement, Wang Ching-masses wel discloses what purports to be destroy their enemies.
he Irears the the proceedings of the 54th Meet- When
Supreme National guerillas, he cries, "Communists." ing of the Defence Council. He tabulates the When he utters the word peace
During the last months of who were present. At this meet-
his stay in Chungking. Want date and the place and the persons he means "surrender. ing, s. report was purported to have been read by Mr. Hsu Mo, Vice- Ching-wei was excluded from the councils of the Nation., His Minister for. Foreign Affairs, deal-
shunned followers were ing with the declaration of the
those tainted with the stigma German Ambassador. Dr. Oscar Trautmann, of the readiness of of traitor." Here even in
between to, mediate
Hongkong there are some who Germany
although ready to give Wang China and Japan, and the terms which the German
Ching-wel the cynical kiss of Judas still seek to mask their treachery behind a facade of patriotium and loyalty to the Nation.
upon
Am-
bassador was of opinion that Japan would agree. to peace
being
י,
高级
But these are critical days when Chiris is fighting for her existence as an independent nation, not her existence as a nation dependent upon the arbitary will of Japan. And polite words are not now the order of the day. The world is torn between a love for the free- dom of nations and the threat of brutal aggression. The most pow- erful nations of the world are standing now face to face pre paring for the struggle which must come.