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ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS
THE CANTON INSURANCE
The
OFFICE, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
Fifty-Eighth Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the under signed on Thursday, the 18th May, 1939, at noon, for the pur pose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1938.
The Share Register and Trans- ter Books will be closed from the 4th May to the 18th May, 1939, bath days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
General Agents.
Hong Kong, 27th April, 1939.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of John Lambert Tömson care of C. and D. Mactaggart, Sollei. tors, Cambeltown and The P. & O. Banking Corporation Limited, West End Branch, 14 to 16 Cockspur, Street, London, S.W.1. deceased.
NOTICE JS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Pro- bates Ordinance 1897, made an
time Order limiting the
for creditors and others to sead in their claims against the above estate, to the 27th day of May,
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM" NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED,
The Filty eighth Ordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Messrs. Jar- Jine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.. Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Thursday, 25th May, 1939, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, pass- ing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Auditors.
"The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 18th May to the 8th June, 1939 inclusive.
By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.. General Managers. · · Hong Kong, 25th April, 1939.
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SUMMER CREATIONS AT RACES
BY "ROSETTE"
Summer is here at lasti Latest creations of the fashion world were represented by the Chinese ladies at the Race Meeting on Saturday. with straight designs predominant while shark-skins
Prints
were
plain ranked second.. the heat of Owing to the bright bun not many, Urht coats were seen, those that were there were coatees cut boleros on masculine lines. and loose Jackets.
As I strolled into the compounds two faces in the Sports Club stand caught my gaze they were the popular Ma, sisters. Jean and Katie. The former had on a beau- tiful frock, of printed, brgandle whilst the latter picked a black lace topped with a loose white" jacket.
The next two ladies I saw were Mrs. Ellen Lee, Chairman br, the Chinese Women's Club and Miss May Ung. They were engaged, in deep conversation with some for- eign friends--discussing the most probable winner, I suppose! Both attired indles were
In printed dresses with white accessories.
RECENT BRIDE
near
Walking
the paddock I found the recent bride Mrs. Ina Kong chatting happily with Mrs. May-mok. Mrs. Kong had on white linen with colopred flowers "and Mr. Mok had on one of these
popular straight designs frocks.
Yellow seemed a favourite colour
too and I discerned two charming wearers-Mrs. Mok Hing-ding and Mrs: Tang Man-wah.
EDITORIAL
Group photograph taken, after the wedding on Sunday be tween Mr. A. P. Tkachenko,and Mrs. S. A. Uzunoff which was solemnized at the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Peter and Fac), Jordan Road, Kowloon. Full report will be found on Page 6.
"Free Cable"
Success..
OVER 250,000 MESSAGES
"Mr. Edward Wilshaw, Chair- man of Cable and Wireless. Limited, announces that the · offer of free messages made to the public of the Empire on May 1, has been an over- whelming success.
TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1939.
CHINA'S HINTERLAND INDUSTRIALIZATION
Rapid And Far Reaching Revitalizing Process.
BY T. PAUL GREGORY"
The so-called "China. Incident," for all its terrible havoc and toll of human lives, may be a blessing in disguise It has brought about a whole migration of the nation's citizens from the crowded coastal regions into the sparsely-populated interior. Not only has there been a shift of population from various localities, but whole industries have likewise been affected. Many enterprises which be- As is well known, this oil is re- fore July, 1937, were concen- markable for its drying properties; trated in the great cities along and this respect. it is far the coast and in the fertile superior to linseed oil so much region of the Central Yangtze employed in the West for this. Valley, have now been trans- ferred to the hinterland.
Chinesc Although the
have always used the oll in the manu- Here. in what was, until quite facture of their, lacquer and other recently, undeveloped country, wares from time immemorial, it they have brought into existence is the foreign demand which has entirely new conditions which will made this product of Szechen's probably accelerate the moderniza- forests of such vital importance.. Chinese Company will attend tion of the interior much more. For thing oll may not only be Chinese Company Headquarters rapidly than any other factor could mixed with warnish, and used for 'for Part II of Training Course on have done.
HK. POLICE
RESERVE
Orders by the Hon. Mr. C.. C. Perdue, Commissioner of Police CHINESE COMPANY Training Course-Part II-The undermentioned members of the
Tuesday, May 9 at 17.30 hours | ECONOMIC REBIRTH
sharp: Constables R128 Chan Yiù
Hing. R106 Tang Shiu Woon, R112
Practically every interior pro- Chan Ching Man, R124 Peter! vince beyond the reach of the Ja- The public in all the Empire Francis Lee, R131 Lam Kwok Fee.panese armies is now in the throes areas concerned avalled them-R132 Law Man Cho. R133 Chan of an economic rebirth. Provinces selves to the full of this oppor- cheong Shing.
over-
U
purpose.
an ornamental paint, but mixed with linseed and other ofis it 15. suitable as a vamish for woodwork: likely to be affected by the weather.
Mixed with insted 'oll, it is largely employed on .board ship. especially un modern yachts and yawis; for "rubbed over the masts after they have been scraped clean, and on all the woodwork waside and out, the oll penetrates the grain of the wood and provides an enduring sufface." LEATHER INDUSTRY
like Szechuen and Yunnan, which tunity of sending messages about Office:
Patrol Duty-Nightly between at one time were included in' the i themselves and their personal 20.00 hours
and midnight by limits of China's "Ultima Thule," awairs.
members $15 detailed by the have begun to undergo the re- A great number of telegrams Omeer in" Charge of Company. vitalizing processes of rapid and passed between the troops
INDIAN COMPANT
far-reaching industrialization. Ita: seas and the mother country. Patrol Duty-Nightly between effects on the erstwhile tranquil The file of trame was particu- 20.00 hours and midnight by lives of the peasant masses cannot Miss Elsie Law, this year's popularly heavy with Australia members as detalled by the Officer be readily estimated. lar debutante. wore a smart white | New Zealand.
in Charge of Company. net with dot designs. She was
The normal conditions of daily FLYING SQUAD seen in the company of the novice
The leather industry is another Jockey Mr. Buddy Lee.
these factories, had differed but phase of the industrial programme-
London Office: 53. Fleet Street
E.C.4.
HONGKONG, MAX. 8, 1939
and
TELEGRAMS STILL ON HAND
So remarkable was the volume Patrol Duty.-Nightly betweene, wilch, before the advent of
hours and midnight by
of message far exceeding anything 20 00
ed in the telegraph industry, that EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE the Company has still a "number! Patrol Duty. Nightly between of free telegrams on hand for 20.00 hours. and transmission.
Miss Cheung Woon-wal, the bad-that could have been anticipated,members as detailed by the Omcer little from those experienced by which is assuming an important minton player, had on a grey
or has ever before been experienc-in Charge of Company,
the first settlers in the region are role in China's hinterland. For- now being
profoundly altered, merly China produced only 45 per shark-skin with painted flowers as trimming and a short bolero of
Already perceptible. repercussions cent. of her leather requirements. of the movement are seen in the the balance being provided by im-- the same pattern.
changing outlook of the rural folk, ports from foreign countries," Dif- bringing them face to face with ficulties of "communication have. national problems in a heretofore undreamed of.
DESPERATION APAN'S wanton and, indis- JAPA
criminate bombing of Chungking, China's war-time
Others who wore straight de- capital, tends more than ever
signs. dresses were Mrs, S. N. Chau, to prove that the invaders, Mrs. F. Grose and Miss' Joyce Lee. realizing the futility of their Mrs Chau's was black and white, that something like 100,000 attempts after nearly two Mrs. Grose's was of blue back-sages might be received. years of warfare to subdue ground with coloured designs and All Creditors and others are Chiria and to shatter her grim. Miss Lee's was a floral one. accordingly hereby required to determination. of continued send their claims to the under-resistance signed on or before that date.
1939. -
against Tokyo's
unprovoked aggression, are at ly in these days of wireless Dated the 2nd day of May, their wits ends and, there- communication, and no mat- fore, are resorting to even ter how furiously the Japan- "1939.
more desperate and foolhardy ese may continue their bomb- tactics. tactics which will re-ing, they will never be able sult in the further hardening to break the Chinese Head- of 'World public opinion | quarters. against them."
JOHNSON, STOKES &
MASTER, Solicitors for the Executors.
Hong Kong & Shanghal "
Bank Ballding Hong Kong.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PERHAPS they had hoped to wreck the machinery of the
National
Government
but
members
midnight by
B detalled by the In introducing the new ser- Officer in Charge of Company. vice in this way it was hoped
C. CHAMPKEN,
D. A. P., (R). Hongkong, May 8, 1939.
mes.
It is not yet possible to give complete figures. because, in addition to messages from and to Great Britain, particulars have still to be obtained re- ̈ garding inter-Dominion and Inter-Colonial traffic, but it is already known that the number of messages exceeded a quarter of a million..
Ir
times
This multiplies several anything ever known in telegraph history for one day's traffic.
the
A GREAT NEED ACCORDING to the Japan- ese Admiralty spokesman, at-
"It is regarded as an indication tacks will continue on Chung- here again their attempts will of the great need that existed for 353 king with increasing force. prove futile for the bombings the
In other words, Japan's war- may temporarily cause a little general mad militarists, confessing inconvenience but there is no their inability to advance likelihood that they will suc- further westward, intend to ceed in-breaking the Govern
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of Florence Nicholls of 1 St. Jame's
new service and
nature of the mes-
sages shows that entirely new ground has been opened up.
This vast volume of extra traf
without any interference with the
SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIC IN KUNMING
measure
The development of indus- trial enterprises on such a vast scale as is now being at- tempted, requires the recruit- Ing of a large personnet of workers from among the pes- sants. Their introduction to the economy of the machias, will create new wants, and new problems, but, at the same Lime.
will it
disseminate knowledge of improved methods of accomplishing what was formerly done in crude, Ineffec- tive, and unscientific ways, PROFOUND CHANGES
Assistance From H.K.Y's Men's Club In response to the call from the Kunming Y's Men's Club for help in its relief work in the scar- let fever epidemic now raging - in' Kunming, Fresident Li Shu-Pui lost no time in securing 2,000
An example of the profound prontozin tablets and 50 ampoules changes now being brought about to be forwarded to Dr. Yao, Pre-may be instanced by mentioning sident of the Kunming Y's Men's some of the activities which are courtesy of Dr. Wel of Shanghai. province
Club, by 'plane through the
now closed this source, and war- time conditions have greatly in- creased the démani for this essential commodity.
The three millions of men under arms require an enormous quan- tity of leather equipment, such as belts, cartridge pouches, boots, etc. It is estimited that a minimum of 3,000 tons of leather will be. utilized for these purposes alone.. and to provide this supply, the, Government is placing its faith in Szechuen.
to
Every effort is being made " convert the province of Szechuen into the nation's leather centre, and already more than ten leather factories and tanneries have been esta- blished in Chungking and Chengtu.
taking place in Szechuen. This
Private individuals are being always predominantly encouraged by means of pam-
go ahead with their pro- ment machinery. Of course, fic har, of course, been handedThis went as a contribution from agricultural-is now being gradual- phets. lectures, etc., to take part. which has caused the entire moval of the capital again for large volume of commercial trame the Hongkong Y's Men's Club. converted into a manufacturing in the campaign to assure a self-
gramme of mass murder, Tokyo would welcome the re-
world to raise its hands in horror and protest, in
they believe that it would which is normally carried.
an have an adverse effect on the
effort to shatter the morale
morale of the people but it
of the Chinese people and is hardly likely that the seat Terrace Clonskeagh in the their will to fight on tor of government will be re- City of Dublin Elre deceased. freedom and independence.
!
moved at least for the time order to IN AN ATTEMPT to in-being-simply in NOTICE IS HEREBY duce China's sympathizers to satisfy the whims of the
1939.
invaders.“
COLONY HEALTH
Y's Men are requested to make contributions to cover the cost of same. Treasurer Jimmy Chon has collected $30 towards the cost, $85, so there is yet a balance, of $55 to be, raised."
the Kun-
region. Backed by the National suficiency of, leather for the Government, and assisted by the country at large. Szechuen, in ad- efforts of a number of private dition to possessing innumerable capitalists, enterprises such as sheep, goata, and cxem is also RETURNS
stik flatures, wood ell, and leather blessed with chemicals providing Thirty-eight cases of tuberculosis
production are being rapidly the necessary tanning for convert- The Shanghai Y's Men's Club pushed forward. were notified to the Health De-
ing animal hides into first-class partment on May 7, in addition made a contribution of 20,000 sul-
Se.iculture under modern me leather. With these materials to five cases of dysentery, four fanilamide tablets to cases of measles and one case each ming Y's Men's Club in its work thods is being stressed, and to aid at hand, the province is now rapid- in its exploitation, the Szechuen ly developing a gigantic tanning GIVEN that the Court has by
their change
pro-Chinese
of cholera, small-poż. diphtheria, of mercy.. These were brought virtue of Section 58 of the policles and to press for an IT IS SIGNIFICANT to note enteric fever and cerebro-spinal from Shanghai by our own Y's Silk Co. has had its capital in industry. Probates Ordinance 1897. made
Man Peter S. Wong last week and creased ten-fold, being raised from an Order limiting the time for early termination of the hos- that, though there are two fever.
were forwarded to Kunming by The control of the company is
$200,000 to well over $2,000,000, SMALL ARSENALS tilities through China's sur- aerodromes, a cement works creditors and others to send in render, Tokyo has resorted to and an industrial area in STUDENT FINED plane.
Another trend of the industrial- vested in the provincial govern- their claims against the above what she considers specta-Chungking, none of these Chan Hung. 18, student, was
ment, which, by the way, in its Ization of the interior is the mushroom growth of small estate to the 27th day of May, | cular tactics. But, far from places were attacked. In- fined $25 when he appeared at the SCRAP IRON FOUND efforts to augment the alik pro- 1939..
gaining support for her sub- stead, the raiders attacked Korloon Court yesterday, before
ON JUNK
quction of the province, has been arsenals devoted to the purpose of devoting considerable attention to supplying arts for the guerlilas All Creditors and others are versive scheme, which cer- the most densely populated Mr. Q. 4. A. Macfadyenan
Nineteen hundred empty car improving upon present methods and other mobile corps. The in- accordingly hereby required to tainly must end in failure; districts where several hun-charges of disorderly conduct and send their claims to the under she will find that she will lose dred thousand people lived of assault on the person of Set.tridges and 102 spent bullets were employed in alikworm rearing, and; terior provinces are humming with signed on or before that date.
whatever vestige of sympathy packed like sardines. There MacDonald, of the police. Chan included in the contents of 11 bags to this end, it has distributed some activity in this direction, turning the world had had for her were no defences near by, so as crdered also to pay amende of of scrap iron ordered to be con- 600,000 sheets of silkworm eggs to. out hand grenades, rides and land Dated the 2nd day of Marid, furthermore, that the the argument of the Japanese $15.40 to Chiu Wing-song, who,. it ascated by Mr. Q. AA. Macfadyen various nurseries in the area.
was stated, lost his wallet in the at the Kowloon Court yesterday. friendly Powers more spokesman :that
course of a struggle with the de
The bags were found on board a sympathetic than ever to planes were justified in attendant, and amends of $5 to Sgt. Junk off Kun su Street, Yaumati, China. Who could not be tacking as they did holds no MacDonald.
on May 5 by a seaman attached shocked by the indescribably water whatsoever. The at-1
to the Water Police Station. The Inhuman áttack and the tack was made on a defence- civilized world will be ex-owner was Mak Shing, 30, a travel- atrocious massacre of thou-less city and, that being the tended."
ling trader, who told the police the sands of innocent and de- case, the bestial action, the
FROM THE RUINS of des-scrap iron was sent him by his fenceless people?
ruthlessness and the fright- troyed Chungking will ap-brother in Si Kiu for sale in Hong- BEYOND the mass murder fulness of the Japanese air- pear a bigger and
bet-kong of civilians, what does Japan men was absolutely indefenter Chungking for China is hope to gain by this senseless
fully determined to proceed SHIPPING and ruthless bombing? Does APART from the thousands with her plans for the recon- she think that, by so doing, of lives which have been lost struction of the nation in she can disorganize the Chi- and the thousands who have spite of the Japanese in- nese Headquarters which are received wounds, hundreds vasion. Heavy as is the bill posted in a place where com- and hundreds of houses have of destruction, China has not munications are not highly been destroyed as a result of received a mortal blow and
The B&S steamer Talthybfus developed? The city of Japan's incendiarism. Thou her people will remain un-is expected to arrive from S'hal on Chungking may be upset sands have been rendered deterred and confident and May 11 at daylight economically but the Head- homeless. To all of these they will push forward to- quarters can be moved about victims of Japanese barbar wards final victory and pro- with absolute freedom and ism and their families, the gress, with more vigour than little inconvenience, especial- sympathy of the
&
JOHNSON, STOKES
MASTER, Solicitors for the Executor, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building,
Hong Kong.
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you want?
If there is anything you want to buy or sell, try a small Classified advertise" ment in the Hong- kong Dally Prezz
words $1.00 prepaid.
for 3 insertions.
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sible.
his
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entire ever.
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MOVEMENTS.
The B. & 8. steamer Tai Ping is expected to arrive from Manila on May 9 at 10 am,
栅
了
The F. & O. steamer Ranchi left Singapore on May 8 and is due here on May 10 at about 11 am..
It is hoped that, with the popularization of scientific agriculture, the output of raw stik will so expand that, in five. years" time, 100.000 quintals may be ready for export, bring ́ing in some $90,000,000 to
the "province, MILLION DOLLAR COMPANY
mines at an extremely low cost. Grenades of efficient construction are being made for a little over 60 cents each in National cur- rency; rides and land mines being". produced for about $30 each.
Iron and steel for their manu- facture are supplied from the rails torn up from the tracks in the Japanese occupied areas, while the explosives are manufactured under the direction of Chinese chemists, The production of wood oil la many of whom, before the out- also being handled in a scientific break of hostilities, served on manner. A million dollar company various university faculties seat-- for its exploitation and marketing tered throughout China. has been formed, the monopoly be ing in the hands of a combine
under the control of the provin clal government. The methods for merly in vogte for collecting and rehning word oll, or Fung-yu (the all of the Tang tree, a species of Dryandria) have been subjected to considerable improvement, already enhancing the yield of this val uable commodity.
These various activities In the Interior, contributing to the development of the coun- try, in addition to helping China to win the war, will also. provide the nucleus for con- verting this one time sleeping: giant of Aäls" into one of the greatest-minufacturing nations of the world.