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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Tuesday,
It is hereby notified that the 30th day of May, 1939, at 3 constant supply of water will be.m., at the Offices of the Public given in all districts from 23rd Works Department, by Order of May,
His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land - 41 Tai Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal., at a Crown Reat to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years..
A. G. W. TICKLE,
Water Authority. Public Works Department; Hong Kong, 22nd May, 1939.
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CHUNG YUEN ELECTRICAL COMPANY.
報西剌孖
Editorial and Business Office:
EDITORIAL
CASH AWARDS
TO CHINA'S WOUNDED
15-19. Queen's Road Central Relief Work Behind
Tel. 30251.
Night Editor (Wanchal Office).
Tel. 24511.
London Office: 53, Fleet Street
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HONGKONG, May 23, 1938
ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN
Firing Lines
CHUNGKING, (Reuter, by Mail) -Cash awards to China's wounded are one of the "features of relief work behind the firing lines,
MAGISTRATE NAVAL PLANS:
UPSET
HAD TO GAOL HIS COMRADE IN WAR
Two offlcers who fought side by side in the war met for the first time since in Greenwich police court on May 5: one was the magistrate, the other the prisoner he had to sentence,
The "awards are made in the
The magistrate, Mr. F. Powell, name of the Chinese Commander- was on the verge of collapse as he in-Chief, Generalissimo Chiang sentenced George Robertson Light- Kai-shek, and are divided into four bound, sixty-three, an agent, of no categories, from privates to gen-fixed address, to twelve months drals.
imprisonment for obtaining $1,100 Arthur"- Alfred The moment a wounded general by fraud from VIOLENT ATTACKS are fill-arrives at a base hospital, he re- Jones, & printer, of Catford.
ing the columns of the celves. £3.10.0. Other awards are: Japanese-owned and Japan Colonel or Major, £1,15.0; Captain ese-controlled press in parts or Lleutenant," 14/-: private. 7/-. of China under the, domina-
against
-FOUR DISTRICTS
Intending bidders are advised tion of the Tokyo militarists, For the purpose of making these foreigners, and awards, the country is divided into that Immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser against the British in parti- four districts, and an elaborate I not the applicant), will be cular. This pernicious pro-card-index system has been devis- required to deposit with an paganda is to be found in ed to eliminate, as far as is pos- authorised officer who will be Shanghai, Nanking, Canton,sible, cases of duplication or mis-
Hankow, not to representation." present at the sale, the sum of and
and Pel-The whole work is in the hands
of Major-General J. L. Huang, | two hundred dollars, ($200) in mention Tientsin cash. This sum will be refunded ping. Foreigners generally, Chief of the War Area Service on payment of the Purchase and especially missionaries, Corps, who completed his educa- come under the fall of the tion at Columbia University, New editorial pen and one York,
His star visits China's 400 base.
carrying, buridles
NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Mok King Fung is no longer the English Secretary of our firmu, his service having been terminated on the 21st day price. of May, 1939.
CHUNG YUEN ELECTRIC
COMPANY,
No. 71, Des Voeux Road Central.
Hong Kong, 22nd May, 1939.
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THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN
GOLD MINING.
CO., LTD.
(Incorporated in Queensland).
Notice of Declaration of First Interim Dividend,
NOTICE is hereby given that a First Interim Dividend "of five pence per share for the financial year ending 31st March, 1940, has been declared by the Direc tors of the Company in Brisbane, payable on 15th June, 1939, to Shareholders on the Registers at Brisbane and Singapore on 14th June, 1939.
NOTICE is also hereby given that the Singapore Transfer Re gisters will be closed from Thurs day, 8th June, to Wednesday, 14th June, 1939, both days in clusive, for the preparation of Dividend Warrants.
By Order of the Board, DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants,
Local Secretaries. “ Hong Kong Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE, 12th May, 1939. 399
THE INDO.CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.,
LIMITED.
The Fifty-eighth Ordinary
headed "British Invasion of
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT China by Means of Culture," hospitals
is exceptionally ludicrous. banknotes.
GENERALLY SPEAKING, propaganda may be
Localit..
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Adjoining Kowloon ! Lot No. 4143
Inland Lot No. 4123,
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Tuesday, the 30th day of May," 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Ma Tau Kok, in the Colony 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.
of
The awards are stated to have done much towards keeping the morale of China's wounded at a high level,
this divided into three sections, that conducted in Chinese- owned papers under the direct inspiration of the Nan- SHANGHAI'S NEW king **Reformed Govern- ARMY CHIEF ment," that appearing in Chinese Japanese-owned
newspapers, and the third being the clumsy attempt on
Maj.-Gen. Simmons Passes Through H.K.
ACCUSED IN TEARS "I never thought,” said Mr. Powell, “that it would ever be my duty to sentence a brother officer."
With his head bowed and walking slowly, the magistrate then left the court. An usher followed him with a glass of water. Lightbound
In tears.
Wax
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TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1939.
BRITISH BATTLESHIPS
FOR THE PACIFIC
EMERGENCY MEASURES: NEW ARRANGEMENT
WITH AUSTRALIA
1 understand that in consequence of negotiations between the British and Australasian Governments certain British battleships have been earmarked for service in the Pacific should an emergency arise, writes Hector C. Bywater, the "Daily Telegraph" Naval ex- pert....
It has long been known that the
Wir
Neither the number nor the view now prevulls that any name of the vessels in ques-threat to Australasian territory tion can be disclosed.
which may have existed a year or The composition of the two ago has practically disap battle force which would inpeared. certain eventualities be des- British naval squadrona East of patched to the Far East has Sues, whose dag officers are to been carefully calculated with conter at Singapore on co-ording- a view to the balance of powertion of defence, would be amalga- in the eastern Atlantic and mated as a unit in the event of When the magistrate returned, the Mediterranean. Lightbound had been taken away. In the Mediterranean, France
MODERN VESSELS Speaking from his home in New still has a substantial margin of Together they would constitute Malden, Surrey. Mr. Power told strength over Italy in capital ships, a fally powerful force, compris the Daily Mirror":" "I would while in the North Sea Britaining: rather not refer to what happened enjoys a big preponderance over In court. It is far too upsetting." the German fleet in vessels of this
type. " "I REMEMBER” The magistrate recognized Lightbound when a detective stat- ed that the man held "a commis- slon during the war in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
"The Yorkshire Light Infantry!" sald Mr. Powell. "I was in that myself! I remember the man now."
Six cruisers mounting 8in guns. Eight cruisers with Gin gans, One alreraft carrier, 16 destroyers. 15 submarines."
Six motor torpedo boats, and 14 escort vessels,
NAVAL SUPREMACY Despite active bullding going on in Germany and Italy, France and England can rea- sonably count on maintaining their present supremacy. Ther have nine battleships of 35.000 to 40,000 tons under construce tion, as against the eight bulld- ing for the Axis Powers. Thanks to the completion of the tleships.
As the majority of these ships. fare of modern design, they could. {1: merged into a single command render a good account of them- selves, though they would be un- able, of course, to face hostile bat-
It is obvious' that the presence build a great battleship dock at of batticandpe in the Far East may Sydney, New South Wales, and the become essential to the security existence of docks capable of tak- of Britain's Vital Interests in the ing the largest ships at Malvä and Pacific But until lately it had been
NAVAL FUNERAL Singapore base the decision to
YESTERDAY
the part of persons Un- known to imitate Communist Major-Gen: F. propaganda against any MV.O, OBE, M.C., the new om-F.M.O.
to
Grasett sister
K. Slamona,
Simmons Mrs. of Major-Gen. Telfer-Smollett, who
iz n P D. 19 Gen.
nation which is alleged to be cer Commanding the British Forces assisting China in her resis-{in Shanghai, arrived in Hongkong tance against Japanese in-n the sa. Sarpedon on Sunday vasion. Chungking Demo-with Mrs. Simmons and their three cratic (formerly Communist) daughters. They have been stay headquarters have denied ing at Flagstaff House with HE responsibility for the third the General Officer Commanding, Major-Gen. A E Grasett, and Mrs. specimens, and there is a certain amount of internal
found evidence to be suggest that it is the work of Simmons predecessor in Shanghai, a party which fancies it. 15 According to passengers in the Sar- able to spread such pro- pedon, Gen. Simmons is a most paganda by printing it in the likeable soldier and gentleman and language
of the nation a typical family man. against which it is chiefly of" in а levelled, instead fluence, the people it is most "language calculated to in-
desired to Chinese..
reach, viz., the
...
IF WHOEVER is responsible is doing this with the idea of attempting to make the blood
SON ROBS HIS FATHER'S SHOP Alleged to have opened a safe in his father's shop. No, 39, Bai Street, and stolen $230 and two gold orna- ments in addition to various other articles of clothing, etc., between
The boy's father, Chan King, 68,
Matthews Of H.MS. Tamar
The funeral took place at the of Colonial Cemetery yesterday the late William Alfred Matthews,
Warrant Master of Arms and Fleet Mall Officer, of RMS. Tamar. The Rev. D. Vaughan Edwards, Chaplain, R.N., officiated. The de- ceased is survived by his mother,
resident in Portsmouth, England.
Gibraltar, the strategic position of assumed that no vessels of this
the Empire in relation to Far type would be available in an Eastern defence has materially im- emergency owing to the overrid– proved.
ing demands of naval strategy in In well-informed naval circles European waters,
TANK CLAIMANT Admiral Has
DIES IN BATH
Captain John Francis Bentley. who claimed to have inverted the
There was a large attendance of tank, collapsed and died while hav Oficers and "ratings of Hising a bath at his home. Newbarr Majesty's vessels in harbour. House, Longfield, near Dartford, Wreaths were sent by the Com- Captain Bentley, who was 60, modore, Hongkong. Officers and was an engineer-inventor, and Men of Ships on the China Station, submitted plans of the tank to The Commodore and Warrant Lord Kitchener early in the Great Officers of HM.S. Tamar, The War. After the Armistice Captain. Commodore, Officers, and Ship's Bentley brought an action in the Company of HMS. Tamar, The High Court regarding the patent Commodore and Warrant Officers(cf the tank, and lost the day, of HMS. Medway,
Death was from heart failure,
Ir
Sea Burial
To the accompaniment of the firing of 16 minute guns by the naval and military shore batteries at Fortsmouth, Vise- Admiral Sir Reginald Hender“ son, who until shortly before his death was 3rd Sea Lord and Controller at the Admiralty, was 'buried at Sea, from the cruiser Curacos on May 5.
The coffin was placed on the quarterdeck of the cruiser, and as was lowered over the side in the vicinity of the Nab Tower 12 naval ratings from HMS. Excellent fired three volleys and· Royal Marine buglers sounded the Last
FOR WAR Post and the Reveille. The Rev. U.
IS RESPONSIBLE IN CHINA? - THE BAD, BAD BRITISH, SAYS PUPPET PAPER
May 15-18, an 18-year-old boy, so NOW WE KNOW! of the foreigner curdle with Chan Yue-chor, was charged be- Intending bidders are advised apprehension, they are mani- fore Mr. R. Edwards at the Cen- that immediately after the dis festly wide off the mark. If tral Magistracy, yesterday on four WHO posal of the lot the Purchasert is done for the purpose of counts of larceny and four counts (if not the applicant) will be of evil is being propagated,
letting them know what sort of illegal pawning.. required to
deposit with an it is a work of supereroga- who made the complaint, said that authorised officer who will be tion, foreign circles are al- his son had been previously con- present at the sale, the sum of ready perfectly, well aware of victed when he was only 13 years two hundred dollars, ($200) in what is going on. As an old. -
The defendant was sentenced to cash. This sum will be refunded | example of misapplied energy, on payment of the Purchase these efforts are outstanding two months hard labour on each It most certainly does not emanate fromí Chungking and the result is that those most
price.
count
at
|S. Ylat; chaplain of the dockyard......
conducted, the service.
a
In a funeral procession through the dockyard to the cruiser there was an escort of 400 naval men. The Japanese and their puppets have at last made a most Eight Admirals were the pallbear- important (?) discovery! After nearly two years of hostilities.. eis. The procession was headed by the massed bands of the port play- 'against China, they have, according to a newspaper called the -"Sin Shun Pao," a Japanese-controlled organ la Shanghai. ing a funeral "march, ⠀⠀:
Arrived
the amazing conclusion that it is Britain "who Lady Henderson and the Rou-
mantan has been “responsible for the war and for its prolongation!"
Minister attended memorial service in the dockyard Japan, is the real friend of treaties since the Opium War. She church, and King Carol sent
become 6 market for General Meeting of the Company PARTICULARS OF THE LOT keenly interested know ex-ese and third-parties. There China, says this amazing journa-European a
European and American goods. Breath will be held at the Offices of the
actly who are the real is no such thing as unilateral listic effort, in the course of a tain has the strongest induence in measly, article in support of the China and China has suffered heavily General Managers, Messrs. Jar.
originators.
reciprocity.
Anti-British campaign now being at the hands of the British people." dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.,
EFFICIENTLY carried out, THEMSELVES the real up- pushed so desperately throughout For the sake of peace in East Asia, Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on
the Chinese people should-opposs. Bri- the propaganda to which we holders of prostitution, the the Japanese-occupied territories tan with undaunted spirit. For the Thursday, 25th" May, 1939,
refer might prove very serious Japanese have the temerity in China -- an・・ Anti-British sake of the emancipation of China noon, for the purpose of receiving
so far as the objects of these to allege that British and movement which alone "will save the Chinese people should oppose the Report of the Directors, pass-
attacks are concerned but American missions have China" from "Britain's poisonous Britain to the bitter end,
"dens policy of invasion of the Far *secret when it is conducted along established ing the Accounts, and electing
East!" Directors and Auditors.
at
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,
What do
you want ?
If there is anything
you want to buy or
seil, try a° · WEEK DJEL
Classified advertlas-
ment in the Hong-
kong Daily Press,
897
25 words $1,00 prepaid:
for 3 insertions.
No. of Blais.
Locality.
Kowloon Inland Lot Registry No.
No. 4145, Between Kowloon In land Lots Nos. 1914 & 1970, Pak Tai Street,
Ma Tau Kok.
Boundary
Measure-
menia.
ft. ft. ft. ft.
As per
sale plain
Contents in
Square feet.
Annual
Rental.
Opset Prics.
$9
4139
240
THE KING'S NEW AEROPLANE
One of the new de Havilland Flamingo 240 mph. monoplane airliners ordered by the Air Minis- TO SAVE CHINA!
try will be specially furnished for An anti-British_movement will save the use of King George and 'China. Every Chinese should dismembers of the royal household. tinguish friend from foe and should
clumsy lipes to which we for prostitution; missionary have become accustomed; it schools serve as a medium for
80 IT. READS is utterly useless and no the enslavement of the
The article (if it may be so call-wipt out the poisonous account with Its pilot will be Wing Commander concern need be felt as to the Chinese people; and mission- ed) is headed "Holst the Anti-without hesitation. hoist the and Flight
Britain. The Chinese people should EH. Fielden, Master of the King's probabilities.of its success. ary hospitals are places British Movement Flag" and reads British movement fiag..
In design and construction the beings are as follows: "
Chinese in Central and South China VERY STRONG representa- where human
It will not be difficult for Japan to have already started an anti-British King's new aeroplane will closely standard model tions have been made by the devoured or killed without
in Nanking, the seat of the which is In large production · for strongly 402 Japanese of alleged anti-Jap recourse to law as the doctors crush the remaining induence of the movement. The movement is going on resemble the
Kuomintang Army in the present Reformed Government. We should anede propaganda in Chinese- and nurses are immune from hostilities. The Edomintang Army is language newspapers
in legal punishment for their in a most embarrassing, position. It encourage the people to walk along airline operators throughout the is due to the assistance rendered by the anti-British path and raise the world and for transport units of of Britain to Chiang Kai-shek that the anti-British moružent zag, Shanghal but must not the deliberate -treatment same serious complaints be patients. Pure lies, of course, war calamities have been prolonged.
with equal force, but can one expect anything Kuomintang to resist, or I she had Asa Thor Hoyen. 17, a student, made, was oned $10 at the Kowloon against the attacks which are better from an ignorant race not rendered assistance to China after Court yesterday by Mr. E. Hims being levelled against the like the Japanese?
would have been over KINS FOR the worth when he appeared on two British and other foreigners UNDER THE TITLE "Holst charges of having driven a car by creatures whom the Jap- the Anti-British Movement war and for its prolongation. She is now obstructing the creation of the belonging to Dr. C. 8. Rutherford anese are perfectly well able Flag" one article is much new order in East Asia. We must without the latter's permission and to control? It is a test or more direct in its anti-British wipe out Britain's poisonous polley of driving-a-car when he had no Japanese bona fides whether sentiments. This is so exant-oppose Britain so 85 to save licence to do so..
we. they will seek to prevent tremely amusing that
STUDENT FINED
If Britain had not..
instigated the
the outbreak of hostilities, the WAY
ago, Thus, Britain
Chips.
REGULAR FEATURE
the Royal Air Force.Delivery of ***"production" Flamingoes is ache- duled to begin within the next two-months.
* SHANGHAI (Beuter by Mail)
Bonfires of British goods are becoming a regular feature of the anti-British campaign in the Japanese-ocenpled areas, furn China In some cities house- to-house searches are being :-made for British roods.
MAJESTIC THEATRE It was stated in Court that as practices which they them- publish it in another column The people of China and Japan ́are Hoyen was driving the car. No. selves are only too ready to-day so that readers may peace-loving. All British help must be
____ PROGRAMME 6181, along Sam Tat Road, on to complain. Reciprocity is start the day with a good rejected By opposing Britain's po We have been informed that the Saturday night, he collided with a necessary if the Japanese laugh! The Japanese and sous polley of Invasion of the co car driven by Mr. V. A Carton, desire to remove one of those their puppets still have much East Asia can be enacted. We should will be screened at the Majestle
East the consolidation of peace in comedy, Pardon Our Nerve which was being driven in an op posite direction, tearing of its many sources of irritation to learn so far as propaganda hoist the anti-British movement nag Theatre to-day at all performances front bumper. Dr. Rutherford's which do nothing to improve is concerned. At present, as so se poble in order to bring and not Taco Blind Mice at or
an early pesce, to East Kale -- car was also slightly damaged relations between the Japan- their efforts are childlike
China had been at the mercy of iginally advertised g
TOHITCH!
REAR-ADM. MURRAY
Rear-Admiral A. J. L. Murray, DEO, OBE., who was recently appointed to the newly-created post of Rear-Admiral in the Tirth Cruiser Squadron, will arrive in. Hongkong to-morrow morning by the ss. Ranpura,
The Fifth Cruiser Squadron is
the nucleus of the British Naval which Admiral Sir Percy Noble is Commander-in-Chief.
Rear Admiral Murray's fag will
* forces on the China Station, of
be hoisted in HMS Cornwall.