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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of Sara Lucie Adler nee. Casevitz late of 18 rue Theodule Ribot Paris (xvie) in the Republic of France Married Woman, deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Pro- bates Ordinance 1897, made an LAMMERT BROS”;
Order Hmiting the time for Auctioneers.editors and others to send in 601 their claims against the above estate to the 25th day of August,
CHARITY CONCERT
in aid of the Industrial Home for Refugee Children to be given by THE CHORAL GROUP (Director: Prof. E. Gualdi.
Prof. Harry Ore
Prof. Ettore Pellegatti Mrs. Prue Lewis
Mrs. Silvia Choy
Mr. Albert Woo
Miss Rosabel Hsu
at the
China Fleet Club Theatre On Friday, August 25, at 9 p.m. Admissions: $5 and $3 Booking at Tsang Fook Piano Co. and
Anderson Music Co.
"NOTICE..
LUM DAT HING.
4th August, 1939.
THE STAR" FERRY
1939,
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under- signed on or before that date.
Dated the 29th day of July,
1939.
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JOHNSON, STOKES &
MASTER. Solicitors for the persons entitled to administration of the above estate, Hong Kong & Shanghai-
Bank Building, Hong Kong.
588
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Certificates Nos. Notice is hereby given that NS.928 and NS.929 dated Hong Bill of Lading against teakwood Kong, 9th October 1894, for (Quan Din) issued to me by the 50 shares numbered. 3270/3279, China Navigation Steamship Co., 56190/56199, 20300/20301, 20305- Ltd., and to be shipped to Hol | /20309.66258/66265, 69642/ how has been lost and is declared 69643, and 52016/52025, Certi null & vold.
ficates Nos. NS.2249, NS.2250 and NS.2251 dated Hong Kong, 10th November 1897, for 75 shares numbered 51251/51262, 59851851/51863, 24471/24473, 16097.
/16101, 36987/36101, 15374 15975, 39071/39075, 33649/33653, 2016/2021, 34096/34099, and CO., LTD.
53746/53750, Certificate No. 5/NS.304 dated Hong Kong, 7th NOTICE to SHAREHOLDERS July, 1908, for 62 shares aim
hered 89265/89326, Certificate NOTICE is hereby given that No. 5/NS.2374 dated Hong Kong, an Interim Dividend of $2.00 13th November 1912, for 20 per Share has been declared, for shares numbered 91879/91898, the half year ended 30th June, Certificate No. 5/NS. 2377 dated 1939, payable on THURSDAY, Hong Kong, 16th November, 17th AUGUST, 1939, on which 1912, for 9 shares numbered date Dividend Warrants may be 13556/13560, 65164/65165, 76695 obtained on application at the and 62879, and Certificat: Pro Office of the Company, Kowloon.visional No. 57/657 dated Hong The Register of Shares of the Kong, 20th February, 1922, for Company will be closed from 72 shares numbered 128802/. TUESDAY, 8th AUGUST to 128873, all registered in the name THURSDAY, 17th AUGUST, of Rafael Perez, have been LOST 1939, both days inclusive. or STOLEN, and should these certificates not be produced to the Bank before the 26th August 1939, new certificates for the 288
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By Order of the Board of Directors.
C. M. MANNERS, Secretary & Manager. Hong Kong, 27th July, 1939.
CHINESE ESTATES.
LIMITED.
SECOND INTERIM
DIVIDEND.
583
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a SECOND, IN- TERIM DIVIDEND for the year ending the 29th February, 1940, of two per cent, that is $2.00 per share, will be paid on all shares in this Company on Saturday the 12th August, 1939, at the Company's Office at China Building, 5th floor.
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HONGKONG, August 7, 1939-
ALL NOT WELL WITH JAPAN
Mo
MORE THAN ONE FACTOR indicates that all is not well with the Japanese either But in China or Manchuria. Tokyo is so openly worried by tempts are being made to
the trend of events that at-
hoodwink the world into be- lieving that she remains in- vincible.
EDITORIAL
Hello &
MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1939.
Goodbye CONQUERING THE AIR
BY A. W. HYER)
IF THE WEEK-END northbound service from, Bangkok of Imperial Airways, arrives as arranged this afternoon, their "Chief of Operations, Mr. A. C. Campbell-Orde " will be one of the visitors disembarking
Mr. Campbell-Orde, whose services in aviation during the World War are well known, was formerly connected with Bri¬ tish Airways. Now he is tackling the ponderous, task of com- bining, improving and controlling the operation. departments of Imperial Airways and British Airways in the new organization set-up (British Overseas Aviation Corporation),
THE OPERATIONS MANAGER de- do with the "good-bye wishers," parted from Southampton on who were at the shipside in good July 5 on a thorough inspection numbers.
a former
of his company's routes which 'are Miss Marie Hack, located in Europe, Africa, India, Australia and the Far East. On altor in Far Eastern ports, spent his arrival to-day, he commences friends and business acquaint- a delightful Saturday visiting oki a four-day investigation of the local Imperial Airways' operations executive continued on her way to in Hongkong. The lady President Taft:
Manila, where she will confer with her boss, Mr. J. Reese, and
ances
ON SATURDAY, at noon, the Pre-Inspect the affairs of the Manila
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sident Taft slipped alongside Pier Trading Company, which she No. 1. just in from the United supervises eficiently from her States via Japan.
New York City office. After her
lish lady about the situation.
son,
י
Was
Two other gentlemen leaving the Hongkong port for Manila, ware Mr. J. B. Dunne and Mr. J. Ellis.
The "passenger 1st for Manila President Taft, and sandwiched": disembarkers was a long one on the¦s,a. Corfu;
COMMERCIALLY
From Bleriot's Monoplane
To The Multi - Motored Air Liners Of To-day
BY HARRY HARPER
(Author of "The Evolution Of The Aeroplane,' Twenty Five Years Of Flying," "The Romance Of The Modern Airway," "Riders Of The Sky," etc.)
Just at this time of the year, thirty years ago, the world was amused, in a sceptical kind of way, by the project of several pioneer airmen for making an aero- plane flight across the Channel between France and England.
!
One day Louis Bleriot appeared on the scene. His little monoplane, looking very small and frail, was un- loaded from a railway truck at Calais and towed by a horse out to the starting-ground at Les Baraques, on the outskirts of Calais. And then early one morn-j ing, without any sort of fuss
to Cologne for our Army of Occupation of the Rhine. bother, Bleriot had his With the war ending, and with little machine wheeled out all the technical progress achiev from the tent in which it haded during that great struggle now. been housed.
available for peace-time pur- Government Taking his place in the cock-poses the British
decided to establish a special Civil pt he looked out Channel and said:
Aviation Department in the Alk Ministry. where is Dover?." Friends pointed direction, and a
across "Tell
the me.
in the right moment or
First Air Service This department came into ¿x- so the little machine was in the August of that same year came istence in February 1919, and in
alr. Steadily out to sea it dew the establishment by British
in the centre we discovered that THE SS. CORFU was homeward and 37 minutes later it alighted on Mr. S. W. Lehman, formerly No. 1 bound to England, on Satur-English bachelor in the Standard Vacuum day at noon.
Everyone, passen-Castle.
.. HAVING FAILED in her
...Mrs. W." Jameson was one of the Manila call, she will continue to attempts to smash China's most anxious passengers at the her desk via Europe and the At- legal currency in favour of ship's rall. Just as the steamer lantic Ocean.
came alongside, the vessel she that sponsored by the pup wished to catch
Mrs. N. T. de Guerrero, with a travel to Bom- young daughter and China and pets in North
bay, the s.s. Corfd, was backing out travelling down to Manila, but having failed to intimidate from Pler No. 2. But no one would Saturday night was an early bed- the British, Government into wait for her, therefore she con- time hour for them; the ship's handing over the Chinese tinued to Manila where she tran- departure was just a dream to Government's silver stocks at ships to the President Adams, these travellerst Tientsin and withdraw its which will carry her on to her
the
Indian destination. It Chinese
was hard! support of
luck, but she was a sporting Eng- National dollar, Japan is now attempting to cover the fact that she is well nigh ex- hausted as a result of the Sino-Japanese hostilities and unable to carry on much longer. During the past few months, it is significant to note, Tokyo has failed to make any of the fantastic claims to victory over the Chinese forces to which she has been accustomed. This is not because she does not want to, but because she has no grounds for such claims. She has been held in check on all fronts by the Chinese armies while the guerilla forces are harassing her in all directions. Almost within a stone's throw of Wusth, one of the most strongly fortified positions on the Shanghai-
Joyous going away party. Nanking Railway, a whole found a well known face smiling.
Miss E Partell certainly recely- military train was, a few days the owner, Mr. James Maloof, the ed the lower baskets when she ago, destroyed and the Jap-popular Far Eastern manager of departed on Saturday for London. anese troops trapped inside Macksond Importing Co., of New This pretty traveller, a Nursing were attacked, killed or car- York City. This gentleman be-Sister, In the Medical Department ried away. All of which goes leves in steamer travelling and was looking forward to her trip, to show that the Japanese does not take to the air across the yet was sorry to be leaving our are not, as they claim, in- populär brother.
Pacific Ocean like his equally city. vincible.
THEN, apart from having her hands full in dealing with Great Britain and the United States, the Japanese re
wife from the United States.
ነ
en-
soll just below Daver terprise of the world's first daily air express service for passengers. and malls. This operated on the London-Paris route, starting from. Hendon, on the outskirts of Lon- don, and flying to the airport of Le Bourget
The apparently impossible had been possible. The Chan- nel had been flown. From an aerial point of view, England was no longer an island.
"The Ditch" To-day aeroplane pilot, refer to the Channel quite casually as
It was the immediate suc- cess of that ploneer route, and of others which follow- ed, that paved the way for
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great era of commercial air.expansion:
Oil Co's Får Eastern Division, was gers, visitors and the crew, were returning from his vacation of six all happy and in gay spirits. months. Not only was there One of the gayest travelling surprise at his transfer from the parties of 1939 left their home in ideal office to a Manila desk, but Hongkong for a trip down to sin- he arrived with his newly-married gapore. Mr. and Mrs. Fung Keong, who had under thetr supervision Mr. E. H. Hoyt is another mem-three attractive daughters, two ber of the Standard Vacuum Oll sons, their son-in-law, Mr. Tan Co. who came travelling to a desk The Wing and a daughter-in-law, "the ditch." From dawn to dusk, In the local office from America by Mrs. Fung Tang Yue-cheng, and
during the busy summer season.i the President Taft.
five excited youngsters, ranging in air-liners, air taxis, and private-
Contrast To-day pleasure trip in the United States ve years.
Returning from a business and ages of from several months to ly-owned aircraft are
To-day, in contrast to that arst The travellers them- their swift. passages to and fro 250-miles air line between London was Mr. Desmond C. Loneraine, selves were gay and excited and above this once-dreaded
stretch and Paris, passengers entering manager of D. Gestetner Ltd., in their seemingly, one hundred and of water. Passengers look down the big Imperial Airways booking- Hongkong.
more friends, provided a super-upon it, completely unconcerned, hall in London car buy tickets while enjoying well-served lun-taking them over 60,000 miles of cheons and dinners in luxuriously-appointed
their European roiter; while long-dis airliner tance travellers can, book passages Jacross the Empire air-lines to
Egypt. Africa. India Malaya," China, and Australia.,
And up at the ship's rail we
saloons.
making
Thirty years of flying! What was once a marvel has HOW become a commonplace. What amazed the world in 1909 is taken just as a matter of course in 1939,"
of
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(x-
new
Here is a big luxury coach leay- Jing the special motor-coach. station which forms part of the Dr. and Mrs. G. Ingram-Shaw,
new air terminus of Imperial Air- Mr. Waldo Ruess came travelling with their two children and their
Within a year of Bleriot's cross-ways. It is taking a group ..of to our city on the President Taft nurse, were bound for London, We Channel fight an experiment was passengers down to Croydon for a This American gentleman is on had a few words with the excited being made in carrying mails by fight over to Paris. When the the staff of the American Embassy children who were happy to be aeroplane. This was the first
first small air expresses began fly- in Chungking.
sailing on an ocean voyage to its kind in England, and it tooking between the two capitais in faced with a serious, revolt in little secretary of Mr. T. B. Wilson, the mysteries of the big ship!
Mrs. C. Remedios, the capable England and very interested in place at the Blackpool air meet-1919, it took them 24-hours to com-
censor information in Korea and, try as they will to in the local American President
ing in August. 1910. when Mr. plete their fights. this Line's office.
Claude
To-day the Imperial connexion, news is gradually twenty-four hour, hetic, shopping accompanied by their daughter: 7-1b. bag of letters across country Grahame-White-ploneer Professor and Mrs. K.. H. Digby, returned from $1
pre-planes of the British aeroplane pilot-carried a filtering through and leaders session in Shanghal. Not only did Professor, held in high esteem by
were travelling to Singapore. The in a 50 hp. monoplane.
class. fly from Croydon across of the Korean independence she bring back some fine bargains, the Colony residents, is on his
to Le Bourget in 70 minutes. Imperial Airways movement are highly elated but plenty of galety, too!
Ambitious Triais
passengers over the prospects of freeing Manila Bound:
joutward bound across the Empire The success of that experiment pass through the booking-half to led to the holding of a more the Company's own private rall their country from the toils
⚫ Unfortunately we did not have ambitious series of trials in the of a harsh oppressor.
time to.. see Mr. and Mrs. S. following year." These were
way station adkining Victoria the Halston and their young daughter. first to be sanctioned offcially man-car train waiting to take Station, Here they find a Full- These travellers are sailing to by the Postmaster-General,
and them down to the Southampton. Marseilles and will eventually get they took place between Hendon air-base. And at Southampton, to London on their vacation tour. and Windsor in September 1911e the big ring-boats waiting to
more than 100,000 letters and ascend on airvoyages across; 30: postcards being carried over this 000 miles of Empire air-lines. - 30-miles route by three well- known pre-war airmen, Messrs. Hamel, Gregwell, and Driver.
VERY SIGNIFICANT also ing in Peiping from Man- is the fact that trains arriv-
churia are crammed
with
THE PRESIDENT TAFT was un- der-way for Manila at 2 a.m. on Sunday, but the hour had little to
THETIS FUND:
To the Editor of the
way to a short holiday in the south
THE TRIM WHITE, motorship Victoria stopped in our port for a short call on Saturday morning. The Italian transport "Hongkong Daily Press"] was loaded down with a large list received from the Lord Mayor of mately 300, headed for Shanghal Sir-The following copy letter of refugee passengers, approxi- London through the Hongkong
from Europe. and Shanghat Banking Corpora- tion, is forwarded for favour of travellers list was composed main
ly of Chinese going to the north- ern city.
The Hongkong to Shanghai
shares and the aforesaid, Certi wealthier Chinese who are CORRESPONDENCE. Victoria: Bicates Nos. NS.928, NS.929, coming into north China for NS.2249, NS.2250, NS.2251, refuge for fear that the 5/NS.304 5/NS.2374, 5/NS.. Soviet Air Force will bomb 2377, and Provisional No. 57/657 Harbin, Chungchun ("Hsin- will be thereafter treated by this king"), Mukden and other cities in "Manchoukuo," 'to Corporation as Null and Void,
which "state" troops now be By Order of the Court of ing withdrawn from China
-Directors,
are being hastily rushed up. With a fierce struggle now going on between the Outer publication. Mongols and the Japanese and Manchus on the Mongol-" 579 Manchu border, relations be- July 7, 1939
tween Japan and Boviet
Dear Sir, I would like you please Russia have reached such a to convey to the generous contribu state of tension that it would tar to the Pund-raised among - the not be at all surprising short- Fund, my very grateful thanks for Chinese, in Bangkong for the Disaster ly to see a conflagration of a their splendid support. wide scale Aerial combats
Yours very truly. are constantly being reported
(80) Frisk H. Boviter.
Lord Mayor. ME LO
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 26th July, 1939,
BALLOONS TO
BE BIGGER,
FLY HIGHER
Certain balloon barrage squad-
The Mansion House,
London, EC. 4.
and, though Tokyo's warlords claim to have brought down hundreds and hundreds of Hongkong."August 5. rons are being equipped with Soviet military planes (if we larger balloons capable or nying.
were to add up the number balloons of 20,000 cubic fest
Mrs. H. Cuniette, Miss I) Goode and Dr. and Mrs. C. Marx were, the European passengers from the Colony, travelling North.
.:
Schemes now followed for the establishment of regular air-mail services; but these
Progress Achieved u Within 28 hours of leaving Southampton by flying-boat, pas sengers now reach Egypt. Three days flying brings them to India for East Africa. In 5-day they had to be abandoned on the can be in South Africa Malaya outbreak of the Great War-- all air energies being divert- ed to military rather ̈ than commercial purposes Even during those years of con- flict, however, the aeroplane de was demonstrating - ita – value
sa a transport machine."
Special Squadron
can be reached in 5 days, Hong- kung in 6-days, and Sydney (Australia) in 10-days
Thirty years of flying! The progress actually, achieved, In these three decades, has far exceeded even the most sanguine expectations of the pioneers.
A special Communication Squa- From tiny low-powered planes dron was, for example, estab- we have moved, stage
The Inoculation centre at the lished at Hendon to carry as its to the giant air-liners of the pre Harbour Office will remain open Passengers between London and sent day -- with their to-day for inoculation against Paris, these statemen and soldiers saloons, smoking-cal cholera of intending passengers who had to make frequent and serial catering equipmen and for the eve of certificates drgent journeys between the two full-course luncheons and of inoculations from 9 am to capitals, while towards the end to be served thousands of 1 p.m. only,
of the Great War the Government in the air. established a famous committee----- The naval authorities state that the Civil Aerial Transport Com-
With
view
the Company will be CLOSED: much higher than the present of enemy machines" which with all external matters that they have no information committee which considered all the mineral oils and other
from the 9th to the 12th August,
39, both days Inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
FUNG PING FAN,
Director & Secretary, Hong Kong, 4th August, 1939.
597
They are high altitude balloons fitted with expansion chambers to allow the gas to expand at great
heights, ph
They will need much, lorries and trailers and will be more difficult to
It is hoper ndle.
UTA
have brought down we internal dissention as a result Blocks the Japanese are supposed to she has to contend with, plus cerning
the reopening of the post-war possibilities of com in the south River which has been clal aviation and which should have seen the dis of the acute economic situa-blockaded since July 28.
mended a vigorous policy appearances of nearly one tion, she will find it hard to
mail development.
quarter of the Soviet Air convince the world that she Jurger
A Friends o Force), it would appear that can carry on much longer.
ciation was inau the Japanese airmen have As to her alleged invincibility vince yes
yang capital fared none too well.
the Chinese armies have grams were THE JAPANESE certainly shown how futile her claims the families have their hands full and, in that respect are
soldiers. Agtiling at.
to re-equip all balloon barrage squadrons with these new balloons.
recom-
company is now
local trialists and
Wounded Asso; } __ Another significant
Kwel
mark, soon after the Pro
for
ting" wanded and
the
the trans
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malls from Hawkinge=
pany will be 000