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NOTICE.
heary George BAKER, Sub. Inspector, late of the Police Training School Kowloon, in the Colony of Hong Kong, deceased,
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Notice is hereby given that all claims against the estate of the above named deceased who died on the 29th June, 1939, must be submitted to the Commissioner of Police on or before the 21st day of August, 1939.
(S4.) C. G. PERDUE,
Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong, 9th August, 1939,
Q.
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 14th day of August, 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the. Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of
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PUBLIC AUCTION. PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 14th day of August, 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 To Kwa Wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renswal at a Crown" Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Ma jesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years...
NOTICE
Notice in hereby given
Bill of Lading against tearat
me by the
(Quan Din) issued to China Navigation, Steamship Co.. Ltd., and to be shipped to Hoi- how has been lost and is declared
null & vold.
LUM DAT HING. 4th August, 1939.
NOTICE.
598
Owing to circumstances beyond our control we have been forced to temporarily close our Furniture Sales Room on the Hong Kong
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the disside. posal of the lot the Purchaser
Business as usual will be (if not the applicant), will, be required to deposit with an carried on in Kowloon at No. 35, authorised officer who will be Hankow Road and our office and present at the sale, the sum of Sundry Sales room remain as two hundred dollars," ($200) inusual at No. 2, Connuaght Road cash. This sum will be refunded Central, Zad. Floor-Room 205,' on payment of the Purchase where all communication, should price.
be addressed.
No. of Sale.
Locality.
Boundary Measure-
Contents in
Beata!.
one Lot of Crown Land at PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Island Road, Repulse Bay 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 fur ther 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 ап anthorised 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
No. of Sale.
Registry No.
Locality.
Lot No. 426. - Junction of Island
Bay Road, Repulge Road and South
Rural Building
Bay.
Boundary
Menuru- menta.
N. D. Z.H
ft. ft. ft. ft.
As per
Bale plan
Oni enta in
Square feck
Aninual
Reatal.
About
100 14,000
s | Upset Price.
B...
PUBLIC AUCTION,
3,500
604 |
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Kowloon Inland Registry No. Lot No. 4170. Adjoining Kowloon
Inland Lot No.2152,] Cheung Ning St.
To Kwa Wan.:
+
manta
2.1.
As per
sala plan.
About
9,734
178
Square feet.
Annual
psat Price
7,300
606
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
601
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HONGKONG, AUGUST 9, 1939
GIVEN that Certificates Nos. FREEDOM OF THE NS.928 and NS.929 dated Hong Kong, 9th October 1894, for 50 shares numbered 3270/3279,
PRESS
EDITORIAL
AIR REFUELLING demonsTRATION
LINER RESUMES
The aircraft photographed during the demonstration.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1939.
"BACKGROUND JAPANESE
AGREEMENT"
Continued from Paga 1
a special Administrative Com- mission, dominated by the Di-" plomatic, Body, “That would have brought in all the Powers. All along there had been a vague sort of feeling that nothing we did in Tientsin would appease the tiger. We allowed ourselves to be
SUGGESTION UNTRUE
TOKYO PARLEYS & INSTRUCTIONS FROM LONDON LONDON, August 8 (Reuter)
pushed along in response to every Instructions from London for Bir growl, but it was a strategic re- Robert Craigle may not be ready treat, with the face toward the for a day or two, but to speak of foe, watching him narrowly as be¦"delay" would be misleading eyed us.
writes "The Times" diplomatic-
Each successive grievance, when correspondent, who adds that the met. gave "way to another. The Japanese proposals were of such big, bad wolf was not in it. Most a nature that no experienced exasperating of all was the digi- negotiator would expect an answer. culty of penetrating the smoke on the nall screen of propaganda and dis- covering what the Japanese really
did want.
MAIN OBJECTIVE:
Now we know pretty well what was the main objective. It is bardly worth
The suggestion by a Japanese correspondent. in London that any special differences have been dis- closed are quite untrue.
MUST BE RETURNED- SHANGHAI, Aug. 8 (T/Ocean)- while discussing In an exclusive interview given to- whether the Onal dropping of the the Transocean correspondent in Hational currency baby ensured Tientsin, Gen. Homme CommanTM
the success of the Tokyo conversa- tions on the background issues, or Garrison, said that the questions der of the Japanese Tentain whether the order of events would more properly be reversed. The Issue, we see, was money.
We have quite a lot of nice banks in the British Area. They sort of huddle together here. At times" when pride was "high" and therefrom- we
REFUELLING prejudice parted AIR LINERS
IN THE AIR
HER VOYAGE MONTREAL, Aug. 8 (Renter? —The 2,000-ton Canadian Pacific liner Beaverhill, which struck an iceberg: in the At- lantic off Newfoundland yes- terday, has resumed her Voyage and expects to reach London according to her pro-
stated gramme,
Refuelling officials of the Canadian Pacific yesterday.
line
ALLEGED PIRATES
MOST IMPRESSIVE SIGHT: PROCEDURE DESCRIBED
| called Victoria Road, the Lombard.. Street of North China. But not even in the wildest moments of parochial exaltation did we um- agine curselves among the money powers of the universe.
We just receive orders and obay them. And our only re- levance to the major issuE WAS that in a large measure we did obey the British banks "with- out question. The American banks may have been tempted, but there was no great fall. As for the Japanese banks, they just evacuated, for they, too, had their orders..
of currency and silver had become- fundamental in the minds of the
Japanese negotiators in Tokyo.
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Asked whether **** com- promise was possible in the event of Britain offering - to suppress the Chinese National currency within the Tientsin Concession,
while retaining until the end of the warɑ the stiver deposit in the banks of the British concession, Gen. Homma repiled in the negative.
MATTER OF PRINCIPLE Although admitting that the sliver reserve to the amount of 48-million Yuan deposited in the concessions would not go. far to an air liner In the
support the Federal Reserve Bank air is one of the most impressive
Hotes to an amount of 330-million sights for passengers by plane. A
Yuan circulating in those parts of correspondent recently described
North China occupied by the Jap- in detail refuelling In, this man-
anese forces, Gen. Homma, never-...... ner when the Imperial Airways Actually the Federated Reserve theless, insisted that the silver re- fying-boat Cabot, which inau-
Bank notes and the National cur- serve belonged by right to the gurated the Atlantle Service, was
rency were alike in having no Peking Provisional Government. refuelled by a Harrow tanker.
visible or effective cover. When Its return, he said, had become a The refuelling was supervised by the former made their appearance matter of principle. 8ir Allan Cobham, managing dir the National Government intro- duced its control regulations and divorced all Northern issues of Chinese banknotes from the specie or other reserves.. THEY COULDN'T:
IN CUSTODY "Three men, alleged to be pirates, were handed over to the police by Kwok Tim, master of a trading ector of the Flight Refuelling Co. Junk that returned to the Colony and spectators in another tying from a trading trip over the week boat, the Cameronian, were given
a big thrill in watching the proce dure."
end.
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100 Fect Above After the Cabot had taken to
diately this was done, the hose
the
this" in-
AIR RAID SYREN TEST TO - MORROW The Air Raid Precautions Officer announces that cm. to-morrow, the syren at the Peninsula Hotel will be actuated at 12 noon.
The bulk of the silver reserve" is deposited in the French con- cession, but since France is follow- ing the British lead in stance. It is unlikely that. Japan. The three men are alleged to
will make an exception. 56190/56199, 20300/20304, 20305F DAME RUMOUR is correct be members of a gang of four
Allotments of foreign exchange
Japanese military authorities in that the extension of the armed pirates who, the master!. /20309. 66258/66265, 69642/
claims, boarded his vessel off
were made at first for Shanghai North China, added the General 69643, and 52016/52925, Certi. Hongkong Government's pow-Yung Lang Wan in Chinese waters the air, the tanker took up a post and other centres-but none for in conclusion, were fully deter
tion about 100 feet above and Tientsin. The British banks ac-mined to have their own way in ficates Nos. NS.2249, NS.2250/ers under the Emergency, Re- about 7 am. on August 5
gulations, as "notified in the
slightly to the right of the Cabot, cepted the National notes as hav- this matter.*** and NS.2251 dated Hong Kong,Government Gazette" on
from the stern of which tralled a ing foreign exchange value, in 10th November 1897, for 75 Saturday and calling for the
grapnel on a line. The tanker pursuance of orders from higher shares numbered 51251/51262, censorship of
British people under Magna then ejected a projectile, attach-quarters. But for this one note newspaper
The British people ed to a cable, into the arc of the would have been as good or as 51851/51863, 24471/24473, 16097. placards and display-sheets, Carta. /16101, 36087/36101, 15974 is intended as a first step to resent any attempt to restrict trailing line and by an Ingenious bad-as another. And because the ex- 15975, 39071/39075, 33649/33653, wards the imposition at a their freedom or to muzzle a contrivance, automatic connection foreign banks gave foreign
change for National currency but 2016/2021, 34096/34099, and general censorship on the free press and they refuse to took place.
The two aircraft were then con not for the FRB's, everybody re- '53746/53750," Certificate No. press, the measure will be surrender their just and legal 5/NS.304 dated Hong Kong, 7th ought tooth and nall both by rights. As a war-time mea-ected by a cable on to which one quiring exchange to meet commit ments had to buy national car the newspapers of the Colony sure, Government would be of the Cabot's crew held. Imme-
rency, hence the ups and downs of July, 1908, for 62 shares num and the public alike: Ir, justified in imposing a cen- emerged from the tanker plane the FRB's, which at one time bered 89265/89326, Certificate however, the regulation is in sorship, which would be in- and steadily descended until its descended to nearly 40 per cent. of PARTICULARS AND CON- No. 5/N5.2374 dated Hong Kong, tended to put an end to sen- evitable, but any attempt on lower end was made secure in the the value of national notes. The DITIONS of the Sale by Public 13th November 1912, for 20 sationalism and the dissemin- the part of the authorities to Cabot and 200 gallons of petrol position would have been reversed Auction to be held on Monday, shares numbered 91879/91898, ation of false and tenden-impose a peace-time censor was transferred. It is stated that nad the Japanese made the 14th day of August, 1939, at Certificate No. 5/NS. 2377 dated cious reports, then it carries ship of the press would be the transfer of 850 gallons of F.R.B.'s convertible. They couldn't 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Hong Kong, 16th November,
unjustified and tantamount petrol in this manner takes only and didn't." our support.
Again, the to vicious Nazi, Fascist and 10 minutes. Public Works Department, by 1912, for 9 shares numbered
THE "Hongkong Dally belleves "in
Japanese tyranny and coun-I Order of His Excellency the 13556/13560, 65164/65165, 76695 Press"
journalism” and abhors sen- Governor of one Lot of Crown and 62879, and Certificat: Pro
sationalism. It stands for Land at Shamshulpo, to the visional No. 57/657 dated Hong the truth and its aim is to Colony of Hong Kong for a Kong, 20th February 1922, forgive the truth and real facts term of 75 years, commencing 72 shares numbered 128802/- without resorting to sensa- from 1st July, 1898, with the 128873, all registered in the name tionalism. It has refused to option of renewal at ■ Crown | of Rafael Perez, have been LOST adopt scare headlines and Rent to be fixed by the Sarveyor or STOLEN, and should these sensational posters" even of His Majesty the KING, for certificates not be produced to the though this may mean one further term of 24 years-less Bank before the 28th August mend sound horse-sense news sacrifice in sales. We com- the last three days thereof. 1935, new certificates for the 288 properly put over but we re- Intending bidders are advised shares and the aforesaid, Certifuse to have anything to do that immediately after the disficates Nos. NS.928, NS.929, with vile sensationalism. posal of the lat the Purchaser NS.2249, NS.2250, NS.2251, (It not the applicant) will be 5/NS.304 5/NS.2374, 5/NS. required to deposit with an 2377, and Provisional No. 57/657 authorised officer who will be will be thereafter treated by this present at the sale, the sum of Corporation as Null and Vold two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sun will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
of Sale.
New Kowloon Inland Registry No
Lot No. 2716,
loon Inland Lots Noe Locality..
Boundary
Measure.
menta.
per
plan
Annual
Bantal
Contenta in
“quare feet:
• ¦ Upset Frico.
By Order of the Court of Directors.
V. M. GRAYBURN,
same
and financial changes involved in the establishment of the new Government under Wang Ching-wel, the decisions at Tokyo, and the anti-British Concessions had
campaign, upon the attitude of the guerillas and producers in nothing to do with the funda- Fuel Jettisoning
the interior. ter to all ideals and rights of After the two aircraft had mental Issue. The same fluctua
A peace-separated, a demonstration of the tion in the respective values of the ANTI-BRITISH the British race.
new and old currency occurred in CAMPAIGN: time censorship, and un-jettisoning of fuel in night was Chefoo and Tsingtao where the necessary and undue inter-given. This is necessary in the ference with the press, must, event of a forced descent just after and no Concessions existas in still going full steam ahead in the
Japanese are in complete control
North despite the triumphal shouts. and will, be resisted with the the liner has received its over- load of fuel. The 100 gallons of The press tuel jettisoned utmost vigour.
And, in the interior of both pro- from Tokyo. But it has less to do was allowed to
vinces, the guerfilas and farmers with anti-British feelings now stretching far behind the machine. farmers wanted national currency fessionals who used to operate the Vapour exerted the same influence. The than with other designs. The pro-
eign exchange. for their products as the foreign anti-Japanese machine are now The commercial value of re- banks wanted it for sales of for-
manipulating the anti-British campaign.
stream out in a snowy
Commercial Value
Tientsin."
The Japanese no doubt re- garded this as a "vicioas cir- cle. They tried to break it by expeditions into the interior, where the guerillas adopted rough methods to stimulate
holds the key position in the defence of civil liberties to
speech likewise disappears. fuelling in the air is that it per day and, if this freedom dis- appears, then freedom of
with the disappearance of a mits an aircraft to carry a very free press, the public will be much greater load than would compelled to swallow all sorts otherwise be possible. SO FAR, there has been of dictated, distorted and nothing to indicate that the exaggerated (or otherwise) easily By the Atlantic without an For instance, the Cabot could new regulation is a movement propaganda and newspapers overload of fuel, but with its ald to restrict the freedom of the would not be worth the paper it can carry the extra pay load the patriotism of the farmers press, but, on the other hand, on which they are printed, represented by the weight of extra Government has failed to give TT MAY BE ARGUED by any assurance that a censor-
proponents of a censorship ship will not be brought into
that the Chinese press 1s play. In an article entitled
Chief Manager. " News and Propaganda" of already: subject to a censor-
Hong Kong, 26th July, 1939,
WIN
$50
See page 3
579
variety
July 29, The Times" says:
In the modern world, a of organizations, of which the Press is the oldest and may claim to be the most characteristic, exists to keep the
the people Informed
on publication
That
at these
201
fuel taken in
The anti-British campaign is
It so happens that a great many merchants, despairing the cur- rency, bought goods modities to the limi space for purposes and investment, They coal, in cigarettes, in and cotton goods, second-hand furniture. In short, of solid
When it is calculated that a interior from dropped the usual than keep their money in
fying boat of the new Golden””. Blind clams could by refuelling in the air take, more than two tons of extra pay-load. the
procedure i readily recognized.
Committal
ship" with satisfactory re- |sults," but are those results satisfactory? The answer is an emphatic No The manner in which that censor- ship is being carried on at charges of present is little short of a possession be kept free from the control of t
farce and to attempt to bring tinued, the State we have
generations comaddered to be vital to our
the English press under fadyen Uberties; if we should doubt it, similar conditions would prove day, the results of the opposite system
to be nothing less farcical ·⋅and in contemporary Eurose (and Japan) would restore, our poly
THE FREST of the press BETO BRITONS nothing is more cherished than their freedom and the freedom the press in peace- presents the liberty of the
They attained no very striking Successes Even the communiques from the
Fannihilation and substituted therefore the futile term "dis- persed There was no end to this business of dispersal. FINANCIAL FRONTEM
It was then that they decided to concentrate on the financial front and to substitute the 1sola- tion of the Banking Concession for the isolation of the guerillas. Re- ports seem to suggest that the
have won
that
Hect
on
banks.
The Suprer Boycatt
have