HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
BANKS
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI THE CHARTERED BANK OF
BANKING CORPORATION
Authorised Capital
Issued & Pully Paid-Up $90,000,000; Reserve Funds:
Sterling ....
INDIA, AUSTRALIA
AND CHINA
14
FORMBY
SNEEZED
GAINED EYESIGHT
LONDON, Aug. 18 (By Air Mall)- Even friends do not know why
$50,000,000 Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853
Paid-Up Capital ..... ...£3,000,000 || blind Institutions are the favourite £6,500,000 Reserve Fund H.K. Currency Reserve $10,000,000 Reserve Liability of Pro- Reserve Liability of
prietors Proprietors
$20,000,000
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 38, Bishopsgate E.C.3. Sub-Agencies In London: 117/129, Leadenhall Street, E.C.a West End Branch:"
Head Office: HONG KONG
Board of Directors: A. L. Shields, Eng.,
W. H. Lock, Esq., "
Chairman.
Deputy Chairman,
Hon. Mr. J. K. Bonsfeld,
A. H. Compton, Esq.,
Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell,
D. F. Landale, Esqu
G. Miskin, Esq.,
K. 8. Morrison. Esq..
Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearce,
H. V. Wilkinson, Esq.
Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn,
£3,000,000. But yesterday George revealed
his secret to the "Daily Mirror,”
He was born blkid.
And he owes his sight to a
aDecre.
;
FINANCE
BRITAIN'S TRANS-ATLANTIC
RADIO STATION
Giant landplane and seaplane airliners now in construction in Great Britain for transoceanic and intercontinental mail Cana- and passenger services, and long-range bombers which dian factories are building for the Royal Air Force, will cross the North Atlantic next year with the help of the elaborate ground organization established in Newfoundland during the
past three years. ---
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1939. —PAGE 13
Approach Flights across the North Atlan-by boundary lights. £3,000,000 charity of George Formby the tie by American flying-boats and and contact Hghts run the length
comedian.
in bad weather by the British of the 1,800 yards "blind landing" Down the centre of craft "Caribou" and "Cabot," have runway, already tested, the organization each of the other three rangays- ex-paved tracks 1,500 yards long and and promise well for future tenstve working of the North 200 yards widerun "marker" Hights, Atlantic run. For the first time 21 miles of them in all, making it is revealed from official sources a giant star for the guidance of Wind direction, something of the story of high incoming pliota.
large endeavour which began in New-is indicated at night by a foundland when a party of Bri-neon-illuminated "T"... Floodlights tish experts set out from stand special flares are installed tor
radio Newfoundland's John's to seek suitable sites for use in emergency, the transatlantic air terminal.
14/18, Cockspur Street, 8.W.1. Manchester Branch: 39, Mosley Street, Manchester, 2.
AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:
BATAVIA
CY SET KUALA
MADRAS
MANILA
1:
"Ee, lad," said George at his *T home at Poulton, Lancs.
reckon I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the blind.
"Every time I sneeze now think what a miracle it was
"It was when I was three months
"FREEDOM FROM FOG
employs
PRESIDENT LINER
Sailings
FOR SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via SHANGHAI, KOBE, TOKOHAKA and HONOLULU
*8.J. " PRESIDENT PIERCE "
"PRESIDENT QUOLIDGE” *8.8. +8.5" PRESIDENT TAFT”
SS.
Sails Sept. 9th at 40) P.M.
Sept 3rd at 9.00 AM.
Oct. 7th at 400 PM..
SS.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND "PRESIDENT PIERCE *
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"
U
Oct. 21st at 7.09 A.M. Nov. "4th at 4.00 PM.
Nev, 18th at 4.00 PM.
* OLENTS BRANGEAT.
OMITE YOKOHAMA -
AND FORTNIESTLY THEREAP
FOR NEW YORK & BOSTON
Sails Sept. 14th at 19 Noon
via SUEZ
scheme
8.8. "PRESIDENT HATES" S.S." PRESIDENT POLK"
works
equipment installed
It in five separate sites. For weeks the party struggled in conjunction with simliar across thickly wooded and boggy stations at Shediac, New Bruns-
New "One day my mother took me country towards the province of wick. Montreal and across from, Liverpool to New Fogo, a kreat part of which, in Parallel organization is centred Brighton in the ferry boat.
spite of its name, is in Newfound-at the Foynes seaplane base. Eire.
11
Sept. 29th at 1 NOON
AND FORTNIGHTLY THEREAFTER
MANILA
FOR
York.
S.S. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE," S.S. "PRESIDENT POLK"
"A gust of wind or summatland's fog-free zone. Made roads Evidently, aviation has travelled
made me sneeze.
ALOR STAR AMBITUAR
BANGIOK
BOMBAY
CALCUTTA
AGENCIES: KON
Chief Manager.
FAILI PLACE
CANTON
LUMPUR
KUGHING
Amoy
Branches: Ipoh
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CESU
PENANG HARRIN HONG KONG RANGOON ILOILO
SAIGON -IPOH
SEREMBAN KARACHI SHANGHAI KLANG
SINGAPORE. SITIAWAN SOUZARAYA TAIPING TIENTSIN TONGEAH
"
old.
"I had been blind from birth. I had a caula vel skin-over my eyes
Penahg
COLOMBO
Bangkok
Johore"
Rangoon
DELTI)
Batavia
Kobe
Bombay
Kowloon
Saigon San
Calcutta
Kuala
Francisco.
HAIPHONG HAMBURG HANKOW
(Bhuket) TRINGTAO TOKOHAMA
Canton
Lumpur
Shanghai
'Chefoo
London
Colombo
Lyons
Dairen
Malacca
Singapore Sourabaya Sungei
Foochow Manila
Patani
Haiphong Muar
Swatow
Hamburg (Johere)
Tientsin
Hankow
Mukden
Tokyo Tsingtao Yokohama
Harbin New York Hongkow Peiping Iloil
MEDAN NEW YORK PEIPINO
(Peking) FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.
CURRENT Acoors opened and FIXED DEPOSIT received for One Tear or shorter periods in Local or Other Currencies at rates which will be quoted on application.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS slao opened in Local Currency and Starling with interest allowed at rates obtainable on application.
CURRENT AccoUNTs opened in LOCAL CURRENCY and FIXED DEPOSIT The Bank's Head Office in London received for one year or shorter undertakes Executor and Trustee
jdo not exist along much of the far
route followed by the party; over aerodrome
from
the days when was # large field.
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"I sneezed so hard that the shock opened my eyes for the
a wide area the only means of equipped with a hangar. a vind- first time. Mother has often
regular transport
single-sock to guide the plot in by day told me about it.
St John's, and smoke fares by night.. and
in radio totally lacking
and "She took me to the doctor's and track railroad from
170 miles to the south. From that
meteorological services. he bathed my eyes.
The men headed for
region accurate day to this Tve never had any
Even east of the Great Barrens, where Nowadays, the modern airport is trouble with my eyesight.
were available at as elaborate in its planning and those big are lamps in the film likely bases
Deadman's dependence upon applied science studio don't affect me.”
Botwood, Norris Arm,
modern airliner which Pond and Gander take. No ac-as the
It serves The year 1940 may curate maps of the region existed: "When I was married thirteen knowledge gleaned by trappers see no more striking " demonstra- years ago I told Beryl, the wife and woodsmen was supplementedom of man's inventive genius about it. I went to see a specialist, only by results of the roughest than fights across the
perhaps at heights of more than But he saldklad of survey. just to make sure.
A magnetic my eyes are all right now.
variation of no less than 31 deg. 20,000 feet, by new British air- Hiners. Through the smooth atr "I mentioned it casually when I seriously trampered the surveyors
"AN HEIRLOOM
Atlantic.
periods in Local and other Cur-business, and claims recovery of made a glit of two wireless sets with the party. In few territories of the great heights the mono-
to the Sunshine Home for the would airport prospectors
Blind at Blackpool the other day. work with so little to
robcica 022 terme which will be British Income Tax overpaid, on quoted on application.
terms which may be ascertained at. Ao up to date SAFE DEPOSIT any of the Agencies and Branches. Boxes in various sizes To Let
R. A. CAMIDGE,
mention it. Manager.
Hong Kong, th June, 1938,
HONGKONG SAVINGS
BANK
The Business of the above Bank
THE CHASE BANK
is conducted by the HONGKONG 16, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL
& SHANGHAI BANKING COR PORATION. Eules may be obtain
ed on application.
For the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 25th Feb., 1930.
BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED
Authorised Capital.
Paid-Up Capital Beserve and Undivided
Profits
$10,000,000.00 $,598,600,00
2,883,93201
Head Office:-HONG KONG
No. 10 Des Voeux Road, Central,
Board of Directora:
Sir Shousoh Chow, Chairma
Li Koon Chun, Esq. Li La Saug, Esq. P. K. Kwok. Esq. Wong Chu Son, Esq. Wong Tan Toug, Esq. Ean Ting Po, Bag, Chan Ching Shok, Esq. Fang Ping Wab Esq.
Kan Tong Po, Esq.; Chise Manager. Li Ts Fong, Raq., Maongue.
AWOY Bataria
Bombay
Calopića
Haiphong
Bankow Homolala Kobe
Brancher and Agourits :---
Kewicos
London
Peing
HEAD OFFICE:
19, PINE STRIKET,
NEW YORK. An American Bank offering com- plete Foreign Banking Service in the principal Markets of the ...world. Interest Rates on Application.
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
This Bank is entirely owned by THE CHARE NATIONAL BANE, NEW YORK, with Resources over U. 8. $2,500,000,000.
D. M. BIGGAB,
Bound Vice Pres
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED
Head GMco:45. Gracechurch Street. Landon, E.C.3 Authorized Capital .. Babcribed Capital Paid-ar Capital Reserve Fund and Bent,"
BANKERS:
about it to strangers.
"A Manchester specialist is so Interested in my case that I visit him every year for an examination, But there's nothing wrong with my eyes
begin encourage
planes will move at speeds of [ave miles a minute, helped
the remote. tall maste that mark Newfoundland's airport:
"I don't know what made me them, except fortunately, the their rushing way by messages
We've never talked most vital factor of all. that radiated from
here miraculously was a zone ex- tending over a single degree of latitude which is not forbidden COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
to the air navigator by the tre-
Long-range, bombers will use the [mendous 'Togs that close down new ground services for delivery the North-west Atlantic during rights from Canada to the Royal the winter.
Air Force. Next year will begin There were to be two seaplane the ferrying of Handley Page harbours Botwood, lying at the Hampden monoplanes ordered
Cana- inland (substantial numbers from head of a fjord striking from Bay of Exploits; and Gander dian factories. Fitted with long- formidable Lake. notable for its great depth, range tanks, thece
more than three some thirty miles to the south-craft "can fly !east.
ΠΟΥ.
"I ought to be lucky being born with a caul Twife has kept it and it'll be handed down through the family as an heirloom. very rare."
2
It's
"There's an old superstition which says a person born with a vell will never be drowned.
"When I went on my craise after my illness a few months ago, I was the most popular man in the ship.
sailors made a mascot of me.".|
SOLVING JEWISH PROBLEM
in
The landplane terminus thousand miles in still air, which would sweep the spruce trees from means that
a plateau on the north shore of crossing of the lake, near the railroad Hattles Camp.
west the
to east the North Atlantic
over
*
at with the help of the prevailing wind will be an casy fight for them Actually, they can carry BROAD RUNWAYS
dis- impressive warload Lumberjacks to hack and bew
is tance of 1.990 miles, which clearings in the forest poured in only ave miles shorter than the [Engineers, draughtsmen, arch!-
Newfoundland-Elre run. tects, and builders followed. In 1938 alone 124,000 tons of stone
quarried and was
crushed to
provide the broad paved runways
at Hattles Camp: Special trains ROLLING STONE
brougt all kinds of materials,
41.D0.500 Of the 10,000,000 Jews in the plant and A1.080,000 world to-day 6,000,000 were living | John's.
£1,800.000
21,242,770 in abject poverty, under
The Bank of England and Midland
Bank, Ltd.
Manila
Kingapore Bangooz
Bworkdays Bairun Bwaw Kelbourne M Vein Sydney
dison Terbaka
VANDOWTE New York Beattle
Bemaring Paris
Shangla Pelping
FRANCHEB:
Bangkok
Bombay
Calcutta
Ipak
Kuantan
·Haala TrenɛLEAR Sinda
New York
Colombo
Kandy
Posing
Kanchi
Kota Bharu
Shanghal Elmia Kuala Lumpur Slagapore
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. Loans granted an approved securities.
Deli Gall Hongkong Kuala L Howrsh
Pangbou
HONG KONG BRANCH:
that the
of
machinery from St GATHERS MANY
mos-
JOBS
...
8.8. "PRESIDENT TAFT" 6.SPRESIDENT CLEVELAND”
Sails Sept. 16th at 100 A.M.
Sept. 29th at 19 NOON Qot. lat at 2.00 A.M. Cet. 15th at 200 AM,
"
AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES
ROUND - WORLD SERVICE"
12, PEDDER ST.
Priestino
Lloyd
TEL. 28171.
FORTNIGHTLY.
EXPRESS SERVICE
FAR EAST-INDIA-ITALY
Hongkong-London 23 days 21 days Hongkong-Italy
SCHEDULE OF SAILING FROM HONGKONG
TO MANILA, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, EGYPT * ITALY
TO SHANGHAI
8.2 "GIULIO CESARE" 10th Sept. as. "U, BIANCAMANO 10th Sept. "C. BIANCAMANO" 16th Sept as "CONTE VERDE 22nd Sept.
"CONTE VERDE" 29th Sept. m.v. "VICTORIA":
14th Oct. .. CONTE ROSSO" Fm.v. "VICTORIA”
"CONTE ROSSO”. 5th Nov... "C. BIANCAMANO" 19th Nov.
LLOYD TRIESTINO PO. Box 143. Tel. Address "Lloydiano"-Telephones
7th Oct.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
THE MANNA MAERSK
SERVICES CONTRACTU
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,
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CONSIGNER NOTICE
5.5. YANG TSE
10°xo/39.
BRINGING CARGO FO DUNKIBK via HAIPHONG etc.
Aanremo HONG KONG om», FRIDAY, THE ler SEPT, 1839
Steadily the work went Condi-on. In summer swarms of
having arrived from New York and and quitoes and horseflies tormented tions which were physically
An incurable rolling stone and Ports of call. Consignees of Cargo are morally unbearable. Rabbi H M.the men. In winter the north-
times jack of all trades since he was 16, hereby notified that their goods are con-least blizzard, which at Saenger said at the forum
B hundred Mr. A. EL Wiggins, 38, a Moreton being landed and placed at their risk into the Hong Kong and Kowloon Whart & Church reaches a velocity of ducted by the Unitarian
miles an hour, carried the tem-Bay arrival in Australia from Lon- Godows Company's godowns at Kow- in Melbourne,
and perature down to 40 deg. below don, confesses to a deep distrust of loom, whers delivery may be obtained as
soon as the goods are landed. "Our enemies add insult
"Tre been a picture house mana- Optional cargo will not be landed mockery to injury by pretending zero. The ground froze to a depth only one calling the sea.
Jews-who form only of nearly two feet, its expansion
world as it did so causing serious "heav-ger, an electric crane driver in here, unless notice has been given 48 a negligible proportion
world ing" followed by cracks and sub-a, a butler in a Park Lane mani-hours prior to vessel's arrival, but
MONSIGNEES are hereby informed port of call to which the option that their goods with the exception slon, à chaudeur, & commercial carried on from port to port to the final population--are alming at Ety description et Banking and Exchange domination” he added. "It would sidence with the thaw.
traveller, a saddler and a window
extenda. To-day stout log houses and
No Claims will be admitted atter of Opium, Tressure, and Valuables are be a joke if it were not, so Current Accounts opened in Local
big steel hangar equipped with dresser he said.
"When times are hard. I'll take the Goods have left the Godowns, and being landed & stored into the godowns Currency and Fixed Deposits r6-)
tragie." ceived for one year or shorter]
on anything except a job at kenall Goods remaining undelivered after of the Hong Kong Kowloon What and Large-scale migration of Jews central heating, stand alongside The system of
the 9th Sept., 1999, will be subject to Godown Co., Ltd, Kowloon, humo to be the Mr. Wiggins periods in Local and Foreign Cur
to any part of the world waal the flying field.
Bent total runways Covers rencies on terms which will be Cassesey, STEBLING & U. B. DOLLARS or term no longer a possibility, said Rabbi paved
youngest British soldier whe quoted on: application.
Thus the Jews had area of 1,230,000 square yards.
served throughout the Great SAVE DEPOSIT Boxes To LET.”
Muxbeen deprived of their one tradi- Two and a half million gallons
tional palliative, without which of bitumen fuld bind the crushed War. they could never have survived stone of the runways and make contour through the them waterproof. The the persecutions centuries.
of the airport is drawn at night
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager.
BANK OF CHINA
Spécially
Chartered by
THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
OF CHINA AS AN
INTERNAȚIONAL EXCHANGE
* BANK
business transacted.
Travailera Choques issued, TRUSTEE AND EXECUTORSHIP
UNDERTAKEN
·CUBILENT ACCOUNTS opened. in Local Qur- renoy and FIXED DEPOSIT resived in Local that may he sscertained on application.
D. BENSON,
MUSEUM SHOW MODERNISED
Spencer Hall in the National Museum, devoted to arts tind crafts of Australian aborigines, has been reorganized and opened by
the GovernCZ
PAID-UP CAPITAL $40,000,000.00 Winston Dugan) recently.
(BRANCHES ALL OVER CHINA).
Owing to our numerous Branches
ひゃん
(Biz
Months have been spent on the in China and connections in the re-arrangement of the collection principal Commercial Centres of of art and domestic objects, the the World, we are able to extend scenes of aboriginal life depicted to ear Clients special facilities for in dioramas and the decorative Domestic and Foreign Banking and murals based on native art Exchange.
Head Office:--SHANGHAI
Hong Kong Branch: QUEEN'S ROAD, C. South China Offics:
CANTON
KONGMOON
HWATOWAR TOISHAN
SHIUCHOW KINGCHOW
Saenger.
Explorer Convinced Life Exists On Other Planets
Sir Francis Younghusband, the distinguished explorer and. authority on Asiatic affairs. In a letter to "The Times urges the the to investigate co-operation of biologists and astronomers possibility of life existing on other planeta.
"After 50 years reflection and, universe innuences every investigation, this is now a cer- part.
"Astronomers say the earth. was originally a fiery droplet from the fan's surface,..
A Carnegie Corporation gift of tainty in my mind, he writes, 6000. dollars madetherlan possible. Gloomy black woodwork has gone, formal glass cases have been discarded to provide spacious ness and to avoid overcrowding of objecta, Backgrounds,
vegetation
harmony zosphere
and even the earth have been We also handle the issue of Bonds synthetised, to, prợu and other Fublic Fands of Las and to reproduce te Chinese Government both at Home in which natives lived and, Abroad. er
Designers, window dreasers, Hghting experts and artists have Manager helped the museum ‹ authorities.
***SHOU J. CHEN,
would be impossible for char to produce life on therefore Ita zaxime that
shared the same all other parts of thị "Selentists have catal
か
universe.
Ned firstw ly, that the whole un yerse is com- posed of the same materials ADD secondly, that every part of the
#
He enlisted when he was 15 in the Royal Horse Artillery and was wounded on the Bomme before his next Birthday,
Demobilisation found him, like thousands of others, prepared to take any job that offered. The life proved attractive, and he has rolled around the world ever since.
"Tve had plenty of Jobs that were dangerous, be recalled, "but the funniest work I was ever paid for was teaching i troop of Girl Guides the morse code."
Now Mr. Wiggins is bound for other Queensland just because he has never been there and because he "It can therefore, be assumed would like to try his hand at car- that life is the universe's funda- tle mental characteristic:
"Scientists say they cannot and the humans elsewhere, because of
absence of the chemical elementa necessary to support humans, but
delivery may be obtained immediately All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods | After Tading.
"All Olaíma. must be sent in to me on are to be left in the Godowns, where | 2002 they will be examined on 8th Sept, or before the 12th Sept, 1938, or they 1999, at 10 am, by our Surveyors will not be recognised. ma
Damaged Packager will be era in fned Mears. Goddard & Douglas.
To comply with the General Bonded by the Company's Burveyors, Mesarić Warehouse Regulations coignees Goddard & Douglas in the presence of must have a Revenue Offer in attend the Consignees at 10.00 tone ance when damaged dutiable goods ars Thursday, the 7th Sept., 1989.3 pe
Consignees must have a Reven examined.
Officer in attendance when any databl Burveyoragg goods are oramined by the Company
No Fire Insurance will be effected by No Insurance will be erected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by as in any case whatever."
BOHL, BAZAJEBSEN & COM
agent Hong Kong 1st Sept, 1800,
All claima must reach is before the 9th Sept. 1939, or they will not be recognised,
Hong Kong, 3rd Sept. 1989.
A grant of $283,000 has been Complaints are freely
Boxer the man-in-the- made by the Sino-Britis Indemnity Refund to facilitate delay in circulat research activities in Chungking, cent and ave-
by Kunming, Kellin and Kwets
for Bhanghel in orde where special committees
been formed Derta hare Sir Francis Younghusband con- supervise adentific research
during the prese
physicists located the cosmic
It is possible to and inteligent cludes by saying he once met a
life elsewhere differing from remote and isolated. Himalayan, emergency. The con humana in composition and ap-chief who imagined himself to be resp
trance. whose infilence is in ging on ur
Fundy detect such radiations, Just a
the greatest personage in the re world because be had never heard of the rulers of Britain, China and ROssia:
ments and for aro ference books:
the sm