1939-10-17

HÒNGKONG DAILY PRESS

MOVING NATION'S

TREASURES

Old Masters Leave

London

National Institutions, Govern- ment Departments and private Arms recently continued the task of removing treasures and impor tant records to safe places in the country.

Throughout the day the work proceeded smoothly according to plans worked out several months

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The most valuable art works in the Tate Gallery have already been removed to country houses in the safe areas, where they will be stored in specially prepared cellars until the emergency is ended.

GERMAN. IMPORTS

NOW HALVED

WASHINGTON, October 16 (Reuter)-Figures compiled by the United States Department of Commerce show that Ger- man imports have been halved by the war.

It is estimated that Germany is now isolated from countries. which, together, supplied alty per cent. of her import needs In the first six months of this

year.

INDIA & CEYLON TO CONTROL TEA

OUTPUT

Á. K. STOCK

EXCHANGE

The market has assumed a tem- porary stage of marking time, Money, though plentiful, has be come cautious and may be satisfied to remain idle pending brighter political news both from Europe and nearer home.

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BUYERS HK Banks, $1245. HK. Docks, $171. Telephones (0), $20. SELLERS

Providents, $4.05.

SALES

HK. Banks, $1250. Providents, $4.

HK. Trams, $151/.80.

PHILIPPINE GOLD MINING

QUOTATIONS

Manila Gold Shares:-Antamoks 13, Atoks 141, Bagulo Gold 131, Batong Buhay 0085, Benguet Con- sol. 9.70, Big Wedge 17, Coco Groves

LONDON, Oct. 18 (Reuter) - India and Ceylon have made ar- Further works were sent away rangements for the control of tea in motor-vans and the task of output and have appointed a Tea transferting the remainder o Controller to co-ordinate the con- those that have been selected for,trol scheme with Britain. removal has been completed. Art Over 120,000,000 pounds of Bri-12, Consol Mines 0035, Demonstra- treasures from the other national collections are being stored simi- larly.

Recently

packed vans

with specimens from the Natural His- tory Museum. South Kensington, moved out to the late Lord Rothschild's museum at Trang, Herts. The plan at present being carried out is to remove a speci- men of every

type of animal housed in the museum.,

Care Of Valuable Books

tish capital is invested in tea pro- duction, which employs 2.000.000 British abjects.

Malayalam Plantations

tions 064, IXL 35, Ipo Gold 101, Itogons 161. Manbulaq Consol, ung, Masbates 004. "Mindanao Mother- lode 08 Mine Operations, 08. North Camarines 12. Paracale Gumaus, 15), San Mauricio 67, Sunt- Net profit of Malayalam Planta-gao Consol, unq., Suyoe Consol. 10), tions for year to March 31. £225,- Syndicate Investments 02, United

(£72,542), 309

Parncales 24. after £5.600 (£6,000) to investment realisa- tion reserve and £9,500 (£15,000 to N.D.C. Dividend 6 p.c., making 10 (same); tax, £85,500 (£84,- DOO); reserve. £25,000 (30,000);

England's most valuable collec-staff fund. £5.000 (fame); tion of scientifle books and per- £101.695 (£102,200, after £40,000 lodicals, in the Science Library, to dividend equalisation reserve). South Kensington, was sent to the

country.

"All books published before 1900 and all bound periodicals up to 1920 are being sent out of London,

as it would be impossible to replace them if destroyed," an official sold.

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All the records and the most im- portant of the books of the Royal Astronomical Society were moved to the Radcliffe Observatory, Ox- ..ford.

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"The world - famous Hunterian collection of surgical specimens at the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Felds, has been moved to a bomb-proof vault in the college basement. All the im- portant manuscripts, books and pictures from the college library have already been sent to the country.

Precautions In City The Mansion House and Guild- hall have both removed their plate and valuable documents to places of safety. Similar action has been taken by some of the 48 City churches and 34 City halls to safeguard their treasures, which

are of immense historical and in-· trinsic value. Others, which have strong-room accommodation, have not moved their valuables.

HONGKONG

SHAREBROKERS

ASSOCIATION

Volume Of Business Transacted an Monday, Oct. 18.

fwd..

H.K. Trams

THE WAR IN TOYSHOPS

SOLDIERS GIVEN PROMINENCE

The "war has reached the toyshops. In well-known Regent Street shop the mo- dernised and mechanised toy soldier has been given an greater prominence than before. The gay uni- forms and the horses of the old cavalry are becoming hard to find.

.even

are

The children apparently wanting the drab battle dress and the tanks and annoured cars. Indeed, the

ad- only faithful disposal." herents to the older and brighter toy-armies appear to be the still- collectors. who Surviving adult have models made specially fox them, correct to the last button.

BALLOON BARRAGE

One of the new toys is a model balloon barrage. There are

seta too of searchlights and anti-air- Scores of banks and big, mercraft guns. The emphasis is all chant houses are now erigaged on home, defence. There are fire- in the final stages of the task of men in full Areproof regalia, and removing their headquarters to there are all sorts of other AR.P. centres scattered all over the models. Some of the models

safer Counties of England and show a brutal realism-the models Scotland. Many others have of the first-aid squads, for in- already completed their transfers, stance, with their little wounded

NEW BISHOP OF STAFFORD

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men.

AR.F. GAME

Canon L. D. Hammond The player who encounters

The

Of Lichfield

Rev.

Durrell Lempriere Hammond, Canon Residentiary and Treasurer of Lichfield Cathe- dral, has been appointed Bishop Suffragan of Stafford in succession

is instructed, with euphemistic reticence, "to "go back to the, be- ginning""

HK. Electrics

FINANCE & GENERAL

Bate

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1939. —PAGE 9

Hongkong Daily Press Brooke Bond

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