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NOTICE TO SHIPPERS..
As it has been found that an increase in the present War Surcharge of 25% is necessary it has been decided to increase the War Surcharge to 40% forthwith on all cargo except on cer- tain commodities the export of which is also common to Japan.
A list of the commodities which will carry the War Sur- charge of 25% is given below:---
Antimony & Antimony Ore
Bamboo ware
Bamboo baskets
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Rubber & canvas shoes
Torch cases
Cotton goods
Electric Light bulbs.
Firecrackers Ginger (dry)
Hurricane lanterns Matches
Mats & matting Oil (essential)
The War Surcharge will apply to all Australian and New Zealand Ports (including. Fiji Island Ports).'
Forward · bookings are cancelled but cargo booked prior to the press announcement for shipment 28 days from date may be re. booked at the present rate.
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BURNS PHILP LINE.
NOTICE.
The Controller of Food would be glad to meet representatives: of firms who impart foodstuffs directly from the United King. dom in the Urban Council Chamber at 2.30 pm, on Mon- day, 27th November,
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AMERICA'S WAR BOOM
Nov: 28th. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. THE WAR OF 1914-18 found
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Scottish Concert Friday, 1st December," 1939, at 9.30 p.m. in King's Theatre.
Bookings for
Members
and
the United States a rapid-
EDITORIAL
China's Contributions To English Gardens
Interesting Talk By Prof.
G. A. C. Herklots
An interesting paper entitled, "China's Contributions to English Gardens." was delivered by Prof. G. AC: Herklots at a meeting of the Sino-British Cultural Association at the Fung Ping-shan Library of the Hongkong University yesterday evening.
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The attendance was encouraging, and demonstrates the increas- ing interest taken in the activities of the Association.
His Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote honoured the
EXHIBITION meeting by their presence. Others BY CHINESE ARTIST
present included Hon. Mr. Robert Kotewall, Hon, Mr, M. K. Lo. Mr. D. J. Sloss, Vice-Chancellor of the University, Capt. S. H. Batty- Smith, A.D.C, Mr. P. E. Witham, Tea Adviser to the Chinese Gov- The Yee Fung Benevolent Socie- ernment, Mr. P. K, Chu, Mr. P, S. ty is organising its first member- Cassidy, Prof. L. Forster and Mr. ship drive under the leadership of Chan Kam-po, honorary secretary Mr. Tam Chun, and Mr. Lam Pu-of the Association. Prof. Hsu T1-
sang, Advisor.
shan presided
Two professional gardeners were attached to Lord Macartney's Em- bassy which came to China in 1792, and one of the plants which were then taken back to England was the rosa bracteata..
Robert
CHARTERED BANK LOSE BIG CLAIM
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1939.
Hello & Goodbye
(BY A. W. HYER
During the past two days several hundred people arrived in various travel transports inquiring about our. "treak" typhoon and anxious to spend their hours in shops and hotels or sight-seeing.
Continued from page 5 deviation is to displace the con- tract of carriage during and after deviation ab initio. From the
Quite a number of people also on the Sirdhana when the point of deviation. at any rate. took passage on the air trans-steamer met her fate in the Singa- the shipowner becomes at best ports leaving Hongkong. In pore mined waters. They are common carrier. When a ship fact, all this travel activity Messrs. A. W. Lamb. F. W. Liddell, deviates and loss of, or damage belles the rumours that people J. B. Rymer, C. W. Bath, C. T. W. R. J. Lowndess, W. N. Powell, to, cargo occurs either by act are not travelling or spending Bailey, C. W. O. Collins, and J. M. of God or, as here, by the King's their money during these war w. Dawe. enemies, it is not open
to her days. owners to set up either exception. "Those exceptions apply, and apply only to a carrier who is performing his contract, and rever to a carrier who is breaking it."
That case went to the "Court of Appeal (1918) 2 K. & p.783.
In that Court Swinden Endy L J. said 'If they, as carriers, were duly performing their contract of carriage they would not be llable for loss occasioned by the King's But they are breaking their contract.”
enemies.
LOSS OF BICYCLE In Glbaud v. Great Eastern Rail-
Mr. H. F. Williams, executive of servation, that the majority of to the Colony on the Dutch motor- We report, from rst hand cb- the Asiatic Petroleum Co., returned transports in and out of Hongkong ship from a business conference in are well filled with passengers. Singapore.
Imperial Airways delayed Thurs-
Mr. Hazura Singh, accompanied day service will be arriving on by seven members of his family. Sunday afternoon at Kat Tak from was in a distressed state on his Bangkok, with passengers. mall from all Empire ports. No tleman and resident of India had and arrival from Singapore. This gen-
Company's officials for the delay Having difficulties with his large reason has been given by the been travelling on the Sirdhana. which is being caused by the late family in seeing them rescued, he connexionin the south of the unfortunately lost two members.in Empire main line service.
the confusion when the vessel was sinking! Pan American Airways THURSDAY'S WEATHER delayed
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Salling Via The Empress
Mr. Tang Yin-lee. leader of the Prof, Herklots said that in bien- Yin Yee Division.. has, with, thenials and perennials, and particu- permission of Mr. Kwan Wai-hung,larly shrubs. China had given a the noted artist and proprietor of lot to English horticulture. From the "Asia Lithograph Co, arranged China, many species of rhododen-Way Company (1921) 2 K. B. p.428 for an exhibition of Mr. Kwan's drons. primula. buddlela, vibur-
the plaintif claimed damages for the Philippine Clipper's de- works at the library of the Chi- num, clematis, lonicera and Jas
the loss of a bicycle deposited, by
the nese Chamber of Commerce today minum had been introduced into
him with the defendants.
parture for San Francisco by 24 LATE IN THE EVENING
Empress salled from our har- The hours. The flying-boat was away bour carrying Dr. H. F. Smith back to Monday. A nominal admission England by famous plant explorers bicycle was not put by the defen- at 8.30 a.m. on Friday for Manila to his duties as Fort Health Officer fee of 10 cents will be charged all the first of whom arrived in China dants' servants in the cloakroom and the home port.
in Manila. The doctor's visits here of which will go to the Society's as long ago as in the eighteenth but was left in the booking hall
Mr. W. D. Pawley has Free School Fund,
century.
without protection, and, owing to again. "The President of Inter-friends. He was bid adios in fine
gone are always enjoyed by many of his " "Professor Hsu T-shan has
this negligence, was stolen. kindly consented to open the
continent Corporation is off on style! The Court held that the defen-another business excursion, to his exhibition and later to lecture
dants were protected by a condi-
There was a bridal couple travel- New York City office. This fighting south on a honeymoon. Mr. on the "Evolution of the Chi-
ta excluding Lability though the
across the Pacifc puts the flying and Mrs. G. B. S. Thomson, of the nese Dress,”
bicycle had not been deposited in American business man The exhibition, will comprise a
the cloak-room.
the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & winner in trans-Pacific air cross-Godown Co., Ltd. hundred of Mr. Kwan's works, es-
The bride ar- Mr. D'Almada relles on the ings with "departures from Hong-rived from Shanghai in the morn- of foreigner who collected and suc-Judgment of Lord Sterndale M R kong; five is his record. if we are ing, said "I do" in the afternoon, pecially as a potrait artist female models, never before pub-cesstally conveyed a large number at p.431:
and was away for the south in the Hely exhibited. A further innova-of plants from China to England.
"The plaintiff's contention is
Journeying to Manila were Mr. evening. that this condition does not apply v. A. Kropff, Division Traffic Man- tion is that each picture will be
THE GARDENIA annoted with poetical phrases by
at all because the contract of ager of Pan American Airways. his daughter Miss P. Madrigal, Mr. V. Madrigal, accompanied by Mr. Chan Pa-fung.
One of the best known flowers, ballment was to keep in the and Mr. S. D. Brothers, an official were returning home to Manila cloak-room, and the article were of the airline in Manila. Both of after a short visit in Hongkong. kept somewhere else then plaintiff contends that no con- specting the local office and con- of the well-known southern re- the these gentleman have been - The other two attractive daughters can apply at all, beditions in Hongkong. They were sident will remain a little longer in cause there was a breach of satisfied. of the contract of bailment. With!
the Colony. the principle that is stated there USA, were returning to their Lieut. and Mrs. C. H. Whitesell,
"Empress Arrivals
first artist to use Chinese paper
Fortune was the first
Incidentally. Mr. Kwan is the the gardenia, said Prof. Herslots was a native of China. The spe- cles, from which the double formas had been derived, was wild Hongkong and further north,
and colour to depict foreign scenes fa book has already been publish- ed) and it is hoped that the time may come when world artists will look to China to supply them with paper and colours.
SOLDIERS SERVICE
CORPS MEET
The National Y.M.C.A to the Soldiers Servite Corps held
Y.M.C.A.. when the Rev. Li Kau- yan presided.
Indition
Quoting Ernest H. Wison. Prof. Herklots said that there was no garden worthy of the name throughout the length and breadth of the temperate parts of the northern hemis- phere that did not contain a few plants of Chinese origin. Prof. Herklots also spoke of the plants of Yunnan and Kwangtung.
found in Hongkong. These includ- ed the illum brownil, the magni- ficent wild illy. the nun orchid and other orchids and the gar denta jasminoides.
ly growing industrial state which had paid for its growth meeting yesterday at the Chinese and the species which were to be by a heavy indebtedness to foreign capital. In the course of the conflict, however, as America began to be more and more the supply base of the Allied Powers, debts were liquidated, American securi- ties, mobilized from private strong-boxes by the British. and French Governments, goaded to early activity by, were dumped back on the New among other things, the un-
The Chairman introduced the speaker, Mr. Tang Kam-fel. Head of the War Service Unit, who gave an account of his work during the last ten months in Kwangtung.
Among the number of plants actually introduced into England from Hongkong were the iris spe- culatrix; a species of camellia and various shrubs.
Mr. P. S. Cassidy thanked the
NEXT MEETING
easy proximity of Canada, a speaker country much stronger indus-| trially than in 1914, which The next public meeting spon- threatened with every mo- sored by the Association will be ment to absorb a greater held on December 22. when Mr. P. share of war orders. As a re-E. Witham will speak on Tea. On
not mistaken.
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of course I quite agree. That has home and duties in Manila. These THE CANADIAN LINER which been laid down in Lilley v. Double-army people have been on holiday day and also in Davies v. Garrett in Hongkong during the past week. tainly overflowing with passeng and a number of other cases, and
I accept of course the proposition Air France that if a ballee acts in breach of his bailmerít he cannot rely, upon protect him in the fulfilment of the conditions intended only to
his duty as ballee."
EXTREME CASE
..ers..
called here recently was cer-
No one can mistake Sir Frederick THE WEATHER CONDITIONS on Maze. K.B.E.. Inspector-General of French
Thursday also. kep: the Customs in Shanghal. This dis- aviators down On the tinguished gentleman is on a bust- ground and made their departure ness call from the North. late by a day. On Friday at 9.30
And Sir Elly Kadoorie is a well- a. they were off for Hanol and The Cap Palos 1921) Probate'] France with "a full load of passen-sidents. This prominent and elder--}}
hown person to all Hongkong re- p.453 19 an extreme case" of gers. the abandonment and virtual re- ! Pudiation of a contract of tow. Western Railway Company, (1922) In Nelson V. London and North 1 K. B. p.192, theatrical properties were consigned from Llandudno to Bolton via Manchester. By an error on the part of the defen- dant company's" servants they were consigned to various other townS and reached Bolton only after considerable delay.
ly gentleman was cordially wel- Mr. P. Gannay, executive of the comed by members of his family
call, left for Hanoi on the French ward to an enjoyable visit in Hong- Hongkong on a short business appears well indeed and looks for- French Bank and a recent arrival on his arrival from Shanghai. He
line this time. He sampled Im-kong of a month or so. perial Airways on his northward
journey.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Dunbar are back in town. There were a good num- Paris-bound was the well-known ber of friends happy to welcome Madame J. Brediam, wife of these
gay 'American residents
Returning to their home in the
the Director-General, Municipalite home.
their guests may now be made York market, and the United States emerged in 1918 as the at the King's Theatre.
strongest national economic Proceeds in aid of British War unit on the face of the earth, Organisation Fund.
the creditor of all the world, BUT THE WAR 300M was followed by an earthquake of sult of all these causes, the December 8, a garden party for adjustment to peace condi- economy of the United States, members will be held at the Vice- terms of their contract exempted off from many, friends at the alr tions which shook the eritire 'despite the slow development structure of
the country's of the military situation in economic life and, after an Europe, is becoming keyed
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HONG KONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.
LAWN BOWLS
a new
Chancellor's
University.
Lodge,
To an action by the Plainti the Defendants pleaded that the
Hongkong them from lability.
Francaise In Shanghai. Unfor→ tunately, we did not have the op- portunity of an interview with this Colony were Mr. and Mrs. J. W. visitor who was given a gay send-
i
In his judgment Bankes L.
ferénce to the conveyance by the executive
port.
J
+
connected
with
the
Wilson, members of the Education - Department.
says; "As the contract had re- Mr. A. P. de Champeaux, another yong Electric Co., Ltd., and Mr. and artificial revival in the 1920's, more and more completely to LARCENY CHARGE prescribed route and by that route French Bank, was
AGAINST P.C. DISMISSED.
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TRANSIT
There, Lord Buckmaster L. C.
Mall totalled 15 kilos.
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More residents" arriving were Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cox, of the Hung-
Mrs. C. C. Roberts, of Butterfeld en route to threw it back into the throes the conditions of
Swire. They were accompanied Hanoi. alone, when once the goods were
by their two children Master M. C. of a permanent crisis. It is world war.
diverted by the defendants from the Business called Mr. E. F. Koch. Roberts and Miss J. M. Roberts. no wonder that today, with IF THE WAR IS A LONG
prescribed route and taken on an- | Standard Vacuum Oil Cola mar- The Annual Lawn
Other local residents returning Bowls Industrial
indices already ONE, exhausting Europe as
other journey, even though that! keting manager of the South home were Mr. and Mrs. R. Craig, Match between menibers of St. climbing, Wall Street regards the last war exhausted her,
diversion was the result of a pure China division, to Saigon. He was accompanied by their two children, with ill-concealed excitement American business can hope
Mr. T. J. Houston, at the Cen-mistake on the part of their in-
in a hurry and Air France was the Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Scott, of the George's and St. Andrew's
the prospects of a long and for a period of stormy ac- charge of larceny of $12 preferred by the contract and by the ex- Societies will be held on 9th)
trai Court yesterday, dismissed a spector, they ceased to be covered quickest way,
Hongkong di Whampos Dock Co., exhausting war in Europe. December at 2.30 p.m. at the
Mr. C. S. Lafferty, Mr. S. E.Ltd, accompanied by their two cumulation of profits. Pay- against Police Constable Li Yee- ceptions which it contained." TWO WEEKS AFTER THE ment for American supplies tim 0
Lavrov and Mr. H. Sveen were young sons, and the charming Miss Kowloon Bowling Green Club.
That case was carried on appeal other businessmen in a hurry and J. T. C. Smalley, OUTBREAK of the present will, as before, be made large- The All members desirous of play-war, says an American com- ly in securities.
prosecution alleged. that to the House of Lords (1922) 2 heading for various destinations in The well-known Mr. and Mrs. M. But this after Li had searched Tse, the A. C. p.253.
North China and Indo-China. ing in this Match are requested mentator, the paper value of time, not only holdings of complainant, the latter discovered
H. Turner, connected with Bassoon A LIABILITY DURING
There were also two Chinese pas- Banting Co., were at the deck rail to communicate by 1st December American equities and com- United States stocks but also the money had disappeared.
sengers.
as the ship berthed, " with Mr. W. Macfarlane, Dairy modity holdings had already British holdings in Argentine Defendant, in evidence yester- Farm Ice and Cold Storage Co., risen by ten billion dollars. railways and South and Cen- day, denied having searched com- said "The exemption is from lablity Dutch Line Traffic Ltd. Causeway Bay.
Industrial prices rose" by tral American oil may be plainant. thirty per cent. Production expected to come under the In dismissing the case against during "the transit," and when jumped twenty per cent. Steel hammer. This will result in the defendant for lack of corro that route the protection enda. If
once the goods are diverted from THE BIG AND COMFORTABLE Newsome, of, the British-American Dutch motorship had a tale Tobacco Co., and Mr. J. L. Sim- production was double that the final attainment by Wall borative evidence, the Magistrate the route be abandoned, accident to tell when she arrived in the mons, connected with the Ewo of a year ago. Car loadings Street of undisputed
ordered a sum of $12 to be given 812.
от design, equally: the to complainant from the Poor transit is departed from and the typhoon weather between here and
agreed harbour a day late owing to the Brewery. THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS and machine-tool orders were Hemisphere. At the
reached an eight-year, high premacy in the Western Box.
privileges the carrier, enjoys by Manila. From appearance of the Inspector . Mair prosecuted, contract during that COMPANY; (1933) LTD. "the heaviest in history." time, American export indus- while Mr. H. A. de Barros Botelho case"; and Lord Atkinson puts it this new motorship met and suc- transit vessel you would not believe that Although wages did not show tries will make a decided bid defended L. any significant rise, the cost for renewed penetration of
thus: "The special provision cessfully "rode-out" two typhoons of living, prompted by com- many markets now supplied
would admittedly have no ap-in the past 48 hours, but passen plication to a route wholly differ- gers and crew testify, to a hectic modity speculation, shot up by Europe which, after being
ent, from start to finish ir m trip during which few of them sharply.
once conquered during the
The stipulated route. Neither could walk or move about.: The Shumchun Rural Welfare plication to a deliberate diversion young sons, have indeed had a can it in my view, have any ap- Mrs. E.". Leyden, and her two Centre wishes to acknowledge re- from the route indicated in the trying voyage from London, This
Bank of Communications per Mr.authorised transit has been per
Notice of Removal.
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As from 1st December, 1939, our general offices and garage will
Kowloon, (near function of Tai
Po & Castle Peak Roads).
By order of the Board,
same
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE last war, were relinquished to WAR BOOM obviously carried the flow of cheap competitive
SHUMCHUN RURAL WELFARE. CENTRE.
Two well-known Shanghai busi- ness executives, arriving for busi- ness conferences, were Mr. 'W. J.
CORRESPONDENCE
FARNWORTH STAMP CLUB
[To the Editor, "Hongkong Daily Prem")
Dear Sir, Would you" kindly in-
Members of the above club who
be removed to the new premises within themselves the mak-goods from Europe in the celpt of the following donations contract, after a portion of the resident of the Colony and her two sert, the following in your news- at No. 153, Castle Peak Road,ings of a new and greater years of reconstruction
slump. Nevertheless, the SUCH ARE THE FRUITS Y. M. Chien $100, Bank of Canton,
sons were passengers. on the Sird-paper.. Government's counsels of that beckon to American busi Ltd., per Mr. M. Y. Tang $100, Mr. farmed, I fall to appreciate the hana when it struck a mine and caution were disregarded, and ness today, fruits for which it C. Manners $10, Mr. Peter Sin $10, rounds upon which, according to sank in the Singapore roads. They may be called away are both an- the "boomlet" gathered mo- is reaching eagerly despite Mr. Mak Man Sang $10, Mr. Lam-mmon sense and reason, a dis- also experienced the storms which xious and desirous of retaining
their friends in Hongkong. mentum. Aware of the dan- the penalties ahead, penalties bert Glockchin $15, Mr. T. W. LI $10, tinction can be made between the Dutch steamer encountered.
Thanking you in advance of your Mr. Eugene Penn $10, Mr. L Shu these two cases, As soon as the A group of young men, connected kind favour expansion and sobered by the last twenty-five years has ac- Mr. O... Yul $10, 10 tons of fer- the stipulated route he cares the riving from England to take over
Yours faithfully, menace of peace," manu- quainted both America and tiliser from the Organo Fertiliser goods where the consignor never
WM..COLLEY.. 837 facturers were nevertheless the world only too well..
*Continued on Back Page
LAM MING FAN,
November 23rd, Jadretary, gers inherent in premature' with which the history of the Pun $10, Dr.. Arthur W. Woo $10, Carrier deliberately deviates fram with the Cable & Wireless Co., ar-
Co.
work here, due to the increased 50 Lord Street. Hearsley, nr. BOL- business and cerisor activities, were tor, Lancs.