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THE MACAO JOCKEY
and that
CLUB.
all
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that we have been ap pointed Secretaries and Trea. surers of The Macao Jockey Club communications concerning the Club should be audressed to us. Uncollected. prize monies in respect of the Race Meeting held on 3rd March, may be claimed at our Office. T. A. MARTIN & CO.. 3rd Floor,
Prince's Building,
Des Voeux Road, Central. Hong Kong, 7th March, 1940
NOTICE:
Notice is hereby given that SOLOMON MATVEEVICH BARD of Medical officers' quar ters, Queen Mary Hospital is applying to the Governor for na. turalization, and that any person who knows any reason why na turalization should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong.
G.
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CHINESE ESTATES,
LIMITED.
Seventeenth. Ordinary Yearly, Meeting.
NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN that the SEVEN TEENTH ORDINARY YEAR. of SHARE LY MEETING HOLDERS will be held at the Company's Office at China Build. ings. 5th floor, Hong Kong, on Thursday, the 21st March, 1940, at 12 o'clock noun, for the pur pose of receiving the Report of the Directors and a Statement of Account for the year ending the 29th February, 1940, and of electing two Directors and an Auditor.
The TRANSFER BOOK of the Company will be CLOSED from the 14th to the 21st March, 1940, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
FUNG PING FAN,
Director & Secretary.
Hong Kong, 7th March, 1940.
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HONG KONG REALTY AND
رواء
TRUST CO., LTD. (Incorporated under the
Companies Ordinances
of Hong Kong)
NOTICE
IS HEREBY
GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of Hong Kong Realty and Trust Company, Limited, will be held at the Re gistered Office of the Company, Exchange Building (2nd Floor), Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, the 2nd Apri}; 1940, at 11.30. a.m., for the pur pose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors for the year
ended on the 31st December, 1939, and re-electlog two Direc- tors and the Auditors.
The Transter Books of the Company will be closed from Thursday, the 21st March, 1940, to Tuesday, the 2nd April, 1949,
both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
F. C. BARRY,
.Secretary.
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PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Pablic Auction to be held on Monday. London Office: 53. Fleet Street the 11th day of March 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of
term
HONGKONG, MARCH 8, 1940
GERMAN SEA STRATEGY
one Lot of Crown Land at Mong Kok, in the Colony of
20 for Hong Kong of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be!T IS BECOMING increasing- fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one fur, "ther term of 75 years.
ly evident that Germany took to heart and is acting on many lessons learned during the World War, one of which concerns the activities of its navy.
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DORADO IN ACCIDENT
RMA, Dorado was damaged on Wednesday when taking off from Udern. Nobody was injured and a rellef plane left Hongkong yester- cay morning.
The passengers were Mrs. Went- worth-Reeve and Mrs. Lock, and "the crew Captain Dykes and First
'Omcer Harvey.
INWARD PLANE DELATED
The Imperial Airways plane due to arrive at Kai Tak yesterday has been delayed and will arrive today.
ARRIVALS BY CLIPPER
Mr. Wallace Kirkland, a photo-
India,
was
grapher for Life Magazine, who is proceeding to Bombay. on a special assignment, among the arrivals at Kai yesterday by Pan-American Clip- per from Honolulu
rival
Tak
· Another ar- Mr. was from Honolulu
Arrivals from Manila were Mr.
Angela de
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis
hunter Bush. IN THE LAST WAR the Posal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant), will be German Navy conceded its required to deposit with an inferior strength and avoided authorised officer who will be action with the enemy, except present at the sale, the sum of on advantageous terms and in two hundred dollars, ($200) in the vicinity of its own bases. cash. This sum will be refunded Jutland, the only fleet action on "payment of the Purchase during the war, was an ac-
cidental meeting. price.
PUBLIC AUCTION. PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 11th day of March 1940, 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 junction of Prince Edward Road and Argyle Street, in the Colony PARTICULARS OF THE LOT 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 further 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 an authorised 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.
Locality.
Kowloon Inland Lot No. 4230. Boundary St. between Sai Young Choi St.
Mongkok,
& Tung Choi St
No. of Sale,
Registry No.
CA
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
G.
No. of Bale,
Kowloon Inland
Begistry No.
Locality.
Lot No. 4234
Edward Road & Junction of Prince
Argyle Street.
Boundaryj. Measure-
meats.
....
Jet.jst. [etoft
Aa per
sale plan.
Contents in
Square feet
Annual
Rental
'' Upset Price
21,300 About
246
Ꭱ.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
18,125
Boundary Measure-
ments
As per
sale plan.
Contents in Square feet
Annual
Rental
Upset Price.
About
8 18
158
8,270
R.
809*81
la
Alber, F. Barretto jr. Miss Nieves V. Barretto, Miss Vega, Mr. Frederick. Bartenstein. Mr. Harold E. Hertz, Col. Hodsoll and Mr. Lawrence Enos.
Frank W.
THE GERMAN NAVAL and manned by men who are STRATEGY was to preserve thoroughly imbued with the the strength of its fleet and spirit of the offensive, other- attempt to reduce that of Bri-wise the daring and success- tain by means of mines and ful attacks on the Courageous and Royal Oak, together with other rumoured attacks on at supposedly men-of-war protected anchorages, would never have been attempted.
submarines,
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1940.
Flight-Lieut. N. W. Wright, R.A.F., and his bride, formerly Miss Grace M. Swan, after their marriage at the Hongkong Union Church yesterday afternoon.
Wedding At H.K. Union Church
FL. LT. N. W. WRIGHT
21
DETENTION OF SELENGA IN H.K.
LONDON, Mar. 7' (Reuter) — Reater understands that the call
THE GERMAN RECOGNIZ- ED that the morale of their fleet would suffer from inac- tion; and in an effort to
IT APPEARS that the Ger-
& MISS G. SWAN paid by the Soviet Ambassador, bolster this essential factor,
the M. Maisky, at the Ministry for raids mans are making every effort occasional conducted
the The wedding cook place at and forays during the first 18 to score "successes on months of the war.
British Navy, so unexpected Hongkong Union Church, Kennedy Economic Warfare yesterday after- between Flight Lieu Soviet steamer Selenga, now de- FROM THEN ON, the Ger- and so difficult to explain, Road, yesterday afteïnoon at 4.30 noon was to discuss the case of the man fleet became little more that doubt about its efficiency o'clock,
CARGO OF WOLFRAM 124 than a training squadron for will be raised at home as well tenant Noel William Wright, of tained in Hongkong.
Grace McLean Swan, daughter of The Selenga. was brought to the rapidly expanding sub-as abroad This is well de- the Royal Air Force, and Miss marine force. The best men vised strategy for British Mr. T. Swan, of the Talkoo Dock- Hongkong some little while ago for yard and Engineering Co. Ltd. examination by the "contraband entered the submarine service morale is inextricably con- and the morale of the fleet nected with Britain's belief in and Mrs. Swan, of No. 16 Stanley control authorities. She is under- went down to such an extent the invincibility of its navy Terrace, Quarry Bay. The Rev. stood to have been bound for
a well-tried bulwark for 350 Mackenzie Dow officiated, that a mutiny resulted when
The bride was given away by cargo of wolfram. a sortie was ordered as a years.
MYSTERIOUS AP- her father and was attended by last desperate attempt to THE
of, German her younger sister and the listle break the strangling British PEARANCES.
pocket-battleships in widely Miss Goldman as flower girls,
Squardon Leader H.T. Bennett, blockade.
THE HISTORY of the Aus-separated areas is perhaps a trian Navy was much the prelude to another phase of RAF., discharged the duties of
Too weak to operate German naval strategy. The best man.
A reception was subsequently same. outside of the Adriatic, its movements of these ships may strategy was to preserve its perhaps be what amounts to held in the Roof Garden of the strength to oppose the Italian reconnaissances in force, to Hongkong Hotel. Navy should favourable con- ditions arise. Inaction proved a sudden
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 11th day of March 1940, 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 Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, commencing from
with 122 1st July, 1898,
option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His "Majesty the KING, for one further term of 24 years less the last three days thereof.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis-
...the Navy.
determine the possibilities for
and wide-flung Land Office and is a member
Vladivostock and was carrying a
Unidentified Planes Over Gibraltar
"GIBRALTAR. Mar. 7 (Reuter)—
The bride is a stenographer in the Air-Ra'd warnings were sounded of yesterday when five unidentified from the planes approached wards and disappeared just before north-west. They turned south- they reached the outer section of the defence zone.
to be its downfall even earlier series of simultaneously con- the Hongkong Reel Club. She also than that of the German ducted raids on Britain's sea plays regularly for the Hongkong
communications. The ability Ladies Hockey Club team. of the pocket-battleships to appear, strike, and disappear, must be very disconcerting to the British Navy.
AUSTRIAN AND TURKISH ports, however, provided bases for German submarines, from which they operated through- out the Mediterranean with deadly effect.
FROM THE BEGINNING of
TWO WEDDINGS AT REGISTRY
This was Gibraltar's fifth air- rald alarm of the war.
WARNING TO SOVIET The following marriages took
(Reuter)-The THE MUCH-TALKED-OF place at the Supreme Court Regis- OSLO, Mar. 7 MINE OFFENSIVE may be try yesterday:-
Norwegian Government has given. merely an interlude conceived Mr. Emile Bach, missionary, Basel orders to their anti-aircraft bab. by the Germans, to distract Mission, No. 58, Talpe Road, Kow-teries in the extreme north to
PARTICULARS AND CON. Posal of the lot the Purchaser the present war, it has been attention and dissipate effort loon and Miss Moneka Gelzer, of open fire on Soviet planes if they
(if not the applicant) will be
required to deposit with an
DITIONS of the Safe by Public Auction to be held on Monday, The 11th day of March 1940, at 3 authorised officer who will be p.m., at the Offices of the Public present at the sale, the sum of Works Department, by Order of two hundred dollars, ($200) in His Excellency the Governor of cash. This sum will be refunded! onc Lot of Crown Land at Stirling on payment of the Purchase price. Read, in the Colony of Hong PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Kong for a term of 75 years,
with
the option of renewal
No of Sale,
Registry No.
Locality.
at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the 3 KING, for one further term of 130 75 years..
Hong Kong, 6th March, 1940.
YEE CHEONG HONG.
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Intending bidders' are -advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser NOTICE is hereby given that ( not the applicant) will be the Partnership formerly sub required to deposit with sisting between Siu Ping Sheang authorised officer who will he and Wu Sheung Chuk under the present at the sale, the sum of firm, style or name of YEE two hundred dollars, ($200) in CHEONG HONG and HANG cash. This sum will be refunded FUNG HONG at No. 111 Wing on payment of the Purchase Lok Street East was dissolved on the 23rd day of February, 1940,
price.
Boundary
Measure-
Contents in
Square feet
Annual
Rental
Upset Prics.
by the retirement of the said PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Siu Ping Sheung who as from that date will not be responsible for any debts incurred by or claims against the said firms, or either of them whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere in respect of business transactions made after
the date of dissolution.
Dated the 6th day of March, 1940.
SIGNED:
(Wu Sheung Chuk)
SIGNED P. S. Słu.
126
No, of Sale,
Kowloon Inland Lot
Registry No.
Locality.
* No. 1835.***
Between Kowloon Inland Lata Nos
·· 2880 & 4023. ⠀
Stirling Road.
ments.
As per
plan.
About
002
0001
New Kowloon Inland
Lot No. 2769. Junction of Fuk Wing Street & Castle
Peak Road,"
Cheung Sha Wan.
Boundary
Measure
ments.
12 12
IN B. H.
„,{ft.}ft.[ft.
As per
salo plan
Contents in
Rental
feet.
Annus
Square ze
Upset Price.
ALOU
11,800
182
7,080
naval strategy has been to ing measures are being pre- Mr. Li Chuen, salesman, No. 138.! apparent that the German while other and more annoy- the same Mission. counter the British blockade pared. Moreover, this form Bai Yeung Choi Street, ground by offensive measures and of attack affords convincing floor," Mongkok, and Miss Wong Lal- push it out of the North Sea proof that German resource- chun, of the same address. and as far west as possible. fulness must not be under And at the same time, to dis-rated. All of the mines could rupt Britain's vital sea com-
munications.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Notice of the forthcoming mar-
scarcely have been planted by rlage was given of Mr. Cring Chi- the planes, so the Germans wan, teacher, No. 4, Wah Fung THE GERMAN NAVY en- have built or converted sub-Road; second floor, Hunghom, and tered this war with a "fleet marines for laying mines. Miss Tse Man-yu, No. 7, Beco do that was too weak to oppose
IT IS INTERESTING to Gonedo. Rue Central, Macao. Britain's might effectively
note that in the last war, the by conventional means, but German Navy was assigned a which is strong enough, when role secondary to that of the
supported by Germany's air- or Newsettes
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for
the
again cross the frontier."
It was stated in official quar- that Soviet violations of
ters
Norwegian territory have become
so frequent lately that it was im- possible to regard them as ac- cidents.
R.A.F. INSTRUCTION LONDON. Mar. 1. (Reuter)-The
K. A F. Command is now using flims taken during actual conflict between British fighters and Ger- man machines to instruct new fighter pilots in tactics.
FAMOUS AMERICAN ACTRESS: DIES
force, to give concern to Bri- war the assignments are re- tish blockading forces in the versed, with the huge and North Sea.
much advertised army and Cheung Kam, 18, plumber, was LONDON, Mar, 7 (Reuter)—The IT IS EVIDENT that from airforce employed defensive given six weeks hard labour by death is announced of Maxine- tress, at her home on the French. It remains to be seen Mr. EG. Sheldon, at the Central Ellott, the famous American ac- the day war was declared, the ly.
Magistracy yesterday
Riviera: German Navy has definitely what will be the effect of in-theft of four metal water taps been on the offensive. The activity on their morale.
from the Ships Officers' Hostel, outbreak of the war found SO FAR, German naval Talkoo Docks, on Sunday. German submarines in post- strategy has not included 125 tion to begin operations, and
operations in the Mediter- An interesting lantern-slide before effective counter- ranean. In the last war, even talk on "Ancien Greece was thirteen cases of cerebro-spinal measures could be put in to with bases available to them given by Miss Katherine Lai, fever, eight cases of chicken-pox, use, a considerable tonnage of in that area, German sub- Lecturer in English at the Hong-three cases each of dysentery and diphtheria, and one case each tot Allied shipping had been marines did not begin opera kong University, in Room of small-pox, scarlet fever, enteric destroyed. 6.
CEYLON DECLARES H.K. INFECTED PORT
Hongkong has been declared in fected on account of small-box by the Government of Ceylor..
All passengers will be required:
WE CAN BE CERTAIN that
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tions in the Mediterranean for the University last night before a some
be
COLONY HEALTH Twenty cases of tuberculosis,
time. However, until large audience. The lecture was fever and measles were notified to many German submarines the Germans complete longer sponsored by the Arts Association the Health Department on Mar. 8. Sports For Newsboys have been accounted for since range submarines or some of the University the hunt for them swung into now unforeseen change in the
A marriage took place quietly full cry, but their activities, already complex maze of Eu-
And Boot-Blacks although greatly decreased;ropean politics affords them at Christ Church, Westminster. is to be racinated, preferably have not ceased. And we can bases in the Mediterranean, on Wednesday, February 21, bir The Chinese YMCA has or- before embarkation, or on arrival: also be certain that more and that sea should be closed to Ford, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, ganised a special sports meeting: or (b) to be in possession of a larger submarines are under them. In any event, the only son of Major J. T. Ford, Otor Hongkong's newsboys and boot. certificate of vaccination done construction, and will, in time, Strait of Gibraltar is not a B. E and the late Mrs. Mary 8 blacks on Sunday afternoon, within three years prior to the begin to make trouble in areas submarine paradise, and many clair Ford, of Shanghai, and St. March 18, at the University Re
disembarkation date of
in where they cannot be readily of them had uncomfortable James's Court, 8.WI and M. creation Grounds. An attractive- Coldmbo; and (e) to be under
experiences in that vicinity Molly Paul, younger daughter programme has beer drawn up- medical surveillance for a period hunted
during the last war. Chris- of Mr. and Mrs, W, Paul of Hoole and will last from 2.30 to about 5
o'clock. House, Chester, of fourteen days from the date of
tian Science Monitor. 123 leaving Hongkong.
7,000 -
SOME OF THE GERMAN SUBMARINES are officered