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6-HỒNGKONG DAILY PRESS
«NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS NO. 11 OF 1940.
Bremen (In
IN THE MATTER of MELCHERS & Co. Agents Norddeutscher Lloyd Liquidation)
And
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IN THE MATTER of the Allen Enemies' (Winding-Up) Ordinance No. 28 of 1914 Section 13, Subsection 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court by Order dated the 8th day of March, 1940 DIRECTED that all claims to the goods particulars whereof are as follows:-
SPECIFICATION
Date of Arrival
MARKS
A S 300 O
4 drums Hardening Salt, AS. 300 C
" & & 39
AS 220 C
4 drums Hardening Salts AS 220 C
Brahn 0/717/2-5
Brahn 6/717/6-9
Н
L
M
D
R
310
C." BRAHN 0/737/1
DEFAG 176333
1/G
151354
F.R.
CC TUL Finschhafen
MYHO
7037
Haiphong
D. 'Bremerhaven
N.L. 3572
Ship Store
Shanghal CHAMPION
I case "E. Merck Bismuth-Subnitrate
white
11
wder
1 case cig. 4 Pyrometer Armatures for Ilardening Furnaces with connec-
tlon cables but without recording Instrument
..
1 case Ozalid Paper
(for copying Dive Prints)
1 case cig, 30 x abt, 2 lb, tins Sinius
Super Turquosi Blue
EDITORIAL
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS The Daily Press
G.
R.
TENDERS FOR WASTE. PAPER.
Sealed tenders Are
THE CHINA PROVIDENT
LOAN & MORTGAGE ·
CO., LTD:
THE HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.
Notice to Shareholders.
THE FIFTY THIRD OR.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Forty Third Annual General invited Meeting of the Shareholders will DINARY ANNUAL MEETING covering the period 1st May, be held in the Jacobean Room of OF SHAREHOLDERS will be 1940, to 31st March, 1941, for the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong held at the Office of Messrs. quantities of Waste Paper that Kong, on THURSDAY, the 28th Jardine, Mathieson & Co., Ltd. may be periodically accumulated March, 1946, at NOON for the on TUESDAY, 2nd APRIL, in H.M. Naval Yard, Heng following purposes, namely, to 1940, at NOON, for the purposë consider the annual statement al of receiving the Report of the
Kong.
2. The paper to be collected accounts and the balance sheet
weekly each Wednesday, by Con-aud the reports of the Directors tractor from a central point in and Auditors thereon, to elect directors and auditors in the H.M. Naval Yard,
place of those retiring, to declare 3. The paper
will" "consist a dividend, to appropriate the mainly of small pieces, but no balance of Profit & Loss A/C as guarantee can be given as to the recommended by the Directors, quality or quantity that may be and to transact any other orinary
business of the Company.
available each week.
4. The contractor will be re- quired to provide bis own sacks for the removal of the paper.
5. Quotations will be received until noon on 8th April, 1940, and should be forwarded to the Naval Store Officer, H.M. Naval Yard.
AND NOTICE is also given that the Share Transfer Re. gisters will be closed from 18th March, 1940, to 28th March, 1940, both ́ ́days in-, clusive.
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By order of the Board,
GR. A. WICKERSON,
Secretary & Manager. Hong Kong, 12th March, 1940. 148
6. The right is reserved of ac- cepting or declining any tender.
J.H.K. 40076
97/1
I case Hand Mirrors (30 doz. pieces)
30, 8, 39
LM. 18/11
1 bundle etg. 8. pieces Copper Hods
L
0
535 289/8/7/8
4 cases Swatow Song Records
16. 4. 37
J.
A
Swatow
MARKS
SPECIFICATION
Date of Arrival
761/800
40 barrels Fish Oll
25. 5. 38
1 case Oll
23. & 39
KWHR
3925 Halphons
do
2
1 Case etg. 25 pcs. Brass Hollow
Roller with steel ends
11. 5. 39
11
g
1 Case cig. 25. pcs.
-do-
1 Galy," Iron Tube
21. 5. 39
2,000 bags Sodium Nitrate crystals
.13. 7. 39
D.L.No. 1.
No Mark or Now,
517 bags Saltpetre
14. 4. 39
Hong Kong
Case Private Books for Mr. Djing
Lin Ir
20. 6. 39
41
1 case "Eogie" Brand Milk
22. 2. 39
416 47
1. Bundle-3 colls Galv. Iron
Wire BWG. 14.
9. 6. 39
No Mark
1 Bundle Round Iron Bars
1 lot of spare parts for motor KD 18
21. 7. 39
Z. Cyl. Liners, fuel valves, valve
levers, piston rings, etc.
HLG C 15551 Shanghal
1 Case etg. 12 pcs. Lines Plecegoods
(Pink, Yellow, Green)
19. 5. 39
10. 7. 39
I bale book paper
1 personal Leather Trank
NSH 11804
1 ease Bronze Powder
NSK
| case Bronze Powder
11863
EGLB Hont Kont
Slemen China, Kunming, No. 8/471.
No Mark HCFF Halphong
Halphon
6154
Z M
1554
1
1 case
Stationery (carbon paper,
pencils, etc.)
I case Machinery
9
-do.
Z M
1554 Haiphong
14
...Z M
1554 1 2
4 Automatic
Milling Machines
tion "GF 105/450".
Manuf. "HELLER"""
for mass-produc-
Z M 1554
/ 1
1
K
60152
,1/16
6 bags Bolts and Nuta
-do-
Z M
15
1978/1
Haiphong
Z M 1866/10
X M 1966 11/25
1868 1/2
Kunfz
11 bags Dogspikes for fixing rails
1 Precision Lathe, all geared head-
stock, direct electric drive
1 Horizontal Milling Machine, direct electric drive, Manuf. "Wanderer- Werke"
Cases Horizontal Plain Milling Machines, direct electric drive
2 Cades Heavy Precision Multitool Finishing Lathes, segal-automatic, with hydraulic feeds, all electric
drive, Type GS 1045 (G84)
I Case-28 Bundles Copper Wire -
1 Case Tool Steel (small circular saws
for milling machines)
Z M
Z O
2038
20.11.37
*13. 1. 39
X
X
858 pleces light ralts for mines
13. 7. 39
Red
13. 7. 39
82 bundles (20 pleces) Fishplates for
above rails)
200 bundles Galv. Iron Wire
13. 7. $9
C
6116
120 bundles BWG. 14
80 bundles BWG 22
55 lbs. 55 lbs.
Haiphong ZM 1681 No. 1/4 Kanta-Haiphong
4 Cases Heavy Duty precision Lathes, direct electric drive, all reared head stock..
2 pleces Round Iron Bars
Flat Iron Bars
9 Cases. Erasers & Stationery
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HONGKONG, MARCH 97, 1940
JAPAN:
H.K. Police Reservist
Charged At Sessions
The story of an alleged attempt, on the part of three men posing as police officers to extor, a gitme of $1,000, from a saltish merchant by threatening to accuse him of the crime of murder was related at the Crimina] Sessions yeater- day before the Chief Justice, Bir Atholl MacGregor.
In the dock good Ho So, 48- year-old Police Reservist who was charged with having, on Jan. 20, together with two others not
Directors and the Statement of PAWNSHOPS in custody, threatened to accuse & SUICIDES
Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1939.
“ ༽!
By Order of the Board of Directors,
Chan Sik-dim of murder with "Intent to extort money and, alter-
natively, with demanding money. with menaces.
Стоян
The Transfer Books of the
Mr. B. H. Williams, Company will be CLOSED from RECENT FOREIGN NEWS
agency dispatches from counsel, presecuted, assisted by SATURDAY, the 23rd MARCH,
uniform Det. Insp. A L. Hopkins. The 1940, to TUESDAY, the 2nd Japan compose a APRIL, 1940, both days in picture of a nation under Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro, great strain, both economical- Jnr., instructed by the Hon. Mr. clusive.
ly and morally. A perusal of M. K Lo, was for the defence.
The following jury was called: the mail service issued from.. Tokyo by Havas, an organiza--Messrs. 8. Berg (foreman), Yu
A. Minoot, Fook-chim.
J. W. tion which has been more C. M. MANNERS,
consistently well-disposed to- Bund-ed, G. H. da Silva, J. Revi
and W. A. FOX. Secretary & Managerwards the Japanese than any
Mr. Williams outlined the. CASS Hong Kong, 11th March, 1940. other press service, covering for the Crown in de:all and sald only three days, March 15, 17 that. It was alleged that after and 18, shows what is occupy they had go to the room in the ing the eyes and minds of ob- Empress Hotel, Chan was told that servers and of the Japanese] he had killed a man in the com- people themselves. In their try and that documents had been main features, the few cases sent down for his arrest. Chan given, represent a fair cross denied this whereupon one of the section of the condition of the men said "A robber killed your "Mistress of East Asia" after son. You captured the robber and two and 3. half years of in turn killed him.”
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THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LIMITED
Notice to Shareholders
the year ended the 31st Decem ber, 1939.
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The Share Register and Trans fer Books will be closed from the 21st March, to the 4th April, 1940, both days, inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
"
This was also denied by Chan. EVIDENCE GIVEN
Evidence was given by Chan.
mother and brother, Cheung Ah- ng and Cheuk Yung.
Sgt. P. J. Cullinan testified that he questioned Chan at No, S Police Station and the laster said that the men had demanded $200
Chan admitted "having made
the statement. but said that it
was an invention as he did not then wish to bring up the matter of the alleged killing in the country.
The hearing will be resumed this morning.
"victories" on the continent. THE PLIGHT OF INDUS- The Seventy-first Ordinary TRY is simply characterised General Meeting of Shareholders by message reporting that his concubine, Cheuk Hel, her will be held at the Offices of the over 60 factories "having undersigned on Thursday, the 4th found market conditions in April, 1940, at Noon, for the Japan overcrowded and hop- purpose of receiving the Reporting for an easier supply or of the General Managers, together labour and fuel" will move with a statement of Accounts for their offices and plant to from him as the result of his Manchukuo" during 1940-winning too much money in 41. The Meiji Sugar Manu- gambling. facturing Company will not expand its plant within the country but will erect new works
in Shanghai. These
that instances: prove.
the economic consequences of un- successful aggression are for- cing Tokyo to abandon its General Managers,
plan of making the occupied The Hong Kong Fire Insurance territories of China purely a
BIG ESTATE colonial raw-material base. Co., Ltd.
and that Japanese workers.
Hongkong es.ate valved at Hong Kong, 14th March, 1940. instead of benefiting from the $117,500 was left by the late Quiab 149" riches" conquered by the Hakim, otherwise know 2.5 blood of their brothers and Gulab, oculist, who died at Chak sons in the army, will be cast Mughlan, Jullundur, Punjab, Pro- out of employment by the bate has been granted to Abbas scramble of manufacturers to Kahn. benefit from the relative freedom from restrictions and cheaper, labour of the sub-amounted to Yen 100,000,000, jugated regions of China or approximately Yen 125 for FINANCIAL' STRINGENCY each family in the city, more 179
has stimulated the compul- than the average annual in- RETURN THANKS
"savings" campaign, come in Japan. The value of The family of the late Mr. Li Chot sory
Chi gratefully acknowledge and really the rendering of forced pledges held at any given thank their friends for the tribute to the state by those moment is in the vicinity of kind expressions of sympathy who have already shed their Yen 30,000,000. The fact that comprised and for the beautiul flowers blood and sweat to achieve these pledges
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Mr. B. Owrum-Andresen wishes to thank all friends for messages of condolences in his recent bereavement, flowers and at tendance at the funeral of his
wife.
21. 7, 39
No Mark
3
·3 pieces
B
H
16. 8. 39
175
1/0
"Pelican Brand-abt. 210 boxes
Co.
(40) Erasers.
Carbon Paper &
Pencils, Fountain Pens
Halpbong
sent
DBG 743
1 Case School Slates (Colour Illustra
tions for Machines)
25. 8. 39
No Mark
J
1 Case Samples of Medicines
16. & 39. 29. & $4
2/1
J
13. 7. 39
2/2
8. 8. 39
3 Bundles round fron bars
OS
C.
41 Cases Chemicals and Acids
9 pkgs. Tubes and Const. Iron
9. 5. 39 9.10.37
being goods stored in the godown of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited in the name of Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen and which have been taken possession of by Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews as Liquidators of the Allen Enemy firm of Melchers & Co. Agents for the Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen in Hong Kong shall be made in writing to the said Liquidators at their Offices, Mercantile Bank Building,, Queen's Road Central, within one month after the 27th day of March, 1940 and that after the expiration of one month from the sald 27th day of March, 1940 all claims in respect of the said goods shall be barred.
6.10, 38
BBG/SH
Haiphong AMA
No Mark
1 Iron Framework (serap metal)
23. 10. 38
E' E C
1 Case Hair Water
7, 1, 39
Various Marks
261 bags Trochus Shells
3 Cases Screws and Valves
ST 274/8TOCK
No Mark
1 Round Iron Bar
..11 White
7 Pieces Ralls
25. 1. 39 16. 2. 39
T 2202 F
No. 1.
1 Case Gal Salt. (Lazagitive salt)
6, 7 39
GR
266 M ESM Swatom
1004
1 Case Chlorodyne
INR4375 SINTOON
MACAO 99189
Red Ends
No.
1, Case Machinery (Motor-Coll)
13, 5. 37
1 Bundle-7 Fiat Steel Bars
4. 9. 37
W..
1 Bundle Gaiv. Iron Wire
fold and rusty) »
· 192
46300
Swatow
No Mark
1/16
16 cases Chias Ware (Porcelain
Buttons)
12.5 38
6 pieces Galy, Iron Tubes
20. 5. 39
No Mark
7 packages Round Iron Bays
Www Rollers with stoci enda'
KWHRI
1 Case cte: 10 pcs. Brass Hollow
14. 4. 39
11. 8. 39
Claimants are hereby requested to send in, their claims in respect of the said goods together with all documents in support thereof to the Liquidators at their office aforesaid forthwith.
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, Liquidators, Melchers & Co. gents: Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen,
bereavement.
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ENGAGEMENT
The DRAKEFORD-— BULLOCK,
engagement is announced be- tween Sub-Lt. (E) Dudley G. Drakeford, R.N.VE., only SON of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Drake ford, of Shanghai, China, and Joan Bullock, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Bullock, of Crow
Gables, Cobham,
Surrey:
BIRTHS
during their recent the gains of the Japanese mil-mainly household goods and itary machine, to a fantastic clothing. watches and rings Nazi having already gone down the. pitch reminiscent of Germany. Not only citizens drain in the government's at home. but the soldiers in gold collecting campaign and the field, are being told that previous periods of hardship, to work and die is not enough, is a good measure of the that they are guilty of treason depletion of reserves in the if they do not turn the bulk ordinary Japanese home. of their earnings back into the THE FINAL ITEM reports war chest. To save electric that "the romantic volcano light and money, the curfew Mihara-yama, on Tokyo Bay, in all Japanese cities has been is now the scene of more sul- SAKIN On March 17, 1940, at the advanced from midnight to cides than ever before in its No taxis are history. After making the. Country Hospital, Shanghal, to eleven o'clock.
to be permitted to run after significant admission that the Anna, wife of A. G. Sakin, a
this time. This will cut down barbed-wire fences, erected daughter. RICHMOND-On March 16, 1940, the earnings of the transport after a previous epidemic of at the Country Hospital, workers, the entertainment self-destruction, have fallen Shanghai, to Elinor (nee trades, and other sections of into disrepair through lack of Davis), wife of W. J. Richmond, the population. It will also materials for reconstruction, BRODD. On March 19, 1940, at the bring the war home in a more the Havas correspondent re-. Country Hospital, Shanghai, to intimate way than has been marks, lightly enough, that the reason for the new in- Mary, wife of E. B. Brodd, a the case before. daughter.
MUCH MORE SIGNIFICANT | crease in suicides may be that JENSEN-On March 21, 1940, at the is the reported startling in-"a new romantic mood is in- Woman's Hospital, Shanghal, crease in the number of vading the younger genera- to Jasmine, wife of Dr. S. F pawnshops officially stated, tion." With all due respect. Jensen, a daughter, Stephanie.
in the report issued by the for the gentleman's perspica- DEATHS
Welfare Ministry, to be a city, it may be suggested that ALLANSON-On March 18, 1940, at result of the war boom." the item dealing with pawn-
his home, 455 Rue Lafayette,
a son."
ex-
William Allanson, aged 94 After a specious explanation shops provides a much more
wage-earners now plausible, if grimmer, years. Funeral arrangements that will be announced later,
pledge their belongings to go planation of why thousands on sprees" comes the follow-of Japanese boys and girls, ing grim passage: "It is found standing on the threshold of the that the white-collar workers, their careers, prefer most severely struck by the flames of the "romantic" rise in the price of daily crater to the hopeless anguish necessities, must go to the of poverty in the fascist- pawnshops to buy rice." The ridden homeland that no amount of loans made during longer has a place for the sons the past year in Tokyo alone and daughters of its people.
PUGH-At Harlech, North Wales
Elle Pugh, late of Shanghai PODARIKIS-On March 20, 1940, at the Sino-Belgian Radium Institute, Shanghai, Nicolaos Fodarids, aged 68 years. BOTELHO On March 21, 1940, at her residence, 12 Bedford Ter- race, Esmenta Maria Vincent Botelho, aged 73 years.