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EDITORIAL
THURSDAY, MARCH 28,
1940.
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HONG KONG
Ist. Floor, King's Building. Connaught Road.
LECTURE
by Wing Comdr. A. H. Steel. Perkins. 0.B.E.
Entitled: "The History of Chemical Warfare"
-on-Friday, 29th March,
Commencing at 6 p.m.
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The Annual General Meeting Night Editor (Wanchal Office): of the Society will be held in the Board Room of The Hong Kong Jockey Club, 1st floor, Exchange Building, on THURSDAY, 28th- March, 1940, at 5.15 p.m.
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THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Forty Third Annual General. Meeting of the Shareholders will be held in the Jacobean Room of Sealed tenders. are invited
the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong covering the period 1st May, 1940, to 31st March, 1941, for Kong, on THURSDAY, the 28th quantities of Waste Paper that March, 1940, at NOON for the may be periodically accumulated following purposes, namely, to consider the annual statement of accounts and the balance sheet and the reports of the Directors 2: The paper to be collected and Auditors thereon, to elect weekly each Wednesday by Con- directors and auditors in the tractor from a central point in place of those retiring, to declare H.M. Naval Yard.
dividend, to appropriate the consist balance of Profit & Loss A/C as 3. The paper mainly of small pieces, but no recommended by the Directors, guarantee can be given as to the and to transact any, other ordinary quality or quantity that may be business of the Company.
AND NOTICE is also given that the Share Transfer Re gisters will be closed from 18th March, 1940, to 28th Märch, 1940, both days in clusive.
available each week.
will
4. The contractor will be rë. quired to provide his 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.
6. The right is reserved of ac cepting or declining any tender.
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A. S. WATSON & CO.,
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY-FIFTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEET. ING of the Company (since registration) will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong,
on FRIDAY, the 29TH MARCH, 1940, at 11.30 a.m., for the pur. pose of receiving the Report of the General Managers together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31ST OCTOBER, 1939.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 21ST MARCH, 1940, to FRIDAY, the 29TH MARCH, 1940, both days Inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 14th March, 1940.
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THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.
Notice to Shareholders
IN
By order of the Board,
R. A. WICKERSON,
Secretary & Manager, Hong Kong, 12th March, 1940. 148
A.R.P.
ORDERS
HONGKONG, MARCH 28, 1940
FAMINE
THE NEWS that 4,000,000 peasants in Hopel and Shantung are already in the grip of a disastrous. famine and that, the seed grain and young 'shoots having already been eaten, there is no pros- pect of a good first harvest in
the early summer, casts a lurid iight on conditions in the
areas
of North China which have now been under actual or nominal Japanese occupation. for a period" of over two years.
THE EXISTENCE of the
TROOP COMFORTING MISSION TO CHINA
A group of more than 50 overseas Chinese, from different parts of South Asia under the leadership of Mr. Tan Kah-kee, famous Chinese industrialist in Singapore, will 'arrive in Chung- king to start, troop-comforting tours to various war fronts, The tours are sponsored by the Federation of Rellef Fund Com- mittees in Malaysia of which 'Mr. Tan a chairman. Members from Singapore supporting Mr. Tan in the mission include Messrs." Han Kuo-jung, Chen Ro-ting, Lin Wet- chlao, Li Ying, Hsu Wen-tsao, Chen Kang-hsien. Wu Ti-jen, Chen Chi-lieh and Liu Shib-hsing.
All are engaged in business and are prominent members of the Chinese community in Singapore,
Other party of South Asia represented in the home-com- tot troop-comforting group Include Johore, Malaccas, Negri Sembilan, Kuala Lum- pur, Trengganu, Kelantan, Perlis, Kedah, Perak, Penang, Thalland, French Indo-China. Nether- Philippine Islands, lands East Indies, and British Borneo. "a
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They will siny in Chungking for a few days during which they will pay their respects to Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-shek.. and other
famine is indicative of two leaders of the National Govern features of the Japanese rule.ment. The group will then break The first is the total inability into six divisions and set out on their tours to different parts of of the "conquerors" to sub-
the country. due resistance, either by arm- ed force or by just dealing
The northern division will visit
Queen Mary's Concern At
Black-out Toll
OF K.B.G.C.
THREE TEAMS TO
ENTER LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE
The Kowloon Bowling Green Club is in favour of carrying on with the Lawn Bowls League this year and will enter at least three teams, it was decided yesterday at the annual general meeting of the Club.
The K.B.G.C, would do well-to he as fully represented as possible at the Annual General Meeting of
;
BY CAR
Central Court Inquest
The death of a 5-year-old boy. Wong Yiu-sang, whó was knock- ed. down by a car and succumbed to his injuries in the Queen Mary Hospital, formed the subject an of Inques; held at the Central Court yesterday.
Mr. H. G. Sheldon as Coroner, assisted by a jury comprisingTM Messrs. TB Williams. (Fore- man), C. D. N. Walker and H. M. F.
queen Mary paid a private visit the Lawn Bowls Association, to Yote
of the to the Middlesex Hospital. W..against discontinuation recently. It was her first visit of League this year. It was also sug- Xavier.
A verdict of accidental death, this kind to London sinte the war, gested by a member. and she travelled up specially The Vice-President, Mr. K. C. with no blame attached to the from the country to make it. Hamilton, was in the Chair, sup-driver, was recorded...
chairman of the Inspital:
The accident occurred in Bun- ham Road, near Pokfulam Road. on Feb. 26.
Her Majesty was received byported by Mr. G. E. F. Thompson, Inspector Clarke, of the Traffic Major the Hon. J. J. Astor, M.P., (Hon. Treasurer and Mr. J. G. Department, appeared for, the
Str Meyer Acting Hon Secretary), police, Alfred Webb-Johnson, surgeon of and there, were about 70 members the hospital, and Dr A. A. Mon-present. Grieff, War Commandant.
The annual meeting was preced- Queen Mary expressed her dis-ed by an extraordinary general may at the number of black-out meeting. when special resolutions accidents. Dr. Moncrieft had "told were passed, altering the wording her that Six or seven fracture of certain Articles of the Associa cases were not uncommon for the tion. The articles were in respect hospital during black-cut hours of Balloting, the Absen; Members' "It is terrible," her Majesty com- List and Management. mented
Queen Mary visited several wards occupied by the 150° civilian patients, with some of whom she talked. She also examined wards prepared for air-raid casualties.
Other discussion at the meeting centred about a proposed altera- tion in "the tennis bye-laws and the striking off from the addenda of the annual general meeting of the granting of honoraria “
A moment of silence was observ-
President of the Kowloon Bawing
with the people, thus restor-hansi. Suiyuan and Hope; the
In the hospital chapel she wased in momory of the late Mr. T in the normal conditions eastern division Ronan, Shantung shown the proposed site for a F. Bradford, who was Vice-Presi-
and Klangsu, the southern divi- memorial window to Prince Arthur: dent of the Club in 1936. necessary for the smooth
NEW OFFICERS ston Hunan, Klangsi, Kwangtung of Connaught, who was chairman functioning of agriculture
and Fukien; the middle division of the hospital. The site is im- Mr. E C. Hamilton was elected and industry. The second is Rupeh, Anhwel and Cheklang; the mediately opposite the memorial the utter disorganization and
north-western division
Shensi, window to Frince Francis of Teck. Green Club, to succeed Mr. T. E.. callousness of the invaders who, in common with all the world, have known) of the chwan, Yunnan, Kwelchow and Her Majesty signifled her com- coming of the famine, since last year's terrible floods and have done nothing to provide cheap and plentiful food for the affected areas.,
INDEED, THE FACTS of
Ningsta, Kansu and Sinkiang and Queen Mary's brother, who was the south-western division
Kwangsl
".
Sze- also a chairman,
plete approval of the idea and of They plan to complete their the site for the window." top-comforting unvestigation tours in China in six
and economic
months. Many members of the FRIENDS OF
visiting group are expected to niake arrangements with the Chi-
the situation, historical prece-nese government to participate in WOUNDED
dent, and the known methods China's programme of economic
of the Imperial Army all sup-reconstruction (CIC.). CAMPAIGN
rise of the spectre of hunger port the assumption that the
in North China is not at all
unwelcome to the militarists
in Tokyo. In the crushing of the spirit of a stiff-necked peasant people, famine has
A. R. P. Orders Issued by Wing-often proved" more effective Commander A. H. S. Steele-Per- than guns. The Japanese, kins, O. B. E. Director of Air Raid Precaa.ions. ན་ ་
TRAINING
"Shamshulpo Division Meeting. A meeting of District and Deputy the Chinese Dispensary. Yee Yu
District Wardens will be held in
s reet, on Fiday, Mar. 29, at 6.45. p.m.
Squad Drill Shamshulpo Divi- On Sunday, Mar. 31 at 3 sion. p.m. squad drill for all wardens at the Police Training School.
Practical Course (In Chinese)
be held at the office of the A. R. P.
on Mondays and Thursdays at Deparment. Lower Albert Road, 6.30 p.m. commencing April 1, 1940.
Lecturer: Mr. Chak Tal Kwong,
Demonstration of Obscuring Motor Car Lights
LA. R. P. S.
1
its full course now.
The
ANGLO- FRENCH
AMBULANCE *CORPS
a
Ambulance)
to
French Army. The Patrons-In-
At the outbreak of war, France
mobilised 5 million men, and still has over 4 millon serving with
the.
colours. Her need for
The membership campaign
ok
Robson, and Mr. George Hender
son was elected a Lite Member:
Officers of the Club for the cur- rent year were elected as follows: -Vice-President, Mr. J. McKelvio: Hon. "Treasurer, Mr. H. White: Hon. Secretary," Mr. E, A. Atkins: Bowls Convenor, Mr. R. P. Phillips; Bar Convenor, Mr. J. E Henson: Grounds Convenor, Mr. W. L. Wal- ker..
General Committee. Messrs. E V, Searle, B. Wylie, L. 'Guy and H. J. Bicknell: Balloting Committee. Messrs. T. Armstrong. D Waterton,
the Wounded Society of the New W. Harrower. J. Fraser. S, C. Wai- Life Movement Association reach-ker and R. Duncan.
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PASSENGERS
the The following passengers
de-
AMAH'S EVIDENCE Chan Luk. amsh, sald that she- was carrying a baby in her arms and was leading the boy by an- other hand. They were walking in front of the Hongkong Univer- alty when the boy rushed across the road. A car, coming from the direction of Pokfulam struck the child before he reached the pave- ment.
The driver of the car said that he was driving at a speed of about 8 to 10 miles per hour when the' mishap occurred. He felt a bump in the rear of the car and was told by coolies that he had run over- à person. He sent the boy to the Queen Mary Hospital
NEW PLAN TO AID BUILDING TRADE
SUPPLIES SOUGHT BY SMALL FIRMS
Leading representatives of, every section of the building trade- contractors, architects, material manufacturers, surveyors and
operatives are to meet to con- sider the next step in their cam- paign for stemming the war-time slump in the industry.
misuse of timber in the construc ton of camps for the new army.
Mr. Hicks and others declared that if the industry had been:
have been given valuable advice.
WORKMAN OUT OF NATIONAL LONDON, Mar. 27 (Reuter) Acting on the advice of a vetenin-Fardel. ambulances is great, and at any ary Workman, last year's winner.
Mr C. A. Feely, Capt. FC. official acknowledgement of the al, owing to the recurrence of a D. W. Gosse, Mrs. A L. Hall, Miss moment it may become critical, will not run in the Grand Nation-Flynn, Mr. G. H. Gompertz. Mr. consulted, the Government would Corps undertaking to provide and leg injury received sometime ago. staff a fleet of ambulances has the French
been received from Government.
They may decide to ask the ed 365,726 members and $515,-
Treasury to assist in lifting the 650.05, according to results ́an-
tangible and Intangible embargoes- nounced by the varicus teams on
on the raising of loans and to Saturday, March 9. end of
demand that the industry should third week. The goal for the one-parted from Hongkong yester-
be consulted by the Government.
Un who even in times of plenty Colonel Baldwin-Webb has been month drive was originally set at day:-
immediately the supply of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. B, Alexan- 100,000 members. have tried to prescribe this appointed Honorary Secretary to
every description of material, Special attention was aroused by der. Mrs. Frances Andrews and Anglo-French
They are especially concerned treatment for the recalcitrant ❘ the
body population of North China | Corps,
constituted
about the supply of materials to results announced by the Interna infant. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Ber-
building concems and particularly" through the confiscation of provide ambulances for use of the tional Team for the third week-tenshaw. Mr. R. Ehopra, Mr. and 131 members and $1.980. Among Mrs. M. B. Birrel, Mr. G. L Blum.
to small firms,
CAMP BUILDING WASTAGE crops, will certainly let it run chef are his Majes y the King the foreign "friends" and donors Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cameron and son, Comar. A Carnegie, Pay. L'. Mr: Nelson T Johnson,
Mr. George Hicks, MP.. the and President Lebrun. Other way IT IS DOUBTFUL, however, Patrons- Include Mr. Neville
American Ambassador to China-J. Charles. Mr. and Mrs. F. F whether the "hunger course" Chamberlain, M. Daladier, (C. I C.)
Clarke and son, Mrs. Grace Con-building workers' leader, when he saw Mr. Burgin, the Minister of the
dit, Miss Hilda,, A. Comey, Lt.- will work.
The areas which French Ambassador. In London.
Comdr. D. L. C. Craig, Mrs. J. A Supply, and heads of other Gov- have remained under practi-and the Lord Mayor of London.
Davidson, Mr. F. R. Diebold, Mr. ernment departments with a de- cally constant Japanese oc-
putation from the industry, ac- and Mrs. C. D. ́Dixon, Mr. H. G.
'cused the Government, of reckless" cupation since the outbreak of
Dor.ald.. Rev Sister Marle A Practical Course in Chinese the war are perhaps the
Dufresne, Mr. C. H. Engley, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Everett, MIS. E. J. for Warden Instructors only will weakest economically.
battlefields on the plains of which were also the worst Shantung and South Hopel, sufferers from the floods, will probably be badly affected. But the true guerilla strong holds on the higher ground of North Shanŝi, West Hopei and A Practical Demonstration of East Hopei are likely to wea- the methods which should be em- ther the storm without trouble ployed to abscure motor car lights because, unlike the Japanese, will be given at A., R. P. Head- they have prepared for the quarters Lower Alber Road, at 3 inevitable by intensive and for our Allles of the dep spirit of A woman walking along Market Mrs. Joseph Parke and daughter,dustry would not be in its present
cultivation p.m. on Thursday, 28th instant systematic.
uity that binds us in the comstreet, Easleigh. Hampshire, saw | Mr. G. B. Ramsey, Mr. and Mrs. of
The Government representa- her dog jump in the air" and fall† S. Riis. Mr. J. Robertson. It is hoped that owners of cars waste lands and the utilisa- men cause."
tives were told that it was im- will make every effort to attend tion of the labour of every Already an order for the first over. Other dogs passing over Mr. and Mrs. L. de Rome, Mr. or to send their chauffeurs. The man, woman and child in an 22 ambulances has been handed, the pavement jumped, barked, D. N. Sethi, Miss E. P. Sparling,perative in the national Interests demonstration wil be given both area-wide production cam- over to the French
Army. In and ran. Then a pedestrian felt Mr. and Mrs. R, L, Stewart, Mrs, that building Arms, large and and skilled operatives, should be in English and Chinese and will paign." This being the case, response to the trst appeal, a nis feet single. He called a police- A. M. Tallman, Mr. E. Torvaldsen, small, with their technical staffs las, about 20 minutes.
kept intact. It is not improbable that next number of Municipalities, Bor man, who also got a shock An Miss E. Townsend. Surg. Lt. T.A.
DEPUTATION TO WAR OFFICE' summer will see the spectacle oughs. Trade Associations Cor-electric main had short-circuilted Turnbull, Miss H. Wilson, Mr. A.
A. Woolley and Mr. J. Yagura. parations and individuals have under the pavement.
Another deputation from the of Chinese guerillas coming to come forward with promises to
industry saw Sir Victor Warren- liberate occupied towns and donate one or more ambulances.
der, Financial Becretary to the villages not only with guns To provide and equip an am-
War Office, and urged the need" but with bread.
bulance will cost £500,
tracts more evenly among smaller- buliding firms,
Mr. C. Kerridge, president-elect: of the National Federation In England the main effect has Building, Trades Employers, speak been very high spring ddes. Manying at a lincheon in London, said walkers on "the Thames towpath | though the Government had ac- near Kew were cut off by the tide cepted the principle of wider and had to wade to safety. A distribution of contracts, such cripple in a bathchair was ma-
contracts could not provide more LONDON, Mar. 27 (Reuter-rooned and had to be rescued by than about half the work which
boatmen:i sunspot electrical · distur-
The following having qualified as Wardens in a recent examina- tion are posted to the A. R. P. Establishment as follows:
The Seventy-first Ordinary
Central Division:-Ho Pong. General Meeting of Shareholders
Western Division:-Chui Shing will be held at the Offices of the Tung, Ng Hon Kum, Miss Leung undersigned on Thursday, the 4th Pok Kwan, Miss Ning Hing. Miss "April, 1946, at Noon, for the Sam Yee Choi, Mis, Ng Sui. Ping. purpose of receiving the Report Li Hong Tsung. Yam Sui Wai, of the General Managers, together Miss Marilyn Man, Kwan Chung with a statement of Accounts for Bum the year ended the 31st Decem ber, 1939.
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., General Managers, The Hong Kong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. Hong Kong, 14th March, 1940,
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Tsimshatsu Division: Leung Hung, Tang Wing, Ling Fai, Wang Wing Nin, Tang Hon Yan. Leung Kan, Mok Yee Man, Tang Wah, Li Chi Leung, Yuen Bun, Taang Shiu Kee, Miss, Ho Sui Kng. Fung
DIETETIC EXPERTS'
• COMMITTEE
S. M. Hall, Mrs, A G Hawkings, about the use of substitute ma- Miss N. S. Hawkings, Capt. A J. terials, and the acute shortage of Holland. Mr. 8. G. Kent. Master timber would thus, to some extent. ROME, Mar. 27 (Reuter)--Ac-M Kerr. Mr K. Kolima. Rev.
have been avoided. by cording to an Ankara despatch the Sister Layaniere, Miss EJ. Lyness.
was It
contended that.. had: These ambulancës, driven volunteers who are still to be Turkish military mission which
tion with the industry, unemploy Pay. LE C. D. Madden, Mr. A. chosen will carry the flag of visited Aleppo has, now returned Mr. and Mrs. A. Madar and child, there been foresight and consulta- Marchelx, Dr. H, W, Miller, Ltment figures would not be at their Britain through the French sectors to Ankara.
present high level, and the in- Comdr. R. E, H. Nicholls, Mr," and and will thus be a visible symbo
position.
ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCE for aistributing Government can-
CAUSED BY SUNSPOT
MUCH MAGNETIC
ACTIVITY
said Dr. This is very rare," Wood, the Union Astronomer.
HIGH SPRING TIDES
of
Donations of this" amount will provide an ambulance bearing the donor's name, "the arms of ́u Borough of Municipality. etc, A Dietete ports who are to further appeal will shortly be study wartime problems of nut-launched, and there can be little tiòn will serve on a committee.ap- doubt of the response for so war- pointed by the British Medical As thy and humanitarian a cause. sociation. The members are:
Large and small sums will be Prof. V. H, Mottram: Prof. E. P. gratefully accepted by the Honor
Glasgow University: Cathcart,
ary Treasurers, Major General Bir Prof. B. J. Cowell, University of Edwin Atkinson, 33 St. James's The
the building trade needed. He MAGNETIC" ACTIVITY ... · urged that the holding up of local London: Dr. J. H. Harley Williams: Street, London, 8.W.1. which offi-bance, which created
Mr. C, W. Jeffries, Director of authorities schemes should be re- Kowloon City Division:-Yuen Dr. Maltland Radford, MOH, BL,
ces were kindly placed at the dis- havoc among radio waves, has Bing, Ne Tat Chiu, Wong Yat Lam. Pancras: Bir Kaye le Fleming, for posal of the Corps by the National resulted in the Aurora Borealis the Royal Observatory, told the considered and some of the work Wong Tak Lau, Miss Ng Takmer Chairman of Council, M.; Building Society, in conjunction and the Aurora Australls being Daily Press yesterday the there resumed. Ching, Yau Ka Wai, Ip Leung, Dr. Wilfred J. Pearson; University with Messrs, Hamptons.
Mr. F. W. Hili, president of the seen in regions which seldom, was a large spot on the sun in
the Southern Hemisphere;
Southern Counties Federation. Miss Tang Mo Chiu, Miss Leung College Hospital; and Dr. J. C.
ever, have seen them. Chi Nga, Lau Foon Young
Spence, Newcastlь.
There has been abnormal mag- said there was no shortage of RARE OCCURRENCE Shamshulpo. Division: Wong
netic activity, he said, since 8 materials, except timber, which Blu Him, Ll Chung Ching, Lat
Italy and Bulgaria can both am. on Mar. 22. This had grad, had been very wastefully used see the northern lights, while the ually increased and was very for Government work. Bubstitutes Bun Hing.
the strong on Mar 23 and 24 and were in existence or could be: Orange Free State can see red glow of the southern lights. was probably still proceeding quickly produced:
Wan.
Mongkok Division:-Ling. Tat Yeung, Chin Leung, Yu Pu......... ̈ ̈
Dr. Spence is also a member of the committee appointed by the Medical Research Council to advise on the question of food ra tions for invalids.
A gain dance, held at the Cheero Club last night, was very well at- tended and was a great success in every way.
temporary