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THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1940.
BANK HOLIDAY."
سبيع
In Accordance with Govern.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
FOR SALE
H.M.T. CHERUB“. lying in the Chamber, R.N. Yard,
THE INDO CHINA STEAM. NAVIGATION COMPANY,
ment Ordinnace, THE EX. Mr. B. M. Bateman is no CHANGE BANKS will be longer connected with the above CLOSED for the Transaction | Company.
of PUBLIC BUSINESS on
MONDAY, the 13th May," 1940. (Whit Monday). Hongkong. 8th May, 1940.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT
OF HONG KONG..
In the matter of the Estate of JOHN MacKELLAR, formerly of S.S. “ANJOU”. Master Mariner, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has, by virtue of Sec; 58 of the Probates Ordinance, 1897, made an order limiting the time to the 4th day of June, 1940, for creditors & others to send in claims against the above estate to the undersigned,
Dated this 7th day of May, 1940.
J. DUBOIS, deceased.
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WILL ALL PERSONS HAVING ANY CLAIM AGAINST THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MR. J. DUBOIS, SEND PARTICULARS THEREOF TO
DEACONS,
Solicitors,
Prince's Building,
1. Des Voeux Road, Central, HONG KONG
POSITION VACANT.
273
An immediate vacancy exists for a junior demonstrator in the Department of Pathology. Salary $150 a month to start with. Ap- Administrator.plications with testimonials to
272 undersigned.
Sd. L. R. ANDREWES,
Official
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
In the matter of the Estate
W. B. FINNIGAN,
Registrar. Hong Kong University 259
Kowloon.
LIMITED.
NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING.
The Fifty-ninth Ordinary Gen- Tenders are invited for the [eral Meeting of the Company above vessel as she lies at Kow. will be held at the Offices of the Toon. Vessel will be open for General Managers, Messrs. Jar inspection after Wednesday, 8th dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., and tenders should be addressed Pedder" Street, Hong Kong, en to the Naval Store Officer, H.M. Thursday, 30th May, 1940, at Dockyard, to arrive not later noon, for the purpose of receiving. than noon on Monday, May 20th, the Report of the Directors, pass
|ing, the Accounts, and electing | Directors and Auditors.
19.10.
"Envelopes should be marked "Tender for Cherub.".
The Transfer Books of the All material on board will be Company will be closed from the sold with the vessel with the 23rd May to 13th Jane Inclusive.
exception of chain cable, anchors and gear, which will be lent to the purchaser for navigational safety within the port of Hong Kong.
A
Particulars of the vessel forms of tender and permits to view may be obtained on application to the Naval Store Officer. Ap: plicants must be British subjects.
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CHINA UNDERWRITERS,
LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Sixteenth Annual Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of China Underwriters, Limited, will be held at the Offices of the
of WILLIAM MCKENZIE THE CANTON INSURANCE Company, 4A, Des Voeux Road
PITTENDRIGH, formerly
of Messrs. Pittendrigh Wi son & Co., Bank of Canton Building. 2nd floor, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has, by virtue of Sec: 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, made an order limiting the time to the 4th day of June, 1940. for creditors & others to send in claims against the above estate to the undersigned.
Dated this 7th day of May,
1940.
OFFICE LIMITED.-
'NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
The Fifty Ninth Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the under signed on Wednesday, the 22nd May, 1940, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st Decem. ber, 1939.
The Share Register and Trans- fer Books will be closed from the 8th May, to the 2nd May,
940, both days inclusive,
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Agents. Hong Kong, ist May, 1940.
Central, Hong Kong, on Tues- day the Fourteenth day of May, 1940, at noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors and a State. ment of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1939, and of electing Directors and Audi tors,
The Transfer Books and Re. gister of Members of the Com. pany will be closed from the 6th May, 1940, to the 14th May, 1940, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
HERBERT R. STURT,
By order of the Board. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
General Managers, Hong Kong, 16th April, 1940. 226
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HONGKONG, MAY ́§,^1940. «
"TOO
LATE"
Picture taken at the Sale of Work held by the School for the Deaf, in Kowloon City, yesterday afternoon. Lady Noble, who opened the function, is seated in the centre with Miss L Luk-wa, Prin- cipal of the School, on her right.
ground that the preparations
made for helping the Nor SANDY GROUSES ABOUT
THE RUM RATIONS
talls.
12
Germans Are Poor Shots,
He Declares
LONDON, May 8 (Reuter)-They are damn poor shots, these Jerries, they are not the same Germans as in the last war, şaid a- Bapper, & Scotsman, who was a member of the Expeditionary force to Norway, and who landed in Britain on Monday, in a broadcast from Daventry,
INDIA'S WAR EFFORT
weglans to beat off "the Ger- man bully" were inadequate | to deal with the contingency of a possible hit back by Ger- many in the most vital cen- tre of operations-the attack) on Trondheim, where thei Allied troops failed to success- fully counter the German advance. What was the Strength of the force sent to help Norway and were they "efficiently trained and equip
ped for the nature of hos-
They landed at Aandalsnes on a quiet moonlit night, he be tilities they were to engage:
gan. Next morning "they went to Dombaas by train. Jerry in? What were the plans
bombed the whole railway and set all the wagons on fire. made for their reinforce-
They went on
rum. to Otta, a nice about
he complained, I ment? It is clearer answers:
wee village some 30 or 40 miles never" gou a drop the whole time to these questions that the
down Gudbrands Valley and then, I was there. I must say...one thing public demands now as far as getting into two civilian lorries, about the Germans, he went on. the military point of view of the sappers went up to the front they are not the same Germans as Mr. Chamberlain's explana-line to make craters in the road in the last war-they won't come tion is concerned, and the and thus hold up the German close to you, they just keep pot- Premier's challenge of "Would tanks." Part of the section were ting at you from a distance. They "TOO LATE again seems
to have been the key any of you here have done then put into the front line. Some are poor fighters and dirty ones. Explaining the latter' remark, he note of the criticism which otherwise?" has lost its force were a bit shaky at first, but I, as
saw 20 Norwegian Red bit until We were all ready to Cross ambulances bombed and has thus far been levelled at by this demand for more de- an old goldier, bucked them up a said he
German statement which the
bayonet Jerry if he came over the machine - gunned by AS FAR as the composition top, he went on.
planes on the road between Dom- Prime Minister made in the House of Commons' debate of the British War Cabinet is
baas and Aandalsnes. :- STAYED AWAY on Tuesday to explain the concerned, there appears to
German planes also bombed circumstances which led to be no cause for any as the only way the Germars could naval sloops came and shot one
They were behind a wall and them at Aandalsnes until two. the withdrawal of Allied that a crisis demanding its troops from Southern Nor-resignation or a vote of cen-get at them was to bomb them down. They then left us in peace
The Germans, however, stayed to get on board that night. way. The speeches made by sure on the Government will away and area at them from a though distance with machine guns. If the Labour and Liberal Op- arise, acrimonious position leaders reflected in some of the criticism of its they had come they would have no uncertain terms the an- functioning has been. The wiped the whole party out that xiety of the British public to Prime Minister will, however, day, but they were poor shots and have a satisfactory explana-j be constrained to make a contented themselves with setting reorganisation the village and surrounding woods tion from the Government. determined.
Every rifle used by the Army in 251 And, if that explanation was and, in fact, already hinted on fire.
The sappers went back to Otta India is made at the factory, at not satisfactory, to demand that he would be prepared to that steps be taken to pre- do so if such a step would and, prepared bridges for blowing Ishapore in Bengal, from steel vent a recurrence of such lead to the more vigorous war "P. They worked all night and supplied by the Metal and Steel distressing events by the in- effort which is being de- the next morning a section went Factory, also at Ishapore, and further back, leaving our Scots-wood grown in Kashmir." In time The Opposition man and a lance corporal to guard of war these rifles are also ex-
ported overseas. PUBLIC AUCTIONclusion of more vigorous and manded.
emcient men within that in-speakers, however, evidently the bridge.
The proposal to start a ride ner circle which is respon- want something more than a
BOMBED BRIDGES PARTICULARS AND CONsible for the conduct of parish meeting adjustment-
German planes came over and factory was first made in 1901; DITIONS of the Sale by Public operations
fight such as the apportioning of bombed for hours, dropping from the first rifle was produced in 1907. PARTICULARS AND CON Auction to be held on Tuesday, against Nazism. No one will even more onerous respon-400 to 500 bombs. They did not Since 1935 light automatic rifles DITIONS of the Sale by Public DITIONS of the Sale by Public the 14th day of May, 1940, at 3 attempt to deny that most sibilities on Mr. Churchill's kill-30" much as cat, he went on. /also have been produced at this The Metal and Steel Factory, Auction to be held on Tuesday, Auction to be held on Tuesday, p.m., at the Offices of the Public of the charges made against shoulders in giving him al- and the only thing they did was factory. the 14th day of May, 1940, at 3 the 14th day of May; 1940, at 3.Works Department, by Order of the Prime Minister and his, most undisputed control of to see the trees on fire.
There were 17 detonators on the which dates from 1892. turns out p.m., at the Offices of the Public p.m., at the Offices of the Public His Excellency the Governor of fied. Stolidly as Mr. Cham- forces..
Cabinet colleagues are justi- all sections, of the fighting
The Premier's an- bridge and our Scotsman would have the steel required by all Ordnance in India. Its chier Works Department, by Order of Works Department, by Order of one lot of Crown Land at Sham.
berlain tried to defend the nouncement of this was.cer-liked to delay blowing it up until factories His Excellency the Governor of His Excellency: the Governor of shuipo, in the Colony of Hong position of the Government | tainly not enthusiastically re-the Gerinans were on it but every-products are gunforgings, shell
cartridge cases, and Lot of Crown Land at one Lot of Crown Land at Kong for a term of 75 years, comand he
thing was worked out to schedule forgings.
·was perfectly ceived and seeing that Mr. and this was not possible. Troops other component parts of weapons Mong Kok, in the Colony Mong Kok. in the Colony mencing from 1st July, 1898, with straightforward in assuming Churchill himself has been would come over at 9.30 o'clock and ammunition of Hong Kong for a term of of Hong Kong for a term the option of renewal at a Crown full responsibility with the subjected to a good deal of and the bridge would be blown up 75 years, with the option of of 75 years, with the option of Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor Cabinet for what transpired opprobrium, Mr. Chamberlain at 9.45 exactly. At 10.10 they left renewal at a Crown Rent to be renewal at a Crown Rent to be of His Majesty the KING, for in Norway it has become would be advised to put the scene, and trudging along the fixed by the Surveyor of His Ma- Bxed by the Surveyor of His one further term of 24 years less evident that the Prime Minis-younger and more vigorously rallway they found a hand-trolley The French Consul-General in jesty the KING, for one further Majesty the KING, for one fur the last three days thereof.
ter is now a really tired man inclined ministers "into posts and with its help caught up with Shanghai, M. Marcel Baudez, left term of 75 years.
ther term of 75 years.
whose parochial methods are which call for major strate the main body. They almost got for Franice this morning aboard
In Intending bidders are advised a misfit and whose policy has gical knowledge. the shot as they came up bit were the m. v. Fel'x Roussel, Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis always been tempered by an meantime, new fears have saved when the trolley fell of the that immediately after the dis that immediately after the disposal of the lot the Purchaser ultra-strict adherence to arisen in Europe and, fair as talls. They later at a train to posal of the lot the Purchaser posal of the lot the Purchaser if not the applicant) will be principles of conduct.
not the applicant), will be if not the applicant), will be
required required to deposit
to deposit with with an required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be authorised officer who will be authorised officer, who will be l·berlain made the remark that cannot be blamed for wantsoldier voiced a complaint about war Industries, the anti-aircraft present at the sale, the sun of present at the sale, the sum of present at the sale, the sum of he had permitted the debate war, which they are all conrum rations. There was a pitch battery and searchlight crews, two hundred dollars, ($200) In two hundred dollars, ($200) in two hundred dollars, ($200) In on Tuesday to be held vinced will end in victory for cash. This sum will be refunded cash. This sum will be refunded cash. This sum will be refunded the Cabinet's military ad- will be handled in a manner the face of opposition from the Allied arms and cause, on payment of the Purchase on payment of the Purchase on" payment of the Purchase
price.
One
Sd. L. R. ANDREWES,
"Official Administrator.
271
Q.
R
G.
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PUBLIC ́AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON.
*
Intending bidders are advised
price.
Managing Director. Hong Kong, 1st May, 1940.
249
0.
price.
H
in the
IT WAS when Mr. Cham-
the British people will always be to their statesmen, they
ing an assurance that the
visers" that he admitted the which will make the disturb- weakness of his Cabinet or-ers of Europe's peace hesitate ganisation. The Opposition
"against a determined and re-
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT PARTICULARS OF THE LOT PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Speakers were quick to seize to pit their aggressive might
| No. of Bale, |
Registry No.
Locality.
"Kowloon inland i
Lot No. 4253. Junction of Tong Mi Road and
Bule Street,
Mong Kok.
Boundary
Measure-
menta
N... S.
2
As per
salé plan.
Contenta in
About
Square feet.
026'91
Annual
Rental
Upset Price, Į
No. of Bale
Registry No.
Locality.
33,188
568
10
Kowloon Infänd
· Lot No. 4254.
Tong Mi Road and Junction of
Arran Street,
Mong Kok.
Boundary
Measure-
ments:
Et.ft.Et. Et.
1
As per
sale plan
Annual
Rental
About
Contents in
18,970 -
Square feet
348
33,198
* Upset I
et Price.
a
869
No. of Sale |
New Kowloon laland. Registry No.
Junction of ______Lot. No. 2791.
Un Chau Street,
Yon Chou Street &
Locailly.
__Shamshuipo. -
Boundary
Measure
ments.
X
ft. ft.ft. ft.
As per..
Bale plan.
Ibout
12,880
Square feet,
Annus]
236
Rental.
25,760
6 Upset Price. I
B
on this admission and, no solute Britain that is prepar- doubt with a good deal ofed to meet force with even Importanţ information
in
their possession as to the real greater force in the fight for the preservation of civilisa- circumstances under which
tion and the rights of the campaign. In Norway was
humanity. conducted, have made a de- mand for further details of the organisation, preparation
LONDON, May B (Reuter)-Fol- and equipment of the troops lowing Iceland's desire to estab that were sent to the Nor-ish direct diplomatic representa wegian front. This, then, ton with Britain, His Majesty the must be taken as the reaction King has appointed Mr. Charles of the British public to the Howard Smith to be Minister at Premier's statement-an at- Heyjavík. He was formerly Minis- 870 titude that is based on theter at Copenhagen.
...
SHANGHAI, May 8 (Reuter)-
THE HAGUE, May 8 (Reuter)- take them to Dombass.
All leave for the Dutch army and navy has been stopped. The "HITCH ABOUT RUM" ~~~ Pausing in his story, this old order also applies to workers in
Mr. Douglas Keating and his bride, formerly Miss Margaret Baker, of Liverpool, after their marriage at St. Andrew's Church -yesterday.