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NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that Bill of Lading issued by the Furness Withy & Co., Ltd. for :-
12 cartons Surgical 'Dressings
1 case Pharmaceutical Products
ex M/V Siamese Prince" arrived Hongkong 27/2/39 from New York, U.S.A., has been lost and is now declared null and vold.
Mark
Dr. C. Y. Wu Hongkong Bureau
of the National
Red Cross Society c/o Oversen
Chinese Banking
Corp.
Merchandise
Surgical Dressings
Packages
12 cartons
1 case
Pharmaceutical Products
13 pkgs.
Dr. C. Y. WU,
National Red Cross Society of China, Hongkong Bureau.
NOTICE.
423
Notice is hereby given that Bills issued by the China Navigation Co., Ltd. for the undermentioned cargo ex S.S. "Tsinan" arrived 10/12/37 and S.S. "Kiungchow" arrived 30/11/37, have been lost and are declared null and void.
Packages
Mark
Woollen Vest
Ex S.S
· "Tsinan".
· Merchandise
+
1 case
5 cases
Cotton Underwears)
1
*1
1
Knitted Waistcoats ) Old Clothes
"Kjungchow"
}
Special Delegate in Hongkong Chinese National Red Cross Society.
421
EDITORIAL
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1940.
B.B.C.
HONGKONG MAN ON B.B.C. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS The Baily Press STAFF: MR. JOHN ABBOTT
THE HONGKONG ELECTRICİ
CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Interim Dividend of $1.00 per share has been declared in respect of the half. year ended 30th June, 1940. on 600.000 OLD SHARES and will. be payable on and after Wednes. stay, 11th September, 1940. Dividend Warrants obtained on application at the] Company's Registered Office, P. & O. Building.
may b
By Order of the Board of Directors.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON
CO., LTD., Agents.
Hong Kong, 1st August, 1940.
K.
&
報西刺孖
Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central, Tel 30251. Night Editor (Wanchal Office): London Office: 53. Fleet Street
Tel. 24511.
ECA
HONGKONG,"AVGUST 2.1940.
AS RELIEF ANNOUNCER
AMONG THE RELIEF ANNOUNCERS TEMPORARILY ATTACH- ED TO THE BBC'S OVERSEAS STAFF SO THAT THE REGULAR AN-
·NOUNCERS CAN TAKE SHORT SUMMER HOLIDAYS IS A MAN WHOSE VOICE MANY OF OVERSEAS LISTENERS WILL HAVE | HEARD FROM ANOTHER BROADCASTING STATION,
་་
His name is John Abbott and he is in London on a seven-months' holiday from Hongkong, where he has been an Assistant Crown Soli- citor since 1936 and in announcer af Station ZBW since 1937. Mr. Abbott has been announcing
for the BBC strice May 27 and will be on the job for two months; dur- ing the remainder of his leave he will refresh his memories of the
trom a microphone.
EFFECT OF WAR Enrish countryside, many miles
ON BUSINESS
LITTLE DIFFERENCE
It may seem odd that it should
Mr. Myles John Abbott who was Assistant Crown Solicitor in Hongkong. He arrived in the Colony' early in 1936.
Gen. Chien
Tsung-Tseh Dies At 51
·TRANSPORTATION
EXPERT
Gen. Chien Taung-tseb, Director of Military Transportation of the National Military Council. died of heart failure in Chungking on Wed- nesday whilst on his way back from an ocial mission, says Central News.
A native of Hangchow, Cheklang, deceased was one of China's most prominent transportation experts. He graduated from the Paoting Military College and later from the Peking Military University.
After serving in the army as cap- tain and regimens commander, he successively became Vice-Director of the National Railway Police Bureau of the Ministry of Communications, Police Commissioner of Hsuchow, Klangu. Provincial Police Commis- sioner of Chekfang. Police Commis stoner of Hangchow and Chief Director of the Milltary Training Administration.Bureau of the Gen- eralissimo's Headquarters of the Nationalist Army.
STAFF OFFICER
He also served as High Staf Officer of the Generalissimo's
11
THE REGISTER OF MEM: THE EXTENT to which a be possible, to hold a post in the major war affects the Colonial Legal Service and, at the BERS of the Company will be normal business life of a same time, to be an announcer: CLOSED from MONDAY, 2ND country engaged in hostilities but Mr. Abbott explained that Sta- SEPTEMBER to SATURDAY, and, even those which main-tion ZBW broadcasts only at lumen 7TH SEPTEMBER, 1940 (both tain strict neutrality in their time and between six and eleven days inclusive) during which dealings with the belligerents When spoken to, two or three
or twelve in the evening. period no transfer of shares can has provided economic ex-days after he had taken up his be registered.
perts the world over with duttes at Broadcasting House, 'Mr. weighty problems, During Abbott said had not then, noticed the last World War, the trade any striking difference between and commerce of the warring kong and London; but, in telling methods of announcing in Hong- nations were admittedly not about a notable mistake he made placed on such a well or before the microphone, he reveal- ganised footing as they are ined by implication that listeners to the present conflict. The ZBW are less eager correspondents" Allies in World War No. 1.than BBC's overseas listenera
Burrying to the studio to make bott is assured that there are Headquarters, Chief of the Staff 434
despite the mastery they held
an announcement, he found too late great dissimilarities in climates. on the sea, were faced with that he had left his script in
Officers' Bureau of the Generalis, Mr. Abbott is a keen tennis-simo's Field Headquarters at Wu- many internal economic dif- another room. He knew that the player, but he says that the heat chang, Hankow, Kalteng, and Can- culties in the matter of pre- last programme item had been a of a Hongkong summer keeps the ton. serving their business balance recital of gramophone records and most ardent lover of the game off to meet emergency measures thought he remembered the name the courts until after five or six From 1928 to 1930, Gen. Chlen. PUBLIC AUCTION.
of the artist concerned-so this. in the evening. which were introduced by the in effect, is what he said: "Those centricities of weather in the Home the Tientsin-Fukow Railway... In And the mild ec- Was Deputy Managing Director of PARTICULARS AND CON Government. Germany, and two violin solos were played by Country can offer nothing as violent 1931, he became Managing Director DITIONS of the Saic by Public her allies in the last war were misabeth Schumann.'
as the typhoons that charge of the Langhal Railway and con- Auction to be held on Tuesday, placed in an even more des- He could hardly have been more through Hongkong. Mr. Abbott has currently Vice-Minister of Rall- the 6th day of August, 1940, at 3 perate position with regard to wrong: Elisabeth Schumann is, of experienced two of them one in WHYS. 1 p.m., at the Offices of the Public the flow of their own com singer of lieder, and, anyway, the hour. in 1937. When asked what Japanes hostilities, he was ap- course, not a violinist but a famous 1936, and another, a 164 miles-an- At the outbreak of the Sino- Works Department, by Order of mercial transactions and the records had been of plano pieces. were the standard typhoon-raid pointed director of railway military His Excellency the Governor of end of 1918 found them in an But as Chesterton might have precautions, he answered succinc. transportation of the whole coun- one Let of Crown Land at even more impoverished con-argued the mistake was so tre-tly: Barricade your house-and try and later became Director of In Accordance with Govern.
Mong Kok, in the Colony dition than their opponents,mendous that no one noticed it. hope for the best. Whatever pre-Military Transportation of the Na- ment Ordigance, THE EX. Mr. Christopher Thompson of Hong Kong for a term The lessons of 1914-1918 were CLIMATIC CONDITIONS cautions" you take, It is generally tional Military Council CHANGE BANKS will be Tod has been authorised to sign of 75 years, with the option of well learned by Britain and If, London and Hongkong have accepted that a full-sized typhoonscientious worker, he had exerted CLOSED for the Transaction Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. renewal at a Crown Rent to be when hostilities broke out be-portant differences to show will either blow the windows over his utmost in his latter position in of PUBLIC BUSINESS On per procuration as from today's
fixed by the Surveyor of His tween her and Germany last far as concerns the technique of your lawn or the lawn over your the past three years. MONDAY, the 5th August, 1940, date.
Majesty the KING, for one fur. year, she had already made (The First Monday in August.)
ther term of 75 years.
preparations for placing her normal business life on al Hongkong, 31st July, 1940.
Intending bidders are advised
THE WEATHER war-time footing. that immediately after the dis.correct
Yesterday
comparatively. posal of the lot the Purchaser British economists set to cooler the maximum temperature
NETHER. Japan, as well not the applicant), will be work with a will to meet every being 83 and the minimum 78. required to deposit with an emergency and the leaders of The Royal Observatory report
LANDS as Italy, has anthorised officer who will be business arid finance were
St. Andrew's Club will meet ASIATIC to see Pressure remains highest over on Monday and Thursday next COLONIES way the cat been watching which present at the sale, the sum of presented with a carefully the Pacific to the north-east of two hundred dollars, ($200) in worked out programme Japan, and a depression is sta- Week at 9 pm. cash. This sum will be refunded which, it was hoped, would tionary over. 8.W. China,
will jump" with the dogs of war on payment of the Purchase prevent the country's internal 150 miles N.N.W. of Shanghal. loss of her Siberian terrier on hooves of invading legionis,
The typhoon is centred about Kadocrie Avenue; has reported the slum fell beneath the cloven Mrs. R.B. Chatin, of No. 29. after it. When Holland and Bel- price.
life from being seriously moving NN.W, affected.
solini called home all Italian BRITAIN'S business quar-
ships and buckled on his Roman EVEN HONGKONG Was
The Rev Cyril Brown, Chaplain armour. At the same time the ters accepted the injunctions provided with an example of of the missions to Seamen, will Mikado's militarists, clamouring given them in the best spirit, this adverse effect of war on preach at matins at St. Andrew's for abandonment of the policy of but the experiences gained in ordinary business. Admitted-Church on Sunday,
non-involvement, changed their the 1914-1918 period have ly it was on a much smaller
attitude of amity and indifference made all trading and business scale than that which per leader at the Intercession service
The Rev. J. R. Higgs will be the to suit the occasion.
Japan now asserts a right to circles look upon war as de-tains to Britain, but when in connexion with the war to be take the lead in determining the plorable-mainly, of course, the recent evacuation of held at St. Andrew's Church on Ortent. Although the Nazt govern- fate of Dutch possessions in the
BANK HOLIDAY..
430
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC
CO., LTD.
NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Certificate No. 25433 for 120 NEW SHARES Nos. 843541/843660 "issued on 1st July, 1940 in the name of CHEUK MAN SIN has been
And of
EFFECT.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Agents.
NOTICE
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
J. J. PATERSON, Managing Director. Hongkong, 1st August, 1940.
Q.
-PUBLIC AUCTION,
431
PARTICULARS AND CON.
"
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
Boundary
No. of Sale,
Kowloon Inland
Registry No.
Locality.
declared LOST and should the DITIONS of the Sale by Public same not be produced before 16th Auction to be held on Tuesday, August, 1940, it shall be deemed the 6th day of August, 1940, at 3 CANCELLED
NO p.m., at the Offices of the Public 2
Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Let of Crown Land at Repulse Bay, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term ol 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.
Hong Kong, 31st July, 1940.
432
THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, "LIMITED.
Notice to Shareholders
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis
required to deposit, with n authorised officer who will be
Lot No. 4283.
Junction of Tong
Mi Road and Mong Kok Road,
Mong Kok.
Measure-
ments.
#1 $
ift.[fe ift. £t.
As per
sale plan-
Contents
Square feet.
Annual
Rental
Upset Price.
About
6,200
BOK
28,360 **
announcing broadcasts. Mr. Ab-windows
states:-...
WES
11.
A con-
"Gen. Chien, was 51 years of age."
WHAT AMERICA THINKS
NEWSETTES
·
Wednesday,
#
*
•
*
from a profit-taking point of women and children from Tuesday at 6 p.m.
ment announced a lack of in- view. Apart from those en-this Colony was "announced
fate of Dutch possessions in the gaged in the business of and put into operation by the
The newly formed 8t, Andrew's Netherlands East Indies which munition production and Government, the effect Fellowship will hold ita Louse
on
Japanese authorities interpreted other essential war materials the business life of the Colony warming on Monday, Aug. 6, at to convey "a blank power of at- for the fighting forces, who was almost immediate and are asked to make a special point low her own bent and establish
8.30 pm. All prospective members
torney authorizing Japan to fol- 426 have a ready customer in the the position assumed propor- or being present.
British Government, business tions which were out of all
her own regulations of trade and control, there may be reservations:
reconsiderations with which
FORTIFICATIONS INSPECTED
Surprise Visit
ΟΙ
houses which deal in goods keeping with the necessity Naiz Khan. 40 received treatment. and supplies which are nor for making the evacuation at the Queen Mary. Hospital on Hitler's promises and pacts are mally used by the average order effective. And it must Wednesday for injuries to his left always tangled
forearm sustained during a fight citizen must, therefore, be be remembered here that with another Indian in Tee House the Netherlands become German Should the Asiatic colonies of considered tó bé strongly Hongkong was already suffer- Street. posal of the lot the Purchaser Prime Minister Pays sooner choose the smaller the effects of the war in opposed to war. They would ing adversely as a result of
colonies, it may be regarded as slmost certain that Germany will (if not the applicant), will be
Following the evening service on take all of the raw materials to profits of peace-time trade Europe and in the Far East. Sunday at the English Methodist bolster her own military and NOTICE is hereby given that present at the sale, the sum of LONDON, Aug. 1 (Reuter) Mr. business under the difficult in such circumstances cannot at 815 pm. All Bervicemen and the land, there is a possibility that than risk carrying on their The prosperity of a country at the Ballors and Soldiers Home the Nipponese covet more than Church a social hour will be held economie status. As this is what an Interim Dividend of $2.00 per two hundred dollars, ($200) in winst Ortheast England yester conditions of war-time be increased merely by the civilians will be warmly welcomed. Japan, la Share has been declared, for the cash. This sum will be refunded day to inspect the coastal fortinca-stringency. The reason for production of weapons for
to
conceal a feeling half year ended 30th June, 1940, on payment of the Parchase tions and defence works.
of disappointment, will not take payable
this is that the rising index the destruction of human life FRIDAY, on
Bergeant Major Tulfort of the her greedy eyes off the Philippine The Prime Minister motored of essential commodities is at and AUGUST, 1940, on which date
property. When the Royal Scots, has reported that he archipelago along the sea front and occasional the same time accompanied carnage is over, a far greater on the hillside in New Aberdeen ment gave out a statement in picked up a three-months-old baby Recently the Mikado's govern- Dividend Warrants may be PARTICULARS OF THE LOT ly got out of the car to inspect by a lower purchasing power price will have to be paid to Road, while taking a walk on which this significant paragraph obtained on application at the
sections of the defences." He show- Office of the Company, Kowloon,
ed keen interest and talked from the people, on whom restore the business life of a Wednesday morning. The baby is appeared: "Japan cannot be in- eamestly with officers..
heavier calls are made to country to its normal groove now in the Queen Mary Hospital. different to important changes in- support the national effort. from the low standard to
the status of areas and territories- Churchill said that he did not most cases, only illusory and the effects of war. In adopt residence was entered on Wednes or a trade with Hitler is present
In a speech to the workers, Mr. The profits of the few are, in which it had been brought by Mr. L. Altree, of No. 24. Somer within the Pacific zone.
set Road, has reported that his Thus an opportunity for a row know whether "Hitler had missed gains in any special lines are ing an anti-war stand, there- day night, and money lewellery ed, with odds on the prospects for the bus but whatever happened he merely the result of a tem- fore, business leaders cannot and clothing, to the value of $97.30. a trade affecting the future of the would not have sach u confortable journey as might have had a few Porary demand. 1. And, fur- be charged with lack of stolen, months ago.
thermore, even the most patriotism. It is a natural
16th price.
The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from WEDNESDAY, 7th AUGUST to FRIDAY, 16th AUGUST, 1940, both days Inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
C. M. MANNERS,
Secretary & Manager, Hong Kong, 29th July, 1940,
425
No. of
Registry No
Locality.
Building Lot No. 397.
Kural Building
Lot No.. 439, South Bay Road, Repnine Bay, adjoining Garden Lot No. 110 and Bural
Boundary
Measure-
ments.
#12
As
per
male plan
Contents in
About
Square feet.
20 250
Annual
Rental
1,063 :
on Upset Frion.
MISSED BUS?
*Mr.
(Reprinted from the Salt Lake The worker's wives gathered at meagre profits are subjected attitude based purely on a sudden disappearance of a cookboy
Police are investigating the City. (Utah) Tribune); the gates of the shipyard and Mr. to serious E
reduction by desire to see the internal employed on board a merchant Churchill, impressed by the
various taxes collected from economic wealth of a country vessel berth warmth of the welcome shouted
business houses
the Kowloon Bou "Are we down-hearted?" and the
under the preserved unimpaired, so that Wharves yeste womenfolk responded with
country's emergency regula- its people may live free and the boy must have lost hits tooting mighty Zoar "No"
contented lives.
whole descending to the whiart.
and was drowni