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$1350)
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15 FB.
Banks
$1400 FI.K. Banka
#1363 C.D.
£77
£70
£7.
£93
Da. ¡Col. Bag.}) ........ Do. (Lon. Reg.) Chartered Banks..... Mercantile Bha, “A”. Marcantile Bks, "C". Bank of East Asia..... N. C. & S. Banks..... Insurances
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£77.
876
15 ct.
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#1
$170
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Canton InsurancOS.................. Union InsuraŃCER......
Underwritersp
1.K. Fires...... Shipping
$135 Douglasen
Steamboats
$100 Indo-Chinas (Prof.)...
$80
Indo-Chinas (Def.)
41/104) Shells
$7
Waterbosta cat
Docks, Wharves,
$98
H.K, & K. Wharves..
317
FR6
18/0
Godowns, etc.
Mining
$5.70 $0.80 $8,05/|5.95
Providents.........
$17,80 A.K. Docks (Old).
$8
H.K. Docks (New)...
+Shanghai Docks.......
Kailana
Fanbo
cts Hong Kong Mines......
Lands. Hotels and Buildings
$3.60 H.K. & 8. Hotels...... H.K. Land.....
Do. 4% Debentures....
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COMPANY DIVIDEND
At the "forthcoming annual gen- eral meeting of the Hongkong Telephone Company, Ltd., which £70
will be held on Friday, March 28, £71 £23 the following will be embodied in £11 the Directors' Report to the
In the hovels of Japanese-occupied Manchukuo, thousands Chinese awoke recently with fever, headache and throbbing limbs.
With a few hours they were spitting blood; tumours sprouted on thighs and arms, Delirium set in, and the death. roll began to mount.
To the rertile land of puppet- Emperor Henry Pu Yi had come the worst epidemic of "Black Death" since 1923. Formerly given to any epidemic disease causing great mortality, this vague bus ter- The balance at credit of Profitrifying term is nowadays used to and Loss Account for the year describe infectious levers caused by: 1816 ended December 31, 1940, (includ pestilential buboes (inflammatory 80 ct.g the sum of $242,532,60 brought gland swellings in the groin or $170 forward from the previous year armpit). Hence the more modern
$410
Shareholders,
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and after making provision for term "Eubonic Plague:" payment to Government of Royal- ties on the revised basis) amount- $100 led to $1,408,325,51,
$135
$9
$80
<1/10)
#7
$98
$5.95 $17.60
$8/590
$17
#17]
18/0
#71
$3.60
(34)
$10.80 Shanghai Landı........
$3.70
H.K. Realtionpres
$3.75
$7.05 Humphreys
07.30
$99
Chinese Estates................
+
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Cotton Mills
$374 Ewc (9.)
$205
S'hai Cottons (8.)... Zoong Sings (8.)...... Wing On Textiles (8;) Public Utilities
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#341 397
$374
$205
$195
$17.95
H.K. Tramways......... Peak Trams (old)..... Peak Trams (new)........
$17.95
$7.40
$31
*$57
Star Ferries.
8571
824
P'mati Farriso......
China Lighta (0)......
$24) $8
$1.97 China Lights (New).
$1.95
$40.10
H. K. Electrics (Old)...)
139) H.K. Electrics(New)... $17Macao Electrics (Old)) $18 Macao Electrion (New))
$25!
$10
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$12
$241
Sandakan Lights.................... Telephones (old).........
$10.20 Telephones (new)....... S'pore Tractions (Ord.) Industrials
$30
Cald., seg. (Ord:) 8.
Cald, Macg. (Prof.)8
$11 Cements
HK Govt. Loans
4% Loan
311
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$25
Canton Ice.com
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H.K. Rapes
13%
$1%
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(1934)..
(1940)..
Miscellaneous
$19.20 Dairy Farms.............
340
$387
$75 ats.
$17
$8
$7 Entertainments ......... $7.10
$1.80 Censtractions (old).
81 Constructions (raw)........)
#71
Lane Crawfords......
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influenza with
What About The Dardanelles?
The Dardanelles today are one.
of the critical points on the map of Europe, but one would scarcely know it to look at them, writes J. modern w. Kernick In The New York! science is still unable to define the Times Magazine. Externally there After charging $257,001.17 for plague's "exact nature, but certain has been little change in the re- plague was gion since Jason and his crew of depreciation and effecting on it is that bubonic July 8, 1940-the payment of an among the great cycle of epidemics Argonauts sailed through them Interim Dividend of 4 per cent. which scourged the world in the towards the Black Sea in search- absorbing $225,000, there remains 14th century.
of the Golden Fleece. 1J
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the sum of $1,014,324,34 which the In various parts of Europe dur- There is the same rapid current Board recommends be appropriating that cycle "Black Death" wiped through the same narrow channel. ed 23 follow-To Payment of ont between two-thirds and three-the same wind-ruffled blue 917- a Final Dividend of $1.00 per share quarters of the entire population, tace, the same curving, tortuous the Fully Pald Up Shares believed to have been around the course from the Aegean to the making 14 per cent. for the year) | 26,000,000 mark.
Sea of Marmara. To Payment $500,000.00;
of 1 Final Dividend of 25 cents per share on the Partly Paid Up Shares making 14 per cent, for the year) $62,500.00: "To Sinking Fund In- stalment transferred to Capital Reserve $92,577.00: To Carry for- ward to next Account $359.247.34,
CHINESE
TOBACCO
On a much smaller scale was the Great Plague of London in the 17th century,
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A few villages le at the edge of the waterway, but for the most part the channel, is lined on both sides by dusty hills and grazing Deaths totalled 68.596 out of a grounds. A few old castles mark of whom the principal sentry points, and population of 480,000, two-thirds are said to have left the the fortress at Chanak looks much city. Old parish registers in coun- the same to the casual visitor to thy villages close to the former day as it must have looked three main coach roads out of London centuries ago. still bear withess to the capital's first great evacuation.
The plague-spreading culorit is
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17; 1941. -PAGE 9
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If you Value
your Health-
Insist upon
Gordon's GIN
NO Colouring Matter No Injurious Ingredienta
DRY GIN
DESTILLERY LONDOOL
H.K. STOCK EXCHANGE
The Hongkong Stock Exchange on Satudday received from Mesars. Clarke & Son Brisbane, a cable in code and in translating same it reads as follows:-"Board of Direc-
For a short session there was a tors Declared Third Interim Divi-fair turnover with China Lights w
That is the exterior picture. It dend Fourpence Payable March
the Chanak | 15." INDUSTRY mainly the black ship-rat, aided by 15 deceptive. Even
insanitary conditions in the ports fortress at night gives "the lie to it visits. This fact probably inspir- this outward calm, for at night ed the Pied Piper of Hamelin the cold blue light of modern been reduced virtually to nöthing. Trade Hard Hit By legend and certainly accounts for searchlight beams turns a chal- Russia is on the Danube delta."
War Operations
the circular discs which have to lenging inquisitive gaze
이
A
on
any Britain is blockading the Mediter- ranean. Germany and Italy are be carried on the mooring hawsers passing ship. And the traffic on CHUNGKING, Feb. 16 (Reuter) of ships in dock. By preventing the waterway, day and night, adds poised for action. And the Dar- danelles are again a focal point of - 680 billion cigarettes put on port rats from taking a sea trip, further testimony to change.
Little traffic is moving these national ambitions. the market last year in occupied this simple precaution has done
Across days, where much trame normal-
this narrow waterway billion much to kill the menace. China "no less than 350
ly moves, from the Black Sea to throughout the ages conquerors came from Japanese factories or Chinese plants selzed by the Other measures include inspec- the Aegean. The altered position passed between Asia and Europe- Alexander the Great, Japanese, according to figures re- tion of cargo, passengers and crews of the Danube region, now under Xerxes, leased here.
of "all ships entering British ports the thumb of the dictators, has Roman emperors, the Byzantine number of Basels, the Turkish sultans. Here It is added that in 1935 about 68 This has been intensified since greatly altered the
ships coming from the delta ports, the Turks first crossed into Europe, per cent, of the rolled tobacco war's beginning.
and Russian establishing an empire that lasted consumed in China were manu-
To prevent Manchukuo's Black and the Bulgarian
trade with the outside"world has until the war of 1941-18. factured by the British-American Death from finding keyhole Tobacco Corporation and its sub-into its far-flung territory the 95sidiary factories, while Japanese Soviet Government adopted the 8931 tobacco amounted to only two per same methods. A Kréfilin edict cent.. the remainder being made ordered quarantine posts at from- in Chinese plants.
tler railway stations and in the war began, however,
ports of Vladivostok and Nikolaye- the Japanese output has arisen to vsk on the Amur River. All persons 50 per cent. After three months and freights from, Manchukuo or of war, of 44 Chinese-owned to Korea were made subject, to ins- bacco factortes in Shanghai, 21
pection have been taken over by the Japanese, and nine others have 30% been forced to suspend operations resulting in drop in Chinese production of 42 per cent.
TIENTSIN MONOPOLY The Manchuria Leaf Tob. Co.,
established have
a branch in North China known as the North China Tea and Tobacco Co., and which is having the monopoly in
LA
$10
$1.85
47
$2.10
911
Nanyang Tobacco...... $34
$2.18 Sinceres
Watsons
42/47 Ch. G.5% 1925G $Bds.}
$30 IK. Wing On
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S'hai Wing Un
17.0 Vibro Piling.
6/3 Maramans Inv. (Lon.)
2/6
Marsmans Inv. (H.K.)
$1.80 Wm. Powells.............
China Lights(Rights)
+Sale to Shanghai
11: 6!
$39
314
98
$1.9)
144
Since the
STRANGE SOUNDS OF WARFARE Tientsin and along the Tientsiu-
AND WHAT THEY CONVEY
Now that civilians in Britain are in the "front line," they are busily acquiring knowledge that in other days was the ex- clusive knowledge of the soldier in the trenches.
PROBLEM OF "STINKER'
יד
Pukow-Peiping Railways,
The Japanese Oriental Tob. Co., has started" operations in Shang- hai while the North China Tea and Tob. Co., is also operating in Hankow as well as in Fukien and Kwangtung provinces.
HITCH-HIKED 500 MILES
p. It is, for example, important for civilians to be able to distinguish between the difference in sound of a falling bomb, a shell rushing through the alr towards the enemy aircraft and pieces of shell London. -Stinker, a middle-aged, which, having done their job
A soldier hitch-hiked about 500 dignified spaniel, is one of the miles up, come quickly to earth.
miles from Melbourne to Dubbo to oldest Inhabitants of a Coastal
A bomb whistles when it comes offer his blood for a friend critical- Command station in the eastern down. It is not a pleasant soundly injured in the crash of an countries. He was there in the but it is doing a service as it days of peace, and has seen the warns of the danger. Should the RAAF plane at Narromine. station become a busy operational whistle become louder, then It is war base.
time to "duck."
SOUND IDENTIFIABLE Shells trom anti-aircraft guns
Medical men have long re- cognised Manchukuo as a plague- centre owing to the living condi- tions of its peoples... no bright re- flection on Japan's boast of a "New Order in East Asia."
HAWAIIANS WANT
NEW STATUS
recording a slight improvement.
BUYERS ነ ቀ
Bank of East Asia, $70.
Union Ins: $412.50. Providents, $5.70.
Lands 4% Debentures, $97.50. Lights "O" $6. Cements, $17.50
SELLERS" Realties: $3.75. Trams, $17.95. Lights "O" $6.20. Electrics "O" $39.75.
SALES
·HK. Banks, $1400.
- Union Ins $411.
Star Ferries, $57. Lands, 334.26.
Lights. "O" $8.15/20. Watsons. $11.
PRE-PAID ADVERTISEMENTS.
The following classes of advertisements are charged at the price given below:-
HOUSES AND APARTMENTS TO BE LET. SITUATIONS" VACANT. HOUSES ÄND APARTMENTS WANTED. " MISCELLANEOUS WANTS.
Announcements not exceeding 25 Words are inserted under this heading at a Pre-paid
Rate of $1.50 for THREE INSERTIONS.
If Charges, collected, $2.00.
WANTED TO BUY
WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all gold and silver articles, gold bars, diamonds and Jewels, Apply China Gold Refining Co. Pedder Building, 2nd floor, Room 6..
WE OFFER HIGH PRICES for
amount of any
articles. gold
Honolulu. The people of the Hawaiian Islands having express- ed themselves overwhelmingly in favour of statehood, it is hoped diamonds, silver, jewels, etc. No that Congress will give serious
holidays. Apply China Building. consideration to this question
7th floor. Tel. 30727. Eurasia Gold which has Jong been before it.
Refining Co. In the past, спе argument against statehood for those islands has been the large part of the population which is derived from Astatic countries. It is not con- gold and silver articles. holds good, if it ever did. Leav-tain pens. Apply Far East Dia- ceded that this argument now diamonds, jewels, watches, foun-
ing this aside for the moment, mond and Gold Refining
WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all Jade
Co.
"FOR JADED APPETITES!
BOTELS
REAL RUSSIAN FOOD
Tiffin $1.20 • Dinner $1.50
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In.
TELEPHONE 33237, 25821,
YING LEE CO.
He is Pte. Kenneth Lloyd, 32, a there seems to be an argument Room 621, China Building. 8th/ FEST CAMPHORWOOD TRUNKS
former radio announcer.
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for statehood that overshadows the floor. His injured friend, Leading Air-population question. craftsman William Clifford Bate,
Lloyd was able to see Bate for
Occasional bombs in the vicin ity have only slightly disturbed the even tenor of his way. Often whistle through the air, but the 23. is in Dubbo Hospital. his master, a squadron comman-
Bound is clearly identifiable. II
U.S. OUTPOST
der, has to be, away for days at one is reasonably near the gun, only a few minutes after a trip now, as they have
which took him several days.
it
WANTED KNOWN
The Hawaiian Islands constitute for a good a time. Stinker bears the separa- the report can be heard, then a
many years, the United States out- Why not learn all the Fancy The US. Gov-latest Stitches for your · dresses tion with fortitude. but delights in
Bate did not need 2 blood post in the Pacific. sound that rushes through the air,
ernment has established at Hono-)and Sweaters: the re-uniona.
one of its greatest naval JOIN THE KNITTING CLASS The rationing problem does not awards and onwards, & pleasant transfusion.
Lloyd said he had to walk only lulu Some seconds: reassuring sound. arter the shell has burst, the about six miles of the 500 miles bases and, one of its most impor- AT $3.00 per month (Tvice a week tant, army posts. Being thus such lesson). Please apply to Box No. given from the various messes, sound of the explosion is heard. to Dubbo,
an important constituent of Ame-654 c/o HKDP. rica it would appear" that the islands are entitled to considera-
bother him. He takes what he is
fancies for
LC
the preference on hearth of the Officers' Mess,
1,
3
With
and if that is Insufficient, ekes it
Falling fragments are a danger He had been given lifts in out with rabbits or other tit-bits
one is not under cover. The great number of cars. caught by himself around the
SINCE SCHOOLDAYS aerodrome. He sleeps where be pieces come through the air with a "ping." They fall perpendicu-
Lloyd and Bate have been friend, tion as a state..
ORDERS TAKEN for hant-made tremendous armed Buch larly when they get near the since their schooldays,
forces in the islands the Govern-sweaters, Ladies' Jumpers, Bables' ground.
After reading of the crash, Lloydment should be able to cope with outfits, etc., at $5.00 each for Fragments fall some miles from had to wait two days for leave,
any unfriendly element there workmanship. For some time efforts have been the gun that has fired the shell.
Wool and mode, desired, to be When he arrived at Dubbo he such exists, which is not conceded made to enforce the rule that Nothing-ared from the gun "Just found that Eate was not allowed to exist to any considerable ex-supplied by customer.. dogs are not allowed in the Om- round the corner" will endanger to have visitor
Send particulars of address, etc., cers Mess. Stinker, when his mas- anyone in the vicinity.
In the circumstances, however, to be more American citizens in to Box 502, H‚KDP. the matron and doctor in charge the islands than there are in
H
ENFORCE RULE
ter is away, pays no attention to:
warnings on the notice board.. He
tent. At any rate, there are said
has been an inhabitant, if not a fine on an officer who falls to agreed that Lloyd could see Bate Wyoming, and four times as many member, of the Mess a great deal keep his dog out of the Mess. for a few minutes. longer than most of its present When his master was last away. occupants, and when he is put out Stinker, by his
frequent op- at one door, he comes in by an-pearances, added about 5 to the other or by the window, wearing a ever-increasing bill. most reproachful look.
The situation (as they say) is They recently doubled to 58, the still obscure.
as in Nevada,
The friends had a short con- versation,
Experienced Book-keeper Wants
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If the US. government con-Etudents to form a class. Guaran- siders the islands so important, it teë students to keep a whole set of Lloyd said afterwards: "It was might well raise them to the books after completion of a course
status of well worth the trip."
遮 state, whereby a of 6 months. For Term and Par- || Lammert, in ther He wil hitch-hike back to stronger administration could be ticulars. Melbourne.
set up.
Please Apply to:-Box
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Jimmy's
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New Style Ready Made Dresses, Overcoats and Costumes
FOR SALE.
16, Wyndham Street. Tel. 23615
For Sale Hong Kong Centenary Envelopes
With Views. of. Hongkong in
1841 and 1941"
for
First Day Isque of
Centenary Stamps
at $1.00 per dox. Envelopes-
GRACA & CO.
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Garden Seeds. Picture Books, etc. No. 10. Wyndham Street. Established 1898.
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