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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO CONSUMERS.
Notice is hereby given that the Company's standard charges will he increased as from 17th March, 1941, by adding a 10% surcharge to the amounts charged for electricity consumed for lighting and power as per meters read on and after 24th April, 1941.
The existing scale of discounts will remain in force.
By order of the Board of Directors,
D. W. MUNTON,
Manager.
Hong Kong, 8th March, 1941.
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC
CO., LTD.
Notice is hereby given that the Fifty second Ordinary Yearly Meeting will be held at the Com. pany's Registered Office, 4th Floor, R. & O. Building on Thursday, 20th March, 1941 atj 1a.m. for the purpose of present ing the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1940 and electing Directors and Audi. tors.
The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 8th March to 20th March, 1941 both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can he registered...
By order of the Board of
Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON
& CO., LTD. Agents.
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EDITORIAL
MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1941.
LANTAU SCHEME NEWSETTES BRITAIN SPEAKS:
At a
PROVE POPULAR The annual general meeting of A COMMON TRUSTEESHIP: MR. R. G. MENZIES' MESSAGE TO THE UNITED STATES
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the European YMCA, Kowloon, recent meeting or the THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC HONGKONG & WHAMPOA Council of the
will be held on Monday, March 24, Wah Yan Past COMPANY, LIMITED.
Students' Association, it has been commencing at 5.45 p.m., in the DOCK CO., LTD.
decided to Hold a Supper Dance
West Lounge. i aid of the Wah Yan War Re- NOTICE IS HEREBY Notice is hereby given that the Lef Fund and a Dance Sub-com- Mr. Frederico A. Xavier has GIVEN that an Extraordinary Ordinary Yearly Meeting of mittee has also been formed can been appointed Honorary Consul
Book Sen. for Mexico at Hongkong. General Meeting of the Company Shareholders will be held in the sisting of Messrs. Ko
Chan, Lim Hoy Lan, Henry
A- will be held in the P. & 0. Once of the Company, No. 2bert Chan, Chau Sing Toe, Wong Building, Victoria, in the Colony Queen's Building, Hong Kong, Chee Bun. Dr. Sung Sheung Het has been prohibited, except by " of Hong Kong at 11.15 o'clock on Monday, 31st March, 1941, at and other council Members in the forenoon on Thursday, the noon for consideration of the It has been arranged by the 20th day of March, 1941, or as Directors' Report and Statement soon thereafter as the Ordinary of Accounts for the year ending General Meeting of the Company 31st December, 1940. shall have terminated for the
Dance Sub-committee that the Supper and Cabaret Dance will be held under the
distinguished
licence.
"The materiai and moral mind of a neutral country can always be placed behind those who fight for justice.
"Today we say that we are the trustees of not only those living, but of those unborn," said MR. R. G. MEN- ZIES, THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA, In the The export of optical glass, etc., course of a broadcast from London yesterday in the series
BRITAIN SPEAKS."
"Does not that refer to you in America and to us in Aus- A further list of Netherlands! oncerns transferred to Batavia, tralia"? he asked. "It is part patronage of the Hon. Mr. Li Tseed in the Government Gazette.
Curacao and Surinam is publish- of your history and inheri- tance and ours, and it is our
"Why are you supporting us? The Share Register and Trans. Fong in Peninsula Hotel on Satur-
It is not because you agree with duty to defend that inheri-everything we do, because I know purpose of considering and, ter Books will be closed from the day. April 5, from 8 pm to 1 a.m. thought fit, passing the following 18th to 31st March, 1941, both is taken charge of by Mr. Wong and Tung Wal Magazine have been workshops
The newspaper Yan Sang Potance and faith-you in your you don't. It is because of the The programme of the evening
and designing nature of the battle, which calls days inclusive.
Chee Bun, and several outstand-suspended, it is notified in the
rooms, and we in our fac-for fair play and the right of the Government Gazette. |ing artists have consented to con-
individual man to his own self tories and on battlefields. The tribute cabaret items. Raffles will
respect, We English people are be issued on the occasion and the The Public Lighting Amendment task is in common and we are today the most fortunate in his-
been prizes have
donated
by Ordinance, No. 28 of 1940, and resolved to sustain it. The tory-we have two great spokes- Messrs. Ko Ho Ning. Lim Hoy War Revenue (No. 2) Amendment, enemy has not yet realised men, Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roose Lan, and Fox Cho Min.
No. 29 of 1940, have not been this trend, but when he does velt. They are the spokesmen of Admission is $3.00 and tickets lisallowed,
resolutions:
"1. That the Directors be and they are hereby authoris ed to capitalise the sum $3,000,000 Hongkong currency; part of the undivided profits of
By order of the Board of Directors,
01
E. COCK.
Chiet Manager.
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The Daily Press
the Company standing to the Hong Kong, 10th March, 1941. credit of the Company's Re serve Fund, and to allot to the members holding shares of the Company as on the first day of April One thousand nine hun- dred and forty-one in respect of the net amount capitalisef fully paid shares of the Com pany of equivalent nominal value in the proportion of one share for every three shares of the Company held by them respectively and that such shares so allotted shall rank for dividends as from the 1st day of July, 1941.
Directors and such share shali,
such
Hong Kong, 21st February, 1941.
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By order of the Board of Directors,
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN COMPANY LTD.
on
報西刺
Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central, Tel. 33225,
Night Editor (Wanchal Office);
Tel."24511.
are obtainable from Mr. Joseph Ng. c/o Foo Hang Bank 122 Queen's Road, Central, The tire proceeds will go to the Yan College War Rellef Fund.
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HE the Officer Administering en-the Government has approved the Wahrelinquishment by Sub-Lieut. Albert Edward Bates of his com- mission in the Hongkong Naval Volunteer Force.
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Indignant dignity and today we say that we are the trustees not only of those living, but of those
the war will end."
READY UNDERSTANDING Mr. Menzies began his talk bynborn." saying that he was speaking from London as an Australian to the He said he believed Americans.
he could speak to them easy and naturally because Australians and
ESTATE
Americans have already under- DUTIES
prevent any relaxation of vigilant preparedness for meeting the attack when it Gazette that His Excellency Sir:
It is notified in the Governmerit stood one another.
A few weeks ago I
came to
comes. Nor are these warn-Geoffry Alexander Stafford North-London from Australia to see a INCREASE
London Office: 53. Fleet Streetmine
E.C.4.
HONGLONG, MARCH 17, 1941.
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A new Bill providing for t
will
ings meant to imply that cote, K.C.M.G., having returned few things, to say a few things this attack will be impossible to the Colony, resumed the ad- and to arrange a few things," said to beat off, but rather to ministration of the Government Mr. Menzies. I came as a sort creases in estate duties is publish-
on Mar. 13, 1941. prevent any over-optimism
of a representative of the embodied in the Government Gazette
This Bill. ment between Australia and. Eng-
when passed, which might tend to under- Prof. Gordon King.
caution. It is
LRCP land, and to show, that when the add as a Fourth Schedule to the now FR.CS., F.CO.G., has been ap alarm sound the members of the principal Etate Duty Ordinance, a nearly certain that Herr pointed a member of the Medical British family stand together.. new Schedule of. Estate Duty Hitler will try to put his plan Board during the absence from
Rates payable on the estates of persons dying on or after the 1st for invasion into effect in the Colony of Prof. Lewis Rudall
¡day of April, 1841. the
coming months: The Shore, MC., M.A., M.D., B, Chir..
D.PH., MR.C.S., M.R.C.P. prospect for him is not one that can. be greatly
Messrs, LA. Calcraft. J.E. Mogra, encouraging. He has seen s. Harber and S. Mason have steadily been enrolled in the Hongkong
British resistance
1
"Germany thought that the British Empire was breaking up she was wrong.. England today stands as solidly as ever. Her head is bloody but un- bowed. Herr Hitler's airmen have dropped their bombs upon
and lovely
ancient things, but the British heart is still high and British fac- tories still roar out their chal- lenge. Differences have been swept away and gone is the man who looks for com- promise.
THE HANDIWORK OF GOD
The present rates, payable on the estates of persons dying on or after the 1st day of July, 1936, "re given in section 4 of Ordinance No. 25 of 1996, and of those who died before that date in the First and Second Schedules to Ordin- azce No. 3 of 1932. Those rates will not be changed in respect of any deaths before April 1, 1941.
It will be seen by comparison between the Schedule in Clause 3 of this Bul- and the Schedule in
2. That if on such distribu tion as aforesaid any person would be entitled to a fractional share the Directors shall, in | lieu of issuing fractional cer SPRING INVASION tificates, cause the whole share
THREATS to be allotted to a person or
TIME persons to be named by the FROM TIME TO
| growing stronger and strong-Defence Reserve while Mr. F.G. blood-curdling stories are
er. He has seen his Luft-Bird has been reassigned from the at such time as the Directors set in circulation from Axis
waffe being repeatedly hurled Combatant Group to the General. sources of the terrible form back think fit, be sold and the which the Nazi invasion of when they attempted, on his
Group for Essential Services. with terrible losses proceeds- distributed amongst Britain will take when it is orders, to wreak wanton and making up of uniforms for use of Tenders are invited for the the persons entitled to the
launched in the coming fractions making up
indiscriminate attacks spring. A variety of fresh Britain. He has been forced supply
on the Railway Dejartment; for the Nobody who knows anything section 4 of Ordinance No. 28 of share."'
of labour, horrors are being promised
provisions, about American history and the 1998. that where the principal to watch his own industrial stores, etc, H.K.V.D.C.; for the American spirit can fail to under-value of the Estate does not ex- the British people and the centres and invasion ports supply of motor vehicle number stand that, like us, you in the ceed $300.000 there is to be no ins most dire penalties are to be being relentlessly blasted at for the supply and delivery of oils
plates; invited for photographing: United States attach supreme increase of duty, but then the duty
duty of 7 per cent. is never" destroy the true spirit of payable on estates not exceeding men, which is the handiwork of $4,000,000; it thereafter by three God,
per cent. stages until a duty of 31 "It has been my privilege to per cent, is payable on estates not bring not only messages of good-jexceeding $5,000,000; and therefore will from the air-forces and armies by three per cent. stages until 52 of the Middle East and the ships per cent. will be the rute for es- of war, but also greetings from tates exceeding $30,000,000, The the whole of the Australian people present maximum is 20 per cent, on
fall creeds and political parties. estates exceeding $20,000,000. The Australians are making the The reason for the increases is effort of their lives. Already they the necessity of finding revenue have thousands in the. Navy, tens to meet increasing expenditure. if thousands in the Air Force -and hundreds of thousands in the Army. Our factories are produc- more small arms, armoured and ammunition, and
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
imposed on them for having a pace that has increased and greases required by the Gov-human being, and Herr Hitler will until a
portance to the future of the frises by stages of one per cent.
dared to oppose the Teuton in recent days. And worst ernment of Hongkong. will! All these outpourings, prospect of all, he has been
to:
which have increased the
which
TALK ON NATURE'S MIRROR
"Y". DISCUSSION. GROUP
we are spending nearly
".
A COMMON CAUSE
CHINESE PRESS ASSOCIATION
Agents. Hong Kong, 21st February, 1941,
which really indicate the unable to prevent opinion in NOTE:-
fury and desperation which the Nazis have been ing solid form in supporting the United States from tak- Under the powers conferred driven, are, of course, gen-Britain and her allies with upon them by Article 12 of the ferally accepted as part of the Notice to Shareholders Articles of Association of the war of nerves which the Axis
every possible weapon of war Company, the
and essential supplies. THE FIFTY-FOURTH OR decided to offer to Shareholders find art.
Directors have gangsters have brought to a
IN THE FACE of these They do not perturb tremendous developments DINARY ANNUAL MEETING
on the Register on the 1st day the ordinary man-in-the- OF SHAREHOLDERS will be of April 1941, one share at par street any longer. The long handicaps he will have to held at the Office of Messrs for every complete three shares delay and the many post- surmount, Herr Hitler's plans Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd, held by them (excluding the ponements which Herr Hitler for invasion must be in a
WEDNESDAY, the 26th Bonus Shares to be offered to has been compelled to make somewhat chaotic s.ate. virtusa, truth and the highest. We vehicles
We as mirrors should reflecting MARCH, 1941, at NOON, for them under the preceding resols in putting this much-vaunted various commentators have seldom can see ourselves as others today the purpose of receiving the tion) upon the terms that pay plan into effect has made tried to piece together, as see us and we are often annoyed £200 million. Report of the Directors and the ment for such shares shall be British Statement of Accounts for the made to the Company's Bankers, fear. No frenzied outbursts method
citizen immune to far as is possible, a coherent of other Deople's doings, not
CHUNGKING, Mar, 16 (Heuter)- realising that we ourselves annoy year ended 31st DECEMBER, The Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, which predict physical or adopt for his attack. There
Many prominent Chinese Govern- he might
other people." "
"Our sons and our brothers ment officials and well-known ing Corporation, Hong Kong mental acts of brutality can have been descriptions of Nature's Mirror" an educational away in strange countries. This is nese National Press Association have ventured their lives in sup Journalists attended the inaugural This former part of the talk on port of a cause thousands of miles meeting of the newly formed Chi- The Transfer Books
of on or before the 30th September now shake him the Company will be CLOSED 1941 and that Shareholders be purpose to shed the last drop down over Britain each carry-Y.M.C.A. Discussion
from his trains of gliders swooping and psychological address to the because we know that this fight is held at 9 am in the new premises from SATURDAY, the 15th given power to renounce their of his blood willingly in the ing three score or so of armed evening in the West Lounge by Mr. nrty years hence humanity will
Group last ours and because we know that of the Central Broadcasting Sta- MARCH, 1941, to WEDNES rights under such offer and that defence of his country and men and a couple of light F. H. Bowrey.
tion. DAY, the 26th MARCH, 1941, no rights attach to any fractions. all that it stands for in the tanks.
look back and give thanks to those
Congratulatory telegrams were both days inclusive.
Others have spoken
speaker quoted passages who defended it in its darkest The shares taken up under the world of today. The British of a new form of underwater which reflected some of the things hour. It is a strange thing, this Chiang Kai-shek and other high received from Generalissimo above offer shall rank for 'divid people have had ample time barges, which would appear He continued that mirrors were derstood by the enemy or by dicta-
which ordinary people cared for. British Empire and it is not un- Chinese oficials as well enda as from 1st day of July 1941. to size up the German mind. suddenly on Britain's shores impassive;
sympathisers throughout they only Formal letters of offer, acceptance They know that the Nazis of and pour out their contents what they
reflected torships, were given.
China, Shanghai and Hongkong. "Each Dominion in the Empire Shareholders as soon as possible manner which is true to their more fantastic is the story that only reflected their cinsest. and renunciation will be sent to today are only behaving in a of men and machines! Even the people have only one pattern is independent. It is equal in all of reflection which was so limited things and the real cement in its after April 1st next.
type-Brutal and remorseless of water-skis which will en-
structure is service to a common 126 to those they have been able able German troops to glide HOW TO REFLECT
faith This Empire believes in
ROME, Mar, 16 (Reuter)-Coun to vanquish, treacherous to across the Channel in their once their faces were dusty or the have created. We stand for love ship which was torpedoed by the men and women and not in the tess Adda Clano, daughter of Mirrors depended on lights and Frankenstein monsters they may signor Mussolini, was on board. a degree that makes any thousands! Whatever means silver at the back faded away they and liberty. We want happiness British off the Albanian coast, trust in their words futile, Herr Hitler decides to adopt would not give good reflections and contentment that flow easily according to the official Italian but, nevertheless, cowardly and however novel they may But we, Mr. Bowrey declared, must
1941.
By Order of the Board of Directors. .C. M."MANNERS,
Secretary & Manager. Hong Kong, 7th March, 1941. ·
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The
Mr. Bowrey
Most of
concluded by
INDIAN WAR HARRIMAN ARRIVES the British have an
posed with calm determina- answer to every one of them and to keep us clean all the while. - MUSEUM
tion and courage.
It is impossible that even the describing Abraham Lincoln as a IT IS, therefore, necessary ingenuity of the Nazi fanatic super mirror, whose reflections people can produce a method of were virtues, truth and the high-
Mr. D. Paul presided.
IN ENGLAND.
NEW DELHI, Mar: 16 (Reuter) Mr. Averell Harriman, President that the British
LONDON, Mar. 16 (Renter)-i The Ray has decided to appoint a Roosevelt's representative to co- should get a correct concep- striking a blow at Britain at committee for the collection and ordinate arrangements for United organisation of war exhibits for States aid to Britain, arrived at tion of the repeated warnings that is invulnerable. Whe- the Indian War Museum,
the Bristol airport yesterday after-which their leaders and ther the German hordes come
pire's war effort.
to
"This war is not a gamble. It is not an effort to seek for empty glory, but a struggle for life. Acting independently, you have in the last few days. entered into a partnershipˇót supply.
FIGHT FOR JUSTICE "You have, by the word of your representatives, placed at the ser- vice of the British Empire materi-
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News Agency...
The Agency alleges the verse! was a hospital ship and that the daughter was acting as a volun- teer nurse aboard..
The ship sank rapidly and there were some deaths, says the Agency. which, however, gives no details regarding the rescue.
STAB WOUNDS
The exhibits will form a record noon from Lebon where, accord military and political com-by land, sea, air or undersea, of India's contributions to the En-ing to a message from Lisbon, he mentators have given them they will be met with a LORRY IN HARBOUR al and anancial resources which
delayed his departure in order to in asking them to prepare resistance: that The Trustees of the Imperial meet
otherwise would have been beyond Col, Donovan, President
has been) A motor lorry, No. 3284: driven their reach. You have given the War Museum in the United King- Roosevelt's Special Envoy
for the coming test
A Chinese, named Li Chu, 34 of carefully prepared, calmly by Ho Po, went off the road and file to the notion that, because a years of age, was admitted to the dom have agreed to exchange Europe, who is returning to the strength in the spring. These organised and fully strength-into the harbour while with the Indian War Museum ex- United States from London.
being country is neutral, it must remain Queen Mary Hospital yesterday warnings are not Issued to ened to exact a tremendous driven along the Kennedy Towri passive, waiting for the axe to fall. suffering from stab wounds in his hibits of mutual interest and it is
"Believe me," he said, "the Ame-the public in an attempt to toll from the invaders and today. The driver, in turning the arsenal and as you increase, our a report to the Police, he alleged waterfront about 10.30 am; yester-You have become the greatest jright arm, shoulder and back. In hoped that alımlar arrangements will be reached with the Domin-rican people certainly mean busi magnify the dangers that drive them back, demoralised lorry around, lost control of it. resistence, you are building up that these were sustained when he
ress. #1
He ahead, but in order to and defeated.
He managed to jump out in time your own,
was attacked by another man.
lons and the Alliee