HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
American Engineering Feats: Many Carried Out In W. Hemisphere
- Washington.—While Europe concentrated its engineering ac- tivities In 1940 on bullding of war machines, the Western Hemis- phere forged ahead with many significant contributions to peace- time construction; a survey disclosed today.
America's most outstanding project according to the National Geographic Society, was the 160-mile, $700,000,000 "superhighway" across the western two-thirds of Pennsylvania
almost to Pittsburth.
Having no grade greater than three per cent., the four-lane ex- press way is without stops, traffic lights, grade crossings, intersec- tions and speed limit The super- road goes through-Instead of over the Allegheny Mountains, barrier. since colonial times to west-bound transportation.
from Harrisburg
Iguassu Falla in South America, world famous cataract, was made
accessible by highway from Buenos Aires with the completion in June of a 205-mile road from Posados.
Australia "came through with a
FINANCE & GENERAL
Finance and Commerce
RUSSO-BELGIAN AGREEMENT
Wheat And Fats For Engineering Goods
An
LONDON, Apr. 17 (Reuter) -
agreement, whereby Russia will supply Belgium ti the next quantities of wheat and fats had 12 months with very substantiai been reached in Moscow yesterday.
Reuter learns in London.
450-mile. road between Alice This agreement was presumably Springs and Birdum the last link reached with German in a rali-highway-rall combination and will go far towards Canada opened its first, supër- } providing for the first time athe food shortage in highway. "The Queen Elizabeth modern transportation system which is suffering more than any Way" in August. It furnishes across the Australian continent other western country.
Erle (across from Buffalo). The Darwin on the North. construction included several large ! bridges, uriderpasses and cloverleaf connections,
tralia, as well as the nearest port applied to enemy occupied
coun-
because
FINLAND'S TRADE-LINE IS NARROW, WINDING
ARCTIC HIGHWAY
HELSINKI, March 15-Gasoline is scarce in Finland today, but you wouldn't know it from the traffic that flows over the Arctic highway from Petsamo to Rovaniemi.
With the Baltic sea virtually an inland lake as a result of the British blockade, the narrow, winding ribbon of concrete connecting the Petsamo harbour of Llinahamari with the rall head at Rovaniemi has become Finland's lifeine.
LACK OF CASH
16
FRIDAY,
SAY
APRIL 18, 1941. -PAGE 9
Gordon's
and know what you're drinking/
GORDONS
DRY GIN
DISTILLERY LONDON
NO COLOURING MATTER NO
INJURIOUS INGREDIENTS
Around the clock in the pale It is estimated that the harbour Arctic winter twilight. long of Linahanzari at present can columns of trucks-Finnish. Ger- handle only 2000 tons day. But man and Swedish-roll over the only 25 or 30 per cent of this approval narrow road with its hundreds of amount gets to Rovaniemi now meeting curves and bridges and scores of because of a lack of trucks and Belgium sharp dips and rises,
experienced drivers, INCREASED TRAFFIC
The limited facilities at Liina- To meet the demands of the in-hamart and the British blockade of quick access to Toronto from Fort from Adelaide on the south to The Russo Belgian agreement creased traffic, an army of men the Baltic have cut sharply into is held in British authoritative work to improve the road, but it Finish supplies. The shortage of "Since Darwin is the only city circles as justifying the official still is far from good. Only hardy foodstuffs and other vital com or consequence in northern Aus-view that the blockade, must be and experienced drivers can modities is reported to be even navigate its 350 miles and they are greater than was anticipated last After five years' construction
to Singapore and eastern Asia, and tries, firstly because the respon.comparatively well paid, receiving fall when rations were fixed. time, the "Big Band Highway"
a British naval base, the new high-sibility of feeding them is
the equivalent of $20 for the round Ger- nearly 2,000 miles farther west in way also is of military importance" meny's and, secondly,
trip. Canada, was opened in June. The the Society pointed out. "Most of British firmness evidently resulted Although the highway, according Complicating Finland's problems. road follows the north bend of the the region traversed is desert, but in the Russo-Belglar agreement experts, has a capacity of 10,000 is a lack of ready cash with which Columbia River, between Golden in the northern section torrential which deprives Germany of up-tons daily, there never has been to purchase supplies from Russia, and Revelstoke. The Banff-Jasper rains fall during four months of plies which she would otherwise more than 2,000 tons shipped in the only nation to which she can Alghway was put in use in July the year, and in the past have have had,
one day. German And Swedish turn. A Russo-Finnish trade pact It connects the Dominion's two made the unimproved roadway Im-
shipments, which are about the provides Finland must pay in cash largest national parks.
It is understood that Belgium. same, are estimated to amount to when her arrearage of purchases.
Volume of Business Transacted in return, will supply Russia 40 per cent of the total volume. reaches $500,000
on Thursday, April 17, 1941. SALES with engineering products.
Making. purchases from the China Lights. Rts. United States or South America
...... 104 $0.50 not only involves the problem of H.K. Lands
100 $3.00 payment but also of transport. H.K. Tramways
Finland applied for a $7,000,000 Ropes credit in the latter part of 1940 Canton Ins. from the United States, but up to Star Ferries this time it has not been granted.} England hes granted Finland
BILLETING REGULATIONS,
IN SPORE
15
passable...
J
CONFINED TO OLD WORLD Railroad construction," for the most part, was confined to the Old World. Greece, Italy, Persia, Canada's 'total wool production Soviet Russia and Norway, all com- in 1940 amounted to 18.127.000 pleted new sections of freight pounds "as compared with 17,846, passenger pes in 1940. Several 000 pounds in 1939. railroads were extended in Man- churia and Southern China.
2,000 TONS A DAY
The bottle-neck in shipments by this route is at the port of Liina- hamari. A small village until two years ago, Llinghamari has only one modern dock long enough for two ships. There are no loading
cranes or storehouses.
A number of dams, too, were put HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS avicerts for foodstuffs, but has
Buyer Sellers
Baler Nomibal
SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATION
THURSDAY 17 APRI
Banks
$1345
H.K. Backs
£781
Do. (Col. Beg.)
£73
Do. (Lon. Reg:)
289
Chartered Banki
Regulations empowering a com- petent authority to serve billeting notices to octuplers of premises
The huge Canning Dam STOCK EXCHANGE, requiring them to furnish accom-to use.
in Western Australia was complct- modation by way of lodging or
ed in September. It is 218. feet and either with of high, has a crest length of 1,534 food, or both, without attendance for a specified feet and a capacity of 20,000,000,- number of people, were gazetted 500 gallons of water. The Hansen in Singapore.
Dam, near Los Angeles went into Persons guilty of an offence un-
use in August. The dam will co- der the Regulations will be ilahin trol Los Angeles River waters. The to a fine not exceeding $500. it was Fresno Dam, completed in April, at also announced...
the Milk River Project in Montane, The Regulations, cited as the can store more than 40,000,000,000 Defence (Amendment No. 7) Re-gallons of water for Irrigation. It gulations, 1941, empower the Gov- was built by the federal govern- ernor to prescribe the lodging or ment food to be furnished and the ut- - Outstanding among the 1940 crop tendance to be given in accordance of bridges, in the United States with a billeting notice. the price were: the Thomas Alva Edison to be paid. in respect of accom- Memorial bridge over the Paritan modation so furnished and the River at Perth Amboy, N.J.: a mile- authority by whom such price is and-a-half long four-lane bridge to be paid.
If the occupier of any premises feels aggrieved by the requirements of any
billeting notice, he may, within 14 days from the beginning of the day on which the notice is served on him, complain to a Dis-
trict Court:
1
COURT'S POWER
across the Susquehanna at Havre de Grace, Md.: the Jamestown Bridge across the west passage of Narra- gansett Bay, and the Morgantown Bridge, over two miles long, across the Potomac 75 miles down river from Washington, DC.
One of the most unusual bridges ever bullt went into use near Beat- tle across Lake. Washington. It is The court, if satisfied that the more than a mile long and four furnishing of accommodation is in lanes wide and is supported by 23 accordance with the notice would huge floating pontoons of concrete. otherwise impose an undue burdenį
A high wind spelled doom for
970
*
210
£214 Mercantile Bks. "A"
Mercantile Bka. "C". Bank of East. Avia.......... N. C. & S. Banks..... Insurances
$197 H.K. Firma.....
$135 Douglases
Steamboats Indo-Chinas (Prof.)..
Bayer Bellara Bil Towing
$1345
2783
£75
£8A
E21
$70
£10
15 e
#2221
$425
$430
$430
1
Canton Insurances..... Union Insurancej........... Underwriters
$430
180 eta
$100
Shipping ..
$120
$80
$60
41/3
X.D. 16 55
$105.1
$56
$15.80
8241
15/0 $8
$81
860
$60
Todo-Chinas (Def))
41/3
Shells
$6.55
Waterboats
Docks, Wharvės,
185+
$86 $5.10
$16
H:K. Dock
-8244
Mining
[15/0....
Kailena
$8 Baube
::
83
***
BCTOSS an
...
on the occupier, may by order, the Narrows Suspension Bridge at annul the notice or direct that It
Tacoma, Washington, shall have effect subject to such arm of Puget Sound. The Nar- modifications as muy be specified rows Bridge was opened to traffic in the order.
in July. Three additional bridges every were built across the Mississippi
It will be the duty of
occupier of premises on whom a River during 1940: at Greenville billeting notice has been served, to and Natchez, Miss, and at Baton afford accommodation and give at Rouge, La...
tendance in his premises in ac
cordance with the notice, or order was opened across the Brisbane made by the District Court, unless River at Brisbane, Australia,
such billeting notice le annulled by
order. the Gazette states.
The authority prescribed in any
order of the Governor must pay
to the occupier of the premises in
which any person in billeted the
#
841
Austraila's second largest bridge
816 8161
$34
$23
UNCLAIMED
TELEGRAMS
price prescribed by such order, The following is a list of tele-. and the amount of any sum so pald grame awaiting claimants at the may, except where the
office of the Great Northern Tele- billeted is a member of the Forces Graph Company (Limited):-Dr. Tcheng, 32 Village Road, from
persun
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 18 to 24 Apr. 1941.
or a public servant, or the wife or Stockholm; Young Ban Sam; Lak dependant of such a member, be Kwok Hotel, from Kobe; Mayes, recovered by the authority.
c/o Gloucester Hotel, from Yoko- hama: Li Tal Chor,, 545 Nathan Road, from Shanghai; Tang Kwong, c/o Kwok Kow San, 14 Fung Fai Terrace, from Shanghai; Lui Wing Kar's Mother, 22 Sal Wu Lane, from Shanghai; Chan; Man Tsun, & Kimberley Road, from Shanghai: Cheng Tung Ching, c/o Luk Kwok Hotel, from Shanghal.
TOD MA
HIGH WATER.
Days
Hong
Height.
LOW WACKE
Height.
SHANGHAI. April 17 (Reuter)
31.70
Providents
.Godowas, etc.
H.K. & R. Wharyse.
H.K. Docks (Old)....
(Now)....
+Shanghai Docks......
$
414
= ፧ ፡፧፧
$0.60
X.D.
*3
233
$200
8:25
#16
$16.30 $18.26
(31
$1.40
HONGKONG
SHAREBROKERS
ASSOCIATION"
200 16.10
500 7.00 *35 222.50
100
51.75
1.039
The total value is $23,034,50.
not allowed her to accumulate any. "Sale on Wednesday, the 18th stocks of potential military im- Inst. portance.
URGENT NEEDS Finland's most urgent needs are rye and wheat for bread. fats. meat and raw materials for her textile industry, Finland's Minister
FOOD PRICES FIXED
IN HUNAN CHANGSHA, April 17 (Central) General Esúeb Yoh, Chairman
H.K. Stock Exchange
The market continues quiet, the volume of business done today being at very modest dimensions.
BUYERS
Bank of East Asia, $70. Union Ins, $425.
Indo-Chinas (Pref.), $80. Wharves, $85).
China Lights (0), $6. Entertainments, $6.
اره
SELLERS
Union Ina.. $430.
HE. Trams, $181.
Star Ferries, $53.
Watsons, $94.
SALES
Providents, $5.10. Lands, $33.
HK Trams, $16,10. China Lights (0), $6.
China Lights Rts., 50 cts. "Ropes, $7..
ties and enjoined the magistrates,
of supplies told the United Fress of the Human Provincial Govern- that there is only enough rye and ment summoned the efl and wheat on hand to last until the military officials of the districts end of May.
of Changsha, Blangtan and Heng- The Finnish cotton Industry em-Yang yesterday when he gave ploys 30,000 workers, but because specific instructions regarding the of a shortage of raw materials has stabilisation of commodity prices, administrative commissioners and been forced to work far belovë (and air raid defence.
members of the mobilisation com- capacity. The industry has avoid- General Hsueh sternly warned mittees and Kuomintang branches ed wholesale dismissals by working against manipulation of the prices in different hṣien to guard against two-day-a-week shifts.
di foodstuffs and other commodi- such offences.
PRE-PAID ADVERTISEMENTS.
The following classes of advertisements are charged at the price given below:- SITUATIONS VACANT. HOUSES AND APARTMENTS WANTED.
HOUSES AND APARTMENTS TO BE LET. 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.
HOTELS
TEA DANCE DAILY
1 cta. Hong Kong Mines....
Lands, Hotels and Buildings
E.K. & 8. Hotels.... $3311.K. Lands..
1971 Do. 4% Debentures."
10 Shanghai Lands... $3.10 H.E. Realties..
$6.80 Humphreys....... $99
Chinese Estates.......
Cotton Mills
Ewo (8.)
$200 S'hai Cottons (8.).. Zoong Sings (8.)..... Wing On Textiles (9.
Public Utilities
HK Tramway....... Peak Trams (old)... Peak Tram (new..
$59 Star Ferries.
'mati Ferries....
$6.20 Chips Lights (0
China Lights (New)..
$28.20 . K. Electrica (Old)...) $25.60) $28.10| XR.
$261 H.K. Electrics(New)
$184 Macro Electrics (Old))"
894 81%
(1934)
(1940)
Miscellaneous
$17 Dairy Farma.........
Entertainments
$1.00 Constructions fold)..
民
Constructions (naw)..
Lang Crawfords........ Nanyang Tobacco.....
$2.15 Sinceres..................
Ch. G.5% 1925G3Bds
139 I.K. Wing On...
Bhai Wing Un
$7.20 Vibro Piling
6/3 Maine Inv. (Lon 3/8 Marsman T. (H.K $1.50 Wm. Powal
18 H.K. Electris (ta)
+Bale to Bhanghai)
*$2.20
397
$3.18
WANTED KNOWN
Experienced Book-keeper Wants students to orm a class. Guaran tee students keep a whole set of
books after completion of a course at 6 months. For Term and Par- ticulars. Please Apply to:-Box No 482 a/o H.K.D.P
WANTED TO BUY
WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all gold and silver articles.. Jade diamonds, jewels, watches, fountain pens. Apply Far East Diamond and Gold Refining Co. Room 621, China Building, 6th $25 floor. (Store will open on Sun
days
and Holidays).
General Agent: Chan Che Kee 30 No: 4, Lyndhurst Terrace. Te
26402
FOR JADED APPETITES!
REAL RUSSIAN FOOD
Tiffin $1.20
Dinner $1.50
METROPOLE HOTEL
TO LET
Shop space, with window, in best district, early next month. Reply giving line of business to box 200
HK. D. P.
WE PAY HIGH PRICES 16, 175 ots. for all gold and silver articles, gold bars, "diamonds and jewels. |Apply China: Told Refining, Co. Fodder Building, End Door. Boom 6.
WE OFFER HIGH PRICES for any, amount of gold" articles. diamonds, silver, Jewels, etc. No holidays. Apply China Buliding. $1.67th floor. Tel. 30727 Eurasia Gold $71 Refining Co.
US FLOUR FOR FRANCE
WASHINGTON, Apr. 17 (Reuter) Two French ships, provided with British navicerts, are leaving New 10nYork tomorrow for Marseilles with #1513,509 tons of United Eltates four
for unocempied France.
BUTTERICK
Expert Ladies Tallor New Style Ready Made Dresses, Overcoats and Costumes FOR SALE.
Wyndham Street,
ENGRAVERS
FEI FEI & CO. Photo Engravers
18, Cochrane Street: Telephone No. 2224
UCTIONTZES
GREATEST COLLECTION OF BARGAINS IN TOWN!
LAMMERT - MECHION BOOM
EXCEPT MONDAYS
5 to 730 PM.
Jimmy's
Help Your Friend and Ha Hobby by giving POSTAGE STAMPS
for
his COLLECTIONS
SEEDS
for
His GARDEN
We can supply the goods of his did your want
GRACA & CO. Dealers in postage stamps
garden seeds etc.. No. 10 Wyndham Street. Established 1996 HONG RONG
WANT ADD
ARE SURE!
Telephones (NEW).......
$17 Macao Electrics (New)
$1
Sandakan Light
823; Telephones (bli)...................
89
8pore Tactians (Ord.1)
Industrials
$30
Cald., Macg. (Ord.) 8.
$25
Cald, Macg. (Prof.15
Canton Ic
X.D.
$16
#13
H.K. Ropes
HE. Geri. Loans
$87
5% Loan
8944 34%
764
B01
$1
Hong
Korig
Kong
Standard
Standard
Time
Time
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st, ingh. nu
Fri. 18. 0334
4 4 00 44
1357 63 21 37. 18
Sat. 19 4:05 07 44
16 17
Sub. 20 06 23 4 8 09:47 33 ng-
07 3742 Four Chinese government banks 2254 19 suspended business here this morn-
16 40'
Mon..21
07 14
4 9-11 44 (4.0. An offietat of one of the banks
14 02
07:48
told Reuter: "We do not know
580039 20whether the government banks
19 08 6.6 12.47 35 will reopen for business in the
Toen. 22
Wed. 23
Thu 2 ON 37 b 7 of 50
09:14 501 17 20
2004 [3813 37 3.0 near future.”d
2057
3.8. 142.
1
is
The Shanghat dollar rate this
morning dropped to 3.3/18.
TENUTE
$9.80
95
Cements.
Tel. 23415
and