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HONGKONG, MAY 8, 1941.
TODAY'S COUNCIL
MEETING
Steady Rise
In Copper
Coin Premium.
DRASTIC ACTION
PROMISED
BY OUR STAFF REPORTER
The Hongkong Daily Press learned from authoritative sources yesterday that Govern- ment intend to take drastic ne tion against any person found hoarding copper coins.
The premium on these coins has. been rising gradually unti reached 18 per cent, yesterday, with CONSIDERABLE public in-the result that it was almost im-
terest has been aroused possible to obtain change from
in the meeting of the Legis, small stalls.
lative Council which is to be When seen by a Hongkong Daily held this afternoon, when, it Press reporter, an official of the Treasury stated that Government is expected, official state-
will take action against all money- ments will be made on sever-changers who charge more than al questions which have crop-the legal half-of-one per cent, pré- ped up recently relating to mium for changing coins of one the welfare of the Colony denomination to one of another, The first subject of para- The copper coins found in their mount interest at the mo- possession would have to be handed
over to Government. ment is the Government pro-. posal to establish a monopoly in the matter of imports and Į
CERTAIN. INTERESTS
Asked whether the high value placed on these coins might not be
EDITORIAL
WEDDING AT REGISTRY
Mr. Lo Chlu-kin and his bride, formerly Miss To Yee-kin.-
(King's Studio).
PUBLISHER OF "TIME" FETED
were
at the
MR.
LO CHIU-KIN AND MISS TO
"
Cour
The Registry. Supreme yesterday afternoon was the scene
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1941.
THE WAR 'IN THE AIR:
SMALL, BUT USEFUL R.A.F. VICTORIES: THE INQUEST ON AIR OPERATIONS IN GREECE
"A small, but useful, victory was won on Saturday night by the Royal Air Force and anti-aircraft gunners. They brought down sixteen enemy aircraft over the Mer- seyside and, in the meanwhile, R.A.F. bombers flew over Germany and made some heavy attacks without losing a single machine," said MAJOR OLIVER STEWART, "M.C., A.F.C., the B.B.C. aviation expert, when he broadcast from London yesterday and discussed the importance of the German losses in the air war.
"Look at this from a de- needed workshops stores and a fensive point of view," con- deal, of ammunition. Then there tinued Major Stewart. "I
was a shortage of bases and only a certain number of aircraft could.. don't know how many air- be accommodated in certain aero- craft the Germans sent over dromes and
their
any attempts to on Saturday, but it was a big squeeze in more planes in these raid: It is not likely, how-aerodromes would have increased vulnerability to enemy ever, that the numbers they
bombing. sent over Merseyside were as great as the numbers usually sent over London, which is easier to fly over. Probably 250 to 350 were used.
LOSSES FROM ACCIDENT
LIMITED DENSITY "There is a density limit - so "aerodromes. If we had sent a thousand machines or so to Greece they would have been useless- as there were no properly prepared aerodromes to operate from and "That would mean that between they would have provided, a good five and six per cent. of the raid-target for bombing by the enemy. ing force was destroyed. The pre-r too many machines are stuffed vious largest number destroyed into one aerodrome, they are liable was thirty. Failing information. to get jammed up.
"I have been into this matter of
exports of rice-the staple the result of certain interests being food on which the majority on the market as, buyers, the off-
of a pretty wedding when Miss
one cannot say exactly what pro- The Seventeenth Annual Gen of the "people in Hongkong cial replied. "Maybe.“
To Yee-kin, eldest daughter of portion was brought down each the defeat in Greece because it is Mr. Henry R. Luce, publisher of Mr. To Yee, of the Hongkong time, but I would say five or six the only theatre of war in which eral Meeting of Shareholders subsist. The statement issu- The stock ordered by Government Time," and his play-wright wife. Prisons Department. Stanley, and will be held at the Company's ed by the Government on its some time ago had not yet arrived, Mrs. (Clare Boothe) Luce.
per cent.
was the highest on any the Germans have succeeded in Office at the Jordan Road Ferry intended action. to curb the said the official Copper, ne add the guests of honour at a tea Mrs To, became the bride of Mr. night of sustained raiding.
wresting air supremacy from us. Lo Chiu-kin.
"Let us look on it as five per In all other theatres our air force. Pier, Kowloon, on Saturday, the large-scale profiteering that led, was of greater value for muni- party given by the English Club of
Mr. J Reynolds, Deputy Regis- cent. That would imply that the though out-numbered, was able to tions than for small coins and, pri- thể Canton University 17th May, 1941 at 11.00 a... has set in failed to indicate ority had, therefore, to be given Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden yes,
trar of Marriages, officiated at the Germans sent over 300 machines prevent the enemy from gaining. for the purpose of receiving the the scope of the scheme and to the claims of the munitions fac- terday.
Fourteen were brought down over the air superiority. report of the Board of Directors was even less informative re-tories.
The bride, who wore Chinese this country and two over Erance. together with a statement ofgarding the details of how
"The people in Hongkong do not ed by Mr. Summy Tal who said ceremonial dress, was given away But that was not the total num- There are nearly always Accounts for the year ended 31st. the benefits will be passed on seem to realise that there is a war that Mr. Luce was connected with by her father while Mr. Lo Wen- ber.
menn was the witness,
losses through accidents and it is December, 1940.
to the consumer. In other on and that men are dying by the China League Campaign and
The bridegroom, who is the possible that enemy losses by ac- visit to China "to sec The transfer books of the words, as many prominent thousands in Europe and Africa is on a
seventh son of the late Mr. Lo cidents sometimes exceed, by a Company will be closed from the businessmen have pointed and China. They worry over such things for himself.”
Cheuk-wan, former prominent busr- large margin, losses from our own (nessman in Hongkong, and the action. 7th to 17th May, 1941, both days out, no guarantee appears to trivial matter as a shortage of Two questions, said Mr. Lupe,
have been given that the dis. copper coins when other vital ques- were on the mind of many people late. Mrs. Lo, is the proprietor of
inclusive,
LAU TAK PO, Managing Director,
Hong Kong, 1st May, 1941.
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THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
tions are at stake."
tribution of rice and its sale!
to the public will be so con-¦ ducted as to prevent the peo-
ple being victimised as they STATEMENT ON
have been in the past few months.
APART from this aspect of the subject is a fact that the Government is content to let
NIGHTSOIL SOUGHT
"
· Mr. and Mrs. Luce were welcom-
and
-American aid for China America's entering the war. On the first point, went on Mr. Luce,
| American ald to China depended
ceremony.
the Loong Tuen Cafe, in Kowicon City.
A dinner was held at the Kwong
on what supplies she could spare. Chow Restaurant, West Point, last As to America's entry into the night, when a large gathering of war, public opinion was now pret-relatives and friends attended and ty clear on the point that the offered their felicitations to the country could not live on an happy couple. isolationist policy.
"Some one told me the other
At this afternoon's meeting of day that every fifth man in the
OTHER MARRIAGES
Twelve other Chinese couples
the present position continue the Legislative Council, the Honworld is Chinese," said Mrs. Luce, were also married at the Registry.
Mr. M. K. Lo wil), ask the follow- "which, if true, shows the tremen- The parties were:- for nearly a month before
Ing question:-
dous possibilities of the nation".
Mr. Lai Fal-cho, merchant, of No making the monopoly scheme Will the Government make any
China, said the speaker, had all 165 Des Voeux Road Central, and operative. There is no doubt statement regarding the recent re- that a country needs to make her Miss Lt Hang-hing, of No. 6 Yuen that the task of assuming presentations made by former strong-mineral wealth, food sup-Yuen Street; full control is no easy one, nightsol collectors now replaced ply and man-power. but the matter is one of by Government employees?
The Seventy-second Ordinary emergency. Is there any rea-
Mr, Leung Kwok-chi thanked the speakers.
Farewell To Dean Wilson
a General Meeting of Shareholders son why the Government
will be held at the Offices of the cannot clamp down on the PROMPT ACTION BY undersigned on Wednesday, the rice question at once without COXSWAINS 21st May, 1941, at Noon, for allowing present conditions Prompt action by the coxswains the purpose of receiving the to continue any longer? Di-prevented a collision between a Report of the General Managers,latoriness will only cause the Star Ferry and a steam la:mch in together with a
statement, of unscrupulous dealers to re-harbour about 12.20 p.m. yester-
day. Accounts for the year ended the double their efforts to mulct]
The Golden Star was proceeding 31st December, 1940.
the people who have got to from Kowloon to the Island when The Share Régister and obtain rice during the period traffic in midstream was held up Transler Books will be closed which must elapse before the by an outgoing steamer.
takes action launch, towing a lighter, almost from the 7th May to the 21st May, 1941, both days inclusive. Immediate steps- to put the crashed into the ferry boat, the Jacobean Room of the Hongkong of No. 35 Johnston Road, and Miss
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Managers, The Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.,
Government
coxswain
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A steam
the latter just
scheme into operation will do managing to reverse.
a great deal to alleviate the
lot of the poorer classes, who
PRÉSENTATION BY “GEORDIES”
When a large force operates at night, the chances are that even under the best conditions at least one machine would be written off through accidents"
#In Libya, of course, we have had to give up some of our air bases, but we have always held áir supremacy. If we can re- tain this air supremacy on the home front it will improve our military fortunes,”
THE MAN
Major Stewart went on to des- FROM MARS
cribe how British plots carried
out their attacks on aerodromes
in occupied territory and declared:
that the Douglas machine had AMERICAN SCIENTIST
BLASTS THEORY
been very successful in that sort of work.
OF LIFE ACTUAL LOSSES The bombing of an aerodrome at With whimsical and bogus ten- good deal of derness, U.S. newspapers have night. required a
their old favourite, the judgment, Major Stewart express-kissed ed the view that the Germans Mar From Mars, good-bye.
ralding.
Red-
In such dryness it seemed most
spectroscope yet known."
must have lost at least twenty son: Walter Sydney Adams, astute planes on Saturday and about Director of Mt. Wilson Observatory Mr. Yorke Lee. clerk of No. 6 eighty or ninety trained airmen. in California, said he had observed Queen's Road Central and Miss These were all night flying ma-the Martian 'atmosphere for water- Chen Yit-wa. of No. 15 Fung Fal chines and night-fiying crews. Vapour content, found none of Terrace;
It is the views of those who simost none in any case (allow- Mr. Cheng Chun-pun, clerk, of have some idea of German airing for instrumental error) not No 122 Main Street, and Miss Lee strength that a loss rate of ten or more than
3 per cent. of the Tak-wah, of No. 31 Haiphong Road: fifteen per cent. would have to be moisture 11 earth's air, says
day Time. Mr. Tan Thoeng-tjlaw, merchant. inflicted and maintained if
raiding is to be stopped," continued ot No. 298 Des Voeux Road Central, Major Stewart. The actual losses unlikely that active animals could and Miss Lau Sun-yin. of No. 101 Over this country were
greater exist.
In making his observations. Des Voeux Road West;
than this on many occasions, but, Dr. Adams used the most delicate Mr. Yuen Kal-chan, clerk, of on the average, they worked out No. 167 Lockhart Road, and Miss at about twelve per cent. of the
A spectroscopë splits light into The Northumberland and Durham Tung Woot-ngan, of No. 52 Mong-raiding forces and we know that
we have now stopped daylight of various elements and compounds patterns in which the "signatures" Society gave VERY REV. J. L. WILSON at the
a reception to the kok Road;
Mr. Chan Kam-hon, hair dresser.
can be identified. Light from Mars "It is the percentage losses
comes through the earth's air that matter. That is a point I Hotel yesterday evening, when the Ho Lai-shan, of the same address:
blanket, which contains water Dean, who is soon to leave for
have always tried to make.
vapour, so Dr. Adama had to sê- Mr. Ko Ngoh-Jau, office assistant, Singapore, was presented with a of No.
Sixteen machines down sounds 461 Reclamation 'Street,
parate the terrestrial vapour pat- set of silver spoons bearing the em third floor, and Miss Bin Kit-
very little when compared with
tern from the Martian Ur any). 15 brought down during last sheung, school mistress of No. 422
This he did with the help of a Reclamation Street, second floor:
year in one day, but during
phenomenon called the Doppler the fighting last year there
effect: when a source of Night ap- Mr. Fung Ngal-hung, merchant, of were supposed to be as many be raised at today's meeting. blameless in this instance. Dean Wilson. In accepting the
proaches earth, its spectrum lines 39 E. and F. Battery Street, and ss 1,000 machines operating
are shifted to the right, and when as there are already indica- Employment was offered to gift, said that it was a most excel-Miss Yim Sau-chun, of No. 478 over this country.” tions that, in view of the im- these coolles and they elected memento to the friendship, kind-
receding they are shifted to the lent and symbolic one and a fitting Nathan Road;
OPERATIONS IN GREECE
lett! pending Government action to refuse it on grounds thatness enthusiasm and good fellow-
Mr. Sheet Shlu-hong, inspector, Major Stewart next turned to
VAPOUR LINES on rice, the profiteers are have not been properly sub-ship to be found in the Society, Immigration Office, of No. 478 what he described as "the inquest
At times when "Mars is fast ap- gradually shifting their at-stantiated. The Chinese mem- The Chairman of the Society, Mr. Nathan Road, and Miss Chin Kim-on air operations in Greece." " tentions to flour. Unwar- bers of the
All the information we have proaching or retreating. the Dop- David Kosaick, and the Hon. Mr, fong, of the same address; Council may IN. L. Smith also spoke.
Mr. Lee Kal-sing, clerk, ot No. now got," he said, "shows that our pler effect should pull the Martian some suggestion to
strength there gradually vapour lines away from the earth B9 Gloucester Road, third floor. air of this commodity will affect make to the Government on
and lines enough to make them visible the more well-to-do classes the subject today. One other A short programme of entertain- and Miss Chang Mu-ling, of No. 11 dwindled. RAF bombers
fighters were active during the Dr. Adams" delicate Instrument. in the same way that the rice matter that might with ad- ing the chorus in two Tyneside
ment was given, Dean Wilson lead- Mallory Street, third floor;
opening stages of the campaign. But they failed to appear. ... Mr. Wong Yat-chuen, building By the time the fighting had fallen Astronomers have long known situation has caused distress vantage be taken up at the songs. Mr. Freddie Archer was at contractor, of No, 94 Johnston back to the first defensive line, that Mars was dry, cold, almost among the poor and swift meeting is the somewhat the plano
Road, and Miss Ting Yuk-chan, of the British air effort had become airless. Years ago Dr. Adems The Hongkong Amateur Cinema action must be the key-note over-drastic measures which E. 8. M. Radford recited an ode No. @ Hing Hon Road," Club will meet on Monday, May 19, of Government policy for the have been taken against the he had composed in honour of the Mr. Chung Wing-yan, banker, of at the West Lounge, European | future.
squatters in the Colony, occasion, and a humorous recita No. 32 Cheung Sha Wan Road, and Y. M. C. A., at 7 pm, when a pro- AMONG other subjects on Some Indication of a plan to
tion was given by Mr. Kossick. Miss Chu Bhak-foon, of No. 8 gramme of "alms, depleting war
A group photograph was taken. Mosque Street. scenes, and some comedy reels, will which information is sought remove these people from Present also were Prof. L FOTE-
Hong Kong, 30th April, 1941.
227
are, of course, the biggest position on the question, blem of the Tyne bridge... sufferers. Indeed, the whole however much it may have The presentation was made by subject of food control should been criticised before, is the Rt. Rev. R. O. Hall.
NEWSETTES ranted increases in the price have
A free film show was given at the Sailors and, Soldiers' Home
last night.
be shown,
TWO SONGB
noticeably less.
:
found that, the oxygen content of the Martian. atmosphere must be When we withdrew to the
less than 1 per cent, of that in second defensive line; our air
earth's air. Bút many astronomers effort had decreased almost to
feel that the seasonal changes of vanishing point. Up to the
the planet's markings must be due time of the evacuation it
to some type of vegetation. seemed that the German air force had full local supremacy...... For many years Dr. Persival that the "The result was that we were Lowell's hypothesis, forced to abandon our air bases. "canals" on Mars' surface were John Dary Rowe Linton, Lance We did not have many of these at irrigation canals, prolonged the
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The following forthcoming mar- were announced yester-
by the public is that in re-places where they have been ter, Mr. T. W. Carr, Mr. J. D. M. gard to the plight of the making a nuisance of them-Mattison, Mr. M. M Starling, Mr. coolles who have now been selves and to offer them re- W. Mulcahy, the Rev. A. P. Rose, riages The Hongkong Chinese Reporters thrown out of employment as fuge in the New Territories Mr. F. L. Maugham, Mr. W. Chrels, day: Association are holding a bazaar
Prof. and Mrs. W. Faid, Mr. and at the To Yuen Restaurant, West a result of the Government or elsewhere is urgently de- Mrs. Cross, Mr. T. Waller, Mr. and
Point, for the purpose of raising having taken over the collec-manded,, in view; of the un-Mrs. J. Fraser, Mr. J. V. Ramsey, corporal, 2nd Bn, Royal Scots, or the beginning and as the Germans Man from Mars' existence. He is
dori even those we had. funds for the purchase of War-tlon and disposal of night-pleasant methods which ap-Mr. J. G. R. Humble, Mr. Simpson, Victoria Barracks, and Miss Maria/advanced we were forced to aban- not wholly dead, yet., Animal life may have flourished there millions "It has been suggested," con-of years ago when conditions were time Supply Bonds of the Chung- soll. The re-absorption of pear to have been adopted in Mr. D. Holiday, Mr. F. Jeacock, Mr. Silver, of No. 13 Hillwood Road.
tinued Major Stewart," that we more genial. king Government. bar, these unfortunate men and the past and which only G. Henderson. Mr. and Mrs. Cemer Kowloon,
Mr. Hut Ching, merchant, of No. should have had more aircraft in Perhaps some unimaginably zing- which will be opened at noon women into Government em- Increase the hardships of Mrs. Manchester, Messrs. Alexander. 282 Portland-Street, and Miss Ng Greece at the start. I can see two slab survivors are still alive, adopt- nic, Miss Ethel Thompson, Dr. and tomorrow, will be for three days, Articles will be priced at $1, $2ployment is, of course, de- the poorer sections of the Denton, Hart, D. Dorford, R. Smith Wai-wan, of No. 24 High Street, reasons why that was not posed to an ultra-slow rate of oxygen
sirable, but the Government population.
Firstly we should have and water metaboliem
and $5.
and H. R. FOX...
Arst floor.
sible,