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this
of Company," particulars which are given below, have been reported LOST, or MISLAID and NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that unless the
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HONGKONG, JUNE 3, 1941.
THE LESSONS OF CRETE
EDITORIAL
800 FED DAILY
AT SALVATION ARMY HOME'S FOOD KITCHEN
chen".
IN CHINA
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, ∙1941.
EXTRALITY “FAMILY BROADCAST" TO THE NAVY BY THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY
the promise
►
said certificates are produced atHE WITHDRAWAL of the he said, "You should see the crowd the Sing Tao Jih Pao and the Naniversaries of two great Bri- operations which the
.
in any
navy is
to
CHINESE PRESS PLEASED WITH
I am not going to speak to men like you in terms of "For the past three-and-a-half | U.S. PROMISE optimism about a speedy victory, but on the information. years", said Brigadier William
which has come before me I can tell you that we have full Gratification over Darby, of the Salvation Army, “we‡
and steady confidence in the outcome based upon solid have been feeding about 800 men, of the United States Government women and children daily at our to relinquish extraterritorial rights facts, said the RT. HON, A. V. ALEXANDER, First Lord Food Kitchen In Wanchai. I can in China after the restoratiori of
of the Admiralty, when he broadcast a message to the Bri- deanitely say that every one of peace, as revealed by the publica-
tish Fleet from London on Sunday. these men and women all deserved tion of official letters exchanged
There between Secretary of State Mr, "I believe," said Mr. Alex- way to the food we gave them.
those required was not a single able-bodied man Cordell Hult and Dr. Quo Tai-chander, "this is the first case other field of battle. or woman fed by us at the Kit-new Chinese Minister of Foreign in which a First Lord has VAST OPERATIONS
ATairs now sojourning in America. broadcast to the Navy. Yes- "We understand all that is in- The speaker's fate beamed when is expressed by the Ta Kung Pao terday and today are the an- volved in the vast scheme of that gathers there everyday." There tional Times in their editorials British and -Imperial
tish naval victories, that is carrying out the world over", sald the registered office of the Com.
is absolutely no need for Major today.
Mr. Alexander, "and it is a great island of and Mrs. forces from the
The Ta Kung Pao asserts that why I felt that I should like measure of confidence to us Ponting--who are in pany at China Building, 5th floor, Crete, as announced in Lon-charge of the Kitchen to tell this promise on the part of the to ralk to the navy in the see the mastery which we enjoy Hong Kong within THIRTY don on Sunday, has not come them to form into a queue-they United States will tend to cement midst of the ferce struggle in and the way in which new tasks,
closer friendly relations of the two which we are now engaged. DAYS from the date of this as a surprise. For some days always do that themselves".
new problems and dangers are Notice, the aforesaid Certificates it had become increasingly that the Salvation Army has been, and permanent footing.
Brigadier Darby. went on to say countries and place them on a firm
being tackled. Nos. 260, 261 & 262 shall be evident that, despite the galand still is.. conducting a school deemed CANCELLED AND OF lant resistance which the for the children who attend the In view of the assurances made NO EFFECT and an application British troops and their Greek Kitchen as well as other children by the United States and also by count now on May 21. 18.15, to the Company for the issue of comrades were putting up in Wanchai. There are now over Great Britain some time ago, the British Fleet, under Admiral Jel-say a few words about the other duplicate certificates in respect of against the German invaders, 400 children in this school-part paper continues, the wholesale dicoe, met and defeated the Ger-services. The British army has the said shares will be proceeded they were battling under over of which is in Causeway Bay and abolition of China's unequal trea-man High Seas Fleet. That was an played a magnificent part in our with in the usual course.
part in Wanchal-receiving "in-ties in the future is thus assured. action in which the results were struggle and the navy has always whelming handicaps and
structions from Government quali- Describing the United Statest gained only because the enemy paid a tribute to our air force. shares are as follows :— ·
The particulars of the said that, in the face of the in-fied teachers.
did not fight it out. : promise to relinquish her extra-
"These services will have their numerable advantages which
WORTH THE TROUBLE territorial rights in China as "far- The Germans claimed to "have time-honoured jokes at the ex- behind No. of No, of Distinctive
the Germans held in the mat- "In all the years I have been sighted", the Sing Tao Jin Pa won that victory, but they did pense of each other, but certificate shares
ter of air strength and the connected. Nos.
with the Salvation says that it clearly refects Ame-not explain why the German Navy these lle a deep appreciation of But that same spirit which animates proximity of their bases in Army", continued Bris. Darby, rica's determination for further returned to their harbours. 260 50 12300 to 12319 Greece, it was impossible for have never
seen such transform.ald to China and also Indicates to the next time the German Fleet had them all.
"You will also wish me to refer 12350 to 12399 the allied forces, with no way ation as
that of the Wanchal the aggressor in the Far East that put out to seat was to haul down
to your comrade of the sea - the of balancing these advan-, children. It was wonderful and the relations of the two countries its colours
are inalienable. The paper urges
officers and men of the Merchant The glorious battle of June absolutely worth the trouble being tagès, to drive the Germans taken over them”.
closer co-operation between the 1794, was significant at this mo- Navy They continue to keep our While it
two countries in the future. Brig. Darby also stated that over
ment when Britain was fighting life-lines open and they are faith- The National Times terms the the Battle of the Atlantic. minimise 300 children have been regularly
fully maintaining the traditions American promise as an epoch --
of the sea and ge: their jobs done." In the Channel, Admiral Howe Mr. Alexander went on to say dation of equality and co-opera-almost destroyed the French fleet ing anxiety over the safety
261
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262
5 12400 to 12404) By Order of the Board of Directors.
Notice is hereby given that as from 1st June, 1941, Messrs. Chun King Trading Company Hong
cease (o.act as Sote .. Distributors of "ANCHOR" Wholeniilk Powder. On and after that date all enquiries and sales will be dealt with by us as Sole Agents for The Amalgamated Pairies Limited, New Zealand. LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Import & Wholesale Dept. Tel. 23189.
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.
HEREBY
FUNG PING FAN,
Director & Secretary. Kong, 30th May, 1911.
MACHINE
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out of the island.
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is not possible to
UNEQUAL TREATIES
11
TWO VICTORIES
Mr. Alexander went on to
*7 am deeply grateful to You all. Although I am speaking to" re-the Royal Navy in what I may the call a family broadcast. I must
1,
the value of the strategic-attending the Sunday School held making step which lays the foun- on the glorious first of June, 1794, how the fighting men were suffer-
gains which the
Germans, by the Salvation Army.
have secured in completing. their occupation of Crete and quite apart from the fact that the plucky resistance which the Germans had to overcome has considerably upset their political and military plans, there are many valuable les- sons to be learned from the campaign which has just CANBERRA~Australian and Bucome to an end.
TOOLS NEEDED
Bat It needs money to carry on this work among the des- titutes of Hongkong. The Salvation Army needs, only $10,000 to carry on its work in Hongkong 28. strange as it may SÉSZ, the salaries of its officers and workers as well as other
expenses have "always been paid by the International Headquarters. in London In- stead of being supported 10- eally as in other Centres!
It is of interest to note that
tion between the two countries.
of
The Kung Sheung Dally News under Villaret-Joyeuse, though the their friends and those dear to says that the new American as- great grain convoy from the United, them who were being exposed to States arrived in safety at Brest. air attacks. The anxieties were surance demonstrates the genylne friendship between China and the On May 27, 1941, in the same cropping up dally and such mat- United States and also shows the waters British naval forces sank ters were always in their minds. elevation of China's status in the the German battleship Bismarck,
COURAGE & FÖRTTITUDE family of nations.
thus taking vengeance for the loss
“I wish' to tell you that all of the Hood.
these things are very near our "A GALLANT - SHIP
| heart." continued Mr. Alexander. "I understand how you feel about "Let me here pay a tribute to them and I give them my per- the officers and men of that gal-sonal attention. Your courage and lant ship", continued Mr. Alexan- fortitude are being employed in a
DESCENDANT OF GENGHIS KHAN IN CHUNGKING
won
state
of
282 tish
purchasing authorities in America are intensifying a drive to ally on the Crete campaign the Salvation Army were first set OPINION in Britain gener- the Shelter and Food Depots of
der. "During this war HMS. Food good cause." buy more machine tools and raw has been swayed by the gai- un by the founder, Willam Booth
showed herself ready to answer material for the manufacture of
Mr. Alexander declared that tools for Australia's munitions lant fight which the defen- in 1888, and that during 1889 the
erery call. In her last action she this war was forced upon Britain workshops,
ders waged against the most Salvation Army sold cheaply to thei CHUNGKING, June 2 (Central) made another great show in her and the only way to secure free- NOTICE IS
The dom for which they were fighting A stage is rapidly being reached ruthless and fiercest air at- of bread and 140 tons of potatoes, a leader of the Yeghe Jo League enemy ships were pursued and and to bring about a
neediest in London alone 192.5 tons -Prince Tu-Pu-Sheng-Ki-Keh-La, fight against the Bismarck. at which availability on machine tacks made by the enemy in GIVEN that" the ANNUAL tools will be the vital factor limit- this war. Admiration for the tached to every Corp of the Salva- of the Sulyuan Mongolian Political arck.
There are now Food Depots at- in Suiguan and a standing member this led to the sinking of the Bis live and let live was by continuing ORDINARY GENERAL ing the development of the muni-
That victory frustrated it untii victory was achieved. MEETING of Shareholders will tions programme. Although steps British and Greek troops for tion Army.
Council, who is a lineal descendant important enemy designs and im-
"We want to be in peace in of
the Genghis Khan,
creat proved our ratio of enemy war- be held at the HONG KONG are being taken to manufacture the manner in which they
our homes", he said, “but there tools in Australia, it will be many made every effort possible "to
Mongolian conqueror, has arrived ships sunk.”
can be no peace of comfort HOTEL, Hong Kong, 07
months before this programme has fulfil the Prime.
in Chungking via Tulin, Slan and The Royal Navy had now
or security or decency so long WEDNESDAY, the 11th JUNE, advanced to the stage at which the promise that Crete would be at least 400 to 500 miles away Generalissimo
Minister's from main bases which were Chengtu to see Chairman Lin Sen, victories which were on a level
as Herr Hitler and the Nazi 1941, at 11.00 A.M., for the nation will be substantially in-
Chlarig Kal-shek with the victories of Jutland and Party rule Germany. That is purpose of receiving the Report dependent of overseas toolmakers, defended to the death has al-'and aviation experts have and other Central authorities to June 1, 1797. There WIE the oi Directors together with
BIG ORDERS PLACED. ready been expressed on all proved that fighters can only seek instructions regarding Mon- daring action of naval aircraft Statement of Accounts for the have been placed in America and been admitted that the allied under very great handicaps. the war of resistance.
Big orders for machine tools sides. The fact that it has operate over long distances prince is an ardent supporter of Matapan. the evacuations
golian affairs in Sulyuan. The at Taranto, the Battle of Cape from year ended 30th, April, 1941. Canada in the past six months,
Dunkirk and Greece, the bombard- The TRANSFER BOOKS of and the British Goverment is co casualties have been heavy The RAF. made every effort
ments of Genoa and Cherbourgh; the Company will be CLOSE operating in arranging supplies for proves the determination and to compensate for this by
and the enemy positions in North from WEDNESDAY, 4th. day development or munitions Indus the German onslaught and southern Greece, but here of the rapid spirit which these forces met bombing the German bases in
and East Africa. of June, to WEDNESDAY, the tries in the United States, how the exploits of General Frey- again the factor of distance Ith of June, 1941, both days ever, increasing difficulty is being berg and the troops under his was an obstacle to the effec- the roof of his own house at No. History and has showed enterprise, before me, I tell you that we can
experienced in obtaining tools and in many cases prices are rising.
inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hong Kong: 29th. May, 1941.
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CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED..
(Incorporated in Hong Kong)
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Austraila. Because
port licences and, in most cases. where the equipment is needed ex- clusively for war work duty pay ments are being remitted.
AERIAL SURPRISE
WEDDING CUSTOMS
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in.
why this thing has got to be fought through to the finish. No compromise can be possible, because Herr Hitler has never yet given his word without breaking it
"I am not going to Speak Lu men like you in terms of opti-
FALL TO. DEATH
In the Battle of Crete the navy mism about a speedy victory, but An 11-year-old boy playing on had fought the sternest battle of on the information which comès
2nd courage. 400, Hennessy Road, accidentally seamanship
The feel a steady confidence in the command will go down in the tiveness of these raids. In slipped and fell to his death into public heard very little of
the outcome based on facts, The Federal Government is faci annals of history as evidence the little resistance that the the backyard, of House No. 408 at faithful performance of routine
A BAD START litating the Importation of ma- of the superb fighting quali-RAF. was able to put up in 6 p.m. yesterday. chine tools by the free issue of Im-ties of British and Greek the air over Crete, the Ger-
duties which the navy had. to do "It is true we got off to a bad- According to a Police report, and which called for qualities start against a prepared enemy, armies.
Criticism, however, mans lost very heavily; but it deceased was Cheung Fong-hing. which were not inferior any in addition to which we have been must be expected on the con-was impossible to keep up al
deprived of the assistance of our duct of the campaign and, sustained
principal ally. It is not surprising, attack "on the
therefore, that reverses, have had. indeed, has, already found swarms of air-borne troops
to be faced, but the enemy has ventilation in the press at that were landed on the is-
had to pay a great toll for this.. home and abroad. The Daily land.
"And now the whole nation has Mall, for instance, takes the!
Bettled down to organising its resources and the nation is united In a solid determination to win. Man to man we have shown our- selves better than the Germans. On land, in the sea and in the air we have defeated Italy over and over again and for this we are grateful to the dominions whose magnin- | navies" have fought so
cently and who brought rein- forcements of men to those who were fighting in Libya, East Africa
FOR NAZIS
THE
AERODROMES
"on
OF YESTERDAY
Not two hundred years ago, many brides in England went to the altar dressed only in a short shift, or just nothing at all. In the middle of the eighteenth century it was no unusual sight to see the bride standing at the altar in her birthday suit, or with just a shawl thrown hastily over her shoulders by some sympathetic friend.
And why custom allowed? "Londoners seem to have been the
was this incredible
Because popular opinion even the clergy believed that a man was not liable for his bride's debts if he married her In nothing but her shift, of. better still, in no clothes at all
Within four or five months authorities to task for not Crete were very few in num- NOTICE is hereby given that Britain would have a surprise for having prepared adequately ber and the question: has the Seventeenth Annual Ordinary
the Nazis and it would consist of new types of heavier bombers for an invasion of Crete. arisen whether it would not General Meeting of Shareholders · and faster fighters, said Mr. Coles. This paper, feels that, before have been advisable to des- of China Underwriters, Limited, M.HR, addressing an A.RP. rally the withdrawal from Greece, troy every one of them and will be held at the Offices of the in the Essendon Town Hall.
an attack on the island so have made them unfit för Company, 4A, Des Voeux Road! He also expected to' see the should have been foreseen the Germans to land their arst to disapprove of this custom
Prime Minister Central, Hong Kong, on Wednes
(Mr. Menzies) day the Fourth day of June, 1941, bring back plans for production and that steps should have troops. The fact that the for, after a marriage in St. Paul's of these planes in Austraila. been taken to provide for enemy was able to gain at the te eighteenth century, the at noon for the purpose of Commenting on Victoria's A.R.P every detail of defence.
Reen running across receiving the Report of the Board plans. Mr. Coles said although the
foothold on the best of the bride was THE GREATEST disadvan-only
Ludgate-circus in her shift. par- three sultable Lero- of Directors and a Statement of State might believe they were well
sued by mocking cries, Btages under which the defen-dromes and to hold it lends Accounts for the year ended 31st under way, compared with
In 1724. a Wiltshire girl, Anne December, 1940, and of electing tain's organisation there was still ders of Crete had to labour support to this argument. Selwood reported to have
much leeway to make up.
was the lack of air support In, hand-to-hand fighting, married not only without clothes Mr. Coles sald Australia must for the land forces. Consi-however, the British and but without headgear."...
Directors and Auditors.
WAR
and Greece.
"Now too, President Roosevelt has declared an unlimited na- tional emergency and has made A nude bride dignified that it clear that Herr Hitler will man took a woman as she stood.
not, in any circunstances, be with netther her family, debts nor The Transfer Books and prepare for the years after the dering the fact that the Greek troops proved more And in Lincolnshire, a naked any she might have contracted be allowed to win, I believe him. Register of Members of the war. Australia must realise whole German invasion was than a match for the inva-woman plimbed down
"Some of you may be listening a fadder forc appearing at the altari
me on land, others at sea.... Company will be closed from the he now a creditor nation, but it launched from the air, it is ders, while British sea control from her bedroom window to go. The last nude woman to be seen others at their stations and others
the war continued for many more
to church and meet her bride-tri St Paul's, was in 1936, when a 28th May, 1941, to the 4th June, months. It would become a debtor easy to see that they held a in the waters round Crete
groom. 1941, both days Inclusive.
woman suddenly threw of her in their homes. To everyone decided advantage of having was never for a moment lost. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek air bases and bases of supply It was only the great advan-
That time, however, her friends cloak and revealed herself com you I say "Thank you
done. were worried about her health be pletely naked to the congregation, has issued another circular tele-in the south of Greece which tage which the Germans held cause it was winter, and rushed to draw attention to some state gramm urging the nation to exert no amount of preparation or in the air that turned the tide after her with an overali
ment she wished to make. *- greater efforts to support the na-the island could have élimin of battle in their favour-a
Modern congregations being tional savings campaign upon tated.
History can be amusing it you more ahockable than their ances- The R.A.F., on the factor which will not arise in look at it in the right way. Mar-tors, the lady was put back in her reconstruction largely depend~~- other hand, had to try and the case of a similar attempt cus Hollvatone specialises in fish-cloak and led away by an eme
By Order of the Board of Directors, HERBERT R. STURT,
Managing Director. Hong Kong, 24th May, 1941.
which, "he said, both resistance and
268 (Central).
co-operate with the defenders to invade Britain.
ing out odd and interesting facta. barrassed policeman.
of
and well
“I don't have to ask you to .hold on. I know you" will have victory for your reward. I wish everyone of you great success. Good luck and a safe return to those near and dear to you at home, God Bless you.”