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COMMISSIONERS ORDINANCE,
POWERS 1886.
Proclamation No. 6 of 1941.
BONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
It is hereby notified for general information that the Commission umbered appointed to inquire into certains
connected maiters
with Architectural Branch of the Air
Raid Precautions Department Hongkong.
NOTICI IS HEREBY GIVEN thai the Certificate No. 6/NS. 9889 dated Houg Long. 291h October, 1940, Bank ur seven shares of this
63580/63582 and 7976 7979 in the name of Mrs. the thefle Muriel Dowling, Certi
No. licate
6 NS. 9890 dated 29th October 1940
jur
shares of this Bank two will resume their sittings iar
numbered 7980/798] in the name! private
Thursday, August 21st, 1944, at the Puisue Judge's of Mr. Wilfred Murras Theobaid!
are
K. M. A. BARNETT, Secretary to the Commissioners 15th August, 1941.
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STEPHEN'S COLLEGE
STANLEY.
The new School Year begins on September 1st, both for the Middle school and the Pr paratory School. Entrance ex
or
By Order of the Board
of Directors,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chiet Manager.
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15-19, Queen's Road Central, Il 33225
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Hongrono, AUGUST 16, 1943.
EDITORIAL
CURRENT COST OF LIVING
Prices rating in the market dur ing the current werk were 22 the whole lower than those of the previous week. Potatoes were dow three rents per pound, while there WH a decrease of 14 cents per ib
yesterday's
in the price al tomatoes.
Te following ar Quotations with last werk's given
brackets
MEAT
Mutton Purk
72 cents per lb. 1741 72 cents per ib. 172 90 cents per lb. 195
POULTRY
Chicken Сари:
Onions Potatoes
Turnips
$2.40 per catty ($240 165 per calty 155
90 per catty ( .96: 1.25 per catty (125)
85 each
VEGETABLES
I 910
36 per 15 (30)
.36 per jo. 1.30)
18 per lb 415
40 per 1b. 1,48
12 per lb (13)
nd per lb 4.08:
09 per Ib. 12 09 per lb. 101 38 per lb. (421 30 per lb. 1.441 .48 per lb 48
FRUITS
85 per ID.
65 per lb
70) .05
18 per lb
35 each 18 rach
34 per b
2 40 per duz
.18)
.35:
16: 34 $2.40)
24 per b 17 per lb. .20 each
16 .201
V
Have you put up your
V sign yet?
National Day
Of Prayer
LONDON.
Aug. 15
(Reuter)...
A
His Majesty desires that Sunday, September 7, being the Sunday rollowing the second anniversary at the outbreak of war, should be observed a national day of prayer. The Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking of the wide response to the King's request, said "As the third year of the war begins, while there is much for which we have Frison Lu give thanks, there is specia) call to remember In prayer the armies and people of Russia In their herole resistance to the military might of Germany and the new and grave anxieties which art rising In the Near
und Fur We know not what trials or East. dangers may be coming. Pray we.
courage therefore. for them and for strength t DYPT come them “
TURNING POINT IN; Beet
WORLD HISTORY AFTER A WEEK of whisper- ing and nudging, a week Chambers, Supreme Court, and and Certificate No. 6/NS, 9891 of rumour, a week in which all persons wishing to testify dated Hongkong, 29th October | newspapers kept on making Duck
1940 for seven shares of this mysterious references to the Geese before the said Commissioners
requested to give written. Bank numbered 7982 7987 and progress of President Roose- Pigem
50985 in the name of Mrs. velt's cruise in his yacht notice to the undersigned at the
Elizabeth Lyons Lancaster have Potomac. the world was told Cabbage Colonial Secretary's Office by thei
been LOST STOLEN, and on Thursday of the right- Carrots earliest possible date.
should these certificates not be point declaration which the Cucumber
of produced to the Bank before the President.
the United Lettuce September, 1941. 13th
new States and the Prime Minis- Melon Certificates for the shares will ter of Britain had agreed to
issued 395 be
and the aforesaid issue on their joint policy of Spinach Certificates Nos. 6/NS. 9889, collaboration peace and String-beans GNS. 9890, and 6 NS. 9891.war aims To say that the Tomatoes
treated will be
by world as a whole expected thereafter
dramatic this Corporation as NULL, and something more VOID.
something more momentous Apples, green in its decisiveness Is to ex- Appies, and press the high state of ex-Bananas
Grape Fruits pertabey to which everyone
L+04: ad been keyed up.
To the Lim man-in-the-street, Orange- ordinary therefore, the joint declara- Papayan
on issued by the two most Pineapples outstanding figures in The world today appears merely Idealistic. But the man-in-; the-street is generally a realist who looks for hard! Facts and actden without tak- Py into account the deep and invaluable implications which
statements underly
There should be na shortage of which seem to him prema-firewood on the market as, accord- ture in the making.
ing to Mr. W. J. Anderson, Stores Controller, 3,800 TONS were re- THE ENTHUSIASTIC man-ceived yesterday. This quantity en active mariner up to the timeiner in which this joint de-will be distributed to all retailers
For many years a member of the claration has been received during the week-end. China Coast Officers' Guild, the de by those well versed in poli- In connexion with the new re ceased is survived by his widow Uical science and who are gulations, published last Saturday. The death occurred on August
(Australia) 3. In Sydney
due to three stepsons, Messrs O Mur aware of the far-reaching Mr. Anderson said that a notier
heart failure. of Dr. Пia Ephimo- und EM depths to which the machin./will soon be published in the Chi
vitch Rosenzveig aged 63 nese newspapers asking the dealers ery enclosed by the frame-to register as soon as possible. work of such statements can i
"We are continuing our drive
unprecedented Stores Controller, "and are receiv meeting in the highest cate-ing the co-operation of the Police
What we are also trying to do is gory of important develop-
to stop the 'no stock' racket."
amination for New Students Hongkong. 13th August, 1941.
Middle School) on August 30th.
at 9 a..
For prospectus, apply to M. S. fung, Tisq., or P. 1.. Chan Esq.,
4/0 Messis Harry
Wicking,
Prince's Building, (Tel. 302414
DEATH OF CAPTAIN
or to the Warden, St. Stephen's CAMPBELL
College. Stanley.
38%
HONGKONG TRAMWAYS
LIMITED
NOTICE TO SHAREDFOLDERS
NOTICE GIVEN
390
Capt Alexander Charles Camp bell, skipper of the river steam- ship Sal On. died yesterday at the age of 69. He was a promin en, figure in the Colony and was
of his demise
Pumelo
3,800 TONS OF FIREWOOD RECEIVED
HEREBY ques, of Shanghai, C.V.
| Marques, of Hongkong, and thre that a0
INTERIM
step-daughters, Mesdames Castro. DIVIDEND FIFTY
01
(50)
Pores and Maher, of Shanghai. cents per Share has been declared The funeral takes place today! be appiled, places this his-against the profiteers," said the
MONDAY. payable
and 18th passing the Monument, Happy Val- torte AUGUST next, on and after ley, at 5.30 p.m.
on
which date Dividend Warrants
may be obríained upon application THREE REGISTRY
ut the Registered Office of the
Company, Canal Road Eastį
WEDDINGS
The following weddings
took
nents in the present war.
It
is a meeting that represents!
a turning point in the history;
Hongkong.
of the world. To the people the whole world, because it the United States and has not only provided for the NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO place at the Registry yesterday: of
Pte. Herbert Green 1st Bn. Mid-Britain, when the full signi-economic and social security GIVEN that the REGISTER of
dlesex Regiment, Nanking Bar
has ficance of the agreement is of all peoples, but it MEMBERS of the Company will racks, Shamshulp and Miss Morny realised, it will appear the taken steps to ensure that be closed from MONDAY, 4th Lou, of No. 143. Sai Yee Street AUGUST, to MONDAY. 18th ground floor, Mongkok AUGUST, 1941, both days: inclusive.
By Order of the Board. W. F. SIMMONS, Secretary & Assistant Manager. Hongkong, 25th July, 1941.
368
THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY LIMITED
Notice to Shareholders
Mr. Saturino Serjio Lobato de Parla, clerk, residing at Homuntin and Miss Maria Gloria Rosario, tea- cher, of No, 12 Austin Avenue
Mr. Elias Davia Wykes, engineer, of No. 16, Battery Street, and Mis La Mew-ying (alias Nelly Sykest of the same address.
ANNOUNCEMENT
HEALTH BULLETIN
The following is the Returns of notifiable disease, notified as hav
to meer
NEWSETTES
HE the Governor will dine with M.E. Major-General C. M. Maltby. M.C., at Flagstaff House, on Tues day next, July 19, at 8.30 p.m.
him.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1941.
RAID ON COLOGNE WAS BIGGEST YET CARRIED OUT BY R.A.F., SAYS EXPERT
The recent operations by the R.A.F. against Cologne and its suburbs was described as the most important of the present air war by MAJOR OLIVER STEWART, M.C.. AF.C., the well-known authority on aerial warfare, when he broadcast from London yesterday and gave a detailed description of the R.A.F. offensives against Germany and their effect on the course of the hostilities.
sald
Major Stewart
that had to go and it may also have these operations stood out been due to our baloon barrage. from the rest because they At any rate this attack on Colog- showed the exceptional cour-low-flying ruld ever made.
and attacks strongly
the De was
age and skill of the air crews Blenheims
biggest,
and
besh The
and because they would help many bombs must have gone people to round out the shape home. which the air war was taking.
BIGGEST THING YET
was the fighters
end our again and
THE RETURN
"The retur› journey
part. Enemy "The Cologne rald was the big-hardest
that the R.A.F gest thing
has were now In contact
bombers are attacked yet done." continued Major Ste- wart "We ought to know it and again as they turn for bome. remember 11. We ought to keep They know that if they can reach clear picture of what happened in Antwerp they will he met by our our mind because 11 marks out for fighters, who would take the load us the course of the air war
off them
was
"These crews certainly deserve
0
al-
"Cologne is 300 miles from what bases we can use for attacking it credit for the way in which they It is near the coast that tha! completed their job and We are makes it easier to get at There looking forward for a bomber with are the fire-stations at Knapsack the fighting abilities of a fighter and Quadrath there and if targets for these raids. There never has of that kind are damaged, it can been a bomber yet with the per- affect the war output In a thou- formance of a fighter, so the large
always faced with diferent sand
Ways. Cologne, bomber is
It therefore.
Perhaps. worth attacking, dangerous task.
ways will be. but was difficult to get at by day.
"Although it la true that the "It is one **1 the places
sub-stratosphere bomber seems at where the Germans have
minimise present to
enemy at- Cologne has strong defences.
tack, that is only the first phase. also been attacked by night.
Fighters can still reach them. but night bombing has not
So that stratosphere flying does the accuracy day bombing in
not overcome danger of a day- making sure that these fire
light raids stations are put out of action
SIX SQUADRONS
"Furthermore, bombing from the stratosphere is በሰን де curate as bombing from a low level. This rald, therefore, Is one of the salient operations of the war." concluded Major Stewart.
EVICTION OF NORWEGIAN FAMILIES
"It was 11.30 am when the at tack was nade Six squadrons of by Blenhelin went out escorted fighters. The fighters only went as far as Antwerp because of the imitations of their range. At Antwerp the fighters thrned back for home, but gave the bombers H.E. the Governor will be pre-
ala kept the air a flying star! sent at the Mass Band Concert on the
Cricket Hongkong
Club clear for them up to that point ground, in aid of the British Pri- The fighter command had prouis- soners of War Fund, on Saturday (ed to have a strong fighter patrol Antwerp at the me His Ex-
waiting at cellency next, Aug. 2, at 9.30 p.m
will take
that the Bienheims were return party with
Ing.
In addition to seizing hundreds "Meanwhile, at tbe strongest of apartments and flats in Trond- enemy country. the helm, the Nazis are now requisi- points over Blenheims had to go on alone.tioning private living quarters in The Blenheim is a large bomber, Oslo to make room for the thou-
of German women which is fifty to sixty miles slower sands
and than the German fighter. Every children who are reporte 'ly being man knew that they would have sent to Norway for vacations' as to fight as they llew. They avold- well as to house the expanding ed some of the German defences German civ) administration.
While no exact by scorching over the ground only
art figures known as to the number of apart- a few feet above the tree-tops.
ments selzed in the capital, it is a fact that the Nazis have begun by appropriating the newest and
houses finest apartment
in the
The death occurred on August 5. al The Paulun Hospital, Shang- hal, of Alvaro Maria d'Eca. eldest son of the late Dom Celedonio and Dona Maria Purcza d'Era. hus- band of Amalia d'Eca and father of Mrs. Elena d'Eca Teixeira and
d'Eco, G. Frederico
In his 65th Fear. A Requiem Mass was held at the Church of Christ the King, Rue Bourgeat, on August 8, and was followed by burial at the Bubbling Well Cemetery.
POISONING
most natural thing in the the failure of Versailles shall
After eating a meal of fried eggs world that the two greatest not be repeated. As such it
and rice, belleved to have contain- democracies of the present is a counter-blast to the so-
ed poisonous substance, a тап, age have declared their un-called "New Order" of Nazi-Ling, residing in Electric Road, swerving resolve and deter-ism which Vichy France and Causeway Bay, and two others, mination to do everything in the Japanese are attempting were poisoned on Thursday night, their power to destroy Nazi to copy.
STANLEY PRISON
ESCAPE
FIERCE FIGHT
"There was a fierce fight twelve Blenheims were lost," con unued Major Stewart. "It is small loss when the importance of city. Like the wicked and heart- American the target and
with less landlord of old the force which it was attacked was cons! melodramas, Hitler's henchmen in.
are evicting Norwegiani dered.
These attacks may be the Norway
with their homes thousands of families from means of saving
soldiers and sailors in our
the sometimes less than a day's no-
tice,
tind
krew
and in many cases the rightful owners are forbidden to take ang of their belongings with them; these new apartments must be turned over to the Nazis complete- ly furnished."
U.S. OIL EXPERT FOR BRITAIN
future.
"The Blenheims
tow, guns because anti-aircraft
directing difficulty in their fire at low-flying ma- chines and because a low-fly-
protects ing machine
itself against attack from below.
16 "This low-flying extremely difficult in itself and there is a big risk of hitting things like I do want church-steeples, etc.
NEW YORK, Aug. 15 (Reuter to emphasise that low-flying is Mr. Edwin Pauley left here by escape from Stanley Prtoon was made by Д
extraordinarily difficult and dan Cupper for Britain and Russia on young prisoner
gerous. Thursday while working, with a
It is a form of attack
"government business concerning party of other prisoners, near the
that has been carefully studied.
oil transportation." St, Stephen's Boys' College recrea- I expected the Germans try t
Mr. Pauley stated that De re- when they made their big often presented President Roosevelt, Mr. tion ground.
His escape Wes not discovered sive against Britain last year and Harry Hopkins (supervisor of the I was surprised that they did not Lease-Lend programme) and Mr. do so. Of course. they did not have to go so far as the Blenheims
What is believed to be the first
on
until about 12.45 p.m when the
Prison for their lunch.
tyranny, which is the root of THE DISCUSSIONS be- the present ills which have tween Mr. Churchill and Pre- been forced upon the world, sident Roosevelt, we are told, and to shoulder the respon- covered the whole field of Mr. Wong Nai-to, clerk of No. 45. sibility of reconstructing the supplies of war materials Pottinger Street, and Miss
Lam world on a permanent basis and other assistance to the Lau-vine. of No 47. Caine Road.
of peace and prosperity for United Kingdom and those all lands and all men.
who are fighting with her for THE WORLD has often the four freedoms--freedom heard the trumpetted ac-of speech and expression, party was about to return to the counts of the meetings of the freedom of worship, freedom ing occurred in the Colony duri jack-boots of Naziism and from want and freedom NOTICE is hereby given that the 24 hours endey at midnight on Fascism and their satellites, from fear. The inclusion of an Interim Dividend of $1.00 Aug. 14:-
Cerebro-Spinal Fever, one case with all their fanfare of ruth- the Soviet Union in the dis- per Share has been declared for
Cholera, three cases; Dysentery, 10 less might and domination cussion is particularly in- the half year ended 30th June, cases: Enteric Fever, three cases which the dictators repre-teresting at this stage be- 1941, payable on MONDAY, Tuberculosis, 40 cases.
sent. How different and uni- cause it recalls to mind a 25th AUGUST, 1941, on which
demonstrative, and yet how comment made by President | date Dividend Warrants may be The Health Bulletin of Eastern
Ports for the week ending on Aug. Completely democratic, was Wilson in 1917, when he de- obtained on application at the 0
is as follows: Shanghai, 74 the meeting of the heads of clured that "the great and Office of the Company, Kowloon. cases of Cholera and three cases the British and American generous Russian people have
The Register of Shares of the of Small-Pox, Company will be closed from SATURDAY, 16TH AUGUST, 1941,
to MONDAY, 25TH AUGUST, 1941, both days Inclusive.
EASTERN PORTS
THOSE LITERARY
NAZIS.
A story from Norway has it that during the recent ransacking of
Husbands Send Letter To Lord Moyne & Six M.P's.
The Letter to Lord Moyne, Recretary for the Colonies, from the husbands Evacuation Representation Committee, has been sent to Government for despatch by the quickest route.
Six coples of the same letter have been forwarded to certain Members of Parliament,
Governments. It symbolised been added, in all their the power of these two native majesty and might, to This is disclosed in a communi-man on receipt of the resignation nations and reaffirmed to the the people of the world who que issued yesterday on the moet of the former Chairman.
Mr. Macgregor resumed his du- world their confidence in be- are fighting for justice and mg of the Committee held on Aug.
ties as Hon. Treasurer and Vice- ing able to build up a better poace," How well those 14 at the Hongkong Hotel, world after the overthrow of words apply to the present mary of questionnaires from the
It is also stated that the aum-Chairman.
As from Aug. 14, the duties of alliance a large publishing house in. Oslo the European megalomaniacs situation-the
of members was discussed at some Hon. Secretary will be carried out these and their allies. It was the free peoples is the same, the length and, in view of the replies, by Mr. W. V. Taylor during the as most liberal exchange of enemy is the same. The only it was decided to leave this matter temperary absence from the Colony
views and opinions that has change is the power of the to be discussed at the next public of Mr. F. C. Clemo. Secretary & Manager. Hong Kong, 11th August, 1941. great many books by this fellow ever taken place between two democracies to achieve their
Governments on
issue ideals--that is what this his- that concerns the future of toric meeting means today..
By Order of the Board of Directors.
C. M. MANNERS,
by Nazl
literary
censors, one of bloodhounds spoke
follows:
"I 600 you have published
|Maxim Gorki, alve
386 dresa!"
n
ur thla 1-
un
Members are to plonse note that meeting.
NEW CHAILMAN
correspondence is to be still ad- Hon. Secretary, Mr. Terry, Vice-Chairman of the dressed 10 Committee, was appointed Chair KP.O. Box No. 1026.
the
Harold Ickes, the Defence Petro- leum Co-Ordinator.
Mr. Ickes, -speaking at a Press conference, said that Mr. Pauley wás vialting London to study the oli situation in all its phases and the British rationing programme.
CAGE RESULTS
In a basketball match, played last night at the Chinese Y.M.C.A.. the Youths defeated the Kowloon Residents Union by 43-30.
The Indian Police lost to the Bank Union by 35-28. The Indian Police, although new to the game, showed great promise,
STREET STABBING
Whilst walking along Reolamo- tion Street on Thursday night, s man, Wong Kwat, was so upon by several Chinese who stabbed; him with a dagger. Wong was removed to hospital.
All the assailants escaped.