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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
day,
September 11th Dividend Warrants may
G.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON- DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 1st day of septemoer, 1941, Public Works Department, by at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the
Order of His Excellency Governor of one Lot of Crown
the
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Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central, Tel. 33225.
Night Editor (Wanelial Office):
Tel. 24511.
London Office: 53. Fleet Street
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HONGKONG, AUaver 29, 1941.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1941.
HIGH TRIBUTE PAID TO BIRTHDAY OF'
CHUNGKING GOVT.
AT Y'S MEN'S CLUB
QUEEN WILHELMINA
Her Majesty Queen Wil- A tribute to the Government of China's war-time capital for the organisation in Chungking of air raid precautions, relief work, the helmina of the Netherlands, Are-fighting service and the other services that have made passible who with her Government the continued lie of the city despite frequent air raids was paid yesterday by MR. GEORGE A. FITCH, for many years prominently had to leave after the Ger- man invasion and who has connected with Red Cross work, the Y.M.C.A. Movement. etc.. when he addressed a meeting of the HONGKONG Y'S MEN'S CLUB taken temporary residence in last night.
PUBLIC AUCTION. PARTICULARS AND CON- DITIONS of the Sale by Public NOTICE IS HEREBY Auction to be held on Monday, the!
London, will have her 61st GIVEN that an interim Dividend 1st day of September, 1941, at 3
the birthday Sunday, August 31. Mr. Fitch, who is now connected; the house where one slept
The Netherland community will of $..60 per share has been declar. p.m., at the Offices of the Public
with the Chinese Industrial Co-night before razed to the ground
Movement and the in operatives
the latest raid, people injeclebrate this occasion on Satur- ed in respect of the half year Works Department, by Order of
The Acting-Netherland Con- on His Excellency the Governor of ended
1941,
Y.M.C.A., gave an account of two Chungking continued to live quite day. 30th June,
Loi of Crown Land at 900,000 OLD SHARES and will one
in the air raid season.
suburbs, when possible, were often in peace time, give an official re- be payable on and after Thurs. Ken Pui Shek, in the Colon Land at Tai Kok Tsui, in the
15-minute ception, but Mr. Middelburg has term of
It was a great thrill, Mr, Fitch enough punctuated by 1941. of Hong Kong for a
Colony of Hong Kong for
wait while the driver got out to invited the Netherlanders in Hong- 500-lb. bomb ex-
a Juicy kong, Macao and Canton to his be 75 years, with the option of
which obviously had its plode immediately above your head negotiate a purchase of obtained on application at the renewal at a Crown Rent to determ of 75 years, with the option THE "STOP-JAPAN" DRIVE. said, feeling a
Arrangements have been made be fixed by the Surveyor of beginning in the mid-Atlantic while taking shelter in a dugout melon with a water-melon vendor residence tor Saturday evening.
As a matter of fact. Hongkong at the Consul's residence for re- Company's Registered Office, fixed by the Surveyor of His of renewal at a Crown Rent to Majesty the KING. for one
His Majesty the KING, for one conference between the Pre-with some 15-feet of rock between i met on the road.
yourself and the explosion. & O. Ruilding.
possessed some remarkable attrac-ceiving and amplifying the world- further term of 75 years.
sident of the United States
electric There was always an
ttons to anyone who had spent wide radio link-up to be broadcast THE REGISTER OF MEM-I
Intending bidders are advised farther term of 75 years.
further BERS of the Company will be
people taking shelter with you, such, for instance, as the remark- local time. London will be calling the experienced shelterer ably beautiful buses and rickshaws alternately Batavia, Paramaribo, CLOSED from MONDAY, 1ST that immediately after the dis
Mr. Churchill when he broad-watched the people immediately here that are a paradise to ride willemstad, Pretoria, Washington, SEPTEMBER to THURSDAY, Posal of the lot the Purchaser that immediately after the dister and to which
him to stop with a In 1TH SEPTEMBER 1941 (both (not the applicant) will be posal of the lot the Purchaser Strong emphasis was given by and
Rickshaws in Chungking are the Netherland Legions in Canada with (if not the applicant) will he
an required to deposit
cast to the Empire on Sunday around with
restraining hand any person about held together by odd pieces of wire and to deposit
H.R.H. Princess England, days inclusive) during which |
authorised officer who will be required
given an
to make a move that could possibly and string and seem ready to tali Jullana in Canada and the Nother- period no transter of shares can
to pleces at any moment.
land Navles in Netherlands Indies present at the sale, the sum of authorised officer who will be night, be registered.
two hundred dollars, ($200) in present at the sale, the sum of mediate fillip this week by develop turto a general panic.
four important developments:
LIVE CONTENTEDLY
Mr. Fitch showed films taken in and European waters, whereafter --the United States deter- cash. This sum will be refunded two hundred dollars, ($200) in
However, despite the bombs and Nanking during the Japanese oc- the answers will be received and
broadcast Di the Purchase cash. This sum will be refunded j
mination to despatch supplies the consequent prospect of finding cupation in Dec., 1937. on payment
of the Purchase on payment
to Russia via Vladivostock,! price.
the Soviet warning to Japan
THE "STOP-JAPAN" typical days spent in Chungking contentedly, and bus rides into the sui-General will not, as customary
DRIVE
By Order of the Board
of Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON &
CO., LTD. Agents.
Hong Kong, 5th August, 1941-
381
CHINESE ESTATES.
LIMITED
Second Interim Dividend
that
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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
Sonipon inlatın
--
Junction Ad Kowloon
Peis Shek
Read, Kau Por shek.
Boundary
MURSU
inents.
As per
Bale plan
Abour
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1.769
NOTICE IS HEREBY The purchaser of the lot will be GIVEN
SECOND required to pay to the auctionee: SUM of $177.00 INTERIM DIVIDEND for the in cash the year ending the 28th February. (being 10% of the upset price 1942, of two per cent, that is immediately after the fall of the the balance of the $2.00 per share, will be paid or hammer, all shares in this Company on premium being paid in accordance Friday, the 5th September, 1941, with the Conditions of Sale. / at the Company's Office at China Building, 5th floor.
The TRANSFER BOOK OF! the Company will be CLOSED from the 2nd to the 5th Septem ber, 1941. both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
Hong Kong, 26th August, 1941.
NOTICE IS GIVEN that the
No. 6/NS. 9889 dated kong, 29th October,
Q
M.
436
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday,
Intending bidders are advised and the British Prime Minis-thrill that would run through the considerable time in Chungking by the B.B.C. from 11 to 11.30 p.m.
price.
was
10-
that any interference with MR. LATTIMORE TO ALLIED NAVAL UNITS NOW
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT this plan would be regarded
Kowloon Irland Lot No. 4307
Tong Mi Road, Tai Kok Tsui South of Kowloon
Inland lot No. 4281
Locality.
Boundary Measure-
menta
p!
ft.ft.ft.f
As per
sale plan
Content:
square feet.
Annual
Rental.
Upset Price
About
10,000
384
20,900
MAKE TOUR as an unfriendly act, Pre-j
CHUNGKING, Aug. 28 Reuter) sident Roosevelt's decision to
--Mr Owen Lattimore. Personal send a military mission to
Political Adviser to Marshal Chiang China and the landing of Kai-shek. will leave Chungking in further British troops in the Autumn on an inspection tour the South-West and North- West provinces,
Singapore. These four factors of make it clear that the move
the
Details of the blan are sald at to stop aggression in
present to be waiting for the up-; Pacific is not confined to one proval of the Generalissimo. sphere alone and that in It is stated that the scope of the direction Japan inspection tour will be "very wide." plans to throw her weight,
whichever
either to support her Axis NEWSETTES
partners or to further her
CONSTITUTE A FORMIDABLE FORCE, SAYS FIRST
LORD
The allied naval units working with the Royal Navy constitute a formidable force today," said the RT. HON, A. V. ALEXANDER, First Lord of the Admiralty, when he paid a tribute to the various naval and merchant ships and their personnel that had come over to England from the occupied countries of Europe to carry on the fight against. the Axis.
Mr. Alexander opened his had come to Britain
they had naval operations. talk by saying that while in joined in her Mr. Huang Yen-pet, manager of his previous talks he had al-They included 59 vessels and were
paign in the Islands,
bonds war
-
men.
The purchaser of the lot will be own ends, she will be opposed the Chinese national required to pay to the auctioneer with force if necessary.
committee, has gone to the Philipways spoken about the Bri-manned by brave and skilled sea- The Polish Navy had only been in cash the sum of $2,000.00
THESE four events must, pines to push the war bonds cam-tish navy, he was now going
to talk about the navies of in existence for a few years when (being 10%, of the upset price; therefore, be regarded as a
Britain's allies--the Free the war broke out, but those ships immediately after the fall of the final and clear cut warning to Among the passengers on a French, the Norwegians, the that had joined the British navy hammer, the balance of the the Japanese Government Dutch steamér
which sailed yes- Dutch, the Greeks, the Bel-showed a high standard of effi premium being paid in accordance that unless she accepts a terday were Mr. G. A. Figueiredo
gians and, finally, the Rus- with the Conditions of Sale.
more peaceful policy to bring and Mr. J. Trigo da Silva. about a better state of re-are on their way to Lisbon, the slans.
former to Join his family and lations with the anti-aggres- the latter to study Civil Engineer- sion front, she herself will be ing.
for the conse- responsible quences that would gravely
412
ANTI-SLUM LAW
IN TASMANIA militate against her.
Both
in
Order of His Excellency the cent the cast of building homes spreading the war to the Far
for those receiving the basic wage East. The only condition the affair, which was held at the
414 Governor of one Lot of Crown or less.
Land at Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colony
а
term
ant purposes."
by the
للمر
The
FORMIDABLE FORCE
ciency.
"Let me say here," continu- ed Mr. Alexander, "that the number of ships and men of the allied navies is only limited by the number of officers and men they have in this country,"
FINE CONDUCT
Mr. Alexander then spoke of
a large number of their warships "It is not only in ships, but in over to Britain. These included trained personnel as well that they fifty vessels, with a cruiser and have proved helpful to us and we submarines of excellent design welcome them at a time when we land thoroughly well organised. need every man and ship that is Their officers and men displayed │available:"
the same fighting spirit they had Mr.
said Alexander
that displayed in the past, Chese allied naval units today" comprised
190 ships, Their organisation and train-
over
ing was started on ́a large scale and they soon set up. their own Admiralty in Lon don to which the British Ad- miralty at
all times Fave assistance.
前
"We have had plenty of oppor- tunities to gauge their efficiency." said Mr. Alexander, "and their bravery and conduct have won praise wherever they have work- ed, A large number of their alps
is required for the protection of the Dutch East Indies, where storm clouds have been gathering
The work performed by these of late." navies was on all fours with that| now
"These navies together represent Mr. a formidable force," said Alexander. "It is true that in Lieut-Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
thetr thelr struggle against enemies they suffered heavy losses, The newly appointed commander
chief of the United States Army but even so they constitute a very will be question now is, of course, forces in the Far East, and Mrs.seful fighting unit to replace the the Royal Netherlands Navy and HOBART Legislation
to how far Japan will be pre-MacArthur were guests of honour soon FUNG PING FAN,
the 1st day of September, 1941, submitted to Parliament
fered, to avoid party given by High Comthissioner Director & Secretary. at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the authorise the State Government to pared to withdraw from her on Aug. 23. at an official dinner casualties our own navy has suf-said that the Dutch had brought
subsidise to the extent of 25 per present position
and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, Public Works Department, by
Twenty-six guests were invited to
which the anti-aggression High Commissioner's residence. announced This was for Premier (Mr. Cosgrove), who said front will be prepared to con- of Hong Kong
of 75 years, com. that subject to Parliamentary ap sider would be the complete! mencing from 1st July, 1898, proval of the scheme, which might disassociation of Japan from plained of when no such en- be described as an extension of the the Axis bloc and it is felt circlement existed has now HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
with the option of renewal at a group system of housing, it was that Japan has committed been brought into being as a BANKING CORPORATION. Crown Rent to be fixed by the proposed to build 500 homes for herself too deeply to her Eu- result of her own aggressive-
Surveyor of His Majesty the subsidised purchasers within the
ropean partners to do this as ness which merely succeeded King, for one further term of 24 next five years.
"The measure, it approved by a result of any opposition to in increasing the growing op- HEREBY
years less the last three days
Parliament," said the Premier, her plans, no matter how position against her. Certificate thereof.
"will enable people to move out of strong such opposition may Japanese themselves cannot
What was left of the Greek Hong. Intending bidders are advised decently housed, leaving the shum be. There is evidence, how but see how awkward is the
performed by the Royal Navy and Navy was now licking its wounds 1940, that immediately after the dis owner with the responsibility oi
no favour or distinction was and in due course their officers militarists are not under-arlsen for them. for seven shares of this Bank posal of the lot the Purchaser demolishing the existing tenements ever, to show that even her situation which has
DESPITE the fact that shown. Ming-sweeping and patrol- and men, who had come to Bri- numbered 63580/63582 and (if not the applicant) will be and putting his land to more use-
estimating the gravity of the
out by these tain would be able to resume side by side. 7976/7979 in the name of Mrs. required to deposit with
situation they have helped to Japan now finds herself at ling was carried Ethelle Mariel Dowling, Certi authorised officer who will be
create for themselves and the a considerable disadvantage, ships day after day and night their struggle. ficate No. 6/NS. 9890 dated present at the sale, the sum of
without any publicity, because de-was that there were not more of Tokyo to interpret the pro- of any dispersing of the war tails of such work if published them in Britain, for they were Hongkong, 29th October 1940 two hundred dollars, ($200) in NEW WIRELESS attempt now being made by there are no indications yet after night. All this was dome with Britain. The only regret for two shares of this Bank cash. This sum will be refunded |
test made to Soviet Russia clouds that have loomed up might give Information to the fine seamen who were always able to give a good account of them- numbered 7980/7981 in the name on payment of the Purchase
supplies in the Far East recently. It enemy receiving
selves. (pokemon punk fed bee YEOMAN'S WORK
The Belgians had had no navy of Mr. Wilfred Murray Theobald, price.
CHUNGKING, Aug. 28 (Reuter) from America via Vladivo would be foolish to imagine
"There is reason to remember to speak of when war broke out, -The Ministry of Communications
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will that naval operations are always but with the help of the Belgian dated Hongkong, 29th October PARTICULARS OF THE LOT announced the opening of a new stock into a mere representa- that this growing threat of
wireless circult between Chung-tion as a member of the Axis tsolation against her 1940 for seven shares of this
king. Shanghai and San Francisco Pact is particularly significant compel her militarists to fold in progress on many of the ocean Government in London a forces of Bank numbered 7982/7987, and
of the trend of feeling in up their tents in the night, routes, continued Mr. Alexander. 250 men had been formed and they "Air defence is admittedly vital in were carrying out patrol work in via the Press wireless..
like the Arabs of old, and fade this war, but command of the sea other vessels. They would shortly circuit commenced Japan. The new operations on Aug. 25 at the rate UNTIL recently Japan was away. But both Britain and for us is no less vital in this start manning bigger shipe
STRONG REINFORCEMENTS of 30 cents Chinese Currency per in the advantageous position the United States realise that struggle. It is in this work that
"So you will see that the allied word to Shanghai, 8.5 cents. U.S. Currency per word to San Fran- of being able to direct her the present state of tension the men and ships of our allier
military plans in two direc- cannot be permitted to con- play a yeoman's part."
Mr. Alexander here went on to ships are strong and welcome re- tions the north or the south. tinue indefinitely and that by give details of the various allied inforcements to our navy in ter HEALTH BULLETIN Today she is confronted with prolonging : Japan is indi-units. The Free French Navy; un-important task," said Mr. Alexan a solid front in the north as rectly helping her Axis part- der command of Admiral Musel- der. "In addition they had whole ships, which had all been carry- The following is the Returns of well as in the south and she ners by keeping large British ller, still remained the property of brought in a number of merchant notifiable diseases notified as bay must realise that. It requires and American fighting forces France and they had ing occurred in the Colony during
fight. In doing so they had fol-cause."T the 24 hours ended at midnight on very little more on the part tied up in the Pacific when heartedly joined Britain in the mg out work in the common of the anti-aggressionists to they might, with advantage, owed the path of valour and con, Mr. Alexander asid that the The purchaser of the lot will bo Aug. --
Cholera, three cases; Dysentery, completely isolate her, econo-be used elsewhere. It is on science of brave men,, The Free Dutch had brought in 480 vizipe required to pay to the auctioneer fa cash the sum of $144.00 six cases; Enteric Fever, one case; mically at least, from the rest this account that they are French Navy consisted of Affy the Norwegians 720 anips, THE hip, the Greeks 240 shiipe and of the world, with little pros-prepared to undertake a war vessels, inchiding destroyers and French 92 ship, the Beigung 34 (being 10% of the upset price) Tuberculosis, 34 onJEN,
pect of her European part-with Japan in order to pre- submarines klebrate? Immediately after the fall of the
been taken by surprise when the merchant navy had many gallant ners being able to afford her vent it from spreading to the Norwegian Navy, which had the Poles 82 stups. The allied CHUNGKING, Aug 28 (Reuters premium being paid in accordance The Chiness Goodwill Mission to any relfer. In other words, Far East- motive which has dermags attacked Norway, had officers and men and that had kill with the Conditions of Sale, Burma leff Chungking by air for the encirclement about which always been behind their only low ships whson could get been erred in bringin
Lapan gomuns ekonably.com policles in the Pacific, clear. Even so aa koin as they and food to Britain $11 Rangoon early this morning
and Certificate No. 6/NS, 9891
60985 in the
name of Mrs.
Elizabeth Lyona Lancaster have! been LOST or STOLEN, and should these certificates not bei produced to the Bank before the
Certificates for the shares will betasued and
13th September,
1941. Now
the aforesaid
Certificates Nos. 0/NS. 9889. 6/NS. 9800, and 6/NS. 9891. will be thereafter treated by
this Corporation as NULL and VOID.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
V. M. 'GRAYBURN,
Boundary
MCRsure
| No of
Kowloon Infanti ||
Lot No. 2874.
|
Registry Na
Function of
Shun Ning Ro
Locality.
Fat Treung
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ments.
AG. per
sale plan
Upset Price
About
Contents in
2,400
Square feet.
Annual
34
Rental.
1,440
Chief Manager.lammer, the balance of the! Hongkong, 13th August, 1941,
cisco.
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