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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION
in
THE
of
IN
GOODS Mahomed Khaleel Shirazi late of No. 3 Commissioner Chief Road, Egmore Madras, the Empire of India, Mohammedas, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, madej an Order Busiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 25th day of Septem- ber, 1941.
All creditors and others are
accordingly hereby required to
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.
STANLEY,
|ton
CURRENT
COST OF
LIVING
The prices for meat-beef, mut- and pork-remained steady Poultry during the current week. was down slightly while vegetables
showed a general decrease.
The new School Year begin on September 1st, both for the Middle School and the Pre
The following are yesterday's Entrance exquotations with paratory School.
last amination for New Students brackets:- (Middle School) on August 30th, at 9 a.m.
| Beef
Pork
For prospectus, apply to M. S. Mutton Fung, Esq., or P. L. Chan Esq.,
Messrs ./0
Harry Wicking, Prince's Building, (Tel. 30241) Chicken or to the Warden, St. Stephen's Cupon College. Stanley.
The Daily Press.
MEAT
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EDITORIAL
'As Ye Have Done Unto Others"
Hell Hitler! you are gazing at the writing on the wall
SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1941.
Employment | JAPAN'S AIR FORCE WILL
MATCH FOR U.S. OR BRITISH MACHINES
Of Italian Prisoners
Of War
LONDON, Aug. 29 (BWS) A atart has been made with the em
Your fearful doom is written, and soon the stroke must fall:
Your day of reckoning a nighployment. of Italian war prisoners
a Lortured
to help the British agricultural war effort.
BE
NO
"Japan seems to have a great many aeroplanes, but they are all of them imitations of other countries' de- signs," said Major Oliver Stewart, M.C., A.F.C., editor of the London magazine "Aeronautics" and a recognised au- thority on aerial warfare, when he broadcast from London yesterday.
your reign of horror o'er AD week's in
outraged God,
Major Stewart opened his, he said, was used widely in the last. world, demands you pay the score
The DAILY TELEGRAPH says talk with a reference to the war and the advance
army was All men shall execrate you, and
"The men are not being allotted individually to farmers but are work of the R.A.F. in the re- thus kept informed of the exact your cringing soul shall shrink. when you stand upon the brink,
Stark fear wil rend your vitals working in gangs under military cent operations in Iran. AI. Position of the defence and, so far as is possible, they are guarded draining. though these operations were against surprise Grim Death e'en now in mocking. ditching and land reclamation and on a minor scale they held a and lɛ ever drawing nigh.
supervision,
some
on
others on the harvest.
In the moment of your passing. a "They underwent rigorous tests considerable interest at this thousand deaths you'li dic.
for previous agricultural experience stage. Possessed of many devils as the and physical fitness before being
NEW STANDARD swine of Gadɛrene.
embarked for these shores and
Major Stewart said that all thehe movey by the R.A.F. in Iran were designed to forestall the Germans with their plan to follow their
Stern Fate, at last, repays you they have already made a most and India troops were accompanieding the morale of the country,
for the foul thing you have been:
In the hour of your triumph, you heard not your victim's moan, In the hour of your downfall. you'll be fearfully alone.
The storm clouds darkly lower. and the tempest gathers weight,
Your Ship of Destiny is doomed.
tis written in your fate,
72 cents per lb. (72, 72 cents per lb. (72) 0 cents per ib (80)
POULTRY
382
Duck Ocese Pigeon
$2.20 per catty ($2.40) 1.60 per catty1.651 90 per catty (90) 1.16 per catty1.25)
85 each
VEGETABLES
85)
Cabbage Carrots Cucumber Lettuce
32 per Ib. 436. 34 per lb (36) 22 per ib. 1.18) 40 per ib. (40)
Melon
12 per ib. (12)
Onions
08 per Ib. (06)
Potatoes
09 per lb. (.09)
Spinach
10 per lb. 1.00)
String-beans Tomatoes Turnips
34 per lb. 1.36) 38 per lb. 30 .48 per lb. (48)
shall assal you from afar,--
FRUITS
bune.
53, Fleet Street Oranges
$240 per doz.
$2.40)
416
HONGKONG, August 30, 10).
Apples, green Apples, red Banalas... Grape Fruits Lemon Lunes Papaya Pincappies Pumelos
65 per b
{
.65)
65 per lb
f
,55)
18 per lb.
{
18)
35 per kb.
{
35)
18 each
{
She gushed, like a cut artery.-- 38) Misle Robinson,
34 per lb
{
22 per lb.
18 per lb 20 each:
1
send their claims to the ander signed on or before that date.
Dated the 29th day of August, 1941.
JOHNSON STOKES &
MASTER.
Solicitors for the Administrator, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building, Honghong.
THE HONGKONG
ELECTRIC CO.,
LTD.
報西刺祁
Editorial
and Business Office 16-19. Queen's Road Central, Tel. 33225.
Night Editor Wanchal Office):
Tel. 24511. London Office
E.C.4.
RUNNING ROUND IN CIRCLES HONGKONG'S aggrieved
The screams of martyred millions
favourable Impression 00 those who have seen them at work in
the fields.
"The total number at present the country is only about 2,000, but further contingents are understood to be on the way. There can be
"Most of the advances by British usual methods of greatly weaken-
by air support which had proved most destructive," said Major Ste- wart, "The Germans showed us carly in the war how aircraft, by means of intensive bombing, could prepare the way for their ground troops. They set up a new stand-
no doubt that score of thousands ard for bombing.
present a
"The British and Russian nove was just in time and in- formation received in London shows that they made good headway and are meeting with little opposition", said very Major Stewart.
I
THE FAR EAST "While this advance goes on of Italians, now idling away their "Whenever they proposed time in prison camps of India, readvance with their ground troops, ran there remains the unsolved
valuable reservoir of they first of all sent dive-bombers problems in the Far East" Your soul shall writhe in tor-manpower to cke out the acute to devastate the regions in front tinued Major Stewart. "Here
An the shortage of domestic farm labour and to bring resistance. down to a ment, when you founder Bar-
"Only limiting factors would
miniun Warsaw and Rotter Kookaburra in the Malaya TT- seem to be security and shipping dam, as we know,
blotteri were space of which the former 15 pro-
out in this way. bable the main reason for the re- luctance to use prisoners hither-
COMPARISONS
He'd a face like the inside of auto" elephant's foot-EV. Lucas.
341 My love is waiting like corked
24) soda-water to fly towards her.-- J7Barry Pain.
201 A voice like a concertina that has been left out in the rain.-- Max Beerbohm.
About as exciting. Captain
cold
mutton
AXIS WARSHIP IN SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI, Aug. 29 (Reuter) - The Italian 1200-ton sloop Eri-
I trea arrived this morning from
Kobe.
This is the first Axis warsh'p
the European war.
husbands continue to run! round in circles without get~! NOTICE IS HEREBY
ting anywhere. At the public: cuation Committee yesterday Musker found himself reflecting enter Shanghai since the start of GIVEN that an Interim Dividend meeting on Thursday night a indicated that His Excellency as
Pat. William of $.60 per share has been declar- great deal was said--much of did not find it convenient to McFee. ed in respect of the half year it might have been left un-receive the deputation that ended 30th June, 1941, on
said, particularly at the pre-called on him. His Excellency CORRESPONDENCE 900,000 OLD SHARES and will
sent moment when the out-might, nevertheless, consider
ANSWERS
gets there. J. M. XAVIER-We do not allow
be payable on and after Thurs look in the Far East is less it advisable to take the sub- day, 13th September 1941 favourable than it was four-Ject up with the Home off- Dividend Warrants
may be teen months ago, when the cials when he obtained on application at the Government's ill conceived With that the husbands and criticism of other contemporaries Company's Registered Office, P. evacuation scheme was put their brand new committee in these columns-E., H.KD.P.
NEWSETTES
"But there is a sharp con- trast to this in the way in which the Allies are acting in Iran. The R.A.F. began drop- pinig leaflets and their bomb- ing was not necessarily meant to destroy. The R.A.F. does not set out on these raids in a spirit of spite as the Germans do.
"That does not mean that their work was half-hearted. It means that their destructive bombing was confined, as as possible, to essential targets.
far
The Eritrea, It 1s reported,
RECONNAISSANCE reached Japan five months ago
Major Stewart referred 10 after an adventurous journey from the Red Sea dodging British other feature of R.A.F. activity patrols in the Indian and Pacific reconnaissance and army co-opera- Oceans.
tion in general. Reconnaissance,
Poison-Crucifix Rumours
Result In Son's Bolo-Murder
Of His Father In P.I.
& O. Building.
Into operation. The results will have to be content and, THE REGISTER OF MEM-achieved at this last public even if the balloon does not BERS of the Company will be meeting are practically nil. go up in the meantime in the CLOSED from MONDAY, IST, A new committee was ap-Far East, prospects of a re- HE. the Governor will visit the
Broadcasting Studio, SAN FERNANDO, La Unlor, Ang. 15.-One life has been sseri- SEPTEMBER to THURSDAY, pointed and, while no rooted union of families will remain Hongkong 11TH SEPTEMBER 1941 (both objection can be found for dimmed while the Home au- accompanied by Lady Northcote, ficed in connexion with the widely circulating reports about hid- and will broadcast On "The den bombs, poisoned powder and gås cloverty hidden in the makeup Fishery Research Station" tomor or in the centre of statuettes and crucifixes in the homes of the re- ligious which were bought from peddlers within the last two years. Meanwhile these religious ornaments continue to pour in at the
owners surrender them
*
+
days inclusive) during which the desire for fresh blood to thorities ponder the ad- period no transfer of shares can take up the cudgels against a visability of admitting that row (Sunday) at 9:02 pm. be registered.
Government which refuses to the local administration admit its mistakes of the either falled completely to ad- HE. the Governor will be pre-constabulary headquarters here and in the offices of the muntolpat past, very little consideration vise them of the demerits of sent at the opening of the North-police In several municipalities as the
Science Building seems to have been paid, inja
by Lady voluntarily, fearing that the reports. were true. compulsory the heat of public debate and scheme or misdirected them Northcote on Monday next, Sept. personal grievances, to the entirely.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON &
CO., LTD. Agents.
Hong Kong, 5th August, 1941.
381
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
kong,
29th
October,
for seven shares of this
numbered 63580/63582
numbered 7980/7981 in the name
evacuation dobe
1. at 5.30 p.m.
to
con-
the
not Japanese have
shown marked stability. Japan seems have a great many aeroplanes, bat they are all of them imitations of other countries' designs.
"In imitating these the Jap-
anese are
very good and it should enable them to build up
GDY
a large air force, but if Japan gets involved in war with some power such as Great Britain or the United States which has developed aviation to a great extent, I doubt if their ma- chines will last very long. "Japan is mainly concerned with her fleet air arm and they have many machines for work over the sea, but flying boats can never be sumcient. So that when we look a other possibilities, it looks as If what Japan is doing is mainly to create a diversion to help Ger- many.
AUSTRALIAN STRENGTH "Australia has a well-equipped ocean reconna18- air force with sance flying units and if there is a flare-up in the Far East, Aus- tralia will be working on full supply so far as aviation is con cerned.
"It is true, however, that Japan, simply by maintain- ing a threatening attitude, is keeping our air force units in the Far East tied up when they can be devoted to work in North Africa.
"Japan is playing the Axiu game Whether she can or whether she cannot do so, it greatly Jeopar- dises her own security, As Mr. The victim for connection with have also reported that their col- Churchill said, there are limits be- yond which we cannot allow Japan these reports was Bernardino Detection is increasing every day. finade, 69, of sito Calautit, BacTt was learned from the con- to go and we are building up our that these religions, air force to meet auch possibili-
amount of spadework that THE UNFORTUNATE_posi- H.E the Governor will receive tan, who was bolved to death by stabulary the members of the original tion will remain unrelieved farewell addresses and Lady his son, Filomeno, 25, after a quar-ornaments will be sent to Manila ties", concluded Major Stewart, committee put in to bring the until a clear-cut statement is Northcote a presentation from the rel regarding a statuette in their for investigation and analysis to find out 11, the reports about them
at the King's Theatre.
Court, yesterday.
rumors
DEATH LEAP
An unidentified Chinese, about
height of about 30 feet into Suf
30 years of age, jumped from a
Things You Wouldn't Know
whole evacuation muddle into extracted from the authori- ladies of the Chinese Community home.
Investigation disclosed that the are true. One statuette which was the limelight and to secure, ties. This demand must, of/on Tuesday next, Sept. 2, at ngon rather did not want the statuette supposed to be solid concrete is recognition of the complaints course, be so modified as to
to be taken away from the house actually hollow and a round object that have been so rightly meet the policy of the local The Rev. 6. J. Squires, CF., gave in spite of the rumors about the moves faside when the statuette is
Wah Lane yesterday. He had ap- voiced against an official administration,
danger in keeping them on that shaken. despite its an iteresting talk at St. Andrew's the son threatened to throw it
RIVAL FIRM?
parently leaped from the rear part blunder that has grown into misunderstanding of the Church Hall last night on "The into the river when he had a It was remarked at the constab of No. 5, Circular Pathway. NOTICE IS HEREBY a veritable scandal. It is this whole situation, in view of Meaning of Prayer.!!:
chance. Angered by his son's re- ulary office that these
The body was removed to the GIVEN that the Certificate weakness in procedure that the fact that officialdom is,
mark, the father threw a stone about the statuettes and crucifixes Victoria Public Mortuary. Suicide No. 6/NS. 9889 dated Hong nullifies any objective. The seldom prepared to admit its The forthcoming marriage of pestle at his son, striking him on might have been started by a dis-16 suspected.
Mr. Mak Bhul-wa, teacher, of No. the back: The son, who was shar 1940, disclosures of intimate facts mistakes.
gruntled employe or a rival firm of The issue will, 5 New Buliding, Main Road, Unpening a bolo, stood up and upon the factory which produces those MARKET MISHAP Bank relating to the situation may, therefore, have to be put in Long, New Territories, and Miss meeting his father who was then religious objects. It was also re- Cheung Hon, foki employed at and or may not, have their value, the form of an insistence Li Kam-sheung, of Lot No. 120 going downstairs struck him with called here that some three years the Central Market, was admitted 7976/7979 in the name of Mrs. but descent to personalities is that, since the evacuation Main Road, Un Long, was an-his bolo again and again, killing ago a foreigner ppened a store and to Queen Mary Hospital yesterday Ethelle Mariel Dowling, Certi hardly conducive to unity of scheme has now been can-nounced at the Registry, Supreme him on the spot.
sold many statuettes before, after with a fractured arm sustained in This macldent made the silus-a few months, he closed the store. an accident while engaged in ficate No. 6/NS. 9890 dated purpose in securing the re-celled, the original order
tion more alarming for the super- Manila Bulletin).
washing up.. Hongkong, 29th October 1940 dress that is now being should be given a voluntary for two shares of this Bank sought from the Government. appellation. This will mean gir Geoffty Northcote, K.C.M.G.. there lurks an evil spirit within His Excellency the Governor, istitous, as it proved to them that THE ONLY RESULT that that those husbands, who, and Lady Northcote, dined fast these statuettes, too, in addition of Mr. Wilfred Murray Theobald, emerged from the meeting, with their eyes fully opened night with the Hon. Commodore to the deadly powder and as they and Certificate No. 6/NS. 989 apart from the attempt made to the present political situa A. C. Collinson, R.N..
on H.M.S. are alleged to contain."
Visitors to New York's Bear momentary low, Invisible from VARIOUS STORIES
Mountain dated Hongkong, 29th October to win sympathy through re-tion, wish to bring their wives Tamar,
Museum were greatly the air.
The
regarded by". invention, Various stories have been relat attracted recently by 1940 for seven shares of this ferences to pending broken- and families back should be To assist in the development of ed by the people. There is the spotted albino deer with calf's photographers as one of the bir Bank numbered 7982/7987 and up homes, was the decision to permitted to do so. Those Industrial and mining enterprises
gest advances since the invention rumor to the effect that a group head, dubbed Vincent, 60985 in the name of Mrs. make yet another approach who do not care to make use in Szechwan, the Joint Board of of worshippers who met
- Freak deer was so popular that of the dry plate, has revolutionised Elizabeth Lyona Lancaster have to the administrative head of of this right can, of course, the four Government banks, name-prayer service died one atfer the it was decided to allot him a night photography. It has further been LOST or STOLEN, and the Colony with a round-sult themselves. If such a ly, the Central Bank of China, the other within several days on a special exhibition cage in front of applications for aerial and land should these certificates not be robin craving for further con- concession is made, the Gov- Bank of China, the Bank of Com count of having inhaled the moke Bear Mountain Inn. Twenty-four survey work, spectrography, clini produced to the Bank before the sideration of the whole pro-ernment will no doubt find Bank of China, is understood to in front of the crucifix
munications und the Farmers': of the candle which was burning hours before his debut Vincent cal photography and psychical ra 13th September, 1941,
died from unknown causes, cheat-search. New blem. His Excellency endea that less than half of those have signed a loan contract with It was stated that the smoke ed his pubitr An autopsy was Certificates for the shares will voured not long ago to make who have joined in the the Szechwan Provincial Govern- became poisoned upon striking the ordered.
the aforesaid the be issued and
Government's position aggrieved cry will avail them- ment involving the total sum of ngure of the crucified Christ on Cortiücates Nos. 6/NS, 9889 clear when he broadcast, to selves of the permission. It $60,000,000,
the crucifix convinced them than Unique records are being made the British West Indies all bad \6/NS. 9890, and 6/NS. 989 those affected by the evacua-will, moreover, end the steady
it was made of some poisonous ! Detall measures for the enforce materials, There is aled the story of incidents in the air war X-ray and electro-medical appara- will be thereafter treated by tion, but only made it more trickling in of certain ment of the government monopoly of how a cruciix was buried un-/Britain thanks to a device per tus shipped to them from a single this Corporation as NULL and apparent that the powers- these evacuated wives on the on enit, sugar, tea, wine, tobacco derground and when the rain came at midnight it is now possible,
feated by British inventors. Even British workshop last year, mea
Iceland's recent shipment was that-be were not prepared to flimsiest of excuses excuses and matches are reported to have out of the place, while babbles without the use of flash, to take dental X-ray apparatus. An X- acknowledge their blunder, which are hardly in keeping been formulated and subunitted to forman in putidies on the aurtees photographs as sharp cut sa any ray and thortwave therapy ap- The approach planned, al-with the defence grounds on the Executive Yurn for approval of the ground, s
on a sunny day. paratus went to the Civil Medical most on the eve of His Ex-which the evacuation order It is understood that the organiza-
It is done by using, instead of Hospital, Khartoum, and 10,000 cellency's departure from the was first based--and have with take the form of a company At least 300 statuettes and eruol- the usual flash-bulbs, speatal bulbs worth of equipment to the radio Colony after a trying period done with the bickering that white for of two principal zxes have now been surrendered to screened with Infra-red filter fogical and therapy departments of office, has failed. A state- has been aroused among the departments business and the constabulary here. The enters coatings which turn the dassling of the Public General Hormal ment issued by the new Eva-husbands themselves.
ninistration.
of police of Tubsa and Aringay magnesium flash in a dim red Kingston, Jamalos.
VOID.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
V. M. GRAYBURN, E
Chief Manager Hongkong, 13th August, 1941.
as
tion to administer the monopoly
BIG COLLECTION
grey- D
Countries as far apart as China, Iceland, Jamales, the Malay [Btates, Egypt, Finland, Trdia and