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SHARE PRICES
The following is the list of local share quotations lesued this morning.
Banks
H.K. Bank, $1,405 .
H.K. Bank (Lon. Reg.), $90 n. Chartered Bank, £10 n. Mercantile Bank, A. & B. £20 n. Mercantile Bank, C., £13 n. East Asia Bank, $80 n.
Insurance*
Cunton Ins., $220 n.
Union Ina., $515 b.
China Underwriters, $2 n. H.K. Fire Ins, $200 n.
Shipping
Douglas, $68 n ILK. Steamboats, $20 m. Indo-Chinas (Pref.), $60 m Indo-Chinas (Def.), $24 n. Shell Bearer, n/- 89/41⁄2 n. Union Waterboats, $9 b.
Docks Etc.
H.K. & K. Wharves, $12011⁄2 ka.
H.K. Docks (old). $10
n.
H.K. Docks (new), $19 n. Providents (oid), $7.15 5. Providents (new), $8.90 s.
New Engineering Sh. $3.00 n.. Shanghai Docks, Kailan Mining Raubs, $0.70 n. Venz:
Sh. $128 n. Adm., s/- 17/3 n.
'Goldfeld, $3 n.
744 cts. n
Honorines Mining
Antamok, P. 34
Atoka, P. 35 an.
onsol.,
P. 11.50 sa.
Bagulo Gold, P. 25 52. Benguet Benguet Explor Coco Grove, P. Big Wedge, P. Consolidated Mines, P. Demonstrations, P.
Mindanao, P.
Gumaus G'fields, F.-
Ipe Gold, P.-
IX.L P..62 sa. Itogons, P.
Min. Resources, P. — Paracale Gumaus, P.-- Sulacot Mining, P.--
San Mauricio, P. 74.5 Suyoc Consol, P. 18. United Paracales, P. 35% sn.
Lands, Hotels, etc.
H. and S. Hotels, $7.05 b HK. Lands, $38 sa
H.K. Lands, 1% Deben $1071⁄2 th Shanghal Lands, Sh. $8.40 n. Metropolitan Lands Sh. →→ Humphries $9.60 n H.K. Realies, $8 n. Chinese Estates. $96'.
Pubila Utilitiä.
II.K. Tramways, $17 b.
(old), $6% b.
Peak Trams (new), $34 n.
Peak Trans
Star Ferries, $77 b.
Yaumati Ferries (old), $24 Yaumati Ferries rights, $23žá R.
m.
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• THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY,
HONG KONG EVENING
· INSTITUTE
The Institute will re-open on Monday, 17th October, 1938.
In accordance with Government Ordinanco, the Exchange Banks will be closed for the transaction of Public Buslocas on Monday, the 10th. October, 1938. (The Anni-Forms may be obtained at the Copies of Prospectus and Entry. versary of the Chinese Republic). Education Offico, Now Fire Station
Hongkong, 5th October, 1938.
Building, or at the Trade School, Wantsal.
NOTICE
We have this day been appointed for Jesar's. Export Agents Seymour-Sheldon Co. Ltd.,
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,
J. RALSTON,
Director.
C. R.
Bank of East Asia Building. | PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS 10 Des Voeux Road, Central. 1st. September, 1938,
Chinese Envoy To Germany
of the Sale by Public Auction. to be held on Tuesday, the 11th day of October, 1938, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at North
Due Tomorrow Point, in the Colony of Hong
Dr. Chen Tlen-fung, former Chinese ambassador to Germany, who left London on September in the Antenor is due to arrive in Hongkong to-morrow.
Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
Dr. Chen will be welcomed by local
Intending bidders are advised prominent Chinese, as well as many that immediately after the dis- Chinese officials who are here specially to meet him, including Dr.posal of the lot the Purchaser (if Foo Peng-sheung, Mr. Liu Vel-tse, not the applicant) will be required Dr. Andrew Lee, Mr. To Yul-sen, to deposit with an authorised Dr. Chu Ming-yf and Mr. Lee Tai- oficer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred It is learned that Dr. Chen will will be refunded on payment of dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum zemain in the Colony for a short time before he proceeds to Chungking to the Purchase price. report to the Government.
chino, representälive of Governor Wu Teh-chen.
Chinese
National PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
China Light (old). $11.10 b. Chion Light (new), $10% n.
H.K. Electrics, $50% n.
Macao Electric, $17
n.
Sandakan Lights, $10 sa. Telephone (old), $26 n. Telephone (new), $0 b. China Buses, Sh. --
Singapore Tractions, /- 25/- n. Singapore Pret., s/- 20/3 n.
Industrial
Cald: Macg. (ord.), Sh. $14 n.
Cald: Mocg. (Prof.), Sh. $13 n.
Conlon Ices, $1.70 n.
Cements, $17.20 n.
H.K. Ropes, $4.05 b.
Stores, &c.
Dairy Farms, $26 n. Watsons. $8.30 n.
Lane Crawfords, $84 n. Sinceres, $2 n.
Wing On (H.K.), $474 n. William Powell, Ltd., 90 cets, n.
Cotton Mills
Ewo Cotton, Sh. $10 n. S'hal Colton (old), Sh. $88 n. Zoong Slogs, Sh..$24 n. Wing On Textiles, Sh. $42 n.
Miscellaneous H.K. Entertainments, 38% n. Constructions, $14 n. Vibro Filing, $6.85 n.
Ch. Govt. 5% 1925 G$ Bonds.,
70% prm, n.
H.K. Govt. 4% Loan 6% prm. n. H.K. Govt. 31% Loan par n. Wallace Harpers-
Marsmans (Lon.), s/- 15/- 84. Marsman Ins. (H.K.), s/ 3/4 n.
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OCTOBER 6, 1938.
Hitler's Astonishment' At
Win Soviet to
Bloodless
BERLIN, Oct. 5.
RETURNING FROM his triumphant four of the abrogate
areas newly acquired by the Reich, the German Chancellor, Herr Adolf Hitler, again appeared at the Sports Palace to-day and declared that "The German people have found their way back to honour!"
Introducing the Fuehrer, the Minister for Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, announced, that the Winter Relief Fund had awarded 45 million marks to the Sudetens.
THE WATERPROOF Dr. Benes
RECORD
Some qualities:
local weather forecast this morn- WATERPROOF
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fresh to strong; fine to cloudy, rain SHOCK-ABSORBER later.
Yesterday only two points were re- eorded, and the year's total rainfall
is still nearly 27 inches below aver-
ANTIMAGNETIC DUSTPROOF
age. To date 52.85 inches have been PERSPIRATIONPROOF registered as against a normal of 79.17 inches.
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The weather report this morning UNBREAKABLE GLASS stated that a moderate anti-cyclone has developed over north China, und depression is moving eastward across Hokkaido. The typhoon en tered the China Sea this morning and is situated about 450 miles south-east of Hongkong. It is moving north- westward, and nt present threatens the coast in the vicinity of Hongkong.
Maximum temperature yesterday
was 82 and the minimum fast night 77. This morning the temperature was up to 85, while humidity re- gistered 76 per cent.
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PRAGUE, Oct. 6:
PRESIDENT
DR
that when he assumed the leadership
agreement?
Unable To Regard France As Ally
MOSCOW, Oct. 5.
Herr Hiller recailed in his speech A BLUNT warning that of the Reich"It was said that he was the U.S.S.R. will no popular while in the opposition but longer be able to regard when called to govern, his popularity France would wane and in six weeks would voiced by the Journal de as her ally, was.
disappear.
"The past six years," declared the Moscow, French-language
Chancellor," "have been" "the_most decisive in
German history. The organ of the Soviet Govern-
most decisive factor In recent events
is that the people backed me, in ment, in its editorial com- that way I succeeded in particular ments.
In the last six weeks.
nation. In
`A GREAT AIM *.
,on the French attitude regarding the: Czecho-Slovak problem. EDOUARD BENES, aim and determined to achieve it, by, the Soviet Union of the "On May 281 undertook a great Hinting at possible abrogation elected three years ago as because the entire German nation Franco-Soviet Mutual Assistance head of the Czechowas ready for a supreme sacrifice, Pact, the Journal charges that
sacrificed my private bourgeols Slovakian State, has resign-comforts to the great aims of the France has failed to make any ed, we
the last months and consultations with the Soviet weeks 1. have had a "In a letter of resignation full foreign affairs wat helper in Government in connection with
whom I have of pathos, but which shows the already had occasion to thank God the recent crisis in Czecho- bravery and courage of the man
"That man who stood behind Ger- Slovakia. many is Signor Mussolini. who successfully kept the Czechs
As a result of the recent develop→ must also thank other states-ments: in: Czecho-Slovakia, the paper calm and orderly throughout the men who, In the last minute, realised points out, it has been implicated that crisis, Dr. Benes declares: the gravity of the situation and the Soviet-Czechoslovak Mutual
The historic events of the past few enabled me to give my hand to an Assistance Pact, subsidiary to the. days have changed the entire circum- understanding, but above all my Soviet-French Mutual Assistance stances so completely that I feel that gratitude is to the German people Pact, has practically been nullified. my remaining in office may con- who have taken all measures neces- As the price for capitulating to the stitute an obstacle to the new condi-sory to enforce their just claim. tions which now confront our State.
WE MUST HELP OURSELVES "We have how constituted a new. Government which will be a Govern- "When hundreds of thousands isolated, which has allegedly been the ment of calm and order, of economic were drafted to labour and hundreds exoet alm of Chancellor Hitler.- efforts and social reconstruction, ajof thousands called to the Colours, Domei. Government which will aim chiefly at no man went to the savings bank, internal development, and I am con- no woman doubted. Nobody in the vinced that it will succeed in its world will help us unless we help efforts.
ourselves.
Fascist States, the journal rays, France will be obliged to lose hier ally and to suffer the fate of being
PACT HAS NO VALUE
Moscow, Oct. 5. The semi-official Journal de Mos- cow, now published In French and
"I realise that in these new condi- "Mr. Duff Cooper and Mr. Eden reflecting the views of the Soviet tions is essential for me to withsay that the Czechs have been badly Forela Omlee, discusses in a leading treated; they should go themselves article the question of French foreign.
draw from office.
I
ly.
That does not mean that I am and see in the Sudeten areas the evading my duties and responsibilities rightful misery I saw. It must be in this dificult situation, or that our cry to remove distress complete um leaving the vessel in a storm. only wish to facilitate the develop- ment of the policy of the Government both in external and internal affairs." After thanking his colleagues for collaboration and wishing them success, Dr. Benes concluded:
"How many sacrifices would fighting have demanded of us? A long as the German people preserve their unity no one will dare attack
This year the Just scandalous
policy,
The paper is sceptical, now that the Munich Agreement has been signed, of the future of the Franco- Soviet pact and asks what value can' be attached to the Pact
ના
now that France has lost almost all her posl- tion in Central
ral Europe. Bitterly
complaining that the "I am fully convinced that there Bages have been torn out of the booking the Soviet "annulied the pact French Government, without con- of fate. The German people have sulting
their
11SL
is a better period before us, success- found their way back to Honour between Czecho-Slovakia and the ful labour and prosperity for and in Reuter,
a new State, and for all our Czecho- Sinvakia peoples."—Reuter.
RESIGNATION ACCEPTED
Progue, Oct. 5.
ENORMOUS EXPENDITURE
Berlin, Oct. 5.
Soviet Union by an international guarantee of the remnant of the Czech State" the paper points out that the Soviet-Czech Pact constituted on in-
Amplifying his announcement at tegral part of the Franco-Soviet the Sports Palace regarding the re- Treaty and was one of the most im- President Beries' resignation has let to be granted the Sudeten Ger- portant elements of the system of been accepted unanimously by the mans, the Minister of Propaganda, European regional pacts. Council of Ministers, General Strovy Herr Goebbels, said that since 1934
All that now remains of that sys-
has been appointed acting-President, the Reich has spent almost 2,000 mil-fem in Eastern Europe, declares the according to an announcement made lion marks in relief to alleviate the Journal, is the Franco-Soviet Treaty. over the radio to-night.
The announcement stated that new seedy population. This
want and suffering among Germany's The value of it is very doubtful in In view of the French attitude towards Government's policy will be based cluded 417 million marks sum
on the equality of the three peoples, Czechs, Slovakis and Carpathian Rus- sions.
for the the Czech States, to which France
past
was formerly bound by even closer year. This money has been distributed ties than she was to the Soviet Union. largely on
on food and provisions.
Trans-Ocean. Five "Our policy will aim at maintain- and halt quintals of potatoes have ing friendly relations with body, and in order to live in security entire city of Berlin for a year.
every been distributed, or sufficient for the we feel it necessary to cultivate good
relations with our neighbours," sald For clothing 07 million marks
the official statement, which added were appropriated, while over three that the
million cinema and theatre tickets
Government hoped
that
British Girl's
there would be no unemployment. have been distributed to persons un- Death In S'hai
Reuter.
INEVITABLE RESULT
Prague, Oct. 5.
able to afford them.
Flat Shooting
Shanghai, Oct. 0.
returned by 1is British Majesty's A verdics of death by gunshot was coroner yesterday at the inquest into the death of Miss Lulsa de Cruz.
The Coroner said that if the al
Street collections brought in thirty million marks and the sale of badges netted a further 115 million. Dona- tions from Germans abroad amount- Dr. Benes' resignation is regarded ed to nearly three million. Czech foreign policy, now that the winter reller organisation last winter as a result of the inevitable change in
The cost of operating the huge State's main deteners have been amounted to only 1.9 per cent of the amputated and the British and total receipts, since a million per- French failed to help when help was sons contributed their services gratis, needed
General Sirovy is President until tuted for the Sudeten areas, and up in his opinion, be tried in a British
A special
dal campaign has been insti leged alooter was British he would the National Assembly can be called to now over ten million marks have Court for murder. to elect another president.
been earmarked for these areas dur- It is understood that the alleged There is considerable confusion ing the coming winter. amour observers and even among the "I expect winter relief this year to Macao soon for trial, following a shooter. Vasco Marcal, will be taken Czech authorities. Some
believe to compare with the historical great preliminary that a semi-dictatorship may marks hess of the year, Dr. Goebbels said.
Investigation by the the beginning of the new foreign "Every one must be inspired by the resided in Hong- Portuguese Consular Court here. policy to bring Czecho-Slovakia and ambition to achieve a monumental kong. Germany closer together.
result in order to indicate that the Miss Cruz, whe shot, it is alleged, The New Foreign Minister, M. term 'peoples' community is no mere by Marcul after the young man came Chvalkovsky, has always been on phrase," he said. Trans-Ocean.
good terms with Berlin and Rome.
Dr. Benes' resignation is not felt to
be due to anything but a purely it was a deliberato lie and a fraud. patriotic reason. 21 pointed out that. ah Herr Hitler häs caised him a [*
Trans-Ocean
mad man, the conversations, regard-|| BROADCAST TO NATION. ing the fifth, zond÷(in\which there is
Prague, Oct. 5. to be a plebiscite) would probably
In a broadcast to the nation Dr.
suddenly to her apartment one night.
Router,
T
ESTIMATES
i
ON OCT. 13
get along more smoothly without him. Benes said that he intended to re- Owing to the fact that Tbly is sign after the Munich Agreement was supporting, Hungary's claims, the resigned, but had decided to walt be- Akdent probably fell that these cause he felt it advisable to remain negotiations, alap, would be better unul a strong Government had been
The 1939 Estimates will be without his presence United Press. constituted in Czecho-Slovakia. Introduced in Legislative Council BERLIN BELIEVED AT REA "We did all we could to reach an at its next meeting on Thursday, press had blom developed into an international The meeting will commence at
Seeing that the Gelman Oct, understanding but our internal pro-October 13
stood.
2.
for long accustomed its readers to crisis, the Four Great Powers reach- 11 am and will be continued: regard Dr. Benes as one of the lead-ing a decision without our being con- during the afternoon, it is under Ing exponents of the policy which sulted. drew its sustenance from Versailles, Geneva and Moscow, it is not sure for history, will judge.
"I shall not say a word in critician, prising that his resignation la greeted **The nation supported their orden) with a positive sigh of relle? here, is heroically, and now the State must extent of the set-back which the comment of the Berliner Loka- find itself once more and we must foreign polley has suffered. lanzeiger.
The establishment of friendly rola-
recast our polley.
It is realised that Czecho-Slovakis There is now no cause for conflict has now all but been ruled out of the tions of any sort had become impos- with our neighbours, and our Stato French systent Cof
foreign alliances. sible, says the paper, and what has in future will have a more homo
Le Temps sharply attacks to con-
• now; now not the outcome ofļsuneous composition
hor
and will have duct of French foreign policy during
with regard to Geneva and the at-
of one man but the Kroater confidence in the nation's the last two decades, particularly sroeping away of one man by an future."Reuber. uprising of nations. There is nothing
the
Hongkong
tragic about the ending of his career
since the creation of the Czech State
tempt to enter. into an enduring
Paris, Oct. 5. alliance with the smaller countries
FRANCE DISMAYED ~
News of
was far from being a tragie blunder, Benes has served to show France the Trans-Ocean.
the resignation of Dr. in Esxstern "and - Central. Europe.