Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March
17, 1939.
Steamers
*JEYPORE
RAWALPINDI **BURDWAN
CANTON *ALIPORE
1
6,000 181 Mar. dam.
P & O-BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
1Companies Incorporated in England.)
Taking Cargo on through Bide of Lading for STRAITS, JAVA & BURMA, CEYLON INDIA, IRANIAN GULF, MAURITIUS, E. & 6. AFRICA, AUSTILALABIA, INCLUD ING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, RED BEA, EGYPT, EUROPE, ETC
PENINSULAM & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL UTKAMEJA) (Under Contract with HIM. Government.)
..
ail vessels may call at any ports on or off the route,-and the route and, all esilina are subject to change or deviation with or without notice,
CORFU **SOMALI
Tons From 1'Kong about |
17,000) 18th Mar. Noon
6,000) 25th Mar.
16,000 1st Apr. 0,000 10th Apr.
14,500 15th Apr. 7,000 21st Apr. 16,500)29th Apr. Visuo| 13th May 6,000|20th May
Destination
Stralta, Colombo, Bombay & Karachi.
Marsotiles & London.
|B'bay, M'seilles, Havre, L'don.
}Hull, 'I'bg, F'dam & A'werp.
! Morseilles & London.
Straits, Colombo, Bombay & Karachi.
· Marieilles & London.
B'bay, M'selfies, Havre, L'don," Hull, Hbg, R'dom & A'werp, Marecilles & London.
B'bay, M'seilles, Havre, L'don, Hull, H'bg, R'dom & A'werp.
Carge only † Calls Casablanca All vessels may call at Malta..
SIRDHANA
SHIRALA
TILAWA
SANTHIA
10000 22nd Apr.
0.0001 8th May 110,000) 200 May
BL. ADCAN LIne hiremiere have excellent accommodation for 1st & 2nd class passenge ZASTEIN & AUSTRALIAN RAILING) (SOUTH)
NELLORE TANDA
7,000 3 June.
Regular disathiy sailings from
Manis, Rabaul, Brisbane Sydney, Melbourne & Hobar
H'kong to Shanghai & Japan & keng to Australia Hong Kong to Nydney-19 dinya.
SAILINGS TO BHANGĦAL & JAPAN.
Shanghai & Japan,
7,000 17th Mar., Ga.m. Shanghai & Japan.
PHOTONEWS
CHITRAL
CARTHAGE
+BANGALORE
TALMA
SATTRE
J
10,000 20th Mar,
Swollen.
BRITISH INDia Aigar
saILINGS (SOUTH,
'Forl S'pore, Penang, Rangoon & Caten
DO.
DO.
DO.
DO.
8,000 8th Apr.
7,000 1st Apr.
7,000 5th May.
CORFU
14,500 17th Mar. 10 u.m.
*SOMALI
CHITRAL
10,500 30th Mar,
Shanghai & Japan.
TILAWA
10,000 30th Mar.
[Shanghai & Japan.
NELLORE SANTHIA CARTHAGE
7,000 th April
8,000 13th April 14,500 13th Apr.
Shanghai & Japan. Japan.
Cargo unly.
|Shanghai & Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, parcels measuring not more than 8 o.ft. will be received at the Company's Once up to
the day previous to sailing.
For Pamiga Itates, Handbooks, Freight, rto, soply
O MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Phone #7777
Connaught RC.
CANADIAN=PACIFIC
Akrot
TO CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE
via Shanchal, Kobe & Yokohama
:
EMPRESS OF JAPAN via tunalulu ......Naan, Fr.. Mar. 17.
EMPRESS OF ASIA via Honolulu.....00 .. Thurs., Mar. 30. EMPRESS OF CANADA via Honolulu.....Noon, Fri., Apr. 14. EMPRESS OF RUSSIA via Honolulu
Nonn, Thur., Apr. 27.
Air-conditioned equipment vo C.PR Trans-Contineritid Troins Prestal Canadian Pacifle Atlantic sailings to Exropran Parts
TO MANILA
EMPRESS OF ASIA
EMPRESS OF CANADA
Union
Suilding
Thurs., March 23.
.Fri.. Apr. 7.
Canadian Pacific
Telephone
20752
FUFS
Thils German soldier was photographed taking part in winter manoeuvres of the German artillery in the Bavariau Alps, near the lown of Garmisch-Partenkirchen where the Olymple Gzmus were
held.
King Loris of Bulgaria recent-
visited his father-in-law, Har Victor Emmanuel of Haly, and while in Reme he looked In
at the mineral exhibition. Among ofher objects he saw was this dleplay of aerial bombs In the Pavilon of Arms. Airmen call Chen "" to be hatched by the huge bombers that roar over an aren, dropping their burden
to bring death and destruction below. Borks, with soft hat, in foreground, considers them.
General Eliseo Alvarez Arenas, named by General Franco to take Personal clerge of Barcelona, farmer Loyalist capiisi, after the elty was captured by Insurgents.
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BANK NOTICES
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA Incorporated by Royal Charter, - 1853,
£3,000,000
Paid-up Capital Honerva Fund
£1.000.000 Reserva Liablity of Propriators £3,000,000 HEAD OFFICE: LONDON:
38, Bishopsgate, F. C. 7. Sub-Agenctor In Lendon: 117/122, Leadenhall Street, E. C, 1,
West End Brunch;
14/16, Cockspur Street, B.W.1. Manchester Branch:
11, Mosley Street, Manchester.
AGENCIES AND DRANCHEJ:
Hankow
Alor Star
Amritsar Bangkok
Jatavia
Bombny Calcutta
Ateneles:
Citvo
Street
Fairlie
Pinco Canton Cawnporo Cebu Colombo Deth Haip:oc Hamburg
1
Hongkong Holla
Ipoh
Karnehl Kiong Kobe Kuala
Limbur Kuching Madras
Manitu Medan
New York
Peiping
(Pekinit)
Penang
FOREIGN
Banking Business transacted.
wolkeg
THE BANK OF KAST ASIA, LIMITED.
Authorised Cupital
Paid-up Capital Reserve and Undivided
Proilta
$10,000,000,00 ............$ 6,308,000,00
... $ 2,681,037.01
HEAD OFFICE|—HONGKONG 10, Des Voeux-Road, Central.
BOARD OF DIRECTONE
Sir Ehouson Chow, Chairman. Koon Chun, Szq. Li Lan Sang. Bag. I, I, Kwak, E. Wong Chu Non, Eag. Wong Yun Tong, Esq. Kan Ying Po. ExQ. Chang Chung Shek, Esq. FungPingWah,Ex. KAN TONG ro, Esq. Chlef Manager. LI TSE FONG, Esq, Manager, BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:
Manila Melbourne
Nagasaki
Seattle
Semarang
Shanghal Singapore Saurabaya
PlariGuOzi
Seremban
Amoy Datovin Bombay Colcatta
Now York
A
Haiphong
Hanko Honolulu
Swatow
Sydney
Sourabaya
Kobe
Tientsin
Kowloon
Vancouver
London
Singapore Sitiawan
''
Trentau Tongkan
Lukul)
You ha
EXCHANGE and Солега
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened
And
Parin Pelping Penang Incoon
Salcon
Ban Francisco
Every descriptima et Banking and Ex- chango husiness transacted, Loans grant- [ed on approved securities..
Current Accounta_opened in Local Cur- rency and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods in Local and Foreign Currencies on terms which will ba quoted on application,
Bale Deposit Boxes To Let.
KAN TONG PA,
Chlef Manager,
FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year CONSIGNEES' NOTICES. or shorter periods in Local or Other Cur- reneles at rales which will be quoted on COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES application,
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with interest Steamship allowed at rates obtainable un application. The Bank's Head Office in London un. dertaken Executor and Trustee business and claims recovery of British Income. Tax overpaid, on tenns which may be ascertained at any of the Agencies and Branched.,
.IL A. CAMIDGE,
Manager.
NATIONAL SERVICE
(Continued from Page 6.)
and 23,000 members was ahned at when It started.
MARITIMES.
"YANG-TSE"
No. 4 AFO/30 Bringing Cargo from Dunkirk via Haiphong etc., arrived Hongkong on Sunday, 12th March, 1930,
Consignees are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored into the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd, Kow- loon, whence delivery may, be ob- tained immediately after landing.
All claims must be sent in to me on Another organization is the Civil or before 22nd March, 1930, or they Air Guard for men and women be will not be recognized, tween the ages of 18 and 50. There
Damaged Packages will be examin- cu by were 34,986 applications
the up to
Company's Surveyor November, 1938, and 4,000 were en- the presence of the Consignees at Messrs:-Goddard and Douglas in
rolicct.
Half a million children will be evacuated from London, alone, in the next war.
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CROYDON, just outside London, is the first town to decide to build an underground car-park. It will cost £350,000, accommodate 810 cars and shelter 30,000 people. Despite strong appeals, the government has so for opposed deep, underground shelters.
10.00 a.m. on Saturday, 18th March,
1039.
Consignees must have a Revenue Omeer in attendance when any dut- able goods are examined by tho Company's Surveyors.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
R. OIL. Agent. Hongkong, 12th March, 1030.
Giant steel doors on both sides of STOCK MARKET
the Thames to prevent the flooding of London's subway system are to be installed at a cost of over £15,000,
The Westminster borough of Lon- don is to build nearly three miles of
ni a cost of £50,000.
REPORT
The Hongkong Stock Exchange
trenches in the parks and squares in official summary issued at 400 p.m. the west-end (down-town) district, yesterday, says:
A large, turnover was effected to- Poplar borough of London, mainly day in Banks at $1,400/1,420, Hotels in the over-crowdal cast-end sium t $84, Old Docks at $194, Lands district, is spending £100,000 on pre-et $36, Trams of $16.00, Electrics cautions.
at $50%/56%, 33 Watsons at Sir John Anderson has warned $9.10/0.20, the market closing with Arms that they musi not threnten ja firm undertone. employees with dismissal if they do not volunteer for national service.
Anderson is studying un allotment scheme, under which old-age pen- rioners would be given a plot of land cn which to grow food,
Sir John Simon has announced civilians will receive compensation for injuries and damage during war- time, on the same basis as soldiers.
Anderson has announced that im- mediately war is declared 12 dieta- tors will Lake
supreme charge of 12 districts into which Britain has been divided. Greater London is one of them. Anderson is now looking for! 12 men of national standing for the Jobs. He hopes to And them by early March.
A satisfactory goranask for bables has at last been found. It is shaped something like a cradle. During the erinis, there was no anti-gas protec- tion for children up to the age of four,
Finsbury borough of London will build 15 underground shelters at a cost of £1.268,000, if the government will pay 70 per cent, the remainder to come out of the local taxes.
-H. L. Percy
PROFESSOR GERRARD
The University Medical Society on Tuesday gave a tea party to Prof. W. I. Gerrard, Professor of Medicine at the University and Government Con- sultant, in the Union Assembly Room, as a farewell before his departure on lenve lo-day.
Buyers Canton, Insurance $225 13. Fire Insuranen" $103 Dougloses $60
ILK. & K Wharves $110N II.K. Docks (Old) - $10% ILK Docks (NOW) $185 1 Realties $1.50 ILK. Tramwaya, $10.50 .. Yaumati Ferries (Old) $24 Sandakan Lights $13.10 Telephones (Old) $22.70 Telephones (New) $714 Canton Ice $1 H.K. Roper $4.10 Waisons $0.10
Wing On (HK) _ 40 Entertainment $7
K. Gort, 4% Loan 4 pm.
K Govt. (HK) par.
Beflers
Inton Insurance $405 i. & S. lotuls $0.35 Chins Lights (Old) $0.00 HJ, Election 107 Macso Electric 10 Sandakan Lighta $11:30 Watsons $0.20
Baing Hongkong Bank $1,100/20 HK Docks (Old) $19
19. Hotels ex div. 404 HK. Lands #3815
II. Trainwaya" $16.00 Yount Feerlen (Old). $25
K. Mlectrien $50%/3% Atauno Electricn $184 Sundakan Lights 212.10 Watsona 19/0,10 - Antamole Ps. 43 Aloks .39
Bagulo Gold 27% Benguet Consolidated 13.00 Coco Grove -40%) Demonstrations tojs
I. X. . .45
Paracale Ciumaus 101⁄2 San Mauricio 120 Suyao 20
United Parmegle 77
A.R.P. LECTURES
Modified Full Course Air Raid
Dr. Leong Kam-leng, who presided, Precaution' lectures will commence In paying a tribute to Prof. Gerrard, to-day at 11 am at the Hongkong aald he had been elected an honorary Volunteer Defence Corps Headquar like Vice President of the Society. Iters, Garden Road.
PRESIDENT LINER
SAILINGS
SPECIAL RETURN FARES
HONGKONG TO THE UNITED STATES
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY FOR SAILINGS
beginning with
5.8. PRESIDENT PIERCE
19th May.
and including all sailings up to
8.5. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
21st Oct.
Ieturn Limit Six Months MINIMUM ROUND TRIP FARES
S.S. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
First Class
Special Clas9
San Francisco US$037,00
302.00
Los Angeles US$052.00 300.00
S.S. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, PIERCE & TAFT
Flest Class
Tourist Class
San Francisco US$392.00 322.00
Los Angeles US$007.00
330.00
★ ★ AMERICAN ★ ★
PRESIDENT LINES
ROUND WORLD SERVICES "
11 Pedder Street
Telephone 28171:
This caricature thows Bernard
A. Baruch, New York inancler,
whom a Nazi newspaper in Ber-
lin recently culics America's
"secret President." Τέ alko
blamed him for the good-neigh-
bour polley toward South Amer-
Ica, stating: "As the representa-
five of the Rolfschild bank in hoth North and South America,
Mr. Baruch, already in control
In the United States, wishes to
safeguard his South American
interests by having the United
States control South America,"
OBITUARY..
Death of Old Manila Resident in Colony
UFS
Dr. Eduard Benen, former president of Czecho-Slovakia, and Mrs Benes, as they arrived in New York. Dr. Benes will teach at the University of Chicago, Official reception was given the couple at New York's City Hall by Mayor La Guardin and distingulalied citizens. University has received hundreds of requests for specchier by Dr. Benes.
many nephews and nieces. · `
Relatives and friends
were pre-
sent at the funeral, which took place nt the Catholic Cemelery in the
CLIMB SCAFFOLDING
Burglars Enter Office
afternoon, the Rev. Fr. Cyril Speziall In City District
officiating.
The death of Mrs. Genpreva Isabet! Buried with the casket was a A daring burglary occurred in the de Xavier e Souza occurred yester wreath from "Gerlic. Tony, and office of the China Plant-Oil Lamp day at St. Paul's Hospital, ofter a Jose." Other Aoral tributes Were Company, In the S. C. M. Post build- from Stella and Celes, Mums and ing in the early hours of yesterday
short illness.
Mrs. Souza came from Monila with | Tafty, Alvaro, Mica and children, morning.
A quantity of radio apparatus and
her husband and children a few years Maria de Monte Carmelo Place, G. Entry was obtained by breaking go. They were well-known there, M. P. Victor, A. Remedies, M. a glass window, the burglars climb- Mr. A. M. a Souza, who pre-deceased Sariano, I. Happ, N. Chan, Mr. and Ing scaffolding outside. Mrs. Souza, last year, was connected Mrs. J. R. Velgn, Mr. and Mrs. H. with the Dollar Lino in Mantin. So, Mr. and Mrs. G. Leong, Mr. and machine The loto Mrs. Souzi is survived by Mrs. C. G. Silva, Mrs. C. O. Mattos, culprits a son and a married daughter, and and Au Kwong-wal.
tools WAS stolen. The
two used
waste-paper basket to curry awny the loot,
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