Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 31, 1939.
P & O-BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
CEYLON
(Companies Incorporated in England)
on through Bill of Lading for STRAITS, JAVA & BURMA AFRICA, AUS. AND
Taking CTA, INANIAN GULF, MAURITIUM, E. &NBLAND PORTB,
THALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND
RED BEA, EGYPT, EUROPE, ETC.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL, FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS
(Under Contract with 1.N, Government)
All vessels may call at any poris an or off the route, and the route and all suliing are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.
Steamera
CANTON
⚫ALIPORE
CORFU
**SOMALI
CHITRAL
CARTHAGE
BANGALORE
RAJPUTANA RANCHI +BHUTAN
Tons From M'Kong about i
1st Apr. Noon 10,000 .6,000 9th Apr.
14,500 15th Apr. 7,000 21st Apr. 15,500 29th Apr. 14,500 13th: May 0,000 20th May
17,000 27th May. 1,000 101 June 0,000 | 17th June
Destination
Marseilles & London.
Straits, Colombo, Bombay & Karachi.
Marsellies & London,
'bay, M'sellies, Havre, L'don, Hull, H'bg, R'dam & A'werp. Marseilles & London.
B'bay, Macilien, Havre, L'don, Hull, H'bg, R'dom & A'werp. Bombay, Marseliles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. B'bay, M'seilles, Havre, L'don, Hull, 'bg, R'dam & A'werp.. Alt vessels may call at Malta
Calls Casablanca.. BRITISH INDIA APCAR SAILINGS (BOUTIL)
⚫ Cargo only,
SHIRALA
TILAWA
SANTHIA
TALMA
SIRDHANA
Port Swellenham,
8,000; 9th Apr. 10.39 a.m., S'pore,
Penang Tangoon & Calcutta,
10,000 22nd Apr. 0,000 6th May 10.00 20th Alay 10.000 3rd June.
DO.
DO.
DO.
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31. Apcar Lino Steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd Clas passengern.
MANKIN
NELLORE
TANDA
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (SOUTH)
7,000 1st Apr. 11 am.
7,000 5th May.
7,000 3rd June,
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne & Hobart
Regular monthly railings from Hongkong to Shangbai and Japan and H'kong
to Australja,
NELLORE
Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days, BAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
SANTHIA CARTHAGE RAJPUTANA
7,000 8 April 8,000 13th April
[14.500 13th Apr.
TALMA
TANDA
RANCHI
"BHUTAN
17,000 27th Apr. 10,000 27th Apr.
7000 5th May 13,000 10th May
6.00 th May.
Shanghai & Japan.
Shanghal & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan,
Shanghai & Jopan;
Shanitha! & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan Shanghai & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan.
• Cargo only.
All dates are approximate and mubject to alteration without notice. Parcela ineasuring not more than 3 c.f., wij be received at the Company's Office up to noon on the day previous to aniling.
For Passage Itates, llandbooks, Freight, etc., apply
P. & O. B'ding MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Phone 7721
Connaught RC.
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...Noan, Frl.. Apr. 28. ..Noon, Fri, May 12. .7.00 a.m., Fri., May 26.
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A particularly ingenious A.B.P. Idea which at- fracted much attention at the British Industries fair: A shelter protected by a mound of conerete bails designed to deflect a direct his.
One of many A..P. devices exhibited
Birmingham in the section of the British Industries Fair. A leller "unk beneath the ground and covered with sand- bags.
LEFT: Their Majesties leaving St. Andrew's Garrison Church, which has been enlarged and re- decorated. after attending the reopening service. S1. Andrew's Church stands beside the Queen's Avenue on the sile of the Iron Church, which dated from Crim- can days and remained til 1920. The new 81. Andrew's Church is a memorial to the war dead of the Church of Scotland and kindred churches throughout the Empire. opened by the Prinerss It was Royal in 1927.
Begun in the "Munich" days these air-rak pre- cantian trenches in the square outside South Ken- sington Underground station are now being com- pleted. The original hastily-installed timberwork has been taken out, being replaced with steel arches of approved design. When the work is finished the Ahetters will be well hidden and it is probable that a small garden will appear above them.
BANK NOTICES
THE CHARTERED DANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1833.
Paid-up Capital
Reserve Fund
25.000.000
£1,000,000 Reserve Liability of Proprietors £9,000,000 HEAD OFFICE: LONDON:
38, Bishopsgate, E. C. L. Bub-Agencies in LondonI
117/122, Lexdenhal) Street, X. C. 3. West End Branch:
14/16, Cockspur Street, E.W.J. Manchester Branch:
11, Mosley Street, Manchestar.
AGENCIES AND DRANCHIES:
Alor Star Amritsar
Bangkok
Vi
Street Fairlie
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.
Authorised Capital
$10.000.000.00 ald-up Capital nonpuits 4,508,000.00 Reserve and Undivided
Profits *.................................. $ 2,683,932,01 HEAD OFFICE:HONGKONG
10, Des Voeux Road, Central. şe
HOARD OF DIRECTORS)*** Eir Bhouson Chow, Chairman. La Hoon Chua, Seq. Li Lan Bang. Bag, P. XC. Kwok, Ea
Wong Chu Bon, Eng, Wong Yun Tong, Esq. Kan Ying Po. Esq. Chang Chung Shek, Leg FungPing Wah,ES. KAN TONG PO, Esq. Chief Manager, LI THE JONG, Esq. Manager. DRANCHES AND AQENCIES1
Beattie Marila Melbourno. Bemarang Namaki New York Paris Pelping Penang
Amoy llatavia
Bombay Calcutta
Haiphong Haukow Honolulu
London
Hankow Artin Hongkong Dallo
Rangoon
Buigon
Beremban
Shanglint
Bombay. Calcutta
Agencich:
Clive
Ipoh
Karachi
Sogapore Sitiawan
Kiank
Sourabay
Kobe
• Rangoon
Kobe
Taiping
Kowloon
Haszon
Kuala
Tientsin
San Francisco -
Lumpur
Tongkah
(Phuket)
Medras
Afanila
New York
Pelping
lialphona
(I'eking)
Hambur
Penang
Image Kuching
Canton
CawnporeMedan
Ceuti
Colombo
Delhi
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.
CULLMENT ACCOUNTS opened FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year
and
of shorter periods in Local or Other Cur.
rencies at rates which will be quoted on application,
Hhangtial
Sing poro Bourabaya Swatow Sydney Tientsin
Vancouver
Every description of Banking and change business transacted. Loans great- ed on approved securițios.
Current Accounts opened in Local Cur rency and Fixed Deposila received for one year or shorter periods in Local and Foreign Currencies on terms which WALL be quoted un'application.
Safe Deposit Boxes Tv Læt.
KAN TONG YO,
Chief Managez,
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
Steamship. British Income
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with interest allowed at rates obtainable on application The Bank's Head Olice in London un dertakes Executor and Trustee business and claims recovery of Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of the Agenelor and Branchen,
B. A. CAMIDGE,
Manager.
WANTED: 'A HUNDRED THOUSAND MOTHERS
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the benefit of our legislators certain factors and a good many
"MARECHAL JOFFRE" No. 10 A/30 Bringing Cargo from Marseilles vin Saigon, clc., arrived Hongkong on Wednesday, 20th March, 1939,
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- lom, Whence delivery may be obtain- ed immediately after landing.
All claims must be sent in to me
of the kind of bitter paradoxes which Voltaire, and even Gil-on or before 8th April, 1930, or they
will not be recognized. bert, might have enjoyed.
Damaged Packages will be examin- Among these latter is the un-ed by the Company's Surveyor deniable fact that in poor and Messrs: Goddard and Douglas in slum-bound districts the birth- the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 0.m. on Tuesday, 4th April, rate is always a glorious credit 1939.
to the nation, while the intrusion Consignees must have a Revenue of comparative prosperity and Oncer in attendance when any duti decent living conditions coin-able goods are examined by the cides with that drop, which Company's Surveyors.
No Fire Insurance will be effected menaces the future of the race.
by us in any case whatever.
n. om, This is a dreadful thought,
Agent. The poor don't fear poverty;
Hongkong, 29th March, 1930. but the rich do and it's the middle classes that offend by not contributing their just share of Labies.
LEAVING FOR HOME
The falling birth-rate in the
Mr. A. D. Fraser, of The Taikoo more prosperous countries--the Dockyard and Engineering Co, of United States as well as Britain HK. Ltd., who is Head Foremon of is certainly connected with Engineers at the dockyard, proceeds home by the Canton after a period the cult of pleasure: too many of 20 years service at Quarry Bay. The good wishes of bis wide circle cinemas, too many radios, too many cars, aud too much hedon- jof friends go with him in his new ism generally mean too few sphere of nativity in the Homeland. babies.
But not even the Dictator of all the Dictators is going to stamp a puritanical regime on even the most complacent coun- try in order to foster a synthetic profligacy.
Gordon
Beckles
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ROOM BATH $6
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Some of Ule 2-ewt, concrete slabs. which are be Ing used to cover the trenches in Green Park. A.R.P. is at long last beginning to make real sirides throughout Britain; the movement will probably end by out-stripping all other countries, which have hitherto concentrated on elaborate gas maskery mid black-outs.
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These A.R.P. trenches in Green Park are being covered with massive slabs of concrete, each weigh- Ing about 2 cwt-a method that has up to now not been widely employed. All over London trenches begun at the time of the Munich crisis have been completed.
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This is South American-born Evelyn Ankhers,
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