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Hongkong Stock Exchange weekly report issued 4 pm. yesterday says: The turnover for the short week whilst not of great dimensions, ts a demand exists indicative that practically over the whole range of the market:
Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 3, 1939.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Hope For Crew
C. MR.
Abandoned
Continued From Page 1
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS hole in the hull' to liberate the
crew.
of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 5th
Later, the Admiralty issued a state- play of June, 1939, at 3 p.m., atment saying that the stern was com- the Offices of the Public Works pletely submerged and all attempts Department, by Order of His to cut a hole have been abandoned until the tide slackens. The state- Excellency the Governor of ono ment said several unsuccessful at- Lot of Crown Land at Pokfulam tempis with oxy-acetylene flame had Road,, In the Colony of Hong been previously made. Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at n Crown Rant to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo-
Bows in Mud
When the tide rose the Thetis was her standing almost straight on nose, the bows apparently being held fast in the muddy bottom.
IN ROMANTIC MOOD,Jeffrey Lynn and Priscilla Lano play boy The London "Evening News" re-mecia girls, gels girl in "Four Daughters," which is being shown at the ported that the four rescued men King's Theatre to-day. The film is rated one of the ten best pictures are bearing up, but are suffering of 1938. from the effects of carbon dioxide poisoning.
One of those rescued is quoted any-
sal of the lot the Purchaser (ifing that some of the older men who not the applicant) will be required are trapped are in "bad condition." to doposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of
hundred
two
dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum During the past holders have had will be refunded on payment of a number of unpleasant shocks to the Purchase price. contend with, but they maintained. an almost stole Indifference to the PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
future. Now that conditions, for the time being, are a little more settled, holders' tenacity is due for a reward. It is common knowledge local Com- panies, utiles in particular, ore still doing well and with the interim dividends being declared, 1 stimu- lated demand would almost surely be followed by an all round uplift in price levels.
Business Done During the Week H.K. Bank $1,400, $1,40234. $1,415,
$1.425
Union Ins. $440
China Underwriters $1.35
Union Waterboats $8
1 H.K. Wharves $107, $108, $100
Providents $4.85,
$4.00, $434, 54.60
Hotels $5.67%
H.K. Lands $35%
Humphreys $8
$434
$4.772.
H.K. Tramways $10.00, $10.95,
!
$16.00
H.K. Electrics $5531
Telephones (old) $24
Cements $13
Dairy Farms (old) $22
Dairy Farms ex. Rts. $22
Dairy Farms Rts. $10
Watsons $0, $8.10, $8. $8.40 Vibro Pilings $8 Changes 4 p.m. (Closing quotations) Виуста
Union Ins. $137%
China Underwriters $140
H.K, Fires Ins, $180
H.K. Docks $18
Providents $4.70
H. & S. Hotels $5.05
H.K. Lands $35 Humphreys $8.15
H.K. Tramways $16.00
Star Ferries 500
China Lights (old) $8.5
H.K. Electrics $554
Canton Ices $1 Cements $13
Watsons $8.35
Wing On H.K. $41
“HK, Govt: 46: Joon 15% pant
ILK. Gort: 311⁄2 loan por
11.K: $1,125
Watsons $814
Sellers
Ѕвся
H.K. Bank $1,425/20
Union Ins. $445
H.K. Wharves $110
H.K. Tramways $16.00/70
Cements $13
Watsons 58.40
H.K. Govi: 31⁄2 loan 1⁄4 prem.
New Majors For Volunteers
Both Captain Harry Owen-Hughes and Captain E. G. Stewart have been promoted to the rank of Major in the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, according to an announcement in the "Gazette" to-day, while Lieutenant A. W. Brown has been promoted to the ronk of Captain.
KING'S
NEXT CHANGE
I No. of Sale
Registry No
Locality
Rural....
Lot No. 422
G.
South East of Bucal Building Lot No. 214, Pokfulam Road.
Boundary Measurements
N. B. Z. W.
Ai per onlo plau.
Upset Price
$170
$2,048
Contents in
sq. feet
Алла!
Rental
14.730
R.
Before the stern submerged, lap- pings on the hull which were pre- became viously most vigorous, fainter, dimming hopes that all the rescued 88 men trapped will be alive.
All For One
could
It is believed that a few escape by using the Davis apparatus, but they would thereby acrifice the lives of others because the submarine would take in water every time a man left the submarine.
The forward escape hatch und the catire fore ends are flooded. It 15 understood that there were no men
the flooded compartments. United Press.
In
BRITAIN CAVES IN
To Surrender Chinese
In Tientsin
LONDON, June 2.-As 0 "gesture of appeasement" to Japan, Great Britain to-day notified the Government of China that approximately 20 alleged Chinese terrorists which are being held by the British authorities in Tientsin will be expelled from the British con- cession in compliance with Tokyo's demands,
Simultaneously, Lord Halifax has instructed the British Consul General enforce sweeping and at Tientsin rigorous measures to uproot anti- Japanese terrorism in the British con- cession.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 5th day of June, 1919, nt p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency, the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Tin Hau Temple Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 yonra, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one fur- ther term of 75 years, Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- Press. sal-of-the-lot-tho-Purchaser -(If- not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.
Chinese Protest
The Chinese Ambasador to London 10-day visited the British Foreign vain protest mice and lodged a against the British measure. United
Hongkong Is Suspect Port
has
The Government of Borneo port on account of cholera, says a declared Hongkong as a "suspected"
notification from the Director of the PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.while the Singapore Government has League of Nations' Eastern Bureau,
| No. of Sale.
Inland Lot
Begistry No.
Locality
No. 5528. Adjoining Inlaud
Lot No. 509T, Tin Hau Temple
Road
Boundary Measurements
N,
B. W.
as per sale plan.
Contents in
Ann. Kent. |
ug. fest
| Upset Price!
About
,100
168
U.S. COMMODITY PRICES
LATEST CABLED
QUOTATIONS
New York Colton
New York, June 2. Opening Closing * 8.91/01........ 8,07/07 8.18/10 8.17/17 7.90/90 7.02/03 7.88/00
July
Oct.
Heartbeats That
Dec.
Jan.
Mor.
Tell The Screen's Greatest Father- and-Son Story!
May
7.30/70 7.70/70
Spot
New York Rubber
July.
16,40b/48
Sept.
.10.45/40
Dec.
*10.50/50
Mor,
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KING OF THE TURF
'DOLORES COSTulő,
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Colonend the UNITED ARTISTS
7.87 N 7.80/80
7.70/70
0.78 N
10.39/30 10.41/41 10.45/45
001'6
Intimated that Hongkong Is now regarded as an infected port because of cholera.
5011
All passengers by air and should produce certiâcates that they have been inoculated against cholera not less than six days und not more than six months prior to their arrival In the Straits Settlements.
MUI-TSAI IN COURT Slapped for Putting Too Much Water in Pot
On charges of keeping on unregis-. tered mul-tsal, ill-treatment of the girl, failing to report possession of a ward, and 1-treatment by those in charge of a child, Cheung Ming, 40, a woman, appeared before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday.
Mr. H. W. Fraser of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs prosecuted.
Referring to the
Il-treating. charge, Cheung anid "I treated her as my own child and I just stopped her as mother would treat a child." Mr. Fraser sald the girl, according
to Cheung, had been presented for $0, at the age of a year. She had to do general household work. On May 21, he said, Cheung Intructed the girl, who was aged 13, to boll. placed too much potatoes. She water in the pot and Cheung slapped. her causing an abrasion on the in- side of the lip."
Cheung was fined $10 for keeping an unregistered mui-tsal and bound over in $30 for year on the Inst charge of ill-treatment. The ether Total Sales for the day:-1,540 tons, two charges were withdrawn.
16,53B.. 10.46/48
Chicago Wheat
July 2, 173-7731/7777/77% CHEERO CLUB EVENTS
Sept. Dec..
77/5/7740
·77/77% 70%/78%
Thursday's Sales:-
July
Sept
Dec.
July
Oct.
Dec.
20,383,000 bushels.
Chicago Coru
314/514 51%/81 02/2/62% 0243/81
53/63
Winnipeg Whcak.
05/04 04/04% 00%/08
Next week's programme for the Cheers Club is)
Monday-Dance, 8.30 p.m. TuesdayWhist Drive, 0.45 D.m Admission 30 cents including light re- freshments,
WednesdayDance, 6.30 pm
Thursday-Bridge,
Friday,Darts, ping pong,
billlards.
Tho Women's Advisory Committen 65/05% will hold a gala dance on June 10 at 00%/60% 8.30, pam.. Admission 50 centr.;
CIVIL WAR FLARES
New Outrages By Palestine Arabs
TROOPS
JERUSALEM, June 2,
were fighting a major engagement this evening with a large gang of Arabs which had ambushed a railway patrol, in which four British and three Jews were killed.
Stock Exchange Report
Continued From Page 1
HOPE FADES FOR REMAINING 85
speech and the altuation that it has; and to ‘avold the admission of water brought about,
to the ship, or whether for some The "Jour" continues to paint in reason the crew are unable to lurid colours the dangers attending continue to use the apparatus,
an alliance with the Soviet Union In any case, it is haped at low tide declaring that the Kremlin could that a hole can be cut in the hull Incite one western State against an- through which air can be pumped, other, bringing about constant com- and which could possibly be enlarged. plications but always retaining the to allow the men to escape. control of the situation.
A squad of workmen with oxy- The "Matin" states that London la acetylens equipment have left Birken- bitterly disappointed over the speech, head for the scene. while the Justice" opines that the fear of Hitler will lead Great Britain
lo forget her small objections to a
"Camola" Lashed
Meanwhile
"camela"
(steel
pact,
"The "Ordre" shares this opinion, cylinders containing compressed air) In stating that it would be better have been lashed to the stern of the to set aside irivial scruples than to Thetis to prevent it from sinking.
Anxious wives of the Imprisoned permit a "Pax Gerinanica" to be ex- tended throughout the world.
men stood all day outside the offices Unless the negotiations with Russia of Cammel Lairds at Birkenhead
news of their
are brought to a successful conclu- the evening, Mrs.
whose
Bolus
sion, the democracies, according to London,' June 2. the paper will lay themselves open to husband. Lieut-Commander The Stock Exchange account closed the ridicule of the world-Trans was one of those trapped in the Thetis, advised them to go home and quietly to-day with prices in most Ocean, groups frm.
get some sleep, observing that "noth- Olla were distinguished by Attocks
Before The Plunge
ing will happen for a while." |which_advanced from 02/6d to 64/4d
LONDON, June 2 on publication of the annual report.
Hopes Diminishing With the air supply on the sunken Kafirs benefited from Continental
submarino. Thetis estimated to last: The Admiralty stated at 10 o'clocks buying and elsewhere industries were
until
approximately
midnight to- to-night that hope of saving further regular, but gains appeared to out-
those in charge of the rescue lives was now diminishing. number 105905,
night, whlle gilt-edged securities were quiet, with
It was stated that the stern of the operations are working faverishly only small changes.
against time,
Thetis did not re-appear as anti- With the receding tide exposing cipated when the tide slackened at Wall Street was quietly steady. Reuter Special.
6 p.m.
and an attempt is now being made to lift the stern of the sub- marine with pontoons.
Aircraft located the gang and are BRUSSELS, June 2.-The Belgian co-operating with the infantry-Cabinet to-day examined the problem
of the defence of colonies.
Reuter,
Reprisals
It is learned that it is contemplated JERUSALEM, June 2,,-,48
purchasing sloops and gunboats to punishment for the bomb outrage at assure the defence of the mouth of the Jaffa gate, in which five Arabs the Belgian Congo Reuter. were killed and 19 wounded, the military commander hus suspended ccases.
more
of the submarine's tall, it is hoped that it will be possible to cut a hole, through which air may be pumped.
Later the hole may be enlarged to enable the men to crawl out.
Cause For Anxiety
Rear-Admiral B. C. Watson, com- manding submarines, arrived at Liverpool to-night to direct the Thells rescue operations.
Cainmel Lairds officially stated Late this afternoon it was not that a rope had been passed under denied by the Admiralty that the the bow of the Thetis which they position of the entombed men gave hoped to move shortly, three further Jewish bus routes, and The Counc}} of the Jerusalem cause for anxiety,
Six salvage experts, who had thus half of the Jewish urban routes Jewish Community Issued a state-
learned at the Admiralty helped to raise the German fleet at It was are now suppressed,
{ment to-day expressing horror and that the front part of the Theils was Scapa Flow, left the Orkney Islands It is announced that resumption of condemnation of the murderous out-flooded and that the forward Davis by air te-night for Liverpool to assist these service is dependent on whether rages and appealing to the community escape hatch was out of action. In the salvage of the submarine. the present succession of outrages for discipline-Reuter,
The Orkney salvage steamer with special compressor plant also left
The
Hongkong Telegraph
NINTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
June-September, 1939
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Prizes will be allotted as follows:
SECTION ONE:
For Story-Telling Pictures,
1st. $30, 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.
SECTION TWO:
General Pictorial Section: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scones, etc.
1st $30, 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.
SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studies.
1. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd, $16, SECTION FOUR:
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1-The Competition is confined ex-
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photo- amateur grapher 2-No employee or member of any firm in the photographile trade is permitted to compete. 3.The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged be the best photo- graph in cach Section. Each entry must he accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Com- petition, and whichroust pasted on back of entry: The right to publish any or all at the entries is rearved to the Hongkong Telegraph. B.All photographs entered maint Have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong, Photographs which have been already entered in other Competitions, are ineligible. B-No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, loss of, or damage to entries.
be
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USE THIS FORM
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De mounted. Coloured
graphs are ineligible.
should
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than one Section. 10-Mounts to be only white or cream, and. except in tho Children's Section, must be of one of tho following sizes:-10x12, 16X20. 11-No correspondence will be entered.
Into, in connection with the Com- petition.
12-Entries in the Children's Section must bear the entrant's name, ago and address on the entry form, counter-signed by a parent. 13-Members of the Staffs of the Hongkong Telegraph and the South China Morning Post are not ponutiled to compete.
14-The decisions, of the Judges shall :
Be final.
At the conclusion of the Com petition, entries will be returned
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The four men who come up used the after hatch,
for the scene.
As soon as the heads of the escaped men bobbed above the surface, boats manned, by bluejackets raced to the scene and transferred the rescued men to a waiting destroyer.
Meanwhile warships and rescue ships of all kinds continue to circle certain no members of the crew are
entropped there.-Reuter. the submarine.
It is understood that from reports. there is no doubt that the forepart of the Thetis is flooded, although from reports of those saved, it is
Morse Code Messages
Ono Man Dead
Divers who went down this aftor- LATER-A member of the trapped. noon obtained answers from the sub-crew of the Thetis is reported to have marine crew when they tapped out died in trying to escape.
Mrs. Caroline Hole, of Devonport, messages in morse code.
official Admiralty statement received to-night from the submarine issued at 6.50 p.m. B.S.T. says with depot at Gosport a telegram stating Wilfred that her husband, Stoker regard to the Thetis that "according Hole was believed to have died while to the latest report timed at 4.50 p.m.
An
no escapes had been made since those endeavouring to escape from the
Thet!s. of Stoker Arnold and Mr. F. Shaw The telegram added that this of Cammel Lairds at 0.50 a.m.
definite
"These two survivors reported that would be confirmed when the remainder of the crew were then news had been received.
wher the Llandudno lifeboat about to 150 their Davis escape was
called out this afternoon apparatus, and it is not clear at to take a doctor to the scene, the present what prevented further coxswain said it was understood six
escapes by, this method.
"Attempts have been made to cut men had escaped from the Thetis, and
that three had died.Reuter. a hole in the stern of the submarine, but these had to be abandoned until
90 Aboard the tide slackens about 0 p.m. The strong flde is at present causing the
submarine's stern to go under water given by Camel Lairds of the staff
Fight Against Timo
noy
LONDON, June 2-The numes
aboard the Thetis show that at least 40 men were aboard when the sub- marine submerged.
The night to save the men
These included, in addillon to the scens to be a fight against time, as crew of 58, n dockyard personnel with every passing minute the air numbering 32.
supply Inside the submarine With four rescued, this leaves at diminishes, though it is estimated that least 86 in the submarine. there is usfficient to last until 1,40 The Thetis is lying at an angle of on Saturday.
45 degrees with her nose on the sea It is not known at the Admiralty bottom. whether the use of the Davis escope Present indications are that the apparatus has been deliberately submarine is being held down by suspended to conserve the air supply submerged wreckage.--Reuter.
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