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The Thirty-fifth Annual Genoral FOR SALE.
Meeting of Shareholders will be "HONGKONG AS REVEALED DY hold at the Olleen of Messrs.
Second Edition. THE CAMERA" Over 00 excellent views of the Dodwell & Co., Ltd., Hongkong & Colony, Price $1.50. Obtainable at Shangbai Bank Building, on Mon- Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, day, the 22nd April, 1940, at 11 South China Morning Post, Ltd.,.m. for the purpose of receiving Wyndham Street,
TO LET. WYNDHAM HOUSE, 41 Wyndhom
Street. Suite
also on top floor. separate rooms, available for Euro- peans from May 1. Booking an premises 11-1, 2-4 p.m.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES
BIESSAGERIES MARITIMES Bringing Cargo from Marseilles'vla Salgon.
Consignees are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored into the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon. whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.
All claims must be sent in to me on or before 16th April, 1940, or they will not be recognized.
Domaged Packages will be exumin by the Company's Surveyor Messrs:-Goddard and Douglas in the
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A Look Through The “Telegraph"
50 YEARS AGO.
April - 11, 1940,
MAJOR BATTLES RAGE ALL ALONG NORWAY'S COAST
·FROM PAGE ONE
operations elsewhere in the North Sca,
BRITISH TROOPS IN NORWAY
> FROM PAGE ONE
said that farther south the German and foreen are advancing in buses lorries supported by acroplanes.
Some said they belleved that there was fierce fighting near Hamar and that the Norwegtan Government, which had moved there from Oslo, had to withdraw further inland.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 15th day of April, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Oflees of the Public
The fact that the Admiralty named Works Department, by Order of
April, 11, 1890. only two destroyers must be consider In Excellency the Governor of
the con-ed in conjunction with the Admiralty It is seven years since
was policy of not revealing naval secrets, Lot of Crown Land at struction of the Forth Bridge
the know- It is also pointed out that it is not Mong Kok, in the Colony of first commenced, and
can surprising that destroyers were sent ledge that engineering science Hong Kong, for a term of 75yleld has been brought to bear upon to engage the German cruisers at since they have many years, with the
option of it. The bridge owes its origin, in- Narvik, renewal at a Crown Rent to bedeed, to the terrible ealamity which advantages, both numerically and in
occurred on the Toy little more their ability to manoeuvre, fixed by the Surveyor of Ilia
than ten years ago, and has been Majesty the KING, for one fur-pushed forward in the face
Damaged By Shrapnel ther term of 75 years,
tremendous difleuliler, with a full
LONDON, Apr. 10. (Reuter)-In Intending bidders are advised regnition of the sirain which it
will have to bear. Some fden of the connection with the German claims. that they have damaged four Allled Accounts for the year ended 31st that immediately after the diepo vasiness of the
structure will DC battleships and Ave cruisers, the December, 1939.
The Transfer Books of the Cam-val of the lot the Purchaser (it conveyed by the statement that its Admiralty an Tuesday night replied pets in Oslo, It is equally clear that pany will be closed from 6th April hot the applicant) will be required / exireme length is nearly a milo and that two cruisera had been slightly no Norwegians outside of
the report of the General Managers together with ♫ Statement of
to deposit with an authorised
to 22nd April, 1910, buth daysofeer who will be present at the inclusive.
sale, the sum of two hundred dollara, ($200) in cash. This aum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.
DODWELL & COMPANY LIMITED. General Managers.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LTD,
The Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in the above Com- pany will be held in the Company's Olees, P. & O. Building, 5th Floor, on Thursday, 11th April, 1916, at 11 am, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers together with a
December, 1939,
presence of the Consignees at 10a.m.Statement of Accounts to the 31st on Wednesday, 10th April, 1910.
Consignees inust have a Revenue Omeer in attendance, when dutiable goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
R. OHL Agent.
POST OFFICE
Small Packet Post to all countries La suspended.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Monday, 8th April, to Thursday, 11th, 1910, both days inclusive.
DOUGLAS LAPILAIR & CO. General Managers. Hongkong, 2nd April, 1940.
of
in quarter, and that, whilst elight millions of rivets have been used in pintes have been used for its tubes, its construction and 42 miles of bent
something like it presenta neres of surface to the painter. The
Lost
twenty
of construction monatants
23,000,000.
damaged by bomb splinters.
Nazi Admission
A Gorman broadcast trom Oslo to lay called on Norwegian troops down their arma. It they did not it would be worse for them.
The announcer also claimed that the Relch had reached an agreement with the Norwegian Government.
It was quite clear that here the announcer was referring to the pup-
Oslo nre taking any notice of this Norwegian Government.
Sporadic Resistanco
*(Router) ~~~ PARIS, Apr. 10 BERLIN,
(Reuter).-A
'Apr. 10 Berlin High Command communique According to a Stockholm message. to states that the Bluccher was heavily the breakdown of Norweglan cora- damaged outside Oslo while endca-munications is to complete that little vouring to silence a battery of 11-is known of what is happening at the inch guns. Subsequently she struck moment, but the news which has several marlsruhe, offer having met in sporadic resistance in parts of the
nes and was lost.
trickled through suggests that there
country.
Sir
On the 17th ulte. Hojal PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. Charles Brooke of Sarawak annexed
Kowloon Inland Lot No 424
Adjoining Kowloon Inland (
Lot No 2157, at Juncion
of Prince Edward Rad
Nullen Road. Mong
No. of Sale
Rexistry No.
Locality
G.
Boundary Measurements
N. B I. W.
as per salv
plan,
Contents is
Ann. Rent.
A BUL
$ 22,3cu
R.
HONG KONG TELEPHONE, PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
COMPANY, LIMITED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTEENTH ORDINARY
MEETING of HONG YEARLY OUTWARD MAIL TIMES
KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, Registered and Parcel Mails are cloud 15 minutes earlier than the LIMITED, will be held ou TUES time given below unless otherwise DAY, the 30th day of April, 1940, stated, and where malls are advertis-at Noon in the BOARD ROOM of
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are closed at á p.m.
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The
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the Lhuban River, vadeli constitutes the main portion of Brunei, and to strong resistance at Kristiansand, obtain Jurisdiction over which has was heavily damaged and sanic. A
The Oslo papulation appears been for so long the policy of the greater part of the crew were saved.
The Bluecher was a new heavy have been deincralfred by the swift bc Sarawak Government. No one was
com-action of the Germans and to
by the present from Brunei, and the hoisting cruiser of the Hiffer Class,
puppel of the flag. was not known to the missioned since the war began. She sadly impressed Sultan.
The annexation is subject was of 10,000 tons and carried eight government set up by the Germans.
8-in. guns. to the English approval.
The atmosphere is one of dejected resignation.
The Karlsruhe, which visited Hong- "Chinese Editor Martyrs. A kong in 1937 (the Arst and only newspaper published in Peking is German warship to do so since the understood to be the oldest in the Great War), was of the Kohn Class, work!. It dates from a period alout of 0,000 tons and carrying nine 5.0 200 years prior to the Norman Con-inch guns. Only one of this type now. of England. Naturally. its remains, as either the Kohn or the quest
Konigsberg was torpedoed by British submarine recently. ally governed country like
prolonged existence in an autoctin
ANOTHER BATTLE
RAGING
FROM PAGE ONE
·
added that planes are participating
the battle.
Fishermen and boats are standing This by ready to conduct rescue work.
has been marked by numerous vicls- situdes. Not the least notable. of these to the fact, recently announced In its columns that during the thou- sand years of Its existence nineteen hundred of its editors have been be- headed. This is, roughly speaking, an average of about two per annum. in a recent home paper, and anyone I came across the above paragraph who takes on intelligent interest in all that is new could not fall to be struck with it. On, first thoughts the information it contained seemed to me unlikely to be accurate, but muturer reflection brought to mind that axiom of one's carllest youth.
is in the Whatever
newspaper is true." However tree from exception subsequent experience has shown that nxlom to be, yet my thirst after a little definite knowledge craved corroboration: to satisfy it, and I
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exhaustive turned disquisition on the "Peking Gazette" was delivered before the which Tientsin Literary
the Society in. winter. In vain: not from ignor- ance but out of
his fox of respect
tho
New Stockholm Report
LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reoler) — According to the Stockholm Itadlo, a German warship is reported to have been sunk by British action near Arendal.
A German destroyer was sunk off Hortenport by the Norwegian cruiser-miselayer. Olaftry Gvalson, the newest and largest unit of the Norwegian navy..
Still Fighting
of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 15th day of April, 1940, at 3 p.m., the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Shamshuipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 15 years, commencing from let July, 1898, 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 24 years less the last three days thereof. Intending bidders are advised bearers' feelings, as I imagine, the Norwegian coastal batteries were up- that immediately after the dispo-gifted wrlier made no mention of parently still in action against Get-
editorial slaughter. Line Erin The TRANSIER BOOKS of the sal of the lot the Purchaser (if the grim editorial slaughter. It was man warships at Oslo Fjord Company will be closed from the not the applicant) will be required then I determined to take nn
At 5.40 p.m. the German-controlled 20th April to 30th April, 1940, both to deposit with an authorised independent course, and to interview
Oslo Radio broadcast an "order" to days Inclusive,
officer who will be present at the the Editor of the "Gazetic" himself the batteries to cease fire.
I found bim Apr. 11.
after many and varied Dated this 8th day of April, sale, the sum of two hundred difficulties, and was ushered into the from the Norwegian commander at The order was purported to come USA, Honolulu and Japon (San
Francisco date, 19th March)
1940,
dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum editorial sanctum where the great men Oslo. ---—_Apr. 11,-|—-By-Order-of-the-Board,
will be refunded on payment of the scribe him and his room because I employ these expressions to Canada, U.S.A., Japan and Shanghni
J. P. SHERRY, Purchase price. (Vancouver B.C. date, 23rd March)
they are consecrated by usage: they Apr. 11.
are inappropriate otherwise in the Rabaul
Apr. 11. 14 Des Voeux Road Central, Sandakan.
.Apr. 11.
Hong Kong ..Apr. 11.
ed to close at or before 9 a.m. rethe Company, SECOND FLOOR, gistered and parcel malls are clased at & p.m. on the previous day. When EXCHANGE BUILDING, HONG mails are advertised to close after KONG, for the purpose of receiv- p.m. Itegistered, and Parcel mallsing a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Direc- tors, for the financial year ended INWARD MAILS Air Mall by "Pan American Airways 31st December, 1939, and
Direct Bervice."-San Francisco electing two Directors and the
..Apr. 11, Aulitura,
Apr. 11. .Apr. 11. Apr. 11. Japan (San Francisco date, 13th March)
date, 3rd April,
Canton...
Japan and Shanghai
Shanghai...
U.S.A., Honolulu and
Straits
Air Mail by "Imperial
Direct Hervice" London, Ways |
Saigon
Shanghai
Canton.....
Salgon ....
Shanghal
Shanghai and Swatow
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...ADT. 16.
..Apr. 12.
Apr. 12.
.Apr. 12.
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Apr. 13.
Apr. 13. .Apr. 13.
.2.30 nm. .2.30 p.m. .6 11.11. Manila
.6 p.m. Air Mall for Maulta, Guam, Honolulu and U.S.A.. by the "Pan American Airways Direct Service"-dur San Francisco, 18th April.
K.P.O.
.Apr. 11, 5.00 p.m. .Apr. 11, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.
.Apr. 11, 5.00p.m. Ord.....Apr. 12, 7.30 .m.
Friday, Apr. 12
Reg., Oru..
Itc.,
Saigon
of the Sale by Public Auction
to be held on Monday, the 15th
his
It
LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuter).
evening.
Transports-Sunk.....
this
STOCKHOLM, Apr. 10 (Reuter).— It la stated thai an action near
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT: (present instance. For the editor of Marstrand occurred off the Island of
Locality
| No. of Sale |
New Kowloon Inland Lot Registry No.
No. 2785.
Janelion of Fak Wing
Street and Kweilin Street.
day of April, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public" Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lat of Crown Land Wong Nel Chung, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75., years, with the
nt
of option
boundary
Masuremente
N. | E. (W.
As per salo
plan.
Contents in
Opsat Prica
About
DIE
$ 33,840
the oldest newspaper in the world he was hardly abreast of the times,
and
Paternoster when the British Flect attneked # dozen large German
it took me half an hour and all my transports, escorted by warships.
Chinese to instil into hlm un idea of
what
There are spirits of resistance In the interlof.
Complete Blockado
BPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PARIS, Apr. 16 (UP), M. Reynaud, the French Premier, told a cheering Senate to-night that the Allies would carry the Scandinavian war "to the biller end from the nothernmost tip to the southernmost point of the Norwegian coast.
"Not one ton of iron ore will quit Norvik for Germany in future," he promised.
"Both economically and militarlly, Hitler will suffer from his invasions.
"The Scandinavian countries aro now blockaded.
"Arainst his will, Hitler has been fareed to disperse his forces and with- draw men and materials from the Siegfried. Line.
"CREATED ALL-TIME BOX OFFICE RECORDS AT SHANGHAI, SINGAPORE, MALAYA, & ELSEWHERE."
GREATEST SCREEN SHOW OF YEARS!
"THE BEST.
Two transports are reported sunk and the others scattered.
TARZAN
A German destoyer is reported to
PICTURE
EVER!"
of Oslo
saya
Edgar Rice Burroughs,
author of Tarzan
interviewed meant. being However, faint impression was made in time, and he consented to have been bombed and sunk by Bri
tish planes in the estuary sce what the operation was like. I Fjord. commenced in the usuct way:
"Your valuable journal has the largest circulation in the world, I presume?"
and the soundness of my childhood's
"It has," was the prompt reply. "axtoms once more verified. haven't the figures by me just now;
25 YEARS AGO . but the fact remains.”*
renewal
he
I marvelled at the caso with which
adapted
to the situation. himself "The position you hold is, I am not wrong in saying, one of honour, and It I may venture of proft?"
"Profit, yes; honour, no. Your own
renewal at a Crown Rent to hoNUC5025sages have said, I believe, a prophet
fixed by the Surveyor of His Vol. X No. 1 Majesty the KING, for one fur-
ther term of 75 years. Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the diapo- Fort Bayard, Hollow and Haiphong of the lot the Purchaser (if
.0.30 .m.
1 p.m. not the applicant) will be required
Manila, Australia and New Zealand to deposit with an authorised
via Thursday Island-due Thurs- day Island, 23rd April
K.P.O.
Parcels
Reg Ord,
G.P.O.
Parccis Reg. Ord.
Parecis
Reg.
Ord.
Parcela
Saturday, Apr. 13
officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred
.4 p.m. .5 p.m. dollars, ($290) in cash. This hum .5.30 p.m.will be refunded on payment of the
.4 p.m.
| Purchase prico.
.5 p.m. PARTICULARS
OF THE LOT.
..7 p.m.
Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt, Malta and Europe via Marseilles-due Mar- gefiles, 13th May and Parcels due London, 21st May,
K.P.O.
London
Apr. 12, 4 p.m.
.Apr. 12, 5 p.m.
.Apr. 12. 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.
Apr, 12, 4 p.m.
.Apr. 13, 5 p.m.
*Reg. Ord.
.Apr. 12, 7 p.m.
Amoy
..2.30 p.m. Shanghul and Parcels only for Tient-
xin
..3.30 p.m. Air Mail for "Iruperial Airways Direct
Service"-dua London 21st April.
G.P.O. and K.P.0.
..Apr. 13, B p.m. Apr, 13, 5.30 p.m. (03.05.30 p.m. Bunday, Apr. 14
Ber.. Ord.,
Manlin and Strells Shanghol
.0.00 ..
Registry No.
Locality
Street, Wong Nei Chung
Inland Lot
No. 5$83.
3511, Yuen Yuea
Adjoining Inland Lot
Boundary
Measurementa
N....
** por salo plan.
COUNT THE
Contents 11
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$ 30
Ann. Rem.
$4,830
Upset Pricel
TELEGRAPHS"
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THE
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The
April 11, 1915. of peace talle in attributed by the Washington is American Press to German Inspira- tion. One of the German peace manoeuvres takes the form of a long
interview with His Holiness the Pope, has no honour in his own country: who is represented as urging the the two things are incompatible would prolong the war,
United States to avold anything that January, 1940 timely cough came to my assistance
and he proceeded. "Most of my There were imposing war demon- material is furnished by the ment, and I use my own discretionstrations a Breschin, where 20,000 as to what shall appear. Sometimes
people clamoured for war; at Naples, somebody doesn't want something to
where Sig. Garibaldi spoke, and also
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Birds and Butterflies of Hong Kong.
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Interesting Hong Kong Plants.
A Synopels of the Fisher
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Prepaid subscription $7.00 (Back Numbers from Vol. IV. avaliablo)
On Sale at Morning Post Building.
Govern-
thrille!
Picture
TARZAN FINDS SON
be published; this is my chief cource monstrators at Rome were dispersed at Leghorn and Conn. Would-be de-
of profit.sis candour and went on and here were several arrests.
10 YEARS AGO...
a'
warily to the point on which I was
April 11, 1030, most desirous of gaining information.
The results of the Naval Conference "I have heard it reported," I said,
were outlined by Mr. A. V. Alexander, "that you had many predecessors in your post of editor; I mean that It First Lord of the Admiralty In has occurred that editors have some speech at Sheffold. He estimated times not remained in office very that the Three Power agreement Jong-In fact, that there have been would mean Britain eaving between frequent solutions of continuity it 100 and 70 million pounds up to 1030. Compared with the figures submitted
may so say.”
"Yes," he
is true that plied thoughtfully, to the abortive Geneva Conference in
open
1027, We present Treaty meant lotni Here the door was thrust
reduction of tho Three Powers of unceremoniously, and a petty man-
521,300 tons in cruisers, destroyers The agreement darin, followed by half a dozen and submarines.
would mean the early scrapping ragged soldiers, wilked in and held out a paper to the Editor. The latter ve British and three American battleships and of one Japanese inspected it carefully, read it through.bailleship and restricting the number and handed it back with a sigh.
"Yes," he said, "it seems in order" for the countries to 18, 16 and 12 and turning to "It appears that I respectively,
5 YEARS AGO omitted a stroke in some character denoting an Imperial title and there
April 11, 1035. Is a difculty about it, in fact, this The first definite move in the inter- paper.is a warrant and there is about national conference in' Stresa was the to be a *solution of continuity If I presentallón to the delegates of the may so say," and he smiled endly as ext of the French memorandum to he drew his forefinger round his neck. the League of Nations, calling the "If you will excuse me a moment, I Counell to act in view of the threat will send up the rub-editor, who will of war, provoked by Germany's r3- replace me, and further Information armament..
It is stated on the best authority
The rest was lost as the soldiers that France and Italy will demand hurried him away, "I did not walt Britain's ald in curbing Germany for the sub-editor. My thirst for from any further violation of the knowledge was abundantly satisfied, Treaty of Versailles,
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