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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 27th day of May, 1949, al 3 p.m, at the Ofices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Is Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Sham- shulpo, in the Colony of Hong- Kong, for a term of 75 years, comniencing from 1st July, 1898, with, the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of ja Majesty the KING, for one further term of 24 years less the last three days thereof.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Intenditig bidders are advised Company will be CLOSED from
that immediately, after the dispo Edition, WEDNESDAY, 20th, day of May,sal of the lot the Purchaser (If Over 60 excellent views of the to THURSDAY, the 6th, of June, not the applicant) will be requir-
Price $1.10. Obtainable อ
Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong 1910, both days inclusive,
Colony, Kelly &
ed to deposit with an authorised
Travel Bureau or from the Publishers,JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,offfeer who will be present at the
Bouth Chinn Moming Post, Wyndham Street.
APARTMENTS TO LET.
NEAR BARKER ROAD
*General Managers,
Hongkong. 23rd. May, 1940.
Hale, the sum of two hundred dointo. ($200) in cash. Thin sum will be refunded on payment lof the Purchase price.
TraLANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Station. To let, unfurnished, one or two rooms, each with modern bath-
room, rooth.
kitchen, small
one
amah's
NOTICE is hereby given that
Reply to Box 580, "Hongkong the Eighteenth Ordinary Yearly
Telegraph."
Meeting of Shareholders will be held at Exchange Building, Hong
Norway may Kang, on SATURDAY, 8th June,
be Nazi
handicap
STOCKHOLM.
of the
WHATEVER the outcome Allles' withdrawal from the south of Norway, this must be regarded for the moment as an enemy adding to German prestige, but f may prove to be a wasting asset.
victory,
It may turn out to havere cest move
|1910, AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK A.M. The Transfer Books of the Com- pay will be closed from 28th MAY to 8th JUNE, 1940, ́ both lays elusive. By Order Directors.
of
the Board
of
A. W. BROWN,
Manager. Hongkong, 23rd May, 1940.
than it was worth and may even, as THE INDO-CHINA STEAM
Mr. Churchill suggested when Scan- dinavia was Invaded, prove to be n fatal strategle mistake in the long
Fun.
"A Liability"
Economically Norway, if the Nazis can hold it, will prove more of a ability than an asset because Nor- way Is an importing and seafaring
must be blockaded
from the west
NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE OF GENERAL
MEETING
The Fifty-ninth Ordinary nation which, unier German control. General Meeting of the Company and cut off from the world of which will be held at the Offices of the it formed a part and by which it was General Managers, Meaars. Jar -enabled to live to a high standard. line. Matheson & Co., Ltd..
Military conquest will not yield a Pedder Street, Hong Kong. I high dividend in the case of Norway, Thursday, 30th May, 1940, nt noon,
She Imports foodstuffs and draw her-livelihood-largely from overseas for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directorr, passing
trade.
the Accounts, and electing Direc Few countries are less suited to fit into the German economie scheme. tors and Auditors.
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$ 23,100
Contents in 4q. feet.
Ann. Rent.
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—The Transfer Books of the Com|DUCKING IN HARBOUR- From Norway Gemany may get about 1,000,000 tons of iron amut-pany will be closed from the 23rd 15, wood and pulp, eggs and some May to 13th June inclusive. cellulose, but to reisin the country By order of the Board. will have to send it supplies, in- cluding the foods of which Ger-! many is short.
It cannot, on the bulunce, help her. economically,
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SPECIAL TO THE "TEA EQRAPH"
LONDON, May 24 (UP),~~~ "War has been brought with
astonishing rapidity to our very gates," said Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, the new Minister of Information, in a speech at the St. George'» Club-to-day.. "We are in one of the most dangerous situations the coun- iry has ever faced," he added.
There a no good belittling: or trying to minimise the Bituation, which would be the greater danger."
ALLIES ADVANCE
FROM PAGE .ONE
their way for ahead of the German army in 1914,
Modern Uhlans
"The only thing that has changed is the type of instrument employed.
"Ia 1914 the Germans employed cavalry which reached almost to the gates of Paris.
"To-day, thele horse has become a motor-cycle.
troups are .""Iheso
motor-cycle merely the successors of the Uhlans." French official sources estimate that German losses so far in the Blitzkrieg operations exceed half a million men of whom between 100,000 and 159,000 are estimated to. have been killed.
Thirteen hundred German tanks. and armoured cars have
been destroyed, 1,200 German planes. have been shot down on the Dutch, Belgian and French fronts in ten. days, and German losses directly behind the zone armies have also been
extremely heavy, French
declare.
sources
02)
To-day's great battle. which: front that raged
extends along
Valenciennes- Han entire Cambral-Arras triangle, is by far the heaviest the world has wit- nessed since the last war,
Marked Superiority
In this triangle, French und British artillery appear to have:
obtained
marked, superiority in the exchange of shelling, which has not been in- terrupted for
tours.
the past 24 single minute during Every read has been swept by shrapnel, every forest and village
the which could give
Germans ahelter has been razed by high ex- plosive and every German column subject to Incessant bombing from the air by British and French planes,
Great as this
cannonading and bombing is, it is but a preliminary phase in General Weygand's plan of operation.
Fall Of Cambrai Imminent? By-RALPH HEINZEN. UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT
Will the French Forces, May 24 (UP)The Allies last night fura- ed from strategio retreat to mass:
at the offensive as they slashed weakest link in the German ring: around northern France and Bel- glam.
In the great battle which has raged for 48 hours in the Cambral and Valenciennes sectors, military ex- berts told me to-night that the Ger mans have at last
cracked.
Allied forces have fought their way into the outskirts of Cambral, plunging into the final assault with tanks and amoured cara.
Now the muun krush, French Belgian and Dutch troops whom the German claimed were "trapped" -in the north are less than 30 miles away from the main French Army.
Between the two great Allied armies are the Germans, them-- selves in danger of encirclement if tho present Allied MUJESOCUVTO- succeeds,
French Communique SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PARIS, May 23 (UP)-To-night's communique anys: "Many combate. took place at various points in north France.
"Our advanced elements reached the suburbs of Amiens. An anemy ut tack, which was preceded by strong. artillery preparation, falled south of, Sedan,
"There was an artillery duel be-
January, 1940 tween Longiyon and Moselle."
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French Lines Broken LONDON, May 23 (Reuter).-The- Germans have broken through the French lines between Arras und Banaume.
Bapaume is about 15 niles due |couts of Artis,
British Iroups are still holding their positions around Arras.
In
the
Allied.
with connection counter-ailncks tu-day, it is pointed
far
no counter-
has been attack on a large senle
out here that su
Inunched.
A counter-attack is expected at any time now.
There have been intense artillery duels between Rethel und Montmedy - and between Montinedy and the River Nled.
Attack Repulsed
-GR{OMAL-TO-THE-"-TELEGRAPPE LONDON, May 24 (Domel),—Ger- man forces operating in Delgium north of the British, French, Dulch and Belghin forces to-day launched strong ultack along the River Scheldt, which they attempted to cross at Oudenarde, 12 miles south- west of Chent.
Although the Germans
succeeded. in effecting a lemporary footing they
were
back ickly dislodged and forced
over the river by a strong Allied
counter-ntlack.
Biller fighting continues on the
ure now being launched by the Allied troups between Arras and
ale trout and heavy counter-at-
Boraums
The_Fretid:"_forens have now nd vanced to a point north-west of Com-- brai, French G. II. Q. announces.