STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Omelal Summary issued yesterday says:
The market has been quiet during the week, but there have been no signs of forced or panic. liquidation, Business Done Buring the Wock H.K. Banks $1,430, $1,425, $1,350,
$1,815, $1,325, $1,335 Union Insurances, $405, $400, $455 Docks X. Ris. $18
Providents $3
Lands $354, ́935, $34
Humphreys 38 .....
Realties $474, $4.20
Tramways $10, $10
Star Ferries '$80
China Lights (Old) - $7.40, $7.20,
$0.00 $0.85 · ·
China Lights (New) $4.70, 84%
Electrics $01,: 100, $594
Telephones (Old) $28
Dairy Farms $20%
Wm. Powells $1.30
Entertainments-67--
Bayers
H.K. Banks $1,330
H.K. Govt. 4% Loan 102
Sales
H.K. Banks $1,345/40
Docks Rts, $415
Electrics $59
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12.15 p.m. Short Services of Inter- cession.
12.30 Frances Langford (Vocal) and Mantovani and Hls Orchestra,
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May 25, 1940.
MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG
13th May. This day I did decide that in view of the weighty affairs that doo go forward both in the body pollick and still more in the history of our civilization that I shall return to writing in my diary. The which J did pretermit on the outbreak of war being too thronged with business. And indeed I am no caster in this way but rather worse but I due be- Heve it fitting that I should set down some record of there dangerous times even as my great ancestor did in 1000. Yet am I well aware that I must have a care of the Censor and set down nothing, even in this secret record, which might advantage the Hun, or his friends, This day, the holyday, being the day after the feast of Whit Sunday, I doe Re
gel mee be- times and to the
the once where I am busy some three hours and then my most immediate-papers being order
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A Look Through The "Telegraph”
50 YEARS AGO.
May 25. 1800. Mr. T . Collaco, is again retablishing the Batii-houses at Macan for the summer season, respectfully soliotin the patronage at the Foreign Communities of fongkong and Canton, who, All Occasional visitors, desire to enjoy a course of sea bathing under the best possible circumstances. The accommodation has been made on comfortable and completo circum+ stances will allow, and the charges are,
inost moderate as fast year, fixed at a LATIT.
A Bar will be one of the features of the establishment, where refreshments can be obtained at very low rates.
The Bath houses will be opened troni the 16th, int, until the 30th September.
Babeription
For each person (for the season.... $1.00
Married couples Families
that
Single bath, (towels, etc., in-
cluded),
"Theobald J. Collaco
25 YEARS AGO
war
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-May 25, 1015. flouter's correspondent si Reme reporte
there Are
· demonstrations country throughout laly the whcin Erica St. Marks, Venice, decorated with flags as in the days when the Vene liana walled to achieve conquests in tha Deputies have asked to be allowed to Levant. Abnost all the Senatore 'and
6.58 Closing Local Stock Quota-ed, to ? theo Course where I kibrating with the memory of its ancicop tions,
7,00 B. B. C. Recording--"Break- ing Athletle Recorda"
A talk by Ilarold Abrahams, 7.15 Military Band Music. 7.30 London Relay The News. 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03
Half an hour with Griez. Wedding Day, Arthur De Greef Danco in D (Piano); Norwegian
bidden to take my muncheon In-Mr. Caldbeck's box, for I do now ledge with his he-chits and his wife..my the own house being repaired by Works Office and too foule to inhabit. And indeed I doe first take myself somewhat to laske that I doe go to the Races in such heavy times, but the end I am minded that. I can doe no good by moping at home whereas at the Course I doe con-
Orchestr Gustave-Clocz and telbuis some moneys to the publick
Philharmonique do Paris
Un Reve, Beniamino Gigll (Tenor) with Orchestra; Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 655, New Light Sym- phony Orchestra cond. by Eugene Goossens
4.35 Local Sport Results. 8.37 Puccini's "Madam Butterfly Intermezzo and Act HI.
9.15 London Relay-News
Recording""The
mary.
funds through the tax upon wagering And this indeed I dee though with the least possible fortune and I doc lose heavily. However there bee
serve in the army.or navy and the women are coming forward, to replace the nies in the factories and on the tramways,
Mobilisailan has been practically complet« - for several days.
Fighting continued with extreme violence north of Arran (throughout s Fird. the French took 120 prisoners. The Germans in a number of counter-attacks north at Neuville St., Vaast were repulsed An Intense struggle continues bateri news emphasises the extent of the check sustained by the Germans in this distric on the sand. Despite important reinforce ments which were brought up in great kaste, their vigorous efforts, thrice re newed, failed, and they suitained con
any pretty ladles there and I doe for wayie torget my cares, though | siderable best... how a man with his family at home nigh these three-years-can-bo-light. hearted I know not. So home with Sum-ny host and his pretty Lady and find there is company to dinner, a Mr. Groftry of the City Watch and his Lady and after we play at cards a game new to mea which seemeth to combine Poker and Newmarket, And Lt first I did find somewhat dificult but later did come at it pretty well. Won five dollars.
0.30 B. B. C. Fol-de-Rois."
Written and produced by Greatrex Newman, Muste by Wolseley Charles. 19.00 A Programme of Old Dance Favourites,
11.00 London Relay--'London Log'. 11.15 New Dance Music, 12.00 midnight. Close Down.
TO-MORROW'S PROGRAMME
Dvorak's Concerto In
B. Minor, Op. 104-
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12.15 p.m. B.B.C.
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A Programme by Ursula Branstor with Music by Various Composers Production by William Maclurg
12.45 Erie Coates-"The Thre Men" Sulte.
Light Symphony Orchestra con ducted by The Composer -
1.0 Loni Time Signal and Weather Report.
1.03 New Light Symphony Orches tra with Ina Souez (Soprano).
14th-Up pretty betimes and all day at my office until a half after six of the clock. To the Clubbe where I talk with Major Cyril and others and home by motor hackney. Dined, my hust being out, with the two dogges which hee well-affected to mee to my greatest possible content, and so to bed.
18th.-Dined at home with my hosts and so very early to bed.
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10th-Up very betimes and doo betake myselfe to Kowloon where dhe chirugeon who doth attend my teeth lives. And there very busy being measured for a new set, my mouth having changed in this last year and a crack appearing. All day in office but at a half after five to a mceling of the Society where much interesting business and there after wee.dine very well and Mr. Bruno is very witty in his conversation, and recites a jeste or two.
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17th. To the Snakepit for
การ Want Your Heart (Carter and nuncheon where come my she-child
Everlastin Haydn Wood); Love
and Mistress Anne. A pleasant meal! (Cushing and Friml); Incidenta
but I did lose four front teeth the Music-to-"Mary Rose (O'Neil). crack-parting sooner than_I had Love, I Give You My All (from hoped. And indeed it doth detract Luana-Dowdon and Besly); Alway bly from my appearance but (from Puritan Lulinby-Dyrenforth praise bee to God I did not swallow and Smith); The Dubarry-Selecthem.
tion.
18th.This day being Saturday,
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Italy_has_declared_war__nominally...on. Austria, and it is against Austria that all been levelled. Yet we may well doubt it her bad feeling since the war of 1850 hu she would have broken treaty and ranged herself side of "Austria's enemies had it not been for the recent condur of Germany. From the beginning of the War even those Italian papers that were the most strongly opposed to their coun unfailingly occupied in consuring Ger try taking part in hostililles have been many (more often than not, emitting oil reference to Austria) for her disregard of treaties and of the laws of elvtálwed warfare. How can we doubt that every
Her
civilised nation that has had the smallest opportunity of hearing both sides of the quarrel is disgusted with Germany and is convinced that, unless her power broken, the European world is threatened with a return to worse than savagery? Whether aly could or could not afford war Just now was for her to decide. annual revenue is somewhere, about tes million pounds ahead of her annual ex- penditure, but she has a National Debt of close, on six hundred million poundı. Her, preparedness, again, la also her own effair. She had a considerable standing army at the beginning of the war and i *not despicable navy, and we can hardly suppose, that she has been content to stand sull-all them months where additions to there were concerned. All the citizens of the aliled countries are bound to welcome any factor which makes for shortening the war, and to respect any state that de liberately enters into it for conscientioss
and disinterested reasonspland thus we may be sure that very hearty congratuls-
await their new brother in arms,
tions from France, Russia and Servia
10 YEARS AGO
May 25, 1000, The new submarine depol shilp, H.MS Medway, together with the new "0" clas submarines Odin, Osiris. Oswald and Of have leti Portsmouth for the China Sta tton..
Describing her night from Timor to Port Darwin, Miss Amy Johnson said, "When I sighted Melville Island I stood up and cheered, myself, I threw overboard my pneumatle pillow which carried in cate crashed into the sea. I also carried a When I righted Melville Island I cried sheath knife for protection against sharks. and laughed alternately until I picked up Paint Cheries' Lighthouse. Then I turned towards Port Darwin."
The Commonwealth Government has
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Wea- ther Forecast and Announcements. is ever the case in these days it doth placed expert stenographers at Misa Amy 1.45 Compositions of Dvorak, prove foule weather. To Caldbecks Johnson's disposal, to cope with the ye Thundred congratulatory messages which Carneval-Overture........
London for a glasse of Hollands and there I she has received. These include a tec Symphony Orchestra conducted by find Mr. Wycherly and Mr. Swallow gram froin the Chinese Consul General at Sydney couched in picturesque terms. Albert Coates; Concerto in B Minor with his Lady and a pretty wench
Miss Janson was most delighted with Op. 104....Pau Casais (Cello) and whose name did escape mee. But in
this messago. The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra as much as shce was to sail fer Englund the next day it mattered not. conducted by Georg Szell.
Later to Mr. Wycherly's flat for 1.0 Half an hour with Schubert. posset and so home to nuncheon, Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 15 Slept ond being alone dined with the "Wanderer"). Hedge-Roses;
to bed. ..Edwin Fischer dogges and co (Piano); The
2.30 Close down.
and the Temlanka chestra,
7.30 London Relay-The-News. 0.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Light Orchestral Programme with Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone). 8.30 B.B.C. Recording-"Over the Garden WaIL"
The "Eydney Morning Herald." in on editorial sys that in comparison will Miss Johnson, Lindbergh's feat "becomes merely an artistic success, a tour de force superb in itself but involving only me great sustained effort."
Miss Amy Johnson has received hun dreds of telegrams from all parts of the world congratulating her on her night. The King wired that the Queen and he were Thankful and delighted" at her arrival and congratulated her on "a wonderful and courageous: achievement." The Prime Minister in a message said, "We are proud of you" and also idle. graphed to her parents.
Lord Thompson, the Air Minister, the Air Counel and all the tying organiza tions telegraphed, and tributes aro galé to her by all the leading airmen and air- wornen including" Sir Alan Cobham, Bir Verdon Roe, Captain Dellavilland, tha Duchess of Bedford, Lady Dalley and Mar Spooner,
5 YEARS AGO
23, 1935.
19th. (Lord's day)-Up very be- The Young Nun....Sophie Braslau (Contralto) with Plano; Rondo in Atimes seeing that us Excellency the Major....Henri Temlanka (Violin) Governor leaves Queen's Pier at a Chamber Orhalf after nine of the clock. A dully morning most chilly for May, and 1 an inighty glad I did think to do on #woolen pull-over. Sold goodbye to H.E. and 1. doe most fervently hope he be restored to full health. Hee did seem to mee to look pretty well and was full of good cheer. All of the Lords of the Council, and the high Naval and military officers present and so, when I had made my bow
take a backward place, whence Italy, following the critical of later to the Clubbe with Major Cyril the League of Nations Counel! yesterday to take a giasse of cau-de-vie against and her earlier refusal to listen to any pian for a compromiso, her now accepted morning chill. Thence to my office the Council's proposal for the Bettienient crdered and halt after twelve inmediate danger of a war between these
two nations is removed, Reuter report. Relay "Despatch back to the Clubbe where- as is his
France has submitted to the Longus a wont I toe and toy oldo friend Mr. 9,45 Brahms-Gypay Songs, Op. John and wee doe fall to Hollands proposal for severe penalties against any and much pleasant discourse of the nation breaking any treaty, including an 103.
The Madrigal Singers conducted ole days and of things dramatick,tured materials.
For the war newes la ; though this by Lehman Engel with Plano.
BrahmsVariations on must bee so at times, and wee doe Theme by Haydn ("St.
Anton decide it is better to any nought than to give oneselfe la lle conjecture Chorale) Op. 50A.
Philharmonie-Symphony Orchestra which so many foll: doc. of Now York conducted by Arturo Toscanini
A Sketch. 8.45 Selections from Light Opera. 9.15 London Relay-News Sum-where I have always papers to be of the magute with "Abyssinia. Thus the
mary.
9.30 London from the Front,"
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10.15
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His Holiness the Pope roundly con demned birth control and sterilisation when receiving" representatives of the Hospital Congress which 1. meeting In Rome, being attended by delegates from 30 nations.
20th.--Visit my chyrurgeon in KowlookTM and after all day at the wedding of Crown Prines Frederik of office.
_The_falvities in connection_with_tka.
Denmark and Princess ingrid of Sweden ended in Blockholm this evening, wiren the ride and bridegroom, after tum- 21st-To the Snakepit for my phat tour of the city, in which they were nuncheon 'with a preity Lady and escorted by two squadrons of cavalry Lord! how some tolic did stare. But through streets thickly Hited with cheer- I doubt not it is ever co. At night crowds, embarked on the "1,700 ton
yacht Dannebrog for Copenhagen,
and
my Chlidren to come and dino at young Mr. Caldbeck's house afterwards we did play at cards, and I with mighty good fortune..
MONETARY AGREEMENT
Washington, May 24 22nd. Very busy ait day at the The Netherlands Minister hero has Ofice and after at the Clubbe. But announced that the Dutch Govern. Lord, the long faces of come folk doo ment has foined the Anglo-Frencht turn my stomach. Far i though the monotury, agreement Reuter ¦'Aul». nower bee I am minded to keep a letin, "-2 slout heart and fruit in a righteous | ********* Causa and. Providenc
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23rd. This day better. Took my tiffin at the Gripps with
American gentleman and
Packed my mallest and, so to bed.
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