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25 words $2.50
for 3 days propaid
WANTED KNOWN. SUMMER SALE at Hongkong Furni- ture Company Ltd., No. 8, Queen's Road, Central. Inspection is cordially
HONG KONG AND CHINA BRANCH
The Committee urgently ask all who served in the last War to join or rejoin the Legion, the purpose being to form a body of men of mature ago and experience whose opinion and services (apart from individual activities) might be of value at the present time.
Will those who are in accord WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all gold kindly register their names with and silver articles, diamonds, Jade the undersigned, accompanying
China Gold Apply and jewels. Refining Co. Room 6, Pedder Bulld-their application with the sub-
acription of $2. ⚫ing, 2nd floor.
invited.
WANTED TO BUY.
WE OFFER highest prices to any amount of gold articles, jades, jewels, diamonds, etc. Apply Eurasia Gold Redning Co., 7th floor, China Bulld- Ing. Tel. 30127. No holidays.
FOR SALE.
"HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY THE
Edition. Second CAMERA" Over 80 excellent views of the Colony. Price $1.50. Obtainable at Kelly
THOMSON & CO.,
Secretaries, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LIMITED
of 300,000 new ordinary shares of $10 each, credited
& Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Issue Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post, Ltd. Wyndham Sircel,
Exchange At A Glance
SELLING
T.T. London ... Demand London T.T. Shanghai-
T.T. Singapore
TT. Jp
T.T. India
T.T. U.S.A.
-1/2% 1/2%
.91
305
$234
.8214
21
TAT. Manlir
.44
40
AA
T.T. Bangkok
149
T.T. Salgon
.Nom
Nom,
94
TT. Australia
1/02
BUYING
4 m/s L/C London
.1/3%
4 m/s D/P London
1/3/2
4 m/s L/C U.S.A.
4 m/s France
30 d/s indiu
T.T. Franco-
T.T. Switzerland
23 .Nom, .84% U.S. Cross rate in London 4,02 U.S. Cross rate in N.Y.
A Look
.3.54
The Telegraph.
50 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1830.
as fully paid up. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 1st July, 1940 to the 10th July, 1940, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfor Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board Directors,
Friday.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
POST OFFICE
Air mall letter will be ac- +for transmission to cepted Europe by Patt-American Service to Now York and onward thence by sen, ni $2.80 per half-ounce for the air transport, plus 10 cents per ounce to Britlah possessions and 20 cents per ounce to foreign countries in respect of sen transport.
and Trans-Atlantic Service has also
June 21, 1940:
LETTERS
TO-DAY'S RADIO Rizal Day And
ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) The War Fund
Radio Programme Broadcast by Beethoven Symphony No. 2ị ZBW on a Frequency of 845 kc's.
In D Major, Op. 36. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's. per recond.
Musette (Bach-Pollain); Mazurka, 12.19 p.m. Short Service of Inter-Op. 11, No. 3 (Popper); A Village Song. Op. 02, No. 2 (Popper); Aprest Un Reve (Faure); Spanish Dance (Granados, arr. Casals); Vito cession.
(Spanish Dance) Op. 34, No. 5 (Pop-.
12.30 Compositions of Mozart. 1.0 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report.
An experimental air service for Europe via United States of America been introduced, the charge being 55 per half ounce for letters and Costeards $2,50 each. An approxim ate estimate of the time occupied in days this transmission is twelve from the date of departure of the Clipper from longitong.
The postage rates via the revisedments. Imperiat Airways Service changed.
are
un-
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Mail are losed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise
Bdvertis stated, and where mails are ed to close at or before 9 a.m. re- gistered and parcel mails are closed it 3 p.m. on the previous day. When mails are advertised to close atter 3 p.m., Registered and Parcel malls are, closed at 5 pm..
INWARD MAILS
Strals Shanghal Shanghai and Amoy
Air Mall by "Air France
Service."
London and Straits Canton Japan and Shanghai Shanghai
June 21. June 21. .June 21.
Airways
June 22,
June 22.
.June 22.
June 22. June 22.
of
U.S.A., and Manila date, 29th May). Shanghal and Amoy
(San
Francisco
June 23.
of London and Straits
Saigon
Shanghol and Amoy
Japan and Shanghai
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,,
Agents.
NOTICE
HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.
Interim Dividend
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
June 23.
June 23.
June 23:
June 23, June 23. ་་་
Japan, Shanghai and Formosa
Canton.....
June 24.
..June 24.
...June 24.
Air Mall by "Imperial Airways
Service."
Air Mail by "Pan American Airways
Direct Service."—San
date, June 18
Australia and Manila Shanghal
London and Straits Japan and Manila Japan and Shanghal Java and Manila Manila
Haiphong Japan
"Imperial
Air Mall by
Service." Japan and Shanghol Japan
Franciaco
June 25.
June 26.
.June 20.
June 25. June June 26.
.June 20. June 20. June 20. June 20. June 27. .June 27, Airways June 27. June 28. June 20,
that an INTERIM DIVIDEND of FOUR per cent (4%) for the six months ending 30th June, 1940, amounting to FORTY cents per share on the Fully Paid Up Shares and TEN cents par share on the Partly Pald Up Shares of the Company will be paid on
OUTWARD MAILS MONDAY, the 8th July, 1940, on
Friday, June 21 which date, Dividend Warrants Sandokan.
Saturday, June 22 may be obtained on application at the Rogistered Office of the Com-Shanghat and Parcels only for Tien-
pany, Exchange Building, 4th Bangkok
floor.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 26th June to SATURDAY, 6th JULY, 1940, both
It appears that Britannia doesn't rule the waves any longer. A telegram from London says that a French man-of-war ordered some British shermen at St. George's Bay, Newfoundland, to remove days inclusive, their nets, and landed a body of mariner to enforce compliance with the order.---A- British man-of-war was present in the bay. but did not interfere. The Oldj patriotic hawl must be changed now, and Bomo meck and lowly Methodist hymn substituted.
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The French Government are preparing a Bilt for limiting the workmen's day to ten hours.
25 YEARS AGO
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June 21, 1915. A very strong passage in Mr. Bonar Law's speech was as follows: "It is iny belief that wo as a nation now realise eo clearly the trak before us that the nation is ready to accept the principle that the country has a right, in this hour of danger to call-upon-everyone-and-lo take what we have." (Cheers), "I bo- love they are ready to accept that prin- ciple and to see it carried out to necessary, if it is carried out fairly all classes and sections of the people alike." (Renewed cheers),
10 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1900.
The three bus companies in Kowloon have recolved sanction from the Fore
By Order.of.the...
Board of Directors,
J. P. SHERRY,
Manager. Hongkong, 11th June, 1940. CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS' DES
..7 p.m.
.9 a.m. 12.30 p.m. .12.30 p.m.
tsin.
Shanghai Air Mall for "Imperial Airways
Service" to Durban and thence by Sea Service to United Kingdom.
G.P.O. & K.P.O. Reg....June 22, 5.00 p.m. Ord.. .....June 22, 5.30 p.m. Air Mail for Indo-China, Iran, and France by the "Air France Air- "ways.”~~
Reg. Ord.
K.P.O.
.June 22. 5.00 p.m. June 22, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.
Rek
.June 22, 5.00 p.m. Ord.
June 22, 5.30 p.m. Straits
5.30 p.m. Tourane and Saigon
5.30 p.m. Sunday, June 23 Manila
.9.00 nm. MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
Amoy
.9 0.m. Shanghai
.9 a.m. Bringing Cargo from Marseilles via
Monday, Juno 24 Saigun.
Canton
7.15 am... Consignees are hereby informed Swalow, Amoy and Formosa that their goods with the exception
10.30 a.m. of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables Halphong
.Noon.
are being landed and stored into the Shanghai Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Japan.
.12.30 pm. .2.30 p.m.
Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow-Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South
Africa and United Kingdom. 100, whence delivery may be obtain
ed immediately after landing.
All claims must be sent in to me
to effect an increase as from July 1. The increase will be a light one compared on or before 27th June, 1840, or they. with the existing rates, the new system will not be recognized. being a charge by the mile, each route
to be divided into sections. Dus travellera Damaged Packages will be examin will be required to pay ten cents for the ed by
by the Company's Surveyor irst two sections, and five cents more Messrs-Goddard and Douglas in the for any of the subsequent sections; while rai the fares for the second class will begin presence of the Consignees at 10.00 with the payment of five cents for them, on Saturday, 22nd June, 1940. first two sections or part thereof. The monthly tickets, formerly to each will be Consignces must have a Revenue increased to $7 wille the students tickets Ofoer in attendance when any duli- of $2.50 will ho increased to $3.
5 YEARS AGO
able goods are examined by Company's Surveyors,
the
June 21, 1035. No Fire Insurance will be effected The Dominions Secretary, Mir. J. H. Thomas, speaking in the Commons this by us in any case whatever.
R. QUIL, Agent.
evening, when the Dominions Office voto was taken, said the Statute of West minster created an entirely new situation In the relationship between the Mother Country and the Dominions. In short, sach Dominion had absolute freedom to determino its own destiny.
On the question of defenzo, ihe Dominiona aga without a solitary ex septiq agreed that in vlow of the pre- sent stato of the services, which had arison a result of the effort to act an
TRAWLER AND CREW LOST
LONDON, June 20 (Reuter).-An
example to the people of Britain,, and | Admiralty communique states that steps to repair the national defences al H.M. trawler Jupiter, which
In view of Imperial obligations, that the
K. P. O.
Ord.,
Reg., Ord..
Stralls (Parcels only) Straits and Calcutta.
Parcels Ord.
June 24, 2.45 p.m. June 24, 3.30 p.m. G. P. O.
June 24, 2.45 p.m. June 24, 3.30 p.m. ....5 p.m.
June 24, 5 p.m. „June 24. 7 p.m. Canton
7.00 p.m. Tuesday, June £5 Fort Bayard, and Hollow
13.30 p.m. Parcels only for Tientsin 12.30 p.m. Halphong
9.00 p.m. Japan
..3.30 p.m. Alr Mall for Manila, Guam, Hono- lulu, U.S.A., and Europe via "Pan Trans- American Airways and Atlantio Servlets.”
Reg. Ord.
Reg.
Ord.
K.P.O.
1.03 Famous Film Selections. 1.30. Reuter and Rugby Prose, Weather Forecast and Announce-
1.45 Dance Music by Brian Law- rance and Illa Orchestra.
2.15 Close down.
0.0 Beethoven-Symphony No. 2 In D Major, Op. 36.
Vienna Philharmonie Orchestra conducted by Clemens Krauss.
4.32 Schumann - Etudes 6ym- phoniques,
...5 p.
G.P.O.
.6.30 pm.
.5 p.m. p.m. Airways
ready announced should be undertaken. operating in northern Norwegian Air Malt for "Imperial
was
waters, is now overdue and must be
There la much to be said in favour of considered lost. the representations being made to the Government by the Society for the Pro- The next-of-kin have been in- tection of Children for the establishment formed. of children's hospitals in the Colony.
One-Day Secret Session
LONDON, June 20 (Router).-Bry fore the House of Commons went Into secret, selfon to-day, Mr.
Bervice to Durban and thence by
Sos Service to United Kingdom.
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The crew are missing but it is possible that some of them may be prisoners of war.
Md.
-More Money For The War
COMBO. June 20 (Reuter} ~~~
Clement IL Attree, Lord Prive Seal, The Times of Ceylon" has sent said that it would be undesirable to stund sum of 100,000 rupees to continue the debate to-morrow......
London for the purchase of another
The first sum was sent only three
If however, the members wantedghter plane. --mother. day it would be possible to
will be a depife by the
daya
Ministry of Supply next
Thursday,
Gold Coast's £500,000 Loan LONDON, Jung 20 (Reuter)~Tho] Mr. Attlee said that it the House Gold Coast has offered the Govern desired it part-of-4hat debste might ment £500,000 ns a loan, free of Intercit, for the duration of the war, be hold in secrot," s
Jane 25, 5 y..
K.P.O
June 25, 5.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
„June 25, 5 p.m.
Alfred Cortot (Piano).
per),
7.30 Londen Relay-The Newa
Signal, Weather 8.0 Local Time Report and Announcements.
8.03 Ballads.
0.45 Varlety with Eisle and Doris Waters, Arthur Askey, Billy Mayerl George van Dusen and Others.
10.30 Danco Musis. 11.0 Close down.
MR. FRIML'S CASE. Adjustment of Trouble
Over Lack of Visa In Wednesday's issue of the "Tele- graph" Rudolf Frimi, the well-known composer, was reported to have been Sombre Woods (Lully); Down Hero summoned for entering the Colony
without a passport. (Brahe), Manuel Hemingway (Bass)
Actually, this Is incorrect. Mr. with Plano; The Belter Land (Her- mans-Cowen); The Children's Home Friml had a pasaport which was allll (Weatherly-Cowen), Catherine Sto-valid, the charge against him being wart (Contralto) with Organ.
that he entered the Colony without In visa.
To The Editor.
The "Hongkong Telegraph.” Sir-Due to present trend of world events, our Commitico decided that all arrangements for the tin. sical_programme and tea dance at musical the Filipino Club on Sunday, June 23, are cancelled.
Donations, in memory of the birth of Dr. Joxe P. Rizal, will be received from the Filipino Community and contributed to the British War Fund opened by the South China Morning Pust Ltd.
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C. L. AMPER.
Secretury.
Committee on Rizal Day
Celebration.
LOUIS BEATS GODOY ON T.K.0.°
NEW YORK, June 20 (UP).
world heavy-
Mr. Friml explains that he had been on a visit to Baguio and had La D been taken ill there. As the ship-Joe Louis,
left Manila on a Sunday, and be-weight champion, beat Arturo cause of his news, he had; emitted Godoy on a technical knock- Sum-to obtain a visa.
8.18 Elleen Joyce at the Plano, 8.30 The Bournemouth Municipal Oreliesíra,
8.30 Mendelssolin-Quartet 0.50 Closing local Stock Quota Major, Op. 44, No. 1. tons.
Stradivarius String Quartet. 9.15 London Relay-News
7.0 Songs by "Amelita Galli-Curci; (Soprano).
mary.
The matter has since been ad-out in the eighth round of a 15 7.12 'Cello Recital by Pablo 9.30 London Relay "World Justed, and Mr. Friml is to remain rounds' bout here to-day.
The referee stopped the fight. lin Hongkong for a short slay.
Casals.
| Affairs."
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Amoy and Shanghaf
47 p.m. Wednesday, June 28 U.S.A., Central and South America, Canada-and-Europa_via San Frane cisco (No Parcels for Canada),
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