India Calls In Dollars
Controls Aluminium NEW DELHI, Mar. 0 (Reuter) The Raj has issued a notification calling on the Owners of certain United States dollar securities to sur- render them within a month from March 10 10 the Reserve Bank, which will make payment when it is satisfied that the securities delivered are in an acceptable form
'Dividends received on such securi- tics after March 10 will be the pro- porty of the Raj.
The Rat last July ordered the holders of dollar securities to supply particulars of their holdings to the Reserve Bank.
Allocating Stocks
NEW DELHI, Mar, 0 (Reuter) The Raj has assumed control of the anle ant use in manufacture of the existing clocks of unmanfactured and semi-manufactured aluminium in order to ensure that they are utilised to the best advantage.
Holders of stocks are required to submit returns by March 31.
It will be recalled that aluminium was subjected to import control Inst January in order to reduce pressure on the demand on the world's stip- plies.
LETTERS
Electricity Charges
The Editor,
Hongkong Telegraph.
Sir-When
the
32nd Ordinary
Grand Hotel Opened
Eventful Day For Macao
The Grand Hotel, Murao, was [opened yesterday by the Governor of Macay in the presence of all local notabilities and many from Hong- kong. The proprietor, Mr Fulc Pa- choi, had arranged travel by the Kin Shan and accommodation for the
General Meeting of the Gilt-edged night at the hotel with all ments sup- Hongkong. Electric Co., Ltd. takes place on March 20, shareholders willed, and many availed themselves generally commend the action of "By of this lavish hospitality.
Sir Robert Ho Tung and Sir Shou- order of the Board of Directors" toon Chow were present at the formal increase the Company's standard
buffer ard opening which preceded charges for current consumed, effec-lunch, and also at the dinner which live March 21, as already advertised. climaxed an afternoon of dancing.
To the ordinary working class man, The Hotel is the highest building this announcement Is willy-nilly ac- in the Portuguese colony. It is de- a mere shrug of the curated in the most approved modern cepted with a shoulders. Afterall, why make style, the bathrooms; lighting and noise at all; it is going to cost the furniture being outstanding for com- publie only one cent mere per unit, fort and convenience. The price is
Strictly speaking, however, lighting very reasonable indeed. is a daily necessity, and as such, any increase in the lighting cost should! rather come under a Controller too, notwithstanding the existence of any previous monopoly arrangement.
From all appearances, justification for the steps taken by the Company would seem to be lacking. Undeni-
quotations following ably, the Company
Issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar- continue to cara excellent profits to such an extentket this morning. that the Directors have found it pay- sible to dish out frequent bonuses to shareholders, plus of course the regu- Jar interim and final divklends.
Wherefore, one might with reason ask, the further need to bleed con- suingra unnecessarily?
Permit me, pleasé, to raise a voice of, protest,
ELECTRIFIED PERCY.
East Asia Sports Meet At Hsinking
TOKYO, Mar. 8 (Domel)--Plans having fallen through for the East | Asla Athletle Meet to be held in the Philippines Manchukuo has decided to hold Meeilng at Ilsinking in September to mark the 10th Anni- versary of the Founding of Man- chukuo,
Invitations to send their representa lives to the Meet are to be issued to Japan, China, the Philippines. the Inner Mongolian Federated" Autonom- Government, Thailand, French Indo-China, the Netherlands East Indies, the Portuguese Laland of Timor, the Hawaiian Islands and the South Sen linnds.
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The events will include Reid and Track, basketball, volleyball, football, baseball, tennis, softball tennis, rugby, bicycle races, table tennis, gymnastics, riding and aquatie contests.
Rugger Results
LONDON, Mar. (Reuter),--Fol- lowing wero the results of Rugby matches played yesterday:
Union-Brigade of Guards 19, London 20: St Mary's Hospital 17. Aldershot Com- mand 5; Wasps Metropolitan Police 3; Bedford 10, Guy's Hospital 10: Gloucester 10, Birmingham University 12: Oxford University 10, Rosslyn Park C; Weston- Super-Mare 1, Bath 23; Rugby. Northampton 0; Lancashire B, Yorkshire 15; Rosslyn Park 2, Army XV 34; Middle- sex Hospital 24. Old plues 0.
League Batley 2 Huli 11; Bramley D, Bradford Northern 29; Castleford 3, Dews- bury 14; Huddersfield 9, Leeds 3; Hunslet 17, York 0; Keighley 11. Halifax 0; Wako- field Trinity 0, Featherstone 0.
Friendly,Oldham 30, Leigh 0.
Rome Issues Casualty List
LONDON, Mar. 9 (Reuter) --The Jatest casualty list issued by Italian Headquarters" to-night gives Italian losses in North Africa as 03 dead, 08 wounded and 12,230 missing.
The list states that on the Greek front the Italian losses were 2,380
dead, 4,841 wounded and 5,590 missing.
Keitel Gets Picture Of The Fuehrer LONDON, Mar, 0 (Reuter)—Hitler visited Field Marshal Wilhelm von Keltel, the German Chief of Sinff, to-day to congratulate him completion of 40 years necording Agency.
on the
H.K. Stock Market
The
BANKS
H.K. Banks S. H.K. Banks
were
1,350 s.
75 #1.
HK. Banks (IIC)
77 n.
Chartered £..
.8% n.
Mercantile, A. & B. £.
23
Mercantile, C. £
East Asia $x.c.
.70
Cantons $..
.215
417
INSURANCES
Union. $... China Underwriters
1.K. Fire $.
SHIPPING
Dougins $. Steamboats' $. Indo-Chinas P. S. Indo-Chinas-D.-$ Shell (Bearers) si- Waterboats $.....
DOCKS ETC.
Wharves $... Docks (old) Docks (new) $. Providenta $. S'hat Dockyards
Kajian 8/- Raubs $. HI.K. Mines.
MINING
Hotel S... Lands $ x. d.
LANDS
Lands 4% Debentures
S'hai Lands Sh. $. Humphreys $.
ILK. Realties $. Chinese Estates $ xd. UTILITIES
Trams $ x.d. Peaks Trams (old) $. Peak Trams (new) Star Ferries $.
135.
. n. .BD n.
60-n- 43/9 n.
05 n.
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Buried, He Guided
His Rescuers
When a bomb demollated his London home (left) during a night raid Mr. Oakes was buried amid the debris. For three Hours rescuers worked white he directed operations from his 'prison until he was released and given a refreshing drink→
-and carried away with only slight lojurles.
BOMB SCARE
.7 n. As British Peer
Speaks In N. Y.
.17.00 5.
17 23. .54 n.
War Weapons Week
London Plans Effort
LONDON, Mar. 9 (British Wire- less) The City of London, the City of Westminster, all metropolitan boroughs, the whole county of Mid- dlesex and the Essex boroughs of East Ham, West Ham, Leyton, Ilford and Walthamstow will combine and hokt War Weapons Week simul- taneously in May.
No objective has been fixed but attention is drawn to the largo sumis subscribed by provincial towns and cities.
Previously Raised
March 10, 1941.
WRINKLE-PROOF
British Air BOTANY
Services Carry On
British civil aircraft in 1940 flow five million miles and carried, besides passengers and freight, nearly 30 million air mail letters. Even in mid- winter, with severe weather added to the already considerable hazards of wartime flying; ap- proximately 100,000 miles are being covered cach week, reports British Airways.
Throughout 1940 contacts with Europe were regularly maintained despite the German over-running of the Continent. On the Lisbon service recently 400 passengers were carried in a month, as well as much mail and freight.
The Truth-A Freight! During the summer and autumn, the Trans-Atlantic flights of "Clare" and "Clyde", which started at the height of the Invasion erlalu and were completed after ten crossings without Incident
or interruption, helped grently 10 persuade the American people that Britain was strong and confident in the air, and that Ger- inan claims of on aerial blockade false. Spectal arrangements were made by British Airways to ensure that on each flight the latest editions of English daily newspapers were carried, These were rent, analysed and even photographed in facsimile every tune they arrived on the
other side.
were
Passengers were carried neross the Atlantic on British flying, bonts for the first time. They were fifty in number, all of them men at the cen- tre of the war effort in Great Britalt, Canada and the United States.
value of civil aircraft as an Instrument of propaganda under-
when it is remembered that since Haly entered the war, and France sought an armistles, aircraft belonging to British Airways under charter to it, have served 34 countries. Of that number 14 were neutral and therefore closed to muli- lary machines.
Allies In The Air
or
The tale of British civil aviation In 1940 is not complete without the chapter written by the Allies. In close co-operation with British Air- ways, Dutch landplanes, from the fleet of K.L.M., are supplementing our flying boats which to Lisbon, and in
fuch
gian nation, S.ABEN.A., the Bel- air company is flying between the West Coast and Egypt by way of the Belgian Congo, The airways, not only of the British Em- pire, but of the Free Empires, are
for Liverpool,
instance, raised, 11,808,741, Glasgow £10,500,000, Edinburgh £10,234,053, Birmingham
£0,145,148, Manchester £7,177,434 still open. and Sheffield £5,017,184,
Bombs Cause
Last week's war savings total was £12,430,496,
£4.476,731 of which were in savings certificates, £3.014,- 705 in defence bonds and £4,389,000 from Increase in balance due to de- positors in the Post Oflee Savings Bank and the Trustee Savings Banks. The Lord Mayor's National Air Raid Distress Fund now amounts to £2,248,000 and Increase during the week of £30,000.
Gayda Rants At America
Aid To Yugo-Slavia
.wn. Just before Lord Marley, a deputy speaker in the House of .17 n. Lords, was
to address the SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH" parishioners of the Church of ROME,
ទ Mar, (UP)-Signor the Heavenly Rest, in New Gayda, writing in the "Voce d'Italia" York recently, someone tele on the reported offer made by the of military aid for United States phoned the serton that
the Yugo-Slavia,
that says
American church was going to be bombed. military alms are a threat to every
The sexton said the man went neutral nation.
He says the offer is based on the into great detail but had such a
that Yugo-Slavin supposition
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3.40 s.
.324 07
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n.
6.70 n.
.3.20
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n.
Damage To
BBC's Home
Hit twice by bombs, Broad- casting House, headquarters of
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the British Broadcasting Corp. GAS the substitute for FIREWOOD.
in central London, has been severely damaged and an un- disclosed number of men and women on the BBC staff have been killed in 'recent Nazi air raids, It was made known by British officials recently.
Although both bombings oc- curred at the peak of the night broadcasting periods, service at home and abroad continued un- sinterruptedly.
.00 n. thick Irish brogue he could not politieally stupid and points out that
be understood.
there is no route open by which the Police were called and surrounded United States could send military the church while parishioners en- faid to Yugo-Slavia if the Axis op- 3tered, although the threat was
not posed it. 541⁄2 taken very seriously. They found Cystwo packages, one in Christmas wrap- pings which they treated as if it 41 were a bomb. They doused it in oll and examined it with a furoscope in .10.90 Mnens Electrics (Old) S... 17 n. Central Park while the congregation
was leaving church,
Y. Ferries
China Lights (old)
Chini
Tights (new)
1.K. Electrics (old) $
H.K. Electries (new) $.
2416 n. .1.070, 5.
***
13 n.
Perfume And Greetings
24 n. 29 n. The neutralized package was found
Macao Electrics (New) $..10% n. Sandakan Lights S. Telephones (old) Telephones (new) $.
INDUSTRIALS
Cald: Macg. (Ord.), Sh, Cald: Marg. (Pref.), Sh. Canton fees $. Cements $. H.K. Ropes $
STORES, &c. Dairy Farms $. Watsons $.
$... Lane Crawfords Sinceres $. Wing On (H.K.) Powell Ltd. 5.
COTTON MILLS Evo Sh. $... S'hal Colton Sh. $. MISC.
H.K. Govt. 4%
ILK Govt 3 (1934)
Chinese Deposits Coveted
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" CHUNGKING, Mar. 9 (UP)--The | People's Political Council to-day .9 n. to contain a bottle of perfume and passed a resolution urging that the. card of greetings. The other was Government negotiate with the Bri- $...30 n. full of infoll, presumably collected the purpose of having British and fish and American Governments for 3..25 n for some charity.
American banks turn over to the
....10. Le
Lord Marley was carefully guarded Chinese Government all deposits
of
The first bomb killed several BBC women. It exploded just as two an- nouncers were reading news bulle tins, one in English and the other in German for Nazl consumption. Both continued
reading, as though nothing had happened.
The second bombing, in which n pellccinon was killed and some mem- bers of the BBC staff were wounded, caused major damage to the enor- mous, nine-story edlice, a landmark and on excellent target for bombers.
Carries On
Listeners to one broadcast heard some confusion in the background because of the bomb blast, but the announcer, after a momentary pause, went right ahead. The only algn of
reading of his script.
10.00 during the services by three detec-Chinese nationals who would be his emotion was a speeding up in the
13.
.8% n. lives. He reminded police he
once
held a revolver championship in the freimbursed with Chinese war bonds. The Council also passed a resolu- tion urging the Government to im-
administration of prove the Burma Road.
18 n. British Navy and said he could well .10.70 n. take care of himself, Two policemen .7% n were posted at the church through .2.15 n, out the night.
30 n. 1.90 n.
.414 n. Italian General
,200 n.
.07 n.
.95 n.
HK. Govt 34% (1040) ....14 n.
Said Relieved
Athens, Mar, 7.
"All Out" History Traced To 1300
The
In a learned poll of lexicographers, the New York Times has run down the sources of to-day's battle cry of An unconfirmed repert says that democracy, the words "all out.”
a Becket spelled it of his command and it In 1.001 understood that he will be replaced oute" variation.
neved
General
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The reason the bombings didn't interfere with BBC broadcasting may be ascribed to the fact that British announcers, as respondents
ents in London, broadcast from bomb-proof shelters In the
of the basement
building. The British have also taken care to spread their transmitters.
This is not the first time Broad- casting House has been hit by bombs. Several months ago a medium-sized time bamb
Dr Beven exploded six floors up, but did little damage,
•
Ch Govt. 5% 1925 GABds, ...42 n. General Ugo Cavallero has been re. In 1300 homes offered the "alle Bombs Kinder Than
HK. Entertainments $.........
Constructions (old) $
Marsmans Inv. (H.I.) a/..2/6 n. Italian
Constructions (new) $. Vibro Piling $..
by Ge 7.70 .
Geloso, Commander of So through the ages until con- Maramans Inv. (Lon.) s/..0/0 n. the 11th Italian Army in the central ductors and umpires bellowed the
This would sector.
be the fourth same phrase. Now I means ald.to Commander-in-Chief In Britain. Albania to be withdrawn as the re- fult of the fallure to halt the Greek advance.
Unconfirmed reports say that the
(UP)-OMelal Cavallero
la due
Dutch Bible Society
Is Dissolved
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Mar.
Refugee Loses $730 In Jewellery
reported.) removal of General Tong Ching-kang, residing at Hut to the complete No. 49 in the Malauchung Refugee of servico, news agency reports from the Hague. fallure of his plan for counter-Camp, has reported to the Police the to the German news any at the Chief of the Secret attacks, as opposed to his predecessor loss of jewellery worth $780. Among Pólico has ordered the dissolution of General Sodɗu, whose tactics were the jewellery were a platinum ring Hitler presented the Marshal with the International a_photograph.of_himself.:
Society (Bibalforcher)..
Biblo Research to fall back and establish second lines set with a diamond worth $203 and a
pf.defence-United Pret..
diamond bracelet worth $200..
Poverty, Says Vicar
Kowloon Showroom-240, Nathan Rd., Central Showroom-Gloucester Bldg.,
American Naval Appointments
Washington, Mar. 8.
Telephone 24704. Telephone 57341,
has been given duly. In the Depart- ment of the Navy.
Lleut-Colonel John P. Amama is to command the Marine Corps at Cavite. In the Philippines, succeeding Lieut.- The Department of the Navy to- Bomba are more merciful than day announced 240 changes of duly, Colonel Robert M. Montague, who has poverty or disease, says the Rev. A. including a shoke-up of the high been appointed to the Central Re- W. G. Duffleld, vicar of St John the commands of the Marine Corps incruiting Division at Chicago, Baptist, Chester, in his parish maga-China, the Philippines and Guam, Colonel Allen H. Turnage, Com- We are rightly shocked by the and chariges of duty for 15 high-rank-mander of the United States Marines In North China, with headquarters at thought of 14,000 English folk bombing Naval officers, ed to death in their homes, but the
Colonel Samuel Howard, from San Pelping, has been ordered to Naval Idea of many times that number dying in their homes from malnutri-Diego, has been ordered to command Headquarters at Washington,
Shanghai, successor has not been announced- tion, tuberculosis and other poverty the Fourth Marines at
succeeding Colonel Dewitt Peck, who' Unfied Press, discnses leaves us thoroughly cold."
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