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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 21, 1941;
DONALD
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NOTICE is hereby given that the NINETEENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of Share- Holders of the Hongkong Engineer- Ing & Construction Company, Limited, will be held at the offices of Messrs. Sir Elly Kadoorie & Sons, St. George's Building, Chater Road, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 30th April, 1911, at 12 o'clock THE HONGKONG NATURALIST,
and 4. Price $4 (noon), for the purpose of receiv Vol. X nos. 3 (postage extra). Now on sale at ing the Report of the Board of South China Morning Past, Ltd. Directors and Statement of CROSS SPRINGER SPANIEL Pup-Accounts for the year ended on the pics (seven) for sale in aid of the 31st December, 1910, und electing Bomber Fund. Please apply Mrs. Directors and Auditors. Hogg, Jockey Club Stables,
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 24th to 30th April, 1941, both days Inclusive,
"School-Tie' Colonel Dismissed
+1
By Order of the Board,
B. ALVES,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 17th April, 1941.
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By Walt Disney
» Duar,burad Be Kine Pesturry
The Misses Maureen Booker, Rachel Smlib, Paniela Pritchard, Betty Richards, Betty Langbottom and Cynthia Sanb, who will appear In "Pure and Simple," an attractive revne organised by the 11.K.V.A.D. in ald of
wombea
presented China
Club Theatre on Friday and Saturilay next.
Billion in French Gold Stored in Martinique
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More than 300 people, including officials of the A.RP. De- partment, A.R.P. officers and wardens, officers of the Volunteer Corps, the Naval Volunteer Force and the St John Ambulance Paid-up Capital Brigade, shared an enjoyable time at the Club Lusitano on Satur-Reserve Liability of Proprietors. £3,000,000 day evening when a dance was given by the officers of the Upper Reserve Fund Levels Division of the Corps of Air Raid Wardens.
The function was a big success. | a buffet supper being served at |midnight and dancing continuing till the early hours, the musle {being provided by the Middlesex
Regiment Dance Band.
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and Miss nounced, recently, is trying to FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year Lorna Mol.
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form of severe nervous break- brief speech, 3
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also. oponed in Local Currency and Sterling with Interåst followed congratulated the Upper Levels Divl-down
by complete allowed at rates outainable on application. VICHY, April 20' (UP). The entire gold reserve of the slon for their initiative in arranging lethargy, resembling sleeping The Bank's Head Office in London Bank of France, estimated at $1,000,000,000 (U.S.), has been the dance, which he said was the sickness.
undertakes Executor & Trustee business and claims recovery of British Income transferred safely to Martinique aboard the French cruiser Best function of its kind since the
It is believed to be caused by the Tex overpaid on terms which may be inauguration of the Corps of Air Raid Emile Bertin, it is announced here.
The Wardens. The French cruiser narrowly escaped seizure last June when tion, he said, was to bring a metimes leads to violent lunney,
e object of such a func-long Aretic night, lack of vitamins, certained at any of Jis Agencies and
em-solitude and boredom, and it some British authorities learned that Marshal Potain had asked a bers of the Corps closer together.
It seems that the morale of Ger- separate armistice, it was said. That same morning, the ship's redio
man soldiers in the occupied coun- tries is becoming so seriously affected that Hitler has ordered the expenditure of millions of pounds on German soldiers' homes," to be established everywhere between the "North Cape and the Bay of Biscay."
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED COLONEL R. C. BINGHAM (Old Etonian), who wrote to
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN "The Times" recently suggesting that the 62nd Ordinary Annual that only public school men were Meeting of Shareholders will be proving fit to receive Army com held at the offices of the Company, missions, has been dismissed Exchange Building, Des Voeux Rond, Victoria, Hong Kong, on Capt. Margesson (Old Harro-Tuesday, the 22nd day of April, buried in the mountain-top for- asking for a separate armistice, and allowing the use of their Club, and
the Lersertions in the ballroom. French possession in vian), the new Secretary for 1941, at 11.30 o'clock, a.m. for the tress of Desaix, at Fort de the old must be rushed to the to Mr Baptiste for the fine decora- War, announced this in the purpose of receiving a Statement France, in 14,000 sacks under a Antilles. House of Commons.
from his post.
of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ended 31st The colonel, he said, had com- December, 1940. mitted a breach of King's Regu-
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of lations, and an expression of the Army Council's severe displen- the Company will be CLOSED sure has been conveyed to him. from WEDNESDAY, the 9th April, That disposed of the discipli-1941, to TUESDAY, the 22nd nary side of the matter.
April, 1941, bath daya Inclusive.
Not Suitable
In addition, he had devided that this officer was no longer suitable for the command_of_an_ofeer endel training unit, and he had given in- structions for him to be relieved of his command,
Cheers from all parts of the House greeted this decision.
1
Brig. Gen. Sir Ernest Makins, Fory, M.P. for Knutsford (Old Wyk- Tory
there hanist), suggested
was parallel with a story by H. 11, Munro, which described the very unfortunate results to a woman who set to tell the truth.
Caplain Margesson did not reply,
Earl's Grandson
F. G. H. Salusbury, "Dally Herald" War Correspondent, writes!
The dismissed officer is a Heuten~ | ant-colonel of the Coldstream Guards, in the Regular Arny Reserve of Ofcers.
The normal procedure now would be for him to return to his regimen- tol depot, pending further employ-
ment.
The War Minister's announcement, however, complicates the question of finding him a position suitable to his
vank.
It may be presumed that for the time being he will remain unemploy~] ed.
Lieut-Colonel Bingham, who Is 55,' is a grandson of the 4th Earl of Lucan.
His Letter
His letter to "The Times" stated: "Our new armies are being off- cered by classes of society who are new to the job. The middle, lower-
The gold is now said to be brought new orders.
He expressed thanks to the Com- Petain was mitice of the Club Lusitano for
Play's Record Run On Broadway
slab of concrete and protected by
Escape From Halifax naval guns from the old battle. ship Jules Ferry, which can fire British officials went aboard and said special trains were waiting to 23 miles to sca.
More than eight months after the speed the gold to Montreal. Bollet
"Tobacco Road," the grim and transfer, it was disclosed for the first stalled, pretending to await more sordid drama of the Georgian Hils,
He had to resist increasing ume here that the gold had left orders.
British pressure. Then, the night of which broke all records for length of
year.
France,
The first twelve homes" are to be built in northern Norway.
Y.M.C.A. VETERAN
When the war began, the Bank of June 19, while Halifax slept, Battet run on Broadway. Is now in Its eighth Mr B. W. Smith Leaving | France decentralised its gold and hid started the gold-laden cruiser back to
The previous Broadway record was Shanghai After 26 Years it In secret places in the provinces. sea, backing out of port to turn and By Order of the Board of her the Somme ne broke, and it run for the pass and the open sen held. bý "Able's Irish Rose," with}
The Shanghal Navy Y.MC.A. and became apparent that nothing would with gunners mounting all 20 of the 2,317 performances.
In London the Lord Chamberlain the Navy Y.M.C.A. District Execu ship's cannon and ordered to use stop the Germans, the gold was gathered at vaults at Le Puy, in the them if the British coastal batteries refused a licence, to "Tobacco Road," tive Secretary, Mr B. W. Smith is
fired.
and it was performed in private át salling for home in the President the_Gate Theatre Studio. volcanic fastnesses of the Auvergne
Pleree_on_May_3. central highlands.
Directors,
R. TAYLOR, -Manager-and-Secretary: Hong Kong, 25th March, 1941,
NOTICE
DEFENCE REGULATIONS 1940.
The following rates will bo charged for mailing single copies of the following newspapers abroad:-
South China Morning Post China and Macao
16 cents per copy
Britlah Empire and Foreign
25 cents per copy
The Hongkong Telograph
China and Macao 14 conta per copy
16 conta Saturdays
British and Foreign 20 cents per copy
25 conta Saturdays.
Honour For Mdm. Chiang
Mme. Chiang Kai-shek recent-
middle, and working-classes are now ly was presented with the blue
King's Commission. receiving the
"These classes, unlike the old aris. triangle pin of the American tocraila and feudal (almost) classes Y.W.C.A. becoming the third who led the old army, have never woman in the world to receive had their people to consider. They the honour. have-never had; anyone to think of The presentation was made by but themselves.
Miss Lilon K. Hans, secretary of the This aspect of life is completely |Y.W.C.A. National Board for China, new to them, and they have very and was made in the presence of the largely fallen down on it in their Generalissimo Mr Nelson T, John- capacity as army officers."
son, U.S. Ambassador to China, and Colonel Bingham Also stated, many important Government officials "Never was the old school tle and and their wives. the best that it sinnds for more Justified than it is to-day."
CHINA, AIR" ROUTES
Poking, Apr. 18... The China Aviation, Corporation, En Japanese controlled, organisation) beginning June 1 la opening three new
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the President of the United States and Queen Elizabeth of England are the two other recipients of the pin..
Miss Haus, in presenting the pin, sald that the "thrós triangles repre- sent three Democracies-Chinn, Brl- tan-and America.-
EMIGRANTS FROM COLONY
air routes, linking Poking With Yun- The number of Chinese emigrante
cheng in southern Shanal, Swatow
wl Canton, and. Peking, and Tien tain with Taingtao,~Domel,
leaving the Colony for the Straits Settlementų during the month of March was 8,019,
Gold Moved
chapter
The cruiser swung-around- Bermuda and reached Fort de France on June 22. The gold was The day the German armies
quickly carried ashore and buried crossed the Sene at Vernon, bank
British at the fort. Tho
havo officials decided to move the gold
blockaded the port since, to America secretly. Fourteen
French officials believe a sacks, cack containing 120 pounds in history may still be made with of gold worth 40,000,000,000 francs, this gold and the island where it is were removed hastily from the stored-an island discovered by vaults of the Bank of France at Le Columbus, where the Empress Jose- The German armies on phice was born, and where, in 1002, same day were crossing the Seine occurred one of the great disasters of at Vernon.
all time, the eruption of Mont Pele, destroying the City of St Pierre and killing 10,000 persons.
Puy.
There was a wild race to Brest with the gold sacks. On June 12 the whole stock was embarked on the cruiser Emile Bertin, in charge of Commander Battet, who was given orders. Watchers knew that sealed If the cruiser turned north the gold
All members of the Veteran Com- was going to Britain, if it turned
commence south the gold was bound for Dakar,pany, H.K.V.D.C., Will Africa.
Veteran Company
But it went straight west qt training at Murray Barracks, Garden
30 knots and on June 18 arrived Road, Victorla, to-day, April 21, at at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Chain Gang
Fugitive
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THE man who wrote "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang," Robert & Burns is to go back to Georgia, U.S.A., to stand his trial on a charge of being a fagi- tive from the chain gang, ac- cording to a report from Atlanta, (Georgia).
Burns has been living in New Jersey for some years since the suc- cess of his fim and his famous book, and the authorities there refused to extradita. him until yesterday.
He had been given. alx-year sen– tence for theft, until he escaped, and In his book he describes the
whipping of prisoners and their confinement in sweat boxes, and in stocks; "5
He tells how he managed to escape, only to be caught. He escaped again, and this time remained at liberty,
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