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Lord Gort's Visit To Algeciras
GIBRALTAR, May 19 (Reu- tor).-General Lord Gort, the British Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar, paid an official visit to the Spanish Military Governor of Algeciras this morning.
Lord Gort made the journey by
500.
It is understood that the visit was *cordial and that the Spanish
Governor is expected to return the call on May 28.
Meiji University Baseballers To Visit Hawaii
TOKYO, May 19
(Domel)
Meli University's baseball team. which was last year's champion among Tokyo's six blg universities, will leave on June 19 aboard the Yahata Maru for Ilawall where it play clah! to ten games with
will
The teams of the Hawaiian Base-
ball League.
The Meijl team which has been invited by the Howall Asahi Club will be hended by Manager Ryolo Akagami, Coach Umeo Tanizawa and 18 players.
The Mejl players will remain in Hawall Islands for a fortnight and
w return to Japan on August 15, aboard the Asama Maru.
Rifle Shooting
First Time
Since 1914-18
The Hongkong Special Guard Company Hughes Group" held their tirst Rifle meeting at Kowloon City Range on Sunday. As this was the first time that
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
AT PRAYER-Despito bombracked walls and debris, this group gathered in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral for prayer on Good Friday. A cross of charrod wood stands over an improvised altar in the rooflors building. The Archdeacon said: "If you know God loves
you, you can stand up to anything.'
Blitzed
Publishers' Scheme Of Co-operative Book Distribution
May 20, 1941.
Diocesan Missionary Association
Hope for the formation of groups In Australia with the idea of simulating interest and augument» ing funds was expressed in a report: by Miss W. Robinson, Secretary, at the annual meeting of the Victoria Diocesan Missionary Association in the Cathedral Hall yesterday.
Rev. A. P. Rose presided and on the platform were Dr K. L. Relchelt, Rev. D. Rosenthall, Mr J. A.
Tarrant (Treasurer) and Miss Robinson,
The Chairman
conveyed an
arrive from
apology from Bishop Hall for hla absence. He was Chungking Inst night.
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When the accounts, were dealt with, Miss E. S. Atkins said last
year there was grant for a mis- lonary, of $880 which did not come in this year. She thought last year it was considered best that the grant should not be made again. She wondered whether an ep Committee could
.be sent to the Finance
asking if the grant could still be made since last year's resolution wan passed.
an
"The budget was passed with alteration that the Executive Coun- eil look into the question of a pos- sible grant for a missionary and to make the necessary alterations in the budget to allow for it.
Mr Rose said Mrs Richards Si John's Cathedral group report stated there were 147 members, of which seven were lost this year and a few more had left recently, Subscrip- tions and donations collected up to date amounted to $483, and more was to come.
A co-operative experiment in book distribution, the greatest venture of its kind the book trade of Great Britain ever knew, has arisen from the ashes of Nazi- devastated Paternoster Row and its environs-for centuries the heart of Britain's work. The boys would not
book trade.
Dealing with the report of Christ Church, Mr Rosenthall and visits hild been made to the Blind Home and a picnic and dinner were held for the blind. A Boys' Club
had been started in Kowloon City and a paid leacher had been engaged. There were 40 children in the Club and the work done has been good. Mr Rose said this move of form- ing a Boys' Club was a very good one and was part of the Association's only beneßt educationally but also thev would have religious instructions.
Destitutes Cared For Speaking of the Eyre Refuge, Me Rosenthall said there was a home for destitute women inside the walled offices in Princes' Gate. S. W., Lor-ally in Kowloon City and at present there were 10 members. Its inmates received home care and did needle work, the sale of which formed the of income. The principal source women were physically disabled in some way or other. Some had been sent from the Secretariat for Chinese
and others from the Affairs Leung Kuk. Orders for needle work done could be laid.
doti.
When Paternoster Row, a long, narrow, dark street off Saint Paul's Churchyard, was some of the members have had fired by Nazi bombers in the London holocaust of Dec. 29, more than 6,000,000 volumes were chance to fire a Service rifle since destroyed, among them many priceless and irreplaceable treasures. · 1914-1918, the results were very satisfactory.
The offices and warehouses of nearly a dozen well-known At the close of the meet, a competi-publishers were either totally destroyed or seriously damaged, sulted in two detalls of eight members and in this toil of literary havoc, Simpkin Marshall, wholesale each scoring a total of 115. The win book distributors of Stationers' Hall Court near by, lost every ning detal wan decided when Mr Langston and Air floscoe shot it out, item in their stock of 2,500,000 volumes, together with their and the result was an overwhelming unique catalognes comprising a record of books published in victory for the latter.
England for more than 100 years past.
tive detail match was held, whieh re-
Electric Rinks
Yet before the ashes cooled, the essentials of a co-operative scheme for carrying on business THE FOLLOWING will represent had been worked out by the the Hongkong Electric n.c. in a
which Third Division lawn bowls match Publishers Association against the Hongkong FC. at North undertook to run Simpkins as a distributive agent for the whole
Point on Saturday:
Crates
Sons Messra J. Whitaker and publishers for nearly three-quar- ters of a century of "Whitaker's Almanack" and the "Bookseller," lost their records and orders in the Bre
and publication of the "AI- manack" had to be postponed for a time while they secured dupil- cates.
Cassells. La Belle Sauvage, was saved by one of its own fire-watch- incendiary ers who dealt with an bomb after it had burnt through the
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siderable export business. bearing. their name took British
Speaking of the Church Guest culture and scholarship to the re- motest sections of the world.
House, Mr Rose said thanks were due to Miss Elliot, who was Warden Messrs W. H, Smith and Son, wholesale book distributors them
prior to her leaving for Canada, and to Miss Griffith who acted as hostess.
From
om July to December there were selves, have given practical assis-roof, Good Neighbour Policy
107 guests,
excluding permanent tance in getting Simpkins' distribu- tive machinery working again.
The good-neighbour. movement to
and from June to the destruction in the residents, Messrs Longmans Green and Co., offset all this
Total Income amounted A. P. Tarbuck. J. R. Way, C. Ewill, the vans, all that was left, were City and Southwark warehouses both fire.
The name, the business, the good-publishers since 1724, who had their book-trade began the day after the Biddle of May this year there were Publishers whose premises $11,466 and the balance at the end Gulugan and J. K. Stonn.
A. F. Paul, W. Stoker, A. G. Gard-over and the work of distribu destroyed on the same night, next were spared offered sanctuary to less of the year was $508. This
tion was carried on from Book any carried on the publishing tradi- fortunate competitors, and printers receipts to the end of April amount- 'ner and J. F. Lunny,
Centre Limited, a subsidiary concern tions of 200 years, in a small office and binders did all they could toed to $3,714 and payments reached of Mesats Pitman.
In Surrey. A dozen or so titles of help. books for sale, had taken the place of the 6.000 they had had the day before.
W. E. Macfarlane, E. L. Groome, ron and L. de Rome.
J.
F. Barron
Reserve, W, Stonehouse.
Libyan Border
Fighting
trade.
$4,102.
to
year
So, in spite of it all, the com- pilation and printing of Spring Lists has gone ahead, and reprints of the works with a known ready sale have STOCK MARKET been rushed through.
Vital Link in Trade Simpkin Marshall have long been a vital connecting link between pub- Isher and retail bookseller. Their Old Firms Hard Hit aim in the past has been to have Other publishers whose premises or to know were ravaged include William Black- every book in stock,
It CAIRO, May 19 (Reuter).-Deal- how to procure quickly, so that wood and Sons, established in Edin-
WINDOW OF 1449 Ing with the German sully from Fort When the man-in-the-street walked burgh-in-1814-and-operating Capuzzo, military circles sald that into a bookshop anywhere and ask- London branch since 1840. They
be an obscure published George Eliot's "Adam One of the oldest church window the R.A
in the country-nt East Harling, Nor- the bookseller put it on his Bede" in 1859. with a large dose of title,
daily order form, and Simpkins, Messrs Collins lost their office in folk parish church-is to be removed from their stocks and records looked Bridewell Place, but most of their to a safe place as a precaution against It out and supplied I.
stock was held in Glasgow. The air raid damage. The window dates About ten per cent of the books offices of Hutchinson, largest firm of from 1449. When fears were felt for sold by Beltisit publishers went publishers in the world, were com- its safety in 1500, it was stored and through Simpkins records. The pletely gutted.. Their stock, how forgotten for 242 years when it was firm had also developed a con-ever, was safe. They now have new i replaced.
own medie tem a taste of their ed for what might
dive-bombing.
The German attempt with two columns to force "Hellare Pass" was unsuccessful and the Germans again have to recuperate from their losses in the now much trampled Sollum
aren.
CHARITY WORKER NEARLY
FAILS IN ORGANISING
ORGANISING APPEAL
(THINKS)
ONLY ANOTHER FEW WEEKS AND YET THERE ARE SO MANY DETAILS
TO FIX UP
MISS. ATKINSON,
WILL YOU DEPUTIZE
FOR ME AT THE MEETING OF THE
COMMITTEE TO-MORROW. I FEEL SO TIRED AND
EXHAUSTED.
YES, BUT DON'T YOU THINK YOU OUGHT TO SEE
A DOCTOR?
niku
HOSPITAL -WEEK.
AT. THE DOCTOR'S
I EVEN- WAKE UP TIRED
YOUR TROUBLE IS NIGHT
STARVATION. YOU SEE, WHILE · YOU SLEEP, YOUR HEART, LUNGS
AND OTHER AUTOMATIC PROCESSES CONTINUE USING
UP ENERGY.
REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Omcini Summary, issued yesterday, is:
Buyers
H.K, Banks $1,310)
Bank of East Asia $71 H.K. Fire Ins, X.D. $176 Indo-Chinas (Pref)-$80. Providents $5.03
Hotels $2.85
Lands $31
Lights "O" $5.70
Electrics "Ris" $11.35 Macao, Electrics $18,50 Ropes $6.50 Entertainments $0.25
Sellers
Macao Electries $18.00
Salca
H.K. Banks $1,310 Lands $31
Humphreys $6.40 Trams $15.00
Ubrary, Supe
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Fellowship of the Bellows
For VIGOROUS HEALTH
APRIL SCORE
385
AT THE DOCTOR'S FILIN
IN YOUR CASE ALSO THIS HAS
LED TO AN [EXCESS OF ACID WASTE PRODUCTS} IN THE BLOOD. RECENT TESTS HAVE.PROVED THAT HORLICKS AT BEDTIME IS WHAT YOU NEED.
HORLICKS!
50
HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT
SIX WEEKS LATER THE CONTRIBUTIONS EXCEED
LAST. YEARS TOTAL BY
SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS, THANKS
TO OUR
ENERGETIC: ORGANIZER.
HORLICKS
IS THE
SECRET OF
MY. RENEWED
VITALITY
DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS USE HORLICKS
IN HOSPITAL TESTS
ECENTLY tests were made in a great
REC
hospital on men and women who com-
plained of always feeling tired..
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It was found that these people had an
oxcess of acid waste products in their blood during sleep.
This acid-waste kept the brain ́and nerves on, edge' all night even though the rent of the body was sound asleep.
But when Horlicks was given to theso people last thing at night, this excess acid waste.was completely neutralised. They wake refreshed, with increased energy and vitality."
DO YOU FEEL WORN OUT, DEPRESSED, OR NERVY? DO YOU EVEN AWAKE TIRED?!
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THEN YOU WILL SLEEP SOUNDLY. — WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAYE
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THE QUALITY
BEER
Read your Fellowship Booklet carefully re- garding "Blow-Ins and "Windfalls" and don't forget that the
CLOSING DATE FOR APRIL IS TUES., MAY 20 In addition to official collectors for firms there, are "Blow-In" "Boxes- at:→ Hongkong Side: Gloucester Hotel, Helena May Institute, Hongkong Club, Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong Jockey Club, Hongkong & Shanghal Banking Corporation,
'Lane, Crawford, Ltd.:
Kowloon Side: Caravan Shop, China Light & Power Co., Lid (Argyle St.). China Light & Power (Hung Hom), European Y.M.C.A., Far East Oxygen & Acetylene Co., Ltd., H.K. & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd.,, Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp., Peninsula Hotel, Star Ferry Whart.
ARE YOU A "WHIFF". (member)? or ARE YOU A “SNUFF” (non-member)? IF YOU ARE ALREADY A. "WHIFF" MAKE ALL YOUR FRIENDS "WHIFFS" TOO BY ENROLLING THEM TO-DAY BUT FOR BOMBERS SAKE DON'T BE A “SNUFF"
Join the Fellowship at the Bellowship Now Application Forms for Membership may be had from
"Whirlwind
* "Receivar of Windfalls"..
c/o Far East Oxygen G
Acetylene Co.,Ltd.
Kowloon
c/o Hongkong &. Shanghai,
Banking Corporation,
w: Kowloon -
and ka SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
US. Auxiliaries
WASHINGTON,
The House to-day pašati,the Banate ziblil permitting the Navy Dabart
ing 660,000 tortaizkia: Marihö
penditimes of $800,000,000;
Royal Exiles Go To Virgin Islands