2
Wednesday,
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for 3 days propaidTM
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an INTERIM DIVIDEND of CHINESE YOUNG LADY (English FOUR per cent (%) for the six education) sccks position as nurse
of months ending 30th June, 1911, companion Lo Invalid, children, or as supervisor in Ilotel or mounting to FORTY cents per
Experienced Boarding House.
the Fully Paid Up Please nursing and house-keeping. wrlie Box 500, longkong Tele- Sharea and TEN cents per share on the Partly Paid Up Shares of geoph."
the Company will bo paid on MONDAY, the 14th July, 1941, on which date Dividend Warranta may be obtained on application at the Registered Ofce of the Com- Building, 4th pany, Exchange
FOR SALE.
TWO DOCK-White Bull Terrier Scotch Cross Bred and (bitch)
Proceeds to Terrier (bitch) for sale. Bomber Fund. Apply Mrs. Hogg, Hongkong Jockey Clth Stables.
THE HONGKONG NATURALIST, Vol. X no. 3 and 4. Price $4 (postage extra). Now on sale st South China Morning Post Ltd.
A. N. S.-V. A. D. Swimming Gala
Saturday, 12th July, 1941
IN AID OF THE BOMBER FUND
Joor.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be .CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 2nd July to SATURDAY, 12th July, 1941, both dayn Inclusive.
By Order of the
Board of Directors,
J. P. SHERRY, Managing Director. Hong Kong, 13th June, 1941.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
5.9. DOROTHY LUCKENBACH VOY. 650-1
Swim-vessel en route
to be held in the Euro- pean Y.M.C.A. ming Pool.
A fire occurred on the above to the Oriont, which necessitated General Average being declared.
For particulars kindly apply to Will all interested please
the American President Lines, communicate with Miss Ltd., Agents. Baskett Tels.
28041
Hong Kong, June 21, 1941.
DISTRIBUTION
The following are the minutes of und 120 sacks (plus 187 lbs.) of the seventh meeting of the Equitable Grade rice had been sold during Rice Sales Fund Committee, held at the week ending June 20. The fall- Medical Headquarters on Monday.ing off in the nales had resulted from There were present, the Rev. W. H. the failure in supply of Grado A Alton, Mr E. L. Curtis, Mr C. N. L from Government godowns and to Mr C, C. Lin, Mr Wong Quincey, the increase in prices ruled by the Rev. 11. A. Wittenbach, and 11on, Dr Controller of Food referred to carller in the meeting. Receipta lind amount. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke in the Chair.
The minutes of the sixth meeting ed to $7,707.50. Payment to Govern- held on June 16, which had been citment amounted to $7,270.22 and culated, were taken as read and were further sum of $20.40 was expended in transport making a total of $7,305,- confirmed as amended.
02: The credit balance was $401.88, all labour and supervision at the three rice depots being on a volun- tary basis.
The Chairman stated that efforte to construct a suitable oil burner capable of cooking rice in the 48-inch rlee boilers had not yet been crowned with success. The experiments were still proceeding and a leading oil company was donating the oil,
Sale of Vegetables Is Excellency the Governor had graciously indicated his interest in the Committee's proposals in relation to improving conditions for the vegs tobe tariner and the consumer.
The Chaleman read a letter dated
Jucie. Fruit Owners and Em→ |
n
The Committee endorsed the appli- cation which the Chairman had made to the Controller of Food that all rice retallers should be required by regulation to exhibit the prices and descriptions of all grades of rice leid or exposed for sale in their shops.
There being no other business, the meeting was adjourned until 3 p.m., on Monday, June 30,
Wholesale Deals 21, from the Chairman of the
A Government Gazette Extraord- ployees Guild. After discussion, itary issued yesterday publishes now was decided to send a reply to the Wholcuate Deating in Rice Regula- Guild thanking the Guild for their tions, and declares: ofler of a full investigation of the i On and after the coming into force activities of the loans and nerepting of these regulations no person shull the invitation,
deal in rice wholesale without the Mesars . L. Curtis and C. N. Lwritten permission of the Rice Con- were appointed as representatives to troller. For the purpose of these meet with a representative of the regulations
Sciling Price of Rice
·(c)
on
GRIN AND BEAR IT
SALES OFFICE
LITTLE NIFTY.
VACUUM CLEANER
SALES CHEAT
INTEL DEL, All 316 Ras
By Lichty
5-12
$3,000,00
JR,000,000
· BANK S
́THE CHARTERED BANK OF 'INDIA, 'AUSTRALIA & CUINA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter 1863, ' Pald-up Capital
Reserve Fund "..
Imerve Liability of Proprietors 43,000,000
HEAD OFFICE-LONDON.
18 Bibsopsgatu, E.C.1.. Sub-Agencies in London.
117-127, Leadenhall Street, B.CJ,
West End Branch:
14-10, Cockspor Street, B.W.1.
Blanchester Branch:
52, Mosley St, Manchester, X.
AGENCIES AND BRAŃCURS:
Alor Star
Amritsar
Bangkok
Untavia
Bombay
Calcutta
Agencient
Hongkong
Cilve Bircat Lumpur
Fairlie Placo Kuching
Canton
Cawnpore
Stangoon
Balgan
Ipoh Karachi Klang
Semarang
Seremban
Shanghai
Kobe
Singapore
Kuala
Slawan
Sourabaya
Taiping
Madras
Tientsin
EXPREST
Manila
Tongkah
Cebu Colombo
Medan
(Bhuket)
New York
Tiingiao
Pelping
Yokohama
iaiphong .
(Peking)
Hatkow
Penang
"We call this our Trojan Horso sales plan. When the prospect opens the box to see, what someone has sent them, our agent stops out and demonstrates our little nifty vacuum cleaner!"
Rider To Jury's Fatal Wall Collapse
Verdict
Delhi
General
CURRENT
and ACCOUNTS opened FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local or Other Currencies at rates which will be quoted on appiteation.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Banking Bininess transacted,
BAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Etering with interest allowed at rates outainable on application, London The Bank's Head Omen in undertakes Executor and Trustea bual- nexa, and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of il Agencies and Branches.
W. IL EVANS THOMAS,
Maxagor.
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED
Head Onee-15, Gracechurch Street. London, E.CJ,
Authorised Capital
Subscribed Capital Paid-up Caplial
Reserve Fund and Beat
DANKERS:
£3,000,000
1,000,000
1,050,000
1,254,069
The Bank of England & Miatana
Boxibay
BILANCHES-
Bank, Ltd.
Jaffna Kuantan
Madras
New York
Kandy
Karachi
Kota Bharu
Guild. It was, also, decided to ask (9) A person chall be deemed to the Guild to allow the letter to be dent in rice if he buys or cells, enters published so that the general public into any agreement for purchase or might have an opportunity of viewing cale, transfers, takes tuto his posser- the situation from the angle of thes, removes from his posscaslon, or of, Imembers of the Guild,
otherwise acquires or disposes any rice under any contract of pur- chase or sale, whether entered into The Controller of Food had ad-before the coming into forer of these vised in a letter dated June 17 that regulations or the Committee's Grade A rice should
In relation to the (b) "Wholesale now be hold at $16.50 per picul and sale of rice means the sale by one Grade B (now Grade D under the person to another who buys to sell Controller's new specifications) at again and includes any sale of rice $15
in any per piculars
exceeding 20 piculs; "person". Several members of the Committes
includes a firm.
"We consider the architect did no.jcables, Witness replied that he could pressed for u reconsideration of the The provisoins of the Contracts exercico proper care in supervision, not say.
of new scale
were (War Restrictions) Ordinance, 1917, with the result that the wall bulli which prices
Captain F. L. Brown, Chief En- Bangkok maxima and above the prices charged shall apply in the ease of any con- did not in certain places come up gincer of the Hongkong Electric Co., Calcutta
rice retail shops for corres tract the performance of which fo by the
to the recognised standard of safety," stated, in reply to a question from Colombo was the rider of a Coroner's Jury, the Jury, that so far as he knew Galle any person of complying at the conclusion of a death inquiry there was no rule or rules specily-longong suggested that these might the part be based upon replacement costs. with the requirements of these re-
held before Mr H. G. Shelton. x.c., ing that permission had to be grant- gulations. stated that the rico The provisions of the Defence Re The Chairman
at Central Magistracy yesterday. ed before cables could. be re-inid.. had been purchased at the original
The inquiry was into the death of Mr A. M. 3. Wright, of the Pubile prices, that the Committee was not a putations, 1040, shall apply for the commercial undertaking and so not purpose of the enforcement of these Wai-sang, 20, a cootle of the Works Department, who had teat- out to make a profit from the sale of regulations, and otherwise in relation Hongkong Sanatorium, who died as fed previously, stated that in this Exchange Business transacted. rice, and that he would appeal to thm thereto, and these regulations shall a result of the collapse of a retain case, since permission had been pre- Controller of Food for permission to be construed and take effect as ifing wall in Ventris Road on Janu-vlously granted for the Electric Com- sell the rice the original rates at the formed part, and shall be deemed ary
The Jury, comprising Messrs J. D. any rate until all the rice owned by to form part, of the Defence Regula-
Lon, 1940. the Committee had been sold.
Thomson (Foreman), George Dobbs and Taul Seok-pun, retumed a ver- In the course of his summing up, diet of accidental death.
Mr Sheldon indleated that there was The hearing was previously nd- evidence to show that blame journed for a week for evidence to could be attached to any one person. be nda
ndduced concerning the laying of The Jury retired for 10 minutes cables by the Hongkong Electrle before returning the verdict und Company in the vicinity of the col- rider. lapsed wall,
of
(APC) or 22160 (Helena FOR THE PROTECTION bonding trades. "The Rev. H. A. Wit. interfered with by the uccessity May) before Thursday 26th June, 1941.
The
Hongkong Telegraph Eleventh Annual Amateur Photographic Competition June-September, 1941. Two Silver Trophies Awarded by ILFORD LTD.
For the best and second-best entries, Three Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK CO. First Prizes in each of the thres Sections.
$250 CASH PRIZES
:
OF CHILDREN . What to do to help a child' Anyone knowing of a child who ban been assaulted, neglected, or Ill-treated in a manner likely cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health, or knowing of a parent who is seeking advice on any matter concerning a child, would be doing
F
an act of kindness by communicating at once with-
The
Hon.
General Secretary, H.KS.P.C., Old City Hall.
The Inspector, 49, Pokfulam Road, 1st floor
The Inspector, 82 Stone Nullah Lang, 2nd, Floor,
The Inspector, 12 Sal Yeung Chol St., Kowloo11,
The Inspector, 52, Argyle St., Kowloon.
All further steps will be taken, and expenses borne, by the Society,
The Informant's name will bo $250 kept strictly private, except in cases
where, malice is proved.
SECTION ONE Interior scenes. Table Top and Still
'Life Studies.
(Exluding portraiture, plants and
and flowers). 1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY 2nd $40, 3rd $30. 4th $10
SECTION TWO
Portraiture.
1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY 2nd $40. 3rd $30. 4th $10
SECTION THREE
Plants and Flowers. 1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY 2nd $50. 3rd $30. 4th $10
RULES
The following Rules will govern the Competition:
1-The Competition la open to all
photographers.
1-The entries awarded the
ord
Trophies for the best and second- best pictures in the Competition. will not be entitled to any other prizes,
3.The prizes will be awarded to the competitor sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- graph in each Section. Each entry must be accom published by a form which wil be during the period of the Com- petition, and which must be pasted on back of entry, 4.The right to publish any or ali of the entries is reserved to tho Hongkong Telegraph,
-All photographs entered murt have bean taken in in Colony of Hongkong, Photographs which have been already entered in ather Competitions are ineligible, -No responsibility will be accepted - for non-delivery of, loss of, or damage to entries 7-All entries to be either black, sepia, or toned pletures, and must Do mounted. Coloured photo. graphie are ineligible. 6-Patures submitted in sepia tones should be accompanied by
maller print in black and white. #--No picture to entered in more
than one Bection,
10,-Mount to be only white or cream, must be of one of the following @ize:----10X12, 18×3.
11... No correspondence will be entered into in connection with the Com- petition. 12.-lembers of the Staffs of the
Hongkong Telegraph・ and tho South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete,
1
13.--The decision of the Judges shall
be final.
14-ốt the conclusions of, the Com- petition, entries will be returned to competitore en application · st the Telegraph offices within seven days. 10-house at milanes 'ta strictly
forbidden.
NAME
ENTRY FORM
SECTION
ADDRESS
Please use block letters and paste one of those forms on back.
of each. Entry; * -
NOTICE
DEFENCE REGULATIONS 1940
*he following rates will be charged for mailing single copies of the following newspapers abroad:
South China Morning.Post
China and Macao
10 cents per copy
British Empire und Foreign
25 cents per copy
The Hongkong Telegraphi
China and Macao 10 cents per copy British and Foreign 20 cents per copy 25 cents Saturdays.
Bomber Fund
In Memoriam Gifts
A total of $2,234.017.20 was reached yesterday by the War Fund Inaugurated by the S. C. M. Port, Ltd, with the fol- lowing donations:
Meses Li and Fung, Lid, ................ $200
Naylor's Shrapnel (second "donation]
11n, atc.)......
Dax
Bale of ald
4.32
that in It was generally agreed view of the fact that the Committed hoper to close down its rice depots) shortly, this seemed to be a reason- aole proposal,
Report of Director
The Director reported that 172 sacks (plus 37 lbs.) of Grade A rice
Umbrellas To Guide
23.
pany to iny cables, the Company was left to re-lay the cables at their own discretion.
по
Delhi
Flawrnh
Ipoh
Penang Rangoon
Shankbat
Kuala Liple Simla
Kuala Lumpur Singapore Kuala Trengganu
HONGKONG DRANCII. Every description of Banking and
TRUKTCE AND EXECUTORSHIP UNDERTAKEN,
Current Accounts opened in Local Cur- reney and Fixed Deposits received in Local Currency and Sterling on terme that may be ascertained on application.
D. BENSON,
Manager.
POST OFFICE
It will be recalled that at the Air Mall Service by British Over- Mr D. B. Evans held a watching previous hearing, Mr Wright stated seas Airways Corporation to East brief for the Hongkong Electric Com-in evidence that the height of the and South Africa, United Kingdom pany yesterday, and Mr A. el Arculli wall according to the plan was 21 ft and beyond is temporarily suspend- held
a watching brief for Mr A. J. 6 ins and the width 7 ft 8 ins at theed. A pllot officer of the R.A.F.ible for the drawing up of the pinns ed that the wall was actually 27 R Lane, who was the architect respon- base; however, investigations reveal- who was recently awarded the of the wall.
at the highest point and the width
RADIO R.A.F. Pilot
9.52
cession,
matres (9,520 kilo-cycles).
1.02 Carroll Gibbons (Flano) and Its Orchestras.
Reuter and Rugby Press and 1.30 Announcements.
1.45 Mozart-Concerto In E Flat Major.
warriors with
coloured
um-
ing
out,
Wild Naval Claim By Germans
The public are reminded that it is
⚫ breach of bastal regulations to enclose in a postal cover, communi- cations intended for persons, other
North
and Kulangau),
of
(except Amoy
East and Awangsi, Kwangtung.
Small Packet Post to dil countries s suspended.
INWARD AIR MAILS 'Air Mail By""Pan American AirwaJD- Direct Bervice"-San Francisco .July 1. date, 24th Juno
Air Hall by "Pan American Airways
Direct Service"San
date, 8th July.
Francisco
July 15.
ZBW, 355 metres (845 Lc.) and 314 D.F.C. for a hazardous flight Recalled to the witness box, Mr18 ft 0 ins at its base.
over dangerous mountain coun-Lane stated that after the collapse Me Wright had also said that at Jan the addressee, Mozart Piano Concerto In try in Abyssinia, had his land- of the wall he found that a certain one point of the wall the height was
amount of earth at the toe of the 24 ft and the width at the base was 7. The Printed Matter Service to the E Flat Major
ing ground marked out for him wall, and which acted as a form of it. He pointed out that a wall 24 ollowing places in China is tem- In an unusunt manner.
resistance, had been taken away and it in height should have had a thick-porarily suspended-Yunnan, Sre- When he saw the prearranged the ground levelled.
ness at the base of about 8 ft 6 ins thuen, Kweichow, Hunan, Fukien Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency
Witness also pointed out that the or 8 ft 9 ins. caretaker's hut which had been des- of 45 k.e's, and on Short Wave from smoke signal on an 8,000 feet 1-2.15 p.m. and 8.30-11.15 p.m. on plateau, he circled round and troyed by the collapse, had been built
m.c's per second. 12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter- found a number of Abyssinian 10 it from the foot of the wall and about eight feet below the level of
12.30 Variety.
brellas forming the boundary of the foundation of the wall. to the Building Ordi
Accord- Ordinance the 1.00 Local Time Signal and Pro-a-level-rectangle, while-a-white owner of the property for which the grumme Summary.
"V" indicated the wind direction. wall was bullt
have been in- The Abyssinians, who had been formed that the hut was to be built waging guerilla warfare against their 10 ft. from the wall and below the Italian invaders, were keenly in- level of the foundation. The owner terested in the aircraft the first they had not been informed that it was had seen on the ground, and the first contemplated to build a hut there.
to help instead of that had come
Cables Re-Lald amined the aircraft, they took the
them. harm
After they had ex-
and issued in summary their Mall' by Air to Rangoon to con- Mr W. Baker, Engineer of the totals of British warships stated pilot and other occupants to their Hongkong Electric Company, stated in German communiques to have huts and entertained
them to a a feast. that he commenced re-laying the "Everything
cables in August 1940. Previously, been sunk or damaged beyond the cables ran up the hillside where the capacity of British shipyards ly impressed by the exceedingly re- cables were two inches in diameter
From these it appears that Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Hono- vero put side by side into a
Intu, U.S.A., and Europe via" "Pan- American Airways and Trans- dimensions of the trench were about own official accounts-neglecting
Atlantlo Services, 10 inches deep and one foot wide, the even wilder exaggerations of
K.P.O. Witness stated that in digging the trench there had been contact with the German and Italian radio the foundation of the wall.
and Press. agencies have denner. Asked by the Coroner whether the troyed 19 morg battleships than Public Works Department had been the British Navy. possessed in advised of the re-laying of the
1st Mov: Allegro; 2nd Mov. An- dantino; 3rd Mov: Ronds (Presto); 4th Mov: Menuetto....Walter Glese- king (Piano) and Members of the
State Opera House Orchestra.
2.15 Close Down.
6.00 Indian Programme. 0.45 Closing Local Stock Quota
tions.
was
The Admiralty has collected
clean and the food was the
wall had been constructed. The to repair them.
said the pilot, "and I was
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und were
6.47 Edith Lorand and Her Vien- { freshing beer they gave us to drink.ch at the foot of the wall. The the enemy, according to their
nese Orchestra and Richard Tauber. The chief presented their visitors 7.15 Selections from Light Opera, with a bullock and a couple of sheep Floradora (Lestle Stuart); HMS to sustain them during their visit. Pinafore Selection (Gilbert and and
the warriors prepared a 200 5.00 Sullivan); "Lily of Killarney Vocal yards runway so that the aircraft
Three could take off again. "Tho Gems; The Thres MusiniSICI); Waltzen-Selcetion (O. Straus-after Johann Strauss, father and. son);
Chauve-Souria-Selection,
European Y.M.C.A.
Hongkong Electric Recreation Club
Swindle (third donation) "A Driver"
70,00
15
100
Proceeds of sole of Cocker Spaniel
to Mrs FUxted per Mirs HoR Credit Foncier D'Extreme Orlent 1,000
The following donations were received in memory of the late Str £. W, Jeffries: Mr & Mrs A, G, Clarke ............................. $.0 Mr and Mrs G. 11. 8. Thomson ......
DENEVOLENT BOCIETY
10
The 5. C. M. Post has received the following donations to the Hongkong
Benevolent Society in memory of the Late
Mr
Gems
8.00 London Relay--The News. 8.15 London
RelayQuestions of
the Hour.
8.30 Programme Summary. 8.32 Compositions of Liszt. Benediction De
Dresses Into Bombers
Twenty-two bombers, costing Dieu Dans La U.S.$2,000,000, can be built for Solitudo...Louis Kentner (Piano); Britain every year by the United
Consolation (No. 3)....Notan Mils
Stan and Bybl) 3BIL $5; Mr and Mrs 11. Overy, $5 Mr B. W Hamilton 410, tein (Violin) with Plano acc.; Hun-States as a result of the decision
Kir and Air Wallace J. Hansen, 10; Mrgarinn Rhapsody No. 1.....State of Capt.
C. Tinft, #10; Mr L. P. N, Nyan, $10; Mr and Mrs F. W. Stapleton, 5. Jean and Tom Whyte-Smith, 45; Mir and Mrs G, I. Augus, $3.
B. W. O. F.
Орета Orchestra.
Edward Molyneux, famous throughout, the world as
0.80 Local Time Signal and Anan arbiter of women's fashions.
nouncements.
0.02 List Lehmann's “In
Persian
When tho Nozis swooped across France, Captain Molyneux left his the
Ghe Rubalyst' of Omar Paris salons, which supplied The S, C. 1. Post has received the Khayyam);. Quartet: Dora Labbeft. leading fashion houses of New York
following donation to the Brilleh Organimation Fund:
Kowloon Docks Recreation Club
| St Dunstans) 18th donation; $158,
DONATIONS WAITING
War
(for
Donations for the following Organies tions await collection at the once of the
8. C, M. Toit; Emergency Refugee Coun- Franoesentti· · with Plano acc.; La made her
el; Asociacan Portuguesa de Soccorrer. Mutuo Benavolent-Boctaty: Food Kit- chens Fund; St Andrews Church Fund: British Prisoners or War Rover” Fund; Lord Mayor's Fund for the Nellet of Air Raid Victims. Lillie Bister of the Poor; B.W.O.r.
"cable for mom-
Muriel Brunskill, Hubert Eisdell and Chicago and Hollywood not to men- Harold Williams with Piano.
tion Canada. He decided to carry 9.37 Violin Solos.
on from Mayfair, and soon his 200 Ronding
(On A
Theme By Beetho workgirls were overwhelmed by the ven-Kreisir); Variations (On A requests received Theme By Corell-Tartini)....Zino Ing
afternoon frocks, "Inilor and evening gowns. Capriccioon (Ries)....Alfredo Cam-
there are bout 20 Ameri
are about poll with Plano acc.
con fashion houses, each ordering 9.45-10.00 News in French (on 45 models a year, and a minimum Short Wave only).
number of repeats Ja
la 25 for each -0.43. Tho Vienna. Philharmonie model. Therefore coch
order re Orclicsira.
presents £20,000 worth of business. Marriage of Figuro-Overture A Canadian house takes 60 models (Mozart); Adagletto (From Sym-annually Payments are made by phony No. B-Mohler).
These houses in dollars, so creating. One ease of Meningitis, 42 cases of 10.00 London KelayThe News handsome doilar reserve with Cholera with 22 deaths, three of and News Commentary,
which Britan con purchase war Diphtheria with two deaths, 40 of 10.15 Studio-Dur Letter from Free material. Dysentery with 20 dentbs, 20 of China.
ΟΙ Typhoid with 12 deaths, five of
Read by Mrs. Allee Chow, Measles with two deaths, 212 of 10.30. Danes Munic.
11.00 London Relay Cori Tuberculosis with 135 desihs, and
Health Bulletin. :
T
A variety entertainment, to which nil branches of the Services will be anon, welcome, la being arranged to take one case of Typhus foyer, were redenes Column" -Tail-by, Bidney wisee, at the Ballors and Boldierr ported during" the week ended laat Horniblow. »
|Home-to-morrow, Thursday, com-
mencing at 0.80: pan,
Saturday.
11.18 Close Down.
OUTWARD AIR MAILS Monday, June 30
nect with the "billish Overseas Airways."
Ord,
K.P.O, and G.P.O. Reg.
June 30, 4 pm. .June Tuesday, July 1
30, 4.30 pm.
Reg.
Onl
G.P.0.
Ord.
July 1, Noon. July 1, Noon. July 1, Noon. Jaly 1, 5.00 p.m.
Tuesday, July 15 September, 1939, six more air-tir. Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, craft carriers, 40 more cruisers,
U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan Ame" STOCK MARKET and 18 more submarines.
rican Airways and Trans-Atlantic Services."
REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Oficial Summary, issued yesterday, is:
Buyers
H.K. Banks $1,315 Bank of East Asin $72 Canton Ins. X.D. $212.50 H.K. Fire Ins, $180 Indo-Chinas (Pref) $00 Whnm Wharves 300- Docks $15.10. Providents $5,45- Hotels $3
$32
$2.00 ·
Trams $10.35 Star Ferries $61.75 Yaumati Ferries $21.35
$5.95
Rts $10.85 nes "O" $22.40
CK "N" $8.00
Cements $14 Ropes $7.00 Watsons $10.15 Entertainments $0.30
Sollers Watsons $10.45 -
Sales
In fact, the only ships the Navy can have left now are 71 destroyers out of the 185 available at the "be-
ginning of the war.
Since these claims must be known by the enemy, command to be false, they must evidently be einssed as propaganda, designed elther to bols- ter up enemy moral or to depress that [of enemy, occupied countries, or 'as
attempts to elicit information.
70 PER CENT. OF NEW NAZI U-BOATS SUNK
K.P.O.
iter!
..........July 15, 5 p.m.
Ord,
July, 15, 8.80 p.m.
G.P.O.
Reg. Ord.
July 15, Spam.
July 15, 7 q
Fewer Deaths. In Blackout
FIVE HUNDRED AND TWELVE fower pedestrians. were killed in the blackout In Britain this winter compareil
with last Two hundred and forty-three more walkers were killed during daylight.
Since new, German U-boats began to come into commission last May, 1940, about 70 per cent, have prob- ably been sunk, according to Com Total road deaths rose from 6,173 mander H. Puracy's estimates into 8,010 according to a summary of Brassey's Naval Annual.
road fatalities during the past six hould be possible to improve months issued by the Royal Society on that rate," he writes. "But the for the Prevention of Accidents, present rate probably is greater than Biggest Intresso, was amonit motor
the German replacement of U-boats. cycilats, 251 more being killed, 127 "I cortainly greater than the of them in daylight. Service riders avnfinbio supply of efficient: crews," accounted for 44 per cent. H.K, Govt. 3% Loan (1934) 94% adds Commander Pursey. Providents $0.40/5.80
Trams $10.50
Lights. "O $0.05
Lights His 274/25 cts
Electrics Rts $11
Macno Flectrics $18,08 Ropes $8
The Hongkong Rotary Club, held a closed meeting yesterday, when club matters were discussed. The annual change of officers takes, place this week, 4
One of the outgoing passengers on the Illo Moru from Shanghai bound for Vancouver, was Mr W. Bruce Lockhart. Mr Lockhart is retiring to settle down in Canada, where he has a.brother and sister; f