1937-12-30 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER

1937.

Opening In Cabinet For Mr. WIND-UP OF

Winston Churchill?

IDEA NOW BEING

CANVASSED

London, To-day.

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RUMOURS to the effect that a place in the Bri- tish Cabinet will be found for Mr. Winston Church who was Chancellor of the Exche- quer from 1924 to 1929, continue to circulate in political circles here. The "News Chronicle" is the latest newspaper to draw attention to these rumours.

Only a small minority in the House of Commons is unwilling to endorse the view that the outstand- ing parliamentary capabilities pos- sessed by Mr. Churchill should no longer continue to remain idle.

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There has been a noticeable im- provement in M. Churchill's rela tions with the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville. Chamberlain, and another significant fact is that in his recent speeches Mr. Churchill has adopted!

TEMPORARY

FISHERIES ACCORD

Moscow, To-day.”

The Japanese Ambassador and the Assistant People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, yesterday signed a protocol establishing a temporary fisheries regime for 1938-Reater.

France Will Guard

Mediterranean In Emergency

London, To-day.

The dispatch of British military and naval a more moderate tone in his refer-reinforcements to the Far East has been postponed for the time being, but it is stressed in political

ences to Germany

> The "News Chronicle feels eer-

posts-Trans-Ocean.

tain that if he is asked to enter the quarters that preparations, including an agrée Cabinet Mr. Churchill will not acment with France to uphold the status quo in the cept unless given one of the major Mediterranean in case the British Fleet is ordered to the Far East, are still continuing and could be made effective at any moment. A LAW CLERK'S GAS MASKS FOR SECRET FORTUNE ENGLISH

$20,000 Legacy For National Debt

Well-informed circles think that the mere fact that no additional British warships are to be sent to China at present is proof that any immediate danger particularly as the Japanese objective seems to be Tsingtao. 10.

CHILDREN BEING Hong Kong is not threatened by DEVISED

Forty youngsters, two to four The public are, however, follow- A legacy believed to be worth more than $20,000 has been left for years old, wander around the ing with the keenest interest zers the reduction of the National Debt playground attempting to recog. from the Far East showing that by a clerk to a firm of London nise one another behind long- Communists are gaining strong solicitors, Warren, Murton. Foster nosed masquerade faces. jinfluence in Chinese Government

and Swan, of Bloomsbury, W.C. They are orphans at Dr. Ber- circles.

nardo's home near the sleepy! It is stated in political circles The clerk, Mr. Jonathan Michael Kent village of Harkhurst, and that the position in China could Brown, died only recently. He their "funny faces" are the lat

become considerably more difficult had been in the service of the firmest thing in English gas masks

for Britain if Moscow in this way for. 76 years, and was its common for children. It is the first offi- were to exert still more pressure law clerk. He was pensioned by cial test of the British gas pro-

in the Far East-Trans-Ocean. the firm, but persisted in carrying tection programme for children

under five.

on his work.

Age Not Known

He taxed his last bill' of costs In its factory at Blackburn only recently, in an action which the British government is rush- had lasted ten years. The Taxing ing production of 30 million sim- Master made a special point of lilar gas masks to protect its citi- complimenting him on it, and only

zens against the poison fumes a few shillings were taxed of He

with which was at the office a day or two bé-

enemy warplanes fore he died.

might one day bomb, England. "The new roasks are being made! in large, medium and small sizes, but the experiment here was the "Mr. Brown was so secretive,” a

first made to find out whether partner in the firm said, "that the children would wear theirs. neither his age he was believed to

Infants, the government be approaching 90 nor his ad-perts say, cannot wear gas dress was known to the firm. Only masks. For them experiments when his landlady reported his are being made with such de- death was it learnt where he had vices as a gas proof sack to be lived.”

slipped over the baby's head and He was an eccentric character, be pumped in through a valve tied around his waist. Air could and a familiar figure to those ein the sack.! gaged in the Law in London. In the Bear Garden where solicitors clerks congregate at the Law

Courts he was known 28 the

"Green Man because of the colour of his well-worn clothes.

Singapore Raw Rubber

ex-

Messrs. H. B. Joseph and Co.,

He amassed his fortune have received the following quota- unknown to his employers-in gilt. tions in Straits Currency for Baw edged securities and in house pro-Rubber:

perty. Apart from one legacy of £2,000, all his estate has been left towards reducing the National Debt.

Jan Mar 22 b. down April/June 23% b. down July/Sept. 2371⁄2 b. down Market Nominal

LOCAL COMPANY

The final meeting of the Hong Kong Development, Building and Savings Society Limited (In Liquidation) was held at the Offices of Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming, at noon to- day.

Mr. J. Hennessey Seth, Joint Liqui- dator, was in the Chair, and also pre- sent were the following Contributories: Mr. Harold Seth, Mr. A Nissim, Dr. F. H. Kew, Dr. F. H. Kew (proxy for the Hon. Mr. T. N. Chan), Mr. A. Simoes, Mr. M H Turner, (Executor of the Estate of the late Dr. Dalmahoy Al- Tan), Mr. J. T. Bagram, Mr. A. £. Ed-” gar, Mr. C. S. Rosselet, Mr. C. H. Bas- to, and Mr. E. M. Raymond.

short statement, the Chairman proposed that the Liquida- tors report and accounts as presented be adopted

Following a

to

Dr. F. H. Kew, in seconding the re- solution, expressed appreciation the Liquidators, and also to the Com- mittee appointed to assist the Liquida- tors. This Committee had worked hard and the co-operation between it and the Liquidators had largely contributed to the expeditious manner in which the Company had finally been wound uip

The Chairman thanked Dr. Kew and proposed that the books, accounts and documents of the Company and of the Liquidators be retained until December 31, 1940, after which date thes be destroyed

Mr Harold Seth seconded and the resolution was carried unanimously.

LOCAL SHARE MARKET

Following is the list of changes and enquiries in local share quotations this

morning.-

BANKS.

Hong Kong Bank $1445 Hong Kong (Lon. Reg.)

SHIPPING Douglases $481⁄21⁄2 b.

H. K. Steamboats $8.20-6.

Raubs $74 b.

MINING

H. K. Mines 13 cts. s.

LANDS, HOTELS & BLDGS.

H. K. Realties $4.s..

PUBLIC UTILITIES

H K Tramways $12.80 b. China Lights $9.80 b... China Lights Rights $4.40 say E. K. Electrics $50%/%% sa.

INDUSTRIALS Cements. $12.20 b., $12.20/% sa.

MISCELLANEOUS Entertainments $5.20 b. Constructions (Old) $12 b. Constructions (New) $1 b.. H. K. Goyt. 34% 1/2% p.m. b.

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