THE END OF A GERMAN HEINKEL-This remarkable picture just received in. London shows the burn- ing remains of a German Heinkel Bomber which was shot down by fighter 'planes in the North Sea. A Bri- tish destroyer can be seen standing by during the search for survivors. (Air Mall).
ZORIC
"Odourless Air Condition Dry Cleaning
with "WINDO Moth Proof Storage Bags
MAKES SUMMER STORAGE DOUBLY
SAFE
THE
STEAM LAUNDRY
COMPANY
Head Office & Works
Hong Kong Depot
until
FREE -
further notice -
"Windo"
Tel. 57032
Gloucester Bldg. 2nd Flr,
Tel. 28938
Tel. 21279
Tel. 29952
Peak Depot
Kowloon Depot
Tel. 58545
ONE
AT THE
and Moth Proof Stor-
Bag
Garment Hanger
ago
Dry
each with
cleaning Order of
ONLY
Clothing
amounting to
$2.75
Parisian Grill
SCHIFF
Baked Onion Soup
LOCAL SHARES
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 14, 1940.
Following is the list of changes and enquiries in local share quotations to- | day:
BANKS
Hong Kong Bank $1500 sa.
INSURANCES
H.K. Fire Ins. $171 b., $175 s. -
SHIPPING
H.K. Steamboats $11 b. DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS.
ETC...
H.K. Docks cum Rts. $21 b. H.K. Docks Rights $61⁄2 S., Providents $4 b., $4 20 s.
LANDS, HOTELS & BLDGS. H.K. Lands $385. Humphreys $8 b.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
H.K. Electrics $641⁄4 s. Telephones (Old) $27 b., $273⁄4 S. STORES, &C.
Wm. Powell, Ltd. $1.30 b.
MISCELLANEOUS Entertainments $7.30 b.
MANILA SHARES. Antamoks Ps. .08 b.' Atoks Ps. 15 sa.
Baguio Gold Ps. .161⁄2 b. Batong Buhay Ps. .009 sa. Big Wedge Ps. .16 b. Coco Grove Ps. .06% sa. Consol. Mines Ps. .002 sa. Demonstrations Ps. .06 sa. East Mindanao Ps. .07 sa. Ipo Gold Fs. .06%1⁄2 sa. Itogons Ps. .171⁄2 sa. Masbates Ps, .07 sa.
Mind. Mother Lode. Ps. .07 b. Mine Operation Ps. .061⁄2 sa. North Camarines Ps. .02 b. Paracale Gumaus Ps. .15 b. San Mauricio Ps. .54 sa. Surigao Consol. Ps. 141⁄2 b. Suyoc Consol. Ps. .10% sa. United Paracales Ps. 18 sa.
“QUIETLY STEADY” ́ ON THE STOCK MARKET
London, To-day.
The Stock Exchange, like other sections of the business community, sacrificed its Whitsun holidays yester- day.
NAVAL PATROL OFF LOW COUNTRIES
London, To-day.
An Admiralty communique states: "Since the German invasion of Holland and Belgium strong naval forces have been operating continuously off the coast of these two countries in spite of repeated bombing attacks having been made on them.
Allied operations on land have been supported. Enemy troops land- ing from the air on aerodromes and beaches have been bombarded.
Refugees have been evacuated from the war area and brought to this country."--British Wireless.
HIS BROTHER CO-RESPONDENT
A brother cited his own brother
as co-respondent Court,
in
the Divorce
He was Mr. Reginald Malcolm Bur- ge, of Brockwell Court, Brixton, S.W., and he cited his brother, Mr. Edward Burge.
He was granted a decree nisi, with costs, on the ground of the adultery of his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Hilda Burge...
Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Burge mar- ried in 1929. They lived in London hotels and in Paris.
The case for Mr. Burge was that his wife left him in 1937, and he al- leged that she and his brother after- wards committed adultery.
DEVILS MADE MOTHER KILL
A mother, said to be action under the belief that "demons were chasing her," beat three of her children to death with a hmamer in Los Angeles, U.S.A., and then died on a flaming mattress after setting her hair on fire.
The woman's fourth child, a girl of eleven, told the police that her mother beat her with a hammer after she had entered their home and found her brother and two sisters dying.
The child related how her mother ignited her hair and fell screaming on to the mattress, shouting: "Hit me, I can't stand the pain.”....... The girl, according to the police, said that she struck her mother with the hammer about twenty times until it broke and added. "I guess I must have hit her fifty times.”—Associated Press.
GOLF. RESULTS
Following are the results of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club Whitsunday Meeting at Fanling:-
Stableford (Old Course):—I, H. C. Highet 2416±40 first; F. W, Chandler 2514-30 second..
Other scores:-G. T. Harrington 20.418– 38: Major W. G. Harvey 299-38.
There were 46 entries.
Medal Round (Old Course):-Major W. G. |Harvey 80---10-70,
There were 11 entries.
New Course:-Bogey Par and Mixed -Bo- gey Par were cancelled owing to insufficient
entries. HAPPY VALLEY
Adamson Cup May 3–12. G. E. Willerton 81-12-69 qualifies.
There were 18 entries.
H.K.F.C. TEAMS
represent Hong Kong Football Club in the Lawn Bowls League on Saturday:--
Following teams have been selected to
First Division:-(v Police R.C at P.R.):
The market was quietly steady with gilt-edged securities leading the mar- ket and home Industrials moving higher. Oils also recovered while Kaf-J. H. Gelling. G. S. Graner, J. Watson, firs responded to quiet Cape support, Indian Government bonds were slight ly lower.
A. Brooksbank (skip); J. S. Flowell, A. W. Flodges, G. Duncan, W. Gill (skip): A. B. Didsbury, L. E. Lammert, K. S. Robertson, N. J. Bobbington. (akip)...
Third Division!—(v K.BG.C. at H.K.F.C.);
Wall Street was irregular and later-F. P. Anslow, C, G. Sollis, B. A..Mangelc, sharply lower-Router.
LOCAL DOLLAR
The demand rate on the Hong Kong dollar to-day was 1/2 13/16.
Silver was ⠀⠀ quoted at 21-3/16 spot and -21-1/16. · forward'
The cross rate London/New York was quoted at £-US$4.0250 and the New York/London_rate_
U.S.$8.18.
H. G. Wallington (skip); A. Watson, B. I. Blckpord, C. F. Needham, G. E.-Stephens | (skip); H, H. Baddew,. T. R.: Rowell, J. L.
Barnes, S.. H. Strange (skip).igste
VISCOUNTCY FOR SIR JOHN SIMON
London, To-day.
The King has approved that a Vis- countcy of the United Kingdom bé con- ferred on Sir John Simon on his ap- pointment to be Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain,—British Wireless,
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