THE RULES OF HEALTH are few and simple.
Excuse me Inner Cleanliness comes first!
ANDREWS
LIVER SALT
RATES THE
SHOP TO BEST ADVANTAGE AT
THE
ASIA
COY
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 28, 1940)
HONG KONG MINES TRANSFER
LOOK TO
BRIGHTER FUTURE
THE HONG KONG MINES, LIMITED, suffered a net loss of $536,092.50 last year, according to the statement of accounts presented at the annual meeting of Share- holders held to-day.
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NORTH CHINA DANGER TO
FOREIGN TRADE
Peiping, To-day.
A move which is likely to lead to a serious deterioration in foreign trade with North China is announced by the Japanese sponsored government at Peiping.
The Director-General of Finance has instructed the Maritime Customs at Tientsin, Chefoo and Tsingtao that the foreign exchange control hitherto applied to exports must be extended to all imports except those from Japan and Manchukuo.
The Chairman, Mr. C. C. Stark,
however, remarked that as existing conditions tend to increase the price was very much
of lead the outlook brighter.
OF YOUNG CHILDREN
London, To-day. Parents are applying at the rate of 7,000 to 8,000 a day to have their children sent to the Dominions for the dura- tion of the war.
The basic idea is to help in the con- version of Great Britain into an is- land fortress by removing as many non-combatants as possible.
The children will not be going as: refugees.
Those present at the meeting were Messrs. C. C. Stark, F. L. Lam, L. D. One difficulty is the question of ship- Purves, R. M. Baldrige, General Sup-ping space, and any plans necessarily erintendent of the mines, T. A. Mar- depend on this. They cannot be taken tin, L. J. Coote, representative of in cargo ships and space in suitable · Messrs. Neilson and Company, Inc. ships is limited.
Messrs. Geo. T. Scholey and David Au were re-elected to the Board of
Director, and Messrs. T. A. Martin as auditors for the company.
Before proposing the adoption of the report, the Chairman said.
Lean Year
The year under review was an ex- ceptionally lean one due to the per-
It is expected that the number which can be taken away will not be-
higher than 8,000 a month, as shipping
becomes available. Reuter.
AMBASSADOR BOUND FOR HOME
Lisbon, To-day.
sistently low price of Lead coupled The British Ambassador in Rome, with the increased cost of materials Sir Percy Lorraine, with the Embassy This has the effect of placing for- due to war conditions and exchange, staff and 180 British subjects from Italy,. eign trade in North China on the same Operations were also somewhat ham-yesterday left for England on board the basis of that in the yen bloc coun-pered by recurrent political trouble on liner Monarch of Bermuda which had 01-KWAN BLDG, DESVŒEUX RDC tries. One object of the move is ap-
the Border but continuous operations brought the Italian Ambassador and was nevertheless maintained:
600 other Italians from England. parently the severance of the present
Reuter. relationship between the Chinese na- tional dollar and the currency of the Federal Reserve Bank of North China. The latter tends to follow the fluctua- tions of the former.-Reuter.
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Havas adds that the system comes into effect immediately.
END OF A JUNKERS
IN
LONDON, TO-DAY. "THERE WAS A SUDDEN FLASH
TACKED OVER THE EAST COAST EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING.
·
DYSENTERY IN JAPANESE COLLEGE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Shanghai, To-day.
You will note that we have again written off a very large amount in de- preciation-i.e, over half a million dol- lars. This is based on reserves at the end of the year. These reserves were exceptionally low due to the fact that we did not consider it advisable to go in for extensive development with the existing low price of lead.
As you will note, however, from Nielson and Company's report new addition
A dysentery epidemic has broken: bodies have been found during the out in the Japanese College in Sicca-- normal working and these are turn-wei, outside the French Concession.. ing out very well indeed. Last month's Seventeen students have been stricken: production of 5404 short dry tons and 600 have been vaccinated in an 646.25 dry tons was a record high and attempt to check the spread of there is every prospect that this level
disease. Havas. can be maintained.
ore
Our present stock of Lead Concen- trates amounts to approximately 7,000 tons-five thousand tons of which has been sold to the British Government.
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RESUMED (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Peiping, To-day. The Peiping-Tokyo telephone ser--
FRONT OF ME AND I SAW PIECES OF METAL FALLING THROUGH THE SKY," IS HOW A FIGHTER PILOT DESCRIBES THE The Smelter at the Mine is now END OF A JUNKERS 88 WHICH, AS practically complete and we hope to ALREADY ANNOUNCED, EXPLOD-be pouring lead within the next few days. We do not anticipate any dif- ED IN MIDAIR AFTER BEING AT ficulty in disposing of our entire smelt-vice was resumed yesterday after the er output locally at a remunerative ['sudden interruption on June 18. The price.
service is routed through Hsinking, in. The Junkers had been caught by
We are now negotiating with
Manchukuo.---Havas. searchlights when. a Spitfire pilot Chinese concern who wish to contract chased to the attack. He gave it two with us for treatment of the smelter short bursts at close range and the gases from which they will extract bullets must have struck the bomb Sulphuric Acid. We will secure a roy-
The Royal Observatory reports that. - storage chamber for there was a blind-alty on the gross cutput and they will
pressure provide all the necessary finance.
remains highest over the- ing flash and the machine began
As existing conditions should tend to Pacific to the east of the Bonins and is. RETAIL & ACCOUNTS DEPT 20416 | disintegrate. No trace of the shatter-increase the price of lead very mater-relatively low over China generally, WHOLESALE & GENERAL OFFICE 22338 ed aircraft has been found.-British ially the outlook is very much bright
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WEATHER REPORT
with depressions over Indo-China and
Mongolia.
The Luzon depression is situated to the south-east of the Pratas moving. north-north-east or filling up.
EARLY CLOSING BREACHES
:
The managements of four Kowloon shops alleged to have carried on busi- ness during prohibited hours after 8 p.m.-were fined $10 by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon Court this morning.
Police:
TOO HOT?
Does this weather sap your energy": jand make you irritable? If so, it is [probable that your liver is sluggish.
A sluggish liver leads to constipation, biliousness, sick headache, day-time- drowsiness, pimples, bad breath and other health troubles.
Tone up your liver with a little dose- of Pinkettes now and then to ensure regularity of the daily habit and you will keep happy, lively and healthy. Pinkettes are laxative perfection for the whole family.
PINKETTES
Help keep you cool, cheery and well.
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