1941-02-07 — Page 11

RICE CONTROL HONGKONG & SHANGHAI

VILLAINS WHO ARE RICE CONTROL

ARE

TOO YOUNG MORE DANGEROUS

TO WED!

A blonde German girl of 19 told Sir Gervais Ren- toul, the West London Magistrate, that a Ger- man girl was far older for her years than an English girl of the same age.

WIN

of

She was Agnes Salomon, Pembroke Road, Kensington, a re- fugee from Germany, once a Uni-

but versity student, earning £2 a week in a factory,

The girl applied to consent to Friederick

that

HOTY 23-year-oldi

Schag on the ground

THAN GANGSTERS

(By A REPORTER)

CHARGES

LO SAM, 29, AND LEUNG HỌ,

BANKING CORPORATION,

Authorised Capital

.$50,000,000

Issued and Fully Paid-up...$20,000,00 Reserve Funda:~

Sterling

.£ 0,500,000 Hong Kong Currency Re- CARGO

$10,000,00 of Pro- Reserve Liability

prietors

.$20,000,000

HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG,

51,

MISTRESSES OF BOATS, WERE CHARGED BE- FORE MR. E, HIMSWORTH AT KOWLOON. THIS MORNING WITH MOVING RICE FROM HONG KONG TO KOWLOON

A WITHOUT PERMIT FROM THE FOOD CONTROLLER.

A total of 280 sacks of rice were

found in their boats.

serve

DOARD OF DIRECTORSI Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Chairman.

W. H. Lock, Esq., Deputy Chairman.

A NEW VILLAIN has crashed the films. His

Lo Sam explained that she in- structed Leung Ho to transport. K. Bousfeld, Em.. ✪. Miskin, Eag.....

A. II. Compton, Es..

K. 8. Morrison, Esq. whiskers are as long and pointed as any old-time

the rice, which was entrusted to

Hon. Mr. T. E. Pontem her to transfer to the mainland. 3. Duvica, Eng.,

Hon. Mr. B. L.Dodweli, Hon. Mt. A. L. Mbielda, screen star, his features sharp and sinister, his

Str Vandeleur M. Grayburn morals worse than any gangster's, and his agile by a firm which had obtained a

Chief Manager. antics would rival a Fairbanks.

Talent-spotters to have chosen the new villain are the Ministries of Agriculture and Food, for the star is the--R.A.T.

war against

Ghostly Army

But in tlus film.

The film shows this destructive, ang relentless fellow at work, eating your food, sne. 1710.

It de- consent of her mother, who invest¦ sevading disease germs.

and like all ports, his coming. goar melodrama- eventually his dew mall. defated by the her.

an Frankient-on-Main, R 1751-

obtainable.

The girl's

he that Case WIŁ had known Schag for bar or fix months, and that they worked together in the same factory.

Wh came to England a for- night before the outbreak of war, having won a scholarship to Exe- ter University She was alone in a strange country, and her fath.. who had been interned in the Isle of Man, had given his written consent to the marnage,

"No Happiness"

"You are not

Sir Gervais told her: very young and this man is m a position to murry you.

It would be wretched to try to live on

£2 a week.

"I feel that when a girl of that 19 wants to marry on money after so short a time it 16 not likely to lead to happi-

ness."

Fraulein Salomon interrupted: "I have thought it over very care- fully. I know many English girls and they all say that I am much older than they are."

Sir Gervais: "I do not consider a girl of 19 knows her own mind in regard to wishing to spend her has whole life with a man she

You can only known five months. renew your application in a few months' time.”

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teten by Tim Net Syndicate, Inc.).

When the mentally sketchy girl-friend's beau asked If she could be satisfied with ten thousand a year, she wanted to know if he meant men money.

or

rals

you do not

permit.

The case was adjourned until Monday to enable them to produce the permit.

POLICE LIE IN WAIT

BRANCHES:-

Amoj

Bangkok Balavis Bombay

ipob Johote

Osicutte Canton Chefoo Colombo

Dairen Frochow

Haiphong

Kobe

Kowloon

Rangoon Beigun

San Francis Shanghai

Kuala Lumpur Singapor

Bourabaya

Bungol Patan

Swatow

London

Lyona

Maincoa

Tientsin

Muar (obot) Tokyo

Mukden

Tsingbo Yokobama

Manila

Now York Tesping Petits

تا

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened

FIXED DEPO

Currency

and

un

A police "rendezvous" prepar- Hankow

Po Karbla And the hero bears the most only see Mr Dalton destroying led for robbers at a hut in famous name in the rat-catching the vermin of the City: you hear Kong. Village, was mentioned be-

MC Morle

three | Local Delton one of three bur telling you how you can dofore Mr. E. Himsworth at Kow-

loon this morning, when Jthers to carry on the traditmusat

1 a duly which fas been wag- He describes how to mix death-Chinese were each sentenced to six SITS received for One Year or shorter dealing potions, how you must months' hard labour and recom- periods In Local and Other Currencies

will be quoted 1ering which change the bait, because the run-mended for banishment for con-on

application.

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of varios Ping rat becomes suspicious when spiracy to rob.

A party of police, under Ser-sizes To Let. he sees the dead bodies of his re-

the TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR businers lives. He tells you how to "rat-geant C. Dowman, went to

on Thursday undertaken. Village at 11 p.m. proof your home.

until 1.45 a.m. the Hong Kong 13th December, 1940. Meanwhile, thanks to the mis- and waited im tunes of his worst enemy (after following morning when the three and at the hut

HONG KONG SAVINGS Mr. Dalton), the tat is threaten- robbers arrived

BANK. ing to run amok. Since the blitz- were arrested.

Two knives, a toy pistol and a Krieg, London has been haunted by a ghostly army--thousands of coil of wire were found in their homeless rats, their homes bomb-possession. ed, their owners dead or moved elsewhere.

LOCAL SHARES

H.K

GOVT. LOANS

3 Loan (1934) 92', sa

BANKS Hong Kong Bank 51405 b.. $1410

SA.

Bank of East Asia $78 15.

INSURANCES Canton lus. $210 b. Union Ins. $410 b

H.K. Fire Ins. $165 b., $16711⁄2 sa DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS. ETC

Providents $5 b. $5 sa LANDS, HOTELS & BLOGS. HK and S. Hotels $3.60 s. H.K. Lands $3412 s., $3414 sa. PUBLIC UTILITIES

H.K. Tramways $18.20 s., $17.00

sa.

China Lights (Old) $6 b., $6'

S..

$6.10 sa.

H.K. Electrics (New) $39a, sa.

INDUSTRIALS

Cements $1734 5.

HK. Ropes $8.90 sa.

MISCELLANEOUS

Entertainments $7 b. Constructions (Old) $1.60 sa. LAST DAY'S SALES $1,000 H.K. Govt. 3% % Loan

G0 9214

40 H.K. Fire Ins, @ $167) 500 Providents @@ $5

150 Lands @ $34

200 Trams to $17.90

800 Lights (Old) @ $6.10 81 Lights (Old) @ $6

100 Electrics (Old) @ $40.35 250 Electrics (New) @ $393 500 Ropes @ $8.90

60 Lane Crawfords @ $711⁄2 250 Constructions (Old) @ $1,60 200 Constructions (New) @ 80

cts.

FREE FRENCH LEADER ARRIVES

M. Guy de Chompre, personal representative of General de Gaul- le, Leader of

Free . the

in French Legion, arrived

the Colony from Singapore yesterday. M. de Chompre is visiting all Free French movement branches in the Far East, and will shortly leave for Manila and Shanghai.

Cats Hunt

"The starving cat ceases to be

a good ratter," said an official of Or Dumb Friends' League,

SCRIMMAGE ON A FERRY

"Man

Charged with disorderly con-

"Cais,"

on the went on the official, duct by fighting "hunt for sport and not for food, Chi" ferry launch yesterday, two were bound over to are hawkers the city's best ratters and

cats ch a pay-roll. keep the peace for one year by warehouse

at Kowloon E. Himsworth are thousands of these Mr. There homeless cats, which are apt to this morning.

Accused started a fight when the become a menace and spread dis- ease themselves. We wish to make launch was bound for Hong Kong them accidentally a strong appeal to people to give and

one of

a temporary home to any strays knocked a passenger overboard.

in their neighbourhood until we The passenger was rescued by a can deal with them or find them | scaman. another home.”

An instance of the prowess of the well-cared-for cat was given in the case of a sleek pet Persian. After bringing in its regular daily haul of the neighbourhood's mice and rats, it lay in walt for and killed a grey squirrel, which had accounted for 22 chickens, and had become known as the neigh- bourhood's Public Enemy Num- ber One.

Survived Blitz

Nearly every house in many of the most bombed areas, in North and East London particularly, had its cat as an essential guard on the rats which continually threat- en old property, In their under- ground homes, the rats have sur- vived most of the blitz, and now; instead of being kept down by in- habitants and their cats, are ruined and breeding rapidly in condemned houses.

So blame Hitler for the ral epidemic.

The people are being asked to make a special effort at rat des- truction, and professional rat trappers are working overtime.

The Ministry film will be wide- ly shown in the near future.

It

He was formerly French Vice-promises to be the most deter- Consul in Tientsin,

mined "rat week" effort on record.

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MISDORP'S

SOUTH AFRICAN

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RANCH Plug & Flake

JUBILEE Mixture

WINDSOR Mixture ..

COLONEL EAZY Mixture.

Dr. PLUMB Mixture.

Sole Agents:-

2 oz.

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$1,40 $2.60 $2.75

$1.30 $1.30 $2.50 $2.65

C. INGENOHL'S CIGAR STORES

“La Perla del Oriente”

RICE CONTROL OFFENCES

Li-

The Business of the above Bank is. conducted by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Rules may be obtained on application.

FOR THE

KONG ANTO HONG SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manage“.

Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937,

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.

Authorised Capital Paid-up Capital Reserve and Undivided

Hon.

Profits

HEAD

.$10,000,000,00 6,598,600.00

2,983,201.50

OFFICE: HONG KONG 10, Des Voeux Road, Central,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:-

Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman Li Koon Chun, Esq., P. K. Kwok, E54.. Wong Yun Tong, Esq.. Chan Chizz Shek. Esq., Li Lan Sang, Esq., Wang Chu Son, Esq. and Fung Ping Wall, ESQ.

*

Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chief Manager. Hon. Mr. Tae Fong, Manager,

Kosty

Manila

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-

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Batavia

Daloutta

Melbourne

Nagasaki

Bestila Samarka Shanghai

Now Work

Perla Pelying Prodig

Rang

Hankow

Two junk masters, Chau

Kam-chuen, choi, 24, and Ching 36, were fined $500 each by Ma-Bombay jor A. N. Macfadyen, at the Cen- tral Magistracy this morning, for ipho exporting rice without a permit. Bomotula Eighty-seven bags of rice, valued Kobe

found ΟΠ ac at $2,175, were cused's junks at Shaukiwan yes- terday during a routine search by the Police.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA

AND CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853.

Paid-up Capital

£3,000,000. £3,000,000. Reserve, Fund Reserve Liability of Pro-

prietors

£3,000,000

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 38, Bishopagate, E.C.2. Sub-Agencies in London: 117/122, Leadenhall Street, E.C.2.

~West End Branch: 14/16, Cockspur Street, B.W.L. Manchester Branch:

52, Mosley Street, Blanchester, a

AGENCIES AND BRANCHÉSI

Bankow

Pohang Hout Copy

Ilangoon

Batavia

'Alor Star Attritsar Bangkok

Iloilo

Ipoh

Bombay

Karachi

Calcutta

Klang

Agezicion Kobe

Halgor

Beremban

Bhanghai

Blogapore

Natiawan

Glite Street Kuala Lainapur Bourabaya

Fdfile Place Kuching

| Cauvóð |CarApdra

Cobu Colombu Delaf

Madr Manila

Taping Tientsin

Tongkab

Mod

· (Khuket)

New York

Hudong.

Feifing

#Peking)

Talógia> Yoards

FOREIGH EXCHANGE and Guntrul Banking Business transacted. WE CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened, and FERENT DEPOSITS received to one Yake, or whořter, période in Local, of Oliver Dürrendies at rates which will (be quoted en application.

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Loval : Currency and Sterling with 12 tereks: allowed 'at rates oblamable, on application.

Kowloon London

Salgon San Fran#MOO

Bingapore Barabar Swatow

Sydney

Vancouver

Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. Logwa granted on approved secr rilles.

Current Accounts opened in Local Currency and Fixed Deposits receivad for one year or shorter periods in Local and Foreign

on Currencies which will be quoted on application.

Safe Deposit Boxes To Let.

terr:3

KAN TONG PO.

Chief Manage".

THE WING ON BANK, LIMITED.

Head Office: Hong Kong. 26, Des Voeux Road, Central, Authorised Capital... $10,000,000'

LONDON BANKERS:- Westminster Bank, Ltd.

and Foreign Exchange description of banking business transacted.

ever

Current Accounts and Savings Accounts opened. Fixed Deposits received at rates which will be quoted on application.

Safe Deposit Boxes for hire.

PHILIP GOCKCHIN,

Chief Manager. ·

FOR SALE

Hong Kong Centenary Envelopes

"with View of Hong Kong In

1841 and 1941

for

First Day Issue of

Centenary Stamps

at $1.00 per doz. envelopes

The Bank's Head Omce in London GRACA & CO. undertakes Exébutor and Trustee, busi- ness, and cisima, recovery of British Dealers in Postage Stamps, Insöme Tak" overpaid, on terms which Garden Seeds, Picture Books, etc, Tray", ba-'asoetiäined at Agencies and Branches,

uny of the

R A. CAMIDGE,

Sept 1-** Mariagor, «

No. 10, Wyndham Street