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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION.

Issued and Pully Paid-up ...$20,000,000 Reserve Funds.

Rong Kong Currency Re-

Authorised Capital

Sterling

$50,000,000,

£6,500,000.

serve

$10,000,00

Reserve Liability of Pro-

prietors

$20,000,000

BOARD OF

3

KB Fog.

A.

Compton, Baq.

1

J

Davies Boy

DIRECTORS:

KR Morrison, Esq.,

HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG,

Ilun Mr .J J Paterson,

Chairman,

WH Lock, Baq....

Deputy Chairman.

th Miskin, Esqa,

Hou, Mr. F E. Pravo,

Hon. Mr 8. Dodwell, Hon. Mr. A. L.. Shleidi,

Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn Chief Manager,

BRANCHES:~~~

Rangoon Kaijun

San Prattelnog Shanghai

Iyanla Lumpuri Sangspore

Nourabaya

Bongo Palani

Suny

Ang Bank

Ipoh Johore

Batavia

Calovirta CATFOR

Colomber

Valores

Motobe

Ventska

Mor globore) 1.kya

Dairyst

Flow

Han bring

Mukden

Flushow

New York

1

Petping

Host

Penang

CURRENT

Lingine

Yokohama

ACCOUNTS opened

Local Currency and FIXED

in DEPO

SITS received for Une Year or shorter periods to Local and Other Currencies

will which

be quoted

H

Terms

application

on

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various sizes To Iet.

TRUST E and EXECUTOR business undertaken

Hong Kong. 26th February, 1941.

HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.

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

FOR THE HONG

AND KONG SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

V M. GRAYBURN,

Chef Manager. Hong Kong. 1st March, 1937

OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

You can't have a sum-THE CHARTERED BANK mons served on you you are unconscious. That may not be much consolation you might even prefer a summons to being knocked uncon- scious but it is a fact.

This was made clear at Chert- sey Sessions, when

a charge of driving without due cure and at- tention was dismissed.

The prosecution was a sequal to a fatal car crash in which the defendant, driver of one of the cars involved, was injured.

Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853.

Paid-up Capital

Reserve Fund

Reserve Liability of Pro-

prietors

£3,000,000 £3,000,000

£3,000,000

MEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 38, Bishopsgate, E.C.2. 117/122, Leadenhall Street, E.C.2. West End Branch: 14/18, Cockapur Street, S.W.1. Manchester Branch:

52, Mosley Street, Manchester, 2

AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:

Penang Hankow leg trong Heilo

Alor Star Amritsar Bangkok Benvin

Bonalny

Gal off

Agencies:

Clive Stree

Fain Place Kulung

*#kat

www.pr

Ext

Delh

Stangoott

Saigon Sermanba Yoanghai

Singapore

Karmelit

Kloog

Kobe

Sitiawan

Kunts Lumpur Soutulnya

Taipiox

Madiso Maurla

Tiraten

Tongkah

Medbon

(Bhukat)

New York Feijang

(fekingi

Terligao

1ukunala

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General

whether those Year or

It is doubtful people whose friends say they are all the time could unconscious evenne ·ummons-servings on these grounds.

LOCAL SHARES

$1310

b..

Banking Business transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and for One FIXED DEPOSITS received

shorter pertods in Local or rates which will other Currencies at be quoted on application.

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened m Local Currency and Sterling with in- terest allowed at rates obtainable on application.

The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor and Trustee bush- ness, and claims recovery of Britain Income Tax overpaid, on terms which

at be ascertained

of the may

any Agencies and Branches,

W. H. EVANS THOMAS,

Manager.

Not "Delivered" Police tried to serve a summons on him while he was in hospital. As he was unconscious, the sum- was left with a staff nurse HOODS

is not Vichy

free, says theto pass on to him. a great admirer of England. who founded his reputation and for- French exile, and therefore does

The Bench ruled that a sum- | Hephung tune 011 books about English not represent Franes, Paris is en- Eagles, and Kailies closed steady character and persons farnous in tire y under German control and mons must be served either per- at slightly lower levels. Among Bitsh history, has surprised his nothing that comes out of Paris sonally or by registered post, that foreign Issues Japanese

friends both British and French by is anything but German. Stories in this case it had not been, and Egyptian bonds eased slightly.

"col-dismissed the case. his attitude, ungenerously trying of possible sympathy for Wall Street was dull-Reuter.

with

arc Germany to shift blame to British shoulders i laboration"

to the extreme, and expressing views that have unreliable

For been all too familiar coming from more than a century the French he enemy camp. Another writer have detested the Germans, Suf- pain's a picture of disaster made fice it to say that the French have possible by the machinations of an everyday expression in their certain wealthy people who. he language by which they qualify would have us believe, preferred a quarrel sought without justifica- to see their land in the hands of tion, "une querelle d'Allemand"--

than run the a German quarrel. an enemy rather risk of losing their money, though the risk were surely greater in the case of conquest by the enemy. It surely does not follow, as many Frenchmen now in England point out that an admirer of totalitarian methods is ready to hand over his Teakwood & Iron Bedsteads, country to a foreigner. Jones, a Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, small trader, may admire Chests of Drawers, Sideboards, methods of Brown. the big trader, Dining Tables, Chairs, Chester- and think his business might more field Suites, Ornaments, Cutlery, surely prosper through methods by those employed Porcelain, Glass and Brass Ware, similar to

What the exile thinks about the Clocks, Pictures, Cooking Uten- Brown; but that does not mean sils, etc., etc.

he would like to see his business servile press. of France is that 90 gobbled up by Brown, By similar per cent. of those who turn out logic the teetotal movement could German-inspired "copy" do not be proved to be nothing more belleve-a-word-of-what they are than a dastardly plot to ruin the writing, and signs are not lacking brewer and the publican and de-of deliberate exaggeration of the prive potmen and barmaids of German point of view to a point their jobs.

where it draws ridicule on the The truth lies nearer the fact German masters. It is the work that in a ghastly melee the of journalists actuated by fear for French were knocked out. by sur- their own safety and the safety of Broad-prise methods of the use of the those dependent upon them.

tank-methods which caught us The exiles are convinced of one by surprise, the inventors of the thing, that Great Britain will be

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

comprising:

..

also

LA FEW PIECES of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE

and

2 Tientsin Carpets

new).

2 Ceiling Fans.

1 Dining Room Suite.

1 Bed Room Sulte.

1 Large Oil Painting.

1. Upright Plano "John

wood and Son."

1 Cooking Stove.

(almost

the

The French exile looks upon the present as but

a passing phase, feeling sure

that the traditions of liberty, the right of every man to a voice in the destiny of his country cannot pass away. Every letter that is smuggled out of Frence, every refugee who escapes bring the same tale of hate for the Ger- mans,

On View from Thursday, the tank-fo say nothing of the with-victorious. Until that end is reach-

29th. May, 1941.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROB, ›

Auctioneers,

· Hong Kong, 27th May, 1941).

drawal of the whole Belgian army.ed, in which so many Frenchmen Under this avalanche decisions had are bearing an honourable part in to be taken by men in power Africa and elsewhere, they 'usk while German planes were over- that indulgence be shown in any head and German bombs falling judgment of their country in their 'round the council chamber. - hour, of bitter trial.

BANKS Hong Kong Bank $1310/121⁄2 sa..

Bank of East Asia $71 b.

INSURANCES H.K. Fire Ins. $176 b.

SHIPPING Indo-Chinas (Pref.) $80 b. DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS, ETC.

Providents $5 b., $5 sa. LANDS, HOTELS & BLDGS. H.K. and S. Hotels $2.85 b. H.K. Lands $31 b. H.K. Realties $2.70, b.

·PUBLIC· UTILITIES H.K. Tramways $15 b. China Lights (Old) $5.70-b China Lights (New) $1.20 b. H.K. Electrics Ex. Rts. $21.60 sa. HK, Electrics, Rights $11 sa. Macao Electrics $18.70 b.

INDUSTRIALS Cements $13.35 b., $13% sa. H.K.. Ropes $6.70 b., $7 s.

MISCELLANEOUS Entertainment $01⁄4:b;'

LAST DAY'S SALES

5 H.K. Banks @ $1310 10 H.K. Banks @ $131214 500 Providents @ $5

400 Electrics (Old) X. Rts.

$21.00

200 Electrics Ris. @ $11 300 Cements @ $132

THE WING ON BANK, LIMITED.

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

LONDON: BANKERB Westminster Bank, Ltd.' Foreign Exchange, and every description of banking business transacted.

4.

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,

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