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a specialist recently gave her

complete assurance

future health.

The wedding will be the "happy ending" to a romance which began before the shooting affray.

CELLAR

WAS 'BABY WARD'

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened ta

and FIXED DEPO Local Currency SITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local and Other Currencies will bo quoted on

on terms which application.

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various

sizes To Let.

TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR business undertaken.

Hong Kong. 20th February, 1941. HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.

The Business of the above Bank 18 conducted by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Rules may be obtained on application. KONG AND FOR THE HONG

A coal cellar was trans-SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

formed into a “maternity ward" by an East End of London father for his wife and newly-born baby.

dank Over the

walls of the underground chamber the father A clean bed and hung quilts. equipment awaited mother child after the woman was carried the con- downstairs following

finement.

"Our nurse had

saw

how

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937. THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853.

and

Paid-up Capital Reserve Fund

£3.000.000 £3,000,000

Reserve Liability of Pro-

prietors

£3,000,000

a shock when beautifully the

she father had planned everything." matron of the Plaistow Maternity Hospital said: "She called it thei tapestry walled' cellar."

Sir Percy

Everett. chairman

of the hospital, speaking in London recently, emphasised the

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 88. Bishopsgate, E.C.2. 117/122, Leadenhall Street, E.C.2. Weal End Branch: 14/16, Cockapur Street, S.W.1. Manchester Branch:

b2, Musley Street, Manchester, a

AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:

Enakow Hong Kong

Penang

Hangoon

Saigon

refusal

of East End mothers to leave their homes, even for their children.

Amelinar Alor Star

the

birth

of

Bangkok

Llallo

Balavim

Ipok

Bombay

Karachi

THE BANK of EAST

ASIA, LTD.

Calcutta

Klang

Agencies 1 Kobe

Beremben

Konagha

Singapore Sitiawan

Olive Street Kuala Lumpur

Sourabaya

Fairlts Place Kuching

Talping

Canton

Madras

Tientsio

Authorised Capital

Paid-up Capital Reserve and Undivided

Proits

.$10,000.000.00 Cawupore

3,598,600.00 Cebu

Colombo Dubl 2.983.201.50 Baiphong

Manila

Tongkah

Medau

(Bhukat)

New York

Triogtoo

Palpla

Yokounma

(Poking)

RIA

Varna

BLACK

00000

"GERMAN

RECORDS

LOCAL SHARES

BANKS

Hong Kong Bank $1360 b., $1370

52.

Bank of East Asia $72 b.

SHIPPING

Indo-Chinas (Pref.) $80 b. Indo-Chinas (Def.) $65 b.

DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS, ETC.

H.K. Docks $15.80 s. Providents $5.85 b., $6 s., $5.80/-

85 sa.

LAND8, HOTEL & BLDG8. H.K. and S. Hotels $3.35 b.. ....$3.35/40 sü.

H.K. Lands $361⁄4 b.. $35 sa. H.K, Realtles $3.20 6. Chinese Estates $100 b.

PUBLIC UTILITIES

H.K. Tramways $17.10 b., $17.-

15 sa

China Lights (Old) $6/6.05 sa, China Lights (New) S1.35 b..

HERE"

SEA

Gramophone re-

cords, including

at

Uber

"Deutschland Alles" and German soldier songs in Ger- man, are being made a factory in this country, says Mr. Geoffrey Mander (Lib., Wolverhamp- ton), who is to ask in the House of Com- mons who gave the order.

H.K. Electrics Ex. Rts. $221⁄2 19667000000000000

HK, Electrics (New) $21 b. Macao Electrics $184-BEN Telephones (Old) XD $221⁄2 6 Telophones (New) X.D. $8.90 b

$9.10 s., $0 sa

REA INDUSTRIALS Coments $14.60 b

H.K. Ropes $8.60 b.. $8.40/81⁄2

1STORES, &ci

Daire Forms $10 b. Watsons $10.80 b., $11.10

$104/85 sa (Continued at Foot of Next

LAST DAY'S SALES 16 HK Banks @ $1870% 5400 Providents. @ $5.80 500 Hotels @ $3,35 500 Hotels @ $3.40 500 Lands $39

700 Trams @ $17:15 500 Lights (Old) @se 200 Lights (New) @ $6.05.

300 Eectrics (Old) X.

@ $22/

100 Telephones (New) @ $9

1,500 Ropes $8,40

500 Ropes @ $84

2,600 Watsons @ $103,

-1000 Watsons @ $10,85

TITLED AIRMAN IN RIDDLE

Han

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

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:-

Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman Li Koon Chun, Esq.. P. K Kwok, Esq.,

Li Lan Sang.] Wong Yun Tong, Esq.. Esq. Wong Chu Son, Esq. and Fung Ping Wah, Esq.

Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chief Manager. Hon. Mr. Li Tse Fong. Manager,

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-

Foul play is suspected in the

of Leading case Aircraftsman Sir Keith Batoria

Amoy

Hombos

Hankow

Eobe

LoudoD

Manila Melbourne Nagki New York Paris Peiping Pensar

•

Rangoor Balkon

Seattle

Samarang Senghal Singapore Sourabaya

A ptow

Sydney Tientsia

Vancouver

Fraser, of the Royal Can-Calcutta

Watt hong adian Air Force, who fell Honolulu from a fourth-floor win-Kowloon dow of a Montreal hotel and was seriously injur. Exchange business transacted. Loans ed.

San Francisco

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted,

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local or Other Currencies at rates which wil be quoted on application.

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

The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor and Trustee busie ness, and claims recovery of Britain Income Tax overpakt, on terms which may be ascertained at any of the. Agencies and Branches.

WHL EVANS THOMAS.

Manager

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD.

HEAD OFFICE:

£3,000,000

1,800,000

1,050.000

1,234,639

Every description of Banking and

10, Gracechurch Street, London, E.C.8. granted on approved securities. '-

Current Accounts opened in Local Authorised Capital Currency and Fixed Deposits-received Subscribed Capital He keeps on muttering: "Get for one year or shorter periods in Local Paid-up Capital Von Izenhart,"

but the airman's and Foreign Currencies on terms Reserve Fund & Rest

which will be quoted an application,"

Safe Deposit Boxes To Let, friends know no one of that name.

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager.

THE WING ON BANK, LIMITED.

Sir Keith, who is a nephew of the Earl of Coventry, registered at the hotel after returning from New York, where he had visited his wife, says Exchange.

is well known Sir Kelth, 29. in the Carlton Curleu district of Leicestershire, where the family lived for many years.

His mother, Lady Dorothy Fraser, moved to Church Lang ton after her husband's death a Rts. few years ago.

:

Head Office: Hong Kong. 20, Des Voeux Road, Central. Authorland Capital : $10,000,000-|

LONDON BANKERS Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every description of banking business transacted.

Current Accounts and Savings path Accounts opened. Fixed Deposile She told a reporter that the received at rates which will be only explanation she could offer quoted on application.

of the phrase "Get Von Izenhart" Safe Deposit Boxes for hire. was that this aan must be German spy

PHILIP GOCKCHIN,

Chief: Manager.

BANKERS: The Bank of England and Midjand Bank, Ltd.

Jaffn Bangkok Bombay Caloutta

Kuantan Kaudz Karachi

BRANCHES:;

Madras New York

Penang

Rangan

Kota Ularu

Shanghai

Gallo

Kuala Lumpur Simia

Hong Kong

Kuala Lipis

Singapore

Howrah

Iyon

Colembo Deihl

Kualai. Tre

Trougganu

HONG KONG BRANCH M Every description of Banking' qnʊ

TRUSTEE AND EXECUTORSHIP Exchange business transacted, nokk

* UNDERTAKEN, CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened I? received in Local Currency & STER Local Currency and FIXED DEPOSITS LING on terms that may be ascertained- on application.

D. BENSON.

Manager.