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& WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.,
Notice is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meet- Ing of the Company will be het at 18 Pedder Street (1st floor) Hong Kong on MONDAY of JUNE. BY ORDER OF THE DIREC- the NINTH day TOR OF DISPOSALS FAR 1947, at NOON, for the pur- of proposing and if EASTERN AREA
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Pedder Buliding. Hong Kong, joined resolutions as a special
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office for Box Nos. 20, 266, 206,
275, 274, 218, 283.
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POSITION VACANT
havo received instructions to sell by Auction at their Sales Rooms, Pedder Building-Base- ment, at 10.30 a.m. on Thura- day, the 22nd. day of May 1947
A LARGE QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS STORES
comprising:~
Compound Steam Dynamo Engines, Feed Pamps, Trans- farmers, Gauges. Binoculars, Rinnacles, Tables, Chaira, Camp Beds, Lanking Glasses, Lamps, Private Secretary | 1 with good knowledge of shorthand Lanterns, Old Batteries, Scrap Tool Steel, Cable, Rubber, and typing. Apply with referen- Chairman, Far
Canvas, Lagen, Leather, Cork, to:-The
Etc.. Ete. Eastern Freight Conference, P. 2 O, Building.
WANTED
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APPLICATIONS
from
diesel
Invited
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engineer ufficers foreign or Chinese nationality), ex-Naval Offers with five years or more aca experience and full watchkeeping holding certificate for employment in the Marine Department of the Chinese Maritime Customs.
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resolution, víz:-
sub-
That the Articles of Associa- tion be altered in the manner following:-
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1847. ́
Britain A ANTI-SOVIET CAMPAIGN IN
THE BRITISH ZONE?
Nation Of
Gamblers
London, May 19 The Sunday Pictorial! declared that Britain "is a nation of gamblers and we might as well admit it,"
"Everyone I know beta," sald Sports Columnist Peter Wilson. "It is about time we stopped be. (a) Article 17 shall be caning nation of hypocrites and
colled
realise that we are a nation of of punters. We might just as well get some benent out of this bet ting busines
(b) In the third line
Article 71 the word "two" shall be substituted for the word "three".
Berlin, May 18.
NO SMOKING
Bishop Auckland, May 18. Cabinet Ministers who used + to smoke at meetings have bowed to Budget Day last Chan- April 15, when the cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dalton, announced jump in the tobacco tax mak- ing 20 cigarettes well for Br. 4d.
C
"I am glad to tell you that LATO is BLOW there
a strict rule against
theme smoking at meetings," Mr. Dalton
waid amitingly in --Reuter.
A report hinting that British officials responsible for the German press and radio in the British zone of Germany and British sector of Berliy lind been ordered to start an anti-Soviet press| campaign was published today on the front- Russlan licenced "Berliner page of the Zeitung." Apparently referring to the passage through Ber- lin of Mr. Ernest Bevin on his way home from the Moscow meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the newspaper said that it had learned "from authoritative sources that on the occasion of a prominent personality of one of the occupying powers passing through Berlin at the end of April, talks were held with representatives of the Military Government of "I should like to see the nation
this power." with sweepstakes on four races
"During these talks, officials; and it is possible that there a year, the Grand National, the
press will be a statement tomorrow. (c) The following Article shall Derby, the St. Leger and the controlling the German
received orders to No Instructions be substituted for Article Cambridgeshire. Assuming tickets and radlo
cam- It was thought probable that 76 76. Subject to any were 10 shillings the maximum start a new unli-Soviet special terms as to voting anyone could lese would be two nign in the Berlin press of the the "Berliner Zeitung's" allega
oftions might be connected with upon which any shares of pounds a year with first prizes sector concerned, and that
big the corresponding zone.
certain reorganisation of the equal to the the Company may have being about
Wilson "The aim of this campaign counter-propaganda auction of been Issued or may for football pol' prizes,"
was to discredit the policy of the control group' which the time being be held, said.
of "Hospitals would benefit. Pro- the Soviet Union and that upon n show of hands
decision not to leave criticisms every member present in Ats could be used to provide pro- the Soviet occupation author-companied the recent British then. In this connection the and attacks appearing in BCC- one per playing fields, recreation cen.
Soviet licenced i pall trea and equipment. A percentage newspapers have already receiv. tions of the every member prenent in might be diverted to alding our ed Instructions to publish all Berlin press unanswered.
bloodstock industry and the small sorts of fantastic reports such Herr Arne Scholz, licence gambler would be assured of get as the alloyed muse arrests of holder of "Der Telegraf” com- ing a fair run for his money and innocent persons' in the Soviet menting од the "Berliner a very big though inexpensive zone and the placing of mem-Zeitung report, said in Berlin thrill."Associated Press. · bers of the Social Democratic today that his newspapers did Party and other *fighters not receive instruction from any against itler in former con-occupying power, any party or centration camps, etc.
any other source, the British controlled German news service reported tonight.
shall have and upon
D
persutt vote,
person or by proxy shall have ond vote for every share held by him."
By Order of the Board,
Particulars of contract may be Inspection of the above Stores obtained from the Office of the can be made between the hours Dated 'Chinese Maritime Customs, Marin House, Queen's Road, of 10.00 a.m. and nonn and be tween 2.00 p.m. and 4.00 pm. Central.
on Tuesday and: Wednesday,! the 20th. nad 21st. May 1947.
Beten's Beauty Salons
You can trust your personall Beauty Problems your Peri manent Waves, Shampoo, Seta, Tinting, Facials, Manicure, Pedicure
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to
NOTICE
EXCHANGE APPLICATION
WALTER M. WEINBERGER,
Chairman,
BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD.
Hong Kong.
Service Auction Rooms
A actioneers, Surveyors, etc." Basement, French Bank Bldg., A.E.B. de Sousa, Auctioneer. Telephone 31867,
PUBLIC AUCTION
Firm applying for Foreign | exchange against the quotas to be allcented for the period June/December 1947, are ye. minded that their applications to the Department of Supplies, Trade & Industry should con-
Undersigned has tain the full details requested ceived instructions from the in the notification published in Custodian of Property to sell the press on the 9th May, 1947. by Public Auction.
The
re
These details may be sub- on WEDNESDAY, THE 21st
mitted by letter as notified, but
forms are now available at the
May, 1947, Commencing
Department of Supplies, Trade at THE SERVICE AUCTION
& Industry for use, if required,
and will be supplied on request.
All applications, whether by
letter or au forms, should reach
this Department before the 31st May. 1947.
W. M. THOMSON,
Acting Director.
Department of Supplies
Trade & Industry. Hong Kong, 19th May, 1947.
POLICE NOTICE
al 10 a.m.,
ROOMS, FRENCH BANK BUILDING, BASEMENT.
192 LOTS OF
MISCELLANEOUS GOODS, Comprising:-
STORED AT CUSTODIAN
R. G. CRAIG, Chief Manager, Hong Kong
this Ninth day of May,
1947.
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING
OR- The SIXTY-SECOND DINARY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Messra. Jardine,, Matheson & Co. Ltd., Peder Street, Hong Kong, on Friday, 27th June, 1947, nt noon, for the purpose of receiv-| ing the Report of the Directors, pussing the Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1946, and electing Directors and
Whitsun No Picnic
Sir James
London. May 19.
Milne,
Waiting Word
to
"It further intended conduct A campaign against
де-
Nobody, he declared, could have given any instructions to editors of newspapers. Nor did
a apasch today.
Drastic Measure
Nagpur, May 18.
Australia Challenges U.S. Claim
Sydney, May 18. Australia
will chal. lenge the United States claims to 30 per cent of all available Japanese internal industrial plant made available for re- parations, it is learned reliably here.
Tho Foderal Government object to any arbitrary
will
055029- inents of Japan's resources, con- tending that the only place suit- able to fix reparations is at the final peace conference.
consider Omelas In Canberra that neither the United States Government nor the Far Eastern Commission have jurisdiction to dictate
of
what proportions Japan's Argots are to be distribut
A decree providing for the death penalty for puraons
was promulgated by Sir Fre ed in reparations. guilty of attempts at murder
General MacArthur has given derick Bourne, the Governor,
the United States Government the here today.
plan in This was one of the drastic, go-ahead aign to their
divide these interim reparations mensures now being taken by in the ratle, 15 per cent to China, the Central Provinces and the and five per cent to Britain, the Bihar Government to prevent Philippines, and the Netherlands. the outbreak of communal dis- turbaneer.
Persona found guilty of stab- South African
Nazis Being
bing will be punished by death or deportation for life, and persons contravening any order prohibiting the carrying of weapons will be whipped.
The Government has Also taken powers to constitute ape- cial courts in the disturbed areas where the provisions of
plied.Router.
Deported
Capetown, May 18. Africa's Deportation Commission, which bas been
South general personalitica in the public eye, manager of the Great. Western! members of the Socialist Unity they intend to develop an ant the new decree have to be ap-tudying the infiltration of the
Free
Moscow, May 10.
Klemperer
order to save cont, all hopes of tion of captive German generals, mentator, asserted yesterday that To Sue
joined by Field-Marshal Paulus, through subtle means, liquidation Paris Opera
more
of
concen-
•
rea.
(fusion of Social the Party
De Soviet campaign or to publish Railway, in an actiele in
| Nazi Party, has recommended that "News of the World" warned mocrats and Communists in the attacks on any occupying power.
254 persons-197 of them from that holiday travel this Whit- Russian zone), who
formerly Reuter, sun will be no picnic.
the former German territory of the played an active part in
UNO “Liquidation”
South west Africa-be deported. With the 10 per cent reduc- National Committee of
The Commission also advised tion of the summer service "In Germany (Moscow organisa. Evdeni Zhukoy, Pravda com
that 107 people, 77 from South. west Africa, be placed on the sus by Lieutenant-General "Imperialists and militarists" in providing better facilities thap led
pended list and, for a period, be last year have been shattered." Walter von Seidlitz and later the United States are
kept under some form of he said.
traint. United Nations. "Coal is not the only difGerman commander a t
Paris, May 18. Was Zhukov's attack
The Commission's report said culty,
Little progress has been Stalingrad). Material la to be trated on the Committee for ductor of the Los Angeles Southwest Africa became domin- Otto Klemperer, former con- that by 1933, that Nazi Party of made in overtaking the heavy published about these persons forming the United Nations arrears of renewals and repair to show that they are nothing which has its headquarters in Philharmonie Orchestra,
anunt and aggressive, stretching to there are 7,000 fewer
nounced today he plans to flio every part of the former German conches
than 'agents
the New York. în service than in
"Of course," he said, "scarcely suit against the Paris Opera territory-Reuter. Comintern' in Germany. 1939,"
will appear for $25,000 for breach of con- anyone at present "Der Telegraf (chief British openly against the UN. Even the tract. Reservation of seats has had; to go and "all holiday makers, licensed newspaper in Berlin) oldest warmongers wouldn't risk
GUERILLA CHIEF Klemperer had been engaged whether travelling first or third is. to play the leading part in this, but there are ways around."
by the state-owned Paris Opera:
KILLED in-Associated Press class," must be prepared to run this anti-Soviet campaign
to conduct the first of four the risk of having to stand for Berlin and
"Pravda's" Attack newspapers only
performances in a post-war re-
Athens, May 18. Moscow. May 18. long journeys in corridors and await the word 'go'."
vival of German opera in the Å guerilla chief,. Captain The The Transfer Books of the compartments even though
reference
The Soviet Communist Party French capital. Lohengrin Tigria, was among a band of Company w8) be closed from they have already stood for Telegraf” was the only Indica- organ, Pravda, accused the opened last night under the 12 killed by Greek troops in the the 20th June, 1947, to the 11th hours in queues before entering tion of the occupying power to United States today of interfer- baton of French
conductor village of Kipourta Zeitung" ing in French internal affairs, Louls Fourestler. the train," Sir James declared, which the "Berliner
Geneva,. In northwest Greece, --Associated Press.
referred.
anying:
The German musician, who
In "The mechanism of this in- was one of the drat to flee from guerillas were killed, five sur-
two other villages, oficial here sald tonight: "It is not stated terference is fairly simple the Nazis in 1939, said his rendered and seven others. eliminate the elected repre-contract had been cancelled fol- sentatives of the people who lowing a dispute with the man-women-as mopping up opera- captured-two of them do not sult us, renounce an in-agement because it did not be- tions proceeded with the depent policy and then we shall ticve, he was not in sufficiently operation of the peasants, the give you dollars."
good health to give the per- report sald-Reuter. Pravda was ecamenting on formance.-United Press. the French coalition govern-greadus the recent reorganisation of One of Germany's most pro-i
composers, Klemperer ment without Communist Min-left for America when the Nazis
Nico, May 18. isters and on the $250,000,000 came into power. From 1835 on
King Gustav of loan to France granted by the wards, he conducted the Loi An Sweden left here today for International Baak for Recon- gales Philharmonic and also led Parlo on his way home struction and Development in the New York Philharmonie for Stockholm after a two months" Washington.-Reuter,
part of several seasons.
stay on the Riviera.-Reuter.
Auditors.
July, 1947, Inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
JARDINE, MATHESON
& CO., LTD. " General Managers.
Hong Kong, 10th May, 1947.
HONGKONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED
Political Aspect To Be Studied
a new
A British
whether
British
to
"Der
personage Is meant. If that is the meaning the allegation is untrue,"
Just Rubbish Another British official said that if Mr. Bovin was the per- Berlin, May 19.. The Gorman court today order son referred to the report was ed
Helen "complete rubbish." "No such trial for Schwaerzel, 44-year-old scam conversations were held and no stress and clerk who, last Novem.such instructions were given,”
16 years he added. ber, was sentenced to NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN hard inbour for betraying Karl 1.K GODOWN, MA TAU WEI that the Ordinary. Yearly Gen- Goerdeler, former Mayor of Lelp very long time that we
"It has been evident for ROAD, KOWLOON..
have Deska, Tables, Bedalde Tables,TRAMWAYS LIMITED will be
eral Meeting of HONGKONG zig
been increasingly replying to Sideboards, Wardrobes, Cup-held at the
"Goordeler was the ring leader charges made against us," the
assassination at- boards,
Offices of Messrs. in the bomb Chairs, Armchairs, Jardine,
Adolf Hitler in same spokesman added, "and Setters,
Matheson and Cam-tempt against Filing Cabinets,
1944.
we intend to go on doing по Coolerators, Mirrors, Etc, Etc Thursday, the 20th day of May, vlous verdiet which also deprived foot where possible.
pany, Limited, Hongkong, on The court set aside the pro- and put the boot on the other STORED AT LAND TRANS-1947, at 12 o'clock Noon, to the defendant of her citizenship PORT, CAROLINE
HILL transact the ordinary business rights for 10 years after she was CAUSEWAY BAY.
of the Company,
convicted of the crime against
there have been no humanity.
instruc- Vauxhall Cara,
And, NOTICE IS HEREBY
The court accepted the plea of tions given or plans lald such Hudson Car, Jaguar Car, Humber Car, ALSO GIVEN that the Regis trial, no attempt was
her attorney that in the first as those alleged." Humber Snipe ter of Members of the
made to Other official sources declin- Car, Ford Lorries.
Com-judge the political ground for her ed to make any comment but it pany will be closed from the act, and ordered that the politi PORT, HA HEUNG ST., TO day of June, 1947, both days in
trial. Associated bore of the information services control group were conferring
Austin Car,
"That policy has been dc-
veloping for some months but
At approximately 8.45 p.m. on Saturday, 17th May 1947 an unknown Chineso Female seriously injured was found ly. ing in Hennessy Road near the STORED AT LAND TRANS. 16th day of May to the 11th cal aspects be particularly studied was known that leading mem-
junction with Tin Lok Lane.
This woman has since died.
Will any person who can
KWA WAN.
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Ariel Motor Cycle, Ford Car.
The abovementioned articles
By Order of the Board,
give any information regarding will be open for inspection at
this incident please go or telt their respective
godowns on
W. H. PATERSON, Secretary
phone to the nearest polico 19th and 20th May, 1947, be Hongkong, 6th May, 1947. station.
Commlaaioner of POLICE, tween 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. In-
HARBOUR
DEPARTMENT NOTIFICATION
For information of Ship Operators & Charterers
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THURSDAY 15TH MAY, 1047; HAS BEEN. DE- CLARED A WEATHER NON- WORKING DAYNE
J. JOLLY,
Harbour Master, |
Harbour: Department, Hong Kong, 17th May, 1947.
tween 10 a.m. and noon and bʊ-
spection Permits will be issued by the Undersigned at his Auction Roomȧ.
A. E. B. DE SOUSA,
Auctioneer. Hong Kong, 19th May, 1847.
UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD
the new
Press.
BBC's
Birthday Gift To Queen Mary.
London, May 18. Queen Mary, the oldest but in many respects the
-liveliest member of the Royal Family, cele
brates her 80th birthday on May 26 and as birthday present the BBC has asked her to select an entire evening's radio entertainment for all Britain.
Tho
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Comedians
The Auction is subject to the Notice is hereby given that the Conditions of Sale published in Thirty-eighth Ordinary General the Hong Kong (British Mill Meeting of the Company,' will tary Administration) Gazotte be held at the Offices of Messrs Vol. 2, No. 12, of 9th March, Dodwell & Co., Ltd., Brd for, 1946.
Hongkong Bank Building, on
stately · ·"Queen Mother, William Haley, Director-General Wednesday, the 21st May 1947, whose toque, hata and parasola of the BBC, that she particularly at 11 a.m. for the purpose of;are, famous the world over, liked listening to mystery thrBlors, receiving the Report and| promptly drew up a llat' "that | and "Agatha Christio; her favour- Statement of Accounts for the bowed she is an avid a radio-fan ito author, has been commissioned period 1st December 1945 to as she is for plays and filme- to write real spine B1st December 1940.
whether or not they are approv- Britain's favourite. led for her, by her ladies-in-walk; will perform and there will be an
ing.
aldtime dance programme of num- Notice in also glisen that the After scanning 16, BBC officials bars popular when the Queen Transfer Books of the Company sold they expected the record Mother was the beautiful, Prin will be closed from the 7th May Hatening figure set for the war-come of Dock 1947 to the 21st May 1947, time posch by Mr. Winston The lijf #lea demonstrates that both days triclusive,"
Churchill to be broken, maar in whatever, she does Roben Mary
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