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GOVERNMENT RATIONS DISTRIBUTION

SPECIAL NOTICE

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HOLDERS OF RATION CARDS NOS, 2001 TO 2602 INCLUSIVE

REGISTERED AT

LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED.

The December Distribution of FLOUR, SUGAR and BUTTER will be effected between the hours of 9 ABI, to 12.00 Noon and 2.00 P.M. to 4.46 P.M, aš under:- Numbers 1001 to 1390

Surar Flour

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

1301 to 1780

171 to 2170

2171 to 2502

December 1st 1947. 2nd 1947, 3rd 1947. 4th 1947.

* JIK$0.45 per lb. 8 Ja. Per Person

IIK30.33

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QUANTITIES allocated are as follows:-

Fresh Butter @HK$2.10

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1 lb. for each

person in family ne per number Registered on Ration Cards. Suitable containers must be brought for Flour & Sugat, BUTTER RATION CARD HOLDERS TO 'NOTE.

CUSTOMERS WHOSE RATION CARDS ENTITLE THEM TO MORE THAN ONE POUND PER MONTH NEED NOT HENCEFORTH DRAW THE FULL QUANTITY WHEN TAK ING DELIVERY OF THE MONTHLY QUOTA OF FLOUR

AND SUGAR.

HUTTER WILL BE AVAILABLE DAILY-SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS EXCEPTED FOR ISSUE AGAINST RATION CARDS IN QUANTITIES OF NOT LESS THAN ONE POUND, BUT NOT MORE THAN THE QUANTITY SPECI. FIED ON THE CARD CAN BE "ONTAINED IN ANY ONE RATION MONTIL

Special Notice: In order to facilitate the smooth running of Itation Distribution arrangements, we would appreciate customers collecting their ratious on the specified days and galos in accordance to the numbers of their own Ration Cards. Kowloon Customers, if desired, may draw their rations from the Kowloon Branch.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED.

GROCERY DEPT.

Hong Kong: Tel. 28161

Kowloon: Tel. 69922

GOVERNMENT RATIONS.

NOLDERS OF GOVERNMENT RATION CARUS

Isided by

The Dairy Farm, Ice & Gold Storage Co., Ltd.

are hereby advised that the

DECEMBER DISTRIBUTION

will be available for collection from

MONDAY, 1st DECEMBER, 1947

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to

MONDAY, 8th DECEMBER, 1947

(Saturdays & Sundays excluded) QUANTITIES ALLOCATED ARE AS FOLLO FLOUR

$0.30 per ib. lbs per persoh SUGAR

40 $0.45, BUTTER (Fresh) @ $2:19,

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-1 (one) (b., for each person 'In family at per nignber registered on Ration Card.,

SUITABLE CONTAINERS MUST DË BROUGHT

FOR FLOUR AND SUGAR

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD

STORAGE CO., LTD. |

BOXING

PRIVATE INSTRUCTION

JOE PERKS: WELTER WEIGHT CHAMPIK

WEST OF ENGLAND

· PRIVATE BOXING INSTRUCTION BY JOE PERKS, FULLY QUALIFIED BOXING INSTRUCTOR (1,FEE.CH RULES) WELTER WEIGHT CHAMPION OF WESTMON ENGLAND, ROYAL NAVY CHAMPIONSHIPS AND OVER 200 OTHER WINS. 18 NOW AVAILABLE” IN HONGKONG, FOR TERMS, PLEASE WRITE BOX"366"*CHINA

Peter Optical Co.

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1947,

GANG MURDER TRIAL WILL

END TODAY

The trial of Lam Kui, Chung Tin and Chung Kai, Who are charged with murtier, will Conclutte this morning, when Mr. Justice E. H. Williarus (Acting Chief Justice), will sum up to the jury. Closing addresses hy defence and pro- secution were delivered yesterday.

The case for the prosecution | Before itia rolense he saw Lam being conducted 'by Mr. A. Kul being brought into the Chiffon, assisted by Del. Insp Station. G. E. Willerton.

Tae Chung, regular coolle work-

Mr. Marcus A. da Silva in aping under Tang Kel, sold that on pearing for all three accused. May 20, he was working at the The murder with which the acgdawn of the Pak Wo-cheun'I cused are charged took place on packing potatoes, May 28, when Lo Bee was kliled Lam Kul was working together in a gang fght'in First Street. with the same gong of coolies,

coolic Tang Kei,

contracts, said that on May 28, he hall 25 coolfes working on an assignment, one of whom was En Rul the first accused.

Betre he left; at 8.30 p.m. dvance.

Kui asked for an He told Lam Kui to go to hit house for the money,,

After returam Trome, he went out again to visit different area where his colles were working.

"Stopped"

Coolle's Story Chung Hol said that he work

the third ac. cd for Chung K cused, as a cozzle, loading and unloading, goods.

Third accused sometimes acted

travelling trader. When third 'accused was away, he looked after the work and ne counts.

On May 28, he went to Chung Kal's house to check

accounts. He arrived shortly after 7 pm On his way home between mid-arid left between 10 p.m. und 11 night and a.m. lie was stopped p.m. Inear Water Street and searched by the Police, who took him to the Police Station.

He was detained for two hours and then released.

Reminders

Today

Yuen Chit, principal tenant of the house in which Chung Km lived, said that on May 20, some one came to look for Chung Kal after the evening meal,

She remembered the date nyt was the anniversary of the birth father-in-law and they

of her worshipped.

'SERIOUS OFFENCE

"It's a most serious

offence

| for a coxawaly to leave the v28-

ful man"

Chinese Firms Will

BOOK STORE

Display Local Goods CHARGED WITH

An exhibition of local products, sponsored by the Chin-” ese Manufacturers' "Union, will be freid today-from-4 pm, to 0p.m. at the Kam Ling Restaurant, West Point.

The Governor. Sir "Alexander Grantham and Lady Grantham will be present at the opening

Quests who have accepted invitations include_Govern- ment Department heads, leading merchants and other per- - sonalities. Souvenir prizes will be presented to all the Buesta

The exhibits on display will include piecegoods, thermos flasks, underwear, tooth brushes,' 'rubber goods, cosmetic, confectionery, paints, safety matches, minerals, footwear, electric bulbs, and leather goods.

"Declared" Gold Confiscated

"PIRATING"

Mr. C.P.L. Anderson, Director of W.H. Everetts &

Son, Ltd., England, (Wholesale Booksellers); gave evidence before 'Mr. Thomas Tathan'at Central yesterday In a "pirated edition" case. Mesare. Machillian & Co. 69, 807 and 320, 61""A School of Lud., of St. Martin's Street, Arithmetle (1938) by "Hall London. (publishers and print and Knight were concrete Lore) are aùing The World Book Store, of A Hollywood Road, Hong Kong.

Mr, F.G. Nigel in appearing for complainant.

in

The World Book Store answering four summonses, the first three of which are:- Selling infringing' cóples of "Elementary Algebra for

vidence of "piracy."

This was an attempt, he alleged. to reproduce exactly a

acMillan prodter."

A layman would not recognise the difference in binding, which was better than the other

irated books.

A black mark on Page 307 was claimed by complainant to

For the first time two arrivals in the Colony had Schools" anil "Elementary that left by a nail head.

Trigonometry," boll' by H.S. Complainant contended this their gold confiscated by a Kowloon Magis-tall and S.R. Knight, and trafe despite the fact that it was admitted by "Arithmetic"

was presumably a. "pirated by A. E. Layng.dition" by a photographie pro- the prosecution that the gold was declared im-of which the complainant is the ceas, by which the completu mediately on arrival.

authorised printer and publish text could be photographed and When Chow Spi-yea, #1-yeùr-jun, the charge of importing 1.0er and wherein copyright exist; eproduced. old married wonau, and Chow | ingls' of molti cách cón Nov, 27. and

Defence Counsel declared Yung-sze, 44, widow, appeared R/O 1.C; Xfflington 'aald that (4) Selling "A School of hat the World Book Stora hefore

Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr | deferdants arrived on a CNAC Arithmetic" to which a false milnly dealt in Chinese books plane from Shanghai at 3.30 trado description. namely the and was not acquainted with p.m. on Thursday.

name of MacMillan & Co., Ltd.. | English "booka. was applied.

"The cast WOB not Dee 3.

Personalia

Asked whether they had any- thing to declare, both woman prodied the gold, in the form |

The forthcoming wedding off sheet. Mr. Neville Fathergill Nichol- son, Peninsula Hotel to Mins Katie Chu, 5 Ning Yuen Ter Hace, Bonham Road, has bren

announced.

Dr. S.S. Ramber left Hong Kong Hotel yesterday,

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HK. Producta Exhibition, Kom

Ling Restaurant, 4-0 pun. Garden Fete, Christ Church, Kow.

loon Tang, 3 p.m. H.K. Football Association Counsel while under way and leave

ell Dinner, Hong Kong Hotel It in the charge of un unquali- Arrivals at the Gloucester Cafeteria, & pin.

remarked Marine Hotel yesterday included Col. H.E. Dr. T. V. Soong. Gaventor Magistrate Garland when he A, Lovell, Mr. and Mrs. Glusker.

of Kwarigtung. leaves for fine Chan Yau, acting master Mr. O'Connor,

Mr. E. Franck Canton, 10 a.in.

Miss Stenr. Denartures Tea Dance, Tusitalia Club. of Motor Launch Tai Ka Wo, and

YWCA, Duddel Street, 4.30 $150 or six weeks for having were Mr. Botelho and Mr. J. F. p.m.

on board his vessel an uncerti. Ferrier. Paintings Exhibition. St. Francis fleated coxswain while under

Hotel.

way and a further fine of $100 Mr. and Mrs. P.S. Elm ar- or one month for not having a rived at Repulse Bay Hotel. certlileated engineer on board. Mr. and Mrs. A.A. da Roza,

According to Inspector Tate left the hotel.

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"Voluntary"

con-

He sought instructions from the Head Office in Hong Kong and was

told to charge the women.

Defendants pleaded gality.

Cable

After receiving a cable from

adjourned to

Tweeds Sold

the Publishers Association to In Tropics investigate the World Book

I was the first case,

Jondon, Nov. 27. inted R/O Millington, where Store, Mr. Anderson said, he The assertion that shops in

Ceylon were, amply stocked with the owners had made a volun- visited the store on Nov. 21. the

He said he looked into two consumer goods, such as tweed tary declaration,

dozen of the five or six dozen suitings unsuitable for tropical books on view and they all climates, and stair carpete, wan appeared to him to be pirated made in the House of Commons editions. Both defendant stated that

Withess bought six books for tiny by Lieut. Col., Holes

(Conservative). 1.$19.50. und

He asked what wda boing they me from Peiping

When, witness alleged, the done to divert from colonies It were en route to Canton,

They lind been told by Chin- foki refused to issue a receipt, the tropics unsuitable exports ene Customs Officers at Felping, saying that they had no mure of this kind, and whether goods and other ports of call, Includert, witness threatened to call such as those had been paid on consignment ing Shanghai, that they were the police, whereupon the foki for or dont Dimitted to carry up to three reed one after a 15-minute to be paid for when sold.

Mr. Harold Wilson, President Armed with a search acls of each, as they were act- delay. ually not taking the gold out

war-of the Board of Trade, replied of China but only going from rant, Mr. Anderson and police that he understood from the une part of the country to found on Nov. 27 only Chinese British Trade Commissioner in

bucks on the premises. harbour at 6.15 nm. yesterday Magistrate, is a patient in the

Police ther

All the English books hul / Mington stated that with four junks in tow.

disappeared. they had made. Inquiries at the Society. Eur: pea YMCA &informed that the master had 1. Mr. F. X. d'Almada is preskoeal Chinese Maritime Customs rent. witness declared there them all firey were not avail-

Boarding the launch, he was Queen Mary Hospital.

ashnic. Oning in both courts at the Cen-1 Office and were told that no St. Andrew's Day Remembrance checking the lleence. I was

tral Magistracy,

rold, irrespective of how small Service. Simmiey Cemetery.

or large the quantity, is allow-three of the books he bought. These goods, he added, were found to be one issued by the DECEMBER 1 Gald performance of "An inspec. Canton authorities and not a Pastor Calls" by H.K: Stage Hong Kong licence.

Coming Events TOMORROW

at

of the Water Polieg defendant's motor launch was entering the

Mr. J.G.

Lady Grantham officlates

opening of Soft Ball Match (in aid of Boys & Girls Clubs Association), Catoline Hill. 10.30 a.m. Talk on "Name, Its Derivation

Significance In

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the Chinese

Club (in sld of Boys & Girls "Clubs Association), 'Seamen's

Institute, 8.30 pan

Food Parcels

For Britain

alrendy

gone

FIVE FEMALES

0

Conklin,

ed out of Chins. In ‘accordance Peninsula Hotei arrivals: R. with the International Monetary K. Brown, Miss M.B. Wood, Miss Fund (Bretton Woods Con- M.C. Wood, N.F. Nicholson, M.

ference) which was for the Devaux, L.L. Andrews, Mr. and

purpose

protecting Mrs. H.G. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. C. Sheldon, Mrs. J. Cohen China's gold reserves." and Miss D.M. Hargrove.

Five females were convicted For keeping brothels by Mr. FX.Almada at Central yes. Peninsula departures:-Mr. and terday.

| Mrs. C.P. Mulvey, Mr. and Mrs. Ho Hai, 70 Jaffe Road. 1st R. Laughlin, Mrs. M.J. Ander

en, WS. McCann, Mr. and Mrs.

solc

of

Caution

The Magistrate, registered A. caution and ordered the gold

The second shipment of gift food Boor, and Ng Shs 32, Swatowc. Lastby WR. Guthrie, G.Com to be confiscated.

St., 1st, FL, were each fined pin, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Dumant $250 or three weeks, with two and Mr. and Mrs. A.5. Trippe. wecka-imprisonment.

for Britain was despatchert yesterday hy one of H.M. Ships. It consistol of 370 cases containing 16,410-lb-nea. of foodstuffs. Since the drive begin on Nov. 1,*39,280' lh, nett. (appra mately 17 tons) have been sent in the United Kingdom, the largest item (bæing 5,360 lb," of 'fais.

FOOD PARCELS FUND Donations to the Food Parcels Fund received by Messrs. Peal,

Marwick and Mitchell, exchange Building:

Baroncas Chan Hing, 35, 10 Lockhart Road, 3rd. Fl., was given a similar fine and ordered to be ovicted.

Li Yin-so, 22, and Wong Liu, 28, living in an-numbered huds in St Francis Lane, Wanchai, who had a previous conviction, were given the same fines.

WAR MEMORIAL FUND

Asked for a clarification on the poaltion of a person who carrics gold in transit eliswhere and declared it on arrival in

I.A. Van Acrssen Beveren van Vashof, wife of the Hong Kong, Mr. EH Hims- Chirin, is a visitor to Hong Kong, porta and Exports, told the Netherlands Ambassador to worth, Superintendent of Im

band at Nanking, ned mpanied "gold in any quantity, large dr She is en route to join her hus. "China Mair yesterday that by her son. The BaroncsS น travelling by the an, mail, is prohibited to enter the dune" which arrived here on Nav. Colony and is liable to seizure 25 from Batavin and is saling and the offender charged at- today for Shanghai,

cordingly."

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Mr. K. C. Boxall, who is to manage the Hong Kong office | of Reuters, arrived' with 'bin

This applies even to cases in which the gold is "declared, added Mr. Himsworth.

Gold in the form of personal

Mrs., M. Swalne $10, Mas Webster $5, Aron 35 Mr. CT. The Hong Kong Rope Manu. Chau The Teng 110, Mrs. Stevens facturing Co., Ltd $5,000, are family by BOAC "Speedbird" jewellery (in small amounts) $10, Mrs. Ma: Yau $10. Toll G. S. Kwek $100 Total $3,083,-ying-bent on Thursday after-only is allowed to enter Hong $19,903.30.

011.26.

NEWSMEN CLAIM.—

"Nazis Fighting In Indo-China War

Singapore, Nov. 28. Newsmen who recently visited Indo-China saw large numbers of former Nazis fighting for the French against the Viet Namese Nationalists Athert

noon..

Kong.

'Other passengers on the air- draft were: Messrs.. Hatfield, Sparks, Collins, Pearce, Chany

BALES STOLÉN · Kwal-kem. Chew Lim, Ton Phaik-chato, Chao Chu-thong, FROM LINER Lambut Chiong. Wong To-on, Ten bales of warsted suiting were Mesdames Won Hoo-yes, Nolen from the Blue Funnel liner, M. Kwel-lun, Collina, Holt, Boxall, Anchises", during Friday, eight, ac the Miases M. Wood, B. Woodarding to a report trade in the Water Eadlo, and Masters Boxall, Police yesterday, Collins, and Chang Kwang.

The material was taken off the venel 'berween $ pan, on Friday and

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While the ship was erthed

The Sikh community of Hong Holt's hart" in

Kong celebrated the birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Jen yester day at the Sikh Temple when prayers were offered from dawn tg 10.00a.m..

“Troughout the day members

Kuwinon.

charged in to a junk.

It is presumed that the bales giere

No arfents have yet been made.

Ceylon that, while supplies of the goods mentioned wero available in the shops in Gey- On the question of infringe-lon, there was a market for

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vas no question in the use of able in excessive quantities.

"Bad Workmanship" They did not have the publisher's name and were ex- tremely badly printed.,

not normally shipped on ''con- signment Reater.

TRAM ACCIDENT

Tucydid not hate the kind

Falling down the staircase from of binding any British

firm the upper deck of

Atratene lat would produce and "I have night, a 58-year-old Chinese woman. never seen such bud workman- Ha Siu-cheung, suffered injuries Thip."

necessiting her admittance to the Witness claimed that Pages Queen Mary Hospital.

FOR SALE

"Dragon" Brand Portland Cement.

Deliveries ex steamer about 1st Dec.

Further particulars apply:

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.

Mercantile Bank Building, Tel. 34174

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RESTAURANT.

NEW PLAN OF MANAGEMENT

The Germans, included former was a higher percentage in the and well-wishers were served MURDER SUSPECTED members or Find" Marshal legion: now than traditionally with meals. Hommela Afrika Krops." | serve" with it.) Neutral sourcek

Associated Pross correspon said the percentage was much at the Sikh Temple were Kand was found yesterday in San Uk Link Aropas the large attendancecorpie. of 30-year-old farmer dent Sun Swiftton returned a higher. stele program: Indo-China." Numerical estimates of the Singh (Becretary) Dr. Mahan

hara Singh (President). Buranlage on the Kowloop-Canton Whip, he was there, he saw Germans Wighting against the Singh, Rattan Singh Dhillon, hands and legs were bound and the EUROPEAN AND

Murder is suspected since, the man's THE ABOVE HOTEL SPECIALIZES IN RUSSIAN DISHES. me ppoke with many of them, independence hungry, Vietnamese Kapoor Singh, Attar Singh and njuries to his face resembled chopper AVAILABLE.

CHINESE DISHES ARE ALSO The Nazis, he said. won are difficult to mako, American-made uniforms and

Certainly there are governi Kattar Singh.

Fearried Amertomado gans. thousands, but just as certainly;

alting

they are far below 50,000 Informed source Associated Press, per cent of the

élgn Legion in Indo-

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Jap "Democrats” Expel Recalcitrants

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