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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
LIMITED.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fifty-fifth Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Office of the Company, Exchango Building, Des Voeux Road Central, Vic- toria, Hong Kong, on Wednes-
24th March, 1948, day, NOON for the purpose of re ceiving the Report of the Board of Directors together, with the Statement of Accounts for the ended 31st December, Year 1947, and to elect Directors and appoint Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the
March, Company will be closed from Wednesday, the 10th 1948, to Wednesday, the 24th March, 1948, both days inclu-
alve.
By
Order of the Board
of Directors,
R. TAYLOR, Manager & Secretary Hong Kong, 21st Feb., 1948.
CHINA ENTERTAINMENT &
LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fourteenth Ordinary General Meeting of Sharehol- ders will be held at the Regis
We, INDO.CHINA STEAM tered Offices of the Company NAVIGATION CO., LTD.- King's Theatre Buliding. 6th Pedder St., Hong Kong, hereby floor, on Wednesday, the 31st give notice that in consequence day of March, 1948, at 12
noon, to receive of a desire to maintain a uni- o'clock
the GENUINE Peking and
Directors Report and Accounts form system of nomenclature. isin Carpets and Rugs, lovely We have applied to the Minin as at 31st December, 1947, to' designs, various sizes.
and Auditors and inspect at THE CHINA ter of Transport, under Section elect Directora
other 47 of the Merchant Shipping and to transact Auch CO., KAYAMALLY
be properly RUGS BUILDING, 4th Floor. (opposite Act, 1804, In respect of the business as may
at An Ordinary motor ship "EWO lir" of HONG transacted Hong Kong Hotel)
KONG REGISTRY Official General Meeting of the Com. BRAND New Underwood Number 155837, Register ton pany.
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AND NOTICE IS HEREBY Co. World Typewriter
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the Com Telephone: 20506.
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TRIESTE RETURN PROPOSAL Condemnation By REAR ENGINE
Communists
London, Mar. 21.
Tricato.
Effect On
DID NOT STOP Italian
Election
Home, Mar. 21. Coaches of a train were
telescoped between two en- gines in an kecident in which four people were kill- ed and 66 injured near Sad- leto, eight miles north of Rome, today.
The communication cord was pulled for an unknown reason. The train had an engine at each end and the rear engine failed to stop. -Reuter.
The Soviet and Yugoslav Governments had made no official reply today to the three Western powers' proposal that the great Adriatic port of Trieste should be handed back to Italy, Communists in France and Italy condemned the
plan.
Major-General Twenty-four hours after the in announcement of the proposal Airey, the commander of the and United Stater by Britain, the United States British
its functions and France, nn Soviet comment forces, said the Government Radio had not mentioned the pending a definitive agreement. Italian people", the newspaper subject. The Yugoslav press Reuters correspondent report- Bald.--Reuter. carried a brief report, without ed. comment,
had been published and Moscow would continue
into an
"K
Italy
ד
Turin, Mar. 21. The Western powers' proposal
return for the
́of Trieste to Italy and the signature yeater- day of a Franco-Itailan' custome regarded unlon protocol were by observers hero. today as like ly to swing next month's Italian elections declairely in favour of The anti-Communists.
:
Italiana felt today the Trieste) proposal was only the begin
ning of a thorough revision of the peace treaty and the pro posal their was therefore all the more welcomed in both off. etal and unofficial quarters.
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Belgrade Comment Reuters correspon-
Signor Palmiro Toglintti,
Belgrade, Mar. 21. dent reported from Belgrade. Secretary-General of the Italian The three Western powers'
A Government spokesman in Communist Party, quoted in proposal that Trieste should be
While Trieste is of tremen-[ Communist Belgrade, however, strongly de- the
newspaper handed back to Italy was des aled an assertion in the three- Unita, described the plan scribed today by Tanjug, the dous importance to the Italians, the colonial issue, the limita- power
that Yugo- "not only an electional specula Yugoslav news agency, an proposal alavis had taken police stata tion but a crude attempt to drag measure intended to prevent tion of Italy's police and army, and the handing over of her measures in that part of the Italy
atmosphere of an agreement between
navy are alt points on which Free Territory which she ad war hy speculating on Italian and Yugoslavia." ministers,
feelings. This attempt must This comment, the first to be Italians would like to see the The spokesman denied, too, be repulsed.”
made in Belgrade, accompanied peace treaty revised. The Soviet Union The Trieste queation, he be a report from the Tanjug cor- that Italians had been expelled from the Zone. In Trieste it-lieved, would only be solved respondent on the statement by pected here to seek to postpone self, Milan Radio said, crowds "when Italy has an independent, Signor Palmiro Togliatti, the action on Trieste indefinitely in the streets greeted the news democratic Government with a Secretary-General of the Italian rather than flatly accept or re- TECHNICOLOR of the plan with pro-Italian policy of friendly collaboration Communist Party, in today's jeet the three-power "proposal. patriotic songs and flags wayed with the Yugoslav people". Italian Communist newspaper, Reuter. from every balcony.
Carrying On
The Allied Military Govern ment was carrying on as usual
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Reds Hostile
An independent Italian news. paper. Massagero, commented; For the first time since 1943. the Western powers have anti- cipated the Soviet Government constructive in presenting a proposal on one of the most de- lizato and dangerous inter- national lasues,"
Win
Ox-
Unita, describing the plan sa "not only an election specula- tion but a crude attempt to Party, inday hrau led the Joint drag Italy into an atmosphere Western proposal for the return of
in Tralian sovereignty !། of war by speculating on Italian Trieste
"a provocation by warmonger and feelings."--Reuter.
Intervention in the tralian election campaign."
"Provocation"
Paris, Mar. 21.
Secretary M. Jacques Ductos, General of the French Communist
He was speaking at a Communist rally in Laval, Brittany Reuter.
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Charities
The Mental Home Sir. Twelve months
Sir, I should be grateful if you ago
In your you
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Tairs at the Mental Home and in the course Debate
Communist opinion in France was openly hostile, with the Communist newspaper Puma- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN nite naking: "Where are thuse Where that the Forty-eighth Ordinary who threaten peace? Yearly Meeting of the Share are those who tear up treaties holders in the Company will be like scraps of paper? Where held at the Company's Office, are those who carry on secret Windsor Huuse, Mezzanine diplomacy? The warmongers Floor, Hong Kong, on Thursday are in Washington, in London 16th April, 1948, at 11 A.M. and in Paris."
The French right wing news for the purpose of receiving,
The situation in Hong Kong the Report of the Directoral papers praised the initiative of
of the Budget regarding subscriptions to variou Statement of the three Western powers, with
in the together with
Legislative charitive is, to say the least, cm- Accounts for the year ended a right wing Radical source des Council abortly afterwards the pletely out of hands. 31st December, 1947. to cribing the Turin speech of the Hon. R. D. Gillespie also drew On Saturday last, I was pes sanction the decination of a Fronch Foreign Minister, M. attention to the matter.
tered in my office by solicitors Dividend and Bonus and to re- Georges Bidault, who announ. In his reply the Financial from three different charities elect Directors and Auditors. ced the pinu, as "the severent Secretary agreed that the staff completely unknown to me. firm
blow that could be aimed at the of the Home were working un-Its happens that my
allows me a generous annusl The Transfer Books of the men of the Kremlin,”
der almost impossible cond budget for subscriptions to Hont Company will be closed from The Socialist Populaire questions while the Director of Kong charities, but it is imposs! 1st April, 1948, to 15th April. tioned, however, whether the Medical Services remarked, that ble to know how to divide
Lik 1948, both days inclusive. moment was opportune for a the present buildings date back among the numerous known an
who are liabl revision of the
peace treaty. to 1883 and 1899 and also con- unknown callers
By Order of the Board of Directors,
G. MILNE,
Secretary.
Dated at HONG KONG the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in Kowloon Write Box 37218th day of March 1948, indo- that the Ordinary Yearly Gen *China Mail.
China Steam Navigation Com-eral Meeting of the Company pany Limited.
will be held at the Offices of Messra. Jardine, Matheson and Company, Limited, Hongkong Hongkong, 22nd March, 1948, on Wednesday, 24th day of March, 1948, at 12 o'clock Noon, to transact the ordinary busi- ness of the Company:--
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NOTICE is hereby given that the Fifty-ninth Ordinary Year: ly Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of tho Company. Chung: Tin Des Building, First floor, 5,
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democracies by many people hoped and believed rganisation known as Associated
Association gaining the sympathy of the that before long something Charities, This
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various charities, and the share Colony.
to each depends upon the merits It is therefore deplorable to of each particular case. Newa find that in the Budget Speech paper publicity is given' both tu made by the Financial Secre- the members of the Ass:clated amounts tary on March 19th no refer- Charities and to the ence whatever was made to the they receive each year, Montal Home.
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