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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 13th Ordinary Yearly will be held at the Registered Meeting of the Shareholders

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By Order of the Board

and

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F. E. d'Almada Remedios, Secretary.

"That the New Articles of Hong Kong, 5th April, 1948. Association produced to the Meeting, and for the purpose of identification subscribed by David Fortune Landale, Chairman of the Company

the and of

Meeting, be

NOTICE

COLD WAR IN FAR EAST IS GROWING WARMER

Half A

Million Imperilled

Philadelphia, Apr. 4.

Paul V. McNutt, former U.S. Ambassador to the

RUMPUS ON

Philippines, said today that China should THE ROCK

roceive military aid now “because the cold war in the Far East is gradually growing warmer." He went on:-"The Pacific is our Frontier, and as far as I am concerned, our ocoon."

Hirmand, which rises in Af- ghanistan, flows

McNuit said the der and loops back to re-enter Afghanistan further north. Persia great economic

arc

·

By NOEL MONKS Every day at sunset here, a gun goes off, and the Gibral- tarian pay to each other; Dios te bendiga""God bless you"--just as we do when we

But though thay bless oach other, these patriotle people have по

their blessings in hearts for the British Govern-

}

Teheran, Apr., 4. He told the 52nd annual day, leaving Japan economically Half a million Persians in the meeting öf the American strong in the midst of econd- province of Slatan, OF the Academy of Political and Socialmically weak nations, we gre |borders of Afghanistan, may Sclence that "we

the laying the groundwork for DR-anceze.

other war. It is much more in- cease to exist as a community |guarantors of peace in the

telligent to build up nations within a year, according to a Pacific whether we like it or

which werd our Allies. We He said the United should make that the first order report to the Persian Govern- not." ment from Colonel Safaquour, States enjoys greater prestige of business and give Japan ment. The Rock today is one commander

of the province's than any other Western Power lower priority."

big grouse.. frontier guard.

there but is making no move Waves Of Doubt. The population of this province to "use that reserve of good-

It is also a haven for fugl- He said in most of the 'For live by agriculture and depend will to the benefit of the Orient.Eastern nations there are waves tives from Cripps austerity. for their main water on the river America has not fully shoulder- of doubt concerning the motiver As long as 2,000 of their ki

of the Western world.

These stay in Ulster camps the Gibral-

but by economic rather than political will be gloomy and sad.

long as the Rock's three hotels Mutually beneficial tradel are bulging with wealthy #greements with Oriental nations English holiday-makers, while would be a surer way to peace natives are not allowed to re- than subsidies to their Govern- ments, he said, pointing to

turn because of accommodation portunities for American buil- shortage, that sunset gun will a constant reminder of ness and capital in the Philip, be pings.

grievance. Columbia University ↑ pro- fessor told the society that the United States aid to China might The 'Bacon-and-Eggs eventually force this country ไล send arms and men "to safeguard

When they were forelbly the Government it subsidizes." evacuated in 1942 Gibraltaxians Nathaniel Peffer, professor of were given solemn · promises

resources

As

across the bored its responsest has doubts could largely be dispello tarians, usually gay and happy,

With Effect from 1st April believes that the Hirmand is be. lacks economic organization. He stalemanship. adopted as the Articles of 1949, Mr. Leung Sul Po has ng deflected across the loop so warned against giving priority to Association of the Company been appointed as Secretary of in substitution for and to the our Companies. exclusion of All existing Articles of Association of the Company."

A copy of the Proposed New Articles can be inspected by any Shareholder at the Offices of the Company during the usual office hours.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Forty-eighth Ordinary Yearly Bleeting of the Share holders in the Company will be Hong held at the Company's Office, } Windsor House, Mezzanine Floor, Hong Kong, on Thursday

for the purpose of receiving

C. E. TERRY, Manager and Secretary. Kong, 5th April, 1948.

16th April, 1948, at 11 A.M.THE HONG KONG AND the Report of the Directors KOWLOON WHARF

together

Statement of with

AND GODOWN

Accounts for the year ended COMPANY, LIMITED. Bist December, 1947, to

unction the declaration of a Notice To Shareholders |

Dividend and Bonus and to re- elect Directors and Auditors.

The Transfer Books of the

Company will be closed from Int April, 1948, to 16th April, 1918, both days Inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors

G. MILNE,

Secretary,

Room No. 8, Lucky Apartments, Hongkong, 22nd March, 1948.

Corner of Hankow and Peking

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that it will not flow through Fer- Japan over other war-torn coun-

tries which were Allies. sian territory.

"If the United States with During last summer's

unpredraws its forces, es it will some cedented drought, a shortage of water was expected. But when the Hirmand, after its level had steadily fallen for a month or so, due to the fact that the Afghans

the situation practically dried up, the site

building some 30 dams became alarming and experts be-oss the border with the offset gan to suspect other than natura) of diverting the water from the loop through Sistan and Joining cnuses for this phenomenon.

Grim reports reached Teheran by a canal direct :o the pull of trees and crops dying, and of re-entry into their own coun- distress among _the_Inhabitants, try. This would add greatly to

American and Persian Govern- the fertility of their own land but ment agricultural advisers would completely destroy that of travelled to Zabul, the capital of the district around Zabul, the province, to investigate. They Diplomalle approaches

were confirmed the envity of inade to the Afghan Government. situation. Then suspicion became But it refused to admit the exis. strong that the drying up un

lence of the dams-Reuter.

BERLIN RETALIATIONS

either the choice of sending ao

International Relations of Colum-hat they would return on Vic- bla University, said, "We have tory Day. They have been cons American Army to China to take ing back in dribs and drabs for over

complete control to end three years another 100 have doing lust arrived--but It's doubtful Communism there, or of

if the 2,000 still in Northern- nothing."

Ireland will see their homeland-.' again for a long time unless the Governinent acts.

Military Aid Danger He said if the United States sent military aid to China the Russians would also put in arms and

two forcas would Inavitably collide and we will

have laundhed

great war

The locals call the hundreds of English people who have in- vaded the Rock's hotels the bacon-and-oggs brigade." The (Continued from Page 15

which we shall lose unless the place is booked up into next Patrols were also undered to

Poultry raverses we their inavitably year, and Spanish on the other supervise traffic

auffer In the Far. East ara farmers are making fortunes. roads lending from the Russian zone into the American sector of

overmatched by victories in the You can't cash a sterling note Berlin.

West."

here, but any shopkeeper will He said if a challenge must be accept, your cheque on London

¿

these moves became

ed off this nerve centre, of the

midnight.

went

through

The soldier was arrested fri the. Unter den Linden near the Brandenberger Tor, which marks the boundary between the British- and Soviet sectors of the city.

Offelal accounts of yesterday's Kommandatura committee meet-

the

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BUYING and Selling on narrow margin of Commission only: Please apply Mr. DICKMAN LEUNG, 101 Jervois Strest, known, two fussion xeness and ings in Berlin make it clear that given to Russla, somewhere, if you produce your passport.

to accept whatever. other Soviet Army afflcers had Russia accompanied Her proposal is better...

'The sinallest Fleet in memory been turned back from the Soviet that some of the committee becomes in China and stand in

where we proposal that Europe

shall havé is In port-one cruiser, and railway headquarters by Ameri-bolished with a

should

absorb Allies on whom we can count and Jour destroyers-but the recent can military police who had seal the remainder their functions.

of whom we shall not have to arrival of 24 American war- German railway Bystem since Some of the first reports pub- feel ashamed."

ships filled the empty spaces in tished in London suggested that

Chang Hsin-hai, Director of the harbour. The road block on the Potsdam the Soviet proposal amounted to the United Nations Association of Because of the currency res

essential Berlin road was manned by on. breakdown in

said he doubted that any letions the American sailors Approval has been given to American officer and six soldiers, committee activity, on which the Ching

Berliness international

organization could succeed

recdived their Gibraltar cur- relations for the year ended 31st Decem-the formation of a permanent helped by two German policemen dally administration of

depends.

moral rency before they came ashore.. branch of the R.A.S.C. Associa- and a Russion interpreter.

Tho Russian cars travelling to Ber-

oficial Interprétation in become an expression of ber, 1947, to elect Directors and tion (formerly known as then turned back into. the Soviet London is that the essential con- sentiment, strong enough to mould to the dismay of the shop

R.AS.C. Regimental Associa-żone when they came to the mittees for the continuation of our actions," Chang is also the keepers and the cabaret. pro- tion) in Hong Kong.

block, but one vehicle, which four-power administration in Ber-Dean of the Kwanghua University prietors.

lia are still in existence. Even in Shanghai-United Press. when the post 1. Membership is open to opened at noon, was a Russian the Soviet Union, 10 committees, mergers proposed by officers, warrant officers, non-feep taking beer to Berlin.

local commissioned officers and men check post had been opened, Government public works and

manpower, Less than 30 minutes after the dealing with who have at any time served, Russian patrol appeared at

Cnance. the utiltles, publle safety, R.A.S.C., or officers and other the boundary between the Soviet and public health, will be func serving in the other end of the bridge forming education, food, legal mattera, posts and telecommunications, ranks of the Allled Army zone, and the American sector. Service Corps who had served can. posts allowed German vehi representation. Reuter.

Both the Russian and Ameri-tioning normally and with Soviet therein prior to 3 Sept. 39.

cles to pass in both directions After drivers had shown valid Troops Withdrawn 2. Will all ex-Corps per papers.

Berlin, Apr. 4. sonnel (officers and other Despite the American supervi- United States military police ranks) who are

interested slon of traffic on this and other surrounding Soviet railroad head back bedroom early on the nigh work hare is that they're back. please communicate with Lieut-roads leading from the Russian quarters in the American sector of March 29, and had not slep zone into the American sector of of Berlin were withdrawn after long when they were disturbed 6, Colonel E. G. HAZELTON, Berlin. Soviet drivers wanting to the Russians had yielded to raps and heavy jarring sounds. O.B.E., C.R.A.S.C., H.Q., Land avoid showing their papers could American demands that they get Forces, Whitfeld Barracks, do so by making a wide detour. Kowloon (Tel: 34121, Ext. 70).

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THE HONG KONG

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[Hong Kong, 5th April, 1948.

"AND

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THE FIRST SEANCE

The Americans had their dis- appointment too, when at ten minuteà 'to midnight. thẹ, 80 Spanish senoritas appearing, in Gib's three, cabarets piled Into a bus and werd whisked away, across the frontler.

Cinderella Law

Maggie and Kate Fox, aged 14 and 12, lived in a two-storeyed

The only condition on which wooden house. in Hydesville, New these Cinderellas are allowed to Work, In 1848. They went to their

over the border by midnight.

Some nights their bus in. chased by determined Prince Churmings in taxis, but the police see that the senoritas al- woya make it,

But on the night of March 8. Kate laughed and called; "Do

do, Mr. Splitfoot." She clapped her hands. Rap

echoed back.

On the next night the little their own armed sentries out of house ecemed alive in every cor No Sealing Off the building.

Iner with raps and footfalls. Americans tonight said "there Eight armed Russians camo, was no intention of "scaling off" peaceably out of the huge build- their sector of Berlin and-Russian ing at about 0110 this morning. vehicles would 50 ollowed The Americans through after their drivers had later. complied with the formality, of

Magale cried, "Now do as I do, Some Russians still were in tha Identifying themselves. Meanwhile, Soviet

building, among them a general, count one, two, three." Haps re trictions have so far only affected when the Americana withdrew, echoed the count,

A sceptical father arrived. administration Aliled passenger traffic by rall, But they were

Kate diently pretended to snap and air and road traffe between

ofAcers of the Soviet military

her fingers. Instantly the raps the Western zones and Berlin administration's railway control.

Two hours later, three Rundan responded. "Look!" she cried was proceeding normally today,

German

officers wore seen leaving the "It can ace as well as hear." civilian

The mother cried. "Can you trains between the zones were building and it was bellaved all see a shower of raps gave running to timetable, and Allied the Russians were gone.

assent. military freight trains were also

traffic res

passenger

The

24

,

The big excitement every week on the Rock these days is the drawing of the Government. lottery in the town square.

First prize is naually $1,500 for ten bob. Numbers are ro pented In Spanish over a lóug- speaker. The Government ex- pects to make £45,000 a year rom the lottery, the cash to bo drypted to the buliding fundry

Franco, who once boasted to Hitler that he could have Gib with `n snap of him/pidgy- Angers, is now accepted as good neighbour--but only by Government and Sérvice høada. Personally, I find the little rondelde cemetery where Trafal far's dead are burled the most Inspiring spot in Gibraltár Loday. 4.

When the Americans pulled out,

How old are my children arriving in Berlin. But new Bo- they left only a small staff of Each irl's age was rapped out. viet measures to hamper road German police posted at the The girls laughed without fear, Service Auction Rooms and possibly air traffic were ex- entrances. Germans said but the parents paled.

pected by, some British and Am the lockout was over, ericans.

How many children, have 17 U.S. offcials asked the Rus There were seven raps, six for Two British military coat trains slans to pull out their aimed the living, one for the dead, passed through the Russian zonal guards in a note sent last night. By a long Barles of questions check point at Marienhor early today, without interference. Each

The military police, carrying and answers the Fox family carrying 720 tons of coal for Ber- carbines and sidearms, had kept gathered that the invisible rapper lin, they remained a short time the Russians out of the building had been a pedlar who had been at the British zonal boundary of all day yesterday, German work" murdered in that room, and

ers had been - mimitted, Holmstedt. Reuter, A P. and en

corded seance went on, With the But buried in the cellar. some 40 Russian ( officers :"and UP.

Neighbour poured into the gray April dawn the sounds died Briton Arrested ✅ employees who tried to get, in cottage. The pediar's throat had way A British soldier was arrested had been turned away with arm been cut with a butcher's knife, The story is told in The Un- neas, drepa ang ban be apt, five-years previously willing Martyrs, by Mariam B. by a Soviet patrol in the Russian. They were allowed only to The murderer, one John Bell, día Fond. It published at 15w, by sector of Berlin this evening, it send food in to colleagues who re- the deed for a hoard of $300,he Spiritualist Press as part of was officially reported. He was released after being questioned mained in the building-Associa for..two hours.

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Thursday,

8th April,

6.30 pm Thursday,

122nd April-

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April,

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