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NOTICE

THE HONGKONG AND

SHANGHAI BANKING

CORPORATION

Ordinary Yearly General

Meeting

NOTICE IS HEREBY

THE · CHINA ·MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY

1955.

Labour Federation ARCH OF CONSTANTINE Old Jap Regime

Approves Merger

GIVEN that the Ordinary FORMATION OF

Yearly General Meeting of the Sharaboldora of the

will

held, bo at the Head Office of the

contributions, siwaya wel: | Corpornlion one, should be addressed to ie Editor, business communications and advertisements to the Secretary. Telephone: 20411 (3 Lines).

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NOTICE

Corporation, 1 Queen's Road

Central,

Hong Kong, 02 Friday the 11th day of March, 1956, at Noon for the purpose of receiving and considering the reports of the Directors and of the Auditors and the Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet for the year ended 31st December, 1964,

d for the election of Direc tura and the appointment of Auditors.

SINGLE UNION

New York, Feb. 10. The Executive Council of the glant American Federa tion of Labour (A.F.L.) unanimously approved the proposed

with Amerien's other great union organisation, the Congress of Industrial Organisations (CLO) at its meeting at Miami Beach today.

merger

Mr George Meany. A.FL. he President,

that sald anticipated there would be no of the in ratification agreement by the C.1.0. Board. This is expected in a fortnight.

hitch

(

the thought

15-million

THE REGISTER OF

Asked If he

ot SHARES of the Corporation | formation will be closed from Friday, the 26th of February to Fri day, the 14th of March, 1955, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shures can be registered.

member federation would develop Into a huge labour monopoly, Mr Meany said:

By Order of the Board,

MICHAEL W. TURNER,

Chief Managor.

Hongkong, lal Feb., 1955.

THE

NOTICE

AND

HONGKONG

SHANGHAI BANKING

CORPORATION

HONG KONG

ST. PATRICK'S SOCIETY OF 10NG HONG

Extraordinary General Meeting

IS

HEREBY

Annual Dinner and Dance

NOTICE

The Society's Annual Din-GIVEN that an Extra- ner and Dance will be held In the Peninsula Hotel, 1st Flour, on St. Patrick's Day. Thursday, 17 March, 1955.

giving

ordinary General Meeting 94 the Shareholders of the Corporation will be held at the Hend Ofico of the full Corporation, 1 Queen's Road,

A circular details has been sont to mem- bers, but in the event of non- delivery, members Bre FC- quested to apply the Hon. Secretary for further coples.

Central, Hong Kong on Friday the 11th day of March 1955 at 12.20 p.m.. or 80 soon afterwards us the Ordinary Yearly General Meeting is concluded, when the aubjoined Early application for In-resolutions will be submitted vitations should be made as an Ordinary Resolutions →→

numbers wild be strictly

limited. All applications must reach

the Hon. Secretary before the 6th March, 1955.

are

Ali Irish men and women, and persons of Irish Associa- tion, not yet members, cordially invited to join the Society. Membership appli. cution forms may be obtained from the Hon. Secretary.

T. P. CULLEN,

Hon. Secretary,

P. O. Box 615,

Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Birds

Herklota, G. A. O. 1953. Hong Kong Birds. Pp. +233, 11 pls.. 8 in colour, numerous black- and-white drawings fr teri. Hong Kong: South China Morning Port. Ltd. HK$35.00.

a most welcome handbook for ornitholo- gisis resident or station- ed in Hong Kong,, All the hitherto recorded spècies Aro Included; plumages are clearly and conclecly described, and a short account is given of field characters, habits

volee,

status,

cic. The illustrations, except for

for three plates

plated

BC 01

of photographs, are all by Cdr. A. M. and include four Live plates of the heads of.42

species

und many drawings in the

The writer of uits review would

havo

benefited from

this book

station.

ed in Hong Kong some

ngo, EVOS TH

Уста

now,

it, some

on referring to 40 unfamiljar species

on which notes were made at the time have. nimošt all, proved exally Identifiable, —D. W. S.

(Rufesót from "The Ibig" ofislat Gegan, or the British Ornithologiata"

C. M. POST

"1. That the capital of the Corporation be increased from twenty million Hong Kong dollars to twenty five million Hong Kong dollars by the creation of forty thou- sand new shares of one hundred and twenty five Hong Kong dollars each.

of

2. That: (a) It is desir- able to capitalise a aum Ave million Hong Kong dollars being part of the undivided profits of tho Corporation standing to the credit of the Reserve Fund and such accordingly that sum be capitalised and applied in payment in full for forty thousand new shares of the Corporation of оде hundred and twenty five Hong Kong dollars each and that such shares credited as fully paid up be distributed amongst the shareholders who on the 11th day of March 19GG were registered shareholders of tho Corporation in the pro- portion of one new share for every four then hold by such shareholders that respectively and such shares shall rank for dividend as from the 1st day of January 1955 and shall in all otbor .respects rank pari pasau with the existing shares of the Corporation.

(b) The Board be hereby, authorised to allot arid- Issue, Bucht now shares for distribution in the manner and proportiona aforesaid."!

By Order of the Board, MICHAEL W. TURNER,

Chief Manager/ Hongkong, 1st Feb., 1956.

ONLY 20 PER CENT

a

We represent "No, I do not.

workers only mhority of There are more than 10 million workers In this country and We have organised less than 20 jar cent of them."

Baid that the

Learning

The Hard Way

Two

'London, Feb. 10. Reading University students, Arthur Shepherd, 22, Tearlach Maclean, 23, and spent a freezing uncomfortable first night in a

cave heur the

He declined to give delalis of The aims of the new union bu! 'white callar" Or

town where they are trying to offee worker should be "the same opportunity to build live in the conditions of pre-

conditions historie mari,

up

ls

working

through unions."

given

Heavy rain drove them Grom their wood fire lit by rubbing Trade unton jendeas plan "two sticks together and they giart drive to take in millions spent most of the night shiver-

after

the ing in a sheltered corner. They ran out of frewood and organi-had to nuske two trips in dark- ness to forests to cul- merger | se before let more

of

members new

merger

The chiefs of the two sations pri dieteri the would be accomplished the end the year.

ulso

The studen

THREATENED BY BIRDS

The famous Arch of Coth stantine, near the Colosseurs, Rome, which was constructed in honour of the memory of the first Chistian Emperor who stopped paganism ancient Roman times, is in a grave state of disrepair. Work now in progren to see if the ancient arch can be saved. Experts say that the trouble caused

birds carrying fig-tree seeds which take root in the dirt between stone the crevices

the of blocks as the rools grow they force the blocks apart, Articles In the Italian Press claim that, as usual, the Government has waited too long before start- Ing.-Express Photo

has

been

by

ANOTHER STRAD

FOUND

New French Drinking

Laws

Paris, Feb. 10. New French drinking laws, originated by the milk drinking M. Pierre Mendes-France before hla Government's collapse, came into force today,

caretaker Deerved

by the Government in the journal Off- ciale, the modifications on alcohol consumption order cate owners not to employ Women under 21 and to keep one shelf behind the bar for non-alcoholle drinks.

hospitals,

No one under 21 may open a who has bar nor may anyone Venice, Feb. 10. A violin bearing the inscription been in prison for more than a "Antonius Stradivarius

Cre-year,

New bars must not be opened

cemeteries, near intend to ilve monensis" and the date of 1721 as ancient Britons un Satur- has been found in the attle of an schools, sports grounds, prisms

or barracks. Mr John I. Lewis, President day morning-so that they can old leuse in the Ventee suburbs,

of alcoholic with conviction and

The only kind It will be examined by experts United Mineworkers oppose of the

ago experience a University debating to determine if it is really the drink a street hawker may sell Unton, who twenty years

celebrated violin is one of less than 23 degrees of of the in rebellion rociety motion that man should work

based on wine.- formed the C.1.0 against the A.F.L. declined to return to his original state."-maker. If it is, it would be worth alcohol and

Reuter. China Mail Special,

a small fortune-France-Presse, comment on the plan.-Reuter.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

THE CRUISER, BEARING NARDA AND LOTHAR INSIDE-- SINKS DOWN-DOWN--DOWN--

FERDINAND

NANCY

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BLA-BLA-BLA- BLA-BLA-

UNCONSCIOUS, MANDRAKE IS CARRIED UP BY THE LIFE PRESERVER...

JOHNNY HAZARD

MISTER, IF I TOLD YOU WHERE THAT PARAKEET. 18 BOUND FOR,I'D GET" INTO A LOT OF TROUBLE?:

BLA-BLA-BLA-

BLA-BLA-BLA- BLA-BLA-

FANIZ

"YOU'RE IN TROUBLE NOW, SUS WERE SMART 1 WTAKE CARE OF

1+1 GUESS YOU'RE MIGHT? OKAYWIN ALBERE..... T'M

TO DELIVER IT

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

THIS IS THE POSITION

WHERE THE CRUISER CALLED US. NO SIGN

OF IT

12-0

Hey-- THERE'S

A MAN

IN THE WATER-

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

I GUESS I COOLED OFF MY SOUP TOO LONG

CRUNCH

CRUNCH

By Frank Robbins

Opposed To New Constitution

Tokyo, Feb. 10.

Japan's Conservative politicians want to change the nation's postwar Constitution to legalise rearmament and re-deflue the status of the Emperor.

The Allied Occupation authorities sponsored the Constitution. It forbade the maintenance of · amed forces. It deprived the Emperor of his status as a divinity and made the Diet (Parlia- ment) the "highest organ of state power." Today. Many Conservative politicians dissatisfied with the Constitution, on the grounds that it is not realistic.

outbreak

arose

My

ATO

the

The question of rovising the well as other war potential, Constitution

after thewill never be maininined. The

belligerency of ut the Korean war. right of

the At that time,

Japanese State will not be recognised."

declared Yoshida in-

that Government, acting от structions from General Douglas Japan had not an army, navy or air force "in the usuni ectio MacArthur's Occupation Head-

She had only quarters, established a National of the words." 10 defence forces. Police Reserve. With the pas ago of time, the National Police Reserve collected, mostly from the United States, an arsenal weapons which included fold

guna, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns and various automatic weapons.

of

SISTER SERVICES

As the "defence forces" WETE not being maintained for pur- posts of aggression, they were a violation of not, he argued, the Constitution.

His succesOT, Mr Hatoyams, who besinned office last Decem- ber, Also

that the declares Constitution has not been violated. He believes, however,

the that

Article

bo should amended because it is "too am- biguous" and "many uniformed people have misinterpreted it."

ABSOLUTE RULER

Until promulgation of the postwar

Congiltation, the Emperor Prime

wee an absoluto ruler, worshipped direct descendant of the Sum Goddess, Amateraru Omikaml.

By July 1954, the Natan- Al Police Reserve had become

Ground Self the Defence Forces, and sister services, the Sea Self De- fence Force and the Air Self Defence Force, wero In existence.

From 1950 to 1054, Mr Shigeru Yoshida, the Minister, maintained that there

-and were no armed forces in Japan

if there

they wvere, were

violation not

of the Constitution.

09

Articles 9 of the Constitution

WD

A

The postwar Consutution de-

Emperor

MA

"the

and the

of resides

states: "Aspiring sincerely to fined the an international peace based on symbol of the State justice and order, the Japanese unity of the people, deriving

his, position from the will people for ever enounco

as sovereign right of, the the people with whom

Sovereign power." nation, or the threat or use force tes a means of settling disputes with other nations,

"For

the above purpose, land, sea, and air forces, as

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ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you asen

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS

AND REFRIGERATORS

Couldn't be fresher!

Libby's M

FROZEN, PIAS TODAY

BLACK MAGIC

ASSORTED

CHOCOLATES

Minnet

of

Article 2 of the Constitution states: "The advice and op- proval of the Cabinet shall po

for all acts of required

the Emperor in matters of State, and the Cabinet shall bo #porisible therefore."

Mr Shigeru Yoshida's con- servative Liberal Party, which hat just completedt à series of the to draft amendments Constitution before losing favoured power In December, changing the Emperor's status from "symbol of the people" to "Sovereign," or "head of the Stato."

The Liberals had also in- tended to amend the clause denning the Dict 0.3 the "highest organ of State power." When the party went out of power, it had not deelded what the Diet's status would be il the clause were amèndert. Op- pakist of the arnendiments declared that the Diet's author....... ity would have been weakond and the Emperor's strengthened.

SUPPORT

Mr Haloyama's Conserva-, tivo

Japanese Demócrat Party, which containin * Large number of former Liberals, also wants to re- vise the Constitution. Many individual members of the party supported the amènd- 1218 proposed by Liberals.

Mr Hutoyams Hlmselt hast said that he wants to revise the elnuser renouncing war and the maintenance of armed forces, ne well as some other parts of the Constitution which he has not specified, ·

Other Constitutional changes which many Conservatives hive. said that they would like to sec made, Grūt

One hundred of the 230 Diet Upper House seats to be served for appointed, members, At present, all seats are filled by coction; and

A return to the "family system" of prower days.

Before the World War II, the "head of the family had an great dead of power over the. Individuzna members of his rently group, Mance are pas the return ticularly

opposed to of the family system.

Before the way

Woman married; she

when

entered In

her husband's family and

many. crocs becamTVEY. dimost lave to the family. Under the postwar Constitution men end women marry "with the equal eights of husband and, wife,

Many Kárly

OPPOSITION