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ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED,

NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that" AD EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL "MEETING' of

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ADVERTISEMENTS.

126B. Any instrumant'appoint. "ing an alternate Director in "pursuance of Artiola 126A of“; Chase Articles shall be as nearly "na siroumstances will admit in "the fallowing form or to the "effoot following:-"

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HOTIES, LIMITED.

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Members of The Homo KONG THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI and SHANORAt Hornis; Tsmiter, will be hold At Exchango Building, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong. FRIDAY, the EIGHTEENTH day of MARCH, 1932, at 11.80 in the forenoon im mediately after the Annual General Meeting of the Company for the purpose of considering and if thought At passing the following rosolutions as Ordinary Resolutions-

1. That the authorised Capital of the Company (which is now $10,000. 000,00 divided into 1,000,000 Shares of $10.00 each, of which the whole have been issued) be increased from $10,000,000.00 consisting as afore said to $15,000,000.00 (consisting of 1,500,00 Shares of the nominal Talus of $14.00 each) by the creation

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE HONG KONG JOCKÉT CLUB.

ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1932.

́20TH, 22MP, 2310, 24TH AND 2778 FEBRUARY, 1932.

H.K. & SHANGHAI HOTELS.

[STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR 1931.

HONG KONG STOCK MARKET.

YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL

QUOTATIONS.

Sales.

The Balance at credit of Prant Privos were further marked down, and Loss Account (including the yesterday morning, and it is becom sum of $114,936.57 brought forwarding increasingly clear that the locul M Saturday 20th, Merday 22nd, Trom the previous year) after sharg-market is more and more being ON

Tuesday 23rd, and Wednesdaying interest, insurance, mainten dominated by the unsettled situation' a Director of The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, 24th February, the frat bell will be

anca and repairs, etc., providing for in the North- Limited, in pursuance of the power will be run at 11:30 am. On Satur depreciation and lad and doubtful-

:rung" at 11 am, and the first mon in that behult contained in Article day, the 27th February, the first bell debts, amounted to 8921,794.31, 128A of the Articles of Association will be rung at 1p.m., and the first which the Directors, at the forth- of the Company.do hereby nominato race will be ran as 1.30 pm. and oppoint............... The tin interval will be taken coming yearly meeting to be hold

on March 18 will recommend appor alternate Director in my place during days.

tioning as follows:- my absence from the Colony of Hong Kong or my inability, to act as a Director through illness (as the esse may be) to exercise and dischargo all my duties as a Directar of the "Com pany.

.....bo net after the Afth racs on the arab four

AS WITNESS my hand this.

"MEMBENS' BADGES AND

KNULOSURE Members are reminded that they and their indies mest

wear their badges prominently displayed.

of 500,000 New Shares of the day of One thousand nine the Members' Enclosure ding

nominal value of $10.00; each.

52. That in the Arst instanco 200,000 of the said New Shares be offered at par (in the proportion of one Now Share for every five Old Share held by them respectively) to the persons who on the eighteenth day of March, 1932, are registered in the Company's Share Register as the holders of the 1,00,000 Old Sharos and so that on acceptance of such offer the full nominal numount due in respect of such 200,000 New Shares shall be payable on the 30th day of June, 1932, and that 'on acceptance of such offer and on payment in manner aforesaid such share 80 taken up shall rank as from the 1st day of July, 1982, for dividend' and in all other respouts pari passu with the shares constituting the Company's present issued Capital, and that any of the said 200,000 New Shares which shall not be taken up by the Company's Shareholders in manner aforesaid be disposed of at such time or tinos in such manner and apon such term and conditiota as the Company's Board of Directors abal) think it..

3. That such offor ba made by notice specifying the number of shares to which the Member is entitled and limiting the time within which the offer if not accepted by the Member on behalf of himself or his nominee will be deemed to be declined and that the Directors be at liberty to fix such time and to extend it to such date or dates as they may think fit.

4. That the balanes of 300,000 Shares constituting the Company's unissued Capital be issued at such time or time in such manner and for such purposes and upon each terme and conditiona.in.every respect as the Company's Board of Directors may decide.

hundred and thirty

No one without a badge will be Padmitted to the Mambore! Enclosure.

Badges admitting non-members to Club Rooms at $10.00 per day tax-or $40.00 including tax for the AND NOTICE IS HEREBY Meeting (ladies 30.00 and $20.00 res ALSO GIVEN that a further Extra-pectively), are obtainable through the ordinary General Meeting of the Secretary upon introduction by a Members of the above named Com Member, such Member to be res pany will be held at Noon at the ponsible for all chits, ate. same place on the Fourth day of April, 1992, for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings at the last above mentioned mooting and of confirming if thought tas & Special Resolution the before men tioned resolution numbered & herein.

Dated this 27th day of January, 1992.

By Order of the Board,

F. C. BARET,

Secretary. (1749

THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

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HOTELS, LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN HONGKONG)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the ORDINARY YEAR. Y MEETING of Shareholders of THA HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, AMEN, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company (Exchange Building, Des Voeur Road, Central, Hong Kong), on FRIDAY. the 18th day of MARCH, 1982, at 11 am.. for the purpose of receiving a Atatgiment of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors for the year ended on the 31st December, 1981, confirming the appointment of a Director and re- electing a Director and the Auditors.

Badges admitting to Members' Ea- closure will NOT be on aals at the

Race Course.

A limited number of Tiflag will be obtainable each day at the Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy, Tale- phone No. 21920.

To pay a divi dend of $30 conta per share 0 11 800,000 "old" shares

To pay a divi- dend of 30 cents par share

0 11 200,000 "new" shares

$480,000,00

80,000.00

-$540,000.00

To transfer to repairs

and renewala persunt... 48, 797,29 To carry forward to new

Rezount

032,007.11

8921,701.34

Unions, 8400. Hotela (Old), -840,40. Hong Kong Lands, 8701 ex. div. Ewo Cottons, Tis. 144. Star Ferries, 30%

· Electqlos, 8763.

Buyers,

Providents (New), $2.30. Chiness Estates; 805. Electrice, 8761

Dairy Farms, 129, Amusements, $181. Constructions (Old). #5.15. Constructions "(Now), #1.80. Goverment Loans, 3 per cent. premium.

נ:

Seilera.

Douglases, $28).

Docks, #29, Hotels (Old), $13.00.

SHANGHAI SIDELIGHTS

(Continued from Page 8.)

AT FRONT WITH "A" COMPANY.

SOME SCOTTISH LIBELS ANSWERED.

YER KNOWS OF A BETTER 'OLE."

This is to be about "A" Com- pany. 8.V.C.-the unit which, un- mentioned, unhonoured and unsung, but never unkempt, has been on the Right.of the Lino of the Interna-

ter

REFUGEE CAMP "BOMBED.

50 PERSONS KILLED IN YIL YING ROAD.

PROTESTS MADE TO AUTHORITIES.

Shanghai, that the food refugee camp in You Ying Road, Chapoi, yas bombed several times by Japanese sero planes, and that over 50 innocent lives were lost, r John Hope

Fol. 12-Decaring

Simpson, Director-General of the Nationin Flood Relief Commission, ha ndihessed the following letter

Mr. T. V. Soong, who is phair man of the Commission:

"Ishave to repart to you that a Ying Road, two miles north-west anup of food refugees on the Yin

of the North Station, and on the border of Chapei, contained, où January 28. 10:309 refugees, and a staff of 40 members. After the Arse Japanese bombardment of Chapel on January 29, about 2,000 of these redugees fed, but over. 3,000 remained in the camp, and were; as usual, fed and sheltered,

tional Settlement Front (except for short spell at Headquarters since the trouble started. Maybe it will not be interesting, but the iden of getting, something about us, put in- to "the papers", arose from our sooing, in the pross, occasional brief references to our left-flank, neigh bours, the Scottish Duggins, who on not or will not, but at any rate do not, move from quarters in bet than which no "front-line" army can ever have teen accom- modated. Yes, we admit freely that are envious. Rumour has it that they are so completely dug in ani so comfortable that even if demobilisation wars eventually to be ordered they would of necessity re- main where they are, and bring in Paris, January 12-Over three their wives, and sisters, and child thousand arrests were made in ren, and cousins, and aunts, and of unemployed demonstrations. The which would go to form a fully self not be permitted to op rate within Electric Co., Ltd., to be held on the precinots of The Hong Kong Wednesday, March 3, at 1 am, Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.the Directors will (subject to audit)ed by

demonstration, which was organis-contained Scottish colony. Tilins will be obtainable.. in the

paperdentally, they carry a small stock Restaurant in the Pablic Enclosure.

recommend that the balance avail-manité, took place on the occa of whisky. Also incidentally, we do able for distribution be disposad of sign of the reopening of Parliant. But to return to "A" Comit difficult to get away.

follows:-

permitted in either enclosure during On nopretext will children be

the Brat four days of the Meeting

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PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

The price of admission to the Tublic Enclosure is 4.00 per day including tax for all persons, including ladies and is payable at the Gate.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted to the Public Enclosure at $1.00 per day including tax.

H.K. ELECTRIC CO.

DIVIDEND OF $2.50 PER SHARE.

At the ordinary, yearly meeting

3,000 ARRESTS IN PARIS.

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DEMONSTRATIONS BY COMMUNISTS,

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noon.

"On. February 3, the camp was hombed by Japanese planes about killed on the spot, four persons A woman and a boy were

patients in the hospital" died of were wounded, and some of the

and there remained in the camp anly a few hundred persons, the majority of whom wore sick in hospital or aged people who found

Bookmakers, Tic Tac mea, etc., will of shareholders of the Hong Kong Paris this afternoon in the course haggises, and all other appurtences fright. Most of the refugees fed,

SERVANTS' PAŠSES. Pansea for Bervants will be issodis on application to the Secretary, Prd Floor, Gloucester Building.

Employers are requested to distri-

bute them with discrimination and to endorse their names on the passe

Servants are not permitted in the Members' Enclosure except for passing through on their duties, but must remain in their employers stand.

Auy presons fouad loltering with Servants passos in their possession. will forfeit the same and will be removed from the enclosure

By Order

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be closed from Wednesday, Hong Kong, 8th February, 1932. the 2nd March, 1932, until Friday, AND NOTICE IS HEREBY the 18th March, 1982, both days ALSO GIVEN that the before inclusive. mentioned Extraordinary General Meeting

will be continued for the purpose of considering and if thought fit passing the following Resolution "as

Resolution:-

By Order of the Board,

F. C. BARRY,

Secretary.

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д Extraordinary Hong Kong, 27th Jan 1982.

5. That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered in manner

f Bowing:-

(a) By the insertion immediately "aftor Article No. 126.of the exis "ting Articles of Association of the "two following new Articles to be "known as Articles 126.A and 126B. "125A. Bach Director who is a registered holder in his own right of not less than 25,000 Shares in the Capital of the "Company shall have the power to nominate any person ap- "proved for that purpose by a ajority of the other Directors "of the Company to act "us an alternate Director, in- "his place, during his ab- "sence from the Colony of "Hong Kong or inability to act "through illness as such Direct

"and af hle discretion to remove "such alternate Director, and on. "any such appointment being

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE. 13 HEREBY GIVEN

NOTICE.

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"R, J. §. 9. COOPER,, has taken over charge of this Company's interests in South China as from to-day until further notice.

For IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES (CHINA),

LTD..

G. F. HASLAM,

Divisional Manager.

that the ANNUAL ORDIN.Hong Kong, 15th Feb., 1982. [1826 ART 'GENERAL MEETING of Sharoholders will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL, Hong Kong, on MONDAY, the 29TH FEBRU ARY, 1982, nt 11.30 am. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1981.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, 18TH FEBRUARY to MONDAY, 29TH FEBRUARY, both days inclusive.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.

"made, the alterante Director Long Kong, 10th Feb., 1992. [1850

"

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

THE DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL.

NEXT Torm will commence on

Monday, February 22nd, at 880 a.m. New boys should attend on that day. Full partionlars as to fees, eto, muy be obtained from the Acting. Hendianster, F'. O. Bor 23.

Latest

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"shall be subject in all respect to "the terms and condition exist- "ing with reference to the other "Directors of the Company, and *any alternate Director while "acting in the place of an absent "Director, aball exercise and dis- "charge all the duties and func- tions of the Director he repres

that the ORDINARY YEAR BRUNSWICK "ents, but shall look to such LY MEETING of the bareholders "Director solely for hie ro. is this Corporation will be held at "muneration and shall not be the Head Office of the Corporation, "entitled to claim remuneration No.1, Queen's Road. Contral, Hong

and

RECORDS

"from the Company. Provided Kang, on SATURDAY, the 27TH MELOTONE "always that it shall be a con: FEBRUARY, 1982, at 31.80 am, "dition precedent to the exercise for the purpose of receiving the "of the power of appointment Report of the Board of Directors "herein contained and the con- together with a statement of Acegunte tinuance of the appointment for the year, eading 81st December, "hereunder that the Director ex- 1981. "ercising the same shall be, at

"the time of making such appoint-

The Register of Shares of the

"ment and shall continue to be Corporation will be CLOSED from

so long as the said appointment "continues, the registered hoirier "in his own right of not less than "25,000 Shares in the Capital of "the Company. Every appoint "ment made in pursuance of thin "Article shall be in writing un "dar the hand of the Director *making the same."

Monday, the 15th February to Saturday, the 27th February, 1992, (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of Shares can be registered

By, Order of the Board of Directors, V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chiat Manager. Hong Kong, 5th Feb., 1982,

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-Obtainable-

-from

THE

BRUNSWICK HOUSE

Arcade, Gloucester Bldg.

..$1,125,000.00

To pay a dividend of 89.50 per share on 450,000 shares..... To appropriate a aum to write off No. 3 and 4 Turbo Sets... To place to reserve... To carry forward to

next account.

179,050.00 400,000:60

106,930.11

81,840,205.11

S'HA LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY.

+

The Shanghai Land Investment Co., Ltd, are paying a final dividend of Tls. 35 per share (mak-

the Communiss

pany."

Inci-

ment,"

Early this afternoon processions

Jur position may properly and ofunemployed and Communista-na-briefly be described in the words of sembled on the outskirts of the City

Goldsmith- and begun to march towards the

Their wants but few centra. They wore dispersed at the

Their wishes all confined barriers of Paris, but acting on

In our case, wants and wishda Communist instructions. the men have so far been mainly a desire proceeded singly or in small groups for more leave than has been going to the Chamber of Deputies.

and our genial and popular By the time the sitting had begun C.S.M. has just broken the glad a large orowd of demonstrators.

mostly Communists, had assembled tidings that more leave is not only before the Chamber and in the Placo contemplated, but is, practically a de la Concorde and its approaches, fait accompli, we are now going as A large force of police quickly con- nicely as can be expected, thank well in hand. centrated and soon had the position you.

It was then decided to move aaninst the crowd. In, the course

Nothing Worse.

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Unnecessary and Inhuman,

The following day Japanese 'planes again bombed the camp and after the bombardment, 40 dead were found in the camp, most

of whom had been patients in the about 20 people, the occupants of With the exception of hospital. the camp were removed and it was. again bombed the following day, evacuated, and, as the relieving February 7. It was then entirely party was about to leave the camp, the planes returned and dropped beside the camp.

bomb which damaged a hous

I have protested against this action in a letter to the Japanese. Consul-General, pointing out that In violent comparison to our the action appears to have been

ing Tla, 1.68 for 1931) and carrying of this operation. 2,500 persons were Scottish friends, we are in what is] unnecessary, and was certainly in-

forward to next year's account Tls. -966,000,

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AVOID, and CUTE COUGHS, COLDS,

SORE THROATS, BRONCHITIS, etc.

by Taking

VALDA PASTILLES

On Sale at all Chemists & Druggists INSIST on the boxes bearing the name VALDA.

COMING SHORTLY TO THE KING'S

SYLVIA SIDNEY GENE RAYMOND

IN

LADIES

OF THE BIG HOUSE"

a Garamount Picture

apprehended. Another 500 arrests were made in various suburbs.

CORONER DELAYS

CREMATION.

Kenerally acknowledged to be the bunno. I said that no military draughtiest, beat-ventilated billet advantage whatever can have been over occupied by an army at enas. gained by these attacks on a comp To us, there are no varying degrees occupied by homeless refugees from of warmth, but of coldness, in re-the flooded areas, the only result gard to which the maximum of has been the sacrifice of over 50 comfort is perfectly expressed by perfectly innocent lives the little word "cold." and the "I sent a copy of my letter to minimum by a term which would the senior member of the Consular not be understood by the majority Body, with a request that its con- of the readers of the "N.-C.D.N" | tenta be conveyed to the members even if it were so unwise as t let of that Body, and another copy to it appear in print, We have some the Mayor of firenter Shanghai lovely braziers which cater benati Municipality,” INJURIES RECEIVED BEFORE [fully tornuburnable coke; and if we don't get much heat, we do get

WOMAN'S MANY BRUISES.

DEATH.

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goto priceless fags-and a real fug would like some, and would be glad is the supreme joy of a soldier's of as many as could be aparad heart. We did have some braziers Amid the enthusiasm, the Sassenach Following the adjournment of the that really brazed, but just as we got in another word, and gently inquest at Hammersmith on Mrs had got them going and had put explained that the only condition Maude Jarvis, aged 57, who was them where, in normal intercourse of gift was one bottle of whisky in found dead in a gas-filled room at with normal humans, they would return for each football supplied Zenobia-mansions, Queen's Club have been perfectly safe, our left silence and then, following a hu

Thers ensued a short dramatic gardena, West Kensington, Dr. handed neighbours, with a trea Edwin Smith, the Coroner, told the chory which would be unbelievable, tongue which the "A" Company

rfed, whispered conversation in husband that the arrangements he were it not true, swiped them. And follow knows not, they mid that had made for the cremation and there was the little matter of the they had just discovered that they funeral would have to be postpon-bugle. We had so come to look on had quite enough footballs for pre- it as our very own property, with sent needs; but thanks very much.

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"I do not as a rule interfers the only unsettled question who was again for the offer, but if the Seats with the burial arrangements, bus to get it for keops, that, with a there is a finality about cremation," child-like innocence which mimes have their Winnies and Freddick said the Coroner, and sometimes naturally to us but of which we are and McWhirters and sit transit it is inadvisable to bury until the quickly becoming cured, we allowed glorias and artists and cats and inquiry has been completed; so 1 down par way) to get possession of of these, in the person of our Lance- the Light Horse (who also live parrote and other things, we have am afraid you will have to alter it, albeit by bihery and corruption. Quarter-Bloke. To a newcomer, he something infinitely better than all the date of the cremation."

"One wants a little more or body a pretty poung for disinfec but it needs only a short acquaint However, it must have cost some dence, if it can be got" he added,tant-and anyway; we are vowed to ance to make one realise what a dis- at Arst appears rather tremendous, "because we have not arrived at any wipe at least three of their Rollses tinct asset he is to "A" Company adequate explanation of why this when they are up in "B,"

A Deal, in Footballs.

poor woman decided to take her

Working under the benignant eyes life, which apparently she did.”

of the Big-Quarter-Bloke, he can The inquiry was then adjourned |

produce at short notice anything until Monday.

One of our monbers had a stringe and everything a soldier can need, Henry Jarvis, the husband, experience the other day. He has from four-by-two to duckboard porter at Zenobia-maústone, said some slightly used footballs in his ammunition to castor oil, TALOr that his wife had not a worry it office. They don't belong to him, blades to tin hats. And it is an the" world."

and that probably accounts, for the education to listen to him. He is

The Coroner The doctor found kind thought which prompted him one of those gifted beings with a number of bruises. How do you to arrange to give somerto. "Althoughts that broathe and words account for those She must have Company and to the Light Horse, that burn, and if, as regrethally got them when she fell

and to visit the canteen of the happens occasionally, he finds the What makes you think the fellS.D.'s (ren, they actually have sorrowfal necessity of expressing She was on the floor when I found cantoan) with a more or less nimi displeasure with somebody, his ro her.

far offer. After the uale greets buke is enwrapped always in a Dr. Bronte said that he found a ings (they do make one welcome mantle of charming eloquence such large bruise on the back of the loft there is that little point in theirs is seldom if over encountered out. hand, and other bruises on the left I favour) he asked those who happen-side the world of a regular army, forearm, upper arm, and back of ped to be proment if they would like unit, But he is a worker withal. the head. They had been caused at have a football or two. Before and such comforts as we possess and few hours before death. They could the offerer could complete his after haven't been swipad by our left have been caused by more than one the response was immediate, de door neighbours are due in no reall fall. The condition of the woman's hite.

intense. emphatic.

Yas, measure to his personal effortsä heart suggested that she might have thankswary much the portaly L-OB thank you. been subject to an accidental Tall, -". "“(Continued on next Column),

And that is all for this time.