SAFEGUARDS:
WHEN TRAVELING
1
Warning signs on land and sea are for your Travelers Cheques are for personal safety the safety of your travel funds, You make the funds "loss proof" and theft-proof”. when you change your travel cash into
AMERICAN
TRAVELERS
$1
EXPRESS
CHEQUES -
If lost or stolen before you countersign them, a, prompt refund is made. The denomina- tions are $10, $20. $50 and $100 and also £2 £5 and £10. They are spendable everywhere and no identification is required other than your signature.
THE AMERICAN
EXPRESS CO.,
INC.
IncorroRATED WITH LIMITED MABILITY IN L.B.A.
4. Des Voeux "Road Central
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.
The Hong Kong Girl Guides Association will be "At Honie" at Sandlands "Hut on Saturday. 28th inst. at 3.30 p.m. to wel. Guiders, come Commissioners, Guides and Brownies from Shanghai and the North to talk over plans for further local ser. vice during the present emer. gency,
Sandilands Hut is situated on Marray Path which leads from Garden Road opposite St. John's Cathedral.
Will Hong Kong Gulders please make a point of also being present at this meeting.
G
B.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON "DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 30th day of August, 1937, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crewn Land at Repulse Bay Road in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a 'Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.
Any information may be had Intending bidders are advised from Mrs. A. R. H. Phillips. that immediately after the dis "Cornhill, Quarry Bay. Tel.posal of the lot the purchaser
24676."
(11 not the applicant), will 5510 be required to deposit with an
CARGO FOR NINGPO,
SHANGHAI AND NORTHERN PORTS.
Owing to the risks, losses and delays liable to be incurred in North operating ships in the under present conditions a tem- porary Emergency Surcharge of $5.00 per ton of 20 cwt. or 40 cu.ft. will be levied on all cargo shipped to ports north of Foo. chow, until further notice.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents, China Navigation Co., Ltd. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
General Managers, Indo-China
S.N. Co., Ltd.
NOTICE TO
5517
CONSIGNEES.
RICKMERS LINIE.
ال
|
authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum at two hundred dollars, $200.00 in cash. This sum will be refund. ed on payment of the purchase price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
Rural Building
Lot No. 399,
Repulse Bay Road.
Registry No.
Locality.
Boundary.At
Messure-
ments.
[St. [z. ft. ft.
As per
sale plan.
Contente in
Square foot.
About
Rental. Annua
in Upset Price,
230
5514
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1937.
NEW ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS :
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LIMITED.
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED IN THE GOODS of that an Interim Dividend of One Ralph Packham, late of Dollar per Share has been de "Meadway," Kingston Lane, | clared for the six months ended Southwick in the County of 30th June, 1937, and will be Sussex, England, formerly payable on and after Thursday, of Kowloon, Hong Kong, 9th September, 1937. deceased.
Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Registered Office, P. & O. Build Ing.
Dividend
THE REGISTER OF
NOTICE TO
CONSIGNEES.
MAERSK LINE. Notice, is hereby given to Con- signees of Shanghai cargo shipped per m.v. Tasmania," arrived from New York and Ports of call on the 18th August, 1937, that owing to the hostililes in Shang- hai, part of the cargo destined for that port is being discharged at Hong Kong. Consignees are further notified that all expenses incurred in this connection are for their account.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, made an" Order "limiting the time for SHARES of the Company will creditors and others to send in be CLOSED from MONDAY, their claims against the above 30th AUGUST, to WEDNES estate to the 19th day of Sep. DAY, 8th SEPTEMBER (both
days Inclusive) during which Hong Kong, 20th August, 1937. tember, 1937.
period no transfer of shares can be registered.
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required. to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.
Dated the 24th day of August, 1937.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER. Solicitors for the Executrix, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Hong Kong.
5516
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION,
יו
IN THE GOODS of Isabella Kerr or Stevenson, late of Rowantree, Kilmun, Argyll- shire Scotland, Widow, de
ceased.
lor
HEREBY NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Pro bates Ordinance 1897, made an Order limiting the time creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 14th day of Septem. ber, 1937.
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.
Dated the 18th day" of August, 1937.
JOHNSON, STOKES &
MASTER, Solicitors for the Executors, The Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building, Hong Kong.
NOTICE.
5495
Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. Jardine, Engineering Corpora
tion
Ewo Cotton Mills.
Ewo Brewery. Indo-China S.N. Co., Ltd. Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf
Company,
Paton and Baldwin (Shang.
hai).
By Order of the Board of Directors.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
JEBSEN & CO.,
Agents.
7
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD..
Agents.
NOTICE TO
Hong Kong, 29th July, 1937.
5487
THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING CO., LIMITED. (Incorporated in Queensland),
Notice of Declaration of Second- Interim Dividend.
j
5500
CONSIGNEES.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA
LINIE.
Notice is hereby given to Con signees of Shanghai cargo shipped per following vessels from Ham- burg and Ports of call:
S.S, "* Scheer" arrived 18th
August, 1987,
m.s. Sauerland" arrived 18th
August, 1937,
#
s.s. "Oldenburg" arrived 21st
August, 1937,
at
NOTICE is hereby given that a Second Interim Dividend of discharged four pence per share on account Consignees are further notified of the financial year ending 31st that all expenses incurred in this March, 1938 has been declared connection are for their account. No Fire Insurance will be by the Directors of the Company
15th effected. in Brisbane, payable on September, 1937 to Shareholders on the Registers at Brisbane and Singapore, on 14th September,
1937.
from
NOTICE is also hereby given that the Singapore Transfer Re
will be closed gisters Wednesday, 8th September, to Tuesday, 14th September, 1937, both days inclusive, for the pre- paration of Dividend Warrants.
By Order of the Board, DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants, Local Secretaries. Hong Kong Bank Chambers, Singapore, 14th August, 1937.
5510
REFUGEES FROM SHANGHAI
PER M.S. **TAISHAN
All persons of Danish nationa lity who arrived in the Colony per the above vessel, and who have found their own accommo- dation, are requested to forward immediately their addresses to Mrs. Pedersen, e/o The Great Will all members and/or wives Northern Telegraph Office, Con of members of the Stall of the naught Road Central, in order to above please report any change facilitate enquiries and mail deli CONSIGNEES in address and advise if any veries.
luggage is missing, Evacuation THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, | Office, 1st Floor, Jardine, Mathe
LIMITED.
son & Co., Ltd. Tel. 25748.
NOTICE TO
Consignees per S.S. "BEN. ALDER "*" arrived Hong Kong 20th August, 1937, are hereby notified that on account of the present serious disturbances in Shanghai, all cargo destined for that port and Northern ports with "transhipment in Shanghai,
5509
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY, HONG KONG, (Middle School for Chinese Students).
Notice is hereby given to Con signees of Shanghai cargo shipped "Delke Rickmers" per 8.8, arrived 23rd August, 1937 from Hamburg and Ports of call, that owing to the hostilities in Shanghai, all cargo destined for that port and Northern ports is being discharged at Hong Sept. 7th. An Examination for with transhipment In Shanghai,
Kong at the entire risk and new students will be held on is being discharged at Hong Kong at the entire risk and ex- expense of the Owners of the Monday, Sept. 6th at 9 a.m. pense of the Owners of the goods goods and that the liability of and that the liability of the car rler ceases henceforth.
JEBSEN & CO.,
Agents.
The new school year begins
For prospectus, for boarders
DANISH CONSUL.
REFUGEES FROM SHANGHAI
PER M.S. TAISHAN"
All persons of Norwegian na tionality who arrived in the Colony per the above vessel, and who have found their OWN accommodation, are requested to
MARRIAGES
BOWYER: JORDAN-On Aug. 7,
1937, at St. Stephen's South Dulwich, Erie, son of the late Frederic Bowyer, to Marlon Ruh Scurrah, daughter of the late Paul Jordan, of Hong of Kong, and Mrs. Jordan, Dulwich.
ROBERTS THOMAS-On Satur
NEWSPAPERS
IN
1.
SHANGHAI
(Continued from Page 1)
and
Amidst all these official formal advertisements there is one day, Aug. T. 1937, at St. Step- hen's Church, Sydenham-hill, display advertisement inserted by a. firm famous all over the Far ELWYN BECKWITH ROL BERTS, elder son of the later East. This. Arm has "heid" this Dr. John Roberts, of Llanberis space on the front page of the China Dally News" for and Mrs. Roberts, of Wim- "North bledon, to ELEANOR BLAKE, many, many years-and it still. only daughter of the late holds it. The advertisement is PETER THOMAS, of Shanghal, particularly timely amidst all the and Mrs. Thomas, of Upper stress and strain of the undeclared
war. The ad. is for brandy, Norwood.
the news Reading through CAMPBELL-THOMSON.At the columns and the Leader page one
University Chapel, Glasgow,
gets a very vivid idea of the war on 12th August, 1937. by Rev.
at Arst hand, more especially where David M Tod MLA.. Robert it touches the civilian population. Rankin Campbell, Cyprus, to Apparently splendid work is being. Shella Harriet, elder daughter
accomplished in the matter of of Mr. and Mrs. R M'Intyre maintaining law and order under Thomson, Giffnock
conditions calculated to promote mass hysteria.
Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central. Tel: 30241. Night Editor (Wanchal Omer):
Tel. 24511. London Once: 53. Feet Street
E.C.4.
The Daily Press.
友之國中
HONG KONG, AUGUST 23, 1937.
HOW LONG?
War
that owing to the hostilities in Six weeks ago a shot was fired Shanghai, all cargo destined for in the vicinity of Lukuochiao. that port by these vessels is being Since then thousands of people Hong Kong. I have been killed and the damage to property has reucted colossal proportions. Hour by hour the fury and frighttuluess of the undeclared Sino-Japanese increases. Shanghai, one of the most celebrated commercial cen- tres in the universe, is ruined and many important businesses bave been reduced to a state bordering on bankruptcy. Doubt less many of them are actually bankrupt now.
JEBSEN & CO.,
Agents.
Hong Kong, 20th August, 1937. 5501
NOTICE TO
CONSIGNEES.
BARBER WILHELMSEN
LINE
IL is certainly a deplorable state of affairs and entirely un- worthy of civilization.
Some of those well-known ohl war names crop up here and there in the abbreviated accounts of Corner." street scenes. "Windy for instance, has become as famous in Shanghal as it was in France.
It is a great testimony to the sta in general and the editor in particular that the issue "we are discussing or the "North China. a leading Daily News" carries article. Written within probable striking distance by bombs and shells, the leader is notably calm. and collected in theme and tone. Entitled, "Clearing the Ground,” it deals with plans for the evacuating of British women and children, and the promptness displayed by the British Naval and Military au- thorities under trying conditions.
The leading article is broken" by "a "box" which is headed. "Evacuation Orders," intimating that "In future British evacuation orders will appear at the top of.
the eighth column of the Leader page."
General news is. restricted to the
tragedies which are being staged by Japan in the very streets which
There are also pictures in this have become slippery with blood. very fine production of a little paper by a genuinely big Arm..
be drawn, namely, that if all the Powers who then protested their. desire to maintain peace pin the Pacific were to-day to demand that peace be re-established in this zone, then Japan would be forced to stop in her mad and There is ab- Inaddening career. now long will ius guastly and solutely no doubt about the utile military adventure by potential efficacy of signatory Japan continue? Or, would it nations to a Pacific Pact, and we perhaps be properly interpretive can take it that, although the of world thought to ask, how conference was never held, yet loug will this war be allowed to indications were not lacking that it had the blessing of the nations continue?
bordering on the Pacific with the solitary exception of Japan. We firmly believe that if now those nations who were then in agree- ment were to insist upon Japan. ceasing the prosecuting of the present unprovoked war of ag gression, then Japan would simp- ly have to step and submit her claims, if any, to arbitration. would not be necessary for the parties to the Pacific Pact even to contemplate enforcing their combined, will by resorting to arms. All that would be requir ed would be the rigid enforce- ment economic sanctions
of against Japan.
Notice is hereby given to Consignees of Shanghai Cargo shipped per M.V." Taronga arrived from Manila on the 17th
It appears to us that, whilst August, 1937, that owing to the hostilities in Shanghai, all cargo recogning the logic of the destined for that port is being argument that it is primarily the of China to defend her discharged at Hong Kong. concern
own territory, yet, in a secondary Consignees are further notified
whole world i that all expenses incurred in this respect the connection are for their account, affected by the trend of affairs in
the East. No Fire Insurance will be effected.
#
·
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
Agents.
ITALY ACCUSED
IL
Without doubt the British Empire is the most interested party for many reasons, not the least vital being the attitude of 5508ber Dominions whose policies are inter-locked in the Imperial De- fence Council's plan.
Geneva, Aug. 20.
It
It will be remembered that but a few weeks ago at the final session of the Imperial Confer- During the first six months of ence held in London, a. Pacific this year the adverse trade Accusing Italy of responsibility Pact was suggested by Aus balance in Japan has increased by for the sinking of ave Spa tralia's Prime Minister, Mr. fifty per cent. It only needs n Government steamships in Mediterranean, the Valencia Gov-J.A. Lyons, and this suggestion little more to bring about a state ernment has telegraphed to the was received with enthusiasm of affairs, economically speaking, League of Nations demanding the and respect. The plan envisaged in Japan that might be termed
pandemonium. the bolding of a meeting of re- financial
Reuter.
the
matter be dealth with under år. ticle XI of the League Covenant..
The telegram declares the sink-presentatives of every nation there is evidence that industrially ings constitute a new act of ag with territorial interests in the Japan is not happy domestically, gression against republican Spain Pacific zone to produce a formula it would not take very much now and create general. tension in the which would form the basis of to start a spark which would whole of the Mediterranean area naval agreements designed to en- possibly become the greatest by reason of the open assistance: given to the Insurgent forces in sure a greater measure of safety social conflagration the world has Spain by the Italian naval torces.in this troubled, section of the ever known. Then the Military globe. Significantly enough, it Party in Japan would know was proposed by Mr. Lyons that where it stood-or hung.
It has been stated that China the inaugural meeting be held in Tokyo!
can equip and maintain two. Japan regarded the proposal million troops for two years. with marked disfavour, but every Presumably Japan is prepared to other nation accorded the plan endure. for a long as China.. generous and well-merited sup- The prospect is not healthy or port. From the policies of the happy. Immediate and vigorous various nations in respect to the action by the unified Powers of Pacific Pact proposal only one the Pacific would provide the major conclusion can reasonably answer to our query. How long?
CASTRO, URDIALES TAKEN
Bilbao, Aug. 23. and day-boys, apply to Fung forward Immediately their ad. the carrier ceases henceforth.
Castro Urdiales, most important Man Sul, Esq., or Chan Pak dresses to the Rev. J. Nilsen, Basque stronghold on the coast, be- Huk, Esq., Messrs. H. Wicking, Prince's Building (Tel. 30241) / Norwegian Consulate, York tween Bilbao and Santander, has Buliding, in order to facilitate been captured by the Insurgents, or to St. Stephen's College, enquiries and mail deliveries. according to a military communi- Stanley, Hong Kong.
NORWEGIAN CONSUL- Beuter.
W, R. LOXLEY & CO. (CHINÄ), LTD.,
As Agents. Hong Kong, 24th Augast, 1937. Hong Kong, 21st August, 1937.
5504
5518
5488
que reaching here?
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.