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EDITORIAL

POLICE, THUGS

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. EXCHANGE FIRE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION

IN THE GOODS of

NOTICE.

NOTICE.

1:

S. E. LEVY & CO.

Notice is hereby given that ANATOLE MICHAEL KOMORSKY of Peninsula Hotel, Investment Bankers & Brokers. Kowloon, Hongkong, is applying to the Governor for naturaliza.

Albert Ernest Harvey, late on, and that any person who knows any reason why naturaliza tion should not be granted should send a written and" signed state- ment of the facts to the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.

of Chatham Annexe Cameron Road, Kowloon in the Colony of Hongkong, formerly of the Harbour Department of the Colony of Hong Kong, de

ceased.

HEREBY

NOTICE.

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NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Court has hy

By mutual Agreement the virtue of Section 58 of the ' Probates Ordinance 1897, made "practice of Mr. W. A. Cornell an Order limiting the time for F.R.I.B.A.,

to send in creditors and others their claims against the above estate to the 28th day of January,

1939.

All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.

Dated the 3rd day of January, 1939.

JOHNSON, STOKES &

MASTER. Solicitors for the Executrix, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building,

Hong Kong.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION

F.S.I. Chartered Architect and Surveyor will be carried on by Messrs. Leigh & Orange, Chartered Civ En gineers and Architects, P. & 0 Building, Hongkong-as from 1st January, 1959.

by

ed

NOTICE.

mutual

Messrs. THOMSON & CO., Chartered Accountants, announce that Mr. E. S. WILKIN. SON, C.B.E., A.C.A., has, ceas. agreement, to be a

partner in the 16 Grm

from 31st December, as 1938, but that he will conting In work with them as Consulting Accountant and will retain all his personal appointments by arran fement with, those concerned. SHANGHAI, 1st Jan., 1939.

IN THE GOODS of Mary Measor, late of 108. Gledhow

Gardens, Kensington, in the!

NOTICE.

Mr. E. S. WILKINSON an

County of Middlesex, Eng.nounces that he has retired from

land, Widow, deceased.

his partnership in the firm of Messrs. THOMSON &

CO.,

NOTICE IS. HEREBY Chartered Accountants, as from GIVEN that the Court has by 31st December, 1938, but that he virtue of Section 58 of the will continue to work with that Probates Ordinance 1897, made firm as a Consulting Accountant an Order limiting the time for and will retain, until further no creditors and others to send in tice" all his personal appointments their claims against the above by special arrangement with those estate to the 25th day of January,

concerned. 1939.

All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.

Dated the 28th day of Decem. ber, 1938.

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Administrator, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building, Hong Kong.

SHANGHAI, 1st Jan., 1939.

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

HEREBY NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Certificate 6/NS.4430 dated Hongkong, 18th January, 1936 for Sixty shares of this Bank numbered 95407/ 95466 inclusive registered in the 2064 name of Mr. Virian Geoffrey

OFFICIAL NOTICE.

PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME.

Smyth has been Lost or Stolen. and should this certificate not be produced to the Bank before the 14th January, 1939, a new certi ficate for the shares will he

Alcate No. 6/NS.4430 will be

By Order of the Court of Directors,

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager.

2031

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

" ป

Mr. L. Danbar retires from

partnership in the above firm as of December 31st, 1938, and his interest and responsibility cense from (that date. L. DUNBAR.

G.

S. E. LEVY & CO;

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IN SHANGHAI

(T/

affray night edge

SHANGHAI, Jan. Ocean)----A shooting took place on Monday on the highway at the of the International Settlement. when a police patrol encoun- tered six bandits who opened with" plato! Are when chal- lenged.

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The police answered with valley of 69 bullets from sub- machine guns and sawed-off shot guns, but the bandits mannged to escape by Alecing into the open country beyond

Settlement

limits.

the

R.

The incident took place favourite residential quarter of of number Shanghal where hold-ups have occurred" recently.

barbed- Police are now using wire barricades to prevent ban d

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 9th day of Jan., 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor 'of one Lot of Crown Land at Sau Chuk Yuen Road, Kow. loon City, in the Colony of Hong Kong lor a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, 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 24 years less the last three days thereof.

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant), will be to deposit with an required authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars. ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded

from entering the Settlement, and the police patrols have been augmented by the White Russian regiment of the Shanghai Volun- teers. with arm.cured cars, as well as by British troops.

PUPPETS FOLD THEIR

ARMS

Precautionary methods and po licing of the district are made particularly difficult by the fact that only the roads of the Inter- national Settlement are under the Jurisdiction of the foreign authorities, while the adjoining the supervised by territory is

"Shanghal Japanese..- sponsored City Government," which is ap- parently doing nothing to pre-

Since the vent open banditry.

clty Japanese have occupied the a large number of gambling dens -have sprung up.

QUEEN, PRINCESS

IMPROVING LONDON, Jan. 4 (BWS)-It was on payment of the Purchase stated at Sandringham last night nrice.

that the Queen and Princess Elizabeth. who have been suffer ing from colds, continue to make good progress

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT

No.

of Sale.

New Kowloon In Registry No.

*$q!1*]

land Lot No 2649.

Sau Chuk Yuen

Rd. Kowloon City

Boundary Measure-

ments.

ft. ft. Furt

As per

eale plan.

Contents in

Annual

Itentat

Upsot Price

Aboat

16,150

Square feet.

186

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HONGKONG, JANUARY 5, 1939.

ANXIETY concerning the future

of the Chinese Government Railway Bonds is only natural. A close study of the situation indi- some cates the desirability of

the prompt action to preserve Interests which are being threa tened by Japanese action.

as consistently as they have been made On the Peiping-Mukden Line, the situation is unique, as British officials," while still on the pay-roll, are not allowed to per form their duties. indications are that the Japanese will not meet the obligations incurred by the Chinese at the time the loans were made so that foreign interests will. most probably, suffer by it unless some very drastic measures are adopted.

IT WILL BE RECALLED that

the Shanghal-Fengching loan agreement provides for a specified amount to be deposited in a bank regularly towards. Hiquidation of the loan. While this clause was strictly adhered to by the Chinese. these payments have automatically ceased since the Japanese took over control of the railway. same position obtains in comics tion with the Nanking-Shanghai and the Shanghal-Hangchow Rail- ways. It is particularly worthy of mention that the former line had been mortgaged in its entirety to the British and Chinese Corpora- tion and, though the Japanese are now working the line, they have refused representatives of the Cor-

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1939.

JAPAN'S 'RECONSTRUCTION' PLAN FOR AN UNCONQUERED CHINA

Inspiration Behind Tokyo's New Slogan

Immensity Of Task

Realised

CHIANG is still far from be- ing "done.", and when he says that "war has just begun," it is not idle rhetoric, The Japanese General Staff, the Japanese Government and the more in- telligent section of the Japan- ese public are fully aware of this and know the task that lles ahead of them.

BY FRANK H. HEDGES

Nevertheless the Government in Tokyo has begun to set about the "reconstruction" of" China and a new order in Eastern Asia and to pass on its aims to the public in the form of a slogan.

(CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY)

panies. with appropriate sub- |h China but for replenishment sidiaries, are to undertake the and reconstruction in the home- gigantic task of the economic de- lund, while the financial burden o1. velopment of all that part of "Independent Manchukuo" will in China under Japanese dominance, no wise be lessened. but they are not being given a freq hand by any means.

and Internal loans

increased taxation cannot raise the needed Following a struggle between the money, so that Tokyo will have to Foreign Office, and War Cmce, look abroad, and it will be a dis-' which brought about the resigna- couraging outlook. Even if they tion of two Foreign Ministers in were willing, neither of Japan's succession, the War Office plan for semi-allies m Europe is in a posi- the creation of a Central Chination to finarice Japan in China. orgah (officially called the Toain) Both Italy and Germany are more was adopted. This Toain is to take in the position of borrowers than of lenders. Where, then. can over the direction of all Japanese

Japan turn? affairs in China save diplomatic.

That qualification is vague and presents many problems. Just what Such reconstruction as has al- Is "diplomatic" and what is not. In ready "taken place makes no great one nation's relations with an- showing. In Peiping and, in Nan- other? It is probable that the king provisional and rénovation. Tokyo Foreign Office will-find that covernments have been set up. It has no hand in China policy of whilst in the north-west a third any sort, perhaps not even the ap- government has been established,pointment of a diplomat as am with the Mongol Prince Teh, at its | passador to the "New China," as is head. It co-operates none too well the case in "Manchukuo." with the new Peiping and Nanking regimes: they have created a joint. Growing Burden Of

Costs

commission which they believe will be the foundation for a new central government to be officially re cognised by Tokyo...

The heads of each of these three Governments huve been brought to the Japanese capital, where they have been entertained and made much of and told exactly what to do and what not to do.

Hazardous Economic

. Obstacle

may

THE TOAIN is to supervise the political reconstruction of China and the development of Its economie resources. But the Tokyo Government is not fliling the executive posts on the Toain with statesmen and financiers, but with retired generals and. admirals Japan's fighting services.

of

Doubtful Field For

Loans

THERE are only two great money marts in the world to-day. but Tokyo would scarcely

and expect London New York to hasten to offer it the millions needed for the economic development of China under Japanese direction.

The Japanese Government has repeatedly pledged itself to respect the rights and interests. of third Powers in China-and possibly it will once, the war is ended-yet these same third Powers have watched those rights and interests trampled upon with every advance of the Japanese Army.

There is no reason to believe thai the pound sterling or the American dollar is anxious to ven- ture into such a feld. Both may be expected to show the sarfe re- It will be interesting to see how luctance toward a Japan-controlled they set about accomplishing this | China that they have shown to- gfant's work placed in their hands. ward a Japan-controlled "Manchu-

Probably the hardest nut they | kuo."

DIFFICULT as "the political reconstruction of China along made-in-Japan" nes prove, the economic reconstruc- tion presents a still greater "Japan has never been a wealthy Term Reconstruction" of the New and more hazardous obstacle."

country, and hostilities are drain-China. But it can be confidently A North China Development ing her reserves rapidly. As long stated that Japan will find the Company and FO Central China as war goes on there is littlė doubt | political, cultural and economic that Tokyo can adequately reconstruction of China an in- Development, Company have been but organised, with the capital fully finance it, but the real test will initely greater undertaking then subscribed, though it is not known come when perce returns. Japah the armed conquest of that nation. what percentage has actually been will find it necessary to raise huge and even that is not yet ac paid up. These two parent com- sums, not only for reconstruction complished.

will find to crack is that of finan- In the meantime, Tokyo ton-" jcing their

schemes. ctnues to form its plans for “Long- grandiose

BOY KILLED BY

WAR RELIC

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Hello & Goodbye

BY A.W.HYER -

Bomb Filled With Firework Powder.

Far be it from us to fool our reading public when we informa You that not only have the elements kept planes in their" hangars Fragments of Mills pine-

throughout Europe and the south last week (your air mails from apple" bomb, which exploded and England and U.S.A. being late), but the "old lady fog" is holding up killed a 14-year old boy who filled

Įseveral vessels outside Warlan It with frework powder on Nov. 5, were handed to an inquest Aury at Brighton recently.

The

1.

"Even our new technical fog pene, Standard trater did not work, consequently,

have been playing rocking

passengers and

Vacuum Oll Co., in itanila, is visiting in Hongkong,

S.S. Nellore

The bomb, a relic of the Great we The

War, was brought back from the chair-salior on the Kowloon pler

the past two days. the boy.

SAILING AWAY to Shanghai on Ypres battlefields by

Wednesday afternoon at 4 Donald Arthur Parker. of Spring Empress of Japan

o'clock this steamer had few pier street, Brighton. when he visited Belgium at Easter.

LEAVE IT TO this liner to come attenders due to the short passen- of the

through any weather and prac-ger Hist. However, a good number force

explosion,

dod of time. On of males stood about waving to caused when the rework powder tically on the ignited high explosives still in Wednesday, at 7.30 a.m., she was the group of "Glamour Girls" who the bomb, shattered the windows tied to her pler and discharging have been entertaining the hotel light goes during the Christmas and of a house and tore five pieces of the few

| New Year season. Back to Shang- icongu. Concrete out of a wall.

Returning a verdiet of acciden Dur.ng the next 17 days the Em- hai dancing engagements they go to death, the jury appealed to press of Japan will undergo her and Hongkong was lots of fun: people still possessing war relics, annual overhaul at the Kowloon they had a good time and hope such as bomba and cartridges, to Docks for another year of service you all did to. surrender them at once to the for the Canadian Pacific and their A bit shyly Mr. R. Jarvis spoke nearest police station.

On January 21 she of his pleasant vacation in the Co- The coroner, Mr. Ronald Webb, will be tied to the Kowloon pier lony. This U.8. Consular represen- sala, "While these bombs are left ready to depart for the North and tative of the American Govern- with high explosives in them there Vancouver.

ment tron Hankow journeys to Is always the risk of an accident.

The genial Mr. and Mrs. N. Shanghai for a short visit before in the to his duties One may be in a private house Nathanson, with their daughter, returning to which firemen have been call-Miss J. Nathahson, and Master N. Chinese city, ed. The flames may reach the Nathanson who arrived from Mr. W. Fielding went sailing to bomb while the firemen are there. Manila, on the Empress will spend shanghai via this steamer, and

"HAND THEM TO POLICE"

several days visiting our delightful jeven in the limited space of public the could not locate The salons, we city, so they informed us, Capt. C. W. Ede. Home Office head of the family will devote his gentleman.

Explosives, said; Inspector of

as carry out an inspection.

FOR A CHANGE, the Japanese have been quite frank about their attitude-that as the lines are trophies of war, they cannot see how they can be bound by any agreements made by the Chinese. is This proposition, of course, wholly untenable.

passengers.

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issued, and the aforesaid Certi CHINA RAILWAYS poration the right to even so much 1, MAK MAN SANG, Secre thereafter treated by this Cor tary of the Tai Yau Steamshipporation as Null and Void. Company, Limited, No. 5, Des Voeux Road West, 1st floor, Hong Kong, bereby give notice that in consequence of Change of Ownership, I have applied to the

OF THE TOTAL cu'standing TIME was when the Japanese

foreign investments 13

repreatedly offered the ex- Board of Trade, under section

China's railways (approximately cuse that, as the lines were used 47 of the Merchant Shipping

£21,181,000), some 75 per cent, re- for military purposes, no inspection Act, 1894, in respect of the shiờ

presents British money. In this could be permitted but conditions "HARELDA " of Liverpool

particular direction, considerable have now changed so that this Official number 109510 of gross

Interest attaches to the Nanking excuse cannot hold any longer. NOTICE IS HEREBY Shanghai Raliway. the outstand- The Japanese have not for some tonnage, 1287:99 registered ton nage 651.12 heretofore owned by GIVEN that Certificate No. 8768 ings being:S.-N. Rallway Eve per time been operating the various the British and Continental i dated Hongkong, 30th January,cent. loan of 1903, £2,784,000; net lines for their own profit but they There is a large number of these me to the affairs of Ampro Cor-

have not yet paid a single cent to- 3.-N. Materials and Improvement wards liquidating the loans. Steamship Company, Limited of 1924 Tor-392-shares of this profit certificates, £580,000; and

numbered 181285/Loan of 1907, £800,000.

situation is an extremely serious Liverpool, for the permission Company, to change her name

THERE IS STILL £1,300,000 on-one and is another example of the and "HARELDAWINS "

paid on the Shanghai-Hang- inability of Japan to treat honestly

many

The Pan-American Airways' Phi- and returned to have her registered in the new has been Lost or Destroyed, and chow Railway (Completion Loan) with other Powers. Japan, through becoming more dangerous with E. M. Hardisty-Smith, tock, a trip

police friends there

spend several more weeks in the lippine Clipper is arriving this. name at the Port of Hong Kong should this, certificate not be pro. while the amount still outstanding her many spokesmen has often age. These souvenirs should be to Manila, visiting her

on the Canton-Kowloon Railway is repeated her assurances to "pro-handed to the nearest

tect" the interests of foreign statich

tall, noon with visitors and mall, Her This charming, £1,234,322. Let it not be for a

"They should nut be tampered Colony.

is indeed

southward departure will be about that supposed

these neutrals, but it is obvious that such moment

assurances, are worth nothing at with to find out whether they white-hatred lady

booster for our beautiful city. 8.30 am on Friday. quite the shares will hengures are complete. There are

contain explosives. It is all.

The huge Air France plane will Any objection to the pronosed cate for

Canada.

land at Kai Tak between noon and change of name must be sent to issued, and the aforesaid Certif. other lines, such as the Canton-

Hankow Railway, the Pelping- UNDER the circumstances, there possible that in trying to remove visiting here the Registrar of Shipping at cate No. 8768 will be thereafter Mukden and the Tientsin-Pukow remains but one course, and a rusty screw an explosion may

result."

The well-known resident, Mrs. Lene o'clock to-day.

And now, my readers hold every- The that Is Japan must be plainly and Hong Kong within seven days treated by this Company as Null Railways, to be considered.

The coroner's officer. Police-Sgt. Everett, returned from a Manila' majority of the lines mentioned bluntly informed that the matter.

war call via the Empress liner, and in thing! All information regarding from the appearance of this and Vold.

are now occupied by the Japanese cannot be allowed to rest where it Wren, said that during the advertisement.

By Order of the Board

"will be given to eu on Baturday and, in some cases, operated by 18. and that, unless some effort is he acted as an Army instructo: the next weeks will settle down in these ships and their passengers of Directors.

them. British interests, have made made by thera to redeem, in some In the use of Mills bombs. When the Peninsula Hotel

Though he disappeared before we morning in another Hello J. C, GUTERRES,

repeated requests for permission to degree, their honour, the most the mechanism was removed, the

we can inform youGoodbye strip. This addition will

04 drastic measures will be taken by bomb appeared to be empty, but located him. inspect. the lines in order to ascer-

Saturday morning Secretary tain the damage done to them but the Fowers concerned to protect bigh explosive was packed just that Mr. F. H. Noble, assistant continue

below the outer casing.

manager of the executive offices. hereafter. 5 these requests have been rejected their interests In China..

to 181676 inclusive, registered in

to the name of Lee Hysan (dec'α)

as owned by The Tal Yar duced to the Company before the

30th January 1939, a new cert!TM Steamship Company, Limited.

Dated at Hong Kong, this 4th

day of January, 1939.

MAK MAN SANG,

•

know

妻子

poration and the Multigraph In Air Business ¡corp. concerns in America he re-

【MPERIAL AIRWAYS' plane ar- presents.

rived at Kai Tak froin Bangkok on Wednesday afternoon but have no passengers." "

souvenirs still in private houses. The

that Many owners do not

"In many cases the articles 18 they still contain explosives.

The popular winter visitor, Mis

a

each winter from

anto