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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

BANKS

HONGKONG AND

SHANGHAI BANKING·

CORPORATION

Authorised Capital

.......$50,000,000

THE CHARTERÉD

BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA

Issued & Fully Paid-Up $20,000,000 Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1833

Reserve Funds:

Sterling

0,500,000

H.K. Currency Reserve $10,000,000 Reserve Liability of

Proprietors

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 38. Bishopsgate E.C.2.

Head Office:-HONG KONG

-820,000,000 | Pald-up. Capital ........

Reserve Fund Reserve Liability of Pro-

prietors....................

23,000,000

£3,000,000

£3,000,000

Board of Directors.

T. E. Pearce, Esq., Chairman. Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson,

Deputy Chairman.

W. H. Lock, Esq..

G. Miskin, Erq..

Sit Vandeleur M. Grayburn.

MANCHESTER BRANCH: 71, Mosley Street, Manchester.

AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:

HONG KONG PENANG ILOILO

LUMPUR

SHANGHAI SINGAPOKE

SITIAWAN

J. K. Bourßeld, Esq.,

A. H. Compton, Esq.

Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell,

K. S. Morrison, Esq.,.

Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields.

ALOE STAB AMBITBAR BANGKOK BATAVIA BOMBAT

II. V. Wilkinson, Esq,

Chief Manager CEBU

CALCUTTA CANTON CAWNPORE

KARACHI KLANG KOBE KUALA

MANGOON SAIGON SEREMBAN

COLOMRO

Костіка

MADRAS

Branches:-

DELAI

MANILA

Amoy

Ipoh

Penang

HAIPHONG

Bangkok

Johore

Rangoon

KAMBURG

Batavia

Kobe

Saigon

Bombay

Kowloon

San

BANKOW I TAILBI

MEDAN NEW YORK PRIPING.

TSINGTAO YOKOHAMA

(Peking)

ip

Kuala

Francisco

Canton

Che foo Colombo

Lyons

Calcutta

Dairen

Lumpur Shanghai

London

Singapore

Bourabaya Malacca Sungei Foochow Manila Tataei Haiphong Muar Swatow Hamburg (Johore) Tientsin Hankow Mukden Tokyo Barbin New York Tsingtao Hongke Peiping Iloilo

Yokohama

opened

La

Current Accounts Local Currency and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods in Local and other Cur- rencies on terms which will be quoted on application.

Also up to date Safe Depoult Boxes in various sizes To Let.

Hong Kong, 7th October, 1938.

HONGKONG SAVINGS

BANK

The Business of the above Bank

is conducted by the HONG KONG

SOU RABATA TAIPING TIENTBIN

TONGKAH

(Bhuket)

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.

S

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for Que Year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on application.

The Bank' Head Office in London undertakes Executor and Trustee business, and claims re- covery of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of the Agencies and Branches.

R. A. CAMIDGE,

יי

Manager,

THE CHASE BANK

15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

& SHANGHAI BANKING COR-An

PORATION. Rules may be, ob- tained on application.

HEAD OFFICE:

18, PINE STREET,

NEW YORK.

American Bank offering com- plete Foreign Banking Service the principal Markets of the world.

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For the Hoxa Kosa &"SHANGHAInterest Rates on Application.

BANKING CORPORATION,

V. M. Grayburn,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 7th October, 1938.

BANK OF EAST ASIA,

LIMITED.

Authorised Capital ....$10,000,000.00 | Paid-up Capital

5,598,600.00 Reserve and Undivided

Profits

2,776,726,78

Head Office:-HONG KONG No. 10. Des Voeux Road, Central.

Board of Directora:

Sir Shotson Chow, Chairman

Li Koon Chun, Esq. Li Lan Bang, Erq. P. K. Kwok, Esq. Wong Chu800, Esq. Wong Yun Tong, Esq. Kan Ying Fo, E. ChaoChingShek Eaq. FangPingWah Esq.

Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chief Manager. Li Tae Fong, Esq., Manager.

Kowloon London

Branches, and Agencias :-

Prang Surabaya Harvan Bwntow Haigon Sydney Melbourne B Fran. Tainoku

BRACA

elo Tintrin

TancoRVAT Yokohama

Amoy

Extava

Bombay

MADIS

Caletta

Canton

Uniphong Harkow

New York Beat

Hoaolaju Kobe

Oerien Park

Bemarar

Shangha

Pelping -Blagaporn

日

Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. Loans granted securities.

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES

This Bank is entirely owned by THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK, New Yoax, with Resources over 1.8. $2,500,000,000..

D. M. BIGGAB,

Manager.

BANK OF CHINA

Specially Chartered by THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF CHINA AS AN INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

BANK

GENERAL

HONGKONG STOCK Mosquito Day Commemorates

EXCHANGE

Jan. 12.

There was very little interest shown in the market which con- tinued quiet.

Buyers Hongkong Bank, $1400. Union Insurance, $470. HK. Fire Insurance, $173. Douglases, $84. Humphreys, $81.

H.K. Realties, $5.45. Macao Electrics, $171. Sandakan Lights, $10, Telephones (Old), 8234.

H.K. Ropes, $4.

FK Govt. per cent. Loan,

per cent, pm.

HK. Govt 3 per cent Loan,

par.

I

Ewo Rights, $1.10. (H.E. curr.). Sellers

Hongkong Bank, $1430. China Underwriters, 70 cts. HK Docks (Old,) $18#. Providents (Old), 804,

E. & 9, Hotels, ST.

H.K. Lands, $37).

H. K. Realtles, $5.80. H.K. Tramwaya, 817.60. China Lights (Cum rights), $9.70. China Lights (Rights), $3,60. HK. Electrica, $58,

Cements, $15.00.

Dairy Farms, $24.80. Watsons. #8.15. Constructions, $1 Marsmans (HK), 3/-

Sales

Hongkong Bank, $1430/20 Canton Insurance, $210. HK. Fire Insurance, $178. H. & S. Hotels, $7.

H.K. Lands, $372.

China Lights (Rights), $3.50. Watsons, $8.05.

Entertainments, "$7.05.

(Prices below in Phil. Currency)

Antámok, 52

Atoka, .35

Bagulo Gold, 28

Benguet Consol., 13.80. Coco Grove, 52

Consolidated Mines.,.D0% Demonstrations, 3.26 I. L. 82

Paracale Gumaus, .19

San Mauricio, 1.80 Suvoc, 214.

United Paracale, .89 HONGKONG SHAREBROKERS'

ASSOCIATION Buyers

Union Ins. $465. Humphreys, 2. Star Ferries, $72.

Sales

*

HK Docks, $18. China Lights (ex rts.), #3.60 Big Wedge, 36 ctus.

U.S. PHOSPHATE

RESERVES WILL

LAST 2100 YEARS

KNOXVILLE, TENN.—A Con- *gressional committee investi- gating the United States' phos- phate, resources heard that phosphate deposits In the United States are suffiffelent to last 2,100 years at the present rate of production.

With the statement · came 3

Sir Ronald Ross' Work

August 20 i Mosquito Day in England. Tell that "to a healthy young stay-at-home modern and you will get a blank look in return, states an English writer. But ask the mining engineer home from Malaya or the nurse from India and see their faces light up with "gratitude even though they shiver a little apprehensively at the

same time.

Ask a man of 80 and hear his reply. "I remember Mosquito Day well." he will say. We celebrated August 20, 1897, all over the coun- try. You would have thought that Britain had won another war."

Which was exactly what Britain the hope of discovering the malaria had done. though the battle which germ.

It was hard and discouraging. was won by Sir Ronald Ross was one of far more importance than work. Yet he conquered

or Marne different type, of mosquito any After years of painstaking study. brought to him. He had little hope this British physician succeeded in when he took them to his bench. discovering the carrier of the dread but mechanically he prepared a and slipped it into his malaria germ, and on Mosquita slide Day he published news of his vic-interoscope. tory to the world.

mere

Waterloo

A

Was

In... the

Despite the heat he trembled as from cold at what the lens dis- At long last his closed to him. work was to be rewarded. minute stomach of the tiny insect he was examining were 12 living active inalarla germs.

More experiments followed, but by August of 1897 he was certain and on the 20th he gave his news

Ross was a student at Barts, from which famous hespital he entered the Indian Medical Service, devor ing himself to the study of tropical medicine and in particular to the disease elagnosis of malaria, which at the time was killing "cusands of people every year In 1804 he returned to London where he inet Sir Patrick Manson,

- TREATMENT the man who discovered that the

To-day, anyone can cure the terrible disease of elephantiasis

malady by following the direc was carried by mosquitoes. Bettions of the Malaria Commission of Ross and Manson agreed that the League of Nations, which re- was possible for malaria to be car- ried by the same incans.

to the world.

commends as treatment a dally dose of 15 to 31 grains of quinine BEGINNING OF STRUGGLE

during Ave to seven days. As a That was the beginning of Ross's, preventive measure, the Commis- struggle. Month after month he'sion advises the taking of

quinine each day laboured, dissecting the bodies of grains of thousands of these tiny insects in throughout the entire fever season.

SHIPOWNER'S

DEATH FALL

Might Have Slipped While Exercising

AIR GUARD TO BE REFORMED

Plan For Advanced Training

BIX

Mr. Charles Booth, 70-year-old Important developments in the chairman of Alfred Booth and Co. Civil Air Guard are about to be Ltd., of Liverpool, and the Booth announced. Final details are be- Steamship Co. Ltd., who fell from ing arranged by the Honorary a window at his cousin's home in commissioners and the Air Minis- Chester-street. S.W., might have try, but the 'general plan is agreed. slipped while doing exercises.

Briefly, it provides for classifica. members according to This theory was advanced by the tion of coroner. Mr. Ingleby Oddie, at the lability, promise and age, and for Westminster inquest, when a ver- continuance of training after the dict of accidental death was "re-qualification for the "A" licence. It corded. It was stated that Mr provides also, but with strict re- Booth had lost the sight of his gard to the voluntary nature of right eye some time ago,

the Guard and the service it may

Mr. George Booth, a director of render, for adaptation to Royal Air the Bank of England, said that Force organisation.

his cousin Charles had no domes- As originally formed, the Civil tic, financial or business worries. Air Guard was intended to create but was disturbed about his health. a body of men and women with a

When he arrived he

depressed because of

was knowledge of flying who would be people useful in an emergency. By means telling him that. he should of subsidies from the Air Ministry, have somebody going about with given through the flying clubs, him. He felt that he was not members receive training at very really able to carry on his very low rates up to qualification for active work. He was a very ener- the "A" licence. getic director of the LM.S. Rall- way.

NOT CERTAIN OF DISTANCES

His

Was always cousin

very

The scheme did not provide ade- quately for continuance of train- ing. It did not secure any very de-. finite guarantee that the State

FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1939.-PAGE 13.

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IMPERIAL

AIRWAYS

General Agents,

CHANGES

Planning Of Future Developments

Queen's Building

CONSIGNEES' NOTICES

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINE

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

THE S.S.

PREUSSEN "

having arrived from Hamburg and

Ports of call, Consignees of 'Cargo are hereby notified that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk Part of the reorganization of into the Bong Kong & Kowloon to Wharf & Godown Company's godowns Airways, designed Imperial secure careful planning of future at Kowloon, where delivery may be developments, has just been obtained as soon as the goods are

landed. carried into effect.

Optional cargo will not be landed It consists of the subdivision here, unless notice has been given 48

that the country is anxious about making a crossing would make the best use of mem- PAID-UP CAPITAL $40,000,000.00 warning.

(BRANCHES ALL OVER CHINA) rapidly depleting its deposits of by hiroself. Obviously he was not bers after, they had acquired the Owing to our numerous Branches copper, iròn, lead and petroleum, quite certain of distances. The rudiments of the flying art.

THREE-MAIN CATEGORIES in China and connections in the much of it by exporting to foreign real trouble was his eye-sight and

The Guard is to consist of three the general feeling that his health principal Commercial Centres of markets.

main categories:

Exchange.

Head Office: BHANGHAI

Hong Kong Branch:

4. QUEEN'S ROAD, C. South China Offices: ·

KONGMOON

TOISHAN KINGCHOW

at

:1

Бес-

of the technical general mana- hours prior to vessel's arrival, hat carried on "from port to port to the the World, we are able to extend W. H. Waggaman, consulting en-was not as good as it had been..

final port of call to which the option to our Clients special facilities for gineer for the Phosphate Rock In- P.c. Edvin Smart said that the Those men under the age of 30,ger's department into three

tions responsible respectively for

extends.

No claims will be admitted after the Domestic and Foreign Banking and stitute of New York, showed com-sill of the window was about 3ft. who are willing to continue train-

mittee members a chart of and-rom the floor, and the linoleum Ing. and to train on more advanced design, research, and development,

for service engineering and main-Goods have left the Godowns, and all con-goods remaining andelivered after the ings by the National Resources in front of the window was highly types, up to 20 hours, or more.

14th Jan, 1937. will be subject to Subject to selection, they will be- tenance, and for technical poilshed. Committee estimating that

rent. Mr. Oddle said that he himself come members of the Royal Airtrol of operation. present production, the United

Hitherto, Major R. H. Mayo has All broken, chafed, and damaged States' copper resources will be had closely examined the window. Force Volunteer Reserve.

Somewhat older men, who are been directly responsible for the Goods are to be left in the Godowns, exhausted in.40 years, iron in 84 The question of whether the fall

very willing to continue training with whole as general. manager (tech-where they will be examined on 13th

Jan., 1939, at 10 am, by our Bur. will con- years, lead in 20 years and petro-was accidental or not was

Idifficult to decide.

veyors Messrs. Goddard and Douglas. a view to various firing duties, in-nical); henceforth he leum in 15 years.

centrate on the development work To comply with the General Bonded For a man in Mr. Booth's posi- (cluding instructing, "That is rather a pessimistic

affectionate terms A category to be established in and will establish a separate de- Warehouse Regulations consignees mast have Revenue Officer in picture of the time in which they tion, and on will be exhausted," commented with his cousin, he would surely recognition of the fact that a con- partment for that purpose.

never dream of selecting such a siderable proportion of R.AF. per- The duty of controlling the attendance when damaged dutiable

goods are examined which sonnel, while trained to fly, have maintenance section, of

All claims must reach us before the Mr. Waggaman agreed, but said place to commit suicide. Manager. The

In view of the fact that he had other air duties than that of actual Major Mayo has divested him-14th Feb., 1939 or they will not be belleved the reserves were

been recognized. larger than estimated by the such defective sight and that the piloting-observing, navgation, etc. self under this plan, has

No Insurance will be effecten. National Resources Committee. He window was open, probably for his

Beyond these three categories placed in the hands of Captain

Bill of Lading will be countersigned exercises, and that the linoleums there will probably be a fourth F. R. Walker, who was manager -pointed out new methods

by. Booth might consisting of members who would; of the repair works at Hythe un-

JEBSEN & CO. being Invented for using low was slippery, Mr. grade ores that heretofore have have slipped.

in an emergency, have ground the beginning of this month. duties to perform. not been classified as available for commercial use.

CANTON SWATOW approved SH1UCHOW on

We also handle the issue of Current Accounts opened in Local Currency and Fixed Deposits re- Bonds and other Public Funds of ceived for one year or shorter the Chinese Government both at periods in Local and Foreign Cur- Home and Abroad. rencies on terms which will be

quoted on application.

Safe Deposit Boxes To Let...

KAN TONG PO,

Chief 'Manager.

SHOU J. CHEN,

"War Debt Payment Would Wreck U.S.'

wreck us.

•

Senator Pope (D), Idaho.

are

FIVE PRIZES FOR

RADIO PRIEST TOLD TO SUBMIT SCRIPTS

Radio Station WMCA announced

JOURNALISTS recently It had advised the 'Rev.

DOW

Agents.

[98

As chief service engineer he 15 Hong Kong, 7th Jan., 1939.

setting up a department which will undertake the main- tenance and repair of all the aircraft and engines of Imperial cal survey of new routes and in Airways and its subsidiary com the specification, design, construc- pantes throughout the world. . tien, and testing of aircraft and A corresponding, appointment engines to suit them and the of equal scope will shortly be traffic offering, made оп the operational side,

At a later stage it demands the and when the operations manager formulation and supervision of • has taken over, Major Mayo, un-programmes of experimental fly- der whom the chief engineering in relation to such routes and Mr. H Hall) will work, will be na working out of equipment free to devote all his time to pre- for the aircraft and the routes paring the way for further pro-

This in turn requires close con- Kresa.

tart with the Air Ministry in

ground erder that

organization

QUORN MASTER TO RETIRE Speaking at the anniversary din-hoped that science would find the

Sir Harold Nutting, Master of the ner of the Royal Society at the solution of this problem also.

Five annual $1,000 prizes for Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit Quorn Hounds, is to relinquish the Dorchester, W., recently, Dr. Irving Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary for Langmuir, representing the Na-Air, appealed to scientists, to find journalistle advancement of sym-that hereafter he must submit 48 mastership at the end of the sen-

understanding

among hours in advance the scripts for son tional Academy of Belences, a means of combating bombing pathetic

Sid Harold, who la 56, Is a former Washington, said: "It is an aber from the air. "It is almost impos- pan-American peoples have been his weekly broadcasts, The station situation that the payment of war sible; he said, "to estimate what established through arrangement said it had sent him a telegram Master of the North Shropshire Hounds and was Master of the а Boston doctor and reading in part; debts to America would absolutely science and research might achieve. between

"Your broadcast last Sunday was Meynell from 1920 to 1929. He be- One of the greatest contributions | Columbia University's School of

calculated to inre religious and came joint Master of the Quarn "It would throw people out of to the peace of the world and to Journalism.

Columbia's journalism dean, Cari racial strife in America. When this with the late Major A. E. Burnaby employment and that would be the happiness of mankind would disaster, but you cannot get people be the conquest of the bombing W. Ackerman, has announced that was called to your attention by in 1830. He took over the master- to recognise it. It is an economic aeroplane, and I do not despair or through the generosity of Dr. G this station in advance of your ship two years later.

delete Early last year it was announced Lowell Cabot of Boston two to five broadcast, you agreed to situation which has not kept pace that being achieved."

prizes will be awarded annually to those

which that Earl Beatty would join Bir with the power of production made

Harold for the season." & month publishers, editors or writers in undeniably had this effect.

You did not do so, and we later Lord Beatty was seriously in Unemployment was the funda- At a recent fire-fighting de- the Western Hemisphere, who by

daily duties. Now it is being The whole of this work, in- diam pool their professional achievements, therefore are compelled to require Jured when out with the Quorn. mental cause dt world unrest to-monstration a 30ft.

given its proper place as the basis "cluding the control of flying until day, he added, and those who had containing 300 gallons of ofl and shall advance sympathetic under you hereafter to submit all scripte

such time da regular services be- seen "what science had done in petrol was ignited and then ex-standing among the people of 48 hours in advance of broadcast speaker calculated to spread racial of the company's future.

40 secs. by the South, Central and North Ameri-and to advise you that this station and religious hatred, intolerance of. It involves longterm planning gin to be operated, now solving human problems in the in- tinguished in

in the investigation and techni-with Major Mayu." will not carry anything by any strife in America." dustrial, medical and other helds Scammell street washer.

possible by science."

PA."

misrepresentations

EXPERIMENTAL FLYING

In the past, this work has had along new routes may be appro- to be done in such intervals priate to the type of service pro- might occur in the routine of posed.

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