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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION

Notice is hereby given that the "Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corpora. tion will be held at the Head Office of the Corporation, No. 1, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong. 00 Saturday, the 25th February 1939, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Re- por of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Ac counts for the year ending 31st December 1938.

The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from Monday the 13th February to Saturday the 25th February 1939 (both days clusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chiet Manager. Hong Kong, 6th Feb., 1939.

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NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS.

HEREBY

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Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central, Tel. 30251.

CORRESPONDENCE

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS LATE AGAIN

[To the Editor, "The Hongkong "Dally Press"]=

SI-A corresponent recently

Night Editor (Wanchal Office); drew attention to the delay in the

Tel. 24511..

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London Office: 53. Fleet Street

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losoxON, FEBRUARY 9, 1935

PALESTINE

arrival of the "Imperial Airways planes and the consequent holding up, unnecessarily of important and valuable mails. Your correspun- dent drew atention to the fact that the planes landed at Hano! and remained there overnight in- stead of coming direct to Hong- vong where they could easily have arrived around 7 p.

I 'concur with every word he said THE THE PALESTINIAN Conference and I absolutely cannot for the opened at St. James's Palaceiate t me understand why, with all under circumstances which were he modern equipment possessed by "by no means promising in spite of the Kat Tak aerodrome, the im- the fact that the Prime Minister, Perial Airways should "waste valu- Mr. Neville Chamberlain, did, and able time at Hanol. Kai Tak has is still doing his best, te further rectional wireless and beacons his plans for appeasement. It will so there is no reason why the Im- as no surprise eta Airways planes should not come, therefore. should the negotiations for a set-complete their flights here and land after dark. Apart from what is tlement of the Arab-Jewish dis- pute, which has been the cause of described as "safety Arst." I can

see no other reason, so much unfortunate and unneces- sary bloodshed in Palestine, end in failure.

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the

I planes belonging to other igns, such as the GN.AC. and Eurasia can make night flights, in- IT IS DIFFICULT to see how ludig taking-off and landings, is Mr. Chamberlain and officials of there any reason, in your view, why the Colonial Office, headed by Mr. Imperial Airways cannot do Malcolm Macdonald, enn reconcile same? Is it the fault of the the differences which exist, es- intlots or the ground management? pecially in view of the uncompro-Is It going to be said that British mising attitude maintained by the plots are interior to those of other Arab delegates, who absolutely re-national!ules? fuse

recognize to

the Jewish Agency and decline to sit at the sume conference table with the

EDITORIAL

MAÇAO HOUSE PARTY

Picture shows those who attended a party held at Mr. F. J. Gellion's residence in Macao prior to the race meeting in the Portuguese Colony last Sunday. (elta Photo).

Jewish Refugees May Be Given An Island

Off Singapore

THERE IS "A POSSIBILITY THAT AT SOME FUTURE DATE · Government permission may be sought to use an island on Singapore as a haven for Jewish refugees from Ger- between Malaya and many should they ever be caught Shanghial.

This envisaged in the ly closed to refugees owing to

pouring in.

now

This experiment has already and is A been tried at Manila,

If the Imperial Airways cannot perform their work, then, for Hea-success. ven's sake, give us a service which

Jewish delegates. There 19 the can.

further possibility that, while the i fcud remains unsettled, the whole ) of the Arabs, as well as the repre- sentatives

LOST TIME

of Egypt. Iraq. Saud ANNOUNCED HIS

Arabla, Trans-Jordania and Ye men refusing to attend the con- NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE FORTY.ference of members of the Defence

Party are present.

AS A RESULT, the Prime Minis ter found it necessary to address the Lwn" delegations. separately addressing first the representatives of the Palestine Arabs and neigh- bouring states, and, later, the Jews, Such a state of affairs is most un-

FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF THIS COM. PANY will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., ltd. on Friday, the 24th February, 1939, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the fortunate for it does not give pro- Report of the Directors together mise of peaceful results, satisfac- with a Statement of Accounts | tory to both parties, being reached. for the year ended 31st Decem. Mr. Chamberlain seeks to achieve peace through understanding and. ber, 1938.

The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 17th February, 1939, to Friday, the 24th Febru. ary, 1939, both days inclusive.

By order of the Board of Directors,

C. M. MANNERS,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 30th Jan., 1939.

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H.

OWN DEATH TO

The question of such coloniya- tion is fraught with difficulty, and in the choice ut people who would be the pioneers of such a colony there must be careful discrimina-

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event of Shanghal being sudden- the huge numbers which are

Wrote Diary Of Agony To Help Science

Engineers, doctors and electri-

Slowly dying. suffering intense be among those who first set foot on land pain. Mr. E. B. Waggett, a brilliant

clans would have

to

TRICK CREDITORS destined to be the future home of surgeon, wrote for the perefit of

In an "attempt to evade his. creditors, a man, it was stated at Chelmsford Quarter Sessioris. sent out letters announcing his own death.

He is George Miller, 47, described

de-

a new colony, and only peopl; capable of organisation and velopment would be selected.

NO NEED YET

It is not likely that colonisation of islands about Singapore, will take place in the near future, be

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as a salesman, who pleaded guilty cause at the present moment to nine cases of obtaining credit there is no necessity for such by fraud and obtaining credit (step. without disclosing that he was an undischarged bankrupt.

as he rightly sald, the Erst essen- Miller is known in police circles thal to that gral is personal con-

as the "spoof king." and Mr. tact. He seeks, furthermore, to George. Pollock, prosecuting, told achieve a compromise or a basis the Court that in July he rented

premises at Childei ditch, Billericay, and announced that! he was starting a riding school

of justice.

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Was

near

Shanghai still an open port to refugees and funds

coming from

Arc

over

the world to help ease the crl- ilcal situation which exists there, to-day.

There are many Jewish refugees in Singapore who are being

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to fifteen science his reactions vears of the artery trouble of which he was victim.

Fle called his documeat "Criteria of Intolerable Pain," and divided his “agouy" into three degrees, one of which he compared to the torture-rack, This hero of science died re cently, aged seventy-two, at his home in Cavendish-court

Wig- more-street, W.

In the "British Medical Journal" Tour years ago Mr. Waggett descrip- ed how he regained happiness and chaelency after having his legs taken off

LEGION “BUDÝGUARO" He recorded in detail his reac- tions to the "Intolerable pain" which had impelled him to take this bold decision, analysing its

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1939.

WHAT THEY SAID OF HONGKONG

(BY T. PAUL GREGORY)

ANNOUNCED

THE "GOVERNMENT GAZETTE“ RECENTLY THAT THE REVENUE for the year 1938 tatalled $36,738,854-- approximately £2.250,000. This is an item of news all the more Interesting and important when It I realized that, 85 years ago, it was solemnly predicted that the total revenue to be expected from Hongkong could never exceed £10,000 per annum.

the

for

能

consensus

The person who made such a gloomy forecast of the Colony's wealth so many years ago was, of course, a pessimist. But there were many like him in the early torties. They were not only

abestard cholee united in condemning Hongkong as an colonial settlement, but were also determined to force the issue as strongly as possible.

carried to The agitation was Parliament, and the House, of Commons was induced to appoint a select committee to go into the

"The maintenance of a European whole matter 1$ to whether garrison at Hongkong," he stated the extent of the China. trade on his arrival Home. "will cost rendered it worth while to retain the Crown one regiment

years Estimating each the Colony. From March 30 to July three

summed up amongst many in those early days."

every

12, 1847, the committee of 15 mem- soldier as having cost Government bers interrogated witnesses and £100, this will be a severe economic sagely deliberated among them-loss, and demands tile considera- ..selves. The future of Hongkong tion of those who will not reflect

was in the balance.

on the human element of the To keep 700 effective "Hongkong as a Colony is utterly subject... Worthless, and should be abandoned Arelocks in Hongkong, it is neces-

sary to maintain 1.400 men." forthwith," said the pessimists.

The climate of Hongkong was

mind as a his own In psychologist would read the re-

actions of a subject.

DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN, Pre- sident of the Zionist Congress,

He ordered large quantities of slated by the Jewish Relief Com- speaking on behalf of the Jews. appealed to the Prime Minister to material, meliding steel water-mittee, and among them are skill- ed doctors, engineers, mechanics face realities and to give due tanks, an Army hut, a tractor take weight to all essential views and and a motor car, for none of which and caterers.

The Relief Committee would be effects on endeavouring to appreciate each he paid

assistance not grateful for any The riding school other's point of view.

He express-

put off his placing these men. ed the hope that a 'solution would opened, and Miller

The suggestion that doctors Sir Phillip Gibbs, a close friend, 84 he reached which would provide a

creditors by sending them letters: foundation on which mutual un-purporting to be signed by his son, would be of use in Singapore as said: "Ernest Waggett was the most derstanding may grow and peace and saying that the father was in practitioners is affected by the wonderful example of courage I fact that any doctors practising have ever met in spite of all his Ireland buying cattle.

British main he was a man of the most ex- When the demands became more in Singapore must have

traordinary cheerfulness. IN FACE of this calm but dis- pressing. Miller sent out letters on certificate

The Jewish refugee doctors do passionate ples. It will be interest-black-edged notepaper. purporting Ing to learn of the Arabs' stand. to be signed by his wife, and nut possess these, but the Reller Up to the time of writing, no re-

announcing "the death of my Committee holds out hopes port of this has come to hand, but husband in Ireland as the result getting these doctors placed

is only fair to draw attention to of an accident

in Palestine would result.

the fact that the Arabs have un-

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in

Institutes of -research on â If this is pos- Mr. Pollock stated that Miller temporary basis.

fortunately allowed themselves to be influenced by the streams of acquired premises at Writtle, near sible it will help to deal with the

Chelmsford, and at Romford, saying problem."

"In recent months. when he went to see a patient, he was taken in a chair by a body- guard of ex-Servicemen who were devoted to him. A num- ber of them were always willing to take him anywhere."

in

are

Fir many years Mr. Waggett was consulting surgeon to the Throat and Ear Department at Charing Cress Hospital.

are

PUBLIC AUCTION. PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday the 13th day of Feb., 1939, at 3 anti- British propaganda which is he was going to set up in business

Singapore is doing its share p.m., at the Offices of the Public being disseminated over the radio

as a contractor and coal merchant. alleviating the sufferings of the

committee Works Department, by Order of and in the press by certain coun-

He never did so, but continued to refugees and the

extremely grateful to them. His Excellency the Governor of tries not friendlily disposed to-

order goods,

Another batch of refugees Land - ∙Lot of Crown

wards Britain Indeed, the insti- Ma Tau Kok, in the Colony, of gators 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.

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The total amount involved in

this pernicious Do the charges was £524, but goods arriving on board the Conte Blan

mongers, for they are nothing

to the value of £359 had been camano at Bingapore on February recovered.

and

Miller

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"TACTILE BEE" IS WON BY

MONKEY TROOPS

run.

а

"On the contrary, Hongkong te

a splendid asset to the British a widely debated subject in those Empire, and will one day be adays, and, like everything else. commercial emporium as impor-way commented upon in the most. tant to the Far East as ancient unfavourable terms. D. Thompsoni. Tyre was to the Mediterranean the first head of the Iceal medical department, even stated as a fact world." answered their opponents.

that the Colony would, never be healthy. His statement makes astounding

nowadays, reading especially as it was delivered in the panderous ex cathedra style n! a médico, and was cften quoted as another reason 190 years ago

why England should "abandon Hongkong.

SOME ARGUMENTS

Fortunately for the course of its future history, those In favour of retaining and deve- loping Hongkong as a. British Colony won out; but those who were opposed to this wise polley Wert not few and amongst them were consular officials, barristers, physicians and merchants-in facts, all those who had been out Fast. and returned Home disap- pointed. some of them with axes of their own to grind.

.

The learned doctor said:

• The geological character, the immense quantity of rain, and the circum- vallation of hills surrounding the town and the island, render it, a be hotbed of disease which may more mitigated one year than an-" and other, but which will ever anon recur with increased violence. No drainage

can

Some of the arguments advanced destructive mlusma

obriate which

this

riscs

The

for the purpose of showing how whenever the ground is opened up unsuitable the Colony was for a for new roads or buildings. settlement are extremely interest- rain will every year keep the sur- ing to present-day residents, who face continually saturated with are doubtless surprised that at ope moisture, and also uncover large time the tirades against this gem portions of the hills, washing the down the of the Far East, could have been putrifying substance so bitter and so hostile.

deep ravines towards the sea, thus of fruitful crop "What single advantage does generating Hongkong possess." stormed the

discase (sic!)

critics, "except as a burial groun: for honest British folk?"

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were, frankly The critics speaking, "calamity howlers" In every sense of the word. great Their conception of a Empire was evidently lacking. and, in statements made before the Parliamentary Committee. they, roundly condemned the administration for its policy. As one man stated in his re- port, "I can see no justification for the British Government spending a single shilling on Hongkong."

"From a scenic polat of view," they continued, "the place is hideous sight. After the heavy rains of May, June, July and August, the hills assume a greenish hue, like a decayed Stilton cheese, of while....the scattered masses black rocks give a most uninviting and desolate aspect to the island

appearance of

presenting in many places the negro streaked; with leprosy."

Moreover, "...the rugged, broken,; and abrupt precipices and deep rocky ravines will ever effectively

"If there were any prevent the formation at Victoria

one advantage, political, commer- of any concentrated town adapted dial, anancial or religious, present

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This Individual's narrow outlook was shared by a surprisingly large number of others. Indeed, their

lament was:

there

for mutual protection, cleanliness

er prospective, derivable to Eng- and comfort." And yet today-95

land from......Hongkong.. years later this same Victoria is would be some Justification for a city, with a population of the expense now being incurred, militon!

and

and for the great' annual, sacrifice of life: but when such advantages The most formidable of the do not exist, it. 1s worse than folly critics of Hongkong's future, how-to persist in a course begun in ever, was Mr. Robert Montgomery error, and which, if continued. paganda have two objects in view,

Martin, Her Majesty's Treasurer must eventually end in national to try to stir up a Holy War and

(From a contemporary; ""-

for the Colonial and Consular loss and general disappointment." Japanese correspondent, who sent

The critics of the Colony's early to bring about the downfall of the Mr. Pollock added that Miller

a story to Tokyo declaring that the Service in China. He went Home In

been for- British Empire, though, of course.

was adjudicated bankrupt in 1920,

Chinese were training 5,000 orang-1845 armed with a lengthy report days have long since

destined, as be thought, to In-gotten, and time has given the Great Britain does not claim that with a deficiency of £2,214.

outangs...")

fluence Parliament to abandon the lie to their blassed statements. Palestine a part of the Empire.

Det. Harvey gave evidence that

When monkeys begin to carry a Colony lock, stock barrel. How Atting it is that despite their WHILE professing friendship to-up to June Miller tried

WOMEN to go

gun.

That he was aflicted with gloomy predictions, Hongkong has wards Great Britain and expressing straight. He attributed his downfal;| Intending bidders are advised

Women showed a nner sense oz

Stand to attention, at the double "Hongkongphobia" Was evident, since become one of the fairest that immediately after the dis. their admiration for British colo-to a chance meeting with an old

touch than men in an adaptation

but doubtless he was sincere, and jewels in the crown of a mighty posal of the lot the Purchaserial administration, these rumour-end of disreputable character.

was Drilled to bear martial conditions. actually thought that England was Empire! There were nine previous of the, spelling-bee, which if not the applicant), will be more and nothing less, have been convictions

was tried in the B. B, C, television)

storm enemy squandering money on a "wretched,

and barren, unhealthy programme. required to deposit with an attempting for several years past sentenced to four years penal

rock." In this "tactile bee" as it was It's time, begad, to call a stop. authorised officer who will be to stir up trouble between the servitude.

called, a skull, a string of usages, Or the war 15 going to be a flop. present at the sale, the sum of Arabs and the Jews and between

a bust of Shakespeare, a golliwog. two hundred dollars, ($200) in those two peoples and the British

a piece of tripe, and a stañed fox's GE warfare may sound alright, deception," he wrote, "to talk of cash. This sum will be refunded Government. Scarcely have they

TO CEASE head were among articles which But it's men who are supposed to Bangkong becoming a comber PICTURE

Aght. of

emporium......Hongkong ka barren on payment of the Purchase ever missed angle opportunity

competitors had to describe to try to further their own de-.

An orang-outang is a dreadful rock, producing nothing, not leading them while bandling CHUNGKINO Febreary 8 (Cen- correctly. festist programme.

beast,

to any place, surrounded by no trai) The Crystal. 1 tabloid when blindfolded. TT 15, therefore, to be hoped

Can. bite and scratch like nothing trading or populous communities! The women won by seven points,

out, East,

with various commodities for bar- that both delegations will adopt a paper edited by Chilen Hwa, Chief fair, open-minded view of the of the Japanese-controlled Press to three and a half. Their team can tackle as easily ain't cricket ter and, disadvantageously situated at the most impoverished part of ituation and exert the utmost of Censorship Bureau, who was killed was Miss Margaret inne.

Miss Mary Like running us against a wall. a coast line of 2,000 miles, and their efforts to bring the talks to by a gunman on Feb. 6, announced Julian Huxley. and

which for half a year is only yesterday that the paper would Field. the nature film expert. A successful conclusion.

Mr. Evelyn We sons of the Land of the Rising readily accessible in one direction." The suspend pubHeation as from to-day according to a Shanghai dispatch. Montague, Mr. John Betjeman, and

! Professor H, Levy.

price.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT

No. of Sale.

Registry No.

Locality.

Adjoining Kowloon | Kowloon Inland Lot No, $118.

Par Tai Street, Ha Inland Lot No. 2023,

Tea Kok.

Boundary

Measure-

melte.

As per

zale plan

VARKY

Contents in

Square foot.

*

1,925

• Upset Price. Į

8.200

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GAS BOMBS MADE AT TAIYUAN

TUNGKWAN, Feb. 8 (Central),

A large number of gas and incen-

MOSQUITO PAPER

YOUTH CHARGED WITH. THEFT

Cham Lau, 22, appeared before.

diary bombs are reported to have Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central- been manufactured by the Japan Court yesterday charged with

men were

Mrs.

Miss Lane not only recognised the string of sausages when handling them, but even guessed their weight correctly.

ese arsenal at Taiyuan, capital of theft from No. 260 Lockhart Road fendant

was remanded in police

Shansi province now under Japan-and with unlawful possession of custody for 24 hours for further

d screw-driver and a ̈ chisel. De-inquiries.

108 ese occupation,

And trained to positions,

at all!

Bun

Have a job to do with bomb and

gun; Mark you, gentle readers. what

Hitler spoke:

"The Jap, dear Nazis, is a sol-

dierly bleke."

But War is War, 'tween men arid

men......

Tain't fair to fight the apes

'gainst men

JAY MARTIN,

useles

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"It is indeed a delusion" or a GOERING'S

II

NOT IMPRESSED Even Major-Gen. Sir George Charles D'Agullar, the Colony's first G. 0. C., was not at all impressed with Hongkong as a place for British settlement. His remarks, of course, were greatly biassed, but ther

UNSEIZABLE

Balliff, cannot seize a picture

of Field Marshal Goering for

payment of debts, according to

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decision reached by the

court at Neubrandenburg.

The court was considering the case of a married man with seven children. It was maintained that Goering's picture was an incentive the proper upbringing of the children.

The bailid valued the picture at from 30. to 50 marks,

The debtor stated in court that he had not bought the picture but had received it, as a prize for shooting