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EDITORIAL

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. The Baly Bress

POSITION VACANT.

Foreman and Sanitary Coolies are required for employment "at Shamshulpo Camp from 1st. April, 1939,

Foreman $19-40 per month (English speaking).

Coolies $14.00 per month with a triennial increment of $0.83

MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION

NO. 1/39.

VACANCY FOR METER

TESTER

KOWLOON RESIDENTS'

ASSOCIATION

NOTICE:

The Nineteenth Annual Gen. eral Meeting of the Kowloon Residents' Association will be The British Municipal Council, held in St. Andrew's Church on FRIDAY, Tientsin, is prepared to receive Hall, Kowloon,

up to a maximum of $18.00 per applications from British Sab. 3RD MARCH, 1939, AT 6 P.M. {·

month.

jects for appointment to

the

The employment will be per position of METER TESTER in

Its Electricity Department.

manent but no accommodation will be provided.

Applicants, who must be of good character, should apply personally between 10 a.m. and 12 noon on 2nd, of March at the Quartermaster's Office, Nanking Barracks, Shamshuipo,

Chinese papers please copy.

HONG KONG STOCK

EXCHANGE

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The Hong Kong Stock Ex change will be closed at 12.00 NOON on the 25th, 27th and 28th inst., and on the 1st. March, Race Days.

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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION

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BUSINESS

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Editorial and Business Office; 15-19, Queen's Road. Central, Tel. 30251: Night Editor (Wanchal Office):

Tel. 24511.

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London Office: 53, Fleet Street

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HONGKONG, FEBRḥant 28, 1930

Adoption of Report and Ac. FREEDOM OF THE

counts for the year ended 31ST. DECEMBER, 1938.

Election of Officers and Com.

Candidates must be not less than 25 nor more than 35 years of age and must have had at least five years practical experience lamittee. the construction, operation, test Ing and re calibrating of alternat.

And other business.

It is earnestly requested that ing current meters and instru» members and all others interested ments, with the necessary techni.in the welfare of Kowicon will 'cal training, and must have held endeavour to be present. An op

PRESS ITTERANCES by Mr. T. E. Pearce at the annual meeting of the Hongkong & Bank with To- Shanghai ference to the freedom of the press is certain to find favour- able echo and the "Hongkong Daily Press" is fully in accord

when he said:-

a similar position with an elec.portunity will be given for bring-with the Wayfoong chairman

matters for the tricity undertaking or in a meter ing forward

consideration of the new Cam- manufacturing works.

mittee.

The successful candidate will be required to take charge of "the records,, testing, re-calibration etc., of the department's meters and instruments, and should be capable of organizing a meter de partment on the same lines as required by the Electricity Com missioners in England. -

He will receive an Initial salary The Final Dividend declared of Chinese Dollars 705 · ($470 for the Year ending 31st Decem-basic pay plus $235 repatriation ber, 1938, at the rate of Three allowance) per month from the Pounds Sterling at exchange date upon which he takes up his 1/2.7/8 is payable on and after duties in Tientsin. He will be the 27th February, 1939, at the Offices of the Corporation, where shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

i

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chiet Manager. Hong Kong, 25th Feb., 1939...

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HONG

KONG TRAMWAYS

LIMITED,

NOTICE TO MONTHLY TICKET HOLDERS.

Monthly Tickets for March will

engaged upon probation for a period of six months from that date and will be offered a four years contract at the end of his probationary" period if his services prove satisfactory. He will re. ceive hall salary only for the period spent in travelling to Tientsin and payment of this will be calculated from the date of his embarkation. The Council will pay for his passage (first class) to Tientsin and in case he is not offered a contract at the end of

AR. BALDWIN,

Hon. Secretary. 163

HONGKONG. REALTY AND TRUST COMPANY, LIMITED (Incorporated under the Com panies Ordinances of Hong Kong}

HEREBY

NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly afecting of shareholders of Bong nong Realty and Trust Com pany, Limited, will be held at the Registered Office of the Com. pany, Exchange Building (2nd Floor), Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 8th March, 1939, at 11.30. for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors for the year ended on the 31st December, 1938, and re-electing two Directors and the Anditors.

The Transfer Books of the

"In times of international crisis, freedom of speech and freedom of the mess have their draw- backs, and much harm has been done in recent times by careless criticisms, rumours and the pub- lication of unauthenticated news Items,"

-Viscount Hallsham, former Lord Fresident of the Council, celebrates his 67th birthday to-day.

CROWN PRINCE OF IRAN

To Wed Egyptian. Princess

BAGHDAD. Feb. 27 (T) Ocean)-~~The Crown Prince of Iran, "Mohamed Resa, who is now on his way to Cairo to sign a marriage contract for his alliance with the Egyptian Princess Fawzla arrived in the capital of Iraq., Baghdad, yes- terday.

The Prince, who left Teheran

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

28, 1939

MINORCA AND HAINAN

Japanese Navy Sails For Davy Jones Locker

BY PERCY CHEN

Military necessity is the excuse pleaded by the Japanese for the occupation of Hainan Island. If it is for military necessity in the Sino-Japanese war then It is because the Japanese feel that their lines of com- munication between Canton and Formosa are insecure. But it is only in the event of the coming world war in which Japan and Great Britain are on opposing sides that the threat which Hongkong constitutes to Japan's lines for aggression from Formosa will be consumated.

The seizure of Hainan Island for the Chinese people against Jap- the purpose of fitting it out as an anese aggression, and Powers with Independent base for operations in which China, and particularly South China and the Southern Young Chins of all groups and Pacific is a necessity for war only parties, will co-operate in the war If the Sino-Japanese war is ex- against the Fascist aggressive tended to involve Britain and prob-powers. `-

THE DANGER SIGNAL

see

ably France. It is in this sense Those Chinese statesmen who, that attention should be directed still believe that China should fa- to the sequence of events taking, vour Soviet Russia in place of place in such widely separated Britain, or America in favour of areas as Hainan Island in the France are as out of date as those South Pacific and Minorca in the European statesmen who Mediterranean.

& greater menace in World Com- munirthan advantages In strategic co-operation with Soviet Events in different parts of the Russia against the danger and ́ world recently have revealed an threat to civilisation that lies in under current which compel us to the aggression of Germany and take stock of the situation and Italy under the, uncontrolled dicta- sum it up without the blinkerstorship of Hitler and Mussolini, that so-called "realists" wear. The INVASION "OF SOUTH CHINA Japanese, the Germans and the

The Livasion of South China Italians as a nation and as indi- viduals are under no filusions so created an entirely new situation

on Friday morning was met. at the Iraqi frontier by Prince Abdul lah and the Deputy Prime Minis- ter. At the railway station in Baghdad the Prince was welcomed far as the coming world war is in the Far East. The occupation by Prince Zeld, representing the concerned. But there are still a of Hainan Island is a new element King, and accompanied by mem-large number of young people in world, affairs. And it is thus bers of the Iraq Cabinet.

among the Democracies who can- that Young China must evalue not, or still refuse to realise, -that events. The defence of Hongkong there is coming a time when we and Indo-China lles in the deter- will have to take up arms for the mination of the resistance of the delence of our wives and children Chinese People and its effective- or have them blown to bits by mer-ness against the Japanese. Mate- ciless enemies.

PROVIDED it is not abused, freedom of the press is ab- solutely necessary. The press has every right to fight for and to guard its freedom. It must refuse to be intimidated or browbeaten and it declines to be told what it should do and what it should not do, but this does not imply that the truth must be distorted simply in order to use the argument, of one publisher,

We want to sell our paper." LINHSIEN KWANGTUNG, Feb. Sell the paper, of course, but 25 (Central)-Specific wartime re-

honourably, but sell why distort facts or go mad by the use of sensational posters and headlines?

It

WAR RELIEF. IN KWANGTUNG.

!

ter measures have been drawn up by the Kwangtung Provincial Gov. ernment and referred to various

Organs and If government

relier

the press uses a little licence, organisations for execution. everybody will be happier. "Civil servants, merchants, manu- facturers, technical men, school USE OF SCARE headlines, teachers, and fishermen thrown some on the verge of insanity, into unemployment and students to distort facts and to attract forced out of school as a result of public attention is disgrace the war, refugees, both adults and ful. Not only is it bad for the children, newspaper trade but it is soldiers unworthy of the true journal-fold of rellet istic profession. Newspaper

as well 28 wounded all come within

Unemployed chvill

the

servants,

rial and factual co-operation be- The occupation of Hainan tween China and Great Britain in Island is the danger signal for this defence must He primarily along economic lines in the the Democracies in the Far East and this signal is not to strengthening of the industrial and be ignored. The occupation of economic bases In Free China. this important strategic post- Free China includes all that part tion against Great Britain and of China in which there are ac- France in South China would tually no Japanese troops, in oc- not have been carried out an- cupation. BUT IF IN THE CASE less zero hour had been al- OF A MILITARY EMERGENCY IT ready fixed, and the gauntlet IS NECESSARY FOR CHINESE TO was about to be thrown down... TAKE UP ARMS IN THE DE- The World situation has passed FENCE OF EITHER HONGKONG out of the sphere of conjecture OR INDO-CHINA THERE" WILL and speculation as to the inten- BE NO DOUBT THAT CHINESE

his period of probation, a return Company will be closed from ethics are ignored and the technical men and school teachers tions of the aggressor nations. For LEADERS AND MEN WILL COME passage, f similar class, will be Thursday, the 23rd February, sensational papers to which will be asked to register with the Chinese, no matter where they FORWARD TO DEVOTE THEM-

given him,

Applications containing ferences, credentials, coples of be on sale to holders of February | diplomas and "curriculum vitae” of each candidate should be ad- monthly tickets "as under :-

dressed to "The Secretary and 27th, 28th Feb., 1st March

British Municipal 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. H.K. Engineer,

Electric Co.'s Showroom, Council, Tientsin” and forwarded Gloucester Arcade.

21.00

p.m. to 5.00 p.m. Traffic Office, Canal Road East.

2nd March..

9.00 am. to 5.00 p.m. H.K. Electric Co.'s Showroom, Gloucester Arcade.

L. C. F. BELLAMY,

General Manager.

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THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS

so as to reach him not later than Tuesday 11th April, 1939.

By Order,

H. F. BARNES,

Secretary & Engineer, COUNCIL ROOM, TIENTSIN,. 14th Feb., 1939.

CHINESE PERMANENT CEMETERY AT TSUN WAN

Tenders are invited for the construction of Sections A. and C. af the above.

1939, to Wednesday, the 8th March, 1939, both days Inclusive.

By Order of the Board, F. C. BARRY, Secretary.

Hong Kong, 27th Jan., 1939.

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CANTON PUPPETS IN HONGKONG It is learned from very reliable sources that several puppets of the Japanese have arrived from Can-

ton, together with a number of agents, for the purpose of persuad-

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authorities concerned so that they live or what loyalties they serve, we refer do not appear to may be given work to do, whenever the problem has been resolved into the simple formula. Be prepared I have the faintest idea of what it is available,

Journalistic ethics really are.

to fight for the freedom of Na- "Mercharts and manufacturers, Here in Hongkong, we have who escaped from the war areas, tions. We who enjoy the hospi excellent examples of the and shermen along the Kwang-tality of the British Empire in

that can

•harm

be done tung coast who have been forced of through the "use scare out of work as a result of the Ja posters. and scare headlines, panese atrocities at sea will be They are a menace to society, given financial help to start new a danger to the newspapers themselves, and not in the best interests of real journal

ism. News Items may be arresting but there is no necessity to transform them into alarmist or sensational

articles.

DEFEATISM likewise is a

business.

SELVES TO THIS TASK.

The defence, of Hongkong and Indo-China from oerupa- tion by Japan is not, as the traitor Wang Ching Wei would say, "a defence of the fruits of, Inperialism," or a "peace toro from the living flesh of China”- It would be the defence of an of Démocracy and Free- outpost dom against the assault of Aggres-

And all the There, were times when Britisnsion and Slavery,

these days are fortunate that the Interests of Great Britain and China are (and what is more) are be being clearly recognized to identical and common.

JAPANESE TROOPS statesmen like Sir John Simon forces of the British Chinese com-

ON DEFENSIVE SHIUKWAN, Feb. 27-Indicating that they are still on the defen- sive, Japanese- troops at Kachow,

near Samshul, have removed the pontoon bridges thrown across the

West River, according to a Twelfth

Army Group

communique.

BIG BATTLE IS EXPECTED IN SOUTH SHANSI

TUNGKWAN, Feb. 27 (Central)- war of political factions. As the A big battle is expected to break writer stated in an article publish-out soon in South Shaal, as more now being circulated by cer- One company of Japanese in-ed yesterday in the "Daily Press." than 4,000 Japanese troops from tain news agencies and infantry, supported by one battery. "Of course the people who first Any, Yungcheng and the vicinity north of Taiping- say these things are by no means are driving southeastward in the certain papers. The time has reconnottrad

such fools as to believe them. They direction of Yuanku, strategic town are exactly the same omictal or on the Shansi Honan border,

come to stop this and to pay chang, 35 miles north of Canton, more heed to real values.bat failed to make any divance Some readers are easily: in-for fear of encountering a kigger

Chinese force. fluenced by what they read

semi-oficial people who believe, Japanese vanguards, according

.JAPANESE ATTACKED LOYANG, Feb. 27 (Central)... More than 300 Japanese troope with several artillery pieces were

falled to appreciate the meaning munity 1 South China and else- of the indivisibility of peace where would be thrown frito the throughout the world and believed, struggle for the common cause, In all sincerity, that the invasion of Manchuria, and the rape of Abyssinia could be localized and lead to a "peaceful" re-division of ing local Chinese to return to "The thing which is slowly but

the world. There may be some At still in England who continue to ex 161 City of Rams." These people have steadily creeping into the Kongken nearby, the enemy 18 press the opinion that Japan is a been describing to those whom press. Nothing could be more constructing defence works follow-sort of peace maker in a Chinese they meet the wonderful and harmful and more dangerous ing the arrival of seven boat-logos peaceful conditions which now than the kind of defeatism of cement and lumber. prevail in Canton as a result of Japanese rule and they are dis- playing photographs of the city under the administration of the invaders.

"Come back to Canton with us and you can be assured of good

and occasionally are frank enough to a report, have already clashed Jobs," "Come and live in Canton

to say "Leave Japan alone with with Chinese defenders at Heng- in safety and comfort are slogans and they are unable to distin- before it appears in print. We North China, and she will play ingkwan near Yuanku Particulars of the work are Needless to say, no attempts are and the truth "They are for the press but we do not hours...perhaps for a century."

which these puppets have adopted guish between propaganda strongly believe in freedom with it for hours, for very critical being made to persuade the poorer compelled to read lengthy belleve in ridiculous censor-A LIMITED OUTLOOK classes to go to Canton.

"news" items without know ships as that which at present On the other hand there are waylald by Chinese forces at a vil- ing the source of information exists in Hongkong so far Chinese politicians and Statesmen Lage about seven alles east of Po AIRPORT MOVEMENTS until they reach the bottom as the Chinese press is con- who are just as limited in their Al terminus of the Thokow-

TWO planes or Imperial Afrways of the story. In order to ob-

cerned. A case in point came outlook. The outlook can be (Chinghua Railway in northern- left Kai Tak, this morning (Tues- viate this, the Hongkong to public attention a few days characterised as "play one nation Henan, last Friday. Taken by sur day) at 7 and 7.30 for Bangkok Daily Press" has established ago when the Chinese press off against the other." It is no prise, the Japanese were throws with mall for all ports and five the practice of giving, was not allowed to publish different from the outlook of Sir into great confusion and suffered March 1939, at noon for the

wherever possible, the source anything about the bombing John. Simon. And fundamentally considerable losses. Tenders to be sealed, marked purpose of receiving the Report of

One plane is due in Hongkong of news at the beginning of outrage in British territory is a defensive policy which can the Directors together with State "Tender for Sections A. & C., from Bangkok, to-morrow (Wed- each article so that readers Another instance of this silly never achieve a decisive victory for ment of Accounts declaring a Chinese Permanent Cemetery,nesday) between 4 and 4.30 pmn.

may decide at once whether practice is that the Chinese Government based its policies on

a Nation. So long as the Chinese CHARITY BAZAAR an article is worth reading or papers are forbidden to use the Treaty Ports and the trading

A charity bazaar was held at Dividend and Re-electing DirecTsun Wan", and submitted and with mall from all ports.

addressed to The Honourable The Pan American Airways has been

The Boeing Clipper (314) of whether it should be ignored. the word Japanese" in their circles operating in those ports, no the King's College yesterday. There tors and Auditors.

Secretary for. Chinese Affairs at held up in Midway Island due to The TRANSFER BOOKS of

“THE DAILY PRESS reports and headlines: Hong- other diplomatic policy was pos- were many interesting games in- the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs poor weather conditions. The y-stands for the truth. Its in- kong being a neutral Colony, sible. Now that the Chinese Gor- cluding fishing, combating the Company will be CLOSED

on or before 31st. March, 1939. ing boat will not be in Hongkong tention is to give the truth it is easily understandable ernment is basing itself upon the enemies, shooting the from 8th March to 22nd Märch

The Principals® reservo the before March 3 with mall and air and real facts. We have no that the word" enemy" vast interior provinces and the throwing balls, copper throwing, 1939, both days inclusive.

right of accepting whichever presa There are no paying intention of resorting to should be banned but can the masses of the population of all swinging the bottle and others, tender as they think fit and do

sensationalism or defeatism. censors explain why they re- strata in a United and National The return flight to America of We refuse to adopt. scare fuse to tolerate the use of the front, under the leadership of the | not oblige themselves to accept the Clipper will leave Kal Tak on

Kuomintang and Generalzsimo the lowest one.

Saturday morning at approximate posters and scare headlines, word Japanese? If not, Chiang Kai-Shek it is possible to with President Roosevelt on board. even though it may mean the then it is time to abolish the frame a diplomatic policy in which made two-hour call at Et. The Week Air France service sacrifice of sales. We believe practice and restore to the Democratic Fowers are one Eustatius, one of the islands be- from Banol is due in the Colony in sane journalism. We try press the freedom to which it and all welcomed as Nations which longing to the Antilles group axt

of forming the Dutch West-Indies. 138 on Thursday at noon.

to confirm every line of news is entitled.

sympathise with the str

obtainable from Mr. T. 0. Tss Notice is hereby given that of Messrs. Tso& Hodgson, the Forty-third Ordinary Yearly Solicitors' Office. Plans and Meeting of the Shareholders in specifications will be supplied on the Company will be held at the payment of deposit of $100.00, Company's Town Office, 2, Lower but must be returned within one Albert Road, on Wednesday, 22nd week, when the deposit will be

By Order of the Board of Directors

G. MILNE,

Secretary

Hong Kong, 27th Feb., 1939.

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released.

THE CHINESE PERMANENT CEMETERY COMMITTEE.

passengers.

passengers

ly 8.30 o'clock.

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Fame":"American" cruiser Houston,