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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

BANKS

HONGKONG AND ·

SHANGHAI BANKING'

CORPORATION

Authorised Capital ........ 850,000,000 |

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA

mued & Fully Paid-Up $20,000,000|Incorporated by Rayal Charter, 1858 Beserve Funds:

Sterling

£8,500,000

38, Bishopsgate EC2,

H.K. Currency Reserve $10,000,000 HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: Reserve Liability of

Proprietors

Head Office-HONG KONG

Board of Directors. Hon, Mr A. L. Shields,

W. H. Lock, Esq,,

J. E. Bousfeld, Esq.,

Chairman, Deputy Chairman.

Reserve Fund ..... Reserve Liability of Pro-

prietors...

MANCHESTER BRANCH: 71. Mosley Street, Manchester.

GENERAL

CHINESE ARMY TO GET

IMPROVED DIET ·

CHUNGKING, Mar. 4 (Central)"An army moves on Its stomach." The Chinese High Command know this and they are not rolig to make any mistake. They are trying, with the help of the nation's leading bio-chemists and nutritionists, to prepare an im- proved diet-besides building up huge food stocks-for the Chin-

ese army,

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The average daily diet of a Chinese soldier before 1936, accord- ing to the Ministry of Wer, waa 700 grams of animal, fat, producing altogether 2,469 calories. Although

THE COLOUR

OF CHINA

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GRIM STRUGGLE

IN HUPEH

Japanese Using Bombs And Gas

ICHANG, Mar. 4 (Central)— The "grim struggle between the Chinese and Japanese on the Han River valley in central Hupeh continues unabated,

Both sides ass bringing up heavy reinforcements for the fight. The Japanese' are resort- ing to the use of bom blag planes and gases in an effort to dislodge the Chinese from their strongly-defended · positions. “

Fighting centres around Yokon- chen, southwest 破 Tienmen,

......$20,000,000 | Paid-up Capital ................................£2,000,000 | rich in carbo-bydrates, this diet is [£3,800,080 | not so sustaining as it has not

The coloured lantern slides shown sufficient proteins, fats, and im at the China Institute recently by £3,000,000 | portant

vitamins. Since the the photographer, Mr. Boong, a outbreak of the present hostilities, young journalist well known however, the Ministry has ordered China, were taken by the Koda- an improvement in army diet, In-chrome process and are said to be creasing the amount of calories to the only coloured pictures get Wamlaotal, on the Hankow-Ichang 3,000 for better health and better taken of war scenes in China. Mr. highway, and Sunchlac fighting efficiency of the Chinese Soong intends to show

them Kingshan-Chungslang highway. At privately to many groups interest-yokowchen the Japanese falled in army.

ed in China.

several attempts to cross the Han River to attack the Chinese entren- ched on the opposite bánk.

A. H. Compton, Esq.. Hon. Mr. 8. H. Dodwell,

G. Miskin, Esq.

K. S. Morrison, Esq.,

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson,

T. E. Pearce, Esq.,

Sir Vandeleur “M,-- Grayburn,

AGENCIES AND BRANCHES :. ALOR STAK HONG TOXO PENANG AMRITSAR ILOILO BAJOKOE • ІРОД

BATAVIA

KARACHI

BOMKAY

KLANG

CALCUTTA

H. V. Wilkinson, Esq.,

CANTON CAWNPORE

Chief Manager. | CBBC

Branches:

Amoy

Ipoh

Penang

Bangkok

Johore

Rangoon

Batavia

Kobe

Bombay

Kowloon San

Calcutta

Kuala

Canton

Saigon

Francisco Lumpur Shanghai

COLOMBO DELHI HALPBONO HAMBURG HANKOW HARRIN

KOM KUALA

LUMPUR KUCHING A MADRAN

MANILA MEDAN NEW YORK PRIPING

Chefoo

Londor

Singapore Colombo Lyons Sourabaya Dairen Malacca Sungei

Foochow Manila.

Patani-

Haiphong Muar

Swatow

Hankow Mukden Tokyo

Harbin

Hamburg (Johore) Tientsin

Hongke Iloilo

New York Tsingtao Peiping Yokohama

Current Accounts opened in Local Currency and Fixed Deposite received for one year or shorter- periods in Local and other Cur rencies on termas which will be quoted on application,

Also up to date Safe Deposit Boxes in various sizes To Let. Hong Kong, 25th Feb., 1830.

HONGKONG SAVINGS

BANK

(Peking)

BANGOON SAIGON BEREMBAN BHANGHAI SINGAPORE SITIAWAN SOU BABAYA TAIPING TIENTS IN TONGKAH

(Bhuket) TSINGTAO YOKOHAMA

SUBSTANTIAL FOODS The Ministry, in collaboration The first slides were delightful with other related offices, has also pictures of China's untouched encouraged the perfection of beauty, views of Portuguese Macno, substantial foods that can be easily still distinguished by its eighteenth- prepared. The constant reconnais-seventeenth-century, architecture, sance and bombings by Japanese of Hongkong, of Yunnan Province planes and artillery shellings at and its capital, a town so ancient the front have made it nearly im-that the trudging of pedestrians possible for Chinese unite to cook through thousands of years has their food in daytime as "smoke lowered some of the streets by would betray the Chinese position. Afteen feet. And sometimes communication

There were pictures of lovely lines with the rear are so badly formal gardens, of peasant life. bombarded that it is impossible for and of temple interiors.. men in the front line.to get their

WAR SCENES

on the

On the Hankow-Ichang highway the Chinese are putting up effective resistance to the Japanese driving westward from Wamisotsi. A Ja- panese unit which forced its way to Chengchiachiao, has been de- reated and is fleeing in a northerly direction.

...SEVERE STRUGGLE

the Hankow-

Ichang highway in an attempt to outflank the Chinese. The latter, however, are successfully resisting their attacks.

The struggle at Sumchlso, is de- FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General

scribed as particularly severe. In a Banking Business transacted.

scesaw battle the Japanese have CBXLENT ADcor opened and

suffered no fewer than 200 casual- FIXED DEPOSITS received for One food from the field kitchens. So it

And then war scenes in the ties during the last two days, Ja- Year or shorter periods at rates is necessary that the nation's waI- which will be quoted on sppilostion.riors must be supplied with sind North of China, young soldiers panese reinforcements have been

The Bank's Head Ofice of food that can be eastly prepared. with a variety of uniforms and dispatched from

in London undertakes Executor and

For more substantial food Chin equipment entraining, comfelds Trustee business, and claims re- ese blo-chemists and nutritionists which provide excellent cover for covery of British Income Taz tave perfected a new formula for the Chinese soldiers, and troops overpaid, on terms which may be army rations. The materials used reoccupying the ruins of a town ascertained at any of the Agencies in the making of such food are rice where each of the 4,000 houses had In view of the increasing active-

flour, wheat flour, eggs, animal fat, ¡been destroyed."." and Branches.

ness of the Chinese guerillas in R. A. CAMIDGE,

beans, sugar, salt or sauce. Mixed The uncoloured fitm which the outskirts, the Japanese at in accordance with a certain for- followed was too small for public Yoyang on the Canton-Hankow mula, these materials may be made exhibition. It was made by an Railway in north Hunan are erect- into army biscuits, biscuit flour, American missionary organising barbed-wire entanglements and bread, buns or solid cake. Nutrition to interest people abroad in sandbag barricades Inside the city tion value of food prepared accord, the work which is being done in in preparation for street fighting. ing to this formula is very high. China for the relief of child refugees and their training in handicrafts

Manager,

THE CHASE BANK

16, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

HEAD OFFICE:,,.

The Business of the above Bank is conducted by the HONG KONG

SHANGHAI BANKING COR-An FORATION. Rules may be ob tained on application,

For the Hoya Kosɑ & SяÄNGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

V. M. Grayburn,

Chief Manager.

Hong Kong, 25th Feb., 1939.

BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED

Authorised Capital $10,000,000.00 | Paid-up Capital 6,598,600.00 Reserve and Undivided

Profits

8,776,726.76

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

Board of Directors: Bir Shounen Chow, Chairman Koon Chun, Eng. Li Law Sang, Esq. F. K. Kwok, Esq., WongChun, Esq. Tong Yun Tong, Esq. Kon Viap Po, Esq. ChanChingShek, Esq. FungPingWah Eng.

Kan Tong Pa, Esq., Chief Manager. Li Tra Fong, Esq., Manager.

L'xtayla

Amoy

Bomtiy

Carton

Calcutta

Haiphong

HASKOT

• Bouclatu Kabe

Branches and Agencies :—

Kowlpcs Penang Rourabaya. London Langoon

Bwałow

Mattila Buigas Hydney

Melbourne Ba Fran Taroku

Nagasaks

laco Montain New York Seattle

Токто Olex

Beman TABCODYOF Shangla Yokohama Helping Slagipart

Partl

18, PINE STREET,

NEW YORK.

American Bank offering com plate Foreign Banking Service 10 the principal Markets of the world.

Interest Rates on Applicatia.

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES.

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This Bank is entirely owned by Tas CHASE NATIONAL BANK, New Your, with Resources over U.S. $2,500,000,000.

"D." M./BIGGAR,

15

Manager

BANK OF CHINA

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

BANK PAID-UP CAPITAL $40,000,000.00 (BRANCHES ALL OVER CHINA)

SALTED VEGETABLES Chemists connected with the Na- tional Bureau of Industrial Re- search of the Ministry of Econo- | mics, besides helping produce the new army four, have also helped In the making of salted vegetables; More than 120,000,000 cattics of salted vegetables are needed each

AMENDMENT TO PRISONS ORDINANCE

Dietaries Rule Changed

year to feed "China's front-line fighters. Small private concerna throughout the country have been called

прод to produce these vegetables, as well as sauce and other items of food essential to a

It is notiBed in the "Government substantial diet, with help and advice from experts of the Bureau. Gazette that in exercise of the Crystal sauce has also been per-Powers conferred by section. 17 of fected by chemists of the Bureau the Prisons Ordinance, 1932, the for use at the front as it is easier Governor in Council amends the to carry than the liquid kind of Rules made under section 18 of the sauce crimmonly used. Experiments Prisons Ordinance, 1899, Ordinance have been made by different army No. 4 of 1899, as amended by the units with great success, and the Rule made on May 7, 1931, publish- Bureau is now encouraging the ed as Government Notification No, manufacture of this crystal sauce 288 in the Gazette of May 15, 1931, by small home factories in the rear as follows:— provinces.

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AMENDMENT

Canned food will also be introdu- The Brat paragraph under the ced on a large scale to the Chinese heading of Dietaries in the said army. The country's leading can-Rule is deleter and the following is neries are now busly engaged in substituted therefor the manufacture of canned food in

The diets of prisoners shall be in

according to reports from Hunan.

Japonese garrison units stationed along the wallway between Yoyang and Matang, about 9 miles south of Yoyang, have been subjected to constant attacks by the guerilias,

TWO - SIDED MILLIONAIRE

There were two sides to the late Sir Henri Deterding. Ona Was human, the other suggested the Uncannily smooth and efficient operation of some mechanical marvel.

The latter was conspicuous in the way he demolished the gold He supported his standard. argument by a barrage of figures

which no "gold" under

man, could have lived.

While conducting this offensive he had a telephone conversation with Amsterdam, signed a sheaf of cheques, and made notes for a letter (agalast the gold standard). he meant to type out himself. debunking process it was noticed During the course of this "gold that he tore stamps of some envelopes. He explained, that he

children..

Owing to our numerous Branches the rear for the army. The Bureau accordance with the following always did this for his grand- |

in China and connections in the principal Commercial Centres of the World, we are able to extend to our Clients special facilities for Domestic and Foreign Banking and Exchange.

Head Office: SHANGHAI Hong Kong Branch:

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

KONGMOON TOISHAN

CANTON SWATOW SHIUCHOW KINGCHOW

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

approved securities.

Current Accounts opened in Loca! Currency and Fixed Deposita re-

We also handle the issue of ceived for one year or shorter periods in Local and Foreign Cur. Bonds and other Public Funds of terms which will be the Chinese Government both at

rencies

UN

quoted on application.

Safe Deposit Boxes To Let

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager. |

MECHANIZING

THE KILT

Problem Of Modern

Warfare

Home and Abroad.

SEOU J. CHEN,

Manager.

“My own collector's tastes are more expensive." The smile with which he referred to his art collection might be described as apologetic

has also perfected & canning machine for family use, so that wherever tea, cocoa, chicken, cheese scales and instructions: Provided, canned food can be produced in or chutney appear in any of the large number of rural homes sale diets, that the inclusion in the throughout China's rear provinces diets of such articles all be deam to feed her fighting force.

ed to be privileges only and in- tentionally so included as rewards for good conduct, and that one or CONSIGNEES', NOTICES more of such articles may be with-

£27,000,000 Man Dies In Surgery

drawn by the Superintendent from the 'dlet of any prisoner for a breach of prison discipline for periods of seven, fourteen twenty-one" days' subject to a right of appeal against such withdrawal

A man whose management' in-} to the CommissioneT. creased a fortune by £27,000,000

In five years died in a doctor's sur gery at Nottingham.

He was Lieutenant-Colonel Sir

JAPANESE VICTIM William Thomas Cox, D8.0, of

DIES

Waiter Now Faces Murder Charge

Li Ping-chuen, 22, waiter, of the Heung Sut Restaurant, who

WHY THE NAVY'S

· RUM RATION IS STRONGER

-Oakwood-mansions; Kensington London, W.

An Admiralty oficial has ex- Travelling to Nottingham he was plained why, after a six-months taken on the train. When the trial, stronger rum issues have train reached Nottingham Sir Wil-been sanctioned for the Navy. liam was taken to the surgery of

From now on the sailor's daily

a local doctor, where he died in ration will consist of only two-parts half an hour.

water. Instead of three, already Accommodation had been resery-mixed. The change ends a 200-year- A statement issued from the was formerly charged with Bled for Sir William and Lady Cox at old custom

Scottish Command in Edinburgh tempted murder on Hiyoshi Sagara," a local hotel. It is believed that The new regulation does not

describes as "vague and based on a Japanese, Wanchal, will have Incomplete information" the ra-to face & more serious charge. mours that it is intended to The victim died at Queen Mary on Baturday morning, abolish the kit for military dress. Hospital.

It is stated that the General following a relapse. Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Scot-

He had lingered in hospital for tish Command, and the Highland more than five weeks, as the re- Brigade Club are in close toucault of the attack in which he with the War Office and "can suffered multiple injuries. state quite positively" that nothing

mechanized

will be done to interfere with the the occupants of wearing of the kilt for ceremonial vehicle is occupying the "close"

"the or walking-out dress.

attention of

competent The statement adds: "The authorities, and in the interests and safety soute question, however, of the suitability of comfort of the kit for modern mechanized | modification may be found warfare for instance, when by necessary here.”

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DODWELLCASTLE

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

M.V." THURLAND CASTLE': From U.S.A. via MANILA,

CONSIGNEES of Carno are hereby

informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kow. loon Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd. at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

Optional cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been givení. 48 hours prior to vessel's arrival, but car ried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the

option extends

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 10th inst., will be subject to rent. All claims against the vessel must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 17th inst. or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns The Admiralty official said: “Abere, they will be examined on the certain number of men in his 9th inst, at 10 am, by our surveyor

Mfcaars, Goddard & Douglas Majesty's ships asked their com manders it the rum issue could

they intended to visit Rufford Ab-mean that sailors have gone "wet." bey, formerly the home of Lord on the contrary, an increasing Savile, in the Dukeries, which is proportion of ratings do not line up now in the market...

for their rum issue." They collect Bir William Cox, whose wife was their 3d a day from the Paymaster a cousin of Sir John Ellerman; instead, managed Sir John's estate

LEFT="249,000,000 - When the late Sir John Eller- man dica in 1933 he left £40. 800,000. Of this £22,000,000 not be made stronger, not neces Went in death duties."

sarily with more rum, but with Under Sir Willian's manage-less water. Their lordships decided ment the Ellerman estate is now to give it a trial, and at the expert- sald to have grown to £40,000,000, ment has shown the men can bear Sir William was fifty-seven. He up well under it. two-water rum was created a knight in 1937) has become the order of the day.”

In the case of dutiable cargo, con signees are requested to inform the Imports & Experts Office that they bave such goods for examination.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned

DODA DODWELL & CO.,

Agente

by

Hong Kong, 3rd March, 1939.

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FOR

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES..

Fax

NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO.

THE Motor Verneč

SIAMESE PRINCE” having arrived from the above Ports For 12th instant, Conngineer of Curger ner hereby informed fist their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hong Kong and

of Opium, Treasure and Valpables are | Wharf and Gedown Company Li being landed & stored into the Godowa Kowloon, and staredi sa

and expense. of the Hong Kong, Kowloon Wharf

& Godown Co., Ltd, Kowloon, whence All broken, cantechnik damaged Gooda delivery may be obtained immediately are to be left in the Godowns, where after landing-da

they will be examined on Faturday, All claims must be sent in to me on 4th Mar, 1930, at 10 A.M.) ar before the 10th: Mar, 1939, or All Claims must be presented; within they will not be recognized

18 Days of the Vessel's strival bara, Damaged Packages will be eramised after date they cannot be re by the Company's Surveyor, Mesure, cognised, an Goddard & Douglas in the presenes of

No Clairon will be admitted after the the Consignee at 10.00 am, on Mon- Goods have left the flodowna, and Fil day, the 6th Mar., 1939, Good remaining undelivered after de

Consignees must have a Revenue 8th Mar, will be subject to Beat Offer in attendance when way dutiable No Fire Insurance has been affected,

Bils of Lading will be goods are camined by the Company's Burveyoran

farbe affected by No Fire insurance will be

pa in any case whatever.

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will be countersigned

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