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PUBLIC AUCTION.

Auction to be held on Monday, the 27th day of March, 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 Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colony

·PUBLIC AUCTION

PARTICULARS AND CON PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by PublicDITIONS of the Sale by Public Anction to be held on Monday, the 27th day of March, 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, Kowloon City, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, commenc. ing 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;

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price.

of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, commenc- ing 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.

price.

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HONOKONG, MARcm 92, 1939

HITLER'S GREED

FOR POWER

a serious, if not gloomy, ONE IS COMPELLED to take view of the situation in Eu- rope towards which the eyes of an indignant world are turned. Anxiety persists as to whether the world is to be plunged into the throes of an-

other war, a war which un-

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Discussing prospects at the Fanling Race meeting held at (Photo by Kwant recently.

Lelea).

LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL AGENDA

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1939.

SALVATION ARMY

HOME ANNUAL MEETING

(Continued from Page 1) The annual report and review of work caurled out during the year. 1938 was in part, as foloWB;-

During the year under review, 82 girls and children have been helped in the Rome, not including the Juvenile Offenders.

The complete accommodation for inmates, has by cateful re- adjustment been increased from 50 to 56, making it possible to reserve 26 beds for the juvenile offenders received from the Police Courts, the remaining accommodation bel ing used for cases received from the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and other sources.

To meet the need for isolation or cases four of the rooms at the bottom of the gardéh have been used as an isolation block.

"You tell me,” says the lady on the left to her companion as they try to spot'a winner at the Fanling Race meeting.

(Photo by Leica}"

The small balding, with, its par- den, pe:forms three separate func- In the first place, on the tions

is a Remand Home ground floor, for those young girls who have- In the main building the accom- broken the law. Secondly, in the modation is again, divided, the re-upstairs part, it is a refuge where mainder of the juvenile cffenders young girls atay on for months and. occupying the ground floor.

even years and are taught useful Whenever a girl is brought in, by j and also beautiful needlework. the Police, an opportunity is always · And, lastly, there is the isolation First Reading Of mads to have an interview with block, at the bottom of the gartien | her» before, she goes to Count, It where the saddest group of all are

often needs much patience and tact to persuade d little heroin pill or opium carrier to speak the truth.

The history of some of the girls MEETING. TO-MORROW before they enter the Home: reveal

Eight Bills

OLDEST INMATE

housed, young girls, many of them little more than children, who. In many instances, have been forced into an immoral life.

FOURFOLD RESPONSIBILITY

·PARTICULARS AND CON. "DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 27th day of March, 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of Dae Lot of Crown Land at Shamshuipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong for 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 Intending bidders are advised Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis that immediately after the dis- that Immediately after the dis- posal of the lot the Purchaser posal of the lot the Purchaser posal of the lat the Purchaser doubtedly will be far more. (if not the applicant) will be (if not the applicant) will be (if not the applicant)" will be disastrous, than that of 1914-

deposit with an 1918. required to deposit with an required to deposit with an required to authorised officer who will be authorised officer who will be authorised officer who will he

HITLER, in spite of his present at the sale," the sum of present at the sale, the sum of present at the sale, the sum of protestations that there will two hundred dollars, ($200) in two hundred dollars, ($200) in two hundred dollars, ($200) in be no more wars with Great cash. This sum will be refunded cash. This sum will be refunded cash. This sum will be refunded Britain and that his terri- payment of the Purchase on payment of the Purchase on payment of the Purchase price.torial claims have been ful- alled, has deliberately gone PARTICULARS OF THE LOT back on his word and has wantonly shattered all efforts PARTICULARS OF THE LOT PARTICULARS OF THE LOT

at appeasement: The Munich .01 Agreement has proved benefit to nobody excepting the German leader, whose hopes eventually to make his country the master of the world

are becoming more and more apparent. The "Fuehrer" is playing a des- perate... and 3 dangerous game: he realizes that he his blu succeeds, has, if 240 everything to succeed, and nothing to lose if it falls. His greed for power has caused him to break all solemn pledges which he had previously given, but such cannot but react in a manner that he and the people of the

It is impossible to exaggerate the NOTICE IS HEREBY Reich will regret. Might is GIVEN that the FIFTY not right, and Germany is

Among others who have round value of their stay in these sur- FOURTH ORDINARY YEAR- not as mighty as Hitler would the law relating to the taxation of their way to the Home are mulroundings. This is the first real twal who have sought their freedom home which many of them have LY MEETING of the Company have the world believe. It is Hydrocarbon Olls."

Several of them have "A Bill to authorize an under-through the Secretary for Chinese ever had. (since registration) will be held time that the German Chan-

been sold when quite young. Few at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong cellor realized this instead of taking for the reclamation of an Affals.

TERRIBLE INDICTMENT of them have any knowledge of Economic causes the world over the whereabouts of their own Kong, on TUESDAY, the 28TH seeking trouble and constant-area of sea bed to abut the Jubi- MARCH, 1939, at 11.30 A.M.ly challenging all and sundry lee Street Ferry Pier approaches

allke. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers together with Accounts for the year ended 31ST OCTOBER, 1938.

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New Kowloon Inland

land Lot No. 1948, Sau Chuk Yuen Road, Kowloon City. West of New Kowloon In- Lot No. 2064,

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

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4,130

Lot No. 2666.

New Kowloon Jaland

Junction of Un Chau

Wan. Street and Castle Peak- Iload, Cheung

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PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday,

the 27th day of March, 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 Kowloon Tsai, in the Colony of Hong Kong for 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 required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase

price.

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| No. of Sale.

Naw Kowloon Inland Resistry No. loon Inland Lots No Locality. Lot No. 2665. Between New Kow 2570, & 9037, Kowloon

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New Kowloon In Registry No.

land Lot No. 2687.

Boundry Stroct, Shamshuipo

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THE HONG KONG AND, KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS

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z Statement of

THE FIFTY SECOND OR DINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd., on THURSDAY, 23rd MARCH. 1939, at NOON, for the purpose

The TRANSFER BOOKS of of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of the Company will be CLOSED Accounts for the year ended 31st from SATURDAY, the 18TH MARCH, 1939, to TUESDAY, December, 1938.

the 28TH MARCH, 1939, both days inclusive.

The Transfer Beoks of the Company will be CLOSED. from MONDAY, the 13th MARCH, 1939, to THURSDAY, the 23rd MARCH, 1939, both days la clusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

C. M. MANNERS, Secretary & Manager.

Hong Kong, 4th March, 1939.

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THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS.

The Seventieth Ordinary Gen. eral Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Friday, the 24Ľ March, 1939, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, to 238 gether with a' statement ས་ Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1938.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

1.

General Managers. Hong Kong, 10th March, 1939. 207

10.000 GUERILLAS NEAR CHEFOO &

WEIHAIWEI · CHUNGKING, Mar. 21 (Central)

More than

$10,000

Chinese guerillas. are active outside Chefoo and Welhalwel, on the Shantung Peninsula, according to the latest, report from Shantung.

THE POSSIBILITY of а

taken

At the meeting of the Legisla-stories of untold mental and phy-In these cases Major Brazier and tive Council to be held to-morrow sical suffering. at 230 pm, the Colonial Secretary will move that the Report of the Although recognised as a Home Finance Committee (No 1), dated for Women and Girls, we really 2nd February, 1939, be adopted. have no fixed age limit. It is in- The Attorney General will move teresting to note, the oldest inmate the First reading of-

admitted last year was 83 years "A Bill to amend the Betting four days old!

of age the youngest, a baby just Duty Ordinance, 1931."

The old lady, a Shanghai · re- "A Bill to make better provisionrugee, had twice been rendered for the prevention and punish-homeless by the Japanese bombing seduce outrages-first in Shanghai and

later in Sheki

endeavours to ment of members of His Majesty's forces, or any member of any local Naval, Military or Police force. corps or reserve, from their duty, or from their allegiance to His Majesty."

Another very pathetic victim of the Japanese air-raids is our little" eight-year-old girl, who has to face life sadly handicap- ped by the loss of both her legs. "A Bill to amend the law relat- ing to the professional qualifica- Often times it is just the "first of lift up" a child needs and although tions required in the case Judges of the Supreme Court this Home, is not primarily for and Full Court."

her fellow-workers are burdened. with a fourfold responsibility: The segregation of these glids and their The sending of these clothing girls daily under escort for treat- ment at the V. D. Clinic in the Kowloon Hospital; The protection of these girls from contact with those outside, who forced them into a life of shame and would like to drag them back into it; and teaching these giris that their souls are of value and that they can still be reclaimed to a better way of life,

Girls under 16 who are convicted of offences are styled "Juvenile offenders and, instead of being sent to prison, are sentenced by a Police Magistrate to a period of detention in this Home, and thus escape the stigma of going to guol children, it has certainly enjoyed and the risk of mixing with har- "A B to consolidate and amend the privilege of giving that "rstdened offenders:

·FIRST REAL HOME.

the law relating to the registre-lift up" to quite a number of little

ones during the past yeLT.

tion of persons."

"A Bill to consolidate and amend

Douglas Wharf."

1938."

ilie.

"A Bill to amend the Protection, cured from the life of prostitution of Women and Girls Ordinance, can be helped back to a normal "A Bill to make provision for the The girls need helping physically contributions to morally and spiritually and they Colony's yearly

for alb need to learn some means by. Majesty's Government

which they can earn a living other than by prostitution, - ́

His defence,"

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That the Home is always fill- ed to 'capacity is conclusive ovi- dence that it is meeting a

Nobody presskog need. have listened unmoved to the veport which Major Brazier made regarding the work dar- -ing 1938, and nobody can fail to recognise and be thankful for the unwavering courage and wholehearted devotions with which she and her fellow-

workers have haudled tho many and difficult problems with which they have been confronted.

and Connaught Road to the East- drive women and girls into, pros-parents. ward of such approaches between titution but that they should drive Queen Victoria Street and Pot- children of from 12 years upwards German threat to Rumania inger street and for construction into it, is a terrible indictment of We are cannot be lightly dismissed

of a pler extending seawards from conditions in Hongkong. nor can Hitler and his asso- such reclamation and also for the faced with the vigent need of d ciates disclaim that they are construction of a temporary pler separate Home for these child, pros- between the said reclamation and tutes, a Home suitably equipped looking for new 'fields to con-

where the girls who are being res- quer as this is apparent to all. Whether it is the inten- tion of the Reich to turn its eyes towards the east or to the west, we shall not attempt. to predict but the Democratic Powers will not be unawares by any further The Attorney General will also Hitlerite coup. They have move the Second and Third read- allowed themselves to beings of- bluffed in the past and it is not their intention to allow themselves to be bluffed any more. They are now in favour of forming a united front against the Nazi dictatorship the general revenue of the Colony try and solve the problem, but our and a movement has been of any balance standing to the accommodation and equipment for started which will make the credit of the Fund at the Treasury dealing with the numbers that need encirclement of Germany in-established under section 4 of that our help is wholly madequate. evitable. Though, reluctant Ordinance."

"A Bil to amend the Prevention to take this step, they have, in view of the greedy amor Eviction Ordinance, 1938."

"A Bill to amend the Evidence bitions of Hitler, no alter-

Ordinance, 1889." native.

the past

"A Bill to amend the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1935."

The V. D. Clinics are doing a splendid work, bu if there is no other hope for a girl but to attend the Clinic and carry on the vile "A Bill for the repeal of the business at the same time, the Government House and City De-Clinic, as far as abe is concerned

Scheme Ordinance. is a waste of public money, velopment

This Home has done its best to 1934, and for the appropriation to

JAPANESE

REPRIMANDED

CUSTOMS OFFICERS

PROBLEM OF PREMISES This year we may be faced with the problem of purchasing premises to carry on the work of this Home when our present lease expires in January, 1940. We are confident the Colony will not fail to come to our help in solving the problem when the time comes,

And now, as we learn with dis- may from Major Brazier, that the Salvation Army is insertons dan- ger of being deprived shortly of these premises because their pre- sent lease expires in January next

and the owner destries to sell the property. This is a blow indeed. Surely it is intiztnicable that this splendid work, which hay beển cár- ried on in this building for the past four years should come to an end for lack of funds, and I would fain express the hope that the Govern- ment will be willing to step in to prevent such a disaster from DOCUT- ring, especially as the provision of 2 Remand Home for Juvenile girl offenders is strictly part of the Guty of the Government.

GOVT. ASSISTANCE NEEDED Government assistance is also The trelp received from the Co- required to provide a Rescue Home lonial Government has done much in this Colony for girls leading an to make the continuance of the Immoral life., This isolation block, work possible. The Home girls, by at the end of this Garden, which their industry, have contributed is the only Rescue Home in this 31,793.51 towards their own sup- Colony, will hold 13 girls only, but

port.

After receiving these grants and

"A Bill to amend section 45A of SOVIET RUSSIA and the the Offences Against the Person Balkan states will be invited Ordinance, 1865, as enacted by the These guerillas are led by Col to subscribe and mutual Offences

Against the Person Cheng Wee-ping, formerly police commissioner of Weihaiwel. When Suspicions which have existed Amendment Ordinance, 1938." the Japanese entered the city on between Great Britain and March 7.:1938, Col. Cheng took his the U.S.S.R. for handful of 500 policemen into the twenty years are being for- hills. Boon the little army grew gotten in a rally against a to the neighbourhood of some common foe of democracy

"dozens more girls could be rescued 10,000 men. Their incessant the Nazi menace. Rumania

if there was only accommodation operations have been responsible has been offered commercial! for the reduction of the size of aid by the British 'Govern- CHUNGKING, Mar. 21 (Central) local industries income there was to receive them the Japanese garrisons in the ment to withstand the Ger--In connection with the alleged still left a dencit of about $2,500 There are said to be ap passengers to meet which we have relied upon proximately 25,000 hitutes in Shantung Peninsula by 3,000 men.

man threat and the stern at-legal detention of COMMANDERS REWA

REWARDED titude of the United States in aboard foreign steamers by Customs the interest and generosity of our this Colony, and accordingly the CHANGSHA, Mar. 21 (Intl) the present crisis would in-officers of the Japanese nationality, friends in the Colony. The result rescue work carried on by the sal

It is learned that Mr. LH. Lawford, of the annual appeal for 1938 was vation Army must be a friction. The Share Register and Trans Over 300 Japanese were killed by dicate that America is inclin Commissioner of Customs in a great encouragement to us all only of the rescue work which fer Books will be closed from the Chinese guerilla forces in northerh ed to give at least her moral shanghai, has issued orders re- One final word of heart-felt ap-might be done if only Rescu 10th to the 24th March, 1937 Hunan Province, along the Can- support, in the anti-Hitler primanding the responsible Jappreciation to the Chinese workers Home were opened. At present

ton-Hankow Railway. Many Jap- | campaign.

anese Customs officers and forbid-who have faith. Ty done their best these girls have no chatce between-y both days Inclusive.

anese soldiers were taken prisoner.

continuing their present immoral THOUGH the European ding the recurrence of similar to finence the girls Col. Liu I-hua and Col. Ho situation

QUE CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH Gilfe and starvation. is fraught with

Sir Henry Pollock said I consi- JEG GOVERNOR'S HUPES Shih-hung, in command of the danger, there is no need for

der it a great privilege to take the Commenting on the matter guerillas were each rewarded $2,000 by Gen Hatch You, Com-people to become jittery Bo

Acciated with the Balvation Anny, His Excellency the Governor mander-in-Chief of troops in far as this Colony is concern about their daily routine and chair this afternoon and to be as unfortunate giris in the Colony, Hunan and Klangal, The two ed, an optimistic outlook may not be misled by the many which has a well-deserved and marked that the matter w cumcers were also commended by be adopted in spite of the rumours, which are floating world-wide reputation for its consideration and hoped met sotm Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek for anxiety which exists. The around Hongkong residents bours among the desolate and thing concrete would be cra 183 their excellent work.

public would do well to go need have no fears.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Managers,

The Hong Kong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

Hong Kong, 3rd March, 1939.

incidents.

copressed.