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HONGKONG DAILY

PRESS

BANKS

HONGKONG AND

SHANGHAI BANKING

CORPORATION

Authorised Capital *****-$80,000,000

THE CHARTERED

BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA &

CHINA

Issued & Fully Paid-Up $20,000,000 | Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1855 |

Eeserve Funda:

Sterling

.......£ 6,500,000|Paid-up Capital H.K. Currency Reserve $10,000,000 |Reserva Fund Reserve Liability of "

Proprietors

£3,000,000 £3,000,000

$20,000,000

|Reserve Liability of Pro-

prietors........

Head Moe:-HONG KONG

Board of Directors,

Hon, Mr. A, L Shields,

W. H. Lock, Esq.,

Oh tirman.

Deputy Chairman.

J. K. Bousfeld, Esq.,

4. H. Compton, Esq., Hon. Mr. B. H. Dodwell,

D. F. Landale, Esq,

G. Miskin, Esq.,

K. B. Morrison, Esq.,

Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearce,

H.. V. Wilkinson, Esq.,

Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn,

Chief, Manager,

£3,000,000 HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 38, Bishopsgate. E.C.2. Sub-Agencies in London: 117/122, Leadenhall Street, ECS. West End Branch: 14/18. Cockspur Street, &W.1. Manchester Branch:

71, Mosley Street, Manchester.

ALOM STAN AMRITSAR ECKOI

BATAVIA BOMBJY

CALCUTTA KLANG

AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:

PINANG HARSIN HONG KONG RANGOO

BATOOK ILOILO

SEREMBAN IPOE KARACHI

SHANGHAT SINGAPORE SITIAWAN HOURABAYA TAIPING.. TIENTRIN

AGENCIES: KOSE CLIVE BYLINT

ASLI PLACE" KUALA

CANTON

Branches:-

LUMPUR

Amoy

Ipch

Penang

Bangkok

Jchore

CAWMPORE

KUCHING

Rangoon

Batavia

Kobe

Saigon

CERT

MADRAS

Bumbay

Kowloon

San

COLOMBO,

MANILA

Calcutta

Kuala

Francisco

DELKI

MEDAN

HAIPHONG

XXW YORK

Canton

Chefoo

RAMBURG RANKOW

PEIPING

Colombo

I sous

Sourabaya

Dairen Malacca Foochow Manila

Sungei

Eaiphong Muar

Hamburg

Lumpur Shanghai

London Singapore

Patani Swatow (Johore) Tientsin Hankow Mukden Tokyo Harbin New York Tsingtao Hongke Peiping Iloilo

(Peking)

TONGKAH

(Bhuket) TLINGTAO YOKOHAMA

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local 01 | Other Currencies at rates which will be quoted on application."

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Current Accounts opened in Local Currency and Sterling with Local Currency and Fixed Deposita interest allowed at raten obtainable received for one year or shorter on application.

Yokohama

periods in Local and other Cur- The Bank's Head Office in rencies on terma which will be London undertakes Executor. and quoted on application...

Trustee business, and claims_re- Also up to date Safe Deposit|covery of British Income Tax Boxes in various sizes To Let overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of the Agencies Hong Kong, 13th Mar. 1939.

and Branches

R. A. CAMIDGE,

HONGKONG SAVINGS

BANK

The Business of the above Bank

is conducted by the HONG KONG!

& SHANGHAI DANKING COR- PORATION.

Manager,

THE CHASE BANK

ניר

Rules may be ob- 15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

tained on application.

For the HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

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 ....................... 5,698,000.00 Reserve and Undivided

Profts

HEAD OFFICE:

18, PINE STREET,

NEW YORK.

An American Bank offering com. plete Foreign Banking Service in the principal Markets of the world. Interest Rates on Application.

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES

2,881,932:01 This Bank is entirely owned by THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK New Yorx, with Besources over U.B. $2,500,000,000.

D. M. BIGGAR,

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

1:

Board of Directors:

Bir Shouson Chow, Chairman'

Li Koon Chun, Eng. Li Lan Bang, Esq.

P. K. Kwok, Esq.

WongChuson, Esq.

Wong Yan Tong. Esq. Kan Ying Po, Esq. ChanChingShek,Eaq. FungPing Wab Esq.

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

Amoy

Batavia Bombay

Haiphong

Baskow

Honoinin

+ Kate

Brancher 'and Ayanolaz 201

Kowloon

Singapore

Landon Bangoes Seuralys

Balgon Bwatow

Manila

Melbourne San Fran. Sydney

Nagumics

eteco Tenta

New York Sextti. Vanemaret

Tarla

Feiping Shanghai

on

57

Manager.

What It Costs To Run Our Fleet

costs

Have you ever wondered what it 10 run a warship? Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare. Parliamen- tary and Financial Secretary to Every description of Banking the Admiralty, supplied the an- and Exchange business transacted, swer in a written Parliamentary Товла granted approved reply on March 16. securities.

Current Accounts opened in Local The approximate annual cost for Currency and Fixed Deposits repay, victualling, clothing, repairs, oaived for one year or shorter maintenance, and other expenses periods in Local and Foreign Car (excluding the accruing lability rencies 6- terms which will be for pensions to personnel) quoted on application.

various types of vessels is:- Safe Deposit Boxes To Let

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager.

BANK OF CHINA TA

“Specially Chartered by THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT QF CHINA AS AN INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

BANK

of

£

Battleship (Rodney)...... Battle cruiser (Hood) Destroyer ("g" class} Cruiser (S'thampton class) 196,000 130,000 Cruiser (Dido class) ...

carriers Aircraft trious) Submarine (Seal) Submarine (Triton) Bubmarine (Unity)

317,000 311,000 57,000

581,000

40,500 36,500 27,000

No battleship has been com-

PAID-UP CAPITAL $40,000,000.00 (BRANCHEB ALL OVER CHINA) Owing to our numerous Branches Dleted since the Rodney in 1927, in China and connections in the which cost approximately £6,160, principal Commercial Centres of 800. No battle cruiser has been the World, we are able to extend completed since the Hood in 1920, to our Cliente special facilities for which cost approximately £5,700% Domestic and, Formiga Banking and 005.... Exchange,

Head Office: SHANGHAI Hong Kong Branch;

4, QUEEN'S ROAD, 0. South China Officct: " CANTON KONGMOON

TOISHAN SWATOW ► SHIUCHOW KINGCHOW.

Word

also handle the issue of Bonds and baber Public Funda of the Chinese Government both Home and Atrás, mod

OU JOHEN,

Costs of ships in other classes

include:-

"K" class destroyer of 16 tons

2500,000.

Cruisera--Gloucester. 8300 tons, of the Southampton" class, récent- ly built in HM. Dockyard; Devon- port-22,000,000.

MARS AS WORLD OF SPENT LIFE

LATEST DESCRIPTION

11

OF PLANET

Americans need never again

be afraid of being invaded by Martians for Mars in a world of spent like. Such is the opinion of Dr. Harold Spencer-Jones, the British astronomer Royal, one of the greatest authorities on planet life In the world to-day.

"We do see on Mars possibilities of some sort of life." said Dr Spencer-Jones, speaking at Leeds, Yorkshire, England, "but in look- ing at Mars it is more probable that we are looking at a world that is the home of spent life.

"Life probably nourished there millions of years ago, but has been dried up by the atmosphere and become has probably by nów. almost impossible"

COLD TRUTH Apologizing for the cold truth. the astronomer Royal sald he was sorry to disabuse the minds of those who liked to believe in. the romantic stories of other worlds by novelists, "It is practically certain." sald Dr, Spencer-Jones "that in the light. of modern knowledge.no forms of life exist on other planets"

the

Jupiter. according to astronomer Royal, was a rocky

miles 22,000 work about diameter, with an atmosphere ex- tending 6,000 miles outwards and so dense that the pressure was equal to about a million tons per square inch. "We cannot conceive,” he said, "that life can exist on such a surface and at such a pressure."

VENUS AND MARS Venus and Mars, Dr. Spence:-. to explain, were Jones went on the only, two plane's which were at all likely to support-tife. It has been impossible to detect any oxygen on Venus. but there was an enormous quantity of carbon dioxide around it which made it practically certain that there could not be very much. if any. plant life, and almost certainly no higher forms of life.

"Venus is a world where life has probably not yet started, or if it has, exista only in a very primitive form." Mars has an atmosphere of at least 50 miles in depth. It 13 possible to distinguish upon it patches which changed green gradually to browis suggesting some form of seasonal growth and development.

There was water upon Mars, but not very much and it had been impossible to detect the presence of oxygen but if oxygen does exist

GENERAL

Judge Upholds Freedom Of Newspaper Criticism

NO CASE TO GO BEFORE THE JURY

il

IN AUTHOR'S LIBEL ACTION

"It is of the utmost importance that we should uphold per feat freedom of expression in criticism, so long as that criticism is honest and keeps within bounds. A man may use very strong expressions and yet be held to be honest in his expressions." These observations were made by Mr. Justice" Gresves-Lord In the libel action in the King's Bench Division' brought. by Mr. Wafred Macartney, author of the "book, "Walls Have Mouths," against the "Dally Telegraph"—— (London),"

He ruled that there was no case were to or from Great Britain. The to go to the, jury and entered route was opened on March 14. Judgment for the "Dally Tele- graph" with costs.

1938.

"That is a thing admittedly of public importancs.

Mr Macartney, whose book dealt

"In the course of these remarks with his experiences, largely in Parkhurst Prison, after being sen-be refers to Mr. Macartney and his tenced to 10 years' penal servitude book. Has he gone beyond the f an offence under the Official bounds of fair criticism? Secrets Act, complained of a pas sage in an article by Mr. Harold Nicolson -

HONEST EXPRESSIONS It may be that he has spoken a little more widely than anyone “I am suspicious of books writ-else, but that does not take it out- ten by discharged prisoners. They side the bounds of fairness. - A are tempted to release their ac-man may use very strong expres- cumulated raricour by exaggerations, and yet be held to be quite ing anali krievances and by honest in his expressions. dramatising their own suffering. "If he had said anything, per- The reading public "absorbs such sonal about Mr. Macartney he

revelations" with extreme gullibi would

quite going. ity and gives no ear to the official clearly, beyond the bounds. He replies. A book such as Macarthas not done that I can ney's, "Walls Have Mouths" did nothing in the expression of these immeasurable harm. It was wholly opinions of Mr. Nicolson that takes unfair to those who strive, whe- them beyond the bounds of fair ther in omcial or unofficial capa-ness. citles,

Densi improve. T method."

to

Mr. Macartney alleged that he had suffered in his reputation as

an author.

OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE Mr. Justice Greaves-Lord ruled that there was no case to go to the jury.

have been

FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1939.-PAGE 13

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings

FOR SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via SHANGHAI, KORE, YOKOHAMA and HONOLULU

Sails Apr. 10th 10 6.00 AM.'

8.8. * PRESIDENT COOLIDGE ** RS. "PRESIDENT TAFT *

£8. * PRESIDENT CLEVELAND SA “ PRESIDENT PIERCE" 8.8. “ PRESIDENT COOLIDGETM 8.8. " PRESIDENT TAFT *

Apr. slat at 8.00 AM.

May 5th at 8.00 A.M.

May 19th at 6,00 A.M.

་་་

F

June 3rd at 19 Noor June 18th at 4,00 AM. 18

AND FORTNIGHTLY THERBATTER

FOR NEW YORK & BOSTON

Sails Apr 14th at 19 Noor

AND FORTNIGHTLY THEREAFTER

via SUEZ

8.8.“ PRESIDENT ADAMS 8.8. * PRESIDENT VAN BUREN"

19

Apr. 18th at 19 Noor

MANILA

Sails Apr. 3rd at

Apr. 14th at 1.00 AM. Apr. 14th at 12 Noor Apr. 28th at 1.00 A.M.

FOR

88 "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"

PRESIDENT TAFT

SS

88" PRESIDENT ADAMS" S.A." PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'

AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES

ROUND WORLD SERVICES

see

12, PEDDER ST.

"There must be freedom for a critic to express his views, so long as he does it with honesty. There is no evidence here of any personal malice in the writing of Mr. Nicol- son, and, that being so, he does not go beyond the bounds of fair criticism.”.

"That is my view about the paragraph complained of in this case" he said. "It occurs on a CONSIGNEES' NOTICES "page devoted to criticism of books. In the course of that page Mr.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE Harold Nicolson chooses to say certain things, not specifically of Mr. Macartney, but generally about the policy of issuing books of a certain type.

!!

FAR EASTERN

AIR MAIL

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

THE

M.S.

RAMSES*

haring arrived from Hamburg and Ports of call, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their Goods are being handed and placed at their risk into the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company's godowns at Kowloon, Tuesday Mar, 14 was the third where delivery may be obtained as soon anniversary of the inauguration of as the Goods are landed.

Optional Cargo will not be landed the Imperial Airways service to

Notice has been given 48 here, unless Hongkong, and It Limost coincided hours prior to Vesel's surival, bat carried with the end of the first iron from port to port 15 the final port months of the operations of the of call to which the option extends,

No Claims will be admitted after the service under the Empire Air Mall Scheme by which all first- Goods have left the Godowas, and all". class mall between Hongkong and 3rd April, 139, will be subject to Goods remaining undelivered after the England

Bent,

and other parts of

the Empire is sent by air at the All broken, chafed and damaged Goods It must be in very small quai- unsurcharged rate of 1fd. a half-are to be left in the folowns, where

titles.

BATA ESCAPED

IN TIME

M. individual choslovakia, whose name

Jan Bata, the

ounce.

they will be examined on st April, by our Surveyora, 1934, at 10 am Masara, Goddard & Douglas

To comply with the General Bonded Warehouse Regulations consignees must have a Revenue Officer in attendance when damaged dutiable goods are examined.

During the six months which ended March 4 23 tons of mail or. at 25 letters a pound, over 1.250,- 000 lettera were dispatched from England by this service. Mails from biggest other participant countries in the

All Claims must reach us before the Industrialist in Cze- Empire. Air Mall Scheme amounted 3rd May, 1988, or ther will not

was to 2.000.000 letters into Hongkong. be recognized. at one. tirme mentioned as with nearly as many outward from No Insurance will be affected.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by 8 possible

the the Crown Colony. In all Hong- president of

JERSEN & ̈00. murdered State in. October last, got kong airport handled in the ste

Agents. away to Bucharest in time. He months 65 tons of mall (about 3- Hong Kong, 28th April, 1999. had his own aeroplane, which he 650.000 letters), of which 43 tons lked to fly himself, and his own excellent aerodrome at Zin, in Moravia, where the Bata works CONSIGNEES' NOTICES were situated.

A friend visited... hlin there

the during

Bunday of the Anschluss last year in company with other Englishmen, and they discussed the future of Central Europe.

M. Bata, big, square man,

whose command of English is limited and curious, listened and | then delivered his remedy,

"I think?" he said slowly, "t would all be good if England would say "Boo!"

MYSTIFYING PLANE

Vieltors entering the Aviation Building at the New York World's Fair will become instantly sware of a low, persistent droning, the familiar but undisturbing sound of a plane in the distant sky.

The sound will carry their eyes to a towering, curbing wall more than 200 feet away where, high in the curve will be seen a transport plane as if in fight, its propellers whirling. Its llusion of fight dramatically augmented by the projection of moving clouds against the background.

Aircraft carriera Ilustrious 430,000. The Triton (1095 tons) (23,000 tons), in course of con- cost approximately £350,000

These figures are exclusive of struction about £3,830,000,

Submarines The Seal (1520 the cost of first cusut and reserves tons), building at HM. Dockyard, | of" guns, torpedoes, and am- Chatham, will cost approximately munition.

RICKMERS LINES

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

NOTIC TO CONSIGNIES

THE

TEL. 28171.

CHINA-SIAM

HONG KONG-BANGKOK

"HELLAS" *4. "ARLIOS”

"HIRAN"

LINE.

leaving Hong Kong 5th April via Swatow leaving Hong Kong 19th April via Swatow leaving Hong Kong 23rd April via Swatow HONG KONG-SWATOW-AMOY *ILL. “HAI LEE”, leaving Hong Kong 1st April m... “HAI BING* leaving Hong Kong

18th April Accepting Passengers & Cargo for all the shove metioned ports.

HONG KONG

m.s. "HAI LEE"

SINGAPORE-PENANG-RANGOON Regular Express Service

leaving Hong Kong "HAI HING" leaving Hong Kong

7th April 24th April

Accepting cargo for all the above mentioned porta.

Excellent passenger accommodation available. For freight, pamage rates and all other information- Apply to

THORESEN & CO., LTD.

Tel. 30937.

General Agends.

Queen'a Building.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, - LTD.

J

S.S. "BENMOHR"

Sailing för LONDON, ROTTERDAM,

·ANTWERP, HAMBURG and LEITH on about the 9th April, 1939.

or

Cargo will also be accepted on through Bill of Lading to the usual transhipment ports.

For Freight and Prange apply

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to the Agents:

PENINSULAR AND" ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION Co.'s STEAMER "CHITRAL"

ARRIVED HONG KONG ON 19TH MAR 1989,

FROM

LONDON, MABSEILLES, MAUTA, PORTHAID, ADEN, COLOMBO AND STRA 78.

W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD.

Tal 34165

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

OCEAN STEAM SHIP 00, LTD.

AD

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

THEANS RICKMERS" having arrived from Hamburg and Forts of call, Conriguess of Cargu are hereby notified that their goods a being landed and placed at their riskONSIGNEES of Cargo by theONSIGNEE par Co's Yonsei into the Hong Kong Kowloon hors-named Yousel are hereby inO

Wharf & Godown Company's godowas formed that their Goods are being landed at: Kowloon, where delivery may be and placed at train xus in the Hong obtained as soon se the goods are Kong and Kowloon Wine and Glodowa landed...

Company's Godo was at Kowloon where

"PROTESILAUS"

FROM UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENTAL PORTS VIA.

- SINGAPORE ·

Optional cargo will not be landed each Consignmans will be sorted out Made are hereby notified that their · Cargo here unless notice has been given 48 by Mark and Delivery can be obtained ag | hours prior to vessel's arrival, hat the Goods are landede las carried on from port to port to the Bual port of call to which the option

extenda

No claitis will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all

Optional Goods will be landed here loss instructions have been given to the contrary 8 Hours bufoca scrival of the steamer, “

Goods not cleared within 8 days in goods remaining undelivered after the cluding date of arrival will be subject to Sil April, 1839, will be subject to Insurance will be effected by

rent.

A

No Fue

All broken, chafed, and damaged us in any case whatever. Goods are to be left in the Godownst Damaged Packages, manat, be left in where they will be examined op 1st the Godowns for examination by the April, 1839, at 10 am. by our Bur Consignees, and the Company's karteyois, veyors Meara, Goddard and Douglas Mesa Coonano & Dorgias, st 10 am. comply with the General Bonded on Mondays and Thursdays, within the Warehouse Regulations consignees Free Storage period, ag must have a Hevenue Officer Consignees are specially notified that attendance when damaged dutiable it is necessary for Berouns Officer, to goods are pramined to be present at the excitation of damaged

All claims must

reach us before the dutiable ourgo, lay 3rd May, 1939, or they will not be All Claims against the Steamer mast recognized efferten

prosented to Understand on or No Insurance

before 19th April, 1939, ar, khay will

will be dienkunged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will Be st Consignen risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Hot's Whard The Cargo will be ready for Delivery from Godown and after 29th Max.

York Building.

SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DER MENSAGESERE MAXITINER

CONSIGNEE NOTICE,

4.8. MAREOHAL JOÈTRE”..... 10ʻA/M.

BRINGING-CARGO-From- MARSEILLES via SAIGON, etc.-

ABRIVED HONG KONG 01 WEDNESDAY, rum 29ra MAB, 1939.

that their goods with the exception

YUNBIGNEED are havsby informed

} of Opium, Tressure and Valzjahimi are

Op” will not, be landed being landed & stored into the Hadowpe

here, unlow

Godown Co., Ltd, Kowloon, whence of the Hong Kong, Kowloon Wharf delivery may be obtained immediately after landing, se

to Vessel's arrival, but carried on from haw been give prior port in pork to the final part of call to which the option standards

All claims must be sent in coime on All broken, abated and damaged Goods ars to be left in the Clodowng, where they or before the 8th April, 1989; or will be examitied

onday Today and tamaged Fackages will be exapil

will not be recognized. Fadays between the hours of 10,15:1 and Noow within the Free Storage period. by the Company's Surveyor M Fit No Crime will be admitted deter the Goddsed & Douglas In the proienos of Goods bare lift the Vesels Godrwn the Consignees 10.00am on Tue

the 4th April, 1839. and all Goods mmsining undelivered after the 5th April will Officer in attendance when say do

will be subject to

Consignees must have a Be Renty

All Claims against the Val must goods are examined by the Comem be presented to the Undersigned on or BRITTORE.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned not be 100kanteng bag Amitted all before the 19th April, or they will not No Fire fncursues will be e

JEBSEN 100, Good has the dedowns

MADRIENNON, MACKENZIE.

No Fire Inverines will be effzebed:

BUTTERFIELD & SWIBE.

Hong Kong, 27th March, (129)

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