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UNION WATERBOAT

CO., LTD..

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS:

The Thirty-fourth Annual Gen. eral Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, on Thursday, the 13th April, 1939, at 11a.m. for, the purpose of re- ceiving the 'report of the General Managers together with a State- ment of Accounts for the

ended 31st December, 1938.

year

the

The Transfer Books of Company will be closed front 29th March to 13th April, 1939, both days inclusive....

DODWELL & COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE TO

報西刺孖

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

Tel 24511.

London Office: 83, Fleet Street

E.C.4

HONGKONG, APRIL 1, 1939

AUSTRALIA'S GREAT LOSS

15; 1879, statesman

in

the

(BY A. W. HYER)

The Easter season usually delags "spring time" into 'set'on, and though few people are travelling at this particular" festive time many are attacked with "spring-faver," which produces R great yearning to go places, New, due to all this, summer travel reservations are in demand and within six weeks the holiday · crowds will descend on Hongkong.

Speaking of crowds, the President them. Reports are these residents Coolidge stops by to-day with a voyage to South Africa and vaca- large batch of people from Manila. Lioning, too. Included in the long passenger list The m..

Boissevain certainly

is Mr. Paul McNutt, States Com-, was packed full of pleasure when missioner of the Philippine Islands' she sailed for the south. and maybe the coming United; Empress of Canada States President, Also travelling to

were also Mr.

Jerome

business men in the

1h

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1939.

ANNUAL PRIZE SECURITY AMONG CHINA'S

DAY OF WAH- YEE COLLEGE

Report PresentedTM By Headmaster

DEFINITE AIM

The annual prize-giving of « Wab Yee College, Kennedy Road. was held in the Con- faclus Hall, Caroline Hill on Sunday morning. The hall was filled with the parents of the boys and of past pupils and friends of the College

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WESTERN MOUNTAINS

Homeless Refugees Turn

Towards The West

By W. H. Donald

Fermonal "Laviser To Gen. Chiang Khi-shek

WHAT BECOMES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE IN ALL

THE BOMBED AREAST Thousands of them are blown to fragments, and those who dle, to tell the truth, are fortunate in the sudden death that overtakes them, for thousands are maimed and live with their terrible wounds, while millions more are made destitute and haye to move from the ruins of their homes, their shops, their

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these Western

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the San Francisco Fair on this THE EMPRESS OF Canada arrived

Rev. Fr. D. Donnelly, S. J. dis- In the harbour on Saturday at steamer is a group of "Big Wigs"

rom Manila.

a.m. after a rather rough and ributed the prizes, and in a speech little factories.

They take what they can on their backs or on barrows DEATH has claimed Joseph

stormy passage across the Pacific. expressed his great interest in the DEA

Aloysius Lyons,, Prime Pan American Airways

Up there at the promenade rall College. The Very Rev. Fr. Rector or any wheeled vehicles that they can use, their surviving Minister of Australla, and the WHILE WE SHIVERED and shook were Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Roxburgh of Wah Yan College spoke in terms babies being carried in baskets or piled on top of the sal- Commonwealth mourns

Thursday moming on one of and their young son and daughter commendation and encourage-vaged household chattels passing of one of her greatest the ship piers, the California Clip- This popular Hongkong family had ment.

People in flight All the world. In the Mull kingdom (alti- In his report the Headmaster,

and crowd the tude between 11,000 and 15,000 leaders since the discovery of per at 8.30 went dying across the a perfect trip home and were gay

and happy in their reunion with Mr. Lim How-ping, said, in part: highways

of Ningyuanfu, in the southern continent by bay and Victo:la hills to Manila,

Ex Mrs. Mary T. McClinta k a fre- friends.

The College now counts an enrol mountain trails climbing like feet). west Captain Joseph Cook.

The Number one of John 1ment of 150. a slight increase on ants westward and farther South-western Szechwan, gold 13. pressions of regret no doubt quent visitor to this city new down will be sent to the Australian to Manila to join her US. naval Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., Mr. last year's Agures. In fact, it would westward, hoping to achieve so plentiful that it can be washed all his "tips" in packets of gold- General Managers. “ people from all parts of the officer husband, now stalloned in, Roxburgh, kept right on sailing via have been easy this year to have immunity from raiders and in any stream. The Mul king pays.

dust. and the southern city. This lady's home the Empress of Canada to Manila increased our numbers to 300, had find safety from the tortures 247 world

Hongkong and

Yunnah is said to be able to grow One of the our premises been large enough, or of war.

In had we been able to procure larger China will not be omitted during the part year agrees with on a business trip.

mountains mulberry leaves better than any of her husband's destroyer's destina-busiest tions so she hangs her hat here. Far East is back on the job and premises at a reasonable rent to (and they are real mountaina) the well-known silk-producing pro- HONG KONG & YAUMATI from the list.

But we there is some relie: at this time vinces near the coast. Szechwan is on there and everywhere along the reports a very satisfactory, voyage becommodate the boys. Born in, Tasmania FERRY COMPANY,

and call in London.. the China coast. September

Mr. S. D. Begg and Mr. II. Wen. I must be satisfied, with the number of the year owing to the low cloud i tamicus for its lush agricultural LIMITED.

Mr. E. Brewster Buxton, PAA.'s first deceased

overy year:

Bimost drought is worked as an office boy, after meteorologist will fly straight to are connected with Thornycroft we have, and pay more attention formations which constantly blan-production. It harvests four crops

than the quantity.

THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES. unknown. Between Szechwan and which he was educated in the home port in San Francisco and Co., Ltd. the former gentleman to the quality of the boys rather ket the earth.

The average attendance for the So thick is the cloud layer that Yunnan, in the West, are the vast SHAREHOLDERS State and convent schools, as this trip continuing, his observations travelled to Shanghai to meet Mr.

last school year was satisfactory.not even a 18,000-foot peak sticks potentialities of Sikong well as the University of and care of the instruments in the Roxburgh, and continued to Manila

with the executive.. Clipper under his charge:

we have A NEW PROVINCE

Titere

Another rau leaner was Mr. A. over 96 per cent, and the results of through. Many times

Skong is a new province which The fifteenth "Annual General Tasmania, after his gradua- Meeting of Shareholders will be tion from which he sprang Beatty, Mr. Max. S. Polin and Mr.Wheeler, "long time, no see the the final examination proved also climbed through and travelled for

Won Norwood F. Aliman all travelling to stant Manager of Thos. Conk gratifying. All the boys had work-hours over 18,000 feet of cloud, and is, in some respects, reminiscent of Canada. Its first provincial Govern“. and Son, Ltd., whom we believe ed very hard throughout the whole that is too thick for bombers. held at the Company's offices at into prominence and

distinguish- Manik.

There is an old saying in Sze-ment was set up only on January“ for himself a

year under the strict observation retums from a vacation

chwan that if the sun shines dur-|1, after three years of preparation the Jordan Road Ferry Pier.

and ed

enviable name... Boissevain

A member of the great commut of the masters." Kowloon, on Wednesday, the

Ing the months of winter the dogs It has the highest capital city of Tas- served He

the

AIM OF COLLEGE"'" 26th April, 1939, at 12 Noon, formanian

bark at it in fright. The 8ze-lany province in China—Kanting, Government. res- VISITORS AND passengers spent ing organization, Asiatic Petroleum

and It is, as I remarked last year,chwanese, a delightful, informal hour on Co., Ltd., Mr. V. Clarka came call-

there are some tormerly known as Taisienku, with the purpose of receiving the re pectively, as Treasurer, Minis- port of the Board of Directors ter of Education and Minister board the m.y. Boissevain, Thurs- ing in the Colony. The members

Premier

and day; before the Dutch motorship of this company, are constantly on #Wah Yee's definite aim to prepare. 80,000,000 of them, pray to their an elevation of 12.400, General Lu

south the go and they always find a wel- the students, not only to be intel- gods that the dogs will have no Wen-bao is the governoz.

area of for Manila

The province has an together with a statement of Ac of Railways;

come here as they rush up and lectually, but also physically and temptation to 'bark while this war

morally good citizens. Or these is on.

182,510 square miles. Sikong is counts for the year ended 31st Treasurer; Minister of Rail-saled

Into those cloudy Western ways; and Minister of Mines.Africa at 5 p.m.

Friends and Lowers surrounded down from Shanghal.

generally high, and is almost inac- Pec mber, 1938.

he was

Visiting in our town is a popular objects special attention has been Soon afterwards,

Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson and Mrs.

chwan, Yunnan, and Kansu re-

where there are great barriers of The transfer books of the Commade Postmaster-General and Raiderson at their farewell party member of the Fourth Estate, one paid to the last. The development provinces of Kweichow, Szecessible in the west and north.

egarded as the primary object of fugees are flocking by the

perpetually snow-clad mountains. pany will be closed from the 15th Minister of Works of the on board on Thursday afternoon of those people who bark orders of good character, as we know, is

education.

thousand. Others elect to stay

It is, however, possessed of Im- Apr to 26th Apill 1939, both Federal Government of Aus-The retired Director of Public and is very active with a thick

in the mountaincus places of

mense rolling grasslands similar The English studies, Jays inclusive.

tralia; Acting Commonwealth works in the Colony is anticipating blue pencil, we mean the Editor of

Shensi, Klangsi, Hunan, Hu-

to the great wheat and grazing Treasurer; Treasurer; Minis-a very comfortable and a quietly the "Shanghai Evening Post and

Randall Gould. 3:e under the supervision of Rev. LAU TAK PÓ,

peh, Kwangai, and Kwang-

regions of Canada. A railway from ter of Health, and Ministe: njoyable voyage to Singapore on Mercury,"

tung provinces. Those who

Burma through. Yunnan rumning for Repatriation. In 1931, he the new Dutch vessel Homeward Though he may be pleasure visiting Fr. Kelly, who has been corning

come to Kwangsi, Kweichow,

into or near to this region will became head of the United bound to England the Director and he cannot get away from news down to Wah Yee to take classes

Szechwan, and Yunnan are,

make it as a Chinese publication as the result of their migra- Australia Party and leader of Mrs. Henderson will make a lel-papers, the "printers ink" gets one! every week. My thanks are due to

puts it, "a self-sustained reservoir The Chinese studies are |

·tion, filling up empty spaces the Opposition in the House of surely trip stopping at various ports And though we were on his trail he him for his valuable, help and

proved the true newspaper man jefforts for short visits and inspections.

of "food and man-power for "con""" and Arc constituting the There were tears in the eyes of and gave us the well known slip, under the charge of Mr. Ho Put

tinued armed resistance." Representatives, and, in the

Delving further into the Empress Kan, who has certainly done a

foundation of what will cer- following year, was put into these nice people as they waved

Canada's passenger list wei great deal to raise the standard of

tally be new China", the office of Prime Minister, a goodbye to friends on the pier and post he held up to the time of Hongkong when they sailed Thurs- noticed Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Lam-the boys, who have been required

bert and young Master. Lambert to keep their own diaries and the NEW ROADS AND RAILWAYS

Hitherto all these provinces have his death. The late Mr. Lyons day.

been remote, maccessible, except Holidays are in store for Mr. and came sailing down from Shanghai.class diaries. was a Privy Councillor and a

We do not know exactly how long The students' association, as last for difficult trails over high ranges, Mrs. 5. F. Bishop and there were this family will visit in Hongkong year, has done magnificent work. Companion of Honour.

over fifty baskets of flowers and The man who opposed in. flation for the Commonwealth as many friends down to give them before returning to. Shanghai and Under the able management of the or by way of the Yangtze River.

ja genuine send-off. The Chief-en. the affairs of the Sassoon and Co.. committee members, the boys have Szechwan river ports, but, until re-

cently travellers wishing to go on a and who brought Australia gines: of the Green Island Cement Ltd, in the mob aboard we could raised the sum of almost three from the tolls of the depres-Co., and his wife are voyaging to not get a sight on these travellers. hundred dollars for social, charit-farther rode in chairs or walked, mountains to Kanting. Tradė tas

Several other "ship's rail ob able and war relief purposes since and all cargo that could not be flotation of the £28,000,000 in London, and as all good this served" were Mr. Tsu! Ping Sui, our last Prize Day. The striking transferred to junks traversing turies, goods being carried on the

depression loan," Lyons 'wa: must "come to an end," their vaca-manager of Tai Wo Hing Co., in reature among the boys of Wan Yee smaller streams was transported backs of men and yaks a fearless fighter, an able ad-tion will wind up with their re-/Shanghai-Mr. and Mrs. L. Van der is that they are very keen in extra-sometimes thousands of milles, on ministrator, and the possessor turn to Hongkong. in about six Stegen, members of the General school activities.

Chamber of Commerce in Shanghaj of a wonderful and honest months.

and and Mr. Percy Kwok of the broker character. Simple and re

city.

Managing Director.

IMPERIAL

AIRWAYS

APPOINTMENT

Mr. Rawdon Smith As Public Relations Officer

Imperial Airways announce that they have appointed to take charge of Public Relations; Mr. E. Rawdon Smith, who is at present Public Relations Officer of the London Passenger Transport Board. Mr. Rawdon Smith will begin his new duties " on April 17.

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GAINED OBE.

and

sion through the successful Capetown, eventually they will be

Two other well known

parted for a vacation, Mr. and Mrs.

of

Mr.

this year.

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The latter -directly

But such a rallway will have: to penetrate mountains like the Rockies. Now the direct ap- proach is by motor-road from Kisting to Cheartu (In Szech- wan) through YRehow, to the foothill near Kanting.

Berves MOTOR ROAD

Now these western provinces are all connected by motor highways, and there is a DOW way out and in through Burma. Railways, too, are gradually ex- tending westward, Kwellin is now conected by an operating railway with the main line from Canton to Hankow, at Hengyang..

Over a year ago work was started motor-road through the

however, been going on for cen-.

to

It is a common sight to see on the highways streams of vehicles," from donkey-carts to trucks, pied. with machinery, stendily and westward laboriously trekking

with through the mountains, thousands of men, women' and. children, mostly heavily laden, patiently trudging after them. |CHINA ENDURES

The refugees who are finding the backs of coolies or mules their way into this great reservoir The final examination of Class diminutive ponies.

of human effort and future national last year was held in Wah Yan I have seen strings of these little greatness, have among them many animals faithfully following their artisans and craftamen. Some have idates who sat for it, none failed gaudily bedecked leaders, carrying brought tools with them, and those Mr. Rawdon Smita, who has been gular in his habits, he loves charming resident of our city dege business in the gay Northern College, Out of the nineteen can- Six were directly promoted into Public Relations Offeer of London his home life and would have 'R. D. Gillespie, Managing director' Manila Bound

3A, eight into 3B and the rest into alt from Szechwan, hundreds of who could not will benent by the

miles from where they took on Goverment's

efforts great Transport since 1935, is 48 years of preferred his home to the of Imperial Chemical Industries

All our boys were exempted their loads, Coolies carry cargo to transport machinery and workshop age. A native of Shropshire, the limelight were it not for the (China), Ltd, Down to Durban in SATURDAY EVENING, 1 o'clock 3C.

the Empress of Canada "got from the usual entrance fees. one of the leading publicists in fact that his country called the Boissevain, a short visit and

express here my thanks to .V. Rev Lhasa over the giant ranges whose equipment from the areas in the

exesta are hidden from sight by East threatened with destruction. was then up to London is the itinerary, under way" for Manila, the transport world, and before him and "Honest Joe"

Returting home and to the bust- F. Rector.

perpetual snow, Our Past. Students' Association is his association with the London not the kind of man to shirk This route is appearing more and

more on the vacation schedule and ness affairs of Levy and Co., wint Passenger Transport Board, was his duty..

from the tales told it is no wonder Mr. Donald Cook. This gentleman not yet a very fourishing institu secretary of several leading com-

was on a flying business call here. tion; but, though. It seems weak as Permanently lame as the

such popularity exists. mercial organisations.

result of a railway accident in

We said something about "spring-having arrived only last Wednesdays baby, the members are well unit- At the outbreak of war, he wan

Clipper fromed and have kept in close touch commissioned to the Rife Brigade, his earlier days, Mr. Lyons tever and the passenger ist on via the California

Manila.

with the College. Among them, it Boissevain of "play. served in France in 1915 and was had been in failing health for the my.

Two other Clipper arrivals of last is worth reporting, two have gone out-forwê, invalided home the same year. some time but it was not makers"" bears us

A. II. R week were Mrs. K. L. Burks and back to the interior of China, and thought that his illness was sollocated Mr. and Mrs. In 1918, his exceptional adminis-serious as would rob Australia Phillips holiday bound to Bouth her son Mr. C. Burks, new, both have offered their services to our The manager of Talkco, of them return to their home and country-an example that I hope trative qualities gained for him of her Prime Minister. His Africa.

follow, whenever they can: the OBE. Back in civil life, he amazing vitality may be en- Sugar Renning Co., Ltd., and his spective businesses in the Philip our present and past puplis will

Mr. W. B. Barker, Philco Radio became secretary of George Spencer visaged by the fact that he wife were smiling and happy re- pine city.

cipients of "auvoir" and "Cheers" Moulton and Co., Ltd., and its was able to rally after no

fame, journeyed down to Manila on in the form of toasts, associated companies in 1919 and fewer than six heart seizures.

One of Hongkong's gay and, at a business and pleasure call. remained with the organisation

A great citizen of Aus-other times subdued bachelors, will Conte Verde until 1926,

In 1926, he went to Australla to tralia, a loyal son of the Em-be with us no more for Mr. B. J. supervise the affairs of AEC. pire, and a sympathetic friend C. Pool, American Vice-Consul went, SIX O'CLOCK in the morning on (Australia) Proprietary Ltd., and of the Chinese people has salling down to Bangkok A new Friday the Italian steamer the following year, was appointed gone but he will not easily be desk and a promotion await him came into the Hongkong harbour Secretary and Treasurer of the forgotten.. "Joe" Lyons, as in the US: Consular offices in the from Shanghai. Associated Equipment and Associa- his successor, Sir. Earle Page, Siamese city. He was sorry to be ted Daimler Companies,

rightly said, was a great Aus- leaving the Colony but there was When, in 1933, the London Pas-tralian statesman and a true no doubt about it, the few assign-

ment was pleasing. Med senger Transport Board took over Imperial patriot, who, sup-

Mr. and Mrs. John Fleming we the various companies, providing

ported by his talented wife London's transport. Mr. Rawdon Smith was appointed Assistant (Dame. Enid), succeeded in led at the ship's rall on depar Secretary to the Board and, in 1935, directing the recovery of Austure, sorry we missed a word with became Public Relations Ofacer.

ITALO - GERMAN MILITARY TALKS

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tralia from one of the darkest hours of her history. "If ever

LINDBERGH SAILS

FOR HOME

From Hengyang another railway

The outstanding features of this has been started toward Kwelyang, great migration' is the fortitude of in Kweichow Province. Another the sufferers in their adversity. railway is being built from the They live or they die, as the case border of Indo-China at Langson may be, but they do not complain. to Nanning, in Kwange Province: We have have seen during the If a railway can, by some means, whole of the past 18 months the be pushed in from Burma many of human suffering that is incredible. PARIS, Apr. 9 (T/Ocean)-The the Western provinces will be

No one living in land, smiling famous American Bylator, Col opened u).

with peace can possibly imaginé Charles Lindbergh, mailed yesterday GOLD DEPOSITS

the torture that is being borne by There are magnificent mineral the helpless masses of China. It is Mrs. Vera Hunt and her sweet in the & & Aquitanis from Cher-

and agricultural resources to be this inherent faculty for enduring young daughter Miss J. Hunt re-bourg for the United States

developed, Yunnan has se is well desperate suffering, this power of turned from several weeks' visit, in Bhanghai. - Now all the family of

known, one of the world's largest recuperation, that makes it impos Wm. Hunt and Co., is back in the

any from Manlia on the Clipper, and fron, and coal. In Ezechwan gold is conquer China colony for awhile, but this is a time of it here, including their trip tin deposits. It is rich in copper,sible for Japan to subjugate day one of them is able to go sail- each of them hope to be calling in great, abundance,

here in the "near future, Ing or flying off somewhere. travel minded group and

Down from the North also came

„Europe Bound

a man can truly be said to mourning the loss of a great Mr. Leon Mertini, have given his life for his man. country, that man was Mr.

The upper Yangtze has been

Natural, calamities have bred

in the blood and the bone of

the Chinese race those powers of survival that enable them quickly to subdue and overcome the effects of appalling catas- trophes.

or

Mr. A. Von Hasselt was booked known for centuries as the "River of Golden Sand.” The for Singapore regarding his fur-

great beds of detritus brought ther plans, they are indefinite, all

down by the summer floods are" depends upon business in the

worked for gold as far down as Sir Earle Page, the new

the west of the Wind Bor There were Mr. M. K. Patel tr

Already in the West new life tr ROME, Apr. 9 (Reuter)Gen Lyons" as "the premature Prime Minister, like his pre- THE SAME AFTERNOON, Friday southern port

at 5.30 o'clock, the Conte Verde

Gergel Partani, Italian Chief of Staff, who ending to his wise and useful decessor, is a man of great

Out to the great motels appearing There is an amazing derick Pope to Mania, but by the Europe, had been participating in the life was really due to the talent and equally as distin-alled for southern ports and velling to Bombay and Col. Fre- military talks with Germany at intense strain and anxiety guished. It is more than and though it was Good Friday time the Football Department roeming part of the Himalayas growth of factories and cher Innsbruck returned to Rome year which accompanied his efforts likely that he will carry on there was a true congregation finished questioning us and we which leap up from foothills all aldim for dental purpose terday.A

His first action was, to end on to help Australia and the Em- the sound policies of his down to wave adios to the twenty questioning them, the three toots along the western boundaries of the march or cra

ex- former chief and that his strong members of the Singapore of the Gente Verde presented us Yuman Beechman, and Kansa Mussolini, to whom he gave an ac-pire in this present

day are destined to astonish the count of the decisions taken at tremity." The world joins motto will remain the same Football Team which sailed for with a dismissal and the work of here are gole deposita which one Panied by the intellect

They all bac a splendid seeing other passengers undone... with the Australian people in "Advance Australia."

Innsbruck.

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home.

the machines