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THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
The Fifty-Eighth Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the under- signed on Thursday, the 18th May, 1939, at noon, for the pur·· pose of receiving the Report of. the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1938.
The Share Register and Traus- fer Books will be closed from the 4th May to the 18th May, 1939, both days inclusive,
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Agents.
Hong Kong, 27th April, 1939.
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DEATH
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John Macray, Director of Dod- well & Co., Ltd, and formerly many years resident in Shang- hai, Foochow and Hankow.
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HONGKONG, MAY 2, 1939
REBIRTH OF A NATION
A GREAT DEAL has been written regarding China's power of resistance in the present war of aggression be- ing waged against her by Japan,
These comments have, in the main, been con- fined to the military aspects
VARIABLE WEATHER IN
APRIL
RAIN & VIOLENT
SQUALL
The weather during April was variable, the greater part of the month being rainy and rather cool. The beginning of the month was very warm, but the development of an intense anticyclone over China caused a fresh onset of the N E-mon- soon on April . This was ac companied by a violent, squall and a rapid fall in tempera- ture.
Cloudy" and exceptionally cool weather was experienced during the next few days. On April 8. the weather cleared, and remain- ed brilliantly ane and dry over the Eastern holidays. From April 15, until the end of the month, the weather was mainly cloudy and rainy, due to the development of a shallow trough of low pressure along the south coast of China; fog occurred on several days, and
there were frequent thunderstorms from April 15, to 20, some of them accompanied by continuous heavy rainfall.
TEMPERATURE
EDITORIAL
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939.
THE VISIT TO NEW YORK | UNDISPUTED FACTOR
AMERICA
Their Majesties
Programme
TWO DAYS AT THE
"WHITE HOUSE.
now
The programme for the visit of the King and Queen. to the United States 1s
oficially announced. The following state. ment was issued from Bucking- ham Palace :-
On the invitation of the Prest- dent the King and Queen will pay an official - visit to the United States from June 7 to June 11, during which period their Majes- ties will be the guests of
the United States Government.
Detalls of the visit have stili to be settled; but programme gives their Majesties the following
engagements.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7 The Majesties will enter the from Canada at United States Nagara Falls, New York State. late in the evening, where they an official
THROWS OFF ALL CARES
WORLD'S FAIR........
CELEBRATIONS
NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuter) -New York threw off all cares yesterday and gave itself aver to celebrating the opening of the World's Fair.
Headed by President Roosevelt. hundreds of thousands flocked through the turnstiles at the rate of 400 a minute. Special trains from all over the United States poured into New York. One from Washington brought 600 Congress. members. Cabinet Ministers and judges.
Twenty-nine warships of the
12,000 officers and men will visit Atlantic Fleet were on show, while
the Fair.
IN PRODUCTION
The Chinese Blacksmith's Ingenuity And Simplicity
BY T. "PAUL GREGORY
This is an age of metals. The craft of the worker in iron and steel becomes the basis of a civilisation. The role of the blacksmith has therefore been an all important one in developing the stage of a culture. By his manual skill, iron was forged into implements for tilling the soil, and thus agriculture, by which life on the earth is supported, was gradually evolved.
Man's nature is many-sided, and it was the black- smith who developed weapons of war, such as the sword and the spear, and no doubt he will be the agent to beat them into plough-shares and pruning hooks when. war will be no more.
been constantly a subject of comment. It is largely due to the fact that the skilled Chinese smith is accustomed to work with the minimum of tools, and the simplest and most effective methods. The equipment of a blacksmith
consider
The blacksmith has the honour of being a member of one of the oldest crafts. It was inevitable that he should. be celebrated in fable and garded as almost divine. It is story, and he came to be re-
not strange that this should: crafts have been developed himself greatly handicapped if he be so. because many distinct shop abroad is expensive; for the
foreign smith would from his, such as, for in- smith, cutler, armourer, gun-hammers, stance, those of the sword-cluding wages,
did not possess a full set of tools, in- flatters. tongs, decent anvil, and a smith, and such artificers. The Fair is still in a state of
forge fitted with a tuyere fron In western countries the in- (blast pipe) of modern design. But incompletion, the pavilions of | dividualistic efforts of the black-the Chinese blacksmith is entirely
heads of missions of the
process of construction. Diplo-
supplanted by the large-scale fac--a simple forge and bellows, & More than 40,000 workers have tory. The machine has displaced cheap block of tron for an anvil, received. After lunching private-been busy day and night for the him, and he himself has been re-a few hammers, and a pair of matic Corps will subsequently be
ly at the White House
past weeks in order to thair
have a legated to the position of being tongs. Majesties will attend
much as possible completed for merely a skilled labourer, and has party at the British Embassy in garden
the opening day,
lost his former glory as the re- skill, he is prepared to tackle Having these, with his inherent the afternoon.. In the evening
presentative of "the craft of almost any task from the manu- a State dinner, followed by
crafts."
SIXTY NATIONS
The World Fair was opened here NEW YORK, May 1 (T/Ocean)
on Sunday, "by President Roosevelt will be received by reception committee, and will pro sixty nations and the crews of 28 in the presence of delegates from ceed by train direct to Washington.warships assembled for the event.
THURSDAY, JUNE 3 Their Majesties will arrive at or the grounds, music by various The programme included a tour about 11 am at the Union Station. bands, including the Coldstream The mean temperature for the Washington, where they will be Guards month was 68.4°F, which is 2 bezet by the Fresident and Mrs. costume groups from different na
and presentations, by of the hostilities, which, dur-low normal. A maximum of 20.6 Roosevelt. The King and Queen ions. ing the past twenty months of was recorded on April 2, and a
and the President and Mrs. Roose- velt. with thetr ceaseless aghting against an minimum of 50,4 on April 5; the be infinitely superior to the recorded in April, the previcus Chinese soldier, have failed minimum being 51.8". The mean dismally to break the spirit of relative humidity was 82 per cent national salvation aroused as against a normal of 85 per cent. a result of the injustice to which the nation as a whole was being subjected. What has been but little emphasize
respective
will be held at the Offices of the invader who was supposed to latter is the lowest temperature suites, will motor in a procession many nations still "being in the smith have, in modern times, been satisfied with the barest essentials
The Fifty eighth ~~~ Ordinary General Meeting of the Company General Manager, Messrs. Jar. dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd, Pedder Street, "Hong Kong, on Thursday, 25th May, 1939, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, pain
ing the Accounts, and electing
Directors and Auditors,
Sunshine amounted to 91 hours, which is 24 hours below normal. The total rainfall for the month was 15.80 inches, nearly 3 times
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to the White House, where
a.
the
B.
at the STUDENTS THRIFT AN IMPORTANT FIGURE
CAMPAIGN
The Hongkong Students' Relief
ed, however, in the course of this struggle of right against might, is the remarkable change which the very harsh- 18th May to the 8th June, 1989 ness of the methods adopted were recorded at 12.30 p.m. on ties, accompanied by the Prast Association thrift campaign started have not yet invaded his province, of these is the pecular mode of
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the
Inclusive,
By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Managers.
Hong Kong, 25th April, 1939.
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by the Japanese have brought about as far as the people of China are concerned. With the stoical characteristics for which they are noted and.. encouraged by their General- issimo, who is to-day acknow- ledged to be one of the strong- est personalities the world has known, the Chinese people, loyal to the principles of the Kuomintang, quickly respond- ed to the need for a high standard of moral resistance.
ASSISTANT GENERAL
THE DISAPPOINTMENT MANAGER required by THE
over the successes of the SINGAPORE HARBOUR Japanese in the earlier stages BOARD. Salary Dollars One of the war soon began to give thousand two hundred ($1,200) a place to a new spirit of optim- month for the first year, Dollars ism-an optimism which has One thousand three hundred been responsible for what ($1,300) a month for the second amounts to the rebirth of the year, and Dollars One thousand nation. The loss of large of their territories, four hundred ($1,400) a month for the third year. The exchange be regarded as only temporary towns and villages began to value of the Dollar is at present and, with a cheerfulness that fixed by the Government at has been unexampled in the 25. 4d. Free first class passage history of the Chinese nation, for the Officer appolated and if the people have adapted married for wife and children themselves to a situation
up
tracts
Maximum
+
gusts
of
53 m.p.n.
April 2 and at 9.48 a.m. on April
15.
Y'S MEN'S CLUB
facture of a needle to that of a knife or pruning hook, plough- share or sword, et In the East. However, where the robot
Their methods are noted: " for movements of machinery their ingenuity and simplicity. One yesterday, when some 270 students, the blacksmith is still an import-working with a chisel or plane by members of the Association, under-ant figure. He is an undisputed which the smith is enabled to cular schools in Hongkong and is this prominence more clearly articles, and dress up the edge of took a tour of the various verna- factor in production, and nowhere plane off the surface of Iron towards war relief. It is estimated Kowloon, collecting contributions shown than in China. about $1,000 was collected.
the normal amount. The heaviest reception, will be given fall in one day was 5.72 inches on White House. April 20
FRIDAY, JUNE 9 In the morning their Majes-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt, will proceed to Mount Veznan by water on board the United States ship Potomac, lunching an After luncheon the King will lay route. a wreath on the tomb of George Washingtch, On leaving Mount Vernon the party will proceed by
The campaign will be continued The Hongkong Y's Men's Club motor to Arlington cemetery
throughout to-day and to-morrow, will be seven years old on Friday. where the King will lay a wreath and it is hoped the total collection and, to mark the occasion, a on the tomb of the Unknown for the three days will compare dinner and social evening will be Soldier. Their, Majesties and the held in the Peakcock Room of President and Mrs. Roosevelt will $1,000.
last year's sum of about
The Cafe Wiseman on Thursday, May thereafter return to the
third day of the 11, commencing at 7.30 p.m.
White campaign will include visits to House. In the evening the Presi- the English-teaching schools, the Mr. C. P. Wong. Chairman of dent and Mrs. Roosevelt, will be students of which it is hoped, will the Fellowship Committee of the the "guests of their Majesties at be the most generous contributors Club, and his fellow workers are; dinner at the British Embassy.
ANNIVERSARY
putting in much time to arrange. After dinner their Majestieg will an attractive programme for the leave for New York by train. evening.
"
with
CANTON
UNIVERSITY ENGLISH CLUB
+
The Chinese blacksmith still remains supreme in the realm of the various crafts; for, like the native farmer, he is largely unaffected by the economic movements of the highly in- dustrialised "West. True, the Importation of chesp manufac- tured froh and steel articles has created strong competition" which the brethren of the craft have had to face. But despite the economic penetration of foreign goods the Chinese blacksmith continues as he has been for generations, and the products of his forge find a ready market · among the masses of the people.
hard steel instrumenta, such as razors, knives, selssors, and the like.
THE CHISEL
The chisel employed consists of a long, thin, and narrow blade of trol steel, fitted in the middle of an iron handle of about eighteen inches in length The material to be worked upon, is held by a strong broad iron staple, fastened to a low bench, and firmly secured by means of wedges so that it will not wriggle or otherwise become. SATURDAY, JUNE 10
loose. The blacksmith in order to Admission will be by tickets, ut Their Majesties will pay an
plane down the surface of the iron. At a meeting of the Canton $2.50 for members of the Hong- oficial visit to New York City.
on which he is working, sits astride the bench, and grasping the plane kong centre, and $1.50 for other and thereafter will visit the New University English Club on Satur
In the after-day. It was decided to issue a
Even in Hongkong, the entrepot off the blade and trims it fine by the handles cuts the surface members and guests. These tickets York World Fair,
Thursday noon they will proceed by motor special publication on May 4, to of the South China trade, the and smooth; turning it in the re- be distributed to various cultural Chinese blacksmith still mariüfacquired direction, to produce the institutions in Hongkong, China tures knives, scissors, razors, hooks, proper angle. and in foreign countries.
anchors, etc. for the market. That May 4, 1939, has a particular these goods enjoy a wide sale is significance to Chinese students, apparent from the quantities that and the Canton University English aro produced. Their low cost u Club and the Canton University mere fraction of the foreign article Economics Society will jointly sends perhaps the greatest induce- a message to the World Students' ment for their purchase, and in a Association.
land of such limited economic re sources. they solve a definite pro- blem.
will be available on after the regular tiffin at the St., to Hyde Park, where they will T-shan will Francis Hotel, at which Prof. Hsu spend the night. Details for this Formosa.
give a talk en day's programme have not
{
been determined.
yet
SUNDAY, JUNE 11 Their Majesties will spend the day quietly at Hyde Park, ceeding by train to Canada in the evening.
pro.
M.M. NOTICE to six years of age. Agreement which has called for the The Compagnie des Messageries for three years on the Board's most unprecedented vigour, Maritimes advise that, according to During the visit to the United patience and Confidence in orders received, no person, except States of America, the Right Hon. usual terms, terminable at any their leaders. This spirit of passengers upon production of W. L. Mackenzie King Prime time within that period at the real optimism has in no small their steamship tickets, will here Minister of Canada and Secre months' notice on either side measure proved the turning after be admitted on board the tary of State for External Affairs. The Board has a Provident Fund point of the battle in China's Company's ships, at any time dur-will act as Minister in Attendance
which the officer must favour and has encouraged the port of Hongkong."
ing the call of the said ships in on the King. subscribe. Free unfurnished her troops in the amazing house will be provided. The counter-offensive which is Board carry on, ander the Ports now being conducted Ordinance, an extensive business as Wharfingers and Warehouse men, the nett registered tonnage of ships berthed at the Board's
to
with
PROCURING OF BRIBES ALLEGED such notable success to the now, belated though it has
Cheung Kam. 36, unemployed. increasing despondency and been, that this sympathy has anxiety of the invaders. taken a more material form, appeared before Mr. R. A. D. För
COMPELLED to move their this new spirit-this rebirth rest at the Central Court yesterday charged with having attempted to industrial activities from the of the nation has reached wharves for the year ended 30th war-pillaged regions of the proportions that have caused give bribes of two cents each to procure a hawker, Lo Hung, 51, to June, 1938 was 8,756,410 tons north, centre and south, the
serious concern to Japan's two policemen, Sergeant Chanchat and the grand total tonnage of resoluteness and resource of militarist taskmasters.. Singh, and Constable Tong Yau, General Cargo, Coal and Fue the people have lived on, IN THE MIDST of this in-at Amoy Street on April 13. Oil Inwards and outwards for the gaining from strength to dustrialization progress, the Sergeant Chanchal Singh told. same period was 3,384,003 tons. strength. They migrated to military stand-point has not the Court that he way on duty in In addition the Board operates the western districts un- been neglected or overlooked. Johnston Road on the evening of five Graving Docks, ranging from moved and unshaken in their Thousands of young Chinese the day in question, he saw the determination to continue the are now flocking to the defendant moving about among
'see
them. He tralled the defendant to Amoy Street and Jaw Cheung. holding out his hand to a vegetable hawker. He then arrested the de- fendant."
Cheung denied the charge and was remanded till to-day.
AIRPORT NEWS
Imperial Airways.
kong.
NORTHBOUND
NO ACCURATE RECORD
*The amount of metal which can be removed with this ap pliance is remarkble, and the articles worked upon, require only to be given a few strokes with a hone, and they Bre finished and ready for the market.
WAR-TIME FACTUR
As a war-time factor, the Chinese It is probable that no accurate blacksmith is likewise highly im- record of the number of Chinese portant; for he is returning to the Hong-compiled, by it must be very large, of an armourer, as mentioned in smithles in the Colony has been riginal craft of Tubal-cain (that
Tuesday: Bangkok, Hanol, Delphinus, belta-4 and 5 p.m. SOUTHBOUND
Friday: Hanoi, Bangkot.
- Dorado, Della--7, and 7.30 am.
Air France:
NORTHBOUND Wednesday: France, Hongkong.
Service 1. D.m
Pan American Airwayss
If the Chinese blacksmith can and Genesis, IV, 22), and has been in- a market for his manufactures instrumental in providing China's competition with cheap European defenders with that famous wen- gooda, how more must he thrive in pon-the taal-to, or “big knife"- the interior, where every village which has been regarded with such has its forge, and where the quan-terror by the Japanese.
tity or imported articles is neglig Corps of Chinese troops armed ble? These facts reveal the great with these weapons have distin- Hanoi, influence of the blacksmith in guished themselves in hand-to- Chinese economic life, and on ac-hand encounters which are features count of the movement to patronise of the fierce fighting on all battle mative manufactures, it is of in-fronts. The superiority of the creasing Importance free Chinese "big knife" over the Ja-
EASTBOUND Friday: USA.. Manila. Hongkong Philippine Clipper-2 p.m.
WESTBOUND
Saturday: Manila, USA.
Note: Due to poor weather con, Philippine Clipper-8.30 am.
ditions on the main line of the Empire route, the mail from Eng- land has been delayed and is due to arrive in the Colony this after nocnego
Lufthansa's Baron von Grablenz,
To furnish the raw material for panese samurai sword has been these thousands of Chinese black-proved time and again. In fact, smiths must be a difficult probem nothing is more dreaded by Japan 396 feet to 896 feet in length struggle at all costs and will- colours and, in the western hawkers, holding out his hand to
In the past the demand, was met ese outposts than the onslaught of together with a ship repairing ing to make any sacrifice towns, the training of these
by foreign merchants importing brave "dare-to-die? corps armed basiness. The workshops attach
Scrap
iron from necessary to
Europe and with there formidable "big knives." justice new fighting units is going on ed to the Graving Docks are triumph. The morale of the apace. The Chinese military
Hamburg being favourite supplies.movement to return to the soil. America; old horseshoes from But it is in connection with the capable of executing the heavier troops and the people, high as authorities, with their in-
No type of iron was more popular which is regarded as the only solu ship repairs. Candidates should it has always been through- creased supplies of materials
than that used in the manufacture tion for the millions of China's be between 32 and 40 years of out the past distressing and equipment, have infused
of these shoes, it being of homeless refugees, in the Chin- age, have first rate technical ex months, has been even fur- this new spirit of optimism
peculiar softness easily worked by ese blacksmith can most adequately and the into every one of these men perience, have handled a large ther stimulated
the Chinese blacksmith, and the serve his country These new ar- Some 200,000 tribesmen on the staff and labour force, and have western districts of China are China's crusade against ag- Ezechuen provincial borders are
razors, knives, and other products rivals in any district must be to-day a hive of busy indus-gression is being carried out now being mobilized for military who has been expected in Hong when made up while not holding equipped with farming implements had considerable executive extrialization plans. The sym- with such determination and training and to assist in the deve- kong during the past four days, their edge long, could be sold at and tools, and the native black- perience, and should possess propathy of the great western the will to win, that the result lopment of the lines or communica is reported to be definitely arriv. prices defying all foreign competi smith is their only source of supply. nounced business and organising powers stirred them from the cannot but be a triumph for tions in the province. The Chinese ing to-day about moon from Hanel. abilities. Applications are to be outset and was an inspiration justice a victory not only for authorities have also mapped out The German executive is accom-EFFECTIVE METHODS
ddressed to the Chairman. The to the united stand they Chinese arms, but a moral plans to raise the cultural panied by two companions flying in
standard of
of th
these tribesmen, a Junkers JU 52. After a short Singapore Harbour Board, have taken up against the victory for the nation and an Medical corps are being organized visit to the Colony, the aviators
343 Japanese aggressors. And honourable peace.
will continue to Japan
to work among them.
tion
By equipping the masses of his fellow countrymen with the means of wresting a livelihood from the The ability of the Chinese soll, the Chinese blacksmith blackmkh, to successfully com→ Can pave the way for the rebacit pete with foreign produsta hastation of the land, si
r,
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