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1939 amounting to FORTY ccats per share on the Fully Paid Up Shares and TEN cents per share on the Partly Paid Up Shares of the Company will be paid on TUESDAY, the 11th July, 1939, on which date Divi. dend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Registered Office of the Company. Exchange Building, 4th Floor.

FERRY SERVICE COMPLAINT

[To the Editor, the "Hongkong

Daily Presse surfered

in the matter convenience and

INDO-CHINA: CHANCE FOR time as a result of the irregular

BURMA AND TONGKING

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The entire coast of China is now controlled by Japan. Hongkong has become very much of an island, · and any trade that it has with thẹ hinterland will be entirely on the sufferance of the Japanese. Attention is therefore diverted to the "back doors" of Chinese trade, writes a correspondent in "The Times" of June 28.

These, if we leave Russia out of account, are two- that from Burma and that from French Indo-China. The former is the more important, and already the better developed, älthough it suffers the disadvantage that the new road cannot yet be kept fully open dur- ing the rainy season.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed frøm | 15,000,000. TUESDAY, the 4th July to TUESDAY, the 11th July, 1939, both days inchisive.

By order of the Board of Directors,

flanking movements to keep

and

Serious

of

the Soviet busy in the case metre gauge, and the ordinary of a major conflict but they wagon has a 12-ton capacity only are rushing blindly into an- other adventure, an adven- Secretary.ture which will prove excep-

W. L. McĶENZIE,

Hong Kong, 5th June, 1939.

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HONGKONG, "JULY 11, 1930

MONGOL BORDER FIGHTING

MYSTERY enshrouds the

tionally costly so far as men, money and munitions are concerned.

THE COUNTRY forms the southern defence walls of

service

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provided by a ferry company who do not seem to care whether the passengers are well taken care of or not but few have liked to make any complaint either to the trafic department through the press about the incom- petence of the company's manage- ment of its businese whose primary object should be to cater to the public's convenience, being a pub He utility.

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TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1939.

FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION MTĠ.

COLONIAL SECRETARY

BOOK REVIEWS

Mr. Ellis Roberts's Portrait

Portrait of Stella Benson, By R. Ellis Roberts, (Macmilial, 15s),

Memoirs of the living or the lately dead are usually a thank- less task. Susceptibles are sull easily hurt, and there is the law of bel, a very present help to contemporary reputations in time of trouble. ·

In his "Portrait of Stella Ben-

son" Mr. Ellis Roberts has BCNU- pulously refrained from intruding upon his subject's privacy. He re- cords her shifting moods, but is often unable to reveal the cireum- stances which gave rise to them. The result is sometimes mither like Hamlet's soliloquies without the play.

RE-ELECTED

PRESIDENT FOR 1939-40

Hon. Mr. Lo On Finances And Contribution Of Chinese

Teams Te

"It should be borne in mind that in the matter of gate receipts the Association has to depend more or less entirely upon the success of the Chinese teams. Experience has shown that so long as there is a Chi- nese team in a competition substantial gate receipts may reasonably be expected and that, directly all Chi- nese teams have been eliminated, the income automa- tically becomes almost negligible."

This observation on the extent to which the Hong- kong Football Association was dependent upon its Chinese member-clubs for financial success or failure was made by the Hon. Mr... M. K. Lo, H.K.F.A: Vice-Pre- sident, when he presided at yesterday's annual general meeting of that body. Mr. Lo was dealing with the question of the Association's finances, in connection with which he said there was a problem ahead of the Council to maintain the fine showing of the year under review..

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mind.....the

I am one of the passengers of the Hongkong and Shamshulpo Ferries who has suffered through loss of time caused by the irregu- lar service provided by these fer- ries and think that it is only right British Burma has had pre- Hitherto Burma's communica- that

this complaint should be sented to it suddenly a market tions and trading facilities have brought to the public's notice.

In been based on this population of When you fail to catch a ferry for 200,000,000 people. times like these such a situa-15.000.000.-

enlarging. which has only just left, the iron overhauling tion ought to represent a new revising,

will gate being shut in your face, you

Given this inevitable limitation, opportunity for a land of have to be carried out if this think the next ferry will soon be Mr. Ellis Roberts has succeeded in section of the Empire is to utilize in and after embarking its pas-portraying a talented writer, whose to the full the new opportuni-sengers will leave again according temperament made it difficult for ties that present themselves. to the time-table. This does not her to be happy, and whose life

In the course of his speeched, but that, directly all Chinese- Burma Railways

however, happen. After sitting in- gave her little esse. Sympathetical- The Burma railways are side the wharf for 10 minutes or ly and skilfully he describes her Mr. Lo, who took the Chair teams have been eliminated, the so you can't but help peep through childhood, the time she spent in the absence on leave of the mome automatically becomes al- the wooden rampant to see if you Hoxton, her visits to California President, Hon. Mr. N. L. most negligible. can sight the next ferry. But un-

Colonial and China, her marriage and re-Smith,

Secretary I have stated the problem con- fortunately there is none in sight; sidence in various Chinese stations, (later re-elected President) fronting us; I do not propose to I suppose it is coming along the where she found the company expressed the appreciation of anticipate its possible solution. sea leisurely.

tedious and suffered much from the Council for the labour put But I may say that I understand Yes, sir, the ferry will probably

ul-health

in by all officers concerned your Comell has in speed up at a remote corner of the Her nature, as Mr. Ellis Roberts which had contributed to a question of raising, at some fu- other side of the river. In this shows, was an elusive one, and record net profit of $7,448.70 ture date, the entrance and other way It would appear that the Com-troubled by a conflict between a against a deficit of $96.90 for to place the Association in a pany is trying to save the expenses' perhaps too" self-conscious sense

better financial position. the previous year.

The results of the various com- Supporting the Hon. Mr. Lo were petitions are given in the Report. must put my writing first... I in- Mr. J. Ralston (non-Chinese Vice- and I wish to congratulate all the sist on being a writer first and a President), Comdr. W. P. Me- successful Clubs. But I feel I must wife second: a man artist would Carthy, R.N. (Services Vice-Pre- tender a special message of con-- sident), Mr. W. Pryde (Chairman) gratulation and appreciation to insist, and I insist."

and Mr. C. A. Goldenberg (Hon the South China Athletic Associa-- Secretary). A man artist would insist~~now revealing that is! It might fittingly business on the agenda, Mr. R. M. Following the conclusion of the be put on Stella Benson's, and Omar, Interport referee, voiced a You desire to look for breathing many another's tombstone. she complaint regarding the "loss of space whilst waiting for the next adopted the feminist position from clothing by referees from payllions terry and from my own experience, which she never budged," Mr. and pleaded for club officials to the only empty space is the wharf's Ells Roberts writes. Feminism ledtake measures to prevent such a latrine which always smells far her to suppose that there were state of affairs. from pleasant, is at least broaden artists who had established enough for you to stand in com- their right to work without domes- fort (?).

tic impediments, and that she

The Hon. Mr. Lo said: "Gentle- was in duty bound to claim the same right for herself.

men.-I am sorry that, on account Mr. Ellis Roberts subjects Stella of absence from the Colony, our

It is a matter of great personal Benson's books to 4

the Hon. Mr. N. L careful President, analysis, relating each to the par-Smith, is not able to preside to satisfaction and pleasure to me to ticular phase of her experience to day. As you know, he, Mrs. Smith pay this tribute to the 8.C.A.A., in which it belongs. He Makes the and Miss Rachel Smith, left the view of my long and intimate as-

sociation with the B.C.A.A of view that the value of her work as Colony for their well-earned leave

Siberia against "Manchou-

kuo" and Japan. Soviet

Outer

army officers are directing The rolling stock, however, is in the strengthening of the good condition

and the roadbed on the main line to the railhead Mongol mechanized corps, while officers for the side of the border, is maintained at Lashlo, 100 miles on the Burmese Outer Mongol army are being in excellent condition. trained in a military school at Chita, from which city a military road has been built to Ulan Bator (Urga), the capital. The military system in part follows the Soviet | Russian army system. Caval- ry, numbering about 75,000,

With the Irrawaddy River na- form the nucleus of the vigable up to Bhamo, which · ន Outer Mongolian forces, even nearer to the China border which are reported to have than Lashio, there is also a great been increased recently to opportunity for moving bulkier 150,000.

cargoes by water. This route

Freights at present are very high compared with those of China and Japan, thanks to the state of exchange and the Initial cost of building the Iine through mountainous country

FIVE DIVISIONS of Soviet should offer low-cost delivery, on

less urgent cargoes. stationed near troops are Outer Mongolia and a. mil-

Itary academy and a military

New Methods Needed Two factors in Burmese, com-

full advantage is to be taken of now præsented.

OT-

"fighting .which has college are at Ulan Bator so merce will have to be modified if broken out on the borders that, in the event of a major the opportunity between Outer Mongolia and battle, the defenders can be They are the, Customs and re- "Manchoukuo." Little in-counted upon to put up a stiff venue services and business formation is being received fight. Japan's action in ganization. from neutral sources, though the semi-official Japanese news agency is disseminating screeds of propaganda con- cerning their so-called vic- tories over the Soviet Russian and Mongolian forces. Mos- cow is remaining strangely silent on the matter but ad- mits that hostilities have been going on."

launching an attack in this

One of the characteristics of direction when she has her revenue raising in

India and. hands so full in China is as Burma is high indirect taxation. untimely as it is unwise.

THAT severe fighting has

FURTHER DELAYS .BY IMPERIAL

AIRWAYS

In yesterday's isle

of the

of running its ferries by three or four trips less a day.

The waiting room is invariably so crowded with passengers who have collected there through the

time-table and overlapping in con- ferries not running according to

sequence of which instead of there being two ferries to take the pas sengers" there is only one.

A FASOENGER

MEN OF WAR, IN HARBOUR

The following meri of war were in harbour yesterday:-

Bloope-Bideford. Gunboats-Seamew, Destroyers:-Scourt, Submarines:-Pandora. Foreign men of war-American Tulsa

A fine of $3 was imposed on

Heavy Customs" and even Excise John Foon by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest tariffs are chief features. For at the Central Court yesterday for instance, a levy of 37 per cent, sounding his horn after 12 mld- duty on American motor-cars night while driving in Des Voeux when a country badly needs in Road Central on June 23. creased motor transport seems out of place.

with

Petrol is produced. In the coun- Hongkong Dally Press, there was try and when marketed whole-

sale in India brings ed. a gallon of

published an announcement

to

Isolation

the comparative Hongkong, it is the French

the south; that has taken its place.

taken place there appears the effect that, owing to certain to the company; but the local port of Halphong, some miles to

from

be no doubt and the struggle.arrangements, the air mall which is going on along a London to Calcutta would be re-. ten-mile front, is stated to duced by one day. It

southeast of Lake Buir Nor.

was-na-,

1

made to

tax is slightly over is. a gallon.:

If such drawbacks are not adjusted the Chinese buyer, accustomed to 'dealing with duty-free Hongkong, will be sally disappointed when he comes to Burma.

of the responsibilities of matri- mony and a conviction that “I

Feminist Posidor

"

Chairman's Address

tion.

SOUTH CHINA'S YEAR

the It has, indeed, been „S.C.A.A.'s year, for, apart from winning the Senior Challenge Shield and the First, and Second Divisions of the Les-, rue this Club supplied most of the players for the teams winning... the Governor's Cup the Sunday Herald Cup, and the Lai Wah Cup.

OMA

a mirror of her generation's desires on Wednesday, the 5th, and I feel which I have the honour of being and losses and torments consists sure I am expressing the senti- Honorary President.

You will remember that in the truth that she wis essen-ments of all of you present to-day

seasons. ago the Association re- tally ordinary, typically English...when I say that we wish them a in her bones aware of what had very happy and enjoyable holiday, ceived a letter from the Philip- been lost, just as she was sensitive The Annual Report which your pines Amateur Athletic Federa- to the danger and delight of what Council has presented to you is on, suggesting the introduction might be gained.”

indeed satisfactory, showing, as it of a series of interport matches She certainly showed at times does not only a highly successful with Manila. This matter was unusually clear awareness of her year, but also a record net pront taken in hand by the Council, re- generation's plight; as when she of $7.448.70. as against a deficit of ulting in Manila being invited to visit Hongkong in February, with wrote of other novelista, but surely $86.90 for the previous season. also of herself.

the Colony returning a visit, in But, satisfactory as were last April. These matches were great An enormous majority of writers year's net profits, there are cer successes, and constituted the out- of our generation, which is a geri-tain disquietening aspects of our standing events of the season. eration of disappointed persons-financial position which have generation of chronically sore caused me some concern, and to vanities write from the crude which I propose to allude since I outermost layer of vanity a form feel they deserve your serious at of showing off which is touchingly tention easy to spot,

"

"ORIENTAL ENGLAND, By Blake Clark, Ph.D. Publithed by Kelly aid Walsh, Ltd. RK 35,

"Oriental England”

SHANGHAI INTERFORT

On the other hand, we were compelled to refuse the kind in-

At one time our reserve fundvitation of the Shanghai Football

stood at $16,500.00; as the re-

sult of several years' steady losses, this fund now stand" "at

the low figure of 91,037.286

Association to send a team North, but the Council has recommended. to the incoming Comell that a (Continued on Back Fage)

BOY HURT AT MONGKOK

of Oriental Infigence, a study teenth century England as re-

The income of the Association is fected in the drama. Dr. Clark derived from two sources(1) has devoted himself to a fascinat- Entrance and subscription fees: ing field, that of egoistic influences and, (2) Gate receipts from var- of English Uterature, and a most lous competitions. interesting field this is. A notable Jan-

Now, you will refer to the feature is the clear demonstration Profit and Loss Account, you will A small Chinese boy who was of the vogue which styles and notice that the current expenses flying a kite in a side street near manners, Oriental in their origin of the Association came to over the Mongkok police station yester- had for the English of the eight- $3,000.00, whilst entrance and sub- day evening was knocked down, teenth century. From the statis- scription fees amounted to only when he ran into Nathan Road, tics compiled by Dr. Clark, we see $308.00, which is roughly ten per by car No. 3925 driven by Mr! FOR that all the very time England cent of the expenditure. It Is Ping-fat

in

The opportunities for trade be on a scale reminiscent of turally assumed that Hongkong

have, of course multiplied, bat the Changkufeng affair last would benent under this arrange-

even now little has been done summer when the Japanese ment and we published the fact

to equip olther port or the were given a severe, thrashing, accordingly, but yesterday it was

rallway with the necessary and forced to withdraw. Learried from the Imperial Airways

Credit Facilities

facilities to handle more traffic. Aeroplanes, tanks and heavy representative that such was not Expansion of any kind requires Warehouse space in the port has artillery are being brought to be the case and no improve-Increased credit facilities. in not been widened the rolling into play in what is describedment in time between England and Rangoon, Merchants, after they stock has not been added to, as a desperate battle for Hongkong was contemplated nor have Investigated the China mar the roadbed has not been Nomanhan, a hill approx-the present.

could any such be expected for ket, should be allowed to carry proved, and no motor reads paral imately 160 miles to the

larger stocks of goods on con- lel with the railway have been

There This is distinctly disappointing signment. More liberal allowan- so much as planned. southwest of Hailar and just and most unsatisfactory as the ces will have to be made for in- augmented staff.

is This is air mall from Home is frequently voices, and the individual firm great contrast to what has been IT IS generally believed, some 48 hours late upon arrival at home which has a representa done in Burma according to a Hailar ("Man-at

Hongkong and no attempt ve agent already in the field

A Year In Arrear choukuo") message, that the appears to have been

must be prepared to finance such

was bending her energies to make obvious therefore that the Asso- The Lad received a cut in the In three months the freight India her own, and to bring China ciation has to depend, to the ex-chin and was taken to hospital for incident will be protracted as make up for any loss of time by increases

awaiting transport at the Indo-into her commercial orbit, at this tent of some 90%, on gate re-treatment. einforcements are reported night "fying. Frequently Imperial That China is ready and

Chinese railhead became to be en route to the scene Airways machines. leave Bangkok anxious to come more than

equal verytime dramas that were ceipts to meet its current "ex- to six months haulage at its pre- oriental in theme or subject mat penses. from the Soviet Siberian pro- by day and are held up for the

half-way is shown by her

sent capacity. Conditions are 'ters rose to their highest popu- Last year we had a remarkable vinces. Both sides are claim-night at Hanol, arriving in Hong "opening in Rangoon, of a

still worse to-day and in Hong-larity... Zing victories though the song late the following afternoon.

Long awaiting shipment to Be Soviet claims do not appear 24 hours could be saved.

whereas by flying at night some

phong there is freight. equal "to to be so blatant or as ridicu-

another six months hauling lous as those of the Japanese, ing the fag, but we cannot fall We are great bellevers in show..

capacity. "In French Indo-China. the whose assertions that they to draw attention to the fact that situation is less promising. Unt' have brought down scores and any casual visitor at Kal Tak the China War reached a crit scores of Russian planes in Aerodrome must notice the poor cal stage the communications be aerial battles cannot but be appearance made by Imperial Air- tween Indo-China

and China the cause of much amuse- ways, machines when compared proper had not received the at- ment

with Eurasia, Ching National tention that they deserved, THE JAPANESE have for Aviation Corporation, Air France

French Influenos and Pan-American Airways ma- long cast covetous eyes on

French influence clearly do- Outer Mongolla as possession. The situation is most disappoint the railway which runs through

chines,

minates Yunnan province but of this territory is very neces-ing and the sooner Imperial Air Indo-China connecting Yaman sary for them in their de ways take the matter up, the with the outake world fence plaris. With the better it will be for all concerned. narrow-gauge line and seizure of this vast area, they At present, it is most unsatisfac- been no effort hope to be able to resort to tory.

branch of the Bank of China. and of agencies such as the South-Western Transport Com- pany.

lias

year, and proat is shown under

The exploitations of the rapact-every head even the League Ac the Central Court yesterday when Further evidence was given at tea of the East India Company count which, hitherto, had been E D Bykes, broker, appeared on are vividly described, as well as run at a loss of about $1,000, an- remand before Mr. R. Edwards the vulgar behaviour of the so-nually, showed a pront of $307.62. charged with obtaining money by grateful for such facilities as are that company) after retuming to sociation in the position of having Motors, Ltd. Mr. O. E. C. Marton The Chinese, far from being called "Nabobs" (or employees of Are we fustified in leaving the As false pretences from the Reliance available, are outspokenly of the England. These upstarts tied to to depend for its financial stabi- appeared for the prosecution, opinion that the French are try-vie with the best familles and lity on the occurrence of similarly while Mr. F. H. Losby was for ing to strangle trade.

such was their effrontery that at successful, years in the future? the defence. The hearing was tempts were made to buy political power. This book is a mos inter-

further adjourned,

esting one and we strongly re- commend it to readers-HIM

But, in fustice to the French, it must be admitted ... that since the Japanese oc cupation of the Hainan Island and other Islands DA their coust. they have more liber:

from "mad "crease, its "carrying capacity. Now invader

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tow to and that

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GATE RECEIPTS Moreover, it should be borne in mind that, in the matter of gate Satireceipts, the Association has÷to depend more or less entirely upon the success of the Chinese teams: Experience has shown that so long Fas there is a Chinese team in a pás ha, competition, substantial gate re- Lee of Et ceipts may reasonably be expect ciated.