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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

BANKS

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI THE CHARTERED BANK OF

BANKING CORPORATION

Authorised Capital $50,000,000

INDIA, AUSTRALIA

AND CHINA

Issued & Fully Paid-Up 20,000,000 Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1859

Reserve Funds:

Sterling ..

.820,000,000

Paid-Up Capital

£3,000,000 £6,500,000 Reserve Fund

..£3,000,000 H.K. Currency Reserve $10,000,000 Reserve Liability of Pro- Reserve Liability of

pristors

£3,000,000 HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 35, Bishopsgate E.C.2. Sub-Agencies, In London: 117/122, Leadenhall Street, E.C.3. West End Branch:

Head Office:-HONG KONG.

Proprietors.......

Board of Directors: A. L Bhields, Esq.,

----

W H. Lock, Esq.,

Chairman.

Deputy Chairman,

Hon. Kr. J. K. Bonnfeld,

A. H. Compton, Esq.,.

Hon, Mr. B. E. Dodwall,

D. F. Landale, Esq.,

G. Miskin, Esq.,

K. S. Morrison, Esq.

Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearce,

A. V. Wilkinson, Esq...

Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn,

14/16, Cockapur Street,. 8.W.1. Manchester Branch: 52, Moaley Street, Manchester, 2.

AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:

ALON ETAR HARDIN PINANG, AMRITSAR HONG KONG MANGOON

ILOILO

SAIGON 3POE

BANGIGE

HATAVIA

BOMBAY

CALCUTTA

KARACHI

KLANG

AGENCIES; TOM CLIVE STYRET

Chief Manager. Paini Pice

Branches:

Bangkok Johore

CANTON DAWNPORE

CIBC

Amey Ipoh

Batavia

Kobe

Penang Rangoon Saigon

COLOXED

DALHI

HAIPHONO

Bombay

Kowloon

San

HAMBURO

Calcutta

Kuala

Francisco

Canton Chefoo

Lumpur Shanghai

London

Singapore

Colombu

Lyons Sourabaya

Dairen Malacca Sungei

Foochow Manila

Patani Swntow

Haiphong Muar Bamburg (Johore) Tientsin Bankow Mukden. Tokyo Harbin New York Hongkew Feiping Iloilo

Tsingtao Yokohama

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened in LOCAL CURRENCY and FIXED DEPOSITE received for one year or thorter periods in Local and other Our rencies on terms which will be quoted on application.

ALSO up to date SAFE DEPOSIT Borza in various sizes To Lar

Hong Kong, 5th June, 1930.

HONGKONG SAVINGS

BANK

The Business of the above Bank

is conducted by the HONGKONG |

HANKOT

KUALA

LUMPUR

XUCHING

MADRAS

MANILA

MIDAN

NEW YORK PEIPING

(Peking)

ו ...

·SEREMBAN SHANGHAI SINGAPORE SITIAWAN BOURABAYA TAIPING TIENTSIN TONGKAH"

(Bhuket)

TSINGTAO YOKOHAMA

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.

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

SAVINGS ACCOUNT also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with interest allowed at rates obtainable on application.

The Bank's Head Office in London, undertakes Executor and Trustee business, and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, ou terms which may be ascertained at any of the Agencies and Branches.

R. A. CAMIDGE,

Manager.

THE CHASE BANK

15, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL

& SHANGHAI BANKING COR PORATION. Rules may be obtain-] ed on application.

For the HONGKOND & SHANGHAI An

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

Reserve and Undivided

Profts

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5,588,600.00

2,883,932.01

Head Office:-HONG KONG

No. 10 Des Voeux Road, Central.

Board of Directors:

Bir Shenson Chow, Chairman

Li Koon Chun, Esq.

P. K. Kwok, Esq.

Li Lan Sang, Esq. Wong Chu San, Esq.

Wong Tan Tong, Esq. Kan Ying Po, ag

Char Ching Shck, Esj. Fung Ping Wah Eag

Amo

Kan Tong Po, Esq., Chief Manager.

Li Tre Fong, Esq., Manager,

Bateria Bombay

Calcutta

Haiphong Jankow Hopolalp Kabe

Branches and Agencias ---

Melbourne

Kowloon Pranc Singapore London

Bangoon Brurabaya Manila Balgun Swiow

San Fran. Bydney

cisco Tantric Senitis"

Semarang Shanghai

New York

Paris Felping

Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. Losas granted on approved securities.

Current Accounts opened in Local Currency and Fixed Deposits re- ceived for one year or shorter periods in Local and Foreign Cur rencies on terms which will be quoted on application.

SAFE DEPOSIT Bors. To LET.

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager

BANK OF CHINA

Bpecially, Chartered by

THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF CHINA AS AN INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

BANK

HEAD OFFICE:

18, PINE STREET,··

NEW YORK. American Bank offering com- plete Foreign Banking Service in the principal Markets of the world."

Interest Rates on. Application.

: SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES, This Bank is entirely owned by THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK, NEW YORK, with Resources over U.S. $2,500,000,000.

D. M. BIGGAR,

Second Vice Pres.

Longest Air Route In The WorldTM

IMP. AIRWAYS FLYING-BOAT FOR NEW ZEALAND

LONDON, Ang. 18. (Benter)— The extension of the Imperial Airmail Service to 17,000 miles, which is the longest route in the world, is foreshadowed by the departure to-day of the Imperial Afeways flying-bost Aotearoa for New Zealand. She is the first of the three

BRITISH TROOPS MOVE TO MALAYA

“LONDON, Aug. 2. (By Air Mall)-Britain is to send troops from India to Malaya in early date, the War Ofica announced Jesterday. . The move is of a precautionary

nature.

at

A Cairo message states that approximately 5000 troops from India will disembark at Suer In mid-August and be posted. at E Farid Training Camp, Artillery units will camp near the Pyramids.

"

Double Strength British troopa now in Egypt are approximately double the strength provided for under the Anglo- Egyptian Treaty.

There were 357,000 troops of the Regular Army in Indis and Burma at the end of last year, according to Whitaker's Almanack, and 8,000 in Malaya

For over three years the General Oncer Commanding in Malaya has been Major-General W. O. B. Dobble... who is to be succeeded by Major-General L. V. Bond.

I.R.A. Replies To Expulsion Orders

LONDON, Aug. 16 (Reater) -Following explosions which occurred at hotels in Lanca- shire seaside towns, Fleetwood Southport during last "and

night, the Police are seeking two young women and a man, all speaking with an accent."

Nobody Was injured the outrages, both of which were ap- parently I R. A. replies to the Home Office expulsion orders.

Irish

SALVATION ARMY AND DEMOCRATIC CONTROL

LONDON, Aug '18 (Reuter)

Council Balvationist High The was opened at Clapton yesterday by Commissioner Lamb who is to retire in October.

Commissioner Lamb is champion of the school which in the past ten

д more years advocated democratic control of the Salva- tion Army as against the exercise autocratic powers by the

of

General.

These considerations may in Huence

election of Gen. Evangeline Booth's successor.

the

FUN WITH

KING-HALL

GENERAL

SIKONG ONCE BACKYARD OF CHINA NOW JUNCTION

OF TRADE ROUTES.

CHUNGKING, AUGUST 15 (CENTRAL)—WHAT USED TO BE THE BACKYARD OF CHINA IS EMERGING AS A FUNC TION OF A SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE ROUTES, SAID MR. HSI LUN, FORMER MANAGER OF THE NANKING OFFICE OF THE CHINA TRAVEL SERVICE, WHO RETURNED HERE RECENTLY AFTER A FOUR-MONTH TRIP TO SIRONG COUNCIL'S IN COMPANY WITH THE PEOPLE'S POLITICAL INQUIRY PARTI. `

The Arst highway tinking-up the new province with Szech- wan will be completed next spring, according to Mr. Hsl. The most difficult section of the road, as far as engineering is con- cerned, ruaning between Yaan and Luting, will be completed by the end of this year, while the 1st leg of 225 kilometers from Luting to Kangting (Tatsienin), the capital of China's western- most province, will be finished early next year.

14

Road Projects

An-

Members of the inquiry party met surveyors mapping out the Skong-Chingha! (Kokonor) high- way, which will be connected with the Northwestern highways, other important road project will place Kangting within easy reach and of British Burma, India, French Indo-China by the Bikong- Yunnan highway.

Mr. Hsi revealed that over 1,000 workers sacrificed their lives in paving the Sikong- Szechwan highway. The simple folks came

to join the road 'ganga, mostly with their own provisions, and not a few re- turned home without waiting to receive their wages.

in

The simple standard of living of the Kham people, Tibetan racial stock and Lama in faith and practice, was lustrated by Mr. Hal by the contentment which the natives receive from a bowl of chanpam and a cup of buttered tes. Chanpam is grtel 'made from

The Premier - Commander- in-Chief of the Kingdom of Shu (now Szechwan), built a hare blast furnace to make

for his arrow-beads

troope, and the town... Was named Tatsienlu, that is to say, the arrow - heads

manfacturing furnace.

L

Native Prejudice While stressing that com- munication will hasten the in- troduction of trade and industry. and culture, Mr. Es declared that the native

against prejudice

overcome. education should be When the first governinént schools were established, instead of send- ing their own children to school, wealthier parents paid poor men's offsprings to undergo the “ordeal," He suggested that education in the wild west should aim at quality rather than quantity at the start.

Mr. Hal has brought back from Sikong a boy whom he calls Jimmy. Like his own poo- ple, Jimmy likes to dance and sing. He has ambitious plans

non-glutinous wheat, the staple for the cheerful little fellow.

cereal" there, and tea or plain water. They are so law-abiding that they seldom bother their legal, religious. political and economie overlords," the Lamas, with dispute,

Sikong Populations.

To

He will send him to sebool 'In Chungking and following his education, will let him home to play the role of teacher among his own people.

Tibetans made up the majority CONSIGNEES' NOTICES

of the 3,000,000 sikong population. One-third of the inhabitants are

the Miao, Yao, Lolo, and Moso SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES tribesmen.

Chinese

tradesmen

mostly gather on the eastern bor- ›der regions, mainly in the six nsien 'east of the River of Golden Band taken from Szechwan when the new province was formed.

child in the the lamasery.

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

CONSIGNEE NOTICE.

8.8. ARAMIS” 20'A/39.

BRINGING CARGO Fox MARSEILLES via SAIGON, etc. ARRIVED HONG KONG ON WEDNESDAY, THE 16TH AUG, 1939

Again like Tibet, Lama temples are all over Slkong, Mr. Hsi added. Every third male family is sent to which has been the only schoo for ages past. There he is für nished with food and clothing from his own family. Then, when his

ONSIGNEES are arreby informed family becomes rich, part of the that their goods with the exception fortune, sometimes as much as of Opinm, Treasure and Valuables are

being landed & stored into the Godown nine-tenths, of the income, contributed to support the of the Houg Kosg, Kowloon Whart & Godowa Co., Ltd., Kowinon, whence "church."

delivery may be obtained immediately after landing

is

All claims must be sent in to me Da or before the 28th Aug, 1939, or they will not be recognized."

Damaged Packages will be ozamined

Tribal Chiefs Next to the lamas, according to Mr. Hsi, the "tusau, or tribal chlefs, are the virtual rulers. It is The French comic papers are especially true of the non-Chinese by the Company's Surveyor, Mosary, making great copy out of the tribesmen, who are ancestral wor-Goddard & Douglas in the presence of business about Commander King-shippers. The only common idol the Lonairness at 10.00 am, on Tues-

day, the 22nd Aug, 1839.

Hall's letters to Germany.

In one case the cartoon shows a Jealous German husband dis- covering his wife with a letter from a strange man. "Who is it

from?

King-Hall? No? Then it "doesn't matter,*

NEW CEYLON. JUDGE TAKES

HIS OATHS

among the aborigines. is Chu Ko- Hang, the most famous strategist of the Three Kingdom period (220-283 ́ADO.

Consignees must have * Revere Officer in attendance when any dutiable goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors.

No Fire insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever,

ROHL,

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1939 -PAGE 13

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*OMITS SHANGHAT-

*

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Sept 93rd at 9.00 AM.

Oct. 7th at 8,00 A.MP. Oct. 1st at 807AM

Nov. 4th at 9.00 ZM.

AND FORTNIGETLY THEREAFTER

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AND FORTNIGHTEN THEREAFTER

1

FOR MANILA

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BS." PRESIDENT PIERCE" 8.S. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE "

"

Sept. 1st at 12 Noor

Sept. 3rd at 2.00 AM.

Sept. 18th at 1.00 A.M.

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ITALY

TO SHANGHAI

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Sailing for LONDON, ROTTERDAM, ANTWERP, HAMBURG. and LEITH on or about the 6th September, 1939.

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

For Freight and l'assige opply

Agent.

to the Agents:

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300 m.p.h. Air Box Bong, Leth Aug. 1999,

Travel Plan

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE

FROM LEITH, MIDDLESBRO',

LONDON, Aug. 6 (By Air Mail) -Vast aeroplanes, carrying thirty passengers at 300 miles an hour, THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD. Ceylon's new Puisne Judge, Mr. are "to be built on large-scale for 'Britain's. new George H. R. Cannon, who fills the production Vacancy created by the departure girdle-the-globe" scheme in civil some months ago of Mr. Justice aviation

arrived Poyser,

Colamito The new machine Is the super- recently accompanied by Mrs, charged Fairey F.0.1, and may be The Aotearoa will carry a crew Cannon. on the Bibby liner, used for long distance journeys of nine, all of whom will remain

Worcestershire.

in the programme drawn up by in New Zealand.

giant flying-boats specially design- ed to operate the link between Bydney and Auckland, across the Tasman Bea

Turks Cheer British Navy

PAID-UP CAPITAL $40,000,000.00

(BRANCHES ALL OVER CHINA)' -

LONDON, Aug. 7. (By Air Mail) Owing to our numerous Branches, in China and connections in theAdmiral Bir Andrew Cunningham, principal Commercial Centres of Commander-in-Chief of the Medi- the World, we are able to extend terranean Flect, left Istanbul for to our Clients special facilities for Cyprus yesterday Domestic and Foreign Banking and flagship Warspite (30,000 Exchange.

with an escort of destroyers, after a visit of Ave days to Turkish waters.

Head Office-BHANGRAT

Hong Kong Branch

4, QUEEN'S ROAD, C. South China Offices:

MAICANTON

SWATOW

KONGMOON

TOISHAN

Thousands

aboard his tons)

Am

ANTWERP, LONDON, STRAITS AND MANILA,

THE 8.8. BENVORLICE”

Mr. Justice. Cannon was greeted the Corporation formed by mer-CONSIGNERS of Cargo are hereby

informed that all Goods are being on board by Mr. Justice and Mr.ging Imperial Airways and British

landed at their risk into the baranions FW. Van Langenberg. First Airways, y

and/or extra hazardous Godowns of Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Building is also being speeded up the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf Court, Colombo. He paid a short of giant flying boats for the North and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or visit to Kulitsdorp in the after- Atlantic run and the Australia from the wharves

service.

obtained.ares Delivery, may be Mr. Justice Cannon took his

No Claims will be admitted after the The new Corporation may soon oaths at Mr. Justice Hearne's start a service between Great Goods have left the Godowns and ill Goods remaining undelivered after the bungalow. -The Acting Chief Britain and South America. The sard Aug. 1939, will be subject to Justice administered, the oaths. new Fairey F. C. 1 type may be rent.

The new Judge visited used for this journey. And Huiftsdorp the next morning and The Corporation's programme be presented to the undersigned on or watched, the proceedings at the will create many new jobs for before the 6th Pept

be recognized. ptor CHINA Assize Court, at which Mr. Justice young men in the Empire. Keuneman is presiding

Justice Moseley.

One of the most important aspects of the scheme is that all this development will be closely allied to the work of the R. A., F. and the defence of the Empire.::

All Claims against the steamer must

will not

To comply with the General Bonded mest have a Berence Officer in atten dance when damaged durable goods are examined as

All broken, chazed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns

Mr. Justice Cannon "was con- nected with the Supreme Court of of Turks gathered Jamaica from 1934 While there, along the shores if the Bosphorus he had the opportunity of meet- and the Sea of Marmora to cheer, ing Sir Bldney Abrahams and Mr.

where they will be examined on the JAPA the departing squadron.

The Corporation's first throughgat Aug, 1938, at 0 sm. by Messrs. He had also served under Bir service to India will begin early Carmichael & Clarke, At a farewell luncheon given by

Okan Commander-in- Robert Lyall Grant, formerly of in the New Year. For the first time No Fire Insurance has been affected, We also handle the issue of Bonds Admiral and other Public Funds of the Chif of the Turkish Navy, Bir Ceylon, who left Jamaica in 1936 aeroplanes will be used instead of Bills of Lading will be countersigned Chingos Government both at Hotos Andrew Cunningham referred to Another officer from Ceylon with sexplanes on this route and it will LOXLEY & CO. (UMINA); LTD. the visit as an historie event whom he served was, Mr. C. bring into operation for the first consecrating the closest collabora Woolley, until last year the Chiet time the new airport of Tal Kall Bong Kong, 16th Aug., 1939. Manager, tion between Britain and Turkey," Secretary of Jamaica.

SHIUCHOWKINGCHOW

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