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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE GOODS of The Reverend John Keers late of 33 Deramore Drive, Belfast, Northern Ireland Retired Presbyterian Minister, crased.

de-

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, madę an Order limiting the time for creditors and others to send' in

their claims against the "above estate to the 24th day of October, 1939.

All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.

Dated the 27th day of Septem ber, 1939,

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,

Solicitors for the Executors, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building,

Des Voeux-Road Central, Hong Kong.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

736"

PROBATE JURISDICTION

IN THE GOODS of Lee Chang alias Chas. Joe alias Charles Joe allas Wah Lee late of 9413 Third" Avenue Brooklyn, New York City in the City County and State of New York "in the United States of America, deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Pro bates Ordinance 1897, made an Order limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 24th day of October, 1939.

All Creditors and others "are" accordingly hereby required to send their "cisimis to the under signed on or before that date,

Dated the 27th day of Septem ber, 1939.

JOHNSON, STOKES &

MASTER.

Solicitors for the Administrator,

Hong Kong & Shanghai Rank Building,

Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

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737

ALIEN ENEMIES (WINDING UP). ORDINANCE 1914.

Mr. B. Schreiber, Mr. E. Funck, Mr. H. Fiebig.

Mr. D. von Hansemana. Mr. B. Adamczewski. Mr. F. Bumano. Mr. E. W. Hildenhagen. Mr. M. Steger. Mrs. O. Steger. Mr. H. Schmidt: Mr. H. Heitmeyer. Mr. K. F. Muller. -

In all cases where the follow

ing information has not been given to the Liquidator concern. ing the above mentioned persons it is requested that such informa. tion be forwarded with as little delay as possible to the under. signed:--

(1) Names and addresses of Secured Creditors, to. gether with details of claims and nature of security.

(2) Names and addresses of

Unsecured Creditors, to gether with details of claims.

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(3) For verification purposes the names and addresses of Debtors, together with details of amounts due. (4) Names and addresses of

Banks carrying on busi ness with the above per- sons, together with de tails of any funds remain. ing in their possession or other information which may be of use. (5) Names and addresses of any storage contractors. or other persons retaining goods in their possession

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS OF CARGO FOR THE

· UNITED KINGDOM.

Shippers are warned that, | owing to Government control of merchant shipping, it may not be possible to discharge cargo at the port in the United Kingdom to which it is consigned. In such an event cargo may be discharged at any port in the United King. dom, where the carrying vessel's voyage will be held to have been terminated and responsibility un der Bill of Lading to have ceased.

BLUE FUNNEL LINE. Agents,

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.

738

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 2nd day of Oct., 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public

Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Ma Tau Chung, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one fur

ther term of 75 years.

Intending bidders are, advised that Immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser (I not the applicant), will be required to deposit with authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in

an

cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.

helonging to the above, PARTICULARS OF THE LOT together with thereof.

details

R. A. WADESON,

Liquidator.

Messrs, Deacons.

1. Des Voeux Road Central,

Hong Kong.

R.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

735

PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday,

No. of Sale, i

Registry No.

Locality.

Kowloon Inland Lot.

Chung Road & Sung. Junction of Ma Tau No. 4178,

Wong Toi Road,

Ma Tau Chung.

G.

Boundary

Measure.

Thanks.

...W.

ft. ft. ft. fo

As per

sale plan

Square feet.

Contente in

Annual

Rental.

Upset Price,

About

28

1,800 4 (

3

EDITORIAL

ADVERTISEMENT

Q.

DEFENCE (FINANCE)

REGULATIONS.

Members of the public are re minded that it is an offence under the above Regulations, punishable by Gine or imprison ment or both,...

() for any resident in the Colony to conduct any foreign exchange business elther in the Colony or elsewhere with any per son other than an" an• thorised dealer in foreign exchange,

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1939.

Hello & Goodbye

(BY A. W, HYER)

There has been an influx of local residents returning to their hearths and business desks early this week.

The big streamline grey steamer in our port and on

·her first call in Far Eastern waters was certainly popular with the travellers, the reservations being quite heavy.

This commercial steamer; to Hongkong was thoroughly en- was constructed in Glasgow Joyable and he is looking forward in 1928, and has been on the to a pleasant visit. route from London to Bom-Steamer Traffic bay.

CORRESPONDENCE

PROFITEERING

To the Editor, "Hongkong Daily Press”.

TU-

Si-We have been instructed to draw your attention to the marks on Profiteering by Mr. C' Champkin at the meeting of the.. Urban Council held yesterday as reported in your paper.

"The actual position is

that in

the case of shipments to and from the United Kingdom the war risk rate immediately prior to the declaration of war was per cent

citizens down at the pier to great

The representation of Hongkong FROM THE NORTH, one of the fand that this rate was approved farge Italian passenger liners by the British Government which and inspect the liner was impres-came calling in our harbour dur-undertook the major part of the sive and included a goodly num-ing the week-end.

risk. Since the outbreak of war

has

ber of our elite besides a swarm- Mr. Robert B. Landis, the super practically the entire United ing. rubber-necking multitude of sales executive in Wallace Har-Kingdom war risk business coolles.

The European steamer per's Ford offices returned from a been transacted by the War Risks certainly received a worthy recep- business trip to Shanghai. The Insurance Office in London set up tion and welcome!

reunion with his family must by the Board of Trade under the have been great, for it was some provisions of the War Risks In- Imperial Airways

weeks "no time see!”

surance Act 1839. The present War Risks Insurance Office, rates are:-

CAPTAIN J, N. WILSON "was off

Northern residents in Shanghai. like a flash" in the Della on Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Fisher, con- Wednesday at 7 a.m., for Bangkok. nected with the Shanghai Pilots The mail" for all Empire ports to- Association, are in the Colony on talled 395 kilos.

3+%

(i) for any person to export from the Colony without permission gold, securities, drafts or currency in any form, except Hong Kong and Chinese bank notes, (i) for any British subject, without distinction of race; who is the owner of certain advertised for. Passengers. They travelled from inspection and conference call was all sources upon which the degree

eign currencies, including United States dollars, or securities expressed in those currencies, to fall to report such ownership to Government.

26th September, 1939.

733

The Daily Bress

報西剌仔

Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central. Tel. 30251.

Night Faitor (Wanchai Omçe).

Tel. 24511.

London Office: 53. Fleet Street

E.C.4.

HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 28, 1939,

THE BALKANS

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B visit, having arrived on the

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Mr. C. E. Davis and Mr. C. M. Italian, steamer. Potter, executives of Standard- And another busy Shanghal man arriving on an Vacuum Oll Co., were the only business

Air France

Via Mediterranean Via The Cape

rates Insurance Companies which are set up by the Institutë of London Underwriters (and not in Hongkong) are based upon in- formation collated in London fron

of risk can be casessed,

are 'an-

the United States by Clipper' and Mr, A. V, Dean, an official of But- are now on their way to new térfield and Swire.

It must not be overlooked- that quarters in India.

From the south, the always po- for voyages to and from the pular Canadian steamer arrived United Kingdom" it is open to with a small number of passen- merchants to use the Government

scheme, and companies gers.

Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Gibson, conxious to assist them to do so, neted with the Standard-Vacuum they prefer not to be interested in such a hazardous liability as pre- Kal Tak from France.

Oil Co. and the local office, ar-

sent day war risk presents. Mr. J. Bardac, 'loaded down with rived from a short visit to Manila. these American travellers coats and baggage, arrived from Both Paris, by the French service. This appeared to have benented great gentleman has been, on vacation ly from the Phlippine sun.

ON WEDNESDAY at 4.30 pm, the Air France's weekly inward plane, Ville de Bangkok, landed at

Miss

in Europe and now returns to his Two well-known residents in office in the Franco Chinese Bank Manila, Mrs. P. Millet and her in Pelping. Regarding the situa- daughter.

N. Millet, have tion in Paris which he left-only come calling in our city and, no seven days ago, he had little to doubt, in search of cooler climes. say, however, he grimly expressed They report Manila climate is hit- the general feeling throughout ting an all-time high. " France, "the French people are

Mrs. B. M. Guinness must have very determined about this pre-returned to Hongkong for there were bags in the empty cabin! This local' resident has been visit-

sent. war."

Count R. de Sercey returned from a short business call in Hanol by Air France.

ing and on a holiday in the south. and unfortunately, we did catch up with her on arrival.

not

A British commercial liners ar-

set for work!

cut

the pier and very anxious he was vince of Bessarabia, and in to board the steamer to greet Mrs. Bulgaria, the peasant regime A. D. S. Murray who is returning headed by Stambolisky was from three months holiday in drowned in a sea of blood. England.

to

as re-

We consider it unnecessary add anything further to show that Mr. Champkin's remark's gards profiteering in insurance were entirely misleading and could only have been made through ignorance. A copy of this letter the has been forwarded by us to Chairman of the Urban Council.

Yours fa'thfully, LOWE BINGHAM & MATTHEWS. Secretaries. The Marine Insurance Association of Hongkong and Canton.

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ENQUIRY SOUGHT

[To the Editor, “Hongkong Daily Press"]'

Sir, May I as another St. John member also add my request for an enquiry into the loss of our leaders.

The recent A, R. P. test under "new blood" was a test of what we have lost in organisation.

A member living in Happy valley was sent to Kowloon Tong although there was a First Post

Our officers' lounge has been taken without consultation and we

are treated as conscripts instead of volunteers. There is not a single

Brigade member-man or nurse who is happy at this revolution in

ur organisation

.:

Nurses have cried bitterly at the loss of the leader of their section who was like a mother to them--Can" nothing be done? ANOTHER PERPLEXED, MEMBER

Mr. T. Y. Lee, former President of Peiping University, will spend a few days in the Colony before he returns to Chungking. This kind riving in our port carried one of ly and keen gentleman has work- the largest passenger lists in over ed industriously with the Chinese a week. Many local residents re- turned and enjoyed thoroughly Government and education cen- tres in the past years. His fight the first trip of this steamer in & THE BALTIC

Far Eastern waters.

'The Honourable Mr, N. L. Smith, Colonial Secretary, was standing THROUGHOUT MANY cen-

turies, the German drive Became the bases of anti-So-at the ship's rall pulling on his for expansion has been to-

viet forces backed both by the pipe as the steamer docked. There wards the Northeast and Allies and by German Junker-was a large group of friends down Southeast-the lands of the dom. Internally, they were to greet the Colonial Secretary

bad to who unfortunately Baltic coast and the Balkan themselves torn by relentless short his leave, due to the war,

near her home. Nurses living in West Point were' sent to Seokum: peninsula.

civil wars. Finally, in 1920,

And looking healthy, wealthy pop-returning home about 11.30. THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS, Soviet Russia came to terms and wise and very happy was the p.m. What if there had been an themselves in with the border states and gental and charming Mr. P. Chea- actual air raid and all means of 731 established

what are now Latvia, Estonia their present frontiers were sex, manager of the Gloucester transporation had been cut off? and Lithuania in the tenth fixed.·*

Hotel. All his underlings from the Under Mr. Morris we would have and eleventh centuries, and IN CENTRAL EUROPE and assistant down to the baggage had consideration, and arrange- their further penetration to the Balkans, the Hungarian coolies gave him a rare welcome.ments would have been made for the East was prevented only Soviets were crushed by Hor- The able manager has been enjoy- us to serve in our own, districts. PUBLIC AUCTION.

by their defeat at the hands thy with Rumanian help, the ing six months of vacation tra- of the "Grand Dukes of Nov- Red Army was driven back velling and paying visits to rela- PARTICULARS AND CON. the 2nd day of Oct., 1938, at 3 DITIONS of the Sale by Public gorod. In the Balkans, the from the gates of Warsaw, tions in Europe. He reports he is

Germanic Holy Roman Em- Rumanía took advantage of p.m., at the Offices of the Public Auction to be held on Monday, pire fought for centuries Russia's internal strife to Lieut. Commander A. D. 6, Mur- Works Department, by Order of the 2nd day of Oct., 1939, at against the invading Turks. help herself to the rich pro- ray, of Imperial Airways, was at

THE PACE of German ex- His Excellency the Governor of P.m., at the Offices of the Pubile one Lot of Crown Land at Works Department, by Order of pansion to the East was, how- Wong Nei Chung, in the Colony His Excellency the Governor of ever, checked by the greater of Hong Kong for a term of one Lot of Crown Land at power of Russia's expansion 75 years, with the option of Mong Kok, in the Colony of to the West. Having defeat-

THE EARLY 1920's there- Mr. F. T. J. Locke, of the Public renewal at a Crown Rent to be Hong Kong for a term of 75 ed the Swedes in 1721, Peter fore, saw the eclipse in the Works Department, received many fixed by the Surveyor of His Ma. years, with the option of renewal the Great won sovereignty Balkans both of the old waves and verbal greetings when over Finland, Estonia and Great-Russian military-poll- his friends spied him at the IN THE GOODS of Frances Jesty the KING, for one further at a Crows Rent to be fixed by Latvia. The

This gentle independent tical Influence and of the steamer's deck rail. Helen Grey or McArthur late term of 75 years. „

the Surveyor of His Majesty the Balkan states of Rumania, revolutionary

man comes back from leave in drive which of Thomson's Hotel, "26

KING, for one further term of Bulgaria and Serbia (former based Itself on the new Soviet

England.gif Intending bidders are - advised

75

years.

ly parts of the Ottoman Em- "Republic.

Miss ME-Smalley, neatly and Drumsheugh Gardens, Edin.

that immediately after the dis

smartly attired in a grey costume burgh, Scotland, Widow deposal of the lot the Purchaser

Intending bidders are advised pire) owed their existence

GERMAN POWER too had

from the top of her head to her (not the applicant), will be that immediately after the dis partly to

Russian victories disappeared and the states toes, was greeted by her proud public outcry has been raised over required to deposit with an posal of the lot the Purchaser over the Turks, partly to Dis- that lay between the two father. London holidays, and the manner in which the Govern- NOTICE IS HEREBY authorised officer who will be (if not the applicant) will be raeli's Treaty of Berlin which countries were able to enjoy visiting are behind, this young ment, by appointing an executive

prevented their incorporation a period of relative peace as lady, returning home,

committee, is quietly bringing the GIVEN that the Court has by present at the sale, the sum of required to deposit with an in the dominions of the Czar essential links of the French

St. John Ambulance Brigade under virtue of Section 58 of the two hundred dollars, ($200) in authorised officer who will he

From Colombo calls returned its control, no official statement Probates Ordinance 1897, made cash. This sum will be refunded present at the sale, the sum of by the union of the German structed both to prevent the we did not have the opportunity public is lett wondering as to what THE TREND was reversed Continental system. con- Mr. A, 1. Avramow. In the rush has as yet been made and the an Order limiting the time for on payment of the Purchase two hundred dollars, ($200) In states in 1870. Bismarck's resurgence of German power to quizz this very savy busines the Government's real intentions creditors and others to send in price.

cash. This sum will be refunden wars with Denmark and Aus- and to serve as a "cordonman. their claims against the above

[on" payment of the Purchase tria, and Austria's occupa- sanitaire” against the Soviet. The well-known stockbroker. Mr. The incidents leading to the tion" of Bosnia-Herzegovina THE RISE of the Nazi re- S. Abraham, returning from resignation of the two leaders of heralded a new German drive gime re-vitalised the German Bombay, did not appear to have a the Brigade in Hongkong are too PARTICULARS OF THE LOT which forced Russia to go to drive towards the Easta care in the world as he saluted well known to need repetition war and brought on the drive which the Versailles trends on the pler with wide and here. But what the public is still holocaust of 1914-18.

beaming smiles.

not quite aware of is the deep system was not able to with- POST-WAR developments stand. But it was check Mr. S. W. Gittins was besieged feeling of resentment with which introduced many complica-mated from the beginning by ing him on his return from Singa-lled as a result of these develop- by handshakers and friends great-members of the Brigade have been

tions into the ancient struggle a new and stronger. Russia between Teuton and Slav, whose influence in the old pore. All m all the arrival of the ments.

comfortable, modern steamer, and I the Government Russia, once the gendarme stamping grounds of Czarist guests, was an informal and placently

Maks atmosphere in the of Europe" and the up-pan-Slavism is fast becoming gay affair. holder of monarchical reac-decisive, a Russia which Hitler Dite to adverse weather cond! ove tion against the spread of has preferred to compromise tions, the Pan American Airways' simm democracy became the nuon terms unfavourable to Philippine Clipper, due in Hong-m clens of revolutionary deve- himself in an effort to save kong yesterday, is delayed for lopments throughout the himself from a war on two hours and is reported to be ar- rea 732 Continent. The Baltic states i fronts."

riving at Kal Tak this afternoon.

PROBATE JURISDICTION

ceased.

estate to the 17th day of Octo PARTICULARS OF THE LOT price.

Boundary

Measure

ments.

ber, 1939.

All Creditors and others Are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under. signed on or before that date.

Dated the 20th day of Sept.,

1939:

JOHNSON, "STOKES &

MASTER,

Solicitors for the Executors.. Hong Kong & Shanghai

Bank Building,

Hong Kong.

721

No. of Sale.

Registry No.

Locality

40 pus

No. 6692.

Adjoining Jaland

Lot No. 6043, Sing Woo Road.

Wong Nei Chung.

As par

xale plu

About

Contents in

19,480

Square feet. 1

9740

Annual

Rental

Upset Price.

No, of Sale

Kowloon: Inland Registry No. Los Fo. #179. ~-

between Fa-Yuen Boundary Stroot

t o lung Choi

892

730

Locality.

St Mong Kok. -

Boundary Y

Measure-

mente

As per

sale plan

Upset Price i

About

Contenta in

Bquare feet.

120

Annusi

Rental,

CA 17,000 KRƏN

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Clandestine Policy Of Government

[To the Editor, “Hongkong Dalty Press"] Sir, ---- Although a tremendous

are in this matter.

the

Conti