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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION

of

IN THE GOODS of Charles "Robert Maguire late

Shanghai, China, deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Pro- bates Ordinancé 1897, made an

the Order limiting

time lor creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 20th day of Febru. ary, 1940,

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

Dated the 23rd day of January, 1940.

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,

i

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

- Des Voeux Road Central,

Hong Kong.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.

37

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE GOODS o PAUL LAUDER of Spange Hawe Ewhurst in the County

HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

FINANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL OR.. DINARY GENERAL MEET. ING of Shareholders will be held at the HONG KONG HOTEL, Hong Kong, on Thursday, the 15th. February, 1940, at 11.00

DEATHS.

TARRANT --Suddenly on Jan, 29. 1940. at the Kowloon Hospital, Cecilla Tarrant, beloved wife of J. A. Tarrant and beloved mother of Bertha and Cecilia. Funeral will pass the Monument

January COLLACO. On Friday.

18, 1940, at the Paulun Hospital Shanghal, Dermina Maria Col- laco, aged 50 years, the beloved daughter of Mrs A. Collaco and sister of M.s, E. P. Xaver. Mis O Ecaldre-Ebba (Manila), Mrs. J. Simon, Mrs. Collaco and Mr. A. F. Collaco.

A.M., for the purpose of receiving The Daily

The Daily Press.

the Report of the Directors to gether with a Statement of Ac. counts for the year ended 31st. December, 1939.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Saturday, 3rd. February to Thursday, 15th. February, both days inclusive.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hong Kong, 23rd." Jan., 1940.

G.

B.

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PUBLIC AUCTION. PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 29th day of Jari., 1948, 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 Mong Kok, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of

renewal

西剌子

Business Editorial and

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

Night Editor (Wanchal Office).

Tel. 24511.

London Office: 53. Fleet Street

E.C.4

HONGKONG, JANUARY 24, 1940

ALAS, POOR YONAI!

Admiral

POOR PREMIER

Yonai! Frail are the shoulders on which the no less hapless Premier General Abe threw the burden of Carrying out the plans that Premier General Baron Tana- ka laid down for the glory of the Yamato race.

EDITORIAL

B.F.R.D.C. Unable To Continue Half Yearly Contribution For Maintenance Of Food

Kitchens For Refugees

THE FACT THAT THE BRITISH FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF❘ DISTRESS IN CHINA WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THE HALF-YEARLY CONTRIBUTION OF $15,000 for the maintenance of the food kitchens run by the Hongkong Refugee and Social Welfare Council was disclosed at the quarterly meeting of the latter society at St. John's Cathedral ball yesterday evening, when it was decided to make a general appeal to the public for contributions. Detalls of the campaign were left to the executive committee.

Applications from the Socialnts per meal, w.n. 1000 people Settlement in Kowloon and the ale catered for. Street Sleepers Shelter Society for By the generosity of friends affiliation to the Council were dis- free schools have ben started in cussed and it was decided to allow the Wanchal and St. Feter's Food the Social Settlement to send a reKitchens but the numbers have to presentative to serve on the coun-be strictly limited owing to fuck ell. It was pointed out that the space. Street Sleepers' Shelter Society was Amongst the refugees that have already represented.

come into the Colony are many The report annual was read byjo: the professional and in rchant the secretary, Miss J. R. Taylor.

class. Some of these have found Miss E. S. Davis presided and the homes with relations ad friends meeting was well attended.

cut there are m n with Emited Following are extracts from the incomes who have no friends here. report:-

The work of the Hongkong Re- and it was to help thes, that the Emergency Refugee Counell obtain- fugee and Social Welfare Council

ed funds to build the forty huts (hereinafter referred to the Council is admin stered by the paying Camp at Argyle

which form the Council Refuge

Street. Executive Committee which has three Sub-Committees for detailed They pay a nominal rent of $10 per month for ch One roomed work. The Medical Department of

hut, kitchen an moden sanitary the Hongkong Govenment has

arrangements. The Colected rents gradually taken over work in the

are reserved to repa te funda Refugee Camps that was formerly

that were borrowed for their eree- done all or in part, by the Emer

tien. gency Refugee Council such as catering welfare work

and ndustrial

1:

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1940. FINLAND CANNOT HOLD FOR MUCH MORE THAN TEN WEEKS

NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (Reuter)--

H.K. PHILATELIC

Without more foreign active sup- SOCIETY ANNUAL

port than is at present forthcom- ing. Finland cannot hold out for much more than ten weeks, ac- cording to reports frum European arents of the Carnegie Endowment

International Peace, published by the President, Mr. Nicholas Mur- ray Butter.

One.

AGGRESSION THREAT

position

EXHIBITION

FIRST AWARD TO MR. H. E, DREW Fifteen striking exhibits made ibition of

The gist of the reports is that up the fifth ann a If the United States does not help the Hengkong Philatelic Society Finland. the Scandinavian countries which coincides. happily, with the will succumb to aggression, one by centenary of the advent both of the postage stamp and the collect- ing o't. "Britain is not in a

award made by the The Arst to give Finland much help. be cause she needs all the ammunt-Judges of the competition, Messrs. on she can manufacture and be-R. A., D. Forrest, Wm. Sayers and cause it is felt that British inter-1 E. Lammert, went to Mr. H. E. vention and support of Finland Drew, Exchange Secretary of the would

almost certainly precipi-Society, for two frames of Hong- tate immediate direct German in-kong postmarks comprising, we tervention

In all Scandinavian believe, a complete collection of cancellations, us in the Colony, countries"

for both letters and parcels, since SUPPLIES LOW Finland's present supplies of the establishment of the postal food and arnuments. It is added.vice here. The second award are very low and are likely to be was bestowed on Mt. L. C. Baker exhausted when weather coadi- for a in group of specimens of tions alter in a few weeks, so as line engraved and embossed early to favour an overwhelming Soviet stamps of Great prensivo

Britain lagued

between 1840 and 1859

FULL COL" VCTION

:

French Mr. W. E Denison's very full

Anglo

Bloc's War Preparations

Of China, collection

including FUTURE WORK OF COUNCIL

issues overprinted for use in the The problem now b fore the

provinces. from the first set of Council is to place all these be-

dragon design. nin-murforated The aims of the Council are ginnings of Social Service in the

10 1939 to the stamps issued Te co-ordinate as far as possible Colony On a mote permanent

latest commemo:at: shown in The poor will always be

less than 23 (Reuter)-no

twelve frames MOSCOW, Jan. ABE WANTED TO "improve the social activities in the Colony basis.

rat- us and it is for the com-

"The impress ve Allied troop con- was given ¿tle highest relations", with America. He in order to prevent overlapping in with

Group Palestine ing in

II. fcr collec- centrations" in Egypt. handed on to Yonai a situa-work and distribution of funds. 2munity to see to their well being It may be that there are

size. Singularly and Syria is the subject of antions of any of the com- tion in which American-Jap- To ercet permanent centres where anese relations were more the needs of the por will be pro-wealthy members strained than at any time vided for 3. To enquire into housmuny who would be responsible article in the General Staff organ, complete, it was distinguished by concentration shou'd not be under- such as the "broken Ins" Em. Wilfa e Cent e To tase the blems in congested' areas. since 1921. He wished, but, industrial and recreation pro or the cost of a complete Social Red Star, which says that such a the inclusion of many rare errors failed, to instal Wang Ching-"

estimated in putting pressure" on press Dowager commemorative, Few better per- The work of the Council is don Council app.as

the "scratched face" wel as head of a powerless,

methods of helping the potential enemies of the Anglo and and Counci Kitchen.

postage Refuger poct can be put forward.. as so French bloc in the Mediterranean 'stamp of the current sape

"The beginnings tral Government" in China. A

he'p d In the one and the Balkans. Camp Committees.

stamps," special non-competi- THREAT TO NAZIS fortnight after Yonal took up

The education of the children is building.

These ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

to ces, under General tive display by Mr. H. E. Drew, the task, the publication of

one of the most important acti-

included not only the first one- several The Council is very grateful to Weygand and General Wavell, are the exact terms of that trai-vitles of the Council realises that

great opportunity to the following for helping in in fact, an expeditionary corps, penny blocks a healthy and happy money and in kind:-To Govern-threatening Germany's southern specimens of the Mulready en- velope, the firs, penny-post ven- tor's disgrace not only gave an here, is a

the ment for lending the Food Kit- flank. object lesson to the world but build up proved that Tokyo's white-generation that will know haired boy Wang could not value of learning and of discipline chen buildings free of charge.

"This Balkan Font does not yet ture which preceded the advent the co-operation and will seek, in the future, to and for the reat interest shown exist, but its formation evidently of the present-day label by only Mr." H. W.

of Surrey formerly of Ebor at a Crown Rent to be fixed by but nominally supreme, "Cenn detail by the Education. Food manen

the

Setley Brockenhurst in the County of Hants in United Kingdom deceased.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Or- dinance No. 2 of 1897 made an order limiting the time for credi. tors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 18th February, 1939.

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

DEACONS,

Solicitors for the Executors,

1. Des Voeux Road Central,

G.

Hong Kong.

R.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis- pusal of the lot the Purchaser (if 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) cash. This mum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.

ап

command

even of his

contact.

many

panions in infamy. Britain, people with whom they come in Council, whom Japan has almost be gun to regard as her doormat in the Far East, has delivered, in the searching of the Asama Maru, a painful slap at the waning prestige of the Island PARTICULARS OF THE LOT | Empire. As for domestic po-

No. of Sale,

Kowloon Inland Lot

Registry No

Locality

No. 4227 Mong Kok and Tong Kowloon Inland - Lat No. 4188._____ Mi Roads. Adjoining

Boundary

Measure-

ments.

.

As per

|sale plan.

Contents

About

gaaj azenby

10,700

Annual

Rental.

Upset Price.

DAI

18,725

33

are

}

FAR-REACHING PLANS China is the birthplace To all contributors to the Edu-

"The scale of the Anglo-French In the of so much that other nations have cation Fund which now stand at bloc's wat prepa atto: s

and improved $22,883.43 HK. $8,000.00 N.C and Near East with parallel diplomatic promised, Miss preparations, leads us to think made, their own upon, and it is but just that her $5,500.00 N.C. children should have the benefit Thom. Manager of the Schools, that we are not faced the e with has been instrumental in obtan- a mere diversion, but with far of all modern developments.

Some of the School are regis-ing nearly the who e of this.

reaching srategic plans." tered by the Board of Education To all contributors to the Gen- litics the Japanese people and the others will be registered feral Fund especially to 'Sympa-

1

say that it is not in vain that shortly as the regulations of the thisers whose "unfalling weekis OFFICIAL REACTION

"Yona" is identical phoneti-Education Department are carried contribution cally, with the phrase they out as far as possible use for "No- rice."

FOOD KITCHENS

than

|

sent

RTM

TO WANG PACT

"Wang Ching-wel

will

SOVIET BOMBS

of

but also

Hammond's "One Hundred Years of Peany Postage Stamps," it made up a fascinating history.

FIRST-FLIGHT.COVERS

Four exhibits of first-fight and

of this up-to-date first-day covers attested to the popularity branch of collecting. The Macao Pan-American "Greeks" and first- trans-Atlantic envelopes fight

sad South China Morning Pos; Build-

ing. Admission is free.

DROP

AIRMEN WITH AID OF

were particularly interesting.

There were two "panoramle through the

displays and the Davis Stamp Co. South Chica Morning Post

CHUNGKING, Jan 23 (Reuter) entered a non-competitive special very encouraging.

intensification 2 1 display of Chinese rarities and There are four of thes-two in When gifts have been received-Further FROM JAPAN'S "MODER- ATES," who want to get their Hongkong at Wanchal and West letters of thanks have been sent China's determination to carry on unique items, outstanding among alto the donors, and acknowledge the war against Japan and "the which were very fine sheets of the. swag by sly theft rather Point-and two in Kowloon

Yaumat! and Sham Shlu Poment has been made in the press. complete disappearance of all pos- "Foochow neutral" issue of 1812, peace negotiations almost all of which was destroyed. plunder, blustering

sibilities of THE COUNCIL'S NEEDS There is no doubt that this daly

countries," is by the decree of Yuan Shih-kat Premier Admiral No-rice had, supply of food to more than 4.000 $50,000 HK. To build and equip between the two from the beginning, a good people has done much not only to a Social fare Centre

stated to be the official reaction soon after its appearance,"

The exhibition will be on view press. But the army, all help the people themse`v ́s but for $25,000 HK To comp ete the here to the publication of the re- PARTICULARS AND CON.

powerful arbiter in the Land the well being of the community sum needed for the first Social ported terms of the agreement be from 3 to 8 pm. today at the

tween of the Rising Sun, never in gene.al.

Welta Centre. DITIONS of the Sale by Public

AIZ The pople who at end wanted him in the first place, Auction to be held on Monday,

Donations of other amounts for Japan.

general and the fact that he was in-mainly women and chidren and Education and for the the 29th day of Jan., 1940, at 3

There are also a few work of the Council. stalled by a particularly old men.

arm aboul p.m., at the Offices of the Public

Regular subscriters who blatant piece of internal poli- | able bodied coolles who Works Department, by Order of

tical trickery did not sweeten $2 month and need help in order contribute weekly or monthly.

GIFTS IN KIND: His Excellency the Governor of

its temper. Indeed, the mil- to keep fit.

The Medical Department has Rice to help with the finances Crown Land "at Lot of

Itary organs Yomiuri and Ko- Mong Kek, in the Colony of

kumin Shimbun have been suppiled standard recipe and the of the Food Kitchen; whilst the

ingredients give the scientifically price is so high. term for Hong Kong

competing in calling the good

Warm clothes during the win- of 75 years, with the option of

The dedication service of the Admiral worse names than correct food values thus, the con- renewal at a Crown Rent to be

Pentecostal Tabernacle at

Expedience has

toothbrush :S. fying,

Towels, even, we could think of, and is both nourishing nd satis fixed by the Surveyor of His Waterloo Road, Kowloon, will be a British observer who knows that a standard congee of this blankets, pictures, school

his Far East has remarked kind costs between one and two terials and any other afficles for Majesty the KING, for one fur held on Saturday at 3 p.m.

the work mentioned in th's Re-Soviet planes on ther term of 75 years..

The Hongkong Pentecostal Mis that No-rice must be a man

completely destroying the port Inteading bidders are advised son was established towards the of considerable courage be-

and Cheques

gifts cause Japanese statesmen less possibility of stop-gap ad- that immediately after the dis-end of 1907. The first Pastor Mr. posal of the lot the Purchaser Mok Lai Chi ded on Dec. 3. 1928, maligned have been the vic-ministrations, like Abe's and should be sent to. The Hongkong If not the applicant), will be after a long liness with began tims of liquidation by "patrio-Yonal's, and of the stop-gap Refugee and Social Welfare Coun- Soviet airmen are dropping their

No. 3 Room, First Floor,deadly missiles with the aid. Since tic" cut-throats conceiving policies, to which they were cu required to deposit with an in the early part of 1923.

Gloucester Building, Hongkong. MK Mr. T. M. themselves to be faithful in- committed. authorised officer who will be the liness of

succeeded kim 1.5 Hon struments of Manifest Destiny. present at the sale, the sum of Sung two hundred dollers, ($200) In Pastor, Mr. Sung was in the HK, and the Imperial Will

This sum will be refunded Civil Service for 37 years. He re cash. on payment of the Purchasered in Dec. 1937 to devote more

one

price.

Boundary

NEW. PENTECOSTAL

дета

TABERNACLE

time for Church work,

The tranen mason at Kowloon PARTICULARS OF THE LOT was established in Apt 1928. The church work is run by voluntary nee-will offering. Te policy of the mission is to depind on divine guidance there for there is no necessity to appeal for financial

The first church of the Mission

No. of Bale,

Registry No.

Locality

Kowloon · Inland

Lot No. 4211.

**Adjoining Kowloon Inland Lots Nos. 24180 and 4181 Canton Road,

Mong Kok,

Measure-

ments

As per

salo plan.

ter

Droved

in

vasty.

ma

PARACHUTE

FLARES

HELSINKI, Jan. 23 (Reuter)

Sunday raided Uleaborg, in the Galf of Bothnia, kind three hospitals being hit.

During the long winter nights.

F.M.S. IMPORT RESTRICTIONS ON COTTON

parachute flares.

of

"On land, fighting in the Taipali River Sector continues..

were

dropped in

last week states that 6,667 bombs non-fighting aress and Finnish casualties be- hind the front totalled 18 killed and 109. wounded.

REFUGEES IN

THE COLONY

را

The returns of refugees and destitutes in the Colony, accom- modated in Government camps. etc., in Urban and Rural ̧ ́ areas, for week ended Jan. 20; shows a decrease of 163.

W

Urban Areas (Chellians):

King's Park 1,328 against 1.329: on Jan. 13.

Ma Tau. Chung 1.211" against

13.

WE BELIEVE THAT it is clear that the Government

A heavy Boviet artillery barrage WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW will have to go, both the

was laid on Sunday morning with is a matter for conjecture, but Premier, so assiduously built

the object apparently of break- ing the left flank of the Manner- we ourselves would not lay up for Allied eyes as anti-

beim Line.

* " t w a demonetized cupro-nickel German, and his axis-restor-

Two Soviet attacks during the Hongkong ten cent piece on ing Foreign Minister: Arita, the Yonal Cabinet's chances and General Hata, sitting so

Further wartime import restric-past few days have already been 1,147 on Jan.

North Point 1,450 against 1452 of survival. Installed because uncomfortably in the Cabinet tions announced by the Govern- pinnish communique, heavy losses, on Jan. 13.

repulsed, with, according to a neither army nor moderates by Imperial Command. Who ment of the Straits Settlements

North-East of Lake Ladoga, the Urban Areas (Soldiers); „ wished to bear the respon- will succeed to the Premier-and the Federated Malay States

have been In Hospital 19 against 25 on- Finnish positions dibility for the unholy mess to ship, it is hard to say. But relate to cotton goods.

strengthened by the capture of Jan 13, The ban will, have adverse':

several enemy outposts. which the quest for Empire one thing is certain. The

effect upon Hongkong's exports was built in 1937 at a cost $45.000 has already reduced Japan. trend is towards greater con-

to Malays of shirts, singlets and other articles.

The new Foreign Legion 15 Rural Areas: -the new Pentecostal Tabernacle this unfortunate Government fusion, not greater organiza- situated in Castle Road above cannot stop the further deve- tion. And whatever happens

The annual export of such goods sbordy to be sent to the Finnish Kam Tin 1.906 against 1.951 on Caine Road was completed and de-lopment of the crisis even by to the Admiral with the un- from Hongkong is considerable, and Front. It is made up of German, Jan. 13. a dicated to the Lord for worshipping the paralytic inactivity to fortunate name, NO RICE has Malays has hitherto been one of French, Italian, Esthenian and Sin UK Ling sé against 599 on

which its origin and composi- come to stay in the Eastern the best purchasers of locally- falhuanian volunteers and also a Jan 13, purposes on July 10, 1937.

The present Penticostal Taber- tion has doomed it from the Isles and to rule them until manufactured cotton articles. few Britons, who are believed to Gills, Cutting 168 against 338 on Kowloon was built at a cost or beginning. It is safe to say the whole of Japan's im- Manufacturers affected are hold- be residents of Finland, nacle situated at Waterco Road that the events of the past perialist venture is defeated ing a meeting to discuss the matter LONDON, Jan. 23 Reuter)-A Total: 7,248 against 7511

Finnish review of Soviet air raide Jan 13, 32'some $40,000

weeks have gone far towards and crushed-forever.

16,770

Annual

Rental

40 | Upset Price.

About

Contents in

11,180

Square feet

206.

assistance.

.

this week.

FOREIGN LEGION

Argyle Street 880 against 670 on Jan. 13.

Jan 13,