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HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

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out on board this vessel "whilst Owing to a fire having broken

en route from Tientsin to this

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL OR DINARY GENERAL MEET. ING of Shareholders will be held port, a General Average has been at the HONG KONG HOTEL, declared. Hong Kong, on Thursday, the 15th.

February, 1940, at 11.00 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors to gether with a Statement of Ac. counts for the year ended 31st, December, 1939.

The TRANSFER BOOKS el 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.

HONG KONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED.

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Consignees of all cargo loaded at Tientsin are hereby notified that a General Average Deposit of 2% is payable before their cargo can be released here or at destination to which it will be forwarded. They should com, municate immediately with the undersigned regarding discharge. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.

General Managers, Indo China S.N. Co., Ltd. 26th January, 1940.

BIR IHS

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HASICK-On January 21, 1940, at

the Country Hospital, Shang

nato Mr. and Mrs. I: Hasick, a son, POPE On January 22, 1940, at the Country Hospital, Shang- hal, to Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Pope, a daughter, Doris May.

DEATH

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY GENERAL MEET. ING of HONG KONG TRAM. WAYS LIMITED will be held JOHNSTON-On January 22, 1940. at the offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 16th day of February, 1948, at 12 o'clock noon, to transact the ordinary business of the Company.

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the REGIS. TER OF MEMBERS of the

W. R. Johnston, killed In

aeroplane accident at Ball. Deeply regretted by his col- leagues in the Public Health Department.

SQUATTERS

Company will be CLOSED from HUT CLAIM

FRIDAY, the 2nd to FRIDAY, the 16th February, 1940, both days inclusive. "

By Order of the Board,

W. F. SIMMONS.

Secretary, Hong Kong, 25th Jan., 1940.

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HONGKONG, JANUARY 27, 104O

PAST ZERO HOUR

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1940.

Measures HELP IN FIGHT AGAINST

By Medical Department

In Anti-T. B. Campaign

1.

DEFINTIE NEW MEASURES BEING ADOPTED BY THE MEDICAL `AUTHORITIES IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS IN HONGKONG were disclosed to the Hongkong Dally Press yesterday by the Hon. Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, Director of Medical Services, who outlined the propaganda work on which the Medical Department is 'embarking with renewed vigour...

Dr. Selwyn -Clarke told the pressman that he had in mind a cer- tain sigh; in the New Terrliorles where tuberculosis patients had progressed wel: and where a sanatorium and hospital would be built as soon as funds were available,

have

An Anti-Tuberculosis Association The following persons is being formed with the object agreed to assist in the formation of educating the public to the of such the association:-Messrs dangers of tuberculosis, to show M, F. Key, Wm. Yinson Lee, or Li

THE AMERICAN-JAPANESE the means by which every in Shu Put: Mr. Li Tse-fong, Dr. F. I. and Navigation, signed in tion of the disease and to secure Rev. Dean Wilson, and Mr.. B. TREATY of Commerce dividual can assist in the preven Tseung, Mr. F. H. Tyson, the Very 1911, expired yesterday. What public support for measures cal-Wylle." does this mean, and whatculated to assist in the discovery effect will It have on future relations between the two countries and the entire post- tion in the Pacific?

and isolation of tubercular cases in Hongkong.

IN

The Churches in Hongkong have agreed to assist in the campaign and at the services tomorrow the tuberculosis problem will be the subject of sermons. Dr. Selwyn-

Clarke himself will deliver an the Chinese churches. address on the subject a; one pi

or

IMPORTANT STEP

Every person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $250 who, without lawful suthority excuse spits. in a public place except in a drain" or water channel or in a public building or other buildings to which the public has access, spits except in a spittoon, urinal or lavatory.

Dr.

TUBERCULOSIS

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS is offering a prize, of $10 for the best-tuberculosis slogan sent in by a reader. The competition will run for one week from Monday, January 29 to Saturday, February 3 and the prize will be awarded to the slogan which in the opinion of the editor. is the best received. The editor's decision will be final.

All entries must be made on the coupon given below, Readers may send in more than one entry, but each one must be made on a separate. coupon,

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WAR WILL BE LONG AND HARD

LONDON. Jan 26 (Reuter)- That the war will be a long and hard one was the view expressed by Sir Neville Henderson, former British Ambassador to Germany.

He said there is no doubt that side of the Allles but the war will victory will, in the end, be on the be long and there will not be a quick collapse of German resis- tance.

SPECIAL ISSUE OF" MEIN KAMPF FOR "SOLDIERS

Special to the H.K. Dally Press

BERNE Jan. 26 (Havas)-It is

new special edition of the Mein Kampi, specially destined for the dies at the front, has just been printed,

Following th's edition the total issue of Mein Kampf will amount" to nearly 6,000 000.

SUPERSTITION & MALARIA: PRIMITIVE METHODS AND

MODERN PROCESSES

THE FIRST THING that does go on. Sales of raw silk must be borne in mind in an-;

and prices of that commodity

both swering these questions is the have

boomed during fact that the lapse of the the past few months. Japan- treaty abolishes the mutual ese appetites were whetted, obligation which, by its terms. and the military even advo-paign is the intention to in roduce An Important step in the cam- existed between the two par-cated the imposition of an ex-legislation against splating. ties. to give "most favoured port duty on the product Selwyn-Clarke said that it is not nation " treatment to each) (which enters the United as hopeless a task as it may seem other's trade. Moreover, Para- States tax-free), thus raising and quoted the North Poln Re- graph 338 of the U.S. Tariff further its price and, in effect, fugee camp, who houses 1,500 Chi- Act of 1930 empowers the levying direct tribute on nese of which 700 are children, as President not only to raise American consumer for the an instance of how people were existing duties and impose maintenance of their war cured of the bad habit. free articles coming from new levies on previously tax- machine.

At one me it was impossible to walk there without treading on ALL THESE FIELDS, countries deemed to be dis- Japan's vulnerability to re-resul "of discipline and training

sputum. Now, however, as the anti-tuberculosis competition. The "I submit below my entry for your criminating against American talfatory tariff legislation is there is not a sputum to be seen slogan is original and to the best interests, but also to institute almost unlimited. special surcharges on all com- sentiment and scientific pro- camp have been trained to spit never appeared in print in Hong-reported from the Retch that a

Popular anywhere.

The inmates of the of my knowledge" and beller has modities carried by the ships gress. in the manufacture of only into drains or other specially kong. of such countries, regardless substitutes now both make it provided recepticals.

I agree to abide by the editor's of their origin.

possible for America to im-

decision in the selection of the CONSIDERING the econo- pose prohibitive duties on, Council unanimously supported the

Early this month the Urban winning slogan. mic relationship between the and finally, perhaps, halt al-D. M. S.'s desire to introduce legis-

Yours faithfully. United States and Japan we together, imports of Japanese lation against spitting and 23

(Please use block letters) see at once the extent to silk. By the institution of a resul, they have recommended to

SLOGAN: which these powers may be tariff, Japan's war profits Government that section 3 of the used to bring pressure on the from the trade would be dras- Summary Offences Ordinance 1932 latter. Japan imports from tically cut, while much of the be amended to read as follows:- America 54 per cent. of the difference which is now used raw materials she needs for to purchase munitions for the war She sells to the United war in China, would flow into States 30 per cent. of all her the U.S. Treasury in the form The squatters hut case, in which exports outside the areas that of Customs revenue. Further So Yec-koo,or So Chik-ning, of No. 8 she holds by the sword, and surtaxes on goods carried in

The measures which once were taken by the Greeks and the Ladder Street, is claiming possession these sales represent perhaps Japanese

Romans against malaria show a great similarity with the me- 40 of a hut situate on Crown land in Tai

bottoms. would

thods still now applied by primitive peoples: the charming of kokisui. Shumshuipo, from Tsang her greatest source of foreign strike at the shipping of the

gods and demons, the taking of turtle-blood or crashed spiders. Hing Kee, contractor, of No. 1 Fook exchange. With the outbreak Island Empire, tear the initia-

the wearing of amulets engraved with magic texts or tokens. Chuen Street, on the ground that

of the European war, she tive in Pacific economic war-

The inhabitants of an agreement made between them obviously

certain foodstuff out upon the ocean in anticipated that fare from its hands, and furce;

Polynesian islands believe that order to lay the malaria spirits. for the purchase by the defendant her commerce with America Japan to trade on America's. of the superstructure had not been would increase, being accom- terms if she wanted to trade undertaken by the Medical Depart-off the malignant spirits who in- against

The propaganda work being the power and are able to ward ween

the native magicians possess div. What a striking contrast bet carried out owing to non-demoli-panied by a corresponding at all.

these We might even see

primitive methods. tion of the hut, was continued shrinkage of economic inter- position where Japanese ship-

men will be as follows:-

malaria and fict the human beings

modern before Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell in

with processes! course with a British Empire pers of say, the same silk, eulosis broadcast

Continuation of the anti-tuber-malaria. the Summary Court yesterday.

But some day the magic formula talks by the ELABORATE CEREMONIES moving towards belligerent would have to forward their D. M. 8. (in English) and by Mr.

of the conjuror, the ignorant sor- autarchy.

by Accordingly, she cargoes United

performancês took her currency, out of the vessels to be able to sell at a Bi-weekly talks on tuberculosis in by elaborate

these cerer and magician will undoub- States Ho Kam tong, Ö. B. E (In Chinese); magicians are usually accompanied tedly have to retreat forever be- Sterling bloc and pegged it to competitive price. The pre- the out-patient halls of Chinese tribes explain illness as

ceremonies. Some tore modern medical science which the dollar, discounting in ad-sent increase of American public dispensaries with the con-corresponding to

a state has presented important vance the adverse effect on mercantile tonnage in the sent of the Secretary for Chinese absence of the soul. To cure a quinine against malaria

the temporary evidences regarding the value of her exports to the British Orient points eloquently to Affairs) pictorial posters etc... patient it is necessary to seduce countries of the falling rate the probability of an offensive

Un page 125 of its general re- Authority has been requested the soul into coming back, and if port, issued in 1938 (English edi- of the Pound.

along the lines.

from Government to purchase a one does not succeed in causing it tion). the Madlaria Commission of ADOPTION of this line, des- grievances lying in the files of of tuberculosis:

THE SIX HUNDRED odd lating to the cause and prevention it must be captured and returned fact that among the antimalarial cinema film depicting a story re to return of its own volition, then the League of Nations stresses the pite the fact that notice of the State Department should

to its former owner. abrogation had already been provide ample legal justifica- the Hongkong University have quite has become known and complete absence of toxicity, cou- drugs. quinine still ranks first in But although on some far away current practice, by reason of its Islands the curative power given by Washington, was clon for

of clinical effectiveness and almost based on the precedent of her measures, and the whole de- tuberculosis in public places.

retaliatory volunteered to give short talks on this drug is being distributed, the pied with the widespread know- American trade having acted velopment of the

superstitious performances have ledge of its use and dosage. 1,000 double-sided notices and 500 nevertheless been retained, aggression in China through two countries will inevitably with the following slogans have as a heavy subsidy to her treaty" situation between the single sided metal plate notices

This same Malaria Commission all

IN THE CELEBES

'emphasizes the value of the short opinion aroused by that same ed States to deploy its gigan-

storms of public make it possible for the Unit- been ordered from China Can Co-habitants of the coastal region are day dose of 15 to 20 grains of In Celebes för instance the in- quinine treatment, consisting of a adventure, and of her assur- tic economic power in the

wise enough to take quinine on quinine for 5 to 7 days. As a pre- would continue. And indeed than has ever been the case ance that this state of affairs Orient to a greater extent".

the advice of the doctors, but inventive the Malaria Commission the meantime they do not neglect recommends a daily dose of 6, sending miniature canoes loaded grains of quinine to be taken dur- it did and, to an extent, stil! before.

with rice, eggs, chickens and other ing the entire fever season.

THE "STAR' FERRY COMPANY LIMITED

Notice to Shareholders.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT. THE FORTY- SECOND ORDINARY YEAR. LY MEETING OF THIS COM. PANY WILL be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe son & Co., Ltd. on Friday, the 16th February, 1940, at 11.30, a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors to gether with a Statement of Ac counts for the year ended 31st December, 1939.

The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 9th February, 1949, to Friday, the 16th February, 1949, both days inclusive.

By order of the Board of·

Directors,

C. M. MANNERS, Secretary & Manager. Hong Kong, 25th Jan., 1940.

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS.

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Plaintiff is asking the Court for

a declaration that the agreement has, by defendant's default, been terminated, and also claims dam- ages not exceeding $1,000.

plaintiff, while Mr. C. A. Sutherton Mr. P. Y. Woo is acting for the Russ is for the defence.

WAS FOR SALE

Tsang Hing, the defendant, giv- ing evidence yesterday, said that Leung Shing, a mason, took him him it as for sale. He said it was on May 11 to see the hut and told on Crown land and would have to be demolished.

After demolition, said witness. the materials would be worth about $120. He agreed to pay $150, hoping that the Government would per- mit the hut to stand. He paid him $100 to pay the owner. Leung Shing said next day that the owner had changed her mind and de- cided not to sell the hut.

After evidence was given by Leung Shing, the case. was 'ad- journed to noon on February 3.

ARGYLE STREET CAMP CASE

Eleven of the 37 internees who were charged with behaving "in, a riotous manner In the Argyle Street Camp on January 13, were at the request of the prosecuting discharged by Mr. E Himsworth officer.

The remainder were further charged with resisting the police. and were remanded until Monday. No less than 50 police officers will give evidence.

As from 8th February, 1940, Freight Rates from Hong Kong to Amoy will be increased by ap proximately 20%. The Official Measurer's Certificate will be used for all cargo taking rates on weight or measurement basis. A new tariff is being prepared, and On Saturday, Feb. 3 a; noon, H particulars will be supplied on Excellency the Governor, accom- appiication to the undersigned, panied By Lady. Northcote, will

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents,

China Navigation Co., Ltd. DOUGLAS, LAPRAIK & CO., General Managers, Douglas S.S. Co., Ltd.

open the

new premises of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., in Canton Road, Kowloon.

"A concert will be given by the Hongkong Chamber Music Club

at Government House on Friday, Feb. 2, at 9.30 p.m. His Excellenty 36 and Lady Northcote will be present,

JAPAN'S CONFIDENT!

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such

"non-

PROPAGANDA WORK

The senior medical students of

"Do not spit indiscriminate-

ly."

"To prevent the spread of lung diseases, please do not spit indiscriminately."

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Pictures taken at the raod me cling of the Fanling Hunt and Race Club held at Kwanti inat Sunday aftern

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