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6-HONGKONG DAILY" PRESS

EDITORIAL

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MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1940.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS The Daily Press ROBBERY IN Gala Showings HELP IN FIGHT AGAINST

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION

IN THE GOODS of Helen Adelaide Harry of Nanceloe, 50 Links Road Ashtead in the County

Surrey of Spinster formerly of Peak Hotel, Hongkong, deceased,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, made

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Order limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate, to the 24th 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 27th day of January, 1940.

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Administrator," Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building,

Hong Kong.

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HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE 'S HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL OR DINARY GENERAL MEET ING of Shareholders will be held

HONG KONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY · YEARLY GENERAL MEET- ING of HONG KONG TRAM. WAYS LIMITED will be held at the offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Hong Hong, on FRIDAY, the 16th day of February, 1940, 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 Company will be CLOSED from 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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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

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Hofaxoxo, JANUARY 29, 1940.

THE PUPPET'S

LOT

THE LOT OF WANG CHING-

CHINESE WATERS

Junk On Way From Swatow

An armed robbery in Chinese waters. was reported by Lam Man-fung, 24, master of trading Junk No. 13148H, to the police yesterday.

He stated that after setting sail from Swatow for about 8 a.m. on Jan. 22, with a crew of six, two passengers, and a traveling trader and a cargo valued at over $5.600, on board, he was confronted by two large fshng junks wth 40 robbers, who fired about ten shots

WET is, like that of the policemen in the "Pirates of Penzance," hardly a happy one. Still reeling from the impact of the disclosure's made by Kao Chung-wu and Tao Hsi-sheng, Japan's pre- mier puppet finds on" every hand an increase of the ob- stacles which must be over- come before he can become her puppet premier. At the latest of many Tsingtao con- ferences, designed to" co- ordinate all the traitor re- gimes under a Japanese-con- trolled "Central Govern- ment," his ambitions have sustained yet another blow. day.

INDEED, THIS BUSINESS

of the unification" of the

Of "Juarez”

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVER- NOR, Sir Geoffry Northcote, K. C. M. G., has kindly consented to be present at the "Grand Charity Pre- inlere of Messrs. Warner Brothers "Juares," starring Paul Muni and Bette Davis, on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at the King's Theatre at 9.30 p.m.

The premiere, and another gala performance, on Chinese New Year Day, Feb. 8, at 11 s.m. are in ald of the International Peace Hospital scheme for China's wounded and sick both soldiers and civilians.

The shows have been made pos- sible through the initiative of Messrs. Warner Brothers and the King's Theatre.

GREATEST FILM

“Juarez has been called the greatest film of 1939. It deals with Mexico's struggle for "freedom against the invading armies of Napoleon III and his tool, the Em- peror Maximiliam. The timeliness of this theme, and the outstanding performane of Paul Mant in the tide role of Mexico's Uberator and greatest President, combine make seeing of this film 3. com- pelling experience.

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near San Mun Customs station.

Eleven robbers, armed with rifles and revolvers, boarded the cargo funk and ordered those aboard into the hold at the stern and place the hatch cover over it. When the master of the cargo junk was called out on to the deck he noticed they were anchored about 200 yards from the shore of Cha Shan, in Ping Hol district. and tha: his cargo was being transferred to the robbers' boats. The Internasional Peace Hos- The latter then left in the direc- ¦ pital, to which the proceeds will be tion of Cha Shan while Lam Man-

devoted, was founded nearly two tung set sail for Hongkong, ar-

years ago on the inisiative of the riving here about 4 pm, on Basur International Peace Campaign and is assisted by British and Amëri- can friends of China. It provides medical care in distance · areas'

Owing to a fire having broken ranks of puppetry presents/BOXER SCHOLARSHIP where it is otherwise impossible to

oui on board this vessel whilst en route from Tientsin to this port, a General Average has been

declared,

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 at the HONG KONG HOTEL,municate immediately with the Hong Kong, on Thursday, the undersigned regarding discharge. 15th. February, 1940, at 11.00

JARDINE, MATHESON & 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 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.

THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.

Notice to Shareholders.

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CO., LTD.

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

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STUDENTS

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CHUNGKING, Jan. 28 (Central) The Board of Trustees for the Administration od the Sino

British Boxer Indemnity Fund has decided to hold competitive examinations for the selection of to pursue advanced students studies in England on scholar- ships for the current year in spite of the war in Europe.

Twenty-five students will physics, mathematics and selected, two cach specializing in chanical engineering, one each in hydraulic engineering and aeron- autical engineering. two each in shipbuilding. animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, one each in forestry, marine products. pharmacology and public health. three in economics, and two each In Jaw and education

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obtain,

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Many Chinese and foreign not- ables will attend both gala show- ings."

TUBERCULOSIS

ADD $10 TO YOUR LIQUID ASSETS

SEND SLOGAN FOR OUR NEW COMPETITION

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS is offering a prize of $10 for the best anti-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 Anal.

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.

Employees of the Hongkong Daily Press are barred from taking part in the competition.

WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO

Think of a pithy sentence of as few words as possible advising: people of the best way in which to act in the fight' against T.B. Write It out on the coupon given below.

Cut out the coupon and post it to the Editor. Hongkong Daily Press, Marina House, H.K. “

Mark your envelopa on the outside lefthand corner with the word, "competition.”

Several entries may be submitted by any one person, but each entry must be on a separate coupon.

The Editor,

Hongkong Daily Press.

Dear Sir.

Hongkong.

COUPON

I submit below my entry for your anti-tuberculosis competition. The slogan is original and to the best of my knowledge arid bellef has. : never appeared in print in Hongkong..

I agree to abide by the editor's decision in the selection of the winning slogan.

CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

Anniversary Of 1932 War

POLICE TAKE PRECAUTIONS IN SHANGHAI

Yours faithfully,

(Please use block letters) » SLOGAN:-

CHURCHES TAKE UP ANTI - TUBERCULOSIS VITAL SOCIAL DUTY Special Prayers & Address At St. John's Cathedral

many and peculiar difficul- ties. The puppets of Peiping, Nanking and Canton certain- They ly do not want it. much prefer to enjoy with- out interference that part of the income of their nominal satrapies which is graciously vouchsafed to them by the Japanese masters they serve. And the masters too want no Japanese army (and Navy) is unity. Each section of the running its particular garri- son area along time tested racketeer principlės, drawing a substantial profit therefrom and "entertaining no senti- mental feelings of any kind towards "foreign gangs seeking to "muscle in." In the opinion of many Japan- ese, higher policy too dictates the application of the prin- ciple of divide et imperare. the fact that we made, at the But such matters are the con- time, mention of the cern of theorists at home | Chungking message confirm rather than of the men on ing that there had been the spot. The feelings of the trouble describing its true This year precautions will be latter were much more clear- nature, accusing us, by im- especially thorough, since many Making an appeal for the Dr. Selwyn Clarke's ly expressed in the classic plication, of concealing facts unauthorised

and

irresponsible whole hearted support of the

Address reply of General Hata to a and inferring that our criti- persons are believed to possess Christian community in the tuberc losis, foreign correspondent who cism had thereby been in-rearms and in view of the fact fight against

that an increase in crime is gen-Dean Wilson referred to the A very large gathering was pre- asked him why it was that validated.

erally experienced here prior to anti-tuberculosis campaign sen; at the adaress given by the the "Reformed Government"

P. S launched by the Director of Hon. D.

Selwyn-Clarke, in Nanking did not seem to

the Chinese Spring festival.

Medical Services.

Director of Medical Services, on the problem of preventing the costume and art, and a agree with the "Provisional photo-history arranged by i's Art Government" in Peiping.

spread of tuberculosis, at the In response to a request from Methodist Church, Wanchai, yes- Group has been held recently at "The reason is very simple," Melbourne and Sydney, co-opera- the Japanese commander en-

the Director of Medical Services, terday. tion with the Australian Labour lightened him. “You see,

the churches. had gladly consent- Association, according to informa- here I am in command, but in

Help - China Movement

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In Australia

CHUNGKING, "Jan. 28 (Central) An exhibition of photographs from China, Chinese posters. Chi-

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WITH ALL DUE RESPECT to the writers of this gentle knuckle-rapper we wish, just for the sake of the record, to point out the following cir- cumstances;

SHANGHAI, Jan. 27 (Havas) - The police and all the Foreign Armed Forces are taking the most. drastic measures to avoid disorders in the Settlement and French Con- cession tomorrow, the Anniversary of the Shanghai War of 1932,

SPECIAL MEASURES

WAR DEMAND FOR BOOKS

Christianity is not only individual, but also social. You cannot separate the two. There can be no true Chris- tlan unless he realises his relations to his fellowmen," said the Rev. Dean J, L. Wilson in his address to the congrega- tion at the 11 a.m. service at St. John's Cathedral yester- day, when special prayers were said for the success of the anti-tuberculosis campaign and for those thousands in our midst who are afflicted with the terrible disease.

SPECIAL APPEAL

tion received here by the China the North it is General Ter- Reuter itself) until almost Librarian of the London Library, Ject of addresses to their congre of tuberculosis, Dr. Selwyn-Clarke

Branch o! the International Peace Campatan.

auch!!"

1. The message from Chung-

Dealing with causes and effects king was not Issued (by

Sir Charles Hagberg Wright, the ed to make tuberculosis the sub-

said that tuberculosis could be special NOTICE IS HEREBY

twenty four hours after "our

was drawing comparisons recently!gations and to make a EXAMINED FROM THIS❘ article had appeared in beween this war" and the last in appeal for public co-operation and spread through unwholesome food and living in unhealthy environ- GIVEN THAT THE FORTY. A fair amount of money has

¡ help. the matter of books, They were

¡ments or crowded places, by shar- SECOND ORDINARY YEAR. been collected at the Exhibition ANGLE, the "differences of print;

appeal from Dean Wilson said that the main ing the atensis used by infected for the Chinese Reiter Funds. The principle" between the pup- 2. We delivered no judg-suggested by an

the Lord Mayor and other causes of the high LY MEETING OF THIS COM Exhibition is said to have evoked pet organizations which parament on matters of which we

incidence of people and, above all, through in- PANY WILL be held at the wide interest in Australia.

civic and Service chiets for reading tuberculosis in the Colony were discriminate spitting. site-like infest different parts had, for that very reason, no

matter for the troops,

poverty which caused poor nourish-

OVER 2,000 YEARS OLD Office of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe-

of China, become readily. in- | information. What we did

He recalled that in the last war ment and over-crowding in dwell- son & Co., Ltd. on Friday, the The European war has made telligible. It is easy to un-attack was the statement that the Red Cross Library, which he ing bouses This appalling state The disease 16th February, 1940, at 11.30 our work for China more du derstand why, in spite of "250,000 troops were in helped to direct, distributed 8,000,- of poverty and ignorance amongst 2,698 years before the birth of cult writes the Australian Lea- much official fraternizing, volved" (a palpable mathe,,000 volumes. There was then also, them should hurt any Christian Christ, and its dangers were de- gue, "But the Australian people Wang Keh-min energetically matical falsehood to anyone another organisation, the Camps conscience. do not forget that the Chinese pushes his New People's knowing the true total of the Library, which the late Dame Eva people are fighting for Australian Party" and rants that Wang Shansi armies), the mala-Anstruther ran in connection with Mberty as well as for Chinese Ching-wel's "Neo-Kuomin- droitness of publishing such the War Office

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 to Friday, the 16th February, Friday, the 9th February, 1940,

1940, both days Inclusive.

By order of the Board of Directors,

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

What do

you want?

If there is anything you want to buy or sell,try

amall Classified advertiss- ment in the Hong- kong Daily Press,

25 words $1.00 prepaid. for 3 insertions.

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Uberty."

MORE DIFFICULT

In one of the sample leaflets

a further statement. following a

accompanying the letter there is

noted American writer on China. quotation from Pearl S. Buck. to the effect that "There is hear tening news from China." says: "Heartening news for China

is also heartening news for Aus tralia, because the Chinese people are defending our freedom as well as their own. Our safety from bombing attacks is closely linked with the success of their success"

SCOTTISH DIVORCES A RECORD Divorce cases in Scotland which have been steadily increasing since 1936, reached" a record total last year of 892, or 100 more than the

of every

Chinese tradition, while Wang Chang-wei, hid-

& few "patriotic" editorials in ing his own nakedness behind

his Shanghai organ accuses Wang Keh-min of being, save

WELFARE WORK When missionaries firs

went

stand the Bible Then they found

was known over

Madam Chiang also dealt with this

scribed in a book written by So- Wen

Dr. Sun Ya-sen, sald the, speak- out to each Christianity, they also drew special attention to tang "is in essence sübversive a story on the "evidence" O Government Departments had 80 the people to read and write, so sing. In his three principles, whilst "Sir Charles said that he found found it necessary to first teach the danger of indiscriminate spit- unnamed travellers (in Hong- kong their testimony was made many fewer calls on the

Shanghal it appeared under times had 100 books on loan. This instituting hospitals and, up to date-lined from Shanghai, in London Library than in the last casey could und ander terrible disease in an address on

War: The Admiralty then some-t necessary to do social work "by the New Life Movement.

Dr. Belwyn-Clarke emphasised a Tsingtao dateline), and the time they had not asked for any: this day, even Government-con-thas the most important aspect gratuitous assumption that The War Office, too, apart from trolled civil hospitals had their of the campaign against the spread the mark, a little too much of the Shansi clash was a pre-wanting dictionaries, had not body of welfare workers who go of tuberculosis was to educate the a puppet. Where bodles and Jude to a country-wide troubled them at all. Neither had round visiting and examining the people and also to provide the souls are for sale, "ideologies" Kuomintang-Communist civil any of the newly created Govern too are cheap, and any pro-war.

ment departments. stitute can pick herself a 3. We stated then, and we dazzling wrap at the univer- repeat, that the handling of sal bargain counter. Such this report, like that of sever- garments, after all, are worn al previous ones we mentions only to entice. When there jed, was of such a nature as is work to be done, they are to please only the Japanese. Invariably thrown aside. Not we alone, but thousands of newspaper readers, dislike the tactics of Reuter's Shang-

REUTER AND OURSELVES

hai office.

Big Guns On Salisbury Plain

conditions under which, the pa- necessary advice and facilities for tients were treated.

those effected by the disease. The problem of disease couid

not be tackled by voluntary work Nazis Open Fire At

ers alone, It was a matter for the

Government to take up. If one French Loudspeakers stopped to ask what the Gover-

proviour highest f'gute recorded in Shanghai on January 23, is bad journalis, and to erect not concentrated, and it was for funds should be raised,

1938,

TO DASH INTO PRINT IN A MESSAGE released in without verification of facts The excination is partly the Reuter takes us to task for straw men and, in demolish operation of the Divorce (Scotland) attacking its treatment of the ing them, pretend to de- Act, 1938, which reduced the period

"Shansi civil war" story. N molish an adversary, is some- of desertion from four to three AFTER REPRODUCING the thing worse. It is not we years and provided additional stronger sections of our lead- however, who are gullty of grounds of action in cruelty and ing article of January 19, the both but the gentlemen in insanity.The Times).

agency reproaches us with Shanghai.

ment had been doing in the BERLIN, ·'-Jañ, - - 28 (Retter) On Salisbury Plain recendy three matter, one would find that the German troops opened fire against- been doing the French loud-speakers which bat:eries of 9.21n. howitzers, the Government had larges; guns ever mounted on the a great deal, but were handicapped were used for the first time on the plain, were engaged in practice at for lack of funds. What was re. Western Front, according to the

quired was strong public opinion official German News Agency, J a range of eight miles.

The loud-speakers became silent, As a rule guns of this calibre are in the matter of to how these

adds the agency, when the Ger purpose of training that they It was his duty to tell Christian mans, having heard their violent were brought together.

people that they would not find attacks against the Fuehrer, open ... They were manned by young security without love for their ed frst against them. soldiers, formerly yeomen, who in fellow-creaturen their first round of battery, are His Excellency the Governor and The South Australian Premier- were only five yards short of their Lady Northcote and H. E. Admiral annnounced that shipyard are to target, a wood on the northern Sir Percy Noble and Lady Noble be built at a point. 35 miles south- corner of the plain—(The Times) were present at the service.

of Port Augusa-(Reuter),

the