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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS 1940, Alfred Milton Slack, dearly-

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NOTICE:

HONG KONG WATER

SUPPLY,

It is hereby notified that a constant supply of water will be given in all districts from 5.00 a.m. on February 6th, to 12.00 p.m. on February 8th., in con- nection with the Chinese New Year Festival. -...

A. B. PURVES,

Water Authority. Public Works Department. Hong Kong, ist. Feb., 1940.

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It is hereby notified for general information that the Government Stores Department moved from” Bullock Lane, Wanchai to No. 249, Electric Road, in the King's Road District, on the 31st Jang. ary. 1940.

W. J. ANDERSON.

Controller of Stores.

THE HONG KONG DAIRY SUPPLY"

"CO., LTD.

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NOTICE is hereby given pur suant to Section 227 of the Com panies. Ordinance 1932 that a meeting of the Creditors of the Hong Kong Dairy Supply Com- pany Limited will be held at the offices of Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming at No. 6. Des Voeux Road Central, 4th floor, Victoria, Hong Kong, on Satur day, the 10th day of February, 1940 at 11 o'clock in the fore

noon.

Dated the 1st day of February. 1940.

(signed) A. G. DALZIEL,

Secretary.

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BLUE FUNNEL GENERAL AVERAGE.

Cargo damaged as a result of the vessel having stranded will be surveyed at Holt's Wharf by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas from 10a.m. on Tuesday and Wednes. day 6th and 7th February. Con- signees are requested to arrange for a representative to be in at tendance at the Survey of their consignments.

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"STAR" FERRY THE COMPANY, LIMITED.

Notice to Shareholders.

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 Kong, 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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HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

FINANCE CO., LTD.

HEREBY

NOTICE IS 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 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.

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HONGKONG, FEйRUARY 2, 1040

THE NEUTRAL,

FRIENDLY WOLF WHAT DID MR. CHAMBER

WE LAIN. mean when, in

his speech at the Dorchester Hotel yesterday, he made a special point of speaking of Japan as " a neutral, friendly Government?" What did he mean when he said that such things as the disagreement over the Asama Maru incident were not the strongest in- fluerice on nations or the hearts of men?"

DID JAPAN

her prove friendliness. in 1937 by the machine-gunning of the Bri- tish Ambassador, the shelling of H.M.S. Ladybird, and the sinking of the "Tuckwo?" Did she emphasize it in 1938 by the closing of the Yangtze and the Pearl River, the ad- varice into South China or the inauguration of the anti- British campaign? Has she shown goodwill on any occa- sion since then?

EDITORIAL

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1940.

CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD KOWLOON BUS COMPANY LTD.: FIVE MEN AND A WOMAN SENTENCED AT SESSIONS

Conductor Who Betrayed

Trust: Police Raid

THE TRIAL OF SIX MEN AND A WOMAN STOOD CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS CO., LTD., by the sale of forged tickets, concluded before Sir Atholl MacGregor, Chief Justice at the Criminal Sessions yesterday. One of the defendants was acquitted and the others were sentenced to vari- ous terms of imprisonment.

The accused were Li Sang, Wu Wing. Ho On, Peon Tat, Wong Lee and Wong Wah. With them was Chan Tai, wife of first defendant Li Sang. She was charged with alding and abetting, and with being ini - possession of forged tickets.

ex-

In addressing the jury his Lord- was sentenced to 12 months' hard ship said that as there was not labour. sumcient evidence of forgery or PREITY LITTLE STORY possession of a forged document, Remarking that the jury had against fifth defendant, Wong Lee, not fallen for her pretty little it would be correct for the jury tostory of innocence, and advising return a formál verdict of Not her to take some lessons in telling Guilty on these two counts.

the truth, his Lordship sentenced His Lordship also pointed out the woman, Chan Tai, to three that not one of the defendants had months' imprisonment. She attempted to deny that the tickets claimed "Al yah" in a fairly loud found were forgeries and said that tone as she was lcd out of the the most important evidence had dock. come from the mouth of the defen- Mr. H. C. Macnamara, instructed dants themselves.

by Mr, E, S. C, Brooks, prosecuted. The jury retired for 20 minutes on behalf of the Bus Company. and returned unanimous verdicts of Mr. Percy Chen, instructed by Mr. Guilty on all counts against all de-C, A. S. Russ. was for the defence. fendants except fifth defendant,

The jury comprised: Messrs. Wong Lee, who was unanimously M. Silva (Foreman), Wong Sheuk- found Not Guilty on all three in, Lee Luk-kat, C. L. Gregory, S. charges.

V.Fong, Chan Yew-ho and V. Before passing sentence, his Olafinsky. Lordship addressed first defend- Naming Li Sang as the organiser ant, who is already undergoing six of the plot, Mr. Macnamara sald Months' sentence for possession of that I was a bus conductor and an unlicensed printing press, and had already pleaded guilty to cer- asked. "Tell me, why do youngtain charges against him. On be-

men like you do foolish and ing dismissed from the company criminal things like this?"

Li Sang: I was inspired by two men to do this.

encouraging. You are

In July he arranged with Wong Ping, a printer, to print false bas tickets for him. The printing was done in a hut in Li Uk village.

RING LEADER" His Lordship: You did not take

TOLD POLICE PLOT Wong Ping later told the Police much probably the ring leader...You are about he plot to defraud the Bus already serving a sentence of six Co.. and a raid resulted in the ar- months for possession of an un- rest of the persons charged and licensed printing press. The sen the seizure of the machinery tence I now pass on you is 15 several packets of forged tickets. months" imprisonment with hard Detective-Insp. A, E, Carey told labour, the sentence to begin at the Court of how the raid was car- the expiry of your present term of ried cut and the arrests made. imprisonment

Mr. Lee Yat-ngok manager of i Wu Wing, Holoh and Poon Tat the Local Printing Press, said that

to each sentenced were

nine his firm had been printing tickets months' hard fabour.

for the company and pointed out his the

differences between the

Wah, Sentencing Wong Lordship said that he (Wong genuine and forged tickets. Wah) had been an inspector in Mr. W. S., T. Louey explained the the company. This was a position system by which sales of ticket of trust and he had deliberately were checked with way bills and trust. Wong. Wah desposed to having found one of abused that

the way bills altered.

Chan Tai said she knew nothing

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reasons, if for no others, that about the affair. She was a sim- know that her husband was print- i not retreat but a strong standple country woman and did not is indicated-especially at a ing forged bus tickets in the THE EVENTS of 1938 and moment when the United house 1940 had perhaps best be con- States is taking a more post- sidered from the standpoint tive attitude in the Far East term of "neutrality." Was Japan and British conciliation is al- neutral when she bombed the ready being construed Hongkong, border, blockaded sabotage of the American Tientsin, and insulted Britons efforts to vindicate the Nine as a deliberate act of policy- Power Pact. Majesty the KING. for one furail as her part of Hitler's "war ther term of 75 years.

Kong for a of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His

price.

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IF BRITAIN is less free in of nerves?" Was she neutral the Far East today than she Intending bidders are advised when she proclaimed loudly was a year ago, it is also true

TO THE EDITOR, HONGKONG DAILY PRESS that immediately after the dis that all the woes of the world that Japan is in a far worse posal of the lot the Purchaser were due to the existence of position. Then, the United

Dear Sir: Clan Man-tuan, age 32, gentle-voiced, mild-mannered, (I not the applicant), will be the British Empire and, in States supplied her with all required to deposit with an August last year, staged such the arms she could buy. Now bespectacled. is a refugee victim of war." True, there are many authorised officer who will be demonstration of force on this situation may change at thousands of refugees wandering about Hongkong in pitiful plight. present "at the sale, the sum of the frontier that the evacua- any moment. Then the axis and it is not possible for any individual or group of individuals to be brought to public attention, and be one refugee, at least. two hundred dollars, ($200) in tion of women and children was a solid fact. Now it is help them all. Yet the case of Clan Man-tuan is one which should

of the counters with

whose story should be made known.

This lime or white washing is, cash. This sum will be refunded from this Colony was com- one on payment of the Purchase menced? On the spirit of which Japan speculates. The

The son and only child of a glasses he could not walk a step believe, one of the most, if not "neutrality" manifested in difficulties of the China cam-

with and this, too, would seem to be a the most, effective way of sweep- so vast that no prosperous rice merchant the latest developments, and paign are

effort is any longer being offices in Saigon and Canton, he handicap for one forced to pleading away cobwebs and dirt from is quite unnecessary to com- made to deny them. The evi- was educated in the Ecole: Tabe for alms, since most people will the walls, and acts as a very good.

in Indo-China, where he was be suspicious of a beggar with disinfectant as well.

Why this very sensible precau- ment. The facts are plain. dence of Mr. Arita's speech born. He was taught French, glasses! So he sold the gold

the Urban Council can answer. AND FINALLY, where is the itself proves that Soviet Rus- which he speaks, reads and writes. frame of his spectacles, and thus tion was done away with perhaps sympathy between Japan and sia has refused to make her At the same time his education in was able to get a little food.

the aid to China a bargaining Chinese was not neglected, and And now. lacking the aggres— Britain that lies in hearts of men?" Have the point, and whatever readjust he writes that beautifully drawn siveness that might have enabled

The many friends of Major J. F British people any sentimen- ment may be made in Soviet calligraphy so dear to the hearts a hardier person to get by, for

some seven month he has been Benoy, Deputy Assistant Adjutant tal Illusions about Japan's Japanese relations on other of the schoolmasters. robber war in China? Does points, this support will not There was a time when he wrote sleeping in a back yard, huddled General of the China Command, sympathy for Britain have a cease. The fact that the poetry in the Chinese fashion, these wintry nights under the will regret to learn that he is ser- place in General Hata's heart Central Government is stron- poetry which was much admired by scraps of bedding given him by iously Ill in hospital with pneu- or the hearts of the naval ger than ever and that the friends and family. And he was kindhearted folks. Yet he has monia. His duties have been taken

Battalion, Royal Scots. gentlemen who apply their country is unconquered was trained to know his father's bus- managed to keep himself clean, to one robe) and his bedclothes spare time to writing fantas- recognized by Mr. Chamber-ness, so that when the latter died wash his garment (he has just the over by Capt. S. Burn, of the 2nd.

Into the midst of this peaceful, whenever someone will give him a tic novels describing the vie-lain himself in his statement he took over the management. 48 tory of the Rising Sun in a last week on British policy in well-regulated life came the Can-bit of soap.

ton bombings of February, 1938. future Anglo-Japanese war? China. Does not the disproportionate NEVER WAS THERE a more H home was demolished. His cover, from the terrific shock of Or will you help at least this one outcry over this very case of opportune time for a re-wife and three children were kill-losing home, family, occupation, individual to stand up straight the Asama Maru prove what sounding rebuff to the ed Bin Nam, his oldest boy, aged funds all at one blow. He is again? A hundred dollars will is really in their hearts? aggressor of the Pacifc. And twelve; Bin Truang, his second ready now to make the first step get him to Saigon, started on the PRIME MINISTER conversely, never was there a son, aged ten; and Fin Du, his toward rehabilitation. In Saigon path toward the rebuilding of his

help him make a new start. But being. was, of course, right when he situation in which appease-six year old daughter, perished in he has numerous friends who will life into that of a useful humer Bend your donation for the Cian said that no one in England ment was more dangerous or Iized, bewildered, crushed. Can he needs help to get there. wants to fight Japan. He was more likely to lead to chaosan-tuan wandered about for Will you, for whom perhaps a Man-tuan Rehabilitation Fund to right in pointing out that and division among the stab-months, at last finding himself in kinder fate has been reserved. let the Editor of this newspaper: It whatever view be taken of Itising factors of the situation, Hongkong. Fenniless, friendless, him sink further into the morass will be acknowledged in these the stopping of the Asama, its thus creating new opportuni-shy, hesitant, he was incapable of of the down-and-out, without columns." aim was certainly not provo- ties of ruthless blackmail for begging on the streets. He is so hope, slowly starving physically

nearsighted that cation. It is for these very the destroyer in their midst.

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 1 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.e

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Friday, the 9th February, 1940, to Friday, the 16th February, 1940, both days inclusive.

By order of the Board of Directors,

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