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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

ADVERTISEMENTS Mrs. Paul Hodgson wishes to thank

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that the TWENTY-FIRST ORDIN. | ARY YEARLY MEETING of this Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central, on Saturday, the 16th March, 1940, at 3.00 p.m. for the purpoše. of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a State- ment of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1939.

The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from Saturday, 9th. March, 1940 to Saturday, 16th March. 1940, (both days inclusive) daring transfer of which period no shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 26th Feb. 1940.

her many friends for their kind letters of condolence in her great bereavement, and also for the many lovely flow- ers sent to her on her arrival.

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ENGAGEMENTS

GILBERT, The BRYANT —

13 announced engagement between Richard Norman Bryant, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Bryant, Hylton, Durham, England, and Kathleen Doris. Mr. and only daughter of Mrs. G. W. Gilbert, Shanghai. WARD-PREMET:-Thẹ

engage- between

ment is announced William Henry, youngest son of Mrs. M. Ward and the late Mr. Walter Stephen Ward of Tientsin. and Jacqueline Su- zance, daughter of Mr.

hal.

and

The Daily Bras

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HONGKONG, MARCH 9, 1940

EDITORIAL

CORRESPONDENCE

BOYS' AND GIRLS' ASSOCIATION

at

To The Editor, Hangkong Daily Press Sir,-On Sunday, March 10 1 p.m.. the Boys' and Chris As- An- sociation are holding their

the nual Sports en

University Ground. This has been kindly lent by the University Athe:hics Association who have gone so far

FATAL MOTOR

ACCIDENT

SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1940

REPUBLIC OF CHINA

KOWLOON COURT Summary Of Final Draft

Of New Constitution

"INQUIRY

建言 An inquiry was commenced

before Kowloon Court yesterday Mr. QAA Macfadyen, sitting as Coroner, and a jury comprising Messrs. TM. Pereira (foreman), Paul Zane and Wan Hung-kwan, into the death of Choy Wai 24 motor 16- who was killed 'in a

as to promise to do so annually cident in Castle Feak. Road

be!

At 5 o'clock, the prizes will

Atholl Mac- } distributed by Sir

this Sports

gregar. The cost of IN

RETREAT

SHANGHAI

Mme. Paul Premet, of Shang- THE ALARM manifested by

the "News Chronicle WILKERSON LYON-MACKEN- which yesterday found

ZIE-The engagement is

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THE DAIRY FARM ICE &

LE COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.

Notice to Shareholders

Notice is hereby given that the Forty fourth Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Company's Town Office, 2, Lower Albert Road, on WEDNESDAY, 27th MARCH, 1940, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts, to sanction the declaration of a Dividend and to re-elect Direc tors and Auditors.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED from 13th March to 27th March, 1940, both day's inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

G. MILNE,

"Secretary. Hong Kong, 29th Feb. 1940.

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HONG KONG & WHAMPOA

DOCK CO., LTD..

NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders will be held in the Office of the Company, No. 2 Queen's Building, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, 26th March, 1940, at noon for the consideration of the Directors' Report and Balance Sheet for the year ending 31st December, 1939.

The Share Register and Trans. ler Books will be closed from the 15th to 26th March, 1940, both days inclusive..

By Order of the Board of Directors,

E. COCK.

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 27th Feb. 1940."

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CHINESÉ ESTATES,

LIMITED.

Seventeenth Ordinary Yearly

Meeting..

MARRIAGE

DAVEY-STEAD. On

it

Robert donated

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on

the night of January 21.

The deceased was thrown of

ing.

No, 426

in!

In November this year, a People's Congress will be held in Chungking to discuss and adopt a permanent constitu- tion for China as well as to fix a date for its enforcement. The basis of deliberations will be the final draft of the constitution, promulgated by the National Government on May 5, 1936. In this draft are found detailed stipulations on people's rights and duties, the People's Congress and a complete system of government.

vision.

an necessary to re-iterate the many people will find time to be in civilian clothes had signall- MIN CHU I republic and Its sove-Yuan and the Censor Yush.

reignty is vested in the whole body Provisions for the Central Gov-

of citizens.

The final draft of the con- The Congress shall also have wall outside house has been detrayed by N. V. a lorry, which was driven into the Croucher, Eq. Sir

Castle Peak Road after the driver.stitution contains 148 articles the power to recall the President Tung has kindly shield for the Annual Compt who was unlicensed and a learn- grouped under eight chapters, and Vice-President of the ant er driver, lost control on a turn- The first chapter of seven public, presidents and vice-prest- dents of the Legislative Yuan, the articles contains general pro- Judicial Tuan, the Examination between the Clubs. The

the before Immediately

ac- tion

Yuan and the Censor Yuan, as Presiden, of our Association, the

The Republle of China is a SAN | well as members of the Legislative Bishop of Hongkong hopes that

cident, a European police officer present at the Sports We belleve ed the lorry to stop, his own car

Will Mass Singing

prove "very that the Physical Exercises and having run out of petrol on the ! journey from the New Territories the spectators. Interesting to

to Kowloon, and evidence was 28 Provinces: given yesterday to the effect that These events commence at about 4 pm

the driver increased his speed Perhaps some mention of the

after being signalled and the car 01 in-

he turned done might be work

began to wobble un- terest. The Association has

the wheel left and right. Recrea-

Mr. CA. Sutberton Russ dertaken by means of

to Improve tion and Education

holding a watching brief on half of the relatives of decreased. the lot of the very poorest chil- dren in the Colony. We have and Mr. E.SC. Brooks is gold- ing a brief for Loong Chuen, the in all 12. Clubs, and there will be

owner of the lorry concerned. the present at the Sports 800 boys and girls, who come from very poorest familles, Most earn their own living by selling news- contribute papers, whils: many to the support of their familles. The Association has lately start-

The Annual Report will, shortly be ready and can be obtained

from either:

$0

Is

be

the

LEARNER DRIVER In explaining to the jury purpose of the inquiry, the Coron- er said that the larry was being driven by a learner driver and the the

mishap occurred was taken with- out the knowledge of either the owner of the lorry or the regu lar driver.

with

The lorry, fully loaded oysters' was travelling at a fairly high speed when the accident oc-

ernment are found in the fourth chapter comprising 61 articles. The articles are grouped under zs different sections giving detailed. Its territory consists of provinces, all listed, plus Mongolia stipulations about the President. and Tibet. Among the provinces of the Republic and the five Yuan are Liaoning, Kirin, Hellungkiang; under him, namely, the Executive and Jehol. No alterations in ter- Yuan, the Legislative Yuan, the ritory shall be made except by Judicial Yuan, the Examination.

ot the People's Yuan and the Censor Yuan.

The President:

resolution

Congress.

are

The peoples' rights and cuties

the second - guaranteed

According to the constitutión,

chapter which has 19 articles. the President is head of the state

represents the republic in... All citizens shall be equal before and

foreign relations. He is the com- the law. and they shall nave liberty of the person and may not mander-in-chief of the ladd, ses be arrested, detained, tried or and air forces of the whole coun- accordance, try. In accordance with law, he punished except In

issue: can promulgate laws and mandates with the counter- with law...

signature of the president of the Yuan concerned, can declare war, negotiate

conclude: peace and

can declare treaties. He

and terminate a state of emergency, grant amnesties, special pardons, remit sentences and restore civi

shall

have Every citizen freedom of domicile, and, no private abode may be forcibly entered, searched or sealed ex- cept in accordance with law. Also, every citizen shall have the freedom to change his residence, freedom of speech.rights, can appoint and remove

be:ween J. Vernon Wilkerson, fact that China will not ac- of the British-American To- cept a peace of submission bacca Co., Ltd.. Harbin, Man- and to stress, once again that choukuo, youngest son of the the British people want. no late Mr. O. C. Wilkerson and compromise with aggression Mrs. Athleen Jamerson of La in the Far East is obviously Grange, North Carolina, and based on more than idle ap- Frances Lyon-Mackenzie, eld-prehension. In the eyes of er daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. China and her friends, the Lyon-Mackenzie, of the Hong attitude of London towards kong & Shanghai Bank. Har-

Japan has of late been far too bin.

The con- accommodating. POOLE - SICHKARENKO -The

1s, an- cessions in the case of the engagernen- nounced etween Mr. S. C. Le Asama Maru do not; of course. Poole, o. Java-China' Japan concern anyone but Britain Line, Amoy, and

Miss Luba herself. But the new arrange

ments in Shanghai represent,' Sichkarenko.

both in substance and in spirit, a far too ready ac-

trip. In the course of which March 2. quiescence in the violation of work in connection with the Ju- 1940. at Holy Trinity Cathe- China's sovereign rights.

venile ofenders and a" construc. dral, by the Very Rev. Dean

THE MOST IMPORTANT tive effort is being made to help Trivett M.A. DD. Ivy, second

two these, whilst they are in the Re daughter of Mr. W. Stead of EVENTS of the last Bombay and Shanghai, and months in that great inter-mand Home, and after they have "the late Mrs. Stead, to Donald national port have been the left it.

Lawson" son of Mr. W. "re-opening " of " Hongkew, Davey, of Exmouth, Devon

the modus vivendi on the

The Bishop of Hongkong. Rev. A. England. and the late Mrs. Outside Roads question, and

John's Cathe Davey.

the new agreement regarding P. Rost, c/o St. the policing of

Middleton-Smith, Hongkew, dral, 1940, Yangtzepoo and Wayside. The HK. Stock Exchange. WATSON--On- March 2,

was agreement Watson. last-named John Richard Dean

of concluded between the Settle- principal aged 25 years,

and the Aury Academy, the dearly ment authorities

of Mrs. Japanese and gives the latter. extensive representation, and considerable powers, in the police force of the inter- Treasure national area. These powers extend, as has already been demonstrated, to search and to look it pretty carefully in arrest of anti-Japanese "dis- the mouth. Hongkew closed to turn away to the offside of him He turbers of the peace." The for a long period on the plea the road as it passed

It noted the number. Now

was arrangement concerning the of military necessity."

5030 As it passed, it seemed to "Outside Roads" was even that this "necessity appears be increasing speed A. few seconds

These roads to have lapsed, are normal later witness heard A more serious.

terricc

All other libertles and rights. President or Vice-President of the are not part of the Settlement conditions to be restored? crash and the sound of break-

not detrimental to public peace Republic, whose term of office at all, but the Settlement, by The answer may be found in ing glass, virtue of certain rights it the following episode, One of L/3g Smith also gave evidence and order or public welfare.. shall shall be six years and who may

be guaranteed by the constitution be re-elected for a second term. been the first questions asked by and further hearing there, has possesses

and they shall not be restricted. negotiating their status not correspondents after the "re- tourned until Monday. Mar. 18.

except in accordance with laws. only with the Japanese but trocession" was whether the

which are imperative for safe- and tram companies ROOSEVELT DIVORCE guarding national security, avert- with the puppet City Govern- bus ment under Fu Siao-en. The which have a franchise for

LOS ANGELES, Mar 8 (Reutering a national crisis, maintaining sententious comment by the the whole Settlement would

public order or promoting, public]. Betsy Cushing Roosevelt has ob-

interests. North China Daily News to be allowed to resume opera-tained a divorce from her husband, the effect that "co-operation tions. To this the Japanese Jaines Roosevelt between the Municipal Coun- naval spokesman, present at

DEATH

beloved husband Helen A. Watson.

IN MEMORIAM

In affectionate memory of Sgt. "Chris" Hales, - 8.M.P. Killed in the execution of his duty. March 4, 1939. Ever remem- bered by Mam, Dad, Nancy

and Paddy, R.I.P.

R.A.F.'s Feats To Get Pictures

ENDURANCE AND SKILL

7

Stories of teats of endur- ance, patience, and skill Be be- hind the ae: fal pictures of Germany taken by the R.A.F. Aircraft of the Bomber Com-

mand have visited key points in all parts of Germany and the Ger- man islands in the North Sea, and

has been surveyed.

The weather is sometimes a

formidable foe. On a single fighɩ one 'plane encountered first ligb

ning and then a spowstorm,

trical storms are no less discon- certing:

J.

0/0

curred about 9 p.m. It was the duty of the jury to determine if the driver was guilty of negl gence, and if so to what degree he was guilty.

oyster Tang Kwai. 24 years, merchant, gave evidence that the driver was a man named Ah Yau. He did not remember his driving the lorry before, but he had former occasions assisted in load-

writing and publication. freedom of secrecy of cor- respondence. freedom of re- IBOUS belief freedom of. assembly and forming associa-

Citizens' Rights:

Ls The Association supported

tions. voluntary contribu- entirely by tions and these are always wel- comed as there is a great need for expansion. Mr. Kwok c/o Bank de L'indo Chine is the

Chan.

cil, the Japanese authorities, the general press conference,

and the Special Municipality replied that there would be

on

ing the lorry and had accom-

panied it."

L/Sgt. GE. Whiley, who had signalled the lorry to stop, testi

that the lorry seemed

fed

was

ad-

of Greater Shanghai (sic) is no such resumption because It is known that in some

whole story...

and civil and military officials, confer honours and award decors- tions.

*

In the event of national emergency or great national economic crisis, which call for urgent measures, the Presi- dent may, by a resolution of Issue the Executive Yuan, No private property shall be re-

emergency mandates to cope quisitioned, expropriated, sealed or confiscated except in accordance

with the situation. But such with law. Similarly, every, citizen

mandates shall be submitled. shall have the right to present

to the Legislative Yuan for confirmation within three petitions, lodge complaints and

months after they are issued. institute legal proceedings, the right to exercise the powers of The President is responsible to election, initiative and referendum the People's Congress. Chinese and the right to compete in' state citizens, having attained the age examinations,

of forty years, may be elected

The duties of the citizens to pay taxes, perform services military and labour

and render pablle service.

The formation,

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powers and

These delegates are to bo elected by "universal, equal, and direct suffrage and by secret ballota“: All „20-70«?». -old citizens have the right to elect and all others who have attained the age of 25. have the right to be elected. The' term of office of the delegates is six years. T

Except in case of an offence against the interna? and ex- ternal security of the state," the President shall not be Hlable to criminal prosecution until he has been recalled or has retired from office. Executive Yuan:

:

Council councillors. The decides statutory and budgetary : → bills, bills concerning a state of emergency and special pardons and bills concerning declaration of war, negotiation of peace, com- clusion of treaties and other im- portant international affairs which the are to be submitted to Legislative Yuan.

The highest organ through which the Central Government exercises its executive powers is the Executive Yuan, wn.ch/ SABJI the best augury for the fur-"it might afford undesirables cases, all those without the People's Congress:

have a president, a vice-presiaen, ther amiable solution of out- an opportunity to resume ac- ("no longer required"), mil-

a number of state councillors, and the whole of the Siegfried Line standing problems" tells the tivities and the Navy is there-itary permits were rounded functions of the People's Congress heads of various 'ininistries and fore against such resumption up in extensive "dragnet"

are outlined in the third chapter commissions, to be appointed and DEMON- as effective control cannot be operations by the Japanese which comprises athe articles. removed by the President of the AMERICA HAS

The explana guardians of law and order. Delegates to the Congress are to Republie to whom all shall be in- STRATED that only firmness maintained." works with Japan. This view tion of the sudden morbid As a result of the agreement be elected on a regional basis of dividually responsible.

of wheeled traffic is concluded a week ago today, one from every district or munt-

In the Executive Yuan there A is held also by the majority fear 20,000 feet ice formed on the air of British organs of opinion simple: During the two years the policing of Hongkew will cipality or area of an equivalent shall be an Executive Council, screws, and the pilot who took off and of Britons in the Far of outright occupation, a not only remain in Japanese status. In case its population ex-composed of the president, vice- his glove for a moment to adjust East. But there is another Japanese company, which has hands (although the Japan- ceeds 300.000, one additional dele- president of the same Yuan, and: nis controls was frostbitten. Elec- belief current in London, and not the benefit of a municip-ese inspectors will be wearing gate shall be elected for every state

current, unfortunately in the al franchise, has established Settlement uniforms); but the additional 500,000 people, An-aircraft dying through one highest quarters. It was ex- its own transportation net-policing of all other parts of is outlined in viole: light, and pressed recently by Major work and has done rather the international area will be every movement of the crew gives General Pigott, the former well out of it. Now, with the subject to their control to a of sparks and a noise of crack-Military Attache In Tokyo, increased population, it will much greater extent than who declaimed that "Japan do better and it is reason-hitherto through the ap- of a Japanese NOTICE IS HEREBY ling.

German fighters have repeated-will not yield an inch to force able to suppose that some of pointment GIVEN that the SEVEN.

the profits will flow into the Special Deputy Commissioner TEENTH ORDINARY YEARly failed to Intercept our night rebut everything to friendship."

It also has power to decide mat connaissance 'planes, and Our The fact that Britain has al- coffers of the Navy. And we who will be a "direct adviser"

ters of common concern to the LY MEETING of SHARE pilots have found that anti-air-ready given all too many would like to see what would to the Commissioner "on all

The People's Congress shall be various ministries and commia- proofs of friendship, while happen if the Council were so police affairs and a signi- Japan has yielded" only ill-advised as to use its au-ficant increase in the strength convened by the President once slons, matters submitted by the miserable driblets of the vast thority to interfere with this and importance of the Jap every three years, the session last-president or vice-president of the

ing one month. It may be extend- Executive Yuan, by state council-: One pilot who flew over Berlin body of rights and privileges illegitimate monopoly on cer-panese section of the force.

NEEDLESS TO SAY, these ed another month when necessary, lors and by the various ministries. at 12 o'clock noon, for the pur reported that the defence organ-which were never hers in the tain of its streets.

(To Be Continued). pose of receiving the Report of tsation there must have been badly first place but which she has FROM A CONSIDERATION new powers of the Japanese Extraordinary sessions may be and commissions. the Directors and a Statement of shaken. Not a shot reached home arrogated to herself by force, of just has many "rights" will be used against the Chi- convened at the instance of two- "Account for the year ending the every avaliable gun was in use.

obvious that leaves the Japanophiles quite have reverted to the Settle- nese residents of a Chinese fifths or more of its members, or unconvinced, One guesses ment as a result of the Jap- city under enemy occupation by the President of the Republic 29th February, 1940, and of

Mos: of the projectiles used that this is because those of anese concession," it may who have been enabled, dur- Congress Powers: electing two Directors and ar

The funeral service of the late them the now familiar "daming the General's way of think be well to turn to an exami-ing the last two years, to take

The People's Congress besides': Auditor.

onions" and other incendiary shellsing have the same conception nation of what the Settlement advantage of the fact of in-

as that held in Tokyo of what has given the Japanese. An-ternational control of a part initiating laws, holding referenda Mrs. Lillian Alice Rowe, wife of Lt, designed to set the aircraft op

real "friendship" means, in- other incident will perhaps of its territory to remain loyal on laws, amending the constitu- Cmdr. Rowe, R. N., who died at Although nearly all our aircraf: terpreting it as immediate re-illustrate this. Of the great to their conscience and their tion and exercising such other the Queen Mary Hospital on of Chinese who country. It is not the Coun- Powere as are conferred by the Thursday, took place yester-..

constitutions, thall have the power day the Chapel of the Recur have come under heavy are over cognition of the consequences numbers Germany there have been remark of all Japan's actlogs.

poured into Hongkew after cll that is resuming charge of to elect the President and Vice-rection, Colonial Cemetery, yes. New President of the Republic, the terday. The Very Rev. J. L. wa- able exceptions. Cases are record-

THE LAST EXAMPLE of the Invaders announced that Hongkew, but the

the special passes were no longer Order" in Hongkew that is president, vice-president and son conducted the service Japanese yielding," Director & Secretary enemy zerodrome have apparent opening of Hongkew, is not necessary, hundreds have extending more and more members of the Legislative Yuan, which was attended by a number Hong Kong, 7th March, 1940. ly gone unnoticed by German exactly a gift horse, so it is been arrested and shipped off over the Settlement as a the president vice-president and of friends. Many wreaths

fighters just about to land. proper, as well as profitable, by truck to parts unknown, whole,

HOLDERS will be held at the craft gunfire. varles greatly Company's Office at China Build-accuracy ings, 5th floor, Hong Kong, ou Thursday, the 21st March, 1940,

The TRANSFER BOOK of the Company will be CLOSED from the 14th to the 21st March, 1940, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors, FUNG PING FAN,

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BADLY SHAKEN

although it was

in

seemed to be experimental, among

Are..

ed of daylight flights where R.A.

F. machines photographing en

members of the Censor Yuan,

FUNERAL OF MRS. L. A. ROWE

Bent.