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NOTICE.

HONG KONG TELEPHONE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

Qualified Accountant & Audi. tor (Ceylonese), nine years ex- NOTICE IS HEREBY perience in Income Tax work GIVEN that the FIFTEENTH and practice. Approved by the ORDINARY YEARLY MEET- Commissioner of Income Tax, ING of HONG KONG TELE. Ceylon, and other Government|PHONE COMPANY, LIMIT. Departments. Previously em ED, will be held on TUESDAY, ployed as Accountant of the the 30th day of April, 1940; at Sarawak Government State Tren Noon in the BOARD ROOM of sury, first class credentials. Was the Company, SECOND FLOOR, a resident of the Straits Settle | EXCHANGE BUILDING, ments and F.M.S. for 11 years, | HONG KONG, for the purpose.. wishes join in partnership firm of receiving a Statement of Ac- practising Accountants in counts and the Report of the

of

BIRTHS

ETINGOFF-LOURIE-On April 1, 1940, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai. to Nina, wife of M. A Etingoff-Lourie, a daughter, Ludmila.

HAYTER-On April 2, 1940, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Iris Marie, wife of W. G. Hayter, daughter, Teresa

Margaret

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ENGAGEMENT

KEOGH-BERTBET.-The engage-

EDITORIAL

INTERPORT Europeans In SOCCERITE MARRIED

MR. B. T. COSANO AND MISS P.M." YVANOVICH

Accident

KOWLOON MOTOR

SMASH

A European, Mr. A. Mann, was injured in a motor accident at the Junction of Kimberley and Nathani Be was treated at the Kowloon Hos- pital.

MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1940.

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CHORAL GROUP TO PRESENT "CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA” TO HELP LOCAL CHARITIES

Unlike many suddenly successful works, "Cavalleria Rusticana,'" which the Choral Group will present at the King's Theatre on May 20 and 30, continues to hold its own as one of the most popular of operas.

Winner of a contest sponsored by an Italian publisher

· 1890 and first produced in that year

Two other European involved in in Rome, the opera still retains, the accident were Mr. George after 50 years, the freshness and charm which originally made Mr. S. Gidley, of No. 37. Kimber-t famous and elevated Pietro Knight, residing in Shatin; and

There was a large gathering of Roads on Saturday night. ment annouriced between Hongkong sportsmen present at St. Parl Gerarde Keogh, only soTeresa's Church, Kowloon Tong, of the late Mr. Frank Charles yesterday afternoon at the wed Keogh of London, and Mira. W ding between Mr. Bellarmine A Scott of Shanghai, and Thomas" Gosano, the prominent Jeanne Lillian, younger daugh-Interport and St. Joseph's foot-ley Road... ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A baller, and Miss Palmyra Marla Berthes of Shanghai

Yvanovich, daughter of Mr. Philip pe Antonio Ivanovich and Mrs. Palmyra Lopes Yvanovich, of Soares Avenue, Homuntin.

The Daily Press.

Hong Kong, or work for sultable Board of Directors, for the fin The

salary. Offers invited. Special 'ancial year ended 31st December. ised services guaranteed. Please 1939, and re-electing two Direc. apply "Tilaka" C/o this paper. tors and the Auditors.

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THE MACAO. ELECTRIC LIGHTING COMPANY,

LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Twenty-ninth Ordinary An nual General Meeting of The Shareholders of the Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Mercantile Bank Building, Second Floor, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 24th, day of April, 1940, at 11.30 a.m. The Register of Members will be closed from Monday, the 15th, day of April to Wednes. day, the 24th day of April, 1940, both day's inclusive.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of, the Company will be closed from the 20th April to 30th April, 1940, both days inclusive.

Dated this 8th day of April, 1940.

By Order of the Board,

J. P. SHERRY,

Manager.

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

Night Editor (Wanchai Office);

Tel. 24511.

London Office: 53. Fleet Street.

E.C.4.

HONGKONG, APRIL 8, 1940

14, Des Voeux Road Central, GERMANY

Hong Kong.

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BLUNDERS

The bride, who was given away by her father, was attended by Misses Alzira, Lolita and Therese Yvanovich and Ave Gosano, as bridesmaids.

Mr. J. M. Noronha and Mr. A. V Gosano, the bridegroom's elder brother and himself a well-known Interport soccer player, acted as best man and groomsman, respec- tively.

The Rev. Father Granelli" of- clated at the ceremony, after which a largely-attended reception was held at the Club de Recreio where the newly-weds received the felicitations of their wide circle of friends and left later for their honeymoon which is being spent in Shanghal.

THE DRESSES

In The Police aerial activity and wider naval sheaf of Arum illes.

Reports

on

A pick-pocket stole $2,000 Friday. The victim was Ng Shing-chun, who has reported to the police that the money stolen from his pocket on board a train to Taipo.

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was

AND NOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Com pany will be held on the same. date and at the same place at No. T 3586, was twice stopped and A Hongkong-registered junk,

11.45 a.m., or as soon there- tooted by pirates on a journey alter the above ordinary from Swatow to the Colony. De- Annual Meeting shall have ter tails of the piracies were given minated, for the purpose of the Police by a member of the

crew on Saturday night. - considering" and, if thought fit, passing the following resolution:

"That the Capital of the Com `pany be increased to $2,000,000

by the creation of 110,000 add tional shares of $10 each rank ing for dividend and in all other respects pari passu with the ex isting shares in the Company."

By Order of The Board of Directors,

JOHNSON, STOKES &

MASTER,

Secretaries." Hong Kong, 6th April, 1940.

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UNION WATERBOAT.

..CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

At 2.30 pm on April 4, three junks "appeared and fired several

shots.

Twenty-five pirates. armed with rifies, revolvers and swords. boarded the junk and transfered 70 per cent. "of the cargo,

On Friday, at 7.30 pm, the junk was stopped by other pirates, Seven men boarded and, after forcing the crew into one of the holds. seized the remainder of the

cargo.

"A motor-cycle, No. 1643, owned by Mr. L. A. Carvalho, prominent member of the Club de Recreio. "stolen" from Star Ferry motor-cycle parking place be- tween p.m. and midnight on Friday.

was

Shumchun

last night.

on the

ה!

Mr. Mann was driving a motor- cycle with Mr. Knight on the pullon seat. He collided with taxi- cab No. 777, which turned into

Road Kimberley

from Nathan Road, crashing into the front wheel of the car.

Mascagni to the front rank of composers.

If You Must

Spit

CHOOSE A PROPER The passionate intensity of the RECEPTACLE- music, the simple but vivid action of the plot and the charm of the Indiscriminäte spitting, in public Sicilan setting, never fall to stir places. vehicles and buildings wilf- an audience,

in future be punishable on Sum- With the forthcoming produc-mary conviction by a fine or im- The two men were thrown to the tion the Choral Group, which has prisonment, according to a Draft ground, and Mr. Mann, with in- In the past five years given many

Bil to amend the Summary Jurles to, the head. had to be treat-fine concerts in Hongkong, enters Offences Ordinance, published fr ed at the Kowloon Hospital. Mr. an ambitious field. but judging by Knight escaped injuries.

the success of rehearsals the ven- Justined, and the presentation will ture into opera seems to be well be keenly awaited."

Mr. Gidley was the passenger in the taxi which was not damaged. The motor-cycle was badly damag- ed.

GOOD YEAR FOR "TELEPHONES”

At the the forthcoming Annual General Meeting of the Hongkong Telephone Company, Ltd, which will be held on Tuesday, April 30, the following will be embodied in the Directors' Report:-

The balance at credit" of Proft and Loss Account for the year ended December" 31, 1939, (Incrud- Ing the sum of $149,523.84 brought forward from the previous year and after making provision for pink payment to

Royalties on the revised basis) amounted to $1.379403.20.

The bride made a charming pic- THE INCREASED tempo of

ture in a bridal dress of white lace the war in the west in designed on the princess model, recent weeks, with greater with a full train. She carried a

blockade, extensions

The bridesmaids wore beautiful part of the Allied Forces, re-frocks of pink tulle and carried

heart-shaped bouquets of calls to mind one outstanding

carnations. feature of the World War of 1914-18. Historians have re-

The bride's mother was attired corded that what proved to be black lacquered lace.

e smartly designed frock of

the deciding factor in that great conflict was superior sea-power. The operations

forces carried out by armies and air are decidedly more spectacular, but the slow and largely unseen" process of the British Navy will continue in- exorably to repeat that sulle like a break-water across premacy in the present hos- the entrances to the North tilities.

Sea and are always able to A REVIEW of the naval outflank all Germany's ocean operations since the outbreak routes.

Mr. B. T. Gosano played football for Hongkong against Shanghai in 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935 and 1938. He is also known in hockey circles, wields a good racquet at tennis and is also a useful sprinter.

Government

of

After charging $256.793.60 for de- preciation

Saturday's Gazette.

Under the amended bill, nó pér- son shall spit in or into a public which the public have access, ex- place or vehicle or any building to

"IN" AID OF CHARITY

cept into a receptacle or channel The production will be in ald

for sewage,, suliage or waste water. of Lady Pollock's food kitchen for

URGENTLY, NECESSARY STEP- refugees and destitutes, the For-.

In the objects and reasons, it is eign Auxiliary of the Chinese Red pointed out that pulmonary tuber- Cross, the Boys' and Girls' Cluba, culosis is a serious menace to- the Agricultural School for Re-health and life in Hongkong and fugee Students and the Chung- Indiscriminate spitting, a habit un- shan Refugee Fund,

fortunately prevalent among cer-

Greaves

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the

Maestro E Gualdi will conduct, tain classes in this Colony, is an The part of Santuzza will be taken important factor in spreading the by Miss Chan Mel-lan, whilst Mr.

disease. Gaston D'Aquino will appear The present measure extends to

places public

prohibition. against indiscriminate spitting now Lola and Mrs. Gertrude Goddard eating houses, restaurants, food 13 enforced in dairies, milk shops, as Mather Lucia. Sapport will be factories,: 1000

shops, markets, given by a chorus of 40 voices, slaughter houses and laundries, whilst there will be an orchestra by-laws made by the Urban Coun-

Turiddu, Mr. Alec Alfo Miss Carmen Suiva

of more than 30 musicians.

cil.

Tickets will be available after; It is recommended by the Urban. . and effecting- April 15, at the leading music Council as necessary. In the in- July 11, 1939-the payment of an stores.

terests of public health and sup- Interim Dividend of 4 per cent.

ported by the District Watch Com- absorbing $225,000.00, there remains.

mittee and by a large body of the sum of $897.609.80 which the Enard recommends be ap propriated as follows-To Payment of a Final Dividend of $1.00 per share on the Fully Paid up Shares making 14 per cent, for the year). Dividend of 25 cents on Partly $500,000; To Payment of a Final Pald Shares $62.500 To Sinking Fund Instalment transferred to Capital Reserve, $92,577; To Carry forward to next Account. $242,532.-

THIS WEEK'S public opinion in this Colony,

BLACKOUT

SAPPER IN TROUBLE

Leung Lap. aged 25, was fined

of the war will show indis- ' WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED putable evidence that Herr since hostilities broke out in 60. Hitler and his immediate ad- Europe show that it is very visers failed to realise the probable that Herr Hitler and probable effects of Britain's his Nazi advisers did not in- naval might. True, it is sug- tend to wage this war at all. gested in "Mein Kamf" that Evidence has not been lacking A Sapper of the Chinese Com- the author was certainly not that the Germans confident-pany of the Royal Engineers, blind to the danger of anta- ly hoped that their arrange-$30, or in default two months gonising Britain. The Germent with Russia would cause hard labour. when he appeared man Fuehrer actually wrote Britain and France to wash before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at of the desirability for an their hands of Poland. The Kowloon Court on Saturday on a arrangement with both Britain war that the Nazis would then charge of impersonating a police and Italy, not only to isolate have prepared for was one officer. France so as to give him a against Britain alone, if pos free hand in attacking Russia, but also to safeguard his com- munications and supplies by sea. "Herr Hitler and his con- federates, however, seem to have placed a wholly exagger-

A travelling trader, who came

who

sible, but in any event, with from Tai Po with a basket of Italy and Japan as active chickens which he tried sell at Two Indians have been detail

allies on the German side. 8:30 pm on Friday, was stopped ed by the Chinese authorities at

These two fleets, added to and told by defendant, since last Thursday.

the German Naval strength, claimed to be a police officer, that according to vernacular reports

would perhaps, have created it was against the Law to carry ated trust on the power of It is alleged that the Indians what they believed was their Britain or even Britain and

a difficult situation for either chickens in the evening and was asked to go to Yaumati Police had their. possession. Japanese

Stationi. military banknotes and a map of invincible Army and Air Force France. Nazi diplomacy, how-

On the way to the station, de- the Shumchun area when arrest-to counter-balance this lack ever, falled completely. Herr fendant offered to let the trader ed in the Shumchun River.

of naval superiority. This is Hitler's timing has been go on payment of $5, which the reports have not been confrmed.

where Herr Hitler and his proved to be at fault and he man refused. plotters have made a greater and his chiefs have now to At the entrance to the station, II or Napoleon, for it must be tion. blunder than Kaiser Wilhelm face a most unenviable situa- defendant started to run away, but was caught by the trader, who remembered that in 1914, the ONE RATHER significant

insisted on going to the station Navy of Imperial Germany fact which has not been em-

as they had already reached was not, so markedly, inferior phasised since the war began to the British Fleet that, is that the Nazi Naval Com-

A PLAYFUL INDIAN!

The

The Thirty-fifth Annual Gen- eral Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building, on Monday, the 22nd April, 1940, Tat Mun, British waters, on Ba- A cargo junk was pirated at at 11 am for the purpose of turday. Three armed men board- receiving the report of the Gened the funk and transferred 200 eral Managers together with a drums of wood-oll and 46 plculs Statement of Accounts for the of wolfram to their boat and

sailed away. year ended 31st December, 1939. The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 6th April to 22nd April, 1940, both days inclusive.

DODWELL & COMPANY LIMITED, General Managers.

AUCTION

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The following confiscated clocks will be sold by Public Auction on Tuesday, the 9th April, 1940, at 11.30 A.M. at the Imports & Exports Office, Fire Brigade Building, 2nd floor :-

3 large clocks

55 small clocks

83 medium clocks.

E. W. HAMILTON, Supt. of Imports & Exports. 3rd April, 1940.

A raid was made by a party of police, headed by Sergeant Mac- kenale, on four Junks at Yaumati on Baturday. The police found four hand-grenades, three rifles and 150 bullet and arrested the masters of the junks.

day.

AMMUNITION FOUND IN GUTTER

J.

NOTICE ISSUED

TO MARINERS

A notice to mariners published in Saturday's Gazette gives warn-" ing of this week's blackout exer- cises on April 11,

The gradual enforcement of the provision introduced by this bill is regarded by the local health-au- thorities as urgently necessary if the spread of tuberculosis is to be checked.

BAZAAR AT

FRENCH CONVENT It is stated that the following

More colour and busy movement lights in the Hongkong area will and eager, happy faces than at the be extinguished on the night of bazaar held on Saturday afternoon April 11-12:

at the French Convent, Causeway

Waglan Island, Tathong Point, Bay, in ald of French war charities, Cape Collinson, South Lyemun, seldom is seen in Hongkong. North Lyemun, Channel Rocks, The Tricolour and the Union Cust Rock, North Fairway Buoy, Jack were everywhere expressive of way Buoy, Green Central Fairway Buoy, South, Fair- the united front of the two nations, Cheung Chau Island Passage.

Island and and under their spread several hundred people spent freely, and Normal lighting will be resumed Lenjoyed themselves. on the night of April 12-13.

The bazaar included all the at Mariners, shipowners and all tractions generally expected, whilst others are also warned that the there were also many stalls which port will be closed to all vessels sold a variety of goods. Many of arriving or departing between 8.30 the articles were made by the p.m. on April 11 and' am, on French ladies of Hongkong: others April 12.

were presented by French business: houses in the Colony.

ORDER IN COUNCIL The Governor in Council has

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FINE DOLLS DISPLAY

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been pleased to direct and it is

A better display of dolls has. never been seen in the Colony. The hereby directed

That Thursday. the 11th day of hundreds, from the tiniest to the April 1940, shall be an occasion biggest, all tastefully and appropri- for experiment or practice In lighting control by express com- French costumes, made the bazaar ately dressed, mostly in typical mand and, that on that day from a veritable heaven of delight for sunset until the sounding of the the children. The dolls were made

RAIDERS last of two

PASSED by the Sisters of the Hospital, who signals is sounded, the regulations also made a large selection of child- made under the above Ordinance ren's clothing that found ready published as G.N. 585 in the Gov- buyers. ernment Gazette of the 14th July, The cinema was also well sup-.. 1939, as subsequently amended by ported, as was the bar cafe, where G. N. 824 of the Government Ga-there was continuous gaiety and given a favourable combina- mander-in-Chief, Admiral

zette Extraordinary of the 20th conviviality. September, 1939, and G. N. 57 of The financial result of the could not have been won. tion of circumstances victory Raeder, presumably had a An Indian watchman, Kishan 1940 in the Government Gazette bazaar, which is expected to be very distinct advantage in being in Singh, 30, was fined $10 by Mr. E of the 19th January, 1940, respec- good, will be announced in due EVENTS DURING the past the know of all Herr Hitler's Himsworth at Kowloon Court on tively, shall be in force. seven months of the war have plans and, therefore, was Saturday when he appeared on a And it is also further directed:— amply proved that the new air aware of the exact date and charge of assault on two Chinese That the exemption contained in

PROBATIONER FOR weapon, destructive though hour when Poland would be coolles.

Regulation. 19 relating to an oer

CLERICAL SERVICE it can be in certain circum- attacked. The obvious move compensation and to sign a

He was also ordered to pay $2 caalon of an experiment stances, has certainly not al- for the German Navy, in order bond to keep the peace for one gards navigation and riding lights plication for appointment to the

$20 practice in lighting control as re- The Government is inviting ap tered naval values and, thus, to press home this advantage, year. Sergt. Whitley, prosecuting. on ships and vessels under way cost of Probationer in the Senior Germany's naval position in would have been to get all its said that at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, or when anchored or moored to a Clerical and Accounting Staff. 1939 was palpably weak. At sea-going ships-surface and accused first teased two ricksha buoy and navigation lights on Candidates must be of pure British the outbreak of the war, submarine-outside the North coolles and then struck them with aircraft and at aerodromes shall race and nationality and under 20 Britain and France had 22 Sea prior to the actual out his fist..

be "suspended ́on the said day years of age battleships and battlecruisers break of war If Britain and

during the first 01 the two Navy. Again, France and Naval Chief would have had merchant fleet. against five in the German France intervened; the Nazi a-half per cent. of the British blackouts contemplated in this Britain had 91 cruisers to his ships out ready to begin

practice. „UNLESS the Germans,

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NEW AMUSEMENT CENTRE FOR H.K.

от

course.

The salary for this post is $1,200 year rising by annual increments of $120 to 51,440 a year. T

On completion of the probation period, there are prospects of promotion to Class II of the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff..

"An application by Detective Sgt. V. Morrison, for the confisca was granted by Mr. H. G. Sheldon tion of 63 rounds of ammunition at the Central Court on Saturday. The ammunition was gutter in Thomson Road on Fri-ers against, 22 and 125 sub- this plan was actually carried out the aid of new allies,

found in Germany's nine, 133 destroy-operations. In fact, a part of therefore, can, with or with

marines against 60 to 80 out. Admiral Raéder sent out break the stranglehold, which U-Boats, Mere numerical su- approximately half of his fleet the Allied naval forces have It is learned that a group of periority does not, of course, of submarines to cover the gained on the seas, the defeat business men in Hongkong are COLONY'S HEALTH always mean supremacy. But, trade routes, ready to strike at of Germany, however long it park in the Colony. The park is plarining to set up an amusement

The return of notifiable diseases... when it is taken in conjunc the zero hour. A certain may take, will be the only re- aimed to be the biggest in the Far notified as having occurred in the tion with Britain's geogra- amount of damage was done sult of the present war. It East, and will include a large Colony during the 24 hours ended phical position, It must be before the Allled convoy sys- certainly is extraordinary that swimming pool, a large, dance at midnight, April 5. are as fol- held to mean that Great tem could be organised and the Nazis, with the lessons floor, a skating ring and many low-ruberculosis 18 cases, dy- Britain will always start with put into effect, but this dam- learned from the World War, other forms of amusement.

sentery 11 cases, cerebro-spinar an advantage over Germany age, as figures have shown, should persist in making fun- ing a suitable location, and North case, measles one case,

The parties concerned, are seek-fever 5 cases, chicken pox one when it comes to a naval was really negligible

entert errors of this point is one of the favourable fever two cases, scarlet fever and

CHEAPER RENTS

ADVOCATED

A

The Rents Reduction Association of Hongkong and Kowloon was formed on Saturday following a meeting held at the Hotel Cecil

A large gathering was present at

the meeting which was headed by Mr. Llu Ping-chuen, of Messrs. 191 Lyson and Hall.

and damental challenge. The British Isles aggregated less than one-and-nature.

places urider consideration,

diphtheria one case eault,,