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at

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CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

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 ទ·

Mercantile Bank

The Thirty-fifth Annual Gen- eral Meeting of Shareholders wilt be held at the Offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong & Shanghal Bank Building, on Monday, the 22nd Aprit, 1940, Matthews, at I a.m. for the purpose of Building, Second Floor, Hong Ewe Brewery Co., Stang, receiving the report of the Gen-Kong, on Wednesday, the 24th. eral Managers together with a day of April, 1940, at 11.30 a.m.. Statement of Accounts for the The Register of Members wilt- year ended 31st December, 1939. he closed from Monday, the The Transfer Books of the 15th. day of April to Wednes.

Managers:

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(China) Ltd.

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EDITORIAL

DIED

On 19th April, 1940-at Berkham- sted, Doctor Francis Clark. M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H., beloved | father of Hilda Dowbiggin, in nts 78th year.

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FIVE GERMAN PLANES SHOT DOWN

LONDON, Apr. 2(Renter, Somewhere in France)-BH. tish fighters shot down four, possibly five, Garman · air». craft in the first large-scale aerial encounter over the Western Front since the In- vasion of Denmark and Nor-

way.

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HONGKONG, APRIL 22, 1940.

Ltd., Company will be closed from 6th day, the 24th day of April, 1948, Face Saving

Hong Kong, 22nd April, 1910.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.

231

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

April to 22nd April, 1940, both both days Inclusive. days inclusive,

DODWELL & COMPANY

LIMITED,

General Managers.

185

HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY IN THE GOODS of GIVEN that the FIFTEENTH HELEN MOFFAT DODS ORDINARY YEARLY MEET-

late of The Hotel Hydro pathic, Peebles in the Coun- ty of Peebles, Scotland. Splaster, deceased.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Or. dinance No. 2 of 1897 made an order limiting the time for credi. tors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 18th May, 1940.

All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.

DEACONS,

Solicitors for the Execators,

1, Des Voeux Road Central i

Hong Kong.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG.

KONG

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PROBATE JURISDICTION

ING of HONG KONG TELE PHONE COMPANY,

LIMIT.

the Company, SECOND FLOOR,

EXCHANGE BUILDING,

AND NOTICE Is hereby given that an "Extraordinary General Meeting of the Cont. pany will be held on the same date, and at the same place at 11.45 a.m., or as soon there- after F the above ordinary Annual Meeting shall have ter minated, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit.. passing the following resolution:

"That the Capital of the Cor pany be increased to $2,000,000 by the creation of 110,000 addi.

tional shares of $10 each rank.

ED, will be held on TUESDAY,ing for dividend and in all other respects pari passu with the ex- the 30th day of April, 1940, at

isting shares in the Company." Noon in the BOARD ROOM of

By Order of The Board of Directors, JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Secretaries. Hong Kong, 6th April, 1948.

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HONG KONG, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Ac- counts and the Report of the Board of Directors, for the an ancial year ended 31st December, 1939, and re-electing two. Direc- tors and the · Auditors.

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. 14, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.

Birthday Of Princess Elizabeth

The following telegram was sent by His Excellency the Governor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, London, on Saturday:

Request that you will convey to 203 Her Royal Highness Princess

Elizabeth on the occasion of her

birthday the good wishes and loyal NETHERLANDS INSURANCE CO., and hearty congratulations of all

EST. 1845, LTD.

Notice is hereby given that IN THE GOODS of

the Agency in Hong Kong for BLANCHE COOKE form.

the Netherlands Insurance Com erly temporarily residing at

pany, Est. 1845, Limited, will Warwick Lodge Beacons.

be discontinued as from 30th field Parade, St. Kilda ja

April, 1940. All policies will be the State of Victoria in the cancelled as at that date and Commonwealth of Austra lia but late of Palace Hotel.policyholders are requested to Shanghai, China,

apply to the undersigned for a proportionate refund of pre- deceased,

Widow.

miurus.

Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Liquidators.

...Agents.

NOTICE is hereby' given, that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Or Bodiker & Co. (In liquidation) dinance No.: 2 of 1897 made an other limiting the time for credi· ́ tors and others "to send in their claims against the above estate to 18th May, 1940.

All Creditors and others are accordingly fiereby required to -send their claims to the under

signed on or before that date.

DEACONS,

Solicitors for the Executors.

1, Des Voeux Road Central. Hong Kong:

G.

CENSORSHIP

R.

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Mercantile Bank Building,

7, Queen's Road Central,

2nd Floor,

: Hong Kong. Hong Kong, 15th April, 1940

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THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,

LIMITED.

sections of the community in Hongkong,

More Trade Expected

Messages received from Rome in- LONDON, Apr. 21 (Reuter)- dieate that Italian ports are ex- pecting a considerable increase in traffic as the result of the new situation in the North Sea and the Baltic

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By Japan

official

of

MARRIAGE

Mr. L. J. da Silva & Miss. O. Ribeiro

The wedding took place at the Rosary Church Testerday after- noon between Mr. Leonardo Jose da Sliva and Miss Olga Ribeiro. the Rev. Fr. H. de Angelis officiat- Ing. A reception was held later at the Club de Recreio.

The bride looked charming in white, in a tight fitting bodice of brocaded satin with full net skirt fastened after the prima donna fashion. She carried a fan of white roses.

The

Misses Ribeiro,

RACQUETS ARCHWAY

The bride was given away by

her brother, Mr. J. Ribeiro, and the newly weds left the Church under an archway of badmintor

the racquets,

Recreio Mixed

DEATH

MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1940.

OF FORMER

H.K. COUNCILLOR

Dr. F. Clark Was With

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University 1912-15

DR. FRANCIS CLARK, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H., father of Mrs, Hilda Dowbiggin, wife of Lt. Col. H. B. L. Dowiggin. 0.8:E, passed away peacefully in a Nursing Home in England on Friday in his 76th year. Dr. Clark was a barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple and was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hongkong from 1919 to 1915 prior to which he was Dean and. Lecturer on.. medicine for the College of Medicine, Hongkong, since 1897,

The late Dr. Clark, who was well loved by both Europeans' and Chi- nese in the Colony, was a member of the Legislative Council in 1902 and of the Executive Council in 1905. From 1897 to 1915 he was a Justice of the Peace and was en- Baged in war and post-war «work in England from 1915 to 1922.

From 1932 to 1924, Dr. Clark was appointed physiciar. to the British Consulate at Mukden after which he became Chief Medical Officer at Wel Hal Wei where he remained until 1929 He was Commodore of the Corinthian Yacht Club from 1914 to 1913.

THE DRAMATIC develop

ments which have been taking place in Europe since the German invasion of Denmark and Scandinavia have tended to divert atten- tion from the events in the Far East, where the

first stand against an aggressor

bridesmaids, the was made by China nearly Irene Botelho. Elsa

YEOMAN WORK three years ago. During the Helena Ribeiro and Marlan Silva,

Born on June 23, 1864, the late few days, however, paired in blue and pink ensembleş past

Dr. Clark wild

was educated at St. carried bouquets of

Paul's School and St. Bartholo- Little Miss Frances Silva spokesmen relating roses. statements made by Japan's and

Middlesex Hospitals to the position

the was flower girl, and "the Masters mew's and

and arrived in Hongkong about Netherlands East Indies in Ribeiro, the bride's nephews, were

1895 as Medical Officer of Health. the event of Holland being page boys..

He did yeoman work for the Co- involved in the European

lony in the outbreak of plague and conflict, indicates that the world has not yet heard the

then in the steps taken for the Frevention of further big cut- last of the ruthless Japanese

breaks. For this alone Hongkona plans to attempt to impose

owes him a great debt of gratitude. their imperialism in East Doubles teams forming a guard of Asia. The Japanese mill- honour, Mr. J. F. V, Ribeiro and tarists, having falled igno- Mr. R. A. Stiva undertook the miniously to break down the dubles of groomsmen

Both bride and groom, are pro- spirit of resistance and unity with which the Chinese minent in Recreio sporting er opposed their wanton inva- cles, Mrs. da Silva being a mem sion of China, either by force ber of the Mixed Doubles team in the League for artis ox. questionable the Badminton

past several years and Mr. da diplomacy, are now trying a

Silva a member of the Recreio face-saving game by at-

team that won the Senior Cham- tempting to precipitate a

plonship of the Lawn Bowls Lea- fresh crisis in the East.

gue last season. WORLD POLITICAL cir- cles are, however, not unduly dismayed by this so-called threat from Nippon. Ob- viously, interest is taken in Japan's declared attitude to

of

wards the question, but as a piece of bluff, the Japanese militarists show extremely Poor vision in choosing their subjects. Indeed, some such utterance from Tokyo had been expected, and, in the same way that China has sa gallantly called the Japanese

His keen interest in the College of Medicine and the Hongkong University are well known to older residents and many of his former pupils now in practice. He was also the organizer of the fund to make Ground.

the University Sports

The late Dr. Francis Clark,

M.D., MR.C.P., D.P.H.

Owing to Indifferent eyesight he operation in 1933 and, though suf- did not take part in any games tering from great disability, bore but was fond of riding and yacht-

it with great courage and continu- ing and was the life and soul oled to take a deep interest in every- the Corinthian Yacht Club for thing In October last he had an- many years, Amongst his ather The honeymoon will be spent interests he was a member of the by inainenza which affected his other serious operation, followed at Repulse Bay.

Cathedral Church Body and was heart.

For the past two months Hon. Treasurer thereof for some he had been a Nursing Home- years...

passing away peacefully ou· Fri-. day."

DANES NOT TO BE TREATED AS

ENEMIES

It 18 notified for general in-

formation that the Kingdom of Denmark, excluding the Kingdom of Iceland, the dependency of Greenland and the Faroe Islands. is territory in the occupation of a Power with whom His Majesty is at war and is, therefore, "enemy Japanese hopes of a quick Territory" for all purposes under victory in China, the West-the Trading with the Enemy legis-. ern Powers, and the Allies in lation.

bluff ard confounded all

particular, are prepared to With regard to Individuals, how- meet Nipponese imperialist ever, nationals of Denmark are designs should they event~ not to be treated, at present, as üate in the directions in- enemy nationals, dicated by their spokesmen. The Western Powers realise America is strongly behind only too well today the ser- Mg. Cordell Hull's statement Belgian, Dutch and Swedish

vice China has rendered the on this question and Japan first would be well advised to take lines are expected, from May 1, to world in being the make Genoa the starting point nation to refuse to submit a realistic view of the situa- for their services to South and to any designs on her in- tion instead of indulging in North American ports, while the tegrity, independence and dramatics that impress n.. Swedish East Asiatic Line is ex-liberty. Unprepared as she one at the moment. Faced pected to Make Trieste and

was, China gallantly took up with a crisis brought about Flume the starting points for the

the Japanese challenge and by the failure of their expedi- Near and Far East.

has held them successfully tion in China, this latest re-

U.S. CONSULAR OFFICE IN ICELAND ·

WASHINGTON, Apr. 21 (Reu-

ed States Constar representa- tive in Iceland, with offices in NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING. | Reykjavid," Is announced by the

State Department.

PROMINENT FREEMASON Dr. Clark was also a prominent His wife, who was well known in Freemason, having been a Member Hongkong as a singer and capable of Perseverance Lodge. Hongkong, actress, took a leading part in Founder and First Master of Uni-many productions of the AD.C.. versity Lodge, Hongkong, and predeceased him in 1932, He is Deputy District Grand Master of survived by his only daughter, Hongkong and South China, Since Hilda, wife of Lt. Col. HBL Dow- his retirement to England. he was biggin, and four grandchildren, the an active member of Lodges in eldest of whom. Joan (now train- London, including Rahere and Uni- tng as a nurse at St. Bartholomew's Hospital has devoted "herself to versity of London.

"Dr. Clark underwent a serious | him 'during bis recent linesses."

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R.A.F. Striking At Nazi Air Transport To Norway

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THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IS NOW STRIKING at German air transport to Norway as the Royal Navy has been attacking troop- ships at sea,

to According

London, Reuter message from

strong British formations attacked German bases at Christiansand, Stavan ger, and Aalborg (in north Denmark). This is the Arst time the R.A.F. has attacked any base in Denmark,"

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The hangar was damaged and

fires were started while a German

CONVERGING ON HANKOW

At Christiansand, a number of

CHUNGKING, Apr. 21 (Reuter) enemy planes were seen dispered Chinese pressure q Japanese about the field and were attacked forces in the Nanchang-Hankow Chinese with bombs and machine-guna area is continued, according to a

and There was similar action at Chinese military spokesman

in check for three years. If sort to a diplomacy, which transport about to land was at CHINESE FORCES the Chinese nation had not may well have been rompttacked. resisted the Japanese plans, ed from Berlin, is a clear in-

Aalborg is 50 miles south of the the repercussions of a Jap-dication of the short-sighted extreme tip of Jutland and is the anese triumph in the Far polley of Japan's militarists. jumping off point for Norway be- East would have had a con- In the meantime, China ising 200 miles from Stavanger. ter)-The appointment of a unit-siderable effect on the post- gaining in strength from day tion of the democratic to day and the Generalis- powers of the West and the simo's recent statement that way might have been paved millions of fresh for an aggression that might troops, fully trained. have been difficult to check, equipped, are ready to con- Stavanger where a seaplane base Chinese forces, he claimed, yes- Despite the meagre assis tance she has received from the friendly powers and that fact that in some cases, help was even being given to her aggressor, the Chinese have fully proved the emptiness of the Japanese threat of Far Eastern domination.

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FOKI KILLED

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The Fifty-ninth Ordinary Gen. eral Meeting of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers,, Messrs, Jar- dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., craft caught up and rammed his DEPARTMENT Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on junk amidship..

Thursday, 30th May, 1940, at

Ten robbers, six armed with rifes and four with revolvera, noon, for the purpose of receiving boarded his vessel. One of the the Report of the Directors, pass pirates opened fire on the crew. ing the Accounts, and electing ing a fori, named Lam Hung- Directors and Auditors.

k, and wounding another man in the leg."

Both crew and passengers were

Readers of the following are required: Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Sindhi, Gurmukhi, Gujrati, Hindi, Bengali, Mauratti.

Applicants must be able to translate into good English, and preference will be given to those

able to deal with more than one of the above.

Apply BY LETTER ONLY

to the Chief Censor, G.P.O.,

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was also attacked. All the British planés, returned safely.

·JAPAN REPORTS RIDICULED

tinue the struggle to safe

terday morning captured Bishan guard their sovereignty and

and Wanshoukung, two important drive the invader from their

points in the western suburbs of shores, must have come as a

Nanchang. The Chinese attack rude shock to the Japanese

on these points, he said. had been launched on the night of Apr. 19. High Command. After near-

MOSCOW, April 21 (Reuter) After a severe engagement all ly three years of hostilities, Japan finds the Chinese Japanese reports that the USSR., night the Chinese are reported to today better organised and anxious to have her hand free have entered the western suburbs

agree-of Klangsi capital JAPAN'S STATESMEN more firmly united in their in Europe, is seeking an

Chinese forces in Hupeh, were should realise, from what has determination to oppose anv ment with Japan at any price, is

converging on Hankow from three happened in Europe, that Japanese intrigue against denied in a special broadcast,

com- warnings uttered by the de- their land. With this strik- The announcer added that such directions. the spokesman

that tinued, Troops at Hatchvi. on nerded into the hold while the mocratic countries today ing lesson from the Chinese reports are ridiculous, and

even Japan mus, realise that the north bank of the Yangtse, cargo was transferred. At night should not be treated lightly. people, there need be no an fall the crew crept up from the In reply to the threat from xiety that the democratic owing to the situation in the Far below. Hankow, are said to be is seeking moving. westward along the north East it is Japan who hold and saw the pirate junk sell Tokyo against the "Dutch countries of the world will an agreement with the USSR bank towards Tranfeng and Ing away.

East Indies, the United permit Japanese militarism and not vice versa,

Huangkang, east of Hankow, The The robbers had decamped with

exert pressure In any

northern column at Macheng is States lost no time in making to its position, clear if Japan other direction which might

Mig A. Viola Smith, American reported to be pushing south- rights and Commercial Attache in China, was westward along the highway in and a total of $2,430 Chinese money dared to violate the integrity endanger the taken from the crew and passen- or this Dutch colonial pos- liberties of liberty loving an arrival in the Colony from the the vicinity of Changshing, west

of Harkow. North yesterday." 226 gers.

Public opinion in peoples.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 23rd May to 13th June inclusive. By order of the Board. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Managers, Hong Kong, 16th April, 1940.

100 baskets of oranges, valued at $1,700, and. $80 Hongkong currency