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PROBATE JURISDICTION.
1941;
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MASTER,
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price..
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The attention of all persons vi firms holding stocks of Hydro- carbon Oits of any type in the Colony is drawn to Government Notification No. 54 published under the Public Revenue Pro- tection Ordinance on January 16th, 1941.
No. of Bale, i
Registry No.
Locality.
Lot No. 7. Ping Shan Inland
Castle Peuk.
Boundary Measure-
ments
2
As per
sale plan.
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Contents in
Annun
Rental
Square feet.
Upset Price
$
About
84.450
250.
8,723
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HONGKONG, JANUARY 20, 1941.
INDO-CHINA AND THAILAND
territory in Indo-China on ancient prerogatives and are now seeking a restoration of these lands from the French
EDITORIAL
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1941.
FUNERAL OF MRS. NEWSETTES WILL WORK FOR LASTING
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S. FERREIRA
Despite wet weather conditions. the A.R.P. mobile exhibition was The fumeral took place at the held as scheduled on both the Roman Catholic Cemetery yester-Island and the mainland, from 8 day of Mrs. Sylvia Ferreira, who to 9 p.m. last night. died at the Queen Mary Hospital, (on Monday. The Rev. Fr. Angelis
officiated in the Chapel and at performance on Feb. 1, at the "Funlety" will have a repeat
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the graveside.
The deceased is survived by her China Fleet Club Theatre, in ald of the Bomber. Fund. Bookings husband, Mr. A. F. Ferreira and seven childre
are now open at the Anderson Chlef mourners at the funeral. Music Co., Ice House Street. besides the husband, were Messrs. J. M.
Mr. Chen Ding-sai, well-known Pinna and C. L Pima Chinese lawyer in Shanghai. will (brothers), Mrs. H. White
be made Chinese Councillor of the Miss R. Ferreira (sisters),
Shanghai Municipal Council Among those present were Mrs succeed Mr. Eugene Ye-bing Kiang, to A Rew, Mrs. 1 Brown, Mrs. C. A.who has resigned. Mr. Klang is
now in Chungking.
and
Yolle, Mrs. S.. Pereira, Mrs. S. Mar- riott, Mrs. F. L. Mattos, "Mrs. "B.
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PEACE IN FREEDOM
Wickham Steed Tells Of
Things He Has Done
"My main interest has been in the creation, of peace, and not merely in the prevention of war, .. As Britains warm interest in a lasting peace is a lasting peace ir. freedom, I still work for it," sald MR. WICKHAM STEED, the well-known author and journalist, whose voice is now- familiar to hundreds of radio listeners all over the world, when he broadcast in London" yesterday on some of the things he had done and seen in his life.
Mr. Steed, as listeners in Hong-
kong are aware, broadcasts
himself"
saying:
at 8.30 p.m. All interested are
THE WREATHS. A welcome. Floral tributes were sent by Dr.
they, hear" and then went on to give a description of himself and what he had done as he said,
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TOBRUK ASSAULT COMMENCES
Nash,
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MR.
WICKHAM STEED
IN THE GOODS of PARTICULARS AND CON WILFRED VINCENT DITIONS at the Sale by Public MILLER KOCH of Buck Auction to be held on Monday. land Lodge Lansdown Bath the 3rd day of February, 1941, in the County of Somerset, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the
|Public Works Department, by|= deceased.
Order of His Excellency the NOTICE IS HEREBY Governor of one Let of Crown GIVEN that the Court bas by Land at Castle Peak; in the virtue of Section 58 of the Pro Colony of Hong Kong for WHILE RELATIONS between Laurel, Miss M. Cruz and Miss M. bates Ordinance 1897, made an a term of 75 years, commenc- | W the United States and Marques," Messrs. A Brown, C.
A lecture entitled "The Physics weekly talk in the series "World Order limiting the time
for ing from 1st July, 1898, with Japan continue to be strained Mackintosh, A. V. Reza, F. Mrain, and thunderstorms are form- talks in these columns have al-
of the Weather" (How clouds,
Affairs" and reproductions of these creditors and others to send in the option of renewal at a Crown and Anglo-Japanese amity is Cunha, H. M. Britto, G. Guterres, ed) will be delivered by Mr. G. S. ways been read with a great deal their claims against the above Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor still disturbed by the dis-C. Roza Pereira, G. G. Silva, JP. Heywood, M.A.. B.Sc., Profes of Interest. this to the 16th day of Feb of His Majesty the KING, for cordant note of aggressive Lima, J. A. R. Remedios, J. D. Reservatory, at the next general "Some who listen to my talks on Marcal, E. Noronha, H. Beretto, Jsional Assistant at the Royal Ob- Mr. Steed started his "talk about one further term of 24 years less policy which Nippon's leaders medios, E. Cunha, C. Pereira, F. X. meeting of the Science Society to ruary, 1941.
yesterday by ALL creditors and others are the last three days thereof,
have thought fit to pursue by Silva, R. Silva, L Silva, F. Sequel-be held in Room "K" of the Uni-World Affairs' want to know what accordingly hereby required to Intending bidders are advised aligning their country with ra, A. C. Botelho, C. F. Souza, Aversity main building on Friday, sort of a fellow owns the voice send, their claims to the under-that immediately after the dis- the Axis Powers, the centre of Cruz and many others...
posal of the lot the Purchaser political interest in the Orient signed on or before that date.
Dated the 21st day of January. (if not the applicant) will be has slowly shifted to the dis-
an pute between Thailand and L Ozorio, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. A' sum of $1,726.80 was raised at somebody else talking about him required to deposit with authorised officer who will be Indo-China-a dispute which Rocha, F. M. P. de Graca, E. H. the first of three. charity dances might have done.
SOMETHING FOREIGN present at the sale, the sum of has gradually assumed the Mrs M. A. Gomes, Miss Marie on Sunday. The dances are spon-
He started off by talking about two hundred dollars, ($200) in proportions of an undeclared Roza-Pereira, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. sored by the Hongkong Branch of his accent and related a joke cash. This sam will be refunded war and in which large-scale Silva and family, Lt. C. D'Almada, the Chinese Women's War Reltet against himself when he told a the purpose of detective who asked him for his on payment of the Purchase military, naval and air opera- Carlinho, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Silva, Association for
tions are now taking place. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Raku-of war and organised by the six Editor of The Times. The officer Yung Hing-clu, Mr. and Mrs. R. Praising funds to aid the victims passport that he was the Foreign As an authority on these two sen, Sabins, Joe and Kids, C. A leading
cabarets in Hongkong of the law had at once replied: PARTICULARS OF THE LOT countries recently remarked, Yolle, Heopilta and Pat, Mr. and the second dance will be held at Ah, I knew you was something,
it is sad to think of the po- Mrs. W. J. White, Reinaldo, Mr. the Capitol on Feb. 9 and the third fareign."
to his part in the Parts Peace Con- pulations of these neighbour- and Mrs. B. C. Brown, Mr. and at the China Emporium Ballroom
"I told him," sald. Mr. Steed, fererice of 1919. "I came to that he might as well arrest Sir realise," he said, "that the freedom. ing territories being drawn Mrs. J. W. Lee, Mr. and Mrs. V.F. on Feb. 2.
D'Azevedo and family; into armed confilct, particu-
Edward Grey for being Foreign of the world depended on Anglo- Members and Local Stai, An official communique of the Secretary."
American co-operation." larly as the rights and wrongs Chartered Bank: Chinese Staff, Shanghai Municipal Council issued Mr. Steed then went on to refer Mr. Steed spoke of his Interest. of the question in dispute are Hongkong Electric Show Room on Jan. 14, mentions the appoint- to comments concerning his wear in Ireland and how he had asked still somewhat vague. From Department; Kwong Hing Com-ment of Mr. T. Beesley to the posting pointed beard, which no for an Anglo-Irish settlement and pany, Portuguese Staff, Mercantile of Pubicity Officer of the Secre- self-respecting Englishman is sup-how eventually, the Anglo-Irish what one has been able to Bank: Liga Fortuguesa; and Local tarlat at room 148 in view of the posed to wear nowadays." He treaty was concluded in December assess, the Thailanders are star of the Hongkong Electric forthcoming retirement from the also mentioned that his fluent 1921. basing their claims to certain Company. Ltd., and many others Municipal service of Mr. E T. knowledge of French was treated
BACKED TREATY with some suspicion. "Bismark. "The Times backed this treaty." used to say," went on Mr. Steed, he said "and helped Mr. Winston Subject to the final approval of that no Englishman who spoke Churchill to get into the House of the Executive Yuan, Kwelyang. French well ought to be trusted!"
Commons. I was in Washington capital of Kwelchow province, wii
Mr. Steed, continuing the other when it was signed and saw the be converted into a municipality description of himself, described effect it had on Americans and on.. The latest communique, from sometime in February and will be how after leaving school he got American-Irish feelings. President Cairo states that the Imperial placed under the furisdiction of THE ARGUMENT is as illo-Forces have commenced their as the provincial government. The job in London with a business Roosevelt would not have been gical as would be a claim by sault on Tobruk and that the at-municipality will have, a police. If he had stuck to it he might able to give us the aid he is giving have made a fortune. But he us at present if the Irish in bureau, A public health bureau wanted to be Signor Mussolini that just tack is progressing.--(Special).
a journalist. He America had been against it." and bureau of public works
branched off into philosophy, so- Mr. Steed then referred to his time a part of the Roman
General Chu Ching-lan, well Parts and
elology and history. He went to resigning from the editorship of DITIONS of the Sale by Public Empire, it should now be re- on her for development. The known Chinese philanthropist and that German scholars dived deeper ranks. My main interest was in to Berlin and found The Times and going back to the Auction to be held on Monday, stored to Italy.
The terri-Thailanders apparently prov-social worker in Shanghai died at into things than others.
the creation of peace, not merely the 3rd day of February, 1941, torial value of the claims ed easy victims to this guile the orphanage for refugee child-
MET CLEMENCEAU
in the prevention of war. As Br at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the which That is making if it and
ren in Stan, capital of Shensi Pro- strong Japanese vince recently. Since
tain's warm interest in a lasting the out- In Germany he met several poli-peace is a lasting peace in free- Public Works Department, by was purely based on such promptings, have become em-break of the hostilities, General tical leaders, which included Bis-dom, I will work for it." Order of His Excellency the grounds-could easily have boldened enough to adopt the Chu had been devoting himself to mark and in France, M. Clemen- Governor of one Lot of Crown lent itself to settlement by same aggressive methods refugee relief activities. 18 Land at Castle Peak, in the peaceful
have The which, the Japanese Colony of Hong Kong for fact that the Thailanders made part of their foreign 12 at 45 Singketpang Road, such problems as the silver issue. а term of 75 years,
com have resorted to force as a policy.
Shanghai, of Francis Antony Then the London Times had mencing from 1st July, 1898, means of obtaining redress, WHAT the Thailänders Chaves, aged 21 years, son of Mr. asked him to act as their Berlin with the option of renewal at a without permitting negotia- have failed to realise is the and Mrs. C. H. Chaves, brother of correspondent and later went to Crown Rent to be fixed by the tions to take their ordinary eventual position in which Mrs. L. Bangtug, Hilda, Olga, Lin Rome. "Rome and Italy," he said,
Dolores, da,
Loiltr. Surveyor of His Majesty the course, puts a particularly they will find themselves as Richard and John Funeral ser- where else in the world have 1 Proper regard for Chinese suscep
Robert, "left their mark upon me. No- LONDON, Jan, 21 (Reuter) King, for one further term of 24 significant political back-a result of allowing Japan to vices were held on January 15, at been conscious of living the dis-tibilities, which have been render- years less the last three days ground to the entire situation influence their foreign affairs. the Bunglao Road Cemetery. sant past in the present."
ed particularly acute by the Jap- thereof.
Mr. Steed spoke of his stay inanese aggression, has prevented and it seems fairly apparent Having taken advantage of;
The death occurred on January Vienna and stated that even then the British authorities in Hong- Intending bidders are advised that influences outside Thai the dispute now in progress
14, at Shanghai, of Captain Cecil the Germans were using Austria- rong from celebrating the cen- der of His Excellency the Gaver posal of the lot the Purchaser/their own ends: In casting over Indo-China, even at the loved husband of Gladys Bmart plans for world conquest. Public Works Department, by Or. that immediately after the dis- have been subtly at work for to secure "complete control smart, aged 44 years,, dearly be- Hungary as a bridge for their tenary of its cession to Britain, writes THE TIMES, commenting round for the party that would risk of armed opposition, and father of Irvine and Ian, Referring to his association with on the fact the occupation of nor of ORC Lot 01 Crown (If not the applicant) will be Land at Island Road, in the required, to deposit with an De most interested in creating Japan will soon seek to re-manager, Shanghai and Hongkew King Edward VII, Mr. Steed said: Hongkong is 100 years old this
a situation which would de- duce Thailand to the same Wharves Co. Pootung. The funer- "King Edward was the only crown- Colony of Hong Kong for a
the Bubbling Well Cemetery contradicted." King Edward be and commercial importance of The paper discusses the strategic term of 75 years, with the option present at the safe, the sum of velop to its own advantage status and thus consolidate al cremation) service was held ined head who did not mind being!
gan to trust in Mr. Steed's jud8- Hongkong, its pioneer work in of renewal at a Crown Rent to be two hundred dollars, ($200) In ultimately, it is not difficult her position more strongly for Chapel on Jan. 16. fixed by the Surveyor of His cash. This sam will be refunded to associate Japan with these further expansion of her
intentions.
southward drive-
The death occurred at Kuling. through
Mr. Steed described, though an- education, its social experiments Majesty the KING, for one far. Jon payment of the Purchase price
FROM THE MOMENT that Burma and the Malay Penin-on January 2, at midnight, of Jane other's words, how he returned to and continues: "One of the least
Geraldine Augusta, wife of Mr. Britain and studied problems in
advantages ther term of 75 years.
Japan announced her so-call-sula.
The question might Edward John Blandford, English his own country and then became gained in recent years is the ed "New Order" policy, it was well be asked what attitude Missionary.
Foreign Editor of The. Times. security pax Britannica offers to apparent that the first object Great Britain and the United
"That is what somebody else victims of foreign, aggression or The funeral (cremation) service would have said if he knew my civil strife who were forced to of her attentions, as an offset States will take in the light to her failure to beat China of these potential develop-for the late Jean Darroch Shields, work abroad," said Mr. Steed. abandon their homes.
the eleven year old daughter of But what somebody else would into submission, would be the ments. British and American Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. Shields, who not know is how he had filled his
SOUGHT SAFETY. peaceful colony of French interests in Indo-China and passed away at the Country Bos-part as Foreign Editor of The fugees from Japanese occupied | Indo-China. Two motives Thai are at present confined)pital, Shanghat," was held in the Times.
prompted this step firstly, to seeing that the status quo Bubbling Well Cemetery Chapel on the collapse of France before of these territories is main-Jun 11. the German invader, which tained. Unless either of them
The effect of this order is that any stocks held in the Colony become liable to duty and holders of such stocks in amounts exceed.
ing 1,000 gallons are requested
to report the existence of these
stocks to me within 7 days,
E. W. HAMILTON,
Superintendent of Imports and Exports. 18th January, 1941.
G.
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 3rd day of February, 1941, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum el two hundred dollars, ($200) in
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cash. This sum will be refunded payment of the Purchase
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price.
G.
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PUBLIC -AUCTION.
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36, who, they maintain, stole
them.
Because Britain was at one
PARTICULARS AND CON
authorised officer who will be
PARTICULARS OF THE LO7
Boundary
No. of Bale.
Registry No.
Locality.
Contents in
Square feet
[Upset Price(=
Ping Shan Inland
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
Boundary
Lot Nolding
No. of Sale
Registry No.
Island Road, near
Locality.
Stanley.
Rural
Measure.
ments.
fl. ft. ft. ft.
As per
cale plan
About
15,700
Anunt
Rental.
OHI
Lat No. 8.
Castle Peak.
Measure
ments.
ft. ft.ift.
As per
sale plan
Contents i
Square feet.
About
64,450
2,723
Ankun)
Rental
* Upset Price,
008
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SHAYUCHUNG
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negotiation.
with
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little
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ceau. He studied social problems and the labour movement and. The death occurred on January wrote for American papers on
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HANOI, Jan. 21 (Renter)-The.
ment on foreign matters.
MEANT WARTM
Comment By Times On Centenary
week.
which
China has
"At present, nearly 300,000 re-
China sought safety there and in the recent past great members of In 1914 I knew that Germany fugitives from political persecu- meant war and that the only waytion or social anarchy sought Its to prevent it was to leave the Bri, hospitable shores; tish Government in no doubt "A hundred years of British rule about it. There was appeasement have converted 'the desolute rock. even then and I was told that I and haunt of pirates' of 1842 into had Germany on the hrifn. The an imperial fortress, famous port only thing that mattered after and kindly city of refuge from that was to win the war and violence and injustice”, tried to do my best.
the
EX-J.L.O. HEAD
AS ENVOYAN
at once threw the status of firmly oppose these Japanese DECOUX'S HOPE the French Colonial Empire intentions, there is into confusion, and secondly, doubt that Britain and the OF SETTLEMENT with the object of arousing United States can do to help Thai to harry the French them to preserve their in hope of a settlement of the unde- colony from outside, while tegrity and independence, un-clared war between Thailand and Japan herself gave full play less, of course, Japan's in- French Indo-China has been rals-
A fortnight before the British to her intrigue from within, tended victims make a directed in a communique issued by Ad-
Government "declared war, miral Decoux, Governor-General of Austro-Hungarian Ambassador in The concessions which she appeal to them and range According to reports emanating obtained from the French in themselves alongside the de-
Indo-China.
London appealed to me to help to from reliable sources, Japanese
The communique says informa-localise the Austro-Serbian conflict NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (Reuter) - troops have occupied Shayuchung Indo-China enabled her to mocratic front which has set on received from Thailand and and I told him that I was too good The NEW YORK TIMES published for the purpose of putting an end set about the second part of out to destroy Totalitarian messages emitted by the Bangkok a friend of the Serbs to allow a cable from London saying it was to the alleged large-scale influx her plan. Previously, econo- aggression. Not only Thai, Wireless give rise to the belief that them to be persecuted by Austria learned that the former Head of the International Labour Office at of goods into Free China through mic penetration into Thailand but Indo-China, where sym-the Thai Government could envis-and Germany.
had that town. No confirmation of permitted her to secure pathy with the Free French age the resumption of direct con-
been selected as "Austria-Hungary went head- Geneva the report could be obtained from
long into destruction and many of Ambassador to London and that the Hongkong Military authorities strong commercial interests movement is growing, should tact with Indo-China.
It will be recalled that the dis-my friend went into exile and it was expected Mr. John Winant Japanese reinforcements have in the country and she soon wake up to the immediate pute concerns claim to frontier came to England and we worked would be accompanied by the 35 poured into Canton recently. made Thal trade dependent danger "that confronts them. territory,
together." Mr. Steed next referred businessman as Minister.
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