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THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the TWENTY SECOND OR. DINARY YEARLY MEETING of this Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Com pany No. 19, Des Voeux Road Central, on Saturday, the 8th March, 1941, at 2.00 p.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1940. The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from

Directors.

KAN TONG 'PO,

Chief Manager, Hong Kong, 20th February, 1941.

G.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 24th day of February, 1941, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Or der of His Excellency the Gover

of nor

one Lot of

Crown

Land at Tai Kok Tsui, in the

term of 75 years, with the option Colony of Hong Kong for a

of renewal at a Crown Reat to he fixed by the Surveyor of His

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Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road. Central, Tel. 33225.

Night Editor (Wanchas Office):

Tel. 24511.

London Office: 33. Fleet Street

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HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 20, 1941.

EDITORIAL

Arrivals And Departures

By Clipper

The CHINA

BOARDING

HOUSE SUICIDES

Twq Chinese were alleged to Pan-American. Airways have committed suicide at the CLIPPER (Capt Black- Ming Lee Boarding House, No. 140. moore) arrived yesterday with San Connaught Road Central, yester- Francisco mall of Feb. 12, and the day. following passengers:

According to a Police report. LI From HONOLULU: Maria Rass YIM, 41, was found dead in his and Hadson Wong. returning to room about 1 p.m. by a room boy. Hongkong after a visit to the Unit He was alleged to have swallowed ed States.

a quantity of op'um. From MANTLA': Capt. Horace

Lysol poisoning was alleged to Greeley who will be proceeding to have been the cause of the death Chungking to become US. Military of LO CHUEN, aged 30. He was

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1941.

"FROM THE OLD COUNTRY:""

UNSHAKEABLE FAITH IN OUTCOME OF THE WAR: FAMOUS ACTOR'S VIEWS

"I have no patience with pessimism and defeatism. After all, what pessimism could be more poisonous and what defeatism could be worse than to say that all this is in vain. We know we shall achieve "it and we know that you will not fall us," said MR. ROBERT DONAT, the famous stage and screen star, when he broadcast from London yesterday in a new series of talks entitled From the Old Country." -

"That is why I am glad to-

JAPAN WARNED Attache to the Chinese Govern- discovered about 5.30 p.m. In his be alive today in this turbu

NO MORE pointed warning

no

ment.

possession was found a pawn ticket for a Chinese gown.

lent world," continued Mr. Both men came to the hotel day Donat, "and that is why I before yesterday. Aside from what hope I shall be alive next they had on. they were empty-week to talk to you again.

Investigation Of Harbour Facilities

But if I die, I know I shall have died in a great cause."

PROUD AND HAPPY

ROBERT DONAT

Lt. Alexander P. Colqphoun, RA, to Japan to sheath the returning to HONGKONG after a sabre which she has been in-short stay in Manila. duced to rattle on instruc- Mrs. Elizabeth Newton, and her

Caruthers and Brian, handed. tions from Berlin has ever two sons, Saturday, Ist March, 1941 to Majesty the KING, for one far been given to that country wife of a British Army officer, to Saturday, 8th March, 1941 (both ther term of 75 years,

join her husband stationed here" than that which has now Mr.. Hsia Ueh Hsiao, Chinese days inclusive) during which

Intending bidders are advised been handed out to her from Government officiat on a business

Mr. Donat opened this new series. period no transfer of shares can that Immediately after the dis- the United States. There is visit to Hongkong. Mr. Esla will

of talks by saying how proud and be registered.

posal of the lot the Purchaser

reason whatsoever to leave for San Francisco by Clipper

happy he was to be speaking from By Order of the Board off not the applicant) will be doubt the reported intention on Feb. 23.

London-proud of the privilege of required to deposit with an

Mr. Wong Ha, a Chinese mer-

talking to such a vast audience Roosevelt to authorised officer who will be of President

chant on a business trip to Hong-

and happy because he could say order the American Battle:

A Colonial Secretariat com- kong.

with complete sincerity that he present at the sale, the sum of

DEPARTURES

munique Issued yesterday states was well and alive, in spite of the two hundred dollars, ($200) in Fleet to the Far East if Japanį

Owen. late rude remarks that had been made Departures by the China Clipper that Sir David J. cash. This sum will be refunded feels "constrained to spread

General Manager of the Port of about the end of civilisation, etc.. 88 on payment of the Purchase the war to the Orient. From were:

the moment that President For SAN FRANCISCO: Mr. wir-London, having been invited by and, by far the most Important, Ham H. Schultz, who is connected the Government to investigate the reason, because he believed that Roosevelt entered office for a

with the Intercontinent Corp., en whole question of harbour facili-the world they were going to get PARTICULARS OF THE LOT third term, he has lost no route to New York on business. He ties, organisation and adminisation out of all this present horror

opportunity to make it plain is accompanied by Master Ronnie at Hongkong, having regard to the would be a world worth living in.

existing system of pler leases.

"Here in England, as to the aggressor nations that Miller, his 6-year-old friend.

"I also believe in the beauty of Mr. Aron Leskowitz, en route to which are due to expire in ten where. there is resolution, deter- the great democracy of the

years time, is now in the Colony.

mination and a completely un-human life and in the joy of Western Hemisphere means New York for medical treatment.

Any person wishing to place his shaken and unshakeable faith in Ilving and in the need for men to Mr. William A. Moore, newspaper- business and that no threats

man connected with "The States- Views on the above matters before the outcome of the war." said Mr. discover the way to live a happy or intimidation will deter her man. Calcutta, en Luute to LUN- Sir David Owen is invited to do Donat.

Ulfe. But to lead a happy life we from pursuing the policy she DON by way of New York.

so by letter as early as possible "I take this talking to you very must live peacefully because the

After all, it is For, MANILA: Hon. Dr. Li Shu-addressed c/o Peninsula Hotel, seriously. has adopted for helping to

one joys of living means d' full life. man's voice and one man's idea "We belong to the brotherhood safeguard the independence fan, well-known Hosong medical

let loose over an entire continent of men and this beautiful earth and integrity of those coun- practitioner, making a pleasure trip

I would

rather, therefore, you and for the moment we have tries over whom the Totali-to the P.I.

Mr. Felix M. Elis, accompanied

know the worst about me than the chosen to belong to a brotherhood tarian states are seeking to by Mr. Joseph E Joseph, retired

best.

of men who are determined to impose their domination.. In financier, making a round business

obllerate Hitlerism. the past, Japan has seen, flt trip by Clipper.

THE

STAR

FERRY

COMPANY, LIMITED.

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Notice to Shareholders.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE FORTY. THIRD ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF THIS COM PANY will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Friday, the 28th. February, 1941, at 11.00 a.m.. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st Decem ber, 1940.

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The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from Wednesday, the 19th February, 1941, to Friday, the 28th February, 1941, bath days in clusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

C. M. MANNERS,

price.

Registry No

Locality.

No. of Bale-

Kowloon Inland

Lot No. 4292.....

Tai Kok Tsui.

Boundary Measure. manta.

N. 5. 2. W.

As per

eale plan

Contents in

square feet

Annual

Rental

én Upact Price

Abont

5,000

92

000'0

to ignore the hints that have Mr. George McDonald, proceed- The purchaser of the lot will come from the United States ing to Manila en route for Austra-

Kowloon.

"

DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURAL

ADMINISTRATION

every-

CELEBRITIES & REPUTATIONS

"Celebrities--and I would not have become a celebrity at all if

means of stopping brute force.

It is obvious that Hitlerism is brute force and Elitlerism.. must and will be stopped.

GREAT TASK "Terrible. Indeed, is this bus- Deep down In your

ik

The resignation of Dr. Frankin not that England did happen to ness of war. be required to pay to the Auc- that America will not stand; lia.

L. Ho, and Mr. Tsal Cheng-hsin. like 'Monte Christs' and other flims hearts you know as well as I do tioneer in cash the sum of $1000 idly by and permit Japan to

Mr. Mose E. Kelley, engineer Director and Vice Director of the and thus turned me into what is that we loathe it but it has to a box office star-get be faced and we are facing it," and connected with MessTA. Nielson Agricultural Credit Administration known as (being 10% of the upset price) push her ambitions south and Co., returning to Manila after respectively, has been accepted by reputations and these reputations we are facing up to the task of immediately after the fall of the ward. The President's ac- a brief business visit to Hongkong the Board of Executives of the set slightly beyond their control. destroying the obstruction to free- hammer.

"The truth is that I am not dom, and it a great task however the balance of the cepted. determination now to Mr. Tang Lai, Chinese merchant. Administration. premium being paid in accordance bring his country's sea-power returning to Manila.

It is learned that Mr. H.Y. Moh, half as bad either. I do not want terrible it may be.

you to think I am different from "This war is not merely the with the Conditions of Sale. to back up his words is a

you. Remember please, that I set) Battle of Britain and her em- dustrialist, has been invited to be out on my road just as timidly and $7 plain reminder to Japan that

pire", said Mr. Donat, "it is the new Director. Formal appoint-warily as you did. I needed help

much more than that-{}`lga Kwok Man, 28 of No. 36, Tunguent will be made after the ap-just as you did. I was fortunate she will have to meet the

battle of humanity. It is not combined strengths of two of Man Street, first floor, was admit-

proval of the Executive Yuan.

going to be easy, but is it going the world's greatest naval ted to Queen Mary Hospital yester

received during a street fight.

CHUNGKING

Secretary & Manager. EXPORTS MORE

Hong Kong, 12th February, 1941.

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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corpora

WOOD OIL

ties showed

STAB WOUNDS

well-known Chinese cotton

enough to And that help in various

to be worth it? ways. I found a footing and I was

footing.

powers if she persists in try-/day suffering from "stab wounds shanghai, He organised the Houdeeply grateful for securing that

ing to exploit her alliance

with the European gangsters for her own ends.

removed to the mortuary.

"Bat I did realise how much, or how little, depended on me and how much, or how little. depends on us.

Mr. Moh, 64, is a native of

"It is only going to be worth it Sen Cotton Mill in Shanghai in

if the outcome is worth the 1916, the Yu Foong Cotton Mill in

sacrifice. Every family in Great unengehow, Honan, in 1919, the

Britain today has to bear their Chinese Cotton Goods Exchange at

own share of the burden. You will Shanghai in 1920, and the Chinese

need all your endurance and industrial Bank In 1921. He was

"I know there are others who spiritual strength--you will need Chairman of the Chinese General have not had my luck, but I want all your courage. Chamber of Commerce in Shang- you to know that at this time in "Let us not think lightly of the hai in 1937, and Vice-Minister of the world's history I am just like suffering being endured, but it Industries in 1931 (Central

endured before peace you are. Out of my struggles and must be Newst.

hopes, achievements and fallures. comes back to us. But let us be my joys and pains. I have found fortified by the knowledge that 11 a new thing that is important to jis better for us to secure peace me and which I want to share for the ones we love. with you.

· MISSING FOR OVER YEAR

CHUNGKING, Feb 19 (Reuter, Arst Information of the

THE ONLY MEANS

GLORIOUS OPPORTUNITY "Once again when this horror

"I am not preaching to you but has finally passed, there will be I perfer to think that we are just a great and glorious opportunity

The body of a man was found hanging inside a public latrine in JAPAN'S POSITION today Hollywood Road yesterday morn Sending out an average of some has thus become most unen-ng. The discovery was made by 290 quintals everyday, Chungking viable. It is clear that the a Chinese woman. The body was supplied the International market with 3.935 quintals of wood of last United States and Britain are month. figures on January exports not prepared to give way an from Chungking released by the inch before the plans. which Bureau for the. Inspection and Japan has been stealthily aster, the deterrent should be Testing of Commercial Commodi-making. There seems to be administered directly to their little doubt how the people of army and "navy chiefs who The quantity of wood oll export- Japan regard the situation. have fallen under the poison- tion will be held at the Headed last month almost doubled the They are most alive to their ous spell of Nazism and Fas-i

amount of 4,733.95 quinatis sent Office of the Corporation, No. 1out trom the wartime capital by own essential needs-needs cism. It is against these self- Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, truck to Burma during December, which they have already opiniated blusterers that op-The on Wednesday, the 26th Februa. 1940. In January: 8,265 quintais sacrificed and which they are position has now crystallised, whereabouts of Mr. G. W. Hunter, chatting between friends, but to which we must grasp with all the honest. I am being allowed to and, above all, the wisdom at our ry, 1941, at Noon for the purpose were transported to Burma and not prepared to forego alto- not only from Britain and British missionary of the China chat frankly requires me to be courage and all the determination

670 quintals together, as must inevitably be the United States, but from of Sinkiang province, who has been think it is important that you the remaining

Island Mission in Urumchi, capital talk to a whole continent and T command. of receiving the Report of the Hongkong.

""Blessed are the peace-makers the case if their country is all those countries which are missing for nearly a-year-and-a- should know as clearly as possible for they shall inherit the earth'. Board of Directors together with While the export of pig casings involved in a major war with resolved to destroy for ever half, is brought to Chungking by what my point of view is. Briefly Note: the words 'blessed are the a Statement of Accounts for the

in January nearly doubled that of Britain and the United the threat against the rights two brothers, John and Peter year ending 31st December, 1940. last December. hog bristles export

The Register of Shares of the registered an approximately 250 States, while the prolonged and liberties of humanity. It Stefaniak who claim

and Corporation will be closed from per cent. increase over the pre- unprofitable hostilities is not too late yet for Herr citizenship and who were released several months ago after nearly which their militarists have Hitler's puppets in Japan to two years of Imprisonment in vious month.—(C.1.0.) Thursday the 13th February to

embarked on in China con-take stock of the situation Urumchi, Wednesday the 26th February. 1941" (both days inclusive) during]

tinues to sap their economic which they have helped to British quarters here state that resources and their man-develop into a crisis.. In- about two years ago, all British which period no transfer of shares) can be registered.

power. These people have deed, there are signs that nationals in Sinklang left the pro- (vince, excepting Hunter and a 70 very correctly come to the even the blusterers in Tokyo year-old missionary who had lived

the wisdom of in Sinkdang for over 30 years, "You tell me a story of fortitude conclusion that their country have seen and devotion in which all the is totally unable to add a adopting a more sober tone The last message received from Hongkong, is due back in finest qualities of the race are first class conflict to her al-jand some of their statesmen Hunter by the British Consul Chief Manager.

displayed That is the spirit ready heavy war burden have even gone to the extent General in Kashgar was about a- Hongkong, 7th February, 1941.telegraphed

disaster. of trying to pour oil on the year-and-half ago after which no news was forthcoming from the 65 Minister of Aircraft Production, to Unfortunately the desire of troubled waters stirred up by missing missionary

the managing director of an im- the Japanese people to re- their impetuous militarists. portant industrial firm in the main at peace does not re- These protestations of there North West of England,

flect the views of their mili- being no cause for alarm,

By Order of the Board of

. Directors.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

U.S. FINANCIER

WORKING IN

AIR RAIDS

which makes our victory certain," without resultant

Lord Beaverbrook,

him that practically all employees

American

MYSTERY LEGACY TO HOSPITAL

then, let me drive it in.

"We are all involved in a war. I think war is an evil thing, but, alas! the necessary means and the only available

NEWSETTES

Mr. 8. 8. Church, sub-manager, National City Bank of New York.

Colony on or about Feb. 25:

the

peace makers'", said Mr. Donat "It will not just happen, it will have to be made, You are the peace-makers we are all the peace-makers."

SEVENTEENTH ANNIVERSARY

When the President Taylor sailed from Ban Francisco Jan. 5, it marked the seventeenth anniver- The Tenth Anniversary Dinner sary of the inauguration of the Meeting of the Hongkong Rotary famous Round-World service, start- Club will be held on Tuesday next, led by the old Dollar Linea and now Feb. 25, in the Hongkong Hotel, continued by the American Presi

dent Lines. at 8 pm,

The first ship, the President Har- rison, steamed through the Golden He was replying to a message tarists, who seem to have however, are not sufficient to

A meeting of the Science Socle-Gate Jan. 5, 1924, to pioneer the from the latter which informed willingly tent themselves to convince the western world,

ty, of the Hongkong University trall around the world. The London Hospital has re- was held yesterday evening when Since that time Dollar and of the farm work through air become the tools of Nazi and and others interested in their ceived a mystery legacy of £62,- Mr. R. A. Hill, M.Sc., lecturer in FOR BRITAIN

raids unt the spotters signai Fascist criminals. As long as attitude, that Japan has 393 14s. 6d. under the will of an Chemistry, read a very interesting American President Lines abips WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (Reuter) "danger imminent." and that a these sabre-rattlers remain in finally sheathed the sabre, American doctor. Mr. Averell Harriman, the number have now volunteered to command of the country's As an American newspaper The hospital's house committee tlies" The lecture was illustrated cumnavigations for a total of 10,-"

when that destiny the anxiety of the bluntly put It" only deeds reported yesterday that a cheque with lantern slides and with a chleved without loss of a single

for this amount had been received number of experiments with dyes to England within a fortnight to signal is given.

Lord Beaverbrook added in his Japanese people will never be and not words and false pro- from the estate of Dr. Alexander moaned for the occasion by Im- passenger lite as the result of ac- expedite defence arrangements

telegram: "You must" assure relieved.

mises" can bring about ao. Mercer, of Rhode Island. Un perial Chemical Industries. Prof. President Roosevelt announced these stout-hearted men that the

BRITAIN and the United normal situation in the "Far der his will, dated 1870, there were G. Byrne thanked the speaker. this at his press conference yeater- Government gives its warmest ap- States are well aware of this East and this both Britain three annuitants, The last of day and indicated that Mr. Harri-proval to their action. and that position and they realise that nd the United States are the estate became available

them died in January, 1938, and man will handle such questions as rights to compensation under me if the Japanese people are to determined to accomplish at distribution. British defence estimates, priorities War Tnturies Act will in no way and contracts.

be prejudiced."

be saved from impending dis-any cost.

American financier, is to proceed continue work

even

"

paper entitled "Colour on Tex-

have completed more than 850 cir-

(000,000 miles. This record has been

cident.

The President Taylor, formerly

the President Folk, is-starting her [52nd cruise around the world, and her master, Capt. W. 8. Tyrrell, is why the London Hospital was beginning his 42nd cruise around Hospital oficials do not know selected for the bequest.

the globe.

for