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EDITORIAL

FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941.

FUNERAL OF MR. WHAT DOES GERMANY HOPE.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS The Daily Press JOHN LOWRIE TO ACHIEVE IN BALKANS?

THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN COMPANY LTD.

Notice to Shareholders

The Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 15th MARCH, 1941, to WEDNES. DAY, the 26th MARCH, 1941, "both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

C. M. MANNERS,

Secretary & Manager. Hong Kong, 7th March, 1941.

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary. General Meeting of the Company will be held in the P. & ̈ 0.

1. That the Directors be

COMMISSIONERS

ORDINANCE,

POWERS

1886.

NOTIFICATION,

It is hereby notified for general information that the first public session of the Commissioners

affairs

of

the..

on a date to be announced

K. M. A. BARNETT, Secretary to the Commissioners.

報西刺子

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

Night Editor (Wanchal Office):

Tel. 24511. London Office: 53, Fleet Street

EC.4.

HONGKONG, HABQĦ 7, 1941.

minence.

CAPT. CYRIL FALLS' VIEWS

LARGE ATTENDANCE AT CEMETERY The funeral of Mr. John Lowrie, Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. Ltd., who died at his fiat in the F. and O. Building early on Wednesday morning, at the age of 77, took place at the Colóntal Ceme- tery yesterday...

"People talked, a lot once Rev. Cyril Brown MA., Chaplain about the possibility of a great | ed the graveside services. of the Seamen's Institute, conduct-German thrust through Tur-

"We can be sure that General Sir John Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, after his visits to Cairo, Ankara and Athens, has a very clear idea of how this particular campaign should be fought," said CAPT. CYRIL FALLS, military correspondent of THE TIMES, when he broadcast from London yesterday on what Germany hopes to achieve as a result of her seizure of Bulgaria.

Kenneth Chan, W. A. Shen, O. A.

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key, Syria and Palestine to-

MOON-SHINE!

going forward and to induce us to keep as large a force as possible in Cyrencica.

STEP BY STEP. "My general conclusion is that

hold on the Mediterranean and the what point they will do so. There- capture of the Suez Canal would fore, though Turkey has doubtless that sea, while the oil fields of Iran am sure that it is not in the pro- have deprived us of our key to considered this double thrust, I and Iraq would have supplied Ger-gramme for the immediate future. many with what she needs most." "If Germany consolidates her

"Nevertheless, the idea was not position in Bulgaria to such an ex-

THE FIFTY-FOURTH OR Building, Victoria, in the Colony DINARY ANNUAL MEETING of Hong Kong at 11.15 o'clock OF SHAREHOLDERS will be in the forenoon on Thursday, the appointed to enquire into the THE DARDANELLES held at the Office of Messrs. 20th day of March, 1941, or as

Immigration

Among those present were Jardine. Matheson & Co., Ltd. soon thereafter as the Ordinary Department will be held shortly THE GERMAN thrust in the Messra. J. M. Mackinnon, A. Me-wards the Suez Canal," said Germany is still moving step by

Balkans and the threat on WEDNESDAY, the 26th General Meeting of the Company

Keller, E. V. Pemble, R. Balder, D. Capt. Falls, "or alternatively, step. She took over Rumania and which the complete control wilson, W. M. Wright, W. Ward, Atowards the oll fields of Iraq carefully consolidated her position MARCH, 1941, at NOON, för shall have terminated for the

by proclamation in the Gazette the purpose of receiving the purpose of considering and, and all persons wishing to testify of that region holds to Greece w. Black, Sandford, Wong Fang- and Iran. This was to have there. She has now taken over Report of the Directors and the thought fit, passing the following before the said Commissioners and Turkey, has once again shun, Wong Chi-ho, Chester Ben- been combined with an Italian Bulgaria, where she will carry out Statement of Accounts for the resolutions

are requested to give written brought the" Dardanelles, or net, Rashley, C. Nish, C.,G. Shil-thrust in the direction of the same process and she doubt-

the Hellespont, into pro-ton, J. A McKenzie, R. P. Lasala,

less plans to bring Yugoslavia into year ended 31st DECEMBER,

notice to the undersigned at the

A, Gilliard, T. H. G. Brayfield, Alexandria, the Veterans of

the same position. and they are hereby authoris Colonial Secretary's Office by the last war, particularly the Aus- Smith. E Abraham, Dr. E. L de 1941.

She will next try to put an end. ed to capitalise the sum of earliest possible date together tralian Imperial Forces, will souza, Dr. Bunje, Major C. M. Man-British Isles, there could have been and relieve Italy of the strain of "Shart of over-running the to the Greek resistance to Italy $3,000,000 Hongkong currency, with a brief memorandum of the have cause to remember the ners, and many members of the no scheme more advantageous to a campaign that has made her part of the undivided profits of evidence which they propose to historic operations which Chinese staff of both Mackinnon, Germany. The capture of Alexan- very ill. She knows that the Turks the Company standing to the offer.

were carried out in this 40- Mackenzie & Co. Ltd., and the P.dria would have deprived us of our will fight, but it is not known at credit of the 'Company's Re-

The examination of witnesses mile long strait which divides & O. Steam Navigation Co. Eta, serve Fund, and to allot to the will be held in public but the

FLORAL TRIBUTES Turkey in Europe from members holding shares of the Commissioners may, if requested Turkey in Asia. The fort and Directors of F. & O. S. N. Co. Wreaths were sent by Chairman Company as on the first day of to do so for good cause, direct fications in the Dardanelles, Ltd., P. & O. S. N. Co. Ltd., Euro- April One thousand nine hun that the whole or part of any which proved so impregnable pean Start of Mackinnon, Mat- dred and forty-one in respect of witness's evidence may be taken in the last war, seem likely to kenzie & Co. Ltd., Chinese Staff of the

net amount capitalised in private. Any request to this be put to the test again and Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. Ltd., possible. I seem to remember call- tent that there is no danger from fully paid shares of the Com effect should be included in the its significance in milltary Lift Boys of P. & O. Building, Leighing it moon-shine. A campaign in any other front, she might, then pany of equivalent nominal above mentioned memorandum. operations cannot be exag-Measurers office, St. Patrick's So- inviting a prospect as was ever necessary for the time being and Orange, Hmly & Co.. Sworn ald-winter would have been as an- feel that she has done all that la value in the proportion of one

gerated. The German occu-ciety, Wang Kee & Co., Hongkong presented to a commander and devote herself to the primary task share for every three shares of

pation of Bulgaria has now & Kowloon W. & G. Co. Ltd., Sports many of his troops would probably of attacking the British Isles. the Company held by them

127 brought the Nazi forces to the Club, Messrs. & T. Williamson, J. have died of exposure. If muni- SECONDARY THREAT respectively and that such

shores of the Black Sea im-M. Alves, L. Reidy, V. V. Need, broken down. catastrophe might an attack on our Mediterranean tions and fuel transport had "If not, she would have to launch share so allotted shall rank for

mediately to the north of Yeung Yam, dividends as from the 1st day

Yew, T. . G. Brayfield, C. C. Shi-force. It would have been an ex-new bases in Sicily and Southern have overtaken an expeditionary Fleet. For this she would have, Istanbul, which stands at the

ton, W. M Wright, A. W. Black.pedition that would have lacked Italy. Only after that can she feel of July, 1941.

head. of the Bosphorous, Lam Ming-fan, M. HL Lo, Horace the means to serve it. It was, in safe to let herself be drawn fur- 2. That if on such 'distribu-

which "narrows Into thello, W. T Stanton, A. Gillard, J. tion as aforesaid any person

ery truth, moon-shine. Hellespont before it joins the H. Hoare, B. A. Young, W. D. Skin-

ther into a push to the Near East. "Now, spring is approaching. We should, therefore, for the time would be entitled to a fractional

Aegean Sea. The control of ner, H. V. Femble, &. Gidley, Li Winter is by no means over in the being concern ourselves more with " share the Directors shall, in

the Straits is of vital impor-La-sang. J. L. Davies, An Chack, Balkans or in Anatolia, but it has the secondary threat that is to

Moneychanger & Shoemaker, Sa- not many more weeks left. Ger- Turkey and Greece. lien of issuing fractional cer

tance not only to Turkey, butį

tono, Miss M. M. Tyrrell, Dr. E L many has now moved to the Bal- tificates, cause the whole share

"The Present-Day World as Seen to Soviet Russia as well and de Souza, Mme. E Huguenin, Dr. kans and are on the Turkish fron-same position

"Here we stand in much the. to be allotted to a person or Through the Eyes of a Diplomat the Moscow warning to Bul-s. To Wong, Edith and Rud. Eier and people may now say that sea-power, with persons to be named by the was the subject of an interesting garla that the Kremlin could Raschie, Major and Mrs. C. M. what was impossible in bad wea- small, but efficient army, confront- Directors, and such share shall, talk given by Dr. Philip K. C. Tyau

at the weekly tiffin meeting of the not support Sofia's capitula-Manners, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Shea, ther may be possible in good. ing a land-power with an enor- at such time as the Directors Hongkong Y's Men's Club at the tion to the Axis Powers must Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Chan, Lasala think fit, be sold and the St. Francis Hotel yesterday. Mr. have taken into consideration Hagedorn Kring, and many others. proceeds distributed amongst Ho Shiu-que, President of the Club, the jeopardy in which' Rus- The death occurred the persons entitled to the was in the chair.

interests have been!ruary 26, at his home, 525 Dr. Tyau is Commissioner of For-placed by the Nazi occupation mour Road of John Walker, age fractions making up

eign Affairs for Kwangtung àna

of Bulgaria, In times of 54 years, (Asiatic Petroleum Com- Kwangsi.

pany, retired), husband of Mrs. The speaker said that after the peace, the goods of Western Mary Walker. A Requien Mass was League of Nations was born, all Europe, the cotton of Egypt held on February 28, thought that peace would reign and the products of the Church of Christ the King, 235 forever..

tropics continually passed Rue Bourgeat, and was followed through the Straits on their by burial at the Bubbling Well way to the Russian port of Odessa. Today war and blockade have reduced this stream of trade.

روا

FOR SALE

Sec. A of Marine Lot 122 and Building thereon known as 216 Wanchai Road and 144 Praya East. The building is eminently suited for a Building Contractor | or similar business and further information may be obtained on application to Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Mercantile Bank Building.

Messrs. C. E. Warren & Co.. Ltd. (in voluntary Liquidation) have for disposal a large and assorted stock of Sanitary Fit] tings, Piping, Tiles, Monumentali Marble, etc., etc. All enquiries should be addressed to the Liquidators, 2nd floor, Mercan. tile Bank Building.

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC: CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

shares."

such

By order of the Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,"

Agents. |Hong Kong, 21st February, 1941.

NOTE:

PRESENT-DAY WORLD

Interesting Talk By Diplomat

sian

Yeung Bin, Leong

at

Feb-

CHANGES TAKE PLACE "Let us, therefore, take a look at the changes that have taken place since December laat. Sey

Both sides to a greater extent than Germany. have improved their position, wel

We have hurled the Italians back

the

2

from Albania and destroyed great portion of their North Afri- can army and captured more of their war material than they are kely to be able to replace. We have also had time to organise the bases

have been given in Greece: allies demilitarised the Dar-

"What has Germany gained? danelles and placed it under She has set her foot in the Bal- an international commission kans and has got part of the Black

Cemetery,"

before. We are a a comparatively

mous army. We can move our German army is tied up to land army without, difficulty, but the

communications.

"We have fought campaigus of this sort before and general- ly with a large measure of success. Our forces are well equipped for the task before them and we can be sure that General Sir John Dili, after his visit to Cairo, Ankara and Athens, has a very clear iden of how this particular cam- paign should be fought.".

NEWSETTES

We had heard of slogans of dis- arm to preserve peace and some people were foolish enough to be lieve in them.

PACTS EVOLVED Some people of high mind and Under the powers conferred high ideals tried to evolve treaties IT IS the military impor

engineer, upon them by Article 12 of the and pacts to preserve peace. When tance of the Dardanelles that which limited the number of Sea coast under her control. She Articles of Association of the leaders of nations thought that From the German view point, permission to regarrison the her aircraft on the air-fields pre-

the Kellog Peace Pact was signed, has to be considered now, warships entering the Black has a great advantage over Yugo- Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., arrived

slavia and has approached nearer Sea. Later, Turkey asked for to Turkey and have established Company, the

Directors have even if war came again, it would decided to offer to Shareholders no longer be recognised as supreme. if Herr Hitler is able to per-shores of the Stralts and this pared for her by Her tourists.

I. For Lighting from 15 cents The Hongkong & Shanghai Bank-

to 16 cents per unit.

ing Corporation, Hong Kong

2.

For Power & Heating from on or before the 30th September

5 cents to 54 cents per unit. 1941 and that Shareholders be

3. The discount of 10% on given power to renounce their Power accounts in excess of 'rights under such offer and that

•

SHORTAGE OF CENTENARY 4-CENT STAMP The Colony of Hongkong is at

was granted in 1936.

When war broke out in 1939, Soviet

"On the other

flank in Tripolitania, where. Italy has been defeated by the Army of the Nile, she has managed to establish some of her armed forces. hardly imagine that the Germans would send a de- tachment that was so weak - that it could not look after it- self. This new situation makes it more probable than before that Germany could succeed in carrying out a double-thrust of the kind I have suggested.

Mr.

Joseph Cartz,

in the Colony yesterday,

►

Lt. Col. William Mayer, of the

U.S. Army, arrived in Hongkong on a visit to the U.S. Consulate here.

Dr. Li Shu-fan returned to. Hongkong yesterday after a short. vacation in Manila.

Mrs. Helen Leas, a prominent Manila Society Hostess, passed through the Colony yesterday en route to San Francisco.

*

Mr. Frederick A. Bowen, pre- sident and general manager of Publishers Inc., has arrived in Hongkong.

*

1,000 units per month will no rights attach to any fractions, present experiencing a shortage of ed to co-operate with them the Balkans cannot have been but let us glance at the other plc-Spanish Consul in Manila," passed

be discontinued.

The shares taken up under the

By order of the Board of Directors,

above offer shall rank for divid- collectors have been anxiously in-Hitler being able to accom-ight be regarded as showing under-estimate the strength and his way to Shanghal to take up

unchecked in ascribing to the

on the Register on the 1st day but secondary to peace and inter-suade Greece to call off her hostilities against Italy, the It is hereby notified that the of April 1941, one share at par national good-will, following increases in the Comfor every complete three shares serted that she was much better of artillery bombardment and Russia tried to persuade Tur-!

Referring to China, Dr. Tyau as-Nazis might hope by means pany's standard charges will be held by them (excluding the than other countries that had suc- made for current consumed in Bonus Shares to be offered to cumbed to aggressors so easy, for aerial bombing to cross the key to grant her some con- respect of accounts issued for them under the preceding resolus China was still fighting.

Straits for their drive through cessions for the use of the Straits, but the request was meters read on and after 21st tion) upon the terms that pay. The speaker was thanked by Dr. Turkey to the Near East. The March, 1941-

ment for such shares shall be Joseph Yus

obstacle to such a plan, of refused and Russia, therefore, has cause to be gravely con- course, is the preparations made to the Company's Bankers,

which Turkey and Britain erned over how the result of Nazi control might. affect her. made, as soon as the sub- mission of Bulgaria to the German Fuehrer, appears to The manner in which the Nazis became evident, to pre-

THE OTHER PICTURE vent just such a move and in

have completely ignored M. Stalin in making his drive into|-

"The circumstances have ob- which the Greeks are expect-

viously improved in her favour,

Senor Alvara Maldonado, former the 4-cent stamp of the Hongkong There is not the slightest

lost on the Soviet dictatorture, not forgetting that though Centenary issue.

and his hint to Bulgaria it is a grave military weakness to Local stamp chance, therefore, of Herr

through the Colony yesterday on

ends as from 1st day of July 1941, quiring at the Hongkong and Kow-

how much Soviet Russia dis-enterprise of the enemy, It is also his new post there. He was ac- Formal letters of offer, acceptance loon post offices for the particular Plish his drive through to and renunciation will be sent to denomination, thinking it would Turkey without meeting with approves of an action which wrong to let one's imagination run companied by Senora Maldonado.

The early-comers the strongest resistance. For might threaten the security enemy powers of being insuper- Shareholders as soon as possible bought up the few remaining ones, the moment, while. Britain for which she depends so able.

Rumour had it that some in- and Greece are at war with much en entrance to and "There are people who will say was a passenger through Hong- 126 scrupulous stamp dealers had "cor

nered the market" by buying up Italy, Turkey waits on the egress from the Black Sea that Germany has now only to cow kong yesterday on his way to idea of compelling others to buy will draw her into the war on Nazi control of the Baltic and but in this we shall have a great all the 4-cent stamps, with the defensive for the move which through the Dardanelles. The Yugoslavia and that that will des-Shanghai.

troy Greek resistance against Italy, SUDDEN CAVE IN complete sets, in order just to get the side of the allies. In the Balkan Seas and a possible deal to say. I shall presume that the Filipino Club will be held at

the "rate" specimen, The Fire Brigade and the Police

meantime, Russia from het Japanese blockade of Russia's this could be accomplished. But the Clubhouse, King's Park; on. However, the Postmaster General, Banque Belge pour l'Etranger S.A. Emergency Unit were called outr. B. I Wynne-Jones, Gen a newly acquired territory in eastern shores constitute a if that is to be only a preliminary Sunday, March 9, at 3.30 p.m. A thas informed the Police that an yesterday morn or when the roterviewed on the sudden shortage Bessarabia, must be watching definite menace to the So-step and if the Mediterranean Fleet copy of the statement of accounts.

ls to remain with its power to received yesterday, for the last 12: Kin workshop of the employee named Chol Wal-lin

of the 4-cent Centenary stamp the German move with an is impossible to even specu- Egypt or elsewhere and if the over Expenditures of $239,90.

let's future, but, as usual, it; Building Construction Company.

transport troops and material to months shows an excess of Income. absconded with $8,384 on Wednes- day.

at the junction of Austin and said it was no mystery. He ex-xious eyes, for she cannot Canton Roads, suddenly caved in plained that the Centenary stamps have forgotten what happen- late" on what line she will R.AF is to be left intact to in- at 9.30. One man was hit by were not sent all in one shipmented to her in the last war when adopt in view of the latest terfere with the plans of the Miss A.F. Tester, of No. 13, falling debris, as he was leaving from England, as it would have Ice House Street. reports that one the premises..

the alliance between Germany developments. Will she even enemy, I think the venture would More shipments are coming from and Turkey-cut her off from now regard the Axis move as be so risky that it will be hardly Tnternational Corporation, was hair-cuting and one waving ma- chines valued at $105, were stolen

AID TO BRITAIN

her allies. The situation in a challenge to her and throw from her shop on Wednesday. *

Mr. Wynne-Jones further pointed the Dardanelles is, therefore, in her lot with Turkey and ・WASHINGTON, Mar. 6 (Reuter out that the shortage of the 4- a tense, one; and must soon.

Britain to preserve interests The Senate approved of an stampa was caused by the large sale Mr. Doapal, of No. 3, King's amendment terminating the opera to the local Chinese who used them reach a stage in which the which she regards as vital to Terrace, has reported the theft tion of the Aid to Britain Bill on in pairs to pay for the newly clash of interests must take her existence? It would cer-

GIBB, LIVINGSTON &-

CO., LTD., Agents.

POLICE REPORTS

after April 1st next.

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Mr. M. Pirenne, manager or

become rare.

been unwise for obvious reasons,

England.

tainly be an opportune. mo- AFTER the laat war, the ment to do so.

of $196.85 worth of clothing from July 1, 1943, or earlier, if approved established 9-cent postal rate for place. This house on Wednesday,

by the majority of both: Houses.

ordinary letters to China.

worth undertaking.

"Is It reasonable to suppose that Germany could build up a great expeditionary force in Tripolitania while we are in possession of Benghazi? I may be wrong, but I don't think it... Is possible. "I think the object there is to prevent ps ̈· from

Mr. Chas. S. Peacock, director of British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.,

--The Annual General Meeting of

Mr. Geo. C. Robertson, wife of the export manager of Armco

passenger through Hongkong on- his way to Honolulu

The

wedding took place on March, 1. at 1 p.m., at the Elite- Restaurant, 175 Medhurst Road, Shanghai,between Edith Fichr and H. Franti.