1941-03-26 — Page 9

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Hundreds Of Americans. Training In England

Between 200 and 300 American citizens are training in Bri- tish army centres. Adventure, moral principles," political beliefs and the “waggle o' the kilt" were among the incentives which gent scores of Americans across the United States-Canadian bor- der to join the Canadian army at the outbreak of war.

Now, found mainly in two Scottish unity recruited in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, they are undergoing active phase of the war.

discipline of Canadian wartime troops. are

Their exact number is unknown because officially they

"Canadians” are content to

all

for the time being. Even their officers aren't sure of the real nationality of some of them. As long as the man does his job, they

he said, "The men and non-coms

FINANCE & GENERAL ·

Finance and Commerce

SINO CURRENCY HONGKONG

PROBLEMS

BRITISH CREDITS

"HI-JACKED"

SHAREBROKERS

ASSOCIATION

Volume of Business Transacted on Tuesday, March 25, 1941. SALES China Providents... 1,250 $ 5,30 LONDON, Mar 25 (Reuter)

-HK. Tramways

500 18.50 While nothing official has

been HK. Realtys.

and most of them "Discipline here isn't nearly as

remain like that strict as what we were used to disclosed here regarding the post- AS Watsons.

tion of the Chinese Stabilisation yaumati Ferries are much closer together, and the Fund, it is believed that Bricain na- officers stand for a lot more too." turally wishes to ensure any ster- Like Glover, Mogk joined up "toting credits to the Fund Rgainst aren't particularly interested. see a little action." They haven't "high-jacking" through Nanking Two Americans in the Quebec seen much yet but they have notes being forced on Shanghai units named 25 fellow-countrymen | hopes.

and against any other undesir

serving with them. They estimat- Pete Prince, born in Brookline, able dissipation.

ed there must be 100 to 150 alto- Mass.. left a Boston civil engineer- gether, and the "Ontario Ameri- cans" claimed the same figure.

ing firm and tried to join up the day before, Canada, entered the

Given satisfactory "assurances in this connexion it is understood

that sterling credits to the Find

500 *300

3.07 11.15

• 87

24.00

2,637

*Sales, on Monday, the 24th inst. The total value is $21.845.50.

Legislative Council Meeting Today

At the meeting of the Legisla- would undoubtedly be implement-tive Council today. the Colonial ed,

Secretary will move that the Re-

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A large percentage of the men war. have had experience in the U.S. A big factor in Prince's choice Army or Marines. Most of them of units WILS the kill. Tn 1939 come from the north-west statex Prince saw his future Scottish re-banking circles in London that (No. 12), dated 20th March. 1941, It is pointed out in Far Eastern port of the Finance Committee and border cites. but some aregiment parade through Boston from as far away as Kansas, Mis-streets with pipes, swirling kits in any case the main task of be adopted.

The Attorney General will move And fixed baynets, and he vowed supporting the Chinese dollar is One of the veterans to Lance that if he ever joined anything being shouldered by the United the Second and Third readings of States, whose $100,000,000 credit "A B to amend further the Corporal Jim Tracey, who hasn't military they'd be his choice. had a fixed address for a good Now

amply secures Chinese currency Estate Duty Ordinance, 1932, as headquarters 2

the Estate Duty many years. Fourteen

still keen on his unit against depredations by Nanking amended by years in Prince is

Amendment Ordinance, '1936.", or Tokyo, the US Marines took him to even though battledress has re- China and South Anterica, as well placed the, colourful kit.

sissippi and Texas...

"BOYS EATING IT UP

runner

FREE MARKET

HONG KONG. STOCK

EXCHANGE

Cantons have followed suit of their sister Company, Hongkong Fires, and have been taken off the market at the enhanced rate of $220.

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On the rumour of a $2 dividend Cements advanced to $18 done. Trams have improved to $16.

The rest of the market although steady does not call for any special

· comment.

BUYERS

HK. Banks, $1335. Canton Ins., $220, Union Ins., $425. HK Fire Ins., $180. Docks (O), $16.50 Docks (N). $15.85, Providents, $5.25. Hotels, $3.10. Lards, $31.75.

Resitles, $2.95.

Trams, $18.25.

Lights (0), $5.20. Lights (N), $1.75,

Macao Electrics (O), $18.25. Macao Electrics (N), $17.25. Telephones. (0), $2£30. Telephones (N), 39.

Cements, $17.90. Watsons, $11,10, Entertainments, $7.

SELLERS

Lights (0), $8.25, Electrics C. Rts., 40 Cements, $18.50.

Ropes, $7.40.

SALES

as through five engagements. in

With this credit. it is believed support the free market and not the Great War. Later for a while "'d stack this bunch against in London that the Chinese Stabi-tu its inability to do so he helped to manage a C.C.C. anybody" he said, "They're push-hisation Fund could easlly sup- Negotiations are said to be pro- camp. Now he is with a snipinging us through a stiff training

purt or "rally the Chinese dollar ceeding to prevent sterling help section.

here and the boys are eating it whenever the Find thinks fit. The to the Fund from feeding the 'There are several ex-marines in up."

recent easiness of the Chinese dol-market which, It..was pointed out. the snipers. One is Ian Glover, a . Born in Pittsburgh of Scottish your Town, who, followed up parents, Corporal Tom MacDougal ascribed in London, last week was the main remaining loophole K. Banks, $1340.

to the Fund's unwillingness to in the sterling exchange control. four years in the U.S. Marines saw three years with the US. with three years in the Coast Cavalry. and later served on "the Guard service. He left a bank Elizabeth, N. J., police force. He desk In Brooklyn NY, to join the got to Canada the day after war Canadians last April.

was. declared and joined im-" mediately. Now he drives a head- quarters car for his unit His STOCK EXCHANGE tyn, who served six years in the wife waits for him in Pittsburgh.

BELONGED TO 69TH Another is Jack Mogk of Brook

US Army, including a terin of service at Parama. and was 3

member of a picked rifle team, For a while he belonged to the old "Fighting 69th of the National Guard. He joined the Canadians right after the cutbreak of war.

Mogk, like some others of the Americans, commented on the easy

"Wharf Rats" Active In Shanghai

SHIP AND CARGO

"I had a brother who was killed in the last war." MacDougal said, "He joined the Canadian army in 1914. I figured I would take up where he left off."

There are scores of other Ameri- cans who felt the call of foreign battlefields. and his brother Ed., of Winchester. Young John Perry Mass., joined in the early days of the war. John was formerly, a tree surgeon. Ed a shipper in a factory. Joe Fleming left a biology laboratory in Philadelphia to don the kit and then battledress, An- other Philadelphian. George Glen- ny. was a soldier in the Speed Kenyon of Kansas are ex-Navy men. Archie Black left a job in a New York hospital to join, up.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE One of the star turns of the

MONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS

Buyers

Bellor

Rolan

Kamieni

91336

$70

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SHARYBROKERS' ASSOCIATION

TUESDAY

Buyer

Ballon

Bai

lordia

25 MARCH

Do. (Col. Reg.)

Do. (Lon, Reg.)

a

Canton Is., $220. Providents, $530.

Trams, $18.50, Electrics C. Rts., $39.90.- Cements, $18.

Shanghai Cottons: 3,5200

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1941.-PAGE

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Queen's Building.

COAL MINE FOUND

IN OSAKA

Tel. 20636.

ELECTRIC PLANT

ON WHEELS

SCHENECTADY, N, Y.-An elec- tric power sub-station on wheels that can travel 50 miles an hour Messrs. Shono and Ishida, om-and feed out enough electricity for cials attached to the Osaka Munta city of 10,000, is ready for 1941's cipal Industrial Research Institute, storm damage to electric lines recently announced that following. The plant is built on a trailer; two years of survey they found a and is no larger that a medium- rich atan (lowest grade of coal size truck. It offers a new step in mine in a 400-acre spread of land quick restoration of electricity. in the southern part of Osaka when power lines go out and for prefecture.

bombed communities in war it has special possibilities.

FEDERAL RESERVE According to

RETURNS

New York, Mar. 24 (Reuter).

Mar. 11 Mar. 18

(000's Omitted)

Banks

$1340

H.K. Banka

81340

277 £74

L

277

£74

X.D. EPB

Chartered Bank).......

X.D. £8

$21

£10

Mercantile Bk.. “A” Marcantile Hika, “O”.

£101.

Bank of East Asia....

0

N. C. & 8. Banks..."

Insurances

16 ct.

LONDON METALS

Canton Insurancen...

$920

Unler Insurancea........

$425

Underwriters

80 cts

B.K. Fire................. Shipping

$170

1220

$425

$180

880

A

21

$135 Douglases

Steamboats *******

Indo-Chinns {Prof.)

$9

260

40/7

$7

Shella

Waterhosts

Ir

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tests, the coal-

The General Electric Co, design- seam, about 85 feet below the ed the portable power plant. It ground in the upper-stream of has a retractabic, trolley-like tower Makino River in Senhoku-gun, rising from the road to make the Osaka prefecture, is about 3 connection with & Dower Jine. deep. About 800 feet away from Inside *re -transformers -- and“

Total Joans $ 9,689,000 $9,714,000 this place it is about 24ft deep switching systems to distribute the Eat Investments 17,055,000 16.789,000 and about 40 feet away from the electricity. Two types have been second spot, about 31 feet deep. [made, one for large communities

Analysis of samples from these and the other for small. places show that they contain To make sure that children or from 5,850 to 5,800 calories of heat prowlers do not burn themselves. which is much better than this the parts which might be touched type of coal from Ube Tokiwa, by outsiders are set behind a This akan can be used for produc-heavy steel screen, The rest of Tin Standard, 3 months, Middle ing superior grade coalite and is the plant 18 sheathed like Price, £270-1/4.

truck 'behind steel

T124.

EXCHANGE

London, Mar, 24 (Reuter).

Standard, Cash, Middle Price, £272-3/8.

Market, quiet.

suitable also for automobile fuel armoured and household ust.

plates

$126

$80

Indo-China (Def.)

$60

40/7

$7.

Docks, Wharves.

Godowna, etc."

$94

H.K. & K. Wharves.

$94

of Virginia, Hard-bitten $6.30 of fortune. Harwood has $16.80

*1/30 $18,

Providents

261/5.30

H.K. Docks (Old).... $101

$160/16.FO

H.K. Docks (New)........

316

·SITUATIONS VACANT.

329

Shanghai Docks.....

$29

HOUSES AND APARTMENTS WANTED.

Mining

15/0

36/0

88

$9

OWNERS AS VICTIMS wood,

American contingent is Dixie Har-

of i

With headquarters m Chinese soldier hotels in Bhanghai, organised seen service in the U.S. Army as $14.F5 bands of "wnarf rate" who have well as unofficial action in Spain. been operating a

new kind and China.

Another American is drawling. racketeering since the beginne

Ford of the Sino-Japanese hostilities, six-foot-three

Adams, of have been increasing their activi Temple, Texas. Sitting on a fence ties recently and continue to exact

watching an American footbali work out a toll from Chinese consignees of

отп am English field, Adams" discussed of wells with a cargo, chips compradores and others connected with the floating youngster. from Oklahoma. "Tex," population, reports" the

who once was a policeman, has North China Daily News

seen pil well fires blown out with nitro and te figures bursting Influential because of their ru-

bombs won't be anything new for moured association with guerillas and their insight into the work. ings of the underworld, they have been terrorising Chinese owners of coastal vessels and cargoes and are continuing to hoard vessels with- out let or hindrance.

FULLY INFORMED"

him.

FIRE-PROOF PAPER

Kailaus

Ranba

1) cts. Hong Kong Mines.............

Lands, Hotels and Buildings

$3.10

$311

HK. & B. Hotela..... H.K. Lands................

$3.10

$311

5974 Do. 4% Debenturer....

$97

#12.10) Shanghai Leads....

$2.95

H.K Realties..

$2.95

26.70 Humphreya

$8.70

$100

Chinese Estates.......

... Cotton Mifis

$45 $200

Ewo (5.)

Buc-

$8.50

'hai Cottons (8.)...

Zoong Kings (9.)....2

Wing On Textiles (8.))

Public Utilities

H.K. Tramways... $18

Peak Tram (old)....

$184

$71

Peak Trams (new)........

#544 Star Ferries.. $24

***

F'mati Ferries.......

$231

Chins Lights (0)...... 36,50.

26.421

1. K. Electrics (Old)... $3,990

444

$184

Mr. H. Morimatsu, proprietor ol The "wharf rats" are said to be an asbestos factory in Kumamoto, fully informed regarding tre préfecture claims to have movements of Clunese vessels and jceeded in making fireproof paper the cargoes in their holds and jand is now preparing for ita mass exact as much as twenty to 30 production, the Kobe Shimbun $39.50 C. Rts $40

owners of the states.

per cent.

goods according to their market In view of the inflammable ne

..ture of Japanese houses, Mr.

value.

SIBI $271

Their receipts munthly are be Morimatsu has been endeavouring | #24,30 lleved to average tens of thou-to find a way to reduce the vulner- sands of dollars and their demands ability of urban areas against in- for loans or commissions from cendiary bombs. After three years shipowners and others are prompt. of experimentation with asbestos ly met, showing the extent to be has succeeded in manufacturing which they are held in dread by tize-proof paper. the Chinese.

In a recent test the now paper was held over a candle-dame, the PROTECTION MONEY The commissions and loans are only visible effect. being slight given as a sort of protection to scorching at the edges. If the and "fusuma” of ensure safe discharge of the cargo ceilings, walls

and the welfare of the consignees houses are lined with this paper, and shipowners. Functioning in s he claims, they will be absolutely

Mr. sort of semi-official capacity, their fire-proof.

Morimatau 18 ramifications extend from Shang-

planning on mass producing hils paper as the necessary raw mate- hai to the Yangtze.

Ships crews and others, who are rials are said to be available in

unfortunate enough to engage n. smuggling which has been going

abundance.

on a larger scale since the shortage BHANGHAI, Mar. 25 (Reuter)-- of products here from nearby ports, The Shanghai branch of the Cen- are specially singled out by the tral Bank of China announces "wharf rata" for attention and are that owing to damage caused by forred into giving up a large yesterday's bombing of the bank's share of their lillelt gains to the premises, the onces will be tem-

rats.

porarily closed for repairs:

не

12.

$17.80

$7.40

$941

| 81.97) China Lights (New)..

318

$30

$25

H.. Fetrics(New)..

Macao Electrics (Old)

Hacao Electrica (New)

Bandakan Lights.............

Telephones (old)....... | #94 Telephones (new)...................) S'pore Tractions (Ord.) Industrials

Cald., Macg. (Ord.) B

Cald., Macg. (Prof.)S

$1 Canton Ice...........

Cements des

H.K. Ropelessne HK Govt. Loans

$97 4% Loan 21%

20431%

#188

PRE-PAID ADVERTISEMENTS.

The following classes of advertisements are charged at the price given below:-

HOUSES AND APARTMENTS TO BE LET. MISCELLANEOUS WANTS.

Announcements not exceeding 25 Words are inserted under this heading at a Pre-paid

Pate of $1.50 for THREE INSERTIONS.

If Charges collected, $2.00.

WANTED TO BUY

WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all gold and silver articles. Jade diamonds, jewels, witches, fountain pens. Apply Far East. Diamond and Gold Refining Co. Room 621, China Building, 6th floor. (Store will open on Sun- $7.40 days and Holidays).

$125

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General Agent: Chan Che Kee No: 4, Lyndhurst Terrace. Tel 26402

WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all gold and silver articles, gold-bars, diamonds and jewela Apply China Gold RefiningTM Co, Pedder Buliding, 2nd floor, Room

175, oth

$17:400

$7.30

WE OFFER HIGH PRICES for -- any "amount of gold articles. 97.diamonds, sliver, Jewels, etc. No holidays. Apply China Buliding. 7th floor. Tel. 30127, Eurasia Gold. Reining Co.

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Miscellaneous

$18 Dairy Farms.......

$18

Entertainmenta

$7.15

$1.60 Constructions (old)..

$1.50

81

Constructions – (sew},/.

171.

Lané. Crawfords....

$72

Nanyang Tobacco....$3.80

$2.15 Sinceres

$215

11.10

$11.15

Watsons

$11,10

·48) ¦ Ch; G.6%, 1925G3Rd«

$39 HK. Wing On

$7.90 Vibro Pling

S'hai Wing Un clini

6/2 Marecasus lav, (kon.)

3/6 Karamang Inv. {EK.) $1.80 Wm Powelle

............” China Lighte(Rights}{

†Baleko Shanghai.

WANTED KNOWN.

Experienced Book-keeper Wants. 35% students to form a class. Guaran- | tee students to keep a whole set of 314

books after completion of a course of 6 months For Term and Par-

Please Apply to:-Box

HEPP

Kiculars,

$120 N 463

FOR JADED APPETITES!

HOTELS

REAL RUSSIAN FOOD

Tiffin $1.20

Dinner $1.50

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BUTTERICK

Expert Ladies Tailor New Style Ready Made Dresses, Overcoats and Costumes

FOR SALE. ··

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TAILOR

Tel. 23615

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In 24 hours notice and 6 hours

ENGRAVERS

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for

his COLLECTIONS-

and SEEDS for

his GARDEN

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