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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG

KONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

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SANDAKAN LIGHT! & POWER CO., (1922) LTD.

NOTICE OF INTERIM ·

DIVIDEND

IN THE GOODS of;

Notice is hereby given that an i HENRY HOLMES/

Interim Dividend of 40 cents per SUTHERLAND late of Carron Lodge, St. Andrews share for the six months ended in the County of Fife Scot 31st December, 1940, will be land

His paid on Tuesday, 3rd June, 1941, Colonel in Majesty's Army deceased.

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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

13th day of June, 1941.

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 Executors, 1, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.

G.

R.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.......

PARTICULARS" AND "CON. 9ITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 26th day of May, 1941,.at. 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of

EDITORIAL

i. SILVER WEDDING COMBATTING

| MASON—WAVELL: On May 23rd,

1916. at H.B.M. Consulate- ILLITERACY

General, Shanghal, before Sir Everard Fraser, K.C.M.G. "and afterwards "at Holy Cathedral. Shanghak, by Dean A. J. Walker, M.A., Stanley, third son of the late Robert Mason, M.P. and Mrs. Mason, Marden House, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, to Marjorie Blanche, "second daughter of An Interesting address on the the late Captain and Mrs. | monitorial system of education. Stanley Wavell, Carlsbrook, whereby children of school age of W.

Tiny IN CHINA. »

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Mrs. Eu and family gratefully on which date Dividend Warrants thank friends and relatives for the condolences. may be obtained on application many messages of

floral tributes, and kind attendance

at the Registered Office of the Company, Bank of East Asia Building. Hongkong.

The transfer books of the

Company will be closed from Friday, 30th May, 1941, until Tuesday, 3rd June, 1941, both

days inclusive,

By order of the Board of Directors,

SHEWAN TOMES & CO., LTD., General Managers.

REGISTRY WEDDING

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at the funeral of the late Mr. Eu Tong Sen,

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HONOKONO, MAY 23, 1941,

Y'S MEN'S CLUB TIFFIN ADDRESS

give instruction in the Three Rs- reading, writing, and arithmetic- to their younger schoolmates, was given yesterday before a tin meeting of the Hongkong Y's Men's Club by Dr. Y. K. Chu, Professor of Education at Lingnan Univer- sity.

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Dr. Chu asked his audience. children teach?" and ad- vocated the wider employment of the monitorial system as a means to combatting literacy in China. The practice of thus employing 1ttle children to help teach their tellows was initiated in Klangsu and Cheklang provinces some time before the present war and has since been widely adopted in other parts of China, Dr. Chu said.

many

FOUR GRADES

CHINESE

PASSPORT

OFFICE

KUKONG, May 22 (Central) -Negotiations are being con- ducted with the Hongkong Government for the establish- ment of a Chinese passport office in the British Colony after a modification, was made in the Hongkong Immigration Ordinance whereby Chinese seeking entry into Hongkong need not get the visas of a. British Consulate for thelr passports, according to a tele- gram received by the Kwang- tung Provincial Government from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

POLICE COURT ENTRANCES GUARDED

NIGHTSOIL RIOT

HAS SEQUEL

FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1941.

THE WAR AT SEA;

HUNTING THE SURFACE RAIDER CALLS FOR GREAT DEAL OF PATIENCE

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Hunting the surface raider is a job that calls for a lot of patience. Time and again in this war, hunters and hunted have been within twenty-five miles of each other. without making contact," said MR. H. C. FERRABY, naval correspondent of the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, when he broadcast from London yesterday on the war at sea.

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Mr. Ferraby opened his talk | Mr. Ferraby said that by emphasising that even been found by experience that the those who lived thousands of use of big ships as surface raiders miles from the actual war forces and the Germans gave

offered too big a target to hostile zones were at times faced the attempt to use them as raid- with warlike operations in the era. Big ships were only used as activities of surface raider's, supply ships for the actual raid- as enemy ships used for this era. purpose worked far from the actual theatres of war.

·LESS EFFECTIVE

can

"These surface. raiders voyage much further than U.... Boats," said Mr. Ferraby. "They

"Supply that is one of the worst problems for the ralder,* went on Mr. Ferraby. "Much of this difficulty has been over- come by the use of oil fuel and German pocket - battleship can go 10,000 miles on filling of her oil tanks.* Mr. Ferraby declared that the

one

be forme warfare, we tried to find out the fitted for cruising work. It they

best way to counter these raiders,

"Both we and the Germana soon discovered that a surface raider under modern conditions was much less effective or dan- gerous than was supposed,

ran out of oil, they might with luck capture, an oil tanker, but these surface raiders were wholly dependant on luck. As far as food supplies were concerned, these were af course taken from the ships they intercept and sink.

'TREATMENT. OF «PRISONERS

All entrances to the Central Ma- can lay mine-fields even up to Aus- Igistracy were heavily guarded by tralia and New Zealand and can

members of the Police Force and prey on traffic in the Indian German ships, Scharnhorst and It was claimed that with" the Emergency it, and the Court Ocean and the China Sea. Before Gneisenau and four ships of the had experience in modern Hipper class had Diesel engines help of monitors organised in this room was cleared, when 45 women, we way, the teacher could handle as who were alleged to

as 108 pupils at a time, pightsoil cooles, were charged be- divided into four different grades fore "Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., yes- In a single-room school.

terday with disorderly conduct.

This was a sequel to the demon- These monitors, tested for their efficiency as teachers, were found stration staged by about 1,000 al- to be about 70 per cent. as e-legedly former nightsoil coolles in!

The difficulty of getting fuel clent as the ordinary rural adult front of the G.P.O building on

and munitions brought their teacher. In view of the great Tuesday afternoon, when the Urban

careers to a speedy end. We The treatment of prisoners taken shortage of teachers, the poverty Council was in session. About 47

found also that it takes far by these surface raiders varied At the Registry, Supreme Court.

of the rural population and the demonstrators were arrested.

Mr W. P. Thompson, Superinten-

more ships to hunt for raiders with the character of their cap- yesterday with Mr. J. Reynolds TT HAS become increasingly salizing

magnitude of the task of univer-

education indent of Police, who prosecüted, said

than could be spared."

tains The whole world knew, al- primary Deputy Registrar, officiating. Miss

Mr. apparent that Herr Hitler China, an efficiency of 70 per cent. that he had no evidence to offer Chan

Ferraby Bave several ready that the German-captain of King-kam. of 'No. 238. Cheung Sha Wan Street, second realises that any success he in pupil-teachers could be regard against four of the defendants, who examples in support of this: men- the Altmark was a brate, but some tioning in particular the case ut of the German captains had & Moor, was married to Mr. Santiago hopes to achieve for his' drive ed as quite an encouraging sign, were discharged. Lee, "merchant.

The remaining 41 pleaded guilty the German vessel Emden in 1914. sardonale sense of humour,. on Suez through Syria is de-Dr. Chu concluded!

Mr Ferraby here related the pendent on his being able to

Y. Lee the axed the and were remanded until Saturday There were no less than seventy Dr. T.

for the Police to make further en- allied warships engaged in hunting story of the German raider whose establish strong line

quiries.

the Emden! That would give peo-captain was "informed by the pri Fourteen defendants, who were 'ple an idea of the efforts that had soners on board that there was stated to have taken a serious or to be made to deal with a single leak in. the section to which they..

were confined and asked for per- stration; were allowed ball of $150 In the present war, warships mission to drill a hole in the par-

ANNOUNCEMENTS

IRAQ, SYRIA' &

CRETE....

Of

speaker.

The following forthcoming mar riages were announced yesterday |communications between Sou- Mr. Beey Peter Charr Fletcher, thern Greece and the position

of Hong Kong for a term of fan Road:

renewal at a Crown Rent to be

cash.

оп

price.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT

| No. of Bale,

Registry No.

Locality.

Mong Kok*****

Kowloon Inland Lot

No. 4305. Playing Field Road be- tween Fa Yuen St. and Tung Choi Street,

Boundary

Measure-

ments.

NEW

As per

sale plan.

Contents in

Annual

Rental.

Square feet:

About

7.800

114.

os! Upset Price.

17,550

Pat-sun.

Mr. Chau Chan-plu, printer, of

April Acct. Of B.W.O.F.

diversion. The

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$.0.5. and found?

SIT-DOWN DEMONSTRATION

No ship

News has been received from

the

crowd constantly on one move. In the last war. Most of hered the "Supreme Court of Hong-

perse.

His Excellency the Governor of engineer, of No. 118 Beliran Road..of his forces in the Near East. certain. With the oilfields of/more obvious part in the demon- ralder. апе Lot of Crown Land at Kowloon Tong, and Miss Elcisi Mong Kok, in the Colony Velazquez Vazquez, of No. 1 Bel-Hence his decision to attempt Mosul as his chief and neces-eagh and the rest $50 each. and aircraft covered a million tition of the adjoining part of the to occupy the island of Crete sary objective for his cam- Two juveniles connected with miles in searching for the German ship to let the water out. - The 75 years, with the option of Mr.. Châu

student. which was the main obstacle paign, Herr Hitler, in his race the incident were charged in the pocket battleship, the Graf Spee, captain had refused this request of No. 82 Cheung Sha Road, third floor, and Miss Lee tack will succeed to his ad-deavour to answer the Arab for 24 hours.

Wan to his plans. How far this at- against time, made every en-Juvenile Court and were remanded Burface raiders, therefore, could by stating that it would be against Bxed by the Surveyor of His Ma- Sul-kwan, of No. 719 Nathan Road: vantage it is not yet possible traitor's

never prove a very great danger to the rules and regulations of the ships plying on sen routes.

British Board of Trade! jesty the KING, for one further!

No.177 Wanchal Road, and Miss to predict, though the latest that the best means of doing members of the Luen Yik Gulld. For the third day in succession

A DEFINITION term of 75 years..

Wong, Kit-bing, of No. 14 Wanchal reports indicate that the so was to persuade the Vichy gathered outside the Post Office give a definition of the surface

Mr. Ferraby then went Intending bidders are advised Road;

on to CHINA MERCHANTS Prime Minister's pledge to Government to throw in their Buliding to stage. what appeared to raider. He said there was no par-

WINS APPEAL that immediately after the dis- Mr. Wong Kin-to. clerk of Shak hold Crete at all costs is be-lot finally with him and his be, a sit-down demonstration. posal of the lot the Purchaser Ku Lung Village, Kowloon City ing effectively fulfilled.

ticular type bf ship. for raiding London that the appeal to the (i not the applicant)

The associates.

Starting with the few women and work. will be and Miss Lo Koon-yl, teacher, of

It was not possible to privy Counci the island is

children who spent Wednesday classify them

concerning required to deposit with an No. 4 West End Terrace, first floor:ghting on

WITH the stage cleared for night on the pavement, the number could be used from a battleship Steam Navigation Company, was because any ship winding up of the Ching Kee authorised officer who will be Mr. Chan Cheung, merchant, of stated to have increased in

this phase of his plans, gradually increased untu there to present at the sale, the sum of No. 12 Caine Road, and Miss Lo severity and Herr Hitler may through the treachery of Dar- were nearly 50 to 60 present

a small converted merchant heard on Apr. 29, and judgment two hundred dollars, ($200) in Yuk-chun. of No. 55 Po Hing Fong: be expected to continue hist

has now been delivered dismissing This sum will be refunded 369 Hennessy Road, and Miss, So

Mr. George Luke. clerk of No. attempts to gain possession Hitler immediately made his the Hon. Mr. W. J.Carrie, nor was sea for a

lan, Laval and company, Herr attempt, however, was made to see "The main thing is to keep it at the appeal with costs.

long time without re- It will be recalled that the payment of the Purchase in-hing, of No. 82 Sun Sing

Just as relentlessly as the

fuelling." sald Mr. moves for the occupation of there any rowdylsın.

Ferraby. China Merchants Steam Naviga- Street. Cholon, French Indo-China, Greek and British forces are

Members of the Emergency Unit. "That is why the Germans con- tior Company, Limited, in their Syria, from where he would determined to resist him!

despatched to the scene, kept the verted a sailing ship into a raider capacity as shareholders petition- Military circles who are close-obviously be able to assist the ly informed of the situation Iraq rebels and also threaten

Later in the afternoon, it became cruising was done under sail and kong for the winding up of the for his march known that about 300 of these ex- her career was dramatir

Ching Kee Steam Navigation Com- have rejected the idea that Palestine

"She was provisioned for two pany. The petition was granted against Suez. Even so, with nightsoll coolles had gathered at the German attack on Crete German air-borne troops and Rutter Street and were going to years cruising, and there were 490 and the Company was ordered to is merely for the purpose of creating a

planes being transported to march to the city. Police reinforce- bunks for the accommodation of be wound up by the Court

An appeal by certain sharehol- The receipts and payments BC-

Syria, Herr Hitler is finding itens were sent to the Post Office prisoners. She had concealed gun- count of the British War Organi difficulties which the Nazis

Building, and the whole area be- positions. Her crew were picked ders to the Appeal Court in Hong

the Equidation a tremendous task. He has tween Pedder Street and Douglas for their ability to speak Norwe-kong opposing sation Fund. Hongkong. for the have already experienced in

stretched month of April is as follows:-

undoubtedly

alr Street was strongly guarded, transporting troops and mu-

gan, because she operated mostly having failed, the same sharehol power to its very limits and Not being even permitted to in the region of those waters and ders appealed to the Privy Coun Receipts:-To Balance (Brought nitions to the bases which they has achieved some measure gather in groups, those women on on one occasion she was actual 'eil in which appeal the China forward at Apr. 1). $50.925.02. To have secured in Syria from of success, but the limits of the spot decided, at 5 pm., to dis- boarded and donations and subscriptions, $10,-

search by a British Merchants Steam Navigation Com- pany, Limited, are the Respon- 051.02: To sales (Central Hospital Vichy makes it necessary for

patrol and allowed to proceed!" air-borne transport become

dents. " Supply Service Badges, Postal them to have a closer step- apparent when it comes to Labels, Wool). $25: To Refund of ping off place closer at any moving heavy equipment for Ins, Premium, $126.12. Total, $61-rate than their present sup- the mechanised 157.18.

ply centres In Steily and which the Nazis depend so PaymentsBy remittance (In required to pay to the auctioneer In cash the sum of $1,755.00 and Order of St. John War Organi-

favour of British Red Cross Society Southern Greece.

much in their campaigns. WHILE he is striving to This equipment can only be

This equipment can only be Grew-Matsuoka Meeting SUCCESSFUL FIRST (being 10% of the upset price sation. London), $40,091.71: By re overcome the greater part of transported by sea-at least immediately after the fall of the mittance (In favour of Lord Ma- hammer, the balance of the yor's Air Raid Distress Fund), this difficulty by occupying until a super-plane is built to visit of Mr. Joseph Grew, American Ambassador in Tokyo, to, Mr. In spite of the prominence given by the Press of the reported $1.850.40; By remittance (In favour Crete, Herr Hitler is confront- accommodate such equipment Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese Foreign Minister, no questions, were rais- premium being paid in accordance of St. Dunstan's). 3317; By Pur- ed with the problem of and here the Nazis have to ed in this connexion at the Press conferences of President Roosevelt with the Conditions of Sale..

chases (Calico, Bandage Gauze, strengthening his foothold in reckon with the British Navy and the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, in Washington. 260 etc.), $1,437: By Packing (Trans-Syria and at the same time in making a sea trip to the

port, freight, etc.), $397.37; By|

It is indicated that although the about such reports and refused Ernest sahmet, Rev. Bro. Celestine, Office Expenses (Salary and Wages, of lending assistance to his Syrian coast. The need for a Administration is watching closely comment.

Rev. Bra, Dositheus, Rev. Bro. Al- Postage, Telegrams, etc.), $369.02: rebel friend in Iraq. The foothold on Crete has, there- the Far Eastern developments

ban, Brian Baxter, Maurice Pen- By Balance (Monies in hand on prompt action by the British fore, become vital for Herr With a determined and firm policy,

Eastern observers bere dergast, Ronald Cane. Ena Cock- March 311, $16.474.81; Petty Cash, to oppose Rashid All's activity Hitler's plans and the result it is not attaching undue sign!-pointed cut that these reports in- rane, Edward Barris, Clifton Large. $219.25, Total, $81,157.16.

ficance to the Tokyo meeting. on behalf of the Axis Powers of the present battle for

dicate the confusion and predica- Richard Ma, Lau For Lam, Tse.

"Yin Several rumours circulated in ment Tokyo is in regarding the

Hon, Wong Chiu, Shella has called check to the initial possession of this island will Washington for the past few days ways of handling the extremely Haynes, Frances Large, John Tibbs, part of the Nazi plan. The be important." The deter concerning Far Eastern events dimeult international

Dorothy Shaw, John Bechtel, Fait- of the British were finally put to rest today when which Japan is up against. Because tone Wong, Rev. Bro. Charles, Rev. ly pressed by British opposito frustrate the

German

Mr. Cordell Hull told correspon-there is no clear-cut line of policy Br. Casimir, Yeung Wa! Lim, dents that the Administration had followed, the Japanese press is Charles Matthews, Ronald Apper- GUN DUELtion, was compelled to send a plans is seen in the reinforce- no othelal confirmation on any of criticising the Government for let-ley, "Robert Longson, George Kim, Mr. Henry Luce, publisher of

desperate call for assistance ments that have arrived in these reports.

ting the people be muddied regard-Suf Kai, Fred V. Wong, Wat Yu James Whitmore, Wallace Ma, Lam Life, Fortune and Time, who ar rived with Mrs. Luce on Wednes-robbers and the master of a shop Herr Hitler was immediately detachments

In a gun duel between three to his Nazi supporter and Palestine and the landing of The first was n dispatch troming the Government's position. Ki, David Tsui, Kathleen Hamil- day evening in Hongkong, have at Shataukok about

of Imperial Moscow which stated that the The NEW YORK HERALD- left for Manila where they leave Wednesday, a robber was shot blem of transporting the ald assistance could be readily relations, while

faced with solving the pro- troops in Cyprus, from where United States is taking the initia- TRIBUNE declared that Tokyo is on, Anatol Zagorsky, Grosvenor for the United States by Clipper.

tive to improve American-Japanese facing three major problems Certificates should be ready in dead, while the master Was

a report from without solution in sight. First is about ten days' time, and applica wounded...

which Rashid All needed. Up lent to either Crete or Pales-Tokyo alleged that the United the conclusion of the China war tion for same should be made to The three men were in the act to the present he has not tine. In the meantime, Ger- States had warned Indo-China, not the second the realisation of the the Secretary at the above address. The Feast of the Ascension of of ransacking the shop when the been able to do very much to man concentrations and air to follow Vichy in collaborating "Greater East Asia-Co-prosperity Our Lord was celebrated yesterday master returned.

to The intruders encourage Rashid Ali's mill-bases in Syria are being con- with the Axis and that Japan had Sphere," which refers by the Christian Churches in the opened fire at the latter, who des- tary operations and unless he sistently

adopted a stronger. anti-American "economic bloc covering the Par attacked Colony, large congregations attend-pite his wounds, "returned fire and

by the policy since the returni of Mr. East extending into Southern Pacl-event of America being involved in- ing the special masses and services killed one man. The other two can do this on a bigger scale, Royal Air Force to further Matsuoka from Berlin Mr. Hull tc, while the third the interpreta-war

escaped with about $100 in money, the fate of the rebels appears Impede the Nazi designs,

stated that he had no knowledge tion of the Tripartite Fact in the News).

The purchaser of the lot will be

NEWSETTES

very pleasant evening was spent by members of the St. An- drew's Club when a social was held yesterday.

of Holy Communion,

SHATAUKOK rebel leader, who is now sore-mination

7 a.m.

forces on

Washington Reticence On

J.

Par

TOKYO CONFUSION

situation

the

The solicitors were Messrs. Geo. K. Hall Brutton and Company for the respondents and Messrs. Dea- cons for the appellants.

AID CANDIDATES The undernoted candidates pass- ed the First Aid Examination held at St. John Ambulance Headquar- ters, Tal Hang Road, on Tuesday, May 13, 1941:-Rev. Fro. Benedict,

Chorley.

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