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The following is published for general information :--

With reference to Govtrument

Notifications 900 vi 14th June, 1940, 1331 of 13th December, 1940, 282 of 701 March, 1941, and 590 of 16th May, 1941, it is hereby notified that the import from the United Kingdom of the articles detained below is now subject to control by this office and that all brms, hongs, cont

THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING COMPANY

LIMITED.

(Incorporated in Queensland).

NOTICE is hereby given that the Share Registers of (1 Company will he

closed from Friday, 11th July, to Friday, 18th

July, 1941, both days inclusive,

By Order of the Board,

DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants, Local Secretaries.

panies and individuals importing Hongkong Bank Chambers, Kingdom to Hong Kong should: SINGAPORE, 7th June, 1941.

these articles from the United

register with this affice on or belore the 25th June, 1941, and; should at the same time submit details of their imports of the articles mentioned during the years 1936 to 1938 in order that¦ a quota allowance may be allotted theat.

All brons, hongs, companies and individuals concerned with the import inte Hong Kong of the articles mentioned below should note that in future it is necessary for them to submit all indents to this office for endorsement hefore their despatch to the United Kingdom, Importers are warned that failure to register and to submit indents to this office may involve, refusal of permission 10 import the articles in question.

The articles now controlled

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG

KONG.

NOTICE

HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.

Interim Dividend.

NOTICE IS HEREBY that an INTERIM

EDITORIAL.

ADVERTISEMENTS

UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

NEWSETTES

Mr. T. J. Houston occupied the Bench at the Court of the District office, South, yesterday during the absence, on two weeks' leave, of Mr. 8. F Balfour who left for Manila on Wednesday

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FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1941.

LONDON NEWS LETTER:

HOPEFUL SIGNS IN WEST & EAST: IMPORTANCE OF RECENT AMERICAN MOVES

"Looking round on the west and the cast, there are

Applications are invited from It is learned that the Indian hopeful signs and there is hope for more achievements as Chinese graduates in Economics constable who received a shock in our strength mounts week by week," said MR. CYRIL for the

Lecturer post of

in the Chinese Soldiers' Internment Economica at the University of Hong Kong, to give courses in Chinese Economic History at a salary of $3,000 per annum.

Camp at Argyle Street on June 17 LAKIN, Assistant Editor of the LONDON SUNDAY TIMES, as a result of a telephone post in when he broadcast from London yesterday in the series the Kowloon district being struck" LONDON NEWS LETTER," in the absence of Sir Fred- by lightning, has been discharged erick Whyte, K.C.S.1., who usually speaks in this series. from hospital.

Among the recent events funds in the United States. The Applications, which should he

States of the war, one which parti- United

Government had addressed to the undersigned, ¦ Messages of consolation and en

very good reasons to believe that from couragement should reach the University not

Generalissimo cularly strikes the average

these funds were being used to Lin Sen, man and woman in this coun-finance activities directed against Fully Paid Up Shares and TEN tater than Saturday, 5th. July Chairman of the National Govern- try is the slackening in the American security.

GIVEN DIVIDEND of FOUR per cent (4%) for the six months ending } 30th June, 1941, amounting to FORTY cents per share on the

cents per share on the Partly Paid Up Shares of the Company | will be paid on MONDAY the 14th July, 1941, on which date 321 Dividend Warrants

be may obtained on application at the Registered Office of the Company, Exchange Building, 4th floor.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE GOODS of Vivian Rothweli Bawden late of Warden House 69 Mount

The TRANSFER BOOKS OF the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 2nd July to SATURDAY. 12th July, 1941, both days inclusive.

By Order of the

Ephraim Tunbirdge wells in The County of Kent England formerly of the Victoria and Houg Albert Hotel Torquay in the County of Devon, Esquire, deceased.

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

Starch, including maize tors and others to send in their;

Board of Directors,

J. P. SHERRY,

Managing Director. Kong, 13th June, 1941.

UNION INSURANCE

SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.

Notice to Shareholders

NOTICE IS

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HEREBY

1941.

STANLEY V. BOXER,

Registrar.

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Chiang Kai-shek, MI.

their best efforts.

German air attack," said Mr. Lakin

BRITISH REACTION

.. When

we

"Equally important here is the fact that the AXIS Powers will be unable to use these rupas now in

mis-

ment, and Mr. Chen 14-fu. Mints ter of Education, have been re- ceived by the Nationaj Yunnan University here which was badly 311 bounded by Japanese aircraft last

have a hull of this America for purchasing war month. The messages urged the kind, our characteristic reaction iterials from other powers. faculty anÇİ the students of the not mainly one of relief. Nor is "Then comes the closing of the University to continue to exert only one of exultation that we German Consulate and the so- have got the Luftwaffe beaten. I called German tourist agencies In is really one of discretion and we the United States. It has been usually expect something mpre stated that there are more spies and subversive elements in the United States

thrre today then were in 1917.

"These moves by the Presl- dent

Important because they show his recognised lead- ership of the United States in the Western Hemisphere.

The Daily Press.

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Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

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London Office: 53. Fleet Street

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HONGKONG, JUNE 20, 1941.

ANOTHER PACT

NOTABLE feature of the series of agreements and treaties which

A

The engagement is announced of Robert Owen, youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Baker, i

than unpleasant to follow.

"That is the more sensible at

or Hongkong, and Hulda daughter titude. because if the unpleasant of Mra S. Edgren and the late happens. we will be prepared for it. Bul in doing so we may be apt Captain H. Edgren of Shanghai

to forget a number of things about ourselves-that we can give as well as take.

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Herr Hitler plied to it the same title as has been able to bring into that which the Nazis con-: being with the various coun-cluded with Soviet Russia

starch or cornflour, potato claims against the above estate to GIVEN that the ORDINARY tries whom he has inveigled. The cabled news of the new!

MEETING YEARLY Society will be held at th: HEAD OFFICE, 60 Hunter Street. Sydney, Australia, On

of tive

sre

The Ministry of Finance bas acknowledged the receipt of

We have now been told of the

EASTERN FUROTE $5,980.29 (Chinese currency)

new assistance which we Te to "Things in the west are clear mitted

through the Hongkong receive from radio waves.

Our How and conclusive.

air activity branch of the Bank of China by ever, improvement in our system is not a matter of guess-work, but about 200 overseas Chinese who

of radio location would hardly seem matter of fact. Similarly what recently returned

to Chint from enough to account for the full in the United States is doing is not North and South America aboard German ale activity over Britain merely a matter u, Speculation.” the 9.8. President Coolidge.

The There may be a number of other continued Mr. Lakin. "But when fund collected aboard the ship wan causes

we turn to Eastern Europe, we are designated for refugee relief.

"The Battle of Crete may faced with a confllet of reports, have had its effect. The Ger- rumours and propaganda What mans had a very great con we tack here are confirmed facts. centration of their air force in

"There Is no doubt that Herr the Balkans and the Luftwaffe Hitler has sent many divisions to had heavy losses in that bat-

Ru- Poland, Czechoslovakia and tle, Losses of first rate bomb- imania. It is the famillar techni- er and fighter pilots cannot

The que of the wer of nerves. into his fold has been their pact once again disclose its

be made good qui.kty.

only attitude for us to adopt is to "We have heard vagueness and limited scope. limited scope and only the

2 Lot lately get on with our job of increasing £bout Except in those states which betterment of economic and power on her eastern frontier and ts to create as much confusion as the massing of German our strength. Herr Hitler's point FRIDAY, 20th JUNE, 1941, sword or by blunt threat of the two countries is stressed though that may not make a uif- keep a clear head."

with the friendly relations between there is also the question of oll, he can. Our point should be to for the purpose of receiving the force, the contacts he has the now familiar phrases ference to the German air force Report of the Directors and the established with the major of neither of hem doing at the moment. Statements of Account to 31st

powers

been charac-anything to inviolate the In- Fecember, 1940, and of declaring terised by the strict limits of tegrity of their national ter- "Whatever the reasons or reason made in an atmosphere of warın Dividend, etc. and appointing the advantages which could, ritory.

London comment for the German inactivity in the friendship. today it would take a 306 Messrs. Smith Johnson & Co., accrue to him as a result. finds comfort in the fact that

west, we may be sure that it is not very keen-sighted person to dis- due to Sydney as Auditors of the Society The pact with Russia for in- Turkey has not broken her conditions, for this week has been tween Germany and Russie.

the unfavourable flying cover any of this friendship be- for the ensuing year in lieu of the stance, which led indirectly commitments with Great marked by heavy attacks by the latest news was that Britain had present Auditors.

to the outbreak of the pre-Britain and it is assumed RAF DZI Germy All three begun to blockade the Arctle port The SHARE TRANSFER sent war, while it has served that

Petsamo, has thereby not commands of our air force have of

because German BOOKS of the Society will be his purpose of keeping M. agreed to permit the passage after night our bombers have been through it to Norway. but remain- been busy on this offensive. Night troops were not merely passing CLOSED from 9th JUNE to Stalin out of the war, has of German troops through battering the industrial heart of ing there. 20th JUNE, both days inclusive, been meagre in its actual her territory.

By Order of the Board,

starch, rice starch, rye 10th July, 1941. starch, wheat starch, sago All Creditors and others are! starch, sago. flour, tapioca accordingly hereby required to starch and tapioca flour.

send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.

Dextrine, including soluble starch and substance known

as British guro.

3. Gelatine.

D. L. NEWBIGGING,

DEACONS, Solicitors for the Executors, 1. Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.

Controller of Food.

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19th June. 1941.

LANE CRAWFORD,

LTD.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULARS AND CON

DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday,! the 23rd day of June, 1941, at 3 NOTICE is hereby given that

p... at the Offices of the Public the Nineteenth Ordinary Yearly Works Department, by Order of Meeting of Shareholders will be His Excellency the Governor of held at Exchange Building, Hong one Lot of Crown Land kong, on SATURDAY, 21st To Kwa Wan, in the Colony June, 1941

ELEVEN

of Hong Kong for a term of O'CLOCK A.M.

75 years, with the eption of The Transler Books of the renewal at a Crown Rent to be

at

at

A. H. K. COBE, Manager for the Far East. Hong Kong, 7th June, 1941.

NOTICE.

he has overrun

have

benefits and even now Herr Hitler 15 faced with

she

Company will be closed from fixed by the Surveyor of His concerned that information has his behalf. While credit is form with either of the com-

10th June to 21st June, 1941, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. W. BROWN, Manager.

Hong Kong, 3rd June, 1941.

one

alt

This will serve to inform all

been received from our Principats that the steamers

President Talt

9.85 President Cleveland v.87 President Coolidge v.58 President Pierce v:79 President Jackson v.3 President Hayes v-2 President Adams v.1

their

himself

North Sea.

RAF. RAIDS

Mr. Lakin said that when it was recalled that the Russo-German Pact was reported to have been

This must have a very steps.

have heard of their Fuehrer's triumphs in the Balkans are being driven night after night into their shelters. They know too that there is more to come and they know also that behind the blows of the R.A.F. is the industrial power of the United States.

LION & HER CUBS

by

the

"Not much

MIDDLE EAST

The

news from

Libya was interesting.

The raid on vert Capuzzo must have given the enemy an unpleasant surprise. The fact that the British could pens- trate his key positions showed that General Wavell was Dy no means disposeu to let the Initiative pass from his hands. The British position in the Eastern Mediterranean was much

in Athens were crowded with

Germany and her channel ports. UP TO THIS POINT, and The Coastal Command is making In the Middle East, both from a and military point of the assuming that these terms it more and more dangerous for political necessity of seeking an ex-will be strictly adhered to, enemy supply ships to enter the view Britain had taken definite Eritish and Free French pansion of its terms to help the new pact contains noth-powerful effect in hampering Ger- troops in Syria were doing their him in his difficulties. The ing that should disturb or man transport and war production, job well, while the 297 pact with Japart is similarly cause anxiety to Britain and Tar German people, who

subject to conditions which her allies. Turkey has sim- have thus far made it im-ply seized an opportunity to possible for the German remain completely neutral in Fuehrer to force the Japan- the present hostilities and to ese into greater activity on avold participation in any Majesty the KING, for

due to German diplomacy in batants. Her Treaty of Al- further term of 75 years.

being able to achieve even liance with Britain-generally Intending bidders are advised

these limited results in the guarantees her neutrality on that immediately after the dis

face of the opposition which behalf of the powers opposed

"The world has been impressed stronger than was thought a week! posal of the lot the Purchaser

is mounting against the Axis to the Axis and, at the mo- by Mr. Churchill's picture of the age and after the Battle of Crete. (if not the applicant) will be

Powers, it would be unwise toment, there is reason to view standing against the enemy" conceived to show that the hospitais old lion with her cubs at her stoe Reliable reports had now been re- required to deposit with

regard them as being alto-her attitude sympathetically. tinued Mr. Lakin. authorised officer who will be

gether of little consequence As pointed out in London, evidence is necessary to show that wounded troops, which seemed to 292 present at the sale, the sum of

to the Democracies, for it ever since the passing of the cubs, are

now erown and suggest that Herr Hitler's victory two hundred dollars, ($200) in ill be delivered to the United may be a part of Herr Hit-Yugoslavia and Greece into powerful.”

was more costly than he could cask. This sum will be refunded Mates Maritime Commission on ler's cunning to first in-German control, Turkey has.

Mr. Lakin here spuse of the help afford it to be.. on payment of the Purchase completion of

"Looking round in the west into the been subjected to increasing Menzies, he sald, had told them

given

Dominions. MT. present gratiate

and the east, there are hopeful oyages.

good books of his intended! pressure by the Nazis. how Australla had speeded up her

signs and there is hope for victims among the more im- with her closest neighbours war effort programme.

more achievements, as Canada PARTICULARS OF THE LOT to serve notice that all subsequent of so gaining an influence she has been exposed to the those already serving with res portant nations in the hope brought under the Axis yoke, was adding 250,000 more meh to

strength mounts week by week." concluded Mr. Lakin, oyages of the above-named steamers are cancelled on termina over them which will enable threat of attack from Ger- forces. The New Zealand forces

him to secure his full desires many and, tion of their current voyages later on:

were amongst the most relentless MILITARY ALLIANCE however much

fighters, while the Bouth African All passages and cargo booked for

she might have felt deter- and Indian troops were finishing WITH THAILAND? such subsequent

THE REPORTS of his poli-mined to resist, with British up the remaining burtuing of the voyages are,

TOKYO, June 19 (Reuter)-The tical and military activity on assistance, she probably felt Italian army in East Africa. hereby cancelled. All passengers

If it had not been for all this, mi

Japanese Army organ, the Koku- and shippers are invited to apply the Soviet front bespeak of that the risks were greater

Bhimbun, **this morning a possibility. than she could under ake to their existence would not be the editorially urges the Government ut this office for further informa exactly such

same. The meeting at St. James to conclude a military alllatice Japan, too, may and herself meet successfully. As long as Palace, at which the allied repre- with Thailand se a first step to tion relative to space.

faced with a similar situation she is resolved to maintain sentatives had resolved to fight ward further strengthening the From the foregoing it will be when the Nazi leader thinks this stand and refuses to be until Herr Hitler was defeated prosperity of East Asia, realized that, of the

above the time ripe enough for drawn into a German trap on would not have had the sims Citing the importance of That- mentioned steamers, the S.S. mailed fist tactics. These are any plausible exouse, the effect. As Mr. Menzies had said, land's geographical portion in "President Pierce" v.79 will be aspects, therefore, which have new pact with Germany need one of the lessons they had learn Southern East Anfa, the Kokumin The purchaser of the lot will be the last shlling under the old to be kept in mind in draw-cause no inconvenience to

fed was that victory came to the asserted that the fate of Thailand required to pay to the auctioneer schedule. A new schedule covering conclusions on the new the Allied cause. Any detec That was the lesson they had of Indo-Ching as well as the nation with better equipment: would seriously affect the security in cash the sum of $279.00 ing the routes and sailing dates agreement which is reported tion from this course would, learned and, they would all set security of the whole, of Bouth (being 10% of the upset price of our remaining steamers will be to have been reached be however, bring her

Democratie Insmediately after the fall of the available to the public in a few tween Germany and Turkey. nict with the Dento vote... Jammer, the balance of the days

Berlin itself. prefers to style Powers to her own disadvan- There have been some very im Mr. L T Tung, proprietor of the the agreement as a Treaty tage position which her the past few days, continued Mr. loons, China Buliding, Intends to portant "American moves during Central and Public billiards an- of Friendship," while Ameri- leaders should be well advis- Lakin. It began with the Pre- run a tournament in the early 314 can commentators have ap-ed to avoid.

aident's decision "to" freese, all Akia autonini,

THE CANTON INSURANCE price.

OFFICE LIMITED

Notice to Shareholders.

The Sixtieth Ordinary Meeting| of Shareholders will be held ní the Offices of the undersigned on Wednesday, the 25th June, 1941, at Noon, for the purpose of . receiving the Report of

General Agents, together with a sintement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1940,

the

The Share Register and Trans.

fer Books will be closed from flte

11th June to the 25th June, 1941,

both days Inclunive.

JARDINE, MATHESON &

CO., LTD.

General Agents.

Hong Kong, 4th June, 1941.

288

No. of Sale

Kowloon Inland Lot Registry No.

Locality:

Nos. 4047 and 1834 |

No. 430,

"Es lieung Road, To

Kwa Wan between Kowloon Inland Lots

Boundary

Measure-

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As per

salc plan.

Annual

Rental

Upset Price.

About

Contents 1

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Square feet.

2,790

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premium being paid in accordancs AMERICAN PRESIDENT with the Conditions of Sale.

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