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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,・・ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1929,

CHARTER-PARTIES REALTY COMPANY AFGHAN RIVALRY

· FOR THE AIR.

INTERESTING CEREMONY IN LONDON.

A NEW DEVELOPMENT.

London, Feb. 15. Business circles took consider- ablo Interest in a little ceremony which took place in the City this morning, the occasion being the signing of an agreement between the Instone Company and the Im- perial Airways Limited for the charter of an air freight-liner.

The Instone Company require the use of the air-liner to convey a quantity of television apparatus to Berlin.

The agreement is exceedingly im- portant as It will form the basis of similar charter agreements. re garding aerial services in the

future.

It consists of sixteen carefully drafted clauses on lines which in troduce to the aircraft world the same principles as the shipping industry as regards chartering. It is thought that the charter party will facilitate the employ ment of aircraft for business pur- poses.-Renter.

CHEFOO OUTLOOK.

MISSIONARY WOMEN

EVACUATED,

To-

Naval wireless messages ceived from Chefoo this morning state that there is a rumour to the effect that Chang Tsung-chang is behind the movement against Gen eral Liu.

MEETING.

REDUCED MORTGAGE

INDEBTEDNESS.

STRIP OF LAND SOLD AT $40 PER FOOT.

CONTINUES.

HABIBULLAH ·AROUSES THE PEOPLE.

TRIBE OPPOSITION.

Moscow, Fob. 15. A message from Termez states that Habibullah, one of the pro tenders to the Afghan Throno, is mobilising troops and requisition- THE YEAR'S PROFITS. ing supplies without making pay

ment therefor.

It was stated by the Chairman

(Mr. E. M. Raymond) at the share holders' meeting of the Hongkong Realty and Trust Co., Ltd., held to day, that the mortgage indebted- ness of the Company has been re- duced, in round figures, by two lakhs during the past financial year. Satisfactory profits, enabling dividends totalling 60 cents per share to be paid, were reported, and the Chairman explained that during the year the Company dis- posed of a small strip of land form- ing part of the Cul-de-sac on the north-west boundary of the Ex- change Building site at the rate of $40 per square foot, subject to ense- ments and a restrictive covenant in respect of the development there- of.

Chairman's Speech. Addressing the shareholders, the Chairman said:-Gentlemen,—As the report and accounts have been in your hands for several days, I will, with your permission, treat the same as read,

The report of the Auditors is as follows: "We report that we have audited the above balance sheet with the books and vouchers of the Company and have obtained all the information and explanations we have required, and in our It is expected that General Liaopinion such balance sheet is pro- will make a stand, on a line five perly drawn up..so as to exhibit a miles west of Chefoo, his op- trug and correct view of the state ponents being some ten miles of the Company's affairs at the 31st December 1928, according to the Chefoo, Feb. 15. best of our information und the ex- Communications between Hwang-planations given to us as hsten and Tengchowft have been shown by the bocks of the Company, severed, but it is rollably stated Linstead & Davis, Chartered Ac- that the situation there is quiet, countants, Auditors; Hongkong, as the opposing sides have already 25th January, 1929." passed en route to Chefoo.

away.

Missionary women have been evacuated from Hwanghsien, the men remaining. Men and women missionaries are still at Teng- chowfu, and the United States Consul reports that they are safe.

Foreigners Safe.

Later.

A Japanese wireless message confirms the safety of foreigners in Hwanghafen and Tengchowfu. Both cities are quiet, Liu Chen- nien still maintaining his fine on Freshwater River, but moving large quantities of ordnance to Muping.

Shih Shu-chen's forces are estimated to be twelve miles west of Chefoo. Fighting is not yet reported. Reuter.

and

I think that the balance sheet

and accounts as presented, taken in conjunction with the amplifying remarks thereon appearing in the Directors' report, show comprehen- sively the financial position of the Company as on 31st December, 1928, and in these circumstances there is no need for me to enter into detailed explanation in connex- lan therewith, the exception of one Item appearing in the balance sheet under the heading "Right of Way and Easementa.”

Land Sold,

This asset is accounted for by the fact that, during the year, your Board effected arrangements whereby the Company disposed of a small strip of land totalling 3411 square feet and forming a portion of a non-productive cul-de-sac on the north-west boundary of Ex- change Building site, the price ob

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As a result, the population at Kugiatan has revolted.

The chiefs of the Shinwari and

Kugiani tribes have disarmed part of the Army of the pretend- or, All Ahmed Khan, some of whose troops have deserted and gone over to Habibullah.

A special Jirga has been sum mond at Koda, near Jelalabad, for the purpose of adjusting in- ter-tribal disputes and arranging a campaign against Habibullah... Reuter,

SEA FREEZES OFF FRENCH COAST.

(Continued fromí Page 1.)

conditions. Many of schools have been closed,

the

the

From Prague, it is learned that the intese cold is slowly paralysing industrial life in Czecho-Slovakia. Many rouds and the majority of the railway lines have been com- pletely blocked by snowdrifts, and Bratislava and other towns have been isolated.

Many of the smaller factories in the country are entirely without coal and have had to close down.

Berlin in Darkness.

Reuter's Berlin correspondent cables that the centre of the Ger- man capital was this evening plunged into darkness as the result of the freezing of the main gas. pipes, which cannot be thawed ow- ing to the danger of explosion.

Navigation of the Scheldt at Antwerp has now been suspended completely.

The River Seine at Paris is be- ginning to freeze over in earnest and water-borne traffic has already floating ice. The River Somme is the danger of ccased owing to

up in tho completely frozen Peronne and Abbeville districts.

Ben Frozen off France! Even the sea has frozen 'over at Berck-Plage, the ice being capable of bearing, a man to a point a hun- dred yards from the shore.

A record low temperature of 65 registered degrees of frost was to-day at Bonneval, near Moutiers, and there have been more than twenty deaths from cold in France to-day.

For the first time within living memory, three inhabitants of lone ly Urk Island' in the Zuyder Zee succeeded in crossing the lee from Enkhuisen travelling northwards by Volendarn and Marken to Urk.

RECORDER'S PROTEST. tained being at the rate of $40 per-Reuter and. British Wireless.

WARM REPUDIATION OF RATING APPEALS CHARGE.

Shefeld, Jan. 11.

aquare foot, subject to easements and a restrictive convenant in rea- pect of development thereof.

The terms of sale included an undertaking by the purchasers, that Huch aren be utilised in conjunction with the remaining portion retain- A dramatic protest was made by ed by this Company, for the sole the Recorder. of Sheffield (Mr. W. purpose of a mutual right-of-way J. Waugh, K.C.) at the opening of and, inter alia, reserved for this the Quarter Sessions there Company additional right-of-way against what he termed "a facilities,

over a new lane to be scandalous charge" made against formed at the rear of the adjoining him in connexion with the hearing property. of rating appeala..

continued that same

years ago

Year's Profits.

of

Conditions Persist,

London, Feb. 15. The Bevere frost, which has now prevailed for 120 hours, shows every sign of persisting.'

In London this morning the screen temperature showing nine degrees of frost was the anme as yesterday at the corresponding hour, but during the night it was slightly colder in London than the

night. An preceding

exposed thermometer registered twenty- three degrees of frost:

Ice gained on the Thames during Observing that four rating an-

the night. The river was frozen nouls were on the list, Mr. Waugh The profit for the year under re- over at places below Windsor, and

view, including the sum

navigation was seen below Walton when the recommendations of a $26,027.66 brought forward from although no ice that could impede: committee on the salaries of off the preceding year and after set yesterday, ice blocks of consider- cials were being considered by ting aside $29,705.47 for deprecia-able size were to be seen floating Shefeld Corporation a member tion, amount to $980, 545.28., De in the river just above the tidal

objected to any increase in salary dividend declared on 5th October,

ducting therefrom the interim waters at Richmond to-day..

to the Recorder, alleging that, as

Reports state that at certain

A landowner, he always decided 1928, and amounting to $60,000, a places along their courses, some In favour of the landlord when balance of $120,546.23 remains, twenty-three English and Scottish

which your Directors recommend rivers are he had to try rating appeals,

now conted with ice, be apportioned as follows: To They include the unner reaches of "Had the Committee investiga- pay a final dividend of 30 cents per the Severn, and the swift-running ted the charge," he proceeded, share, $60,000; to transfer to Spey river. "they would have found that al General Reserve in order to bring

Skating is now general through-i though I was appointed In Octo such Reserve up to $200,000,... out the country-British Wireless. ber, 1910, I have never tried a $49,488; to carry forward to New

and I rating appeal during the period Account.....$11,057.25; I have been Recorder. I have lain trust that this allocation will meet under this charge to the present with the approval of shareholders. time.

From a perusal of the balance sheet, you will observe that, not- "Before I try these rating ap-withstanding the payment of the peala, which are entered before interim dividend to which I have me to-day, and which are the first just referred, the mortgage in. I have ever had the chance of debtedness of the Company has been trying, I appeal from the silence of the Committee to you members

·LOCAL FLYING MISHAPS.

OFFICIAL REPORT SHOWS NO-ONE HURT.

reduced, in round figures, by two mishaps yesterday (reported on The official report of the air lakhs during the financial period.

another

issued paga),

this

of the Grand Jury to acquit me |of this scandalous charge that I The Company's properties, both morning, states:

do not try rating appeals in ac- well maintained and I am pleased to in the vicinity of Mira Bay on contral and residential,, have been Two flying accidents occurred cordance with law and evidence

but for some corrupt motive in be able to state that same have been favour of a class of which, it is fully occupied during the year. alleged, I am a 'member."

February 15, A Fairey Flycatcher N9918, piloted by Lieutenant McIntyre, R.N., Flying Officer, R.A.F., had a forced landing in The foreman of the Grand Jury afterwards handed the following consented to unveil a portrait of

Ilis Excellency the Governor has the sea. The pilot was saved un-

hurt. statement to the Recorder: The the late Sir Henry May, G.C.M.G.. containing Lieutenant Healing, A Fairey 3D 81010 float piano, Grand Jury consider that the former Governor. of Hongkong and pilot Lieut. Commander Wales, charge was cntirely without foundation, and ought never to the Young Men's Christian Associa" bald, crashed on landing near the for twelve years the President of observer, and Telegraphist Theo have been made.”

The Recorder thanked the Grand ton of Hongkong, at the Euro- Fairey Flycatcher. The crew was

nean Y.M.C.A. on. Thursday next. Jury for their vindication.

picked up and no-one was hurt,

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