1937-12-15 — Page 13

PAGO -18,

NEWS OF THE DAY

IN PICTURES FROM FAR AND NEAR

Hongkong Telegraph

PHOTONEWS

READY FOR NEW OCEAN

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1937.

HAPPENINGS

AS SEEN BY

THE CAMERA'S EYE

CONQUESTS

BANKS

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Authorised Capital ..................................... $50,000,000 Zarued and Fully Paid-Up .... $20,000,000 Reserve Funds:---

Blorling mi

€ 5,800,000 Hongkong Currency Rareren $10,000,000 Reserve Liability of Proprietor $20,000,000 HEAD OFFICE:-HONGKONG,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

G. Miskin, Zaq,

Chairman.

Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson, Deputy Chairenan.

J. K. Bausßeld, Fai, K. B. Morrison, Esq.

A. 11. Compton, Esq. Han, Mr. J. J. Paterson

8. H. Dodwell, Esq. T. E. Pearce, Esq.

3. 11. Masson, JESU. A. L. Shielda, Est.

Bir Vandeleur M. Grasturn CHET MANAGER.

AMOY

BANGKOK

BATAVIA BOMBAY CALCUTTA

CANTON CHIETOO

COLOMBO

DAIREN FOCCHIOW HAIPHONG

HAMBURG

JANKOW

HARDIN HONGKEW ILOILO

IPON

ЗОЦОПЕ

KOBE

KOWLOON

DRANCUES:-

KUALA LUMPUR

LONDON

LYONS MALACCA MANILA MUAR JOUONT} MUKKIEN NEW YORK PEIPING PENANG RANGOON. SAIGON BAN FRANCISCO BHANGHAI BINGAPORE BOUNADAYA SUNGEI PATANI TIENTSIN TOKYO TSINGTAO ХОКОНАМА

Current Accounts opened in Local Cur- rency and Fixed Deposita received for one year or shorter periods in LoCA) Currency and Bierling on terms which will be quoted on appitestion.

ALSO up to date BAFE DEPOSIT. BOXES in various sites TO LET.

Hongkong, 10th May, 1937.

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

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VĒLO Business of the above Bank conducted by the Hongkong and Shang- hai Banking Corporatlän. Hules may be obtained on application.

FOR THE NONGKONG AND SHANGHAI DANKING CORPORATION,

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Mariager. Hongkong, 10th May, 1037,

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter 1833 HEAD OFFICE:-LONDON. 15 Bishopsgato, E.CZ. Paid-up Capital ..... ................. £3,000,000 Reserve Liablilty of Proprietors £3,000,000 Reserve Fund,000,000 MANCHESTER BRANCHI

11 Mosley. 52, Manchester.

AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:

Alor Star

Amritsar

Bangkok

Halavia

Bombay

Calcutta

'Ipoti Bollo Karachi

Kin

Kobe

Kisala

Saigon Semarang Seremban

Shanghal

NYK

San Francisco via Japan Ports & Honolulu.

Starts from Kobe).

Chichibu Maru

Taiyo Maru

Tatuta Maru

Mon, 27th Dec.

„Mon, 10th Jan, (1938)

Tues., 25th Jan. (1938)

Seattle & Vancouver (Starts from Kaba),

Hiye Maru

New York via Panama..

*Noto Maru

Nako Maru

South America (West Coast)

Hilo, Los Angeles, Mexico

Bokuyo Maru

Rakuyo, Maru

.Sat., 25th Dec.

Fri., 31st Dec.

Mon., 24th Jan. (1938)

via Japan, Honolulu

& Panama.

Wed., 15th Dec. .Wed., 12th Jan. (1938)

London, Marseilles, Antworp & Rotterdam.

Katori Muru %.

Kashima Maru

Yasukuni Maru

Liverpool via Port Sald,

and Marseilles.

+Durban Maru

.Snt, 18th Dec.

Sat., 1st Jan, (1938)

.Fri., 14th Jan. (1938)

Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus.

.Mon.. 10th Jan. (1938),

Sydney & Melbourne via Manila &. Ports.

Atauta Maru ...

.Sat., 25th Dec.

Kitano Maru ............................ Wed., 22nd Jan. (1938) Bombay via Singapore, Penang & Colombo.

Toyama Maru

Tango Maru

Mon., 27th Dec, Mon 10th Jan. (1938) Calcutta via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,

Ryuun Maru....

Sat.. 25th Dec,

Kabe & Yokohama, (Omitting Shanghai)

†Delagon Maru

Kitano Mhru

Hakone Maru

Fushimi Maru

IIakozaki Maru

+

Cargo Only,

Wed., 15th Dec.

. Fri, 17th Dec.

Fri., 17th Dec,

Wod., 1st Jan. (1938)

Fri, 14th Jan. (1938)

Concral Passenger Agents in the Orient for tho

CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE.

Tel. 30291.

FLYING BULLETS FOR ATLANTIC AIR "FERRY”

Assembled for the first time, the Mayo Composità Aircraft, above, ready on the Medway, at Rochester, for test flights. Both machines of this "pick-a-back" craft have been successfully flown separately, and tests for releasing the jockey sea- plane Mercury from the parent machine will shortly be carried out. With a cruising speed of 160-170 m.ph.. New York will be brought within day's Journey of England, Speeding like a winged torpedo above the clouds during that flight is (left) another candidate for Atlantle honours. Built by the De Havilland Company for the British Government, it is hoped that this land machine, the Albatross, will nitain » cruising -speed of

more than 200 m.p...-making the crossing to America, on an average, In 15 hears. It has four Gipsy Twelve engines, with a total horse nower of 2,200, and acconimodates 22 passengers by day and 12 by night.

A violent storm of controversy broke in London when this massive statue, purporting to re- present Christ after the Crucifixion, recumbent in the tomb, was, shown in Leicester galleries by the widely known sculptor Jacob Epstein, standing at rear of the figure. Epstein calls it "Consummatum Est"-It Is Finished. It is hewn from a huge block of Derbyshire alabaster, the sculptor asserting it was inspired by a passago from Dach's mass,

The P. & O. Banking Corporation, Ltd.

(Incorporated in England, 1920).

Authorised Capitat

£3,000,000 Subscribed and Paid-up...** £2,304,160 Reserve Fund..................

HEAD OFFICE:

# 100,000

117-122, Leadenhall Street, London, EC.J. WEST END BRANCH:

14-10. Cockapur Street, London, B.W.1.

BRANCHES-Bombay. Calcutta, Call- cut,

Hongkong, Coimbatore, Colombo. Madras, Shanghai, Singapore.

Agencies: In all the principal towns of the world.

Gentral Exchange and Banking burt- nens transacted. Lonna and overdrafts Current granted on approved security. and Fixed Deposit accounts opened.

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN LOCAL CUR- RENCY-Interest allowed at 2% per

annum.

STERLING

BAVINGS ACCOUNTS:-- Interest allowed at rates which may be obtained on application.

TRAVELLERS MEQUES OF MEDIT,

TRAVELLERS

AND PAB SENGER LETTERS OF CREDIT ffor use on board P. & O. and D. I. Steamers and at Ports of Cali) are frued at current rate of exchange and free of commission. AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELLERS" CHEQUES sold and cashed. • -^.

British Income Tax Recovered, Executorship and Trusteeships under-

taken.

W. J. WADDINGTON, Hongkong. 3rd April, 1927.

Canton

Cebu

Sourabaya Talping Tientan Tongka

(Ehuket)

Hingapore

Bilawan

Cawnpore

Colombo I Delhi

Lumpur Kuching Madras Manila

Haiphong

Medan New York

-Peising

Jankow

Hamburg

(Peking) Penank Hongkong Rangoon

Harbin

Tainglo Yokohama Zamboanga

Foreign Exchange and General Dark- Ing business transacted.

Current Accounts opened and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter pertads at rates which will be quoted on application.

The Bank's Head Once in London undertakes Executor & Trustes business, and clatins recovery of British Income Tax overpaid. on terms which may be ascertained at any of its Agencies, âs Branches.

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA. LIMITED.

Authorised Capital Paid-up Capital........ Reserve and Undivided

Profils

$10,000,000.00 $ 5,508,000.00

$ 2,770,726.70

HEAD OFFICE:HONGKONG 10, Des Voeux Road, Central.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sir Shouson Chow, Chairman. Li Koon Chun, Esq. Fung Ping Watz, Esq. P.K. Kwak, Esq.. 1.1 Zan Bang, Esq. Wang Yun Tong, Esq. Wong Chu Bon, E94. Chang Chung Bhck, Esq. Han Ying Po, Esq. KAN TONG PO, Exq,, chief Manage1. LY THE FONG, Esq, Manager. BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:- Melbourne Shanghai Nagasaki

Amoy Batavia Bombay Calcutta Canton Haiphong Hankow Honolulu

Kobe Kowloon London Manila

Singapore

New York

Sourabaya

Oralia Paris

Swatow

Sydney

Pelplag

Talhoku

Tentain

Tokyo

Perinnu

Rangoon

Saigon

Vancouver

San Francisco Yokohama

Seattle

Semarang Every description of Banking and Ex- changa business transactod. Loans grante ed on approved securities.

Current Accounts opened in Local Co- rency and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods in Local and Foreign Currencies of terms which will bo quoted on application.

Bata Deposit Boxes To Let.

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Mangat. THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.

Head Once:-15. Gracechurch Street, London, F.C.J.

Authorised Capital Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capital Reserve Yund and Rest

$3,000,000

1,800,000

1,080,000

3,747,030

DANHERS,

•The Bank of England & Midland Dank, Ltd.

BRANCHES

Ipoh Kuantan Kandy Karachi Kota BharIA

New York

Manager.

Bangkok Bombay

Madras

Calcutta Colombo Delhi Calle

Penang Rangoon

Bhanchal

Kuala Lipis

Bimin

Hongkong

Kuala Lumpur

Bingapore

HOWTH

Kuala Trengganu

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE DANK, LIMITED.

Capital (fully, paid-up)........100,000,000 Reserve Fundamentengen V.114.420,000 ПЕАР ОТПСЕ:-ТОКОПАМА. Branches and Agonefes at Alexandria Hongkong Itangoon

Kainking

Karachi

Manila

No de Janeiro

Bemarang

Bhangħal Singapore Roursheys

Sydney

Bangkok

Batavia

Han Francisco

Berlin..

Kobe

Beattie

Ilombay

London

Calcutta

Los Angeles

Canton Dairen

Mojie

(Dalny)

Nagasaki

Fengtien

Nagoya

Tientsin

(Mukden) New York

Tringiso

Hamburg

Hankow

Otaka

Tokyo Yingko

Starbi

PATIO

•

Bonblulu Peiping

Interent allowed on Current Accounta Deposits received for fired periods bl

| rates to be obtained on application,

7. KANO,

Hongkong. 11th Beptember, 1991,

Every

and

HONGKONG BEANCHI,

descripilon of Banking Exchange Business transacted,

TRUSTEE AND EXECUTORSHIP UNDERTAKEN, Interest allowed on Current Accounta and Fixed Deposits at Rates that may be ascertained on applicatio

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