THE HONGKONG
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THURSDAY,
P & O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND CANTON RUSHING
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
(Companies Incorporated in England.)
Taking Cargo on through Bill of Lading for TNATTS, JAVA & DURMA, CEYLON. INDIA, PERSIAN GULE, MAURITIUS, E, & B. ATHUGA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUD ING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND FORTS, KED SEA, EGYPT, EUROPE, ETC. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS
(Under Contract with 18.3. Government.)
All vesle may call at any poria on or off the route,—and the roule and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.
Tons
14,500
7,000
-
15,000 KAISAR-1-HIND 11,000
Steamers
CARTHAGE
+*SOMALI
COMORIN
1 BANGALORE
NALDERA
RANPURA
+BHUTAN
6,000
18,000) 17,000 6,000
17,000
From 'Kong about |
Destination
19th Feb. Marseilles & London. 26th Feb. D'bay, M'sellies, Havre, L'don, Hull,
'bg. 'dam & A'werp. 6th Mar Marseilles & London. 10th Mur. Marseilles & London. 20th Mar. B'bay, M'scilles, Havre, Lidon, Hull,
b. A'dam & A'werp.. 2nd Apr. Marsellies & London. 18th Apr. Marseilles & London.
23rd Apr. B'bay, M'seilles, Havre, L'don, Hull,
Hb, R'dam & A'werp. 30th Apr. Marseilles & London. Cargo only Calls Casa Blanca All vessels may call at Malta
RAWALPINDI
TILAWA
SANTHIA
TALMA
SIRDHANA
SHIRALA
BRITISH INDIA APCAR SAILINGS (SOUTH)
10,000 0.000
14th Feb.)
26th Feb.
10,000
12th Mar.
8,000
26th Mar.
Port Swettenham, Singapore,
Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta.
8,000
0th Apr.
B. 1. Apear Line Steamers hoye excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class possentera.
TANDA NANKIN
NELLORE
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (SOUTH)
7,0001 6th Mar. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney. 7,000
Melbourne & Hobart,
7,000
2nd Apr.
30th Apr.
Regular monthly sailings from Hongkong to Shanghai and Japan and Hongkong to Aŭstralla.
Hong Kong to Sydney-10 days.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
TALMA
10,000
KAISAR-I-HIND 11,000
BANGALORE
SIRDHANA
6,000 8,000
NALDERA
10,000
17,000
0,000 8,000
RANPURA
*BHUTAN
SHIRALA
• Cargo only.
17th Feb. Amoy & Japan. 18th Feb. Shanghai & Japon, 19th Feb. Shanghai & Jajian.
3rd Mar. Amoy & Japan.
4th Mar. Shanghai & Jepan 18th Mar. Shanghul & Japan. 19th Mar. Shanghai & Japan. 17th Mor. Amoy & Japan.
All daten are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, parcels measuring not more than & c.ft will be received at the Company's Office up to noon on the day previous to smiling,
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OUTWARDS to: Japan ports.
M.S. "SHANTUNG" sailing about M.V.-"NANKING"- sailing-about-
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25th Feb. 18th-Mar.
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IT WAS
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Canton.
Phone 11493.
NOT ADVERTISED!
Manufacturers are always devising something new. An appliance, fabric, food, household utensil-and a thousand and one things, everyone of which has buyers somewhere, Every year-every month---many of these new lines meet with success --a few fall by the market wayside- unknown, unsold—UNADVERTISED. There are probably a few merchants in Hongkong who look back on a lost agency and realise too late that IT WAS NOT ADVERTISED,
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A joint advertising contract with the South China Morning Post and tho Hongkong Telegraph will effectively serve your purpose.
ARMY
TO
COAST
Fearing that a Japanese landing will be made in the vicinity of Bocca Tigris, General Yu Han-mow has ordered twó divisions to reinforce the troops there, according to unconfirmed report. Foreign military observers in Shanghai are of the opinion that the final step of the current Japanese milltary strategy will be the long-heralded Invasion of South China, probably nimed first at Amoy or Swatow, and eventually
Canton,
* Meanwhile, Japanese air raids throughout the Canton district, where special attention was paid to the railway system, continued yesterday. At Hankow, Chinese sources claim that a Japanese bomber was shot down during Tuesday's raid on that City.
Canton, Feb. 9.
Up to yesterday afternoon young village guards on Kel O Island north- east of Tongkawan, in the Chungsinn district, were still harassing the 300 carller Japanese who landed there this week. Many villagers have been robbed of all their belongings by the Japanese and, a inrge number of men and women are said to have been 200 of the massacred. Last night Marines left. Two Japanese war- ships are still in the vicinity.
Rellable Chinese quarters do not
MARKET GAMBLER PASSES
Boy Wizard Of Wall
think the landing party intends pene Street Dies In Sing Sing
traling into the interior with Kel O as its basc.
Chinese sources estimate there are at present between 25 and 30 Japan- ese warships in South China waters together with 30 armed fishing boats,
LANDING EXPECTED
Shanghal, Feb. 9. Unconfirmed Chinese reports from Hongkong "originating from Japanese sources," say three Japanese divisions will attempt to land in South China to-day,
Chinese official quarters ridicule the report, although it to considered an attack is possible
two weeks-United Press.
within
TONGKAWAN LANDING
Shekkt, Feb. 9.
The three Japanese warshipa Tongkawan were reinforced by three
New York, Dec. 30.
to
Harold R. Ryder, who was noted for his frequent gifts of £250 chorus girls, died in Sing Sing, at the age of 42,
Wizard of he had on amazing
Known as the "Boy Woll Street," career. areer.
His extraordinarily generous gifts for many years mide history Broadway.
on
Ryder had a genius for sensing the a vast stock market, and amassed fortune during the 1929 boom.
Almost immediately afterwards he squandered £1,750,000 on Broadway in seven months..
He once tipped a head waiter with a cheque for £2.500, and frequently presented a prelty chorus girl with A £250 note.
at Later he suffered a reverse, and was sentenced to 11 years' imprison- more yesterday afternoon. A pin-ment for fraudulent stock dealing. race containing 30 bluejackets made while attempting to recoup his lost a landing on the outer bay to harass fortunes.
the villagers-International.
SEARCH FOR AIRMEN
Macao, Feb. 0.
Two Japanese 'warships have re- turned to Kei O Island, and have again landed a party. of Japanese bluejackets,
It is believed that they are search- ing for the missing Japanese airmen, who made a forced landing near the Island.-Wah Kiu Yat Po.
WARSHIPS OFF COAST
Cunton, Feb. 9.
MINISTER DIES
Athens, Feb, B. The death is announced of Mons. P. Rediadis, Finance Minister of the Greek Government.-Reuter,
PROMINENT PEOPLE Recent Deaths Reported From Abroad
London, Jan. 28. There are three Japanese destroy- The following deaths were report- ers at Machow, near Chikwan, and ed in England during the past week: Dr. Otto Fritz Frankau Leyton, three at Manshan Island, coat of the Pearl River estuary, together with physician to the London Hospital and several Japanese fishing boats. Two of Portland Place, W., who was well destroyers are Jurknig Chi Ao Is-known as an authority on diabetes, land, cast of Chungshan, while three at the age of 04.
tons
with
of the warships at Tongkawan are cruisers of about 0,000 three funnels-International. BOCCA TIGRIS REINFORCEMENT
Shanghai, Feb. 9. Domci's correspondent In Heng kong states that according to Chin- ese reports General Yu Ilan-mou has ordered two divisions to reinforce the troops in the Bucen Tigris area due to fears of a Japanese landing in the vicinity.
At the same time, It is stated he has ordered the strengthening of the secand river boon-United Press.
SOUTH CHINA INVASION
Shanghai, Feb. 9. The final step in the current Ja- punese strategy, according to foreign military observers, is probably the commencement of the long-heralded South China campaign, aimed Arst at Amoy or Swatow and eventually Canton-United Press.
TROOPS ON COAST
Violet May Paget, aged 28, wife of Mr. John Paget. She was fatally in- -jured-in-a-hunting accident....
Sir Vivian Jarrad, who retired last April from the appointment of Agent of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, and was subsequently knighted, suddenly of heart failure at Holcombe House, had ut Cumberley. He his home been 34 years in India.
Mr. Arthur George Banfield, at his home at Purley Oaks, at the age of 00. She had been for over 50 years in the service
The Times. There have been 17 members of the family, Banfields and "in-laws," in the paper since 1040.
At the age of 51, Mr. Herbert Jolin Enron, usc., director of extra-mural studies and lecturer of Queen's Uni-
1028, versity, Belfast, since
t or
of the general board of secretary study.
and
Mr. Arthur Cook, in his eighty-first year. He
years a was for many prominent figure in South American business circles.
Mr. Henry Augustus Koelsch, at Foochov, Feb. 9.
the age of 40. He began his career Two divisions of Chinese troops with the National City Bank of New have been placed along the Amuy York after graduation from Dort- muuth College, and thereafter re- coust to prevent Japanese landing.
During the last few days Japanese presenting the bank in Moscow, and seaplanes from warships anchored inter at Vindivostok,
Lady Mary Dundas, In London. off Kimol Island have made frequent raids on Hoshau, Tateng. Lienho, She was before she was married Aotao and Watung, strategic points known as the beautiful Lady Mary Bertle. Although 50 years old when long the coast near Amoy.
There bru now seven Japanese she died, she had not outlived her warships anchored off Kimol Island. former beauty, but was a lovely old One of these la a large-size, batile woman. ship-Central News.
H.K. JUNK BOARDED
Japanese Plunder Ship
Near Colony
Another alleged outrage by a Ja- panese warship on Chinese craft just outside Colony waters was reported
Lady Margaret Hamilton-Russell in London. She was the younger daughter of the third Earl of Eldon, and she was married in 1897-to the Hon. F. G. Hamilton-Russell, son of the eighth, Viscount Boyne,
Mr. John Adama, r.n.c.a., at the age of 80. He died at his house, 180, Aldersgalo Street, E.C., where he had spent nearly the whole of his professional life. For more than two Renerations he had the leading gen- eral practice in the City of London.
Lady de Manley, at Langford House, Lechinde. She was the Hon. Madeleine Itanbury-Tracy, daughter of the second Lord Sudeley, and slie was married to Lord de Manley in 1875.
to the Police yesterday by Lau Kam- Mr. Thomas Horton, in Birming- chuch, whose bout, according to him, horn. He was a well-known and was boarded on Monday while it was popular personality in the business off Lintin Island.
life of the Midlands. Born in 1870, he
The junk left Shi Khu for Hong-was the only son of the late Mr. Hor- ton, of Birmingham, and wan educat- kong on Saturday with a cargo of bricits and at noon or Monday, the eat Uppingham and at Clare Col- lege, Cambridge.—Our Own Carres- sighted two Japanese warships. One
of them, No. 16, came alongside and pondent.
sent 12 Railors aboard to ask if there were any rifics or ammunition.
a number of chickens and vegetables On being told there were none, to the value of $200. the sallora, Laut alleged, threw three As she was making of, the war- members of his crew overboard, at ship fired two or three shots over the same time taking away a hum-| the boat, and after she had left the ber of cannon, gunpowder and shot, three men, who had been thrown with which the junk was armed, and Į overboard, managed-to-swim- back.
FEBRUARY
10, 1938.
STOCK MARKET
REPORT
The Hongkong Slock Exchange official summary lasued at 12.30 pm. yesterday, says:
The market ruled quiet in the short session, but prices were main- tained. There are still enquiries on a moderate scale, but sellers are holding off.
The Manila market was closed.
Bayern
Hongkong Bank $1.470 cum, div. Union Insurance $500
Chinese Underwriters $1.40 Douglases $37
H.K. & K. Wharves $117 ILK, & W. Docks $20 Providents (Old) $2,70 Providents (New) $0.65 II. & S. Hotels $5.00 H.K. Reales $4.85 I.K. Tramways $14.00 Peak Trums (Old) 50% Stars Ferries $00
China Lights (Old) $10.00 China Light (New) $7.45 ILK. Electries $50 Macao Electries $19 Telephones (Old) $25.80 Cements $13.65
Dairy Farms $25 Constructions $14 Marsmens (H.K.) 4/3
Sellers
Providents (New) $0.75
Peak Trams (New) $34
Star Ferries $87
Dairy Farms $25.35
Wm. Powell, Ltd. $0.75
Sales Providents (Old) $2.574/70 Providents (New) '$0.55/70 Anlamoks 00 cts. Atoks 29 cis.
Baguio Gold 24 cts. Benguet Consol. 0.80 Coco Grove .64 els, Consolidated Mines .011 ets. Demonstrations 42
IX.L. 67 cts.
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Paracale Gumaus 27% cts. San Mauricio 74 cts, Suyoc Consol 20% cts. United Parscales 53 cts. H. &. S. Hotels $5.05/05 II.K. Tramways $14.85 H.K. Electries $50/50 Macao Electries $19 Telephones (Old) $25%/99
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