1938-02-15 — Page 17

Swan Culbertson

I. Fritts

Investment Bankers and Brokers in Securities and Commodities Daily New York and London Stock Exchange Service Commodity Futures on the principal American marketa Members of

New York Cotton Exchanga Chicago Board of Trade

Winnipeg Grain Exchange

Commodity Exchange, Ino., New York

Canadian Commodity Exchange, Inc.. Montreal Now York Coffee and Sugar Exchango Manila Block Exchange.

Correspondenta for

Hayden, Stone & Co. New York and Bosion J. E. Swan & Co., New York

Telephone 30244

Cable Address SWANSTOCK Hongkong & Shanghal Bank Building, Hongkong

Ofices: Shanghai and Manila

P & O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES

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(Companies Incorporated in England.)

Taking Cargo on through Fillis of Lading for STRAITS, JAVA & BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN OULF, MAURITIUS, E. & B. AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUD INO NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, RED SEA, EGYPT, EUROPE, ETC. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS

(Under Contract with H., Government,)

All vessels may call at any ports on or off the route,-and the roule and ali sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.

Steamers

Tons

CARTHAGE

+*SOMALI

COMORIN

14.500 7,000

15,000 KAISAR-I-KIND 11,000 **BANGALORE 0,000

NALDERA

:RANPURA

**BHUTAN

RAWALPINDI

10,000 17,000 0,000

17,000

* Cargo only

TILAWA

SANTHIA

TALMA

SHIRALA

SIRDHANA

From H'Kong about

Destination

19th Feb. Marseilles & London.

·THE HONGKONG

· STARVATION FACES REFUGEES

FOOD IN NANKING ZONE NEARS EXHAUSTION

Hankow, Feb. 14.

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

A Chinesa official source dis- closes that 160,000 refugees inside the refugee zone.in Non- king and under the care of the International Rellef Committee are facing starvation.

Foodstuff will be exhausted within a couple of days, and the Japanese authorities have refused permission for the transport of further supplies to Nanking.

INSURGENTS GAINING GROUND Loyalists Admit Losses

London, Feb. 14. Heavy fighting is taking place in the southern section of the Spanish wor front.

The Government admits that the Insurgents have made certain galas. On other fronts there is little

activity.—Router,

All attempts to secure food sup- LONDON

plics in Nanking, Shanghai and. elsewhere for these refugees have fofled.

The sale or delivery of rice Inside the zone is forbidden by the Japanese. The Chinese authorities hope that the situation will recolve the alien- tion of the outside world.

Most of the refugees Inside the zone are homeless, for their homes were

Nanking-United

STOCK

EXCHANGE

BUYERS MAINTAIN

razed to the ground with the Japan. CAUTIOUS ATTITUDE C.5¢ entry into Press.

Mr. H. C. Pratt Passes Away

Served In Navy And Army During War

The death occurred at the Queen Mary Hospital last night of Mr. Horace Charles Pratt, 47-year-old warder of

of Stanley Prison, who had been a patient for several days with cardiac trouble. Mr. Prait

Prait was recently bereaved Hull, of his daughter who died of small-

20th Feb. B'bay, M'selflea, Havre, L'don, Hull,

Hbg, R'dam & A'werp. 5th Mar. Marseilles & London: 10th Mar. Marsellies & Landon. 20th Mar. B'bay, M'seilles, Havre, L'don,

'ba R'dam & A'werp. 2nd Apr. Marselles & London. 16th Apr. Marseilles & London. 23rd Apr. B'bny, M'seilies, Havre, L'don, Hull,

H'be. R'dam & A'werp.

30th Apr. Marseilles & London.

+ Calls Casa Blanca All vessels may call at Malta BRITISH INDIA APCAR SAILINGS (SOUTH)

10,000 15th Feb. 1

8,000 10,000 0:000

20th Feb, Singapore, Port Swettenham, 13th Mar.

Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta,

28th Mar.

8,000

9th Apr.

B. I. Apcar Line Steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.

TANDA

NANKIN

NELLORE

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (SOUTH)

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7,000 7,000

5th Mar. 2nd Apr. 7,000 30th Apr.

Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne & Hobart,

Regular monthly sailings from Hongkong to Shanghai and Japan and Hongkong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney.......19 days,

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

10,000 KAISAR-I-HIND 11,000 |

TALMA

*BANGALORE

SIRDHANA

-NALDERA

RANPURA

*BHUTAN

SHIRALA

0,000

8,000

18,000

17,000 0,000 8,000 Carga only.

17th Feb.) Amoy & Japan. 18th Feb. Shanghai & Japan. 19th Feb. Shanghal & Japan.

3rd. Mar. Amoy & Japan. 4th Mar. Shanghai.& Japan. 10th Mar. Shanghai & Japan. 18th Mar. Shanghai & Japan. 17th Mar. Amoy & Japan.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, parcels measuring not more than 5 cft, will be received at the Company's Office up to noon on the day provious to sailing.

For Passage Rates, Handbooks, Freight, etc., apply

pox in Shanghai. A son, employed in the Post Office, is on his way back from Home love.

Much sympathy will be felt for the widow of this second loss within a short time.

London, Feb. 14.

With buyers still maintaining a. caullous attitude on the London Stock Exchange to-day, business was again small, the majority of the movements being towards lower levels.

Home railways weakened on re- ports that employees will shortly

'FEBRUARY 15, 1938.

SEVERE PAINS

IN THE STOMACH

Everyone who has endured the ferment of stomach paina will sympathise with Mr. Pittock. Many who still suffer with stomach trouble can benefit from his axperience. If you neglect nature's warni- ing you may be faced, with serious danger. If you do as Mr. Pittock did-as tana of thousands of stomach sufferers have done

then you have no nood to four, Air. Pittock writes 3---

** I was suffering agony with pains to the stomach, wlad round the heart and loss of appetite. I tried medicios, tablets and various other comedies, but seemed to get worso instead of better,.

* A friend recommended Masisan Brand Stomach Powder and I purchased a bottis. After one dose I felt relief and now, after a fortnight's treatment I am well again; all pain has gone and my appetite is practi cally normal."

Now remember, for your own sako, the very next time you feel pains in the stomach-however alight they may be

go out sad get a bottle of the original MACLEAN BRAND Stomach Powder. Make sure the signaturo "ALEK. C. MACLEAN" is on the bottle and carton, Then you are certala of quick reliai from stomach discomfort protected against all threats of serious developments. Genuine Maclean Brand Stomach Powder is sold. only in bottles in cartons. Never soki loose. Powder or Tablets.

If you have any dificulty in obtaining it rom your local chemist or store, write to Banker & Co., P.O, Box 536, Hong Kong.

AUSTRIAN

DOCTOR

submit fresh wage demands. Inter- HELD BY

nationals and Oils firmly held, their levels on Continental inquiries.

Commodities were featureless. In foreign exchanges the American dollar ensed on selling from New York, due to inflationary fears- Reuter's Special.

MAN'S DEADLIEST ENEMY

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CHINESE

Hankow, Feb. 14.

Dr. Kobe, an Austrian subject who was arrested last October for alleged espionage, is being held at Wuchang

It is alleged that the Chinese authorities have conclusive proof that Dr. Kobe was engaged in

and was espionage,

transmitting wireless signals, believedly to Japan- ese aircraft during air rälds.

small weevils pursue their way of destruction, and it is calculated that they destroy cotton in the U.S.A. to the sum of £8,000,000 annually. No certain remedy has yet been dia-prison daily to treat the wounded at Dr. Kobo is allowed to leave his covered for their complete destruc- nearby military hospital-United tion, although vast sums of money Press.

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The late Mr. Pratt served through out the War both in the Army and the Navy. He joined the warder staff in 1921 and held a senior post-have been spent in trying to find n tion.

remedy, and trying, to produce The funeral will be held this after-cotton plant which will resist attack. noon, the cortege assembling at the

In Ceylon alone, during the bottom of Stubbs Road at 5 p.m.

year 1934, 214,224 deaths occurred from malaria, and this does not include thousands who died of starvation and want, owing to there being no one to cultivate the land. All

these deaths are due to the tiny anopheles mosquilo, 25 malarla is caused entirely by the bite of this insect.

BAL MASQUE AT GERMAN CLUB

On Saturday, February 20 at 9.30 p.m. the German Club will have its annual bal masque, to which mem- bers have already Invited numerous friends.

The vast ruined cities of Ceylon, and the huge artificial lakes, known as tanks, which once irrigated large tracts of land and supported a great population, are all derelict and now buried in the jungle, their inhabi- tants entirely wiped out. All this destruction is believed to have been caused by malaria or by the anopheles mosquito.

This year the bal masque has been given the name "The Rond of Silk" which

the name Sven Hedin gave to the ancient caravan route upon which merchants used to send all from China to Europe. The decora-HOUSE-FLIES' CRIMES tion-in-the-club-has-been-carried out 13

accor and much success

As usual, the most original costume will win a prize, and this year two prizes having been decided upon, one each for ladies and gentlemen.

Then think of the ubiquitous house fly, the carrier of many diseases, such as dysentry, typhus, and tuber- culosis, which slays thousands of children annually in all the slums of the great cities of the world.

Man is the highest form of crea- tion,

but

when one considers the power of the insect world, he is not to marvellous in spite of his won-

& MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. PhoneEARL OF WARWICK derful inventions. If a man could

Connaught iČ.

NY.K.

San Francisco via Japan Ports & Honolulu.

(Starts from Kobe),

Chichibu Maru

Talyo Maru

Taleuta Mara

.......Tues., 22nd Fob. .Mon., 7th March ..Tues., 22nd March

Seattle & Vancouver (Starta from Kobo).

Hiye Maru

Helan Maru

New York via Panamo.

+Nojima Maru

.Mon., 21st Feb.

..Mon., 14th March

........Sat., 26th March

South America (West Coast) via japan, Honolulu.

Hilo, Los Angeles, Mexico & Panama.

Atago Maru (Starts from Kobe) Mon., 7th March Holyo Maru (Struts from. Hongkong) Mon., 14th Mar.

London, Marcilles, Antwerp & Rotterdam.

Hakozaki Maru

Suwa Maru

Terukuni Maru

..Sat., 26th Feb.

..Sat., 12th March

Fri, 25th March

Liverpool via Port Said, Bayrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus,

and Marseilles.

+Delagoa Maru

.Tues., 1st March

Sydney & Melbourne via Manila & Ports.

Kamo Maru ......

Sat., 26 Feb. Sat, 26th March

Sat, 26th Feb. Wed., 9th March

Bombay via Singaporo, Penang & Colombo.

Atauta Maru

+Nagato Maru

Anyo Maru

Calcutta vin Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,

+Malacca Maru ....

..Mon., 7th March

Kobo & Yokohama. (Omitting Shanghat)

Atauta Mara

Hakuenn Maru

Haruna Maru

Kitano Maru

Katori Haru

+ Cargo Only,

.Fri, 18th Feb.

..Fri., 25th Fob.

Fri, 11th March

Fri, 18th March

.Sat., 26th March

Gonoral Passenger Agents in the Orient for the CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE.

Tol. 30291;

GIVEN DIVORCE

London, Feb. 14.

The Earl of Warwick has been granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court here, with the custody of a son born in 1034.

Ile petitioned on the ground of mis- conduct on the part of the Countess in Los Angleles in 1936, and named Roger Bailey co-respondent. The petition was not defended.-Reuter.

Jump as high as a flea, he could clear St. Paul's Cathedral in a single bound. If he could, in comparison to his clature, construct buildings as high as the ants construct their nest In Africa (many of these nests rising as high as 20 feet), the sky scrapers in New York would be dwarfed in comparison with the mighty eree-

tlons he would build. If he could multiply as fast as the insects, there ould not be standing room in the world in a few years!

Joyce Kingdoń.

Facts (2)

The average income for the 154 new cases dealt within November was:-

$1.84 por head par month,

These people are part of the vast pool of 'cheap la- bour' by which Hongkong trade is carried on.

The 'cheap labour' is pos- sible because they are living on this income.

HELP US TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN

HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

Room 308, Bank of East Asia'

Building.

THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.

BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF SHIPS.

BUILDERS OF RECIPROCATING STEAM ENGINES. BUILDERS OF MARINE AND LAND BOILERS. BUILDERS OF TURBINE MACHINERY.

Under Licence From Messrs. Parsons.

BUILDERS OF DIESEL ENGINES

Under Special Licence From Messrs. Sulzer Bros. Winterthur.

Licensed To Manufacture Lanz Perlit Iron, Specially Suitable For Internal Combustion Engine Working Parts.

DOCK & SLIPWAYS

FOR DOCKING VERY LARGE, AS WELL AS SMALLER VESSELS

ON ANY TIDE.

ALL CLASSES OF SHIP, ENGINE AND BOILER

REPAIRS

AND EXTENSIVE WELDING, BOTH ELECTRICAL AND

OXY-ACETYLENE, SKILFULLY AND

PROMPTLY CARRIED OUT.

Tel. Address "Talkoodock" Hongkong.

·Telephone:No. 30211,

Call Flant. Nümeral Onsif over "Ponant Ant.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents

[HONGKONG, CHINA & JA

Your

call

VAT

69 that's fine!

More and more people are awake to the quality of Vat 69. Men used to talk of special and rare whiskies available only to the favoured few. Now everyone can enjoy The Luxury Blend of

Liqueur SCOTCH

WHISKY Quality Tells

Dialed and bottled in Scotland by W. Sandersen & Bon..

LEITH Sate Agents: WY. FL. LOXLEY & CO. Hong Kong

„SCOICH WHISKY

VAT

69

Math

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CANADIAN PACIFIC

RAILWAYS — EXPRESS

HOTELS

SAILING TO MANILA

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

..Mar. 10.

TO CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE

EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

.6.00 a.. Feb. 23.. .7.00 am. Mar. 8. .7.00 am. Mar. 18.

Air-conditioned equipment carried on Trans-Continental Trains. Frequent Canadian Pacife Atlantic sallings from Montreal and Quebec, down the smooth St. Lawrence Seaway, to Europe.

MAKE BOOKINGS FOR 1938 EARLY desirable accommodation.

Information and rates from

Union

Building

-in order to ensure

Canadian Pacific

FLYING CLIPPER

THE FAMOUS

6%

DAYS

to the

UNITED STATES

Fr

Telephone

20752

SHIPS

MANILA 5100 Konolulu 41⁄2Dajer

MATTER

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