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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

FEBRUARY

1938.

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SITUATIONS VACANT. WANTED: For a period of about 6 months. An European Stenographer

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U.S. COMMODITY PRICES

LATEST CABLED

QUOTATIONS

New York, Feb. 21. New York Cotton

Opening

Closing

Mar.

9.04/04

0.13/14

May

0.13/14

0.24/24

July

0.20/21

9.30/30

Oct,

9.20/30

9.41/42

Doc.

0.30/30

9.42/42

Jan.

0.31/31

Spol

9.44/44 0.23

The First Notice Day for March Cotton is Feb. 23 with Delivery dale March 1.

New York Kabber

14.98/08 15.09 /09 15.17/17 15.25 /25 16.30/30 15.39 40 15.40/37 15.32 762

15.08b/70a 15.74 n 2,630 tons.

Mar.

May

July

Sept.

Dec.

Jan.

May July Sept.

Saturday's tales:—

Sales for the day:-

Chicago Wheat

92 /02 87%/07%

May

July Sept.

May

July

Oct.

02/02% 80/88% 88/88%

14,589,000 bushels. Chicano Corn

-594/593⁄41⁄2-----50%/59%) 014/814 81 614

62%/02

Winniper Wheat

120%/120% 1274/127%

11754/117% 001/08

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

SWAN, CÜLBERTSON & FRITZ LATEST REPORTS

New York, Feb. 21.

S. C. & F. Dow Jones summary of yesterday's markets:

Business news to-day had little wero in- significance. Europeans

apparently were not terested, but directly affected. The market ap- pears to be in a strong technical posi- tion. Steel buying is reported to bo slightly better, although the Iron & Steel Institute scheduled operations are reported to be at only 30.4. per cent of capacity. Trading to-day falled expand. Advance equipment buying orders were with- held, pending a decision with regard to railroad ratea. The situation with regard to utilities has not been clari- fled. Some Investment trust buying is reported of oil, chemicals and motore.

A soat on the New York Stock Exchange has been sold for $87,000.

to

rall

S. C. & F. New York correspondent cables:

Stocks: The market to-day ex-" tended the rally impressively, in spite of early, nervousness" over European developments, and a further `recovery. ta Indicated. The Timer business, Index for the wool was 70.7, ns against B13 the revised index for last week and 1024 for the corresporiding work of last by tak

Cotton! The market rockes a con- structive Interpretation of European developments. There was heavy buying of texülés 'nt' advances, in- duced by the possibility of a proces sing-tax. The market is broadening

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

HONGKONG. AND SHANGILAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Notice is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders In this Corporation will be held at the Head Office of the Corporation, No. 1 Queen's Road Contra), Hongkong, on Satur- day, the 26th February; 1938, at 11.30 am. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board. of Directors together with a State- ment of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1937.

The Register of Shares of the Corporation will bo closed from Monday, the 14th February to Saturday, the 26th February, 1938, (both days inclusivo)

during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chlef Manager. Hongkong, 7th February, 1938.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC

CO., LTD.

Notice is hereby given that the Forty-ninth Ordinary Yearly Meet- ing will be hold at the Com- pany's Offices, P. & 0. Building, on Thursday, 10th March, 1938, at 11 a.m..for the purpose of present- ing the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1937, and electing Directors and Audi- toru.

A

The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 26th February to 10th March, 1938, both days Inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Sharos can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON &

CO., LTD., Agents. Hongkong, 18th February, 1938.

THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE FIFTY-FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- son & Co., Ltd., on Friday, the 11th March, 1938, AT 11 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts for tho year ended 31st December, 1937.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 4th March, 1939, to Friday, the 11th March, 1938, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

F. H. CRAPNELL,

Secretary, Hongkong, 21st February, 1938.

KOWLOON RESIDENTS'

ASSOCIATION

Notice

The Eighteenth Annual General Meeting of the Kowloon Residents' Association will be held in St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, on Friday, 4th March, 1938, at 6 p.m.

Business

Adoption of Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1937.

Election of Officers and Com- mitteo..

Any other business.

It is carnestly requested that members and all others interested in the welfare of Kowloon will endeavour to be preson. An opportunity will be given for bringing forward matters for the consideration of the now.. Com- · mittee.

O

R. BALDWIN,

Hon. Secretary.

Rubber: This market Wan in- fluenced largely by other maritetą, but prices were steady at the ad-

·Vance...

Sughri The market was steady, but extremely quiet, qua!!

Steel mill activity during the week ending February 10th, according to the Iron & Steel Institute, was 30.4 per, cont. of capacity, as compared with 31.0 per cent. the previous week.

Tuesday, February 22nd, "Washing lon's Birthday," is a Holiday on the American markets and the usual- quotations will not be available. 10-

Wheat Early dasiness, due to wenkriens of the foreign markets and further piolnture in the dry belt, met with good elas buying, Exports tomorrow, day were mil.There has – Voen a Yiaible dcoreano, of. 2,593,000 bushels.

NOTICE.

Practice Black-out on February 28th, 1938.

Directions in regard to use of head-lamps on motor vehicles.

The Commissioner of Police draws apecial attention to Regulation of the Temporary Regulations under the Lighting Control Ordinance, 1936, published in the Government Gazetto of the 18th day of February, 1938.

The regulations' will be in force from 7 P.M. to 11 P.M. on 28th February, 1938.

Regulation 5 is as follows:-

.

"The following restrictions on the use of lights on vehicles shall be observed:-

(1) Except in accordance with such directions as the Commis- sioner of Police may give under this regulation, the use of bead lamps on all vehicles is prohibited: "Head lamp" means a lamp, in which the diameter of the front glass exceeda 4%1⁄2 Inches.

(2) No light shall be shown from any moving vehicle excopt (a) to the front, a white or yellow light from not more than two lamps;

(b) to the rear, a red light from not more than one lamp. Two lights to the front and one to the rear aro compulsory for motor vehicles.

No rear "stop" light and no direction Indicator of any kind showing a light shall be used,

Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent the use, in trams and omnibunes only, of interior lights reduced in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (4),

(3) No light whatever shall be shown from any stationary vehicle oxcopt a tram or an omnibus, and then only while it is stopped for so long as may be necessary to plek up or discharge passengers In the course of its regular service,

(4) Tho lights of trams and omnibuses must be reduced as the Commissioner of Police may direct.

(5) In the case of all other vehicles-

only electric or oil lamps shall be used;

(a)

(b)

no lamp of a power exceeding six candle-power shall

be used;

(c) the front glasses of all lamps in use must be obscured with at least one thickness of ordinary white or yellow tissue paper or with white or yellow paint, colourwash or material so that the obscuring effect is not less than that of one thickness of ordinary white tissue paper. The paper, paint or material must cover the whole of the portion of the front glass through which light can pass and must not be treated in any way so as to Increase its transparency. This regulation shall not apply to any vehicle in use on emer- gency duty for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes."

The use of head lamps on motor vehicles which have no aide lamps will be permitted only if (1) auch head lamps are fitted with a disc constructed and attached as follows:-

(a) The disc must be made of completely opaque material, must it near to the front glass of the lamp (inside the lamp if desired) and must cover it so as to prevent the passage of light except through the holes cut as provided in the following diagram.

(b) The holes in the disc must be covered with at least one thickness of ordinary white or yellow tissue paper.

(2) In the head lamp no lamp bulb of a power exceeding six candle-power is used.

21st February, 1038,

Hong Kong.

T. H. KING, Commissioner of Police.

Cabinet Crisis Many Nazis Upsets Market

Arrested

Demonstrations Turn

Into Riots

London, Feb. 21. London Stock Exchange business was restricted by the political situa- tion to-day. Austrian loans regis tered further losses, but German

Graze, Feb. 21. loans made substantial headway.

Complete control of the situation is Otherwise the market was quiet and now held by the Austrian police irregular.

following demonstrations by Nazis atter Herr Hitler's speech yesterday.

Commodities and

were rubber Armer. There was little Continental demand, but better New York ad- vices on foreltn exchanges.

Other commodities were feature Icss-Reuter Special,

TOKYO MARKET LIFTED

The demonstrations, which started in orderly. fashion, become unruly, and as a result many arrests were made, while two taverns in which Nazis had gathered have been closed.

·The Fatherland Front is proposing

letin..

A Tokyo, Feb. 23.

Favourable impressions created by counter-demonstrations.-Reuter Bul- Herr Hitler's speeches caused gains of one to three yen over a wide range of shares on the Stock Market says the Asahi Shimbun.' -The buy- Ing sentiment was traceable, not only to the impending recognition of Man- chukuo" but also the resignation of Mr. Anthony Eden. T

Tokyo brokers believe that the totter's resignation marke, the turn- Ing point of British polley in the Far Fast, according to the Asahi Shimbun. -Router,

Hungary May Bid for Arms Equality Soon

Budapest, Feb, 22. It is announced that the Hungarian Parliament's Army Commilies, will FIONE 'LINKS. MUKDEN-OSAKA Įmeet on Tuesday. The sole point on the agenda is "The question of ¡nationat defence."

Vienna is predicting that Hungary

SPECIAL DISPLAY

OF

WATCHES,

DIAMONDS,

JEWELLERY,

PEARLS,

SILVERWARE,

CLOCKS,

CHINESE AIRMEN AGAIN VICTORS

Hanicow. Feb. 22.

ANTELYNCHING BILL SHELVED

Washington, Feb. 217

Opponents of the Anti-Lynching. Law ended a six weeks filibuster In triumph to-day, when ihe Senate shelved the 'measure' after. Senator Barkley had moved, consideration 'of the G$250,000,000 Deficiency Reller Bill,

Senators: Wagner and Van Nuys

Chinese airmen accomplished an-intended to press the fight for their other remarkable feat yesterady Anti-Lynching bill, but admitted afternoon when they destroyed eight that consideration of the measure Japanese planes at the Hangchow was very unlikely during the present. scrudrome, according to Information session.---United Preas. from the Chinese military aviation pa headquarters.

Swooping down on the aerodrome, the Chinese ́Becs-reicused some. 30 bombs on the Japanese planes with great accuracy, binsting them all to pieces. Severni huge fires were seen bursting up from the airfield,

The rald took the Japanese at the aerodrome entirely by surprise, they failed to make any attempt to send off their planes.

All the Chinese planes returned to their base safely-Central News.

JAPANESE PLANE BROUGHT DOWN

Canton, Feb, 22.

Hittlo damage. was. ' caused.--Central News.

TUNGYUANGKWAN RETAKEN

Linfen, Feb. 22.. Tungyangkwan, strategle point on the eastern - Shansi- border, was taken by a Chinese mobile unit on learned from military sources. the morning of February 19, It is

The retreating Japanese, number- ing about 400, have been encircled by the Chinese guerilles on the bank of the Manliuho, north-oost of Licheng, where fighting is now in progress.

Tamaichiao, a point south-west of Fenyang in

In west Shansi, was also re- captured by the Chinese on February

both

A check-up late last night revealed 20 after a day's bitter engagement, that a Japanese plane which raided in which heavy casualties on the Canton-Hankow Railway yester-sides resulted-Central News, day was brought down at Shlukwan by Chinese anti-aircraft gunfire, the Japanese airmen being killed.

Altogether 01 Japanese planes in

JAPANESE PLANES ACTIVE

22.

Shanghal, Feb.

A Japanese naval spokesman an- nounced that Japanese planes on Monday ralded the new aerodrome at

10 different groups came to raid the Hengyan and set fire to one large, Canton-Kowloon Railway and the and several small bombers which | Canton-Hankow Hallway and the were on the ground. They also shot

north-eastern suburbs of Canton, down

down one of four unloading BOMO 100 bombs.

Curtlas-Hawks'

at pursuit planes which offered aerial different points. About 10 civilians combat.

At Ichang they damaged one large were killed and many houses were demolished, but no serious damage and one small bomber and exploded was done to the railways.—Centrál | A Now.

ICHANG AGAIN · RAIDED

For Dan magazine,

damaging the

and the barracks, At Klangs they hit two bombers. which were on the ground and set fire to the nerodrome bulidings, Ichung, Feb. 22. while at Lishul in Choklang, they hit. Ichang, on the Yangtze River in the aerodrome buildings. The acro- Hupch, was subjected to another drome buildings at Polyun, Kwang- rald by nine Japanese planes yester» tung were set on fire by the raiders, day morning. More than 20 bombs who also bombed the hangars of were unloaded in the suburbs but Tienho in Kwanglung.—United Press..

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