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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

Auktorised Capital

.......... $50,000,00

lued and Fully Pald⚫up **** $20,000,000 Reserva Funds:

Bierling

***

6,500,00%

Hongkong Currency Reserve $10,000,000 Reserve Liability of Propriators $20,000, 201

HEAD OFFICE:—HONGKONG.

DOARD OF DIRECTOREN ----

T. E. Pearceo, Esq.

Chairman,

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson,

Deputy Chairman,

3. K. Dousfold, Esq.

A. H. Compton, Esq.

J. R. Masson, Zaq.

C. Miskin, Esq.

Hen. Mr. 8.H, Dodwell K. 6. Morrison, Eag.

M. T. Jahnson, Esq. Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields

AMOY

D. C. Edmondston, Esq.

Acting Chief Maringer.

BANGKOK

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•

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SILANGHAI

BINGAPORE

RQUIABAYA

BUNGEI PATANI

SWATOW

TIENTBIN

TOKYO

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YOKOHAMA

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he quoted on application.

ALSO Up to date BAFE DEPOSIT DOXES in various sizes TO LET.

Hongkong 2nd May, 18,

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK,

The Business of the above Denk b cunducted by the Hongkong and Shang hai Banking Corporation. Rules may be obtained on application,

FOR THE HONGKONG AND BIANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION.

D. C. KUBONUSTON,

Acting Chlef Manager,

Hongkang. 2nd May, 1970.

The P. & O. Banking Corporation, Ltd.

(Incorporated in England, 1020),

Authorised Capital

Subscribed and Pald-up

Reserve Fund......

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Armcles, wil the principal towns atļ the world.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1938.

HOW IT BEGAN By Paul F

· WAGE AND Hour

* LEGISLATION

IN 1349 ENGLISH FEUDAL LAWI FIXED WORKERS' WAGES AND HOURS, WHICH WERE FROM SUN-UP TO SUN-DOWN, IN 1360 A LAW WAS PASSED WHICH IMPRISONED LABORERS WHO STAYED AWAY FROM WORK WITH=" OUT PERMISSION AND BRANDED THEM ON THE FOREHEAD —— FIRST ATTEMPT AT WAGE AND HOUR LEGISLATION.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter 1853 HEAD OFFICE:LONDON. 38 shop gato E.C.1. Paid-up Capital

£3,000,000 Heserve Linoliity of Proprietors 3,000.000 Itcnerve Fundi

£3,000,000 MANCHESTER BRANCH:

1 Mastey St. Manchester.

AGENCIES AND BRANCHES;

General Exchange and Banking busi- | ness transacted, Lasn and overdrafts Alor Bur granted on approved meurity. Current Ariar and Fixed Deporti secounů opened.

RAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN LOČAL CUR Datavis

Bangkok RENCY: Interest allowed at rates which Bombay may be obtained on appifcation.

Calcutta SAVINGS ACCOUNTS: Canton Interest allowed at rates which may be Cawnpore

Cebu TRAVELLcation.

LETTERS OF CREDIT. Colombo TRAVELLERS CHEQUES AND

PAS Delhi SENGER LETTERS OF CREDIT (for use

STERLING

obtained on

Halphong on board P, & Q. and 13. I. Steamers and Hamburg at Ports of Call) are Innued at current flankow rute of exchange and free of commission: Harbin AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELLERS Hongkong

CHEQUES sold and cashed.

British Income Tax Recovered. Executorships and Trusteeshipa under-

taken.

Q. D. BELLs

Manager,

Hongkong, 24th March 1938.

HEGEMONY GOAL OF JAPANESE

Litvinov Denounces Aggression

Ipoh

1 pilo Karachi Ktang Lobe Kuala

Lumpur Kuching Madras

Manila

Medan New York

Peiping

(Pekin)

Penang Rangoon

Baigon

Бегствал

Shanghai

Bingapore

Sitiawan Sourabaya Taiping Tientsin Tongkah

(Bhuket)

Talogico

Yokohama Zamboangs

Foreign Exchange and General Ban

ing bulaeus transacted.

Current Accounts opened and FixeO Deposits received for one year or short pertods at rates which will be quoted application.

The Bank's Head Omec 10 Londo undertakes Executor Trusted busines and claims recovery of British Incor Tax overpaid, un tems which may be scertained at any of its Agencies & Branchen,

D. J. GILMORE,

Acting Manager. ilangkong, la June, 1930.

Kianager.

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA.

LIMITED.

Autherised Capital ..

Paid-up Capital

Reserve and Undivided

$10,000,000.00

# 8.500.000.00

Profita ........................、、、......2,710,720,70

HEAD OFFICE-HONGKONG

+

10, Des Voeux Road, Central,

BOARD OF DIRECTOR: Sir Shōuson Chow, Chalkman. 1. Kuon Chun, Esq. c. Kwok, Esq.

Funk Fing Wol, Esq. Li Lan Sang, Esq. Wong Yun Tong, Esq. Wong Chu Son, Esq. Chang Chung Shek, Esq. Kan Ying Po. Esq. KAN TONG PO, Esq., Chief Manager. LI THE FONG. Erg. Manager. BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-

Moscow, June 25. Japan is trying to attain hegemony. over Aslu, declared M. Litvinov, Commissur for Foreign Affairs, in a sperch at Moscow.

Amoy

Having tested the factors opposed to her, he continued, and met with Batavia no material resistance from the Bombay signatories of the Washington Treaty, Calcutta Japan has unfolded her

3ggression | Halphong and "we are witnessing the liquida. Hankow tion of that treaty."

Honolulu Kobe

Canton

that Kowloon

London Manlia

Melbourne

Nagasaki

New York

Osaka

I'atis

Stinnghal Singapore Sourabaya Swatow Sydney Talhaku Tientsin Tokyo

Vancouvel

San Francisco

Yokohama

Seattle Bemarang

Pelping

Penang Tangoon Saigon

M. Litvinov also declared Germany, without flring a shot, hud alrendy succeeded in annulling Every description of Banking and Ex- practically all the results for the sake ot which the western Powers had gone to war.

He contended that the policy of non-resistance to an aggressor was encouraging further.

AR

offensive. Germany was not content to restore pre-war frontiers and colonies, but

BERDANIER

Berdanier

BELLA-DONNA

THIS MEDICINAL HERB, MEMBER OF THE NIGHTSHADE FAMILY, WAS USED IN MEDIEVAL TIMES BY ITALIAN. LADIES, AS A BEAUTY AID, TO TINT THE SKIN AND DILATE THE PUPILS OF THE EYES. HENCE THE NAME, FROM ITALIAN “BELLA”(BEAUTIFUL) AND “DONNA”(LADY).

THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William

SNAILS,

BECAUSE OF

THEIR

ABILITY TO

UNDERGO

LONG FASTS, ARE TAKEN ALONG BY AFRICAN NATIVES ON SAFARI, AS A SOURCE

OF FRESH FOOD.

Ferguson

EACH YEAR,

IN THE MONTH OF

MAY,

A GROUP OF

METEORS

FLASH THROUGH THE SKY.... REMINDERS OF

HALLEY'S,

COMET

THESE METEORS FORMED A PART OF THE TRAIN OF HALLEY S COMET WHEN IT CAME NEAR THE EARTH

IN 1910... AND THEY WERE LEFT BEHIND WHEN IT MOVED OFF INTO SPACE.

*PENDENT COPR, 1939 BY MEA BERVICE, INC.

STARTING AT THE

SOUTH POLE, A PERSON

CAN TRAVEL 100 MILES NORTH, 100 MILES EAST, AND 100 MILES SOUTH... AND FIND HIMSELF AT THE POLE AGAIN.

5-27

EACH time a comet comes near the sun it loses a portion of its train, and this material never is recovered. Whenever the earth passes through these wondering particles, they flash and burn out in the friction of our atmosphere.

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The total Expenditure in 1038 on behalf of

ed on approved securities, chango business transacted. Loans grant- sick and destitute children is estimated at Current Account opened in Local Cur- $27,000, against which the Income to date is rency and Fixed Deposits received for $10,000 only.

one year or shorter periods in Local and.

Foreign Currencies on terms which will asks for the balance of

In order to continue its work, the Society be quoted on application.

Safe Deposit Boxes To Let.

ΚΑΝ ΤΟΝΟ ΓΟ

Manager.

was determined to capture strong weakened, compared to before the vital positions, which belonged the former allies of the Great War.

to war.

The past six years had seen a general Aquidation of international

Strategic positions of Britain and order, and the League of Nations had France in the Mediterranean in become only a weak shadow, he Spain had already been considerably

concluded.-Reuter,

ALLEY OOP

AWRIGHT, OOP.

IF IT'S TROUBLE YOU WANT, THEN?

IT'S TROUBLE YOU'LL CIT?

LISSEN, WUR-THERE'S NO REASON FOR US HAVIN' TROUBLE, BUT IF YOU KEEP

ON---

$12,000

before the close of the financial year on 31st October. Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A..

e/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,

P. & O. Building;

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o The Banque de L'Indo Chine,

Hongkong.

·YER MIGHTY HABLE TGITCHER BLASTED

HEAD KNOCKED

OFF!

By Vincent Hamlin

BOOKS

edited by ROGER PIPPETT

This One

May Shock You

Y

OU know what it's like to sit for hours in a stuffy, smoke-Alled railway carriage and then, as the train flies on through the dark- ness, to open the window and put your hend out to the rush of clean night air?

First Things First, by Frank Tilsley (Michael Joseph, 10s. Od.), is like that: Invigorating, vitalising. It is an uncommon book, in some ways a unique book. For Mr. Tilsley is an uncommon chap.

'There is a snatch of autobiography in it, including an engaging reference to his until recent belief that Ibid was an ancient philosopher, probably contem- porary with Ovid. "I was always seeing him quoted at the bottom of pages.".

There is quite a slice of philosophy:

"One of the most astonishing and encouraging things about human beings is the way, in spite of everything, they keep on being human, and the way, given half a chance, they will develop into some- thing far better than we would appear to have any right to expect,"

.

Frank Tilsley

has something for

There is any amount of debunking of the current cant. I'm instinctively far more inclined to hit a Conservative on the head with Das Kapital than persuade him to read it." But the greater part of the book is a sort of Tilsley's Testament. And you should know a tle about Tilsley be- fore we come to the Testa- ment.

He is. on his own confesston, 33, Socialist, a Northcountryman, a beer drinker. Son of working-class parents, he has had seventeen different jobs since he left (coun- cib school at 14.

In the manner of boys who leave council schools, be entered the profes- sion for which he was least fitted and, with arithmetic is wenkest subject. found himself working in an account- ant's office.

When accountancy rated his market value, after 18 years of training, at precisely £4 a week-and that only when Jobs happened to be available- be decided that the world must lose an audit clerk,

And thusa novel or two Interven- ing-he came to write this personal statement of faith! to find out for him. self which things are first and why.

*

*

It is a blunt, forthright, supremely honest book, written with enormou KUALO, Mr. Tiisley knocks the non- Sezise from under you, plants your feet armly on the ground and then cuts a way through the forest of everyday frustrations and shows you the day- #ight on all sides.

Democracy. Socialism, Humanity-- these things conis first, he dogkdes, but not until he has explored the possibili ties of other creeds and found them remarkably unsatisfactory.

Exploring with him as guide is ex elling. For, though you know after the first page or so that he is going to upset the Blimps, you are never certain just how he is going to do it. He has a jolt for the warmongers: "When you are told that human nature is red in tooth and claw, the thing to do is to count up all the people you know really intimately and de- cide how many are and how many are Rol."

And a shock the complacent:

When you read about a million and a half unemployed you should realem- ber that those people are just exactly the same sort of people as so many million engineers, clerks, coal-minerk or farm labourers"

He inveighs against all men of I will, from arms makers (come "people like that would howl against the aboli tion of leprosy or bad drains if they could make twopence profit out of it")' to law brenkera

Mr. Tilsley attacks privilege, because under Capitalism privilege ranks higher than ability, and avarice and humbug and deceit and the financia! oligarchy which puts

frot things" in the background.

But he forces nothing down your throat. You can take it or leave it. It's just that the future place of the fimt things largely depends on whether you can take i

6. E. IL W.

COUNT THE "TELEGRAPHS" EVERYWHERE

GOOD HONK. I CONKED "TH'

WRONG GUY!

everybody to take

or to leave.

NOVELS.

SHALL Get the week's laurels rakishly on the brows of Chap- man and Hall for the most amusing publisher's blurb of this ---er, probably, any other-season. After the fulsome stuff we're used to. It comes well.

Splashed in red, white and black neross the cover of Evelyn Waugh's new novel, Scoop (78. Gd.), is an imag inary Interview with the smiling. bondy-eyed, watchful author. "What an open face!

Byeli o nice young mant

Press

Conxed ԻՐԻՐ

by Soclety Beauty-Big Chance for Bmail Town Boy-Threat of War in Africa's Most Glamrous Hinterland-News-hawks Race for Story Actoss Uncharted Con- Unent-Gont Butts Black-Mystery Financier Outwits Reds-Boot Makes Good-Editor's Ordeal-Lord Copper Personmily Welcomes the Future.

"These are only a few of the thrills

STOCK MARKET

REPORT

The Hongkong Stock Exchange offlciol summary, issued on Saturday, reads:

There was a fair enquiry for shares. during the short session, those most

sellers'

recorded exclusively to a Daily Beast reporter yesterday by thirty-four-year- old novelist, Evelyn Waugh.

"I hope it sells a hundred thousand," zaid Waugh. 'But I shall be very pleased with half that number, Two or three of the characters seem to me quite fumy. There a great dent of

at and a happy ending.",

And, then, the master-touch. "It is stupendous." sald hundred-years-old publishers, Chapman and Roll, "Epoch making, intoxicating. We have pub- Ushed nothing comparable to it this week.".

Neither has anybody else. For Mr. Waugh is in rattling good form nearly all the way in this satire on the Press. A tragi-comedy, dancing with Hight- hearted savagery and sirown with be- wildered victims across two continents. A merry massacre in which the Journalists of Britain can take what's coming to them.

There is a great deal of plot, art- fully summarised above. And a very, very happy ending. But not before the Nice Young Mont has shown his sweat- ing imitators how deftly-I spotted ons or two minor missen-this sort of thing can be donc... He stil carries the same old knuckledustera inaldo those velvet gloves.

Nice work, Mr. Waugh,

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us-one of them for the inst time in translation this week: Thomas Mann and the late Maxim Gorki.

In demand being Humphreys, Wat-TWO great novelists come to sons, Ducks and Telephones. Business was dimeult, buyers' and Ideas being rather too divergent.

Buyers ilongkong Bank $1,450 Canton Inc. $235 1.K, Fire Ins. $220 H.K, Docka (Oki) $19 ILK. Docks (New) $10 Providents (010) 1.33 Providents (Old) $3.30 Venz, Goldfield 13

I. & S. Hotels $0.40 H.K. Landis $3 H.K. Lands 46 Deb, $102% Humphreys $0.10°

1.K. Realties 65.40 HK. Tramways $10,00 Penk Trams (Old) $0

China Light (Old) $10.70 Cements #16

Dairy Farttin $23

Watson $0.10

Marmaris (Lon.) 14/5 Conso. Ch. Prav, (Old) $0.70 Consa, Ch. Prov. (New) $0.00

Halters

H. & S. Hotels $0

Hales II.K. Docks (Now) $it, H. & S. Hotels 1045 ILK. Tramways $11 - Chun Lights (0) 810/90... H.K. Electrics $30%

Macao Electric $18,10 Watsons $0.20 Antamoks Ps. 12 Aloka 27

Baguio Cold 21 Benguet Consol 0.00 Coco Grove 454 Demonstrations 27 Ban Mauricio 43 Huyou Consol. 16% Untied Paracaics 20

WELL, THAT'LL

BE "TH' END OF OUR NICE, QUIET LÍL

PARADISE

I KNEW IT WAS DANG IT,

TOO GOOD TO

LAST!

Herr Mani has written long books before-Buddenbrooks, which made nim famous, and The Magic Mountain, In my view the finest fiction written since the War. Where other authors take weeks over their work, he takes years.

Now come the latest volumes in his most monumental effort, the re-telling of the story of Joseph (Joseph in Egypt. Published by Becker and War- rols, 15). A score of burg. Two verses in Genesis expanded to nearly seven hundred pages. Monumental is the word!

And like a monument, the book in vast and awe-inspiring (" However did they build those Pyramida?") and nfecting-and, at times, I fear, boring.

too.

In the earlier chapters Joseph in taken in captivity through Egypt, and hero Herr Mann is at his best,“showing us Hollopolis and the Sphinx by moon- light and Memphis and Pharaoh's golden city, Thebes. Then, as Organr- siph, Joseph is sold into the house of Potiphar.

The second volume is heavy with the passion of Potiphar's wife for the handsome young exile, The author, who is a master of morbidity, obviously enjoys himself in the slow, remorseless development of that dianstrous infatu- ation. Genests rowritten by Freud..

And, because Herr Mann is a gonius, he manages to make his points in spite of the outworn archalo style and the occasional ponderousness of approach, | But need he miko them again and

again and again?

Corki ran to longth, too, In this story of the pilgrimage of a Russian Intellectual, Olim Bamghin, towards the revolutionary shrine of 1917, Tho Bpeelre (Apploton-Century, 125: 6d,) is the fourth and final instalment of a work which covers several thousand pages.

Cilm is noen battling along in a storm of argument and ideas on tho. last stages of his journey, Gorki bad not quite filshed with hidi when he alled, But this is a fascinating, disturb- ing and memorable book.

For, apart from the immediate sig- nincanee of tho atory, you can catch authentle eshoes of the great Ruskian novelists (including Górki himself), Echoes that we sipil never hear again,

R.P.