1938-12-23 — Page 36

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS

25

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

BANK HOLIDAYS.

words $2.00 Ordinance, The Exchange Banks

for 3 days propaid

WANTED KNOWN. TLACE YOUR ORDER EARLY for Christmas Feast, delivered, if requir ed, Juva Ricctable, wonderful tasty, appetizing, invigorating, enjoyable for everybody. Java Restaurant, Lockhart Road, 44, Telephone 32404.

PERSONAL.

RONNIE Please return home im- mediately. The matter is of very small importance, and not worth worrying about. Everybody anxious and waitint for you.

E.

FOR SALE.

GOOD OPPORTUNITY,The whole collection of rare curloa now exhibit- ed in Hotel Ceell, room 37, 2nd floor, ls offered wholesale at favourable terma. Examination welcome.

FOR SALE. Two large Canadian Two Stone Silver Foxes $350. Martens $100. At "Eve", National Commercial Bank Building, 2nd floor, Room 205, BA Des Voeux Rond,

UNDERWOOD PORTABLE $50; Sewing Machines $30; Overcoats Dinner Porcelains, $8-10; Safes;

Telescopes, Punchbowls, Cutglass Binoculars at sample cost "FE.M. C.A. 321, 3rd. Asia Life Building, 14 Queen's. Until 6 p.m.

H.K. Stock Market

The following quotations were issued on the Hongkong Stock Market this morning:

BANKS

H.K. Bank, S...

II.K. Banks, Lon. £.

Chartered

Merennule, A. z. B.

Mercantile, C. £

East Aria

INSURANCES

Canton $.

Union $.

H.K. Fire $....

BHIPPING

Douglas,

China Underwriters cts..

Steamboats

Indo-Clines, P.

Indo-Chinus, D. Shell Bearers /-

Waterboals.....

DOCKS ETC.

Wharves Ducks (old) Docks (new) Providents (old) Providents (new) New Eng. Sh. Sha. Docks, Sh, Kallon 3/- Rauba

Venz: Goldfield Hongkong Mines

MINING

Antamoks Ps. Aloks Ps.

Bagulo Gold P's. Benguet Con. Ps.

Coco Grove Ps.

Con. Mines Pa.

Demonstrations Ps.

L.X.L. Ps. Gumaus Fa

San Maurielo Ps. Suyoc Consol Pa. Paracales I's,

Hotela $.

Lands $.

LANDS

Lands 4% deb. $. Sha. Lands- Sh. Humphreys

11.K. Realles Chinese Estates

UTILITIES

Tram. Peak Trams (old) Peak Trams (new) Star Ferries

Y. Ferries (old)

Y. Ferries, (new) China

H.K. Elect cx. dlv.

Macao

eno Electric Sundakan Lights

Telephone (old) Telephone (new) Tractions

Singapore Pref., a/-

INDUSTRIAL. Cald: Macg. (ord.), Sh. Cald: Macg. (Pre.), Sh.

Canton Icen

Cementa $.

Ropes

Dairy Farms

Watsona

Crawfords

Sinceres

STORES, &c.

Wing On (H.K.)

Powell, Ltd. cts.

1,380 s. .81 1. .0% 1.

17 m.

13 n.

BO 1.

,205 1. .485 n.

..70 a.

.102 n.

$6114 b.

$10 n.

$60 n.

.$24 n.

$9 n.

$115 b.

$18 b.

.$174 sa. .$8.35 b. .$0.15 b.

In accordance with Government

will be closed for the transaction of Public Business on Monday and Tuesday, the 20th and 27th Decem- ber, 1938. (Christmas Holidays). Hongkong, 21st December, 1938.

CROWN LIFE INSURANCE CO.

TORONTO-CANADA.

Efective 15th December, 1938, and by.mutual arrangement, Messra, Gilman & Co. Ltd., have relinquished The Crown China Agency and Messrs. Thomson & Co., Chartered Accountants, Hong Kong and Shanghal Bank; Deild.ng. Hong Kong. are au.korised to accept

premiums

'And receipts to policy holders Crown Life Insurance Co,

issue of

Clients are therefore requested to make their deposits or pay- ments direct to Messrs. Thomson & Co. only, at the above address,

J. H. UNDERWOOD,

Manager for China.

ST. ANDREW'S BALL

For the convenience of Members

Guests aud

of St. Andrew's Society attending the Ball to be held this evening, a special 5

Friday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

December 23, 1938.

DRAMATIC PICTURE OF RAID ON VALENCIA

REMARKABLE picture showing Valencia harbour being bombed by "Legionary" planes.

minute service of Star Ferries with the bombs seen actually in the air. will run between 9 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. and a special service from Kowloon to Hong Kong will run every 15 minutes between midnight and 1 n.m, and every half hour thereafter until 3 .m. The Vehicular Ferry Service will be

extended until 2 a.m.

The first Supper will be served at 11.15 o'clock p.m. (approx.) and all those desiring to participate therein should be sunted in good

time before this hour. No reser vation of Supper Tables may be made,

Members and Guests are re- quested to note particularly that ADMISSION TO THE BALL WILL BE BY TICKET ONLY THAT THESE CANNOT OBTAINED AT THE DOOR OF

THE HOTEL.

AND BE

Entrance to the Hotel will be by the Main Doors, Salisbury Road, only,

$5.00 n. CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.

.$100 n.

17/6 n. .$0.35 n.

.$3 n. .71% cts. n.

COTTON MILLS

Shal Cotton Sh.$.

.50 sa. 2412 5a. 23 si. 12.00 . Si sh.

271⁄2 50.

1.78 sa.

.20 sn. 64 sa,

01⁄4 n. .30 so. 107% n. .39% n. $ઇ છે. $5 b.

.$90 n.

$17 b. .$0% n. $3 n.

SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES

MESSAGELLIES MARITIMES.

Steamship

"JEAN LABORDE” 3*A/30 Bringing Cargo from Marseilles viu Saigon, etc., arrived Hongkong on Friday, 23rd December, 1938,

hereby informed Consignees are that their goods with the exception of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables are being tanded and stored into the Go- downs of the Hongkong, Kowloon Whart and Godown Co, Ltd., Kow- loon, whence delivery may be obtain- ed immediately after landing.

All claims must be sent in to me on or before 3rd January, 1930, or they will not be recognized

Damaged Packages will be examin- ed by the Company's Surveyor Messrs-Goddard and Douglas is the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 .mt. on Thursday, 29th December, 1930,

Such raids on Valencia have been common during the past 18 months.

REMARKABLE ALLEGATION

OF FRENCH INTERVENTION

IS

MADE

FORMER

EDITOR RETURNS

Mr. F. L. Pratt Back In Colony After 30 Years

BY FRANCO

LONDON, Dec. 22. ALLEGATIONS that French sources supplied

1

torpedoes, Funds To

anti-aircraft projectiles and

other ammunition to the Spanish Aid Chinese

Loyalist destroyer, Jose Luiz- diez, now undergoing repairs in Gibraltar, are made in a note the Franco Government has sent to Britain.

Science Study

British Government Makes Remittance

The note declares tint the muni- tions were conveyed in lighters sent to Gibraltar on the pretext of raising the destroyer's bows, and it asserts

Chungking, Dec. 23. that the destroyer's crew was supple- The Board of Trustees for the mented with French sailors from Administration of the Boxer indem- French destroyers, while it had been nity Fund remitted by the British intended to protect the destroyer's Government has made plans for departure with units from the French sending three investigation groups

into far-off Chinese provinces.

Опе

cover Szechwan group will and Sikong another to northwestern

A former Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph, Mr. F. L. Pratt, has re- turned to the Colony after an absenec of approximately thirty years. He fleet. expresses himself as amazed at the

The hole concludes denouncing the growth of Victoria and Kowloon, and flagrant violation of the non-inter-provinces of Chinghai, Ninghsia and particularly marked the disappear-vention agreement."-Reuter. ance of former landmarks such as Morrison Hill.

Before becoming associated

War

with

| Kansa and the third to the south- western provinces" of Kwelehow, Yunnan. Kwangsi and

Each

will be composed of KrOUD 50 members and will be divided in e sections, geology, physics

Will

Boswelly the investigation

also

and

The

NOTICE.

For the convenience of Christmas Shoppers. business hours of the undermentioned Stores. will be as follows:-

DECEMBER 21st From 9 a.m. to

F1

22nd From 9 am to

9 p.m.

9 p.m.

23rd From 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

24th From 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.

On Christmas Day all our Stores will be closed, but will be RE-OPEN on December 26th As Usual,

THE WING ON CO., LTD. THE SUN' CO., LTD. CHINA EMPORIUM, LTD. THE SINCERE CO., LTD.

Greetings

to Friends & Customers

from

THE BOMBAY SILK STORE 2, D'Aguilar Street,

RETALIATION

AGAINST FOREIGN

CREDITS

TO CHINA

PEIPING, Dec. 22.

export trade generally, customs mat- U.S. SHARPLY REJECTS ters, the latter embracing a possible STRONG NAZI PROTEST upward revision of tariffs, especially affecting imports from

(Continued from Page 2.)

countries

FRANCO TO FEED STARVING

the Far Eastern press, Mr. Pratt was

Henadye, Dec. 22. special correspondent of the "Sydney IL was reported to-night at the

the Russo-border that there has been a round-ve Morning Herald" in Japanese

of 1004-05, Of Inte up of hundreds of persons after the chemistry, economy, social science, years he has. not

been actively en-discovery of espionage rings in both and agriculture and forestry.

and investigators will be drafted from Esged in Journalism, though he is Loyalist and Insurgent Spain, still China correspondent of the Lon-that many would be forced to face university graduates.

Budget for each group is tem-

THE FIRST retaliatory blow against the British and American den Chamber of Commerce Journal. firing squads.

set at $50,000.

credits to China may emerge from the United Council of the Pro- He joined the Chinn Publishing

It is reported that General Franco founded Company when it was

groups,visional Governments of Peiping and Nanking, which opened to-day.. 1,000 arrests in anthe Board Shanghai some years

provide for 125 and is ordered nearly ago, an

The agenda includes the cotton; It effort to smash the my plot, which research assistants to be placed in now President of the concern.

trade in North China, control of sald was directed by the various universities. They will om-headquarters may be remembered that this com- pany

blography of Basque autonomists in north-western work in the laboratories. produced

Spain.

Material help given the Board

by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the

The Loyalist radio station

at for China's sclentine studies includes British Empire rights of which were Barcelona announced

at the same also monthly subsidies to about 200 bought by Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., a time, that "several hundred" arrests research

Besides time London publishing house."

various natural and social science Consignees must have a Revenue crdinary publication work, the China were made after the discovery of muren fellows for the study other than Japan, and luxurles Rike Officer in attendance when any duti- Publishing Company a interested in sabotage and defeatist plots in Barce-problems since the summer of 1938.

lona, Madrid and Valencia,

number of specialists, holding It is reported that General Franco's foreign scholastic degrees, are being agents have acquired control of milk, benefitted by this

arrangement in ernment." flour, and fuel supplies for the suffer- continuing their researches which ing population, who are near starva- were interrupted by the Sino-Japan- tion.

ese hostilities, Continued dissention in the Insur- The Kansu Science Institute is also gent ranks who are massed in north maintained by the Board. This in- Sonin for the long-heralded winter stilute concentrates its efforts on the offensivo is reported. Also that mill-advancement of scientific studies and Reuter tury and diplomatic information bas; activities in China's northwest, and ben escaping through the lightly on modernisation of the province in

collaboration held border.

with the provincial authorities. Central News. ITALIAN SOLDIERS HANGED

$71% n. | able goods are examined by

$224 8.

$9.80 n.

.$22% 0.

$57% B. $171. .$10% 5. .$23 sa. $8.60 n.

21/3 n. 25/- n.

$14.

.. $13 n.

$1.70 n. 15% B. $4.23 n.

.$24.50 3. .$7.45 b. $0 J.

the

Chinese art productions.

Company's Surveyors.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us In any case whatever.

R. ONL Agent.

ifongkong, 23rd December, 1038.

Air Mail Service Across Atlantic

Washington, Dec. 22. The United States civil aeronautles authority stated to-day that it was engaged with discussions with the State Department and other Govern- ment agencies for "looking toward! $2 n. the corly establishment of the trans- $30 n. Atlantic air services."

00 n.

Ewo Cotton Ex. rt. Sb.$.

16% n. 104 n. .24 n. .40 n.

Zoong Sings, Sh.$.

Wing On Texilles, Sh.$.

MISC.

H.K. Entertainments Constructions,

Vilbro Pling $.

Ch. Govt. 8% 1925

G$ Bonds

.$0 b. $145.

0 b.

.75% n.

H.K. Govt. 4% Loan..0% prm, b.

H.K. Govt 3

Maremans (Lon.), s/-.

Marsinans (ILK), 1/-

MANILA SHARES

I added that lawyers for Imperial Airways had led an application with the authority for a permit to Inaugurate a trans-Atlantic service.

The application was referred to the Company's London officials for execution, and cannot receive final consideration until this, and other technicn! requirements hnd been fullledNeuter.

1.00

104

N.Y.K.Godown Burnt Out

Shanghai, Dec. 23. The Nippon Yusen Kalsha godown, packed with cotton, of and matches, caught fire last evening and burn- cd for four hours,

The total loss is estimated at $100,- 000.00--United Press,

Exchange At A Glance

SELLING

T.T. London Demand T.T. Shanghal T.T. Singapore T.T. Japan T.T. Indin T.T. U.S.A. T.T. Manila

T.T. France TT. Germany

Switzerland T.T. Australia

15. 3% is, 374

172 Nom. .03%

10012

.03

2811

58

T.T. Balavia

33

par b

15/3 b,

Paracale Qumaus ...

Ung Una.

a/-

San Maurtelo Suyoc

1,78

TT. Bangkok T.T. Saigon

140%

.100

NO

10.00

United Parcel

.04

127%

1/81%

.1/9% 1/3.0/87

11.45

4.60%

The following quotations were re- colved after the close of the morning session through Reuters:

PricesDone

Antamok

Faguto Golf

in resou Dec, 22. Dec. 1.

Atok

9434

Denguet Cons

18.90

13.99

Coca Ctrove

253

Consolidated Siner

Ung,

0008

Demonstration

IX.L

Und

The following is Swan, Culbertson & Fritz report on this morning's marko1:

The Manila market was stendy with prices generally higher. However, Antamek and Suyoc both had losses of 1⁄4 centavo, while United Paracale lost 2 centavos, Benguet Consolidated up 40 centavos, Yesterday's Gold Share average was 107,85 and the volume of business done wa P850,000.

WHE

BUYING

4 m/s L/c London 4 m/s D/p do.'

4 m/s Franco

30 da India

U.9. Cross rate in Lon

20%

Ono source sald that 45 Italian soldiers had been waylaid and bang- ed by Insurgents whose enmity to- ward Halo-German "interference" In

An Spanish affairs is increasing. other said that 100 and plotters had been executed 'in a singlo bateb about one week ago.

spica

General Franco's Misalon in France admitted that stern massures had been taken to stamp out the espionage plot, discovered when a frontier

A

Thermometer Jumps Back Again

guard at Irun searched the diploma Yesterday's Minimum

tic pouches of the British Vice-Con- sul, Mr. Harold Goodman, last Fri- day, and found a report from Loyallat aples United Press,

Iraq Exiles Five

Chiefs Opposition

Baghdad, Dec. 22.

Temperature 63

of

.03.

The sharp fall in temperature on Wednesday, was succeeded yesterday by an almost equally sharp rise, when the minimum during the 24 hours period rose from 60 to However, the maximum recording was one degree below the maximum. registered during Wednesday, 08 being the highest for the day.

At 10 o'clock this

morning the

The Iraq Government to-day exiled thermometer had risen to 02, with five persons, including one former humidity at 71 per cent. Prime Minister, to the interior of the country.

The Royal Observatory weather

A number of opposition leaders report issued this morning stated were exiled to the sume place several that the anti-cyclone, which remains days ago.

of moderate Intensity, is stallonary The Government has thus taken up over North China, end the depression the fight against the opposition, which has moved into the Pacle to the chiefly consists of former parties north-east of Hakkaldo. hostile to the present Government-s Trans-Ocean.!

wine, spirits and tobacco.

British and American enterprises tremely sharp and new sienin would be seriously affected thereby. German-American relations

Mr. Welles told Dr. Thomsen that The United Council is not consider- ing the formation of a Federal Gov- Germany's request came with singu

larly l-grace and impropetely from It is believed that Japanese military Government which so persistently

pertalited its authorities have found it necessary officials to attack American leaders controlled prem and to postpone the idea indefinitely owing to the complete failure to including President Wilson and Prest- persuade any of the necessary person-dent Roosevelt, and present members nel to emerge under their banner of the Cabinet.

that

He advised Dr. Thomsen that Mr. GOODS FOR CHINESE

Ickes remarks represented the foci- TIED-UP AT HANOI

ing of an overwhelming majority of the American people, and unid Chengtu, Dec. 22. The Szechuan Pacification Com-the recent policy of Germany had

and missioner, Mr. Teng Hei-hou, con- shocked

confounded

Public the United States

inore ferred with the French Consul at opinion in

that had Chengtu in an effort to alraighten profoundly than anything out the Indo-China Ue-up.

occurred in many decades,

that ex-

No war shipments have been re- He warned Dr. Thomsen ceived in China since December 18. pressions of public indignation such While it was originally reported as that voiced by Mr. Yokes were in- that shipments were held up by evitable, and that Mr. Icker" eriiiciam Indo-China authorities, posalilly, due of Mr. Henry Ford and Colonel Lind- nowbergh was purely a question in which to Japanese pressure, it learned that the mix-up is due en- Germany could have to concern tirely to the flood of goods concen- whatever, and which he could not dis- trated at Hanol and" Haiphong--- | Cha United Press.

A long a German attacks American officials continued. German Government had no right to supposo attacks of the mine character would not continue—Neuter.

CHINESE SUFFERING FROM LACK OF TRANSPORT MEANS

Tokyo, Dec. 23. The congestion of freight is so heavy in Yunnanfu, capital of Yun-¦

nan Province, that even theatres are Wed at Police Station commandeered for storage of the ac cumulating freight since early Dec-

TURLOCK, Col. ember, a press message from Hanoi

Lovo laughed, if not with lock- smiths, at least with turnkeys when Quoting a traveller who has just Marion Olds and Miss Kathryn Mar-

Bays.

arrived in Hanol from Yunnanfu, the

message says that the mails which were married at police headquar have been accumulated in Yunnanfuera. Desk Bergeant David C. Fot- totalled 4,000 tona.

era, a retired clergyman, omelated, The message attributes the con- while Chief of Police E. W. Grady gestion of freight to the failure of WBA one of the witnesses. import of motor-lorries from abroad. The Chiang Kai-shek regime origin- ally planned to Import 3,000 motor- lorries from abroad following the fall

number.

The message adds that transit of of Canton and the Wuhan cities. one train-load of goods to Yunnan Actually, however, monthly Imports requires three days due to the lack Local forecast : North-east of motor-lorries through French of motor-lorries and other means of winds, frosh; cloudy generally,

transport-Domel.

Indo-Chin

-average only 100 in