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[NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS THE BANK OF EAST ASIA,

25 words $2.00

for 3 days prepaid

WANTED KNOWN.

An-

LIMITED.

Notice is hereby given that the TWENTIETH ORDINARY YEAR- LY MEETING of this Company will be held at the Registered Omce of the Company No. 10, Des Voeux Rond Central on Saturday, the 11th March, 1939, at 3.00 pm.

A TOMBOLA will be held every for the purpose of receiving the Friday at St. Patrick's Club, from Report of the Directors together 8.45 pm. to mid-night.

with a Statement of Accounts for DEFINITELY

the best equipped the year ended 31st December, shop. in the Colony. Modern halr

1938. styles, of perms, with or without

The Register of Shares of the electrielty, expert manicurists. dre's Beauty Parlour, Gloucester Company will be closed from Arcade. Phone 27073.

Saturday, 4th March, 1939 POSITIONS WANTED. Saturday, 11th March, 1939, (both days inclusive) during which HAIRDRESSING: English lady secks period no transfer of shares can suitable position. Fully experienced be registered.

branches o hairdressing,}

in all apprentice trained

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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 17, 1939.

G.

R.

IN THE COURTS

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Wednesday, the 22nd day of February, 1939, nt 3' p.m., at the Omees of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Mount Cameron Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Kent to be fixed by the Sur- veyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 76 years. Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispa-

ant of the lot the Purchaser (Ir not the applicant) will be required to deposit with дл nuthorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred KAN TONG PO.

dollars, ($200) in cash. This Bum Chief Manager. will be refunded on payment of Hongkong. 17th February, 1939. | the Purchase price.

By Order of the Board State salary, reply to Box No. 516, Directors, "Hongkong Telegraph."

RURAL HEALTH

New Territories Medical Work in Past Month

́HONG KONG TELEPHONE

COMPANY, LIMITED, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

A total of 15,306 cases were trented that an Extraordinary General

7,307 new cases.

in the various centres of the St. John Meeting of the Company will be Ambulance New Territories Medical held at the Registered Offices of Benevolent Branch, including Shum- chun and Nam Tan, during the past the Company, Exchange Building. month, of which 7,824 were old and 14 Des Voeux Rond Central, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, the 7th day of March, 1939, at 12.15 o'clock in the Shunchun returned the highest number, 2.703, followed by the Haw afternoon or so soon thereafter as Par Hosultat at Cheungchnu, 2,513, the Annual General Meeting of the Tsuen Wan 1961, Shataukok 1,041, Company convened for that-day Fanting 1.513, Tun Mun 979, Kam Tin shall have terminated for the pur- 013, Hn Tsuen 800, Takwiling 751, 2

pase of considering, and if thought Shritin 607, el Nam Tao 512.

fit, passing a resolution us special resolution altering in cer tain respects

Articles Association of the Company.

During the month there were 236 maternity cases, 574 adults and In- funts admitted to hospital, and 1.014 persone seen by ductors.

There were 381 cases of malaria at Ten Wan and 52 at Kum Th.

King's Theatre

Opening SUNDAY EVEN GREATER THAN THEY SAY IT IS

Irving Berlin's ALEXANDERS RAGTIME BAND

TYRONE POWER

ALICE FAYE

DON AMECHE

ETHEL MERMAN

JACK HALEY

A 20th Century-Fox Picture

Special Morning Performances Sun., 19th, Mon., 20th, Tues., Zim “THE AUTOCRAT of CH'O DYNASTY"

A Chinese Picture with English Sub-Tilles

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HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FOURTEENTH ORDIN- ARY YEARLY MEETING of HONG KONG TELEPHONE COM-

TUESDAY, the 7th day of March, 1939, at the BOARD ROOM of the Company, Second Floor, Exchange Building, Hong Kong, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors, for the Bunncial year ended 31st December, 1938, and re-electing two Directors and the Auditors.

Full partieniars of such propos. ed alterations have been sent out Lo shareholders by post. A copy of the proposed special resolution giving details can be inspected at any time during business hours at the Registered Office of the Com-PANY, LIMITED, will he held on

By Order of the Board,

W. I MCKENZIE,

Secretary, Hongkong, 7th February, 1939. THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED

Notice to Shareholders NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE FORTY-FIRST OR- DINARY YEARLY MEETING OF THIS COMPANY will be held at the Office of Messra. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. on Friday, the 24th February, 1939, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors to- gether with

vt Statement Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1938.

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The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from

Friday, the 17th February, 1939,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the 25th February to 7th March, 1939, both days inclusive.

Dated this 31st day of January, 1939.

Order of the Board.

W. L. MCKENZIE

Secretary.

14 Des Voeux Road Central.

to Friday, the 24th February. | THE 1939, both days Inclusive,

By order of the Board Directors,

of

C. M. MANNERS,

Secretary. Hongkong, 30th January, 1939. HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB

Tennis Tournament

Entries close un SATURDAY, 18th February, 1939, at 6 pan.

HONGKONG ELECTRIC

CO., LTD.

Notice is hereby given that the Fiftieth Ordinary Yearly Meeting will be held at the Company's Oces, P. f 0. Building, on Thursday, 9th March, 1939, at 11 a.m. for the purpose of present- ing the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1938 and electing Directors and Audi- tors.

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The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 25th February to 9th March, 1939, both which daya inclusive, during

SPECIAL TEA DANCE period no Transfer of Shares can

at

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

Chinese New Year's Day, SUNDAY, 19th February, 1939.

5.00

p.m. to 7.00 p.m.

CONCERT MUSIC DURING TIFFIN

as usual – 1.00 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.

Book your Tables early. Phone 27775 Repulse Bay Hotel

Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

GIR, LIVINGSTON &

CO., LTD., Agents. Hongkong, 16th February, 1939.

BANK HOLIDAYS

In accordance with Government Ordinance, The Exchange Banks will be closed for the transaction of Public Businces on Monday and Tuesday, the 20th and 21st Feb- runry, 1939. (China Now Year Holidays).

Hongkong, 15th February, 1939,

THE "TELEGRAPH" will send a Staff Photographer to all events of public interest. Requests should be addressed to the Pictorial Editor.

BURGLARS

"Brandy" Distilled From Spirits Of AT DEEPWATER

Submarine Mystery

NAVAL DOCKYARD police are attempting to solve the Rainbow's mystery of H.M.S. lost stores.

Since last Sunday, the crew com- of the submarine have plained. vigorously of the appearance of their milk and sugar.

worth has Altogether, $27 disappeared in the intervening rix days.

The aid of the Hongkong police was enlisted to-day, when A report of the thefts was made by Lt, C. G. Walker.

Warmer Weather Is Predicted

Wine, Tea, Sugar!

A BREWERY under the supervision of a Chinese widow, who made "brandy" by mixing tea, spirit of wine, and sugar, and bottled them in Hennessy Brandy bottles, was severely dealt with by Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this morning on three charges.

Tom So was charged with ossession of 1.6 gallons of lutiable spirit,

BURGLARS early this morn-

ing gained entrance to "Zara”, the Deepwater Bay homo of Mr. H. M. Howell.

When they decamped they took with them a canteen of cutlery and threo cameras.

A report of the robbery has been made to the polica,

seven used FATAL CAR ACCIDENT

venue labels, and possession of seven boltles of liquid to which

la false trade mark was applied.

SEQUEL IN COURT

Revehue OmMcer J.. L. Stephens A FATAL MOTOR accident in North Point Inst month said that Tom was arrested at the when a soldier was killed and two women passengers were in-

Yaumati wharf by a Chinese con-

in R rattan basket.

stable. She was carrying the bottles jured, was recalled at the Central Magistracy this morning, when the driver of the car, Pte. George McGregor, was fined $5 When she was brought to Central by Mr. R. A. D..Forrest after he had pleaded gulity to driving Police station, the Inspector on Duty

had suspicions of the contents of the car without a licence.

bottles and sent her to the Import

and Export Omce.

Mr. E. S. C. Brooks uppeared for TRAFFIC court

L. Rondon and Co., Ltd., and asked

his Worship to take a serious view

of the case, and such quite prevalent.

cases were

DELIBERATE SWINDLE His Worship remarked the whole

"deliberate swindle." offence was

After two days of slightly cooler become will weather, Hongkong

She was fined $55 or six weeks' warmer during the next 24 hours, ac-

Royal Observatory, hard labour on the first charge, and cording to the which, in to-duy's weather forecast $300 or three months' hard labour

Jon each of the remaining charges.

predicted.

East winds,

clouds, warmer.

moderate; fine to

ofis.

Syrian Minister Resigns

Beiru, Feb. 16.

MOTORISTS WARNED

Slightest Accident Must Be Notified

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The owner of the car, J. S. Ford. was also summoned for allowing an unlicenced driver to drive the car.

Ford, who was present in Court, sald the ear was not his, and said the present owner was an Indian named Katar Singh.

The summons was then adjourned for one week, os Inspector S. C. Saunders zuld defendant would be summoned for not notifying the

Pallee of change of ownership, while against the present owner.

another summons would be taken oul

Oil Companies Seek Injunction

"IF MOTORISTS believe that No depressions ure near Hongkong.

they do not have to report acci- There is a ridge of moderately high

dents when the victims have pressure extending from Manchuria and South China to the Bonin

been only slightly hurt, or not Islands, while a shallow depression

hurt at all, they are mistaken.

Mexico City, Feb. 15. is silunted to the south-west

would like to say now that

Foreign oil companies have jointly Shanghal, moving eastward.

The Syrian Minister for the In every accident. of whatever nature, filed an application for an Injunction The maximum temperature yes-

aminst the effectiveness of terior, Mr. DJabri has offered his,

any action 05 Was terday

degrees. with a

This warning was issued by Mr. which may be taken under partial minimum of 50, but this morning the resignation, and political quarters must be reported to the police." mercury registered up to 64, and regard it as possible that this will

be followed by the resignation of A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon vanation of their properties by the

Court this morning, during the hear-National Economy Department. humidity was 74 per cent.

It the entire Syrian Cabinet.

is claimed that, pending the Trame ing of According to another message tromi A. Lopes, at Dorset Crescent, Supreme Court decision, valuation by Damascus, the population again held was summated for falling to report subsidiary authority such as the several demonstrations to-day, which an accident which occurred in Na- Economy Department cannot be act- led to serlour clashes with the police than Road on January 23.

ed upon.-Reuter. The demonstrators hurled stones at the police.

Japanese Warn Foreign Ships

S.

cases.

Lopes said that after the accident involved he had ushed the man Ten people were wounded in the whether he was hurt and whether he Shanghai, Feb. 10.

30 were arrested. would like to go and report the in- The Japanese naval authorities seues.

eldent to the police. To these two: have warned third party shipping Trans-Ocean.

questions, the man answered in the with regard to fresh Japanese mill-

-negative. tury operations scheduled to kunched at midnight on February, tutively revealed here to-day. 16 near Talchow Bay at the entrancei Vessels of third Powers are

be

"I thought that as it was such a repelly case, I did not have to report

to Haimen on the south-eastern coast quested to stay out of a radius of 30 it.. If I had known that I had to re- of Chekiang Province, it was authori-inites from the Bay-Domci,

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12t⭑EK

Hanoi-Kunming-Chungking-Chengtu Line

Every Thu, & Sat..... from Hanoi to Kunming Every Sun., Wed. & Fri, from Kunming to Chungking Evary Wod. & Fri..... from Chungking to Chongtu and return Evory Mon., Wed. & Fri. from Chungking to Kunming Evory Wed. & Fri. ............ from Kunming to Honol Kunming-Chengtu-Sian-Lanchow

Line

Evory Thu. & Sat. from Kunming to Lanchow via Changtu & Sian Every Sun. & Fri. from Lanchow to Kunming via Stan & Chongtu Lanchow-Ninshia Line

Every Fri. from Lanchow to Ninahia and roturn Chungking-Kweilin-Kunming Line Chungking-Kwellin and Kwailin-Chungkong trice a week Kwailin-Kunming and Kunming-Kweilin once a week EURASIA AVIATION CORPORATION Hongkong Office.

King's' Bldg., 4th Flr.. Tol. 25552, 25553.

port such cases, 1 would have done, se," concluded Lopes.

Mr. Macfadyen said that he had hoped that it was general knowledge by now that, no matter how small the injury to any person involved in ja trafile neeldent, the mishap must

be reported to the police.

In thing Lopes $10, Mr. Mac- fadyen sald: "The the cannot be Jess, because it must be bnpresed onj people that they must report such cases,"

OTHER CASES

In the same Court, Miss Rebeccu Ng, of Cumberland Rond, was fined Si on two summonses of having driven car in Waterloo Road with- out headlights, and of having failed to produce her driver's Beener when requested so to do by u police offleer, I was said that although Miss Ng. had been given three days to bring her licence to the police, she had not. done so.

Pte. C. Bartelt of the 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment was fined $7 on

a summons of having driven a motor Jorry in Prince Edward Rond on January 20 at a speed of 35 miles per hour. The furry was n jollitury one. ISLAND CASES

A summons against R. J. B. Clark, of the Public Works Department, was adjourned until noon on Thursday, February 23. Defendant dented a charge of driving at 30 m.p.h. along Queen's Road East on February 7,

D. Roukens, Netherlands India Commercial Bank, pleaded guilty to summonses of driving without due eare and caution along Des Voeux Road Central on January 31, und with failing to report an accident to the Police. He was fined $10 on each charge.

An order was made for $5 compensation to owner of the ear which was damaged.

Mrs. J. MacKenzie-Kennedy was fined $5 when Д representative pleaded guilty to a summons of leav- ing her car unattended In Chater fload.

Pie. J. Smith was fined $5 on ench summons of driving without a licence. and driving a lorry without the owner's perinission.

Traffic Sergeant G. Your sald de- fendant was seen driving the lorry in Queen's Road East on January 28 by an Army Officer who reported the matter to the Adjutant. No damage was caused, and the lorry was only driven for a short distance. The Police were asked to summon de- fendant.

Riff Leader Seeks Peace

Paris, Feb. 10. Abd-el-Krim, who 14 years ago jed

A revolt of Rift tribesmen against French rule in Morocco, and held out in his mountain retreat against an army of 160,000 men before finally surrendering in

In May, 1920, is now re- ported to have sent a request to the French Government from his exile on the Island of Reunion off Madagascar asking for permission to allow his two sons to enter the famous military training college of St. Cyr.

He points out that it has been customary for sons of notable tribal tenders in French African possessions to receive military education at this |training centre--Frans-Octon,

Exchange At A Glance

*SELLING

T.T. London Demand T.T. Shanghal TT. Singapore T.T. Japan

T.T. India

T.T. Germany T.T. Switzerland

19. 210 13. 218 178 Nom.

105%

.829

T.T. U.S.A,

.287%

TT. Manila

.68

T.T. Batavia

.63%

T.T. Bangkok

150

T.T. Saigon

108%

T.T. France

.10.00

.71%

127

.1/0%

1/3 .1/3.3/32

29,3

£1.30

.84%

.4.68%

TT. Australia

BUYING

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

4 m/s L/C U.S.A.7.

4 m/s France

30 d/s India

U.S. Crosa rote in Lon.

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