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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS

25 words $2.50

for 3 days prepaid

TUITION GIVEN.

DANCING IN 6 HOURS, Ballroom, Tango, thumba, American Tap. Tul- tion rapid and practical. World's Champion's - Steps. Apply: Tony's Dance Studio, China Building, 6th Boor. Tel. 30033,

FOR SALE.

FLOWER BULBS of gladioli and begonia. Just recrived from Holland and for sale at Craen Co., No. 10, Wyndham Street, Ilongkong. Estab- lished 1890,

"HONGKONG AS REVEALED DY THE CAMERA" Second Edition. Over 60 excellent views of the Colony. Prico $1.50. Obtainable at Keil & Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the Publishers,| South China Morning Post, Ltd., Wyndham Street.

ROOMS TO LET.

ROOM TO. LET. room with bath- room attached, suitable for a couple or two bachelors, five minutes walk from Star Ferry, Rent moderate. Write Box 571, "Hongkong Tele- graph."

POST OFFICE

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.

are

OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Maile closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise slated, and where mails are advertis- ed to close at or before & a.m. regis- tered and parcel mails are closed al 5 pa on the. previous day. When malls are advertised to close after 5

pn. Registered and Parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m.

Shanghai

Caption

.Feb. 23. „Feb. 23.

INWARD MAILS Calcutta and . Struita Minila USA, Homolulu, and Jupan (Sən Francisco date, 20th Jan.).. Fel, 23. Haiphong, Hofhow and Fort Dayard Feb. 24. Feb. 24 .Feb. 24. U.S.A.. Honolulu, Japan, Shanghad and Mania (San Francisco date, 26th January

Feb. 24. Feb. 25. Feb. 25. Feb. 25. Feb. 25. Feb. 25.

Shongbai

Straits

Canton

Japan

Manila

Sandakan

Shanghai and Amoy

Amoy

Haiphong

Manila

Sandakan

Straits

Feb. 25. Feb. 25. .Feb. 20.

.Feb. 20. .Feb, 28. Feb. 20. .Feb, 20. Feb. 27, Europe vin Suez and Strails (London date, 18th December 1939) Feb, 27. Halphons!

Feb. 27. Shanghal

.Feb. 27.

Bangkok and Tourane

OUTWARD MAILS Friday, Feb. 23 Amoy and Shanghai .2.30 p.m. Manila

..7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24 Straits

.0.30 a.m. Swalow, Amoy and Formosa

10.30 .. Parcels only for Tientsin..:2.30 p.m. Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu,, USA., Central and South America via San Francisco-due San Francisco 17th March

Par.

Reg.

Ord,

G.P.O. and K.P.O.

.Feb. 24, 4 p.m. Feb. 24, 5 p.m. Feb, 24, 5.30 p.m. Ale Mall for "Imperial Airways Direct

Service" duo London 3rd March. G.P.O. & K.P.O.

Rek..

..Feb. 24, 5 p.m. Ord.,

Feb. 24, 5.30 p.m. Halphong

.5.30 p.m. Spigon

.5.30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25 Formosa, Shanghai and Japan 0 a.m. Shanghai (Parecla only)...9.00 am. Saigon, Sandakan, Madang, Sala- maua, Rabaul and Tuingi”..0 n.m.

Monday, Feb. 26

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC

CO., LTD.

Notice is hereby given that the Fifty-first Ordinary Yearly Meet- ing will be held at the Company's Registered Oflice, 4th Floor. P. & O. Building, on Thursday, 21st March, 1940, at 11 am, for the purpose of presenting the Roport of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1939, electing Directors and Auditors and fixtur their fees.

The Register of Members of the Company will be cloned from 9th March to 21st March, 1940, both daya inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By order of the

Board of Directors.

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

G.

R.

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS ..of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 26th day of February, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Ofees of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at To Kwa Wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor-of His Majesty the KING, for one further torm of 75 years.

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- ' an of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required' to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the anie, the sum of two hundred

GIBIL, LIVINGSTON, & CO., LTD. | dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum

Agents.

will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.

Hongkong, 22nd February, 1940,

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC|PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

CO., LTD.

NOTICE is hereby given that aa Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held in the P. & O. Building, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, at 11.15 o'clock in the forenoon on Thurs. day, the 21st day of March, 1940, soon thereafter 1 the Ordinarly Yearly Meeting of the Company shall have terminated, for the purpose of considering and if thought fit passing the following resolution as special resolu-

tion:-

**That the Capital of the "Company he increased from its "present Capital of $6,000,000 Hong Kong currency divided "into 600,000 shares of $10 each. “to $18,000,000 Hong Kong cur- "rency divided into 1,800,000 "shares of $10 each and that "auch additional shares shall "rank in all respects pari paasu "with the original Capital of the "Company."

And for the purpose of consi- dering and if thought fit passing the following resolutions, nome- ly:-

Locally

Kowloon Inland Lot No. 4231.

Between To Kwa

Read, & Ha Heong Road. South West of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 4148.

Registry No.

↑ No. of Sale

G.

Boundary Measurements

R. 8. E. w.

feet deel teet teek

A per anle

plan.

et Price

Contents in

sq. feet Ana. Rent.

"Upset I

About

26,500

* 486"

R.

SIS'AT$

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 26th

day of February, 1910, at 3 pm. - at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of Lot of Crown Land at

one

Tytam, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the

Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of

75 years,

February 23, 1940.

Ice Freezes Baltic Spies Betrayed Ship to

EUROPE'S cold spell closed the Baltic Sea

for the first time in many years. One of Holland's Ice-Leakers Ir shown here marooned in ice.- Domei,

DUTCH CONTEMPT FOR NAZI WARFARE

AMSTERDAM. Holland's contempt for the ruthless methods adopted by the Germans in the war. at sea, as exemplified by the deliberate torpedoing of the 8,000-fon Dutch motor-ship Arendskerk, on Monday by a German U-boat, is expressed with remarkable vigour by the Amsterdam Tele-

graaf.

FRIESLAND

Monte Carlo gambles on two-and-half year war

Daily Express Staff Reporter PARIS.

THERE is a coal shortage in

SET OWN PLANES ON FIRE

EVERY time a German pilot is! sent over Allied territory he is

Murder Planes

THE route of the Estonian steamer Uko, bombed and machine-gunned by Hitler's murder planes in the North Sea, was revealed to the German Air Command by spics.

This was stated by the captain of the ship on his arrival recont-

ly at the Norwegian port of Kopervik.

Nazi sples, he said, were operating in * Swedish port at which the steamer recently called.

Two women were among the Uko's crein of 13. They were machine-

anned as they took to their boat.

"The plane flew low over w until I had seen our name." the captain sulit.

"It then rose, attacked us with minchine-guNS and droppert five bombs."

The crew were adrift 15 hours be- fore being pleked up by a. Norwegian steamer.

A Swedish vessel, the Adolf Bratt. has been mined near the Dutch island of Terschelling, Five of the crew perished.

The Danish Ministry of Trade has issued a recommendation to all ship- ewners that Danish ships crossing the North Sea shall rali in company with at least one other neutral ship, nat necessarily Danish,

RADIO

given a box of special matches- ZBW, 355 metres (845 lt.c.) nod

jand very special instructions.

He must set fire to his aircraf

if he is forced down in foreign

territory.

This lesson the Germans have learned from the fate of one of their

31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Recital by Father O'Mara

From the Studio

new twin-engine "secret" Messer- Itadio Programme Broadcast by chistt. Brought down in Britain Z. B. W, on a Frequency of 845 k.e's. but not seriously damaged, it was and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. examined by our experts and its und B-11 pan.

9.52 mc's, per peereta laid bare.

second. In France recently a German pilot's

11. K. T.

on

12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter-

12.30

Songs by Two

the

Bon

attempt to are his machine, a Dornier, "The sinking of the Ardenskeric," Monte Carlo, gambling centre of was only partly successful, eveni | cession. writes the paper, "Is one of those the neutral Principality of though he threw lighted matches- deeds of senseless violence which Monaca. The Principality do the ordiary type-at petrol be had bring no new glory to the German not possess a merclunt marine rayed over parts of the plane, | Cossacks Choir. Navy and have an exclusively de- of their own.

So new special matches giving, a So for years they big steady itame which burns for Kimini, Op. 32-Philharmonic- Sym- 12,38 Tchaikowsky-Francesca Da ¦ structive character.

chartered the British carrier, ng tune are being issued as partphony Orchestra of New York, con- "We consider that the whole plan Uskmouth, to keep them sup- of the equipment of every German ducted by John Barbirolll. of the German Navy to isolate Eng-piled with English coal.

machine Blying over foreign territory.

And any pilot who fails to fire his weather Report.

Local Time Signal land has failed in advance. Just as nobody can induce us to give up

plasic on making a forced landing will sailing the scas so Germany will But some time ago the Ukkmouth be in "disgrace" on the German 1.03 Reginald Dixon at the Organ. never succeed in sweeping the Eng-was sunk at the North Sea. Now service records.

-Danenig Time No. 5 and Dixon Its lish off the seas.

the casworks face 3 partial shut-

This, the scuttling campaign has No. 21. "The number of English ships down, and housewives have to be now been extended to the German which enter and leave British poris careful when they feed the fires. Air Force. every day is in such disproportion to But that is not all.

**

the comparatively few vessels which For the arst time there is a have so far been sunk by the Gèr- tional defiell In Monaco. This year's uselessness of Germany's sea war- mans that this fact alone shows the budget is estimated at £250,000. fare.

Buy Plane To Wed Baron

1.00

240zri

1.15 Duke Ellington and His Or chcsira ir Dance Musle,

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and

Announce- ments.

"1. That the Directors be "and they are hereby authorised "to capitalise the sum of $3,000,- 000 Hong Kong currency part of

Intending bidders are advised "the undivided profits of the "Company standing to the credit that immediately after the dispo- of the Company's Reserve Fundal of the lot the Purchaser (if and to allot to the Mombers not the applicant) will be required "holding shares of the Company to deposit with an authorised "as on the 1st day of July, 1910, officer who will be present at the "In respect of the net amount sale, the sum of two hundred

Against this, the Minister of Fin- "capitalised fully paid shares of dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum

This does not mean that the Ger-ance calculates this year's receipts "the Company of equivalent

man navy has not been responsible will come to only £200.000.

A ROMANCE which began in a will be refunded on payment of for great misery. Hundreds of honest "nominal value in the propor-

Monte Carlo casinos do not expect lovely French chateau garden took seamen who have little or nothing the usual high gambling season. They an English girl by specially chartered Sullivan. HMLS. "tion of one share for every two the Purchase price.

to do with the war have had to pay were closed altogether for two and plane to Algiers, recently, to marry B. B. C. Theatre Orchestra directed "shares of the Company then PARTICULARS OF THE LOT, with their lives for doing their duty. a batt months after the war started. a. French Brigadier-General, "held-by-such-persons-respec-

by Stanford Robinson; "The Mikado" The bride is Miss Gertrude Foster Leo Shefeld, Henry A. Lytion and "tively and that such shares so

To offset this, national economies Barhan, of Cock-lane, Hoddesdon, George Baker, and Derek Oldham; "Although our Government "allotted shall rank for divi-

is have been effected, and there is no Herts. silent we all still regard it as a national debt..

Columbia Light Operu "Ruddigore", The Government are, "dends as from the 1st day of

Her flance is Baron de Cordaillaca. Company with Orchestra. festering wound that a German not worried. It is estimated that Arling Brigadier-General of the “July, 1940.

U-bont contain could find it com- the debt-free fund in the Treasury French 3rd Light Cavalry Brigade in Lions.

4.28 Closing Local Stock Quota-

4147

That if on such distri- "bution as aforesaid, any person "would be entitled to a frac "tional share the Directors shall, "In lieu of Issuing Fractional "Certificates, cause the whole "share to be allotted to a person "or persons to be named by the "Directors and such share shall, "at such time as the Directors "think fit, be sold and the pro- "ceeds distributed amongst the "persons entitled to the frac- "tions making up such share," By order of the

Board of Directors,

Canton

.7.15 a.m. Haiphong

1 p.m. GIBB, LIVINGSTON, & CO. LTD... Fort Bayard and Hothow .1.30 p.m. Conton

Agants. .7.00 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27

Hong Kong, 22nd February, 1940, Batavia and Sourabaya...9.30 nm. Straits and Calcutta

HONGKONG CRICKET

Parcels

Ord.

Feb. 27, 11 am. .Feb. 27, Noon, Amoy

2.30 p.m. Bangkok

.2.30 p.m. Manlio, Straits, Ceylon, Indie, East and South Africa, Egypt and Europe vin Naples due Naples 24th March

Reg.

Ord.

G.P.O. and K.P.O.

.Feb, 27, 2.45 pm, Feb. 27, 3.30 p.m. Imperial Airways

Air Mail for

CLUB

TENNIS TOURNAMENT 1940

Entries close on To-morrow,

| 24th February, 1940, at 6 p.m.

pirect Service"-dae Landen, BRITISH, FRENCH

March..

Πετ.

Ord.

I.P.O.

Feb. 27, 5 p.m. ..Feb, 27, 5.30 p.m.

G.P.O.

Reg.

.Feb. 27, & p.m. Ord.

.Feb. 27, 7 p.m. Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Au- fralla by "Imperial Always Direct Service"-due Sydney, 4th March.

K.P.O.

Feb. 27, 5 p.m. .. Feb, 27, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

Reg.

Ord.

Rer.

Ord.

U.S.A.

LABOUR GET TOGETHER

PARIS, Feb, 23 (Reuter).-A de- icgation of members of British Trado Uritons, headed by Sir Walter Citrine, of the Trade Union Congress, have arrived here for ont

of

No. of Sale

Bural Building Lot

Begistry No.

Locality

No. 433.

Opposite Rural Building

FON

Island Road,

Tytam.

Boundary

Measurements

NS...

|Cues] feet|feelsfeet

As per sale plan.

Contents in

#q.

feet

DIN ST

San.

Rent.

3,750

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

Crew Abandoned

ter season with the result that 2G

proud.

"Perhaps he had orders to net like this, but that only makes the

mater worse. Does Germany seri-100 Britons Interned

ously think that she can starve out South Africa, which was the ship's destination? Or does

In Germany

Mas Burhan's mother tolel

Sunday Pictorial recently;

1.45 The London Plana-Accordeon Band.

2.15 Close Down,

6.00 Excerpts from Gilbert and Pinafore", The

6.30 Dance Music.

patible with his conscience to leave will take care of the deficit for at North Africa. the survivors of the Sliedrecht, tor- least two and a half years and—the He was unable to oblału leave soļ pedoed In the Atlantic on Nov. 10, war may be over by that ilme. that he could marry in his home in! 7.05 London Relay-"Swing, Bro- helpless in their boat in such bit- Like other neutrals, the Friacl- France, so he asked his bride to fly thers, Swing-With Billy Bennett.

7.30 London Relay-The News. seamen found their death among the pallly are feeling the weight of the out to him in Algiers.

The future Baroness will make her waves. That why not

8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather But, unlike other neutrals, and home in Africa with her soldier lus Report and Announcements, war. a deed of belligerents too, Monaco levies and for the duration. heroism of which a country can be direct taxation,

Then they 7.03 Studio-Recital by Father expect to return to his estate in O'Mara (Baritone) and A. T. Lay France.

(Piano).-1. To the Sea, A. T. Lay at the the Pinno; 2. (a) A Fairy Story By "My The Fire, (D) O Golden Age of In- daughter met the baron at a chateau nocence, Father O'Mara (Baritone) In France, where she was in charge with Plano accomp.; 3. A. D. 1800, she merely

of the gardening of a huge estale. She A. T. Lay at the Plano) 4. (a) A want to cause as much destruction

has a horticultural degree and has Border Home, (b) Thanks be to God, among shipping ns

ABOUT 100 British subjects and been at the chateau ever since she left Father O'Mura (Baritone) with Plano possible." "We do not know. But what we 100 French citizens are interned in school. do know is that every nation with Germany, authorized German sources "She has been engaged since tast 8.30 Haydn-Symphony · No. 90

aval tradition turns with

declare. dis-

| In D Major.-Vienna Philharmonie approval from much that has been

Miss Foster Barhan, who is thirty, Orchestra enemy

conducted by Bruno done at sen by the German navy subjects continue to live in German is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter. during the last few months.

territory as before the war, reporting! George Squire, of Hoddesdon, Herts. "So far us

9.61 StudioTalk on Faychology Consignees are hereby informed

our country is con- to the police once a week.

She changed her name when she came by Father G. Byrne, 8. J-2: "Day that their goods with the exception cerned, however great the difficulties Castle Wuelzburg, near Nuremburg, of age under the terms of the will of Own Back Parlour: What I Did and of Opium, Treasure and Valuables may be, we shall continue to sail they has been designed as a home for the a great uncle.

being landed and stored Into the

Interned persons. Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow- loon, whence delivery may be ob tained immediately after landing.

Alt claims must be sent in to mo on or before 1st

SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

Bringing Cargo from Marseliles via Salgon.

are

will not be let match, 1940, or they

ed

Damaged Packages will be examin-

by t

the Company's Surveyor Messrs-Goddard and Douglas in | the presence of the Consignees at 10 a.m. on Monday 20th February, 1949. Consignees must have a Revenue OMeer in attendance when any dufi-

SCAK."

Several thousand other

Nazi Admit Rumanians

Are A Disappointment

AMSTERDAM.

able goods are examined by the Com-likely to prove disappointing as a source of oil.

And Rumania is one of the last among which

pany's Surveyors,"

No Fire Insurance will be effected

by us in any case whatever.

IL. OUL Agent,

monthly conferences with French RUBBER BARTER

Trade Union lenders.

A meeting was held this afternoon and talks will be continued to- marrow,

AGREEMENT

.Feb. 27, 5 p.m. .Feb. 27, 7 pm.

LONDON, Feb. 22 (Reuter)--Tho Shanghai, Japan, Canada,

Ministry of Supply has notified tha Central And South America vio A delegation of the British Labour rubber market that the United States Vancouver B.C., (Parcels for Party, headed by the H. Hon. Mr. Government has agreed to extend, Canada only)-due Vancouver C. R. Attlee, has also arrived in Paris. until the end of September

They conferred with French socialist period in which rubber furnished by leaders to-day and have decided to the British Government under the hold regular meetings like those held rubber control barter agreement may by the French und Briiish Trude be shipped, thus extending the exisi- Union representatives,

Ing date by three months.

B.C., 16th March

G.P.O. and K.P.O. Parcels

Feb. 27, 6 p.m. Reg.

„Feb, 20, 9.10 a.m. Ord.

.Feb. 28, 10 am.

Easter."

accomp.

What I Didn't Do There."

0.03 Light Orchestral,--Musette Et Tambourin, Menuet, Orchestre Sym-

No Huntin' Phonique de Paris: Gypsy Serenade

Allowed

In France

Tungo Torero, George Boulanger and His Orchestro.

9.35

Mary.

London Reiny--New Sun-

9.30 London Relay-World Af- fairs."

THE FRENCH authorities will Beaucaire." Adapted for Broadcast

9.45 B.B.C. Recording--“Monsieur not allow hunting folk in Britain ing from Booth Tarkington's novel to send packa of hounds for the and the light opera libretto by Fre- GERMANY is beginning to admit that Rumania is benglers in the B.E.F.

benefit of fox-hunters and derick Lonsdale, by Gortion McCon- nel. Lyrics by. Adrian Itoss, Music by Andro Messager. "The Ministry of the Interior are Gordon McConnel and Rex Haworth. Produced by fully turning down all applications Britain, Belgium, from officers and men in France who

11.00 Close Down, if not the last-sources open Holland, and the United States have wish to continue the sport over there

the upper hand. to the Nazi.

as, means of exercise and training” "Under the influence of these coun-

a former M.F.H. said. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" recently tries Rumania is forced to follow al "It seems unlikely that we shall be frankly asks whether Germany can polley which does not always ft in alle to send any hounds across the rely on big supplies from Rumania. with her interests in Eastern Europe. "Germany has tried to obtain vil "The question of transport also from Rumania in exchange for in-makes it impossible to secure large dustrial products like machines," say supplies. the paper,

in tankers.

Channel after all."

areas.

Japan's Mammoth Budget

A British officer writing · from: France in this week's "Horse and TOKYO, Feb, 22 (Reuter).—The Hound" states that he has been re- Lower House at a plenary session fused permission to hunt over, certain today, unanimously passed bills for

He asked why,

the budget approximating Yen 10,- "The oil is taken through pipg-lines "The first reply received," he 300,000,000 for the coming financial "But Rumania is not keen on such to the Black Sea, where it is shipped writes, "was that the French, unlike year which dates from April 1. The trading methods,

Germany, has no tankers the English, treated the war in a bills were passed without amend- nt her disposal."

more serious manner, as it was their ment. country, at stake it was palated The budget now goca to the House The article adds that the transport out that the French were deter-of Peers where the examination of They can be granted only by finan-of oil on the Danube is insignificant. clally strong countries,

mined to put all their efforts into the various bills will command the It also aumlis that Germany has winning the war. Therefore, shooting attention of the nation, which so far. "The greater part of her all output not sufficient rolling stock to transport was prohibited, so that there should had been concentrated on the budget is controlled by foreign companles, all across Poland.

be no waste of gunpowder and shot." Interpretation in the Lower House.

unable to grant them at present.

"She needs credita, and Germany is