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the

a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ended 31st December, 1939,

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 21st MARCH, 1910, to WEDNESDAY, the 3rd APRIL 1940, both days Inclusive. By Order of the Board of Directors,

R. TAYLOR, Acting Secretary, Hongkong, 4th March, 1940,

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

March 11, 1940.

Even The Sea Froze In Great Cold Spell Along British Isles BRITAIN'S "HUSH-HUSH' FREEZE WAS RECORD SINCE BATTLE

BATTLE OF WATERLOO

SNOW REACHED B.E.F.'s FRONT WAS ATTEMPT

ALSO A MORASS

TOPS OF

IN

OF HOUSES THE COUNTRY

It can now be revealed that during the cold wave which descended on Britain just before Christmas, and lasted into the first half of January, 35 degrees of frost was recorded in one part of the country. 'It was the coldest period for 45 years..

The remarkable results of the cold could not be reported, as the Censor forbade all reference to the weather until 15 days after the event,

"BONGKONG AS REVEALED BY THE DAIRY FARM ICE & THE CAMERA" Second Edition.

| COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. of Over 40 excellent views Colony. Price $1.00. Obtainable at

Notice to Shareholders Kelly Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post, Ltd.,

Notice is hereby given that the Wyndham Street.

Forty-fourth Ordinary Yearlyed Meeting of the Shareholders in the Company will be held at the | Company's Town Office, 2, Lower Albert Road, on WEDNESDAY. 27th MARCH, 1940, at NOON, for

POST OFFICE

Small Packet Post to all countries the purpose of receiving the is suspended.

Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts, to

auction the declaration of Dividend and to re-elect Directors

OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parect Mail are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertis-and Auditors. ed to close at or before 9 am, re- gistered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day. When malls are advertised to close after 5 p.m., Hegistered and Parcel malls are closed at 6 p.m.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED from 13th March to 27th March, 1940, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

G. MILNE,

Secretary. Hongkong, 29th February, 1940.

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All 'bus services between towns part of Kent and villages in this

roads to the hedge tops. were abandoned for days, snow olting

Tradori Uso Sleighs

Temperaturea in London were well So that a wedding party might be below freezing point for over a week, able to reach the parish church at and 25 degrees of frost was register-Capell three miles from Folkestone, a at suburban weather stations. gang of men worked five days cut- The Thames was frozen over at ting a way through the blocked Kingston and for eight miles be- ronds to the church, Among the tween Teddington

and

Bunbury, gang was the bride's father. Higher up the river many locks were froton, Twelve Inches of fee covered London reservoirs. Other results of the cold were:

The sea froze as it

as it lapped the

Familles in some of the more shore at Felpham, near Bognor Regis, Sussex, a line of ice stretch isointed districts near Folkestone were ing

along the

the const for 300 yards. completely cut off for nearly a fort- A woman, found dead in her night. Tradespeople were unable to bath at Islington, London, was sit-rench their homes for 12 days, and

supplies ron very short.

in a block of Ice,

In the Capel district snow reached to the housetops of some homes, and families found themselves, trapped until they could cut Way out through their doors.

were

ting

Members of the Royal Household On Romney Marsh, Kent, where skated daily at Frogmore, Windsor thousands of sheep graze, many Castle.

Lie. During their visit to Wind- farmers

report that sheep sor the King and Queen watched frozen to death, while others were Just for days in drifta All feeding winter sports on the frozen lake.

Skating for the first time in 11 for flocks had to be curried from years was possible on Rydal Water farms to the sheep for over a week. and other lakes in Westinorland. The thermometer fell below zero

any places. With huge snow- drifts around us well, people in

pili the country suffered acutely, being inprisoned in cottages for days,

On the Serpentine, In London, skating was confined to the Long Water, which means that a third of the whole stretch uf water W#S available. There was din. of ice. There was also skating in Regent's

Park.

Ski-Ing on the hills at Folkestone become an everyday happening, while traders used sleighs instead of their molor vans to deliver gouds,

Shipping Hold Up

During one spell of fog shipping movements were at a standstill for 36 hours on the Thumes estuary. An indication of the severity of the alosphere was the freezing over of the Tilbury dry dock.

Notice to Shareholders

At Kingston-on-Thames the swans

Mar. 12.

Skating was possible in most parts suffered severely. One of the birds THE FIFTY-THIRD ORDINARY of the country, and championships becue frozen in the ire in mid-1 .Mar.

ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE were held on Lingay Fen, Cambridge-stream just above Kingston bridge. was rescued by Mr. Alfred Enuns, HOLDERS will be held at theshire. Winter sports were in full of icingston, who put out in a bout Service"-Paris date, 6th March

swing in Derbyshire and other hilly and broke his way through the ice. Mar. 13. Olen of Messrs, Jardine, Mathe-districts. Mar. 13.

The swan was brought ashore and Many Deaths Mar. 13. & Co., Ltd. on TUESDAY, 2nd

recovered in B pen. Mar. 13. APRIL, 1910, at NOON for the Mar. 13.purpose of receiving the Report of and ice covered stretches of the date, sihthe Directors and the Statement Mar. 14. of Accounts for the year ended

31st December, 1939.

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March.

OUTWARD MAILS alonday, March 11

Haiphong

"Bangkok

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The Transfer Books of the Com- will be CLOSED from

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North Wales railways were snowed

Humber, Mersey and Severn.

The total number of deaths is un- knaten, but it is believed there must have been Inundreds.

There were striking evidences of the effects of the extraordinarily low temperature in the home. The num

ber

By PETER LAWLESS

Bally Telegraph Special Correspondent

With the British Air Force in France. For 48 hours the long spell of unusually severe weather has been slowly breaffing, and the alternata thaws and frosts have ́been playing disconcerting tricks with the road and pavement

Hurfaces.

First we had a night of Silver, road running parallel with tho Thaw with rain falling on the front, did damage estimated at frozen, ground and turning to Ice more than £5,000, besides hinder- As it felt.

|ing operations for upwards of two Then thaw set in, and when the months while the road was being world was 2 waste of mud and repaired. melling snow hear frost came, so that the transports appeared pos- aessed Bessett of the

devil

and the populace slithered uncontrolled in nerve-racking curves, often

to Autsh bruised but escaping con-

Every step to provent unnecek- sary damage has been taken by the French authorities here, Traile controls have been established all along the roads, and special regula- tions have been put into force.

All concerned have been warned Generals, privates,

that

Summary action will be taken pickers all sat down together, and | against any offenders, and the humour, consisting as it does, in paint has been emphasised that un- other people's misfortunes, theless all precautions are adhered to village streets have been filled without question, the serviccablilty. with Il-slinguised merriment.

of the roads may be at stake,

cussion.

and

rag

or

The movement of eeriala types of forrles when loaded, and certain ather transport is forbidden. On no account

vehleles to be good road or hard

Transport on ronds during Immediately following a thaw can do a tremendous lot of destruction, I remember an occasion in 1917 when

117 battery commander, by moved off a shifting his guns along 13 miles of standing.

are

Cannot

Of

Woman Be Widow Husband

She

Divorced

TO CURB JAPAN'S ARMY

Tada Reveals Plans To American Correspondent

PEIPING. (UP). —— Lieut-Gen. Hayao Tada, supreme Japanese army commander in North China, outlined four objectives In connection with future military operations, in an in- terview with Harry T. Brundidge, St. Louis Star-Times writer. His Interview was the first granted to a newspaperman since taking the high command,

Gen, Tada's stated objectives are: Emilnation by the Japanese army of nerial bombings of Chinese civilion populations in unfortified towns.

Instructions (already given) to all Japanese soldiers that henceforth nny misconduct will result in punish- ments from imprisonment to denth.

Orders to soldiers to conduct them- scives humbly and rot na represen~ tallves of a conquering power.

Restoration of the Chinese Inner to the soll, and the soll to the former; new standards of living for allevia- tion of suffering in poverty-stricken districts.

The Interview was Col. Hitoshi Hamada, press section

arranged by chief of the

of the North China headquarters of the Imperial Japan- ese Army, and his assistant Lieut.. Masaru Takata. Lleut Takata neted as interpreter.

To Pacify China

In the course of un exchange of questions and answers, Gen. Tada shid the Japanese expeditionary

forces will proceed with their ori- ginal mission to packy China, The army will assume responsibility for the maintenance of peace and order. but all political, cultural and econo- mle mutters, excepting offairs of

A WOMAN whose husband dies after she has divorced him cannot be his widow.

This was a ruling by Mr. Justice Simonds in a Chinese farmers, will continue to be

Chancery Division action over a will.

011

handled by the China Affairs Board (which meets regularly in Tokyo). The judge quoted the Oxford Dictionary definition of a widow "My greatest concern to-day is the as a woman whose husband is dead and who has not re- "He constitutes 90 per cent of China's Chinese farmer." sald Gen. Tada. | married, or a wife bereaved of}

else and nowhere 100,000,000 her husband,"

earth are to be found such miserable The question was raised on a people. They live in poverty and summons taken out by an execu-squalor and millions die of starva-

tion tor of the late Mr. Charles "IL Is our plan to restore the Henry Goodwin Norman, father farmer to the soil, and to enable of Mrs. Dorothy Esther Bethune cuch family to earn enough to raise Cozens, of Cross Oak Road, the standards of living." Berkhamsted (Herts)..

Forced To

Confess,

of frozen water pipes must have constituted a a record. Thousands of peo

people were without! Frozen water pipes caused kitchen their bailer explosions resulting in many for running water supply { casualties. At Newcastle a whole the trouble that the. Metropolitan Declares

days. So widespread was

2,30 pan."SATURDAY," The "23rd ̋ MARCH killed, when the Waler Board sent oul men to fix?

.7 pm. 1940, to TUESDAY, the 2nd Tuesday, Mar. 12

"Imperial Airways | APRIL, 1940, both days inclusive. Direct Service" duo London, 20th

By Order of the Board of March.

Directors,

Air Mail for

Rex.

Ord.

K.P.O.

.Mar. 12, 5 p.m. .Mar. 12, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

Reg.

Mar. 12, 5 p.m. Ori,

Mar. 12, 7 p.m. Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aur

tralla by "Imperiat Airways Direct Service" due Sydney 18th March.

K.P.O.

Mar. 12, 5 p.m. Mar. 12, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

Reg.

Ord,

Ref.

Mar. 12, 6 p.m. Ord,

.Mar. 12, 7 p.m. Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A..

Amoy Shanghal

C. M. MANNERS, Secretary and Manager. Hongkong. 11th March, 1940.

HONGKONG & WHANPOA DOCK CO., LTD.

frozen,

Husband

"Isn't it rather difficult for the -average Chinese 10. understand such high purposes when your soldiers chase him through the rice fields and keep him one

Jump

ahead of д bayonet in his back?"

Not Warring on People Gen. Tnda smiled broadly

Notice is hereby given that the boutonstant use of on ice-breaking Army requiroments, it was difcus Court by Mr. Alec Spalter husband, who died last year. There prevent. European

dominution of

"of six "Was house boiler burst,

stand pipes from the mains.

A Half-Share. At Edgbaston Observatory, outside In many parts householders could

By bl will, it was stated, Mr. Birmingham, the extraordinary read-

be seen waiting their turn to fillj

Norman gave helt his residuary ing of 35 degrees of frost was re-buckets. Before this measure was

estate to his daughter, Mrs, Winifred corded on the ground, and there adopted by the Water Board, people THAT he had been forced Alice Mitchell, absolutely, and the were records up le 30 degrees of frost in dificulties had been dependent on

other half to Mrs. Cozens, during.ber

and in some other places.

neighbours whose pipes were not by threats by his wife's fe and. after her death upon trust sold: In the Mailands the first half of January this year

mother to write a letter to for her children. was the coldest

He directed that if Mrs. Cozens in America as making war ngainst "Japan has been vividly, pictured Since 1804 and the coldest spell since Demand for Oil Stoves his wife confessing infideli-became widow and had no children, these unfortunate people. But it is February, 1805.

There was an unprecedented de-

not true. We are warring against Trafic between London and Bir-mand for oll stoves to put in or under ty, and that the "confession" her share of his reskiunry estate

should be transferred to her for her bandits, war lords and Communists, mingham on the Grand Union Canal the water cistern lofts, but many was untrue, were -state-absolute use and benefit."

The fundamental

purpose of standstill for several days, people found that, owing to Wax ut a

bigments made in the Divorce In 1030, Mrs. Cozens divorced her Japan's armed action in China is to The

kept

the short stretch between if not impossible, to get them.

was no issue,

to make East Asia East Asia and Tyseley and Birmingham, open to Many possessors of stoves had Camden Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Share-local traffic.

Mr. Justice Simonds sald Mrs. safe for East Asiatics. London, their first practical experience of the

Cozens, had not remarried and she "It is true that when our troops holders will be held in the Office Although the River Severn was lows against Sunday trading. N.W.

A

now claimed that, having survived capture a city, a town, or a village, frozen over in places to a thickness Sunday was one of the days when the

Mr. Spalter contested a peti- Mr. Cozens, klie become absolutely there are mopping up' operations. eceded normally. Mr. J. E. Bradley, grestest, and many people were un- tion for divorce by his wife, estate and not merely to a life in-sary. of 1in, truffle on the river pro-frozen pipes danger Was ut its

entitled to one-half of the residuary These are not pleasant, but neces- superintendent of the Severn Com- able to get paraffin. Dealers refused Mrs. Coralic Spalter, of Mapes-terest.

We must subdue, and some- times liquidate, those who oppose mission, said that it was only the to break the law even in such unbury Road, Brondesbury, N.W.

Not Her Husband

our alms and idealo." constant day and night traffic that emergency.

The Judge said it had been;

Then this question was put to Gen. proved beyond shadow of doubt, nry the judge said that at the time

After quoting the Oxford Diction- Tada:

"But we

do not understand the Both were employed in her father's Mr. Cozens died he was not her husbombing and killing of Chinese costumler's business, and after the band, and it was impossible to say civillans. marriage Mr. Spalter became the that she become his widow. head stockkeeper, and a Miss Joan Floyd neted as his assistant.

Sean Kissing

Road.

of the Company, No. 2 Queen's Central and South America and Building, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, Cantida vin San Francisco-due 26th March, 1910, at noon for the San Francisco, 4th April.

consideration of the Directors' G. P. D. and K. P. O. ROK. ..Mar. 12, 5 pm. Beport and Balance Sheet for the

.Mar. 13, 8.30 a.m.] year ending 31st December, 1939,

kept this important waterway open. Sixteen degrees of frost were re- Ord.

Lancashire experienced the severest corded in Edinburgh, and thousands Straits and Calcutta

The Share Register and Trans-winter for nearly 60 years. Canals of people skated. The upper reaches Parcels

Mar. 12, for Books will be closed from the froze, and after vain attempts to of the harbour at Leith Docks were Ord.

.Mar. 13, 0.30 an

keep them open with ice-breakers, covered by ice. A few days later Wednesday, Mar. 13

15th to 26th March, 1940, both days barge traffle was brought to a stand-"pea soup" fog made the black-out Japan

.10.30 am Inclusive.

st, and the canals were left to these complete that torches were use~ Fort Bayard and Hofhow ...1.3

.1.30 p.m.

skaters.

less. ,2.30 p.m. By Order of the Board of

Tramcars and 'buses took the It was denied on Mrs. Spalter's 2.30 p.m. Directora,

wrong routes and the whole of Edin- behalf that her husband's confession burgh's transport system was for a was in any way extorted from him. time entirely suspended.

Miss Floyd took no part at the It can now be revealed that the hearing of the petition. hold-up and dislocation of leave for Giving Judgment, Sir Boyd Merri- the British Forces at Christmas was man said there was evidence of an At Southampton the ground tem- due inrgely to the severity of the air of familiarity between Mr. Spal- perature dropped as low as 2ideg of weather and its effect on transport.ter and Miss Floyd and also that they TO With their and district were frozen over for the troops from France.

arms round each Orst time for many years.

Frozen Rain

The wife's case, Sir Boyd Merri- Some idea of the arctic conditions

One of the more unusual features man continued, was that, in the which

prevalled

may be gained of the cold spell, noticeable in the course of a discussion on December the fact thai

the

sea water in

28, 1939, to clear up certain admitted

Monila, Stralis, Ceylon, India, E. and S. Africa, Egypt and Europe vla Brindisi-due Brindisi 6th April.

Reg

G. F. O. and K. P. Q.

Mar. 13, 2.45 p.m. Ord.....

Mar. 13, 3.30 pm. Air Mail for Indo-China, Iran, and France (Faris and Northern Pro- vinces only) be: the "Air Franco į Airways Direct Service" due Paris, 21st March.

к. г.о.

Reg., Mar. 13, 5.00 p.m. Ord........Mar. 13, 5.30 p.m.

G. P. O.

Ord..

Sandakan

.Mar. 13, 5.50 p.m. .Mar. 13, 7.00 p.m. Thursday, Mar. 14

Fort Bayard

E. COCK, Chief Manager, Hongkong, 27th February, 1940.

Two Months to Repair Pipes So many pipes burst at Minehead, Somerset, that plumbers say it will be two months before they can repair them all, even though they work at

pressure.

12

Aeon

frost. Lakes and ponds in the town Fog also delayed vessels carrying had been Husband And

Wife As

Joint Pastors

A HUSBAND and wife have 12.30 p.m. been appointed joint pastors of

San Francisco due San Francisco (Essex).

1st April ... Mar. 14.

G.P.0, and KP.O.

n

"No, you do not understand," the Somewhat reluctantly he came to general replied. "The bombings of the conclusion that he could not do so-called unfortified towns with re- violence to the language of the will, sultant killings of civilians have and ho deckled that Mrs. Cozens dili

necessary accidents. Such been not become the widow of Mr. Cozens bombings were involved in military and so did not become entitled to operations and there will no more have transferred to her one molety bombings of unfortified cities, towns. of the residuary estate absokitely. and villages."

The

Children Need Not

Who Die

DIPHTHERIA is as great a scourge to-day as at any time during the last 40 years.

the outer docks at Southampton had arly part of January, was the fall-acts. Mr. Spalter agreed to turn out n coating of lee and that a steamer the more common hail.

ing of frozen rain. This differs from his pockets to show that he had no belonging to a local shipping com- Frozen rain is water vapour con-weapon; agreed to assign his in- pany was surrounded by fee while densed to rain which, in falling,surance policy; and agreed to sign an

This is shown in an official memorandum issued by Mr. Wal- lying at her berth every night.

The unusual sight of icefloen font-# through a belt of temperature th Miss Floyd.

adequate confession of his adultery ter Elliot, Health Minister. No abatement of incidence of the 1.30 pm. the old Independent Congrega-ing down the River Itchen was also molature are frozen to small blocks. below freezing, where the drops of Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu U.S.Ational

The husband, on

the o Church

disease or permanent reduction of morality has taken place since other hand, Central and South America via

at Haverhill seen.

In the Folkestone district the sea is condensed straight to fee without was, it concoction, and that he was of children under 15 years of age of mortality during the first two years ice. Hail is water vapour which gave details of a conversation de the early years of the century.

to show that the confession froze in the harbour and on the first becoming water,

Diphtheria is essentially a 'disease order of magnitude among the causes They are the Rev. Claud Marshall shore, the ico being several inches

The last

asked to write it under the threat of time the Thames was Rev. Constance, thick. Noon, Coltman and the

duress and by a false pretence that says the memorandum, About 60,000 of life, and at four years becomes. .1.45 pm. Mary Coltman.

Towns and villages In south-east a mile of the river was covered with

frozen was on Feb. 17, 1029, when the wife's mother would never alt cases are nolifled each year in Eng und remains for the next six or Ord., Air ball for Manila, Guam, Honolulu children, was the first woman or-

Mrs. Coltman, the mother of three England were completely cut off by ice at Wallingford-on-Thamon and it to her daughter.

Wales, and the average seven years the principal cause of road for many days owing to fierce more than 30 persons walked across.

annual number of deaths is approxidentit of children of school ago... and U.S.A., by the "Tan Ameri-dained to the Congregational minis-only an hour and a half at Folkestone shivered in 40den of frost. Other confession was given voluntarily, the

snowstorms. During one fall lasting In February.

mately 3,000. 1895, Londoners. can Airways Direct Service"-dustry.

His lordship and he thought the San Francisco, 21st March, ·

nearly one foot of snow fell,

exceptionally low readings include because it was common ground be K.r.o.

-She graduated at Oxford and took The Folkestone-London main road deg of frost in December, 1860, tween the three persons present that that there had been any sort of „Mar. 14, A p.m.her B.D. at London, where her hus-was completely blocked for, daya at and 30deg at Christmas, 1796,

the husband had committed.miultory, ....Mar. 14, 5.30 p.m. | band obtained his M.A, V

Newington and on the Folkestone Dec. 4, 1879, holds the record for and because he hoped that by make wite would be stanied ʼn de-an is practicable and should form an It is urged that this should be duresja G.P.O.

Dover road cars and lorries were the coldest visitation in this country. [ing a clean breast of it, he might get

undertaken as early in the child's life: ***MILE, 14,``5 p.m. The old Independent Church at showed up in drifts 10 to 12 feet on that date 55deg of frost was refout of other troubles more easily,

far. 15, 7.30 am. Haverhill was founded in 1062.

deep.

gistered in Berwickshire,

[creeintal, with costs, and the custody integral part of the work of child It was sheer nonsense to suggest of the children.

welfare centres. --

Parcola Reg.

Box..

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Ord

.2.30 p.m.

Husband's Hope.

land and

It occupies the seventh place in

The way to safety is artificial, im- munisation which; properly carried out, involves no risk