1940-03-12 — Page 2

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 12, 1940.

CLASSIFIED NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. In 1840 Great-Grandmother Went West.......

ADVERTISEMENTS 25 words $2.50

for 3 days propaid WANTED TO BUY. WANTED. Diesel engine motor ship net tonnage about 200 tons. Send particulars to No. 80, Wing Lok Street, East, Hongkong.

FOR SALE.

of

KOWLOON RESIDENTS'

ASSOCIATION

NOTICE

The Twentieth Annual General' Meeting of the Kowloon Resi- dents' Association will be held in St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kow- loon, on FRIDAY, March 15, 1940, at 6 p.m.

Business

Adoption of Report and Ar- counts for the year ended 31st

Election of Officers and Com-

And Other Business.

FOR SALE. One 8 h.p. vertical Diesel Engine. Two Stilico Portable Electric generating sets, suitable for December, 1939. yachts or country bungalows. Apply to Sander, Wieler & Co., (in liquida- tion), King's Building, secund floor.mittee. DOG SHOW. Photographs of nil the prize winners and dozens

It is earnestly requested that other entries. Copies on view and orders taken at the Mayfair Studio, members and all others interested corner Haiphong and Nathan Roads, in the welfare of Kowloon will

endeavour to be present. Ani Kowloon. (Opposite Dairy Farm). EAT MORE PEARS FOR YOUR Opportunity will be given for Health. Anferlenn Frosh Pears, fully bringing forward matters for the riped for immediate use, special $1.20 consideration of the new Com- per doz. Buy at once before stock exhausted. Tin Hop Produce Co., 46 Des Voeux Road Central, Tele- phone 24412.

mlitee.

H. D. ROSENTHALL

Hon. Secretary,

"HONGKONG AS REVEALED DY THE CAMERA" Second Edition. Over 40 excellent views of the THE DAIRY FARM ICE & Colony, Price $1.10. Obtainable at COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post, Ltd., Wyndham Street.

POST OFFICE

Notice to Shareholders

Notics is hereby given that the Forty-fourth Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Company's Town Office, 2, Lower Albert Road, on WEDNESDAY, Small Packet Post to all countries 27th MARCH, 1940, at NOON, for is suspended.

the purpose of receiving the Report. of the Directors together OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Mail are with Statement of Accounts, to closed 15 minutes earlier than the

declaration of Banction the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertis-Dividend and to re-elect Directors ed to close at or before 0 a.m. re- and Auditors. gistered and parcel mails are closed

रा

The Transfer Books of the

at 5 pm. un the previous day. When Company will be CLOSED from mails are advertised to close after

13th March to 27th March, 1910, both days inclusive.

5

p.m., Registered and Parcel mails

are closed at 5 p.m.

INWARD MAILS

Halphong

Japan and Shanghal

Shanghai

Straits

By Order of the Board of

Mnr. 12. Directors, Mar, 12. .Mar. 12. .Mar. 12.

G. MILNE,

Secretary. Hongkong, 29th February, 1940,

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES

Mar. 12. Straits and Palembang Air Mail by "Air France Direci Service"-Paris date, 6th March

Mar. 13. Europe la Suez and Stralis (Lon- don date, 25th January)..Mar. 13. Java and Maula

Mar. 13. .MET, 13. Mar. 13.

'Bringing Cargo from Marseilles .Mar. 13. vin Saigon.

Manila

Shanghai

Shanghai and Amoy

Air Mail by "Imperial Airways

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

Consignees are hereby informed

IN 1940 BABY COMES

BACK 9-MONTH-OLD FLIES OCEAN

ONE HUNDRED years ago, in 1840, a baby girl sailed with her parents from Dart- mouth to find a new home in America.

The voyage across the Atlantic lasted three

months.

Then the family travelled almost 2,500 miles

American

covered continent in a across the wagon,

That baby's great-granddaughter, nine-month-old Cecily Willans, arrived in England after having flown the Atlantic.

6.000 MILES

A fortnight ago Cecily was 6,000 miles away nt Los Angeles, with her great-grandmother, who is now # centenarian.

From Los Angeles Cecily flew to New York. from there she flew in the American Clipper to Dermuda, and then to Lisbon,

She went from Lisbon to Paris by train, but she new the last lap from Paris to Englan

Mies

Ceelly is the frat baby who has flown the Atlantic. Her father, Captain Fox Williams, of Portland- square, W., and her cousin, Miss Glta Nicholas, came with her.

That evening "Little Muffet." as her father calls her, looked around her at a strange new country where there was no blazing

it-und cried. Californing sunshine, and didn't like

But even pioneers get pretty tired after all these thousands of miles.

Pioneer

the

"Miss Muffet is a real pioneer, like the rest of the family," her father said.

"She behaved splendidly on journey."

"'I I had to have oxygen on the way over," Miss Nicholas said, "but not so Miss Muffet. She kept us all. cheered."

Although the baby had a passpert, she was considered small enough to travel free, and had no ticket. She Is being looked after by Miss Nicholas and nurse, and is going to live at Chester,

Her father, an engineer, is rejoining the British Army.

Direct Service" London date, Oth that their goods with the exception Tsar's Grandson

Afarch.

WAYS

.....Mar. 14 of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are Ale Mall by "Pan American Ar being landed and stored into the Direct Service-San Godawns of the Hongkong Kowloon Francisco date 7th March. Mar. 14. Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow. loon, whence delivery may be obtain- ed immediately after landing.

OUTWARD MAILS Tuesday, Mar. 12 Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Direct Service" due London, 29th

~March.

Ref.

Ord.

K.P.O.

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

All claims must be sent in to me on or before 20th March, 1940, or they will not be recognised.

Damaged Packages will be exhmin=”

Wants to Fight

PRINCE ALEXANDER YOURIEY-

SKY, grandson of Tsar Alexander II of Rússia, wants to fight for Britain as un Army officer.

50

He „said. at Stockton-on-Tees, when he applied for his discharge in

rd by the Company's Surveyor bankruptcy.

Messrs: Goddard and Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 10 ain, on Friday, 15th March, 1940,

Consignees must have a Revenue attendance witen any dutable goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors,

Mar. 12, 6 p.m. Rek. Ord.

.Mar. 12, 7 p.m. Air Mall for Malaya, Java and Aus-Officer

iralla by "Imperial Airways Direct Service" due Sydney 18th March.

K.P.O.

Reg.

Ord,

Reg.

Ord.

....Mar. 12, 6 p.m. Mar. 12, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

Mar. 12, 3 p.m. .Mar. 12, 7 p.m. Shanghai, Japan. Honolulu, U.S.A

Central and South America and Canada via San Francisco-due San Francisco, 4th April.

G.

Reg

Ord.

P. O. and K. P. 0.

.Mar, 12, 6 p.m. .....Mar. 13, 8.30 a..

Straits and Calcutta

Parcels

Ord.

....Mar, 12, 5 pm. .Mar. 13, 8.30 a.m. Wednesday, Mar. 13

......19.30 am.

p.m.

...2.30 p.m.

Japan Fort Bayard and Holhow Amoy Shanghal Manila, Straits, Ceylon, India, E. and S. Africa, Egypt and Europe via Brindisi-due Brindisi 5th April.

G. P. 0. and K. F. 0.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever,

R. ONL Agent.

COMPANY REPORT

H.E.C. To Pay Final

Dividend of $1.50

At the annual meeting of share- holders of the Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd, to be held at the Company's Registered Office, F. and O. Building, 4th floor, on March 21 at 11 am, the Directors will submit the following report:

The balance at credii of Proft and Loss Account is $2,944.480.39 after Of this allowing for depreciation. Mar. 13, 2.45 p.m. amount $800,000 has been appropriat Reg. Ord.. ......Mar. 13, 3.30 p.m.

of an Interim Mall for Indo-China, Iran, anded for the payment France (Paris and Northern Fro-Dividend of $1 per share on Septem- vinces only) by the "Alr Francs ber 7, 1939, Airways Direct Service-das Paris,

Air

21st March,

Reg.,

Ord...

Reg..

G. P. 0.

the available for appropriation

Judge Gamon refused to grant dis charge until the Prince had pald 103. in the £ on liabilities of £821.

"I could not pay a penny in the £," the Prince saki,

"I pointed out to the judge my de sire to join the Army, and asked him if my bankruptcy would affect my chance of a comunission. I was told that this would not be the case."

THE DUKE OF WINDSOR (11 the uniform of a Major Gene- ral, photo graphed as he left the sand- bagged entrance to Claridge's Ilotel on ณ res cent trip 10 England.

F

BY AIR BY

THE DUKE IN ENGLAND

ISSING AJOR YSTERY A ISTAKE

M

TOR six days police throughout the

country have searched for Major! Vernon Moor-Lane (retd.), of the Indian Army.

Ile landed at Liverpool, and rela- tives sought police ald when he failed to appear at his Surrey home, Braemar, The Holl, Farnham, the same day.

Later, he was found him ly- Ing in bed at a Liverpool hotel re- covering from an attack of malaria.

It's preposterous," he said. "I com- muniented Iwith my soliciter, and told

him where I was. ~~~~"It is said that I have not been seen since disembarked, but I came straight to this hotel from the ship about lunch-time on Wednesday.

intended to stay here for a few hours until it was time to catch the next train to Surrey, but almost ng soon as I arrived I had a severe bout of malaria.

"I have .now got over my attack, and shall be at to travel, home in a day or two."

THEY WILL

WAR BY

LEARN POST

STOCKHOLM.

SWEDEN'S scheme to teach soldiers by post will keep about 50,000 reservists busy during the winter evenings.

The Army staff and the Co-opera- Live Society correspondense are co-operating in the plan.

school

Within twenty-four hours of its STOCK MARKET

announcement more than 0.000 appll- cutions arrived, many from groups of workers.

REPORT

The correspondence courses -- }

Hongkong Stock Exchange Ofein! voluntary are for the older classes Summary issued yesterday says: of reservists who want to brush up their knowledge of modern warfare. Hongkong Banks & Unions are u good demand, next steady, market, and theory before being called up Directors recommend that the

The former at $1,480 after shares spring.

at $1,475, and Trainloads of Swedish volunteers changing hands are leaving for Northern Finland $1,477, and the latter business done at $485 and in both cases shares still every day.

wanted. Docks have strengthened to $23, and at the close enquiries were broadening over the list generally.

Buyers

amounting to $2,344,480.39 be dis-

K. F..O.

Mar. 13, 5.00 p.m. posed of as follows-To pay a final Diar. 13, 5.30 p.m. dividend of $1.50 per share on. 000,000 shares, $100,000; to pay a bonus of Mar, 13, 5.00 p.m. 75 cents per share on 800,000 shares,

$450,

50,000; to place to reserve, $400,000 Mar. 13, 7.00 pm to carry forward to next account,

7.00 p.m. $504,400.39. Thursday, Mar. 14

'During the year The Hon. Mr. J. J. .12.30 Fort Bayard.1.30 p.m. Paterson resigned his scat as

Ord

Straits

Sandakan

a

At a Stockholm factory one thou sand workers have offered to work without pay on their Twelfth Night holiday to provide funds for Finland. Their example will be followed by. workers all over the country.

Shanghal, Japan, Honolulu USA Director on leaving the Colony and A Loudspeaker War:

Central and South America and Mr. D. F. Landale was appointed in Canada via San Francisco (No his place. Mr. Landale realgned on Parcels for Canada)—duc Francisco 1st April.

· G.F.O. and K.г.0, Parcels

neg..

San

Mr.

Paterson's

return and Mr Paterson WEE re-appointed. In accordance with Article 122 The Hon. ....Noon. Mr. J. J. Paterson retires and bring eligible offers for re-election, The .1.40 p.m.

2.30 p.m. Hon. Mr. Stanley H. Dodwell and Mr. Ord..

H. V. Wilkinson, D.5.0., also retire and Mail for Manila, Guam, Konoinla and U.S.A.. by the "Tan Ameri-being eligible

themselves for ole offer can Airways Direct Service”...dge San Franciscu, 21st March,

Air

Reg.

Ord.,

Reg

Ord

Haiphong Shanghai

K.P.O.

Mar. 14,5 pm, Mar. 14, 5.80 p.m. G.P.O..

Mr. Mar. 14, 5 p.m. DAR. 15, 7.80, am. Friday, March 15

re-election..

In view of the expansion of the Company's business. It is thought that the Company should increase the re- muneration of the Directors which is ret mi $10,000 and a resolution to thercase this sum to $18,000 wit be placed before the meating.

The Auditors, Messrs. Linslead & Davis retire and being eligible, offer 12.00 p.m. 2.30 pm. themselves for re-elecilon.

Reds Warn Of Nazis

Helsingfors.

On the Karelian Isthmus, where the Finns have reported almost daily attacks, the Finnish; Anny cseld the Russian invadern sought to give el- fect to their drives by loudspeaker exhortations that the Finns surren- ́der under the threat that the Ger

mans were coming to help their, foo.

"The enemy," the announcement: said, "irled to give effect to his at- tacks by loudspeakers?"mounted in

positions which exhorted; our mento surrender, declaring that Viborg. would be taken within 48 hours and threatening that Germans were coming to help him and would kill all Finus."

H.K. Bank $1,400 Unton Ins. 6485

Providents $5.05

Lands $30 Star Ferries

$00%

China Lights (Old) 38.10

Telephones (Old). $28% Ropes $5.60. Watsons $9.45

Sellers Providents 30%

China Lights (Old) $0.40...

Ropes $5.80

Sales

HK Bank. $1,475/774/00 Union Ins. $405 Docks $23 Lands $504 Providents $5.10 Tramways $18 Cements $19:10' Ropes $5.00 Watsons $9.00

111 PT:

Couple Will Forget

SENNET

the Gestapo FRERES

in Ching

YOUNG Tso Chow-wang and Magdalena, his German bride, smiled when they were fined £5 each at Basingstoke.

For it meant the end of months of!

worry, and trouble. Soon they will be on their way to China. Their troubles began, sald their solicitor, even while they were courting In Germany.

them,

The secret police hunted

threatening to send them to a con- centration camp.

False. Passport

After their marriage they were not allowed to live in the same town, Tso Chow-wang escaped Into. Den-

mark, got his wife to join him! there.

With a borrowed passport for her, they arrived in England. They were, arrested because she had come in on a false passport.

Arm-In-Arm

Tsu Chow-wang, who is 39 and an engineering student, and blue- eyed, blonde Magdalena, three years younger, walked out of court arm-in-arm.

Now the Chinese Purchasing Com- mission is paying their passage to China.

Hitler's Gestape won't trouble them

anymore.

Month's Jail For Blasphemy

Sentence of one month's imprison- ment without hard labour for having published a blasphemous 1lbel-an implous representation of himself as Christ was passed at Jersey Assizes 011 Arthur Reynolds Woodhall, aged 47, proprietor of the Mayfair Hotel, Jersey, and a native of Sheffield.

The alleged libel was contained in

HIGH CLASS JEWELLERS.

Gloucester Building..

Pedder Streat

Record

POCKET WATCHES

RECORD

NEW!

Gold, Silver,

n, photograph Found by the Jersey Lacquer & Leather

chlef aliens officer in Woodhall's pass- port,

#

It showed Woodhall wearing bath- ing shorts lying with arms extended en a beach. A cross had been inset.

Its Composer Died Recently

marcata

Ten

thir 17. for y

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By courtesy of Messrs. Boosey and Co., Ltd. Words and music you have all heard-from one of Mr. Barron's

most famous songs, "My Old Shako."

Last Voyage -The Song He

Wrote

Never

THE man who wrote that pre-jazz song hit

"My Old Shako"-died in Dulwich S.E., recently, 71 years old.

John Francis Barron, who lived at Mount Adon Park, East Dulwich, wrote scores of other popular songs, 100-among them "The Trumpeter."

As he lay dying he planned on- other, a sea song. "The Last Long Voyage."

"As a boy he yearned for the sen," his son, Mr. Francis Barron, sald, "but he was rejected because of his eyesight.

"Before he was moved to hospital

his thoughts turned again to the sea.

Hospital,

WE WIN

IN AIR

-NAZIS

"The Last Long Voyage was to deal GERMANY is building more

with the sellers of this war:

and better warplanes than "And it reflected what was in his France and Britain combined, mind when he knew that he could not live long.".

He had to give up his writing two years ago, for his sight failed.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Donations to British War Organisation Fund

the Nazi cinini.

ERMETO

MOVADO

Record

They say that, while the Allies have WATER PROOF

a buy planes from the U.S., Germany can afford to export them.

In fact, Germany. has become the leading aircraft exporter of Europe, probably the world, claims an mand-magazino, "Armed Force."

tilele in the German High Com

Describing the present European conflict as, a war of factories, the The Hongkong Branch of the British arilele emphasises the dominating War Organisation Fund acknowledges, the "osition of Germany's armament - following donations

lustry as compared with that of Previously Acknowledged. P424,628.65: Britain and France. Moodle (monthly), $20. Anonymous,, 151 Foreign Staff, Hongkon Foresters Cricke Telephone Co. Jan/Tob., 315, Frea

£8,200,000,000 Arms

WATCHES

THE WATCH MANUFACTURED FOR

HONGKONG and

German industry is said to be TROPICAL CLIMATES

Matches LKCC, $60) 168, Jones, $50, M. B. $10 R. K. Valentine (monthly), 120 W. J. Reid (monthly}, - #3: `L. C. Haker (monthly) #10; tr.and strong and efficient as never before.

This, it is stated, in best shown by „kao: Mr... Martin Walkden (1. Dawker (monthly), the Fuehrer's last Reichstag speech, (monthly)

Biar of Sanitary Dept. (monthly) when he announced that he had spent 1468: E. W. Davies, 10: Leap Year

Bali-Gloucester Hotel, #100: Anonymous, £8,200,000,000, for the rearmament of 100 Anonymous $100 Anonymous ; the German nation within the last aix J. B. Dunnett (monthly}, #20; E. M. Rayears, to t mond,

$50; FT Harris, 815: Razon Trading Co. (monthly), $10: Queen Mary

Hospital/Tennis, Tournament,

This enormous figure the article Sennet Freres

Cricket Club-American Tennis Tourna sald, is the best proof of the produc ment, $40150; D.G. Day (monthly), in tion capacity of Germany's armament All. Guinness. (monintyy,1976.2 Industry,"

Edgar (monthly), 33; Mr. and Mrs. Vin-

cent. Forby,,1500; „Boota, Norwegian, |, |$25;|

England, it said, spent £2,300,000,-

HIK. Pulice Forgs=All Continents #59 000 on arms and France only: £1,400,- Clerical/Staff “ralniary); 41,000.00) 26 M Miller (monthly),, #38; total", $462,830.00,

000,000.

Watchmanari Jourcflens Gloucester Bldg," "Podsten St.