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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 12, 1940.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. In 1840 Great-Grandmother Went West... King Chats

ADVERTISEMENTS KOWLOON RESIDENTS'

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.

FOR SALE. Onc 8 h.p.

ASSOCIATION

NOTICE

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

Business

vertical Adoption of Report and Ac- Diesei Engine. Two Stillco Portable counts for the year ended 31st Elcetric generating sets, suitable for December, 1939. yachts or country bungalows. Apply

:

Election of Ofcers and Com-

to Sander, Wieler & Co., (in liquids- tion), King's Building, second floor.mittee.

alt

DOG SHOW. Photographs of the prize winners and dozens of other entries. Copies on view and ordern taiten at the Mayfair Studio,

And Other Business,

An

It in carnently requested that merabers and all others interested corner Haiphong and Nathan Roads, the welfare of Kowloon will Kowloon. (Opposite Dairy Farm). endeavour to be present. EAT MORE PEANS FOR YOURpportunity will be given for Health. American Fresh Pears, fully bringing forward matters for the riped for immediate use, special $1.20 consideration of the new Com- per dez. Buy ut once before stockmittee. exhausted. Tin Hop Produce Co.,

48 Des Voeux Road Central, Tele- phone 24412,

11. D. ROSENTIALL

Hon. Secretary,

"HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY THE CAMERA" Second Edition. Over 60 excellent views of the TIE DAIRY FARM ICE & Colony. Price $1.50. Obtainable at COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. Kelly

& Walsh, Lid, Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post, Ltd., Wyndham Street.

H. K. Stock Market

The

following quotations were Issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar- BANKS

ket this morning.

Notice to Shareholders

Notice is hereby given that the

Ordinary Forty-fourth

Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Company's Town Ofee, 2, Lower Albert Road, on WEDNESDAY, 27th MARCH, 1940, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the. Directors together with Statement of Accounts, to the declaration of a annction Dividend and to re-elect Directors and Auditors, .311 m. The Transfer Books of the 77 n. Company will be CLOSED from 13th March to 27th March, 1940, both dayu inclusivo.

1.K. Banks $..

.1,500 11.K. Banks (Lon. Reg.) £ 13% n. 1.K. Banks (H.K. Reg.) £ 921⁄2 n. .03% n. Chartered £

Mercantile, A. & B. C..

Mercantile, C. £..

East Asia $.......

Canton $

INSURANCES

Union $... China Underwriters $.

H.K. Fire $.

SHIPPING

.12% n.

227

487 b.

100 n.

G. MILNE,

Secretary, Hongkong, 29th February, 1940.

..i n. 105

By Order of the Board Directors,

of

Douglases $..

Steamboats $.

.120 b. .10% D.

Indo-Chinus P$

Indo-Chinas DS.

.80 n.

Shell (Benrers) /-

78/9 n.

Waterboats $

71⁄2 n.

DOCKS ETC.

Wharves $.

Docky $..

Providents Ș.

Sh. Docks Sh. $..

Kallan s/- Raubs S... Venz.. Gold H.K. Mines

MINING

LANDS

30

Hotels $... Lands $.... Lands 4% Debentures

Shui Lands Sh. $.

Humphreys 3.

II.K. Heulties $.

Chinese Estates $..

UTILITIES

Trams $..... Peak Trama (old) $.

Peak Trams (new) $. Star Ferries

Y. Ferries 5.

China Lights (old) $. China Lights (new) H.K. Electrics $.. Macao Electrics $ Sandakan Lights ..

fold) s..

(new) $..

Tractions s/-

Tractions

103 n. 23 5. 5.20.

304 m.

.18/0 11.

.10 m.

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 Jasted three

months,

Then the family travelled almost 2,500 miles covered neross the American continent in a wagon.

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

F

6,000 MILES

A fortnight go Ceelly was 6,000 miles away at Los Angeles, with her great-grandmother, who is now a centenarian.

From Los Angeles Ceelly flew to New York, from there she flew in the American Clipper to Bermuda, and then to Lisbon,

She went from Lisbon to Parls by train, but she flew the Inst lap from Parls to England.

Cecily is the first baby who fins Blown the Atlantic. Her father, Captain Fax Willums, of Portland- squire, W., and her cousin, Miss Gita Nicholas, came with her.

"Little Miss evening That Muffet," as her father calls her, looked around her at a strange new country where there was no blazing Californian sunshine, and didn't like

and cried.

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

Pioneer

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

"She behaved splendidly on the Journey."

had to have oxygen on the way over Miss Nicholas sald, "but not She kept us all 50 Miss Muffet. cheered."

Although the baby had a passport, she was considered small enough to Sho

CONSIGNEES'. NOTICE. travel free, and had no ticket,

SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

Bringing Cargo from Marseilles via Salgon,

Consignees are hereby informed 4 n. that their goods with the exception cts, n. of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being Isnded and stored into the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon .5.00

Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow- & 54.

whence delivery may be obtain- loon, ....100

D. .15.20 ned immediately after landing.

7% 1.

is being looked after by Miss Nicholas and a nurse, and is going to live at Chester.

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

MURDER TRIAL NEARS END

Expert Evidence Given This Morning

Expert

THE DUKE OF WINDSOR In

the uniform of a Major Gene- ral, photo- graphed us he left the sand- bagged entrance 10 Claridge's Hotel on re- cent Irip to England.

3BY

AIR

THE DUKE IN ENGLAND

[ISSING

AJOR YSTERY A

ISTAKE

OR six days police throughout the country have searched for Majer Vernon Moor-Lane (retd.), of the Indian Army.

to

home,

He landed at Liverpool, and rela- tives sought police ald when he failed

appear at his Surrey. Braemar, The Holt, Farnham, the same day.

he

Later,

was found him ly- ing In bed at a Liverpool hotel re- covering from an attacks of malaria.

said. "I cum- It's preposterous," he municated wit my solicitor, and told

regarding

the

him

where I was.

All claims must be sent in to me

evidence Gn. on or before 20th March, 1940, or mental condition of accused was given 105 n.

recognised.

at the Criminal Sessions this morning. n.they will not be

-Damaged Packages will be examin-when hearing of the murder charge 18 b & sa.ed by the Company's Surveyor against Hui Yuk-mun, 20-year-old

8 n. Messra:-Goddard

and Douglas in blacksmith, was continued before the 4 n. the presence of the Consignees at Chlef Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor .60% b. 10 am, on Friday, 15th March, 1940. Hui was charged with the murder, Consignees must have a Revenue on the hillside above the revolver 271⁄2 n

by strangulation, of Li Ping-fal, oged when in attendance

any 7, 5.55 . dutlable goods are examined by the range in Kennedy Road on December 31. The body of the boy was found three days later with his face partly calen away by rats.

.8.45 h. Oncer

.67.00 n. Company's Surveyors.

11

22 11.

No Fire Insurance will be effected bby us in any case whatever. 20 n.

R. QUIL. .11% n.

Agent. .C. D. 21/9 n. .23/- n.

TRIALS

Cald: Macg. (Ord.), Sh. $..14.00 n.

Cald: Macg. (Pref.), Sh...12 n.

Canton Ices $..

Cements $....

H.K. Ropes $

STORES, &c.

Dairy Farms (old) $. Dairy Farms (new) Watsons $w Lane, Crawforda $ Sinceres $................ Wing On (HK.) $. Powell, Ltd. $....

.1

.19%

.5.00 & fill.

COTTON MILLS

Ewo Sh. $... S'hal Cotton Sh. Zoong Sing, Sh.

Textiles, Sh. S Wing On

MISC...

H.K. Entertainments $.

Constructions (old), $ Constructions (new) $. Vibro Piling $...... Ch. Govt. 5% 1025

G. Bonda

.22% n.

.22 .0.60 sa

7 B.

You Can't Keep An Old Sea

Mr. E. II. Williams, Crown Counsel, prosecuted, and Hul was defended by Mr. Hin-shing Lo, Instructed by Mr. IL L. Kwan.

following The

Jury: Messrs. B. Pasco (Foreman), Choy Ping-zau, L. A. Xavier, Chan Ylu- cam, E. L. Starling, Wong Wah-ding and F. X. Silva.

Was

the

Hui admitted having squeezed the

Dog Down boy's neck but denied he had

Amazing Experiences

1.80 n.

Of Veteran Capt.

"It is said that I have not been seen

I since

dicembarked, but I come straight

this hotel from the ship to about lunch-time on Wednesday.

"I intended to stay here for a few hours until it was time to catch the next train to Surrey, but almost as soon as I arrived 1 had a severe bout of malaria.

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

H.K. MOTORING

OFFENCES

R. B. Mace, of the Swedish Match any

Company, Queen's Road Central, was of killing him. He Was fined $5 by Mr. Sheldon at the Cen-

said. only playing with him, he

tral Magistracy this morning for leaving has car parked in Pedder When he was ten years he was sub- jected to epileptic fits.

Street for more than two hours on February 22.

Romembored Every Detail

Dr. P. B. Wilkinson testiñed

to

41 n.

11 LONDON, Mar. 11 (Reuter). The having examined Hul who, he said, term "old sca dog", beloved by gave him a very clear account of the to seerted .43% n.novelists and writorn of the sea, incident at issue. Hul

.170 m. seems to and its personification in have remembered every detall with and said that he 93. Captain George Simpson who just great precision,

realised the nature of the act, when .48% won't let any wars terrify him.

11

During the last war he had ships he was committing it and that he 7.40 n. sink under him twice. He was in knew it was wrong. He gave all his

Cheung,

With Mr. Welles

Informal Audionco

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Mar. 12, (UP) — Mr. Sumner Walles was received In audience by Their Majesties the King and Queen this after-

noon.

The American Envoy-extraordinary drove through the front quadrangle of Buckingham Palace in his motor- car, which drow up at the "King's Door" in the inner courtyard.

Captain the Hon. Piers Legh, Equerry-in-Walting, met. Mr. Welles

SENNET FRERES

HIGH CLASS JEWELLERS Cloucester Building

Pedder Streat

Record

on the steps, where they shook hands POCKET WATCHES

and stood chatting for a few moments

as they recalled their previous meet- ing at Washington during the Royal tour.

The Equerry then conducted Mr. Welles to the Audience Chamber on the first floor. Fits Majesty invited the American envoy into his private study, which adjoins the Audience Chamber.

Talk. Then Tea

The King sat at his desk, with Mr. Welles in a deep armchair alongside. They talked for half-an-hour until Queen Elizabeth entered the study and greeted Mr. Welles.

After chatting for few minutes, all throo walked

the through Chamber to the Pine Room.

Audienco

There a low table was act for fes be- fore a blazing log fire., Her Majesty poured tea.

Mr. Welles afterwards left. The

whole visit contrasted sharply with the ceremonial which would have attended such a meeting in peaco time.

Cereniony was entirely dropped throughout the Audience,

£5,500 Gift To The Red Cross Fund

LONDON, Mar. 11 (Reuter)-In memory of his father, the late Mr. Andrew Mellon, the former American Ambassador to London, Mr. Paul Mellon has sent a gift of £5,500 for the purchase of a Beet of ten Red Cross ambulances to the Lord Mayor of London's Red Cross Fund,

The Fund has now reached £1,- 211,000.

Its Composer Died Recently

Marcala

Ten.

ther 13. for 83 I. years

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 Never Wrote

THE man who wrote that pre-jazz song hit "My Old Shako"-died in Dulwich Hospital, S.E., recently, 71 years old..

John Francis Barron, who lived at Mount Adon Park, East Dulwich,

wrote scores of other popular songs. too-among them "The Trumpeter."

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

INDEPENDENCE OF CHINA

LONDON, Mar. 11 (Reuter)—In

for

the House of Commons to-day, Mr. "As a boy he yearned for the sea." R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary his son, Mr. Francis Barron, sald, Foreign Affairs, stated in answer to "but he was rejected because of his a question by Mr. Arthur Henderson that it remained the policy of the eyesight,

Government that the independence of Chinn should be preserved.

A lorry driver, ChanK was fined $10 for driving a lorry at 25 miles per hour In Saiwanho, Shau- kiwan, on February 23. It was stated

"Before he was moved to hospital that the lorry was full of troops, but the driving was not excessively dan-his thoughts turned again to the sea.

"The Last Long Vovabe' was to deal) with the sailora of this war.

gerous.

"And it reflected what was in his

.1% n. command of ship at the outbreak answers readily and showed no loss Burma And China mind when he knew that he could not

1n of this war and within a month the of memory whatsoever.

There were no physical signs

of

.6 n. ship was raided by Nazi plaries.

Last month the ship was again disease and witness detected no trace .51%% n. rolded and over a week ago it was of abnormality in his system. The conclusion he came to sald Dr. H.K. Govt, 4% Loon....100% n. machine-gunned,

.95% D. Finally the ship sank after an Wilkinson, was that it was unlikely, HK. Govt. 34% Loan

14/9 a. explosion In the North Sea last though possible, that Hui seized the

boy's neck it the course of Maramans (HK). 1/............. .4/-. Saturday,

Captain Simpson is still alive and epileptle fit.

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con agreed that epileptics in the post- epileptic stogo

LOST -A YACHT ul had eight epileptic fits some ten

years any

Capt F. Salò, stationed at Kal Tak Don with his action

on

Postal Services

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH CHUNGKING, Dec, 12 (UP)—The Chinese Government has completed arrangements with the Burmese Government for the maintenance of three 'postal routes between Burmu and China.

The new arrangement will become operative on April ‍1.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

live long."

He had to give up his writing two Summary issued yesterday says: years ago, for his sight failed.

Hongkong Stock. Exchange Omelal Hongkong Banks & Unions are A steady market and good demand. The former at $1,480 after shares

ot

and $1,475 $1,4774, and the latter business done at $485 and in both cases shares still wanted. Docks have strengthened to $23, and at the close enquiries were broadening over the list generally.

Buyeru

ANGLO-ITALIAN changing handa

TRADE TALKS

Resumption Possible AD THE UTELEGRAPH" SPECIAL TO THE LONDON, Mar. 11 (UP)In the to say without any intention whatso-House of Commons to-day Mr. Cham- berlain said that settlement of the Anglo-Italian dispute over the Italian, imports of German coal inakes the resumption of commercial negotia- tions between the two countries pos- sible.

ever.

Questioned by Mr. Lo, Dr. Wilkin-

become might homicidal or insane, Assuming that he did not think they had 31 because the interval was reports that his yacht Portion was tou long. It was, however quite either stolen or had drifted from it possible that he might have a

Speaking on the question of in- mild

sanity, His Lordship said that in law, moorings at Kal Tak between 0.30 epileptic fit on that day, but this was n.m. on Sunday and 7 a.m. yester- unlikely considering the surrounding

to establish the defence on the ground day,

of Insanity, It: must be clearly proved circumstances.

to the satisfaction of the Jury that Considered He Was Sana

at the time the accused took the lite 15 below the previous day on a light

He also told questioners that whe- of, Stanley of Al Ping he was suffering from a Dr. H. A. Barwell.

ther Britain will in future supply turnover. Trading continuer quiet Prison, said he had kept liul under disease of the mind, and that as a and dull.

cbservation and came to the conclu-suffered also from the defect

result of that disease of the mind he Italy with more cont than in the past Antomok, Coco Grove and United sion that he was mentally Hane.

"wlil no doubt be a subject for fur- Paracale cach lost one-half centavo,

ther discussion," In the course of his summing up Cason, so greatly, that he was un- while Paracale Gumaus and Sans Lordship told the Jury that able, at. that itme, to know the nn- Mauricio were down one centavo,

ture and quality of the act, he was, murder was a deliberate and faten- Uonal killing. Before they cotud redoing, or that he did not know that turn a verdict of, manalaughter the what he was doing was wrong Jury would have to be anfisted that After the Jury had retired and in

verdict before 1 p.m., hearing adjourned to this afternoon.

The following is Swan, Culbertson "a

Mar. 11. Mar 12. Morning

& Fritz report on this morning's Volume of business

market:

of

Prices on the Manila Gold Share done...... P 83,000 P# 30,200 the utmost the accused was guilty, ofdicated they could not reach their

market drifted fractionally to one Gold Share Aver centavo lower and the average closed ago

72.56

was the unlawful, felonious, killing 72.41 of the other without enalico-that is

WAS

Colliora Sail.

LONDON, Mar. 12 (Reuter)---Only one of the Italian colllers, seized by the British Contraband Control is all In the Downs. The reat have killed for Italy.

H.K. Bank $1,480 Union Ins. $485 Providents $5.05 Lands $304

Star Ferries $60% China Lights (Old) $8.10 Telephones (Old) $261⁄2 Ropes $5.00 Watsons $0.45

Bellers Providents $5 China Lights (Old) $0.40 Ropes $0.80

'Baler H.K. Bank $1,475/7734/80 Union Ins. $400 Docks $23

Lands $30

Providents 15.10

Tramways $18 Cements $10.10 Ropes $5.00 Watsons 19.00

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