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H.K. Stock Market

The

following quotations

were

issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar-

ket this morning.

BANKS

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23215

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...1 n.

18.

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IK. Fire $.

SHIPPING

Douglakes $.

Steamboats $.

101

Indo-Chinas I'S

Indo-Chinus 1.$.

Shell (Bearers) /-

DUCKS ETC.

Waterboats $

Wharves 3.

Docks $.

Providents t. Sh. Docks Sh. $

Kailan s/-

SUNING

Hub $x. <l. Venz. Gold S. ILK. Mines

Hotels $..

Lands S.

Lands 4%

LANDS

Debentures

Shai Lands Sh. $.

Humphreys $. ILK. Renities $.

Clunese Estales S.....

UTILITIES

Trans $.

Peak Trams (old) $

Peak Trains (new) Star Ferries

Y. Ferries $.

China Lights (old) $. China Lights (new) S...

H.K. Electries ~ x.d.

Macno Electrics $ Sandakan Lights S.. Telephones (old) 7. Telephones (new) $. Tractions /-

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100 n.

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presents

.80 n. "HOUSEMASTER”

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163 п. ..23 1. .5.20 .

(A Comedy of Youth by lan Hay)

.37%. March 28th, 29th & 30th

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.4 0.

4 cts. I

.57% 0. .38 .100 n.

at 9 p.m.

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15 11. IN AID OF THE BRITISH WAR

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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

NOTTINGHAM

March 26, 1940.

· Entire Coastline Is Now Guarded

ROBBED POLICE SERGT'S WIFE

GAS-BAGS BALLOON GUARD FOR Struggle Follows Chase

A private car and a bus, both using coal gas stored in balloons as a substitute for petrol, passing in a Notilag-

ham street,

POST

OFFICE

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended:

OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Mail Dre dosed 15 minutes earlier than the

time given below unless otherwise dated, and where mails are advertis-

d to close at or before 0 a.m. re- gistered and parcel malls are closed at 5 pm, on the previous day. When are advertised to close after mails

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COAST OF

ENGLAND

Ex-Police Reservist On Extortion Charge

How three men, posing as police officers, allegedly attempted to extort $1,000 from a man named Chan Sik-tim by threaten. ing to accuse him of murder, was told at the Criminal Sessions this morning during the trial of Ho So, 16-year-old Police Reservist, before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor.

Ho was charged with having, on $500 should be paid right away and January 29, together with two others another $500 a week later. During! not in custody, with intent to extort the bargaining, one of the men went

A “BALLOON NAVY"

Near Post Offico

When Yung Kwo, 31, unemployed.. altempted to snatch a handbag from a European woman in Des Voeux Road yesterday, he was unlucky in his cholee of a victim, for she was. of the Hongkong Police. Mrs. Dewar, wife of Sgt. H. Dewar

seagoing adaptation of the

Seeing the bag anatched from his curious "balloon barrage" |wife Sgt. Dewar chased the man who

to virtually the entire British coastline.

wanis

which dots the skies over quickly dropped the bag and ran to

the Post Office. A number of London, has been extended Europeans, including a Indy came to assistance. When the Sergeant's overtaken, die man brandished a pair ot scissors at Mr. Dewar who atruggled with him, eventually die- The balloon barrage is armed the man and took him to Central Police Station, where he was designed to keep attacking charged,

planes high enough to reduce their bombing the Central Magistracy this morning Appearing before Mr. Edwards at jefficiency.

Yung was given six

ment.

months' hard

Mobile marino balloons, trail-labour and recommended for banish- ing entangling cables, are being extended to protect strategic coastal points.

These ballcons are attached by cables to barges and other ships which fall into two classes: one designed to lie at anchor in key positions, and the other, larger and niore seaworthy,

FINNS MAKING

NEW HISTORY

FROM PAGE ONE

able to proceed quickly to any post-been handed over to the Soviets with--

tion.

Barbed Wire Fence Meanwhile on the Western Front a barbed wire fence seven feet high was belag erected along the German- Netherlands border to-day by Ger-| man soldiers.

They said the burrier was designed to stop "undesirables" from crossing the frontier and to prevent smuggling -presumably of money from Ger- many into the Netherlands,

out a single one of many thousand inhabitant remaining to live undes Russian rule.

It is not certain if history pro- vides any previous example of a town of the size of Hatigo being abandoned spontaneously by all Ita citizens upon its transfer to an- other State.

Crushing Answer

This popular movement

Barbed wire was strung along the southern part of the Limberg Provin clat border carly in the war, but now crushing

H

answer to the Sovici's the Germans apparently are intending erstwhile claim to be liberating the Firns from the Helsingfors Govern- to close the entire frontier,

ment. Customs gates are situated at in-

tervals along the barrier, and legal in also reported that the Finnish passage is permitted at these points. permanent representative at the Lea- As a further means of control,gue of Nations has handed in a note virtually all train traffic between the expressing Finland's thanks for the two countries in being routed through help which State members had found une point--Bentheim, Germany.

themselves able to accord her in resisting an aggression which the Lea- ue condemned. The note also asked Hor League assistance in the work of

5 p... Registered and Parcel mails, threatened to accuse Chan of cult to telephone the inspector at Bomb Explodes In reconstruction. are closed at 5 pmn.

INWARD MAILS

Air Mail by "Air France Direct Ser-

murder and, alternatively, with de-"they had not got the man yet.” manding money with menaces. Hej After the agreement had been was defended

d by the Hon. Mr. Leo reached, Chan's concubine left the D'Almada, Jr., Instructed by the room to raise the money, accompanied Ifon. Mr.

M. K. L. vice-Paris date, 20th March.

by one of the nien. As they were! following Jury Mar. 27. i

em coming downstairs, they were met by .Mar. 27. gwelled: Messrs. S. Berg (Foreman), the Chinese detective who, on being Bangkok and ourune

Mar. 27. Yu Fook-chin, A. Minoot, J. W., told what had happened, accompanied Cauton Europe via Suez and Straits-London Bundred, G. 11. da Silva, J. Revil the concubine back to the room.

Mar. 27. and W, A. Fox.

Chan and Ho were still there.

date, 3rd February Uniphong

Java and Manlia

Japan and Shanghai

Manila.

Shanghai

Straits and Palembang Tientsin

20/9 N.Y. "Daily News" Mail by "Imperial

.23/- n.

Cold: Macg, (Ord.), Sh. $..14.80 n. Cald: Mac. (Prof.), Sh. $...12 n.

Canton Ices

Cements $...

H.K. Ropes S...

STORES, &c. Dairy Farm (old) $:.. Dairy Farma (now) $..

$

Watsons $........ Lane, Crawfords Sincerex, $ Wing On (H.K.) Powell, Ltd. $...

COTTON MILLS

Ewa Sh. $..... S'hal Cotton Sh.

Zoong Sing, Sh. $..

Lashes Wang

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

March

Mar. 27.

Mar, 27. Mar. 27.

Mar. 27. Mar. 27. Mar. 27.

The

was

num-

Crown's Story

Prosecuting, Mr. E. H. Williams, Crown Counsel, said Chan Hyed at 184 Queen's Road West with his con- cubine. On the morning of January 20. three men, including Ho, who had Dircel Service" London date, 20th been a Police Reservist for

.......Mar. 28. ber of years, knocked at the door. "Chun is wanted one of them saying U.S.A., Honolulu, Japun and Shangh

(San Francisco date, 20 Febru-y were asked to prove their hai

by the Inspector for questioning, Mar. 28. and Shanghai

.Mar. 28. Identity and one of them produced a Mar. 28. silver badge, which was that of the Police Reserve. The door was then opened, and on entering to patted

side, holster, apparently indicating that he holstersing was from the Police.

bry)

Japan

.1 n. NEW YORK, Mar. 25 (UP).The Japan 19.00 . New York "Dally Newn" in 111 5.60 sa. editorial says: "The traitor Wang-UP., Hungulu ant Japan (Sans

Japan's puppet in China....is the Francisco date, 5th March), 23% n. Government of Benedict Arnold and 2214 b. can be lasting only so long as it is Japan and Shanghai. Mar 29 10.can. upheld by Japanese" bayonets,"

Japan, Shanghai and Formosa

1.88

D. That is why the United Slates .41 n.jmay write the last chapter in the 1 n.story of Wang. The United States could give Japan's invasion a terrific 4234 n. blow by clapping on an embargo,"

Puppet Council

170 n.

.03 m.

Wing On Textiles, St. $....481⁄2 n.

MISC.

HK. Entertainments $.

Constructions (old) $

Constructions (new) $. Vibro Piling ..

Ch. Govt. 8% 102

G. Bonds

PEIPING, Mar. 28 (Reyter),—A .7.10 n. North China Politied Council is be-

144 n.ing formed early in April, according

.8 n.

.1014 n.

to reports current here.

Mar. 20,

Mnr. 29.

a revolver in a

Chan asked what he was wanted; for, and was told he would knowi when he got to the Police Station. He left the house with the three men but instead of being taken to either the Central Police Station or No. Police Station, which were quite nenr, he was taken to a room in the Em- p.m.-press Hotel.

OUTWARD MAILS Tuesday, Mar. 20 Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Direct Service" due London, 3rd “April.

K. P. O,

Mar. 26, 5.00 Ord.,.Mar, 26, 5.30 p.m.

G. P. O,

Reg.,

Reg., ..Mar. 26, 5.00 p.m. ord ....Mar. 26. 7.00 p.m.]

They were accompanied by Chan's concubine. Meanwhile, Chan's mother-in-law had become suspicious und ordered the umah, the principa tenant and her son to follow the party.

on

arrival at the Hotel, Chan, his concubine and the three men went up by a lift to Room 303, while the others stayed on the ground floor.

It will take the place of the Pelping Ale Mall for Malaya, Java and Aus-

tralia by "Imperial Airways Directi Provisional Government, the dissolu- .614% 1. tion of which is expected after the

Servico-due Sydney, 1st April. ILK. Govt. 4% Loan

Inauguration of the new Japanese-

K. P, O. HI.K. Govt 34% Loan 90% sa sponsored "Central Government" at Reg., Mar, 20, 5.00 p.m. Marsmans (Lon.) s/-

1/8 Nanking on March 30.

Ord A

26, 5.30 p.m. Marumans (H.K.) _s/.................4/- n.

Q. 0. MANILA SHARES

Her......Mar. 26, 5.00 p.m. returned home and told his mother Ord.. Following are sales and bid prices;

Mar. 26, 7.00 p.m.

what had happened. A report was Mar. 23. Mar. 26.

Saigon and parcels only for Straits,

then made to No. 8 Police Station, Afternoon Morning

Ceylon, Egypt and Murseüles-due and a Chinese detective was detailed Closing

Marsellien 20th April

Antamok Alpk

Bagulo Gold Halong Buhay Benguet Cons Blg. Wedge Coco Grove Cons. Mines Demonstration East Mindanas Intake

Ipo Gold

tagon Mining Mambulas, Cons. Masbate Cona, ...........

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.101

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Ung,

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Mine Operations

North Camarines

Paracale Gurnaus ..

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Burigao Cona,

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Ban Mauricia ...

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12 03 11 03' United Purneala ... 2000 245

The following is Swan, Culbertson & Frit report on this morning's

Buyoe Cana, kozm Syndicale Invest

market:

CANADIANS GO TO THE POLLS

OTTAWA,

(Reuter) Mar. 25 Canada goes to the polls to-morrow after what is generally regarded as the dullest and the most placid elec tion campaign in Canndian history.

Week-end blizzards in Quebec and

and severa Ontario,

weather in Western Canada threaten to curtail popular vote.

French Canada's vote has remained questionable despite the Liberala' great provincial victory in Quebec last year.

The Liberals have not enunciatod requested a mandate for five years a very clear cut programme but have

based on their record,

The Opposition Conservatives have The Manila Gold Share market

withbeen content with attacking the Gov- held a quiet morning session prices practically unchanged. Frac-ernment's past performance and are tional changes were seen in several advancing rather vagtie proposals for issues, while Itogon Mining lost one changes if they win. centavo. Bagulo Gold went against the market to gain one-half centavo.

"Service That You Can Depend Upon”

RADIO

Dar

Раг.

GP.O. & K.г.0.

Mar. 28, p.. Ord.

Mnr. 27, 10.30 am. Shanghal, Japan, Canada, U.S.A. Central and South America viu Vancouver B.C., (Parcels for Cana- da only)-due Vancouver B.C., 17th April.

.10.00 a.m. 1.00.p.m. ..1,30.p.m.

G. P. O, and K. P. O. Par

Mar. 20, 5.00 p.m. Reg..

Mar. 27, 8.15 m. Ord.....

Mar, 27, 10.00 a.m. Wednesday, Mar. 27 Manila Holhow and Haiphong Straits

Air Mail for Indo-China, Iran, and

France (Paris and Northern Pro vinces only) by the "Air France

Direct Airways

Bervicoduo Paris, fih April.

X. P. O.

Reg. Ord.,

.Itex., ...

Ord.,

.Mar. 27, -5.00 p.m. .Mar, 27, 5.30 p.m. G. P. O.

.Mar. 27, 5.00 p.m. The Liberals are still expected ta

.Mar. 27, 7.00 p.m. Shanghat have a clear majority of about 60.

.2.30. p.m. Amoy

230 Straits

..7 p.m. Thursday, Mar. 28 Canton

.7.15 0.76. Hoihow..

1.30 p.m. Shanghai, U.S.A., Canada, Central and South America (No parcels for Canada only) ylä San Francisco- due San Francisco 18th April.

G.P.O. & K.P.O.

FAR EAST

SERVICE

DIAL 31443

Parcels,

Reg.,...

Ord..

Sandakan

After waiting for

for a while, the son

to accompany the son back to the holci.

Murder Is Alleged

After they had got to the room, Chan was told that he had killed n man in the country and that docu- ments had been sent down for his arrest. Chan denied this whereupon had one of the men said “A robber killed your son. You captured the robber and in turn killed him."

This was also denled Chan, and

by one of the men then suggested that In order not to be taken, before the inspector and later sent back to the country where he would be shot, he should pay them $1,000,

Being thoroughly alarmed, Chan's concubine offered $100 but this was not accepted, and after further bar- gaining it was eventually agreed that

10,000,000 GET WAGE INCREASE

LONDON, Mar. 25 (British Wire less). According to figuren publish ed in the Ministry

Labour oz "Gazette," some 10,800,000 workers have had wages rate increases since the outbreak of war,

The aggregate increase is over £1,500,000 a week.

The increase in the wages rates in February affected nearly 3,000,000 workers.

...Mar. 20, 6. p.m. .Mar. 29, 0.43..m. Mar. 20. 10.30a.m. 12.50 pm. For Bayard nnd, Haiphong..1.30 p.m. Madang, Salamaun, "end Rabaul

.3.30 p.m. Saigon, Madang, Salamaua, 4.30 p.m. of living.

Salgon, 32 Dos Voeux Rd. C.

The average increasO over six months approximately the same an the recorded increase in the cost

Io was arrested but the other two men could not be found,

The case is proceeding.

Gambling House

Soviet Troops Withdraw

OSLO, Mar. 20 (Reuter)-d SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” message from Kirkennen states that Soviet troops have begun to withdraw SHANGHAI, March 25 (UP)-A from Northern Finland in accordance time bumb hidden under the main with the terms of the pence truly guming table In the Yu Yuen The troops are being concentrated gambling house, just off the Internaut Pelsame where they are awaiting ilonal Settlement, went off at 10 shipment to the east,

o'clock to-night.

Five men and two women were | seriously Injured by the explosion,

SENNET FRERES

M

Z

BARGA-ZA

While at work in the Kowloon Docks yesterday, Woo Fat, 40, sulfor ed burns as a result of accidental con- tact with an electric welder he was handling. He was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital for treatment.

M

H.K. Society for the Protection of Children WE ARE AT WAR

OUR ammunition

consiste of HONG KONG DOLLARS AND CENTS It is running low. Picase send na new supplies.

See our Display and Prices

Sennet Freres

Jowellers of Repute

Gloucester Bldg.

Paddor St.

MAX

MALINI

is leaving for the United States at the end of the present month.

ENGAGEMENTS FOR PRIVATE PARTIES MAY BE

BOOKED.

Communicate with

'MAX MALINI,

Room 48

Hongkong Hotel.