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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 5, 1940.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS

25 words $2.50 for 3 days propaid

FOR SALE.

*FOR SALE-Miscellaneous house- hold furniture and furnishings.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON,

LIMITED

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be

Apply J. A. Show, 632, The Peak. held at the HEAD OFFICE, Union Phone 20240.

"HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY Second Edition. THE CAMERA"

of the Over 00 excellent vlows Colony. Price $1.50. Obtainable at Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post, Ltd, Wyndham Street.

TO LET.

Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 3rd MAY, 4940 nt 11.00 nm, for the the purpose of receiving Report of the. Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1939, and of declaring Dividend, etc.

The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED HOUSE in 107 Boundary Street, from 17th APRIL, to 3rd MAY..

modern Kowloon, with 14 rooms, sanitation. kitchen,

and Karoge garden. Itent $205. Apply P. O. Box 970,

POST OFFICE

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.

G.

R.

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 8th day of April, 1940, at 3 pm., nt the Omees' of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Ma. Tau Chung, In the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 76' years, with the option of re- newal at n Crown Rent to be flxed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one fur- ther term of 75 years.

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- | sal of the lol the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with a nathorised oflleer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum A. W. HUGHES,

General Manager, will be refunded on payment of

the Purchase price. Hongkong, 2nd April, 1940,

both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

The Thirty-fifth Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will be

OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Mail are closed 16 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and whers mails are advertis-held at the Ofcen of Mesari. ed to close at or before 0 a.m. re- gistered and parcel mails are closed at 6 pm, on the previous day. When mollo are advertised to close after

5 p.m.. Registered and Parcel maila are closed at 5 p.m.

Dodwell & Co., Ltd., Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Bullding, on Mon- day, the 22nd April, 1940, at 11 a.m. for the purpose of reċelving the report of the General Managera INWARD MAILS

Statement of Air Mall by "Imperial Airways Direct

Service" London date 271h March. together with a

Apr. 5. Accounts for the year ended 31st Apr. 5. December, 1939. .Apr. 3. Apr. 5. .Apr. 9. A ..Apr. 5. Francisco .Apr. 5. .Apr. 0. (Lon-

Manila

Japan.

Shanghai

Strails

Straits and Saigon

U.S.A., und Manila (San

date, 28th Feb.)

Australia and Manilu ....

Europe via Suez and Straits

Japan and Shanghal Shanglud

Apr. G.

Apr.

6.

don date, 2nd March). .Apr. 6,

U.S.A., Honolulu and Jupon (San Francisco date, 5th March) Apr. 7. Australia and Minila

Apr. 7.

Air Mall by "Imperial Airways Direct Service" London date, 30th March.

Apr.. 7.

Air Mail by "Pan American Airways

Direct Service"---San

date, 31st March. Haiphong

Japan and Manila

Japan

and Shanghai Shanghai and Amoy Bangkok and Taurine Canton

Haiphong and Hothow

The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be closed from 6th April to 22nd April, 1940, both days inclusive.

DODWELL & COMPANY

LIMITED.

General Mamigera.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LTD.

-PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Kowloon Inland Lat

No. 4239. Junction of Ms Tau Chung Road and Ma Tan Kok Road,

Dau Tan Chung

No. of Sale

Begistry No.

Locality

G.

Boundary Measurement

N. $.

2. W,

Test|lesilent[feei

As per Kale plan..

Contents in

Ann. sq. feet.

Rent.

Upset Price i

10097

3,120

$ 2,700

R.

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Pablle Auction to be held on Monday, the 8th day of April, 1940, at 3 p.m.,

the Offices of the Publief Works Department, by Order His Excellency the Governor of

at

one

Lot of Crown Land, at Boundary Street, Ma Tan Wei, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing

In GERMANY Now

H

OW is the foreign traveller received in Germany? His experi ence varies from place

to place and with one person and another-but all in all he is not too welcome. One who has Just returned to Holland looked up in the Rhine- land an old friend who was formerly

active trade unionist, now out of work and wondering where his next meal was coming from.

an

What are you doing here?" he naked. -

"Well, I want to know how you all are

"Rotten,... damned rotten. And If I an acen talking to a foreigner I shall be arrested and things will be even worse.

So I'm delighted to see you-and you had better be off, believe me."

When I went to an hotel (odds titia traveller), and had no ration card, I felt they begrudged me what little food they gave me. It

was merely the choice between potatoes and an egg. Plenty of

bread, beer or wine.

Next day. I found a Wuppertal industrialist mord friendly, but he scrupulously avoided the subject of

the war, except for a few remarks about conditions on the home front,

"Don't think I am unkind," he anid, "but I will not invite you to a meal. We have very little to But you can have any apare. amount of excellent wine with me. You see," with a sigh," this is a sort ef luxury period while it lasta." Food-On Paper

HIS wife added some detalis of

her own difficulties. Apart from food, the soap and textile shortage dislocates the smooth running of every home.

If you ate with us," she said, #we should have no tablecloth or anpins. We use paper ones now. Something must be sacrificed to keep our allowance of soap for absolute essentials,"

Rationing is enforced on most commodities in everyday use in the home. For all kinds of food, each person has 108 ration coupons per month. Taking the population as 30,000,000 Germans, this means that about 8.500,000,000 coupons must

One of the food queues that can be seen in most parts of Germany

to-day.

be handed over to grocers, bakers and butchers every month, sorted and passed' onto some central organisation. This does not in- clude butter or fat cards which are stamped in the shops with each sale.

Window Dressing YET despite the fact that hun-

dreds of amall shops have closed through lack of supplies. those that remain put up a won- derful show to the casual passer- by. But the packets that seem to be Lea, coffee, butter and so on are all dummies,

And the smart clothes in the big stores of Berlin and other cities cannot be bought by any casual shopper who has forgotten his or her textile ration card.

Wives spend most mornings of the week standing in queues for their food allowances. They can not plan any meal in advance, for they never know on which day any particular product will be avail- able. Most cheerless day is the one on which the one egg per person per week can be had, and the egg proves, on arrival home, to be bad!

Still Wheels

PETROL rationing has made the streets of Berlin quiet and lifeless. Only опе in

01 teu privately-owned ears Is granted a permit for use. In the busy in-

from 1st July. 1898, with the Mr. Eden Inspects dustrial district of Rhein-Wupper

+

Canadians

The Ordinary General Meeting Francisco of Shareholders in the above Com- Apr. 7. pany will be held in the Company's

when it was found that the pro- option of renewal at a Crown Apr. Offices, P. & 0. Building, 5th

portion was 15 par cent., a few days Apr.

Rent to be fixed by the Sur-

ngo, 600 cars were ordered off the Floor,, on Thursdag 11th April, Apr. 7

veyor of His Majesty the KING, Apr. 7. 1940, at 11 am. for the purpose

LONDON, Apr. 4 (Reuter).--Mr. roads.

Coal for one further term of 24 years Anthony Eden, the Secretary for the

shortage, the result of Apr. 8. of receiving the Report of the

hay disorganisation. less the last three days thereof. Dominions, flew to an R.A.F. station transport Apr. 3. General Managers together with a .Apr. 0.Statement of Accounts to the 31st

Intending bidders are advised south-west England to-day to caused the greatest hardships su

the army that immediately after the dispo- inspect

co-operation December, 1939.

The Transfer Books thesal of the lot the Purchaser (quadron of the Royal Canadian Air

Force in training there.

After inspecting the squadron, Mr.| Fort Bayard and Holhow 1.30 pm. Company. will be closed from not the applicant) will be required

an authorised Eden said it was obvious that the Beira, Lourenco Marques, East Monday, 8th April, to Thursday, to deposit with

officer who will be present at the were ready and uger for any 2.30 p.m. 11th, 1940, both days Inclusive.

task they might be called on to per- aum of two hundred form. 2.30 p.m.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. sale, the 3...p.m.

dollurs...($200) in cash. This sum -General Managers. .....7 p.m.

will be refunded on payment of Hongkong, 2nd April, 1940. 6

the Purchase price. .2.30 p.m. Parcels only for Shanghal and Tien-

OUTWARD MAILS Friday, April 5

India. Mombasa.

Straits, Ceylon,

and South Afrien

Parcels only for Straits

Haiphong

Strails

Saturday, Apr. Parcels only for Shanghai

tsin

Japan

Fort Bayard

Air Mall for

5.00 p.m.

.5.30 p.m. .5.30 p.m. "Imperial Airways

Direct Service"-due London, 14th-

April,

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

Rex..

.Apr. 6, 5.00 p.m.

Ord., Apr. 8, 5.30 p.m.

of

Hitler Drops

A Grandiose Scheme

Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Honolulu Old Age Pensions Plan

and U.S.A., by the "Pan American Airways Direct Service"-due San Franelace, 14th April.

Reg.

Ord.

Rek.

Ord.

Dairen.

Saigon

Manila

K.P.O.

...Apr. 6, 5 p.r. Apr. 6, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

....Apr. 6, 5 p.m. Apr. 8, 7.30 a.m. Sunday, Apr. 7

1.30 am. .9.00 31.m.

Monday, Apr. 8

To Be Held Up

BERLIN. Apr. 4 (Retter), Ifilter's geondlose old age pensions cheme which was announced with a great flourishi of trumpets in the esa Inst February is not to be in- troduced unt after the war, accord- ing to the Berlin correspondent, of the "Neue Zuercher Zeitung".

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Bale

Z

Now Kowloon Inland Lot Registry No.

No. 2787.

Jaaction of Boundary

Street and College Boad.

Locality

10:30 aan. the new pension contributions, which no

Swnlow, Amoy and Formosa

This means that the plan to use were to have been levied on all in- 10.30 am. suved persons over the age of sixteen, Bangkok

.12.30 p.m. 1ar State financing, hus been aban- Haiphong

1.00 pan.doned owing to public reaction. Shanghai, Japan, flonolulu, U.S.A., The correspondent adds that the Central and South America and iden of instituting forced savings also Canada via San Francisco (No appears to have been abandoned. Parecis for Canuda only)--due San

Francisco. 28th April,

*

Kowloon P. O.

Parcels,

Rex..

Ord.,

Re

Ord,

koundary

Stenurements.

N. B. E

As per salo

plan.

Journal

of the

Apr. 8, 4.00 pan. STOCK EXCHANGE| Hongkong

.Apr. 8. 5.00 p.m.

Apr. 8, 6.30 p.m.

G. P. O,

STEADY

Fisheries

Parcels,....Apr. 8, 4.00 pm.

LONDON, Apr. 4 (Reuter).—The Apr. 1. 5.00 p.m... .Apr. 8, 7.00 p.m. Stock Exchange opened quietly and Canton

.7.00 p.m. was steady. Later the market tended

to ease un lack of support though Research Tuesday, Apr. 9

shares resisted the Batavia and Sourabaya ..8.30 am.gold-mining Salpon

.1.00 p.m.downward trend.

Manila, Straits, Ceylon, India, East After the close, the J.C.1. declared Station

and. South Africa, Egypt and Europe vin Naples-due Naples, 3rd May.

G. P. O. and K. P. O, Heg.......

.Apr. D. 2.45 pm. Ord.,

.Apr. 9. 3.30 p.m. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Direct Service”—qüe London, 17ik April,

K.P.O.

Rer.

Ord..

Ther.

Ord.

.Apr. 0, 5 p.m. .Apr. 9, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

.Apr. 9, 5 pr. „Apr. 9, 7 pân.

Air Mail for Malays, Java and Aux

tralia by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"--due Sydney, 15th April.

K.F.O.

Apr. 9. 5 pan. 2.Apr. 9, 5.39 pm. G.P.O.

Ord.

Rer.

Ord.

„Apr. 9, 5 poi

.Apr. 9, 7 p.m.

final dividend of five per cent., thereby maintaining the year's dis- tribution of eight per, cent

Wall Street was firm and active,

RECONSTRUCTION

OF EUROPE

BRUSSELS, Apr. 4 (Reuter)-An executive of the Labour Socialist International meeting here has ap-

Upset Frice

About

Contenta in

16,000

q. feet

$ 184

Annual

Rental.

$7,200

Edited by

I

Dr. C. A. C. Herklots!

Now on Sale

at

pointed a small commitice to prepare Morning Post Building.

the groundwork for a programme for the reconstruction of Europe after the

war.

The Committee includes Mr. Noel Baker (Britain), M. Leon (France) and M. Huyaman

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The details given in the British Press res dy have cer- tainly not been exteszvized.

The general mood of the people Is one of soild fatalism. There is plenty of grumbling, but there is no sign of any general uprising against the regime, which has, Im- posed all these burdens.

There are still sonie who will talk once a traveller in Germany has zained their confidence.

Their curiosity prompts many questions about what is going o and being said in the world out- side. How long do you think the

war will last? What does the

world think about Germany?

They realise how they are cut off from the world, how little they German newspapers are are told.

in general disrepute. The; radlo In news has little attraction. cates few people stop talking when' the news bulletins are being given and it is almost Impossible to bear what is being said.

History Helps

ргора- VIOLENT anti-British

ganda Is the rule of to-day. Posters on the walls in Berlin shrick their BASSAKES against Britain. One of them quotes some words of Napoleon. Its intention Is to prove that France, ut heart. 13 anti-British too!

People atop to read them, smile, say nothing, and pass on. There 1s nothing to be seen to-day of the street-conar groups of friendly- or violent-arguers that were such a feature Germany.

of life in pre-Hitler

Travelling across 'Germany now It is difficult to find anybody" with self-assurance or any fixed opinion

Opens TO-DAY

AT THE

J

to express. Most people have some --- acquaintance who has been in trouble through'an unwary word at some time.

Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, and Poland have proved bitter dis- appointments to the'man-in-the- stres, who thought they would solve Germany's problems of want." But he dare not say so.

Why No Masks?

BLACK-OUT IS

enforced

throughout Germany with:.

Few varying degrees of severity.

cople have gaa-maska.:

TWO explanations are given for this, (1) that Britain and France would never use gas on civilians, (3) that Germany.han not enough rubber to spare to make gas-iņasks for the whole population.

In Industry there is rumbling but unexpressed discontent.. Wages are, low deductions are high and... working families have nothing to spare for any amusement or small. luxurles

When signs of open discontent appear some small sop is given. A minor wage increase is granted or there is a promise of holidays to...-

come.

The Increase frequently proves illusory through the addi- tion of some new tax a few weeks later.

Thousands of shopkeepers and former non-productive workers have been cajoled into industrial: work by promises, or driven in by threats,

Biggest Grouse,

BOYS of 16 are working in the heavy Industries of the Ruhr. and when their health shows signs of breaking they are packed off to what were once the luxury hotels of foreign visitors to German spas. - now used as rest homes.

Workers 11 all big firms are coni- pelled to eat at the works can- teens. It is considered wasteful for. hot meals to be prepared in private houses but no account is taken of the feelings of wives and chit- dren in this matter.

Among all the grumbles it- evitable in Germany, what is the main grumble of the moment? Observers agree in saying that there is particular bitterness about the way young Nazis of military

at home. age stick to soft jobs

Their

actions and behaviour have led to much -feeling and somo incidents. Reports say that within the past week they have been warned, from high up in the party. to act with less Insulence towards the long-suffering non- uniformed members of the public and their wives.. Such is Germany after nearly five months of war.

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