CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
25 words $2.50 for 3 days prepaid WANTED TO BUY,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 2, 1940.
G.
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING
Ltd.,
The Fifty-ninth Ordinary WE OFFER highest prices to any amount of gold articles, judes, Jewels, General Meeting of the Company diamonds, etc. Apply Eurasia Gold will be held at the Offices of the Refining Co., 7th floor, China Bulld-General Managers, Mosars. Jar- ing. Tel. 30727.
dine, Matheson & Co.. Peddor Street, Hong Kong, on Thursday, 30th May, 1910, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directorr, passing the Accounts, and electing Direc- tors and Auditors.
WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all gold and silver articles, diamonds, Jedes, Jewels and gold dust. Apply China Gold Redning Co., Pedder Building, 2nd floor.
FOR SALE.
CLEARING SALE, Two portable Lighting Sets of 500 watts, one set of Lubricating Oil Testing Instrumen One Feather Cleaning Machine, Kerosene Heaters and Cookers, and a large quantity of Vulcanfibro Tubes, Please apply to Sonder, Wieler & Co, (in liquidation), King's Building, 2nd floor, between 2 p.m. and 5 p..
at
of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 6th day of May, 1949, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of ono Lot of Crown Land
Mong Kok, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 76 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Sur- veyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further torm of 75 years, Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- The Transfer Books of the Consal of the lot the Purchuser (if pany will be closed from the 23rd not the appllennt) will be required May to 13th June inclusive. to dopoalt with authorised
By order of the Board.
officer who will be present at the JARDINE, MATHESON & sale, the sum of two hundred
Co., LTD.
dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.
General Managers.
“Bongkung as REVEALED BY Hongkong, 16th April, 1940.
to
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POST OFFICE
THE CANTON. INSURANCE OFFICE LIMITED,
Notice to Shareholders
The Fifty-Ninth Ordinary Meet- ing of Shareholders will be held ni the Offices of the undersigned on Wednesday, the 22nd May, 1940, at Noon, for the purpose of receiv- Ing the Report of the General
Small Packet Post to all countries Agents, together with a statement is suspended.
OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 1 minutes earlier than the tme given below unless otherwise stated, and where malls are advertis- ed to close at or before am re gistered and parcel malls are closed at 5 pm, on the previous day. When malls are advertised to close after 6 p.m. Registered and Parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m.
Halphong
Canton
Гаран
INWARD MAILS
of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1939.
The Share Register and Trans- fer Books will be closed from the 8th May to the 22nd May, 1910, both days inclusive,
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Agents. Hongkong, 1st May, 1940.
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USA., Honolulu, Japan and Shang-PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
May 2.
Shanghai
May 2. May 2. May 2.
C.
Sandakan.
Japan and Shanghat Solgon
dale, 1001 March)
Shanghai
Air Mail by "Imperial
May 2.
hal (San Francisco date, 11th Apr.)
May .May 3. May 3.
May 4. ..May 4. Airways
Zi
April.
Bangkok and Tourne
Shunghal and Annoy
.May 5, May 5. .May 5.
OUTWARD MAILS
Thursday, May 2
Europe via Suez and Straits (London
Direct Service" London' date, 27th
**Swntow
1. p.m... Manila, Saigon, Bangkok, Mourliius, Reunion, Madagascar, Lourenco- Marques, and South Africa
3.30 p.m. 4.30 p.m. .7 p.m.
of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 6th 'day of May, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Officon of the Public Works Department, by Order of Ha Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Shamshui- po, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, com- mencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty KING, for one further term of 24 years less the last three days
thereof.
the
| No. of Sale!
Rexistry No.
Kowloon Inland Lot
Between Fa Taen Street)
& Sai Tee Street.
Locality
Boundary Merasaportet¶
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plan.
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$414
$55,250
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A Look Through The "Telegraph”
50 YEARS AGO
May, 2, 1000,
A untanned boots are quite the rage In Europe, and our swella are rapidly following the lead of the world in this trining matter of dreas, it is possible that the following may prove of more or le Interest:The authorities at Eton and Ifarrow have given instructions that the
pupils at these large public schools shal that wear the faanlanabin brown "untan- ned leather boots with ordinary attire. as they do not consider them becoming or dignified halfilments.
The
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sentences paled upon earring snatchers is getting holler and holler. Lately one of these daring scoundrela got four manth, then another soon followed him into ILM. Hotel for six months, and to-day one was sentenced by, Mr. Wode- house for nine months. All with well- merlied 11.
Yesterday at noon a number of war Junks arrived in Kowloon Bay and the Midorina in enninand visited the D Tot. As a result of their interview the latter oficial quickly called out his rag- Red arany, who sood lined the evil emai
ag beach in their threadbare array. At 320 the object of the turnout becante ap- parcnt, several Boats putting off from
one of the junks with scores of soldiers,
muarging six mizzy unshaven wretches in lankets, bound for execution. All looked emiaziated to the last degree, but none appeared to have been dosed with oplum. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. Their queues were braided with strips of of which white cotton, on the tabs" were written their namen and crimes. The executioners two follow wearlug white juckels and straw hats, their quedes wound round the lotter to keep them from blowing away-had been waiting on the beach für an hour or more, handing their swords around to be examined by the crowd, an inspection which evoked fre
the quent Jests. When salutes from Yainen winounced that the victim were coming ashore they linsilly recovered their weapons, threw away their sigaret tes, and walked to the water's edge to meet them. The prisoners were placed In two nes just above the high water mark and each executioner took one ling, first removing his broad brimmed hat. The dirt head in the line, flew off, İlka lightning, but the blow at the second was less effectual, the neck not being qulla cut through.. The man therefore fell for- ward on his face. The swordsman pasrud on and lopped off the third head, and tien returned to the second man, who was bleeding horribly. Lifting the head by its queue ho began Bawing at the ttiroal, the victim roling his eyes, mean- while in a most agonized way. The ver tebrae had not been severed by the first atroke, and for fully three quarters of a minute the executioner was carving the neck all round it. At lengils, dropping the queue, he struck the neck repeatedly at the head rolled off. The prisoners in the second line, who had withered tho horrible scene, were then dealt with by the second executioner. The first and third were decapitated expeditiously, but the second required two strokes, Five minutes later the beach was deserted, the heads and bodies lying as they rail and as they will probably be until lo- morrow, if anyone cares to go over and see for himacii.
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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 6th day of May, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colony of Hong beer and skitsick, no doubt most of Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 24 years less the last three days thereof.
Life in the "Gorgeous East" is not all un have long ere this found out. One of our greatest plagues in certainly the mos quito
Mosquito are, no doubt, troublesome, bul old residents, as a rule, tako but liue notice of them either their blood has lost much of its pristine richness on first landing, or they have become thoroughly inoculated with mosquito pol son, that the stings are hardly felt. it it was not for the polson that these little nuisances Iatil into the wound when
they
No Queen's letter for these folk
HITLER'S
GRAVEYARD
THERE is a new landmark in Ue North Sea known by every saller in the Navy who has salled from an East Coast port since war It is called "Ilitler's began.
nine - aro There Graveyard."
grim
of wrecks,
reminders Hitler's attempt to break land's strangichold on her trade with inhuman magnetic mlues.
EORL
The ships were ali sunk during the ten days terror in November, They lie on the sandbanks mak- ing a narrow channel that is a vital road for British, ships plying the North Sea.
Some of the wrecks lie with their funnels, bridge and part of the decks above water, death- Traps for any ship that ventures a few yards off Its course.
It was Hiller's intention that this channel should be choked with wreeks, making it impossible for British and neutral ships to pass to and fro with their cargoes for Britain.
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But this cunningly conceived they scheme failed. Even were sinking, the ships managed where all day and night convoys pass to and fro,
'A gay life' on blackmail
COMMENTING that a blackmail victim-a man aged 77, now dead -must have "suffered terribly," Mr. Justice Cassels sentenced Ro bert Dransfield, aged 30, a traveller, to five years. penal servitude at Leeds Assizes..
TREATED THEIR EVACUEES BADLY
A SMALL "black list" of foster parents of evacuces
in all parts of the country whose services have not met with the approval of the local authorities is now being drawn up.
This is being done by the Queen's wish, so that no one who has not deserved it shall receive the letter of thanks which she is sending to householders who have had
Jehildren billeted on them.
Cheers For Stalin
Crowds Fill Red Square For May Day
up
Moscow, May 1. Stalin was
wildly cheered by enthusiastic crowds and unit of the
drawn Red Army
In Red annual May Square to-day for the Day celebrations. M. Molotov, Marshal Voroshilov and other ¡Ministers were present.
соп-
The process of sorting out the sheep from the goats is taking a consider- able time.
This is the chief reason why the hundreds of thousands of good foster-parents have waited In vain every weekday for more than a mouth for the Queen's Ietter.
They will go on waiting for several weeks longer.
It was on February 15 that Kir. Health, Walter Elliot, Minister of speaking in the House of Commons. aunounced a personal message to the foster-parents.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Vorosh!lov sald the fact that Russia stood aloot from the flagration of the second imperialist war Olled him with satisfaction.. The Hongkong Stock Exchange
¡omelal There will always be
summary issued yesterday attempts to drag our country into the bloody says! struggle and on a suitable occasion to attack some part or other of the less. Soviet Fatherland," he said, we be prepared for all double
We must
must always contingencies. our vigilance and intensity, tenfold our work for the defence of one country and for strengthening of the Red Army and Navy. The Soviet Union does not want but it is always prepared for wor." -Reuter.
war
Incident In Singapore
Singapore, May 1.
In May Day demonstrations here uy crowds of Chinese-believed to have been insligated by Communists---
three Chinese were shot, two being berlously wounded, when the Felice
To Dransfield the judge were forced to fire into a mob which said:
"I know not what agony of mind plunge their probiseldas into the you brought about in this old man, in, one would mind them much. should add insult to injury by Dret dining commit offences like this have to be and goodness only knows why they tottering to his grave, but people who uff us and then polaning us into the severely punished. Blackmail is
hideous crime.".
bargain.
case that newcomers have
Plenty Of Money
n
Dransfield was found guilty of de- manding money with menaces from James Arthur Hick, who died in hos- pital last month.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- sal of the Jat the Purchaser (ifLadies, of course, suffer much mura than men from these little torments, as not the applicant) will be required
their skins are much more tender, and officer who will be present at the to deposit with an authorised at dinner parties and other social galler- ings they expose mere surface to attack. But it is on the feet, ankles and legs that sale, the sum of two hundred to this the case anat to such an extent dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum frequently not been able to get on best will be refunded on payment of is by no means an uncommon thing for
or shoe for days after a first attack. It The prosecution alleged that when sal of the lot the Purchaser if the Purchase price.
Indios to have made a kind of muelin he went into hospital his house- 12.30 p.m. not the applicant) will be required
the ends of their skirts when seated at bundle of 18 letters, many signed bag into which to thrust their feet and keeper, a Miss McManley, found Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South to deposit-with-an-authorised PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Africa, Egypt and Europe via Suez; and London Parcels due London, 14th June.
Amoy
Amoy
Manila
Intending bidders are advised 7pm that immediately after the dispo-
Friday, May 1 Shanghol Parcels only for Tientsin. 12.30 p
Parcels
Reg.
Ord.
Reg.
K.P.O.
May 3, 3 pm
May 3, 5 p.m.
May 3, 5.30 pm
. May 3, 3 p.m.
May 3, 5 p.m.
May 3, 7 p.m.
Parcels
Ord,
Manila, Rabaul, Australia, and New
Zealand via Brisbane-duc Bris-
bane, 20th May.
Par.
Reg.
GP.O. & K.P.O.
Orit.
tsin
.Noon.
.1.45 p.)
.2.30 p.in,
Saturday, May 4 Fort Bayard and Hoihow,.0.30 n.m. Shanghai and Purcels only for Tien- ..I p.m.
Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Direct Servico"-due London 12th Miny
.5.30 p.m .5.30 p.m.
G.NO, & K.r.o.
Ref..
May 4, 5 p.m.
Ord., Bangkok Haiphong
Shanghai
Halphong....
May 4, 5.30 p.m.
and Tuingl
Cunton
Sunday, May 5
Monday, May 8
.9.00 a.m.
No.
officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of
the Purchase price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No of Sale
New Kowloon Inland Lot | Registry No.:
Junction of Casile Peak
Road sad Yen Choa
Locality
Street.
TELE "ON
Boundary bleasurements
| H. || A. || E. | W.
{reet|feel lost|fast
se per sala
plan..
Contents in
[ Ann. Reat.
About
9IT 1
00% 9
of Salo
Begistry No
Locality
12,603
Upass Price
New Kuwloon Inland Lot - No. 2789. Junction of Castle Peak
Road and Hong Wah Street,
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES
MESSAGERHES MARITIMES.
Saigon, Mudang, Salumnus. Rabaul Steamship.
,2.30 p.m.
p.m..
Tuesday, May 7 Manliu, Makassar und Sourabaya
Shanghai
Bringing Corgo from Marseilles via
Saigon.
Consignees are hereby informed that their goods with the exception 8.30 .m.
of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored into ine. 8.30 a.m. Shanghai and Parcels only for Tien- Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon
isin
12.30 p.m.
Wharf
and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow
Air Mail for "Imperial Airways loon, where delivery may be obtain-
Direct Service" due London, 15th
May.
Kor.
Ord.
K.P.O.
May 7, 5 pm. ..May 7, 530 p.m. G.P.O.
Rek.
.May 7.5 p.m. Ord.***
..May 7.7 0.m. Air Mail for Malaya, Jaya and Aus- trnila by "Imperial Airways Direct Servico-duo Sydney, 13th May,
Kr.O.
Reg.
Onl
Ber.
Ord,
May 7, p.m. May 7, 5.30 p.m. Gr.o.
May 7, 5 p.m. ........niny 7,
p.m.
Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Monolulu and U.S.A., by the "Fan American Airways Direct Service"-duo San Francisco, 14th May.
K.P.O. ...........May 7, § p.m.
May 7, 5.30 p.m.
nex.
Ord.
O.P.O.
ILog.
Ord
May:7, 5 p.m. May 7, 7 pm:
ed immediately after landing.
All
must be sent in to me efore 5th May, 1940, or they will be examin-
on or
will not be re
Damaged
ed by the Company's Surveyor Messrs-Goddard and Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, 1st May, 1940.
Consigneen must have a Revenue Oficer in attendance when any duti» able goods are examined by the Com- pany's Surveyors.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
I. OIL, Agent.
METROPOLE HOTEL
CENTRAL CLEAN "COMFORTABLE - FIREPROOF
Cheung Sha Wan
boundary
Mesurements
N.
Â, &..
{luet]taut|Tea{{funt]
As per salo
plan.
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ADDUS!
Bental
Opass Price |
PEAS
About
5,400
然需
SUN JUST
Canned Peas
are so much bottor
DELIGHTFULLY FRESH
Insist on Sunkist FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Sale Distributors W. R. Loxley & Co. (China) ́ ́Ltd.
-table, this completely befrica the would;.
a
be marauder. This was before the world "C. Wood, detective, and one-or knew that inosquitoes caused malaria two others signed "Capt. Bridge"
and "Mr. Speight," among his pcry.
EA.
pa-
25 YEARS AGO
May 2, 2015. She read them, saw they threaten- Mr. Winston Churchill wired his con- gratulations to Bir R. C. Munro Fergu-ed to give information concerning son, Governor General of Australia, and Mr. Hick's conduct, and told the Lord Liverpool, Governor general of New police.
Zealand, on the brilliant and inemorable achievements of the · Australian
and
Det.-Sgt. Bowman described Drans-
Hick for two years. He seemed to have plenty of money to lead a riotous life.
New Zealand troops in the Dardanelles. field as a man of low moral principles, Sir R. C. Ferguson replied that to win and said he had been associating with the admiration of a British Ter is an sonour worth having. Lord Liverpool re- plied that it is a source of great grati- fication to everyone in the Dominion that their troops were so closely connected In the arduous operations with the Royal Navy, to whom the Empire owes so much.
The latest casualty list comprises the following:
Wounded: A. D. Adams, 2nd Lt. F Andersen (Monmouth), D. Bell (Royal Scots), P. Beresford, V. Boot B. M. Bowie, F. W. Brown. C. Claremont. T. Donkin, W. H. S. Dunlop, J. W. El E. Engali, J. Pünt, P. Garvey, G. Ginle
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dreds of thousands
At the Tempelhof Aerodrome. He referred to the inter- national situation only very briefly, da«. claring: "We say to other people: "You need not fear that we want anything from you. We do not want war, Wol seek peace. However, we have never re- nounced our honour.""
ter. Captain G. Green (Royal Scots), the Admiralty, was asked in Parliament Sir Bolton Eyres Monsell, First Lord of Captain A. Taylor (Royal Scole).
if he could give any further information The French Embasry announces that a
arding the construction of submarines tha German Government. Replying German deserter reports that Krupp he said the British Naval Attacho af Ber- engineers have been busy for two mankha | Iin was informed on April 26 by the Ger- maunting along range naval gun near man authorities that an arder le manu- Dixmudic. This gun, it is believed, is the facture machinery, armaments, etc.. for ane used in the bombardment of Dunkirk, twelve 250 ton submarines was given at firing at a range at 21 miles. Nine shafts
Christmas, and an order to construct the were fired during the second and third | huils and assemble the component parts bombardment, and it is believed that the was given about the middle of April. Ho gun was damaged by its own Bre; or through the activity of French aviators
was also informed that, as a reauit of the extensive preparations which had been who were in the neighbourhood.
made, the first submarine would probably be complated within six montka. TO YEARS AGO
May 2, 1030,
An aerial bombardment of Chengchow, the Kuominchun stronghold in the heart of Tonan Province, his morning by four Nanking bonding planes, which dropped several bombs with disastrous effects, has caused great concern among the populace there.
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Sir Henry Maybury, consulting engineer on roads and trafie to the Ministry of Transport and chairman of the London and Home Counties Traffico Advisory Commillee, favo evidence before the House of Commons Committee consider- ing the Charing Crow Bridge BM,
Assunsing that Charing Cross Bridge is completed by 1040," Sir Henry said, "I talimpio that at the rush hours the ridge will be used by 1,030 vehicles an hour going southward and 920 volilcica an hour northward."
Trafalgar Square in 1940 would have, he estimated, at least 40 per cent, more tral- fie than to-day and that was one of the points the now bridge would relievo.
5 YEARS AGO
May 2, 1935. The "Daily Herald" states that it is reallably informed that London authori ties and aware that German troops have been mibstituted for pollee, th at least two cities of the demilitarised zano : In the Rhineland.
Tila koy note of Chancellor Adolf HILL-. Ter's two speeches, delivered here, to-dw, was the revitalisation at Germany. Itẻ exhorted the people to follow the Government to Tational Unity, and atroniki for In this was the way to peace, ho said.
He spoke first tð á gathering of '270,000 Nazis and later to a crowd of many, hun.
HOW TO
SHORTEN
CONVALESCENCE
A long
is convalescence tedious and
both tiring to doctor and patient. After many operations and illnesses, diges- tion is affected and impaired, yat it is necessary to eat well to regain your strength quickly.
The trouble ia that the very thought of food is often repul- alve. Doctors have found that Horlicka is generally liked by the patient and that it is very quickly digested, and absorbed. Horlicks quickly pours strength and vigour into your exhausted body.. Your' con- valescence is shortened, 5000 you feel full of life again. Keep Horlicks always ready at home
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attacked a party of 20 constubles— Reuter,
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Market was very quiet and feature-
Buyers.
HK. Banks $1,305 H.K. Steamboats $11 Dock Cum Ris $6.60 Providents $4
Hotels $4.35
Lands $30%
Realties $4.40
Cements $16.65 Lane Crawfords $8.20 Wm Powell $1
Entertainments $7,10
Sellers.
H.K. Banks $1,520 Dock Cum Rts $12 Providents $435. Lands $37
Sales,
Trams $17.40/35 · '. China Lights (new) $4.00 Electrics $641⁄2
FINE JEWELLERY
Diamond engagement and wedding
rings, perfect stones, in any desired mounting or setting ... rings which will always be cherished.
Beautiful wrist watches in precious
metals, studded with diamonds or
daintily engraved. Wondrous de- signs and perfect timekeepers.
Wedding Gifts of merit and quality Sterling silver, cut glass” finest electro plate, etc. The most extensive showing we have over
displayed.
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Come and inspect the desirable gift values we are featuring.
J. ULLMANN & CO.
Chater Road, Hongkong
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