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Thursday,

HONGKONGA TELEGRAPH

CLASSIFIED [NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, THE CHINA PROVIDENT CHINA LIGHT & POWER

ADVERTISEMENTS 25 words $2.50 for 3 days prepaid

FOR SALE.

CROSS SPRINGER SPANIEL Pup-

THE CAMERA”

Publishers South China Post, Ltd., Wyndham Street,

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC

COMPANY, LIMITED.

tions:---

LOAN & MORTGAGE

CO., LTD:

NOTICE lahoroby, given, that | the Forty Fourth Annual Géneral NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Meeting of the Shareholders will that an Extraordinary General be held in the Jacobean Room of Meeting of the Company will be the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, on hold In the P. & O. Buliding, SATURDAY, the 16th March, 1941, Victoria, in the Colony of Heng at NOON for the following pur ples (seven) for sale in old of the Kong, at 11.15 o'clock in the fore poses, namely, to consider the Bomber Fund. Please apply Mrs. ngon on Thursday, the 20th day anaual atatement of accounts and of March, 1941, or na soon there-the balance sheet and the reports Hogg, Jockey. Club Stabies, “HONGKONG AB REVEALED BY after as the Ordinary General of the Directors and Auditors Second Edition. Meeting of the Company shall thereon, to cloct directora and Over 60 excellent views of the have terminated for the purpose nuditors in the pince of thead Colony, Price $1.50. Obtainable at Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., or from the of considering and, if thought fit retiring, to declare a dividend, to

Morning passing the following resolu-

appropriate the balance of Profit [hnd.Loss Account as recommended "1. That the Directora be and by the Directors, and to transact "they are hereby authorised to any other ordinary busincas of the "capitalise the sum of $3,000,000 Company. "Hongkong.currency, part of the "undivided profits of the. Com "pany standing to the credit of "the Company's Reserve Fund, "and to allot to the members "holding shares of the Company "as on the first day of April "One thousand nine hundred "and forty-one in respect of the "net amount capitalised fully "paid shares of the Company "of equivalent nominal value in "the proportion of one share for "every three shares of the Com- "pany held by them respectively "and that such shares so allotted

Free French

Will Fight Till End

"There can only be one France-a free France," said M. Baron, Far East representative of General de Gaulle, loader of the Free French movement. Inst evening, when ho πανα Д broadcast talk from tho studio of ZBW.

M. Baron spoke in French, and tho following is a translation of his re- Inarks;

"At this very moment when Iller! is attacking liberty in all corners of Europe with the help of his diplo- male, his Gestapo and his soldiers, listen to the voice of a Free French- mana Frenchman who can speak treely what all Frenchmen think.

The Christian civilisation is in dangeri Barbarians are

Oslo, at Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Bucharest and Safa, and their heavy boots are trampling Paris, the City of Light. After having bled and bound us with ropes, destroyed our harvests, opened our safes and ran sacked Dur museums, there bar- burlans are now proposing to 173 collaboration-with revolver

in hand.

TO

AND NOTICE is also given that the Share Transfer Registers will be closed from 1st March, 1941, io 15th March, 1941, both days inclu- sive.

By order of the Board,

R. A. WICKERSON, Secretary and Manager. Hongkong, 14th February, 1941,

HONGKONG TELEPHONE CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN "hall rank for dividends as that an Extraordinary General "from the 1st day of July, 1941. Meeting of the Hongkong Tele- "2. That if on such distribu-phone Co., Ltd., will be held in the "tion as aforesaid any person Board Room of the Company, 2nd "would be entitled to a frac- Floor, Exchange Building, Des "tional share the Directors bhall, Voeux Road Central, Victoria. "In lieu of issuing fractional Hongkong, on Friday, the 28th day "certificates, cause the whole of March, 1941, at 12.15 o'clock in "share to be allotted to a person the afternoon or so soon thereafter "or persons to be named by the as the Annual General Meeting "Directors and such share shall, convened for noon, on that day

"at such time as the Directors shall have terminated, when the "think fit, be sold and the pro-subjoined resolution will be pro- "ceeds distributed amongst the posed as a special resolution:- "persons entitled to the frac "Lions making up such share." By order of the Board of Directors,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,

Agents. Hongkong, 21st February, 1941.

NOTE:-

In other words, it me

means In good French langua

language servitude, Ser- vitude is justice without pity and is only for the vanquished, but we are not vanquished and we shall never be vanquished. That is the recom- mendation of Marshal Foch. save the furniture is not to save the soul. To fight foot by foot, to gain small advantages, to compromise big Interests and to discuss with

a tem- porary master a false victor who trembles and becomes panicky in

Under the powers conferred upon front of the heroic Greeks-may them by Article 12 of the Articles of safeguard the immediate future but¦ Association of the Company, the It is a betrayal of the glorious past. Directors have. decided to offer to Sharesholders on the Register on the "We will fight until the end with 1st day of April, 1911, one share at England, because her fight is our par for every complete three shares glit and her victory is our victory. held by them (excluding the Bonus Shoulder 10 shoulder with our Shares to be offered to them under British friends we shall expel the the preceding rsolution) upon the Invader of our Fatherland, and it terms that payment for such shares will be us who will make the peace of free men and who will create the New Order.

shall be made to the Company's Bankers, The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hong Kong on or before the 30th September, 1941, and that Shareholders be given power

"In the final settlement of necounts which will end this immense world to renounce their rights under sucht

That the Articles of Association

of the Company be altered in the manner following:-

(x) By the deletion of the existing Article 95 and the substitu- tion in lleu thereof of the following Article:-

(b)

"95. The Directors of the "Company shall not be "less than six and not "more than ten in num- "ber.""

In Article 101 the word "six" shall be substituted for the word "four" where such word occurs in the third and fifth lino respectively

of such

Arlicie.

By order of the Board,

J. P. SHERRY,. Managing Director. Hongkong, 5th March, 1941.

E

CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO CONSUMERS

Notice is hereby given that tho Company's standard charges will be increased as from 17th March, 1941, by adding a 10% surcharge to the amounts charged for elec- tricity consumed for lighting and power as per meters read on and after 24th April, 1941,

The existing scale of discounts will remain in force.

By order of the Board of

Directors,

Manager.

D, W. MUNTON,

Hongkong, 8th March, 1941.

RADIO

ZBW, 155 metres (645 kc.) and 31.45

metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) MOZART PROGRAMME SERENADE IN C MINOR

zaw on a Frequency of 845 k.c's: Radio Programme Broadenst by

and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and 8-11 p.m., on 9.52 m.e's. per zecond.

12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter- i'cession.

12.30. Two Suppe Overturea,

12.47 Songs by Keith Falkner (Baritone).

1.0 Local Time Signal. 1.01 Max Miller in the Thesire. Recorded in The Finsbury Park Empire.

1.23 Organ Solo by Quentin M. Maclenn.

With Eric Coales Thro' London (Knightsbridge to London Bridge).

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press and Announcements.

1.45 A Scottish Programme, 2.15 Close down.

5.45 Indian Programme. 6.30 Closing locul Stock Quotations, 6.32 A Mozart Programme,

7.0 London Relay-The News. 7.15 London Relay-Meet Uncle Sam.'

Edwin Murrow interviews Alistair Cook.

7.30 Rossini-William Tell' Ballet Music,

Sadler's Wells Orchestra conducted by Constant Lambert.

7.44 Elleen Joyce at the Plano. 8.0 Local Time Signal and An- nouncements.

8.02 TangoS,

8.15 Studlo-Local Newsletter.

8,30 Varlely.

9.0 London Relay-The Nowa 9.15 London Belay-Questions of the Hour,”

0.30 Heddle Nash (Tenor) and Marek Weber and His Orchestra,

9.43 News in French (on Short Wave only).

10.0 London Relay-To "Talk of Many Things.*

10.15 Dance Music. 11,0 Close down,

Rolled in agony through

revolution, the voice of France must offer and that no rights atach to THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON INDIGESTION

bo haard,-and-it-in-necessary that the any fractions.-Tho-shares-taken-up- pacific world, which will be con-under the above offer shall rank for structed, should be based on the dividends as from 1st day of July, great example of the Franco-British 1941. Formal letters of offer, accept- Union, to which all peoples loving ance and renunciation will be sent to liberty can join. That is why we Shareholders as soon as possible after are fighting with our Alles, keeping April 1st next. preciously the honour of a France which is rising slowly and which one day will join us because there is and there can only be one France-a free France! This may be long but it is a certainty because God renders Invincible those who, never give up!"

M. Baron to leaving for Shanghai to-day, and from there he will later go to Manila,

ROAD TOLL

Traffic Mishaps Last Week

in- In the Colony of Hongkong cluding the Island, Kowloon and New Territories during the week ending at 8 a.m. last Saturday, there were altogether 62 traffic accidents

as the result of which two persons were killed and 20 were injured.

Of persons killed, two Chinese males, aged 20 and 23 respectively,; died from injuries received while alighting from moving buses.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED

NOTICE

We have been informed that attempts are being made, to soll Green Island Cement at rates above the Government Control prices which are:-

In gunny bags of

250-lbs.

In paper bags of

94-lbs.

bag.

WHARF & GODOWN COMPANY LTD.

Notice to Shareholders

A Nurse's Experience

Nurses know more than ordinary people about curing their allments, but it wasn't until Nurse D. W. tried Maclean Brand Stomach Powder that she found lasting relief for the BEVETO Indigestion that troubled her.

“I have suffered for years,” sho writes, "from what my mother calls 'spasm', a very severe form of Indigestion. I have with pain, not daring to move for fear rolled in agony for hours. bent double of getting it worse.

THE FIFTY-FOURTH ORDIN- ARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. on WED NESDAY, the 261h MARCH, 1941, at NOON, for the purpose of without success Last year after receiving the Report of the Direc-operation I had a most alarming attack. tors and

My sister, who always hins Taclean Brand tho Statement of Stomach Powder in the house, persunded Accounts for the year ended 31st me to try a doxe, and I would not have bellaved that just a single dose would DECEMBER, 1940.

have had so instantaneous and marvellous on effect. It soothed as I swallowed it. and gradually all pain went.

"I tried countless remedies and

nit

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"It is useless to try and explain my

The Transfer Books of the $7.50 per bag, Company will be CLOSED from

gratitude, but I assure you it is very SATURDAY, the 15th MARCH, sincere. Each time I feel an attack $2.80 per

however 1941, to WEDNESDAY, the 26th coming, or I get indigestion,

slight. I By to" Ktaclean" Brand Stomach In paper bags of

MARCH, 1941, both days inclusive. | Powder 90-lbs.

the $2.70 per bag, By Order of

Board of Application for Delivery Orders, Directors, at above prices, should be made to our Registered Office, 2nd Floor, Exchange Building, 14 Des Voeux Road, Hong Kong.

C. M. MANNERS, Secretary and Manager. Hongkong, 7th March, 1941,

R. TAYLOR, Manager and Secretary: THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC

CO., LTD.

CO., LTD.

Of the Injured, 11 were pedes-HONGKONG & WILAMPOA DOCK Irions who were struck by vehicles while crossing the carriageway, Two bicycle riders were injured when their vehicles ran onto a verandah

pillar and a lamp post, respectively. A bleycle rider was injured on fall- Ing off his bicycle which skidded.

You can always tell MACLEAN BRAND Stomach Powder by the signature "ALEX, C. MACLEAN" on carton and bottle. Maclean Brand Stomach Powder is never sold loose, but unly in boities. The tablets aro available in boilies or flat tins.

If you have any dimeutty in obtaining It from your local chemist ar store write It; Kanher & Co. RO. Box 155. Ilong Kong.

RATIN

NOTICE

DEFENCE REGULATIONS 1940

tho

Notice is hereby given that the Fifty-accond Ordinary Yearly Moeting will be held at the Com- The following rates will bo Notice is hereby given that the pany's Rogistered Office, 4th Floor, charged for mailing single coples Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Share P. & 0. Building, on Thursday, of holders will be held in the Office 20th March, 1941, at 11 am. for abroad:

following newspapera Two hus passengers were injured of the Company, No. "2" Queen's the purpose of presenting the on falling off moving, buses, Four Buliding, Hong Kong, on Monday, Report of the Directors together South China Morning Post bus passengers were injured while 31st March, 1911, at noon for con-with a Statement of Accounts to allghting from moving buses.

China and Macao 31st December, 1940 and electing aidoration of the Directors' Report Of the accidents, 10

Directors and Auditors. slons between. velifelen, 22 wero and Statement of Accounts for the collisions between vehicles and

were colll-

The Register of Members of the

pedestrians, and 22 wero due to other year onding 31st December, 1940 Company will be closed from 8th

CRUBCA,

METROPOLE

HOTE

+MODEAN

TELJE PROČI

LATE BOOMI MỪNG CHATT RETH)

The Share Register and Trans-March to 20th March, 1941, both fer Books will be closed from the days inclusivo, during which 18th to 31st March, 1941, both days period no transfer of shares can Inclusive,

bo registered.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD

OF DIRECTORS

E. COCK, Chiof Manager. Hongkong. "10th March, 1911.

By order of the Board Directors

of

GIDB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.

Agents; Hong Kong, 21st February, 1941,

10 cents per copy British Empire and Forolgn 25 coats per copy The Hongkong Telograph China and Macno 14 cents per copy, 16 cents Saturdays British and Foreign 20 cents per copy

28 conta Saturdaya.

March 13, 1941.

"RECORD"

WATCHES

MEAN

QUALITY

WATCHES

OBTAINABLE AT.

SENNET FRERES

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

AT

THE

KING'S

"I DO!"

"I DO!"'

"I DO!"

"ME TOO!"

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IT'S A CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION

THROUGHOUT A

HAPPY NATION }-

"The Four Daughters"

Priscilla Lane Rosemary Lane Lola Lane Gale Page

ARE NOW

Four Wives

Claude Rains

JEFFREY LYNN EDDIE ALBERT

May Robson Frank McHugh Dick Foren Henry O'Neill Directed by MICHAEL CURTIZ

A WARNER BROS.- First National Picture

JOHN

GARFIELD Parters the Churf "Mickey Bordea,'

**Paer Doughters**

MONSTER RAFFLE

in aid of the Bomber Fund

TICKET DISTRIBUTING CENTRES

Hongkong Hotel: Peninsula Hotol. The Gloucester Hotal. Star Forry (Hongkong). 5. C. M. Post. Hongkong Jockey Club. (Exchange Building),

Lano, Crawford, Ltd. The Sincero Co., Ltd. The Wing On Co., Ltd. The Sun Co., Ltd. China Emporium Ltd. The Dairy Farm Co.

(Kowloon)

Passport Photos Executed Promptly

MEE CHEUNG

PHOTOGRAPHERS

15, 23, Ice House Street.

BAN KIS

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA-& CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter 1855, Paid-up Capital

------ £5,000,000 Reserve Liability of Propriators £1,000,000 Reserve Fund ..................................... $3,000,000

HEAD_OFFICE-LONDON,

18 Dishopsgato, B.C.i.

Sub-Agencies in Londont 117/123, Leadenhall Strest, E.CS.

West End Branchi 14/16, Cockspur Stevet, B.W.L.

Manchester Branch

32, Mosley Strest, Manchester, 2.

AGENCIES AND' BRANCHES:, Hankow Penang Hongkong

Alor Star Amritsar Bangkok Batavia Bombay

Calcutta

Agencies:

Clive Streat Fairlie Placa Canton

Cawnpare

Cebu Colombo Delhi.

Halphong Hamburg

Rangoon

Ipoli Follo

Ballon:

Semarang

Karachi

Seremban

Klang Kabe

Shanghal

Singapore

Kuala

Sawan

Lumpur

Bourabaya

Madras

Kuching Talping

Manila

Medan

Tiontain

Tongkah

(hukat).

New York Taingtao

Pelping Yokohama

(Peking)

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Geroral Banking Business transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter perioda in Local or Olber. Cur- rencies at ratea which will be quoted on applleation.

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with interest allowed at rates obtainabia on application. The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor & Trusice buainces and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid on torms whlen may be ascertained at any of its Agencies" and Branches,

W. II. EVANS THOMAS,

кодеет.

POST OFFICE

The Printed Matter Service' to the following places in China is tem- porarily suspended:-Yunnan, Sze- chuen, Kwelchow, Hunan, Fukien (except Amoy and Kulangsu),

(cxccpt

and Kwangsi

Wuchow Yunghislen). North and East of

Kwangtung.

The public are reminded that it is breach of postal regulations to enclose in a postal cover communi- callons intended for than the addressee.

persons

other

a

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.

INWARD MAILS Stralis and Air Mall by "British Overseas Airways Service" (except London) by sea from Singapore.

Mar. 13.

Sandakan

.Mar. 13.

Canton

.Mar. 14.

Calcutta and Straits.

.Mar. 14.

Salgen...

Mar. 14.

Mar, 15.

Mar. 10.

Sandakan

Swatow

Unlied-Kingdom and Straits Mar. 15.

Rangoon ....

Canton

Calcutio and Straits, Calcutta and Straits

.Mar. 10.

.Mar. 16. Mar. 10. .Mar. 21.

Air Mall by "Pan-American Airways Direct ServiceSan Francisco date, 15th March... .................Mar, 22,

OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Malls are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where malls are advertis- ed to close at or before 9 am, regis; tered and parcel mats are closed at

p.m. on the previous day. When mails are advertised to "close"after" 3 p.m. Registered and Pareci maila are closed at 5 pm.

Thursday, March 13

Air Mall by sea to Singapore to connect with the "British Over- seas Airways."

Reg.

Ord.

Rex.

K.P.O.

.Mar. 13, 5.00 p.m. .Mar. 13, 5.30 p.m..

G.P.O.

Mar. 13, 5.00 p.m.

Ord.......Mar. 13, 6.00 p.m. Straits and Parcels only for United-

Kingdom.

E. P. O.

Parcels, ....Mar. 13, 4.00 p.m. Rep....

...Mar. 13, 5.00 p.m.

Ord.,.....Mar. 13, 5.30 pm.

G. P. O.

Parcels,....Mar. 13, 4.00 p.m. Reg.,...Mar. 13, 5.00 p.m. ...Mar. 13, 7.90 p.m.

Ord..

Air Mall for Guam, Honolulu, U, 8. A., and Europe via "Pan American Airways and Trans-Atlantjo Ber. vice"-(To connect with the P.A.A.· Plane leaving from Manila on the 21st March).

K,P.O:

.Mar. 13. & pan, .Mar. 13, 8.30 p.m. G.P.O.

Reg.

Ord.

Rex.

Ord.

.

..Mar, 13, 5 Dad:

.Mar, 13, 1. p.m.

Friday, March 14-

Manila, Batavia und Sourabaya.

8.30 am.

Air Mall by. Air to Rangoon to con- nect with the "British Overseas Airways."

K.P.O.

Reg.

.Mar. 14. 4 p.m.

Ord.

Mar. 14, 4.30 pm.

P.O.

Reg.

.Mar. 14, 4 pm.

Ord.

.Mar. 14, 4.30 p.m. Canton

7.00. pm. Hollo and Parcels only for United-

Kingdom

Por.

Reg.

Ord.

Par.

Reg.

Ord.

Kr.O,

Mar. 14, 6 pm. .Mar. 14, 6 pm, .....Mar. 15, 8.30 am,

G.P.O.

.Mar, 14, 5 pm,

.Mar. 14, 5 p.m.

...Mar. 15, 0.30 am,

Saturday, March 15.

Straita, Coylen, India, East and South

Africa and Parcels

only

for. United-Kingdom.

K.P.O.

Parcels, ... Mar. 18, 3.00 p.m. Reg.Mar. 18, 4.40 p.m. Ord., Mar. 15, 5.30 pm.

G.P.O.

Parcels,

Rog.:

Tel. 26379.

Bombay,

Ord..

.Mar. 15, 3.00 p.m... .Mar. 15, 4.45pm. Mar. 15, 5.30 pm. ***..........5.30 p.m. *Superscribed Correspondènes Only