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CLASSIFIED NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

ADVERTISEMENTS 25 words $2.50 for 3 days propaid

FOR SALE.

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

LIMITED.

Notice to Shareholders

The Seventy-second Ordinary. General Meeting of Shareholders THE HONGKONG NATURALIST, will be held at the Offices of the Vol. X nos. 3 and 4. Price #undoraigned on Wednesday, the (postage extra). Now on sale at 21st May, 1941, at Noon, for the Bouth China Morning Post Lid.

purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together

Typhus Fever with a statement of Accounts. for

In Hongkong

Only In Mild Form

For the first time over a long perlod, a case of Typhus Fever has been reported in the Colony, from Shaukiwan district,

There are varions forms of Typhus in different party of the world, car- ried in different ways, and in long- kong the form is mild. The disense is tricommon in the Colony, and no The epidemic has ever occurred.

diagnosed on case reported Tuesday,

Was

In addition, nine cases of Cholera (four from Victoris, two from Kow- loon and three from Shaukiwan). one case each of Chicken-pox and Small-pox, two of Diphtheria, nine of Dysentery, three ench

of

Typhoid

the year onded the 31st December, 1940.

Friday,

AGA

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

BR Hongkong's

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 19th day of May, 1941, 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 North Point, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 70 yours, with the option of renewal at a Crown Ront to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years..

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Intending bidders are advised

Gift To Surrey

A Mobile Canteen -subscribed for by Hongkong residents has already Been in use In England and has done good service. A letter of Under-Secretary of preciation was recently sent to Colonies

State for the by the Mayor of New Maiden (Borough of Maiden: and Coombe) In Surrey, referring to

this stating that they would send n copy

und the Colonial Omee

replied

of the letter

the to. Governor of Hongkong. This copy has been re-

forwarded for publication by the Colonial Secretariat.

Writing on. Wagner, stated:

March 13 last, the Mayor, Mr

"Our Fire Brigade has recently

The Share Register and Trans-tent Immediately after the dispo-ceived in the Colony, and has been for Books will be closed from the 7th May to the 21st May, 1941, both days Inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD,

General Managers, The Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 30th April, 1911.

NOTICE

DEFENCE REGULATIONS 1940

following

newspapers

The following rates will be and Measles, and 62 of Tuberculosis, charged for mailing single copies were reported during the two days of the ended on Wednesday. The Cholerunbroad :-- total has reached 750 cases since the beginning of the year.

WEDDINGS

The wedding of Miss Dorls Mar- shall and Mr Keith Williamson Jones at St Andrew's was solemnised

Church, Tokyo, recently,

The following forthcoming wed- lings are announced:

Mr Sydney Croft, Royal Marine. and Misa Leo Fung-chun, of No. 130 Gloucester Rond:

Gunner Frederick John Spiller, R.A.,,and-Miss Chal Kim-ching, of Nu. 140 Jaffe Road.

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The Indian Company, Hongkong Police Reserve, will hold a tea party at the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel on Tuesday, ot 5.15 p.m.. welcome the new Commissioner of L'enne- J. P. Police, the Hon. Mr tother-Evans.

PAY WHAT

YOU LIKE

FOR THE WORDS AND MUSIC

OF

"There'll Always be an England"

SUNG BY

DEANNA DURBIN

IN

"NICE GIRL"

TOTAL PROCEEDS

TO THE

BOMBER FUND

Obtainable at:

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. TSANG FOOK PIANO CO. KING'S THEATRE S. C. M. POST.

HONG KONG POLO CLUB Boundary Street, Kowloon

GYMKHANA

IN AID OF B.W.O.F.

. Under the distinguished patronage of H.E. Sir Geoffry Northcote, K.C.M.G.

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SATURDAY, MAY 24th

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at 3 p.m.

The Band of the lat Bn. The Micinoox Itagt. (D.C.O.) by kind permission of Li-Col II, W. M. Stewart, 0.2.1, 1.c.. 'and Officers will play during the

afternoon. : Conductor: Mr. W. E. Kifford, Bandmaster.

Programme

3.00——JUMPING COMPETITION (a) China Ponies.

(b) Australian Ponies.

4.00—ALARM RACE

4.30-MUSICAL CHAIRS·

5.00-V. C. RACE ON MULES

(for all ranks);

5.30-POLO MATCH

(TheDiehard" Trophy) 6.80 COCKTAIL CABARET

South China Morning Post China and Macno

16 cents per copy

British Empire and Foreign

25 cents per copy

The Hongkong Telegraph

China and Macao

16 cents per copy British and Foreign 20 conta per copy

25 cents Saturdays.

COLOUR-Native straw and a brilliantly coloured sash from Maxico add to the colourful beach costume 'worn by this model in Miami, Fla. It was designed for appropriatoncis Pan-American Day, ob- served throughout the Amer- icas on April 14, to further good will.

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H. K. Officials Back

Mr M. J. Abbott, Assistant Crown Solleltor, who has been Home on leave, is back in the Colony. Other Government_officials who liave re- turned are Dr J. A. R. Selby, of the Medical Department, and Mr L, Star. buck, of the Royal Observatory,

Mr George T. Rowe and Mr Geoffrey C. Hamilton, members of the Government Administrative Ser- vice, have also arrived here.

SHANGHAI

DIVORCE

sal of the loi the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised olleer who will be present at the

been

the fortunate recipient of a sale, the sum of two hundred Mobile Canteen which I am Inform- [dollars, ($200) in cash. This sumed in the gift of the people of Hong- will be refunded' on payment of kong.

"Although we received delivery from, Regional Fire Headquarters, I have been at a loss to find out fo

the Purchase price. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. whom exactly the grateful thanks of

No. of Salm

Registry No.

Locality

Boundary Beasurements

N. BEW.

feet feet feel fre

as par salo

Dian.

Contents

about

aq. feet

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Ann. Rental

Upset Price

$110

000*6

The purchaser of the lot will be required to pay to the auctioneer in cash the sum of $900.00 (being 10% of the upset price) im- mediately after the fall of the hammer, the balance of the

promium being paid in accordance with the Conditions of Sale."

G.

R.

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 19th day of May, 1911, 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 Repulse Buy Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, 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

75 years.

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo sal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with authorised

this Borough should be forwarded

generous

for transmission to the donors of Hongkong.

"From enquiries Instituted, I now a communication from The London Civil Defence Region in

have a

which they advise that you be asked to carry ou

our appreciation to our well-wishers in the Far East.

"Will you, therefore, be good enough to exercise your good offices

Inform on our behalf, and

those concerned that their gift came at a most opportune time, when the fire protection of the London Civil De fence Region is of paramount im- portance, and that the refreshment of the men during their arduous duties is a vital factor in thwarting the aims of the enemy."

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange OMelal Summary issued yesterday is:

Buyers

H.K. Banks $1,305 Bank of East Asin $70 H.K. Fire Ins, X.D. $170

Indo-China (Pret) $80 Providents $8.

Hotels $2,05

Land $31.10

Realtics $2.70 Electrics Rts $11.25 Macao Electries $10.15. Ropes $0.40

Entertainments $0.25 ›

Sellers

Providents $5.15 Trams $16.10

Sales

Docks $13 Providents $5 Renities $2.70 Trams $15.00 Lights "O" $5.70

Electrics "O" X. Rts $22.25 Electrics Ris $11.25

Macao Electrics $10.15/19.50/19% Ropes $0.50

Watsons $0.00

Syrian Schools Suspended

schools as a

May 16,

1941

The Rev. Charles Mechau Steel and his bride. the former Miss Eva Maynard, teacher, of Sheffield,' England, who were married at the Methodist Church yesterday-Ming Yuen..

VARIETY CONCERT

Entertainment for Troops At Mt Austin Barracks

A variety entertainment arranged and compered by David Kossick, took place nt Mi Austin Barracks last night.

The programme was as follows: At the Piano

Freddy Archer

Les Gibson From Underground

Tommy King "Mynto" the. Memory, Man.... Himself * You're la ...? Freddy Archer & Others A Discourse. "Games" Stanley Illachilife A New Lineer Two

"Scotch" Maude As Veterans of Variety

Deacon & Juck Orenhamn | Feats of Strength-Muscle Control

Mere Deception

A Rush Act .....

and is Partner

More Deception

Introducing

A. D. Spoora Doxford Jack Grenham Les Gibson Doris Shieldi

In When Magicians Meet"

Donations To Bomber Fund

A total of $1,900,114.37 was reached yesterday by the War Fund inaugurated by the 8. C. M. Post. Ltd, wil the following donations: Mr Hugh A. Beard

tion)

Mr John Fleming (second done. Hongkong Philatelic Society

("Double-Dutch Aucun an May 6, 1941) Hongkong Police Force (All Con-

thigents und Clericent Staft; April

Police Department-Noor Bio- Banted's Ten Party ............... Ladies Section, Royal Hongkong Golf Club fin memory of the Into Airs D. J. LOW)... European Y. (50 per cent, nel proceeds of Swimming Gala held on May 14, 1941)........

PRISONERS OF WAR

$

2,000

210

BANKS

„THE CHARTERED. BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA '& CHINA. Incorporated by Royal, Charter 1883. Paid-up Capital ......................... 83,000,00- Ieserve Lishllity of Proprietors 25,000,00 Reserve Fund ................ £3,000,0

HEAD OFFICE LONDON.

30 Bishopsgata, K.0.1. Sub-Agencies in London: 117/127, Landenhall Street, B.C3. West End Branch:

14/16, Cockspur Sizest, ́8.W.L

Manchester Branch:

37, Mosley treat, Manchester, E.

AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:

Hankow Penang

Alor Star

Amritsar

Валькок Halavia Bombay Calcutte

Hongkong Fangoon

Ipoh

Salgon

Iloilo

Semarang

Karaphil

Beremban

Klang...

Shanghai

Agencies:

Clive Bircot Fairlie Place

Kobo

Singapore

Kuala

Billawan

Lumpur. Bojurabaya

Canton

Kuching Talping

Cawnpore

Madres

Cobu Colombo

Delhi

Haiphong

Manila

Medan

Tientsin

Tongkel

(Bhuket)

New York Tingias

Polping Yokohama

(Peking)

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General' Banking Businem transacted.

and

CURRENT ACCOUNTS ·"opened FIXED DEPOgers received for One Year or shorter periods in Local or Other Cruise rencies, at rates which will be qusted on application.

Bavings ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Bierling with interest allowed at zaten obtainable on application. The Bank's Had Omos in London undertakes Executor & Trustee business and claims, recovery of Bṛlitan Income Tax overpaid on terma which may be ascertained at any of its Agencies, and Branches,

W. II, EVANS THOMAS,

Manager.

POST OFFICE

An experimental service providing sea transit to U.S.A. and air transit from U.S.A. to Lisbon and United Kingdom has been Instituted. The inclusive postage rate is H.K.. $2.00 per 1⁄2 oz. for letters and. H.K.$1.00 each for postcards. Correspondence tor this service should boar the usual oluc air mali lubel with the super- scription "By sen to U.S.AJ

The public are reminded that it is 1 breach of postal regulations to enclose in a postal cover communi- cations intended for persons other han the addressee,

The Printed Matter Service to the following places in China is tem- porarily suspended;-Yunnan, Sze- thuen, Kwelchow, Hunan, Fuklen 584.00 (except Amoy and Kulangsu), Kwangs!, North and East of Swangtung.

805.55

10.

5,50

The Hon. Treasurer of the British Prisoners of War Fund acknowledges

Vocal Effort ...................................... Will Knight, with thanks the following donations: Speciality. "With His Clubs”.

John

Previously acknowledged. $700; long- Gülchris kong Jockey Club, $5,000; "Some of Jardines Staft" March $320, April $290. A Guest Artlite .......... "You All Know”..........

Eileen Grant 337 J. K. Bousfield, $100; Result of Bat And "The Show Must Go On" .......... ? 74.7 in Manila, 350; "Derbyshire"-April and All accompaniments are by Freddy stay, 130; J. Barrow, Mareḥ, April and Archer, The Blage Manager la Monty May, $30; niready acknowledged in s. c. Ditton. and Intermission Music. by M. Post, $20. Total $6.825. Courtesy, by the Royal Scots Dance Band.)

NEW SALESIAN FATHER

oficer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred

The Government of Syria has sus- After a hazardous journey from dollark, ($200) in cash. This surapended classes at the Syrian Univer-England, a new Salesian priest, Fr -will-be-refunded-on-payment of pity-and-in-secondary-elementary Wm. Haughey, S.C—has arrived “in

the Purchase price.

a result of demonstrations the Colony. against French-imposed food dls- Though only 35 years of age, Fr PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. tribution regulations in which four Haughey has seen service in India

persons have been killed.

and Italy and speaks the languages French troops who swarmed Into of both those countries fluently. He the streets to break up the demon-is now in Hongkong, at the express. strations were afterwards withdrawn wish of the Government, to take and quiet prevailed in Damascus and charge of the Salesian interests here. in other Syrian elties

Registry No.

Locality

Lot No. 443,

Repulse Bay Road.

No. of Sale.

Rural Building

Lot

Boundary Measurements

X.H. E. W.

||Feelfer |lert (nel

As per sole

plan.

Contents

about

Ann. Rental

3q. feet

000'03

Upset Price

$1,000

The purchaser of the lot will be required to pay to the auctioneer In cash the sum of $400.00 (being 10% of the upset price) im mediately after the fall of the hammer, the balance of the premium being paid in accordance with the Conditions of Sale.

Government House

His Excellency Decides To Remain In Residence

It was learned from the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Mr N. L. Smith, yesterday, that His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, has decided to remain in Government House and has no plans in mind, for moving his realdence elsewhere.

It is understood that this decision was made becasise no further cracks in the structure have been noticed and the movement has practically ceased,

A decree nisi was granted to Mrs Grace Catherine MacKellar, petition er, against Mr Patrick John Mac- Kellar,

by Judge P. Grant-Jones in H.M. Supreme Court at Shanghal.

The respondent is undergoing a five-year sentence at the Word Road goal, having been found guilty of misappropriating funds from the It will be remembered that at one American Express Co., where he was ilmo His Excellency suggested mov- in charge of the travel department. | ing to Admiralty House owing to the

serious damage sustained 77

by Gov- ernment House on account of fun-

REMARKABLE ESCAPE nelling operations.

Mr Herman Laigar, American, had

a remarkable escape from death last Miss Monique Thiebaut, daughter night when he fell 88-ft on to Kew-of Colonel, Paul Thiebaut, Miltary toon wharf from the President Tylor, Attache at the French Embassy in railway lines but was all conscious to Mr Louis Vignes, son of Mr and Mr Laigar struck his head on the Tokyo, and Mrs Thiebaut, was married

when admitted to Kowloon Hospital Mrs Charles Vignes, of Paris, on April shortly after_midnight with head in. 28, at the Sacred Heart Church in Juries.

Tokyo.

LONG SERVICE

PO LEUNG KUK CHILDREN

The Director of Medical Services gratefully acknowledges the receipt of $25.50 from Mr Ip' Lan-chuen, Chairman of the Kwangtung Refugee Rellef As- sociation, for the purchase at 210 pairs of elogs for the Po Leung Kuk children at King's Park Camp.

Appeal For Doctors

#re

Shanghai, May 15. Chungking is appealing for more than 20,000 doctors for the Red Cross and is urging Shanghai doctors to join. At least 30,000

doctors needed for work in the interior.

At present there are only 6,000 One of the oldest employees of the working in the war zones, including Baltimore, May 14. Netherlands Trading Society, In the 20 foreigners attached to the Red Mrs Harold Ickes, wife of the person of Mr A. A. Tavares, yester- Cross which also needs 175 trucks Secretary of the Interior, has given day completed 25 years' service with and U.S.$300,000 a month for the birth to a daughter. A son was born the firm, having joined their staff on purchase of medicines which lo them in 1930-United Press. May 15, 1916.

urgently wanted. International,

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ESENTATIVES

IC'S TRADING CO., LTD;

Small Packet Post to all countries 's suspended,

INWARD AIR MAILS Air Mall by "Pan Amerlend Airways Direct Servier"-San Francisco

date, 13th May..... ..May 20,

Air Mäll by "Pan American Airways

Direct Service"San Francisco date, 26th May. ....

June 2:

OUTWARD AIR" MAILS Friday, May 16 Air Mail by Air to Hangoon to con- nect with the "Brlilsh Overzens Airways."

K.P.O. and G.P.O. Reg.

May 18, p.m. Ord. ......May 16, 4.30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 20

Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A. and Europe viaTM“Pan Ame-. rican Airways and Trans-Atlantic" Service,"

K.P.O.

-Rer:

Ord,

Вед.

Ord.

May-20.-..m. .May 20, 6.30 p.m. G.P.O.

.May 20, p.m.

May 20, 7 p.m.

Monday, June 2

Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, 5.6.A., and Europa via “Pan Ame- rican Airways and Trans-Atlantie Services."

K.P.O.

Reg.

Ord.

June 2, 5.00 pm. Jane 2, 5.80 p.m.

G.P.O.

Reg.

Ord,

Jime 2, 8.00. p.m.

June 2, 7.00 p.m.

NATHAN ROAD CAR-BUS CRASH ·

Crashing head-on into a bus in Nathan Road at 11 p.m. Inst night, rebounded 13ft across the road, seriously injuring the driver' and a passenger.

B Car

The driver, Revenue Officer. E. T. Warden, and the pussenger, Chinese woman, are in Kowloon Hospital, The woman was operated on immediately for serious head in- juries and is said to be making pro- gress. Mr Warden -received, super- ficial injuries,

the The mishap occurred near

where Argyle Street intersection portion of the road is under repair and traffic has to veer to the middle of the road.

The bus was heading for `Talm- shatsui from Laichikok. No passen- gers were injured and the vehicle, although damaged, was able to pro- coed.

Mr Warden's car was practically wrecked, the road in the vicinity of the crush being littered with broken glass. Hardly Q

square inch of glans was left in the windscreen,

The radiator, fender, and front number plate were smashed back on to the engine and a mudguard and | headlamp "driven' against, the wheel.

· FOR YOUNG REFUGEES

The Director of Medical Services begs to acknowledgo, with grateful thanks the receipt of $25 from the students of La Salle College. The students wish this sum to be devoted. to the purchase of food and clothing for the most nocessitous of the 40 children they have undertaken to maintain at one of the Refugee Schools.

A Congregation for the conferring of degrees will be hold in the Great Hall of Hongkong Univer [harybday 30, at 9,80