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Lord Cort's Visit To Algeciras

GIBRALTAR, May 19 (Reu- ter).-General Lord Gort, the British Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar, paid an official visit to the Spanish Military Governor of Algeciras this morning,

Lord Gort made the journey by

ROD.

It is understood thint the visit was cordial zind that the Spanish Governor is expected to return the call on May 20.

Meiji University Baseballers To Visit Hawaii

TOKYO, May 10 (Domel)

Meli University's baseball team, which was last year's champion among Tokyo's six big universities, wlli leave June 10 aboard the Yahala Maru for Hawall where it will play elght to ten games with the teams of the Hawalian Base- ball League.

The Meiji team which has been invited by the Hawail Asahi Club will be hended by Manager Ryojo Akagumi, Coach Umeo Tanizawa and 18 players.

The Meji players will remain in Hawait Islands for a fortnight and will return to Japan on August 15 aboard the Asama Maru.

Rifle Shooting

First Time

Since 1914-18

esday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

AT PRAYER-Despito bombracked walls and debris, this group gathered in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral for prayer on Good Friday. A cross of charred wood stands over an Improvised altar in the roofless building. The Archdeacon said: "If you know God loves

you, you can stand up to anything."

Blitzed Publishers' Scheme Of Co-operative Book Distribution

A co-operative experiment in book distribution, the greatest venture of its The Hongkong Special Guard kind the book trade of Great Britain ever knew, has arisen from the ashes of Nazi- Company "Tuches Group" held devastated Paternoster Row and its environs-for centuries the heart of Britain's their first Rifle meeting at Kowloon City Range on Sunday.

book trade. As this was the first time that

very

don.

May 20, 1941

Diocesan Missionary Association

Hope for the formation of groups In Austraila with the idea af stimulating interest and sugument- hug funds was expressed in a report by Miss W. Itablison, Secretary, at the annual meeting of the Victorin Diocesan Missionary Association in the Cathedral Hall yesterday.

Hev, A. P. Rose prealded and on the platform were Dr K. L. Reichelt, Rev. D. Rosenthall, Mr 3. A. Tarrant (Treasurer) and Miss Robinson.

The

an his

Chairman conveyed apology from Bishop Hall for absence. He was to arrive froin Chungking last night,

When the accounts were dealt with Misg E. S. Atkins said last year there was a grant for a nis- alonary, of $980 which did not come in this year. She thought last year It was considered best, that the grant should not be made again. She wondered whether an appeal could bo sent to the Finance Committee asking the grant could still be made since last year's resolution was passed.

un

The budget

was passed with alteration that the Executive Coun- cil look into the question of a pos- sible grant for a missionary and to nake the necessary alterations in the budget to allow for it.

Mr Rose said Mrs Richards' St John's Cathedral group report stated there were 147 members, of which seven were lost this year and a few more had left recently. Subscrip- tion and donations collected up to dato amounted to $483 and more was to come.

Dealing with the report of Christ Church, Mr Rosenthalt said, visits

had been made to the Blind Home and a plenic and dinner were held for the blind. A Boys' Club had been started in Kowloon City and paid teacher had been engaged. There were 10 children in the Club and the work done has been good.

Mr Rose said this move of form- work. The boys would not only ing Boys' Club was a very good one and was part of the Association's benefit educationally but also they would have religious instructions.

Destlintes Cared For Speaking of the Eyre Refuge, Mr. Rosenthall said there was a home for destitute women inside the walled

When Paternoster Row, a long, narrow, dark street off Saint Paul's Churchyard, was some of the members have had a fired by Nazi bombers In The London holocaust of Dec. 29, more than 6,000,000 volumes were chance to fire a Service rifle since destroyed, among them many priceless and irreplaceable treasures, 1914-1918. the results were satisfactory. At the close of the meet, a competi-publishers were either totally destroyed or seriously damaged,

The offices and warehouses of nearly a dozen well-known fees in Princes' Gate. S, W., Loncity in Kowloon City and at present ve.detali match was held, which re- sulted in two detalls of eight members and in this toil of literary havoc, Simpkin Marshall, wholesale ench sporing a total of 115. The win-book distributors of Stationers' Hall Court near by, lost every Langston and Kir Boscoe shot it out,item in their stock of 2,500,000 volumes, together, with their and the result was an overwhelming unique catalognes comprising a record of books published in

England for more than 100 years past.

wing delni wat decided when

victory for the Intter,

Electric Rinks

THE FOLLOWING will represent the Hongkong Electric R.C. in, a Third Division Inwn bowls match against the Hongkong F.C. at North Point on Saturday:

W. E. Macfarlane, E. I.. Grooms, J. F. Barron and L. de Rome.

A. P. Tarbuck, J. R. Way, C. E. Gahogan and J. K. Sloan.

A. F. Paul, W. Stoker, A. G. Gard-

ner and J, F. Lunny..

Reserve, W. Stonehouse.

Libyan Border

Fighting

Yet before the ushes cooled, the essentals of a co-operative scheme for carrying on business had been worked out by the Publishers' Association

which undertook to run Simpkins as a distributive agent for the whole trade.

there were 10 members. Its inmates Messrs J. Whlinker and Sons, received home care and did needle publishers for nearly three-quar- work, the sale of which formed the ters of a century of "Whitaker's principal source of Income. The Almanack" and the "Bookseller," women were physically disabled in Jost their records and orders in the some way or other. Some had been fire and publication of the "A sent from the Secretariat for Chinese manack" had to be postponed for Affairs and others from the Po a time while they secured dupli-Leung Kuk. Orders for needle work cates.

done could be laid.

Speaking

of the Church Guest House, Mr Rose said thanks were due to Miss Elliot, who was Warden prior to her leaving for Canada, and to Miss Griffith who acted as hostess,

From July to

to December there were 107 guests, excluding permanent residents, and from June to the middle of May this year there were 57. Total income amounted $11,406 and the balance at the end

ed to $3,714 and payments reachorl of the year was $500. This receipts to the end of April amount-

"Good Neighbour Policy

The good-neighbour movement to

siderable export business. Crates bearing their name took British culture and scholarship to the re-;

Casselis. in La Belle Sauvage, was motest sections of the world.

saved by one of its own fire-watch- Messrs W. H. Smith and Son,

ers who dealt with an incendiary wholesale book distributors them-bomb after It had burn! through the selves, have

siven practical

roof. assis- tance in getting Simpkins' distribu- tive machinery working again..

Mesar's Longmans Green and Co., The name, the business, the good-publishers since 1724, who had their will, the vans, all that was left, were City and Southwark warehouses both taken over and the work of distribu- destroyed on the

carried on

same night, next Centre Limited, a subsidiary concern tions of 200 years, in a small office Book Jay carried on the publishing tradi- in Survey. A dozen or so titles of books for Sale, had taken the place So, in spile of it all, the com- of the 8.000 they had had the day pilation and printing of Spring Lists before,

has gone ahead, and reprints of the works with a known ready sale have,, been rushed through.

tion was

of Messrs Pilman.

from

Vital Link in Trade' Simpkin Marshall have long been A vital connecting link between pub- sher and retail bookseller. Their aim in the past has been to have every book in stock, or to know CAIRO, May 19 (Reuter),—Deal- | how to procure it quickly, so that ing with the German sally from Fort when the man-in-the-street walked Capuzzo, military circles said that into a bookshop anywhere and ask- the RAF, gave them a taste of thelred for what might be an obscure own medicine with a large dose of title, the bookseller put it on his dive-bumbing.

onder form, _and_Simpkins,

The German attempt with two columns to force "Hellfire Pass" was unsuccessful and the Germans, again have to recuperate from their losses in the now much trampled Sollum

orea.

daily

from their stock and records looked It out and supplied it.

About ten per cent of the books sold by British publishers went Lhrough Simpking" records. The firm had also developed

a con-

offset all this destruction in the book-trade began the day after the fire. Publishers whose

premises were spared offered sanctuary to less and binders did all they could to fortunate competitors, and printers help.

Old Firms Hard Hit Other publishers whose premises were ravaged include William Black- wood and Sons, established in Edin- burgh in 1814 and operating a

WINDOW OF 1449 London branch since 1840. They published

Eliot's George

"Adam One of the oldest church window Bede" in 1859.

In the country-at East Harling, Nor- Messrs-Collins-lost-their-office-in-folk-parish-church-is-to-be removed Bridewell Place, but most of their to a safe place as a precaution against stock was held in Glasgow. The air raid damage. The window dates offices of Hutchinson,, largest firm of from 1440. When fears were felt for publishers in the world, were com-its safety in 1560, it was stored and pletely gutted. Their stock, how-forgotten for 242 years when it was ever, was safe. They now have new replaced.

CHARITY WORKER NEARLY

FAILS IN ORGANISING

ORGANISING APPEAL

(THINKS)

ONLY ANOTHER FEW WEEKS AND YET THERE ARE SO MANY DETAILS

TO FIX UP

AT THE DOCTOR'S)

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'YES, BUT DON'T YOU THINK YOU QUGHT TO SEE

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STOCK MARKET

REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Summary, Issued yesterday, is:

Buyera

H.K. Banks $1,310 Bank of East Asia $21 H.K. Fire Ins. X.D. $176 Indo-Chinas (Pref) $80 Providents $5.05

Hotels $2.05 Lands $31

Lights."O" $5.70 Electrics "Rts" $11.35 Macao Electries $18.50 Ropes $0.50 Entertainments $6.25

Sellers

Macao Electrica $18,90

Sales

H.K. Banks $1,310 ,Lands $31

Humphreys Trams $15.00

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Read your Fellowship Booklet carefully re- garding ** Blow - Ins " and "Windfalls" and

don't forget that the---

the Bellows

APRIL SCORE

385

CLOSING DATE FOR APRIL IS TUES., MAY 20 In addition to official collectors for firms

there are "Blow-In" Boxes at:-

Hongkong Side: Gloucester Hotel, Helena May Institute, Hongkong Club, Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong Jockey Club, Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

Kowloon Side: Caravur Shop, China Light & Power Co., Ltd. (Argyle St.), China Light & Power. (Hung Hom). European Y.M.C.A., Far East Oxygen & Acetylene Co., Ltd., H.K. & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp.. Peninsula Hotel, Star Ferry Whari.

ARE YOU A "WHIFF" (member)? or ARE YOU A “SNUFF” (non-member)? IF YOU ARE ALREADY A "WHIFF" MAKE ALL YOUR FRIENDS "WHIFFS" TOO BY ENROLLING THEM TO-DAY BUT FOR BOMBERS' SAKE DON'T BE A "SNUFF"

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c/o Far East Oxygen &

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Kowloon

Kowloon

and the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

U.S. Auxiliaries

WASHINGTON,, May 19 (UP),~~~

The House to-day passed the Senate

bill permitting the Navy Department,

Royal Exiles Go To Virgin Islands

BERMUDA, May 10 (Reuter}.---

to buy or build 58 muxiliaries total Ex-King Carol and Madamo Luposau

ling 650,000 tons and authorising ex-are-lenying hare to-day · ́for · 8t penditures of $300,000,000, for this Thomni, enpital of the Virgin Islands

(American-possession)

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