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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 24, 1941.

CLASSIFIED |NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

ADVERTISEMENTS 25 words $2.50

for 3 days propaid

WANTED KNOWN.

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. PREMISES TO LET.

Penk. 400,

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Box

FOR SALE.. THE HONGKONG NATURALIST, Vol. X non. 3 and 4. Price $4 (postage extra). Now on sale at South China Morning Post Ltd.

CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.

NOTICE OF CALLS

NOTICE is hereby given that the Directors have made a Call of $1.00 per share upon all the members holding shares of the 1941 Issue allotted on 3rd July, 1941, upon which only $1.00 per share has been paid, and that auch Call will be payable on the 30th day of September, 1941.

NOTICE is hereby also given that the Directors have made a further Call of $2.00 per share upon all the members holding shares of tho 19411 Issue whether allotted on 24th January or 3rd July, 1941, and that such further Call will be payable on the 6th day of January, 1942.

SWIMMING GALA be payable to the Bankers of the

PROCEEDS FOR BOMBER FUND

Thanks to the success of the recent Bwimming Gala organised by the Euro- peau Y.M.CA. Swimming Seeting, when trembers of the A.N.S, competed with the Nursing Detachment of the IK.V.D.C.. the Lorber Fund has benelited by Another substantial donation of 11.072.03. $500 was received yesterday from the Police Recreation Club, representing dre renuit of "Gingles Lamp amo."

With yesterday's donations, as follows, the total of the Bomber Fund is now $2,395,737,91:

Police Recreation Club (Glagles

Lamp Itafle)

Mr Charles A. Wond

$500 20

Bir J. 0. 11. Lander...... ANS, versus H.K.V.D.C. Nursing

Detachment Swimming Gain

150

ST VINCENT DE PAUL The &C. M. Post has received

1.072.93

the

following donations to the Society of St

Vincent de Paul:

in memory of the late Mrs G. 1. Coates, F1 da Silva, $1.

In memory of the late Mira M. M. Barton-Dr K. L. da Souza, 21.,

DONATIONS WAITING

The above mentioned Calls wi

Hong Kong & Company, the Shanghal Banking Corporation, Hong Kong.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

JOIN V. BRAGA,

Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, 23rd July, 1941.

APPEAL FOR FUNDS FOR ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRES

IN FREE CHINA

At the request of Madam H. II. Kung and with the support of His Excellency the Governor and under the auspices of the British Fund for Relief of Distress in South, China, an appeal is made of for

funda for the purpose establishing and maintaining Orthopaedic Centres for disabled soldiers and civilians in China. Lord Mayor Fund Cheques and donations may be

Donations for the followingt Organisa. long awali collection at the office of the S. C. M. Post: Amocincan Portuguesa de Soccorros Mutuos;

ADDIS ABEBA

PIPERS LEAD WAY-Stirring music by pipers lad way of Transvaal regiment into Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, after it was occupied by British Imperial forces. Once more flag of Lion of Judah waves whore Italian Viceroy capitulated.

G.O.C. Of Britain's Fireman

Mr. William Mabane, 45-year- old Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security, is to be Britain's G.0.0. Fire- men.

From the Home Office, in While- hall, he will direct the activities of the scores of thousands of fremen who are dealing with Ares ali over England, Scotland and Wales, and

as needed,

will be able to concentrate his forces

The Government has decided to

reorganise the fire-fighting services on a national basis, taking all fire- men into the service of the State, and making them subject to direct

for the Relief of Air Victims: 1.WOFsent to the Hon, Secretary, Mr. M. Energency Refugee Council; B.I.CA Food Kitchens Fund; New Territories K. Lo, British Relief Fund for Itellef Asucinilan; St Vincent de Paul.

Distress in South China, Alexan-Government orders, instead of those

The

Hongkong Telegraph Eleventh Annual Amateur Photographic Competition

June

September, 1941, Two Silver Trophies Awarded by ILFORD LTD.

For the best and second-best entrles,

Three Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK CO. Flest Prizes in each of the three Sections,

$250

CASH PRIZES

SECTION ONE

$250

Interior scenes, Table Top and Still) Life Studies.

(Exluding portraiture, plants and and flowers). _1st_KODAK SILVER TROPHY 2nd $40. 3rd $30. 4th $10

SECTION TWO Portraiture.

1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY 2nd $40. 3rd $30. 4th $10

SECTION THREE Plants and Flowers. 1st KODAK SILVER TROPHY 2nd $50. 3rd $30. 4th $10.

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

-The Competition is open to all

photographers.

ford

The entries awarded the Trophies for the best and second. best pictures in the Competition, will not be entitled to any other prizes.

-The prizes will be awarded to the competitora sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- graphs in each. Section, Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Com- petition, and which milist be pasted on back of entry. 4.—The right to publish any or all of the entries la reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.

3. All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been already entered m other Competitions are ineligible. 6. No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, loss of or damage to entries. 7-All entries to be either black, nepla, or toned pictures, and must be mounted. Coloured phota- graphs are ineligible.

Plotures rubelited in sopla tones should bo accompanied by a antaller print, in black and white. -No pleture to entered in more

than one Section, 10--Mounts to be only while or cream. must be of one of the following ~alzes:-10×12, 16×20, (2) 11.-No correspondence will be entered Inia in connection with the ́Cora- petition, 12.-Members of the Staff of the Hongkong Telegraph and the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete. 13-The decision of the Judges shall

be Anal.

14—At the conclusion of the Com; petition, entries will be returned to-competitors on application at the Telegraph offices within seven days.. 13-T10 Use of aliases to strictly

forbidden,

NAME

ENTRY FORM

SECTION

ADDRESS

dra Building, marked Orthopaedic Appeal or to the British Relief Fund for Distress in South Chinn, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank marked Orthopaedic Appeal.

NOTICE

DEFENCE REGULATIONS 1910

The following rates willl be charged for malling single coples of the following newspapers abroad:

South China Morning Post China and Macho 10 cents per copy British Empire and Foreign 25 cents per copy The Hongkong Telegraph China and Macno 10 cents per copy British and Foreign

20 cents per copy 20 cents Saturdays.

Wills Millions

For Treasury

£2,815,283 Windfall

of their local authority employers.

Flying Squads

The result wit be that if town X is badly fire-blitzed, it will be pos sible to send reinforcements of fre- men from towns Y and Z nearby, or even from places much further off. There will be flying squnds, armed with ali

Intest the

fire-fighting appliances, who will be dashed off to places from which an S O S is sent. Full-time firemen will be liable

to be transferred, permanently or

according to

Exchange At A Glance

SELLING

T.T. London Demand London' T.T. Shanghai T.T. Singapore

про оди

T. Japan

T.T. Manlla

T.T. Bangkok

1/279 1/2

450

52%

1024

TT. India

82%

TT. USA.

24

.40%

IT.

Batavia

45%

.1494

.105%.

1/6

BUYING

..1/3%

1/34%

.25

.84%

T.T. Salgon T.T. France

T.T. Switzerland T.T. Australla

4 m/s L/C London 4 m/s D/P London

4 m/s L/C U.S.A.

4 m/s Franco

30 d/s India..

US. Cross rate in London 4.02 U.S. Cross role in NY,

H.K. Stock Market

The following quotations temporally free one placerentents. Issued on the Hongkong Stock Part-time AFS. workers may be ket this morning.

noved about in their own localities, but will not be sent far from their homes.

In Parliament Mr Herbert Morri- son, Home Secretary, fald that in new legislation to operate big regional schemes the powers of the normal local authorities would vanish.

University In Strip Tease

ONE thousand Harvard under- graduates reversed procedure when they disrobed before Sally Rand, Afr Waiter Melville Wills, a memAmerica's queen of strip teasers. ber of the tobacco family, and one of the directors of the fmperial To- bacco Co., who died in January, left £4,317,360 "so far as can at present be ascertained."

The duty paid was £2,015,303, Mr Wills left numerous legacies to relatives, friends, and to his em- ployees nt Bracken Hill, Bristol, the Abbots Leigh and Failand estates, Somerset; and his property in Scol-

land,

Ife left his house, Bracken Hill, to

Miss. Rand appeared at their an- She had nual smoker in Boston. promised to do a fan dance, but did not keep her promise, and students started chanting: "Take them off. Take them off."

will," you

erled

"I will, if Sally. trousers rained about her, but she instantly coals, socks, shoes and didn't as much as unzip a zipper.

Miss Rand spent the rest of the

his daughter Mrs Douglas; his Ab-night being waltzed about by half- bots Leigh and Falland estates in clad Harvard men. Somerset to his son, Capt. Douglas Wills, and his property in Scotland equally between his three surviving

children.

He provided that his daughter should be at liberty to continue the Ilome for Ladles in Reduced Cir- cumstances at Clifton, if she thought At, and provided a capital sun for the e

endowment

it of it in that event. In 30 years, members of the Wills family have left almost £40,000,000. Out of 11 fortunes of over 000 each, since 1009. the Treasu has had many windfalls. Sir George A. Wills left £10,000,000, of which £4,000,000 went to the Exchequer.

Public Schools & State Aid

Control Problem

A strong conflict of views on the future of public schools oc- curred after the reading of a paper to a meeting in London of the Royal Society of Arts by Canon Spencer Leeson, head- master of Winchester,

Canon Leeson said that the schools" dimculties must be faced now, since to wait till the end of the war might be to leave the question too long. Ho deplored the idea that the schools should be forced by con

commercial laws into competition with one another.

Ile suggested the foundation by the State of scholarships from the public elementary schools to the public boarding

Provost of Elon, expressing

disagreement with Canon

was emphatic that no definite decision should be taken until after the war.

Lord

STOCK MARKET

REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange official summary, issued yesterday is:

Buyers

H.K. Govt: 4% Lonn 97.50 H.K. Govt: 37% Loan (1934) 04 H.K. Govt: 3%. Loan (1040) 04 Bank of East Asin $74.50 Canton Ins: $225

Union Ins: $400 H.K. Fire Ins: $185

Wharves $90

Providents' $5.00 Lands $35

Chinese Estates $101 Chinese La Troms

$17.25

Lights "O" $0

Lights "N" $1.25

Electrics OX. Rts $22 Electrica "N" $21 Electrica Rts $ir Cements $14.75

Sollers

Hotels $3.00 Lands $35,75 Troms $17.40 Lights "O" $0.10 Electries Rta $11.20 Cements $15.25

Salos

Providents 80.00 Humphreys $7 Electricn Als $11.15 Watsons $10.75

London Soccer Clubs Form League

LONDON, July 23

(Reuter).

London football clubs which have been unable to accept the League)

BANKS

East Asta $...

+

Toll Of The Road

Four Fatalitics Reported During Past Week

Not Medicinal

Only

BANKS

THE CHANTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHIINA.

·Incorporated by Hoyal Charter 1133,

Licence Needed for Sale Fald-up Capital

Of Chinese Soups

***** $2,000,000 Reserve Fund

***** £3,000,000 Reservo Liability of Proprietors £3,000,000

HEAD OFFICE-LONDON,.

38 Bihsopsgats, E.0.1. 'Bub-Agencies in London. 117-127, Leadenhall Street, E.01.

Wast End Branch: 14-16, Cockapur Street, BWV).

Manchester Bianchi 52, Mosley St, Manchester, 8.

Tho view that certain Chinese roups were food and not merely medicine was held by Mr H. G. Sheldon, K.C., nt Central Magistracy, yesterday, when the cases against two women for keeping unlicensed eating- houses were concluded and the Defendants cautioned.

Defendants were Nự. Hel-chun, of No. 1 Cross Street, Wanchul, and

No. 20 Spring Amritar Chan Yuct-ho of Carden Lane, Wanchat. They were Bangkok saki to have sold Kut Choi, Fuk Ling

Batavia Bombay Calcutta

·

and Kwai Ling soups to customers on their respective premices on June 23,

Defendants, who were represented by Mr Hin-shing Lo, stated that the soups were a kind of laxative and cure for headaches. They were not food and were not available at ordinary eating-houses,

ADENCIES, AND BRANCHES: Alor Star

Hongkong Ilatla

Ipoh Karacht

Klang

Kobe

Agencies: tuato

Clive Street Lumpir Fairits Pinco Kuching

Canton Cawnpore

Cobu Colombo Delhi Haiphong Hankow

Rangoon

Salgon Bemarang

Bremban

Shanghai Singapore Ettiawan Bourabaya

Talping Tientsin

(Bhuket)

Madres

Manila

Tongkah

Medan

New York

Talutao

Telplag

(Peking) Penang

Yokohama

FOREIGN EXCHANGE" and General

Banking Business transacted,

CURRENT_ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Local or Other Currencies of rates which will be quoted on application.

Cross-examined by Inspector Wong of the Health Department, who prosecuted, Ng Hel-chun, denied that augar cane, bean curd fish, etc., were

in used

the preparations, Mr Pún Si-hin, herbalist at the Tung Wah Hospital and Chairman of

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in the Chinese Herbalists

on Local Currency and Btering with interess Association,

alowed at rates obtainable on application. testified that all fluid medicines were

The Bank Head Ofice in London referred to

as tang, which meant | undertakes Executor and Trustee__busl- and claims recovery of British were ca soup. The soups in question ured In the treatment of fever, head- Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained st Any of 19:0 aches, skin diseases and Kwai Ling Agencies and Branches.

case of certain social

W. II, EVANS THOMAS, coup in the diseases.

Witness added that bean curd,

sugar cane, etc., were sometimes

added to those soups to make them more effective and to minimise the very which was otherwise

POST

Manager.

OFFICE

Air Mail Service by British Over- scan Airways Corporation to Eust and South Africa, United Kingdom and beyond has now been resumed. Correspondence for despatch by air via Rangoon must be superscribed by "C.N.A.C."

In the Colony of Hongkong, includ-xious. ing the Island, Kowloon and New Territories, during the week ended Kwan Yee, an eating-house fokl, on Saturday, there were altogether stated that he often took these soups 130 trafic accidents as the result of for curative purposes, especially Fuk which four persons were killed and Zing soup for scabies. They were 35 persons were injured.

not sold at the eating-house where he Of the persons killed, two Chinese worked. females, aged 04

48 and

and a Mr Sheldon said that the only Chinese male, aged 14, were knocked

whether ingredients down and killed by a motor-cycle, question was a military truck and a bus, respec- such na dates, bean curd, sugar cane, eations Intended for persons other Lively, while

crossing the carriageway etc., were food or drugs, and he inter- and bus passenger died from in-preted the Ordinanco as referring to

these as

as food and held that Defen- juries received while alighting from dants would have to obtain cating following places in Chian is tez-

The public are reminded that it is breach of postal regulations to enclose in a postal cover commun!-

han the addressec.

The Printed Matter Service to the

Kwangel,

a moving bus.

Of the persons Injured, 24 were house licences for their establish- porarily suspended: Yunnan, Sze pedestrians who were struck by ments although they had been carry-huen, Kwelchow, Hunon, Fukien vehicles while crossing the carriage-ing on this business for some years (except

anil Amoy

Kulangsu). North

East way, two bleycle riders were injured without any licence.

and as the result of collisions between

1. sl Inspector Wong sold that in all wangtung. vehicles, two lorry passengers were probability they would be granted

Small Packet Post to mil countries Injured when the goods on the lorry licences by the Urban Council.

suspended. fell upon them, a bus passenger and ableyela

were injured by passenger falling off a moving bus and a mov- ing bicycle respectively, three bus passengers were injured while alight- ing from moving buses and two bus passengers were injured while tempting to board moving buses,

at-

Of the 180 accidents, 47 were col- Islons between vehicles, - 55 were were collisions between vehicles and Mor- pedestrians and 28 accidents

due to other causes,

were

Moustaches To

Tickle Vanity

Moustaches are spreading in Bri- tain with the rapidity of a prickly pear plague.

The shortage of razor blades and a

1415. Evacuation Order For threat of reduction in shaving soap

.80% n.

.04 n. .03% n.

Half Of Plymouth AFTER strong representations by the local authorities, half of Plymouth, the most-bombed cily outside London, has been declared an evacuation area. The

H.K. Banks $. H.K. Banks £ H.K. Banks (HLK.) Chartered Banks £ Mercantile, A. & B. £ Mercantile C. £..

234 n.

74 b.

,225 b. 400 b.

185 b.

AI, H. E

INSURANCES

Canton $.

Union Inn. $.

China Underwriters II.K. Fire Ins. $..

SHIPPING

Douglas $...

hinag 1, 5. Indo-Chinas D. $: Shell (Bearers) 9/- Waterboats $

DOCKS ETC. Wharves $. Docks $... Providents $. S'hal Dockyards $.

MINING

arc partly responsible, but the fashion has certainly been stimulated by the fact that a huge number of Home Guards feel that they present a more soldierly appearance if they wear one.

INWARD AIR MAILS

Air Mail. by "Pan American Airways Direct Servico" San Francisco date, £2nd July, ..........................July 20. Ale Mall by "Pan American Airways Direct Service"-San Francisco date, 5th August,

.Aug. 12.

OUTWARD AIR MAILS Monday, July 28

air Mall by Air to Hangoon to con neet with the "British Oversens Airways."

K.P.0. and G.P.O. Reg.

....July 28, 4 p.m. Ord.......July 28, 4.30 p.m.

Tuesday, July 20

Afr Mall for Manila, Guam, Hono- lulu, U.S.A., and Europe via "Pan- American

and Trans- Airways Atlantio Services."

Navy men are expressly forbidden evacuation decision means to wear a moustache, but Army off- that the Government takes over the cers and men are encouraged to, if →→→ billeting of the 10,0

10,000 children in the the moustaches grow respectably.

worst-hit Labour coun-

.120 n. cillor whe .8-1.

The R.AF. lays down that a mous. who has been in charge of a tache should not extend beyond the corners-of-the-mouth,-but-it-is a rulo. rest centre throughout the rolds on noticeable for its breach. .90. Plymouth, said:

.70 n. 46/101

11,

The We have had too much of this,

"Daily Mall" columnist, delaying. An institution for aged Charles Graves, says that women are .0.55 n. and inflem and mental defectives also responsible for the ever-increas- had to be bombed six times before ing moustaches because escorts 'look evacuation was decided on."

manlier.

10.00 n. .5.90.sa.

,304

Kailan 6/- Raubs $. H.K. Mines

13/0 n.

.8 n.

cta n.

LANDS

.3% 6.

.35.00 s,

20 1. ,7 sa.

3.30 n. 101 b.

Hotely S. Lands $...

Jands 4% Debentures S'hai Lands Sh. 3. Humphreys $.. H.K. Realties $.. Chinese Estates $.

UTILITIES

Trans $...

.07% B.

17.40 8.

Peak Trams (old) $.

.7 n.

.3%

ถ.

Peak Troms (new)

Star Ferries $

Y. Ferrics $...

China Lights (old)

China Lights (new) S.

.5334 12.

.22 n.

..6.10 B.

2.

.18.10 n,

124. .23 n. .8.95 n.

H.K. Electrics (old) x ris 22.10 b. II.K. Electrics (new) $......21 b. HI.K. Electrics Rts $......11.15 sa. Maeno Electrics $.. Sandakan Lights Telephones (old) $.. Telephones (new) s..

INDUSTRIALS Cald: Macg. (Ord.), Sh. Cald: Macg. (Pref.), Sb. Canton Ices $. Cements $..

H.K. Ropes $.

STORES, &c. Dairy Farms $. Watsons $...... Lane Crawfords $. Sinceres $....

Wing On (HK.) Wm. Powell, Ltd, x.d.

COTTON MILLS Ewo Sh. $.... S'hal Cotton Sh. $. MI90.

.30 n.

26 n.

.1. n.

10.

.0 n.

.19% n. .10 0. .0.43 n. .214 m.

30 n.

4111⁄2 n.

.305 n.

074 b.

.94 b.

.04 b.

.42 π.

,04% n.

1.00 n.

HK. Govt. 4% ILK. Govt. 34% (1934) ILK. Govt. 34% (1940) Ch. Govt. 5% 1025 G$Bds, Entertainmento $.... Constructions (old) $.. Constructions (now) ze Vibro Piling $..

..7.20 n. Marsmans Inv. (Lon.) s/- 5/7 n. Maramans Inv. (H.K.) 0/-2/13% (n.

.00 cts n.

Tobruk. Sortie

Axture list which necessitates long CAIRO, July 23 (Reuter)An- distance travelling, have formed other patrol rald was made at Tobruk the London War Football League last night when Britial troops pene- sanction the formalion

The Association will be asked to trated to a considerable depth, but

of this new

pccurred.

"Do not let us decolvo ourselves,” he said, "that an institution can have State ald without control "being vested in the State. I would rathor do nothing and sacrifice all the public ties than embrace the idea of Stato ve nearby clubs will be members, aid and State control."

making a programme of 80 matches..

Please use block letters and pass® | nctööls that are in pecuniary diffical- | longue in which li London clubs and serious clash with the enemy

one of these forms on backe:

of each Entry.”

few casualties were inflicted;

EBEL

Ber. Ord.

K.P.O.

„July 29, 5.00 pm.

G.P.O.

29, 5.30 p.m.

Reg. July 20, 5.00 p.m. Ord. July 29, 7.00 p.m.

Tuesday, August 12

́r Mall' for Bianlia, Cunka,“ Honolula,”

U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan Ame rican Airways and Trans-Atlantic Bervices."

Beg,

Ord,

Reg.

Ord.

K.P.O.

.....Aug. 12, 5 p.m. ......Aug. 12, 5.30 p.m.

G.P.O.

.Aug. 12, 6 pm.

„Aug, 12, 7 p.m.

BRITISH WAR ORGANISATION

FUND

Help Bombed Civiliana in Britain

are

Old clothes of all descriptions for Men, badly needed Women and Children In the Bombed Areas in Britain. Such gifts will be received by the B. W. O. F., c/o Covernment House, during office hours,

THE SWISS WATCH Mondays to Fridays from 9.30

OF QUALITY

Please Come and See our

Wide Selection

J. ULLMANN & Co.

ESTABLISHED 1860

a.m. to 4 p.m., allowing for Lunch Interval and Saturdays from 9.30: a.m. until 1 p.m.

Fellowship

of the Bellows

JUNE SCORE

470

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