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NOTICE

CHINÁ PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDENS

NOTICE is hereby given that the Forty-sixth Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will be theld in the Jacobean Room, Hong- Kong Hotel, Pedder Stroct, Hong-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1947.

Commons Questions On Lord Killearn's Staff

London, May 23.

Mr Henderson Stewart, Liberal National, asked the Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons today how many persons served on Lord Killearn's staff in Southeast Asin, how the numbers were divided between Europeans and non-Europeans, who paid the cost of this staff, and how the rates of pay compared with those of the Malayan Union and the Singapore Government.

kong, on Saturday, 31st, May 1947, LANCASHIRE

at Noon for the following pur- posos:-namely, to consider the Annual Statement of Accounta and the Balance Sheet and the Reports of the Directors and Au- ditors thereon; to clect Directors and Auditors in the place of those retiring, and to declare a Dividond and Bonus, to appropriate the Balance of the Profit and Loon Account as recommended by the Directors, and to transact any

INTERESTS

ATTACKED

Mr

Christopher Mayhow, for Under-Secretary of State Foreign Affaira, replied: "I have no later information than that contained in the Foreign Secretary's reply on March 12 in which the total number of staff was given as 542..

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RAF DROP PINES

London, May 23.

In an effort to help the Jai Panesa conserva und increase their foreste, the Royal Air Force dropped young pine trees parachute Yamabucht prefecture. ад Air Dinistry spokesman wald today.

One hundred and twenty. trees, 10,000 leaficts and 2.000 gift vouchers were dropped.

Each town in the prefecture received 1,000 leaflets making for co-operation, in preserving the forests and the prevention of forent fires, 12 trees which Anders were asked to plant, and 260 vouchers which could be exchanged for free elfis, the spokesman added-Houter.

ACENETRADICIONALTRATAZ RÉTEISSAIT KYNJANNADACRISKANGURENNANJOTIES

"This includes, however, approxi- ITALIANS

mately 200 persons employed by the Far Eastern Broadcasting British

Service,

"I am making enquiries as to how this number is divided as between Europeans and non-Europeans, and on Stewart as soon as such infor- mation is received.

CHOOSE DE

olher ordinary business of the with Japan, attacked Mr An- will communicate with Mr Tender- GASPERI

Company.

And Notice is also given that the Sharo Transfer Register will be closed from 20th. May, 1947 to

fot. May, 1947, both days la clusive.

"The cost of this staff is borne We are by the British Government. Investigating at the moment every reducing This staff possibility of below its present #gure,

HIMMLER'S BRITISH

ADJUTANT

ARRESTED

Munich, May 23.

The Munich newspaper Mit- tag today reported the arrest on May 9 of Heinrich Himmler's former chief adjutant, SS Brig- Gen Erich Neumann, near Kirch Weldach,

Dachau, War crimes officials at however, said they had no know- ledge of Newman or his alleged arrest. Army Investigators at Munich also denied knowledge of the reported arrest.

The Mittag, which did not name the source, datelined its story from Trauenstein, near Kirch Weldach.

wns

FLOOD RELIEF

FUND

THE FUND WILL CLOSE ON 31ST MAY

120.00

Already acknowledged

(Per "ILK. Telegraph")$253,644.45 Firm and Staff: H. S.

Rathour por Wah Klu Yat Po: The

Staff and Workers of the Ebenezer Home

for Blind Girls, Sheung

Shui,

$ 35.00

Blind

The newspaper did not say whether German or American police arrested him, nor where he was held.

The

paper sald the arrest was made on a farm where Neumann N.T.

working under the assumed AIL name of Rudolf Beegen, Neumann Girls of the was chief

of the Security Police above Home .. 20.00 during the German occupation A Group of Sym- Be Netherlands and Delgum and Inter defended Nuremberg against The American troops.

Rome, May 23. The resigned Premier, Alcide de Gasperi, was designated unanimously today as the choice of eight political parties to head posts at 30-metre intervals "It is not possible to compare the

the new government.

Moscow, May 23, The Soviet Government's off. efal newspaper Izvestia. In a

article leading

today dealing with the fature pence treaty thony Eden, Foreign Secretary in the British wartime coalition government, and "his Lanca- shire interests."

Mr Eden, in a Izvestia sold that speech In the House of Commons foreign affairs debate on May 15. touched on Far Eastern problems but rates of pay of the majority of the of the Malayan "passed over in silence the questions staff with those

the demilitaristion and de-Union and the Singapore Government

receive as the types of work are not readily mocratisation of Japan."

"From the point of view of Mr comparable.

British monopolist bis Eden and backers, the war against a militarist Japan could not have been a wor to eradicate the Far Eastern hotbed of Fascist aggression, but a war against an imperialist rival, a wor domination of markets and

colonial economy

and semi- Independent countries of Asia", sale.

"Mr Eden ignores one very portant question.

By Order of the Board, of

A. D. Learmonth,

Secretary.

Hongkong, 12th May, 1947.

NOTICE

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

of

"The rates of pay of Lord Kil- tearn's staff vary according to the grade of the individual and to whe- ther he in recruited locally or sent out from this country. Insofar, how- forever, as it is possible to make a com- the purlin, for example, with shorthand typists, typists, drivers and chantes, the rates of pay are appro- ximately the same."-Reuter.

kn-

"The peoples of Asia, Europe and America fought in the Far East, not. for the sake of the profits of the Lancashire industrialists and their backers, but to establish a firm and lasting peace, and to ensure security at the people living thero".-Reuter.

NOTICE is hereby given that EGYPT STAND

an Extraordinary General Meet- ing of Shareholders will be held at the Jacobçan Room, Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Saturday, 31st May, 1947, at 12.15 p.m. (or as soon thereafter as the Ordinary Annual Meeting to be held at Noon on that date shall have been concluded) for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing the sub- Joined Resolution as an Ordinary Resolution:--

CRITICISED

Cairo, May 23. While Nokrashy Pasha is busily engaged in the forma tion of an Egyptian delegation for the Lake Success opening, criticism by opposition news papers and politicians against Egypt, taking her dispute with Britain to the United Nations is daily growing in volume.

Malsamined Saleh Harb Pasha, de "That the Capital of theputy chief of the Labour Party, con- "Company be increased todemned the Egyptian appeal to the

"waste pf time," "810,000,000.-by the creation United Nations as a

while Mustafa el Shurdagy Bey, an

LYNCHING

TRIALS

Move For Federal Jurisdiction

New York, May 23.

A renewed demand today for the removal of lynching cases- front trial by State courts fol- towed yesterday's acquittal by an all-white jury of 28 white men accused at Greenville, South Carolina, of lynching a negro, has been made,

The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, which would extend Federal Court 10 include lynching iurisdiction cases, earlier attempted to introduce bill but was stepped by sou- such a thern senators,

He Is scheduled to meet President Enrico de Nicola again tonight to the mandate to form the fourth government.

If the 60-year-old Christian De- mocrat teader accepts the mandate, which is probable, he will make the same demand he made when he re signed on May 13-for a Cabinet enlarged to the Right to include weaken the smaller parties and strength of the Communists Left Wing Socialists.

Parly leaders loduy cunnimously rejected the possibility of a de Gasperi Cabinet excluding the Com- munists. but reduction of their strength in the government

and

-

peared Inevitable because de Gasperi's position has been streng- thened by the failure of Francesco Nitti and Victor Emmanuel Or- Jando to form government. United Press.

Consultations

On Africa

Paris. May 23. Britain, France and Belgium, as powers, hava de-

African colonial cided to hold a series of conferences in Africs, spread over the next three years, to work out practical schemes of co-ordinating the development of the Bhree-day discussions between the British, Belgium

and French colonial experts,

Generally speaking, press com- local

"of One Million Two Hundred-Minister of Justice, is reported ment, even in the South, has not

"Thousand additional дем "shares of Five Dollars each to "be issued at such time or times "and on such terms and con- "ditions in every respect as the

her

favoured acquittal, while the New York Herald-Tribune declared that

City, Arkansas, which captured the yesterday, "was no day for justice."

Meanwhile, a passe at Forrest negro farmhand accused of kliling her dis-

a woman driver with a knife, has rushed him away to another gnol because the sheriff had said that crowds were gathering and talking trouble-Reuter..

serious

as saying that it would be advanta- geous for Egypt to

postpone allow Nokrashy Pasha to take the dispute

than with Britain rather

maller to the

the Security Council. has committed In deciding to take her

the Security pute with Britain to Counell," he added, "when there is By Order of the Board, every possibility of a third world war. It is obvious that the Security Council will take this possibility

"Company's Board of Directors blunder has

"may think fit."

A. D. Learmonth,

Socrotary.

Hongkong, 12th May, 1947.

NOTICE

HONGKONG & WHAMPO DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED,

Notice is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at 18 Pedder Street (1st floor) Hong Kong an MONDAY the NINTH day of JUNE, 1947, at NOON, for the purpose of proposing and ¿ thought fit passing the sub-join- ed resolutions as a special re- #ointion, viz

Into serious consideration in dealing with the Anglo-Egyptian dispute.”— Reuter,

Bombardment. Of Legation

Corfu Before

World Court

It is stated that, with a rlew to achieving technical co-operation, ve- tween the three countries in their African territories, experts studled problems related to nutrition of the

populations, prevention of- disease and the 'need for African medical education, measures to be taken in common to strengthen the efforts to stamp out disease among Cor cattle, and certain labour questions. The working out of the methods to be adopted will be discussed of a series of conferences in Africa from 1947 to 1930.—Neuter.

Friends With Everybody

Cairo, May 23.

*The Afghaniston Legation today The Hague, May 23. denied statements of Prince Peter The International Court of of Greece in an interview with the Justice heard Britain's applica- United Press that the Afghanistar Copenhagen, May 23. The Spanish legallon was attacked tion for consideration of her government was pro-Soviet and that tonight with vegetables, stones, eggs case against Albania over the Afghans wanted the British occupa- and other window-smashing missiles mining of the Corfu Straition of India to continue. by 20 youngsters.

The denial said: "The Afghanistan! The attack re-which led to two British des- government sembled the recent attack on the

is friendly toward all legation in Stockholm. No details troyers being damaged with a nations Turkey, were immediately available.-United loss of 44 lives last October, it and the Soviet Union. The Afghan

was learned today.

people, who fought for independence, This the first case to be sub- cannot want anything against their mitted to the Court was referred to Indian brethren but would be pleased it by the Security Council of the with realisation of the Congress as well as the Moslem League aspira- United Nations last April.

tions."--United Press.

Press,

Better Airfields For Turkey

told

im-

re-

the

The International Court mediately telegraphed Albania questing her attendance. Istanbul, May 23. During the Security Council de-

bale in April, Albania More and batter atrfields and an

Counell that she considered that Increased modernisation of the army are among the main points in the Britain had no case against her and strengthening of Turkey's defences therefore refused to agree to submit which is to be carried out with the the dispute to the International

Court. Reuter. (a) Article 17 shall be cancell-help of the United States, the Is-

tanbul newspaper, Son Posta, today.

That the Articles of Association be altered in the manner follow- Ing:----

cd

sald

Other points in the programme

(b) In the third line of Article will be the construction of strategic 71 the word "two" shall beroods, standardisailon of armaments substituted for the word and the unification of training me- "three"

thods in the lund, sea and air forces, the newspaper added.-Reuter.

Soviets Have World's Fastest, Plane

(c) The following Article shall

EX-PREMIER FINED

1

Amsterdam, May 24. Jonkheer D. J. De Geer, who was Premier of the Dutch Government- in-Exile in London, was given year's suspended sentenco and was 'fined $8,000 yesterday on a charge

of "assistance to the enemy." Massachusetts, May 23. The charges grew out of De Geer's Mr John Foster, editor of the ma- return to German-occupied Nether-

Conference here today that the Rus-office.

be substituted for Article 76 76. Subject to any special torms as to voting upon which any shares of the Company . may have been issued or may for the gazine "Aviation" told the Aviation lands in 1041 after resigning his time being be held, upon asians had the fastest plane in the His defence was that he wanted to show of hands every mem- world and that the United States be with his sick wife-Associated

air Press. ber prosent in person shall had dropped to a "third" have ono vote, and upon a Power

Declaring that the United States poll every member pre-air research programme had slowed sont in person or by proxy "to a snail's pace," he added: "We shall have one vote for have witnessed an almost completo disintegration of the nest air force every share held by him"..

the world has ever seen. By Order of the Board,

R. G. CRAIG,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, Dated this Ninth day of May, 1947.

"We have just learned from re- Hlable sources that our late Allies. the Soviet Union, have Jat planes based on the German model that had been clocked at doing better than 1,050 kilometres per hour.

That is a lead of 04 kilometres per hour over the world's oficial speed record held by the British" Mr Foster added-Reuter.

Leprosy Reported In England

London, May 24. The British Medical Journal, Medical Association, reported on official publication of the British

Thursday that there are six known cases of leprosy in Great Britain and other asses undoubtedly exist."

Each of the known vicims had been in the Far East as soldiers or 1: civilian internees during the war the Journal said Associated Press..

the Arab

states

Legion Of Honour For Lily Pons

Paris, May 23. The opera star, Lily Pons, today received the roseile of Omeer of the Legion of Honour from the French President, Vincent Auriol, at an in- formal ceremony held at the Elysee Palace.

Witnessing the ceremony were her conductor husband, Andre Koste lanetz, and a small group of govera- ment ofeials.

Miss Pons arrived lust week from New York for a European cancert tour-United Press.

Biggest Reservoir

Tokyo, May 23. The biggest reservoir in Japan and one of the biggest in the Far East hus been created with the completion of the Yose Dom near Tokyo, which goes into operation on June 1, ac- cording to Japanese press reports to- day.

The dam, which cost nearly 100,- 000,000 Yen will supply electricity and water to Tokyo and adjūcent dio- triels Reuter.

CHURCH NOTICE

"OIIEL LEAII” BYNAGOGUE

-- "Penticost" Borvices will be lġild at the above Synagogue (1) Nobinson Road, Itongkong) on

24th; (Saturday) 23111 (Sunday). 25th (Sunday) 20th Monday)

Evening at 7.30 pm. Morning at 19.00 11. Evening at 7.00 p.m. Morning at 9.00 am.

of

The Miting said that during the Nuremberg battle, Neumann ordered German army deserters hanged on on the highway near the city, to discour- would-be descrters. It also claimed he shot his own chauffeur, who had been with him for years, before reaching his bideout at Jusi Kirch Weldach,

The story added that at Neumann's wife's home in Engelsberg, the police confiscated 10,000 Swiss franes and £15,000.-United Press.

OUTWARD MAILS

Whut-Monday Holiday On Monday, May 20, 1947, The Generat Pul Ofice and Kowloon Central Post Office will be open from 8 am to noon; and the other Branch Post Oflees will be apen from 8 a.. 10 10 a.m.

There will be one delivery of Ordinary and Registered correspondence at 10a.m.; and one collection only from the Pular- Boxes.

The Money Order Office will be entirely closed.

Unleas otherwise stated. Registered Articles and Parcel Posts cluse 30 minules earlier than the time ulated below:

Saturday, alny za

Canton (Train) 130 p.m.

Shanghat, Baiphong, Foochow and Kec.

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Strails and Calcutta (Sea) 3 p.m. Ainoy (sea) 3 p.m.

Bangkok, Singapore, Colombo. Soutn- baya, Sydney and Auckland (Air) 330 pan.

Canton. Kwell and Chungking (Air)

3.30 p.m.

Macao. Trinshan & Shekki (Sea) 4 p.m. Conton (Train) 3 p..

Kunday, May 25 Shanghai, Peipini Canion, Kwellin,

Swatow and Amoy (Alt) 10 am. Shanghai. Anoy.Keelung. Swatow, Macao, Tsinskan, Shekki & Kongmoon (Bea) 10 ..

Canton

Train) 19 n.m.

Monday, May 20 (General, allday) Saigon, Singapore. Colombo, Sydney, Auckland and London (Air) 18 a.m. Itangoon, Cufculta, Delhi, Johannesburg

and Calro (Air) 10 nm. Shanghal, Nanking. Hankow, Tsingtao, Peiping. Luchuw and Kunming (Al) 10 a.m. Canton, Amoy. Foochaw, Kwellin and

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