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THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1939
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INSIST ON
Daisy
AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
COLONY'S TRADE
RESILIENCY
Encouraging
CORPORAL
DUE TO GO
SPREADING
HOME, FOUND Official Figures FEAR OF WAR
SHOT DEAD
Reticence of the police and the
military authorities has had the effect of accentuating an air of mystery surrounding the death of Corporal Alfred Thomas Burrow,
aged 20, of the Middlesex Regi- The
ment, who was found shot dead at Shamshuipo Barracks this morning,
Revealed
Hong Kong's noteworthy trade resiliency, in the face of the illegal Japanese blockade of the China coast, recently intensified, is strikingly revealed in trade returns released to the figures show that the Colony's export trade "China Mail" this morning.
during the first six months of 1939 was actual- ly higher in dollar value than the correspond- ing period of last year, and that exports last month bettered last year's figures by $13,600,000
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With the authorities declining official information, the facts have been difficult to ascertain, but it is understood that a shot was heard between 8.30 a.m. and 9 a.m. to-day from the room The main conclusion to be drawn [000 last year to $31,444,000 in the where Corporal Burrow was pre-from the figures is that while Ja- first six months of this year. sumed to be working, and that pan's blockading exploits have suc- The new avenues of trade with when others of the regiment ran ceeded in closing, substantially, China have clearly substantially to the spot, Corporal Burrow many ports, notably Canton, to compensated for closure of the nor- was dead.
Hong Kong's trade, commercial mal ports. adaptability in the Colony has been equal to the occasion, and substan- tial imports and exports to the in- terior of China, "unoccupied" China, are well maintained.
It is understood, also, that the shot was fired from a Service rifle found near the body.
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MOTIVE PUZZLE
No authoritative information is available to indicate whether not the fatal wound could have been self-inflicted, but it is stated that no motive for suicide has yet been revealed.
Most puzzling feature of the affair lies in the fact that Corporal Burrow, to gether with an officer and twenty other N.C.O.s of the Regiment, was due to sail for England via Canada to- morrow in the Empress of Asia, with the prospect of his employment as a special instructor for the Militia.
SUPERIORS DEEPLY
SHOCKED
Corporal Burrow was regarded as a model soldier with an ex- cellent record, and the tragedy,
on the eve of his departure, has
deeply shocked his superiors and colleagues.
s in the hands
itar.
TOTAL TRADE
Berlin, To-day, " The "Voelkische Beobachter," central organ of the Nazi party, this morning attacks President Roosevelt.
The paper refers to the "panicky report" of the United States Ambassador to Belgium on the European situation
The paper alleges that Pre- sident Roosevelt has done more than Hitler, and. Mussolini to spread the fear of war.
It refers to his efforts to "dope the American people" and seek re-election a third time.
Trans-Ocean.
ing period of last year, but imports have dropped from $342,206,245 to $800,977,455.
In June, excellent figures were recorded.
Imports for the month totalled It is interesting to note that the $59,300,000 (compared with $67,- total export trade of Hong Kong, 500,000 in 1988) and exports totall- with all countries, increased frac-ed. $50,600,000 (compared with This has been achieved by the tionally in the first six months of $37,000,000), representing a net in- simple process of diversion 1989 to $269,990,785 as compared crease of $15,400,000 as compared route, and the bulk of trade with with $269,874,506 in the correspond with last year. "unoccupied" China now through Kwangchowwan French Indo-China.
of
goes and
TRADE LEAPS Figures of Hong Kong trade with Kwangchowwan have leaped from $3,400,000 imports in the, first half of 1938 to $10,585,000, in the first half of 1939. Exports to Kwangchowwan have jumped from $4,459,000 in the first, six months of 1938 to $16,401,000 in the per- iod January-June, 1989.
Imports from French Indo-China have remained more or less the same, $21,280,000 in the first six months of 1989, as against $20,570,- 000 last year, but exports, to Indo- China (in transit, of course,, to China) have jumped from $9,768,-
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