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IAIL, JANUARY 26, 1940
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The Ralph Shield. Competition. Inspection By Surgeon Capt. Hobbs, -Major Harrison and Capt. D. Backley.
The Y.M.C.A. group at work on a "casualty" in the Ralph Shield Competition at Cauroway Bay on Saturday.
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The Y.M.C.A.group, winners of the Ralph Shield, being Inspected
at Causeway Bay.
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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 25, 1940
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Long Struggle To Be Faced
FOREIGN PLANE OVER BELGIUM
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Brussels, To-day.
Anti-aircraft guns at Louvain opened fire yesterday at a foreign plane which flew over the dis- trict-Havas.
CLUB RUGBY TEAMS
EVERY SCRAP OF LAND MUST BE CONSCRIPTED FOR WAR, SAYS MR. LL. GEORGE
London, To-day.
"EVERY SCRAP OF LAND ought to be conscripted in the fight for freedom," declared Mr. Lloyd George in the course of yesterday's debate in the House of Commons on agriculture.
In the debate the Minister of Food, Mr. W. S. Mor- rison, justified the Government's policy in con- centrating on the storage of wheat.
He stated that supplies of feeding stuffs for animals had now been rais- ed to 68 per cent, of normal require-
ments-
GAMBLERS
Mr. Morrison added he did not think RAIDED IN
Following are the Club Rugby teams for to-morrow at Sookunpoo: Club Interport XV v Rest of Colony
Henderson; ` Bosanquet, Bidwell, it reasonable to expect that the Hutchison and Stewart, Charter and pre-war supplies of Thomson: Walkden, Salter, Wanklyn; could be maintained in wartime. B. Hynes, Needham; Godfrey, Taylor and Redman.
This is the full side except for Charter for Hutchison and Cessford for Charter. Salter's inclusion as
full
feeding-stuffs
He urged the utmost economy ST. FRANCIS
overseas feeding-stuffs.
LONG STRUGGLE
in
the carrying
HOTEL
hooker gives credence to the bellef Mr. Lloyd George, declaring that that he will be going North after all British agriculture and
A Chinese woman was capacity of British ships had largely fined $500 by Mr. T. J. Thompson; Van Leeuwen, Carru-[declined compared with 1914, urged Houston this morning, when
Club "A" Army "A"
thers, Morgan and Lavalle, Fay and Rutherford: Heasman, Dunnet, Stout; Bompas, Kennedy: Leigh, Castleton
and Stoker.
AIM OF
the Government to organise our re sources on the assumption that it was going to be a very long struggle.
He added that if it was a short one we should gain by saving two or three years.-Reuter, ·
GERMANY
DESTROYING DENIES AIR NAZISM
AID TO REDS
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Amsterdam, To-day.
Official German-sources
charged with keeping a gambling establishment in Room No. 305, St. Francis Hotel, last night.
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Nineteen others were charged with gambling on the premises.
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The raid was conducted by Mr. Luscombe, A.S.P., and a party of Police officers, They found accused, Chan Suet-hing, and number of men and women playing dice. Most of the gamblers were clerks, brokers, students, and married women.
Four gamblers who appeared in Court were was fined $25 each, while the others had their bail of $25 each estreated.
---A-sum-of- $43.95 -picked up in the raid was ordered to be placed in the
London, To-day. In a speech to his consti- tuents yesterday, Capt. W. H.
· Balfour, the Air-Under- Secretary, expressed the opinion that the progress of the war would call for an in- crease in controls, and the re- strictions to ease expenditure
Germany, these sources and consumption were dir-state, is and remains neutral in the Finnish-Russian con- ected in the direction most favourable
flict. to the
energetically deny rumours "poor box." that Nazi airmen have been sent to help the Russians on the Finnish front.
economy.
war
Meanwhile neutral observers ar riving from Germany report that the Speaking of the aim of destroying | Finnish war has produced an extremé→ Nazism, Capt. Balfour said: "I believe ly painful impression on the German that so long as the German people population. allow themselves to be dominated and ruled by their present leaders, then so long must we hold the German people to their share of responsibility for the war.
So long as this, continues, we must fight for a peace which is going to prevent those two German charac- teristics-bullying domination or supine weakness--from being allowed to threaten world peace in the future." -British Wireless.
NAZI SHIP SCUTTLED
PARIS, TO-DAY,
LAST NIGHT'S FRENCH WAR COMMUNIQUE STATED THERE WAS A QUIET DAY. ON THE WHOLE, WITH SOME ARTILI ACTION
The German freighter,
Janus 2 (1,600 tons) vas: fled on being intercepted patrol ship.
-boat was successfully
ch- patrol
Nazi political leaders rather walcomed the conflict and the subsequent Russian
reverses, which made. Moscow amenable to German demands, but the unjusti- fiable aggression committed by Germany's only ally has brought home to the German man-in-the- street the Reich's complete isola. tion.
The fact that Germany supported Finland's struggle for independence after the Great War has not been for- gotten, and sympathy for the Finns is expressed so openly that the Nazi newspapers have been compelled to ridicule the "sissies who pity the Finns while events of world importance are taking place elsewhere."Havas.
KING'S TRIBUTE TO CANADIANS
London, To-c
Mr. Houston asked the defen- dant how much money she gained by running gambling schools every night.
Defendant asserted: "I only play
for fun, and not for gaining money. a professional gambler,
It was alleged that defendant was
Detective Inspector A. L. Hopkins prosecuted.
NAZIS ARE STARVING THEMSELVES
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LONDON, TO-DAY.
GUMENTS
REFERRING TO : GERMAN -AR- BLOCKADE WAS INHUMAN,
THAT THE.. FOOD
RONALD H. CROSB, MINISTER FOR MR. ECONOMIC WARFARE, IN A RADIO ADDRESS SAID:
want to make it absolutely clear there. need be no 'starvation "în. Ger- many no matter how long the lasts.
war
"Germany has sufficient food, the Nazis would use their plentiful foodstuffs to feed their people, not their guns.
"It is the Nazis, not starve the German women
ohlidren.
ferrin
who
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