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CHURCHILL WANTS WAR COSTS REPAID
Brighton, Oct. 4. Winston Churchill demanded today that Britain bill Egypt India and unnamed other Allied countries for helping to defend them against Japan, Germany and Italy.
He told 5.000 cheering Conservatives at the end of the Party's annual conferènce that debts in- curred in helping others in war and the war- time sale of half of the country's foreign in- vestments are mainly responsible for Britain's present financial plight.
He told the Conservatives to man freedom, in as much-con- with the recovery-of prepare for a general electioncerned
1.
the
British Parliamentary Mission Due Today
"
The British Parliamentary Afission to Chind is scheduled to arrive in the Colony life afternoon by 8.0.A.C, plane, v
On the same plane is Sir Donald Banks, (Chairman of
• the Anglo Chinese, Chamber of Commerce in London), who is on his way to Shanghai and Nanking at the intiation, of » Chinese Government lendare,
Members of the Parliamentary Mission will be overnight Bursts of the Governor (Sir Alexander Grantham), and are scheduled to leave for Nanking tomorrow morning.
Sir Donald Banks is expected to stay in the Colony for two days before resuming his trip to Shanghal,
A dinner in his hongur will he held by the Anglo- Chinese Economic Association at the Hong Kong Hotel to merrow at 730 p.m. (Dress is optional).
17 Drown When
Fishing Junk Lost In Storm
at any time this year or next.our Commonwealth and Empire While refusing to give the de-n she is with that of Europe, inted election programme he and I do not doubt that hár.
adjustment of with the Party would strive for monions
whoje problem enn be achiev these general objectives:
Establish and maintain a jed." bunke minimum standard
Mr. Churchill attributed the of Joying below which no man or shortages in Britain and other
fall, permit free nationa
"ignorant. to the
women and children lost their mini-clumay or malicious hands be Seventeen 'men, that competition above
lives on Friday morning when a fishing junk, "asting late upon free inflexible mom and sweep awnz encumbrance of regulations means of production, distribu:)
caught in a storm, capsized. and penalties preventing Brition and exchange. Crazy doc- tons from making a good liv-trines, clumsy fingers, vicious
They were found clinging to Five survivors, efter float. 1 and morbid trends of policy are ing on the high seas for a day the canvas sails of the junk
ansl # Cut Government expendi-manufacturing shortages
clinging to wooden near Big Wave Bay on Satur tes by several hundred mil misery by their vice and folly."
deck boards, were picked up day morning after having been lion sterling especially wasteful) Mr. Churchill's pet fog Was
fo the water for almost tabing junk on killed by a
Brighton by another bus no
hours. expense abroad.
They were cared for 3. End state bulk buying of seafront just before Mr. Chur- Saturday morning.
No. F279HS, and brought to Hong Kong by Fishing Junk materials and chl addressed the conference Food and raw
Mr. Cheung Man-ching. with 22 persons on board in of Big Wave Bay village. return to private trading. today. United Press,
cluding the master, Fok Tak- 1. Maintain the
ming. six other men. four power of the pound.
women, and nine 'boys and. pirls, left the harbour on Sep-
Squandering
buying
TITANIC
Mr. Churchill said that Bri-
and night.
tula has to pay many millions WINS SYDNEY tember 22 for fishing grounds
of pounds a year to reimburse EPSOM HCP.
Egypt. Indin
and some other
comotries for debts incurred in defending them against the Axin.
and
near Ping Hal
24
elder
DRILLING FOR OIL IN SPAIN
Madrid, Oct. 4.
PINK CUPID ON PRINCESS'S
WEDDING CAKE
London, Oct. 4..
A pink and Healthy cupid with a shield bearing the initials of Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten will adorn the official four-tier `wedding cake, it was disclosed today.
for
The cupid will be crowded for | The cupil stands on the third elbow, room with pa assortment (tler along with Mountbatten's of other lezú figuren, emblems wartime ship, the Valiant, aintet and scenes connected with the more "erests. The fourth tier, lives of the bride and groom, bente Empire badges and colours, The Bakers National Associo-including the Intent Dominion of lon Review offered there and Pakistan. other details the cake decorn. Another development today in tion. The cake Itself has been the wedding arrangements
and Llouten. reduced in size from the origin-Princess Elizabeth al plans at the Princess' request(nut Philip Mountbatten; fhh busterity, be observed.
Melbourne radio reported' that The Ingrediente and recipe re. a six-layer 250h, wedding culte mained secret but all corners of is en route from Sydney as a the Empire pitched in to create gift of the Australian Women's
culinary Organisation—United Press..
FOOD GIFT FOR PRINCESS
an
triumph.
unforgettable
with the
Designs which met Princess approval call for the frst tier bearing the bride's and and seenes Balmoral
bridegroom's crests
of
Windsor Castle,
Santiago. Oel. 4. British residents and Chilenns with British sympathies are rals. nga fund to buy food for dis. tribution as a wedding gift for Princess Elizabeth.
Castle and Buckingham Palace.
The second tier includes the sugar painting of a night naval
In which battle
Mountbatten was engaged, sports scenes and Elizabeth of Princess taking the solute as Colonel.in. Chief of the Grenadier Guards.
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31 Killed When Ship Explodes
(Continued from Page 1)
"Three were identified by their victims when the junks tiel
opera "members
Oil drillings by a Spanish- | Into Storm
American group at Lerida in Sydney, Oct. 1.
Adverse weather kept the, Catalonia have given exceed- ingly promising” resulta, it Titanic, a 50-1 outsider, won junk inshore at Ping Hoi until He anid. "There яasuredly the £3,000 Epsom Handicap in last Thursday when it sailed into was reported here today as new steps were being considered to consider that we should pre- thrilling photo finish for its San Mun Kwan waters.
cut petrol consumption because Theobald sent. Dur counter-claims for joint owners, E.S.
There the junk ran into a services rendered to them, be- and Michael
of the dollar shortage. Dann, at Rand-
alorm which raged into Friday
The original proposals to up alongside the Railway pleri cause there is no doubt that on wick Racecourse today.
when a gust of high velocity Titanic. (by Titan out of any fair accounting it is they
ban all cars over 18 horsepower and one of them has been de overturned the fishing craft. Tea Picker!
and only allow email cars out tained by the Water Police. Reven carried and not we who are debtors,"
rescue Fok, three other men and a
"During the anet. and five pounds
tions," added Chau, He accused the Government { stone
woman managed to catch hold on alternate days, according to
the number of their registra of squandering vast sums of sustaining a fine run on the
of deck, boards from the gap- maney in the mismanagement rails. won in 1 minute
sized junk and clung to these tion plates without any reatric-of the crew fought to scramble on board the flahing junks. Ne to 374 seconds, bent C. Hthrough Friday night
tion of petrol supplies, were to of Germany.
until
consideration whatever WAK "Our
have come into effect on Dec. policy."
Monogram by be said, Schmidt's
a Saturday
morning when they
shown to the passengers → nol "should be to make the Ger-neck.
were picked by junk No. F. ut have been postponed, Columnist. jointly owned by and brought to Hong Kong.
even to the women and children It fa considered here that mans keep themselves and earn
and injured." «Ince the proposed system their own living in domestic P.J. Smith and Frank Packer,
The others are presumed to
The informants said the ex- would have affected United freedom with whatever help we was only a head away, third-
have perished. carried Monogram
cight enn give them and in accord
For estimated hia loss at States cars almost exclusively, plosion might have been causer ance with the trenty of peace." stone and started at 7 to 1, and $30,000 including $16,000 for universal rationing system through sulphurle acid, smug
Columnist carried eight stone the junk.
gled on board, not having been would be applied instead.securely stored, or to leakage of and 12 pounds, and was 5 to 2. Mr. Churchill said that Bri-
An outsider, C.F. Baker's Itain should not "barter away Valiant Crown Valiant Chief imperial preferences which play out of Bandral), also won the
essential part
Preferences
יי
"Another Disaster”
According to a police report £6,000 Australian Jockey Club another junk disaster occurred integrity of our world-wide Derby over one and a half is the some vicinity about the
{1}]
system."
the
He said. "Nor do we believe that such action will be necen sary. Even in the stress of war, at the time of the Atlan- tie Charter and on every sub sequent occasion. in my rela- tions with President Roosevelt.
Router,
Personalia
Was
the fuel used by the ship.
Ammunition
Hainan
The Chinese Milltary Auth...... Before a full congregation,rities had on board approximate. ly 40 tons of ammunition, shells, miles,
some time, Of 28 persons on the Rev. C. Percy Smith Carrying eight stone and 10 dshing trawler No. 40, which instituted as the Vicar for the gasoline, flour and medical sup- pounds, and starting 12 to 1 also overturned in a storm at care of souls of the congrega alles consigned to the against, Valiant Crowu finish- Sam Mun Kwas, six men and tion of Christ Church, Kowloon Constal Defence, while the Kin Hol Middle School of Canton ed-in-2-minutes 35 seconds, to two-children-were--the-only Tong, at a ceremony at 10a.m. win enally by two and a half survivors.
| yesterday.
lost about CN$20,000,000-worth lengths from J.W. "Cook's
The Very Rev. Dean A. P. of equipment. K. North- Conductor, with
Ronе, who conducted the ser- Wong Yik-chiu, 82. salt mér- Lalways carefully safeguarded brook's Sovereign a further
vices. alag delivered the serchant, declared that he was on the principle of imperial pre three length away third.
mon. The Revs. J. C. L. Wong, his way to Hafnun with his 21- ferener and this in no way pre- Conductor carried eight
and E. E. "Low took part in the year-old sister-in-law, Lui Lung. vented the growth of an ever stone and 10 pounds, and
and her 40-day-old daughter, ceremony. warmer and more intimate
The newly instituted Vicar He was travelling in the steerage friendship between us and our started at 4 to 1. and Sovereign carried eight stone and 10
read and subscribed to the De- while the others were in the afl. two countries."
claration of Oath which Mr. The woman and child disappear. Mr. Churchill reiterated his pounds and, was 7 to 1-Reu
Edward Lee, Church Trustee, od after the explosion, support of a United Europe in!
witnessert.
addition to a strong Empire and said he saw no reason why!
ter.
either policy should conflict, New Air Rates
with that of the United States. Between H. K.
Vice And Folly
"The great Republic of United States, with whom
the And Kunming
We
stand shoulder to shoulder on all fundamental issues of hu
EGISTER NOW;
JONES & CO., LTD.
HULEDING
follows:
Chang Chun Unges Land Reform
Nanking. Oct. 5. Addressing the closing ses- sion of the Land Administra
ton
After the institution, the ser-
vices concluded with the Sung
Eucharist
ASIAN ECONOMIC MOVE BY SOVIET Lake Success, Oct. 4.
It was learned from another survivor that although the ship
A published appeal for funds Fold it had been decided offr the British Embassy consulted the Princess that this was the best and most practical form of wedding gift."
"small taken gift of Chilean
and workmanship" origin
will also he sent the appeal added.- Associated Presa..
COMING TO THE
Lice Theatre
Laling Studios Prevent,
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
CLONIC HARDWICKE
Quit a
AJO STAR
CASTR
HELF FOR ALL SUFFÉRERS
FROM
was carrying a cargo of langer HONG KONG FOOT. the crew refused the passengera to use it,
The "Pu To" wr an ex-Jap- anese transport vessel used dur Ing
for the occupation
the Kwanghing coastal run under the name of "Hainan Maru."
She was among other vessels
"PIEDOL"
· ALSO FOR"
DHOBIE ITCH.
Conference yesterday evening, the Premier General Chang Chun, urged officials Kunming, Oct. 6.
responsible for land adminis- Russia has introduced a re- CNAC and CATC announced tration to map out plans as solution in the United, Nations taken over from the enemy and today the new passenger rates agon, na possible to Implement Economic Committee for a allocated to the. Kwangtung Pro is a quick and effective, remedy, for air travel from there to the policy of "equitable diatri-wider membership of the pro- vincial Government for opera- Hong Kong and other pinnesbution of land" to the better posed Economic Commianion tien under the Government- with effect from tomorrow astelllicod of, the people, as ens for Arla and the Far East sponsored Iwenglung Develop.
ment Syndicate. vlanged In Dr. Sun Yat-sen's The resolution: says that the To Hong Kong at CN53,600,- Three Principles..
It is urted thist .alie.. was original membership of- this under churter to mercantile | in- 000, to Chungking at CN$1,-
The Kuomintang. he added, Commission should be supple-torests at the Time of the tro. | 450,000, to Shanghai
had accomplished a good den mented by the inclusion of alt gedy. CN$4,500,000, to Hankow, at In certain fields in the fifty other countries of Asia and the The "Pu To" was normally on CN$2,800,000, to Calcutta at years of its existence. but the Far East which are members came to Hong Kong to refuel and CN$9,000,000, 10
at polley laid down in the prin- of the United Nations CNS2.600,000, and to Lluchowciple of the people's livelihood, Russia tants · non-self-gov. at CN$1,000,000, Central the ultimate, goal of which is erning territories to be invited, to have "every former own the to work with the Commission land hentills,", remains a miere on n consultative basis-Reu-
logan.--Reuter.
Newe
Canton
ILLEGAL AMMO SEIZED
A Police raid -on the 1st flour. of 67 Lockhart Road on Saturday resulted in the Felture of 677 'rounds · of -45 ammunition....`
- Two persons' were '. nrrestua
in connection with the selzite TAR FIRE IN MARIÑA HOUSE At milk fire on the Floor of Marina " Housel short-
6th
ly after 7p.m. last night at
trneted considerable attention.
ter.
Democratic League Attack On Tong
Nanking, Oct. 5. Democratic League spokesman Lo Lung-chi, re suming the verbal duel with Government Information Director Hollington Tong, dared the Government to publish o'true facts” to sup- port its charges that the Lengue “instigated the student agitation and participated in the rebellion (against the Government)."
the Canton Kolhow .run. and
provision on Friday.
OBITUARY
News was received in the Colony yesterday of the dönth which occurred suddenlyAn Devonshire on Saturday, of Mr. Harry E. Goldsmith, a re
aldent of Hong Kong for many.
wh
years. Mr.
Goldsmith, who formerly Deputy Director of the Pacific wat bit returned to Public Works, retired before
the Colony In 1040. He left | for England early this year.
Mr Goldsmith was a roads export
The Australian and Oriental Trading Co. Ltd., the Australian
Lo Lung-chi said the Lengue, is n League member holding Oriental Line Ltd. and the The fire, which was confided would welcome evidence, but office under the Communists, in Talkoo Dockyard and Engineer to, a quantity of tar. was ex-stressed that it must not be not member while Chow Ching- Ing Co. Ltd. have been re-re Zinkufened on the arrival of
falsified documents. Vans went, who is a League member, gisterock as admpanies under "fée Eppliances" from "Central."
He added: The Democratie in not working for the "Reds as the Companies: Ordinance......pi Lengue has di absolutely no Tong had charged.KES MONT objection, togauch¦a step if mon--He said the Dengue thas an At its next meeting on Tues.
rightwas minded, per- absolutely independent policy, le day, the Rotary - Club, Hong grulghots "dro: fäytteifi aghinät vär, wants peace to give Kontär-swill;:/hear, Mer|__GD.
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