HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, DECEMBER
28, 1937.
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LLOYD TRIESTINO
PO Box 143. Tel. Addr.. "Lloydiano" Telephones 32989/3. Canton Agents:-DODWELL & CO. LTD., Shamsen.
FOR SALE
NEW LAID LEGHORN EGGS From The Early Sound Leghorn Farm Tai Po Market, New Territory.
Sole Agents
HUNG CHEONG,
(Tel 57108)
KOWLOON.
66, Nathan Road,
EXCITEMENT IN CANTONTM
(Continued from Pare 1.)
REPORTS RECEIVED IN COLONY
Passengers arriving in the Co- lony on Sunday night by the 3.3. Kin Shan brought reports of a con- centration, near Macao, of Japan- ese warships and other vessels, ap- parently transports.
The Japanese fleet, which ap peared to include a large aircraft carrier and at least one modern cruiser, lay at anchor about ten miles from Macao. Three vessels were alongside the aircraft car- rier.
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While the Kin Shan was steam- ing past the Japanese ships, about ten miles distant, two flights of Japanese seaplanes few over the British vessel from the direction of the mainland.
Mr. F. S. Thomas and his bride, formerly Miss Helen Bodatsky. photographed after their wedding at St. Andrew's Church yesterday afternoon. (Photo, Cheng Studio). "
SINO-SOVIET
FRIENDSHIP
Further bombings were made on the Kowloon-Canton Railway on Sunday, without appreciable dam- age being caused. Four machines dropped eight bombs in the vicinity of Sheung Ping Railway Station, the principal damage be ing to the goods shed. Train ser- vice was delayed for approximate- ly two hours while 15 yards or damaged. line was replaced.
Shortly before noon two planes few over Cheung Muk Tau, drop-spokesman of the Embassy an-
nounced to-day, but the Embassy! ping two bombs, while a further
itself is to be located at Chung, king, the capital of China"
raid was made over the same spot at 1 pm, the railway bridge across the Pearl River being the ob Jective. Alti-aircraft guns kept
the raiders at a safe height and
the objective was completely mis-
sed
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CHINESE ADMIT SHANTUNG'S STATE CRITICAL
FOREIGNERS LEAVE
Hankow, Dec. 27: With Japanese troops from the Yellow River as- tride the Kipots! Railway, at Changtien. sixty-five miles to the east of Tsinan, the position both at the provincial capital and Tsingtao are admitted in Chinese quarters here to be critical Chinese forces are taking up pos!-. tions at Welhsten In an attemp to check the advance of the Japanese towards Tsingtao while Chinese troops defending. Tsinau are realsting the Japanese thrust Westward.. Reuter.
Iankow, Dec. 27: An office of the Sovjet Embassy will be established here to facil tate contact with all quarters, a
UNKNOWN SET UP AS PUPPET
Nanking, Dec. 27. A bogus puppet regime has been set up here with the name of Autonomous Government, with Mr. Tao Lieh-san as chairman.
Mr. Tao, an obscure figure un- known to foreign circles, was former resident of Nanking and Asked whether it's true that a secretary to General Chi Hsleh- then tuchun of military alliance has been entered yuan, who was *nto between China and the Kiangsu and now a member of the Soviet Union, the spokesman was Provisional Government in Pet- non-committal, but he pointed out ping. The new regime is a local that in view of the close relationsong, and, will not ask for recogni- between the
countries the two
tion by the Powers.- 1m- International News Agency, ex'stence of such a pact is material.
Ambassador Luganet Sorelsky w'll proceed to Chungking to pre- to Mr. Lin Sen, sent credentials
President of the National Govezzi - ment, on New Year day. International News Agency.
FOREIGN MAILS
HONG KONG RADIO TELEGRAPH SERVICE.
XLT Telegrama conveying Christmas and New Year Greetings will be accepted by the Radio Office for transmission via Radio during the period from 14th December, 1937 to 8th January 1938, both dates in. clusive.
(a) The charge for telegrams to places in China will be based on ONE FOURTH of the ordinary rate and to other places on ONE THIRD of the ordinary rate.
(b) The minimum charge for all places will be for ten words. Further particulars may be obtained on application at the Radio
Office
Ordinary air mail letters for Imperiak Airways Direct Ser- vice to Europe etc., will, until further notice, be closed at Kow- loon Post Office and General Post Office 9.00 am. on Sundays.. Letters for this Service may be posted in the ordinary posting boxes at Kowloon Post Office and General Post Office. They should be clearly marked "By Air Mall" and bear sufficient post- age. Insufficiently prepaid letters may be taxed with double the deficiency or forwarded by Steamer Bervice, at the discretion of the Post Once.
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Air Mail Service to Shanghai is temporarily suspended. Christmas and New Year cards bearing not more than five written words and enclosed in open envelopes are accepted by the Post Office at the rate for printed matter. Le. 5 cents per 2 ounces, for all countries."
Hongkong, China and Macao at 2 cents per 2 ounces. Envelopes must not be closed.
Letters and Postcards for Europe and South America are forwarded "via Siberia" if so superscribed..
INWARD MAILS
FROM
Air Mall by "Imperial Airways"
Direct Service"-London date, 18th December.
JAPAN STRAITS
THAITS
Jarak and Shanomai ST1178
JAPAN
C.S.A., CANADA JAPAN and MANILA
Seattle, date 11th Decembar) CANADA, ÚS.A., and Japan Vancouver)
R.C., date 4th December)
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AHOT
Java and MANILA JAPAN.
U.S.A., HONOLULU, and JAPAN · (San
Francisco, 11th Dec,, 1937) 1.8A, HONOLULU and Japan (8am)
Francisco, 4th December 1937) STRAITU
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Imperial
Airways Plane
28th Dec.
28th Dec.
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28th Dec.
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28th Dec.
48th Dec.
Byufuku Maru
29th Dec
Pres. Grant
29th Dec
Ems, of RusRÍO
29th Dec.
30th Dec.
30th Dec
30th Dec
Kashima MaST
31st Dec
91st Dec
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Noto Maru Tolma Trisadane
Pres. Coolidge
Pres, Fan Buren... Suwa Maru
Soudan
"Nellors"
Antenor Naskin
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lat Jan.
"lat" Jan."
1st Jan.
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Santos Mars
2nd Jan
JAPAN and Shanghai ...
AUSTRALIA and MANILA
STRAITS
JAPAN
JAPAN
Tisarosa
2nd. Jan.
AKOT
CLOUTTA and B71A178
Thirala
4th Jan
Glenifor
4th Jon
KHANGHAI...
Tailkybius
4th Jan
JAPAN
CALCUTTA, STRAITS and SAIGON
Vasang...
6th Jan
Culong
6th Jan.
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JAPAT
MANILA
Potsdam... Trisomers
6th Jan.
7th Jan.
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REGISTERED AND PARCEL HAILS #re-alosed: 15 minuter earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to słowe as or before & a.m., registered and parcel mails are closed at p.m. on the previous day.
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FREIGHT AND
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LONDON SERVICE
"PATROCLUS" Sails 11 JAN, for Marssilles, and 20,
Rotterdam & G'eagow "MEMNON Sails 25 JAN,, for Marknil'aq, Latin,
Rotterdam, Hamborg & Glasgo wi
LIVERPOOL SERVICE "ANTILOCH03" Sails 21 JAN., for Havre, Liverpool.
& Bromborough
NEW YORK SERVICE "ADBASTUS” Salla 29 JAN., for Poston. New York.
Philadelphia and Haltimore, via Cape of Good Hope, PACIFIC SERVICE (via DAIÉIN) KOBE, NAGOVA & YOKOHAMA TALTHYRIUS" Sails 18. JAN.. for Victoris, Vanroever
& Seattle
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"AUHILLES"
29 DEU, From UK. via Straits. 29 DEO, From U.E. via Straite
2 JAN, From U.K. via Straits
10 JAN, From U.K. via Straits
Specially reduced fares are quated for cargo steamers wilh
limited passenger acermmodation
For Fright, passage rates and information apply to
Butterfield & Swire,
Tel 20333
Agente.
1, Connaught Road, C.
MAN ENGAGED BY JACOB FACTOR
Sentence Delayed To Aid Justice
Using their own vehicles as stands, rickshaw coolles were also interested spectators at the "Sunday Herald" International Charity Cup football semi-final match between England and Portugal played on the Kowloon F.C. ground yesterday afternoon.
DISEASE IN CRICKET
BAT WILLOWS
Notwithstanding widespread in- spection of plantations and con- Sentence on an associate of "the stant felling during the past two notorious Jacob Factor", was post-years, watermark disease in Essex poned at the Old Bailey recently, cricket bat willows appears to be the Recorder, Mr. Gerald Dodson, spreading in many parts of the stating that justice might be assis- county.
This is revealed in a report pre- ted in that way!
Joseph Davis, 43, a dealer, plead-sented to the Essex County Coun- C. Leslie, principal ed guilty of stealing a banker's cil by Mr. J. draft for £4,000. the property of of the East Anglian Institute nt.
Agriculture, Chelmsford.
Otto Ullstrom.
No evidence was offered on a charge of demanding £300 with menaces from James Petter, a private prosecution, and Davis was found not guilty.
Mr. Leslie says sigis seem still to be lacking that growers are pre-- pared to initiate proper action in dealing with thé watermarked trees.
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Mr. Leslie points out that in the Mr. G. B. McClure, prosecuting,
area of said that in May, 1936, Mr. Ullstrom lower Colne Valley an was induced by a firm of ontalde about 24 square miles has to
great extent been freed from the disease.
brokers, whose activities were questionable, to invest £6,000 in Nash Motors London Ltd. The shares proved to be worthless.
from Petter: He then confessed
In December Davis, in the name of Owen, told Mr. Ullstrom he could help him to exchange them for to stealing the £4.000 from Mr.
shares of the American, concern, which were valuable,
Mr. Ullstrom eventually gave a banker's draft for £4,000, Mr. Mc- Clure added, receiving as security from Davis a certificate for Im- perial Tobacco Co. shares to the face value of £18,000. The cert!- ficate was torged.
"Davis changed the draft into banknotes, and in a statement he. said that he was acting for a man named James Petter, who gave him £880 of the money. gave £600 to two other men, and kept the rest himself.
WENT TO AMERICA Petter then forced or persuaded
Vilstrom.
Det.-Inspr. White Bald that Davis, who had no previous con- victions, was a British subject. although his real flame was Smolensky.
WEATHER REPORT
HONG KONG ROYAL OBSERVATORY
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Air Mail for Sian, Lanchow and Chengtu, etc. (via Hankow) by the "Eurasia Airways Service" (To further points by surface. transport as Services permit), Kongmoon and (Pakhoi via Koùgmoon) Swatow Swatow
DATE and TI
Muinam
Tassley, 28th,
9.30 AM
G.P.O. &
Eurasia
K.P.O.
Plane
Reg. Ord.
9.00
9.30 AM
On Ise
10.00 AM
Tochow
19.30 PM
10a.m., Dec. 27. Barometer (at sea level), 30.16)
Beistan
3,00 PL
Amoy and (Foochow vis Amoy) Shanghai Air Mail for "France Orient Service"-dae Marseilles, 9th January, 1938.
Trinan
2.30 PM
Q.P.O.& K.P.O.
Athos II
Reg. Ord.
4,30 2
5.00 PM
| G.P.O. & K.P.O.
Athos II.
Reg.
6.00 26
Ori
1.30 PIE
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Wein-day 29th
Kongas"
8.15 A
Kaying
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8.30 AM
Barentse
8.8K
ins.
Temperature, 64 F. Humidity, 70 per cent. Wind Direction, ENE. Wind Force (Beaufort), 4. Temperature; maximum yester day, 69 F.
Temperature:
minimum last might. 59 F
Rainfall for 24 hours, ending 10th day, nil
Total rainfall since January 1, 82.49, ins.
Against an average of 84.99 ins. Sunset to-night, 5.47 p.m. Sunrise to-morrow, 7.01 3.10.
4 p.m., Dec, 27. Barometer "(at sea level); 30.94: Humidity. 73. Temperature, 63. Wind Direction, East, Wind Force (Beaufort), 4. Maximum tempera- ture, 66. Minimum temperature, 59. Rainfall. ni
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE
From December 26, to 31, 1837
HIGH WATER
Hong
From 1928 to 1930 he was engaged in pushing various shares for Jacob Factor. Since 1933 he had been doubtful with various engaged outside share brokers, and from 1936 he had been importing Ameri-Bat. 25 can salesmen to sell units in Mushroom Growers Ltd.
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Petter was suspected to be the
Mon. 27 main force behind that concern.
Mr. Christmas Humphreys, de- Tora 29 fending: Do you think if sentence were postponed and you saw him Wed. 29- him to go to America three times.in. prison, Davis would be able to When he returned in October he give you further information of was arrested on a charge of de- value to the police about share| Fri. manding money with menaces pushers?
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Baigon, Ceylon, India, Eas and South
and Africa, Egypt.
EUROPE!
via Marseilles-due Marscillos, 24th January 1938
WEDNESDAY Samshui and Wachow Sato and Shanghai Hankok Batavia, Mauritius, Reunion,
Madagascar and South Africa Fort Bayard and *Haiphong
THURSDAY Swatow and Shanghai. Swatow and Bangkok Haiphong
Japan, Canada, U.S.A., Central and)
South America and *EUROPE vis Victoria B.C..-due Victoria B.,19th Jan.-and EURO E via Siberia ....
*Straits and Calcutta
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Thursday, 30th,
8.30 AM 13.30 PM
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Pres. Grant
Beg 10rd.
Airmall for Chungking by the "C.N.A.C." Airways Direct Ser- vice."
CNA.C.,
Sandakan Manila
RIDAY
Hinmang... Pre, Coolidgs
Kashima
5,00 FK
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Air Mail for "K.L.M. Airways Service" due Amsterdam, 11th January, 1938.
Straits, Ceylon, India, East and *South Africa, Aden, Egypt and EUROPE vis Marseilles-due Mar sailles 30th January 1938 Manfis, Rabaul, Australia and New Zealand vs Brisbane-dne Brisbane, 18th Jan. 1938
Plane
6.30 PM
Far 30th 5.00 PM
Ord. 31st 8.30AM
Kowloon P.O. Beg, 30th 5.00 PM Ord. 30th 5.00
G.P.O. Reg. 8 th 5.00 PM Ord. 81st 6.00 AM
Friday, 31st,
12.80 TM
4.80.
G.P.C & K.P.O. Reg.
Maru. Ord.
(G.P.O. & K.P.O.
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Beg Ord...
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10.00 AM
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