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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG
:
KONG
1822
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS o EDWARD LAWRENCE COCKELL, late of Villa Savonarola Arcetri, Florence, in the Kingdom of Italy, formerly, Honorary Attaché to the British Legation at Peking in the Republic of China, Gentleman, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Ordin ance No. 2 of 1897 made an order limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 23rd October, 1938.
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EDITORIAL
CZECHS SEND MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO CHINA
Desire To Help Despite
War Clouds In Europe
Hankow, September 27. Notwithstanding the threatening war clouds hovering over their own horizon, a group of Czechoslovak friends of China in Prague have formed a society to help civilian victims of the war in the Far East. Their first act was to send a shipment of much-needed medi- cal supplies to China.
NELL GWYNN
TREE
To Be Kept By Whitehall
The Nell Gwynn mulberry tree behind Whitehall-gardens is to be preserved when the vast new block of Government offices is built. The tree is in the gardens" behind Nos. 1 to 8, which formerly housed the Ministries of Transport and Labour and the Committee of | Imperial Defence. Contributed by the Czechoslovak | Honorary Consul of the Chinese! It was there long before the people and presented to the Repubile in Prague, is a member of present buildings, and is likely to SOCIAL UNREST Chinese Red Cross Society through the Executive Committee-Central be there long after their demoll-
HONGKONG, SEPTIMAXE 38, 1938.
IN JAPAN
WITH RESPECT TO THE DIVERS WAYS to which Japan has resorted in financing her war in China, much has been said and written, and the budget figures before the Diet at the end of the current fiscal year in Murch, 1939, age familiar to all who have follow-
the Prague organisation, the ship News,
1
tion.
ment comprises ether, chloroform, SUPPLIES FROM WASHINGTON In its early days the tree stood serums, vaccines, chemicals and
Hankow, Sept. 27. in the gardens of Whitehall Palace. other pharmaceutical products. Madame Chiang Kai-shek has The bench on which the King is They are valued at 50,000 Czecho- received 33 packages of medical said to have sat with Nell Gwynn slovak crowns or U.S. $1,750, supplies from the Chinese Natidh is still there today. Salvation In a letter to the Hongkong ul
Association office of the Chinese Red Cross, Washington, 'D.C., for distribution the soclety says: "We feel sure to the various base hospitals and that even our delayed and moder- Red Cross units-Central News. ate shipment will help you in your
APPEAL
of
ON THE BANK
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1938 MOBILIZATION OF CHINA'S
WOMEN UNDER WAY
Enthusiastic Girl Workers Show What Service Means
(BY MME, CHIANG KAI-CHEK)
China is now expanding her work, under the Women's Depart- ment of the New Life Movement. in some definite direckiona, ber latest effort being to mobilize women in the rear of the fighting lines,
To this end, she has organized teams, each comprising ten gir! workers, who have been trained in the principles of New Life and the mobilization of women for war-time duties. The training of the people in the villages includes first aid, and care and consideration for soldiers, whether going to the front or returning wounded. These girls are imbued with the spirit of New Life and the desire to be of service whenever and wherever they caci.
The teams, when sent into the To overcome the magistrate's villages, only remain for a perfod second difficulty, the girls ex- of a few weeks, after which they plained to the local women that. At that time the river had not move on to new adids. Their since the army was devoting its been confined within its present principle is to teach the people to whole strength to defending the narrower limits and the tree stood carry on for themselves by showing districts. It had no spare men to almost on the bank.
them, through word and deed. all work in the supply, train, therefore, If, when the new buildings are the things that the team itself has the women should encourage their under construction, the tree should set out to do for them. The people menfolk to help the army secure prove an obstacle to scaffolders, are taught the meaning and the load carriers. - it may be necessary to move spirit of service; and they are
PERSUASIVE ARGUMENTS
REJECTED temporarily. In that case it will given practical training which will The girls also painted in glowing
ed the course of the Sino-Japanese wonderful work and we trust that EX-SOLDIERS” hostilities. And, it seems that the two or three shipments which amidst the maze of headlines" and we will gradually send to your captions, what is fomenting in hands will prove to you and to the the Inland Empire has escaped the Chinese nation that even such a notice it deserves but... from the small country as Czechoslovakia we cannot help sympathises with the Chinese Re- editorial chair. seeing the under-current of social public and does the best which is restlessness that has swept över possible in her own dimcult that country. Perhaps, it might be situation." well to dwell, however desultorily. on the gradual let-down in the national spirit that has already
taken shape.
Consequent upon "the general mobilization, all factories, except- ing those in connection with the manufacture of ammunition, hav:
CZECH GOODS
The society endeavours to collecti funds and purchase in Czecho- slovakia such equipment which the Chinese Red Cross Society destres and which are manufactured in Czechoslovakia.
Among the members of the
been forced to close down, er to honorary committee of the or- slow down at best, and as unem-ganisation are Dr. Lone Llang ployment is datly mounting- Chinese Minister to Prague, and in the Mrs. Liang, Mr. Ing. O. Busch phenomenon unheard-of
history of modern Japan-labour dis- turbarices are rapid-
LABOUR All Creditors and others are aç- CONDEMNS cordingly hereby required to send | WAR their claims to the undersigned on or before that date.
DEACONS.
Solicitors for the Executor,
1. Des Voeux Road Central,
“Hong Kong
1820
G.
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS "AND CON· DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 3rd day of Oct., 1938, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of Lot of Crown Land "at Tai Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of
оле
75 years.
Paucity Of Pensions
To Widows
be kept alive and replanted near the plane trees behind Disraëll's
suite in No 2. Whitehall-gardens.
MIRRORS, PICTURES
purpose.
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provide them with the knowledge terms the new conception of the and the opportunity to serve. status of the Chinese soldier. The Further, these teams diligently whole nation, and even foreign adhere to a second basic principle nations, they pointed out, Disraeli's suite is to be sold by of New Life: that is, never to start respect and admire the Chinese
organizations when new
those soldier for his bravery and his The Prime Minister, after con-auction. There is little left, for sultation with the Minister of the furniture was removed years already in existence will serve the ability to fight, and the high Pensions, has refused a plea by the age to make way for Aling cabinet-organizations are inactive are they soldier is now held: it has truly Only when established regard in which the family of the
British Limbless ex-Servicemen sand modern desks.
honour to fight for а resolution Association that
Two fine mirrors, some pictures readjusted. otherwise existing or become an
ganizations are never interfered China and an honour to be related passed at their annual conference on the panels and some elegant should be referred to & court gilded mouldings are all that re-with Such local organization to a soldier. of reference or inquiry.
main. In the rest of the house already functioning in the villages, These persuasive arguments won The resolution dealt with the the mouldings have already been such as the Tangput the churches over the local people and helped to paucity of pensions granted to removed from doors and walls and and the schools, can very well solve the magistrate's problems to widows of men dying from the will soon be embellishing new serve the purpose of Newfe, by a very considerable degree.
being the medium through which For their living quarters while effects of war, disablement and surfaces In Somerset House. the higher proportion among war The Office of Works will in time our visiting teams can organize in Hwang Pi Esien the magistrate service units consisting of local gave the team permission to use were people who will carry on and ex- one of the compounds belonging to
tend the work.
ly becoming the JOLT TO PRIDE disabled
established order of the day.
Despite police vigilance (and the Japanese guardian of the law beats Scotland Yard hollow the claptrap trade unionist, stand- ing on a soapbox in Hibiya Park corner. Is frequently heard to say
that, while munition pronteers are feeding fat on the China crusade, the factory-hands in industrial centres have been reduced to the verge of starvation, and that, if] their rice-bowl is smashed to pleces, a landslide in their patriot- ism is sure to follow. Thus, labour condemns war
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OF SCOTLAND'S
CAPITAL
Edinburgh's pride in being one of the most beautiful citles in the world received a jolt at the hands of English- men delegates to the Sanitary Inspector's Asso: la- tion annual conference I the Capital
F
Mayor Purser Deputy Lord Nottingham, drew attention tu the "courts" in the neighbour-
at
mer of lapses from find a use for nearly all of them. beneft- under
Recently National Health
bousebreakers insurance and "the Widows rapidly destroying the house
Soon the Orphans and Old Age Pensions the end of the rOW. scheme due to their industrial others will take their turn. handicap.
employ-
It requested sheltered ment for badly disabled men and statutory provision, other than the Poor Law, for men through Industrially Incapacitated by their wär disabilities,
SAN FRANCISCO EXPOSITION
hood of St. Gille's Catherdral, and PREPARATIONS
suggested that the city had been economizing when 16 should have been spending money to get rid
of such dwelling areas.
"
WHIPPING OF PRISONERS TO
LIVING TO SERVE
a fairly well-to-do family who had. left the village. The girls decided
Each member of these teams that here was a chance to demon-
$20 paid but
蒜 month."
This strate New Life to the full They
amount merely covers living ex- would show the" local population
penses. The members actually live what Living New Life meant. New Life and demonstrate what New Life mears in improved way. of living without a substantial Increase in income. They cock their own food, clean their own living quarters, wash their own clothes, and keep themselves and be entire their surroundings in a healthy
BE RETAINED
That whipping as a gaol punishment cannot
ly abolished and should be retained, and sanitary condition at all times.
Though the girls themselves live New Life every day, it has been something new to this village to see the premises in- side, and autside kept serapa“ lously clean, the courts, we'l swept and everything in good - order.
but should be restricted to (1) They live simply and democrati-tonished to see. mutiny
#
was the recommendation of Madgavker
The villagers were further as- that the girls themselves did all the work since and Incitement to cally. They live to serve. matiny and (2) "serious assaults One of our teams assigned to they could easily have got some on any public servant or visitor. Hwang P Hsien, a district on the local women to do the cooking.
the border of the fighting front, will cleaning, etc. Their simple, de
of living, and of Committee appoint- serve as an example of what our mocratic way
New Life teams are doing and ac- thus demonstrating New Life, has ed by the Bombay Government,
How- attracted much" attention. complishing. 1. This
committee was appointed
Upon their arrival in Hwang Pever, they do not use the ordinary to Inquire into the flogging of
Hslen, the atris visited the magis-methods of propaganda to acquaint Gangaram Chaven, 1 prisoner Bijapur Gaol. Great agitation trate to see if there were anythin the local people with their ideas. they could do to help him. He They have made house-to-house followed this incident resulting
replied that there were three pro- calls inviting the local women to in the appointment of the com-blems which he was finding it very come to their quarters for simple
THOSE IN A HIGHER INTELLEC- TUAL PLANE, however, view
A shipload of prefabricated the war from an entirely different
palace from French Lodo- China recently arrived at Trea angle. Nauseated by the bombing of open towns, the slaughter of children, and the rape of women.
"Somebody must be at fault."
sure Island as San Francisco's such courts. he said. "ta allow
$50,000,000 World's Fair of the these so-called
Japanese free-
West entered the final six thinkers have got into their heads Probably you have wielded "the
'months before its opening day some sort of hazy notions akin to Geddes axe instead of Jenny Ged
on February 18, 1939. superficial humanitarianism. They des's stool (Laughter.)
The palace packed and brafilded reason among themselves that it is not worth Japan's while to have asked what exactly
The Deputy Mayor was later
plece by pieces, was sent by the was his
Frerch Indo-China Government. mittee, 1.300.000 killed and wounded, and criticis of the courts, referred
to discuss local to house its exhibit at the Golden The Committee's conclusion 50,000,000 rendered homeless at a to
He in the Royal Mile.
Gate International Exposition, total cost of $1,500,000,000, without answered. If you live in Edin-
in the matter is that the con- get labour to repair the highway: national affairs over a cup of tea. where
other wonders of bringing her divine mission in burgh you know what they are
the duct of Chavan seriously affected second, to get transport carrier and to become their friends.
(To be continued to-morrow) Pacific and of the lands which the discipline of gaol and he was for the army; and third, to, zet the China nearer to its consumption.ke." Thus, pacifism prays for peace. He went on to attack the "verv touch it are now beinx accumulat inciting the criminal tribe pri- necessary number of conscripts to
soners to follow him in His own in the army. The magistrate, ofi On the $6,000,000 island dredged indiscipline by taking up
course, could only use his official grle- from the bottofh of San Francisco
power to have these things carried More criticism was forthcoming. Bay, 2,500 workmen have com-
vances such as their black caps.
out. Chavan-had-no-real grievance. Beaumont Halifax. a repre-pleted 80 per cent of the bulld- sentative of the National Smoke a contracts. The 51.500.000 land against the gaol authorities.
Where agitation and plety have Intending bidders are advised failed, terrorism endeavours to that immediately after the dis- succeed. As a full member of the posal of the lot the Purchaser Third Internationale, the Japan (if not the applicant), will be ese Bolshevist who has quite "required" to deposit with
authorised officer who will be that
2.5 all machiavellian poll- ¦
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dark, narrow staircases of the
tenements..
M
ed.
of
of whipping was therefore
an following is of the firm conviction Abatement Suclety, said, "Howscaping job is three-quarters done their treatment in gaol, and the present at the sale, the sum of tielang S. Konove & Co. conform street Gardens would be 1 there and exhibit space is 70 per cent within law and not improper,
two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase
MORAL
to the rule are moral cowards, an appeal to
cOWARDS
price.
Boundary
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inents,
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Contents in
Square feat.
Annual
Rental.
Upset Price.
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more
beautiful
Princes
Mr. Hallett Abend, of the "New York Times." salled from Bhanghai recently for Japan in the Empress o' Japan.
sold.
tion..
order
Mr. Wiltrid Cullen of Char lottetowni Frince Edward
Island. has found a diamond ring in a trout.
He had been out fishing catch and was preparing tus for
he supper when
saw something sparkle behind one of the trout's gills.
was bo railway smoke to defle
Twenty-eight foreign nations, so far will bring theor arts and force may, more often them. Why can't we take a leaf
out of America's book? For a 30-industries to the 288-day, expoal- DIAMOND, IN A TROUT than not, produce, its mile radius outside New York no desired effect; and that, if the
steam engine can travel. Imagine Up from the bottom of the Bay Supreme War Council could not be
the effect on Edinburgh and the has come the structure which now PARTICULARS OF THE LOT talked down to give up their blind
gardens 理 rallways here were looks ahead six months to the and fil-calculated venture into the
electrified."
opening day. When the fair is continent of Asia which takes
over. Treasure Island will become Japan nowhere
to her nearer destiny in the family of nations on
& civic airport, the base of the trans-Pacific Clipper planes, earth. the members.composing the Inner Cabinet would be liable to expose themselves to acts .01 $ violence for which the terrorist is not responsible. What an savoury means of muzzling the hounds of war! Nevertheless, such of national feelings will swing to high-handed measures only serve such activities as we have enumer- to show that anti-war sentiments"ated above. The tide in the affairs in the country Have so intensified of the Japanese (which speaks that some hot-headed dare-to-dies volumes), being as it is, the Home are prepared to adopt revolution- Minister has
ΤΟΣ good cause ary means to achieve their end. anxiety. Little wonder, then, that all chiefs of pre-
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Popular Front, the rank and ACTIVITIES
fle of which is comprised of the
The centrepiece is a 400-foot Tower of the Sun, topped by great golden Phoenix and adorned by heroic statuary. La Croydon, England, a carillon of 44 bells is being cast for the tower.
WARM WELCOME FOR QUEEN IN GESGOW
London, Sept. 27. been instructed to The Queen, who was accom the effect that with punied by Princesses Elizabeth and trade unionists, "the negative a view to controlling all possible Margaret, was accorded an en- pacifists, the radical Communists. subversive activities of the Popular thusiastic' welcome in arrival at and men and women from all Front elements, not only acts of Glasgow this morning from Lon
The morning was devoted walks of life. with the, lower terrorism are to be strictly guarded don.
to visit to the Empire Exhib]- middle-class artisans swelling the against, but pacifism, based o
* ** majority. One and all, they are superficial humanitarianism or ex- tion. up in arms against the war. treme liberalism is to be rooted
This afternoon the Queen will
When he cut the gill he found a diamond ring lodged in it.
In
to consolidate, the order forces of the Peace Preservation réserve division - in Corps the Kwangtung, is now being "drafted into the standing division on the order of General Wu Te-chen, Commander of the Peace Preser- vation Corps. Those from the standing division who volunteer to go to the fronts will be allowed to do so.
A decision was taken at a meet-
refugees would be admitted to the camps set up by the Shanghal In- ternational Red Cross Bociety, the reason being that the relief funds are running low, says a report to the "Hwa Mei Chen Pao,”
or the continuance of the war, and out, so that the threatened let-launch the new Cunard White their anti-war speeches and write down in the national solrit result-Blar liner and name it Queeng held recently that no more ings, though denied open CX- ing from anti-war agitation may Elizabeth-British Wireless,
Reuter adds that the whole pression so far. (thanks to the be averted. Apparently, the police rigid censorship) have saturated have the present situation well in population was deeply moved at the soul of the Japanese nation. hand; still we are inclined to doubt the sight of the Queen, without As the end of the war recedes that it would not get out of hand the King by her side, carrying out farther from aight, the pendulum in the near future.
her duty'
dificult to solve. The first was to meetings.
The girls, however, went on and used their own method of explanation and persuasion among the women of the com- munity. They have pointed oat to the local women that it necessary to have the roads repaired since "a well- kept road meant rapid trans- portation of troops and muni“ tlons to the front Every women, for the sake of her own protection, as well as for patriotic reasons, therefore, should do her best to persuadė her menfolk to keep the high- way in good condition.
T
DONATION TO HOSPITAL
and:
Following the model set by the chairman Mr. Lin Pei-cheng, who denated the interests on govern- "ment bonds amounting to a few thousand dollars, the Kwan Lien Chamber of Commerce recently passed resolutions to donate their government bonds with interest. totalling not less than $10,000, to the Government and the Pang- plen Hospital in Canton.
The Hongkong South China Re- fugee Reller Joint Association will hold a meeting when the question the Double of selling flags on Tenth will be discussed.
CANDID CÂMERA AT THE RACES
Picture taken at the Seventh Extra Race meeting held Happy Valley on Saturday: “afternoon.