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HONG KONG“ ST.. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.
In view of the Court mourning« commanded for Her late Majesty the Queen of Norway it has been decided to postpone St. Andrew's Ball. It will now be held in the Peninsula Hotel on Friday, 23rd December, 1938 in substitution
Th for 2nd December, 1938. Practice Dance will also be post poned until Tuesday, 20th Decent- her, 1938 at the same time and place. Invitation cards which have been issued will be used for the altered dates.
1988
E. M. BRYDEN,
Joint Hon. Secretary,
SANDAKAN LIGHT AND POWER CO. (1922), LTD.
DEATH
HOUCHEN-ÖN November
1038, at 5, Cambridge Road, Bromley, Kent. Capt. Harold Astley Houchen, aged 82, of the Training Ship "Warspite."
MARRIAGE
ROCHFORT-BOYD-PAGET.-The marriage arranged between Mr. Charles Rochfort-Boyd, Royal Artillery, and Miss Betty Howard Paget will take, place a Hongkong on November 30.
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HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 18, 1938,
WAR AT DOORS
Notice is hereby given that the SIXTEENTH "ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of Share: holders will be held at the Head Office of the Company, Bank of East Asia Building, Hongkong.THE * on Wednesday, 14th December, 1938, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ended 30th June, 1938, and to transact the ordinary business of the Comtories. pany.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Friday, 9th December, 1938. antil Wednesday, 14th December, 1938, both days Inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
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OF COLONY
JAPANESE ARMY, in its mad adventure in China, has now seen nt to extend the scope of their activities to the very doors of the Colony. Hostilities between the opposing forces are going on the vicinity of Hongkong's in borders and gunfire can be heard by residents of the New Terri
NOBODY APPEARS TO KNOW exactly what the object of the in- vaders is but it would seem that, with a small force consisting of several thousand men, they are attempting to form a line between Namtau, a town in OBJECT the Canton Delta, and NOT Dumbell Bay, a inlet of SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. | KNOWN the Bins Bay, with the
town General Managers.
of Lungkong as the centre. In doing this, they "are stretching their line to more than forty miles in length and, with just over five thousand men at their disposal, they may find themselves seriously threatened by the Chinese forces, with whom the provincial inilitia are.. now. operating in a splendid manner.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
The
NOTICE.
1985
CO-
NOVEMBER HALF IT IS VERY PROBABLE that the YEARLY GENERAL MEET. ING of VOTING MEMBERS will be held at the Club House, Happy Valley, on MONDAY, 28th November, 1938, at 5.38 p.m.
ALL MEMBERS are cordially invited to attend and participate in any discussion which may
ensue.
By Order of the Stewards,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. "Hong Kong, 9th Nov., 1938.
NOTICE
1950
WE, the undersigned, wish t express our regret for having in fringed the "Night In Paris"
diversion. If it may be describ- ed as such, was started by the Japanese Navy who, jealous of the honours which thel; brothers-in- arms on land and in the air have gained, are anxious to do a little plum picking of their own,
EDITORIAL
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1938.
SHUM CHUN, REFUGEE CENTRE Namtao Next Hello & Goodbye
HONGKONG, NOVEMB±k 27th, 1938. :
UM CHUN, erstwhile playground of South China, where thousands used to flock to the Casino to try their luck åt roillette, fan tan
SUM
or the many other games of chance that are always so fascinating, is now avertible hive of activity due to the Japanese invasion of South China.
For the past few days, thousands of refugees passed through this border town on their way into the New Territories and so bad was the influx that the British authorities had to order the closing of the bridge in order to regulate, even in a alight degree, the inflow. The stampede got so bad on Friday, however, that His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geotry Northcote, who personally went out to the bor- der, saw the Commissioner of Police ordering the re-opening of the bridge in order that the panicstricked Chinese could 'cross over into the safety of British territory.
.....
The situation in Shum Chun on Thursday was very quiet despite the fact that a Japanese plane flew over the township three times, dropping pamphlets on two occasions but with the further influx of "refugees the next day, Shum Chun 'regained something of Its old appearance, with people running about hither and thither. The only difference was that this time the people were not there on pleasure bent. They were in flight-terrified by the machine-gun and rifle fire in the immediate neighbourhood that was so audible even on the British aide of the border.
Major T. Y. Chang, Commissioner of Police at Shum Chum, was personally in charge of affairs in this district and in addition to his official duties which had been rendered extr, trying by the abnor- mal conditions, he devoted a great deal of time supervising the work of turning the one-time Casino into a refugee centre. Major Chang was senously wounded on Saturday morning while directing the de- fence of Shum Chun.
In this connexion too much praise cannot be given to Mrs. R. Langley, Secretary of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, Miss E 3, Atkins, principal of the St. Stephen's Girls' "College, and the many other European workers who have been working incessantly at- Shum Chun in their endeavour to hasten matters so that the refugees may be cared for with the least possible delay.
The "Hongkong Dally Press” was told by Major Chẳng that al- though the Japanese had not agreed to Shum Chun being regarded as a safety zone for refugees, they have already been informed of this fact officially and it would be a further stain on Japan if she should decide to regard Shum Chun as hostile territory and carry out bomb-- ing raids on it, thus killing further innocent men, women and children. That was on Thursday but since then Shum Chun had been taken by the Japanese.
Objective?
JAPANESE TAKE
· OBSERVATIONS
FROM A STAFF REPORTER
SHEUNGSHUL
THE SITUATION HERE IS
QUIET, WITH THE USUAL STREAM OF REFUGEES COM- ING IN FROM ALL DIREC- TIONS.
'Gunfire is andible but it is not possible to ascertain from where the shelling, is directed.. Looking towards Shum Chun. through my field glasses, I can see columns of smoke. It is feared that the place has been very extensively damaged by shelling, and, later, fire.
A few minutes ago. I spotted two Japanese planes, making reconnaissance flights. They appeared to be heading for Namtso which, it is belleved, is the next Japanese objective.
Chinese Post. Near Shataukok
FROM A STAFF REPORTER
Shatankok,
Some wo hundred Chinese troops are still in position in a hillock overlooking Shatau-. kok Valley. In a conversation
·with one of them
learned that they are grimly determined to fight to the last.
·BY A.W: HYER
· January 1, 1939, will bürst forth bringlar birger and better travel conveyances into the harbour." On the list thus far are the new Boeing Cupper ships for Pan-American Airways; N.Y.R's California-Orient
·Maru boats will again be calling' hërs, and the ea-Dollar Line, now the American President Line, will be putting in regularly every fort- Right.
And there was Mr: W: F. Carmen, from Marsman And Company Hongkong, going South for business
Whispers from the North have [:] Mr. W. D. Pawley gave his sec- that the Japanese are bidding for retary. Miss Edna Cadenhead, a permission to land uu Kat Tak with delightful break when he took her the new Douglas DC3 planes which to Minita with him on the Clipper. will fly from Formosa to Canton. And that regular Eurasia Aviation Corporation service from Hongkong to North China should be going reasons. full speed per time table by the The District Director in Alex- | beginning of 1939.
fondita for, the American Export- When you sit up and think about Steamship Lines. Mr. James L. It you find that Hongkong is going McCormick, is having quite a trip places in this travel business, but for himself. He is headed for then, why not, it all mearis good Mandla and he will continue to the business for the Colony.
S.S. Taiposek
Paclie Chast and New York by Pan, American Airways. His staye 'lu' Hongkong was very enjoyable “
WHEN THIS LITTLE vessel called, and interesting.
at Hongkong in the middle of Imperial Always. last week she deposited a very tu!
teresting and unusual young lady 'TWO. PLANES OF this Company by name of Miss J. Ewen. A flew into Kai Tak on Baturday. Canadian. the young lady is a The Della, piloted by Captain H. nurse and had been doing work at B. Collins, appearing rosy-checked. Changsha
from. his altitude, but reporting "no sign of ice on the wings" of Unfortunately, we missed seeing this interesting young woman who his plane, carried no passengers but lost her worldly goods in the wars plenty of mail. torn North China. She arrived in the Colony with only one outfit of supervised by Captain J. N. Wilson.. clothing topped by Chinese There were three passengers.
· Lient.-Commander A. D. 8. Mur- soldier's overcoat,
+
Her story must be an interesting Those troops are reported to be one and we hope to locate her and "Dally Fress" representatives, towards the end of the week, motorwell armed and stocked with a pass it along to you. ed to the railway bridge near the Army Camp and then crossed over plentiful supply of ammunition. Alr France to Chinese territory along the railway track. All along streams of and it is felt they can make the refugees were seen making for the British side and although most of them were calm enough, it could be seen that underneath this ex- terior, there was much suffering and anxiety-anxiety perhaps for kith and kin who have not been seen since the flight from home.
It is, therefore, all the more credit to the Chinese that, in spite of this very great trial they are undergoing, peace and order has been maintained by those who have found shelter under the Union Jack, They are all behaving splendidly in the refugee camps and in many eases those who are sick have been known to make sacrifices in or- ́der that women and children may be served first by the volunteer workers from Hongkong to make their lot a less miserable one, if indeed such is possible.
Major Chang estimated that there was accommodation for ten thousand refugees in Shum Chun. His greatest anxiety was in con- nection with the matter of water supply and it was here that he ap- pealed to the authorities in Hongkong to help by either restoring the
vading troops.
Arms
The Delphinus, a 4.45 arrival, was
of Imperial Airways; returned home after a week in Bangkok.
Another, commuter. Mr. H, Seidler, calli again for his firm, Paper Company, Ltd, of Germany. This gentleman is constantly pack-
of
situation very trying for the in- CAPTAIN CORSIN, the very niceing and unpacking bags at various } chubby. gentleman who always world-wide destinations," all part of beautiful landings, business, Mandla 1 his next From an official source I learned' makes such that a number of Chinese troops, brought the Air France plane into port of call. complete with small
and. Kai Tak on Thursday at 12.45 pm, The other charming passenger Ammunition, are roaming the New Loaded fully with passengers and arriving with an arm load Territories. These came over after quite a bit of mail was the Ville orchids was Mrs. M. G. Fredericks the fall of Shun Chun and it is de Hangi. One of the first persons back home from a London visit. understood they intend to return to attempt leaving us in the lurch Greeted by relatives and tilends to the scene of battle in the role was Mr. W, D. Pawley, head of In" her first inquiry was for the pups ¡of guerillas
tercontinent Corporation, Ltd. He at home. "And the trip 'was splen- had been in North China on aj did. business trip for the past three
GRAVE CHARGES
old supply from the New Territories or repairing the waterworks The OF CORRUPTION,
present system of water supply from wella would not be gufficient to cope with the demand and it is felt that in so vital a"matter the *Hongkong Government woud, not be found „wanting. But all this now
is' not necessary,»
ANNUAL MEETING
Wah Yan Past Students' Association
LACK OF PUBLIC CO-OPERATION
“་་་་་་་་་་
Official Inquiry At Marseilles
noon.
weeks. After a quick and short Empress of Asia bello to his family and office here HEADING FOR CHRISTMAS in he boarded the Philippine Clipper en Friday morning for Manila. He Empress got under way on Friday the-home pórt, Vancouver, the
will be coming home soon.
Another old time travelling bust-
People crowded cabins 124 and ness man, and very mysterious, 1s 126, belonging to the poputar Mr. Mr. R. B. Landis who arrived via R. R. Roxburgh, Manager of John the French plane. This American Three high officials of the Min- gentleman is connected with the sailed for home with Mrs. Rox- I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., who CORRESPONDENCE Istry of the Interior have been Ford Motor Car Company, and burgh, and their two children. It sent specially from Paris to inves-after a short visit, will go to is a vacation for this hard, working tigate allegations of a widespread Shanghal" for more business.
gentleman who certainly deserves |scandal in Marseilles.
The very nice Mr. K. Holta, one a good relaxation after his many The charges made relate to:
of the busiest executives of the business activities. White Slave traffic and corrup-Eurasia-Aviation Corporation, came Sir. Once again it is my very tion in the so-called "morality" in from Hanol to spend a week of Shanghal to join the U. 3. 8. A
Mr. H. T. Dodd. Journeys to The Wah Yan Fast Students pleasant duty to write and thank Association held its fifth annual you for the publicity which you squad, whose business it is to hard work here. He hopes and gusta in Northern waters. Manila general meeting in the College were kind enough to give in re- bring to justice White Blave traf- expects to have his company's is a fine place, but he is glad to Hall on Saturday.
ficketa. gard to the recent "blackouts.”
planes arriving at and departing Be sailing the cooler climes. The President, Mr. Ko Fook-sun. My only regret is that, the
Difcft gambling, from clandes- from Kat Tak on regular service
Homeward bound was Miù. P. presented the report for the year splendid efforts of the Press in tine bookmaking to illegal gam-by the beginning of 1939.
Vaughan, a teacher, and Mr. and bling machines, openly installed Mr. S. Quarles, a very handsometrs. H. L. Wilson, but did not 1937-38, which read in part as endeavouring to make the citizens
of the Colony air minded and to in cafes in deflance of the law, gentleman who was another catch many partdes going on of The system of membership cam-impress upon them the necessity and operated on the public high-passenger via Air France, says his which the passengers were the large force of Chinese militia and paign was not adopted this year. of co-operating with the Govern way within a stone's throw of trip is all pleasure. This 18 his centre of attraction. And when
did not meet with the Marseilles' famous street guerilla fighters, who have to be but a shroff was employed to col-ment.
La first call here and he will be head-you tackle, a ship-board going "cleared out" before the invaders lect membership fees and War Re-response, which might have been Caneblere.
ing for London to-morrow morning. away affair it is week's work to can properly claim thoroughly to Hef Subscription. This was done, expected.
Obtaining bogus medical certi- via Imperial Airways.
mow the guests down to reach the have occupled" the territory. in the opinion that those who
A. H S. STEELE-PERKINS fcates exempting as unft for Mr. K. Oya: was very quiet on principal. Joined the Association would join
Air Raid Precautions Officer, military service professional foot-his arrival but showed great in- it voluntarily. The roll of mem-
ballers whose standard of physical térest in all about him. A journal- SEVERAL REASONS have been bers this year la rather
|ist from the North, he is here for advanced as being possible for couraging, but the activities have
several weeks of vacation. the latest drive but all of these not been lacking. The total num. have been shattered as a result of ber, of members this year stands at the Japanese march into Shum 96. Chun and their subsequent with-
TO AN OUTSIDE OBSERVER, the
latest movement is without
objective for the Japanese claim already to have occupied all the area to the south of the East River, though it is a known fact that, in
area, there still remain a
this
drawal. It was general-
ANDO'S AIMS
follows:-
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STOWAWAY'S FEAR atness is of the highest.
OF MURDER
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named Daniel
ALLEGED COLLUSION A Marseilles football club re- Pan-American Airways cently transferred one of its pro-
WHEN CAR
PARKING IS
“OBSTRUCTION”
''TELEPATHY CLAIM mirent players to Paris club CAPTAIN R. J. NIXON and his The financial position was im
Philippine Clipper were bobbing for more than £1,000 after he A West Indian proved when Rev. Fr. Rector and Hyde, with a full black beard, was through, it is alleged, collusion. Trade Mark of which Messrs.1y known that Lieut.- GEN.
the Council members respectively sentenced at Penarth, South Wales,
had been rejected for the army up and down at the Kai Taki
wharf on Thursday at 1.15 p.m. Dayaram's Silk Store are the General Ando, who suc-
The Kingston - on Thames donated the generous sums of $150 to a month's imprisonment for train robbery in a
Back from a short visit and Hold-ups, such as the recent registered proprietors in Hong ceeded General Furusho,
and $43.80 to meet the deficits in-being a stowaway on board the suburb, when gold bars to the
duties for the Yunnan Government magistrates recently convicted Governor-General of Kong and which is used by ther Formosa (who was forced to leave curred on the year's tentative pro-teamer Iddesleigh, 3,205 tons, of
Honolulu came Dr. J. Bock, motorist. of causing unnecessary in respect of certain silk stock-
the field of battle on account ofgramme.
interesting and world value of £40,000 consigned from This very ings sold by them.
a wound which, he received), as The statement of accounts, pre- He alleged that the captain had the Belgian Congo to a bank at known botanist will spend a week admitted that there was no actuat
or so visiting friends in the Co- near Antwerp, were
The defendant, Harry Sumner. anese Expeditionary Forces in shows that there is a surplus of volver and that, being a Christian
Hall
$
London.
Hoboken,
Marsellies
in
obstruction when the prosecution
obstruction
In selling goods bearing this Commander-in-Chief of the Jap-sented by the Hon. Treasurer, threatened him with a loaded re-stolen. Some of the accomplices ony and then proceed to Hanoi, în mark we were not aware that South China, was determined to $396.47, compared with $315.94 of Scientist, he knew by mental tele. were arrested, but the heads of Air France plane. Mr. C, vfeld Walle, of Lawrence Messrs. Dayaram had registered wipe the slate clean of all able- last year; including Life Member-pathy that the crew. had it in their the hold-up gangs are still at Starr, of the American Asiatic Hotel, Ham Common, Surrey,ˇWASTM- of infringing the same, and we in the battle against the invaders. clation, despite an expenditure of water given him to drink had Marseilles detective force carries and his office in Shanghal. His his car in Thames street, Kings
the mark and had no intention bodied Chinese likely to participate ship Fees. The War Relief Asso-mind to murder him. He said the large.
Sd. HARI'S SILK STORE.
1984
next
Underwriters, is heading for home fined £2. It was said that he left
•
much regret any damage and
$8,050, maintained a small credit been poisoned with arsenic, and on its strength 400 agents
The trip to Manila was for one week ton, from 9.45 a.m. to 6.50 p.m.20 Mr. R. I. Graham; prosecuting he had refused to drink it.
mode of life and resources of 150 of business and everything was fine inconvenience which may have IT WOULD HARDLY APPEAR, in balance of $204.66.
the light of the ready Jap
He also showed the Bench
of them are under investigation, but for that humpy Cifpper ride for the police, said that it was for been caused to Mesurs. Dayaram anese withdrawal from the Britiahas office-bearers for the
The following were then elected
deep scars on his wrist which,
They include high officials and he had in here from the Philippine the magistrates to decide whether
city.
parking a car in the road for nine by our action.
posts they occupied that the term: President, Mr. Ko Fock-sun;
be stated, had been made br
newcomers to the detective Torce.
Around the world, analysing and hours was or was not reasonable Dated this 26th day of Novem. Japanese have any desire to Vice-Presidents, Rev. Fr. Gallagher
the manacies in which he had Several of them have been sus- volve Hongkong in the fighting and Mr. Joseph Ng: Hon. Secre-
been secured in the ship. ber, 1938.
pended, Including M. Thenoz, nead investigating business, takes Mr. use of the highway. He contender and it would seem that they aretary. Mr. Paul Yee: Hon. Treasur-
John Herbert, skipper of the of the police "morality" squad. George A. Muszkowski, of the In- that it was not.
Mr. J. G. Adams. defending, said trying to steer clear of anything ex. Mr. Kwan Man Wal, Council Iddesleigh. said that Hyde was Prominent local politicians also ternational Underwriters Corpora
tion, New York. Arriving. from that there was a great distinction likely to antagonize the British. members-Messrs. Lim Hoy Lan, discovered the day after the ship are said to be involved...
Cheng Fook Chol, Tam Blk Poon, left Barry, South Wales, for New In the light of the recent loss Europe, via Imperial Airways, he between unreasonable use of the ONE OF THE REASONS that had Lim How Ping, Wong Wing Kit, Orleans. He, became violent and of police records at Brooklyn, has journeyed North and South and highway and unnecessary. obe been advanced was that the Wong Yuk Shu, Yu Shuk Shu, Chao refused to work, and was locked up mountain of records is being landed again for another call here struction. As the summons alleg Japanese wished to take Shum Wing Yip. Chan Yip Shuen, Wong in a cabin. Hyde later broke out checked at the beadquarters of the via the Clipper. He is going to the ed unnecessary obstruction he con--
Ngar; Hop. Chun in the hope that they might Chung
Auditors, of the cabin and threatened him Marseilles detective department to United States via, steainer shortly tended that unnecessary obstruc-
ascertain it they are intact. A Mr. Charles Bretrand was ation must be proved. re-open the gambling dens and Messrs. Chan Kam To and Chan and the crew with murder.
When a police. launch came from The scandal was revealed, it is passenger from Ban Francisco. He derive a large monthly revenue but Wat Ming.
New Orleans Hyde, who had falsely stated, when M. Gulball, Divi-1 connected with PAA and is here stated that he was an American monal Commissary of the Mar- for a short, visit. subject, seized an fron bar and selles mobile police, found him- Manila Bound
self compelled to go to Paris to
What do
you want?
If there is anything
you want to buy or
■ Famall Classified advertisement.
25 words $1.00 prepaid for 3 insertions.
such a scheme, would find' little support from the European re-
from the Chinese,
Mr. William Cummings, caterer to the 2nd Battalin, East Surrey sidents of the Colony and still less Government have the situation threatened the police.
from Hongkong to Regiment well in hand and it would be ad- Hyde told the court that be complain to M. Mondanel, Control-FRIDAY AT 8.45 AM, the Philip Shanghai, has announced that he visable for the pubife not to be thought the New Orleans police Jer-General of the Burete Nation- pine Clipper departed for the is giving 300 The of Australian FOR THE PRESENT, there is little come panic-stricken but do the were enemies of his religion, and ale, that every effort he made to South. Dr. George Sellett, of mutton and between 300 to 400 efort was thereart Stranghat, went to Manila for Ibe of Australian, beef; to the re- as Hongkong is concerned. The thorities every assistance possible, Church Emmissary for Wales, led by some, mys),
fugees in the New Territorie
inbuence