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HONGKONG,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1939.
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ADVERTISEMENT COMPETITION
FOREIGN NAVAL CIRCLES ARE
WATCHING DEVELOPMENTS
AT HAINAN ISLAND
London Official Comment LINK WITH
Withheld For Present
OCCUPATION EXPLAINED BY TOKYO SPOKESMAN
TOKYO, FEB. 10 (T/OCEAN)-THE OCCUPATION OF HAINAN ISLAND HAS A TWOFOLD PURPOSE, A NAVAL SPOKESMAN, ADML, KANAZAWA DECLARED to-day-strengthening of the blockade of China and, thereby, the final destruction of the fighting power of the Chungking Government. After the fall of Canton and the interruption of communication with Hongkong, the Gulf of Tongking and Kwalchow Bay had remained the only approaches to south-western China by sea. Transports for the Chungking Government had been made mostly by armed junks the base of which had been Hainan Island. Since the Japanese Navy alone was not able to enforce the blockade the destruction that base had become necessary.
JAPANESE LAND IN HAINAN TOKYO, Feb. 10 (Reuter)- It is officially reported, that Japanese forces landed in Hainan Island to-day. The re- port goes on to state that crack units of the army and navy affected a surprise land- ing early this morning and that they are now proceeding Inland under a united front..
PIRATES FIRE ON BRITISH TUG
SHANGHAI, Feb. 10 (Reuter)—
A pirate-manned junk fired on the
British tug Alexandra this morn
Ing in the Lower Yangtze..
UNIVERSITY
IS SEVERED
PROF. MIDDLETON
SMITH RETIRES ®
With the retirement from the Talkoo Chair of Engineer- ing at the University ~ of Hongkong on February 9 of " Professor C. A. Middleton Smith,. M. Sc., M. I. Mech, AM.LE.E., a llak with that institution reaching right oack to the year of its foun- dation has been severed.
time members of the staff, and for that period-1912 to 1913—the last-
When Professor Middleton Smith vacated his Chair, he had just reached his 60th birthday. He was appointed in May, 1912, arriving in the Colony in September. For whole year Sir Charles Billot, Vice- Chancellor, MI Matthewman, "LONDON, Feb. 10 (Reuter) Lecturer in Physics, Mr. Hinton, -Omctal circles withhold Registrar, and Professor Middleton comment on the Japanese Smith himself were the only full landing in Hainan Island pending further information.named was the only Professor in There is
to believe the University. reason "that since the first threat last-
In comparison, there are now 28 June the Japanese had given British professors and lecturers several hints that they would and a large staff of Chinese assis- probably consider themselves tants on the University's full-time bound
land in Hainan staff. Jn this first year of the sooner or later for military University, there were 54 students, reasons. These, however. 37 of whom took engineering. have always been accompani-
During Professor Middleton
to
ed by assurances that no per-Smith's service of nearly 27 years, manept occupation was in- 267 engineering students graduat- tended. The Japanese actioned, of whom 78 teceived honours will undoubtedly excite vigor-degrees. The
London Assessors
ous protests in the House of who are examiners in Engineering Commons.
In the University of London certify It is known that several members each year that the standard at-
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of the House even though not tained at the University of Hong-
"directly concerned with
Far
kong has been equal to that re-
Five Chinese passengers were Eastern atrairs have specially inquired by the London University
wounded while more
terested themselves in the question than ten.)
It is ex- who became panle-stricken, jump-of Hainan's Integrity.
ed overboard and were drowned.
The English skipper of the tug. Capt. J. T. Inch, put on full steam and out-distanced the pirates.
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NEW JAPANESE ORDERS SHANGHAI, Feb: 10 T/Ocean- New regulations compelling for. elgners to produce passes issued by
pected that questions will be asked on the matter on Monday and the Government will be press- ed to take tangible action and no delay to implement the resolute Anglo-French warning to Japan last June.
for an honours degree.
Amongst his other activities, Professor Middleton Smith has written a very large number of
articles in technical and other
jaarnais, "most of which dealt with engineering development in China.
Professor Middleton Smith, ac companied вза Mrs. Middleton Smith, leaves for Home on March
It will be remembered that France immediately followed up the first Japanese threat to Hal-9. nan by sending forces to occupy the Paracels in order to leave no mistake regarding her claim to pussession the island.
STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE „SHANGHAI, Feb.10 (Reuter)-)
Foreign naval circles in the Far
Bold Attack By Guerillas
cast are closely watching develop In Shanghai
ments at Hainan which is described
a potential "Majorca.":
SHANGHAI, Feb. 10 (T/Ocean)
the Japanese authorities when passing Japanese sentries 'came Into force to-day in Hankow. The original" regulations, however, have been modified considerably and now only apply as regards sentries stationed at roads leading in and locally as out of the Chinese section of Han-Naval authorities point out the A number of Chinese guerillas kow so that, the areas where 'for- island is of enormous strategic im- this morning made a bold attack eigners reside are not affected, for-portance in Far Eastern waters on the Japanese gendarmerie head- eigners only having to show passes quite apart from being only 70 wishing to enter Chinese miles from the French leased ter-
Jessfeld village in quarters ut when parts of the city.
ritory of Kwangchowwan and 180 close proximity of the western It will be recalled that the same miles from Indo-China. state of affairs exists in Shanghai
It is situated across the normal
where foreigners also need pass-Singapore-Hongkong route and in) ports in order to enter the Cht-conjunction with Formosa and nese parts of Shanghai, that is, the Japanese Carolines forms a Chapet and Nantao.
complete semi-circle round the Philippines.
EPIDEMIC OF INFLUENZA
CHICAGO. Fel, 10 (Reuter) Filty-five persons have died since February 1 in Illinois following an
border of the Shanghai Inter- national Settlement.
The same building also houses the headquarters of the police of the so-called "Tatao Government.”
The guerillas fired a number ofį shots and threw several hand left a notice ad- The island, it is added, possesses grenades and two deep sheltered harbours, Hol-dressed to the "Tatao" policemen how in the north and Yulinkang aking them not to be
traltors
in the south. Although the latter and to quit Japanese employment. is not developed it is described as
It is not ascertained whether
a magnificent potential naval base. anybody was wounded as the It will be recalled that it accom- whole area was promptly" cordoned
epidemic of influenza, pneumonia modated the whole of the Russian off by the Japanese authorities.
and other respiratory diseases. ·
It is reported that at least 5,000 are 1 in the northern part of Illinois.
WARRANT ISSUED
According to a police report last night, a warrant has been issued
Baltic feet en route to the Japan
Ses in the Russo-Japanese War,
Naval authorities are anxiously CHINESE RECAPTURE
awalting reassurance
that the
Japanese Foreign Office spokes- man's statement of June 20 that?
Kainan, will be implemented.
MILITARY NECESSITY
The "Hongkong Dally PreSS” bas atroduced a new com. petition in which our readers will no doubt take a keen in- terest. A series of five different questions are being published for three days Inemonestion beginning on Thursday and ending to-day and the senders of the first ten correct replies received at the "Hongkong Daily Press," 319 Marina House. this morning will each be given a pair of tickets to see *Three Loves Has Nancy," to be shown at the King's Theatre, The
sent
fteen replies should be in together and not separately. Answers will be published
on Monday toge ther with the names of the win- Ders Our decision' is" final.'
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POPE PIUS WAS STATESMAN,
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Pontificate Most Important Of The Last 300 Years
"BIG PUSH" IMMINENT IN
SOUTH CHINA
Transportation Of Men And Munitions
to be imminent. LEA
(From Our Own Correspondent)
CHUNGSHAN, Feb. 10--The West River regions have be- come the powder magazine | for the forthcoming OD- slaught in South China since the fall of Canton, and an explosion of this is predicted That the curtain. for the Japanese zeneral offensive was not raised is due to the insufi- dency of Japanese strength. in this sector:
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SURPRISE RAID ON JAPANESE STRONGHOLD
SIAN, Feb. 10 (Central)-In & surprise raid on Japanese strong- hold at Shuangehlaotsi, south of Yungcheng in east Honan, Chinese troops dispersed the Japanese- command of Wang Fu-lai, employed irregulars under the
Liu Fang-kung. Pen Yi-eth, Wel Liang-min, so-called chief of staff and battalion commanders respec- tively. and Wang Chao-shan, father of Wang Fu-lai, were taken prisoner,
The sinishes at Matang and Wangkong during the past few days were conducted by the Jap- anese army as a "fceler" of the Chinese garrison strength there.
Although considerable reinforce-
VATICAN CITY GLOOM (BY FATHER G. BYRNE, S.J.)
(Special to the “Hongkong Dally Press ")
POPE PIUS XI İS DEAD. HIS HOLINESS PASSED AWAY IN THE EARLY HOURS OF YESTERDAY: MORNING AT THE AGE OF 82 YEARS. HIS DEATH, ". which came with unexpected suddenness, has cast a gloom over the Vatican and thrown the whole of Italy; and the Catholic world, as well as a large community of non-Catholics, into a state of mourning,
One of the best of the recent biographies of Plus XI, trying to look forward to the verdict of future historians on his work, and his reign, does not hesitate to write "it is certainly safe, to say that his pontificate. will stand out as amongst the most important of the last three hundred years."
Scholar, statesman, man of God: no one who knows anything of his life can deny him those tities, and it must be admitted that they are titles, when united in any life, capable of marking out their possessor in a « special way.
If the life be elevated to the throne which has the greatest
ments have been added, along the world-wide appeal, and surely Canton-Bamshui Railway the Jap-no throne can claim such a anese faled to make any progres variety of subjects as
the
the
The main strength of the Jap-throne of Peter, they must anese, army, composing sonie 5,000 make it unique. As a figure strong, is reported to be concen- in the modern world Pius XI trated at Samshui and Hohow, on was, in this way, unique. the delta of the West River, while Born on. May... 31, 1357, Ambrose another 2,000 men are posted at Damlan Achilles Ratti, from his Limkong and Yangmuland the childhood was under the spelf of) southwest of the West River.
greatness of the Alps. The appeal to scale great heights was always with him. He scaled them. He ended his scholastic course with a triple doctorale: canon law, philosophy, theology. An interest- ing episode in his life
was the presentation of the young Achilles Ratti, a future Pope, to the scho lar Pope Leo XIII, to receive his 'congratulations on his academic
THE LATE POPE PIUS XI
successes,
REQUIEM MASS
ON THURSDAY
On account of the death of His Holiness Pope Pius XI, the Thanksgiving Service which WAS to
taken place on Sunday at the Catholic Cathedral haï been cancelled.
have
A Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass for His Holiness will be celebrated on February ––15 (Thursday) at 9 a.m.
INDIA WITHDRAWS FROM LEAGUE
RESOLUTION PASSED The Pope of the Aeterni Patris
BY SINGLE VOTE and Rerum Novurum blessed the Pope that was to be of encyclicals |
NEW DELHI, Feb 10 (Router)—' no less noteworthy, the Studiorum Congress résolution for India's Dutem and the Quadragesimo Immediate withdrawal from the Anno. The Pope "formed in the League of Nations which the Europe of Chateau-brand and de Legislative Assembly passed by 55 Malstre and Montalembert sent on votes to 54 states that the League tls student way the Pope who failed to implement Articles 18 of would have to solve BO many the Covenant, also that Britain problems in the world of Mussolini. persisted in following the wrong Hitler, Stalin.
policy in Palestine, in contraven- For thirty years Don Achilles tion of Article 22 dealing with Ratti laboured between the Am-mandates. brasian library of Milan ang thei Vatican library. Scholars from all over the world got to appreciate a master scholar, as Prefect of the Ambrosian and subsequently of the Vatican library. One of them expressed his view thus: "IT one bad occasion to consult him. LONDON, Feb. 10 (Reuter)-The the experience was always the PARIS, Feb. 10 (Reuter)-It is
With "Newa-Chronicle" states that a same.
charm and courtesy belleved in well-informed political Japanese misalon, comprising three he gave exactly the information circles that the French Govern- !
on board the one desired, concisely, in a few ment will decide to recognise Gen. Italian liner Conte Verde on their words, but always it was complete Franco's Government at a meeting way to present omcial instructions and reliable: and this no matter of the Council of Ministers on to the conference, to be held in how complex and varied the de- Saturday.
Berlin
Anti-Comintern Pact To Be Military Alliance
GUIDE TO THE NEWS members, is now
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PAGE 10.-Church news
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RECOGNITION.
OF FRANCO GOVT. LIKELY
at the end of February, tails of what one put before him
Recognition will be granted, it la which will take finst steps to con- If one wrote he always found time thought, provided certain condi- vert the anti-Comintern Pact into to reply, and with such a wealth tions are fulfilled, the chief of a formal three-Power military of careful annotation, even in alliance. The
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which is withdrawal of Italian troops in Spain.
The British and French Govern-
THE DOLLAR ·
HOPEI TOWN
BIAN, Feb. 10 (Central)---Jenklu. Japan has no territorial designs on midway between the Tlentin- Pukow and Peiping-Hankow Rail- ways in central Hopel, has been TOKYO, Feb. 10 (Reuter)-A restored to Chinese control, ac- for the arrest of Ho Ying-cheung, Japanese Forelin Office spokesman cording to latest, military" des- nephew of Mr. Ho Cheuk-bo, sub-at the press conference to-day patches received here. manager of the Bank of Kwang-stated that the Japanese attack on The re-occupation, followed a tung. Ho Ying-cheung arrived on | Hainan Island was due to military series of Chinese assaults which A charity concert will be given sadors in Paris last month agreed him achlere, the first among Thursday from Macao with $10,000 necessity and in no way infringes forced the Japanese to abandon by the Hongkong Chinese Juvenile to recommend Tokyo to accept the climbers, the ascent of Monte Hongkong currency and has since the Franco-Japanese Agreement of the town. The Japanese retreated Association at the Ko Bhing Thea-Italo-Germany view, hence the Resa from the Italian side.. disappeared.
1907.
towards Hokien, south of Jenkiu, tre at 7.30 o'clock to-night. approaching conference in Berlin.
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matters that were somewhat re- Japanese emissaries are condite, as to excite surprise and stated to be Col. Trumf, of the admiration." Euro-American Department of the In 1914 he was the oficial re-ments are maintaining close con- General Staff, Rear-Adual. Abe, presentative of the Vatican library fact on the question. departmental chief of the Naval at the Royal Society's celebration Staff, and Mr. Ito, of the Foreign of the seventh centenary of the. Omice. Japanese Ambassadors and birth of Roger Bacon. As guest of Ministers in Europe will also at-hondur he sat at the right of the tend the conference."
Chancellor, Lora Curzon. The Journal adds that the con-
FAR FROM PAPACY version of the Pact into a mltary
T.T. ON LONDON; 1s. 2.13/18. When in 1817 he celebrated his alliance had hitherto been delayed sixtieth birthday he seemed far
T.T. ON NEW YORK: 287/8 because Japan desired it primarily indeed from the Papacy, in his London Silver Market to be aimed at Boviet Russia while life of studious seclusion. A life
(Our Own Correspondent) Italy and Germany insisted that it of study which found its only must also cover Great Britain. holiday Interruption in Alpine
London, Feb. 10. France and America.
climbing. He was an Alpine clim- London silver prices to-day were Continuing, the paper says that bar whose great courage, power of down 1/18 for Spot and 1/8 for a conference of Japanese Ambas endurance, love of adventure made Forward as follows:
Feb. 9
Bpot....
20-1/4
Feb. 10 20-3/18
Forward
A. 19-7/8 18-3/4
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