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ROYAL NAVY
2nd Battalion. The Somerset L... has taken up duty in the 3rd In- fantry Brigade at Bordon.
INDIAN ARMY RETIREMENTS The undermentiones retirements in January are notified at New
Delhi:-
GENERAL
SINO-JAPANESE WOLFRAM MINES
WAR FUTURE
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Now time works for China. Pro- longed resistance will force Japan to keep a vast "army of occupe- tion" in Chinn. It is probably noti so much the will of the Japanese military as the determined, and growing will of Chinese resistance
COMMAND OF THE BARNAM
The appointment dates from January 31 of Captain H. T. C. Walker to command the Barham as Flag-Captain and Chief Staff Officer to the Vice-Admiral Com- Lieutenant-Colonel J. O'Sullivan, manding the First Battle Squadron, 4th Battalion. 7th Rajput Regl-that will make it necessary to keep Mediterinnean, Vice-Admiral Geof-ment;. Lieutenant-Colonel F. Git-huge Japanese forces in China. frey Layton, C.B., D.S.O.
fith. 1MS.. Lieutenant-Colonel F. But it will not be as Gen, Itagaki J. W. Firth, 18th K.E. VI Own says for a prolonged period of re- P. Mortimer, construction but for a prolonged
1.
IN KWANGTUNG
Japanese Attempts To Seize Them
SHIUKWAN, Feb. 10 (Int'l)- Japanese attempts to seize the wolfram mines in Kwangtung' province have thus far yielded no result owing to the fact that, they are still far away from the rich areas embedding these ores useful for the manufac- ture of heavy irmaments. Kwangtung, Kwangal and Klang-
LAUNCH OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS Cavalry: Colonel
The alteraft-carrier Illustrious RIAS.C.; Major R. D. Alexander, period of war, which will make pro-si provinces have richer and more will be launched at the Walker-on- IM.S
Ats for Japan Impossible, and wolfram or tungsten mines than Tyne shipyard of Vickers-Arm-
which may finally break the econo-anywhere in the world.
Its prices strong, Limited, on April 5. The
me back of the Japanese indus-are lower than those of other Illustrious is the second of the slx
trial and military machine.
countries, although at the moment aircraft-carries provided for in the Navy rebuilding programme The Ark Royal has already been completed.
Major H. G. Kennedy. M.B.E. RIA.S.C., will be transferred to the Special Unemployed List and Major G. S. B. Smith, LA.O.Chas already been transferred.
third
Japanese
As far as territory is concerned, there is difficulty in exporting this two-thirds of China is still unoc-mineral owing to Japanese block- cupled, but even the occupied one-ade.
troops are renewing 13 two-third unconquered. divided into two parts. the north-ton in order to gain control of the west and the west and south-west. Canton-Hankow Railway, along which some of the best wolfram "The Chinese North-West. We
mines are located.
Three others should also be ROYAL AIR FORCE The unoccupied territories can be their push northward from Can- launched this year the Victorious, Formidable, und Indomitable. The sixth is the Implacable, ordered inm the Fairfield Company last October.
2ND TRIBAL FLOTILLA.
H.M.S Somall. Captain R. S. G. Nicholson, D.3.C.. the first ship to be completed for the 2nd Tribal Flotilla, has left Portland on her first cruise as a unit of, the Home Fleet. H.M.S. Eskimo. Commander, St. J. A. Micklethwait, has left, Portland for Gibraltar. The other russels of this Hotilla are due for completion by March 31. They are replacing the
Destroyer 1th Flotilla, Home Fleet, composed of Vessels of the Beagle type.
BOOM DEFENCES
at
EXPERIMENTÄL SECTION
will deal only with the Communist Japur 18 feverishly replenishing north-west, the north-west of the hei armis in order to cope with a 8th Route army: and the Muslim world war. She is particularly north-west, the north-west of the affected by the intransigeant a- so-called pro-Japanese Moham-titude of the United States in medan Federation.
naval rearmament and fortifica-
Wing Commander W. E. Purdi. [who was promoted in the Novem. ker list. has been appointed in command of the Experimental Sec. den of the Royal Aircraft Esta blishment at South Farnborough, in succession to Group Captain Bermaid McEntegurt, who his Concerning the Communist tion as well as the non-recogni- taken over the command at Mar-north-west, there is no doubt. They tion of Japanese self-asserted tlesham.
are heart and soul with the fights acquired by conquest in National Government. They have China. A similar stand is adopted
and organized the students the by Great Britain, France and So peasant villages en masse acainst viet Russia. Wing Commander R. M. C. Mac; the Japanese invasion With al farlane.M.C.. whose retirement on most norms. except those they account of ill-health has been an-have been able to capture from the nounced, entered the Royal Artil-
After
WING COMMANDER MACFARLANE
Japanese. they have wrecked troop trains, torn up railways and kept great armies out of vast areas
in the north-west.
The courage and achievements of
dispute. When the 8th Route Army are beyond
Its soldiers
are
LARGE SUMS OF MONEY
..OFFERED
Being yet far away from the wolfram mines
north Kwangtung, the Japanese military in Canton are offering large sums
of money to wolfram miners in order, to buy their wares for export to Japan. In any way the price is much lower than before, because
Chinese military there exacted" a heavy levy on the sale of this min-
eral.
ery from Woolwich in 1915. and is first appointment with the The official Navy List shows that R.F.C was as an observer officer to 28 officers are now serving with the No 30 Squadron in. Mesopotamia, boom defences the principal naval ports. Captain A. E. Buck-Army to a permanent commission his transfer from the
land, DSO., D.S.C.. is the Superin in the RAF be served from 1923 seriously wounded. they lle slient prior to the loss of Canton the tendent of Boom Defences, with 1925 in Egypt at HQ.. Egyptlin headquarters at the depot and Group, and H.Q, RAF., Middle training school at Rosyth.
Esty He qualified at the
Staff Among these employed as Boom college in 1926-27, and after thre Defence Officers are Commanders reais service with No. 13 Army C. J. H. du Boulay, Firth of Forth: Co-operation Squadron and three E. H. Hopkinson. OBE, Scapa E years on staff duties at the Alr Enright, Portsmouth and Portland: Ministry succeeded Wing Comman HR. Sperring. Harwich, Medway, der J. B. Cote-Hamith as Chief and, Dover: K. L. Campbell, Medi-instructor at the School of Army terranean: H. M. Montague, Hong Co-operation, Old Sarum. kong: C. R. St. G. Tucker, Malaya: bury. In 1934-35 he commanded No. and G. E. Harden, D.S.O.. Ceylon.
31 A C Squadron in India. ROYAL YACHT APPOINTMENT
Lieutenant-Commander P. D. H. R. Pelly, is appointed to the Royal yacht Victoria and Abert, to suc- ceed Commander J. T. Lean, pro- mited in the New Year list.
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS The following appointments are made by the Admiralty:-
Capts.-K. H. L. Mackenzie, to St. Angelo (March 11), and as Capt. of the Dockyard, Deputy Supt. and King's Harbour Master Malta (undated); J. C. Leach, M.V.O.. President for duty in Naval Ordnance Dept. (April 3), and as Directof of Naval Ordnance May 1; A. E. M. B. Cunninghame- Graham, to Victory, and in charge of HM, Signal Sch. Portsmouth
March 3),
Cdra. (E)-J. 1. T. Green, to Vernon (Jan. 30; H. F, Fellowes,
to President for language study
Jan. 31).
Sal.
GEN. YEH'S NEW
POST
Second-in-Command Of 18th Army
SHIUKWAN, Feb. 9 Gen. Yeh Shao, who distinguished himself in the defence of Nanking and in the Nan- chang-Kiuklang Rallway and successfully repulsed the Jap- anese in several pitched bat tles, is garetted by the tral Authorities to be second- in-command of the 12th Army Group.
in the grass. At dusk. little peasant boys find them.
After dark, strong peasant women carry
At present, the "Japanese can buy them ucross the mountains to
straw, often without bedding while some shipments can be sent "hospitals"
wolfram from Chinese exploiters in in CRVCS. Here On clothes, half-trained youth try to
north Kwangtung at cheap prices.
care for them. co-operative called the 8th Route Army, money for medical care is most needed and can be made to plan is to expert this mineral via On the other hand, the Chinese o the farthest. Here $ Chinese pakhel and Swatow, as a barter for money will save a patriot-life for
military equipment from foreign his country.
countries.
Here in that great
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France and Soviet Russia. abroad to cater for buyers in the United States, Great Britain.
FINAL DIVIDEND
PATRIOTS TO HUMANITY
At a Board meeting held yestet- In the 8th Route Army, soicters are not only patriots to their coun- day. the Directors of the Hongkong try but to humanity. Peasants are Ltd., recommended a final dividend Land Investment and Agency Co.. not only taught better agriculture of $125 per share, making a total t Rocialist polities and high of $2.50 per share for the year 1938.
patriotism. Thousands of students
are studying in the National Salva-
tion Colleges. Their class rooms GOLD RESERVES AND
are in deep caves far beyond the reach af Japanese bombs. Wher- ever Japanese soldiers might come. slogans appear, the like of which
NOTE CIRCULATION
BANK OF IRANCE PARIS. Feb. 9 Reuter)-The re
have never been seen before in any turn of the Bank of France for the war. "Japanese brothers. you love week ended February 1, shows gold totalling #87.266,000,000 your homes, why burn ours? The reserves Cen-
8th Route Army of peasants be
Franes of gold content of 27.5 mil- no change lieves that the Japanese beasant grammes, showing saldier is as much a victim of from the previous week. Japanese militarism as invaded The total note circulation is His troops have been sent back China is. A common enthusiasm
given 13 111,855.000.000 Francs, to Kwangtung to take part in for a great cause fills this part of showing an increase of 12,477.000. Lt.-Cdrs.-P. A. Cartwright, to the present campaign against China. That is why all roads for 000 Francs as compared with thể Diamond (Feb. 10), and in com- the Japanese. On February 8 thousands of courageous youth lead previous week. mand fundated); 3. Mowlam, to they were inspected at a certain to the 8th Route in the north-west,
GERMAN REICHSBANK Thanet (Feb. 10), and in command base by Gen. Yd Hon-mou, the
BERLIN, Feb. 9 (Reuter)—The But there is another north-west, return of the German Reichsbank (undated); St, J. R. J. Tyrwhitt, to Commander-in-Chief. who dell-that of the Muslims. Can the mil-for the period ended February 5, Defender, in command (undated). vered an inspiring speech landons of Muslims in the north-west gives the total note circulation as Payr.. L-Cdr.-R. Bailey, to ing the troops in fighting the be induced by the Japanese to 7.549,000,000 Reichsmarks, showing Japanese in Klangau and Klang-make a pro-Japanese state? Owen a decrease of 281,000,000 Reichs- Lattimore, one of the best foreign marks as compared with the period Yeh students of China, answers with an endett January 29
emphatic "No."
Scarborough (Feb, 7).
L
Act. Sub-L.-J. M. L. Schofield, si to Osprey (Jan 30).
PROMOTIONS
Sub-Lt. (E)-A. F. A. Abbott, to rank of Lt. (E) (seny. Feb. 1).
Cd. 8.0.-D. Ahrn, to rank of Payr. Lt (seny, Jan. 13),
Wt. 9.0.----F.. Fowler, to rank of Cd. Supply Officer (seny, Jan. 13).
THE ARMY
'TROOP MOVEMENTS IN FEBRUARY
for
The trooping programme February will include the dispatch of the Nevasa from Southampton with drafts for the Mediterranean and on successive dates the Somer- setshire, Lancashire, Dorsetshire, and Ettrick will all for India and Singapore
The Ettrick is due from the West Indies on February 15, when she
After the review, Gen. accompanied Gen. Yu to inspect the trophies captured in Hsing- ise and other points along the Rallway. Nanchang Kluklang They Inchide light and
heavy machine guns, 1200 rides,
Rising Sun dags, tin hats, one-pounders and two baby tanka.
Gen. Yeh volunteered for active service prior to the fall of Nan- Įking fourteen months
ago and was commanded by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek for able general-
BARONETCY FOR 5-YEAR-OLD BOY.
LONDON, Feb. 10 (Reuter)-His Majesty has conferred a Baronetcy of the United Kingdom on a five year-old boy.
The two outstanding chasac-
teristics of the Chinese Mus-PUBLIC AUCTION.
lims are their toughness and
their solidarity. They Muslims. have survived because they are tough and have stuck together. They have also proven again and again that they are ready. to do what other Chinese rarely do, that is fight for their religious faith.
THE Undersigned have received
instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION.
These Muslims are loyal to the wider world of Islam, which im- SATURDAY, the 11th FEBRUARY, plies no disloyalty to China. Just before the outbreak of the Sino-
Japanese war, 170 Muslim Pilgrims safled in one ship from Shanghai to Mecca, and 18 Chinese students went to the great Muslim Univer- sity at Cairo.
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He 18: Andrew Ashton, Waller completes her maiden voyages, scn of the late Johuri Waller der Captain J. M. Legg as the first Huls
a Pulvy Councillor, whose UNCLAIMED
of the new P. & O, troopships. She nume would have been submitted will bring home the 1st Battalion, to the King for a Baronetcy in the The Sherwood Foresters, and after New Year honours list, but for his month's furlough the battalion Ceath list Christmas Eve at the goes on to Palestine.
age of 71.
The 2nd Battalion, The KSLI from Pembroke Dock, rellevee the
Foresters in Bertituda and Jamaica.
Andrew was the only child. His mother became Mr. Hills
The 2nd Battalion, The Royal second wife in 1931, and is granted Norfolk Regiment, which has the style, title, and precedence of been relieved at Gibraltar by the s Baronet's wife.
TELEGRAMS
The following list of unclaithed telegrams are lying at Cable & Wireless Ltd, Hongkong Branch:
Hauck, American Express from
Manila.
Bether from Tuhshan. "Captain. Steamship from Keelung,
Rioblanco
1939.
Commencing at 11 am.
At their Sales Room. No. 2 Connaught Road Central
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS
GOODS
siso
2 Bales Cotton Yarn
18 Boxes French Perfumes
TERMS: Cash on Delivery.
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1939
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A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF
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Comprising:-
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1939
Commencing each day at 930 a.m...
with an interval from 12 noon to 1.30 p.m.
At H.M. Naval Yard, Hongkong, and at Kowloon Naval Depot.
OLD AND SURPLUS NAVAL STORES, &c.
Comprising:-
Steam
Bost without boller.
Machinery for Steam Boat, Boilers,
雍 Wall Cranes:
Old Tools, Canvas, India Rubber, Clocks, Leather, Electric
Electric
Motors,
Lamps,
Gear.
Oars,
Cordage, Firewood; Blankets,
Counterpates, Carpets,
Rugs,
*Coverlets," Beds, Wash Basins, Furniture. Electric Cable, Onl
The Japan Hotel Association Drums, Dirty Oll, etc.
IN JAPAN
AKAKUBA
MEMBER HOTELS
(68 members in a11)
41
Кова
Oriental Hotal
Tor Hotel
+ akakura Kanko Hotel KroTo
A Cami Hotel Mamapei Hotel Вкует (Купки)
Kanoi Hotel CHURENIT (Nikko)
Lakeside Hotel
Yurt From LAXES
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Fuji Now Grand Hotel
(ako Yamanaka} Fuji View Hotal
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FUKUOKA
Kyoshintel Hotel GAMAGORI
Gamagori Botel Giro
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· KAWANA
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between Osaka and... Kabel Kosbian Hotel
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MIYAMOSHITA (Hakone)
Fafiya Hotel
NADOTA
Mampei Hotel
Nagoya Hotel
Havora Kanko Hotel
Nama
Nara Hotel
NIXID
Kagaya Hotel
OBAKA
Dobuil Hotal
Botel Now Onka. Osaka Hotel
Otsu (near Lake Biwa)
Hotel Lake Biwa Barrono (Hokkaido)
Sapporo Grand Hotel SHIMONOS KI
Brays Hotel
TAKARASUKA (Naar Koba)|
Tancaruka Hotel
Τακτο
Imperis Hotel Mampei Hotel Omori, Hotel
+ Banno Hotel
Tokyo Railway Hotel
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*Now members.
UNIEN
Eynahu Hotel Shin-yu Hotel Unzen Hotel
UDIO Kauko Hotel. Yumoi Hotel YOKOHAMA
Fotel New Grand
IN TAIWAN (Formosa)
TAIKOXU
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Hajo
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Lots may be inspected on Wed-
22rid resday,
February. 1939. Terms of Sale:-As detailed in Catalogue,
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