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THE
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Issued & Fully Pai-Up $20,000,000 Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853 Beserve Funds: ...
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Sterling
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Proprietors
Reserve Fund
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Head Office:-HONG KONG
Board of Directora. Hen, Mr. A. L. Shields,
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W, H. Lock, Esq.,
Că tirman.
Deputy Chairman.
J. K. Bousfield, Esq., A. H. Compton, Esq.. Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell,
D. F. Landale, Esq.,
G. Miskin, Esq.,
K. S. Morrison, Esq.,
Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearce,
H. F. Wilkinson, Esq...
Sit Vandeleur. M. Grayburn,
Chist-Manager.
£3,000,000 £3,000,000
prietors......... £3,000,000 HEAD OFFICE: LONDON: 38, Bishopsgata 102. Sub-Agencies in London: 117/122, Leadenhall Street, EC.S.
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Hong Kong, 13th Mar, 1938.
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covery of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of the Agencies and Branches
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THE CHASE BANK
18, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
HRAD OFFICE:
18, PINE STREST,
NEW YORK.
An American Back offering com. plete Foreign Banking Service in the principal Markets of the world. Authorised Capital $10,000,000.00 Interest Rates on Application.
Hong Kong, 25th Feb., 1839.`..
BANK OF EAST ASIA,
LIMITED
Paid-up Capital ........ 5,598,600.00 Reserve and Undivided
Profits
2,881,43201
Head Office:-HONG KONG No. 10 Des Voeux Road, Central,
Board of Directorat
Bir Shruson Chow, Chairman
Li Koon Chan, Esq. Li Laa Sang, Esq. F. K. Kwok, Eaq. WongChnson, Kig.. Wong Yun Tong, Esq. Kon Ying Po, Esq. ChanChingBhek, Esq. FangPing Wab Eng.
Kan Tong Po, Eng., Chief Manager.
Li Tee Pong, Esq., Manager.
Amey
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securities.
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GENERAL
FOREIGNER'S TRIBUTE TO
CHINESE GUERILLAS
Determined Resistance Of People In Shansi
FAMILY WERE DRUGGED AND ROBBED
$7,000 Taken From Safe In Room
At the conclusion of the $7,000. burglary trial'in the second divi- sion of the Kedah High Court, the Hon. Mr. Justice Che Kanu- phi, chief Malay Judge passed sentence totalling it years” · rigor- ous imprisonment on the three accused.
CHUNGKING, May 2 (Central "If I were to stay there, a week or two longer, one of the commanders promised me that he would specially cut off a section of rall for me." said Mr. Leslie C. Smith, foreign correspondent, who was referring to the Chinese guerillas in Shansi, where he had just lived for a month studying the operations of the "hit-and-run" farmer-warriors. Mr. Smith brought back three mimeograph sheets may be found. pistols, which were given him by seven, of which are published daily Marshal Yen Hal-shan..
The case was a sequel to one of Marshal with editorials and international Yen would have presented the cor-news and views gathered by radio. rated in Kedah and
the biggest burglaries perpet respondent with a rife if he had
was.com- BETTER EQUIPMENT NEEDED not been forced to retum by air.
mitted on Jan. 20 at Mentaloon, These freans, Mr. Smith stated.
"Every peasant knows where the the residence of Tunku «Supera, are samples of the products of the Japanese outposts are located as daughter or H. H. Tunku Mah- numerous mobile arsenals scatter well as when and where sorties are mud, late Regent of Kedah. ed in the province; the steel came to be made by them," Mr. Smith It was stated that one of "the" from rails removed from the Tung-continued." "In this manner, small accused, through the pu Rallway by the guerillas
Japanese garrisons have been am-jof one of the servants of the bushed time and again, sufferinghouse, administered One month of travelling in all.
A sleeping (considerable casualties. 3r the nine districts of Shans! has opinion of the speaker, If the Chi-to the inmates and when they the draught made from datura seeds convinced the correspondent that nese guerillas were equipped with were under the influence of the the Japanese have not controlled better guns and artillery, they draught got access into the house and cannot conquer the province, would wear down Japanese power and decamped with all the money because of the determined resis-in no time, considering the favour-and jewellery to the value of tance of the people throughout the able topographical features of the $7,317 from the safe which was area. According to Mr. Smith, province for gudrilla warfare. there are now two important or-
In the bedroom of Tunku Supera. ganizations in Sharis: one L the People's Self-Detence Corps, which 1, organized as a military auxiliary and the other is the Salvation- Through Sacrifice Association, which is political in character.
SELF-DEFENCE CORPS'
The People's Self-Defence Corps is made up of able-bodied young men whose ages ranga from 18 to 25 years. Their main duties are the evacuation of women, children and "essen- tial supplies upon the approach of Japanese troops, and the transportation of wounded Fuerillas to safety zones, Re- cently; Mr. "Smith said, this ⠀ corps was credited with having captured 200 Japanese motor trucks.
Another phenomenon that strikes me," Mr. Smith ob- served," the manner in which the area is being made self- sufficient by the people, Food production has been increased by 20 per cent, and more and
· more land is being pot under cultivation. Vegetable food in being growa in rural districts and cloth is being woven from sheep's wool for troops. Indus- trial co-operatives are being organized in some of the dis- tricts and armament produc- tion is increasing."
'92 FACTURIES
י
connivance
The accused in the case were Jafar bin Tahir, an elderly Malay. a 27-year-old Malay, Jacob bin
Yahaya Haji Md. Noor, and Mat, a 21-year-old Malay, and they were charged with house- breaking and theft.
bin
Jafar, who had 14 previous con- victions, mostly theft and house- |breaking, and had been banished for life from Perak for three offences committed at Kampar. was sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment to be followed by one year's police supervision.
The other
Mr Smith revealed that in a dis-
two accused, who tilct east of the Tungpu Railway, were Drst offenders, were each
as many as 92 factories manufac-sentenced to three years' rigorous turing different commodities may imprisonment.
be found. Of these, 10 are manu- The Salvation-Through-Sacrifice racturing firearms and ammuhei - Association. on the other hand, istion with a reported production composed of merchants, women and capacity of 10,000 bombs and 2,000 CONSIGNEES' NOTICES professional men. They attend rifles per month. Five are paper
the wounded; run night schools. factories, 11 shoe factories, four spread propaganda and educate steel works, one dye works, one the masses. In one of the districts, blanket factory, and three or four Mr. Smith was informed by respon-powder factories. The number of sible officers, literacy has been workers in each factory ranges be- reduced from 70 per cent. to 40 per tween 10 and 2,000 persons. cent.
Life in towns located along the
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Before the war. there were only railway is virtually moribund. In NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES & "seven newspapers in Talyuan, the Linfen, for instance, a city in provincial capital, with an aggre- southwest Shansi, the population ate circulation of 20,000 emples, has decreased by 80 per cent. Now the number has been increas- Numerous shops are closed, and in ed to 200 in Shansi with an aggre- their stead are to be found brothels gate circulation of 450,000. In an- and opium dens under Japanese other district, Mr. Smith said, 41'operation.
This Bank is entirely owned by Там CHASE NATIONAL BANK, NEW YORK, with Resources over CHINESE LABOUR -U.S. $2,500,000,000...
DELEGATE APPEALS Manager.TO AMERICA
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WASHINGTON, May 3 - Speak- lag at the International Workers' Day celebrations, Mr. Chu Hsueh- fas, Chinese workers' delegate to
TOKYO, May 3 (T/Ocean)- the LL.O. conference and now on "I am firmly convinced that
America, appealed to relations with Germany and Italy a tour of
should be more and more the "American working class not
and "Consolidated." to supply any arms to Japan to strengthened
Japanese Premier, massacre Chinese women and chil- declared the
¡Baron'. Hitanuma, yesterday. by
Japan, the Prime Minister · said, Mr. Chu referred to official rewas deeply indebted to these two turns and pointed out that fully countries for the support received Afty four per cent. of the arms used from them ever since, the begin Hong Kong, 1st May, 1939. by Japan in her expedition inning of the Chinese, confilct, United States. China were imported from the
Sympathy For Chinese dren
Cause
CHUNGKING, May 2 (Central)-
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Loans granted On approved A cheque for $23.36, one of the Current Accounts opened in Los hundreds of small donations to the Currency and Fixed Deposits re-war chest received daily at the ceived for one year or shorter National Government headquarters a tightening of the boycott of Jap- periods in Local and Foreign Our in Chungking, accompanied by a anese goods.
Mr. Chu also urged in his speech
rencies. on terms which will be clumsily worded note, had deeply China, Mr. Chu said, is fighting quoted on application.
stirred the authorities and elicited a war for democracy and interna- from them a warm reply of thanks ❘tional peace. China's to the donor yesterday.
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America's war and China's vic- The donor is a Siamese Chinese tory America's victory.
Special Excursion Fares în Application
SAILINGS
convict serving 器 long term
sentence in a prison in Blam, and
the brief note asked that the MEMORIES OF THE
money be used for the" Chinese fighters at the front.
BOER WAR
Memories of the Boer War were recalled by
The small donation, the note ex-
the celebration at plained, represented what little savings the prisoner had been able Nice of the 80th birthday of the PAID-UP CAPITAL $40,000,000.00 to save out of hard labour during late President Kruger's diploma.
(BRANCHES ALL OVER CHINA) his service in jail, In the hardship tle representative in Europe
Owing to our numerous Branches of his prison life, the donor said, the close of the last century, Dr. in China and connections in the he could think of no better use of W. J. Leydts, who was born on principal Commercial Centres of the money than turning it over to May 1, 1859 In Java and becarue
the World, we are able to extend the Chinese Government, to to our Clients special facilities for register his sympathy for the Domestic and Foreign Banking and Exchange.
Head Office: BHANGHAI
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KONGMOON TOISHAN
Chinese cause,
For various ressons, the name of the convict-donor was not revealed, The money and the, note, I was understood,
forwarded to TAS Chungking through
Chinese friend by the name of Mr. Wu Chih-tsa
at
one of the most influential per- CHITA sonalities in the Transvaal re- public where he settled in 1884- (TO).
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We also handle the insus of Upon receipt of the money and Neville Chamberlain, has Bonds and other Public Funds of the note, the Government authori- cepted on honorary doctor's the Chineze Government both at ties were so deeply moved that agree from the University of Stens Fene ind- Abroad.
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