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EDITORIAL
COURTESY CALL | CORRESPONDENCE
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS ON GEN. CHIANG
THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING
CO., LTD.: (Incorporated in Queensland),
NOTICE is hereby given that the Share Registers of the Com. pany will be closed from Thurs. Jay, 15th June, to Monday, 26thi June, 1939, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board,
CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.
NOTICE
KAI-SHEK
H.K. Students Assn. To Present Sword
Mr. 1. N. Murray, B.Sc., With the object of paying a call on Generalissima M.I.E.E., A.M.I.Mech. E., De courtesy puty Manager, will act as Mana. Chiang Kai-shek and at the same ger of the Company during theme presenting him with a sword. a group of student representatives absence from the Colony on leave of the Hongkong Students' Rellef of Mr. D. W. Munton, Manager. Association, wit leave Hongkong for Chungking during the summer By Order of the Board of
holidays. Directors, (Sgd.) JOHN V. BRAGA,
Acting Secretary. 475 Hong Kong, 9th June, 1939.
DERRICK & CO.,
Chartered Accountants,
Local Secretaries.
Hong Kong Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE, 6th June, 1939..
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R.
PUBLIC AUCTION
PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Anction to be held on Monday, the 19th day of June, 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by" Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land West of Diamond Hill, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, commenc ing from 1st July, 1898, 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 24 years' less the last three days thereof.
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HONGKONG, JUNE 14, 1839
BLOCKADE VS.
BLOCKADE
TENSE SITUATION has A
arisen in Tientsin over decision to Japanese the blockade the British Con- cession following the refusal of the British authorities to
hand over four men whom
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis. posal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an the Japanese allege to be the authorised officer who will be
assassins of one of their present at the sale, the sum of
Although puppet officials. two hundred dollars, ($200) in her plight as a result of the cash. This sum will be refunded | Sino-Japanese war is de- on payment of the Purchase finitely desperate, Tokyo can- not afford to be reckless and the various incidents which PARTICULARS OF THE LOT she is provoking are doubtless
price.
No. of Bale.
Registry No.
Localit
New
w Kowloon Inland
West of Diamond Near New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2572
Lot No. 2690.
G.
BIL
Boundary
Measure-
ments.
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Contents in
Square feet,
About
00% 28
R.
Junun y
870
PUBLIC AUCTION:
Ureet Price.
9,720
The party will also visit various fronts with a view to comfort the soldiers.
The date of departure has not definitely has fixed, but it is learned that active preparations are already being made.
COMING EVENTS
June
14-Tides: High 6.10 a.. and 7.16 p.m. Low 1.37 p.in.
Sunrise: 6.38 Sunset 7.08 pm. Raut Aust. Gold Min. Co. ptd. ist interim div. on register at spdre pay
Able.
Kowloon Union Church Women's Guild 10 a.fn.
THETIS DISASTER
FUND
To the Editor, "The Hongkong Daily Press"]
Sir-We shall be glad If you will be good enough to publish in | your valued columns the following. list of donations which we have so far received for the above Fund,
We propose to close the Fund on Saturday, June 24.
་
Yours faltilly,
(8 d.) R. H. KOTEWALL. (Sgd.) TN, CHAU
(Sgd) M, K. LO
(8gd.) W. N. T. TAM HE. Sir Geoffry A. 8.
Northcote, KC.M.G. Hongkong Red
Society
Swastika
$50,00
600.00 Mr.. Eu Tong Sen, OBE........... 250.00 Committee of Kötewall
Cup Competition
The Wo Fat Shing The Kwong Sang Hong Mr. Pang Kok Sui Mr. Lee Iu Cheung Mr. B. Wong Tape
The United Delivery Co.
Libet...
250:00
100.00
Mr. Ng Wah ......... Mr. Wong Ping Suen Mr. R. A. Dastur
100,00
100,00
100.00
100,00
100.00
50,00
50,00
50.00
60.00
Mr. M. H. Lo
50,00
Mr. Li Yan Tsun
25.00
Mr. Chan Lim Pak
25.00
Mr. Kwok Chan.
10,00
Mr. Wan Kung Leung Hon. Sir Robert Kotewall Han. ML. "T. N. Chau Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo Hon, Mr. W. N. T. Tam ...
5.00 25,00 100.00
50.00 100.00
Total
$2,240.00
Cath. Women's Fellowship Wrkg. | Mrs. M. K. Lo otv. 10 B.TO. Pty.
Requiem Mass French
Convent
Chapel, Causeway Bay for late Rev. Mother Paul 8.30 am.
Cheero Club Dance 8.30 p.x. 15 Tides: High 6.49 am and 8.39
Low 12.33 m. and 122 p.m. Annual Mtg of REO.CA Wel. lington Barracks B
p.m. Dress
Rehearsal for Children's
.. Charity Fair 4pm!"
Theosophical Soa Mtg Speaker: Mr. A. F. Kundsen "Occultism and Mystery,"
Ts Men's Club Mtg. Speaker: Mr. wong Kwok-fong-"Canaries *** Their Breeding and Management" 1 p.m.
Jumble Sale, Cathedral Hall 3 p.m. T.M.C.A. Beginners Mahjongg 20
a.m.
16-T.M.O.A "Keep Pit" Class 10.30 a. First Aid (Men) 6 p.m.; Bad-
Licensing Sessions Council Cham
minion and Mxd, Swimming.
17 Children's Charity Fair. 254 The. Peak.
18-Macao Race Mtg YMCA. Discussion Grp. Speaker: The Rt. Rev. R. O. Hall, Fellowship and Family Worship*-9 p.m.
19 Cheero Club Women's Com, Gala Dance 8.30
H.K. Loan Redemption
JAPANESE BAN ON POST PARCELS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14. 1939
FULL STORY OF THETIS DISASTER: DIFFICULTY
OF RESCUE WORK
THE THETIS, COMPLETED BY MESSES, CAMMELL LAIRD AND CO., WAS NOT HANDED OVER TO THE NAVY PENDING COMPLETION OF THE PRESCRIBED TRIALS. THOUGH NOT OFFICIALLY HANDED OVER, SHE WAS IN THE CHARGE OF HER NAVAL OFFICERS AND CREW.
Tr
A submarine, is not a ship which can be handled by any seamen who happen to be available, as most, surface craft can; export officers and company are indispensable.
by their Davis
as near the surface as possible. To do so would make the use of the Davis apparatus safer, though it would make the actual exit through the escape chamber rather more dificult owing to the inclination,
It is probable that the boat would not be thus canted, how- ever, until ready to send people [out, owing to the danger of spilling sulphuric acid from the big storage batteries into the bulges at large " Inclinations, with the consequent generation of chlorine gas if it came into con- tact with sea water, Every time
So far as the expert craftsman-nothing she could do pending the the escape chamber is used, about ship and great experience of Cam-arrival of salvage plant, except a ton of sea water drains into the mell Lairds, and rigid inspection pick up any who should leave the bilges. [To the Editor of the
during · building by officers . and submarine
Good Chance "Hongkong Daily Press "1 Admiralty overseers, could ensure, appartus...
Moreover, unless conditions in Sir. From the press I and that everything in the boat, was fully
That she did, and soon took on the boat were desperate exits K. Okazaki, Japanese Consul-efficient, says a Home correspon-board Captain Oram, Lieutenant would not start before daylight, by General at Canton, declared that the ban on post parcels from that city will be in force as long as the
Pearl River remains closed Adv.-"trade.
st "Andrew's Club Treasure Hunt and Social Evening 9 p.m.
zz-Longest Day (1933), " Theo. Soc. Mtg Speaker: Mr. A, P. Kundsen -Occultisra Clarines blems."
24--Mid-summer Day,
S
to
You may perhaps not know that heavy shipments from Canton, are coming into the Bombay market by way of Formoss and Japan. | PrRecently, a heavy shipment of
thousands of bundles of Cassia, Lingia arrived af the port of Bom- bay by the ss. Glasgow Mara Go- ing into the details of this arrival, we found that this cargo was car- rted from Canton to Japan and was re-shipped from Japan by the 3.5. Glasgow Maru.
25-YMCA Discussion Grp. Speat er: Rev. A. P. Rose "The Destiny of Man" 9 p.m.
26-Crown Land Sale 3 pm. 28-HE. the Governor to speak at Mis of Bino-American Cul. As HK Hotel, 1p.m
or
business ethics.
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dent
Wood, Leading Stoker Arnold, and')which time there should be a good · Besides her proper crew she had Mr. Shaw, of Cammell Lairds. chance of assistance being at on board also some 30 officials and
From them. It was learned that hand to pick people up as they workmen from the builders, pre the two forward compartments of came to the surface—as indeed it sent to attend to the working of the Thetis were flooded, but that was. the apparatus they had provided: all on board were sate and were What prevented birther escapes eight officials from the Depart-expected shortly to follow, in turn, cannot be known until the Thetis ment of Naval Construction at the through the escape hatch. But Admiralty.
none of them appeared.
On the information brought by Captain Gram
requests had been sent for the salvake apparatus that would be up- propriate. This now became all the more urgent, since it must also be relied on for the only chance of saving those still in the boat.
Last Of Trials The last of the trials was a should three-hour dive, which have been completed about 5 p.m.) It is an invariable rule in the Navy that submarines, in time of peace, repart to their fictilla headquarters by wireless when diving, and when surfacing after a. dive.
It is uncertain, however, how
Captain's Problem
is salved. But from the fact that the stern, which had been pro- trading above the surface, sub- merged again, it may be codec- tured that more water found its vay into the boat.
If so, no rescue measures that could possibly have been taken: from mutside could have saved those within in time.
effect
An Impossible. Plan Criticism has been heard-from. It is possible now to picture the those without knowledge of the long it will take for a wireless problem with which the captain sea or of the difficulties of salvage message to get through, since for the Thetis, Lieutenant-Com-work-of the failure to depends on the volume of wireless mander Bolus, was faced as the rescues by cutting a hole in the result of the accident-whatever hull walle part of it was above It may have been-through which water. the fore compartments of the boat. became flooded,
tradic at the time.
There was no delay, for by 6.30 pm. RAF, aircraft were featching the area; they sighted and reported a mark buoy, evidently released by the Thetis, and were thus able to direct to the spot HMS, Frazen, destroyer of the Fly- mouth local "flotilla, which happened to be on passage from Belfast, and was thus the nearest of the men-of-wax ordered to the spot.
Deliberately Manipulated
From the published photo- graphs that was clearly b possible. What was protrad- - ing
extrema - stern, was "the containing only the rudder Fear and small tanks, in- inside the accessible from boat,
Before a hole could be cut tuto
usual bluf. Whether or not this is the case, it might be well for Tokyo to realize that one blockade can be resisted by another, and resisted in a manner most uncomfortable to Japan.. Already a sugges- tion has been made in the House of Lords that, in re- prisal for the Japanese
The procedure, I am informed, blockade of Tientsin, Japan- by devices of financial policy. is that Japanese in Canton are ese ships should be denied the AN INTERESTING analysis appointed as agents by the Mi- use of Singapore and Penang of Japanese war finance has tary Government and they under- for goods in transit.
just been published by the take to ship these goods to Japan IT IS NOT to be imagined German Institute of Business and thence to other ports. Their 473 that Japan does not know Research. The cost of the charge of commission, plus ex- where she is vulnerable. So China war up to the end or penses, is about 20 per cent. Where. therefore, does the closure of the far as her domestic food April is given at Y.7,200,000,- Pearl River come in? This it a question is concerned, she 000, £420,000,000. Only method of sheer monopoly to rob
The Immediate effect of it would depends mainly on rice. about ten per cent, was paid all decent tradesmen from enjoy- ·
be to take the submarine to the Ninety per cent of this she out of revenue, the rest being ing legal and rightful trade.
bottom, where she would probably attends to herself, Korea and covered by borrowing which My object in writing this letter
He more or less level, though Formosa supplying the re- was additional to the already is to request you to make it known PARTICULARS AND CON-
heavy by the bow. When empty- mainder. She would have enormous borrowing for ordi- to people in Hongkong, and to Jap
ing the tallast tanks did not suffice DITIONS of the Sale by Public little trouble over fish. But nary Budget expenditure. anese businessmen in particular,
to bring her to the surface, his Auction to be held on Monday, raw materials are another War loans and deficit loans that this method of depriving
only concem would be the escape the spaces accessible to the occu- the 19th day of June, 1939, at 3 story. They must come" by together amounted in the two other nationalities the right to
of those on board,
pants the stern would have had p.m., at the Offices of the Public sea from nations willing to years of 1937-38 to £355,000,- enjoy their trade is nothing but
The flooding forward, may well to be lifted some 20% or so high-- Works Department, by Order of part with them. Prominent 000. About one-fifth of this highway robbery and against all
She arrived at the position in have put the fore escape hatch out er, and it would have to be was raised by taking
supported for long His Excellency the Governor of among the deficiencies are sum
I have further come to know dicated that evening, but not until of action. But even if not, it would securely one Lot of Crown Land at fron ore, coking coal, and in- over the entire deposits of the that there are three big shipments It was too dark for her to locate be unwise to use the escape ap- enough for the hole to be cut and Kau Pai Shek, in the Colony of and rubber, if not so des- 13 per cent. was taken up by shall give you particulars when
That would have needed a lifting dustrial salt, while cotton, ofl postal savings banks. Some of Cassia Lingia on the way. I the buoy. The promptitude with paratus from a depth greater than the occupants extricated.
which steps were taken reflects can be helped, owing to the phy- Hong Kong for a term of 75 perately needed, are in con- the Exchange Equalization they arrive at Bombar
credit -'on all, particularly the steal effects of the water pressure. capacity of some hundreds or tons, which in the position of the years, with the option of renewal tinuous
and Fund, which obtained the Further, the Mitsui Bussani Kal-KAF, infiz. consumption
boat at a longitudinal angle of Stern: Located at a Crown Rent to be fixed by must be es continuously cash" by selling gold abroad. she only recently sold in the Bom-
nearly 45deg, from the horizontal, the Surveyor of His Majesty the secured. It is safe to pre- Commercial banks took 18 per bay market Raw Silk Denier 20/22 Betores am, on Friday morn
would be extraordinarily difficult KING, for one further term of sume that Tokyo will go on cent., savings banks, six per at a reduced price of about Rs. ing the Brazen located the stern
to apply. Even if all the saĪTĒKU
75 years
taking prime account of the cent., and further large por-20/- a picul. This created an up- of the Thetis sticking out of the fact that, she must live and tions were placed with in-roar in the market and naturally water, and stood by.
There was
capacity of Liverpool had been on the spot on Friday morning it is. Intending bidders are advised fight by what she is free to surance companies, industrial and Hongkong and I was informed inquiries were made at Canton
Tery doubtful if that could have that immediately after the dia buy and sell. Needless to say, concerns, and other organiza- that the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha
been accomplished. posal of the lot the Purchaser her export trade must suffer tions, all of which were urged have taken delivery at Cantón of headmaster has his say, but very boy in view of the present political
Casting Plant (if not the applicant) will be tremendously for it must be to invest the bulk of their Raw Silk which, of course, will few boys are articulate, although situation in China. If the Fox The oxy-acetylene cutting plant required to deposit with an remembered that the British reserves in state bonds. No ultimately be shipped to Bombay, they may feel strongly and even mom boy were in his opinion arrived on the scene by 10 sm.
the only one worthy of the place, he but by that time the stern of the authorised officer who will he Empire at the present time less than 13 per cent., how- Now, this clearly proves that the rightly about their action.
In the first place, the choice o should have at least ascertained his had again submerged, and present at the sale, the sum of takes some fifty per cent. of ever, was met by extra note closure of the Pearl River and the
Japan's exports.
circulation, which increased ban on post parcels is only a head prefect should not be dour the feelings of the staff and boys the tide was too strong for divers two hundred dollars, ($260) in
JAPAN'S total resources of from Y.1,866,000,000 at the brought into force to make it pos- without due consultation with the before announcing his appoint. cash. This sum will be refunded raw materials and plant are end of 1936 to Y2,755,000,000 sible for Japanese traders to reap mes, the prefects themselves are ing a head prefect who is not patched; but they are chumay teachers or housemasters Some-mant. To insist upon appoint Lifting camels had been dis- on payment of the Purchase narrowly United and, should at the end of 1938,
the advantage of this trade, i the blockade boomerang fly
JAPAN IS UNWISE to at-
Will you please voice this grie commited as to who should be ap- accepable to the majority of the boys objects, and can only be towed at vance in your paper?
pointed head prefect. Very often is, to say the least, unwise, even ave knots and the fide stream back to the thrower, she will tempt to force "show downs".
L and people like me; who have prefects are given the chance to though the measure may be carried against them reached two kots PARTICULARS OF THE LOT most certainly suffer far more and to enforce blockades. traded in China for the last afty make their nominations,
through in the name of discipline at times. seriously than she would care She must realize that such years are surprised that the Bri-
Secondly, the headmaster shoul" and loyalty.
Some of the most expert to admit. Early in the pre-are doorned to failure and she tish Government is quietly and always bear in mind that shility Fourthly, surely there are other divers in the world, who were sent
China, must realize even more that calmy allowing the rain of Eng is not the only factor governing boys in the school who may have working on the sunken measures had to be taken to she cannot successfully carry ish people as well as Britons
the selection of a head prefect, qualifications approaching those of ships in Scape Flow or even & prefect for that matter the Formosan lad. After all, the south by alt. • Their reduce the civilian consump-out her threats because such
ANTI-MONOPOLY.
Qualities of leadership have to bi feelings of the boys are not valuable, but tion of goods so that more will only serve as boomerangs
considered. A good athlete may be entirely neglected in a school could conquer the resources could be used for. and react most unfavourably D.B.S. DISPUTE
be a good prfefect, but if he with any pretence to Meals of the service of the armed as far as the Japanese people
[To the Editor, the "Hongkong also the school bully and un-¦ self-government forces. Direct control and are concerned. While Great,
Dally "Press"} planning of industry was only Britain is not given to making
Bir have noticed your head slowly and partially intro threats, it is of paramount lines on the Schoolboys Strike with duced, because "big business" importance to learn that she some is more intractable in Japan is prepared to use force to sestion 'than it is even in America, meet force to uphold her legal premio The curtailment of consump rights in this part of the should 474 tion was also wholly achieved world in case of necessity tandr
price.
1. No. of Sale.
Howloon Inland Lot | Registry No
"Fing Street Kau
Locality.
Pui Shek
Boundary
Menure-
munta.-
salo plain
Contenta in
19
About
Square foot.
2,220.
Mistres
$
**: į Upact Frice.
war
with
It seems probable, therefore, that the ballast and fuel Wers deliberately manipulated so KS to raise the stern, In order to.
bring the after escape hatch
popular with the boys he should The suggestions noted above are
About all
put forwar to clarify the situa he ruled out must not the slightest sug
latest, sugation, this
me feel that I Takdi
rom the under
The could ha
wante
mas
to descend.
Appearing before Mr Forrest at the Ce terday. charged.
handbar (sorr
Jez= unemployed iyon
Was Temended