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HONGKONG, OCTOBER 10, 1830
"DOUBLE TENTH"
Double Tenth," the twenty eighth anniversary of the proclama- tion of the Chinese Republic in Nanking on October 10, 1911. For two days now, Hongkong, a British Colony has been bedecked with Chi- Every nese national flags. enterprise operating here, whether British or Chinese, Is observing the anniversary as a public holiday..
TO-DAY is the
IT IS NO ACCIDENT that
"this is the case. Britain has,
from the beginning, watched with the deepest sympathy and admiration the growth of Republican China. During his years of struggle against the Manchu tyranny. Dr. Sun Yat-sen spent much time in England and took new heart from the knowledge that thousands of forward-looking men and women there sym- pathised with his aspirations. Once formed, the Republic quickly ΠΟΣ British re- cognition.
NEW RADIO
DIALS NEXT
YEAR
LISTENERS MUST PAY TO CHANGE Millions of radio sets in Britain
will need new dials when the re- vised Montreux wave-length plan for Europe comes into operation next March. The changes have created a far more difficult pro- blem for manufacturers than the previous reshuffle in 1934, writes a Home correspondent.
At that time, when the Lucerne plan was applied, manufacturers had not generally adopted the practice of putting, station names on receiver dials." Now practically every receiver sold has names on the tuning scale.
The opening of the Radio Ex- hibition recently had created a further. problem. Sets were shown as the exhibition with tun- ing scales that must be changed in six months time, a sub-committee of the Radio Manufacturers' Asso- clation has been considering the whole question and has made a number members.
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of recommendations to
NO FREE FITTING
It is proposed that no new scales
shall be supplied by manufacturers before Jan. 1. 1940, and that no manufacturer shall offer free fit- ting of replacement scales.
As regards press-button sets, it is recommended that manufactur- ers should fix charges to be made by their dealers, or could leave dealers free to make any charges they desired.
made
It was agreed that, sets exhibited this autumn at Radiolympia must be fitted with "old" scales, but that purchasers should be supplied with a new scale at the nominal charge of half a crown, fitting extra. The AFTER THE SUCCESS of majority of manufacturers were the Kuomintang anti-mil- against the provision of new scales Itarist expedition, a new era for sets bought before 1937, In
Other recommendations relations Anglo-Chinese
the were that there should be a charge was inaugurated by
of 4s for new scales for sets sid Chen-O'Malley Agreement. By this instruïment, Britain recognized the National Gov- ernment. Throughout the succeeding years, co-opera- tion between the two coun- tries increased and deepened. China purchased from Eng- land a large part of the
between the 1938 and 1939 exhibi tions, and a charge of 58 6d, for sets sold between the 1937 and 1938 exhibitions.
EDITORIAL
MR. LIN SEN, Chairman of the National Govern- ment, is an old revolutionary and the present head of the Chinese State
REQUIREMENTS FOR POSSIBLE EMERGENCY
OUTLINED
BY BY D.M.S.
Three Dispensers' Appeals Are Dismissed
Remarking that he had not been given the opportunity of putting the requirements of the Civil Medical Defence Scheme before the Compulsory Service Tribunal, Hon. Dr. The manufacturers are not, of P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, Director of Medical Services, briefly course, themselves responsible for outlined his requirements for a possible emergency when the wave-length changes. which he was heard by the Compulsory Service Appeals Tribunal were made by the representatives of the various European broad-in the Supreme Court yesterday in connexion with the organisations, including appeals of three dispensers for transfer from the Com- tional reconstruction, secured the B.B.C. at a conference con- batant Group (medical) to the Essential Services Group. British assistance for her vened by the International Broad- (medical). currency In its
struggle casting Union.
materials needed for her na-
against the encroaching Yen
änd in many
other ways
ATTACK
on
casting
WOMAN FOUND
DYING
•
WOITS,
turned the friendship be- tween the two countries into a source of profit for both.
JAPAN'S Shanghai shortly after the A Chinese
about 33 occupation of Manchuria years of age. was removed to the showed the Yangtze valley, Kowloon Hospital yesterday, in a traditionally
of dying condition. She was found a sphere British enterprise, was not to in 80 Kun Wat Village, suffering be immune from her aggres- from head injuries, believed to 2 motor sive intentions. The gallant have been caused by
vehicle,
to
way further stress British determination keep in touch with Free China..
resistance of the Nineteenth Route Army in the port city, "on the other hand," made il clear that only a strong China would be able to defend not herself alone, but the whole treaty position in the Far IN ENGLAND itself, there East. The confidence in the has been something of a tug National Government mani- of war between the false fested at the time of the "realists who see only the voluntary rendition of the Japanese domination of the British concessions in Han-coast, and those other, truer kow and Kiukiang and the realists, who have insisted leased territory of Weihaiwel that
polley be based on now expressed itself through China's will to resist until active assistance to China in victory is gained. her effort to convert herself
into a modern Industrial state.
The Appeals Tribunal was composed of the Chief Jus- tice, Sir Atholl MacGregor (chairman), Brigadier A, B. Thomson and the Hon. Mr. Stanley H. Dodwell, and the dispensers whose were heard
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WHAT TO DO
·WITH £30,000 --
STAMPS IN WAR
MANY NEW ISSUES
EXPECTED
The stamp follows the bag. Philatelists - In, all parts of the world will be preparing already to open up
in their new pages albums to receive the special issues.
of postage stamps that must in evitably spring from the, présent] copfiet.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1939
STRANGE SIGHTS BEHIND GERMAN SIEGFRIED LINE
LONDON, Oct, 9 (Reuter) The following is a story by "Eye Witness" who is with the Royal Air Force some-" where in France:
From a slim young Flight-Liëntenant, who participat- ed in an amazing survey over the Siegfried Line, In the course of which the planes seldom flew, above 100 feet and - were only once fired on, I learned of some of the stange ·
things encountered behind the enemy defences.
In the course of their re- The Fight-Lieutenant, who was connaissance, the airmen quable to account for the fact:
The Great War of 2814-18 took a wonderful series of that the only fire directed against: brought into philatelic prominence photographs of the German them was from a solitary ordinary stamps of a category which up defence works.
to that time had attracted but
little attention.
UNFINISHED
STATZ
Under the generic title of "War "The thing which impressed me Stamps" they erabraced ultimately most," the Flight-Lleutenant · told- some thousands of varieties of me "was the obviously, undnished "high historical and philatelic state of the Siegfried Line. It Is
interest. Including those issued absurdly easy to identify, because i under military authority by the the grass has not yet had t'me to
on' both, gròw over the scarred earth, armies of occupation
s'des, stamps used by army post
"In many places, we saw mounds i cffices in the neid, stamps carrying of freshly, dug earth, but nowhere a surtax in aid of the Red Cross saw anyone actually at work on and other war-time charities, war the fortifications.
tax stamps denoting additional postage as a contribution to defence funds, and a.host. of associated em'ssions, many of them short- lived and consequently acquiring enhanced value in the collectors' mart
"In one place, we flew over. a huge gun, which a group of men were camouflaging. I dis- tinctly saw them" gaping at us with paint-pots in their hands, apparently unable to move. "We passed. many villages.
machthe-gun, cannot offer an ex- planation for the strange reluc- tance of the Germans to protect the secrets behind their lines.
The things which mystifies him were the series of curious “ unidentifiable mounds and pits in the fields and woods.. at:angely, large barns, of uni- form pattern, on the eätskirts. of many villages, susplelons. looking new buildings and con- erete turrets on the outskirts of villages, curious experi ments in camouflage and 'sometimes. what might' have bein completa dummy villages.
been
All preparations having completed, the Chengtu Edition of the Central Daily News officläl bus organ of the Central Government.. in-will make its debut in Chengtu streets were į to-day. China's National Day-
(Central News),
The rarest stamp of modern times is the unique 1 mark issue did not see a single civilian
habitant and the of the former German colony
of Toge provisionally overprinted nearly always deserted." "Togu
Occupation Franco- Anglaise." now in the Bute Collec-
tion.
From whence and in what form' the Arst stamps of the present war will materialze it is early to forecast, but stamp dealers report a growing demand for the postal issues of Poland and Danzig: the latter in the expectations that the distinctive stamps of the Free City will soon be replaced by those, of the Third Reich.
WAR RECORD HELPS MOTORIST
Frederick Robert Outhwaite, 41. al engineer. of Warwick-gardens, Kensington, pleaded guilty at Fel- tham 'recently to driving a car while under the influence of drink at 9.30 pm, on Aug. 11 at Great South-West-road, Bedfont.
Outhwaite, said Mrs. Lloyd Lane, joined the Navy as a boy. For gallantry at Zeebrugge he was awarded the Distinguished Ser- vice Cross and given command of
submarine chaser, On Aug. 11. 1918, he fought single-handed á battle against four German 'planes for five hours in the. North Sea, until the ship was burned under- him and he was taken prisoner.
The Bench discharged Outhwaite under the First Offenders Act on payment of £20 costs,
of
King's
Fleet:
H
M.
Confidence In His Impressed By Keen
And Cheerful
King George VI
Navy Treaty Suspended
LONDON, Sept. 7 (By Air Mail) Britain, being at war, is no longer
Mr. Henry Scott. 24-years-old bound by the London Naval Treaty barrister. Rotherwick-road, of 1936 or by the bilateral agrée- Golders Green, N.W., lay for Ave ments arising from it which were! hours in agony after he had made with the U. 8. S. R. in 1937 #ractured both legs and several and Poland last year. ribs in a 100ft, ci fall at It was officially announced last
Ke Ravenscar, Yorkshire. was night that the Powers "concerned
Spirit
LONDON, Oct. 9. (Renter)— The Admiralty announces that, - after visiting the Fleet, H. M the King stated: “Having vixit, ød representative ships and establishments. I have been much impressed by the keen and cheerful spirit that unites you la the determination to bring the war toʻa mitessfal conclusion.
"Your task may be long and arduous, but I have every confidence. In your ́altimate
necess."
COMMANDER'S REPLY The Commander-in - Chief of the Home Fleet signalled the following reply on behalf of the omicers and men of the Home Fleet and Auxiliaries: "However long and arduous the task may be, they not swerve from their determination to do their utmost to ensure victory,”
AIRMEN DECORATED
* While visiting the Fleet, the King went to the Flert Air Arm Aerodrome and decorated airmen who recently achieved a certain northern ses triumph.
Mrs. Mary Smith, of Clogher. appeals County Tyrone, already has every- were Messrs. thing she wants. And now she has Wesley Thom, E. B. David and been left £30,000 by her half H. 8. Clayton.
brother, Mr. Robert Brommy a New Mr. Thom stated that he was York rail-road magnate, whom she a qualified despenser and as he last saw more than fifty years ago. Her problem is-what to do with knew Chinese he felt he would work better among Chinese where It. his knowledge of the language- She is 84, grey-haired, and frail, eventually rescued by coastguards have been notified that the treaty would be usetal.
the wife and mother of solicitors in a boat and tended by a doctor and agreements are indennitely ANOTHER JUNK
suspended.” Mr. H. 8. Clayton said that he was formerly a demonstrator at
The treaty limited new" capital the University and as he knew
"I came to Ireland from America
Britain's factories were safer ships to 35,000 tons with 16in. guns; most of the civilian doctors" be when I was a girl and got married. last year. Total accidents fell by cruisers, 10,000 to 17,500 tons with felt he could work better with But I've been back, there from: per cent, and fatal accidents by sin, to 10in. guns; aircraft carriers the Civilian Group, while Mr. time to time. I was very, very 7 per cent. Accidents to young to 23,000 tons with 6.lin guns and David stated that he was gaining Tond of Robert, and Tve kept re- workers-under 18-were 7 valuable experience with a firm "gularly in touch with him by let-cent, the lowest since 1935. of wholesale chemists. and he felt ter. He was a bachelor, that he would be mare useful in civil medical work.
CONSIDERABLE INCREASE
"I always knew I would get the during the retum journey.' money," she said:
per ́submarines to 2,000 tons with 5.1in.
guns
New Nazi Fortifications On Belgian Frontier
· “What" will I do with it? really I can't just say at the moment.” And she smiled.
Mt. Bromm had a-luxuriəz Dr. Selwyn-Clarke said that a house and grounds at White Plains. possible emergency would pieces New York, Mrs. Smith son; Mr. altate a considerable increase L
W. H. Smith, is out there now look-. hospital and other facilities for ing after his mother's interests in IT IS THIS LATTER SEN- the treatment of the sick,
PARIS, Oct. 9 (Reuter)—Activity on the Western Front Most the estate. TIMENT which is maintained of the private medical practi
has increased although there are, as yet, no indications of the Germans planning a major offensive in the near future., by the British nation as a tioners would be mobilised for SUCCESSFUL RESISTANCE | whole. Admiration for China's various services, and civilians who
SIR · CLARK KERR
The area southwest of Saarbruecken is the main theatre to the armed Japanese in- fight, realization that Bri- normally went to such doctors for CHUNGKING; Öet. 9 (Reuter) of activity. There were further attacks by enemy patrols vasion, when it finally came tain's and China's interests treatment would call on the Civil It is not yet possible to say how during Saturday night, but these were all repulsed. Other. in 1937, once again stressed are common, and firm faith Medical Service for treatment. long the British Ambassador, Sirwise the French and German communiques agree that night the unity of interest between that Generalissimo Chiang
He said there were two main Archibald Clark Kerr, will be able
was quiet. China and Britain. Japanese Kai-shek will lead China to types of patients to be catered for to stay in Chungking, though bullets drew the blood not victory in war and success in a casualties from action and (b) probably a month. only of tens of thousands of reconstruction are universal the ordinary sick. In his estima- Mr. B. L Prideaux, who leads China's fighters, but also of in Great Britain, N
tion they would need a minimum the Diplomatic Mission here. is H.M. Ambassador, Sir Hughe, TO-DAY, on
of 18 qualined dispensers, so far, leaving for Kunming. During his Knatchbull-Hugessen, and of eighth anniversary of the hall the required number. Dis Secretary of the Embassy, will the twenty they only had only 23-less than absence, Mr. W. O. Hayter, Becond British soldiers determined foundation of the Chinese pensers take three to four years take his post, that the aggressors should Republic, we re-affirm what to train
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not use the sector of the we have always firmly be- DUTIES RESTRICTED
sing work is simplified by having Settlement which they guard-lieved that after the storm He submitted that the three men numbers for names of medicines. ed as a base against the clouds all over the world have whose appeals were being heard The Chairman pointed out that Chinese on
the Shanghal passed and all aggressors had been acting in civil life as military medical work nevertheless front.
have gone to
their well-chemists, desilng with prescrip needed qualifed men SIR HUGHE'S TEMPORARY deserved
Hons for ordinary sick, including The Chairman, in dismissing the doom, China, SUBSTITUTE, Mr. R. G. nation of 450,000,000 free hospitals there would be only male satined that the decisions of the women and children. In military three appeals said that he was Howe, and his successor, Bir men and women, will emerge patients requiring attention and Tribunal were fair and equitable Archibald Clark Kerr have as one of the great democratic their duties will be restricted to and he saw no reason why they spent more time in Nanking, Powers of the earth, a friend a particular type of work,
should be reversed, Hankow and Chungking than worth having and a justifica- Dr. Belwyn-Clarke said that he Mr. A. A. Timis, journalist, em- any of their predecessors tion of the hope and con- had had experience from 1914 to ployed by the Hongkong. Tele- spent in the National capital. fidence reposed in her stead- 1918 as a caplain in the R. A. M. C. graph” was transferred from the The building of the Burma fast fight by men of goodwill and his experience covered field Naval Volunteers to the Volunteer Road and the plans for a rail-in every part of the globe, and hospitals "most of the disgen Defence Force
WAR COMMUNIQUE
ROBBERY
FIREWOOD CARGO
STOLEN
Cheong Ki-yan, master of junk No. T9TH, of An Tau Village. Bias Bay, in a report to the police, stated that while passing Bou Sea Mun at 11.30 am, on September 27, a fishing junk with seven rob- bers on board, fired three or four. shots at his junk and ordered khaz to lower his salis..
Cheong, with two members of ordered into the the crew and two passengers, were hold and the hatch was covered:
The junk had a cargo of 350 Piculs of Arewood, valued at $350, and was bound for Hongkong.
TOOK COMMAND The robbers, three of whom were
The Germans, however, have been sending out patrol PARIS, Oct. 8 (Reuter)-A Warmed with revolvere, then took after patrol apparently with communique atatea surprise command of the junk for over 16 the intention of sounding out raid in the region east of Moselle hours, and anally Cheong and his
south of Saarbruecken. the French lines, particularly by the enemy was repulsed. There crow we ashore at an in-
has been reciprocal artillery ac- known' bland. tions south and south-west of The marauders decamped" with Saar-Louis.
the cargo and $85 in Chinese' cur- rency,
"ARTILLERY ACTIVITY A French military commentator!" points out that this has been ac-
CONCRETE FORTRESS PARIS, Oct 0 (Reuter) The
On October 3, Cheong and his crew were picked up by a passing
companied by intensified heavy Germans are reported to be busily fishing junk and retumed to artillery activity, and by mano- fortifying the frontier from the
Hongkong. - Cheong's boat witch euyres in the Vamt Forest and in north of Luxemburg, along the was abandoned by the robbers was the Blics area. "
Belgian border to Aix La Chapelle:
Apparently the Germans are trying to find a weak spot in the
At one point they are reported to recovered on Binday at Leung
Shun Wan have replaced small fort by a con- crete fortress, 300 feet long with a steel tower carrying a quick-firing, gun,
Burns-Lair
step
French Hines and this view was strengthened by reports that the Siegfried Line has been lengthened."
Behind this for there are re- Enemy operations have not yet ported to be huge reservoirs of had assumed serious proportions and it compressed gas for use against at- Lough may be that the Naz's are adopting tackers breaking through advanced hours waiting and watching tactics, positions
an sirpips burst.
four that