"Hongkong Dally Prèss"--Nov. 9. 1939,
Mason
WEATHER FORECAST:-NORTH `EAST AND EAST WINDS MODERATE; CLOUDY.
Hongkong Daily Press.
the cold meat Sance
Begistered sa a Newspaper at the General
Post Once in the "United Kingdom.
報西
ESTABLISHED 1857
刺孖
No. 25333
生産拾叁佰仟伍弍第
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1939.
HON. MR. DODWELL ON CHALLENGE
TO THOSE WHO MENACE
FREEDOM OF THE SEAS
Mrs. Andresen Christens
New Norwegian Vessel
At The Kowloon Docks
SPEAKING AT A RECEPTION held in the Moulding. Loft of the Kowloon Docks yesterday evening following the launching of a new Norwegian motor vessel, the Hon. Mr. Stanley H. Dodwell, Chairman of the Board of Dired- tors of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., de- clared that at the present time the launching of a new ship was of the utmost importance to all. It was a chal-` lenge to those who menace the freedom of the seas as well as a demonstration of the determination of the mer- cantile marine of all the peace-loving nations to assist the allied navies to keep open, at all costs," the trade routes of the world.
The new vessel was named Rifles, and HKSRA. The officers Hermelin the launching cere-later attended the reception. mony being performed as darkness was falling by Mrs.
Imperial
Airways' Plane Shot Down The Imperial Airways sildweek
southbound plane to Bangkok from Hongkong. carrying mail and passengers, has been reported shat down on Walchow Island.
Manager
NO DETAILS
15-19 Marina House, Queen's Road: Central,
G.P.O. Box No. 1
(General Manage
ABOUT YOUR EYES
A Word be the Wine in Suffialens, When you trust your precious gift of sight to a qualified and oid setablish- od house mich at our you haɛ w that you are giving your eyûn the very Ehas own poeribla given. charges are reasonable and compare favourably with the charges of reput- ablu and qualified optometrists as home. We could marice quality for cheapnees but that is net our policy. Only the very best is good enough for you eyes.
Safeguard Your Eyes By Consulting
日玖月登拾年玖拾叁佰玖千查其
Price
Pus
JOPTICIANSE
Single Copy: 10 Cents. Per Month: $3.00.
3-POWER PACT BELGO DUTCH MEDIATION
RATIFICATION
ANKARA, Nov. 8 (Reu- | ter)-The Turkish Nation-
al Assembly, is meeting today when the Foreign Minister will present the Anglo-Franco-Turkish Pact for ratification.
THREE MORE REPORTED MISSING
SHIP BLOWN UR BY MINE
Slu
30.
a
The aircraft Dardanus, under the command of Captain J. N. Wilson assisted by First Officer J. |F. Raeburn, departed from Kal Tak yesterday morning at seven o'clock. The passengers were Mr. Levy, en route to Bagdad. Mr, A.
Three more persons were report- Hertzberg to Southampton and
ed to the police yesterday as being Mr. O. Cuevas flying to Rangoon. among those missing as a result Mall carried totaled 109 kilos. of the destruction of the steamer The report reached Commander Kwong Hung and the steamboat A. D. S. Murray, Far Eastern Tai Lee by a mine off Kap HON. MR. S. H. DODWELL
of Imperial Airways. Mun about 11 p.m. on Oct. Proposing a triple toast, the Hon. from Fort Bayard which had pre-They are Wan Lin-cho, 33, who is B. O. Andresen, the wife of Mr. Dodwell said:-
sumably received information from now reported by his wife, who lives Mr. B. Owrum Andresen, In our Yard Register of new Captain Wilson hitseit, Manager of Thoresen & Co., buildings, the Hermelin agures as
at 60 Belchers Street, first floor, as Ltd., agents for Messrs. Bruus- Ship No. 818. It may interest you
being missing since the disaster.
gaard Kiosterud & Co., to know that according to this
At a late hour last night the It is believed that Wan was Drammen, owners of the Register, ship No, 1 was launched Pane had not arrived in Hanoi passenger on one of the ill-fated Hermelin. It is of interest to in 1880, but was really not much and is. therefore, believed to be vessels. recall that the first Hermelin larger than
still on the Island. a launch, She was, was launched at the Kowloon however, by no means the first details are available at present, Wong Bik-leong, 29 and Pang Docks in November 1917 when ship to be built in Hongkong. The nor is there any official informa- Kin, 33 both natives of Tongkun honour of accomplishing this feat on regarding damage to the are reported to have been missing Mr. Dodwell was then also Chairman of the Dock Co. falls to one Thomas Lamont in pane, if any has been sustained. since the date of the disaster and 1841, who also gave his name to About a year ago Captain Wil-it is established they were both Mrs. Andresen was presented the first dock built in Hongkong, sun was involved in a similar in-passengers on the King Hung on with a platinum and diamond wrist watch.as a memento of the our Lamont Dock at Aberdeen ident while en route to Bangkok | that fateful voyage.
The vessel's name might appro- from Hongkong when he radioed It will be recalled that the Present to witness the ceremony Priately have been Ploneer but as the Kai Tak station that he was steamer Kwong Hung and
matter of fact. In deference no being fired on by alreraft. 7 yesterday, on a special platform. were men from the Middlesex Re-doubt to our Chinese friends. it ever, it was not necessary to make
a forced landing at that time. giment and Indian soldiers from was Celestial.
The incident involving the the Rajputana" Rlies, Kumaon
Dardanus has been reported the Hongkong authorities
occasion.
Continued on page 5
No further
How-
-- WERE PASSENGERS
the
steamboat Tal"Lee left. Canton on Oct. 29 towing the Tai Hing junk
and another to Hongkong when she struck a mine while off Kap to Siu Min. Forty persons were then reported to have been missing" and several were admitted to the Kow-.)
Dynamite Bombs Hurled DEMONSTRATION on Hospital for treatment.
At Junk: $6,000 Robbery In Hongkong Waters
DYNAMITE BOMBS WERE HURLED AT A JUNK which was eventually stopped and robbed by armed men while in Hongkong waters a few days ago. Fortunately nobody was injured, but the robbers got away with a haul of over $6,000 worth of merchandise.
OF INFANTRY FIRE POWER
LONDON, Nov. 8 (Reuter's Special War Service)-The Domi- nilor. Minstera and Sir Zafrullah Khan, representing the Govern- ment of India, today saw some secrets of Britain's ultra modern army.
They visited the Army training A report to this effect was for Waglan. Shortly after dusk he centre and besides being shown made to the Water Police yes-saw a large junk coming up from some of the marvels of the lates: When that junk was mechanised units they were given terday by Lam Nien, 28-year the south.
about 26 yards away its occupants a demonstration of the immense old master of junk No.
threw dynamite bombs, at his junk are power of the infantry. T1972H, and whose residence
Two bombs fell into the sea, but is at 1, Wing Shing Street, two fell into his junk and exploded. ground cor.
Fortunately nobody was injured.
Lam told the police that he sail- ed bla. junk from San Mel about 4.38 pm on Monday with a cargo
DR. SUN FO IN.
LONDON
LOCKED IN HOLD
demon-
They watched a mock battle in' which a kilted, regiment. ad- vanced with Bren guns and smothered with a hail of fire targets 500 yards distant. Men on the attacking junk then In the middle of the fired several rounds from their stration the gas alarm was given revolvers and ordered his junk to but the infantry donned masks heave-to. Ten men, four of whom and maintained the attack. were armed with revolvers, then boarded his junk and ordered all the males down into the hold and LONDON, Nov. 8 (Reuter)—Dr. locked them up there. The two Sun Fo, President of the Legisla-women on board tried to hide tive Yuan, arrived kete from Paris among some blankets on deck. where he was staying since his
The robbers sailed his junk for arrivel from Moscow and was met bassador in London, with whom he stopped. He could tell this from
the sound of the moving water. is staying.
The robbers then started to The visit is a private one and was the result of the latter'a vist transfer all his cargo into their to Dr. Sun Fo in Paris last week. junk. They took 20 baskets of Dr. Sun Fo and Dr. Que Tai-eggs. value $800; 68 tins of wood chi called on Lord Halifax this oil, value $2,040; 23 pigs value $550; and other merchandise the aggre- afternoon and had a lengthy con gate value of which he assessed at
over $8,000,
S
-
OFFER BEING CAREFULLY
CONSIDERED IN LONDON
Peace Attempt Welcomed In Canada: German Troop Concentrations On Frontiers Of Belgium And Holland
LONDON, Nov. 8 (Reuter) - The Belgo - Dutch offer of mediation is receiving careful consideration in London but it is emphasised that Britain will not only have to consult France and the Dominions but also the Polish Government,
1
The Polish Premier and Foreign Minister are coming to London next week as guests of the British Government.
From Ottawa, Reuter reports that Canada welcomes the peace attempt under the initiation of King Leopold and Queen Wilhelmina.
"If peace could be determined on the Allies' terms the Canadians feel that the Allies, in the key position, should either exact terms that guarantee no further wars, or forcibly end any possible recurrence of Hitlerism.”
NAZIS FLY OVER DUTCH & BELGIAN TERRITORY
(Reuter's
PARIS, Nov. 8 The full list of casualties is not Special War Service)-Ger- and it is expected that man troops are concentrated further reports of missing persons all along the Dutch and Bel- will be received by the police.
known
H.K. Thanked
For Gift To B.W.O.F
gian frontiers and German planes have been making re- connaissance flights over both these countries, according to the Petit Parisien.
The paper says: "It is no secret that large conceptra- tions of German troops, es- pecially motorised units, have
QUEEN WILHELMINA
RIBBENTROP CALLED TO TALK WITH FUEHRER
KAUNAS, Nov. 8 (Reuter)- After receiving the telegram containing the Belgo-Dutch ... mediation offer, Herr Hitler recalled Herr von Ribbentrop, Nazi Foreign Minister, from the Soviet Embassy in Berlin where he was attending a reception, which
also attended by Field-Marshal Goering, in celebration of the
shevik Revolution.
was
NEUTRALITY 22nd anniversary of the Bol- been effected in the last few IS HANGING
days along the Belgo-Dutch frontiers.
Ribbentrop and Hitler had a lengthy conference over the peace proposals before the Fuehrer went
IN BALANCE to Munich for the Nazi Putsch
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 8 (Reu–
and
2
British War Organisation Fund, Lady Northcote, President of the Hongkong Branch, received the following cable from Sir William
"These concentrations stretch
celebrations. Goschen, Secretary of the Red from Aix-la-Chapelle to the North
Questioned regarding the de- Cross and St. John War Organisato bear on the whole Dutch and
Sea and thus bring direct threat ter)-People both in Holland livery of American aeroplanes to tion, acknowledging receipt of the
Belgium are realising the Alles, Goering told correspon- Colony's first donation of £10,000.
Belgian territory.
that their neutrality is hang-dents: "If our production of planes "Have just received ArAt "Further, German planes latelying in the balance. Both is not quicker than America's we donation £10,000 to Red Cross have been dying systematically countries continue to take must be very feeble." and St. John, War Organisa-
over the two countries, especially tlon. Please express our deep
Belgium, and the conclusion can appreciation
be drawn that these are recon- and heartfelt thanks to public of Hongkong
naissance flights of a for this splendid support
nature." Writing. GOSCHEN.”
precautionary measures.
In Holland, some parts have military been flooded while a state of emergency has been declared in other regions.
CAMP VISITED LONDON, NOV. 8 Reuter)The
BUSES REQUISITIONED Dominion Ministers who are at
BRUSSELS, Nov. 8 (Reuter's present in London today visited
Special War Bervice)-Buses and the Army training camp. They The Eurasia Aviation Corpora motor coaches were requisitioned in training and Infantry equipped shortly be opened to passenger saw the latest mechanised units tion's Hamt-Chungking line will here today.
and freight traffic, according to information from the Ministry of Communication(Central News).
by Dr. Quo Tai-chi, Chinese Am-nearly three hours before they with Bren guns.
veikation.
•
Britain Has Surprise
For Enemy
MASTS. CUT
The robbers then cut the masts and rudder of his funk and dam- aged it to the extent of about $300. After the robbers had left, he went on deck but it was too dark
to see in which direction they
went. The robbers' craft was 2
Опе of the most up-to-date section of the camp was the cook house which is the last word in catering for troops.
N.Z. FINANCIALTM POSITION WELLINGTON, Nov. 8 (Reuter) The financial position of New Zealand is given by the Finance Minister, Mr. Frazer, who said that the position is very antisfac- tory, income, exceeding expendi-
ture.
For the six months ending Sept. 30 revenue was £15,000.000 which
is an iricrease of £1,500.000 while
increase of £1,000,000,
LONDON. Nov. 8 (Reuter's three mast junk with three white expenditure totalled 218,000,000 an Special, War Service)-The Director cloth sails.
of Scientiac Research, talking at a After drifting hopelessly for press conference on secret wea- some time, his craft was sighted
PARIS, Nov. 6 (Reuter)—A čom. pons, sald:"I do not imagine there by another junk which towed it munique Issued today stores: is going to be any surprise in this into Aberdeen this morning when There is a recrudescence of acti- war from the enemy but we cer: he went straight to the police and vity on the part of contact units. tainly have got one for him.” lodged his complaint.
There were local artillery actions."
"M. HENRI COSME FOR SAIGON
4
NO DEFINITE ATTITUDE AMSTERDAM, Nov. 8 (Reuter)---
that no Newspapers here. state definite attitude would be taken by Germany in respect of the peace proposals until Hitler has made up his mind.
dam
LITTLE HOPE NEW YORK, Nov, 8 (Reuter)
All correspondents agree, how- Official circles in Washington en-ever, that the first reception of the tertain little hope of the offer's peace move has been friendly. success. The suggestion could not It is remarked in Amster- be accepted that the United States
that the Belgo-Dutch change her political attitude, and
Initiative was preceded by agree to consider the peace pro-
sharp German press 'attacks on posals on the existing military
Holland and Belgium for their CHUNGKING, Nov. 8 (Reuter)-situation and the partition of Cze- attitude to the "British sen A Chinese despatch from Shang- choslovakia.
dictatorship.". hal states that the French Am- |bassador, M. Henri Coune, is leav- ing Shanghai tomorrow (Nov. 9) for Hongkong en route to Saigon for a conference with the Gover- Page nor of French Indo-Chins, after which the French Ambassador wili proceed to Kunming by air on küs
-On Other- Pages
Stubbs Cup polo Softball notes 8.C.A.A. entries
Radio programmes.
EXHIBITION"
2
2
2
way to Chungking.
Hockey chatter
2
Valley rugby
2
N.Z. CENTENARY
3
Coming events
3
Crossword puzzle
Council questions
5
Leader: Income Tax
Hello and goodbye
.8
Way.
8
8
9
Army Rowing regatta' |A.R.F; orders qu
Soccer review Finance, commerce
WELLINGTON, Nov. 8 (Reuter)
The New Zealand Centenary Exhibition was opened today by
American influence will be exerted fully when the time is ripe for a lust and lasting peace based on international law but 'officials" admit private- ly that such a possibility does Continued on Page 7
Soviet Demanding
Air Bases
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 8 (Reuter a
Dutch correspondents in Berlin reported demands that Holland should flaunt British contraband. control and have been told that Holland's neutrality is one-sided.
FIERCE ATTACK). BERLIN, - NOV. 8 (Renter)—No comment regarding the peace, offer by Belgium and Holland is made in the German press which, ls con- tinuing to launch a ferce attack. on neutrals charging them with failure to defend neutrality in the face of the British blockade and contraband control.
The German press is magnifying
the Governor-General Lord Gal-Special" War Bervice)-A report the inconveniences caused to neu
from Tallinn states that the Bo-tral shipping by control in order The Exhibition will last for six viet is demanding inland air bases to distract attention from German months and commemorates 100 from Estonia, instead of the island attack on neutral rights and the Fears of British sovereignty and bases provided" in the Soviet-U-boat campaign against neutral
Estonian Pact
ships.
settlement.