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In the goods of RUBY LAING PEACH late of 2. Moora Flats, 36, Findlay Avenue, Roseville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Widow, deceased,
UNION INSURANCE'
EDITORIAL
MILITARY WEDDING AT Good Progress
ST. TERESA'S CHURCH
SOCIETY OF CANTON, Capt. L. J. C. Loch And Miss
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS. HEREBY GIVEN that an INTERIM DIVIDEND OF 12s. 6d. (Twelve Shillings and Six Pence) per Share on account of the year 1939, has been › declared pay. able on
WEDNESDAY, 15th
NOTICE is hereby given that NOVEMBER, 1939, on and the Court has," by virtue of Sec. after which date Dividend War tion 58 of The Probate Ordinancerants may be obtained ou applica 1897 (No. 2 of 1897), made an tion at the Society's Registered Order limiting the time for send Office, Union Bullding, Hong ing in claims to or agalust the Kong. above estate to the 9th day of
NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO December, 1939.
} GIVEN that the SHARE Creditors and claimants are | TRANSFER BOOKS of the hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned by the above date.
Dated the 14th day of Novem ber, 1939.
LO AND LO, Solicitors for Mr. Francis Robert Lamb, the executor named in the Will of the above-named deceùsed. Alexandra Buildlog, Des Voeux Road Central,
Hong Kong.
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XOTICE
hereby given that BORIS GEORGIEVICH MILENKO, otherwise known as BORIS GEorge milENKO, of No. 377, Nathan Road, Top Floor, Kewloon, Hong Kong, is applying to the Governor for na túralization, and that any person who knows any reason why na turalization should not be granted should send in a written and signed statement of the facts to the Colonial Secretary.
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Society will be CLOSED FROM SATURDAY, 4th NOVEMBER, tó TUESDAY, 14th NOVEM. BER, 1939, Both Days inclusive. By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
"General Manager. Hong Kong, 4th October, 1939.
Isobel M. S. J. Robinson
CAPTAIN LAWRENCE JOHN CARYSFORT LOCA, of the 1st Kumon Rifles, and Miss Isobel Mary Shirley Josephine Robinson, of Stroud Court, Eynsham, Oxford, England, were married yes- terday afternoon In St. Terean's Church. The Rev. Father A. Granelli officiated.
Miss Robinson, who arrived on an Italian liner from Europe last Sunday, was giver away by Colonel J., Moffatt, OPE Her single attendant was Mra, A. Attfeld. The bridal costume, fashioned of pure white chiffon," was designed
Of P.A.A. In Hongkong
TRAFFIC MANAGER'S APPRECIATION
Mr. V. A. Kropff, Pacific Division' Traffic Manager for Pan American Airways, arrived here yesterday on the California Clipper.
The Trame Manager, with head offices in San Francisco, is on an" Inspection of all Pan American Airways' Paciać offices and he will remain in the Colony for a week.
With a broad smile. Mr. Kropff
American Airways' Pacific traffic during the past few months far
along flowing lines. The bodice of CORRESPONDENCE was happy to state that Pan the gown had a high neck and full long sleeves; the waist and hiplines were acted and the f skirt draped to a gathered short i
train in the back. Miss Robin- son's three-yard white silk tulle vell was caught to her head by a group of orange blossoms..
DIAMOND EARRINGS
A beautiful pair of small da- mond earrings and pearls were her only adornments. The bouquet was composed of white flowers and
greens.
CHARITY BAZAAR exceeds last year's figures.
To the Editor, "Hongkong
Regarding the delayed inaugura- Dally. Press"
tion of the Ban Francisco-Auck- Sur.I shall be grateful if you
land service, which was. due to will kindly permit me, through take place last month, it is ex- your columns, to extend to your pected this will be in operation by many readers a warm welcome to January, 1940. All arrangements the Charity Bazaar which the for the operation of the service past and present pupils and staff are completed and the company is of St. Paul's Girls College are now awaiting permission from the organising on Nov. 17 & 18, in the grounds of the College.
Federal Government.
COLONY SUPPORT. Mr. Kropff, speaking of the pro- gress of, Pan American Airways in as to Hongkong. expressed appreciation
of the assistance which has been
The proceeds of this Bazaar will) Mrs. Attfeld, the bridesmaid, go towards British and Chinese wore a floor length frock of rose War Rellef Funds, as well chiffon set on by purple acces-the M.GL sories, and she carried corsage Lady Northcote has very kindly given by the local government and į or varied coloured posies.
consented to open the Bazaar at the support of the local residents. 757- Attending Captain Loch was 3 p.m. on Nov. 17, and I do hope "It has all been greatly appreciated Lieut. J. Tomlinson as bestman. a large gathering will come to pa and the company cherishes this The ushers were Lieut. P. Adland Tonise it. A large assortment of good feeling and co-operation," he Chinese goods has been purchased
stated... specially from China for this en- At the conclusion of the service terprise and I feel that those who the bride and groom departed come, will in addition to helping from the Church under an archway the cause of charity. obtain
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BALANCE
#NOTICE is hereby given OF POWER
that VICTOR ALEXANDRE
VIEIRA RIBEIRO of No. 16 ACCORDING
to 2 report published by a contem-
and Lieut. H. B. Beer...
of swords provided by the bride-large variety of Chinese goods for groom's "brother officers of the Christmas presents to their friends. Kumaon Rifles.
KATIE WOO, PRINCIPAL
A reception was held later on the lawn of the Kumaon Riflesi Officers' Mess in Stockwell Villas.
REFUGEES
IN
THE COLONY
No decrease in the number of refugees and destitutes in the Colony is shown by the returns for the week chding Nov. 11. Urban Areas (Civillans);
King's Park: 1.278 against 1,273
on Nov. 4.
Ma Tau Chung: 913 against 954 on Nov. 4.
North Point: 1,427 against 1451
on Nov. 4, Urban Areas (Soldiers):
S. AFRICA GIFT FOR CHINESE To the Editor, Hongkong Dally Press
tinue the present schedule and Pan American Airways will con-
eventually, it is expected, the two placed by new Boeing crafts simi- a smaller Martin Clippers will be re-
lar to the recent ships added to the Pacific Fleet:
Other passengers arriving on the California Clipper yesterday ware Dr. G. Bellett from San Francisco, Lieut. and Mrs. C. H. Whitesell, U.S.A., from Manila and Messrs. S.) Picornell and S. Brothers, the latter District Sales Manager for Pan American Airways in Manila.
Dear Sir-Accompanying a che que for £10 from a doctor in the Transvaal in South Africa is the i following letter:-
BY POLICE: FOUR GAOLED
Today is my wife's birthday and PROMPT ACTION we had planned to give her a nice birthday present: a Master Toaster and а "badly needed" as our coffeepot is Master Coffeepot, both
does not broken and our toaster work very well, often burning the oast. However, we both feel that the money is much more needed for our Chinese friends in their
In Hospital: 9 against 4 on Nov. present distress."
This is only one of several gifts Ma Tau Chung: 749 against 749 that have come in from South
Kam Tin: 1,900 against 1.853 on Nov. 4.
Carnarvon Road, Kowloon, Hongporary, American arms manu-4. kang, is applying to the Gover facturers expect $1,000,000,000 nor for naturalization, and that worth of orders from Europe on Nov. 4. any person who knows any reason next year. This item is Rural Areas: why naturalization should not be illuminating insofar as it goes granted should send in a written far to explain the abrupt and signed statement of the facts volte face of certain to the Colonial Secretary.
strongly isolationist interests which have suddenly adopted a stand in favour of neu- trality revision.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
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PARTICULARS AND CON.
DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday,
once
THE PROSPECTS . of an
San Uk Ling: 782 against 796 on Nov. 4.
Gll's Cutting: 408 against 412 on Nov. 4.
เ
ture of men and arms in this
American war boom based on part of the world. the demands of the European belligerents put a new com- THE UNITED STATES and plexion on the position in the Japan face each other on the Far East. Previously, not all sea, Japan and China on land. denunciations of Japan The Soviet Union competes launched by Mr. Roosevelt with Japan in land, air and the 20th day of Nov., 1939, at 3 and Mr. Cordell Hull made a power. The strategic do- p.m., at the Offices of the Public whit of difference to the mination which its submarine Works Department, by Order of steady supply of scrap iron fleet is already in a position His Excellency the Governor of and military supplies to one Lot of Crown Land at Japan. But now that the Wong Nel Chung, in the Colony country's "merchants
of
❘ of Hong Kong for a term of death" have found a pro- fitable market for their pro- ducts elsewhere, it may be easier for the Government to
75 years, with the option of renew at a Crown Reat to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Ma jesty the KING, for one further
term of 75 years.
Intending bidders are advised
price.
to exercise over the narrow passages separating Nippon from the Continent, Its limit- less humah reserves, its air fleet and growing industrial capacity render it capable not only of fighting Japan on its
Africa and India since the Euro pean war started. They are in response to an appeal made by the Foreign Auxiliary to the National Red Cross Society of China on behalf of wounded civilians and disabled soldiers in China.
RONALD HONGKONG.
Chairman,
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1939.
Mr. A. "Pa") Mello, septuagenarian sportsman, winner of 1938 Skeets Handicaps, and his two sons, Mr. A. H. Mello, winner of 1939 Skeets Handicap, and Mr. Luis Mello, 1935 Skeets Champion.
60 DROWNED IN WHANGPOO
RIVER TRAGEDY
SHANGHAI, Nov. 14 (Renter) -Between fifty and sixty are reported to have been drowned in the Whangpoo yesterday as the result of a collision between a speeding Japanese military launch and a Chinesɑ ferryboat which was carrying about 100 women workers from Pootang
to Shanghai. The impact threw many the ferryboat's passengers water, where they perished, despite desperate
rescue efforts.
into the
of
WAR FOR RELIGIOUS AND DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM
"
the
SHOOT-OFF OF CLAY BIRD CHAMPIONSHIP
IN MACAO
("From Our Own Correspondent)
ALACAO, Yen, 17 The nh001-0 of the Clay Bird championstilp of ine Macao Sporting Club, which ended in a tle on October 22 he- tween Mr. Antonio Ribeiro and Mr. Emillo da Rosa, was held at the Arels Preta last Sunday, ending in another tie between the two con- testants.
However, upon firing "doubles” from two positions selected by the Judges, "Mr. Antonio Ribeiro suc ceeded in nosing his rival out by two shots, thus gaining the 1939 championship title.
There were few outside spêcta- tors watching "this event as only four competitors fired, to decide the winner of the tle-finalists also
OTTAWA, Nov. 14 (Reuter)-Mr. of the handicap competition held R. J. Mannion, Leader, of
last month in conjunction with Canadian Conservative Party. In a the championship. The four com broadcast last night, described the petitors were Mr. Antonio Ribeiro, war as a flight for religious and Mr. Emilio da Rosa, Mr. Antonio Batalha, Jr. and Mr. A. E de Mello.
"Unless we succeed in smashing a regime of international gang-
The last-named "was the winner
How prompt action by the police resulted in the arrest of five Chi-Democratie freedom. nese who had come from Un Long to Kowloon City with the alleged intention of staging a robbery sterdom." he said, "there will be of the Handicaps and the winning there was revealed at Kowloon grave danger of civilisation sweepstake ticket was he'd by Mr. Court yesterday, when five men being overwhe med. Canada could Hugh Bradley, Commissioner of were charged before Mr. E Hims- not be neutral and remain a
Customs at Lappa. worth with conspiracy to rob, member of the British Common-
wealth,
The accused. Au Kam-tim, 35, Chan Hing. 44, Chan Moon, 23, Chan Kuen, 29, and Leung Yung, 24. with the exception of the last named, were sentenced each to six months' hard labour.
Leung Yung was discharged.
JAPANESE OFFENSIVE IN
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NATURAL CAUSES
VERDICTS
THE JUDGES The judges were Dr. Cassiano, Fonseca," Lt. A. Proenca and Mr. Carlos Silva, analsted by Dr. J. Vila. Franca, chairman of the Club. »
Prizes were distributed to the Verdicts of death from natural aton of the meet by Mra A A respective winners at the conclu-
was recorded at inquests held at the Central Court yester-Mello, Mrs. F. Rodrigues and Mrs.
Nolasco Silva, day into the deaths of three pri-
Refreshment was served during the events.
causes
soners. Mr. T. J. Houston sat an Coroner
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CENTRAL HUPEH CHECKED: Put who was sentenced to Ave CITY OF FLINT WILL
in
CHINESE MOVE IN SHANSI
ICHANG, Nov. 14 (Central) · The Japanese offensive Central Hupeh has been checked.
Mienyang, on a tributary of the Yangtze River, about 80 miles south-west of Hankow, has returned to Chinese control, while Sientaochen, 47 miles south-west of Han- kow, is besieged.
The Japanese at Tsienkiang, about 95 miles above Hankow, have made frequent sortles without success.
HINGTEL, SHENSI, Nov. 14 (Cen~) PAST WEEK REVIEWED
in West CHUNGKING, : Nov. 14 (Reuter)
NOT MEET WITH INTERFERENCE WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (Renter)
. The prisoners were Wong Yuen-
months' hard labour on August 26. He died in the prison hospital an October 29: Chau Tak chung, who was undergoing two years' impri- sonment and who died on Novem--The German Government has ber 8; and Choi Chi, sentenced to notined the United States that four months' hard labour on Octo-German warships have been ber 4, and who succumbed in the dered not to interfere with the prison hospital on November 8.
had been cleared of Japanese
troops
Commenting on the fighting in West Hupeh on the north bank of the Yangtze River, the spokes-
OT-
City of Flint on her way - back to the United States. -
39,150 HEROIN PILLS IN HUT Appearing before. MR. A. D.
back its new and more posi own, but also of decisively tral) Chinese forces tive policy in the Far East complementing either China's shans started a co-ordinated | The Sino-Japanese fighting dur- man. declared that Chinese Forrest at the Central Court yes- with a real curtailment of man-power, deficient by rea- counter-offensive at Slangning ing the past week was mainly con- columns have launched a counter-terday charged with the unlawful shipments to the Island Em- son of technical backward- Fast Saturday night. Intense fined to Japanese attempts to attack against the Japanese forces possession of 38,150 heroin pills that immediately after the dis pire. America's own increas-ness, or America's sea power, fighting is still raging in the out-capture bases of Chinese mobile which captured Meinyang, on the and 637) ounces pink mass, three posal of the lot the Purchaser ed naval and military needs handicapped by huge dis- skirts.
units operating in Shanal, Hupeh, south bank of the Han Rivermen, Wong Wing, Bo Mau and A number of strategic points Klangai, Klangsu,
city from Leung Bang, and a woman, Ma (If not the applicant), will be will also help to ensure that tances and lack of good bases.
and Anhwel After attacking the required to deposit
three directions the Chinese forces Sai, were committed to the Crimin with an not a lathe remains idle in her
~THUS, Russia holds the around the town, including Shim- Provinces, said the Chinese mili authorised officer who will be | workshops.
balance of power in, the Farpu, Yochiayuan, Luchtayuan and, tary spokesman today. The Jap- 10." The Japanese are now re- Male 1
recaptured. Meinyang on November al Bessions. Nanyuan have been recaptured.
anese attacks, he claimed. have present at the sale, the sum of THESE CHANGES in the East, as in Europe. Further,
Dislodged from their outer de- been repulsed.
treating towards Sentaocheng.
The body of a man, about 30 two hundred dollars, ($200) in shadow background of the the United States and Russia, fence, the Japanese have with-
In North Anhwel and Kiangsu, years of age, believed to be a cash. "This sum will be refunded brightly lit stage on which by reason of on payment of the Purchase diplomatic orators do their strength and their neutrality detachment of them attempted to launched an attack on Chinese tacking the southern section of two junks struck a minefield in Referring to the aghting in West the spokesman continued, Chinese victim of the minefield disaster their great drawn inside the walled city. shansi where the Japanese have. troops have been very active at-recently, when a launch towing stuff point to the possibility in the European war, com- break through the Chinese cordon that paper politics in the prise jointly the decisive fac-on Sunday night, but was sur positions on the east bank of the the Tientsin-Pakow Railway and Hongkong waters, was picked up PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Pacific will soon give place to tor of the balance of power in rounded, sustaining heavy losses. Yellow River in the vicinity of also the Grand Canal. The Jap by a police launch of the fore-
Over 1,000 Japanese reinforce Chihsen, Shihhien Pusten and anese had therefore attacked Chi- shore of Red Point yesterday. real power politics. In the the entire world.” new situation thus created, IT IS TO THE UNITED chehg were intercepted.
ments rushing there from Fen-Hsiannaning, the spokesman said nese mobile units bases at Feng- that Chinese columns have at tai and Shoushsien, to the south-
An attack by pirates on a trad- the main forces will be the STATES and the Soviet Union
ing junkoff Shek Ku Chau" on Meanwhile, Chinese units tacked westward-moving Japanese west of "Fengon. United States, Japan, the So- that China now looks for have while other tacks units from the north and south TOWNS RECAPTURED November 9 was reported to "the viet Union, and, as long as assistance in her struggle. on Newwangmiao and Vitaltow, and a Chinese northern column in These two towns, the spokesman Water Police by a man named Ip she maintains her resistance, While the position of these between Blanging and Puhalen.
moving down from Chuntu and a alleged were recaptured on Nov- Tat, a trader, yesterday, Ip sald China. Britain and France, two countries in the European
southern column is moving to the raber 7 giving the Chinese a the pirates had fred about 10 ze- being engaged in a conflict war is in considerable con-
north-east from the north babic of attack the rallway, Chinese forces him to stop. The crew were put favourable position from which to volver shots at his junk, forcing M. Kalinin, Chairman of the the Fen River. of power in Europe which trast, the demands of the
have also occupied Kaoru andj | Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
ashore the following day, the calls for the mobilization of altuation point logically to a.
FALLING BACK..
Shacpeh thus enabling them to cut pirates making away with the their entire material strength, parallel policy for the security reply to Mr, Lin Sen, Chairman
of the U, S. 8. R.,⠀⠀ has sent; a]
As a result of the Chinese offen- Canal,
communications along the Grand will continue to function di- of the Pacific, a parallel policy of the National Goverment, ex-sive the spokesman claimed that In North Kianga the Japanese
Junk plomatically in the Far Eas- which, with China's own pressing thanks for his con- the Japanese forces in West Shans! have attacked - Chinese tern arena, but it is obviously national effort, could quickly gratulatory message on the an are at present falling back to the operating from a base in the Min have attacked from Yanghain and unita Kinklang Railway The Japanese their policy to do everything draw the teeth of the Eastern neversary the Soviet Revolu- cast. The east bank of the Yellow shan Mountains from where they Tehan but the offensive had also 823 possible to avoid an expendi- aggressor.
River in West Banal, he added: constantly raided the Nanchang failed: the spokesman concluded:
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