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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
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PROBATE JURISDICTION.
In the goods of RUBY LAING PEACH late of 2 Moora Flats, 36, Findlay Avenue, Roseville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Widow, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has, by virtue of Sec tion 58 of The Probate Ordinance 1897 (No. 2 of 1897), made an Order limiting the time for send ing in claims to er against the above estate to the 9th day of December, 1939.
Creditors and claimants are hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned by the
above date.
Dated the 14th day of Novem. ber, 1939.
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LO AND LO, Solicitors for Mr. Francis Robert Lamb, the executor named in the Will of the above-named deceased. Alexandra Buliding, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.
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EDITORIAL
Serious Displacements In "Manchukuo's" Economy Are Caused By War In Europe
the
HSINKING, Nov. 16 (Reuter)—The outbreak of the war in
caused Europe has
serious displacements in
interlar economy of Manchukps. On the one hand, it has stopped the export, of soya beans and their by-products to Germany, and, on the other hand, it has deprived the country of much-need- cd materials from Germany.
Numerous factories throughout the country, bullt to commodate German machinery, are new standing empty.
AIR RAID OVER CHUNGKING
CHUNGEING, Nov, 18 (Eeu- ter). Chungking today Ex- perienced its first air raid for six weeks.
Twenty-seven Japanese planes appeared and dropped bombs in the outskirts of the
city.
15-19, Queen's Food Central NAZIS ARRESTED
Tel. 30251.
Night Ealtor (Wanchat Office).
Tel. 34511
London Office: 53. Fleet Street
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HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 20, 1830
ITAGAKI'S TASK
SHORTLY BEFORE "the Chi-
nese victory which put an end to the Japanese advance | on Changsha, General Seichi- ro Itagaki, former Japanese War Minister, was sent to China to unify, military operations on all fronts," co- ordinate them with Japan's political and economic offen- sive, and finally achieve the subjugation of the country so long and so ardently desired by the powers that bein Tokyo,
IN TURKEY
It is openly admitted that there
is a great shortage of manufac- tured materials in the country:
JAPAN EAGER TO SETTLE DISPUTE WITH SOVIET
TOKYO, Nov. 18 (Reuter)--- Japan is eager to settle her disputes with Russia, and it is stated here that prospects of a settlement are favourable.
COOLIES FIGHT AT WHARF
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1939.
Hello & Goodbye
BY A. W. HYER)
The past week-end found many interesting visitors in our port and had us gyrating between the Kowloon piers and Kal Tak.
At the airport all hands | North on the Italian steamer, Mr. A. were scanning the sky expect-S. Henchman, of the Hongkong ing to see that big Douglas and Shanghai Bank, and Dr. F. W. DC-3 plane of the Japanese Bilfinger. representative of the military which was due for a Chinese Aluminium Rolling Mills, return call en route from Wel-
Ltd.
chow Island to Canton. But American Line Traffic
that there are difficulties with Bamboo Poles Used: it did not put in an ap-THE BIG FLAGSHIP
regard to imports. and that negotiations between Hsinking and Tokyo covering priority 'Im- "ports brought to Japan häve not
gone too smoothly,
One Man Hurt One man was hurt, and is at present being detained in hospital, following a fight between some 20 coolies at the Fook On Wharf yes
MONOPOLIES SYSTEM The system of monopoles which, t was hoped, would help to exterday morning. Find Manchukua's export trade, has not proved very successful for the simple reason that it has been
based on the export of beans.
Warehouses from Dairen to the
North are now sald to be crammed to capacity, and consumption by
Bamboo poles and other weapons were used and at least three nie sustained injuries to their heads.
It is reported also that a four- year-old child who happened to be at the scene of the fight received a nasty crack on the skull from a
unconfirmed,
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American steamship company Sad news for many is the delay got underway for a trip across the of the Imperial Airways service Pacific to the home" port," during. from Bangkok with wall and pas- the weekend, and taking a large sengers. For some unknown rea- passenger list from Hongkong. son the service will be held up on the main Empire route until Wed- |resday, and it is expected the plane will arrive at Kal Tak in the afternoon.
Imperial Airways
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Mr. Jutang Chu, director of the China Travel Service, certainly got a farewell in Hongkong he will never forget. This travel expert- was en route to Shanghai.
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Fornes were also well taken care of when it SUNDAY, 7 A.M., Captain J. came to şaying goodbye. The Davles was off for Bangkok in American, Consul en route to a R.M.A Delia. Mall totalled vacation in the United States was
the
There was one passenger on this service." European lady travelling 'tu London.
Inward Traffic
ISTANBUL, Nov. 19 (Reu-Japan wl not relleve Hsinking's bamboo pole, but this report is approximately 104 kilos. ter)-The Turkish authorities anxiety to Bold up a favourable have arrested eight Germans export trade residents here. They will face
Competent circles describe as a charge of espionage and rubbish all talks of shipping spreading Nazi propaganda. aeans to Germany by rail via . The Germans had large Siberia. Apart from the cost of sums in foreign currency in haulage, there is the most impor- their possession, particularly tant question of the shortage of roling stock, both in Manchukuo in United States dollars.
und Russia, Certainly, Russia had withdrawn most of her rolling stock from the East in anticipa- tion of the developments which have taken place recently.
A full inquiry is being held. Among those arrested is a photographer.
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Young Nazi Internees® Escape
AGE-OLD PROBLEM Other reports regarding the ex- portation of bean concentrates to Germany may be taken with a great deal of reservation, fo: chemists here announce that it nas so for been impossible break down the constituent e- ments of tre snya bean into such iragments as to enable them to be shipped economically and mercially via Siberia.
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The fight was between two gangs of cooles, one being the whart coolies and another men brought on the scene by the owner of a consignment of cargo that was to arrive from Macao by the vessel Fook On.
The latter were being brought to assist in the transportation of the cargo, and they were intercept- ed en route by the second gang who would not let them come up to the whart:
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The fight lasted 2 bout minutes: Several men were subse- quently arrested by a police party from No. 7 Station, and it is under- stood some of them may be charg- ed with disorderly conduct.
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the centre of a gay party down to bid him "happy landings."-
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Affeld, Jr.. other members of the "Consular service, were proceeding to Kode.
Sailing to San Francisco were THE ARRIVAL OF the new Dutch Mr. and Mrs, R, II, Larchar, and steamer from Shanghai brought their children. The head of the many residents to the shipside for family, a well-known resident In "how-do-you-dos!"
the Colony is taking time off from En route to Manila and cordially, his duties with General Motors for welcomed to Hongkong was Mrs. a vacation spree! C. B. Hart and her three young
More vacation-bound people and daughters.
of another gay and charming wife of Rear-Admiral T, Joyous party before the departure C. Hart, Commander-in-Chief of the hour were Mr. and Mrs. R. Gre- United States Navy Asiatic Fleet, gory, Standard Vacuum Oil Com- and who is now in Shanghai. This pany members, and residents of very nice Naval family continued Hongkong. It is holiday time for south on the Dutch steamer after them and they meant it!
Mrs.
Hart is the the
cause
a visit with Commodore Cassidy. The complete list of "who's who"
charge of the South China travelling on the Amerfcan steam- Asiatic Patrol of the United States) er is lengthy, in fact, company Navy, and Mrs. Cassidy,
officials report with much glee
A review of the parade at the that this salling was one of the ship's deck rail when the luxurious "heaviest" in many months. Steamer came alongside the pleri
There was Mr. O, D; Terrel tra- are found many well-known people velling to Shanghai. There aboard.
few who do not know the popular America TO- director of British bacco. Co.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Bousfield,
LONDON, Nov. 19 (Reuter)— Three German prisoners escape ed early this morning from ad
com- JEWS MAY SETTLE internment camp in the east
IN MINDANAO of Scotland. One of them is WE KNOW a great deal
only 15 years old and the other "The problem that faces Man
SHANGHAI, Nov. 19 Reuter) about General Itagaki. He is
chukua at present is the age-old two 17.
Manila, capital of the Philippines, one of the most addicted to
Police stations throughout the problem which has faced the na-
has become the centre of atter- pronunciamentos of Nippon's country have been warned and it tors of the world from time to
tion for European Jewish refugees vocal militarists and, in addi- is not expected that the lads will time, and the agricultural authori-
Ir. Shanghai following the open- are now working for the tion to this, his career during get far. They are dressed in khaki.
cuss the possibility of a the past eight years has been, can speak no English, and have no diversification of the crops, whichs of a conference there to dis- were smiling; these residents re- will permit the country to be self- spent very much in the public money or food with them.
in Mindanao. the eye. At the time of the occu- All three were members of the sustaining and, at the same time, settlement
give a surplus in the event of a largest and most southerly of the ger of the New Zealand Insurance Mr. J. A. Doebel, the big boss of prolonged war for exportation to Islands. pation of Manchuria, Itagaki,, crew of a U-boat. seeing himself in the role of a
countries which will provide and send to Manchukuo the materials
He
Canada's First Oversea Division
budding Napoleon, was Chief "DEADLY SERIOUS" of Staff of the Kwantung Army and one of the out- rowdies" of the standing "young officer clique." was a markedly "political" General, and his development paralleled in many respects that of Kenji Dolhara. Like. the latter, he bears a good part of the responsibility for Japan's brutal aggression in China.
Now Ready
C'es
that she badly needs
CHINA TO MAKE EQUIPMENT FOR LABORATORIES
OTTAWA, Nov. 19 (Reuter-KA CHENGTU, Nov. 19 (Central)-A higher quality of men could hard-factory has been established in ly have been conceived." declared Chengtu, capital of Szechwan. for Major-General McNaughton, Com- the manufacture
:
been
of laboratory Hitherto China's mander of Canada's first oversea' equipment. division, at a press conference to- laboratory equipment has day, after inspecting the first divi-largely imported. sion of units throughout the Do- Capitalised at $100,000, the fac-
tory has turned out models and ap paratuses needed in laboratories of chemistry, physics and biology, In addition, it has manufactured 66 different kinds of chemicals.
minion.
He said that the men were deadly serious, contrasting to the spirit of adventure prevail- ing in 1918."
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WHEN THE WAR for which he had agitated so long ac- tually broke out, General Itagaki assumed command of the famous Fifth Division, the most-defeated Japanese force In China. One of his brigades was crushed by the Eighth Route Army at Pinghsinkuan on September 25, 1937. An other was lost at Taierchuang in the spring of the following that the Arst division would be as year. After this Itagaki was well equipped as the British Army removed from his command when it arrived overseas. and returned to the more congenial sphere of imperial
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION Mr. Rogers, Minister for Defence told the conference that Canadlar industry is rapidly completing its organization on a war basis and
TURKISH MISSION
FOR LONDON
ISTANBUL, Nov. 19 (Reuter)---
Turkey is sending another Mission
to London to discuss matters common interest including and finance.
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The Mission will leave on
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MISSION TO LEAVE
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trade
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politics in the capacity of War and Sian. This is the scheme day and is headed by the Secre Minister, in which post he dis-on paper. In fact, the Pakhot tary-General of the Turkish For- NOTICE.
tinguished himself for his ad landing is already meeting eign Ministry. vocacy of Japan's robber's; with serious difficulties and is THE TWENTY-FIRST OR.
alliance with the Axis powers. likely to add another, flasco to DINARY YEARLY MEETING The international shake-up of the already formidable list ANKARA, Nov. 19 (Reuter)-The OF SHAREHOLDERS will be last August and its internal that Itagaki has to his credit. Turkish Economic Mission, headed held at the Head Office of the consequences efected him! BY THIS, it is not. meant to by M. Menemencioglu, Secretary- Company, St. George's Building, from the War Ministry and infer that General Itagaki is General of the. Foreign Ministry, Chater Road, Victoria, Hong sent him once more to China. any less capable or any less will leave here on Monday for Kong, on FRIDAY, 22nd Decem. AT THE PRESENT TIME; determined than his fellow London via Paris,
ber, 1939, at 12 o'clock (Noon), for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the financial year ended 30th Septem- ber,, 1939, and electing Directors
and Auditors,
THE TRANSFERS BOOKS AND REGISTER OF SHARE. HOLDERS will be closed from "Friday, 1st December, 1939, to Friday, 22nd December, 1939. both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
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Itagaki is credited with the militarists. It is precise-
can
of
Jewish
Looking after the nterests or the refugees at the conference is D; Kurt Marx, secretary of the Committee for the Assistance of the European Refugees in Shang- hal,
While in the islands. Dr. Marx Intends to study the possibilities of marketing products manufac- tured by the refugees in Shanghai, and Anding employment for skill ed and professional workers."
IMPROVEMENT OF HOSPITALS FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS
CHUNGKING, Nov. 18 (Central) -Improvement of hospitals for wounded soldiers as well as ther treatment was one of the impar- tant resolutions passed at the sixth meeting of the Sixth Plen ary Session of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee yes- terday. Generalissimo Chiang Kal-shek predded at the meeting.
director of the Hongkong and The America Ambassador "to Shanghai Banking Corporation
China, Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, ac- companied by Mr. F. Lafoon, Vice- turn from a call in Shanghai.
Consul in Shanghai. were bound Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ellis. mana- for the North.
Co., Ltd. were returning to their Otis Elevator Co., and Mr. J. V. home and offices here after a visit Crowe, executice of Ford Motor in the big northern metropolis,
Co., Ltd, were laden with friends. And a gracious lady, well-known good wishes and toasts at their in French circles both here and in departures for Shanghai. Shanghal-salled-down-from-her A-member-of-the-Fourth Estate, home in the North for a visit Mr. Victor Keen, news-gathering Mrs. 5. E. Bredlam,
for the New York Herald, was off
Mr. A. H. George was up at the to Shanghal
And a party of General Motors rail. This gentleman, who made for the gangway and shore quick of India organization," Mr. and ly on the steamer's arrival, is con- Mrs. M. A. Mann and Mrs, S. Mal- nected with the Indo-China BN.colsom, were heading for home in
the United States. Co in Shanghai,
And with all the gaiety - there
Mr. J. J. Kienhuize, connected with P. J. Klink in Shanghai, and was a note of sadness, particularly among the crew members of this Mr. R. R. Smith, official of Yee American steamer, Returning to Tsoong Tobacco Co, in the North, the United States for burial were have come on a business call in the remains of Mr. Fred Otto Hongkong.
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Heyer, the chief of this American A well-known member of the flagship. Mr. Heyer, aged 55, had Rockefeller Foundation, with served many years with this quarters in Shanghal, will visit a particular steamship company and short while in the Colony. He is passed away in Hongkong sudden-
Dr. M. C. Balfour,
Mrs.
ly when his steamer called here
J. MacRobert travelled from San Francisco, en route to down from Amoy on the Dutcher Manila; a little more than a week steamer and joined her seafaring ago. husband who waited impatiently but with many smiles, for the transport's arrival.
According to all the passengers
LITHUANIANS TO LEAVE MEMEL
Lithuanians working in Memel and the many en route to the
KAUNAS, Nov. 19 (Hayas)—All have been ordered by the Germans south the travel business on the to leave the town within ten days. Dutch line is progressing satisfacanese It wil be recalled that Germany torily.
seized Memel in March this year. Via Italian Line
ANOTHER PRIZE
FOR NAVY
11,761 KILLED: 710 WOUNDED
SIAN Nov. 19 (Central)-J27- casualties in 258 engage- ments in Kiangsu, "Shantung...” Hopel, Honan, Bhansi and Balyuan. from Oct, to Nov. 15 were 11,781 THE ITALIAN STEAMER calling killed and 710 wounded. Two Jap- In port during the weekend, anese officers and 65 privates were en route to Europe, carried inter- taken prisoner.
Chinese war booty included 107 LONDON, Nov. 18 (Reuter)-Anesting passengers.
horses, six field guns, two trench other German steamér has been We were quite excited to learn mortars, four heavy machine-guns, seized as a prize by the Royal that Princess Anna Matchabelll 14 nght mashine-guns, 1,002 rifles, Navy.".
was aboard on her way to Trieste 10 pistols, 224 shells, and 2,750 with Commander and Mrs. Adolfo rounds of rifle ammunition. Alessandrini, holding diplomatic passports."
She is the 3,126-ton Gloria, own ed by E. Rehnke of Rostock," ""
She was carrying a cargo of
theory that Chinese resistance ly because he is the most GENERAL SMUTS
be broken if Japan thoroughgoing advocate
WINS what he terms Japan's "Continental Plan occupies the "Hengyang-Pakhot front," because he, belleves so im
CAPETOWN, Nov. 18 (Reater>- capturing the entire length of plicitly in the military and Gen. Smuts Government scored a wheat when captured, and the Hankow-Canton railway political illusions on which clear victory in the Senate elec-been taken into a Scottish port. and
The crew have been interned, establishing อ line this plan is based that he fails tions today.
The Government now has 28 of so consistently. The whole through the Kwangsi. The concerted at- policy of aggression, and not seats in the Senate tack on Changsha in Septem-its individual adherents, isving them a majority of 12 ber, which ended in such bankrupt and doomed to dis miserable failure, was intend-aster. Changsha, the failure
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FREIGHT RATES ed to open the drive for this of the "peace offensive,” andj objective. The present opera- the miscarriage of the plans NOT RAISED tions in the vicinity of Pakhof of Japan's chief tool, the WASHINGTON, Nov. 19′ (Havas) probably represent a new at- vicious and traitorous weak-The Pan-American Economic tempt to turn the Chinese ling Wang Ching-wel, have and Financial Conference decided front, this time at its other given proof of this. The that despite the war situation extreme, in preparation for a events of the following Europe, not to raise the freight rates betweent new series of drives against months will dot the 1's and transportation
American ports. 827 Kwangsi, Changsha, Ichang cross the t's.
JOHN V. BRAGA,
Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, 15th Nov., 1939,
Princess Matchabelli, who has toured the world many times. ang is connected with a famous and historic Italian house, is well-
FINE CONCERT The Peninsula Hotel's Sunday
concerts. which have · evening proved extremely popular for the NEW GOVERNOR OF known for her interest and know-
ledge of international® afairs.".
past few winters, were resumed BENGAL
Another interesting personage.
last night when a combined or-" WZ8 Mrs. H. Glyperich, from Shanghai, travelling on a diploma-chestra trim the various hostetrics"
under the management of the tic passport to Hongkong...
Mr. W. E Tyler, connected with Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Haskins and Bells of Shanghai, is Ltd rendered a fine, light pro- in town! And Mr. Paul Buergin. Bramme under the direction or of General Motors, China, Ltd.. Geo, Pio-Ulaki and Art Cametro: comes on a business call in the The lounge was filled with a
large assembly of music-lovers,... Colony.
Two other Shanghai residents and the performance was very well and businessmen arrived from the received.
CALCUTTA, Nov. 18 (Reuter). LA-Col. Bir John Herbert today assumed office "as Governor of Bengal
Police raided the offices of the Communist paper Voix du Peuple the publication of which is forbid den," says a Havas message from Brussels