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The Annual Meeting of the HONG KONG ST. ANDREW'S Hong Kong Society for the Pro- tection of Children will be held in the "Helena May Institute on Monday, December 11th at 5.30 p.m.
The Meeting is open to all| persoas interested in the work of the Society.
ANN CROZIER.
LAWN BOWLS
Andrew's
INDEPENDENT REPORTS of
what went on in Italy dura ing the fateful days of the height of the crisis and the outbreak of the war shed much new light on the causes and motives of the country's present neutrality.
IN THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST the Italo-German military alliance had just been concluded and the Axis appeared more solid than ever before. By the end of the month, Count Ciano, appalled by the inevitability of war re-
Artists Exhibiting At 50th Annual Club Show
Marvellous Technique Of Oils By Miss Irma Last
MISS ERNE FREELANDER'S WORK
INTERNATIONALLY WELL-KNOWN ARISTS ARE EXHIBITING "WORK which they have shown at big European art exhibitions, at this year's exhibition of the Hongkong Art Club, which opened at. St. John's Cathedral Hall yesterday. The exhibition will end at 7 p.m. today.
Prominent among the exhibitors are Dr. Emma Borman Mrs Milch) and Miss Irma Last, both of whom have been lecturers in art at the University of Vienna..
Among Dr Borman's coloured: Her "Synthesis of Hongkong" woodcuts and etchings are many might well be the best picture in that have been shown at European the show academies and shows. She is of- Miss Irma Last's "Baby" in oils fering a small portfolio of these was but only one example of her at very low prices, some being marvellous technique, her wood- avallable from $2. make useful substitutes for Christ- colours providg how versatile an These should cuts charcoal drawing and water- mas cards.
artist she is.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1939.
GENERALISSIMO REVIEWS SITUATION IN SPEECH AT 6TH PLENARY SESSION
GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK gave a comprehensive review of China's military and political situation vis-a-vis Japan during the past nine months in his opening address on November 12 at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, of which he is the Tsungtsal, or director-general. "Following is a full English translation of his speech:
Today on the occasion of our Tsung's (the late Dr.. Sun Yat-sen) birthday, we are meeting here for the sixth. plenary session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang. Since the fifth plenary session, nine months have elapsed. During this period, the enemy, besides mil- itary drives, has Intensified his political and economic offensives, while the traitors have become bolder and more thorough-going in their conspiracies against their own country. The past nine months have also witnessed. changes and realignments in the international situation.
In September, war actually plenary session concerning, "the broke out in Europe, and it is establishment of a firm determina- still too early to predict its tion and faith." We should under-.. future development or final stand China's duty toward the outcome. The minds of all changing world, our gathering of people in the world are now strength in relation to Japan's being harassed by anxieties cainty that there will be forthcom- weakening position and the cer- for the protection of their ing even greater assistance to the national security and the re-party nghting for a righteous cause. storation of world peace. Moreover, we should see through Therefore,
last nine our enemy's recent "rumour offen- months may be called a sive" and other plots to sow among
are as useless as they are stupid,
The Manual Lawn Bowls Match between members of St. George's and St. Societies will be held on 9th
Another distinguished exhibitor December at 2.30 p.m. at the
is Miss Erne Freelander. She has
EFFECTS OF LIGHT Hon. General Secretary. Kowloon" Bowling Green Club,
exhibited in Berlin and Milan, and!
The looks of Mt. Lee Byng and Mr. K. K. Llm were conspicious All members desirous of play
lectured in Paris studios.
Mr. G. V. Smimoff, from Har for the brightness of scenes and ing in this Match are requested to communicate by 1st December sulting from. Hitler's decision tin. Mrs. Truda Panet, wife of Lt.-; clever mixing of colours to bring period of kaleidoscopic vicis-jus seeds of dissension, plots which Col. Panet. are among the several out the effects of light, while others who can claim internation- Smirnoff's snow scenes were real- overs are assured of an exhibi- al reputation. and Hongkong's art ly refreshing.
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November 23rd, 1939.
to march on Poland, swung over from the Axis camp to wards the point of view held by Dino Grandi, an advocate of co-operation with Britain. Grandi, recalled from London. was given a post and a voice on the Council of Ministers. General Graziani, one of the country's outstanding com- manders, was placed in charge of the troops not
on the French frontier but on
Studles from life by Mrs. Mac-
tion that is both refreshing and fadyen, some in Chinese ink and interesting in the local Art Club's some in oils, told in clear concise 50th annual show.
form, poignant stories in their Mrs. Alfred Macfadyen and the simplicity and quality. They show Hon. Secretary. Mrs. C. B. Brown, the most effective way in which both well-known personalities in an artist can speak. Her ol of Hongkong art circles, are
"Mother and Child" is especially again responsible for organising commendable.
Mrs. Truda Panet's and deserve commenda-
seascapes details.
realistic and tion for the painstaking and were
refreshing
once
the Brenner. Pass. Starace. have been carried out.
efficient manner in which they while Miss M. L. Whitley's "Ap
Il Duce hinted absence this year. are Miss Annare written.-D.J. at loopholes in the military Hsi and Mr. Willie Chiang. It is
arrangement with the Reich and assumed the role of last- minute peacemaker.
believed they are away from the Colony.
CHINESE ARTISTS
Another feature of Interest in
JUDICIAL PROCEDURE ARGUED
the
situdes.
Meanwhile, as we are engaged in We must have a clear conception a war of resistance and as we have of the momentousness of the con- a txed national polley, it follows tribution which we are making by that our stand is a clear-cut one, virtue of our steady endeavour, to and our ways of coping with the the present as well as to the future
world. new state of affairs are very much simplified. We meet changes with constancy. Ours is a matter of concentrating Our thought and strength and pitting them against our sole enemy the aggressor, Japan. Our
Is admittedly difficult, yet in our hearts reigns; calmness.
task
FATE OF COUNTRY:
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For this reason, we should feel all the more grateful to the herole souls of those soldiers and civilians whe during the
Finally, we must be aware of the great truth that China's success or failure in her war of resistance is inseparably related to the world's security or peril, well-being or rain.
I need not begin with an account of the military and political events of the past nine months, as these will be fully covered by separate
proach to Angkor Vat" is another Farinacci and Alfieri, chief
Other exhibitors are already that caught attention in a collec- protagonists of the Germanwell-known to the Hongkong art tion of nearly 275 exhibits of
If we had not risen in armed re-reports. At the inauguration of K. D. Petroleum Co. of China. be removed to the new premises Party lost much of their in- Two well-known Chinese exhibi-must have escaped notice in the suddenly there had come a great to call your attention to a few of alliance within the Fascist public and need no introduction. which many other excellent works sistance on July 1937. and then our plenary session today, I wish"
Kowloon, (near junction of Tai was hushed. at No. 153, Castle Peak Road,fluence: The voice of Gayda tors who are prominent by their short visit from which these notes
change of world-wide ramifications my previous remarks: At the fifth in Europe, the fate of our country plenary session we made it clear Po & Castle Peak Roads),
would have been imperilled and "It, that "so long as our nation refuses would have been difficult indeed for to be coerced or deceived but car- By order of the Board,
us to face the situation.
rles on. Aghting to the finish, our LAM MING FAN,
enemy's defeat is a foregone con- clusion." Then, in my reports be- Secretary.
fore the third and fourth sessions of the People's Political Council, I said that the enemy is facing a steady decrease in manpower and his difficulties in military opera- tions will increase with every day. In the course of this plenary while
"OUT present military session, it is only natural for us to strength, as compared with that of study the present situation, to re- pre-war days, has been more than view our past activities and to doubled." decide upon programmes for the "This has been borne out by the future. Meanwhile, we must be campaigns in south Shansi and animously aware of the fact that north Hupch in the last few our Party's responsibility is in- months, and particularly by the re- creasing in weight and size as time cent battle in morth Hunan. goes on, that we have really come
(TO BE CONTINUED) to the turning point where final success or fallure will be determin- ed and that we must go on lead-
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1. Names & Addresses
of
Secured Creditors, together
-SANDAKAN LIGHT & POWER Co., (1922) LTD.
THE GENERAL MOBILISA- TION of the army .was first this year's exhibition is that there ordered then rescinded. When at no less than six international- 837 the war broke out Italy wasty known Chinese artists are con- not only not a participant but tributing.. Well-known to Hong- she was not even mobilized. kong art lovers, they are G, T. "On September 4 the neutrality Chan, K. K Lim, Z. Z. Lee, Peter of the country was officially Leong, Ng Ko-hung and Lee Byng. proclaimed, the Mediter- The exhibition comprises all Notice is hereby given that in a few days, airplane motors woodcuts, charcoal drawings and ranean was opened, and, with types of artists work including off and water paintings, etchings, the SEVENTEENTH ORDIN were leaving Italy's factories; ARY YEARLY MEETING of to an orders from France
sculptures. Shareholders will be held at the while Welsh coal was being Head Office of the Company, unloaded in her ports. Bank of East Asia Building, Hongkong, on Monday, 18th, December, 1939, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of Directors for the year
Judgment For Plaintiff
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with details of claims and ended 30th June, 1939, and 10 ing the Axis honeymoon there wreck" is telling in a simple and was heard by Mr. Justice R. B
nature of security.
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NO GROUND
• past two years and four months have nobly laid down their Lives in the hard-fought struggle.
ing the rest of the nation until we have fulfilled our great mission of securing independence and freedom for our country, of putting the Three People's Principles into practice and of contributing our share toward a lasting world peace. PARAMOUNT
IMPORTANCE:
1!
3 KILLED,
6 INJURED
IN QUEEN'S ROAD FIRE
Trapped by fire which broke out However, it is of primary impor- on the ground floor of No. 466, tance for all our comrades to ap-Queen's Road West, premises of the preciate the paramount importance Kwong Li Loong Grocery, at 1.20 of what I had said at the fifth yesterday morning three persons were killed and six badly injured when they made a desperate at- tempt to escape by jumping from the first and second floor veran- dahs.
DRIVE AGAINST GAMBLING SHIUXWAN, Nov. 27 (Intl)— The flames, fanned by a strong Foregoing large sums of revenue wind, spread with great rapidity from gambling and opium, the Kwangtung Provin-only means of escape,
im to the staircase,' cutting off the cial Government is vigorously sup- The occupants were asleep when
pressing these vices.
trafic
A point of judicial procedure was brought up at the Summary Court yesterday, when, in the ad- CLEVER CARTOON
journed hearing of a claim of $125 "View of Repulse" Bay by Miss and costé for salary instituted by OBSERVERS RECORD that Isabel Balean and "Trees in Ken- Mrs. Clara Davidovich, of No. 19 during the month of August nedy Road" by Mrs. C. C. D. Gap Road, against Chiffon's, Ltd.. Brown' are specially arresting for ladies dressmakers, Mdm. J. the country stood nearer to an
their clear blênding of colour. Masseboeuf, as managing director, anti-Fascist revolt than at while a cartoon entitled "Wan-appeared for the defendant firm any time since the March on chat" by George Arnold is hu-Instead of a solicitor. Rome. All that was lacking morous and clever.
The claim, which was for one was effective leadership. Dur-
MISS Maude Franks' "The month's salary in lieu of notice, had been a feeling that Italy clear way, while Miss Enie Free-Lindsell. was being sold down the riverlander's studles from life are per- Md. Masseboeuft produced a to Hitler, and the presence of fect reproductions of expression, letter from a local arm of sollei- thousands of arrogant Nazi
tors which advised her that it was officials, Gestapo bloodhounds
not necessary, in law, for a legal through Joy" tourists gave this posed not only upon anti-that she did not want to go to the and tight-fisted
representative to appear in Court "Strength Jall. But penalties were im- for the firm. She further stated feeling concrete corrobora-Fascists. The tension within expense of engaging a solicitor. tion. The entire population the ruling party and the rising she stated that she was the only, was sullenly resentful of the influence of the army was re-shareholder in the deferidant com- way in which Italy was being flected in the new regulation pany. dragged to war in the rear of which, once and for all, sub- the German steamroller. Dis-jected the Fascist, militia to Mr. J, M. D'Almada Remedios, content found open expres-military control and equalised for the plaintiff, submitted that 851 ston. The announcement of its pay with that of the regu- there was no ground whatever for
neutrality, assuring the coun-lar forces. In Abyssinta and such practice. try of at least temporary Spain, blackshirts and soldiers After half-an-hour had been All county' magistrates are un- raging inferno and peace led to an explosion of had had as little as possible to spent by the Court in pursuing the der strict orders of Chairman Li alarm. reller. The people of Italy do with each other and had issue, Mr..G. 8. Ford made his Ean-yun to prohibit these had been shoved willy-nilly fought in separate formations. appearance and told his Lordship pastimes. New economic mea- No less than 40 people, mostly into the unpopular wars in Until three
that he would act on behalf of the weeks ago, Abyssinia and Spain. They Blackshirt received 8 Hire a
sures have been put into effect to women and children, were trap- defendant' company.
balance the budget without in-ped on the first and second floors, had, and have, no stomach for day-a soldier only 40 cen- practice, and there was nothing in burden on the people.
He submitted that it was only a
come from these sources or
new and they resolved to jump. the greater catastrophe.
woman was killed instantaneously, tesimi. Now all this is over, law to provide for it, that a com-
while two others died on their way WITH AN EYE to both ex- and the remuneration of the pany be represented by a solicitor. ternal and internal dangers, one has been slashed, and of The company, he said, was a legal
to the Queen Mary Hospital.
Two Tokis were badly burned, the regime wavered pre- the other raised, to the uni- entity and could not appear.
given her salary for August and whilst the body of another was ex- and being kept a pri-cariously, and its uncertainty form figure of 1 Bire dally.
not for September. [soner by the Japanese for over a
His Lordship held that the com-
trleated from the debris. Boveral She wrote to the defendants on children were reported missing and month, Lam Sang-chun, 43-year was reflected by the fact that. Badoglio has become a figure pany must be properly represented, two occasions, subsequently, but old master of junk P3014H related for the first time in many almost as powerful as Il Duce. and an adjournment of ten minutes her request for a month's salary the conflagration.
it is feared that they perished in yes'crday how his junk had been years, something like free captured by a Japanese boat speech was again heard in TRALITY OF ITALY WILL
WHAT TREND THE NEU- was made for Mr. Ford to receive in lieu of notice was ignored
his instructiona.
Five appliances and the Emer- while sailing in Chinese waters Italy. Homes
NOT NECESSARY · and public ASSUME in the future, it is
gency Unit were despatched to the, off San Mel on Oct. 10,
Mdm. Masseboeuff, in evidence, scene and the fire was brought places rang with spirited dis- still too early to say. Like On resumption, Mr. Remedios said that after receiving plaintiff's under control by 230 am. A boarding party from the Jap-cussions of the international Japan, the country stands put his client in the box. She letter she told plaintiff it was not The building was completely gut- anese vessel took over all the car situation, and strong opinions outside the war to profit and said that she had been employed necessary for her to remain till ted and the first floor of the ad- go and towed the junk to Kit were expressed.
to speculate. Shek where the crew were detain-
Duce's by Chiffon's, Ltd. as a dressmaker the end of September if it suited joining building was also damaged. WHEN MUSSOLINI FIXED dream of the new Roman Im On August 31, she sent in a letter tin did not subsequently return to for ten months, at $125 per month, her to leave right away. As plain- HIS COURSE for the un perium continues to live but of resignation giving one month's work she took it that plaintiff had at No. 118, Ellung Street, on No- were allowed to go,
On a charge of armed robbery mediate future, this tendency while the conflict of stronger notice, and on receipt of this Mám was immediately suppressed. Powers holds the centre of the Masseboeuf there and then told obligation to serve the month. and Ho Hung. 18, both unemploy availed herself of release from her vember 6, two men. Wal Ting, 30. The over-vociferous found, as stage, prudence will take the her that she need not return. She
After Mrs. A. Bilya, cashier ofed, were committed by Mr. Q. A. A. been had always been the case un-place of heroles. The risks of understood that she was dismissed Chiffon's, had given evidence, His Macfadyen at Kowloon Court yes- machine-gunned by the Japanese der Fascism, that self-expres- any other course are much from then onwards, and when she Lordship gave judgment for plain-terday to the next Criminal Bes- 850 before boarding the vessel.
sion was the shortest way totoo great."
applied for her pay she was "only", tiff with costs.
which may be of interest. JUNK CAPTURED
5. Names and Addresses of
storage contractors, or other persons,
retaining goods in their Godowns be. longing to the above, to gether with details thereof.
BY JAPANESE
MASTER HELD PRISONER
Returning to Hongkong, yester 6. Names and Addresses of day after losing his funk and
Insurance or other, Com its cargo pantes in which the above afe depositors, polley hold ers or shareholders.
All cargo stored in Godowns on account:er to the order of the above remaining unclaimed on 31st December, 1939, will be sold ..to meet storage and
other charges.
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, ..
Chartered Accountants, Liquidators or Special Managers. Exchange: Buliding, 27th November, 1939,
ed until last Tuesday when they
Sang-chum also told of two
other junks which had been simi- larly treated the occupants of one
the junks having
of
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MONTH'S NOTICE
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one of the folds discovered "the raised "the
sions.
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