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HISTORIC MEETING BETWEEN POPE PIUS AND THE KING OF ITALY
Hungry crowds breaking into a rice shop during the riots which followed on the Japanese-engineered rise in the pries of rice in Shanghai.
Of Pope Pius
GERMANY'S Nazis Watch
ECONOMIC Activities
POLICY
Military To Take Over -Control
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AMSTERDAM, Dec. 28 (Beater) -It Is learned from Berlin- that the activities of Pope Pius XII are being watched with particular at- tention in Germany.
While the German press te not likely to criticise the rapproche ment of the Vatican with the Italian Government, such a step, ZURICH, "Dec. (Reuter) It is thought, would be regarded Germany's economie policy will with some apprehension in Nazi have to be completely reorganised political circles.
future, in the near
The Pope's Christmas address, Berlin correspondent of the Neue according to the Berlin correspon Zurcher Zeltung who says that dent of the "Rotterdamsche Cour- "since the outbreak of war
Gerant, was received in Germany with many's economic structure has not little approval. come up to expectations.
declares the
Increased taxation and re- duction in wages have added to the difficulties and caused a considerable fall in production. The financial policy has brought about a rise in borrowing rates and a lack of confidence in the German currency, adds the corres pondent, who forecasts that early in the new year a complete reor ganisation will take place and there may even be numerous staff changes in the Economic Ministry. It is believed that Germin in- dustry in the future will be placed. more or less, under the control of the military authorities.
NAZI NATIONAL INCOME
LONDON, Dec. 28 (Reuter) According to the German Radio the German national income next year will be some, eight millard marks of which 30 milliards will be collected in taxes,
U.S. MUST HAVE A POWERFUL AIR FORCE
AT THE
QUIRINAL
First Visit Made For 69 Years
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ROME, DEC. 28 (REU- TER)-THE BELLS OF ST. PETER'S PEALED AS POPE PIUS XII LEFT THE VATI- CAN THIS MORNING FOR A VISIT TO THE KING AND QUEEN OF ITALY AT THE QUIRINAL.
The visit, which is the first
made by any Pope to a King
of Italy for 69 years, is re- garded as a final act for seal- ing the settlement of the an- cient dispute between Italian State, and the Vati- can.
as
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FINANCIAL POSITION
IN FRANCE
the Much Stronger
Than In 1914
In the Vatican newspaper,| Osservatore. Romano, the Special to the B.K. Daily Press
PARIS, Dec. 28 (Havas)-The visit significance 01 the
2 demonstration of a Senate unanimously voted on the settlement of a dispute by ordinary budge: estimates for the 1940-41 fiscal year, providing for a peaceful methods, was es-
total revenue of 79,247 million pecially emphasised.
A Royal Mission awaited His francs and total expenditure of It was stat- Holiness in St. Peter's Square to 78,889 million francs.
extraordinary war convey to him the first greetings ed that the total expenditure, in-
cluding the of King Victor Emmanuel.
budget, may reach 300 billion.
M. Gardey pointed out francs next year. ·
that
MYSTERY
WARSHIP
SIGHTED
Another
airliner
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Malnutrition Is First
Of The Five Causes
In Hongkong there are 130 funerals every day. This is stated, not to promote in you a morbid train of thought, but to invite you to take a personal interest in the greatest single problem of this Colony Public Health and es- pecially to beg you to consider whether you cannot make a personal contribution towards remedying a state of affairs which can only be described as unsatisfactory.
You may be tempted to dismiss the problem as not your business, but as the inevitable accompaniment of poverty, ignorance and the bad living habits of people with whom you do not associate. But a high death-rate is everybody's business.
Apart from compassion and public spirit, the problem
does affect you personally, for 87 DEATHS
Infection is no respecter of persons, and your own life would be happier, and less ex- pensive to maintain, if the
"
FROM T.B.
IN A WEEK
week was 119.
TOKYO, Dec. 28 (Reuter)-The menaces to health could be Domel Agency-says that a mystery, reduced.
Eighty-seven deaths from tuber- white-painted warship of about! Most people have come at some culoats occurred in the Colony for. 1.000 tons was sighted by the pilot time face to face with the tragedy the week ending Dec. 23, accord- of a Japanese
inside of disease-relatives or friends an- ing to returns furnished by the Japanese territorial wapens DA accountably stricken and their Health Department. The total Fukuoka,
lives brought to a premature end. number of cases notified for the vessel strange
Was There is no escape from communal
Other returns inchide 12 deaths sighted yesterday in Japanese ter-responsibility: or, if there is, self- ritorial waters by the crew of the preservation insists upon our con- from dysentery (31 cases notined),
cerning ourselves.
5 deaths from enteric fever (10 airliner.
Of the diseases which take toll cases notified), 4 deaths from of the Hongkong population, the small-pox (3 cases, notified), 3 most damaging is Tuberculosis deaths from cerebro-spinal fever This also is probably the most fre- (3 cases notified), 2 deaths from quent agent of tragedy. In order diphtheria (15 cases notified) and to demonstrate how serious the one death from chicken pox · (2 menace 1s, it is desirable to give a cases notified),
The vessel appeared to be of 1,500 tons but it was im- possible to ascertain the na- tionality.
few figures. During the years 1935,! Twenty-nine cases of tuber- 1937 and 1938, deaths in Hongkong culosis, eight cases of dysentery. attributed to the disease totalled six cases of diphtheria, two cases respectively 2,416; 4,028 and 4,920. of small-pox, one case of cholera In the same period, the propor- and one case of cerebro-spinal tion of deaths from Tuberculosis to fever were notified to the Health every thousand deaths from all Department on Dec. 27. causes has risen from 92 in 1936 to 127 in 1938. The statistics so far It is understood that the deten-
the available for
current year tion was one of the subjects dis-show an even higher rate, cussed.
The Pope and his suite ther en:
SWEDISH SHIPS tered 18 cars which formed the Papal cortege.
RELEASED At the border,, between the France's financial position at pre-
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 28 (Reuter, DESIRE FOR NEW ORDER Vatlean and Italian territory, the sent was much stronger than in
1914, He added that however ef--A number of swedish ships de- While the desire for a new order Pope was greeted by the Governor in Europe was thoroughly appre-of Rome who made a short ad- fective taxation may be. a loan tained by Germany are reported to ctated, Mis Holiness' remarks dress, stressing the historical im- will constitute the main source of have been released following the
war financing. were thought to imply a criticismportance of the occasion.
The route taken by the Pope of Germany's war methods, which were fully justified in the opinion had been elaborately of German.circles, and the alleged and ined with troops intention of Britain and France to whom stood great crowds waiting annihilate Germany was regard to see the procession, ed by these circles as sufficient means for bringing the last doub- ters over to Hitler's side.
SCARLET HAT
decorated behind
The Pope was wearing a scarlet hat and a scarlet cape beneath which Was. B white cloak and stole.
The appointment by President Roosevelt ni 2 personal repre- sentative at the Vatican was also
Over 40 high dignitaries of the regarded with doubt by Germany which sees therein a critical elec- Church and the Fapal Court were tlor move on the part of the Fre-In the procession. sident.
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JAPANESE HARD-PRESSED
IN
INNER MONGOLIA: BIG CHINESE ADVANCE
"MONKEY GLAND" SURGEON IN FRENCH ARMY
DR. VORONOFF
Special to the H.K. Daily Press NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (Havas)—
conclusion of trade talks between the two countries in Berlin.
THE CAUSES...
PARIS, Dec. 28 (Reuter)-A War Now, what can we do about this? communique states that there was First, let us consider the causes of nothing
to report during the Tuberculosis. night.
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No Shortage Of Coins In Hongkong:
Present
Stocks Ample To Meet
Chinese New Year Demand
NEW JAPANESE VENTURE
The farmers of the hinter land of Swatow are awaiting their first oplam crop some time in January. writes our Swatow correspondent.
About 1,500 mow of land have: been allotted by the Japanese au- thorities to this new venture, the farmers concerned being the own-" ers of land in Ching Hoi and in the area along the railroad from Amphow to Chaochowiu,
The project was started in late- November. and the farmers con- cerned have been promised a monopoly. To insure this 371
Demand plum Suppression Bureau
started recently in Swatow.
was
Official circles deny knowledge that any shipment of subsidiary coins intended for Hongkong was lost through The Kowloon Chinese Chamber the recent sinking of a ship in European waters, as was of Commerce, which was establishm exclusively reported in the Hongkong Dall Press yester-led recently, held a party at the day.
Kam. Thong Restaurant yesterday,
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PEIFING, Dec. 28 (Reuter)-Admissions made by the Japanese military spokesman yesterday show that the Jap- anese troops in Inner Mongolia are hard-pressed by the recent Chinese offensive." Their casualties in the fighting in Paotow totalled 100 dead, including a full colonel.
At one time the Chinese gained a "foothold in the
It is stated that there is no Government has no official in-during which office bearers were North-Western part of the city, but were driven out, the Dr. Serge Voronoff, well-known
of coins in the formation that 10 cts. coins have elected. [Special to the Hongkong spokesman said, with heavy losses.
French surgeon, famous for his shortage
yet been shipped from the United gland" rejuvenation Colony. Daily. Press]
For a time the railway be-withdrew the following day. They! "monkey
In connection with this question, Kingdom. It is known that two WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (Havas) tween Kwethua and Kalgan have now thrown a thick cordon theory, left for France today to
serve as a surgeon in the French the following communication has shipments of 5 cts., pleces are at The annual report of the War was interrupted." "Apparently around the town. Secretary. Mr. Woodring, em the Chinese succeeded in ad- On the Changtalkwan sector, the Army. He will be entrusted with been received from the Hon. Mr. present in Far Eastern waters, and more a special section for the treat H. R. Butters, Financial Secretary: the arrival of these will ensure phasised the necessity for the vancing to the outposts of Chinese have recaptured
Bir. I am directed to inform you that there will be no shortage of United States to have a powerful Kweihus before being driven strategic points in the suburbs, thus ment of skin and bone diseasee.
Ughtening their stege of the town, Dr. Veronot has just completed that the attention of Government 5 cts. coins for the Chinese New Present Government stocks of lished on page 1 of your issue of The Japanese are alleged to have a lecture tour in North and South has been drawn to a report pub- Year trade., used the asphyxiating gas in an
December 28, 1939, under the head-10 cts, plenes are ample to meet ing "Subsidiary Coins For Bong- the Chinese New Year demand and the only effect of delay in the de- kong Lost,"
As I already informed your re-livery of new 10 cts. coins would OF BISHOP
porter in answer to his telephone be that demonetization of silver LONDON, Dec. 28 (Reuter)-The inquiry on Tuesday last Govern- coins may have to be deferred. resignation of the Right Rev. F. L.ment has no "information in con- At present silver subsidiary coin Morris, Bishop of North China, has frmation of the report and it will is still legal tender in the Colony. It is hoped that the public will been accepted by the Archbishop be appreciated that the value of
the shipment mentioned in ap show its customary good sense [of Canterbury,
Air Force.
1:
To under-estimate the value of
back.
a strong air arm "might mean the The Chinese forces are led
extinction of a nation's existence." by Gen. Fu Tso-yi, former engagement at Yuho, northwest of
he said and added that in the Es-
cal year 1939-40 only 23 per cent of the war expenditure was devot- ed to the Air Force,
Governor of Sulyuan.
Binyang, a few days ago. ENVELOPING ATTACES
BELENTLESS FUSH NANYANG, HONAN, Dec. 28 (Central)--Chinese forces are con- FANCHENG, HUPEH, Dec. 28 tinuing their vigorous enveloping (Central)-About 2,000 Japanese BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 28 (Reuter) attacks on Bingang, battle-torn reinforcements in more than 200 The Argentine Government re,, town on the Felping-Bankow Rail- motor lorries rushing to Kingshan, jected the German Note regarding way, in South Honan, and Chang Chungsang and Tungchlao in cent the internment of the crew of the talkwan, 14 miles north of Binyang, tral Hupeh, were intercepted on the The Japanese Graf Spee. The refusal was just!- Following an entry into Binyang way on Tuesday. fied under the Hague Convention, on Christmas Day, the Chinese
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The Right Rev. T. A Scott, at proximately ten times that of and resist any attempt to explolt Finance, commerce. present Bishop of Shantung, has normal shipment under peace.
been appointed to succeed him.
time conditions.
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