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Ginger Rogers, David Niven in
BACHELOR
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GENERAL
COMING EVENTS NO LIBERTY OF TALKING
JAN.
4-Tides: High 135 mm, and 5.24 pal low 10.17 a.m.
Sunroe: Tai a....; Sunset: 5.53 pm, Lates Working Party (B.W.02.), ¡ Govt House, §-am--I pin.
RN. Yard Police Recreation Room, Waist Drive, 10 an.
Cathedral Women's Fellowship, De- votional Service, Lady Chapel 3,30 p.m.
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Auxiliary Nursing Service First Aid Lectures, Commence at Royal Naval Hospital, 8 p.
Asta Land, Ltd, 8th Annual Meat- Ing. Mercantile Bank Bulidings, 12.30 p.zn.
YMCA Games Morning, 10 am. "Laloma" Kindergarten School re opens
Cathedrai Ofice, 5.30 p.m.
Trustees Cathedral
Cathedral Scouts, Bishop's House, 5.30 pm.
Busy Bees Knitting and Bandage- Making, Central Fire Station, 9.30
1.1.
St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship Charity Games, 2.30 p.m.
to Thespucal Society Mtg-6 n.us.
crisis, when the entire city was ordered blacked-out as a precan- tion against air raids.
CHARLIE CHAN AT KING'S TODAY The first recent motion picture
The film shows how, under cover to show the blackout of war is "Charlie Chan in City in Dark-mest, daring crimes was committ
of this awful darkness, one of the ness," the new 20th Century Fox throller, with Sidney Toler, whfen
Bart, Richard Clarke, opena' at the "King's Theatre to Harold Huber, Pedro de Cordoba, This story shows the famous Dorothy Tree, C. Henry Gordon, Earl Derr Biggers sleuth caught Douglas Dambrille and Noel Madi- ainid the terror and thrills that are featured in Toler's sun- beset Paris during the days of porting cast
day.
ed.
Lynn
A. P. Knudsen on "Theosophy and Modern Needs."
Royal Naval Hospital, First Aid Lecture by Surg. Capt. Hobbs. 5.30 p.m.
H.K. Y's Men's Club Tifin Mtg.. St. Francis Hotel. I p.m.
Vagabond Rotarians Mtg Cafe de Chine, i p.m.
Ladies Bible Study, 216, Nathan Road. 10.30 m.
Women's Fellowship.
St. Andrew's.
11.
2.30 p.m.
Victoria
Chess club, Gloucester Hotel. 5 p.m
tel
Kowloon Chess Club, Peninsula Ho
5.30 p.m.
Cheers Club. Contract Bridge Les- GOTIS, D.11.
5-Tides: Irh 6.33 nm, and R.19 p.m. Low 12.37 am. and 11.12 a.m
Sunrise: 7,05 a.m.; Sunset: 5.51 p.ze: Claims against estate of Bernard Ernest-Ablitt due.
YM.CA. Badminton.
H.K. Chinese Women's Club Dinner In honour of Dr. Robert Lim, Chinese Merchants' Club, 730 p.m.
St. John's Ambulance_Hors-Home Nursing Lecture. 5.30 p.
Kowloon Outpatients Hospital. Lecture on Home Nursing by Dr. Rosenbloom, 5.30 p.m.
Christian Fellowship. Helena May Inst. 10.30 2.r.
Toc. H. Chater Room. St. An drew's, 6.45 pan.
St. Teresa's C.Y.M.S.. Annual Meet ing. 6.10 p.m.
Cheero Club, Darts. Ping-Fong and Billiards.
A Second Round of Stubb Shield Golf Competition due to be completed. Claims against estate of Marica Gilchrist Hoerler due.
FLE, the Governor and Lady North cote leave for Fanting Lodge.
Agriculturai
New Territories hibition at Fanling.
HKRA. Shoot.
Ladles Colony
Tennis Champion- ships: Singles Semi-fimis, USR.C. Courts, 3 p.m.
7-New Territories Agricultural Ex hibition at Fanling.
Women's League of Health, De- monstration at South China s.s Field. 3 p.m.
8--Universal Week of Prayer Com mences Daily Services at St. John's Cathedral, 5.30 p.m.
Auxiliary Nursing Service - Home Nursing Lectures, Commence at Queen Mary
Hospital, 8
8 p. HKFA Council Meeting, 5.30 p.m. Kowloon Rospital, Home Nursing Lecture, 5.30 p.m.
9Entries close for Colony Chess Championship.
Entries close for Panling Races, 12
Moon
HK. Rotary Club Tiffin Mtg., 1 p.m. 10-King's Theatre-Dancing Dis play, 5.10 p.m.
H.KR.A. Shoot.
Bt. Andrew's Women's Fellowship Party, 8 p.m.
11-King's Theatre: Dancing Dis play, 5.10 pm.
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12-Old Cheltonians Dinner, 8.15
13-HERA. Shooti
14-Semi-nal of G. M. Young Golf Cup due for completion,
Macao Races,
Ladies Colony Tennis Champion. ships: Doubles Semi-finals, U.S.R.C.
Courts. 3 p.m.
17-KRA Shoot.
19--Central British Assn. Dance, 20-HKRA Shoot
R.E.O.CA. Supper Dance.
Continued Improvement In Palestine
WITHOUT THE LIBERTY
OF WRITING
ན་ཐད་་ མ་ནས་
Germany's
IMPORTANCE OF "Entirely New
A FREE PRESS IN
TIME OF WAR
LONDON, Jan. 3 (BWS)—The Importance of maintaining a free
Weapons'
press in time of war was strongly U.S. PUZZLED OVER
emphasised by Mr. J. A. Spender, Vesarda Journaust, in a speech in London,
REMARKS BY JAPANESE GENERAL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (Havas had asked whether the United marks made in Japan by "Major- by Airmail)-Puzzling over the re- States could be half slave and half General Ames Oba, on his return
Bela ling that during the Ameri- can Civil War Abraham Lincola
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free, Mr. Spender said that WIS the question for the whole world today and, in « special sense, for the world press
DISIVATION In halt of Europe, he said, the free 'press was not only extinguish- ed, but its machinery appropriat- ed and distorted into an instru- ment of tyranny.
to Japan from a visit to Germany, American milltary experts are at a loss to understand what the Japanese officer meant, when he said the Germans have. "entirely now weapons."
NATURAL DEVELOPMENT The New York Times bad make some pointed comments to an General Oba's statement, recall- argument, plaustole especially in wartiming editorially that "when we ex-
new.. amine entirely for equalising. press conditions between slave coun.rles and the
Dealing with the
free he said that those favouring this Bressed the apparent advan- tages oota-ned by suppression, not only of news lixely to be useful to the enemy, but also of evidence
of internal weaknesses.
NAZI PROPAGANDA "Throughout the peural world German propaganda has become a laughing stock, Within Germany, the ruling faction appears to be more and more at sea about the right use of a controled press and about how much it dare disclose of the truth about its dealings with Russia, about aims of policy and about the course of the war,
"It needs, according to its own theory of totalitarianism, co-opera- tion of the en.tre people and this people it feeds with foolish startes- stigation of the Munich bomb plot, the sinking. of Athenis, British in-
British eltement to Finland-to which no intelligent person would give credence,
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What effect, this has on the Ger- man people is beyond our guessing. but we can say with much con- fidence that it has destroyed Ger- man credit in other countries."
A CONTRAST
Mr. Spender contrasted his pic- ture with that of the British freel press system, which, he said, gave the world the means of judging for itself and formed for the British Government a mirror of public! opinion.
'weapons"
THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940. —PAGE
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PARIS BLACKOUT! THE CITY TENSE!
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"CLOCKING
CHARLIE CHAN in
CITY IN DARKNESS
SIDNEY TOLER
Lynn Bari. Richard Clarke • Harold Huber Pedro de Cordoba Dorothy Tres C. Henry Gardon Douglas Dumbrille • Noel Madison A 20th Century-Fox Picture
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(SPORTS REVIEW)| CRAZIEST PEOPLE" against their historical and tech-
turn out to be natural develop- nological background, they always
Tents of known chemical pro- cedures or mechanisın.”
doctors
tion that "the Frankfurt dye in- Taking up General Oba's asser.
dustry is employing 1,400 and chemists in special researches, the Times make the following comment:
"Military research is no different from industrial research. The more closely we scrutinize revolutionary weapons, the more they turn out to be mere improvements over the old and to involve such matters as defence of battleships against tor- pedoes and mines. the rapidity of gun-fire on land and sea, radio signalling. alloys with specific mill- tary uses.
非
COMMON POSSESSION ...
imply that the scientists engaged "Ang such superiority would
in purely military research are able to discover new principles with an ability and rapidity unknown to industry, whereas the truth is that the army and navy conscript the technologists of industries and universities and thus exploit know- ledge which is the common posses- sion of all nations."
SHIPMENTS TO ECUADOR
The Consul for Ecuador. has the received a "telegram from After dealing with necessity for Minister of Foreign Relations at self-discipline and stating that Guayaquil advising him that es the first press duty was to be the from Jan 1, 1940 shipments to supply of truthful news and hon-Ecuador will not require a Con- est comment, he concluded that
!rol Permit without free press "Parliament
would be a secret debating society HEAVY DEMANDS
and the law courts star chambers, There is no liberty of talkingi without Eberty of writing. Liberty of the press is everybody's liberty."
EXECUTIVE YUAN
MEETING
MADE UPON
R.N.L.I.
LONDON, Jan, 2 (BWS)-The exceptionally heavy demands made upon the services of the Royal Na- CHUNGKING, Jan, 3 (Central) tional Lifeboat Institution during --Detalled reports on the inter- the past four months, owing to the national And military situation brutal and indiscriminate use of were made by Dr. Wang Chung- mines and torpedoes by Germany, but and Gen. Ho Ying-chin, Min-are reflected in a review published ister of Foreign Affairs and War today of the year's work of this respectively, at the regular meet-great voluntary society. ing of the Executive Yuan held here yesterday.
During 1939, 1,356 lives were saved constituting a record in the The meeting decided to relieve history of the institution the pre- Mr. Hsu Chung-ching of the post vious highest figure being 1,348 in of Commissioner of Education of 1917. Kwangtung and
appoint Mr. Since September 2, boats have Huang Lin-shit to succeed him., been out 411 times and rescued
1.101 persons being an average of The Nisshin Kisen Kaisha whärt 64 in each war week. Twenty-four m Changsha was re-named Re-medals for gallantry were awarded nascence Wharf at a ceremony on during the year to members of life- Tuesday.
boat crews.
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BETTER RELATIONS BETWEEN ARABS AND JEWS LONDON, Jan. 3, (Reuter) Latest authoritative advices celved in London show that securi- ty and conditions in Palestine: con- tinued to improve during the month of December. There has been a steady increase in the re- cover of arms both by surrender and seizure, particularly in areas where collection
formerly difficult.
was
CORDIAL RELATIONS Despite the fact that there remains some propaganda on pro Mufti lince, the relations between the people and the Government are still more cordial,
A tendency for better relations between Arabs and Jews is ap- parent, especially in the Telaviv area.
Recruiting for the Auxiliary Pioneer Corps is making good pro-
Eress."
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PANAMA LADY
ALLAN LANE STEFFI DUNA
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