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EDITORIAL
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1940.
CLASHES CONTINUE ROUND Wide Gulf Still Exists Between
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DRIVE TOWARDS NANNING
LIUCHOW, Feb. 9 (Central)-Clashes continue around Pinyang'in South Kwangsl.
And
Nationalist
Says Mahatma Gandhi
To the south-east of Pinyang the Chinese are attack- LONDON, Feb. 9 (Reuter)-The Daily Herald, on its ing the Japanese rear from Wingshun, downriver from Nan-
· ning. After the recapture of Naho, Kantong and Taikiso, | a direct assault is made upon the Japanese.
PLIGHT OF JEWS
front pages, prints a cable signed by Mr. Gandhi, declar- Ing_that his interview with the Viceroy shows that a wide. gulf still exsits between the British Government and Nation- To the north-west of Pin-alist India as what was offered is not real independency. In reality, he demands that India, and not Britain, yang Japanese vanguard units are engaged at Shanglin, while should determine what she needs. a Japanese unit pushing north-east. of Pinyang is also meeting with resistance.
HEAVY FIGHTING On the Nanning-Wuming high-
the Jewish and non-Jewish work-of Nanning. A Chinese unit has
There will be no justice or virtue in Britain yielding to successful rebellion, violent or non-violent. It is necessary for Britain to be just and to declare her determination to recognise immediately the freedom of India.
"IMMORAL HOLD"
IN GERMANY Continued from Pago 1 The Jews, however, were finally
with sent home-many
frozen THE NEWS that Congress limbs, and they were replaced by
This means that the con- problems of Britain's making would has voted a U.S.$20,000,- Polish prisoners, much more suited way fighting has been resumed at stitution should be framed by be automatically dissolved," 000 loan to China, and that to the work. Incidentally, between Kaofengyal, a strategic pass north a constituent assembly or its the American Export and Im- port Bank has been alloweders. In humble callings, there were reached: Santong in the Japanese equivalent as soon as practi-
cable. to expand its capital by U.S.
Chinese activities on the Nan- There is no analogy between $100,000,000, thus opening the
In canteens, also, no distinctionning-Yamchow highway continue the Dominions and India. In- way to further credits, will be was made between Jews and with increased vigour. In a Chi-dia's is a case by itself and has, welcomed, by every Chinese Aryans.
nese raid at Slutung on February to be treated as such. and every enemy of Japan's
6 more than 200 Japanese were expansionist "drive in the
killed and a quantity of Japanese arms and ammunition captured.
Eastern Pacific.
well treated by the foreman,
sald to be good and the Jews were rear by a detour,
familles.
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In Berlin, for instance, a Jewish housewife may not start shopping before midday and the shops close for lunch at 12,30 p.m.
MANY DIFFICULTIES Although the authorities nounced that Jews were to get the THE GRANT is a logical same rationing cards as everyone sequel to the abrogation of else in practice, a multitude of the American-Japanese Com-dimculties confront Jewish women mercial Treaty last January trying to provide for their and the general stiffening of United States policy in the Far East. Although it is not large, it will pay for a con- siderable amount of necessary material, and, besides, have a considerable moral effect, en- couraging Chiria in her re- sistance and impressing upon Tokyo the fact that American opposition to its more bitious aims is assuming more concrete shape.
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The Association hereby gives notice to all ft may concern that it has been notified of the loss for destruction) of Polley No. 709744 issued by the Association on the life of Mr. H Sedick, and that at the end of one calendar month from this date a duplicate policy will be issued in place of the lost or destroyed) polley unless within the said period of one calendar month objection against the issue of such Duplicate policy is lodged with the Association at its office at Bank of Canton Building, 6. Des Voeux Road Central, Hong. | REFLECTION in Chinese cir- .kous,
cles on the fact that the pre- sent loan is given at the same time as a similar appropria- tion for Finland. While greeting it, they will ask why aid to that land of 3,000,000 people has been so prompt, while the Chinese, comprising
H. R. WELLS,
Resident Secretary. 54
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
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NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corpora- tion will be held at the Head Office of the Corporation, No. 1, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 28th February, 1940; at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Ac.
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THERE WILL BE SOME
seen
dne fifth of mankind have not only had to wait and beg for what help they have had, but have actually
their enemy equipped with arms and raw materials from nations whose public opinion is unanimously in sympathy with China's cause. Both in China and in America there will be much agitation for new' and bigger credits to Chungking.
·ONE ASPECT of the loan is
that it reflects the soundness of China's credit position. It
In Leipzig city, with more than 700,000 inhabitants, there are only three shops which the Jews are allowed to use.
Since Jan. 15 In Berlin Jews have been unable to obtain milk and a special sppeal had to be made that bables, at least, should be allowed a little.
**Jews are not starved to death this is due largely to the Hindness of shopkeepers and the fact that there is a "black market" for smuggled goods here
However, prices are fantastic. coffee for instance, fetching 35 marks ner pound, goose 45 marks
Ration cards are refused to Jewa
SUIYUAN FIGHTING WUYCAN. SUTYUAN, Feb. 9
(Central) Spirited fighting has been raging in the vast prairie at the foot of Wulashan «Mountain, in West Suiyuan, where the Jap- anese forces pushing west along the Paotow-Wuyuan highway have
been held in check
The battle reached its severest
on Wednesday when the Japanese suffered heavily.
The Japanese striking at Linho. south-west of Wuyual. have been cut into several sections each losing contact with the other.
Chinese forces have launched "a "mopping up" campaign on the Japanese around Paotow. A strong detachment is striking at the hilly regions northeast of Pactow. The Paotow-Kwelsui section of the Peiping-Sulyuan Railway is under Chinese control.
AMERICAN
the ground that the majority SINO · were formerly engaged in the clothing trade and should, there- INST. LUNCHEON
fore, possess sufficient apparel.
Jews are compelled, to surrender wireless sets and to sign, a de. claration that they have done so voluntarily.
LONDON, Feb. 9 (Reuter)-The! King and Queen visited Bristor yesterday and spoke to the cap tains of merchant ships some of whom have been in the last war and others have seen, service in this war.
WELLINGTON, Feb. 9 {Rea- te`)—H. M. the King sent a message of congratulation to “New Zealand on the occasation of the Centenary Celebrations.
TO US. ENVOY
Mr. Nelson T. Jahnson, American Ambassador to China, will be guest of honour at a luncheon party of the Chinese American Institute of Cultural Relations, Hongkong Branch, at 1 pm, on Wednesday, Feb. 15. in the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden.
Judge Milton J. Helmick, of thë United States Court for China, is also expected to be present. The two distinguished American visi- tors, who are, due in the Colony early next week from Shanghai, are on their way to Chungking.
All reservations for the in
should be sent a before noon, on
Mr. William Dodd, former United Tuesday, Feb. 13, to the Institute's
States Ambassador to Germany, is acting General-Secretary, 601, Bank ezitically ill with pneumonia at his of East Asia Building. Tickets are home in Roundhill (Va.)-(Reu-$2.50. payable at the entrance of
counts for the year ending 31sts secured on the production December, 1939.
of Yunnan tin which is only The Register of Shares of the one of the many commodities Corporation will be closed from that the country can offer Thursday the 15th February to to lenders. Soviet financial Wednesday the 28th February, grants amounting to $150,- 1940, (both days inclusive) dur 000,000, the largest China has ing which period no transfer of received, are to be repaid inter).
tea, furs, wool and metals. shares can be registered.
Tungsten and antimony were exchanged, before the Euro- pear war, for German arms and now, with Nazi commerce swept from the Eastern seas, are at the disposal of the
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By Order of the Board of Directors.
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 8th Feb., 1940.
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THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, "LIMITED.
Notice to Shareholders.
Allies
and the neutrals. Animal products, tung oil and other articles which find a ready market abroad are also available, and there are tremendous unexploited re- serves that could without great difficulty be developed 1 foreign help were forth- coming for the solution of the basic problems of transport and capital installations.
THE CHINESE GOVERN- NOTICE IS HEREBY MENT is entitled to liberal financial support by inter- GIVEN THAT THE FORTY national treaties and inter- SECOND ORDINARY YEAR national morality. But as LY MEETING OF THIS COM- everyone is aware these con- PANY WILL be held at the siderations do not in them- Office of Messrs. Jardins, Mathë selves serve as a stimulus to son & Co., Ltd. on Friday, the action. It is also true, how 16th February, 1940, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors to gether with a Statement of Ac.
ever, that such aid at the. present time, would solidify the strategic front of defence of foreign interests in the Far East, and, while strengthen- counts for the year ended 31sting China economically and December, 1939.
militarily, open her great re- The Register of Shares of the sources and markets to its Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 9th February, 1940, to Friday, the 16th February, 1940, both days Inclusive,
By order of the Board of Directors,
givers.
THE UNITED STATES has was never more auspicious for begun to move and the time
Joint Anglo-American action to checkmate the designs of Tokyo. Despite this, the same fatal division that aborted the preservation of peace in the Pacific in 1931 is once again apparent. This is both politically unfortunate 45 and morally reprehensible.
C. M. MANNERS, Secretary & Manager. Hong Kong, 25th Jan., 1940.
the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden..
Will 1940 Bring Victory In Fight Against Malaria?
A NEW YEAR IS KNOCKING AT OUR DOORS, WILL IT BRING VICTORY TO THE MALARIA - FIGHTERS?
The future will give us the answer, but on the sill of the old and the new year it may be interesting to cite a letter written by Walter Reed, who after a courageong struggle succeeded in solving the secret of a pestilential disease.
·His New-Yeär's ̈·letter © re- mains a monument of human confidence and perseverańce.. Let it be an encouragement to all those who join In the com- bat against malaria coming 'new year,
A PRAYER
In the
OWN MAKING Mr. Gandhi declares: "Every pro- blem is of "Britain's own making" and adds: "What happened was doubtless a necessity of Imperial- ism, but if Imperialism dies, the
Most Meritorious 1939 Flight
LONDON. Feb. 7 (Reuter) ---Ales Henshaws record to the Cape and back flight, of four- days ten-and-a-quarter hours in February last year has been adjudged by the Royal Aero Club as the most meritorious ald performance of 1939 and he has been awarded the Bri- tannia Trophy.
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India,
FAILURE
OF BORDER PARLEYS
ROME, Feb. 9 (Reuter). Russia has hurriedly resumed work on fortifications all along the "Manchukuo"
frontier.". following the breakdown of the boundary negotiations with Japan, according to the Red Star the organ of the Red Armyquoted in a Mos- cow, dispatch to the Stefan! Agency.
NAVAL BASE
It is added that at the same
Mr. Gandhi concludes: "Britain's; moral victory will be assured when she decides, by a mighty effort, to abandon her immoral hold on India time work is being rapidly pushed follow as day follows night, for then into a fortified naval base. and then her other victory will forward to transform Vladivostok
the conscience of the whole world. will be on her side. No makeshift, such as is now offered can stir In-Henry P. Harland was
LONDON, Feo. 9 (Reuter)-Mr. dia's heart or
returned the world's con unopposed as MP. fo East Belfast, which was rendered vacant by the elevation to Peerage of Mr. Dixon.
science."
TURKEY SACKS NAZIĘ ENGINEERS
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 Reuter)-- The advisability of selling surplus ISTANBUL Feb. 9 (Renter) Army and Navy guns and muni- The Turkish nawal authorities tions to Scandinavian countries it have discharged twenty German is reported, was discussed at a con- engineers and technicians engaged ference in White House on Wednes In fitting engines to two sub- day. marines built for the Turkish Navy.
KAUNAS, Feb. 9 (Reuter)The A detachment of Turkish Council of Rabbis has proclaimed marines is reported to have, oc- a day of fast for all Lithuanian cupied the shipyards where the Jews, as a mark of sympathy for Germans had permission to enter, the Jews suffering under to continue the work.
rule.
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Nazi
CRACK CROSS-CHANNEL STEAMER SINKS AFTER HITTING CABLE NEWS
MINE
IN
IRISH SEA
LONDON, FEB. 9 (REUTER)-THE, ADMIRALTY ANNOUNCES
THAT THE PASSENGER, AND CARGO SHIP MUNSTER (4.300 TONS)
WAS SUNK AFTER HITTING A GERMAN MINE IN THE IRISH SEA. All the passengers and crew are safe. Most of those on board were brought ashore by a tramp steamer. It is believed that the passengers and crew numbered approximately 200..
An official of the shipping com-
pany stated: No one from the Munster was lost. One or two may have been injured, but everybody is safe. Four or five members of the crew are in hospital
IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (Reuter) -The Arst of several proposals de- signed to terminatę American dip- lomatic relations with Moscow was defeated in the House of Repre- sentatives by the narrow margin of 108 votes against 105
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THIRD ENGINEER'S trial of 64 Ukrainian leaders is to
GALLANTRY
PARIS, Feb. 9 (Reuter)----A pass
be staged at Kiev, states the Polish telegraphic (Reuter)-A
agency. They are charged with accepting financial help from Germany to the national Ukrainian movement in Soviet Ukraine.
LONDON, Feb. 9 thrilling story of the Third Twenty people from the shipgineer's gallantry was told yester were rushed to hospital when they day when 76 out of the 77 mem- landed suffering from minor in-bers of the crew of the sunk juries and shock, but only a few Canadian Pacific steamer, Bea- were detained.
verbourn, landed at a South Coast port.
The Munster was the crack ship of the Irish Sea. crossings and the! largest cross-channel motor vessel
the world.
The Captain had his arm broken in two places, but remained on the bridge to the last.
OTTAWA, Feb. 9 (Reuter)—The Censorship Committee in charge of 'The last man to leave the vessel radio has decided that politica! after she was torpedoed in broad speeches broadcast in connection daylight off the south coast of will not in future have to
submitted to the Censor. England was the engineer, "Harry Teale of Southampton, who re-
mained in the engine-room to
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JOHANNESBURG. Feb. 9 (Reu- ter)-The new "Re-United" Party switch off the engines.
of Gen. Hertzog and Dr. Malan He thus prevented explosions won a seat in Kuruman yesterday which might have killed many of from the United Party in the his shipmates.
first Parliamentary since its formation.
bye-election
FREIGHTER TORPEDOED LAS PALMA, Feb. 9 (Reuter) The captain and crew of Afty- three of the British freighter The Haw Par Accident. Station Armanistan were landed here last return for January is as follows:- night by the Spanish motorship Accident cases 15, Sick patients.79. According to San Francisco reports NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (Reuter)--- Onteabril,
Dead on arrival 3. Miles run 958. to the New York Times," Russian SAVAGE ATTACKS
Amount of petrol issued in gallons gold bars to the value of $5,800,000 59, Average miles per gallon 16 were taken from the Soviet freigh- LONDON. Feb. (Reuter)-In 14/59. Outpatients department:ter Kim to the Chase Bank in the House of Commons yesterday. New cases 335, Old cases 352, Total New York. Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord 687; Under 10 years 299, Over 10 of the Admiralty, declared that in years 388, Total 687. view of the. several recent savage and anarchic attacks by German
the latest figures of Australian ex- ports which rose by £500,000, dur-
LONDON, Feb. 9 (Havas)--Ger- many's fallure to cut the Empire's Mr. R. Z.: Levi, and Mr. G. communication lines is seen. In That old century had witnessed aircraft on lightships round the Chatanda were passengers who many victories over death and dis British coasts and the murder of arrived by Imperial Airways' ease. In 1820 Peltier and Caven-some of their crews, special mea Denebola yesterday afternoon. The ing the second period in 1938. toa separated quinine from the sures would be taken to provide plane brought 288 kilos of mail
protection for this service. Where from Europe, cinchona bark Laveran in 1884
possible, light flouts would replace lights in the outer positions.
discovered malaria parasites in the blood of a malaria patient and finally Rosa in 1897 tracked this parasite in the stomach of 2 1305-
Walter Heed, who proved ex-quito, still every new year wit- Labour Party
The Malaria Commission of the
perimentally that yellow fever likenesses an intensification of the malaria is transmitted by mosqui- battle against malaria. toes, wrote to his wife in a letter. dated 11.50 pm, Dec. 31, 1900, from Columbia Barracks, Quemo- dos, Cuba:
́"Only ten minutes of the old century remain...It has been permitted to me and my assis tants to lift the Impenetrable vell that has surrounded, the causation of this most dread-. ful pest of humanity and to put it on a rational and scien- tiac basis. I thank God this has been accomplished during the latter days of the old cen- tury. May its cure be wrought out in the early days of the new. The prayer that has. been mine for 20 years, that I' might be permitted in some way or at some time to do something to alleviate human. suffering has been granted. A thousand Happy New Years.... Hark, there go the 24 buglers concert, all « sounding TRDS" To the old year ***
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League of Nations takes an active
part therein. Its recommendations are of immense value. For treat- ing an attack of malaria it recom- menda a daily dose of 15 grains to 20 grains of quinine during 5 to 7 days and as a preventive during | the entire tever season á daly döse of 8 grains of quinine.
On Essentials Overthrow Of
One plane is expected here on Monday and three on Tuesday,
Declaration For Hitlerism
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LONDON, Feb. 8 (Reuter)-The
death occurred yesterday of Mr. F. G. J. Ebrd, a famous cricketer of the 90's, who played for Eng- |land against Australia in 1894/95.
The death is also announced of the Rev. Ernest Hayford Thorold.
Peace Chaplain to the King from 1935 to
HELP FOR CHINA:
LONDON, Feb. 9 (Henter)-A declaration of the policy by the Labour Party Executive stresses that the need of all British people is first and foremost, to contribute their utmost to the effort to overthrow the Hitler system, which it considers essential to the achievement of labour's principles. "The Party is convinced that the treaty must provide independence On page 12 of its Report (ng for the Polish and Czechoslovak ¡lish edition), issued in 1938, this people. The Austrians must be
same Malaria Commissión stresses | left to freely their own lot. the fact that the harmlessness of "Whatever else may be contain- quinine makes it a suitable draged in the peace treaty, this would for administration by subordinate personnel without constant médi- cal supervision, whereas much su pervision is essential in the case of synthetic products,
"A thousand Happy Newi Years...". Walter Beed wrote." Heed himself lived to hear **Taus" at New-Year only once more. But he had not lived in vain.
not be the last war in Europe und less we succeed in reconciling the French claim to security with the German claims for equality.
1938.
CAIRO, Feb. 9 (Reuter)-Gen- eral Weygand, French Comman- der-in-Chief in panted by his British colleague, Gen
Syria, accom-
Wavell, arrived in Cairo yester- day and inspected British, ESYD- dan and Indian troops,
OFFER BY BRITISH GRADUATES
LONDON, Feb. 9 (Reuter-A letter in The Times, signed by Hat Fisher, A. D. Linámy, Bobert Mennell, J. Hope-Simkpeen and J. E. K. Studd, appeals for funds which, it says, are urgently needed to meet the expense of sending out a small British unk of University men organised by Mr. Every Barger of the University of Bristol, and Mr. Llewelyn Evans, who will shortly leave for Kwelyang in response to an appeal for fresh person- curred a share of the responsibilityss in Chilas, from a relief station in Kwelyang, where the
nel, which has reached the British Fund for the Bellef of Dis
"T Britain is inattentive or im- patient towards either of these claims, she will already have in-
for the next war
The Labour Party urges a just pence towards Germany without humiliation or revenge.”
present staff must be replaced this spring.
The letter states that the members of the unit are giving their services,