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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT 1940.
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ENGAGEMENT
BERGLOF —ADAM.-The engake- ment is announced, betwien John Leonard, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs, C, B. E. Berglof. of Shanghai, and Joyce Li- lian, only daughter of Mrs. E R. Adam and the late Mr. John Adilin
DEATHS
Entries close on Saturday, 24th ALVES-At her residence, "Val verde 302 Prince Edward Rd.. February, 1940, at 6 p.m.
Kowloon, on February 19, 1940. Carmen, Soares, aged 54, dear- ly beloved wife of Chevaller Jose Miguel Alves. Funeral will leave the house at 3.30 pm and pass the Monument at about 4.30 p.m. There will be a High Requien Mass for the deceased at St. Teresa's Church, Kowloon Tong, on
26th, Monday, February
at 7.15 a.m. No dowers by re- quest.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corpora tlon 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 noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Ac- counts for the year ending 31st December, 1939.
The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from Thursday the 15th February to
MARTIN-On December 21, 1939,
a sen on board the ss. Hako-
zax! Maru, Victor, aged 18 months, beloved son of In- spector R. C. Martin, Shanghai Municipal Police and Mrs Martin.
The Baily Bress
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Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central Tel. 30251.
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London Office: 63,, Fleet Street
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HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 20, 1940
A NOTABLE DOCUMENT
THE FINAL ABROGATION, last month, of the Japanese- American Treaty of Com- merce and Navigation and the
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EDITORIAL
STOCKINGS MADE
OF NYLON
NEW YORK, (Havas by Mall). Two of the
largest bosiary announced manufactures have that they will begin in February to produce stockings made of nylun, the new synthetic yarn developed by the du Pont interest! which may eventually oust Jap- anese raw slik. ··
.:
Phoenix Hosiery Co. at. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will start nylon.on 15 of their 400 knitting machines. The Holeproof Hosiery Co, announced that it would begin using nylon on 8 of its 230 ma- chines, It was expected that both Milwaukee companies would have nylon stockings on the market between May 15 and May 30.
IT IS
M. Georges Tatarescu, the Prime Minister in Rumania.
4,000 SQUATTERS
EVICTED
permit eviction of UAE-
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1940.
REVIEW
OF CHINA'S FOREIGN TRADE JANY. NOV., 1939 Development Governed By Diversity Of Factors
A diversity of factors partly positive, partly negative, and without common denominator, governed the develop- ment of China's foreign trade in 1939. The major ones in- clude the continuation of the Sino-Japanese war: Chinese exchange intervention and industrial recovery in Shang- hai; the decline of the Chinese national currency last summer; increased Japanese interference with trade, ex- change, and currency in the occupied areas; and the out- break of war in Europe.
CONSPICTIOUS MILESTONES
subsequent strong of Ameri- Japan of airplanes and of machin-evicted from their can policy in relation to Tokyo ery for the manufacture of the Kowloom was heralded by the appear-special kind of gasoline necessary moming following wider powers changing considerably from
to fly airplanes.
given to the Urban Council under the first to the second half of ance, in the New York Times
HARD to see why we the Emergency Regulations, which the year. HARRIS-Suddenly, on Wednes" for on January 11, of a letter
day, February 14, 1940, at his written by Mr. Henry L. Stim- should stop with those efforts and now home on Bubbling Well Road, son, Secretary of State at the not go on and try to stop the ex-thorised persons from Grown land,
offcers, port of the special gasoline itself. James Fraser Gordon Harris, time of the Manchurian in-The stoppage of the machinery for operating with the Police, pro- aged 51 years, of the Shang-cident and still a powerful manufacturing that gasoline is of ceeded to act yesterday near hai, Power Company.
factor in United States diplo- little present avail so long as we Grampian Road and Lion Rock matic thought.
permit the export of the product Road. As soon as the people were itself.
evicted, FW.D. coolles started to destroy the buildings,"
ednesday the 28th February Watch For
1740, (both days inclusive) dur- ing which period no transfer at shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chtel Manager. Hong Kong, 8th Feb. 1940.
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY. SECOND ORDINARY GEN. ERAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on TUESDAY, 12th March, 1940, at NOON for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the State. 'ment of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1939.
Spies By Parachute
CONSTANT GUARD ON VITAL POINTS Elaborate precautions nave been take in this country against the possibility of parachute descens by Nazi spies.
been
circulated
Reports have that enemy raiders have brough; over sples at night and dropped them by parachute in remote parta of the country.
THIS LETTER made a
.
COMPLIANCE" with such a re-
quest by our Government would be worthwhile as an immediate step in the line of restoring our own self-respect. And it might well be an effective step... But it. could hardly be more than a step. IN THE LIGHT of the violence which Japan during the past few years has done to the principles advocated by this country, as well as to our material interests in
great impression on läternal (THE READINESS of our mer opinion, drew editorial com- chants of airplanes in the past to leadership of our ment from hundreds of news-accept such papers, and mobilised public State Department should encour- sentiment against the renew-age it in the belief that it would al of the trade pact with the have the support of our oll and aggressor. In view of the his- scrap merchants in further efforts. torical importance of this document and the fact that its, text has not so far been published in Hongkong, we devote this space to it today.
FOR THREE YEARS the great resources of our country to a ma- jor degree have been thrown con- | tinuously to the aid of wrong- doing in the Far East. They have been used not only to assist un- provoked aggression against China but also to facilitate, acts of inex- cusable cruelty toward unoffending Chinese civilians, women and chii- dren. They have been used to promote the violation of treaties which we inlidated and which re- present the hope of modern civi lization in the Far East.
IT IS NOT OUR NATIONAL LEGISLATION which is at fault, but a comparatively small num- ber of individual Americans who are directly responsible-chiefly the merchants who are selling to Japan the ore, steel, and, scrap Iron indispensable for her bombs, and the large oil producers who are selling to her the even more indispensable aviation gasoline for her planes
Neither the Army nor the R. A°F. has any knowledge of such visits. but they have not neglected to take the necessary steps to dea! with an invasion of that character Not only on the const line but nland, also, a constant watch is kept and records are taken of the and direction of all passage aircraft.
GUARD AGAINST SAHOTAGE
Bre sent inh- These reports mediately to Air Defence de:ach- ments all over the country and the necessary acuon taken. The official The REGISTER of SHARES attitude is not to ignore any pos- of the Company will be CLOSED sibility of parachute descerits by from MONDAY, 26th February,sples. 1940, to TUESDAY, 12th March, struc ions were issued to detacu
Recently, further detailed in-
TODAY THAT RESPONSIBILITY, 1940, both days Inclusive, during ments of troops responsible for has become more clear than ever. which period no transfer of shares guarding railway bridges, junctions The resources. of the very few can be registered.
and tunnels. pumping stations and other nations who formerly joined electrical and gas understations with us in that tramc are now and other vital points. The pos- nearly all absorbed in the Euro- sibility of sabotage is nowhere pean war, Except in America overlooked.
there are very few of these indis- pensable materials for aggression which are now left available to Japan. The focus for responsibi- ty is thus almost wholly centered upon us.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
0. EAGER,
Secretary
Hong Kong, 19th Feb. 1940.
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Should parachutists try to effect a landing, either individually or collectively, the authorities are satisfied that they would have a 77 poor chance of being unobserved.
Invasion by parachute was an operation on which the Russians Mr. Tseng Yang-pu, vice-Minister ser great store. They attempted of Foreign Affairs, has arrived in it recently in Finland wish, it is, Kunming Ól B. brief visit.reported, disastrous consequences here. If a prophet Nathan were "International).
to themselves-Daily Telegraph).
THE FIGURES of the sordid trame have been published and republished many times and there is no need for repeating them
Asia, such a step can hardly be thought adequate. In order to im- press Japan with the seriousness of the feeling of our people as to this matter, I think our Govern- ment will probably have to go
further.
THERE ARE AT LEAST four- bilis
now pending in Congress proposing directly to prohibit the export by us to Japan of arms, munitions, and the raw materials out of which arms are made
ONE OF THESE BILLS bases its proposed action specially upon the reason that the arms and ma- terials thus prohibited are in- tended to be used in violation of the sovereignty and territorial in-
tegrity of a Nation whose sov. ereignty and Integrity the United States is obligated by treaty to respect....
THE PASSAGE of such legisla- tion would have the great advan-
tage of demonstrating more clearly than any other method the reason for our action and the emphasis which we place upon right con- duct in international relations and particularly upon the treaty for which we are mainly responsible, undertaking to respect the inte- grity and independence of China.
FURTHERMORE, the fact that our Congress representing our en-
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Urban Council
Com
Above the confusion of these
Trade trends varied not; accounting for more than half of only in imports and exports, the total increase of China's im- About 4,000 squatters were but also in different regions ports.
buts in the of China "and several groups Japan's share in these im- City area yesterday of commodities, besides ports rose to 35 per cent, as compared with less than 20 per cent prior to the Sino- These figures Japanese war. include Free China where Nip- ponese goods are banned. In the occupied areas alone, In- " cluding Shanghai and Tientsin, the Japanese import share rose to above 50 per cent, In North China it reached 70° There is. first of all the sub-per cant In Inner Mongolia it stantial rise in the value of im- soared to 95 per cent. The figures ports as compared with the year back of these percentages do not before. Calculated In Customs includë either the Japanese Yang- Gold. Units, the following figures | tza trade, nor the continuous huge discount exchange variations smuggling of made-in-Japan goods all along the occupied regions of China's sea coast,
Alternative accommodation at the Kam Tin refugee camp was offered to those who wished to BQ to the New Territories.
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MOTOR MISHAPS
Swerv'ng sharply to avoid a a Chinese boy who ran in front of the vehicle, Mr. A. C. Kelin, of No. 30, Mody Road caused his car to mount the pavement mi Mody Road on Sunday. Mr. Kella. as a result, sustained flight facial injuries. The car was slightly damaged.
Anatole Konersky, residing at the Peninsula Hotel, has reported to the police that while driving motor car No. 1589 in Castle Peak Road, on Sunday afternoon, he knocked down a Chinese named Chiu Ping-chuen, who was treated at the Kowloop Hospital with head injuries.
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Mr. E T. W. Baly, of No. 12, Peking Road has reported that his house was entered on Sunday and clothing
and $ fountain pen valued at $79 stolen.
ALLEY TEAM BEAT |- U.S.S. MINDANAO
In a friendly five-game ten pini match played last night at the Hongkong Bowling Alleys, the Alley team defeated U: 8. 8. Min- danao by 198 pins.
ALLEY TEAM-J. Watts 879, J. B.
U. 8. 8. MINDANAO~J. A. Kar- Tey 831 D. M. Keplinger 821, F. P. T. T. Sheehan 700. Hollis 702, 2 Total, 3,144,
events rise a few conspicuous milestones marking the march of j time in China's 1939 foreign com-
merce.
Imports
OTHERS PAID "·
Jan.-Nov., 1939 all China GU7500,- 259,531: Shanghai "GU228,217,000; North China Gu18,180.000,
The other countries, of course, Jan.-Nov., 1938 all China GU35 paid for this Japanese import in- 553,775: Shanghai, GU104,379,000; crease. Though some of them ac North China GU126,040,000.
tually experienced a rise in the Import Increase all Chins value of their exports to China, GU150,705,758; Shanghal GU121,-, their percentual shares invariably 838,000: North China GU90,140,000. decreased
BIG INCREASE
1mports: Jan.-Nov.
18.51 17.21
1939 1938 Decrease
'7.26* Japanese Empire 34.33. 27.06 United States
1.70. Great Britain Netherlands
Neth." Indies Belgium
The following table shows the That is, foreign imports of all development of the ratios for the China.increased by over 40 per non-Chinese signatories of the cent, while in Shanghal import Nine-Power Treaty and Germany: values more than doubled. The Share, in Chinese import increase in the Gulf of chinii ports and Tsingtao came up the average of the whole of China. The total import increase would have been much larger than it was, had the increase in Shanghai and North China not been par- tially offset by decreases in the France South, owing chiefly to the Japan-Italy ese closure of Canton...
ports of That the two Shanghai and Tientsin alone bandled over 70 per cent of ali Chinese
due Imports. was
primarily to the continued exis- tence there of foreign-adminis tered areas outside the Japan- ese sphere of power.
RESOURCEFULNESS
Ciermany
✓ 5.79 8.07 2.28
4.63
5,52
1.54
.90 2.10 58
.0.84
2.14
1.30
0.83 2.01 1.24
6.85 13.12
*Increase
NEW OPPORTUNITIES
€47
The above decreases (except Japan) would have become still larger, had not these countries found in Free China important new trade opportunities to replace trade lost in the occupied areas. This applies, in particular, to der- many. The interference of the The Import Ancreases testined to European war accounts only slight- the resourcefulness of both Shang-ly, for the large decrease in her
upon
e-
ability to carry on economically Landolt 846, H. Blount 815, JR. hal and Tientsin, and to their
despite countless Japanese Fawcett 802. Total, 3,342.
croachments
the non- of Nipponese business interests these two important cities.
These increases testify at the same time, however, to the des- tructiveness of the Japanese on slaught in China. The decisive. import increases
CHALLENGE MATCH The Chief Petty Officers of the U. 8. 8. Asheville have challenged the regular Asheville team and
the match will take place tomorrow
at 8 pm.
H.K.C.C. DEFEAT VOLUNTEERS
הני
occurred
agricultural produce..a shortage in which resulted from the war de- vastation in the Interior of North and Central China.
imports.
Owing to the Japanese invasion, she actually lost two-thirds of her exports to the occupied areas, but doubled her exports to Free China. That even at the height of her political co-operation with Japan she had to give way in China be- expansion fore-Japanese trade proves definitely, that such" co- operation is unlikely to Japanese trade favours in China to any other power trying to follow the same way as Germany.
(To Be Continued)
assure...
tire people had taken such action would carry with it a weight of influence which would be far more
Imports of raw cotton, once a abroad in the world today, his effective in impressing the people inger would point unerringly at of Japan with the sincerity of our
major product of Chinese agricul- Uncle Sam and there would be no purpose than any other action.
tare, rose from. GU4,027,814 in the doubt in his decision. Thou art THE STABLE EQUILIBRIUM öf
first eleven months of 1938 to SCARLET FEVER In a mendly cricket match GU64,850,282 in the corresponding the man"
Eastern Asia, in which the United AND YET as to the American States is so deeply interested and played on the Chater Road around period of the past year. Importa
ON DECLINE periods, soared from GU55,400,000 Scarlet fever becomes every year unjust "condemnation. Both attack upon China, cannot be kong Cricket Club defeated the tons of cereals, during the same
to GU85,400,000, and those of other a less serious danger to life in the press and the Gallup polls restored without a complete re- Volunteers by five wickets
foodstuffs from QU32,600,000 to European countries. This is the CT85,000,000, -
conclusion drawn by the League's These products alone accounted Epidemiological Record from its for more than 80 per cent of the study of statistics over a period of total import increase in China...
Tension With Japan Viewed By Washington Observers More Seriously Than Usual overwhelmingly show that there is
people as a whole that would be Observers people as a whole that would be
NEW YORK (Havas by Mall)--The Journal of Commerce in- cluded the following paragraph in its column of advice and com- "ment to business men;
"Sub-surface signs of tension with Japan have been viewed:
than by Washington observers rather more seriously
usual. Although the attitude of Admiral 'Yonai, the new Japanese Pre- mler, appears highly condilatory, fears have not been wholly re- moved that differences regarding trade policies will lead to Inflammatory incidents,
Our armed forces in, the Pacific, firms to withdraw their technicians which keep in Aghting trim as a from Japanese plants lest they matter of routine, are in more divulge secrets of military value thon a usual state of preparedness. An executive order of a few weeks ago, which went generally unnotic- ed, waived application of the wage- hour law to work on Midway Island fortifications by reasons of emergency.
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an
which is now menaced by Japan's yesterday afternoon the Hong-
versal of the conduct followed for
Scores!--
VOLUNTEERS-173 for 8 wickets dec. (D. J. N. "Anderson 42, E. Zimmern 37, E C. Fincher 20 T. Broadbridge, 24: Denver 3 far
wickets
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LEAGUE SHARE
afty years. The decline of scarlet fever mortality observed in Eug- Among the foreign countries land over this period amounts to sharing in China's increased im- more than $5 per cent. In Ger ports, the Japanese Empire, by many and Sweden, the decline is systematically exploiting the ad-less regular, but scarcely less im- vantages of its new conquests in portant, le
In the autumn of 1939, the in- China and ruthlessly discriminat- ing against the trade of all other fluence of abnormal conditions in countries, seized the leading share. European countries made itself The following table strikingly felt on the statistics of scarlet illustrates this progress of the con- fever as well as on those of diph-
therla
no international question on several years by the leaders of the which our people are more Japanese Army. And among the thoroughly united than as to influences which would be effec- the Japanese aggression against tive in ultimately accomplishing China....
that reversal next to the con- 40). ON JAN. 25, next, the six months' rageous and stubborn resistance of HK.C.C.-198 for 5 notice given by our Government of the Chinese Nation would be the (Capt. D. C. E. Grose 84. Denyer the abrogation of the treaty with knowledge in Japan that the Unit 40 M L Haymes 40; B, Japan will have expired. Oured States through the action of Ozorto 3 for 74). Government will then be morally Its representative Congress had de free to act with respect to our liberately and clearly taken such commerce with that country. It a weighty step to evince its dis Mr Y C. Koo, Finance Com is therefore important that our approval, to mak
missioner of Kwangtung and Gen. people should consider and discuss INDEED THE INFLUENCE of Manager of the Kwangtung Pro- the matter thoroughly and in its such action by our Government vincial Bank, arrived in Klengst. broadest aspects so that our Gov- would transcend even the great on Feb. 17 to discuss with the ernment may act in the light and crisis in Asia. Throughout the Kiangs! provincial authorities querors: with the support of an intelligent broken and warring world of today matters concerning economie-co- public opinion..
It would show that this Nation operation between the two pro- recognizes. Its responsibility for virices(Central). making efforts toward the restora- tion, of law and order and that wherever its peaceful influence Fun Kam, a painter, was ad can effectively be thrown it. will be mitted to the Queen Mary Hos thrown on the side of indepen-pital with a fractured skull on dence and freedom and against Sunday. He fell from a ladder Kwantung militarized aggression. It would while working at No. 2, Bunga- this powerfully tend to conarm low Stanley. the already great induence which has been exercised by the repeal last Autumn of the automatic em- bargo legislation-Henry son, New York. Jan, 10, 1940
“American government of- ficials are confident that in a war of one nation against anolber, the United States. could defeat the Japanese in handy fashion; But if Soviet
ONE STEP IT [the Government Russia rallied to the aid of the
could take today and that step is "The prospect, that the United
Japanese, the United States
in the line with what it has al- states may become involved in war
would be embarrassed, to sav with Japan is one of the reasons
ready done. It could address its the least. why the Navy "is building warships
powerful leadership and influence the on an unprecedented scale and is Under th
circumstances, toward persuading those Ameri- seeking Congressional approval for Washington le not eager unduly to cans who are now engaged in ex- improvements of the Guam, naval offend Moscow. In the same way porting iron ore and scrap from as base. The possibility that Japanese that Britain courted Italy to keep well as aeronautical gasoline to warplanes using high test American the Heriin-Röme axis from func- Japan to cease their exportations. the The Secretary of State has already gasoline may be employed against toning too effectively, so the United States in the Orientar- United States is now disposed to successfully applied this method of plains why the State Department keep Russia ous of the arms of the a so-called "moral embargo to
ward preventing further exports to has just persuaded American all Japanese
HELSINKI Teb 19 (R Finns
from com -service in peace
ill-health ware
up today.
**One Customs Gola Unit equal at present to US$0.8121 or 391d: China Imports
NEM from
Japan.
January-November
1939
It is still too early to estimate how far scarlet fever morbidity has been influenced by the move- ment of civil population in the 1838... different countries. It is, however, to be remarked that the number Proper GU118,150,000 78,998,000
1,949,000 of cases reported in belligerent Korea
8,067,000
771,000 countries in September and Octo Fornosa 11,178,000
ber. appears low. 37,473,000 14,537,000
On the other hand, in Scandina muck vial and the Netherlands as well. Emprize: GU174,868,000 CUS6,205,000: Bouth-Eastern Europe (Hun-
MORE THAN HALF pary Roumania, Bulgaria, - and - The above figures show that the Yugoslavia) the seasonal rise in Japanese Empire increased its ex- October 1939 was greater than for ports to China by GU78,563,000, the corresponding period of 1988,
IT Japanese.