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HONGKONG, MARCH 8, 1940
BALANCE SHEET OF AGGRESSION
FOR
OR THE FIRST TIME since Japanese Generals and Admirals scoffingly brushed aside the policy of friendship toward China, and invaded Manchuria, the Island Empire faces a future decidedly dark. Up to now, aggression retain- ed some of its sparkle, some of its promise as a means of quick riches.
Now the mil-
itarists have to explain a balance sheet to the Nation that adds up about this way:
MILITARY GAINS: Full oc-
cupation of Manchuria and erection of a puppet Govern- Partial control over ment. North China plus an irregular band extending inland from the coast a few hundred miles as far s uth as the main river behind -Shanghai. South Seizure of ports in China, including Canton, and strategic railways.
Admission: 1st day, $1.00; valley 2nd day, 50 Cents.
Servicemen-half price.
J. T. BAGRAM,
Hon. Secretary, 119
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
The Final Dividend declared for the Year ending 31st Decem. ber, 1939, at the rate of Twe Pounds Ten Shillings Sterling at exchange 1/2.7/8 is payable on and after the. 28th February, 1910, at the Offices of the Cor poration, where shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants. By Order of the Board of Directors.
V. M. GRAYBURN, Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 28th Feb. 1940.
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THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.
ECONOMIC GAINS: Access to raw materials, customs re- ceipts, and trade in Manchu- kuo and China that account- ed for 16 per cent. of total purchases abroad in 1938, and 30 per cent. of Japan's total sales abroad.
DIPLOMATIC GAINS: Α temporary membership in the Anti-Communist Pact with Italy and Germany. Scuttling of the pact by Germany has thrown Japan toward patched-up accord with Rus sla, the future of which is un certain.....
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AGAINST THESE GAINS-- and all of them are by no means sure or secure-these are the overpowering losses:
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EDITORIAL
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1940..
Kwangtung WANDERING Lairs"
Provincial Bank Run
LAKE
SVEN HEDIN IN CENTRAL ASIA
Special To H.K. Daily Press Alleged · Japanése attempts TO disrupt the Canton Currency
The Wandering Lake, by of Sven Hedin, Routledge 185. propagation through the groundless rumours had their re- Sinklang is notorious for the percussion in Hongkong.
turbulence and mystery of its On account of this the local human affairs; le now appears branch of the Kwangtung Provin-that even its waters are subject Cial Bank was yesterday mobbed to revolutionary changes by anxious holders of its notes This volume of Dr. Sven believing rumours that the money Hedin's travels in Central Asia will shortly depreciate consider in the service of the Nanking ably.
Government is mainly devoted to a soludon of the problem of the terminal lake of the Tarim basin. Until quite recently the Lower Tarim had for many centuries forked right on approaching the
Nor Lop
desert, and had ultimately emptied its waters into the shallow lake of Kara-kosehun, In the south of the area which is somewhat indefinitely mapped as Lop Not.
Frantic scenes were, witnessed at the bank's counters during the morning as well as the afternoon.
a when crowd of about four Chinese, impatient hundred clutching orange wads of Canton to change them notes, hurled
into Kuomintang currency.
However, the bank met the ron efficiently. By 11.30 in the morning already more than $200,000 in Cantonese currency had been handled by the tel- lers. Many had gathered near the bank long before office hours, and rushed the doo when they opened
Mr. C. P. W.- sub-manager of the Bank, explained the situation
a representative of the Hong kong Daily Press Holders of Canton, bank-notes have apparent-
to
Britain's Pirate
And Her
"Intrigue" Must Disappear, While Germany Tightens Her Grip On Europe!
Changed Nazi Attitude To Netherlands
U BOAT ALLOWS DUTCH VESSEL
TO PROCEED
en
• AMSTERDAM, Mar. 4 (Havas)— A German submarine stopped the Dutch steamer "Soesterdijk, route to Holland from New York, with a cargo of maize. After brief examination., the submarine commander allowed the steamer to continue her journey.
CHANGE ATTITUDE
Observers express the opinion that the German attitude towards COMPLEX OF CHANNELS
the Thirty years before this story Holland, has changed since
the Arendskerk. opens. Dr. Hedin" had noticed this torpedoing "of fork in this complex of channels which carried a cargo identical to and had in fact explored the the Scesterdijk. The change in the then dry the German attitude is attributed Kum-Darla,'
far to Dutch retallatory measures, alternative water course.
the when the Dutch Government held 1:s disappearance".
submitted to strict control all parcels" to Germany "charity ward.
0.9
as
in
northern half of the Lot Nor up foodstuffs sent to Germany and
depression.
basin.
GERMAN COAL: ITALIAN PROTEST TO BRITAIN ROME, Mar. 4 (Reuter)-A note of protest against the blockading of German coal exported to I aly by sea was presented to the British Em- bassy yesterday afternoon,
Hitler Tells Mr. Welles His Conditions For The Laying Down Of Arms
AMSTERDAM, Mar. 4 (Reuter)--According to the Ber- lin correspondent of the Telegraaf. Herr Hitler laid down a five-point programme before Mr. Sumner Welles at Satur- day's interview.
The correspondent states, that Mr. Welles was told that before Germany laid down her arms, she must see the following conditions fulfilled:
FIRSTLY, a permanent German grip on Bohemia, Moravia and Poland (the retention of Austria was regard-
as going without saying);
ed
SECONDLY, renunelation by Britain' of hen claim "to intrigue, or exercise, influence in Scandinavia";
THIRDLY, disappearance "of Britain's "Pirate Lairs” at Malta, Gibraltar and Singapore;
FOURTHLY, a "Monroe Doctrine" for Germany in Central Europe;
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FIFTHLY, the return of Germany's Colonies. Apart from the war, Herr Hitler is understood to have urged very strongly that an American Ambassador be sent to Berlin again.
Mr. Welles' talks with Herr Hitler and Herr von Ribben-
trop were dismissed in a brier CHINA WAR NEWS
Official News Agency para- graph by the German press
Continued from Pare. 1
on Sunday. No further off-corpses are decomposing rapidly." clal information has
Д been constituting grare threat, to divulged, but Reuter learns health, the clicular points out. that it is expected that a At the same time; al districts slightly more explanatory are to start health and sanitation communique will be issued campaigns to acquaint the people with the dangers of exposed dead when Mr. Welles leaves." eire es
bodies."
ly nothing to feat, as the local He had concluded that about branch has received telegraphie 2.000 years ago, it was the Kum
Tarim of the instructions from the Head Office Daria which carried the terminal
the waters exchange in Shiukwan Kwangtung 'currency for National depositing them "far to the north notes at the exchange rate of $1,44 of Kara-Koschun ir a lake which Canton for $10 National, for he argued was the Lop Nor of the which rate they change all notes early Chinese annals.
He and his colleagues had ch demand.
An ingenious According to the bank. offelal, further advanced the present value of the Canton theory to explain why the water banknotes is HK. $1.95 for $10 would not tow simultaneously in Canton, in the Chinese open mar. both branches of the fork, and he ket. No other bank in Hongkong had been bold enough to say that has been affected by the rumours, one day it would return to the
Members of the light-fingered Kum-Daria.
This aqua de revolution happen- gentry were active yesterday. An Indian constable was seen leading ed in 1921, which, as Dr. Hedin
SPIRITED FIGHTING away an arrested pick-pocket who points out, was geologically speak-
A Havas message from Rome ports from Berlin state that Herr LOYANG, Mar. 4 (Central) — stili had in his grasp a neat rolling only a moment atter he had states that there were renewed Hitler's interview with Mr. Welles Spirited fighting has been in pro- currency. Another hazarded his guess, and it is this outbursts by the Press against deals mainly with economic progress at Hungtung, Chaocheng.
invests of Canton
his
New subsequens Brain, following Lundorï's decision blems.
Interviews between Linfen, and Fowshan' thief was caught attempting to which
Canoe Journey down the Kum- steal $25.00 H.K,
to extend the embargo to German Mr. Welles, and Herr Hess and Mr. Tatung-Pachow Railway and Chi- Darta with something of the coal exports to Italy.
Welles and Herr von Ribbentrop shan, Sinklang and other points taut excitement of a detective
in: South Shansi, where the Chi- The Regime Fascista asserts tha: are expected. story,
the British are motivated by the Herr von Ribbentrop is expected nese have started vigorous "mop-
allan refusal to sell arms to Bri- to hand Mr. Welles a written reply ping up" operations.. tain, "Britain wants to compel Italy from Herr Hitler to President. A Japanese unit at Hellung-
MIDWIVES ORDINANCE
lows:-
He was travelling along a 13 year-old · river through desert The Government Gazette not-which was only just responding to fies that the Midwives Board furts vivifying waters, but now the ther amends the Regulations to poplars and the tamarisks would the Midwives "Ordinance as fol- resume their buds, and men would grow crops again in a tract of the 1. Regulation 2 (iv) is rescind-old Silk Road which had been GOOD WILL: Japan has fallen from being one of the ed and the following is substitut-lifeless for 16 centuries,
If he was right, he would opme most respected nations to the ed herefor
v) that she holds the Upper in the end to a lake brimming with generally blamed
Primary Certificate or its equiva- shallow water where 13 years ago loosing the floodgates of
lent, or has passed the examina- there had been nothing but the aggression on a war-weary tien of the Nurses Board of Hong- baked floor of a desert depression. world. Such good will as kong."
and the map of the Lop Nor retained toward Chinese
region would have to be altered until such time as, with the next Japan has been snuffed out. ed
swing of the aquatic pendulum, The United States at last is
Kara-Koschur fills again and Lop making its displeasure felt in terms the Japanese military
Nor empties. understand. British, and Netherlands French, opinion has been alienated.
can
PUBLIC CONFIDENCE:
NOTICE is hereby given that the TWENTY-FIRST ORDIN. ARY YEARLY MEETING of this Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central, on Saturday, the 16th March, 1940, at 3.00 p.m, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Japanese already "are falling Directors together with a State to take up the full amounts ment of Accounts for the year of war loans. In 1937 the ended 31st December, 1939. governmental Bank of Japan.
The Register of Shares of the had to buy 10.3 per cent. of Company will be closed from the bonds floated; in 1938, Saturday, 9th March, 1940 to 10.9 per cent., in order to take Saturday, 16th March, 1940, up the slack."
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during
(both days inclusive) which perlod no transfer shares can be registered...
By Order of the Board of Directors,
of
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 26th Feb. 1940.
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HONG KONG. & WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.
FINANCIAL
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2. Regulation 2E (1) is rescind- and following is substituted therefor
" any ucensing body in any British Dominion, Colony or Pro-
In this narrative Dr. Hedin's tectorate whose certificate is re-
of cognized by the Government con- triumphant verification the cerned, (other than a Class B Cer-new position of the wandering lake tificate of the Straits Settle-is supplemented by an accoun; of ments); or"
the adventures of his tractors in prospecting for a motor road across Central Sinklang. (The Times,
POLICEMAN IS BEST POLICE CHIEF
Sir John Anderson believes that takes a policeman to make a police chief. He refuses to approve
the appointment of a retired naval commander as Chief Constable of Bedfordshire. -
BELGIUM WARNS
THE REICHE
BRUSSELS, Mar. 4 (Havas)—— The Belgian Foreign Minister, M Spaak, in a statement to the press, said that Belgium insists on full respect for the integrity of her territory. He added: "Our army is streng- thened; our defence system is ready. Hence anyone "at- tempting to pass through our country would dearly pay for it."
STABILITY: The public debt has jumped from 6,188,000,000 yen to roughly 18,000,000,000, almost equal to the national income.
Sir John is right. The selection With no end of the China war of chiet constables from among in sight, and trade in free ex-Army and ex-Navy officers has exchange areas dwindling, teen a "source of grievance, to Japan soon may face serious policemen for many years, inflation. For some time Rightly or wrongly, policemen there has been trouble in pay-have come to feel that when the ing for essential imports, and highes: posts in their profession so gold is sent abroad. This fall vacant the words "No police- need apply are almost drain continues, with no ade- man
TOKYO, Mar. 4° (Reuter)—The axoniatic quate rellef on the horizon.-
Japanese Vice-Minister for Foreign Christian Science Monitor.
The ex-officers, no doubt, navej Affairs, Mr. Masayuki Tani, invited sterling qualitics. But so has the the British Ambassador, Sir Robert policeman who has raised himse!! Craigie, to the Foreign Office at 11 to the rank of superintendent, a.m. today to discuss various out- And he knows his Job.--(Dafly standing Anglo-Japanese issues, Mall):
including the Tientsin silver.
OLDEST BRITISH CORONER DEAD
NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders will be held in the Office of the Company, No. 2 Queen's Building, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, 26th March, 1940, at noon for the consideration of oldest coroner, died at Ormskirk Sir Samuel Brighouse, Britain's the Directors' Report and Balance with his diary and his notebook Sheet for the year ending 31st open on the bed before him, his December, 1939.
fountain-pen in his hand
The Share Register and Trans. fer Books will be closed from the 15th to 26th March, 1940, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
He was making notes on an inquest his son (and deputy) was to hold for him. Always he had said he wanted. to die "In harness,"
Bir Shmuel was 90 last August, and he died on the day he com- pleted, filsafty-sixth year
for. coroner
Bouth-West Lan- cashire. He held 25,000 Inquesta and had been a solicitor for 60 106 years.
E. COCK, Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 27th Feb. 1940.
ANGLO-
*JAPANESE PARLEYS IN TOKYO
260 Chinese Drowned When Tender Overturns During A Panic Caused By Air Raid
SHANGHAI, Mar. 4 (Reuter)-- is feared that 260 Chinese have been drowned as the result of the capsizing of the tender Kingshing, at Ningpo, on Saturday afternoon, according to the Chinese press. While 300 passengers were being conveyed in a tender to the German-owned steamer Mohlenhoff," which was ...preparing to sall for Shanghal, the air-raid alarm was sounded. In the ensuing panie, the passengers are said to have all rushed to one ilde of the small craft, causing the Kingshing toʻlover-
turn
Despite frantic rescue efforts, only forty were saved
It is not known whé.her this is a copy o, the formal nute which, Italian
say, will not be official y pre- sented in London until today.
རྩྭ་
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
(Havas)-Re- BERNE Mar. 4
DR. GOEBBELS DOES
to buy Welsh coal and thereby com- Roosevelt's queries. pel Italian shipping to run risks The present in the North Sea confict could assume terrible pro portions should such intimidation | be continued and adopted towards? neurals."
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CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES
A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
"
од
the
kwan, north-west of Linfen made
repeated unsuccessful attempts to
drive Westward, under · cover of artillery fire, toward Puhsien.
A Japanese southward thrust from Wensi and an eastward push Hsiahsten simultaneously
HIS STUFF BERLIN, Mar. 4 (Reuter)--In the
Sun course of his broadcast on day on the occasion of the open from ing of the Leipzig Fair, Dr. Joseph last Wednesday were thrown back Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Pro- with heavy losses. paganda, declared that the stales:
On the same day, the Chinese
of success were slowly, but surely, attacked Changtienchen, south or Hsiahslen and damaged the high- inclining in favour of Germany.
economic
A Japanese unit was encircled
"The Fuehrer cannot conceive the way nearby. possibility that we should be de- feated in this decisive struggle," and decimated near Changchih in he said "We are a match for our South-East Shansi a few days ago,
in the
CHINESE SUCCESS A national campaign is to be enemies also
remember also SOMEWHERE IN SHANTUNG;. Jaunched by the staff side of the field, but let us
did not, suc-Mar. 4, (Central)-Chinese forces. National Whitley Council for the that, in 1918, we
were Operating in Shantung made re-. Civil Service with the object of cumb because our enemies securing increases of salaries and then economically superior to us.peated successes in the past week, according to despatches received, wages, particularly for the lower We lost because we lost nerve."
CONFIDENT OF VICTORY
In an attack on Lini, in South paid grades, to compensate for
D. Goebbels declared that Ger-Shantung, they charged and in- the rise in the cost of living.
with flicted heavy casualties on the In representations made to the many compared favourable Treasury it was argued that the her enemies in regard to her enemy last Friday. lower paid offlcers were not in a political leaders and added: "This position to meet an increase in the cost of living of 12 per cent., which was equivalent to a tax on wages of 2s. 6d, in the pound,"
A Japanese force pushing south- is why the German nation is con-ward from Felhsien, east of Teng- dens of victory and the destruc-halen, was intercepted and severely tion of our enemies who want the beaten. About 209 Japanese were annihilation of our national free-ribed and an artillery piece was dom and who are threatening our damaged. life."
The Chinese attacked Tsowping. in North Shantung, during the
The campaign will open London, and meetings will be held in a dozen other places, including the towns to which large numbers SISTERSHIP TO GRAF week
of Civil servants transferred..
have
been
It was stated recently that the incomes of 320,000 Civil servants are less than £5 a week and 200,- 000 are less than £3 a week.
"
A Japanese troop train struck a SPEE TO BE BUILT
Chinese mine laid by the Chinese AMSTERDAM. Mar. 4 (Havas) units near Chiehho, on the Tien- Public donations are being sought tain-Pukow Railway northwest of throughout Germany to build a Tenghsien, last Saturday, resulting sistership to the Graf Spee. in many Japanese being killed.
SHANGHAI'S FUTURE AS THREAT TO SHANGHAI'S TRADING PORT BY FLOODS PROPHESIED AS RESULT OF YELLOW RIVER ACTION
CHUNGKING, Mar. 4 (Benter)--The future of Shanghai as a great trading port is said to be threatened as the result of another attempt by the Yellow River, known for centuries as "China's Sorrow," to change the landscape of the country,
According to the latest information received here, the river's waters are carrying mud and silt from the mountains and plains of North-Western China and pouring them into the Yangtse. Elver viz the Hwal River.
River conservancy experts are Yellow, and Yangtse Alvers the of the opinion that so much, belleve, would not only once more. silt water is going into the Yang-food and destroy hundreds of rich ise that eventually this will bring industrial agricultural towns and about its overflowing, resulting in cities in East Klangau and Che the flooding of the Yangtze,
FATE -SEALED?:
WIFE OF BRITISH OFFICIAL ROBBED
OF JEWELLERY
SHANGHAL, Mar." (Reuter)- Mrs. A. G. Denbigh, wife of the Hakodate British Consular agent, was robbed of a considerable quan- tity of valuable Jewellery, 'valued. at $200,000 on the evening of Mar. 2 from her apartment in the Con- cession, according to a report in the Evening Post. No clue, it said, was found, on the promises.
TWO DUTCH SHIPS
MACINE - GUNNED OSTEND, Mar. 4 (Reuter)Two- Dutch cargoboats, the Schieland klang, but would also seal the (2,249 bons) and the Limburg (345 fate of Bharghal as the greatest tons) reported on arrival that they“ industrial and financial trading were machine-gunned by German:
planes in the North Bea
The changing course of the port in the Far East.