PAGE 4-HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
וי
Message to a man who is Not afraid. of living
YOU can smile when people talk about the strean Col modern life, becausć you see strong and competent and able to "take it." in many ways, too, life is easier for you than it was for your parents.
You don't have to wait for things as they did. Nowadays you and your family can enjoy luxurios you otherwise could not afford by paying for them month by month and year by year sue of income!
But this modern way of living has real dangers against which Life Insurance is the only safeguard. If, for instance, you, abonki drop out of the picture, it would be your widow's future which za mortgaged. Agaia
if you do not make ampla provision for later years, you yourself may become dependent an
Life Losurance solves these probleme. Finely "planned, it will provide a regular income for your dependents if you die--for your own retirement il you live. A planned programme of Life Insurance cuables you to do with safety many things that s more conservative generation would not have dared
THE
MANUFACTURERS LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY
HEAD OFFICE
HONG KONG OFFICE; SHELL HOUSE, Manager : E.J.R. MITCHELL. Tel. 20601
Swatow (ionera! Agenta: Manors, Carr
Remary Bon, Làn,
Speen! Representative: O, R. W. Thomson, Maçao: P. J. Noronha, Agent.
SWIST
TO OPEN
TWIST TO CLOSE
TORONTO, CANADA
MAIL THIS COUPON NOW THE MANUFACTURERS LIFE INSURANCE CD-
·Shell Batume, Hong Kong.
Flease send me tuli particulars of your" Retirement Policy,
NAHE.....
ADDRESS.....
AGE, (Nearest Birthing),
THE SIMPLEST SHAVING
h
METHOD EVER DEVISED!
BRING
BAPR7
The Gillette 'one-piece' razor brings
shaving down to its simplest terms." No bits or pieces to screw or unscrew. Just twist the handle---the head opens for cleaning or a new blade. Twist again—and it's ready for your next shave. Even if you already have a Gillette you should get yourself a 'one-piece' razor. It will save you time and trouble-and give you a quicker, cleaner, more comfortable shave than you've ever had before.
No. 43 SET. Contains the new Gillette one-piece razor (Popular Model)-no loose parts,, no separate plecer to issem.bic. Complete int blue hygienic moulded case with three Blue Gillette blades.
YOUR SHAVING:
UP TO DATE WITH THE
'one-
GILLETTE piece RAZOR
K
KIRIN
B
E
The
Choice of "
E
The Multitude
Sole Agents
R
> H. HONDA & CO.
Tel. 20720,
40, Johnston Road, Hong Kong.
GENERAL
MAJOR FAMINE TRAGEDY HOPEI & SHANTUNG AS
CONFRONTS MILLIONS OF PEASANTS: EVEN COMMON EARTH NOW BEING EATEN
PEKING, MAR. 13 (REUTER)—ACCORDING TO REPORTS FROM CENTRAL HOPEI, FAMINE CONDITIONS EXIST THERE AND MAJOR TRAGEDY LOOMS as the people, already on starvation level, are living on the bark of trees and even eat- ing common earth, which is causing many deaths.
The desperate food shortage has even caused the peasants to roat up wheat stalks, thus spoiling the spring crop
Mussolini's Talks With Ribbentrop
VEIL PARTIALLY
LIFTED
r)
"
ROME. Mar. 13 (Reuter) The vell of secrecy which has hitherto surrounded the conversations be tween Signor Mussolini and "Herr von Ribbentrop on Monday were partially lifted yesterday by an. article in the Giornale · d'Italia, which says:
11
"The conversations ranged over the entire European field and over the fundamental question of war
alms and the establishment of an enduring peace.
STALKS IN STARVATION
Contraband And Asama Maru Nazis.
JAPAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER IS QUESTIONED
Conditions are especially bad
TOKYO, Mar. 13 (Router)-The around Pastingfu, while the whole reported British seizure of con- district" between Paotingfa and trabarid On the Japan Sea Tientsin has now been ascertain-engaged the attention of
tha
ed to be a famine area, parts of House of Representatives yester- which are still inundated by last day. year's flood waters.
NO RESERVES The people have to find means of living without garnering the fresh crops until, September.
Migrations are afoot from some districts and the position is made more desperate by the fact that the peasants have no food serves. these having been com- mandeered ether by Guerillas or the Japanese Forces.
Chinese
re-
Asked whether Japanese ferry boats plying between Fusan, Korea, and Shironorail had been stopped by a British wa?-
ship and boarded, Mr. Arita Foreign Minister, replied that he had received "no information of such an occurrence.
+
ASAMA MARU NAZIS Answering another ques don about the detention in Hongkong of the remaining twelve Germans MILLIONS STARVING
removed from the Asema Maru The number facing starvation, by а boarding party from Д following last year's flood, was British Man-of-War near Tokyo 3,000.000 th Hopel and 1,000,000 in Bay
Jan. 21, the Forel Shantung. It is also learned that Minister said that the Govern 12.500 villages were devastated in ment was still negotiating with Hopel and 5,000 in Shantung! the British Government for their and it is probable that the, wor-return. The present was not Br sening conditions, which reached opportune time to give out any It was stated that the essential a climax this spring, has increas- report on the progress of the net object of the war must be to con-ed the number threatened with gotiations, he added.
disaster. clude a better peace than the pre- Vious one and Italy re-affirmed that this was not possible if count was not taken of her tegitimate interests and rights following the line of the vast European construction, which was made the point of departure of the Axis and the Ttalo-German" Alliance."
BETTER PEACE
The Tribuna emphasisem that Italy's position is changed.
In Peking, the poorer families three to one a day. have cut down their meals from
More German Planes Over Belgium
BRUSSELS, Mar. 13 (Reuter)-
The Belgian Ambassador in Ber-
CANTON PUPPETS
FOR NANKING
CANTON, Mar. 13(Renter- The Canton Delegation to the forthcoming meeting in Nanking of the newly-founded Central Political Council left here by air this morning.
It was headed by Fang Tung- yuan, head of the local ad-
ministration.
Colonel Yoshida, chief of the Information Bureau, left for
2 TRAWLERS Un has been instructed to make Hainan yesterday on promotion as
ATTACK U-BOAT
FURTHER RAIDS.
ON SHIPPING
an energetic protest on the flight Chief of Staff. His successor is of German planes over Belgian territory yesterday.
A. A. FIRE
Colonel Sakuma from Peiping."
Bank
Two foreign planes, it is IP. The * Kwangtung. Provincial ported, flew over Llege at mid- Government has telegraphed to. day. They were fired on by anti-the Kwang.ung Provincial aircraft batteries and pursued by in Hongkong asking it to allocate fighters.
$50,000 for the "reller of war re- Two hours later more planes fugees who fled to Macao from
1
LONDON, Mar. 13 (Reuter)-At flew over Liege and were fired at. Changshan,
an cast coast port on Monday," the crews of two small trawlers arrived with their fishing year gone, but with proof that they can more than hold their own against a U-Boat.
FIRE
RETURNED
They sighted a submarine while] they were fishing and both ships! promptly cut away their nes to allow them to manoeuvre better and returned the Are of the U- Boa,
With shots falling all round her, the U-Boat dived.
BRITISH SHIF SUNK LONDON, Mar. 13 (Reuter)- The crew of the British steamer Gardenia (3,745 tons) were land-
Difficulty
Over Allied Aircraft Order Placed
With U.S.A.
ARMY AND NAVY" WILL OPPOSE ANY DELAY OF OWN “EXPANSION-
WASHINGTON, Mar, 13 (Reuter}
ea a; an east coast port yester--The apparent delay in piscing
them
day from a trawler which rescued the new $1,000,000,000 Allled air- after the Gardenia had craft order in the United States sunk following an explosion
is reported to be substantially at- tributable.
AIR ATTACKS.
The crew of a lightship some:
30 miles of the Norfolk const
'report' two attacks by Nazi planes
H
"PRESSURE BY ALLIES Firstly, to the strong pressure
on their vessel Altogether 18 which the Allies are reported to
has
The Nazi ship Hannover been towed into port as a prize. ATTACKED BY R. A F. LONDON, Mar. 13
Parliament's Life To Be Prolonged?
HOUSE OF LORDS QUESTION
LONDON, Mar, 13 (Router)—In the House of Lords yesterday, re- plying to a question as to whe-
introduce a bili to prolong the ther it was proposed shortly to life of Parifament, Earl Stanhope
end in
the
bombs were dropped. but missed be bringing to bear on the United said that the Government was the lightship.
States administration to give well aware of the necessity" for Allied aircraft orders preference considering this matter at no over the United States own re very distant date, because quirements. In this connection are of the present parliament (Reuter) there are strung indications in came to an
official quarters here that the The Air Ministry announced yès- terday that, during a reconnais Army and Navy departments would sance flight Over Heligoland oppose delaying their own expan-position to make any Bight and the estuaries, an airislon programmes. craft of the RAF Bomber Com- mand, successfully
.
LATEST MODELS
attacked 1 Secondly, to the efforts to ob German submarine at the en-tain release of certain of the latest trance to the Schilig Roads. The models of the United States war submarine was seen to be hit by planes. Official quarters
hint
next.
November
He was, however not in * statement
on the matter that day.
CITIES EVACUATED
Continuing, Earl Stanhope sald that there had been a very big scheme for evacuation in the pre-
at least one bomb and is believ-that the latest models will be ze sent war and a really large num
ed to have been sunk.
DUTCH VICTIM
leased for foreign sale only when ber of the big cities had lost the United States have still bet- a number their people and no one ter machines in sight, A«
could possibly say whether these Although the authorities have people would eventually go back decided to release the new 400 to the cities
LONDON, Mar. 13 (Reuter) The latest Dulch victim of Ger- man action is the 7,000-ton tanker Orloto All her crew of 42 are miles-per-hour Curtiss P40 fighter, If the war went on for воще safe on board a British warship. at least seven other types, which time, they might realise are at present being manufactured attractions of the country under orders from the United stop there.
Bome 93,000 tons of Dutch ship ping have now been sunk, with 217 seamen killed.
JAMAICA'S WAR FUND COLLECTIONS
States Air Corps; or which are ready. for 'production, have been withheld from export.
About - $10,000 was realsed from LONDON, Mar. 13 (Reuter) five days dramatic performance
.I.R.A. TERRORISTS
IN IMPRISONED
the
and
DUBLIN, Mar. 18+ (Henters—
It is understood that 480 cases in Kwelin by the South-West Twelve year's imprisonment each of Jamaica rum, valued at £500. Branch of the Japanese Anti-War was imposed on John Farnell, and 150 barrels of coffee figure League. Half of the amount will John Lyons and Joseph Mc among the distributions made be used as a "comfort" fund for Dermott, by the special Criminal by the Jamaica Publicity Com the Chinese frontline troops and Court in Dublin yesterday, on mittee, out of £36,000 collected the other half as a sinking fund charges arising out of the recent for War Fund purposes,
for the South-West Branch
Phoenix Park Magazine "rafo
THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1940.
Brylcreemed Hair
Stays put!
WITHOUT gumminger
'plastering" it down, Brykreem gives you all-the- day hair control. Never a hair out of place. Brylcreem.. keeps the scalp healthy and free from dandruff, too.
A trial will convince you that there's no better hair dressing than Brylcreem.
BRYLCREEM
THE PERFECT Hair DRESSING
>LE DISTRIBUTORS A, S. WATSON & CO., LTD.WHOLESALE DEFT. TEL***
WET ROADS SWEPT DRY BY
THIS QUICK-STOPPING TYRE!
YOU CAN
LIGHT A MATCH
ON ITS TRACK
Here at last is a tyre that automatically sweepa wet roads dry-so dry in fact, that after a quick stop you can actually light a match
on ita tracks convincing proof that the new Goodrich Life Saver Silvertown will stop you quicker, safer on wet pave- ments than you've ever stopped before.
Not only that, these great new tyren give you
the famous Golden Ply blowout protection and they give you the pocket- book protection of many months of extra miles. "You get double protection against both skids and blowouts-at no extra cost plus months of extra inlles. Don't gamble. For safety tomorrow get Goodrich Silvertowns today!
The new Goodrich SAFETY Silvertown
IMPORTERS:
DODWELL" &
CO., LTD. HONGKONG, BANK BUILDING. Hongkong Distributors:, KA FOONG HONG
131, HENNESSY ROAD,
COAL FIRES
BURN BRIGHTEST & LONGEST WITH
HONGAY EGG COAL
FOR PARTICULARS PLEASE APPLY:--
SZE WAI & COMPANY
42, BONHAM STRAND WEST
TEL 22194 OR 25009.