HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
EVIL FORCES MUST BE OVERTHROWN TO SAVE
POPE PIUS XII
PERSECUTION OF
CATHOLICS
Special to HK. Daily Press VATICAN CITY, Mar. 25 (Ha-
HUMANITY
TWO STRIKING ADDRESSES
· VATICAN CITY, Mar. 25 (Reu- ter)--In a Latin Homily at. High Mass at St. Peter's the Pope painted a sombre picture of the errors and scourges, especially the war now affeting the world.
He called on all men to conform
to tue Christian virtues taught by their Saviour as "the only remedy
for the moral, social and economic ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
disorders from which all nations are suffering."
The Pope looked forward to the day when the forces of evil would be dissipated by God's aid and humanity would be once more at
onc.
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NOW PRISONER COPENHAGEN, Mar. 15 (Reuter) POWERS OF EVIL... LONDON. Mar. 25 (Reuter)--The German ship Edmund Hugo The Archbishop of Canterbury, Stinnes was reported to have been preaching In Canterbury, said en route from a Danish hard ur That at no time within the last when she was stoppeď by two sub- 1700 years had the powers of evil marines. (See page 11).
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AMBIGUOUS COMMENT
BY TIMES ON WANG REGIME
LONDON, Mar. 25 (Reuter)- Even the gravity of the situation
in Europe cannot district atten- tion
altogether from the im- portant events taking place in the Far East. "says The Times in an editorial referring to the tablishment of the new Chinese | regime on March 30.
es-
After reviewing the events lead- ing up to the establishment of. Wang Ching-wei's "government," The Times says: "It is doubtful whether the Japanese agreed to give Wang Ching-wel full powers in the northern provinces,
"The chler importance of the new administration is that by promising to tecognise it the
Japanese Government has made
a carefully planned peace move which they believe will complete- ly change the situation. The grounds for their optimism, are not yet clers.
Government
vas-It is officially and categori-been more active and more n-: Warning thols were red buting their belief that they have
cally
are
dented that negotiations sulent under way regarding the execution of a, Concordat,
According to information from the Reich, the `persecution ot Catholics in that country does not seem to have abated strice the visit of Herr von Ribbentrop to
the Vatican.
It is learned that. the convent at Innsbruck was closed down and the nuns expelled 'two days after the return of Ribbentrop to Berlin.
CONGREGATION AT UNIVERSITY
1
the steamer did no. stop until the fourth shell penetrated the ship wounding the Second Officer and
"It is truly
spectacle of humanity suffering on the bitter cross. We do not believe it is God's a steward. will that this. reign of brute force
sallors immediately British should continue and we cannot boarded the steamer and took the doubt that it is in accordance Ca, tain prisoner, gave the crew with God's will that Britain and fifteen minutes to leave. and then the Allies should do their utmost. sank the ship. regardless of the cost, to end this evil," he declared.
NEW ORDER
NORWEGIAN STATEMENT OSLO. Mar. 25 (Reuter)--The Norwegian Admiralty issued
"The chungklng have no intention of surrender-
enough, munitions to carry on the struggle for a long time and the Japanese are not in a position to
extend their long lines of com- munication farther into the in- terior.
"More significant is the fact that the National Goverment is still able to levy and receive, taxes from great parte of the provinces, nominally 5 Japanese hands, and all these circumstances must
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MEMORIAL
After the overthrow of the statement saying that a German inspire doubts regarding the gue- Lowers of evil, embodied in Ger- trawler at Hustadvikeri reported cess of the experiment of 4s- many's present rulers, and
win-on Thursday that she was threat-tablishing a new Nanking Gov- ning back the lands they had jened by a British destroyer.
ernment 23 a middle term be- ravaged, it would be vital to build A cargo boat was escorted by a tween Tokyo and Chungking and on the ground thus cleared a new Norwegian torpedo-boat when the the experiment must be regard MEETINGS HELD und better order of human life. British destroyer signalled, asking here, for the moment, more with Guests attendir.g the Special The Archbishop warned his Us-for the name of the German interest than with confidence." Congregation at the Universityteners, however, that they could steamer, The Norwegian torpedo-.
WANG KIDNAPS OPPONENTS this evening when. the ILD not be content on destroying the boat obtained withdrawal of the Chonoris causa) will be conferred powers of evt in the shape of destroyer from Norwegian terri- on Mr. A. Morse, J.P., are request- Herr Hitler and his gang. They torial waters. ed to be in their seats by 6.15 might merely be creating a desert p.m.
and calling it peace.
EXTENSIVE
PROTESTS AT USE OF WOMEN PILOTS
There have been many protests against the employment of women plots who have been enrolled as a uniformed corps to deliver light
training aeroplanes from factory
to storage centres...
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FLIGHT BY R.A.F. OVER GERMANY
BRITISH BOMBER
SHOT DOWN
FOR DR. TSAI
GRUNGENG. Nah, B (Cen- CHUNGKING, Mar. 25 (Central) tral)-Memorial meetings for the A Shanghal message states that late Dr. Tsal Yuan-pel. President The Norwegian Legation in Lon-more than 100 patriotic Chinese of the Academia Sinica and fore- don has been instructed to pro-men and women loyal to the Na-most educator of the country, test.
tional Government have been kid- were held throughout the nation napped by Wang Ching-wei's gang yesterday "under circular instruc- and are being detained in a con- tions of the Government. centration camp in Nanking. In Chungking, scores of Govern-: where they are leading virtually ment and private, organs, led by prisoncra' life.
the Central Party Headquarters "All letters to and from these de- and the National Government. tained people are subject to strict held a joint service which Gen- censor by Wang's agents, while erallssimo Chiang Kai-shek DEI- their movements, even inside the,sonally attended. camp. are watched..
On Friday, the statement con- tinues, a British destroyer tried to stop a German ship in Norwegian territorial waters near Obrested.
The case is being investigated by the Norwegian authorities.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, OF CHINA
LONDON, Mar. 25 (Reuter)- Special to H.K. Dally Press
The Air Ministry announced yes-
that,
So far there are eight members terday
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to the pay of junior R. A. F officers. They are given uniform.
their
It is pointed out that there are on the waiting list for the R. A. F
a large number of men who have undergone some flight training.
IDLE R. A. F."TRAINEES »
Many of these men have, since the war, been waling anxiously for an opportunity to continue to fying training. Were they per- mitted to do the ferry piloting the cost to the Government would be less, while the Air Force would gain"
NAZI COMMUNIQUE
The first indication the rest of
PRINTERS ASK FOR WAR BONUS
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The British Federation Master Printers. issued the follow- ing statement recently:
SPECIAL COMPANIES presentatives
the world had of the flight was LAW ANNOUNCED the cipsing down suddenly of the Hamburg Radio Station,
GERMAN CLAIM
Mr. Chang Chi, member of the Central Supervisory Committee. delivering a report in the 'Chung- king meeting, eulogized Dr. Tsal's life and accomplishments and described him as
the nation's
first teacher in a generation. He
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The effect of education on le mentioned particularly the late caste system in India is among
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Dr. Teal's work in the nation's the subjects discussed in "Sodial realises that London is a first- revolusion, in education, and in Service in India," edited by state architectural elty, and that his promotion of aesthetics. Edward Blunt, late of the Indian Bedford-square is one of the anest
Mr. Chang said Dr. Tani
Was Civil Service, and published by squares in the world." the living embodiment of China's the Stationery Office (10s 6d). traditional national virtues
So. writes an eminent Danish and
a, the same time a great modern tributors emphasise that an In- who has studied London problems Bir Edward and his six con- architect, Steen Etler Rasmussen,
Jan. teacher.
155.) is both an appreciation and a criticism.
•
Pian nation is now in the process for many years, ar" whose book, At Kunming, a memorial meet-of formation. Many of the diffi-"London: the Unique City" (Cape, ing was oficiated by General culties that impeded its develop Lung Fun, Chairman of Yunnan. ment have disappeared. Dr, Mel T-chi, president of the The birth of a new Indian National Tsinghus University. gave a brief account of Dr. Tsai's
life.
at
4 Similar meetings were held Kwellin, Ichang, Kwelyang. gian. and other centres.
nation, It is pointed out, will not necessarily involve the death of caste, but the atti- tude of the masses towards caste Is also beginning to
CHUNGKING, Mar. 25 (Havas) — dur.ng Saturday The Board of Directors of the four of this corps, under a First Officer.night, the RA.F. carried out ex-National banks, the Central Bank The
by British tensive reconnaissance' fights over of China, the Bank of China, the corps is Airways for the Air Ministry. The North-West Germany and that Bank of Communications and the Farmers' Bank, will hold an extra- women receive salary and flying one, plane failed to return. Day amounting approximately
ordinary meeting on Mar. 27.
Contrary to rumours circulating The German High Command regarding monetary reforms, the
At the request of the Frinting communique acknowledges that discussions will bear principally on and Kindred Trades Federation many planes new over North and loans to farmers at low interests conference West Germany and also between and
took place on measures to Increase the 3 between the executive committee the Moselle and the Rhine and economic development of China. that a Vickers-Wellington bomber
of the Printing and Kindred Trades Federation and TE was brought down.
of the
British Federation of Master Printers and the Newspaper Society, CHUNGKING, Mar. 25 (Central) "Mr. G. A. Isaacs, president of -The National Government" has the F. and KTF, made a state- promulgated & set of law government in which a rekuest was LONDON, Mar. 25 (Reuter)-ing the organization of joint made for the payment of a war The German Air Command com-
the members of s Government and private limited bonus to munique, given by the German Hlability companies.
affiliated trade unions. wireless, reports local activity by Under the law, Chinese or tor- "Lt-Col. H artillery it was considered expedient to troops in the West.
reconnaissanceeign concerns or individuals may chairman of the Joint Labour participate in the capitalization Committee of the B. F. M. P. and take early measures to make use
Despite very unfavourable wea-of these special companies. The the Newspaper Society, made of women pilots. It is probable that ther, the German Air Force car-law provides, however, that in the a statement in reply in which he as the war continues the number ried out reconnaissance flights case of foreign participated com- said that the employers'
LONDON, MAR. 25 (REUTER) THE LIBERAL WEEKLY. will be increased. Thus, it is over Eastern France.
panies, at least more than $0 per-ment in which a request was
SPECTATOR, DISCUSSES THE QUESTION WHICH IS EXER- maintained, the utmost possible
During the use will be inade of the avaliable many enemy planes flow
night of Mar. 23 cent of the shares are to be Chi-by the views of the alliances of CISING THE MINDS OF MANY AT THE MOMENT — whether the
overnese owned, and more than half the B F. M. P. and the associa Allies should take more intensive steps In the near future? number of men for war servies · · North-West... Germany and the of the members of the board are tons of the Newspaper Society, to The clamour, for more intensive action, the
The answer to this contention le Moselle-Rhine
which the request would be re-partly reasonable and partly unreasonable. that there are at ali. times Vickers-Wellington long-distance The chairmanship and general terred.
It is unreasonable if it is numbers of men pilots either machine, was shot down by Ger- managership of the company are "The conference was adjourned clamour for Immediate temporarily relleved from dying man anti-aircraft artillery.
major also to be held by Chinese." for this purpose.”
military operations but it is rea- sonable if it springs from the de- mand for more initiative and better and speedier organisation.
"We must be pleased tha
EARLY MEASURES
at the front, or completing Night
training, to whom the opportunity
for useful cross-country divine would be welcome and beneficial. -(Daily Telegraph.
STALINISM CONDEMNED
BY I.L.P.
the
LONDON, Mar. 25, (Reuter)---- The Independent Labour Party, a small group or the extreme Left Wing, has passed 2 resolution warning British workers of dangers of war with Russia,
At the same time the ILP. feels. Its duty to socialism to dissociate itself from the Stalinist regime in Russia. It condemns the "crimes of Stalinism, for it was a great crime to attack a small nation.” Its tragedy, says the LLP.. 1 that Russia has thus lost the goodwill of the working classes of the world.
and
Sector and one to be Chinese.
change.
London, Mr. Rasmussen insists, and he considers, that the trac must not become a city of flats.
and the slums are our greatest drawbacks.
The most rational solution of the trate problem, he thinks, would be a complete sub-division of the chief centres of the city
of the garden city.
Garden...
TAKE into many minor centres-the idea
Rivers Fletcher, SHOULD THE ALLIES
MORE INTENSIVE ACTION?
Picture taken at the open air: United service of Christian, Witness held on Gond Friday on the vacant ground opposite the Alhambra Theatre Among the clergy may be seen the Rev. R. Higgs, Flear of St. Andrew's, and the Rev. H. D. Rosenthall, Vlear of Christ Church, Kowloon Tong.
on a large scale, while We have
a
a
paper
says.
La
Lighting Experiment Success
cities, however, could not become of any great importance it built only by private enterprise; they must form part of a greater plan, and future cities should be connected by a wellestablished systėm of trafië-also the pró~' posal of Ebenezer Howard, The disadvantages of over crowding, he believes, are increasi ed terribly in blocks of flats with many rooms under one roof, th large buldings with far too many inhabitants,
The monumental city of Peking. the first six months of the war.
Mr. Rasmussen argues, is ruined Germany has not used the ad-
Singapore streets are going to by the intrusion of houses of vantage of her greater prepared-be brighter if the suggestion of European typ, which destroy all ness. The British Government A Municipal Commissioner is the harmoný of its plan. And now should not be pressed to attack carried into force.
London, the capital of English More general use of the new civilisation has caught the Inter- still not achieved our maximum type of street lighting, recently in-tion of Continental experimenta strength on the land and in the stalled by the Municipality on a which are at variance with the air."
sretch of Clemenceau Avenue whole character and tendency of The Roman Catholle organ, from Newton Circus to the trame the city. Tablet deals with President roundabout in Cavanagh Road, is Thus the foolish mistakes of Roosevelt's declaration that peace likely following the excellent re- other countries ате imported cannot be built without a moral salts obtained from that experi- everywhere, and at the end of a foundation, The responsibility ment.
few years all cities will be equally
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for the war lies with Herr Hit Mercury discharge lamps are ugly and devoid of individuality. ler for be invaded Poland and used in the new lighting scheme "One hardly knows whether to everyone knew wha, he had done for Clemenceau Avenue. In de- laugh or cry at sceing a modernis there. But, with time. this might signing the standards for these tie architecture imported into be made into pass, history, if lamps, the Municipal Engineer has London, which is far less suitable Herr Hitler is able is, work on the closely, followed the recommends to the spirit of the age than the neutrals desire for peace.
tions of the Trimmer Trame Georgian houses of about 1800) Germany should be represent- Committee.
says Mr. Hamuisseri,
ed by different men Such. change would not bring a guaran- the new type of street lighting in its use should be more general in
Motoris are enthusiastic over
"tee of peace, but it comes first, Clemenceau Avenue and think that Singapore streets.