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STOCKHOLM, MAR. 29 (REUTER) — FEARS ARE WIDELY EXPRESSED THAT THE NORTHERN NEUTRALS, AN INCREASINGLY ESPECIALLY NORWAY, ARE IN DANGEROUS POSITION.
All newspapers carry the report of impending events in the North Sea and it is generally assumed that yester-. day's Supreme War Council decided to favour further ac- tion against shipments of Iron ore from Norway to Ger many,
It is recognised that the cutting off of the Norwegian route will be an extremely serious blow to Germany, as she will then he forced to wait for at least a month until Sweden's Baltic port of Lulea is ice-free.
Moreover, Narvik is only a hundred miles from the iron-
FLOUR MILL Belds whille Lulea, 250 miles
distant, is, connected only by
WORKERS IN a small railway.
S'HAI CLASH
The Tidningen's Berlin corres- pondent
* Well-informed says! German circies consider that SHANGHAI, Mar, 29. (Reater) events have taken a tremendously dangerous turn for the neutrals, A clash between dissatisfied
especially Scandinavia, during the former workers, and their succes-
past 24 hours. sors, of the Foh Shing Flour Mill ta the Internationa) · Settlement yesterday resulted in about 20 men being injured. ·
About 25 pistol rounds were fired by the Settlement police to end the fight. Some of the bullets wounded three · Chinese Chinese rioters and a onlooker.
AT ANY COST
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"The Western Powers are deter- mined to stop iron ore from reach- ing Germany at any cost while Germany depends on these sup- plies. Without them she will be unable to carry on.”
"The correspondent adds that Chinese the situation is nearer a point than is generally believed in which
A foreign police-sergeant was Germany will be compelled to take sarlously struck by an earthen stops to protect her vital interesta. ware jar by a workman. About The correspondent further de- 200 rioted using bamboo poles sticks, chains, jars and stones.
A reserve police. unit charged and dispersed the rioters.
DEATH OF DR.
L.F. WILBUR
Special to H. K. Dally Press TIENTSIN, Mar, 25 (Havas)—Dr. Leonard Fisk Wilbur, superinten-
dant of the
American
clares that it is taken for granted in Berlin that the Western Powers have decided to ignore the Scan- dinavian neutrality on the prin- ciple that he who is not with us is against us.”
POLISH PLANES JOIN ALLIES
PARIS, Mar. 29 Reuter)-The first squadron of Polish planes, Board which had been
land in France.”
training
in
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1940.
GEN, IRONSIDE
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NERVOUS CHINA'S FIRST
OVER
GEN. GAMELIN
THANKS
WOMEN WAR WORKERS: SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN REGARDING THEIR FUTURE WORK
Glowing Tribute Paid To Madame Sun Yat-sen
Mme. Chiang Visits War Orphans At Fanling
SPACIOUS NEW HOME
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK, CHINA'S FIRST LADY, who came to Hongkong last month for medical attention, recently invited the leaders of local Chinese women's bodies to her residence when she received reports of the diferent organisations and gave specific instructions regarding their future work. The interview lasted for about four hours.
Among those present were Madame Shim Yat-sen and yesterday paid a visit to the new representatives of the Hong-Madame H. H. Kung, elder sisters home of the Hongkong Branch of kong Branch of the National of Madame Chiang, were also pre- the National Association for the Women's Relief Association, sent.
Care of War Orphans at Fanling. Madame Chiang expressed grati- Removal of the home, which the China Defence League, the Hongkong Chinese Wocation at the patriotic work un-was formerly located at the old dertaken by the different bodies Government Civil Hospital, to the men's Association, the Hong- and instructed that as many en-new, premises in the New Terri- kong Women's Committee of thusiastic workers 43 possible tortes donated, by Mr, Aw Boon- the National Association for should be allowed to take part in haw, was completed yesterday. the Promotion of the New Life the various phases of work.
China's First Lady braved the. Movement, the Hongkong TRIBUTE TO MME. SUN heavy rain and cold to keep her
"ENGLISH AND FRENCH HEARTS BEAT AS ONE"
LONDON, Mar 29 (Reater) Gen. Gamels, Commander-in-Chinese Women Soldiers. Re- Madame Chiang paid a glowing promise to see and talk to the Chief of the Allied Forces, addressing a regiment of French Cana- lief Association, the Hong- tribute to Madame Sun Yat-sen war orphans and to spend the dians at Aldershot, after a two hours' inspection said. We have kong Y.W.C.A., the Hongkong for the role not forgotten in France the entente cordiale of the last war. To Branch of the National Asso-she played in day, English and French hearts beat as one
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develop-
Orphans, and the Cantonment of the Y.W.C.A.
Chinese I71-
Gen. Game in began with the word "comrades", and concluded clation. for the Care of War the smartly: "I salute you." He was loudly cheered.
Accompanied by Gen. Sir Edmund Irondde Chiel of the Im perial General Staff. Gen. Gamelin inspected aver 1,000 men of two Planes wheeled overhead as the men regiments and field artillery. marched past.
3 Attempted ABERDEEN
Killings In Two Hours
Significant Attacks
SHANGHAI, Mar. 29 (Reuter)-
TRAWLER ATTACKED
LONDON, Mar. 29" (Renter) The Aberdeen trawler Invernell was attacked by a German plane off the north-east coast of Scot- land last night.
The plane dropped three ΟΙ four bombs and aerial torpedo but made no direct hits.
The mate was wounded in the
Fight To The End Pledge
dustrial Co- operatives and the National Red Cross So- ciety of China, her
- Band - for
efforts in in
world peace and justice, as mani-
first day with them at their new home.
She was accompanied by Ma- dame Suż Fo. A large gathering. of prominent Chinese women re- Hef workers was present to greet them, including Mrs. C. c. w Miss Hu Mu-lan. Mrs. Li Shu-fan. Mrs. Rose Tan, Mrs. Katherine Kan, Mrs. M. K, Lo, Mrs. P. P. Ho and Mrs. Lambert Gockshin.
After inspecting the spacious premises. Madame" Chiang was
AMA present at
entertainment given by the children, to whom
her fight for independence and she spoke simply and affection- fested by the generous material ald ately.
CHUNGKING, Mar, 29 (Central)ternational MME CHIANG -Broadcasting this evening on the Publicity. This
has won much sympathy for China Occasion of Chinese Revolutionary Martyrs' Day, Mr. Lin Sen. Chair man of the National Government declared that he and General- issimo Chiang Kai-shek will lead the entire nation to fight to the end for China's liberty, equality,
and territorial in- sovereignty tegrity.
The struggle of the entire Chi- nese people will never stop until our goal is attained. he declared.
to China. Madame Sun's zeál in
patriotic activities, in her opinion, should be an example to all Chi
nese women.
EXCEEDINGLY HAPPY Madame Chiang said that she was exceedingly happy that her hope of being with the war or- Thanks were also expressed by phans now being cared for in Madame Chiang to Madame Kung Hongkong had been fulfilled. for her untiring work..
FINE RESPONSE
The Generalissimo and herself, she said, regarded themselves as their parents, and in the same way the children should regard
their own parents."
Mr. Lin bitterly denounced According to Madame Chlang, Wang Ching-wel for his treason the Winter Garment Campaign their teachers and guardians as The trawler's lewis gun fired 250 to the nation and the Party, and which she sponsored last winter rounds and the plane eventually appealed to all friendly Powers to raised a total of $7,000,000 (Chi- The plane also ma- extend more assistance to the nese currency). She said she was made off.
National Government. chine-gunned the trawler,
Mission Hospital at Talku, Shansi, France, has now joined the Allied died of typhold on Mar, 24, aged forces on the Western Front. 33.
M. Sikorsky, addressing the There were three attempted astas-arm, Son of Judge Curtis D. Wilbur, lots before their departure, said: sinations in the International Set- of San Francisco. Dr. Wilbur came "You last fought, in Poland. You tlement and the French Concession to China In 1933, accompanied by will be the first to fight for Po-within two hours yesterday, and resulted in four Chinese being his wife.
wounded seriously.
Two of the shootings were in the Settlement. The victims are both known to be supporting the Japanese. The attacks are regard- ed as significant at this time, the eve of the inauguration of the new "central government" In Nan king.
He returned from the United States last September - and 13
PARIS, Mar 29 (Reuter)-To-
there was nothing to report.
survived by his wife and two day's war communique states that -children.
Supreme War Council Declaration Most Important Development Since Outbreak
In the third shooting, the in-. tended victim and h's bodyguard were injured, and is reported to have no political motive.
of
In Hongkew, the Japanese- controlled area, where shooting occurred, is believed to be the first attempted poll- tical assassination in the Jap- anese-controlled teir fory since the 1937 hostilities, PARIS, Mar. 29 (Reuter)-Newspapers describe yester-
The victim of the Hongkew day's Supreme War Council declaration as the most impor-shooting was Hsi Shen, a Japan tant development since the war began, large headlines ese-speaking Chinese journalist stressing the Franco-British undertaking not to conclude employed by the Hair Shun Pao, separate armistice or peace.
a Japanese owned Chinese langu age paper.
PETIT PARISIEN WRITES: "IT IS A GREAT ACT OF WHICH THE FUTURE WILL SHOW THE IMPOR- TANCE."
Gen. Duval, in Le Journal, is the reassurance to opinion both says: "We can hope this time here and in France still more im- that victory will mean some-portant it is as an indication to thing and will last."
Germany and to non-belligerents, Excelsior says: "Comparison of with claims to make, that neither
declaration of the Allies can be accuunea. yesterday's historic with the communication presented. "The declaration is linked point- to Mr. Summer Welles shows the edly with the agreements of last parallelism of French, British and year and particularly with the American peace alma"
economic agreement signed by Bir
que is considered to contain the embryo of a new Europe."
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Fatal Stabbing Prison
Faces
Incident
Term
Cell: Long Capital Charge
A fatal assault in a cell in Hongkong Prison, Stanley)
Continued On Page 7
In H.K.
Convict
COLLISION
*
on Feb. 4 had a sequel at the Central Court yesterday IN HARBOUR
afternoon when LI SHEK-MAN, alias LI TOK, allas MANG KAI TSAI, a long-term prisoner, was charged with the mur- der of LAU CHUEN, a fellow-prisoner, who was due to be released on Feb. 5.
Li Shek-man, who was confined in a cell in another block of the Prison, is alleged to have wandered into Lau's cell and there inflicted a blow with a knife in the chest. Lau died in the Queen Mary Hospital on March 9.
The case came before Mr. T. (loped other kinds of illness entised J. Houston.
by the stab wound..
Mr. E. H. Williams, Crown' Counsel, was in charge of the
INCIDENT 'IN AUGUST Bardar Khan, assistant warder,
FOUR CHILDREN DROWNED
Through the goodhearted- ness and generosity" of many people, both Chinese and for- eigners, the children now has an excellent opportunity to equip themselves to become 'useful citizens in later years," and she trusted that her hope in them would not be mis- placed.
Hongkong, said Madame Chiang, was the gateway of China What- ever the children did would be known to the world. She wanted them to set a good example, both in their studies and in their gen- éral conduct, so that all China - might look to them with pride.
MAKE SACRIFICE:
The older children must help the younger and the gifted should help those less fortunate, stated Four children, two girls and two Madame Chiang, who also said boys, all Chinese, lost their lives that not all those that contribut following a collision in the cen-ed to the funds of the Association tral fairway of the harbour yes were well-to-do people. There were terday.
many who had to make sacrifices Continued on Page 7
The children. who were from junk No. 1458H, were;~
Bui Mel-kai, aged 9; Chung
SUSPECTED prosecution, assisted by Det.- deposed that on August 8, 1839, he Chung-mo, aged 11 Agirl): Tang
MURDER
Body Found In Field
AKT
Insp. I. R. Whant, who con- ducted the investigations.
· Mr. V. H. Freenian, SuperVİKÖT of the Prison Hospital, told the
Court that on the morning of
February 4 he received a telephone message concerning a stabbing in- cident. On arrival at the hospital he saw Lau Chuen on a "stretcher,
The body of an unknown Chi- with a serious stab wound on the Madame Genevieve Tabouls, in John Simon and M. Reynaud, The nese male, dressed in cotton suit left side of the chest, just under L'Oeuvre, writes: "The communi- new French Prime Minister has with a padded jacket, and wear-the collar-bates the doctor' been closely. Identifled with the ing no shoes or socks, was found was not available at the time, wound, sna unification of the war effort of lying in a paddy field at Ngau witness dressed the
Tam Mel yesterday, at the two peoples.”
sent Lan to the Queen Mary Hos The man, who had a small pital "On the following day he moustache, had a wound on the saw the accused who had berdses bead believed to have been caus on his right eye and thigh ad by a heavy blunt instrument. Dr. G. Y. A Griffith, medical
A basket, containing a jacket Omcer of the Queen Mary Hos and empty tin cans, was found pital, gave evidence that Lau was nearby.
admitted on February 4, and died on March 9. The deceased deve-
--- FIRMEST TERMS British Wireless adds that the
CALL ON LEBRUN- Manchester Guardian says, "The
PARIS, Mar. 29 (Reuter)-M declaration does not go beyond what everybody has taken for Reynaud, the Premier, called on granted about unity in the war M. Lebrun, President of France, and in maiding peace but it is good this morning to report on to have it stated explicitly and in Supreme War Council meeting. the firmest terms. Important as
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the
Murder is suspected.
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Tung-pat, aged 10; and: Chung Fung-shing, aged a girl.
BOAT CAPSIZES
According to a police report, boat No. 2089 capsized in Taitam Bay? off the Indian Married Officers' Quarters, Stanley, Prison,
TRUTH OF SELENGA STORY
LONDON, Mar. 29 (Reuter)-Re-
yesterday about 1 p.m. A woman, porta from Hongkong that the
Sam Kau-mui. aged - 38, drowned...!
DORNIER CREW
KILLED
was Soviet steamer Belenge has been
released are now cleared in Lon- dong
The truth is that the Boylet" steamer has been handed to the French authorities for further examination and has not Been PARIS, Mar. 29 (Reuter)-It is handed back to the Soviet at- officially announced that a Ger-thorities,
man Dornier type of plane crash There is nothing strange in the ed while on reconnaissance over procedure as the Allied navies are north-east of France yesterday, in full co-operation and some the entire crew being killed, me times it is convenient to transfer The crash was attributed ofthier | detained vessels to the French to engine trouble or; à ́storm. Naval authorities.