"Hongkor, Daily Press"-April 4, 1940
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BRITISH GOVERNMENT CHANGES
EXPECTED TO BE ANNOUNCED BY
NAZI PARTY CHAMBERLAIN
RALLY IS
ORDERED Moves For Churchill.
PROPAGANDA
FANTASY
BERLIN, Apr. 3 (Reater) The German "propaganda" for home consumption is increasing in fan- tasy.
Field Marshal Goering is re ported to have ordered a Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg in September. He called it a rally of
victory.
It will be remembered that the rally, which did not eventuate last year, was called a rally of peace.
Chatfield, Wood
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Will Not Be Surprise
LONDON, APR. 3 (REUTER) -- WITH TODAY'S FUN- ERAL OF SIR JOHN GILMOUR, Minister of Shipping and former Home Secretary, the period in which his successor could not be announced, terminates.
There is a general expectation that the Prime Minis- ter, Mr. Chamberlain, will take the occasion" to announce certain other Government changes which have been in But what takes the biscuit prospect and that the decisions will be made known this comes from Dr. Ley who is in week..
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charge of the "Health Through The possibility of a smaller number of important offices
Joy Movement" He is planning
sorts,
N.Y. PRESS ON CRAIGIE SPEECH
"DIPLOMATIC ·
MYSTERY"
NEW, YORK, Apr. 3 (Reuter)- "Diplomatic mystery" was the description given by the New York Herald-Tribune to the speech made by Bir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador in Tokyo, on Mar, 28.
The paper says it “Amplied such an astonishing repudiation of the consistent British attitude to- wards Japanese policy in China that it seemed unfair to comment until British, reaction, "or Air Robert Craigle, had the chance to
a series of cruises for Germany's War Cabinet has somewhat may see changes, a new form correct misrepresentations, if any."
the since the French of organisation. Inside
The Herald-Tribune declare, it youth in the later months of receded autumn to southern English re- Premier, M. Paul Reynaud, present. general scheme of was seen that there were no such announced the War Cabinet | Government, cannot be ex-reactions or corrections but there of nine but, inasmuch as a cluded from any forecast.. have been assurances from While nobody knows the Prime London that there is no thought Minister's Intentions moves for
of withdrawing recognition Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
CATTLE AND IMPLEMENT
LOAN STATIONS
Cattle and implement loan stations will be the impor- tant innovation in rural rehabilitation work created by -the-Shumchun-Rural Welfa Centers me get in
Already the experimental station has been working satisfactorily with the enthusiastic support of the farmers. Full use is being made of this novel method of productive co-operation where the farmers have the use of cattle and implements for ploughing and tilling their "land.
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Nazi Press
On Britain's "New Threat"
BROADCAST BY COERING
· LONDON, Apr. 3 (Reuter)-Main repercussions of Mr. Chamberlain's declaration that the blockade will be intensified are set in, Ger-
many.
While neutrals seemned less con- cérmed, the German press inten-
More and more farmers are com ing daily to the station to register
their names so that, as their turn comes. they will be able to have the free use of what is now most needed in the entire countryside the cow and the plough.
PRACTICAL SOLUTION This is the first time in the field of rural rehabilitation that such" a method 1s being introduced.
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LINCOLNSHIRE RESULT
LONDON, Apr. 3 (Reuter)-The sified the attack on Britain's "new Lincolnshire run today resulted as threat."
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Field-Marshal Goering, in broadcast, stated that Germany will protect her ships in carrying! goods from Scandinavia and it is presumed that the German alr force will be mainly used.
The report that the German Navy will sall out to protect her merchantmen was described as pure fantasy.
follows:-
1. Quartier Maltre (Gordon Richards), 7 to 2;
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2. Uncle Archie (Mullins). 100 to 7:
3. Ticcagart (Tucker), 100 to 8.
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Mr. Winston Churchill "(First Lord of the Admiralty; ·
Lord Chatfield (Minister for the co-ordination of Defence); Lord Hankey (Minister with- out portfollo);
Sir
Samuel Hoare (Lord Py Seal) and
Sir Kingsley Wood (Secre- tary for Air); would not cause a surprise.
AIR MINISTRY
of
It was incredible. ag reported, and is incredibly » permitted to
survive this long as an exposition
of British policy in the Far East.
"SAME OBJECT"
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"BEITAIN'S MECHANISED ARMY-Tank exercises over rough country. The crews are · prae- tising the parts they will shortly be playing "somewhere in Fran 68,"
Progress Made In The Completion
SMASHING ROOSEVELT
VICTORY Special to telly
Of China's Financial Programme
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CHUNGKING, Apr. -3° (Central)
JAPANESE WARNING TO SHAI
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attributed to Sir Robert that Bri- NEW YORK, ADT. 3 (Havas) tain and Japan are ultimately Presiden Roosevelt scored
SHANGHAI, Apr. 3. (Havas)---- striving for the same object, smashing victory against Vice Ministry of Finance's two-year the Japanese determination
During the first period of the considered as an indication of If a considerable body of Par- namely, lasting peace and the President Garner in preliminary liamentary opinion were consulted
our institutions elections held by four constitua finandal network in the interior, affairs is the warning given re-"" preservation of
programme for the completion of grasp control over Bettlement Mr. Churchill would be given wider administrative scope that the ad- from extraneous influences," the ences in New York, miralty provides.
no less than 154 branches and cently by the semi-oficial Jap- Herald-Tribune comments:
Should Mr. Roosevelt decide to "To the Japanese and the Chi-run for a third term, he is assured Banks have been established, it is
agencies of the four Government anese Army paper, Tairiku Shimpo. nese. this cap mean only the of the support of $4 Democratic
The paper asserts that unless announced here today. The Air Ministry has been the omcial, British justification of the votes in the State of New York.
demands for greater representa- subject of much speculation.
Of this total, the Central Banktion were ceded, a possible move Japanese Army's venture in China.
"Therefore, Sir Robert must be MME... SUN BUSY
of China established 33, the Bank to gain control of the Bettlement of China 59. the Bank of Com-by force may eventuate.- means that Japan CHUNGKING, Apr. 3 (Central) munications 28. and the Farmers Should the is the defender of her own peace-Madame Sun Yat-sen" who is Bank of China 36. Their distribmands be "unfairly ignored and "reasonable”, „de- and China's spiritual health from visiting ia Chungking Inspected tion, according to provinces, is as the monopolisation of the Settle- extraneous subversive influences, the bombed areas yesterday. Since follows:
63 in Ezechwan, 18 in ment by the British be continued, non-Japanese, except for her arrival here days ago, she has Yunnan, 18 in. Kwelchow, 21 In the Japanese may have to drive For the Ministry of Shipping. Sir publicists in the Japanese pay, received a stream of callers who Kwangs, two in Kwangtung, five their efforts and reorganise the Arthur Salter. present Parliament has ever underwritten the Jap-came to pay respects to her.
in Hunan. 15 in Shensi, 14 in Settlement by means of lawful Secretary, who has had shipping anese Army, stock excuse, as this Madame Chiang Kai-shek wil Kanau, Chinghai and Ninghsia, measures." experience in the Admiralty and comparison of the British and shortly summon women leaders in and three in Sikang. Sixty others The Settlement will "again be elsewhere in the Great War, is Japanese war objectives seems to Chungking to have an interview have been established in Chektang, thrown into confusion," and the
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with Madame Sun. mentioned.
Klangsi, Anhwel, Hupeh, and Fu-jparty intending to check the Jap- anese advance, should be prepared
In both the foregoing con- nexions it is recalled that Sir Samuel Hoare has been both First Lord of the Admiralty (1936-37) and Secretary of "State for Air (Nov. 1924 to June,
1929).
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SENSATIONAL REVELATION IN
COURT: ACCUSED SAYS HE WAS
INTENDED VICTIM OF MURDER
WITNESS TO A MURDER OF WHICH HE WAS THE INTENDED VICTIM WAS THE UNIQUE EXPERIENCE that befell Tsang Sam-tai, an unemployed palat-scraper," in the 'Shaukiwan district on the night of July 22 last year. The victim of the crime - was Li So, 30, ship's caulker, who was done to death as a result of mistaken identity.
THIS SENSATIONAL REVELATION WAS MADE. AT THE CENTRAL" COURT
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON when Tsang Sam-tai-was-brought before Mr. T. J. Houston charged on three counts, namely, demanding money with menaces, stealing 50 cents from So Hi, and assaulting Chan Lam.
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The total number of head offices to accept the responsibility for and branches of the four Govern- the consequence, the paper grimly
warned" ment banks throughout China has now exceeded 300. it is stated. ` In addition to this number, 60 inoré branches or agencies in the North- West and Southwest will shortly be established. ·
ance.
"FEMALE FOREIGN LEGION"
According to the Finance Minis- try's two-year programme, at least The following also ran: "DECISIVE BLOW"
one branch or agency of any of Golden Sovereign (Beary), Hot"
the four Government. banks is to * Special to H.K. Daily Press“ "Having the rear fanks secure, bun Second (Bam Wragg). Bromp- German armed forces. In one firma-Daisy (Nevett), Wonersh (Mar-
be established in a city, town, dis- PARIS, Apr. 13. (Havaš)—Under trict of municipality in the interior the patronage of the Begum Aga bloc. are facing Britain and shall) Time Step (Ruttle), Titan
that is of political, economical, Khan, wife of the leader of the France in the west, declared Mar- (Smith), Nagy (Christie).
communications or trade impor world's Moslems and Baroness. shal Goering in a boradcast speech | Floretti "(H. Smirke), Paulbez at a meeting of the Hitler Air (Evans), Davy Dolittle (A. Burns),
Eugenie de Rothschild, foreign
Youth.
At more remote parts, where the women residing for a long time in Squadron Castle (Mitchell), Rey- "It is here that the decisive blownards Lodge (Maher), Rosetown Evidence brought to light, manded $5 40 from So Hi as en-p Following the incident, So Hour Government banks are un-France, have been formed into " must be struck and for this de- (D. Smith), Alding (Richardson). that Chan Lam was one of trance tee to join a society. On made a report to the police branches or agencies of the Pro- view to helping members of the
able
establish" branches,"female foreign legion" with a cisive blow the Fuehrer has mobi- The Straight Four (Dyson), Punt four men who were accused of the second occasion when Trang Feb. 12. ..
vincial Banks concerned, are to be Foreign Legion and their families. lished all resources.”
Gun (Dick), Hamac (Sharpe) and the murder of Li So and approached the complainant, the Taang was arrested on March 20 established.
The ladies of the legion will Goering warned the Allies about | Coreña: (Fitton), }}
Tsang was a principal witness latter said he did not have the On the day in question, let-Sargt,
The programme calls for the full function in non-military field. by for the Crown,
money and produced 15 cents. Iu Mok was on duty when he saw co-operation of the co-operative the side of the famous troops they Chan Lam yesterday told the which, he said. was all he had for a crowd gathered outside the mat-treasury and Postal bank at each "adopted," Court that Tsang had failed to the Chinese New Year, Trang ket. He went to investigate and place to assist local finance and One 01 the get me hanged and I believe that took the money and said that so saw a man, whom he later learn- remittance.
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the strength of the German Air Force and said: "They win learn what it means to attack the Ger- man people”
After declaring that the force became master of the alr over Poland on the second day of the war against Poland, Goering said: "Just as we did then, we shall give battle to our enemies -when the right moment comes." |
RECRUITS FOR THE NAVY LONDON, Ápr. 2 (Reuter)-AK- other 175 Newfoundland fisher- men have arrived in England to Join the British Navy,
This is the fifth contingent to reach England. The others went to naval centres for training 'be- "fore being allotted to various
duties in the N&TY.
Thai Chinese Arrested
SHANGHAI, Apr. 3 (Ren- ter)---Over one hundred Chi- nese in Thailand, many of whom are leaders of the community members of the Chinese Chamber of Com- merce, Newspapermen and teachers in Bangkok were placed under arrest on April 1, by order of the Thai xu- thertiles, says the Taying- yehpao.
The charge is that the ar» rested men conducted secrét meetings and generally dis- turbed pubilc peace and oT- der.
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is why he wanted to asqault me,”
Tsang Sam-tal was convicted on the Arst two charges and was sen- tenced to six months' hard labour. He was also recommended, for banishment.
It will be recalled that on July 22 last L Bo"was, chased through the main streets in Shaukiwan
and attacked by a gang, L. Buc- cumbed to his injuries The police arrested four persons who were tried at the September. Uriminal. Bessions. Chan Lam and one other were found. Not Guilty and were discharged.
'TOʻJOIN SOCIETY Evidence given" at yesterday: hearing showed that Tsang de-
Hi still owned him $4.90.
Suspected Murder
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Passers-by *in · Bide Pool Road, Wongnelchang district,- yesterday morning came acKOSE the body of a man whose head bore signs of chopping.
The man's name is given in a police report is Chan Ming, sged about 40 years, ch
Marder is suspected and in vestigations are proceeding.
ed to be Tsang, assaulting Chan, Lam with the blunt end of a chopper.
Chan Lam said he was walking In the street when he felt some- thing hard land on his back. On turning he saw the defendant hit-, Ling him with a chopper.
BENCH QUESTIONS
Mr. Houston-Why did he hit yout--I think it was in connexion with the murder of 14 60.
What had you to do with the murder?—I was one of the delen- dants in that: case,
Why did he attack you?-Be- Fcause Li So was' one of his men. Li So belonged to the same society. Continued on Back Page
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two, founders, Madam. Hitzblesk. Plahmer, assert“ ed that the object of the legion for foreign women is to "give moral and material help to the soldiers of the Foreign Legion and their dependents."
ANGLO - DANISH AGREEMENT
LONDON, Apr. 3 (Havas)—The commercial accord between Bri- tain and Denmark announced by Mr. Chamberlain in his · Com-
mons speech was signed yester- day after long negotiations which have been going on since Noven- ber.
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The agreement regulates fm- ports of Danish agricultural pro- ducts and British coal,