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"Life Without
Quinine....
TO MAKE DEMAND
SITUATION MAY CHANGE
THEN, AS PRECIOUS AFTER TRIAL PERIOD'
"Life without Literature
and
AS WATER
LONDON, JULY 19 (REUTER) —–—– COMMENTING ON THE BURMA ROAD, ISSUE, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Quinine is Death" Sounds like a SAID THAT BRITAIN HAS MADE A DECISION WHICH mild exaggeration, doesn't it? |SHE - WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE REFUSED IN MORE To most of us in cities and well-NORMAL TIMES. drained suburbs it's downright
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1940
FOREIGN MAILS
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, soth JULY, 1940, 0.30 10
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended. INWARD MAILS
From
Air Mall by "Imperia) Airways Service” Manila
Saigon.
Haiphong
Japan had no legal title to make the demand on us, fantastic. But there was nothing while we owe it as a friendly obligation to China to keep Formosa, Amoy and Swatow,
fantastic about It in 1907-1913
D
Japan
Shanghal Shanghai. Calcutta and Straits shanghai Shanghai and Amoy
when this slogan was at the mast-open her trade contacts with the outside world. head of one of the strangest In practical effect the concession is of little practical newspapers in the world. It was importance since during the next three months the value the weekly PORTO VELHO MAR of the Burma Road would be substantially reduced owing CONIGRAM, files of which" are to the rains, usual at this time of the year! now hard to find.
China still retains an arms, it falls us we cannot undertake Air Mail by "Imperial "Airways Service" The editor of this weird little route from Russia via Mongo-risks which the common interests Straits. fuur page, weekly is, one of the lla which Japan has not of the United States and Britain Haiphong 200 survivors of the force but the Madeira-Marmore Rail thanks to the development of
that thought fit to challenge, and might otherwise enjoin. way in the upper Brazilian reaches domestic munitions industries of the Amazon, cut off from civili-she is in no way wholly, or zation, working amid almost perhaps even mainly, depen- credible jungles and in one of the
malarial regions in dent on outside supplies, nor the world, this weekly paper with is there any question of the its strange caption was their only permanent closure of the
Burma Road.
news.
most
LIFE FOR EVERY TIM
In South America the railroad
&
.
FIRMER U.S. STAND
It is permissible to hope that at the end of the three months or the United shortly afterwards,
JAPAN SHOULD FAUSE
If Japan is on the eve of fresh adventures, a sober re- flection on" her situation vis- 1-vis China might well give her a pause. The China Ingi- dent is already three years. old and is still nowhere near the conclusion. It' has in- volved a drain on her finan“. Cial and economic resources
far exceeding her original
calculations.
Such considerations
Australia and Mantis
. 8. A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai .. Francisco date 2nd June), ........................................ Straits.
Shanghai,
Haiphong
Shanghai and Amoy Shanghai,
us aqua
Dae
20th July
20th July
20th July
20th July
20th July
20th July
20th July
21st July
S1st July
21st July
21st July
22nd July
22nd July
22nd July
32nd July
(San
22nd July
9ind July
22nd July
Aand July
22nd July
22nd July
22nd July
Haiphong
Manlia
22nd July
Air Mail, by “Pan American Airways Direct Ser-
· vice.”—San Francisco date, 16th July, Canton
Med July
rd July
Canton
24th July
24th July
Bath July
25th July
28th July
95th July
26th July
25th July
25th July
26th July
26th July
28th July
ist
28th July
27th July
27th July
28th July
20th July
30th July
30th July
80th July
30th July
30th July
30th July
30th July
1st
Aug. lat Aug. 2nd Aug,
may, or
Australia and Manila Haiphong and Holhow Canton London and Straits Sandakan serale:source
Shanghai. Japan
is popularly said to have cost
e for, every tie laid. Certainly States with her Presidential Elec- the effort was tremendous, but
tion behind her, will be in a posi- may not deter her from attempt- the price was rich, too, for Im
tion to adopt a more decisive at ing to presume further on British those days it tapped the rubber titude towards the situation in the pliablity, but should the occasion regions of the upper Madeira
Far East.
*arise they cannot be without River and that meant black gold.
Mr. Cordell Hull is aware that their influence in determining our One of the survivors has written Britain at present 1s precluded own attitude. that the railway he helped to from pursuing 1.T Independent The News Chronicle says that in construct was "the first railroad course in the Far East in the ab making concessions to Japan, Mr. Bangkok built on quinine." That is liter sence of strong diplomatic "sup- Churchill said we were seeking ally true, for the deadly malarial port which America alone is able time to relief tension. mosquito swarmed about them
to render.
"Those were the things we sought and thousands of pounds of Up to now no such support has and found at Munich, and little quialnie were used in riving been forthcoming and as long as good it did us, dally preventive-dose to all who
would take it,'
Of the ten thousand men whe IT MUST BE JUDGED WITH FULL worked on the railway about
Ma-
200 survivors, mostly American COMPREHENSION OF THE ISSUES engineers, have formed the deira-Marmore Association 100 the recently had a reunion at New-York's World Fair. There they revived old times when, one of them puts it, "Quinine was as precious as water,"
as
30 GRAINS AND SCOTCH!.
All this was long before the Malaria Commission of the
dized the dose of quinine malariu Back in 1007 some
LONDON, July 19 (Reuter)—The Times states that to defer to the Japanese representations is in Itself unpalatable to most of unbet.it - must be judged with a full comprehension of the Issues involved and the object of the Government's polley,
Britain does not desire to assist Japan in her undeclared war against China. On the other”hand she desires to secure a free and independent future for China and the maintenance of its territorial Integrity,"
Japan and Manila.
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Manlia
Japan
V. 8. A., and Menila-(San Francisco date, Japan and Shanghai.
July).
Japan and Shanghal ......ochograr stentz
Shanghaj and Amoy
Japan, Shanghai and Formosa
Calcutta and Straits
Japan.
Rabaul and Manila.
Japan and Shanghai. Java and Manila,
London and Straits.
S. A, Honolulu and Japan (San Francisco date, 10th July).
Canada, USA, Japan and Shanghai – (Vancouver
B. C. date 13th July),
London and. Straits
Australia and Manila.
OUTWARD MAILS
Registered and Parcel Mail are closed 15 minutes earlier than
Britain's desire to improve re- a life and death struggle la one, League of Nations had standar-lations with Japan, which is not and the others are as well under- for incompatible in the long-term po- stood in India, Australia and New oflicy with the other objective men-Zealand as they should be in the workers were reported to tioned by Mr. Winston Churchill, Washington, which has been fully the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where malls are consume dally ration of 30 would not have been approached, informed of them and, of course, advertised to close at or before 9 am registered and parcel mails are grains of quinine and a quart of much less reached, while trans- of the Tokyo negotiations, Scotch."
port through the Burma Road is
closed at 5 pm on the previous day. When mails are advertised to The hope that the three-month close after 5 p.m.. Registered and Parcel mails are closed at 5 pm. Today they would certainly placing a strain on our relations interim may lead to pacification De taking far less quinine, at with Japan.
in the Far East, on the basis of any rate, whether with that much There are good reasons for at-the preservation of the indepen- Scotch or not. The Geneva ex- tempting to Improve relations. įdence and integrity of China may perts are quite clear On this. The fact that we are engaged in be. illusory. They definitely advise 15 to 20 grains of quinine a day for 5 to
7 days as a cure and 6
grains
"UNKNOWN QUANTITY" Canton
a
SATURDAY
For
Date and Time
Sat. 20th
Parcala
Ord.
10:30 AM 13.30 PM 9.30 P
5.00 PM 5.20 PM
Shanghai. The Konaye Government is un-straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa of quinine dally as a preventive, composed of the principal experts known quantity but it may be in- This may seen an anemic dose in malaria control, stresses the ferred that an attempt will be straits and Calcutta. to the hardy survivors of the Ma- | fact that the harmlessness of made on the one hand to esAir Mall for "Imperial Airways-Service" to DuraP.O.&EPO. deira-Marmore Railway job, but quinine makes it a suitable drug tablish stronger coalition ban and thence by Sea Service to United-King-Reg. 16.00 PM science seems to side with the for administration by zubordinate home, and on the other to dis Geneva savants. On page 124 personnel without constant medicover some short cut to success in "of its report, issued in 1938 this cal supervision, whereas such su- China.
Malaria Commission - ot the pervision is essential in the case; League of Nations, which is of synthetic, products,
ALL WELL WITH
EVACUEES
Continued from Page 1 Mrs. Wyatt Smith, wife of the British Consul-General at Manila, who said: "I am very glad of this opportunity of thanking Far Eas tern Broadcasting of giving the ladies of Hongkong a chance" of speaking to their people in Hong- kong.
"I think everyone realises what 'enormous debt of gratitude we owe to the people of the Philippinë Islands the Government, the American
C. NOTTINGHAM
BY - ELECTION
Experiments which have pre- viously been attempted have fall-
dom." Balgon and Bangkok.
Canton
ed, as was anticipated outside the Amoy. ranks of the Japanese General Shanghai. Staff.
Japan.
Japan is still enclosed within a
vicious circle in which attempts | Halphong
to relieve economie strigency 1 Bangkok
SUNDAY
MONDAY
LONDON July 19 (Reuter)-Bir continually being overtaken by Parcela only for Shanghai and Tientsin Frederick Sykes, National Conser- the increase in military expendi- | Japan. vative, was returned unopposed ture. for Central Nottingham in the by-i election, caused by the death of sir Terence O'Connor, Solicitor-
General
them as fully and as spontaneous- ly as they had helped these British women and children at this time.
THE SPEAKERS -
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Ord.
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5 30 PM 5.30 PM
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Tue, 23rd.
via Reg. 22nd5.00
Ord. 23rd 8.30 AM
Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, USA, Central & South GP.O.&EPO.
TUESDAY
America, Canada" and "United-Kingdom San-Francisco. "....
Shanghal.
Batavia and Sourabaya
Manila and Batavia.
It is now for the Japanese to prove sincerity by im proving their relations with this country. Their best means to do so is to seek a more practical means of ensuring Just peace with China than
they have yet attempted.
FINE CHANCE" Among those who spoke låst Meanwhile the Chinese Govern night were the following: Mrs. ment's attitude towards linking Violet Lloyd. Mrs. Molly Cairns, the Burma Road decision with the Air Mail for Manila, Gram, Honolulu, U. 8. A. & Mrs. O B Jeffreys, Mrs. M. B. attempt at general settlement Davidson, Mrs. M. Kirkwood, Mrs. provides the British Government LG Muskett, Mrs. Steele-Perkins, with an opportunity, which should "The European population here. Mrs. Lyall, Mrs. F. T. J. Portallion, not be lost, of disclaiming any in- has been doubled by this sudden Mrs. Thurston, Mrs. Kirby, Mrs. tention of compromising with influx from Hongkong and men Cooper, Mrs, James Hunter, Mrs. Japan in respect of the principles and women yolunteers are working Woods, Mrs. E. Young, Mra A. which Britain all along has main- Air Mail for Malaya, Java, and Australia - 14 to 15 hours a day to cope with Coates, Mrs EE Strange. Mrs tained. the work of making everyone com- Bevan, Mra Langley, Mrs. Yea- fortable.
mans, Mrs. Clark, Mra Branson,
Army and the Red Cross-for the way they are helping our British women and children,”...
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5.30 PM
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7:30 PM
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Wed, 24th
$10.80 AM 1.80 F
“Imperial Afeways Service.”
To and ourselves temporary - cantan
WEDNESDAY
"The other day, an Englishman, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. McAdam, Mrs. Jable to apply or defend these
in the course of conversation with Warden, Mrs. L Burford, Miss P. principles in one thing, but to
Shanghai and Parcels only for Tien
THURSDA
a high American official here, ex Macfayden Misses Farmer, Miss abandon them is equally outside Swatow, Amoy and Formosa pressed the thanks of all British Whitestone, Mrs. V. Raven, Mrs. P. the range of practical politics, people for what was being done for Bowman, Mrs. D. Neale, Mrs. Jolly, BECAUSE THEY CONSTI these women and children. The Mrs, Birch, Miss A. E. Dedear, Mrs. official replied that If American F. J. Bhav, Mrs. R. Moss.” Mra. people were in need of hospitality David, Mrs. R. Joseph, Mrs. J.C. and help at any time he was sure Lucas, Miss Marjorie Lucas and, a the British would do the same for few others.
TUTE A LARGE PART OF THE MORAL BASIS. OF OUR ARMED” RESISTANCE – TO AGGRESSION BY NAZI GEE
Sandáran
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