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HONGKONG, JULY 22, 1940.
Opportunity Lost?
EDITORIAL
CORRESPONDENCE DEATH OF MRS.
EVACUATION AND LOSS OF TRADE
To the Editor, Hongkong Daily
Press
.
P. GOCKCHIN
WASAILING FOR SEVEN YEARS
We regret to record the death of Mrs. Gockchip, wife of Mr.
MONDAY, JULY 22, 1940.
BIG INCREASE IN R. A. F.
TRAINING
RISING INTAKE OF PERSONNEL
SI-As an old Iniporter and Exporter, I venture to point out
LONDON, June 25 (By Air Mall) the irreparable loss of trade to Philip Gockchin, General Manager taken to expand training organi- Extensive measures have been the Colony arising out of the mass evacuation from Hongkong. Chairman of the Chinese Chame the increasing intake of personnel, of the Wing. On Co., Ltd., and sation in the R.A.F. to cope with
Business has been during the
of Commerce, who passed writes ber last three years of Sino-Japanese away at her residence No. 14, in the Daily Telegraph.
a military correspondent war, dwindling, from day to day Fung Fal Terrace, Happy Valley. and under the present situation yesterday after we are facing ruin. It seems to me we are simply playing mto Japanese hands, for to kill our trade is their alm.
Yours, etc.
EXASPERATED.
Thefts From Cars
Road or outside
A GREAT POOL The organisation provides for the adjustment of training to. the all-round mcrease in the strength
Britons In "Big Money" Class
the very wealthy class.
Britam now has 1.024 citizens in
1
Taking those in this class as peo- ple with incomes exceeding £30,000 ($150,000) a year, the latest figures fulness of
issued by the Commissioners of seven years. She was 61.
Inland Revenue show an addition of 107 in a year." The late Mrs. Qockchin, who „was very popular among a large
-Ninety-nine people earn inore circle of Chinese friends in the of the Air Force and to aircraft than $500,000 a year, eighty-five Colony, is survived by her hus-production. The system provides carn up to $500,000, and 232 have band, ave
for the maintenance of a great incomes reaching $375,000. sonis, two daughters them the deepest sympathy will and many grand-children, and to pool of approved personnel to Down the scale 3,900,000 persons
draw
to the Necessary have incomes in the region of extended in
extent, their bereave-
$10.000 a year! Last year Britain Entries consist of those who had a gross income of $21,800,000----
be ment.
The funeral will take place to morrow afternoon at the Chinese Christian: Cemetery, Pokfulam. The cortege will leave the rest- dence at 2.30 p.m.
FUNERAL OF MRS. A.A. BARROS
conducting the last rites.
The late Mrs. Barros is survived
תסקנן.
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volunteered for the RAF before just enough to pay for 693 days pr they were due to join the forces wartare under the National Service Act, those who on Jining expressed preference for the R.AF.. and
serving aircraftmen who wish to WOMEN'S WARTIME
become members of air crews.
WORK
NEWSETTES
Once trade is lost, it will never come back to us The Govern- and criticism "be freely expressed on not to expect anything from the ment might as well be prepared the Burma Route question. War Revenue. Tax as there will The British Government still be no pront for 1940/41. forins the butt of the greater part of this criticism, but the United States too, which first levelled charges of appease- ment at Britain over her con- cession to Japan, is now DATE
criticised in turn for what is described as weakness of EX $. S. ARRIVED MERCHANDISE
HIGH STANDARD
The Klangsi Provincial Kuomin- policy in Far Eastern affairs.
Mr. Millar, of No. 3, Pratt
-The standard, physical "'Szechuen" 20/12/37 6 Pkgs, Hurt Soldier's The speech made by the Bulldings, has reported the loss
and tang Headquarters has made plans mental, is high. In addition to for accelerating women's wartime Sheets
Prime Minister on the agree from his car between 7.90 and
good education, candidates must work. ment with Japan was.cogent 8.00 p.m. yesterday of a rattan The funeral of the late Mrs. An- have the qualities of courage and While existing women associa- Chéverolet
"and has helped to clear up basket with contents valued at tonta Anna Barros took place at determination. It would prevent tions will be reorganised and Ambulance
some of the misunderstand- $16.50. These included a woollen the Roman Catholic Cemetery on disappointment if men lacking in strengthened, new ones will be. Eng. No. TR. Ings, particularly as regards bathing suit and other beach Saturday, the Rev. Fr. A. Grampa any of these qualities forebore formed. They will be the guiding 1682839
British policy towards the wear.
from applying.
and driving force in women's waz- Chinese nation. Mr. Chur- The car, No. 5390, was parked
If there were any slackening of time work—(Central News), chill tried to explain the outside. No. 235. Prince Edward by her husband. M. A. V. Barros. the rule which insists upon the necessity for the decision and Theatre at the time of the loss.
the Majestic daughters, the Misses. B. Barros, educational qualification à heavy E Barros and C, Barros, and two toll of life and aircraft would be at the same time' emphasised Mr. J. R. Jones, of No. 11, Car- sons, Messrs. L. Barros and M. Bar-paid. that British policy in the Farnarvon Buildings, has reported to ros.
I was informed in authoritative East aimed at securing poll the police the loss from his car. The Hongkong Branch of the National Women's Relief tical and economic conditions No. 410, parked outside his home, present included Messrs. C. Xavier, age proportion of suitable candi- Neves,
Besides the chief mourners those quarters yesterday that the aver-
Mrs. A. C. Neves, wife of Mr. A. in that sphere which would of a driver's licence and motor- J. Antonia, L. Gosano, C. Leon, S. dates for the R.AF. In the UC Shanghai Bank, left the Colony for
of the Hongkong.
and be at once acceptable both to car licence.
Souza, D. F. Lopes, V. Ribiero, H. cessive groups called up under the the North on Saturday. Japan and China. In other
Hyndman, M. Rull, C. Victor, National Service Act is as high as A de B. Boltelho, B-Victor, A. E. ever. words, that it was not the
Xavier, V. Marques, J. Soares, C. intention of the British Gov-
BIG NUMBERS TRAINING Correa, S. M. Cruz, A. Azedo, F. ernment to sacrifice' the in-
Roza-Pereira, C. R. Silva, L. A. Ro-
The number of training grounds terests of the one for thei
zario, R. A. Campos, F. Lopes, J. is steadily being increased, and if other. Such an ideal would
Xavier. A. A. Remédios, J. Gut-it were permissible" to publish the Hotel, terlez, V. Viera, J. Finna, E.. Law numbers of men under training. of accomplishment, but, in General
The services of Warrant Officer rence, C. F. Vas, L. Rožario, L. the country would be astonished. Gover- the circumstances which nor of tuncan, has issued a mant-Gardner, J. Alves, E. Silva, A. J. V. It is still necessary to provide James Owens as a member of the Japan and China face each festo to the Yunnan people exhort-Ribiero, A. & V. Riblero, A. V. Re- for a waiting period never ex- Hongkong Naval Volunteer Force other today on the field of ing them to prepare against a pos- medios. H. A. Alves, E. Silva, A. J. ceeding three months during have been dispensed with. battle, it is difficult to see sible Japanese invasion of the pro- V. Ribiero, A. E. V. Ribiero, A. V. which candidates are advised to how Mr. Churchill visualises vince.
Remedios, H. A Barros, C. Silva-retain their civil employment and Mr. Bangar Suwanasri, That He said that only by mobilising Netto, A. Mair, C. Osmund, G. Os-in view of which employers are Trade Agent at Hongkong, will be this settlement.
all the people can final victory for mund, Capt. Rodrigues, G. Vas, A. asked to fall in with the scheme. in temporary charge of the That of No. 31 The Peak in the OF MAGMA
THE FOREMOST const-China be assured. He hoped in Remedios, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. A new element in the organisa- Consulate-General, with effect. Colony of Hongkong, As It may seem strange to many deration, is the Chinese view particular that all able-bodied men. Alves. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Noron-tion is the opportunity given to from July 20.
ha, Miss C. Botelho, Mr. and Mrs. candidates to spend three months sistant Trallic Manager, people to learn that the recent point that they have been the will join military service:
He declared that as Governor, Rozario, and many others.
on ground defence duties before campaign suggested by the "Scier- victims of aggression. Their
Floral tributes from the family being sent to an initial training tic American" for interesting lands and people have been he will lead the armed forces to
were interred with the casket. amateurs in seismology promises cruelly attacked, they have fight at the front lines, says Cen- to be of great assistance to vol- been deprived of large and rick tracts of territory, the canology. What is volcanology?
Association.
The Hongkong Travel and Transport Service.
409
IN THE SUPREME THE MOLTEN be admirable if it was possible
COURT OF HONG KONG.
MYSTERY
„PROBATE JURISDICTION UNDER FOOT
IN THE GOODS of GEORGE NECHAEFF late UNKNOWN FORCE
deceased.
F
YUNNANESE URGED TO PREPARE
Lung Yun,
tral News.
Mrs. J. Key, wife of Mr. J. Key,
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 53 of Or. dinance No. 2 of 1897 made an Kilauea Volcano ir. Hawali, while minate the whole of their left Hongkong for the South on
A tourist who recently visited (invaders have sought to do- order limiting the time for credi
was sleeping, expressed the terrain by methods of terror- Saturday tors and others to send in their popular viewpoint. He saw the ism and a type of diplomacy
claims against the above estate to 7th August, 1940.
|
1, Des Voeux Road Central," Hong Kong
tt
observatory and learnt of the ex istence of a volcanologist. "What
that will not stand the Eight
of investigation and are try-
of the Government Radio Office,
a cinch." he remarked, "nothing ing to secure an economic pire an opportunity of assert-
whereby continenta
East and it lost the British
wing.
The annual meeting of the Hongkong Rifle Association will be held tomorrow, at 5.30 pm., in the Jacobean Room of the Hongkong
Mr. A. G. Clarke has been ap- pointed to be an Assistant Com- missioner, in addition to his other duties, with erect from July 17, under the War Revenue Ordinance,
HITLER'S BOMBERS BEATEN 1940.
BY R.A.F.
The following appointments rage that the planes could not fly low enough to bomb accurately.
have been made in the Hongkong. And the Aghters engaged the
Naval Volunteer Force: Messrs. G. bombers with lion-hearted courage acting Sub-Lieutenants, with effect 8. McGill and N. J. Comes to be NAZIS FAIL TO REACH OBJECTIVES
from July 5 and July 10, The Germans were thus prevent- ed from reaching their objectives. LONDON, June 20 (By Air Mall) In fact, they did no serious dam-: The Government Gazette
and skill.
an-
nounces the award of the efficiency.
All Creditors and others are to do but wait for an eruption." stranglehold on the country ing its authority in the Far accordingly bereby required to It had never occurred to him in order to satisfy their own Government the opportunity-Hitler's massed attack on Bri-age to military objectives. send their claims to the under that some of the fundamental policy of expansion." Faced signed on or before that date.
processes of volcanology are hape with this position, the Chi-of a final showdown with tain's East Coast air bases early But the success of Britain's de- Medal to Company Quartermaster, pening under his own home town nese nation, having vigorous- Japan by calling her bluff yesterday was brilliantly frustrat fences meant that civilians re- Sergeant S. E. Edgar and Pte. H DEACONS,
in America.
ly and successfully resisted over the Burma Road and ed. Credit for what was undoubt-ceived the force of Hitler's bombs Burson, of the Hongkong Volunteer Solicitors for the Administratrix,
LESS THAN ACCURACY
Defence Corps. The science of the earth is all the aggressive methods of allied issues. The view is now edly a decisive victory belongs to une
Driven to unload their cargoes being put forward that Bri- all three branches of our forces arise Japan at a great sacrifice, are carves out the valleys. more than ever determined tain might have adopted a fighter aircraft, and searchlight ft. they hit people in their homes. Imperial erosion
engaged-anti-aircraft gun units. from heights of more than 20,000 Mr. G. F. R. Jackson, director, sedimentation fills the mediter-
Chemical Industries their struggle stronger attitude and given a units. 396 ranean seas of which the Gulf
It is a fact which must be faced (China) Ltd., Shanghai, was definite "NO" to, Japan, if SPECTACULAR SUCCESS that while Hitler is seeking to passenger to the North from Hong- of Mexico is one), and the searailure and withdraws from she felt sure that the United The searchlight crews had spec-paralyse our home defences, and kong on Saturday. bottoms lower down. There is a
States would support her tacular success in picking up and cripple our factories and shift of matter under or within Chinese soil, leaving China's the crust of the earth from the sovereignty and integrity un-position and take similar ac-holding the raiders.
munications, civilians will suffer) The AA guns put up such a bar- every time. We force them to less Emma Soares, wife of the Acting A Requiem Mass for the late Mrs. impaired.. The maximum temperature yes-avier regions to the lighter.
tion. It might, however, be Japan, on the
than accuracy. terday was 91 and the minimum
other hand,
logically contended that the, are brutally
Consul for Portugal, Mr. F. R. de United States holds the same
But the old advice. still stands: v. Soares, will be held at the stubborn in their resolve to
Stay Indoors and in cellars, or at Catholic Cathedral and St. Teresa's least on the ground floor, if shel-Church tomorrow. ters are not available..
THE WEATHER
82. The forecast today indicates
rain probable later.""""
moving north-west.
"INTRUSIVE ROCKS
that this matter is magma, which
to continue until Japan
admits her
JUST BEFORE BURMA RD.
CLOSED
KUNMING, July 21 (Internation-
com-
SHELTERS ERECTED IN CENTRE OF LONDON STREETS
*
·
Miss S Compton, daughter of ME A. H. Compton, manager, David Sassoon & Co, Ltd., and a director of the Hongkong & Shang- hal Banking Corpo, left the Colony LONDON, June 27. (By Air Mall) | for the South on Saturday, “ide Large blast and splinter-proof
There is every reason to suppose subjugate China, despite the opinion and that American At 5.23, p.m. yesterday typhoon was reported within 60 core of mountain ranges, or the enormously
the makes the intrusive rocks at the fact that they have suffered action in her own interests might have been taken more in man-power miles of lat, 24 N. lung 123 Elavas which pour out of volcanoes and material and have re- patently if Britain had pro- Volcanology is concerned with the duced their country to a dire vidence of her determination The Royal Observatory report movement of magma. This move economic state. The question not to make any concessions issued at 5.55 o'clock yesterday ment is going on all
to Japan. And thus, be-: the time may, therefore, be asked: evening stated:-
Pressure continues highest over slowly in others.
somewhere, rapidly in some piacex What is the happy medium tween these two standpoints, al-About 160 drums of petrol the Pacific to the south-east of
which Britain hopes to im- Opportunity to bring the Far were rushed over from the Burma Japan and is relatively low over shifts of magnis uit the moun- of view?
border before the closure of the These buried movements and pose between these two points senses was lost. The conces- Eastern aggressor to her
highway.
shelters made of brick and concrete. It is notified that at the ex- China generally,
Japanese reports regard this last are being constructed in London. piration of three months from July tain ranges at the sources of the The typhoon is situated about
sion now made to Japan minute release as a sign of insin-In some places, as in Regent Street. 19, the name of The Yin Fal Com- 60 miles to
NEXT in order of impor- jeopardises the security of cerity of the British, who are to these commimal shelters are being pany, Limited, will, unless cause Mississippi, lift shore lines in the eastward of northern. Formosa, moving north-
California and Japan are somehow tance comes Britain's own China, who has been a trust-be carefully watched in the future. built in the middle of the road." is shown to the contrary, be west,
concerned with the scorching heat position in the Far East, ined friend of both Britain and Eighty Japanese inspectors are They are erected according to struck off the register and "the under the steam power plants in conjunction with that of the the United States. It is a now in Indo-China to check the specifications issued by the Minis Company will be dissolved different parts of the world and United States. The demands deplorable sacrifice which inflow of goods to China. The try of Home Becurity, with brick the nigh temperatures of deep of which have been made on can only be remedied by con-inspectors are also engaged in work 13 inches thick, reinforced The following promotions in the stresses that, make big earth now agreed in principle, make both Britain and the United wells, and play their part in the Britain, and to which she has certed action on the part of studying the military situation in concrete roofs, staggered entrances Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps and emergency exists. They are have been approved, with effect. it abundantly clear that her States in shaping their future
| divided into unit cells, the maxi- from July 2, 1940: Captain J. P. Cholera: Calcutta 30 Cases, Ran- what is happening under the sur terests in the Orient are in tunity next presents Itself.
Science is gradually learning own position, prestige and in- policy when such an oppor- S'HAI CHOLERA Drea
main capacity of each being 50 Sherry to be Major: Lieut, W. C. Clark to be Captain; and Sergt. R.: goon 3 Cases. Vizagapatam 7 Casca, face of the globe, and the time is danger, Acquiescence, there- Knowing the Japanese
The shelters are designed to re- Sleap to be Second Lieutenant. Shanghai & Cases.
soon approaching when an exact
as. EPIDEMIC aist the effect of a 5001b, bomb fall- Small-Pox: Allahabad 2, Cases, tab will be able to be kept on all fore, in the Burma Road issue they do, such an opportunity
ing 50ft away,
The Hon. Dr. P. & Selwyn Clarke, Alleppey 1 Case, Delhi 1 Case, these eruptions and thousands
has only postponed the will not be long in forthcom toms officials at Kobe have been
Director of the Medical Services, Masulipatam 2 Cases, Bombay of human lives will be able Ereater pressure that will now ing now. In fact, it will be notified by the Welfare Ministry Hongkong are to be entertained to cloth and sewing materials to the Australian Naval Reservists in gratefully acknowledged a gift of Cases, Calcutta 21, Cases, Negapa- to be saved by being warned well be put on the British Govern-one of the natural results of that Bhanghai has been designata Melbourne Cup Night" tomor-value of $671.40 from the Kwang- tam 1 Cise, Rangoon 4 Cases beforehand of the approaching ment. It was admittedly a the regrettable gesture which ea as a place of cholera epidemic, row, at 8.30 p.m., at the Kowloon tung Refugees teller Bangkok 11 Cases Macho 4 Casos devastation at the hands of na gesture of weakness of re- was made to Japan in the last according to a Domel Agency Cricket Club by the Australian and sociation through its chairman,
solve. It lost the British Em- few day
EASTERN TUKES
Health Bulletin of Eastern ports show the following cases "for the week ending July 13.
Hongkong 1 Caso
quakes.
tures?
Indo-China
TOKYO, July 21 - (Reuter)—C18-
mcgaage/"
New Zealand Association.
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