1940-07-30

PAGE 8-HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

SHANGHAI TRAMWAY CO. Arrest Of Gen. STRIKERS RESUME WORK

The mechanicians and other police and the company to prevent Chinese workmen of the French the trouble from spreading. om- Tramway Company who declared actals of the company worked as strike to enforce a demand for siduously to prevent disruption in higher wages, resumed work tem- the supplies of water, electricity and porarily on July 22 pending the transportation which the company outcome, of negotiations between maintains in the French Conces- their delegates and the employers, ston. according to the North China Daily News.

The effects of the strike were not visible the Arst two days and thanks to the efforts of those in

Winkelman

NOT. UNEXPECTED, SAYS FORMER

C-IN - C'S SON

The arrest of General Winkel- man, former chief-in-command of the Netherlands armed forces, by the German army of occupation was not totally unexpected be- he cause of the position which

who ar-

M. J. Favret, manager of the company, told the North-China charge were negligible for the held, according to his son Dr. J. L. Daily News" that continuance of duration of the trouble. Low pres-Winkelman, of the Java China the employment of the strikers sure of the pumps in the water- Trading Company, Ltd.. will depend entirely on the turn works resulted in the top floors of rived in Shanghai recently the negotiations will take.

a few apartment houses being

A HOSTAGE? Coincident with the temporary without water supply, and adjust-

Dr. Winkelman, who was absent could not be

to made resumption was the relaxation by ment the French police yesterday of the several cookers which had gone in the south when news was re- ceived here of his father's plight, of commission. It WAS surveillance of the premises of the out company on Avenue Duball, and feared that the continuance of the said it would be natural to pre- sume that the Germans would the re-opening of the three gates strike might result in a more ser- loading from the French Conces-1ous interruption in the operation want to hold his father as a hos tage after their invasion of Hol- slon to Nantao where the strikers of the company's triple utility ser-

land were living. The armoured which has been keeping a 24-hour vigli butside the plant was remov- ed and only a few policemen were stationed near the company to prevent any untoward incident.

car vice.

On the first day of the strike all the gates leading to Nantão were

DEPORTATION ORDER IGNORED

closed following the forced ejec. CHUNGKING, July 29 (Central) tton by the police of the strikers-A Shanghai message states that from the premises of the company, the British and American diploma-

GENERAL

Dr. Hugh Dalton, the British Minister of Economic Warfare..

Work Well Done

RETURN OF RIVER CRAFT FROM

DUNKIRK

A modest flotilla of river craft made its way up the Thames re- cently on the last stretch of the homeward voyage from Dunkirk,

These little verdels, mostly motor- launches, had played their own useful part in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk, .....

SKILL AND EFFICIENCY They were returning quietly to the bomely moorings of the Thames" almost unnoticed as they passed beneath the bridges of

RUSSO - AFGHAN London. They had, in their steady

TRADE AGREEMENT

the

and unruffled progress up river, all the aspect of boats that have cried out a job of work with seamen-like efficiency skill

Bnd

TUESDAY, JULY. 30, 1940.

SANDEMAN

SHERRY & PORT

Obtainable everywhere.

(Reuter)— MOSCOW, July 29 He mentioned that several Dutch

The faunches came for the most residents of Hongkong received, The signature by the Russo-part to groups of three-that 13, letters from Holland via America Afghan agreement was revealed in two towed alongside the third. TASS Agency message from But at the head of the flotilla wag twenty days after Holland was a occupied. The correspondence he Kabul which gives a comment on a tug which had 18 of the smaller the agreement by the official faunches in tow. On London ladded. was very carefully worded

Afghan newspaper "Islakh." Bridge the returning launches PEACEFUL PEOPLE

Reuter learns that the agree could be seen framed in the out- After saying that the occupation

ment was actually signed in Kabul line of Tower Bridge as they came sud- of his country tock place so

three or four days ago. The u stream with the sig tide. 1 after their refusal to work or to tie authorities will ignore the order denly that all his fellow country- Istakh says that it should lead to

was an impressive picture. Only a leave their place of employment.of the bogus Nanking regime for men out here could do was

between the two countries and over the parapet of London Bridge, Apprehensive of intimidation of the deportation of the seven Bri- carry on their work here. Dr. a considerable increase in trade few people happened to be gazing

soon guessed From the President and other Chinese workmen by the tons and Americans in Shanghai. Winkelman said that Holland was help" to strengthen their friendly and most of them

that they were looking at boats Chrysanthemum, moored alongside which had gone out to Dunkirk the Victoria Embankment, there EXPERTS ARRIVE MOSCOW, July 29

farther up- (Reuter)—and now were home again.

came a cheer, and stream the Discovery, alive with Forty German experts have arriv- ed in connection with the execu- tion of the Soviet-German trade agreement

strikers, the police subsequently allowed passage to Nantso through

a pence-loving country and had no Strict precautionary measures territorial designs at any time on have been taken by the Shanghai the possessions of other countries. Municipal Council to prevent the The last war she fought, he said,; DRIVERS NOT AFFECTED activities of terrorists and their was in 1840 against Belgium and

tasted only ten days

three gates.

Community Church on

Avenue

Italian Somaliland """Visited"

relations.

the EARL OF PERTH

RESIGNS

LONDON, July 29 (Reuter)

its young Sea Scouts, was enthu-The Ministry of Information an- slastic in its youthful welcome.

nounces that the Earl of Perth," adviser WORK WELL DONE

who has been the chief on" foreign publicity to the Minis-:

since of Information earliest month of the war, has resigned consequent upon

toy

the

certain changes in the organisation of the higher staff of the Ministry.

SEA SCOUTS' WELCOME There were no signs or shrapnel The strikers consisted of work-entry into the International Settle-

or machine-gun bullets on these men in the car depot and work-ment

launches, but they seemed one and shop of the company and did not

all to have the white paint of But this was not in any sense a include in their ranks any mem-

RECONSTRUCTION OF their sides badly grazed. At West- triumphai homecoming with wel- route ber of the company's office staff

minater Bridge a larger crowd coming crowds along the or bus and tram drivers. It is un-

THE NORTH-WEST gathered to watch the progress up- The life of the river is singularly derstood that delegates of the Petain, Shanghai, was filled to

(BWS) --- LONDON, July 20

official communique CHUNGKING, July 29 (Central, stream, and from the pler beside little known to the average Lon- strikers called on the management overflowing on July 23 when fun-The British

bridge greetings were ex-dener, and in any case conditions 3 few days ago, but were curtly eral services were held, for the late issued from Nairobi this morning-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the told that the company would only Mr. Samuel H. Chang. prominent states: "Yesterday was quiet. Our had talks with Mr. Tan Kah-kee, changed with some at the passing of war precluded him from mak

industrial magnate in launches,

ing the return of the river craft be prepared to negotiate a settle Chinese journalist, who was as-aircraft carried out wide recon- Chinese

for cheering crowds. A campaign to find recruits for The river stations of the London an occasion ment after the strikers resumed sassinated on Babbit. Well Road naissances over Italian Somali Singapore, on,, the reconstruction

which had them-Nor would the men (and the the army was launched by Chi- of the Northwest and on questions Fire Brigade. work. The parleys between the men recently. Many prominent persons land.

of the river craft have nese students of middle schools and the management, were carried were present including Mr. C. V. "It is reliably reported on that relating to overseas Chinese affairs, selves sent to Dunkirk a fireboat women?

did noble Work, gave wished it. They had done their and universities on July 25, in a Mr. Tan has "Just returned to that 15 one enemy aircraft on indirectly.

Starr and other high officials of on July

between "Mendera and Chungking after an extensive in- specially warm greeting to the re-work well and were proud to have number, of districts in Kansu pro- During the strike close co-opera- the American Asiatic Underwriters crashed

turning launches.

had the opportunity. spection trip to the Northwest, tion was kept between the French and affiliated companies.

Moyale."

vince.

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