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HONGKONG DAILY. PRESS
GENERAL
LAWYER ON WHAT HISTORY WILL HAVE
TO SAY OF PRESENT WAR
Interesting Discourse At Rotary Club Luncheon
"What History will have to say of the present War" was the subject of an Interesting address given by Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club yesterday.
There was a large gathering present, including visiting Rotarians A. W. Leung and Amos Barr, and the following guests: Mr. H. C. Macnamara, Dr. Y. C. Wen and Col. C, R. Lee.
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After stressing the freedom of, for fault? France accused speech and love of liberty of the Britain for the mistake and Bri- British people, Mr. Fitzroy said tain blamed the French. that historians would; "regard the war with different opinion, and the Arst thing to do was to gather the facts and to present them to
the public.
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One outstanding fact of the war was that the binding ties of the whole of the British Empire were more firm that ever petore, and it
EMPIRE'S WAR Explanation
By Defendant
DONATIONS
GRENADA'S LOYAL Is Accepted
MESSAGE
Wireless
According to British messages received yesterday, con- tributions towards various funds to augment Britain's war effort con-
MILK SUMMONS DISMISSED
tinue to pour into London from defendant's explanation of how he Stating that he would accept all parts of the Empire.
The following are the latest donations received:-
PLANES FUND Further donations of £147.000 received deen
from the have Speed, the Planes Fund through
was hoped, he said, that when the
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Expressing Hitler's.. viewpoint. peace came the people would con- historians would write on the ques- tinue to stand together to defend tion of the settlement of the the safety and freedom of the German Empire an empire Empire.. which Was llable to tacked from the south, east and west. The best way to protect ft was to adopt the means of the
be at-
Kaiser to make Germany strong to overcome her enemies. Having built up the country to such powerful state, they did one thing which they could do, and that was
a
SPEAKER THANKED
Hon. Sir Henry Pollock thanked the speaker for his frank address and remarked that the people of the British Empire had not got as good 1 Government 13 they deserved.
South Africa Gover-
had come to have unpasteurised milk on his premises, though he was not fully satisfied with it, Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen, at Kowloon dismissed the Court, `yesterday, summons against Le! Shu-leung,
manager of the Yuen Yuen Dairy jor No. 108, Prince Edward Road, nor General's Fund and is being warning him also to take more
To this the remitted to London.
as follows: provinces contributed Natal, where the Fund originated, £102,000, which brings their con- tribution to £202,000; Cape Pro vince £42,000: Transvaal £2,000 and South West Africa £250.
MADRAS WAR FUND
care in future that such milk was not served out to his customers to the possible detriment of their health,
The summons against defen- dant was brought following an fabservation by Sanitary Inspector HL, Lockhart, who was passing The Madras Governor's War
the dairy in his car on June 23, Fund for the purchase of aircraft that milk was being brought into`
amounts to £33.740. Lord the shop in a type of can in com Sir Henry also touched upon the now the invasion of other countries famous withdrawal from Dunkirk Beaverbrook has cabled to the mon use at the cowsheds in Dia-
was the most Governor, of Madras expressing the and said that it
A Madras Pre- wonderful manoeuvre which had nation's gratitude. taken place during his lifetime. sidency squadron is to be estab-
Austria, Czechoslovakia" and Po- land; the latter comprising terri-
mond Hill,
Insp. Lockhart took a sample of
analysis, to be unpasteurised.
tory that was once their proper.He also stressed the confidence of shed with machines named after the milk, and it was found, on UNPREPAREDNESS the British people winning the war districts subscribing to the Fund. While in the shop, Insp. Lockhart
In his adventures, Hitler did not forget that both Britain and France were in a state of unpre- paredness to offer any obstacle. One other element which gave courage to Hitler to go ahead was that both Britain and France had, Empires and they
not
would
and commented on the recent süc- cesses of the Royal Air Force.
£15,000 GRANT
A special session of the Legisla-stated, in evidence, he saw this tive Counell of Grenada on Mon-milk being served to two custom- day unanimously voted a grant offers
Defendant, who was represented £15,000 to the British Goverment
QUEEN THANKS as a token of the Colony's earnest by Mr. Hin-Shing Lo, testined that
HONGKONG
gamble on the risk of a war. The The following telegram
desire to assist in the common be obtained his milk from the cause of prosecuting to a victorious Tsang Fuk Cowshed at Diamond. conclusion the war which is being Hill and had it pasteurised at the from waged for the preservation of China Pasteurling Plant Com- Germans then proceeded in their the Secretary of State for the those
principles. of humanity,pany, in Tam Kung Road. He had wild adventures and were gur Colonies, London, has been re-liberty and freedom held dear by a dally allotment at the plant of prised to see Britain and Fratice ceived by the Acting Governor, all people of the Colonial Empire." space where his milk could be pasteurised. The allotment was
declare war.
Hongkong.
OVERSEAS FUND
Discussing the Russian point of Your telegram No. 476 has been The Trinidad and Tobago limited, and on some occasions view, the speaker commented on laid before the Queen who desires' branch of the British Red Cross more was sent to him from the the approach by the British Gov-that an expression of her sincere has cabied a further £15,000 to Cowshed than there was room for ernment on the Soviet, for a
thanks for message contained London headquarters raising the at the plant. guarantee against the invasion of
therein may be conveyed to you. colony's contributions to the Over- Poland, a country that included a portion of the State which former-
seas Fund to £29,000. Liberal
ly belonged to them. No one would have expected Stalin to give claimed in No. 1 Machine Gun community, the Portuguese Club, the promise, and, on the contrary, Company, H.KV.D.C., were suf- East Indians. West Indians, the when war broke out the Russians ferers of the effects of the sun Venezuelan "community, the Ameri- took back what was their property after all-day manning exercises can community and Jewish re- before the Great War.
on. Monday.
Among the eight "casualties gifts have come from the Chinese SCAVENGING OF
Speaking of the Italians and the war in Abyssinia, Mr. Fitzroy sald
that #historians would say
the world knew Italy would move to take the country. The people of England were kept ignorant of the facts by their Government, and when eventually Britain nad de- cided to step in it was found to be too late. Instead of putting Article 16 into force before the League of Nations it was too late to prevent the Italians. Further- more the unity of Britain and France was not formidable, as the fatter country was not interested in the problem.
POLAND AS EXCUSE
To the Engilah historians, this war was a question between de- mocracy and totalitarianism with Poland as the excuse.
ETERNAL
fugees.
TRIANGLE IN CHAI WAN HUT
Husband Who "Saw Red" Sent To Prison
"YOU MUST HAVE SEEN RED FOR SOME TIME. THERE ARE MANY THINGS IN YOUR CASE THAT CALL FOR LENTENCY," said Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Central Magistracy yesterday when he passed sentence of four months' hard labour; to date from July 10, on a 31-year-old stone mason, YEUNG TAM, who was also ordered to sign a personal bond to be of good behaviour for six months,
History would record the failure COURT SEQUEL
of the British Government to stop the German march on the Rhine and also the prevention of France from, taking action.
This adventure gave Germany the lead to become more powerful
and she indulged in a rush to build
TO DEATH OF S'HAI NURSE
Lu Cheng-ching and Ling Tseng-
1 Yeung was charged with un- lawfully and maliciously inflicting bodily harm on his wife, Laj Chuen-tal, on July 8 at an un- numbered but at Wang Tau Shan, Chai War, with a chopper.
Det.. Sub. Insp. W. N. Durkin prosecuting, euld the case was that of the eternal triangle between
ang, pustness manager and doc-husband, wife and lodger,
KOWLOON CITY
VILLAGES
A proposal was made recently urging the Urban Council to in-↓ iflate a system of scavenging the 26 villages in the vicinity of Kowloon City. In this connexion members of the Council went on an in- Spection tour to the area yester- day afternoon..
The Council meeting scheduled to be held yesterday was post- poded owing to the late return of some of the Council members.
Owing to the increase of activi- ties and the inadequacy of labour- era, the Council borrowed coolies from other work early this year, It is proposed that 38 more cocdes will be needed to engage in starting a skeleton service,
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It is learned that an additional sum of only $3,000 will be required for adaptation of part of Tranz Foo Villas this year."
AIRPORT NEWS
CLIPPER DELAYED
AGAIN
Early in July Yui Kwai, a friend war machines. Germany was also tor respectively of a Chinese clinic of complainant, came and stayed permitted to tear up the treaties at 536 Rue Bourgeat, Shanghai, in the hut. Defendant and his without being prevented from do- were formally charged with forgery wife often had quartels, over PINE CLIPPER, originally due to of document in the Second Special money matters. After one of such arrive from Manlia on Tuesday
ing so.
Pan American Airways PHILIP-
Then came the question of the District Court on Aug. 7 in connec- quarrels the wife went out of the last, with US malls dated" Bari advance on Czechoslovakia and tion with the recent sudden death hasband's cubicle and slept in the Francisco, Aug. 6, has been delay- the weak stand by the British of the head nurse of the clinic on passage which was near the bed ed again and is now expected in Government wher Mr. Neville whose body an autopsy has been of Tui Kwai The husband be- Hongkong tomorrow afternoon. Chamberlain flew over to Germany held y the procurator, by whom came Jealous and attacked his The flying boat will take off on in an attempt to obtain a settle the charge was framed.
wife with a chopper.
her return flight to San Francisco, ment.
It was alleged tri court that the "Dr. Li, of the Queen Mary Hos-via Manila, on Friday morning. With all these events develop-accused, without first reporting the pital, testified the wounds inflict- The Honolulu Clipper is due next ing, no steps were taken by the death to the police, prepared aed on complainant were all super-week, on Tuesday afternoon, and British Government about the sea, certificate stating that the nurse ficial except two, one of which, on will leave the following morning. land and air forces and the Gov-had died of apoplexy.
the back of the head, was two
IMPERIAL AIRWAY; ernment suddenly launched 1 They admitted the mistake, but inches long. Dr. Li said he did Imperial Airways outward ser- guarantee for Poland against in-asserted that they had no criminal not think the wounds would dia- vice was scheduled to leave Kai
intentions whatsoever. They were able complainant.
Tak this morning, taking malls, What would be the position of
WARNED WIFE
from Hongkong for Indo-China, a nation utterly unprepated to de-entrusted by the father, of the 'de- ceased to dispose of her body after
Defendant told the Court that Malaya, Java and Australia. clare war against one which had) death,
A ball was granted and he resented his wife flirting and, The next outward service is due prepared for war?
Speaking on what the war had hearing was postponed to August warned her against it. After a to leave Kal Tak on Sunday quarrel on July 5 his wife slept morning taking malls from Hong- .done to European countries, Mr.
outside the cubicle and also did (kong to Durban, from whence they' Fitzroy said that it was unfor-
50 on the following night,
will be carried by sea service to the tunate to have discovered that
vasion.
France was also unprepared for the struggle.
NOT MAGINOT LINE
21.
SOUTH CHINA COLLEGE
His wife then went away but United Kingdom. ""* he eventually located her and Imperial Airways inward service brought her back to the hut. He is due to arrive in Hongkong this
FATAL JUMP.
The South China College, Nos. (asked her not to sleep in the afternoon. - It was obvious to any military 11-12 Peace Avenue, Kowloon, will teng" but she insisted on doing man that the attack on France reopen this fall, School of 30. After some words he became would be conducted through the Economics and Finance is to be angry and attacked. 'her with a Lowlands and not the Maginot inaugurated, Judge Tseng Yu-hao chopper.
According to a police report an Line. When eventually England and Professor Dlung Lu-dzał, He regretted what he did, dress-unknown Chinese male, aged rushed troops to Belgium, it was founders of the College, hava ed her wounds and took his wife about 35 years, fumped from the found to be too late and, as a con-dented reports in vernacular to the Shaukivan Police Station verandah of the Pak Ming tea
· sequence, the most fatal thing papers that the College has eva- Witness Bald that during their house in Queen's Road East yes-. happened. The question that re-coated to Mulhalen, Kwangtung, ex or seven years of marriage heterday morning. He died on the mained; was, who was to be blamed where it maintains a branch. had never struck, his wife.
way to the Queen Mary Hospital.
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