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BISHOP OF MACAO WAS IN ROME WHEN ITALY ENTERED THE WAR
Special to the Hongkong Daily Press
"I WISH IN THESE TROUBLED TIMES THAT HONG-
to be a waste of ammunition The convoy salled on. running the gauntlet of a terrific cannonade, Only one enemy plane appeared | KONG WILL NOT SUFFER.”” in the clouds over the sunlit Chan- nel.
It was
reconnaissance' machine "spotting" for the German artillery, but it was quickly chased away by Bri- tish fighters protecting the convoy.
Then with a roar B.AF, fighters streaked across the sky,
These were words with which His Lordship the Bishop of Macao, the Right Rev. Dr. A. da Costa Nunes, addressed a representative of the Hongkong Daily Press when inter- viewed on his arrival in Hongkong yesterday after a year's vacation in Europe.
"Just as Macao has continu ed to be a prosperous Porta- guese colony for centuries, I believe it will continue to prosper for many more cen- turies to come as a wealthy corner of the Portuguese Em- pire."
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1940.
FOREIGN MAILS
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, 93rd AUGUST, 1940, 9.30 ÀM.
The arrivals and departures of mails from" and to neighbouring countries and évast ports, of which there is a frequency of more than one service a week will diet in futute be advertised.
This decision has been arrived at after careful consideration, and the public are requested to co-operate to the extent of forbearing to inquire by telephone the dates of such mails, as answering such inquiries makes heavy inroads on the time of the postal staff:
the Imperial Air Mail on Tuesday, the 27th August, 1940,
The Public are requested to note particularly the time of closing
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
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His Lordship was in Portu-Lerdship is confident that with gal for the greater part of his their policy of non-interference holiday. but had an oppor-and impartiality among all na tunity of visiting Italy also. why Macao should be molested.
tionals, he did not see any reason As the convey steamed slowly up Intending to return via the the Channel, guns on the French Suez Canal, he was in Rome coast, nearer Calats, opened fire and the bombardment was still as
four days before Italy entered fierce as ever, an hour after the the war. He was thus obliged Arst shell had been fred.
to return to Portugal and The bombardment grew less La-travel East via the Cape. tense after the convoy passed Do- ver and was steaming towards not in favour of their country en- "The majority of Itallans are Deal.
Eighty minutes after the tering the war" he told our re- On returning to Lisbon from Germans opened are the convoy presentative. The Pope had on Rome, His Lordship took ship to had passed safely through the more than one occasion openly de- South Africa, from where he took.
Catholic Church to Italy's entry." joining the ship that brought him
of the another boat direct to Batavia, August).
EXPECTED–FAMINE-- to Hongkong at Sluxäpure, Discussing the expected famine
Straits.
Not one vessel appeared to have been hit, The bombardment ap- parently was a complete failure
positions of the guns
FISHERMAN'S REPORT
clared the disapproval
and dashes had given away the in Europe this winter, His Lord
ship said that the food question "A fisherman reported that there would certainly increase with the in Europe was already serious and was a bombing attack on a Brush approach of winter, but he believ. convoy off the north-east coasted that steps were already being
taken to meet eventualities.
this morning.
It is believed that the ships were of a unit. The convoy and escort opened a fierce fire on the ralders who vanished when Spit fires appeared.
MAGNIFICENT EFFORTS
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years in Singapore, where he has been engaged in important con- struction work at the Naval Yard
RAPID PRODUCTION "Malaya's two main. Industries tin and rubber were at a low ebb when I arrived there in 1938, he said, "and you will be amazed at the rapid strides in production which have taken place since the war broke out in September last year.
"Now," he continued, “if you were to take a trip through the tin mining areas of the Federated Malay States, you will see dredges working day and night. The price of both commodities Are naturally high and trade is booming as a consequence."
HUGE HOSPITAL Referring to. à big maternity hospital which was being.con- structed in Johore. Mr. Nabi said that this building was now near ing completion. Its estimated cost was over $1,000,000 (Stratis)
The building. he said, was the last word in modern design and
"In fact, he declared, "France had only a few days ago declared (according to a wireless message received on board) that there was sufficient food in the country for the coming winter, with the ex- ception of cheese, which seems to
There were two other Catholic
priests from Portugal on board, besides an American Jusuit bro-
two Portuguese priests were Rev. ther bound for Shanghal. The Father J. Me Fernandes, and Rev. Brother Manuel da Costa Nunes.
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be the only article absolutely un-Service Ordinance, the spokesman abtainable there,"
said, to undergo such training, but the Ordinance had, up to the pre- sent, been applied only to subjects) of European, ruce.
From
Air Mall by "Pan American Airways Direct vice."San Francisco date, 13th August
Mall by "Imperial Airways Service" London and Straits
Due
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23rd Aug.
25th Aug,
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Canada, U.S.A. Japan, and Shanghal (Vancou
ver B .C. date, 10th August). U. S. A., Honolulu, Japan, and Shanghai
Francisco date, 3rd August), Sandakan.
25th Aug.
esth. Aug.
26th-Aug. 26th Aug."
28th Aug.
29th Aug,
(San
25th Aug.
1st Sept.
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FRIDAY
For
Many Government servants of Manila, Makassar and Sourabaya
non-European race had already
joined the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps and other Services
-true of nearly all Government ser- vants of Indian nationality, and of
Date and Time
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Europe via "Pan American Airways and Trans- Rog Atlantic Service."
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"And what is that, after all," he added with a smile."
Dr. da Costa Nunes dis counted the possibility of Spain and Portugal ever merging into one nation under one Government,
We are good friends and good neigh- boars be aid, "But Spain will always be Spain and Por- tugal will always be Portugal.". "Portugal has always been an his- torie ally of England" he added, "and I believe continue to be so."
we shall always non-European race in the near Straits and Calcutta.
future, the spokesman said he Formosa and Dairen.. could give no information on the
of their own accord. This was Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U. §. A., &
FUTURE OF MACAO
a good number of the Chinese.
be applied to British subjects of Asked if the Ordinance would
As for the future of Macao, His 'subject.
Japanese Warship Shoots Down Plane With French
⠀
And Nippon Officials
(Special To the Hongkong ·
Daily
Press). DOWN A FRENCH PLANE CARRYING“ „FRENCH
AN AMAZING STORY OF HOW A JAPANESE WARSHIP SHOT OFFICIALS TO KWANGCHOWWAN was related to a
AND JAPANESE representative
of the Hongkong Daily Press yesterday by an arrival in the Colony from Kwangchowwan.
Sat, 24th Par. 23rd 5.00 PM Let. 24th 8.30 AM 8.30 AM G.P.O. & K.F.O. 5.00 PM
Air Mail for "Imperial Airways-Servico" to Durban Reg.
and thence by Sea Servies to United
Kingdom Ord. 6.30 PM
GP.0.&K.P.O...
5.CO PM 5.30 PM
Air Mall for Indo-China, Malaya, Java and Aus- Reg."
tralia by the "Imperial Airways Service.”
MONDAY
Ord.
Mon. 26th
G.P.O.& EP.O.. Par. 24th 5.00 PM
Straits. Ceylon, India, East and South Africa. and Reg. 24th 5.00 PM
United Kingdom
TUESDAY
Manila, Australia and New Zealand via Thurs-Reg.
day Island
The details of the incident appear to have been obtained from responsible sources and their veracity was vouched for by our-in-Air Mall for Indo-China, Malaya, Java and Aus- Reg. formant
tralia by the "Imperial Airways Service,”
THE INCIDENT IS STATED TO
CONNECTED WITH
Following this arrangement, « al THE French plane, it is stated left
construction and when equipped was expected to be one of the Anest maternity hospitals in the Far East. It was expected that BE the hospital would be ready for AGREEMENT arrived at between Indo-China for Kwangchowwan, occupation before the end of the the French authorities in Indo- carrying three Japanese military
China and the Japanese Govern-officers and two French officials. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Service" to Durban Reg. ment to permalt Japanese insper On their flight, the plane was tors to exercise supervision over spotted by a Japanese warship.
and thence by Sea Service to United Kingdom Ord. traffic Into China not only from Indo-China, but also from Kwang- chowwan.
year.
several
MOD *
bar-
"I understand that it will be. equipped on the lines of a military hospital for the time 'being," sald Mr. Nabi,
adding that military hospitals and racks had been erected in Singapore and Johore since the outbreak of war and that the Island's defences, prepara- tions were rapidly nearing completion.
factories and the rallways, but also for ships calling at the port.
"The vessel I arrived on a added, "was run on Malayan-coal," Mr. Nabi also mentioned that Mr. Nabi declared that Singa- while coal had, been imported into pore's defence preparations were so Malaya before the war, now, with extensive and thorough that they the scarcity or supplies from had inspired feeling of calm and abroad. the focal collieries were conadence among the large cos- working at full pressure to provide mopolitan population of that Co- coal not only for local uses for lony and everywhere in Malaya."
Mistaking it for a Chinese plane, the warship is reported to have opened fire at it. with its anti-! aircraft guns and brought the machine crashing down into the
WEDNESDAY
Ord. 26th F.30AM Tue. 27th
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sea. It was only then that those Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, D. 8. A., Central and GPO on the warship discovered their
South America, Canada and United Kingdom Parcels French and Japanese officials on mistake and that there were
via San Francisco-No Parcels for Canada and Reg. United-Kingdom), board,"
FRIDAY
plane were able to be saved and Shanghai Japan, Honolulu, 8A, Central & South GPO, &XP.O.
None of the occupants of the Sandakan. attempts were made to "hush up America, Canada *United-Kingdom via Reg. 29th 6.00 yar
San Francisco
the matter.
',
SALVAGE OPERATIONS Two days later, however, a spe-
and
G.PO. &KPO.
Ord. 30th 8.30 M
Far. 20th 5.00 PM
cial salvage plane arrived on the Straits. Ceylon, India, Fast and South Africa, Reg. 30th 9:40 AM scene of the tragedy and divers succeeded in bringing up the five bodies of the unfortunate victims.
FURTHER STATEMENT ON together with that of the pllct.
AIR RAID WARNINGS
LONDON, Aug. 22 (Reuter)Sir John Anderson, the Home Becretary, in the course of a further statement on air raid warnings, cireutated to the House of Commons points out that the public must be "prepared, not only to be warned with- out being bombed, but also on occasions to be bombed without being warned,"
As a general rule attacks which developed without warning would be on a comparatively light scale, for where large formations of raiders were reported, public warnings would be. given more freely.
If they stopped work and went to the ground every time an enemy aircraft was in the neighbourhood, they would them- selves be sabotaging their war production and thus play ing into the enemy's hands.
Wars could not be won without taking risks,"
and United Kingdom,
BATURDAY
Ord.30th 10:30 AM
Sat, 31st S G.P.O, & K.P.O. Par. 20th 600 PM
Chinese troops in the vicinity Manila, Rabaul, Australia and New Zealand via Reg. 31st 8.45 m of Kwangchowwan were attract
Brisbane
WEDNESDAY
Ord. 31st 9.30 AM
ed by what was happening out at sea and took up positions along the Chinese section of the coast,
Wed. Sept. 4th ** fearing that the Japanese were U. E, A, Central and South America and United Par. 3/90.00 F
GP.O. & K.PO. about to make a landing on that -Kingdom Via San Francisco (No Parcels for Reg. 4/9 9:45 AM part of the territory, but were Canada), soon able to discover that a tragic
Ord. 4/9 10.30 AM- mistake had been made by those on board the warship,
Fri, 6th
عين
and
shanghai, Japan, Canada, U. 8. A., Central
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South America and United-Kingdom via Van GPO & KPO couver BCParcels for Canada only).
Par 5/9.5 (0 r Note: All Mall for United Kingdom will be for- Reg. 6/9 9.15 AM warded with or without superscription Ord. 8/0 10.00 AM
Our informant added that a few days later another plane Japanese machine this
time- arrived at Kwangchowwan with both new Japanese and French Re
appointees to take up the work Printed and Published by Henry Lloyd Murrow, for the Hongkong Daily Press Ltd, at Marina House, third floor 15-19, Queen's Road Central Hongkong London Office: 53lest-Street E.CA
which the victims of the mistake had set out to perform.