PAGE. 6-HONGKONG DAILY... PRESS
EDITORIAL
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS The Baily Press.
IN THE MATTER of the
HONG KONG ST.
Alien Enemies (Winding ANDREW'S SOCIETY Up) Ordinance 1914
and-
IN THE MATTER of :- Mr. and/or Mrs. G. Amann,
No. 24 Conduit Road, Hong
Kong
William Buelz of Hill Crest The Peak, Hong Kong.
c/o "Defag"
Wolfgang Dochue,
c/o Mr. L. Werner,
Hong Kong Bank Building, Hong Kong.
Mrs. Hanna Durst,
P. 0. Box 777, Shanghai.
Gertrud Engel,
非 c/o "Defag," Hong Kong.
Miss Elsi Gath,
c/o Defag," Hong Kong.
Karl Goetz,
c/o Otto Wolff, Kocha.
Kurt Haase,
c/o China Export & Import Banh Co., Hong Kong.
Wilhelm Hermann,
c/o P. O. Box 57, Kunming,
Yunnan.
LAWN BOWLS
The Annual Lawn Bowls Match between members of St.
NOTICE.
R.
MOTOR TRANSPORT
Public Utility Companies own George's and St. Andrew's Sociing vehicles whose operation in
eties will be held on 7th Decem. ber at 2.30 p.m, at the Kowloon Bowling Green Club.
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Night Editor (Wanchal Office):..
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HONGKONG, NOVEMBAR 21, 1940.
OILING THE AXIS
Emergency they regard essential to the maintenance of their services to the Public, arc "All members desirous of play invited to submit a list of such ing in this match are requested to vehicles showing service perform. THE FEVERISH diplomatic communicate by 28th Novembered, type, make and registered
activity which was set in with Mr. W. Macfarlane, Dairy Farm, East Point.
be selected on 2nd December and Wanchal. published the following day.
G.
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(sd.) G. WHITE,
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Chief Transport Officer, 18th November, 1940.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
617
IN THE SUPREME PARTICULARS AND CONCOURT OF HONG KONG DITIONS of the Sale by Publi Auction to be held on Monday, the 25th day of November, 1940,
at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Or. der of His Excellency the Gover
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1940.
An interesting visitor to. Shanghal has been; Mr. J. D. Lira, father of Lady Clark Kerr, wife of the British Ambassador. Mr. Lira is a prominent Chilean lawyer. He left Shanghai, by the President Coolidge last week on his way back to South America.
TAIPO TUNNEL TRAGEDY INQUIRY RESUMED
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Alleged Instructions To K.-C.R. Building Foreman
Ball In Aid Of Refugee Farmers
The charity dinner dance in aid: of refugee farmers promises to be well attended and patrons are ad- vised to book their tables at the Peninsula Hotel for Saturday,
Classical Western art will be re- presented by Mrs. Percy Chen, Miss Anita Lee, Mrs. Sylvia Choy. A new discovery 'n Miss Jean Yang will introduce the Chinese folk: song to the audience.
The modern touch will be in the capable hands of Misses Dora. Chow, Gloria Yee and Bisle Wong. Miss Colleen Ng Quinn will sing to the accompaniment of Mr. Art Carneiro.
As a surprise there will be the appearance of "Daisy" the daring of the farmers. Mr. Herbert Tong will alto contribute to
the pro- " gramme.
NEWSETTES
The Chinese Minister to Mexico, Mr. Tan Shao-hua, has been ap- pointed by the Chinese Govern~ ment to represent China at the ceremony of the Inauguration.
of the new President di Mexico.
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The death occurred on Novem-
number, to me at the Govern. motion by the Axis Powers in Rinks will ment Trade School, Wood Road, Europe over the week-end shows how urgent it has be- come for Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to retrieve their falling prestige in the eyes of the world. It is cer- tain that what precipitated | this manoeuvring was the sig- nal successes which the Bri- tish Navy and the Fleet Air Arm achieved in the Mediter- |ranean and the debacle which the Italian Army is facing in Greece. Both these setbacks came at an inopportune mo-
Giving evidence yesterday at the inquiry which was resumed at IN THE GOODS of ment for the two European the Taipo Court before Mr. J. Barrow, sitting as Coroner, and a jury ber 13, at the Country Hospital, Charles Julias Lafrentz late aggressors, for the Taranto comprising Messrs. A. Landau (Foreman), C. Kew and Y. A. Sequeira, of George Ivor Gauntlett, aged 17. of 110 Coleherne Court Lon-episode must have seriously into the death of a woman, HUI KIU, 32, who was killed in a land-years, eldest son of Dr. and Mrs.
slide at the Shatin mouth of the Talpo Railway tunnel on Aug. 5, E. G. Gauntlett, affected the attempts which
Kowloon-Canton Railway building foreman, Chan Hon, claimed that Wong Nei Cheong Gap Road, in
the German Fuehrer was
be had been instructed to permit passengers alighting from trains to the Colony of Hong Kong for a
making to get Russia to throw go through the tunnel, term of 75 years, with the option GIVEN that the Court bas by venture. Herr
IS HEREBY her weight into the Axis ad- The instructions, he said, had deny any statement that Liu was Hitler must been given to him by the Station not there. **If the Station Master Room 201 Asia Life Bullding, axed by the Surveyor of His virtue of Section 58 of the Pro have realised that he failed to Master, Mr. Wan, at Talpe, and he swears by the light he did not give mother. Mr. Bruce was
instructions," Terson to question theme such Hong Kong.
Majesty the KING, for one furbates Ordinance 1897, made an impress M. Molotov, the So-saw ther term of 75 years.
Order limiting the time for viet Prime Minister and For-order and did not think that it said, "then so do I." creditors and others to send in eign Commissar, in. the way Station Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis- their claims against the above he hoped and he feared that an order. As the Station Mas- posal of the lot the Purchaser estate to the 10th day of Decem Russia, while not wishing to ter "Rudolf Kroeger,
(if not the applicant will be ber 1940.".
offend her Nazi neighbour, distance to deposit with an ALL creditors and others are might still prefer to retain structions, he had even less reason Room 307, Bank of: East Asia required
not to regard them as authentic.. authorised officer who will be accordingly hereby required to her non-belligerent attitude He took orders both from the end and inspected the fall. There
The marriage took place от present at the sale, the sum at send their claims to the under instead of being drawn into Station Master's staff and from
October 10 at the American Con two hundred dollars, ($200) in
hostilities with Eritain and his own department, witness said.
His earlier instructions were sulate, Tsingtao, of Alison Jean. cash. This sam will be refunded signed on or before that date.
her allies on vague promises. A man, Liu Yu-kau, of No. 7 Gang that no person was to be permitted daughter of Mr. A. A. Boyd and on payment of the Purchase Dated the 13th day of Novem
the time the was present at ber 1940.
Max Hertz,
No. 309 Prince Edward Road, nor of one Lot of Crown Land at top floor,
Kowloon.
Hans Hommel,
Helmuth Koch.
c/o Mr. L. Werner,.
Hong Kong Bank Building, Hong Kong.
Building, Hong Kong.
Otto Kuttner,
No. 29 F. C. Shameen,
Canton.
Herbert Langenslepen,
c/o "Defag," Hong Kong. Detrich Lelding and L.C. Liedke,
No. 14-Sau Chuk Yuen Road,
10. Stertorstieniveg 46 A Bremen, Germany.
Juergen Mueller,
c/o Mr. L. Werner,
Hong Kong Bank Building; Hong Kong.
Hans Richter,
c/o P. J. Klink.
G. Fritz Sauer,
co China Export & Import
Bank Co, Hong Kong.
Mrs. Elsi Schmidt,
c/o Carlowitz & Co., Hong
Kong.
Wellgäng Sommer,
Bank of China Building, 4th flour, Hong Kong..
Helgi Sperling,
No. 10 Ice House Street or No.
9 Cameron Road, Kowloon. .. Felix Buchloh,
Kong. Ernst Fischle, :
Michael von Hassel,
c/o Jebsen & Co, Hong Kong. Mrs. Johanna Scholfa,
Kong. Mrs. Hedi Harms, Einden,
c/o Kunst & Albers, Kong,
of renewal at a Crown. Rent to be
5
price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
No. of Sale,
Registry No
Locality,
Boundary
Measure-
ments.
ELE
Inland071.
South East of Inland |
Lot No. 2345, Wong Nei Cheong Gap Road
Adolf Wiener,
As per
sale plan
Contents
Square feet.
Annual
Rental
About
32,830
376
9,849
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Upset Price."
619
F. O. Box 285, Chungking, (or c/o-Sine German Trading Co., Chungking). Wilhelm Vennewitz,
Room 31, Ice House Street, Heng Kong..
don S.W. 5 deceased.
NOTICE
JOHNSON, STOKES &
"MASTER,
Solicitors for the Executor, Hongkong & Shanghai
Bank Building, Hong Kong.
BRITISH ARMY'S OFFICE METHODS
no
was out of the sphere of the
Master to give such
-some
had- himself come
to deliver these 17-
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Mr. Charles Bruce, former cable editor of the "North-China Dally News" left Shanghai for Australia on Nov. 12 accompanied
by his
witness editorial staff for over six years."
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FIRST COLLAPSE
The engagement is announced The Arst collapse, witness said, of George Frederick Clifton, 800 accurred on the morning of Aug. 2 of Mrs. F. McLord and the late G. McLorn... and Jean Gold when he was or duty at the Taipo" end of the tunnel He went daughter of Mrs. T. through the tunnel to the shatin the late W. a. Todd.
did not appear to be any danger of another slide.
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Sands and
THE NEED for the Axis to Station Master gave him (witness) to pass through the tunnel. It the late Capt. W R. Boyd, of William Alexander achieve something definite to these instructions and he would had been a dificult and unsuc- Shanghai, to
cessful job attempting to put this Fowler, of Red Oak, Virginia. surmount this hesitancy on
order into force and the passen-US.A the part of the Soviet became
gers generally displayed an obstin-
가
Patt.
and after com..
The death occurred on October more pressing and a summons secured in Bulgaria and the ate disregard of the order.
Mr. I. B. Trevor, Traffic Manager 28, at the Tsingtao General Hos from Berlin sent yet another meeting now taking place in of the Kowloon-Canton Railway. pital, of Pano J. Benis, aged 25 reluctant sympathiser with Vienna between the Axis re- another of the witnesses called years, elder, son, of Mr. and Mrs. Nazi aims scurrying from presentatives and Hungarian yesterday, said "that after he re- John Benis of 44 Shangtung Road, 612 Spain to Herr Hitler's moun- officials must be regarded as ceived a telephone call from Mrs. Tsingtao. Interment took place tain retreat in Berchtesgaden. portending agreement to fall de Martin with regard to the the following day at the Interna-
fact that passengers changing tional.Cemetery. Herr Hitler appears to feel in with the German plan. trains at the tunnel were walking more certain of his hold on This agreement" would open through her gardens when it was
Mr. Montague William General Franco because of the way for German troops to possible for them to use another former Chief Officer of the Shang- obligations which the Spanish pass through Bulgaria to the path on the other side of the hi hai Fire Department died in Exe- leader owes to the Axis for assistance of Italy and force he rang up the Station Master at ter on Nov. 9. He was educated at the unscrupulous part it play- Yugoslavia into submission. Tapo and asked him if it would Hele's School
not be possible to arrange for one pleting his apprenticeship in fre ad in the recent Civil War and How far this plan will go ac-of the work gangs to clear the engineering at Merryweather's SPEEDING UP work]
political observers are of the cording to Herr Hitler's pro- path, which was overgrown, and
proceeded to South Africa with A start has been made in thủ opinion that Herr Hitler gramme is not certain, but make it avaliable for use.
His Majesty's Fortes, Immediately Southern Command with the re-might be able to use the what is certain is that Turkey!
GO OVER HILL
after the South African war commendations of the Reform mailed fist over Senor Suner, will assuredly not allow her- Fung Wing sung, coolie attached he was, at the age of 21 appoint-. Committee recently appointed by Mr. Eden, War Minister, under the despite the fact that panish self to be made a partner to to the Land Ballif, Taipo, stated ed Chief Officer, Singapore Fire that he walked through the tannel Brigade, where he remained in chairmanship of Sir James Grigg, anxiety over joining the Axis this scheme. This will pro- every morning from Aug. 3. te & to command until 1912 when he was Permanent Under-Secretary. for fold is based on the reactions bably become the snag in Her meet the train at the Shatin end appointed Chief officer, Shang-. War, to accelerate the work of War such a step would have on her Hitler's plan.
No one ever tried to stop him go-hai Fire Brigade, Office departments.
relations with the United ALMOST SIMULTANEOUS- Ing through the tunnel, though he. After a preliminary investigation States. Spanish acceptance LY with this
diplomatic had been advised to go over the jof the German proposals manoeuvring in the west,
This he tried to do, but found
at the War Office, which resulted in a number of recommendations
.
hill
ITALY'S CLAIMS ON FRANCE
No. 1 Tramway Path, Hong Notice is hereby given that regarding clerical procedure, a would immediately result in Japan as the Axis partner in the path too slippery and return- the creditors of the above named sub-committee, was formed to imports of foodstuffs from the. Orient, has resumed her ed to walk through the tunnel. He alien enemies, whose estates are operate in the various commands, America to Spain being sus- peace overtures, covered by was walking through followed by
VICHY, Nov. 201 (Reuter) — beginning with the Southern. c/o The Basel Mission, No. 58 being liquidated under the above
pended and General Franco what is described as the more than 10 persons when the
fatal landslide occurred at the Anxiety with regard to Italy's CLERICAL WORK
would have to face a similar" strategic withdrawal of. Taipo Road, Hong Kong.
named Ordinance, äre required,
Shatin end. This was completely claims on France is volcèa in `an The sub-committee Includes both food crisis as that which is Japanese forces from certain locked by the fall of earth except unsigned article in Le Temps. on or before the 7th day of sivilians and Army men, whose threatening the rest of Nazi-areas in China. In the pre-for a small bit at the top.
The writer says: "We shali pay December 1940, being the day work, among other things, in-.
dicament which her European occupied Europe. for that purpose fixed by Dents/cludes the study of how certain
Police-Sergt. E. Franklin sald particular attention to the fact Henry Blake. of No. 2 Queen's Army reforms are working out in IN THE MEANTIME, Herr allies are now facing, Japan that there were some 40 male and that I Duce has considered It another 40 female coolles at the necessary ta. emphasise that No. 70 Robinson Road, Hong Road Central, Hong Kong, So practice. Clerical work will be Hitler's Italian partner had has doubtless been called
Shatin end of No. 5 Raliway Tun-Italy's claims on France must licitor, the Liquidator of the said studied and special consideration begun to show real signs of upon to play her part, but nal when he proceeded there im- be satisfied.'
tiven to the complexity of Army distress in his thrust into this will hardly be possible as mediately after the accident,
"We" can only wait for the persons, to send their names and forms and returns.)
None of the coolies were work-Italian claims to be oficially Hong addresses, and the particulars of
Some of the reforms, which in Greece and turned to his long as she is forced to keep their debts or claims, and the pinge on practically every form of German overlord for succour a large part of her fighting ing and they had to be forced to formulated to judge how far Otto Hoefft,
names and addresses of their activity in the modem Army, are Axis prestige was in the forces on Chinese soil. The start digging at the fallen earth they can be reconciled with the by the Police party headed by Mr. principle that the Axis peace to of an experimental nature. If the balance and Herr Hitler has diplomacy which the Japan G. 8. Wilson, A..P., who also as be concluded in common by Ger- c/o Earacts Aviation Corpora- solicitors, if any, to the under committee considers them success now decided to clinch matters ese are adopting to secure this sisted, using a Fire Brigade shovel. many and Italy will not be a tion, Hong Kong.
signed, if they have not already ful. they will be given much wider by his attempts to bring all end is so palpably futile, that all the Police party assisted with Roll Alfred Hennig,
done so, and, if sa required by application
his so-called friends into a she has made little progress
the digging, dome, asing only their peace of revenge or of rancour c/o The National Cash Register notice in writing from the said Another feature of the Investiga-
bands. Ca. Hong Kong.
Liquidator, are by their solicitors ton of further modern office and reverses that he and his sate- she once so lightly referred Mr. James Smithi, Chief Me-greasy, hill or one excessively
tion will be the possible introduc-huge bloc to counter the in her attempts to end what
- ABNORMAL CONDITIONS.
Rudoll Kroeger,
to come in and prove their said commercial methods. Since this lites have suffered and, at to as the "China Incident." chanical Engineer of the Kowicon-saturated with water to the point. Bank of East Asia Building, debts or claims at such time and will have to be done without un the same time, to convince The Chinese are well aware of Canton Railway uld, in evidence, where the earth would not bind Hong Kong.
place as shall be specified in such duly complicating the already Russia and Spain that his the growing political, econo- that conditions at the time of the When opened up later the stream, Hans Herbert Mueller,
notice, or in default thereof they complicated military administra 14 Hankow Road, 2nd floor, will be excluded from the henefit ve machine. however, the task is Power-politics are still as mic and military weakness of landslides were abnormal and the discharged 250,000 gallons of water
recognized to be one of some strong as ever. With Ru-Japan and are as determined fatal landslide was due to a hid-a day for four days. of any distribution made before magnitude,
A number of other witnesses. mania already in his grasp, as ever to accept no dictated des stream, the existence of which
was not ascertained until after the were heard at the inquiry. They such debts are proved.
Herr Hitler appears to have peace, and to consider no was not
were subjected to cross-examina- After giving her husband, Ül in ordered Bulgaria and Hungary negotiations unless the Jap- The stream was some 15 feet tion on points of evidence by Major hospital, a lock of hair, Margaret to stand by his orders. The anese completely withdraw inside the hill. It would not have B. D. Walker, Manager, present on Roberta, 70 of Kirkdale, Liverpool,ret visit of King Boris to from Chinese soil and under-come to light were it not for the behalf of the Kowloon-Canton was knocked down by a car. Her the German Fuehrer's bide- take not to interfere in any land come to the conclusion omelala
landslides. On examining the Railway, and three other railway body was taken into the hospital,
Kowloon.
(or c/o Jebsen & Co.)
Dated this 20th day if Novem. Christian A. and/or Mrs. Alda ber 1940.
Auguste Schneider,
c/o Carlowitz & Co, Hong Kong.
WILKINSON & GRIST,
Solicitor.
to the engineering profession as a
when it was found her husband out la signincant of the in-way with China's indepen- that the hill where the landslides. The inquiry will be continued on 620 had alzo died.
fluence which the Nazis have dence and sovereign rights. cre occurring was what is known Friday Nov 29