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Horazona, DicEMBER 7, 1940.
Dual Purpose Of Concrete
CHINESE DOCTORS' PROTEST
NO SETTLEMENT
REACHED
A.R.P. Pens
Construction Work Being Expedited
The concrete ARP pens that have recently been erected on a site next to the Wanchal Market are to be adapted for use, as mar- ket stalls as well as shelters, it
Representatives of the Hong- 'was revealed yesterday by the kong Chinese Medical Association, Director" of Air Raid. Precautions, headed by Dr. Edward W. J. Sm Wing-Commander A. E. 8. Steele (President), were received by the Perkins,
"DOUBLE-CROSS" Director of Medical Bervices, No constructional strength was
PACT
门
EDITORIAL
The Italian battleship Cavour, which the British Admiralty claims is partly under water as a result of an air attack. A second bat- tleship of this class, perhaps the Cesare (seen behind the Cavour in this picture) is said to have been beached.
Hon. Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, yesterday lost, and further pena in congest- afternoon when the protest of the ed areas would be built on similar Association against the Govern-lines, the Director of ARP, said. THE INTERPRETATION of ment's ruling that certificates of Tunnelling work and the erection THE
the effectiveness of the cholera inoculation issued by Chi- of concrete pens was being pushed Axis Three-Power Pact, which, nese medicos will not be recognis ahead at a good pace and another
ed, was discussed.
tunnel is to be opened up at the when Japan signed on the
The Hongkong Daily Press Base of Kennedy Road near the notted line, the Nazis loudly learned from a most reliable. Infectious Diseases Hospital this proclaimed would render a source that no settlement was ar- month
rived at, and that a further meet- A further site is being consider- German victory certain, ap-
ing between the Hon. D.MS,, nd ed at Hospital Road, while work His Excellency the Acting Gori pears to be becoming more the Association will be held after has been commenced on a new ernor will visit the Kennedy Town and more confused. Indeed, the Association had an opportuni- turinel at.. Whitfield Barracks, Leper Settlement on Monday after- so far as the junior members ty to discuss the proposals of Kowloon. of the alliance are concerned, Government
NEWSETTES CHARITY BAZAAR
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, .1940.
NAZI
of
SUBMARINE MENACE:
NO CAUSE FOR UNDUE PESSIMISM, SAYS M.P.
"It is true that the concentrated Nazi attack on 'our communications and production is serious, but we have no 'occasion to be unduly depressed over our losses," said Mr. Vernon Bartlett, the well-known Journalist and Member of Parliament, when he spoke in London yesterday.
Mr. Bartlett prefaced this remark with a reference to photographs he had seen of merchant seamen arriving in America after having been picked up by rescue ships as a
ult of their vessels having been.torpedoed. "Any British sailor who towards a puppet state, for it is in arrives-in America in these this way that they can keep up the circumstances will arouse pretence that these slave states are
In order.. sympathy," said Mr. Bartlett,
"This is why Great Britain is but It also makes a gumber confident of final victory. Both Americans shake their politically and economically Herr heads and say Hitler is too Hitler is in difdeultles-economi- strong. As a matter of fact, cally because the various states under: Nazi rule had to be bled Mr. Churchill is pursuing this white so that everything could be question of dealing with Ger- sent to Germany and the various man submarines.
occupled countries now cannot
· FORMIDABLE MENACE
have any lusions about the econo- The mercantile marine," went mic side of Herr Hitler's new order. "Politically they are in a bad maintained at a high level, and for way as well, for you must know the first time we are beginning to that Major Quisling for instance, draw on our reserves. The co- 13. so unpopular that he needs By cutting a tape, consisting of three ribbons, red, white and bice, operation that is going on between police protection at every meeting Committee
tled across the entrance to the German aircraft and their sub- he attends of "France
UNREST GROWING Hungary, Rumania and Slova- Libre acknowledges donations
#fair grounds, Mme, Sun Fo, wife of marines makes this menace for
"Mr. Bartlett referred to France kia-have placed themselves totalling $4,766.27 to the "Genersi Two or three halls will be used St. Paul's Girls' College will hold the President of the Legislative midable and it has to be remem-
bered .that the Germans. can next and said: "Although Marshal for the purpose of public lectures their annual bazaar in ald of the Yuan,,formally opened the charity in a perfect position for a De Gaulle Farid" from sept. 18.and & feet of some six lorries, Ministering. Children's League to- bazaar, organised by the Hong- operate from bases all along the Petain will be more under.control neat bit of double-crossing (or the proverbial goats) by rull list of donations will he pub-the streets in connexion with the P.m
Owing to pressure on space the with wardens in charge, will tour day Saturday from 11 am to 9 kong Chinese Women's Soldiers' coast of France and that we can-in Versailles than he has been in. Relief Association, yesterday after not operate from bases along the Vichy, there is no doubt that un- rest in France is growing, while in Herr Hitler. In other words, lished on Monday.
lighting exhibition to be held in
noon on the lawn of the Chinese coast of Eire.
"We must not also forget the Rumania it is becoming difficult the the worthless nature of this
first or second week of H's Excellency the Acting Gov. Recreation: Club. Causeway Bay.
fact that Germany has many more for Herr Hitler to keep his puppet document is steadily being. The Members of the Committee January, the Director of ARP. ernor, attended by his Alde-de- Prior to the formal opening, a bombers than we have got and can Government in power. Conclud- exposed by the trend of cur- beg to acknowledge with grateful also revealed. Wardens will de Camp, will return to Government group picture of the staff, helpers reach our centres of production, ing. Mr. Bartlett said that no rant events and the attitude appreciation and thanks the fol. monstrate to the public methods House. from Fanling Lodge, on and guests was taken, followed by which are in some cases closer to country which Germany had in- a short speech by Mrs. Rose Tan them than our factories. It is. vaded was anxious to express its Manager of the HECWSRA, therefore, easier for the Germans gratitude to the conquerors. They
doubts have begun to ma-j terialise into the strong con" viction that Italy, Japan and the other slave adherents-
GEN. DE GAULLE
The
Nov. 30.
FUND
N. T. RELIEF ASSON,
lowing donations and gifts made
of aloofness which Germany towards the maintenance of the
noon
Questioned about the apparent lack of shelters in some districts, A Requiem Mass for the late Mrs. Wing-Comdr. Steele-Perkins said Capetolina Leonarda Gutierrez was that the A.R.P. Department were said on Dec. 2, at the Church
ed areas
first concentrating on the congest-of St. Joseph, 38, Rue Montauban,
Shanghai, EXHIBITION TOUR
of blacking out effectively.
Monday.
AT C.R.C.
Formal Opening By on Mr. Bartlett," has always been
Mme. Sun Fo
has so far adopted. The main clinics and Hospitals operating in DOUBLE KILLING His Excellency the Acting Gov. and who is in charge of the to interfere with our production were all waiting for the day when
purport of the pact was to the villages:--
Mr. Chan
provide that each signatory | Mr. Aw Boon Haw, $1,000 Cheung- should go to the assistance of Chau Elders. 100.60: the other if either of them Harr, 30: Mrs. Rouse (4th parcel)
SEQUEL
was attacked, or, as the word- for Bables: Messrs. Nestle SUSPECT DETAINED
Milk Co., two cases of condensed
ing would have it. "becomes mirk each month. the victim of aggression." A brief review of the develop- CROWN LAND SALE ments in the international situation during the last few weeks will show how the pact has failed in its initial pur- pose.
WHEN ITALY attacked
Five buildings, and nine agricu, tural- lots were sold by the District Omeer. South, yesterday. for sums varying between $8 and
$220,
BY POLICE
ernor will be present at the per- bazaar. Miss Hu Mak-lan, daugh- than it is for us to interfere with the Nazis could be swept off the formance of Music Hall, 1940," to ter of the late Mr. Hu Han-min. theirs.
patch of history of the world be presented at the China Feet was one of the many guests pre- : Club Theatre, on Friday next, Dec. sent 13, at 9.15 p.m. A
A very interesting talk on "A visit to an Ant Colony" was given
A foki of the Chung. Wah Book by Prof. Shao Wen Ling. M. Sc.. company, who is suspected in con- Ph. D., before a large gathering nexion with the double murder in at St. John's Hall last night, the Company's zodown at No. 3. Guman's Bazaar is now being detained by the Police.
5.
The bazaar, the entire preceeds of which will go to relief work." will remain open from 11 am to 11 pm, today and tomorrow."
*Indeed, if Herr Hitler had concentrated fram the very be- ginning on our centres of pro- "action, instead of trying to break the spirit of London, we would have been in a serious position.
PIG
MEATS FOR BRITAIN
Evidence of the growing import...
tributed by Chinese factories and Many articles on sale were con-
ance of the pig industry to Au- Mr. Bartlett declared that there stralfa is the inclusion of 20,000 companies, and a few foreign seemed to be a wave of pessimism tons of bacomer carcases in the firma, among which was the Wataweeping over the United States contract to provide meat for Bri- Hx Excellency the Acting Gov- son and Co.
and even over the British Com-tain during 1940–41; ** ernor will open the new Chinese
monwealth. It was the same, he. It is believed that there will be GAMES GALLERY Baptist Church at No. 1. Stirling
sald, during Dunkirk and he re-
no difficulty in meeting the de- Road, Kowloon City, on Saturday games gallery. where there was had become an epic.
Unique to the public was the minded his listeners that Dunkirk mand for such carcases, as the quantity was based on probable next, Dec. 14, at 3 p.m.
amusement suitable for both
Australian production.
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National Government, will be pre-pressed. sented to those persons or ganisations contributing the most.
or-
“Y” HOCKEY CLUB MTG.
The victims were a 28-year-old clerk of the Company, Woo Tong Greece, either with or with- HEALTH RETURNS chlu, and a coolie, Woo Shu kam 19. The clerk died instantly
FRANK SPEAKING out Herr Hitler's consent, the The following is the Return of while the second victim died i Hs Excellency the Acting Gov. -young and old.
"Let me speak quite frankiy," Australia is benefiting from the world outside the Totalitarian notifiable diseases notified as 11.45 am. on Thursday in the ernor hopes to be present at the
There were also the raffle de- said Mr. Bartlett "Now we are cutting off of supplies of pig meats All-China Exhibition of Pictorial partment and stalls where tickets gloomy once more, but do you from Denmark, formerly the main bloc immediately classed the having occurred in the Colony Queen Mary Hospital
Investigation by the Police the Photography during the 24 hours ended at mid-
to be held at the bought could b'exchanged for at imagine that this new obstacle is provider for Britain's markets, act as unqualified aggression. night on Dec. Si-Diphtheria, one same afternoon led to the arrest Cafe Wiseman on Wednesday next, tractive and useful articles at real setting us down? If so, you are since the Germans have depriv- The usual methods for lead-case; Enteric Fever, one case; of one of the employees, within Dec. 11. at 4 pm.
bargain prices.. ...
definitely wrong. So it is only ed Erftain of Danish products; the ing up to this crisis by false- Measles. two cases; Dysentery. Ave hours of the incident,
In the centre of the deld was a right to say to yourself we are Empire has been called on to makę ly accusing the Greeks of per-eight cases; Tuberculosis, 20 cases
His Excellency the Acting Gov-pavilion where the brass band of proud that England is doing a good the deficiency. The simula- secution against Italian and
POLICE REPORTS ernor will visit the Hongkong Vn the Chung Sing Benevolent. 8-well I know there are a great many tion of Australia's pig industry is
who are saying one of the results. Albanian minorities were em-Hitler would like, to help
Innteer Defence "Corps at Fanling clety rendered pleasing tunes at people overseas Money and jewellery to the total Camp tomorrow and will lunch, intervals.
that they would fight like we are In the 1939-40 meat contract. ployed and charges of aggres- Japan. in order to free the value of $123 has been reported with Col. H. B Rose, M.C., and framed epilogues written by Mr. against them instead of us and, was not specified, but, it is under- 2 It is understood that scores of doing if the threat was directed the quantity of baconer circase sion were indignantly denied. Japanese to create difficulties stolen from his house by Chan officera at 1:15 Dia. Before and in Sen, Chairman of the Chinese therefore, we are not unduly de- stood, that the production response The failure of the Italian for Britain in the Orient. The Man of No.153 Wellington Street after lunch he will dispect the campaign has now cast the complications which will re-
in this country was good. The fact between 9 a.m." and 5 pm, on Dec. corps at work,
"There are reasons for this that 20,000 tons have to be pro- entire question in a new sult with considerable risk for
—the first is that there is now vided during the coming year is a mould. With the Greeks pur-himself, however, compel himi
The Rt. Hon. Sir John Latham,
the prospect of our taking a promising indication of the poss Mr. C. J. Manning, of No. 15A G.C.MG., KC, Australia's first
successful offensive, The Greeks suing the Italians across the to stand aloof again, for he Magazine Gap, has reported the envoy to Tokyo, accompanied by
bilities of an important oversens and ourselves are giving the market for another Australian prí- Albanian border and well into dare not take the chance theft of a clock and $115 in money Mr. P. Shaw. Third Secretary to
Italians a very warm time and mary Industryjon Albanian territory, Italy is of antagonising the Soviet, from his residence on Thursday the Legation, and Mrs. Bhaw, who
you must remember that the
CANADA'S OUTFUT looking pleadingly to Herr which has reaffirmed its in-,
arrived in Hongkong yesterday, are
war has never been popular in Canada is the nearest source of Hitler for help against whatention to continue aid for $20, belonghig to Kwong Wan House, where they have been in A hose pipe knuckle, valued at expected to leave Government
Italy.
sapply to the United Kingdom. An Extraordinary General Meet-
"The Italians 'are annoyed at the Consequently, Britain is drawing the Totalitarians should re-chine,
Hospital, has been reported stolen residence, for Japan on Monday)
ing of the YMCA Hockey Club fact that there are Germans who a large proportion of her pig meat gard as Greek aggression! THE LOOPHOLES which on Thursday..
is being held in the Ground Floor are holding big posts in their requirements from that Dominion. Germany should in such cir-Herz, Hitler has provided for}
His Excellency the Acting Gov- Lounge of the YMCA at 6.30 country. That, however, is as muct Sines the invasion of Denmark by
All cumstances rush to the help himself in this so-called Laa Man cheong, of the O-Dar ernor will be present at the pm on Tuesday, Dec. 10. as they can do, about it, while Germany, Canada's bacon produc of her Axis ally. Herr Hitler power-patt are now evident in Hing Company. Prince Ed-annual meeting of the Hongkong members are requested to attend. Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini ter has theressed at least three-
ward Road, reports that articles. Society for the Protection or
are swearing friendship for each fola, is skilfully evading the issue the escape clause which worth $46, were stolen from the Children on Monday at the The following
will represent other. I am convinced that any From the export point of view, by taking up the stand that makes it easy for him to go above address on Thursday, Helena May Institute. at 5.30 pm. YMCA in hockey matches at Italian Government which was Victoria and Queensland are ahead Greek aggression has yet to back on his (doubtful) word,
King's Park this (Saturday) after responsible for this foreign occupa of New South Wales in the raising be proved, when the truth is as he has done so often. It] Caught in a sudden galo, on'its.
The two-day sale of toys, held
tion of their sountry would lose its of baconer carcases, at the same noon j
Hme, it has to be remembered that that he is afraid to take the makes it possible for him return voyage to Aberdeen Giris Industrisi Guild, began yes- well; Taylor and Yourieff; Baxby,
under the auspices of the YWCA, Lat XI v. Police (4.15). Ben-grip on the people.
DA. HITLER'S "ANKIETY SA a large number of pigs from, the risk of helping an ally who is now, if he finds that any of junk No. 45058A capsised, with the terday afternoon on the roof of Jordan and Ure; Smith, Mecahan, portent to remember how anxious ralled to Brisbane, which is the
Nov. 30, about 10 pm, fishing in such grave, difficulties be- his partners are of no use in result that 12 persons were raigs the National Bank Building. To Hitchcock, Morgan and Dunne. cause he realises what would helping him to win his war, ing and are believed to have been day's sale hours will be from 1 to be the consequences of failure to leave them to their fate drowned, according to Leung Cheun Dm. The entire proceeds will go 'to extricate Italy from her and to explore the very limit-Hoi 57, master of the craft, Alto help in the education of child. present predicament.
ed horizon now left to him together there were eighteen per rea of workers in the Colony.
sons on board when it sailed from THE SAME circumstances for more active assistance. Aberdeen to go fishing on the day have arisen in the Far East, This. fact is now dawning on before. where the aggressor of the both Italy and Japan. Only
Governör, · will return" from the The engagement Is announced Orient is faced with having to two days ago, a prominent A small fire, caused by paint HX.VD.C. Camp on Tuesday and between Flying-Oficer John Wat- make a "strategic" retreat Japanese in London, Viscount lenting while in preparation, broke relleve Mr. J. HB. Lee, JF, who kina-Pitchford, only son of Dr.
and Mrs Watkins-Pitchford, from China. Japan's dim- Kano, gave an expression to out in the Dure Point Manufac has been acting for him.
turing Co... No. 1. Marble Road,
Bridgnorth, and Jennifer Mary culties should now have made this view. Whether he was shortly after 10 am yesterday, His Excellency, the Acting Gov (Jennifer Gray), only daughter of her, in the sight of the Axis acting on instructions to find slight damage was done.
ernor will attend and present the Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Bidnner, of partners, a victim of Chinese out what would be the re-
prizes at the annual prize-giving Hankow and Redeliffe Square. aggression, but once again action to such a statement, Five men, three arined with of King's College, on Wednesday. Herr Hitler overrules the pur- it is not possible to say, but daggers, entered No. 98, Kennedy text, Dec. 11, at 11 am. pose of the pact on the ground what is clear is that the Road at 9.15 last night.
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Mr. G. Treverton, Private Secre- tary to His Excellency the Acting
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TODAY'S GAMES
“It does seem to me to be im northern districts of this State are
2nd XI v. St. Andrew's (3 pm: Herr Hitler is to find puppet rulers natural geographical outlet, just Killeen; Grant and Railton in his slave countries and it ap- as Melbourne is for fat lambs front
and Gorman: Dears to me that Italy is moving the Riverina,
Smits, Gilchrist Macey. Highlands, Spare, Ireson
and Banks
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of
The wedding took place in Shanghai, on Nov. 30, at Holy
A "Bring and Buy Something Trinity Cathedral of Mr. A. M.
that the assistance "clause worthlessness of German Leung" Ri-tal. 36, master of tea party, in aid of the Bomber Macaulay, elder son of Mr. and cannot be applied here be friendship is slowly being re-ashing Junk No. 110 HA, has re- Fund, has been arranged by the Mrs, A. Macaulay of Edinburgh. cause the pact was only de-cognised by those who have ported that on Dec. 4, when ap Kowloon Ladies Work Party, to de and Miss Alleen Andrew, daughter signed to operate in cases of been foolish enough to acproximately four miles south-east held on Tuesday, Dec. 17 from 4 of Mr. and Mrs. G. Findlay An- future aggression and that cept Herr Hitler's word. The of Waglan. Iland, a Japanese pm to 8 pm at the YMCA, drew, of Shanghal, Mrs LA trawler drew alongside his junk, Salisbury Road. An invitation is Whipps was matron of honour, the Japan's war with China has Three-Power Pact is nothing Four Japancae in uniform boarded extended to all. A charge of 50 bridesmaid was Miss Phyllid Por Mr. Philip Noel Baker, MP, firing one of the "Baltais been going on for a long time! more than a subtle double and dropped two canons over cents per head will be made for ter, and Joan Jach was flower girl There is no doubt that Herr cross."
board. Then they sailed away.
KO MEJA March acted as bestman.
tes.
which he broadcasts in the BBC"