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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
In the matter of the Estate of ROGER EDWARD LIND; SELL late of Durban, South Africa, Pulsne Judge of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, deceased.
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Hongkong, December 27, 1940.
EDITORIAL
CORRESPONDENCE NEWSETTES
“HELP THE POOR" (To the Editor, K. Dally Press,
Dear Sir:
Mr. J. H. Taggart, Managing Di- rector of the Hongkong and S'hal Hotels, Limited returned to the Colony yesterday from the States.
May I through your paper say
Mr. Walter J. Wilson, Superin- something to your readers thai tending Engineer for the Ameri- wish to emphasise a fact of the can Pres. Lines in the Orient re- public importance which I know turned to Hongkong from Manila
quite urgent as it looks. As we yesterday. know that the cost of living now-. adays is quite a matter for us to worry about, especially for the poor.
וי
virtue of Sec: 58 of the Probates/ ON THE PATH TO 1 am very aware that many who
Ordinance, 1897, made an order
VICTORY
of the Chinese Health Administra
Dr. F. C. Yen (Ngan), Director
tion for the Chinese National Government in Chungking also a
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As it is the case and so some of director of the Chinese Red Cross | the poor try to get their living. Society arrived in the Colony yes- by many kinds of way to main- terday. tain their daily meals and others.
Mr. A. A. Dorrance, Manager, for steal' or cheat things out of the Standard Vacuum Oil Com- others are compelled to do what pany in Shanghai, passed through limiting the time to the 14th day HIS MAJESTY THE KING'S they should not do as things of ngkong yesterday, from a trip to of January, 1941, lar creditors & Christmas message to nature En ou or are concern the States. others to send in claims against the people of the British Em-ed. Many the poor get their Shanghai. the above estate to the undersign-pire was symbolic of the food only by begging from places
spirit of confidence with to places or men. to men,
ed.
ber, 1940.
S4. L. R. ANDREWES, Executor,
The Registry, Supreme Court
LTD.
our utmost best
to
for New To do some--
.
He is bound for
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1940.
A graphic picture of one of London's searchlight units in action. In the foreground is - houetted the mand locator.
CAPT. CYRIL FALLS ON
EXPLOITING VICTORY BY PURSUIT IN THE WESTERN
DESERT
OPERATIONS
are
ance and. Cash in respect of the need for greater sacrifices in thing to the poor is good for all wilmington.. Delaware, largest pand to defeat the strategic quality of ou troops.
above 'issue may be handed in at this office up to and including 27th December, 1940.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD,
18, Pedder Street, Hongkong.
689
order to overcome the diffl- culties that still confront the
the others.
should always
remember
LESSONS OF THE RAIDS
The most rigorous German alr raids of the war are still the only subject on the Home Front. The subject, one gathers, is likely · to be topical for some time, and in harassed, but" far from unhappy, London, and throughout the pro vinces, people are collecting air- raid advice..
Here are some of the things that have been noted
Glass in Shops-Broken glass fa the great daniger to food supplies
· Mr. Paul S., Hopkins, President of the large Shanghal Power Co., Dated this 17th day of Decem. which the people are looking I do hope in the merry time as monopolistic producers of electric and we power in industrial and residential to the future. His Majesty now happy New Year stressed this confidence when should think of the poor and try Shanghal, the textile centre of the
give them East, was he said that Britain and her some help. Usually in streets or Hongkong from the States yester- a passenger through allies have now planted their in mads we can easily see some day. feet on the path to victory-poor begging food so eagerly and
"The test of the completeness of victory is to gain 661 a position which has been piteously, they of course have Mr. Harry A Raider, President your strategic ends, the defeat of the enemy and the des-
¡made possible by the gallan- their sad stories not, to be
time should Development Co., Inc. Shanghal. Sidl Barrani was overwhelming," said CAPT. CYRIL FALLS, told of the Chinese Engineering and truction of the enemy's army. By this test, the victory of In this to others, try of the British fighting EWO COTTON MILLS, forces, to whom he paid will feel happy and
we give them some help they dealers in engineering supplies
comfortable and capital steel equipments, whe military correspondent of THE TIMES, when he spoke in striking tribute for the man-as they have such help..
is returning from the States after London yesterday on the operations in Libya. ner in which they had rallied
a few months vacation, and ́ busi-
Capt. Falls explained, at, operations in the Western Desert in retati shops Lord Woolton, say- In my point of view I should NEW SHARE ISSUE to the ald of the mother say that we
ness trip there, passed through should rave some the Colony yesterday.
the outset of his talk, thật) • most amazing document. ing that he was surprised at the country. At the same time, money. out of expenditures in
what it is desirable to gains excuses," said the speaker way in which splinters of gliss Advice has been received from His Majesty did not forget to things we should buy
Mr. Fred Backer, technical re-from a victory in war is, first ut
not altogether convincing. had pierced cans of food, describ presentative for the Dupont Co. of all, one's strategic aims the Middle East Command and the sales, caterers, and grocers should It is a striking tribute to ed it as important that whole- Shanghal that, Letters of Accept.impress on his people the Year or Christmas.
ducers of chemicals In the World,
not put their stocks where they In conclusion. I should say we was a passenger through Hong-lend of the enemy.
"The object of the Duce may be were likely to be damaged, forces of right before ultimate thing which is "To help
ane kong...Explosives and aircraft' as
Water. The Metropolitan Water EXPLOITING VICTORY to rouse the Italian people to their the well as motor vehicles made by
An enemy, he said, could very difficulties by this report, but it Board has urged on all consumers victory is won. "The future poor."
Dupont equip the armiles of the seldom be destroyed on the battle-seems to me that it is bad to make within its area the need for the will be hard," he said, and in
GEORGE-T. P: TANG,World
feld itself and so the process had them reflect that this is not a
strictest economy in all forms of to be repeated by exploiting vic-common.per that they have ac used for baths, washing up, and water consumption. Less. must be those words he laid stress or
Lt.-Comdr. E. F. Carr. U.S.N.. tory after it was won and victory cepted of their own free will and the garden. It is good, though, to the fact that the dangers
Naval Officer, who is being trans-was' exploited by pursuit. This pur- that Bignor Mussolint himself is keep a supply in a bath or bucket and difficulties before them.
POLICE REPORTS
ferred from the Asiatic Fleet to salt, however, had to be relentless responsible for bringing t should not be under-rated. a European. A. V. Frain, 43, re- the States, passed through the and had to be accomplished by them.
on which can be drawn upon when Mr. Churchill's broadcast the main supply is out of action. His Majesty also pointed out siding at No. 26, Mody Road, first Colony yesterday:
bombing of the route by which the is likely to ram that home to enemy was retreating. The pur- them. that the surest way of over-floor. was admitted to the Kow- HONGKONG & SHANGHAI coming what was before them abrasions to the head alleged to
Desert was meant to put a stop to suit of the enemy in the Western loon Hospital yesterday suffering
BANKING CORPORATION, was to increase the spirit of have been received in a fight in
the advance of the Italians on neighbourliness and the spirit Salisbury Road on Christmas Day.
Alexandria, and the Suez Canal. NOTICE IS HEREBY of unity which had been GIVEN that the Certificates created by the struggle in A woman, Fung Ng, was knocked 6/NS. 4412 dated Hongkong, which the Empire was now down by a bus in an accident in
Capt. P. G. Lauman,`ÜSN., and 16th January, 1936 for Three engaged. "We must go on Salisbury Road about 1 pm, yes- Capt. D: B. Wainwright. U.S.N..
terday. Chan Sla-wai, licensed Naval Officers en shares of this Bank numbered thinking less of ourselves and driver, operating bus No. 826 on Manila
route from to the States, passed 97994/97996 inclusive registered more for one another," said Route No. 2, the vehicle concerned through Hongkong yesterday. in the names of Messrs. Maneck His Majesty-an appeal that in the accident, reported to the Roostumjee Mehta and Dhun will surely not be neglected, police the woman had attempted to The public is reminded of the "On the top of all this is the pare for it, but during that time windows. By day a fine-meshed Manek Mehta has been Lost or for it is by this very spirit of cross the road from left to right meeting of those interested in the moral effect, which, coming after he allowed us to reinforce our wire netting will stop all but a and should this certificate unselfishness that so much the path of the moving bus and Evacuation Representation Com-the victory of the Greeks, must be Army of the Nile," said Capt. Falls, few small pieces of class, and by was struck by the left front madmittee which will be held at the very great in Italy however hard and, if he was about to move, night the experts recommend a not be produced to the Bank has already been achieved.
guard. She was seriously hurt. Peninsula Hotel today at 6p the enemy may try to hide it.. It was apparenty because he was strong black-out screen -covered before the 11th January, 1941, 'z HIS MAJESTY'S solicitude
to receive a statement from the
THE CASE OF BARDIA
being pushed behind from Rome with building boards or plywood. |Committee in connexion with the
sand he himself was nervous' about Gas-It is well to turi off the new certificate for the shares will for the children who had A woman, Yim Ham, 38, was reply to the Petition submitted on.
Capt. Falls next put forward a the adventure. He probably felt main before you go to bed. This be issued, and the aforesaid been separated from their robbed of money and property to Nov. 22.
theory in regard to the fighting that if he stretched his com prevents explosion between the Certificate No. 6/NS, 44]2 w#t]homes and from their fami- the value of $27 when held up by
which is now going on in and munications further he would have main and the taps Alternative be thereafter treated by this lies by the war could not have Fa Yuen Street, 8.35 o'clock last Attorney of the US Court of that. If a large proportion of an and suffered complete defeat.
five youths in a lane behind No. 214
Mr. Leighton Shields, District around Bardia. His theory was played into General Wavell's hands heating should be arranged. Corporation as Null and Void. failed to stir the hearts of!
China, in Shanghai, passed army is defeated and the rest take his people. Essentially a
refuge in a fortress, then their children's festival, he felt Two appliances early on the The Equine Sports Club held an chances of holding out or being that nothing should be allow-scene quelled an outbreak of fire enjoyable cabaret dinner dance at rescued were small. If a small ed to stand in the way of at a matshed opposite No. 47, Hill the Peninsula Hotel Rose Room proportion of the army is defeated their happiness this Christ- Wood Road, yesterday afternoon last night. Irene Artesh, Anita and take refuge in a fortress, then "about 430 o'clock. No estimate Lee. W. H: Yung and Marvino and there was a change of their being 650 mas. His heartleft thanks to has been made of the damage, Jamino contributed to the cabaret Uberate,
the peoples of the dominions though it is learned the matshed numbers. AMERICAN FAR EASTERN and the United States for was not, insured against fire.
M.......
By Order of the Court of Directors.
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager.
night.
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SYNDICATE INC.
having so generously offered their hospitality to the chil- dren who had to be sent away
(IN LIQUIDATION)
to places of safety must have comforted many a home. In
'QUAKE SHOCKS IN TURKEY
·D. S. ROBB, C. A., Liquidator,
resoluteness
Naval Cancer and his family, who Cdr. M. W. Hutchinson, U.S.N.
are leaving the Asiatic Fleet. duty to go to the States, where he will resume his duties, passed through Hongkong yesterday.
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F
MIKADO'S APPEAL
FOR UNITY
TOKYO, Dec, 28. (Reuter)—"The Increasingly cordial relations be tween our Empire and the Treaty
“The Italian aim was to con- quer Egypt and open the way to the East African colonies," said Capt Falls. "That plan has now failed. A large proportion of the Italian army was cap- tured in Bidi Barrani an mhany thousands in patsuit.
Therefore, the wisest course › a commander should take is to leave the smallest number of men to defend a fortress, but to do that often requires great strength of character sald Capt. Fails.
and defence
"Quite a considérable proportion of the retreating Italian forces are.
"The Italians, are · plucky enough," said Capt, Falls, “but It was largely the command that let them down
Capt. Pally commented on Mar shal Graziani's statement that he himself, was about to attack when the British attack came
*NOT DISCOURAGED Railwayz Unnecessary trande to and from London is to be dis- couraged. Travel on businessS----- not on pleasure.
Telephones Unless it la abd lutely necessary, no one should use the telephone during a raid.
Flying Glass-One in every five
·cases of air-raid, fijury in Britain has been caused by glass. Cur- tains and blinds do little to pre- | vent_glass flying, but there "He had three months to pre several good ways of protecting
BASIS OF VICTORY
are
Electricity. If an incendiary bomb falls on the house, turn the electricity" current off. It is not necessary :- to do so "otherwise, Naturally it is well to keep a few ¦candies or night lights for emer-
Benoy, Bagan Maan
"Good planning, good staff work, good equipment and first class support from our navy and aly force would have been insufficient without thorough *** training of our troops-that is ⠀: Torches The Ministry, of Home
the basis of our victory.
Begurity states that, during black- out hours torches, may be used "In further operations it must only if diramed by two thicknesses be made the basis for future vie of tissue paper or the equivalent. tory. The army in the United They must be directed · down- Kingdom and in other parts of wards, and extinguished. Im- the Empire must be raised to the mediately the air-raid warning standard of the Army of the Nile." sounds.
American Chamber Backs Clipper Service To Snore
The American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines “han
given its hacking to the plan of Fan American Airways to extend its clipper service from Mania to Shugapore,
All persons having claims London and helped to soothe
VICHY Dec. 28, (Reuter)-Two Powera" were matters tur satisfac. "What I am building"up tois agalust, and all persons owing the pangs which such separa-earthquake shocks rocked the tion, declared the Emperor of the case of Bardia, which is hardly monies to, the above firm are tion causes to parents at thi: Brzindjan district of Turkey early Japan, when be formally opened a fortress, but which nevertheless American requested to lodge their claims or festive season. Such thoughts, Christmas morning, says an Ankars the 78th session of the Diet has fortifications
damage 07 He made a strong appeal for na artillery. make payment to the undernoted coming from the head of the despatch but no
tional unity. casunitlës are: yet reported. without further delay.
state, will not only make the
This was the area, where 50,000 people whom he addressed were killed or injured during the LADY DILL PASSES " Bardiz, though some of the willing to endure the hard-earthquakes of last December.
escaped to Tobruk, and unless the LONDON, Dec. 28, (Reuter) Lady campaign takes quite a different ships of the present time to
Dil, wife of General Sir John Dill, turn, which is unlikely, they can
In a letter addressed to United States High Commissioner. Fran...”” c/o, Messrs. Lowe, Binghamthe end, but will increase
Chief of the Imperial General not hope to be liberated.
chy B. Sayre, Samuel F. Gaches, president of the chamber, said: & Matthews,
their determination to ensure, fore them with the deter Staff, died here yesterday after a
MANY DIFFICULTIES. ⠀⠀⠀
"We heartily endorse this plante Increased to a weekly service as Mercantile Bank Building.
as His Majesty said, that mination and
long illness.
"Don't run away with the idea and would appreciate your once soon sis more ships are available. Hong Kong,, 22nd Dec., 1940. Britain will be able to secure they have already shown. It
that the capture of Bardia is going conveying to the authorities the possibly next year
The PAA manager said that one for the world that orderliness is this spirit of harmony that MORE OVERSEAS to be easy declared Capt. Falls endorsement of the American and lasting peace which will has so far baffled the enemies
"The greatest dimculty lies in the Chamber of Commerce to this taing which impressed him on tius make future Christmas sea-of freedom and helped to CHINESE RETURN distance separating the British pian, It is the belief of the mer- trip is the building activity in advance guard from their rail-chants associated with this cham- Manila. People seem to be going sons all the happier for what strengthen the resolve to win More than 300 Chiness from head. It must be remembered her that such a connexion will ahead without much concern for Britain and her allies are and the determination, not to Malaya have arrived here en route that tanks have to be repaired and berent United States commerce troubles elsewhere in the world.” seeking to accomplish..
give up in any circumstances to the interior to volunteer their lubricated and tuned up again. and increase trade between the he declared That is definitely a HIS MAJESTY had a word until the threat to the world services to their mother country. Fuel and lubricating oils have to United States and the Far Eastern good sign
They will shortly leave for Shtube brought up and ammunition countries lying to the south and Colonel Young_is-lea of cheer to the older people has been finally removed, wan in different groups by way and stores have to travel along west of the Philippines.".
clipper at dawn tomor It is hereby notified that us and he assuredly raised a His Majesty's conviction that of Shayuchung and Walyeung the same route, from January 7, 1941, the tele spark of pride in their hearts the tide has turned is one All in the prime of their years, phone number of the Hongkong when he declared that they that is shared by everyone of the 300 odd overseas Chimese hall Dally Press, Marina House, will were all in the front line of his subjects and it is with from Singapore, Ipoh Kuala Lum- pur, Penang and other cities in the struggle today against the goal of world freedom be- the Straits Bettlement, and a 33225-
the aggressors of the rights fore them that they will face Enanced by and liberties of mankind. It the enemies of peace and Kautres King
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Is this pride of comradeship fustice in the new year that that has enabled the British will soon dawn upon the Ipeople to face the ordeal be- world.
Another bat
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FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE
route,
“We must also remember that Colonel Clarence E. Young. sullim is within the range of the PAA's Pacine division manager, Italian long range guns at Bardia. 1 who has been making an inspec do not mean that there is any tion over the transpa doubt about the final outcome of stated that establishme this operation. but there are cera Manila Bingapore, service tair handicaps to be overcom
Increase air travel to and out kinese" from
it 500 win 2 GRAZIANT'S
Manlia. He said
Capt. Pair next referred Maribal: Graziani's report
to prepared to start imme
fortnightly serv
on the
for his
San Francisco headqua
VICEROY'S CUP RESULT
Viceroy's Cup