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LANG-Suddenly on Christmas Day at Colombo, Neil Land, Chlef Engineer Douglas Steam- ship Co. Ltd.
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DEATH OF MR.
NEIL LANG
EDITORIAL
NEWSETTES Refugees In
His Excellency the Acting Gov- einor, will take part in the meet of the Fanling Hunt tomorrow at 2.45 pm.
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The Colony An increase of 38 in the number
of refugees and destitutes accom Chief-modated in Government Camps,
The death occurred suddenly in Colombo, on Christmas Day, of Mr. Neil E Lang, who enjoyed the re- putation of being one of the most His Excellency Air popular and highly esteemed figures Marshal Sir Robert Erooke-etc, in urban and rural areas is on the China Coast,
Popham, G.C.YO, KOB, OM.Grecorded for the week ended on News of the death was received D.8.0. A.F.C., Commander-in-Dec. 21. yesterday morning by the local Calet. Far East, accompanied by Urban Aress (Civilians): office of the Douglas Steamship Squadron Leader J. Cox, RAF, k Co., Ltd, with which firm the late expected at Fanling Lodge tomOF-.
King's Park-1,303 against 1.304 on
Dec. 14. Mr. Lang was associated as a chief row They will leave on Monday. engineer for more than 30 years.
Mr. Lang was a member of St. Andrew's Society and the Institute. of Engineers and Shipbuilders.
He leaves a brother, who is a chief engineer with the Union
Steamship Co., Ltd. of New Zea-
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Min Lydia Fehlly, wife at Dr. Fehily. Health Officer in Hong- kong. arrived in the Colony on Thursday.
Ma Tau Chung-1,230 against 1,198 |
on Dec. 14.
North Point-1,421 against 1,408 on
Dec. 14.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1940. THE NEW AGE:
WHEN WE HAVE FINISHED WITH HITLER-WHAT THEN?
"When we have finished with Herr Hitler and ensur- ed ourselves against the possibility of a third German war, what then? That is the question people are asking. today and I can tell you how some of us feel about it," sald SIR ALFRED ZIMMERN, Montagu Burton Professor of International Relations at the Oxford University, when he broadcast to the United States of America on Christmas. Day from London.
"The people here," said Siz under the induence of barbarism. Alfred, "look upon this war and to employ the resources of as marking the end of one science, in cold-blooded and aya-
tematic brutality. age and the beginning of a
However, when that is Anished new one. We see it as the with, we shall find before. us a
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fland, and three sisters, who are in manager of the British-American (In Hospital-22 against 20 on Dec.lend of much of the wide-new Europe-a real twentieth cen-
Scotland.
POLICE REPORTS
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Cheung Kam-chan, of No. Wing Lik Street, has reported to the Police that between. 2. and 3 am, on Dec. 25 someone entered the house and stole from the safe $449 in money.
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kong.
Morrison Hill-538 against 658 on
Mr. John H. Matthews, factory Urban Aress (Soldiers):
Tobacco Company भ Saigon. 14 Indo-China," has arrived in Hong-Argyle Street-701 against 701 on
Dec. 14. Urban Areas (Squatters' Campe); Tai Hang-2.557 against 2,537 on
Dec. 14. Ngau Tau Kok-794 against 795 on
Dec. 14. Rural Aresa;
"His Excellency Lt-Gen. E F formal visit to the Chinese Trade Norton will pay a second and in-
Exhibition in Kowloon on day, at 3 pim:
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spread poverty and social pri-tury Surope. I would almost sar vilege and an adolescent de-an Americanised Europe, a Europe mocracy and the beginning cast aside and in which traditions
in which many prejudices will be. of social equality and a full-will be adjusted to those which grown democracy.
are familiar to you in America.
There will not, however, be a NEW ENVIRONMENT
united states of Europe. Europe Sir Alfred stated that what they will be a continent of Inde- EWO COTTON MILLS, THE RECENT REPORTS
Mr. H A. Oberg, Seventh Day Ban Tin-1,832 against 1.847justment of mankind to the new some smaller, but European peo had to look forward to was an ad- pendent people, some greater and LTD.
that Japan is making Mr. Granville, of Elliott Filter Singapore trom Yokohama, is in Fanling
Adventist missionary, en route to Dec. 14:
environment that the discoveries ples will think less of their inde- hectic preparations to con-Beds, reports that between 7 p.m. the Colony.
Children's Camp-299
of science had created. Before pendence and more of their inter- against 293 on Dec. 14. tinue her southward drive and 10 p.m. on Dec. 26 jewellery to
Total: 10,895 against 10,659 Dee existed. Men used machines, but
1940 this new world of selenice dependence." " and that she is even prepared the value of $295 was stolen fram
"The temper of their public to go to war with Britain
did not control them, because they life will be very different. The old Advice has been received from and the United States to ac-
had not adjusted their habits to selfishness and greed for power. Shanghai that Letters of Accept complish this plan cannot be trom outside Mount Davis Fort The theft of his car, No. 1841,
new conditions.
will yield to new interests and It was only in Europe that this common problems, particularly ance and Cash in respect of the dissociated from what has between Dec. 26 and 27 has been
new social outlook саме up economic, problems and for once above issue may be handed in at been taking place in the reported by Major David:gn."
His Excellency Lt-Gen. E. F. having occurred in the Colony dur- that was because Europeans had the methods which you Americans $3 against determined resistance and these problems will be solved by this olice up to and including west. The fact that Japan
Norton will be present at the an- ing the three days ended at mid- become fixed in a political and so-äre "adopting 27th December, 1940.
has remained quiescent for,
Cheung Mo-yin.. of 205 Wannus dinner of the Sino-British night on Dec. 26-Cholera, three cial mould for years before: chai Road, reports that while she Cultural Association at the Chi-cases: Diphtheria, three JARDINE, MATHESON &
time past some
now has was walking along Leighton Hnese Merchants Club on Friday, Enteric made it
'Fever. abundantly clear Road on Thursday at about 1.45 Jan. 3, at 8.30 p.m.
three CO., LTD.
cases: that she realises the awk-p.m. her handbag and
Chicken-Pox, dye cases: Cerebro- wardness of her position as valued at $53.35, was
six cases; Tuberculosis, 49 cases. Spinal Fever, two cases; Dysentery. ja partner of the Axis Powers from her.
EASTERN PORTS
18, Pedder Street, Hongkong.
689 in the Far East. Her pre-
vious threats to push through
with her. "New Order" es-
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contents, matched
PEDESTRIAN WOUNDED
Mr. Sven Dithmer, Director of General Motors Japan, Ltd, on combined holiday and business Hongkong recently. cruise to Manila, passed through
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HEALTH RETURNS The following is the Return of notifiable diseases notised.
cases:
Mr. Thomas E. Bamford, official of the National City Bank of New York, in Yokohama, on combined holiday and business trip to The health bulletin for Eastern Manila, was a passenger through Ports for the week ending Dec. 21 |Hongkong on Thursday.
is as follows:-Cholera :-Rangoon, tablishment met with instant pedestrian was wounded in the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI opposition from the United head when an Indian police reser-head of St. John's Abbey in Col-
six cases Small-Pox, Rangoon, one Rt. Rev. Alcula H. Deutsch, case BANKING CORPORATION. States and Britain in the vist fired, a abot at a number of legeville, Minnesota, who is en shape of increased assistance men fleeing to escape arrest in route to Manila to survey the as- HEREBY to China and the strengthen-Wanchal district about 12.30 am. tablishments in the Philippines of Certifikates ing of British and American yesterday.
the Benedictine Order, of which The man has been admitted to he is an Abbot, passed through
GIVEN that the
NOTICE IS 6/NS. 4412 dated Bengkong, resistance in the Far East hospital; where his condition is re-Hongkong on Thursday 16th January, 1936 for ThreeFaced with this imperative ported as not serious. shares.^of "this Bank numbered "stop" signal, Japan's mili- 97994/97996 Inclusivo registeredtarists' were forced to reflect
Corporation as Null and Vold,
By Order of the Court of Directors,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
SYNDICATE INC.
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His Excellency the Acting Clay-
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"The centre of that resis tance," continued Sir Alfred. *" was in Germany or in Prussia and the two wars which Prus. sian militarism has provoked was a sort of desperate rear- guard action.
"The fear of war will be- come as rare as the fear of another civil war has become In the United States and GoT- ernments will be recognised as "the agencies for social welfare. DREAMS OF 150 YEARS AGO "Then democracy will come into
· GOSPEL OF FORCE
Its own and statesmen will be There is no reason why the there to work it along a policy in Germans should have resorted to which the resources of science will a gospel of force, to have fallen be brought into play for the en-
couragement of human life.
COLONY HUSBANDS DECIDE ON proved empty then. What right
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CASE ON EVACUATION
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BURMESE JOURNALISTS WELCOMED
"Men dreamed of these things 150 years ago and their dreams
have we to expect that they will be nearer to fullment today? The answer is simple. The hopes and dreams of 150 years ago were ernor w pay an informal visit the latter's departure for Shang-entirely misinformed about ar en They were based by and large on not in themselves impracticable, in the names of Messrs. Maneck on the results which might from such an encounter will Dock on Friday, Jan. 3, at 4 pm. follows:-
to the Hongkong and Whampoa hal, pungent, phrases from which tirely misinterprets the attitude the foundation of solid reality. Reostumjee Mehta and Dinn have materialised if they be very heavy indeed.
of mind and the character of the but they failed to materialise into Manck Mehta has been Lost or took any precipitious. step.
"Many of us have fought in the petitioners, - JAPAN is fully aware of
fulfilment because men's minds Stolen, and should this certificate The lull in Japanese activity this and she is also probably Manager of FE Zeulig. Manila, given proof of greater sacrifice in open.
Mr. Vai Elgenmann, Department last Great War and have already The meeting was then thrown were not open to act upon them. not be produced to the Bank which followed could not, of aware that by acceding to the United States, passed through the feeling and love of country
who is returning from a trip to this. We yield to none in patrio- AN ENDORSEMENT
Today the recognition of com- before the 11th January, 1941, a course, have been to the li-German pressure she
Asked whether the petition was
mon human alms teach us to be... new certificate for the shares willing of her Axis partners in only be fighting Herr Hitler's
will the Colony on Thursday.
and all of us are ready to Aght cabled Home without being cen- women, ready and eager to recon- come twentieth century men and be issued, and the aforesaid Europe and the story now war and that the chances of
and endure in this outpost of the sored and whether anything had His Excellency the Acting Gov- Empire, or elsewhere, anything been added on to the cable, the come to see London after the vice dition our thinking When you Certificate No. 6/NS. 4412 will given publicity that Japan is her southward expansion stood that there was an endorse- be thereafter treated by this preparing to take the initia- programme ending according Royal Hongkong Golf Club play forcibly evacuated, or split up by ment by the Governor to the ef- you will and Englishmen and Etpor will see the new captain that may be in store for us, but | Chairman said that he undertory you will not see it very tive early in the new year is to plan are really remote. himself at the Fanling Course forte, and especially not with all fect that he could not support the their European neighbours some- obviously an attempt by Ger- Apart from this uncertainty tomorrow at 1245 pm, and after the glaring discrimination and in petition on the grounds given in how changed and may be you will many to whip her Far East- as far as results to her own wards will lunch with the Com-Justice which has been exercised his previous cables on this mat also find that the ocean between ern ally into some form of advantage are concerned, the mittee of the Club. usefulness
here in Hongkong. This injustice | ter." - to set-off the most ominous of the "stop
is further intensifed by reason of
us has become less estranging" M, G. A. Christen said that be Chief Manager, check which the Axis Powers signals against proceeding ernor will return to Government
His Excellency the Acting Goy the fact that the majority of the felt very strongly about the mat- have received in Europe and with her plan is the silence House from Fanling Lodge
evacuates
from the lesster. Lord Lloyd was a very able the Mediterranean.
wealthy homes of the Colony........ man but he was not democratie. of M. Stalin. All attempts to Thursday next, Jan 2 His Ex- iT appeal to His Excellency, as HE, the Acting Governor had, HERR HITLER'S chief con- draw the Soviet into a plan cellency expects to return to Fanthe man of honour I know him said the speaker, men around him AMERICAN FAR EASTERN sweeping steps which have Axis Powers and to quench
cern at this moment is the for co-operating with the Lodge on Saturday next, tanto be, to revoke this great traves- who had completely misguided
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ty of justice and render the htm. He came into the muddle been taken by the United the smouldering antagonism
evacuation scheme retrospectively without knowing anything about Providing entertainment for voluntary for all" States to help Britain to de- between Russia and Japan the Servicemen, the Y.M. C. A.
it and he is not to be blamed. It KUNMING, Dec. 37 (Central)...... OBVIOUSLY FUTILE
war the men around him who did Deep"admiration for the Chinese (IN LIQUIDATION) feat Germany. He recognises have so far failed completely. sponsored a Christmas dance last
The writer, referring to Lord some wangling themselves.
spirit in resisting the Japanese that Germany's productive The advances made by Japan Royal Scots. Band provided the said that it was obviously futile to see the Governor and present mess journalists in a speech at a evening in the West Lounge The Lloyd's reply on the reason for The speaker suggested that they aggression to the end was voiced
the original All persons having claims capacity, can never keep page have been just as coldly re-music
evacuation order: should get up a strong committee by the head of the party of Bur- against," and all persons owing with this increased flow of buffed as the flattering In- arms and war material from vitations extended to her by
to expect that evacuation of less their side of the question to him, reception given in their honour than 2,000 civilian women and
ANOTHER MEETING
by the various public bodies in requested to lodge their claims or
America to Britain and that, Germany. What is particuRAF, and Squadron Leader of over a million can make any posed that another meeting be; tended by mire than 100 person="
children out of a total population Mr. G. G. Btopeni-Thomson pro-
Kunming The reception was Sat- if it is not checked, the quan-larly disconcerting to titative superiority which he Totalitarlan Trinity is that
difference to defence plans. called to which His Excellency Chang Hsi-ling. H
and was presided over by Mr. has held in arms and equip-they know how carefully M. The death occurred on Decem that, as the Home Government fa speaker suggested that questions Chang dwelled on the meaning of
The writer was of the opinion should be invited to attend. The ment will soon be surpassed Stalin is watching the situa- ber 18, at Shanghai, of Emmle bearing the cost of the evacus should be prepared and sent in to China's war of resistance, her de In a speech of welcome," Mr. by Britain. Having failed in ion on both sides of his fron- (Lorrie) Bailey, wile of Mr.
tion, the local Government should. the General Committee for edit- his diplomatic drive to obtain tiers. They cannot, get away
William Charles Balley. Funeral supplement the totally inadequate, ing and presentation to his termined will to win the war and co-operation and assistance from the feeling that Russia services (cremation) were held at grant to the evacuates
cellency in order that full replies explained the reasons for her in Europe itself to counter is waiting for some suitable,
the Bubbling Well Chapel on Dec. showed conclusively that the Beernor.
The final paragraph of the reply might be received from the Gove faith in ultimate victory. He also we spoke on the close relations be- the aid Britain is getting from opportunity to make her own America, the German Fuehrer presence and interest in what
cretary of State has, either been It was formally proposed by Mr.tween Chins and Burma and the Chinese staff members of the
C. E Terry, and seconded by Mr. gle in the future.
objectives of their common strug- 683 has again turned to Japan is taking place felt in force-Ying Wa Girls' School were hosts
EJ. J. Spradbery, that the pro- as an instrument which he ful manner. Japan's recent principal at a plente at Choi Sal Fanling Lodge on New Year's Day or letter and Mr Stops preciation for the enthusiastic
to Miss F. D. A Silcocks, Acting
The Faniing Hunt will meet at posals contained in Mr. Macore Burmese Journalists expressed ap- tr Responding, the head of the could use to divert, at least, ly announced pact with Thal Woo yesterday. a part of British and Ameri- and, whom she has been
(Wednesday), at 235 pm.
Thomson's speech should be acted welcome accorded them. He said on by the Committee. can attention from Europe to pin-pricking into starting a The following Naval Personnel. Members of the R400 last
that the purpose of their party's: NOT: FERMITTED - the Orient. If Japan suc- quarrel with Indo-China, 1s who are en route to Manila, for evening held a dinner dance at
visit to China is to study the actual Asked whether it was not pos- conditions of Chine at war so that CHANGE OF TELEPHONE cumbs to the pressure being just another instance of eye tour of duty with the UB. Asiatic the Gloucester Hotel. The gather-able to address a petition direct when they return to Burma, they
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exerted on her from Berlin wash to keep up the pretence on Thursday:
Fleet, passed through Hongkonging was a Christmas party as well to the Prime Minister, the Chair may report them truthfully and and creates a conflict in the that the eastern end of the ford USN Electrician Cleen A.
Ens Lodwick Aas the usual monthly meeting man stated that the existing re-sympathetically to the Burmeke East against Britain and the Axis
gulations do not permit of such a peonie is co-operating with Brewer, UB.N., Rigger - Joseph It is hereby notified that as United States, Herr Hitler Germany and Italy, when the Chritenson, Ens C. Coburn, Shanghal, on Lec. 18, at the Moore "Are we nor free people, Mrare many similarities between Funeral services were held in step, whereupon a member asked, Next, he pointed out that there from January 7, 1941, the tele will no doubt secure a part of real facts of the situation are Delp. USN Ext. Howard Florence Rush Nance, wife of Dr replied, "I am afraid we are not languages, literatures, living habits, UBN Chief Gunner Clarence Memorial Church for the late Mrs Chairman?" to which the Dean China and Burma in racial origin, phone number of the Hongkong his object, for an America that Japan is fearful of orcat Fischer, USN Ens. Floyd B Walter B. Nance and mother of Cheers and laughter), Dally Press, Marina House will involved in hostilitles against ing a position which she will Garrett, USN, L. (1) G, Clay Doctors W. K. Nance, D. F. D.
religion and arts: Concluding, he Japan will naturally need a be unable to cope with suc- Goodlec, USN Ee Floyd J Nance and W. B. Nance, Mrs. of the Rev. J. R. Higgs for Aus the party will do ita utmost to Due to the impending departure sald that upon its return to Burma, 33225
great part of the war materi-cessfully. Increasing pressure Greene, USNR Ens Daniel Nance died at her home on Route tralla, Mr. Christen was elected as promote cultural and friendly ren Instead of 30251 as hitherto.
al she is sending Britain to from Germany might, how-n, U.S.KR. Ens Alfred Ede Bleyes of heart failure. She a member of the Committee.lations between China and Burnie, defend her interests in the ever, still compel Japan to MacDonald, USR. Lt. Coudr. and spent most of her life in hearty vote of thanks to the terday morning participated in the E Gross, UBN is Robert B. came to China about 40 years ago Mr TE, Jackson proposed a The Burmese newspapermen-yes- Orient--but the odds against ignore the danger signals AR. Slimmon, USNR Ens, Scochow, where ber husband was Chairman and Committee for all observance at the 25th artofrersary, Japan emerging successfully which are facing her.
Alvin C. Wison, USNR
President of Boochow University the work they had done.
of the Tunnán Uprising
monies to, the above firm але
make payment to the undernoted without further delay.
D. S. ROBB, C. Ai,
Liquidator.
c/o. Messrs. Lowe, Bingham
& Matthews, Mercantile Bank Building, Hong Kong, 22nd Dec., 1940.
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