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EDITORIAL
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1941.
READY FOR ANY CALL: CORRESPONDENCE MR. MENZIES GIVES
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HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 12, 1941.
IN KEEPING THE PACIFIC SAFE
Kong. Marine Engineer, TWO IMPORTANT STATE-
deceased.
EXPLAINED IN DETAIL
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"The danger of invasion is still with us and its threat will increase as weather conditions improve. We must be on our guard. The Home Guard must continue to train and fit itself for the test that is almost certain to come," said LIEUT.-GENERAL T. R. EASTWOOD, Director Gen- eral of the Höme Guard, when he broadcast from London yesterday on the work of the Home Guard.
The speaker traced the his- tory of the growth of the Home Guard in order to meet the new tactics adopted by the Germans in such matters as Fifth Columnists and tral-
"Many calls have already been
B.W.OF. THANKS
SUPPORTERS
The Editor, ILK. Daily Press Dear Sir--The Committee of the B.WO.F. would like ta express through your columns. its grati- tude to all those who were in any way concerned in making the Dance, held at the Peninsula Ho- tel re Jan. 31, so outstanding a success.
AUSTRALIAN MESSAGE TO BRITISH PEOPLE
tors and the use of parachute Home Guard would be called upon East, a part of the world which that one realised that
HUGE RESPONSE
窞 mere
, יד
"We know what this fight is about. We belleve in its Justice." We believe that truth can never be put down by adventurers or knaves, We most solemnly yow that so long as we have
any strength left in us Britain will not fight alone. We are for victory and everything it means to us. The battle of Libya has been the first dramatic sign that the hour-glass bas tarned." This message to the British people from the people of Aus- Through the generosity and tralia was given by MR. R 0. made, and are being made, on its hard work of so many people a MENZIES, the Prime Minister of members and, with the rest of the sum of approximately $12,000 was Australia, in a broadcast, states a population, the Home Guard has added to the Fund, more than London message. already had its baptism of fire." enough to pay for the whole of
Mr. Menzies, who has been visit- DETAILS OF DUTIES
the first consignment of comforts Lieut.-General - Eastwood went and hospital necessities asked for ing the battle area in North Africa, on to detail the duties which the by the Red. Cross for the Middle said that it was with amazement MENTS one designed to troops.
to perform. They would have to is just now urgently in need of handful of British and Australian show the concern felt over ..
take part in the defence of towns all the help the War Organisa- troops should have stormed All claims against the estate the possibility of the present
"It was to deal with para- and villages, Factories and other tions can give.
through to victory and destroyed. of the abovenamed deceased who hostilities in Europe spread- chutists, to guard railways and vulnerable points.
They would Calls an
the purse here have by death or capture, ten or 12 particularly heavy this divisions of the Italian Army. died at Macao on the 18th day of ing to the Pacific and the main roads and to prevent sabo-ave to watch for the enemy, hold been
Mr. Menzies said he had been January, 1941, must be sent other on the results of the tage that the Home Guard was him, obstruct him and destroy month, and the Committee teels!
on all possible occasions, that such a very generous res told that the Italian gunners without delay to the undersigned. steps that had been taken, formed," said Lieut.-General East- him
wood. "It was hoped to raise They had to watch for traitors ponse is especially gratifying.. fought well but their troops could and are being taken, to pre- 150.000 of these, volunteers.
In who plan to do the enemy's work. In particular, thanks are due to not, or would not. stand up to the vent this-were published in stead. from every industry and They must look out for the fool the Management of the Peninsula final assault, the columns of this paper undertaking men and women who spreads rumours and for those | Hotel for their very efficient or- yesterday. One of these was poured in to answer the "call to who seem to be asking too many ganisation. brief and to the point. It defend our land and in less than questions on milltary matters.
from the Australian two months recruiting had to be
closed down. War Minister, Mr. P. C. Spender, who bluntly in- dicated how not only the fate of the Pacific, but that of the whole world, depended on the success with which Britain would be able to stand the
GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON & CO.,
Windsor House,
Solicitors for the Official Administrator.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG...
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came
PROBATE JURISDICTION. coming
IN THE GOODS of!
"Instead of the 150,008 we aimed at getting. 1,600,000 volunteers joined up to serve their country in the greatest trial, it has ever faced. The Home Guard 'is recruited from every walk of like in Britain. It has now grown from infancy to manhood and it is ready for any call that may be made upon it.
They must work with the volun teers and civil defence services and if the Home Guard was re- quired to help the defence au- thorities, such a request would
have to come from their military commander.
Members of the Home Guard must also know how to use a rife and automatic and to use them
Yours very truly, (Mrs.) K. K. EDMONDSTON,
Chairman, Entertainment
Committee, B.W.OF.
SHIP FIRE AT DOCKS
No personis were injured.
VALUABLE DOG FOUND
MAIN LESSON
MR. MENZIES
The main lesson to be learned from the victories in Libya was that no dictator can build up an empire on the foundation of his own vanity. Tobruk, like many of the other towns captured by the Army of the Nile, was full of Fascist memorials and written on saldier in the front line and the walls was the slogar.. "Nothing is workman in the factory were-- impossible." But a slogan was no brothers-in-arms. substitute for fortitude, said Mr. they had endeavoured, perhaps im-
Austraila Menzies.
perfectly, to live up to this ideal.
TWENTY TIMES "From the schedule and records
Mr. Menzies went on to say that he did not leave the battle area
In
but.
The Fire Brigade was called out test of strength
effectively, to husband their am- yesterday evening to a fire in No. munition and not to waste a single 3 bunker aboard an E. and A. Line against the forces of might.""
round. They had to acquaint vesseël at No. 1 Dock, Kowloon Mr. Spender is not an alarmist
themselves with every path and Docks and he only stated a fact |
street and the closest approaches The hold contained several 100 merely full of mere exultation but I have before me I shall be in- HELEN MARTIN TURN | which even the British Prime
to their post or their commander bags of Australian four and a with the realisation that this tensely disappointed if we do not BULL or MACKENZIE,
also Minister has openly acknow-V. Soong, China's leading and the nearest police number were damaged.
was a crusade.
No man could turn out twenty times the volume sometime of Roselea, Caer-¦
contemplate the deeds of these or munitions this year," he said. ledged, when" he declared banker and economist and stations. laverock Road, Prestwick, that the next weeks would former
our heroes Finance Minister. Apart from this, a member of
of the land, 50" the peak of the last war we and air without the determination had 3.000 workers engaged Ayrshire, Scotland, and late
prove vital in the history of Like Mr. Spender, Mr. Soong the Home Guard had to know where to go when asked to how of 3 Park Avenue, Prest civilisation. How far
of doing all he could to support before the end of this year we an indisputable fact to get there, what he had to take Aus- stated
them. No halt-measures. would be shall have 150,000." wick aforesaid deceased.
when he tralia, as an important part
declared, in the with him, what he had to do when
sufficient. The more one saw of Before he left. Australia for his of the British Common-course of a speech at the he gets there, whose command he A black mastiff dog, found wan- these countries where British power visit to England, said Mr. Menzies. under and the athers he dering in Tsimshatsui yesterday, was growing "the more one realises Parliament passed without division, NOTICE is hereby given that wealth, was prepared to go China Society Dinner in New was the Court has. by virtue of the to ensure that Britain would York, that it had been made would have to work with. He had is now being kept at the Dog's the enemy has yet to see the best war-expenditure totalling £190,
to learn to move unseen across Home, Kowloon, awaiting a claim- of us."
d00,000 and for the purpose of that provisions of Section 58 of Or. emerge from the test with plain to the whole world that the country, and having found his ant. It is believed the dog is a Mr. Menzies emphasised that one expenditure the Commonwealth dinance No. 2 of 1897 made an flying colours was shown by Chinese defeat at the hands enemy, he must never leave him.
must realise that in this war the taxation was actually tregled. order limiting the time for credl. the announcement from the of Japan would have been a tors and others to send in their Finance Minister of Australia reverse for the democracies claims against the above estate to that the country must be and a serious setback for the Lieut-General Eastwood, "had one 3rd March, 1941.
prepared for a bigger budget cause for which they are now enemy and that is local knowledge and that the Government, nghting. Here then was the and that is of the greatest im
The first blow struck on behalf of portance if properly used. therefore, expected "every-
democracy and for keeping enemy will be working under great thing from everybody."
will be the Pacific safe. Undaunted difficulties, because he
moving in country that is unknown now, with an admiring world
to him and among, people hostile looking on, with her nation- to him.
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.
DEACONS.
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KANSU TO INCREASE FOOD PRODUCTION
SINCE the first contingent | of Australian troops sailed to take an active part in the
never
ONE ADVANTAGE
The Home Guard," went on
tremendous advantage over the
valuable one.
NEWSETTES
A sale of flowers for charity will
A cinema show for servicemen war which Britain was en- al unity strengthened under I have met many members of be held by the China Women's will be given at the Sailors
the inspired leadership of the Home Guard and there are Relief Association on Saturday. gaged in, there has
Home and Seamen's Institute to-!| been any doubt of the spon- shek, the Chinese are playing may differ. One and all of them 1, 1941, in Manila, of Jean Gassa- Generalissimo Chiang Kai- certain points in which they are
day at 8 p.m.” taneity of the effort which that dominion was making to their part, whole-heartedly are filled with the desire to do way to Harry Edward Arnhold.
place the full resources of
Britain. Every triumph which
alike, no matter how their views
The marriage took place on Feb.
the
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Economic Conference Created In Chungking
An Economic Conference has been established under the Execu- tive Yuan by order of Generalis-
Prot. R. Cecil Robertson, M.C. simo Chiang Kai-shek for the par-
Best
M.D., M.R.C.P., D.PH., will give a and ungrudgingly, and there what they can to get themselves
pose of strengthening wartime lecture on "Some Travels and Their morale is excel- is no doubt today of the efficient.
W. J. Morris formerly of Muni-Adventures in the South Western prices, stabilising the currency. in- economy, regulating commodity the country at the disposal of determination of the great lent in spite of the difficult con- cipal Police in Shanghat and Provinces in China" at the
creasing production, Britain has since been able powers of the west to help ditions under which training is Tientsin joined up.
adjusting carried out. It is the intense Australian Air Force in West Mel- Society of the Hongkong Univer- the people's livelihood.
general meeting of the Education supply and demand and improving them to the utmost of their keenness of everyone that has im- bourne as a sergeant. capacity.
pressed me 'most. MR. SOONG in no
Energetic efforts are being made attacks
the province.
agricultural
the
Bureau.
According to Mr. Li Mow, Direc-
current year.
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shared
on
by the
dominion
to
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way
"I am not going to say that the
"realised before, that China is as
of
INVASION THREAT
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sity at the E Room on Feb. 18 at -8.15 p.m.
The lecture will be llustrated with lantern slides.
Generalissimo Chiang is concur-
of rently Chairman the Con- ference, and Dr. H.H. Kung, Vice- President of the Executive. Yuan
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clerk,
"We shall overcome this threat
E, Moreton and the Subject will be
Meaning of Can't".
enemies cannot afford to ignore
Mr. J. W. Carney. Vice-Chair- and Minister of Finance, Vice-
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the
of
to secure against the forces of barbarism, whether in air
The death occurred on Jan. 29. vital points of by the Kansu Provincial authori- Germany's key industries and exaggerated the extent of the Home Guard is perfect, declared at Ferndown, England, of tley to increase food production in enemy warships, in the suc- value to the Democracies of believe that, thanks to the help bert Coventry Forsyth, who was for man of the S.M.C., and a member Chairman, and the Ministers of
Lieut-Gen. Eastwood, but I do Gray Maitland, the widow of Ro- cessful land drives against China's resistance the it has received from the regular many years a missionary in Shan- of the Counell at times for many Economic Affairs, War, Communi- In order to effect improvements
the Italian armies in Africa Japanese aggressors. What army, the police and the public in agricultural enterprises, the
years. has retired from provincial Government has appro- or in resisting German at- his words helped to do more services and private sources is ac-
Standard
cations. Agriculture and Forestry. Vacuum - Oh Com- priated $150,000 as expenses for tempts to break down the than anything else was to complishing much and it is now
The forthcoming marriage bepany and returned to America to and Social Welfare, General and tween Mr. Lam Klu-gee,
Director of the Political ́ ́ Affairs administration and morale and resistance of the make Britons and Americans a force to be reckoned with.
take up residence. Mr. Carney
Department of the Executive $5,000,000 tonnance the work of people of Britain "by indis-alike understand, more clear-
"The danger of invasion is still residing at No. 111 Julie Road, and has been in China for nearly 30: Agricultural Improvement criminate bombing, has been perhaps than they have with us and threats will increase Hennessy Road, was announced at Standard On Company in August, General Staff, Director of the Miss Leung Lal-ging. of No. 40. years, arst coming out for the Yuan, Chief and Deputy Chief of weather conditions improve the Registry yesterday.
1911. After spending some
time. Board
Military Operations. tor of the Bureau, a comprehen- which has attained such an today holding the ramparts We must be on our guard and the Home Guard must continue_to
in Shanghai he went into the in- Quarter-master-General, Director sive programme has been mapped important place in the Com- the democracies in the
At the Y. M. C A. Discussion terior for six years, being station of the 1st and 2nd Departments train and it itself for the test Group on Sunday next, Feb. 18 at ed in various parts of Cheklang. of the Adjutants Office under out and is to be carried out in the monwealth. Nor is this share Pacific, and that she has that is almost certain to come.
9 p.m. the 8peaker will be Rev.
the Generalissimo. Director of the in active warfare the end of thus taken her place along It calls for expansion of the area Australia's efforts to restore with the British and Ameri- and the Home Guard will play its The Man Who Didn't Know the St. Patrick's Society. Shanghai, Governor and Deputy Governor The annual general meeting of National Food Control Bureau, cotton plantation by 80,000
was held recently in the Board of the Central Bank of China. more mow, establishment of two peace to the world. Her posi- can possessions in the East part in doing so. There is no
Room of Messrs, Jardine Mathe-Secretary-General of the Joint nurseries at Mienhalen and Ningsition in the Pacific makes her to make the Pacific, as Mr. shadow of doubt about it and our
An Interesting talk on "My prin the the guardian of these waters Soong so eloquently put it, the Home Guard. So long as the respectively, experiment in
son. many members of the or- Head Office of the Central Bank raising of imported Dutch oxen and she has brought her own
"safe for your children and Home Guard continues to show, ciples of scientific management of ganization being present Mr. W. of China, the Bank of China, and Italian domestic fowis, experiplans for defence and attack your children's children." Mr. as it has done in the past and is industrial Enterprises," was given G. Clarke was elected President of the Bank of Communications and Bank of China, ments in cotton and wheat
to a high státe of perfection Soong really made one im doing now, the same keenness and by Mr. John W, Y. Yuen, manager the Society for the coming year, the Farmers
of the China Can Company, Ltd. this being his third year in this chairman of the National Resour Cultivation in newly-developed in the event of being called portant plea when he em-future history will be great." to members of the Hongkong Uni-capacity. In reading his report ces Commission, and Chairman of areas, improvement in farming im-
versity Economie Society in the Mr. Clarke summed up the activi- the Trade Commission are ex- plements, and granting of small upon to fight for Britain's phasised China's need for
University Union Assembly Roomties of the Society throughout officio members.... credit loans to farmers (Central cause in this part of the more planes to combat the
wanton destruction which the COMPTROLLERS
1940, stating that the year had
General Ho Yao-tsu is Secretary- been satisfactory, although some General and Messrs. Ka Cheng- CONFERENCE The m.v. "Hin Sang" which is of its functions had been curtall-kang and Dr. T.F. Talang are De- CHINA'S PART
tion, have been causing by The Offer of the Comptroller-being built to the order of the ed by the war.
puty Secretaries-General. ̈· Maximum temperature yesterday
THE OTHER STATEMENT, | their Hun-like methods. With General of the National Govern-Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.,
Under the Secretariate are the was 63 and the minimum 60.
to which we referred at the the course of the hostilities ment Headquarters is calling a Ltd., will be launched at the Kow- Total rainfall since January 1 is beginning of this article, was in Africa rapidly approaching National Comptrollers Conference loon Docks on Thursday, Feb. 20.
Wages, Transport, Finance, In- at 4 p.m. The Christening cere- 4.08 inches against an average of perhaps the most compre-a successful conclusion, there in Chungking Feb. 20.
hensive ever made in the de- is every reason to believe that been formed with Messra, Wen Yi-Grayburn.
A preparatóry committee has mony will be performed by Lady
After years of study and ex- Affairs Sections. There is also 1 The Royal Observatory report tail it contained to show Britain and the United States u and Yang Teeh-chang as res-
periments, Mr. Chang Cheng-pang, Technical Commission composed The anticyclone continues where, when and how the will soon be able to make pectively Secretary-General and
to
A lecture, entitled "Coronary a native of Manyang, in southern of experts.--(Central News), ̈ move slowly eastward, and now first step to make the Pacific substantial additions to Deputy Becretary-General
Byndromes", will be given by Prot. Honan, has invented a new paper- extends from N. China to Japan; safe for all time was taken China's air power and thus More than 200 comptrollers, ac-P. B. Wilkinson, M. B., B. 8., M. R. making machine, which is adapt pressure remains highest over and the manner in which it equip her for the great and countants. statisticians and ex- C. 6. L. R. C. P.. at the Union As- able to the manufacture of papers Honan Provincial Government for perts have been summoned to at-sembly Room of the Hongkong of various kinds including bond capital investment in the establish- is still being persistently and common purpose for which tend the conference. Many pro- University at 8.30 p.m., on Feb. 21. paper and the native Mao Bien ment of a paper mill to be equip- ing over Thal and Northern Indo-resolutely carried out. This she is now gallantly fighting posals have already been received. under the auspices of the Medical paper.
exposition came from Mr. T. as their Eastern Ally.
Mr. Chang has petitioned the (Central News),
News).
THE WEATHER
1,85.
states:-
Manchuria
A shallow depression is develop-
China.
world.
Japanese, in their despera-
its influence preparedness,
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New Paper-Making Machine Invented
Political Affairs. Food, Resources, vestigation, Inspection and Military
ped with his invented machines.—