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HONGKONG, APRIL 16, 1941.
VICHY POLICY
EDITORIAL
EXPLOITS OF CHINESE
AIR FORCE IN PICTURES
Treat For Art Lovers At
St. John's Cathedral Hall
THE FINEST EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY ONE SINGLE ARTIST SINCE THE VISIT HERE A FEW MONTHS AGO of the late. Dr. Chang Sham-tse will be on view today to the public at St. John's
· Cathedral Hall.
The artist is Mr. Liang Yu-ming, a modest gentleman of some 45 years, who is connected with the Aeronautics Department" and the Ministry of Education. Chungking. Mr. Liang "Is the younger brother of another veteran Chinese artist, Liang Ting-ming, and Arst wielded the brush himself at a very early age.
The exhibition enjoys" the dis-
HE EVENTS which have led unguished patronage of His Ex-. F up to the German entry cellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, into Libya have brought to Northcote, K.C.M.O... and will be
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the forefront again a demand opened at 11 am, today by the Rt. 208 for a definite clarification of Rev. R. O. Hall, Bishop of Hong-
the present policy of the Kong:
SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE HONG KONG.
On view will be some 150 Vichy Government in its re lations towards Britain and sketches and oil paintings, includ- ing a series depicting scenes from her allies. The utterances chinese history. Inspired by Wen which have frequently been Tien-hslang's poem "The Song of this the Proper Spirit" and Yo Fel's The Annual General Meeting made by members of
(Vichy) Government. have Elegy "The Blood-Stained River." of the Society will be held in the
-VARIETY OF SUBJECT "Board Room of The Hong Kong been at such variance of late that it has been impossible to Jockey Club, 1st Floor, Ex
obtain a clear idea of the change Building on Friday, 18th
direction in which its attitude forces of China resisting the tri-can April, 1941, at 5.30 p.m.
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Secretaries & Treasurers.
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THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED
Notice to Shareholders.
Notice is hereby given that
the ONE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY FIRST ORDINARY
MEETING of Shareholders, in
Mr. Liang is adept at a variety of subject and some of his best
work concerns-scenes of the armed
FORTHCOMING
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The following forthcoming mar- riages were announced at the Re- gistry, Supreine Cour... yesterday!— Mr. Manuel Pang Her andez, un- employed, of No. 169 Sat Yeung Chol Street, and Miss Alicia. Lau. of the same address;
Mr Ko Tsok Yum, health inspec- tor, of No. 35 Hillwood Road, third floor, and Miss Lee Tun-ying. teacher, at No 3 Fuk Wah Street, ground Doer;
Mr. Lee Kal-sing, clerk, of No. 89 Gloucester Road, third floor, and Miss Chan Mu-ling, of No. 11 Mal- lory Street, third floor.
"NEW ORDER IN ASIA”
present
NEWSETTES
execute 3 picture in a few is turning. On the one vader and a series of all paint-minutes. He will be hand, there has been a re-ings much prized by the artist throughout the exhibition and will petition of the protestations himself and therefore not on sale. undertake, for a donation to the by the aged Marshal, who is covering the exploits of China's three funds in aid of which the
The Sixth Annuaj. Athletic air force.
exhibition is befhg held. to execute Sports of the Wah Yan College. supposed to control the policy A touch of realism is evident in sketch for any visitor on some Kowloon, will be held at the of his administration, that in every picture, and the artist has specified subject.
Kowloon Football Club Ground on no circumstances will he per-proved himself particularly adept The Sketches on view will all be Thursday next, April 24, at 1. p.m. mit French action against at capturing a Beeting expression, on sale. The oil paintings will not The Rev. Father E. Bourke, S. J their former ally, Great Bri-is faces contain more character be
will distribute the prizes. than one is wont to find in what The artist, Mr, Liang, is a native: tain. On the other, state-is generally exhibited by and for of Kwangtung. He received his
The Canton University English ments particularly inimical artists with reputations as por-early training, under his elder Club will hold a tea party at the to these affirmations have trait-painters.
brother, and was an early, success,
Care Windsor The aviators, soldiers and uni- being appointed in 1926, at the age 20, at 4 pm, in honour of Mr on Sunday, April been made by other members
formed young women who make of 21. to the post of Chief of the, C. of Marshal Petain's Govern-their appearance on Mr. Llang's Propaganda Departments of the
Leung, Head of the ment, a position which made canvas seem to breathe something Generalissimo's Northern Exped! English Club, who won the first Research Department of the a commentator recently aptly new and they resemble, one will ionary Force. Concurrently he describe the Vichy attitude as agree at once, real people possess became editor of the Revelation Prize in English during the com- not being guided by the ven-ed of all the problems, and plea-ary Pictorial."
on the
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MURAL PAINTING
1930 to 1936, in
pesitive examination of all uni- versities in China.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1941.
NORTH AFRICA & BALKAN SITUATION DISCUSSED BY
MILITARY EXPERT
"We must understand that there can be no victory. until we have completely beaten a much more deadly foe," said CAPT. CYRIL FALLS, military correspondent of THE TIMES, when he broadcast from London yesterday on how the German advance in the Balkans and North Africa should be interpretted.
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"I cannot help 'thinking, "the nature of mountain passes, began Capt. Falls, "how all before you commit your force to of us felt, when we were win these roads. Must we re-write this
principle? ning our victories in North Africa, of the weakness of the to bullock their way through.
"The Germans used these roaus If enemy whom we overcame so any troops were posted on the high. quickly.
ground in the mountains,' It would SOMETHING DIFFERENT be a sheer impossibility for tanks..
"In the first place, as an offcer of one of our armoured. corps said, the Italians were not pro- perly equipped for the task of in- vading Egypt. Their tanks were not effective or numerous and I doubt whether the Itellana had learned the German doctrine of using armoured corps
to bullock their way through.
"The most serious handicap of the Yugoslav army is its inability to obtain supplies of
war
materials to any large extent," continued Capt. Falls. "This, of course, cripples their power of resistance, but they have still been giving the
"The German Panzer divisions
enemy much trouble. "If the German are something more than a num-
armoured co- lumns get stuck, they will have to. Lber of tanks. It 13. a machine
trained for a special purpose" and.
bring up infantry to dislodge the so far it has been able to adapt slav army has a very hard time in Yugoslav army. The fine Yugo- itself to very different kinds of front of it, but you may remember country. We shall beat it yet. I hope, but we must never under- estimate 1.
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"In the second place, the -Italiana never displayed the same spirit us the Germans. They were never good soldiers and their hearts were never in this war. I don't care what the German second Unes In this war, but there is no doubt that the picked men in the motorised and mechanised divisions are of very high qua- lity. Here therefore, is my reading of the present sfiga- tion from the meagre reports that have come from North Africa
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NO MAJOR BATTLE LOST "We have had some of our rear. guards over-run, but we have 10st no major battle because we have not yet tought one.
I would
General
ment of Accounts, and re-electing-stated to have had with Ad-colours, as they do on the stage to tombs and monuments in honour leader in Batavia, who arrived in Cyrenelca to the enemy unless hei
Directors and Auditors. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
the 18th April to 24th April 1941, both days inclusive,
the
the Company will be held at the erable figure-head
sures evident on their faces. office of the Company, Queen's prow of the ship, but by the
CONCEPTION FALSE
He held many official posts
An interesting lecture on Building, Victoria, Hong Kong men who steer it from inside.
Again, Mr. Lang's heroes" and succeeding years, and assisted his "Absolute music and programme Wavell probably prefers to let the on Thursday, the 24th April,
mailed warriors of Chinese history brother. from THIS VIEW 1941, at noon, for the purpose of
That may be a favourable policy, appears to possess more of a real quality than designing and planning the world music" was given by Mr. Ho Shiu-enemy go on before giving battle. garb at the Chinese. Y. M. C. A but it has Its unfavourable side. have been partly confirmed they would as drst coming off a famous mural painting in the Sun Waterloo Road, last evening. receiving a Report of the Di:
stage.. The by the report of a brush Chinese
Yat Sen Mausoleum in Nanking- conception
Apart from the question of pres- rectors, together with a State-
tige. however, General Wavell which Marshal
that the people of ancient China the largest mural painting in the Petain
Mi Cháu
Yuan-yung, Chinese painted their faces a variety of East. He helped design also the
never nave abandoned miral Darlan, who has shown depict a variety of moods and pur-of the Chinese heroes who fell in Chungking recently, visited
Central Political Institute yester-dogged resistance would be tan had come to the conclusion that Company will be CLOSED from himself as being of the same poses, is a false one, and it is the revolution.
ilk, as M. Laval, over an "at-pleasant to see men with features In 1939. Liang Yu-ming was ap-jday. Impressed by the studious
risky. of a more natural hue and fea-pointed by the National Govern-spirit of the students, he donated
"I am inclined to expect, there tempt to shift the French
the Directorship of the $5,000 for books for the library fore, that there will be a counter- Fleet from North Africa totion of Mongol" blood.
tures that suggest a good propor- ment to
International News Photo Service. {(Central).
stroke in the near future, though Toulon. The manner in
The entire nett proceeds from When IN.P.S. was incorporated in
we need not be surprised if there which the old Marshal is re- the exhibition will be given to the the Central News Agency. Llang The marriage took place On
are some more withdrawals first. ported to have checked this British War Organisation Fund, was appointed Director of the Art April 10, at H.B.M.
But we must be prepared also to the British Fund for the Relief of Office of the Aeronautics Depart- Shanghat of Suzanne de Laberbis bears out his own personal Distress in China, and the Chinese ment, which position he still holds. of Shanghai,, to Mr. Wilfrid Arthur difficult affair than the Battle of
will be a expect that it feelings in the matter, but Artists' Aeroplane Fund.
He has exhibited four times in Pearson of Shanghai and of Bidi Barrani. when one reflects on the
Chungking, and a fair representa-Driffield. Fast Yorkshire, England. 192 rather
tion of his work was Included in mysterious way in
Mr. Llang is exceptionally fast the Exhibition of Chinese Art in which the Germans have with his brush and colours and Moscow last year.. been able to get their me- units across the Mediterranean for their in
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By Order of the Board of Directors,
H. DA LUZ,
Secretary Hong Kong, 4th April, 1941.
MAN, GIRL STAB chantsed
EACH OTHER IN cursion into Libya, it is rea-
sonable to assume that there
FAST PAINTER
PETTY THIEVES' LATEST
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Consulate,
bore
that there are in its ranks some of the toughest and finest mountain warriors in Europe.
SITUATION IN GREECE "Now let us look at the situation. in Greece," continued Capt. Falls. "The Greek army and the forces of the Empire, took up a defensive line. It ran across to link up with 'the Greeks in the neighbourhood jof Lake Ocnrida. Left of this une
was untenable with the German.. jand Italian columns working round
"In the early fighting the enemy was successrully held, but it looks as the Germans have now started an attack on a bigger scale and that this will be carried out. The strain on the defences will be
terribly hard, though it has made all preparations to meet 1.
"It seems
the to me that battle which is about to` break will be the most vital in the WAL. In both cases the weight of armed forces is on the Ger- man side. I am confident that our troops will give a good:sc- count of themselves in both theatres of war. I have no doubt that they and we too will have a hard time in front of us and that we should be wise to cut the excessive on- timism that began to appear Just because we were chivvying the Italians about. "We must understand that there can be no victory until we have completely beaten & much more deadly toe." concluded Capt. Falls.
HUMOUR IN WAR
London.
"I don't understand now enemy has been able to keep up The death occurred im April 2, the momentum of this advance. at the Country Hospital, Shanghal, He is, of course, taking big risk-
There is a story of a young Mid- of Alfred Huxley. The funeral
¡far bigger risks in fact them in shipman from a destroyer which cremation) service was held in the Balkans-and in North Africa, was helping in evacuation of Dun- S'HAI AMBULANCE the Bubbling Well Cemetery
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Chapel, on "April 17- CHELTENHAM "HONOUR DUEL" must have been connivance thieves has
..That the attention of petty SHANGHAI, Apr. 17 (Reuter) -
The Hongkong Alumni Associa turned from Reuter's Shanghal correspondent tions of the California and the by the French authorities to name-plates, pipings and letter says that a letter received from a Stanford Universities will give a An attempt to 'abuse a girl pre- cipitated a knife duel in Bamban, make this possible. Acts like boxes to manhole covers and 30 former Shanghellander relates his joint luncheon in honour of Mr. this speak much louder than have been stolen in the past two pleasant surprise when he saw an B. 8. Fong at the Windsor Cafe Tarlac, in the Philippines, recently, in which both cumbatants
were all the oft expressed sentior three weeks in all districts in ambulance in Cheltenham marked at 12.30 p.m. Sunday, April 20. killed, says a constabulary report ments of Marshal Petain. to the Manila headquarters.
now
Kowloon.
It
As a result of the strict Police
is incredible that the Mar-watch, two men were arrested by The girl, Maria Navarro, was shal could have remained in detectives from Yaumati Police fatally stabbed when she resisted. Using a knife to defend herself, entire ignorance of this plan Station yesterday, and some of the Marla inflicted. fatal wounds on to make use of French terri-missing covers were recovered. her assallant, Domingo Montaza, torial waters for the trans-
the report stated.
Constabulary investigators serted that Montaza broke into the home of Maria with the intention of abusing her.
H.K.
port of German troops and
when it is hoped that every Californian and Stanfordite will tuin up.
where his communications have to Kirk. He sat in a small boat for cross the Mediterrancan, his at-eight hours with a megaphone, tempts to puan ahead at this rate bombs and machine-gun bullets lashing the water all round him. may be disastrous.
And for the whole of this time he repeated patiently to the soldiers who were crowding to the boats:
"Single file, gentlemen, please.”-
"General Wavell, however, la
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The answer of a man when an air-raid warden told him to take shelter: "I've got pay for the
a cool and skilled commander and he may yet have a surprise for the enemy, but it is idlé ko "Presented By The Central British
deny that the position here Le War Fund, Shanghai."
a serious one.". The magnificent efforts of Bri-
ÎN THE BALKANS tona in China in contributions to
"In the Balkans," various war funds is therefore now having visible results and it is to
One man was injured and ad-on his former mathugs to win bir
Capt Falls, "the enemy has relied war. Can't I even look at it?? be hoped that as the war promitted to Queen Mary Hospital victory. Everything was done with tonished on visiting one of his re- A doctor In St. Albans was as- gresses more and more aid will be yesterday evening as the result
tank columns, which poured in given to those at home in the bat of a small fire at No. 146. Des from Strumitza, broke through the gular patients, an elderly and very Vardar Valley and swept on into pusly recovered, "Well, you know," sick old lady, to find her miracul-
the Gulf of Salonika. This me.
she said, "its wonderful how ex- thod captured not only Salonika, hilarating it is, even at 'seventy- but cut off the Greek army from tour, to be fighting the Devil!! the Empire forces. Another thing p
Voeux Road, West.
GOVERNOR OFFICIATES
-armoured vehicles to Africa. value on statements emanat-tle against Germany.
THIS IS the most likely ex-ing ostensibly from the free planation of how these trans- administration at Vichy “and ports escaped the vigilance of the full responsibility for the British Mediterranean future British action to pre- Fleet and provides the clear- vent incidents of this kind est evidence on which British will fall on the Vichy Govern- policy towards Vichy should mentit is,... |
is, indeed, e even The Counch of the Hongkong be based for the future. The possible that, if the fact that meet today at 5.15 pm in the result will undoubtedly be a the Germans were aided by Legislative Council Chamber by hardening of the British at-the Vichy Government la kind permission of the Honourable titude towards unoccupied their Libyan venture is
ANTI-T.B. ASSCN. MTG.
Anti-Tuberculosis. Association will
the Colonial Secretary. The Hon-France, despite the fact that proved, the effect on the ourable Mr. M. K. Lo will be in the people of Britain are United States, where there the Chair.
keenly conscious of the terri- has been an overwhelming |ble hardships in the matter of sentiment in favour of help-
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FATAL FALLS food supplies and essential ing the people of unoccupied Wong Chi, 58, a cargo coolie, commodities under which the France, might bring about a died at Kowloon Hospital yester-ordinary folk of what is reversal of this feeling and a day evening from injuries sustain known as. Free France are similar stiffening against any ed in a fall of 50 feet into the struggling. With the evil further appeals from Vichy, hold of the as, Azuma Mari: The machinations which are be- It certainly appears to be "A fatal accident of an identical ing conducted inside the high time that Britain and nature occurred on board a Nor-Vichy Government by the her allies demanded from wegian vessel at Kowloon Wharves Nazi puppets, it will become Marshal Petain a statement A cargo coolie was killed in a fall! of some 27 feet into the held of impossible for the British with regard to Vichy's for
accident occurred in the morning.
the ship.
Government now to place any eign policy.
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he did was to rapvare the town A bomb fell in an East. End of Skoplje and this virtually cemetery and dislodged a skeleton separated the Yugoslav fighting who was caught by a policeman in Macedonia from the Greeks walking away with his tombstone further north.
under his arm. “Hey, what's that The real weight of the offensive for?" sald the policeman. came from the Bulgarian, frontier. "Identity-card. mate, said the Up in the north, the German ad- skeleton."
vance was comparatively leisurely.
It was soon obvious that Yugo Sweet young thing discussing slavia could not hope to resist the the Horrors of war. It must be German army, to say nothing of awful to have to stick a bayonet the Italians and the large Hun into a man you have never even garian forces in the flat country [met."
north of the river.
"I hope that the Yugoslay com- WASHINGTON: Apr. 17 (Reuter). thand recognised this fact and did -Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of not sacrifice large numbers of State, Indicated yesterday that the troopa in trying to hold up the United States Government had no advance in this part of the conn-intention of asking Ere to grant
naval bases to Britain. OLD PRINCÍPLE.
He said that contrary to the There is an old principle of various rumours, there had been mountain warfare, that you must no discussion, much less negotia clear, the ground round^ mountain tion, on the question with Fre roads especially when they are in quelaly here.
His Excellency the Governor and Chancellor, Sir Geodtrykk Northrote, preceded by the Mace bearer, Mr. S. V. Boxer and Mr. -D. -I.. Sloss (Vien-Chancellor) prior to the foundation stone. laying ceremony at the new Science Building of the Hongkong University on Wednesday aftern con.--(Sun King Ming Studio),"