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EDITORIAL
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1941.
NAZI MILITARY STRATEGY NEWSETTES
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DITIONS of the Sale by Public ORDINARY
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THE IS HEREBY ment Ordinance,
BANKS will be that the ANNUAL CHANGE
GENERAL CLOSED for the Transaction
PUBLIC Auction to be held on Monday. MEETING of Shareholders will of
BUSINESS on the 16th day of June, 1941, at 3 be held at the HONG KONG THURSDAY, the 12th June, p.m., at the Offices of the Public HOTEL, Hong Kong, on 1941. " (The Birthday of His Works Department, by Order of WEDNESDAY, the 11th JUNE, Majesty the King) His Excellency the Governor of 1941, at 11.00 A.M., for the Hongkong, 7th June, 1941,
Lot of Crown Land at purpose of receiving the Report Shek Shan, in the Colony of Directors together with a of Hong Kong for a term of Statement of Accounts for the 75 years, with the option of year ended 30th, April, 1941. renewal at a Crown Rent to be The TRANSFER BOOKS of fixed by the Surveyor of His the Company will be CLOSEU Majesty the KING, for one from WEDNESDAY, 4th. day further term of 75 years,
of June, to WEDNESDAY," the Intending bidders are advised 11th of June, 1941, both days that immediately after the dis-inclusive.
one
& SON,
General Managers. Hong Kong: 29th. May, 1941:
posal of the lot the Purchaser JOHN D. HUMPHREYS (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with 201 authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) In cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase!
price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
Kowloon Inland Lot
- Not 4307.
Ind
between Sun Jau · ¦ Street and Pak Hong
Street
No. of Sale.
Registry No.
Lontality,
Chathan
Boundary
Measure-
wrents.
As per
sale plan.
Contents 1
© Junuzy
About
41.275,
Square feet.
758
Rental.
Upset Price.
The purchaser of the lot will be
required to pay to the auctioneer in cash the sum of $3,096.00 (being 10% of the upset price). immediately after the fall of the balance of the hammer, the
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to the Professor of Medicine at a ernment reaction in that
STANLEY V. BOXER, Registrar.
The Sixtieth Ordinary Meeting Will
Manufacturers of Rubber Boots
OF POLITICAL TECHNIQUE
Nazi military strategy is just an extention of their political technique, but there is an analogy between the methods adopted," said MAJOR LEWIS HASTINGS, B.B.C. military commentator, when he broadcast from London yesterday on the Nazi methods of combining military and political tactics.
Mr. William Alexander, Elliot, R.N.. formerly of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, Shanghat, is reported to have been killed in action.
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It was decided at the monthly meeting of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce yesterday that the annual meeting of the Chamber will be held on Friday, June 20.
the
or
"On the political side, look stu-so they gave them protec- at the way in which the Nazis, tion with aireraft"
Mr. M. K. Wong's' talk to overran and absorbed in suc- Major Hastings said that com- Hongkong Y's Men's Club cession Austria, Czechoslova-paratively few men took part in "Origin of Chinese Poetry," which
this for of wartare.
scheduled for Hundreds AS kia, Rumania and Bulgaria," of thousands of the French arms. (Thursday), has been postponed, continued Major Hastings. for instance. were never really it being the King's "Birthday.
and
Was
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air.
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tomorrow
U.S. REBUFF FOR JAPAN JAPAN'S anxiety vis-a-vis
By a combination of pro-engaged and the intricate system American policy in the Pacific has resulted in yet mises, threats and acts of on which the French defence was After a very brief illness, Miss another so-called "peace treachery, each country was based was enough to bring about V. G. Jaques passed away at the P.U.M.C. Hospital, Peiping on May move by Admiral Nomura, outflanked and isolated until disaster
LIQUEFACTION OF FRONT 28. She came to China in 1918 Japanese Ambassador to the they had no weapons left.
"The process of liquefaction or under the auspices of the English United States, who appears
NAZI BACTERIA
the front had begun in real earn-Baptist Mission, and proceeded to There is a vacancy at the to have been busily engaged This is the first method of the est, continued Malar
Talyuan, Shansi, where she la- Hastings. Germans
boured in the Women's Hospital lised parachute University for a First Assistant in attempting to sound Gov-Nazis. Actually military force is "The
not brought into play until the troops in
their campaigns in for 25 years, last stage. This is typical of what Rotterdam and earlier in Norway. salary of $300.00. Applications country to a pact of non- the Nazis have done in the French Their function was mainly to seize Sergt. W. H, Baldock, of the should be addressed to the under-aggression and neutrality Colonial Empire.
and hold airfields and bridge-Shanghai Municipal Police, who is signed so as to reach him on or with the Japanese Despite "When France collapsed. Herr heads. Air-borne troops were then the son of the late Mr. and Mrs
J. Baldock of Lincoln, was marri before Wednesday, 18th June, the fact that the report of Hitler set himself to weaken the still only auxiliaries. 277
Colonial "Now things have sain moved ed spirit of 1941.
on June 4 at Holy Trinity this "peace" move was off-morale cially denied by President uke dropping into his lap.
France and last week Syria looked forward. Crete provides the first Cathedral, Shanghai, to Miss So- The example of air-borne troops used phie Kousis, daughter of the late Roosevelt, Admiral Nomura's country already swarming for the purpose of obtaining de- Mr. T. Koussis and Mrs Koussis activity in this direction, ob-with Nazi bacteria and in another cistons. In this instance.
of Shanghai. 294 viously on instructions from week, perhaps, the whole place borne troops arrived by, parachute.
his Government, seems to, would have been occupied to be for by troops-carriers and broke The Hongkong Association of University have come to the knowledge used as a base for action against up the defensive action and at the National Peking
auided Alumni will give a tea reception at of several close observers of us. There, then, is the reason for tacking aeroplanes were
our advance into this country. by ground signak,"
Cafe Windsor today at 4 pm. in the trend of relations be-!· *The word I find mest
The question which every.
honour of Mr. LI Shih-tseng, tween Japan and the United suited this method 16 body is now asking is
member of the Kuomintang Cen- this: States. For some time now; liquefaction,'” continued Ma- When a major German attack tral Supervisory Committee, who
jor Hastings. Japan has been seeking to
"The immense next takes place, what can the
returned here last Friday from a, induce the American Govern- increase. In speed and fire- defensive forces expect?”
visit to Europe. Mr. LJ, formerly Major Hastings" then described a professor of the University, will ment to revise its policy in power of modern inventions
have influenced strategical what he meant to imply by as speak on "hls impressions of his the Pacific and there is no
steps and tactics in the field. suming that a British commander visit to Europe. doubt that any such agree The whole picture of the bat- $3.5 occupying a main defensive ment to improve prevailing tlefield today is changed radi- sector with one tank on the sea The death occurred on May 1, conditions between the two cally."
and the other on 300 miles of at The Paulun Hospital, Shanghal, countries will be welcomed in
com-of Oscar Martins Oliveira, aged 58 desert. His main line of
along the years. A Requiem Mass was held Tokyo. The fact that Mr. Major Hastings declared that in munications would le
May 23, at the Church of struggles of the past, the central coast. Where could the burden on Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary geneme had always been a front of the attack be expected?
Christ the King, Rue Bourgeat, of State, found it necessary line upon which the
and was followed by burial at the main effort to reiterate his Government's of attack and defence was made. Twenty years ago, it would have Bubbling Well Cemetery. policy in the Pacific, when Today the ront line had ceased been easy for "the, advance posts
the last war the to break a thrust against the de questioned on the report of to exist. In Isleworth, Middx., England. Admiral Nomura's activity scheme adopted was defence in fences. What was the picture to- at
and the triumph of the day? The commander, today Bhanghai, of Francisco Xavier das makes it likely that the Un-British tank attack in 1918 was a would have to oppose attacks by Remedios, aged 78 years. ted States administration has tribute to the example of me-columns of armoured troops and autem Mass not been unaware of Admiral chanised weight and speed in he would have to deal with fierce Joseph's Church. Rue Montauban, Nomura's hopes and that heidestroying this time-honoured bombing along the whole line of on May 23, and was followed by burlal at the Pahslenjao Cemetery, took the opportunity to pub-formulae..
his communications. More than "In this war we have mainly that, he would have to fate the licly give Japan a hint that
seen the break down of systems possibility of fierce attacks by The death occurred on May 29, any such peace feelers can of defence," said Major Hastings air-borne troops anywhere along at the General Hospital, Shanghai, have no chance of success so Panzer columns, having broken his defence system. Such an at of Mrs Lena Brook. The funeral long as the Japanese remain through the French lines, the tack might be made a hundred (cremation) took place at the tied to the apron strings of Germans Advanced deep into or two-hundred miles behind his Bubbling Well Cemetery Chapel, the European dictators "and enemy country, but the Germans defence lines.
on May 23. took try to emulate their tactics of knew that if this was unsupport- ed, even this massive weapon of war would be brought to a stand-
of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Wednesday, the 25th June, 1941, at Noon. for the purpose of the receiving the Report of General Agents, together with z statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1940.
The Share Register and Trans- fer Books will be closed from the 11th June to the 25th June, 1941, both days inclusive.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
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Communicate by Air Mail with
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Engineers and Contractors'
Tool Merchants
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288
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Weddings At Registry
PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction "to be held on Monday, Anction to be held on Monday, the 16th day of June, 1941, at 3 The following marriages the 16th day of June, 1941, p.m., at the Offices of the Public place at the Registry, Supreme aggression. at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Works Department, by Order ot Court, yesterday with Mr. J. Rey-
nolds, Deputy Registrar, officlat- THIS is not the first time. that Japan has attempted to
un
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The following forthcoming mar-
F
depth
PAST TACTICS
PICTURE TODAY
em- an inspiration. The number of
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The death occurred on May 20, the Sacred Heart Hospital
A Re-
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was held at St.
The death occurred on May 30, at her residence in Shanghai, of Lizaura Maria Carneiro Marques, ged 46 years, wife of Mr. F. T. Marques.
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was held on May 31, at the Church of Christ the King. Rue Bourgeat, and was followed by
tery.
The death occurred on February
"What does this imply?" went on Major Hastings. "As long as the enemy retains the Public Works Department, by His Excellency the Governor of ing --
Initiative, it is clear that there is involved a dispersion of de- Order of His Excellency the one lot of Crown Land at Cheung
fensive forces to meet these Governor of one Lot of Crown Sha Wan, in the Colony of Hong 369 Hennessy Road. and Miss So into resuming normal rela- the terms of. the pact, which Mr. George Luke, clerk, of No. soft-soap the United States being called upon to fulfil
three dimensional forms of at- Land at To Kwa Wan, in the Kong for a term of 75 years, com Yin-hing, residing
tack. Here we ret quefac--: The engagement is announced at the Luktions with the Far Eastern she was so fool-hardy as to Colony of Hong Kong for a
tion of the old front line.
between Mr. Richard T. D. Led- mencing from 1st July, 1898, with Kwok Hotel;" term of 75 years, with the option the option of renewal at a Crowd
aggressors. A previous offer enter with the leaders of ag-
"What is the answer to all this? ward, youngest son of the late Mr. Chi Jul-kueng, accountant, of the same kind purported gression in Europe.
Ameri- No one would be so foolish as to Lieut.-Colonel Harold Ledward and of renewal at a Crown Rent to Rent to be fixed by the Survevor lot No. 30 Yık Yarn Street, second to set out the kind of world can policy which has so often minimise this new combination of Mrs. Ledward of The Vale House, be fixed by the Surveyor of of His Majesty the KING, for noor, and Miss Chan Lal-hing, of in which the United States been reaffirmed in no uncer-is certain that there is an answer. Sylvia Josephine Watson, youngest aruis or this new technique, but it Bowdon, Cheshire, England, and His Majesty the KING, for one one further term of 24 years tess
(No. 67 HI Road, second floor; would be permitted to share tain words has made it clear To further term of 75 years.
an experienced commander daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John S.. the last three days thereof.
Mr. Lo Kwan-pu, sallar, of No.in return for American re-that her prospect of emerg-jthese new elements of battle are Watson, of Harbin. Manchoukuo. 23 Temple Street, and Miss, Leung Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis that immediately after the dis
Intending bidders are advised But-chun, of No. 107 Cheung Sha cognition of the "new orders" ing successfully from
Wan Road;
The death occurred on May, 27, in Europe and Asia. Unfor- brollment in a major war lessons of Crete have given, the posal of the lot the Purchaser posal of the lot the Purchaser Mr. Cheung Yau-kwong preacher, tunately for Japan and her with the Democracies is most
General Staff extremely useful at the Shanghai General Hospital. (if not the applicant) will be if not the applicant) will be of No. 41 Fitt Street, third floor, European partners, the peo-remote-hence, her desperate the possibilities fully and that is aged 29 years. A Requiera Mass points to work on. They realise of Arnaldo Augusto das Caldas, required to deposit with an required to deposit with
and Miss Lo Fo-mul, of the same ple of the United States are endeavours to prevail upon all to the good." authorised officer who will be authorised officer who will be address.
today fully alive to the fact the United States, who will present at the sale, the sum of
that the present struggle, be her most formidable op- present at the sale, the sum of! two hundred dollars, ($200) in two hundred dollars," ($200) in
which was initiated by Ger-ponent in such a conflict, to
DEVELOPMENT burial at the Bubbling Well Ceme- cash. This sum will be refunded cash. This sum will be refunded,rlages were announced yesterday: many, is being consciously agree to "lay-off" from ac OF NORTHWEST on payment of the Purchase
on payment of the Purchase Mr. Ng Chow-kun, merchant, of directed against the liberties tive participation against her.
No. 13 Cumberland Road, and Miss of the American people and It is inconceivable that Japan Hopes that by utilising the idle 28, at Redhill, Surrey, of Phyllis Beatrice Moon-yee, student, of No. that success for the Axis can hope to convince the capital in Shanghai and Hongkong Maria, wife of Mr. Arthur W. Powers will mean that Bri- United States or any member and in collaboration with the in Slater, mother of Marian Elizabeth Mr. Chan Bul-fai, leading tele-tain and the United States of the Democratic front that industrial concern "will be estab-J. Rose, of Forest Hil
dustrialists in Shensi, a large scale and daughter of Mr. and Mrs E graphist, H. K. R. N. V. R., of No. will be left with an empty the transition from freedomshed for the development of the rest at Redhill Cemetery on Wed- 133 Tung Chot Street, first floor, shell which individual to slavery will be painless vast untapped resources in that nesday, March 5. and Miss Lat Sok-yes, of No. 3 rights and national indepen- and that such a future.holds province were expressed in an in Cheong Lok Street, second floor.. dence and security will have any bright prospects for terview by Mr. Yu Ya-ching. pro- to be surrendered to the them! Yet this is just what chinese councillor of the Shang-
minent Shanghai businessman and JAPANESE-SOVIET STRAITS OF DOVER forces of might. Japanese Japan's
TRADE AGREEMENT peace." feelers hat Municipal Council, who return- AIR ACTIVITY
overtures, therefore, however amount to and that is just ed here a few days ago from
TOKYO, June 10 Reuter)-Rie- tempting
ferring to the negotiations with and conciliatory why her attempts to prevent Chungking. LONDON, June 10 (B.W8 An they may be made to appearicoals of fire from heaping on
Mr. Tu arrived in Hongkong from Russia,` deputy spokesman at official communique states:, "Dur-to ing daylight yesterday there was never be entertained for a The A.B.C.
the United States, will her head will prove futile. Chungking towards the end of stad it would possibly take some Shanghai last March and went to the Press conference this morning
some activity over the Straits of
of Democracy April, After a brief visit in the war- time to settle technical questions Dover and near the coast of Kent
moment until the cause (America, Britain and China) time capital where he interviewed before the conclusion of a trade and also over coastal districts in which the American people know exactly where they Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the Na-agreement with Russia. The purchaser of the lot will be The purchaser of the lot will be South and South-West England. have determined to support stand in regard to the tlonal Government, and "Generalis,
Negotiations for the conclusion required to pay to the auctioneer required to pay to the auctioneer Up to 8 pm. there were no re-to the best of their ability aggressors of the west and simo Chiang Kai-shek, he proceed of the Permanent Fishery Treaty in cash the sum of $372.00 (being in cash the sum of $401,00 ports of bombs dropped..
has been won unconditional- the east and they have made mic inspection, tour,
ed to the Northwest on an econo-
between Japan and Russia are also 10% of the upset price) immed (being 10% of the upset price) In engagements with out nightly and the permanent peace up their minds that only Questioned about his tour, Mr. Progressing, added the spokesman. ately after the fall of the hammer, immediately after the fall of the ers protecting shipping in the of the world thus guaranteed. their complete elimination Yu said it was successful and he the balance of the premium being hammer, the balance of the seen to be hit and damaged but
JAPAN now realises that, can restore the world and was deeply impressed by the rich paid in accordance with the Con, premium being paid in accordance owing to poor visibility destruc-bound as she is in the Axis civilisation to that state resources in that region which in- bere on the project in the past two days. He expects to tour the South- tion cannot be confirmed One or tolls, she might find it in-where they can no longer be clude coal, iron, cotton and wool.
Mr. Yu has been busy consulting west after remaining here for economic and industrial leaders about two months
price.
price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT PARTICULARS OF THE LOT 3 Jaffe Terrace;
Boundary
Measure-
Locality.
J No. of Sale
Kowloon Inland Lot Registry No.
Hang Road and
No. 4309...
Junction of
Shoung Beung Road,
To Kwa Wan
ments.
As per
sale rlari.
ditions of Sale,
Contents m
Locality.
3,720
New Kowloon Inland
Lut No. 2856.
Un Chau St. between New Kowloon Inland
Rental. Annual Square feet.
Upset Price.
No. of Sule
Registry No.
About
4,960
36
Cheung Sha Wan
Boundary
Measure-
ments.
N. 8. E
As per
sale plan.
About
Contents
6,685
Square feet.
puntrary
with the Conditions of Sale.
301
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Rental.
Upset. Frice.
Straits several enemy fighters were.
302 our Aghters was lost."
in
creasingly difficult to avoid menaced..
Laid. to.