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THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO. LTD.
NOTICE OF GENERAL
PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public | Auction to be held on Monday, the 7th day of July, 1941, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order el his Excellency the Governor of one lot of Crown Land at Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, com m.ncing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, dor one further term of 24 years tess Auditors. the last three days thereof.
MEETING.
*
THE TYPHOON
"EDITORIAL
No Ferry Yesterday Until 9.20 a.m.!
The unique spectacle of motorboats crossing the harbour, w.tb out experiencing any difficulty whatsoever, while the blue flag (de- noting that the "Star" ferries have stopped running) was flown at the ferry pier was presented to early arrivals at the wharves rester- day morning.
The SIXTIETH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong fell on a sampan two boys, 16 and Kong, on Thursday, 10th July, 11, and a girl, aged 6, were injured 1941, at noon, for the purpose of and sent to the Kowloon Hospl- receiving the Report of
tal. The junk capsized. Directors, passing the Accounts, the
Seven member of the crew of
Cheong
went and electing Directors and aground at Stonecutters on Mon-
the
The Transfer Books of the Intending bidders are advised Company will be closed from the that immediately after the dis- 3rd July to the 24th July posal of the lot the Purchaser inclusive. (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with An authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of
two hundred dollars, ($200) in
By order of the Board,
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
General Managers.
which
wind
THIEVES OR LOOTERS?
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1941,
| CORRESPONDENCE¦ THE RUSSIAN WAR FRONT:
EXCEPTIONAL TERMS OF GERMAN COMMUNIQUE SHOW DISAPPOINTMENT
The Editor, H. K. Daily Press Bir,-A large number of women and girls were seen terday afternoon between the
Haka
yes-
for the
ments."
GERMAN AIM
Major Hastings said that there was no doubt that the Russian "The main German effort," said resistance Major Hastings, "appears to be to and he did not think that even if was certainly strong, drive in to the centre and to cat the jaws of the western crack to isolate the Russian were opened and Russian forces
of! and
"I am inclined to believe that the exceptional terms hours 4-6, carrying away large of the German official communique on the fighting against numbers of large bundlen of broken poles and other
Russia are due to certain disappointments. materials
It was Though the typhoon signal had day were taken off the stilp by.
from the wrecked bathing sheds meant to give the impression that the German advance beon lowered shortly after 8a Police launch and
at North Point,
was taking place at an unprecedented pace when, as a a.m., the "Star" ferries did not Hongkong.
brought to
Two Police Reserve constables matter of fact. It has been nothing more
than normal," resume until 0.20, going rise to OFFICIAL STATEMENT
came on the scene and
tried to said MAJOR LEWIS HASTINGS, B.B.C. military commen- much criticism.
The Royal Observatory state-stop them, but the women dotted tator when he broadcast from London yesterday on the When the seawall at Taun Wan ment on the typhoon is as fol- them and threw at the two officers progress of the fighting on the Russian front: ferry wharf suddenly caved in and lows:---
curses unfit to print. Finally, The depression Was moving one of the two officers went into Major Hastings declared: PENETRATION AT MENSK slowly northwards from 3 pm on the "Ritz" to telephone while that it was difficult to get a "But that part of the Russian Monday.
the other stood guard In the mental picture of the trend forces engaged with the German The wind dropped after 4 p.m. roadway. A little later the officer of the battle that was raging columns at Minsk is in a precarious and for some hours, from 6 p.m. came out of the "Rita" and shook in Eastern Europe. The only position. Actually the penetration no wind of gaic force was regle- his head. therefore the other foln-thing which was possible to be expected, and I am inclined to tered, not even in gusts. At 8 pm. ed him and walked away.
at Minsk is no more than could there was practically complete
work on was on the two ex-belleve that the expectional terms calm,
This cleared the coast
tensive Russian bulges on the of the German official communique assistance from the United the
From that time, the direction of looters who came back and resum-
ed their looting until after sunset frontier which projected into are due to certain disappoint- changed from N.E. States and Britain for China, which it had maintained for no without further hindrance. The Nazi territory. More and more it is being re- less than 43 hours, to W., in- keepers of the wrecked shed look
dicating that the centre had passed on absolutely helpless. cognised in America that the ed over.
At 9.58 pm.. the No. 5 advantages which Japan is signal was hosted. still continuing to reap from
GALE FORCE her trade with the United Gale force was registered from States must be stopped and midnight to 3 am, the maximum gust velocity registered at the Ob- that this benefit must be servatory being 70 miles an hour 250 diverted to China which re- during that period.
presents the vanguards of From then, the wind gradually on as they did yesterday. those ideals which Britain, died down and continued to come of the Police to arrest the looters It seems to me that the failure from the S.W.
The typhoon musi
will have the effect of have passed
encourag- Just east of Wagian at about the Ing them, and that if war should time of the absence of wind.
It break out these women will be TYPHOON TRIALS
is probably rapidly filling up to a source of serious danger to the WHENEVER Hongkong has the N.N.E. of the Colony.
safety of the Colony. This typhoon, like so many of been threatened by а
Tenclose my card. Its species, did not typhoon, a crop of troubles winds nearest Its centre.
have strong
Yours, etc.
at once arises for the public. The week-end threat, which spread itself over Sunday and Monday, was no exception to the rule. There is no doubt Linal the threat of a typhoon, which might have been on a. parallel with that which swept over the Colony in 1937! was very real and there is nuch to be thankful for that
fears were not
cash. This sum will be refunded Hong Kong, 14th May, 1941.
on
price.
payment of the Purchase
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
Locality,
No. of Sale
New Kowloon Inland Registry No.
Junction of ********* Lot No. 9858.
Un Chau Street and Cheung Fat Street,
Cheung Sha Wan
Boundary
Measure-
ments.
N.la. E. w
As per
sale plan.
Contents in
Annual
Rental.
Upset Price. :
Sultare feet.
$
About
3,000
42
The purchaser of the lot will be
required to pay to the auctioneer sum of $180.00
Jummer, the balance of the premtum being paid in accordance with the Conditions of Sale.
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1941
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It is notified for the information
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HONDRONG, JULY 2, 1981.
SINO-AMERICAN UNDERSTANDING
and America are determined' 10 defend.
the United States Govern-sible was really necessary.
A
give notice to the Commissioner
'The questions which came to my mind while watching this digusting state of affairs are:
1. Have the Police the duty to troops in the South. This attack captured, the amount of men and stop such looting?
was calculated tu overlap
Involved would affect would these northern manoeuvre and
to con-Russian resistance. Ane the Russians to the marshy carry
districts"
2. In case of war same looters be allowed to
AN EYE-WITNESS
Modern Lawrence Of Arabia Functioning In Near East
his activities.
Desert
DESERT PATROL
of the
time consisted of 800 men.
in
ways.
thenaterial
the marshy areas
Nevertheless, what had to be re- membered was that this was a war
Describing which he mentioned. Major Hast machines- war of aeroplanes ings sald that they formed a cen- and tanks-and he thought it would tral barrier between
be wise to disregard unconfirmed north and south Russia. The area
reports of impregnable defences. Was s large as Scotland and was passa-
The answer to Panzar columns in bie only by two single-line rail the enormous plains was to re- Any mechanised army try train from attack until the enemy ing to force its way through this line had advanced far and deep. area would be caught in disaster. He hoped that was the object of
"There can be little doubt,"
Russian plan. continued Major Hastings, "that in modern warfare the advantage of initiative at the outbreak of PL campaign is higher than it has ever heen in history.
again
"The Germans have selzed this advantage. Solemb-
ts
J this
•
Britain's Torpedo Bombers
only recently.
Bismarck
From the Eastern border of the Arabian Peninsula to the desert sands on the west the name of John Bagot Glubb. nther- wise known as Aba Huneik, Father of the Chin (his nick-name
ly made non-aggression treatles in the parlance of the Arabs), commands both fear and respect.
and last-minute in cash the
assurances of writes Arthur Settel in the May issue of the "Living Age."
peace and friendship were sudden- being 10% of the upset price)
Majer Glubb, a medern edition | Trans-Jordanian desert. the Bri-The victim is chloroformed before- ly broken by a stab in the dark. mediately after the fall of the ON THE EVE of the fourth the worst
of Lawrence of Arabia. is, like his tish Government apparently knew hand and then attacked before he
By Ronald Walker anniversary of China's realised and that the danger tmmortal namesake, one of Bri-
LONDON-The torpedo what was doing.
is be- For this man war of resistance against passed off leaving only mild; tain's mighty warriers and the
coming an increasingly powerful was able, with English adaptabi-
can start defending himself Japan, which will be officially damage. The inconvenience, shadowy obscurity that surroundslity, to become one of the people.
weapon in the hands of the R.A F. IMPORTANT LESSON jobserved by the Chinese Gov. to the public, however, was, him in no way detracts from the To win their confidence he lives
Coastal Command and the Fleet "The deep penetration of the Air Arm ernment and its people on it is fell out of proportion to glamour and romance that mark their lives, manages somehow to German columns is due
digest their food, July 7. appropriate gestures the exceptionally slow deve-
drinks their Nazi technique,
In both these branches of Bri- water (teeming with impurities), one lesson that has been brought torpedo attack from the air has But if there 13. tish air strength the technique of have been made by the Uni-lopment of the danger which Major Glubb, O.B.E., is his Ma-and-sleeps by the ashes of their to the minds of modern ted States in pursuance of its the typhoon threatened on jesty's Commander-in-Chief of the camp fires, rolled in a blanket. He batants It is that under modern needed, remember the attack by com- been improved. If evidence 18 policy of active co-operation Monday and as a result, bus When Major Glabb was ordered uniforms with dignity
Patrol in Trans-Jordan removes the desert lice from his conditions of warfare any army aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm on with China and greater assis-ness houses who were hoping from Iraq ten years ago to assume small detalls which
It is these will soon be paralysed if the other the German battleship tance for that country in its to complete the week-end command of the Patrol then being Abu Hunlek respected from the
have made alde controls the air. vallant fight against aggres-congestion of work before established as a section
Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and
"All the delicately-balanced slon. The significance of the yesterday's bank holiday in- Arab Legion, he was popularly re-
The launching of Д feared as much as he is respected.
mechanism of a modern force
torpedo appointment of Mr. Owen tervened, were gravely handi-ferred to as the "Younger Law- An important link in the chain
useless without this, and
against shipping from an aero- plane requires skill, courage and Lattimore, an authority on capped. Business, as a mat-rence." The Desert Patrol at that of Britain's defence of the Eastern everything seem to point to the
determination on the part of the acific affairs, to be personal ter of fact, was almost at a job was to bring its strength up to; mighty 'desert force whose mem-
ITS Mediterranean is Major Glubb's!
question whether the Russlan
pilot. First the pilot has to flud political adviser to General- standstill mainly owing to 2.500.
air force can hold its own." Today this fighting force bers
his target. of the public that Return Forms Issimo Chiang Kal-shek is the lack of transport facili- which is second to none in all of Palestine-Syrian frontier. Its pre- Russian air force certainly did not attack. When he has manoeuvred Once found he has to are bivouacked along the Major Hastings said that the decide quickly on the method of for Salaries Tax and Profits. Tax that it is the first time that ties and people are wonder-Arabistan is 75,000 strong and woe sence is no mean factor in keep- lack numbers, and are now being sent out.
an American has been no ing whether the over-cautio betide the enemy that may one ing the remnants
that at the his craft into the right position, of the Vichy commencement of the campaign forward goes the control column day have
to engage this unique Government's armles Any person chargeable with minated to such a post by on the part of those respon-force.
place. What is the Desert Patrol larger air force than the Germans machine.
their they were reported to have & and down goes the nose of the tax who does not receive aj
We hear little of Trans-Jordan, and how does it function? Return Form is required by token of the increasing desire conditions appeared to have work of Major Glubb is character-world. Like the
ment. This is in itself a AFTER NOON on Monday and less of its Desert Patrol; the
This Patrol is one of the most quality of their machines.
though little was known of the It must dive sught toward anonymity which attaches to the remarkable police forces in thei Section 36 (2) of the War
the ship, for the torpedo is aimed in the United States to reach calmed down Revenue Ordinance, 1941, to
famous French
BATTLE POSITION a great dealistic
by pointing the aircraft at the of most men of, his type. Foreign Legion it asks no questions | complete understanding and although the threat was Major Glubb has lived among the of its recruits; and like the on the battle front, Major Hastings the machine is at the mercy of Turning to the actual position target. During this alming dive with China on the problems present, transport facilities, wild Bedouin tribes since the first Legion its ranks include fugitives referred again to the two bulges defending fire from the ship. The of War Taxation on or before with which the Government particularly the ferry set-World War. He knows them and from Justice from all parts of Ara-that projected from Soviet te plot must come low, not more 14th July, 1941, that he is in Chungking is confronted, vices, might have been re- chargeable.
he speaks their dialects; like them in view of the rapidly chang-sumed and at
he thrives in the desert; unlike.
tory into German-occupied Poland, than about 50 feet from the water. The following. persons are ing, developments in the Eu-business firms and banking almost tenderness that he speaks the Trans-Jordanian desert means had driven in to the centre and a
least given them he is articulate and it is with
Two converging German columns, because the torpedo must be Because control of the forces of preceded by German tank units, dropped into the ses as wently as liable to tax
ropean war and their reper- houses а chance to get of his own nomadic way of life. (a) Individuals with Salaries bussions on the Far East.
control of the great part of the desperate Infantry battle is now EQUAL TO THE OCCASION
RIGHT MOMENT Iraq Pipeline and the Baghdad proceeding on the northern bulge. of not less than $300 ₫ MR LATTIMORE'S ability tion of their work,
To Major Glubb the desert has Haifa road-the former
When the right moment comes, month (including per to keep Generalissimo was, there was no deteriora- knows how to negotiate its ter- latter its "Spinal Column the man forces bad advanced to Lwow the sea and ancomfortably close a personality of its own. He "Jugular vein of the Empire," the In the southern bulge, the Ger with the machine almost down to quisites, value of quarters Chiang's Government advised tion of the typhoon position rers; the abides by its tradition-maintenance of security during or Lemberg. This was the most to the ship, the release is pressed provided, etc.);s.
on the trend of political since that time and though bound ethical code. In his daily pre-war times in this region was important military centre of the and the torpedo, weighing about (b) Corporations carrying on events and to act as a llaston the ferry services cannot be lie he observes with minute care of vital importance. Today the Ukraine and the move, if success- a ton, drops from beneath the trade or business in the officer between the two ad blamed for working accord-clety. Once Major Glubb gave an pends for its existence upon the forces on the southern Polish from through the water under its own the laws which govern desert so- very lifeline of the Empire de ful, would endanger the Russian landing wheels and proceeds Colony;
ministrations is unquestion-ing to the signals, they might entertainment in camp to his manner in which Major (*) Trades Professions and ed. Mr. Lattimore has spent have well used their discre- Highness the Emir Abdulls
Glubb tler and force them back to the power. of and his desert patrol co-operate marabes. Businesses whose profits a great part of his life in tion better in the matter, Trans-Jordan.
Freed from this dead weight, The стар was with the British Army of the Nile. On the northern sector, the the torpedo-bomber leaps up into China and, to use his own The difficulties of transport pitched not far from the village of The Desert Patrol moves on German objective was Leningrad, the air, and the pilot climbe sway words, he regards his new ap- and conveyances experienced Wadi Musa near Petra, and a camels, the fastest beasts in the but in the extreme south along as quickly as he can and makes pointment as an opportunity on Monday is a reminder of arrived in the evening to pay their a rate of forty miles an hour. It questionable whether fighting had is well done the thudding explo- number of villagers, perhaps 500. world, some of them travelling at the Rumanian, frontier, it was for home. His job is done. If it for him to "return home." the situation which might respects to his highness, His fluent knowledge of the arise if hostilities broke out Major. Glubb had not counted and its own air arm, a recent ac-
has sixteen unlis of armoured cars yet begun,
son of the torpedo against the Chinese language will prove involving Hongkong and the on having so many guests but inquisition. The Patrol prevents in man attack in the centre will turn ward shooting of columns of spray "Any strong move by the Ger ship's side will be algnalled by up- 335 of the greatest advantage in necessity for working oiltation of Arab hospitality, he directing, suppresses tribal disorders and said Major Hostings, "but and
accordance with the ancient tradi- ter-tribal and trans-frontier raid the whole southern line inland" and smoke.. his duties and the result of scheme to meet such emer-ed his tribesmen, all of them maintains an intelligence service. certainly not impressed by the gine, they have a speed which is his close contact with the gencies in the future, not Bedouins, to feed everyone pre- reputed to be of the highest official German announcement of
Fitted with Bristol radial en- political leaders in Chungking forgetting precautions to present. Not only did the Major pro- quality. will prove of inestimable vent the whole-sale looting vide dinners of mutton and rice Founded by Lord Plumer in 1926,
their progreSE. benefit to China in her future of damaged buildings, etc., as for 500 Arab, but with a stroke of the Patrol has through the genius genius, served bolled rice and, but-of its commanding officer made it- relations and dealings with was evidenced yesterday ter to the horses and donkeys of self a terrifying agency.of destruc- the United States. Almost when the debris of bathing the visitors also, Where he pro- tion. There is good reason to be- simultaneously with this gea-sheds and wooden construc-cured those supplies in such a lleve that in the event of trouble ture of increased Bino-Ameri-tions blown down by the wind short time remains an offield between British forces in the Near can understanding comes a were quickly snatched up by mystery to this day.
East and the Vichy armies in call by Mr. Herbert Hoover, vagrants and destitutes for when Major, Clubb was put in will be due to Major Glubb, Father
LEASE LIFE OF AN ARAB ----
Syria, the victory of the format former President, for full use as arewood,
command of the police force of the of the Chin.
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28th June, 1941.
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As it
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"JUGULAR VEIN"
⚫ the
"We know that the German kirforce always lies, and their figure of 4.000 Kussian planes destroyed is certainly an ex- ageration particularly as they
possible.
slow compared with the modern monoplane, but they have a sound reputation for being sturdy "and" reliable military ersit. The Al- cos, made by the same com-
perience. To has a narrower nose; pany, te ballt from Swordfish ex-
are evidently, based on figures
the rear cockpit is covered in and of Bukalan planse Lilored to
the landing legs are faired, mak- have been destroyed, on the Ing single, wide leg instead of ground and, this fe is matter of "the two-strutted lege of the word- speculation,