HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
Japanese Ships Hesitant About Entering U.S. Ports
SAN FRANCISCO, July 29 (Reuter)--Japanese ships off the coast are hesitant about entering United States ports.
Some, including the TATUTA MARU, want assurances that car- gors will not be seized by the United States Government.
It is thought here that many must be short of fuel and food,
It is learned that 59 Europeans are aboard the Tatatu Maru, In- cluding Capt. Desmond N. C. Tuf- nell, D. B. C., R. N., British Naval Attache in Tokyo. 32 Americans and 139 Japanese, many of whom are thought to be American citi- zens.
TOTAL STOPPAGE TOKYO, July 29 Reuter)--The | United States executive order freezing raw suk stocks and placing them under Government! control, which presages the total stoppage of American Importation of Japanese raw silk, wil have le effect on the Japanese sericultural industry in view of the appropriate measures already adopted by the Japanese Government, according to a consensus among trade and official circles.
HONGKONG FIRMS
"FROZEN"
TOKYO, July 29 (Reater) -The Finance Ministry has announced the names of 43 British Arms, as well as three Hongkong concerns, operating in Japan whose transactions are now controlled under the provisions of the Freezing Act which became effective yester. day
These include the Rising San Petroleum Company. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire. Messrs. Dunlop Rubber Com- pany, Messrs, Mackinnon Mar- kenzie
Company, and
and Messrs. Lane Crawford. Ltd.
gasolene, It Is authoritatively learned
gen
Simultaneously. Japanese darmes are now stationed outside British and American ar- firms in Tsingtao, allegedly for
protection
It is pointed out that in view of the relative position of the de- mand and supply of fibrous mate rials within the country, Japan wly be able to absorb all raw slik exports at Home, because the various Government has completed rangements for shifting the raw silk policy from dependence on foreign markets to Home con sumption by virtue of the raw silk industry control law which was enacted some months ago.
IN CO-OPERATION The freezing of assets of Bri tish and American nationals
CABLE
EMPIRE AIRMEN Britain Being Worked Into DECORATED Total War Organisation FOR GALLANTRY
RAIDS ON GERMANY
department.
have an
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high
ed are now working för one single give assurances that in a
controlling organisation, there is The Admiralty has many fac- now no dispute in progress about ARE RECALLED
tories kept alive in times past by the priorities of labour or raw LONDON, July 20 (BWS)--Do- Admiralty offers.
materials, factory space or machine minions airmen are aging the re- "The Air Ministry has been tools. I do not suppose that this cipients of awards for gallantry striving for great many years to remarkable fact is the result of during the recent heavy raids on build up an aircraft industry in inertia or decay. On the contrary, cities in Western Germany, thrill this island pending the day when I hope to show that production in ing stories of which are now told. Parliament could be decided to all its forms is gaining steadily
Sergeant N. Williams, born in
air force equal to any and swiftly, not only in volume, Dunedin, New Zealand, who re-
within the striking distance of but, even at this present moment, ceived the D.F.M., took part in the these shores.
a high altitude in momentum. daylight bombing of Bremen On "At the point which we have! "This talk about difficulties of July 4, attacking the centre of the now reached in our munitions de settling priorities is a back tum- town at a height of 50 feet, flying velopment almost all firms and ber. We have no more of these through a balloon barrage and ex-factories are working under the absolute priorities by Virtue of tremely heavy A.A. fre.
complete control of Government at which one department claimed all fall speed of the approved and there was of a particular com- concerted programme.
modity leaving nothing for the needs of others."
The aircraft received direct hits. Williams and another were wound- ed but the crew, with Williams navigating, "displayed great cour- age and determination under ex- tremely harassing circumstances" and successfully brought the air- craft back, crash-landing at the aerodrome.
PLANE ON FIRE
"There is no doubt a number of minor aspects of our national fife
WOULD NOT HELP which have not yet been effective
Dealing with the suggestion that iy regtrmented but when and as they are wanted their turn will be formed, Mr. Churchill said that a Ministry of Production should
so far from helping him in bis We are not a totalitarian State task this would be an additional but we are steadily, and I belleve complication. as tast as possible, working our-
come.
IMPORT EXECUTIVE
The Ministers at the head of the
Squadron Leader R. P. Widdow-selves into a total war organisa-departments were men of great son, of Winnipeg. receives the tion. DFC. for bringing back his air- craft which was attacked by & Messerschmitt while returning from a raid on Munster and was severely damaged and set on fire. Tremendous efforts were made to subdue the fire. All loose articles were jettisoned and the aircraft was successfully brought back des-
RETALIATORY DECREE TIENTSIN, July 29 (Reuter)In retaliation of the British and Ame rican freezing of Japanese assets. a Consular decree was issued here yesterday by the Japanese Consul General, placing all transactions plte reduced speed involving nationals of Japan. height United States. Philippines and
occupied areas in China will be Britain under the control of Jap taken in co-operation with the
anese Consular officials. Chinese authorities. the Govern - ment spokesman announced at a Press conference.
He revealed the Government has niready acted against the United States. Philippines, Britain, North- PTD Ireland, Canada, Hongkong.
Japanese sources believe that similar action is likely throughout
North China,
energy, experience and knowledge with a powerful and swift running machinery at their disposal and, In order to regulate imports off they could not execute the pro- commodities from abroad in ac-gramme with which they were) cordance with the policy prescrib-charged, he did not see how a ed by the War Cabinet, we have super Minister from outside, with an import
executive comprising a skeleton staff, could do it for the heads of the importing de- partments and presided over by
Of and loss of the President the Board
Trade.
CANNON JAMMED
Sergeant M. H. Ross of Quebec. who received the D.F.M.. was gun- ner in a night fighter. One night last March, an enemy bomber was business. Including the sale of intercepted but the cannon jam
NANKING ORDER
med repeatedly. Ross cleared the TOKYO, July 29 (Reuter)-The stoppages four times under ditti-
them.
Moreover, Mr. Churchill asked, of where was this super personality "This is working very smoothly alty, to whose successful exertions who would dominate the Admir-
and 1 am not aware of troubles or disputes.
any
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See
OUR BIG SELECTION
of
CIGARETTE CASES VANITY CASES COMPACTS
Styled by
ELGIN
AMERICAN
The WING ON
RANGOON
craft quicker and better or who IRICE PRICES
we owed our lives, or who would teach the present Minister for Air- "By the side of this import craft Production how to make air- executive, We have the North American supply committee with was going to interfere with Lord its elaborate corresponding or-Beaverbrook as Minister of Supply. RANGOON, July 29 (Reuter)-- ganisation in the United States. "When you have decided on that Rice prices, which
"We are always trying to tighten man, let me know his name," Mr. verging on record levels since the have been
"I shall be very glad to serve the worsening Far Eastern stux-
the N. E. I. and the Netherlands Nanking Government is expected cuit conditions at a height of 12,000 and make more precise and de- Churchill added, amidst laughter.boom of 1930, staged a decline on but not yet against Australia. New soon to order the freezing of Bri- fest enabling the pilot to destroy fnite the work of our purchasing:
Zealand. India and Burma.
SALE OF GASOLENE
01
WILHELMSTRASSE PROTEST TO BOLIVIA
The
Sequel To Expulsion tish, American and Dutch assets the bomber. He has helped to dee- commission in the United States. under him, provided I am satisfied Lion, touching the limit last Satur Of German Minister in occupied China, according to troy two other night bumpers. "I should not pretend that there that he possesses all the Napoleonic day with the announcement an official spokesman, but it is
Fight Lieutenant H. Speke of is not a great deal of room for qualities required" SHANGHAI, July 29 (Reuter not clear yet how the regulations Bloemfontein, gets the D.F.C. for improvement and refinement and
the U.S. decision to freeze the LONDON, July 29 (Reuter) - More laughter greeted Mr. The Japanese authorities it may be
Japanese assets.
expulsion of the German. applied against various continuous distinguished and sue- it would be a mistake to suppose Churchill when he dealt with the Tsingtao, Chefoo and Dalren have interests involved in extra-terri.
Minister in La Paz, Herr Wendler, cessful operational service day and that the efficiency of our pur- suggestion that a censtis of ma
The market, however, recovered has led to a second Note being. imposed certain restrictions on toriality.
night He has destroyed four and chasing commission has not chine tools- should be held markedly yesterday and steadied addressed by the German Govern- damaged at least two enemy air-reached a very high level, or that throughout the country,
at higher levels on reports of ment to the Bolivian Government. craft by night.
it is not constantly shaped and "There have already been three.", heavy buying on behalf of Manila sharpened.
the Prime Minister added naively. Interests and expectation of fur-lished by the Bolisian Military Referring to a document pub- "A year ago, sx months ago, There was, Mr. Churchill con- ther buying on the decline, if not Attache in Berlin, Major Del- there were a lot of troubles but tinued, hardly any part of Brl- total abstinance of purchase from monte, to Herr Wendler, the Ger- latterly my information is that tain's common organisation
man Note describes it as "at first. they have very largely died away. war production that had been Japan has hitherto principally sight nothing more than a clumsy We have, of course, come
more precisely examined than this been the buyer of rice recently. to a
"Maiden Form" SUPPORTS
FOR HEALTH
AND BEAUTY
THE "MASQUERADE” For figures which need "Filling Out"
*
THE "ALLEGRO"
For "Qutlift" as well
as "Uplift"
⭑
FOR
AVERAGE
SUITED FIGURES, GIVES A LOVELY SILHOUETTE, YET YIELDS GRACIOUSLY TO EVERY MOVEMENT.
WITH INNER POCKETS WHICH' SEOURELY BOLD LIGHT. WEIGHT PADS TO GIVE WELL-FILLED OUT BUST CON- TOURS TO WOMEN WHO NORMALLY LACK THEM!
THE "ADAGIO”
For Smaller-than- Averago Breastą RECOMMENDY THIS STYLE TO THE YOUNG GIRL WHO HAS NOT YET REACHED HER FULL, DEVELOPMENT AND TO THE WOMEN WHOSE BUSTLINE IS PROPORTION- ATELY EMALIĄ IT PROVIDES THE PERFECT SOLUTION OF THEIR PROBLEM, SINCE THE BREAST SECTIONS AKE
· PROPORTIONED DOWN TO FIT THEIR NEEDS.
[LADIES' SALOON FIRST FLOOR]
China
Emporium
It
THE WRITING ON
THE WALL
SHIUKWAN, July 29 (Cen- tral)-A Japanese soldier com- mitted harakiri in the People's Education Inst.tute at Tung- kon, East River town about 45 miles south-east of Canton, recently after scribbling On the wall the words "Ho Ping Chuch Wan Fan Kwo Wn Chu" which, translated literally,
read "No Hope of Peace and No Date for Returning Home.'
CHINESE ASSETS
IN BRITAIN
for Saigon.
MI.
very clear cut agreement with our question of machine tools. American friends and
In 越 previous debate, Churchill proceeded, Mr. Garros A
·Jones had stated that a number
helpers.
IMMENSE EFFORTS
of aircraft were ordered from the which had been made in Britain They ате making immense efforts in the common cause and United States without auxiliary for overcoming them.
equipment and that large num- they naturally ask for the very bers were standing in their crates all the facts--outside of the Unt
Outside this circle, which knew
fullest information, as to what is happening to their goods and whether there is waste and mis- direction.
unloaded because of this.
QUITE UNTRUE
the
forgery."
The Note goes on to point out: that Herr Wendler immediately telegraphed to Berlin, immediate-
that he had never received such ly telegraphed to Berlin, stating
a létter and had never entered
to any kind of communication
with Major Delmonte.-
It adds that Major Delmonte
ted States where there was 2 vigorous campaign against policy pursued by the President declared to the German Foreign Mr. Churchill declared: "So far Mr. Churchill feared that harm Office that he had never sent "It our duty to satisfy them as aircraft of the British order had been done and that it could such a letter to the German- the muddle is reduced to a mini- true, British aircraft orders have that there is no muddle or that are concerned, this is quite un-not be easily overtaken or healed. Minister nor had he eves sent him any letter or received one. from mum, and that they are getting always been placed along with or-
Declaring that he felt that the him. value for their money.
ders for spare engines and spare was vast and intricate, as it was
British machinery of production PUBLIC DECLARATION "We welcome this criticism be-airframes. This mis-statement
that was a windfall,
tion but of sustaining successfully
INEVITABLE BREAK:
The German Note concludes:
cause it is at once searching, arose from the fact that when the capable not only of flexible adap-"Major Delmonte has expresaëd "Freezing" Requested friendly and well-informed, The French collapsed, French orders;
improvement in ordering imports were taken over by the Ministry Churchill said these largely took publle, In the face of this, the a number of inevitable jerks, Mir, a wish to make his declaration in By Chungking and of British purchases in the for Aircraft Production.
olace in the sphere of the Aircraft German Note must declare that LONDON, July 29
United States is in relation to "Those aircraft had to be ac-
Ministry,
the Bolivian Government, at the (Reater) the very large number of com- cepted in the conditions in which
astigation of a third party and Was officially confirmed in petent persons and the work put they were prepared for the French London last night that the Cht into it on both sides of the ocean. Though
without any attempt at explain- nese Government has requested
It was sometimes inevitable that ing the facts, have lent themselves It is. I am glad to say, steady and French aircraft, including Toma- the British Government to freeze Chinese assets in Britain and the
hawks, arrived here without spare there should be a break in the to a procedure against diplomatic progressive. British Empire. Measures will be
Declaring that each of the engines or spare airframe parts continuity of production because representatives of the Reich of a fighting services to an overwhelm-designed for French guns, with one type was being faded cut and kind unparalleled in Interna- put into effect shortly.
tional relations. The German Giov ing extent commanded its own wireless tuned differently from another being worked in. The reason
He continued: "Believe me, the
ernment once more sharply pro- for the Chinese factories and labour, Mr. Churchill ours and with different methods Government's desire is that the said that there was nevertheless of control for manouevre.
mastery of the air and, leadership
test against this." Japanese are in control of cer- debatable ground of the firms
"As swiftly as possible, these air and command of the design can- tain parts of China and conse- which served several departments craft have been modified and not be achieved except with the quently the assets of those tarri--
brought into use. Practically all process of interminable trial, and tories. If the Chinese assets were
those Franch and american planes error and costly scrapping of es
comes along and you cannot afford satisfactory in operation.". 27
That said Mr. Churchill, was to miss it even if you have to pay the whole of the story which bad and pay heavily. been paraded as a, typical scandal and typical of the methods in which Britons did their business.
at once.
Obviously, he said, there Was
to remain unfrozen, it would give rivalry in this part of the Beld are now inguse and are most tablished types. Something better
the Japanese a loophole to con- tinue trade with Britain.
but there ought to be rivalry and service competition..
LIMITED FIELD
A similar request was made by the Chinese Government to the Government of the United States
It was for the purpose of re- who have already takes the ne-solving disputes and rivalry of cessary staps.
departments in this limited fold. that the production executive was called into being in January,
All members of this body had
RESIDENTS OF CHINA
An enquiry addressed to the Minister concerned would have. ellcited an immediate explanation.
CHEERS FOR HOPKINS.
AUSTRALIA'S MILITIA
CALLED UP SYDNEY, Jul 29 (Reuter About a quarter of Australia's "mlitla forces will be called de for
full Home service, from October 11. announced: Mr. P CF Spender, Army Ministeri ÜNL
The forces in question, compažnje officers, N.C.Os, and specialna br I am glad to tell the House ing and administrative neu
certain units who will form train.
"Struggles for air mastery requires vast numbers hmt these vast numbers cannot. sucoBed alone unless there are leading types constantly achieving higher levels of en- terprise and perfection.
Mr. Spende Wided that the new conditions of
It was officially announced that at the request of the Chinese an interest to agree. They might Cheers greeted, Mr. Churchill that our spring and summer Government and to order to as have different interests to advocate when mentioned the name of fashions in aircraft this year are Fist China's financial position, because they had different duties Mr. Harry Hopkins, Supervisor of the Treasury has issued direc- to discharge, but it was an illusion the American Lease and Lend Pro-farther ahead of our contemporaine the standa tions blocking sterling balances to think that they did not fully gramme. ..:
ary German production than they and provide esse and other assets of, persona reat co-operate. dent in China.
Mr. Churchill said he presided were last year The enemy have measures by when Mr. Churchil; said he, had seen over the meeting attended by Mr. borrowed many Ideas from our
tion may be effec The directions come into opera-some sharp, differences but these Hopkins.
Oghter planes when they felt their
emergency," y ttom as from the opening of busi-differences had never been so sharp Mr. Hopkins with his full know-
mettle a year ago and we have ness on July 29. General nuthorl. De they were during the last war lodge shared by expert American borrowed some from them............... LONDON, July ty la given for any payment in : and all he could say now was that officers, dwell upon the triala and "We have confronted him in death was announc sterling aron authorised on bèhall in the last four months, no que difficulties attending the modi 1941 with our fighter aircraft par-Lord Rennell of of the Chinese Government as well tion of departimentar rivalry had neation of aircraft from the Uni- formice of speed, calling and sun British Ambasama ss payments recessary for the been brought to him from the ted States on the French account armament which have left out ing the at WAN fulfilment of certain outstanding production executiv
and Mr. Hopkins expressed antia pilota with an added sense of who was vi vend transmotions,
"1|fection with -- the arrangements techiniosi, muperiority?
40 yeara dik the diplan
Mr. Onurchill continued:"