HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
UNITED STATES LUGGAGE "FROZEN" IN NORTH CHINA
SHANGHAI, Ang: 3 (Renter)--Americans in North China con- template offietally drawing the attention of Washington to alleged personal and other difficulties encountered as a result of local retallation to the United States and British freezing or ders
U.S. NEWSMEN LODGE PROTEST
FINANCE & GENERAL
来
.C.S. DECLINES Rubber Tyre Rationing
TO DISCUSS
RICE
Deciining to discuss rice or the suggestion that Government might be forced to sell subsidised rice to the poor, the Hon. Mr. N. I. Smith, These are reported so far to in-colonial Secretary, stated in an clude the refusal of travel permits
interview DD Saturday that
Я
the
to US nationals, many of whom statement, which will be in are unable to leave the port, while nature of a reply to questions to those possessing documenta are be put by the Hon. Mr. J. J. Pater-
son, will be made in Council on Thursday.
unable to send heavy luggage by tall
export Permits
The recall of
“Tutnila" Despatches granted before the promulgation Allegedly Delayed of the freezing ineasures for the
A
Legislative
PETROL RUMOURS Mr. Smith gave the le to ru- shipment of essential articles tomours circulating that there will the United States a causing cargo be a rationing of petrol in the afawaiting shipments to remain on Colony in the near future. He
the Band,
added that the price of petrol had been put up in order to cut down consumption and that WAS the only form af rationing in force.
the
TOKYO. Aug. 3 (Heuteri day's delay
transmission in information concerning the Jap anese bombing of the American gunboat Tutulla was made the reasor for
Junt representations to the official spokesman of Japanese Cabinet Information Board, Mr. Koh Ishii,
This action was taken by six American correspondents in Tokyo. and their petition for greater con- peration was presented with the tacit approval and support of the American Embassy
in the following points:--
5-POINT PETITION
First, advance knowledge of cen- sorship of outward messages and the nature and extent of deletions. Second correspondents to ԷՐ given a chance to discuss mutual problems in the hope of a clear understanding with the censor,
Third, an information Board re- commendation to the Finance Ministry to speed accommodation | of correspondents financially.
Fourth, permission to import American food. tobacco and cloth- ing on payment of customs dues.
Fifth permission to own operate short-wave wireless ceivers in homes and offices
Mr. Ishi appeared surprised ati
and
re
Fermits
are also not being granted for Imports.
The post office authorities are refusing to handle parcels for both British and Americans.
LUGGAGE "FROZEN"
A curious case is related by an American who is reported to have checked his luggage at a certain railway station and received a receipt, only to be told subsequently that "United States luggage is frozen." Th past office authorities. in declining to hand over parcels re- ceived for British and American
UNREST IN NORWAY
For Malaya
Foreseen
While those in the trade foresee the rationing of rubber tyres in Malaya in the near future, the official view is that al- though there is no direct rationing of rubber tyres in the coun- try, the existing control of imports and exports serve indirectly to regulate the flow of rubber tyres in the Malayan market, says the Malaya Tribune.
Rationing of rubber tyres is about to be introduced in Bri- (ain and it is expected that the colonies will soon have to fol- low suit.
"It makes Tu sense to have! Speaking for his firm, the rationing in Britain and none in managing director said that in Malaya," declared the managing some instances the firm was un- director of a prominent rubber able to satisfy the demand for tyre frm in Singapore.
While Malaya is one 0% the world's largest rubber producers. she
certain types of tyres because they did not have them in stock.
An-alternative to rationing of goods from abroad, using valuable creased
has still to import rubber rubber tyres in Malaya was in- shipping space which might be tyres in Malaya, by new firms or manufacture of rubber
utilised in the carriage of arms branches of overseas firms with and other war materials.
large interests in this country, and Apart from that however there if need be, with Government help.
EUROPEAN TRAIN is this curious situation: Rubber
ACCIDENT
manufacture which uses Malayan rubber output comes back to us! at a much dearer price (cost of: freight, manufacture. Insurance.: etc. than otherwisel
N.E.I.
EXPORTS TO JAPAN
Netherlands East Indles
VICHY AMBASSADOR This is definitely the case with BATAVIA, Aug 3 (Reuter)-The for the AMONG PASSENGERS rubber tyres, the manufacture of
which in this country is compara- time being is not issuing licences Aug. 3 (Reuter) Atively ainiost negligible.
for exports to Japan. says a Jap- diplomatic train bringing home M. We have to send our rubber anese report. Gaston Bergery, Vichy Ambassador abroad-to America, Britain-s
LONDON,
morning.
The
frontier.
SHOULD BE REGULATED He continued. "Malaya is send-
MISSION CARAVÁNing raw rubber to distant countries
It is pointed out that the 4- censing Bystem announced Jast week placed all trade with Japan
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If you Value
your Health
Insist upon
Gordon's GIN
NO Colouring Matter No Injurious Ingredients
CHINA TO INCREASE FOOD PRODUCTION
Japan Unconcerned on the promotion of food produc-
By Oil Embargo! villan needs.
im-
GORDONS!
DRY GIN
GÁSTILLZONE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
(REUTER'S SERVICE)
London, Aug. 1.
(Red.
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The correspondents petition res pectfully hoped for Government cooperation in maintaining the same living and working conditions BLE Japanese reporters in the individuals and establishments, to Moscow, and 80 members of the that tyres can be made for our United States, and requested help and in refusing to accept parcels Vichy Embassy in Moscow follow-use,
for transmission from British anding the severance of diplomatic Asked whether he thought under Government control, in- American nationale. are said to relations with the Soviet Union, rationing of rubber tyres would be cluding deliveries under the oll have declared they are awaiting ran off the rails early yesterday introduced in Malaya, the manag- agreement. instructions from Peiping.
ing director of a prominent rub- A. J. van Mook, Director of A reputable transport. concern
accident occurred between ber tyre arm in Singapore said: Economic Affairs in Batavia, sald reports that heavy luggage be- Dragoman and Tzaribrod, close to
"There is a distinct possibility. Ithe granting of export Hcences An increase of 31,700,000, pleus The following quotations are the longing to either British or Ameri-the
former Bulgarian-Yugoslav can see it coming."
was subject to the situation in of foodstuffs in Free China is the middle prices at the close of the can nationals is no longer accept-
He said that it did not make the Pacific. He made no fore-goal of the Ministry of Agriculture market in London. All quotationa ed by the railway authorities.
Aboard the train, in addition to sense
to have ΠΟ rationing in cast of the administration's prob- and Forestry for 1941, according are subject to confirmation and no the Embassy officials. were Mme. Malaya, which was not a manu- able Action the immediate to Minister Chan Chai-tong. responsibility is assumed før efrors Bergery, M. Outrey, former Vichy facturing country, when in the future
Beginning from this year, the in transmisdon, Charge d'Affaires in Ankara, and United States, Canada and Britain,
Ministry started a three-year pro- several other Vichy consular and people were being asked to cut military officials, according to re- down on the use of tyres.
gramme with the main emphaste War Loan, 3%
after 1952) ports received in Vichy from Softa.
on to meet both military and Defence Loan, 3%
In addition to Canton-Kloon Rly. 5% 11 TOKYO, Aug. 3 (Reuter)-A-evltivating new seeds and expert Chinese 44% Gold Loan like Britain and the United States though the American embargo on menting with new methods,
1808 (Brit. Issue)....... 47 IN CHUNGKING to be manufactured Into tyres motor fuel and aviation oll
to Chinese 5% Gold Bonds. does proved varieties of grains are CHUNGKING, Aug. 3 (Reuter) which in turn have to be shipped not mention Japan, it is really he popularised in interior China, 1825/47 the magnitude of the complaints LONDON, Aug. 8 (Reuter)A A Seventh Day Adventist Mission back to Malaya. It should follow directed against Japan, states a
In addition to subsidising the Chin. 4% Anglo-French and promised to do his utmost to state of civil emergency came into caravan of nine trucks has arrived that the use of rubber tyres here Japanese report quoting informed Provinces in food production, the
Loan, 1908 wards alleviation but explained he force all over Norway yesterday from Rangoon over the Burma should be regulated."""
observers
Ministry has sent out a technical Chinese 6% Crisp Loan was not in close touch with the morning under a decree issued on Road.
He said that the sale of rubber
1912 These observers claim that Jap-staff to render assistance. At the Ministry of Communications, Friday night by Terboven, the Nazd Members of the party said the tyres in Malaya was slightly high-anest aviation can dispense with and of dast April, satisfactory win Chinese 5% Rebrg. Loan
road is in good condition, despite er today then before the war. He American supplies of kibricants, ter harvesta were reaped, while 1913 (Lan. Is.) 38 Far-reaching powers are grant- the rains. They brought medical attributed this increase to the fact
They say vegetable of is now preparations were made to raise Chinese 0% Ster. Notes ed the German police under the supplies for missions in Free that there were an abundance of processed as aviation all while improved seeds for pmting next 1925 (Vickers) decree while military law may be Chlua,
Services vehicles which required 90 per cent, of oil consumed is
Chin. Imperial Rly. 6% The party was delayed at Lashio rubber tyres, and to the fact that being reclaimed."--
Promotion of sumther crops is Loan............. the death sentence.
by heavy rain. Otherwise, sald motor vehicle owners were more
being carried out with muccess. Honan Rly, 5%, 1905 ...... It is reported in Stockholm Mr. Z. H. Coberly, the leader, the particular today in having their
Because of the dense population Hukuang Rly. 5%. 1911 that a serious situation persists whole trip from Rangoon could be tyres in good condition,
in and near Chungking, the 34 (LP. N/Yue)15 throughout Norway owing to the made in three weeks.
The increase in the sale of tyres
halen around the wartime capital Hukuang Rly. 5%, 1911 have been designed as a special (German IIIC) .............. working centre, for increasing Lung Tsing & U Ha! TOKYO, Aug. 3 (Reuter)--The foodstuffs. An annual gain 01 Rly. 5%, 1913 ~ .... Japanese Finance Ministry an-1,000,000 pleats of food products 8'hal-N’'king Rly. $%. nounced that, effective from yes from this centre is possible terday, India has been added to through government encourage- the list of countries subject to the ment.-(Central News), order freezing assets.
which was the chief obstruction.
STATE OF CIVIL EMERGENCY
Commissar.
WORKERS IGNORE Introduced and courts-martial pass
GOVT. APPEAL
Exodus From London evacuation of population from. Two days before they arrived to private motor vehicle owners
For Country
coastal districts and the comman- deering of cattle and horses.
Unrest 1A spreading all over
LONDON, Aug. 3 (Reuter)-Des- Surope. pite the Government's appeal to "stay put" over the Bank holiday this week-end, many thousands of
ing raids.
FORCED LABOUR
the Seventh Day Adventist Mis- was partly due to the fact, he sion sanitarium in Chungking was thought, that they anticipated destroyed by air bombs.
rationing of rubber tyres adon.
have
sen- the
CHICAGO
and
NEWSMAN'S CRAZIEST ASSIGNMENT
SINGAPORE.-—Securing a giant panda is in itself an accom- plishment but when a chief in an editorini sanctum, 10,000 miles away, orders a roving reporter to get a mate for a giant panda about whose sex he is not sure, complications are bound to
follow.
In Czechoslovakia there been many executions and British people who are not engaged tences of forced labour in in vital war Industries could not
mines. Railway accidents resist the call of the country after derailments have increased, with months of hard work and bomb- a number of deaths of German
soldiers. The exodus from London began
in Rumanía there is a bad food on Friday evening when stations shortage, and in Bulgaria the pro- were besieged with rast crowds of Russian feeling had led to bad people determined upon enjoying blood with the Germans. the week-end away from the city. In Austria, the heavy casualty
Buch an assignment was given subjected to Finally our panda Countless special trains had to lists are causing discontent, and to Chicago Dally News' Far East-friend was loaded into an he put into service, taxing trans-
there 15 & feeling that Austrisern representative, Archie Steele, plane with Rey Scott, the photo- port officials to their utmost, while long overnight queues of people;
troops are sent to the most dan-and how every thing turned out grapher, who filled the dual role formed at booking.offices carrying
gerous places.
their rations in baskets and car- rier-bags.
figures
at Royal SOVIET-GERMAN respondent.
Rall trafic Bath Spa broke all records yester. day
H.G.'S TOMMY
GUNS
NAVAL CLASH
..
aero-
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India In Japanese Freezing Order
The restrictions on transactions
fall,
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15
(Renter)--
Tientsin-Pukow Rly 5%
(Brit Bed) Tientsin-Pukow Rly 6%
(German Btpd.) Tientsin-Putow: Rly, 5%
(Brit. Stpd. Supi. Loan) 12
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between foreigners and Japanese HSINKING, Aug. 3 will be applied tomorrow (Mon-Manchukuo has recognised Croa- day) to New Zealand and South tla, it was officially announced Africa, the Finance Ministry an-yesterday. Manchukuo has added the list of countries whose assets nounced yesterday.
Austraila, Malaya and Burma to have been frozen,
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WANTED TO BUY
well after weeks of doubt and an-of chaperon and nursemaid, xiety, provide one of the craziest After an adventurous voyage, vla interludes in the life of this cor- the land of the cherry blossoms,
Hawall and the Golden Gate, Mel The beginning of this busman's Mel's mate-to-be reached Holly- i holiday goes back to the day when wood. There after a rousing, one of a pair of giant pandas at hours of paw-pumping and inter- the Chicago Zoo died. When the views with screen celebrities, survivor Mel-Met, commenced to which the hardy panda miracu- Success Claimed By show signs of loneliness. The lously survived, the playful little
Chicago Daily News volunteered to beast was shipped on to Chicago.
WE PAY HIGH PRICES Nazi Press
find a mate.
This phase of the panda's for all gold and silver articles. Steele who was then in Shang- triumphal progress was particular Jade, diamonds, jewels, watches, New anti-tank weapons to meet A naval encounter in the Barents for pining Mel-mei. Now it is ex- of the Ambassador Hotel Holly Dismond and Gold Refining Co., STOCKHOLM, Aug. 3 (Reuter) al was assigned to find a mate ly gratifying to the managements fountain pens. Apply Far East invaders are to be issued to the Sea between German destroyers tremely Roine Guard, while Tommy-guns
dificult almost impos- wood, for before leaving it, the are also to be provided for them and Soviet naval forces, is dessible to tell the sex of a panda, panda had shown his appreciation Room 621, Chins Building, 6th As quickly as possible,
in the Berlin evening es newsman. Steele found to by chewing up the plush form floor. Bundays and Holidays The speed-up in the arming or papers, according to the Berlin grief.
mokraten. correspondent of the Social De- However, he promptly set about It was not until after the The Barents Sea lies between the formed that a giant panda of was discovered, to the consterna- making inquiries and was soon in-panda's arrival at Chicago that It European mainland and Novaya doubtful sex awaited his inspection of everybody, that Méi-Mel Another interesting development Joseph Land.
Zemlya, Spitzbergen and Franz ton at Chengtu. About this time who was first thought to be a girl of the Home Guard is that Cadet These reports state that "obs from Chicago. Mei-Mel, it seem-after all
another urgent message came and later a boy, was a young lady Force units are to be allowed to viously inferior" Russian forces ed, had turned out to be a boy in
Experienced Book-keeper Wants affiliate to the local Home Guard were pursued along the Murmansk stead of a giti. Would Steele Steele's guess had been wrong and tee students to keep a whole set of Fortunately, it turned out that Students to form estase. Guaran units in the hope that each cadet, coast and finally sunk despite Ras- please change the order to a that the parts he bought think. books after completion of a course on reaching the age of 17, will join sian air attack.
Military elroles In Stockholm female.
ing it was a female was a male, or 6 months. For Term and Par giving this comedy or errors atoulars. Please Apply to:--Box
No. 4016/6 HID.F.
the force is due to increased arms production in this country and the gift of guns from, the United States.
the Home Guard.
cribed
In spite of the huge call for steet are discussing the possibility of A LONG CHANCE
helmets, it is expected that every Boviet submarines being moved Taking a long chance Steele happy ending Bite of the 1.700,000 volunteers will from the Baltle by way of the called an informal board of in Mel-Met and Mei-lan, ne the live one within four or five weeks. Stalin Canal to Murmansk and quiry which decided that the now arrival is called, are happily
other northern ports.
Chengta panda was "probably a matriod. They have adopted all This move is thought to have a female so he bought it trusting the amenities of civilization in- TOKYO. Aug 8 (Renter) Anchance of success despite Finnish the fates would be kind............
cluding so insurance polley of Imperial Ordinance, allowing re- and German air attacks on the Followed exhaustive preparations $7,500 enghalan ttred naval officers and non-rom canal, but the maintenance of off including freight and arrangements "That,” “concluded Steele,"was missioned officers to volunteer for supplies to the ports of the Kola for food, during which there were the erasirat. naganient, I have active naval service, was proniul Peninsula to declared to be impos- several narrow escapos from the ever fecerved but it all turned out gatod yesterday.
bombitigs that Chengtu was then
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