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The Steamship
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Bringing Cargo
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be
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NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the above Society will be held at the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matho- son & Co., Ltd., (by kind pormis 14th the sion) on Tuesday, December, 1937, at 5.15 p.m.
J. T. BAGRAM,
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Stevedores
Won't Handle Japan Goods
of
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St. John, N.B., Dec. 8. It is reported that the s.5. Duchess from Is returning Richmond Liverpool carrying 200 tons of Japan- stevedores have goods which
The ultimate refused to handle. destination of the goods is unknown. In the meantime 350 consignments of Japanese goods are nt present in.
destined fur St. John warehouses Enginnd-United Press.
Britain Sells Many Planes
THE
Consignees are hereby informed that their goods with the exception ut Oplum, Treasure, and Valuables ure being landed and stored into the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kaw- loon, whence delivery may obtained immediately after landing, All claims must be sent in to me ຍາ or before 16th December, 1937, or they will not be recognized.
Damaged Packages will be examin- 1938 to the end of October 1937, the ed by the Company's Surveyor total value of aeroplanes, engines, Messrs: Goddard and Douglas in and other parts of United Kingdom the presence of the Consignees at manufacture exported from Britain
£5,051,000, according 10.00 a.m. on Saturday, 11th Decem-was
House of Commons answer.--Britizli ber, 1937.
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M.V. "THURLAND CASTLE" From U.S.A. vio MANILA. Consignees of cargo are hereby notified that the above vessel will arrive about the 30th November, and delivery may be obtained from ship's tackles at the Standard Vacuum Oll Co's Wharf, Laichikok, in Corsignees lighters only.
No claim will be admitted after the Goods have left the ship.
All broken, chaled, and damaged Goods will be examined on board by our surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and
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are
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London, Dec. 6. During the period from January
EMPLOYMENT HOLDING UP
to
London, Dec. 6. The Ministry of Labour estimates that on November 15 insured persons in employment, exclusive of persons within the Agricultural scheme, totalled approximately 11,573,000, or 85.000 less than the month before, but en comparable basis 353,000 more than the year before,
At the same date the registered un- played numbered 1,190,203, com- prising 1,227,000 wholly unemployed, 216.806 temporarily laid off and 54.797 normally in casual employment. The total was 108,954 more than the month on a comparable basis before but
98,954 more than the month before ut on a comparable basis G4,000 Inge than the year British Wireless.
The Import and Export Office that ARGENTINA
they have such goods far-examina- tion, and to make arrangements for the goods to be landed into Bonded Warehouse.
Dits of Lading will be counter-; signed by
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POPPY DAY FUND
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HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
NANKING, LIKE DOOMED CITY, AWAITING ASSAULT (Continued from Pape 1.)
TUESDAY, DECEMBER
the vicinity of Chinklang, was finally rescued by Chinese reinforcements, Was revealed in a report received here to-day.
tion for North China and other parts Japa
of the country.
The Yomiuri Shimbun adds that the imminent full of Nanking "will mark a turning polat in the Jopa
In China.** military Reuter.
operations
Japanese Vanguards
Repulsed
Nanking, Dec. 7. The small batch of Japanese vanguards who succeeded in reaching! Tangshan in the suburbs of Nanking, creating a menace to the capllat, was repulsed by the Chinese defending forces last night after a grim battic. The Japanese withdrew to a point about six kilometres from Tangshan. The Chinese forces are continuing to press forward in an attempt to round them up within the shortest possible
me.-Central News.
Determined To Resist
Shanghai, Dec. 7. Despite the rapid Japanese advance against Nanking, the Chinese Supreme Command reafirms its determination to defend the capital.
Meanwhile, Chinese forces stationed at Tanyang have withdrown to Chin kinng, which is soon expected to be severely attacked. Practically all of the 30,000 inhabitants of the city have already evacuated.-Reuter.
At Gates Of Nanking
7, 1937.
THE YOUNG IDEA MIS-SHOOTS
(Continued from Page 6.)
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*
The Chinese troops who were sent, out to patrol the countryside carly In the morning encountered recelved the present of a Bibla with Japanese force. Though outnum no inscription in it, no to repair bered they were
undaunted and what she thought was an omission, immediately went into action.
sho wrote on the fly leaf, "With A four-hour battle ensued during which the majority of the Chinese the author's compliments." were killed. The rest, however, were determined to fight to the Inat man
As the child hears so many Fortunately at this juncture, another party of Chinese patrois arrived and strange, abstract theological terms, launched a surprise attack on the it is not surprising that confusion enemy who retreated, leaving beacmetimes results. A little girl hind 100 dead and three machine had just joined the Sunday school, guns-Central. News.
and the teacher asked her if she had been baptleed. "Yes," sho said, "I have been baptised three times, but It hasn't taken yet."
Shunhuachen Reduced
To Ruins
were
seven
This story also Illustrates how Nanking, Dec. 7. Shunhuachen, a rural town 15 kilo- some of the time-honoured phrases metres south-east of Nanking, has used in church baille the child's A little girl, in been reduced to ruins as a result of understanding. Japanese mass air attacks yesterday.church for the first time, heard the
No fewer than 300 bombs
minister announce the banns of rained on the town during
20 bombing planes marriage, concluding with, "Thin raids. About
is for the third time of asking." participated in ench raid.
A conservative estimate puts the With a natural feminine curiosity approximate casusities, at 200-she puzzled over this phrase for a Central News.
long time, and then she asked her mother. "Mummy, how did the minister know how many times the man had asked her?"
Pukow Bombed By Japanese Planes
The Freudians, who are so adept Nanking, Dec. 7.
at discovering unconscious motives Nine Japanese bombers, escorted by ve pursuit planes subjected Pukow, and desires behind slips of the on the opposite side of the Yangtze tongue, would probably shake their River, to a severe bombing yester- heads over this story. Two boys were arguing about the cumpara-
day ofternoon.
Several bombs landed in the tive advantages of their fathers* vicinity of the railway godown where respective professions. "My father two big fires were started-Central |is à doctor," boasted one, "no I can News.
Chinese Advancing
On Chibsien
Linfen, Dec. Following a grim five-hour baltic,
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J. II. C.
Shanghai, Dec. 7. The war which started in Shanghai on August 13, entered its 117th day to-day with the Japanese forces vir
the tually at the gates of Nanking, capture of which elty will mark the first entry of an invading
forcin army in the whole of its long history. crack Chinese forces from Pingyao out instructions will be dealt with to military law, the on according are now advancing rapidly Four columns of Japanese troop Chislen, Important town 30 miles Generalissimo warned. are converging on
The circular instructs officials. in suffered its 120th air raid by Japon- south-west of Taiyuan, the Shansi
are which
threatened by cae planes yesterday. The vanguards provincial capital, a milliary despatch areas
hostilities or which have been occu- of one of these forces, according to from the front states. unconfirmed Japanese reports, plant- During the engagement, Japanese pied by the invaders to remove their ed a banner of the Rising Sun on the artillery and planes launched a joint offers to other places of safety to urple Mountain outside of Nanking,attack on the advancing Chinese carry on their duties.-Central News. where the remains of Sun Yat-sen are interred.
the
city
The Japanese report a large-scale exodus of Chinese troops by junks across the river, but according to authoritative Chinese reports, Ceneral and Madame Chiang Kai- shek remain at Nanking-Reuter.
Grim Battle Fought
troops but were unable to check the onslaught. They finally withdrew to Chihsien where they are making preparations for another stand.-- Central News.
Officials Ordered To Carry On
Hankow, Dec. 7.
Japanese Supplies
Pouring In
Nanking, Dec. 7. Four Japanese transports arrived in Shanghal yesterday and unloaded huge quantities of military supplies and army rations, which will shortly be sent inland to the Japanese forces All provincial governors, special now operating south of Taihu Lake administrative commissioners ond and long the Nanking-Shanghal district magistrates in the war zone railway zone, according to foreign
received here. Fleets How a handful of Chinese troops, have been ordered by Generalissimo reports numbering about 100, locked in a Chiang Kai-shek to remain in their military lorries and motorboals were
battle
their with a much larger aflees and carry Krim
work. also unloaded on the Osaka Shosen Hsintengchen in Officials who leave their posts with-Kaisha wharf-Central News. Japanese force ut
At Hsinfengchen
Nanking, Dec. 7.
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carly 19th memorial statue of the century British statesman George of the Canning, by the President Argeatine republic, the King sent message to President Justa expressing "my warm appreciation of this happy manifestation of the personal interest which you take in myself in the maintenance and sleadly cultivation of the valued and historie 65.20 friendship between Britain and the 40.00 Argentine, which Cunning may justly 25.00 be said to have inaugurated".-Bri- 16.31 Fish Wirclesa. 10.00
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NEW CONSTABLE OF TOWER
London, Dee, 8, The King has approved the appoint-
Marshal meat to Field
Sir Claud Jacob as Constable of the Tower of London, from February 19 next in succession to Lord Milne. Sir Jacob is stated to be the first Constable of the Tower who has had a long and continuous service with the Indian military forces which his career ex- emplifies.British Wireless.
PORTUGAL
FRANCO
RECOGNISES
REGIME
Lisbon, Dec, 0 It is announced that the Minister of Commerce Sen. Teotonio Pereira has been appointed special repre- sentative to the Insurgents, officially Franco marking recognlilon of the *' regime.-United Press.
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Washington, Dec. 0;
is counting on unemployment com- pensation benefits as much as $1,000-
600 a day to help solve the increasing Severe injuries were suffered by unemployment problem after Jan Chau Chung-fan, of 83 Connaught uary 1, when 28 States in the district Rond West, when he fell down a of Columbia begin payments to un-staircaso yesterday. He was takere employed under the Social Security to the Queen Mary Hospital with n
-United 'Press.
fractured skull, right arm, and leg.