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三拜禮辦二月三英港香
WEDNESDAY; MARCH 2,
1938. 日一初月二
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VACCINE RATIONED IN EPIDEMIC FIGHT
H.K. GOVERNMENT H.K. January Trade Far Above Last Year's
CUTS
SUPPLIES
TO VOLUNTEERS
St. John Ambulance Units Idle Ten Days Despite Appeals For Protection
"For ten days, St. John Ambulance Brigade has had to cease all activity in the small-pox fighting field because the Government has refused to supply vaccine during that period.
"We have been inundated with requests from various centres for free vaccination. Because of official parsi- mony we have had to tell these people that we cannot undertake the work.
"We have even had to cease vaccination at our clinics for infants in the New Territories.
"Three schools, which requested vaccination during the period of the Government ban, still await treatment.
"Since February 20 we should have vaccinated 20,000 people. We have not been able to do one person!"
These allegations were made this morning by Mrs. R. Langley, Hon. Secretary of the St. John Ambulance
Brigade, in an interview with Telegraph.
the
Officials of the Government Medi- cal Department are stated to have
ended the supply of free vaccine to St. John Ambulance Brigade on
27 NEW CASES OF
February 20 cm the grounds of alleged SMALLPOX
wastage.
Rationed, supplies, sufficient {a weekly, vaccinate 16,000 persons were re-commenced this morning.
Allegations of wastage are resented by St. John workers, Mrs. Longley told the Telegraph.
"We are expected to get 00 vaccina- tions out of a 3 cc. tube of vaccine. Long experience has proved that it is utterly impossible to adequately vaccinate more than 60 persons with much 3 c.c. tube." Mrs. Langley sald. "Since last October, we have vac- cinated over 300,000 people-ap-
of
Twenty-seven new cases small-pox were reported to the health authorities yesterday. The total since January 1 is now 960, with 572 fatalities.
The weekly health bulletin, issued this morning, also discloses that 105 deaths from tuberculosis occurred last week, showing a slight increase
over. previous weeks. Total de
from this disease since the beginning of the year are 735,
GOERING WREATH ON CENOTAPH GERMANY AND U.S. IN
EXHORTS AVIATORS
Fighters Burning
To Prove They Are Indomitable Must Be Ready To Sacrifice Their Lives
Berlin, March 2. General Herman Goering, in a speech last night to officers of the Air Force, who were cele- brating their third "birthday" as a recognised fighting unit, declared:
Germany is no longer defence- less. No longer shall we have to put up with the violation of our natural rights,
"If the Fuelurer in the Relchstog utters the proud words that we will no longer tolerate the oppression of our frontiers, you German soldiers of 10,000,000 Germans, oppressed beyond
the_ur force know you have to live up to the Fuchrer's words and be
to znako ready
the supreme sacriflee necessary.
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"We know the air force is animated
with a determination to fight and by radiant courage bring victory,
"As individuals we
are peacc-
loving; but as a section of the armed forces we are burning to prove to the Fuehrer that his
is in- air force domitable.
"It will be a battle, once this
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JAPANESE PREPARE FOR LONG CAMPAIGN
air
proximately a quarter of the total The following cases of noticable Urgently Needed War
Inhabitants, including refugees, of the Colony. One division alone vac-
discases were reported last week:
V. K;
cinated 3,000 people in one night, and Diphtheria
a nurse at the How Par Accident Typhold
Station vaccinated 300 in a day.
STOP PRESS
Measles
A wreath was laid on the Cenotaph yesterday by
TOP PLACES ON LIST OF EXPORTING POWERS
Britain Now Ranks Fifth: Japan Still Lagging
Over one-quarter of Hongkong's total imports of merchandise during January came from two countries— the United States and Germany.
Replacing Japan and Britain as the principal exporters of goods to this Colony, the United States and Germany sold merchandise to the value of $16,803,613 here. Total imports from foreign countries amounted to $61,700,050.
Hongkong's imports of merchandise in January represented an increase of 54 per cent. in terms of local. currency, compared with January, 1937.
Eden Did Not Pledge Britain
Messrs F. and D. Davies on behalf of St. David's Society, Says Premier
in memory of the Welshmen who fell in the Great War.
ANGLO-JAPANESE
TENSION
ACUTE
Sentry Fires Into
British Lines And
S... Supplies To Be Speeded Kills Chinese Man
three deaths from diphtheria, one from typhoid, four
In
Tokyo, Mar. 2.
The Japanese army intends to spend a certain percentage of the emer- gency appropriations of yen 3,257,- 000,000 for the 1938-30 scal year.
for the partial replacement and the reorganisation of the Japanese troops
Shanghai, Mar. 2:
London, Mar. 1. The Prime Minister told the House of Commons at question time that he could And nothing in the various statements made by Mr. Anthony Eden in the House _of___Commons. while. Foreiga Secretary, which could be inter preted as a pledge binding IIis Majesty's Government not to un- dertake negotiations with Italy und anti-British propaganda had ceased-British Wireless.
LORD PERTH TALKS WITHI PREMIER
ON ANGLO-ITALIAN ISSUES
The total visible trade of the Colony (excluding treasure) increas- ed by 34.0 per cent. compared with January last year. Exports totalled $108,303,367, of which $08,000,790 was treasure and bullion.
Large exports of oils and petrol to Hongkong made the United States the leading exporter for the month. Total exports from
this
amounting to $9,330,802,
comp with $1,784,400 in January last year.
Japan's loss-exports to Hongkong dropped from $5,530,531 In January, 1937, to $1,207,770 this year was apparently Germany's gain, for im- ports from the Reich-totalled $7,472,-- 31, compared with $2,220,050 in the corresponding period last year. Over $1,500,000 of Germany's exports comprised dyeing and tanning mater ils.
Although Imports from Great Bri- tain showed a substantial increase in January this year- $4,310,798 compared with $2,207,320 in the corresponding period last year-the Motherland was relegated to fifth place in the list of countries export- ing to this Colony. Exports from South China to Hongkong increased from $1,370,262 in January, 1937, to $12,081,572 in the first month of the current year. Imports from the Netherland East Indies increased from $4,380,374 to $5,252,407 and Grom Siam from $2,044,441 to $3,358,-
328.
"Our workers have worked really Meningitis
CHIEF INCREASES hard during this smallpox epidemic, Dysentery
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Principal Increases were in'dyeing A semi-official Japanese report says that acute Puerperal Fever
London, Mar. 1. materials, which totalled $5,828,470, There were
tension, lasting half an hour, prevailed along the
Lord Perth, British Ambassador in compared with $518,745 In the cor- International Settlement boundary, the western peri-instructions regarding the Anglo-ery and engines, totaling $1,236,705, Rome, who is in England to receive responding period last year; machin- from measles, six from meningitis and in Chino to meet the new phase of six from dysentery.
protracted hostilities.
meter of which divides the British defence sector from addition two cases of diphtheria
This explanation was given by the fore, each from Victoria and New War Minister in the course of de- the Japanese occupied areas, following the fatal shooting Territories); one case of typhoid from exposition of the uses which
yesterday of a Chinese by a Japanese sentry. Kowloon; one case of Mepsies from the army intended to put the amounts Victoria and four cases of dysentery requested, including the following The report asserts that the British troops closed the from Kowloon were reported yester~}items: day.
The maintenance of military Great Western Road crossing in the face of Japanese The four districts here represent forces in China for about a year, objections. "Hot words" were exchanged between the ed are Victoria, Kowloon, Shaukiwan beginning April 1;
Replenishment of war supplies British sentries and the Japanese soldiers, adds the und the New Territories.
of the were used in the course picked up by the police from various operations;
report. districts of Hongkong yesterday. 3. Preparation of war materials Eight of these were found floating in hitherto ignored, but urgently needed; the harbour. The victims died from 4. various causes, including, smali-pox.
A total of 44 dead bodies
PERSHING CRISIS MAY BE TO-DAY
General Fights Hard For Life
Tucson, Mar. 1.
China
Replenishment of the military Fuel for Rumour air force;
5. Enlarged accommodation and medical care for the sick and wounded
soldiera returning from the front;
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6. Special allowances for the fami-
lies of men killed in action, and those
who have died of sickness.
7. Rehabilitation and management jof the railways in Chinese territory now under Japanese military occu pation;
3. Enlargement of the arsenals.→→
Kenter.
SUGIYAMA PLANS NEW MINISTRIES
Tokyo, Mar. 2. Admiral Sugiyama, Home Minister,
Of Garbo- Stokowski Romance
Home, Mar. 1. conversation In a
'telephone from the Isle of Capri, the Swedish author, Exel Munthe, confirmed that the famous cinema Garbo. And actress, Groto Leopold Stokowski had visited his villa.
He said: "I know Garbo well. She was accompanied by a gen- tleman named Stokowski, whom I did not know, but he looked like a Pole."
He said he was not aware whe- ther they were or were not mar HedUnited Press.
Doctors naid to-day that General addressing the Diet yesterday, an- John Pershing "slept most of the nounced that he was planning the arorning and remained fully conscious creation of a Ministry of War Sup- otherwise. There has been kidney plies to control the acquisition, pro- function during the past day ade-duction and distribution of national gunta to remove some of the necumu defence supplies, following the poss lated polsonous substances."
ing of the Mobilisation Bill. The elimination of these substances, said the doctor, depends on the ability Mobilisation Dill of the heart
art to handle fargo amounts forced during the war in China, but Commodity Contrai. Bureau in the of fuld.
would equip the notion for any Ministry of Commerce and Industry It is understood that Wednesday future emergency.
for the purpose of supervising com- will most likely seo a desnilo turn Ile revealed that he was also con-modity prics movements-United one way or another.-United Press, I templating the establishment of a
Preas
again willed that
the
not be en-
Italian conversations to be opened compared with $539,372, and metals, totalling $6,477,098, compared withi with Count Ciano on his return to his $3,011,207. post, caled at
called at No. 10, Downing Street
Exports from Hongkong, with this morning, and had a further in-treasure excluded, were only slightly terview with the Prime Minister.
higher than last year, Germany Im- During the time Lord Persons of ported Hongkong goods to the value Number 10, there was a meeting Ministers, including Lord Halifax, of $2,123,064, compared with $254.042 Sir Samuel Hoare, Lord Zetland, Sirio substantially, and the USA. Thomas Inskip, Sir John Simon, Mr. also substantially increased its pur- Maison, M... Omsby Gore and goods to the value of $3,001,184. Malcolm MacDonald, Mr. "Hore chuses in the local market by buying
The unofficial boycott of Japanese- Ʌt the House of Commons question goods decreased Japanese exports to Hongkong by almost $4,000,000. At sector from the Japanese occupied me the Prime Minister stated that the same time, Japanese Imports
none but the British Ambassador at from territory by climbing through Rome, or his staff, had at any
Hongkong decreased from time $2,170,000 in January 1937, to $257,- perimeter. The fatal shot was fired been authorised to hold official or 962 last January,
unofficial conversations with
The Chinese entered the British
barbed wire fenco kning the
Belisha,
Mr. Duff Cooper.
from the Japanese side of the fence as two Durham
sentries on duty Italian Government on
of Anglo-Italin rushed forward to question the
British Wirclear, Chinese, They were within fow yards of the man when he was shot. At the time the Chinese fell a party of the Durhams and a wero walking
of foreigners
about
or
were in
the
the subject negotiations
EXTENSION OF CREDITS TO ITALY DENIED
London, Mar. 1. Asked for a statement on the re-
during January totalied $2,510,301; Imports of treasure from China exports from Hongkong, principally to London, totalled $00,009,790. These exports consisted principally. of Chinese silver dollars and cub- sidiary coins.
cars in the vicinity, ported negotiations with the Dire STOCK EXCHANGE Major-General A P. Telfer-tor-General of the Italian Ministry Simollett is investigating the a affair.
for Foreign Trado and Exchanges, on
Reuter.
KING TO VISIT DRITAIN'S
"SHADOW
exports
VERY QUIET
London, Mar. 1. The Stock Exchange was extremely
An official Japanese report says the extension of facilities for credits that the Chinese had stolen come for British
to Italy, the to the
Over- Department of copper wire inside the Japanese terri-Secretary tory, and he had refused to obey the seas Trado told the House of Com- negotiations on trade mat- Fapanese sentry's order to halt.ters now proceeding with the Italian quiet in all sections to-day, hence Government, were concerned with the gradual deterioration was sometimca provisions of the commercial and apparent.
Gilt-edged holdings drifted lower clearing agreements of November and industriale sagged from lack of FACTORIES”
1930.
These agreements were now being Kaffies and coppers displayed a mode- Aupport. Nevertheless foreign bonds, London, Mar, 1. revised, as outstanding trade debts. The King will visit "Shadow Fac- had been practically settled. He rate resistance. Commodities were torics" factories established to per-hoped the discussions would facilitate caturcices, but foreign exchanges somo Improvement, The mit of the rapid expansion of out a mutual increase of traite, but stated Frettch political atmosphere was o put of aircraft and the Government's emphatically that they raised no fected in a firmer frane, but it enga rearmament schemo-on the out question of export credit facilities, skirts of Birmingham and Coventry or of an expansion of creditritian later under the influence of control
Toperations-Beuter Sprotal. on Thursday wook.-British Wireless, Wirelessa.
showed