1938-08-10

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Italian Air Force Gains In Strength

3,500 Planes Ready For Emergency

Rome, Aug. 1. The Italian Air Force now consists of 2,560 first Une planes and 1,000 reserve machines, according to the Essener National Zeitung.

And

The newspaper adds that the air 4,000 force contains

officers 60,000 non-commissioned officers and

men,

NOTICE

M. Y. TSUI, Veterinary Surgeon has arrived here from Canton.

Address: No. 19 Sung Street, Sung Wong Tol, Kowloon City. Office hours: 8 am, to 1 p.m. Only on Sundays.

NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that in Binks of 28, Lock Road, Kowloon, Hongkong, is applying to the Governor for naturalization, jand that any person who knows mny reason why naturalization should not be granted should send a written and signed state- ment of the facts to the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.

FOR THE PROTECTION OF

CHILDREN.

manner

What to do to help a child

Anyone knowing of a child who has been assaulted, neglected, or i-treated in a

likely to cause unnecessary suffering or Injury to health, or knowing of a parent who is seeking advice on any matier concerning a child, would be doing an act of kindness by communicating at once with-

The Hon. Secretaries, 1K.S.P.C. Room 308, Bank of East Asia Build- ing, Hongkong, or the Inspector, 49, Pokfulum Rood, 1st floor; or the New units are being trained - Inspector, Violet Peel Health Centre tinuously in accordance with a care Waneliai; or the Inspector, 12, Sai fully formulated plan,

aero-Yeung Chol Street, 1st 000, Kow- dromes, both civil and military, are icon, being constructed throughout

tion in the south.

and

the

All further steps will be taken, and country, with a noticeable concentra-expenses borne, by the Society.

The informant's name will be kept Emphasis is being placed upon strictly private, except in cases where aviation in Halim colonics and active inalice is proved. groups are being truined in all Italian possessions overseas.-Trans-Ocean

U.S. COMMODITY PRICES

LATEST CABLED

QUOTATIONS

New York, Aug. V. New York Cotton

8.39/30

Opening Closing

Oct,

8.20/20

5.20/27

Dec.

8.29/23

8.35/36

Jan. (1930)

8.30/30

8.30/36

Mar. (1039)

1,33/32

May (1939)

8.34/34

July

8.30/38

8.42/43 8.45 N

Spot

. 8.36

New York Rubber

Sept.

Dcc.

16.20 /19

16.24/25

Mar.

16.28 /25

10.35/35

May

18.42/42

18.00b/10 16.11 N

Sales for the day:-1,950 tons.,

⚫ Chicago Wheat

#27/621A 044/84%

Sept.

Dec. May

Monday's Sales:~-

25,338,000 bushels.

Chicago Corn

MURDERS PEASANTS

Terrorists Still Uncontrolled

were

Jerusalem, Aug. 9. Three Arab peasants who had heen summoned from their homes murdered last night by an armed Arab in a village near Jerusalem.

A Jew

Jew wounded on the outskirts of Jerusalem yesterday has sher died. A message from Beyrout males that the driver and two passengers were in rested when a cur carrying 500 rifles, a number of revolvers and borbs and a quantity of cartridges was stopped by Lebanese police rear the Palestine frontier-Router.

STATE OF SIEGE POSSIBLE

London, Aug. 9. The situation in Palestine has be- come more acute and, according to the Daily Herald, the British Mandate authorities have requested that State of Siege should be pronounečki for the whole

country:

It is believed that the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, is in favour of this step and has requested the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, to authorite

TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST

{LETTERS TO THE

EDITOR

NO EXCUSE FOR APATHY

To the Editor,

Hongkong Telegraph.

10,

1938.

RUNCIMAN WORKS TO MEDIATE

Closely Studying Czech Problem

the

POST

OFFICE.

VIA SIBERIA ROUTE AIR MAIL LETTERS Air mail letters may be posted in Letters and Postcards for Europe

They and South America are the ordinary posting boxCS. should be clearly marited "By Arvin Siberia" If so superscribed.

Mail" and bear sumclent postage. Insufficiently prepaid letters may be taxed with double the deficiency or forwarded by Steamer Service, at the discretion of the Post Office.

forwarded

pre

OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Prague, Aug. 0.

Registered and Parcel Maila Having studied at length

closed 15 minutes earlier than the Si-Is John Blunt sure that his various documents einbodying the

time given below unless otherwise surname isn't Bull?

For he certainly Czech Government's proposals, Lord

stated, and where rails are advertis- AIR MAIL SERVICES gives the Impression of a corpulent Runciman to-day visited Dr. Milan

Air Mail Services to Shanghal, ed to close at or before 9 am, re- and conceited old gentleman warm- Hodza, the Premier, to discuss the ing his coat-tails before a large fire, situation in the light of this informa-Nanking, Tsingtau, Tientsin and Pel-gistered and parcel malls are closed

at 5 p.m. on the previous day. first communique ping are temporarily suspended. and snorting about his "Glorious tion, states the

INWARD MAILS Empah", the seminy side of which he issued in connection with the Runci-- has never seen.

Iman Mediation Mission.

random ramble

aetion on these lines.-Trans-Ocean. ] tton", he could ask the admistralsht forward publicly than is

EMPIRE'S MAILS TO

GO BY AIR ON SEPT. 2

much they have to pay in squeeze If he would like any more sugges- tions I would gladly supply him with

dozens,

this

From

Straits and Manila Air Mall by "Imperial

Direct Service-London 4th August. Canada, U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (Vancouver B.C., date, 22nd July).

Shanghai Amoy

Japan

and Swałow

Japan and Shanghal

Kwalking

Per

Gneisenau

Duct

.August 10,

Airways date,

Imperial Airways Plane..August 10.

Emp. of Canada

.August 11.

August 11.

Kwangling

August 11.

Menestheus

.August 11.

Sirdharm

August 11,

Tango Maru

.August 11.

Terulcuni Maru

.August 11.

Bangalore

..August 12.

Clytoncus

August 12,

date,

Shanghai and Europe via Siberin

London date, 21st July. Manila

Air Mail by "Imperial Airways

Direct

Service"-London

7th August.

Japan

Straits and London Parcels--Lon-

don date, 7th July. Stralis

Straits und Manila

Straits and Europe via Negapatam

(Letiers

und Papers) London: date, 14th July

Imperial Aleways Plane, August 12. Morioka Maru

August 12.

Sarpedon Behar

August 12.

..August 13.

Conte Blancamano

..August 13.

Katori Moru Laomedon

..August 13..

..August 13.

Air Mail by "Tan-American

Direci Service" Francisco date, 6th August, Tientsin

Air-

San Pan-American Airways Plane

August 13.

Hupch

August 15.

Зараа

La Plata Maru

.August 10.

Calcutta and Straits Saigon Struits

Tilawa

August 18.

Aramis

August 17.

and

I would suggest that for once he Dr. Hodza and Lord Runciman dls- actually takes

British Colony, cussed what further steps should be around this "te

laken in co-operation with the Czech To illustrate that -"stendy progress" of which he is so proud, he might authorities towards elucidating the visit some

lenements, built even facts of the situation. within the last ten years, where the Lord Runciman this evening re- open latrines have to be either in the cuived the Sudeten Party delegation cubiele or the kitchen breause

further discussion of their for a other place is provided, and where memorandum,--Reuter. practically no fresh ale or light genet- rates to the inside cuticles. Or he mus of might ramble round the wards the few hospitais catering to the poor lacklug in general knowledge of the

Colony. and see the patients lying two on al

I have no quarrel with her astoel- the bed, under the beds, between

anation with the China Defence Lea- beds, and in the passages. As un

que, a worthy abjeet worthy of more example of that "spend

given in her leiter under review but in what I do differ with her the manner in which she has gone out of нег way to malign the passibly indirect efforts which have been and The unique position of Hongkong still are being made by the people In relation to China does impose who earn their living here to raise definite limit on the amount of social the general standard of living It services that would be possible here may not be appreciated that all why and will probably condemn this y

fast category Colony to be the blackest sheep in contribute indirectly to the annual

Strafts the imperial family for as long as the expenditure required to maintain an Empire lasts.

ways efficient medical and educational But this is no excuse for apathy, system in our

an expenditure and there is a vast amount that could pick has increased considerably of The Postmaster General, Mr.

and must be done to improve condi- late and towards which the merchant Wynne-Jones, has received Instruc- tions for our coolie population. That commu tions from London Phot, commenc-

this work is now going ahead is duc community contributes proportionate-

ly highly per head. I doubt if Ing with the west-bound despatches to the Influence of people-both in Hilda Selwyn Clarke will hold that leaving Hongkong and out of Government-who have Hongkong has not derived benefit by hircraft

merchant, September 2 all first class mail (let- seen the underneath side of Mr. from the advent of the

and postcards) Blunt's fine Colony and have seen it European or otherwise, in this place ters, letter packets

Japan of the British Empire, will as something of which the British the lifeblood of which after all for most

Empire should be forwarded by air.

be not proud but depends on commerce.

Housing has improved ashamed. Such a realiza- The charge is expected to be 15 thoroughly asha cents a half uuncu.

tion brings action, and the more Colony during the past decade. The fist of countries in the scheme widespread it becomes the more the admit it is not yet ideal: but it has

considerable

progress, made 15.-Great Britain. Northern Ireland, action. But it is just such articles Eire, Canada, Newfoundland, Anglo- as Mr. Blunt's which hold up pro- example: the type of house and

the Egyptian Sudan, Kenyu, Uganda

general layout of the new district of in this direction. When grces Protectorate, Tanganyika, Mauritius, mass of Europeans in this Colony see Wantsal is a vast improvement on the although the Nyasaland. Northern Rhodesia, and know for themselves the condi- older property; and

slow and may appear Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, tiens under which the poor live they progress

to really progressive South-west Africa Basutoland, will not, they could not allow such irksome Bechuanaland, Swaziland, Zanzibar,

situation to continue. Of that person the gain is there and in more Egypt, Aden, Palestine, Trans-Jor-

O am sure because I have faith in the normal times it caused the backward India dan.

(including British Post

common decency of those who live landlord some thought in the steady exodus of tenants to the better class in Omers on the Persian Gulf

here.

of house.

Houst As a result of the heaviest Soviet

French India and Tibet but exclud- artillery bombardment yet perienced, the village of Changku-ing Portuguese Indin), Ceylon, Sey- chelles, Burma, Malaya (including the Federated and Unfederated Malay States and the Straits Settle ments), North Borneo, Sarawak. Australia (including Pupus, Norfolk and Nauru), Island, New Gainen Fill, New Zealand (including its De- Samoa), and Western pendencies British Solomon Islands, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, New Hebrides and Tough.

GRAVE TURN TO RUSSO-JAPANESE ISSUE

(Continued from Page 1.) without the decisions being made known.

11 is believed that decisions major importance will be revealed in the course of the next few days.

Simultaneously with this confer- ence, the Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Tada, ferred with his staff-Router.

con-

Village Mass of Flame

Yuki, Aug. 10.

feng, at the foot of the disputed hill, was last night a mass of smoke and Bame.ReutCT.

CHINESE GAINING

GROUND

All other classes of mall (printed papers, commercial papers, samples, will con- etc.) for these countries tinue to be sent by surface trans- port.

The new rate for letters and letter packets is, subjeel to confirmation by the Governor-in-Council. expect- ed to be 15 cents per half ounce. The postage on post-cards will re- main unchanged at 10 cents.

There will be no change in the of on other classes postage rates reports

mail.

(Continued from Page 1.) positions to a terrific bombardment in €334/03 the morning. Over 600 shells were 654/05% red, levelling the Chinese defence

holding

·68/677% works. Stubbornly

their poslilens, two Chinese squads at Jochow were wiped out by the heavy shelling. Five

hundred Japanese look possession of the place.

Toward noon the Chinese counter- attacked from two sides and repulsed the Japanese.

Bitter Ughting continued in the

to afternoon. According received Inte inst night, the Chinese 72 772 were still holding out and are 71%/71% strengthening their defence works-

Central News.

50/50% 51 751% 46/47%

484/49 51%/5134

Sept.

Dec.

Млу

Winnipeg Wheat

Oct. Dec.

7154/72% 7034/713

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Ofices: Shanghal, Manila and Singapore

All first-class mull for transmis- sion to countries not participating in the scheme must be pre-paid at the existing postage rates.

LABELS UNNECESSARY

It will no longer be necessary for air-mail labels to be affixed to cor- respondence addressed to the part!- Air-mal labels elping countries, must, however,

be affixed to air- mall correspondence addressed to non-participating countries and must bear the full air-mail fee.

The first service to Hongkong is expected to leave England on August 28 and the Arst service from Hong- kong on September 2.

Money-order advices to parttelpaf- ing countries will, in future, be sent by alr-mull, for which no extra charge will be made. Insured letters will be cartled under the all-up principle, but insured boxes, which are classed as second-class mail," will be forwarded by surface transport.

The all-up Empire mail applies only to mall of Hongkong origin

for destinations within the countries All mall from other above. named origin, or for other destinations by whatever route, will be subject to the present rules and postage rates. The all up rate of 15 cents a half compares with the present

ounce

surface rate of 15 cents for the first. ounce and 10 cents for each addi- tlunal ounce,

even

Europe via Sucz (Letters and Papers) London, date, 21st July and London Par- cels London date, 14th July.

the

Australia and Manila Japan and Shanghai

For

for

Chitral

.August 17.

Helyo Maru

August 17.

Atsuta Maru

August 18.

Pres. Doumer

August 18.

Date and Time:

OUTWARD MAILS

Per

Wednesday

Manija Haiphong Air Mail for Slan, Lanchow, Chang- sha and Chengtu, etc. (vla Han- kow) by the "Eurasia Airways Servico" (To further points by Services Transport surface permit). Haiphong

дя

Does Hilda Selwyn-Clarke really I should like to associate myself) wholeheartedly with Mrs. Selwyn object to the defensive works being Clarke's letter to which Mr. Blunt carried out for the defence of the

Samshui and Wuchow appears so from her reters, but should have preferred to Colony? It

Madang, Salainaua, Tulagi

Rabaul have seen it published in Hongkong letter which incongruously is signed the designation "Secretary, in place of "Random Ramblings."over

Japan and Europe via Siberla China Defence League."

Kongmoon

D. R. A. SPRECKLEY.

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