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FOUNDED A -- MONDAY,
BIG FILM UNIT WILL VISIT H.K.
German Stars Coming By Chartered Steamer
PLANS ARE BEING MADE for a large German travelling film unit to visit Hongkong and other Eastern cities to make travelogues.
Already the company's advance agents have fixed details for the filming of Ceylon and Malaya and they will later make arrangements for the filming of Hong- kong,
It is part of a scheme of the Tobis and Ufa Film Companies, sponsored by the German Government, to make a series of travel films of the world.
A specially-chartered German vessel, equipped with an aeroplane for speedy
work in the interiors of countries, has been sent out for the trip.
The steamer will remain for several days in Hongkong and other ports. Two advance agents, Mr. Fred Andreas and Herr Georg Hurdaleck, noted German scenario writers, are expected to arrive in the Colony shortly, to examine the feasibility of large-scale filming in Hongkong.
REFUGEE SHIP READY TO SAIL
A party of German actors and actresses will arrive in Hong- kong with the expedition and among them will be Hans Albers, one of the most famous German film stars.
The whole expedition is primarily un uttempt to present the world's beauties to Germans, who, owing to exchange difficulties, cannot travel.
Wuchang Loading Stores But it will also serve as the most
For Canton
THE 3,204 TON freighter Wuchang is now lying at the Douglas wharf ready to load supplies for the relief of the starving population of Canton.
the
Under Captain Green, Wuchang is expected to snil from here on Wednesday and will be the first foreign merchant
comprehensive publicity scheme plan- ned for various countries in Ger- many.
Mr. Andreas is a reputed novelist. Some of his books, such as "In Court" and "Captain Overboard have been translated into English by Messrs. Geoffrey Bles.
His companiou, Herr Hurdaleck, is besides being a scenarlo writer, a film in Hollywood.
director who gained his experience
Chinese Build
veasel to proceed to Canton since New Arsenal
the city was occupied by the Japanese.
The goods which the Wuchang will
load include 6,000 pieces of padded
for
In Lanchow
Shihklachwang, Nov. 21. clothes, 2,000, blankets, 5,000 pieces) of winter clothes, 5,000 coats
A new arsenal has been establish- Kansu children, 5,000 lbs. of knitted goods, ed in Lanchow, capital of
the object of cori 1,000 plculs of beans and 5,000 plculs Province, with
and structing the arms
munitions of rice.
Imported from Soviet Russia, accord- It is estimated that 50,000 Chinese ing to reliable information reaching are staying in the refugee camps in here to-day.
of them women and Canton, mast
The new arsenal, the Information children.
anys, started operation on November The voyage of the Wuchong result-17. ed from an interview between Ad- miral Sir Percy Noble, Commander- In-Chief of the British China Squn-efforts to dron, and Admiral Kolchi Shiozawa, transport routes between the Soviet Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Union and China. Fleet in South China,
MAILS TO DE CARRIED The Wuchang will leave 11ongkong at 7 am on Wednesday. She berthed
Following the fall of Canton, the National Government 18 making
strengthen
the "Red"
While the highways extending from Lanchow through Hanchung in Shens to Kwelchow in Szechuen ore undergoing Improvement, works are iso in progress to enlarge the air-
at the Douglas Steamship wharf at fields at Llangshan in Szechuen and
6.30 o'clock this morning to load the other inland districts-Domel. cargo of relief stores for refugees in Canton.
The ship, which has been charter-
ed by the British Fund for the Relef
of Distress in China, will carry food- stuff and stores to be used for the large number of starving destituto Chinese remaining in former Kwangtung capital.
and tho
It has been decided that the first
mail to Canton will be taken by the
ship. It is not expected, however,
Mongolians Desert To Chinese
Hoku, Nov. 21.
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Hongkong's
"Little Winter”
HTER
LJONGKONG'S "LITTLE WIN- which WWES ex- perienced a fortnight ago, ap- pears to be over, and the Colony is now experiencing a spell of weather which has put the tem- perature back nearer to th 60 mark,
Yesterday, for example, the maximum temperature leapt up to 79, while the minimum was
max'mum WAS 02. The highest ained November 4, and was nine degrees above the re- cording of a week ago.
the
The 10 o'clock temperature this morning was not so high as yesterday, when 75 degrees was registered. Today it was 68, with humidity at 54 per cent.
The fine weather will continue. and no rain is indicated, accord- Ing to the local forecast whiol reads:-North-east winds, fresh;
fine.
However, It may become same- what cooler than during the last four or five days.
The Royal 'Observatory wea ther report issued this morning slated that the anti-cylcone stationary over China, Japan and the neighbouring seas, and has increased moderately in Inten- ally. Pressure:is relatively low over the East Indlež
CAUSE TENSION
More Worries For Europe
As Fighting Increases
VIENNA, Nov. 20.
REPORTS CONTINUE to be made of frontier clashes between Czech and Hungarian patrols, particularly in the region of Feketepatak, as well as clashes between Slovak patrols and Polish terrorists.
The Nazi press states that the southern Slovakia fighting is the result of Jewish propaganda, and the newspapers state that the Slovak Government is prepar ing "new laws to climinate Jewish domination in business life."
Prague reports deny internal uprising, but admit two major clashes near Voloce, in which Czech guards killed four Hungarian terrorists invaders. another clash at Palpana, a Polish band crossed the frontier.
In
Meanwhile, Hungarian reports are contradictory, claiming that a Czech border patrol entered Hungary near Munkacs, pursuing Ruthenian deserters: United Pres8,
REPUTED TO BE THE FASTEST WARSHIPS AFLOAT, this is one of the new British motor torpedo- boats, six of which have been attached to China Station in Hongkong. At lop speed these boats can, with a twist of the wheel, side-slip immediately from diving machine-gunners. They accelerate from five to 38 knots la eight seconds or they can, from 38 knots, hall within three seconds without reversing engines. The boats, which are reputed to be capable of a speed of over 50 m.p.h., can be seen occasionally in Hongkong harbour.
Japanese
Resume K.C.R.
Traffic Nth. Of River
READY TO WELCOME
CHAMBERLAIN
THROUGH TRAFFIC FEASIBLE
CANTON, Nov. 21, WITH REPAIRS. COM-
ITALIAN POPULATION IS 44,000,000
More than 10,000 Mongolian troops Big Social Programme PLETED by Japanese mili- Census Reveals 356,000
May
that the Wuchang will be able to take under Japanese command in districts the entire shipment of over 1,000 west of Paatow, Sulyuan, have de- bags now stored at the G.P.O. Several|fected their Japanese overlords and hundred bags of mail will be taken joined the Chinese fold since aboard early on Wednesday morning, this year, it is estimated,
the Widespread defection among Among the foodstuffs which will be taken to Canton will be 1,000 Japanese-employed Mongolian troops bags of rion, donated by the Japan- in the province is still continuing. tae in Hongkong. žiotor amOnly recently, 80 more of the men bulances are also being taken on as have surrendered to the Chinese with
their munitions-Central News.
Cargo,
Exchange U.S. Fascists
Is Arranged
LONDON, Nov. 20. The oficial programme of the meeting in Paris of British and French Ministers this week has now been made known.
tary engineers on Thursday last, traffic has resumed on the Canton-Kowloon Rail- way for the first time since the Japanese severed the line at Sheklung on October 19.
Increase
ROME, Nov. 20.
A census held on October 31, shows that Italy has a popula tion of 43,982,000, including the four Lubian coast provinces.
1988, births exceeded deaths
ARMED CONFLICT DANGERS GROW
Vienna, Nov. 20.
The possibility of armed con-
flict over Czecho-Slovakia's!
NEW CZECH GERMAN
eastern frontier is growing, in AGREEMENT
the opinion of many inter-
national observors,
is
BERLIN, Nov. 20.
Both Poland and Hungary, it ANOTHER AGREE- understood, are ready to MENT between Germany march Into Ruthenia and
Eastern Slovakia at a moment's and Czecho-Slovakia
notice.
was
signed to-day in the German
It is believed they are ready Foreign Office, following to take advantage of a frontier the two agreements signed incident as a pretext for invasion on Saturday.
na police action to preserve
peace.
Observers believe that Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini will, take a strong stand if the situation grows dangerous.
The occupation of Eastern Czecho Slovakia by Hungary or Poland, or
The two agreements signed on Saturday provided for
the building of a motor-spees)- way from Breslau to Vienna, through
Czecho-Slovakla, and
Jolat construction of in Oder- - Danube and Libe-Danube canal. The third agreement provides for a frontier rectification, which, it is
both, would constitute a loss of stated, is necessary an ethnographic prestige to Italy.
grounds. The contents of this treaty not, however, be published until For Germany, it would not only Monday midday. present loss of prestige, but the loss! It is, however, stuted, that by this would also threaten to close to Berlin: agreement Czecho-Slovak.a will re- the road to the Black Sea. At the celve from Germany certain terri- same time it would interfere with torics whose population is over- Derlin's programme for economie whelmingly Czech.
domination in Slovakia, and Ruthenia, On the other hand the Reich will as well as Bohemia and Moravia. receive from Czecho-Slovakia several Vienna Annoyance.
on
Annoyance at the recent trend of events
the Ruthenian Slovakian frontlers is expressed by Vienna's Sunday newspapers.
newspapers,
villages the population of which is preponderatingly German. Through this exchange of territory it is de- clared, about 50,000
belong-
ing as a minority to Czecho-Slovakia or Germany will be reincorporated in
The Voelkischer Beobachter says their natural mother country,
Moreover, by this frontier rectoca- that a "campaign for trontier clari-
by tion it has been arranged that an im Acation" 19 being conducted
who are portant railway line that previously Hungarian urging the union of Ruthenin to intersected the frontier three timer, Hungary on historical, graphical now lies entirely inside Germany so and economic grounds. The papers that waste of valuable time owing to describe this as "remarkable" because repeated customs inspections will be the Budapest, as well as the Prague avoided.
advance The International Commission, ep- Government, "accepted in
and without reservation the decision pointed in accordance with the firms by Italy and Germany as given at of the Munich agreement is said to have already confirmed the frontiéř the Vienna conference."
rectification--Trans-Occan,
The editorial declared that "any opposition to this verdict can become an attack on peace."—United Press.
Catholics In England Join In Protests
London, Nov. 20.
LATE NEWS
Operation At Sea In H.K. Steamer
Burum The dining saloon of tho Philp Line sicamer. Nepims was con-
A petition signed by 30,000 Catho-verted into an operating theatre les protesting against the persecu- during the ship's voyage from Hong-
Earned
FROM JANUARY to October tion of Catholics in Germany has been on to Australia, it has just boen placed before the shrine of Our Lady | by 356,000. In the correspond-of Walsingham in the Alipper Chapel, There, Dr. Mary Saunders, the
Walsingham, Norfolk,
ship's surgeon, moccssfully operated The Arat train ran THE PRIME MINISTER Mr.
from ing period of last year, the num
The signataries include Cardinal on a member of the crew for Chamberlain and the Foreign Canton to Shektan (85 miles) ber was only 807,028.
of Weat-pendelts
A trained nurse, who was 4. PAS- Since Secretary, Lord Halifax, accom-without incident on Friday.”
nearly 10,000,000, Kinsley, the Archbishop
minstar.-Reuter, [
sanger from Hongkong to Sydney, sa- Dally trains will probably run bo-Italians live in foreign countries, panied by the Prime Minister's |
alsted in the operation. antres from this the total number of Italians is
PASTORAL ́LETTER READ
The chief steward administered the Private Secretary, Lord Dunglas, tween the two
IN GERMAN CHURCHES. 58,000,000. Trans-
anaosthetic, and the explain and chet Under Secretary in the Foreign week onwards.
evacuated Shek nearly When the ChinerC
Berlin, Nov. 20.
CopBoor nated as "trained nurses". Offce, Sir Alexander Cadogan, Jung-they dynatated bout railway Ocean.
A pastoral letter from the Cathölle!
The operation was performed when and the Chief or the Central De-bridges over the East River, and it
the south bank of the East River, Bishop of Berlin was read to-day in the tinie was, between, Cebu and
Catholle churches, protesting | “REMENTS, fortni partment, Mr. William Strang, will not be possible for a consider
thus connecting with the trains all able time
time to compiace railway traffic
to the against the recent request to pare now running from Canton t will arrive in Paris on Wednes south of the riv
In certain districts of Berlin-To thes north bank of the river." it in balleved that, with Actuon MR. MARTIN DIES announced to-day that he will intro-day afternoon..
of a form stating that they would send The question of resumption of tid river bridges, duce a Bill to the House of Representatives for legalising the
For Oppressed Groups
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.
On the same evening à banquet will
the
Fexchange of tliscontented American elements and groups in the"\ve given at the Qany d'Orsay. The the damage to tri, entire railway be- rallway Traffic between Canton-and] their children to lay⠀
wired Büropicán minorities for specified Nasis, Fascists and Communista.
He added: "This only puts the Administration's reciprocal ids, programine on a human basis."—United: Press..
next day the President of the French tween. Canton und the Republic, M. Leon Labrun, will adva frontier is slight Zast
lunch in honour of the Brilh
(Costhund on "Page-13.)
There Appeara
Longkong, “The son was mine! Que of the the weance who are
the world." She £1
The letter slated i1⁄2wa ZAVAKTER
15370) | taken up with the Japanese authori- parente: wwvo, entitled, under 150 | Hongkong Hongkong has, it is understood, been
useet fles WV The Hongkong authorities, but Concordat, to send their chüdrik 42) Cat has apparently melyik a lukewan Catholic cool and it was
Corrandone to Iriales, upon this right
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