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Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDER 2001
No. 15095
四拜禮 號八月二十 英港香
THURSDAY, DECEMBER
8,
1938.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
IN AN AIR RAID
Trenches in Built-Up Areas: Mass Evacuation of Civilians
Stan Laurel
Sues Studio For $700,000
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 7. STAN LAUREL, Allm comedi. an with the bewildered look, has filed a suit claiming $700,- 000
from the Hal Roach Studios, alleging breach of contract.
Stan Laurel's diemisen! by Hal Konch last August broke up the Laurel-Hardy team.
Laurel alleges that his dis- missal has made it difficult for him to obtain other work films-Reuter.
EX-CHIEF OF NAVY ATTACKS GERMANY
In
Programme Destruction Of France
F HONGKONG SHOULD EVER BE SUBJECT TO AIR RAID THIS IS THE A.R.P. PLAN, DIVULGED TO THE "TELEGRAPH" THIS MORNING, FOR PROTECTING, AIDING AND CONTROLLING THE CIVILIAN POPULATION.
At the first hint of an emergency the plan will be`put into immediate operation.
Miles of trenches will be dug throughout the built-up areas of the island and mainland.
Arrangements have already been completed for this work, even to the extent of approaching contractors and revealing to them where the excavations will necessary.
be
Practically every spare land in the residential and business areas will be utilised. Trenches will be dug in parks, sports grounds and school grounds. Vacant allotments will also be used.
Mass evacuation of civilians to safe areas in the New Territories is also a probability, and is now under discussion. Women and children, naturally, would be the first to be moved if the plan is put into operation.
The central control office of the local A.R.P. organisation will operate in the city, but will be in direct telephonic com- munication with each of the hundreds of A.R.P. posts already
ITALIANS DEMAND
being set up in the Colony GERMANY'S
PARIS, Dec. 7.
These posts will be manned by MR. A. DUFF COOPER, 8,000 volunteer Air Raid former First Lord of the wardens, who are now being re- section of Admiralty, speaking at a cruited from every public lecture here to-day the community. said that Germany's pro-Fald Wardens to schedule the popu- It will be the duty of these Air gramme to-day was faration In groups and to take care of more aggressive than in
1914.
"Hitler's programme is the destruction of France," he de- clared.
areas surrounding each post.
Nothing is being overlooked by the organisations which will take com- mand in the event of an emergency in this Colony,
SPECIAL FOOD PLAN
mitler has
for ensuring that
SUPPORT
Campaign For French Colonial Territory
PARIS, Dec. 7. IT IS RELIABLY RE- PORTED that Italy has demanded Germany's open
"All of Hitler's promises have A special Food Supply sub-Com. Support for the unofficial been broken, and it would be an rangements already completed ar-popular Italian demand for error to found the policy of our Colony will not want for food. Tunisia and Corsica. two countries on yesterday's re- Plans have been completed for the Reports state that Mussolini newed promises in the Franco-torage and control of rice, dried fish, and Ciano have asked for Herz
etc. for ferding the Chinese popu-Hitler's support. German declaration."
fallon. Similarly, arrangements have
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WHITEAWAY'S
Terrific Increase
In Sino-Japanese
Debt Obligations
CHUNGKING, Dec. 7.
A. SPOKESMAN of the Finance Ministry to-day issued a statement reviewing the Chinese public debt prior to the outbreak of
CONSCRIPTION COMES TO MANCHUKUO
war. The total national
debt was, he stated, 115 TONS equivalent to roughly |4,500,000,000 yuan.
A
OF XMAS
AIR MAIL
Imperial Airways' Enormous Task
LONDON, Dec. 7.
of CHRISTMAS MAIL
Roughly 60 per cent. of the internal debt was through loans issued since the outbreak of the Sino- Japanese war, and included the following: the National Liberty Loan, the National Defence
each of Loan, 500,000,000 yuan, the Gold nearly 115 tons, comprising of Loan Bonds, and the nearly six and a half million letters, has been despatched by Nanning and Chennankwan Imperial Airways during the Railway Loan, of which past four weeks, including 150,000,000 francs were thirty-four tons of nearly two spent on the railway con-million letters last week. necting the border Kwangsi with Indo-China.
The total authorised amount of the aforementioned loans since the outbreak of hostilities was
of
Mail to Australia and New Zealand, for which the closing date was December 2, were the highest ever last week and 47.5 tons during the recorded being nearly fourteen tons past four weeks.
The figures for South Africa, for
the equivalent of approximately which the closing date was December 6, was also higher than any other 1,500,000,000 yuan.
wek during this period, namely eight tons and a total of 25.5 tons uuring the past four weeks.
The mail for Malaya and Hong- kong is expected to reach the record beginning this week,
Japanese loors issued since the war began total around 7,000,000,000 yen, which was four or five line>
orger than the Chinese loans.
Comparing the total outstanding Inational indebtedness of the two said the countries, the spokesman present figures would be roughly 10,000,000,000 yuan for China and
18,000,000,000 yen for Japan. In should occur towards the end of this
present
Despatches to these territories last work were one and a half and
one and quarter tons respectively, Mail for India, the peak load
fother words, the Japanese
weck, was low last week when nearly national debt was three times
seven tons were despatched to India, great as China's at the official rate of Burma and Ceylon making 22.75 tons exchange.
Per capits, the debt would be about 13 yuan in China to 200 yen in Japan, the former being 1/20th of the latter, In other words, the per capita debt! had increased "by "about"180 yen ini Japan on account of the hostilities, whereas in China It had increased by three yuan.
This of course, was not the end of the story, he added.-United Press.
10,000,000 Youths In China To Be War-Trained
Chungking, Dec. 7. Party ofclols stated to-day that; the Kuomintang which had initiated the "San Min Chul Youth Corps" | Inst April, after the pattern of the Communist Youth Corps in Russla
Mr. Duft-Cooper argued that Ger- been made to cope with the require Herr von Ribbentrop interrupted s many was not 60 strong militarily osments of the European section of the conversations with the French states- many supposed. The alliance be- population.
men whlie he awaited' word from tween France and the British Empire,
Hitler he said, was the most powerful in the
It is understood that M. Bonnet world.
There was no greater advocate underlaken
The following people have niready directly questioned Herr Ribbentrop
to serve as Air
yesterday, asking: "What will Ger- for peace than himself, bot war Warden's sub-Committees could not be avoided by perpoinal, Kowloon districts;
for the many do it France defends Tunisia, Corsica and Djibouti, and goes to war concessions.
with Italy." Comparing the democracles and the
It is reported that Herr von Ribben- dictatorships, be said that the past 20
J. M. Jack, 6. trop was only able to give an inexon-
which by no means been neg-Essex Crescent, Mrs. 1.3. Baat, 249, plete answer, Insisting that Herr
years
In
KOWLOON TONG
Convener-Mrs.
Fald
He was not forewarned of the
to date.-Reutër,
LATE NEWS
NEW CHALLENGER FOR JOE LOUIS
St. Louis, Dec. 8. Tony Galento knocked out the negro and similar organisations in Ger- boxer, Otis Thomas in the ninth round mony and Italy, had decided to ex- of a twelve round bout to-night.
Galento is zow ranked as the pre- pand the San Min Chui Corps Into
for the Joe Louis gigantic body, with 10,000,900 mler American challenger
members,
HSINKING, Dec. 8. REPLACING THE EXISTING volunteer system, the Manchukuo Government has decided to enforce the
will be enlisted world tile held by 蠶 view to conscription system from 1940, with
from students in the high schools Reuter, and colleges, and who will undergo not supported Italian strengthening Manchukuo's national defence forces.
hard military and political training, designed to meet war-time emer the Rome-Bertin axis remains in- The existing volunteer service
gencies. In system was put into force in
bad fected Britain and France to in- Prince Edward Road; Mr. Ho Sing Italian demonstrations, and that the culcate into young minds the horrots Chau, 123, Waterloo Road; Mr. H. F. Reich had of war, whereas in the last five years, Un, 20, Sumerset Road.
aspirations. However, he asserted hat taet.
at least, beyond the Rhine the you'
er generation had been taught that
was the noblest of
KOWLOON CITY
C. H. Basto, 9,
Mr. Duit Cooper declared that the Convener. Mr. Cal to, in the absence of new. instructions, satch; was ver, Preliminary Thousands
parliamentary and governmental system in Britain falled during the Kak Hang Taeung Road; Mr. Lau not see M. Bonnet again, since he is arrangements for the Introduc
Wing Fook, 1B, Nga Tsin Wai Road; heduled to
Great War, and
during the September
leave for Berlin
crisis, and was unsuited to the con- Mr. J. M. Alves, 302, Prince Edward Thursday morning-United PTC. cation of the compulsory military Cheer Spain
tinual crises which we are now going Rood.
MONGKOK
through.
He suggested that the French par- Convener. Mr. F, E, d'A Remedios, timentary temelem was likewise out-6, Peace Avenue, Mrs. L. Osmond, moded. Renter,
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Hongkong Air Passenger Had Cure for Sickness
THIRTEEN PEOPLE arrived in the Air France plane at 12.37
p.m. to-day.
+
At least one of the passengers found the perfect cure for air sickness.
His-formula is simple.
And, finally, ignore your fellow Fat plenty
bananas, passengers. Make faces at them. of “Nibba, at an occasion, peanut. 1. If they insist on becoming familiar
Occasionally give yourself 'a hearty bit; van
scratching Westion." A search, as if Afterthought: The passenger was for fear is nlso to be recommanded. ja monkey. His owner, Mr. M. Huan. Counters warn to courself. You told the "Telegraph" ruefully: "Yes, inight/aven ærench occasionally. II was niralci,
BRITISH AMBASSADOR
GIVEN THE FACTS
Paris, Dec. 7.
service are being made by the authorities of the Peace Preser- vation Department.
M. Georges Bonnet received Str Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador In preparation for the new this morning, and acquainted him service system, the Government with the whole of yesterday's talks will complete the census regis- with Herr von Ribbentrop.Kouter,
tration throughout the country by the end of next year, it ́is pointed out.-Domet.
British Girl Wins World's Swim Record
Wallasey, Dec. 7.
STRIKE WANES
Parls, Dec. 7. - The strike movement le waning
Volunteers
Big Reception At
Victoria Station
London, Dec. 7,
The officials said that the rules for enlisting consist of absolute obe- dience to orders of the leader and absolute belief in the Three Prin-| [ciples of the People,
It was stated that the "Students! Army," which was planned a short ago was only part of the Youth' Corpathilled Press,
time
POLICE DANCE
European members of the Hong- Thousands cheered the arrival at kong Police Force will hold a dance Victoria Station to-day of the British at the Peninsula Hotel on January 6, battalion of the International Brig. from 0.15 p.m. to 2 m. ade from Spain, which 309.
numbered
For the convenience of theso at- tending a special last ferry will be leaving Kowloon Star Ferry Wharf} Some of the waiting throng car-nt 2.20 a.m.
MR. AND MRS. L KADOORIE BACK.
nowried bannors, and thousands Joined, Tickets may be purchased at $2}
In the singing of the "International" per head. Doris Storey to-day "broke the The strike committee at Valen- | and the "Red Flag.”..... world record for the women's 200 ciennes has ordered the unconditionat
Sir Stafford Cripps. Mr. Clement yards breast stroke, when she clock-resumption of work by 150,000 metal ed 2 minutes 42.5 seconds.
workers, white only 354 out of nearly Attten and Mr. Tom Mann, the The record was previously held by 10,000 workers continue to strike at veteran Communist · leader wersj the German swimmer, Hanni Holtz-Lille.
among thcso present, while Mr. ner, her time being 2:42.0,
Shipping companies have offered to Lawther, acting President of the Mr. and Mrs. L. Kadoorie, :wbo Dorls Storey is the only British reinstals crews provided they return | Miner's Tederation, whose youngest have been honeymooning in French swimmer holding a world recded unconditionally, 4 It is expected the son was killed in Spain, welcomed Indo-China sirrned to Hongkong Reuter.
offer will be accepted--Reuter, the arrivataeuler Special,
by Ale Trance plane this -afternoon.