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JEWISH REFUGEES FOR S'HAI
Italian Liner Brings
Party Of 528
Banging in age from a man of 68 years to a boy of three months and including one family of 18, German Jewish refugees to the number of 528 passed through Hongkong by the Lloyd Tricalino Huer Conte Binn camino yesterday on the way to Shanghui.
ROBBER BEHEADED
Car Bandit in Germany Pays Penalty
Nuremberg, Dec. 17. Within few hours of being ser- tenced for highway robbery, the cor bandit, Willy Haller, aged 24, was beheaded at midnight.
His girl accomplice was also zen- tenced to death but was'saved from the headman's axe at the last minute by Hitler, who commuted the sentence tú 1lfe limprisonment.-Reuter
hatred and they have no hatred for
A man who had spent 10 weeks in Unlike those who have recently concentration camp stated that the been arriving in small pattes and beating and abuse were so ruthless who were able to save a little that of 1,300 people in one of these capital, those
on the Conte Blancs 11 had died in 10 weeks, camana are mostly very poor, som With eloquent gestures, some des- fellown hanging from trees, either by cribed how they had seen their
the arcka or, for torture, by the
of them having only the clothes they wer, Thele number was greater when they left Burope, but about 10 of them landed at ports en route. None landed at Hongkong.
Very few of the refugees can speak English at all; so that they welcomed representatives of the Hongkong Jewish Relief Society who met the Chip and gave them full information about Shanghai, telling them that they would be met there and assisted by the Jewish Refugee Committee.
wrinta.
The arrival of the Conte Dian- camano's party will bring the total of Jewish refugees in Shanghai to over 1,000, and a number as great or greater is expreted to pass through Hongkong by another ship in the near future.
Position in' Shanghal
Monday
HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH
December 19, 1938.
This mass of ruins is all that in less of a village on the Ebro front in northern Spain, after a heavy bombardment by Insurgent artiflery in an effort to dislodge the Loyalista from posillons they gained last summer, A communique from Barcelona later admitted Loyalist forces had re- treated across the river to former positions.
New
for
Y'S MEN'S CLUBS
Regional Director For China
For the most part they remained near Advices from Shanghai state that the ship, buying an occasional blan-i the International Committee ket, where they could afford it, from, Austrian and German refugees has only $3,000 in hand. This is expect- whart hawkers.
the
been
assist
for China.
Car Handle RETURN TO SHANGHAI
Clue
Ostracised Jews
Italian Government To Expropriato Land
The new Italian regulations re- garding Jewish land property in Italy include methods whereby the property can be expropriuted, says Reiter Bulletin,
07,000
of Austria's 300,000 Jews, emigrated during the period between March 15 and December 2.
Over 45,000 Jews left the country before August 1, 15,000 ns refugeen without permission of the state authorities,
Trans-Ocean message from Viejon,
By a
Posters are, beginning to appear at numerous slingwindows in Rome, Milan and other Italian cities slating that owners are Aryans, says Trans-' Occati,
Over 4,000 Jews from Europe will land in Shanghai' in the near future revealed the spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office in Tokyo.
Arrest of Smugglers
Cologne, Dec. 17.
Don't spend
half your life
Aboul 10,000 marks worth of catching
Seventh Day Adventists' Eastern Academy
Thirty-two students-10 boys and custon guards.
Woman's Injuries Lead 10 gith-were aboard the Indo-China
To Police Inquiry
found
Rhine
German
foreign currency and gold coins to the value of 800 marks which were being smuggled abroad were hidden aboard the Dutch steamer Queen Emma by
Five Jews who were being taken company's new steamer Taisang when to Holland contrary to existing re- he sailed for Shanghai yesterday, gulatious were also discovered on the Their departure marked the return ship, which has been confiscated, Four members of the crew and o Lu Shunghat of the Far Eastern woman passenger, nileged to be the Aademy of the Seventh Day Adven-leader of a gang of smugglers, have
location in Leen arrested.—Trans-Ocean. Hongkong for some months.
The very ready found a friend ined to last only till the end of the At the sixteenth annual convention AIR Mir A. Landau, who was present on year. The American Red Cross Is of Y's Men's Clubs held in Toronto the wharf with a great basket con- being asked to
with monetary taining 120 blankets. Through one support when the present reserve is some weeks ago. Mr. Y. Lewis Mason the refugee passengers who knew exhausted. So for $12,000 has been of Shanghal was elected Regional the circumstances of those on board rated in Shanghai: most of this was Director for China, succeeding Mr. he distributed
these to the most
by 20 individual,
Win. Yinson Lee, the founder of the A door handle broken from a car necessitous etes, with speeint eon-
The Landon Committee for Heftige Y's. Men's Movement of "Fellowship. is the clue on which traffic police ideration for those with children,
Reher sent £500, and an urgent Culture and Service" in China, who are working to clear up the mystery Many of the refugees were
Chinese woman's inquiries)tist Misalon after its com-appect to the Junt Distribution Com has held this position continuously of a pletely unequipped for the rigours of nutes of New York resulted in a since 1924. In recognition of his con- shortly after midnight Saturday a winter in Shanghai and were glad grant of U.S. $2,500. Every pointed at the same Toranta Con- Quren's Road East.
tinuous service, he has been ap- the jitnetion of Arsenal Street and of the gift of, a blanket, The donor of this foreign money has already vention, Regional Director-Emeritus
The academy was transferred from intends to meet every ship bringing
The Woman Chang Yan, was found Shanghai when hostilities extended Toosing
spens
on the corner where extensive nitera into the Yangtsepoo area. At Shang cofugees and give what relief he can then the mess was a tie of
committee's greatest wor-} Mr. Y. Lewis Mason is a native of lions to the route are proceeding, at hal its headquarters here were in From Concentration Camps ries. So far most of the refuges Thing, Kiangsu, a graduate of the about 12.30 am. She was seriously premises formerly a private resi- The refuges included about 10 live been sheltered in three or four Tsing Hua College,
injured apparently
of dence at Lam Til, Castle Peak. As a result dews who had been detained in con- houses in Hongkew, but conditions Colorado College, MA. from Cohum- being knocked down by a car, for a Lentration
The school's return camps. Some of these age reported to be unsatisfactory. It bia University and M.C.S. from the door handle, newly broken,
to Shanghai declared that they had been released in contended that the only possible New York University. Returning to found at the spot. This clue was accompanies the transfer back of the on condition they left the country way to house the refugees is through China twelve years ago, he organized picked up by a Petty Officer of the Seventh Day Adventist Church or within a certain brief ume; those the renovation of existing houses.
houses in the Consolidated National Advertsing Royal Navy with whom the Trafficonisation headquarters, who could not escape by then were Shanghal, and in some instances this Company of which he is a director Inspector at the. Central Police 2 students were accompanied by cefurned to the camps. These and arcessitates the providing of furni- and manager. He was a president of Station would like to get in touch.
the Principal of the Academy, Mr. many of the others, they stated, had ture and other equipment. The fact the Shanghai Y's Men's Club in 1830,
The inspector would also welcome W. F. Anderson, and four other heen stripped of their belongings that such n large group
is a director of the Shanghai Chinese is arriving
news of any car that is minus a door teachers. Two teachers travelled by crossed the frontier of hug the winter months will also YM.C.A. and has been chairman of handle and may be connected with the Conte Bancamano and the re- Germany.
contribute to the hurdship of the succeeding Mr. Wm. Vinson Lee in
the Shanghai Y's Men's Baby Clinic, the accident,
mainder of the pupils and teachers Several described actual ustaner
refugees,
for at present the high
will travel by the Conte Rosso after 1935. peraccution, one stating that hej prise of real makes heating a costly had seen a mon forced into a box item, parded with all points; the lid wast One of the first sights which con-i then closed down on him.
when
of
they
fronted the refugees when thry
"What you read in the papers in thed in Hongkong yesterday was not nearly so horrible as what has the standard from whose influence been happening" one said, "The they had fled in dread--the Swas- Jews are the viclines of a murder tilta. This symbol, on a big scale, rganisation which has nothing to do appeared on the side of the steamer with the real German public. For Sauerland, which was tied up near- the people of cierniany we have no hy.
B.A.
POLICE DANCE
from
A Police Dance will be held in the l'eninsula Hotel on January 6 next, from 0.15 nm. to 2 a.m.
There will be "spot" prizes and the price of admission will be $2.
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MOTOR CARS STOLEN
Two Europeans Lose Their Vehicles
Christroas,
Doctor Shot Dead
Lausanne, Dec. 17. The Chief physician of Lausanne University Clinics, Doctor Mean. was shot dead at the Cantonal Hos pital by a medical student, Erni Gruenberg, 26-year-old Rumanian Jow. Gruenberg committed, sujeide after the
murder. He wanted graduate and felt unfairly treated by Dr. Menn-Trans-Occast.
APPOINTMENTS
and Mr. Lal Jowson
cold
B
BAYER
ASPIRIN'
WILL PROTECT YOU
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have been
The Rt. Rev. Bishop J. Valtoria CANTON TO MACAO nominated as members of the Court Japanese to Commence of the University of Hongkong for a further period of three years as from Steamer Service December 17.
in the Peak district, and a ring with been nominated as a member of the Mr. H. V. Wilkinson, p.5.0., has three keys was mising
Court of the University of Hongkong for a period of three years as from December 8.
Mr. Charles J. Roo has
been
Dr. E. W. Stout, of Alexandra Mr. S. J. G. Burt, of 1 Tramway Bulking, also test his motor car on Path, had his motor car stolen on Saturday. It was left parked in
day night, but recovered ft an Connaught Road Central from 3.15 appointed to act as Secretary to the [Saturday. It was found abandoned p.m. to 4 p.m.
Urban Council as from Decvinber 15.
Canton, Dec. 19. The Japanese will begin a regular steamer service between Canton and Macao on Tuesday for Chinese and Japanese passengers only.
its neat appearance on bulidings to- The five-barred Chinese flag made day since the revolution-Reuter.
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