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AIR MINISTRY ADMITS:| "160 RAIDS ON NATION
LAST NIGHT"
(Continued from Pape 3.) Innd bombers succeeded in avoiding the heavy defences along the Thames estuary and attempted to attack south London.
There a balloon barrage- forced them to abandon low bambing and they came within convenient ronge of heavy anti-aircraft batteries. The Air Ministry states that a formation of Eastland bombers few over Landon under anti-aircraft Bre In the afternoon and were intercepted by defending Splitres over Hyde Park.
In the northern area, the enemy crossed the coust at East Anglia north of Ipswich and near Cambridge, and two small nights and broke into attacked over A whic orea-the manoeuvre was designed to bame the defenders,
Birmingham Raid
A sering of raids on London were intercepted before they came within striking distance of the expital, and an arca in nurth Birmingham was ako ralded.
France Impressed
PARIS, Aug. 9 (Reuter).The British Dar manoeuvres, combined with the review of the reserve fleet Juve made a big impression in France. as reassuring evidence of British watchfulness.
"It is not a coincidence, but a sign" declares the "Paris Soir", th com- Inenting on the fact that the exercises are taking place at the same time as Herr
between Foerster's journey
Berchtesgaden and Danzig.
The "Intransigeant" rays that "our ailies general staff have endeavoured to reproduce as nearly as possible the the conditions of real warfare. We
know we can count on our allies,
they can on us."
West Coast "Wrecked" SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Aut. 9 (UP).-Theoreti cally, Westland's western towns have been wrecked and there is debris in the wake of the raids of the first 24 hours of the manoeuvres.
constal
The EasLanders penetrated to south London, where there was the stiffest resistance by the Westland fighters with their balloon barrages and unti-aircraft
guns, which pelled the Eastlanders before they reached the heart of the city.
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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS | PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
of the Sale by Public Auction
of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 14th
to be held on Monday, the 14th day of August, 1939, at 3 p.m., day of August, 1939, nt 3 p.m., at the Offieca of the Public
at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of
Works Department, by Order of Hla Excellency the Governor of
His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Island
one Lot of Crown Land at To Road, Repulse Bay, in the Colony
Kwa Wan, in the Colony of Hong of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal nt a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- and of the int the Purchaser (If not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash This sum will be refunded on payment of the Pur chase price. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale
Register No
Locality
42s oX 101
I
Rural Building
Junction of Island Road | and South Bay Road,
Repulse Bay.
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Boundary
Measurements
Ar per salo
plan.
August 10, 1939. ·
Wave of Optimism In
In Chungking As Japan Falters
BIG AMERICAN LOAN MAY WIN
WAR OF ATTRITION IN CHINA
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH" CHUNGKING, Aug. 9 (UP).--The belief
Kong for a term of 75 years, JAPAN PURCHASES FIVE that the Japanese military invasion of China has
with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of a Majesty the KING, for one further term of 76 years.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- unl of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale,
the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This aum will be refunded on payment of the Pur- chase price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Locality
$3,500
Inland Lot No 2152, Cheng Sing Street,
To Kw: Wan
Contents in
og, feet
Annual
Rental
11 Opaev Price |
↑ No. of Sale
Registry No.
About
0918
R.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 14th day of August, 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Sham- shuipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1893, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be Axed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 24 years less the last three days thereof.
that immediately after the dispo
Intending bidders are advised
sal of the lot the Purchaser (If not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash This sum will be refunded on payment of the Pur- chase price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale,
Registry Na
Locality
Lot No 2715. Between New Kowloon Inland Lots Nos. 2690 and 2257 Castle Peak Road, Shamshuipo
"New howloon Inland
Boundary
Measurement
{feet;fres}ject)feel
on pet sale
plan...
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Ann. Peat |
Upses
Price
DEL'S
$8,625
WALK-OUT THREATEN- ED BY JAPAN'S MILITARY LEADERS (Continued from Page 13
Office that the United States was Interneted in the same issues.
French Note Rejected
TOKYO, Aug. 10 (Router).-The "Asahi Shimbun" states that the Japanese Foreign Office, replying to the French and American represen tallons, expressed determination to deal hereafter, as heretofore, with Britain plona, and rejected the re- presentations as unreasonable.
Missing Missionary
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PEIPING, Aug. (UP) The Canadian Minister at Tokyo has ask- ed the Japanese Embassy to invest!- Kate the welfare of Mr. H. Stewart Forbes, of the United Church of Canada, at Welhaiwel, Honan, who has not been heard from for a long time. Several other Canadians are be- Hieved to be in Welhalwel, working in the Hospital,
Prisoners Resent Police Din
LYNN, Mass. (UP)—Rehearsing clog steps on the second floor of the police station in preparation for their annual minstrel show, a score of bluecoats abruptly halted their terpsichorean endeavours. "Guests" in the frat door cells complained of the noise..
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REICH CONDOR PLANES |
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, Aug. 10 (Domel). -It is revealed that the japan Airways Company, through the Mitsui Trading Company, has signed a contract with the German Focke-Wulf Aircraft Manufacturing Company for the purchase of five 30-seator passenger planes of the Condor тура.
Two of the Five Condor planes will be flown from Bcr- lin to Tokyo by japanese crows carly next spring, while the remaining threo will also be brought to Japan during next
have to
year.
The planes will operate on the trunk lines of the Japan Airways Company's regular services between Japan and the Continent.
[protest against the Chinese mobbing
of the British International Export Company and other British shops in the Third Speelal Administrative District on Friday last.
BRITISH PROTESTS Continued from Page 1.) Chinese silver ate reported to stiffened the British reluctance
In his reply, Consul General concede to the Japanese demands.
Tashiro claimed that the Japanese Tientsin Protest
authorities were not in a poslilon to TIENTSIN, Aug. 9 (Trans-Ocean) accept the British representations. -Mr. E. C. Jamieson, the British
The note assures the British auth- Consul-General, has written a protest orities, nevertheless, that
Japanese to the Japanese Consul-General con authorities will not spare their ef
de-forts to protest British residents and cerning the latest anti-British monstrations, and has requested the business firms in the nffected area. Japanese authorities to suppress fur- On the basis of the inquiries carried ther anti-British acts in the occupied out by Japanese authorities, the note
reached its final stages so far as advances further
west are concerned, and that hostilities will now settle down to a bitter economic and financial struggle in which foreign assistance will play a dominating part, has resulted in the complete linking of the foreign and economic policies of the Chinese Government. CAUSE FOR REJOICING
The prospects of a loan from the United States of U.S.$350,000,000, which could be used immediately for the- purchase of supplies, and to which no strings would be attached, added to the present negotiations with Britain for further loans, as well as barter agreements with France, has given the Chinese Government greater cause for rejoicing now than at any other time since the war began.
Barter agreements-under which China exchanges raw materials for needed manufactured articles and war materials the improvement of the western highway system, which, according to best-informed foreign According to Chinese reports, Mr. a spontaneous demonstration was sources, has given China much greater facilities for new Jamieson also asked for Japanese anti-British feelings omong Chinese supplies than they have had since the fall of Hankow, police protection for the premises of citizens. British concerns in these areas,
The Japanese reply has not yet been easily be settled if Britain effected a
It suggests that the situation would are evidence that China has cause for optimism.
wrritories.
claims
that the Chinese mobbing
drastic revision of its "conception of PACT WITH RUSSIA
North China.”
Newspaper Threatened SPECIAL TO" THE "TELEGRAPH". PEIPING, Aug. 9 (UP). The "Pelping Chronicle has received at
PEIPING, Aug. 9 officer is least four threatening letters allered
All I want is a reasonable judgment as to whether when an showhug
Ing you his complete confidence have depicted, it is fuse such as 1 is perhaps reason- able that I should trust hun in more open waters between Bocca Tigris and Hongkong, particularly when that officer has on 20 previous occa- sions passed that point as officer of the watch, frequently under observation.
Shanghai Precautions SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
With the American agreement for bartering trucks for wood oil as the starting point, the Chinese Government has riegotiated (UP). The a new barter agreement with Russia, and is now laying plans for to be from Chinese, all posted in Anti-British Committee here has Peiping but in different handwriting, selected a delegation headed by Kao barter trade with France for mechanical equipment and indus refuting the stories of anti-American Li-ting to attend demonstrations.
Anti-British Congress
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
HOW NAVAL RESERVISTS WERE CALLED TO FLEET
(Continued from Page 3)
the anti-Dritish Irial machines. Congress at Tientsin which is schedul- It is hoped that a similari The letter threatened the use of el for August 12. bombs and pistols if "such communis- Meanwhile the Committee has asked agreement will be concluded with tie propaganda" is published again, the Peiping Municipality hereafter Britain, if and when Britain
Reply To Protest
not to issue diplomas to agrduntes of indicates by actions that she has British Mission Schools. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
abandoned her policy of appease- TIENTSIN, Aug. 10, (Domel)- "Ten minutes before the accident, Japanese authorities have nothing
ment with Japan and decides
final decision would depend on work gathered that the ship was
that friendship with China SHANGHAI, Aug. 10 (VP),
The conditions.
seene pl the to do with the anti-British agitation normal position steering normal
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manoeuvres will not be announced course, and I know of no occasion ou
among Chinese citizens in Tientsin, United States Marines have cancelled more essential. which alteration of course towards
between Mr. Tashiro, Japanese Consul-Gen- their leave
The reported agreement for joint until autumn, but they will presum- land had been made on a previous
eral, declared in his written reply to August 11 and midnight on August Anglo-Japanese policing of the Tien-ably be held in late January.or early occasion between Black Point and Consul-General, regarding the British by continuously.
Mr. E. G. Jamieson, the British 14. During this period they will stand tsin Concession and the admission of February. Tap Sial Kok and that I had reason to suppose that I would pass at least two cables off the rock"
I
iti a
on tu the
Asked why he did not have his ship fixed or steered by fixed leading murks, accused said that such was not practicable in the circumstances which he had explained. To Ax CLOSS bearing necessitated tho omeer of the watch leaving the bridge. When he went bridge at 1.12 p.m. he estimated that the Tarantula would pass Tap Sink Kok from two to two and a half cables Away. After
leaving
Ute bridge, he returned to his cabin. He cui see nothing from his cabin if he sat down, but he could see something he stood up. He was satished that Lt. Hale was capable of taking the ship through. Accused himself had made the passage from Canton Hongkong 14 times and Lt. Hale was officer of the watch on ench occasion. Cross-examined, accused said he considered two to two and
a half
rables an adequate margin to puss Tap
Siak Kuk. He agreed that navt- gation of Urmston Road by eye was a perfectly easy matter. He admitted that he was not looking out of his window when he was in his cabin. He did not notice the ship make un alteration of course towards the lund, Should Have Been On Bridge
Cdr. W. P. McCarthy, of HM.S. Tamar, said he had previous river experience, buth in the Yangtze and the West River. The normal method of navigation was by eye and getting locality thoroughly. He was well nequainted with the portion of the river between Black Point and Top Sink Kok, and Ind navigated that stretch by eye. He usually passed from one and a half to two cables off the rock. There were no useful leading marks in that vicinity. Red Paint was not discernable. His opinion was that the offleer of the watch should be on the bridge be- cause of the large numbers of junks In that vicinity.
to know the
Li-Cdr. R. A. Forbes, commanding officer of H.M.S. Robin,, said he had been in command of the gunboat cince March, 1830. Hle navigated the river by eye and local knowledge. He was acquainted with the stretch of river between Black Point and Top Slak Kok, and usually passed the rock about 11⁄2 cables away. There were no suitable leading marks in that vicinity. In his opinion, the officer of the watch was better em- ployed in keeping a look-out ahead on the bridge innn to leave it and set a course by.compass. He thought It was most unreasonable for the emp- tain to remain constantly. on the bridge during the passage."
After the defence and the prosecu- tion tad made their submissions, the Court was cleared, and on the re- Lumption, sentence was pronounced.
Mayor's Signature
Swift
Youngstown, O (UP), Mayor Lionel Evans has set what omeinis of a Cincinnati bond certificate com- pany believe is a new world record for signing bonds. The mayor signed his nome to 350 certificates for a $330,000 airport bond issue in 34 minutes.
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Japanese advisers to the Municipal Reports that the Manoeuvres will Council hus aroused dissatisfaction be held in the Hewallan area with the British attitude and is view-speculative and are based on the as on fact that they were held in the Carib- ed by official circles here admission by Britain that the Japan-bean last year. The manoeuvres are ese have a right to assist in the not usually held twice in the same policing.
The non-committal attitude of the This is believed to constitute de
of the Japanese Navy officials has caused the in- facto recognition occupation and the new puppet re-pression that the final decision rests gimes, while the acceptance of Jap with President Roosevelt. It is re- anese advisers on the Municipal called that the President suddenly Counell places Tientsin in category altered the fleet plans to visit New York and sent them to the Paciße, similar to that of Manchuria,
presumably On account of world conditions.
British War Games SPECIAL TO THE !!!TELEGRAPH”.
Tit For Tat
suppres-
When the question of suppression of anti-Japanese pubilcations and anti-Japanese groups is mentioned, Chinese here always retort "Anti- LONDON, Aug. 9 (UP)-Great Eritain to-day put 133 reserve war- Japanese elements should be sed, but the same treatment should ships on the active service list as be given to the pro-Japanese elements Royal Air Force planes held mock if strict neutrality in the concessions Bghts over London. is to be obtained."
King George reviewed the Reserve These
Fleet have given rise to at Weymouth, and the fleet is. reports the belief among Chinese circles starting out to-night
оль
for various that Britain cannot be trusted until bases, where It will join up with the she definitely shows her hand.
Home Fleet.
all other possible
In other parts of the country groups of planes have been engaged in combat practice throughout the day.
Air Raid Precaution units, includ-
Fifteen bombing planes this evening Hopes Of British Aid However, there is still great hopes hombs, over Central London, until dropped while faces, representing here for a volte-face in Britain's at they were repelled by fighting planes, titude. Meanwhile, China, is attempt-i ing to
to line
up foreign assistance,
Although there is no official inform-| alion of American loan at pre-ing women in steel helmets and anti- sent, certain informed circles believe as uniforms, took the right of way in a loin will be made available the streets en route to their stations. within six months, especially if Bri- Despite the postponement of the tain refuses ald.
blackout the air coninuing.
that
Only
Mcoting in Shanghai
SHANGHAI, Aug. 10 (Reuter).-
| It is learned that Mr. Cyrll Rogers of
manoeuvres
are
Men Commended LONDON, Aug. (British Wire-
ranks:
The
commands
the Bank of England, who is a mem- legs).-The War Omce announces ber of the Anglo-Chinese stabilisation that the following message has been fund committee, is at present in despatched to the
at Shanghai, having come here un-Home for communication Lo heralded from Hongkong.
"Secretary of State Mr. Rogers has had meetings with for
and all members of the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald the Army Council wish to record Clark Kerr, and other officials, and it their appreciation of the way in belleved that the position of the which the whole army regular Chinese currency formed the prin
territorial and militia, oro cipal topic of discussion.
carrying out their many laske in He arrived here several days ago, exceptionally trying conditions. It is but news of his presence in Shanghai to be hoped that an improvement In only leaked out yesterday.
IC-
the weather will enable more com-
It is understood that he is sailing fortable circumstances to he enjoyed back to Hongkong to-day.
by all ranks, whose keenness and. good spirit have surmounted so many difficulties,"
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Natura Aids China CHUNGRING, Aug 0 (Trans- Ocean)The wind and the rain find proved China's best bifles, stuted 11 military spokesman to-day.
by
Italy's Manoeuvres SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TURIN, Aug. 9 (UP)-The con-
Opposed bad weather and the clusion of Italy's vast war manocu- Chinese ormies, the Japanese offenes was witnessed by the King of sive had come to a pathetic end in the Italy, who was attired in a campaign
uniform. mud in the Shansi province,
Signor Mussolini was notably ob-
The spearheads of the Japanese columns had been scattered, or com-jent,, pletely turned back.
Other spectators of the Anal re-
The spokesman also sinted that the view were the German, Hungarian Japanese 'formationă trapped in the and Spanish Military Missions. The Shanel mountains had now Httle Italian Crown Prince was also pre- chance of escaping. They were com- sent. pletely cut off from the rest of the Japanese forces in Shansi, and their lack of food had become almost de- {sperate.
PEDDER STREET
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Answers To Correspondent
Huck And Tom
Well Trained
CLEVELAND, O., (UP)-Robert Godman, 12, and Don Luck, 13, who grew up together, played the roles SWe don't question, the in a school play of the boys who veracity of your letter but even the grew up together-Huckleberry Finn truth can be libellous.
and Tom Sawyer; /