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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
LETTERS
The Eltor.
crats.
Profiteering
Hongkong Telegraph,
I am heartly in favour of your Aug. Kestlus
the Government should take some artion at once.
that
AT THE GATES
OF PARIS
(Continued from Page 4.)
September 7, 1939.
Japan And Russia
Soviet Aeroplanes Brought Down
front
front euch more terribly significant than the last, this placid Ind
in- ruffled existence was singularly rest- Sir,-Your artlets on Food I'ronteerul. Here we were within sense and ing was timely. Let me give you some! - further examples to add to the let you und of two grent armies at grips published. Last work I paid $4.30 for with one another, yet it was dificult 1. of Herril: yesterday it was $8.) to bellove that anything exelting.or
Hanking, Sept. 6. Marmite last week was $3.10 per abnormal was afoot. Paris seemed this week I 14,
With the onslaughts of the invad- Quaker Oats have
asleep. Subconsciously every one rison from 45 cents to 85 cents, tinned
one ing Soviet and Outer Mongol forces milk fine risen from 20 cents to 15 was waiting for the storm to break, having been effectively checked by but, as it happens in moments of the combined Japanese and Man- Theno ate the prices at my com.great crisis, time seemed to be stand-ukes forces, a full began once again pradore. I don't for one minute believe ing silli, while the gods pondered to Clint the wholesalers are working over the fate of man os they weighed near Nomonhan on September 2
prevail along the border racket, and believe that it is entirely it in the balance.
Field reports claim the Chinese compradores, who are out
that about The best sign was that there was three to ninke na much as they can from UA
divisions of the mechanised no hint of Paris being cut off from units of the Soviet and Outer Mongol
smee while the going be good."
the const. The Germans had occu- pied Amiens, but they and not reached, including some 10,000 men the Slene. What they were doing we who attempted to cross the border, have been held up near the Balshagar could not understand. Then and Nolo heights. the official news that they were Over 250 Soviet and Outer Mongol moving away from Paris, and at last tanks have been disabled by Japanese it dawned on us that the assault for artillery fire and abandoned on the which we had been waiting in dread held. was not going to take place. Then
nir units encountered came rumours of the lighting, The Kreengrocer and the milkman had it about 80 Soviet and Outer Mongol planes over the border on Monday, that a big battle was going on ne The Japanese fighters succeeded in
The Meaux, only 15 miles away.
„Į bringing down 22 of the cuemy craft. fort at Claye had fred Its
One Japanese plane crashed.-Domci, The Germans hnd bullt a bridge: across the Mame; it had been des- Japan's Armaments them and been drowned. trayed by
Shanghal, Sept. 6. gundre, and hundreds of
Things Manufacture of armaments in I certainly don't expect the Gavern. were going well, so they said. Then Japan is subject to decrease and de- ment tank after my family, us I have another report passed from mouth to lay owing to the difficulty of securing no right to "hother" the Government) mouth,
from it was raw materials All the taxicabs,
Europe and with such a "problem." However, sure said, had been taken to rush troops America, which now have to pre-
W. F. 0.
Sir. -1 have a family composed of my mother, my five aisters, and myself. We have decided to stick on in Hong, kes as long as circumstances permit,
WA
no
becaine, unfortunately
nin't ip, and we couldn't afford to think of "evacuation" now or ever,
At present my brother and myself are supporting my family; but in view of the current crisis, which is worsening dally, one never can tell that before tong communication with my brother Inny be cut off, and my job may he r diamlased then I would be damned it I only knew what should I do.
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Japanese
In. Many enunteles
Europe and
ly it wouldn't be too much to appeal to to the front-requisitioned in the sent their resources.
J151. Government here to invoke
by #1 mediately the price controlling of the street-the police had done Colony's flatuiľa? A check at the order from Gallient's headquarters. America have banned the export of
oll, scrap iron, cotton various commodities these days, one
It was true: not a tax was to be steel, would be convinced instantly that the found. Things were vidently getting, winerals -International. prices have been luressantly, and unt out there. doubtedly unreasonably, increased by means of profiteering at the expense
of the general publiewe, the mille classes,
Immediately Action to be
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Tokyo, Sept. 6.
The Ministry of Finance and the Next morning the writer and an- Ministry of Commerce and Industry obtained will to-day Issue a joint statement
720
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funda
taken by the Government now would other British journalist not only be timely, but also unquestion- pass to from Paris to Dilon by warning all banking institutions
"Therefort, on behalf] car, We had no intention of going to against extension of ahly justi
for
of hundreds of the middle-class families Dijon. That was merely a device to speculative purposes, who are still in this Colony, and who
outside the gates. Once well It is understood that Government from Paris, the big Reils-authorities have decided to invoke
horstly petition our local Government)
intend to stick on here indefinitely, wetce was turned north, and present- Article XI regulating funds in case i
to take imprediate action in egntrolling↑ the prices of fondstuffs of daily neces-ly, by a series of minor stratagems of
{}x} stroke or two of good luck,| tinting despite the official warning. -
ties here in Hongkong.
unscrupulous
A FAMILY Man. we found ourselves on the hills above Domei,
Meaux.
Sir.--- We are told to board Toud. Now the Cantraller of Fond appeals to the public not to hourd. What are we
to believe?
Here the situation was plain at a glonce. The fields all around were littered with the debris of a day-old battle, Rifles, entrenching tools, bits and here and there the dend bodies
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I have spent a net inconsiderable af equipment, lay about the roads. amount in shinining a supply of tinned foodstuffs against an emergency. What Cuaronter have I got, if diapane of this hoard, that some official won't come out with another statement in a week or so, advising us to hoard again?
EXASPERATED.
the
speculation
con-
Kwangtung War
Japanese Strength In East River
of many of those brave trailleurs) who had marched gally through Paris four days before. But the battle hnd been won. The Germans were “al- ready three miles away beyond the ridge being pounded by artillery beside us hill, and the infantry could be seen
Yungyun, Sept. 6. through feld-
fleld-glasses going steadily
The Chinese counter-attack in the forward. Down in the valley below, Blas Bay area has resulted in the half-submerged in the river, lay limousine with the drowned hodies of Kwelchang, Laratin, Wongkong, and recapture of many points, including
200 Japanese
Si-1. ak the Controller af Foods claims, there are ample stocks of all essential foodstuffs in Hongkong, why have the prices increased so greatly since the beginning of the month it le nil very well to tell us that there is no Justification for anxiety or the any great increase in price-the fact remains that prices have increased, and seem to be continuing to larrense. a daring reconnaissance on the flank A part of the Japanese retired to England has already invoked price of the Allied Army, and had met it their warships in the bay while others control, and it is about time something fate the night before trying to rejoin fed to Pukut and Shatankok.
the German forces. The car had S
Japanese batteries at Mahow neor
was done in Hongkong.
three German oflcers. It was ob- Kaitau. Over viously a patrol which had attempted killed.
fried
were
to cross the Marne by bridge which Samshui heavily shelled the Chinese had been blown up, and had plunged positions yesterday morning. The Answers To Correspondents
straight into the river. That little cannonading was clearly audible in trugedly seemed to us to embody the Shivling. W.W.W.--The vacuation suggestion?. were made by a Government spokesman, failure of the whole German cam- We would not care In express on pign.
pinion, other than to point out that no countermunding suggestions have thus far been stand.--Ft.
Naval Agreements Suspended
LONDON, Sept. 6, (Reuter).The Ministry of Information announces that in consequence of n state of war with Germany, and in
con-
In
the Taungla sector 3,000 Japanese pushed northward from The official bulletins, telling of the Shenkong and Talpingchong to Kai- prisoners and guns captured, and the how on Monday. They were inter- chany's precipitate retreat to the Alne, cine days later, and the im-cepted by Chinese self-defence corps. portance of the Victory of the Marne, Japaneso Casualties
was only gradually revealed, but,į meanwhile, all Paris knew by In- stinct that France wRG saved, and woke from Its spell.
HONGKONG ESTATES
Hongkong
estate
-Central News,
Shiukwan, Scpl. 0. Nearly 500 Japanese troops are re- ported to have been either killed or wounded south of Tsungfa last week. -Wah Kiu Yat Po.
East River Fighting
Walchow, Sept. 6. Fighting between the Japanese and
uerillas continues at Tungkun, Shek-
en
sworn under was left by the late Mr. formity with the provision of the $42,000 London Naval Treaty of 1030, the Herbert Alfred John Macray, who agreements with Soviet-Russia of died at Kensington, Middlesex, on 1037 and with Poland in 1938, nou- April 30. An application by Mr. Glung. Namtau and Shumelun, accord- fications have been made to the G. N. Tinson for sealing ceruined to Chinese reports. The Japanese recruiting Chinese troops nt fareign governments concerned that copy of probate of the will, has been
Namlau, Shumchun and Tungkun, all obligations of the Dritish Gov- granted.
paying the Chinese a monthly re- crnment under the above-named
The late Mrs. Enld Dorothy muneration of $20. Dubery, who died intestate at King's Five hundred Japanese were rush- College Hospital, Camberwell, Lon-ed to Shicklung from Shektan, on don, on January 12, left Hongkong Saturday, while two hundred fresh estate sworn under $500. An ap- troops were also disnatched from plention by Mr. R. A. Wadeson for Bocca Tigris to Tungkun along the highway. Wali sealing letters of administration of Tungkun-Taiping the estate has been granted.
naval disarmament ireatles have
been indefinitely suspended.
LATE NEWS
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