Horses Come Back Again
Already one sees more horse-drawn vehicles in the London streets. Each day now the number will be grow ing.
With petrol rationing cutting down the use of lorries and delivery vans; the horse is coming back again.
THEIR CHAMPIOŃ.
For a long time the National Horse Association of Great Britain has de- fended the horse golrist the invasion
of motor transport; there was room for both, they said, 199
The Association protested strongly when a few years ago the Minlater of Transport said in the House of. Commons that he was considering the possibilities of a scheme for the gradual elimination of horace from certain London streets and in other" Jorge cities.
The curtailment of horse-drawn transport, was urged, would- seri- ously affect many small irnders who dipended almost entirely on this form of transport for their livelihood.
Now this "small man" is in the happy position of being unworried by the petrol rationing..
SOME BIG FIRMS HAPPY, TOO
Some of the big firms, too, who have stucit by the horse for a great deul of their delivery and coliccion work are smiling.
A census of horses drinking from cattle troughs in the Metropol|Lan area last year gave a total of 12,863, compared with 13,257 the previous year,
Certain demands of the Army have aheady been met. There is no short- age of horses, though values are like ly to go up.
GAMBLERS IN COURT
Thursday, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, youthful film siars, got a welcome reception from admirers when they arrived at Grand Central Station in New York for movie premlere. A reception committee of 150 boys and girls mobbed the stars.
INSIDE GERMANY
AMSTERDAM.
Forty-four Crowd Dock In A ROUND-UP at former leading
October 5, 1939.
HOW NAZIS SENT MONEY ABROAD
Further details of the methods by which the German
Nazi lenders have been depositing abroad the huge
fortunes they have accumulated since the party seized power, are now available.
Field-Marshal Goering's insurances, totalling £780,000 out of a fortune held abroad of £1,501,400, ware transacted through forelyn re presentatives by one of the directors of Jauch Hubener und Co. whose address L 20, Budapest-strasse,
Berlin.
The Field Marshal's insurancea were taken out in Switzerland, Holland, Sweden and the United States, as follows:
£40,000 In Swiss franes. £80,000 in United States dollars. £202,000 in Dutch guilders, and £75,000 in Swedish kroner,
Fratt Emmy Goering is insured for £40,000 Ja Swedish kronor, a further mount of £12,500 in Swedish kroner, £83,000 in Dutch güliders £15,200 in Swiss francs.
HELD BY NOMINEES
and
One of Field-Marshul Goering's agents is stated to have been Richard Bergmann, of the Mittel Deutsche Kollem Sindical travelling from Bremen to New York. Another was Edward Pockl, of the Radischebank of Mannhein, travelling from Mainz to Zurich and Geneva, ¦
Bonds to the value of £150,000, principally in American railway alocks, were deposited througli a Ger- man-American shipping firm. They Included 415 per cent. 1070 Pennsyl- vania Railway bonds, 4 per cent. 1006 note Central, Cities Service and Bethlehem Strel 7 per cents.
These are held by nominees in New York and are controlled by Bergmann, Further securities to the value of £120,000, principally those.of Monte- caline and Royal Dutch, are deposited currencies to the par value of £83,00 are deposited in the Chiengo safe of a German Importlog firm.
Agures in the German Protec-wo German firms, a timber firma San Francisco bank, while foreign
Central Magistracy torate of Bohemia and Moravia 13.5 and a firm dealing with electrical
A crowded dock of 44 gamblers faced Mr. Houston at Central Magid- Tracy yesterday, as a result of a raid on a house in Tung Shing Street.
Lo Cheung and Mok Hop, charged with keeping a gouning house, Bud their bal of $150 each estreated as they failed to appear.
A sum of $17.05
for the Poor Box.
was
Tokyo, Oct. 4.
revealed in rollable reporta now apparatus, have been heavily punish Altering througli.
ed for violation of the, Nazl price
One was fined £2.200 and the other £9,000. The timber firm was
Those arrested Include political laws. leaders. lown burgpmasters. high! melate and Iraders of cultural and {sporting organisations.
At Olmuts, for instance, ave clerics were sent to a concentration camp, where they are being held as bostages "tə guaranice the loyalty of the
Czechs during the war."
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Wurttemberg, with a normal popu- lation of 15,000, tias now 7,000 oxira
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Six of the gamblers, who had money in their possession when arrested, received fines ranging from 50 cents to $1, and the others were, be called on for farm work in
IRIS from the age of 15 are to Inhabitants. cautioned,
confiscated Germany, according to the "LokalERMAN
declared G Anzelger,"
that the Nazl plan to bombard There are now stated to be 100,000 Polish elvillans
nothing "voluntary" girl form workers, and i like as inhuman as Britain's plan to Statement On Peace the number is to be steadily in- starve German women and children. The argument loses force, however, creased.
through being published often on the Asked by a foreign correspondent, ceeding along very strict lines.
DATIONING in Germany is pro-zame page as long articles proving
that Germany is self-sufficient. regarding the report that Dr. Wong Chung-hul, Chinese Foreign Minister meals severely retioned in the same Even dogs and cats now have their
THE prefix "Special to the Tele- han tendered his resignation in
the "Ilongkong beings. Their graph" is used by connection with his statement to the manner as humans
Telegraph" Indicate news which United Press hoping for American Mermal food is being reserved
Is strictly copyright under the pro- mediation in the Sino-Japanese con-
human consumption.
visions of the Telecommunications Severe penalties are being meted Ordinance, 1936. Sudi news as bears flet, the spokesman of the Foreign Once said that no official information)oul to hearder. A 53-year-old the Indication "UP" is received in has yet been received.
Customs official of Hamburg has Hongkong on the date of publication, He added, however, that there are been scalenced to. 18 months' im- | by the Unlied Press Associations, who Jots of information indicating mount-prisonment for this offence,
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Italy Insists On Neutrality
For his £871,000 of insurances! abroad, partly on himself and partly
Parls, Oct. 4. on his wife, Dr. Goebbels, the Reich Hitler's pence plan will be trans- Propaganda Minister employed ns ouemitted to London to-day through the of his agents Thomas Beucher, of Italian Embassy, according to the Berlin, travelling to New York and Amsterdam Telcyraaj-Reuter. Santiago,
Il Duce Will Not Act
Berlin, Oct. 4. Dr. Ley, Leader of the Labour "rort
Authoritative Italian quarters have and high priest of the "Strength denied the report that Mussolint is through Joy movement, employed astudying a plan for
peace confer- one of his agents Franz Borsemannence, says a Rome telegram to the of Berlin, a member of his personal official German News Agency, which staff with good contacts in German adds that these authoritative Italian circles in San Francisco and Chicago. quarters state the news is completely
Through two earlier agents Ley bud
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London, Oct. 4. ventration comp, In consequence Mr. Chamberlain's declaration that Ley has employed two new agents, Britain and France will not accept FOR PERFECTION and through them has been sending peace proposals until the aims for out £ 10,000 monthly 10 Americo, where etates have been been realised received warm tributes
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The Times anys that, to do Hiller justice, he could not imagine that Britain and France would agree that the war was over after Poland was defeated.
JEW- BAITER'S FÖRTUNE Julius Streicher, the notorious Jew- balter, now belleved to be held under arrest, employed woman called
As to the responsiblity for the Else Schwerter as his agent. Through war, there is sufficient dala to refute personal friends in Japan, Argentina the allegation that Britain was_res-1 And the "Unlled States, she has deponsible for the conflict. At each posited on his behalf £00,000 since successive #t of aggression by Hitler, Britain and Franco held As stated, there is no
hands and only at the last enormity trace of Hitler having deposited
in which a weaker nation was being funds abroad. It is claimed that he rejected the German terms which any attacked on the pretext that she had has invested all the money he has she was not permitted to see made out of the sale of his best-seller, Britain and France take the "Mein Kampf," and newspaper under-step. It can be said that the res takings in property and businesses in ponsibility rests fairly and squarely Cermany and Austrin.
He holds considerable stocks in various industrial undertakings which
on Hitler's shoulders.
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Will the Lord Chamberlain poss Hitler as a character in a play?
Dies In England
The death occurred at Craigieburn,
"I intend to ask permission," said Brookman's Park, Hatfeld, Herts, Captain Roy Limbert, who is to pre- last month of Mr. Frank Malcolm sent a new version of Bernard Shaw's Crawford, 53, formerly a partner of "Geneva." pew on tour,'
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11 no mistaking who is meant,ing his early childhood her went to don't do why we shouldn't be frank about it in war-time, cull Mithill. He returned
England and was educated at him Hitler and make up the actor kong In 1908 and joined Lane Craw- to Hong- ns Adolf."
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Mr. Show is now busy rewritting the partner.
famous last act of dictators Gi) irial
During his term of office, the firm
to include the invasion of Poland stew considerably and Mr. Crawford and the eve of war with Britain."
more Ulian once carned; the tanks of the Governfticut for his pubite ser The up-to-date version will be seen vices. During the heat plague first at the Festival Theatre, Cam-epidemic he was speelally thanked bridge, on October 30.
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