NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
c.
R.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 16th day of October, 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 Wong Nel Chung, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further form of 76 years.
G.
R.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auctiun to be held on Monday, the 16th day of October, 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Officer of the Public Works Departmont, by Order uf Ila Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Mong Kok, in the Colony of Ilong .Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at 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- sal of the lot the Purchaser (if Intending bidders are advised not the applicant) will be required an authorland that Immediately after the dlapo- to deposit with sal of the lot the Purchaser (If officer who will be present at the of two hundred not the applicant) will be required sale, the sum to depaalt with an authorised dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum officer who will be present at the will be refunded on payment of sale, the sum of two hundred the Purchase price.
dollars, ($200) in cash. This nUM | PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. will be refunded on payment af
the Purchase price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
| No. of Sale]
*** Taland ****
Lot No. 5653.
North of Inland Lot No. SC82, Bias Fool Road.
Begistry No
Locality
G.
20003 wn 200m
Boundary
Maasurements
As per sale
plan.
Watents in
pes b
45,000
Upset Price]
Annzai
Rental
No.of Sale]
1:9$
R.
$23.00
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be hold on Monday, the 16th day of October, 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Ofices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Mong Kok, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 76 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyors of His Majesty the KING, for one further term off
75 years,
Koko 4180.
Irland
Begistry No!
Locality
Mong Kok Road.
Boundary Manauremente
N.
[Cart foot)reatiteat
A per sale
plan.
Coulents in
Anc. Bent
112
6,045
Exchange At A Glance
SELLING
T.T. London Demand do. T.T. Shanghai
T.T. Manila T.T. Bataviu TT. Bangkok T.T. Saigon
Upat Price:
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Typhoon
Victim
Arrives
Norwegian Ship
In Storm Drama.
MILLION MEN ARE READY TO FIGHT" (Continued from Page 1.)
"How do we intend to proceed? "In the rat place, we have a method of calling up classes. With carf batch we are taking a quoin of volunteers.
October 12, 1939.
VILNA RETURNS TO LITHUANIA Guaranteed By Now
Military Alliance
ULSTER FLOCKS
TO COLOURS
POST OFFICE
Owing to the uncertainly of Sea. transport the public aro requested to- post Christmas Parcela carly.
BELFAST, Oct. 11 (Reuter)-Lord Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, declared -to-day that the response of Ulstermen to the MOSCOW, Oct. 11 (Reuter)The call for service was wholly antlafuc- Soviet-Lithuanian treaty la described | tory. here as a "military alliance," and f "I am proud," he said, "at what has is expected that itussia will fortify been done and is being done to help
The mother country,” Lithuania's frontier with Germany.
The treaty will inst for 15 years, Lord Craigavon added that heed to close at or before
would make a weekly. statement to Parliament, which would in future meet two days a week instead of three,
Slace the beginning of the wor we have taken into or are in the process of taking into the Army nearly 60,000 volunteers,
"In September, it happened that
Public demonstrations were arrang we took in twice as many valued at Kaunas, the Lithuanian capital, to celebrate the return of Vilna, under the treaty, to Lithuania.
Valunivers
teers na militiamen. have been of all military ages, and this should dispose of the supposition that we are confining
entry into the Army to young
men of the first age groups. "There is no dearth of ability in
EVIDENCE of the fero-
city of the typhoon the ranks. The look-out for talent which spared Hong-sler is within every private soldier's kong last week was exalted his birth, need be afraid that brought to the Colony recognised," by
is continuous. In this Army the reuch, None, however, humble or his military virtues will remain un-
5
a Norwegian Moro Woman Enrolling motorship which now| The Wan Minister then revented Kowloon that in the fast six weeks we had
lies at Wharves. While the fate of
vessel caught typhoon was
taken 2,000 officers from the Reserves Register. He announced that women of the Auxillory Territorial Service,
a Greek already 20,000 strong, wore about to in the augment their number and extend their invaluable service in the re- causing placement of their brothers in arms.
anxiety the Norwegian
ship was in similar diff- culties.
Mr. Hore-Belisha outlined the two new openings for older men.
"We propose to form Home Defence battalions.
Each one will be a battalion of in
Ing in the National Defence Com→
For 36 hours she was county regiment and will be composed
trapped between a strong of officers and other ranks not serv nor'easter, and a violentes, ofcers and other ranks found typhoon from the south-permanently or temporarily unfit for Kervice oversens and oйeers and west.
other ranks awaiting drafting and young soldiers not available by age for service in the theatre of opera- tions.
One wooden deck, awning was carried clear away, one hatch was stoved in, and the crew's quarters were flooded to a depth of four feet.
Twisted Wreckage
of
"It will be possible for some of the older ex-officers and men to be absorbed by these battalions.
in the prOCESS "We are also As she lies at Kowloon Wharves forming an auxiliary Military Plonver battalions splintered woodwork, twisted Iron Corps, to te organised plates and stanchions, and shattered which will take over military ploncer windows und portiiles give inute work both overseas and here,
"It is not to be composed of men testimony of the struggle she has weathered-a struggle that
kept of early military age and all will be Captain John Helding on constant volunteers." duty for 50 hours and uninterruptedly Output Of Munitions un his feet for 25 hours of that time, The War Minister paid tribute to At least three other vessela are the industries engaged in the output known to have experienced the full for munitions, adding "It is the out- force of the typhoon, B Greek put of the factories making equip freighter, a Japanese freighter bound inent and munitions
for the fleld
for Hongkong, and an Americanwhich is the ultimate measure of cur mluesweeper whose mine tracks were effort.". swept away.
The Army itself was training inen The Norweglan vessel, a motorɛhip na technicians and the Ministry of of 4,055
tonnage for Labour had plans in mind for en- which Messrs. Gliman & Company abling some of his training establish- are the Hongkong agents, plles fornents to assist in providing Opgave ved Ankomst and the De La Anny requirements of skilled trades- Itama Company, Manila, between the inen.
1/21
1/201
,310
TT. Singapore
.52%
TT. Japan
1031
T.T. India
02
T.T. U.S. A.
24
AD
45%
150% 107
.10.85
107
1/0
East Coast of America and Manila, calling at Hongkong on voyages both
to and from Manila.
.1/3%
do.
.1/3/
25%
11.45
843 .4.02 4.03
. France TT. Gerinony T.T. Switzerland TT. Australia
BUYING
4 m/s L/C London
4 m/s D/P
4 m/s L/C U.S. A.
4 m/s France
30 d/s Indin.
U.S. Cross rate in Lon. U.S. Crossrate in N.Y.
Club Rugger
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- sal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will bo procent at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of judging from the splendid condition the Purchase price.
of the turf it will be a popular rugby Once water has been laid on PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.neid.
to take out the "bone", the pitch 19
should rank second to none.
No. of Eale
Begistry No.
Locality
Kowloon Inland
Tong Hi Road,
Lot No. 4188.
Mong Kok Road unction.of
fong Kok
war.
Boundary
Measurements
一
se per unle
plan.
6,000
$110
ULSTER'S WAR CONTRIBUTION
(Continued from Page 6.)
Danger From Islands
Twice In Generation
flic
Concluding Mr. Hore-Bellsha said; "White the world was reading of The ship was outward bound from German advance Into Foland, British Hongkong when her trouble began.
On Saturday night and throughout soldiers, resolved to rectify this Sunday she was thrashed by north-wrong, were passing silently and in
sequence nerok easterly winds and the captain was unceasing faced with the problem of keeping off Channel into France.
the small islands south of Formosa
and steering clear of the centre
D
It was at Vilna that Lithuaniu pro-
claimed her republic in 1919, and it has always been conaldered the capl- ial of the country,
Demonstration Of Jay KAUNAS, Oct. 11 (Reuter).-
Demonstrating their joy at the return
British Legion's Big Effort
OUTWARD MAIL TEKS Registered and Parcel Malls are than the closed 18 minutes earlier time given below unless otherwise stated, and whero mails are advertis- 0.1. row
stored and parcel mails are closed At 5 p.m. on the previous day. When maili are advertised to close after 5 p.m. registered and parcel malls are closed at 5 p.m.
Air
Alr
INWARD MAILS Mall by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"---London date, 4th October.................
....Oct. 12. Mall by "Air France Direct Service"-Parl, date, 4th October
Oct. 12. .Oct. 12. ..Oct. 12.
LONDON, Oct. 11 (Reuter),~The
Elaiphong ** of Vilna, thousands of people gallier- ed and cheered outside the Soviet British Legion Fund collected last! Amoy
year amounted to the record total of Haiphong, Fakhoi, Holhow and Fort Legation to-day.
Bayard Japan
Manila
It is rellably reported that garrisons £570,009. The grand total since the of Soviet troops may be stationed for Fund was Inaugurated in 1921 h "mutual security at various points now reached more than £7,000,000,
All schemes previously adopted Japan and Shanghai In Lithuanian territory, but excluding Kounos and other large Industrial were devoted to the naalstanco uf Manila participants in the last war, but now Straits As soon, as the Lithuanian Govern- it in announced that the schemes will Canton mant moves to Vilna, the Soviet be for those in any war, including Shunghat Shanghal garrison there will be withdrawn.
towna
the present.
ALL MEMBERS OF HONGKONG
DEFENCE FORCES
Including
MEMBERS OF HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE
CORPS
MEMBERS OF HONGKONG POLICE FORCE HOSPITAL,
A.R.P. WORKERS
AND THEIR FAMILIES
the ARE ALLOWED A
"How strange it is that, twice in
a generation, men should take this
the approaching typhoon. By Sun-Journey and acine should be treading
day night the full fury turbance Was upon
of the dis-again upon soil made sacred by their From fathers. We may rest assured that them. midnight until Tuesday forenoon they will acquit themselves with the same tenacity, courage and endurance, Captain Holding was on the bridge.
"However long the struggle and Fifty-foot waves smashed steadily! over the ahip from the starboard side. however great the ordeal, they will,
The crew worked feverishly lashing as our soldiers did before, take our down lifeboats and other important arms and our cause of freedom to equipment, but every small thing victory,"
Life-
was smashed or torn away. belts about the decks were wrenched from their steel brackets and fung overboard, the brackets being twisted like pleces of straw.
Undor French Command
Replying to a brief debate, Mr. Hore-Belisha xald, “I have been asked if unity of command is The Police scored a well-merited
All the deck work of the ship suf- victory in a very close game. Taylor,
assured. The answer is "Yes, it in. The British Army is under French playing on the left wing outside to fered, but the damage was most not-: The
command." (Cheers). Wilson, gave the Force a three-point able on the starboard side.
deck woeden passenger
"The British Commander-in-Chief lead at half time. He failed to con- starboard
awning was ripped from its setting; vert his own try from a position it rose high over the ship, crashed has the right of appeal to his own Cabinet which don't imagine will within his ability. Wilson broke
to exercise be normally necessary through in the second half to add a into the iron rails on the observation Kleck above the bridge, and dis- further three points. Fay, who is making a name for himself in local appeared into the sen on the port because the understanding is so com-
deck plete and whole-hearted cricket circles, made an abortive side,
the particular. But unity of command is assured in that way and it in even possible that French troops may be under the British C-in-C."
nitempt to convert.
The Police forwards were ragged in comparison to the military eight and were guilty of hindering the passage of the ball after it had been
hooked.
The port passenger
wrenched from awsing was superstructure, but was not carried away.
In every
Mr. Hore-Bellsha also announced that General J. C, Dill is commanding the First Corps, General Brook the Second Corps, while Viscount Gart's Chief of Staff 15 Major General Pownal.
dock.
Wireless Room Flooded The starboned bridge deck windows burst inward, once in the face of Jookout man, fortunately without In fteling more than a few slight culs, Police took advantage of the One wireless aerial carried away and frichdly game to test and experiment water. mounting high over the with their players after the interval. | bridge, swept through the broken Taylor was tried at forward, a post- | windows and flooded the wireless in discharged she will go into dry- APECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH
tion in which he played until three room. On the deck below the pas-) BELFAST, Oct. 11 (Reuter). The years ago. His value to the Police sengers cabins were also awash,
Whic crew's belongings suffered Ulster Emergency Budget brings as a bustling three will probably Monday started uncomfortably for
most. They are now plied on the taxation into line with Britain, and result in his being played among the the crew. Twice the steel door of the deck aft, clothes and boots sodden backs once the season begins. Cer- aft superstructure had been smashed provides for a contribution of £tainly his combination with Wilson in und and twice been replaced. They en water lying amid a jumble 00,000 to the United Kingdom Ex- the first half was the most effective vere in bed at 2 a.m. on Monday of splintered woodwork and twisted | chequer during the first year of the on the deld. Mackenzie and Morri-with a foot of water beneath their robes have even been wrenched from 13 1. In their cabins below, ward- son, the right wing, were inclined to bunks when the door burst in again the walls by the ship's contortions. hesitate until too late before making and water_came pouring into their
Ten Passengers' for a gap. Wall was very steady at quarters. Soon diere wäs 4 feet of{
The ship carried 10 passengers. water in the cabins.
During the storm tarpaulins were Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Culty and their swept off two hatches, laying a cargo son and daughter, Miss Angeline B. of hemp, rice, and sugar open ta Folke, Mr. John A. Boyes, and Mrs. damage. No. 5 hatch was stove
Blanchie Knapper joined the ship at and barrels of oil packed below were Manila, and Professor S. R. Chow, broken and squashed like matchboxes; Professor T. 5. Chien, and, Mr. Liu water and oli mixed and damaged the next port was Los Angeles.
Yu-wan salled from Hongkong. Their other cargo.
Every steel door on the after deck Orth, and Stevenson, Manila general Mr. Boyes, of Messrs. Hansen, house was stove in and the room merchants, who is bound for Montreal housing the steering gear was flooded on leave, told a "Hongkong Tele- puting it out of order. The motos graph" representative: "I have been had to be turned off and four hours in a number of typhoons, but never on Monday afternoon shifis of four mon manned the hand steering gear, ton of 30 hours was exceptional
in one as violent as this. Its dura- repeatedly swamped by great scas, to keep the ship, head-on. By p.mi repairs to the steering gear were plondid seamanship throughout and the stewards". department-carried on; effected.
Put Back To Hongkong -
CABINET CRISIS
IN JAPAN
„TOKYO,
Oct. 12 (Reuter)
full-back
The military XV had the better of things at forward, though aut weighed. Berry and Lt. Hewit did good work. Behind the serum they Cabinet crisis threatens in ponneolian lacked -initiative, but defended Wills the "Trade-Minister-imane, fol- sinutly against superior weight. lowing; she tendering by 108 dimen- sers of their, vosignations to the Vion -Minister of Foreign"ATaira: yesterday! Hevering,
Holland Not To Protest To Reich
THE HAGUE, Oct. 11 (Reuter).—| Well-informed circles do not expect) Holland to join in the protest to fer- In which the northern countries are reported be contemplating owing to the torpedoing of noutral ships, since no- Dutch abip hua yet been
munk
THE TELEGRAPH" will send a Staff Photographer to all events of public interest. Requests
should be addressed
to the Pictorial Editor.
in
The. captain and his crew showed
Insead of a hot meal. Some of the
.Oct. 12.
.Oct. 12.
.Oct. 12.
.Oct. 12.
.Oct. 12.
.Oct. 12.
.Oct. 13.
Oct. 13.
Oct. 13.
Shanghal
Oct. 13.
Calcutta und Straits
Oct. 14.
Japan...
.Oct. 14.
Japan and Shanghal
.Oct. 14.
.Oct. 14.
Strails and Monito
Alr
Niall by "Imperial Airways Direct Bervice”—London date 7th October.
....Oct. 15.
OUTWARD MAILS Thursday
Air Mall for Indo-China. Iran, and Franco (Paris and Northern Pro- vinces only) by the “Air France Always Direct Acrvice"-dae Paris, 19th October,
K.P.O.
Ker.
..Oct. 12, 5 pm. Ord, .......Oct. 12, 5.30 p.m.
G.P.O. Rer. Orit
.Oct. 12, 5 p.m. .Oct. 12. 7 p.m. Haiphong
.1 p.m. Shanghai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A.. Central and South America vin Vancouver B.C., (Parcels only for Canada)-duc Vancouver B.C., 30th October,
Parcels, Reg. Ord.,
Tourant
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
..Oct. 12, 3 p.m. Oct. 13, 9.15 am. .Oct. 13. 10 nm.
Friday
.8.30 a.m. Parcels only for Shanghai ..9.30 am. Shanghal................................
......3.30 pm. Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marsellies-due Marseilles 10th November
Parcels
Reg Ord.
Amoy
Saigon
Shanghai
G.P.O, and K.P.O.
Oct. 13, 5 pm. .Oct. 14, 9.45 0.m. Oct. 14, 10.30 am. Saturday
.8.30 am.
8.30 am.
.10.30 am. Amoy and Shanghai......2.30 p.m. Air Mall for
"Imperial Airways Direct Service”— due London, 221k October
REDUCTION OF
neg.
20%
ON ALL
WATCHES
AS DONE NOW IN
FRANCE
J. ULLMANN & CO.
ESTABLISHED 1860 CHATER ROAD
"MASTERY OF
G.P.0. and K.P.0.
Ord. Straits and Calcutta
Parcels
Ord.
Salgon
.5 p.m. .5.30 Dzię
.5 p.m. .5.30 p.m.
Sunday
Sandakan Shanghai
Halphong
Monday
Tuesday
8.30 3.0.
0a.m. .9 a.m.
..1 p.m.
Shanghal and parcels only for Tien-
tsin
...3.30 pm. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Direct Service”dan London, 25th October
F.P.O.
G.P.O. 5 p.m. Ret...Oct. 17, 5 p.m. - Ori...Oct. 17, 5.30 pm. 7 p.m. Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus- tralia by "Imperiai Airways Direct Bervice"-due Sydney, 23rd Oct.
K.P.O
Neg...Oct. 11, 5 p.m., Ord...Oct. 17, 5.30 p.m.
Japan
G.P.O.
is $5.00.
7 p.. p.m.
RED TROOPS MOVE UP TO FRONTIER PLEASE Turn To Page 2.
turn is given concessions in Korelian. Karelion is an autonomous Soviet AM | Socialist Republic.
#
THE AIR"
One of the greatest gifts of science to mankind is the mastery of the air, There is a large demand to- day for professional pilots and engineers in Commercial Aviation. But these man must be specialists.
BE TAUGHT AVIATION BY EXPERTS
AT
HONG KONG'S AIR UNIVERSITY
For Prospectus apply
ince wore we served a cold FAR EAST FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL LTD. When the typhoon at last passed passengers were nervous, but it is a on it was decided to put about for tribute to their courage that one of (Contractors to the British Air Ministry and the Hong Kong Government). Hongkong to determine the extent of them could make a jest about the the damage and, as one oil fuel tank whole thing. He said, "Now the cook
I was known to be leaking, to effect has two kinds of pana in his galley...
necessary repairs. After her cargo frying pans and flying pans."""
KAI TAK AIRPORT, HONG KONG.
Naked Aggression NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (Reuter) — The "New York Times," in an editor- lal says:
"Russia's actions in the Baltic are record in naked aggression, "Their significance can be classed under two headings,
"Firstly, they are a new phase in Russia's swift advance to the west.
"Secondly, they measure the ex- tent of Hitler's surrender of German trade interests in the cast."
"One can only conclude," says this newspaper, "that peace mean pre- cisely the sanie to Stalla as it does to Hillor.
"In other words, demands of a strong country must be granted with- out resistance by a weaker neigh- bour."
Calm And Determined HELSINKI, Oct. 11 (Reuter)The Flanish Commander-in-Chief 10-dny expressed pleasure at the reaction of the Scariinavian countries to the Russian menace.
It was evidence, he said, of the solidarity of the Scandinavian bloc, and he realised its significance.
He concluded "We are calm and, determined."
the
Norway In Danger Zone OSLO, Oct. 11 (Reuter), The new milltary situation created by the newspaper "Aftenposten says Soviet advance la the Baltic - is, of · great, Importance to Norway's bir mtrategle position.
"Norway, together with Sweden,' anys, the, fournal, “has, now arrived In the danger żone.”,