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AM I!
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
October 17, 1939.
Crazy, Supreme Court
By Walt Disney
SCHMIDT'S UTCHER
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$3.50 and $6.50
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$-14
NEW PEACE PLAN
HITLER SAID TO WANT
FURTHER DELAY
TURKEY'S REFUSAL TO DESERT DEMOCRATIC ALLIES
REICH'S HARD BARGAIN
There is considerable speculation regarding Germany's next move. While concentrations of troops behind the Western Front appear to indicate readiness for n big pusb, observers state that Hitler is hesitating over an expensive drive and may delay until Spring, meanwhile Inunching a new peace offensive.
In this regard a new set of peace proposals granting greater concessions but with added demands is said to have been formulated.
It is suggested that the German evacuation of Baltic countries is the result of a Russo-German agreement whereby Hitler was forced to relinquish all German holdings in return for a grant of Russian gold.
A fourth and unpublished requirement made on Finland by the Soviet. Is the reason for the return of the Elonish envoy It is stated home from the negotiations conducted in Moscow. that a decision must be made in Finland hefore the talks, which have only been Interrupted, are resumed.
The temporary suspension of the Russo-Turkish talks in said to be the result of Turkey's refusal to go buck on her agreements with the Democracies in order to comply with Soviet demands.
German reports sinte that conversations with the Soviet Premier and Foreign Minister, M. Molotov, will be held in Berlin pursuant to the Allies' rejection of peace proposals made by Herr Hitler.
The. Turkish Foreign Minister is meeting the Rumanian Foreign Minister on his way back to Turkey from Moscow where an undisclosed ogreement is said to have been reached affecting the Dardanelles and Turkey's interests in Balkon tranquillity. This was a severe blow to the Fit- nish Nazis, who have always expect- ed that Germany would Intervene on their behalf at same future date—' Reuter.
Negollations Ilang Fire
Helsinki, Oc. 10.
do not expect any immediate change in the situn- -lich-
Informed quarters
MOST GERMANS
STILL DON'T KNOW THE TRUTH
(Continued from Page 4.)
BY. Paasikivi, Finnish delegate, will lages in a contest of endurance, return to Moscow after several days, We have not made that mistake, with the necessary Instructions. The final toning-up of our sinews
It is assumed that the meeting of is still going on.
the Scandinavina Kings at Stockholm
will play an immense part in further The first real strain on the
developments.
emergency.
and
NEED FOR RELIEF Work of Victoria Diocesan Missionary Association
in
WALT DISNEY
A Look Through RADIO
The Telegraph",
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 17, 1889.
ZBW, 355 metres (849 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Rimsky-Korsakov's Suite Scheherazade
The necessity for carrying on medical relief and refugee work dur- In the Government Gazette tendere;
Radio Programme Broadcast by are invited for re-casting the Firel ing the Japanese Invasion, both
Alarm Bell in the Clock Tower- The Z. B. W, on a Frequency of 843 k.c's. the decupled and unoccupied areas. was stressed at the annual meeting present tinklor" is "to be taken over and on Short Wave from 1.00-2.15 by the contractor, and a new one cast of the Cathedral Branch of the in its place of the same site and callbre, i p.m. and B-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's. per Victoria Diocesan Missionary AB- of good, sound bell-metal, of good tone, second. sociation, held in the Cathedral Hall; furnished with all the necessary mount- last night.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop R. O. presided, and among those present: were the Very Rev. Dean Wilson, the Rev. H. Willenbach, and Mrs. W. K. Cheung, Principal of Heep Yunu School.
H. K. T. 12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter- ings, mid fitted in place. So far, so good. Nobody will deny that our precession.
12.30 Songs by Leslie Hutchinson Hall seat central fire alarm leaves much to]
be desired; is. in fact, quite in at the Plano, Adequate for the purpose intended, and 12.40 Gerry Moore at the Plano in it is a matter for rejoicing that the Fox-Trois and Quicksteps. Government authorities, after so many;
1.00
and Local Time Signal years of solema cugliation, havo at Inst. recognised a necesally that has always Weather Report.
1.03 Dance Music with Ruth Elting buen apparent to everybody else, and has been the constant anbject of rom (Vocal).
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Pross plaint by our local bremen for more than a decade. But surely the Govern-Wenther Forecast ment does not intend to coating reform: is this direction to merely removing the ments. 1.45 old Are-bell! Tins not the time arrived when the removal of the Clock Towar tions.
elf has become a matter of public; nerosity?
The Very Rev. Dean Wilson vel- coined back Bishop Hall from short leave and congratulated him on the honour conferred upon him by the Climese Government.
The Rev. 11. Wittenbach, of the Church Missionary Soulety, who his been carrying out refugee work in the Shekke area gave an outline of un- occupied and conditions In occupied areas.
he
and Announce-
Gilbert and Sullivan Belec- From "The Yeomen Of The Guard" and "Trial By Jury."
3.16 Close Down. 6.0 Dance Music.
6.45 London Relay-News Supple-
We submit that it han, and would elin the consideration of the Governor und the Burveyor-General for what lo almost universally conceded, would be! an apartant improvement in the meal ment.
8.55 Closing Local Stock Quota- central part of town. The Clock Tower. may possibly have been an ornament tions, and at an obstrucllan in s present
Raquel Aller. Tilo Schipa position when Arst erected, but if so and
the Orquesta Tipica Francisco Will the times have changed, Anil ornamental attributes have long since Canaro in a Spanish Programme,
7.30 Marek Weber and His Orches panned out of sight the abatruction,! with the very largely increased popala. tra.
4.57
"As long as the Japanese invasion continues there will be large
in," amount of rellef work to Bald.
his Diocese started a system of rural reconstruction in an area be- tween here and Canton. Various tion and trafic, han become a pubilej 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather
ileport and Announcements. neods were tried, including breeding of goats, pigs and
8.03 Bongs by Joseph Schmidi u: chickens in order to improve available where it would be far mars (Tenor).
8.12 were ornamental and certainly more useful vestock, while experiments
Moskowski-From Foreign than it in obstructing the infic In the carried out with co-operatives," he middle of war nunk crowded thorough- Lands-Sulte. said.
the nuimaner. raising There are, however, plenty of places)
Need Increases This plan, however, had been the stopped by the war and now
The neca was greater than ever. Victoria Diocese Missionary Associa- tion had been contributing $1,000 a year to this work.
higher-luxes and the impoverishment of people up-country.
מון
fare. Probably the best to In tha 8.25 A Light Variety Programme city would be the vacant ground in with Jeanette MacDonald (Soprano) front of the Central Police Station- and Nelson Eddy (Baritone)
we mean that space fncing Wyndham Street which has been lying fallows since the great fire, ten years ago.
9.05 Studio Comments on Recent Events.
9,15
25 YEARS AGO
•
entire
*
mt
London Relay-The News. 9.30 Rimsky-Korsakov-Schehera- zad, Op. 35.
18.16 Gounod's "Faust" Acts IV 11.00 Clore Down.
WATER IN STORAGE
Oct. 17, 1014. The Admiralty announces that if.M.S. Yarmouth (of the Chlon Squadron) has The Rev. Wittenbach pointed out and the German laer Narkomaunts in that 100 years ago there were no large the vicinity of Sumatra and captured Chinese cities and families living the Greek steamer Pontopores, both of
accompanied previously on and off the land. Gradually the which drive for modernisation and the ap- rules Emden, Bixty German prison- peal of enjoyment drew the wealthy ere were taken.
Ample Supplies Available to the clues. This bad resulled in
Never has Plymouth witnessed such
In Colony Reservoirs cunts, as attended, the resption of the Caundian contingent. The great fami liar Empress liners, painted Navy prey FIGURES FOR OCTOBER Bishop Hall gave an account of the attracted the
and populace, fine work being done by the new has-cheuring was kept up throughout the
There were over 5,700,000,000 gal- pital in Kunming. It was now run day.
lons of water in storage in the by Chinese under the supervision of
The Landon daily papers may have Colony's reservoirs at the beginning a Chinese doctor who had been truina- i Arrangements for the protection of martial temper of the Germans at Guy'a Hospital. Athough it their private reasons for quarreling of this month, which is about 1,200,
with the press ceneurship, but in the 000,000 gallons more than the amount being came when they finished with still was supported by bsnur1
main their criticisms convey reason.
fime last year, elvillans and property are
Hope it was able pubile gelevance. News has been in storage at this pushed on with the utmost speed. Poland, they brought forward grant of $5,000 from
nearly independent.
mutilated, with-held or deinined with according to the latest-water returns, The total in the stand reservoirs Trains, thousands of lorries and horse
out any adequnte carts are being made ready for an, the question of peace."
The hospital he said, had a special have been made where there was no is 2,205,000,000 gallons, against 1,554,-. Our refusal to make peace onward for casualties from the Chinese occasion for any. The result has been 000,080 last year, and in the Kowicon Food is plentiful but the peonie have been warned against the ex- any terms but the evacuation of Air Force training school in Yunnan, to choke off recruite, to create unneces: reservoirs 3,495,000,000 against 1,937,-
sary anxiety. espectsily in soldiers 000.000. European missionaries in Kwangs families, and to leave the field open for cessive use of water. Passenger boats Push territory has sauken the
The consumption of altered water ther had told him of the marvellous the private Bissemination of the wildent are avoiding the Aaland Islands in
with which complacency
over the in the city and hill districts during their tours between Sweden German man-in-the-street has courage of the Chinese Police, who rumours, which have gone
remained behind during air raids to egentry from mouth to mouth during the month was 10.0 gallons per head inst your. Finland-United Press.
tonowed the Fuhrer's hitherto clear the people out of the towns, he last three weeks in a manner un vir day as against 25.1
consumed during the total German Evacuation Plan?
known since the publication of nows The series of suc- uninterrupted Copenhagen, Oct. 10.
He exhorted everyone to pray for
Secame an organised business. preparations Finland's
for
the missionaries currying out their acesses,
The most
obvious and practical month was 540,000,000 gallons.
In Kowloon and New Kowloon too remedy for this mixta of things in to emergency are proseeding unabated,
*Then, with Britain and France work under the continual menace of
reinforce the official Press Bureau with the consumption per head per day according to Danish correspondents
some journalist of approved edtlerial has dropped apprecialbly, the amount at Helsinki. Valuables are still being getting steadily stronger while
experience. It is impossible to under being 14.5 gallons against 10.1 fast feverishly removed from Helsinki Germany's power begins to de
stand why this step hea been rejected, year. However, the total consump- shops, which are sending all their chine; and with more and more | In a short address on the evang The editing and publication of news fon both the city and in Kowloon lower Finland is expected soon to have neutral States adnering to the liste work of Chinese churches tan technical art. It is not to be ex was appreciably higher, the
manifest future Hongkong, the ftev. Teo, Vicar of S. ported that eight military and naval 500,000 men in the ormy. 11 cause of the
Paul's, pointed out the difficulty of warriors, however warlike, directed by rate prr hrad bring due to the stated at link that Molotov to'd conquerors, the process of wear extending the Gospel to the Chinese KG. M.P., however learned in the greatly increased population.
law and politics, can master the nice- The total consumption on Ribbentrop when in Moscow, that all Germans must
leave Finland and ing down German resistance will in the Colony.
gallons that Ribbentrop nvreed-Reuter, go on until one day, lako a-steal ype of Chinese most con- tes of this art by the li-h of ariure, mainland was about 402,000,000 gal-
nine newspaper aditors men who, * last October, girder enton through with rust, ervative is the old merchant, Au-ne be more resacnable to entrust fons as against 200,000,000
Chris officia, other type most diicult to
noi
the everything with
The hours of supply during the (tianisots · it snaps-as it did last time.
the newly returned duties of the Army Council, STRAITS BUDGET
month were restricled to At present, the fact that the students. We do not know how to
The German erulsor Emden, which (a; to 10 p.m.),
The population Agures are No Extra Taxation
only missiles which have fallen approach them." ho sak
in has been creating auch havon among Services of Chinese churches in the interior of Germany are Hongkong were
the merchant shipping at the mouth of as 800,000 in city and hill district, attended by not the Hooghly and an the Burma cont, against 850,000 last year, and 000,000 Despite War
pamphlets is represented to the Christians and there were
Is still at large in the Bay of Bengal. In Kowloon and New Kowloon, of carrying
as the ellisons of fadens now know Singapore, Oct. 16. 'Gorman people as a symptom of ditterent ways LegislaUve Council of the Straits Britain's fear that military evangelistic work he said Weekly Settlements approved the draft Bud-
dt members and non-Christian gel for 1346. The Financial Scere- action might provoke the Gor- grayer meetings were held in homes
friends were invited. tary stated that the financial plan man forces to retaliation.
reserves to the country.
Jovled.
finances of, the Settlements.
up for combatant service with the volunteers-Reuter Dulletin,
air-raida.
Chinese Churches
several
out
"There are some Chinese who are
to their cost, for she visited Madras, against 500,000 last year. proceeded to bombard the port sa sho! stonmed peat at a rapid rate. One of accompanied by the barkomannis, ini.
the
seventeen
given
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the very first shots fell in the bed! President Hindenburg is the honorary room of Mr. Ellis, the Manager of the president of the organisation." of the Settlements was very strong This unexpectedly gradual telghtened of the church through Marma Oil Company all tanks on the The appentance of the exhibits pro and that no extra taxation would be entry into war conditions has, ignorance, and others who are afraid beach, who was in the room at the yoked pandemonium in the Dist, and On time. lls wife and children wars also the Speaker was forced to order s tem- Any unforeseen expenditure as a however, great advantages for to attend on account of criticism
tanks on Are, and the oil immediately when the Diet resumed is sitting.! result of the European war would us. In untroubled safety and the other band they have no objee in the house. Buberosent whats at the perary suspension. be met without any strain on the perfect weather all our prepara- tion to attend home meetings," blaxed up, rendering the sea face of Herr Grzensinak! warmly defended his
uld. "Another method was to form a the town as bellilant a day, siding drastic action, which he said, wea, Laken probably in the mabuoquent short, sharp on the ground that the organisation has
• fighting The Council manimously passed ations have been completed, so
that, when the war suddenly personal evangelist group and to ex- cannonade that took place. But this undoubtedly been training voto of loyalty to the Crown,
used her searchlights, so that every ito uttered a steen admonition to the The Government announces that enters on the intensive phase hort each member to win the new was hardly necessary, as the Emden military force. British subiccts and British protected which must inevitably come, we person each year.
At Chinese New Year when holl detall of the foreshore was distinctly, enemies of the Republic, saying that
"Those who refuse to hear my warn visible. citizens would be liable to be called shall have done everything pos- days were more frequent, prenening
ing must feal", bands were organised and many
10 YEARS AGO
5 YEARS AGO Borlin, Oct. 17, 1029.
Oct. 17, 1934. Meanwhile, it is a privilege to people were approaclied locally and In the New Territories, whore las!
Trays containing ramarkable - "For many years the Bank has un- It was announced in the Legisin- be members of a nation which year 20,000 pamphlets were
sortment of revolvers, daggers, knuckle- doubtedly added to Belilah prestige and dusters, corkscrews and other weapons, has enjoyed the confidence not only on tive Couneli to-day that the Colonial is fully informed of what is go-tributed.
The 32 Chinese churches had anld to have been taken from party! both the local and Home Government, Omice has approved the enactment of ing on. Instead of being hood- leginiation imposing a Habulty for winked and blinkered like the 101 now members last year, at meetings of the Nationalist Bocialitis but also of foreign, Governments which 002 were children. Last year in Berlin, were "exhibits" in the Prun especially that of Chine," said IL E. combatant service on British and
515 more than the 1,104 the year belan Diet when a storm debate followed the Governor, Bir William Peel, speak We, at least, are able to grasp fore were baptised an increase of 10 the animission of Nationalist Social- ing at the laying of the Foundation EMPIRE SALES COMPAN
int motion of non-condande. over the stone, of the new Head Omce of the
PHONE 31201M. B. KING SALES REPAIRS MAINTENANGÍ dissolution of the ""Steel X[6]meta.”; ;
HAPPY VAL Hongkong and Shanghai Banking, Cor Euruslan members supported the ro- the full significance of the his per cent
The dissolution was carried data: parallon, ceremony he performed in 99, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD - "There will be no extra taxation lo korle times through.... whichh.wd--address on edutation- stressed the affect by Herr Griesinski,: the Bonfallat; the presence of a large and distinguishe
Minister of the Interior for Prussia,, ad qushering pro
Vote Rapportod
Singapore, Oct 10
aible to meet it.
also protected subjects in the Colony, Germans.
The Chinese, Indian, Malay and
solution of loyalty to the Crown."
the 1940 budget-United Presa,
are living now,
dis.
Mr W. K. Cheung. In short: value of religion in teaching.
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