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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 22, 1939.
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SAILING
AT THE END OF DECEMBER .
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Sailings to Straits, Rangoon and Calcutta.
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Sailings to Rabaul, East Coast of Australia and Tasmania.
ALSO FREQUENT SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI AND JAPAN.
All vessels may calt at any ports on or off the route and the route and xil sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.
Passengers are requested to register their requirements but under present circumstances sailings are perforce restricted,
For details apply to
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Phone 27721,
FIRMS
INSURE
LLOYD'S UNDERWRITERS
ARE
OFFERING
Opps OF TEN TO ONE AGAINST THE WAR BEING OVER WITHIN A MONTH, FIVE ΤΟ ONE AGAINST IT ENDING WITHIN TWO MONTHS AND TWO TO ONE AGAINST PEACE BEING DECLARED BY APRIL NEXT YEAR.
This may sound a good bet for gunblers who believe that this my be a three years' conflict but, tmfor- tunately for then, it is only open to businesses engaged in war work.
Manufacturers who fene that y would be left with a vast amount of uneteris machinery or stock on their} hands were au Armistice declared in the near future are taking advantage, of the offer
By paying 10 10s. down for every one hundred pounds worth' of stock or muchinery that would become useless in peace, they are protecting
themactres against
lonaca uhlch few firms would be able to bear.
At present, rates for every month | afler December rise by £10 10%, a month.
Odds offered by Lloyd's do not mean that underwriters believe tha war is hely, to end soon. du believe that it might therefore protect themselves Hing high premions
But they end, and
by quot-!
PRESIDENT
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SAILINGS
1940
Booking Sheets Now Open
for
AUXILIARY ARMOURERS
Women of the A.T.S. are doing useful work in the armoury of a West Country regimental depat. Top: Examining revolvers to sea that the barrels have been properly cleaned. The other picture shows an anti-tank gun receiving attention,
'HITLERISM' IS NOT
JUST HITLER
HITLERISM CAN BE DESTROYED ONLY IN ONE WAY-BY THE SWORD.
Sir Edward Grigg, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information, made this staternent at Al- trincham recently.
Speaking to his constituents, he said that the German nation was like a splendid ship under pirate control, driven forward by
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OVERSEAS CHINESE Singapore Magnate Busy Organising Mission
Singapore, Dec. 21. Through the initiative of Mr. Ton Kah-kee, well-known Singapore Chinese newspaper magnate, the or
GERMANY Falsation of an overseas Chinese
Soldiers' Family News By Radio
Germany has "lost" 10,000 people who were living in the Saur.
All German wireless stations have been broadcasting long ista of names, with their former addresses, of people from that region whose whereabouts are unknown.
The conclusion drawn, says Reuter, in that the evacuation of the Saar was carried out in such a hurry thu the authorities do not know where evacuees have gone.
The readisg of the games re- rently, us оп previous days, was fullowed by an urgent appeal to re- part at once, us many of those al- ready, called have not yet put in on appearance.
Bremen's Master Honoured
yeward
mlusion to China comprising 00 mem ters Is under way with a view to visiting the Chinese fighters at the varlovs fronts and refugees
fear.
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The Bank's Head Office Sri Landon undertakes Executor & Trustee, busness, · and claims recovery of British Inconto Tax overpalu, on terms which may be ascertained at any of ita Agencies and Itranches
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DEVELOPMENT PLAN Manchuria Mother Company Expands Rapidly
Iisinking, Dee, 21.
The Manchuria Heavy Industry Company, the holding company un- deylaking the development of heavy capital of yen 450,000,000, during the industrien in Manchukuo, with
at the current year has paid a total of yen 301,040,000 on the stocks of its sub- sidiary companies.
sup-
Large quantities of medical plies and gifts will be enrried by the mission.
The capitalisation by the Company during io current year show three and a half times as much no those Mr. Tan has telegraphed the Chin in the past year. Accounting for the cie leaders in Mainya,
dies, Philippines, Thailand, Burination of new tubsidiary companies and Dutch East vast capitalisation are the inaugura- and Indo-China, asking them to dep- the increases in the capital of existing patch delegates to Singapore to join companies. the mission to go to China.
The mission will be sub-divided Into six sections which will cover North, Central and South China.
The mission la expected to spend six months in China and will leave Singapore about March--Reuter:
Among the larger capitalizations that have been made by the Com- pany during this year are yen 100,- 000,000 for the Manchuria Cont Min- In Company, yen 50,000,000 for the for the Manchuria Mining Company, Showa Steel Works, yen $1,000,000
yen 40,000,000 for the Eastern Border Development.Company, and the, tak- lug over the stock of the Pentsiohhu GOVERNOR AT PANTO Iron and Ceal Company, valued at
yen 40,000,000. His Excellency the Governor, Sir
By way of disposing of
Company has Lady Northcote and a party from issued yen, 130,000,000 of debentures Government House were among the with the support of ita banking any who laughed heartily at last syndicate, while it has foaned you alghis presentation at the European 200,000,000 from the Manchuria In- YM.C.A. of the "Y" pantomime "All dustrial Baba and the Forty Thieves."
banking syndicate accommodated gen
Geoffry Northcote, accompanied by capitalisations, the дя в
- It is now announced that,
for reaching Germany, the owners of the N.D.L's Haer Bremen, 51,000 tons, have conferred the title of Commodure on the master, Capt. Adoil Ahrens. Births Announced by Radio
Bank, Tho
the
The production is to be repented 50,000,000. A broadcast concert for
German to-night, at 9 p.m. to-morrow at 3 The stocks of the Company's sub- troops was interrupted by a gramom, and again on Boxing day nt 3 sidiaries at present total-you-a0 phone record of a child's cry. This pm, and 9 pm
AQ0,000.-Domel. prefaced the reading of a long list
of bables born to the wives of mon at the front.
The announcement of the birth of seventh son in one soldler's family- was coupled with the statement that child.
"Delayed action on our side TUCKER INter would stand godfather to the
does not mean we have lost one Jal
of determination to end the terror avershadowing Europe
three or four years..
for the last
"The ruthless destruction of Poland has not shaken this nation, but given it an even more burning faith in the Justice of its cause.
SHANGHAI
Not Conscious Of Breaking Law In Japan
Shanghai, Dec. 21.
"Hitlerism, which we have pledged Rev. Luther Tucker was met by his murselves tu destroy, Is something wife and two daughters nuch stronger and
upon his more pervasive arrival from, Kobe this morning. Un the mind and character of u
Father Tucker said: "It is clear single man.
I was guilty of violating the law. 1 "There would be no Hitler to-day was held because of the literature
of.
if the German people were not sun-which I distributed, the nature ceptible to crude and brutal lender-which I am not free to discuss; but ship of the type he represents.
it was clearly disturbing the domes
"There would be no Hitler to-day tie peace and order of Japan. If there had not been in every Ger-
I was not conscious that 1, was man street and village a number of realding the law. I actually violated men ready and willing to inflict on;
their own
compatriols the awful two laws, one against spreading false gruelties and tyrannies which mark Information and rumours his regime.
One Remedy
und Use
other a special regulation against 'disturbing literature, preventing uny information from raising questions "The evil things in Germany it in anyone's mind, because it is Jo- present dominate the good, and there pan's polley of sacrificing wasthiingly is only one means by which that for the establishment of a new order. satanic spirit in Germany can be destroyed-the sword."
"During my entire detention I was
Sir Edward said that Britain did never under the slightest duress, not seek a dictaled peace, but a peace pressure or liardship. As Secretary by agreement in which all peoples of the Worfe's Student Christian Including Germany, would play their Federation I helped interpret the part.
obligations of the Japanese' to each "We seek a peace guaranteed by lather, aiming to avert á break in general receptance-not 2
Peace Christian fellowship, which is guaranteed by the strength meant helping the Christians under- In Japan, this of two or three dominant Powers, stand the nature of some of the while other peoples remain weak and tragie consequences of the war disarmed," ke ndded.
It will be recalled that Father Tucker was convicted of the charges in a Japonese Court at Kyoto several days ago-United Press.
Forco Nocossary "There must be force behind all law: but the wider the consent on witch the law is based, the less the danger that force will have to be used.
"We alall strivealad for the economic welfare, not merely of the victorious countries, but of Europe. ns. a whole.
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treaties was their blindness to the economic, needs of the various new States set up
Another soldier. stationed in the Stenfried Line, was told by the radiu of a new arrival, bringing his family up to 12.
A Berlin frm promised free per- ambulators for the first 25 babies Announced in the list, Glossing Over, Bad News
Berlin radio reported that 20 per- sons were killed and more injured in n railway accident on the Berlin- Salzburg line.
This news was mentioned as un- obtrusively as possible, the announcer saving it till the end of his broad- cast.
Ludendorff's Cult
The fortnightly magazine, "At the Holy Fount of German Power." which was founded by Gen. Luden- dorff and was published after hia death by his widow, has ceased publication. It was devoted largely to the cult of Germanic theology and Teutonie mysticism.
Gen. Ludendorff was Field-Marshal von Hindenburg's Chief of Staff in the last war. Spy Boheaded
"
A spy, whose name is given as Hermann Krueger, was executed by the axe, according to a German broadcast.
He had been found gulity of work- ing against Germany in Invour of foreign Powers.
THEOSOPHISTS MEET
The Re-birth of Nations was the' subject of a lecture given by Mr. Percy Chen to the Theosophical So- clety yesterday, which he chose as a fruitful subject to discuss with the death of nations occurring all around. The speaker dealt with the periods of decadence through which notions pass before they cease to exist and referred to the ense of Abyssinia, Albania, Austria and Czecho-Stova-
kin.
"Europe, will, I hope, como to
Mr. Chen deall at length realise that; without co-operation on
with Young China, which still lives, and
a scale unknown in the past they oulined the principles gulding It in hope to be either sale or the task of regeneration of the
"The greatest weakness of the cannot
of Versailles and the sister)prosperous,"
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