CHASE IN HARBOUR
Indian Reservist Swims
After Runaway.
AN Indian police reservist and a runaway prisoner were the central figures in a novel chase
shortly after 7 o'clock last night.
The incident occurred in the waters
of Hongkong harbour, into which the
runaway Jumped after making his escape from No. 2 Police Station.
The Reservist, Han Din, was enter-
Ing the Police Station to report for duty when the esespre dialed past him.
Han tramediately set off in pursutt. He followed the runway into the waler without a moment's liesitalien and, swimming vigorously after him, finally exught up with the man about 200 yards from the praya.
A struggle ensued between the two
men, and continued until the run- away, half-drowned, became -un- conscious.
The Indian then brought his man
to the praya.
So nevero was the fight in the water, that the Reservist had to be admitted to hospital for treatment for minor injuries. He discharged.
NAZIS INTENSIFY
RAIDS
fater
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Il Duce
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Sees
BIG OPIUM SEIZURE
His War Chiefs Shanghai Raid On
to-day
ROME, Jan. 29 (Reuter),-Signor Mussolini received General Soddu, the Under- Secretary for War, and other generals.
For over an hour they discuss- ed the defensive precautions taken and to be taken.
One
of the
reporta
from the
BLACKOUT DEATHS
Kencrais: concerned the development Transport Ministry
of the defencen, which are carried out along Italy's land frontiers.
Another of the reports concerned anti-aircraft defence,
Il Duce gave Instruction that all precautions should be increased and
Tackling Problem
LONDON, Jan. 29 (Reuter), Captain Euan Wallace, Minis-
that the forces now under arms should ter of Transport, is launching al
rengthened by the recall of certain specialist officers and other road safety campaign... ranks for a period of instruction.
Italy
It is sinted that the new 20 miles per hour limit imposed this week in the black-out was the result of tests carried out in his own car.
Captali Wallace added that out of the total of 1,150 road deaths December, 805 occurred during the blackout.
Norwegian Ship
SPECIAL TO THE "TILEGRAPH** SHANGHAI, Jan. 30 (UP) — { Customs and river polleo carried out a joint raid yesterday on the Norwegian steamer Sandviken. Following a searcir of the ship oplum valued at 2,000,000 yuan was discovered.
This constitutes the biggest nar- cotle linul in Shanghal for years.
No suspects have been arrested. The oplum was found secreted special containers hidden under cargo.
JAPANESE: START ANTI-U.S. "HATE"
·FROM PAGE ONE
in
the
hns
his overwhelming ambition and blind' jealously of Chilang Kai-shek, gold his birthright for a mess of polsonous poltage."
January 30, 1940.
A Look Through RIBBED SOCKS
The
“Telegraph”
50 YEARS AGO
FA (Jan. 30, 1800..
A telegram has been received from Mi Nellie Bly, of the New York he "World",; anouncing that sho proved victorious in fer res round the world against Atlas istand, the repre
stative of a zivni journal,
.
There was unveiled on the 18th allo... in the Abbey Church, Dunfermline, a handsome monumental brass over the tomb of King Robert the Bruce, whonO remalns were discovered in vnult! beneath the church in 1812. The cero- mony was porformed by Lady Louisa Bruce, collateral descendant of the great Scottish King, and among thosa. laking part in the proceedings was tho) Earl of Elgin.
25 YEARS AGO
Jan. 30, 1915; A farmer at Ping Yuen Village hos reported to the pollee that s pony has been eaten by a tiger. The pony was tethered near the houLO.;
F. C. Goucher went to the apoi und fund the pegs of the tiger near the curcave of the pony, which was partly The pugs measured eight inchus ACTORS.
enten.
To Increase Frantior Defences SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH” “ ROME, Jan. 29 (Domel)-Follow init a conference with Army leaders, it is understood Signor Mussolini has decided to Increase the Italian de-
The Government was determined to fence forces on the borders with tackle the problem of road deaths. France, Germany and Yugo-Slavia. The Ministry would select three or Signor Mussolint received his high four specified areas in which the Arroy leaders at the Venezia Palace police would make an analysis of the and held an important military con- cause of accidents in the black-out,
knee-length skirt, this being an essential part of national
ference.
Informed quarters attach much defence. significance to the aurprise military measures by Signor Mussolini in reportedly increasing view of the of
The Heinkels flew through the clouds straight into SWILITA angry British fighter machines when they attempted to bond the Tyneside area, and were forced to turn tail in a crazy aerobatic attempt to escape the spitting multiple guns of the R.A.F. machines.
A boatman who witnessed an attack froin the seafront of a cast const resort said: "I now a black bomber swoop within Afty feet of the top of the lighthouse.
"Then he passed over the maste of three chips, which he attacked with bombs and machine-guna.
Adverse Weather
"He dropped about six bombs, Not one of them found their mark."
The German attacks were made under severe weather conditions and poor visibility.
tension in the Balicans The mea- sures are apparently calculated to strengthen precautions against de- velopments in the Balkans and the Near East
18,000 Poles Put To Death
Gestapo Terrorism
Disclosed
Scotland Shivers
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 30, 1930. Over 600 delegates representing wo- mea'a nocletion In New York Sintel Inspired Attack On
Istened, more or less patiently, while Miss Gertrudo Lawrence, the English' Wang Ching-wei
actress, clad in one of the new long MOSCOW, Jan. 20 (Reuter) skirta, fresh from Paris, oxplained why
denounces "the traitor, the long, flowing lines of the garmant: "Pravda"
the were more beautiful than the present Wang Ching-wel," stating that object of the agreement with Japan was to place Chino in a position was to complete subservience to Japan.
The fact that the question of formation of a government by Wang has been resurrected indicates the ever-increasing difeuilles Japan encountering in China.
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"Common charity," declared Miss Lawrence, demands that soice women's knees shall be concealed, and actually all women will profit by the fashion because suggestion in always more fint. tering than revelation."
The delegates, however, did not up- peas enthusiastic, and Intar applauded rapturously one of their number who declared with great positivaness
that
"Izvestin," sludying the economic
of Japan, gives a long "American woman would never surrent- position account of the strain of war or the der the freedom experienced a knee- length skirts nor submit to the little and Japanese agricultural system
Fifty-Year Record emphasises Japan's lack of foreign colerie of meal-ticket-seeking French-
Cold Spell
LONDON, Jan. 29 (Reuter),
exchange, raw material and shrinking. foreign trade.
Observers herd are wondering it there is any connection between the anti-Japanese articles and the present
The west of Scotland has trade talks.
the experienced the most
It is generally believed that Bevere
Japanese are holding out for cessation weather for half a century.
of Soviet aid to General Chiang Kai- To-day Glasgow had no south-shek and recognition of some puppet while commercially ANGERS (France), Jan. 29 (Reu-ward connection with London.government, iter).-No less thon 18,000 Polish In the meantime, trains from the Japan is reported to be offering Russia piece goods and wants in ex- leaders of all classes are estimated to Among the British ships ntlacked have been put to death by the Ger-south have been temporarily change of, ümber and Iron ore.
Negotiations are not far advanced. were, in addition to the two already mans in Nazi-occupied Poland, ac-lost..
Three which left England yester- mentioned, the 0,010-ton tanker Bri-cording to a White Paper Issued by
day were traced in the early hours of tish Officer, the 4,867-ton Olter Pool, the Polisi Government to-day,
The White Paper the 2,881-ton Stonburn the 4,648-ton
say that the the moming. One of them, carrying Well-park, the 2,272-ton Knitsley and Nazis' aim is to wipe out the Polish all Scotland's Sunday papers, the small coastal vessels Atholl population in western Poland and stranded between Carlisic and Beat- Monarch, Danny Bryn and Miram. that the German plan is being carried stock.
out by the German The Stanburn was well-known as a
army nud blockade runner during the Spanish agents of the Gestapo. Civil War.
The only German hit registered in the aerial combats with the Heinkels WEB a single machine-gun bullet. which struck the fuselage of one of the R.A.F. machines.
Most of the bombs nimed at the Shetland Islands fell into the sea. School-children were evacuated as a precautionary measure.
Latvian Ship Bombed London, Jan. 20 (Reuter).-Seven are feared killed when German planes dropped ten bombs on the Latvian steamer, Tautmiin, 3,700 tons, in the North Sea.
by
was
One train, which left Glasgow yesterday at 10 am., is still at Bent- Snub For Nazis
tock, and the rallway made arrange- ROME, Jan, 20 (Router).--Com-ments to feed the passengers.
It is hoped to rescue them some menting on the denial issued in Berlin of the report broadcast from time to-day,
Many sailors and soldiers on leave the Valleas on German atrocities in
were stranded in Glasgow when Poland, the official Vatlean paper south-bound trains were suspended. writes:
"We should like to believe tant the Skating On Serpentine German denial corresponds with the LONDON, Jan. 20 (Reuter).—All, truth, but where the Nazis fight British newspapers published pictures ngainst Catholics, we know what taken during the cold spell of a fori-: Their oMelal declarations mean night ago, the detalls of which were the words their released for publication abroad yes- only too well to give
terday by the censor. ordinary significance.
"Catholics will prefer, in the mat- Among other things the pictures ter of religious life in Poland, the show skating on the Serpentine, ice- and lugs direct evidence of Polish Catholics" fices a Morecambe Bay
breaking up the tee in the River COPENHAGEN,Gestapo
„Jan. 20 (Reuter) Thomo- According to a message received here by Danish friends, Professor Michael
An eighth man was seen drifting alone.in a beat which had been darn aged by a bomb. A life vest Victim Of
searching for him.
FIlteen men and the Captain's wife
escaped in a boat and were picked | „Siedlecki, the well-known Polish
| 20ɔlonist, has died in a concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, at the age
up by a patrol boat and taken to port. Lightships Bombed LONDON. Jan, 20 (Reuter) of 60. Unidentified planes flew over the Shetland Islands this afternoon and Oghter planes went up after them. The all clear signal was sounded 40 minutes later.
Further to the South, fighteri planes attacked a Heinkel, which fed into low-lying clouds. One of the British fighters was struck by a single bullet, but no damoge was done.
Other enemy raiders were driven away by fighters while attacking} ships of the Yorkshire coast.
Two of the vessels attacked were defenceless light-ships.
He was Proferscr of Zoology at the Cracow University.
Kowloon Traffic. Accidents
Two traffle accidents occurred in Kowloon yesterday, the victim in ane case being seriously injured.
WESTERN FRONT
RAIN CHURNS UP THE MUD
PARIS, Jan, 29. (Reuter).—A drizzle is falling on the western front, reducing visibility to a minimum and stopping activity.
H.K. Stock Market
were
The following quotations issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar- ket this morning,
BANKS
H.K. Bunks S..
H.K, Banks (Lon. (Reg.) H.K. Banks (H.K. Reg.) Chartered £ Mercantile, C. £ Mercantile, c. £. East Asia $.
Canton $.
INSURANCES
Union $*** China Underwriter $. ----H.K-Fire-$.
SHIPPING
Douglases $
Steamboats $. Indo-Chinas P$ Indo-Chinas D.$. Shell (Bearers) si- Waterboats $
DOCKS ETC. Wharves $. Docks $.
Providents $ New Eng. Sh. Sh, Docks Sh. S.
MINING
men in
While this was going on in the hall another dress. reformer, in the person of Minn Jennae Vinalamar, dramatie soprano, paraded, the streets of New Yerk, wearing wide light trousers and a dark-green blouse.
5 YEARS AGO
Jan. 30, 1935. Dr. Francia Cho Min-wel, bend of the Central China College in Houston, kald that the Japanese plece-mesi invasion of China was being undertaken with a view to ultimately excluding from Avin the people of the white race.
Vitamins For Margarine Ministry Control Of Foodstuffs
LONDON, Jan. 29 (Reuter). —Mr. Lennox-Boyd, Under- 1,305 b.Secretary in the Ministry of £,.87 a Food, stated to-day that meat| £80 rationing will be announced at
.8% n.
a comparatively early date, and 28% n. 11. that there would be a large lag .78 n. between the announcement and
its implementation.
207 n.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd also stated that 470 n after February 5, all margarines will 14 be vitaminised with vitamins A and 180 n.-B-lo-make-them-equal-in-vitamin-
content with butter,,
100 sa.
11 n.
100 n. an
The Food Ministry has also made
order revoking
80 n. prices" for tea,
78/1 n. 7% m
"provisional
The order was made at the out- break of war with the object of pre- 103 n. venting speculation while arrange- .204 sa, ments for the control of lea supplies
.4.10 sa were completed.
19.80 0. 280 n.
all
Kailan 8/- Rauba $. Venz. Gold H.K. Mines
13/- n
10 n. An .3% cts. n.
LANDS
Roads are being churned into mud Patrol activity on the front itself, however, is continuing.
While bus, 700 was going down Nathan Road, it collided with a tri-
Certain Activity cycle ridden by Chan Kwon, Chan received serious Injuries to the sping. PARIS, Jan. 20 (Reuter), To Later in the morning, enemy atr-o in now lying in Kowloon Hospital night's French cominunique states craft raided chips off the Kentish in a serious condition.
that aviation and artillery have shown coust. The ships reported to be at- tacked were the Miriam, the British Officer, the Atholl Monorch and the Danny Bryn. Further ships reporting attocks at various points were the Stanburn, Otterpool, Kalisley and Well Park.
It is unofficially staled that 18 German bombers flew over the East const. Several bombs were dropped
The other accident occurred in a certain amount of activity on the Shanghai Street, when a lorry knock- Western Front, ed down a woman, Li Yau, who su talned severe Injuries to the foot. She was removed to Kowloon Hos- pital, where her condition is stated to be satisfactory.
Royal Scots Soldier Killed
In Crash
A. fatul accident occurred at the
when
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STALIN'S INVADERS
SMASHED
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Soviet detachments, attempting a
in the sea in and around the Shet 18 mile post on the Castle Peak turning movement at Altiojoki were Innds area shortly after mid-day, but Road yesterday
no damage was reported.
Fighter planes went up after the Germans, but owing to unfavourable weather conditions, could not Inter- cept the raiders.
.Badly Damaged LONDON, Jan. 20 (Reuter)~One man is dead and another wounded na a result of enemy action against the Newcastle steamer Gripfast, which arrived off a north-east const har- bour to-night
One of the ship's lifeboats was hanging from a davit and a shore ifeboat is now searching for another of the lifeboats. It is stated that the Gripfast is badly damaged,
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small repelled and left 350 dead.
the The Soviet air force attacked ilę. armoured lorry, belonging to
the road districts of Kotka, Lovisa, Hango and War Department, ran off and landed in a padal field.
Raums, and bombed Hyysalmi in The diver, a soldier of the Royal north Finland. Scots whose name
Two Soviet planer, were broughal divulged, was killed, but two other down, while Finnish fighters bombed occupants of the lorry escaped un-Soviet concentration points and hurt.
ban not
been
MAY LEAD TO WAR
·FROM PAGE ONE
any attempt by other Powers to secure control of China.
columns of troops,
Helsingfors had two air raid alarma but no bombs were dropped on the eity..
Heavy Red LossoS
SPICIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“. HELSINGFORS Jan. 30 (UP), A Finnish communiqué claims that approximately 800 Russians were These motives to-day engaged the killed in a battle north-east of Lake Unlled Sintes more closely in the Ladoga yesterday. Sino-Japanese conflict than any other Ong hundred and sixty Russians
Chinese Return From Power, with the possible exception of laid down their arms and were made
Scuttled Ship
the Soviet Union, and it might well prisoners.
The Russians launched an attack be one of the causes which would involve the United States in the pre-in the Aittokoki sector, but were re pulsed, leaving 450 dend in the field. sent conflict.
· Anti-aircraft guns, shot: down" a TOKYO, Jan. 29 (UP)-Twenty- The Sino-Japanese confllet had no three Chinese mombers of the crew direct connection with the war in Soviet bomber at Pasila, on the out- of the scuttled German Hiner Colum-Europe, but in the last resort it was skirta dr Helsingfors. bts have arrived by the. American not really apart from it.
"If this is true, America will pro- liner Prozident Clevelandi,
They were transferred in Kobe to bably discover that her special interest an Empress Uner, aboard which they in the Far East will profoundly affect are travelling to their homes In her duty to Europe, declared Bir Shanghai and Hongkong..
Frederick Whyte,
Most reliable, extimintem aro that; In the curren) dimsirens offensive, the Russians have lost 6,500 killed and over 20,000 wounded. Th catinanted: that 3,000.of the wound- ed have frozen to death.
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The Ministry is now making con- tracts with Empire producers and teas will be passed through trade channels for distribution to the con- |
suiner.
It is stated that some variation from time to time in the supply of .5.15 60.articular brands must be expected, .33.70 nut prices will be kept under close
100 review. 40.
81⁄4 n. Mr. Lennox-Boyd told the press 4.60 n. conterence that the Food Ministry in
101 n. the future will be the sole importer
of tea.
17/4 1.
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Revocation of the order will not lead to a general rise in price, and the Ministry does not anticipate any .68 n. marked increased in the price. 244 b. Supplies are adequate, but in wartime 7.70 n. inevitable that certain brands of
it is -4 tea, from time to time, might be on 55% short supply, but the Ministry had ample power to check any undue .11 n. rise in price. 241⁄2 20.
-20 n.
9.60 n.
Replying to questiona, Mr. Lennox .19/8 n. Boyd said that a considerable range .19/0 n. of brands would be available, There would be no standard blend in add!-
Cald: Macg. (Ord.): Sh...14.00 n. tion to the existing blends, and there
.12. was no suggestion" of a national tea.
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BERLIN, Jan. 20 (Reuter), -Swiss violation of the German frontier is alleged in a commentary Issued by the German news agency.
34% n
It states that on January 20 an 179 n. seroplane, definitely recognised as .44 n. Swiss, flew over the German frontier to the west of Lienheim, about seven 481⁄2‚n.
miles from Walleshut, and returned 0.00 b. at Recolingen south-east of Walle- 14 n. shut into Swiss territory,
A military communique issued at 8% n Berne states that a Swiss military plane inadvertently crossed the fron- 50% n. Uer into Germany last Friday owing 202 to bad weather. The pilot flew over 98% the frontier for two minutes and 15/0 n.. Uten returned immediately to Swiss
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