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VILLAGE MAROONED
Plight Of People On Lancashire.Moor
London, Jan. 31.
Nearly 100 people. ure older. without food aid are described as "starving at Crawford, on Beattacke Moor, Lancashire, as the countryside hold-up entered the fourth day with na marked improvement.
Those Isolated are inosti atruuded passengers who have been unable to
get beyond Crawford since Saturday and gradually overflowed the mail hotel which, with the ordinary quests, 65
now completely without food." Many of the people are 11.
A dozen railway officials fought their way into Crawford this morn- ing and are now trying to arrange special train to take the marooned people to Glasgow.
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 1, 1940.
OVER A MILLION MEN A Look Through RIBBED SOCKS
IN BRITISH ARMY
Urban Council PREMIER Still Fighting
Candidates
for the nominations When vacancy on the Urban Council closed at the Supreme Court, of two NAMES yesterday, the candidates were revealed,
DT. I A. Castro Hasto has been nominated by Sir Ilenty Pollock and seconded by Major C. M. Mannees, President of the Kowloon Residents Association. Dr. Basto has had nine consccti- tive years' service on the Urban Council.
The other nomince is Br. A. M. Rodrigues, who has been propos- ed by Mr. Leo d'Almada Bnt, and seconded by Col. H. B. L Dowbiggin.
An election will be held on February 20 between the hours of 10 am, and G p.m. This will be the first election for eight years.
Admiralty To Take Control
REVIEWS EFFORTS
London, Jan. 31.
Last War
NEW YOUK, Jan. 31 (Reuter). -"ler is still fighting the last war," declares the New York Times, commenting on his speech. "Yesterday, it was the ovils of Versailles again. It is done on the saine familiar pattern for Versailles is the only argument with which he can attempt to justify the utter recklesmess of his pulley which has led the German people Into war."
TALKS. CONTINUE
Tokyo, Jan. 31.
Sir Robert Craigle, the British Am-
The Telegraph”.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb, 1, 1800,
By desire of Her Majesty, the inte Lar Napier of Mazduin will be burled in St. Paul's Cathedral, elono tu Neinon and Wellington. A grand miley funeral has been ordered. The Emperor of Germany has telegraphed his great the Kympathy with the Queen and Brittah Army in the loss of one of the nblest Generals and bravest soldiers of, modern times.
The young King Alfonso is convales-
cent.
The Manchester Canal now employs 12,000 men and will be ready in fifteen months.
Shareholders la the Hongkong Land Investment, and Agency Company will regret to learn that the Hon. C. P. Clater has announced his intention of resigning
his position, at Managing Director,
"The Ties, discussing the Inst Army returns, states that "Hongkon ha 1,700 men of all ranks, consisting of two garrison batteries, an engineer: campany, a line battalion and a colonial corps of five companies."
25 YEARS AGO
Speaking at a luncheon at the Dorchester Hotel to-day, Mr. Neville. Chamberlain, Prime Minister, said sometimes if one were to read only the debates in the House of Commons and some sensational columns of the Press it might be supposed that the Government was making very! little effort to win the war and, indeed, had few ideas upon the subject except what was supplied to them by the ceaseless vigilance
Feb, 1, 1015, of the Opposition and the unfall-
It in a gratifying feature that tho ing ingenuity of patriotic basdor, dropped legalities for the time being during the interview with
extended use of motor-cars and motor j Arito, the Mr. Hachiro
Forcim eyeler is having the effect of opening journalists,
"No Goverment in a democratie Minister, yesterday afternoon, atates up the Now Territories, to saany who well-informed Asahi would otherwise be annequainted with country can expect to escape crit- the usually
the beauties of the mainland opposite. cism," he declared, "but I do think Shimbun.
There niways a dungger, however, that Sir Robert is sold to have taken a
those who are the runds wil nbune the It would be unfortunate if the public
forward towards political privileges which they are permitted to were led into a mood of gloom or step depression, because the facts do show settlement of the Asama Maru inci- enjoy; and, from what we hear, this in
precisely what some of those who own, Will Build Merchant
not only that prodigious efforts have dent by confidentially informing Mr.
"Scorching" that the unfortunate affair mutor-cycles are doing. been made but also that prodigious Arita Fleet In Future
would surely
be solved through along the Talpo rond la, we are told. results have been achieved."
quito common nowndays-to the danger
(Reuter).-In
The Asahi LONDON, Jun. 31
ly their own affälr) but to pedestrian India and other} Robert
s declaring that it,
as well. in France, home,
It was revealed that the House of Common to-day, the berlain said.The present time at
10 YEARS AGO Prime Minister, replying to Mr stations overseas upon our vital lines examination, Clement R. Attlee, the Labour Op-
under Acations for being interned the 1 Excellency the Governor and A bus en route from Glasgow and position Leader, said that the Gov- of Imperial communications, we have the detained Germans had no quall-
the upwards of 1,250,000 men Edinburgh to London with. 31 pas- Admiralty should become responsible arins. Those troops in those over- | British Government would be willing] Lady Clementi have arranged to leave! for Singapore, where His Excellency Is and repairs seas stations are standing ready, preto reconsider the matter,
the Beritish Govern- proceeding to take up the duties of his sengers was stranded for 18 hours for merchant shipcating the pared for their duties. It enables and exhausted that they had to be arrangements Appointed
from February 1, thus
inade In the last war. us here at home without fear of ment has taken a somewhat conci- new appointment, by the .. Mantun, interruption to proceed with the ex-latory attitude there are still murk-alig at anun on Saturday, February 1. The Hon. Mr. W. T. Soutborn, equipment
of our ea differences between the conten-| GM.fi,, will haune the Administration pansion of the
flons of the two Governments," main- on His Excellency's departure, striking force.
tains the Asaht. "The conversations, therefore, during the next few days, may be expected to be a most im- dancing and talking pleture, is showing portant feature in the efforts to solve the incident."
Miss Griffen, proprietress of the Crawford Hotel, informed the Press by telephone"The stranded pas- sengers have been here since Satur- day morning The worst cases came from a stranded bus, including chil- dren aged about seven, travelling alone. We took everybody into the hotel, but food supplies ran short. We then went on ràtions, but every- thing has gone and now we are unable to get further food and there are no shops in the village. Some of the women and children got bati chills Meantime we are absolutely star- ving."
Some of the passengers were so i
carried nearly a mile-United Press, Reuter adds that a special two- coach train got through to Crawford and carried the majority of the 400 isulated people to Glasgow. Similar difficulties are encountered all over the country,
situation in the The Yorkshire villages continues to be come worse. Many are completely cut off and running short of food and drinking water. Buxton, in the peak districl of Derbyshire, is virtually Isolated. There is an nute cool shortage, milk is scarce and there have been no newspapers for several days and only a few letters.
PREMIER'S APPEAL
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Direussing the Army, Mr. Cham-friendly negotiahun. quotes Sir not only of the cyclists (which is large-
"Although
upon
Sir James Lithgow had been
"We have now the first contingent pointed Controller of Merchant Ship- building and Repairs, and Sir Ame of the British Expeditionary Force Ayre had been appointed Director of in France and already we have sent over to France for their sustenance Merchant Shipping and Repairs.
Replying to supplementary ques- many thousands of motor transport
The
Osaka Mainichi somewhat tions, the Prime Minister stated that vehicles and nearly 500,000 tons of
startlingly declares that the British the question of finance would be the munitions and stores,
"Now, the Navy is to-day as it interpretation of international law responsibility of the Admiralty and that ships, when bulll, would be the always has been in our history-the vis a vis the Asamar Maru case ab- first line of defence of these islands solutely Ignores predominant property of the Government,
Far Eastern He
of Japan in that Sir James and that Great Empire which was understood Lithgow was not accepting a salary,
built up by the toil and enterprise Position
waters. Under a just interpretation of our forefathers. If you ask me of international law, ignoring the what is the battlefront of the Navy Japanese Navy In For Eastern I should say it is wherever Brish
waters would be called Illegal ship sail the oceans, which cover
Router. two-thirds of the earth's surface.
Contraband
TO THE JAPANESE Control Works
> FROM PAGE ONE
the tremendously powerful weapon.............. contraband control,
“The first attack upon a convoy made by a U-boat for a long time resulted yesterday in the destruc- tion, of the U-boat by the com-
bined efforts of naval and air forces which were escorting the the Ministry of Propaganda In Germany
attempt to deny the statement just made, I may inform you that very differently from their practice we have saved the lives of the majority of the crew,"
Full Speed
LONDON, J. 31 (Reuter).The Ministry of Economic Warfare states that there were 29 neutral ships in the United Kingdom Contraband Control bases yesterday.
outstanding
Of these, 10 had been there ave days or test
During last week the cargoes of 107 ships, which arrived January 20, and 31
urgoes were considered.
In Bi cases, the entire cargoes were released:
Sixty-four ships were dealt with under the system of considering the ships papers before arrival of the vessels, and in 51 cases the ships con- cerned were released after a formal
checking of the papers.
Relation With Neutrals Mr. Chamberlain a130 touched upon relations with neutral,
Mr. Chamberlin mentioned the The cargoes examined included agreement with the United States those of 41 Dutch, 25 Norwegian, 21 little over a year ago based on the Italian, eight Beiginn, seven Greek, principle of the most tavoured seven Swedish and five United States nation, and said: "We menn, when ships.. the war is successfully concluded, to return to that ideal"
"We must guard against the vicious ECONOMIC DRIVE
policy of economie nationalism and uutarchy which did so much to upset
the lust great peace settlement,"
anid the Premier.
BY NAZIS
"One of our foremost aims will Pressure Being Put On
be the restoration of internation! Irade.
"I am convinced that the sentiments i
Yugo-Slavia
and ultimate interests of neutras PARIS, Jan. 31 (Reuter)Accord- must be on the side of those who are ing to
21 Belgrade despatch, the
km-
trying to uphold the rights of nations German-Yugo-Slav economic and individuals to live their lives free
mitter which normally meets in from the fear of aggression andi | April or May-will now meet in Feb- perserulou."
ruary. The offelal reason given for Britain and France, Mr. Chamber- the advanced date is the need for lain concluded, "will fight on until the freedom which has been outraged adjusting commercial relations fol-
comes into its own again until friend and enemy can sit down to build up a happier and safer world."
lowing Germany and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. which will be insisted upon by the Germans, will play a part in the
the Customs union between
It is believed that the meeting,
The Asoma Incident Referring to the Asama Maru Incident, Mr. Chamberlain, Knid: economie offensive started by the "You, no doubt, have
the Germans In south-eastern Europe. rend of us and a incident between us
neutral. A new German financial delega- Covernment, Japan. Notion has arrived in Belgrade to doubt a strict interpretation of inter- negotiate in connection with pre-war
friendly
national law 18 a matter on which Serbian loans. The German object
our respective governments may take appears to be to increase the per- different views, but I am not con- centage which Yugo-Slavia agreed cerned this afternoon with inter- last December to repay. national law because after all, these legal issues are not the strongest in- fluence in the life of nations or the hearts of med,"
"Indeed, nothing would more dis- tress us than there should be in the minds of the Japanese people and the Japanese Government any les that we had deliberately or intentionally exercised our belligerent rights a we me them with a want of courtesy or want of consideration to the Japanese nation.
"We are bound to take all measures open to us to frustrate the mac- hinations of a powerful and utterly unscrupulous enemy, but certainly the last thing we want to do is to affront the self-respect of a friendly nation with whom we want to live in peace."
WELLINGTON, Jan: 31. (Reuter). A call for recruits from the forestry and logging Industries for service overseas has met with splendid res-
ponse.
Stock Exchange's Quiet Day
LONDON, Jan. 31 (Reuter)-On the Stock Exchange to-day, apart from git-edged securities and home rails, which continued quietly to im- prove, markets mostly eased in the absence of buying interest, though the losses were small, in most consisting of only a few pence.
Wall Street was steady.
cases
Same Old Formula
the
Another Interview
"To give you an idea of the de- munds being made upon them may I tell you that since the outbreak of
Tokyo, Jun. 31. Following another interview be- the war one of our battleships has
Mr. covered well over 34,000 miles. In tween the Foreign Minister, the first 120 days of the war one of Arita, and Sir Robert Craigie, Bri- the following our cruisers was at sea for all those tish Ambassador, this afternoon, the 120 days. One of our destroyers was Foreign Office lasued
communique: away for 103.
From the north of Scotland to the "Continuing their conversations of coast of Greenland, that is the space yesterday, they discussed the Asama through which a German raider hos Maru question for about an hour to reach the Atlantic or German mer- from practical and political angles. chantmen have to penetrate in order Another interview will be held to- to carry cargoes to a home port. morrow.
"The written reply of the Japanese That space is 1,000 miles long and in winter the visibility by day to not Government will be transmitted to more than a mile; yet that space is the British Government in a day or being densely controlled by the Bri-two, after which the official-notes of both the Japanese and the British tish Navy with increasing success. -Reuter.
will Governments
be published United Press adds that the Prime simultaneously in Tokyo and London." Minister announced that more Geric man submarines had been destroyed yesterday by the combined operations of the naval and air forces.
by mying that the sponsors of the
Mr. Chamberlain Jibed at Hitler WESTERN FRONT luncheon had not found it necessary to conceal the luncheon from the public.-United Press.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange official summary Issued yesterday says:
Very quiet conditions marked the morning session.
1. Bank $1,285 Docks $203. Providents $4.40 Hotels $3.05 Lande $33
Buyers
Humphreys 1014 Youmatt Ferries $2415. China Light (New) $41⁄2 Telephonen (Old) $24 Watsons 5.50 Entertaininents $0.00
Hellers
Ropes St Dairy Farms (Old) $22%
Relen Valon Ina. 1403 Docks $0.00 Tramways $17.00 Star Ferries 803
Alocks
Antamok
Manlix Gold Shares
PA.
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De Wedge Coco Grove
Con, Mines
Demonstration
East Mindanao
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Dogon Min. Mambulao Con. NEIDAte Còn. . Mand. Motherlode Mine Operation North Camarines Paracalo Cumaus Hor Maurielo Burigso Can. Buyno Con. Byndicate Inv. Unitru Parncalo Benguet Con,
Nazi Sorties Beaten Back
Air Activity Slackens
Feb. 1, 1930.
"The Hollywood Revue," a singing.
at the Quran's to-day and to-morrow. Bane Broadway, used to the grentent of musical revues, raved about thin fim-the first song-and-dance revue of the screen. Don't intan it
Song its include "Singin' in the Bain," "Your Mother and Mine" "Geltu feeling for you," "Low Down Rhythm," "Nobody lut You," "Orange Blossom Time."
5 YEARS AGO
Feb. 1, 1035. Mr. William Wotherspoon, of Taikoo Dockyard, who is Ifame on bullday from Hongkong.
neen the Loch Nesn Monster, according to the "colaman" of December 20, which reports a state-| ment from him that he now the crea- ture on the previous Thursday at 1 p.m, near the Fort Augustus end of the Loch.
NO DISCOURTESY INTENDED
London, Jan. 31. Speaking at a luncheon to-day the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Cham- berisin, touched on the Asama Muru inclient and sild that nothing would more distress Britalo than should, in the minds of the Japanese people or be the Japanese Government there any idea that Britain deliberately or intentionally exercised her bellige- rent's right, sa she saw it, with a want of courtesy or want of con- alderation to the Japanese nation. Uniled Press..
CHINESE NEW YEAR Preparations in Progress For Annual Fair
As in former years, the Chinese New Year Fair is being held ut Gloucester Road, Wanchul, from Fen- PARIS, Jan. 31 (Reuter): wick Street to Fleming Road, and in Two Nazi raids on the Western Kowloon at Waterloo Road, Argyle Street and Nam Chang Street. A Front, west of the Saar, during total of 300 stalls have been let for the past 24 hours have been the sale of various commodities an repulsed.
the Island, while 164 out of 204 stalls have been taken up on the Mainland, The German artillery opened A tour of the fair location yester- fire on French outposts before day disclosed very little activity, with only a handful of empty stalls ercet- the attacks were made and also ed. It is expected that the fur will laid a barrage on all points from be in full swing by the end of the which raiding parties could be week. attacked.
The Germans left, their Hines points two miles apart.
In one raid, about 50 men were one party and 25 in the other.
Easily Driven Back
Spaces have been let for the sale of the following:-Gold Ash, dowers of (including, artificial flowers, pat-
plants and miniature gurdens), curlos, inandlewood, stationery, pletures and
calendars, and toys.
The French artillery and automa- 23 b tic weapons drove the raiders back
without dimeulty.
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There has been no air uctivity over the Western Front although one Nazi machine has made a long reconnais- Eastern and fight over Northern France and is reported to have flown over Belgium on its way home.
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BERLIN, Jan. 33 (Reuter)It is Japanese Pross forecasts that at the Diet session Mr. Arita will emphasise announced that the German Navy re- Japan's Independent policy in foreign cently strengthened their submarine relations, but will announce the indefences in Hellgoland Bight by the tention to respect third Power rights increase of submarine fighting vessels and interests in China.
and other means of defence.
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Nazi Linos Penetrated PARIS, Jan. 31 (Reuter).--To- day's communique states thal patrola penetrated into enemy terri lory at several points and successfully accomplished their mission.
£200,000 For Relief Work Proposed
LONDON, Jon. 31 (Reuter) --A supplementary civit estipate for Jncludes £298,000 Issued to-day £100,000 for relief of distress among. Polish refugees in neutral countries. dnd £113,000 for earthquake vellel In Turkey,
Train Servicos Resume
LONDON, Jan. 31 (Reuter).-Most of the railways throughout the coun try are now running on schedule. In the case of a few exceptions it is expected that normal running will be resumed to-morrow.
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