Monday,
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WHAT EIRE Argentine OBITUARY
FACES
Warning Of Possible' Invasión
LONDON, July 14 (Reuter). "We may be in a rather tight' corner soon, but that is nothing new to us, and with God's help and the courage of our people, we will pull this old land through," declared Mr. Aiken, Minister for the Co-Ordination of Defence Measures in Eire, speaking at a recruiting meeting at Dundalk to-day,
Civilians! · Duty "Every civilian must "realise that his district might become the scene of military operations at any time, and in such case he should not hamper the army,
nor co-operate with or aquist the enemy in any way," People should familiarize them- stives with the volees of Elrean radio announcers and not be misled, by
sent over the radio.
added, the speaker..
Italians Disgusted With
Chairman Of National City Bank
New York, July 15.. The Chairman of the National City
Perkins, died of a heart attack to- | night.~~ReuLET,
London, July 13: Edward Tomlinson, of the New York Herald Tribune, writing from
Born in 1876, the late Mr. Perkins was with Walter Baker & Co., Ltd. Buenos Aires, describes how the huge from 1000 to 1905, when he became, Mussolini's attack on France. The Co., of Boston. Three years later he Italian colony is disgusted with Vice-President of the American Trust largest Italian club in the country has Cor Vice President of die Nation issued a manifesta saying that the of Commercial Bank, Albany, New Teal
enemy of Italy
Is in Rome. Not
Not York. After four years ho was op one leading independent newspaper painted President and in 1914 he was In the city, those read by natives or Argentines of Italian ancestry, has made Vice-President of the National
City Bank of
of New York, being Execu- falled to condemn Il Duce for his active Manager from 1910 to 1918, In tion
the latter year he joined the banking firm of Montgomery & Co.
"Many Italian commercial houses and Italian nationals, resident in the country, are making plans for actual- ly transferring their account from Italian to Argentine banks. There is new. admiration for the British be- cause they are fighting alone against what wint appears to be great odds. As one man expressed it it len't only sporting of them, but it proves that tion and institutions more than their Ilves and their material possessions. Their Democracy does mean every- thing to them after all," Reuter.
From 1021 to 1929 Mr. Perkins was President of the Farmers Loan & Trust Co., after which he was Pre- sident of the City Bank Farmers Trust Co.
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be, who in the darkest hour did not ""When you have a friend und comrade at whose side you havé faced tremendous struggles and your friend is smilien down by a stunning blow, I may be necessary to make Eure that the weapon that is fallen from his hand shall not be added to the resources of your cornmen enemy. But you need not bear malice be cause of your friend's cries of de Irium and gestures of agony. You must not add to his pain; you must
work for his recovercy.
are
The Cause Romains "The association of interests be tween Britain and France remains. The cause remains. Our duty is in- escapable.. So long as our pathway to victory is not impeded wo ready to dischargo such offices of goodwill towards the French Govern- Mr, Perkins was Chairman of the meat as may be possible, and to Board of the National City Bank of foster trade
and
the administra- help New York cince 1933. He was also
tion of those
parts of the Great Chairman of the Board of the Inter-
ter French Empire which
hich are not cut
Iallway, Vice-President of the Fortho war which we are waging against dent of the Hillsdale and Southern
hern maintain their freedom.
"Subject to the fron
to the iron demands of Wayne and Jackson Railway Co. Director of the City Bank National Trust Co. (New York), as well as of other banking and Insurance Inalitia= tions.
July 15, 1940.
LEGLESS AVIATOR
Squadron Leader Adds To His Victims
London, July 14, A legless pilot is one of the heroes of the hour. He was formerly, a RA.F. pilut who lost his legs in a crash, but replaced them with artif- cial ones with which he played cricket and squash.
When war broke out he presented himself before the examining board and demanded a passed with flying clours, and become trial, which he
a flahter pilot. Recently he crashed and bent his metal legs, which, how- ever, a
a mechanic. scon straightened out. Now he leads a squadron of Canadians and the other day shot down a Dornier.
Air Force Casualties.
London, July 13. The latest RAF casualty list, contains 230 names. Biggest section is that headed missing, which has 102 names, including two of the Royal Australian Air Force. Three
cnemy propaganda which might be they actually treasure their civilisa- national Banking Corporation, Presi- ou from captive France, but which sergeants previously reported missing
Holding Out At Moyale
Latest Position In Frontier Warfaro. CAIRO, July 14 (Reuter) A British communique. states that in the northern frontier district our garrison is still holding out at Moyale, in the heighbourhood of which severe fighting. continues between
Harvest Estimates
Rome, July 13. The first official statistics compiled by the Ministry of Agriculture ince Italy entered the wor show that Italy's wheat harvest this year is far superior to official estimates and it is belived the harvest will be superior to the record reached in 1937.
During the World War Mr. Perkins went to France as a member of the first commission of the American Red Cross and was Commissioner to France and Europe of the American Red Cross from
Hitler and all his works, we shall try to so conduct ourselves that every true French heart will beat and glow at the way we are carrying on the struggle, and that not only France but all oppressed countries in Europe may feel that each British victory in step towards the liberation of the continent from the foulest thraldom Cinto which it has ever been cast. reaching Rome from the Apulian enter the American Expeditionary The first estimates of the harvest tember, 1816, when 1917, to. Sen
he resigned to region show that the crop in that area Force. He was appointed for duty at alone wil be
be around 2,800,000 General Headquarters and was Assis- quintals compared with 2,400,000 tant
Chie
of Staff of the Second Army, Inter of the Third Army. He quintals gathered in 1939.
received the D.S.M. (U.S.), and was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour (France) and a Commander
In the reclaimed Pontine marshes around Rome the harvest, which is already under way, shows that the gathering.
"It Will Bo A Long War" "All goes to show that the war will be long and hard. No one can tell where it will spread. One thing is certain the peoples of Europe will not be ruled for long by the Nazi Gestapo, nor will the world yield it self to unler's gospel of hatred and domination.
"And now it has come to
enmity can do. the worst that a tyrant's might and
us to
are now Wireless.
reported safe-British
Regimental Bands
London, July 13. British regimental bards are to be revived, after having been suspended since the war began-Reuter
invaders and any traitors who may be found in our mids!—and I do not believe there are many. Woo beilde them, they will
shrift: get short "Behind the regular army we have more than 1,000,000 of local defenco volunteers or as they are now much better called, the Home Guard. These officers and men, large
Prof portion of whom have been
through the last War, have the strongest desire to attack and come to close quarters with the enemy, wherever the may appear. Should the invader come to Britain, there will be no submission before him as we have scen, alas, in other countries. We shall defend every village, every town, every city.
Italian and British reinforce. crop will be superior to any other of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) stand alone at the breech and face passive lying down of the people, no
ments,
In Somaliland a
small frontier post at Abdul Ghadir was attacked and captured by the enemy in con- siderable strength.
In the western desert, casualties were again caused to Italion motor transport columns attempting supply the fort of Capuzzo,
to
In one section of the Fontine region the harvest reached 180,000 quintals compared, with 155,000 quintals harvested last year.—United Pren.
Supply Lines Cut
New York, July 14.
Mrs. E. E. Gillespie
The death occurred on Saturday at her residence, 10 The Penk, of Mrs. Else Elizabeth Gillespie, mother of Mrs. J. T. Dupuy, whose husband is with the Hongkong and Shanghul Bank, Mrs. Gillespie had been in
"Bearing ourselves_humbly before God but conscious that we serve an unfailing purpose, We are ready to defend our
The brief battle in the Mediter- the Colony for six months. She had native land against the inva rancan last week Indientes that Italy's į been' [Il for some time. sca supply lines to Libya may be The Rev. K. Mersa Matruh was ineffectively threatened by the British alect, de-officiated at the funeral which look We are fighting by ourselves Mackenzie Dowsion by which it is, threatened. clares a writer in the New York place in the Colonial Cemetery, ply lines to the great slidelds in the
bombed.
EDEN WELCOMES ALLIED TROOPS
LONDON, July 14 (Reuter)-In a message welcoming Polish and Czech troops who recently arrived in the
devour an entire hostile army and "The vast mass of London itself. fought street by street, could easily ashes and rains than that it should we would rather see London lold in be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
Great Week For R.A.F.
Times. He regards the British sup- Happy Valley, the same afternoon, alone, but we are not fighting | because it is necessary to inform our
middle East as secure but declares
that those of the Italians cast to the
leds and westward past Gibraltar
are severed and that there is already nacarcity of all in Italy-Reuter.
United Kingdom, Mr. Anthony Eden, PUPPET TROOPS
the War Minister, anys:
the high "From our shores, from scar, from the air and from every base of operations within the British Empire, we are resolved with your valuable aid to attack and overwhelm the forces of our common enemy, and we are further resolved
never to re- linquish that sacred cause until your beloved country, for which you have bied and suffered so long has been restored once and for all to her own sons and daughters."
JAPANESE BOMB *CHURCHES
MUTINY
Present were Mr. J. .Τ.
S. F. Chubb and other friends. Mr. For ourselves alone.
Floral tributes were sent by Kath
and John, Pop and Elsie, Dot and
Griff, Lyd and Pat, Mr. and Mrs F. Chubb, Mr. and Mrs. S. Prittle Perry,
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. McConnell, Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Forbes and Duicle, Mr. and Mr. G. Fl. Cauther ley, Mr. and Mrs, C. E. Van Sicitie and Mr. and Mrs. C, F. Hyde.
Mrs.
rs. J. M. Vicira
years,
This Strong City Of Refuge
"Here in this strong city of refuge, which enshrines the title deeds of human progress and is of deep con- sequence to Christian civilisation; here girt about by seas and oceans where the Navy reigns, shielded from above by the staunchness and deve- tion of our airmen, we await undis- moyed
the impending assault. "Perhaps it will come to-night, Perhaps it will Perhaps it will never come. We must come next week, show ourselves equally capable of meeting a sudden violent shock or what is perhaps a harder test, a pro longed vigli.
"But be the ordeal short or long. or both, we shall seek no terms. We shall tolerate no parley. We may
"I am bound to state these facts
people of our intention and thus assure them.
"This has been a great week for
Command.
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́CHUNGKING, July 15 (Reuter),~~- The late Mrs. Everding Gertrudes Of a total of 400,000 puppet troops, Baptista Vieira, wife of Mr. J. M.
I know of no reason we results so HIGH SPEED CRILL reaches tonst- over 150,000, with 75,789 rides, have Vieira, was laid to rest in the Roman
with discontented mutinied and joined the Chinese Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley, on
far achieved, although of course we hope to improve upon them as forces, according to fit or the Poll-Saturday, he died at her residence sum. Deputy Chairman of the Poli-in
Bghting becomes more widespread and becomes moré inland. tival Affairs Commission.
Joseph's Terrace on Friday at the age of 77
"Around all lies the power of the The Rev. Fr. G. M. Spada officiated,
Royal Navy with over a thousand and relatives present included the
armed ships under the White Ensign, widower, Messrs. J. M. Vieira, Jur show
patrolling the seas a Navy which is capable of transferring its forces very BH. E. Vieira (sons), Mr. J.w mercy we shall ask for none. Baptista (brother), Mr. D. Viera sympathetic onlookers
I can easily understand now the
readily to the protcetion of any part may be Messrs. M. F., M.
Bopitsta Atlantic or the anxious friends in yet of the Empire which.
yet threatened and which 18 capable also grand cannot measure our resources or our with the New World from.whom, as resolve, and who may have feared the struggle deepens, increasing ald
DVIYO HIS for our survival when
Italy. Hopes To Get Suez
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
ROME July 14 (UP).The news CHUNGKING, July 15 (Reuter)paper "Regime Fascista" hints that Catholic Church properties in and the Suez Canal wilt be, taken over near Chungking suffered losses as a by the Axis at the conclusion of the result of Japanese air bombing dur-
war-if the Axis won. ing the past month totalling $5,000,- 000.
Among the Catholic properties de- molished or
damaged were St. Joseph's Church at Felying, the Girls School, the Catholic Cathedral of St. Poul, the Middle School, the Carmol Monastery, the Ming Teh Middie School, the Ten Chili Primary School, and the Church of the Sacred Heart.
PROHIBITION IN
BOMBAY
BOMBAY, July 14 (Reuter).-The position regarding prohibition in Bombay has been clarified by an official statement.
Broadly speaking, the effect of the new icgulations is that is no restriction to purchase from a licensed vendor or possession of foreign liquor.
Manufacture and sale of country- made liquor will be punishable but country-made liquor may be brought Into Bombay provided that special excise duty is paid.
BASTILLE DAY
IN FRANCE
Q.,
across the
(brother-in-law, D. C. Baptista unravaged countries of Europe, who of keeping open our communications
(nephews), tud children...
Beveral
Among others present were Mesara. S. M, Cruz, F. L. Marquee, J. P. Pereira, D. F. Lopes, 3. M. Fonseca, "The Suez Canal stock is under-A, F. Osmund, A. de Rozn, P. N. going the fate of snow under the sun Xavier, U. Rozarlo, J. M. Barros, J.M.
the
R. J. Rodrigues, J. Italian victory," the paper boasts
"When the war is concluded the R. C. Baptista, C. Osmund, M. Agabeg,
Rozario, Suez Canal will be neither French J. Barros, A. Barros, Mr. and Mrs. nor English nor Jewish. This much Le certain. Only then will the Suar Fisher, and Rev. Fr. Rosello, stock rise," the paper asserts,
sun being the certainty of anRatra Barradas, L. A. Sequeira, yet been withstood by a great nationi als..
14.
Mrs. Maria Place
British Apologised, Road, Kowloon City:
Japanese Claim
have
·SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" SHANGHAI, July 15 (UP)The Japanese naval authorities announce that the British authorities apologised for the incident Involving the ss. Shengking.
The incident, therefore, is sidered closed.
con-
THE WAR FUND acknowledges the following further con
The South China Morning Post, Ltd. tributions to the fund for buying bombers: Members of the Royal Naval Yard
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230
YAUMATI BRAWL
An old member of the Portuguese community, Mrs. Maria Pince, died on Saturday at her home, South Wall
The
widow of the late Mr. A. Place, she was 01 years of age. Born in Hongkong, she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. V. A. Neves and Miss C. Place..
hia
this
many atates and kingdoms for will come:
torn to
Food Resorvos Highor pieces in a few weeks or even days as it not remarkable that after
the monstrous forces of the Nazi
But Hitler has not to mths of unlimited U-boat and war machine. M
took upon our commerce; our are higher than they with a will-power equal to that of have ever been and we have a sub- stantially larger tonnage under our of these countries had been own dag opart from the hundreds of by intrigue before 19% were struck down by violence. beginning of the war?
foreign ships that we had at the They had been rotted within before dwell upon this? Not surely to Why do I they were smitten from without induce any slackening of effort or How else can you explain what has vigilance. On the contrary, happened to France, to the French must be redoubled and we must pre- Army, to the French people, to the pare not only for the summer but for leaders of the French people?! In Good Health. And Heart
"But here in our island we are in good health and in good heart, We have seen how Hitler prepared in scientific. detail his plans for des- troying the neighbour countries of Germany. He had his plans for Poland and his plans for Norway he had his plans for Denmark, he had his plane all worked out for the doom of the peaceful and trustful Dutch, and of course for the Bel- glans. We have scen how French were undermined and thrown.
The funeral took place in the Roman Catholic Cemetery yesterday when Rev. Fr. A. Grampa officiated.
Many Petty
Thefts
A thief entered the residence of 16.30|| Mrs. Jones in Peak Road on Satur
the
over
the winter, not only for 1941 but for 1042, when the war will, I trust, take a different form from the defensive in which it has hitherto been bound.
dwell upon these elements of our strength, upon these resources which we
we have mobilised
And
con- trol,
I dwell on it and them be- cause it is right to show that a good cause can command
of means survival and that while Wo toil through a dark valley we can see the sunlight
beyond sunlight on the uplands "I stand at the head of a Govern- ment representing all
partics the
State, oll ereeds all classes End every
Dr. & Mrs. Lee Hah Liong Bate of Old Newspapers per Euro-
Dean YMCA, Totals to date: $1,340,123.00 and $2,600 and old coins to the total value of 102. D.
$05,
Mr. M H. Gerondal, of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, McDon- nell Road, reported on Saturday that a thier stale an electric fan, valued A radio set was stoler from the Corporals' Micas, Whitfeld Barracks, on July 13.
10 day and stole two cameras, clothing 11⁄2 We may, therefore, be sure that recognisable section of opinion. We
Two men were taken into custody when a party of Follee from Yaumait
is a plan, perhaps built up are supported by a free Parliament over years. for destroying Great and by a free Press, but there is one Britain which, after all, has the point which unites us oil and it sus- honour to be his main and foremost talna us in the public regard, namely, as it is increasingly becoming known, enemy.
alí "All I can say is that any plan for we are prepared to proceed to Invading Britain, which Hiller extremfiles to endure them and en- had to be entirely recast in order union in His Majesty's Government.
meet our new position. "Two months ago, nay months The Mother Superior of the Canossu ago, our first and main effort was to
made two months ago must have force them. That is our point of
to
War Of Peoples And Cas
BERLIN, July 14 (UP)-DNB rc- ports that the observance of Bastille Day in France began at Vichy with a Holy Communion service in which rushed to the function of Nathan and at $25, from the Church. Marshal Petain and members of his Jordan Roads at 11 p.m. on Saturday Government and diplomatic corps to disperse. a Chinese gang engaged participated.
in 'n fight. Marshal Petain Inid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, after Hospital, suffering from
One man was sent to the Kowloon Hospital. Peak Road, reported that keep our beat army, in France, all our can preserve their freedom and thus which he carried out a brief milltary wound under the left'eye,* allèged to had been stolen from the Hospital | munitions and a very large part entrusted to their care, parade.
have been caused by a cobbler's knife.
a severe
a motor water pump, valued at $2.50, regular troops, all our output compound.
MORE CANADIAN FLOATING MINES CLEARED An overcoat, valued at $28, was TROOPS ARRIVE The previous notice to mariners Hillwood Road. yesterday,, while it
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stolen from the, root of a house in regarding floating mines, No. 150/ was hanging on a line for oiring. The LONDON, July 14 (Reuter) The 1940 of July 8 has now been can- coat was the property of Mrs. Olesen, Canadian Department of Defence in celled, as the mines/mentioned have Ottawa announces that the Fusiliers now been cloared by the Naval Nontroyal (a Montreal Infantry regi-authorities, states a notice issued on ment) and the Cameroon Highlanders Saturday by the Hongkong Harbour (a mounted machine-gun regiment) Office. have arrived safely overseas.
Skilled Engineers Round-Up
of
our air force had to be sent to France
we have it all at home.
and maintained in action there. Now
"It is only like this that "nations
only", can. they uphold the cause
"
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their utmost night and day, giving,
utmost, to the end,
"Never before, in the last war or in this, have we had in this island an army comparable, in quantity, "equipment or numbers to that which stands on guard here. to-night. We
This is no war of chieftains or have 1,500,000 men now under arms
princes or dynasties or national am-
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praiso is too high for the officers and will render faithful service in this fessional engineers with qualifications made this immense transformation is known and whose deeds will never All donations will be acknowledged in the columns
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CHUNGKING, July 14 (UP) —The
RUSSIA AND BALTIC
Moscow, July 14.
The order applies to allens..
be recorded. This is a war of the
Waming To Fifth Columnists Unknown Warrior: But let all strive of The S. C. M. Post & The Hangkong Telegraph. "Behind the soldiers of the regular without failing in faith or In duty.
army is the means for the destruc-' and ask that the curse of Hitler whil tion for parachutists and off-borne be lifted from our ago.",
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