2
CLASSIFIED NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ADVERTISEMENTS
25 words $2.50
for 3 days propaid
POSITIONS WANTED.
NOTICE
The Inland Revenue Department will be removed to Windsor House, 6th floor, on Saturday, the 20th October.
The Estate Duty and Stamp Offices will be closed for business on the 28th, and will re-open at LADY seeks the new address on Monday, the
assistant OK
29th October. office attendant. Previous experience; Credentials supplied.
YOUNG
position
CHINESE shop
us
Capoble as
W. ANEURIN JONES,
doctor's or dentist's reception assist- Superintendent of Inland Revenue, unl. Box 507, "Hongkong Telegraph."
WANTED TO BUY.
WE PAY HIGHEST PRICES for gold articles, diamonds, and all kinds of jewels. Apply Universal Gold Re- fining Co., National Bank Building,
3rd floor Room 308.
FOR SALE.
"HONGKONG
RADIO
ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles). Bass Recital by Y. K. Sze From the Studio
Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1-Chast telte
Thiel la Girar Twil
15-inc
10-
17-Molkes in that
11-Girl real.)
19-
30-Throwing rocks
32--1ternaved
24-ven ipostia) ZAK
27-1 pen
24-1lindering from
30-1Teated"
31-Over polip)
31-Tealed
31-A16
15-tweet food Li-Krient
12--Harrow bend
--Expert Dier
(L00 in
45-Alluding 40-That ma′′E 67-Tighteat
B1-1'olonous snake
CG-Enticed
t-Cradually lower
(music) e2Ancieni mexaure
beard on length af forearm
AS REVEALED. BY Edition. Second THE CAMERA" Over 60 excellent views of the Colony. Price $1.50. Obtainable at Kelly A Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, tlons. South China Morning Post Lid., Wyndham Street.
6.00
Danco Music.
0.30
Closing Local Stock Quota-
6.32
Dance Muslo continued.
7.00
London Relay The News.
7.15
7.30
London Relay-Topical Talks. Tunes of Not-So-Long-ago. 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather
20
Selections. A
R.A.F. Give Berliners Scaring Night
FROM PAGE ONE
Holland, and several aerodromen.
One Royal Air Force plane is mla ing from these operations.
Report and Announcement.
8.93
Orchestral
8.15 Studio Recital by Y. K. sze (Bass) with E. O'Neil Shaw at the Plano
8.30
reported that the Brst batch of 700 and Belay-Talk: "Books
Evacuees Al Poznon LONDON, Oct. 24 (Reuter)-11 is be evacuated German children to from Berlin on account of air ralis, has arrived at Poznan.
Power Stations Hit LONDON, Oct.
0.45 Shori Reclial by Beniamino Gleil (Tenor) and Pau Casals ('Cello)
די
By LARS MORBES
ANAFER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
Threefold 63-B3Rdi G-FAL AT G7-Benches,
68-Hand let
@~© #o prices
DOWN
ко
- AW
4- Paradig D--Wanted
T-Turkish
9-Dropped
price
with solder
10-Te sheltered alda
11-Daneille enimal
12-inserted piece
13-in wa
21-Dnate
23-A!?
26-Pressers
28--110ld back
29--Bound of plucked
10-Clo
log
31-reton garment 31-Corded fabric 30-Per 01 Shannon
. River
Drince 31-ftemaurants
10- Without a cente 44-One who tres 46-Nazeel studies 47. Actually 4-Loctrine 4-Handle
Bi-Marrow streak 3)-Monastery officer -
53-Aprile
67-Prk of use 59-Electrie atmospher 17-Bide petal
10
11°2 13
35
BY
30
37
32
8.40 Albeniz-Suite Iberia.-Mad- rid Symphony Orchestra. Enrique Fernandez Arbes.
cond. by
35
38
0.00 London Relay The News and News Commentaries.
112
143
નમ
45
46
B
St. 155
$49
To
152
58
157
56
60
104
by
10.10 Berlioz Symphonie Faulas- tlage, Op. 14.-Orchestra De La So- clete Des Concerts Du Conservatoire
11.00 Close Down.
24 (Reuter)cond. by Bruno Walter. Berlin, bombed again last Wednesday night for the 22nd time, was visited by R.A.F. heavy bombers for nearly two hours.
Two of the capital's principal power
• stations were among
the targets
TEA QUOTA
London, Oct. 24 (Reuter).-The selected by the R.A.F. They were the International Tea Committee has de- Berliner Electricity Works in thecided to increase the quota by 24 for the Charlottenberg area and the Kilugen-per coat, to 02 per cent. berg Works on the opposite side of current control year which ends on
March 31, 1941. the city.
of yards railway The
great
and Strasse P'utiliz Tempelhof, Lehreter were also attacked.
Reaching Berlin well after midnight by dead reckoning navigation be
met by cause of cloud, they were intense and concentrated fire from the batteries on the outskirts of the city and in the city itself,
But neither guns nor Searchlight could stop the attack. The crew of one bomber, which spent half an hour over the capital, said they went straight through the outer barrage, picked up position in the target aren and got ready to bomb.
Locating Targets
Some anti-aircraft shells burst very clase and a member of the crew who put his head out of the side windows said be heard them go off with a Their bumbs explosion." crisp sharp started large fire
one
Other
aircraft located "ther "our" jectives by the aid of parachute hares.
A squadron kader attacking railway yard said that somebody else put down a flare very nicely for them as it was at the crucial moment when "we carried out attacks straight level, ignoring the fire from the
and. It was right in the centre
of the city. About ten to 15 seconds: four fires: after the bombs burst, sprang up."
Another pilt made six separate nights over the Charlottenberg power station to make certain that the bombs dropped dead over the tar- get. Fires broke out here, too.
Railways and Factories Tons of high explosive bombs and hundreds of incendiaries were un- loaded on the dock area and the nd- jacent railway sidings in two separate an hour ralds, the Brat Insting half and the second an hour, on Einhan.
A large factory with its own rail- siding 50 miles east of Berlin, way was attacked and other objectives in- cluding railway curs at Frankfurt- on-Order, a factory 40 miles east of Bremen where night work was in progress, the Dornier aircraft fac- tories at Wiesmar on the Baltle Coast, and oil refineries al Hanover and both been Madgburg which had damaged in previous raids,
INDIAN ON
GOODWILL
MISSION
Sympathy With China CHUNGKING, Oct. 25
News) Word has been
(Central
received
from Mayor Siddiql of Calcutta that
he has postponed his goodwill trip to China to next month owing to ol recrudescence of his illness.
He originally planned to arrive in Chungking on the Double Tenth,! October 10.
Mr. Siddial is coming to China at the request of Mohammed AU Jinnah, President of the Indian Mon- lem League, who follows the course
of China's war of resistance with! Interest and sympathy, During the recent visit at the Chinese Moslem Goodwill Mission to India and Asla Minor, Mr. Jinnah promised to de- legate an Indian Moslem envoy to China on a return goodwill tour.
Rifle And Lewis-Gun Firing Tests
"The Military Authorliles inform us that those shembers of the HK.V. D.C. Training Company and Train- ing Cadro who have not fired eller their rifle or Lewis gun course will parade at Kowloon A-Range on Satur day, at 3 p.m.
Kennedy Delayed
Air Marshal Killed Joseph P. Kennedy, the United State:
LISBON, Oct. 25 (Reuter).--Mr. Ambassador to Britain, was unable
Polish Prisoners Work For Reich
London, Oct. 24
(Reuter)-News
LONDON, Oct. 24 (Reuter)-Air to leave Lisbon for Americo to-day has now reached Polish circles in Vice Marshal C. H. B. Blount has as the Clipper departure was post-London that Polish prisoners of war are being employed by the Germans poned owing to bad atmospherics.
of German been killed in an air crash.
n “ the reconstruction Weather permitting, the Clipper is
Royal Air Force. expected to leave to-morrow (Fri- Battle ports destroyed in raids by the day).
He commanded the Air Component (Army Co-Operation Squadrons) of the RAF. in France.
A.R.P. AUTHORITIES APPROVE
October 25, 1940.
Heavy Casualties In Glasgow Disaster
Special to the "Telegraph"
GLASGOW, Oct. 24 (UP)-Ten people are feared dead and 28 workers have been sent to hospital as the result of an explo- sion which followed a fire which wrecked a large factory in the heart of Glasgow this morning. | ****************
Over one hundred' firemen fought two of them were the blaze and injured.
Forty employees and a number of repair men were in the five storcy building when the explosion turned the structure into a mass of fames. Fifty persons were hurriedly evacual- ed from nearby tenements for fear the fire would sprend after the explo- wan hnd shattered windows and demaged roofs over a wide area.
Three charred bodies, and of them a woman, have already been removed.
The cause of the explosion has not: yet been discovered.
Starch Works
LONDON, Oct. 24 (Reuter)--One of Glasgow's oldest industrial establishments starch works-was destroyed by an explosion and are to-day, with a heavy casualty list.
Substantiul renovations were in pro- gress when an explosion wrecked the n wide orca works, windows over were smoshed and the roof of a neighbouring flour mill was blown off,
One hundred A.R.P, workero as- sisted the regular firemen. It is be- lieved that ten are dead and 28 were taken to hospital.
War Plane Funds
come
from the
LONDON, Oct. 24 (Reuter).-More girts continue to Empire.
The Central Committee of Uganda, has sent £12,000 to Lord Beaver- brook. Minister of Aircraft Produc- tlon, to buy fighter planes,
The Sudan Planes fund has sent in £10,000 and Oswald Finney of Alexandria has sent a further £10,- 000 as personal gift.
HANDSOME GIFT
TO, WAR FUND
The Special Sweep on the Kwangtung Handicap, a surplus of resulted in
This has $61,902.63. been divided between the "South China Morning-
and Post"
"Hongkong Telagraph" War Fund and the British Fund for Relief of Distress in China.
The sum in question brings the total amount contributed by The Hong- kong Jockey Club to War Funds up to $259,402.
The Stewards have de- cided that the surplus on the Special Sweep at the Annual Race Meeting, 1941, which will be on the Rooty Hill Derby, will be allocated to British War Funda and the British Fund for Relief of Dis- tress in China.
Drove Under Influence Of Drink
BANKS
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CIDNA. · Incorporated by. Royal Charter 1853, Paid-up Capital of Proprietors £3,000,000 ..... £3,000,000 Reserve Fund £3,000,0
Reserve Liability
HEAD OFFICE-LONDON. 38 Bishopsgate, E.C.L. Bub-Agencler in London: 117/322, Leadenhall Bireal, E.C.3. West End ranch: 11/16, Cockapur Street, 9.W.1.
Manchester Branch. 12, Mosley Street, Banchester, 2.
AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:
Harbin
Alor Star Amritsar
Bangkok Batavia -
Bombay
Calcutta
Agencies:
Clive Street Fairlie Place Canton Cawnpore ****
Cabu
Colombo Delhi:
Haiphong
Hamburg
Unkow
Itongkang
Klang Kobe Kuala
Lumpur
Rangoon
Salzon
Ipoh lotto
Bemarang
Seremban
Karachi
Shanghai
Bingapor
Bourabaya
Taiping
Kuching Mindras Manila
Tientsin
Tongkah
(Bhuket)
Biodan
Teingiao
New York
Yokohama
Peiping
Peking)
Penang
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Danking Business transacted. “
CURRENT ACCOUNTS
opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods-In Local or Other Cur runcles at rates which will be quoted on application,
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with interest allowed at raića obiainable on application. The Bank's Itead omea in London undertakes Executor & Trustee business, end claline recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be Arcertained at any of its Agencies and Uranches.
EL. A. CAMIDGE,
Manager.
Attack By Spain_On....
Gibraltar Said
FROM PAGE ONE
efforts of much vaster import than was previously believed.
His meeting with Laval and Franco ly interpreted as showing hla_desire to align all the European Powers after which he will face Britain cilher with, a demand to lift the blockade or with a peace proposal.
From Nairobl comes news that the
Saying that it was too serious H people of Zanzibar have sent £500 matter to pass it over, Mr. H. G. for a mobile canteen which will bear Sheldon, K., at Central Magistracy the name of Zanzibar.
to-day fined Harry Howard Wells, 23, The master of a Danish ship has described as an unemployed Cann sent £100 to a British shipping com- dian whose address was given as 512 pany and asks to give £5 per month The Peak, $100 for driving car No from his wages for the Spitfire fund. 3074 in Lockhart Read on October 16 France, it is understood, is
while under the influence of drink.
China Seeks Indian Steel
Air.
The fact that littler is personally conducting the negotiations is stress- According to a London report M. ed as proof of their importance.
of France In Laval is pressing itler to reduce the German occupation order to avert the growing dunger of currency Inflation in the country. paying
ог
400,000,000 francs daily in meeting 5. M. D'Almada Rernedios costs of the occupation-a higher pleaded guilty for Wells at a previous figure than either the Dawes
and also
Plans Young hearing to this charge
imposed on the Reich. without a licence
Communique on Meeting another of driving
BERLIN, Oct. 24 (Reuter). A And had then said that Wells had a licence to drive in Hongkong in 1933.
"The Mr. Remedilos also asked for the ese communique lasued after the meeting to the dent with leniently and had Fachrer to-day received the Chief of mentioned the defendant's youth.
Traille Sub-Inspector F. J. Clarke Lord Halifax and the Secretary for previously, that as Wells was
SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH" LONDON,
Oct. 24
(UP)The Chlacse Ambassador to London, Me
Que Tal-chi was in conference with
India, Mr. Amery this afternoon.
W45
OSRAM A. R. P. LAMPS SUEZ CANAL IS
Noxt Blackout October 29th/30th 30th/31st
Sunset to Sunrise
Ref.Ko.5/08/10
7:38
READ THIS LETTER
Dear Sir.
мона кана. AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS DESANTMENT.
3025 April, 1910.
I beg to inform you that a building s set apart during the rodent blackout to experimat with 15-watt bloo-sprayed lampe supplied by your
COD.23.
I sure it will be of interest to g to bear that the building in which then trials Fors carried out was not located from the air, anither were the rooms which were lit with those
kampe vialbio from the ground at a distance of
100 yards.
The results obtained ers most encouraging. and further trials on a larger scale will be carried out during the part blackmi.
Youre faithfully,
Director of Air Raid Precautions.
Overal Xlectric Company of China, Limi boć,
The Manager,
TOO LOW,
FOLLOW THE OFFICIAL_LEAD-INstal osram a.r.p. lamps
for the next blackout — and be safe.
OSRAM A.R.P. LAMPS are available for Home, Shop, Office or Factory.
OBTAINABLE FROM ALL STORES
Also From
THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. OF CHINA LTD. Representing THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.LTD. OF ENGLAND
QUEEN'S BLOGMK, TEL.30247
SAPE
the
wall.
It is believed the possible supply driving in Lockhart Road he ran into of Indian steel to China
At the first bearing of the case, Mr. subject of the discussion.
Remedios told the Court he under- stood that arrangements were being made between the Hongkong Govern- ment and the Canadian Authorities to have to-day
BOMBED
24
defendant repatrinted, Mr. Remedios stated
of litler and Petain. spys:
the French State and the President of the French Council of Ministers, Marstal Pelain.
Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and the Vice-President of the French Council of Ministers, M. Laval, were present.
Transfer To Paris LONDON, Oct. 24 (Reuter). The first tangible result of the Hitler- and aval meeting will be the transfer that of the Petam Guvernment to Paris, SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH". Colonel Doughty was in Court to give according to the Berlin correspondent newspaper the Yugo-Slavian CAIRO, Oct. (UP)--Italian- assurance that for sometime past the of aircraft dropped several berbs in defendant had liked to be repatriated "Bolitika" as quoted by the Belgrade the sea in the vicinity of the Sus to Canada to join His Majesty's radio Canal const it 3.45 p.m. to-day, according to a Ministry of Defence Forces there. cominunique,
them seriously.
Wells would be re- patriated by the arst atewner.
A Rame dispatch to the same paper stutes that the situation in Syria was given speelal attention.
New Peace Move Two fishermen were injured, one of U.S. Paper Refutes
NEW YORK, Oct. 24 (Reuter)— Nazi U-Boat Claims Rumours that France may launch a
new pence move on behalf of LONDON, Oct. 24 (Reuter).The Axis are elreulating in diplomatie
NAZI NEWSMAN
TO BE INDICTED
the
"New York Times" in an article head-circles in Vichy, according to Vichy
ed "U-Boats only dent British Ship-advices received here.
These rumours are linked with the SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ping" discounts the Nazi claims of WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UP) the tonnage sunk na false pointing reported impending meeting between Grand Jury proceedings have been out that "if this was accurate ship-M. Pierre Laval and Hitler in Paris.
Recall From Hungary instituted against Monired Zopp, ping authorities advise that freight
MADRID, Oct.
(Reuter).— Head of the Trans-Ocean News ser- rates would now be rising steeply.
vice
for possible violations of the The fact is, however, that they have Senor de Muguiro, Spanish Minister
the last to Hungary, has returned to Spain. been declining steadily Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Zapp was recently accused by the few months.
Dies Committee of being a Nazl agent,
"This is a conclusive Indication
and of falling to register under the that the British at present are not
Act.
Wholesale
seriously short of tonnage."
Thefts Of
Barbed Wire Defences
Due to the frequent reports of larceny of barbed wire from the Military Authorities, special forces of both the Civil and Military Police have been put on duty to cope with the situation. This was revealed by Mr. F. W. Shaftain, Assistant Dirce- tor of Criminal Investigation, at the Central Magistracy this morning when Cheung Chang was charged before Mr. G. T. Lowry with larceny of 16 rolls of barbed wire from the Military Authorities at Pokfulam on October 20,
Knox Lauds British Defences
U.S. On Time
With Planes
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (Reuter). -Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, sintes that nearly
manufacturer every aeroplane elther on thine or ahead of schedule in the delivery of both United States and British orders.
is
He added that British officials are faster pleased but would like null production,
Curtiss Production SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UP)— Mr. Henry Morgenthau, sald to-day that deliveries of the Curtiss P-40 planes from the United States to Britain is "a number of days ahead of schedule,"
Mr. Shaftain said that the reason for his appearonte in Court was for the purpose of asking the Magistrate. to take a serious view of the ease. lle added that each time there lur- centes take place, the wire has to be replaced by the Military Authorities at a fairly high cost as each roll of barbed wire costs approximately 255. Defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months hard labour. I Imposing sentence, Mr. Lowry ad- dressed the defendant and said that Colonel Knox, Secretary of the Navy, of schedule or at least on line."
The Curtiss plant was recently producing six planes dally but Mr. Morgenthau declined to reveal how far the schedule has been surpassed.
He said the British officluls were "extremely pleased." Other aviation plants were meeting their schedules "very satisfactorily, in almost every LONDON, Oct. 24 (Reuler).Instance the deliveries being ahead
antagonist If the
Men Getting Ready
27
it was not only a question of just said in a speech in New York, "The simple laterny but he had to the nation which controls the sen op-
that practical proaches to Europe holds an immense New Host Of Young
[advantage over un ant; Into consideration breach of defence regulations and war is of long duration. That sca taken place thus affecting the Colony power is owned by the British.
(Reuter) The "Only the possession of
Toronto, Oct. a sen power and part of an Empire at War.
which denies the crossing of the first group of observers under the English Channel to the immense Innd British Commonwealth training plan forces of the Germans has enabled have now graduated and to-day they British air power, outnumbered pro-were awarded their badges by Mr. tour to one, to make that James Duncan, Deputy Air Minister. unificent defence in the pie which The Mluister wald that the has become one of the classics, of were "forerunners of that great host of young men whose ever-growing history.
"All this helps to drive home the strength will turn the tide of victory." The first, groups of pilots and hir lesson that those nations which control the high seas control the dea-gunners will complete their training
shortly. tinies of the world."
ZETM. ME
METROPOLE
ROOF.
men