Monday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
NEW YEAR'S EVE CARNIVAL
at the
GLOUCESTER HOTEL
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT
DANCERS AND PIPERS
of the
2nd BATT. THE ROYAL SCOTS
(By kind permission of Lt. Col. D. Į. MCDOUGALL.' M.C.)
Also Presenting
THE "SERENADER
COMMUNITY SINGING, SPOT WALTZ AND
OTHER DANCE NOVELTIES.
Dinner $8.00
Cover Charge $2.00
After Dinner
EXTENSION 3 A.M.
Make a
New Year's Resolution
The SIMPLEST and SPEEDIEST way YOU can help WIN THE WAR is to give regular CASH DONATIONS to the Government
Can You Afford Can You Afford Can You Afford
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$100 per month? $10 per month? $1
per month?
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The Manager,
Sir,
£94,389.19.6d.
Hongkong, December
1940.
Bank,
Hongkong.
Commencing 2nd. January, 1941, and until further notice, please transfer the sum of $......... Monthly to "War Fund, South China Morning Post Ltd." and debit my current account.
Yours faithfully,
Nazis Have Division In Spain
Colonel Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary for the Navy, said re- cently that Germany is reported to have a "division and more in
December 30, · 1940.
CHINESE GIFTS TO THE ROOSEVELTS
The presentation of a Mongolian while fox fur coat to pla Eleanor Roosevelt, and a Foochow lacquer plaque to the President, was made at the United States Embassy in Chungking recently. Top picture shows the scene at the Embassy, Right left;—Major-Gen. J. L. Huang, who made the presentation on behalf of the Chinese People's Foreign Relations Association, Ambassador Johnson, Dr Kinn- wel Show, representing the Chinese-American Institute of Cultural Kelations, and Mr Everett Drumwright, Second Embassy' Secretary, Right:-The Ambassador wearing the coat at a reception. The plaque shown below, depicts Confucius teaching the Six Aris. (Photos by Norman Soong).
Old People's Hospital Hit: Hit: Many Killed
Plot To Oust Mussolini
SOLDIER CHARGED --Friendship With Schoolgirl
It was alleged against a Wat ford schoolgirl at the Old Bailey; that she not only declared her love for a young soldier and spent some time with him"în'a' wood, but that sko tempted him to do wrong.
Tho
soldier young
John Edward William Downard, 20, a gunner in the Royal Artillery, was found not guilty of commit- ting an offence against the girl, und was discharged.
For the prosecution, Mr R E Seaton stated that the girl, who lived with her parents at Watford, was 13 on Nov. 10 last year.
The girl, giving evidence, denied Inviting Downard to be intimate with her, or that she had been with boys before. She also declared that she never mentioned her...) upo Downard.
to
A detective stated that when Downard, was told the girl's age, ho exclaimed: "Thirteent I must have been crazy."
Wanted To Marry
* Subsequently, Dowpard made a statement in which he was alleged to lave said: "She told me she loved me and wanted to marry me as soon as possible..
Eventually I forgot everything except that she was a girl and we were alone.
Giving evidence, Downard stated that he met the girl on Sept. 17 when she went to the library and they went to the park together. The next day they met again, and gelung to the park, he was intimate with her.
The girl, he said, was wearing a jumper, blue skirt and blazer, and he thought she was 17 or 18.
Second Time
Dawnard asserted that when they went out together the second time, the girl invited him to be familiar, "I was a bit frightened," he added, Cross-examined, Downard affirmed that the girl had a reputation among the chaps," but he spoke to her only. because he wished to be friends. She did not tell him that she was still at school.
Philippines Freedom Danger
DESPITE strict censorship, details of a round-up of Italian Fear of Axis power expansion in
aristocrats have leaked out.
When American journalists in Rome spilled news that 14
members of old and re-
nowned families had been ar- MANY patients were killed rested, Fascist authorities when a high explosive bomb | denied it. made a direct hit on a London hospital in a recent night raid.
Two nurses on duty were also killed.
okl.
FORT WORTH, Tex. (UP).—
the Far East will cause the Philippine Islands to give up their 40-year fight for indepen
Shortdence, E. S. Turner, for 25 years
Japan
Of Food
Y.M.C.A. National Secretary in the Islands, has predicted.
Serious "repercussions" may, be expected if the United States withdraws its support of the Islands, he said..
Under the Commonwealth BU the Philippines were to become indepen dent in 1940
Turner belleves the United States
Puic. pines home
The arrest came after discovery Hard Winter Is In Prospect of a plot by a group of Italian aria- tocrats to get rid of Mussolint and SHORTAGE of clothing and his Foreign Minister (Count Clano) food will be Japan's most seri- The hospital is for the aged The leading splett ki the plot wás civilian clothes in Spain, and and infirm, and some of the vic-60-year-old Prince Carlo Alessandro oua problem this winter. Lother divisions of troops on the tims were more than 80 years Infanta Beatrice eldest daughter of tial report by the Tokio repre. will postpone granting the Philip-
Torlonia, whose third wife was the This is stated in a confiden- Spanish border."
ex-King Alfonso of Spain.
sentative A block of four wards, in
to the Carnegie His speech began with a
Social Problems reiteration of President Roose-which there were 108 patients, land. Torlonia formed the Resoluti, Pence,
Soon after Germany invaded Po-Endowment for International "Withdrawal of our free market," states 11. New York he said, "would destroy the present velt's pledge of continued aid was struck.
Ja group of italian aristocrats, deler message.
standard of living and create social to Britain..
As the bomb crashed through the mined to prevent Italy from becom-
problema which Would roof it burled the patients under a ing a German tool and being forces
Imperil "Most luxuries are almost unob Philippine progress of the past 40 The U.S., he said, does not Intend
mass of plaster, beams and bricks. Into war against Britain.
fainable in Japan," the report says. years." to be intimidated, and will "continue
Even when rescue workers cleared
Torlonia laid before Mussolini a "Sugar is rationed, and each pec-
In less of what Hitler or Mussolini bepulents were unable to help them be Germany's next victim if Hitler day. lieves."
Tank Burats
to help England and Chino, regard some of the debris away the trapped document proving that Italy would son is allowed only five matches a the Addition, he said, Filipinos know
selves..
won the war.
Balbo
Anti-American Feeling Sketching the position In the They had to be taken on stretchers Mediterranean, he said the fall of in the darkness to a first-aid post for
"Anti-American sentiment is ris Torlonia proposed that Marshal Gibralter would be of "inmeasur-treatment before being removed to Balbo, Governor of Libya-whom in rapidly in Japan,” the report able" importance to the U.S., if it fanother hospital.
Mussolini feared-should be
ap- odds. should result in German' movement Rescue work was complicated by pointed president of
There has been no direct action newly-con- down the West Coast of Africa. the bursting of a water tank at the stituted Fascist Grand Council after against Americans similar to recent
top of the building.
of Britons arrests removal of the existing lenders.
espionage Doctors and nurses alded
charges. A.R.P. squads and soldlers. In the Balbo, although unaware of the "But a powerful group in Japan, area who were sent to help.
plot and innocent of any con- which has been responsible for these spiracy against Mussolini, was arrests, would be glad of the chance killed wh his plane w; mysteri- to deal with Americans in the same ously shot down in Libya on June | woy.
Mediterrancan Window
the
But if the British Fleet can maintain' control of that great Inland One of the leaders of the rescue sea, as it controle it to-day, then the work was the matron, who carried line of British Empire communica-on, although she had been badly cut tion will remain intact.”
Broke Barriers
To Bathe
A man who, said the police, persisted in breaking down the barriers on the shore to bathe, was at Folkestone recently sent to prison for three months for falling to comply with an order requiring him to leave a defence
Aren.
He was Vernon William Dean, of Sandgele, near Folkestone. He sold he had no money with which to
| leave the district, but the police sald he had been told he could have a
| free railway voucher,
Describing Dean as
as a result of the explosion.
Young nurses climbed over the de-i bris to help patients who seemed to have a chance of belag brought out alive.
Guided By Cries
They had to grope over piles of wreckage In the darkness, guided by the cries of the trapped men and wo-
men.
shortly after the explosion, and he
on
they would be the prey of any expanding power in the Paciso if tho United States armed forces left the falands. Recent formal adherence of Tokyo to the Rome-Berlin axis herbiened fears in the Philippines over possible Japanese expansler, ho wald.
Islanders, themselves, Turner said, are now working toward deferment of the independence decrces.
Roxas Appeal | Indicative of the sentiment, he sald, was the radio appeal made a few weeks ago by Manuel Roxas, Secretary of Finance in the Philip 28. a couple of weeks after Mus "The extent to which a sort of pine National Cabinet. Roxas urged gang tule prevails to-day in Japan that Congress postpone independence is almost unbelievable,
and application of the economic pro visions
ons of the Commonwealth Bill. Congress, Turner believes, would not discuss the Philippine issue until 1944 in view of pressing international and domestic problems.
solini declared war.
The Resolut decided to arrest Mussolini, Clono, and Muil in their offices, in the Palazzo Venezia. After arrest they were to be shot.
Secret police arrested Torlonia at home, in the Bocca di Leone, Rome and the others as they were trying to enter the Palazzo Vene-
One old man trapped in the zla. dobris could be heard singing Only personal Intervention by went on singing popular songs of King Victor Emmanuel prevented of the last war as rescuers tade death sentences being carried out. their way slowly towards him,
Fifteen hours after the explosion : he was rescued uninjured.
Nazis Want More
Husband Tests Cigarette Ashes To Build Case
Decree For Lord, Mountgarret
U.S. Sends 500 turned scientific sleuth with the because of his wife's adultery with Planes Monthly
-ware
PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia.
A decreo nisl was granted in, the Finding a cigarette ash or a sofa Divorce Court recently to Viscount in his home, a husband in Prague Mountgarret, of Nidd Hall, Harrogate, result that ho potitioned for were awarded. The sult
Lord Allerton, against whom costs not de- divorce.
fended. Foreign Workers
ducted that the ash was not from married In October, 1931. The lus
He smokes only cigars and ho de- ... Lord- und Lady Mountain an Chond Germany claims that she still needs The United States exported cigarettes smoked by his wife. He banxl's case another million
Kimtil
This wife row foreign workers. 743 planes to Britain during the carried out chemical experiments affectionate, that they were on According to the
turnerate terms..
from a visit to Gibraltar
in nuisance, Chief Inspector Hollands Aftenavis of Copenhagen, there are United States Department of Coin a laboratory, and the
ed
then became d off-hand and now one million war prisoners and
convinced him that
the "burned evi- cold towards him, Lady Mounigar- arrested by the military autho- over one million foreign labourers Commerce announced recently, dence" was from a brand smoked by res went
Sinco August, however, it was a student who boarded at his home on her return "In May he was fined £10 for a employed in Germany.
** Much, "of, this is. Tito" better than stated, shipments, have been nearly The husband believed that he had, Lord Allerton. lighting offence, but He elected to goalave labour, winds the wages and 500 a month. what
established, by ila "tests, that there to prison for a month rather than rations are, much smaller than those The number of planes sent to was an association between his wife hotel was read in support of the An affidavit by a walter at a Paris pay the fino. Under present 'cbnd!="" "allotted to Germans,
Britain rose from three in March to and the boarder. The judge, how, odüllery charge." "Mr Cusilos» Hann tions the man is a real danger to him- Unemployed Germki KAS BỀ TỔ 07 In June and 278 in August, anld over, has asked an expert to report Collins gave the custody of the two. self and others,”?
mumber only 83,000,
Now. York rádio,
on the value of the tests.
children to Lord Mounigarret.
perfect
and: "A number of times ho has
"Berlingsko [first 12 months of the war, the Which he had learned when 30 Sha
and
to Paris in Jund about
the
laxed her