Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
NEW YEAR's eve CarNIVAL
at the
GLOUCESTER HOTEL
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT
of
DANCERS AND PIPERS
of the
2nd BATT. THE ROYAL SCOTS
[By kind permission of Lt. Col. D. J. McDOUGALL, M.C.)
THE
Also Presenting
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
NO SUM TOO LARGE,
$100 per month? $10 per month? $1.
per month?
NO SUM TOO SMALL.
Fill in the form below and HELP WIN THE WAR.
Donations to 28-12-40: $1,520,159.98 Remitted to London:
The Manager.
Sir..
£94,389.19.68.
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, US.. Secretary for the Navy, said re- cently that Germany is reported to have a "division and more in civilian clothes in Spain, and other divisions of troops on the Spanish border.”
December 30, 1940,
| CHINESE GIFTS TO THE ROOSEVELTS
The presentation of a Mongolian white fox fur coal to Miras Eleanor Roosevelt, and a Foochow lacquer plaque to the President, was made at the United States Embassy In Chungking recently, Top picture shows the scenó at the Embassy, Right to left:--Major-Gen. 1. L. Huang, who made the presentation on behalf of the Chineso People's Forelan Relations Association, Ambassador Johnson, Dr Kino- wel Shaw, representing the Chinese-American Institute of Cultural Relations, and Mr Everett Drumwright, Second Embassy 'Secretary. Bight:-The Ambassador wearing the coat at a reception. The plaque - shown below, deplets Confucius leaching the Six Arts.
Norman Soong).
Old People's Hospital Hit: Many Killed
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old.
His speech began with a reiteration of President Roose velt's pledge of continued aid to Britain.
(Photos by
Plot To Oust Mussolini aristocrats have leaked out.
SOLDIER CHARGED --Friendship With Schoolgirl
It was alleged against à Wat-: ford schoolgirl at the Old Balloy that sho not only declared her love for a young soldier, and spent some time with him"In u wood, but that she tempted him to do wrong.
Tho young soldier John Edward William Downard, 20, a gunner in the Royal Artillery, was found not guilty of commit- ting an offence against the girl, and was discharged.
For the prosecution, Mr R. E Senton stated that the girl, who lived with
her parents at Watford, Ost year.
on Nov. 10 lost.
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denled
The girl, giving ovidence, inviting Downard to be Intimate with her, or that she had been with boys before. She also declared that sho never mentioned her ада to Downard
A detective stated that.. when Downard was told the girl's age; he exclaimed: "Thirteen! I must have been crazy."-
Wanted To Marry
Subsequently, Downard mado statement in which he was alleged to havo mid: "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 going to the park, be was intimate with her.
Tho girl, he said, was wearing a Jumper, blue skirt and blazer, and he thought she was 17 or 18.
Second Time
Downord 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
When American journalists
authorities
Japan Short Of Food
FORT WORTH, Tex. (UP)-
the Far East will cause the Philippine Islands to give up their 40-year fight for indepen- dence, E. S. Turner, for 25 years. Y.M.C.A. National Secretary in the Islands, has predicled,
Serious "repercussions" may, be expected if the United States withdraws its support of the falands, he said. ¡,
Under the Commonwealth Bill the
dent in 1940,
problems .which would Imperii
in Rome spilled the news that 14 members of old and re- nowned families had been ar- MANY patients were killed rested, Fascist when a high explosive bomb denied it. made a direct hit on a London hospital in a recent-night-raid. The arrest came after discovery Hard-Winter Is In Prospect
Two nurses on duty were also tocrats to get rid of Mussolin and of a plot by a group of Italian, oris- killed.
SHORTAGE of clothing and his Foreign Minister (Count Clano). food will be Japan's most seri-Philippines were to become indepen The hospital is for the aged
The leading spirit in the plot was and infirm, and some of the vic-6-year-old Prince Carlo Alessandro ous problem this winter,
Turner believes the United States time were more than 80 years Infants Beatrice eldest daughter of tial report by the Tokio repre-pines home rule..
This is stated in a confiden- Torlonia, whose third wife was the
will postpone granting the Philip- ex-King Alfonso of Spain.
sentative to the A block of four wards, in
Carnegie
Social Problems. which there were 108 patients, land. Torlonia formed the Resolut!, Peace,
Soon after Germany invaded Po- Endowment for International "Withdrawal of our free market,” states a New York he said, "would destroy the present was struck.
n group, of Italian aristocrats deter- message.
standard of living and create social As the bomb crashed through the mined to prevent Italy from becom roof it buried the patients under a ing a German tool and being forced "Most luxuries are nimost unob- Philippine progress of the past 40 The US, he said, does not intend mass of plaster, beams and bricks. into war against Britain.
tainable in Japan," the report says. | years." to be intimidated, and will "continue
Tortonin laid before Mussolini a "Sugar is rationed, and each per- to help England and China, regard-
some of the debris away the tropped document proving that Italy would son is allowed only five matches a less of what Hitler or Mussolini be patients were unable to help them-be Germany's next victim it Hltier day. Heves."
selves.
won the war. Tank Bursts
Balbo Sketching the position in the They had to be taken on stretchera Mediterranean, he sold the fall of in the darkness to a first-aid post for Torlonia proposed that Marshal Gibraltar would be of "immeasur-treatment before being removed to Balbo, Governor of Libya-whom ng rapidly in Japan," the report able" importance to the U.S., if it another hospital.
Mussolini feared-should
adds. be op- should result in German movement
"There has been no direct action Rescue work was complicated by pointed president of a newly-con- down the West Coast of Africa. the bursting of a water tank at the stituted scist Grand Council after against Americans similar to recent
top of the building.
removal of the existing leaders,
arrests of Britons on espionage Doctors and
nurses alded the A.R.P. squads and soldiers in the Dalbo, although unaware of the "But a powerful group in Japan, But the British Fleet con
Brea
who wrze
plot, and innocent of any were sent to help.
con-which has been responsible for these maintain control of that great inland One of the leaders of the rescue! kpiracy against Mussolini, was arrests, would be glad of the chance sea, as it controls it to-day, then the work was the matron, who carried killed when his plane was mysteri- to deal with Americans in the same line of British Empire communica-on, although she had been badly cut
ously shot down in Libya on June | way. tion will remain intact."
jas a result of the explosion.
28, a couple of weeks after - Mus- {
The
extent to which a sort of solini declared war.
gang rule prevalls to-day in Japan is almost unbelievable.
Mediterranean Window
"
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
area.
Even when rescue workers cleared
Young nurses climbed over the de- bris to help patients who seemed to have a chance of being brought out alive.
Guided By Crics
They had to grope over piles of wreckage in the darkness, guided by the cries of the trapped men and wo-
men.
arrest The Resoluit! decided to Mussolini, Ciano, and Muti in their offices in the Palazzo Venezia. After jarrest they were to be shot,
Secret police arrested Torlonia at home, in the Boses di Leone, tome and the others as they were irying to enter the Palazzo Vene-
One old man trapped in the zi,
shortly after the explosion, and fo
debris could be heard singing Only personal Intervention by went on slaging popular songs of King Victor Emmanuel prevented of the last war as rescuers made death sentences being carried out. their way slowly towards Etim.
Fifteen hours after the explosion he was rescued uninjured.
Nazis Want More
Foreign Workers
Anti-American Feeling "Anti-American sentiment Is rls
charges.
Husband Tests
Cigarette Ashes To Build Case
In addition, he said, Filipinos know that they would be the prey of any expanding power in the Pacifio if the United States armed forces left the lalands. Recent formal adherence of
Tokyo to the Rome-Berlin axis heightened fears in the Philippines over possible Japanese expansion, be sald
Islanders, themselves, Turner sold, are now working toward deferment of the independence decrees.
Roxas Appeal
Indicative of the sentiment, be said, was the radio appeal made a few weeks ago by Manuel Roxas, Secretory of Finance in the Phillp- nine National Cabinet. Roxas urged that Congress postpone independence and application of the economic pro- visions of the Commonwealth. Blii. -- Congress, Turner, bollaves, would not discuss the Philippine Issue until 1944 in view of pressing international. and domestic problems.
Decree For Lord Mountgarret
U.S. Sends 500 turned scientific alouth with the because of his wife's adultery with
Planes Monthly
PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia.-
A decree nisi was granted in the Finding a cigarette ash on a sofa Divarco 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 was not de Lord, Allerton, against whom coats He was Vernon William Dean, of Sandgate, near Folkestone. Ho sakt
divorce.
fended, he had no money with which to
He smokes only cigars and he de Lord and Lady Mountgarret wore leave the district, but the police said
ducted that the ash was not from married in October, 1981. The bus- he had been told he could have a
The United States exported cigarettes smoked by his wife. He band's case was that they were on Germany claims that she still needs free railway voucher.
another million foreign workers. 748 planos to Britain during the carried out chemical experiments affectionato terms until his wife re- Describing Dean as a perfect According to the nuisance Chief Inspector Hollands Aftenavia" of Copenhagen, there are United States Department of convinced him that die "buried evi- cold towards him. Lady Mountgar- "Berlingske first 12 months of the war, the which he had learned when employ-turned from a visit to Gibraltar. In
ed in a laboratory, and the results 1030. She then became off-hand and. saki: "A number of times he has now one million war prisoners and Commerce announced recently. denee was from a brand smoked by ret went to Paris in June, 1939, and been arrested by the military autho- over one million foreign labourers ritics.
employed in Germany,
Sinco August, however, It was a student who boarded at we had Lord Allerton, Later, Hon
home. on *her return "In May he was fined. 210 for a Much of this little better than slated, shipments have been nearly The husband belleved that lighting offence, but be elected to go slave labour,, since the wages and 500 month.
established, by his tests, that thereAn affidavit by a wi
be a walter at a Park to prison for a month rather than rations are, much smaller than those The number of planes amt, to was an association between his wife hotel was, read in THUNDort of" TY pay the fine. Under present"condi» | allotted to Germans,
Britain rose from thres in March to and the boarder, The judge,-"how-| adultery, kharga,j, Me Justice. Hann tions the man is a real danger to him» Unemployed Germans are said to 97-in Juns and 278 th August, said ever, has saked an expert to report: Collins gave the custody of the two self and others. "*.
number only 28,000.
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