NANCY
Eire May Seek Japan's Help
To Overcome Shortages
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Jan. 13 (Domel)-Japon may soon come to the assistance of hard-pressed Elre which is suffering from an acute shortage of various commodities as the result of Ger- counter-blockade of the mony's
British Inles.
An emergency meeting of the Dail has been called for Jununey 10 to deliberate measures to overcome the shortage caused by the
German blockade as well as the decreasing Imports from Britain, Gasoline sup- ply has been so depleted that scarcely any motor-cara are found operating in the Free State, while it is believed that the shortage of tea, wheat, iron, coal, antinat feed, fertiliser, ond various textiles has been markedly fell.
Opportunity For Trade
Among the Japanese firms here, opinion is gaining ground that a certain amount of Japanese commo- ditles such as Manchoukuo soy beans, Japanese canned crab and salmon, yon and cotton goods, may be nod exportable to Eire.
Hitherto, Japanese products have been re-exported from Liverpool: Japan's rayon textiles exports to Ireland alone aggregated, more than Yen 3,000,000
annually. Japanese
believe that more than Yen 10,000,000 worth of Japanese commodities can bo exported to
·ACT->
LHH.
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
OH, SLUGGO-T'LL GIVE YOU A QUARTER IF YOU'LL PUT THESE SCREENS DOWN
THE CELLAR!
ANOTHER TIME-PERHAPS!
January 15, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
WELL HOW'S THE GREAT PROFILE DOING
TODAY?
DANDY-.. IN FACT, I JUST TURNED DOWN. A BIG SCREEN OFFER!!
ŹRNIE BUSHMILLETED NOV 20
FERRY SINKS IN HONGKONG HARBOUR
Two Yaumati ferries collided |
to Ireland yearly. In the harbour yesterday and Since Ireland is neutral, Ge
Germany muy allow Japanese vessels to put in sunk, fortunately without loss of at Ireland and Irish parts and it isfe. The Man Shing, pictured expected that Britain also will permit here, was towed back to the Japanese ships to call ut Galway or island side of the harbour, bui Cork after being certified by British could not remain afloat.--Pic-
tures by Ming Yuen,
authorities.
Return Cargoos However, dimeulties are expected regarding return freight for Japanese ships as Ireland has few surplus goods for export but Japanese mer- chants point out that the ships can take on freight and passengers at Lisbon, particularly as there are many Indians, Turks, Syrians, and Egyptians seeking to return home from Europe.
Leaves For Saigon
Jan. 14
War & Refugee Relief
Diamond Cutting In U.K.
LONDON, Jan. 14 (Reuter)—The first diamond to be polished in Birmingharu has, been presented to SHANGHAI,
(UP)the Lord Mayor for war relief. The French sources declare that General diamond, which is worth £100, was Maurice Martin, Commander-in-polished by refugees from Belgium Chief of the French forces in Indo- and the Low Countries.
No Air Activity
China, left Hanol for Saigon to-day-A-sum-of-£5,000 for a spitfire has.
Admiral Decoux, Governor-Gen-been received from
the Bangalore eral, recently left for Salgon for civil and military station war fund. six weeks' holiday.
Up to the end of Inst year thc British Red Cross and St. John fund had spent over £1,000,000, on
food and clothing for prisoners of war LONDON, Jan. 14 (Reuter), while another £1,000,000 had been There has been no enemy úir activity spent on medical requirements in- over the British Isles during daylight cluding £10,000 for relief in Finland, to-day nor up to 9.30 p.m. In the The balance then remaining was over evening,
£1,000,000.
BRITISH WAR ORGANIZATION FUND.
CABARET AND DANCE
IN THE
PENINSULA HOTEL
January 31st., 1941
9.30 p.m. 3 a.m.
UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE ACTING GOVERNOR LIEUT.-GENERAL E. F. NORTON.
ARTISTS:
Y. K. SZE.
Herbert Tong and His Girl Friends- The Wanchai Brothers
Nollie Field - Elsie Soong's Kittins Tyrolionne Dance
TWO DANCE ORCHESTRAS!
DANCE HOSTESSES –
+
SURPRISES - VISIT PARADISE !
TICKETS-FIVE DOLLARS
Obtainable from: Hongkong Hotel Poninsula Hotal
*MAN SHING &
Night Fighter Pilots Bringing Down Bombers
LONDON, Jan. 14 (Reuter)The increasing experience of British night fighter pilots is beginning to show results. More ralding bombers are being, intercepted and those that do get through are being attacked with some success, says the Air Ministry.
The number of our night fighter squadrons is stendily increasing, though necessarily slowly. Pilots must be taught a new technique Aghting, much of which is still ex- perimental. Aircraft must be Ted and even under the most
Tokyo Talks:
Latest Move
Antonescu Summoned To Berlin, Report
Rumanian Waters Closed
BELGRADE, Jan. 14 (Reuter)—Rumanian officials refuse to confirm or deny the report that General Ion Antonescu, the Rumanian Premier, has been summoned to Berlin.
M. Horia Sima, the Deputy Premier and hend of the Iron
Guard, has called meetings of his CONGRESS
followers in all towns on
January. 19. Speakers will & AID TO
address the meetings on "the struggle of Nazi Germany
and Fascist Italy for the es- BRITAIN
Mercy Ship Oftment of a new European Bill To Be Debated
Desert War
Takes Wounded To Basc
("REUTEN" IN THE WESTERN DESERT BATTLE AREA)
Jan. 14- have just had an opportunity of spending a short time aboard a hospital ship prior to Its
order."
:.
Meanwhile, the Rumanian news- WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (Ren- paper, "Curentul," sounds a note of ter).Mr Sam Rayburn, denance over the German plans 10 turn Rumanta into a granary and all Speaker of the House of Repre reservoir at the expense of her in-sentatives, stated to-day that he dustrial development. It says that was willing to accept "any the Tegionary regime does not dream restrictions whatever" on the of giving up Rumanian industry but Lease and Lend Bill provided on the contrary it must be expanded that they did not interfere with
Ban on Shipping
LONDON, Jan. 14 (Reuter)-Ru- the general purpose of the Bill. sailing. It was
was woll niled with manian territorial waters have been Mr Sol Bloom, Chairman of Italian
from Bardia and declared a danger zone for shipping the House Foreign Relations prisoners with Australian, British Rhodesian troops involved in the the Rumanian Navy Minister quoted Bill is coming to-morrow, sald and in an official communique issued by Committee, hefore which the preliminary action around Tobruk. by the Ankara radio.
These weary and wounded men will shortly begin their journey to hospital.
Their Ittle vessel is carning for Itself the tie of "mercy ship of the
Western Desert," Bulit at New- ensile-on-Tyne it is not particularly handsome and reglaters only 600 tons, but its draught enables it to enter tiny harbours along the Egyptian and Libyan coasts.
too
Ships desiring to navigate in the that he proposed to offer one or waters of the Block Sea must obtain two amendments.
permission and notify the port auth orities, it is stated.
No reason for this measure is given.
Hitler's Coup That Failed
Wanted Spain In War
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPM"
Mr Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, will be the first witness at to- morrow's hearingt. Ho will be followed by Mr Henry Morgenthau,
Hony of the Treasury, and Mr L. Stimson; Secrtary for War, and on
on Thursday Colonel Frank of the Navy, and Mr Knudsen
Director-General of Presklent Roosevelt's new Supremo Defence Directorate, will testify.
to call G.
Regular hospital ships draw much water to enter these harbours. This ship provides easily the most comfortable form of transport
for
Replying to questions, Mr seriously wounded men—the alterna- LONDON, Jan. 14 (UP).—Accord said that he was not tive la the bumpy ride across
Ambassadors. a ing to news reaching responsible Bri-urmer hundred miles of desert in an ambutish authorities, Hitler made a strong Bullitt and Joseph P. Kennedy be- lance lorry which is a severe ordeal but unsuccessful attempt
fore the
the Committee, but he would be 10 per for casualties.
pleased to sunde Spain to enter the war on the Australian Doctora
alde of the Powers at the begin-i
Hoover, January. Pressed into service at short notice, ning of Ja
Iferbert
Wendell
1 be to
arrange for Messen Alfred Landon,
wulkie, Bulili and
the little ship is now making regular It is reported that whereas the Kennedy to appear if they requested trips.. A team of Australian medical | Foreign Minister, Serrano Suner was
heard, officers supervise the wounded on a favourably inclined, the Spanish were that a representative of the "America Bloom added that the request trip which is both difficult and dan- opposed and General Franco sided First Committee be heard, had been
with his generals,
gerous,
The ship will nwalt dusk when sho I will slip out of the harbour with the
Italian bombings.
utmost promptness in order to miss FACILITIES: FOR
Apart from the possibility of meet- Ing a wandering Italian submarine, any high seus make the normal routine for men not accustomed to a sea voyage very difcult,
EVACUATION
granted.
Willkia Endorsement WASHINGTON, Jun. 14 (UP),—— The sharp split in the Republican uttitude to the Lend-Lense pro- gramine has heightened the prospecia SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" of the early. cnactment of the. LONDON, Jan. 14 (UP)-It is measure. Impartial circles sald to expected that the British Government day that Mr Wilkie's endorsement of The majority of the Imperial troops will shortly make it clear to the the BU had achieved a fundamental who will make the voyage are men Brazilian Embassy here, which is en- break in the solid front of the antl- who went through the Bardia cam-trusted with Italian Interests, that Administration group. paign and then were wounded at Britain will favourably consider any Representative Kenneth Simpson, Hallun request for facilities sufficient New York Republican, who is re- to evacuate Italian women and child-garded as Mr Willkle's spokesman in ren from Ethiopla. However, no Congress, announced his whole- officiul British, offer has yet been hearted support of the basle principle
Tobruk.
In Good Spirits
The less seriously wounded men made. move about on the deck of the ship and all are in good spirits.
Chungking's First
Raid Of 1941
Some Imperial soldlers and many Italians are more seriously hurt and they console themselves with the cer- tain knowledge that they will receive: every possible attention at the base Chungiting was rulded for the Brat
CHUNGKING, Jan, '15 (Reuter)- hospitals. Many of the lightly time this year yesterday when 27 wounded Italians are becoming more Japanese altcraft rained bombs on! cheerful even before the voyage and machine-gunned various parts of starts at the prospect that the war China's wartime capital. has finished for them, but others it sliently around the deck, their sad eyes asking the question, "When will they see their native land again?"
Governors Confer
of all old to Britain. He sharply Inttacked the stand taken by Mr
Thomas Dewey in New York and Mr
Herbert Hoover,
SALVAGING FERRIES
Salvage operations of the two "Life" magazine cameraman Carli were damaged in the collision in the Hongkong and Yaurouti ferries which Mydans and his wife Shelley had harbour yesterday were started this very narrow escape as their alr liner morning. was preparing to land when the ralders appeared. They managed to land and flee to safety in time,
Indian Army Gesture LAHORE, Jan. 14 (Reuter)-Four military officers of the rank of major) have been specially appointed for the purpose of looking after the welfare of families of soldiers who are abroad on active service,
A fifth offleer has been appointed in Peshawar, on
the North-West
African Civil Supply Board NAIROBI, Jan. 14 (Reuter), frontier. -The Governors of Kenya, Retired Generals Mect Uganda, Tanganyika, Northern TOKYO, Jan, 14 (Reuter)An Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and unexpected and unusual step has the Acting Resident of Zanzibar, been taken by the Japanese War met in conference here to-day. ste trying to swat a wasp in Minister, General Tojo, to call in a duzen retired Japanese generals for a blackout room," as one pliot said.
The entry is worthug, on similar round-table conference to be held lines. Our bombers
lo-morrow on what the "Domel" countering night fighters on their
able conditions, the difficulties of trailing enemy bombers flying at some 250 miles an hour through the darkness are still severe.
Bre 10W
en-
agency calle
calls "the present national
An official statement Issued at the conclusion of the meeting said, that they had agreed on the formation of
East African Civil Supply Board to control imports of currency, ex- change and supplies for civil needs.
They also agreed on the procedure voked are ex-War' Ministers or ex- to be adopted for dealing with post- Premiers.
raids over Germany and several of all the Generals. con-
these have been shot down..`
R.A.F. More Successful
So far the night faeties of the R.A.F.
have proved more successful than the enemy's because none of our night fighters has been lost in action,
war problems on an East African The conference will be attended by basis. the present Chief of the Army Gen- eral Staff, the Minister of Justice, the the G.O.C., were also held during the Military discussions, attended by
Vice-Minister of War, and the Chief conference of East African governors. Thiu Arst Distinguished Flying Cross for night fighting is awarded
of the Military Affairs Bureau. to Flight Lieutenant John Cunning- explain the present conditions and
The latter two will, says
"Domel," ham, who shot down two enemy "aftirm the army's determination height of nearly 20,000 feet in to see the crisis through." temperature of 50 degrees below freezing point.
bombers over the south count at
1
New Chief Whip Appointed
Fire Sweeps Brooklyn
trend of prices with broadening In-Moray, and his wother of Lord by flames which also damaged quiries is giving cause for general Stuart, is a daughter of the late Fleeing Figures Afire
PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS
The Mani Ping, besched near the quayside at Holt's Wharf, was rated by the Company's launches at 8.30 a.m. and towed to Shamshulpo, when
an inspection will be made to ascer tain the amount of damage done.
A Kowloon Dock tug is at present working on the Man
which Shing, settlest in low water near the veht cular ferry wharf in Hongkong.
No. passengers were injured in the accident, which occurred when the two ferries, altered their course to avold colliding with a sampan.
TO SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES
Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama · & · Honolulu.
SS "President Taft”
SS "President Cleveland"}
59 "President Coolidge".
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JAN.
FED, FEB.
19
To NEW YORK AND BOSTON
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BS President Monroe"
SS "President Grant"
SS "President Jackson"
FEB.
MAR. 23
MAN. 23
TO MANILA
Arc
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NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (Reuter). STOCK EXCHANGE
Fire to-day swept the famous waterfront, threatening U.S. Business Experience Brooklyn
Jelty buildings, warehouses and muni Upward Trend Provides
LONDON, Jan. 14 (Reuter)~The cipal omees. Rt Hon James Gray Stuart has been Five men are known to have been Satisfaction
Some are appointed Chief Whip in place of killed and many injured. LONDON, Jan. 14 (Reuter)-On Captain David Margesson, who was in hospital with critical burns.
Thirty parked cars were destroyed recently appointed Minister for War. the Stock Exchange, the upwardi
Mr Stuart is a
Lady Rachel engine,
NEW YORK, Jan, 14 (Router) — Gilt-edged holdings were again favoured to-day while several Bras Mr Stuart served with distinction The fire on the Brooklyn waterfront
In the Great War. He is Conserva- was brought under zilian bonds continued their advance, tive Member of Parliament for Meray seven people were burned to death control after
but on the contrary Japanese bonds and Nairn and has been deputy for
Five encountered offerings.
Caplain Margesson since 1937. He and ten were Infüred. Industrial stocks attracted buying is also the Scottish Government! The fire spread so quickly that inforest, especially
electric equip Whip.
most of the 30 employees of a fuc- ments and building shares, while
For two years the new Chlef Whiptory making wooden forkers for the among the oils, Mexican Eagles were was in business in America; ho le United States Army had to dásh
satisfaction.
the most popular feature.
Wall Street was steady.
Duke of Devonshire.
reputed to have one of the quickest | through the binzing structure with brains in the House of Commons. their clothing alight.
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