COMMONS & FAR EAST SHIPPING
Questions Answered
LONDON, Jan. 20 (Reuter)—A laconic “Yes” was Mr R. A. Butler's answer to the question whether the situation of the British concession in Tientsin was now satisfactory and whether Britons were able to pass unhindered between the Concession and the adjacent occupied territory.
Sir John Wardlaw-Milne asked whether British shipping was now allowed access on the Pearl River to Canton.
Butler said that there was weekly service. Difficulties had arisen in connection with quarantine regulations and pilotage, fees but they were under negotiation.
Capt. Alan Graham asked what{ Japanese restrictions were placed on exports and imports of the occupied parts of China and to what extent Auch
restrictions Affected British trade,
Seriously Affected
Mr Butler outlined the restrictions
British West Indies
Leasing Of Baser
NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (Reuter).— The Governor of Trinidad (Sir Hubert Young) and the Governor of the Leeward Islands (Sir Gordon
belngelly of Trinidad, took off for
en
in north, central and south Cliina, Lethem), accompanied by Sir Lennon und added that British and other foreign merchants
were severely affected by all these sures.
in the Clipper to-day men-route to London to participate in talks connected the leading of
with air and naval basea in the British West Indies to the United States.
Mr Robert Morgan asked whether there was any improvement to re- port in the Incillies allowed British shipping at coastal ports, especially Tsingtao al Chefoo.
Mr Butler said that Mr Eden, the Foreign Minister, was calling for a report on the latest situation as #t affected British shipping facilities in North China. A report was also called for on the subject of British shipping in inland waterways other than the Yungtse.
Women Must Enrol
For Industry
LONDON, Jan. 20 (Reuter).-Com- pulsory registration of women for essential industries throughout Bri- tain is to be enforced sogn, "ste
"Reuter's" political correspondent learns.
This will enable the Ministry of Labour to call upon women who dre not engaged in industry to take their place in the industrial ranks.
Registraton will be general and without distinction but it is likely that single women will be called up first and married women later if the need arises.
The age registration is expected to be 20 upwards.
There will be provision for enses of hardship and it is intended that as far as possible women shall be placed at work as near their homes as possible.
At the same time the Government is making exhaustive examination of the present schelule of reserved oc- cupations for men with the object of realising for military service all whose work is not absolutely essen- tial,
Mr Beyin's Scheme LONDON,
Jan, 20 (UP)-Mr Ernest Bevin, The Minister of Labour and National Service, disclosed to the press to-day that he is drafting orders and rules for a
a vast speed-up of the Industrial programme, envisaging the ultimate registration of millions of workers for industry.
Mr Bevin appeated to various con- sultants to bring forward programmes to accelerate output and the provi-; sion of man-power which would be utilized wherever practical.
East African Campaign
Unhappy Settlers In
Ethiopia
LONDON, Jan, 20 (Reuter)-It is now revealed that an Indian division which is doing so well in Eritrea was sent to the Sudan after taking part in the capture of Sidl Burrani, Owing to the unnvoldable movement of these troops, the Italian forces al Kassala had time to
execute strategic withdrawal and to escape the pincer movement that closed be- hind them.
British authoritative quarters are concerned with the fate of 200,000 Italian settlers in Abyssinin who are menaced by the growing lide of the patriot movement. It is gathered that many are being concentrated at places like the capital where there would be safety in numbers. The problem of food supply is sure urise sooner or later even if any num- ber enter Djibuti.
·
Talking to Journalists, all three emphasised the importance of "heinisphere defence" for the security of the nations of the Americas.
H.K. Stock Market
The following quotations were issued on the Hongkong Stork Mar- ket this morning.
BANKS
HK. Banks $.
HK. Banks &.
1,403 n.
.70
FI.K. Banks (II.K.) £..
Chartered ....
Mercantile, A. & B.
Mercantile, C. £.
Enst Asia S...
INSURANCES
Cantons $. Unions.$. China Underwriters H.K. Fire $.
SHIPPING
05 n. .8% 1. .23 n.
.11% n.
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH -
UPS!
VACATION BOUND-Edward J. Flynn, Democratic Na- tional Chairman, who conducted the successful campaign for President Roosovalt after the resignation of Jim Farley, loavos for a vacation with his wife after the election.
Women Demonstrate Before Mr Willkie
Food Coupon Protest
Special to the "Telegraph"
LONDON, Jan. 29 (UP),—Sixty women, carrying banners
January 30, 1941.
Full Value from U.S.A. Securities
Treasury Statement
LONDON, Jan. 29 (Reuter). -The forthcoming visit of Sir Edward Peacock to America-to examine the possibilities of in- vestments, such as businesses in the United States, is announced-f in a Treasury statement.
The statement says "In the ligl of the material, already ship, id and contemplated by the United States, it may now be freely published that: Hig
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'Snap"
The "Snap Brim", perhaps the most commonplace of all hats, reproduced by dozens of makers -yet a "Snap Brim" by Henry Heath always retains its own
Majesty's Government have subtle personality and looks dis.. realised and disposed of a very
great proportion of their gold | tinguished in a crowd of hats, holdings and are steadily selling American securities owned by their nationals at every oppor- tunity.
More Difficult Problèm
**A mare diMcult problem is pre- sented by investments such as busl- nesses in the United States and United States companies controlled by com- panies in this country, whose shares ure not quoted on the Stock Exchange. "His Majesty's Government are re- solved to make the best possible use
of these investments and they have decided to ask Sir Edward Peacock,
$21.00 $27.50
less 10% cash discount.
MACKINTOSH'S LTD.
who has great experience in such | HENRY HEATH AGENTS matters, to go to the United States and examine the possibilities on the spot. He will reach America very shortly."
and protesting against the Government's food policy, demons C. M. S. Annual
trated in the lobby of the SavoyHotel just before the arrival of Mr Wendell Willkie for luncheon.
The women chanted, "More food for workers." Mr Willkie passed the demonstrators with hardly a sidewise glance. They
76 were finally ejected, some of them bodily.
210 b.
,410 b.
The protests referred to the Government's policy of not re-. quiring patrons of restaurants to Liós b. Į give up coupons, while the poor were not able to dine in restaurants and were able only .11 n. to buy a coupon's worth of 100 n. rationed food at the butchers .80 .
and grocers, 44/6 n. .7 n.
135 11.
Douglas $... Stearnbeats Ș.. Indo-Chinas P. $. Indo-Chinas D. $. Shell (Bearers) Waterbonts $..
-
ПОСКУ ЕТС
.98 n. 18 n.
Wharves $.. Docks (old)
d) $: Docks (new) $. Providents $. S'in Dockyards $.
Kallan s/-, Raubs $. H.K. Mies
MINING
LANDS
Hotel $. Lands $. Lands 4% Debentures S'hal Lands Sh. $... Humphreys S.. H.. Realties $ Chinese Estates $ x.d. UTILITIES
S.
Trams Peaks Trams (old) $. Peak Trams (new) $.... Star Ferries $..... Y. Ferries $.
H.K.
Willkie's Busy Day LONDON, Jan.
20
(Reuter). After dining with the entire British Cabinet last night at a reception given .17% n. by the Minister for Aircraft Produc- 5.00 s. tion (Lord Beaverbrook), Mr. Wen- .34 n. dell Wilkie started the third day of bis whirlwind Inspection of London at war with undiminished energy. 18 n.) The first morning meeting was with 0% n. Sir Andrew Duncan, Minister of 14 cts. n. Supply. who Ix
for responsible Britain's war production. After this .3.00 s. he dashed back to his hotel to deal .34% with a mass of correspondence, also .100 s, squeezing in a long talk with Pro- ..13.70 n. fessor Laski, onc of the Labour .7.05 n. Party's leading brains "behind the .3.85 n. scends"
.18.40 n. .71/2 了。 .3 n.
Cscussing thei
.08 n. The high spot of the day was Mr Willkie's arrival at a meeting of the Trades Union
General Council, who were Government's manpower mabilisation scheme Sitting by the side of the TUC. Chairman (Mr Gibson), Mr Willkie listened in, to the discussion. A Grand Bunch
.241. China Lights (old) $..0.30... China Lights (new)
1.074 n. H.K. Electrics (old) ́$.. .40 . "They are u grand bunch of
Electrics (new) $....30% b. fellows very intelligent and alert. Macao Electrics fold) $....1724 .
744 found myself in complete agreement Macao Electrics (new) $..184 n.
with their aspirations and purposes," Sandakon Lights 3.
....113⁄4 n. he sold afterwords. Telephonca (old) $.
.25% b. Luncheon was at the Savoy Hotel with Sir Robert Kindersley, Britain's Telephones (new) $....
INDUSTRIALS
war-saving propaganda chief, and aj Cald: Marg. (Ord.), Sh. $...30 .party of big businessmen: Cald: Mack (Pret.), Sh. S..26 Canton Iers
Cementa $..
11.K. Ropes S.
STORES, &c. Dairy Farms $. Watsons $.
$.... Lane Crawfords $.... Sinceres $. Wing On (K.) S. Powell Ltd. $.
COTTON MILLS Ewe Sh. $. **** S'hal Colton Sh. $.
ausc
H.K. Govt. 4%
.10.20 n.
2.15 n.
Exchange At A Glance
SELLING
T.T. London
T.T. Shanghai
T.T.
Singapore
T.T. Japan
indlu
U.S.A.
1/2 1/27%
Demand London
,420
52%
10214
.8214
2314
T.T.
Manila
T.T. Batavia
T.T. Bangkok
T.T. Saigon
TT. France
.1403
.102 Nan.
T.T. Switzerland
.100
1/04
1/3 1/3%
..24%
T.T. Australia
BUYING
4 m/s L/C London
4 m/s D/P London
4 m/s L/C USA.
4 m/s France
30 d/s India
Conference
The annual conference of the Church Missionary Society was held at St Andrew's Church yesterday, when reports in the medical relief work in Chungshan on the Leper Settlement in Pokhol were present- ed.
The report on the Leper Settle- ment In Pakhoi, which was submitted by Major II. L. Wright, showed that the total number of inmates thero Jand In leper village homes at the end of 1940 was 181. Owing to the difficulty a? geling supplies, the allowance of rice had to be reduced while the injection of Hydnocarpus, oll had to be limited.
The Rt Rev. Bishop R. O. Holl presided, and others present at the Conference were: Dean J. L. Wilson. | Rev. and Mrs H. A. Wittenbach, Rev, Chung Yan-yung (Calcutta), Rev. and Mrs E. W. L. Martin, Miss J. R. Taylor (Secretary of the Refugee Social Welfare Council), Miss M. A. Jennings (Talpo Rural Ofphanage), Miss Autins, Rev. F. R.
Mr Myhill G. Stewart, Miss E. M. Upsdell, Mr J. A. Gaunt, Mr A. E. Job, Miss Williamson, Miss M. Lush, Miss Buckland, Mias W. 1. Grinin, Miss K. Langford, Miss B. Pope, MIDE N. Dil Jon, Miss E, K. Saunders and Miss
S. L. Hollls. Nom. 84/2
U.S. Cross rate in London 4.02 U.S. Cross rate in N.Y...4.03
London Raid Alert
America's Good Trade Year
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH** WASHINGTON, Jari. 29 (UP).- The Department of Commerce an- nounced that United States exports
in $4,022,000,000,-the
LONDON, Jan. 20 (Reuter)the en days' lull in the night air war 1940 totalled over London was broken by an early largest since 1929. General imports alert to-night, shortly after which were $2,625,000,000 which were 13 per henvy gunfire was heard in the cent. above 1930 und 5 per cent, above central districts.
the 1036-1038 average.
The exports balance for the year Aggregated $1,400,000,000, which was farm products totalled $517,000,000 the largest since 1921. Exports of several parts but everywhere re June the markets in continental the lowest since 1869 because after Mr watchers were ready to deal with Europe ceased to exlat,
Shower Of Incendiaries
Incendiurles
The raid was over before midnight.
were showered
them.
оп
Elsewhere in the country, activity was again slight.
The night was also marked by shell
HITLER-PETAIN LONDON, Jan. 20
(Reuter).
n. dressed women who attempted to A party of fur-coated and smartly stage a Communist interruption were .18.20 n. ranidly evicted almost before
.8.35 s. Willkle arrived.
Later Mr. Willkle visited Polish .19.20 m.
Headquarters, meeting General Sikor- .11.10.skl, the Polish Prime Minister. "My .74 n. sympathies are 100 per cent, with the Polish people," he said on leaving .39 n. to return to his hotel where he had fire from German long-range uns Hitler and Petain may meet again 1.00 . an Interview with
the Chinese cross the Channel. A number of shortly, according to the Ankara Ambassador.
shells fell on Dover at irregular in-radio, which declared to-night that Mr Wilkie is using all ration cards tervals but no casualties so far have there were "certain persistent re- and police permits which foreign|been reported. visitors to this country are obliged to
porta" suggesting auch a move. have. They have been given him at n.is own request as he is anxious not to receive unwarranted privileges,
The proposed visit to Eric is not
48 B. .205 n.
.0711⁄2 n.
H.K. Govt. 3% (1034)..02
H.K. Govt. 3% (1040).92 n. Ch Govi, 6% 1025 GSBds. 42/47 H.K. Entertainments S... yet definitely fixed.
n.
Constructions (old) $......1.62 5. Constructions (new)
to
Vibro Piling $..
Marsmans Inv. (Lon.) 5/-
.7.70
Rim of Freedom LONDON, Jan. 20
(UP)—Mr
n. Wendell Wilikle had a 15-minute chut 7/6 n. with the Chinese Ambassador, Mr Marsmans Inv. (HK.) a/~ ..2/0 n. Que Tai-chi to-day and later said: "I have always regarded China as
Free French Raid On
Italian-Held Oases
do as much as I can to help them."
..
Japanese Bombs Wound Consul
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
the:
Banishee's Novel Offer
To Court Of Appeal
"If I get back my property I am willing to give one third the rim of freedom, and will try to of its value to the British War Fund," said a convicted banishee at the Supreme Court this morning, when he brought an appeal against sentence before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor.
Choung added that when he was He was Cheung Kwok-hing, covered that his father had died and banished to his native place he dis- and his appeal was against that all the property left by him had sentence of one year's hard been "devoured"" by an uncle, LONDON, Jan. 29 (Reuter). The recent raid into Italian
labour Imposed on him by Mr. The Japanese later arrived at the Libya by the Free French forces is the subject of a communi-
HANOI, Jan. 29 (UP)-It is re- G. T. Lowry, Magistrate, on vlago, burnt all the houses and Bably reported that Japanese planes September 14 for returning to
killed most of the Inhabitants. que issued by General de Gaulle's headquarters in London.
from an Indo-China base last Tues the Colony after having been "who are still detained by the Japan. "I have two children," he went on, day bombed Lungchow on The communique states: "In the} course of January, elements of our
Kwangsl border and caused dumugo banished for life. to the French Mission Consulate
csc. I have some property in the troops in Chad, acting under the corn-
Cheung told His Lordship that it village. The Japanese required my which was dying mand of General de Larminat,
French flags, was not his intention to return to the family to go back there before they carried out a deep raid into Libya In
wounding the now French Consul, M. Colony. He was caught by the would let me have the property. I the region of Fezzan. Our troops
J. Camaly and a French priest, both Japanese at Po On where he was hope your Lordship will deal with reached and destroyed the base at
of whom had to be sent to hospital forced on board Murrak and
LONDON, Jan, 20 (Router). The at Langson.
junk and landed at me leniently so that I can get back and carried the post
Lau Fou Shan, British Territory, to- there sooner. If I can get back my at Stock Exchange to-day was generally Gatrun, Inflicting on the enemy, quiet and
Kunming Raided
gether with 41.other persona. Irregular. Gilt-edged KUNMING, Jan. 20 (UP)-Twenty
property I am prepared to give one- serious losses in men and material.
His Lordship: Did you at once third of its value to the British War Soveral Italian planes were destroy holdings drifted down slightly after Japanese heavy bombers, in
early firmness but closed steady,
two report to the authorities about It?- Fund and two-thirds to other charit- en the ground."
sections, devastated several of the No, because I didn't know I had to able institutions in the Colony. This The communique adds that General vinestriais encountered some pro- poorer residential districts on the do that.
vincial selling and home rails tended west side of Kunming at 2.30 pm.
is better than letting the Japanese de Gaulle han conferred the Cross de to be easier, but oils were firm and to-day. Coppersmith shops, wood Shan to the Taf Kwan Hotel in Des
How did you get from Lau Fau have the property." l'Ordre de la Liberation posthumously there was further speculative enquiry turners, coffin makers were heavily Voeux Road Central where you were Murphy, Assistant Crown Soliclior,
Without calling upon Mr. J. upon Lleut-Col Dornano, commander in European bands, notably Belgian hit. Bodies are lying around headless arrested?-I went there on foot be to reply, 11is Lordship dismissed the of the detachment, who was killed at four per cent. Kurzak.
Wall Street was irregular..
and without limbs, with relatives cause I wanted to go to Macao where appeal, saying that it obviously had: standing by tearfully mourning. my family is.
ino merits.
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