1939-09-23 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 23, 1939.

SIR SAMUEL HOARE SAYS COUNTRY MUST ECONOMISE

LABOUR CRITICISM OF

BUT MUST NOT CEASE BUYING BUREAUCRACY

London, To-day.

The Lord Privy Seal, Sir Samuel Hoare, who is a

JAPANESE

member of the War Cabinet, broadcast to the MACHINEGUN

nation last night.

He said the War Budget which is being introduced JUNK

next week will make all of us economise.

This did not mean that we were to refuse to pur-

chase.

Some increase in prices was inevit- able in the dislocation brought about by the change from peace to war, but the Government would take powers for drastic action against profiteers.

iWe must have no misers, по hoarders, no profiteers," Sir Samuel declared.

Sir Samuel referred to the tempor- ary increase in, unemployment,

but said that scarcely an able-bodied man or woman in the country would not but be needed in the near future.

A warning that too many workers had been dismissed and an appeal to employers to refrain from dismissals, was also broadcast by Sir Samuel, who urged them to get back their men, who would be wanted "before world was much older."

EVERYBODY IN

the

He said that he was certain that at no distant date there would scarcely be an able-bodied

man or woman,

whose services the country would not need.

"Go on buying and selling but buy prudently and when you sell, avoid profiteering as you would the plague, -Reuter.

EMPLOYERS

SIR SAMUEL HOARE warned employers that dismissals might recoil on their own heads.

ORGANISERS' AUTHORITY

GIVEN RIGHT IN H.K.D.R. OF APPEAL Hong Kong Defence Reserve Regu-

provide:- lations appear in the "Gazette." They

Japanese sailors machine- gunned a defenceless fishing junk yesterday morning off Tam Kon Shan (Chinese ter- ritory), according to Chau Cheung-wah, 42, master of fishing junk No. 4322H.A.

Chau reported to the Police last night when brought into the Colony by another junk that he and a crew

London, To-day. Reuter understands that Mr. Leslie Burgin, the Minister of Supply, is giving full considera- tion to Mr. Arthur Greenwood'a criticisme, voiced in the House of Commone on Thursday, regard. ing the position of Labour with relation to Supply questions, and there is no intention to bar In- fluential

Labour advisers from the production side as Mr. Bur- gin regards the co-operation of organised labour in all scotions of supply, as essential to success. -Reuter.

MAN FEARED HOSPITAL

A Birmingham man opened a note

simple X-ray examination.

of 11 fishermen were fishing off Tamwritten by his doctor suggesting a Kon Shan at 8 a.m. when an armed Japanese trawler came steamiħg up.

When about 70 yards away, the Japanese started to machinegun the One of the fokis was wounded in the right forearm,

Chau and the crew abandoned the junk and rowed away in a sampan.

The Japanese boarded the aban-der to get in. doned junk and set fire to it.

crew.

Through ignorance of medical terms and fear of hospitals he attachert un- due importance to the note, believing that he was much worse than he was. He was found gassed in a bedroom by his brother, who had to climb a lad-

This was told at the inquest at Bir- Chau and his crew were later pick-mingham on Thomas Henry Vincent, ed up by another junk and brought 58, timber-yard labourer, of Cooksey to Hong Kong.

road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham. The

The wounded foki has been admit- verdict was suicide while the balance ted to the Queen Mary Hospital. of mind was disturbed.

RAMMED U-BOAT DURING A GALE

London, To-day.

THE CAPTAIN OF A British trawler which arrived at a home port yesterday stated he thought he had rammed a Nazi submarine by accident. Under Proclamations By

During a gale, he said, he saw two British warships His Excellency the Governor 1. Any Organiser appointed, whe- and an aeroplane.

ther before or after the publication of The warships signalled that a sub- So. on 30th August and 4th Sept- these Regulations, as Organiser either marine was in the vicinity, but the trawler was

great was the shock that the brought to a standstill ember certain officers, war- of the key-post group or of the gen-trawler continued full speed ahead. and men below rushed up on deck, rant officers and men oferal group for essential services of the Suddenly they felt a crash and the thinking they had been torpedoed.

Hong Kong Defence Reserve shall bows of the trawler rose in the air. Hong Kong Naval Volunteer have power to organise his group into Force have been mobilized sections. for service. Further procla- mations may yet be made section of that group or to be trans- increasing the number.

an

When the list was completed effort was made to cause the civil community as little inconvenience as possible but it has been impossible en- tirely to avoid inconvenience. It is therefore desirable that the inconveni-

ence be assessed and that an endeav- our be made to find a solution with out, however, subscribing to any suggestion that the duties to which personnel have been detailed are not of vital importance to the defence of

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2. Any member of either group shall be liable to be assigned to any

ferred from one to another of the sections thereof at the discretion of its Organiser.

3. Every member of either group, whether voluntarily enrolled or not, who obstructs or fails to comply with any such assignment or transfer or who otherwise commits a breach of these regulations, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not ex- ceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

Colation is offered in the speech IN TO-DAY'S

by His Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops before the Legislative Council on 27th July wherein it was suggested that a Tri- bunal be set up to consider claims by employers against the mobilization of members of their staffs whom they consider to be either key men in essential services or essential in other ways to business.

TO FORCE C. O. FIRST. Employers will be asked to make, in the first instance, representations to the Commanding Officer, Hong

GAZETTE

The following appointments, etc. are announced:-

Miss B. L. Wilcox to be a Nursing Sister.

Mr. H. R. Butters to act as Chair- man of the Urban Council.

Dr. G. A. C. Herklots to be a mem- ber of, the Nutrition Research Com- mittee.

Lieut. C. J. Waddell and Lieut. Kong Naval Volunteer Force and J. G. B. Dewar to be Captains in the satisfactory agreement is not reached | H.K.V.D.C.

a decision will be sought. from Tribunal.

the

Dr. J. B. Mackie to be Surgeon Lieut.-Comdr. in the H.K.N.V.F.

Dr. A. W. Dawson-Grove to be an cate-Acting Surgeon Lieutenant in the

It is therefore proposed to deal with the position under two gories-

(a) Members already mobilized... (b) Members not yet mobilized." and to offer to employers or indivi- duals an opportunity to appeal against mobilizatión. Claims will be con- sidered in priority. (a) (b)..

H.K.N.V.F.

Mr. H. R. Butters to act as Control- ler of Food.

Mr. J. H. Taggart to be Deputy Controller of Food.

Mr. J. T. Bagram resumed charge of the Thai Consulate-General.

Then came a second crash, under- neath the trawler; which threw her partly out of the water.

THIRD CRASH

Looking astern, they saw the water boiling with air bubbles, and later patches of oll appeared on the sur- face.

He informed the warships, and was told that a submarine hunt was, in

A third crash came from the stern. 'fact, in progress.--Reuter,

at the

Juno' Lang arouses the displeasure. of har sorean father, „Paul Lukak, in Hal Roäch's film production, "Captain Fury," King's Theatre.