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ALLIED WORKERS AND HITLER

London, To-day.

RADIO OFFENSIVE

Yesterday they turned on loud speakers from the front lines

sol-

Paris, To-day.. The Nazis are going full A united front of British and blast with propaganda out-

the French Labour is bespoken by

bursts from the German Trade decision to, establish a joint

the trenches on the western Union Committee representing Confederation Generale Travall, and front. the Trade Union Congress. *.

will consist of The Committee seven members from each country and will sit each month in and Paris alternately.

The British Trade Union leader, in Tele- an interview with the "Daily

the decisión graph," declared that means that the British and French working class organizations present a united front against Hitlerism, which is a negation of all that the unfettered trade unionism of the two democra- cies upholds.

London

of the two The labour leaders countries will keep in constant touch on methods of prosecuting the war, virtually in the same way as the poli- tical and military leaders pooled their aims, resources and tactics.-Reuter.

MARKING OF H.K. CHANNELS

Mariners are notified that Light Buoys exhibiting a flashing light every 10 seconds, and Unlighted Buoys carrying red flags have been laid to mark the limits prohibited areas in

Lantau Channel and

the

the

of north West

Mine Bay

Lamma Channel and the Southern

approach to Silver

(Lantau).

Mrs.

The reaction of the French diers opposite consisted of heavy" bursts of machine-gun fire, followed by the shout: "Now perhaps you'll understand that we're not interested." -Reuter.

NEIGHBOURS INTERVENE

Timely interference by neighbours armed with prevented three men daggers from robbing the inmates of No. 44, Ewo Street, Shaukiwan to- day.

The neighbours who saw the men force their way into the premises, and shouted blew police whistles "Thieves, Thieves!".

The men made a hasty retreat and escaped.

HOW THE CRACKER FACTORIES SURVIVE Some 2,927 permits to fire crackers at wedding ceremonies were issued by Affairs the Secretariat for Chinese last year/

the departure of

The total number of permits, issued Owing to Grasett from the Colony, Lady Mac-was 3,772, of which 57 were for thea- gregor has kindly consented to pre-trical performances. sent the prize at the American Tennis Tournament on Sunday in aid of the and shop-openings, 24 for religious British War Organization Fund.

The remainder were for birthdays

ceremonies and seven for processions.

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A memorandum issued in con- nection with the application '...- of Essential Commodities Or- dinance to rice," says:

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No person will be permitted to import rice into the Colony-un- less in possession of a licence to do so from the Food Controller. to be held The total stock

cwt. will be 200.000 bags of 2 each, Applications will be invit- to ed from persons who desire be licensed as importers and each will be asked the maximum quantity he wishes to be authoriz- ed to import. These maximum quantities will be aggregated with an addition of 10 per cent. allow for applicants not taking up their licences and other con- The total stock of tingencies.

be allocated 200.000' bags will among the applicants prodor- tionately to the amounts which they have applied to be authoriz- ed to import.

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Applications will only be ac- cepted if the applicant appears to have some genuine interest in the rice trade or intends to enter the trade other than for purely speculative nurnoses.

Each holder of minimum stock will receive payment from a cen- tral fund at the rate of 12 cents The cen- per picul per month. 'tral fund will be provided from

a levy on all

imports of rice, which will be fixed initially at 12 cents per picul although it is hoped that this will yield some margin and that the rate of levy can be reduced in subsequent periods.

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The Food Controller may at his discretion permit any licensed im- porter to import a quantity in ex- cess of the quantity originally au- thorised provided that such addi- tional imports shall pay an extra levy of 12 cents per picul in addition to the ordinary levy. The Food Controller

may also authorise at any time a propor- tionate increase in the amounts authorised to be imported by all licensed importers if the demand appears to necessitate -such in- crease, and in the event of such a general proportionate increase no additional levy will be pay- able.

INITIATION. OF SCHEME Licences will be issued in the first place for a period of six months. Licensed importers will be required to acquire their stocks within a period of 14 days and in order to enable them to do so Government would transfer to them from its own stocks what- ever quantities might be rem quired at prices for the various grades based on the average price prevailing during the mouth of November.

All stocks will be held in go- dowris registered by the Food Controller.

Government will compensate for any damage or loss of stocks as a. result of enemy úction.

Government obtained informal- ly from the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank an assurance that advances will be made up to 70% of the value of stock held under · the scheme, subject to the usual conditions as to deposit of docu- ments with the Bank.

The Daylight Saving Bill was given its first reading in Législa- The tive Council this afternoon. proposal to carry the Rill through all stages was not proceeded with.

Kunming, To-day....

An air service batween Chung- king and Rangoon is commencing

Reuter. on October 30.

Kunming, To-day. The Governor, General Lung, is showing personal concern over the local food situation. Yester day he ordered the Reconstruc- tion Bureau and other organisa- tions to form a Co-operative Consumers' Society in order to maintain the supply of daily necessities. Reuter.

Firing was audible last night and early this morning from Chinese territory opposite Lok Ma Chau and Lo Wu. It is be- lieved that bands of guerillas at- tacked the Japanese outposts.

A. Brooksbank won the lawn bowls championship of Hong Kong Football Club:-'yesterday when he beat E. C. Tuck in the final by 21-20.

Victor Shamraeff, charged with manslaughter, was found Not Guilty at the Criminal Sessions this afternoon and discharged.

H.K. EMIGRANTS

The number of women and children emigrants last year was 42,753 as com- pared with 88,539 in 1937, according to the annual report of the Secretary for Chinese affairs.

The number of assisted emigrants was 1,466 as compared with 7,564 In the previous year.

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