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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 1, 1940 ́ ́

SIR DAVID`OWEN SAILING NEXT MONTH

FAMOUS HARBOUR EXPERT COMING TO FRENCHMEN HONG KONG

DETAINED IN BRITAIN

Replying in the Commons yesterday to a question on re- patriation problems, Mr. R. A. Butler, Un- der-Secretary for For- eign Affairs, stated that with the excep- tion of certain per- sons whom it was ne- cessary to detain for the time being, French citizens wish- ing to leave the Unit- ed Kingdom received the same facilities as nationals of neutral states.

He was satisfied there were facilities for British subject's to return

to

the United Kingdom from France and for French subjects here to return to France.- Reuter.

AUSTRALIA EFFORT

Australia's war effort shows ♫ big step-up on that of the last. war, says a "Canberra message.

Enlistments for the army, navy and air force up to June 3 were

SIR DAVID OWEN, Chairman of the Mer-

First Canadian destroyers with baseball bats on board.

chant Shipping Reserve Advisory Committee SHIPPING (Board of Trade), has accepted an invitation WARRANTS from the Government of Hong Kong to visit

arrive in Britain. Men of R.C.N.

(Copyright, Fox),

PACIFIC AIR SERVICE

The Commonwealth Air Minis- ter, Mr. Fairbairn, announced yes- terday that linking with the Pan- FURTHER DETAILS OF THE American Clipper service from ANNOUNCED IN fthe United States, a special plane

PARLIAMENT ON .TUESDAY

the colony for the purpose of advising upon SYSTEM the future administration of the port.

OF ISSUING WARRANTS TO will leave Auckland to-day

Tasmania.

NON-BRITISH SHIPPING COM-

LONDON YESTERDAY.

In the future it will be neces-

Sir David will be accompanied by Mr.PANIES WERE GIVEN IN Duncan Kennedy, member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, as engineering adviser, and ping company to enter an under- expects to sail for the Far East in September.

will be to:

for

This step is being taken pending receipt of the British Govern- ment's reply to certain proposals put forward at a conference of

Reuter.

SOVIET PROTEST TO U.S.A.

sary for every non-British ship-| New Zealand representatives.- taking always to employ navicerts. Any company which does not do world- so will not receive the Sir David's terms of reference, Board, Liverpool, for 13 years, as wide services such as bunkering Insurance which Investigate the whole question of well as manager to Goole docks facilities and

The Soviet has protested to the harbour facilities in Hong Kongtary to the Belfast Harbour Com-

and general manager and secre- only Britain can offer.

Ships of offending lines enter-United States against President Organisation of the administra-missioners.

freezing the He was

ing British ports may find great Roosevelt's order later tion at Hong Kong, having regard eral

gen-

difficulty in obtaining even water, credits of Esthonia and Latvia, it manager to the Port of to the existing system of pier-London Authority.

apart from other supplies.

was revealed by Mr. Sumner lenses which are due to expire in;

The object of the warrant sys-Welles in Washington yesterday. ten years time, and

several books tem is to deter neutral shipping| No reply has been made- by harbours of from trying to enter the blockade the United States Government.—

Reuter. 'running business.-Reuter.

He has written [on the docks and In the light of physical, econo-the United Kingdom.-Reuter. mic and political conditions to

make recommendations for mea-000 sures by which the port could in future be developed and controll- ed to the best advantage of all persons and interests dependent, on its services.

Sir David Owen, in addition to being Chairman of the Merchant Shipping Reserve Ad- visory Committee, is Chairman of the Anglesey and Caernar vonshire Agricultural Wages Committee and member of the Central Advisory Water Com - mittee.

He was in the service of the Mersey

Docks and Harbour

PROMOTING EXPORTS

| 122,000—that is, an increase of British Overseas Cottons Limit- 26,000 over the figures for the first ed, registered as a private com- ten months of the last war.

pany with a nominal capital,

These figures do not include the whose function is to assist the 15,000 men who volunteered for Cotton Board' in promotion of the the A.I.F. but were retained in export trade, is to have made munition work and other reserv-available about £300,000 in a full ed occupations.

year which is a sum correspond-

The total number-of men under ing to the proceeds of the levy arms in the A.I.F. and home de- of fivepence per 100 pounds of fence forces on June 30 was raw cotton Imposed by the Board 185,000. There are now over five of Trade as from to-day. times as many munition workers The Company will be in a post- employed as at any time in the tion to make a number of ex-

last war-Reuter.

RICE SUPPLIES FOR SHANGHAI

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") The Greek steamer Hellenic

periments in organising production of particular cloths through separate sections of the cotton in- dustry, mainly spinning, weaving and finishing and in the sale of such cloths through normal chan-| nels of trade to importers over-

seas.

Trader has started to unload 25,- Complete reliability in regard 000 bags of rice brought to to production and delivery of the

Shanghai from Saigon.

Company's cloths will be assured This consignment represents through the co-operation of the the largest quantity shipped to Cotton Controller and the Cotton Shanghal since the beginning of Board. This advantage, together the Sino-Japanese war in 1937. with economies from the cen- Unloading operations are tak-tralised production arrangements, ing place under strict police supervision, in order to prevent sist materially in solution of the should enable the company to as- looting and disorder.-Havas.

difficulties of the export trade in cases where they are so acute that they cannot be overcome by independent-firms or by the pri- vate export syndicates now be "We like to put a stop to per- ing organised by the Cotton sons trespassing on Military areas Board. British Wireless.

TRESPASSING

· IN BARRACKS

nowadays," said Det.-Sgt. Bethell NATIONAL WAR

to Mr. E. Himsworth ut Kowloon this morning when Wong Yuen, 27, unemployed, was charged with trespassing in Whitfield Barracks yesterday.

BONDS

The total subscribed to the 21⁄2 per cent. National War Bonds £132,000,000 ́on Accused was found inside the reached nearly Barracks by Driver Saray Abbas, July 30. Subscriptions for of the Mule Corps, who handed week ending that date him over to the police.

A fine of $5, or two weeks' hard labour; was imposed. --

the were

£10,424,410 and during the same week the Treasury totalled £638,732 bringing the amount-80 received up to £18,513,316.- British Wireless.

Sergeant-Major Tulfort, of the Royal Scots Regiment, has report ed that he picked up a three- Mr. MacDonald, of "No,' 127, months old baby on the hillside Boundary Street, has reported in New Aberdeen Road, while the theft, of a wrist watch and taking a walk yesterday morn-ja_fountain pen to the value off ing The baby is now in the}$182, from his residence... some Queen Mary Kospital.

umo yesterday,

SUMMER SALE

PROCEEDING

SPECIAL BÁRGAINS IN MEN'S SPORTS SHIRTS

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SIZES 34” TO 44”. $2.00 each

“BUCKTA” INTERLOCK IN GREY, MAROON, NAVY, GREEN, LIGHT BLUE, AND CANARY.

SIZES 34" TO 46". $3.00 each

“MORLEY'S” LIGHT-WEIGHT COTTON IN PALE GREEN AND FAWN.

SIZES 34" TO 42". $4.00 each,

“COOPER'S“ ART SILK IN FAWN, GREEN, BLUE AND WHITE.

ALL SIZES. $4.00 each

ALL AERTEX CELLULAR

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