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Air Raid Precautions

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Monday, 6th December, 1937

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The nature and risk of alr altacks Lieutenant-Commander BM. Douglas, R.N. (Retired) of His Majesty's Dockyard, Hong Kong.

Open to all members of the Public without charge The remaining lectures in this course are as undef :-

Lecture Date and Time

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2. Monday, 13th December,

1937, 5.30, p.m. :

3. Monday, 20th December.

1937, 5.30 p.m.

4. Monday, 3rd January,

1938, 5.30 p.m.

5. Monday, 10th January,

1938, 5.30 p.m.

6. Monday, 17th January,

1938, 5.30 p.m.

7. Monday, 24th January,

1938, 5.30 p.m.y

9. Monday, 31st January,

1938, 5.30 p.m.

9. Monday, 7th February,

1938, 5.30 p.m.

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Subject

Effects and characteristica of, auti measures for protection against, incendiary bombs and fire. Effects and characteristics of, and

measures for protection against. high explosive bomba, Effects and characteristics of war

graes.

Individual protection against gna."

Effects and characteristics of, and

measures for protection against mustard gas. „Protection of■ buildings against

Demonstrations of a gas proof..

room, and of the work of a decontamination squad... ́ ́General anti-gas precautions.

•HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1937.

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HONG KONG, December 4, 1937.

NEMESIS AWAITS

JAPAN

in the interior provinces there are arsenals which are working day and night to supply small arm ammunition. These depots can nover be reached by the Japanese and they know it is nseless for them to even attempt to do so. Japan can never stor thess supplies from reaching the Chinese armies, and there jo little doubt that much is comin through other avenues, both south- and west.

The Psalmist said that too king goeth to war without consi- dering the end thereof. It would appear that the Japanese militarists have done precisely the opposite and have thereby launched their country into an exhausting effort from which it will take many years, for them to recover, if indeed they can ever regain their "pre-war prosperi- ty. Nemesis, it would seem, awaits Japan in the Yangtse Valley.

AFFAIRS

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Letters To

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FOOD FOR DESTITUTE

· POPULATION"

Sir.-With the approach of Christmas and the coming of the winter months the appeals in the sweet name of Charity in the Colony are many and varied, but more urgent than the appeal for I venture to say that there is none

food-just food.

We all know of the abnormal conditions here occasioned by the war, and it is true to say that hunger will be writ large on the faces of thousands of the poorest Chinese in Hong Kong in the next few months.

It is because of this that with half the population of the Colony on this side of the harbour, I have

formed the Kowloon Winter Food Committee, and at a meeting a day or two ago it was decided that an appeal should be launched for the Kowloon Winter Food Reller Fund The Kowloon Chinese YMCA, has agreed to allow its grounds to be used as the dis- tributing centre, and a system of ticket distribution has been devis- ed so that only the poorest and most destitute Chinese will benefit from the scheme. Even then it will only apply to old people and women and sundren. It is pro- posed to issue only uncooked rice, In view of the fact that the Street Sleepers Bociety has not yet been able to and a shelter in Kowloon this year, the need for

MALAYAN REVIEW

Malayan Trade

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Malaya continues to improve the shining hour. Thanks to the substantial rise in world prices. and the greater needs of consumers. producers of tin, rubber, copra, palm oil and pineapples are enjoying better times than for a number of years, with the result that there is more employment and more money all round to spend. The Trade Commissioner's Office at Singapore reports to the Department of Overseas Trade that Malayan exports last year totalled $837,800,000: as a against $570,300,000 in 1935, while imports were valued at $503,- Malaya's Imports is our main concern, and it is of interest to note 000,000, as compared with $466,700,000. The Increasing amount of

that as far as imports from the United Kingdom are concerned, 1936 again showed an increase 'in value over 1935; which year, it has to be remembered, revealed a very appreciable advance over 1934. The United Kingdom secured a percentage share last year of 15.2 (16.15. In 1935, the Netherlands 32 (31.2), and Japan 6:4 (6.7). Although the share obtained by Japan, on a value basis, remained well below 10 per cent., Japanese cempetition continued to be a tople of dis- cussion. There is, of course, a wide margin between European and Astatic prices for manufactured goods, and it is accordingly the volume, rather than value, of the imports that measures the strength of this competition. If it be assumed that the cheap article entering into consumption displaces the like article of a superior quality. Imitations of well-known trade marks continued to give much can- cern and much additional labour to Importers of the genuine article. In the market for more specialised products, such as building mate- rials, the extensive programme of public and private works remained', a bright feature.

Ths Colonial Empire

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The fact that there is more public interest in the Colonial Em-- pire is pointed out by the Malayan Agent in his report for 1936 which. he says:-

Unquestionably there is greater public interest in the ColoniaÏ Empire at the moment than at any time since the War and it is steadily increasing. The part that Imperial co-operation has play- ed in helping to lift the British Empire out of the trade depression ahead of other nations is widely recognised. To this depression may in part be attributed the emergence of the demand for Colonial pos- sessions as a vital International problem. And the very insistence of these demands tends to focus public attention in Great Britain more and more on the Colonial Empire, quite apart from the Dominions. Developments in Empire trade, Empire communications and Empire defence are constantly in the news, and in them all Malaya has a very prominent and important place. This interest is reflected in a steady- demand for information on the the Peninsula and its peoples. As Lord De La Warr, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, said when opening the Colonial Exhibition: "This Exhibition is a algn that interest in the Colonial Empire is increasing. I hope that, by means of displays such as this, by means of films and books, and through the Press, the entire population of this country may be made- little use, though, of the imagina thoroughly conscious of, and proud of. our opportunities, our alma. tion should make this one of the

and our achievements." best supported Charities in the Colony throughout this winter.

Vicarage, Kowloon.

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Yours etc., (Rev.) J. P. HIGGS Chairman, Kowloon Winter

Food Committee.

Survey Of English History

Infantile Mortality

The alarming Increase of infant mortality in 1934 to 163 per mille- proved happily to be a transient phase as the rate during 1935 was 144 per mille and during the period under review it fell to 142 per mille, says the Adviser. Medical Services, Malay. States, in his re- port for 1930,

The infantile mortality for Malays in Perak, which during 1935 showed a marked improvement by decreasing from 182 per Endless Prelude. By Vaughan. mille in the previous year to 144 mille, in 1935, increased In 1936- Wilkins. (Routledge 10s 64) to. 182 per mille. This localised rise cannot be explained but, al- This scholarly and

ingenious though much to be regretted, is offset for the Federated Malay book provides, in the form of ex- States as a whole by a decrease in the other States so that the

tracts from contemporary docu- Agure for Malays in all the States is 140 per mille, an increase of

two only on the previous year.

ments and chronicles, a sort of survey of English history, but since it is easier, says Mr. Vaughan Wilkins, "to accustom ourselves to those strange human animals that were our ancestors if we start with the less strange first." He has ar- ranged his anthology so that we read the English atory backwards but it is thought that the general improvement in public health, in busters, not at the beginning, but bearing on it; the improved economic conditions with a consequent William-the-Conqueror-1066 | conjunction with child welfare and maternal benef!), may have some

decrease in the employment of mothers, may also be concerned.

The lowest rate recorded during the year was 123 per mille for Chinese in Perak and the next lowest rate was 120 per mille for Indians in Selangor and for Malays in Negri Sembilan. Both these rates are less than those of the previous year, having de... · clined from 128 and 131 per mille respectively; whereas the birthrate amongst Malays 13. as already stated, the highest ever recorded. No obvious explanation for this improvement can be put forward.

As the result of a single speech help is all the more urgent on this The news that is received in certain Hungarian deputy re-side of the harbour, and this Food the Colony daily indicates thatcently received no less than Committee earnestly appeals to the relentless Japanese march thirteen challenges to duels, and the public to send in donations for goes on in their effort to force a could consider himself lucky in this purpose. Such donations may quick decision, and from the asmuch as he was only compelled be sent to the Vicar. St. Andrew's plans which have been disclosed to take up arnis iù one of these, I want to make this appeal it is evident that they will strain affairs. This is. unfortunately, without being sentimental, though every nerve to capture Nanking. by no means an isolated occur-It would be easy not to do so. At this stage one may well ask:rence: for the peculiar code of After that, what ? With the honour of which it is the outcome close of every day, it becomes is still adhered to in several increasingly obvious that Madume European countries. Chiang Kai-shek was right when

Normally, of course, the native she said that with the fall of customs and traditions of a people Shanghai the war was only just must be regarded as their own beginning. Every inile that takes business, and however primitive, the Japanese forces farther from illogical, and deleterious these their base means greater diffimay appear to the world at large, culty for them because their criticism from the latter runs the lines of communication become risk of becoming impertinent. more and more extended through This matter of duelling, however, hostile country and they will as an aspect that is of more require ever-increasing forces to than local interest. It is prova garrison them. In addition 1 lent among the better educated this there is the difficulty of and more ruttured nationals of provisioning and providing troops the countries concerned-among with ammunition.

those, that is to say, who must. We have received several mes-presumably, exercise no little sages to the effect" that Shanghai | influence upon their country's is already feeling the pinch of policy. The effect of their ex- hunger, where hundreds of thou-ample and their doctrines upon sands of Chinese civilians, driven public opinión, no government out of their own defenceless can afford to ignore. homes and villages, have Hooked

If, then, these people are apt to seek shelter. They have to be in the conduct of their own clothed and fed somehow, and affairs to fight rather than to is certain that the Japanese wil arbitrate, "to pursue revenge not do it. On the other hand it rather than rectification, and to is hard to see how private ir

confound the austere figure of stitutions can do more than touch Justice with the Beauty Queen Application "has been made to the fringe of this very vital of a medieval tournament, will this Company to issue to MRS. | matter. All the farmlands neigh-they not be prone to bring the LO SIN KEE, duplicate Cer-bouring Shanghai have been same attitude to bear upon the tificate for 1,000 shares in this reduced to dust by the Japanese behavion of their country in Company numbered 345,341 to bombing and artillery fire and as other;, and more important, dis- 346,340 inclusive, upon state a result the Japanese will get no putes? ment that the original Certificate food from those districts. Their No 3302, dated 15th July, 1932,task of provisioning their own has been lost or mislaid, And troops will, therefore, be render against the foree of reason: and notice is hereby given that, if at ea extremely difficult and exin most of the countries referred the expiration of ONE MONTH pensive, for everything that the to it continues contrary to the from the date hereof, the above Japanese soldier eats must Certificate be not forthcoming the necessity be sent from Japan think, to the wishes of a majority iny, and contrary, one dares to sald Certificate will be deemed Having arrived in China these of the people. | CANCELLED

ind of NO provisions will again" have to be EFFECT, and a NEW Cersent along their lines of commu tificate for the said shares will be nications and the trouble this will issued in Its stead by the Com entail cannot be too strongly pany.

emphasised.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB..

The Twelfth Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY 011 Saturday, 4th December, 1937, commencing at 2.00 p.m.

The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 29th Nov., 1937.

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ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY, (Middle School for Chinese Boys)

The New Term begins Decem. ber 13th. Entrance Examination for new Students at Stanley on Saturday, Dec. 11th, at 9 a.m. (No. 6 bus leaves Vehicular Ferry at 8 a.m., 8.30 a.m., etc.) For prospectus, for day-boys and boarders,

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Apply to Fung Man Sui Esq. or Chan Pak Lisk Esq., Messrs. H. Wicking, Prince's Building, (Tel. 30241) or to the College,

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY.

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HONG KONG ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

B. ALVES,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 18th, Nov., 1937.

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occupation at moderate rentals, conveniences. The new Preparatory School Modern

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MATERIAL SUPPORT. FROM SOVIET FOR CHINA

Hankow, Dec. 3. A Moscow report stated to-day that a" government spokesman admitted to foreign correspon-

The Chinese managed success- fully to delay the Japanese ad- vance for three months, and now, with long lines of communi- cation to be guarded by the Japanese, comes the much-dents that the Soviet for the sake, awaited opportunity of guerilla of justice and sanctity of treatles warfare on the part of the will give material support to Chinese sudden, sharp attacks China, in her war and withdrawals, by an enter. prising force, never leaving the enemy in peace. keeping him guessing where the next attack will be launched.

It is clear that China will be 5718' able to get arms, despite the re.

and

"FAT ITALIAN”

At every turn Mussolini is being curbed by Hitler.

near the end.

You may open the book at any page and be assured of good enter- tainment;

read but if you

It straight through from Page 1 to the end you will probably discover that the experience has all the qualities of a nightmare. In choosing his extracts, Mr. Vaughan. Wilkins appears to have indulged" The Fuehrer is delighted at the a sardonic and grotesque sense of humour; they are haphazard, dis- connected and startling, so that, as you go wandering like a man in a dream down the endless cor-

sions of pestortica see facts and stranger personalities seem to jump out at you from dark comers, say Boo, and disappear.

You soon cease to be surprised by anything (but is one ever, sur-

prised in dreams?); kings and clowns, princes and philosophers, parade fantastically before you,

with Lucian's description of man-

and by the time you have reached the end you are inclined to agree

kind, O stulti, quaenam hace, est amentia?... Insane-studia, in- sane labores O fools, O madmen. idiots, asses, mad endeavours, mad actions, mad, mad mad:—“Dally Telegraph and Morning Post."

JARROW STEEL PRODUCTION

London, Dec. 3.

The actual production of steel at the new metal Industries at Jarrow, one of towns which suffer- of resistance,

ed the most owing to the de- so that she may emerge victorious,

pression, will start on Monday with The авте report added that a plant valued at £100,000. Half. Soviet arms could reach China in the capital for new industry has four daya "for the use of the been provided through the Numeld heroic Chinese defenders," and Trust and there is a stipulation predicted that it would not be that 95 per cent of the men em- dimcult for them to defeat the ployed at Jarrow must be recruited Japanese forces-

locally, International News Agency,

British Wireless.

impression created among British partisans of the Duke of Windsor by the hospitality lavished on him and his Duchess by the Nazis.

The pro-German Marquess of Londonderry's election to the Chairmanship of the Conservative Party Conference is another source of jubilation at Berchtesgarder.

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Even the fabulously rich · Aga Khan, spiritual head of millions of Moslems in India and Africa, has voted for Anglo-German friendship. Said he: "I.am con- vinced that Germany is a firm pillar of world peace." The Aga Khan is this year's President of the League of Nations'' Council and is eager to go down in his tory as the man who brought Germany back to Geneva, restored Italy's active membership and re- started disarmament talk

GERMAN WOMEN'S CLUB FAIR

The German Women's Associa- tion is holding its-annual Charity- Christmas Fair in the premises of the German Club, 2 Connaught. Road Central, to-morrow at 4 pin..

A large assortment of selected artistic and practical German articles, suitable for Christmas presents and other purposes will be on sale at moderate prices. There will also be on sale a large- number of modern wooden and glassware articles, as well as a collection of assorted toys.

A special tea lounge will be oper during the Fair.

CAR DRIVER FINED

John Poon, driver of car No. 3840, which met with an accident in Queen's Road West on Novem-- ber 3 involving the death of A. child, was fined $20 on each count by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the- Adolf Hitler is making all pos- Central Court yesterday for failing- sible capital out of his alliance to maintain his vehicle in proper with Mussolini. But he does not condition and driving it with in- want to suffer any of its possible efficient brakes. He was found not consequences in Great Britain.guilty on the charge of driving- So he is urging caution on L Duce: without due care and cantion.

McInnes Bgt. T.

prosecuted, Berliners Well-informed still gloating over a remark made

while Mr. F. L. Zimmern was for the defence. by Hitler during a lunch at which Nazi chieftains were debating the receptions to be given to Mussolini. on his recent visit to Berlin and Munich.

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DANGER TO NAVIGATION A report has been made to the For a few minutes the Fuchrer Harbour Office by, the Master of munched contentedly at an apple, the Agamemnon that a water- then sighed and remarked:, "I | logged junk in Latitude 21 degrees: would much rather meet the King 29 mins. North, Longitude 114 de- of England than the fat Italian.”...... grees 12′ mins. East, is considered:

dangerous to navigation. "News Review,"