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Hong Kong, and should be filled in and returned, as indicated in Tender Form not later than doon on Friday, 24th June, 1938.

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PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 20th day of June, 1938, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Or der of His Excellency the Gov. ernor of one Lot of Crown Land at Argyle Street, in the Colony 1 term of Hong Kong for of 75 years with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of Hir Majesty the KING, for one for. ther term of 75 years.

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis- posal of the lot the "Purchaser (if not the applicant). Will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refund. ed on payment of the purchase

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PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 20th day of June, 1938, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Repulse Night Editor (Wanchai Office): Bay Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years with the option of renewal at Crown Rent to be fixed by the PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.

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Kowloon Inidad! -

Lot No.

Registry No.

4029.

Locality.

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sposal of the lot the purchaser (if not the applicant), "will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be pre sent at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the purchase price.

PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 20th day of June, 1938, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order. of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Argyle Street, in the Colony of, Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for on further term of 75 years. "Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant), will be required to deposit with an

Boundary

Messure-

Tel. 24511.

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HONG KONG, JUNE 17, 1938.

JAPAN AND WORLD OPINION

TOLERANCE is one of the virtues To democradle rule. Yet, at the same time.. it is one of its

weaknesses.

of

EDITORIAL

MODEL AEROPLANE CLUB

The Hong Kong Model, Aeroplane Club is expanding its activities. Instead of just a discussion group. as it has been since the formation of the club nearly a year ago, t is to be reconstituted in a proper manner and is to have a committee to take care of its affairs.

At the fortnightly meeting held yesterday, elaborate schemes were proposed to maintain the en- thusiasm of members. Mr, F. S. Austin, the founder of the club has written to Z.B.W. In the hope that announcements will be made regarding test flights.

The club is to have its annual competition sometime next Janu- ary. It is suggested that only aeroplanes of no less - than aix

MORE BOMBS ON CANTON

Missiles Dropped Near School

scen

And Hospital

Canton, June 16.

FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1938.

JAPÄN AND HER PRISONERS

OF WAR

"AN HONOURABLE USAGE ABANDONED

art-

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE captured peasants or coolles

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN) really soldiers being simply R. Sir The present confict informal excuse for shooting them. China naturally invites comparison out of hand

the

Only very fortunate chance pre.with the Great War. It is spread In the "China Press" of Shang- vented serious loan of life last night over an even wider area, and though hal in the latter part of April, there in the vicinity of St. Hilda's School, the number of combatants engaged appeared a long article on as six bombs fell within a very narrow The missiles Earrowly missed Dr. Scheyer's German Hospital, Sun Yat- sen University and Holy Trinity College

Several of these premises had their walls cracked and windows broken, while a Chinese temple in the vicinity collapsed on the occupants, who were fortunately shaltering in a bowe-made dugout and escaped uninjured.

All six bomba fell so close to each other that it seems they were released

-from one plane

the is smaller the populations of the great Aght that raged round Warring countries show less dis- Talerchwang, a struggle that the contrasts are writer compared (a Httle pre- parity. But greater than the likenesses, and in maturely in view of the subsequent no respect are these so remarkable result) with the battle of Tannen- as in the numbers of prisoners of berg. In the course of his descrip- writer war.

tion of the fighting the In the Great War. enormous says:

The morning of April 7 saw the though the casualties were, it was usual for men to accept capture Chinese forces turther closing in rather than massacre and the and intensifying their onslaught. number of prisoners was very The main body of the Japanese

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ounces and 200 square inches be together afield, bombs fell on well great. So far in the Sino-Japan- | Itagaki and Isogal divisions

allowed. A handsome prize, a sum of $40, will be awarded to the win- ner. The competition is open for members of the club, but at the same time another competition will also be organised for non-members.

FEAST OF CORPUS

CHRISTI

to-do residences in the suburbs beyond Central Park, destroying houses and apartment buildings.

Casualties in all cases were pro videntially slight, owing to the recent large-scale evacuations,

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A DIRECT HIT

behind

Was

were

nf

were

Já. left Ofu

ese war we have heard nothing of terribly crushed. Between 5,000 the taking of prisoners or of their and 6,000 Japanese corpses disposal, and, though this has been found on the battlefield.

Зетега! thousands remarked upon once or twice. It has not received the attention that ĺpanese wounded

by their medical it deserves.

There is a synthetic tradition cers, who had previously Ca In the course of last night's raids, two bombs dropped in the compound that the Japanese are such gluted. Lying in pook of blood and pain, these enemy of St. Hilda's Girls School, the pro-tons for glory that they are never groaning for

true. wounded were absolutely helpless. the Church Missionary taken prisoner. Few. it is perty of Society.

were taken in the war with Russia, Their sad plight was indeed be- but this was due mainly to their yond description. tactics being careful rather than Whereupon the Chinese Army has medical units, true to the spirit dashing-a principle which

of humanitarianism, rescued them, much to commend it.

There were one ..or two gave them first-all treatment, and revealing glimpses at Shang- later sent them to Chinese feld hai in 1932, however. The hospitals, although the latter were 19th Route Army fought so stub- already 'crowded by Chinese wound- bornly that it did much to dispelled soldiers.

11- Also legend of Japanese the vincibility. One day there was an were unmistakable Japanese retreat, and ber

One building suffered a direct hit, being totally demolished, and others were seriously damaged.

Fortanately there were no cauaual. ties, as the school had been previously evacuated, being in the danger zone.

Almost all school and universities in Canton have now emptied, and Ling Nam University, which previous- ly housed 500 students, now contains. a mere 60.-(Reuter)

од

the battlefeld found a large mum- of Japanese soldiers who

CATHOLICS PRAY FOR CESSATION OF WAR "The Feast of Corpus Christi was celebrated at the St. Mary's Girls' School, Austin Road; yesterday with an open air service followed by a procession.

Father Granelli, Rector of St. Teresa's Church, led the service and a

sermon was delivered by

SCHOOL SUFFERS Father De Angelis, the subject be-

Canton, June 16, ing The Love of Jesus."

Several houses owned by for- Father De Angelis asked the as-cigners in Pa Rze Road, Tungshana Major Kuga was wounded in the had been reduced to such straits "sembly to pray for the cessation of were bombed this morning. Tung head and deserted by his men, of starvation that they could hard- hostilities in the present war say, Ping Road, near Pah. Tsże Road, The Chinese picked up the major.ly move. They were made captives, ing. "We know that mothers and was also bombed in the small attended to him in the Geld hos-and were given food by the Chi children are being butchered and hours of this morning..

pital, and sent him on to Nanking.nese.

MILITARY HONOUR slaughtered day by day and we

Two bombs landed on the play where they nursed him back to

Naturally but Ettle news of this can help little in any other way ground of St. Hilda's Girls' School health. and then handed him back but by prayer."

in Ta Tung Road. an institution to the enemy! But the major had sort gets through. There is good

for dimming to atone

the reason to belleve, however, run by the Church Missionary Bo- clety of London. One buildinglory of the legend. He was sent while the Japanese treat the Chi- to the place where he had been nese with no humanity whatever, captured, with orders to blow out but slaughter them without giving, his brains there, and an orderly them a chance to surrender-02 was sent with him to see that he even after they have surrendered, did it.

--the Chinese in the present war. He left behind a letter say-as in 1932, have shown a much ing that he hoped that his young higher standard of military hon-" wife (who was expecting a baby) our. The incident at Amoy, which would be treated with considera- the Japanese hare denied with so on History does not say whe- much self-righteousness, has been hundreds of times. ther she was. Such is the ruthless-repeated

with which

made 4 tradition, Where the Chinese havë originally fabulous. is supported. captives they have, in spite of the

JAPANESE PLANES BOMB

SINYANG

Singang. Honan, June 18.

A squadron of nine Japanese planes staged an air raid over Sinyang, 302 kilometres south of Chengchow on the Pelping-Hankow Railway, yesterday.

;

Chinese anti-aircraft batteries went into action, and drove the Invaders away.

A fleet of nine other Japanese aircraft in the meantime. bombed Slangyang on the Han River, in north Hupeh.-(Central News);

FRENCH ENVOY

PLANS SECOND

HANKOW VISIT

Hankow, June 16. Before taking off for Hong Kong by plane this morning, M. Paul Emile Nagglar, French Ambassador to China, said that he hoped to make a second- visit to Hankow in the near future.--(Central News).

For, by this very tolerance, un- desirable elements, which should be crushed immediately they are detected, are allowed to grow until they threaten the very existence of PARTICULARS OF THE LOT democracy. Only then is action-- but very effective action- taken to stamp them out.

Such

instance an

this Is tolerance provided by the passive attitude adopted up to the present by the democratic coun- tries in regard to Japan's vicious and unjustified invasion of China. But at last the people of the peace-loving nations are truly aroused by the atrocities being States

¡No. of Bala

***** Karal Building

Registry

Locality.

Lot No. 410.

Repulse Bay

Hoad.

menis.

8. K..

Ax per

sair plan

Cholera

Contents in

Square feet.

Annual

A boat

50,650

650

* | Upset Price.

Epidemic

In India

"

11,330

and a kitchen were demolished.-

Our Own Correspondent).

CHINA'S NOTE ISSUE AND":

RESERVE

Hankow, June 16. The total amount of notes issued by the four Government Central banks, namely, the Bank of China, the Bank of

of China,

the Bank Com- munications and the Farners Bank of China, up to May 29 was $305,322,789, according to a report. Issued today by the Currency Reserve Commission.

The total reserves against the note issue were $1,705,326, 789, of which $1.113,852,382.54 were cash reserves and $391. 470,606.46 security (Central News).

..

reserves.

ESCALATION

But the citizens of the United DISCUSSIONS

are incensed not only by

perpetrated by the Japanese in the Canton bombings but als by PROCEEDING

their unwarranted attempt to sub- jugate China to the rule of the Island Empire and are demanding that action be taken to stop the 6063 wanton destruction and slaughter now being carried on by the in- vaders.

Simla, June 15.

authorised officer who will be! The cholera epidemic in India

*

MONSTER poster parades, headed by influential citizens have been held in London, insisting on boycotts of Japanese goods and Iwar supplies for Japan.

In the House of Commons, per- itinent questions have been asked about the situation in China, in- dicating the live in- PERTINENT terest being taken QUESTIONS

J the actions of the DRUGS AS Japanese in fostering WELL AS the spread of nar. BOMBS

London, June 15. Asked in the House of Commons

"

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TOO MANY WITNESSES

2

that

strategical disadvantages of show- ing humanity to an invader, acted If the question were put to a in A civilised manner. There Japanese whether 1 was because things should not be forgotten.-- the Chinese were similarly valor-Yours, etc..

A. MORGAN YOUNG. ous that they too were never taken

he would laugh sar- Oxford, May 9. I'prisoner

donically and say that it was rather because their discre- tion never permitted them be taken, but there are too many witnesses to the shooting in cold blood of hundreds of prisoners at a time, many of them civilians, for that explanation to be acceptable

Japan's even to

most undis- criminating friends.

to

A frequent feature of Japanese

reports is that great trouble has

U.S. Exports

Of Copper

To Japan

been caused by Chinese soldiers HIGHEST FIGURE

"disguising themselves as ordinary

peasants," the supposition that

cotics in China and whether His Majesty's Govern- JAPANESE

Manchuria.

ment had reached any

At the meeting of the Oplum ment with the Government of Advisory Committee of the League the United States on the size of

of Nations this week. Mr. Stuart J. Fuller. Assistant Chief Secretary of the Far Eastern Division of the

rattleships and heavy guns, the Prime Minister said that escalation. discussions were still proceeding

US. Department of State, declared and, pending their conclusion. it

LANDING

OF ESSENTIAL

WAR MATERIAL

Washington, June 15.

The reseatment of peace ur- ranisations which recently made

REPULSED representations to the State De-

Kweichih, June 16. Chienklangkow on the

north

that illicit opium trafie was four-was not possible to. make any bank of the Yangtze River below thing, in those regions of China statement.. now under Japanese control.

Mr. Fuller demanded that the committee request an immediate explanation from Japan as to the wes to which 460,000 lbs of opium by Britons in from Iran consigned to the Jap China's struggle" for anese army, will be put. the right to develop without Inter-

Ji

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The question of whether any efforts had been made to secure Japan's agreement not to exceed those maxima figures did not, therefore, at present arise although His Majesty's Government would naturally bear in mind that part!- cular aspect of the matter.--(Brl-

present at the sale, the sum of is assuming serious proportions. two hundred dollars, ($200) In During the last ten weeks, 25,000 ference and their determination OTHER Illustrations of the intentish Wireles). cash. This sum will be refunded] cases have been reported in the that nothing shall be done to sity of world feeling against on payment of the Purchase United Provinces, of which 12,000 hinder her.

price.

No. of Bale.

Begistry No.1

Locality.

Boundary

Mosaure

ments.

Contents i

Rental.

** (* Unset Price.

were fatal

1

The

partment against American aid for Japanese war machines mounted today in the light of latest figures showing the United States exports

Anking was retaken by the Chi-of copper during April.

A total weight of 78,000,000 lbs. nese yesterday, in # counter-

was exported, of which approxi- attnek.

Further attempts by Japanese to mately 32,000,000 went to Japan, Ito Germany $2,000,000 represents and at Kweichin and Wushacha, 14.000,000 to Britain and 5,000,000 were frustrated by Chinese re- the higheat Agure yet of this ce-

23 kilometres west, during the day

sistarice.(Central News).

JJ.

sentialwar material.-(Reuter).

CRICKET LÜNCH SCORES

Loddon, June 18. Lunch scores of cricket matches

Essex 171 for 7; Somerset 290. Gentlemen of England 131 for 6: Australians 397.

Glamorgan 89 for 3; Yorkshire-

REV. G.L. RUSSELL Japán are provided by the barining That Japan is concerned by the For the export of fron ore from Aus-

The Joint Committee of the CANADIAN ACTS Other parts of the country are world-wide feeling of revulston tralia to Japan, the demand by the

Church of England Advisory Board PARTICULARS OF THE LOT affected to a lesser extent. Cases against her is evidenced by the Workers' Group of the Internation-

UNCONSTITUTIONAL

for Mora! Welfare Work and the by Labour Office at Geneva that all i have also been reported from statement made in Tokyo

Ottawa, June 16. White Cross League has appoint-played today are as follows' Afghanistan, but an early mon Colonel Elchi Tatsumi. Japanese governments implement the League

Caradian Premier, Mared the Rev. G. L. Russell MB., soon is expected to check the military attache in London. that resolutions on aid to China, and spread of the epidemic.—(Reuter). British popular feeling towards by the largely-attended meeting of McKenzie King, stated today that Ch.B., to work on behalf of the Japan was much worse now than protest held in Hong Kong last two more acts passed by the committee in the dioceses and to lecture in theological colleges, Alberta Government had been de- at the time of the Manchurian evening.

training

medical 343, colleges and the ∙But now that the democratic clared unconstitutional. invasion.

schools on moral welfare work Gloucestershire 209; Middlesex Colonel Tatsumi added that the

nations have come to The acts in question undercurrent of American public PROTESTS realise the threat by Owners Becurity Act and the

302 for £

coinlon was no better than the NOT

Japan to world Securities Tax Act-(Reuter), British feeling.

ENOUGH

peace. protesta arc not ennugh. Definite action must be taken to, up on the main land at the mouth IN FACT, in the United States

Caught by the police while cutting Sentence of six months' imprison condemnation of the bombing curb the Japanese militarists.

down a honch of a tree at Pokfulamment was imposed on Li Kuen by Mr. Most of the Japanese warships of Canton has been so strong that Supplies of war materials Road, Ng Yak was yesterday fined Butter at the Central Court yeter now an entry to this effect will be Japan must be stopped and China $250, in default, three months impri- day when he pleaded guilty to the off the coast here have 6062 steamed away, leaving only one placed on the Imperishable Con- must be given technical and Anan-sonment by Mr. Butters at the Central theft of a hand bag from a woman,

cial assistance,

Court yesterday.

Lam Wo-yiu. vessel behind (Central News), gressional Records:

Kowloon Inland Lot

No. 4023.

Argyle Street.

As per

sale plain

About

45,000

919

33,760

FUKIEN COAST

SHELLED

"Foochow, June 16.

A lone Japanese warship opened

of the Min River on June 14.7

:

Are the

among men and boys. Mr. Rus

sell was formerly a medical mis- sionary in China:

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TH

Hampshire 314; Derby 268 for 5. Kent 428; Worcestershire 128 for

Oxford University 368; Lanca- shire 238 for 2.

Surrey 512 for 8 declared Cam- arise. University 114 for 4

Bussex 296 Nottinghamshire 155.

-(Reuter),