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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
PEOPLE'S POLITICAL COUNCIL
AT CHUNGKING CONCLUDED
Glowing Tribute Paid To Leadership Of Generalissimo
Chungking, November 7.
After a ten-day meeting, the second plenary session of the Peo- ple's Political Council was formally adjourned yesterday afternoon. A spirit of harmony and co-operation permeated throughout the session. at which a large number of "resolutions of great import were discuss- ed.
As Mr. Wang Ching-wei, Chairman of the Council, wound up the session with an eloquent address pledging unwavering determination to fight on for "China's independence and world peace and justice, he was vociferously cheered.
Mr. Wang in his address paid a Powers would continue their as- glowing tribute to the leadership of sistance in a common struggle for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek world peace,
and
and expressed the thanks
Mr. Chang I-in, the oldest mem- gratitude of the entire Council to ber of the Council, also delivered
the soldiers at the front.
a short address. He stressed the The Pious friendly Powers, importance of unity and coherence which had rendered help and as among the entire people, whose sistance to China during her hours one Important slogan at the pre- of trial, were also mentioned by sent time should be "China" Over Mt. Wang. He hoped that these All"
NAVY MAN'S
BRAVE DEED
SIMPLE CEREMONY..
The closing ceremony, simple and impressive, was attended by more than 100 members of the Council, as well as a large number of high Government
TRIBUTE, TO PRIME MINISTER
Montreux, Nov. 7
An address of grateful homage to Mr. Neville Chamberlain from the citizens of Geneva for having saved the peace of Europe, has
been handed to the British Minis- ter at Berne, to be passed on to the Prime Minister.
CABLES
SESSION
CAROL ANXIOUS FOR
SETTLEMENT
Budapest Nov. 7. King Carol 13 particularly anxious to settle the" uncertain political situation
Rumanis before he visits England on Novem-.. ber 15, according to persistent re- ports. Otherwise, he will not be able to come to grips with politics
before December 1;
Many quarters are urging the formation of a Government "Na- tional Union, which, it is thought. would be specially useful when the various minorities are demanding greater freedom.
The address, embossed in "the coat of arms of Geneva, is written in both English and French, and signed by thousands of people of A cry for special treatment was all religions, conditions and age.-voiced recently by the German Reuter.
"Saxons" of Transylvania.-Reuter.
America's Verdict On
New Deal Of Roosevelt: 40,000,000 Going To Polls
New York. November 7.
Some 40,000,000 voters will go to the polls to-morrow to give America's verdict on the New Deal of President Roosevelt.
The entire membership of the House of Representatives, one third of the Senate, and the Governors and members of local legis- latures in 33 out of 48 States are to be elected.
Election excltement has reached fever-heat, especially in New York
RECOGNISED officials, including Dr. H. H. NEWS FROM THE State where the outcome of the
Kung, Mr. Ya Yu-jon. Mr. Chu, Cheng and Mr. Yeh Chu-isang. Earlier in the morning, a large
Gift Presented Bynumber of resolutions were passed
S.M. Police
The Commissioner of the Shanghai Municipal Police, Major K. M. Bourne, made a presentation of a silver tea- service last week to Mr. F. J. Anderson, attached to the Bri- tish Naval Office in Shanghai, in recognition of his gallantry and public spirit in apprehend- ing ad armed 2354ssin in Avenue Road near Ferry Road on Last July 25,
The presentation took place at
at a full session and referred to the Government for reference or execution.
To attend to various affairs of the Council when it is, not in rull! ression, a standing committee of 25, headed by Mr. Chow Ping-linj and Mr. Kung Keng... was elected. The members.of the committee will. remain In Chungking. --Central News.
S. M. P. Headquarters, Foochow TO BE RESTORED
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SPANISH WAR FRONTS
Rebels Continue Offensive
SITUATION ON EBRO FRONT
Salamanca, Nov, 7.
A communique issued by the
election is regarded lo more doubt than at any time since President Roosevelt was chosen Governor in 1928.
Here, Mr. Thomas Dewey. D16- trict Attorney, who has done so much to clean up the rackets, la giving Governor Lehmann a close
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1938. -PAGE
ALLSOPP'S DARK MUNICH
BEER
Sole Agents:
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD,
MAN FLUNG FROM HAIG STATUE
Fined For Part In Whitehall Scenes
zace,
He 1s :unning on what is described
£ "Liberal"
Violent Re-
In scenes
Whitehall publican programme and if he were described at Bow-street wins, as some believe he may. he recently when Arthur Adrian may possibly be the Republican Armand Aaron, 20, stockbroker's presidential candidatė in 1940.- clerk, of Maida Vale, who said Reuter
he had been educated at Clifton College, was fined £5, with Sens costs, for using insulting words and behaviour.
inued the offensive or the Ebro and yesterday. Two British steam-
!
A charge of assaulting a police- man was dismissed."""
Adamson said that Serg J. thousand in Whitebali. there was. 盘 crowd of several Ee saw Aaron with his right frst, raised, shouting "Chamberlain, must go." Those "people in the crowd
monstration appeared to be terri- who had not joined in
the de-
ded
2 CHATER ROAD.
THE
HONG KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;
&
SHANGHAI
AUTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Fits, Peking.
Ellerman Heir Doubles
Father's £18,000,000,
FAMOUS HOUSE Nationalist Headquarters last night
states that Nationalist- troops con-Catalan coast on Saturday night
Road. where Major Bourne. in a
front yesterday. They encircled ers Margaret Rese and York Brook short speech," thanked Mr. Arder- The historical Sandford Manor and stormed the village of were hit by Nationalist bombs in son for his service to the com-House, Fulham, S.W.,
The Ebro bridge there Almeria harbour. One enemy ma whose Benisamet. munity.
tenants have included Nell Gwynn was set on Dre by the retreating chine was shot down in an air fight About 8.30 a.m. on July 25, whilst and Addison, is undergoing re-enemy.-Transwcean, walking on Avenue Road near thestoration.
south of Tarragons. Transocean. AIR FORCE ACTIVE corner of Ferry Road. Mr. Ander-
NO NORMAL RELATIONS The gables, which were formerly son heard the sound of two pistol a feature of the house in the 17th
Barcelona, Nov. 7.
Paris, Nov. 7. The Republican War Ministry, in | shots, and turning his head was in century, have long since disap- a bulletin fasued last night, states has, according to the Right Wing The Papal Secretariat of State time to notice a Chinese with a peared, and the exterior has been that heavy fighting on the Ebre paper "Le Jour," again pistol in his hand turning modernised. Inside, however, the front continued yesterday in the that there can be no question of a declared east from Ferry Road into Avenue old oak staircase up which King sector of Benisamet where the re-establishment of normal reia-ed round a mounted police officer Aaron and several others crowd- Road. Mr. Anderson Immediately Charles II. rode his horse for a enemy attacked with tanks and tions between the Holy See and the whom Aaron attempted to gave chase and though, unarmed.
wager with Nell Gwynn still stands. motorised units, supported by ar- Barcelona Government until full followed the armed man.
Recently the accounts of Eller-father died, Sir John has decided The maintenance depart- tillery and the air force, and suc- freedom of worship has been ge-
from his horse. -
man Lines. Ltd., were published. to pay himself a dividend on the ment of the Gas Light and ceeded in advancing on a small stored in Republican Spain.
The sergeant attempted to ar The company control 140 ships Deferred Coke Company, which owns the
Ordinary capital, 2 part of the front Fighting is still
rest Aaron, who struck him in trading to every country in the modest ten per cent. The rest of house, is now removing the in progress. The enemy suffered
the mouth with his fist.
They world. heavy losses
both fell to the ground and the sergeant injured his wrist.
Det.-Sergt. . Y. Hillhouse; who was walking south on Ferry Rond. turned round on hearing the shots and also saw the armed Chinese turning into Avenue Road. He gave chase, following Mr. Arider- son, who was by then between the gunman and himself.
This new declaration has been,
When Sir John Ellerman, C37,000,000 shipping magnate, died five years ago, death duties left his son with the family fortune reduced to £18.003,000. After five years, the new Sir John Ellermain, now twenty-eight is estimated to be worth more than his father ever
was.
pul!
according to the paper, motivated many layers of paint which
by the interpretation placed by the have been applied 10 it
The Republican air force through the years.
Was Barcelona Government on the trip very active. One enemy plane was to Rome of the Vicar General of
BLOW The original panelling in the shot down near, Cartagena by Re-Tarragona, Monsignore. Saivador
ON "HEAD in this order they, reached the hall is well preserved, Irun frames publican anti-aircraft Are and Real, whose reception by the Pope
The crowd became very corner of Seymour Road where the are being put into the windows, as crashed into the sea,
had been considered in Barcelona tile, continued Sergt. Adamson, gunman "Ared. a shot at C.P.C. 145 they were in King Charles' time. Nationalist planes attacked Al-as tantamount to a de facto re-
and closed in on him, Ile was traffic duty) without effect, to The exterior of the house is also meria, Cartagena, Barcelona, Tar-cognition of the Spanish Republic
struck on the head while which the Chinese policeman re- being restored to resemble its ragona and other towns on the by the Holy See.-Transocean.
lying On the ground and plied with one shot.
would be
the sle:
:
... At
GRAPPLES WITH GUNMAN
original aspect.
During the '90s of the last een- this point "Mr. Andersontury a plaster medallion of Nell jumped upon the back of the gun-Gwynn was found in the garden. man pinning both arms above the In 1708 Addison wrote to his elbow, and struggled with him. stepson, Lord Warwick, from Sand- The gunman managed to fire a ford Manor House, describing the shot over his left shoulder during profusion of wild birds the struggle. Det.-sergt. Hill-singing enlivened the wooded sur- house, realizing the seriousness of roundings.
of the situation and seeing an op- portunity. thereupon shot the criminal
was unani-
The Award Board mously of opinion that the very galiant action of Mr. Anderson. in pursuing and grappling with an armed criminal would, if he were a police officer, be deserving of the award of a Police D.C.M., Class
The board recorded the excellent manner in which Sergt. Hulhouse stuck to the chase under difficult circumstances" (Mr. Anderson was all the time between him and the armed man) and waited his op- portunity to are without endanger-. ing the life of Mr. Anderson
Daily News."
whose
200 COLLECTOR'S RETIREMENT
Supplied 300 Animals
Visitors frequently wonder how the London Zoo äcquires
its exhibits Actually the menagerie has many
other 2005, Others are
sources animals
Mr. Churchill Replies To Hitler's Criticism
"Let This Great Man Search His Own Conscience"
London, November.7.
on
list for some time.
A mounted police officer sald
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the profits go back into the busi- Their profit last
was ness. year £1,177.906. That is 81 per cent. more than in 1936; and the 1938 profit was 23 per cent, more than in 1935.
So, for the first time since his
ESCALATORS FOR MARYLEBONE
at
£160 BECOMES £127 This will help to explain how Sir John has regained the millions" that went to the State:
*
One hundred pounds in business "earning 5 per cent. becomes more than ́ £127 if you leave the profits alone for five years. A million pounds, similarly invested becomes ap- proximately £1,276,000.
that he galloped up Whitehall The Bakerloo Line station chasing Aaron, who ran in and Marylebone is to be improved in
But the earnings on most of Sir out of the crowd towards Trafal- the very near future at a cost of John's capital in the past year
nearly £100.000. Escalators are to have, beer equal to 50 per cent. replace lifts, and the Tube plat- forms are to be lengthened.
gar-square.
In evidence Aaron said that when he walked to Downing- street, he was not in a demonstra- tion He shouted, "Stand by the Czechs."
K
crowd
A short new passage will be built at tube level leading from the lift
shaft to the base of the escala- on the
form No. 4.
His companies have an invest- ment income of $4,000,000 and floating assets of £5,545,910,
A shipping expert said: "There is always money to "be made in shipping somewhere. ".
If one of his companies, loses a bit another makes it up."
A police horse trod on his foot, tors, which will emerge continued Aaron, and, as the ant side of the LNER station con mai swung round, its bridle course close to the end of plat- IN A STATEMENT ISSUED LAST NIGHT Mr. Winston Chur- caught his face. As the chill replied to the criticism of him by Herr Hitler In his speech at were moved back by the mounted the lift shaft a small ticket hall the Kwangchow.wari
On the site of the bottom ΟΙ The Chinese press reports that Weimar. In the course of it Mr. Churchill said. Hitler is quite police he got on to the plinth of will be built to enable passengers. have issued a proclamation promi- mistaken in supposing that Mr. Eden, Mr. Duff Cooper, myself and the Haig statue. leaders of the Liberal and Labour parties are warmongers. Not one
Rall-motor-cars and spare parts to the Because of
WITHDRAWS HAND
Paris, Nov. 7
the ground. Horses
hands to protect his face.
authorities
transportation · of
CANDID CAMERA AT THE RACES
the He was "ung from the statue" wishing to change from the Lon-biting of us has ever dreamed of an act of aggression against Germany. by Sergt. Adamson and found way to the Bakerloo, on leaving interior of China.
don and North Eastern of supply. Some
We are, however, concerned to make sure that our own country is himself on are presented and some
properly defended so that we can be safe and free and also help were around him, and he put up his the main line company's platforms this, many motor-cars imported received in exchange from
others to whom we are bound.
to descend without interruption to Hongkong are still stared up in It "Hitler ought to
godowns awaiting transportation. understand in peace side by side with the
was possible that while doing to the tube level. purchased from this mood and respect it. 1 the German nation.”—British
so he struck someone, but he did dealers or acquired through col-have always said that it Britain Wireless,
not think he did. His conduct is deserving of the 'lectors. Many of the exhibits were defeated in war I hoped we highest praise. C.P.C. 145's, actions are obtained from amateur col-should and a Hitler to lead us were also correct and commend-lectors. Englishmen Uving abroad back to our rightful position able, and worthy of recognition, often make it a hobby to send among the nations. I am sorry. "Instead of holding his hand to the Board found."North China birds and animals to the Zoo. however, that he had not been us, Herr, Hitler withdraws it de- Owing to the retirement of Mr. mellowed by the great success that clares "L'Epoque" commenting on C. G. Upstone, an official of a has attended him the Fuehrer's Weimar speech. The TRAWLER LOST
trading company on the Gold "The whole world would rejoice warmongers abroad are those who Coast, the Zoo has lost a regular to see the Hitler of peace and won't serve his designs, the paper IN STORM
contributor. During the last 17 tolerance and nothing would adorn adds. Copenhagen, Nov. 7. years Mr. Upstone has unplted his name in world history so much "Echo de Paris" says it seems It is announced from Reykjavík, nearly 300 animals.
as the acts of magnanimity and of that Hitler meant to fustity re- that it is feared that the fahing
In common with most amateur mercy and of pity to the forlorn armament and privations which trawler, "Olafur from which no collectors, he relied on natives and friendless, to the weak and will be imposed in the near news has been received since ato bring him specimens, and his poor.
future. wireless message, was sent" an" consignments usually consisted of” In a later message, Mr. Churchill Hitler's striking success has sergeant 'caught him by the collat November 2, has sunk in a violent a varied assortment of mam-says, "Let this great man search not given him, serenity," declares and "chucked him" in the road- storin that rared during the mais, birds, reptiles, and insecta. his own heart ind corselence be-"Action.Francaise." The Journal { way. following days. The trawler had His final contribution was refore he accuses anyone of being a says that the speech provides foo The magistrate. Mr. McKenna, a crew of 21. A search” for the cefred some days ago. It includ-warmonger. The whole peoples of for thought for optimists and ty I remarked that Aaron's behaviour missing vessel has hitherto been ed^antelopes and a number of the British Empire and the French difficulties to be. surmounted are had been highly indiscreet and in vain-Transocean.
small birda.
Republic earnestly desire to dwell numberless.—Reuter.
dangerous
LOST HIS GLASSÉS.
Aaron said he lost his glasses. and being rather short-sighted. was "absolutely befuddled.” He ran away to get out of the crowd. and was stopped by a Woman. who shouted. "Here he is."
Aaron denied struggling with a mounted policeman
Mrs. Mary Paterson, of First- avenue, Queen's Park, a mem- ber of Paddington Borough Coun- cil, sald that before Aaron had time to get of the plinth the
Picture taken at the Tenth Extra Race meeting held
Happy Valley on Saturday. (Photo by Leica).
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