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Hongkong Daily Press.

Registered as a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1938. · 伍辣謢

15-19 Marina House, Queen's Road Central

GP.O. Box No 1.

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SHANGHAI NATIONAL BODIES OPEN DOOR" SLAMMED-AND LOCKED

JOINED IN

UNITED

FRONT

PRESENT SITUATION HAMPERING MR. CHAMBERLAIN

FOREIGN BUSINESS IN CHINA

Seven Objectives Listed For

Home Governments

Shanghai, November 24

The British Chamber of Commerce and other British associa-- tions have joined with the American and French Chambers of Com- merce and other national bodles in a united front. It is the first time in history that all these associations. representing eight nation- alities, have taken common action and agreed upon a series of objec- ilves which each is placing by cable before their respective ́ home Governments regarding them of absolutely urgent importance,

The joint manifesto states that the present situation is hampering foreign business in China and the continued enforcement of des- criminatory restrictions is no longer justined" "by military necessity and calls for action to safeguard foreign trade and rights.

The "objectives listed are as fol- lows:

Discor.tinuance of censorship and other interférence with mail. Retention of all rights under telegrams, cables, radios and other land regulations and prevention of means of communications.

Immediate return of equipment encroachment and interference of the administration of the Inter-and resumption of dredging opera- national Settlement of Shanghai tlona" necessary for the mainte- and foreign concessions in China.nance of Shanghat as a port for use

Resturation Hongkew and of international shipping. Yangtsepoo western areas to the

of

TO SEE DUKE OF WINDSOR

London, Nov. 24.

The possibility of a meeting between the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, and the Duke of Windsor in Paris is mentioned in the "Dally Mal" to-day.

Mr. Chamberlain has alwayS maintained cordial relations with the former King and it is assumed that he will confer with the Duke privately to explain to him the attitude of the King and the Govern- ment regarding his eventual return to England.

It is known that the Duke wishes to return, and the paper expresses the possibility of a decision on this question beink announced in the near future. -Transocean!

CHANNEL

SERVICES

RESUMED

West Coast Gale Dies Down

Recognition and maintenance of full authority, and control of the extraterritorial status of respective International Settlement.

nationals and their interests. The Restoration of transportation Associations adopting the foregoing facilities, including rallways, ship- objectives were the American As ping. commercial) always and sociation of Shanghal, American

Bccess to Chamber of Commerce, motor highways with

Belgian markets and mission centres in the Chamber of Commerce. British Yangtze Valley and other areas. Chamber of Commerce, China As-

London, Nov. 24. Prevention and abolition of all sociation. British Residents' As- The gale which raged last night monopolies created in contraven sociaţion, Canadian Club, Shanghai around the south and west coast tion of the Nine-Power Treaty and Danish Association, French Cham- of England died down this mir- Open Door polley

ber of Commerce. Norwegianning.

Restoration of properties of res- pective nationals to the rightful

owners.

JAPAN'S FALL PREDICTED

General Wu Te-chen On Canton

Gen. Wu Te-chen, Governor of) Kwangtung Province, "ad- dressing hundreds of officials in a weekly memorial service Just one month after the fall of Canton, pointed out that the Japanese march towards Can- ton took place during harvest time, thus preventing armed peasants from taking part in the defence of Kwangtung and assisting the regular troops.

Chamber of Commerce, and the Channel services which were Swedish Association in China-suspended yesterday were resumed Reuter.

this morning.

GERMAN ENVOY BOARDS SHIP UNSEEN

New York, Nov. 24. The German Ambassador, Herr Dleckhoff, who has been recalled. sailed last night.

His presence aboard the liner was only noticed just before the

HMS. Royal Oak which is "conveying the body of Queen Mand to Norway sailed" from Portsmouth early this after- -noon after a delay of 24 hours.

Trafic has been disorganised in parts of Britain owing to floods and snow.

Shipping at Hamburg was also Rected by yesterday's gale and all Ingoing and outgoing ships were suspended-Reuter.

THE POWERS: "Hey. Open that door. You can't stop us from doing legitimate business.”

JAPAN: "Oh Yeah! Who says so? Admission here is for my countrymen.....”.

Pitiful Conditions

At Shum Chun: Food

Searce, No Regular Supply Of Water

Bishop Hall Appeals To Hongkong Public For Aid

··MRS. B. LANGLEY, Secretary of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, who recently returned from Shum Chun told a pitiful story before the meeting of the Emergency Refugee Connell at St. John's Cathedral Häll yesterday afternoon.

liner, salled as he boarded the ves- MORE JAPANESEription. There was no electricity and no regular water supply.

sel by the cargo gangplank and was travelling under an assumed

name.."

The German envoy said that hei took this step in order to avold anti-Nazi demonstrations.-Reater.

Nevertheless, he paid high GUIDE TO THE NEWS

bute to those who had so, gallantly assisted and fallen in defence of the city, particularly the peasants.

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SPANISH WAR REPORTS

Terrible Raids On Barcelona"

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Barcelona, Nov. 24. A bulletin issued by the Repub- lican War Ministry last night reports "that eight Nationalist planes, flying at a very high alti- tude, attacked. the centre of the clty of Barcelona yesterday at 10.45 am dropping more than 40 bombs and destroying numerous houses. Thirteen were killed and many wounded. !'

Five other enemy" machines re- peated the attack on. Barcelona yesterday afternoon. The second attack resulted in a number of dead and wounded. A storm at- tack was "made by a single ma- chine at 7.30 pari. The number of victims of the last attack and the

extent of the damage are · still

unknown.

The Republican anti-aircraft fire hit and damaged one plane of the first squadron, 19

A communique issued by the Nationalist headquarters in Bale- manca states that nothing new la reported from the various fronts. ---Transocean.

PAMPHLETS

But Chinese Are Not Impressed

Shum Chun, peaceful and quiet village on the other side of the

· border, was visited by a Japan- ese plane not once, but three times yesterday.

· Conditions at Shum Chun, Mrs. Langley declared, were beyond

and food was very scarce. Refugees were not. Bocklar in by the hundreds bat by the thousands.

The Japanese, remarked. Mrs. Langley, were only 30 miles from Shum Chun.

The Right Rev. R. O. Hall, Bishop | $50,000 we sent to Canton. Through of Hongkong. presided at the meet- the prompt action of the Rey, N. V. ing and appealed to the whole pub- Halward, the Canton Refugee Com- lic of Hongkong to contribute to mittee received from the National the utmost capacity for the relief Relief Administration in Canton, of refugees.

before it left Canton, the sum Addressing the meeting, the of $50,000. in 'National currency. I Bishop sald:-

have no doubt in my own mind Since the occupation of Canton that there will be desperate need the Council has received three; in Canton for many months and On the first and second occa large gifts, viz., $100,000 (National that all the money we have sent, sions the gallant aviator, happy in currency) from the National Rellet) and much more, will be needed to the thought that there were no commisalon of China, $50,000 from save people from "starvation and anti-aircraft stations about, swoop- | the Bank of China, $50,000 from the death in Canton and neighbour- ed very low and dropped pam- Bank of Communications, and

2 hood, „Pago 4-News about the Ber-phlets. The ones dropped on the further $50,000 made up in “sumsį

vices. A.R.P. Officer's col- lapse.

Page 2.Heroin pills case, at Sessions. "Theft of gin and whisky. Donations to Am-' bulance Brigade. Piracy at- tempt frustrated.

Page 3.-- Women's interests.

Confide in Faith Prior.

Page 5-The cinemas. Cross

word puzzle. Diary of local events. Deanna Durbin grows up in new picture. Page 6-Chinese communists loyal to National Govern- ment. Invitations to Lon- don parley on Palestine. German fine on' Jews. tholic appointment to Bri. tain.

Page 7 –Women's page.

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Ca-

Thanksgiving Day observed. Page 8-The leading article:- "Iron lange" for Colony. Old Shanghai resident dies. Conditions iri Central China, Postman charged. Legislative Council meeting. Page 9.Chinese recapture.

-strategic pass on Honan,

Hupeh border. Page 10-Home football fore- cast Home rugby. Man- chester Handicap call-over. Masonic bowls teams. Page, 11-Radio programmes. Pages 12 and 13-Finance and

commerce.

Pages 14 & 16-Shipping news

and directory.

THE KELIEF SHIP

varying from $10,000 to $500. T418 Before I go further I ought to total of $200,000 was raised by no explain, the phrase I used, "We effort of our own, but on the advanced $120,000 for the Relier Initiative of Mr. T. V. Soong and grip." At the last meeting of the the Chinese Banking community on Committee, which was held the day the one part, and Ambassador Hsu before we knew that a Reller Ship

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Gomeral Manager

WRITERS!

Do you dot your t's and cross your eyes?

T If not why wait until tired' eyes and bad lighting affect your work? Correction at the “right time inaires fature sight.

Conscientious eye-caïe at

Lazarus

IOPTICIANI

SINGLE COPY, 18 CES.

PER MONTE, 53.

BLACK-OUT PROVIDES

USEFUL LESSON

City Dark Enough: Harbour

May Be Dangerous

TWO FIRES;

DECONTAMINATION EXERCISES BY A.RP. SQUAD

Just as if it were the real thing, as though enemy planes were actually overhead carrying out an aerial attack, Hongkong suddenly blacked itself out at 9:15 o'clock last night. There was no previous warning but, again, as though an air of tension had been prevailing, and the populace were anticipating an attack, lights began gradually. going out from 9 pm. and before 920 there was but a stray glimmer here and there,

A: 10 o'clock this "Daily Press" representative bezan a Tour, or the city streets. A tour is hardly the right "word; I was more a series of stumbles. Here conditions were very satisfactory indeed. In a few places there were flickers of light but these did not matter, as they could not possibly have been seen from the air.

Police officers wearing protective (Stubbs Road, three-quarter way to lushing and respirators were par-the Peak, and further, and from ticularly "noted" by this reporter, the other side of the island, the noted in the sense that he literally view was not so reassuring. The ran into a number of these and city itself. from the air as from held conversation with them. From high vantage points

Practice Air Attack

SIGNALS FOR BLACK-OUT-

the ground, was dark enough, but

on this reporter felt that it would not give trained aviators' eyes much trouble to spot the reflection of jone or two searchlights in mil-

houette to the hills,

"

On the whole the black-out was ja definitely instructive affair and must have given the authorities some valuable pointers for further improvement of the Colony's de- fences.

Do not relax your lighting, re-

MUSTARD GAS BOMBS strictions. A further practice air

At 9.28 p.m., the "enemy" let attack is possible. Keep a look-out drop from somewhere a. 50. for any of the following Air Raid mustard gas bomb, contaminating Alarm dimals

(a) The sounding of strens. (p) The raising and lowering of, the brilliancy of, domes- tic electric lights. V

(e) An announcement over the

wireless.

(d) The switching off of street

Lighting.

(e) The firing of mareons in

the New Territories/

(f) The sounding of railway

whistles.

la-patch of the roadway intersecting the waste ground to the east of the Peninsula Hotel.

A Sanitary Department squad was immediately on the scene, watering the road, sweeping away the water, and then finishing the job with a thick layer of bleaching powder. One of the coolles, heavily draped in air-tight cil cloth, suffered" a heat wave and was temporarily incapacitated.

no more

The public is reminded that the Otherwise, there were exercise consists of two phases. In casualities than the umpire and a the middle of the exercise, street reporter, victims of a leaký hose.

"At 10.24 p.m. the affected area. ighting will be turned on for the space of a few minutes and this was declared decontaminated. The will be the signal to indicate the S. D. squad had completed their commencement

the of

second work. Most of the men had dis- phase, and for all land and water carded their gas masks before com- trame to turn out lights and cease pleting their job. running...

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VAST FOREST FIRE SWEEPS SHORE AT MALIBU BEACH

Hollywood, November 24. :

A vast forest fire which is sweeping between Santa Monica and

·Malibu Beach among the palatial homes of many of the most famous members of the film colony has hitherto gutted a palatial new hotel and two hundred houses, including the homes of the actor Richard- Dix and the director Frank Lloyd. This morning the fire was still advancing and out of control in two separate places, having raged over an area of 8,000 acres of valuable property and doing damage estimated at $7,000,000.

It now transpires that a sudden↑

Shi Ying and his colleagues in the was going to be possible, the Com-change of wind saved the homes of REFUGEES STILL

POUR IN

National Relief Administration on mittee agreed that we would expect Richard Díx and Frank Lloyd and the other part.

the British Fund for the Relief of lessened the danger to the homes The generous and prompt action Distress in China to deal with of other famous screen personall- of these Chinese gentlemen has things outside the Colony in view ties. enabled us to act quickly in help of what the Government expects

Refugets were still flocking in ing the destitute and the refugees us to do, fot, refugees and destitute into the sea to escape the fames ritories yesterday, according to a Terrified men and women waded their hundreds into the New Ter- in Canton.

in Hongkong. Out of the $200,000 entrusted to It Was, however, jus, We advanced approximately to

|| $120,000 for the relief ship to Can- ton. You will remember that you confirmed at your last meeting' a sum of $50,000 cabled to, Canton directly the money was given to me by Mr. Boong. Of this origin- al $50,000 very little has been spent, and, in view of the cost of the Re- second occasion, as reproduced on lef Bhip, we have put a mora- this page, urged the Chinese people torium on the $50,000 in Canton, to follow the right path" and peace so that we still control and can, if and friendliness would await them. we wish, bring back to Hongkong If they took the anti-Japanese at- for other needs, about $40,000... titude it would mean ruin and Of this $200,000 raised for us by disaster for them.

the Chinese Banking and Relief

Most of these pamphlets were Agencies, we still have left at least| picked up by the villagers and des- $70,000... troyed but we managed to secure

one,

I ought to explain why they have not yet spent a great deal of the

as the are, which the police des "Daily Freas" representative who necessary cribe as the worst in the history of made the trip to Shan Chin, the the ship and to Southern California, swept down one-time Monte Carlo of South (Continued on Page 5)

the thore near the fashionable China, but now a deserted village. Malibu Beach in the heart of film- Men, women and children of all land's "gold coast." Terror-stricken ages were crossing the paddy fields," cattle, deer and other, wild animals walking along the railway track added to the confusion elsewhere and on the motor road, each one No deaths are reported but at carrying a basket or two, some of least a score are missing and many them even crates, of chicken."- have been treated at hospitals for burna-Reuter

THE DOLLAR

T.1, ON LONDON; 1. AŽ1/32A, T.T. ON NEW YORK; 28 3/4.

London Silver Market

(Our Own Correspondent). London, Nov, 24. London silver prices to-day were down 1/16 as follow:-- Nav, 29 Nov, 24 Bpot.20÷1/8 20-1/16 Forward.....19-5/8 19-9/16

....

MACÃO · GOVERNOR LA GREETS SON

H E. the Governor of Macao,

They seemed to be cheerful

| enough though some looked rather worried, no doubt wondering where the next meal would come from ar where shelter could be found for the night.

And all this caused by the gallant

Dr. Artur Tamagnint de Bouda Japanese!

Barbosa. Arrived" la Hongkong

yesterday unofficially to meet his whe arrived from Marseilles in the son Benhor: Barbosa Tamagnini, s Corfu.