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In Accordance with Govern THE EX inent Ordinancė, CHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY, the 2nd January, 1939. (The First Week-day in January).
Hongkong, 28th December, 1938,
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificate 67NS.4430 dated Hongkong, 18th January, 1936 for Sixty shares of this Bank numbered 95407/ 95466 inclusive registered in the name of Mr. Vivian Geoffrey Smyth has been Lost or Stolen. and should this certificate not be preduced to the Bank before the 14th January, 1939, a new certi ficate for the shares will be Issued, and the aforesaid Certi- ficate No. 6/NS.4430 will be thereafter treated by this Cor poration as Null and Void,
By Order of the Court of Directors,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager.
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RIKTHS GRAY-On December 23, 1933, at the Country Hospital, Shang- hai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Gmy, a daughter. DUNGAN. to Rev. and Mrs. I. M.
Dengan
Thomas Mit- chell, on December. 22. 1933. ht the Country Hospital Shanghai.
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HONGKONG, DECEMBER 30, 1938.
JAPAN ON FULL
WAR FOOTING
JEWS" JUST RECEIVED from
NE
"Tokyo that the National Mo-. bilisation Council of Japan had approved of the Imperial Or- dinances relating to the, enforce- ment of the National Generai Mobilisation Act. thus practically invoking the Act in ful, has come as no surprise.
UNSOUND STATE OF FINANCES
EVERYBODY REALISED that it would be impossible for Japan. in view of the very unsound and of her financial unstable" state
hos- structure." to continue the
tilities against the Chinese Republic in- definitely. However, the fact that Tokyo has been able to continue hostilities as she has expending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day and getting "nothing in return, should nccasion no surprise since Japan had been preparing for hostilities ever since the Russo-Japanese War 35 years ago.
cone.
THAT TOKYO is now feeling the
pinch of the war is evident by the fact that she has decided to enforce, early next year, the im- perial Ordinances which relate to the control of wages, the restric- tion of working hours in factories the restriction of dividends by business corporations, the appro priation of factories and work- shops, the appropriation of land. buildings and various ments, and the requisitioning of commodities.
establish-
SHORN OF CIRCUMLOCUTION as she is, as a result of the Chinese war of resistance which
EDITORIAL
H.K. LAWYERS SUMMONED AT CENTRAL COURT
COL IRWIN'S
NEW POST
Command Of Sixth
Permitting Premises To Be Infantry Brigade
Used As Brothel
"CLEANING UP" SWATOW LANE
M. H. Turner and H. J. Armstrong, of Messrs. Deacons, were summoned before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Court yester day on a charge of unlawfully permitting premises at No. 2, Swatow Lane, first floor, to be used as a brothel, within three months after a notice had been served upon them of the fact that the occupier of the said premises had been convicted of keeping a brothel there,
Mr. J. B. Prentis, Assistant Crown Solicitor, appeared for the prosecution, assisted by Inspector E. G. Post, of the S.C.A.
The defence was conducted by Mr. H. G. Sheldon; K.C., who pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Prentis said that on October 10 a Chinese woman was convicted for keeping a brothel on the pre- Following the mises in question. conviction a notice was served on the the defendants. who were trustees of the house
On December 15 another woman was convicted for a similar offence. In this case the same premises were involved, and subsequently it was found that there had been three previous convictions of the same nature against the first floor of No. 2 Swatow Lane during the year.
Kong Man-tsun correspondence clerk at the Central Court, de- of convictions. posed to, records and notices served on the defen- dants In connection with the pre- mises.
A clerk.. in the Land Office testified that the defendants were the registered owners of the pre- mises in question.
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"POINT OF LAW
Mr. Sheldon, prior to calling evidence for the defence, sub- mitted, on a point of law, that the words "unlawfully permitting" meant **knowingly permitting." He said that there was no evidence to support the charge that the de- fendants had knowingly permitted the house to, be used as such.
Mr. Sheldon further submitted that the woman convicted on the charge of keeping a brothel was not the tenant of the floor, there
Court celved a notier from the informing him of the conviction or a woman for keeping a brothel. He returned the notice to the Chief Clerk of the Magistracy. with the names of the principal, tenants, stating that the woman convicted was not a tenant of the premises.
He continued that he had been giver the task of looking after the block of houses since they had come
Into the control of the trustees and understood there had been cases of siy brothels being kept from time to time. On be- (witness) half of the trustees † and Mr. Armstrong he been tak- ing precautions and had seen all the respective tenants for the last two years.
London, Dec. 29.
The War Ofice announces the appointment of Colonel N. M. 8. Irwin, G.S.O. L. Hong- kong. as Commander of the 6th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of Brigadier.
The 6th Infantry Brigade forms part of the 2nd Division of the Aldershot Command and is based on Blackdown:
Colonel Noel Mackintosh Stuart Irwin, M.C. D.S.O., was born in India on Christmas Eve 48 years ago. Educated at Marlborough College, he later went to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and joined the Essex Regiment In 1912.
COLONEL IRWIN
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When tenants fled applications. He was promoted to the rank of for the premises they were seen Major in the Border Regiment In by either Mr. Armstrong or wit- 1927, and was a Brevet Lieut.-Col.
in 1931, ness, and in all cases the op-
He served in France with plicants would have to satisfy him on many questions before tenancy Battalion from August 1914, and commanded the 2nd Battalion the could be granted
Lincolnshire Regiment from 1917 QUESTION OF LIVELIHOOD
to 1918. He also commanded the. The question of livelihood was 8th Battalion" the Leicester Re- cases giment in 1918 and from 1918 to also looked into, and in where the tenants were carrying the following yed; commanded the on trade which necessitated 1st Battallon the Lincolnshire Re- Government permits, valid licences would have to be produced before tenancy would be granted,
giment.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1938. HISTORIC CHENGTU NOW
A MODERN CITY
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War Makes It Political And Cultural Centre
,
Chengtu, December 19,
Nestling in the most fertile region of Szechuen, often described.. as a far-flung province until the war broke out, is Chengtu, now the political, missionary as well as the cultural centre of southwest China. This romantic walled city, made famous in Chinese history after it became the seat of the Kingdom of Shu in the period of the Three Kingdoms, strikes a visitor who has been in Peiping as a veritable counter-part of the old capital of China,
Chengtu has its "Imperial city." Its Manchu city, where were stationed the bannermen (Manchu imperial guard) and Its Chinese city. Only the outer city wall still stands, however, and its top pro- vides an ideal promenade. The circumference measures, 13 ko- metres.
Like Peiping. Chengto Has its Silver, Brass, Leather, Bone arid Embroidery Streets. It is distinctly a residential elty, like Peiping. with its quota of pared streets and hutangs. Trees line both sides of the main streets, adding a pastoral charm to "Small Peiping." as Chengtu is sometimes called.
This city 1s being rapidly | Church' Missionary Society, modernized, especially following Friends Service Council, Methodist the Influx of refugees who are Episcopal Mission, Roman Catholic mostly better off. Chengtu has Mission, United Church of Canada electric lights, neon signs, asphalt Mission, Franciscaines Mission- roads, telephones, moving picture naires de Marle and the Spanish houses and up-to-date stores. The Redemptorist Society. absence of running water is coun- terbalanced by a plentiful supply
POPULATION
of wells. Many residences have
Chengtu's population is estimat- ed to be about 600.000 their own private wells.
The local Chengtu is enjoying a building population, however, 1 gradually boom.
Many new shops, houses thinning out as a result of the two and school bülldings are being recent air raids, and many natives constructed to meet the grow- are returning to the countryside. ing deinand, since the city On the other hand, refugees who has been thrown open to refugee can afford it continue to stream Conséquently, the students and merchants from the Into Chengtu. war zones.
city is also facing a housing problem.
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HOME OF EDUCATION Beside
the Na- housing
University. tional Szechuen the
the Frovincial Polytechnic Institute and the West China Finion University, Chengtu is also playing host to five other universities from various parts of the country, namely, the Univer- sity of Nanking. the Ginling College for Girls, the Cheloo University, the Biology De- partment of Soochow Univer- sity, and the School of Medi cine and Dentistry of the National Central University. They are all temporarily sharing the West China Union
campus.
MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES
He was temporary Colonel Sub- If the applicants were employees Area Commandant In France, in of shops or firms, then letters of 1919, and during his service there reference from their employers he was awarded the D.8.0., and would have to produced. On two two bars, the MC.. and the Croix occasions, he had granted tenancy de Guerre, and was also mention-
letters of reference, he added.
has continued long beyond Japan's fore, the notices-mentioned should to refugees who could not produceed five times in despatches.
original dreams. Tokyo, sees her-
He was at the Star College from Continuing, witness said that 1924 to 1925, and served with the when applicants were Interviewed. General Staff on the Rhine from Replying, Mr. Prentis said that they were required to answer ques- 1928 to 1927. He was in India the new Ordinance granted the tions as to where they had been from 1929 to 1933 and from 1933 to magistrate very wide power to living before, why they were leav-1935 was Chief Instructor, R.M.C. serve notices on either owners of ing. and the reason for taking up Sandhurst. He was at the Im. the premises or the tenant
residence in Swatow Lane.
7t served the "Immediate landlord." which, in this case, was self compelled to bring her pro-the principal tenant. ductive system under rigid govern- ment control. The step is not al- together surprising. as the "Daily the Telegraph" points out, for Japanese Government appears to be doing ΠΟ more than exercise the full powers already con- ferred upon it but hitherto only partly implemented. Clearly. Japan is
GERMAN- ITALIAN EXAMPLE
about to resort to what is known as war-time economy but what it her case more likely portends a permanent state of regulation of
DEFENCE EVIDENCE
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1938,
and
WIS
perial College Int All the answers and references promoted to Colonel the following The Arst witness called for the furnished by the applicants, he Fear. when he took up his ap- defence was W. A. Mackinlay. of said, were checked up later and if pointment in Hongkong as General
Staff Officer, 1st Grade, Messrs. Deacons, who told the found unsatisfactory they would," At one time he was at a brilliant Court that on October 23 he re- be required to leave. He had turn hockey player, and played both for ed down as many as 30 per cent, his battalion and the Army. For applications and on one occasion the almost had one, who openly three years he was a member of the Marlborough College Shooting,
the team-Reuter and Special.
REMMELE. On December 23, her economic life, at any rate so CORRESPONDENCIA admitted "the trade." arrested by yur and one year was captain of
1939, at the Country Hospital. Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. K. Remmele, a daughter, Chelstel.
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ENGAGEMENTS OTTSEN - KOEHLER, — The en- gagement is announced be- tween Hans H. Ottsen, son of Mr. and Ms. C. Ottsen of Nordborg, Denmark, and DO- lores (Dicky Koehler, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A Koehler of Shanghai HING-COWBURN.-Edward Hing. son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hing, and Minnie Cowburn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Cowburn.
long as the present semi-dicta- torial regime remains in power
has not yet Japan, It is true, adopted the professedly totall- tarian system of government but she is taking a long step towards the example set by Germany and Italy.
CHRISTMAS TREE GIFTS
police. The applicant in the case did not turn up the next day when the police were waiting for him
Witness further told the Court | that the moment a principal [To the Editor, "Hongkong
tenant had been convicted of the
the ter offence, application for Daily Pres"} Bir should be grateful is mination of the tenaney was at
could once made. through your columns I thank all donors of gifts to the
of money have been acknowledged
fully.
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INFORMED POLICE
SHANGHAI COMMANDER
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There
are well over 100 foreign residents, with mls- sionaries forming the majority. Of these, more than 50 are Canadians, Chengtu being the... centre of Canadian missionary activities in China. The French Government has... a consulate here. Handicrafts are extensively en- gaged in by the natives of Cheng- tu, which among other things, is famed for Its allver filigree. Chengtu silk is another well- known local product.
Chengtu gained the status of a municipality. In 1930. Like Canton, which is shared by Panyu and Nanbal halen, half of Chengtu belongs to the district of Chengtu Many foreign missioris working and the other to the district of In Szechuen maintain headquar-Huayang. Situated between the ters here, including the American Toh and Min Rivers in what is Baptist Foreign Missionary Bo-commonly known as the Chengtu ciety, American Friends Board of plain, the surrounding countryside Missions, British and Foreign Bible is well-irrigated and is fabulous- Society. China Inland Mission,ly fertile-Central News.
PROPOSED
THREAT IN
THE WEST
Strongly Favoured By Nazi Group
London, Dec. 29.
A. J. Cummings, the publicist, in his column "Sportlight on Poll- tics" in the "News Chronicle,"
Vernon Bartlett's comments on
or
JAPAN FEELING ·
PINCH OF HER ADVENTURE
IN CHINA
London, Dec. 29. The "Dally Telegraph." in`an editorial on Japan's new step to mobilise her economie re- sources, says that shorn of circumlocution it means that: Japan is feeling the pinch of the adventure in China and sees herself compelled to bring her productive system under the rigid control of the Gor-. ernment.
· London, Dec. 29. Military appointments approved by the King and announced last night by the War Office Include:- Colonel F. K. Simmons from General Staff Officer. First Grade, j British forces in Palestine and speculation yesterday on Nazi in-
tentions against Holland Trans-Jordan, temporary ·be i
to Commander, Shanghai Area. Bri- against Belgium.
Mr. Cummings says; "My own most recent information from
The step is not altogether aur-. tish Troops in, China, with the
la that the proposed prising, for the Government ap- temporary rank of Brigadier, vice- Major-General A. F. D. Telfer.
the West is strongly pears to be doing no more than Smollett. who is being appointed
favoured by the most aggresive į exercise the full powers already Lieutenant-Governor and Com-
clements in the Nazi group around conferred on it but hitherto bas Hitler, and is prompted by Ger-only partly implemented. many's economic position.
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threat in
THE SIMPLE FACT that Japan has been able to continue, the
Christmas Tree.. Individual gifts On many occasions he had in- war as long as she has and that her economy has not failed her before now has been due in a large separately where we have known formed the Revenue Department measure to the ald which she has the donors. Gifts in kind and and the police If he had evidence that the houses had been kept
Germany are received from the Powers, aid anonymous gifts of money which has permitted her to con-hereby acknowledged most grate as opium divans or brothels.
In November last he had a con- tinue her ruthless war in China,
The societies receiving these gifte versation with Sub-Inspecter Mc-manding. Troops Guernsey, with her indiscriminate bombing of de- tenceless Chinese cities, her bar- have expressed their great ap- Ewan who called at his office. effect from June 5, 1939;
Lieutenant-Colonel J. T. Leslie, baric massacre of innocent Chinese preciation of the kindness both of During the talk witness and Mr. citizens, and her seizure of the children and adults who made it Armstrong expressed readiness to Royal Berkshire Regiment, to be
British troops In Egypt, with "Do not be surprised if Germany ZENTNER FARMER-On Decem- immense Chinese markets to the possible for so many poor people co-operate with the authorities to Commander of the Cansi Brigade.!
to receive Christmas gifts.
find some solution for "cleaning ber 24, 1938, - by the Rev. W. | exclusion of all other Powers. By
before long an economic up" the neighbourhood. But since temporary rank of Brigadier, vice- seeks
Who can' Robt. Taylor, Jane Elizabeth, supplying huge quantities of raw
Colonel W T. Brooks, whose agreement with Russia. the interview, witness had no only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. and war materials required by the
suggestions of what more he could tenure expires on October 14, 1939, say what the response will be?
"The "Eurest way of throwing Walter Lee Farmer of Rich Japanese to carry out their in-
-British Wireless,
Russia and Germany together is mond, Virginia, to Darid, only human programme in China, the
Japan, it is true. has not yet to cold shoulder the one great son of the late Mrs. R. Zent- Powers thus Indirectly assume a ner, of Chefoo and Shanghai.
share of Japan's war, gullt,
power in Europe whose foreign adopted professedly the totalitar
lan system, but she is taking a policy is without reproach."
"The British and French, Gov long step towards the German eraments must make up their example.-Reuter.
MARRIAGE..
'J. L. WILSON,
Dean
Hongkong, Dec. 20.
BOUND
OVER
do.
Cross-examined. by Mr. Prentis, witness said he could not say whe- ther or not, the woman convicted was the agent of the principal
THE POWERS which have shown.
themselves sympathetic to the George Fennessy, 34, seaman of tenant, nor could he say whether Chinese cause can do much to put the President Taft, appeared be any sub-tenants existed on the an end to this senseless war.fo:e Mr. E., Himsworth at the Kow-premises In question They can bring Japan to her Iron Court yesterday. when he knees, just as the Chinese soldiers pleaded guilty to a charge of hav-
GUERILLAS PUSHING TOWARD YANGCHOW
Kinhwa, Dec. 29. Chinese guerilla unite from Kiangtu, Lluho and Icheng on the north bank of the Yangtze River In north Kiangsu are pushing to ward Yangchow.
Shatauchen in the outskirts of sanctions against the
H. J. Armstrong. in
evidence.
at the front are gradually doing.ing been drunk and disorderly. 1 told the Court that he (witness) 2. by seeing that Japan is not sup-realise that I have done wrong and had suggested that he would give
plied with the
I am very sorry," Fennessy told the every assistance to Sub-Insp. Mc- Ewan and would, if need be, tum weapons of Mars Court, Fennessy was bound over and by enforcing on $10 to be of good behaviour for out every tenant of the block into a strict policy of
¡the street. Whereupon Inspector a year, being warned by the Ma- McEwan said that it would bare aggressor
- ENFORCE SANCTIONS
Yangchow has been retaken by the i nation and the nation which has/gistrate against a repetition of the teen of no use, but would only
guerillas.
The defeated Japanese wilfully torn up treaties solemnly entered into Unless, and until
offence
have caused the brothel keep-s,
JAMAICA RIOTS REPORT
Special Constables Criticised
WHAT RESPONSE? ···
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minds very soon whether they are going to co-operate diplomatically with Russia or leave her out of account.
"Whichever way it goes the 'de- cision will be a momentous one.” --Reuter.
Clearly Japan is about to resort to what we would call wartime. economy, but what in her case more likely portends a permanent state of regulation of her econo- male life, at any rate as long as the present semi-dictatorial re- gime remains in power.
NEW HIGHWAYS IN WEST CHINA
Luting, Skong, Dec. 29. Two new highways linking Bi- kong with Szechuen and, Yunnan respectively are under construc- tion,
Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 29.
The two commissions ap- polated to investigate respec- fively the island-wide distur- bances in May and June, and the riots on the
Frome
constables, and suggests that the sugar estate in May, have re- police force should be increased.
The highways will cut each other The commission on the Frome at Luting, a town. on the eastern ported to the Governor, The report of the first com- riots," in which four persona were mission shows that in the island killed and 13 injured as a result Bikong order. In view of the lim to flout the treatles and snub the during the past eighteen months
Witness concluded by saying disturbances, eight people were of the police firing at the deportance of the town as a com-
munication centre upon the com Powers and deny to them the each waiting for the other to move that, as a trustee, he had no killed and 32 wounded, while monstrators who were thrawing privileges to which they are legally and knowing that every minute knowledge or knowingly permitted 745 were arrested.". None of the stones, suggests that the police pletion of the highways, the Sibong entitled.
thus lost means the further loss of the premises being used), as a Crown forces was killed, but 109 should use tear gas, rather than one dollar Movement, are or- WILL THE POWERS act, and human life? ganising themselves in groups of act at once, or are they going sciences "allow them te delay any
to stand by, as they have done Ionger?
and puppet troops have retired
·Into Yangchow city--Central News.
The Overseas Chinese in Macao,
in response to the appeal for the
ten for the collection of funds,
this is done. Japan will continue
If they were such, to move round. the corner.
Will their con- brothel.
Mr. Forrest reserved judgment
til noon on Friday, January 6.
were injured.
rifles, and considers a Labour.De- The commission criticises thepartment, a pressing necessity -- behaviour of some of the specia!' Reuter
rovincial Government is mapping out plans for its development,
Luting has now a population of 28,000.-Central News,
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.