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**The only thing they need fear is the injection of politics by superheated banquet speakers in what is intended to be a friendly visit. The effect of this would be bad."

215 GOOD-NATURED BURLESQUE

The Daily Prs Forthcoming Visit Of King

MARCH, 1939, to TUESDAY, The

the 28TH MARCH, 1939, both days Inclusive.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS

& SON,

General Managers.

Hong Kong, 10th March, 1939,

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HONGKONG, MARCH 29, 1939

ITALY'S CLAIMS MUSSOLINES arrogant flam-

And Queen Satirized

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In American Skit

The following is an account of the Washington dinner-party szare show which "good-naturedly" burlesqued the King and Queen. One part of the show portrayed the King returning from a White House poker party minus his crown.

The cartoon on this page was front-pared in the "Chicago Tribune," which is strongly anti-Roosevelt. The description of the show which follows is from the "New York Herald-Tribune.” which sides with the more moderate Opposition :--

The forthcoming visit of King comment of the King as the royal George VI, and Queen Elizabeth at couple entered the White House. the White House was blithely satirized in skits presented by the

Women's National Press Club at its annual stunt party at the Hotel

Washington.

"OUR TOWN”.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and

for

CORRESPONDENCE

GAMBLING COMBINE,

IN HONGKONG

(To the Editor, of the "Hongkong Daily PressTM

Sir,In response to the news. "Gambling item captioried the Combine Active," which appeared in your issue of Feb, 28. I will appreciate it very much if you will be kind enough to publish this letter in the interests of the public.

The last year or so has seen such an amazing growth, of or- ganized gambling in the Colony, so much so that many residents, like myself, must be wondering whether the authorities are aware' of its existence and whether any steps have been taken to deal with the situation.

After the closing of the Shum chun resort, isolated cases of gam- bling houses were discovered in the Colony, but the situation has since grown rapidly worse, with the result that there- are in existence a number of rendezvous where any kind of illegal games may be indulged in.

That these houses exist is no secret, for the revelations of those who have won or lost would bear witness to it, although it may be stated that one house is never

located for any duration at one particular address.

One very dangerous aspect of

this--that question' 'is

it the appears that these resorts are not Individually operated, but seem to pe Unked together by a central | controlling body.

Every public-minded citizen in Hongkong, I feel sure, will agree that to permit a "racket" of this nature to continue will give the Colony not only a bad name, but a considerable amount of trouble, The sooner the authorities suc- ceed in making a "clean-up," the better it

HAD UMBRELLAS Both carmed umbrellas and were Secret Service bejewelled crowns. men searched the King buoyancy on the anni-willard,

matches, meanwhile apologizing to A limited competitive examina-

versary of the foundation of

the much perturbed. Queen, tion for vacancies for 3rd grade the Fascist Party cannot but

"They're just looking for matches, Local Clerks will be held on 11th arouse deep concern. It will April. at 9.30 A.M. Candidates not pass unchallenged so far Lady Lindsay, wife of the British Your Majesty. There is something must be between the ages of as France is concerned, for Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay-about the White House that makes.

will be for Hongkong, 19.30. Examination will em- while Il Duce's colonial claims with other women representatives a Britisher careless with matches" brace English Essay and Dicts include Tunisia, Djibouti and of the Diplomatie Corps-watched a jocular reference to the burn

the Suez Canal; it is hardly a satirical version of the royal'ing of the interiors of the White and I would urge the Police and House and the Capitol when British other departments concerned to tion, Arithmetic and Typewriting. \ jtkely that France will make / couple's stay in our town."

It included episodes in which the forces invaded Washington in 1814 bestir themselves immediately on

Crowds gave the royal visitors such a campaign. So far as Application for selection any concessions.

vást amount of trouble throughout compete must be made in the the Suez Canal is concerned, King and Queen were depicted as candidate's own handwriting and Great Britain-likewise is not hard put to find a place to hang their entire stay. This culminated up their crowns in their "primitive" in an embarrassing. episode when should reach the Naval Store prepared to give in without waite House quarters and in which the King returned minus his crown calling Mussolini's bluff in the lords and ladies accompanying after what had apparently been a spite of his statement that them had to sleep in W: P. A "the order of the day is moreWorks Progress Administration long-drawn-out poker party, with John Nance Garner [Vice-Presi- guns, more ships and more barracks on the lawn behind the dent and James Roosevelt (the aeroplanes at whatever cost."

· BACKED BY PROMISES of material and moral support from the Fuehrer of Ger- many, Mussolini has defined his tensely-awaited claims claims which, by their very

Officer, H. M. Dockyard not later

than a.m., 1st April.

Two passport photographs of the candidate must be sent with the application.

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nature, can be construed to

some

Fresident's office.

"I say, my love,, rawther nice ttle shooting box," was the first

President's eldest son] among the players.

"JIMMIE'S GOT IT!" "Where's your crown?" demandea

sheepish King replied. (Note: Jimmie gave it back).

The entlie performance wa..

HID THE SECRETS

ANTI-GAMBLER.

DEATH OF MR. R. M. XAVIER

TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1939.

"China The Indomitable'

Americans Told Of Features

Of New China Now At Work

“CHUNGKING, MAR. 20 (CENTRAL)-SYMPTOMS VIRILITY AND INDICATING A RESERVE OF VITALITY, OF LATENT

POWER WHICH MUST

BE CAUSING THE"" JAPANESE WARLORDS THE "GRAVEST CONCERN” were reported to America by the Rev. Asher Raymond Kepler, D.D., executive secre- tary of the General Assembly of the Church of Christ in China, who is closely connected with the National Christian Service Council for Wounded Soldiers in Transit, in a broadcast to the United States over Station GXOX this morning at 10.40 o'clock.

Dr. Kepler said: I'm broad-she is building for a strong post- casting from Chungking, the war China. Some 83,400 tons of national capital of China. A machinery and office appliances. year has gone by since I last representing 341 Industrial plants. had intimate contact with in constal and central China, have the National Government. been removed into the southwest. The capital was then still at areas where, under the direction and co-operation of the Central Wuhan. Since then Hsuchow, Government, a huge reconstruction Canton and Kankow have all programme is being worked out. been occupied by the forces The transfer of one of the enemy. I was eager to alone saved a plant worth $10,000,- learn first hand the effect of 000. The government is producing: these reverses upon the gov-large quantities of rifles, machine- ernment, to discover what guns, trench mortars, bombs, and dent, if any, Japan had been "ght ammunition. The parts are able to make upon China's manufactured in scattered shops, So that air bombing can do a will to resist. Matters con- minimum of damage, and the parts

tron-works

nected with War Relief Act-are then assembled in convenient vities summoned me to assembling plants. Chungking three weeks ago. 2,000,000 MEN UNDER ARMS

Chungking the capital, is in) itself symbole of the nation: It is a city which is built upon hills of solid rock. Her foundations are shakable. In fact these founda- tions are being converted into

citadels of protection which any amount of air bombing cannot penetrates, which London, Paris and New York might well envy and which only Quebec can hope to duplicate. At a cost of $700,000

is blasting out of this solld rock national currency, the government upon which the city is built, tunnels and bomb proof shelters with a capacity for 100,000. TYPICAL INTERIOR. CITY

It remains for me to make one more stroke with my brush to complete the picture I want you to see. China at present has 200 divisions, or 2,000,000 men, under arms. Of these 600,000 or 60-divisions are now operating behind the Japanese lines, so that we are rapidly 'seeing realized the prediction of the Generalissimo "that, soon, the Japanese rear „will” become the front." It is not an exaggeration to say that wherever We find Japanese troops, there is the front: it may be positional warfare, mobile warfare

guerlila warfare that is being waged.

or

When I last visited Chungking

The guerillas ceaselessly tear up several years ago, she was a typical Interior city of 200,000 population railway tracks. attack Japanese with very few modern utilities and munition trains, make life miser- conveniences. In its stead I find able in general for the Japanese Chungking a thriving throbbing garrisons wherever stationed, that modern city of 600,000 population it becomes entirely impossible for with wide paved motor roads, and Japan to exploit the so-called-oc- feverishly widening and paving cupled areas; commercially and Within the last more. We have modern banks, and economically.

Young Victim Of office buildings, six and seven month, I had conversation with

alde.

The deceased, who was only 22

six years a keen member of the Hongkong . Volunteer Defence

Corps.....

C.

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The Kuomintang and the Communist, the military and the civilian, the men, the wo- men, the aged and the youth, are all co-operating with an enthusiasm which was 'notice- ably absent at the beginning of hostilities when only the military and officials and students and the merchants in

seemed the port cities

to realize the significance of the

The great mass of the people in

tion.

This is the picture as I see it after wide travel through all parts of China and after three weeks at the capital. I hope I have suc÷ ceeded in drawing it suficiently clear for you to catch its atmos- phere of hope-and ultimate victory in the background. ::

It is China who should have our unstinted co-operation, as she is fighting the battle for democracy and the sanctity of treaties to which we are joint signatories.

realize that their own personal

ON WRIST destiny or that of the state were

ons marching through regions to No. 180, The Peak, was summoned vitally bound up with the batta- Major R. D. Walker, residing at

the distant front. But thanks to before Mr. T. J. Houston at the the widespread indiscriminate and Central Court yesterday for allow ruthless bombings of

civilian ing his dog to be insufficiently by populations

Japan's air muzzled

or on a lead, and was

The summons was taken out as

storeys high, as if shaking defiance one of the outstanding missionaries at. Japan's bombing squadrons.) in Shansi. He affirmed that in the Typhoid

This is not the spirit of a defeated last twelve months Japan has been possibilities in Tunis are ad- the Queen "Jimmie's got it," the mittedly of great value, for

The funeral took place at the people, but the resurgence of a able to make no progress in the even in the early days it is

Roman Catholic Cemetery yester-nation with an indomitable, will effective occupation of that pro- mean nothing else than a recorded that Tunis, which played without scenery properties,

who died at the French Hospital a stranger to defeat. challenge to France's Colonial was at that time a part of the in the method of the recent New day of Mr. Ricardo Maria Xavier, and an abounding vitality which is vince or in its economic exploita-

on Sunday of typhoid. The Rev. Empire, It was on November Roman Province of Africa, York production of Thornton Wi- 30 last that the Italian press provided Rome with half of ders Pulitzer Prize play, "Our Fr. Rossi officiated at the grave- Arst fanned the flames of its supplies of corn and was, Town." Two white columns on the Italy's desires in regard to the in addition, regarded as a stage were explained by the inter- French possessions, more par- highly developed centre of locutor as representing the White years of age, was a member of The Roman civilization. Il Duce House, which "dominates the scene the staff of the Hongkong Electric | ticularly in Tunisia.. Italian people soon took up now, in the role of a second just like way back in the early Company, Ltd.,, and had been for the agitation, which, while it Augustus. has made up his days of the New Deal" lasted, was, viewed on all sides mind to extend Italian in-

A stepladder was brought in later with grave concern. When fiuence across the Mediter-

He is survived by his parents this agitation faded without ranean Sea over this pros-tu represent the second floor of the

struggle. the White House, where so many in- and several brothers and sisters. Il Duce formulating any de- perous territory with

A large gathering was present yesterday including Messrs. finite claims against France assistance of his good friend, teresting things happen."

They lild the $2,000,000,000 and gave place. to Herr the Fuehrer.

stabilization fund and the airplane Sequeira, B, Sequeira, C. Souza, A. market towns and villages did not SEQUEL TO BITE Central coups in

CURIOUSLY enough, it was Hitler's

Remedios, H. Remedios, L. Re- Europe, it became clear to the the former German states-crets, but left the war debts lying Souza, A. Cruz, A. Rodgries, J. C. around, because, as the butler ex-medios A. Remedios B. Xavier who outside world that there was man, Bismarck,

was plained, "the British won't pay A. E. Xavier, P. Xavier, J. Soares, sort of tacit under- really responsible in the year any attention to them, anyhow."

L. V. Antonio, T. Fernades, E standing between Rome and 1883 for France securing a After an e hausting day trying silva, R. Siva, J, Marques. A over Tunis-a to keep pace with Mrs. Roosevelt, Barros, R. Ribeiro. F. Santos. C. Berlin as to when Signor | Protectorate Mussolini was to actually Protectorate which gives her who insisted on showing Mount enunciate his claims. The entire political and military Vernon to the visitors, the Queens, the Reed. Ft. Casian and armadas, thanks to the rapine and aned $5.

many others.

slaughter that has become the most serious problem created control over the country, was trying to take a nap but was

A wreath from "Dad, Brothers common occurrence where Japan's a result of an incident in Mt. by these demands is" in though its Sovereignty is awakened by a

brash young and Sisters" was interred with the armies have set foot, the nation as Kellett Road on March 7 when 254 Tunisia and the difficulties entrusted to the Bey. Ger-woman inspecting her crown.

casket. Other wreaths were sent by a whole is aroused to a degree Mrs Bryden, of No, 188, The Peak, which ∙it presents were many had no colonial am- "THIS AIN'T NO LADY”. Mother, Mano, Leo, Patricia and Lily, where any sacrifice is gladly was bitten on the left wrist by realized some time ago. M.bitions at the time and Bis- This ain't no lady, Queer This Annie and Polly, Delice and Reggie, endured if it will contribute to defendant's dog. Daladier, the French Prime marck, favoured a number of newspaper reporter," the im-Mira and Nado, Pedro, Maalia and China's ultimate victory. Minister, was quick to re- French Colonial ventures pudent girl said, bringing out paper children, Chico," Laura D. Hynd- GOVERNMENT RESERVES cognize the seriousness of the abroad in the hope that these and pencil. Her questions were in man, Encida, 8. Yusuf, E. V. M. R.. de Bouza, Miss Lung and C. Lyson, position as his hurried visit to would keep France from mak-rhyme:

H. Teles Jorge, Mrs. M. S. Rosario Tunis proved. That visit was ing any plans for a revenge "What does Your Majesty'

and family, Mrs. A. Nunes, Neno not without its significance, on Germany over Alsace

and Carlos, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. for the welcome accorded him Loraine. France followed his!

Butt by the Bey and the natives in advice and declared, for "the Tunis showed that, as be- benent of the other Powers, The Thirty-fourth Annual Gen-tween France and Italy, or as that her intervention in Tunis eral Meeting of Shareholders will between a French and Italian was prompted solely for the be held at the Offices of Messrs. Protectorate, native opinion purpose of obtaining security Dodwell & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong was wholly on the side of the for Algeria. and Shanghai Bank Building, on French. The natives in Tunis Thursday, the 13th April, 1939 have not been alow in under- at 11 a.m. for the purpose of re standing that, if their coun- celving the report of the General try changed hands, it would

Secretaries. Hong Kong, 27th March, 1939.

UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS.

WITH THE PASSING of the years, France's rights in Tunis became firmly established and now, by A strange twist

think of the American giri?.

"How does · You!... Majesty keep her hair in curl?

"Tell me. Your Majesty, when and how will you let the Duchess take a bow?

"How does & Princess behave when she's spanked?"

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The Hongkong Electric Company. |Ltd," Local Staff, European Staff, Nomady Hockey Club, Patawaran Fat Shop and the Hongkong Volunteer Defence: Corps

Major Walker said that his dog. was wearing a figure of eight musle, a type which was com I wonder if the following data, monly used in Hongkong. Ter- indicative of the financial strength riers were always agressive and of the Government, will impress when a terrier met another : ter- you as forcefully as they have merer there was the possibility The Government still has a danger. proximately 50 per cent. reserven behind her paper currency as compared with 64 per cent, at the beginning of hostilities. In spite

AIRPORT NEWS

of Japan's empty victories and Imperia) Airways: China's Fabian retreats, the Chi

NORTHBOUND nese dollar, to-day is worth more WEDNESDAY:--Bangkok, than the Japanese yen. The war

Hongkong: A.R.P. EXAMINATIONS is costing China one-third of what 4.30-5 DEL

The Air Raid Precautions Officer it is costing Japan, China is still announces that as a result of the controlling 60 per cent of her pre-

Dorado, Della

SOUTHBOUND

NORTHBOUND

Del

"And how does a Duchess be-' have when outranked?” PAS

THE FINALE The finale showed a pretty girl spell speedy termination of of the wheel of fate, it is in red, white and be the custrine, Managers together with a State the Beylical regime, as Tunis | Germany once again who is firting alternately with George examination held on Mar. 17 21 war exporta. This is due to the FRIDAY:-Hanol, Bangkok..

fact that tin, wood oil, pigs ment of Accounts for the year would, in such an eventuality seeking to help Italy to wrest Washington and the King. She and 22, the following have qualited bristles, tea and antimony are her Air France: ended 31st December, 1938. become just another integral from France that which she was, the announcer said, the great as Air Bald Warden. Instructors most valuable exports, and these

The Transfer Books of the part of Fascist Italy and herself was instrumental in American public, who can't help Messrs. Chak Tal Kwong, Fung

the southwest and are exported Hongkong Service 12.30 p.m. Company will be closed from 29th would immediately be gov-securing for the French getting a kick out of royalty, Yam Leung C. F. Needham, K 8. are almost exclusively produced in THURSDAY:

for March to 13th April, 1939, both erned on totalitarian prin- people. But, Hitler or no though her heart belongs to Leung, 8. Simpson, AW, Tickle via French Indo-China and the Pan American Always

M. A. da. Bousa, Tanng Sur Burma," road Japan's ~ niational Hitler, France is determined days inclusive.

TL DUCE must, of course, be to uphold her rights and she Itt a caltom of American news Cheung, WG. Grimm A. Binton debt is three times that of China- MONDAY (APTIÍ 3)UBA MAS

paper, clubs, to burlesque world person E. Ch DODWELL & COMPANY,

aware of the fact that the will refuse to budge an inch ages at their annual dinners Ms.The follo LIMITED,

natives in Tunis would hardly before Mussolini's claims. Roosevelt is reported to have described Air Raid General Managers.

welcome his colonists with There is no room for further the Washington skit arry auth

ing show. Oncially it was statedi

P.LYO "No offence to any one was meant 247 open arms The agricultural concessions.

ciples.

daddy."

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and is 260 yen per capita as over hiye qualinen against China's $13 per capita

dessrsť Cheng

China with one hand is fighting TUP the aggressor, while with the other

France, Henal

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