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PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS at the Sale by Public Notice is hereby given that the Auction to be held on Monday, Annual General Meeting of the the 3rd day of April, 1939, Members of this Association will at. 3 p.m., at the Offices of the be held at the offices of Messrs. Public Works Department, by Linstead & Davis, 1st floor, Order of His Excellency the Exchange Building, on Wednes Governor of ons Lot of Crown day, 29th March, 1939, at 5:30 the p.. Land Shamshulpo, io Colony of Hong Kong for a term et 75 years, commence ing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 24 years less the last three days thereof,

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HONOKONG, MARCH 19, 1938

EDITORIAL

SUMMONS AGAINST EUROPEAN

POLICE OFFICER'S

EVIDENCE

CORRESPONDENCE

DOWNTRODDEN GERMANS IN ITALY

[To The Editor of the

F

..."Hongkong Daily Press"]

Bir-In view of the late happen- ings in Bohemia and Moravia, where, owing to the artificially- Further evidence was heard by created grievances of German Mr. R. Edwards at the Central minorities partly infiltrated „dur- Court yesterday when A. G. Haring recent years, the Nazis have greave, of the Imperial Chemical considered the time ripe for the Industries (Chilną),* Ltd., appeared complete occupation of the re- on remand on summonses for mainder of Czechoslavakia, I would to the German driving while under the influence like to refer of drink to such an extant as to minority in southern Tyrol.

After the world war: Italy was trol of the vehicle, and driving awarded southern Tyrol, with 230;- 000 inhabitants of pure German without due care and cantion.

Mr. F. G. Nigel appeared for the blood, not for ethnographical but

mainly for strategical reaKOTIS. defence.

The inhabitants of this land

HITLER AGAINST be incapable of having full con-

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A limited competitive examina. tion for vacancies for 3rd grade

present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars," ($200) in Local Clerks will be held on 11th

THE WORLD

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1939.

"DARE-TO-DIE" CORPS:

OVERSEAS CHINESE AS

GUERILLA FIGHTERS

KUNMING, Mar. 28 — The existence of three overseas Chi- nese "dare-to-die" units engaged la guerilla warfare behind the Japanese lines was revealed by a commander of the corps passing through Kunming recently on his way to the South Seas."

а

The group

among

was

MER

The commander, Wu Tal-tan., Chinese was sent southward for is one of the two survivors of a service in the army. Together" group of sixteen overseas Chinese with several of his fellow over- who returned from Singapore seas Chinese, the youthfur com- Only 19 years of age, mander took part in several bat- recently. he has under him 1,000 men who'tles around Hauchow prior to form the Second Overseas Chinese transfer to Kluklang. Dare-to-Die Corps, All the officers of 300 Overseas Chinese anally of the Corps ate overseas Chinese, arrived in Hankow, the young. those After his arrival in China, Wu commander being. and fifteen others joined the Chl- "wounded.

They

Arst were nese Army.

For their good work and bray- stationed in Nanking and later ery, the young commander COMPLETE REVIVAL of

The case is the result of a traffic

not until ordered to form the Second Över- the days of Charlemagne accident which occurred in Bon- have been very harshly treated by Hankow, and it "was -a German Empire coveringham Road near King's College. Italy, their schools and language their arrival in Shanai that the seas Chinese "Dare-to-Die" Corps. headquarters. the whole of Central Europe! Hargreave was alleged to have suppressed and even their names first "Dare-to-Die" Corps was er- When he left. his

guerila warfare. after the evacuation of Hankow,

under him: 1,000 The above represents, with driven on the wrong side of the turned into Italian. In 1932, Mus-ganized for

solini wrote: "What are a band- Their zeal for service, coupled he had out any embellishments, what road.

intelll- engaged in guerilla warfare in Herr Hitler, grown hysterical Mrs. A. M. Kirk told the Courtful of savage Germans compared.to with ane discipline and

numerous successes. Central China. with the lust for power, is that, on passing the scene, follow-40 million cultured Italians?" He gence, won

to write that. in his and the Corps was gradually ex- went on

new now seeking and graduallying the mishap. she took defen-

opalon, the valley of the Adige panded with the arrival of securing by methods of his dant in her car to the Queen Mary

And who is going to Hospital for treatment. Defendant will be Italian only after every overseas Chinese.

Austrian has been liquidated.

The process of liquidation has say. him nay? Declarations was excited but his breath did not

Dr. T. X. Lyen, of the Queen been going on for years and only sion and against further

40.000 of solidarity against aggres- have the smell or alcohol.

tending defendant at the hospital. unfortunate land, some

having been forcibly evacuated. the German Imperial Army

VISIT TO SCENE

About 10,000 were settled in the may sound quite impressive

Police evidence was given by

region of the Pontine Marshes. the visited and give temporary comfort, Bergt. Harris, who

He found a Morris Minor where they have been dying ke but a calm and dispassionate

Abyssinia as soldiers and settlers. weighing up of the evidence, car with its left front mudguardfles, the rest were transferred to which has been accumulating damaged. The motor cycle was thus freeing the land for the set- since the German incursion lying on its right side in front of

tlement of Italians. into Austria, points but in one the car, which was about 8 feet direction - another terrible from the left side of the road, war as the only means to He further stated that defendant check the dream of world domination which Herr Hitler plans for Germany.

own.

SENT TO THE SOUTH During the hostilities around

cash. This sum will be refunded April, at 9.30 A.M. Candidates coups by this ex-corporal of Mary Hospital, testified as to at- 190,000 inhabitant are left in this Hsuchow, a group of the oversens

on payment of the

price.

Purchase must be between the ages of

19.30. Examination will em brace English Essay and Dicta PARTICULARS OF THE LOT tlon, Arithmetic and Typewriting.

I No. of Bale.

Hegistry No.

Lot No 280................ New Kowlonn Inland

Junction of Castle Peak Road und Camp Street, Shamshuipo.

Locality.

Boundary

Memauro-

mouta.

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sale plain

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Squara frat,

Annual

Rental.

Contents

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IN THE SUPREME

COURT OF HONG

KONG

17,700

260

PROBATE JURISDICTION

IN THE GOODS of Elsa Anna Iole Macdonald late of Villa Betaana Saint Veran Cagnes Sur Mer France. deceased.

virtue

to

"Application for selection compete must be made in the candidate's own handwriting and should reach the Naval Store Officer, H. M. Dockyard not later than a.m., ist April.

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

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URBAN COUNCIL

MEETING

The motion that" a public flush latrine be erected on a site on the east side of Lung Kong Road, Kowloon City, situate to the west of New Kowloon Inland Lots Nos 1627, 1802, 1621 and 1613. moved by the Chairman, was unanimously

carried at yesterday's meeting of the Urban Council.

scene.

was not drunk, but appeared to be under the influence of drink. He sald this (witness told the Magis- trate) because the defendant was in a jovial spirit and appeared to have taken things lightly.

The hearing was adjourned til this afternoon.

Committal

"

men,

39.

The purpose of the commander's visit to the South Seas is first- ly to get recruits and secondly for a rest as he has not yet fully recovered from his wound.

A HIGH TRIBUTE Interviewed by a group of Chi- nese newspapermen on his arrival. at Kunming, the young : com-

H.M. TROOPSHIP mander paid a high tribute to

LANCASHIRE LEAVES

his comrades for their courage and their manner" an adapting themselves to all kinds of circum- stances and hardships which were unknown to them before their arrival in China. Foodless days: and wretched billets werd fre- Patriotic encountered.

determination spirit and

Over- came all such privations.

The young commander revealed

Large Number Of quently

Passengers

The troopship Lancashire left 38Hongkong for the United Kingdom that a Third Overseas "Dare-to- yesterday, carrying a large num-Die" Corps had been organized. ber of naval and military officers after the fall of Canton for ser- vices in Kwangtung Province. The and other ranks of the Services,

02-

FIGHTING RENEWED

Hitler has been barking at.

until the frontiers of Germany various times that he will not rest embrace ali Germans. What about the minority in Italy? Has it been mentioned at all by Hitler? I think I am" right in IT WAS REALLY unfor-

Ing that this minority is tunate that the Prime Minis-

the only.. one which has ter, Mr. Neville Chamberlain,

been cruelly oppressed. the cases should have become one of

of the others being grossly exag-

Departing naval officers includ-Corps has a membership of 300.

Of the sixteen overseas Chinese the innocent victims of Herr,

gerated by Germany to suit her

ed Comdr. G. A. W. Voelcker, Hitler's messianic plans, for

WOMAN INJURED own ends. Had Hitler been really

HMS. Kent; Comdr. J. P. de Wwho came with him from Singa- how else

the events

Kitcat, HL M..9. can

sincere in his protestations and a

Birmingham; pore, fourteen had either been IN ROBBERY

man of his word, he would have

Comdr, W. EJ Eames; HMS killed or disabled in the which took place at Berchtes-

were taken up the case proceedings

of these un- Sandpiper: Lieut.-Comdr. W. 8, palgns, he revealed. gaden and Munich now be

fortunate people, after the Ansch-Hall. HMS. Rainbow; Lieut-(E) construed, except as a blind commenced at the Kowloon Court to fill the excitement and yesterday, before Mr. Q. A. A. luss, South Tyre having been a G. C. Collins, HMLS. Dorsetshire: part of the old Austria. He kept Lieut, (E.) R. F. T. Brown, HMS tension which had been Macfadyen, against three

with armed robbery at silence, however, and evidently Dorsetshire; Comm'd Eng. A, E, created before the time was charged

abandoned and betrayed these Urell, HM.B. Medway: Gar. B. A. ripe enough for completing 14, Shanghai Street, Yaumati, on

Germans in order to retain the Tomlins, HMS. Sanwich: W/Eng. his coup. Mr. Chamberlain, March 14.

goodwill of Mussolini. It is report. A. Wilkinson, HMS. Eagle The men are Hui Cheung, unhappily for him, and more

ed that the latter's complaisance Over 400 ratings also left by the

troopship. unhappily for the victims of Wong Sat, 28, and Hung Kwok-

Heroic Hitler, as Goering called Herr Hitler's greed, did not cheung, 31, and it was stated yes- at Munich was the price.

to the address in Shanghai Street, him on his return from his vic- know what was apparently interday they had gained admittance

torious trip to Bohemia, did not while he was penning his where a woman, named Fok Pat,

have the courage to ask Italy for was injured on the head when she to the Munich attempted to grapple with them. the return of this land to the signature

The men were arrested in Wel-Reich and he preferred the sup- Agreement. And thus it was

port of Mussolini for his further .the Prime Minister lington Street, that

nefarious designs to honouring sacrilced, in some measure,

HEARING FIXED

pledges which he made at various England's leadership

Bearing of the case against Li

times to the people of the Reich. stand" in support of demo-KI,, 48, charged with armed rob- cracy for but a postponement bery last Friday at the residence bully and attack unprotected Jews and small countries whose struc- of the day of reckoning in the of Mrs. Rosemary Holmes, 194. form of a peace token which Prince Edward Road, was Axed by

ture has been already been urider- mined by the insidious and under- has proved to be not worth Mr. E. Elmsworth at the Kowloon the paper on which it was Court yesterday for the afternoons hand methods of infiltration and propaganda indulged in by the written. In that great and ot April 5 and 6.

Nazis, especially if they are at the sacrificing gesture for peace,

same time able to setze gold re- Herr Hitler saw what he re-

serves in their banks, leaving the debt of the countries to be borne by the creditors.

Hon.. the

Mr. R. R. Todd presided and others present were the Hon. Dr. F. S, Selwyn-Clarke (Director of Medical Services), the Mr. R. M. Henderson (Director of Public Works), the Hon. Mr. W. J. Carric (Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Hon. Mr. C. G. Purdue (Commissioner of Police), the Hon. NOTICE IS HEREBY Mr. W. N. T. Tam, Dr. R. A. de GIVEN that the Court has by Castro Basto, Messrs. F. C. Hall. of Section 58 of the L, C. F. Bellamy, A. el Arculli, B. Probates Ordinance 1897, made Wong Tape, Tang Shlu-kin, C. J. an Order limiting the time for Roe (Secretary and Ping- creditors and others to send in tseung (assistant Secretary). The Chairman welcomed their claluis against the above", estate to the 18th day of April, Hon. Mr. Purdue to the

He said that this would be the 1939.

last meeting at which they would All Creditors and others are have with them the Hon. Mr. accordingly hereby required to Henderson, who was shortly going send their claims to the under Home on leave prior to retirement. signed on or before that date.

He had had many years of asso- Dated the 22nd day of March, dlation with the Counci, and the 1939..

Chairman wished him and Mrs. Henderson many years of happy

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Executors, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building,

Hong Kong

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retirement.

the

Board.

Applications for a food preserv-

ing licence at Po Kong Village,

Kowloon City and for a food shop

(fruit) licence at Stanley Village were-refused. The regular returns were laid on the table,

The following licences have been grented by the Urban Council be- tween March 14 and March 27, 1939:-food preserving establish-

ments 1, milk shops 1, bake houses 1, swine. 8, eating houses 1, res-

taurants 3.

Fuehrer's

and

mind

even

and

It is, of course, less hazardous to

Nazi Germany has sunk right, chief obstacles to Hitlerism down to the level of Japan, with running riot on the Con- whom they have cultural ties. tinent.

Both these countries differ very

uttle from each other as regards

of veracity, underhand lack methods in politics and trade and bestial cruelty to the weak.

ANTI-HITLER.

TUBERCULOSIS CLAIMS 92 VICTIMS

IN ANHWEI TAIPING, ANHWEL, Mar. 28 (Central)-Following a long--re---

Anhwei spite. Eghting in south- has again fared up with, the Chi- nese commencing 12 vigorous counter-attack on the : Japanese

The following will embark at Singapore: Lieut-Comtir, J. R. A. Seymour, HMS. Grimsby; Lieut. W. P. Lucy, HMS, Manchester: at Kwelchin on the south bank The Chinese have been relent- Surg. Lieut. J. T. Wellwood, HMS of the Yangtze River.

lessly: driving towards the im- Grimsby: W/Eng. B. A. Woodriffe, HMB Suffolk: Pay-Mid. Wportant town in two columns, one Blunt, HMS, Kent; Pay.-Mid. R.

A. H. Cox, HMS. Kent: Pay-Mid. striking at Takusahan, and the other at Toulungshan. Rapid

.

J. M. Wade, HMS. Suffolk.

Military personnel and families progress is reported to have been

made by both columns. who left yesterday included:

Meanwhile, the Japanese at Lient. Col. EL L. Acton, East

Tatukow and Bhawan upriver Surrey Regiment; Major C, E

opposite Anking have launched Howard-Vyse. R.E., and Mra, Vyse an attack on the Chinese posi

there. Flerce tions

Aghting, both from Shanghai area.

Major C. J. H. Treglown, R.AP.C.,

featured by hand-to-hand com and Mrs. Tregiown: N.C.O's. pri- bats. has been faging with both vates and familles totalling 15 per-sides suffering heavy casualties. Captain Winterborn, Royal MAGISTRATE EULOGISED sons; from the Tientsin Area,

Lieut. Bignals..." (from"; Tokyo); :

CHUNGKING, Mar, 23, (Cen- R.A.O.C and

Mrs.tral)-Mr. Ha Chung-shan, Magis- Grossman. Grossman; Capt. EH. B. Nell, trate of Heuancheng in Annwei Seaforth Highlanders; Mrs. Mur- province, was highly commended ray (wife of Major G. P. Murray, by a mandate issued yesterday by Beaforths); Mrs. J. J. King (wife the National Government for his of Col. J. J. King. A.D.O.S.); Mrs. bravery and capable command in Hemans (wife of Lieut. P. R. He- the recent recapture of the town fans, H.KARA.); Mrs. Campbell from Japanese hands. (wife of Major D. Campbell); and It is said that after the fall of N.C.O's, privates and families to-Heuancheng, Mr. Hu personally talling 44 persons.

The details are going to Sing

pore.

Major H. Yates. R.A., and Mis. Yates are going to Indi

led the police and militia units to assist the regular troops in the counter-offensive. The Jap-, anese were defeated and abandon- ed a large quantity of arms and munitions.

garded as an expression of promises Herr Hitler made weakness

now, while to him, Czechoslovakia was coup succeeds coup, the Nazi doomed as being one of the mailed Ast is being held threateningly over all Europe. Mr. Chamberlain, having ex- plained to the people of MR. CHAMBERLAIN ap- Britain what he did to save proached Herr Hitler during the peace of the world, has those critical times as he had to honestly admit that would have approached any he "bitterly regrets" what one of his own flesh and has followed and to tell the blood, with a perfectly trust- world that another war seems ing spirit and with a hand well nigh inevitable.

held out in real and honest friendship NO ONE even in these cir- friendship -- a cumstances can really blame which was going to prove a

Ninety-two deaths from tuber- Mr. Chamberlain for what guarantee to world peace. has happened. What he did, The events which have taken culosis, out of a total of 133 cases he did with a sincerity of place in Central Europe dür-reported to the Health Depart-

AIRPORT NEWS purpose and he was entitleding the past few weeks have ment, occurred for the week end- to feel satisfied that he had shown how Herr Hitler must ing Mar. 25, 1939. Other weekly achieved, in the short space inwardly have despised that returns included 2 deaths from The funeral of the late Mr. Yap Imperial Airways:--

NORTHBOUND An amah, named Ab Yuk, em- of those few tense weeks in approach and how, no sooner measles, out of a total of 66 cases, Swee, prominent Chinese miner of

16 deaths from cerebro-spinal

Menglembu, took place recently Wednesday: Bangkok. Hanoi, Hong- what few he thought the time was op- fever out of a total of 29 cases, 7

and was largely attended by ployed by Mr. 8. W. Minshall, of September last,

Dorado, Della 4 and 5 pm, the Sworn Measurer's Office, was others would have attempted.portune and that his ruse had deaths from small-pox, 5 deaths attacked, and robbed by three men But Mr. Chamberlain was as succeeded in lulling the fears from diphtheria out of a total of friends and relatives.

SOUTHBOUND Mr Yap Swee, who died when she emerged from her em-unfamiliar, as the rest of the aroused in Britain and the 12 cases, 5 deaths from enteric Mercantile Bank Building, Sec ployer's house at No. 207 Prince British people were, of the rest of the world, he had fever out of a total of 18 cases, 5 at the age of 50, is survived Friday: Hanol, Bangkok. ond Floor, Hong Kong, on Edward Road about. 7 am, yester-true sentiments expressed by thrust the memories of that deaths from dysentery out of a by eight wives and several children

Herr Hitler towards Britain historic meeting roughly aside total of 16 cases and one death The remains were laid to rest in Air France:- Wednesday, the 12th day of day.

The men throw pepper into her and France and, in fact, to- and, hearkening unto his from chicken-pox, out of a total the Chinese cemetery in Tambun- April, 1939, at 11.30 a.m. ||

eyes and seized her, relieving her wards all those countries evil inner voicean inner of six cases,

Just lefore his death Mr. Yap dollar in small of about one

which are associated with the voice which tempts him on to The daily returns for Mar 21 coins.

idea of democracy, in his even world domination con- include 30 cases of tuberculosis Swee donated $1,000, Chinese cur on his course of notified to the authorities 11 rency, to the China, Distress. Relief cases of measles cases of Furid and $1,200, Straits to the Wan "Mein Kampf," for the simple tinued

Wah Chinese School at Menglembu cerebro-spinal fever, two cases which contained a reference astounded world

THE MACAO ELECTRIC LIGHTING CO., LTD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Twenty-eighth Ordinary An nual General Meeting of The Shareholders of the Company will

be held at the Offices of Messrs.

Lowe. Bingham & Matthews,

The Register of Members will

be closed from Saturday the Ist day of April te Wednesday the

AMAH ROBBED: PEPPER USED

12th day of April, 1939, both days warm-workman, who chased the reason that those passages aggressive techniq each of diphthers and enteric

Inclusive.

By Order of The Board of Directors, JOHNSON, STOKES &

MASTER,

Secretaries. Hong Kong, 27th March, 1939

The attack was seen by a watch man, a constable and a Dairy robbers and eventually caught The amah was taken to the Kowloon Hospital for treatment.

them.

FIRING PRACTICE Firing practice will be carried out from FORT JUBILEE between the hours of 10 am and pm.

254-to-day.

to his real feelings towards stands shocked at what it fever and one case of chicken- the democratic powers had considers a threat to its very pox, been carefully expunged from foundations and is at the

the American and English sume time realizing that W. H. Mohrman residing at editions, If Mr. Chamber-nothing short of another No. 58, Tai Po Road, was cautioned lain had known beforehand human holocaust can call by MrR AD. Forrest at the of the real state of the halt to this spectre of ruth Central Court yesterday for Hear Fuehrer's mind, he would less domination which Herring his car unattended in Pot have realized that whatever Hitler, is pursuing

inger Street on Mar 18

"CHINESE MINER

DEAD

Judgment for defendant was given by Mr. R. E Lindsell in the Summary Court yesterday in an action for wrongful distraint brought by Wong Wan-kee, con- tractor, of No. 45 Takuling Road, Kowloon City, against. Ho Lal-shi:

his Jandlady.

kong.

Delphinus-7.30 a.m...

NORTHBOUND Thursday: France, Hanoi, Hong-

kongk

·SOUTHBOUND Service-12:30 pm. Saturday: Hanol, France.

Bervice-8.30 ́a.m. Pan American Airways:--

EASTBOUND Wednesday (April 15); USA.

Manila, Hongkong. China Clipper-noon,

WESTBOUND

Thursday (April 6) Manila UB.A.

China Cupper-8.30 am.

All the above services aré carry- ing mall and passengers.