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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE.

A. Gocke & Co. (1935) Export."

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY.

The New Term for the Middle

(lastead of Sept. 5th.)

Entrance Examination on Sept. 4th, at 9 a.m. Graduates eligible to take Entrance Exam, of Chin. ese Universities.

For Prospectus, apply to Fang Man Sul, Esq., or Chan Pak Luk, Esq., Messrs H. Wicking Prince's Building. (Tel. 30241) or to the College.

NOTICE IS HEREBY School and the Preparatory GIVEN that the partnership School begins on September 11th." heretofore subsisting between BUNNAN TONG and WALTER FORAITA carrying business as Importers and Exporters at China Building (4th floor), Victoria, Hong Kong, under the above style or firm name has been dis. solved by reason of the retirement of the said Walter Fornita from the said firm as from the 24th day of August, 1939. All debts due to and owing by the sald firm will be received and paid respectively by the said Bunnan Tong, who will continue to carry on the said business under the same style or firm name as above,

Dated the 2nd day of Septem ber, 1939.

F. E. NASH & CO... Solcitors for the abovenamed BUNNAN TONG

and "

WALTER FORAITA, Bank of East Asia `Building, Hong Kong.

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CENSORSHIP.

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and

The Public is hereby notified that General Telegraph. Postal Censorship has been re- imposed.

2. Telegrams will only be ac cepted subject to the following restrictions:-

BIG JUMP IN AIR MAIL RATES

$1.15 PER HALF OUNCE AFTER

Was

5 P.M. TO - DAY.

An important ·MINOUNCO- ment

mado yesterday afternoon" by the Port Master General Mr. E L. Wynne- Jones in relation to the str mall rates from Hongkong.

The announcement reads as follows:-

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instructions received from London, the All-Up Empire Air Mall scheme is to be suspended forthwith.

The eff.ct of this order is that after 5 p.m. to-day (Monday..Sept. 647 4) all mail to be carried by Imperial Airways will be surcharged at the rate of $1. per half ounce, or part

The Daily Press.

報西刺孖

Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central Tel: 30251.

Night Editor (Wanchal Office).

Tel. 24511

London Office: 53. Fleet Street

E.C.L

HONGKONG, SZPTEMBER 4, 1939

WAR

thereor

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That is, the air home will be $1.15 per half once and $1.10 per postcard. This surcharge applies equally to the existing rates to other destinations served by Im- perial Airways.

EDITORIAL

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1939.

MERCHANT GOVERNOR EXERCISES POWERS UNDER

RELIEVED OF $2,900

ALLEGED ROBBERY

IN SHANGHAI

ני,

In view of the fact that police suspected that the men are also involved in other crimes, the court postponed the hearing for a weer pending further investiga- tions.

Notorious Gang? It was alleged that the detained men belong to a notorious gang specializing in waylaying country folks at the Szechuen Road bridge and robbing them of all cash which they intended to use for buying things in foreign settle- ments here.

On August 21, they were return-

EXPLOSION KILLS SHIP'S ENGINEER

Mishap On K.P.M. Liner In H.K.

FLAMES SUBDUED The dames, however, were soon subdued by the ship's crew, who were equipped with excellent are fighting equipment.

Mr. Camphuis, who received

A similar qurcharge of 1/3d tsing home because they could not terrible burns as a result of the being charged on mall from find any victim when they sud-explosion, died in the Queen Mary Lorden.

denly saw Ma Ching-lin, a Wusth Hospital shortly after admission. merchant, counting bank notes in Nanking Road. Menacing him with a pistol they succeeded in relieving Ma of all the notes he carried at the time.

SURCHARGE TRANSPORT At the same time, the old sur- face marnsport rates have been re-introduced for places now served by the All-up scheme, Le: letters may be sent by sea to. British possession at 15 cents for the first ounce and 10 cents for each succeeding ounce. and 10 cents per postcard.

These rates do not come into force until 5 p.m. to-day so that

letters posted before then we be sent by air at the present rate. A Government Gazette Extraor-

THE SUSPENSE of the long

drawn international crisis Hitler has invaded- is over. Poland nominally to "rectify dinary issued in this connection the frontier" but actually, as gives the additional information in the case of Czechoslovakia, that the rates of postage, by sur- face transport, if the destination to destroy the independence is a foreign country, for letters of the country. But, unlike twenty-five cents for the first Czechoslovakia, Poland has once and fifteen cents for each fought back. Other things succeiing ounce and for post- are different too to-day from cards, fifteen cents each. the black months that follow- ed

Britain Munich.

and CORRESPONDENCE

(1) The use of Code or Cipher France are at war with the

Nazi Reich.

I

is prohibited. (2) All telegrams must be in one of the following langu. ages:-

WAR is a great calamity: But "to realise that not ail wars are calamities, that wars of defence against aggression are, for the threatened, a con- dition both of survival and of progress, we have only to

PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE URBAN COUNCIL

(To the Editor, “Hongkong Daily Press.") Sir-When I read in your paper

GATE VESSELS MARK HARBOUR

་

ENTRANCE

EMERGENCY ORDINANCE

GENERAL CONTROL OF INDUSTRY IN THE COLONY

Full émergency measures for the appropriation, con- trol, forfeiture and disposition of property, and of the use thereof, are contained in a Gazette Extraordinary issued . - yesterday relating to the general control of industry in "the Colony.

Six alleged robbers, who were arrested by the Louza Police in connection with the $2,900, armed robbery committed on August 21 in Nanking Road. near Chibl Mr. Camphuis. Fourth Engineer Road, Shanghai, were brought be-❘ on the KPM liner Buys is dead

A competent authority, sofand either to the whole or to any fore Judge Hsiao in the First and a Javanese fireman is lying far as appears to that au- part of any undertakings, and so Special District Court on Aug. 28. | In a critical condition" following and accordingly charged,

an explosion on board the ship thority to be necessary in the as to have effect. either through- while in Hongkong harbour on interests of defence or the out this Colony or in any particular

efficient prosecution of the area therein. Saturday night.

The explosion, which occurred war, or for maintaining sup-

·RIGHT TO CHARGE in the baller-room, was caused by plies and services essential to the sudden ignition of à consider the life of the community,

Where the right to make: able quantity of fuel oil, the may, subject to any general or charges in connexion with the flames of which spread with such special instructions of the carrying on of any undertaking with respect to which an order may rapidity that for a moment it

Governor, by order provide-

be made under this regulation is seemed that the whole vessel was

(a) for regulating or prohibiting limited by law, any order so made in danger..

the production, treatment; keeping. in relation to that undertaking storage, movement, transport, dismay authorize the undertakers to tribution, sale, purchase, use or make in that connexion charges in consumption of articles of any excess of, or in addition to, those description, and, in particular, for which they would otherwise be controlling the prices at which authorized to make..

A competent authority, if it. such articles may be "sold:

(b) for regulating the carrying appears to that authority to be on of any undertaking engaged in necessary so to do in the in- essential work, and, in particular. terests of public safety, defence for controlling the charges which or the efficient prosecution of the may be made by the undertakers war, or for maintaining supplies in respect of the doing of any work and services essential to the life by them;

of the community may, subject (c) for requiring persons, carry-to any general or special instruc- It is announced that, as a pre-ing on, or employed in connexion tions of the Governor, carry, on.

trade with, any

or businessthe. whole or any part of the cautionary measure, two gate ves- sels will be moored from noon to specified in the order to produce to undertaking, in accordance with day at the eastern entrance to auch authority or person as may be any instructions of the competent Hongkong harbour, and all vessels

30 specified any books, account or authority; and while by virtue of using that entrance will have to other documents relating to that this paragraph A competent pass between the gate vessels which trade or business, and for requiring authority or a person so author- will be moored in the fairway. any persons to furnish to such "ized is carrying on the whole or Incoming vessels are notified that authority or person as may be any part of an undertaking—” busi- during the day the gate vessels will

speciied in the order

such (a) the said authority or person nesamen of the mainland be marked with two black balls, estimates or returns as the com-shall be deemed to be acting as met to discuss the forma- disposed vertically. During the petent authority may require; the agent of the undertakers, tion of 露 Self-Defence night by two white all-round lights, j

(d) for any incidental and sup-except that the undertakers shail Corps, similar to that proposed disposed vertically. for Hongkong, in respect of which Out-going vessels are notified plementary matters for which the not have any right to control the a committee of eight has been that the gate vessels will be mark-competent authority thinks it ex- carrying on of the undertaking or formed to organise and prepare ed, during the day by one cone pedient for the purposes of the part of the undertaking: and

(by the undertakers" shall not regulations.

to provide; including, t point up, and during the night, by order Members of the Corps will be two green lights, disposed vertical- particular, the entering and inspec- be bound, or, as the case may be, responsible for maintaining peace ly.

tion of premises to which the order shall not in respect of sich mat- the and order only in

streets, An examination launch will be on relates by persons authorized in ters as may be specified by order roads and alleys in which they re-duty outside the gates to guide in- that behalf by the competent au-of the competent authority, be side. They will not have any coming vessels.

thority, with a view to securing bound by any obligation or Him—

'uniforms, nor will they

compliance with the order; and antation imposed on them by or by order under this regulation may virtue of any Ordinance or other artas.

"LIGHTS OUT”.

prohibit the doing of anything re- | Instrument determining thetr gulated by the order except, under-functions; < IN LONDON

the authority of a licence granted LONDON, Sept. 2 (Reuter)—The by auch authority or person as "Lights Out"” order" came Into may be specified in the arder, and force at sunset last night. All may be made so as to apply either lights inside buildings must be to undertakings generally or to (b) the expression "essential extinguished, except where essen takings generally or to any part-the competent authority to be. tial for the conduct of work of cular person or undertaking or essential for defence of the effi- vital national importance.

class of persons or undertakings, cient prosecution of the war

to be essential to the life of the community; and

CITY SELF-DEFENCE CORPS FORMED

BY CHINESE •·. Over 1,000 representatives were present at a meeting held at the Portland Theatre, Mongkok, on Saturday morning,

when

CRITY

They will wear an arm band for Identification; and will carry a police truncheon and a whistle,

NO SHOUTING Vendors of Chinese, newspapers are no longer allowed to shout

ing to the contents of the papers they sell.

"ESSENTIAL WORK"

In this regulation-

.. English or French. (3) The surname of the sender or name of sending firm must be included in the consider the case of China. I last week that the health proposals out headlines and phrases relat- obscured and all outside lights any particular person or under-work" means work appearing to

telegram to be transmitted and paid for. (4) Registered abbreviated tele-

graphic addresses must not; be used.

C. G. SOLLIS,"

Censor, Fire Brigade Building.

1.9.39.

TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC LONDON.

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made by the Director of Medical Services were turned down by the Urban Council, it almost hade me

So long as determination is maintained and as the mo- tives of the struggle are clear, the righteousness of the cause that is being.defended fights on the side of those who who will not ̈defend it not only on the field | Selwyn-Clarke has, since his ap-

thing-could happen in our midst.

что

They were prohibited from do ashamed to think that such a Ing 50

Saturday

and the police have been instructed to arrest any vendors who disre gard the new instructions.

I think that there will be few Agree that Dr

The vendors now have to con-

of battle but in the hearts pointment here, done far more infine their cries to the name of and minds of millions of so-his own special branch of service the newspaper they sell. called "neutrals” and among than one ordinarily expects of a the people of the enemy coun- try itself.

civil servant in the Colonies.

Dr. Selwyn-Clarke appears to me to be one of those men" who, in an earlier day, would be called a pioneer. Indeed, the public health work that he has accomplished here has been in the nature of pioneering work.

HOSPITALS

IN COLONY PREPARED

Plans are being completed by the medical authorities in Hongkong for precautionary measures in, the event of an emergency.

BRITAIN, France and Po- land are fighting the Brown Plague in Europe. This fact marks an important mile- stone in the history of the battle for human freedom.. He has done marvellously well But a question which con- in attacking the dysentery and tinues to arise is the effect of cholera outbreaks in the Colony, and the methods by which he has this struggle on the relations succeeded have been eminently of London and Paris with desirable methods because they Japan-the country that has have gained their objective.

All the Government hospitals devastated half a continent But the work is not complete, have provided additional bedding and bears a large share of the and to throttle the very commend accommodation, and certain responsibility for the holo-able efforts of the DMS. in his schools, both in Hongkong and caust that is now tearing the battle against disease in the Co-Kowloon, have been selected for body of Europe."

lony on the matter of expense use as emergency hospitals, should surely does not serve the object occasion arise. They are belrig THE DEFENCE of humanity for which the Urban Council is supplied with the necessary equip- against German megalomania constituted.

ment. has now taken the form of an If taxpayers on the Council armed conflict. No one in think that they would rather been dressed with huge red crosses his senses would urge that tolerate a little disease amongst painted on a white background. the present Allies immediate their neighbours, who, and not 659 ly take the military initiative they (the aforesaid taxpayers)

against the

of suffer, because of dollars and cents, then they are taking not But

Local Examination in Theory 2nd December, 1939.

The last day of entry for the forthcoming examination in Theory will be 15th September, 1939. Entry forms may be ob tained from the Local Secretary.

J. E. ANDERSON,

Local Secretary c/o The Anderson Music Co., Ltd.

St. George's Building, Ice House Street.

COMPULSORY SERVICE,

TRIBUNAL.

disturbers peace in the Far East.

the defence against Japan too

must continue. It must con- tinue in the shape of unfall-

only a short-sighted view but a

dangerous one.

Conscription Bill

Being Rushed Through House Of Commons

LONDON, Sept. 2 (Reuter)-The National Service Armed Forces Bill, which is designed to make pro- vision “for securing, controlling and enlistment of men for service in the armed forces of the Crown," - was' introduced in the House of Commons to-day.

The Bill was challenged by the International Labour Party and other members, but was carried by 340 votes against seven.

Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, explained that the BU's object was to make all fit male

British subjects between the ages 18 and 40, inclusive," liable to be called up for service in the

armed forces during a war or emergency.

The Bill did not in general directly place the ability on

"This is no time for cheap heroles about fighting to the last man or, the last penny, But it must be made known to.... the world that we do not enter lightly o'n * great under» taking of this kind. “When we do, we must do it fully 'and completely.

or

(b) the expression "under- taking" means any public utility undertaking or any industrial or commercial · enterprise, and the" expression "undertakers," in re lation to any such enterprise, means the person by whom it is carried on:

and any reference in this re- gulation to articles shall be com- strued as including a reference to substances, vehicles, vessels · or animala.

MURDERED EDITOR IS HONOURED

CHUNGKING, Sept. 2 (Central) The Central Publicity. Depart- ment has telegraphed the family "It is essential that our resour-of Mr. Chu Hang-kung, editor of vices; Bald Mr. Brown, but pro the maximum effect." vided for proclamations

from time to tline,

The roofs of all hospitals have citizens to be called up for ser ces be properly organised to secure the "Ta Mel Wan Pao in Shang-

NEWS

AIRPORT Imperial Airways:

SENORTHBOUND : Tuesday: Bangkok, Hanoi, Hong-

Della, Dardanus—4 &,5 p.m.

SOUTHBOUND Tuedday: Hanoi, Bangkok. Della-7 a.m.

ing support for China's fight; any reasonable scheme put for kong.»

and an

Other taxpayers, and I know that there are many, think that

unmodified stand ward by our pubilc health officials against the blackmall that should be considered in all serious- Tokyo will now certainly seek ness, and not be brushed aside just to levy, A

because. It requires that money be

doubt be obtained. spent. An extra vote could no

PUBLIC Hongkong, Sept. 1.

It is notified for general in formation that notice of appeal, under Section 8 of the Cou THAT this will involve no pulsory Service Ordinance No. 32 sacrifice in the long run can of 1939, from the findings of the be argued with the aid of one Compulsory Service Tribunal solidly founded and indis-

bald be addressed to the Reputable proposition. gistrar, Courts of Justice, Hong Kong.

C. BRAMALL BURGESS;

Clerk to the Compulsory Service Tribunal. September 1, 1939,

Burkhardt

For London?

Air France:

• NORTHBOUND. Wednesday: France, Hano

Hongkong/

Service-noon.

⠀ SOUTHBOUND ·

Wednesday: Hanot, France.

Mr. Brown stated that there would be a provision for post- ponement of cases of excep=" tional hardship as well a5 provisions regarding, conscien- - tious objectors.

bai, who was assassinated by pro Wang, Ching-wel terrorists on Aug. Mr. Greenwood asked that-war 30, conveying its deep and heart- pronteering be stopped, and as felt condolences much as possible of the burden

now

of expenditure should be borne The Central Publicity Depart

ment has also remitted a sum of $1,000 for the funeral expenses ・AGE GROUPS

BONA MI Chu, who died poor. Mr. Leslie Hore Belisha, fecre- Mr The BI was almost identical tary for War, said that under the staunchest supporter with the Military Training Act. Government's new conscription and it was not intended at the measure, it was the intention to in beginning that any considerable call up classes of age, groups, number other than those already an orderly manner, w lable should be called up.

ernmen

the

of the Go policy of

and had received, threatening letters Shanghai whla faithfully and "We have selected the range of loyally carrying out his duty, ages between 18 and 41," he said, It is understood the Central as representing the most vigorous publicity Department has recom manhood of the nation, but it

** LABOUR'S SUPPORT

Mr Arthur Greenwood sald that the Labour Opposition had decided to support the measure, and add does not follow from that fact mended to the Central Party Head- ed:

that we have begun at the age quarters and the National Govern- ment that posthumous bonours be clear a "We are clear that we must of 18 for the purpose of this Bill, accorded to the late Mr. Cha take all appropriate means to or that we intend to call up that bring this war to a speedy and class as the initial class. successful conclusion. It must be The Military Training Act neither a member of the Kuom Manila. made clear to our allies, especially falls to the ground and is re- tang not a Communist Since his

to Poland, and to all nations placed by this Bill before the death, his fami friendly and unfriendly that the House, he concluded) ww many large and whole of our human and materialThe Bill was read a second ranging from $60 Manilla: resources are, thrown behind those time and further sta Honolulu Clipper 8.30 m who are victims of aggression journed til to mor

Bervice--1,30 pm. (mme day). Pan American Airways:

EASTBOUND

Wedne

THE SUPPORT of the Unit- ed States, the world's richest and strongest democracy, will stand in direct relationship

LONDON, Bept 2 (Reuter)- to the extent to which the Fror. Burkhardt. League Commis Hongko fight against aggression in aloner, for Dansig, and his party,

Honola Europe. Is a fight against have arrived in Lithuania. They, aggression throughout the are believed to be on their way to

London.

662 world.

UBA

lipper 2 p.m.

מאנקס

Shs Mr. Chin, it is revealed,

were ad÷

from his