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Attention is drawn to the following Order made by His Excellency the Governor under the above Regulations:-

ÜRDEK

in exercise of the powers con ferred by Regulation 4 of the Detence (Finance) Regulations, 1939, his "Excellency

Governor hereby orders that-

the

The Evening Institute will re open on Wednesday, 11th Octo ber, 1939.

Entry Forms may be obtained at the Education Office, Fire Station Building, or at the Trade School, Wanchai.

J: RALSTON,

Director.

710

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION

IN THE GOODS of Herbert Alfred John Macray of Sloane Street Chelsea in the County of Middlesex, de. ceased.

NOTICE I'S HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, made an Order limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 7th day of Octo- ber, 1939.

All Creditors and others are Accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.

Dated. the 11th day of Sept.,

1939.

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HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 10, 1939

AMERICAN.

POLICY

THE

HE UNITED STATES is the strongest and the richest of the Democracies. There- fore, the internal politics of the United States, where they concern the neutrality" or participation of the country in the war in Europe, are of concern to the entire world.

TO DETERMINE whether America is likely to enter the war, it is necessary to analyse the main lines of her national policy and the Interests that lie behind it.

ΤΟ MAINTAIN ITSELF

EDITORIAL

U.S. TITLE FOR ALICE MARBLE

FOREST HILLS, Sept. 18 (Reuter)-In, the American Lawn Tennis Championship final, Miss "Alice." Marble won the Women's Singles titla. beating Miss Helen Jacobs 6-0, 8-10. 6-4

Copenhagen Parleys

PURPOSE OF TALKS NOT REVEALED COPENHAGEN, Sept. 18 (Reu- ter)-A meeting of the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of the four northern States-Den- mark, Norway, Sweden and Fin- land-will be held in Copenhagen

to-day.

Although the precise purpose of

the meeting has not been revealed, it is recalled that during the Great war similar meetings were held. though then Finland was not pre- sent us a country, nor as a sover-

eigh State.

The meeting has been wrongly

described in Germany as a meet- ing of the Oslo States.

CHINESE RAIDS

NEAR CANTON

AN UNDISCLOSED PLACE NORTH KWANGTUNG, Sept. 18 (Central)-A daring rald on the bogus Peace Maintenance. Com- mittee office at Yat Teh Road, Chinese Canton, by a party of

clothes men last Friday plain

Canton

night was revealed by a

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1939.

CORRESPONDENCE China's Incontrovertible

OPIUM CONTROL

IN MACAO

(To the Editor of the "Hongkong Daily Press"]

si-Two anonymous correspon dents have avalled themselves of your columns to valce their dis- approval of the system of oplum control in Macao by the govern ment. They have made no reasön- able assertions whatsoever, except to say that the Macso oplum ad- ministration had signified its rea- diness to curtail oplum sales with

in its territory, but that, up to the present, they have gathered no in-

tion.

Policy Of Resistance Is Emphasized By Chiang

CHUNGKING, Sept. 18 (Central) A fully packed house heard Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek interpreting the European war situation in relation to China's war of resistante and her incontrovertible policy, in a momentous address before the fourth plenary session of the Political Council on September 9.

of

The outbreak of the Eu“ Regarding the centualisation of ropean war gave added im-talent and hastening of nation- reconstruction Generalissima petus to the Chinese spirit of al resistance, Generalissimo de Chiang sald, eTorts have been formation on the subject in ques-clared. They now realise that centred in the re-building

Szechwan and Sikang, which are they are destined for a great- er part in world peace and the nucleus of North-West and South-West reconstruction. He construction, and that their referred to the recent investiga- victory will give greater con-tton" groups sent by the Council to tribution to the making of a study conditions in these two pro- new world in a great age.

The truth is that you, Sir, have permitted the use of your columns to individuals to air their personal grievances and prejudices under the cover of anonymity.

As you may be aware, Sir, the Portuguese Government is bound by agreement with other signa- tories of the League of Nations and, as such, its responsibilities on the question of oplum control, etc., rest entirely within the framework of the Opium Advisory Committee of the League of Nations.

In the circumstances, your cor- respondents have obviously failed to enlighten the public at large as to their prime motives and inten- tions. Statements backed by con- cise facts, and not random jottings of altruistic Individuals, should then only be deserving of your valuable space and the public's serious consideration.

Apologizing for this intrusion.

N. A. DA ROZA MACAO OPIUM

FRANCHISE (To the Editor, Hongkong Dally Press), Sir.-The "Acting Portuguese Consul is perhaps more than cor-. The puppet committee men were rect when he replied to your rudely awakened from. their article concerning the Macao slumber during the attack and fled opfum franchise, saying that it is to all directions, it is stated. unlikely that the franchise will be

message,

against military attack the United States had, until re- cently, only one basic prin- ciple-to prevent the rise of a rival power on the Ameri- can continent.. This principle was embodied in the Monroe Doctrine, which declared that any attempt by non-American countries to establish their power on any part of the American continent would be regarded as a threat to the United States. So far as the rest of the world was con- Japanese garrison soldiers rush-renewed. cerned, the Atlantic anded there on hearing the alarm and My Information is that the Pacific Oceans were ample fired several blind shots. They defence. Nothing that hap-also placed several innocent civi- pened in Europe or Asia was lians under arrest. 687 of sufficiently vital impor- tance to the United States " entangling alliances" which might lead the country into war.

JOHNSON, STOKES &" MASTER, Solicitors for the Executrix, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building, " Hong Kong.

(1) me british subject "shall, NOTICE TO

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except with permission granted by or on behalf of the Governor, sell, transter or do anything which involves the crea tion l a charge 00, securities the principal, interest dividends 01 which are "payable in the currencies of Canada, the United States of America, the Argentine, Belgium, France, Holland and the Netherlands East Indies. Norway, Sweden Switzerland.

the

date of

or

CONSIGNEES.

5.5. "WOSANG" Arrived Hong Kong 16/9/39.

to

warrant

->

While the bogus Peace Main- tenance Committee was being at- tacked, another party of Chinese plain clothes men raided the Japanese barracks at the former Land Bureau at Shaho, in the eastern outskirts Brisk rife Bring was audible from there throughout the night, indicating severe fight ins.

of

opium monopoly as it is a pre- sent operated in Macao is quite different to what it was. There is no tendering and competition as It is generally understood.

What the Macao Government does, apparently, is to appofut a commissioner or Inspector to look after the monopoly sales of opium, This appointment is made every few years, and the appointee is the nominee of the group which can guarantee the highest basic annual return in revenue to the

INTERPORT

Government.

Hongkong, Sept. 18.

HONGKONG STOCK

MARKET

(To the Editor, Hongkong Daily Press). Sir-Now that Ice House Street appears to be looking up, is it not time for the brokers to improve

IMMEDIATE TASK

vinces and assured his audience that whatever suggestions ther The important, immediate tasks may make will receive the careful of the Council, of which Generalis consideration of the Government. simo is the chairman, should be keyed to a three-fold programme: viewed the war situation on the Militarily, the Generalissimo re- centralization of talent to hasten various fronts during the last six up the nation's reconstruction, months since the Council held its strengthening of its military force last plenary session. In the hall to realise final victory, and watch-year period the only Japanese gain. fulness of the international situa-

tion to promote China's wartime was Nanchang, while on the other hand the enemy has lost heavily foreign policy.

on other places, for example in Shans and north Hopeh.

Generalissimo Chiang re- Iterated that the Western War was entirely induced by the Eastern War and that the Sino- Japanese War now remains the most important world problem to-day. China, with one fourth of the world's entire, popula- tion, could riot forget - her

per-.. heavy responsibility to manent world peace and jus-

Lice.

NATIONAL POLICY

MILITARY STRENGTH Generalissimo Chlapy said be was able to report that Chiña's. present military strength was more than doubled as compared" with that at the beginning of the war. Ample reserves are moreover now available for the replenishment of supplies .54"',

The Generalissimo varned that: the steadily weakened position of China's national policy, the the Japanese does not mean that Council was told, was built upon¦ China's future course would be tour principles ever since the "Jap- easy saliing. anese invasion of Manchuria in

September 18, 1931..

On the contrary, more diffi-" culties and dangers are envis- Aged if the Chinese army is to break through the last Japan- ese efforts. This behoves of all of us to do our best to streng- then our military, political and économie' positions in order to Prepare ourselves for the last hurdle of the race.

These are 'first, ́resistance of Japanese aggression and mainten- ance of China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, second, faith- to international ful adherence pacts and maintenance of world peace and order, third, non-parti- ! cipation in the anti-Comintern pact, and fourth, an independent:

CHINA'S ENEMY and unhampered foreign policy

Generalissimo. Chiang in the aimed entirely for the interests of her war of resistance and of her concluding part of his address national standpoint.

| manoeuvrings of Japanese puppet- managers and stated that their Throughout these eight years designs are doomed to miserable the National Government has never for once side-stepped - this

will remain un- China's enemy," he pointed out, policy, which changed no matter what dangers is Japan, and anybody under the and difficulties may develope or order and direction of Japan will. what changes the international¦ be deemed as Japanese slaves no altuation may undergo. Under longer enjoying Chinese nation- whatever circumstances, Generalis-ality. Hundreds of puppet govern- simo Chlang belleved that China ments may appear and disappear, will be able achieve her Anal goal and hundreds of "spuitous treaties of shattering the Japanese aggres-may be made, and unmade, but sion and reallaing national reju- they will not affect an iota of venation.

China's resistance.

WITH THE ADVANCE of science and in particular the science of warfare, the two oceans flanking the Americas were no longer enough pro→ tection in themselves, and a UNWROUGHT TIN new principle-actual though Owing to a Fire having broken

TRANSACTIONS never clearly expressed-was out on beard this vessel whilst added to the old one. No one

PROHIBITED en route from Shanghai to Hong Power could be allowed to

SINGAPORE, Sept. 18 (Reuter) Kong, on 15th September, 1939, dominate either the con-In connexion with the Defence certain cargo destined for Hong tinent of Europe or the con- Regulations, an Official Govern

Gazette Kong, Haiphong etc., had to be tinent of Asia.., During the ment

announcement landed into the premises of twentieth century the hypo- states: "No person shall buy, or Messrs The Hong Kong & Kow.thetical enemies of the United sell, or agree to offer, or invite loon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Germany and Japan.

States have clearly become an offer, to buy or sell, any un-

wrought tin to blocks, ingots, ad conditions in the market RUSSIAN RIDDLE for Survey by Messrs Goddard &

ECONOMICALLY, the Unit- bars or slabs at prices exceeding Douglas, and a General Average ed States is, interested in parity in Malayan currency

first of all dominating the of the Americas. markets Moreover, it seeks free trade with, and free investment in, Europe, and the assurance_of participation in the great Madame Chiang Kai-shek, First potential markets of the Far Lady of China, à campaign for

Formerly East.

its

chief 500,000 winter suits for Chinese trade rival in South and soldiers fighting at the front has Central America was Great been launched. Madame Chiang" the has telegraphically requested the More lately,

wives of the Governors of various Axis powers have taken a hand-and the military and provinces and women organisa- tons at home and abroad to economic challenges" to

assist in the campaign. America have come from the same quarter and, moreover, brought the battle to her own doorstep.

has been declared.

(2) "every British subject being the owner of any securities

A General Average Deposit of referred to in paragraph "(1) of this Order shall 5% is payable before cargo can within twenty-one days of be released here or at Destination this Order, to which cargo will be forwarded made a return to the unless instructions to the con Financial Secretary setting trary are received by the under out the particulars of all signed. such securities and the Messrs Goddard and Douglas place or places in which will survey cargo at 10 a.m. they are held, provided Monday, 18th inst., and at 10 that in the case of any a.m. Tuesday, 19th instant, at person who is absent from Kowloon Godown No. 24. the Colony at the date of this Order, the retum may be made at any time with in twenty-one days of his return to the Colony. "Owner" is defined by the Re gulations to include, in relation to any security, any person who has power to sell or transfer a security, or who has the custody thereof, or who receives whether

JARDINE MATHESON &

" CO., LTD., General Managers, Indo-China S.N. Co., Ltd.

PUPPETS

"787

on his own behalf or on behalf MEETING IN

of any other person, dividends or interest thereon, or who has any other interest therein.

Fallure to comply with this Order will rivolve liability to penalties, a under the · Defencéj Regulations, 1939, of fines up to I a maximum of $10,000 and of Imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

Permission to sell or transier securities of the above classes'will ordinarily be given on application to the Financial Secretary, pro- vided that any foreign exchange so obtained is transferred to Government.

SHANGHAI

PLANS FOR NEW

GOVERNMENT. PEIPING, Sept. 18 (Reuter) The Chairman of the Fel- pink Provisional Govern. ment, Wang Keb-min, flew to Shanghai · ́to-day · to" confer with Wang Ching-wel on the Japanese plan for the "forma- tion of a new Chinese Cen- tral Government.

Britain.

NOW THAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE are at war with Germany in Europe, it is doubtful whether sentiment in the United States can be whipped up to a sufficient extent to plunge the country into war... Ample economic and moral support will, how- ever, be given to the Alles, and, in case of necessity, the army may follow trade. It is

£230 per ton on the usual terms' Le..F. O. B. Malayan ports) for delivery from works in Singapore and Penang:

Under the sponsorship of

to

and try to banish some of the disorganised methods that have always deterred "the careful in vestor?

cudous state of affairs in

I refer

particularly to the the Hongkong stock, market by which an investor who wishes to pur- chase shares often cannot have hig order fulfilled at market rates or close to market rates, while a person who wishes to sell ikewise cannot dispose of his holdings.

It is admitted that the scope of the Hongkong market is small,

but surely the brokers and the banks *can get together and devise some means for protecting the investor. Incidentally,

the

failure.

FIRE AT OIL FILLING STATION

Continued From Pare 1 with the offer of two Polish" pro- vinces at no immediate cost, e

Germany was to commit the -A small quantity of petrol was murder and. Russia was to destroyed when a, are broke out. share the estate.

at the Texaco Oll. Filling Station Some of the blackest chapters in in Morrison Hill Road, about 7 European history record early ex o'clock last night periments in this type of crime by

It is not quite clear how the the same partners, but as the Poles are originated, but it appears that well know the fate of their coun-some of the petrol vapour: was try will not be decided in Poland ignited by the flame of an open but elsewhere. They have been lamp on a tricycle which WHE ready to lose their lives for their passing at the time. country and will assuredly be help.

to save it.

brokers will also be protecting play the intricacies as well as the mediately summoned, and the OII

themselves, for then an investor

בנקים

There was a sudden explosion

ALLIED SOLIDARITY

and the petrol was found to be The briefest renection will dis- in flames. The Brigade was im

Are extinguishers insincerities of the game now be Station's who may wish to sell out to cut ing played by Russia and they will were soon brought into play. The a small loss will not be forced to

leave no scratch or dint upon all-ames were partly subdued by the time the Brigade arrive, and the suffer a big loss. This has led to

ed solidarity. many failures to full contrac-

Public opinion in Britain is re-firemen soon had the fames ex-

tual obligations, with consequent volted though not djassyed by tinguished.

loss to the broker,

ed in and out of season curry American favour.

ALL INDICATIONS at the present moment zare that American policy will con- it has so far been following been asking their customers to tinue to proceed on the lines Secondly, some brokers bave and that, simultaneously, the pay margin on their purchases United States will take ad- and sales. Business done on the vantage of the pre-occupa- | margin basis is certainly the best tion of the European powers thing that can be imagined, but with their war to consolidate what guarantee has a local in her economic, political and vestor that the money he pays military hegemony in the two for margin to his broker is safe?

Americas.

these cynical exercises in lower diplomacy. Its reinforcement is to be able to distinguished friends

from enemies of the aim for which the allies will wage this war to te end and their enemies are the weaker for having ranged them- selves together in a recognisable identity of species.

ETHEL M. DELL

DEAD LONDON, Sept. 18 (Benter) The death occurred to day of Ethel M. Dell, the famous novelist. Defeat and compromise arD [She was the author of "The in the Far East, that America

I do not think It can be denied

out of reckoning." The war, will

Way of An Eagle published in that there are few brokers in Ice will utilise its strategic power

THE AGENDA of the com- House Street to-day who can be

end with the extinction, of

1912, and several other noteworthý

· backed by negative, rather

Hitlerism and with that only. M

novels, including "The Keeper of than positive, economic ac- ing Pan-American Conference said to be financially sound

NO OFFICIAL REACTION:

the Door" She married, in 1922, tion. The main body of her amply corroborates this sup- This is a matter which the

LONDON Sept 18 (Renter)11-Col. Gerald Savage, D.SO., wha Its three main | brokers themselves, in concert Reuters diplomatic correspondent served in India with the Army. Fleet is concentrated in the position. Pacific. And her reiterated points, announced after the with the banks and the govern-understands no official reaction to Service Corps 1 opposition to Japanese ex-outbreak of the European ment, can remedy the latest developments in the in- I understand there was recently ternational situation is likely to pansion, backed by the War, are:

a movement to form a central, denunciation of the Trade

clearing house, to which all Treaty of 1911, show why the neutrality of the Americas, margin payments were to be Fleet is there. It is indica- 2. Measures to strengthen made. What has become of the ́tive of the seriousness with the Joint military defence scheme, and why was it not pro

which Tokyo regards the of the American countries; ceeded with?

It is reported that eight mem-power of the United States in bers of the Pelping Government the Pacific that, while giving are receiving posts in the new Britain the most cavalier 705 cabinet :

treatment, Japan has labour-

1. Maintenance

of.

the

be forthcoming until the Govern ment has received full information of all the circumstances of Russian advance Info Poland and has had the opportunity of cussing the situations with the

French and Polish rnments,

borus Tatao and Japanese”

the

taking a ettlement Shanghaf

Dast few Ing great, uzetaTIERE

according to a Shangaaf

3. Measures to defend If brokers here desire business, economic interests against they must first arrange their own situation is developing, so reko the effects of external oc-house in order, currences.

Thats RIALTORS

Hongkong, Sept. 17.

rapidly that a clearer perspective report. Many residents have med should soon be possible

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