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HONGKONG, OCTOBER V. 1939

SALE OF WORK AT KOWLOON UNION CHURCH

The Kowloon Women's

Gulld

CORRESPONDENCE

SQUATTERS

To the Editor, “Hongkong" Daily Press"- Si-With regard to the matter held their annual sale of work of the Kowloon squatters I should Saturday, afternoon in the Kow-like the following facts to be pait icon Union Church Hall, Jordan before the public. Road.

gave

section

The many raffles proved very popular and the book section sale was most satisfactory.

Tea and light refreshments were served during the afternoon for a small charge.

It appears that several months A large attendance of ladles ago the Government decided that to the all areas special attention

occupied by squatters sweets and home domestics section huts should be cleared, but it was of the fete where pastry, pre-

soon found that by the ordinary serves, candy, and various special process of Court action, taken for tles were on sale. The handicraft encroachment on Crown land, the.

where sweaters, sewing squatter settlements could not be accessories, novelty items of hand-removed as quickly as they were work, were for sale was well

being erected. patronized.

This was, however. the only

action course of

open to the Public Works Department, and the Govemment had then to consider whether the work of clearance should not be handed over to the Health authorities. who were granted extraordinary powers to remove several months ago

huts squatters'

without going through the slow process of ob- taining Court orders for eviction.

It is understood that the Gov- after careful decided

On this and the Hen. Director of Medical Services has been au thorized to proceed. through his Health officers, with the removal of all squatters from sites illegally occupied by them.

The proceeds are Church funds.

ald "of

to the Kowloon border. With the signature of the "German- Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, the threat to Chungshan, along with the tension on the Border, slackened perceptibly. On September 12, when the Japanese attitude towards Britain was again becoming provocative, Wargmoon saw its second battle. -

THE FINAL ATTACK yes- terday was carried out not by hundreds but by thousands of men. Naval artillery and numerous airplanes cipated in the operations Reuter states that Shekki was reduced to ruins, while hand-to-hand

parti-

encounters

ernment has 20, consideration, procedure,

As a beginning, two large areas are being prepared (one on the island beyond. Shaukiwan and one on the mailand near the shore about a mile to the southeast of

Kal Tack). Water is being laid on to these areas.and Iatrines are being erected. Sites for sheds are being marked out, and the evicted squatters will be given the choice of erecting their own sheds or en-. tering Government camps, renting accommodation in tenements, or returning to China..

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EDITORIAL

PAA Orders

22

MONDAY, OCTOBER

9, 1939.

COMMENTS Hello & Goodbye

Clippers ON CURRENT

"Fan American Airways

officials

In New York announced an order of 22 Clipper flyingboats and land transports as part of a $6,000,000

programme.

California to Austraila.

aviation

th

mons

EVENTS

means that on the average

BY A, W. HYER)

Using the "gum-shoe method” we quietly investigated the activities of the shipping and air departments over the week-end and found much was happening. "

You may be wondering how the effects of Gerinan submarine wartare on Britain's merchant. The new order would indicate a

First of all the British Am-). Mr. and Mrs. T., Yule, and their speeding up of schedules on the fleet compare with those of the last war. Such a comparison is

bassador to China, Sir Archi-two lovely young daughter who are trans-Pacific route between San

exceedingly favourable,

bald Clark Kerr, and his staff, "pretty as pictures." were travel- Francisco and Hongkang. besides According to Mr. Chamberlain's various other services in the vast statement in the House of Com- arrived in the Colony from ing to Manila. Their farewell was network of Pan, American Airways'

almost 3,700,000 tons of the North, only to depart a certainly a hectic and gay affair

in the family, so to speak! routes.

shipping entered and cleared Br- few hours later for Chung-

When the American passenger Within a year it is expected a

tish ports during the worst ten king.

The Ambassador as steamer arrived during the week- De regular weekly service wit

days of German submarine war- usual, always aiming to please end, there were many anxious and maintained on the new route from fare, that is from September 11 the Press had little informa- excited sureters awaiting at the

to September 20. out of which tion and was delightfully non-pler.. The programme of the

account committal. The Ambassador Lieut. Commander and Mrs. company includes orders for six only 1.7506 were lost on

of U-boat- attacks or mines. This certainly leaves a trail of James Clay, formerly number one -314 flyingboats, which are advanced design of the criginal one out of every 58 ships, or formal and jolly manner.

cnly-friends in his wake by his in- of the U.S.S, Mindanao, were pass- 41 |ing through our city en route to Boeing Clipper, now in the trans- atlantic and trans-pacifc service. There are six of these Boeings in operation. Two of them, the Call- fornia and Honolulu Clippers, travel between San Francisco and Hongkong, the other four cross the Atlantic Ocean,

The order for six more of these 74-passenger air liners seems to be by the announcement justided made lately by Pan American that commencing October 7 It is doubl Ing its air mall and passenger ser- Vice to Europe via Bermuda and The service at present the Azores. is twice weekly.

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of it, it is most unlikely that the Government would countenance

rather one out of every 58 tons of shipping was lost and that the total tonnage destroyed was more than 84,000 tons.

lett

nearly one

no

Imperial Airways are late this the United States from Manila week due to the main Empire route There were many friends down to service, but this is to be expected toast and shake the hand of these because of European conditions Popular American Navy people, The air mail from all Empire ports: will be arriving this afternoon.

Imperial Airways

TREMENDOUS LOSSES

Mr. Robert De Vos, that hand- some Belgian Consul in Hongkong. Compare these figures with the

returned from a short visit "in tremendous losses which the Bri-

Manila, And

the southern sun tish merchant marine suffered

certainly presented him with a. during the one month of April

SUNDAY MORNING, bright and healthy complexion! 1917 alone:

million

early. 7 a.m... the Dorado under Mr. Jack Horton came back to tons of shipping were sunk during the skilful command of Captain B. Hongkong. This oficial of the that worst month of the last war.

A. Dykes took off for Bangkok. Radio

America Corporation of One ship out of every four which

British ports never

Mr. S. Nevatia, the businessman, went south on the Dutch steamer came home, in April 1917

who has been taking the round-and hurried back by the American while етед during the bad ten days of last about way on his return voyage to passenger vessel,

hin home and office in Bombay, There were certainly · exciting September 57 out of 58 ships safe-

from Europe and England, com- and plentiful greetings on the pier ly reached their destinations.

menced the last leg of his journey awaiting Mr. J. N. Sweeney, of the German During the last war:

excited over the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co.. submarines succeeded in sinking He was quite

This engineer has been in a total of eleven million tons of forthcoming air journey to India Ltd.

four months' tour again next welcome must have been a great year. "Round-the-world in four one as he is very popular in the months!"

south and north, no

this whole wicked ramp by assess shipping, which was almost equal and hopes to make the same! Manila on a business trip His

ing the buildings for taxes.

to the whole tonnage of Bri- tain's mercantile marine at pre- sent. But "British shipbuilding

Dona Dsong B and Mr. Ivar Mr. D. L Lale, official of Taikoo (on kept pace with that tremendous

Co.. rate of destruction

during the Stewart Jehn were travelling by Dockyard and · Engineering last war and the war WAK

won Imperial Airways, respectively to Ltd. also returned from a business inspite of the effectiveness of Hanoi and Gwalior, Business trips trip to Manila: Relatives and are the excursion for these two friends were certainly glad to té German submarine warfare.

him retum, it was almost as if he passengers.

had been gone for monther Health Service in Manila, has come call- ing on our city. He seemed very the world on his

"

SMALLER LOSSES This time, however, there

is Steamer Traffic

The suggestion seems to have been made from certain quarters that the Government may permit conversion into building lots payment of the usual conversion premium) of the farm land on which these permanent. or semi- permanent, buildings have been erected. It seems, however, that this is quite impossible because of town-planning requirements. and it is to be feared that a solu-hope that the losses of the Bri-

tish merchant marine

be SAILING HOME TO Manila over happy with tion of the problem cannot

the week-end were Miss M. arrival, .. much smaller even if the war found in this direction.

Araneta and Mr. and Mrs. J.

Great gaiety centred around the drags on for & long time. Mr. While it appears certain that

Cuesta. These prominent south-Mr. and Mrs, W. G. Wilson and stated that since Chamberlain

Mies wholesale clearance of squatters'

em residents have been on maca- their two very nice children. huts' of the common type is about has been reported sunk by enemy September 24 no British ship

tion in Japan and "Shanghal & Wilson and Master D. Wilson. to be put in hand without further

Several days were spent in Hong- This pleasant family are connect- submarine action. For the Vast delay, it is understood that the.

forces of the British Navy have king where they trans-shipped to ed with Asiatic Petroleum Co. and Government has not yet reached a since been chasing German sub- the Canadian passenger steamer arrived from Manila this month, Whether any building lots for ridiculous' figures.decision regarding illegal stone, marines with obvious success. And

was

too

were raging in every street. The district magistrate, Gen. Chang Wei-chang, personally. Additional European and Chi- led the militia east of the nese staff are being appolated, to ensure that, once cleared, the sites City as he had led them at Wangmoon. However, the will not again be occupied by

squatters. Japanese assault violent to be withstood by such meagre forces.

THE RESULT is that Shekki | Department is said to be faced is at last in Japanese hands, with great difficulties in dealing as is the new rice crop, which with squatters on farm land, on owners have sold will be gathered at the end of which the

Chinese force can now remain

in the district is doubtful. The country, except for a slight hilly fringe along the coast, is flat as a table and intersected by creeks. There is no place to hide from planes during the day, and hardly a ricefield to which the flat- bottomed Japanese creek gun- boats, with a draught of two or three feet, cannot pene- trate. This does not mean,

It must be understood that this refers only to squatters on Goy- ernment land. The Public Works

e.g. $250 for a plece of ground the

real value of which was only $15. On these sites, contractors (who must have been aware that the building authorities approval of plans was necessary before build- ings could be legally. erected and that, in any case, they could not be erected on farm lots) have built, to the owners' orders, sub-" stantial stone residences without authority.

B

be

..

will

buildings of a permanent nature: whatever victims German sub- It would seem, however, that the marines found during the last two fit of

weeks were ships of neutral na- tions."

concession which the Government is likely to

make is such structures may, subject to

Mr Chamberlain also stated satisfactory sanitary arrange-

that since the outbreak of the war ments, be tolerated without per- not a single ship has been lost tr mit or other official recognition. until the end of the present period of emergency, when all Illegal structures of every kind will be re-

moved.

Other lot owners have erected It is learned upon good au- on their farm land on which thurity, however, that the Govern

be legally ment has not yet even considered such a concession. and that re-

may

not

construction

CHUNGSHAN however, that the population buildings

of a million and a half hardy, erected) a large number of sheds

of semi-permanent intelligent and traditionally

which are leased on a SIDESHOW

monthly unruly peasants will not make | rental, representing 120-150 per the occupation a very uncom- cent, annum on the value of the fortable one.".

A

into

FTER A YEAR and a half of constant threats and

FOR CHINA, the occupation. extremely frequent attacks," the Japanese army has finally of Chungshan carries no mil- itary disadvantage. There are succeeded in occupying the

no roads in the district that Chungshan district, Kwang-

lead

the interior of tung's richest rice producing Kwangtung except the road area, birthplace of Dr. S to Canton. The waterways Yat-sen homeland of a very also do not give access to any large proportion of overseas potential Japanese objective. Chinese, and great, food depot Even the rice exports, which formerly went to feed Canton, THE FIRST ATTEMPT to have of late been deflected to lang on the Chungshan coast this Colony-so that the food was made in February 1938 supply of the province will not and was, repulsed by the be seriously affected.

for this Colony.

buildings..

Still other owners of farm land permitted the erection have (against payment of a monthly ordinary ground rent) of the squatters' huts or hovels.

The total number of persons living in unauthorized buildings of these three classes in Kowloon is stated to be not less than 80,000, possibly more.

It is known that the P.W.D. has issued summons in a large num- ber of these cases, but it is re- ported that the Department has been hampered by the lawe de- The lays, and the large number of mitted to the Government.

ports to the contrary which have

papers within the last appeared in several Chinese news- few days

are incorrect,

PRO BONO PUBLICO. Hongkong, Oct. 6.

much the dangers from submarine convey which shows clearly how.

warfare will decrease once most

of, or all, the British merchant

ships will be contoyed by men-of-

war.

A NEW WEAPON

beyond any doubt,

On the

other hand, Britain's

which carried them home,

Mr. and Mrs. M. Freeman, Pre- Mr. J. C. Littig, executive. af sident of the Asia Life Insurance

international Harvester in Manila, Co. will stop over in the Colony for returned to the south after a very a short while before proceeding short business call here. This North to their home and otice. genial American businessman flew These frequent visitors recently by Clipper to the Colony last week left Hongkong for an inspection, of bat, missed the early morning re- conditions in Manila-business is turn flight.

good and on the "up and up!”

FIRM HAS OWN SCHOOL FOR

huts.

APPRENTICES

Motors, Limited,

KERENSKY WEDS

Alexander Kerensky who in first

· 1917. was head of Russia's

gallant people's, mollitia of only effect of the new con- appeals "ad misericordiam” · sub- Hitler describes it, from their re- impossible now for German's sub-with the local education authority. Committees, and councils succeed

marines to inslet losses

The terror of the German U- boats was so great during the last war because the submarine was

Although there is nothing novel Government after, the revolution then a comparatively new weapon in the idea of an industrial firm was married at Easton, Penn- which found the British Navy

providing educational and training sylvania, to Lidle Allen Tritton, much less equipped for an effecfaculties for their trade apprentices, daughter of Mr. Cedric Tritton, an tive defence of merchant vessels probably few deal with the matter industrialist of Brisbane, Queeris- than it is now. This terror is un-in so thorough a manner as Messrs. land. Ukely to repeat itself. for anti- JAPAN AND

Leyland

of She was formerly married" to submarine methods, especially In Leyland. GERMANY

the British

another Russian, M. Nayadin. The Navy, have made

For many years the firm has marriage was dissolved in London. Bir,-General Ott, the German much greater progress during the Ambassador, in an attempt to ap kastes of submarine attack the tinuation school which has been M. Kerensky, who gave his becu

last twenty years than have the owned and operated a day con- in 1936. pease the Japanese after the

last few weeks proved this fact carried on in a number of Army pation as "editor," has also been shocking insult Hitler triflicted

previously married. He is 58, haa: upon them by coming to terms

The place of these has now been two sons living in England. Es. with Russia, is now trying to draw capacity for the construction of taken by an attractive brick bulld- first marriage

was dissolved in. a distinction between Communism new ships, merchant vessels asing constructed specially for the Paris. and the Anti-Comintern pact

BRILLIANT LAWYER When the Tsarist regime was which is designed to exclude the well as men-of-war, is greater now firm's Bouth Works,

∙ than, it' ever was before. It seems The school is run in connection overthrown in 1917, Governments. "pestilence" of Communism, as

on the and the beadmaster, Mr. H. Darnell.ed one another until Kerensky spective countries.

British merchant marine which BS, and his four assistants are formed his Government in June. are even nearly as great as the appointed and remunerated by the He had to maintain the balance continuous additions to it of new- County Educational Committee.

of power between the Boyleta, led ly constructed tonnage,

Mr. Darnell has been in charge of by Lenin who came from the the school for nearly nineteen same village and was the years.

pupil of Kerensky's schoolmaster "Saws Through Woman'

father-and the Liberals, whose NEW BUILDING Trick Brought Fame

Influence was waning. The new school is attractively.

Kerensky was a brilliant lawyer. Horace Goldin the magician laid out round a central

But he could not famous for his "Sawing a Woman quadrangle. The premises include and Ane orator. in Two trick died at his home two class rooms, drawing amice. create the moderate element be- hindi-tween reaction and revolution. Mr. Goldin, who was about 65, crafts TOOM, and a gymna-Els Government fell in Queen's Gardens, Paddington. a science laboratory,

Lenin's Bolshevik regime took pearance at North London There is also a large recreation had just returned from an apsium 70 ft. long by 40 ft. wide, days.

heart room, in addition to the usual its place, music-hall when he had a

He went to live in exile in Paris, stores and offices He had performed before King

The engineering apprentice are founded a newspaper for Russian

Parisians, which he now runs. Six' Edward VII and Queen Alexan-given a general training which takes dra, other members of the Royal them through all departaments of years ago he came to live in the works, and through the drawing England for a time to learn the to: the Family, and the ex-Kaiser.

and general offices They live at language-then went

Now he is honeymooning in New a hostel maintained by the com- United States to lecture.

York State, and will return. short- ly to Paris,

attack.

Tongawan. Then came the quest on Chinese resistance

It is now known, however, that, Is it reasonable to suppose that occupation of Samcho Island will be to add the despoliation

as in the case of illegal structures General Abe was induenced in atiministratively a part of of the birthplace of Dr. Sun on Government land, the author the slightest degree by Britain. the district. With the fall of and the efforts that have since ties have decided that there must whose interests in China at the Canton, Chungshan lost all been made to build a "model be no further delay, and it is un moment are being challenged by military importance. Regular district" around it to the derstood

he categorically that, instead of the Japan, when troops were, withdrawn and st Of Japanese outrages hopelessly slow and unproductive denied the statement that the Jap- the administration was phy against the body and spirit of method of legal proceedings anese were revising their rela~ sically severed from that of China. Perhaps the insult against individual squatters, it is tions with the Soviet at Herr von the rest of the Chinese Re- will be deepened by some probable, that a rude shock is Ribbentrop's suggestion. The public. Nevertheless, the Jap- thrice-perjured Wang Ching-coming to the owners of farm terial price that Jepan would have anese did not immediately wel coming, by kind leave of land by Government resumption, to pay for a pact with Russia march in to take control of the conqueror, to pay obscene without compensation, because of would be nothing compared with the area and secure the rich pseudo-homage at the home breach of the conditions of their the loss of prestige such an ar- prize of the harvest, just then of the Father of China's fight lease. If the land thus becomes. rangement would involve. On what once again, Government land, all bas's could the Japanese continue In the ear. They knew that for independence. That is all, squatters can be cleared off im to co-operate with Germany after the home of the most enter- FOR HONGKONG, the mat-mediately by Health officers of the thin complete reversal of polley on prising and hard-headed of ter is more serious. With the Medical Department

Germany's part? the Cantonese would not fall Japanese in Canton, on Hal- In the article in the "Hongkong It is suggested by Germany that without a fight, and they were nan, In Chungshan, and on Dally Press dated October 4, 1t Russia should cease to assist not ready for a fight

the border, une military and was stated that when the P.WD. Chiang Kai-shek, come to terms

Mr. Goldin invented a camou SINCE THAT TIME, the economic position of the took action against certain ocen- with Japan, and take as her re fortunes of Chungshan have Colony is not of the happiest.plers of these illegal buildings, ward a large part of Poland, leav-flage by which he claimed soldiers been closely tied up with the The shipping trade to Macao other occupiers of similar building Japan to control China Foor could be made invisible.

ings, against whom action had China Foor Poland! They intend, Auctuations in Anglo-Japan is bound to suffer and the only not yet been instituted, had has apparently to part. Foland's and ese relations and therefore, inlet of food free from Japan-tened to secure temporary building China's garmenté among them, in more or less direct fashion, ese control will be Kwang-permite and were now paying and upon their vesture to cast with the position of Hong-chewwan With war-dark- taxes. I am reliably informed lots." Such is Germany's idea of kong He recent attacks on ness deepening in Europe, that this statement is entirely honour, but it is improbable that wangmoon, which were heroi-Japan is back again at her old without foundation and that the Japan will sink to the same level cally repulsed were timed to game of putting the screws on P.WD. is not issuing any permits as Germany in this matter.

BOBSERVER coincide with the August the Far Eastern outposts of for buildings which have been

Hongkong, Oct. 7, advance of Japanese troops Britain's influence and power. ilegally erected, and, on the face î

pany.

TAIPO MISHAP On Thursday, Oct. Mr. WF Fong, driving an open YMCA will hold its two-seater Ford car. met with an Night of the accident on the Talpo m'ghway in grammie_of the New Territories on Saturday by the when his car went off the road sals wili

A

on Mondayale and and into a gully on a sharp turn.

8.30 pm No persons were injured.»

after

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