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NAZI TROOP MOVEMENTS ON HOLLAND AND BELGIAN BORDERS CAUSES ANXIETY
All Defences Manned Distinguished Audience At Premiere Of Great Film
LONDON, Nov. 10 (Reuter's Special War Service)-Re
ports have been received "In London" of the presence of German Cavalry near the Dutch frontier and the move- ment of petrol by rail towards the same district.
The Allied Armies are confident that if Belgium's worst fears are justified, Germany will not repeat her Initial success of the last war, telegraphs Renter's special correspondent on the Western Front. They are ready to give the German Army a hot reception If it appears on the Belgian flank.
Lord Mayor's "Show" Shorn Of Pageantry
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No story more åtting than that of the martyrdom of Nurse Edith Cavell could have been chosen to mark the 21st anniversary of the cessation of hostilities after the last European War, which this year falls at a time when the same belligerents are facing each other in another war which threatens to develop into an even greater holocaust, ..
Edith Cavell, with Anna Neagle in
There is every reason to
A poignant, drama based on one, tures who very generously released hope that any German wave will be stopped before it has of the most stirring chapters of the picture for China premiere
the last war, the story of Nurse yesterday. gathered sufficient momen- tum to sweep through Bel- gium, but, if not, it will en- counter the fatal line on the Franco-Belgian "border.
FRENCH PREPARED
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The band of the Royal Scots the leading rolë, was watched by was attendance and played a distinguished audience, when selections before the performance. shown at the Queen's Theatre last At the Alhambra Theatre, Kow- night in aid of the British War loan, where the saine picture was Organisation Fund.
shown in aid of the same Fund. LONDON, "Nov. 10 (Reuter)—
The French are pushing forward Among those present were HE the band of the Middlesex Regi- preliminary Lord Mayor's Day-London's preparations in the horthern part the Governor and Lady Northcote. ment provided the most popular civic festiya-was of the Maginot Lice. Miniature HE Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. music. celebrated yesterday, shorn of its fortresses fit snugly into the crest British Ambassador to Chmà, HE annual pageantry for the first ilme in the list hundred years.
Instead of the famous "show"
was an unconventional procession of a dozen cars, with the princi- pal city dignitaries, to the Law Courts, where the new Chief C.tl- zen, Sir William Coxen, took his oath of office.
Owing to the black-out, "the traditional banquet at the Guild Hall in the evening was replaced by a luncheon on much more modest scale, both As regards size, company and length of the menu. In the Egyptian Hall
Mansion Houze.
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The quietness of the occasion falled to depress the usual splen- dour of the surroundings. Contrary to recent custom, no lad'es were present, except a sprinkling of the officially entitled.
DISTINGUISHED COMPANY
The company
included many Cabinet members. The Dominions and Indian Ministers sat in honoured positions at the top of the table and Sr John dellyered Mi. Chamberlain's speech" with remarkable effects
The total takings at both performances is estimated to
be in the region of $4,000. Exact figures were not avail- able.
or the hills equipped with anti-Admiral Sir Percy and Lady Noble. tank guns, some of which point H.E. Major General A. E. Grassett. backwards to traps in which any a.O.C. and Mrs. Grassett, S; At- tanks breaking through the first hell and Lady MacGregor, the defence are almost bound to Hon, Mr. N. L. and Mrs Smith,
A short prologue was read by founder.
Sir Robert Kotewell and the Misses Kotewall. the Hon Dr. and the Rev. J. E. Sandbach, Chaplain Mrs. P. 8. Selvyn Clark, Brigadier of the English Methodist Church, A. B. Thompson, Surgeon-Capt. Wanchal before the picture was and Mrs. G, V. Hobbs. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Raymond, L.-Col and Mrs. J. McDougall, Mr. and Mrs. Eu Tong-sen and many other naval. military
civil sonalities.
Hitler Will Not Escape His Fate
LONDON, 10 (Reuter)-The German Freedom Station, re-- ferring to the attempt on Herr Hitler's life, declared: "The first bomb against dictatorship exploded at Manich Many will follow. Thongh Hitler has oluded once the punishment he deserves," he will not escape from his fate.
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A GREAT WOMAN
That the picture says an unfor- per-gettable tribute to the courage and self-sacrifice of a great woman,
whose noble and patriotic work is The guests were received by Mrs. wonderfully portrayed by a bril~ G. V. Hobbs, chairman of the com-lant actress in her finest role. mittee of the British War Or-
CHINA PREMIERE
The eventual capture and trial
ganisation Fund. assisted by Mr. German
Charles 3. Rosselet, General of Nurse Cavell by a Prussian Manager of the Queen's Theatre, military tribunal, and the verdict and Mr. William K. Way. local which dispatched her to martyr- dom is portrayed in heart-gripping manager of RK.O. Pictures
drama into which is injected su- pense and poignancy of an order The show was organised by the which makes the story one of ex-
high entertainment} committee of the British War Or-ceptionally ganisation Fund in Hongkong, (of value.
The picture was well selected for which Mr. G. V. Hobbs is the chairman) in co-operation with the good cause for. which it was the management of the Queen's shown yesterday and the success and Alhambra Theatres, and the which attended the charity per local representative of R.K.O. Pic-formance was very well deserved.
"There is nobody in Ger- many who would not he'p the heroes of Munich to flee, give them shelter and assist them in hiding, so they will be able next time to strike at Hitter bimself Germany's arch enemy."
Prof. Hsu Ti-shan Tells Of Chinese Women's Costumes During The Last 300 Years
That the custom of foot-binding was started by court dancers who had to perform in a very small space and was maintained throughout the Manchu dynasty as a passive expres- alon of patriotism; that the Kimono, which is won by the Jap-" aness, is really old Chinese dreis: and that a type of zip-fas- tener was known in China many tundred years ago, weré som® of the fascinating facts revealed by Professor Hku Ti-shan in the course at his talk on "Chinese Women's Costumes during the last 300 years” given at the first meeting of the season of the Sipp-British Cultural Association, held at the Fung Ping-. shan Library of the Hongkong University yesterday.
impo-tant engagement
Prof. Hsu said, in part:--
A large number of people list- the Governor apologising for his ened with great interest to the inability to attend due to another' balk. which was: &lustrated with lantern-aides, and also viewed with delight a fine array of pic- tures depicting the farious styles and changes mentioned by Pro- 'Tessor Hau,
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MUNICH BUERGERBRAU CELLAR'S HISTORY: SEAT
OF NAZI "PUTSCH❞
LONDON, Nov. 10, (Renter) Mr. R. H. Crossman, who knows Munich well, described the Buergerbrau Cellar in # tak from Daventry last night,
It is one of the historie monuments of Nazism, he said, and every year, on Nov. 8, Herr Hitler and his men coma celebrate the part they played in the "Putsch" of November, 1923.
to
It is not a big cellar ke the Hofbrau Haus Cellar. It is situat-
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1939. -PAGE 7
ALLSOPP'S
BEER
A NEW SHIPMENT
of
QUARTS AND PINTS
HAS JUST BEEN
RECEIVED
SOLE AGENTS:
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
2 RUGGER MATCHES
TODAY'S GAMES AT HAPPY VALLEY
BY "HOOKER”
There will be two games of Rugby the Club ground. at Football on Happy Valley today. -1
In the first game, which will be refereed by Lt. Pirie and which will commence at 3.15 p.m., the Navy "A" XV will meet the Army "A" XV.
The second game at 4.30 BIḍ.. should be of particular interest, as the pick of rugger players now in the Colony will be taking part.
The match will be refereed by Dr. Selby and will be between a
team composed of Club and Police
players and the United Services.
The Police and Club side has
been selected as follows:-R. G.
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ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB STARTING TIMES FOR TODAY
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Wall (Police); D. H. Taylor AND TOMORROW
(Police), J. C. Charter (Club), J. Hutchison (Club), D. H. Stewart The following are the Royal (Club); B. C. Fay (Police), E. C. Hongkong Golf Club stating times
(Captain) (Club), R. G. Castleton
1:
A. J. G. Taylor (Club), J. Dempsey 9.16 J. G. Campbell, A. H. McBride. (Police) and W. B. Richardson 24 E. P. (Club).
9.20 L. A. R. Duncan, J, B. Harrison. Streatfeld. G. Riddell
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ed on one side of a small court Luscombe (Police); A. F. Walkden | for Faniing today and tomorrow: yard and has a somewhat gloomy (Club), F. Cullinan (Police); E. W. TODAY: OLD COURSE hall, about 150 feet long, with Stout (Club), L. A. Searle (Police); | a.m. dark Gothic windows and a gallery.
It was here that the Prime Minister of Bavaria was mak- ing his speech, calling on his hearers to take part in the "Putsch" for the restorat on of the monarchy when Herr Hitler broke in, jumped on a table, fired a shot and shont- ed that the building was
BUT- rounded by armed men.
THREATS & VIOLENCE
Herr Hitler then" took charge of it was under the Manchu yoke! It was from this cellar that they! that costumes of the Chinese' started out on a procession that the meeting and announced his people underwent a great change. was to be a trumphal one, but own "Putsch".
He, by threats and violence, in- Mr. D. J. Sloss, C.BE.. Vice. Un account of the fact that the which ended when those taking Chancellor of the University, pre-h-nese possessed a long history part were fired on by a few Ger- duced the Prime Minister and and man soldiers. The celebrations von Ludendorff to agree to his sided. Mr. Chan Kwan-po, honor- or civilization and culture. ary secretary of the Association, naturally were more patriotic than were in honour of the six Nazis programme and take office under read a letter from His Excellency the rest of the subjected peoples, killed on that occasion.
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CHINA WAR NEWS
Continued from Page 1
The Japanese slege of Minshan, a strategic hill in North Klangsi, used as a base by Chinese guerillas has been lifted. The 3,000 Japan- ese troops have been repelled.
the Manchu emperors in the be ginning of the dynasty compelled them to adopt Manchu: costumes, as a sign of submission on the one hand, and in order to reduce their racial feeling on the other...
It was after the last great war that Chinese Ladies began to follow the styles of Euro- pean or American movie stars. So originality and creativenem are lost in Chinese fashion. Headdress and tollette *C- malu a very important part in female costumes.
JAPANESE ATTACKS KINHWA. Nov. 10 (Central)--
The costumes of Chinese women. Japanese units at Kash'ng, Wuchen and Chungteh, 'in Northern Che-during the past three hundred
years have undergone a great klang, launched simultaneous drives at Fuyuan on Wednesday. change on account mosty of the Fighting is still in progress.
Another Japanese detachment from Chungteh yesterday com- menced an attack on Blackaoyang
nearby.
TROOPS DEFECT LOYANG, Nov. 10 (Central)- While convoying military supplies from Changyuan to Newtun, South Hopel, some 300 bogus Chi- nese troops mutinied. They killed their Japanese officers and came over to the Chinese side.
contact with foreign civilisation. And from now on Chinese ladies may adopt entirely foreign styles for which I have reasons to re-
gster a deep regret
SPEAKER THANKED
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him.
Dr. Sun Fo Satisfied British Policy Is Unchanged
Towards China
LONDON, Nov. 9 (Reuter)-"My conversation with Lord Halifax was very encouraging," said Dr. Sun Fo, when Interviewed by Reuter. "I am satisfied that there is no change in the British Government's policy to China."
Dr. Sun Fo said that he only come to London to renew contacts and he hoped to see other members of the Cabinet If their arduous "duties of war-time would allow it. He is staying in London for a few days and will then leave for Paris, which will be his headquarters Yor the present.".
He came to Paris from Moscow a month ago via Odessa by ship to Italy.
The side will play in white jerseys.
A very interesting game" should be witnessed between the United Services and a combined Club and Police teams,
9.32
928 F. A. Redmond, I. H. Geare. 6. 9. Church, L. R. Creamer 8.38 J. Brownley, E. R. Cutting. 9.49 R. P. Morris, W. J. Richards. 9.44 W. N. A Smalley, J. W. May- 9.48 W. A. Cruickshank, C. C. WIL
bew.
BULL
felding the 9.32 R.-H. Gregory, A. D. Humphreys, The Services are
10.04 J. B. Markle, Burg. Cdr. same afteen that beat the Club last
Nicholson.AN week. The combined Club and 10.12 E. G. Filce, F. A. M. Elliott, Police side does not represent the 10.26 AM, Mack, M. G. Carruthers. best Afteen these two clubs can 10.32 H. Overy, W. J. E. Mackenzie. field by any means, and....it can]
NEW COURSE.
only be surmised that the Volum
teer Camp is the reason for players 9.20 L M. 8. Lloyd, H, F. Phillips.. like Bldwell, Bosanquet, Cessford. 23 A. V. and Mrs. Greaves. Henderson, Salter and Godfrey, not 10.18 7. C. Brown, Mrs. Rowell. appearing in the selected XV, and 10.32 Mrs. Overy, Mrs. Mackenzie. the Services again seem to be the favourites.
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The fullback berth in both sides is well filled as both Stevens and Wall are capable of bringing their backs into play.
DECIDING FACTOR
10.30 Lu and Mra. Jackson.
Britain's Magnificent War Effort
LONDON, NOT. 10 (Beuter) --- Mr.” Nevil e · Chamberlain's speech, which was read by Sir John Simon at the Lord Mayor's luncheon at the Guild" Hall referred to the Institution of exchange control and stated that it represented a completa revolution, which, though · noti perfect to begin with, had yet, with the help of the banks and other financial institutions speedily attained an efficiency which other countries had taken years to reach.
"And don't let us overlook the fact that our resources in shipping exchange, vast though they may be, are not without a limit. We don't know how long the war will 9.16 1. F. Tamworth, L. R. Andreweslaat, but must be ready to fight 120 W. W. C. Ehewan, N. K. Little-|it through to a victoriona ̈ con-
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9.24 A. 8. Sommerfelt, P. 8. Casidy. 9.28 T. E. Pearce, A. Morse, 9.32 P. 8, Delany; L. H. Geare. 9.38 G:
G. W. Sewell, Comdr. Hale.
The respective threequarter 9.40 J. M. Pearson, O. M. Park. Lines will probably be the decid- 9.44 C. D. N. Walker, M. G. CaTU- ing factor of the game. For the 9.48 Brig. MacLeod, S. H. Dodwell, Club and Police, Taylor and Ste-9.52 T. Low, J. W. Mayhew, wart are excellant wing men but 9.38 J. Brownley, E R. Cutting. they must have the ball to score 10.00 W. L. Alexander, A. V. Greaves. and the Services Centres, who last 10.04 W. S. 2 James, B, R. de L
Liesching week bottled up Harold Bidwell 10.08 A B. Purves, Cat. Matthews will have a lot to say in this mat 10.12 W. N. A. Smalley, D. S. Edward ter, and Richards and Cockrane on 10.16 R. R. Gregory, J. Forbes. the wings are both strong runners. 10.30 J, B. Harrison, M. Pollock.
10.28 G The men of the law hiling the 10. G. Price, P. D. Hunter.
Cautherley, IE a. halfback positions although not Highet. quite the calibre of Henderson and 10.32 H Overy. W. J. E. Mackenzie.
18.36 D. G. Allen, C. Austin. Cessford are a dangerous pair, and 10.40 A. N. and Q. A. A. Macfadyen. Carter and Clark will have a dif- 10.44 J. W. Olarus, B. 8. Church ficult task in holding them.
I hope a study of the old chi- nese costumes may stimulate the interest of our people so that a Dr. Sun Fo expressed the available surplus of Russian pro- revival would be possible of a tale opinion that the Soviet had duce. national costume for our ladies. no idea of entering the war at Questioned as to the possibilities of peace in the Far East, Dr. Sun present, but that the Allies should do everything possible o replied, stressing that he only
gave his personal opinion, that it Services have been playing some to keep Russia neutral,
the Liberal elements regained in- Dr. Sun Fo doubted the Soviet's fluence in Japan, they might pos- ability to supply Germany with sible discuss peace on ressonable much petrol and iron ore owing to terms, but, generally, it would their requirements, but Russia seem that peace in the Far East night send Germany food-stuffs must depend on the issue of the and the Allies ought to buy all war in Europe."
Professor Het was thanked at the conclusion of his talk by the Five hundred puppet troops near Hon, Mr. M. H, Lo. Ka'feng under the command of Professor & Forster, who als Chat King-fah siso revolted. They spoke, said that present day Chi- killed vs Japanese officers. Jap-nese ladies dress seemed to him anese troops rushing there from to be a happy compromise be
tween the East and the West: "Kaifeng were beaten.
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10.48 A. M. Mack. E. P. Streatfield. 10.52 R. G. E. Way, Capt. Moar.
NEW COURSE
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Forwards have dominated the majority of games held so far this season and Taylor who might be am. called the King of Lineants will 9.24 L. M. B. Lloyd, G, C, Worrall
5.32 R. L. 8. Webb, A A. Bremner. have to be more carefully watched 9.40 IL G. Sheldon, A. Tyler, by the Services and although the 948 w/Cdr. Steele-Perkins, T. Me- excellent attacking games in the 9.58 A. J. Dennis, J. T. Smith
10.00 Mr. Dennis, Mrs. Smith. loose, in defence the wing forwards 10.12 Mrs. Smalley. Mrs. Edward. will have to get away from the toe 1624 Col Shackleton, Capt. Rely
Mrs. Mackenzie..! serums more quickly and all the in32 Mrs. forwards might be well advised to 10.40 Caot, Maxwell Hyslop, Lieut.
Pellow. make sure of their man when they
|1044 Tees, Mackay, "are called upon to tackle,
10.52 H. 8. Rees; Miss Cuthertsen.
clusión:
Mr. Chamberlain said that' the one thing that stood out before everything in these first weeks of the war was the essential and fundamental unity of the people. “In our determination to achieve the task we have set before "OFF" selves we have the mupport. of all classes, all parties and all creeds in the nation."-
WIDER UNITY:
"We are fortunate, indeed, to be able to claim unity-unity of Em-, pire. In the Dom'nions and India and throughout our vast · Colonial Empire, we see the same apprecia t'on of our cause and the same result to bring it to victory.
"With France we have the most complete and cordial understand- ing.
With such a'spirit and such supporters as Allies we know
: We cannot fail and cheristi -the firm conviction that we shall re to see the founda, ...tion: laid of a word in which freedom and humanity - wilk
have superseded. and the rule of force?
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