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KONG/AUSTRALIAN FREIGHT

CONFERENCE.,

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS.

As it has been found that an increase in the present War Surcharge of 25 is necessary it has been decided to increase the War Surcharge to 40% forthwith on all cargo except on cer tain commodities the export of which is also common to Japan.

A list of the commodities which will carry the War Sur. charge of 25 is given below:-

Antimony & Antimony Ore

Bamboo ware

Bamboo baskets

Rubber & canvas shoes

Torch cases

Cotton goods

Electric Light bulbs.

Firecrackers. Ginger (dry)

Hurricane lanterns Matches

Mats & matting

Oll "(essential)

The War Surcharge will apply to all Australian and New Zealand Ports (including Fiji Island Ports).

Forward bookings are cancelled but cargo booked prior to the press announcement for shipment 28 days from date may be re- booked at the present rate.

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Scottish Concert Friday, 1st December, 1939,

at 9.30 p.m.

in King's Theatre,

Bookings for Members

and

Notice of Removal.

As from "Ist December, 1939, our general offices and garage will be removed to the premises at their guests may now be made No. 153, Castle Peak Road, Kowloon, (near junction of Tai Po & Castle Peak Roads).

By order of the Board,

LAM MING FAN,

at the King's Theatre.

Proceeds in aid of British War Organisation Fund.

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HONG KONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.

LAWN BOWLS"

The Annual Lawn Bowls Match between members of St. ficorge's and St. Andrew's Societies will be held on 9th December at: 2.30 p.m. at the Kowloon Bowling Green Club.

All members desirous of play- log in this Match are requested to communicate by 1st December

with Mr. W. Macfarlane, Dairy

November 23rd, 1939.

Secretary.

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HONGKONO, NOVEMBER 24, 1939

TRAITOR'S TRICKS

WANG

CHING-WEI, the traltor who deserted his

country

hour in her

of

EDITORIAL

MISSIONARY HOSPITAL DAMAGED

PATIENTS KILLED IN BOMBING

FOOCHOW, Nov. 23 (Cen- tral)-Further detalls of the Japanese bombing of St. "Luke Hospital, of the Church Mis- sionary Society, at Putlen, 80 kilometers south of here, on Nov. 1 reveal that the men's ward was completely destroyed while the X-ray room and the medical storeroom eaved in. entalling a material loss of nearly $200,000.

There

were more than

120

patients. Lacluding expectant mo thers, in the hospital the day it was wantonly attacked by nine raiders coming from Amoy.

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though they were all removed to the cellar, eight patients were kill- ed, and six wounded, one seriously.

Founded more than 40 years ago by the British Mission, the hos pital has a men's ward, women's It is ward and maternity ward. considered to be one of the best hospitals in Fukien.

The Union Jack was dis- played atop the hospital and on the roof was painted a huge Red Cross flag.

A report has been submitted by the hospital

Church to the Missionary Society headquar-

In London pers

and to the British Embassy in China with the request that a stern protest be lodged with Tokyo.

BRITAIN NOW

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1939)

SUGGESTION BY DEFENCE

SPENDING OVER COUNSEL IN RAPE CASE

£6,000,000

A DAY

LONDON, Nov. 23 (Reu- ter)-Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exche- quer, In a statement in the House of Commons yester- day, declared that the pre- sent was the most expen- sive in history.

Although military opera- tions had not developed on any large scale, the cost to Britain was already over £6,000,000 a day.

SHETLANDS AIR RAID

حمد عبا

NAZIS ADMIT BOMBER WAS DESTROYED

LONDON, Nov. 23 (Reuter) -German bombers flew over the Shetlands ană bombs "were dropped.

The air raid warning was

town given in one

the and all-clear followed shortly after- wards.

Indian Constable Arraigned

At Criminal Sessions

The suggestion that Tang Yee, complainant in a charge of rape brought against an Indian constable, Ajit Singh, was actu- ally a paid mistress and that she was a perfectly willing party to the act which formed the basts of the charge, was made by MT Percy Chen, counsel for the "defence, during his lengthy cross- examination of the woman when the case came before Mr. Justice R. E. Lindself at the Criminal Sessions yesterday.

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The incident was alleged to have each of them a $1 note. He drew occurred on October 3 at Fanling her to a spot and she resisted but Lodge, Els Excellency, the Gar-failed to get away. He then push- ernor's residence in the Newed her to the ground and com. Territories, where Singh was doing mitted the act, she said.

guard duty,

Mr. T. J. Gould. Assistant Crown Solicitor. prosecuted, assisted by Inspector F. D. B. Tuckett. walle Mr. Percy Chen was instructed for the defence by Mr. C. A. Sutherton Russ.

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ALLEGED MONEY OFFER

When she went away. continued witness, she met her husband and she told bim that she had been. raped by the Indian. Accused, she

sald, came up and offered"" her husband money if he would refrain from making a complaint.

An objection by the accused. at the start of the hearing. to the

Cross-examined by Mr, Chen. jury. consisting of Messrs. A. complainant denied that she had Valero (foreman), Chan Kwok-on. known accused long before Septem- F. F. Pereira. Ching Sik-wing. Poon ber 24, and that she took money Kel-yeung, A. A. Wan and Wons from the accused to start her Chot-leang, being preponderantly noodle stall.

Chinese, was överruled by Els She also denied that accused and Lordship..

she had a regular meeting place Giving evidence, Tang Yee sald

or that she had been to Fanling that she

a refugee from Lodge several times before Octo- Shumchun and that at the time in ber 3. question she was living at Shekwu- Complainant denied that the hul Village, Sheungshul, with her reason why she was afraid to husband. Kwok Yee, and her two speak to accused on October 2 at sons, one aged seven and another her stall was that her husband had aged fire. They kept a stall at the become suspicious. market where she hawked noodles.

greatest need, advocated the mass terrorisation of his own people by Japanese airplanes, trumpeted his admiration for Japan, Italy and Germany, and called for a crusade to drive Britain, as the root of all evil, out of the Far East, has donned a new mask. In order to attract more Chinese dupes, befool Britain, France and the United States, and so establish better conditions for the new order in East Asia " which his masters seek to found he poses once again as a Chinese "patriot," declar- ing that the war "against Chiang Kai-shek is a cause in which "Chinese with deter- mination and energy" are alone capable of achieving

HAD CONVERSATION the object the Japanese de-

She first met the accused, she sire,

simultaneously

day and which was driven out said, on September 24 when he placing himself in a position

RUMANIA - NAZI to sea. "Two German flying-off- came to the stall and they had a

cers and a rating were picked up short conversation. Next day. he, month or two before October Se which, if all else fail, will

TALKS IMPASSE

in the North Sea on Monday by enable him to offer his ser- vices as "honest broker" be-

BUCHAREST, Nov. 23 (Reuter)s Eritish destroyer. tween the National Govern-The Prime Minister of Rumania, ment and Japan.

M. Argetolanu, is taking the port- LEST IT BE THOUGHT folle of National Economy, follow- that Wang is really doinging the resignation of M Bujolu, something displeasing to his which is due to the talks with the masters, it is worth while to German delegation reaching an study the statements of policympasse on a number of questions. Meanwhile the trade negotiations of the Japanese Government

and

LOSS ADMITTED LONDON, Nav. 23 (Reuter)-The Germans now officially admit the loss of the Dornier bomber shot. Dr. Yu Wen-kwang is Superin down on Tuesday, near Deal.

All Chi- The "Admiralty and Air Minis- tendent of the hospital nese and foreign members of the try confirm that the RAF des- troyed a Nazi plane which appeared over the Thames Estuary on Mon- staff escaped unscathed.

and its leaders since the out-with Yugoslavia have resulted in break of the European war. an agreement that Rumania will ANNUAL EXHIBITION. As we have pointed out more import 30.000 tons of Yugoslav

than once in these columns, copper in return for all products.

CABINET RESIGNS H the conflict in Europe offers

HONG KONG ART CLUB.

St. John's Cathedral Hall Nov 27th. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov: 28th. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

840

LEGACIES LEFT

..in

in,

M.

to Japan unlimited oppor- BUCHAREST, Nov. 23 (Reuter tunities of international The Rumanian Cabinet has re- blackmail and speculation, signed. It is believed that

she which

sees the Argentolana may be requested to

form a new government. stakes as Anglo-Franco- American co-operation instead of opposition to, her

OFFICIAL SECRETS robber invasion of China. For this certain things are neces-

BILL PASSED sary. She must give her en-

LONDON, Nov. 23 (Reuter)-In terprise

semblance of the House of Commons yesterday, legality. She must erect a re- the Third Reading of the gime in China which appears | Secrets BiI was taken up and In his will lodged for probate,

at least Chinese, And, seeing passed all its leg'slative stages. the late Frank Lloyd Hooper, of Noble Street, Newtown Geelong, that Chungking has shown merchant, left many cash legacies itself impervious to to employees, charities, relatives, and friends. His estate was swort. for. probate at £26,923-£13.420 PARTICULARS AND CON- realty: £13,503 personalty."

Farm Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd. Causeway Bay.

01.

1

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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TO FRIENDS

every

form of pressure, she must persuade the powers that to help her is to oppose "the spread of Communism" and "DITIONS of the Sale by Public william Bentley

Legacies include £100 each to to put a spoke in the wheels

and Jack Wall of Soviet Russia. Auction to be held on Monday, (employees); £250

This sub- to Charles terfuge has "of course, done the 27th day of Nov., 1939, at 3 Cane employee); £250 to each yoeman service ever since the p.m., at the Offices of the Public nephew and alece on attaining occupation of Manchuria, both Works Department, by Order of the age of 21; £50 each to Ellen before and during the days McDonald and Elsie Barnes His Excellency the Governor ot

of the fake "Anti-Comintern Lot of Crown Land at employees),

Charitable gifts were: Geelong Pact." Today she sees in the Yanmati, in the Colony of

All new situation in Europe the

one

and District Hospital

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This was the only German plane to reach the outskirts of London that day and so there is obviously no truth in the German allegations that their reconnaissance flights that day had been successful

CANADIAN PLANES OTTAWA, NOV. 23 (Reuter)The of the Canadian-built version

Blenheim Bomber and Bristol the Bristol Bolingbroke has been tested and accepted by the Royal

Canadian Air Force.

MACHINE-GUN FIRE LONDON, Nov. 23 (Reuter) Anti-aircraft guns opened fire on the Essex coast late on Wednesday. At one point intensive machine- gun fire above the clouds Was heard."

an-

The Alr Ministry announcement stated that the air raid warning was sounded in the district of Essex shortly before 10 p.m. and the all-clear half an hour later.

Later the Air Ministry Official

nouncement stated that last night enemy aircraft approached the south-east coast. Anti-aircraft guns opened fire and R.A.F. figh- ters were sent out to Intercept them.

the latter makes no complaint because the former unsparingly give what they should give in compensation for what they have taken. Herein we find an ap palling contrast between the wise and crafty attitude of the Wes- tern Powers and the miserable, liberal and stingy way of Japan

dealing

Al with China. things considered, I am led to the conclusion that the Chinese people's mistaken and prejudiced attitude towards Japan is, after all, due to the latter's practices." AND THE CONCLUSION that flows from this noble

in

confession?

"It is expected that Wang Ching-wef's activities will with- in a few months reap a harvest. On the other hand, Japan will do its utmost to deal with the

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One enemy aircraft was shot down at sea by anti-aircraft fire and a second enemy aircraft en- gaged and driven off by fighters."

REPORT CONFIRMED LONDON, Nov. 23 (Reuter)-It is officially confirmed that the Three Germans picked up in a rubber boat in the North Sea yes- terday belonged to the Heinkel machine which reached the out- skirts of London on Monday and brought down in the sea by British fighters.

The Heinkel was attempting photographic reconnaissance in the neighbourhood of London and the Thames Estuary:

ITALIAN LINER

SINKS AFTER - VIOLENT EXPLOSION LONDON, Nov. 23 (Reuter)-——

Hong Kong "for 2 termi Saints' Church, Geelong. £50 opportunity to polish up this of 75 years, with the option of each; St. Catherine's Orphanage, rusty weapon and use it to renewal at a Crown Rent to be Geelong, St Augustine's Or greater profit than ever be fixed by the Surveyor of His phanage, Geelong, and the Geelong fore.

and Western District Protestant Majesty the KING, for one fur-

THE JAPANESE PRIME Orphanage, £23 each.

General MINISTER,

Abe, ther term of 75 years:

Mr. Hooper bequeathed £250 Intending bidders are advised each to his brothers, Edward James frankly admitted the game that immediately after the dis- Hooper and George Hooper, £50 Japan now proposes to play as posal of the lot the Purchaser his sister, Mary Ann McRorie, long ago as August 25, when (not the applicant), will be and £50 to Robert McGeachy ta he declared that "especially required to deposit with an friend), Subject to gifts to other after the conclusion of the

of Soviet influence from China." When the Italian liner Flanona authorised officer who will be employees and relatives, the rest- Reich-Soviet agreement it is

GENERAL ABE did not say struck a mine of the Kent Coast.. present at the sale, the sum of ace of the estate, goes to Henry necessary to re-examine whe-anything about "dealing with people on shore heard a violent

ther successful dealings two hundred dollars, ($200) In

the Powers will really bring the Soviet, especially striving explosion and lifeboats were laun- cash. This sum will be refunded

A 19-years-old medical student, about the termination of the for the elimination of the. They found the ship adili on payment of the Purchase

Chiang-assisting influence from China," obviously the other side of the picture in of the starboard side, She his precious conception. But

price.

Robert Hooper.

hostilities."

George Anthony Colville, was Sino-Japanese killed in a gun accident on a Proceeding from this assump- grouse moor near Langholm, Dum- tion to shed a multitude of

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT friesshire. He was standing in an

No. of Sale.

Registry No.

Kowloon Inland Lots Locality.

Kowloon Iulenr

Lot No. 4200. Between

Nos. 1085 & 1440,

Nathan Road.

Boundary

Measure-

ments

ft. ft. ft.ft.

As per

zale plan.

crocodile

Chiang-assisting Powers, espe cially striving for the elimination

ched immediately.

afloat, despite a large hole for- ward and a split down the hull

tears about the

was making water rapidly. open car when a covey of grouse failure of the honest" Jap-

he gave away enough, surely, She carried little cargo, how- new overhead. He shot once. Then

to show the real aims ever, and was thus more buoyant anese policy of rapine to des- his stepfather, Lent. Col. Corbett Thompson, who was standing a troy Chinese resistance and both of the penitents of than usual which might have ac- Little way away, heard another the necessity of seeking a Tokyo and the suddenly counted for her being able to keep shot. Turning round, he saw his method of subjugating China patriotic traitor of Shanghai, afloat.

1 88 stepson lying on the floor of the which would not do too much and to prove conchisively that violence to the proud spirit of be misled by this not very both those Chinese who may her people, he continued:

subtle shadow boxing and "Japan has demanded openly any Powers unwary enough of China all that she considers to fall into his diplomatic trap necessary for the realidation of the new order in East Asia. This will not only be betraying is not the way of the Western China's struggle for order and Powers in dealing with China. decency in the Far East but Even though they have openly will also do no good to deprived China of her territory, themselves.

About

7,864

140

34,488

car with a wound in his face,

Twenty-two-years-old Mrs. Joan Isobell Smyth, widow of a wealthy medical student found aceden- tally shot dead nine months ago in his uncle's. Glasgow office, in- herits. £8,600 by the will of her husband, which he wrote on a 836 scrap of paper before the died.

SWISS CHARTER 15 SHIPS

LONDON NOV. 2. (Reuter)

Switzerland has chartered 15 slips for the duration of the war, with a total orinage of 15,000 tons Eght have been taken on delivery. Up to the present Switzerland has only had steamers running on

her lakes

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Mr. Chen: I put it to you that you got a from defendant and with this you started your stall— No.

And that misconduct with the defendant had been going on a

came again and suggested that she No. should undertake the washing of ||

"HE IS DREAMING" clothes for the Indians at Fanling

I put it to you that you told. Lodge. He suggested she should defendant your husband had been meet him at a p.m., the next day kifted by the Japanese? No. If he but she did not keep the appoint- says that now, he is dreaming. *ment.

Complainant denied defendant offered her $10 a month and that' frequent intercourse took place after that time,

She said they later had several conversations, and eventually she promised to go to the Lodge on October 1.

Counsel then put it to witness On a later day at the Lodge, that she willingly submitted to accused went into the guard house accused and that it was" because some clothes she consented to the act that she and brought which he threw on the "ground. did not call for help. This Was When he caught hold of her arm. denied, by Tang Yee. proceeded witness, her sons began! The case will be resumed at 2.30 to cry and the Indian then gave p.m. today.

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H.K. Americans Observe

Thanksgiving Day

in

Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day for all Americans and in Hongkong members of the American community observed the an- Diversary of the landing of the Arst Pilgrims on the east coast of the United States of America, when they gave thanks for the suc- cessful crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in their small schooner.

This particular anniversary is set | American community

the aside as a holiday which includes Colony, but as each passed the church services, family gatherings other the street, in public and merry making.

places, or as they met in private Several business organisations social gatherings, there was the were closed for the day and many warm welcome and greeting which.. parties were held in private homes, on this day, is noticeable in all besides the small groups found in American centres. the American Club enjoying genial and gay companionship,

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NO ELABORATE FUNCTIONS There were no elaborate social functions to mark the day by the

THE DOVER PATROL

on

In past years. Thanksgiving Day was observed on the last Thursday in November. However, this year and in future it will be celebrated on the Thursday before the last in November by Presidential decree.

Nazi Air Claims Refuted

HAMBURG RADIO ASSERTIONS LONDON, Nov. 23 (Beater) An authoritative rejoiner was issued to the assertions of the Hamburg Wireless, news in English on Nov. 21 and · in German on Nov. 22, olabzing: that German reconnaissance flights over, England continue without opposition and, spect- fically stating that British- planes, which took off, were unable to intercept them.

Moet vital stretch of water to

It is pointed out here that Bri- the Allies the Straits of Dovrish fighters brought down raiders:

quickest route for the supplies on Nov, 20. and 21. which are the lifeline of Britain's Expeditionary Force.

The wireless also stated that Night and day the guardians of the Allies reconnaissance aircraft the Straits are on the watch...the displayed no great activity on Now famous Dover Patrol. This ple- 20. whereas British aircraft few

and Hamburg on: ture, taken from one of their war-over Bremen ships, shows a train ferry crossing that day and over Dusseldorf,. to France, her decks Alled, not Stuttgart and Frankurt on Nov.

21, and ́all returned safelý: with trains, but Army Jorries.