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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS The Daily Press.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Wednesday, the 27th day of Dec., 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Mount Cameron Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 21 years,

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis- posal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be re- quired to deposit with an authoris ed officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.

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HONGKONG, DECEMBER 21, 1939

THE YANGTZE

“OPENED”

THE "OPENING" of

the

HOW TO PRESERVE SANDBAGS

WINTER DANGERS

TO DEFENCES

Efforts are being made through- out Britain to protect sandbag defences against the rigours of the winter, Ratting, shrinkage, burs ting, waterlogging and verraln infestation are among the dangers which must be guarded against.

Precautions recommended by the Government include spraying with Ifquid tar creosote and other water- proof preparations, and regular disinfection against vermin and insects.

Many large arms who are pre- pared to spend considerable sums

EDITORIAL

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. F. Barretto, of Manila, photographed after their wedding at the Kowloon Union Church yesterday afternoon. The bride was formerly Miss Simone Levy. The happy, couple will make their future home in Hongkong.

on emetent defences are enclosing Remarkable Recovery In

Yangtze from Shanghai to Nanking is undoubtedly a landmark in the history of the development of their their sandbags in creosoted wooden Japanese Military invasion of "hutches," or slabs of reinforced China in relation to the exist{ concrete. These additional precau- ing interests of Third Powers. tions are approved by the It obviously represents a con-authorities. siderable change of tactics on

Inefficient sandbagging is

the part of the invaders. But cause of danger. In some cases this change of tactics does unsuitable bags have been Alled not in any way affect Tokyo's with rough material, walls have PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. alms which still remain what been stacked unscientifically, and

No. of Bale,

Garden Lot

No. 100,

Registry Na

stount Cameron Koact. Adjoining

Loting

Locality.

G.

Rural Built

ON

Boundary

Measure

ments.

As per

sale plan

Square feet..

Annual

Rental.

Contents

to Į Upset Price.] ♬

18001

18,300

R.

21

PUBLIC AUCTION.

they were to destroy Chinese" false stresses have resulted in sovereignty, extinguish the bulking and warping. treaty privileges of other countries, and institute the moriopolist exploitation China's resources.

There is justification for the fear that some stacks of sandbags will collapse with the first spell of off

severe weather.

JUST HOW NIGGARDLY a concession the latest Japan- ! ese. move represents will be seen from a few facts which are set out below. It is, how- ever, first necessary to ex- amine why such a gesture should have been made at all. The immediate reason lies

89 obviously in the necessity of

LACK OF DRAINAGE Lack of drainage and protective substances are other faults in some. instances.

If they have

Britain's

Export Trade

LONDON, Dec. 20 (BWS)---The remarkable recovery in Britain's export trade, revealed in Board of Trade figures, are greeted with satisfaction by the press which considers the figures against the German claim to have blockaded the British Isles. Satistics show that imports arrived in volume for which more sterling was spent than in any month since January, 1938. and that exports went out more freely after a hold-up during the first two months of the war.

Regarding imports increases were shown in the value of grain and four, meat and dairy produce. iron and steel, base metals and rubber. The most substantial in- creases are recorded in cocoa, muth for which was resold abroad, in

which

raw cotton, the value of was three times that of November, 1938. in iron and steel and in oils, Tobacco Imports were sharply cut down and less timber was taken.

CONSPICUOUS EXPANSION Among the exports the most cotton yarns and manufactures conspicuous expansion has been in

The A. R. P. department of the Home Office has issued, recqm-fats and resins. mendations for the preservation of sandbags. One danger of this, an expert sald recently. is that people may be led to believe that placating the United States instructions their sandbags will be followed officia In order to induce it to renew safe throughout the winter. the commercial treaty pro-

and woollen goods, cocoa, coal and "Apart from damp viding for "most

there is chemicals, the value of which were favoured nation" treatment of Japan- deterioration through the effect of darger from shrinkage and

all higher than in November last year. ese trade.

If the abrogation. city smoke and grime." he pointed which falls due in January.out. actually goes into effect, the

"Spraying

H

with preservative

Compared with October more,

Iron and steel products, machinery Herr Walther Darre. Relch Minister and vehicles were shipped abroad.

for Rationing. In commenting on fact that im-

PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Wednesday, the 27th day of Dec., 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land

South at

Bay Road, Repulse Bay in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 21 years...

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dissent action is a sop to the full only, beaten into rectangular American Cerberus, though shape and placed with the seams hardly one likely to satisfy. Inwards.. Folded ends of "headers"

AN EXAMINATION of the should also face inwards.

way will be open for punitive liquids will not offset these dangersports show improvement with res duties against Japanese trade. entirely. Other preparations which Ambassador Grew indicated are on the market should be used in his October 21 speech and. In addition to those recommended no doubt, later in his pro-lomcially." tracted conversations with

The perfect sandbag defence wall Admiral Nomura, that

to should be from 6-8ft high, 4ft wide avoid this, proof must be pro- at the base and 2it at the apex. duced at once of Japan's Bags should be laid alternate rows willingness to remedy existing of "stretchers" lengthwise - and violations of the principle of "headers"-crosswise-with no cor- the, Open Door, of which the responding joints. closure of the Yangtze is a; flagrant "example. The pre-

posal of the lot the purchaser (11 not the applicant) will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the purchase

price.

THREE-QUARTERS FULL Bags should be three-quarter:

gesture brings to mind first No regulations have been made Shanghai Evening Post that over the pavement, but this should of all the apt remark of the about the amount of projection it has come two years to late. not exceed four feet, and the hage Taking place now, practically, should be painted white. under duress, it is hardly an Drainage should be provided and earnest of Japanese sincerity, boarding placed at the foor "ot The

tentative and partial sandbag walls to protect the first PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. of the opening, at a time when two layers from mud and water "Japanese steamers have for a kicked up by pedestrians or sprayed year been operating to Han- by traffic. kow and beyond will hardly Defences should

We know the carefully for any sign of subsidence escape notice. urimitigated nuisance to trade Burst bags can be mended with that "Japanese interference strips of hessian. can be in nominally "open" i ports such as Tientsin, Tsing-

Registry No.

Locality.

Garden Lot No. 110

Building Lot No. 307, North-east of Kursi

South Bay Road,

Repulse Bay...

Boundary

Measure-

ments.

18. 12.

As per

Balo plan

一张

Contents in

Square feet. { 17

About

8.200

310

Annual

Renta!.

* Upset Price.

I

De

watched

pect to the preceding month but also indicate an 8 per cent. rise in imports as compared with Novem- ber, 1938, newspapers note that the categories in which principal increases occurred-cotton, non- ferrous ores, oil, comprise commodities in which scrap. oli seed and

Germany is notoriously deficient. HITLER'S FAVOURITE

FILM STAR

Supreme War Council

MEETING HELD

(BWS)-An

IN PARIS

LONDON, Dec. 20 official communique issued from No. 10, Downing Street, states:

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1939.

Hello & Goodbye

(BY A. W. HYER)

There have been many residents and visitors migrating in and out of Hongkong this week. This morning you will note a Dutch steamer in from the south, en route to the North, beside a British steamer which arrives today from. English and European ports.

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American Airways' turn to Hongkong and take over Honolulu Clipper will put in command of the Elvira, 99-foot- an appearance on Friday from Yacht constructed for the Mexican. San Francisco and way parts. Consul in Manila, Mr. E. Carmello. The return flight to the west This particular craft was con- coast of America will be on agent, N. S. Mosses. The Elvira structed in local yards through the Saturday morning.

will be sailed to Manlis with Peter- son at the helm.

Imperial Airways

"

Pan American Airways.

Wednesday at 7 am. Captain C. R. Davies. assisted by Acting Captain J. Brunton, was off for Kal Tak to witness the arrival of There was quite a gallery out at Bangkok in the R.M.A. Denebola. the China Clipper from San Fran- Mall for all Empire ports totalled cisco. 203 kilos.

Mr. R. Lasale, "of the local office of John Manners & Co., Ltd. was bound for Sourabaya.

Mr. R. A. Bartlett, travelling to Singapore, was the other passenger on this service.

The

Martin flyingboat, making a very fast landing, touch- ed the bay waters, at 5.15 p.m..on Wednesday. Captain H. L. Turner was aboard..

One of the most charming visi- tors to our shores for many days was Mrs. C. Sheppard, an American Imperial Airway's R. M. A. Dar- en route to Shanghai and home. danus arrived at Kal Tak from This visitor's husband, Fort Bayard at 3.10 p.m. yesterday. Commander C. J. Sheppard. R.N...

Lieut.- Captain J. N. Wilson, Mr. White, is attached to the British Embassy Mr. French and Mr. J. Crosbie, all in the northern city. "The Clipper company employees were on the trip was great and the lady wAS plane. Someone, not us,, swears in a big hurry to reach home and they counted 92 bullet holes in the fireside by Christmas. Puselage and wings at the Dar Mr. Jack, Mier, a gentleman who danus-it must have been some knows what it takes to make all shooting with those Japanese Mili- the women beautiful, arrived from tary planes, in action!

Manila on a business call. Repre- Mr. E. Burn, the tall, handsome sentative of the Max Factor Co. he gentleman who takes care of the reported the cosmetic business was British Government inspection of splendid,

all aircraft here departed for his Mr. A. J. F. Barretto and his home base in Singapore this flance Miss Simone Levy (now Mrs. morning on a Dutch steamer, A. I. F. Barretto) came to Hong- kong to get married in the Kow- loon. Union Church.

Cheng Ho

Bound for Manila.. the

PAI:

We are keeping our eye on that Southbound junk Cheng Ho and all the crew day by day there are new develop- ments but now they are definitely American Airways China Clipper sure at Ah King's Slipway that the left our shores on Thursday at 7.30 craft will be under way the day am. after Christmas en route to Mani-

la;

Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Van Sickle were en route to Manila. This is Gordon Torrey has decided to our commuting International Har- become a businessman and give vester Co. representative on the go up the ways of a seaman, there- again, but this time his attractive fore, he is counted out of the sail- blonde wife took the trail with ing list. However, his younger him. brother is still on the crew.

Down to Manila fting by the

Mr. J. Peterson, the great, big. Clipper went Mr. L. R. Nielson. tall man and another "mow-em- ufficial of the Hongkong Mines down" of the ladies, is at it again. Ltd.

Many will remember this sailor- And

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another local resident

was skipper of the Junk travelling south on this flyingboat Pang-jin which departed from was Mr. Alexander Malcolm. our harbour last year en route to Mrs. E. M. Herridge, accom- New York. This he will assist Mr.panied by her young daughter, Kilkenny in sailing the Cheng Ho; Miss Janet Herridge, embarked on to Manila.

ja journey to Manila Joining family Further

concerning and friends for the Christmas

-

reports

recently, her fall from favour will day. The Council sat throughout

1 Leni Riefenstahl has really meeting of the Supreme War Captain Peterson claim he will re-season. been arrested, as was reported Council was held in Parls yester- come as a surprise to all who the morning. knew how close was her friendship

discussed.

were

The Council accordingly took

RARELY SAW A WOMAN.. FOR PAST TWENTY-FOUR

!

YEARS

REFUGEE MONKS FROM FINLAND STOCKHOLM, Dec. 20 (Router)

- Fifteen refugee monks from Arctic Finland arrived safely in Stockholm yesterday.

30 Million

Tons More

U.K. Coal

Britain is planning to increase One of them said he had rarely her output of coal by about seen a woman for the past 24 years 30,000,000 tons a year. « of his monastic retirement.

Much of the extra coal will be

mands of the export

market.

FLED BEFORE REDS

but for their age they would now France, and large orders are ex- They fled before the approach of used to meet the increasing de- the Red Army and all said that Bigger supplies are required by

be fighting against Soviet Russia,

Ikons and paintings.

with Herr Hitter.

M. Champetler de Ries, General |Gamelin and Admiral Darlan, who He admired her both as actress were accompanied by M, Leger, and director, and she was specially represented France. Mr. Chamber- chosen by him to make the mam lain, Lord Halifax and Lord Chat- mot qve-hour film of the 1936 Beld, who were accompanied by Olympic Games in Berlin. She had sir Ronald also made Nazi films in 1933, 1934 Ironside and Sir Alexander Cado- Campbell, General and 1935.

She first became

gan, represented Great Britain. known ini Britain through

FRENCH CONGRATULATIONS her charming mountain legend. The Blue!

In welcoming the British repre sentatives, M. Daladier· congratu...- Light" and the same blend of lated Great Britain on the gallant slender plot and lovely photography and victorious action which had was conspicuous, in "The White led to the destruction of the Ad- Hell of Pitz Palu.""

The 32-year-old daughter of a

miral Grat Spée. Berlin plumber. Leni Riefenstahl

CLOSE STUDY The Supreme War Council made was tra'ned for the ballet and tao, and Shanghai, where the because, despite the fact that became

a close study of the general situa- invaders

3 painter. She have tested

has the it infuriated the Power, it un-repeatedly declared that for me

tion and found that the British patience and resource of the doubtedly enhanced the bar- the Fuehrer is the greatest of all completely at one on all questions

and French, Governments foreign merchant community gain value, at a time when men." by every conceivable type of Japan needs such counters, unworthy trick from neglect of the miserable concession FRENCH PLEA FOR such decisions as were required to monastery, the monks said, they pursued with the Italian Govern- When the Soviet arrived at their pected from Italy as the result of ing to dredge the fast-silting that she now offers. If it ap- CHANNEL TUNNEL make the test use of means of destroyed a number of valuable ment.

negotiations now being actively 890 Whangpoo to taxing the peared useless to try such a negotiability out of all export patent bluff at a time when

A meeting of Deputies at the two countries in the diplomatic and action at the joint disposal of the goods entering the Settle- the western countries were Chamber under the chairmanship military spheres. ment. How much greater the unequivocal at least in moral of M. Louis Marin, urged that work sabotage will be as such new condemnation of her aggres-Channel Tunnel. They passed the ed quarters understand that the

should be begun at once on the

CHANGED SITUATION ly "opened" ports as Chin- sion, she feels that now, when

PARIS Dec, 20 (Havas)--Inform- klang and Nanking time a lone the possibility of their joint "we wish to draw the attention yesterday served to examine the

following resolution: will show. At the moment it action in the Far East is much of the Government to the excep changes brought about in the in-. meeting of the Allied War Council is sufficient to say that no more remote and the red her- tional advantages which would acternational situation by the fact mention has been made of ring of "anti-Cominternism" crue from the building of the residential permits for foreign is likely to recover some of its Channel Tunnel in agreement with that Russia is no longer a neutral trade representatives at these diplomatic value, a symbolic the British Government, particu- power and no more a member of points. It may also be per- display "co-operative larly in view of present circum- the League of Nations, tinent to suggest that during spirit" may achieve iniracles stances."

The Council also examined ways the past two years of occupa in smoothing her path of Tunnel was arst discussed between material aid to Finland, and also The suggestion of a Channel and means of granting effective tion, in the course of which conquest. all obstacles to their trade

England and France in Paris in what attitude France and Britain FOR CHINA, which almost 1802 following penetration were arbitrarily in the old pre-Nine Power Amiens. In 1872 shafts were duged in the conflict.

the

Peace of would adopt if Sweden was involv- removed, the Japanese mono- Pact tradition, is being treat in both countries. polists have not been idle, and ed as a passive factor in all

FINNISH PROBLEM The Committee of Imperial De- that, what with military and this juggling of her rights fence vetoed the scheme in 1907, in French Cabinet meeting was de- It is understood that the last "puppet" support, they are and territory, it remains only 1914, a fortnight before war broke voted to the Finnish problem." petition that may come along. make sure that she is ready tional Committee of Exchanges re-principle but also methods of en. entirely ready for any com- to keep her powder dry and out, and again in 1824 and 1930. It is believed the Allied Counci In July of this year the Interna- decided not only on questions of In the minds of General Abe to draw whatever advantage commended that a Channel Tunnet forcement of concrete measures: and his Cabinet, the previous she can from the new round should be constructed with polley of stubborn refusal to in the game of World Power least possible delay. Experts es- from specifying how Anglo-French the although the authorities refrain admit that the river was Politics which now seems to timate that it could be finished in co-operation is being enforced in "safe," has been successful have begun in the Far East. three years.-Daily Telegraphi this feld.

AILWAY EQUIPMENT

FOR THE BEF,

* LONDON, Dec. 20 (Reuter)— About £10,900,000 worth of englaes and railway equipment have been ordered for the use of the B.E.F. In France.

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The order includes freight engines, 10,000 covered ragons and permanent way · Įmaterial costing £1,750,000 and mechanical equipment for docks.

The Kwangtung People's Political

uncil decided at a recent meet to ask the provincial govern- nt to appoint women to be agistrates and section chiefs in halen government, or to hold Der responathle posts on a proba-

mary beals.

of

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"We ded in sub-freezing weather, with no time save even clothes," they declared.

Our

Under the terms of the Anglo- Polish Agreement, now at an end because Polish mines are in Ger- many's possession, the valuable Scandinavian market was divided almost equally between Britain and Poland. Britain is making a bola effort not only to retain its share of this market, but to in- crease it.

POLAND'S WAR EFFORTS IN THE ALLIED CAUSE

Poland's war efforts in the Allled "LONDON, Dec. 20 (Reuter) Cause were discussed by a member production can be greatly expand- Proposals whereby Britain's coal- of the Polish Military Mission to ed are being submitted to the

The coal is there, and so are the Britain.

Government by the coal-owners' coal-miners' organisations..

with the British Government for

Agreement has been reached and units of the Polish Navy to operate with the Royal Navy, for "the dura- tion"

....

men who can earth.

win it from the

They are comprised of destroyera

The Government is anxious to by Poles, A few Polish merchant- cause of the importance for main. and submarines and are manned achieve the additional output "be-

men are now in enemy hands; taining export trade as a means The Polish land forces are now of paying for increased imports training in France;

due to the demands of war.

Home Industries will also want

West Point. The Fire Brigade was involved in the country's war About 10 pm. yesterday are more coal than formerly, how

summoned and extinguished the effort are coming fato, maximum broke out at No. 10 Yat Fo Street, that munition and other factories

production.

flames in a few minutes.