1939-12-27 — Page 3

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COMING EVENTS "THE LION HAS

DEC.

37-Tides: High 1938 am; and 930 WINGS" DUE FOR

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Sunrise: 7 am; Sunset: 547 p

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Special to the HK, Daily Fress

PARIS, Dec, 26 (Havas)---A pre- view of the British motion picture "The Lion Has Wings," was given to a select audience of celebrities In politics, diplomacy, arts and 1iterature at the Theatre Champs

Cheero Club, Dance, 8.30 p.m. 28-Tides: High 11.22, and 10.17 p.m. Low 4.33 am and 3.41 p.m. Elysees

Sunrise: 7 a.m.; Sunsel: 5.47 pm. Sale of Race Ponies at Jockey Club Paddock, Race Course, 5.15 p.m.

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The pictare", amalgamates war scenca filmed during the opera- Cheero Club Contract Bridge Lea- tions of the French and British HK. Y's Men's Club Tiffin Mig., 1 Air Forces and depicts the daring p.m. Speaker:-Mr. Altchen K Wu British air raid on Kiel at the be- on the Social customs of tribes in ginning of the war.

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29-Tides: High 1208 p.m. and 11.04 p.m. Low 5.35 am. and 4.27 pm.

Sunrise: a.m.; Sunset: 548 p.m.

GENERAL

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1939. -PAGE 3

America Dislikes Japan's China's Rights

Policy In China

GLOOMY VIEW OF FUTURE RELATIONS

BURMESE GOODWILL MISSION ARRIVES

IN KUNMING

▾

Will Not Be KING'S

Compromised

KUNMING. Dec 28 (Central) BRITISH ASSURANCE

Following about two weeks' visit in Chungking and Chengtu. the

SHANGHAI, Dec. 26 (Int'l)—Burmese Goodwill Mission, led by

M 口

arrived berè Ba Lwin, Relations between Japan and the United States were charac-, yesterday, en route to Burma. terized as gloomy, according

The Mission left Chengtu on an to a Washington dispatch Eurasia Aviation Corporation plane] from Mr. K. K. Kawakami at 2:15 pm, on Sunday, drriving in

foreign Japanese

Correspon. Chungking an hour later. Taking the dent for the Nichl Nichi advantage of a brief stop-over, the Sino-Burmese Cultural Association Shimbun received here. ·

convened its first meeting at the NO CHANGE There are certam elements with- aerodrome with Dr. Lo. Chia-lun,

REAFFIRMED

way

CHUNGKING, Dec. 26 (Ing') ----British negotiations with Japan will not in any compromise Chinese rights and ` interests, Lord Halifax, tho British Foreign Secretary, 83- stired Mr."Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Tusn," who revealed this assurance in an address delivered here last week.

ROAD TO VICTORY** in the State Department, said this President of the National" Central

take correspondent, which

the University. presiding.

"Mr. Winston Churchill, the first gloomy view that payment of Immediately after the meeting. Lord of the Admiralty, told me that indemnity regarding the damages the Mission continued its night to China is already on the road will not change America's funda- Kunming, arriving here around victory." Mr. Sun continued. mental opposition to Japan's P.m. It was greeted by over 1.000 am also assured by Soviet Russia

China policy.

people.

13 The mission scheduled Mr. Kawakami, however, con- forted his readers by saying that return to Burma ön Dec. 27. the concentration of the 'Amer- can Navy in the Pacific aimed at Japan but is meant

is not to

to

*T

that no matter how the world

to situation changes, Soviet support to China will continue to the end." Mr. Sun disclosed that people are confident that China's resin- tance will prevail over the enemy. He recently returned here after ad

dissipate the public suspicion that CHINESE ARRESTED the Roosevelt administration may IN TIENTSIN enter the European war, which suspicion would persist if the fleet stayed in the Atlantic.

There remains the bigger question of the 'new order in China' which America dislikes," added the correspondent,

China's Oomph Girl Missing

FAMOUS FILM STAR'S

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE CHUNGKING, Dec, 22 (Int'l) -Admirers of Miss Ying Yin, the cinema star and comph girl of the wartime capital, have been

high searching and low for her since Dec. 18, when she was reported to have boarded 111 Eurasia

for Hongkong.

plane

TELEPHONE CALL

·Circumstances of her disappear- ance are wrapped in mystery.

A telephone call from an unknown person on the Motion Picture Pro- duction Company, with which she

is under contract, on that day stated that the actress was, at the airport taking an air liner for Hongkong, but when officials of the company reached the air field the machine had just left

Enquiries failed to elicit whether the movie star was aboard Hongkong-bound plane

the

re-

GREAT FOLLOWING Miss Ying has a great following here, having made a hit with several war pictures. She is ported to be in a romantic affair with a higher up of the studio and declined an offer to KO to Inner Monogolia to take a stellar role in a film war on the burning desert

THE SPIRIT OF

CHRISTMAS

Chinese Press On Peace & Justice

CHUNGKING, Dec. 26 Reu- tex)-Chinese papers yester- day morning all carried special articles, on the occasion of Christmas and also on the an niversary of the Yunnan revo- lution, which overthrew Xuan Shih-kal

PEACE & JUSTICE Central Dally News,

CHUNGKING, Dec, 26 (Cen. tral)-More than ten Chinese have been arrested by Japanese troops in the British and French Concessions for In- known reasons, states a Tien- tsin message.

They were first taken to the British and French Municipal Councils and then extradited to the Japanese,

extended stay in Moscow, Paris and London,

No Statement Until August

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (Reuter -It was intimated in official quar- ters yesterday that while President Roosevelt was at Hyde Park, spend- Christmas with his grand- ing

| children, that the president would make no statement on his "Third Term" Intentions until the Na- Democratic Convention, which has been fixed for early in August next year.

British Envoy Going tonal

* To Chungking

SHANGHAI, Dec. 28 (Ent)---It Mi Tsang Yang-fu, former is learned that Sir Archibald Clark mayor of Canton, has arrived in Kerr, British Ambassador, will sall Kunming to assume his new post for Hongkong some time this as director of the new Yunnan- week, en route to Chungking, and Burma railway under construction. will arrive in the wartime capital The University of Pittsburg where betore New Year Day.

Mr. Tsang was graduated has con- The trip is said to be in con-ferred on him an honorary degree of nection with a certain phase of science in recognition of his public Anglo-Chinese relations.

service in China.

CROSSWORD

ACROSS CLUES

NO.

496

1. Sam and Lear (anagram) Elusive article of dress

9

13 Followed-through paper

14.

perhaps

Garment helps to make a getaway

16. That which must be added 17. A fruit tree in appearance 18. One below this is foul 19. Obtained without labour " 20. Not this nor the other is

wanted here

24.

Seal drinks

26.

Their salad days are the end of them

29. Much of this about nothing

is just play It's not clear from word. I

official 30. organ of the Chinese Government, declares: "This is China's third 32. Christmas since the Sino-Japanese hostilities. The spirit of Christ-37. mas represents love, peace, Justice and freedom. The spirit of Christ-39. mas can only be realised when there is peace and justice in this 40. world.

42. 43.

YUNNAN REVOLUTION "At the same time, the spirit of the Yunnan Revolution shows that the Chinese are willing to 44. make any sacrifices for the pre-

It also records the fight by nine French pursuits against twenty- seven German fighters, the French servation of their freedom. We are 46. shooting down nine and chasing sure the hearts of Christmas all 47: Charity away the others without suffering over the world are with us today.".

any losses.

China Light and Power Recrea- tion Club Dance, 9 p.m.

Diocesan Boys'

Dance 8.30 p.m.

24

School,

Y.M.CA: Games Morning, 10 am The picture will soon be shown FRENCH TROOPS TO Cheero Club, Darts, Ping-Pong and throughout the Empire, notably 'in Billards.

30 Tides: High 12.58 p.m. and 11.55 Hongkong.

p.r,

Low 6:17 a.m, and 5.17 p.m.

Sunrise: 7 a.m.; Sunset: 5.48 p.m.

Claims

against estate of Leung

Chan Tak Yan due.

*Penin-

RAM.C. As Grand Dance, sula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Institute of Business Administra tion, English Forum (Chinese) Christ- mas Party at Metropole Hotel. 8 p.m.

31-Tides: High 1.45 pm; Low 3.01 a.m. and 6.14 pa

Sunrise: 7 a.m; Bunset: 5.49 p.m. New Year's Eve. Rizal Day: Luncheon at Filipino Club, 1 pm.

'St. Andrew's Church: Old Year's Day Services,

Football Shield, First Round. YMO.A. Pantomime. 9 p.m.

LEAVE TIENTSIN

TIENTSIN, Dec. 26 (Int'l)— Six hundred French troops in the French Concession hern Will shortly leave for France for active service,

About oue company will be stationed in Shanghai, where the headquarters of this unit will be extablished.

EJ

mentioned

These support arches, bridges, etc.

A sound way to make amenda

Stands for freedom, but may be used to curtall Forefatherь

Fairy story's first woro Hertfordshire town which

is almost enough to tito parcei

Though scolded in the end. it's put up with Despatched

Revolutionary example.....

may be used by painters (two words).

DOWN CLUES

1. A sharp blow in the stable 2. Forest in Shakespeare's

play-really a bit of s garden

Solution No 495

3

Tea spoon for a giant

4. Ice act "dissolved" in

acid

5 Nothing put in front of them would warn super- stitious

6. Putting two and twu

together makes onu

"

7. Raises objections

8. Withdraws; chimes in

volved, apparently

9. Take care in doing this, it's

frightened

10.

Small mountain lakes

11. Not down in 28 dow 12. Actions

15. An amphibian

21. 45 down is in this vehlete 22. Internal place.

23. One bite gives it, but it

can't be eaten

25. Begins, though beginning of to down doesn't actually begin it

27. Shrank in pain or fear. 28. Fifty and two directions te

make a flower

30. Forbidding word.

31. Reward one may deene

reverst

32. Drill-but dr should never

be this

34. Con this for peace and

happiness

35, Stepped

36. Dispose of-no gir

however

33.

Another amphibian

141.

Observe the end of one or the U.8.A.

45. Famuus. artist or just one

who knows the big guns? SOLUTION TOMORROW

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