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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN THE GOODS o' EDWARD WERB, late of Kowloon Customs House, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Ordin ance No. 2 of 1897 made an order limiting the time for creditors and others to sead in their claims against the above estate 3rd day of February, 1940.
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All Creditors and others are ac- cordingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or before that date.
DEACONS,
Solicitors for the Administrator,
1. Des Voeux Road Central,
Hong Kong
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Hongkong, January 8, 1940
NYLON'S WAR
ON SILK
ATEST BOGEY of the Jap- anese, a substantial part of whose trade with the Unit- ed States has consisted of ex- ports of raw silk (57 per cent. of the total turnover) is the commercial advent of "Nylon," a synthetic sub- stitute, a nitrogen product which its makers, the great chemical firm of DuPont, an- nounce is "spun from air,"
EDITORIAL
STORY OF THE URSULA TIMPERLEY SAYS
How She, Sank A. Cruiser
CHINESE WILL
FIGHT ON
LONDON, Jan, "'6 · (Reuter)—H, J.
Screened By Six Destroyers Timperler, well-known China cor-
The story of the mccessful attack by HMS, Ursula, a sub- marine of 540 tons displacement, on a German cruiser of the Koin class with a displacement of 6,000 tons was given in a statement Issued by the Admiralty on Dec. 23. The fulles particulars are available following the return of 'H.M,S. Ursula to harbour.
respondent, comments In the Manchester Guardian on Viscount Kano's prophecy that the "Euro- pean war will reach a turning- point in favour of the Allies by Easter and that the Sino-Japan- will end within a
The submarine reached her ap- one broke most of the electric light ese conflict painted patrol area after negotia- bulbs.
The
ting the minefields known among At the time the torpedoes wela the officers and min of the British fired the noise of the propellers submarine service as "Hitler's cab of the enemy cruiser could be bage patch.
first days clearly heard in the submarine. 0: the parrol were eventful with the trs: explosion these only in so far as every submarine ceased abruptly, and after the petrol in enemy wa.ers is crammed second explosion the extraordinary with small incidents.
noises of rending metal and of a ship breaking up were heard.
Un December 14 H.M.S. Ursula was south of Hellgoland, and when
AVOIDING DEPTH CHARGES she dived in this area a number of
B.M.S. Ursula expected to be im German patrol vessels were in
through her med ately attacked with depth, sight. She watched periscope, and eventually a cruiser charges from the destroyers, four of the Koin class was sighted at of which at orce turned towards the submarine. The noise of pro- a range of about four miles.
rellers passing close was almost
The German cruiser was screened
sions
hard, but EMS continuous, and very soon explo- rula skilfully voided the attack
by six destroyers, but HMS. Ursula at once commenced an attack. It was not an easy attack owing to the proximity of other German and after a tine came to pers patrol craft, and in order to reach cope depth to hare a look round, a firing position. H.M.S. Ursula had to give under the screening de- stroyers. clearly heard overhead.
The captain of H.MS.
Their
propellers Were
Ursula
month.
He says that Viscount Kano's optimism may be well-found- ed as regards Europe, but his estimate is very wide of the mark as far as the Sino-Jap- anese war is concerned.
As the New York Times corres- pondent recently attested from Chungking, China still has enor- mous superiority over Japan in man-power and has accumulated large supplies despite increasing
difficulties.
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE Plans are now being laid for a big counter-offensive some time during 1940.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1940.
Hello &
Goodbye
(BY A. W. › HYER)
The travel by freighter idea is becoming increasing- ly popular each year. Many residents and members of the local shipping fraternity turned out on Saturday to inspect the new motorship of the passenger and freighter type- which called in our port on her maiden voyage from Italy, 'via the United States and Philippine Islands,
a bit
The neat and comfortable, Manila. It was strictly ́n bachelor motorship Alying under the expedition between here and the
The weather was house of "the De la Rama south. Steamship Co. incorporated rough and all members lost "ong or
more breakfast!" every comfort for the passen-
Peterson and Torrey will try ger in her accommodation.
their skill again when they sail Mr.
Lunited to twelve, the cabins A. Carmelo's yawi Elvira to Manila have private baths. Social saloon for delivery. this week. and smoking rooms, including din-
though smaller than American President Line ing room those of commercial steamers, are most attractive in plan and de- coration. There were many people expressing a desire to travel on the new motorship.
VERY EARLY IN the morning the
nagship of the American Pre- sideat Line" got under way for a
southern call.
From reports, there
and waving were many visitors still up toasting the steamer and friends away.
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The next steamer to call in our port on her maiden voyage is the large motorship of the O.SK. Line,
Little Miss A. Trillo is travelling the Brazil Maru. sistership to the again and this time she is on her Argentina Maru, which called here Mr. Timperley, until China's in-liner will probably be in the har sald
The struggle w sc qu, says several months ago. This new way to Manila where she will visit relatives and friends. Someone
something about and. Integrity are bour within two weeks en route to bells, but the lady didn't!
wedding dependence
South Africa and South America.
The very fine gentleman Mr. Cari Schnelder, who has been slaving away in the mines of Marsman &..
assured.
Referring to the opening of the
Yangtze, he writes: "Economic
Two destroyer, were standing by the position in which the enemy cruiser had been, and these ap-collaboration to establish a new
peared to searching for survivors. There was no sen at all of the cruiser. which had obviously broken up as the result of the tor pedo hits and had sunk very rapidir
Satisfied with her work. HMS.!
order in East Asia means agree, ment to share the swag and it is fervently to be hoped that this country will refuse to entertain such a felonious proposition."
Imperial Altways
:
SUNDAY, A.M., Captain A. B. Co. Manila, returned to his Delphinus for Bangkok Mall load thank you, Christmas and New Dykes took off in the R.M.A. dutles after a hectic and very fine,
for Empire ports totalled 233 kilos. Year vacation in Hongkong with
Mrs. N. Oakshott, travelling by old friends. this service, was en route to Cal-
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Johnson were cutta and Mr. Jayaswal held a en route to Manila and from re- ticket for Bangkok.
ports late on Sunday many local residents were still impressed with the send-off for these two charm- ing people,
the fo, thcoming Examinations: silkworm is being bearded, so spite of its protective screen of six many explosions heard, was very CABLE NEWSound Chimes ok?
IN BRIEF
passenger
was
Mr. M. D. Cooper and Mr. J. E.. Horton were both Manila-bound on...
NYLON WAS FIRST PRO- DUCED more than a year ago, but only in experimental form. Exhaustive tests deter- mined that it possessed all che qualities that other silk TRINITY COLLEGE OF 'substitutes, such as rayon, snatched a quick look at the Get
MUSIC. LONDON. had conspicuously lacked man cruiser through his periscope strength, sheerness, and, and gave the order to fre. This was above all, a sufficient degree the final stage or a perfect attack LOCAL EXAMINATIONS,
of clasticity. Commercial pro- pressed in to cluse range and car- HONG KONG CENTRE.· The fellowing are the "dates of duction has since begun. The ried out on to enemy cruiser in Ursula left an area which from the
Dutch Steamer to speak, in its own cocoon, destroyers. Those in the submarine unhealthy in spit of the fact that PRACTICAL
and elegant American ladies then waited, counting the seconds the submarine had eluded the in- n hit itial counter-attak of the German
PARIS. Jan. 7 (Reuter) -For the
WELL-KNOWN personalities business. TWO nestroyars. (Vocal "and Instrumental Music)
who have wished to boycott to see if they had scored
second time in 24 hours, the They had.
la Hongkong returned to our H.M.S Ursula sa Small Premier, M. Daladier, yesterday city last Saturday on one of the friends is the departure of Mrs. À notz of Interest to many early May 1940. Last day of en-Japan but shuddered at the!
SHAKEN BY EXPLOSION
sabmarine, having a surface dis held a conterence at the War Min-Dutch steamers. They were Mr. J. Anne Mariner, an extremely popu try 31st January, 1940.
thought of themselves in drab
KMS. Ursula was shaken by a placement of 54 pns, and maared istry. Those present included Gen. t. Peterson and Mr. J. Torrey. THEORETICAL (Paperlisle or sleazy rayon will now.
lar young lady who has been visit- Last be enabled to buy a home pro- tremendous explosion. The first by 27 officers and men. She was Gamelin. Commander-in-Chief of
These two seafarers of no mean ng here for several months. "The Work) on 8th June, 1940. day of entry 10th February, 1940. duct that will satisfy simul- torpedo had found its mark. A few completed in Deèmber last year the Allied Forces, the Chief of the abilities were members of the crew sailing fraternity know the lady of
Regulations, Official List of taneously conscience patrio- seconds later there was another at a cost of slight over £200,000. General Staff and the Ministers of
The German Tuisers of the the Army, Navy, Air and Labour. tism, and exacting American great explosion. proving that a
second torpedo had also hit. Thus Koin class, there are three of them, i standards of presentability.
second, explosion appeared to have are vessels of 6,00 tons displace. PARIS, Jan. 6 (Reuter)"We CIRCUMSTANCES. CON-
another explosion superimposed ment, mounting nbe 5.9 inch guns, `England refuse to make a god, of SPIRE to ensure for Nylon an
upon it as if one of the magazines and having a complement of 571 any man," declared Major C. R. easier passage than most new
of the enemy cruiser had ex- officers and men. They were com- Attlee, Leader of the Opposition in products can hope to have. ploded. Both exptialons shook the pleted in 1929 and have a rill the House of Commons, who, in Last year, Japan's exports of submarine badly and the second speed of just over 12 mots
the course of his tour in France, last night broadcast in German to raw silk were not sumcient to
the German working man. cover American requirements and prices shot up to a nine- year peak-almost twice what they were a few months ago.": This, as the Christian Science Monitor says in an editorial on the subject, is enough to make stocking manufacturers "turn on the Japanese worm" should a substitute be readily available. The
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Picces and Studies." Entrance Forms and Information on ap. plication to the Local, Secretary, J. E. ANDERSON, co The Andersan Musić Co., Ltd.,
Ice House Street. Hong Kong.
PAPER SHORTAGE IN CHINA
Education Minister Urges Need For Large Mills
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KUNMING, Dec. 29 (Central)-At a dinner party given in his honour by various newspapers in Kunming.
AN OLD INN
FOR SALE
The Pike and Eel Inn, a 16th- century establishment, situated on the banks of the Great Ouse at St.
Ives, in Huntingdonshire, is for.
sale.
URBAN AND RURAL "HOUSING
The Economic Intellignce Service
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LONDON, Jan, 8 (Reuter-The Cocos Island treasure, believed to be worth £20.000 000, for which men of all nations have searched for over a century, has been locat ed.
BERLIN, Jan, @ (Reuter)-Thir- teen farm labourers have been
casts. Their sentences range from '2 to 18 months,
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on the Cheng Ho, the junk making wit and humour quite well. She- a tour of the Spice Islands under, was bound for Shanghal on Sun- the auspices of the Botanical Ex- day. However, her sojourn in the plorations Inc.
North will cover the coming month Four days was the sailing time of after which she will be returning the Cheng Ho from Hongkong to, to Hongkong for a further stay.
WATERLOO BRIDGE PROGRESS
of
THE £80,000
GIFT
Further comments on the gift £80,000 from the Malayan Patriotic Fund to British war charities are made in letters which have been received from London by
HOPE OF OPENING E, the Governor.
NEXT JUNE
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over the Thames to be opened for ample of the magnificent spirit. traffic next June The present trevalling in the Peninsula. where- temporary ridge will remain in generosity towards this country is use for the duration of the war.
becoming traditional "
of al duties on the imported pro- the inn's grounds of ii acres and conditions, with specia reference death has occurred of Humbert for a roundabout where tra hopes it will be possible for Sir
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LONDON, Jan. 6 (Reuter) The
Wolfe, poet and playwright and distinguished civil servant.
"This great generosity," writes Work is being pushed ahead to Sir Frank Bowater, Lord Mayor of expiration Of treenuld tenure, the house is
of the League of Natids has just sent to prison by the Naz Govern- enable the new Waterloo Bridge London, "is a further notable ex- of the American-Japanese
free and fully licensed, and has published a study entled Urbanment for Hstening to British broad- and Rural Housing". cptaining a Treaty of Commerce and
been modernised and enlarged.
accoun or the Navigation of 1911 on January
Legend has it that Oliver Crom-comprehensive 26 will almost certainly result well hela councils of war in the methods employed in anumber of in the imposition of addition- Pike and Eel. Good fishing from countries for Improvig housing Mz. Chen Li-fu. Minister Education, hoped that large paper duct, which will push prices along the banks of the Ouse is to the cost involved ad the re- mills for the manufacture ör still higher. Anti-Japanese always obtainable, catches includ- sults obtained.
ing pike, perch, tench, bream. It is of particular intrest at the newsprints will be established in sentiment, now coinciding so the interior to meet the acute remarkably with expediency, chubb, rudd and eels. The sale of present time, since i dels largely shortage of imported newsprints. will also be harnessed to the the property is in the hands of with housing problems ilsed after Rutley the war of 1914-1918 and the (Hanover-square.),
these attempts made to sve Some 230 lots, comprising old
problems in various contries up The traders in and modern furniture, porcelain. the outbreak of hostilit in 1939. the temple are a hardheaded sliver and books, are to be put up set and sentiment without by Knight, Frank and Rutley in
Hanover-square expediency has, in the past, their
Mr. Chen sald the greatest possible encouragement should be given by
the
Nylon chariot. It is, of course, the correlation that is important.
Knight, Frank and
It should, therefore, ake a wide galleries. appeal to all interest in re- failed notably to make them Among the items to come under construction schemes atpresent ur stop subsidising the Japanese, the hammer are books, proofs and in the future. wer machine by a huge trade. play parts which belonged to the
late Mr. Hayden Coffin.
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The countries dealt with are Belgium, the United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, Finlid, France, the Netherlands, Norw, Sweden and the United States dAmerica.
The author was able visit most
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The LC.C.'s £2,000,000 scheme The Lord Mayor adds that ne
from the new bridge will enter Shanton to pass OB his deep Strand. at Wellington-street is to be: gratitude to those who have made possible "this splendid collective dropped while the war lasts.||
contribution," towards the work of ROME, Jan. 7 (Reum)~A de- Despite difficulties in obtaining the Red Cross and the St. John cree has been issued authorising steel and timber and through los- war organisation. the commandeering of trawlers ing
to national service. and other vessels for minesweep-everything is rig and anxiliary service with the schedule Over 450 men are at work.
wow well up to:
Italian Navy.
men
Hundreds of thousands of steel bars, for the reinforced concrete," BERLIN, Jan 7 (Reuter)-Ger- have been shaped and welded on mans"who entertain Jews in their the site. Thousands of tons of con houses can be urned out by their crete have been mixed, conveyed landlords. This is according to and set. ruling handed down by a district court, under which a landlord has been given the power of eviction in such a case,
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Lord Cromer, chairman of the executive committee of the the newspapers to individuals or organizations that are able to give
Red Cross and St. John örgani- sation, has also written to xx- important contributions to
sure His Excellency of "the country. Inventors and originators
deep impression made an' the of productive scheines should re-
mind of the püblic here by this ceive full publicity in the press.
splendid example of gener- A third point mentioned by Mr.
osity" Chen was that the chief function
JAPAN WILL, of course, at-
While the south end of the bridge of the press should be the dis-
Subscribers shows the most progress, Its lines Patriotic Fund, Lord Cromer adds. the. Malaya semination of tales of virtue, valor tempt to meet the challenge
can now be followed practically to may rest assured that this gift will and human progress. Every news of Nylon by dumping. This is SEEDS AS REMEDY
too
the Inanner. should avold paper
much foreshadowed in the decision-
the junction with the roadway at; be expended · "in FOR DYSENTERY "Muckraking" or becoming nothing
of the Ministry of Agriculture
Wellington-street. Two spans have nearest at heart to all subscribers of " these countries and to more than scandal sheets..
Special to the H.K. Daily Press
ROME, Jan, 7. (Reuter)-Plans been left open for river traffic and in endeavouring to alleviate the and Forestry to stimulate the
on the spot thetor the re-settlement of those Ita" a narrow corridor on the north sufferings of the sick and wounded: increase of cocoon production SHANGHAI, Jan. 7 (Havas)- Investigate
war in the doctors arriving practical difficulties heoun ered Hans brought home from France, side, for use of police launches, and prisoners of Specialists under the Emergency to "375,000,000 kilogrammes a Medical Service. standing by for year, this goal being speci- from Wuhu have reported that by the housing aut]rities; In Tunis and Corsica a few months runs through the forest of closely hostilities in which the Empire in
Such since the closing of the Yang se addition, he has coormated the air-raid casualties, are to be :e-fically set for 1940, -
local industrial products and an- material published by obtained of tactics could stave off the in- leased with a retaining fee
cient Chinese herb medicines are from governmental an municipal £500 a year, Mr. Malter Elliot. evitable doom were Nylon less being substituted, with excellent authorities and other irces! Minister
of Health,
announced. auspiciously and less serious- results, for the more scientific They will come up for service whenly launched. They might des- methods of modern civilisation. required without additional re-troy the reputation and pros- : Soft, locally manufactured Chi- muneration.
pects of the substitute entire nese paper is used Instead of ly if the quality of the latter gauze for most dressings. proved to be short of expecta- tlons. DuPont's
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The Faculty of Designers for Industry of the Royal Society of Arts, has elected as new Master, Mr. Tom Purvis, the well-known
poster artist,
Because of the increased cost of ifying the Amalgamated Engineer- ing Union are endeavouring to reopen negotiations with the Em- ployers Federation for an increase in the wages of 1,500,000 key armament workers.
Some mission
ago
were announced yesterday, set piles:
now engaged."
They will be sent to Abyssinia. The bridge is being faced withi
Portland stone and granite which SACK OF WUTINGFU LONDON, Jan, 7 (Reuter) was removed from the old Rennte: There's bad news for Old Eton- bridge and recut fans today. The famous. Tuck Shop, which has been run by the same family for 200 years, is
CONFERENC ON MONGOL BODER closing down.
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HOSPITAL
TSINGTAO, Jan. 7, (Reuter)-- Japanese troops burned the hosp tal of the British-owned Metho- YUNNAN RAIL
dist Missionary Society outside SUSPENSION
Wutingfa on Christmas Day on the excuse that it was "treating KUNMING Jan. 7 (Reuter)-güerillas," according to a telegram Passenger and freight services on received here;
Kaollang wine has replaced But this is unlikely alcohol and brucea seeds, the old TOKYO, Jan. 7 (uter The
LONDON, Jan. 7 (BWB)The commonly know Chinese remedy for dysentery. 1s conference
between Japanese. British battleship recently struck what they are about, and the replacing emetine and giving bet-Russian, Manchoukuoa and Out by a torpedo off the west coast of caution which has character results.
e: Mongolian delegatedor a pre- Scotland is being quickly repaired the Yunnan-Indo-China Railway The telegram adds that the sol- cise demarcation of thManchou-and will soon be at sea again. were temporarily suspended ves-diers also threatened to destroy terised all publicity for Nylon
kuc-Outer Mongpi boer in the Damage done to her was not terday when Japanese planes the church. mission and res1- Nomonhan "area will open serious.
conducted raids over a wide area dences. along the line.
and held up its appearance on
The Earl of Elgin, Lord" da relief fund for 150 depen- Lieutenant of Fifeshire, has open- dents of the 35 men who lost their
the market indicates that, enemies of Japanese aggres Harbin today, accordinito Japan- once it does take its place on sion and friends of the people ese reports. The contence is a
Among the places bombed were the stocking counter, it will of China can welcome the continuation of the tent con- south
FRETORIA, Jan. 7 (Reuter)-: be there to stay-and win.
Africa's participation in Mentze airfield, which is said to birth of this new fabric ference at Ancheta.
economic measures against Ger- have suffered only slight damage, WITHOUT ENTERTAINING "spun from air" to displace Major-General Bogdov, Chief many has been extended by two and glanlongtas, about 233 kilo any great tenderness for the the lowly silkworm in the of Staff of the First Eastern proclamations, one giving a list of metres north of the Tonking Little more than 40 per cent, or DuPont dynasty and enter-economically formidable task Army, chief Soviet dégate, and enemy firma trading in neutral frontier.
occupy an of sheathing the legs of the Acting Premier of Outer countries, and another regulating The Japanese are stated to have the 21,204 mothers and children prises; which evacuated to Brighton from Lon-honoured, or notorious, place America's womanhood
and Mongolia, the chief Or Mongol the searching of merchant ships unloaded over 100 bombs near ai don remain. Ald. H. Milner told the in "the Secret International making them trim and representative. arrived with their which left enemy, ports after De- bridge about 83 kilometres from change, was adjourned in the
cember 4, 1939, parties at Harbin, last Ight.
the Indo-China" borde
King's Bench Division. Brighton Town Council-
of armament makers, all pleasing to the eye.
lives in the Valleyfield pit disaster in Dunfermline,
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