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EDITORIAL:

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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS The Bay Ps Of Workman

HONG KONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED.

HEREBY

NOTICE IS GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY GENERAL MEET. ING of HONG KONG TRAM- WAYS LIMITED will be held at the offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.. Ltd., Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 16th day of February, 1940, at 12 o'clock noon, to transact the ordinary business of the Company,

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the REGIS. TER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 2nd to FRIDAY, the 16th February, 1940, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

W. F. SIMMONS,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 25th Jan.. 1940.

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INSTITUTION OF

ENGINEERS &

SHIPBUILDERS OF

HONG KONG,

1st Floor, King's Building Connaught Road,

LECTURE

by Prol. F. A. Redmond B.Sc.,

Entitled "Optical Methods of on 26th. Measuring Distances" January, 1940.

A cordial invitation is given to

all interested.

حمد

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG. KONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION..

IN THE GOODS RONALD OLIVER RU. THEREURD late of Hay. hope, Yetholm, Kelso in the County of Roxburgh, Scot. land in the United Kingdom deceased.

estate

to

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 send in their claims against the ", above 11th February, 1940, vi

All Creditors and others are au cordingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or before that date..

DEACONS, Solicitors for the Execatur,

1. Des Voeux Road Central,

Hoang hong

R..

G.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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都西刺孖

Editorial and Buliness. Omce: JB-19. Queen's Road Central, Tel. 30251.

Night Eartor (Wanchal Office).

Tel 24511. London Omce: 63. Fleet Street

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HONGKONG, JANUARY 25, 1940

ANGLO-JAPANESE

TENSION

IF THE CASE of the Asama

Maru has done nothing else, it has at least stripped from the anti-British essence of Japanese policy every vestige, of the veneer with which various quarters, both in London and Tokyo, have for some time sought to cover it.

The most notable feature of the incident is, of course, not the fact of the boarding, nor the controversy on points of international law, but the terrific campaign which, at a moment's notice, has been released in Japan against everything British., It is an axiom that pretexts are created when they are most needed and that trivial cases are magnified into pretexts | only when there are ends to be served. The incident of the Asama Maru must be

considered precisely from this point of view.

Probed

Circumstances surrounding the death of a Chinese workman, "Li Chiu, was died on November 7 as the result of electric shocks, was probed at the Central Court yes- terday.

"

MY, H. G. Sheldon sat as Coro- ner, assisted by a jury comprising Messrs. L da Silva (foreman), Chan Lin-kung and Wong Klu-to. Inspector W. A. Russell conducted the inquest.

The deceased was engaged at Lyeman Barracks painting 1.1 electric' pole.

He touched the Uve wire running across the standard and was electrocuted,

Mr. Austin Spary. Inspector of Works of the P.W.D., said that, on information received, he visited the scene and found a 20-footpole carrying two bare conductors sup- plying 200 volts electric current of service main to the Indian Officers' married quarters. person touched the wire and had any part of, his body in contact with the pole, he would receive a 200 volt shock.

· · EYE-WITNESS IN BOX

If

A four-year-old boy, Mohamed Masood, who witnessed the incl-

dent, said that he saw the deceas-

ed climb up a ladder which was placed against the pole. He put out a hand to grasp the wire, while one of his legs was stepping on an iron cress-bar of the pole. Deceased dropped diately.

down imme-

Staff Sergeant R. Bateman told the Court that he had issued the order to paint the electric pole. The order was given in writing to the Army contractor, and he would not know definitely when the work was to be carried out. He re- marked that it was a question of common sense that anyone should see that electric cur-

was turned off before starting on the work.

THE PRESENT OUTCRY against Britain probably fits in very nicely with the efforts of Mr. Hachiro Arita to re- vamp and refurbish the ailing

rent at axis, which, since the blow administered to it by the Soviet-German Non-Aggres- sion Pact has had a very shadowy existence. In fact, It is only as an anti-Allied combination that the axis can now be said to exist at all, and it is precisely here that prospects for its re- juvenation may be said to

PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 29th day of Jan., 1940, 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 Mong Kok, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, withi the option of renewal As from 8th February, 1940, at a Crown Reat to be fixed by Freight Rates from Hong Kong the Surveyor of His Majesty the to Amoy will be increased by ap- KING, for one further term of pro imately 20%. The Official 75 years. Measurer's Certificate will

Intending bidders are advised used for all cargo taking rates on that immediately after the dis weight or measurement basis. A posal of the lot the Purchaser new tariff is being prepared, and (If not the applicant) will be particulars will be supplied on required to deposit with application to the undersigned.

authorised officer who will be BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in Agents,

cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Purchase

be

China Navigation Co., Ltd. DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO., General Managers, Douglas S.5. Co., Ltd.

G.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

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PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 29th day of Jan., 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order, of His Excellency the Governor ot Let of Crown Land at Mong Kok, in the Colony of

one

Hong Kong for а term

of 75 years, with the option of

|price.

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exist.

IN

the OUR OPINION, renewed Japanese activity should best be considered in connection with the newly- bellicose attitude of Italy, whose Duce has been wooed as assiduously, and as un- successfully, by latter-day prophets of appeasement as the last three governments in PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Tokyo. For a clue to the immediate intentions of the advocates of Japan's "south- expansion, among whom, without doubt, is the "moderate" Admiral Yonai, soundings must be made first of all in Rome. This neces- sity arises from the close in- terdependence of the condi- tions under which these two new and aggressive imperial- isms. can resume their march,

| No. of Sale..Į

Kowloon Inland Lot

Registry No

No. 4287

Locality

Adjoining

•Mi Road

Tune!

No. 4189.

1Mong Kok and Tong

Boundar

Measure-

ments.

ft. ft. ft. fr.

As per

sale plan.

U

Contents in

Square feet.

About

10,700

Annual

Rental.

Upset Price.

8

renewal at a Crown Rent to be COTTAGE CLUB

fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one fur. ther term of 75 years.

18,726

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SLOW CAVALCADE

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis- posal of the lot the Purchaser if not the applicant), will be required to deposit with authorised officer who will be

On the following Saturday, Feb. present at the sale, the sum of 3, a faster ride will be arranged Iwo hundred dollars, ($200) in for, the benefit of the more ex- cash. This sum will be refunded perienced riders. on payment of the Purchase

FOR NOVICES

A slow cavalcade, which will be suitable for beginners and riders, will be held from the Club House an on Saturday, Jan. 27 at 3.30 p.m.

price.

The next paper-buht for mem- bers will be held on Saturday, Feb. 10, during the China New Year

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Holidays.

No. of Bale,

Registry No.

Locality.

Adjoining Kowloon |

Lot No. 4211..

Inland Lots Nos. 4180

, ་ ་ 30X 8PA,

and 4181 Canton Road,

Boundary

Measure-

ا

ments

B. &

2

Contents in

Annual

Rental

Square feet,

Upset Price.

સુ

About –

11.180

As per

sale

plan.

206

18,770=***

MANSLAUGHTER

CHARGE

ward

and the collusion that un- doubtedly exist's between them is not in any sense arbitrary but represents а very real expression of an actual community of -in- terests. As the "anti-Comin- tern Pact". loses, more and more, its anti-Soviet charac- ter, it will become of ever greater concrete significance to the contending forces en- gaged in the war in the West. TO HONGKONG, the re- newal of Japanese demon- Strations will probably bring many hours of anxiety. It is to be expected that measures against

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Mr. Eric Grimble and Mrs. Compton at the Kwanti Races on Sunday,

POSTMAN KEPT

BACK LETTERS

Sentenced To Two Years In Prison

Li Kin-fai, a Kowloon post- man, was found guilty at the Criminal Sessions yesterday of the larceny of 23 letters and sentenced to two years hard labour by Mr. Justice R. E... Lindsell.

Mr. T. J. Gould, Crown Counsel prosecuted, and the jury compris ed Messrs, R. Sleap (foreman). J.

A. de S. Alvares, M. D. Sakhamant LJ. Banuch, Ho Keng-po, Chan Kul-fan and J. A. Chen,

Mr. Gould said that I was ar- rested on December 18 when the cubicle which he occupied in Sat- yuengchol Street was raided, and the letters were tomd under his bed. One letter, which was from 'England, had been "opened.

THURSDAY,

JANUARY 25, 1940. REPORTED CLOSING DOWN OF FOREIGN CONTROLLED REFUGEE CAMPS IN CANTON EMPHATICALLY DENIED

CANTON, JAN. 24 (REUTER)—AN EMPHATIC DENIAL WAS MADE TO THE REPORT APPEARING IN A HONGKONG FOR- EIGN NEWSPAPER, QUOTING A FOREIGNER WHO RECENTLY VISITED CANTON TO THE EFFECT THAT THE FOREIGN-CON- TROLLED CAMPS HERE HAVE CLOSED DOWN, and that the foreign Churches and Missions have finstituted food centres in- dividually to provide the poor with "chuk.”

"It is absolutely incorrect to say that our refugee camps have closed down," declared a member of the Refugee Com- mittee to. Renter's Correspon- dent," and we, as a Committee. are still supplying the food centres in the city with rice. "These food centres are feeding over 10,000 people with 'chuk' daily and. of course, this could not be done without the acdve co-opera- tion of the various Churches and Missions who supply the necessary fuel and workers."

It is true chat funds are low, and there seems hardly any probability

"DISTRICT BANK LAW ISSUED

National Government

Mandate

CHUNGKING, Jan. 24 (Central) The District Law, consisting of 26 articles, as promulgated by the National Government in a mandate on Jan. 20.

The law provides that all disur of much support forthcoming from trict banks are to be capitalised Europe and Ameries, but it is by official district, county or village learned tha; a fairly large donation funds, supported by private funds, was recently made in Hongkong under the direction of the district for the purchase of rice to feed governments concerned, the people attending the food cen- All district banks shall be limited tres.

chief lability companies; whose This, coupled with the policy function shall be the readjustment adopted by the Committee in en of local finance, promotion of deavouring to make the different economic reconstruction, and deve- camps self-supporting to a certain lopment of co-operative enter-

-District degree, would enable the interested prises.

banks shall be Clergy and Missionaries in the established only with the aproval Canton area to carry on their good of the Finance Ministry. work.

JOINT ESTABLISHMENT The four camps here are the Lingnam, Pakhoktung: Pui Ying! While, in principal the business and Holy Trinity, and though the of a district bank shall be con- number of refugees has decreased, Aned to the district, including its in recent months with improving controlling counties and villages, conditions in the city, it is under two or more districts may jointly stood that these four centres are establish a district bank where still taking care of 2,367 refugees, special conditions prevall. ` mainly women and children who

District banks

may establish if lefs to face life alone, would branches or sub-branches with the partly because he could not find themselves from starvation..

mos, probably find it hard to keep approval of the Ministry' of

Ll's reply to the charge was that he kept the letters not with the

intention of stealing them but

some of the addresses and `partly because he was lazy.

A verdict of accidental death

Mr. Gould pointed out that it was returned. The jury added a the addresses could not be found rider that in future the contrac-it was the duty of the postman to tor's foremen should warn their workmen against the danger of Live wires when working with electrical apparatus.

COLDEST DAY THIS YEAR

Yesterday was the coldest day experienced since the arctic spell descended on the Colony. The temperature re- corded at 7 a.m. yesterday was 43.3 degrees. the lowest reading this year.

The maximum temperature yesterday was 56 degrees. At 10 am, the reading was 50, but it had warmed up to 54 by 4 p.m.

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The cold is not likely to be broken, according the Royal Observatory's forecast for to- day, which predicts north and north-east winds and fair weather but cold

TREE CUTTERS ROUNDED UP, CHARGED

Police and Forestry guards rounded up no fewer than 30 tree cutters on Tuesday, and the culprits were charged be- fore Mr. H. G. Sheldon at the Central Court yesterday.

The tree cutters were arrested as the result of surprise ralds car- ried out at Warichai, Aberdeen and Shaukiwan. They were found to have in their possession tree trunks varying from branches to pieces of nearly a foot in diame

terr

British coastwise One was found to have posses- shipping will be accom- sion of 18 tree trunks valued by panied, as a complementary the Forestry Department at $90. part of the almost inevitable The defendant was named Ching tightening of the blockade, by Cho, and he was sentenced to six noisy re-occupation of the weeks hard labour without the Colony's land frontier. Re- option of a tine. percussions may also be ex- pected in Tientsin and Shanghai.

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Other fines ranged from $15 or three weeks Imprisonment, to $40 cr six weeks hard labour, while several charged were bound over,

ALL THIS IS NOT, „how- ever, particularly alarming. Foo Yuet-ho, 22, a married wo- man, appeared before Mr. H. G. Japan is in a very shaky Sheldon at the Central Court yes- position indeed and the basis weakness. merely aggravates terday on a charge of manslaugh- for broad anti-Japanese ac- this menace, while a strong ter of a three-year-old child attion by any Power exists in stand, such as has been taken Wanchal on Tuesday.

the proven effectiveness of by the United States and was Detective Sub-Inspector Darkin. Chinese resistance. That the adopted by Soviet Russia at to Third Nomonhan, tends to diminish who was in charge of the case, Japanese menace was granted a formal remand of Power interests is serious, it. Before Mr. Arita's re- seven days,

recent events have amply novated axis can be shaken Hearing was fixed for February demonstrated. But recent Into uselessness. this lesson 32-5 at 2,30 pm,

events have also proved that must be thoroughly learned.

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return them to the postal autho- rities, with the reasons for non delivery. This he had failed to

do

ADDRESSES VISITED

The letters were all postmarked between August and December. and if he had intended to return them he would not have delayed 50 Jong. The essence of the offence was that I had fraudu lently converted the letters to his own use with the intention of de- priving the real owners of them. sald Mr. Gould.

COLONY HEALTH: FIVE CASES OF SMALL - POX

וי

다

Finance.

The business charter of a dis- trict bank shall be limited to a period of 30 years. The charter may however be extended upon expiration with the approval of the Finance Ministry.

Five cases of small-pox, twenty- Ave

The capital of a district bank cases of tuberculosis, three cases of chicken pox, two cases shall not be less than $50,000, of each of enteric fever, cerebro-which at least 50 per cent. shall spinal fever and dysentery, and be in private abares. one case of diphtheria were noti

Districi banks may act as trea- .. Bled to the Health Department on surdes for their district govern. January 23.

ment.

Poor Quality Of Graf Spee's

The addresses given on the lel- Crew Revealed: Inexperienced,

ters subsequently been visited by the police but the addresses could not be found. L. who was a post- man for three-years, was so em- ployed at the time of his arrest

In passing sentence, His Lord- ship said that it was "signincant" that the letter which had been opened was only one which came from Europe. The others were either local letters or were from China. On the other hand, it was curious that, if I had retained the letters through dishonesty. only one of them should be open- ed..

Commenting on the seriousness

of the offence. His Lordship told Li that the law provided à mixt- mum penalty of 14 years.

A.R.P. ORDERS

Order by Wing Commander A. H. 8. Steele-Perkins, O.B.E., Direc- tor of Air Raid Precautions.

TRAINING

Wardens' Course (In English): Hongkong Volunteer Headquarters. Tuesdays and Thursdays-11 am.. commencing on Thursday, Feb. 15. Lecturer:-Mrs." E. F Dunlop. B.Sc.. LAR.PS.

Short Course

(for Teachers)':

St. Stephen's Girls College, Bon- ham Road. Every Tuesday-8.15 p.m., commencing on February 6 Lecturer:--Mrs. A G Everett. LARPS.

Wardens' Course (In Chinese): Mun Bang College, 47 Kal Yan Road, Kowloon. Wed. and Sat, at 7. p.m., commencing on Jan. 27. Lecturer:-Mr. LARPA.

Ho Chok. Nam,

The following students who were shown as having passed a special ARP. Fire Brigade Examinatioți, published in Orders, No. 1, of the now be January 4, 1940, will known as:-

A.R.P. Sanitary Dept. Instruc- tors-Chung Wing Kwong, Kl Iu Woon, Ng Hong Yat, Wong Peng ARP. Sanitary Dept, Wardens Ko Took Yuum, Chung Tuk Mut, Leung Six Hung, Leung Tak Wa

Ho.

[Bed,) ==K_W, LEYDEN,

Warden Instructor.

Abnormally Young, Unhandy

LONDON, Jan. 24 (Reuter)-The poor quality of the crew of British the Graf Spee has been revealed to the Admiralty by merchant captains and wireless operators.

The Graf Spee's crew, they said,

WIS abnormally young.

from seventeen to twenty-two. Some of them had never been afloat before and were inexperienced and unbandy.

"They were not seamen; they did not known the first thing about it," said one captain, “It they could do anything wrong- ly, they did it,”

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DEMORALISATION ...

BRITISH LABOUR DELEGATION TO FINLAND

STOCKHOLM. Jan. 24 (Renter The British Labour Delegation, Walter Citrine, crew headed by Sir

The British prisoners watched the demoralisation of the

through a porthole. Many of the which is en route to Finland, is men demoralised at the first sight now

herr consulting Swedish

It is going to of killed and wounded and were Labour leaders,

when Finland at the invitation of the physically sick, although, alking merchantships, they were Finnish Unions to report on the full of glee.

The British prisoners had the same food that the crew had and,! In the opinion of some of them, "It

was not enough to enable a man to do a full day's work."

The Graf Spee's crew were mortified when a merchant captain, whose ship they had sunk under the impression that it carried a cargo of wool, told them (once his ship was at the bottom) that, in fact, she had been carrying 8,000 tons. of meat, butter and cheese.

situation and Finland's needs to the British Labour Movement.

Sir Walter Citrine, in an a- terview, said he hoped that on result of the visit would be to show the British Government a more effective way of helping Fin- land, if necessary. He added that- they would visit the fighting: fronts.

CORRESPONDENCE"

Friends Of Finland Fund

· MORALE WEAKENED The morale of the crew was fur-

Sir,-Since the commencement of: ther weakened because they had the present hostilities with Soviet been taught to under-estimate the Russia many friends of Finland in enemy, said the captains. The China have realised the great need believed the Graf Spee was in the country is in at present, hav- an overwhelming vincible. They also believed that ing to fight all British ports were blocked with

aggressor,,:..

A Find under the above name mines and all traffic had cased. They also believed that all the has, therefore, been set up to- capital ships of the British Navy endeavour to raise donations to be had been sunk along with the Ark sent to Finland.

Royal

From the evidence of these captains, the Admiralty con- clides that, If this crew of the Graf Spee was “1⁄2 crack crew, the standard of the Naxi Navy+ cannot be compared with that of the German Navy of 1914.

Any donation for this purpose will be gratefully received by the Fin- nish Consulate at Hongkong for transmission to the appropriate quarters in Finland ...

(8{gned) Wallace, J. Hangen: Consul for Finland, Mercantile Bank Buildings: