1940-04-15 — Page 11

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS

HÒNGKONG" to SINGAPORE direct

About middle of April,

HONGKONG, to SAN FRANCISCO direct

First week

in May.

AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES

**ROUND-WORLD SERVICE”

AGENTS FOR ''T.W.A." AND. UNITED AIR LINES.

12, PEDDER ST.

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N.Y.K. LINE

IMMINENT SAILINGS

FASSENGER AND FREIGHT

THIS WEEK

LIVERPOOL, la SINGAPORE

BOMBAY, MARSEILLES (CASA- BLANCA), etc.

JAPAN, HONOLULU,

SAN FRANCISCO. LOS ANGELES, VALPARAISO via Way Ports

SYDNEY, MELBOURNE,

via MANILA and Way Forts VANCOUVER and SEATTLE

4. FORTNIGHTLY!

CALCUTTA

THIS WEEK

EARLY MAY

FREIGHT ONLY

THIS WEEK

THIS WEEK

NEXT WEEK

NEW YORK JAPAN,

LOS ANGELES, and PANAMA...

BOMBAY

LONDON via Port Said,

(CASABLANCA), etc.

MARSEILLES, GIBRALTAR,

NEXT WEEK.

Complete Information From Your Agent or

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KING'S BUILDING

Telephone 30291.

General Passenger Agents in the Orient for CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE

TRAVEL A.-O. LINE

To AUSTRALIA

Calling at Manila, Thursday Island, Cairns, Towns-

ville, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne, etc.

NEXT SAILING

EARLY IN JUNE, 1840,

For Freight or Passage apply to:-

.:

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

MOST VICIOUS HELL-SPOT

IN EAST

Badlands Japan's

Army

CAPTURED SHIPS

13

TAKEN HOME

LONDON, April · 14 (Reuter)--- Twa German trawlers

captured by the British Fleet of Norway were brought into a north-east Scottish port today,

A third German trawler Wis

terday.

could clean up the Badlands overnight. But Japan's Army knows better, It much prefers to cultivate the THE 'BADLANDS” Badlands as I a source of needed revenue 2) a point of pressure on OF SHANGHAI

the International Settlement, For Driving out of Shanghai's In- | over В year the policing of brought into the same part yes- `ternational Settlement to the Shanghai, both inside and out- westward one notices the broad, side the Settlement, has caused a quiet residential streets «suddenly | two-way controversy. give way to a crowded, garish The Japanese want control of area, bright with neon signs and the Settlement and the Settle- highly coloured bill-boards.

Ament's Municipal Council wants section in which there is miny a

to help keep order in outlying long luring arcade leading to areas. Last week the Municipal gambling halls, opium dens, places Council won a slight concession. of “special”, entertainment.

An agreement was signed permit- HELL-SPOT

ting Settlement police to "help" This is Shanghal's notoricus patrol part of Japanese-controlled "Badlands," most vicious hell-spot | Hongkew,

which 15. technically

"

In the East. The Badlands have part of the Bettlement anyhow, beer patrolled by slovenly, bully-

· LITTLE PROSPECT 19h Japanese controlled Chinese

Still wide open were the Bad- policemen known as the "Ta Tao

lands. Bo little prospect was Boys (for the puppet Ta Tag there of cutting out this cancer Government) who are quick and careless at the trigger. Japanese and preventing its spread to for- assassina working for the Wang-six back-to-the-wall years on the elga areas, that last week, after

Ching-Wel Peace and Reconstruc- tion Movement use the Badlands Municipal Council, which also had for their base, and Puppet-elect to triple its $1,000,000 budget last Wang's own, fortified hideout is week to keep pace with the stum within a dice-throw of the most bling Chinese dollar, the Council's Chairman, Mr. Cornell, S. Franklin notorious oplum and gambling

announced his intention of re- joint in the whole area.

No day goes by without at least from Mississippi, home State of signing. Mr. Cornell Franklin halls one shooting in the Badlands. The section has naturally infected the Author William Faulkner (who is married to Mr. Cornell Franklin's adjacent International Settlement

first wifel, -so much so that no one is par ticularly surprised at advertise- ments In the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post & Mer- cury setting out the fine points of certain bulletproof vests.

KNOWS BETTER

Shanghai's "biggest fall in the world," Ward Road Gaol, is ex- pected before the end of 1940 to house 10,000 prisoners, most of whom have spilled in from the

WEATHER REPORT

Hongkong Royal Observatory

10 a.m.. April 14. Barometer (at sea level), 30.08 ins. Temperature, 71 F.

Humidity, 79 per cent.

Wind Direction, W/N Wind Force (Beaufort), 1. Temperature; maximum yesterday,

75 F

་

Temperature minimum last night.

66 F.

Rainfall for 24 hrs.. ending 10th

today. 0.13 ins

Total rainfall since January 1st

10.41 ins.

..

Against an average of. 8.07 ins. Sunset tonight, 6.43 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow. 6.03 a.m

4 p.m. April 14.

Barometer tat sea level), 30.04 ins. Temperature, 66 F.

Humidity, 71 per cent,

Wind Direction, NE.

Wind Force (Beaufort), 3.

Maximum temperature, 72 F. Minimum temperature, 88 F. Rainfall, mil

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 16 to 21 Apr. 1940. HIGH WATER.

Week

*qi99 661

Beng Kong

Standardi

Time.

LOW WATER

Hong

Kong

Height

Standard Time

Height.

RADIO TRAINING SCHOOLS

OTTAWA-The first of four wireless training schools to be established in Canada under the British Commonwealth Air Train-

ng Plan was opened in Montreal on March 11, the Minister of Na-

tional Defence recently announ- ced. The personnel under instruc- tion as ground wireless operators will total 120 airmen. A further intake of sixty similar trainees will be effected on March 26, while twenty officers

will commence the same date as training on

Cariadian Air Force.

In "the Royal Signals officers

The nucleus of the wireless school was created at the R.CAP. Station. Trenton, Ontarlo, where instruction has been provided for some months,

julepa, hunting dogs, polo, a white house with a proper portico-right |to Cosmopolitan Shanghai. He and a Sghting his pretty second wife are tired "A good sport and gentleman. Mr. Cornell Franklin of all this warring and ready for has transplanted the South-mint a little reconstruction.

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Frequent and Regular Sailings for

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י

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HAIPHONG.

CANTOR.

TODRANE, SAVON and BANGKOK, .' SINGAPORE, PORT SWETTENYAN and PENANG

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THE

CHINA SIAM

LINE.

MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1940. PAGE 11

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We have

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Passengers are requested to register their requirements but under present circumstances sailings are perforce restricted."

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A SAILING FROM HONGKONG THE THIRD WEEK IN APRIL (Omitting Honolulu)

NEXT SAILING TO MANILA SECOND WEEK IN MAY.

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Fast through trains direct from ship's side at Vancouver ---or stop-over at Beautiful, Victoria. thence by comfortable, fast B.C. Coast Services to Vancouver-In Caiada's Evergreen Playground

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Tom. 18

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19

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Wed. 17

0551

1451

10 14

40

18 64

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107 60

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14 50

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Agents.

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SAILINGS FOR SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHOW & RETURN

Sübject to alteration without notics'

HWANGCHOWWAN-HONGKONG SERVICE"

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NEXT SAILING ABOUT FOURTH WEEK IN JUNE

for Mauritius, Reunion, Tamatave, Lourenco Marques, Durbanland Cape. Porta

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NEXT SAILING, SECOND WEEK IN APRIL

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MONTHLY SERVICE TO

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VIA LOS ANGELES & PANAMA CANAL PORTS,

by NEW FAST VESSELS

NEXT SAILING ABOUT MIDDLE APRIL

Very modern passenger accommodation available

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Telephone 021.