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EDITORIAL
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1940.
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- NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS AN AMERICAN LOOKS AT THE WAR CANDID –
"GILT-EDGED FLYPAPER ON acting as a sweet holler-than-thou
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 6th day of May, 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 at Mong Kok, lo the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Ma jesty the KING, for one further
term of 75 years.
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Intending bidders are advised that immediately alter the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser if 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.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 6th day of May, 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 at Sham shuipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, com mencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by th: Surveyor of His Majesty the KING. for one further term of 24 years less the last three days thereof.
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 An authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) In cash. This sum will be refunded
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT on payment of the Purchase
No. of Bala.
Kowloon, Inland
Lot No. 4275.
Between
Fa Yoon Street
and
- Sai Yep Street.
Registry No.
Locality.
Q.
Boundary
Measure-
ments
2
2
As per
sale plan
Contents in
About
price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
Locality.
Annual
Rental
Square feet.
Upset Price. ►
| No. of Sale.
New Kowloon Inland Registry No. Lot No. 2790.
Junction Road Castle Peak
and
Yen Chou Strept.
009'68
R.
414
56,250
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday,. the 6th day of May, 1946, 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 Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, commencing from ist July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 24 years less the last three days thereof.
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 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.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
No. of Bale.
Registry No.
Locality.
Now. Kowloon Inland | Lot No. 2789. Junction of Castle Peak Road & Hing Wab Streat, Cheung Sha Wan
Boundary
Measure.
ments.
Me
As per
sale plan
Contents
Annusl**
Rental
Square feet |
About
0.400
HONG KONG CRICKET
CLUB.
1,050
os❘ Upset Price.
Boundary
Measure-
ft.
ments.
**
As per
sale plan.
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Contents in
Square feet.
Annual.
Rental
ne] Upset Price
About
6,300
12,000
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Ninth Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the under. signed on Wednesday, the 22nd May, 1940, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st Decem
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ITALY MUST DECIDE
WE ARE STUCK .......
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The following is the concluding part of the letter written by Mr. Lawrence Hunt, of New York, to the New York Times recently-(the first part appeared in our issue of yesterday).
Mr. Hunt goes on here to explode the "scarecrows and bogies" created by American writers, which, he says, has considerably misled and misinformed American public opinion on foreign policy.
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"ONE OF THE FAVOURITE SPORTS OF WRITERS who.. have consciously or unconsciously misled and misinformed the American public in recent years has been to deride the motives which caused and the purposes which inspired America's entry into the last World War.
They bave created bogies and thing worth fighting for, and we scarecrows, naming them "Mer- need feel no regret or shame for chants of Death" and the "Wall that, motive purpose, Street Bankers," and depicting HERITAGE & TRADITIONS: them as beguiling and foreing the American people against their will to enter the war. IT ISN'T SO:
peacemaker when the war ends. We will be happy, comfortable and "disinterested." Our former associates will have gone through
COMMENTS:
(BY G.W.S.) HITLER'S star began to
the hell of a war they desperately wane when he started to per-.. tried to awold; they will be suffer-secute the Jews and I know ing, poor and tired out
his polley did not meet with the full approval of the local Nazis, despite their almost blind belief in the Fuehrer. | "Persecution is not wrong be- cause it is cruel; it is cruel because it is wrong."
Therefore we can do some more preaching. tell them what sort of peace they should mäke Knot too hanh on the Germans, because they are “ proud, mce"), "and how they must behave if they are to be like us
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It is quite unjustifiable and it is to the overlasting disgrace of the WAIT A MINUTE SUPPOSE German people that they became THE NAZI-COMMUNISTS WIN?, an active party to this insensate Well, brothers and sisters, if that campaign of hate against a de- happens, we'll have do an awful fenceless section of their Nation. lot more than preach-far more than if we frankly and actively HITLER became embittered be- alded England and France now, cause he was incapable of earning It might be that we are counting a reasonable living under ordinary a little too comfortably on the recognised economic conditions Somewhat allied to the forego- Maginot Line and the British fleet, and, with the help of others like ing reason were OUT national And, despite the peace-at-any-minded, including two travelling heritage and traditions. English
price propagandists, we do count salesmen. pillaged and plundered people. French people and Ameri-on them.
and they are all now living in That Just. Isn't so, and you and can people believe in their hearts
affluence at the expense of their I know it The average American that individual freedom is one of
misguided compatriots. damn doesn't give a
what the those few things worth fighting "Wall Street Bankers" say or think for and, if need be, worth dying or do except when, as in the Nine-for. teen-Twenties, some of them sold us gut-edged flypaper on which we were permanently stuck. Both our knowledge and common sense refuse to élevate the munition manufacturers into gods of human destiny. They make their unplea- sant goods and sell them because there are people who want them.
Occasionally some over-
zealous salesman may have encouraged a Central Ameri- can revolution, but to picture these practical rentlemen as playing a decisive role in the destinies of the world is plain silly.
MANY REASONS:
America entered the last war
The German idea! in the last war, as in the present one. was different, and-what is important for us to bear in mind-really endangered Our Ideal then as it does today. Despite all the effusions of Nazi- Communist philosophy, of flabby intellectuals, and of demagogic politicians, materialism is not the only driving force in American
fe. It wasn't in 1917 and it isn't, now.
NOR DID WE FIGHT, TO FULL ENGLAND'S CHEST- NUTS OUT OF THE FIRE, WE NEVER HAVE.
The propagandists who say we have done so cannot prove a single Instance in our entire history as a for many reasons. The most Im-And yet by using the Nazi-Com- nation to support their falsehood.
mediate and compelling reason
munist tactics of repeating a was simply that Germany, after falsehood again and again they repeated warnings and protests have deceived some honest, well-
activities on the Nor- warning, with a loss of American those frantic people who cannot
wegian war front, which in- cidentally provided the first opening for large-scale at- tacks between the Allled and German forces, and threats and intimidation by the 'Nazis of further aggressive moves in Europe, a clarification of the position of Italy appears NOTICE is hereby iven that to be imminent. Indeed, Italy the EIGHTEENTH ORDIN will find it difficult to main- ARY YEARLY MEETING oftain her present ambiguous Shareholders of the Hong Kong attitude towards the Euro- Engineering and Construction | peaa conflict-an attitude Company, Limited, will be held which has been described as at the Offices of Messrs. Sir one of non-belligerent non- Elly Kadoorie & Sons, St. neutrality. Which way will George's Building, Chater Road, victim to the guiles of Eu- she turn? Will she fall a Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the rope's arch plotter in Berlin, 1st May, 1940, at 12 o'clock or will she be bold enough to (Noon), for the purpose of re throw in her ict with those ceiving the Report of the Board who are striving to defend the of Directors and a Statement of independence and freedom of Accounts for the Year ended on neutrals, with whose attitude the 31st December, 1939, and she has thus får allied her
self? No definite answers to clecting Directors and Auditors.
these questions are possible at the moment, though "ob- servers of the trend of di- plomacy in Italy are inclined to believe that her link in the Rome-Berlin Axis will bind her to the Nazi aggressionists. THE WHOLE situation, as far as Italy is concerned, ap-
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The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 22nd April to the 1st May, 1940, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board.
B. ALVES,
Secretary.
Ilves.
If Germany had not sunk our ships and Ir American lives had
not been lost in those actions. we
would not have entered the war.
WITH ALL-QUR -FAULTS. WE AMERICANS HAVE A GREAT FAITH IN CERTAIN IDEALS-A: FAITH THAT HAS MOVED MOUNTAINS AND HAS CONTRIBUTED MIGHT- ILY. TO OUR GREATNESS AS A NATION,
bear to face the simple but some- times hard truths of Hie.
Have
observed "how you these same propagandists will стелт with rage because England is at moments reluc- tant to do the hard jobs of civilisation which they urge us to shirk?
PRESENT PITFALLS:
WHAT RIGHT:
If the Allies win without our aid.
Fath not a Jew eyes? Hath by what right will we have a voice not a jew hands, organs, dimentons, in the peace term? What will senses, affections, passions? Fed have been America's contribution? with the same food, hurt with the A few theers, lots of "moral sup. same weapons, healed by the same port" and goods for cash down.
means warried and cooled by the
same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we ret laugh? If you polson us do we nat: die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" So wrote William Shakespeare, whose anniversary recently passed almost.
in typically English
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Again, I say, don't let the propagandists fool us. Let's not fool ourselves. We should at least be too adult for that. The latest trick of the Pontlus Pilate propagandists is to warn us against propaganda. Apparently they assume that Americans are unnoticed a simple, childlike, almost moro- fashion. nic, people who need nurses and guards to keep them out of mis--
NOT LONG before the outbreak chief. It is insidious staff, which, or War. I was sitting in one of the taken in too large doses, is likely local Hotels with a Jewish friend to cause moral impotence and In who is now doing excellent war tellectual sterility.
work in England, when a mutual äcquaintance came up and said to- my friend: "Why don't you Jews bump off Hitler, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.""
IT IS REMINISCENT OF THE
QUAKER'S OLD
RE- MARK TO HIS WIFE: "ALL THE WORLD'S MAD EXCEPT THEE AND ME, AND EVEN THOU ART A‘LITTLE MAD."
BLAZING TRUTHS:
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It happened that the critic was a Roman Catholic and they were also being persecuted by the Fuehrer at the time, admittedly in a minor way.
My friend' replied: "I am not a German Jew, I am just as English as you are, I was educated at one of the leading English Universities.. and I have little knowledge of Con- tinental jews. Naturally I will do
skip it).
We are asked to shut our eyes to the most blazing truths,
the plain avert. our gaze from facts of our contemporary life, to stuff our ears and to harden our hearts so that somehow, in some the we can escape from tough realities of this world and all I can to help them, but they as a nation, evade the tasks which must look after their own Nation- 21 affairs." After all, I suppose nature. our moral traditions and the English. Jew is an Englishman, the uncompromising forces of des- just as the Scottish Jew-(All right, tiny have set for us to do. I have been discussing the pro- THIS PROPAGANDA When Woodrow Wilson, struck paganda about America's part in
AGAINST PROPAGANDA the moral note, the heart of the last war. At first sight it may
MAKES MANY AN AVERAGE America responded. Most Ameri- seem like beating a dead horse,
CITIZEN THROW UP HIS another cans did believe that we were because we now have
HANDS AND SAY: “WHAT fighting "to make the world safe great war and must make up our
CAN I BELIEVE?" for democracy. Whether we suc- minds what to do about it. The Well-you can believe in your this point. We did fight for some-tioned because it has tended to decent Instincts. your own values ceeded or falled la irrelevant at old propaganda has been men- self, your commonsense, your own
warp our present attitudes. Con- and traditions which you cherish sider briefly now some of the pre-enough to fight for. spite of, considerable opposi-sent-day pitfalls that constantly
tion, directed towards aiding threaten our thinking.
**THEY'RE ALL ALIKE.
WHO SAYS SO?
Italy in her difficult neutral stand and it is, therefore, Suck strange bedfellows 25 hard to
understand what
Molotoff, the Soviet Minister of
grounds Italian writers can Foreig Affairs, Hugh Johnson claim for their assertion that and our milksop intellectuals, who' Allied action is driving Italy only yesterday were screaming at into the German camp. Re-Chamberlain and Daladier forj ferences have already been their "cowardly surrender" at: made of the Italian ability to Munich and their "betrayal of seriously damage the Allied Republican Spain. life-line in the Mediterranean; but against this is Italy's ex- treme vulnerability to attack,
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And to give" point to their propaganda, they tar' as with their brushes, Molotoff reler- ring to our treatment of the
Hong Kong, 15th April, 1940; Pears to be centred on what if she is drawn into the con- Cubans and Johnson to the
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NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING.
247 eral Meeting of the Company
Tennis Tournament,
Matches have been rearranged as follows:--
OPEN SINGLES FINAL Wednesday, 1st May. OPEN DOUBLES FINAL
Friday, 3rd May, ̈ Play commences at 4.30 p.m. -sharp each day,
Booking for Stand Seats now open at Moutries.
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This
American Indians.
These "peace-at-any-price people who, consclously or un- consciously, are giving dally air and comfort to Comrades Hitler and Stalin will do some harm and create more confu- . sion before the courageous common-sense of America says, “Enough-you're a fake.”
THEY WON'T SUCCEED, BECAUSE WE'LL STOP DE- CEIVING OURSELVES WHEN THE HOUR OF DECISION IS AT HAND.
PERHAPS UNCLE SAM SHOULD DO THE SAME, I DON'T THINK HE WILL HE ́ ISN'T "THAT SORT OF FEL- LOW. IN DUE COURSE HELL RUB HIS EYES, STAND UP, TAKE OFF HIS COAT, AND DO A MAN'S JOB IN A HARD BUT WORTHWHILE WORLD.
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CONGRATULATIONS to the Government for closing dowIL DIL. rent increases. There may be isolated cases of hardship on Land- lords, but legislation should always be framed for the benefit of the greater number.
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THERE IS more loose writing about local racing than loose rid- ing. One of your evening contem- poraries. in reviewing the last Race Meeting, headlined a novice rider for his clever riding in a race which : he won by four lengths.
It was undoubtedly an “arm- chair" ride, although in the same article this term was applied to another Jockey, who won by only one and a half lengths. Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. I am sure no rider is looking for such unwarranted recognition.
$113,000 ESTATE
The fashion of our present-day THE SAME EVENING contem- propagandláts is to meer at Uncle porary is very unpopular because Sam for acting in 1917 the role of of its extravagant posters and I the Good Samaritan. According amserry, Mr. Editor, that you were took place at the meeting at flict on the side of the Nazi
to these people, the Good Samari-recently guilty of the same Journal- 218 Brenner Pass between. Adolf oppressors in Europe.
We can ignore the Communist tan was a fool and a "sucker. He istic crime when you featured on, Hitler and Benito Mussolini vulnerability will quickly be- bunch for the moment they are actually inconvenienced himself in your placards: "Fight in the Hong- Conjectures, there have been come apparent in the inability part of the price we pay for the doing his share as a member of kong Club" I fully expected to we cherish. But the the human family. There were no read of a fracas between some of in plenty, but, apart from the of Italian seapower to chal- freedom
lenge the Allied naval propaganda is vicious to the ex- pronts in what he did. But the our more respected citizens and the two dictators and their im- mediate advisers, no one is in strength, which will be now tent it helps us to fool ourselves. Levite was the "wise guy." He fact that it was only a small scrap Chinese servants a position to say how far this fully available for such an We know better. Magna Carta, "minded his own business" and between two
common law, went his own way. Didn't lose a scarcely justified you in so publici- sing the incident. But I suppose railway carriage meeting may emergency, with the German habeas corpus, the have influenced 1 Duce in Fleet rendered practically im-William Shakespeare, the King nickle,
James Bible, John Bunyan, Vol-
Iz sells papers! potent. his foreign polity. One fact,
taire, Lafayette, the Rights of nevertheless, stands out clear-
THERE is also the question Man, Wordsworth and Bobby ly and that is that, from the of Italian prestige. How will Burns-they are part of our The Fifty-ninth Ordinary Gén outbreak of the hostilities be it react to a decision to line heritage. THEY ARE NOT FRUS- tween the Allies and Ger- up with possible German- SIAN OR NAZI OR COMMUNIST. will be held at the Offices of the many, the former have ac- Russian dominance in Eu-NOT “ALL ALIKE": General Managers, Messrs. Jar-corded to Italy the fairest rope? Even a German victory
The conquest of Austria, the dine. Matheson & Co., Ltd.. treatment among the neutrals would certainly not improve
of · Czecho-slovakia, the Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on in Europe. Far from Italy Italy's world position under ruins
conditions and the massacre of the Foles, the attack Thursday, 30th May, 1940, at having been made a victim of such
A CORRECTION discrimination, she has bene-Itallans themselves, a proud on Finland, the torture of concen- noon, for the purpose of receiving fitted more than the less for- race, will be the first to rebel tration camps, the bestial crimes Two errors inadvertently crept G. . N. Tinson, solleitor and the Report of the Directors, pass tunate states who are striving agal st a situation, which against race and religion, purges. Into the first part of this letter, lawful attorney, for
administration with ing the Accounts, and electing to keep aloof from taking endanger their existence for "blood baths," "Mein Kampf" and which appeared in our Tuesday's letters of
the win annexed of the estate the Communist Manifesto-they issue. sides with the belligerents. generations to come. These
In referring to the losses by has been approved, When it is borne in mind that are facts which signor Musso-are not English or French or the Allles, decided to adopt lini is doubtless weighing up this policy in the face of carefully before he makes his Italy's continued re-affirma- decision. Indeed, the report- tion of her pledge to the ed fortifying of the Italian Rome-Berlin Axis and to frontier at Brenner. Pass giving the Nazis her moral seems to suggest that II Duce support, her obligations to the is by no means ready to fall Allles becomes unmistakable. in with his Ads partner's
BRITISH and French policy plans for furthering his ad-alon in this connection was, in ventures in Europe.
Directors and "Anditors."-
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 23rd May to 13th Jane Inclusive. By order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Managers,
Hong Kong, 16th April, 1940. 226
American.
No-we are not "all alike." We know all about that. But how long shall we let these propagandists help us delade ourselvent!
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The lat Dr. Paul Jerome Todd, the American doctor who, found- ed the famous Todd Clinic, and Hospital 'n Canton, and who died in that city on Jan. 18 last ̧ year, left Hongkong estate valued
at $113.000. A petition by Mr.
grant pf
Britain, France and America in the last war, the American losses. were stated as being 7,500. This figure should have been 75,000 and the word "incident" was used in that paragraph should have read: stead of the word "indecent"-The "In other words, had the United sentence should have read: "My States
suffered relatively as point is that when we stop to France did, our dead alone would think and make a real effort to be Perhaps the loveliest self-del- have exceeded 4,500,000 men. As fair, the propaganda we have
we are enjoying at the it was, we lost" 75,000.”
«been fed, for several years, seems moment is the picture of America
SELF-DELUŠION:
Three paragraphs further down, a bit indecent.”
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