1940-06-24 — Page 12

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DAILY SERVICE

(including Sunday.)

MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1940:

FOREIGN MAILS

HONGKONG, MONDAY, 24th JUNE, 1940, 9.30 AM.

Air mall letters will be accepted for transmission to Europe by Pan-American Service to New York and onward thence by coa at $3.80 per half-ounce for the air transport, plus 15 cents per ounce. to British possessions and 25 cents per ounce to foreign countries in respect of sea transport.

An experimental air service for Europe via United States of America and Trans-Atlantic Bervice has also been introduced, the charge being $5 per half ounce for Tetters and postcards $2.50 each. An approximate estimate of the time occupied in this trang- mission is twelve days from the date of departure of the Clipper from Hong Kong. **

"The postage rates via the revised Imperial. Airways Bervice are unchanged.

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended:

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Each day many mines which have broken loose from their moorings and floated ashore are found along the coasts of Britain. After they have been rendered hartless by special crews,

"they are towed away as shown above, to be used for the benefit of the Allies,

ORIGINAL

TIENTSIN

STATUS OF SILVER

IS UNCHANGED

CHUNGKING, June 23 (Central)-Referring to the settlement

of the Tientsin silver question, the National Government In a state- ment yesterday reiterated the point that, as has been repeatedly emphasised in the recent conversations between the Chinese Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs and the British Ambassador on the question, the silver is owned by the Bank of Communications and forms a part of the National currency reserve,

munications of the silver in ques

CHINA WAR NEWS Shanghai and Amoy

Continued from Pare 7 back to Nanchang in the five days

from June 11 to 16,

CHINESE TIGHTEN CORDON The Chinese cordon around the Japanese forces at Ichang and further eastward on the Slang yang-Shast highway has been tightened and relentless opers tions are pushed at a number of points west of the Siang River to

Canton

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U. S. A and Manila (San Francisco date, 29th

May). Shanghai and Amoy d Shanghai

Air Mail by "Air France Airways Service”.

Air Mail by "Pan American Always Direct Ser-

vice.”—San Francisco date, 18th June, ........... Calcutta and Straits .................. ar Bangkok

Haiphong London and Straits Java and Manila, »

Manila

mop up straddled invading units. Japan and Manila,

One Japanese unit consisting of Air Mall by "Imperial Airways Bervice” 1,000 men succeeded in breaking Canton

The statement says that apartcipal authorities, regrets are a from a quantity equivalent to a pressed that the administration of sum of £100,000 that will be set the British Concession should be aside "for a fund for North China Interfered ́with. This also con- through the Chinese ring at Yang Japan, Shanghai and Formosa .... rellef, the British Government beflicts, with the existing agreement chalu on the suburbs of Ichang Japan and Shanghai. ........... comes the trustee for the Chinese concerning the Concession.

and escaped eastward. The unit Halphong Government and the Bank of Com- The circulation of the bogus was intercepted by Chinese forces Japan.

Federal Reserve Bank notes in the and lost several hundred men in London and Straits British Concession is likewise re- a brisk engagement.

Japan, and Shanghai It is emphasised that the placing | gretted in that it would be detri- The Chinese "pressure on Tang- London and Straits. of the silver under seal as agreed mental to Chinese: interests and rang has been increased, forcing Japan. does not change its original status does not seem te tally with the the Japanese garrison to retreat The settlement of the silver oft-repeated British policy in the Into the city. Chinese siege of the question, it is understood, was Far East, reached after lengthy discussions between the Chinese, and the Bri- tish Governments.

tion.

ORIGINAL INTENTION

It is revealed that the original intention of the Chinese. Govern. ment was not to set the silver for any other but its original purpose as a currency reserve, but in view of the widespread distress of the Chinese people in North China, the Government has now agreed to ser

city will soon begin.

Bomb-Devastated Areas In Chungking

CHUNGKING, "Juñe 23' (Central)—A survey of the bomb devastated areas 'in-Chungking show that they are 'wider than those in the disastrous bombings of May 3 and 4 last year.

U. & A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai

Francisco date, 8th Jung). Canton Shanghaj and Amoy ...............segezonde Fernauks Sandakan.

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30th June

2nd July

3rd July

U. S., and Mantis-(San Francisco date 11th

June).

Canada, USA, Japan and Shanghai — (Vancouver

B.C. 18th-June)

OUTWARD MAILS

·Registered and Parcel Mail are closed 15 minutes earlier than

In an interview, Mayor K. C. Wu To minimise their losses, the the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where malls are said that calmness prevails in the Bureau has asked the Central advertised to close at or before 9 am, registered and parcel mails are aside a part of the silver for reuer, city despite the recent wanton Trust to -underwrite their

With regard to the police ar- enemy raids. He was impressed risk policies, and agreed to pay close after 5 pm. Registered and Parcel malls are closed at 5 pm. war closed at 5 pm, on the previous day. When malls are advertised to rangements reached between the British and the Japanese authori- by the close co-operation of the from one to 50 per cent of the air-defense units during the premiums for them depending ties, while ́admitting the difficul-

bombing, and spoke highly of the upon the nature of goods dealt in. ties confronting the British mun courage and efficiency of the

The Bureau has also made ar- AR.P. workers, first aid corps and rangements with the Agricultural Are brigade.

Credit Administration for a steady supply of cereals and foodstufis,

ROSSLYN PARK TOO GOOD FOR RAF.

Rosslyn Park...22pts, K.AF. XY...8 The Rugby season was wound up in fitting, fashion at Orleans Park,"

Identical copies of the "National) Pact during Air Raids" have been posted in all dug-outs, enjoining the refugees to give, among other things, first consideration to the aged, the weak, women and chil- dren and to help the wounded.

Canton

Гарад..

For

MONDAY

Swatow, Amoy and Formosa...... LONDON, June 23 (Reqter) Straits (Parcels only). The-läst British troops to leave France have been brought back Straits, Rangoon and Calcutta, by troop-carrying aeroplanes Canton..

They were chieny R. A. F, grounde Shanghai... 500 SHOPS KEPT OPEN staff men. The 'planes were, flown Five hundred shops in Chung-across ahead of them One man

TUESDAY

when the crowd was treated to ring have been designated by the carried a large flag which bore Halphong the same type of bright and in-Social Affairs Bureau as agenta 93 small Swastikas, He explained Bhanghai, vigorating football that has chat- for the sale of daily necessities that it was the squadron's record Fort Bayard, and Holi acterised the game during the and are not allowed to quit the flag, the Swastikas representing 93 Parcels only for Tentsin,

Haiphong

cumstances. war-time capital under any cir-bombers brought down in ve

War.

Rosslyn Park held a big advan- tage: behind the scrum, where five Hospital backs were operating and It was this superiority that gave

them such a decisive victory on points. In actual play the RAF had net runt share of the game," thanks to the excellent touch- finding of the Hampshire cricket er, D. P. Walker--and the tear- away tactics of their glant peck.

CLEVER HANDLING

J. Graham Jones, F. M. McRae, and R. T. Campbell formed, a smooth-working triangle for the Park and four of their live, tries were due to the clever handling and running of one or all of this trio.

weeks.

PUPPET-JAPANESE TALKS TO BEGIN

CHENGKING, June 23 (Central)--What "are"described as even more fràstic – demands than --the fundamental“ points: ~fnitizlled ́ ́ InstTM December between. Wang Ching-wel and the

Japanese-military authorities have been brought by Col. Kagesa- ««from Tokyo to Gmerál Abe, the Japanese plenipotentiary, to be presented to the Nanking, puppet regime, according to an im- -portant member of that rogime' recently" arriving in Shanghai, Chen Kung-po, so-called prest, Wang'a-orthodor, (faction and dent of the "Lexislative Yuan" of the Chow clique.

the puppet government, who has Angered by the cold shoulder Just returned from Tokyo, has given him by Wang, Chow D Included in the Park's pack was been appointed by Wang Ching secretly manoeuvring against the a young Felsted schoolboy, wet as the chief delegate to the forthcoming negotiations. He and Crouch, who showed the highest forthcoming negotiations that will his followers have made known promise, his sense of position and shortly be held in Nanking to dis- their opposition to the Japanese speed being most impressive, while cuss the Japanese terms,

terms as being too harsh, in order he once saved what looked a cer- Chow Fu-hat, erstwhile Japan to involve Chen in difficulties,⠀⠀⠀ tain try by R. W. Poe with a grand ess favourite and number one According to Col. Kagess, the tackie

contact man between Wang and extreme nature of the demands Poe, xe Vevers on the other Tokyo, has been apparently left was necessary to appease the RAF wing, always ran very hard out of the

but had few, chances, the com-the-growing bination in midfield being rather Aketchy

V Park's tries were - scared by F.

Cartrell, J. O. Bulstrode. P. Water- keyn, D. K. Huxley, and Crouch, Huxley converting two and kick-the final

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ing a penalty goal D. Walker

converted E. J. W. Willams's try League, Ees for the RAF for whom PR deld by 12 bot Fughes alsá scored,

Wolford

ation because of Japanese people who placed much rupture. between hope on but have since been

lusioned by the Wang Ching-

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