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GENERAL

NIGHT RAIDS ON This Story Was Too Tall

ENGLAND

For Even Admirers Of

PUBLIC AUCTION. PUBLIC AUCTION. Hospital Damaged: Dr. Goebbels To Swallow

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Terrific A.A. FireTM "LONDON, July 1

(Reuter)—A was killed an man

THE Undersigned have received instructions from The Regis-buy would and ht people d THE

instructions

sa"

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

Tuesday, the 2nd July, 1940 commencing at 11.00 am.

SE Undersigned have received

trar. Supreme Court

to sell by

PUBLIC

AUCTION

Tuesday, the 2nd July, 1940 at 12 a'clock (noon)

at their Sales Room, No. 35. Han-at their Sales Room No. 2 Con- kow Road, Kowloon,

naught Road Central, Second Floof (Room No. 205).

A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS PARTS AND EQUIPMENT

also

A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, ELECTRIC LIGHTS AND FITTINGS

and

One 110-Volts Electric "Generator

(supplying 60 lights)

Twenty Old Rubber Tyres

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS."

BY ORDER OF THE COURT

PUBLIC AUCTION.

прив

THE GOODS AND CHATTELS AT NO. 96 WATERLOO ROAD,

# 2ND FLOOR. KOWLOON,

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

Jr

jured in Saturday night's German raids on England,

LONDON, July 1 (Reuter)--A German communique claimed, on Sunday that the German raid on England was on military objectives only.

The communique admits of the RAF, raids on Germany but keeps up the pretence that these were non-millitary objectives only. This sort of information has become a daily feature of German communiques,

The raiders trossed the south After boasting On Saturday and east coasts and dropped night at attacks on troop concen- bombs at various points without trations and embarkations in the being able to deliver any heavy Channel islands, the Germans attacks,

A hospital

was, damaged in midland town old boy kill-

now realise that this story was tou tall, even for "Dr. Goebbels' ad- mirers to swallow.

an attack on а and a 10 year

BALD ANNOUNCEMENT ed. while" an old man died On Saturday came a bald an- of shock. Several were injured, nouncement. The British Channel although none of these were in- islands have been evacuated and mates of the inarmary. A part of about 50.000 inhabitants have been the extension to the nurses' home, brought to England. England Had opened only last Thursday, was already withdrawn all military hit but it was fortunately not yet forces from these islands, occupied.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE

SOVIET ADVANCE OVERFLOWS

Nazi Minorities Fleeing

BUCHAREST, July 1 (Reuter)— The Soviet advance is reported.

to have overflowed at some points

The communique apparently did into Moldavia and Wallachia,

The tension does not show siɛn not see at also to mention that

anxiety is German air raids, following the of diminishing and One house was hit by a high demilitarisation

of the islands, constantly fed by rumours, explosive bomb. A man and his took a toll of 39 lives--29 civilians

Rumanian Jews, who fled to wife and eight sons and daugh-in Quernsey and 10 civilians in Bessarabia, were held up near the ters were having supper in the Jersey

frontier where they were met by a counterstream of German minorities Ceeing from the pro- vinces occupied by the Reds.

LAMMERT BROS., kitchen. Although the house col-

AUCTIONEERS,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

lapsed on them, they were not in- Jared, though the wife was cut | slightly.

Other attacks were ineffective.

In south-west England the noise .or the anti-aircraft guns - WAR

described as terrific. Three light

instructions from The Regis-bombs were "dropped on the cen- trar, Supreme Court,

Įtre of one town, but no one was

Injured.

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

Tuesday, the 2nd July, 1940

at 12 o'clock (noon)

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at their Sales Room, No. 2 Con- naught Road Central, Second Floor

Undersigned have recefred (Rogm No. 205). instructions

TO SELL BY

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

Wednesday, the 3rd July, 1940 commencing at 10.30 am."

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THE GOODS AND CHATTELS AT NO. 12 PEKING ROAD, 2ND

FLOOR, KOWLOON.

Terms: Cash on Delivery,

LAMMERT BROS.,

but no casualties were reported.

DETAILS OF CALLING UP

OF VOLUNTEERS

IN SPORE

Further details regarding the en-

Communists released from pri- sons by the Russians are report ed to be paying off scores.' -

Waggons loaded with wheat and. sugar for Germany are said to have been detained by Communist committees.'

Despite a denial Black Sea ports

Some explosive and incendiary: bombs fell on a Scottish townforcement of the Local Forces are involved in Russia's demands crowding into Training Ordinance, are included in and refugees are circular letters addressed to all the interior from Constanza.

Rumanian territorial waters" volunteers in the Straits Battle-

been declared dangerous ments by the respective H. Q. com-have mandants.

owing to mines.

Boy Farmers Aid War Effort

The letter states that units will be embodied for two periods each of three weeks' continuous training between July 7 and July 28 and August 7 and August 28.

During the period July 29 to August 6, volunteers who wish to Young farmers' clubs are contri-remain at training may do so. and buting in varied ways to the home will be paid, food-production campaign,

CONCISE REASONS

Times And

Statement

By Arita

TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1940.

READ

The China Fortnightly

an understanding

An English-language publication indispensable to "China" at war and at work.

June 16, 1940.

Vol. 1 No. 23

Can Konoye Pull Japan Through By Tao Hsi-sheng

Other Articles & Reviews

Dr. James Top Carries On War & Peace

Ministry of Agriculture

Bombing Arouse Dia Ira Closer Sino:Soviet Relations The Battle Of Ichang.

Generalisimo's 4 Pointa On Journalism Why Wang Keb-min Quits

The Question of Shanghal Settlements Dr. Atal, Indian Surgeon

Dr. Kung & Foreign Trade Commission Agricultural Association Convention Direct Taxation In Ohias

Magazine Digest

An Empire In "Doubt Departments - Summing Up Viewpoint „Overseas Chinese In Short Takes

Digest of Chinese Opinion This Fortnight In China Fortnightly Postscripts

Norman Soong

Obtainable at 601, Bank of East Asia Building, Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong, or leading bookstores. H.K. 20 cents a copy or $4 a year.

Chinese Consul Condemns

Subversive Activities

"A strong condemnation of subversive elements who have tried to induce pupils of several Chinese schools in Penang to strike, was made by the Chinese Consul, Mr. Yeh Teh-ming, when interviewed by a Malaya Tribune reporter in Penang. Mr. Teh sxid:

It is further learnt that there is a strong organisation existerion, which has for Its ubles the destruction of the peace of the country. It is Dow Seved that those who go round distributing the pamphlets are servants employed by the “ai- ranisation.

"Any one who violates the law on bicycles. On reaching a cer- should be severely dealt with by tain school, previously, allotted to the authorities, Especially in these them, two of the party go inside times, every citizen ausaid show the premises, throw the pamphlets his gratitude for the peace and inside the class-rooms and then security which he enjoys here, by dash out of the premises. strict observance of the laws of this country. Any altémpt to`stim up trouble now is a hundred times At the annual meeting of the The letter continues that volun-

serious than in normat LONDON, July 1 (Reuter)-The more National Federation of these clubs, teers who wish to apply for Times, in an editorial, "Japan and times. la London recently, a schoolmas-emption from the training will the Pacific" refers to Mr. Arita's It is learnt from the Inspector ter from Lingfield, Surrey, describ- have to all in a form (attached to broadcast and says the main fea-of Chinese Schools, that besides ed how a club formed of local the letter) which asks for brief ture was the proclamation of a the Chung Ling High School, the schoolboys and evacuees up to 15 and concise reasons for the appll sort of Monroe Doctrine covering Hun Chiang School in Chulia years had started to keep pigs, cation, The form is to be endorsed the Far East and a. great, if un-Street, the Fuken Girls' School feeding them on canteen swill, by the head of the volunteer's specified part of south Pacific, and the Union Kindergarten, a As a pegnet to the arrests, zadev

firm or department

children at Kampong Bharu when à party collected by the, boys. "

Tokyo is obviously taking full school Clubs in Northumberland have It is emphasised that letters of advantage of the preoccupations Burbam Road was visited by sub-or about 15 Hylam youths were

alleged to have distributed pam-... raised a communal flock of pedi- exemption previously granted by of whitehall. It is a development versive elementa, who distributed

phlets said to be of a Communist ree Rhode Island Red poultry, the Man-Power Bureau are not to inevitable after, the defeat of seditious literature. À QUANTITY OF SILVER WARE THE undersigned have received producing nearly 3,000 exga since be considered as authority not to France and need cause no surprise. It is also understood that 400 or nature, fire Chinese youths, whose

instructions

war began It was stated that comply with the instruction. They

Significant was Mr. Arita's in-500 pamphlets, in Chinese, attack- ages ranged from 18 to 18, were comprising:-..

there are now 412 clubs in the should be forwarded in support of clusion in Eastern Asia of the ing the British Empire in the most charged before Mr. W. M. McCall, federation with 15,000 members. present applications for exemp-South Seas, a vast area he did not scathing terms, were found two or the Third Magistrate, with being

The Minister of Agriculture ap- tion.

attempt to define but which might three days ago m one of the class members of an illegal society, pealed to the youth of the country individuals or arms who have include anything from Java to rooms of the Fuklen Girls School, namely, the Panang All Classes

Anti-Enemy Backing-Up Society, to step into the breach caused by already applied as a result of a Tahiti. He did not define the de-

GO ABOUT IN GANGS the serions lack of skilled workers letter addressed to them by the velopments which he appeared to From an official source, by helping evacuees and school-Man-Power Bureau, are not re-anticipate and, til more light is learnt that the members of the accused, after which inspector boys willing to assist on farms. quired to take further action. shed thereon, it is diffeult to as-Anti-Enemy Backing-up Society, Chin Kim Wang asked that the

sess the importance of the dewho are believed to be at the bot-case, was adjourned, claration.

AUCTIONEERS.

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at their Bales Room, No. 2, Con- naught Road, Central, Second Floor, Room No.-205.

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Tea and Coffee Scta, Dishes. Bowls, Knives, Bpoons," Forks,. Plates and Ornaments, etc., etc.

1 Telescope

and

1 Brush and Comb Bet in Case

2 Pairs Binoculars

♫

On View on Day of Sale.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Instructions

THE

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to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

Tuesday, the 2nd July. 1940 commencing at 2.30pm.

at No. 14, Hart Avenue, Ground

Floor.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

All lots must be cleared by 4 pin. on Day of Sale.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS:

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NAZI SECRET WEAPON: NERVE GAS?

ITALIAN EVACUEES

HOME

NOT EASILY ACCEPTED

If it means that wide regions of the Pacific, and the Far East are to be regarded as the Japan- ese sphere of influence, where

for

little

17:

tom of the whole affair, usually

s

The charge was explained to the

Bail : the sum of $250 in two

go about in gangs of six or seven, I sureties exch was allowed;

Chinese Government Plan

To Help 'Varsity Men

Experts believed that the

other Powers, if tolerated at all, "Secret Weapon" brandished by

are to keep their proper stations, Adolf Hitler at the war's begin-

LONDON, July 1 (Reuter)-The then the claim will not easily be ning was anything from Buck

steamer. Monarch of Bermuda, accepted by the nations which Rogers death ray to hot air. But with diplomats, Consolar officials have the sudden, startling capture of and journalists and their wives parts of the world, but if it only While the grm prospect of an

definite righte

in

those

SHANGHAI, June 25 (Reuter)--

the Eben Emiel fortress, key of and familles, from Italy, arrived at means that Japan expects to be employment is staring university WAR BONUS

Belgium's Liege defence system Glasgow yesterday. and synonym to Helgians for Se-

curity, made the world wonder.

PILOT'S EXPLOIT

consulted in any ultimate terri- graduates of Shanghai in the face, torial or political changes in the the Chiness Government authori.. Pacific, the demand would be na- ties are shorthanded in the various tural enough at a time when the kinds of reconstruction work,

violence

Germany oficially announced thing within half a mile-means foundations of the frontiers of a which is now in tull swing in the that this exploit was accomplished that left some question of how great part of the world have been south-west provinces, writes the by use of a new Angriffemittel Lleut. Witzig and his two assis-shaken or swept away by lawless Swanpau. Undersigned have received PUBLIC AUCTION. attack method) operated by one tants managed to survive.

(2) A "nerve gas" like acety Lieut. Witzig, an air pilot, who landed his plane inside the for choline, one drop of which in HE Undersigned have received tress and in a few minutes, "de-liquid form wil, gaped on a

Instructions

defence measures, skin, abrasion, quickly induce un- spite heavy rendered its 1,000 occupants so consciousness.lowed later by 蕊 mehanized no ill effects. Swiss sources last

to sell by

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Wednesday, the 3rd July, 1940 commencing si 5.35 pm.

at their Hades: Room, No. 2, Con-i naught Road, Central, 2nd Floor.

A COLLECTION OF VALUABLE POSTAGE STAMPS

On View from Puesday, the End NY, 1948

ma: Gash on Delivery

LAMMERT BROS.

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

Wednesday, the 3rd July, 1940 commencing at 2.30 p.m.

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at No. 92, Nathan Road, Second Floor, Howison,

A QUANTLEY OP VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FERNITORE

defenceless that

FOR CIVIL SERVANTS

It has been agreed between the Civil Service organisations and

A programme for a number or the Treasury that a war bonus to university trained railway and meet the increased cost of living MAJOR - GEN. H. Hbridge engineers, surveyors, bus shall be paid, as from Feb 1 to ness administrators and assistents, non-industrial Civil Servants

· MATTHEWS DEAD

to work in the Chinese Govern- whose remuneration is at the rate Major-Gen Harold Halford Matment Highway and Rafway Con- of a week or less in London straction Bureaux is now being 01s or less in intermediate centres

metres of railway will be con- structed by the Ministry of RRU Canadian Dolence Forces since ways in the south-west provinces, follows in stich dighe

had thews who has died at Ottawa,

been Adsutant-General

1938.

of the

it is learned

centres.

The bonus to be paid is as

Under 18 years of age, 1s Ed a week.

Nazi column which soon arrived week said the Germans easily took the Belgians prisoner experimented with such a garaged 63, after a long liness, had planned. A total of 10,000 kilo- and 878 or lem in provincial

Eben Emael is ten miles north with a faint geranium odor- of Lege at a deep cut through the against which ordinary filter masks St. Peter's hills where the Albert are dem One whit, they said,

He served with distinction m Canal leads out of the River makes soldiers stagger and fall,

For the Construction of each Meuse. The fort, modern and ex- their mascular coordination anesthe last war, winning the DSO.

and being four times mentioned 1,000 kilometres the Government pensive, is built into the side of thetised as by "twilight sleep."

in despatches, Belatum awarded wil require the assistance of a IRON CROSS AWARD him the Croix de Guerre, and in least 500 engineering students

1919 be received the OMO,

mechanical engineers and shout [3,000 striderita in other coLLESEN.

MAHARAJASIR K. PERSHAD

18 to 21 years, 25 6d a week Over 21 years, 38 for thoms TV- celving under 40% a week, As for those receiving from 404 inclusive, and be for those ing over 506,

the "cut.

Within its thick walls is a plaza Fahrer Hitler personally handed some 600 yd. in diameter. Ceilings the Knight's Cross of the ton of its turrets are reinforced con-1 Cruss to Leut, Witzig and seven crete ten feet thick, low to the other flying offers for their Ma- At Hyderabad, at the age of 75 | Aside from the railway construc- The award sround like the Maginot Line comparable daring in taring For 23 years Frime Minister and tion, the Government has also Civil Servants

Speculation as to what manner Eben Engel and certain bridges President of the Executive Council drawn ap plans for the develop-grades, of weapon could paralyze the de over the Albert Canaly

of Hyderabad-e Tetired from ment of aviation,zhighway cob fenders of such a piece contred He promoted Lieut. Witzig to office three years ago. on two possibilities, Tel

captain. To the inventors of the

„MIENA TANK ILBERE new Angritzmittel went renter 41) Bombs (perhaps liquid tribute: real alarm among the AT oxygen) of such strength that les lest this unknown new Wes LAMMERT BROS., tier concussion would knock un-pon prove vá kov

Conscious if not kut any living Maginot Line.

On View on Day of Sale.

Farma Chash.on Delivery.

AUCTIONEIRA,

TWO POSSIBILITIES

ction postala developm hewey Industrial desalopment and In Johannesburg, at the age of te

don of public utilities 94 Once well known on the stage, and services in the cities in London and Paris as a dancer

the profession

Site Newton, she died in

These plans will provide en

mest fel thousandi de stue

The staff sidew uncit confirmed:

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