1940-07-10 — Page 11

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

PRESIDENT -LINER

SALLINOS

To SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES

via SHANGHAI," KOBE YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU

*S.S. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE" V-52

8.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

V-80 *S.S. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND" V-82 *S.H. "PHESIDENT PIERCE"

Jely 12

July

Aug. 1

V-24

Aug. 15

- Omits Yokohama,

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

via MANILA, SINGAPORE PENANG COLOMBO,

BOMBAY and CAPETOWN

S.S. "PRESIDENT ADAMS"

7-53

July 21

July's Aug. 12

To SINGAPORE & PENANG

S.S. CITY OF NORFOLK",

V.3

S.S. CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO VS

To SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES

DIRECT

8.8. "CITY OF NORFOLK"

v.g

SS, CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO" V-2-

July 27 Sept. "1

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THIS NEW VESSEL TO:

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via

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To AUSTRALIA

IF US. ENTERS THE WAR

Immediate Attack On

Panama Seen

CONSCRIPT TRAINING

STARTS JULY 15

I will be read at the next Johore |State Council meeting,

TRIBUNAL SITS *

Six applications were allowed Calling up notices will be issued out of seven within ten minutes. by the Conscription Tribunal those registered under the to

The Panama Canal can expect conscription orders, on July 10 which sat for the arst time last an immediate attack by long and 11. The conscripts will be at¬

week.

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range enemy bombers if the Unit-tached to the Volunteer Corps but! The first seven applications ed States becomes involved in the will be trained by instructors were made. by Messrs. Gammon European war, મ high ranking from the Regulars. mys the (Malaya) Ltd., on behalf of cer- United States Army officer in Malays Tribune.

tain of their employees. formed International News Ser-

Vice.

This training will begin on July Of the seven, one withdrew his 15 and will coincide with the application. Two others were ex- Enemy forces, the Army infor- mant said, would undoubtedly at-period of intensive training which empted from continuous training. tempt to estabish bases in Central the volunteers will be undergoing while four others were exempted and South America. The spokes- Conscripts drafted into the In, from all training.

During the hearing the Volun- man, who asked that his identity fantry, will be trained with the be withheld," said that Mexico 2nd Battalion, Loyals, at Gillman teer representative, in reply to a question by the Tribunal, said might well be the first spot where Barracks enemy forces would attempt to locate.

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Observers In. Panama City state that at the first sign of the entrance of the United States into the current con- fliet, the Canal Zone would Immediately be placed on war- time footing.

All anti-aircraft stations would

be maintained under twenty-four

additional lockout stations.

Those attached to the Machine Gun Corps will be trained bý

Manchester Regiment instructors H.M.S. WHIRLWIND at Tanglin barracks.

Those conscripts attached to the artillery will be trained 'un- der Royal Artillery personnel at the Beach Road volunteer head- quarters.

TORPEDOËD

LONDON, July 9 (Reuters — It is officially announced that the destroyer HMS. Whirlwind nas been hit by a torpedo and subse-

JAPANESE CIVIL

This training in all cases will quently rank. Survivors were hour duty, and extensive restric-occupy three evenings a week of rescued by another ship before the tions would be placed on Canal that leave to attend office in the Whirlwind sank tranic Immediate steps, it was afternoon will certainly be grant- added, would be taken to established, and that it was merely a ques. tion of applying to the unit com- The main threat "to the Canal manders for such leave. would inquestionably be from air periods of two hours each even- attacks, and should such a state of emergency arise. It was stated, there probably would be urged the evacuation of the coastal cities of Panama, on the Pacife side, and Colon, on the Atlantic side of the

Isthmus.

Newsprint production in Canada during April amounted to 268,947 tons compared with 251,279 tons in March.

WEATHER REPORT

Hongkong Royal. Observatory, 10 am, July 9. Barometer, (at sea level), 29.48 Ins, Temperature, 83 "F.

Humidity, 84 per cent.

Wind Direction, S.

Wind Force (Beaufort). 4. Temperature; maximum yesterday.

.88 F.

Temperature minimum last night.

77 F,..

Rainfall for 24 hrs, ending 10th

today, 4.40 ins.

Total rainfall since January 1st.

70.29 ina.

.

Against an average of, 41.98 ins Sunset tonight, 7.11 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 5.45 am,

4 p.m., July 9. Barometer (at sea level), 29.49 ins.

Temperature. 85 F.

Humidity, 81 per cent.

Wind Direction, ESE. Wind Force (Beaufort), 2 Maximum temperature, 88 F. Minimum temperature, 77 F Rainfall, 0.46.

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE

From 10 to 16 July 1940.

Week

Date of

Month.

Height

Low WATER

Hong

Kong

Standard Time

OOO Height,

ing.

On Saturdays and Sundays the training will consist of four-hour training periods each day..

PLANE CRASHES MACHANG, LUICHOW PENIN- SULA, July 9 (Central)—A Japan- ese civil plane from Haiphong to Kwangchowwan fell into the sea In all 120 hours of training will near Konghung Harbour on Bun- be completed during this inital | day: period of training which will take about two months.

The passengers included a Jap-. anese inspector recently despatch- The Local Forces (Training) ed to French Indo-China and a Enactment-on similar lines as Frenchman, who were both killed. that of the Bill passed recently in The plane has been salvaged by both the Colony and the FMS-the Chinese,

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HUB WATER.

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Time.

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