1940-07-23 — Page 11

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings

To SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES

via SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU

*S.S. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'

* S... "PRESIDENT PIERCE"

Aug. 4

Aug. 25 Aug.

$8. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"

• Omita Yokohama,

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

via MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG COLOMBO, BOMBAY and CAPETOWN

Food Scarcity In Europe: Hitler's Trail Of Ruin

LONDON, JUNE 20 (BY AIR MAIL)-WHEN HITLER BEGAN HIS NEW 'CAMPAIGN of AGGRESSION THIS YEAR THERE WERE ADE- Ger- QUATE SUPPLIES OF FOODSTUFFS IN EUROPE, and in many, too, there would have been a sufficiency of breadstuff, and fats had she 'not chaven to divert so large a proportion of them to the feeding of her war machine,

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Then came the Blitzkrieg, and with it the whole economic structure of one country after another wag wantonly destroyed. Stocks were seized and removed, access to normal supplies cut off. and the whole system of production, including barrasting, was thrown into chaos. Today the callons infliction of these losses has the to be measured with the crushing liabilities they involve for Reich

Italians Pass Through

Consequent upon Italy's entry Into the European war, Italian diplomatic staffs in all parts of the British Empire naturally had to leave. Altogether 22 Italians mostly staff members and families of the Italian consulates in Aus- tralia passed through Hongkong yesterday morning on an N. Y. K. iner bound for Shanghal. It is learned none of the Italian pas sengers were permitted to disem- bark in Hongkong by the authori-

les.

Everywhere that Hitlar's bordes Reich, Nor can the Nazis look with

The Italian party aboard the N. confidence for breadstuffs y. K. liner consists of Mr. Amedec have passed food shortage has any

consi- from France. She is rapidly followed, and it is

normally Mammalella, Consal. General for

and now Italy. Brisbane, "Mr. dered in some quarters that in barely self-supporting, and four months his own country will her ravaged soli has to support Benedetto d'Acunzo, Consul Gen.

an army of occupation.

eral. Sydney, Mr. and Mrs. In short, the crops of few Euro-vanni Bors, Secretary of the Ita-

S.S. "PRESIDENT ADAMS"

S.S. "RESIDENT HARRISON"

July 28. Aug. 18

be facing famine.

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July 27

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Mrs.

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Germany's positior. is now Army Dean countries have been unaffect van Consulate in Sydney. Mr. linked, to her detriment, with ed by either the ravages of war. and Mrs. Leonardo Chlem Vice- the hard winter, the spring foods, Consul, Bydney. Mr. and Mrs. has devastated, but which former. or the transfer to the Forces of Napoleoné Costantino and daugh

that of the countries which

she

ly were able to import their nor mal supplies from oversea.

farm labour. The Reich, in sadi.

Mr. ter. Vice-Consul, Brisbane, tion has suffered from shortage Mario Luccioli Consul Victoria of horses, fertilizers. stuffs, and oil for machinery. Her Rando. Acting Vice-Consul, Syd- much vaunted potato crop has

B. Vitali. Vice- Consul Sydney. Mr. Mellane G. in part been damaged by the Dey, Mr. Luigi игру the

feeding Sydney, Mr. and Mrs. Felica

it.

Was

As a direct consequence differs little from what it In March, 1918. Well may the quotation be recalled:

devil is come down unto you, having great wrath. because he

Enoweth that he hath but a short time.""

Colorado beetle, and

the ration

of this staple German food has Marco, Italian accountant, Sydney. Mr. and Mrs. AdamŊ Vigua and been cut to 31kg. weekly.

three children, Secretary of the Consul General Brisbane.

"CALLOUS METHODS Quite callously, Germans have DENMARKS LOST CATTLE

been removing stocks of whale oil, On balance Europe is dependent slaughtered poultry, and other on oversea sources for food for her provender, from centres that were With existing Inhabitants and fodder for the live-nearly starving. stock. Taking the countries overrun knowledge of the utter unscrupu-. and ravaged by the Nazi war ma-lousness of their methods, it may chine, Denmark is an outstanding be foreseen that.the Germans will example of how capture by Hitler not hesitate to starve the con has added to his abilities inquered lands and will stead of to his asseta.

HONGKONG

SHAREBROKERS

ASSOCIATION

Volume of Business Trankacted

One-third of her cattle will have

They will conveniently ignore China Providents been slaughtered before the sum- mer is over, and already her pis the fact that even in their industry has virtually been liquid-country the ated

own

on Monday, July 22, 1940. H.K. Banks attribute Cements the deprivations of the invaded China Lights (0) countries to the Alled blockade.

3 $1.180.00

200

14.35

387

8.50

100

8:55

500

3.80

260

3.80

200

18,20

50

18.20

100

18.15

100

18.15

M

100

18.15

500

3.70

500

3.70

22.25

200

15.50

225

21.00

3,915

The total value is $45,055.50.

war machine has Dairy Farmis

de- been fed consistently to the atriment of the ordinary worker Poland, which was formerly grower of substantial quantiles und the virtual extermination of of grain, potatoes, sugar beet, and the aged or weakly, fodder, and an exporter of veget able and animal foodstuffs, invaded during the autumn sow-issued on Wednesday appointed Mr. H.K. Telephones (0) 500 ing season, with resultant damage Meng Chu-ju, First Secretary to the HK. Tramways Chinese Embassy in the "Soviet Yaumati Ferries that can be imagined.

Union. replacing Mr. Chang Ta-tien

In

"" HK. Hotels was A National Government mandale

IN NORWAY Norway, three-quarters of who has been transferred to an whose grain supplies were always other post. tmported, the German authorities themselves admit the necessity for

providing extensive help in the OHINA NAVIGATION

way of food as well as clothes and furniture. in some districts the situation. 15 Critical, Feeding- stuffs are scarce, and livestock has had to be slaughtered. The már- garine mills are at a standštili :' the Ashing industry ruined...

Although

and both Belgium Holland produced and exported certain foodstuffs, they were de-

activities pendent for such the import of primary materials: Belgium's position is now regard. circum- ed as desperate unless stances alter she faces a famine in about two months, Holland must import feeding-stuffs and fertilizers, or she will lose of her herds" and crops.

on

more

NO HELP FROM ITALY Little or no help can be expect- ed from Italy. for as a whole she has the same deficiencies as' Ger- many. Her standard of living which has been falling for a decade, is lower than that of the

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