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EDITORIAL
C.I.C. PUBLIC MEETING
Work
Described By Mr. Alley
The Chinese Industrial Co
·operatives public meeting, at which Mr. Rewi Alley, the Chief Advisor, spoke on impressions of the CI.C.. was held last night in the Helena May Institute which was filled to the capacity.
The speaker was introduced by Mr. P. N. Chung, Chairman of the
CHEUK MAN SIN has been FAMINE THREAT Promotion Committee of the C.I.C.
declared LOST and should the
same not be produced before 16th
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents.
Hong Kong, 31st July, 1940.
IN EUROPE
The CLC is an organisation which will help China to resist the enemy, to better the livelihood
of the Chinese and to help crippled soldiers and refugees to support themselves, declared Mr. Alley.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14 -1940.
"Silver Sausages" Confound The Sceptics: Lon don Press On
Mathematical Manoeuvres
« LONDON, Aug. 13 (Reuter)-The British press yesterday de“ voted itself to a number of topics, but Sunday's treat air battle -in which the Germans lost 60 planes and the R.AF. 26—was naturally one of the chief topics.
The German targets were over a wide area and Included a Attacks convoy off the East Coast Weymouth and Portland, were made on barrage balloons, but the number of Nazi 'planès shot down was out of all proportion to their bag of two bal- Icons.
On Sunday afternoon, the German radio interrupted Its programme to announce that " 73 British planes had been destroyed, as compared with a German loss of only 17. Later, the British loss was stepped up to 891
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and at times one is apt to forget the barrage balloons are not in tended
purely for decoration. Some people have even laughed at
them.
Newsettes
It is, reported that during the week-end burglars tried to" smash the lock on the front door of Messrs. Moutrie, in Chater Road, but without success,
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The wedding took place on Aug.
Trinity Cathedral 3, at Holy Shanghai, of Dorothy, daughter of the late Captain J, W. Meathrel and of Mrs. A. W. Meathrel, of Shanghai, to Mr. Ivan Livingston Gordon, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. L Wheeler, of Belfast
Mr. Tan Kah-kee, Chairman of August, 1940, It shall be deemed THE THREAT of a severe
The News Chronicle pointed out CANCELLED and of NO famine in Europe has be-
yesterday that the actual experi-the China Rellef Association. In EFFECT.
come very real, indeed. It is
ence of war has confounded the Singapore and his party, following FEELING OF SECURITY now clear that 18,000,000] -
the old Chinese Industry In sober fact, the figures up to sceptics. They have proved one of their arrival from Chungking, are people will soon be facing the CICs a new method of in- late Sunday night were 60 German the best weapons there is against making a round of "inspection to dive-bombers and low-flying study reconstruction progress Im starvation unless some ar-dustrialisation which gives the 'planes and 26 British fighters.
These figures, as the Daily Tele-planes, and no doubt that is why Kumming, capital of Yunnan, The rangement can be arrived at, workers a feeling of security.
The speaker declared emphati-graph pointed cut yesterday, are the Nazi planes made such Cerce party paid a call on General Lung Yun, Chairman of the Yunnan to succour them in their ter-
cally that the success of the C.LC."subject to correction" as fresh attacks on them on Sunday.
The attempts proved a costly Provincial Government. 432 rible distress-the dreaded
will not be achieved unless all link reports come in.
fallure. The" number of Ger- first-fruits of the senseless up and form an unbroken cham. Unofficial reports state the Ger-
man 'planes brought down was A party of 10 Chinese youths, and unprincipled aggression This was especially Important at mans actually lost 65 'planes, but
out of all proportion to their representing the Hongkong Youth which the fanatic at Berlin this time when China, was being if adjustment is to be made it
"bag.”
Corps, presented a sword to Gen- will be in accordance with the
"We hope they will try again." jeral Chiang Kai-shek at Chung- has launched on the world. cut from the outside world.
Mr. Alley dealt with the work of facts and not with the dictates of
says the News Chronicle.
İking`on Aug. 8, as a token of pro- Despite German claims to the the CIC, and said that the work- unscrupulous propaganda.
found respect. Following an "im- STANDARD OF PEACE contrary, there is no doubters were very energetic and happy. NAZIS STUMPED!
pressive ceremony performed at that the British blockade has They do their best to help China
The Daily Herald, like Mr. J. B. the headquarters of the Kuomin- On this occasion, the Daily Tele proved to Herr Hitler that no and they endure hardships.
Germans Priestly in his broadcast talks yes-tang, Mr. Yeh Chu-tsang. Secre- country can exist onguns was shown to the audience.
A film of the work of the C.I.c.graph points out, the
were unable to follow their usual terday looked ahead to the new instead of butter." The
practice of exactly reversing the world after the war, true figures because when they The Labour paper refers to the received the sword on behalf of
the Generalissimo. at blockade which aimed
issued their communique they had document Issued last keeping a stranglehold on
not get the British figures to re-setting forth the war and peace aims of the Labour Party, "and says Germany's economic position
that there should be a similar de- Purchase a permanent site for the has unfortunately placed all
claration of principles by which Shanghat Y.W.CA is progressing those countries which have
all members of the Government in spite of difficulties in the way been ruthlessly ravaged and
are prepared to stand.
of such an effort at the present time. The sum of $57,000 has stuffed into the Nazi maw in
hearts of neutrals but would also
This would not only warm the been collected so far and the the same position of finding
be a standard round which Hit- ler's enemies can rally, not only in Londoners have grown very used the conquered countries but also in to the "Silver Sausages in the Sky" Germany itself.
NEW YORK "FREIGHT BUREAU TRANS-PACIFIC FREIGHT BUREAU HONGKONG.
Joint Freight Tariff No. 12 issued 19th February, 1940.
Notice is hereby given, effective 11th September, 1940, all rates of freight quoted in the above Tariff will be increased by approximately 10%.
A revised Tariff will be issued themselves cut off from every at an early date.
HONGKONG TRAMWAYS
LIMITED
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
Govern-
success
Lingnan University Moving To Kwangtung
Preparations arc proceeding
verse!
They accordingly reversed the "probabilities." But the world is already very well acquainted with Naz mathematical manoeuvres
and not many will be deceived by the latest German effort.
FIERCE ATTACKS
February
Itary-General of the Kuomintang,
The campaign to raise money to
leaders of the campaign are- de- termined to keep on until the final goal is reached...
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Bountiful crops, the result of sufficient rainfall, are expected to be harvested in Anhwel and Kiangsu provinces during the lat-
which has attended their Kwangtung, and the first batch of WHAT AMERICA THINKS ter part of this year, it was re-
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Exhortation By Chiang
Continued from Page 1
Only a few days ago Trung- ming Island was the scene of rape, Incendiarism and mas- szére.
source from which the essen- 448 tials for life can be drawn.
While the British ment has every reason to be apace for the College of Agricul- ture, of the Lingnan University, to satisfied with the
movė from Hongkong to North
efforts to deprive Germany of faculty, and student body, led by Yao-nien, will those vital necessities for pro- Professor Shao
Under sufficient secuting the war against Eng-leave very shortly,
"Settled" "Nazi pressure to A quantity of books, laboratory
Under land, they are much concern- equipment and experimental ma-
Induce Rumania ed over the plight of the chinery has been shipped from Pressure to submit to dis- memberment in civilian populations, not so Hongkong to the college's new site NOTICE IS HEREBY much in Germany, as, in the at Pingshek in Lokchong, north silence the Balkan front is GIVEN that an INTERIM vast areas of Europe where Kwangtung, on August 9,
Kwangtung Provincial progressing toward a settle-
calculated DIVIDEND of Fifty (50) cents the brutal aggressor has left he
to allow Government, it is understood, has ment declared a trail of ruin and misery.appropriated a sum of $50,000 to Hitler opportunity to direct per Share has been
his undivided attention to the 449 payable on WEDNESDAY. 14th Unofficial views appear to meet the removal expenses.
Whole families were School building, experimental west front. AUGUST next, on and after have been expressed in the
shut up in their houses and which date Dividend Warrants United States on this grave stations and dormitory quarters
However, there is and can be no burned to death and groups of will be erected at the new site to and a
elvilians mowed down' in cold may be obtained upon application humanitarian issue
enable the college to start the assurance that the so-called settle- has been at the Registered Office of the plea
blood with machine-guns. made to next semester in the, new pre-ment on this basis will last any longer than it takes for the situa- East, Britain, on humane grounds, mises.
"Even while we are gallantly Company, Canal Road
A large number of students have [tion to develop into an invitation offering resistance, our enemy are Hongkong.
for some alleviation of the
the signified their readiness to move for Stalin to step in again. treating us like slaves. Should we NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO Position by reducing
to the interior, and. reports that rigidity of her blockade
Rumania's position is hopeless.stop resistance or submit to their GIVEN that the REGISTER
difficulties have encountered in The misfortune of the situation is coercion and cajolery, there is no measures. The United States persuading the student body to her geographic location. Her loca- telling how they will treat us," of MEMBERS of the Company
Government, however, has leave Hongkong were discounted tion, makes her a no-man's-land in the Generalissimo remarked. will be closed from WEDNES not associated itself with this by responsible members of the the battle between dictators, the The Chinese staunch spirit of DAY, 31st JULY, to WEDNES.
tentative proposal.
battle which actually is going on resistance could not be destroyed all the time in a quiet way and by blockade, bombing or any other DAY, 14th "AUGUST, both days inclusive.
HOW FAR will Britain bel
which is virtually certain to take method of force. The resistance justified in refusing to com-jcumstances; the heavy work-a more active state sooner or later of the Chinese in the "occupied" ply with such a request, in ers who provide the war ma-unless their aggressive war takes areas during the past three years one or both of them from the had caused the enemy to sink stage.
deeper in the quagmire.
ST: STEPHEN'S COLLEGE STANLEY.
"
The Middle School" and the Preparatory School will re-open On September 9th.
Entrance Examination for New Students on Sept, 7th at 9 a.m1. For Prospectus for boarders and Day boys apply to Fung Man Sul, Esq., or Chan Pak Luk, Esq., Messrs Harry Wicking, Prince's Building (Tel. 30241) or lo
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE,
STANLEY.
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By Order of the Board, "W. F. SIMMONS, Secretary. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1940,
the
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university.
Generalissimo Chiang • ex- horted his fellow-countrymen. in the "occupied" areas to give every ounce of effort to the nation's power of resistance and do everything, in their power to hasten the collapse of Jayan.
vealed by local Chinese rice mer- chant circles in Shanghai. It is anticipated by local rice merchants that the good yield in crops will cause a general downward trend. in local market prices.
The torrential rain at noon in Shanghal on Aug. 7 flooded sever- ... al streets in the Settlement and Concession, and caused sonie minor accidents, such as over- turned rickshas and car collisions.. The Nanking-Cheklang Roads dis- triet was badly flooded and con- siderably restricted the activities of" shoppers and pedestrians alike.
MALARIA IN CHINA
UNITS FORMED TO COMBAT SCOURGE CHUNGKING, Aug. 13 (Central)
tration is doing everything it can to combat the "malaria epidemic now prevalent in a number of places, according to Dr. P. Z. King. Director of the Administration, in an interview.
The National Health Adminis
Anti-malaria units have been formed in the affected districts, and quinine pills have been dis- tributed, Dr. King said.
view of her determination to chine with its power come prove to the dictators of Eu-next-the rest of the people rope that no peace can pos-have to merely exist. The sibly prevail in the world un- civil populations of the con- 414 til their cruel methods and quered territories do not principles of Totali come into the Nazi orbit of tarianism have been com-human feelings and are just pletely uprooted and destroy-left to starve. There is, ed? It is pointed out that therefore, reason to fear that! the relief of humanity forms any relief which might be the basis of Britain's
to war sent
these starving aims and that the famine millions would never reach part of England which is open to operate with the Chinese deadly disease in view of her problem in narobe must be them and will only assist in the full weight of Luftwaffe, Co-estion, chestablishments, and as people's present economic cond
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
Famous Salt Wells Bombed
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND By Japanese
of ONE DOLLAR per share for
DAY, 27th AUGUST, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained at the Company's Office, 3 Chater Road.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER
aircraft in
BLITZKRIEG FORCE NOT YET
Continued From Pare 1
tain is at the moment highly centralised. 80 thoroughly
have the plans been laid, how-
ever, that it can be de-sen- raised "at a second's notice."
They should avoid gambling, The health director remarked smoking opium, heroin and other that it is yet imptasible for Chine narcotics, and they should co-to fundamentally stamp out this
troops to.
QUIET HK. OBSERVANCE Chinese observed quietly yester
is vigorously pushed,
day, the third anniversary of the
outbreak of hostilities in the SUPREME COURT
Shanghai area.
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A meeting of representatives of Chinese schools and other or ganisations was held at the Po
WEDDINGS
The following weddings took-
terday, officiated by Mr J Rey- nolds Deputy Registrar of Mar Mages:
tions and habits of Hving. How between the groups tack the enemy garrison units. alleviated from this point of strengthening the Nazi war operation
particularly over their “boundary view. In other words, that efforts.
The occupied" areas should be lever, he said, it will do much to- lines" is complete and there are made a shackle for the enemy.paign on anti-malaria knowledge ward this end if a publicity cain- Britain must not stand in the
THE PROBLEM of saving gaps where the raiders can (Central News). the six months ended 30th June, CHUNGKING, Aug. 13 (Reuters way of efforts made from Europe's starving millicas bank on slipping through un- 1940, will be payable on TUES-Japanese
three abroad to help the unfortu-thus becomes a precarious molested. lights heavily bombed Tzelinate civilian population of one. Its realities must be The serial defence in Bri- ching. famous salt wells in West-
those countries, which have faced and any action taken ern Szechuen, Luchow, on the Yangtze River, and Chungking, been taken, against their will, must be directed in such a which is the Szechuen terminus of into the German sphere of way that will leave no doubt the new highway connecting Kun-control. The subject is one as to where the benefit of it ming with Chungting.
2 which has to be studied much will be placed. The drastic
It is still too early to ay ng Theatre while there was a place at the Supreme Court yes- Two flights of raiders, it is leara- more closely, however, before situation which the people of whether the attempts at invasion,ue of nowers. OF SHARES of the Company ed, bombed the salt wells twice British compliance on this Europe are facing is assured-coinciding perhaps with an Italian will be CLOSED from THURS while the third group raided Lu-plea can be demanded. It ly of Nazi making and it is offensive against Egypt, will follow
Mr. Dun Gong-fong, butcher DAY, 15th AUGUST, to MON- chow. The bombers are reported.
residing at No. 65. Ha Heung Road, DAY, 26th AUGUST, (both to have dropped some bombs on must be remembered that only fair to expect Herr Hit the present wave of attacks.
Bince the fall of France, Ger-
first floor, and Miss Daisy Low, days Inclusive) during which Chiangtain, south of Chungking. methods employed by the ler to provide the where-
leaders milite withal to satisfy the people 0 in her raids on Britain.
many's losses have totalled nearly
of the second floor, same address. period no transfer of shares can but this is not get confirmed, German
An urgent alarm was sounded against such a step. In Ger- in the territories he has
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, - Lord || Mr. Wu Kai bong, teacher re- here when raiders twice passed many today, every effort is pillaged in his lust for power.
President of the Connelly left his siding at No. 43, Waterloo Road: the city on their, way to and back directed to assist the huge It is when victory comes to
nursing home yesterday and Miss Lau Blu-lan, or No. 83. from West Szechuan. The alarm Nazi war machine. Every those who are so determined- MALAYA ACCEPTS He has been convalescing Tong Choi Street was sounded at li and the particle of food which the ly opposing Totalitarian op- al-clear at 2.30 p.m.
SINGAPORE, Aug 13 (Reuter) following his recent operation." Nazis can snatch from their pression that Europa will be
Malaya is accepting the invitation After lunching at 11 Downing Mr. Yu Xuen-wu, merchant, "Japanese aircraft never, came within the city umite but Chinese Civil population goes to their rid of the spectre of famine the Empire Conference, which street, he left London with Mazz. No. 383, Portland Streda Melas
short rest Chii Lin, student! ughters circled above Chungking military forces. The German which so gravely threatens will be held in New Delhi on Oc- Chamberlain for a
140 Reclamation Etreet soldier comes first in all cir-it today.
be
By Order of the Board of Directors,
0. EAGER,
Secretary:
-Hong Kong, 8th August, 1940.
awalling the raiders,
tober 8.00
Mr. Chamberlain Convalescent
LONDON, August 13. (Reuter)-
in the country.
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