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HONGKONG, August 24, 1940.

may be WAR EFFORTS IN

THE COLONIES

The Royal Observatory reported at, 5 p.m. that pressure is highest over Manchuria and the Pacific. eastward of Japan.

.The China Sea typhoon has probably entered the coast Dear Haiphong, the eastern typhoon is moving northward across Naha.

DAMAGE REPORTED

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1940.

FAILURE OF GERMAN

RAIDS ON BRITAIN:

PRESIDENT OF ROTARY

COMMAND SHAKE-UP INTERNATIONAL

IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN, THE NAZI LUFTWAFFE|

TO MANILA COMING VISIT

SAO PAULO, Brazil, Aug. 14.-

FACED ITS FIRST REALLY TOUGH TEST. German pilots learned at Dunkirk, where R.A.F. definitely established local control, that they and their machines were individual-{ ly inferior to the British. But the British had not enough, Armando de Arruda Pereira, pre- planes to maintain superiority all over Britain if the Ger- mans came over in thousands."

A map of Luftwaffe's pre- liminary "educational" bomb-

A motor yacht, belonging to Mr.ings of Britain, shows some of L. R. Brown, of the China Con- the targets which Germany struction Company, drifted from:

the China Construction Company exact sites). In some cases the

at Shouson Hill were damaged..

Germans may not have hit where

its mouring at Deep Water Bay. Considered most important. Nobody was on board at the time!

The bombed towns are those mentioned in German communi- The Register oF MEM. AS THE FIRST YEAR of the and it has not yet been located.

hostilities in the west. Several matsheds belonging to ques (the British do not name BERS of the Company will be draws to its close, reports are 441 CLOSED from MONDAY, 2ND being made available to the

SEPTEMBER 10 SATURDAY public of the response which stone Nullah Lane, collapsed part- have also been bombed, by ac- A wall at the rear of No. 25 they thought, but other places 7TH SEPTEMBER, 1940 (both Britain has received from ty due to the recent storm and days inclusive) during which every corner of her vast Em-rain. period no transfer of shares can pire to assist her to secure her

The north part of a bridge in be registered.

the 10-mile war alms. It would not, of Talpo Road, near

stone, was wrecked" and is darr course, be fair to make com-gerous-to-traffic parisons on the value and ex-| As a result of the heavy down-traffic accidents...

BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.

The following -notice is published for general informa. tion:-

1.

His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have decided that, subject to arrange. ments referred to below, Bank of England notes cannot henceforth be imported into the United Kingdom. This will do no way affect normal transfer of sterling through

"which will banks continue in accordance with existing arrangements.

2. In order to afford existing holders opportunity of obtaining value for sterling notes held by them the following arrangements have been made. The period allowed for carrying out of these arrangements is necessarily short and immediate steps must..he taken by those desiring to take advantage of the offer. The period can in no case be extend. ed.

3. Bank of England notes

in Hong Kong up to the close of business on 27th August, 1940, will be credited on receipt in the United Kingdom to the account of the bank which forwards the notes provided (1) the notes are forwarded by the bank in question fram a post office in Hong Kong not later than midnight oa 27th August, 1940, end (2) the total

-By-Order-of-the-Board-of

: Directors.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON

---CO., LTD.-

Agents."

Hong Kong, 1st August, 1940.

&

434

THE RAUR AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING COMPANY

LIMITED. (Incorporated in Queensland) Notice of Declaration of Second --Interim-Dividend.--

די

inches above normal

in

tent of these war ́efforts or to pour on Aug. 22 a total of 1.44 draw invidious distinctions, inches of rain was recorded bring- Each part of the British Coming the year's record to 4287 monwealth of Nations has been striving to energise its

INCREASE OF resources and to place at the disposal of the mother coun-

TUBERCULOSIS try those essentials which will IN SINGAPORE keep her war machinery in Deaths from tuberculosis motion and which will add to Singapore have been increasing in the strength of her economic the last two weeks, according to position to face long and pro- Malaya Tribune on Aug 17

statistics, tracted hostilities. The help For the week ending Aug. 3. that has thus been reaching the number of fatal cases from Britain has been substantial, this disease. was 43, while last even-if-some-parts of the Em-week the number was 35. pire have not been able to keep

Chicken-pox cases were also on

official

reports the

cident, by bombers in a hurry to unload and start for home. In these bombings, according to Bri- tish admission, 336 civilians were killed and 478 seriously-wounded, less than a normal month's tall in

LIGHTLY MOLESTED

The pattern shows that Britain's vast-Industrial Midlands section. from Birmingham and Coventry- north to Leeds-and-York, had been molested only lightly. Her west- coast ports north of the Bristol Channel were untouched. Only a few of her aircraft factories, had been attacked.

Lieut. Gen. Sir Alan Francis '("Wizard")--Brooke, who has replaced Gen, Sir Edmund Ironside in Britain's Home defence command,

His fox-

NOTICE is hereby given that a pace with the efforts made by the increase, there being 13 cases only around its fringes, suggesting Wellington's officers hunted

rants,

By Order of the Board, DERRICK & CO.,

Chartered Accountants,

Local Secretaries.

Hongkong Bank Chambers,

SINGAPORE, 10th August,

461

of each bank's holding is cabled |·1940. by the forwarding bank before opening of business on 28th

August, 1940, to its correspondent In the United Kingdom or to the

reported, none of which fortu- nately, was fatal. In the previous

...

Remarkable was the

forged.

Germans

in

fighter with "swallowed"

sident of Rotary International, announced today he plans to visit Manila late in October to present Dr. Carlos P. Romulo, Manila publisher, the decoration. conferred on him by the Cuban government during the recent convention of Rotary Internation- al in Havana.

The

international head of Rotary expects to leave Braai with Mrs. Pereira in September, travel- ing by way of South Africa and India to the Orient,

FIRST CITY

"Manila is the first city in the Far East I want to visit, not only because its Latin culture birds me to the Philippines but I want to congratulate Philippine Rotar- Hans for their many achieve- ments in Rotary, prominent among which is their having given Rotary International a leader of the type of-De-Romulo, "with whom I served on the same board and whose ability Rotary leaders have learned to respect and admire.* Mr. Peretro said.

to

the

NEWSETTES:

Road East.

Mr. Pereira was elected Дет president of Rotary International at the Havana convention after RAF's widely scattered bases

ed he is also an anti-aircraft ace drawn in favor of the Brazilian...

Romulo ordered his name with had received attention, but no- thing

Spectacled, dark, pinched, with a The forthcoming trip like concentrated attack. close-clipped mustache, he looks Oriens will be the new president's Chlef targets were naval bases, more like a "City" broker than the arst since he assumed office. commercial ports, oll dumps on soldier-sportsman that he is fi the southwest, south and

Analyzing the Rotary situation. east the Army since 1902). coasts, and munitions plants in the hunting Irish father was Master Pereira said today Rotary clubs. north (Middlesbrough, Billingham of the Par pack (supposed des-

are-increasing-despite the wat Greenock). London was bombed

cendants of hounds with which During his forthcoming trip, he expects to campaign to fill more the efficacy of its balloon barrage. Spain). Sir Alan, who was born isting clubs to enhance Rotary's membership classifications in ex- Second Interim Dividend of four those better situated and

and raised in France, is one of influence for peace and friendship. pence per share for the financial more generously blessed with weeks, there were only ten cases many of Britain's bleed, where the Empire's finest wins shots and in the world. year ending 31st March, 1941, nature's gifts. In Malaya, for reported.

Britain's biggest guns are anglers, and he once rode down has been declared by the Directors instance, it has been revealed Last week, there were 23 cases

and speared a wolf from horse- than the

GERMAN STRATEGY of the Company in Brisbane, that tin mines are working of pneumonia, two more

¡back. week previous.

German strategy would be to payable on 21st September, 1940, twenty-four hours a day and

The death rate was, 19.75 per draw defenders away from Et-

NAZI LAIRS BLASTED to Shareholders on the Registers that rubber estates are being mille per year,

tain's airfields by intolerable at-

While worked at high pressure to at. Brisbane and Singapore on

Sir Alan prepared to Knocked down by car No. 4033, tacks on other targets, if need be spear German sky wolves, the driven by Mr. E. Paul, in Hennessy 20th September, 1940,

keep supplies of both these spontaneous as it has always on heavily populated areas AEAF, continued its lambasting of Road last night, a Chinese male NOTICE is also hereby given

commodities, which are essen-been.

threatened destruction of London, their lairs across the Channel.sustained injuries and was sent to that the Singapore

tial for war purposes, flowing Transfer

THE DEMAND for financial such as the destruction of Rotter British pilots stalked Germans the Queen Mary Hospital. Registers will be closed from colonial possession, capable of those in charge of the ad-the centre of the city to rubble in Wherever they saw barges at Rot- into Britain. Nearly every assistance must continue and damn which 54 German planes home to spot their fields for fu

lled 30,000 people and reduced ture visits by "British bombers. delivered to an authorised bank Saturday, 14th September to doing so, has likewise mobilis-ministrations in the Colonies 7 minutes, according to an official, terdam, Boulogne, in the piver Equine Sports Club, which was to The gymkhana arranged by the Friday, 20th September, 1940, ed its entire natural resources have constantly to explore Dutch both days inclusive, for the for the common cause.

announcement), C might Lys at Armentieres-they poured take place at a later date when it preparation of Dividend War

new avenues-for-raising force the RAF to cdine to the down bombs. They blasted out a was postponed on Aug. 11 owing THE GREATEST essential money.

Taxation, after all metropolis' defense.

But if Bri- section of the important, Dort- to unfavourable weather, has now to Britain's war effort, how-must have-its limits and to

tish airfields were left undefend- mund-Ems Canal, to which much been >> cancelled. ever, is money. With daily overburden the people would planes on the ground would be raliroad was wrecked.

ed, their shops. hangars and traffic has been diverted since the rising war costs averaging be injudicious. The raising destroyed and in a short time the £10,000,000 for every twenty-of war loans has been accept-RAF. would cease to be a factor docks and shipyards. They play yesterday of Mr. Henry Ma Sing

They smashed at Copenhagen's ;

The forthcoming marriage was announced at the Supreme Court. four hours of the hostilities, ed in more than one Colony in the fighting. the financial" strain is most as a means to bring In more

ed havoc at a favorite od spot, merchant. Big difference between Rotter- the many-railed freight yards and Triangle Street, and Miss Yu Sau- residing at No. 7, severe for any belligerent and money. Its disadvantages are dam on May 14, and all large Bri- junction of Hamm. the question uppermost in that it offers the wealthy heavily ringed with well-manned, aircraft plant where a new twin- At Bremen tish cities was that the latter were they smacked the big Focke-Wulf ying, residing at No. 248, Queen's Britain's war programme is to classes a safe means of adding well-munitioned anti-aircraft bat-talled keep the war chest replenish-to their wealth by a form of tories. ed. It is here that the in-lucrative investment. Finan-many was prepared to send bomb to fly 400 m.p.h.

On the other hand; Ger-engine is being turned out, sala

Ceneralissimo Chiang Kai-shek dividual effort becomes "ap-cial experts have been offer-ers in fights of 540 instead of 54, parent.

Each side was "softening" up" $50,000 to relieve the refugees in has ordered an appropriation of Patriotic response ing various other suggestions, If needed, to destroy London, the other and a report from far- Hengyang, important town on the is naturally expected from which they feel would bring mingham, Bristol, etc., simultan- from Germany indicated the kind aan, which has been subjected to Liverpool, Hull, Manchester. Br-off Turkey carried by travellers Canton-Hankow Ratiway in Hu- the wealthy. classes, in in substantial revenue and at eously, at whatever expenditure of of damage both sides were aiready repeated bombings by Japanese the first instance. Most of the same time cause less her own lives might be necessary suffering and are still giving with an these suggestions is the or pects were that the 10,000 or 15,- was thoroughly terrorized by R. A. them have given generously hardship.

According to the as-planes. Foremost among to annihilate British lives, Fros- counts the Rhineland populace Day's Salary To Fund given sparingly and a few In Malaya, one section of the pared to send and spend might Essen, home of the vast Krupp Fellowship Mission-formed-under- open hand. Others have ganisation of a state lottery.000 attackers Germany was pre-F's incessant raiding, especially at Mr. Ben Cowles, member of the CHUNGKING, Aug. 23 (Central) perhaps, grudgingly. If, there-press has been a strenuous most, all types) Enthusiastic response has been fore, Britain has to rely solely champion of this form of sooner made by various cities to the au- on these individual efforts, raising money for the war. It sooner. peal of the National Association financial assistance would be certainly is distinctly feasible 6. Consignments pot com- for the Warm Garments Cam- plying with these conditions will paign in Chungking for funds for only spasmodic and would and it is difficult to under- not be accepted in the United

winter clothing for the

Chinese soon exhaust such sources. It'stand why such a proposal faced overhead was expressed re- Kingdom for collection.

troops and refugees.

thus becomes necessary for should find opposition. There cently in one more shake-up of The Mobilisation Committee in the Government to find other have been complaints that her defense command Brave but any other agency than a banking of representatives of the necessary financial assistance. hind other parts of the Em-with the rank of Field-Marshat, to Yenching Alumni Association held eradicating malaria which has authorized under Regulation different organisations to discuss This means a resort to what pire in its war efforts, Hong- make way for Lieut. General Sir Ita reunion yesterday at St. John's broken out seriously in a number

Ironside, 60, was eased upstairs

The Hongkong Chapter of the is no possibility of completely. 42)-of-the-long-Kong Defence the matter. It was decided to re- (Finance) Regulations, 1940, to vive the Szechwan branch of the must inevitably cause hard-kong has no natural resources Alan Francis ("Wizard Brooke, Ifall, Hongkong University.

National Association for the Warm ship to the wage-earning which it can mobilise for 57, na Commander-in-Chief of the Dr.

of provinces.. declared Dr. P. Z. Garments Campaign formed last classes. Taxation is always assisting the mother country.)

Lew Ting-fong, formerly King, Director of the National central organ to push unwelcome, for with it comes Its war efforts must, there- Gort, Commander in Chief of the Peiping, and Dr. Paul C. Chang, terview with the Central News

General Viscount Professor at Yenching University Health Administration, in an in the campaign in Szechwan The concomitant difficulties-in-fore, be strictly confined to post since his return from France, Leather Research Foundation Tan- populace and the Chinese soldiers In view of the above notice no the province has been

amount of funds to be raised increased costs of living, lower the financial side. So far only was made only Inspecting General ners Council of America, who just have been seriously affected by BEF, unassigned to a new high member of the Department of Agency in Chungking. Both the further permits will be issued $700,000 and the campaign is

purchasing power of the individual efforts have been of Forces for Training, while to arrived from the United States, malaria, which has thus caused under the Defence (Finance) pected to be completed before the population, reduction of responsible for accomplishing replace Sir Alan as field comman Regulations for the export of end of October,

trade, restricted spending and the little that has been done der in the south of England, Lieut. were the speakers,

indirect economic losses. Bank of England notes as from

Those present were Prof. Heu the need for the strictest in the Colony, apart from General Claude John Eyre Auchin Ti-shan, Chairman of the Depart today to any person other than

Kansu, Ninghsia and Chingal weil be expected to create ernment lottery would im-who helped wrestle Narvik from Hsu, Prof. Ma Chien, of Hong-of Finance to govern domestic re- suthorized banks, and no permits nave decided to raise $450,000 chaos and dissatisfaction, but mediately have the effect of Germany's Lieut. General Eduard kong University.

stringency. The result might war taxes. A State or Gov-eck, 56, was named. The latter ment of Chinese Literature of A set of regulations has been

was the hard-bitten Infantryman Hongkong University, and Mrs. issued by the Chungking Ministry........ aid of the campaign. Steps are being considered to launch the the loyalty of the British substantially increasing the "Ball Diet, only to see it yield-shih-Shung of Lingnan University. porta and the Tree China"

Prof. Linmittances between the coastal Empire and its people, to the pecuniary assistance which ed due to pressure in the Low-Prof. I Ching-chin of Yenching The regulations provide that re- Kings press circles have sent mother country has never Hongkong can render to Bri-

landa out & circular telegram suggesting failed in the past and, how-tain in her hour of need and

University arid about 30 Yenching mittances from coastal ports to that all newspapermen contribute ever

In World War, General Brooke alumni, N

the Free China" severe

cities will be the hardships should receive the earnest invented a barrage map for direct Dr. Lew, who came from Bhang free from charges, the report

free fro tember 1. Journalists, Davons may be which people living consideration of the Governing artillery are which came into hat recently, described the present states. Remittances from the

1. Day, in ald

under the British flag will be ment. In seeking means to best-informed tank and anti-tank encouraged the alumni to unite ports will be charged according to wide use. He is called Britain's education In Shanghai. He also Free China areas to coastal called upon to face in the enhance the Colony's con-man, Wizard" because his know-closely so as to serve society and the specified rates promulgated future, the response will be as "tributions to the war effort. ledge of gunnery is so well-round the country better.

correspondent of its head office. WARM GARMENTS

CAMPAIGN

Every consignment should contain

a letter from the forwarding bank stating whether it forms partur

Journalists To Give

all of amount notified by cable.

4. Notes now in transit to

the United Kingdom from Hong

Kong will be accepted...

5. Notes will, as is customary, be forwarded at sender's risk.

Notes

well knock out Britain's 7,000 (at planta.

defense planes

or later, and probably j

COMMAND SHAKE-UP Recognition of what Britain

forwarded by 'ndividuals or by onengtu, yesterday called a meet-means to secure this very Hongkong is lagging far be-inflexible General Sir Edmund

its regular correspondents in the United Kingdom will not be credited on arrival,

will be issued to authorized banks

as from 5 pm on 27th August,

1940,

By Command,

H. R. BUTTERS,

Financial Secretary.

21 August, 1940,

year, as a

drive.

PUBLICITY WEEK

*xed at.

of the campaign and hold a Warm

Garments Publicity Week Septem

459 ber 3-4.

Home Forees.

1

YENCHING ALUMNI REUNION

the joint auspices of the Ameri- can Youth

Congress, the Inter- collegiate Christian Council, the Board of Foreign, Missions of the Presbyterian Church and the In- ternational Counell of the YMCA,. arrived in Lanchow from. Chung- king by plane yesterday.

Under present conditions there

by the Binistry.

"areas,