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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 luto" the United Kingdom. This will in no way affect normal transfer of sterling * through banks which

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HEREBY NOTICE IS GIVEN that an Interim Dividend of $1.00 per share has been declared in respect of the half year ended 30th June, 1940 on 600,000 OLD SHARES and will be payable on and after Wednes day, 11th September, 1940. Warrants Dividend

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TOKYO WAITS ON BERLIN EXTENT TO WHAT

developments in the Far

war

EDITORIAL

MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1940.

CORRESPONDENCE U.S. NAVY

NAVY IN

IN PACIFIC

V:D.M.A. APPEAL

To the Editor, H.K. Dáily Press

Sir, The Christ Church Group of the VDMA. intend to hold a plente for the blind women the Industrial Home Pokfulam, on Saturday, October 5. This will be the 14th year in succession that this plente has been held,

this year:

to the

READY

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IN BRITISH-MADE ANTI-NAZI FILM

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U.S. movie-goers will soon' sec their First Lady in the British made. anti-Nazi Alm, Fastor Hall

HINT TO JAPAN

NEW YORK, AUG. 18—WHIPPED INTO SHAPE BY FÖLK. MONTHS OF THE MOST INTËNSIVE MANOEUVRES IN ITS HISTORY, ORDERED IN THE FACE OF STEADILY DETERIORATING JAP. ANESE-AMERICAN DIPLOMATIO RELATIONS. the United States fleet has girded itself in

manner an unprecedented

to guard "America's Arst line of defence in the Pacific.

This is the new of Wendee Burch, United Press staff correspon- dent, who has just returned to New York after several years service as Bureau Manager in Honolulu, where he was in contact with U.S."" Naval activities in the Pacifle.

Since April 3 what amounts to ing long has been estäbijshed. wartime secrecy has covered the One maneuver which has.con- exact movements of the armada. tributed to the efficiency. "of

| But it is no secret that the fleet is | American naval gunnery has been. prepared for instant action in that the adoption of "offset · firing"

practice. Ships fire broadsides.. apparently directly at each other, wartime conditions,

ALICA.

THE EQUAL OF ANY

alert.

|pons straight at designated friend--

gun sights are corrected, that the

entirely safe margins.

The Islands of Oahu now is.

which the fortunes of history might turn against it United States maintains its great stocked with more war materiala

Ashore in Hawaii where the est single concentration of army than at any time in recent his- tory. Unofficial sources say that ́adequate ammunition” în hånd at: the vast Lualusief depot and other Unobstrusively, but continuously, sentries patrol all Important com storage centers to last the fleet. munication and transport fines.

through any conceivable operations The navy supply system has been NEWSETTES UNDERGROUND AERODROMES taxed to the utmost to keep off Large appropriations have been and other necessary supplies flow- Mr. J. Frey, of Macphail & Co., made to construct undergrounding to Pearl Harbor, for the 100 GERTRUDE GODDARD (MRS) Ltd., Singapore, passed through storage facilities on Oahu, but as or more chips operating in the

Hon. Group Secretary. Hongkong recently, accompanied yet no public announcement has Hawaiian region. Christ Church-Group. V.D.MA. by Mrs. Pres.

bean-made-of-plans-for-under-

DESTINATIONS KEPT SECRET ground plane hangars. In view of

Yours, etc.

May we through the columns of your paper, appeal for gener- bus support from the people "In Hongkong. We fully realize how numerous and how great are the demands that are bing made at this time on the gene- rosity of everyone, but we feel that it would be a very Kreat pity. If these blind women wers are to be neglected. The majority of us, who have full possession of THE REGISTER OF MEM.

all our faculties, will readily ap-i BERS of the Company will be East subjected to the course preciate how greatly such small CLOSED from MONDAY, 2ND of events in Europe? There kindnesses as this annual outing

"Ship for ship, our navy 13 the under fully simulated equal of any in the world," naval Crew appear to aim their wea SEPTEMBER to SATURDAY. appears to be more than help to alleviate the dreariness

authorities assert confidently. 7TH SEPTEMBER, 1940 (both reasonable. ground for seek- of those whose lives are spent in

To do her bit toward enlighten-They hope that the naval con- total darkness.

ing the people, Eleanor Roosevelt struction program will make it they ships. The secret is that the 2. In order to afford existing days inclusive) during which ing an answer to this ques-

For several years past the wo-recently permitted herself to be equal of any combination of navies shots actually clear the target by holders opportunity of obtaining period no transfer of shares can tion today when a close study men of the Pokfulam Home tave smeared with grease paint, mas

is given to indications in the learned to look forward past two or three months annual outing as one of the few which have formed a basis really happy events in their year for the conclusion that Tokyo We sincerely hope that it will not GIBB, LIVINGSTON &is awaiting a sign from Berlin be necessary to disappoint them whose American rights her son, power. troops are equally on thei

James Roosevelt, has bought. to carry out Japan's pro-

Gifts of money and/or the-In her prologue, Mrs. Roosevelt gramme of plunder at the loan of motor cars for the after-told why she approved the film. propitious moment. It was noon will be greatly appreciated. not mere coincidence that, Will all who are willing to help. please communicate with me, c/o when Herr Hitler's

Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., hounds went plunging) 3. Bank of England notes

through the Low Countries: and yelped their way into delivered to an authorised bank

France with bared fangs, in Hong Kong up to the close of business on 27th August, 1940,--

Japan should have considered that the time was opportune

The Chinese air units stationed Mr. P. J. Stoneman, of the Chl-the flexible state of defense pre- Where the fleet units go while will be credited on receipt in the

in" Yunnan have. to state her own views re- $24,000 in aid of the Warm Gar- Stoneman, have left the

contributed nese Maritime Customs, and Mrs. párations, however, it may be as on active duty never is revealed- United Kingdom to the account

Colony sumed that plane storage will be but they are absent two and three- territories be- of the bank which forwards the

garding the

ment Fund Campaign. The money for the north.

provided underground if the army weeks at a time on occasion, in- longing to the Netherlands represents the total amount of notes provided (1) the notes are

and navy commands agree that dicating the scope of their ac and France in the Orient. "comfort funds which they re-

such facilities are advisable. ¡tivity. Carriers are reported, un-- forwarded by the bank in question`

the capitulation of celved on the Chinese Air Force

Bombers maintain NOTICE is hereby given that a With

unbroken officially to be establishing an: from a post office in Hong Kong

neutrality patrols for hundreds of "auter patrol," well beyond the not later than midnight on 27th Second Interim Dividend of four France and the prospect of an Day on Aug. 14.

miles off the Hawaiian coasts. range of patrol bombers flying August, 1940, and (2) the total pence per share for the financial immediate German invasion

Battleships, "cruisers. destroyers from the air base at Pearl Harbor: of each, bank's holding is cabled year ending 31st March, 1941, of the British Isles, the mili-will have to be

Screening the Hawalian "islands. · Pearl Harbor naval base, on Oahu, proper are Midway, Johnston and by the forwarding bank before has been declared by the Directors. tarists in Japan were encour-wait, indeed! opening of business

near Honolulu, for maintenance Palmyra islands. Millions are be- on 28th of the Company in Brisbane, aged to openly declare their was

and repairs, then depart time-ing-poured-into-development-of-air- August, 1940, to its correspondent payable on 21st September, 1940, designs on French Indo-China launching of in the United Kingdom or to the to Shareholders on the Registers Indies. And while Europe what will no doubt prove to been

and naval bases there, and pre-. diately on further "manoeuVTES." and the Netherlands East vaunted "blitzkrieg," with Major Thomas Addis Martin has

Uminary work has been started on.. correspondent of its head office, at "Brisbane and Singapore of still reeled under the shock be fatal results to his plans: Lieutenant-Colonel in the Hong-tivity. for the fleet since May 16, West of the International Date This has been the order of ac. a base at Wake island which lies. 20th September, 1940.

NOTICE is also hereby given of the French surrender and Compelled eventually to kong Volunteer Defence Corps, when Admiral James O. Richard. Line. Far south of Honolulu is the

Britain began to hastily gird make some sort of a demons-with effect from Aug. 2 that the Singapore Transfer

son, commander in chief of the Samoan base of Pago Pago-also- up her loins for her lone tration of the

strengthened to face any aven- fleet announced that it would' re- Registers will be closed from fight against the war-drunk, made to his deluded people, fast bowler, has joined Kowloon finitely.

promises

F. R. Zimmern, Cralgengower main in

tuality. Hawaiian waters inde- Saturday, 14th September to

HUGE AIR BASE hordes of Naziism and Fashe threw his air strength Cricket Club and will turn out for Friday, 20th September, 1940, cism, Japan went in for a against Britain and has re- the latter club during the coming tensive.

Gunnery practice has been in-! At Elckham Field, huge army both days inclusive, for the greater show of sabre-rat-coiled from the tremendous season.

One gunnery school was air base adjoining Pearl Harbor, conducted despite the fact that a millions are being spent. Across preparation of Dividend Wartling and made positive des opposition he encountered.

considerable aniount of overhaul the Kookau range from_Honolulu. mands. The bluff worked THE GERMAN DEFEAT in EM Marques,. V. R. C breast-work was under way at the time, and Pearl Harbor, at Kaneohe Bay... well and the Japanese mili- the recent

stroke swimmer, left for Manila and required much overtime labor (the navy is completing work on. air battle of tarists rubbed their hands Britain

on Thursday following the gala by mechanics to keep participat, another air base. probably dis-

at Chinese Y. M, C. A. between Lating planes and ships in operation The picture thus presented is with smug satisfaction as appointed Japan the most. Tsun and V. R. C.

GUNNERY ACCURACY.

one of definite wartime activity. they proceeded to secure two Her expectations of a crush- important concessions from ing attack on Britain by Ger-

Every consignment should contain

a letter from the forwarding bank stating whether it forms part or 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.

com.

LIMITED.

(Incorporated in Queensland)

Notice of Declaration of Second

rants.

Interim Dividend...

'forced to

has

Mr. Paul D. A Chidell, “AGA., has been appointed to

be an Examiner, under the War Revenus Ordinance, 1940.

•

a very long Miss Margaret Hearson, B.A., Herr Hitler has been appointed to be a Mis

delay the tress, Education Department, with

effect from: Aug. 9, 1940′′ his much

promoted to the rank UI

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and aircraft carriers put in at the

ORDER OF ACTIVITY

A fundamental in US. feet It bears the significant 'distinc-

By Order of the Board, DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants,

Local Secretaries, Hongkong Bank Chambers,” Notes

Dr. Wang Chung-hul, Minister operations is to keep gunnery at on, however, that its directors SINGAPORE, 10th August,

Officers believe that no 'consider the existing establishment | a betrayed French people and many, with a mighty invasion of Foreign Affairs, has received aja penk

an over-cautious and gravely of her shores, remain unful-telegram from President Quezon other naval gunners in the world efficient and fairly complete in it. concerned British

of the Philippines thanking him-with possible exception of the self. Govern-filled and Japan' must begin for his congratulatory message on British--can 461

ment-and two vital routes to see grave doubts now of the latter's 82nd birthday on Aug. curacy of American crews.

approach the ac- thing at its strongest bastion in

The the Paelic. into China from Indo-China the possibility of a Nazi vic- 19.

efficacy of American naval bomb- and Burma fell into Tokyo's tory. The position must be causing much confusion in

6. Consignments not plying with these conditions will not be accepted in the United Kingdom for collection. forwarded-by-individuals-or-by- any other agency than a bank authorized under Regulation i (2) of the Hong Kong Defence (Finance) Regulations, 1940, to It's regular correspondents in the -United--Kingdom will not “be

credited on arrival.

will be issued to authorized banks

as from 5 p. m. on 27th August, 1940.

By Command,

H. R. BUTTERS,"

Financial Secretary. August, 1940,

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1940.

averted,

Moscow.

Lady Cripps told her friends how she wrote a cable to her husband and ended it with the

words "Greetings to Jos " She- saw her blunder, struck out the last word and substituted "Airedale."

America is 'ready for any....

The Order Of

THE NEXT ACT in the Tokyo and Japan's militarists WHAT AMERICA THINKS The American

political drama awalted stag-will probably be asking them-

Senator Key Pitt- man, an-

NO GERMAN, ITALIAN MEDALS TO BE WORN

It is notified for general in.......] "formation that His ---Majesty the King has given commands for the withdrawal of all per- mission previously granted for the wearing by British sub- Jects of German, and Italian decorations and medals..

It is notified, therefore, that all such permissions are to be regarded, ás carícelled.

Razzberry

"The Crooked Double Cross??

Formed in New Urleans recently, was the Order of the American. Razzberry.

Based on the anti-Totalitarian. Fourth of July speech by the US. Secretary of the Interior, ~ Mr. Harold Ickes, and said to be writ-. ten by poet Archibald MacLeish,. the "new..order will decorąte "all: stuffed shirts, politicians or others, who piore themselves friends of

"GREETINGS TO lap.

JOE"

In view of the above "notice_no Recently, one faux pas

waxing.

The first shock of the selves how far they will be WHERE THE further permits will be issued made and another was narrowly French disaster having pass-able to commit themselves ander the Defence (Finance).

ed, Britain and her Empire further in the face of the

THREAT LIES Regulations for the export of instructions for strict secrecy, an

The blunder: "B.B.C., despite rallied to the call of freedom strength of the new Britain swering the radio address of Bank of England notes as from nuunced that on July 1, Sir "Staf-

for the world and, quietly that has risen up to avenge Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, put today to any person other than_furd Cripps bad had a three-hour and systematically set about the oppressed and down-his finger on the source of authorized banks, and no permits talk with M. Joseph Stalin in converting the British Isles trodden millions and to the isolationists' concern för into the formidable fortress liberate them from the a massive American defense Narrow Escape: Because the malls are impossibly slow, Str

which it presents today to scourge of the aggressor. when he pointed out that if Stafford corresponds by cable with the European aggressors. In Japan's

headstrong war Hitler were stopped in Europe his wife in London. Recently he the meantime, Herr Hitler leaders would be foolish not, there would be no threat to told her he had bought an Airedale (and vicious brood began to to read the writing which has the United States. named Joe,

breathe threats of fire and now been plainly Inscribed on Colonel Lindbergh and his ad- thunder against their arch the wall of the German air visers are quite right under pre-

sent clrcumstances enemy England, Plans to defeat. They would be well

in... urging celebrate the historic defeat advised to furl up their "New for the United States, a willing

thorough military preparedness of the great British Empire Order in Greater East Asia" ness to make sacrifices for na- days have deeply disturbed senti- Adolf Hitler by hampering were drawn up to schedule banner and withdraw to tional security and to spread ment in the United States. One and slowing up the national de- and the world waited with their own island limits and these sacrifices, uniformly among of these was a pro-dictator speech fense of the United States.

THE DECORATIONS bated breath for the German- there strive to regain that manpower and capital, But what by President Vargas of Brazil; the dictated peace on August 16 reputation for humane pro-

is the circumstance that makes other, the collapse of France. It

Highest decoration: "the Ameri--- Alleged Kidnapping: Japan watched the stage ar- gress and culture, which they this necessary? Certainly on rates Bould not afford to can Razzberry Rampant upon a

generally assumed that the DONT FORGET Three Chinese Now rangements with a feeling of have sacrificed by methods mocracies. Solely the possibility permit a Nazi-Fascist regime to be Nazi Swastika Couchant." Lesser

In Police Custody gramme was

which have of an attack by forces of totall-set up by the German and Italian "the Crooked Double Cross."

Following is an excerpt from prepared to brought on them the con-tarianism, once Nazi Germany residents of southern Brazil. Yet

the "speech referred to: "And; might have the resources Three alleged kidnappers, a man start when the first shot in tempt of the whole civilised Europe at its command

of Rio de Janeiro, where President

here is this orator telling you. Vargas spoke, is 4,481 miles by and two women, have been de the attack which would bring world. It will not serve

that democracy is all through. The isolationists take also the steamship route from Miami, Fla., tained for questioning as a re-England to her knees would Japan to wait on Nazi Ger- sound basis of the Monroe Doc- while. Cherbourg, France is only and that herty is decadent sult of a raid on

When are you going to laugh;" a house in be fired. That would have many or Fascist Italy for a trine as the footing for their 3094 miles from New York,

Americans? When is the great, Portland Street during the week been the signal for her to realisation

In other words, Nazism is! of her satanic evident proposal of hemisphere when two Chinese lads, one mine

hard, angry, ahduting, razzber- and the other six years old, were make her grab-Indo-China, dreams of domination in the the United States must have the on the east than is its echo on the defense. Colonel" Lindbergh says geographically 1,000 miles closer

ry laugh of the American found.

the Netherlands East Indies, Orient. The fate which co-operation of all American south. Is not that close enough The raid was headed by Detee- Burma, Biam, the Federated awaits Germany must in-countries" in defense and must to warrant first-line defense by Hive Sergeant HJ. Baldwin. Malay States, Hongkong etc? evitably be hers, too, if she Insist upon military bases ... utmost ald in material to the Bri- The older boy denied that any The signal has, however, not continues with her plans for wherever they are needed. This tish and their allies even while the of the three suspects were relat yet been given and Japan is ruthless and aggressive ex- German foothold in South Amefenses?

surely would imply resistance to a United States prepared its own de- ed to him while the younger child felled to name his parents still waiting for it! As events pansion at the expense of rica or guardians.

are beginning to show how, it others.

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You are at Home

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exultation and her own pro-and actions

Two events within the last few

Reprinted" from the Christian

Science Monitor

people going to yells

Haleh. Chih-yang, an adjutant in the Ewelyang branch of the Yunnan -- Xwelchow Pacificatio Headquarters, has been executed for selling ten shih of government rice and embezzling the funds;