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DEATH

Li

EDITORIAL

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS The Funeral of the late Mr. URBAN COUNCIL AND

NOTICE.

AN URGENT APPEAL is made for women workers for the Sewing Centre at Government House. Owing to the recent evacuation the 'sewing work of the British War Organisation. Fund is materially affected, while the need for hospital supplies has not in any way diminished. The working days are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the morning from 9.30 to 12.30.

The above also applies to the Sewing Centre of Mrs. H. F. Phillips at the Y.M.C.A. " on Wednesday mornings and the Knitting Centre at the Helena May on Thursday Mornings.

RA0B CLUB

(G. 1. E.) HONG KONG.

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An extraordinary general meet- ing will he held at the above Club at 8 P.M. on Thursday, 12th September, 1940, -

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Yau Tsun, CBE, J.P., will take

place on Saturday, the 14th Sep- tember. The cortege will leave his residence No. 66c, Bonham Road, at 10 am.. arriving at the Yat Plt for at 12 noon Ting Pavilion

CHOLERA MEASURES

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such owners cannot be found that The special cholera hospital in the Public Works Department be

wells. friends and relatives to pay their Lalchikok would be reopening as authorised to close and fill up such last respects. The internment will from today, and the present cho-

That the question of drainage in take place at the Chinese Fer-lera situation could be regarded as

these steps be immediately, inves- manent Cemetery.

constituting a public health emer-

tigated and that a comprehensive 489 geney.

scheme be introduced as soon as possible to improve the existing insanitary conditions

Mrs. H. 8. L. Dowbiggin Miss Anne Dowbiggin

p.p.c.

The Baily Press.

報西刺孖

Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central, Tel. 30251.

Night Editor (Wanchal Office):

Tel. 24511.

"London Office: 53, Fleet Street

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HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 31, 1940. --

Nazis' Balkan "Settlement"

Drainage in Kowloon City, which was practically non-existent. re- quired immediate Investigation. and it was necessary that a drain- age scheme be introduced as soon ás possible

An immediate start would be re- commended on the introduction of a pipe borne water supply for these

areas.

THREE MOTIONS Following the reading of this letter,

the Chairman proposed three motions to be immediately adopted by the Council, which were unanimously carried.

These were.---

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COOKED FOOD

The Council also approved an amendment' to By-law 2 (b) ot) the Hawkers Ordinance, 1935, re- quiring sellers of cooked food to provide sufficient boiling water for the purpose of sterilisation of utensils, bowls and chopsticks be fore these were served out to cus- tomers to eat their food-with.

These utensils will have to be sterilised by immersion in bolling water,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, ́1940.

Two Adventurous Young American Ladies Intent On Sojourn Of Three Of China

Years

In The

Interior

TWO ADVENTUROUS. YOUNG AMERICAN LADIES, INTENT ON A SOJOURN OF THREE YEARS IN THE INTERIOR OF CHINA, ARE AT PRESENT IN HONGKONG. Both are graduates of Oberlin College, Ohio, and will leave for Chintang, West China, where they will teach at the Oberlin-Shansi Memorial Association School.

The two ladies are MISS VIRGINIA SHULTZ, who majored in Sociology at Oberlin and will teach English,| and MISS FLORENCE DUNN, who graduated in Physical Education and will teach that subject.

Five Registry Weddings

Both were selected by Oberlin College as representatives ot Oberlin at the newly established

NEWSETTES

A sampan painted green was found drifting in Tai Tam Bay on Monday, was taken to the Yau- mati Police Station.

Mr. P. Velasco, chief of the em- ployment section of the Philip- pines Bureau of Posts, returned to Manila recently,

Mr. J. F. Rhame, general mana-

school in Shansi, and neither one ser, China Electric Co., Ltd., has of the two has been discouraged left Hongkong on a business trip by tales of hardships to be faced to Manila. He was accompanied In the Interior of China.

by Mrs. Rhame.

are anxious to do their promoting closer under-

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The following weddings took Both

A dog owned by Mr. H Hong place at the Supreme Court yes-bit in

Sting, of No, 400, Repulse Bay Rd.. terday, officiated by Mr. T. 3. standing among nations.

was removed to Kennedy Town Miss Shultz declared, when in-for observation after it had bit- Whyte-Smith, Registrar of Mar- flaxed and Mr. 1. Reynolds. De terviewed by a Hongkong Bally ten a douvery coolle. puty Registrar:

reporter yesterday, that Mr. Su Chopy, bank clerk, re- contact with one another among siding at No. 427, King's Road, people of different races seemed dent Taft, has reported that about

Mr. Simpson, of the 3.3. Presi-. and Miss Li Chi-hing, of No. 121, to her the best road to mutual un- 235 p.m. on Monday he had a Battery Street,

derstanding.

fountain pen stolen from him while walking in Queen's Road

Mr.

the

Press

BETTER THAN NONE

It was perhaps rather an "ambi-Central. tous thought for one individual

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One other subject was touched That in view of the present upon at the meeting, the Counell grave cholera situation this Coun adopting a proposed amendment cll requests the Government to ap- of the Factories and Workshops prove the immediate installation Ordinance, 1937, providing an in of a pipe borne filtered water crease in punishment for such fac. supply to

the villages around tories as commence operations be- Kowicon City and at Kip Shek fore a license has been granted by The Council emphasises the the Council or continue such urgency of this "requirement and operations while having been in hopes that approval will be given formed by the Council that no to the Water Authority to carry Bcence for opening of the factory

Mak Shtu-kuk, of out the work without delay.

**** American President Lines, residing will be granted. That it has been made to appear The amendment provides for a at No. 9, Bonham Road, and Miss to this Council that the wells fine of $50 per day for as long as Lau Kam-of, residing at No. 176 achieve much towards this end of to the police on Monday" by Hui to nourish that she alone could The loss of $7.335 was reported existing in the villages around the factory has operated before Hennessy Road.

understanding between two peo-Sze-wing, residing at Room No. 307, Kowloon City and Kip Shek Mel granting of licence or after licence THE NAZIS appear to have are in an Insanitary condition and had been refused.

ples, but one girl's effort was bet-of the Mat Chow Boarding House, THE

Magistrates Mr. Tong Yu-wal, residing at

The report stated the money had been either: question pretty effectively health and that it is expedient pose a maximum fine of only $250. Sau-kam, of No. 152, Apliu Street.

be closed and " LICENCES GRANTED

Miss Dunn said that her pur-lost or stolen. and, of course, to their own that they should advantage. The strife which filled up and that the Council do The following licences Mr. Jeong Goon-yan, residing pose in coming to China was not

During the month of August a Call of $1.00 per share has been

call upon the owners of such wells, granted by the Urban Council be at No. 418, Shanghal Street, and cne solely of adventure. She had promised to break out in made upon all members holding South-East Europe and which writing to close and fill up the sive-Food factories 1. Food pre- 113, Woosung Street,

if they can be found, by notice in tween Aug. 27 and Sept. 9 Inclu- Miss Ho Yin-ming, residing at No. been moved to make the trip by the Fok Chi Teng Ambulance ans- ;བྷ sympathy she felt towards wered 63 calls made up of 58

China. This shares upon which $6.00 per share threatened to seriously upset same within one week of the in-serving establishments

sympathy 1, Food

wa's sick calls and five accident cases. shared by many other American"] Mileage "covered during the period only has been already paid, and Herr Hitler's calculations for stallation by the Water Authority shops 1. Laundries 1. Milk shops Mr. Chue Hung-foon, merchant college students, who were nearly totalled 597 and petrol consump- will be payable on or before the his attack on England, has of a pipe borne water supply to 1. Offensive trades 1. Eating houses residing at No. 131, Jaffe Road, all on the side of Britain and tion amounted to 57 gallong at a 16th September, 1940" to

and Miss Lo Ming-hul, teacher.China and other nations that are average of 11 miles per gallon. the apparently "been smoothed the neighbourhood and that Bankers of the Company, Hong over. The

residing at No. 20, Robinsori Road resisting aggression and longing situation only

CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that

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** settled " the Balkan are likely to prove injurious to were formerly empowered to im- No. 76, Third Street, and Miss Mater than none at all. Miss Shultz Des Voeux Road.

said.

12. Total: 8.

were

kong and Shanghai Banking offers a temporary respite, doubt, taught him that it is R.A.F. ATTACK

Corporation, at Queen's Central, Hong Kong.

Dated 29th May, 1940. By Order of the

preferable to get what one

Road however, for it is only too

evident that the influence wants without fighting for it. which the Axis Powers have In these circumstances, there- been able to exert on three

fore, M. Stalin will be content

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HONG KONG.

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· ANNOUNCEMENTS

An invitation is issued to women The following forthcoming

The people of America hate workers to attend the Sewing Cen marriages are announced:--

war, Miss Dunn said because it tre at Government House and at and the Knitting Mr. Chan Hung-lam, merchant, can only mean destruction. They the YMCA. residing at No., 109, Parkes Street, condemn aggression, and this was Centre at the Helena May In- and Miss Koo Mul-kwal of No, made quite evident when many stitute. The working days-at-the-

missionaries on board the ship Government House centre 105, Woo Sung Street,

they arrived by refused to step Monday, Wednesday and Friday ... ashore in Japan.

trom 9.30 to 12.30 in the morning. at the YM.C.A. and the Helena May on Wednesday and Thursday mornings respectively.

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LONDON Sept 10-Reuter) References to R. A. F. activities munique which states that they were made in an Italian com

Mr. Henry Keong-mark, mer bombed a post in Cyrenaica. chant. residing at No. 74. Des causing five casualties and "light Voeux Road Central and Miss and Irrevelant material damage. Este 800 I-wu, nurse, of No. 47,

They also attacked Massawa Gramplan Road, and Asmars, in Eritrea, and Dessie,

in Abyssinia.

The Italians claim

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Mr. Ng Shiu-kee, of "No. 25, have Jordan Road, and Miss Leung Kit-

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They had refused to land lest they be tempted to spend a cent on a nation that was an aggressor..

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MASONIC LODGES

BANNED

AIB

Board of Directors,

small states in the Balkans to do very little openly at the must, before long, produce re-moment to counter the Nazi HERBERT R. STURT,

percussions amongst others settlement." What the So- Managing Director.

interested in what is happen-viet is more likely to do is to 483 ing in that corner of Europe. ferment discontent among the The now almost complete people of Rumania in order eclipse of Rumania under

to use this weapon when the

The two young ladies will leave Nazi and Fascist pressure opportunity arrives to make

shortly by plane for Chungking cannot be held against the his strike at the Axis Powers, bombed Jaffe and the Alexandria-hing, residing at No 99. Fuk Wing where they will spend a week or

so before proceeding to Chintang. ROME. Sept. 10 (Reuter)-An. people of that state. Misled who will be considerably Merзa Matruh railway.

Street.

They were met in Hongkong by a Amsterdan: message says that all from the start by a weak-weakened by then as a result

are Lodges

banned representative of the School, who Masonic PROBATE JURISDICTION. Willed ruler, the position in of their conflict with Britain.

Mr. Cheng Koon-kwat, clerk of will travel with them!

throughout Holland, Gilman and Messrs.

Co. Ltd.. THIS MOMENT will natur- A

220. Yee Kuk IN THE GOODS of choice of two alternatives. ally be governed by the result R. A. F. bomber formation bomb residing at No. John Brown otherwise Resistance to the demands of the Battle of Britain.

ed Massawa, in Eritrea, on Sunday Street, and Miss Ko Wai-ying, pi known as John Coghill made on them would probably soon as M. Stalin is convinced area.

all the bombs falling in the target No. 208, Cheung Sha Wan Road. Brown late of 4 Highburgh have resulted in not only that Herr Hitler and his asso- It adds that two, fres were Terrace Kowloon Docks Naz! and Fascist forces in- ciates cannot succeed in beat- started and damage to buildings Kowloon in the Colony of vading the country, but also ing the British Empire, that were observed.

Rumania

soon assumed 2

As

IN TARGET AREA CARIO, Sept. 10 (Reuter)-

communique says that

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RECONSTRUCTION.

Hong Kong and formerly of the likelihood of Soviet Russia will be the chance for which Aircraft of the South African IN CHUNGKING

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Italian Somaliland, on Saturday

JAPANESE-RUSSIAN RAPPROCHEMENT

Appointment Of New Envoy In Moscow Favoured

17 Brisbane Street Greenock joining in the plunder. The he is waiting. The difficult Force raided Mogadisio. Scotland Bollermaker deceas other alternative, of submit-ties which the Nazis are al- and bombed a motor transport Work Commenced On

ting to the dictators, although ready meeting in their at concentration and started a fire. it has prevented conflict and tacks

on England must During the enemy rald on Notice is hereby given that the bloodshed, has in fact brought provide the Soviet dictator Malta on Saturday one Court has by virtue of Section 58 about the same results-the with every cause for satis- aircraft was shot down by our Less than three weeks after the LIEUT.-GENERAL YOSHITSUGU TATEKAWA (retired) as " of the Probates Ordinance 1897. dismemberment of the coun- faction. A defeated Germany fighters and another seriously most dastardly air raids on the

damaged.

HAIFA ATTACKED

enemy

Model District CHUNGKING, Sept. 10 (Central)

TOKYO, SEPT. 10 (REUTER) THE CHOICE OF

Ambassador in Moscow has been favourably received by made an Order limiting the time try and total submission un-will inevitably place: Soviet

wartime capital since the war the metropolitan papers. fer creditors and others to send der the Totalita tan yoke,

already began, Chungking has

The NICHT NICHT SHIMBUN recalls that Lleut.-Gen. Russia in the most advan in their claims against the above

Enemy aircraft attacked Halfa started reconstructing some of the Tatekawa represented the league for the construction of a THIS. "SETTLEMENT," tageous position for dealing yesterday but escaped before our destroyed sections of the city. estate to the 1st day of October. however, still retains one with the Balkans with the fighters could intercept them.

Work was coinmenced yesterday new East Asia, which demands a reorientation of di- 1940,

dangerous aspect, because it least risk of opposition. M. There was also a raid on Port on one of the largest rebuilding plomacy, and believes that he will make Japan's best Am- All · Creditors and others are has completely ignored Soviet Stalin, by adopting this at- Sudan yesterday, our fighters in

projects, named the New Lite bassador to Russia at this juncture.

Referring to the speech by M.; The YOMTURI SHIMBUN thinks. accordingly hereby required to ideas on the future position titude, is staking his plans tercepting with indecisive results. Model District, under the capable send their claims to the under of

Enemy aircraft again approach-supervision of China's best known Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Com-that the shake-up in the diploma- the Balkan countries. on a British victory, as heed the Suez Canal but they were, American-trained architect, MI..missar at the recent session of the tic posts is to replace the diplomats signed on or before that date,

Whatever plans there might must be fully aware of that driven off by our fighters without S. Kwan.

Supreme Council, stressing the of the old school or pro-American. Dated the 3rd day of Septeni move in the event of Rumania to win, the Soviet will be at

have been for a three-party fact that, if Herr Hitler were dropping bombs.

At a reception for the press to desirability of rapproachement and pro-British ones with career commemorate the occasion, Majür ber, 1940.

with Japan, the ASAHI SHIMBUN and non-career diplomata possess-- proving recalcitrant to allow-the complete mercy of the

General J. L. Huang, Secretary attaches importance to the selec-ed of reformist ideology. JOHNSON STOKES &

ing herself to be cut up Nazi Fuehrer. In the mean-

General of the New Life Association of Lieut. General Tatekawa among Herr Hitler's proteges, time, there is always a chance the Soviet dictator must have that, despite the influence seen that he would be left out which the Nazis and Fascists CAIRO, Sept. 10 (Reuter)

MASTER, Solicitors for the Executrix, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building,

Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong.

ITALIANS RAID MATRUH

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tion, explained that the New Ceti-as Ambassador. tre will have everything a modern city could provide..

BANQUET HALL

The paper expects the diploma-

tic offensive of the Konoye Cablet

to get under way with the "ap- Within the New Centre will be pointments, of successors to di-

of the carving up. when Nazl have been able to exert on Yesterday enemy aircraft again and. Fascist arbitration set the smaller Balkan States, raided Matrub, causing... some an auditorium, & self-help cafe-plomatic representatives who have

reached

SUGAR, BUTTER and developing into a major In such an event, the whole strong force of Bandas and in-mitories.

AS USUAL

Dolvik Oil Tanks Destroyed

about effecting

damake and casualties.. g a "settle the settlement"

teria, 2 bathhouse for men, an- been recalled from various coun- In Kenya, one of our patrols other for women, a barber shop, tries.

LONDON, Sept. 10 (Reuter). so as to prevent the might be overthrown by tricentered Abyssinia. and 475 ment"

advanced library, recreation room, a ban-

JEALOUS ADVOCACI /

The Admiralty announces that.. Balkan cauldron boiling over tion among these countries. to Goral, where it engaged a quet hall, a clinic, and four der

The KOKUMIN SHIMBUN reconnaissances show that two or asserts that the development of three tanks in the Dolvik oll depot the situation between Japan and the Soviet Union deserves careful attacked by Skuas on Aug. 6 were attention because of Lieut-Gen, completely destroyed and a third: pipe-lines severely. Tatekawa's jealous advocacy of rapproachement with the Soviet damaged, vak vi Union as the leader of the league Yesterday. Skuas attacked an for the construction of a New East enemy supply ship of about 2,500- Asia and also on account of the tons, in Haugesund and scored assistance to be given him by the bits

no casualties

Fronting the streets and fringing the New Centre wil] bo rows of two-storey shops, with vacant lot of 60 feet wide spacing every two shops, as 2. precautionary measure against spreading of fires. On raid- less days, thene vacant lots. will be given to the use-ef pette merchants and, mer chandise stalls

tank and

war. M. Stalin must be situation will be changed and ficted casualties. smarting at this slight and new opportunities might arise | Burn was bombed by enemy political writers see in the for Soviet Russia to secure aircraft, causing little damage and LONDON, Sept. 10 (Reuter) situation the first signs of a her ambitions in South-East In Sudan and Palestine there "The people will get their sugár,

One Europe-ambitions which she is nothing to report. Nazi-Soviet break up. butter and baçon as usual,” said Lord Woolton Minister for Food, reason why the Soviet dicta- has never ceased to foster.

PATROL ACTIVITY adding that damage to food suptor preferred to sit back on The Balkan “settlement" is NAIROBI, Sept. 10 (Reuter)- piles during the week-end raids this Balkan "settlement" is thus full of possibilities which One of our patrols penetrated 10

designate Minister-at-Large. Mr. In south Bergen, a tanker, or was, in detall annoying but en- probably that he himself does may take shape sooner than miles into Abyssinia. Eighteen

Haruhiko Nishi, who formerly about 2500 tons, was also attack- tirely unimportant,

not wish to run the risk of is expected. This corner of miles east of Lake Rudolf, a fort

served with the. Japanese Embassy ed and damaged. The main damage was to four setting the Balkan powder Europe will continue to live native troops). It consisted of a support of Madame Chiang Kai is fully acquainted with the fish-camp in the Bergen area was

was found occupied by 40 Bandas This rebuilding project has the in Moscow, as Counsellor, and who A German militaryhutment" "animal feeding stum, meat and

sugar" But in no

would magazine alight. His ex-up to its reputation

as the watch tower surrounded by 1000 shek and several social welfare ery, così and all concessions bombed, Three huts were complete- rationing be affected,

perience in Finland has no war cauldron" of Europe. : holed walls seven feet high

ly destroyed and others damaged.

case

groups,

issues.