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UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS:

LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS A GOOD NUMBER REACH

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

instructions

TO SELL BY

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON.

commencing at 2.30 p.m.

THEIR DESTINATION

SPECIAL TO THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

People who wonder what happens in due course to telegrams that are advertised in the press as being undeliverable will be surprised to learn that a good number of these messages do reach their destination.

This is particularly true of messages to European address- ees in the Colony, In the month of July, for example, a total of 20 such messages were thus advertised. Within a few days of the advertisements, 14 of the telegrams were claimed or re-directed to new addresses.

GENERAL

Searches Carried Out In Hongkew

JAPANESE STOP ALL PEDESTRIANS

AND CARS

11

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1940.

JAPANESE GOVT. NANKING MENACED:

WANT MORE INFORMATION

LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter)-in the House of Commons yesterday | Mr. Mander asked whether a reply had been received from the Japan-

ese Government concerning the suggestion by the British Ambas- sador to Tokyo that importation of oll for transport of medical supplies to Ching should be made available for the Chinese Red Cross,

CHINESE TROOPS MASS ON KIANGSU-ANHWEI BORDER

TUNKI, SEFT 17 (CENTRAL)-HEAVY CHINESE TROOPS CARE CONCENTRATED ON THE KIANGSU-ANHWEL BORDER.

CREATING A MENACE TO NANKING.

Under instructions of the Japanese, Jen Yuan-tao, so-call- ed commander-in-chief of the pacification army in langsu, Cheklang, and Anhwel, has ordered a "mopping up" campaign in order to remove the menace to the site of the Wang Ching- wel government He personally directed the campaign while his two sona acted as field commanders

The Japanese-sponsored troops

With strict searches being ear- ried out in the International Set tiement and French Concession by the two police bodies, and Japan- Mr. R.A. Butler, replying, said of 108 telegrams advertised in; to locate every Mr. Wong, for in-ese lorry patrols combing the that the Japanese Government has under his command pushed from Friday, the 20th September. 1940 the Chinese press as being undell- stance, in a short street in Kow-western district for persons in pos-asked for certain further details Linho te Tienchang and Lalan session of fire arms, Japanese mili- before giving a definite reply. He but were repulsed by the Chinese verable. 46 were claimed in due loon Tong.

Many telegrams come, too, adtary authorities in the area north added that it is hoped to com-troops after several clashes. course,

Thus. In one month, the Cable dressed to people who have left of the Soochow Creek have also municate these

The "mopping up" campaign at their Bales Room, No. 35. Han and Wireless Limited, who sup the Colony or have not yet reach-tightened precautionary measures shortly.

ended in failure. The Chinese plied our reporter with this ined here. Telegrams come in "some in that district, reports the North)

positions are maintaining their formation, were unable to deliver profusion to important individuals only 68 messages.

on their way to Hongkong. When it is learned also that the In some instances, no local hotel

55.000 messages a month directed coming of such a person, and the kew and

kow Road, Kowloon.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

China Daily News.

SENTRIES ON BRIDGE Sentries on the Garden Bridge

details

to them

Company receives an average of has even been warned yet of the stopped all Chinese leaving Hong NANKING REGIME

carried

out minute to Hongkong addresses, this figure telegrams may be addressed at searches not only of their persons, must appear nothing short of re-random to a number of the lead- but of their belongings as well, markable

ing hotels that senders have been while soldiers on duty at the

CLEAN-UP

comprising:-- Chesterfield Sultes. Bedsteads, Wardrobes Chests of Drawers Dressing Tables, Hatstands, Ice! Chests, Sideboards, Dinner Was Northern Telegraph Company ad- directories or in directories gons, Dining Tables, Chairs, Desks, vertised as non-delivered 25 mes-hotels that are available. Cabinets, Bock Cases, Fram-sages from a total of about 17,000 bulators, Gramophones, Records, received for Hongkong."addressees. Electric Table Lamps, and Fans.

Ter were claimed after the Curios, Ornaments, Pictures, E.P..

advertisement appeared, Five Brass, Porcelain and Glass Ware, European and ten Chinese Cutlery, Cooking Utensils, etc..

sages remain unclaimed up till now. The addressees in each case have either left the Colony or were unknown at the address

In the same month, the Great able to find the address of in local Fearon Road bridge stopped cars Official Arrives. On "Important Mission"

etc.

and

A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD WARE

also

2 Iron Safes

3 "Singer" Sewing Machines

1 Adding Machine

mes-

A high proportion of telegrams addressed to Chinese in the

Colony that do not reach their destination áre messages directed temporary residents, the majority of them refugees.

to

01

APPRECIABLE NUMBERS

Since the Japanese occupation

of part

Kwangtung and

On View from Thursday, the 19th Kwangsi provinces many months

September, 1940.

Terms: Cash on Delivery,

LAMMERT BROS..

AUCTIONEERS.

ago, such telegrams, more social than business in nature, inquiring about the whereabouts of relatives who have travelled to Hongkong ur elsewhere as refugees, have come in appreciable numbers.

The telegrams reaching the local

office of Caole and Wireless from

to

senders addresses in East and West River delta towns add up PUBLIC AUCTION. Unclaimed telegrams to Chinese

instructions

a considerable figure.

от the Klangst-Anhwel border intact, awaiting an opportune moment to drive to Nanking.

CANTON OPIUM MONOPOLY TO BE ABOLISHED

CANTON, Sept. 18 (Reuter}--- Despite the fact that a. monopoly had been granted for the sale of of opium A recent Japanese "mopping up" joplum and operation campaign around Fanchang, on divans in Canton, the Nanking the soutli bank of the Yangtze regime has established an aplum River in Anhwei. 25 miles shove suppression bureau in the city.

It is stated that following the About 500 Japanese occupied on establishment of the bureau the

Wuhu, was also unsuccessful,

September 10, Oshanting, a hit monopoly will be abolished.

of and other vehicles, and made the occupants go through the routine USUALLY REFUSE

of being searched. Rickshaws did

east of Fanchang, using it as a (not escape the ceremony, the CHUNGKING, Sept. 18 (Central) base for the campaign. Chinese Hotels usually refuse such tele- passengers being asked to alight.A partial reorganisation of the troops counter-attacked and en- grams while taking a note of the and the vehicles themselves being bogus Nanking regime is envisag-circled them. Over 100 casualties addressee's-name, should a tele-searched.

led as a result of the arrival in were inflicted gram, or other information of the

At one time. shortly after noon. Nanking of Wang I-tans, Chair-survivors fied. addressee's desiring to reserve a traffic came to a stand-still on the room reach them within the next Hongkew Creek bridge, where a Political Affairs Commission, im- man of the so-called North China

truck was held up for more than

few days.

Where a person has left the ave minutes by the Japanese sen-mediately after the return of Colony, a note may be left in his tries. letter-box or pushed under his door, the probability being always

CRIME 'REASONS

A

upon them. The

Chow Fi-hat, Minister of Finance, isation of the Nanking regima. from

to Pelping, according that he may have left only for certain why these searches, have

Although it is not known for Shanghai report.

Wang is said to have an "m-

The Nanking regime has been in financial stringency for a long time. Chow Fu-hat has exerted

a few days and will return to been ordered, it is believed that pertant mission, which is gene-great efforts in vain to cut down claim the telegram.

these measures have been taken rally taken to mean the reorgan-expenditures. Regular customers of the tele-for the same reason as those in graph office prove always the the foreign areas of the city and least troublesome. Should they be the western district. Recently, leaving Hongkong, they will leave numerous crimes, from armed rob a forwarding address and the beries to murders, have been com- to them or sent on by post as redistrict north of the Creek, and it message may be re-transmitted mitted in the Japanese-occupied

quested.

is presumed that these have forced

In every case of non-delivery of the Japanese to pay more atten- a telegram, the sender is inform-tion to the situation, ed. The message will be kept for

some 18 months awaiting a claim-

sages have been claimed after

although instances where mes- INVASION BASES more than three, or four months AGAIN BOMBED

are very few.

SELF-PROPELLING

addressees that are yet awaiting | Many telegrams are accompani- a claimant come from such seemed "by messages sent by post, and ingly cut of the way places as should the telegram fall to reach THE Undersigned have received watlam. Yanping. Yungfenchun. Its destination while the letter

BARGES ATTACKED Sunchong. Sunyi, Pingshian, Talpu, does, the cabled message retains

LONDON, Sept. 18 (Rentar)- Kukong, Swabue," Macheong, little of value or interest to the Daylight raids on invasion bases addressee. The local office may are announced by the Air Ministry, These places, though quite un later be instructed by the addres- which says that daylight raids on known to most European residents see to deliver the telegram, but in Calais, Ostend, Dunkirk and Veera in" the Colony, are household many instances the addressee will were carried out on Monday after- words to many of the local Chin-not bother about this,

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

on

Saturday, the 21st September, 1940 commencing at 10.30 am.

at No. 3, Conduit Road.

KOMA QUANTITY OF VALUABLE

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND ONE REFRIGERATOR

(Particulars from Catalogue)

On View from Friday, the 20th "September, 1940.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS.

Mulluk and elsewhere.

ese population. An interesting bit

of information is the fact that

Doon 'by R.A.F. medium bombers. NOT USED BY CRANKS

At Veere on the Dutch island of Cranks do not use the cable Walcheren, # concentration of Chinese telegraph offices at these services. Though 窳 message to barges in the canal lock was bomb-

centres continue to operate.

Napoleon Bonaparte, with local ed from a low level, Thus, it will be seen that Jap-address attached, will not be re- Harbour installations and ship- anese occupation of Kwangtung fused by the, sending office, no ping at Dunkirk and Ostend were is by no means complete. A few one has ever tried to send such a attacked under cover of low clouds | messages continue to come in from message, or a similar one address and at Calais a salvo of bombs was towns under Japanese occupationed to some other notable person seen to burst on the quayside of but these are few and far between, age of history, to Hongkong. the principal reason for the lack

the outer harbour. "People who see fit thus to waste of popularity of the service still maintained being the cost..

their money evidently and Hong- kong quite an unsuitable address Messages from territory 1b South China under Japanese oc-have been recorded instances over to their purpose, though there

cupation

relayed through Japan or Formoss, at a cost if the world of such messages being addressed to Hongkong of $3.00 a word. The normal rate, still in force in unoccupied territory. is $0.40 a word.

STO

EASILY LOCATED Every effort is made to deliver a telegram, and quite a few of the addresses attached to the

are quite easily

MECHANISATION OF messages, that would puzzle the

day

INDIAN ARMY

average man,

•located.

transmitted.

Before a náme does appear in the unclaimed telegram list, every effort is made to locate the ad- dressee and delivery boys do a thorough job of combing local streets for addressees.

UNCLAIMED

› TELEGRAMS -

LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter)——— Years of experience have made The following unclaimed tele- The first of the mechanised trans-this possible. Where an address is grams: from Bhanghal are lying at port companies the statė of regarded locally as being insuffi- the office of the Great Northern Bikaner (India) decided to raise cient. the sender is immediately Telegraph Company (Limited):- for the Indian, Ammy was formed informed. Should the sender Roland Lawler, Passenger, "Preal in a mach shorter time than was however, be unable to elaborate dent Coolidge; Bu Por Ming, Lak -estimated. It was reported yester-on the address, the Company is Kwok Hotel, 210; Chla Kang Hong. left with the task of locating c/o Chung Wah Co., Queen's Road Recruiting, including the rals- the addressee.

C.; Tspn Fok Koo, David House, 84: ing of new units, proceeds rapid-

An address may state: "Mr. Tong Tin Cheung, 78. Macdonnell Wong, Nathan Road." The sender, Road.. not being acquainted with Hong- kong, would think this address sufficient. In many cases, the office where the telegram is dispatch- -ed may inform him of the The maximum temperature yes- length of Nathan Road and the terday was 84 and the minimum difficulty of finding Mr Wong 77; compared to 85 and 77 on there, but not every, office, again, Tuesday.c

13 aware of this fact.

ly.

THE WEATHER

Total rainfall since Jan. 1.is

of 78.88.

"Again," a good many people who

DESTROYER NAMED CHURCHILL

A convoy of 12 barges and three escort vessels was inter- cepted and bombed of Zeebrugge and an attack was also made on three self-pro- pelled barges patrolling off Ostend harbour. These barges opened fire on sighting our aircraft.

REICH RAIDS. LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reutẹr)---. The great destructive effect of RAF. raids on Germany cannot be concealed no matter how much the Nazi censors try ng messages received in London yesterday showed,

A Basle despatch said that trains from northern and western Ger- many were arriving up to 14 hours late. These parts of Germany were among those getting the very keen attention from Exitian bombers.**

Another interesting report came from Berlin löself to the effect that they are transport- ing by land giant barges from the Baltic to the Danube where they are badly needed. for shipments of oll and grain. from Ramania.

RAILWAYS DISRUPTED Teking into account the wind- trigs of the Danube and the fact that navigation of the river by the biggest barges stops at night, rail transport la over 10 times as fast,"

It is more than probable that the destruction of rallway wagons

11244 inches against an average send telegrams are taking a stab LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter)

The Royal Observatory report vouring to locate a person they

in the dark, so to speak, endea-The first fotilla of American des by the RAF, at least partly, was states:—

wish to reach and who, they have trovera to join the Royal Navy responsible for the decision to

transport barges; have now been given their nanies.

A moderate anti-cyclone is sta- heard, Is residing in a certain tionary over N. China and Man-

street.

Pressure is relatively low to the EVERY ME, WONG

The fotilla leader is named

"Churchill"a choice with which United Kingdom and the United no one will quarrel

Btates

The others have been named Name on similar basis will

east of the southern Philippines, If the street is a aborter one

The typhoon is centred a few than Nathan Road, such an ad- Caldwell Cameron, Casteltown, be given to the others and will miles to the south-east of Tokyo, dress may be deemed sufficient, Chelsea, Clare and Campeltown, also include a few names common moving rapidly N.N.E..

and an endeavour may be made after towns common to both the to the West Indies.

POLISH PILOTS PRAISED

LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter) Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Air Mîn- ister, has sent a telegram to Gen-"- eral Sikorski, the Polish Comman- der-in-Chief, conveying congra- tulations, to the Polish squadrons on their "magulacent and out- standing success" in aerial combats and their "splendid part" in the attack on Calais

HR

ere's

THE

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