1940-10-05 — Page 7

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Government LONDON TRAIN STRAFED

Reshuffle

Continued From Page 1

/Thus · THE TIMES says that the changes were directly designed" to strengthen the Government on the side of security and progress at home but there is nothing yet in existence quite comparable with the special Council which proved ita essential value in the earlier crisis and there had been a num→ ber of episodes-Dakar being the latest-which caused the public to doubt whether sufficient thought can be given, under the present system, to admittedly subsidiary operations,

BY NAZI RAIDER

Several Houses Damaged In City: Few Casualties

"

LONDON, Oct. 6 (Reuter)—An Air Ministry communique... reviewing the altacks, on the United Kingdom from reports received up to 4 pm, yesterday, says tha; several houses were demolished in the London boroughs, but it is not expected, that

casualties will be heavy.

"Bombs were dropped at various points in the Thames Valley, Essex, Kent and Cornwall but no serious damage and no fatal casualties are reported in any of these districts. "A number of casualties, includ

fatal injuries,

were

The NEWS CHRONICLE joins in ing a few the appeal for further changes, de-caused in a city in the Midlands claring that the present changes and in another small Midland of houses for the most part are not dynamic, town, where a number

were demolished, but little other damage is reported.

..CHANGES PRAISED

"A train was machine-gunned and a few persons were slightly injured." -

ANOTHER SHANGHAI OUTRAGE

CABLE

WICKHAM STEED

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spokesman said soon after the Russo-Japanese war. He said that their victory might go to the heads of the Japanese "and they would soon be tempted to invade China. Two-attempts were since that time made by the Japanese and both ended in disaster. Their third attempt will end in the same way. •

"It began with the invasion of Manchuria in 1931. The League of Nations at that time made the. mistake of either going too little or. saying too much, I thought they did too little, »»

HITLER LOSING

Now, we in London are in the war and we are not allowed to forget it either. But if I read what is happening right, we are winning SHANGHAL, Oct. 4 (Reuter)steadily and Herr Hitler is losing steadily. Therefore, "I do think

was the urgency which was be should be put into Herr Hitler's ginning to be felt that something

*A single enemy plane was shot Eight Chinese, including a 'police that the need for this new..Pact

The DAILY TELEGRAPH, on the other hand, praises the changes and saya: "Mr. Churchill shows that he does not think of the Gov. ernment as a machine. To him it is essentially dependent on the spirit down in an attack on a town in of individuals and the deciding the home counties, where a num factor in his choice of Ministers has ber of persons were killed and been originality and vital energy, 'seriously injured by bombs and This, above all, will commend it-machine gun bullets.” self to the country."

QUI VIVE Two marked features in the

The German Air London comment are the tributes

force want to Mr. Chamberlain and the wide-night" raiding over England Fes- spread satisfaction with the apterday in the first gloom of Bri. pointment of Viscount Cranborne taln's autumn.

to the Dominions Office.

Single aircraft kept the defences WATCHFUL ADJUSTMENT in south-east England and the LONDON, Oct. 4 (BWS) The home counties on the qui vive Cabinet changes have the pride of most of the day but for the most place in the newspapers and are part they remained above the received with general approval murky clouds and carried out ran- and, as witness to the fact, the dom bombing in which some Lon- DAILY TELEGRAPH puts it: "Thedon boroughs suffered superficial Prime Minister has clearly had in damage.

shop window.

'The question is why Japan en- One tered into this new pact,

man, were injured last night when foffices of the Sing Pao, pro-Wang a. grenade was thrown into the

Ching-wel newspaper, in the : Shanghai International Settle- ment. Slight damage was done.

The tron netting protecting the first floor, occupied by the com-answer may be that she too needed "posing department." broke in the something for her shop window or that she has been badly informed. explosion.

There is one curious point that bears upon this question. Some- body recently asked whether the German General Staff and Herr Hitler really believed the reports brought in by their pilots-or- as

Police cordoned off the block and searched houses in the area.

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EVACUATION TO BE COMPLETED

return-regarding the destruction) BEFORE END OF YEAR

LONDON, Oct. (Reuter)-Athey had caused in their raida on further Note, regarding the un- England. It was the same thing explained cetention of five Bri- in the last war. "

Air Raid

mind the necessity of a watchful Anti-aircraft batteries were actish subjects was lodged yesterday "Herr Hitler and his General GOVT. POLICY OUTLINED: Tunnels In

adjustment to the changing needsitive and in the East London dis by the British Minister

of the war and the value of rein-trict, where planes were reported forcing the Government by fresh overhead for a short time, the 'minds."

barrage was as heavy as night gunfire.

It is also valued as a further example of the advantages which democracy enjoys in the conduct · of the war in being able to make such changes in the personnel of the Government, as conditions re- quire, without the danger of die- crediting the Government as a whole..

TRAIN MACHINE-GUNNED

A train which had left Ens- ton Station shortly after mid-- day was machine-gunned by a ̧ German raider while pässing through 霹 small Midlands town, according to a Reater report quoting the official Air

· Ministry communique.

Bucharest, Sir Reginald Hoare.

in Staff really believe that Britain has already been beaten to her knees The Note demands information and they have presented this ple- when the arrested persons will be released or, alternatively, the ernment may have felt safe in go-

ture to Japan, the Japanese Gov-! exact nature of the charges against ing in with the Axis combine, des- them, and when it is proposed theypite the risk of clash

will be tried.

In the meantime, all is mystery. as both the police and the Iron Guard continue to deny know ledge of the arrest of Mr. A. Miller, administrator of the Romans Oil Co.

POSITION OF AMERICAN WOMEN IN HONGKONG

JI

SPECIAL TO THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS OUTLINING THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT'S EVACUATION LITTLE DISSATISFACTION

POLICY TO A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE HONGKONG DAILY "And now Herr von Ribbentrop PRESS YESTERDAY, THE HON. MR. N. L. SMITH, COLONIAL has been talking mysteriously of SECRETARY, SAID THAT IT WAS" THE INTENTION OF THE bringing Soviet Russia into this GOVERNMENT TO EVACUATE EVERY BRITISH WOMAN FROM

TRIBUTES TO CHAMBERLAIN

Astra- Pact. He said this to Senor Suner, THE COLONY, EXCEPT THOSE WHO ARE QUALIFIED NURSES.

the Spanish envoy, but there still The retirement of Mr. Chamber-

ASKED WHETHER THE EVACUATION WOULD BE COMPLET."

lain is the occasion for 'tributes to

ANOTHER “ARREST"

seems to be a little dissatisfaction ED BEFORE. THE END OF THE YEAR, the Colonial Secretary said The train stopped a few miles his long services to the State.

BUCHAREST, Oct. 4 (Reuter)—in Germany over the results of We expect to have the evacuation completed long before that." further on after the machine-Another British subject has been Senor Suner's visit. That is be The DAILY TELEGRAPH JAYS gunning but as the three injured

·" EVACUATION COMMITTEE pected that a further batch of be. that no lure of ambition, no self-people were

kidnapped.

cause the Germans found that he not seriously hurt

Mr. Smith said that the Evacua-tween 200 and 300 British women seeking ever sullied his actions they were taken on to the next old head of a British engineering commit Spain to any new action.

Mr. Percy Clark, the 60-year-had absolutely no authority to

tion, Advisory Committee, of which will leave Hongkong and the entire Press unites in re-large station to receive hospital Arm at Ploesti, was taken from cognition of his sincerity.

"And by the time he gets back Mr. Justice E. H. Willams was treatment. THE TIMES, dealing with past The dining car of the train was three youths in civilian clotties. Spanish Government is better those who had not been evacuated his room in a Bucharest hotel by to Spain, he may find that the chairman, had already considered about 250 cases, comprising: . (1)

did no damage. damaged but the bombs dropped who forced him to

farmed on the real truth about the Battle of Britain than either the them to an unknown destination.

There were three alert warnings

controversies aver his foreign policy, says: There was a strong and refutable' defence for the ac- tions which he took in the situa- tion not of his making or choos-in the London area during the day ing, but inherited from more than of which the last, in the after-

decade of international noon, was the longest.

one

failure.”

The MANCHESTER GUARDIAN;

RA.F. BETTER

·THAN GERMAN COUNTERPART

4

accompany

Gen. Gamelin Testifies At

Riom. "Trial"

days.

people in Berlin or Rome.

since the main evacuation took.

The

triumph. I really do not see how afternoon

German

AMERICAN WOMEN

Kowloon

'Two "U" type air raid tunnel shelters, with accommodation for 1.000 people esch, are being built near King's Park,

The "U" type tunnel, which has two entrances, represents one of the most up-to-date and safest | shelters against air raids.

The two-tunnels are being con- structed from Cascoigne Road to Public Square Btreet and from Waterloo Road to Wing Bing Lane." The tunnels are six feet in width and are protected by almost 100 feet of rock above them.

It is learned that more shelters will be constructed after the com- pletion of these two tunnels.

FINE CONCERT

Funds In Aid Of Christ Church

On the question of American women in the Colony, the American Consul-General · in Hongong, Mr Addison E place; (2) those who, came under Southard, said that the Ame- "This does not, however, answer the original plan and having said

rican Government had not yet they would make their own considered the question of the Rusalan attitude evacuation plans, had not done so,

the question of to the new Pact. Personally, I do and (3) those evacuees who had

evacuation of American wo not think Russia is likely to be-since returned to the Colony.

men, Hongkong. come the fourth wheel, or auxiliary

Referring to the instructions re- of motor, to Herr Hitler's and Signor Evacuation

public. session the celved by certain employees of for long a severe critic of the

Advisory Committee American firms in Hongkong te Chamberlain policy, in acknow-

The concert held at St. Andrew's -- Mussolini's three-wheeled cart of which will be held on Wednesday, arrange for the evacuation of Church Hall last night in aid of ledging" the value of his counsel

will provide an op their womenfolk, the Consul Gen-the Funds of Christ Church, Kow- in Mr. Churchill's Cabinet, says:

LONDON, Oct. 4 (Reuter--Ac- the interests of Soviet Russia will portunity for those who desire toeral said that these instructions loon Tong, was favoured by a "Whatever we may think about of

cording to the Lyon Radio, 53 be served by leaving China in the appeal for exemption to do so. had not been issued by the Amme-capacity attendance. Mr. Chamberlain's past, his tragic

witnesses in the French "war gullt lurch

It is believed that plans now rican Government, but by the head Mr. Y. K Sze was among the miscalculations of policy, there is

"A remarkable concord of com- under consideration for sending offices of the companies concern-best received of the many artistes trial at Riom have been heard by no man who has desired more

the Supreme Court in the past few ments on the war-weariness of the another evacuee ship to Australia ed, and that they are not to be who gave of their talent to the LONDON, Oct. passionately that we shall win this Speaking at Glasgow yesterday. (Reuter) -

people have reached will be completed after Wednes- taken as an indication of the US show who included Mr. T K The witnesses included General this country. I have discussed this day's meeting of the Evacuation Government attitude to the ques-Liang, violin, Miss Mary Ho, so- Air Vice-Marshal R. E. Saul, of Weygand, General Colson, General with

a non-British expert who Advisory Committee when it is ex-tion of evacuation of American prano, Mr. Walter H. D. Yeh, flute the Fighter Command, claimed

subjects from these parts. that man for man the RAF is George Vuillemin, General Ban-sald that he felt that these reports common with the other critics of much superior to the German. Air also M. Georges Bonnet.

chard, General Mittelhauser and could generally be accepted as the Mr. Chamberlain, emphasises the

true state of affairs, Force. regret that illneŝs should be the

M. Guy la Chambre, former 'Air

"His view was that while Britain mean, however, that the autumn cause of his resignation. ***

He added that of the

massed Minister, and M. Daladier and had been feeling the war strain and winter will not be full of The promotion of Mr. Ernest formations which came over the General Gamelin were also ques- only for one year at the most, the anxiety for us. But at the same Bevin to the War Cabinet is wel-, South Coast, once the R.A.F. tioned.

Germans have felt it for the past time it must be remembered that comed on all sides and another picked off the leaders and dis- PROPERTIES CONFISCATEL seven years. Herr Hitler has kept while our splendid airmen and appointment which is particularly posed of them, the rest quit and

LONDON, Oct. 4 (Reuter).

them keyed up all the time. He home defences are standing up to commended is that of Lord Cranscattered.

Amongst the latest properties to has rationed them and conscripted the best they can do for the cour borne to the Dominions Office. Individual aircraft got through be confiscated by the Vichy Govthem and there must come a time try our

Mr. Herbert Morrison's transia because they could not hope to ernment are those belonging to the when the strongest of nerves will taking a heavy toll every night tion to the Home Office and the pick out every one of them in noted journalists, Madame Tabouls not be able to hold up smiles. Ministry of Home Security is felt thick clouds.

and M, Pertinax

NO QUICK PEACE to inspire confidence that the pro- blems of the bombed civilians and their homes will be energetically tackled.

war."

ILLNESS" REGRETTED.

The NEWS-CHRONICLE, in

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WORLD SERIES BASEBALL

CINCINNATI, Oct. 4 (Reuter) Cincinnati Reds yesterday beat Detroit Tigers by 5 runs to 3 in the second game of the World Series.

Sampan Mistresses Fined $10

bomber aircraft

are

soloist, Mr. E. OʻNell Shaw, piano solo, the Hop Yat Church Choir, Mr. Maurice Barton, accompanied

APPEAL COURT by Mr. JR. M. Smith, Mysto the

CASES

Ricksha-Puller Is Successful

|Memory: Man, presented by" David Kossick, Hal Lorenzo and Toby | Gray, Vic. Labrum, and more David

Kossick,

com

A one-act comedy, Motoring!! produced by Captain A. C. Hough- ton, RE, concluded the pro- gramme. Reg Burch, Wille Etmp- from all the ports opposite. our const These are increasing and Two appeals against conviction son, Eric Curtis, George Labrum no amount of propaganda put out were brought before the Chief Vic Labrum, in the dual role of "All this time. Herr Hitler was by Dr. Goebbels and the German Justice, Bir Atholl MacGregor, et policeman and-"schoolboy, basing his action and plans on a press can prevent the German the Appeal Court yesterday. prised the cast. quick victory over Britain. Now he from knowing and feeling what is Chan Mel, ricksha-puller, con- victed and sentenced by Mr. H. C. prospects of a quick peace. The

Sheldon, IC, O., Senior Magistrate, Incessant bombings by British-air-

Įto four months' hard labour for attempted larceny from an Ameri-

ITALIAN NAVAL FORCE REFUSE telling them that there are happening

ACTION IN MEDITERRANEAN

LONDON, Oct. 4 (Reuter)—The sighting of a strong enemy. naval force in the Mediterranean which could not be brought to action is reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediter randan Flent

CABINET RESHUFFLE

men of German military and in Mr. Steed then commented on the dustrial centres can no longer be reshume that had taken place in concealed from the German people, the British Government

It therefore, does not astonish me! The changes in the Govern

can

CHEUNGSHAWAN

sailor, had his sentence ROAD ROBBERY

quashed.

Mr. H. C. Macnamara; instruct-

to hear that the German armles|ment,” he said, "are all to the ed by Messrs. Woo and Woo,

in France and other occupied terri- good. The majority of newspapers appeared for the appellant. tories are restless.

make it clear that there might be

CONVICTION UPHELD

WOMAN MEMBER

OF GANG

The report says that Britise these operations. No damage was naval forces carried out a sweep sustained by our ships in any or in the eastern and central Medi- these attacks but losses were in- "I give the opinion of this expert need for even further changes. An Ng appealed against a One woman and tour men, arm- terranean on September 20 to flicted on the enemy

for what it is worth. It is the Among the several appointments, lane of $160 with the altered with two daggers, robbed the October 2, in the course of which On the morning of September opinion of an experienced man," the ome that must be best wel-native of two months hard second floor of No. 41. Cheungsbu- additional military forces were 20, an enemy aircraft was Incated Mr Steed went on to deal with comed is that of Lord Cranborne labour imposed by Mr. Sheldon wan Road, the residence of Yu landed at Malta”;

shadowing our fleet. It was shot the Italian campaign In Egypt, as Secretary for the Dominions, at the Central Court for imper- Yuet-mei about 3 pm. yesterday. Four Chinese mistresses of cargo

down by a fighter aircraft which He said that the Italian advance He is a sterling character and has sonating a police omcer at Grez- The robbers decamped with 'pro sampans, appeared before Hon.

later in the day shot down a way obviously timed to coincide a broad outlook and all who come son Street

perty, and möttes to a Comdr. F. G. Hole yesterday morn

second enemy shadowing air-with Herr Hitler's invasion of in contact with him will and that

Appearing for the appellant Mr. of about: ing and pleaded guilty to a charge

England, which has not yet taken he is eager to meet them half way. M. Ada Blive, said that there of having approached within 30

Boon afterwards heary attacks place. According to the exper "The changes which have been were discrepancies and the Magis- vards of an American liner tied

developed. In the course of which quoted by Mr. Steed, Herr Hitler, mis show one thing and that is) trate should have-diamined the up at Kowloon Docks while the

one enemy aircraft was shot down has already lost the war bec that there is no danger of any cases! code pennant was holsted ou It was therefore, not possible to by anti-aircraft fire,

of this fallure to make his attempt cracks or fissures appearing in our Upholding the conviction, the vessel concerned, They were | bring the enemy to action.

A fourth enemy aircraft was on England; Aned $10 each with the alternative Our fleet was attacked by enemy shot down by the Fleet fighters on of 10 days imprisonment.

aircraft on three occasions during | October 1;

During this period, a strong enemy, naval force was sighted. by our reconnaissance aircraft, This enemy force was then 100' miles away from our fleet and was already steaming towards, Its base

craft.

We have = one | Lordship remarked that there and urgent task and that ample evidence for the Magistra

to convict

"And I think he is ight, clared Mr. Steed. This does not

to win the