1940-10-24 — Page 9

HONGKONG_DAILY PRESS

Finance and Commerce

GLUCOSE FROM SPENT CITRONELLA

For the first time glucose in its purest form has been made from spent citronella grass, writes the Sunday Ceylon Observer.

Samples of it were recently ex- hibited in the Department of Com merce and Industries stall at the Printers Pie Carnival, and men tion of its possibilities has been made in the State Council.

JOHORE CHINESE

TO DEVELOP FUKIEN INDUSTRIES

FOOCHOW, Oct. 23 (Centruts..-. Chinese merchants in Johore, Bel tish Malaya, have raised a large capital for the development of industries

and agriculture.

Fukien province.

in

As an initial instalment, Messrs. Cheng Ching-luen and Yeh Chuan, who recently arrived in

Yungan

ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES

IN JAPAN

FINANCE & GENERAL.

Wendell Willkie Charges Roosevelt With Delaying

National Defence Plan

the

ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 13. Mr. Wendell 1 Willkle, Bepublican candidate for president, carried his campaign to the sharp heart of President Roosevelt's home state today" with a attack on what he called the administration's "failure" to establish an adequate national defence...

strong that no

dictator

Mr. Wilkie started denopne-. ing the administration's „de- fence policy as early as Friday- morning, when he spoke be- fore a Republican. rally in

"Although it has been talking army su MOSCOW, Oct. 23 (Central)——

interests and rights. Moscow papers gave prominence about national defence for nearly would dare tamper with our com- to a report by the Tass correspon-five years, the New Deal has fail-merce.

strong," be de- That's the défence, programme we dent in Tokyo on the economic ed to make us

must have." clared. dificulties in Japan. Referring to

"We all know what happened to appearing In the Asahi news Shimbun, the correspondent writes the French army for its lack of as representatives of the Chinese tes that people in Japan belong-sufficient weapons against tanks. capitalists in Johort, have decided ing to the middle classes actually The manoeuvres at Plattsburgh in no such weapons at there are not in a position to purchase 1939 disclosed that our national to invest $2,000,000 for The brown residue left after the clamation of waste land in north either a new suit or a pair of shoes guard has

for their children. glucose has been obtained can beern Fukien,

conferred with "New in Japan. nobody is sur After having used for he making of card board,

authori-prised to meet person on the celling board, wall-board and other the provincial and local

project. street whose dress is made of dif- tles in Yungan such useful by-products..

the two overseas merchants leaders ferent pieces of material." are now on an investigation tour rerrespondent observed. of Nanping. Klenou, Klenyang. Chanloh, Chungan, Shaow and

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fact there were some samples

on the

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the

of excellent card board made from this residue, also on exhibition.

Hitherto after citronella oll had been extracted from the citronella It is estimated that some 119,682 BRITISH PATROL

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grass the spent grass was thrown away or burnt:

Mr. D. H. Balfour, the Director of Commerce and Industries, told

a Sunday "Observer," reporter, "I am sure we shall be able to com- mercialise this invention. We shall probably be the cheapest manu- 1acturers of card board in, thr"} world

35.00 TONS ANNUALLY "Spent citronella grass had no value hitherto. But now it will be different. From every 100 pounds of the grass we can get about 25 pounds of glucose sugar in its

purest form.

mows of waste land are available

for reclamation in these six dis tries.

IN ACTION

Boston.

"Our irresponsible government;" PRESERVATION OF PEACE

he declared, "seriously delayed our time While route to this state defence programme at a

from Boston yesterday. Mr. Willkle when Adolf Hitler has designs on addressed a small group of bust-us....We cannot afford that kind

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1940 -PAGE 9

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Nazi this very moment, ing the United State in peace: agents are going about this coun- and we can have peace, but we try, spreading, propaganda must know how to preserve it. seeking to entrap American busi- We won't undertake to fightnessmen by the lure of commer- NAIROBI Oct 23 (Reuter)..

-Our-boys retal profit," he declared.- A successfu attack against an anybody else's war

HITLER'S PLANS TRUCKS ARRIVE enemy post near the Kenya fron- shall stay out of the European war, "but by the same token, we com.

that no- We stand Mr. Wilkie asserted shall appease no one.

our democratic institution, body believes Hitler is "planning The communique says

of for

moment to send an ex- We stand ready to defend it with at this our ground patrols attacked an

peditionary force across the At- the our lives, if necessary,

lantic to attack us, yet none of enemy post at Dukana, near Kenya border. 70 miles from Lake.

us are so blind as to deny that Rudolf,

Hitler has designs cn us:

IN KUNMING

KUNMING, Oct. 23 Central The first batch of trucks loaded with materials of various descrip tions which left Lashio for the China following the interior of

in

tler was announced munique issued yesterday.

one

ONLY ONE WAY "How then shall we stay from The enemy withdrew, leaving the war and avoid appeasement? reopening of the Burma Road saftive dead as well as camels and There's only one way.

We must

y arrived here yesterday, and is equipment. Our casualties were become strong. We must bulld leaving this morning to continue one killed and one wounded," ourselves an air force. navy Its trip inland.

The drivers and engineers were

Annually over 150,000 tons of citronella grass are available in Ceylon. That means we shall be entertained at a dinner party given

by local transportation companies HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS yesterday evening. Except a

few

Indian volunteers, they are all over- STOCK EXCHANGE, seas Chinese who

have returned

able to obtain nearly 35.000 tons of pure glucose sugar every year. Glucose sugar as you know is in Anitely more nutritious than cane sugar and far more expensive too." to serve the fatherland,.,

Interviewed they said that there Mr. Balfour added that he had worked on this process for some had been air raid alarms on the years and had perfected it recently. way but the natural shelters offer-

"We propose to put up a pioneer ed adequate protection..

factory for the manufacture of glucose sugar and card-board, ceil ing board. wall board. etc.." on 1 large scale. We hope to be able to sell glucose sugar cheaper than

It is learned from responsible be circles that full efforts will exerted to keep the Burma Road open in face of Japanese aerial attacks. Air detence at towns and bridges along the Road will be "As for the various kinds of strengthened. Large quantities of board we may soon be in a post-repair materials will be put in

cane suga.

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soldiers before courts martial in was polluted with Nerre blood." Mr. Wilkie was never a cand-France and who fought the Ka date fre public office until the Klux Klan in Indians-these elurs international altuation mark a new low in efforts to con- present

Wilkie was nominated at ceal the menace of a third term

WASHINGTON Oct. 13. TheHis whore background is German. coloured division of the Democra tic National Committee today be- gan issuing pamphlets calling at tention to the German ancet president of the Republican candidate, Wendell Wilkie, and mentioned alleged anti-Negro ac- tivities at Elwood. Indiana. Will £10kle's birthplace.

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BORN IN GERMANY

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Speaking for the "Democrats SEQUEL TO PARIS for-Willkie club." Alan Valentine

ASSASSINATION sald There is an unscrupulous. attempt to make voters think that

Willkle's father was born in Ger- Willke is running simply, in order many. Willkle's grandfather was to help Hitler."

VICHY, Od 22 (Reuter) -The Polish Jew, Crynzpan, who assas sinated Herr von Rath, a coun sellor of the German Embassy in

November 18, 1938.

born in Germany. The parents of Commenting on the blitzkrieg Willkle's mother were born Incharge, Valentine zaid: "This from Paris on Germany, Wilkie's wife was born the little group of ambitious men being sent to Berlin for trial,

CHUNGKING, Oc, 2 (Central)

H.K. STOCK EXCHANGE

continues The market

steady

8151

-Hsu Tso-liang, a resident in Yu with sellers holding for slightly 84 55 14.60 341 /8)| Yuen Road in the westeru dis- higher rates.

trict, Shanghal, was kidnapped

on Oct. 18 by four men who also robped about $1,000 worth of Jewellery and banknotes.

His family did not report the kidnapping to the Police until Monday lest the kidnappers shoula kill him at once

SOVIET COMMENT ON BURMA ROAD REOPENING

CHUNGKING, Oct, 23 (Central) --Reopening of the Burma Road- was given prominence by most Soviet papers according to Moscow report. ***

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"(The Red Star on Oct. 19 pub. lished a Tass report that the first batch of Chiese trucks had en- followinx. tered Chinese territory the reopening of the Road, and also a description of the Road with

reopening. Commenting on the the paper said that Japan's ob- jective in closing the Burma Road was to cut China's International route and force her to submission but this attempt had falled.

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LONDON, Oct. 23 (Reyter)."In bombing oll properties on Bahrein the Island. Italy is exercising right of war" is the comment made in authorised Rome circles yesterday on the protest filled with the United States Department by the California Standard 09 Com- pany and the Texas OH Com-

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