HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
NEW GERMAN-SOVIET (U.S. United On
TRADE AGREEMENT
LONDON, Jan. 12 (Reuter)--GERMANY'S AMBITIOUS "TRADE AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA, BY WHICH SHE HOPES TO RECEIVE LARGE AMOUNTS OF GRAIN AND OIL in return for machinery and other manufactured pro- ducts, was commented on with reserve by competent quar- ters yesterday as the text of the agreement has not yet been received.
War Problems
New York — striking degree of national unity on some of the most difficult questions .Im- mediately facing the nation
been
achieved
has
... already
in the short Nime since election day, a nation-wide survey by the American Institute of Pub- He Opinion has revealed, accord- ing to Dr. George Gallup. Its director.
FINANCE & GENERAL
"LOOFAH" INDUSTRY IN MALAYA HAS BEEN NEGLECTED
The 'loofah' plant, the fruit of which may be improvised as the loofab sponge for the bathroom, is very common in Malaya: it can be seen growing in many districts around Singapore#
A typical specimen of this plant 1 to be seen in Meyer Road, Katong. opposite the Katong golf course, where it grows in profusion for a distance of about 20 yards This
variety
plant is of the creeper smooth. The ridged type of and in appearance it is Toofah", which is known in the
The
The provisions of the new agreement do not appear greatly to differ from the last agreement of the kind. ̧
"In interviews with men and similar to the cucumber. The local produce markets as "ketola Both are based on the barter, of war materials for Britain and women in every State of the Union leaves are quite large, and in some manis" to the Malays, and “Kah principle, and while Russia would her allies.
and in all walks of life during re-cases are as big as an average Koay" to the Chinese, serves as seem to be' the fortunate possessor While America could aid Bri- cent weeks the institute has tested cabbage leat, writes LSD. in the table food, and it is used regularly of exportable surpluses of graintain, even to the extent of send- United States attitudes on most of Malaya Tribune
by many people for making soup and oil, especially lubricants, it is ing warships, the sending of Soviet the vital issues of the day," he re- not thought that hitherto Germany grain to Germany was alleged to ported yesterday. "These include loofah fruit, are yellow and hava usual method of cooking is exactly
The flowers, which precede the or as an addition to curry. has received very large quantities be a breach of neutrality, declared conscription, taxes-for- défence. five petals, and the fruit, when the same as for most vegetables, a Moscow radio announcer yester-war and peace and numerous fully grown, resembles 您 small and the price is about five cent
marrow. The plant is non-sea per pound "Today this much is clear for [sonal, and, fruit is obtained from the world to read: Despite sharp it all the year round.
The loofah' creeper does not différences over domestic policles
actually belong to Malaya, as it There are two kinds of lootan. and candidates during the cam plant grown in this country. One getola' being a generät werd used foreign origin, the term paign itself, there is surprisingly variety bears fruit which has deep by the Malays for most kinds of little difference among American voters on the questions of national ridges on the outside, while the creeping gourds that are to
1k
of these products.
Actual deliveries of Russian pro- | day. commenting on the new other Issues. ducts may be governed by Ger- Soviet trade agreement with the many's ability to deliver articles Reich. required by Russia, and another' weighty factor in the practical outcome of this transport.
agreement
Inability of the railways and other transport to handle large additional amounts of trafe
may
slow down considerable exchanges of products.
is
ECONOMIC PROPAGANDA "
As there does not appear to be anything essentially new in the
He added: "It is high time to understand that the Soviet pursues its own policy and will continue to pursue it indepen- dently of what may be said in either the eastern or western hemisphere."
GERMAN VERSION
defence and foreign policy.
POLICY INDICATED
"Take the question of increased to Britain. Bath President
A new agreement has been sign-aid ea between Nazi Germany and Roosevelt and Wendell Wilkie Iri- Soviet Russia, it is announced indicated their polley would be to Berlin.
increase this aid by almost every
"
HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS
ed by Germany and Italy unless the United States supplies her with more food and war-materials. would you be in favour of giving more help to. England? Here, re- ported for the first time, are the survey replies:
Fruit of the other variety is
East Central West Centrai South West
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SURVEYS
MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1941. -PAGE 9
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found in this country. Another example of the use of this word 'Ketola ular', or the 'snake gourd' which is also airiv_com- mon terc.
The loofsh sponge for the bath- room is obtained from the smooth
vse.
If you Value
your Health-
Insist upon
Gordon's GIN
NO Colouring
Matter.
No Injurious Ingredients
The
DRY GIN
DESTILLERY LONDON
As previously reported by the type of fruit, as the fibrous centre It includes a frontier agreement, means short of intervention In the latest agreement it is thought settles, questions which arose over war Itself. Where do the people stitute during the campaign it- of the gourd is formed in honey- self, there has been an equally comb fashion. To extract the "rather surprising that the German the Russian occupation of the stand!
authorities have laid so much em- Baltic countries and provides for "To answer this question the in-great agreement among Americans loofah, for household the In that country, many acres of capture. microcosms of plants and phasis ori it, unless it be for pur-the exchange of goods up to stitute put the following question that the United States should stay green outside skin of the frult Island. have been set aside for the animals in the sponge canals. In poses of economic propaganda in August. 1942,
to American voters in the closing attacked.
cut of the European war unless peeled off leaving the fibres cultivation of this plant which is its live state the sponge is a mass
Other subjects According to Berlin. It also in days of the campaign: I tap-which the surveys have revealed a there are hundreds of large black tures. The climate most suitable order to produce a roseate atmos- i
upon clear. In the centre of the fibres, trained there on bamboo struc of jelly. phere as 2 set-off to Ameri- cludes "an ambitious programme pears that England will be defeat- ca's promise of unlimited supplies for the delivery of raw materials.
National defence taxation. hemis- again. No special treatment is without excessive humidity. high degree of public unity are: seeds, which may
be planted to the cultivation of loofah is dry,
JAPANESE INDUSTRY
There is a type of sponge found. phere defence, conscription.
necessary to make the loofah Dutch have experimented with in Malayan waters bat the best usable in the bathroom, as it the plant in Java, but they did sponges, up to the present, have "Successive surveys have shown ready for the toilet in its natural not succeed in making it a r been found by the Japanese in majorities as high as 7 to 1 in state.
munerative proposition and the the sea around their coasts, and favour of enlarging the Army,
question was shelved. In Navy and air forces.
their they have 'developed that industry book "Useful plants of the N.EL" together with the trade in Toofah "This Summer the Institute
The Malayan variety of this which is written the Dutch sponges.* found that 70 per cent. of the frult is usually about eight inches language, the enltivation of loofah Wemba "Only one voter in seventeen (6 voters said they would be willing
The Malays have a herbal - use per cent.) said he was undecided to pay special
long but not quite as large
La mentioned. ax
yellow for the loofah, and the extra taxes for on the question. (So that 84.6 per national defence purposes.
the loofahs which are imported Unlike the 'loofah', the ordinary flowers of the ketois manis', to of al} those $1360 cent.
questioned
from foreign countries. One of sponge is really a colony of minute use their title, are dispensed by "By nearly 3 to 1 the voters favoured added ald Ninety-two have gone on record in favour of hold article is Japan, where this feed "on
the chief sources of this house-animals which, in the free state, them as a medicine for sterility. per cent of the Democrats said a selected programme for peace-creeper is grown, and exported, on from the oceans where
sold particles drawn With the leaves, which they in- they would favour increased help time conscription
they are fuse, like tea, together with two to Britain in order to prevent a
commercial basis. In fact, found. While on the floor of the other kinds of flowers (changkok "The institute found inajorities Japan, uu to the present, has has sea, sponges draw water through and seduayah) British
and the bark of defeat. Eighty-seven per of nearly 9 to 1 in favour of bak-practically the whole monopoly their very minute canals, and, as the rambutan tree, they make-e cent. of the Republicans in the ing up arms, if necessary, to pre for the trade in touran aponger. the water passes through, they medicine for feminine disorders. survey answered the same way. vent an Axis attack upon Canada
STOCK EXCHANGE,
Buyer Sellers
$75
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$405
$165
#
Sales
Nominal
SHAR BROKERS'
ASSOCIATION
SATURDAY
Dayer
Bollers
11 JAN.
Banks
$1380, A.K. Banks
Ex2
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£82
£78
Do. (Lon. Reg.)
£781
£6
Chartered Banks .....
£27
Mercantile Bka. “A”.
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210
Mercantile Bka. “C”.
£107
Bank of East Asia......
$75
N. C. &, S. Banks........ Insurances
19 ct.
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Yes No
90% 10%
$2024 "Even on a sectional basis the og upon the Latin American ter-
a
MALATAN VARIETY
81
Canton insurance................
Union Insurances....... $405
Underwriters
H.K. Fires
Shipping
$135 DouzLises
311
Steamboats,
$100 Indo-Chinas (Pref.).......
Indo-Chinas (Del.)
$80
45/7
Shells.
$7
Waterboats
Docks, Wharves,
Godowns, etc.
H.K. & K, Wharves.......
$3.85 Providents
$18,60 H.K. Docks (Old).........
H.K. Docks (New).........
394
$18
$35
16/3
Kailans
891
'Rauds
+Shanghai Docka......
Mining
1 cte. Hong Kong Mines.....
131
Lands Hotels and Buildings
H.K. & 8. Hotels.......
$34.60 H.K. Land...........
$160 Do. 4% Debentures....
#13 Shanghai Lands.......................
#38 H.K. Bealtina...
$7.95 Humphreys ------ $100 Chinese Estates,
Cotton Mills
Th
844
Ewo (8.) $205 S'hai Cottons (8.)...
Zoong Sings (8.).....................
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$17.85 $17.95) $17,90)
$31
$242
HT
$19,10
$7 $1.00
forg
sentiment for increased ald
80 ct.
$160
be
toritories in the vicinity of the Britain. If necessary to stave off a Panama Canal. British defeat. appears to everywhere overwhelming:
$135
891
Yes
No
8100
New England and
$100
Mid-Atlantic 92%
8%
"As of today, every avaliable evidence from the public opinion Surveys shows the American people strongly united on the major Issues presented by the war."
45/7
$7
$94
$5.80
$19.80
$18
י
8344
16/3
!!!
$34
#34
$100
$3.85
$7.95
9444
U.S. RED CROSS DISTRIBUTES
$12,399,505 FOR WAR RELIEF
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28--The American Red Cross war rellef
war-torn summary, showing $12,399,505 distributed to
Europe. disclosed today:
That since June the Red Cross has sent no relief supplies to France. Food and clothing sent on the mercy ship" McKeesport early that month before France's collapse have been distributed, however.
PRE-PAID ADVERTISEMENTS.
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HOUSES AND APARTMENTS TO BE LET. HOUSES AND APARTMENTS WANTED. MISCELLANEOUS WANTS..
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WANTED TO BUY
WE PAY HIGH "PRICES for all gold and silver articles. Jadc, diamonds, jewels, watches, foun- tain pens. Apply 'Far East Dia-
and mond
Gold Refining "Co.
That at least 100,000 families pleas for help in locating relatives have been "bombed "out" of their and friends in war areas have Room 621, China Building. 6th
been handled. Replies have been noor. That a shipment of badly need-received to 23,210, including word
homes on the British Isles,
ed medicines and clothing is now en route over the Burma road to China.
PENNIES SAVED
from prison camps in Germany.
WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all gold and silver articles, gold bars, diamonds and "Jewels Apply China Gold Refining Co. Pedder Building, 2nd floor, Room 6.
That since hostilities began the Amerkan Red Cross has produced 1.084,359 garments and sent 8,295 That more than $1,000,000 of 115 surgical dressings to Europe. supplies has been extended to That 25 Red. Cross station Finland because of "continuation wagons recently were received by of grave need for food and cloth- Queen Elizabeth in an impressive
WE OFFER HIGH PRICES for 30-minute ceremony in the bomb- ing "
That American children saved spattered courtyard of Bucking any amount of gold articles, $70,000 worth of pennies, which ham Palace. Women's Voluntary diamonds, silver, etc. No holidays. have built 35 children's air raid Service girls immediately trans- Apply China Building, 7th floor. shelters in England. The Oct. 18ported them to 12 regions in Eng-Tel. 30727. Eurasia Gold Refining $39.85 report to the Red Cross here said land to be used as mobile canteens. Co.
$195
Wing On Textiles (8.) Public Utilities
$125
H.K. Tramways.........] #174817.80
$7,40 Posk Trams (old)...........
$31
Pesk Trams (new);
Star Ferries-----
$7.40
$81
Y'mati Ferried...................
#24
X.Rta. Chine Lights (0) X $0.25
***
400
$40
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China Lights (New)...
H. K. Flectrics (Old)... $32.881.K.)lectrics(New)... #17 Macao Electrics (Old) $16Macao Eisetrics (New) $11 Bandakan Lights.........
Telephones (old)..
310,20 Telephones (new)
S'pore Tractions (Ord.) Industrials
$14.00 Cald., Macg. (Ord.) 8.
$12
Cald., Macg. (Pref.)8
31
Canton Ices............................
Cements
$18.50
LII.K. Ropes
HE GOTL. Louna
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37
2
19
Constructions (naw).....
Nanyang Tobacco...
$2.16 Sinceres V
$11.30 Watsona
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$25/
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orphanage in south-east
DISTRIBUTION.
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$10 only a matter of seconds before allef expenditures shows the follow. Why not learn all the Fancy
high explosive bomb made a directing distribution:
75 cts.
$18)
$94
hit on the bullding. totally des- troying it."
URGENT APPEAL That, on an urgent appeal from the British Red Cross, 1,000 stoves have been sent to England for cooking and heating in air raid shelters, Another 6,000 cooking and heating stoves have already been purchased here.
That cotton rompers, dresses, $1.6 bibs, nightgowns, pajamas, bath. robes, woollen sweaters, knit suits, $73
overcoats, snow suits, and caps $2.20 are urgently needed for 200,000 children, ranging from infants to 38% 5-year-olds.
$11.25
39
B'hai Wing On
$30 $14
$7.70
Vibra Piling
$8
7/6
Maramans Inv. (Lon.)
9/0
Marsuinns Inv. (HK)
$1.80 Wm. Powells.
$1,90
$9.7 $85/90 Cts. China Lights(Bights)|
(97) C.)
C.1/.950.
+Sale to Shanghai
That 200,000 hot water bottles are needed for persons made 111 in air raid shelters.
INQUIRY AND INFORMATION That the American Red Cross maintains an inquiry and informa- tion service through which 56,672
Belgium, $57,050.
Canada, $68,820.
China, $303,068.
Finland, $1,827,401. - France, $1,745,837, Britain, $7,281,489. The Netherlands, $25,000. Norway, $45,700," Poland, $1,000,130. Switzerland, $25,000,
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Wool and model desired, 'to be'
LONDON AIR RAID supplied by customer.
DISTRESS FUND Bend particulars of 'address, etc..
LONDON, Jan. 12 (Reuter)-The Lord Mayor of London's Afr Raid Distress. Fund, now totals nearly £2,000,000
to Box 502, H.K.D.P.
Experienced Book-keeper Wanta. The Toronto, Evening Telegram Students to form a class. Guaran- yesterday sent a contribution of tee students to keep a whole set of £5,000, bringing its total to £45,- books after completion of a course 000,-
ot 6 months. For Term and Par- A contribution of £1,500 was also ticulars. Please Apply to:-Baz received from Ceylon.
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