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THE

HE undersigned have received

Instructions.

to sell by

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OB

Thursday, the 16th January, 1941

commencing at 2.30 p.m.

GENERAL

Germany's Oil

Oil Supplies NIGHT RAIDERS

BELIEVED SUFFICIENT IN QUANTITY,

BUT

DEFICIENT IN QUALITY

There is consideratie spéculation as to how the supply of oil in Germany has been affected by the blockade and aerial at- tacks How much, to begin with. does she need? The total amount of all produced in and Imported, into Germany, includ- ing alcohol and benzole, during 1938 was approximately 7.500.000 tons. A sms 1 amount will have been re-exported. Probably at that date reserves were being built up, so that the consumption may be considered as between 6,000,000 and 1000,000. 'tans in that year

How much oil would be required under war conditions? There are reasons for estimating that the

at their Sales Room. No. 35. Han-present German consumption kow Road, Kowloon.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

13

no greater than the pre-war con- sumption. Aviation spirit and cer- rain other products are used in greater quantities, but the saving by restricting the use of for private motorists is probably much greater than the increased Teakwood and Iron Bedsteads, consumption on aviation. writes Cots, Divans. Wardrobes, Dressing Harold Moore.

Comprising:-

Tables, Sideboards, Cheats of Drawers Dining Tables, Chairs,

Desks, Bookcases, Cabinets, Ches-

CARS AND PLANES

British China Squadron

petrol Acknowledgement To

Far East Donors.

Th fighter aeroplane uses

OVER LONDON

BOMBS JETTISONED

ON MÅRSHLAND |

LONDON, Jan, 13 (Reuter) -

HUNDRED SOLDIERS IN ONE BOMBER

Details of the Douglas Bomber For the second night in succes B.19, which has been bullt to fly. sion, London appeared to be the to Europe and back with "a heavy main target of 'the German Airload of bombs" without touching Force "oli Sunday night., when the ground, have been revealed bombs were dropped in various by "General H H Arnold, eblet of parts of the capital,

the USA. Ar. Corps... Night fighters as well as anti- The new machine is the largest aircraft guns were in action, Over in the world in bulk, range and the Thames estuary, the raiders power developed. Four Wright- met with Intense anti-aircraft |Cyclone engines develop 8.000 fire and some bombs were jet horse-power. The range is 7,500 tisoned on marshlang,

miles-three times as much as the

Other raiders are reported from most powerful U.S. naval destroy. Liverpool, a north-east town and jers.

in the vicinity of a town in West England,

BOMBER DESTROYEDU

TWO DAYS IN AIR

AS a transport plane it can carry 100 soldiers with full equip.

One enemy bomber was destroyment. Equipped as મ trans- ea by anti-aircraft Are on Satur-Atlantic passenger plane there is day night, states an Air Ministry foom for 125 passengers, with all communique. which adds that the necessary accommodation fighter there is nothing to report during found on luxury liners.

China | daylight yesterday.

SHANGHAI, Jan. 13 (Reuter) — The R.A.F. is to have & squadron named "Eritish Squadron." Plnaes in this squa

terfeld Suites, Cabin Trunks, Tea- about sixty gallons of petrol andron are being purchased by funds

poys, Tables, etc., etc.

hour, the average bomber over a jhundred gallons an hour. and Cutlery. Curios, Ornaments.

probably the average machine in Gramophones, Records. Pictures, light uses something in the re- Clocks, Electric Table Lamps and

gion of a hundred gallons 27 Hesters, Fire Brasses, Tea Sets, Crockery: E. P., Brass, Glass and probably uses about two

hour. The average motor-vehicle gallons Porcelain Ware, etc., etc..

also

A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD FURNITURE

and

2 "Underwood" Typewriters.

1 Teak Dining Room Suite

1 Cooking Stove

contributed

by

the Shanghai Voluntary War Contribution Fund.

This has come about by a mes sage received by the British" Em- the Foreign Office, assy from asking if there was likelihood of

an hour. Thus fifty motor-cars

the Fund reaching £100,000, and saying that fog that figure it are equivalent to one zeroplane, or one million motor-cars in ac would be possible to purchase a tual

service are equivalent to squadron of fighter planes to 20.000 aeroplanes in actual ser-identified with donors from China Shanghai replied that It was vice.

hoped that the Fund would reach £100,000 in the near future, sug cesting that the name

be

Severe Fighting In Cambodia

With storage petrol tanks capable of holding 11,000 gal- lons, the 8.19 can remain two days in the air, while passen rers can relax in sound-proor cabina,

In case or engine-breakdown, the engine casing is so constructed that repairs can be carried out while the machine ts travelling

in the air.

BANKOK, Jan, 1 (Routes

OUT OF AA. RANGE Thal forces are continuing the advance into Cambodia and have Five years has been spent in

positions research, three years in engineer seized further French

to the according

High ing, and two years in construĽ

tion. The plane, says General Command communique.

The air force is sending effec-Arnold, is even far ahead in de-

Thai

TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1941.

SANDEMAN

SHERRY

PORT

Obtainable everywhere.

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As in England there are over two million motor-tars registered,

of the tive co-operation and severe fight sign of other planes now in the and a large number of these are

communi draugnting-board stage. operating many hours ม day squadron be "British China Squa..ing is developing, the

To keep out of range of anti- (particularly commercial vehicles dron" and that the type of plane que continues.

Unofficial reports state that the aircraft shells an oxygen system THE Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public Thai Army has already occupied has been installed, capable of large stretches of Cambodian ter generating sufficient oxygen for ritory and that Thai bombers have Ƒ"a normal crew" for 100 hours.

Indo-China. raided many important "towns in The army will have full charge

of the testing of the machine.

1 Carved Blackwood Table Screen and buses), it is clear that the be left to the decision of the Air

1 Radio-gram "Universe"

1 Radio Set "G.EG."

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15th January, 1941.

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DR. GOEBBELS AT WORK

BRITISH CURISER CLAIMED HIT

consumption of the Air Force is Ministry.

relatively small. Thể British pre-

war consumption of petrol Was

DECOUX COMMUNIQUE

Arnold said

about 3,500,000 gallons a day, quired for aviation, and there is 35,000 acroplane flying hours.

no doubt that the Germans are Hitherto Do French aircraft "The B.19 will be the experi That is to say, sufficient to send unable to obtain as high quality have visited Bangkok but

every mental model of long-distance 7,000 bombers on ative-hour of petrol as the RAF. Aviation precaution has been taken and planes of the future." General fight every day.

petrol usually consists of selected A.R.P. measures are in force. It is difficult to estimate what natural petrol obtained by straight the actual consumption of avia- distillation, blended with a large tion petrol is, but such

HANOI, Jan. 13 (Reuter) A French planes bombed Frachinbur, calcula.

proportion of certain special high communique Issued by Adul on the Aranya-Bangkok Railway, tions Indicate that the aviation

octane value ingredients, such as Decoux claims that. on Jan. 10 and also Cubon, Sizaket, Prachima- spirit consumption must be small iso-octane. The resulting fuel will French fighters brought down in bourt and Araked. relative to the pre-war automo-

give a greater horsepower per dames two Thal planes bombing Adml, Decoux. categorically denies bils consumption. The consump-unft of fuel when employed in an gimreap.

the news published that French tion of lubricating ou is about engine designed to use these parti- The proportional to the consumption cular products

that planes intended to bomb Bangkok. of petrol, and the heavier fuels,

Before the war the majority

which represent about 50 per cent. of aeroplanes were running on a of the total petroleum consump-fuel of either 77 or, more usually..

on of any particular country. 87 octane number; 77 was becom→ are not required in any greater ing obsolete. It is probable that ratio for war service than for

since the war the quality of fuel BERLIN, JsD. 13 (Reutery - A Peace service; in fact, they are used by the RAF has been im- cruiser and several other warships more readily replaced by solid fuel received heavy hits in * fresh than is petrol,

attack on English naval units in the Mediterranean" state

LARGE AMOUNT

communique adds

Ipoh's New Buildings

Worth Million Dollars.

More than a mi lion dollars worth of buildings were com- pleted during the year in Ipoh, the majority of them being dweiling houses, says the Malaya Tribune.

tures, Bulit of brick and cement, schools.

expansion for local

*

proved to a figure over 87. whilst the Germans, owing to restriction ot supplies, had to continue using

The major scheme, and by far the most important, was the syes- Army transport, including the a fuel of 87 octane number. The completion of the clerical settlement in Ashby, Road where more terday's German High Command use of heavy mobilised columns, use of the low-grade fuel Un-

than 120 quarters were put up for Government employees. communique.

certainly consumes a very large doubtedly reduces the efficiency These houses are a break from Two large buildings were erect- i also reports that "an enemy amount of spirit, but the number of the engines, and this is a con- the usual type of wooden struc-ed by way of merchantship of 8,000 tons Was of vehicles employed is compara-stderable disadvantage to the Ger- sunk in Irish waters and another tively small compared with the man Air Force.

this settlement cost in the neigh- 'The Bt. Mionael's Institution ship of 3,000 tons sunk off the peace-time number of automo- Iso-octane can only be produced

bourhood of $500,000. The main has built a three-storey annexe, east coast of England.”

biles in operation. Bearing these in comparatively small quantities Bunday night's raid on Tandon, various factors in mind, it appears from crude oil; the main produc-road through the settlement has costing about $100,000 while the

been nåmed Fifth Avenue.

Convent of the Hoy Infant Jesus, the communiqué adds, was carried to the writer that, provided that tion is in America, where there TÜP other buildings erected in Brewster Road, has built out by "strong bomber formations the use of automobiles and road exists a large market for other were private enterprises.

two-storey extension to house the and numerous fires testifted to wagons for normal transport ser- petroleum products, and where The biggest of these is the block orphanage and sewing хоодья

vice is heavily restricted, there is the necessary complex and expen-of eight three-storey houses in costing about $20,000. Regarding the British raids no reason why the total consump- sve plant is avaliable. In view Brewster Road belonging to the over Germany, It says: "A few tion of petrol should increase in of the British position with estate of the late Mr. Chua Cheng high explosive and

An office building, costing about America and the large refining Bok Business cum residential $35 000 is rapidly near.ng anin. bomba were dropped la ports of The question of quality is a capacity which Britain possesses fats, the block has been occupied pretion for the estate of the. Jate Germany, seriously damaging one much more serious factor. The in other countries, there is every by leading firms in the State. Mr. Leong Bin Nam. The office house, killing three people and petrol used for automobiles is not reason to suppose that she have

Opposite that is another office is an extension of the family seriously injuring three others." of the same quality as that re- ample supplies of iso-octane.

block for the same owners, both residence In Gopeng Road.. plocks costing nearly $200,000.

One of the first of its kind, the

their success,"

Fitch

tricendiary war-time.

Praises Progress

In Free China

·Speaking at the Rotary Club meeting in Shanghai, Mr. George Fitch, China-born American social service leader, who was formerly Secretary-General of the YMCA in Nanking, praised highly the surprising progress in Free China which he said was made possible by the energetic spirit of the people, according to a Shanghai rë- port.

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GERMAN RESERVËS

NEAR COMPLETION

It is difficult to estimate how. The opening of the Rex Cinema. Ng Brothers' Service Station 1: much o tay in stock in Ger-teased by Messrs. Shaw Brothers Chamberlain Road was recently many before the wat, but there trom the estate of the late Mr. completed at a cost of pearly is little doubt that the whole of Foo Nyit Sze, saw yet another $12,000... the storage caprelty in Germany modern picture palace for the was full. Immediately before the town. The building cost about war both Germany and Italy im- $100,000

The biggest private enter- prise for dwelling" houses has been dompleted · for Me Bake ported large quantities of Mexi- Before the new year gets old, Wan Yat of Kuala Lumpur. can off, which was thrown on tojanother cinema for Ipoh will be

In Fair Park, off Ashby Road. the market. at a low des ás a completed. Built by Mr. seven rows, totalling more than 50 result of the dispute between the Ying Kim of Tapah the cinema 13 houses, were built. Close by, a Mexican Government and the situated In Chamberlain Road row of eight shop houses to fast major of compeñles: This cheap and is estimated to cost about nearing completion and the whole source of supply was of great $70,000

project is estimated, try cost about $250,000

Lim

Mr. Fitch said that he had visit, to avoid Japanese air raids, Despite advantage to both Germany and ----- ed Kunning, capital of Yunnan, widespread Japanese raids, the Italy, and they tied up stocké tensive development and running In addition to this, several du- twich During the first visit three Chinese displayed remarkable calm both of 'trude and finished Proffor maximum production without tached houses have been built. De years ago he noticed that there and determination to continue the ducts from this source. One conserving the stock. This oil Mr. Loke Wan Yat in Tambu was only one cotton mill there but war and not one of them com might reasonably suppose that would have to be refined in the Road. Five have been completed on his second visit a year later he [plained sunut viia sufferings, they would have about one year's German refineries,

and another is in the process of found 36 big factories and many Mr. Fitch said that he was glad supply in hand when the war Certainly the refining capacity being completed. There Nove more under erection.

to have the chance to see the birth |broke out.

will be greatly in excess of the similar houses, It is underatorut, Similar progress, Mr. Fitch de- of New China. The present Chinese

German home production of home-produced érude oil produc- will be otected in the locality clared, can be found in other parts unity and solidarity is unprece-petroleum, mainly obtained from tion, apart from the question of shortly }: uf Free China. The inter-city dented and in a way the war is a the attover field, was about injury sustained to such plant The cost of this project is esti- railway system has been especially blessing to China. What would take 850.000 tons per annum in 1938, during the raids. The refining of mated to be well over $75.000 rapidly developed. One of the several generations to accom-but the Nazi policy was to drill imported crude oil was carried out Apart from all these major·| railways, measuring 137 miles in plish has been done in China in heavily in the Hanover district on a large scale in Germany in building operations in Ipul length, was constructed in sixty three years,

and hold down the production mediately before the war, largely large number of smaller horsER days.

Concluding. Mr. Fitch stated that after the wells had been com-ón Mexican "crude.

have been put up while many hara. China's needs today are motor pleted, with a view to retaining One of the largest retineries been rebulit ONLY AT NIGHT"

venicies and gasoline and nighter this a reserver stock in case of was in Hamburg (Euro-tank In spite of this, the building Rebounding his experience of and bomber planes. In his opinion war.

[Refinery). The importation of boom of 1938 still remains a re- Japanese ser:al bombings in Tres the rise of commodity prices in It is tighty, probable that since crude oil at the present time is cord. for in that year a local China, Mr. Fitch said that on the China is largely due to inadequacy the outbreak of war the produc- probably extremely small, so that architectural firm alone put up way from Hongkode to the interior of transport facilities—(Centra" tion from the Hanover Held has these refineries are available for buildings worth more than “x of China he travelled only at night News.

considerably increased under in treating the home production. million dollars.

,

Auction on

Saturday, the 18th January, 1941. Commencing at 11 AM,

at the godowns of The China Navigation Co., Ltd., West Point

Ex Steamer

Arrived Date

Marks & Numbers

Pkges. Cargo

"Kaying"

"Anshun"

25.3.36

134.36

N/M

"Shantung"

23.7.36

UT

I

"Taiyuan"

20.6.37

HKONG

1 Paper Card

Máy AL. Moore Gloucester House

2: Class and Woodware

5 Old Motor

Parta

17. Ply Wood

"Shantung"

26.11.37

CHC

6 Book

"Klungchow"

30.11.37

CHC

7

Bookk

"Soochow

"Newchang"

16.12.37

8.3.40

FK

M.D. Chow

1 Paper Box

2 Woodware »

(The above will be sold unléas cleared in the meantime).

also

(for account of the concerned)

A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS GOODS

comprising:-

Cotton Yarn, Gypsum, Nails, Bolts and nuts, Deer Skin, Beans, Groundnut Kernels, Wooden Ware, etc.

and

(for account of the Liquidators)

1 case Water Atting

3 tins Wood oll

I drum Motor Oil"

Terms: Cash of delivery

Now on view

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WANTED URGENTLY

HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

Monday & Thursday

ICE HOUSE STREET

10 to 12 Noon,

1.