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with the Chinese New Year

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EWO BEER

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CAR WITHOUT

A DRIVER

Pedestrians in Village Road yes- terday evening, at about 8 p.m. had a great surprise when they sud-

and Business Office:denly witnessed a motor car a Editorial

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wheell Tel. 33225.

Night Editor (Wanchal Office):

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HONGKONG, JANUARY 24, 1941.

TOBRUK & AFTER THE IMMINENT passing of!

Poo Wai-ying, 30, woman, of No 15 Shun Kwong Road, was knocked down by the runaway car.

The car No. 5535, parked out side No. 20 Village Road, collided with a public vehtele No. 157, out- side No. 3 Village Road,

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POLICE REPORTS The theft of $49 in money and

No. 00746 sweep ticket

between 8 p.m.

on

the Italian stronghold of D'Aguilar Street Tobruk in Libya into British and 11 p.m. on Jan. 21 has been

kong, of No. 165, Electric Road,

Lee

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EDITORIAL

EASTERN ARCTIC

NEW CHUNGKING

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1941.

Britain's Answer To Herr

APPOINTMENTS Hitler's Screaming

Mr. Yang Yi-tsu, Anhwel

PATROL Finance Commissioner, was rellev

Canada's Eskimos are enjoying

ap

ed of his post, and Mr. Kwel good hearth and the native game Provincial Government, was

Chung chu member the Anhwe supply is plentiful, according to. Major D. L. McKeand, Officer-in-Finance Commissioner concurrent-

pointed to. Charge the Eastern Aretze Patrol which was carried out as ly.

through the

Scientilic investigations

serve As Anhwel

NEWSETTES ·

Screaming Threats: Axis Smoke-Screen

he continued.

FERMENT IN RUMANIA

BRITAIN PREPARED

Mr. Lakin then declared that In Britain they had not forgotten, the power and thoroughness of the Herr Referring to other news, Mr. enemy they were facing.

Hitler would try to bolster up Lakin commented on the ferment in Rumanis and declared that the anything that he would do would Signor Mussolini's position and

be done fairly soon.

"One thing we are confident of and that is that if he makes his

"The British Commonwealth has very quickly answer- ed Herr Hitler's screaming threats against us," said MR. CYRIL LAKIN, B.B.C. commentator, when he referred in a talk from London to the fall of Tobruk to the British Messrs. Yao Hsien-nal, Hu Mai, usual aboard the RM.S. Nascople.wang Li-cheng, Sun Ll-sheng and

forces on Wednesday. "Tobruk will provide a good, ad- Notwithstanding wartime condi-sun Ya-fu were appointed res

vance base for us 70 miles within Libya and its capture will tions, the 1940 expedition was the pectively Secretary. most extensive ever made. involv-Director of the 1st Department and

threaten most of the Italian air bases in Bomba. Counsellors,

"There is further bad news that the Italian people detested ing A voyage of 11,586 miles Acting Director of the 2nd Depart for Mussolint from

ice-filled waters ofment of the National Relief Com-where the Italians are

Eritrea the Germans and this news of "all re-embracing co-operation" would the North.

mission.

certainly not improve their tem- In addition to supplying inedieal Messrs. Tam Shao-chiao and Lu treating and still worse prosper when they also heard that yet officers, radio stations, and Royal Chen-tung. were appointed respects for the Axis plans in another Libyan stronghold had Canadian Mounted Police, pasts pectively Director and Vice-Direc-the news that Greeks suc-fallen. with two years staple supplies. tor of the Anhwel Food Control cesses in Albania are con- hands may not be considered reported to the Police by Kan 8th the Nascople carried freight for Bureau, and Mr. Chow I-o was ap-tinuing on all fronts there." to furnish justifiable reasons

the trade stores and mission sta-pointed Director of the Fukien tlons in the Eskimo country of the Food Control Bureau. for predicting what will fol

Northwest Territories and northern Kwan, residing at No. 2,

Mr. Chiang Fu-jul was appointed low as far as milltary opera- Power Lane, reports that money Queber

Director of the National Central Throughout the setions are concerned, but it and Jewellery to the total value of

entire 90-day Library.-(Central News), certainly provides food for $287 were stolen from his house Voyage the usual wartime restre. thought on

between midnight and 3.30 am.tions as to navigation lights and

state of that country today was the future of

other precautions were followed, yesterday."

the finest example of what Herr Signor Mussolini's African

SCIENTIFIC WOKA

Hitler's 'New Order meant and Empire.

The death occurred on January that what was happening there attack on Britalu, this island will Reactions to the Two hundred dollars worth of Owing to the increase in Excise series of defeats which the medicine was reported by Ho Man-

wer 15, 1941, at her residence, 11 Route would no doubt be carefully Duty, and cost of raw materials, Italian forces have sustained ha to have been stolen from No.

ernment party was smaller than Annie, daughter of Mrs. Dora tries which had fallen under the

Lakin. "Our preparations are go- the prices of Ewo Beer as from in Libya and to the manner 146, Queen's Road West on Jan.

in former years. The regular ad-Finkelstein and the late Harry Nazi yoke.

ing forward and Mr. Bevin has January 24th will be increased as in which the Greeks have:

ministrative work of the patro Finkelstein. Funeral services wer The vicious raids on Malta had now announced a step forward in been able to turn their in- Yiu Ho, of No. 38. Sai Street, was carried out, and mall was de- held on January 17, at the Baikal proved

organising man-power and pro- very expensive to the

duction. There will be a national vasion of the Helenic Empire reports that while he was walking livered as the snip progressed Trom Road, Jewish Cemetery.

Luftwaffe and finally there were register by age groups which will into an ignominous

the reported threats of invasion along Queen's Road West at 9.30 past to post.

The mail service was extended The death occurred on January against Great Britain.

make everyone liable for doing have not taken long to make Pm on Jan. 22, he had $40 in

by the opening of a post office 16,, at the Shanghai General Hos-

war work. notes stolen from his person.

Turning to the meeting between themselves evident, with the

at Fort Ross on Somerset Island, pital, t Rosa Bauer (Kelsen), Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini. result that today the fate of Fuk Kan-shek, of No. 27, Kam at the eastern entrance of Bellot

at Erna mother

Bauer-Mildner Mr. Lakin declared that the Axis Italy's position in

Fritz Africa Wah Street, reports that between Strait, where mail can now be ex- and

Peter Bauer. The propagandista as usual had not funeral awas held at Columbi❘ been able to contain themselves. seems practically sealed. The 9 pm, on Jan. 21 and some time changed between the eastern and

on Jan 22, a spare wheel, and tyre, western Arctic. most important of these re- and some tools were stolen from

Road Cemetery on January 17.

They at once break into s Greenland natives employed by

rash," he said, “and they have actions is apparent in the his car No. 5590. Total

value the Royal Canadian Mounted The Grand Concert for British

been indulging in hints and news from Abyssinia, where stofer is $139,

Police at craig Harbour were re-troops at Stonecutter's, in aid of. rumours so numerous and 'con- tribesmen who have remained

British turned home after two years' ser- the

War Organisation flicting that it would be. Im- Leung King, of Messrs. Deacons vice, and

possible materials for the erec- Fund, which was to have been held patiently loyal to their ruler,

distinguish the and Company. Prince Building, tion of u residence, as well as at the Lecture Room on the Island truth from the falsehood. who was forced to give way reports that at 10 am, on Jan. 22, furnishings, fuel and food sup- yesterday afternoon, could not be

"Their threats against us seem) to the Italian oppressors in somebody stole an electric pump plles, for the Canadian Consul at staged owing to unforeseen cir- to have about the same effect as

Roaming the streets of London, 1935, have now set out to free valued at $60, from his house at Greenland

the Japanese threat against the looking for atcumstances. A date will be an-

an opportunity to Godthaao their country from Signor No. 9. Hillwood Road.

United States. Signor Gayda had commit suicide, Stanley T. Keatley inounced later. Mussolini's tyranny. The mo-

A number of native families

the effrontery to say recently that 30, fitter, a Ng Wan, toki of junk No. 1689P, desirous of migrating northward

England is waiting the Axis move Staffs, entered an air cald shai- with quaking "spirits. If you were ter. revolt against Italian oppres- his junk capsized off the Kowloon at Fort Ross

There a Salvationist was preach-

under:

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Per barrel

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NOTICE 15 HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders will

be HELD at

ended 31st December, 1940.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers.

BANK HOLIDAYS.

rout,

22.

in tow to safety.

+

the

conducted as usual, but the go- Francis Garnier, Shanghal of studied by the other small coun-be ready to break him," said Mr.

were delivered

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time the two principal Canadian In another match, K. Welss de-

feated G. S. Coxhead. | Eskimo cultures.

go

CHANGE IN

RURAL

EDUCATION POLICY

Beginning this year secondary education in both Governa- ment and mission schools, in the Ipoh rural districts, will under- be a change, in that the School Certificate classes will abolished: The Education Department bas thought it fit to effect this change for reasons, of economy and education, princi- pally educational.

It is felt that expert tuition as the schools in the

P.A.A. TRAINING FOR U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS PERSONNEL

aerial navigators for le rapidly ex- To speed up the training of

panding United States Army Alri

to South America, over the Pacific

to

1;

"Who would have thought," concluded Mr. Lakin, *that we have seen a Socialist minis- ter introducing such a measure in the House of Cominons."

MAN WHO WANTED TO DIE

native of Walsall

East

bombastic paper, the National

suicide and returned to Zeitung,

Cowes, BRITISH SPIRIT

where his young wife, "As to our spirit here, the most whom he married last June, was typical example of this was given wondering what had happened. me recently by a shoe-maker. He

This was related to the magis- asked me whether I thought that trates at East Cowes, 10 W... when Herr Hitler would try to invade us Keatley was charged with attempt- and on my telling that I believed Ing suicide. he would, this shoe-maker said: If he does, I will tell you what we shall do. We shall chase him back, follow him across the sea and climb up the short there and take the pants off him.'

Mr. Lakin declared that that was

A neighbour stated that he went into Keatley's house to admit a gas collector, and ou a door Was pinned a note which read "Please forgive me for the wrong and sufter- ing I have caused you-Stan."

the spirit which existed in Eng- Keatley was found hanging Jand today and went on to point from a gas-pipe with: a thin cort out that the great weakness in around his neck. The neighbour Totalitarian propaganda today informed the police, and when was that they said the same thing Sergt. Lock arrived Keatley was at the same time and consequent-lying huddled in a corner, the corn ly there was a flood of repetition. having broken.

and

weeks.

The úfficer applied artificial- respiration, and when a doctor ar- rived Keatley was fully conscious, and answered questions rationally, stating that his trouble གཎཱ་ ¡money

Fits

ment they selected for this reports that at 11 a.m. tu Jan. 22. were carried aboard the ship, and CHESS RESULTS

a native marriage C. M Sequeira won the senior In London today you will realise the Hongkong sion was most propitious, and Star Ferry Wharf. All hands on was consummated between a Net-championship of Section "A" of that greater nonsense has not beening about the loved ones ut tut Hotel, Hong Kong, on TUES was the result of careful board were saved by No. 5 Police chelik man and

Dorset woman, the Kowloon Chess Club yesterday, written even by Germany's most Keatley changed his mind about DAY, the 11th February, 1941, planned organisation under Launch, who later took the junk bringing together for the first when he 'defeated H. A. Samuel. at 11.30 A.M.. for the purpose British supervision and train- of receiving the Report of the ing. Directors together with a state..

WITH THE FALL of Tobruk, strengthen their own hands ment of accounts for the year therefore, the next centre of for using Rumania to their

interest should be Abyssinia, jadvantage. This they suc The TRANSFER BOOKS of for the stage seems to be set ceeded in doing in the days the Company will be CLOSED now for a further step to immediately preceding from SATURDAY, 1st February bring II Duce's mushroom complete submission of the to TUESDAY, 11th February, empire crumbling about his Government to Nazi control, both days inclusive.

heels. The Imperial forces but the events that have re- who have been engaged in cently developed in Rumania Libya have set a pace of ad-are of an entirely different vance, while their comrades complexion. It is a definite in the frontiers of Eritrea, demonstration against those Hong Kong, 21st January, 1941. Kenya and the Sudan are who have been responsible for provided in

41 taking up the attack to rid placing the country under the bigger towns for the higher classes the dark continent of an even Nazi yoke and even the main cannot be provided in the schools darker shadow of selfish mis-political organisation then the rural districts, rule and evil influence. Bri- Iron Guards-from whom the The Methodist Mission is strong-

Mr. Lakin then commented tain and her allies will be Nazis expected the most sup- of the fact that two of its schools ly opposed to this change in view

on what he described as the threats and bombast to bring In Accordance with Govern confronted

with a

serious port,, has split up into two are affected by the new system.

Britain to her knees in some ment Ordinance, THE EX problem of dealing with this parties, one of which is As far as the mission schools Corps, Fan American Airways are

unspecified time-some reports CHANGE BANKS will be African Empire of Italy's vigorously resorting to acts of are concerned, the Anglo-Chinese training the first group of some

said this year, other in 70 days others even in three CLOSED for the Transaction when it finally passes into sabotage and lawlessness to School at Parit Buntar and Kam-850 Air Corps cadets in Pan Ameri

"I FELT FUNKY -- of PUBLIC BUSINESS on their hands. As far as Aby-show their displeasure against Par, which have had School Cer-can methods of navigation and

SMOKE-SCREEN?

Sergt. Lock said he had to take tificate classes hitherto, will cease meteorology developed over a de- MONDAY &. TUESDAY, the ssinia is concerned, the terri- the Nazi methods.

to have them from this year on cade of experience in operating its defnitely on the job of trying to one to look after him.

"Does this mean that they are Keatley into custody, as there was 27th & 28th January, 1941. tory will, of course, be hand- IN THESE CIRCUM-wards. The classes will stop at regular routes over the Caribbean beat us here, or does it mean that we was expecting a baby. Ae (China New Year Holidays). ed back to Emperor Halle STANCES, Rumania is quick-Standard Eight.

East Europe, or does it mean that after referring to his debta, ne deciding on what to do with to the Axis Powers and unless the Government school at Tapah iantic to Europe.

hey will act in both directions? said he went to London to com- the rest of the Italian land Herr Hitler is able to suppress and the mission school at Slilawan Three Clippers have been equip-Or is all this again just a smoke mit suicide, as it was the easiest

will have classes up to Standard ped as dying classrooms for the screen? possessions in Africa will be the disorders which have now

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cadeta at

the Miami, Florida, a knotty one and will require spread throughout the coun- The Agro-Chinese School at training base. |a deal of careful considera-¡try, the situation is likely to Telak Anson and the Government tion and planning, before a; deteriorate to the disadvan-English School at Batu Gajah will Effective 1st February, 1941 satisfactory arrangement, can tage of any plans that he may be the exceptions in that they rates on all cargo carried by our be arrived at. The subject is have for action in the Bal-will be allowed to continue with

their School Certificate classes, vessels to Sandakan will be no doubt one which is even kans. Indeed, it is fair to

CHANGE NOT PERMANENT

"I went home, alimbed Increased by 20%.

now occupying the attention assume that the situation in

through a window, and felt The of Britain and her allies. Rumania has largely

Government Schools at con-Tronoh

and Gopeng stop at

'funky I decided the eaxlest tributed to the delay in his standard Five.

thing was to commit suicide. RUMANIAN CHAOS move in the Balkans. There The Methodist Mission authori-

"Perhaps the purpose of this I tied a cord around my neck

сп THE CHAOTIC condition is also the likelihood of this ties are

a chair. smoke-screen is to prepare the and stepped not in favour of this

Italian people for the terms, under Everything went black." Indo-China S.N. Co., Ltd. inte which Rumania has been opposition to the Nazis in change for they feel that, in

which Bignor Mussolini has had to plunged furnishes the outside Rumania increasing, in keep certificate classes have been suc dition to the fact that the School

Keatley told the Court thas accept German help. For the since he had been in the custody- world with one of the finest ing with the stiffened atti-cessful since they were started in

ruth will soon become obvious to of the police, and had been talked. examples of the type of "New tude of the other Balkan their respective schools. a great

the Italian people as it is to the to by the inspector and the seT- Order" which Herr Hitler is countries, who have adopted a deal of hardship and inconven-"

rest of the world and the truth is geant, he realised what a fool he Two charming young French that Signor Mussolini has had to bad been, and that there was FREIGHT CONFERENCE trying to impose on Europe. firmer front as a result of the fence will fall on both pupils and ladies. France and Marianne.hand over the Italian war machine something worth living for after

Since General Antonescu marked successes which the their parents

are touring Canada for the beneto German control. Effective on

Children who 1st February, allowed himself to be drawn British and the Greeks have:

wish to pursue at of National Refugee' work. The "Signor Gayda let the cat further studies will have to travel young ladies 1941, all rates from Hongkong into the power of the Nazis, been

are actually two scoring against the

out of the bag when he fore- to the nearest town where the dolls which were presented to to Straits will be Increased by the results have brought any Italians and the confident schools cater for the School Car Princess Elizabeth and

cast more embrnéing co-opera-, Princess

tion between the dictators 20%+

thing but peace to the coun- manner in which Britain is tificate classes.

Margaret when Their Majesties, with unity of command, and JARDINE MATHESON & try. It should not be assum- continuing to hold the Nazis The Rev. D. P. Coole, local Su-King George and Queen Elizabeth

purpose. Thus the military ed that what is happening in at bay. In the meantime, the perintendent of the Methodist | visited France in 1938, France and CO., LTD.,

alliance between Germany, and Rumanta is entirely condon-Rumanian people who are Mission, remarked that he did not Marianne, which were sent to Italy, has culminated in Signor

Mussolini becoming the slave Several Japanese ships, loaded ed by the Axis Powers. Their trying to regain their freedom think the change would be of a Canada by the Queen, are

of Germany, HONG KONG/STRAITS

permanent character and that companted on their tour by ela

with war material, have arrived in original intention was pro-will have to suffer many more there was no

designed by Mr. Lakin next examined the Bangkok," according to Chinese FREIGHT CONFERENCE. bably to create a mild state hardships before they

reason to suppose borate wardrobes can that the abolished classes will not the most eminent. of. French effect this would have on the Ita press reports crediting # Balgor 49 of confusion in order to shake off Nazi Influence: be re-established

lian people. It was well-known source,

Hongkong, 22nd January, 1941. Selassie, but the question of ly becoming another liability The Convent at Teluk Anson, to the Far East, and across the At- they are going to act in South-had made a statement, in which,

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HONG KONG/SANDAKAN SERVICE"

JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Managers,

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HONG KONG/STRAITS ...

Hon. Secretaries,

WOMAN

STABBED

way out.

"It was unfortunate that the After viewing the air-raid dazu- Axis propagandists should talklage he went into an -air-raid shel- about this latest meeting between iter. "Tistened to a Salvationist Hitler and Mussolini as portend- preaching about the loved" ones at ing historical events. The last home." the statement 'added, A school teacher, Leung Yee- meeting which took place Just "and I decided to return to my

previous to the Italian invasion of wife. fong, 28. married woman, was walking along Queen's Road East Greece was followed by historie when she received a nasty jolt as events, it is true, but not of the

an unknown Chinese male. at-" tempted to snatch her handbag. yesterday evening at 8 o'clock...

The man stabbed the woman in the stomach and made good his

The woman was sent to hospital,

escape.

dressmakers

ясн

kind that Herr Hitler and -Signor Mussolini expected,

Ji

all

Keatley was bound over after n welfare officer from his works had intimated that his employers would probably settle his debts and deduct the payments from his wages weekly.