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EDITORIAL

MYSTERY OF THE RUSSIAN

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the 1941,

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LONGKONG, AUGUST 4, 1941.

THE

CHINESE PRESS CENSORSHIP

SILENCE ON OPERATIONS

"It is pretty clear that immense problems of supply confront the Naval Staff of any Power concentrating operations in the Pacific," said MR. H. C. FERRABY, Naval GUARDIAN and Correspondent of the MANCHESTER well-known B.B.C. commentator, when he broadcast from London yesterday on what he described as the mystery of the Russian Navy.

GERMAN SILENCE

the

CORRESPONDENCE

FIREWOOD PRICES

To the Editor, H.K. Dafly Press

Sir-Perhape it is unnecessary for me to repeat that the price of

WAN YEE

Mr. Wan Kwai-yun and his Miss Yee bride, the former Lai-chan-(King's Studio).

Mr. Ferraby declared that very little was known about the Soviet Navy as all news; had been suppressed by cen- sorship. There had been no information of what ships HE MISUSE by the local Russia had built or was build- the three 011 Chinese Press Censors of ing to serve the wide discretionary pow-fronts she had to safeguard firewood (dry and split) has been fixed at $1.00 per 45 them has often the Baltic, the Black Sea officially 33:31 Assistant Financial ers given

cattles, but my friends and I have Secretary (Exchange) been the subject of questions and the Pacific.

not yet heard of anyone, barring raised by the Chinese repre!

perhaps, the policeman himself Mr. Ferraby referred Lo sentatives on the Legislative

having been able to buy split and Council as well as by the silence in German bulletins about dry firewood at this price. It is Chinese Foreign Office in naval operations to the Baltic as also a fact that heavy fines have There had been no recently been imposed on a num- Chungking. As the result of significant.

mention at all of any details of

ber of dishonest dealers convicted conversations between Sir

this sea naval engagements in

for baytng exceeded the official Archibald Clark Kerr, the though at lease one bulletin from

price. British Ambassador in Moscow had admitted the loss of

It may be news to many of your

certain dealers Chungking, and Mr. Wang a destroyer,

readers that Normally, Dr. Goebbels' pro- now adopting new tactles in Chung-hui, the then Chinese

would have given the endeavour to chisel paganda

their clients. Foreign Minister, the ban on

prominence greater

Jast evering my we visited 377 the use of the words "enemy", victory."

less than ten dealers in the Sham- and "aggressors" by the local

shulpo District, all of whom with vernacular newspapers ta:

visible

inflicted stocks in hand, but was

LONDON-War has describe Japan was lifted.

surprised at having been informed

schools in hardship on many a that all such stocks had already Britain, but education at carries Locally, the complaint was,

been SOLL. I might mention that on. Examples of how it does: the seeming absence of any,

my wite did not enquire what Several universities have been ruling as to what could be Miran Merchant and Commission published and what was to

Banking and mercial enquiries only 13 lines) ask for Exchange Control (personal enquiries)

Control Exchange (Chinese enquiries!

Control (freezing of assets)

Exchange

WANTED KNOWN

Maison Abdulrahaman

bin

be left out, with the result

have to submit volumes of "copy" daily in the hopes that a sufflelent nun ber would be passed by the cen- sors to fill their columns.

Agent Bunia, Belgian Congo, that Chir ese news agencies via Mombasa, invite samples from Dealers in all classes of cotton, silk and woollen goods for and and Gentlemen Ladies Natives, fancy goods, Leather Shoes and Canvas Shoes, Toilet Requisite. Send through Conge bank Bunia or no value direct to We also export Ivories in big quantities.

US.

HONGKONG TRAMWAYS

LIMITED

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

THOSE who have, at times, glanced at a Chinese news- paper have often wondered

at the number of white 364 squares in a single issue and would no doubt be surprised If they were told that each of these white squares repre- sented an item of news cen- sored by the local authori- tles. They would be more surprised if they were to learn, as the English news-!

often learn, that many, if not all, of these [censored items were trans-

NOTICE IS HEREBY Papers QIVEN that an INTERIM DIVIDEND of FIFTY (50)

cents per Skare has been declared lations of reports which ap-

on

payable

18th MONDAY,

and after AUGUST next, os

Road East,

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silence "The complete

of Derliu about the whole subject 18 most puzzling," said Mr. Ferraby, and added that from Russian bulletins it seemed that there had been several naval engagements and the Russians bad claimed to have sunk three German destroyers and one submarine and six supply ships on one occasion and another German destroyer Jater.

RUSSIAN FLEET ACTIVE "It may be that the number of

which transports

the Russians

would be THEIR terms,

are

an

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SCHOOL LIFE

IN ENGLAND

War Inflicts Many Hardships

the

It seems to me that in order tu heavily damaged. Liverpool Unt-

versity and some schools of protect poor wage earners like

University of London which suffer- myself, these dealers should be

ed direct hits have moved to other given a further rude awakening,

buldings. and the most effective means would be heavy fines plus the cancellation of their licences.

Yours truly, ANTI-PROFITEERING.

MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1941. WHY RUSSIAN RESISTANCE WAS MISJUDGED: ERRONEOUS CONCEPTION OF LAST WAR

Declaring that after nearly six. 'weeks of fighting against Russia, the Germans had still obtained nothing decisive and that their press and radio were beginning to show signs of shock and disillusion, MAJOR LEWIS HASTINGS, B.B.C. military commentator, in a broadcast which from London on Saturday discussed the reasons had led many people to misjudge the effectiveness of the Russian resistance at the start of the campaign.

Major Hastings went on to broadcasts of the fighting. These refer to a comment in a Ger- he said were nevertheless very in- structive. Taken together they man newspaper to the effect

showed that the German front that Russian resistance had ne soldier was facing conditions

now

made it necessary to that were unexpectedly rough. throw into the battle the en- "The curious mentality of the revealed in the descrip- tire German army, but that Hun ts

he uses in his re- there was no reason for panic tive phrases and that the German Gener-ports," continued Major Hastings. al Staff would soon master "The enemy, aftor withdrawing. the situation.

Take this report for instance:

has treacherously attacked again!" Treacherously, indeed,'

Ger-

"Then there is what the

"OTHER PEOPLE" Mr. Anthony Eden, in a recent man tank commander has to say speech at the Foreign Press lun- after his tanks had been set on cheon, had referred to the magn! fire and announced that this was ficent courage of the Russians and done by 'some subhuman device had disabused the minds of those of the Bolshevists. Then again a whom he

as "other Russian attack from the rear was. people" who had expected the described as barbarous, brutal Russians to collapse before theand unfair! vast German war machine.

up

described

"These people could not be- lieve that the Russlans would stand

to the enormous German machine of destruc- tion," continued Major Hast- Inga.

the "This was due to erroneous conception of the part played by the Fussian Army in 1914-18,

were

"These Germans cân murder and blaze their way across the frontiers of Europe, but any resistance to them is described as bratal," concluded 'Major Hastings.

DREAMS ARE EXPLAINED

"I myself have encountered the

no match for their oppments and opinion that the Russians

By C. N. Chrisman, M.D. that the story of the eastern front

The study of sleep and dreans in the last war was one of Russlan disaster

Is inconclusive. There are many "The Russian army certainly things about sleep that have never had losses In the last war and been entirely understood. Some when it is realised that their people who seem to be in good Iosses

while were nearly four million health sleep very lightly. men, it is a figure worth keeping 'some who ate anaemic sleep hea- of in mind when you hear the Ger-vity and require many hours of

at Jeers Cambridge, bombed, Oxford: "The Nazis know which in that counts is the university this country."

Although the

enrolment

claim to have sunk is larger than (See our issue of July 17 as to many of its colleges is half that man claims today of annihilating steep.

"But what the Controller of Trade ad- of peacetime. Oxford is still full the Russian forces Justified," said Mr. Ferraby.

de in cases underg aduates, unlike Oxford even allowing for this possibility it vises the public to

is clear that the Russian Baltic identical to yours. Ed., H.K.DP.). in World War I. which had a mere handtal of disabled undergra- Fleet has been extremely active in keeping with the counter attacks

duates and students from over- being made by the Russian Army.

"The silence about the Bal- tic has a good deal of signifi- cance. We know next to nothing about the forces that Russia can mobilise as part of the Allied strategic plan. Whai warships has she got in the Pacific? What cruisers aud destroyers can she add to the defence of the Butch East In- dies? Perhaps some of our naval Intelligence officers. mày have some idea, but the out- side world knows nothing."

forces were

NEWSETTES

BES

our

Naturally, the regulating centre SUCCESSFUL OFFENSIVE of the brain which guides

our emotions "My point about these losses is thinking, controls that in 1916 the Russian army and makes us creature of voll- conducted the largest and most tion. has its regulating powers: Oxford's New College, in its an-successful offensive in driving the suspended during sleep Our ideas

His

capturing many hundred of thou- like a ship without a rudder; they Governor nual report, the Record, listed 476 enemy back to Silesia, killing and and emotions are floating about men in the sands of them. This shows their follow each other without Be- has approved the relinquishment former New College

unrelated in quence, and are Boag att armed forces and eight killed in powers of recovery. by Sub-Lieut. Duncan

way that is sometimes highly ludicrous. Of course, such things as Judgement and reason are not in evidence during this state of suspended animation:

Excellency

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doors,

of his commission in the Hong-action, added that: "There being kong Naval Volunteer Force, as artificial fight out of trom July 19, 1941.

The beauty of the architecture by Mak- moonlight is remarkable." Mr. W. Brown will address

the dalen College, has let the Mag- Hongkong Rotary Club at its week-aalen ground go to hay, formed a ly meeting tomorrow on "The Jomt wrew and a joint cricket team Great Ice Age,"

with New

The

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thir "Any consideration of

that in these terms is then the Russian army **WAN

artMery. distinctly short of arms and munitions. In spite of this they have struck a severe blow at the Central Powers and they were not -destroyed as a fighting force-

CHANGED POSITIÓN,

1917 "The end which came in The rest was due to the breakdown of

But now, in

The aristocratic "public" (Bri- nave thetish for - figure representing

private) schools

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Dreams, then, are merely very ordinary ideas and fancies shift- ing too rapidly to be co-ordinated. When we feel pain in any part of the body, we may have tears (or shrieks, without reason, putting

an end to further sleep,

WERE UNKNOWN

peared earlier in one or the other of the English news-1

Mr. Ferraby added that the average opening selling rate for suffered financially. One of them. which date Dividend Warrants papers published in the Co-Russian Navy was handicapped by the month of July, 1941, of the Weymouth, has closed.

lony. The time taken in the lack of a cruising capacity and Hongkong and Shanghai Banking are so hard up that they are get-tottering regime. may be obtained upon application

Among primitive people, dreams translation these items her submarines which formed the Corporation for demand drafts on ng Parliament to pass a bill to this campaign or today the post-

of

let them spend endowment capital tion is very different. For the were unknown; hence when they at the Registered Office of the and the fact that they were bulk of her Far Eastern naval London is settled at 14.88.

itmited to coastal

Eton advertised one of its houses first time in modern war, the began to be noted, they were. Company, Canal

contained in the foreign operations. Any warilke operations

The forthcoming, marriage be- to let, and an Eton master hinted Russian armies have equipment thought of as visitations of some Hongkong.

newspapers are seemingly in the Pacific would call for ships tween Mr. Theodore Wilfred Paul that the school might one day be which is up to date. There is also sort of spirits. Countless efforts NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO ignored by the censors, who of considerable cruising capacity.

Aycock, clerk, of No. 11 Caroline reduced to admitting girls,

another new and encouraging have been made to prove dreams Hl Road, top floor, and GIVEN that the REGISTER of for reasons known only to

Miss 5,176,000 young Britons are now element the industrialisation of as visions of the future. But so. Stella Marla Concepcion Costs of safely seated in schools scattered the country on a great scale. far we find they mean little be MEMBERS of the Company will themselves, decide that the

No. 23 Kwong Ming Street, top over toe countryside. Still in In 1914 Russia was dangerously yond the fact that some be closed from MONDAY, 4th news is not fit for publication

floor, has been announced at the London are 112,000 hardy moppets. (dependent on the resources of her centre is under undue pressure AUGUST, to MONDAY, 18th in the vernacular papers. According to the Police, a Morris Registry, Supreme Court.

Imly 20,000 went to school last allies. Today there is nothing in and its behaviour is as a result AUGUST, 1941, both

winter. but by last month persia- her arms and defences which she abnormal inclusive.

own Many types of diseases are often Mr. G. B. Osmund, of. No. 157 tent truant officers had rounded does not supply from her

accompanied by certain sorts of Sal Yeung Chol Street, was ad-up most of the rest and got them resources. mitted to Kowloon Hospital into class-rooms. Many schools "We cannot say that the dreams, but this can be explained Friday suffering from head in-

Germans are not going to get. by the nervous or circulatory con- ditions that are indicated by the diagnosis of the disease.

By Order of the Board, W. F. SIMMONS, Secretary & Assistant Manager. Hongkong, 25th July, 1941.

CAR STOLEN

days This idiosyncrasy of the cen- Minor tourer

car No. 3440, has sors was glaringly demon- been reported stolen from Morri strated by the recent sup-Son Hill Road yesterday between pression of two translations 2.30 and 8 am. from the foreign Press criti-

cising the Government Rice Monopoly (presumably on the dailles, grounds-that they were either public.

have can The

censors

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juries sustained when he attempt are crowded, noisy, uneasy: publis ed to board a moving bus in front spend much of their time popping on the of the Blue Taxi Company, Nathan into shelters and under desks.

could Road.

at Johore the previous afternoon

nerve

much further, but now the Russlans have found the right. technique for dealing with the Over-eating and indigestion may German panzer aftuok. In result in peculiar and wildly war there is no exact parafie) imaginative brain action during but this method closely resems- sleep, usually because the stomach bles the defense in depth of draws the normal blood supply the Germans, with this differ÷ away from the brain, leaving it ence, that it is, mailed to ut--

to cope with an anaemia which facks by tanka,

depletes its faculties, and allows Major Hastings declared that its functions to run riot. Buch his new method involved the things as nightmares, or night

"WHAT WE ARE AFTER" Sheriff remarked the detectives 368 false accusations or subver-not surely have lost sight of

Bombardier Alec Michael John then got on either-side of his car sive articles) and then to the fact that the war has

Wright

and Private Porphyrio and one of them, after examining permit the publication of an been brought, as it were, to Maria da Silva have been pro- It inside Bald, This is what we

by the our very doorstep and that moted to be Second Lieutenants are after-petrol." alleged statement

Sheriff said he knew nothing Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith; Col-everything that could possiIn the Hongkong Volunteer De

about it as he had bought petrol. H.K.V.D.C. CHINESE onial Secretary, to the effect bly be done should be done fence Corps.

CLUB DINNER

that "the Chinese population to allay any feeling of un- Richard Markham and Robert He denied the allegation that he abandoning of the front line terrors in children are symptoma A very enjoyable evening was in the Colony has been ad-easiness which might be fol George Mitchell have been per had ever put the tin containing system and a replacement by tic of some particular nerve ten- spent by members and friends at vised to evacuate Hongkong by some members of the committed to quit the Hongkong De- the kerosene in his car le three deep fighting lines. But the don. They should never be treat

whl Fernand could not account for the sailent feature of the whole thing led lightly or ridiculed, since ther a dinner given by the Hongkong voluntarily owing to threat munity! The passing of such fence Reserve Volunteer. Defence Corps (Chinese) of shortage of provisions alarmist reports, as quoted Arthur Engelbrecht has been re- and said, "I have no use for any was the preparation and the use result from a trouble that should

from the Group for kerosedo" BANG

of special forces for unrematcting be remedied if possible. Club, which was held at the Col- caused by the sudden tension above, merely results in un-assigned

In convicting the accused the

counter-attacks, j den City Restaurant on Satura in the Far East." This article, doing much of the good work Essential Services to the Com-

magistrate said he had no other evening.

batant.. following as it did immediate of the foreign Press which

antim, but to do so on the evi- In his speech, the Chainman

presented The death occurred on July 24dence that had been produced. gave information concerning the ly on the report of an inter-has consistently

Notice of appeal was given and Inauguration and activities of the view with an American their readers with reliable at his home, 279 Range Road, Club Arrangements were being journalist proclaiming the and authoritative news. The Shanghai, of Luiz Barretto, aged ball was fixed in the sum of $160.

53 years. Funeral services tbok made to form teams for soccer, possibility of a blitz against suggestion

frequently piace on July 28, at the Hunglao tennis, swimming and shooting, Hongkong, caused quite a stir been made that where im Road Cemetery.

They were proud to welcome dir among the Chinese com-portant local news is con- cerned, the consor should

Robert Ho Tung and Mr. Kwok

Chan who had honoured them by Joining the Chub

fnembers.

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honorary

has

munity.

IT DOES NOT need the verify its accuracy by com- mentality of an expert on niunicating direct with its

BISHOP HALL LEAVING

This method was meant to ab- BODY ON HILLSIDE

sorb and cushion an enemy attack

by making it exhaust itself and a dead body, with stab wounds then smashing back in counter on the abeat, was found on the attacks.

hilde in the Colonial Cainetery on Baturday about 3 p.m. an im-

SOMETHING NEW

SUICIDE CASE

ALLEGED THEFT "This is something new to Pan-migration permit, issued in Chan Kam, 21, widow, of No. 112 zer units and extremely disturb Shanghai, bearing his photo and Shanghai Street, first floor, was ing said Major Hastings, and name, Yung Wih-pan, was the alleged to have stolen front the the Russians have added to it only thing found on the corpse. person of a seven-year-old girl their guerilla tactics behind the Chan Chin, yesterday, at the lines, There is no doubt of the of origin The Bishop of Hongkong will staircase of No. 1008 Canton Road, efficacy of these tactics and the In conclusion, the Chairman international affairs or a stu- alleged source uracd all Chinese who were physi-dent of human phsychology Where acknowledgments of soon be loaving the Colony on a pair of gold earrings, valued at Carman communiquios from the

front are evidence of thole reall- about 48 years of age, was found cally fit, and who have a slight to envisage the effect such a translations are made, it furlough for the United States $1.

where he will lecture at Cam- According to the Police, she was sation of the danger to their san- dead by the Police on Saturday night at No. 179, Shanghai EMAIL knowledge of English, to apply to statement, allegedly from the should surely be sufficient to widge University, Masachusette, caught In Canton Road near bly linea the Hon. Suuretary of the Club, at Colonial Secretary and ask for the production of the during September October and Enannual street when the little Major Hasung erred to the It appears that the man com No. 3, Queen's Road Contral for

nds twat which was being ted suicide by hanging: particulars, as soon as possible, splashed" over the front newspaper from which such November. He hopes to be back girl intoned her father or the prop for early enrolment in the Corpa pages of the leading Chinese articles are culled

barly next year.

alleged theft

An unidentified Chinese of