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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

WHOM ALL TO CONCERN: Notice

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MAY hereby given that Bill of Lading No. 236 dated 16th August, 1941 Indo China the issued by Navigation Co. covering packages Gourmet Power.

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No. 572

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the undersigned Hongkong to ex. S. S. Wing Sung" has been mislaid, lost or stolen and the

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FOF all said intents and purposes is declared

null and void

BUCK DAK COMPANY.

Lading

DEATH

PUNG KONG UN. On Sunday

September 14, 1641

at Nu 54 Bonham Rd, Hongkong Fung Kong

Un Lowner 01 Fune Funeral Tang', aged 6 years wii lake place on Wednesday: September 17 ang last respects will be paid at the Farewell

Pavilion, Kennedy Town,

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EDITORIAL

Police Drive Against PROFESSOR Opium, Heroin Divans

Excellent

Step Towards Ridding Colony

Of The

The Daily Press. Activities Of Underworld

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Editorial

Ciffce: and Business 15 18 Queen's Road Central, Tel 33225 Night Editor T24511

Wont Officer

don Office LC 4.

53.

Fleet Street

4.1'

Hongkong, September 16. 1941.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATI JURISDICTION,

RISE IN LIVING COSTS STATISTICS recently issued!

by Mr. B. C. K. Hawkins. Labour Officer, revealed that IN THE GOODS of the weekly rust of food and

kir d Beas

George Reveil Martin Alpes France formerly Italy. deceased.

ป Major

1.e Cap Maritimes of Genoa

NOTICI IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtac of Section 58 of the Pro bates Ordinance 1897. made an for Order

the time limiting creditors and others to send in thel claims against the abovei estate to the 3rd day of October, 1941.

A.1. creslitors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.

Dated the 5th day of Septem

ber, 1941.

JOHNSON, STOKES &

MASTER,

Solicitors for the Executrix,

Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building, Hong Kong

Turi iasofar as the Chinese abou class is concerned, has risen from $237 to August, 1939. to $2 57 in August of this year, or an increase of practically 88 per cent. with- The short period of 24 U months In 1940, the weekly US per person was $2 or 46 per cot more than that of the previous yal These heures would seem to explain. the steady ncrease # the manber of wage disputes be- tween labourers and employ- ers, at shart ist of which was published in the local Press!

BY OUR STAFF REPORTER

To p

1. nation of his intention to clean up the innumer- abe opium and heroin divans found all over Hongkong aid Kowloon. given by the Hon. the Commissioner of 1lice during the last week-end, was hailed by the public as an excellent step in the right direction towards ridding The Colony of the activities of the local underworld.

Commissioner - however The Police ran be assured of the whole hearted co-operation of all law-abiding members of the community as well as support of the Press in campaign.

Prior to make bli lis :

Pemetather Evans trations. Mr.

MAMLOCK

ANTI-NAZI DRAMA AT LEE THEATRE

The China Defence League an nounces the presentation, on Sept. 18 and 10 at the Lee Theatre, of "Professor Mamlock," the famous an-Nazi drama by Friendrich

Wolf

The play will be put on by the Chinese Drama Group, composed of some of China's most outstanding modern actors and producers, who by a rare chance are now gathered in in the Colony. Dialogue is

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

THE WAR AT SEA:

.1941.

COMMERCE RAIDING IS MAIN FUNCTION OF THE GERMAN NAVY

"Some years before the war---before even Herr Hitler came to power--the German High Command decided that it could never build a navy to challenge ours, so they started with a navy whose function in war would be com- merce raiding and not to assist their armed fighting THOMAS WOODRUFFE, forces," said LIEUT.-COMDR. B.B.C. naval observer, when he broadcast from London yesterday.

have "So they concentrated on! "German warship raiders

the menace they were building submarines, nine-not been

continued meant to be,"

Comdr long-range aircraft

Woodruffe. "The Graf Spee had a and what are known as short hie, the Scharnhorst and the

Mandarin, but an English synopsis layers, wil be provided.

All profits are to be devoted to the pocket-battleships," con- Gneisenau have been constantly Chinese medical relict

There will be four performances. two on each day beginning at 2.30 p.m. and 8 p.m., respectively.

ing shown.

tinued the speaker. "They battered in their docks and the

"The German merchant ship rader is

better position.

also built a certain number of Bismarck has been sunk. merchant ships

high

of

GL

speed, which could be used in They can stay out at sea much

as

commerce des- longer

BUILT FOR PIRACY

heavily armed

2

number quite A

Tickets are now on sale at the and on the upper storeys,

theatre and Whiteway Laidlaw and wartime MAIN DIFFICULTY

The Altmark, for instance, Co., the prices ranging from 40

we learned rolled about at sea for troyers. One of the main difficulties ex-

over a month These raiders can the perienced by Revenue and Police cents to $2 for the matinees and i his officers has been the fluidity from 40 cents to $5 for the even-

Comdr. Woodrufte said that the disguise themselves by using flage different nations They have the addresses No Sooner is M

pocket battleship was mainly :01 Intending purchasers 2 loge den closed its keeper fined and

a commerce raider.already used Japanese and Dutch paraphernalia confiscated cats ($2 during the day and $ meant to be

rig up were fast and were fags and they can at night) are requested to get their These ships

funnel and change their than another one opens out in an

They were built dummy

The names much more castly." adj doing buliding often under the reservations from the China De-

fence League direct, by telephon-for piracy and nothing else

Comdr. Woodruffe went On to contre of the same man, who was

ing No. 25820. Tickets will be sent British naval staff had a bit of a bul recently convicted

problem to consider in dcaling declare that these raiders had to Lo them by messenger

live a lonely lie because if they Another difficulty

with these raiders. rament

tried to make contact with thei salu 623

"On land you have the intell permitting f

gent service to tell you where the bases they would give away their enemy is posted and what he is up position, so that the total amount to," continued Comdr. Woodrufte. of damage they do was not very "But on the trackless wastes the sea there is nothing that ship nas passed. One day. per-prisoners to their

Hon. Mr. J. P Pennefather-

at the beginning of last week. Evans, Commissioner of Police

A close analysis of the report

it the Oos- eplan and the the manufacture

and sale of oplum pipes, lamps

and ther

for hnplements

the

smoking ol

heroin. oplum and Most of the divans serve Govern- ant oplum and on the quiet. that most dangerous of all nar roties, heroín.

So long as opium is made all and easily accessible to sundry. so long will there be men willing and ready to pre- vide the necessary accom- madation for the addicts. To revert to the plans of the

While Pobre Commissioner

no

lone will quarrel with his assertion that the ordinary procedure of Barrest of offenders, followed by i prosecution in the Courts, is too 11ngthy to be effective in prevent- situation carefully and had fami issued by the Labour Officerarised himself with the difficul-ing the increase of these divans," nevertheless. necessary Lo showed that the chief contes experienced by members of it is. tributory factor to this great his force to eradicate this drug point out that the alternative of ly enhanced cost of living is evil which. It could be said with merely seizing all implements r has smoking and of drugs found on fear U contradiction, tbat essential item

the out

raided the premises

would. exist, as ner tongkang became

comparison, be such a light pen- Crown Colony

alty as to encourage rather than

of

¡Chinese dietary rice.

6.65

rents

In

1939 the ordinary grade of At a very rough estimate there this cereal was being sold at are over 1,000 of these divaus in scattered all over the Colony, in- per calty:

(Un August, 1941, its price has cluding the New Territories

į Long. Tsun Wan, Tal-O and 435 risen to 14.6 cents, or an in-

Cheung Chau included). While crease of nearly 120 per cent the majority of them occupy Pork rose from an average ground floor premises there price of 53.25 cents per catty during the month preceding

are.

DEFENCE OF

the commencement of the profiteer. This shameless vic- LENINGRAD present war to $1.11 lasttimisation of the public be-;

month- a mere increase of comes glaringly apparent comparisons between REITERATED 108.4 per cent, while oil, an-when

15

RAIDS BY POLICE IN UNIFORM

"In connexion with the pro- posed clean up of heroin and apium divans in Bongkong, it is notified for the information of the public that raids on divans will be carried out by Pelloe in uniform who will be accompanied by an European Police Officer in each case.

Landlords of divans raided will be liable to prosecution for permitting their premises to be so used."

in

Havoc Night

Fighter Lives

Up To Name

* great

2

have attacked have

by been left to fend for themselves in

half-submerged rafts

lvoked

Sometimes they transferred their ships. supply naps a bit of news la picked up Others did not trouble to take any LONDON. Sept 15 BWS-The saying that some merchantship is prisoners and survivors from the crew of sa American-built Havoc long overdue and this is the only ships they night fighter, flying over North- trace left by the raider-and

then she would have moved some ern France last night, found them-

where else. Calching her selves over a German occupied air base just at the time when enemy like an insoluble problero.

raider has the to land. raiders

"But the were returning says an Air Ministry news service. against her.

In a spate of a few minutes, more damage stie must approach of the prisoners they were taking three enemy alteraft were attack the local points of traffic and back France. All the rescued

these focal points ed in the air just above the hand- on One went down Ing ground, fire an another was damaged.

BALANCE SHEET OF AIR WAR

ol

FEELING OF FEAR "We have intercepted some

said Comdr. odds these supply ships,"

If she wants to ao Woodruffce. "and have rescued "some

have their deinen speak of the feeling of help

anxiety growing fences If she is to Justify her lessness and existence the surface raider has which prevalent among the

Whether crews.

these to take chances and what she al-German

Consist 01 ardent young ways prays for Is a lightly escort crews ed convoy, like that which Includ- Nazis or older men, the feeling ed the Jervis Bay

was the same,

They had a feeling

"We nave got over that by proof fear. viding heavier escorts. as one "They may get cheering words LONDON, Sept. 15 Reuter-

raider found to her cost ast from the wireless from Germany. Last week's air josses in Western Christmas Day, when a raider ran but nothing else from their father- from home Europe and the Middle East were Axis 18, British, 45, while German into the Berwick. Sooner or later land. They are far

raiders these surface

must go and far from help. The only ships losses over Britain were 3 and

back to their own bases for over-near them: are those flying the RAF Mil.

White Ensign." haul.

Thirty-three R.A.F. bombers ild not return trom raids on Germany occupied territory and shipping.

Eight German fighters were des- troyed four by R.A.F, bombers in a big raid on Berlin and the British lost six fighters,

ac-

Another enemy plane was counted for in night operations.

In the Middle East, six aircraft were lost on each side, many Ger man aircraft were damaged on the ground

TOKYO, Sept. 18 (Reuter)---The CHUGAI SHOGYO reported that the United States has decided on a complete ban on shipment of octane and gasoline to high Shanghai and had ordered Ameri-

other essential item, register-the prices quoted in the vari

A LONDON Sept

(BW8)-ed an advance of over 58 perous markets are made. Leningrad has wired a reply to the cent.. Firewood, used by the rerent check-up on the retail greeting from the Municipality of majority of the poorer class prices quoted by stalls in Cen- Glasgow

"The people of Leningrad will Chinese, showed an increase tral. Western, Tsim-tsa-tsui, defend the city. sparing neither of only 50 per cent. during Yaymall, Mongkok and Kow-deter others from opening such effort, nor life. We are confident the past two years.

loon City markets showed dens, as enquiries conducted by a reporter of the HONGKONG thal the peoples of the Bovlet NO

to а OFFICIAL figures in such discrepancy as DAILY PRESS elicited the Inter- stocks ot avtation Union and England, united for the!

make the investigator won-estlug information that the total struggle with the common enemy, connexion with the ever-in- will wipe the Nazis off the face of creasing cost of living for der whether food prices are value of the paraphernalia in any Govern- divan seldom, if ever, exceeds $100. foreigners are available, but, I controlled by the

NEW LEGISLATION

the earth."

can companies to ship remaining

gasoline

to

Hongkong.

Commissioner of Police have been

The Moscow newspaper ISVES judging from the prices of ment or by the retailers. The A more effective method of told, and, it is not too much to TIA says that ail the inhabitants essential foods published consensus of public opinion cleaning up these divans would be say that he has gained the com- of Leningrad have risen including periodically in the Govern- is that by "Food Control" the introduction of a new legis- plete confidence of the public. the aged people, children and wo.. ment Gazette, the non-Chi- Government implied. control lation abolishing the alternative Those who know him personally,

men.

"The inhabitants know that the nese members of the com- of consumption and not of of a time for keepers. Like entire nation and the entire pre-munity have not been un-prices, as the latter have been fa,"

tse- or have heard of his record in "tse-tam" and other local Malaya, are confident that, des- difficulties and official majority of cases, owned by syn-red-tape, Mr. Pennefather-Evans

can

gressive mankind ส with the affected by Government's so bolstered during the past rackets, opium divans are, in the pite all They hear the voltes 0 their failure to effectively control few months as to place sever-dicates which can well afford to will within the next six months. comrades from Mosenw. They

the fines imposed. These be able to remind the public of the hear the voices of solidarity from profiteering in essential, and al items of food beyond the pay

doubt, statement he made in an inter- also, no millions in England and

Many means of the ordinary work- syndicates the near-essential, goods.

make it worth the while of any view with a Hongkong Daily Press United States and from all the of the Items published in the ing man.

keeper arrested to serve a short reporter on April 24: "But I do not world's freedom loving nations." Gazette have been showing a HIS EXCELLENCY the

prison term.

see why, with the co-operation of | regular increase of ap-Governor, Sir Mark Young,

the public, we cannot eradicate BATAVIA, Sept. 15 (Reuter-proximately ten per cent. In his first broadcast to the

the evil practices here." German reports that the 20,000 with each and every

that At

same interview, the newcommunity, gave notice of ton Dutch hospital ship Orange issue of the price-Hist, while his intention to claim the

Police Commissioner said, in re- has been transformed into a troop many of the more popular fulfillment of the promises of

Cerence to public co-operation:

dented by the official N.EX. News brands of food products have co-operation made him ear- Agency ANETA,

been increased by as much asller in the day. His Excel-

transport,

were

emphatically

The Orange, formerly freigh- 20 per cent, in the short space lency could, however, scarċe~

But, IF THE GAOL SEN- TENCES ARE MADE SUFFI- CIENTLY HEAVY AND RAIDS CARRIED OUT MORE OFTEN, It would soon become a losing. proposition to the financiers to continue the running of-these- dlvans.

Another new Ordinance which

Typhoon Losing Intensity As It Nears The Coast

110

Poochow

AmoȚA

SWAROW!

N. Borusqu

190

20

20

Madanso

180

The following statement was issued by the ROYAL OBSERVA- TORY yesterday evening!---

The typhoon remained almost stationary about 250 miles to the S. S. E. of Hongkong the whole of Sunday,

Yesterday it commenceg moving slowly northward and at, & was centred some 180 miles 8. E. by south of the Colony.

At 2 p.m. its position was about 120 miles 8. E. of Hongkong moving slowly north-north-weat.

HEALTH BULLETIN

All they have to do is to tell me that such-and-such a thing is taking place at such- and-such a place. There is no necessity for them to appear ter, was transformed into a pos- of one month. Transporta-ly expect those hundreds of would greatly assist in the drive pita ship some time ago and has

against these dens is one which In Court and give evidence un-

The No signal replace No. 1 The following is the Returns of war risk thousands of Chinese who are would, prohibit the manufacture, tion charges and

less they wish to. The Police, since been as such between the

at 3.10 p.m since when the high notifiable diseases notified as hav- rates have In-now fighting their own des- import and sale of oplum lamps, should be able to obtain thele Middle East, Australla, and New insurance

cat wind record at the Royal Obing occurred in the Colony during Zealand, taking wounded soxiters creased but surely not to such perate battle to make ends pipes, trays and other implements own evidence. On my part, I

servalory has been force 7 but wind the 24 hours ending at midnight promise to see that my source Home from North Afrlent fighting a degree as to warrant the meet to take an active inter-used for the smoking of this drug,

of force B has been reported from on Friday:-- of infarination is not com- continuous rise in the "maxi-est in the affairs of the and the immediate registration of

the Peak and of force 9 from Gap

Cholera, three cases: Diphtheria, promised in any way." mum retall prices" fixed by Colony. Their sorry plight all dealers of such goods.

The lead

the

two cases; Dysentery 12 Cuber; It wouf, perhaps, be, too much

campaign Rock, 15 (Reuter) Government, This is particueries to the heavens for ame to expect that Government would, against one of the Colony's most

The highest gust velocity so far Enterte, Fever, six cases, Tuber- A Ministry of Interior communiqué larly true insofar as Chinese Horation, and His Excellency in these difficult times, abolish the deeply-rooted

has been recorded at the Royal Observatory culosis, pe cases. ...

p.m. states thut light damage was

EASTERN PORTS could rest fully assured of the sale of Government oplum and taken by the Police. Commissioner has been 49 m.ph. at 7.39 caused to property but there were foods, are concerned,

It is probable that the typhoon Ninety-four cases of Cholera were no casualties during the air raid THE PHENOMENAL rise in love, respect and loyalty of thereby deprive Itself of a sure and calls for the full support of yesterday.

source of revenue, In which some bombs were drop- the cost of essential foods these thousands when he has

elimination is losing intensity as it near the recorded in Shanghai: during the week ending on Sept. 6, according pod on the Suez Canal Zone in could, therefore, be attribut-so controlled the prices of Bince his arrival in Hongkong, which, in these unsettled days, is coast. the early morning yesterday. Alerts

The typhoon so far, has caused to Health Bulletin of Eastern were sounded in the Cairo, zone ed to that parasite of patrio- essential foods so as to give nearly six months ago, numerous so essential to the peace and order

very little rain, but more is ex-Ports, tic communities--the war the workers "Enough, to Eat." stories of the activities of the of this Colony: and a number of provinces,

pected.

STOGA.

CAIRO, Sept.

COMPLETE CONFIDENCE

evile

the whole community in order to ensure that totul