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JEWISH REFUGEES FOR S'HAI

Italian Liner Brings Party Of 528

ROBBER BEHEADED

Car Bandit in Germany Pays Penalty

Nuremberg, Dec. 17. 'Within a few hours of being sen- tenced for highway robbery, the ear bandit,, Willy Haller, aged 24, was behended at midnight.

His girl accomplice was also sen- ienced to death but, was saved from the headman's axe at the last minute

Ranging in age from a man of C# years to a boy of three months and by Hitler, who commuted the sculence including one family of 10, Germanto, life imprisonment.--Router

Jewish refugees to the number of

20 passed through Hongkong by theatred and they have no hatred for Lloyd Tricsting liner Conto Hian-n" enmano yesterday on their way to Shanghal.

A man who had spent 10 weeks in

Unlike those who have recently concentration camp stated that the beating and abuse were so rulless

wrists.

been striving in small parties and that of 1,300 people in one of these wha were able to save a littlo capital; those on the Conte Blancps 211 had died in 10 weeks. With eloquent gestures, some dea- comano are inostly very poor, some cribed how.

they had meen Wielr of them having only the clothes they fellows hanging from trees, either by wear. Their number was renter thenacles for toriure, by the when they left Europe, but about 40 of them landed at ports en route. None landed at Hongkong,

The arrival of the Conte Bian- Very few of the refugees can speak cumano's party will bring the tolal English at all; so that they welcomed of Jewish refugees in Shanghal to representatives of the Hongkong over 1,000, and a number as great Jewish Relief Society who met the or greater is expected to pass through ship and gave them full Information Hongkong by another ship in the about Shanghal, telling them that near future. they would be met there and assisted

by the Jewish Refugee Commilles. For the most

part they remained near

Position in Shanghai

Advices from Shanghai state that Committee for

International

Monday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 19, 1938,

This mass of Fuins

a heavy bombardment by they gained last summer.

is all that is left of a village on the Ebro Tront in northern Spain, after Insurgent artillery in an effort to dislodge the Loyalists from positions A communique from Barcelona later admitted Loyalist forces had re-

treated across the river to former positions.

Y'S MEN'S CLUBS

Regional Director

For China

New

Car Handle RETURN TO SHANGHAI

Clue

Seventh Day Adventists Eastern Academy

Ostracised Jews

Italian Government To Expropriate Land

The new Italian regulations ro- nurding Jewish land property in Italy include methods whereby the property can be expropriated, says Reuter Bulletin.

of Austria's 300,000 Jews, 67,000 emigrated during the parlod between March 10 and December 2.

Over 45,000 Jews left the country before August 1, 15,000 as refugees without

permission of the stato Trans-Ocean

authorities, sayo

message from Vienna.

Posters are beginning to appear at numerous shopwindows in Romo, Milan and other Italian cities stating that owners are Aryans, says Trans- Ocean

Over 4,000 Jows from Europe will land in Shanghai in the near future revealed the spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office in Tokyo,

Arrest of Smugglers

Don't spend

half your life

Cologne, Dec. 17, About 10,000 marks worth of Catching foreign currency and gold coins to

the value of 800 marks which were found being smuggled abroad were

aboard the Dutch Hhino hidden steamer Queen Emma by' German Thirty-two students-16 boys and custom guards.

Woman's Injuries Load 10 girls-were aboard the Indo-China

To Police Inquiry

of the

Five Jews who were being taken company's new steamer Talsong when to Holland contrary to existing re- the called for Shanghai yesterday..gulations were also discovered on the confiscated. fugir departure, marked the return ship, which has been

Four members

crew 'and a Shanghat of the Far Eastern woman passenger, alleged to be the Academy of the Seventh Day Adven- lender of a gang of smugglers, have

in been arrested.-Trans-Ocean. tist Mission after ils location Hongkong for some months.

to

the ship, buying an occasional bian- | the fet, where they could afford it, from Austrian and German refugees has the wharf hawkers.

only $3,000 in hand. This is expeči. The

At the sixteenth annual convention needy very

found a friend ined to last only till the end of the Mr. A. Landau, who was present on year, The American Red Cross is the wharf with a great basket con- being asked to assist with monetary's Men's Clubs held in Toronto taining 120 blankets,

import when the present reserves se weeks ago, Mr. Y. Lewis Mason Through one i of the

passengers who knew exhausted. So for $42.000 has been of Shanghai was elected Regional refugee the circumstances of those on board raised in Shanghol; most of this was Director for China, succeeding Mr.

Wm. Yinson Lee, the founder of the A door handle broken from* ú. car he distributed these to io mog

most Riven by 20 individuals. neccssilous cases, with special con- eller

The London Committee for Refugee Y's Men's Movement, of "Fellowship, is the clue on which traffic police ideration for those with children.

sent £500, and an urgent Culture and Service in China, who are working to clear up the mystery Many of the refugees were coin-appeal to the Joint Distribution Com- has held this position continuously of a Chinese woman's inquiries

Doctor Shot Dead pletely unequipped for the tigours of mitter of New York resulted in a since 1924. In recognition of his con- shortly after midnight Saturday at winter in Shanghai and were glad erant of US. $2,500. Every penny tinuous servich, he has been op- the Junction of Arsenal Street and

The academy was transferred from

Lousanne, Dec. 17. of the gift of a blanket. The donor of this foreign money has already pointed at the same Toronto Con- Queen's Rond East.

vention, Regional Director-Emeritus

The women Chang Yan, was found Shanghai when hostilities extended

The Chief physician of Lausanne intends to meet every ship bringing been spent.

for China. refugees and give what relief he can.j

At Shang University Clinics, Doctor Mean, Housing the new arrivals is one of

on the corner where extensive altera-to the Yangtsepeo area, the Ineal committee's greatest wor-j Mr. Y. Lewis Mason is a native of tions to the route are proceeding, at hal its beadquarters here were in was shot dead at the Cantonal Hos- From Concentration Camps

a medical student, Erni of the about 12.30 um. She was seriously premier formerly a private resi-pital by ries. Sa for most of the refugees thing, Kiangsu, a graduate

dence nt Larh Tai, Castle Peak, The

Hua College, refugees included about 40 have been sheltered in three or four Tsing

B.A.

of as a result from injured apparently

Gruenberg. zü-year-old Rumanjan Jews who had been detained in con-houses in Hongkew, but conditions Colorado College, MA. from Colum-ucing knocked down by a car, for a

Jew. Gruenberg committed suicide The school's return to Shanghai after the broken, Was

murder. He wanted to centration camps. Some of these are reported to be unsatisfactory. It bia University and M.C.S. from the door handle, newly declared that they had been released is contended that the only possible New York University. Returning to found at the spot. This clue was accompanies the transfer back of the graduate and felt unfairly treated by on condition they left the country way to house the refugees within a certain brief time; those the renovation of existing brought China twelve years ago, he organized / plcked up by a Potty Officer of the Seventh Day Adventist Church or Dr. Menn.-Trans-Occan.

the Consolidated National Adverising Royal Navy with whom the Trame alsation headquarters. who could not escape by then were Shanghai, and in some instances this Company of which he is a director Inspector returned to the camps. These and necessitates the providing of furni- and manager. He was a president of Station would like to get in touch. many of the others, they stated, had ture and other equipment. The fact is a director of the Shanghai Chinese news of any car that is minus a door

the Shanghai Y's Men's Club in 1936,

The Inspector would also welcome! been stripped of their belongings that such a large group is arriving when crossed the frontier of during the winter months will also M.C.A. and has been chairman of handle and may be connected with

en they

the Shanghai Y's Men's Baby Clinic, the accident. contribute Germany;

to the hardship of the succeeding Mr. Wm. Yinson Lee Several described actual instances refugees, for at present the high 100 of persecution, one stating that he price of eral makes heating

costly had seen a man forced into a box | Itein. padded with nall points; the lid was One of the first sights which con- then closed down on him.

frented the refugees "What you read in the papers is berthed In Hongkong yesterday was got nearly so horrible as what has the standard from whose influence been happening." one said, "The they hind fled in dread-the Swas- Jews are the victims of a murder fika. This symbol, en a big scale, organisation, which has nothing to do appeared on the site of the stramer" with the real German public, For Sauerland, which was tied up near- the pmple of Germany we have no by.

when they

POLICE DANCE

A Police Dance will be held in the Peninsula Hotel on January 6 next, from 9.15 p.m. to 2 a.m,

There will be "spot" prizes and the price of admission will be $2.

at the Central Police

MOTOR CARS STOLEN

Two

Europeans Lose Their Vehicles

APPOINTMENTS

The students were accompanied by the Principal of the Academy, Mr. teachers. Two teachers travelled by W. F. Anderson, and four other the Conte Blancamano and the re- and Mr. mainder of the pupils and teachers

Christmas.

The Rt. Rev. Bishop H. Valtorta Li Jowson have been

cold

B [BAYER

ASPIRIN'

WILL PROTECT YOU

»Days

CANTON TO MACAO

vill travel by the Conte Rosso afterminated as members of the Court Japanese to Commence

of the University of Hongkong for a further period of three years is from December 17.

D.8.0, has

Mr. H. V. Wilkinson, in the Peak district, and a ring with been nominated as a member of the three keys was maing.

:

Steamer Service

Canton, Dec. 18. The Japanese will begin a regular steamer service between Canton and Macao on Tuesday for Chinese and Japanese passengers only.

Court of the University of Hongkong Dr. E. W. Stout, of Alexandra for a period of three years as from Mr. S. J. G. Burt, of 1 Tramway Building, also lost his motor car on December 8. Path, had his motor car stolen on Saturday. It was left parked in Mr. Charles J. Roc has been The five-barred Chinese flag made tv night, but recovered it on Connaught Road Central from 3:15appointed to act as Secretary to the its first appearance on buildings to- Saturday. It was found abandoned p.m. to 4 p.m.

Urban Council as from December 15.' day since the revolution.-Reuter,

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