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JEWISH REFUGEES FOR S'HAI

Italian Liner Brings

Party Of 528

Ranging in age from a man of years to a boy of three months and including one family of 16, German Jewish refugees to the number of 528 passed through Hongkong by the Lloyd Triestino ner Conte Blun- camano yesterday on their way to Shankhul

Unlike those who have recently been arriving in small parties mid] who were able to save capital, those on the Conte Bin Canann are mostly very poor, some of them having only the clothen they wear. Their number was greater when they left Europe, but about 10

al the

ROBBER BEHEADED

Car Bandit in Germany Pays Penalty

Nuremberg. Dec. 17. Within a few hours of being sen- tenced for highway robbery, the car bandit, Willy Haller, aged 24, won beheaded at midnight.

His art accomplice was also gen- tenced to death but was saved from the headman's axe at the last minute by flitler, who commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.-cuter

hatred and they have no hatred for

A man who had spent 10 weeks in a concentration camp stated that the beating and abuse were so ruthless that of 1,300 people in one of these camps 211 had died in 10 weeks. With eloquent gealures, soine-des- cribed how, they had seen their fellows hanging from trees, either by the necks or, for torture, by the wrists.

of them landed as ports en route, The ourlyai of the Conte Blan- None landed at Hongkong.

Very few of the refugees can speak camono's party will bring the total English at all; so that they welcomed of Jewish refugees In Shanghal te representatives

Hongkong over 1,000, and a number as great Jewish Reller Society who met the or greater is expected to pass through shilp and Kave

them full information Hongkong by another ship in the about Shanghal, telling them that near future. they would be net there and assisted hy the Jewish Refugee Committee. For the most part they remained near the ship, buying an occasional blan- ket, where they could afford it, from the wharf hawkers.

The very needy found a friend in

Position Shanghai

for

Advices from Shonghal state that

Committee the International Austrian and German refugees has. only $3,600 in hand. This is expect-

Monday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December

19, 1938.

This mass of ruins is all that is lett of a village on the Ebro front in northern Spain, after a heavy bombardment by Insurgent artillery in an effort to dislodge the Loyalists from positions they gained last summer, A communique from Barcelona Inter admitted Loyalist forces had re- treated across the river to former positions.

New

Y'S MEN'S CLUBS

Regional Director

For China

ed tes inst only till the end of the At the sixteenth annual convention your. The American Red Cross of Y's Men's Clubs held in Toronto being asked to assist with monetary some weeks ngo, Mr. Y. Lewis Mason

when the present reserve is

shir. A. Landau, who was present on the wharf with a great basicet con- taining

120 blankets. Througla one sted. So für $12,000 has beenet Shanghai was elected Regional | of the refugee passengers who knew raised in Shanghai: most of this was Director for China, succeeding Mr.)

the circumstances of those on board

Win. Yinson Lee, the founder of the

Car Handle RETURN TO SHANGHAI

Clue

Woman's Injuries Lead To Polico Inquiry`

Seventh Day Adventists'

Eastern Academy

Thirty-two studenin-10 boys and

Ostracised Jews

Italian Government To Expropriate Land

The new Italian regulations re- garding Jewish land properly in Italy include methods whereby the properly can be expropriated, says Reuter Bulletin,

or Austria's 300,000 Jews, 67,000 emigrated during the period between March 15 and December 2..

Over 45,000 Jews left the country before August 1, 15,000 as refugees without permission of the stain authorities Boys 17 Trans-Ocean message from Vienna.

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

Over 4,000 Jews from Europe will lund in Shanghai in the near future revealed the spokesman of the

Japanese Foreign Office in Tokyo.

Arrest of Smugglern

Cologne, Dec. 17.

Don't spend

half your life cold

About 10,000 merks worth of catching foreign currency and gold coins lo the value of 800 marks which were found being smuggled abroad were hidden aboard the Dutch Rhine steamer Queen Emma by German custom guards.

Five Jews who were being taken to Holland contrary to existing re- gulations were also discovered on the ship, which

has been confiscated. Four members of the crew and a woman passenger, nileged to be the been arrested.-Trans-Ocean.

The Lautan Cammyltec for Refugeel Y's Men's Movement of "Fellowship, is the clue on which traffic police Academy of the Seventh Day Adven-¡ leader of a gang of smugglers, have

been

here were in

Doctor Shot Dead

Lausanne, Dec. 17. The Chief physician of Lausanne University Clinics,

Doctor Meon, was shot dead at the Cantonal Hof- pitni by

a medical student, Erni Rumanian Gruenberg, 28-year-old Jew. Gruenberg committed suleide after the

murder. He wanted to

16 girls--were aboard the Indo-China company's new steamer Talsang when he sailed for Shanghal yesterday, Meir departure marked the return A door handle broken from a car to Shonghal of the Far Eastern diven by 20 individuals. he distributed these to the most necessitous cases,

with special cur-

Chinese woman's Inquiries si Mission after its location in seni £500, and an urgent Culture and Service" in China, who are working to clear up the mystery videration for thom with children.

Many of the refugees were co-appeal to the Joint Distribution Cem-has held this position continuously of pletely unequipped for the rigours of mittes of New York resulted in a since 1924. In recognition of his con- shortly after midnight Saturday at Hongkong for some months.

The academy was transferred from winter in Shanghai and were glad grant of U.S. $9.500. Every penny tuous service, he has been ap- the junction of Arsenal Street and

vention, Regional Director-Emeritus

The woman Chang Yan, was found Stayhat when hostilities extended of the gift of a blanket. The donor of this foreign money has already pointed at the same Toronto Con- Queen's Road East,

At Shang sient intends to meet every ship bringing

for China.

on the corner where extensive altera-Into the Yangsepoo area, Housing the new arrivals is one af refugees and give what relief he can the local committee's greatest war-

Mr. Y. Lewis Mason is a native of tions to the route are proceeding, at its headquarters

a private resi- of the about 12.30 am. She was seriously premies formerly, From Concentration Camps ries. So far most of the refugees thing. Klangsu, a graduate

College,

as a result of dente at Lam Tal, Castle Peak. injured apparently

·B.A The refugees included about 10 have been sheltered in three or four Tsing Hua

fron being knocked down by a car, for a

The school's return to Shanghai Jews who had been detained in eon-houses in Hongkew. but conditions Colorado Coliege, M.A. from Colum-door handle, newly broken. Was accompanies the transfer back of the graduate and felt unfairly treated by centration camps. Some of these are reported to be unsatisfactory. It la University and M.C.S. from the

This cluc WAS found at the spot. to declared that they had been released is contended that the only possible New York University. Returning ed picked up by a Petty Offeer of the Seventh Day Adventist Church or Dr. Menn-Trans-Ocean. on condition they left the country way to house the refugees

Inspector at the Central Police within a certain brief time; those the renovation of existing houses in the Consolidated National Adverising Royal Navy with whom the Trame #nisation headquarters. Who could not escape by then were Shanghai, and in some instances this Company of which he is a director Station would like to get in touch. returned to the camps. These and necessitates the providing of furni- and manager. He was a president of

The Inspector would also welcome the others, they stated, had ture and other equipment. The fact the Shanghai Y's Men's Club in 1930, Jis a director of the Shanghal Chinese

news of any car that is minus a door stripped of their belongings that such a large group is arrivi Y.M.C.A. and has been chairman of handic and may be connected with when they

crossed the frontter of during the winter months will also the Shanghai Y's Men's Baby Clinic, the accident, Germany.

contribute to the hardship of the Several described actun! instances refugees,

for at present the high succeeding Mr. Wm. Yinson Lee in

MOTOR of persecution, one stating that he price of coal makes heating a costly had seen a man forced into a box item. padded with nail points; the lid was One of the first sights which con- then closed down on him.

fronted the refugees when they "What you read in the papers is birthed in Hongkong yesterday wha not nearly so horrible as what has the standard from whose fluence A Police Dance will be held in the been happening one said. "The they had fled in dread-the Swas-Peninsula Hotel on January

the victims of a murder tika. This symbol, on a big scale, from 9.16 p.m. to 2 a.m. organisation which has nothing to do appeared on the side of the steamer

There will be "spot" prizes and with the real German publie. For Sauerland, alch was tied up near- the people of Germany we have no by.

many

been

ان

Jews are

through 1 ugh China twelve years ago, he organized

1035.

POLICE DANCE

next,

the price of admission will be $2.

CARS STOLEN

Two Europeans Lose Their Vehicles

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

Christmas.

In the Peak district, and a ring with three keys was missing.

APPOINTMENTS

The Rt. Rev. Bishop H. Valtorta

B

(BAYER

ASPIRIN'

WILL PROTECT YOU

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»Bagor

CANTON TO MACAO

and Mr. Li Jowson have been nominated as members of the Court Japanese to Commence of the University of Hongkong for a further period of three years us from December 17.

has

Steamer Service

Canton, Dec. 13. Mr. H. V. Wilkinson, p.8.0., heen nominated as a member of the

The Japanese will begin a regular Court of the University of Hongkong steamer service between Canton and Dr. E. W. Stout, of Alexandra for a period of three years as from Macao on Tuesday for Chinese and

Japanere passengers only. Mr. S. J. G. Burt, of 1 Tramway Building, also lost his motor car on December 8.

Mr. was left parked in

ROL Charles J. Path, had his motor car stolen on Saturday. It

been The five-batred Chinese flag made y night, but recovered it on Connaught Road Central from 3.15 appointed to net as Secretary to the its first appearance on bulldings to-

Urban Council as from Deveinber 15, ny since the revolution.—Reuter. Saturday. It was found abandoned ip.m. to 4 p.m.

has

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