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DUNLOP.

50 YEARS OF GROWTH

DUNLOP Fort

The Tyre with 2,000 Teeth

Faithful Chinese Servants Bring Stricken Priest to Hongkong --- See Page Two

25 DIE IN BRITAIN AS COLD GRIPS

EUROPE IN RECORD

IN RECORD FROST WAVE

Seventy Die In Polish Town: Violent Gales Lash Coasts: War Halted In Spain: Lowest Temperatures Ever

SERIOUS PLIGHT OF

Television

Racketeers

GERMAN REFUGEES For Orient Attempt To

LONDON, DEC: 20.

AT LEAST TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN BRITAIN AS

A RESULT OF THE COLD WAVE THAT HAS GRIPPED THE WHOLE OF EUROPE.

Europe's total toll exceeds 150.

Twenty-three have died in France, two in Hungary and three in Czecho-Slovakia.

In one town alone in Poland, over seventy people have been frozen to death, the centre being Lodz.

Ten Jewish refugees, among the many thousand encamped on the Polish- German frontier, have died from influenza and exposure.

Violent gales to-day swept the Black Sea, Baltic and North Sea. Temperatures in parts of England, France and Germany established new tow records, and winter crops in the three countries have been extensively ruined.

Pensions In Hongkong ·

Colossal Increase Sets

New Record

MEMBERS OF THE Legislative Council at the meeting to morrow will be asked to vole a further $437,177 to the Colony's expenditure.

Of the extra expenditure Civil Service Pensions comprise $280,000.

Germany's inland waters lare frozen over, and

hundreds of

tugs and steamers arc ice-bound. The Elbe River is choked with ice which extends from Hamburg to the North Sea.

Shipping has been completely paralysed at Memel and other Baltic ports. All North Sea coastal traffic has been tied-up by storms and gales,

Transportation in Holland has virtually ceased with the freezing

over of waterways.

This is additional to the $1,750,000 dollars already providede. for in the estimates.

Draft estimates for Police

Pensions this year are

Police

Pensions $425,000 and Widow's The Story Of A

and Orphan's Pensions $325,000. This means the Colony's total pension bill in 1938 is $2,790,000, the highest in Hongkong's hia-

tory.

Total pensions paid in 1931 were $1,228,000 and in 1927 5875,903.

Thus tho

been amowni 108 doubled in the fast

Keven years and more than quadrupled in eleven years.

The revised

estimate

penditure this year

ex-

$35,155,355 and with the adilitionul amount to be considered at to-morrow's

the total becomes $35,503,432,

meeting

On this basis longkong's Pen- nion it is almost exactly one- welfth of the total expenditure of the Columsy.

With the phasing of each year th burden has

grown heavier heavler.

and

In 1920 only $200,320 was paid to retired Civil Servants. By 1035 thi

had increased to $2,070,000.

In 15 years the increase 788 per cent.

increased by more than 1,000 per cent. since 1920.

Expenditure 18 years ago Was $280,320, compared with $2,700,000 this year.

Lady's Purse

WHEN MIS. L. R. SHORE, of 548 The Peak, entered n lift on the ground floor of the Gloucester Hotel yesterday she lnd a purse.

*

When Mrs. Shore left the lift on the eighth floor she was no longer in possession of a purse.

•

*

A report of the loss has been made to the police.

The Zuider Zee is a solk mass of

Communication between Terschell- ing and Ameland is completely inter- rupted except for aeroplanes, which ore carrying passengera.

Many Dutch towns dependent upon waterways are completely isolated.

Violent snow storms and accom- panying drifts have completely halted the war in Spain. On the Catalonian front zero had been reduced to complete zero-United Press.

'My Son Thinks

He Has Let Me Down'!

Next Year

TELEVISION WILL COME

to the Far East early next

year,

A

"Comei" message from Tokyo states that Station J.O.A.K., which IN easily audible in Hongkong, hnd tentatively decided to start test broadcasts in television in March, preparatory to in- auguration ol a regular

service.

An appropriation of 970,000 you has been approved by the

Swindle China Unearthed

NEW YORK, Dec. 20. AN ATTEMPT TO SELL two million out-of-date U.S. Army rifles to the Chinese Government, which frustrated by Generalissimo

was

Japan Broadening Carpora-Chiang Kai-shek. was one the tion, owners the Tokyo of the deals which station, for the projected ser-

Cor- McKesson, Robbins vice,

poration sought to make- The "Domel" message does during the fantastic mal-

net state whether the televi- sinn broadcasts will be made on medium waves, short wave, or ultra short waves, If the former two are used the television broadensts should be easily picked up in Hongkong. It is probable, however, Uint ultra short wave, which has only a quasi-opticni range, will be used for the service, due to the large band spread re-

for quired

this

type of broadcast,

FRENCH

NAVAL BASE IN ORIENT

Work Commences At Cam-Ranh

affairs administration of brought to light by the suicide of Philip Musica.

This new revelation of the ramifications of the venerable American drug firm was brought to light during the Grand Jury Investigation into the affairs of the Corporation,

When Musica learned that the Chi- nese Army wanted two million rifles, | Den Simon, a New York broker, was deputised to carry through the tran- saction.

Then it was discovered that Simon, as an individual, could not obtain i licence under the U.S. Neutrality Act to export rifles to China.

The McKesson, Robbins Corpora tion was then brought into the pic- ture.

Samples of the guns were sent to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek,

When he refused to purchase the

rifies the deal fell durough.

HOLOCAUST IN A PROVINCIAL CAPITAL-This graphic photo. graph shows the centre of Kwellin, capital of Kwongsi province, ablaze after a Japanese air raid. The entire centre of the city was razed by Incendiary bombs.

CZARIST LEADER LASHES AT NAZIS

PARIS, Dec. 20.

FOR THE FIRST TIME revealing that Czarist Russians may prefer the Soviet form of Government in their lost country to Totalitarianism, a famous White Russian leader launched a bitter attack on Hitler to-day.

General A. Deniken, who is the only surviving leader of Russin's White Army in the war against the Bolsheviks in 1917,

movement created a sensation to-day by denouncing the Ukrainian independence.

́SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE Even more sensational disclosures are promised by the Assistant Attor- ney General. Mr. Ambrose McCall, who is conducting the investigations.

The virile, 70-year-old White; Federal investigators, he claims, have uncovered wholesale arms and leader warned Russian emigrees ammunition deals which may involve jin Paris that the movement to living persons.

attain Ukrainian independence

HANOI, Dec. 21 Mir Gregory F. Neona, Acting from Soviet Russia was but part FRANCE HAS TAKEN United States Attorney General, to- of "Hitler's March to the East."

day disclosed to the Grand Jury the "MY SON is in no trouble. He just thinks, in a way, that he has definite steps to commence methods whereby Coster, or Musica, let me down about something," the scheme for turning Cam-was able to foist records of alleged said Mr. John Egan when inter-ranh Bay, in Indo China, of the MacKesson, Robbins Corpora- viewed by a "Telegraph" repre-into a great naval base.

tion on unsuspecting offeinis. sentative to-day concerning the

The area surrounding Cam-

Japan and War disappearance of his son, Ronald ranh has now been proclaimed a

clay.

With Russia

John Egan.

deals in the Crude Drug Department

He revealed that Herr Hiller bad offered joint leadership of the Inde- pendence movement to hingelf and

LATEST

for

Generci Gourke two years ago. Germans Build Navy

Bases In Spain

He printed Bletillous Dupbrad "We refused so become a fool for Street reports. These fictitious 11err Hitler, General Deniken declar- reports were Bccepted without ed.

London, Dec. 21. question and, in fact, formed the basis of an audit submitted to the

Loyalist news agencies in Barcelona He urged all Czarist Russlans to

clate that the Germans have con- New York Stock Exchange in avold participation in the movement structed powerful naval bases a 1037,

which, he declared, would merely Paxajos, El Ferrol, Villa Garela and Testimony was also produced by end in the Ukraine becoming a Melaga.

These bases directly threaten the New York State Attorney that

German vassal.

Britain's life-line through the Musica was an autocratie executive, whose decisions were seldom ques" Deniken is probably one of the Mediterranean.

oned.

most powerful White Russians in They provide accommodation, at a Former Convict

exile to-day. He is 70. but is as minute'a notice, for large concentra-

tions of submarines.

The bares are said to be thorough- ly modern, and

hidden from arrial or naval attack.

special zone, to which no person Yesterday morning, Egan, who is for ship can gain admittance 20 years of age, left the home of his parents at No. 36, Hillwood Road, without permission. Kowloon, to go to work at the Radio The area includes, in addition to Tokyo, Dec. 20.

Wericanon in anchul JAPAN MEANS to do-every-

Cam-ranh Bay, several islands lying At 1.30 pm, his father found a le-between 13 and 13.40 degrees north. thing in her power to secure ter from the young man, in which be WOR

Military observers belleve that Hongkong's Pension B has been the exercise of her fishery rights disclosed that he was leaving the

Colony because his employment at when the fortification of the bay and in Soviet territorial waters.

This statement was issued by the the Workshop was to be terminaled surrounding islands is completed, Musica, or Coster, as be became virile as the crisply-pointed wings Foreign Minister, Mr. K. Arita, lo- in three months' time.

France will possess one of the known when he took control of the of his moustache and energetle walk

of his stocks Bgure suggest. Robbins Corporation, When Mr. Egan was informed to- strongest naval bases in the Pacific. McKesson, The thery rights, Mr. Arlta cone day that rumours indicated his son

killed himself in his country home It is almost certain that a large in Connecticut when "G" Men were

SOVIET SEEKS FRENCH tended, had been granted by treaty was still in the Colony, he said: "We French fleet, which will probably

ASSURANCES provisions.

really do not know where be la. Include battleships, will be stationed on their way to arrest him.

It became known then that he was (The treaty between Soviet Russia, "My wife and various friends are at the new base. and Jon expires on December 31 spending to-day making enquiries

a former convict by the name of one of Can-ranh Huy renew it until throughout the Colony, Tussin refuses to

the Musica. greatest natural bays in the world,

In America's

"Who's Japan paya outstanding amounts ow-

Who," ing to the Soviet for Manchurian made a subject of enquiry by the de Jantero.

"And of course, the matter is being rivalling Sydney Harbour and Ro

Coster provided himself with a always).

brilliant biography. Police," "I war

Is three brothers I recalled that this bay was 11.M., Suffolk arrived here yester-Inevitable?" Mr. Arita was naked Ronald Egon was a former pupil at used in the Russo-Japanese War by prison.

the Central British School. His the Russian Battle feet as a tem- day from Wethaiwel with nine cases by a foreign press correspondent.

His widow, who says she was un- "I am not at liberty to reply to sister is Mrs. Doris Woodcraft.

for base

the porary Mr. Egan is an electrical engineer advance into the Sea

disastrous aware of his real identity, to-day The victims were rushed to the such a question," the Minister said.

of Japan. Aled an application for admission of -Domel.

at ILM, Naval Yard, lolation hospital-United Press.

Domel.

(Continued on Page 4)

H.M.S. Suffolk Land

Smallpox Cases

Shanghai. Dec. 21.

of small-pox aboard.

with

Sovlet

Russia

·

are

Paris, Du, 20. The Soviet Ambossador, M. Jacol Souritz, to-day visited the French Foreign Minister, M. Georges Bon net, and urked for a definition of French policy towards the Ukrainian now in independence movement.

M. Souritz particularly asked for Information regarding the nititute France would adopt in the event at conflict.-United Press,

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