1939-01-27 — Page 27

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 27, 1939.

HONGKONG VILLAGERS MAY APPEAL TO THE GOVERNOR

U.D.C. And Licences for Keeping Swine

"ON THE INSTRUCTIONS of my clients, a letter

has been written to the Chairman of the Urban Council with regard to a review of the Council's decision to withhold licences from those who desired to keep swine, and if the reply proves unfavourable an appeal will be made to His Excellency the Governor."

This statement was made by Mr. W. A. Mackinlay before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when he re- presented 27 people who had been summoned for having failed to comply with a notice served on them by the Urban Council re- quiring them to cease keep- ing swine without licences from the Council.

Mr. Mackinky said he under- stood that a considerable num-

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Jan. 26.

GOVERNOR Herbert Lehman

Bill to Protect Cotton Growers

WASHINGTON,

Jan, 26.

REPRESENTATIVE Vinson to-day introduced into the House a Bill pro- posing a domestic allotment programme for cotton, which would lift all restric.

tions on production, and assure planters of a parity price on that part of the crop consumed domestically.

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Violation Of

Trade-Mark

Chinese Officials

Meet In Secret

VITAL SCHEMES PLANNED

Resisting Japanoso

THE

Invasion

FIFTH Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, at which vital decisions upon national policies have been made since its opening on January 21, will close this afternoon.

Rigid secrecy has been taken regarding the time and place of the session, and decisions made during the conference.

However, it is believed that the centre of discussions has been direct- ed at the strengthening of_the_re- sistance power against the Japanese Invaders and the increasing of the administrative eflelency in the pro- vinces.

Complaint Made By German Firm THE firm of Deutsche ber of these summons had been has commuted to life imprison- Handelsgesellschaft Waibel and

As a result of the session a su- premo national defence advisory taken out, and he was applying

Prince's building, counell, it is believed, will be estab- the death sentences of Company, for a week's remand of the 27 ment

figured as complainant in a Eshed to function as the highest summonses until the remainder Philip Chalelf and Isidore Zim-summons against Ling Loong, inllitary advisory organ to the Mill- The former ous number of people were being merman, but Dominic Guariglia, Kowloon, heard by Mr. E. Hims- strategists and military experts with

printer, of Shanghai Street, tory Affairs Council.

will be composed of six outstanding affected by a ruling of the Arthur Friedman and Joseph worth at the Kowloon Magis- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as Urban Council to withhold licences from those who desired O'Loughlin-who fired the shot-tracy to-day. to keep swine.

came up in Court. An enorm-

Mr. Mackinlay: "I am asking for an adjournment of a week so thi by the time we come before you Worship again the Urban Counci

must die to-night in Sing Sing'a electric chair for killing a New York City policeman, for which

would have had time to reply, underime all five men were convicted, we should then know whether or not

Pelition

to

the chairman.

The establishment of a ministry of Absent from Court, Ling Loong was summoned for, having uninwfully frontiers either under the Military printed a trade niurk

Council belonging to Affairs

the Exceuliye complainant firm,

Yuan bus also been resolved at the meeting.

In asking for a week's adjournment that the defendant was at one time of the summons, Mr. Mack.nlay suid

to Is Excellency the The youths' mothers col-employed to the complainant to print

lagers, and the application for

that in

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SITUATION WELL IN HAND

It is said that in his report on the certain labels which were used for military situation at the session, The people summoned were villectively annealed to Gover-the purpose of placing trademark Getteral Ho Ying-chin, the War adjournment of the case was granted, nor Lehman to save their certain goods. It was recently Minister, emphatically nssured the

discovered discoveres

In addition to print- Kuomintang leaders that the situa sons' lives, offering to "take ng a certain amount of labels, the lion was well in "hand and there and were indisputable grounds to believe had disposed of some of these

bonus to others of his cus- victorious at the end of the resist- way of tomers engaged in the piece-goods ance campaign.

Alleged Possession Of Rifles

of

to have had in his Alleged possession two rifts, 47 rounds of four ammunition,

charges dynamite and half a pound of gun powder, a trading junit master named Leung. Pat. 42, was arrested January 25.

on

Leung appeared before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magist- racy to-day on charges of unlawful possession of arms and ammunition and possession of dangerous goods, He was remanded for 24 hours, on the application of the police.

U.S. ARMY PLACING 'BIG AIR CONTRACTS

Dayton, Ohio, Jan. 20, The Army has received bids from three aircraft manufacturers on a large order for single-seater pursuit planes.

(our boys' places"-United defendant had printed extra ones that Chini would certainly emerge

Press.

Temperatures Remain High In Hongkong

High temperatures continued in Hongkong during the past 24 hours, the maximum touched being 70, while the minimum was as high og 59.

This morning the mercury register- ed 60, accompanying humidity of 71 per cent

with

Another rainless day left the rain- fall for the month at 86 of an inch, which is lightly above the average.

The

Royal Observatory weather report issued, this morning stated that the anti-cyclone over China is Increasing in intensity, and the de- pression is situated to the north of Hokkaido,

trade.

def

Since the Issue of the summons, The members of the Central ndant had undertaken in writing Executive Committee unanimously not to print any more of the labels, pleaded their support to the con- had apologised, and had further | Unuation of the resistance campaign undertaken to pay the cost of the under the leadership of Gencrails- present Court proceedings, and other simo Chiang Kai-shek. With the costs. The adjournment was wanted expulsion of Wang Ching-wer and to see if the defendant could keep the absence of his followers at the the terms he had made.

season, it is revealed, the spirit of: unity among the party leaders was unprecedented In any past Kuomin-. tang C.E.C. plenary session.

Mr. Ilimsworth granted the ad- Journment.

Confiscation Of Ammunition

An application by Delective Ser geant J. Johnson for the confiscation of 20 rounds of 12-bore sporting gun ammunition was granted by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

Intensified and simultaneous guerilla operations behind the Japanese lines in all areas fallen into the invaders will be ordered by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shrk. In accordance, with the decisions made at the session regarding national defence policy, it is expected.

Thanks to the misty weather in the past seven days at Chungking where the session was believed to The ammunition was found by a have been held, as well as strict pre- Local forecast is: - North-cast | refugee on the hillside above Water- cautionary measures taken by the winds. fresh; fatr.

loo Road on January 10, and taken military authorities against Japanese to the Yaumall Police Station. The air raids, no Japanese machine has

The manufacturers were asked to for quantities up to 500, and for lots Police have been unable to trace the, reached over the war capital since submit prices for single-senter planes of 2,000-Reuter,

owner.

the inauguration of the session,

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