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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

IRISH TROUBLE

Government Takes Stern Action

London, Feb. 5. Special precautions have taken at Windsor Castle, especially in been the stale opportments, St. George's Chapel, and all parts to which the public are admitted,

All visitors carrying attache cases and parcels were required to dis- close the content before entering the castle. This procedure followed

Instruction from London.

From Ulster conies the news of o sensational document which 1 alleged to outline plans for a cam- paign, and suggests a threat to the Ilves of important British police of eere, some of Scotland Yard's special branch being mentioned.

A.R.P. LECTURES

Office at Volunteer Headquarters.

February 6, 1939,

LOANS TO CHINA

By kind permission of Lieut. Col. British Aid May Depond

FL. I. Roze, of the Hongkong Volun- teer Defence Copes, the Women's Air Rald Precautions Union have been granted the use of the Volunteer Lecture Room dally in the mornings required by the H.K.V.D.C. until further nolles, provided it is not

This room will be used as the office for the WAR.P. Union, who will be ready to help and give advice to any members of the public from 9 a.m. to 11.30 am, every day.

On Customs

London, Feb. 4. "The Inat has not yet been heard of the proposal for a British loan to China, I gather," says the city editor of the Daily Mail

"In spite of the hazards of the Sino-Japanese War, British trading interest would welcome well-direct- for: First Aid, on Mondays, com- the British Government is not un- Lectures have also been arranged ed economic assistance to China, and

Anti-Gaa V. A. Course, on Tuesdays. "Any assistance would have to be mencing on February 13, at noon; sympathetic.

"First Aid and Nursing of War Gas"); vlee of the Customs Loans and other at 10,30 am. (the fourth lecture contingent upon resumption of ser- "Running Repairs" for Motor Am-considerations, but the case bulance Drivers (a short course com-loan to support Chinese currency has for n mencing on Wednesday, February 8, been strengthened Intely by the com- It is stated that the document, Course, for Air Raid Wardens, an

at 11 a.m.); Anti-Gas Modified Full petent manner in which the currency which was seized by the Belfast Thursdays at 10.15 am.

has been managed in the last six police, contained plans for the bomb-lecture, "Methods of Gas Attack from

(the third months. ing of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, the House of Commons. the

the Air"). Bank of England and Scotland Yard. Extra guards have been placed at Downing Street and Whitehall.

Throughout

Will Indies wishing for a course on "Practical Nursing" please send their namen in, stating if they are available the week-end police

for evening or morning classes, These patrols will be reinforced at Man-will be given at the Queen Mary chester. Omeers on duty at vulner- | Hospital. able points are being armed.

All letters may be addressed to the Hon. Secretaries for W.A.R.P. Union, c/o H.K.V.D.C., Garden Road, Hong- kong. (Entrance via the Government Ofices).

An explosion wrecked the Interior of the Conservative Club at Thursday Tate in the afternoon. The cause is not known-Reuter.

Guard For Premier

ST. JOHN BOSCO

Feast Day Celebrated In Colony Revered and esteemed by Catholics

London, Feb. 5. Dramatic developments are taking place in the efforts of the authorities to prevent further bomb outrages. The police are keeping an all-night guard in the grounds of the Royalf throughout the world because of his Lodge at Windsor where their Ma- jesties and the Princesses are spend-able work, St.

virtues and saintly career of charit- ins the week-end. The gates of the

John Don Bosco, are kept closed, all cars pronching Windsor Great Park being stopped and the driver interrogated. Two carloads of picked police have been sent to Chequers to guard the

Lorto

Premier,

Arms were Issued to the Bristol police after the finding of a written warning that petrol tanks will be blown up-Reuter,

Another Explosion

London, Feb. 5.

A fresh bomb occurred at Liver-

"More Inay be heard of the mat- ter when the Export Credits Bl comes up for further consideration in Parliament.

"It is suggested that a Govern- ment-backed private banking loan may eventually be placed don."-Reuter.

in Lon-

Loan from America

Chungking, Feb. 4.

It is predicted in reliable circlea that the American Finance Corpora tion will lend China $15,000,000 within a week for the purchase of American goods.

Similar British loan negotiations are proceeding favourably, it is re- ported-United Press.

No Information

New York, Feb. 4.

the Universal

founder of the great Salesian Order Trading Corporation told the United

A spokesman of when i casaros celebrated Press that he had no information re- was publicly honoured

at

St. Anthony's Church, West Point,garding the Chungking report that a attended the morning and evening Corporation is imminent.

People from all over Hongkong $15,000,000 loan from the American

services held in the Church. Prior to the Benediction of the Blessed

He explained that the original $25.

,000,000 loan has not yet been Sacrament in the evening, the Rev. used up, and there was a possibility Fr. John Pedrazzini delivered. that the Chungking report is merely homily in Portuguese to n large a forecast that an additional portion gathering

on that loan was expected to be used soon. He added that he was un-. aware that any loan above the ori. ginal $28,000,000 was being negotint-

Appropriate music was rendered by the Salesian Choir of Shaukiwon. Following a conclave of Cardinals

Pope, St. John Bosco was elevated to the Order of Saints at St. Peter's, Rome, on Easter Sunday, April 1,

1934.

PRISON AND CANING

pool last night an hour before mid-presided over by His Holiness theed here.-United Press. night. The explosion tore away part of the brickwork from a wall of Walton Gaal where many Sinn Fein priseners were kept after the Irish rebellion and where a number of persons charged in the northern Police Courts are at present on re- mand.

"Police rushed up in motor cars and cordoned off the prison, armed police combing the Irish quarters of the elty.-Reuter.

COMPANY REPORT Humphreys Estate And

Finance Co. Profit

The annual ordinary general meet- ing of the Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ltd., will be held at the Hongkong Hotel at noon on Thursday next, The report of the Directors states:

The

net profit for the year ended

December 31, 1838, after dedusting

Directors and General Managers

After many years of hardships, St. John Bosco founded the Salesian Order, the work of which is repre- sented in Hongkong by the St. Louis School has for many ye Industrial School, West Point. This yours past been the stepping stone to success in life for hundreds of Chinese children, who, through the poverty of their parents, were otherwise unable to go through a course of general or trade instruction.

LATE NEWS

Air Raid On Macao Buses Women, Children Die

remuneration and including $21,027.98 In Machine-Gunning

brought forward from last account, amounts to $238,015.20.

Which the Directors recommend should be appropriated as follows: Pay a dividend of 7% en 200.000 Transfer to General Beacre.. Transfer to Building improve-

ment Account

(Bringing ine up to 130,000.00) Transler to Speclat Repairs and

Renewals Account ... (Bringing xanın up to $15,000.00) And carry forward

Macao, Feb. 5.

A murderous attack by Japanese warplanes took place in the Chung $140,000.00 Shan district at about eleven o'clock 50,000.00 this morning when, four planes ap- peared over Sam Mun Kin, near Chol Hang, birthplace of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen. This village is but an hour's journey from Macus by car.

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Earring Snatcher Gets

Stiff Sentence

Pleading guilty to a charge of snatching a pair of earrings from o woman in Shanghai Street on Friday, ja 25-year-old unemployed man nam- ed 116 Yee-ful, was sentenced to six months' hard labour and twelve strokes of the cane, by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy en Saturday.

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Detective Sergeant Baldwin said TO-MORROW complainant was waiting for a bus when Ho came from behind snatched

the

earrings. He chased and arrested.

One was recovered, but the other was lost. On the application of Sergeant Baldwin, Ho was also recommended for banishment. His record showed two previous convictions,

Youth To Be Caned Sentence of a week's hard labour and 15 strokes of the cane was im- posed on Lam San, a 17-year-old youth, who appeared on remand be fore Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy on Saturday charged with snatching a pair of gold earrings from a woman, Chan Kiu, at Queen's Road West near

Wo Fung Street, West Point, on February 1. Inspector W. Mair prosecuted.

Pickpockets Caught

After reconnoltring, the planes des- cended to a low altitude and made for two motor-buses belonging to the

While standing at the ticket office During the year Mr. M. T. Johnson Kei Kwan Motor Bus Co. who main- of the Oriental Theatre on Friday resigned from the board w leaving in a fleet of vehicles running be awaiting his turn to purchase a ticket, the Colony and Mr. H. v. Wilkinson, passengers of the buses had time to assistant, felt his purse being removed tween Macao and Shekki. Before the Wong Wing-san, an 18-year-old shop 1.5.0., was invited to All the vacancy.

make for shelter in the adjacent In accordance with Clause 86 of the

employed. He seized the man, and Company's Articles of Association country-side, the Japanese aircraft from his pocket by Ho Ming, 25, un- RETURN SHOWING by popular demanD! Mr. J. Scott Hartson, Mr. J. M. Alves hired a deadly are with their masa district watchman on duty in the

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guns, kling three passengers vicinity, who had also witnessed the but

attempted theft, took Ho into custody. Immediately after this, a motor-car

Before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at. the came the target of the Japanese was sentenced to two months hard of the Nam Va Garage of Macao be- Central Magistracy on Saturday. Ho machine-guns. The driver. Tang labour. He had a previous conviction

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KULING FOREIGNERS

America Not Informed Of Japanese Request

Washington, Feb. 3.

which penetrated his chest, prosecuted.

Among the passengers, two women Another man, Lam Chiu, 17, un- Injuries from the bullets.

and a child were inflicted with employed, was also sentenced to two The un-months' hard labour by Mr. Forrest fortunate victims were taken to the for the theft of a purse from Chiu hospital in the vicinity.

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Point, on Friday. Inspector W. Mair said Lam had a previous conviction.

Loss Of Handbag

car was later brought into Macao and it clearly revealed marks of having received,tis baptism of

fire.

Replying to reports from Shanghal machine-gun work of Japanese war-

the State Department sold they were aware of the Japanese request that foreigners evacuate Kuling before February 10.

The State Department made no comment as the weather special in- structions would be sent to the American

This deadly

Mrs. Mackenzie, of Stubbs - Road, planes apparently shows that the has reported the loss of her handbag the Japanese invaders are determined to containing $40 in money, on continue trying to demoralise the Peak. fighting spirit of the Chinese-Our Own Corespondent,

Consulate at Hankow, Czechs May Join The

which is handling the situation. How- ever, they recalled that standing in- structions and long been issued to Consuls regarding such emergencies and indleated that they regarded those to be sufficient. The Instruc- tions authorise the removal of Ameri- cans from danger when deered advisable.-United Press.

DANCING COMPETITION

Anti-Comintern

Pressburg, Feb. 5.

HOPE. ABANDONED

Men Trapped in Japanese Submarine

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Tokyo, Feb. 4. Stavakia would leave the League of Hope has been abandoned for the Nations and join the anti-Commintern Japanese submarine I-03 with o front was Indicated by. the Slovak crew of 48.. propaganda chiet, M.-Mach, speaking Rescuers were unable to reach the this evening at a mass meeting in vessel on account of the great depth Richnovce.

of water in the Bungo Channel.

· Karl Murgus, leader of the SlovakUnited Press.

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The final of the Hongkong Dancers' Association dancing competition was Hlinka Guards, speaking at the same staged in the Grill Room of the Hong-meeting, demanded the expulsion of were being made to save the lives of Earlier messages said that attempts kong Hotel yesterday when Mrs. M. Jows and Czechs from Slovak public the crew of the Japanese submarine

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lot luminated Christmas trees border The awards worn-Tammy Lee ing

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