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Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
IRISH TROUBLE
Government Takos Stern Action
paign, and suggests a threat to the
February
1939.
ULTIMATUM LOANS TO
TO BRITAIN.
Bengal Congress
Demands Action
JALPAIGURI, Feb. 5.
CHINA
British Aid May Depend
On Customs
considerations,
of the
Is not un-
London, Feb. 4. London, Feb. 5.
"The last has not yet been heard Special precautions havo been taken at Windsor Castle, especially in
THE BENGAL CONGRESS of the proposal for a British loan to the state appartments, St. George's political conference to-day passed China, I gather." says the city editor Chapel, and all ports to which the public are admitied.
a resolution affirming India's of the Daily Mail.
"In spite of the hazards All visitors carrying attache cases right to frame her own constitu- Sino-Japancae War. British trading and parcels were required to dis-tion by means of a Constituents interests would welcome 'well-direct close the contents before entering Assembly, reiterating uncom- ed economie assistance to Chion, and
the British Governubent tho castle. This procedure followed promising opposition
to the Instruction from London,
"Any assistance would have to be From Ulster comes the news of Federation, and urging the All-sympathetic. a gensational document which India Congress to give a six contingent upon resumption of ser- alleged to outline plans for a cam-months' ultimatum to the British vice of the Customs Loans and other but the ense for A lives of important British police of-Government in which to reply loan to support Chinese currency has cers, some of Scotland Yard's special categorically to "India's' national been strengthened lately by the com- bronch being mentioned.
demund",
pelent manner in which the currency in the last six It is stated that the document;
It the reply is not forthcoming or has been managed which was seized by the Belfast
"More may be heard of the mat- police, contained plans for the bomb is unsatisfactory, Congress is to be months. ing af Buckingham Palace. Windsor free to resort to whatever netion it
enforce the ter when the Export Credits Bill Challe, the House of Commons, the considers necessary to
for further consideration demand. Bank of England and Scotland Yard.
The resolution called for increased In Parliament. Extra guards have been placed at
"It suggested that a Govern- Downing Street and Whitehall, stiffening by Congress towards the
Federation as a result of the emer-ment-backed private banking loan at Man-gence of a Leftist Influence, following may eventually be placed in Lon-
the re-election of Bose no President. don."-Reuter. Reuter.
Throughout the week-end police patrols will be reinforced chester. Officers on duty of vulner- able points are being armed.
An explosion wrecked the interior of the Conservative Club at Thursday late in the afternoon, The cause in not known-Reuter,
Guard For Premier
London, Feb. 5.
Dramatic developments are taking place in the efforts of the authorities
A.R.P. LECTURES Office at Volunteer Headquarters
to prevent further bomb outrages.
By kind permission of Leut.-Col. The pollee are keeping an all-night H. B. Rose, of the Hongkong Volun guard in the grounds of the floyal teer Defence Copra, the Women's Lodge uk Windsor where their Ma-
Air Raid Precautions Union have use of the Volunteer been granted the Jesties
and the Princesses are spend-Lecture Room daily in the mornings ing the week-end. The gates of the until further notice, provided it is not Lodge are kept closed, all cars ap- required by the II.K.V.D.C. proaching Windsor Great Park being stopped and the driver interrogated. Two carloads of picked police have been sent to Chequers to guard the Premier.
Arms were issued to the Bristol police after the finding of a written warning that petrol tanks will be blown up-Reuter.
conies up
Loan from America
Chungking, Feb. 4.
It is predicted in reliable circles 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.
A
No Information
New York, Feb. 4.
the Universal spokesman of Trading Corporation told the United Press that he had no information re- garding the Chungking report that a $15,000,000 loan from the American Corporation is imminent.
This room will be used as the office for the WARP. Union, who will be
He explained that the original ready to help and give advice to any
has not yet been members of the public from 9 a.m. $25,000,000 Joan
used up, and there was a possibility to 11.30 am, every day.
Lectures have also been arranged that the Chungking report is merely Mondays, com-a a forecast that an additional portion: for:-First Aid, on
noon; n that loan was expected to be used) mencing on February 13, at Anti-Gas V. A. Course, on Tuesdays, soon. He added that he was un- Another Explosion
at 10.30 am. (the fourth lecture aware that any loan above the ori- London, Feb. 5.
"First Aid and Nursing of War Gas"); ginal $25,000,000 was being negotiat- A fresh bomb occurred at Liver "Running Repairs" for Motor Am-& here.-United Pres. pool last night an hour before mid-bulance Drivers (a short course com- night. The explosion tore away a
mencing on Wednesday, February 8, part of the brickwork from a wall of at 11 m.); Anti-Gas Modified Full Walton Gaol where many Sinn Fein Course, for Air Raid Wardens, on prisoners were kept after the Irish
the
Thursdays at 10.15 a.m. (the third number of lecture, "Methods of Gna Attack from
northern the Air').
ST. JOHN BOSCO Feast Day Celebrated In Colony
rebellion and where persons charged in Police Courts are- at present on re-i Will ladies wishing for a course on mand
"Practical Nursing" please send their Police rushed up in motor cars and names in, stating if they are available
Revered and esteemed by Catholics cordoned off the prison, armed police for evening or morning classes. These throughout the world because of his combing the Irish quarters of the will be given at the Queen Mary virtues and saintly career of charit- elty, Reuter.
Hospital.
able work, St. John Don Bosco, All letters may be addressed to the founder of the great Salesian Order, Hon. Segretaries for W.A.R.P. Union, was publicly honoured yesterday c/o H.K.V.D.C., Garden Road, Hong-when his feast day was celebrated kong. (Entrance in the Government at St. Anthony's Church, West Point. Onces).
KULING FOREIGNERS
America Not Informed Of Japanese Request
Washington, Feb. 3. Replying to reports from Shanghal, the State Department said they were aware of the Japanese request that foreigners evacuate Kuling before February 10.
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People from all over Hongkong attended the morning and evening services held in the Church. Prior to the Benediction of the Blessed Children's Hospital
Sacrament in the evening, the Rev. Fr. John Pedrazzini delivered a
to To Close Branch homily in Portuguese large M-G-M Picture
| gathering. TADWORTH (Surrey) branch
Appropriate music was rendered hospital and convalescent by the Soleslan Choir of Shaukiwan. Following a conclave of Cardinals home of the Hospital for Sick The State Department made no
presided over by His Holiness the comment as the weather special in- Children, Great Ormond Street, Pope, St. John Bosco was elevated structions would be sent to the is to be closed temporarily be to the Order of Saints at St. Peter's, "American Consulate at Hankow, cause of lack of funds;
Rome, on Easter Sunday, April 3, After many years of hardships, St.
which handling the situation. How- This was decided by the hospital 1934. ever, they recalled that standing in- bourd of management recently, structions and long been Issued to "During 1938, owing to the difcult John Bosen founded the Salesian Consuls regarding such emergencies and indicated that they regarded times and the international crisis, the Order, the work of which is repre- those to be sufficient. The instruc-annual deficit on the hospital's run- sented in Hongkong by the St. Louis tions authorise the removal of Ameri-ning costs has risen by over £10,- Industrial School, West Point. This School has for many years, past 000, the board states. cans from danger when deemed
"Patients at Tadworth will be dis-been the stepping stone to success in advisable.-United Press,
charged as
as possible and life for hundreds of Chinese children, every effort made to place the staff who, through the poverty of their parents, were otherwise unable to go in other posts"
through a course of general or trade Instruction.
DANCING COMPETITION
£10,000 YEARLY Licut-Colonel Stanley S. G. Cohen, The final of the Hongkong Dancers' deputy chairman of the hospital, sald Association dancing competition was the Tadworth branch provided ne- staged in the Grill Room of the Hong-commodation for 115 children in a kong Hotel yesterday when Mrs. M. healthy country atmosphere. K. Lo presented the trophies to the "It enabled us to send children winning couples.
there who were convalescent, thus
THIEF TAKES SAW MILL
MEDFIELD, Mase. The awards were-Tommy Lee making room for more patients at
Palce chief Homer G. Hogan is and Miss R. Yee 1, Chan Chung-man Great Ormond Street," he said. and Mira Lee 2, Cheang Ki and "The reopening of Tadworth is seeking a thief who stole a seven-ton 4 woodlot Miss Lee 3, Chan Tin-yuc and Miss entirely dependent on the hospital's portable saw mill from Wong 4, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Buckle income and our ability to allocate where Nelson G. Tibbels was clear- 5. Mr. Doo and Miss Sucy 0.
£10,000 yearly for its maintenance." ing hurricane-telled timber.
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