1939-02-10 — Page 25

Budget Cars

Street, Hongkong.

The

INAL EDITION

FAR EAST MOTORS

THE FAN EAST AVIATION COMPANY, LIMITED

20, Nothan Rd., Kowloon.

Telephone 50101.

Library, Supreme Court

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1881

610. 201ÉT

五拜砂 號十月二英港香 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1939.

DEATH OF POPE PIUS:

MOURN PASSING OF A

END COMES AT 4.30 A.M. CARDIAC ASTHMA FATAL

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 10.

HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius XI died at 4.31 G.M.T. this morning, says a "Reuter" message, following an attack of cardiac asthma.

Yesterday His Holiness suffered a serious relapse, when he remained unconscious for 40 minutes, and his condition was so weakened, that the gravest anxiety was felt.

Pope Pius XI was the 261st Pope of the Holy Roman Church, and the spiritual leader of 400,000,000

souls.

JAPAN TO BUILD "GREATER" SHANGHAI

BISHOP'S DISTRESS

The Bishop of Hongkong, Rt. Rev. Mgr. Valtora, received the news of the death of His Holiness the Pope from the Hongkong "Telegraph."

Bishop Valtorta was visibly affected when informed of the death of His Holiness.

"I feel overwhelmed,” he told the "Telegraph."

"He was one of hte greatest Pope's of the Catholic Church and was a very holy man."

The Bishop told the "Telegraph" the arrangements would be made immediately for mourning and special Services.

1057 Baptized In

BE

HONGKONG GOVERNMENT YACHT IS PLANNED

JAPAN IS GOING to build a

IT IS RELIABLY LEARNED new Greater Shanghai, which,

that Legislative Council will bo if and when completed, will

asked shortly to approve ex- threaten to usurp the important

penditure, in the neighbourhood Ambrose that when death came he wanted it to of $400,000 on a 120-feet long commercial position now enjoy-Damian Achille Rot, the Fan and him at work. ed by the International Settle-tatlan town of Desio to become a emplided perhaps in the moderniza-important purpuses:

rose from peusant boy in the 1tlle

This vigorous spirit was best ex-yacht which will combine three powerful international #gure during lion of his tiny temporal empire. He critical period in world atairs. abandoned the horse and buggy for is death was mourned by miliona American automobiles, built and used of the faithful in every corner of the radio station, made talking firms, world.

Instituted American library methods and built a railroad.

ment.

Features of the plan, says a "United Press message Include the creation of commerelal, residential, and indus- trial zones, interspersed with parka, and harbour works, which when com- pleted, will enable a 100,000-ton ves- sel to be pulled alongside the pier,

The alte chosen for this projected Greater Shanghai ia along the left bank of the Whangpoo River, adjoin- ing the laternational Settlement.

In the year after he was crowned

Bishop of Rome in 1922, Pope Pius made many Important contributions

EVERYTHING MADE MODERN. but the Lateran Treaty of 1926 City, from the watering system to to the history of the Catholic Church,

All the apointments of Vatican ending 60 years of strife with the farm and dairy, were brought up to Italian stale-was probably the most date,

nable.

the

A party of over 40 expert Japanese The treaty ended the voluntary civil engineers has been engaged by imprisonment of Popes within

walls of the Vatican and established the Shanghai Real Estate Company, a joint Sino-Japanese cancern, These any state of Vatican City with party will assemble at Nagasak! Gnacress and 300 inhabitants within February 20- and will proceed to s boundaries. The accord,

which Shanghat, where they will proceed wetween Haly and the Holy See for established direct diplomatic relations to supervise the building Greater Shanghai.

the first time in history, was largely he work of Pope Pius and Fascist

of this

has

The town planning scheme been completed as a result of netuall surveys by several Japanese experts,

in the Shanghal neighbourhood.

CIVIL ENGINEFRS

BOUND FOR SHANGHAI

TOKYO, Feb. 10.

Premier Benito Mussolini.

God."

the

con-

ENTERED SEMINARY EARLY

It will be thy. iovernor's offelal yacht,

It will serve as a training craft for the Naval volunteer Force (soon to be the Royal Naval Volun teer Reserve).

And I will be the Lighthouse Supply slip.

Since September 2, 1937, Hong- ong has been without typhoon

scue tug.

العدد

COUNCIL TO DECIDE ·

of

日二十月二十

SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS

$36.00 PER ANNUM

Leadership

has culminated in tha

DUNLOP

}}}

Fort

The Tyre with 2000 teeth to bite the road !

Ensuring the maximum of comfort, durability and, above all, safoty.

CATHOLICS

GREAT MAN

Pope Tried Hard

To Curb Anti-Semitism

Vatican Cly, Feb. 10.

One of the greatest concerns of Pope Pius XI in the months before lits deall WAS the **scourge of excessive national-

which he perceived in Fascist Italy's Increasingly drastic degrees restricting Jewish life.

The pontiff expressed won- derment that Italy should feel constrained to "ape" Nazi Ger- many in adopting "aryanism" as a racial polley and repeated- ly insisted that "Human kind, the whole of human kind, single, great, universal human race."

lie even went to the unusual length of addresslug personal letters to King Victor Em manuel and Premier Benito Mussolini berging them not to permit the carrying out of a Aweeping Isciał programme presented October 7 by the Fancial grand council, which prohibited marriages between "aryana" and Jews or other "non-aryans,”

ما

On July 28 the battle be- tween the Vatican and Fascism over the Jewish question be- came more intense than ever. Because of the church's at-

Fascist iltade,

officials had Ureatened

declare

that

them membership In Catholla Action associations was a disqualifies- tion for membership

the Fas- clai

party. This particular phase of the controversy be- tween church and parly even- tually was smoothed, but not until Pope Pius had enunciated the contention that;

"Human kind, the whole of human kind, is a single, great, universay human raco. All men are, above all, members of the

same great kind. They all belong to the aingle great family of the living."

To the Fascista he sald: "Beware!

I advise you not to strike.... at Catholle Action associations. I advise and bo- atech you not to do so for your own good. because whoever strikes at the Catholic Action associations strikes at the Pope, and whoever strikes at the Pope dies. That is trulk and history proves it!!

WILL HAVE

Hainan Landing

OFFICIAL CLAIM SAYS FORCE NOW PUSHING INLAND

AN OFFICIAL JAPANESE COM- MUNIQUE, issued by the Japanese Imperial Army Headquarters in Tokyo at 9 o'clock this morning, claims that a major landing was successfully effected on Hainan Island before dawn to-day.

The locale of the Japanese operations is, for the time being, a carefully guarded secret, but it is believed to be in the vicinity of Taan, on the north-western side of the island, west of Hainan Straits.

The Japanese communique states that the Japanese forces are now pushing inland, presumably with the object of attacking Kiungchow, the capital, and Hoihow, its seaport, from the rear.

י

It is interesting to note, however, that the island is very mountainous, and this will considerably hamper any Japanese operations.

The landing was effected from a fleet of about twenty Japanese warships and transports, it is be lieved. These ships have been concentrated around Weichow Island, between Pakhoi, in Kwangtung, and Hainan Island, for the past two weeks.

bear upon the supply route to China by way of Yunnan informed political circles state,

In launching the new offensive, "the Japanese authorities will not fall to pay full attention to the protection of the rights and interests of third Powers in South China.

"While the blockade of the China const against Chinese matitime traffic

Chinese military authorities, be- will be tightened by the occupation lieving that the concentration meant of the key Island, the present action that the Japanese intended to attempt will have considerable effects on the a major landing near Pukhol, have Chiang Kai-shek Government." maintained constant vigilance on the Domci, Kwangtung main

mainland,

TTAGAKI REPORTS ON LANDING It was reported yesterday that the Idzumo, Japanese - flagship of the

Tokyo, Feb. 10- Third Fleet, was cruising around the Confirming commencement of a new Guif of Tonkin, with Vice-Admiral K Oliwa on board.

LANDING COMPLETE SURPRISE, CLAIM

By Radio, Feb. 10. The Innding operations on Hainan Island were between 2 and 3 o'clock this morning.

The spokesman of the Japanese

expeditionary force chilms that no

casualties were sustained by the Japanese landing forces, although coastal machine-gun batteries.

offensive on Hainan Island, the War Minister, Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, told the House of Peers which met in a plenary session at 1.10 o'clock. this morning that the Japanese Army forces occupied a section of the Island this morning and immediately started In co-operation with the Naval forces

an advance Inland.-Domici.

PREPARING FOR KWANGSI INVASION

Kwellin, Feb. 10.

stale was shown by the Chinese The Japanese have not yet aban-

He extended this modern spirit into his personal relationships and

If the view of certain official quar- ere is adopted, the Colony will con- those of his attendants. This com- bination of vitality and modern

.nue without such a vessel and the chiciency

Каи

I Island after a reign-one of the most momentous in puen-criticised typhoon rescue, nell- was fortunate for Kau Sing which was wrecked on

a decade the history of the Papacy. It saw the church and the Italion state,

ities, will not be replaced. healing of the breach between

Plans of the new vessel are nearly had its origin in 1870 when itallaning facilities but there is some equip- which completed. They do not include tow- saldiers captured the imperial elty ment to make it an emclent defenco and brought about loss of the temporal vessel. power which the Popes had enjoyed ALERT TO MODERN IDEAS

for 1,100 years.

well-appointed cablus and saloons Known as a "missionary pope." While rome of his predecessors had the Governor will be able to spend make it suitable for long cruises and the Holy Father was const:nity

been called "the prisoner of theme aays at sea in comfort if he sert to monten ideas and trends, Vatican," Pope Plus XI

became wishes & wireless will be Atted. He modernized the Vatican in many known as "the Pope of the ways, including establishment of a ciliation." through two years of A group of 40 select Japanese evit great radio station, and his official patiation which led up to signing engineers engaged by the Shanghai Jets reflected bis keen interest in of the tresty, an act which he sald Jected ship's purposes will be before

The whole question of the pro-: Real Estate Company, a Sno-Japan-ultural developments throughout the restored Gud to Italy and Italy lo dick Legislative Council when REPERCUSSIONS ese joint concern, are resembling at world. In recent years, he frequent- Nagasaki on February 20 en route toy spoke with sorrow of such trends

proval is sought for the expenditure Shanghai where they will participate the Nazi and Fuselst racial pro-

and the plans will have to be IN FRANCE in the tasit of reconstrucling Greater rammes,

The piety which distinguished his necessary to make the ship a rescue adically altered if it should be felt Shanghai,

in the closing months of his reign was apparent even 10 years The plna of city construction for cerned with the rise of politically the little Lombard town of Desio. inadequate for rescue work and was reign Pope Pius XI was gravely con--after his birth, on May 31, 1857, in

Japan Was Warned Greater Shanghal has been completed directed anti-religion on many fronts.lls parents, Francesco and Teresa

The old Kau Sing was considered by Japanese engineers on the basis of actual surveys carried out around anti-Semitism

Most serious was the upsurge of Ratti, who named him Ambrose

cuit to manage in heavy weather. To Keep Hands Off Japanese forces tater In the morning Shanghai in the past months.

Nazi Germany, Damian Achille, sent him at the age

he was furthermore very expensive with concurrent altneks on both of ten to study at the seminary of as she was powerfully engined and THE JAPANESE LANDING It is now revealed that the The new Greater Shanghal which Catholic and Protestant religoius St. Peter the Martyr in Milan, will be built with the former Civic leaders, and increased stress on what

ind to keep steam up continuously on Hainan Island is likely

to Japanese forces are advancing in a But previously he Administrative Centre as the centre the Vatican considered the

.or weeks in summers

southeastword when typhoons have

direction into the neo-marked religious inclinations under were frequent. Her uses were limit-France, where it has been re-

in hinterland Domel, grave repercussions and which will skirt the International Paganism of Nazis. Settlement and extend along the

NO BIG ARMY FOR DEFENCE From the Pacapey also has come Giuseppe Volontieri and

the tutelage of his parish priest, Dond and it was uneconomical to use: north bank of the Whangpoo River, opposition, to

hla uncie, ver for the appearance of also a priest, Don Damian Ratti,

routine work. light

peatedly pointed out that any

Chinese military authorities have. will be divided into commercial, anti-Semitism in Italy, pallerned From

A feeling furthermore existed that such action in the present Sino-long been anticipating a Japanese residential and industrial districts.

Milan he went closely upon the "Aryan" policies seminary at Menza and thence to the position of a competitor to local dock judicial to Franco-Japanese re-taken by surprise at the report of a vestment Agency Co. Ltd., at Board

the Government should not occupy the Japanese conflict would be pre-invasion of Hainan Island; neverthe- of Adolf Hitler.

less, Chinese circles in Hongkong are Under the present plan, a new

archbishop's urban seminary of St. companies The Holy Father feared the spread Charles. His talents as a student leduge much more capable than the which possons powerful harbour will be constructed

Japanese landing this morning, provide the gateway from the Sea to the Soviet Union and spoke fre- became a student in the Lombard regards junks which suffer sly, taking degrees in canon law, ample warning was given to them theology and philosophy.

ordained a priest

ca necessary to (Continued on Page 12.)

in

had shown

to

U

the

doned their scheme of invading The first vanguard effected a land-Kwangs!, according to Chinese mil ing at 2.50 a.n. in an undisclosed bay tary circles. along the cost of Hainan Island, an Extensive Japanese military move- other detachment coming ashore at ments have been noticed along the 3.15 am.

West River In Kwangtung" and Divided into two columns, the were advancing on two important objectives Inland.

LATEST

· Investment Co. Dividend

Directors of Hangkang Land In-

Intions.

| Meeting this morning, recommended A Hainan Island is the largest islund The Japanese naval concentration final dividend of $1.25 a share,

her, Kwangtung Province, but lien direct few days was

19

to of Communism from the borders of him inevitably to Rome, where he Kau Sing was in typhoon work, owned by China. It is partnt Welchow Island during the past making a total of $2.50 per share lor the new Shanghai City. It is expect- qunetly of the dangers to religion | College and the Gregorian Univer-heavily during typhoon weatherly off French Indo-China and Assam. Chinese Press reported by het year 1038.

ed that the projected giant pier will arising from Marxist materalism. be able to accommodate even a 100,- | 000 ton veescl-Domel.

Duke's New Canberra Home Renovated

Canberra,

SUPPORTER OF FRANCO

He

was

Is

to seek safety and it should not be The capital is Holhow, which is 205 Together with most of the Catholio December 20, 1870, and received his tor them maintain a rescue tumiles from Hongkong. This city :

Social Items

alone.

150 FOREIGNERS

threatening

See Back Page For

Further Late Nows

on Pakhol, In south-west. Nothing indicating hierarchy and priesthood he favoured

near the mouth of the Klungchow the cause of Generalíssimo Francisco

As soon as the plans for the now strait. It is the seaport of the walled

River,

move on Hainan Island has which empties Into Hainan been received from Chinese sources, Franco in the Spanish civil war and

ship are approved, tenders will be city of Klungchow, the actual sent of vers, it is most likely that no major According to well-informed obser- was.concerned with the strife bo-

Invited from local shipyards. tween Japan and China both bel

The building of two

government.

resistance will be fought by the Japanese war vessels have been smoller! cause of is possible effect.upo.a

aunches for general purposes is also missionary work in the Far East and Registry yesterday before Mr. T. 9.

Holhow become a Treaty port in Chinese in Hainan. The Cantonese busily plying around Welchow Island, The wedding took place at the under consideration. The ultimate results of the wartime Whyte-Smith, Registrar of Marriages,

1858. It is about 120 miles across division under General Chang Tah, south of Pakhol Hainan Stralt from Pakhal

In the Canton area the Japanese and which was the only regular division alliance of Generalissimo Chiang Kai of Mr. Parker Chan, assistant editor shek's nationalist government with of the Chu Chiang Yat Po, and Miss

equidistant from the French port of in Hainan, was ordered back to the are trying to keep their strength Halphong.

Kwangtung mainland after the

intact and to protect their communi- the Communias armies of Mao Tse-Chan Yat-thing, of 15 Fuk Wah

Japan Brings Up

Japanese landing at Blas Bay.

cation lines. In the East River and Lung.

However, it is certain that exten-thening their defences.

North River areas they are streng These worries and the strain of

Street, Shamshulpo. The winesses

Reinforcements would not only cover the entire conet-warfare will be resorted to by the have been transferred to the southern

Possession of the Island by Japan sive and well-organised quertita- more routine duties and elaborate

were Mrs. Kwok Lai-sin and Mr.

Japanese troops in cast Hubch ceremonies of his office, taxed

Chow Koon-kan.

line of French Indo-Chine, but would

Chinese Chungking, Fob. J.

on the island. once vigorous constitution and ex-

Jeopardize all British and Odier Hainan Island

part of the provlace to strengthen Chinese reports sinte that as traordinary vitality which in youth had found expression in the nounced of Mr. Lau Kwong-chung, the Tokyo headquarters have anally Th

is mountainous, the outer defences of the Wuhan foreign maritime interests east of Five Figure Mountain (Wuchishian) area, his The forthcoming wedding is an-reault of Count Terrauchi's requests, Singapore.

being 5.000 feet high. In may be re- In north Kiangil the Japanese- perilous sport of mountain climbing accountant of the liangkong and authorised transfer of Ava 2he total area of the island is 14,-called that these mountainous areas (preparing for a fresh. altempt to "Yarralumla," is one of the old Despite the constant urging of his Yaumati Ferry Co., Ltd., and Miss Japanese divisions from Monchukue two million. About 180 foreigners operations of the Communists for Kuling, the famous summer resort

are station homes. It was converted at nasociates, ho insisted upon fuinting So Shuk-yu, of 3 Babington Fath, the unst und Burua campagn reside on the island, principally in several years before they surrender-Central News,

000 square miles and the population were the strongholds of guerilla dirlodge the Chinese troops stop a cost of about £80,000 into an even the most routine duties, holding Hongkong.

assist against the guerilla campaign. Hollow.

It fe stated that part of these

ed to the government, divisions, had arrived at

The question whether a Japanese EFFORT TO STÓP HAIPHONG destinations and part were en route, occupation of the island would tyinning reported that Japan, is consitute a threat to the security of

STRADE SELAT Tiibris divisions from French Indo-China was discusand

toManchukuoto recently in the semi-official Perit The **bances, garrisons Parisien by M. Jan de Boumont,

(Continued on Page 121)

At least £25,000 is to be spent on remodelling and adding to Yarra- tumia," the official government house, at the capital, before the Duke and

there,

Duchess of Kent take up residence

porary - offcial residence for the Governor-General some years

ASO. The new additions, says, Austral "News" will include a bältrðum,“ en- -larged dining and reception rooms, larger private quarters, a nursery, And daitional stall quarters.

the

*

EARLIER REFERENCE TO THE____ POPE'S ILLNESS, ON PAGE 3

tho

their

IDZUMO RETURNS TO JAPAN

Kwulling 101. The Legaliips Idzuma which was l'anthork on the "coast near Pakbol

hava, raturned to

Page 25Page 26