1939-04-25 — Page 31

Japanese Hold 10 Ships At Woosung

SHANGHAI, Apr. 25.

TEN vessels flying third Powers' flags are detained by Japanese authorities at Woosung for examination, it is revealed. Althought they fly foreign flags, it is suspected that these vessels are operated by their original Chinese owners.

It is pointed out that one vessel sailing under alien colours was stopped by Japanese nu- thorities and upon examination the ship failed to produce regis- tration papers.

Recent inquiries carried out by Japanese naval authorities, it la os serted, have established that heavy brokerage trade in carried on in Shanghal for the sale of forelyn re-

gistration documents to Chinese ship-

owners.

Ships which have nominally chang ed hands in this way are understood to be engaged in the transport of arms ammunition and other contra- band goods..

Those vessels which are still de- inlned at Woosung by the Japanese authorities include the Don Pedro Joan and the Don Sula which belong to a Sino-American steamship cum- pany;

the

Maria Moryarida of the

Maria Steamship

whip Navigation Com-

pany, and the

the Dragon, of a Portuguese steamship company.

There are three other motor trans- pert junks owned by Portuguese in- terests and two Chinese-owned motor- boats. The passengers of the Li Pao have been permitted to land in Shanghai, but the passengers and cargues of other vessels are held up at Woggung-Domei,

It Was 71 Yesterday

BUT IT'S GOING TO BE WARMER

WHILE yesterday's temperatures were inclined to be slightly, below normal for this time of the year. warmer days are ahead, according to the Royal Observatory,

In fact the next few hours will see

a general Increase

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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

-Restoration of Order

In Palestine

LONDON, Apr. 24. ÈSTORATION of order in Palestine proceeds steadily, and such, terrorist bands as still

remain are small and scattered, and avoid carefully any encounter with the military.

Sniping still occasionally occurs, but terrorist activities are now much hampered by the recent captures of arms and munitions, and by the growing hostility of villagers towards bandits who pillage the countryside in the pretext that they are protecting interested Arabs. In some regions, such as Jericho there has been no shooting at all since March 28, on which dato à military billet was sniped without any damage to the troops.--Britisli Wireless.

ARAB PROPOSALS › REJECTED

Cairo. Apr. 24. The British answer to the latest Arab proposals for a solution of the Palestino prob- lem was submitted to a delegation here by the British Ambassador, Sir Miles Lampsort to-day.

Arab circles intimate that the British answer was a complete rejection of the proposals.. It is declared that the British Government has now broken off negotiations, as, it is alleged, they have attained their purpose of decreasing disorders in Palestine.-Trans-Ocean.

Imperial Airways

Victimisation Allegations Repudiated

Organisation

Dofects Now

Eradicated

Vindicated

Charges Against Manager Unsubstantiated

SIGAIL hann að á LONDON, Apr. 24. REPLYING TO QUESTIONS in the House of Commons to-day on charges made a long time ago against the management of Imperial Airways, Sir Kingsley Wood, the Air Minister, said that Sir John Reith, on his appointment to the chair. manship, undertook examination of the charges, and had reported his conclusions.

Regarding the accusation of attempts to victimise pilots for

April 25, 1939.

Britain's

snow

Wireless Receipts

LONDON, Apr. 24. SIR Walter Womersley, assist- ant Postmaster-General said in the House of Commons that the | total receipts from wireless re-

·ceiving "licences to the end of last year were about £30,000,000.

Of this sum the Post Office retained about £4,000,000 to cover their expenses, and the British Broadcasting Corpora- tion had received about £22,300,- 000. The Exchequer retained £9,700,000.

Licence revenues paid to the cor- poration would be progressively in- creased under present arrangements.

The question of the extension of television service throughout the whole of the country raised numer- ous problems, boili technical and finanelal. Aspects of the question, Including proposals of the Radio Manufacturers Association, were be- ing investigated, but no decision had

Injured Joining a new organisation, the yet been reached-British Wireless.

One Dead, Three

In Shanghai Car Crash

SHANGHAI, Apr. 25.

THE CAR in which Dr. Bertram Lille, B.Sc., President of the Lester Institute of Technical Education in Shanghai was killed yesterday, was being driven by Dr. Lillie in Hongkew when I collided with a Japanese molor bus,

Dr. Lillie's wife was seriously injured and she underwent an emergency operation in the General Hospital, where she vainly pleaded to be taken home to attend to her baby who was suffering from whooping cough.

An Englisht police sergeant, R.. J. Wimsett was also seriously Injured as was a Japanese bluejackel, who, for reasons not yet clear, was on the running board of the car.

Dr. Lillo arrived only a few hours earlier aboard the Gnelsenau, after spending his leave in England.-Reuter,

ANZAC DAY OBSERVED

IN HONGKONG

MEMBERS of the Australian and New Zealand community in Itong- kong gathered at the Cenotaph this morning in observance of Anzac Day, which commemorates the land lug of the Australian and New Zea- land Army Corps at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915.

A wreath

was laid on the t

Cenotaph steps by Mr. F. J.

in temperature, Neill, Vice-President of the

and is likely that the mercury Australian and New Zealand Association, and Mr. Albert E. Bates.

will step up to the 80 mark.

Yesterday's maximum

72 WWID with the minimumn four degrees be, low this. At 10 o'clock this morning the thermometer registered 71, while humidity was 70 per cent.

The local forecast for the next 24 tours predicts moderate cust to south-east winds, with a cloudy sky, and the atinosphere becoming

warmer.

The Royal Observatory backs this forecast with the announcement that

DAVENTRY PROGRAMME Anzac Day is bring observed in Daventry programmes to-day."

should tune Hongkong listeners in to Daventry at 10 pm. (H.K.T.) on Transmission 3 and at 2.30 a.m. to- morrow (ILK.T.) on Transinission 4 to hear the programmes on Anzac Day.

POLISH TERROR ALLEGED

THE

Airline Pilots Association, Sir John Reith stated that certain senior officials of the company regretted the formation of the Association, and had made their views known to pilots, but there was no evidence of coercion or victimisation.

U.S. COMMODITY PRICES

LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

New York, Apr. 24. New York Cotton

Opening Closing 8.15/24 8.29/20

7.08/8.04 0.08/10 7.73/707.74/74

7.70/72 7.02/02 7.74/75

7.82/02

7.02/02 7,89/00

0.00 N

Two prominent gentlemen con- neeted with aviation Insurance had repudiated the aspersions cast and the Pllois Association had acceptel May the repudiation.

July Oct Regarding complaints of defects in Dec. organisation and the standard work- Jon. ing conditions, the report states that Mar. certain defects were only to he ex-

Spot pected in a company developing The First Notice Day for May rapidly,

but most of them had since cotton is April 25th, and the last Day been eradicted, and Improvement was is May 16th. progressive.

Allegations against the personal May conduct of one of the Company's Sept. managers overseus had been closely Dec. investigated, but had not been sub- Mar. stantiated.

The report agrees that a certain type of aircraft was unsuitable when originally delivered for operation in certain conditions. Necessary modi- fications had already been made when the matter was discussed in the House of Commons on May 31 last year-Reuter 'Special,

NEW FLYING BOATS

New York Rubber

15.70/60 15.60/60

15.74/74 15.75/70 15.84/84 10.77 N 15.85/86 The First Notice Day for May rubber is April 27th. and the last Day May 1st.

To-day's Sales:-1,680 tons.

Chicago Wheat

09/03% 00%/60% 00/001% 08/08

6834/609

4,000,000

July

May

Sept.

Saturday's bushels.

May

July

Sept.

London, Apr. 24, Imperial Airways to-day took de- livery of the dying-boats Australia May and Aotearoa, the first two of three July WARSAW, Apr. 24.

flying-boats destined for the Aus- Oct. WAVE of Polish tralian-New Zealand and the Eng- terrorism against Germans liv-land-New Zealand air route.. ing in territories ceded to Po- The third boat, the Awarua is ex- land in 1919, especially in Upper pected to be launched in about a Silesia, is still continuing, ac-

week.

Chicago Corn

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4834/48%

50/40%

404/48% 40%/493

50/50% 50/50

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01/607% 017/02

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STOCK MARKET REPORT

Pagifle to the south of Japan. The 1915, and the programme "Anzae cording to reports received here It is anticipated-that-pending-com- official summary issued at 4.00 p.m.

The Hongkong Stock Exchange

yesterday, says:

The troops of the Australian and an anti-cyclone continues moving New Zealand Army Corps made the eastward-and-is-now-centred over-the-first landing at Gallipoli on Aprit. 25.

pletion of the necessary ground or northern depression is moving east, Day, 1030", which is to be broadcast, Numerous Germans were molest-ganisation, these flying-boats will be ward over Manchuria. Pressure re- will consist of poetry and of oned by groups of Poles in Catto-om England to South Africa and to used on the regular Empire routes mains relatively low over Tongking

fell on commemoration of those who and Slam.

that day and in the campaign which wice on Monday, many of the Australia and the Far East. followed. The reading of the poems agitators appearing as though will alternate with on account in

They are sister ships of the fly-see' policy. trict especially to stir up trouble. in the summer. They are the last The machines are four-engined and can in passenger luxury. take off at 40,000 lbs., and have am-

Hungarian- Yugo-Slav Pact Likely

Berlin, Apr. 24.

The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zel- tung" states that the projected visit of M. Markevitch, the Yugo-Slavian Foreign Minister, to Hungary will probably take place in May,

prose of some of the incidents of this they had been sent to the dis-boats which will bridge the Atlantic

memorable day.

I

Expelled Businessmen: Aid Extended

word

The 60 year-old distributor of the German paper "Kaitowitzer Zeltung." Paul Zobalka, was set upon by a band plo range for the 1,300 miles crossing

of twenty Poles and severely beaten. from Sydney to Auckland.—Reuter The assailants then burned his papers Special: and disappeared.

A thirteen-year-old youth was set upon by a crowd in Bismarckhuette because he spoke German in a shop.) Io was finally left unconscious in the street. Persons attempting to inter- ecde were held back at the pistol

Berlin, Apr. 24. The British authorities are reported to be making representations on be-point,

threatened who are

It is believed that on this secasion half of three well-known British

Yugo-Sinvion-Hungarian

non businessmen

Three other Germans in Cattowice

aggression pact will be signed," with expulsion, believed as reprisals were also molested for speaking Ger- When informed that Hungary for the expulsion of three Germansman, but the police in no case ap- would be willing to sign this pact, from Britain recently.

peared in time to apprehend the as- From Koenigshuette it is Guilants. M. Markovitch is stated to have One of the three, Mr. John Nell reported that the windows of the Ger- signified that Yugo-Slavia would chief partner of the well-known au- man also be prepared to do so.

school nt Eichendorf were stated that the Hungarian Foreign ditors, Price, Waterhouse and Com-smashed-Trans-Ocean.

The other two Minister, Count Czucky, will proceed Pany is in Berlin.

It is

Mr.

general Leslie Parlcin,

to Belgrade to sign the pact. Hun- gary will not make any territorial manager at Hamburg for the Eastern

Telegraph Compuny

and Mr. C.

that

demands, but merely ask for quarn- Edlinson, a merchant in Hamburg tees concerning the treatment of the

They have been informed

---Reuter,

Hungarian minorilles in Yago-Siavia. they must leave Germany by May 10,

-Trans-Ocean.

Royal Couple's Wedding Celebrations

notabillies

Stock Market Report

Hongkong Firewood Prices Soar

A sudden large increase in the price of firewood is causing con- London, Apr. 24. On the London Stack Exchange Cern to Colony house-holders, to-day, western holdings provided At the beginning of this year the main feature of trading, advanc-firewood was selling for $1.60 lng sharply following publication of

good development report, though per 100 catties. they finally reacted.

The

Law Combines Africa

Police Forces

+ LONDON, Apr. 24. THE South African Parlia- ment to-day passed a law com- bining the South African and South-West African polico forces, according to a message from Cape Town,

In reply to a statement by a mem ber of the Opposition that nothing had happened In South-West Arica, tho | Minister of Justice declared that the sending of police reinforcements had had the desired effect.

The police would be withdrawn, he declared, when the situation rendered. this advisable.

Had the Government neglected its

fairly well maintained, the volume Although prices generally were

of business' was on a restricted scale, giving the appearance of a 'walt and

Buyers

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Canton Ice 81

Entertainments $813

K. Govt. 45% Loan $3% II.K. Govt. 33% Loan par

Heller Hongkong Bank #1,375

11. Dock 017

& S. Hotels 53.05 UK. Lendn $34 China Lights (Old) $8 Chima Lights (New) $55

Sales Hongkong Bank $1,303 Providents H4.00 H.K. & S. Hotels

HK. Reallics $4.29 HI Tramways $103 Antamoks P. 32 Atoks 30 Coen Grove 3312 I. X. L. 5 Ziogons_24

North Camarines 40 San Mauricio .02 United Paracales.co

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SUBJECTS

REGISTRATION

duty at the present time, military Forms can be obtained measures, perhaps, would have been necessary at a later date, he conclud. at all Polico Stations ed.-Trans-Occan

APPEAL TO GERMANS

Teheran, Apr, 24. Celebrations in connection with the wedding of the Crown Prince of Iran, which began on Saturday,

When the Kongmoon invasion was continued to-day when heads of

Elsewhere the trend generally was started a short me ago, the price special missions, Cabinet Ministers, easier, owing to the Imminence of jumped to $2.00 per 100 callies. A

Johannesburg, Apr. 24. senior army

other officers, and

budget, though trading was too local firm which practically controls An appeal to the German" com- attended a recepilon quiet to provide any real test of the frewood industry purchased large munity in South-West Africa to obey given by President Majless In the prices,

Among commodities, jute met with stocks from Singapore at a price re-the law and to live on friendly terms Majless Garden.

100 with their South African neighbourd a strong response from Calcutta, with Puted to be around $1.00 per

cultis landed in Hongkong. Later there will be a banquet at trading more netive, especially on

was made by the new German Cón- the Officers' Club.

sul-General, Herr Liernu, at a meet- the new crop. Collon cased follow-

Yesterday, without previous warning at Windhoek to-day. The festivities reach a climax to ing President Roosevelt's approval of ing the price was increased to $2.50 couple with two, palices specially pound, but later it partially recover morrow when the Shah presents the an export subsidy of two cents per per 100 catties. bullt for them. Ond is reserved fored with botter support,****

Wall Street was steady-Reuter the bride's own personal use.-- Router.

Special

Africa, where Germans had no plan Her Lierit added that there whe no danger of trouble, in South-West

offenal yo action at all. Reuter Special.

Hongkong's dally consumption of Grewood approximates 500 tons, most of of which is Imported.

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Italian Trade Balance

Rome, Apr, 24.

Tel. 59292,

BISHOP OF LONDON

London, Apr. 24. The King has nominated the Right Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Bishop of Cheater, for election as Bishop of to the Right

The Italian foreign trade balance London In auccession

for the first quarter of the rear ic- Rev. A. P. W. Ingram, who is res veals a decided improvertent over tiring-Reuter Bulletin, the same period last year, a

Imports were 24 milliartite hi Indo

compared with 3.14 milliard last 25,

The Import surplus is thus. 72.10.

and exports worg: 2.43, milliard, lire million-Hire, ga compared with 61,61. ne compared with 2.09 milliheid till millllón Urd a year ago.—Trans-Ocedi.