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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Rejection By Free Milk For

The Arabs? British White Paper

On Palestine

Children

97,000,000 Bottles

Last Yoar

09

May 31, 1939.

Never Saw A White Man

New Race Found In New Guinea

London, May 30. BEIRUT, May 30. The annual report of the Board of . AMSTERDAM, May 30. CIRCLES close to the Grand Education for 1030 contains evidence Mr. Rand, who was a member Mufti state that the answer of

of continued progress.

School buildings condemned

of the Archbold air expedition to' tho Arab High Committee for falling short of modern standards, New Guinea, arrived here to-day Palestino to the British White and which have now either been on route to the United States. Paper would be published on closed or defeels have been remedied. He declared that the scientific Wednesday, and would consist tutelled 1,983. The number of pupils results of the expedition might be of a sharp rejection of the now grant-aided secondary schools described as the most important ever

reached a total of 170,003, over 00 organised in Now Guinea, British proposals.

per cent, of the new entrants during The expedition mot natives who the year coming direct from elemen had never seen white men previously, tary schools.

and it discovered many interesting Nearly 80 per cent, of the entrants mammals. were admitted

free.

The reply holly criticises the pro- posals dealing with immigration"

to Palestine, and It also contests the practice of land sales Jews In Palestine,

to

The expedition, consisting of six In nutrition there have been Im-explorers arrived in New Guinea tost I is believed that the High Com-portant developments and the Board June after a 10,000 mile flight from mitter will regard the new pro-is at present surveying the adequacy San Diego in California.--Reuter." posals as being even less satisfactory of

of free meals and mil provision than those put forward at the Lon-in necessitous cases. The number of don conference, and that the White Paper will be rejected in its entirely

Trans-Occan.

TYPHOON THREAT

No Longer A Monace To Hongkong

almost stationary just outside Hong-

milk

elementary school children receiving free meals was 614,806, and 97,000,000 bottles of milk wero distributed free, For 300 schoolarships for higher education awarded last year there were 0,243 candidates-Britis}; Wire- Jean,

SWINDLE ALLEGATION

Women Lose Large Stock

Of Clothing

Investigation by the police follow- ing a report by three women who

two Chiness of goods valued at led to the arrest of two men.

alleged they had been swindled by

All danger to the Colony from the typhoon which for 48 hours was

kong is now dellnitely passed.

At 2 p.m. yesterday the typhoon efore Mr. R. Edwards at the Cen-

the evening it had mony, while In tral Magistracy yesterday, Leung!

was centred about 100 miles to the south-west of the

In west- north-westerly direction to threaten the coast near Kwongchowwan,

LATE NEWS

German Defences Flooded

of

Kang-wu, 32, and Wan Kin, 48, were PARIS, May 31.-Following recur- charged with conspiracy to defraud, rent reports and rumours of sabotage and larceny of 00 dozen children's on the German Siegfried Line, M. The weather in Hongkong is ex-sultings, 30 dozen women's under- Jean Thouvenin, Political Editor pected to gradually improve.

wear, and 30 dozen dress25.

the Intransigeant to-day declares Complainants are Kwok Ngan- that he has been reliably informed ying, Lam Ngan, and Kwok Yuks- that the recent Rhine floods rendered chan.

53 kilometres of the Line unusable.

According to military experts it will take ten months to repair the damage," he added.

was

At 0 a.m. yesterday the typhoon only 40 miles south of Gap Rock, moving west-north-west, and gain

maintained a ing in intensity, It steady direction, however, and it is no longer possible that the depres- sion will enter the coast near the Colony,

At first headed directly for Hong- kong, the typhoon became almost stationary about 60 or 70 miles south

of here and gradually filled up. Later, however, the depression be- came more severe and again took on the intensity of a typhoon, but luckily moved off away from the Colony.

FISHERFOLK SUFFER

Junk's Crew Saved By

Japanese Steamer

The rough weather experienced, near the Colony during the past few days resulted in several mishaps to fisher folk.

the German

fortifications.”—Buited

The police said that on April 7, Leung and Wan rented a portion of the ground floor of house in Con- naught Road Central, and hung a "These reports are important bg- sign board, Tai Ying Co," saying cause in the evolution of diplomatic they bought embroidered work, affairs the Axis leaders cannot full They did no business for three or to talee account of a large fissure in four

weeks, until May 12, when three When the women left the premises, women brought them Some goods. Preas. Leung and Wan packed the goods and were not seen until May 10, when they were arrested in Wanchal. Leung Yee-mui, principal tenant, sold Wan gave her $10 as deposit for the hiring of the flat. On May 12, she noticed three women bring goods to the flat. When the women left the shop Leung and Wan put the goods into sacks and was not seen again.

Lam Ngan sold that with the other two women she brought the goods ordered by Leung to the Tal Ying. They were told to return to the shop Eleven people were rescued from the

the next morning to collect

as the goods by passing steamers,

money

were drow, 10-year-old master of a

not thoroughly.-chocked. When they fishlag junk, residing at Sam Kwong called the following day the men village, lost his bout, valued at $1,100, and goods valued at several hundred dollars, at noon on May 28,

were not there.

Mr. J. M. d'Almada Remedios re- presented Wan.

The hearing was adjourned to

In a report to the police So stated June 7... that there were five others on board. They salled about 50 miles out to sea, off Sai Mei Hoi Fong, when a sudden squall arose. The wind

caught the three cafls causing the boat to list and she began to take water. The occupants were thrown into the water,

They clung on to the boat for four hours, drifting all the time, when they sighted a steamer. With great diffeulty they managed to attract the attention of the steamer which turned out to be a Japanese tramp, the Syogen Maru. The Japanese lower- ed rope ladders and rescued all the men but the boat and all the goods were lost.

A similar experience befell Ching Kau, a 20-year-old boat master of Kap Chi village, and four others, on May 27. They were fishing about 20 milca from Kap Chi-village-when- about six a.m. on Saturday a squall nrose and their boat sank. The five men were drifting for several hours clinging to bits of wood. About Afteen miles from Waglan a passing Dutch steamer sighted them picked them up.

and

NAVAL LIMITATION Britain Secking German Understanding

...London,-May 30,

It has been authoritatively stated that the British Foreign Office and Admiralty are drafting an important Note to Germany regarding the Naval Limitation Treaty which Herr Hitler denounced.

The Note is expected to be dis- patched after the conclusion of the Anglo-French-Soviet treaty,

The terms of the Note are being kept secret, but it is expected that they will reiterate Britain's willing- ness to settle outstanding prablems. Diplomats here alote, that Britain might even offer Hitler a aggression ́treaty-Unlled PreES,

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