1939-08-04 — Page 27

War In Europe

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August. 4, 9939.

Police Swoop Catches Many Europeans

PEAK MOTORISTS ON

Unlikely NO-LICENCE CHARGES

Direct Assurance TRIBUNAL

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By Spokesman LONDON, Aug. (Reuter).Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for the Co-Ordination of De- fence, has just issued one of the most direct re- assuring statements ever a Minister of made by the Crown.

Speaking in London to night, he declared that war in Europe was unlikely,

With this declaration he coupled this statement:

"The British Government has very good reasons for saying that war is unlikely."

Memorial services will be held in London to-morrow on the occasion of the twenty. fifth anniversary of Britain's entry into the Great War.

Parliament will

into go recess on the same day, and will not meet again until October, unless a crisis inter- успен

Russo-American Trade Agreement

NEW YORK, Aug. 3 (Router),-- The trade agreement with Soviel Russia which expires on August will be renewed for a year, generally anticipated.

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POSTPONED

No Conscripts Examined

ALTHOUGH the Compulsory Service Tribunal opened in the Council Chamber at the Colonial Secretary's Office this morning. no conscripts were examined, for the meeting was only one hell for

a preliminary discussion amongst its members.

This morning was originally fixed for the attendance of conscripts at the Tribunal, but notice of i post- ponement was last night issued to those concerned.

Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the Puisne Judge, presided at the meeting held this morning.

The Tribunal is appointed by His Excellency the Governor under the Compulsory Service Ordinance No. 32 of 1930.

56 Men Called Up Another 56 men were called uptu the Garrison School this morning for medical examinations in connection with the Compulsory Service Or dinance.

Utter Confusion,

Says German

SEVERAL Hongkong

residents were summoned before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this morning for failure to license their cars, failing to display their licence discs in a visible position and driv

BERLIN, Aug. 3 (Router) Thore is utter confusion in China, declared Herr Franx Urbig, chairman of the Gering without an appropriate

man-Asiatic Bank when ad-licence. drossing the annual meeting to-day.

Pointing out that the main commercial cities are situated

R. H. Gregory, of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, was fined $5 for allowing his car to be driven in Garden Road when not an the rivers whose loworduly licensed on July 22,

in Japanese

courses word Hands, Horr Urbig said that export trade in consequence was 10 small as it could hardly be worth mentioning.

Currency confusion meant an additional setback to trade. He hoped for a satisfactory settlement of the currency problem between Britain and Japan.

possible

Was

Everything done to safeguard the interests of the bank, but nothing could be said about prospects.

L-Cdr. H. G. D. de Chair, of 360 The Peak, was also fined $5 ́ for a similar offence. He was fined other $3 for driving the car without an appropriate licence.

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Summoned · for fulling to carry their licence discs on the windscreen of their cars in n visible position, A. H. Veliman, of 204 The Penk, J. Ralston, of the Education Depart- ment, L. M. S. Lloyd, of 3 Gardeni Terrace, Dr. A. H. Barwell, of the Medical Department, and I. D. H. Helby, of & Peak Mansions, were each fined $5.

Mr. Ralston and Dr. Barwell said licences but had they had their omitted to place them on the wind-

БЕГЕСТРА

The surname of those examined CHAMBERLAIN'S driver's licence, and driving the car

began with C, D and E. It is ex- pected that another 60 men will be

culled up to-morrow.

Another Rebuff

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Reuler) this An announcement In

The Administration suffered another nection is expected very shortly.

Ա coalition of Re- The treaty will be much the same rebutt when

the and Democrats in form as the present one, retaining for publleuns the most part the most-favoured House of Representatives killed Pre- nation treatment for Russian pro-sident Roosevelt's $600.000.000 nous- ducks, but limiting coal imports to ng bill by voting 109 against 170 not

tu consider It this session. 400,000 ans.

Yes! I find they

VACATION

LONDON, Aug. 3 (Reater).-Mr. Neville Chamberlain Is leaving Lun- don at the end of the week for Scot- land, where he is spending a holiday until the end of the month. He is expected then to retum to Londɔn for a short time.

It is not expected that a meeting!

Mr. Chamberlain's return to London. of the Cabinet will be held before

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A. R. Colquhoun, of 7 Bowen Road, was ined a total of $19 on two sum— monses for driving a car without n when it was not duly licensed.

Dr. J. M. Gray, of 564 The Peak. was fined $10 for similar offences.

Flood Menace In N. China Tientsin Threat Now Dangerous

SPECIAL TO "THE "TELEGRAPH“

Spies Cost Britain £700,000

EUROPE'S Spy Bill is mounting. In espion- ago and counter-es- pionage the leading European nations are spending at least twen- ty times more than they did before 1914.

In the House of Com- mons recently Sir Sa- muel Hoare (Home Secretary) made re- velations regarding a foreign Power's finan- cial backing of I.R.A. terrorists.

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Germany Spends £4,000,000. This additional £250,000 will bring the total expenditure on Secret Service for the Aranciol year up to £700.000.

Reliable information shows that compared with this £700,000 of Britain's Germany is spending at present

£2,- £4,000,000, Italy 000,000, and France £1,000,000 in espionage and counter-espionage,

Every week M.1.5 is discovering fresh sources of spy and propa- ganda words hostile to Britain,

PATRIOT DETAINED

Germans Keep Czech In Concentration Camp

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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Aug. 3 (UP)--It has been learned from reliable TIENTSIN, Aug. 3, (UP).—sources that the Parle lawyer, Tientsin is seriously threatened M. Etienne Nouveau, has filed

Berlin Ministry by a flood since the rising of the with the Haiho River to within two feet Justice, and the Gestapo, a new protest against the continued of the level of the Bund.

detention without trial of the Czech lawyer Ivan Sokanina, who was arrested in Prague on March 10.

Coolles are working furiously day and night, building sandbag dikes along the waterfront of the Japanese occupied area:

The International Bridge has been precautionarily lifted, due to the torrential pressure of the {current.

Locusts Threaten Wheatfields

It is understood the Ministry of Justice told M. Nouveau that

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formal charges have been preferred against Sekanina, and probably will not be preferred, but that he would probably be continued to be held in custody on the grounds that "he might commit some political crime if set free, and therefore must be pro- tected against himself,"

ever,

According to other reports, how- will be Sekanina probably eventually tried by a special Court, ullough so far it-has-been-impos-- sible to formulate charges him. of

OTTAWA, July 29, (Havas), Locusts are threatening the vast prairie wheatfields Canada.

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M. Nouveau, who represents a oup of prominent French Deputies The Ministry of Agriculture end lawyers, was refused permission has asked pllots on trans-con-to see Sekanina, who is believed to be held in Gostapo headquarters in tinental air routes to report the Herlin. His wife Is allowed to visit movements of swarms of these him. voracious insects.

on the

The airmen's reports will be kept and compiled into a record annual migration of the locusts, which come from the United States across the States of North Dakota and Montana to settle on ripening Canadian wheat.

In North Dakota, anti-locust cam- success and palgns have met with damage annually caused by these and insects, which come in swarms devour all that is green, has been greatly decreased this year.

ENGLISH AS A LANGUAGE

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHI LONDON, Aug. 3 (Reuter).The Prime Minister has instituted a com mittee of the Economic Advisory Counel! to "inquire to the prin clples of teaching English to persons

whose mother-tongue is not English,

with special reference to the elemen- tary stages of instruction,"

Lord Ponsonby is chairman of the

It will be recalled that Mr. Stephen ot. Murray, representing a group British members of Parliament, made

behalf a similar protest on Sekanina, two months ago.

Mystery S. O.S. Off Florida

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JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 3 (Reuter): -The air search for the "blazing oil tanker," from which mysterious S.O.S. messages were picked up along the Florida coast, to-day, has been abandoned by the coastguard authorities after a plane had vainly, searched the sea for three hours.

The messages claimed that the ship was the British vessel Dunkswn, and the radio operator is said. to have sent out a message that his legs weref broken and later that he was leaving the shilp because it was sinking.

FOOD PROBLEM

WITH GASTRITIS

committee which includes Sir George For years, doctors wanted to

Anderson, Sir Denison Ross, Pro-

And a food that would not ir- fessor Ernest Barker, Misa J. P. Strachey, Miss M. G. Clarke and Mrritate the inflamed stomach walls 1. Machac.

of patients suffering from gäs- tritis and that at the same time would rebuild the patient's

U.S. And Philippines strength. In severe cases of gas-

tritis bolid foods are out of the

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Reuter) question, even liquid foods are The Senate has completed leglaintive often vomited. Yet the patient action on a bill for readjusting economic relations with the Phillp-seeds quick new strength to re- bulld his exhausted body. In pines, prior to the projected Indepen- dence.

Horlicks, doctors and nurses have found an ideal food.

The bill establishes duty-free quoins for Philippine. coconut oil, embroi- dery, tobacco and pearly buttons be- tween now and 1948,

SHANGHAI, Aug. 4 (Reuter), The Rev. T. O. Scott, Bishop of Shantung and. other missionaries have evacuated the missions at Tolan in pecordance with the Japanese warning, which ordered the mission- arles to leave to-day,

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