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Tuesday;

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 1939.

AMERICANS'

GESTURE

Paying For Manufacture Of Poppies For Fund

A number of, members of the American community have generous- ly offered to bear the cost of having a suffelent quantity, of flowers made in Hongkong for Armistice Day in place of the poppies which could not arrive in time owing to the dis location of shipping schedules. The offer has been accepted by the Earl Halg'a Fund Committee, which focis that such a practical gesturo of good- will at this particular time is doubly welcome.

Though there will be no public ceremony this year at the Cenotaph, it is hoped that wreaths will he placed there by members of the com~ munity. Those who propose to do this are asked to purchase Buch wreaths from the Secretary of the British Legion, third floor, Hongkong and Shanghal Bank Building.

The

following further contributions have been received for the Poppy Day Fund: Previously acknowledged $6,501- J. Hennesy Both $10; It. It. Wuď $25; 1. D. Skinner $10; G. 1. de Martin $10; Prof. W. Fald $25; Prot. W. Brown 50; A._1. Mole #101 Prof. and Mrs. M. H. Roffey $40:00 H Kowloon Circle $30; Stafford-Smith $10; G. J. P. Cafey #10; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Fraser #10: John Moodle #10; Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Macgregor $29. Total, $0,500,

Post Office Guide

Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones, Postmaster General, has produced the Colony's Arst Post Office Guide a most com-} prehensive piece of work running into) 408. pues,

Meticulous care, abounding paitence and assiduous labour have helped to impart to the book not only every

Andres Leeds and Gary Cooper in a scene from Bin Samuel Goldwyn production, "The Real Glory." Released through United Artists.

OPPOSITION TO

TAX WIDENS

(Continued from Page 1)

ject to double taxation."

"Many people, also, will be sub-

Crown Tax Suggested

Fraud Trick Frustrated

Six Months Hard Labour For Man

kind of information connected with A prominent banking talpan toldj the Postal Department but also the the Telegraph": "Financial circles Foliing in an attempt to obtain added virture of being right up-to- in this Colony, are opposed to Income $200 by presenting a letter to Cheung date. It is good to see,

therefore, Tax. The proper way to imposal Slog-un, 32, motor driver, purport- it was from Cheung's tint although the war is only two taxation is by Crown Tax, for which ing that months old, all the vast changes in there are ways and means of collec-brother, Leung Ki, 32, unemployed, the postal services that the new con- tion."

appeared before Alr. Himsworth at ditions entalled have been faithfully)

"It Income Tax is introduced, gratt Kowloon Magistracy this morning,

and was given and accurately Incorporated. In aand squeeze' will be rampant.".

six months' harti work the initial labours of which must "The collection of the tax will cost labour. have taken many weeks, this is com- more than the return will be worthi Inspector Whelon said on Novem- mendable.

"It should be remembered that it ber 3, Leung removed a letter from The Guide covers the Postal Ad- was high-handed Government action letter-box hung outside Cheung's ministration of the whole Colony, in- in the Colony which caused the address in Reclamation Street. After cluding Kowloon, the New Territories Bnancial troubles of 1922 and 1925. jexamining the contents, he made a and branch ofces. Towards the end of the book, one section is devoted to telecommunications with a clearly:

mercial fo of the Colony in those Two days later he called cn tabulated index which mukes the

years urose largely from shocks to Cheung and handed him the letter. Bnding of any information on

tho this

Colony's dellcate financial The letter requested Cheung to give subject particularly easy. And that

the bearer $200 as he wanted to get is followed by a general index to all

"Shanghai did not boom until married in Yunnan. Cheung was sections.

Hongkong became depressed."

suspicious and asked Leung to re- turn a few hours later to collect the money. The police was notified and he was arrested.

in

"The disastrous strikes which chop resembling on expression on completely paralysed the con- the Jetter.

Bystem."

A resident who was in Hongkong

To the business community particular the Guide will fill a long during the last war said: "Every felt want.

thing was very prosperous in Hong- posi) kong in the Great Wor.

The Guide is on sale at all offices at $I ench..

LATE NEWS

Leung had a previous conviction

"But comparison is dificult, beter a similar offence.

we did not have managed currency then.

cause

"We need not look for rasy times in Hongkong during the current wor if we are going to have Income Tax.”

CHURCHILL BACK

IN LONDON

More Rationing

In Germany

BERLIN, Nov. 0 (Reuter).-The German news agency announces that further rationing measures are to be put into operation in the Reich.

The butter ration has been further eut and the list generally is exten-

*SIVC.

A further order requires the con- version of all vehicles trom petrol fuel to coal gas,

SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPHI“

LONDON, Nov. 6 (Reuter), -Mr.

Engineers, who have been called Winston Churchill, First Lord of the up for military purposes, are being Admiralty, who had been on a visit released as far as possible to enable to France, returned to London to-day the conversion to be carried through and entertained the Domilor as rapidly as possible. Ministers and the representative the Government of India af Ad- miralty House.

of

Also present were Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, Lord Chatfeld,) Mr. Lentle Hore-Delish, the Marquis

Yugo-Slav Sent To Prison

Three months' hond Inbour and on

of Zetland and the Duke of Devon-expulsion order was imposed on Jack

shire.

Perkovich, 33, employed seamitin, when he appeared before Mr. Hims- worth at Kowloon Magistracy this

Commodity Prices morning on remand, charged with

To Be Stabilised

CHUNGKING, Nov. 7 (Central), Generalissimo Chtang Kol-shek has Instructed the Ministry of Economics to stabilize, by the end of this year, commodity prices in the country in order to alleviate the suffering of the people.

being found on board the steamer Chang On without the master's per- mission, entering the Colony without

on November 4. ja valid passport and being a vagrant

NEW BRITISH MINISTER

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

appointed

It is learned that the Ministry has LONDON, Nov. 0 (Reuter)----Sir already drawn up a plan in this re-George Ogilvie Forbes, nt present gard. Besides giving due emphasis Counsellor at Oslo, is on production, the pian also seeks Minister to Havana, to expedite tránsportation and dis- 'tribution.

Genuine

Sir George was prominent during the Spanish elvil war as Charge d'Affaires in Madrid and Valencia.

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