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FOR SALE. "HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY

THE

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 8, 1939,

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ANOTHER NAZI LIE (ABOUT HITLER WAS

G. HOR R.

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 11th day of December, 1939, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land Tai Hang Road, In the Colony, of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years. with the option of rehewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.

Intending Lidders are advised that immediately after the dispo aal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required an authorised 10 deposit with officer who will be present at the salo, the sum, of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This num

Air. Mail by “Air France Direct will be refunded on payment of

Service"-Paris date 29th Novem-

ber.

Dec. 8. the Purchase price.

Canada, U.S.A., Japen and Shanghai

(Vancouver BC., 18th November), PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Conton ...

Japan, ant Shanghai

Shanghal

Straits and Salgon

Dec. B.

Dec. 8 Dec. 8. Dec. 8

.Dec. a.

USA., and Manila (San Francisco

date, 11th November). ....Dec. 8.

Air Mall by "Imperial Airways Direct Bervice"-London date, 20th

November

Shanghat....

Formosa and Swatow

Air Mail by "Imperial

Calcutta and Straits

Haiphon Haihow and Fort Boyurd.

Haiphong

| No. of Sale |

Registry No.

Locality

Inland Lot

No. 5740.

Tai Hang Road,

Понидагу Measurements:

N. 9. R. W.

fertebee{{feet}

as per sale

plan.

A0001

Contents

53,500

eg. feel

1616

316,750

Upset Price] Ann. Beat.

Doc. 9.

Dec. 9. Dec. 9.

Direct

Service" London

Airways date,

2nd Dee.

.Dec. 10.

.Dec. 10.

.Dec, 10.

Dec. 10.

Sandakan

.Dec. 10.

Shanghai und Amoy

Dec. 10.

Japan and Shanghai

Manila......

Dec. 11.

Shanghal and Amoy.

Dec, 11.

Strafls

Dec. 11.

Churchill's

Tientsin

Java and Moalla

Shanghai

Sulgon

Manila

Canton

OUTWARD MAILS Friday, Dec. 8

Saturday, Dec. 9

.Dec. 11.

Dec. 11.

Dec, 12.

Dec. 12.

..2.00 p.m. ...7 p.m.

.10.30 am.

Good Press

Commons Statement Warmly Welcomed

LONDON, Dec. 7 (Reuter).— Parcels only for Shanghai .10.30 am. Mr. Winston Churchill, the First Shanghal and Jopan .10.30 am. Lord of the Admiralty, received 10.30 am a good Press in connection with Saigon .......... Parcels only for Hatphong 1 pm his statement in the House of Tourane and Saigon .......150 pan. Air Mall for "Imperial Airways, Commons on the progress of the

Direct Service"duo London 17th war at sen, December.

Reg.,

G. P, O. and K. P. 0.

.Dec. 9, 5 p.m. .Dec. 9, 5.30 p.m.

.0 a.m.

Ord..............

Sunday, Deo, 1

The "Daily Telegraph" says that he did not attempt to gloss over the realities. He sald quite frankly that losses must be expected, and even occasional dlansters.

That was better than concealing the a.m. truth.

Amoy Haiphong

Monday, Dec, 11

Bangkok...

.10.30 am,

Confidence Well Founded

Mr. Churchill showed that he was

Shanghai and Parcels only for Tien-confident of the ultimate issues of the

talo

.Canton

1.30 pm war and that there were good grounds Tuesday, Dec. 12 pm for his confidence.

Manila, Makassar and Sourabaya,

8.30 am.

1

The British people could be trust- ed with the truth...

HONGKONG) IS EXPOSED

Preis: 20 Pfennig

JB

Grile 1302

The "Manchester Guardian," com-

So werden Völker vergüter

Air Mall for "Imperial Airways menting on Lord Halifax's statement Direct Bervice”-due London, 20th on Tuesday, says that he had recalled December.

certain essential facts which were Nometimes obscured by slovenly thought.

K.P.O,

Rer.

Ord.

„Deo, 12, 5 p.m. ...Dec. 12, 5.30 pm.

G.P.O.

Reg.

Ord,

.Dec. 12, 5 p.m. .Dec. 12, 7 pm.

The main one was that war would end when the German Government accepis

grounds for peace, and that it was a

LANG FOLGE 36

UNAUS DEM INHALT,

Wiestor in Waffen u. Wehr Aushängarn→niorinti). "Pannkréighs"Asmustübrar

Det Weg einer Künstlerine, Ein Gelar grait en ulkoma

Uustrierter

Beobachter

FRANZ EHER NACHE MUNCHEN 22

Ifußtrierter, Scobacter

Cin Delfplet für die Mitwirtdial! In Englande Role ateu: Chinesischer Hall rough auf offeret Strafge· tu bongtong Opium,

Autrabnien: Frank (1) Wedemann Manritney 01. Arcbly ft). As P

HOW NAZI PROPAGANDA WORKS.-This photograph, appearing in the the Allies* fundamental JB Illustrierter Boebachter, purports to show a Chinese coolic smoking an opium Air Mall for Malaya, Java and Government whose word could be pipe in Wyndham Street, Hongkong. A literal transla tion of the caption——

Australia by "Imperial Airways accepted.

There was no such evidence at present.

Direct Servios”-dne Sydney, 18th December.

Ord

Ker.

K.F.O.

....Dec. 12, 5 pm. ..Dec. 12, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

.Dec. 12, § p.m. Ord.

„Dec, 12,7 p.zz. Wednesday, Dec. 13 Parcels only for Swatow...10.80 a.. Swatow, and Formosa

Halphong

Amoy Shanghol

THE

An Ultimate Hope

Lord Hallfax hopes, continues the paper, that the present co-operation with France might later bring about wider economic relations In Europe. Int ground in Britain.

This is a conviction which is gain

The "News Chronlelo announces .10.30 a.m. that a survey shows that two out of p.m. every three people in Britain now .2.30 pm. have access to some form of air-raid .2.30 p.m. shelter.

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So werden Völker vergiftet

Ein Beispiel für die Mihwirtschaft in Englands Rolo. nien: Chinesischer Auli raucht auf offener Straße in Honglong Opium,

is as follows: "THIS IS THE WAY N WHICH NATIONS ARE BEING POISON- ED.-An example of the mess in England's colonies: Chinese coolie smoking opium openly in a Hongkong street.”

THE PIPE, OF COURSE, IS AN ORDINARY CHINESE TOBACCO PIPE AND IS USED FOR NO OTHER PURPOSE. Thousands of coolies use them open- ly in the streets, just as Germans use their Meerschaums, if-like the Chinese coolie in Hongkong-they can get tobacco now in Germany.

DOOMED BY RIBBENTROP

By MADAME TABOUIS

ALL FRANCE NOW FEELS THAT HITLER IS AT BAY. THIS FEELING HAS BEEN GROWING EVER SINCE THE FAILURE OF RIBBENTROP'S SECOND VISIT · TO MOSCOW.

It is realised that Hitler will be beaten because he has virtually no military reserves to set against those of the Allies.

And even had Ribbentrop been able to obtain for his master a military alliance with Russia, Hitler would still have faced even. tual defeat, But he could then at least have attempted-with some chance of temporary success-a large-scale offensive in the West.

Ribbentrop's failure in dilefly Molotov spoke to Ribbentrop like a responsible for the optimism that is superior to a subordinate. He did spreading like wildfire throughout not give him the slightest satisfaction France, from humblest form- even in the smallest detall. house, the usually sceptical bourgeois circles, to the always anxious finan- clers,

the

For example, he refused to draw and, amazingly enough, to up a Russo-German protocol for the authorisation by Russia to Germany Parliamentarians,

Before Ribbentrop's Just visit to to occupy militarily for some time the Moscow, French political observers arca around Warsaw which is even- were almost certain that the Soviet tually to be a so-called Independent

territory. would not give the Reich military

Rofused To Sign support against the democracies. This they gathered from repeated visits which the Russian Ambassador made to the Quai d'Orsay.

11e declared that documents were that In any case superfluous, and

But proof of the Soviet's attitude Russia would hand over to the Ger- mans in that region of Europe "all was not obtained till the Russo-Ger- the territory which the Soviet would man conversation in the Kremlin on not need or any longer needed for

the night of September 27. Ex- tracrdinary precautions were taken that night to guard the ancient citadel of the Cents.

5-Hour Monologue Captain Pictoukof, of the Ogpu, was in charge of arrangements. Searchlights swept the sky incessant-

ly.

von

carrying out its international policy," Stalin and Molotov refused to sign any definite convention with the Reith Foreign Minister. Nor was Ribben- trop able to obtain a definite reply regarding the military alliance, and he was obliged to ask the German Ambasandor to send a written ques- tion regarding this to the Soviet Foreign Commissar

Ribbentrop, accompanied by Count

German Schulenberg,

Am-

Molotov, In his reply, sent a few bassador, arrived at 10 o'clock to ours later, emphasised that so long did not in an begin the heavy task with which he as the Democracies had been charged. The "conversa- official text inform the Soviet Gov- tion consisted mainly of a monologue ernment that they intended to take by Ribbentrop lasting nearly five back White Russin and the Ukraine hours, in the course

of which hal in order to restore them to Poland, coldly and severely. criticised the reconstructed by a future peace Soviet Government for several in- treaty, Moscow would observe strlet fringements of agreements reached neutrality during his Orst visit.

Ribbentrop pointed out that Stalin had promised the Fuhrer he would use only 25 Red divisions for the occupation of Poland, but the Ger- man forces had been faced by 104,

Heaviest Blow

That was the heaviest blow Ribben- trop had evor received in his diule- matic carcer.

In view of the present Inolation of

as well as by 18 of the best armoured the Relch, this written reply from The Russian Government to the Ger divisions in all Russia.

1

the

He pointed out also that the Soviet man Ambassador must have sounded occupied much more territory than like a death knell to the Wilhelm- had been agreed upon, and without strasse.

On his return to Berlin Ribbentrop previous notice. Then he handed

violent dispute with Molotov Stalin and

a voluminous and bundle of memoranda and decrees Fuhrer, who held hum responsible for mission. Some which the Fuhrer wished them to the failure of his

people now hold that Ribbentrop's Glgn.

"twilight" has already begun.

Ribbentrop's Arguments

In any case Hitler is now isolated.

The documents included agreements renewing those previously concluded and he can have no doubt about the and new agreements for future In- real intentions of Stalin.

All the measures taken by the dustrial collaboration between the Kremlin regarding the Baltic coun- two countries, also numerous texts, tries show that the Soviet has ac- all tending tacitly to make the Soviet quired the necessary means of de consider herself more or less

rence on land and sca and in the to the Relchair to prevent automatically bound

any German inter against the democracies in case these ference in that region. refused the peace"offer

Memel harbour even in now within Ribbentrop pointed out that one of range of Russian guus. Morcover,

the war alms of the democracies the Soviet bos cut Germany out of of Poland-was the Black Sea, Rumania, and the

the

reconstruction

just as much a menace to Russia as Balkans.

to the Reich, and therefore the

That is why the Fuhrer, who is in

Kremlin was Just as, interested as the a stato of great nervousness and Wilhelmstrasse in crushing the de- mocracles and ending the wor us soon as possible,

E

reat anxiety, signed a military de- erce which to come into force on December 15.

Proposals Rejected

This concerns the military occupa Stalin and Molotov presented the tion of Poland, which is to be ensured Rusalan cate the next day. They re- by an extraordinarily large German ένα armoured fused, first, to entertain Hitler's plan force comprising

regular Infantry to have peace negotiations started by divisions,, nine the Russian ambassadors in Paris and divisions, eight divisions now being London.

trained, 20,000 S.S., 25,000 S.A., two They rojected all Germany's pro- divisions for Danzig and the Corridor, posals for a joint German-Russian and 75,000 men of the Landsturm. declaration, including strong threats The last named are, it appears, to of a Soviet-Nazi alliance should the "carry out the economic exploitation democracies reject the peace offer. of Poland by the Reich."

'FRISCO FAIR UNDER COURT 'PROTECTION'

Wedding Rings "Captain Foster's" RETURN TO FIGHT Fair on Treasure Island did, a brisk started with the hope 20,000,00

To Aid Finns Spontaneous Gesture At Stockholm Meeting

boxes,

Review

SAN FRANCISCO-The World's Meanwhile, the Exposition which see and business at the same.. old stands, persons would pay FOR COUNTRY but it was

which has garnered high praise from operating under HELSINGFORS, Dec. 7 (Router) Federal Court restraining order pre-visitors the world over for its scope venting anyone from suing to collect and beauty, was registering atter- A total of 230 Finnish-Americans, $4,000,914 In unpaid debts.

dances still under 10,000,000. (Continued from Page 6.)

many of whom had never seen FID-

Undaunted by developments, a land, arrived here to-day to join the The Exposition Board of Managers Rose Emily, who was supported to

fled proceedings in Federal Court group of businessmen promoters went the tune of 2,773 chances in the 8t. Finnish army as volunteers.

They left New York early last recently under a special section of ahead with their efforts to raise a Andrew's Stakea last Saturday. The

record for an extra month when it became apparent that the Emergency Bankruptcy Laws-needed $1,050,000 to reopen the fair STOCKHOLM, Dec, 7 (Reuter), latter was a

Hectic View's the Russians were eager to pick a section dealing particularly with un-next year "under new management." wan "pro- A meeting at Stockholm was attend-meeting, eclipsing

(who was second in the

secured creditors. It issued a brief They said the outlook Beaufort quarrel. [ed by 6,000 people.

News of the Soviet invasion of statement saying the move was made mising," although so for only $700,000 M. Erkko, the former Finnish Handicap on June 3, 1939) Egure of Finland reached the contingent while to insure "an orderly and equitable of a needed $1,050,000 has been

pledged. Foreign Minister, was cheered to the 2,739 for a win by 34 tickets.

they were at son,

liquidation of its affairs." echo.

ST. ANDREW'S STAKES

Attorneys explained that the bank- When an appeal for funds to help

ruptey section-Chapter 11 could be Finland was made, even wedding ELDOM has the beeting public Liliber was pulling to beat the band. Invoked only when the debtor was THE RUSSIAN ROLLER rings were thrown into the collection been given the opportunity to see Instead of taking the mare right out threatened with involuntary bank-

ROLLS The crowds at the railway station an even field of good runners over a to the front, Mr. Sung, tas jockey,

final burst No estimate of the value of assets cheered M. Sandler as he left for long distance, and there was no was quite satisfied to stay behind and ruptcy proceedings against it.

doubt that the St. Andrew's Stakes when the time come for

(Continued from Page 4.) Oslo to attend the conference on Saturday was the beat event off of speed, Liliber was too exhausted was contained in the Federal Court petition, but they were listed at the meet. The only absentee was and that was the end of the more.

are 170,000,000 discuss Russia's invasion of Finland. Blue Express, who was under a cloud, At the bottom of the hill Hectic View length, as the various buildings and destroyed. There

concessions on Treasure Island.

Russians now. Never was their and it is to be regretted that Mr. appeared to be cracking up

Federal Judge Harold Louder-elemental push so powerful, New Trans-Atlantic Eu's stable has not lately been Galaxy took up the running about

Russia remains Russia. Whether three furlongs from home. He was back issued the temporary restraining favoured with much sunshine.

However, the first, to break through immediately chased by Rose Emily, order permitting the Fair to continue led by Ivan or Feter, Cathering or

operating up to its announced closing Clipper Service

Elizabeth, date of Oct. 20 under the present Russia's power grows and is pointed or Josef, was New Stor pursued by Jober, Red Feather and Moonlight View. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Lilliber, Heetle View and the rest At the distance post Rose Emily

but management and prohibiting aling West. It will work under autocrat NEW YORK, Dac: 7 (UP)-Mr. following in the rear. That position had enough

in overalla 'as mightily and, in the Juan Trippe, President of the Pan- was maintained until the pack came Galaxy was going strong. A strong any collection suits against it.

Principal debts listed were about American Airways' System to-day Into the sraith; and, passing the challenge was then issued by Red announced that the Trans-Atlantic judge's box for the first time, Hecule Feather and Moonlight View, but $225,000 to each of six banks: 5677.000 me direction as under cutocrat in trips will bo Increased to three simtes was in the front row followed Galaxy: answered the Jockey's call in to the Pacific Gas and Electrle Com- navy, "The rooster don't weekly within three months, and that by Jober, Galaxy, Lilliber, Rose most remarkable manner and the pany which furnished power for the they win run dally except on Sun Emily and others hanging in the combine went ahead to win by one costly lighting effects, and the make the dawn, Stalin doesn't days as soon as six new Clippers have rear. One thing I noticed was that and a half lengths in three minutes Standard Oll Company of California, make the spring. Husain doos And la Russian spring appears to be kare.. 1093,000. NAAN been delivered, a kamera

Now Star was under pressure, but] dat for one and a half miles.

Scandinavian Ministers who are to

of the running,

Bnd

Alexander