CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
25 words $2.00
for 3 days prepaid
TUITION GIVEN.
MODERN BALLROOM DANCING. Expert-rapid tuition. Pupils "dance in 6 hours". Tango-a speciality, Apply to-day--Tony's Dance Studie, 6th floor, China Building, 30933.
Phone
WANTED TO BUY,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.
Wednesday:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, of Share- holders will be held at the HONG XONG HOTEL, Hong Kong, on Thursday, the 15th February, 1940. | nt 11.00 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Direc tura together with a Statement of
WANTED for ensh matshed, Hong-Accounts for the year ended 31st. kong .ede. Would consider yourly rental or purchase of site only. paper Unreasonable offers basket Box 570, "IIongkong Tule- Kruph."
waste
FOR SALE.
FLOWER AND VEGETABLE seeds. Fresh supply just received from Sullen & Sons Ltd., Reading. Graca Co., No. 10, Wysdham Street, long- koug. Established 1800.
"HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY Edition. Second THE CAMERA" Over 40 excellent views of the Coleny, Price $1.50. Obtainable at Kelly &
Ltd., Hongkong Walsh, Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post, Ltd., Wyndham Street
December, 1933.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLUSED from Saturday, 3rd. February to Thurs- day, 15th. February, both days inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, 23rd. January, 1910.
NOTICE TO SHIPPERS
Notice is hereby given that freight rates will be increased by
Enemies approximately 15% effective Fch-
Spain Now Comrades
Strange Anomalies.
In Finland
HELSINGFORS.
Jan.
23
(Router).--Among the foreign
A new tariff is
ruary 23, 1940. now in proparation. HONGKONG/PANAMA FREIGHT
CONFERENCE. Hongkong, January 22, 1540.
FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
volunteers to arrive in Finland What to do to help a child to fight against Soviet Russin is an Italian air pilot, who passed through Germany on his way to Helsingfors.
He told enquiring Nazis he was an s way to some winter sports.
The attack on Finland was a greht mistake for the Bolshevists, he said. All, Italy feels great admiration for Finland, and the longer the war goɛa on, the more Italy's admiration KTOWS.
An indication of the high ideals of the volunteers is provided by Swedish detachment, which in- clades anti-Communista and anti- Nexls who fought on opposing akter during the Spanish war.
NEUTRALS LOSE
MOST SHIPS
LONDON, Jan. 23 (Reuter).~ Figures issued by, the Admiralty show once again that last week the Nazis sank more neutral ships than.. Drillsh.
Britain lost four ships totalling
11 21,000 tons. Neutrals Inst ships totalling 35,000 tons,
During the same week (up to
hns
Anyone knowing of a child who
been assaulted, neglected, or il-treated in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health, or knowing of a parent who is seeking advice on any matter concerning a child, would be doing
an net of kindness by communicating
at once with--
The Hon. General Secretary,
II.K.S.P.C., Old City Hall.
The Inspector, 49, Pokfulam Road, 1st floor.
The Inspector, 15, Star St., Wanchal.
The Inspector, 12, Sai Yeung Choi
St., Kowloon,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
DUKE TO LIVE IN PALACE
THE Duke and Duchess of
Kent, who gave up their house in Belgrave-square, S.W., at the beginning of the war, are considering making Kensington Palace their future home. It has been empty since the death of Princess Louise at the beginning of this month.
11
The Duke is at present serving as a rear-admiral on the staff of the Commander- in-Chief of the Home Fleet, and he and the Duchess have taken house In Scotland near his base,
But ever since they post- poned their departure to Australia for the Duke's term of office as Governor- General, Kensington Palace has been discussed as their possible future home,
Princess Louise left the greater part of her private fortune to the Duke of Kent, and it was her wish that after her death her home should become, his.
As
executor an Duke is
frequent visitor to the palace, and ench time he goes there he considers possible moderni- Many thousands zalions.
tho
January 24, 1940.
Small Buffer State Has 650,000 Men Mobilised
BELGIUM'S ABILITY
ΤΟ RESIST NAZIS
BELGIUM'S ability to resist aggression and her}
co-operation with Holland in the building up of a defence Would
system are stressed by Senator Paul Crockaert, President of the Commission of National Defence of the Belgian Senate and Minister of National Defence "The forest. of Ardennes with its in 1933.
camouflaged shelters and Its reliance Senator Crockaert told the on the Fertress of Namur,
"The second fortified line Joinu This line is: Brussels Correspondent of the
partially protected by the flood areas. "Daily Telegraph" that never be-Antwerp to Namur. fore has Belgium possessed an The third line is constituted by To the three cornered emplacement, army of its present size. defend her lines Belgium had Antwerp-Nieuport-Ostend. mobilized in full force the two military classes of her trained forces about 650,000 men.
is
Modern Armaments
We Aid
Dutch E.I.?
POST OFFICE
Restricted Parcel Post Service to Yunnan and Yunnan Province has been 'resumed. Individual parcels in small quantities for personal use may be accepted.
A list of protisblied articles may be seen at the General Post Oftea.
small Packet Post vo all countries a suspended.
OUTWARD MAIL, TIMES Registered and Parcel Malls are- 15 minutes eariler than the me given below unless otherwise rated, and where mails are advertis- to cine at or before 9 a.m, regis- red and parcel natis are closed at .. on the previous day. When 31 are advertised to close after 5 ... Registered and Parcel re closcil at 8 p.m.
INWARD MAILS
DUTCH COMMENT Amoy
ON BLOCKADE Java and Manila
Canton
Jun. 24. Jan. 24,
.Jan, 24,
Jun. 24.
Air Mall by "Pan American Air-ways
Direct Service"-Sant date, 13th January,
Manila
Saigon LONDON..
Shanghai
Jan. 24. "THAT Britain would come to U.S.A., Honolulu, and Japan (San Francisco, date 23rd. December "The fire power of the Belgian army
1030)
Jun. 25. beyond comparison with 1914 or the aid of the Netherlands Indies
"Air France Direct Servico-Paris dale, 17th Jan, In addition they had at their dis-even 1918. Her troops are striking- if they were attacked by one or by
Jan, 25. posal the Utrd class of trained re-ly provided with modern armaments. other of their Eastern neigh- Apart the best in existence. These weapons bours is, in present circumst-
Calcutta, Straits and Saigon. Jan. 25. servists not yet mobilized.
ances, extremely unlikely."
Canton .......
Jan. 23. from that Belgium could call to herre Belgian in conception and munia-
This opinion, with its startling | Haiphong, Holhow and Fort Bayard aid several hundreds of thousands of facture.
The 47-milimetre anti-tank gun. the big 120-millimetre gun and the implication, is expressed by the men, many of them youngsters.
For our defence," said Senator Infantry mortar are better than those Netherlands correspondent of Straits........ Crockaert, "we can also rely in-of any army in the world.
"If we are attacked we shall put the "Times." pilektis on the Dutch,
He proceeds to argue that, there- up a Arrce resistance, foot by foot,' "Ar to Belgium, she possesses three
and this resistance will have more fore, Britain ought not to restrict The first successive lines of defence.
than one, surprise in store for the German exports through Holland 1 Japan
an extent which, leading to the Shanghai and Amoy line, Campine-Liege-Ardennes, divided into three sectors:
In the event of a Dutch-Belging practical extinction of German-Dutch Shanghat
war there is one palat trade, would make it impossible for "The water scelor from La Cam-defensive
from Germany which must not be lost sight of. Our the Dutch to buy pine. with the Albert Canal.
The bastion of the Fortress of army is solely defensive. We have nimaments designed for the defence
ne heavy tanks,
of the Netherlands Indies. ********* [Liege with its modern forts.
emphasize this puit because if Without such arms, or the German intddle Holland is invaded we cannot supplied metals for their manufacture
in her rescue.
in Holland, declares the correspon dent, "the chances are that, in the Unguarded Corridor
of attack, the N.I. would fall a case
the aggressive forces. The "Between the Dutch Anny, en-prey to trenched behind its water Incs, and usefulness of the Indies not only to the Belgian Atiny, standing to its Holland but also to defence positions, there wil be an un-particularly to Great Britain, would Kuorded corridor about 40 miles wide thus be lost." between Antwerp and the mouth of the Scheldt.
of pounds will have to be spent.
5
Men Lived To
The
Tell
Tale
"JUMP FOR IT!" The pilot of the R.A.F. scouting plane gave the order only when he knew that he could no longer fight against the ice that coated the wings, jammed the rudder.
адтског.
of
Europe, and
Jan. 25.
.Jan. 25.
Francisco
Jan. 26,
Jun. 26.
Jan. 20.
Jan. 25.
.Jan. 20.
date.
17th
Jan. 27.
Jan. 27,
Jan. 27.
Jan. 27.
Jan. 27
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct
London,
Service"
January,
Haiphong Japan
Japan and Shanghal Shanghat
Air Mall by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"--London date, 20th Jan.
Canton ..... Japan and Shanghai Shanghai
Haiphong
Mobiln
Jan. 28.
Jan. 28.
Jan, 20.
Jan. 28.
.Jan. 29.
.Jan. 29.
U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Manliu (San Francisco dafe, 4th January).
Japan and Shanghal Japan and Shanghol Java and Manila
Jan. 20.
Jan. 30.
Jan. 31.
Jan. 31.
12.30 p.m.
London Unsympathetic Well-informed opinion in London "An enemy coming from the cast does not attach much value to this "Inter- argument against will not neet emelent resistance in line
British blockade by the this large corridor, which opens on ference"
German exporis through Holland. the sea at the mouth of the Scheldt, with
"In conclusion let me say some- It is felt that, in Germany's present either from Holland or Belgium, thing about the extensions made by economic plight, the indirect contri- ease, make to the defences of the N.I. three months. the Belgian Army during the past button which the Nazis could, in any "I take credli for having created would be of no practical Importance, while I was Minister of National:
Moreover, It is not admitted that Defence, over and above the exist-Great Britain would be content to
Canton ing regiments, the regiment of see the Netherlands Indles pass from Ardennes Chasseurs.
the possession of the Dutch into the Sandakan.. "When the time came, this reginent control of a Great Power which Shanghai (Parcels only)...2.30 jp.m. was expanded to two divisions, which might, in due course, prove hostile 1 Haiphong...
Shanghal and Japan They talked over their adventure, ore in the front line of some part of to Britain. and now their story is revealed in the Forest of Ardennes. another of those terse, official Royal Air Force reports which have told salary effort in the last three months. much of the courage and endurance and of the military power which we
have prepared for many years." of Britain's airmen.
One by one his crew of four took to their parachutes. At last he followed. As they drifted down through the clouds they lost sight of each other. But all landed safely, The Inspector, 52, Argyle Stand by chance met again round a table in a cheerful All further steps will be laken, and French cafe behind the Allied lines. expenses borne, by the Society.
Kowloon.
The Informant's name, will be kept strictly private, except in cases where mulice is proved,
CZECH
Britain's New DEATH-ROLL "Flying Blind"
Speed Limit
IS
1,700
January 17), the record of safety in 20 M.P.H. During The pEPORTS reaching Budapest from
gonvoy was maintained, at one lost- in 500.
These Agures give a proper propor tion to the reports of individuals.pa lost from day to day.
COMING TO THE
Black-Outs
LONDON, Jan, 23 (Reuter): -The Government has decided that there is an overwhelming case for the speed limit of 20 miles an hour in built-up areas
IV. Prague to-day give the total number of people so far killed by the' of the receist Nazis as the result Czech demonstrations as 1,700..
given from an The figure is oflelal Nazi which source. that Jews accounted for one third of the total.
"Snow was making a carpet on the fluor of the front Kunner's cockpit. tee covered the windows of the cablu and isolated us from everything out- side.
Wo were flying blind. So runs the report.
The pilot and his crew carried on with the-job, thankful for the oxygen that kept us doing and our spirits up."
They sang popular songs, "South of adds the Border," "Roll Out the Barrel," and "Banglag out our washing on tie Siegfried Line."
There have been several thousand
KING'S during the black-out, announced further arrests in the past Ave days. Trapped By Wires
Danger drew him as a magnet draws iron!
SAMUEL GOLDWYN prezinta
Gabi
COOPER THE REAL GLORY
** David HIVEN-Andrea LEIDS
Reginald OWEN
MODRICK CLAWYEND 'S KAT JOWOH
Mr. Euan Wallace, the Minister
•
He had
"This may give an idea of our ralli- FRENCH WARSHIP
Thames 'Grave' For Radium
-Buried In Secret-
Repository
SINKS U-BOATS
PARIS.
Graphle details of how a French destroyer sank two German sub- marines in three days werò given this evening in a French Admiralty communique, which stated:
OUTWARD MAILS Wednesday, Jan. 24 Straits............. Amoy, Shanghai and Parcels only for
Tientsin
.2.30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25
.7.15 am. .12.30 p.m.
13.00 p.m. 3.30 p.m.
Air Mail for Indo-China, 'Iran, and France (Paris and Northern Pro- vince only) by the "Air France Service”—dge Airways Direct Farls, 1st February.
E.r.o.
G.P.O.
Rcg.
Ord,
Jan. 25, 9.30 am. ..Jan, 25, 10 am.
Reg.
Jan, 25, 9.30 a.m.
Ord.
Friday, Jan. 28 - 2.
Straits
.9.30: 1.1. .2.30 p.m.
Jan. 25, 10 am.
"One of our seaplanes reported an enemy submarine. The destroyer Shanghai Sirocco, on patrol, hastened to the Parcels only for Tientsin...3.30 p.m. spot, making for a buoy dropped-by-Manila, Australia and New-Zealand-
via Thursday Island-due Thurs- day Island 8th February
Reg.
the seaplane where the submarine had just emerged.
for
then
same
Ord.
Ick.
Ord.
K.P.O.
G.P.O.
.5 p.m. ..5.30 p.m.
.5 p.m.
.7 p.xx.
Airmail for Manito, Guam Honolul
and U.8.A.. by the "Pan American Airways Direct Servicedue Sau Francisco, 2nd Feb,
Reg.
Ord
Iter.
Ord.
"Before reaching the buoy the des
Into bomb-thrower LONDON, (UP)-Fifty feet troyer put its deep in the Thames gravel under action, fring first one chain of depth Westminster Hospital a "safe bombs and then almost immediately afterwards a eccond chain. At the deposit" vault is being construct-sterra, just in the wake, the crew The majority of those arrested are
But as they sang ice was steadily ed for the hospital's radium of the destroyer saw the submarine camp. of
creeping over the wings, coating the bombs and the contents six slowly emerge, listing over on its] of Transport, in the House of now in the concentration
Buchenwald.
rudder. The plane became unman-
'Radium Balts port ballast tanks.. -of grammes
remained "It listed further, Commons to-day in a debate on
agcable.
valued at between £30,000 and about 10 seconds on the surface in Jump for it** the increase of road accidents STUDENT'S ASHES
this
position, impossible The front gunner jumped first, £40,000. and deaths since the black-out IN BOX
Fifty feet of steel tubing 15 inches foundered.
"Three days later, in the was instituted..
Detalls of one incident showing the pushed off by the navigator. ruthlessness of the Nazi terror cam-kept on his inter-communication ear in diameter, has been sunk into the picees, and the wires became so en- Increased Road Fatalities palen are revealed,
the mouth of the well to the level light of the moon the silhouette of a The parents of a student named tangled that he was nearly hanged gravel An additional 10ft. brings waters, the destroyer sollend by the
German submarine on the surface.
"The first shots were immediately Japan Mr. Wallace meatloned that during Oblatica received in a box the ashes before he was released,
But somehow all five man struggled of the radium bomb room.
The work has been carried out so the period, from September 1 to of their son from the pollee. His December 31 last, namely the first sister then went to the University of free, to drift to earth and meet again that it may be possible to bring back fred at the submarine. A shell from Saigon four months of war, 4,133 persons, Prague and told his fellow students. In that French cafe.
The gunner who had been almost the hospital's radiurn from a similar the sin, gun found fts maric and the Shanghai About 200 students who knew
Sirocco dropped depth including 2,857 pedestrians, died from
as it where it was deposited at the out- road accidents, compared with 2,494 Oblatka marched at once to the grave hanged sald: "I was knocked un-well of the Royal Cancer Hospital submarine dived abruptly.
my parachute Czech Unknown Warrior, conscious by lu the corresponding period in 1938. of the
further string opened. When I came round I found break of the war. The radium bomba charges, then went again over the
field will be deposited in the tube each spot and dropped
of bombs. Mr. Wallace stated: "Until the day Jenrrying the old flag of the city.
night in case of air raid.
"Just as the last bomb exploded, The Czech police tried to disperse myself lying on my back in comes and may it come soon-when
In this way, while the radium is we have destroyed a sufficient pro-them in a friendly manner, says among a herd of utterly unconcerned:
safely stored at night it can still be the bow of the submarine was seen portion of the German striking force Reuter, but the Nazi police intervened and completely indiferent cows."
used in the hospital during the day, to rise vertically in the wake of the as make the menace of air-raids brutally.
"Went To Steap"
and put away hurriedly in case of destroyer. Then it suddenly plunged
straight down and disappeared." danger.
on this country no longer real, we
SHOT
are bound to maintain the black-out, GIRLS WERE substantially in fts present form."
The reduced speed limit comes into force on February 1.
FOOD PROBLEM WITH GASTRITIS
For years, doctors wanted to And a fodd that would not ix- ritate the infamed stomach walls of patients sufforing from gas- tritis and that at the same time would rebuild the patient's strength. In severe cases of gas- tritis solid foods are out of the question, even liquid foods are often vomited, Yel the patient needs quick new strength to xe- In build his exhausted body. Horlicks, doctors and nurses have found an ideal food.
Where other foods are rejected Forlicks is relained by the patient. And almost at oricu strength starts to come back, with the result that convalescente
shortened too, Get Horlicks to-day from your store. It delicious to taste."
།
(3)
The pilot said: "I landed softly and was taken care of by the local gendarmes."
The students returned to the uni-
The wireless operator laughed.. " versity and Nazi police entered the was chased by some bulls," he said. building, savagely attacking an was still in full flying kit, but I elderly member of the senate, who reckon I nearly broke the record for From a lecture theatre the police the 100 yards. I escaped by vaulting
over a 4ft. gale,"
Another member of then took 30 students and led them
went to meet them.
the
crow ho fell
off. Later the same day 11 of them, thought he was in water 35 3 youths and two young women, were through the clouds, and started to shot dead on the ground of the Slavia take off his boots. Football Club.
"I sprained en ankle on landing," ho sald, hobbled to the house and went to sleep.
Lloyd George
nearest
TO
an
SAVE HIS
"The
MATES-
HE RETURNED TO TORPEDOED SHIP
KP.0.
✓
Jan. 26, 5.00 p.m. Jan. 20, 5.20 p.m. G.P.D.
Jan. 20, 5.00. p.m. Jan. 27. 7.30 am.
Saturday, Jan, 27 m2
.10.30. a.m.
10.30 a.m. 2.30 p.m.
Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Direct Service"dae London 4th February.
Neg. Ord
G.P.O, & K.P.O.
›
..Jan. 27, 5.p.m. Jan. 27, 5.30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 28
.....9 a.m.
.0 a.m. Amoy and Shanghai Bangkok Fort Bayard and Holhow ... a.m. Monday, Jan 20
.7.10 a.m. Canton. Halphong (parcels only) 1.100 p.m.
.7 p.m. Canton
Parcels, Letters,
Haiphong
Tuesday, Jan. 30 Stralt and Colcutta.
Jan. 30, 11 a.m. Jan. 30. Noon. .2 p.m. .2.30 p.m.
Direct Service"-due · London, 7th February.
Fort Bayard
K.T.0.
Iter.
Ord.
Jan. 30, 5p.n. Jan. 30, 5:30 pm. G.P.O.
Rer.
Ord.
Jan. 30, 5 p.m. Jan. 30, 7 p.m. Air Mail for Malaya, Java nad Aus. tralin by "Imperial Airways Direct Bervice-due Bydney, Bil Feb;
K.F.0.
Jan;.30, B p.m. Jan..30, 5.30 p.m.
THE STORY of an engineer who risked his life by Air Mail for "Imperial Airways returning to a torpedoed ship to save his mates, was told when 22 survivors of the Arlington Court were landed at down below, althougti another tor- an Irish port.
pedo might find its way to the vessel The ship was struck without warn- or she might capsize at any minute.
"He turned off the engines and Looks Back LABOUR LEADERS ing by a U-boat last Thursday.
For four days and nights the 22 managed to get back to the first men fought agalast Atlantle gales in lifeboat. OFF TO FINLAND
Huge scos were running and an open bont, LONDON, (AP)—Mr. David Lloyd
there
were several inches of water STOCKHOLM, Jan. 33 (Reuter) - Their food was three, biscutis af George was relatively resimined re-
in the boat all the time. We had to cently in a broadcost relating details A Erish Labour delegation, headed day, washed down with water.
"The crew of 34 tools to the boats, keep rowing and balling to keep it of the sorry plight of the Ailles on by Sir Walter Citrine, which le en Dec 6, 1816-the day he was appoint route to Finland is now here can-23 in one lifeboat, eight in another afloat.
Swedish Labour leaders,
and three in; a
"On Sunday Chief Engineer H. dinghy," Second {sulting ed Prime Minister?
The delegation is going to Finland Officer Claude Boothby of Leicester, Pearson, of Cardiff he was turned On this 23rd anniversary of his
60--collapsed and died. We buried appointment he said it had always at the invitation of Finnish Trade told the "Dally Herald,
"A south-west gale made the him at sea." pleased him to hear the oft-repeated Unions to report on the situation and
When Monday dawned we began ministerial phrase in alluding to Finland's needs to the British Labour launching of the boats terribly dim-.
cult, and those who did not get into to think our chance was hopeless." somo method or measures adopted. In movement. pala
Then, on reported in the "Dally Herald" recently, the Dutch vessel ho current war: That was only Sir Walter Citrine, in an interview, them quickly stood filo chance ou dono in the third year of the last said that he hoped one result of the being saved
visit would be to show the British "Second Engineor Richard Hughes, Algonib sighted the boat and took! War."
"But that's not to say," added Mr. Government a more effective way of of Holyhead, realized this, but he the men aboard. Lloyd George, "that everything now helping Finland 1 necessary. He also know that if water got into the The other two boats, containing 11 is being done that was done in the addid, that he and his colleagues engines the ship would blow up. of the crew, have so far not been
would visit the fighting frosila, jon "So at the risk of his life he went traced. third year of the (World) War
12
5
Rex.
Ord.
Rer.
Ord,
dr.0.
Jan. 30..5 pan. **Jan. 30, 7. par.
Thursday, Feb. 1
Shanghai
10.30 am. Manila, Rabaul, Australia and New *Zealand vla Brisbane duo Bris
bano, 19th February.
G.P.O, and K.P.O. Parcela
Feb. 15 pm. Feb. 2: 8.48... Feb. 2, 9.30am.
Ieg.
Ord,
Saturday, Feb. 3
Touranc
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.