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DEMAND HEAVIER BURDENS

M.P.s Say Budget Is Inadequate

LONDON, Aug. 6 (Router).- In the House of Commons to- day,

Mr. Pethick Lawrence (Labour) expressed a strong conviction that the country was prepared to continue. the war until the menace of Hitlerism was destroyed.

He declared that if the war should go on longer than three years, our financial situation would still be not Impossible to deal with.

There was nothing to prevent a lowering of interest in long-term loans

to 2% per cent. The Chan- cellor had power to do it and the people would support him,

Should Have Heavier Burdons Mr. Lawrence said he was among those who thought that the Chan- cellor could have imposed heavier) burdens

Mr. Lawrence suggested that the Treasury Bill rate of interest should be reduced to half or three- quarters inatend of one per cent,

R. A.F. Keep Up Raids On Germany

LONDON, Aug. 6 (Router).—Ân Air Minis- try communique states that during the night R.A.F. bombers carried out attacks on military objectives in Holland and northern Germany, includ- ing targets at Wismar, Kiel and Hamburg,

Goodsyards at Hamm and aerodromes at Schipot and Borkum were also damaged.

All our aircraft returned safely.

Existing War Council Adequate

Commons Statement By Mr. Attlee

Sir John Wardiaw Milne (Con- servative) described the budget pro- posals as totally inadequate and de- clared that inflation had already begun and that we must endeavour to reverse the inflation process-to bring LONDON, AUG. 6 (Reuter)-Mr. about n reduction cin purchasing Clement Attlee, the Lord Privy Seal, power or increase supplies, or both.staled in the House of Commons lo- Sir John, who la Chairman of the day that the Government were fully Select Committee on War Expendi-nlive to the importance of the objects ture, declared that borrowhy would inherent in the suggestion that there not fill the gap between reventie and should be a joint Allied Council for expenditure and asked if there was to the prosecution of the war, be a forced loan.

lle added that if so, the summer Parliament faced the possibility the better.

Alternatives

•

He suggested taxation of all earned incomes above a stated minimum and deducted at the source; special atten- tion to those whose carnings had in- *creased as the result of the war, the Issue of premium bonds, reduction of the excess profits tax from 100 per cent. to 90 per cent. and further restrictions on luxury consumption.

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

LETTERS

Manila's View On

The Evacuation

To the Editor,

The "Hongkong Telegraph.” Sir-I am taking the liberty of enclosing a clipping from to-day's issue of the Philippines Herald. a) Monita dally, which is self-explana- tory.

This letter is being written in the spirit of one newspaperman to an- other and hot

for necessarily publication, unless in your opinion Its publication, in full or in part, will help to assure husbunda In Hongkong that their familles hover not really been treated in Manila as badly as some of them painted it in their letters

home.

Before proceeding, may I point out the detrimental effects the "publien- tion of the letters (or excerpis of them) in the Hongkong papers will cause in Manila. Up to this point Manila, including Philippine govern iment ometals, the Red Cross, United States and Philippine Army authori- ties, and hundreds of civilian men and women, have had nothing but the deepest sym

sympathy Hiness for Lite several

women and

children

and friend- Thousand

who were

to-leave their homes in Hon

by

in

in the crown

by the emergency in

Exchange At A Glance

SELLING

T.T. London Demand London T.T. Shanghai T.T. Singapore

T.T. Japan

* India

U.S.A.

1/2 .1/236

.900

.02 10294

.05

.8244

T.T. Monila

.2274

.443%

T.T. Batavia

.417%

T.T. Bangkok

140%

T.T. Saigon

.07%

Nom.

.001

.1/01/

.1/3

4 m/s D/P London

1/3

-4 m/s L/C U.S.A.

4 m/s France

30 da India

.23% .Nom, .844

TT France

T.T. Switzerland TT. Australia

BUYING

4 m/s L/C London

U.S. Cross rate in London 4.024 U.S. Cross rate in N.Y. ... .3.95

H.K. Stock Market

coinny. They have co-operated and laboured day and night to give the

The following quotations were evacuees the best

BAC

best possible treatment issued on the Hongkong Stack Mare permitted by the circumstances at-ket this morning.

their coming AL this

tending, moment, these same authorities are co-operating in sending the women: and children off to their new destina- tions in Australia with the least pos-i

sible discomfort and in A a much

betto better frame of mind than when they arrived. am afraid, however, that the publication of the letters sent back to Hongkong will make a tre- mendous difference in the way these will feel towards the evacuees. co-authorities and volunteer workers

The existing arrangements for co- operation and consulation between the Government and other govern-

write this letter as one who has ments and organisations fighting with had Intimate knowledge of the pre- Britain against the enemy were, however, fully adequate for dealingparations made for the reception ut with adi questions concerning the prosecution of the war.

He did not, therefore, see any ad- vantage in setting up machinery for the purpose.

STOCK EXCHANGE

BERLIN'S CRUDE BUSINESS SMALL

PROPAGANDA

LONDON, Aug. 6 (Reuter)-On the Stock Exchange to-day, business was too small to provide a real test of prices. Consequently, the trend

Neutral Correspondent in most sections appeared to be

Gives The Lio

LONDON, AU (Reuter)-Ber- lin has been making much of J£21 alleged story that the "Associated Press" correspondent in England was refused permission to visit British parts, whereas the Berlin correspon dent of "AP" was allowed to visit: Hamburg.

Unfortunately for the Nazis, the London "Associated Press" corres- pondent is beyond reach and is able to tell the truth. This morning he Issued the following statement:

Car And A Guide

"This correspondent, who request ed permission to tour one of the principal ports, not only received authorisation, but was suppiled by "the authorities with

car and guide for an extended tour.

slightly easier.

Gill-edged advanced at Brst but subsequently there was * reaction, partially on lack of support.

Egyptian holdings advanced but other foreign shares were quiet.

Industrial holdings were irregular and oils were occasionally better.

Wall Street was steady.

Canada And The

Americas

the evacuees and of the matner plans were carried out for the hous- ing and feeding, of the women and children. In conneellen with my work us eity editor of this paper,

drafted WRS

to handle

press relations work for the Red Cross

fund drive In July and, as such. I fans work for the Red Cross in found it necessary to handle press re- evacuees. I was therefore, fully, the

'connection with the handling of the

formed on everything that was done for the evacuees, from the time world was first received here that they were coming.

would be the last person to deny that there were flaws and cases of. efficiency in the execution of the plans for the evacuees, but these eases were the exception rather than the rule and were to be expected, considering the brief time given for | preparations and the number of evacuees who had to be received, housed, fed and, in many Instances. clothed.

In the maiter of accommodations, perhaps many of the houses were not up to the standard that the women and children had been accustomed to in Hongkong, especially in the matter of privacy, as in the case of OTTAWA, Aug 6 (Reater)Mr. the Army barracks at Fort McKinley. Minister, revealed in the House of when a hundred women and children Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime But it must be remembered that Commons to-day that an exchange of diplomatic representatives between designed to accommodate that many, are housed in bulidings not originally Canada and some of the Souththere cannot be perfect arrangements American countries was under const in the way of bedrooms, bathrooms, deration. He mentioned particularly the chief concern of the authori "This correspondent made a survey Brazil, and Argentina of over a dozen British ports-ports

09 3 "good guess" when he was questioned ties was the matter of sanitation and which the Germans cinimel to have which-South-American-countries-he food-and-in-my opinion, despite what damaged

had in mind.

some of the women wrote back home, London Garters suggest that "A.P." reports of the inek of serious

Their temporary homes

were kept comparatively clean and sanitary and and plentiful. I personally went around the various houses where

death Is announced of Sir Hugo de Admiralty communique

quired into their complaints and Bathe, the second husband of the that the trawlers, Drummer

grievances. The general complaint late Lilly Langiry, the eclebrated as Oswaldian have been sunk by enemy was that the food was cold when

damage probably inspired the Ger- TWO TRAWLERS the food served them was wholesome

man allegation

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served. This we promptly remedied by installing additional stoves. On numerous occasions when the women complained that their supper was not up to standard, the cateror promptly sent over legs of ham und bread so that they may have a late snock before going to bed. Tea was served at all hours of I the day the evacuees demanded it,

Some women wrote back about their accommodation in the Walled City (old Spanish section) which

some of them called 'filthy" and worse than Wanchai. The Walled City is the oldest section of Manila

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SHIPPING

Douglases $ Steamboats $.... Indo-Chinas P. $. Indo-Chinos DS. Shell (Bearers) s/- Waterboats $x.d..

DOCKS ETC. Wharves $. Docks (old) Docks (new). Providents $.. Sh. Docks Sh. 5.

Kalton 5/- Raubs $. H.K. Mines

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Lands 4 Debentures Shai Lands Sh. $. Humphreys $. H.K. Realties $. Chinese Estates

UTILITIES

Trams $.. Pealt Trains (old) Peak Trams (new) $.. Star Ferries $.

Y. Ferries 5..

215 A .350 n. .10 cis. 8.

.160

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August 7, 1940.

LINDBERGH ACCUSED

Editor Calls Him A "Fifth Columnist”.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

NEW YORK, Aug, 6 (UP)— The entire front page of the tabloid newspaper "New York Post" WAS devoted to editorial, signed by Ralph In- gersoll, the publisher, denounc ing Lindbergh.

The editorist was prefixed by the banner headline "Denouncing Charles A. Lindbergh."

The article refers to Lindbergh's radio broadcast, in which he advised co-operation with Germany,

Spokesman No. 1

" say very simply that Col, Lind- bergh, in his speech at Chicago on Sunday, Identifled himself as Spokea- man No. 1 for the Fifth Column," the editorial says.

"His were Fifth Column statements, naked and unashamed-things Fifth Columnists, friends of their country's enemics, have been saying for years in Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Norway and France,'

The paper alleges that Lindbergh was "obviously helped in compiling his speech."

Suez Canal Co. Assets

Safe From Seizure By The Nazis

LONDON, Aug. 6 (Reuter)-In the House of Commons to-day, Sir Kingsley Wood,. Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated that the assets and reserves of the Suez Canal Company nheld in Paris were in French francs 100 n. and could not, therefore, add to the

00 11, enemy's external resources. .33/11⁄2 n

ก

0.00 n.

“

A great part of the Company's assets and reserves were, however, held in the United Kingdom and the 80 n. United States and were, therefore, blocked under genera) mensures 10. 15% . taken by the British and United 3.00 sa. States Governments.

.27 .

He understood that the question of current fees was being left in abey- 10/ n. ance so far as the British directors

.9.55 n.] were concerned,

..5 cts. n.

3.10 sál.

Damage To

.32 sa.

.100 n.

0.90 n.

7 n.

Our Warships

,316 n.

.101.

15.

Report, Denied

7.40 1). LONDON, Aug.

(Reuter)-

.3.70 Reports of damage to British war- 57 b.ships are offelally denied in London. ..21 n. These reports had it that the Re- ...solution was hit by a bomb and that' 3.60 sa.a British cruiser was damaged dur ..38% sa. ing an engagement off the Balearic

.36 n. Islands.

17 n. The Admiralty states that these re- ..16 n. ports are completely untrue,

.11% n.

Chinn Lights (old) . China Lights (new) H.K. Electries (old) HK. Electrics (new) $.. Macao Electrics (old) $.. Macao Electrics (now) Sandakan Lights $ Telephones (old Telephones (new) $.

INDUSTRIALS Cald: Macg. (Ord.). Sh. $..14.00 m. Cald: Macs (Pref.), Sh. $.....12 n. Canton Ices Cements $

H.K.

$...

ROPSTORES, &c

Dairy Farms Watsons $ Lane Crawfords $.... Sinceres $. Wing On (H.K.) Powell Ltd. $

COTTON MILLS Ewo Sh. $....... S'hai Cotton Sh. S. MISO.

-221⁄2 1.

.8% n.

TALBOT MUNDY NOVELIST, DIES

in. BRADENTON, Florida, Aug. 0 15 s. (Reuter).The death has occurred .4% n.] here of Talbot Mundy, the English

novelist. .18 .

Born in 1879, Mundy was educated 8 £. at Rugby and had nearly 30 novels

7.45 m. to his name. Most of these novels

dcall with India and the East,

2.15 n.

.39 12.

In 1931 he married Misa Dawn

.1 n. Allen.

.34% n.

,200 n.

.99 n.

.95 n.

H.K. Govt. 4% Loan H.K. Govt. 34% Loan ILK. Govt. 34% (1940) .05 n.

Parliament To Go Into Recess

LONDON, Aug. B (Reuter)-It la

Ch. Govt. 5% 1925 GSE35% n. now expected, says Reuter's Lobby II. K. Entertainments $....6.60 n. correspondent, that Parliament will

Constructions (old) $. ...1.60 m. rise for a short summer recess on Constructions (new) $. 1. August 22. Members hope to get n

Vibro Piling

$..

. n. fortnight's holiday after which it is Marsmans Inv. (Lon) 3/- 8/11⁄2 n. thought that the House will hold sit- Marsmans Inv. (H.K.) s/-..47. n ings once a week for a time,

PALESTINIANS AND THE WAR

and the houses are closer together LONDON, Aug. 6. (Reuter)

her | Anthony Eden, the War Minister, in

than they are in the newer sections, answer to question about the use

muny

but to compare it with Wanchat... I think that was going a bit too far!

personally drove

of the children and their mothers

around in my ear, so that they may see the different sections of the city on sunny mornings, and their common com ment was that Manila looked greener, healthier, much cleaner than Hong- kong.

to which manpower in Palestine was being put, said in the House of Com- mons to-day that Palestinians were eligible to enlist in various units of the British Army.

In addition to this, arrangements were now being made, as the outcome of a recent decision, to form a number cf Palestinian companies and units In the British Army.

Incorporation For Estonia

Perhaps allowance should be made for the highly nervous condition of some of the women which, undoubt edly.

WOE responsible for their writing back morbid letters about their treatment in Manila. The best. reply to these criticisms

MOSCOW, Aug. (Reuter)-Be- Ja the fore a

crowded session of the voluminous Ble of cables and letters Supreme Soviet, Estonia to-day ap- from Hongkong authorities as well pealed for incorporation in

Individual citizens thanking

the USSR. Red Cross and Manila ometals for the

The appeal was made by M. isindness and excellent care given the Latrelskis, Secretary of the Estonian evacuees. This same file contains Communist Party in a similar tone hundreds of letters written by women to the Red Cross expressing their Lithuania.

to the appeals made and accepted by satisfaction over the arrangements made for them here.

the

cases in Baguio in which a number This, however, is secondary. The of women had to be sent down to main polnt wanted to bring out 'in Manila for palpabla misbehaviour this letter is the danger of spoiling with residents there and members of the kindly feeling which Manila has the Army garrison. These problems had for the evacuees which may ❘ were met firmly and quietly and no bring as an evacuation center for publicity was given to them. crown colony residents,

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