1940-10-15 — Page 13

Tuesday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

HUGE STORES OF WAR RESOURCES FOR CHINA AT BURMA FRONTIER

RANGOON, Oct. 14 (UP)-Stores of war materials including 300,000 gallons of gasoline from the United States are concentrated at the Burma frontier in readiness for the reopening of the Burma Road on Thursday when China will receive new resources for her war against Japan...

Thousands of technicians are reported to be prepar- ing a thousand motor trucks at Rangoon and five thousand more at the Burma border.

These thousands of trucks will carry the material through the winding mountain roadway in defiance of Japan's bombing planes based in French Indo-China.

The materials include aero- plane parts and raw materials) for the manufacture of arma- mentą destined for factories!

hidden in the mountains near Chungking where they have: been constructed since July 17 when the British closed the Burma Road in a vain effort to appease Japan.

Road in Fine Shape RANGOON, Oct., 14 (UP)—The Burma Rood in reported to be in fine condition as a result of the $1,000,000 which has been devoted to Improve- ments, especlidly the viaducts.

A former police officer of Indian nationality

recruiting Indian

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CHUNGKING

CARS REDUCED

CHUNGKING, Oct. 15 (Reuter),—— In an effort to reduce the constamp- tion of petrol, the authorities have cut down the number of motor cars in Chungking to 200.

the in November, 1937, when Government offices moved to Chung- king from Nunking, the total num- ber of cars here exceeded 2,000,

Ench Government office is allowed only one car for use by ita superior officina.

drivers chosen erpecially for their French War

courage

and reliability.

Three

hundred have already uned and

more are expected,

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It is reported that armed forces) are waiting on the Chinn border to nel A escorts to the tracks addition to the wor material, there is a vasi store here for building a new Chungkin

Chinese Stimulated News of the promised re-opening

of the rond has stimulated Chinese donations to the war funds. 11 reliably reported that Imports from Chl have continued without a stop during the pant 3 moothn essential stores are at reseni

The centrated

border. the authorities are confident of clearing these within a month after the re- opening of the road.

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Prisoners Remain

RPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH'' VICHY, Oct. 14 (U15),--The repin from Paris regarding the conclusio of an agreement between France and

Germany to liberale French wat prizomers has been offietally dented,

Omeral

quarters here explained

that the French negotiater on behalf of

October 15, 1940

MOUNT ASAMA IN ERUPTION

Special to the “Talegrap

TOKYO, Oct. 15 (Domel) ––Mt. Asamá erupted at 5.30 p.m. yesterday. Three heavy rumblings which, preceded the eruption, warned the Observatories at Maebashi, Karuizawa, and Olwake that the eruption might be on an unusually large scale. According to a re- port from Nikke, there was a fairly thick fall of ashes for 15 minutes from 7 p‚m. yesterday and their accumu. Iation was sufficient to stick on an umbrella.

NEW JAPANESE CHIEF IN INDO-CHINA

顔にな

Major-General Raishiro Sumita, head of the School of Heavy Artillery in Japan

the prisonera 15 M Georges and former Military Attache in Paris, who succeeťed Major-General Nishihara as chief of Scupari, a Deputy during the World

War, who has limited objectives in Japanese Inspectorate in Indo-China, being welcomed upon his arrival at the Hanoi airport

and

his talks with the German authori ties in Puris.

Rice Shortage In Japan

China's

And

Chinese Goodwill CHUNGKING, Oct. 15 (Central) News).The Sino-Burmese Cultural) Assocation

the

Sinn-Indian j Society Jointly gave a ten reception yesterday In honour of Mr. Tel Chi-j o, President of the Examination Yuan, who is leaving on a good will misston to India, Burna and the South Sens.

Double Tenth

RUSSIA TO STAY NEUTRAL Interested In

Balkans

three

on October 3.

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SPRINGFIELD, I., Oct. 7 (UP)-Mr. Henry, Horner, Governor of Illinois, died yesterday at his Winnetka home at the nge of 61.

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Mr. Horner, who had been in a coma since warly Saturday, was WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (UP).—

known as the "lone..wolf" of Illinois Democratic politics and Japan faces a shortage in domestic

was unexcelled in state history as à personal vote-getter. output of rice despite the country's

14 (Central strenuous efforts at self sufflelency, CHUNGKING, Oct.

Ile was the son of Solomon A. Levy | When Mr. Horner first was elect- according to Department of Agricul- News)-Messages extending felicit

MOSCOW, Oct. 14 (Reuter).

in Dilah Horner, whose parents ed Governor 1932 he polled ations to Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of ture reports:

That neutrality remains the

were Chicago pioneers.

1,930,330 vates, up to that time the This year's crop is estimated at the National Government, on China's

been corner-stone of Soviet policy, as

Horner, a bachelor, once explained highest ever received by a guberna- 17,600,000 pounds of mill rice while Independence Day have now

from the Presidents of so often asserted by M. Molotov, that as a boy he grew up with an torial candidate in Illinois. At the the total requirements are about received

Turkey, Mexico, Brazil and Chile. 25,000,000 pounds.

is again affirmed by the Moscow invalid mother, devoling so much of sure election President Roosevelt re-

his time to her that he did not have ceived 1,882,304 votes. Press.

Popular Governor The Soviet will continue the an opportunity to mingle in social

In the November, 1936, election, people.

Mr. Hotner went on to win rC- River Trade Boats policy of neutrality, declare parties and affairs with other young

leading organs commenting on He twice was elected governor of election over C. Wayland Brooks, serving two consecutive Chicago, by a plurality of 38,178. terms being the first Democrat to do

He received a total the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo alliance.Illinois

"Pravda" recently devoted

Soviet 50 since 1870,

another record of

His parents separated by mutual governor, but ran behind President edition of Blamark's

and memoirs columna to a review

Roosevelt, who had 2,202,009 votes. referred to his insistence that thero agreement when he was four.

After his mother's death Horner

Mr. Horner was elected governor were no historical contradictions be-

devoted virtually all his life to the mostly through the efforts of Mr. tween Russla and Prussia.

study of law and positions of pubile A., Cermak, then mayor of Chiengo, He became a lawyer in 1889, and later victim of an assassin's served 17 years as Cook county pro- nie plorida-a bullet that was D. Roosevelt, whom Mr. Cermak had In January, 1833.

Merciful Man

been visiting. He was a liberal, and rarely ever With Mr. Cermak dead, Mr. Horner turned a deaf ear to mercy plea, He more or less became a "lone wolf" granted clemency to the first wornan in politics. He disagreed with sentenced to death in the electric Chicago leaders, support of whom chair in Illinois, commuting her sen- was necessary to insure political tence to life imprisonment. Later he success as a Democrat. He

fused to interfere with execution legislation even though it was spon- : of another condemned woman and sored by them.

ne died in the electric chair.

CHUNGKING, Oct. 15 (Central News),-China is building a large number of wooden boats for inland river transport, according to Mr. Wang Kwang, Director of the Navigation and of the Ministry of Communications, Department concurrently Superintendent of the Si Kiang (West River) Shipyard.

which have been assigned for north Szechwan navigation in the rivers in Kwangs), wooden

to

D

to

Vote for

With regard Soviet-Japanese office. The Si Klang Shipyard, Mr. Wang (Shenst new shipyards are being set relations, both M. Molotov and Mr. sald, has bulli 570 wooden boats up in west and south Hunan, and Matsuoka have evidenced a desire to bate judge and took office as governor intended for President-Elect Franklin

to build more bring about an improvement. boats, The shipyards in There remains the question of the For the development of river south Hunan will build particularly Balkans.

Danube Navigation and boats of light-draught to navigate the transport between Szechwan

tolks Oficial spokesmen, in their Ilunan and between Szechwan and Yuan River In that part of Hunan.

with the Press, have been reticent about recent developments there, confining themselves to reiterating o New York despatch stating that German troops had arrived Rumonia.

LIVING IN A TUNNEL RAMSGATE DEFIES NAZIS' WORST

LONDON, Oct. 14 (Reuter).-Women and children in Rams. gate, which was ruthlessly attacked on August 24 on the Polish model by the German air force, spend several hours by day and most of the night 69 to 90 feet below the ground.

They have a unique three-mile tunnel cut in the chalk below the town. Open to sea breezes, dry and clean, the tunnels have not impaired the health of the people of Ramsgate.

FOR THE 1 MAN

IN 7 WHO SHAVES EVERY DAY

Meanwhile the civic authorities ure silll engaged in clearing debris which the roiders left,

“Front Line" Life

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of

He was a friend of Clarence Dar-

the

vetoed

row, who staked his reputation as a Rich Singapore

lawyer who never lost a death case,

on

plea to Horner for commutation

Chinese

The Soviel, however, is interested In the Balkans and especially the Danube, as shown by the Nole September 10 in which the Soviet Government recalled that the Soviet of a death sentence against a 17- Union was not Indifferent to altera-

year-old boy who pleaded guilty to a tions in the Danube International murder charge. Mr. Horner com- FOOCHOW.

(Central) Oct. 15 navigation regulations.

muted the sentence.

News) Mr. Tan Kab-kee, Chinese During the 17 years. Mr. Horner industrial magnate in, Singapore, who served as probate judge of Cook is visiting here, has promised to give county he was credited with having $200,000 for reclamation in handled approximately $3,000,000,000 Fukien, and $100,000 for beautifying worth of cash and property in Wuyi Mountain on the Fuklen- settling estates for widows and Klangal border, which he has sug- orphans without a loss..

President Roosevelt's Daytona speech is published in the Moscow Press without comment

Precautions

LONDON, Oct. 14 (Reuter) Bucharest report says that Soviet Russia is taking precautionary mea- sures in Bessarabla and Northern Bukovina,

Tens of thousands of civilians, chiefly women and children, who are. still living along the south-east coast, show an unbroken spirit after four months closer to the enemy than any others in Britain, writes "Reuters" Mr. J. P. Lee, Hongkong representa- special correspondent returning after tive of the Ford Motor Co., of Shang-

$4,000 THEFT According to a report made by

a week in the British front line. hal, 31 Goodrich motor tyres, 31 inner

reimported to Hongkong The theft

gested should be a scenic centre.

North

AMERICAN MADE FILM OF ACTUAL BOMBING OF LONDON

LONDON, Oct. 14 (Reuter)London Can Take It? Is the

Dover, which is the target of op- tubesanses containing Ford chassis London which, arrived to-day, in America by Clipper

13 wheels were stolon title of a realistic film depicting the aerial bombardment of casional shelling and bombing, pre while the goods were being shipped sents as busy and cheerful an between Hongkong and Haiphong and Night after night three young The film will be distributed Im appearance by day as any town in Britain.

occurred sometime, between Septem-cameramon braved denth to take mediately in the United States, Latin these thrilling pictures of the afterwards in the British Empire and The bombing of these coast towns ber 21 and October 11.

Mr. Leo' values the stolen goods at British capital while Nazi the rest of the world. has not been, except in the case of Ramsgate, on the scale that London $4,000,

..

has experienced in the past five weeks although it has extended: longer period.

over

Bias Bay Landing, Attempt, Radio Story

bombers were droning overhead. The American commentator; Quen- fin Reynolds, provides laçonle, and, drily humorous background to the

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