1940-10-15 — Page 21

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HONGKONG, TELEGRAP

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 af 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- ments destined for factories

CHUNGKING

hidden in the mountains near CARS REDUCED Chungking where they have CHUNGKING, Oct. 15 (Reuter) — been constructed since July 17 when the British closed the Burma Road in a vain effort to appease Japan.

in an effort to reduce the consump ton of petrol, the authorities have cut down the number of motor, cars in Chungking to 200.

In November, 1937, when the Road in Fine Shape

moved to Chung- Government officer RANGOON, Oct. 14 (UP) The king from Nanking, the total num- Burma Road is reported to be in fine ber of cars here exceeded 2,000. condilon as a result of the $1,000,000) Each Government ofce is allowed which has been devoted to improve-only one ear for use by its superior ments, especially the viaducts,

A former police officer of Indian

nationality

recruiting Indian

drivers chosen especially for their

courage

rellability. und

hundred have already joined and

more are expected.

officials.

French War

it is reported that armed forces Prisoners

are waiting on the China border to

act

as escorts to the trucks. In addition to the war material, there in

n vast store here for building a new) Chunicking.

Remain

SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH” VICHY, Oct 14 (UP).—The repor from Paris regarding the conclusior of an agreement between France and

Germany to liberate French wai prisoners has been ometally denied.

the

October 15, 1940.

MOUNT ASAMA IN ERUPTION

Special to the "Telegraph

TOKYO, Oct 16 (Domai)----Mt. Asaına erupted at 5:30 p.m. yesterday. Thron beavy rumblings which proceded the éruption, warned the Observatorios at Maebashi, Karuizawa, and. Olwake that the eruption

· might be on an unusually large scale. According to a re- port from Nikko, there was a fairly thick fall of asbes for 15 minutes from 7 pm, yesterday and their accumuK. lation was sufficient to stick on an umbrella.

NEW JAPANESE CHIEF IN INDO-CHINA

Chinese Stimulated News of the promised re-opening of the road has simulated Chinese donations to the war funds. It is Omelal quarters here explained reliably reported that imporia from that the French negotiator on behalf China have continued without a stop of during the past 3 months and Scapint, a Deputy during the World!) essential stores are at

con- War, who has limited objectives in Japanese Inspectorate in Indo-China, being welcomed upon his arrival at the Hansi airport centrated on the border. The his talks with the German authori- authorities are confident of clearing lies in Paris. these within a month after the re- opening of the road.

Major-General Raishiro Sumita, head of the School of Heavy Artillery in Japan prisoners Fa M. Georges and former Military Attache in Paris, who succeeded Major-General Nishihara at chief of

present

Rice Shortage In Japan

Chinese Goodwill

CHUNGKING, Oct. 15 (Central News)The Sino-Burmese Cultural Assocation and the Sino-Indian Society Jolatly gave a fen reception yesterday in honour of Mr. Tai Chi- too, President of the Examination Yuan, who is leaving on a good will mission to Indin, Burma and the South Seas.

China's River Trade Boats CHUNGKING, Oct. 16 (Central News)China in building a large number of wooden boats for inland river transport, according to Mr. Wang Kwang, Director of the Navigation Department of the Ministry of Communications, and concurrently Superintendent of the Si Kiang (West River) Shipyard.

RUSSIA TO STAY NEUTRAL Interested In Balkans

tween Russia and Prussia,'

|

on October 3.

Dramatic Life Story

Of Illinois Governor

SPRINGFIELD, 'III., Oct. 7 (UP)—Mr. Henry Horner, Governor of Illinois, died yesterday at his Winnetka home at the age of 61.

Mr. Horner, who had been in a coma since early Saturday, was known as the "lone wolf" of Illinois Democratic politics and was unexcelled in state history as a personal vote-gotter.

He was the son of Solomon A. Levy ( When Mr. Horner first was elect- 1933 be polled and Dilah Horner, whose parents ed Governor in were Chicago pioneers.

1,930,330 votes, up to that time the Horner, a bachelor, once explained highest ever received by a guberna- that as a boy he grew up with an torial candidate in Illinois. At the Invalid mother, devoting so much of same election President Roosevelt re- ble me to her that he did not have ceived 1,882,304 votes. parties and affairs with other young an oppertunity to mingle in social

office. He became a lawyer in 1889,

Popular Governor

In the November, 1938, election, Mr. Horner went оп to win re-

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (UP) - Japan faces a shortage in domestic output of rice despite the country's

Double Tenth strenuous efforts at self sufficiency, CHUNGKING, Oct. 14 (Central according to Department of Agricul-|News) ---Messages extending fellclt-

MOSCOW, Oct. 14 (Reuter), ture reporta:

ations to Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of This

year's crop is estimated at the National Government, en China's-That neutrality remains the 17,500,000 pounds of mill rice while Independence Day have now been corner-stone of Soviet policy, us the total requirements are about received from the Presidents of so often asserted by M. Molotov, 25,000,000 pounds,

Turkey, Mexico, Brazil and Chile. is again' aflirmed by the Moscow

Press.

The Soviet will continue the policy of neutrality, declare people. leading organs commenting on He twice was elected governor of election over C. Wayland Brooke, the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo alliance. terms being the first Democrat to do the received a total vole of 2,007,061 Illinois serving two consecutive Chicago, by a plurality of 38,176. "Pravda" recently devoted three

| 20 since-1870.- columns to a review of a Soviet edition of Bismark's memoirs

to set another record vote for His parents separated by mutual governor, but ran behind President and referred to his insistence that there agreement when he was four,

Roosevelt, who had 2,282,999 votes. After his mother's death Horner were no historical contradictions be devoted virtually all his life to the mostly through the efforts of Mr. Mr. Horner was elected governor With regard to Soviet Japanese study of law and positions of public A. J. Cermak, then mayor of Chicago, The Si Klang Shipyard, Mr. Wang Shensi new shipyards are being set relations, both M. Molotov and Mt. served 17 years as Cook County pro and later victim of an assassin's said, has built 570 wooden boats up in west and south Hunan, and Matsuoka have evidenced a desire to bate judge and took office as governor bullet in Florida- bullet that was which hove been assigned for north Szechwan to build more bring about an improvement.

in January, 1033.

intended for President-Elect Franklin There remains the question of the

Merciful Man

D. Roosevelt, whom Mr. Cermak had | been visiting. Ile was a liberal, and rarely over Danube Navigation

With Mr. Cermak dead, Mr. Horner turned a deaf ear to mercy plea. Ile more or less became a "lone wolf" Official spokesmen, in their talks with the Press, have been reticent ! granted 'clemency to the first woman in politics. He disagreed with the

sentenced to death in the electric Chicago leaders, support

of whom about recent developments there, chair in Illinois, commuting her son was necessary to insure political confining themselves to reiterating a

tence to life imprisonment. Later he success as a Democrat. He New York despatch stating, that refused to interfere with execution legislation even though it was spon German troops

arrived

in of another condemned woman and sored by them. Rumonia.

The Soviet, however, is interested she died in the electric chair.

Io was a friend of Clarence Dar- the Balkans and especially the Danube, as shown by the Note of

death' case, September 10 in which the Soviet buyer who never lost a deat Government recalled that the Soviet a plea to Horner for commutation 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, Oct. 15 (Central navigation regulations.

muted the sentence. President Roosevelt's Daytona

News) Mr. Tan Kah-kee, Chinese speech is published in the Moscow served as probate judge of Cook is visiting here, has promised to give During the 17 years Mr. Horner industrial magnate in Singapore, who Press without comment.

county he was credited with having $200,000 for reclamation in North Precautions

handled approximately $3,000,000,000 Fukien, and $100,000 for beautifying LONDON, Oct. 14 (Reuter) worth

of cash and property in way! Mountain on the Fukien- Bucharest report says that Soviet settling estates for widows and Klangs border, which he has sug- Russia is taking precautionary mea-orphans without a loss, sures in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina,

in

navigation in the rivers in Kwangsi. wooden boats, The shipyarda

For the development of river south Hunan will build particularly Balkans. transport between Szechwan and boats of Ught-draught to navigate the Hunan and between Szechwan and Yuan River in that part of Human.

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 forec, spend several hours by day and most of the night 60 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.

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Meanwhile the civic authorities are still engaged in clearing debris which the raiders left.

"Front Line" Life Tens of thousands of civilians, chiefly women and children, who are stlil living along the south-east coast, show an unbroken spirit after four

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bad

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$4,000 THEFT

months closer to the enemy than any According to a report made by others in Britain, writes. "Reuters” Mr. J. P. Lee, Hongkong representa=| special correspondent returning after tive of the Ford Motor Co., of Shang- a week in the British front line.

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AMERICAN MADE FILM OF

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hal, 31, Goodrich motor tyres, 31 Inter LONDON, Oct. 14 (Reuter),—“London Can Take It is the

} tubes and 13 wheels were stolen title of a realistic film depicting the aerial bombardment of Dover, which is the target of oc- from 20 cases containing Ford chops London which arrived to-day in America by Cilpper. casional shelling and bombing, pre-while the goods were being shipped senta as busy and cheerful an between Hongkong and Haiphong and Night after night three young - The Blm will be distributed m Britain. appearance by day as any town in reimported to Hongkong The theft cameramen braved death to take mediately in the United States. Latin

occurred sometime between Septem-

America and Canada, and doubtless these thrilling pictures of the afterwards in the British Empire and The bombing of these coast towns ber 21 and October 11.

Mr. Lee values the stolen goods at British capital while Nazi the rest of the world. has not been, except in the case of

bombers were droning overhead., unh Ramsgate, on the scale that London $4,000,

The American.commentator, Quen» Un Reynolds provided a Isconle and drity humorous; background ""to . the

has experienced in the past five weeks although it has axtended; over Bias Bay Landing Longer period.

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