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EARLY DINNERS

IN THE

HONGKONG HOTEL

WARNING

WILL BE GIVEN THREE MINUTES BEFORE THE END OF THE INTERVAL OF

"GONE WITH THE WIND'

THROUGHOUT THE

BARS & LOUNGES OF THE

HONGKONG

HOTEL

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

B. W. O. F.

A Dance in aid of the

British War Organisation Fund

THE

will be held at

ROOF GARDEN

Hotel Hongkong

by courtesy of the Management

ON FRIDAY, 8TH NOVEMBER at 9.30 p.m.

TICKETS $2. Tables may be booked at the Hotel. Evening dress optional.

Tickets obtainable at the Hongkong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.

Saturday,

HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH

SOUTH

In 10 months General Smuts has created' not only an army but an ex- tensive war industry to supply it.

In spite of the ambitious plans ventilated early last year by Mr. Pirow, Minister of Defence in the Hertzog Government, there were on- ly some 18,000 trained men in the Union last September when General Smuts took over the administration, and only about 2,000 of these were actually under arms. The organization for the supply of munitions and equipment was of the sketchiest.

Now the armed forces of the Union are on a scale comparable to those of the other great Dominions, and they are taking the field in increasing numbers, says a message

from Johannes- burg, Communications with Kenya are being main- fained by sea, by air, and by a rail and Toad route more than 2,000 miles long. Men. and supplies are steadily pouring northward to strengthen the pressure of the Imperial troops against Southern Abyssinia and Italian Somaliland.

Still more remarkable than the creation of 1 sizable army is the way in which South Africa orga- nized her industries to sup- ply her soldiers with the means to march and fight.

The Union is fortunate in possessing a very highly 'developed engineering in- dustry to serve the multi- farious needs of the gold and diamond mines and the railways, together with al- most all the raw materials needed to supply it. The key to it is the Pretoria Iron

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

AFRICAN

and Steel Works (ISCOR), which were founded in 1935.

General Smuts appointed Dr. Hendrik van der Byl, the head of this corporation, to be Director-General of War Supplies, and he has practically become South Africa's economic dictator. He has enlisted the help of manufacturers and indus- trial experts of all descrip tions, and in this short time has mobilized industry for tho

of production material on a great scale. Busy Skyscraper

war

The results have been remarkable. South African factories are now turning out

explosives, military shells, acriul bombs. grenades, and rifle ammuni tion; trench-mortars and gun; and military vehicles of all descriptions, includ- ing armoured cars. all in promising quantities.

Shells are being produced by thousands, lorries by hundreds a week. A gun is being manufactured in important numbers, the plans of which were drafted little more than six months ago. In some instances- for example, in the case of T. N. T. and small-arms ammunition-South Africa has actually been able to

assist Great Britain.

'Uniforms, boots, blankets and equipment, tinned food and army biscuits are being produced on the same scale.

This effort is being direct- ed from a great office which has been set up in one of Johannesburg's

skyscra-

pers. The Department owes much of the rapidity of its improvisation to the fact that it is run by business men, who are unimpeded by

*YOU SHOULD HAVE O

BROUGHT SOME OTHER CLOTHES/"

November 2, 1940.

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the rigid rules and trad!- This development is meet. tions of Governmenting with the willing coopera service.

tion both of capital and labour. The manufacturers are producing on the basis of cost plus a small per-/ centage. The labour unions have agreed that there shall be no strikes and no migra- tion of labour for the dura- tion of the war. Four of their representatives, paid by the unione, are working regularly in the offices of the Department to facilitate the supply of labour to the factories.

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The output is steadily * developing. Some things, such as aeroplane engines, rifles and machine-guns, and the more complicated forms of artillery, obviously beyond the capacity of an improvised industry and have to be Imported. In this connexion it is fortunate that South Africa lles outside the war zone prohibited for Ameri- can shipping, so that muni- tions bought in the United States of America can be shipped hither in American vessels. A South African. purchasing mission is in the United States, cooperating the British closely with missions.

In the simpler categorics of munitions, however, South African industry is in a way to being in a posi- tion to supply an appreci-

The Union Government is anxious that the importance of this effort should be realized In Great Britain. They have constantly in view the possibility that the theatre of war in Africa may

become considerably enlarged if, for instance, Spain and Portugal should be forced by the Dictators to throw in their lot with The Union has them.

WAR EFFORT

able part of the military needs of the Imperial Forces in Africa.

The Long View

The powers of the Direc tor-General of War-Supplies are large and his vision wide. He has been able, for example, to commandeer all the cloth lying in the hands of South African dealers for the manufacture of uniforms. At the same lime he is setting up textile factories known in South Africa) to make more. Ten or a dozen new factories are in process of creation for the manufac- ture of war

(hitherto

un-

supplies.

Schools have been impro- vised in which thousands of new workers are being trained,

Portuguese colonies as its neighbours on two sides. The Belgian Congo, another near neighbour, may also become susceptible to Ger- man influence,

Thus the defence of Africa for the Empire may shortly have to be conducted in large part from the terri- The tory of the Union. Union Government is mak- ing its plans with this possi bility in view, and is anxious that they should be seconded by the Imperial Government, in the first place by the sup- ply of such plant and tools as are necessary to complete its cycle of industries, and, secondly by additional re-

of inforcements

aircraft and other war material which cannot be manufae- tured in the Union.

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Bangkok

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Hongkong

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Baigon Semarang

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Shanghai

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Clive Street' Kuzia

SitleWed Bourabaya

Taiping

Stuering

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Canloo Cawnpore

Delhi itaiphong

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EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periods in Locni or Other Cur rencies at rates which will be quoted on application.

Savings ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with Interest allowed at ratés'obtainable en application, The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor & Trusted busines and claims recovery of British Incom Tax overpaist. on terms which may be scertained at any of its Agencies and Uranches.

B. A. CAMIDUE,

Manager.

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA. LIMITED.

Head Office:-13, Gracechurch Stress, London, E.C.3. Authorised Capital Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capital ... Reserve Fund and Rest

DANKERS:

£3,000,000

1,800,00

1,050,000

1,254,600

The Bank of England & Midland

Bank, Ltd.

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Jafina Kuantan

Bangkok

Madras

Bombay

New York

Calcutta

Kandy

Colombo

Кагаск

Delhi

Kota Bharu

Galle

Hongkong flowrali

Ipoh

Kuala Lipis

Penang Hangoon

Shanghai

Bimte

Kuala Lumpur Singapore Kuala Trengganu

HONGKONG BRANCH

description of Banking Exchange Business transacted.

Every

TRUSTEE AND EXECUTORSKIP UNDERTAKEN.

and

Current Accounts opened in Local Cur- rency and Fixed Deposits received in Local Currency and Sterling on terras that may be ascertained on application,

B. BENSON,

Manager.

"Liberty Hall"

BY KEMP STARRETT

COME ON, FOLKS, BREAK HT URWE'RE ALL GOING FOR A NICE LONG HIKE IN THE

RAIN.*

"C'MON, DON'T BE A DRIP... IT'LL GIVE YOU AN APPETITE FOR BREAKFAST,

OR YOUDE PACKED OFF TO BED AT 9. SO YOU CAN BE FIT FOR THE DAY AHEAD... AND THE ONLY BOOKT IN SIGUT ARE SOME OLD SCHOOL BOOKS AND "TUE LIFE OF THE RED ANT./"

GO TO LIBERTY HALL PREPARED ONLY TO LOAF AROUND ALL DRESSED UP AND THEY VILL DRAG YOU OUT TO THE WOODS TO

EAT CHARCOAL STEAK.

*NONSENSE. HERRING IS GOOD FOR YOUR......“SPECIALLY FOR BREAKFAST.

#GET A GOOD SLEEP PROFESSOR

BREAKFAST AT 6.30.WE

ALL HAVE TO BE UP AND

DOING YOU KNOW.

VERY BUSY DAY AHEAD PICNIC

THE INVITATION, SAID, "COME...AND. DO AS YOU LIKE--THIS IS LIBERTY HALL... JUST PLAIN BRIBERY!

'SURE, YOU CAN RIDE UM--DON'T BE A GOOD. YOU NEED EXERCISE

M. ONCOURSE N'AT · LIBERTY HALL YOU DO AS YOU PLEASE LIKAT HADDENT TO BE WHAT YOUR HOST PLEASES.

THEY COMPEL YOU TO BREAKFAST ON THE [HOOFLITS STYLIST THAT WAY. MILEN BREAFAST IN BED WOULD BE JUST YOUR DIGHT"

"THE FIRST: GÜMMED OF THE AVTUL » "TRUTH DAYVS: LIBERTY HALL IS TON'

BY A TOTALITARIANITYRANT..

(OR YOU'RE FORCED TO ATTACH "YOURSELF TO AN ANIMAL MATH MEN WINCH YOU HAVE NOTHING WHATEVER IN COMMON, TRY TO STAY THERE FOR HOURS ON END AND FOR HOURS, AFTER TRY TO STAY OFF THAT END

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