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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 19,

1940.

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THUMBS UP-Two of 118 British children arriving in New York to be distributed in American homes for duration of war abroad. They are George Houton, left, son of chimney sweep, and Arthur Mayes, both 6. Train from London to Liverpool went through 16 ralds. Thumbs up means all's well,

Alleged

Favouritism

To Ex-Bank Director

Greeks Capture Another Town

FROM PAGE ONE

"It would be interesting to know why the Bank of on the right wing of the Eprus sector, England made an exception of this rich influential finan- where the flanks of their advanced cier," remarked Sir Robert Dummett at Bow-street recent-column are

exposed owing to the

ly when he imposed fines totalling £15,010 on Leon Pandelif debacle in the Pindus sector. Argenti, 58, of Guildford, for currency offences.

Argenti, said to be a British subject and a former director of a merchant bank, whose name was kept secret, was summoned for having failed to offer to the Treasury two gold bars, worth £6.400, 400 sovereigns and 2,000 Swiss francs, of an aggregate value of £7,200. The defence was that he was not resident in the United Kingdom and that the regulations did not apply to him.

favouritism" shown in the permission granted on Oct. 28...

Good Propagandists Military circles here regard the

escape of those four to five thousand Italians from the Pindus pocket as one of the major successes of the whole affair from the Greek point of have returned view. They weaponlesa, rugged and semi-starved with tales of the avalanches which the Greek troops dynamited upon "This man has lived for years

them from the belghts above the

will ravines. Their panie shake the in this country, and waxed fat

Mr. Pescott: He submitted that the morale of Hallan reinforcements badly and become rich," said the

securities were purchased for the enough, but when the waters of the Viosa River run down from the Pindus magistrate. "In the moment of specific purpose of using the proceeds Viosa

mountains. through the her peril, like a rat, he tries tout the factory in Belgium.

Albanian Sir Robert!

bert: Unless there was 'an valleys with the bodies of some get away from the sinking ship, as he thinks. The whole cir-actual contract those securities were hundreds of their comrades whom making a subject to the ordinary Inw. There they had believed to be cumstances revolt me.'

triumphal march through Greece, It is no contract here.

will hardly urge them to attack the which ure now Greek, defences stronger than ever.

Mr. F. D. Barry, prosecuting, said that In September, 1939, Argent! failed to get the Bank of England's permission to sell certain securities to Anance an oilseed crushing plant he was going to start in Antwerp, but

he had after

renewed the request through his solicitors it was granted on Oct. 20.

Argenti by that time was living in Belgium, and in April, after further correspondence, the Bank of England wrote to

to the solicitors: "In view of the circumstances, the Control are prepared to allow that Argenti be regarded for the purposes of the re- gulations

non-resident, His sterling balances, therefore, are at his free. disposal."

as

Sir Robert Dummott: I simply can not understand this!

-Escape From Belgium

Mr. G. B. McClure, defending, sold that the gold would'nt once be offered for sale to the Treasury:

No Discussion Of

Immigration Rules talion air attacks "evidently solely

A discussion on the new immigra- tion law, which was among the items on the agenda of the monthly meet-

Terrorising Civilians ATHENS, Nov. 12 (Reuter).-

intended to terrorise the civilian population," recorded a communique, and hand- include a thachine-gun grenade attack on villages in Epirus, * of the Chinese Chamber of Com- a machine-gun attack on Janina, and merce yesterday, was cancelled at the bombing of Corfu, the small town the last minute. The Vice-Chairman of Tessaly and the British Cemetery

Tsak-wah. told the meeting) in the Klalkis district. that he had discussed the matter

New casualties and slight damage. with

the Secretary for Chiacs were caused in these attacks, the fairs, who advised him to leave the communique adds. The morale of discussion to the Executive Com the civilians remains perfectly sound. niiller of the Chamber.

The meeting decided to ask the Executive Committee to study all

King's Sorrow ATHENS, Nov. 12 (Reuter)

Mr. Barry added that after the letters and recommendations made "My heart is wrung with sadness". Germans invaded Belgium Argenti by the Chamber's members regarding runs a message of bombed towns and

the Chamber villages. fled to the Franco-Spanish frontier, the new law before and in June reached this country in a subiritted its final opinion to the British troopship. It was his inten~ Government.

re-

tion

to the United States. to go In July the Banic of England re- tused to allow Argenti to send cur- rency abroad, as they could not re-

non-resident. In gard him as sponse to a request from the Banks, he then disclosed for the first time the existence of the gold and Swirs fruner, which were deposited in Switzerland.

BOMBS ON SUEZ

CANAL AREA

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" CAIRO, Nov. 12 (UF),~~The Minis- try nt licme Steurity issued a com- munique to-day saying that enemy, aircraft dropped some bombs in the Mr. Percy Arthur Pescott, a Bank Suez Canal zone last night and also fruit plantation near Cairo, of England omelel, was asked by the on magistrate the reason for the "spretul The damage was insignificant.

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After referring to "cowardly at- tacks against open towns,” the mess- age says: "The whole civilised world is invited to see these ruins and the nture of the victims TO that they may judge the adversary and his methods."

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Thailand Grows More Sugar

THÁI government officials are now in Manila nego- tiating for the purchase of a sugar central which they intend to dismantle and ship to their country.

The mission is headed by Luang country in a month with the dis- Roth Rathavicharn, an official of the inantled sugar central. This will be Thai Ministry of Economic Affairs set up and will be operated by the Ho sald in an interview that his government which runs the present country had only one mugar central, sugar central.

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the output of which was insufficient Accompanying Luang Roth Ratha Annily he needs of the peopio. vicharn' on 'the mission are two other That had to import large efficials of he Thai Ministry of

Videt quantities of sugar from Java he Economic Affairs, Luang stated. The country needed at least trakich and Nal Nidhinandans; also six sugar contrals, but present plans on official of the That Niyom Panion called for the installation of only one Co. Ltd., Luang Upakor Rathavithi “The Thai Nyom Panich Co. in n additional central

Should their mission succeed, the semi-government, concern and la Thai officials expect to return to their subalized by the government..

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