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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH/

December 21, 1940.

Court

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Chinese Products Fair To Be Opened To-morrow

met

To-morrow at 3 p.m., Ils encouragement to the organisers, been taken by manufacturers from Excellency the Acting Governor, whose efforts to popularise locally- Macao and Shanghal. L-Gen. E. F. Norton, will open with deserved success, as well as to the most trifling articles of daily use,

manufactured products have

Who, products on view will includo the fourth annual trade fair of the exhibitors, inany of whom huve such as matchies, safety-pins and the Hongkong Chinese Manufac- co-operated wholeheartedly year toilet requisites, to beavy items of turers' Union. The Fair this after year in the scheme.

Industrial machinery. year is being held on the large tract of open ground opposite the Peninsula Hotel, at the corner of Salisbury and Nathan Roads, and will extend for ten days.

Representative Show

Thousands of dollars have been spent in

in developing the Fair site, The first Fair of the kind, held in which is built in the form of a the grounds of St Paul's College four Chinese walled

city, with pal-laus years ago, was a comparatively small and other characteristic features. affair, and the goods shown were not Admission to the Fair is 10 cents per entirely representative. This year, person, and an Individual ticket however, it may, be said that every costing 50 cents entitles the holder LILA Excellency's presence to branch of Industry in Hongkong is to admission during the entire ten morrow will serve to alvo added|represented. In addition, ställs havesdays

Ship Losses Since Outbreak Of War Exceed Three Million Tons

By OTTO JANSSEN

United Press Staff Correspondent

Architect's drawing of the entrance to the Fairs, as it will look to-morrow.

U. S. Conscripts Face Knowledge Tests

Conscripts called up for selective service in the United States will get a serious shock, unless the War Department suddenly wakes up, when they take tests to determino the military service for which they are best fitted.

The aptitude examinations, based on the intelligence tests

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UP).—World shipping losses have exceeded 3,000,000) gross tons since the European war began in September, 1939, and at least 300,000 tons to which school children have been subjected for the last couple more have been seriously damaged, accord.ng to the latest available statistics of the of decades, are described as so tough that few can make a respect- United States Maritime Commission.

It la certain that losses to date are considerably higher than this, as the Commission's figures extend only to the early part of October. The intensified air, submarine and surface-war- ship offensive of the Axis powers against British shipping was not in full progress at that time.

The toll of Empire 'shipping] The Latin American countries have has been large as a result of the suffered few ship losses so far be- campaign to bring the blockade cause of the war. One Argentine vessel of 3,425 gross tons has been

of Britain to the peak of effec-sunk since hostilities, commenced, tiveness.

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The Commission's figures show that from September 3, 1939, October 5, 1940, a total of 349 Bri- tish merchantmen of 1,356,223 gruss tons have been destroyed. This does not include vessels that have been seriously damaged or Ihted an miles- Lig.

Axis Losses

Germany's losses stand second to Britain's, totalling 69 ships of 382.- 493 grocs tons. Her partner, Italy,

gross tons, or a total of over 471,000 tons for the Axis portuers.

and eight ships

manian flag ating the Fann

38,342 tons have been lost. However, some, if not all, of the latter losses wert vessels of other countries operating under Panamanian registry.

Many

Tankers Sunk

A complete description as to the tinen of vessels sunk is not avali-

Boats."

HITLER'S

CHANCES FADING -Japanese Envoy

Germany's

able score.

CRIME UPSWING IN U.S.

Due To World Conditions

The quiz, which recently was tried out on a number of reserve officers; will put tremendous emphasis on academic, not practical, subjects One retired Army man with wide engineering experience, confessed he could not answer many of

tho ques- tlons on engineering. True-or-false interrogatories Include literary mat- ters that are vaguely familiar, tricky, defnitions of technical terms and mathematics that would slump a |college student.

Just What

what purpose will be served by such an examination cannot be ascertained. One theory is that the brass hats in the War Department want to fill up the infantry Arst and NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (UP)[gure the test will show few drafters

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able, but it is belleved the tanker The view that Fasses have been particularly heavy chances of winning the war are The Citizens' Committee on con- are qualifted for any other duty. In proportion to the number of these rapidly decreasing is understood trol of crime reported to-day

Coroner Had Petrol vessels available.

To offset her merchant ship losses, to have been expressed by the that crime was on the increase

Store, Fined £20 Britain in

greater police has lost 18 vessels totalling 86,646 thing that buying practically "any-Japanese Minister to Berlin at a throughout the nation and warn-

recent meeting of Japanese dip-ed that even

A North Lincolnshire coroner, vigilance would be necessary to Colonel W. Smedhurst, of Thornton In addition, plans are in progress lomats to European cities. to bu

bulld "mass production" facilities The diplomate conferred at control crime "during the swift-Hall, Ulceby, was fined £20 and £5 Norway lost 98 vessels of 265,000 in the United States that will handle Zurich and the statement of the ly changing conditions" facing costs at Barton-on-Humber recently tons, Sweden 05 ship of nearly nearly 30 keels simultaneously,

the United States.

for storing petroleum. 142.000 tons, and Finland 24 ships of Some quarters have suggested that representative from Berlin, as

It was alleged that when a police Compared to the combined officer visited his premises in August 50,000 tons. This makes total for Britain night be able to greatly recorded in the minutes of the the Scandinavian countries of 639,- suplement her merchant tonnage meeting, is understood to declare totals of 35 cities throughout he was shown 200 gallons of petrol 000 tons.

through the construction of concrete that serious internal difficulties the nation of more than 250,000 stored in drums in an underground vensel, These are said to be

chamber in the crchard, which had in the coming winter.

"New York's murder rate was lump. There is considerable official ap-half that of the others, its prehension in Berlin about Russia's robbery rate one-fourth, its as- intentions, according to the Minister.sault rate four-fifths, its bor- whose predecessor is said to have glary rate one-sixth, its larceny Because of the shortage of feed-informed Von Ribbentrop, the ing stuffs 150,000 mulch cows, 175,000 mon Foreign

or forget the act, of automobiles rate seven-tenths. feathered stock are to be slaughtered of treachery by Germany in signing "Only, in manslaughter by negli- in Denmark, says the "Stockholm n part with Russia,

gence was New York's raté bighor Aftonbladet"

The opinion that the United States than that of the other cities," the would soon be an actual belligerent report said. was also expressed at the meeting of diplomats, it is understood.

France's losses are listed as 20 versels of 140,522 gross tona.

The Low Countries together have lost a total of 80 vessels of 243,000 tons, Of this total, the Netherlands tost 40 vessels of 150,400 tons.

According to this tabulatlon, Bri- tain and her Allies, including her former ally, France, and new ally,

economical and can be built rapidly, are to be anticipated in Germany population, the Committee ani the outward appearance of a refuse

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Greece, have lost 2,014,000 gross tons heifers, 1,500,000 plys, and 7,000,000 would never nister, that Japan rate two-fifths, and its larceny

of shipping.

This

does

not reflect the full seriousness of the situation to Dri- tain, however, inasmuch us many neutral vessels engaged in carrying goods for Britain have been lost.

These figures represent 8, 30, 50 and 50 per cent, of the present num- bers respectively.

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Noting Unsettled conditions

throughout the world, the Committee asserted

that it has been the ex- perience of the past that in such

nes as those which are approach-| log there comes an increase in erline. One In 53 Arrested

"There is an inclination often to. accept this as inevitable, but the Is urgent to guard against this and to gear offelal machinery to higher speed and greater efficiency.

The report covered the year ended Bunn

30, 1940. As presented by Harry F. Guggenheim, president of the Committee, the findings also re- vealed that

that during this period one

New Yorker In every 63 was arrest- ed-excluding alt trofe violutions and disobedience of city ordinances.

The findings also noted that the jelly now has a "standard of capacity and integrity among its prosecutin officers beyond that of any one time in the past.”

"Boys are pre-eminently the thieves of New York City,” the reparti continued. "Of the persons charged; with robbery, 20 per cent., were junder 21, and 58 per cent, were

under 25.

White-Collar Thefts

The committee also found "an un- urual sequence of white-collar theft by persons who are not unemployed who do not ve in poverly but in fermfortable, even luxuriouï homes. who are of superior intelligence- people who contradict almost every one of the standard theories of the causes of crime.”

KEPT QUIET ABOUT 800 SOVEREIGNS

Hyman Liss, thirty-two, a whole- sale chemist, of Connaught-garden, Muswell Hill, N., did not penal the Government that he held 800 sovereigns, worth £1.000, and a Bow-street Police Court he was aned £1,000, and ordered to pay Afiy guineas costs.

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