HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
sday,
February 5,
1941.
Library; Supreme Court
Japanese Precautions Against Espionage
Special to the "Telegraph"
TOKYO, Feb. 4 (Domel)—The proposed national defence security act is aimed at extirpating allen espionage activities in Japan instead of controlling the Japanese people, a spokesman of the War Office told the House of Representatives' committee dealing with the national defence security bill to-day.
Admitting considerable anxiety over the manner in which the new net may be enforced, the War Office spokesman urged the inevitable necessity" of proventing alien explonage intri- gues.
"Frankly speaking, since the Man- churian incident there have in fact been occasions when national opinion
was
divided,
arid
and the
military were
the While
Diet militating against each other, financial cliques pursued private interests regardless
Death Of Dr
T. P. Woo
of the interests of the State, The Gained Unusual Honours internal dissensions
thus entalled
In Hongkong And Abroad
have given occasion to Communism and Liberalism to take advantage of
has
been
Government in 1012.
Mr Clarence E. Gauss
New Job For Mr Johnson
Heroism Of Torpedoed Mercantile Crews
LONDON, Feb. 4 (Reuter).-Thrilling stories of herolsm and endurance for days in open boats by officers and men of the merchant navy after their ships had been torpedoed and bombed by enemy aircraft or attacked by mercantile raiders, are told in a special supplement of the "London Gazelle."
One group of exhausted men f spent 15 days afloat before be
ing picked up, another ten days Willkie Sees
and another six days. All the men were short of food and re- markable feats of navigation were performed.
run
De Valera....
Tea With Royalty ·
LONDON, Feb. 4° (Reuter),—
Throughout the omelal narratives of heart-breaking instances dgnals of distress unseen by passing Immediately after returning sit.ps. One able seaman, Sydney from his lightning trip to Ire- Herbert Light, who is awarded the
George Medal, saved not only a boat-land, Mr Wendell Willkie had lea load of men from his own torpedoed with the King and Queen. ship but took in low and rescued a Mr Willkie told "Reuter" that he boatload of survivors from another had had a three hours' conversation sunken vessel.
with Mr Eamon do Valera to-day, Encouraged Men
during one of which he was alone When Light reached the second with the Elre Prime Minister. He bost in the high seas, the occupants sold that they had a frank and free were about to give up the struggle. discussion and he "got the informa-
Light climbed aboard, massaged the tlon he wantederal members of
One of the Colony's oldest Chinese the situation," the Army spokesman doctors, Dr T. P. Woo passed away declared.
yesterday after start illness at the Asked whether the act is a temage of 63 years. The inte Dr Woo porary wartime legislation or a pet was a medient student in the Hong-
the manent one,
Minister of Justice,
Heisuke kong School of Medicine and wan Lieut-General
one of the first batch of research) Yanagawa, sald that the act
by the the students to be sent abroad by necessitated
late Dr Sun Yat-sen after the estab- delleste international situation whichishment of the First Republican is prevailing now and its necessity would not be lost unless the present International situation undergoes sub- stantia) changes.
Edinburgh University in Clarence Gauss As The Admiting the possibility of re-1915, the doctor served with
New Ambassador examining the net in future in case Britisli Governinent during the last
Medical Omeer of substantial changes coming over War
Post the situation, the Justice Minister General
Another Reaches Port added that i was dimeult to draw a various military hospitals until thic
Meanwhile Captain Thomas Kip- line of demarcation in the current, Armistice.
The Secretary of State, Mr pins, Light's skipper, took charge of situation as to when the times ofi First On Medical Board
Cordell Hull, in-day confirmed the other boat containing 20 men pence or war begin or end.
Returning to Hongkong he started reports that the U.S. Ambassa-whom he brought to safely after 15
Bevin Boys Leave India For U.K.
bade
the Bevin
Obtaining his M. B. Ch. D. degrees || from the
na
Once and
the
the
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UP).
Great Leadership
exhausted men And bound those He also saw Buttering from exposure with strips the Eire Cabinet. of blanket.
Ten terrible days of privation, Referring to the general con- exhaustion and danger passed before clusions he had reached in travelling a British ship saw the flare and, nisout England, Mr Wuikle said: "I thanks to Light's "courage, leader ship, acif-sacrifice and stout heart," in the people of these islands are almost fortunate in their leadership. Anyone who be- leves that the people are not united
a delusion. is labouring under doubt whether in history any man has been more ideally suited to his task than Churchill with qualities of inspirational
great courage
all were rescued.
In pence time Light salls his own yacht and is a 'skier,
his own practice. Ite eventually
recognition of his war dor to China, Mr Nelson John-hye to heavy seas the bont was almost overturned. The men who received
{ comprehension,
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have talked to every member of services by the Hongkong: Govern-son, will soon leave Chungking fell overboard were rescued. The a Government comprised of diverse ment by his appointment as a Mem-for a new assignment but he did mast, salls and several ones were lost. political and economie bellefs, and 1 ber of the Medical Board, being the not reveal the exact nature of Several passing ships missed their have never seen a more co-ordinated
signals. Nevertheless, despite weak- or a more cohesive first Chinese doctor so honoured.
ness, cold and hardship, the bout gutt of a common group in the pur- 1is connection with the St John the change.
reached safety.
Irish Bases relterated his opinion O.B.E.
Britain's miraculous leadership
England and lasted until his death.
of
Captain Kippins receives the He
The White House declared Idle Foreign
Taking Technical Training
BOMBAY, Feb. 4 (Reuter) Ambulance Brigade dated back to He said that he did not know M. S. A. Hydari, Secretary of the the days when he was M. O, in whether or not Mr Johnson would Labour Department, to-day "God speed" to the first batch He was actually one Indian
the first come to Washington prior to his technicians going to the Chinese Corps Sturgeons ever ap-new assignment... United Kingdom under
pointed by the Headquarters in Scheme,
London.
that there would probably be no Mr Hydari said that the quick and
Ilis other activities were numerous;; adequate respense WAS a further Instance of the common feeling of he was President of the local Chinese news regarding Mr Johnson until the Tunga nomination was sent to the comradeship and added that
Y.M.C.A. Chairman of the
Kun
Guild of Commerce,
and Senate, which would be Raj's scheme to
in train 15,000 Indian Honorary Superintendent of the Tung Thursday at the earliest. technicians by March, 1942, WILS
Kun Hospital, among other things. well under way.
He Is survived by his widow, six Technical
institutions training
three daughters, and throughout the provinces are rapidly sons, and Increasing and developing. Instruc-several grand-children. lors are being secured and in this
the United Kingdom is also helping,
the Bevin Scheme being a part of MR L. CURRIE'S
this help.
ITINERARY
While the Indian scheme contem- plates training skilled technicians in thousands, the Bevin Scheme nims at more
Intensive training, Arrangements for
informed selecting second batch of 50 are now in hand. If the experiment succeeds, other will follow.
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ROME, Feb. 4 (UT).-The Stefar news agency reports from Vichy that
Pie namel M. Baudoin has been sident of the Administrative Council of the Bank of Indo-China.
It is
to help
to buy
planes
for men
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" CHUNGKING, Feb. 4 (UP)—Well that Mr quarters say Lauchlin Currie is scheduled to reach Chungking on February 8 by C.N.A.C. plane from Hongicong.
After a brief stay, lie is leaving via the Burma Road for Rangoon.
Major General Huang. Secretory General of the National New. Life Headquarters will be in charge of the reception.
on
Australia Approvda CANBERRA, Feb. 4 (UP),~The acting Prime Minister, Mr A. W. Fadden, announced to-day that Aus- tralia had approved the exchange between Mr Clarence Gauss and Mr Nelson Johnson.
Police Prefect Dismissed
LONDON, Feb. 4 (Reuter)-M. Roger Langeron, the Parls Folice Prefect, has been dismissed from his post and is held under detention, ne. cording to a report described as com- Ing "from rellable quarters" to the German ofetal nows agency.
M. Langeron 1934.
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Shipping In America
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UP) Mr Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, said to-day that ofcials are studying the problem of using about 500,000 tons of merchant vessel of the Axis vers and nations controlled by Germany but no decision has been reached as yet
Powers
of in.! one of the supreme critical moments | of history. Ollier conclusions, he gold, he was keeping for the United States,
He declined to talk about Irish bases and disclosed that he had not been invited to Germany.
Referring to his tour of the industrial area in northwest England, Mr Willkie said thut he lind collected a great deal of information about production methods and he described himself as "very fascinated" by the relations between the Government. labour and industry.
On Way Home SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Feb. 4 (UP)-Mr Wen- dell Wilkie lett London early this morning on the first stage of his trip
Likewise, there has been no dis-home. cussion with other American Re-
publics regarding a uniform policy Nazi Aid To U.K.
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It is understood that the Treasury and Maritime Commission officials are studying the proposals to use Danish tonnage moored in the United States and believe it might be possible to acquire the vessels with- out seizure.
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A decree nisl granted Mra Elsie Swere in 1938. Damage of this kind
Lee in her petition for the dissolution
is un
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of her marriage with Mr James Yat- an opportunity. It is only when ming Lee was made absolute by the becomes a disaster.
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Res- damage. pondent was unrepresented.
PASTOR NIEMOELLER
Said To Have Become Roman Catholic
BASLE, Feb. 4 (Reutor)-Martin Niemoeller, the German Protestant pastor who became famous for re- sisting the Nazi conception of the state in relation to religion and who is now in a concentration camp, has become a Roman Catholic, according to the Berlin correspondent of tho
Dasler Nachrichtem
Yugo-Slav Cabinet Crisis Likely
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" SOFIA, Feb. 4 (UP), The Minis- ter of Agriculture, M. Ivan Bogrianoff, on advocate of close re- lations with the Axis has resigned. Reports are being cireutated that a severe Cabinet crisis may result.
The Premier, Professor Filoff, has Inken over the post for the time being.
Tankers For Japan
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, Feb. 6 (Dame)-To in-
The paper adus that Niemoeller crease the number of Japan's oil has been contemplating the step for tankers, a Japan, Oll Tanker Develop- some time. He was a U-boat comment Asociation will shortly be
nander in the inst war. He was founded. arrested by the Nezia in 1937.-
YUGO-SLAVIAN RESIGNATION
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
BELGRADE; Fab. 4 (UP)-The Minister of Justice, Lazar Markovic, has resigned and has been succeeded
Bulgarian Pro-Nazi Minister Resigns LONDON, Feb. 4 (Reuter).-M. Bagrlanoff, the Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture, known for his Nazi sympathics, resigned this morning, according to a Softa telegram.
King Baris has accepted the re- signation and his post has been taken
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