1941-04-17 — Page 13

S'hai Banks Close Up:

Four

Fatal Shooting

SHANGHAI, Apr. 17 (Reuter).— Chinese government banks suspended business here Utils morning. An offelal of one of the banks told "Reuter": We do not know whether the government banks will reopen for business in the near future.“

The Shanghai dollar rate this morning dropped to 3.3/10.

Value of Dollar

LONDON, Apr. 18 (Reuter).— Despite a reported Improvement in the political atmosphere in Shanghai, following the proposed reorganisa- tion of the Municipal Counell, bank- ing circles in London do not expect any improvement In the Shanghai) dollar in the near future..

Notwithstanding official FB:UF- ances, the feeling peruits here that i would be foolish for the Chinese Stabilization Fund to fend active sup. port to the Shanghat dollar unth the political and military situation is clarined,

"Badlands” Killing SHANGHAI, Apr. 16 (Reuter)-A Chinese was alot doud and another was seriously wounded early, thin morning in a terrorist shooting in the "Hadinrids."

The sheating a reported to have taken place it. the dormitory of the Bank of China employees' mess and believed to be a reprisal for the shooting of an employee of the Cen- tral Reserve Bank yesterday.

Staffs Demand

SHANGHAI, Apr. 17 (Reuter),-It is understood that the Banks have closed down without the knowledge of Chungking, following the carly morning murder of two employees of the Bank of China, resulting in the killing of Trang Yang-tong.

The stafts refused to carry on un- less assured of protection for them- selves and their families,

IRON GUARDISTS SENTENCED

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

BUCHAREST, Apr, 16 (UP)-It is officially stated that six members of the Iron Guard acath squad have been executed, or sentenced to death, after they had confessed to making preparations for the assassination of high dignitarits of the stale au

auring the Eastern religious celebrations.

It is stated that they kuled the Jewish proprietor of a bookstore just to determine the attitude of the nu- thorities and the reaction of the people, preparatory to their Euster plan.

FIRE IN TOKYO

TOKYO, Apr. 16 (Reuter)-Eight hundred and twenty

houses w.re burned down and 5.000 people 01 Д

rendered homeless by

fire I

town in the Toyama district, 180

miles northwest of Tokyo.

Thursday

APPRENTICES FOR DEFENCE-Shortago of skilled labour in America has started General Motors on an omorgency training programme in which young men are being taught specific operations against the time when 60,000 skilled operators will be needed. The time will be about May 1, when the concern starts running in high an defence orders. Hero are scones from the unique pro-

Petain

Said

·HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

gramme: Top, young trainees warcя 1.5«ruc- for H. J. Anderson operate cathode ray oscillograph, in Saginaw, Mich., plant, loft, Arthur Murphy, Indianapolis Tech graduate, learns to drill split line on aeroplane.engine In- crankcase, at Allison division, near dianapolis. Right, youngsters hard at it, in Flint, Mich., plant. Programme in carried on simultaneously in 40 of the plants.

Secretly

Vatican & Religion Supporting de Gaulle

"Marshal Petain is a secret supporter of Gen, de Gaulle, leader of the Free French," said Alfred Neumann, a German novelist on arrival in New York from the south of France.

"One day Marshal Petain and

In Germany LONDON, Apr. 16 (Router) Anti-Catholic activities of Nazi Ger- many were condemned to-night by the Vatican radio which says that since 1933 the Catholic Church in Germany had lost all its schools, Gen. de Gaulle will join forces ecclesiastical organisations and with the French Commander-in- newspapers except for a few weekly Chief in French Africa, Gen. papers which were unable to answer Weygand and drive the invaders the Nazi attacks on the Catholic re-from France," he says. ligion.

Under

people of a future alliance between the de Gaulle and Weygand forces,

"Everywhere in unoccupied France Everything was being done to eliminate Catholle teachers from the you hear whispers among the French National Socialist regime. decree just issued, all wishing to enter Holy Orders had first to join! labour camp from which they could not get away without permission.

This will be the end of religion

GIRL IS RADIO PIRATE

Wedding Air Sung By Count

April 17, 1941.

H.K. Stock Market

The following quotations, were Issued on the longkong Stock Mur-. ket this morning.

H.K. Danics

H.K. Banks

BANKS

H.K. Banks (ILK.) £.

Chartered £.

Mercantile, A. & B.C

Mercantile C. &

Enal Asin $.

Cantons

Union S.

INSURANCES

China Underwriters S.

H.K. Fire $........

SHIPPING

Dougins $...

Steamboats S.

Indo-Chinos P.

Indo-Chinos D. $..

Shell (Bearers) 8/→

Waterboats 3x.d.

DOCKS ETC.

1,345 54

.75 n.

.78 0.

.8% 1.

.21 n.

.10% n.

..70 b.

.22214 80.

.430. & S.

1 n.

187 11.

135 n.

8% 1.

:80 b.

SHIRTS

.00 . to measure

41/3 n.

8.35 n.

Wharves

.80 ca.

Docks $

.10 0.

Providents $....

.5.10 ва,

-S'hal Dockyards $...

MINING

Kailan s/-

Reubs $..

.24% n.

.15/- D. .....8 n.

14 cts. n.

LANDS

H.K, Mines ....

Hotels $ xdi

Lands $.

$.......

Inds 4% Debentures

S'hai Lands Sh. $.

Humphreys $.. H.K. Realties $.

Chinese Estates

UTILITIES

(old) $

Trams S..... Peaks Trama (o Peak Trams (new) Star Ferries $.

Ferries

3.

China Lights (old)

Chinn Lights (new)

Lights Rts

.3 n. 334 д

.97 Th

.11.80 n.

.0.80 n. .3.10 n.

. n.

.10 s.

.7% n.

.3 n.

.52 n.

.234 12.

.9.20

1.

.1.70 n.

.00 cis.

H.K. Electrics (old) x. rts, 26.20 n.

H.K. Electrleg (new)

H.K, Electrics Ris

Macao Electrics (old) $. Macao Electrics (new) Sandakan Lights

Telephones (old) $. Telephones (new) $.

INDUSTRIALS

.25 n.

.13 n.

181⁄2 7.

$...171⁄2 n.

.12 n.

.23% n.

.0% n.

$...30 n.

$..25 n.

1 n. .10 n..

.7% 50.

.174 m.

.0.80 0.

Cald: Macg (Ord.), Sh. Cald: Macg. (Pref.), Sh. Canton lees $. Cements $ x.d.

H.K. Ropes S.....

STORES, &c. Dairy Forms $. Watsons $.

$.... Lane Crawfords $... Sinceres $

Wing On (H.K.) $. Powell Ltd. $.....

COTTON MILLS Ewo Sh. $..... Shal Cotton Sh. $.

MISC.

H.K. Govt 4%

.7 B.

.2.15 n. ..39 n.

.1.30 n.

200 n.

.97 n.

.94 r.

.28 n.

H.K. Goyt 35% (1934),.841⁄2 n H.K. Covt 3, (1940)

Ch Govt 5% 1925 G$Bds, H.K. Entertainments .. ..0% n. Constructions (old) $. .1.60 11. Constructions (now) ..

... n. Vibro Pling $..

.7.20 n. Marsmans Inv. (Lon.) s/-..8/3 n. Marsmans Inv. (H.K.) s/- ..2/6 n.

Coal Strike Over

NEW YORK, Apr. 16 (Reuter).—- Most of the closed soft coal mines in "THE Voice that has Thrilled the United States will reopen soon.. the World" was heard at a Lon- following an announcement that the don wedding recently, at which United Mine Werkers' Congress of Organisations and, coul both the bridegroom and the offi-operators had reached an agreement cinting priest were descendants in the dispute over wages. of men who fell at Flodden.

Count John McCormack was the singer.

Industrial

War Prisoners In The marriage of the Master of South Africa Semmill to Cecilia, elder daughter

CAPETOWN, Apr. 16 (Reu- "The French know their salvation

of Mr and Mrs B. E. Dunbar ter).A further batch of 2,500 A NEW pirate radio operated, Kilburn, of Sandford St Martin, Italian prisoners, including of rests in Britain, the United States, and in Frenchmen outside France.

"Gen, de

de Gaulle

it is believed, by a girl and a Oxfordshire, was performed by appears a saviour in Germany, the announcer com France. They feel convinced thating Italy the truth about the Valentin, of Chelson, at St James the Union of South Africa to to his countrymen locked up in band of young engineers, is tell the Very Rev. Father J. Phillipficers, have landed at a port in day. Enemy prisoners now in the Union total 10,000.

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Petain, in his secret heart, prays for defeats in Libya and Albania de Gaulle's success with British nid."

Ovra, the Italian secret police, London Hopes John Cowles, writing in the "Min-re trying to track down these neapolis Star Journal," says London new "Freedom" broadcasters. hopes that Gen. Weygand and French colonial forces in Africa, with much i

of the French Navy, will soon throw

The Secret.

The secret of their success, so far,j in their lot with Britain.

In avo ding det:ction, appears to Jie Speaking to Free French suppor- ters in London, Gen. de Gaulle in the operators mobility. They apparently use portable transmitters bitterly denounced the Vichy regime to broadened from different points 11

"What luck for Hitler and Mus- the country, solini when those who claim to be a French Government also cialin their guiding idea is not only to accert defeat but also to support their

victors,” he said.

"What luck for Hitter when orders from Vichy neutralised the second largest navy In Europe."

Briton Thanks "Red Eagles"

The "Ned

U.S.A.

The girl has been heard as a11 announcer.

One speaker sald "The Duce may be in power, but women, your men have guns, they can sabotage factories, paralyse transport.

"Every shell that fails to explode is a shot in the heart of our enemies -the Fascists."

Clinics To Mend Broken Limbs

Joped in a German military hospital when plaster of paris ran out during

Eagles" of London (American Home Guardera) received

Cinies to mend broken limbs are recently a large bronze plaque bear- ing the American Eagle and the in-toe clublished throughout Britain. The methods to be used were deve- seription: The seal of our country Only clue to the sender was a card: "Presented 10 the 18! American Motorised Squadran Home Guard by an Englishman In remembrance of he happy years spent in the U.S.A Good luck to you all."

The plaque was hung on the wall of the "Red Eagles'" headquarters,

Substitute For Gasoline

LONDON,

the last war.

Church, Spanish-place, W.

An Old Friend

An

On his mother's side Father Valen- tin is descended from James IV of Scotland, who fell at Flodden in 1513 by the side of Sir John Scinpill, ancestor of the bridegroom. Count McCormack,

old friend of Lord Sempill, sang Cesar Franck's "Panis Angell- the same orla he sang at eur, his own daughter's wedding eight years DEO. Lord Sempill, who is 47, was

to the reviously married

only doughter of the late Sir John Lavery, and was widowed six years ago.

The wedding ceremony was one of the most. colourful seen in London since the war.

The bridegroom-n well-known arman-was dressed in the kilt of his ancient house, with a row of medal ribbons on his Ught-fitting mediaeval tunic.

An address was given during the wedding by Archbishop Godfrey, the Apostolle Delegate for. Britain.

THE WARRIOR AND

THE WARNING

War Materials On Axis =

Ships In Mexico MEXICO CITY, Apr. 18 (Reuter), Certain war materials have been found on some of the Italian ships in Mexican harbours which had been taken over by the Mexican Govern- ment it was disclosed by the officer in charge of the Mexican units now controlling the vessels.

The exact nature of the malerinis is not disclosed.

Food For France WASHINGTON, Apr. 16 (Reuter).- Two French ships provided with British naviccrts are leaving New York to-morrow for Marseilles with 13,500 tons of United States flour for un- occupied France.

Steel Prices Fixed NEW YORK, Apr. 16 (Router). An order freezing steel prices at the level that prevailed in the first quar- Mohammadu, 08-year-old Emir of ter has been issued by Mr Leon Jemaa, a district in Northern Nigerta Anderson, American Price Ad- The usual treatment is to encase "nulated by more than 33,000 people ministrator. a fractured arm or leg in plaster and and stretching

more than 1,000 strap it to the bed, sling it up, or use square miles, was in his youth a come other type of splint which pre-famous warrior. vents the patient working i

Recently he heard a bugle call from

Le Loranz Bohler, faced by the police lines. It was meant as u shortage of medical supplies, had to fire

Ho had heard of air

enclose broken arms and legs lessino chance,” but the Emir was taking

rigidly, and he encouraged patients raid sirens. Without waiting to sum- to exercise them and promote good mon any servants or officials ho circulation to provent stiffness and natched up his sword, a bow and swelling.

Gulver of arrows, and ran up the road to look for the attacking plane,

in range

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