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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

American Greetings

To R.A.F.

Writing from Chattanooga, Tennessee, before the passing

Syrian Armistice Of 22 Points

FROM PAGE ONE

acrylice officers will remain at their posts to ensure continuity In nd- placed; ministration until they can Lic re-

(10) The British--authorities agree of the Lense-Lend Act, an to repatriation of French troops and American woman sent the fol-nationals by French sea transports; lowing message to "The Bom-

(11) The monetary possession of tho bers of the R.A.F."

repatriated French Will With the transferred under authorities to be be letter was a batch of U.S. news- established; paper cartoons with #

marked | anti-Axia flavour.

"Greetings! I hope you will find these cartoons entertaining. I wish that 11 Duce and der Fuehrer might glance at them.

"We in America. hope. for a British victory in the near future; the ma- jority of us want 'Ail Aid For Bri- tain

"After

my graduation in 1937. I was fortunate enough to spend week in London. I think London is a wonderful old elty, and it la hor rible that so much damage has been done to its beautiful buildings. To mg St Pauls, Buckingham Palace, Parliament bulldings. Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London were fascinating.

of

(12) French inbour rights will be respected; services will be handed over intact;

(13) Monagements

public Points (14), (16), (16), (17) and (18) provide that means of com- munications,

harbour installations, of petrol, money and other means of alreraft

and air installations, stocks payment in circulation or in reserve in the banks shall not be destroyed or otherwise disposed of.

(10) reserve the right to take into. their British military authorities service special Levant troops os and when they are discharged by the French authorities;

No Reprisals

(20) The British authorities shall take no action against the Syrians

The

a

July 16, 1941.

BABY BONDS PEDDLED IN JAPAN

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGNAPH***

TOKYO, July 10 (UP),The latest of the "Baby Bonds" issued by the government, priced at a yen aplece, country yesterday morning. were placed on sule thinghout the

In

The issuance of the bonds Tokyo is featured by street-corner thowing a healthy rate of absorption, peddling. With the midget bonda offelals of the Bank of Japan ex- pressed the belief that would not be long before the

Aral run-off, appear from the market. totalling Yen 10,000,000 would dis

Chinese Who

Resented

Summons

An application for an order for costs was made by Mr C. A. S. Russ before Mr H. G. Sheldon, K... at Central Magistrney this morning, when he appeared for Chan Lan- fong who was suinioned ពុទ the President of the Chung Shing Bene- volent Society for selling cooked food nt the Society's bathing shed Victorta Road, West Polat, on, June

"I would be very grateful to have and Lebanese who took part in some first. hand news of your excit-milltary or administrative capacity Ing and worthy adventures, if it is in the recent hostilities;

(21) possible.

execution of the present

and 23. "Best of luck-and God Bless agreement will be regulated

supervised by a Commission of Con- trol which will have Sume first hand

It seat al news of recent Beirut and will be composed of five R.A.F. surcessen has been sent to the members, three appointed by the writer, also an assurance that, des- British and two by the French; pite the fury of "der Frehrer" London s stands, scarred but unbroken.

You."

(22) The present agreement will be drawn up in English and French and in case of disagreement the

STOCK MARKET English text shall be binding.

REPORT

Moderation of Terms JERUSALEM, July 15 (Router) The Syrian Armistice, It is generally fell here, is an extremely moderate une which goes no further than neces- sary to achieve the objects with ILK..Govt. 343 Loan (1934) X.1. which the Allies started thé

paign.

Hongkong Stock Exchange Omeint Summary issued yesterday, is!

Buyers

021

Canton Ins. 5225

1.K. Fire Ins; $185

Humphreys $8.75

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Chinese Estates $101

Lights "O" $5.00

Electries "O" X. Rts $22 Electrics "N" $21 Maçao Electrics $18 Sellers

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Hotels $3.80

Lands $35.75 Lights "O" $6.10

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These were to put an end to Ger- man lafiltration and the use of Syrian air bases by German aircraft, and to ensure that Syria would re- sume the place she held prior to the collapse of France as a strategle bulwark of

of the Allies in the eastern Mediterranean.

Satisfaction is expressed here that full honours of war, have been necorded to the French In view of 'their courageous and skilful Aght- however misguided from the Allied point of view, their action may have

ILK. Govt. 35% Loan (1034) X.I. been.

Providents $8/5,05 Electrics is $11.30

Judge Omitted "May

God Have Mercy"

Chance of Freedom

It is noted that the terms of the Armistice permit soldiers and civill nas to choose between rallying to the Allied cause or being repatriated. Hope is expressed that many will choose the former enuse

they are free from Nazi influence that pitch that propagando, which reached such. a Vichy troops stated that they

some of the captured under the impression they

were nghting Italians.

more

Were

Mr Russ stated that his client had ceased to be President of the Society hung was elected President. since January 5 when Mr Ko Cheuk-

Chan resented the summons, Mr Russ added, and felt that he bad a claim for costs. He was granted per- mission to apply for costs.

Mr Russ stated that the occasion was the Drugon Boat Festival when several distinguished people were present at the bathing shed.

Inspector M. D. Watson of the Health Department said that inquiries were made and Defendant's name was given as that of the President. He asked permission for the summons to be altered and re-served on the President, but the Court suggested What a new sumunons would have to be taken out.

The summons against Chan was withdrawn.

Famous Chinese

Poet Dies

Marshal Wu's Secretary Mr Yang Yun-shih, well-known Chinese poet and former Secretary- General of the late Marshal Wu Pei-| fu, passed away at the French Con-i vent Hospital at 10 p.m. yesterday at a wife, four

and is survived the age of 07. He died of paralysis

cons and four daughters.

to

NEW YORK, July 11 (UP)—Judge

A native of Changshu, Kiangsu, John J. Freschil omitted the customary

deceased was also expert in Chinese "May God Have Mercy on Your Soul"

Painttug, drawing mainly plum blas soms. His writings are voluminous. in sentencing the "Mad-Dog" Esposito

The lust poem he composed is on brothers-Anthony and. Willlam-ta

Berlin On Syria

China's resistance which he intended dle in

electric chair for the mur In the der of a victim in a Fifth Avenue "With the Armistice

LONDON. July 15 (Reuter) Kal-shek.

present to Generalissimo Chlong holdup last January.

agreement in

the outbreak of the The brothers, who had been Army comes tu

Syria, a campaign of the Britishpanese hostilities accused by the state of felgning which not Berlin but

July conclusion with 1937, he came to Hongkong with his insanity during their trial, drooled, rocked on their heels and spat on Wilhelmstrasse statement to-night.

to deal

closely Will have family and during the few years of

say's his the floor as sentence was pronounced. Freschi told them sternly that their the battle for Syria does not prove given whatever assistance needed in

The statement adds: The end of eccentric actions "didn't fool any that France is not in a position to work body." The

Espositos killed Alfred 4.

defend her colonies."

Ile had a stroke of paralysis about Klausman when he resisted a holdup, German news agency, said that advanced age. his condition

Berlin political circles, adds the three months ago and owing to his de- and in the ensuing chase killed A policering and wounded three by lessons-have-been-learned-from-the

was a matter of course that "certain teriorated steadily. standers They were sentenced to be ense of Syriu. Whether by executed in Sing Sing, prison

Ger- many or by both is a matter that is left open."

Brutal Practical ··

Joke On Baby

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BOSTON, Francis Wenzler. 27, who allegedly electrified the high- chair of his two-year-old step- daughter and applied shocks to her chubby little body, recently sentenced to six months in the House of Correction for assault and battery on the child., Wenzler's comment on the testimony was: "I did it for fun and not for torture."

LATE

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Japan May "Lease" Indo-China Bases

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, July 16 (UP)-N, W. Ewer, the diplomatic correspondent;

America Building Up Great Army

FROM PAGE ONE

prescribed was given Congress by the Assistant War Secretary, Mr Louis Patterson, who said that the President also desired the removal of the 800,000 limit on the number of draftees who can be in service at any one time.

In a letter to the Speaker, Mr Sam Rayburn, Mr Patterson sald that legislation to accomplish these objects had President Roosevelt's approval.

be

Basis of Nazi Reasoning "The sequence of German con- quests which continued without Interruption from Austria to Russia has been based on the anticipated failure of the countries cuncerned to invasion," Mr Patterson wrote.

properly prepared against

of the Daily Herald", discussing overwhelming force against an un-

"In each case, they launched Japan's likely moves, states that prepared army. "We cannot specu- according to some reports Japan is late with the security of this nation." planning to "lease" from Vichy naval Mr Pailerson added that to de- and air bases in Indo-China, includ- mobilise the army now would be to

Camranh Bay,

"court disaster

He adds: "Those who favour the idea of a southward move expect a sudden announcement of a diplomatic

an

No Breaking of Faith WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuter) -President Roosevelt declared at his

residence here he had taken part in various patriotic netivities and

News Observer Lost On Hood

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Chinese Still in Germany: Nazis Lukewarm to Wang

GENEVA, July 15 (Central News),-"I received repented remarks of sympathy from different German circles especially intellectuals and industrialists and some government officials. and, on my departure, many high personages came to the rail- way station to bid me farwell," said Mr Chen Chich, recalled Chinese Ambassador to Berlin,, when interviewed by the "Cen- tral News" in Berne this evening, Mr Chen arrived in the Swiss capital on July 10,

(demand of Wang Ching-wel Germany Mr Chen said that an official re-accorded him de jure recognition as presentative of the German Foreign) one of China's governments."

and

Mr. Chen revealed that Germany Offee accompanied him a disclosed decided to recognise the Naming The men came in for a year sub- Ject to that provision, Therefore, it

Knuckle Duster And that Wang Ching-wel agents had

on' June 27 and he would not be breaking faith for Con- Iron Bar On Firemen to change their pussports and threa

started propaganda urging the Chinese puppet reginte

officially informed the German Vice- gress to enact legislation extending

of Foreign Affairs the Fireman No. 10, Leung Kam-chuen, toning them with expulsion

ion if the service.

they

day of the Chinese Foreign German

mowing 30, and Fireman No. 20, Yung Cheuk, should fall to do so. The President Roosevelt told reporters 20, were each fined $100 or

declaration concerning the that he thought that it was a simple months' hard labour by Mr D... N. merchants and

Government.

to allow the firm decision of the Chinese Govern- choice whether the army should be Anderson at Kowloon Magistracy

colony

860 ment to sever diplomatic relations students, to disintegrated or not. The decision, this morning yesterday on a charge in Germany if they chose to do so, cognising the Nonking

stay Immediately with any, Powers re

· puppets:

he added, was up to Congress.

Rome Denies

two

ering about:

As recognition of the so-called

of possession of instruments fit for but further negotiations for the pro- an unlawful purpose, at Kowloon, on longation of the period of validity "Manchukuo" only called forth sim July 17.

of their passports failed. Facilities To U.S.,sion one tron bar, and

First "Defendant had in his posses

ple protests from the Chinese Gov- Nanking Recognition

Br ernment, the second

Chen Concerning the German press, Mr Germen

added, the Broadcasters

Government man, two knuckle dusters,

Chen said that telegrams exchanged attach little attention to his formal seemed to SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Chief Dat.-Inspector A. E. Carey between Wang Ching-wel and Ger- warning regarding the Nanking ra ing signal by broadcasting the morse ROME, July 18 (UP)-The Minis prosecuted.

many on recognition of the Nanking gime. But it was greatly surprised sign of meaning Victory, but try of Popular Culture to-day in- the, Croatian Government learned of formed the representative of

puppet regime were not published when he officially declared the sever- the plan in advance and nipped it National Broadcasting Company that

and certain papers amounced the ance of Sino-German

diplomatie In the bud.

recognition as follows: "On the relations on July 9. the facilties of Italian broadcasting otations would no longer be available for United States broadcastirig.

the

Dr Herklots' Visit

Dr G. A C. Herklots, of the Hongkong Univerally, has left the Colony on a short visit to Manila.

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