The Archive

Wednesday, 8 February 1939

  1. North-China Daily NewsGold, Silver ImpoundedFrench border police seized and impounded eleven cars loaded with several tons of gold and silver ingots, valued at several hundred million francs, Each of the cars and trucks carrying the ingots had a guard of six carab…
  2. North-China Daily NewsS. Army DriveFor Funds; Contributions From Chinese Expected With the half-way mark already in sight the Salvation Army in Shanghai today enters upon the third day of its campaign for $40,000, with which to carry on its relief, humani…
  3. North-China HeraldThe Fire DemonHardly a week passes now without a fire in one or other of the refugee camps or temporary matchwood structures which have sprung up like mushrooms in the Western (Extra-Settlement) District. The general lack of control h…
  4. North-China Daily NewsSoldiers Prefer Heavy GoingIt the going is heavy the soldiers have a far better chance of success than on a bone dry pitch, but whatever happens, the final result is likely to be very close if past performances are any indication. A large crowd is…
  5. North-China Daily NewsSequel to Monday's RaidFollowing the surprise raid carried out be detectives attached to Settle-it Police headquarters, in a Shan-munition were seized, eight more men and two additional pistols were seized by police paries yesterday as a resul…
  6. North-China Daily NewsJapan's Problem Seen by GermanBerlin, Feb. 7. The Tokyo correspondent of the "Frankfurter Zeitung" outlined the situation in Japan since the resignation of the Konoye Cabinet. He declared in his paper this morning that the failure of Prince Konoye's …
  7. North-China Daily NewsMany Chinese HelpedThe burdens being so ably borne by the Army here include the care of more than 43,000 destitute Chinese refugees, maintenance of the Boys' Vocational Training School, which takes homeless and ' friendless boys from the s…
  8. North-China Daily NewsSouth China Radios, Sports Equipment Being Sent from JapanTokyo, Feb. 7. An "amusement ship" loaded with entertainment devices and equipment for the use of Chinese adults and children in South China will be sent to Canton soon, it was announced by officials here today. The carg…
  9. North-China Daily NewsClose Play in Second DivisionClose play featured the Pine Section of the Second Division as both the German Club and the American Club scored narrow victim s over the Y.M.C.A. "B" and e Columbia Country Club Acorns in respective order by scores of 2…
  10. North-China Daily NewsAurora U. DefeatedPreceding the Marines victory, Chi Tze took the measure of Aurora University, the League's cellar team, by 57 to 32 in a scrappy game. L. Y. Chang, the winning centre, had a field day by counting 10 baskets. The victors …
  11. North-China Daily NewsUtilities Rally to NewHighs New York, Feb. 6. Utilities hit the highest levels since 1987 on the New York Stock Exchange today in response to the Government's agreement to buy the Tennessee Flectric Power Ca. properties from Commonwealth Sout…
  12. North-China Daily NewsSquash Rackets Play YesterdayThe Hongkong & Shanghai Bank team retained their position as favourites in the squash rackets second league competition last night "when they defeated the Rowing Club by four matches to one on the Race Club courts, while…
  13. North-China HeraldThe Salvation Army in ShanghaiThe activities of the Salvation Army in Shanghai have increased a hundredfold during the past year or s0, chiefly owing to the disastrous effects of the hostilities. Thousands of destitute refugees had to be harboured, i…
  14. North-China Daily NewsRequests for AssistanceFollowing the Japanese note urging the evacuation of Third Power nation als in Kuling by February 10 (Friday), in view of impending operations against the Chinese in the mountain resort, requests have been lodged with th…
  15. North-China Daily NewsWonderful Future For StudentsReference to the College of Aeronautical Engineering with which is associated the Automobile Engineering Training College, calls attention to the wonderful future which these colleges open up for keen students Speaking a…
  16. North-China Daily NewsShanghai Paper Hunt ClubBy kind permission of the Stewards and Members of the Shanghai Race Club, this Club's Annual Race Meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 21, 1939. In addition to the usual races for Hunt Club Members, here will be six…
  17. North-China HeraldChinese Plane Flies Over WaichowChungking, Feb. 3. A lone Chinese aeroplane flew over Waichow Island on the morning of January 31 for the purpose of observing the movement of Japanese warships, according to a Chinese dispatch. The machine met with heav…
  18. North-China Daily NewsCanton Conditions Far from NormalCanton, Jan. 29. The unthinking may refer to the ever-increasing population, and the opening up of eating places and hotels as signs of a return to the normal. Any restauranteur will say that he has opened his doors to k…
  19. North-China HeraldSupremacy in AirLondon, Jan. 30. BBUVTSH output of military aeroplanes, which now exceeds 400 month, is within measurable distance of equalling the German rate of production, according to the Aviation Correspondent of the "Daily Telegra…
  20. North-China Daily NewsNew York StocksNew York, Feb. 6. Stock prices on Wall Street cly ruled firm today, but later trading quietened down with quotations finishing from fractions down to about 1 point up. Utilities were to the fore in the upward movement, o…
  21. North-China Daily NewsTen Pins LeagueForeign "Y." and Columbia Club Beaten; Excellent Pine Section Games Both the Foreign Y.M.C.A. and the Columbia Country Club were upset in the opening night's competition of the Shanghai Ten Pin League when they met defea…
  22. North-China Daily NewsMonday's Closing QuotationsLondon, Feb. 6. Home rails provided the brightest feature on the Stock Exchange today lon, maintenance of the Southern dividend of 5 per cent. on the preferred and ordinary shares, and other rail issues also sympathetica…
  23. North-China HeraldMr. Chamberlain' Gives WarningLondon, Feb. 6. An important statement regarding Great Britain's attitude in the event of any threat against France was made in the the House of Commons by Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime A new type of twin-engine lon…
  24. North-China HeraldAround the WorldNevertheless a Fact The storm of abuse which hag been showered upon President Roosevelt, in connection with statements he is reported to have mide as to where the frontiers of the United States now are—reports which he h…
  25. North-China Daily NewsHongkong to Macao Overland TripThe Japanese authorities, it was an= nounced here today, last Friday suddenly declared the Pearl River closed for ten days "for military reasons" and for this reason neither the Japanese steamship whích is engaged in reg…
  26. North-China HeraldThe IN Fortune of WarNo directory can be 100 per cent, accurate—not even the Telephone directory. As the sheets are going press or being bound, deaths und removals invalidate a small percentage of the compiler's careful work. Also there is t…
  27. North-China Daily NewsPresented to JapanLondon, Feb. 6. Three hundred claims amounting to £230,000 for destruction, confiscation, damage and looting have been accept: ed from British firms in China as ad-missable and have been presented to the Japanese Governm…
  28. North-China Daily NewsFrench Neutrality AbsoluteThey were told that they and their companions would be given refuge in France and would be treated as the heads of friendly governments, but that they must inet make any move which. would prejudice France's Position of a…
  29. North-China Daily NewsNew Cotton Associationv't- In North China Efforis Made to Improve Quality of Crop Peiping, Feb. 7. Bringing the projected cotton autarchy in East Asia a step closer to realization, a North China Cotton Produce Betterment Society was Minister …
  30. North-China HeraldRome Assurances UpheldReferring to the Opposition's distrust of Signor Mussolini's, and Herr Hitler's, words, Mr. Chamberlain' "Surely the worst way, to ensure that-g man who has given his word will Keep it is to (ell him that you hot believe…
  31. North-China HeraldPress Conference RemarksQuestioned at the press conference yesterday, spokesmen said that the avy would afford transportation for the evacuees to Shanghai, at such a time as was convenient; for the moment nothing had been done to facilitate the…
  32. North-China HeraldLed by Drum MajMost of the units had their own drum corps which kept up a steady (Moo, a8 they marched along step. Each group of ladies was led a drum-major (female gender) who did a Kind of cake-walk and performed "marvellous "evoluti…
  33. North-China Daily NewsThe French Foreign Office a!nounced tonight that France considers the Spanish Republican Government "temporarily non-existent." This will be the future status of the Republican Government of Spain unless Dr, Juan Negrin, Republican Premier, goes to…
  34. North-China HeraldThe Coy MarshalThe statement issued in Nanking on january 27, fo the effect that Marshall Wu Pei-fu had decided to emerge from his retirement to accept the chairmanship of a new Pacification Commission, and in fact to become the head o…
  35. North-China Daily NewsSale May Be BlockedIt hardly seems likely that the Admiralty will take this lying down, though precisely how it will block the sale remains to be seen. But in a question of naval defence and so important a station as Portsmouth there must …
  36. North-China HeraldMr, Lloyd George Says British Lion in TrapLondon, Feb. 4. Addressing meeting of the Coun-gil of Action in. London yesterday, Mr. David Lloyd George predicted that "German and Mahan forces will not leave Spain until France and Great Britain accept, in sub-Stance,…
  37. North-China Daily NewsProgress in Aviation MadeLondon, Jan. 16. IHE Civil Air Guard, formed a few months ago to enable men and women to learn to fly at low cost, has now enrolled 5,605 members in London. alone, all of whom will be available at Royal Air Force station…
  38. North-China HeraldPlot to Blow Up PalacesThe British Govermnent is consi. Bank of England, Scotland Yard Threatened dering proposals for compensation of civilians and members of the Mer-London, Feb. 5. chant Navy injured in war time: and ANS to blow up Buckingh…
  39. North-China HeraldHua, Member of JapaneseShanghai, Feb, 7, WELL-KNOWN Chinese journalist, Mr. Chien Hua, associate editor of the dail "Shun Pao" and member of the Japanese-sponsored newspaper censorship board, fatally wounded yesterday morning by a lone assassi…
  40. North-China HeraldShanghai Growing StilThe 888 pages of the 1939 edition lure ten up on that of 1938, and it is pleasing to know that the cause of the extra length is an_ increase the Shanghai Hongs and Who's Who sections. The Outport section is not noticeabl…

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