The Glen Line Eastern Agencies building on the Bund has been sold to Japanese interests, it was announced yesterday by Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Ca. Ltd.
The building was erected in 1921 by the Glen Line Eastern Agencies as their local offices, and was constructed by Messrs. Trollope & Colls. British Contractors who erected at the same time several other important buildings on the Bund.
The Glen Line Eastern Agencies were closed down in 1938. Agents were Med by the new owners to look after their interests, and from this time it has been generally known that the owners were prepared to building should a satisfactory Hitlerism that closes them ín is breached by the enemies of the Nazis. That this will be achieved will be due ultimately to the faith of the people who are opposing Hitler: their realization of what it means to fall into his hands: their refusal to be intimidated by his threats: their determination not to spare themselves in the effort required to smash him.
May I repeat to you the words of Wendell Willkie—We know the dark picture of the world we would live in it we should let Britain fall, But we are beginning to see far more than this negative vision of the consequences to. us of a British defeat.
We are beginning to see that a victory, with our aid, will be the greatest reaffürmation of the democratic faith that history has ever known the creative genius of the people that dictatorship now suppresses will again be released—as the inventive genius of the American mate was released in our own early ys." a Gambled $2,000 of Employers' Money Charged with misappropriation in which accused gambled away more than $2,000 belonging to his company by going to the dog races. Sheng Jen-shing, an employee of the Kailan Mining Administration was sentenced to six months' imprisonment vester-day in the First Special District Court. Accused reported on the previous day to the Central police that $2300 had been stolen from the cash box in a drawer in his office. The police did not believe his story and upon close examination he was found to have "squeezed" the money himself only to Be lost by gambling. Seeing that his ruse did not work, accused told the truth later.
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