HONG KONG ALERT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1939, Page 5

HONG KONG ALERT

LAST STAGE OF DEFENCE PREPAREDNESS AGAINST ANY FAR EAST MENACE. GARRISON SUPPLEMENTED BY VOLUNTEERS. B.v 1 alegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 2. The “New Yorks Times" Hong Kong correspondent says the arrival of forty of the latest Whippet Vickers tanks has placed the colony almost at the last stage of complete preparedness against any Far East menace. Harbour protection has been effected since the European war broke out, and two thousand equipped volunteers have supplemented the excellent garrison and ' anti-aircraft .defence, producing a firm sense of readiness.

ATTACKS ON JUNKS IN HONG KONG WATERS. NEWSPAPER DENOUNCES JAPANESE. ißeceived This Day. 10.25 a.m.) HONG KONG, November 2. The “South China Morning Post” editorially takes to task Japanese daily confiscations of Chinese junks in Hong Kong waters, accompanied by varying degrees of brutality, frequently exceeding U-boat ruthlessness. The Japanese Navy persists in the attacks, presumably to expel Chinese fishers from lucrative grounds to make way for Japanese or to provide loot for' sailors. The newspaper asserts that it is certainly discouraging to Hong Kong residents to see trespass attacks made under the guns of the fortress with impunity.