THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 9, 1937.
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DR. KUNG DUE IN BERLIN
Compliments In German Press
Berlin, To-day.
The Chinese Minister of Finance, Dr. H. H. Kung, and the Minister of Navy, Admiral Chen Shao-kuan, are arriving here this morning for several days' stay in Berlin at the invitation of the German Economics Minister, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht.
During their stay in Berlin the Chinese guests will have the opportunity of getting in touch with various Government leaders.
To-night they are being entertained at dinner by Dr. Schacht, while a lunch is being given in their honour on Monday by Field-Marshal von Blomberg.
Other receptions will be given | by the Foreign Office and Gen- eral Hermann Goering, while Herr Hitler is expected to receive Dr. Kung on Monday.
Keen anticipation is being shown by the Chinese colony in Berlin, who are preparing a reception for Sunday afternoon:
It is expected that Dr. Kung and party will leave Berlin on Tuesday, probably en route to the United States, after which Dr. Kung will return in a few weeks to take the cure in Ger-
many.
FINANCIAL GENIUS
WHALING TREATY IN SIGHT
Japan The Only Abstainer
London, To-day.
Admiralty Changes Its Mind
London To-day.
It is learned that the idea of replacing British destroyers used on patrol work in Spanish waters by armed trawlers, which had been considered by the Admiralty after the accident been to HM-S. Hunter, has⠀ abandoned. Reuter.
ANARCHISTS IN
BARCELONA
Still In Possession Of Arms And Tanks
Paris, To-day.
The position in Barcelona has still not been settled, according to reports reaching here from Spain, and General Pozas has evidently not succeeded in his task of sup- pressing the anarchist uprisings.
The anarchists are still in posses sion of arms and tanks, which make periodical appearances in the streets of the capital.
They are reported to have execut- Informed quarters expect that aned 17 soldiers who had assaulted international whaling agreement anarchists.-Trans-Ocean. will be signed within the next few days.
The agreement will probably be signed by all Powers possessing whaling fleets, with the exception of Japan.
MAN WHO SLEPT WITH HIS DOGS
Ordered To Vacate Two Rooms
The agreement will completely The visit is stirring up consïder-
prohibit whaling during the "close able interest in the press. The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" season" and will, for the remainder yesterday published a long article of the year, restrict whaling opera-
tions to certain Antarctic areas. A man who slept on the floor, on Dr. Kung, who, the paper says,.
a surrounded by a number of spaniels, has stood unswervingly by the Harpooning of whales under side of his brother-in-law, General certain size, as well as of females was at Plymouth ordered to vacate Chiang Kai-shek, who in 1927 with young and of animals not fully raised the standard of the Chinese grown, will be strictly prohibited. Republic.
The paper pays tribute to the financial genius of Dr. Kung and Mr. T. V. Soong, and recalls the 'latter's solution of the Chinese
financial crisis.
FOOLED THE PESSIMISTS
Dr. Kung, says the paper, fooled the pessimists, though he is still aware of the difficulties confronting him.
Trans-Ocean.
SAVING WHALE FROM EXTINCTION
Agreement To Begin On July 1
within eight weeks two rooms he occupied in Tollox-place, Plymouth.
Applying for a warrant of eject ment, Mr. D. F. Nash said the ma Joseph Coady,
kept a
number of pigeon o
Priceless Food For Britain
I stood, says Andrew Kidd in the "Sunday, Chronicle," in a pleasant garden at Chiswick and watched a botanist take a handful black, brown, and yellow beans, and start planting one by one. Superficially, they seemed dull, insignificant beans. But they were as magical as any that Jack ever planted to produce the fabulous beanstalk.
white-haired-79-year-oldbr
For the botanist, Mr. J. L. North, former curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park, has at last discovered four varieties of soya beans that will flourish in this country.
More than 30 years of experiment on these Manchurian beans have yielded varieties that will grow in Britain, that may save Britain from starvation in the event of a war-time food - blockade. Because the soya bean is the most magic bean in the world.
East's Staple Food
"For centuries," Mr. North said, "it has been the staple food of 700,000,000 people in the Far East, since it gives an excellent flour. There are about 3,000 varieties, and I have tested between 200 and 500. Now I have isolated suitable types, which I have named 'Black O "Brown C, Green Jap," and "Yellow
Seeds from Mr. North's plants will be sown over hundreds of acres this year. Many farmers have adopted the soya bean as a rotation crop.
Once the soya bean is extensively. cultivated in Britain, the nation will have acquired a priceless food For this and industrial asset. magic bean can provide; vegetable milk that - has all the qualities of cow's milk; first-class margarine; sauces; cheese.
in the backyar "Undoubtedly he is a lover of dogs, and there is no question of cruelty to animals," he added.
Mr. Norman Ruse, chief sanitary And for industry it yields; oil, inspector, said that the condition of glue, and enamel soaps, celluloid, the rooms was deplorable. Neigh and glycerine, rubber substitute for bours had complained that some- linoleums, water-proof goods; print- times Coady had as many as aling ink and casein, a transparent dozen dogs, with whom he appar-glass-like material. ently slept on the floor.
Full exploitation of the soya bean Coady said he had travelled miles might raise the standard of living
“London, To-day. Nine nations represented at the The paper recalls Dr. Kung's whaling conference in London have appeals for Sino-German co-opera- signed an agreement which will tion, which had been realised in become operative on July 1, while trying to find accommodation in the throughout Britain.
two other nations who are repre-country, where he would rather live sented by observers are likely to with his dogs. VIUR IZGI S shortly accede to the agreement.
£60,000 FOR WAR BLINDED
railway and other development.
The article concludes: "During the last visit of Dr. Kung to Ger- many in 1933 we had to be content with talking of schemes and hopes Now we can greet him as the repre- sentative of a State with which we are closely and amicably associated in practical work in the cultural and economic field for the benefit of both our nations. Trans-Oc
Head Of Coptic Church In Rome
Rome, To-day.
A commmunique issued by the conference hopes to secure admis- sion of those governments which had not participated in the confer-soldiers and sailors blinded
A legacy of £60,000 for Br ence but have whaling interests. -
The conference was called by Great War was, revealed when Britain and Norway to discuss will of Mr. John Sage a means by which the whale might banker who was born be saved from extinctionReuter. as filed for
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probate, at
New Jersey.
The money was bequeathed trust to the Lord Provost of Glass for distribution.
med. com-
While crossing the Indian Ocean Preparations for the first the Orient liner Orama was wire-Congress of the A The Supreme Head of the Coptic leased by the Greek vessel Dunavis organisation specially Church in Ethiopia, who arrived for medical aid After a ninety-hat the activities of here about ten days ago, was re-mile dash off her course she reach national, have now be
where an office has been set up in the ceived yesterday by the Italian ed the Dunavis. Her surgeon went Hotel Kaiserhof, traditionally associat Minister for Italian-Africa:
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Moted with the Nazi movement. This is the first official conversa- The worst was - a radio opera- tion granted to Abuna Cirillo in{tor with coughing spasms, sea Rome Trans-Ocean.
man with gastric trouble.
Ford's Example
Mr. Henry Ford uses a bushel of soya beans for every motor-car he roduces in the United States. By-
of the bean are turned into ering wheel rims, door-handles. rttons, gear shift knobs, and
Mr. Henry Ford started pean farm in Essex, Mr. North led in as adviser. The farm shing to-day"" and ""indus- ialists and agriculturists through-
åre following
pro-
doubt this is the most- plant in the world”. Mr.
Master R. Englebrecht, aged 14,
No. 82 Kai Tak Road, was mitted to the Kowloon, Hospital yesterday suffering from An earthquake shock strong enougated right forearm, received to make the windows rattle was felt at San Francisco.
he fell against a glass door.