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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMRI
PRINCE KONOYE 500,000 Refugees BRITISH TRADE HAS AUDIENCE Now In Sinza District PACT WITH OF EMPEROR
Tokyo, To-day Italian adhesion to the Ger
o-Japanese anti-Comintern Pact is believed to lie behind an audience granted by the Emperor to the Premier, Prince Konoye and the Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota, yesterday.
The audience is referred to in official circles as an "important diplomatic affair.”
Of Shanghai
REBELS?
London, To-day.
Negotiations for a commercial Thousands of Chapel refugees Chapel area. Others, assuring treaty between Britain and General are still squatting in the Sinza dis-themselves by the sudden cessation Franco are said to have been con- tict between Yu Ya Ching and of hostilities in 1932, stayed on included, learns the "Evening Stan- Markham Roads, hoping against the belief that six weeks or two dard" hope that the hostilities will cease months would see the end of the Date when the treaty will become
effective has not yet been settled. suddenly and that they will be able hostilities.
Now, with the undeclared war According to the paper, the treaty to return to their peaceful occupa- tions and homes. Day after day more than nine weeks old, the re-does not include de jure recognition A Rome message confirms that these families, with destitution fugees have taken on a fatalistic of the Spanish Nationalists, but Italian participation in the Pact hiding its barrenness just around attitude. They had waited so long entitles General Franco to establish will be signed by Count Ciano, the the corner, sustain themselves on surely it would be foolish to pack consulates in British ports, while at the same time, the British con- Italian Foreign Minister, Mr. copper-fodder in their alleyway up and leave now. Hotta, the Japanese Ambassador, and back-yard abodes not exactly These homeless hordes are likely sulates at Salamanca, Santander and re-opened. "Trans- and Herr von Ribbentrop, the Gerdestitute but with the gap between to add to the city's refugee pro- Cadiz will be
A great Ocean. their state and abject poverty blem in the near future. man Ambassador in London.
no dif number have more or less com- In Berlin, says a message from small enough to make
ference.
mandeered such houses as they
This area presents all awe- the German capital, official circles
Neither police officials nor satis-cold in most cases, and realising inspiring sight at dusk. Refugees maintain complete silence, on the
Realty com ticians can possibly hope to est-of the hostilities.
wander around aimlessly six question, while the German press
ablish their number in this district, panies and landlords not wishing seven-deep. Street-hawkers, sell- refrains from publishing reports in
Ten to 12 families live in a single-to turn these people out into the
ing everything from three-copper this connection--Trans-Ocean.
storied house, eating and sleeping cold in most cases, and realising basked cakes to delicacies, scream- almost in sandwich formation. the difficulty in dealing with such
ingly advertise their specialties to
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FOREIGN SHIPS & Others wander over the city during a great number through the police, the more substantial-looking of the
BRITISH FLAG
than
one
a re-
as were:
the
turns.
the day, and at night return to have more or less waved some sheltering alcove in an alley signing hand at the affair. Fur passers-by and getting but poor re- or courtyard, shivering themselves thermore, such houses
The police are doing everything London, To-day- to sleep in the open, protecting freed of their non-paying guests
they can to preserve order, clear- Replying to a question in the themselves against the cold with were occupied by others of
almost ing alleys, yards and vacant lots House of Commons yesterday, Mr.newspapers, rags or straw matting, semi-destitute category
nighty. The problem, however, is of the
SINZA HOUSES 500,000 immediately and before the land Oliver Stanley, President
too large even for the efficient Board of Trade, said that for the The Sinza district alone, it is lord's back was turned.
Settlement force. There is no place FEW. EVACUATING NOW first nine months of this year, 200 ventured, now houses more
With Japanese planes and to accommodate all the vagrants foreign ships had bought the right half a million people, nearly
of them refugees from artillery bombing and shelling allefen if they should be arrested, to fly the British flag, and had been third
Chapel registered in Britain.
Only a small portion of points around Shanghai, few care and the problem must, more or less, of the be left untackled for the present. Another 51 ships had been pro-them were far-sighted enough to to evacuate the safety visionally registered.-Trans-Ocean. 'expect a prolonged conflict in the Settlement at present. At the rate It is hoped to accelerate the evacua- these refugees are evacuating at tion of the refugees as soon as pos- present, it is roughly estimated sible, but the time when homeless that it would take more than three multitudes fades away into the years before the Sinza district al-horizon of the far-away future at Lone was free of them.
present.
THE
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WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"
USH travel enormous
distances,
says a scientist. Goldfish are
persistent globe-trotters.
*
The Scots are a secret people, Bays an historian. To this day, not one of them has given a definite ruling as to whether the haggis is flora or fauna.
-)
According to contemporary, wo- men are now buying their dresses on the instalment plan. Some of them have already been seen wear- ing the first instalment.
Describing the world of 1980, a scientist says that one will merely step on the first thing one sees,.
There
no tradin.
Wir bills of ladin'
We can't do nuthin',
But must do somep'n,
To keep on carryin', yes, keep on
carryin' on.
You and me, we're all at sea Some of us already in the con
sommee
A sad face here, another one there, Unhappiness permeates the air. If only Izzie, would jus get busy, An' cease from makin our heads
so dizzy
Then wes like Whangpoo, Could go on ca
press a button and glide away. But A Newspaper
if the first thing is a banana skin, Story
there will be no need to press the
button.
Once upon a time there was correspondent who went East for Black Faced Interlude, by "In his paper. This usually means that Parenthesis" of the "North China two others went West to pay the Daily News"
Old man Whangpoo,
Dat ole man Whangpoo,
He mus' do somer'n,
But can't do nuthin,
But keep on rollin, jus
rollin along
Tou an me we sit and strain Listemin to bombs come
again
expenses of the one sent East. But this East was China, not Clerken well And he was given much money Land carte blanche. Because when ja London foreign editor sends a man far, he always gives him carte blanche because no foreign editors have ever been farther than Port- what Hand Bill, and do not know
carte Blanche means anyway, but it
One bursts here, another bursts sounds grand This man, we will
there,
An' shrapnel falls jus
not say correspondent, returned from the East. He also returned $200 of
blanche, which he had not spent. I will repeat that which
had not spent.
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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 3, 1937.
LONDON PAPERS PREDICT GERMAN ACTION ON COLONIES With Italian And Japanese Support Of Demands OFFICIAL BERLIN CAUTIONS FOR HAILE SELASSIE
FAILS IN SUIT
SILENT
Berlin, To-day.
REFUGEES IN
MUI TSAI CASES AGAINST ITALY
Two women refugees, one from Canton and the other from Japan,
were this morning cantioned by Mr.
Paris, To-day.
Although no official statement is as yet forth- coming in Berlin concerning predictions made by the London newspapers regarding future develop
After many weeks of brilliant ments in the question of Germany's colonial claims, R. A. D. Forrest at the Central oratory by leaching French lawyers, articles on the subject in the "Daily Telegraph" and Magistracy this morning when they an anti-climax was provided yes- "Daily Herald" are none the less attracting much pleaded guilty to keeping unregisterday to the case in which Haile tered muitsuis and bringing them Selassie is sung Italy for recovery attention in German political cirdes.
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into the Colony.
BOTH LONDON PAPERS STATE THAT THEY ARE IN A
The first defendant, Lo To-hang, of dividends from the Addis POSITION TO AFFIRM THAT IMPORTANT STEPS WILL who came from Canton, went to the Ababa-Djibouti Railway. SHORTLY BE TAKEN IN THE MATTER BY THE GERMAN S. C. A. to register the girl. The The court, after listening to the GOVERNMENT.
a.
According to the "Daily Tele- graph," Herr Hitler will summon meeting of the Reichstag, at which he will declare that Germany no longer recognises the principle of colonial mandates.
that
DANZIG NAZI ADHERENCE PREDICTED
girl aged 15 was very well treated fand desired to remain with the
defendant.
Second defendant, Lo Pui-yin, had come from Japan where she had been a resident for some years. The girl was presented to a relation of hers some time ago. The girl was seen by an aunt, who wrote to her father in Annam, and the aunt was. told to communicate with the SCA Various important measures to The girl was well treated but did demand for revision of those arti- be taken shortly in the Free City not desire to return to defendant. cles of the Versailles Treaty deal of Danzig, have been announced ing with colonies, in the hope that by the Nazi regional leader, AL Britain and France would thereby bert Forster.
JAPAN'S SUPPORT! The "Daily Herald" says Italy and Japan, for their part, will in their capacity as former allied and associated Powers, support the
be deprived of legal claims to re- tain their mandates.
Danzig, To-day.
The measures, inter alia, consist of an amnesty for political offences The paper states that the Ger- and a law dealing with the organisa- man ́Ambassador in London, Herr!tion of education of youth. von Ribbentrop, will be appointed A decree prohibiting, the forming Reich Colonial Minister, and will of new political organisations be entrusted with the task of con-also in preparation. ducting further negotiations.
is
¿.
Herr Forster yesterday declared GERMAN COMMENTS. that the time would come when the Although no official German com-flag of the Third Reich would be ment is made, political circles be the flag.
lieve that it is unlikely that the The the Free City.
statement is interpreted by
PASSING OF ONE
arguments of the lawyers of both sides for several weeks past, re tired yesterday and after many hours deliberation, declared itself. incompetent to deliver judgment.
As grounds for the decision, the court explains that a decision on the question of paying blocked dividends would mean also a deci- sion on the question of property rights of foreign shares in which principles of international public and private law are involved.
This would exceed the com- petency of the court. Traus Ocean
OF H.K.'S OLDEST and Company RESIDENTS
hewan, who was at one time Stress of "Fairall”, mil- ladies outfitters, was ad- hospital only two days and passed away this morning shortly after ten o'clock..
She resided at No. 1, North View this morning at the age of 78 years. Bungalow, North Point, and had She was Mrs. E A Shewan, lived in the Colony for well over 40
One of the oldest residents of the Colony died at the French Hospital
Reichstag would be convened for the em-oficial paper "Danziger widow of the late Mr William She years.
the purpose of a statement by Herr Vorposten" as meaning that the wan, twin brother of Mr Robert The funeral is being held to Hitler on the subject-Trans-Swattika fag will fly over Danzig Shewan, one of the founders of the morrow and will pass the monu-
Vorposten" as meaning that the well-known firm of Shewan, Tomes ment at 5 o'clock.
Ocean
100 YEARS OLD
AND STILL IN
ACTIVE SERVICE
as the secoid German State to adopt
it as a symbol"
It is believed that the Reich flag will form the basis of the new Free City flag but that the latter will display the city's historic coat of arms as a sign of Danzig's autonomy.
Trans-Ocean.
Berlin, To-day. TEL AVIV BADLY
Germany's oldest innkeeper, Johannes Koenig, of Laufen, in Wuertemberg, celebrated his
hundredth birthday yesterday DAMAGED BY
"still in active service.
Koenig can be seen at any time behind the bar, serving his cus- tomers with the agility of a man of 50.
FLOODS
Jerusalem, To-day Tel Aviv, the model Jewish set- Favourite pastime of regular tlement, suffered badly as the customers of the inn to induce sult of the disastrous floods over
eminisce and to
the we
Babur
the old man to give the inside story of events that took place 80 or 90 years ago. "MERE YOUNGSTER”“”“
Only a few weeks ago, burglars broke into the inn at night but were put to fight by Koenig and his brother, a mere youngster of
Koenig attributes his long life
things, con
to mo
done
inundated damage to property
Reports from Syria state that typhus has broken
out there following foods north Damascus Trans-Ocean.
RECRUITING
keen sense
The intake
to
London, To-day.
recruits in the
don area for the Regular Army was double that in the
week of last year Tireless..
ATTAINING
PERFECTION
BISSET'S
GOLD LABEL WHISKY
SOLE IMPORTERS
OPTORG COMPA