THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 21, 1939,
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Four Thousand Japanese Set Up Business In Canton
TWO SIDES TO THE PICTURE
Canton, To-day.
Another Inch of Rain
Another 1.24 inches of rain fell
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GOVERNMENT'S CAMP BILL
in the 24 hours ending at 10,
London, To-day. o'clock this morning,
The principle business in the Setting an all-time high record, the Japanese popu- This brings the total this year to tion in committee of the
Commons yesterday was considera-. lation of Canton has passed the 4,000 mark, it 17.64 inches, 8.08 inches above averment's Camp Bill, which facilitates Govern- was announced at the weekly press conference.[age. Up to the end of March, it was stated, Japanese] The Royal Observatory reported for school use in peace time and subjects in Canton, including Koreans and has moved eastward and now the agency of non-profit making Formosans but excluding military, numbered covers the Pacific to the east and companies.-British Wireless. 4,415.
south-west of Japan. A depression
the provision of permanent camps this morning that the anticyclone evacuation purposes in war through
is now moving north-eastward over Formosa.
This number included 800 women, including 300 Korea.
geisha girls, waitresses and entertainers.
The Japanese population of Can- ton has never at any previous time exceeded 4,000.
The far greater number of Ja- panese in Canton are following the profession of clerks in banks and commercial concerns.
There are 1,600 clerks, while at the other extreme, only one Japan- ese is engaged in farming.
Some 40 Japanese doctors and nurses are in the city, while there are 14 civil engineers and contrac- tors, four teachers,
monks
and 25 photographers.
Beven
JAPANESE BUSINESSES Japanese businesses in Canton at present are said to include 50 im- port and export firms, 90 hotels and restaurants, 80 grocery and general merchandise stores, 18 barber shops, seven shipping firms, six trucking and forwarding concerns, and 21 masonry and carpentry establish- ments.-Reuter.
This official Japanese report on Canton, cabled by Reuter, tends to present a misleading picture of Canton.
The "China Mail's" information, from very reliable foreign sources, speaks of disillusioned Japanese businessmen with large stocks of useless commodities on their hands, unable to sell, there being no purchasers.
STOCKS ROTTING Stocks of food in groceries, is understood, are rotting, and many Japanese are returning
it
to
their own country, having been un- able to stand the losses sustained by opening business in what is still a far from normal city..
WOMAN DRIVER CAUTIONED
Mrs. H.M. Fanshawe, of Prince Edward Road, was this morning cautioned by Mr. Q.A.A. ́Macfadyen at Kowloon when summoned for leaving her car unattended in Salis- bury Road, near Star Ferry, on March 30 at 3.35 p.m. Mrs. Fan- shawe said she left the car there for two minutes.
Pleading guilty to a similar offence through -a representative, Mr. Feroze Ali, of Cliff Road, was fined $4. His car was found un-- attended on the wrong side of Saigon Street between 9.30 p.m. and 11.20 p.m.
Mrs. H. L. Engels, was fined $6 by Mr. R. Edwards this morning, for allowing her dog abroad without a muzzle.
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Local forecast: East and
South- A trough of low pressure extends East winds, moderate; cloudy, local from Tongking, across the nor-showers, probably some fog or mist thern part of the China Sea, to at night.
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