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That feeling of profound disgust is not something which can be fright- The weather report, forecast and | ened cut of existence by bullets and remarks issued by the Royal Obser- | prizon-colis, much less by pious vatory, Hong Kong, at 0.08 p.m. I professions, hypocritical cant, and } yesterday stated :-
Ban- | flowery-wörded manifestoes, The anti-cyclono remains central ditry, continued unrest, and official noar Shanghai.
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RUSSIAN INFLUENCE IN
CHINA.
AN interesting answer to a question which is being constantly asked by foreign students of Chinese affairs is made by Mr. LAN Y TANG in the China Critic, The question is" Are the principles of Com muniani really making any real progress in China? Mr. LIx answors "Yes," and cites as evi- dence the fact that Chinese renders are devoting more attention to other foreign writers combined. modern Russian authors than to all
PARLOUR "THEATRICALS.” WIRELESS Cathusiasts in the United States were startled a few weeks ago by the news that an American radio group, in which JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, Jun., Ggured promin- ́ently, was planning á Radio City
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* News and Views ★
Herr von Guerand, the Germant A British wireless expert has Minister of Communications has reinvented portable transmitter and crived from the Japanese Minister receiver the aim of a policeman's of Communications, Mr. Koizumi, lamp. Sootland Yard is investigat a message in reply to his greetings ing the possibility of its adoption to conveyed by the Japanese fyer London police needs. Yoshihara who recently flew from Berlin to Tokyo. The message states An announcement in con "It is a great pleasure to me to sea nection with the new regular air in this fight not only a new air service to the Dutch East Indies Japan but also a now sign of the be fortnightly and that it is hoped connection between Germany and says that the service will probably friendly relations existing between to cover the distance between. The the two nations since it was achieved Hague and Batavia in ten days, by a Japanese in & German light | The weight mail bags car Junkers machine."
ried on the flight is 220 kilo grammes, states Trans-Qevan Kuo Min.
i
Margaret Gleitze, the British wous swimmer, has broken ber own record by swimming continu-
Contract for the construction of a large number of tran ́cara destin. ed for Sofia has been awarded, to Stating that he had boon starved the Augsburg-Nuernberg Machine for six days after losing. £l be-Works, in co-operation with the There longing to his employer, an errand German General Electric. boy was discharged at Marylebone were altogether 30 competitora. recently when accused of stealing |
Part of the Cunoville munitions depot exploded last week. The shed in which the explosion occurred can- lained 27,000 hand grenades, 400 rasus of machine gun ammunition. and 400 cases of rifle-cartridges. By good fortune no lives ware lost and the conflagration did not extend to the rest of the depot which contain od 140,000 grenades. The sentries state that they suspect that the fire was caused by incendiarism
Now elections will be held throughout the Soviet Union at the end of November, the new Soviet Congress meeting for the first time On March 5, nert,
When a motor-car driver was summoned at Hillsborough, County Down, for dangerously, driving a motor car, he said in his defence that this was the first time he had been proscouted.although he had been driving for eighteen years and had driven Royalty. The Police Sergeant who prosecuted said that, the defendant came round a bead of the road on his wrong side at a sperd of fifty miles an hour, adding that it was the worst enso of reck- loss driving he ever saw.
The Paris theatrical world and
the general public had a first-class
of £60,000,000. The directors of this colossal enterprise had one. pre-ously for 40 hours. dominant object in view--the per- fecting and popularisation of tele- vision. They had all gone pretty nearly as far as they could in plain wireless broadcasting, and, looking to the future, focussed their atten-
realistic reproduction of plays, musical comedies, and variety shows into the homes of the people. ..' Their proposal was to produce these entertainments in their own theatres in Radio City, one of which was to have a seating capa city of 7,000 and another of 5,000, and telovite them to acts purchased by the public. Practical minds w financial difficulties in the way, There is no wireless tax in the United States, and although the country has something like 000 broadcasting stations all in more or less simultaneous operation, there is no such thing as State-aid. There is, however, the big adver- tiser, and to the big advertiser the broadcasting stations came with an offer to sell time" to pay the
that not having the courage to face of the British Pharmaceutical Con- titbit served them when it was the note. He told the magistrată Mr. J. Humphrey, chairman
tion on the problem of carrying avis omployer or to return home, ference, said recently that the gen
he walked about for six days and oral practitioner charged for ad- nights, having nothing to eat. Mr. vice and not for medicine. The Hay
Halkett: Do you think I can chemist and druggist charged for believe that? The boy replied that what he supplied and threshi he had nothing he "lived on air." advice in free. In many instances, The magistrate Baked a police off he thought, the chemist's advice. cer what the boy was like when was worth immeasurably more than arrested. The officer replied that the doctor's medicine. he returned home faurished. Mr. Hay Falkott: It may be true then. He will be discharged,
.
Bubonic plague has broken out in French Morocco, the fort and bunker-station of Oran have been closed to shipping.
anounced that the 20 years old leading lady of the Comédie Fran- iso, Mlle. Yvonne Hautin, was taking the veil in the Paris convent
of the Benedictines.
kish Cabinet includos extension of The programme of the new Tur-
suffrage to all citizens instead of limiting it, as at present, to a cer When the Second Battalion Wilt-tain class of taxpayer, stabilization ahire Regiment paraded at Crown of the currency and relief for agri- hill Harracks, near Plymouth, last culture. The constitution of tho month, to receive the new Com- new left party is officially announc
"People's Republican mandant (Lieutenant Colonel Wed as the Platt officers and mon wora in Party:" their shirt sleeves owing to the heat, and the regimental cooks ap- peared in white hats and aprons.
Three long broke, loose from their. The request of a lonely young.
caga in a travelling cireu, at Get- missionary to marry the girl he
torf, in Holstein. Two took refuge has not seen for three years is be
The Italian Press sharply con- in a stable, and were quickly re- ing considered by the Wesleyan demas what it calls the undue captured, but the third eluded its Methodist Conforones
at Leeds. During these three years the mis sentenco passed by the Brussels the right it made its way into a lonieney of the five years' prison pursuers for 24 hours. During sionary has lieen working at a TO- note port. According to the rules, court on Berosa, who was found paddock, where it killed a horse no Methodist missionary
guilty of having attempted to as-and cow, which it partially consum is per- mitted probation in the foreign when the latter visited Belgium.
Baseinate, the Italian Crown Prince Fed. field. But the appeal is receiving Several papers also take offence at sympathy. The Missionary Com-
Two American workmen have boen
The giant tide of literary Bol-cost, of broadcasting programmes mitteo of the church has decirtaa the way the trial was conducted sentenced to two years imprison- shevism has been inundating China and give themselves a modest pro- to support, his request under strict rather against Fascism than against ment each in Moscow for assaulting
| during the past two years," writes Mr. LIN. "Anybody who visits the new bookshops on Foochow Road (Shanghai) will see that over to per cent of the new books on the market (in Chinese) have to do with Russia, KARL MARX, and names ending in ov or lof." [93 CREDIT FONCIÈR D'EXTREME A list of the literary works of Rus
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sian authors which have been trans.
lated in the last two years would put to shame any professor of modern Russian literature in Har- vard or Columbia. Unless he reads up. pretty fast, he may keep his position in Columbia, but he would feel some hesitancy about
fit.
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When this great television pro ject came to be discussed the ques tion arose whether it would not be advisable to transmit their pro- grammes on a series of mixed or '" scrambled "wave lengths, the key
ly defined conditions. The ques«. tion is to be discussed in private during the conference.
According to the Daily Express a complete reorganization of the Britian railways is contemplated under Government control.
the world-bo murderer.
Two French airmen, Bailly and Reginensi, who, flew from Paris to Gaigon and back, are planning an attempt on the world's record for continuous Aying in a new plane, equipped with a similar engine to that in which Major Costes made his record-breaking flight.
a negro worker. The Soviet Gov- ernmont, however, 4 considering that hatred of coloured people is part of the American capitalistic régime" commuted these sentences into expulsion from the Soviet Union for a period of ten years...
M. Calonder, the former Swiss" State Councillor, for sight years Solicitors Leting for Miss Amy
president of the Upper Silesian to which would only be in posses-Johnson in Sydney have accepted sion of individual subcribers to the the sum of $103 108. 2d., the bal and Communists took part in a resignation was very much regret-
Between sixty and seventy thou-mixed commission, whose recent. television service. Such a "seram aos of £200 which the airwoman parade at Lustgarten Square, Berted in Germany on account of his claimed from Messra. J. C. Don-in, in front of the former Imperial strong opposition to unjustified bled wave" and "key" bystem was dradt, Ltd., the proprietors of the palace which was intended as a Polish demands, has, on the in- actually deviced some years ago, Palais Royal dance-hall, as mo-call-reply to the much advertised but animous wish of the League of
"appearance money." Miss
then suddenly cancelled show of the Nations Council withdrawn his It was intended at that time as ad
Johnson has given the sum accept National Socialists at Potsdam. resignation. it of producing revenue for add to the New South Wales Acre The demonstration which was to
Korfanty the most redoubtable broadcasting ctations. Radio en Club as a mark of appreciation of prove that the Nationalists would thusiasm, however, spread at such the help extended to her by the a terrifle pace that hundreds and club while she was in Australia. thousands of radio sets were in- Work has begun in Leningard on That is, it he knows what is hap stalled before it was possible to put the first inotype factory of the Soviet Union. The factory in to the plan into operation. Revenue atart operations in May next, with had to be secured somehow, and so an estimated annual production of the advertiser came into the busi-50 linotypes. So far all such ma- nese, and selling time" was estabchines have had to be imported from lished as a new American industry.
Faccepting a similar post in China,
pening here."
Mr. LAN makes the very positive statement that "Russia has con quered Young Chine and claimed her as her own. He adds that people who imagine that the ideas and ideology of the Chinese stud United States is said to have al Broadcast advertising in the ents of to-day are those which pre mest reached saturation. If it en cipitated the May 30 affair in 1025, or those that made possible the cronches much further there will be Nationalist Revolution in 1927, are)
moro advertising than programme, sadly mistaken. Young China has and that is 'n situation which the goas Bed in the last three years, broadcast listener in the United after the Nationalist Revolution." States will not stand for. Up, once more, therefore, comes the A survey made of books read by scrambled wave" and "key" Chinese in Peiping shows that Mr.
proposition, or some alternative Lis's comments, which refer to Shanghai, are equally applicable plan, which will give the public what it wants, and yet not leave in the more conservative North.
abrond.
at least in Berlin stand little chanes leader of the Polish opposition par- ngainst the extremiss of the Left passed without any incident.
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Harold Welch, Jack Williams, and Cham Leaon have been arrested in Los Angeles, charged with smug gling Chinose in from Mexico. It
is reported that Williams has con- fessed that he is guilty of promot ing illegal immigration in this way.
ties in Silosia, has been arrested in his home in Warsaw and under strong police escort was lodged in the local gaol. The newn of his arrest caused amongst the populace. It was ap
great axbitement warently made as's preparation for the dissolution of the Silesian Sejm, which was doerend a few hours afterwards.
Local Notes and Events .*
Mr. J. W. Franks has resumed duty as Superintendent of Prisons,
can.
A Chinese was fined 8500 or throo:in A.D. 1938 the Chinese will have montos' hard labour by Mr. H. R."learnt all that Europeans Batters at the Kowloon Magistracy teach them, and they will then His Excellency the Governor hassion of 17 taels of illicit opium, as Japan has," is somewhat sur on Saturday for being in posses-get rid of their teachers, appointed Mr. Wan Iu Shing to It was stated that he was arrested prising. The statement that the be Inspector of Vernacular Schools. at the Kowloon Canton Railway Chinese will have learnt so much→→→
His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power
station.
Section 13 of the Public Health of disallowance with respect to the and Building Ordinance has been tion of Light Hydrocarbon Oils,
"all that Europeans can tenth them" in so comparatively short a time implies more diligenes and good-will on the part of the lear
While the authorities censor, the the broadcasters to pay their piper. Ordinance to provide for the taxa-amended as follows:No person ners than we have been accustomed
newspapers, they have not bothered about books, and the demand for books on modern Russia and Soviet writers, in very great in Peiping.
kit to the dar
The German Government ́has: issued a decree to the effect that the import duty on wheat will be in creased from the present 15 to 18.5 marks
per unit. The measure is It is pointed out by Mr. Lis designed to afford further protec in view
under the age of twelve yours shall he permitted upon any promises used for the trade of rag-picking. rag-storing, hair cleaning, feather storing or feather-cleaning."
to give them credit for.-Hong Kong Daily Prens, Out. &, 1005, Looking Back 50 Years.
that during two years over one tion to the German farmor the Saturday a coolie of the Hong day on charge of, manufacturing smarting under the acquerbion
world price of wheat
The military authorities removed to the Government Civil, Hospital yesterday. Chinees who had had his foot crushed between a gun car- ringo and a wall at Devil's Peak.
In a report to the police on- hundred Russian translations have of the recont heavy dealine
due, Kong Electric Company stated that been put on the market. There is at least in part, to large he was held up near Coney Glass Du question of Soviet propaganda. scale Russian onles, The Gov- Factory, Wanchuri,, by three men, These books are sold by commercial trament also decided to resist and robbed of $3.
the demand made in cortain quart Chinese publishers, for profit, toers for prolonging the permission satisfy n demand. The demand is to import frozen meat. In cases of distross the local, authorities are so grant that 23 books out of this directed to take proper steps for the list have appeared in two or more enforcement of price reductions for translations, publishers duplicating fresh meat especially for needy per translations in their haste to satisfy
sons.
It is notified that at the expira tion of three months, the Uarion Bank, Limited, will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck of the rogister and the company wily be dissolved.
That Hong Kong is a mart for the sale of human beings is a fact Two men and two women were that cannot be blinked, Lord Stan- brought before Mr, H. R. Rutters at ley of Alderley notwithstanding. the Kowloon Magistracy on Ratur- The Chief Justice-etill evidently. fireworks in 604 Reclamation brought against him by the peer, Street in a building other than a beforementioned when pusing factory, and also of manufacturing sentences on two batcher of kid- fire-crackers without a licence. The pappors at the Criminal Seamons chao, was a sequel to an incident on Monday, very properly called- in which a child was killed while ¦ attention, to the open and barefaced. working there about two weeks manner in which these miscreante age. His Worship remanded the ply their unlawful calling ce till the inquiry into the girl's Great poufldence was expressed by the unlamentod ex-Secretary of State for the Colonies that Bir John Hennessy, would put down slavery in every form in Hong Kong, but wo are not aware that. His Excellency has taken any steps to that end beyong encourag ing certain of the natives to forin
death is finished.
the demand. Oonrov's "Diary of No further anti-German riots Eighty simples were analysed Looking Back 25 Years.
Communist School-boy," for have taken place in. Prague. The under the Sale of Food and Drugs The race of prophets is not ex- example, has appeared in threo solo disturbance of peace and order Ordinance for the quarter ended tinct. It has to-day representatives separats Chinese translations, and was a big Communist demonstration September, 30. Of those, all were worthy and unworthy. Of the
called to protest against the anti-genuine excepting one each of but-worthy kind, we must undoubtedly in society for the repression of kid- Madam -KOLLONTAY'S "Red Love" Gorman excesses. The police in this er, jam and sugar.
number the Rev, Timothy Richard, napping. This is all very well in in two Mr. LIR, whose weekly ease quickly appeared on the scene, but al
who has just been telling a Daily its way, but the measure, requires The Hon. Sir Shonion Chow yo News interviewer that in the gay supplementing. No proclamation article is eagerly read by Chinese charged the demonstrators and
turned the Colony by these 1954 [will be "greater than has been ale-explains. His situation lonzed the tracks, without any steak sidontalis connatusGE AND Chips in Bagus holding, dogrolle playe
no warning given the efficiency of the police against Passengers, by the same boat wore as coming Power has been held that they have no property in such the Communists and its very belat Mr. Chan Lim Pak, Mr. Ho up to us before. We have grown chattels, and that they must regard ed action against the anti-German Kwong, and Mr. Harold Shantz, used to the sight of it. But to hear them as free-Hong Kong Daily rioters is regarded as significant.
of the U.S. Consulate.';
from such a notable authority that Press, Oct. 0, 1880
as follows: Young China is pro foundly disgusted with things as they are, and they want a change