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JAPAN'S FUEL EX-KAISER & PRESIDENT
POLICY
Influential Committee
Meets
QUESTION OF COAL AND OIL
ADMIRATION FOR MR. ROOSEVELT'S
ACHIEVEMENTS
Hitler Leading Germany Back To Normal
The ex-German Emperor is much, interested in the career and per sonality of Mr. Franklin D. Roose velt, says Mr. Poultney Bigelow, who has known both men since their boyhood. Mr. Bigelow, the well-known American author and traveller, "left the United States early in January and returned re- cently. In the interval he travell- ed many thousands of miles and among other things spent three days with the former Kaiser at
At any rate their grandfather was grateful."
Tokyo.—The Fuel Policy Com- mitter, organised for the study or the national policy on ruel sup- plies, as its name indicates, mét al the Industrial Club on the 8th instant, "It was attended by Baron
I played together as boys, in the When Mr. Bigelow and William Nakashima, Minister of Commerce
days when the former's father was and Industry, Mr. Iwakiri, Parlia
Ambassador to France under Lin- nentary Under-Secretary of Com
coln and took his family to Ger merce and Industry, and other
many for holidays, the House of high officials of the same Depart
Hohenzollern lived in considerable ment, Mr. Kurusu, Director of the
pomp: Now things are changed. Commercial Affairs Bureau of the
At Door, the present head of the Foreign Ofee, Colonel Hayashi,
Hohenzollerns has a modest re- Director of the Bureau of Sup-
sidence on a place comprising some plies of the War Office, Captain
10 or 15 acres, and he has made "He has not changed perceptib much of that land into a public Ushimaru. Director of the Munily since my former visit three years park. The former Kaiser, besides tions Bureau of the Navy Depart- ago," says Mr. Bigelow. "I found being an archaeologist, is more ment, Mr. Takeuchi, a Secretary him the same animated. cultured, than an of the Finance Department, Mr. dignified exile-a great contrast, takes pride in his.flowers and amateur botanist and. Kitashima, Director of the for example, to the First Napoleon shrubs. Colonial Affairs Bureau of the De- who spent his days as a deposed. partment of Overseas Affairs, and ruler in fretting and fuming. Na- Mr. Matsui, Director of the Gen-turally: he is ready to return, if his eral Affairs Section of the Re-
country calls him, but he is con· sources Bureau.
tent to wait. He will never stoop to intrigue or conspiracy.
Following the opening address by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, the draft plans drawn up by small. expert committees since June regarding the three big items of investigation, viz. de- velopment of the oil industry, ex- ploitation of the oil resources. and development of substitute fuels, were taken up for discus- sion, as the result of which
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Confidence Of Germany. - "He has plenty to keep nim busy" says Mr. Bigelow, "In the first place, the members of nine- teen royal houses are dependent "Never in all the talks we had upon, him. And you might note did he ever make any kind of that William II is about the only comment concerning those who exiled ruler who ever retained the owe him much but have been pub, confidence of the Government fishing articles and memoirs mak- which succeeded him. He was not ing him the scapegoat. But then one of those who left his country William II has a habit of speaking with millions put away in foreign of those he likes and saying no- securities. He had no outside in- thing of those he does not."
vestments. He belleved in his country and all his money was
Grandson's Visit!
Mr. Bigelow says the former Em- there. decision was reached on each peror frequently spoke of "Prest! "And now, knowing his obliga- item: The plans agreed upon re- dent Roosevelt and evinced ad-tions, and how the revenues from fer to fuld fuel or petroleum, and curiosity concerning his personal shrunk, the present Government miration for his achievements and his remaining properties have form part of the fuel national
ity. One reason for this was he helps him out by allowing him a policy to " be established at knew his visitor had been a certain addition to his income. about friend and not so distant neigh-This money is strictly accounted bour of the President's parents and for and there are book-keepers at had watched Franklin Roosevelt Doorn who work on the ledgers. grow from childhood. The torm-It is inevitable that the former er Emperor expressed much grati- Emperor's mail should be large fude for the kindly manner in and he is particular that letters which President Roosevelt, then should be answered. With these Governor of New York, received things and a hundred others he
has plenty to keen him busy.”
the estimated cost of Y.20,000,000 23 & Ave-year pro- gramme. The sum appropriated in the new Budget is something like .6.000.000.
The Japanese Petroleum Industry:
The decisions reached at Fri day's meeting are substantially as follows:-
his
grandson. Louis Ferdinand 1-For the development of the.
and Frederick William, when Mr. When he was asked what he oil industry, the reform of
Bigelow took them over to see him. thought of present conditions in the industrial organisation and
"It would have been easy for Germany, Mr. Bigelow said that the Mr. Roosevelt to hide behind eti-, he had never met Hitler and had encouragement of the home pro-quette or to make the usual easy spent no time in that country duction of machinery for working excuses of a busy max" said Mr. since the latter came into power. oll felds and for manufacturing Bigelow, "But he was too big a "But," he added. "I think Ger- oils should be chiefly aimed at. I person and too gracious a gentle many is merely getting back to The oil industry in this country man for that. There were others, normal. To be really happy, a Is in such a poor state that the then in high office, who did not German must have good beer, crude oil produced can barely sup- have this courage, if it takes cour- good music, and policeman on ply 10 per cent, of the total "de-age to entertain a couple of pleathe beat."-N.A.N.A. and Free mand, and consequently it is Bant
well-mannered youngsters. Freas copyright. urgent that the industrial organi- sation should be reformed... ΤΟ this end, amalgamation of enter- prises, the abolition of the licens- ing system, and control of the im portation of oil are suggested, though nothing definite is decided on this head. A concrete plan in this regard will be elaborated after further careful study,
The manufacture of machines, which are not at present produced
ARE CLUB MEMBERS ALLOWED
TO BET?
Argument In Singapore Appeal Court
Singapore. Decision was reserv-
In this country, should be en-[ed by Mr. Justice Gerahty in the couraged by the grant of sub-
sidies.
of
Supreme Court on Saturday in the case in which Singapore British Malay Football Club appealed against their conviction in the Dis trict Court for running their club
It will be recalled that the Club
Folicemen Witnesses.
the prosecution had been police- Most of the Crown witnesses m men who were members of the club, and they bad all admitted that they bad joined the club for social ren
Bons.
object of the club was gaming. Mr. It did not matter if the primary
on a business of gaming, or the was whether or not the club carried public were allowed access, and this was not so. It might be said of for the primary object of gaming practically any club that it existed if the law was interpreted in that Turf Club, for instance joined for way the majority of members of the the purpose of betting on the totali racing sator, not to participate in the
North Sagballen Exploitation. 2-For the development of oil re sources. & geological study should be completed within a short as a gaming house. period, and the prospecting of offcials were charged before the Knowles contended. The point various oil fields in North Bag- District Judge with allowing their ballen and other places should be
in Arab Street to be encouraged by
premises extending the habitually used as a common gam system of granting the encourageing house, and it was stated that ment subaddies.
although the chub called itself a Alcohol As A Substitute.
football club there was in fact no 3.-For the development
football team in connection with it substitute fuels, (a) the industry and never had been."---- for "converting
The prosecution alleged that the alcohol into a tite of the club was merely a blind substitute for gasoline should be to cover up a gaming business. encouraged, and efforts should be made to produce cheap gasoline; peal, anid it was really only an Mr. Knowles, in opening the ap (b) subsidies should be granted to academic point, for the club had pointed to the fact that the club. inditställsta who undertake on a been fined only $10 on the charges had to football eleven, and suggest- large scale the dry distillation of preferred against it, but the imed that the title covered the real coal at low temperature; (c) the portant point he wished to bring object of the club, gaming. That "Audification "fndustry should be forward was whether the club could sort of club was expressly referred granted "10 the use of subsitute be brought under the Common to in the law, and its activities
Gaming Houses Ordinance. The came under the Ordinance.
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MAPS OF MANCHUKUO
Geographical Survey Ended
Tokyo.
A party of 15 under the leader- ship-of Major Kondo, instructer of The lumoabidzu, Aviation School, in China, have arrived at Simono- seki from their surveying tour of the geographical situation of Man chukue,
gambling was admitted me wha He referred to the Truf Club Betting Case, which, he said, was the best authority, he could pro- duce, and which dealt with the whale matter of common gaming! bouses
Mr. JH Bassett, in his reply,
Gerahty reserved his decision.
His Lordship Mr. Justice
POLITICAL TRAINING FOR CANTON OFFICERS Advanced And Intermediate Sections.
Canton, Bept. 18 Classes in political, tráthing of the Ten Tang Military Academy began to-day following the opening coremonies. The students are divided into advance and interme date sections.
Earlier Appeal Court Decisions. In that case two members of the Turf Club had been charged with. carrying on betting within the pre- mises of the Turf Club, and were convicted for having used the Turf Club as a common gaming house. de In the Appeal Court he (Mr. The maps of the country so far Knowles) had argued that the Turf published have contained not & few Club being open only to members errors se they were prepared with could not be brought within the out precise investigations. But now ambit of "the Ordinance. That that we have discovered them all as argument was accepted by two of a result of conducting the present the three judges who sat on the survey by using five planes, we ex appeal and the conviction had been pect to make radical revisions of quashed the maps," said Major Kondo in a That same argument applied in prea interview.
the present case, for the club was Major Kondo expects also that open only members, and no gam Addresses were also delivered by tha revision will provide not stering budine wae carried on there, Mesars Lin Yun Kal and Lin facilities for the future expeditions only gaming between the members Yth Chung In their capacity as to exploit the natural resources of themselves, and that was not an administrative officials of the ac the country.
offence within the Act.
General Chen Chi Tang, presl dent of the academy and Lieuten ant General Tao Yin Chien, vice president, gave: talks to the cadets urging them to work hard to it themselves as officers and gentle- men
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