JAPAN AND CHINA
Tokyo
Press On Signs Improved Relations
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1933.
THE LATE MR. ~ "AT HOME" AT THE RICE TAX
EL. AGASSIZ
Of
Tribute From
Chief Justice
The
"CHINESE CHANGE OF HEART”
Tokyo:-The Chugai Sangyo ob- serves that Sino-Japanese relations are gradually taking a turn for the better, and hopes that the new For eign Minister will rise to the occa- sion and make positive endeavours to bring them back to the normal course. The Tokyo paper is glad to note that during the past two years Manchukue has made very favour able progress and feels sure that its future development will be even are remarkable. This is very wel come, as it means that the founda tions of the peace of the Far East are being more firmly established. The only regret is, it says, that the relations between Japan and China still remain abnormal. Although there is no doubt that the sound development of Manchukup makes a valuable contribution to Far, Eas corn peace, there can be no perfect
CHIANG KAI-SHEE'S.
OPINION
THE LUSITANO
Anniversary Of Portuguese Republic
Canton Merchants And Local Dealers
Regarding the rumour in circula-
dr. Lau said that he did not
Merchants
Mr. Läu said that the tax did not
NEW "Empire" Model WILKINSON
SAFETY
WITH
LONG-LIFE
HOLLOW
GROUND
BLADES
RAZOR
POSITIVE
SELF-STROPPING
ADJUSTABLE
ROLLER GUARD
Walter, A.D.C., representing H. E most of the other local dealers fol-
Among those present were, Capt. bother him at all. He added that NO MORE NEW BLADES TO BUY the Governor, Capt Mears, repre-lowed the same procedure so he senting H. E. the General Officer could not see how the tax was going Commanding, Commander Potter,
R. N... representing Commodore to affect them.
tina yesterday" in connection with the joint action taken by rice deal- A large number of members of On the occasion of the 3rd anniers in the Colony to stop ail further the legal profession were present versary of the proclamation of the shipments to Chaton pending recon. yesterday, when the Acting-Chier- Portuguese Republic, the local Porsideration, for which, they have ap forward and make positive efforts to Bankruptcy Jurisdiction, paid a
Müauce (artj. R. Wood), sitting intuguese community were "At plied, by the Chinese authorities of Home" at Club Lusitano yesterday the new tax of a dollar per picul on better the relations between the two warm tribute to the late Official when the Vice-Consul for Portugal, foreign imports into the provinces countries. Since the resignation of Receiver, Mr. E. L. Agassiz, who died Mr. P. B. Botelho, and Mrs Bote our representative was granted an Count Uchida, the former Foreign last week. Minister, was purely on account of
ho welconied representatives of proc. interview by Mr. Lau Taikyu, poot health, not because of any dif
The Acting Chlef Justice said:tically every community who went to manager of the Wing Fung Hong. ference of view on the matter of the Court in Bankruptcy since the
"This is the first session held by | pay their respects.
one of the biggest rice dealers in Mr. Botelho in a policy, the change in the Foreign death of the late Official Receiver, thanked the gathering for their preknow anything about this decision,
few words,
Jthe Colony. Minister does not, needless to say. Mr. E. L. Agassiz, and it is fitting sences and he said it gave him much and added that as far as his firm involve hay change of policy, but, in that at the opening of this Session pleasure to propose the toast of His was concerned, they did not export a sense, the appointment of the new I should express a sense of the Majesty the King. The Acting any rice to Canton Minister may prove the occasion to deep loss felt by myself and, I am Chief Justice, Mr. J. R. Wood then from that port come down here to mark a new orientation of the coun-aure, by all present. His untimely gave the toast of the President of buy the rice themselves, and as they try's foreign policy. In the opinion death has taken from us an officer the Portuguese Republic. Both of do their own shipping to Canton, of the Tokyo journal, it seems quite in whom the Court bas for the last these were honoured very heartily. timely for the new Foreign Minister eight years, learned to, place ab- to put a new face on the Sino solute reliance. Throughout this Japanese relations.
period I have myself been a judge of this Court but I speak not merely from my personal respect, but am voicing the confidence of The Tokyo jiji also discusses the the last two Chief Justices, Sir Elliott, Mr. J. P. Braga, Col. L. C general Mr. Lac said that Speaking about the rice business. and secured peace in the Far East. Sinn-Japanese relations in a similar Henry, Gollan and Sir Joesph Kemp | Bird, Dr. F. M. G. Ozorio (presid! things were very quiet. The daily i so long as the present deplorable strain. It, like the Chugai Shogy Agassiz has left behind him a re- Churn, Philip Jacks, M. Figueredo, who presided in this Court. Mr.ent of Club Lusitano) Messrs. S. M. Sino-Japanese relations remain as regrets that friendly diplomatic they are. Now that the future of relations are not yet restored be- cord of very able public service Lea D'Almada, jar, P. . N. da the new State of Macchukuu is practween Japan and China, but sees a free from all self secking. He will Silva, HA. de B. Botelho, C. A tically assured, attention must be welcome sign in the interview remembered in this Colony alike D'Almada, E. M. Hall, His Lord
impartial levoted to the Sino-Japanese rela which General Chiang Kai-shek for his thorough and
of his duties and Hornell, Messrs. He Leung, M. Hirade.
ship Bishop Valtorta, Sir William tions. It is reassuring to note that recently granted Dempo Taunshin: performance
for his sympathy with those whom Lo. F. M. L. Soares, E. Grossman, there are increasing signs of a ren. In this interview, General Chiang lisation of this necessity on the part affirmed his adherence to the Great their affairs he discovered were 31. Dufaure de la Prade, Consul General for the United States. Mr. of the authorities of hoth, Japan Asia principle of the late Sun Yat meeting their misfortunes with General for France, Hon. Dr. R. HJ. M. da Rocha, Consul for Costa and China.
sen, and expressed joy at the adve, honesty and courage."
The Deputy Official Receiver Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau. Hon. Mr. A.
Kolewall, Hon. Dr. S. W. T'so, Rics, and many others. cacy of this principle by Japanese
In the evening, a dance was held public opinion. He then dismissed Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith) 350-GW. Tickle, Major H. B. L. Dow in the Club's spacious hall when a sa unfounded the rumour that China clated himself with His Lordship's higgin, Messrs. H. Owen Hughes, A. very enjoyable time was spent by all, is trying to align herself with Wes.emarks and said that he had lost K. Mackenzie. Hon. Mr. AE. dancing being continucă until a tern Powers against Japan. Refer a personal friend and the Court a Wood, Mr. Douglas Jenkins, Consul. late hour. ring to foreign loans and the pur- trusted servant. chase of arns, he said that they are Mr. P. X. D'Almada, snr., express- solely for the country, declaring thated the loss felt by practising solici- China in her present state cannot
tors at Mr. Agassiz's death. afford to make a quarrel with another country. But, he averred, as he is a soldier, he could not for a moment submit to armed pressure that might be brought to bear upon China by any country.
THE GREAT ASIA PRINCIPLE
sis, of course, difficult to know the true mind of the leaders of the Nanking Government, proceeds the Angal Shogya, but indications are not lacking that their attitude to "wards Japan, has undergone some change of late. The change in the Chinese Foreign Minister. and the public expression by Mr. Wang Ching-wel, the new Foreign Minis ter. of his intention to restore the Sino-Japanese relations to the nor, mal state augur well for the future. General Chiang Kai-shek shewa him- elf an advocate of the Grent Asia principle, and expressed satisfac tion that this principle is gaining force in Japan. He also dismissed as unfounded Japan's suspicion that China is blindly following the lead of Britain and America. Such utterances have not fallen from the lips of General Chiang and Mr. Wang for a long time, and they seem to indicate a change of their outlook on Sino-Japanese relations, It may be hazardous to take their words at their face value, and yet there appeary to be no mie taking the fact that the sentiment of the Chinese authorities towards Japan is perceptibly improving.
NG WING-TSOI
CHARGED
Embezzlement Of Police Money
24 HOURS REMAND
of
The alleged defalcations monies belonging to the Accounts Department, Central Police Station, were recalled at Central Magis tracy yesterday when Ng Wing Tsot, former shroff of the Depart- ment, was charged on the follow- ing counts:-
consumption in
Hongkong and Macao was about 3,000 bags and this came to only about 6,600 piculs, M. Lau, however, was optimistic regarding an early revival of the
FINLAND'S CAPITAL WHERE FEAR IS THE FOE
Helsingfors: And Its Refugee Community
Helsingfors, Finland. The ship thrusts her great white nose through what is surely the narrowest channel-except the big ditches at Suez and Panama-ever threaded by a 25,000-ton craft. The granite rocks on either side are within fifteen or twenty feet of the vessel.
tic problems are less urgent.
The Finns are not blind to the peril. In numbers and military equipment they are no match, for the Russian giant, but heir na- tional integrity is vital to the pro- tection of all Scandinavia against any western sweep or Communism. Diplomacy rather, than force, will be Finland's surest defense.
A LESS OPTIMISTIC VIEW In view of the recent expansion of Chinese air forces, acquisition of now concessions in China by foreign countries, and China's reported intention to lay now issues before the League of Nations, the Jiji pro- ceeris, it will be hazardous to take; too optimistic a view of China's true intentions, and, indeed, the im pression prevails in some Japanese quarters that the rumoured modific ation of China's attitude towards Japan is nothing but a blind design
Above them, masked behind and ed to gain time to complete her
under masses of shrubs and rough
A Place of Refugee domestic unification and reconstruc-
tufted grass, are ancient fortifica-
There are now some 25,000 Rus- tion before she returns vigorously to
tions. Ont can see the entrances stans-Whites, of course in Hel- her strong anti-Japonism Never-
to the bombproofs as we pass to singfors, and their numbers theless, the statements attributed to
the side away from the Baltic. steadily augmented by other fugi- (a) Being the ballee of $18, Formidable enough in their time, tives from the Bolshevist para- | General Chiang, Mr. Wang Ching-
wei and Mr. Huang Fu seem to did convert the same to his own the forts are of but little value dise. I have not yet been in Rus- The Japanese Government author-point to a favourable turn of China's use of January 28, 1933.
to-day against a navy equipped sfa. If my schedule holds I shall ities cannot, of course, be blind to policy towards Japan since the rehim on behalf of the Police De- with which the ingenuous youth but my visit will be too brief and (b) Embezzling $200 received by with modern guns. Like the sword be in Leningrad in a day or two this."the hugei Shogyo mys, and cent Lushan Conference, it hopes that they will take a step (Continued on next column)
partment from Kung Man-to and in the drama would defend Riche- my Itinerary too much under con- applying the same to his own use. lieu, they are "a little too near trol of the Bolshevist authorities (d) received $170 on behalf of the citadel." For not more than for me to have any great expecta- the Police Department from Lan- three or four miles back at the tion of learning much about social ce-Sergeant Clarke, Bhatin Police head of a spacious harbour, lies and economic conditions of the Station, and converting the same Helsingfors, white and red as the i people. But the stories told in to his own use on January 23, sun shines on its buildings of Helsingfors of the dangers the fu 1933,
painted brick, or ruddy Finland gitives brave in their endeavours to granite.
escape at least suggest that the conditions from which they flee. must be rather cruel.
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Chief Detective Inspector W. Shannon, prosecuting, asked for 24 A Lovely Landing Place. hours remand in police custody. You land, from small tenders, His Worship: Is he on bail? and find yourself not in a city at C.DI. Shannon: No. Your Wor-all, but gliding in your taxi be-fight, since the boundary waters are ship, I object to bail at this stage. tween green lawns, brilliant par frozen over, and the long nights Defendant was accordingly re- terres, and under spreading trees. i give time to execute elaborate manded in police custody till to- For this town of some 250,000 peo- plans. The fugitive commonly morzow when Inspector Shannon ple, instead of repelling newcomers wear white clothing, or drape intimated, a week's remand would by the squalor and dirt of its themselves in sheets in order that be applied for.
water front--as do most cities-- they may not show against täe | conducts them proudly through a dead-white of the snow-clad land. beautiful park direct to the centre If detected they are instantly of a dignified business district. shot. Many are overcome by fat- At least such is the reception if gue and the bitter cold. But the one lands where we did. There are risk, one of my informants re- other landing places, each with marked, is no greater than that of its own distinction, · At One the attempting to live under Bolshe- eager voyager steps from his boat | vist tyranny, while the physical direct into a great paved plaza, |[sufferings, though bitter, endure crowded until now with the pic for but a few days as against a turesque booths and carts of a lifetime of privation and oppres- public market; thereafter swept ston under the Soviet rule. and garnished so that it then Peace of the Baltic Endangered. seems a wholly Atting foreground The 25,000 exiles in Helsingfors,
KASUMIGASEKI SHIFTLESSNESS When the Sino-Japanese truce agreement was signed at the end of May, the Jiji hoped that the Japan. ese Government would follow it up by active endeavours to improve the Sino-Japanese relations generally, but in this expectation it confesses it was utterly disappointed. The complete holiday of Japan's diprio macy in regards Chins during the four months that have passed since the conclusion of the truce, agree ment argues the incompetence and shiftlessness of the Kasumigaseki authorities.
FRIENDSHIP, WITH CAUTION
for the Finnish White House, or all bitterly hating the Gover home of the nation's President, ment whose power they have which faces ft. The love of the | fouted, added to the general sus- sea is indicated by the way in picion and dislike for Busia, which these people have grouped operate to form a hostile.com- their finest dwellings, their em- munity which may well threaten bassies and legations, and many of the peace of the Baltic. More- their public edifices where the over, to the south the same con gulla swoop close to the windows, | ditions in more exaggerated form The Tokyo journal hopes that the and the sound of the wavelets in exist, for Poland has an even assumption of the portfolio of For- the harbour is ever to be heard greater number of resident White eign Affairs by Mr. Hirota, who No salt, however, :« imparts its Russians, while Follab hatred for attaches special importance to tang to the air for the Baltic at Russle for antedates the time of friendship with the neighbouring this point is almost fresh-sallors, the Revolution. Powers, will prove the occasion for indeed, declare it fresh enough to Neither the Scandinavian com- a positive improvement in the pres- drink. Only a faint, brackish taste į tries nor Poland alone would be eat Sino-Japanese relations, Both prevents this sea from ranking any match for the military power the Japanese and the Chinese people superior as the greatest of fresh- of the Soviet Republic, but, if unit- are too strong to be subdued by water lakes »
ed they would be no mean "adver- armed force only. It is hardly ne
erlaar of Bussis Mary The Russians rallitary an cessary to say that friendship, not One cannot be long in the Fin-thorities shrewdly employ the fact strife, is the way to promote the per- nish capital without sensing the of these hostile neighbours as an manent interests of both peoples, fact that it is near enough to argument for still further increas- While it is, of course, necessary for Russia for its people at all times ing their present powerful army on Japan to be on her guard against to feel a certain lurking dread of the traditional ples of self-defense, the apparent modification of her the power of the Soviet Republic. The Pales and the Scandinaylan attitude towards Japan and against Only by force of arms was it saved countries, for their part, have" np her future doings, it must be the from the Bolsheviks at the close thought of aggression, but Uke- duty of the new Foreign Minister to of the World War, and it is wise arm to repel an apprehended do what is necessary to make China matfer of common knowledge that attack from Rusda. It is the old, abandon her deep denigos, it she has the Soviet power looks upon it as old "story of fear as the greatest any such designs, by promoting territory," temporarily < alienated,, of all foes, to the peace and har- Sino-Japanese understa
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