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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY
GREECE TAKES PRECAUTIONS
Military Activity. in Islands
1936.
CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF
→
HUNGARY'S TRADE COMPLAINT
(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Pross").
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CORRESPONDENTS FOR.
WHITE, WELD & CO., NEW YORK
(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press"). " (By Telegraph, Copyright," Tele (by Telegraph, Copyright, Tale prophic Messages:· Ordinance, · 1894,
graphic Alerings Ordinance, 189) Athens, Jan. 4
Received, January 5, 7.30 p.m.)
Received, January 5, 130 p.) Extensive military preparatlöns,
Budapest, Jan; 5.
Berlin, Jan. 5. including new fortifications, the
opinion Hungarian public
Charwomen may not work Construction of military roads and extremely disconcerted at Eng-Jewish households under the pre the provision of large supplies of land's refusal to grant the same visions of the Nuremberg law for food and military stores, are re-
Customs rebate Hungaitan the protection of the race, it L ported to be proceeding in the poultry exports as she has granted pointed out by the National So Dodecanese Islands.
Yugoslavia on poultry as well as cialist organ "Hessen-Nassau," this Some 9,000 troops are' stated eggs and bacon as compensation law applying nat, only" to perma- be concentrated on Leras Island, for losses suffered by Yugoslavia ment domestic servants but They are described as well equipöwing to her participation in the female household helps under th ped and organised. Numbers of economile sanctions against Italy. Age of 35 or 45. according to cir-
such "AI] The effects of the British deci- į cumstances.
person new batteries have been sent to the island, and most of them are ston will be felt all the more concludes the announcement must placed in position at Pantell, St. keerly since the export of poultry give up their work in "non-aryan Marina, Laki and Alemanda. to England has increased con- households immediately. Eighteen warships, including five siderably. The Hungarian "govern- Troniccean Kug Min. submarines and many aircraft, are ment, it is stated, had advanced concentrated at Laki.
the view to London that on the basis of the most favoured nation clause in the trade agreement maust be granted the Hungary
ame customs duties as Yugoslavia. British Government it la The
this claim understood rejected with the declaration that reduc-graphie tions of duties to Yugoslavia had been made according to a decision of the League of Nations. Since Hungary is also a member of the League of Nations it was her duty to submit to its decisions,— Transocean Kuo Min.
It is stated that there will the combined fleet and air manoeuvres on January 24 between the islands of Leros, Stampalia and Calymnos Labourers from all the Islands are engaged in military road con- struction on the island of Leras, which is reported to be fortified interwoven with military roads, which are heavily guarded. There are sufficient military stores on the island to last a year. Reite!..
and
ATTACK ON KALGAN
Kalgan, Jan. 5.
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CHINESE COMMENT ON TOKYO REPORTS
Nanking, Jan. 5. Commenting on the reports from
this city with the object of incud ug the province of Chahar in Tokyo that a joint committee will be shortly organised for readjust- the domain of Manchukuo.
General Sung-Che-yuan, Chairment of Bino-Japanese relations. man of the Hope and Chahar official circles stated that though
Political Council,
local
tr
the two Governments agreed on ordered has Lieut-General Chang Chi-chung. the necessity of readjusting their relations nothing concrete has yet taken shape with regard to how Li Shou-hsin, who figured pro-readjustment is to be achieved.-- minently in North China events,
garrison commandant. defend Kalgan at all costs.
Reuter.
is the commanding officer of a band of irregulars in Inner Mon- golla, who are supported by the ROWLER PENALISED FOR Kwantung Command (Japanese forces in Manchuria).
Five counties in Eastern Chabar including Changpel are occup'ed by Li's troops.→→
Fhion News.
it. The memorial is to be erected A design for the memorial to
fa Hankow The artist," "Mr."|| Archbishop, Celso Costantini, first Chang, made brilliant studies fo Apostolic Delegate to China, painting and sculpture in Brussels. which the Shanghai Catholic Aca the Institute Royal des Beaux- arts and at the Belgian National University.
tion Congress proposed to erect, has been sketched by Mr. Matthew Chang Cung-Jen, a young Chinese artist recently returned from four
M
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ALLEGED JAPANESE”.
MENACE
Melbourne, Jan. 1. consequence of statements that a party of Japanese landed on the North Queensland coast aad molested holiday-makers and in- sulted some women, Mr. J. Patter son, the Federal Minister of In- terior; is obtaining an immediate réport on what he regards as the most serious aspect" of the mat-
**INTIMIDATION"
Bydney, Jan. 4. It is revealed that during the Sheffield Shield match yesterday Eddie Gilbert, Queensland's abori- ginal fast bowler, was no-balled anti- under the new Australian "bodyline" rule forbidding intimi- deliveries Two dawory bowling. from Gilbert split the fingers of two New South Wales batsmen, Robinson and Mudge. Gilbert, who is the first bowler to be no-balled under the new rule, denied that he and was bowling at the man blamed
which the wicket on "spots" could be clearly seen.-- Reuter
ter, the ease with which prohibit- SOVIET NOTE TO LEAGUE ed immigrants can enter Australia. The two patrol launches now being built are considered inauf-
Aclent to prevent a recurrence of the incident, and it is believed likely that the Commonwealth will ask Japan to deal with any of her Lationals who without authoriss tion land in Australia- Reuter.
MORE AIR ATTACKS
Destlye, Jail. 3. Ras Nassibu, the Ethiopian com..... mander as this sector, reports that Italian aeroplanes on the southern front have bombed and machine-
and gunned the wells at Bufale Sasabaneh, twenty miles south of Daggahbur, kiling five Ethiopians and nineteen camels— Reuter.
NEW AIR STAMP IN GERMANY
His work has won (Special to me "Hong Kong. Daily
Press (Copyright.)3 high praise in Europe. Five of
Berlin, Jan. 3. his landscapes and two of his portraits were selected by theOn the occasion of the 10th an Bourse d'indemnité des Boxeurs of niversary of the foundation of years of study in Europe, reports Belgium and sent to NankingDeutsche Luftimhsa,” the great the Catholic Review." The de- Central University for exhibition. German air transport company, sign, comprising a pavilion, stone He has also received a prize of the German post once will issue
the Belgian
on January 6 limited editions of tablet and half-size bronze statue, 3,000 francs from
Government. Mr. Chang, returned has been approved by the present to China towards the end of Octo-new 40 pfennis stamps, bearing Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop ber of this year. Previously to his the picture of the modern aero- een doll departure from Europe, he visited plane as well as an inscription Art centres in England, Holland, referring, to the anniversary. The vered by the Director of Catholic France, Germany and Italy, and stamp may also be used for mail Caction to Mr. Lu Ten-chal of Han had an audience with the Holy to foreign countries
Transocean, Kuo Min. Father. kow, who is to call for tenders on
Mario Zanin, and has been
RAILWAY RATES IN GERMANY
(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press")." (By Telegraph, Copyright, Zale Messag Ordinance. 1594 Receivek, January 8, 7.89 p.m.)
padour to open. the spring tilling.
A NEW CHINESE after the custom of the Chinesa
VOGUE.
THE INFLUENCE ON "DECORATION
Emperors by driving the first furrow, and the adoption of the sedan chair. the European sed version of the, palanquin of Chin was another manifestation of the same faith. In the strictly order- et hierarchy of the Far East dis- tinction of rank was emphasised Berlin, Jan. 5.
by the size and colour of the Freight rates on German State
palanquin, and so, in the class- conselous eighteenth century of the West, it was possible to do. railways will be raised by 5 per
the same with the sedan chair. cent, as from January 20 it is off- sally announced. No alteration, however, will be made in the pas-
THE TEA HABIT senger rates. Certain important
Tea-drinking became immense- articles of food are exempted from
There is to de a Chinese voguely popular and for a time it was Increase, which also does not ap-we are cold. in interior decora considered proper, when imb b nɛ.......
ply to the special import and ex- ❘ port rates.
Transocean Kuo Min.
AMERICAN - DISCUSSIONS
WITH MEXICO
Trade Expansion Move
How Goldfish Came To England
London, Dec. 15,
In the Cuinese manne: But to drink out of the handle-less Im-
tion. The great London shops to sit cross-legged on the floor are prepared for it. Large stocks dt. Chinese postery and porcelain. lacquer furniture, carpets, and rugs have been laid in, and the Chinese Exhibition is expected t do the rest.
wil
ported cups of China and Japan caused more discomfort than on. ancestors cared to put up with English manufactcries were suc turning out imitatious of genuine porcelain cups, but they wore, cups with handles. And it seems that people preferred to call these coples "china, keeping the term porcelain for the genuine, import- cd pieces.
5000
and the cabinet makers
or as there was for porcelain learnt to turn out very passable mitations of the genuine artié es
had discovered once they secrets of the beautiful, fadeless colours which had been in use by the Chinese for centuries.***
the
How far tals fashion will spread and to what extent—lr. anyt Inquence the history of New York, Jan. 4. English taste are matters of great Current discussions with Mexico interest when one considers the constitute the first of a series of affect made by a similar vogue, conferences whereby the United nearly two centuries ago. States hopes to establish a bimetal- The pagoda at Kew, the gold."
The lacquer cabinets which lic monetary standard between fish in our garden ponds, and the began to arrive in Europe at the the. Pan-Amerkan countries as gilded beasts of the roundabouts and of seventeenth century start- cording to the Journal of Com-half bird, half animal which ed as ardent a craze for lacquer still revolve to the strains of a merce
It is proposed to use silver and steam organ upon so many village gold jointly. This is believed to pereens at fair time are some of be motivated by the desire of the the more familiar legacies which United States to regain the loss we inherit from a preoccupation. and on the part our eighteenth-cen- of trade in South America
with nil things expand the United States' com- tury ancestors,"
Chinese. merce on this continent-
The furniture which ChippELL-
Chinese masques, Chinese sha- Reuter.
made for cdents who be dow plays, were all the rage. Mr. llaved it to be in the best possible Astley, the famous circus rider, 22. taste "A la Chinokë," the suites opened a peep-show at No. of moms in so many of our great Piccadilly. It seems to have been country houses decorated after a fairly mediocre programme yet the Chinese manner- tanner he managed to get all London to which
consisted. according
see it by calling one Item in t They Goldsmith, of "sprawling dragons, "Les Ombres Chinoises." London, Jan. 5.
and clumsy squattingpagodas,
say that it had nothing whatso- It is learned from Shanghai
mandarines stuck upon everyTM
ever to do with anything Chinese. that the Chinese Government has thing—are now the much-prized but the name had power in it. offered to buy silver from foreign
relics of
both an allegiance,
the banks in Shangal, payment to be,
spiritual and aesthetical to made by notes issued by the Chin-Far East, which was one of the tse Government and at a premium. It is understood that the Ameri- can banks have already sold a cer- tain amount of silver to the Gov- ernment, but the attitude of the British and continental banks still uncertain
CHINA OFFERS TO BUY. SILVER
Payment In Notes" And At Premium
Geneva, Jan. 4. Soviet note to the Leagus complains that Uruguay has com mitted a breach of the Govenant in connection with the rupturing Reuters Bulletin Service. ut relations, inasmuch as Article XII provides that States must submit disputes to arbitration or Judicial settlement.
M. Litvinoff jaks that the ques- tion of irregularity be placed on
the the Council's agenda for meeting on January 20. Reuter,
SWEDISH DIPLOMAT
insane- Reuter.
MURDERED
ILL-FATED CITY OF KHARTOUM..
Divers Recover Bodies
dale
to
AN INFALLIBLE KACE In the same way, if a publisher most remarkable phases in eight-wished to ensure a heavy sale for a new book he had only to am- eenth-century European history.
nounce that the author was DELIGHTING THE WEST
Chinese to ensure its immediate The growth of trade with China success. Goldsmith's "The Citizen had been steadily increasing al of the World" was first published through the last part theas being from the pen of a mem seventeenth century and the first ber of that infallible race. '
part
01.
of the eighteenth through So far, in fact, had the passioi the enterprise of the East India for a things Chintée permeated Companies of Portugal, Holland society that even classical subjects and England, and all the trea-
The Temple of
sures
of the still half-mythical
were infected. Celestial Empire were pouring into Comus, in that most famous re- an astonished and delighted West sort of the fashionable world, Vauxhall Gardens was adorned Alexandria, Jan. 4.
-ranging from the choleest gifts
with a painting showing a Chinete. - Divers cut their way through to of aliks and porcelain for the Vulcan catching a Chinese Mars the cabin of the wrecked Imper-palaces of France down to the and Venus in the legendary fal Airways flying boat · City' sandy wallpapers" which English net, au portrayed with a wealth Khartoum and · recovered the sea-captains brought hack bodies of Mrs. Horsman, Miss Eck curiós. ford, the Italian named Tartag
But it was the Jesuit masion.
of trimmings "la Chinoise”!
The windows of Messrs Goodes' china shop tá South Audley-
loney the steward; and another aries who brought the first gold-street, demonstrate very well the
unidentited man.
Reuter's Bulletin Service.
LORD DALZIEL'S FORTUNE
of spring bulba,
nah to Europe; they were a pre-
In the which vases uses to The raising of the wreck, which sent to. La Fompadour from the Buntlago de Chile, Jan. 4
Chinese vogue may be put. There. of was thought to be possible at Emperor of China. And it was
see a surprising in one may Mr. Holmgren, Chancellor
been Arst, has so far proved fruitless the Jesuits who published the the Swedish Legation, has
range of ceramics of all periods shot dead by a Swede, who sub-as the hawsers of the tuge and Arst translations of the works of and shapes and sizes, maden sequently committed suicide. The crane which are being used have Confucius, the study of which, I do duty as standards for reading. murderer is 'alleged to have been stready, broken twice-
the years that followed, was to lamps and bowls for the planting convince a vast number of people that the salvation a western etvilisation depended up a pro- per understanding of the spirit upon which the Chinese Empire After having had to spend their to nights sleeping on the doorsteps was founded.
Not only was China believed to and streets of that district, the be the source of all that was best street sleepers of Yaumat enjoyed in art, but she was believed to the comfort of sleeping indoors oner, in the example of her im on Saturday night when the perial organisation, a solution to Yanmat Btreet Bleepers Shelter all the problems which beset the | was opened. 7.
The premises, which are at the deeply introspective Europe of the eighteenth century. corner of Nathan Road and
While the philosophers and the Changsha Road, have been political economists preached the free of rent, to the Street Shee necessity of a complete infusion Society by Mr. Wong Yu- of Chinese ideas into the West, J.P. and though there is only ac all the outward and visible signs commodation for 100
GNEISENAU LEAVES FOR FAR EAST
(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
Press" (Copyright)}, "·"
Bremen, Jan. 3... The new 18,000 ton express liner anelsenau which with her two sister ships the Scharnhorst, and Potsdam, wil henceforth maintain a regular monthly express service between Bremen and the Far
London, Jan. 4 Lord Dalziel has left the bulk of his fortune of £400,000 to tie National Debt Redemption Fund Reuter
**FRANCO-SOVIET TRADE
AGREEMENT
Paris, Jan. 4 A Frarico Boylet trade agree East, left here on Friday evening ment has been initialled renew on her maiden voyage to Shanging the 1934 agreement with car
hal
Transocean an
tain modifications Rester
of such a beller were practised the moment. It is hoped to la All over Europe in 1756 Louis crease the number of bunks in zy was persuaded by Le Fom the near future."