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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1937.
PHILIPPINE REVIEW
A Pacific Goodwill Journey
SIR ROBERT BORDEN
Should President Roosevelt visit the Philippines, as suggested Death Of Canadian
by Manuel Quezon, first president of the Philippine commonwealth. Mr. Roosevelt's mission- it could be called that would differ materially from the purposes Mr. Woodrow Wilson had in view whea he broke a precedent and went to Europe, writes the New York cor- respondent of the "Manila Bulletin.""
Mr. Wilson's mission was to make peace after a disastrous war and establish the principle of self-determination for racial minorities Mr. Wilson failed to obtain a just settlement of the World war, as the Treaty of Versailles bears witness. What he did effect in the way of self-determination for racial minorities merely sowed the
seeds of another war, -
In other words, Mr. Wilson was dealing with what might be called international dynamite. Mr. Roosevelt will have an opportunity for which no one is better suited of creating good will, of preventing, perhaps, future wars Mr. Wilson was able to accomplish little in
London, Paris and Rome. Mr. Roosevelt might be able to accom-
plish a great deal in the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and
Japan.
ו|זו
Statesman
Ottawa, June 10: The death has occurred of Sir Robert Borden wartime. Premier in Canada, at the age of 89.
Called to the Bar in 1878 and Q.C. In 1891, he had an extensive practice in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia and in the Supreme
to 1904.
Court of Canada and appeared in Committee of the Privy Council. several casca before the Judicial He was President of the Nova Septia Barristers' Society from 1893 He became Prime Minister in The magic of the Roosevel; personality would work wonders on the Japanese, a pollte people and grateful for any courtesy shown October 1911 and in July 1915 at- them, whatever may be said in disparagement of Japanese character tended a meeting of the British and polley. The president would probably be invited to visit Japan. Cabinet, being the first overseas By spending a few hours in Tokyo, by showing himself to chearing Minister to receive such a sum- multitudes of Japanese and by a frank discussion with Japan's Eng-mons. He was representative of liah-speaking statesmen of Japanese-American interests in the Canada at the Imperial War Ca- Pacific, of the purposes and policies of the American government, binet 1917 and 1918 and Imperial which seeks a continuation of the friendly relations existing between the two countries, the president might do more to create inter- national good will than scores of diplomats could accomplish by months or years of effort.
Doubtless the Quezon Invitation appealed strongly to Mr. Roosevelt, and stirred his imagination. "The president has not for- gotten the extraordinary success of his good will journey to South America.
War Conterence during the same years, and was chief plenipoten- tlary delegate of Canada at the
Paris Peace Conference in 1919. He resigned the Fremiership in July 1920.
Sir Robert Borden received the G.C.M.G. decoration in 1914 After If congress adjourris in time and nothing happens that might resigning the Premiership he was compel him to remain in Washington, or at least in the United States, | plenipotentiary delegate for Cana- next autumn may see the president on his way across the Pacific da at the Washington Conference to join in Manila's celebration of the second anniversary of Philip-|in 1921-22, and British Arbitrator pine freedom..
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Oil Money For Labour Urged
When the P100,000,000 oil tax fund is appropriated for various public activities of the Philippine government, Assemblyman Enrique Magalona of Occidental Negros, chairman of the labour committee of the assembly, will seek to secure a good slice from this amount, for improvement of labour conditions in the Philippines. it is reported from Manila.
Magalona has made survey of the labour altuation in various parts of the country and found working men living in unhealthy environments, their diet poor and their temper generally bad. All this is due to inadequate wages with the result that they are dis- regs. contented and restless, Magalona sald. Something must be done to satisfy them in a way, and Magalona belleves the opportunity has come with this gift from the United States.
The Daily Press.
Hose Kosa, JUNE 11, 1937.
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ACT OF
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Several assemblymen amlong whom are Magalona, Pedro Mag- salin of Rizal, Cecillo Maneja of Marinduque, Tomas Clemente of Sorsogon and Apolonio Curato of Agusan do not believe in using any portion of this. windfall for paying the national debt. They explain- ed that a sinking fund is set aside each year to`pay off this debt and as long as the Philippine. government meets this obligation on the dot the present arrangement should not be disturbed.
Headhunting Revived In Futtul
Working with stealth and carrying out his promise to kill 24 persons before he surrenders, Kalinga Boll piled his score to 13 when he butchered two children playing in Futtul states the "Manila Bulletin." Futtul is about ten kilometers from Nagan where Boll started his killing orgy on May 23, starting with the murder of his
Terror has spread to the vicinity of Nagan and Futtul as Boli
The Letters Patent issued during the first week of this month were a logical appendix to the events of last December,
Just as there were no prece-wife and child. dents for the abdication itself, its various consequences have had to be met and provided for with little aid from precedent.
The first act of the new reign was to define the status of the former King.
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accom-
and his followers, playing hide-and-seek with the constabulary soldiers, snuff out lives with head-axe as they roam the forests. In his attempt to carry out his programine of killing 24 persons before giving himself up to the authorities, Boll butchers men, women and children irrespective of age, o
Being a Kalinga, a tribe numbered among the ferceat head- hunters in the early days, Boli has revived the headhunting expedi tions resorted to by his forefathers whenever they felt they were tricked or when dealing with enemies. Boll was reported to have ran amuck on May 23 when he believed his wife was disloyal.
School Crisis Threat
According to the budget for this year, of the proposed ex-. penditures" voted by the assembly totalling nearly P65.000,000, 24.8 per cent or nearly P18,000,000 was set aside for public edtication. This appropriation includes auma rcquired for maintenance of existing schools and salaries of teachers, besides the regular annual expendi- tures of the bureau of education.
in the arbitration between Great Britain and Peru at Paris in April 1923. He served as chief delegate of Canada at the Assembly of the
dent of the Crown Life Insurance League of Nations. He was Presi- Co. in 1928 and first President of
Barclays Bank:(Canada), 1929. Reuter.
SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS
Dr. Kung On
His Mission Of
Good Will
EMPIRE BROADCASTING
Threat Of Foreign Propaganda
"DAVENTRY MAY NOT ALWAYS LEAD"
Sir John Belth, Director-General of the BBC., told Empire newspaper propelētors in London recently that in the sphere of overseas short-wave broadcasting, there were problems, analogous to those of naval armaments. i»
There was no station and there was no groups of transmit- ters which had a better world coverageTM than Daventry. How long that was going to last nobody knew.
At present they thought that above the enormous «^ correspon-
other station in that respect, but whether they would be able to say that in nine months' or a year hence they did not know. Short wave work was newer even than talking pictures.
Daventry was better than any ¦ dence regarding the technical side.
Sir John was speaking at the opening of the conference of the Empire Press Union, which was held in the residence of Major the Hon. J. J. Astor, the chairman. His subject was "The Relationship of Broadcasting to the Press and Public."
COMPETITORS OR ALLIES? "You will agree," he went on, "that there is a good deal in com- mon to journalism and broadcast- ing. Competitors or allies? If you are trying to determine whether two bodies are allies of competi- tors one of the first things you.. begin to search for is motive.
"Here I shall be asking ques- tions which I may be able to an- awer in a year or two, or less, when i don't get the B.B.C. In trouble for things I am apt to say,
"Europe is at this time in "a
flated division of It looks to Eng~ tremendous state, and every“ mu- land for information and courage, It sounds topical, but that is a re- mark recorded in a secret Stata paper over 100 years ago. I think it is an extraordinarily interesting remark and very significant.
"It is a subject," he commented, which I am looking forward to talking about when I leave the BBC., although when the time comes nobody will be interested very much in what I have to say, so it does not very much matter." SPECIAL EMPIRE PROGRAMMES Speaking particularly of Empire broadcasting, Sir John mentioned "We will look for the fulfilment- the chimes of Big Ben.
of that aspiration of 100 years ago. "There may be elaborate pro-in regard to the article of courage: by the Empire Department of the very hopefully, for the best gramines, produced and presented to the politician, and hope, not.
The other article, information; interests you and it interests us We are a free Press," you say, and pride yourselves on it.
EB.C.." he said, "but I am not certain, if we want a criterion of our Empire service of great signi- ficance, whether we need go very much further than to take the. "You mean you are independent simple chiming and tolling of Bls of State control. Well, so is. Ben. It can be heard every day broadcasting. In whatever res- in every part of the Empire. That pects the freedom of the BBC. is means a lot."
curtailed it is in black and white The Empire programimes were in the charter. If and when the specially devised, and were not | B.B.C, is doing something which it- mere overflows from home pro- does not want to do, by Govern- grammes. They might be good or ment orders, then that" would be
bad, but it was not a case of the
clear.
Empire taking second place to the "Independent of State control--" Dr. H. H. Kung, Vice-Premier home service.
not in Germany and not in Russia, and Minister of Finance of China, the world now which are not fami- state has taken over broadcasting. "There are not many parts of Į and now not in New Zealand, the who attended the Coronation on behalf of his Government, has left liar with Big Ben or the Daventry In Germany and Russia and Italy London on his way to Geneva, signal, This is London calling. It broadcasting is a mouthpiece, of states the "Times." He stated is impressive that "This is. London the State and an Instrument of that he would visit European coun- calling.""
Government. A controlled Press. tries with a view to studying and Sir John said that Empire cor- and a controlled broadcasting sys- investigating their économic and respondence was encouraged far tem mean blassed and tainted and industrial progress during recent more than home correspondence. censored news.” years.
In 1933 there were more than During his three weeks stay in 12,000 letters; in 1934, 13,500; in London, he said, he had been im-1936, when there was an artificial pressed by Britain's adherence to stimulus caused by the Jubilee. ancient traditions, the unsurpass- 24,000; in 1936. 15,500, 1. ́* able pageantry and dignity of the Coronation ceremony and proces- sion, and, last but not least, the cordial and friendly feelings to wards China among leaders of the Government, industry, and anan- clal circles. "Before I arrived 1 Had determined that i should fulfi
to the fullest possible degree the mission to good will my Govern- with. I am happy that on this day ment and people had entrusted me
of departure I am able to say that friends in this country have made the ready responses of China's
'MURDER BY
STRANGULATION"
CRITICISM WELCOMED Sir John concluded by saying that the B.B.C. was more than ab- Ilous to hear what people, thought about it, provided that those "peo- It might, perhaps, be a matter ple were responsible. It paid no for the Foreign Office to consider attention, and never would, to the that in 1935 half the correspon- other sort of criticism. deace
came from the United States, while this year 3,000 letters had come from the Empire and 2,300 from America.
competition in the matter of for- "We are up against tremendous.
eign propaganda broadcasting," he said, "and the more you care for Commenting that it was not the Empire the more you will be what it might be. Sir John ex- willing to help us in perfecting and
and improving our Empire service." plained that that was over
GAMBLING CHARGE
STAMP DEALERS
OF THE WORLD my presence here has forged an-prisonment was imposed on each my task easy; and it is hoped that A fine of $10 or one month's im-.
Since the first stamp bourse other link in the chain of Sino- of two street gamblers,. Pun Luen- England was held ten years ago British friendly relations and co- kong, aged 22, and Ng Cheung, international affairs have helped operation."
aged 30, by Mr. EL Himsworth at to make this country the most. the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, profitable philatelic centre ins
Detective Bub-Inspector Cun-Europe. Though Germany still ningham, who prosecuted," said hölds, under difficulties, an annual that while he was on his way to stamp bourse, the Customs restric- the Kowloon Hospital on Wednes- tions there and in France have Murder by strangulation by one day to make inquiry concerning handicapped stamp dealing in mare persona was the verdict an accident, he saw three men those two countries, so partly for recorded by Mr. E Himsworth, squatting in the road side in these reasons, and partly because sitting as Coroner, at the Kowloon Waterloo Road, participating in a Continental dealers thought they Magistracy yesterday, to Inquire card game. He stopped his car might combine business. with -a Coronation, the into the circumstances surround- and took them by surprise. Of eight of the ing the death of a Chinese woman, the three men only the two defen- whose body was found lying in her dants were arrested. Tai Ling Tin Village, Kewicon dwelling, an unnumbered hut in
The declaration in Council which conferred the title of Duke of Windsor upon him panied it with a grant of the style of his Royal Highness,
The calling of an extra session of the national assembly as 2000 although he was no longer in the
as President Quezon returns to the Philippines seemed likely when lineal succession. This grant. several assemblymen reported a possible school crisis in their res- though contrary to the rule pre-pective provinces with the reopening of public schools next month. valling for many years, was states the "Manila Bulletin.”
Last year the assembly took steps to end the yearly recurrent universally felt to be a just and
school. deadlock by appropriating a large sum for the current year: syrupathetic définition of the and converting the cedula, tax into a school tax, instead of a levy public respect due to a member for the maintenance of public highways and bridges. of the blood Royal and a former Sovereign, and to the great ser- vices which, as Prince of Wales, he had rendered to the nation. It has now been the task of the King's advisers to consider and NOTICE IS HEREBY determine a further and a final GIVEN that an
INTERIM question of status, and to put it DIVIDEND of FOUR per cent beyond the reach of future doubt (4%) for the six months ending and embarrassment.
Now reports are beginning to come in. showing that several 30th June, 1937, amounting ta This they have done. Their provinces are badly in need of funds to open new classes when the FORTY cents per share on the decision is in keeping with the school session is resumed next month. Several assemblymen have Fully Paid up Shares and TEN tradition that a right to the title started a move for the calling of an extra session since it looks received reports of the same nature, as a result of which they have cents per share on the Partly of Royal Highness and to the impossible to secure relief out of existing appropriations. Pald up Shares of the Company recognition accorded to it by will be paid on MONDAY, the custom, at home, throughout the Philippine Merchant 12th July, 1937, on which date Empire, and elsewhere abroad," Dividend Warrants may be obis essentially the attribute of require the enactment of a shipping flag law, Secretary of Finance said that the deceased's body was national Trade Conference meeting even dealers from India, Egypt
The establishment of a Philippine merchant marine would not tained on application at the potential successor to the Throne Antonio de las Registered Office of the Company, the Duke of Windsor himself and charmila alad, predent of the mitional Development Company Exchange Building, 4th
the floor. remaining a special exception to "Maalla Bulletin."
the rule.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be "CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 3rd July to SATURDAY, the 10th July, 1937, both days Inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
To solve the school crisis last year the assembly voted an extra appropriation of a little over the million pesos upon initative of Vice President Osmeña, who also is secretary of public instruction, and of Assemblyman Guillermo Villanueva, chairman of the committee
on public instruction.
Marine
"A fedgeling merchant marine of an infant government like established, shipping concerns, he stated. ours cannot well afford to declare open competition against well
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City, on April 2, 20
The deceased was Koo Koon- tal, aged 30, a pig breeder.
* Detective Bergt. MacPherson result of Information received. who arrived at the scene as the
JAPAN TO JOIN TRADE PARLEY
tenth British International Stamp Bourse, which opens shortly in the Holborn Restaurant, is likely to be- more largely attended than ever... A hundred dealers have taken stands for it, and up to five hun-- dred may come with admisaton cards. Continental” dealers – will. Tokyo, June, 10:5
elded to join the second Interstates, one from New Zealand, and The Japanese Government de- there will be some from the United naturally, predominate, though
found lying on the ground. There in Paris from June 14 to 19-re la frontes courtes
were two cubicles in the hut the Renter. one which was used as a bedroom showing clear signs of having been
ransacked.
round the neck
according There was a plece of rope, tied to the med eport was twice round the wrists, and one cause of the death.
It may be past hope that the Duke of Windsor should be
As a matter of fact, the secretary said, the proposed merchant granted the privacy which is marine will have to abide by all the rules and will seek active mem- manifestly foremost in his own bership in local shipping agreements regarding rates, ya d
The conference rates in vogue in the Philippines among ship- wishes and would in similar cirping companies would be followed." he explained cumstances be claimed and en- Secretary Alas declared that in so far as the National Develop he said joyed by the ordinary citizen ment Company is concerned, the establishment of a merchant marine but there can be neither public for the Philippines is a definite thing. He said that as chairman gain nor personal service in of the subcommittee which was charged with the study and making of recommendations relative to the creation of a merchant feet for publicity heightened by unneces the Islands, he has submitted the findings and recommendations 5346bary controversy.
favouring such merchant feet.
L MCKENZIE,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 7th June, 1937.
"We have completed our survey and have made our
Bob It is now up to President: Quezon.
Secre Alas Indiested that word from the President, who has just returned to New York from trip to Europe, 15, exp moment Ee indicated that the report of the National Company on the organisation of the proposed merch
opment
forwarded to the President in accordance with his wishes
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for stamp collecting that have not been represented - before at the bourse. And
At last year's bourse the Jubliée stamps had greatly appreciated in value; the same cannot have hap pened yet for the Coronation stamps, though they
those from the Crown available) may be a gre tion
The London dealers hav yet: Hardly received
enough for they say
they should be see
| most of them for.
England outside the
more than