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7th AUGUST (both days in. clusive) during which period no transfer of Shares can be regis tered.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1937.
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after a long illness, at his re- sidence, 25 Young Allen Court, Shanghai, Emanuel Borisovitch Soalchner, Barrister-at-Law, aged 60 years.
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Lieut. Swoffer
CHINA REVIEW
Mr. Hallington Tong Speaks
Emphasizing that the present: Japanese strategy in North China. is exactly similar to that which led to the occupation of Manchuria
Buddhist Association in 1991 and that China cannot continue her peaceful policy when she
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sees more of her rich territories being allenated by a powerful and aggressive neighbour, Mr. Hollington K. Tong. Press Adviser to the An event of considerable local interest will take place at the Peak The following is the text of an Chinese Government, made a radio address to the Waited States from
Shanghai last week. Church next Thursday when Missilluminated address which has
I deeply appreciate the opportunity that has been given to me A. C. M. Crapneli is to marry Heut
been sent to Sir Andrew Caldecott, by the Columbia Broadcasting System to speak a few words on the F. A. Swoffer, M.BE; RA. F.O. Governor-Designate of Ceylon, on
Miss Crapnell is a very charming behalf of the Young Men's Budd-Chinese-Japanese crisis which threatens world peace. First of all, let and popular member of Hong hist Association of Singapore by me, with a few swift strokes, paint in the essentials of the historical Kong's younger set, and Lieut Mr. N, A. James Perera Swoffer has had a very distinguish- éd career.
During the war he Arst served with the Queen Victoria Rides in 1914, and went with them to France in November of the same year. He was wounded in 1916 at the famous Hili 80. He returned to England and after his recovery he took a commission in 7th. Middle sex Regt. He was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps at the end of 1916.
When peace was declared he went to South and East Africa and tried farming, and while there he did a considerable amount of biz game shooting.
background of the relationship between Chiria and Japan since 1915. In that year, suddenly and without warning, Japan, in the be- May it please Your Excellency. Hef that the world was too preoccupied with the Great War to inter- On behalf of a few of Your Excel- fere, presented 21. demanda. Had these demands been accepted in lency's most obedient, humble and their entirety. they would have made China a dependency of Japan. law-abiding servants, who have In 1922, mainly through the influence exerted by the United States temporary made their abode in of America, a Nine-Power Treaty was signed to guarantee the ter- this Crown Colony of the Straitsritorial integrity of China, but in 1931 this treaty was violated by Settlements, and on behalf of the Japan when she invaded Manchuria and threatened to occupy Pelp- Members the International ing and Tientsin. China then was incapable of offering an effective Young Men's Buddhist Association resistance and agreed to the demilitarization of a zone in the eastern of Singapore, I, the undersigned, portion of a Chinese province, called Hopel, adjoining the Great Wall.. crave leave to present our humble
Background Of Situation
of
Mr. Tong continued:
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duty, and to extend to Your Ex cellency a hearty welcome to the shores of our Mother Lanka, and to congratulate Your Excellency
Soon afterwards. Japan instigated a Chinese traitor, Yin Ju- on Your Excellency's appointment keng, to declare the demilitarized zone independent of Hopel and to the Governorship of the Pre-warned Nanking that she would not permit force to be used against It will be nineteen days ago
In 1922 he rejoined the Royal Airmier Crown Colony.
him. Next Japan occupied the northern portion of another Chinese to-day that the Luknochiao, affair
Force and was posted to the Cen- started what can correctly "be tral Flying School as Instructor.
The Sinhalese Community have province. Charhar. Then she tripled her military force in North termed an undeclared war be- He left the Air Force in 1927 and always been a loyal, peace-loving China Towards the end of last year Japan tried unsuccessfully to and law-abiding subject of His conquer still another Chinese province, Sulyuan. Since 1935 the to Hampshire Aeroplane tween Japan and China. After went
Britannic Majesty, and it is no Japanese statesmen have reiterated their so called "immutable" all, two Japanese soldiers were Club as Chief Instructor.
Being very anxious to return to hidden secret that we have been determination to bring five more of the provinces of North China killed and another eight were Africa he later became Chief Pilot, rewarded to a great extent for our under their control
The peculiar relationship between China and Japan-singularly wounded, while on the Chinese of Wilson Airways" and new out such loyalty and devotion to the
Imperial Crown, which from time one-sided-can better be understood if you will imagine for a mo- side the losses have been estimaat- to Nairobi from England solo, In ed at twenty killed and sixty "Moth," and afterwards few all memorial had been a symbol of ment that an alien force from overseas had seized the New England wounded-certainly a woeful out over Kenya, Rhodesia, and Tan-unity and affection that binds our States. As a matter of fact, the four Northeastern Provinces of hearts together in one eternal China, generally known as Manchuria, are much larger than your come to night manoeuvres.
He in 1930 as brotherhood. Your Excellency will New England States. They have an area of 500,000 square miles, from the time Your Excellency Texas, or about the size of your two largest states, namely, Texas sets foot on the enchanted soil of and California combined. Lanka, where Your Excellency will be received with open arms.
"We have heard of the good and noble work done by Your Excel lenty to the people of Hong Kong and the progress it had made un ministration, and Your Excellency's der Your Excellency's benign ad- name is stui a household" one in this Crown Colony, for the part Your Excellency had played during Your Excellency's tenure of once
ganyika...
Takes Up Post In Since then everything that goes e fame out to Chitida Pilot to realise the truth of this statement which is practically equivalent to your New England States plus
Siam
Kobe: Mr. Kuramatsu Mural, the newly appointed. Minister to Siam, sailed from Kobe on July 5, to Formosa en route to Bangkok.
to the making of war, except the formal declaration, has taken place.
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We deem it, appropriate to the present crisis to quote from the Collected Essays of Chuangtze, a famous Chinese philosopher of the fourth century before Christ, in one of the essays the legendary Prior to his departure, Mr. Murai said he will start negotia-bandit leader Che was asked a"
Mr. Murai sailed from Keelung Formosa, on July 14, for Bangkok aboard the Haruna Maru.
possible.
go
Arnhold and Co. and has been with them ever since.
"The man with a receding tore- head is usually stamped with rake." says a psychologist. And the man with a bulging forehead has quite possibly stamped on one.
as Colonial Secretary and Acting- Governor.
If Your Excellency regreta "much
But to get on with this simile-suppose that this alien force which had seized your New England was using that territory as a base for the conquest of the rest of the country, but particularly the Atlantic Coast States, say from. Virginia northward and extending west to in- clude the territory of the. Great Lakes through Michigan, Wiscorisin on into the north-west. Now, the city of Pelping, former capital of China, which is Japan's Immediate objective in the fresh crisis which she created ten days ago, is located like Washington about eighty miles inland from the sea coast Our outlet on the coast is Tientsin. lust as New York or Philadelphia or Baltimore are outlets of Washing ton. Prior to the present crisis, Japan stationed 7.000 soldiers at Tientsin and 3,000 seldiers at Felping and its neighbourhood, much in excess of the number allowed under the Boxer: Protocol.
Shanghai Audiences
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tions with Siam for the revision of question about moral principles it is that in so doing she will the commercial treaty as soon as by his followers. Are moral inevitably drag other nations principles common to bandits? down with her. Surely Japan THE REGISTER OF
-Says the "Japan Chronicle" of be closed from 26th JULY to Mural is to conclude a treaty based answered their lender. ""To sense reasons why she should hold her leaving Hong Kong, more pleasure - Shanghal audiences came very well out of the ordeal of analy SHARES of the Corporation will June 17 The intention of Mr. they inquired: Yes, decidedly," can see that there are many. on the principle of equality, and hidden treasure in a house; hand, more especially as conquest
is doubtful. reciprocity, with a provision enabl- he explained, "is wisdom: to ing Japanese to exploit industrial ia first is couruge: to come resources in that country. In ad- out last. is berolam; to be able to dition to the development of fores- try and mining resources, at pre-calculate success is shrewdness; sent pushed by the South Seas to divide the spoils equally is Development Company and other justice. There has never yet Concerns, the planting of raw been a great bandit who did not hoped that Japan's trade with
observe these principles." Siam will be considerably improv cotton is to be encouraged. It is
that developed in
country, SUB Japan is in a position to buy a large quantity.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
V.M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 13th July, 1937.-
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Notice To Shareholders,
EARL STANHOPE
Tells How He Keeps Fit
It has been argued in mitigation of Japan's territorial depredations that she must have more land for her people and more raw mate rials for her rocketing industria. lism. Her "excuse" for the
and joy would be awaiting Your tical examination by an expert who, being under no obligation to dis- Excellency in Ceylon to drown close his name to the public. could afford to be frank, comments and the "North China Daily News." The worst that he could allege Your Excellency's sorrows, Ave and a half million people will against, Shanghai's cinema patrons was that they refused to accept Your Excellency takes up the reins what may be superior opinion is distressing but it argues a certain in- be waiting to rejoice on the day the verdicts of other places in choosing their plays. This distrust of dependence of though. Shanghai's inability to wear its heart on its of its administration.
Though a few irresponsible peo-sleeve or its capacity for cultivating the "poker face" may be due ple may try to sling mud upon its not so much to a lack of emotional expression as to a sense of good Manchurian venture was because fair name, Your Excellency may manders. Audiences here are cosmopolitan. They become accustom- she required a "life line." Judg- be rest assured that the majority ed to the need for restraining themselves when news-reel pictures. To which the scholarly Chuanging by experts statements it will be by Your Excellency's side. portray special aspects of national thought or activity. There is
ize added this comment:-**Thus
the principles expounded by the sages are equally indispensable to Bandit Che and the right- eous!"
seems that the life line" bas proved deplorably abort and shoddy..
general well-bred reluctance to run the risk of incommoding neigh We need no assurance that un- bours of another nationality by giving vocal expression to feelings der Your Excellency's administra- which in a homogenous audience might quite properly be allowed to. tion, Ceylon will see the dawn of expand. This training shows itself, too in the attitude toward the Comedy-including cartoons-must be exempt, for a new era in her history under feature almos Let us look back a few years.
British rule, and during Your Ex-all the world over, the sources of laughter have a common basis In 1905 Japan took South Man-cellency's tenure of othee, we are which precludes offence. Nor should it be forgotten that one of the So, even to be a great bandit churia from Russia. It cost her assured of our final goal. (Swaraj). merits of a cosmopolitan community is that its component parts react on each other and... unconsciously create standards of taste it appears it is necessary to act 300,000 men to gain that reputed- It is our fervent prayer that which, despite certain lapses, are more exacting than can usually be in accordance with a moral code.ly prolific, urea. After more than Your Excellency will enjoy in
Prince Konoye, Premier of thirty years of occupation there health and felicity an Illustrious developed in parely national audiences. Japan, is scheduled to speak at are only about 200,000 Japanese and the special session of the Diet settled there. So much for the to-day, followed by Mr. Hirota, excuse for land-grabbing to re
between the two of them they tion f will provide something almost as Manchuria las cost the tax satisfying as did Bandit Che to payers of Japan: many, many billions of yen, and, on the ad- his followers.
mission of Japanese economists. care the material returns have been
uneventful administration.
According to the latest announcements by Mr. Hirota, the future
DAILY EXERCISE, ON | Foreigu. Minister, and perhaps lieve the strain of over-popula Acent administration continue to trade policy of Japan will rest on the three pillars" of "liberalism:
ROWING MACHINE
The House of Lords recently, during the debate on the Physical Training - Bill, heard Earl Stan-
It may be that the ruling cate hope, President of the Board of Education, confess. that he does in Japan (the militarists)
and that Mother Lanka over which Smuggling In China Your Excellency is destined to rule, may under Your Excellency's bene- progress and flourish and show by its example to its neighbours that "Peace hath her victories no less than violence."
The Probables
London. July 26.
in commerce, the open door, and equal opportunity." Buch sweet- sounding phrases have been heard time and again. But they convey no meaning unless they are translated into deeds.
Under the guise of "liberalism in commerce," the black tide of smuggling has surged to such a height in Ching that the whole world is alarmed at its magnitude. Airea dy the normal trade in North China has been destroyed by the constant, invasion of this "tidal.current." and now Central and South China will be threatened with the same
The Tientsin War
the dislocation of Chinese economy as in the complication of inter-
morning exercises an a rowing not a jot what the rest of the inconsequential. Is it possible STEWARDS CUP fate if some measures are not found to curb the menace. machine, and blame some of our world thinks, because they ob that Japan dare submit that as best-known public schools for viously conjecture that at the pre- an excuse for trying to 6ich turning out round-shouldered boys. sent time no other Power is in a more of China 7
The latest messages last night
Of all the places that have suffered, Tientsin has borne the brunt Viscount Dawson of Penn, the position, to interfere with even a
of this economic onslaught. There is no one in the city who, directly King's Physician, believes that we threat of force. That is cer- clearly indicate that Japan is
or indirectly has not felt the strangling grip. Many innocent mer- must pursue national niness be tainly very debatable. It is at determined to spoil for a fight.
chants have been compelled to declare themselves bankrupt, while cause we have undone nature's Notice is hereby given that an plan for discouraging weaklings least significant that none of Perhaps it is too late to hope The following are the probable those who can manage to keep their doors open, have to fight against
He would like cookery experts to the greater Powers of the Pacific that, even if the matter is taken starters and jockeys for the terrible odds in order to make both ends meet Interim Dividend of $2.00 per tour the country in vans, giving has issued a statement of policy out of the hands of the local dis Stewards Cup (alx furlonga) to be But the seriousness of the situation does not lle so much in Share has been declared, for the lectures on the choice and cooking on the Sino-Japanese situation putants, Nanking and Tokio will run to-morrow. half year ended 80th June, 1937, or food,
which could be, treated, either as be in the mood for agreeing that Ambrose Light (Pat Beasley), national relations. As we all know, there are many eastern posters payable on Thursday, 5th August,
Earl Stanhope's confessions came a threat or a promise, though it this is not the time for a titanic Wyndham (Smirke), Ipaden (8am- which have commercial interests in China. As a result of this
my Wragg). Overcoat (Carsiska), anomaly, their-trade balances have been very adversely affected, 1937, on which date Dividend Ast. He did not doubt that some is patent in which direction their Asiatic struggle. The atmosphere George Here (Herbert), King's In order to prevent any untoward incidents in international Warrants may be obtained on of their lordships did physical application at the Office of the exercises in the morning, but he moral support lies. Dr. Kung is strained and it is certainly not Gap (Crouch) Carissa (Steve politics, a defnite programme is called for so that this menace may admitted that he found his own Minister of Finance for China, conducive to an amicable settle- Donoghue), Firozepore (Cordon not be enhanced. Besides, the precautionary measures adopted by Company, Kowloon,
rowing machine variety "extremely has given a very significant indi ment. However, there are states- Richards), Nakomia (Nichol), Gunthe Chinese Government, the student bodies in Tientsin have initiated
left in Japan, notwith-boat (Maher), Red Garter (Beary), an anti-smuggling movement. dull. From that he deduced that cation on that score in his timely men
Couvert (Gardner), Grandjo (Low-. we shall never make a real and temperate statement last they should have a moral code. (Subbrit) Nipaway Griezen statement which standing the militarists and rey Black Bpeck (Nevett), Kong was cabled from London ceas of a national system which gymnastic
night, and which we publish on Let Dr. Kung's splendidly Irenicom (Robertson) Govinezza REDSKINS" confines itself solely to
SKIN GAME (Wing), Allegiance (Dupuit); Angel training and physical jerks.
Some schools, in his opinion the front page of this newspaper statesmanlike statement stand as Bread (Cua Richarda), Alarm Bell
testimony to the glowing fact (Middleton) Gay Venture (Bhar Alarmed by the dan By Order of the Board of "not elementary schools, but some to-day Directors.
of the best known Public Schools History shows that the def that China is fully seized of the ples), Harmach's (Events), Braemar to livestock by cor
now pro-ciencies of an administration play
dyns of the crisis, and it is (Christie); The Drimmer (Dwor
Smith), Permanence (Sprague), thorities offered a zew me that apan s vital part in moulding the our
The Jockeys for Mamsey, Bally Delt delive
Theo 1600 destiny of nation. If Japan
harken to the
Andrews Tip and Couvert have not fast-minute appeal which he has wages war on Chinsahe may bankrupt herself, but the pity of i
The Register of Shares of the my will be closed from Company Wednesday, 28th July, to Thurs day, 5th August, 1987; both days inclusive.
of the country ever FHCRAPNELL, duang-
Secretary
Hong Kong, 14th July, 1937
school cust
about with their
ither affich
doubted whether so many had been born during the period.
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