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CROYDON OF FAR EAST
CLAIM DISPUTED··
One of the papers which arrived from China porta dubbed Hong Kong as the "Croydon of the Far East." In the light of recent de- velopments in air communication in Singapore, I am inclined to dis- pute Hong Kong's claim to the title. comments a
writer in the "Malaya Tribune."
IS GERMANY OVERDOING
CHINA REVIEW
FITNESS CULT? Nanking-Shanghai Railway
British Visitor's Impression
A delegation from the Board of Education and the Scottish Educa- tion Department has visited Ger- many to study physical training in It is admitted that Hong Kong that country, and concluded that, is the terminus of many airlines, so far as technique is concerned these being the Pan-American | German methods are no better Airways, the Imperial Airways, than our own, China National Aviation Corpora-
Further, a "certain tenseness and
to the very limit of their endur-
tion and the Eurasia Aviation ultra-seriousness of expression" Corporation. But I can name as
was noted on the faces of German many ar lines using Singapore youth, and the suggestion is made either as terminus or as a com- that "these youngsters are being pulsory stopping place. They are: Quantas Airways. Imperial Air-
driven or are driving themselves up ways, KNILM. and KLM. Air-ance." ways and last but not least the Malayan Internal Air Service.
Hong Kong, speaking broadly, serves Island and America principally. China, the Philippine
After discussing at length Ger- the internal service being operat-many's present preoccupation with ed by the China National Avia-physical" training, the report con- tion Corporation. The Pan-Ame- cludes:
The delegation's réport makes it clear that the responsibility for any statements made rest with the delegates alone.
The announcement that the arbitrator's award on the losses sustained by the Nanking-Shanghai Railway in 1932 in relation to the profits due to holders of net profit certificates has been made and is now under the consideration of the Ministry of Railways has aroused considerable interest especially among the "Investors Im- mediately concerned, states the "North China Daily News" From the comments made in Finance and Commerce" and quoted" in this Journal on Saturday it is obvious that the award, having gone in favour of the holders, should tend greatly to enhance the value of the certificates. It is exceedingly desirable, therefore, that the terms of the arbitrators' decision should be made known to the public with- out any avoldable delay. The point will, no doubt, be fully appre clated by the Ministry itself but it is probable that certain depart- mental or ministerial forms of procedure have prevented a prompt announcement. However that may be, it will be hoped that further delay will be eschewed. Most people will recognize that current pre- occupations militate against expedition, but in this case, the genèral". tenor of the award being known, there is every reason to urge the fullest disclosure at an early date in the interests of all concerned.
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Plenty Of Rice In Shanghai
"Aside from taking strict measures to prevent foodstuffs from, be-- ing sent to quarters unfriendly to China, Jocal food merchants have now organized an "Arrival and Consumption Committee" as a means to ensure the local food supply in order to cope with the present national predicament.
Ative work has been started by the committee in making daily investigations of the stocks held by all wholesale and retali provisions merchants in the city. The present total stock of rice in Shanghai, it is reliably learned, amounts to more than 400,000 picula.
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Surely no one will deny that China's diplomacy has been. dmirable throughout the present crisis. Her comparative verbul inactivity has been masterful, and whilst Japan has alternated fuming with whining, China bas spoken only the minimum and that to excellent purpose.
Through Chiang Kai-shek, the Republic of China bus limited itself to the salient comment that if the Japanese Empire insists upon foisting its control on North | Chuns it will force China into war, and onee China goes to var then there shall be no looking
of the Generalissimo. We were lap between Australia and Eng- assured yesterday by a collegue land, and carrying malls and pas-only too conscious that it is atters at the sober hour of 5 o'clock, just as the sun was rising when Rumour-ridden Shanghai was given another excuse for the Jit- of one of China's leading publi-sengers to and from all cities en 'war' at war with circumstances.
an official rews broadcast from Moscow declared that an organized." cists that the carefully consider-Europe is traversed by the route ofple's war. Whether the strain will attack on the Soviet Consulate-General in Whangpoo Road was con-
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with Manila and America, while self is an excellent thing nobody rican Airways link Hong Kong "That physical education in it- Imperial Airways serve to connect
can deny, but its continued pro- Malaya generally with Hong Kong.secution to excess at the expense According to my own estimation, of the things of the mind and soul Singapore as an airport serves in a whole nation of the size and the Imperial Airways and Dutch more" countries than Hong Kong, standing of Germany might lead air. Ines operating in that lengths to fearful consequences for her and to trouble for the whole world. *The nation," it is added, "s
route. Practically the whole of
Added to this,
and that the war is a young peo-
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The committee also keeps a record of the daily arrivals of food- stuffs from the neighbouring districts from the interior. The abip-- ments unloaded daily are reported to average around 10,000 picula.
Inasmuch as the requirements of the city are less than this. amount, it is stated that no anxiety is felt for a shortage of food,
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be relaxed when Germany is satis-templated, states a report from Shanghai.
Japan was blamed for the dastardly plot, which was to be fied that she is at last out of her executed by White Russians, according to the broadcast and a state- dicaculties, the event alone will
ment by the Tass news agency. "A group of Russians carrying forged prove."
passports have been introduced into Shanghai by the Japanese, the Referring to the German argu- report goes on. They are now being trained for the coup and to ment that a reaction was needed conceal their identity they will wear disguises. It is not divulged from, Nineteenth Century intellec-whether false beards will be used to make them less conspicuous, or Singapore one of the most up-to-that German intellectualism had, date airports not only in Asia or Europe от America but in the in the past. "sown a distinct ten- whole world. By far, I think dency to go bad in the bottle." Singapore, has more right to being Whether the present corrective, if called the "Croydon of the Far necessary, was the right one, the report adds, "is certainly open to East"
question."
ed, policy of China could best be these airlines, while the planes fly epitomised in the following aLU- at least over half of Asia. Indeed, tical commund, Full; steam the Imperial Airways route be- AN INTERIM DIVIDEND ahead!"
We have every jurti- tween England and Australia is £2.10/- per share, subject to of One DOLLAR per share for fication for stating that this one of the longest of its kind, and deduction of Income Tax, has the six months ended 30th June,policy is" unalterable so long as portant ports of call.
Singapore is one of the most im- been declared for the HALF 1937, will be payable on TUES-Japan persists in the prosecution
we have YEAR ending 30th June, 1937 DAY, 17th AUGUST, 1937, on of her campaign of territorial at rate of 1/2.5/8 per Dollar,
which date Dividend Warrants racketeering. will be may be obtained on application THE DIVIDEND
It was revealed to us yesterday payable on and after 9th August, the Company's Office, that the Generalissimo's tusk
Chater Road. 1937 at the offices of the Cor-
since the outbreak of trouble NOTICE poration, where Shareholders are
IS HEREBY
was made additionally difficult requested to apply for Warrants. GIVEN that the REGISTER because, as is ever
the case THE REGISTER OF of SHARES of the Company SHARES of the Corporation will will be CLOSED from THURS- be closed from 26th JULY to DAY, 5th AUGUST, 1937, to 7th AUGUST (both days in MONDAY, 16th AUGUST, clusive) during which period no 1937, (both days inclusive) dur transfer of Shares can be regis.ing which period no transfer of
shares can be registered.
tered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
By Order of the
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5433
Board of Directors
0. EAGER,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 29th July, 1937.
5458
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 13th July, 1937.
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED.
Notice To Shareholders.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that an
INTERIM DIVIDEND of THIRTY (30) cents per Share has been declared payable on WEDNESDAY, 4th Augast next, on and after which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained upon application at the Registered Office of the Company, Canal Road East, Bowringion, Hong Kong. .
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DEAD GIRL ON
CATHEDRAL ROOF
University Ball Sequel
What happened at and after the University Ball at Durham Castle to lead 21-years-old Ellen Linton, ex-Durham College student, of Church-street, Amble, to fall 150ft. to her death from the tower of
Durham Cathedral?
This was the question to which.
Miss
TOWING DISABLED SHIP AT SEA
Judgment Reserved. On
were not entitled to payment for
changed. tualism, the delegation admits more mysterious. The price of horse-hair apparently remains un-
Warm approval is expressed of the "strength through joy", move- ment..
NURSE'S £2,000
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The supposed terrorists were drafted in Manchoukue by the Japanese, who sent them to Shanghal, according to Tass's report as brought from Moscow by the United Press.
Mr. O. K. Yui
The announcement that Mr. O. K.-Yul has been been confirm ed in the substantative appointment of Mayor of the City Govern- ment of Shanghai is not the less gratifying becapse it was expected. General Wu Te-chen delighted to insist that his Mayoralty was 2 civil office. The Government has validated that insistence by selecting a "paca" civilian as General Wu Te-chen's successor. Re- cent references to the Tenth Anniversary of the City Government T emphasized Mr. Yul's long and distinguished service as Secretary-
FOR "BREACH" General for but a year short of that whole decade. If he does not
Lords Give Decision Against Baronet
"
'know the duties and difficulties of the Majoralty in which he is now fully invested, no-one does... Congratulations to him must be
tempered with a sympathetic appreciation of the burdens which he has assumed but that appreciation is in turn tempered by the convic- tion that in forcefulhess" of character, In the art of being firm la action and moderate in speech, in realization of the importance of good standards of municipal administration and in the practical " knowledge of the pitfalls and, at times, disquieting symptoms of
when idealism seeks to prevail, there were those in high finon cial (and by that we include industrial) places who sought to assure the supremacy of vestad Law Of Salvage" interests over those who have the greatest stake in the country
Lorda Atkin. Thankerton, Mac- the masses. It is significant the House of Lords reserved judg- millan, Wright and Maugham in that the lobbyists acting for the ment on the appeal against à de- paltry and personal vested incision of the Court of Appeal terests have not essayed a that the owners of a ship render- publicity campaign to educate ing salvage services to another the masses in the ways of vessel that had been in collaton.
Now I want to forget and be mediation, euphemism for those services, because they were happy.. I hope that he'll forget ****retreat "* of the most lily also owners of another vessel that and be happy also."
the body politic, Mr Yul is well-equipped; He can be assured of livered moral and physical'io- was partly to blame for the coll- Sitting with her mother and general good, wishes for the successful performance of his difficult wardice. Fortunately it did not slon:
sister in their home, dark-haired, task,
Mies The appellants were the Cana-grey-eyed take long for the real, leader of dian Pacific Railway Co., owners former nurse, of Holt. Doreet, spoke Chapei Evacuation Increases
Emily Fender. China those who regard as of the steamship Empress of Bri- | these words tó, e "Daily Mail" re- sacred the principles of the Retain, which was in collision in the porter a few minutes after she had volution as - enunciated by the Gulf of Bt. Lawrence with the heard by telephone the result of iate Party Leader. Dr. Sur steamship Kafiristan (owned by a breach of promise case that will Yat-sen to persuade the reac
the respondents, the Hindustan make legal history...... Steam Shipping Co. Newcastle-on- "Judgment with costs," came the tionaries that China's national integrity transcended all else
Tyne).
terse message from London, and Miss Fender knew that after more Without national integrity,
than two years litigation the embodying as it does territonal
House of Lords highest tribunal sovereignty, there could be no
in the land-had found in her
As during previous scares, Paoshan Road and its continuation. genuine prosperity in China,
decision that she was not entitled portion of the migratory traffic. North Szechuen Road, Dixwell favour on her appeal against the in the Settlement, North Honan Road received by far the largest for a nation ashamed of itself is
to recover £2,000 breach of pro- Road and other important atreets saw a fair movement of vehicles a nation defeated.
mise damages awarded to her by and refugees, especially during the afternoon. The household re- a King's Bench Jury against Birmoval companies were swamped with calls throughout the day. Anthony St. John-Mildmay, Bart,
J
the police were seeking an answer following the discovery of
So idealism hus conquered, Linton's body on the root of the and China is united in this the south transept of the cathedral, greatest fight for its national
existence.
states the "Daily Mail."
Unta 2 am, ahe was laughing. Joking, and dancing with friends
NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER of MEMBERS of the Company will at the ball. Then the party went be closed from WEDNESDAY, back to their hotel, and about 8.30 21st JULY, to TUESDAY, 3rdam. Miss Linton went out again AUGUST, 1937, both days in. alone..
clusive.
By Order of the Board,
L. C. F. BELLAMY,
General Manager, Hong Kong, 13th July, 1937,
5497
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
As from the 1st August, 1937, our offices will be situate at Hol land House, No. 8 Queen's Read Central 5th floor,
MCCALLUM & CO. Hong Kong, 27th July, 1937
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She made
Outside China, as was to be expected, there are those who are exerting their pens in fortell- ing an early conquest by Japan.
The Kafiristan was towed for 100 miles, at the request of its master, by the steamship Beaver ford (also owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway), and it had been
held by Mr. Justice Buckmill and the Court of Appeal that, because the Empress of Britain was partly to blame for the collision, ita ward for the services rendered by owners could not obtain any re- their other ship, the Beaverford, to the Karristan, on the rule of law that "no man can profit by his own wrong!”.
BARONET'S ALLOWANCE / At the office of his close friend. Mr. D D. C. Giddings, of Messrs. Sutton. Ommanney and Oliver, solicitors. Great Winchester-street, E.C., Bir Anthony St. John-Mildmay said to a "Dally Mall” reporter;....... "Miss Fender" would have been much better off had she never gone to law. Immediately after our separation in 1933 there was being paid to her on my behalf a gener- ous allowance an allowance which, History has proved time and conditions attached to it, wat bad she chosen to observe certain
again that a nation fired by a have peen continued for the rest us the privilege of sharing with genuine sense of wrong done and of her life. them the sources of information inspired by the ideal of service The capital sum represented by upon which they have based based on sacrifice,
can exact that allowance was much larger conjectures. However, terrible retribution from the than the damages which have now
been awarded her."
Italians of the Fascist brand are volutions and unite their res- her way to the to the fore in this connection.pective peoples to withstand cathedral, sought. permission from In the official journals of that potential aggressors perhaps even the verger to go up the central press-muzzled nation they have more threatening to them than tower, climbed the 365 steps to the stated that it is a foregone soon is Japan to-day to China. top, and stood there under the clusion that Japanese force of open sky.
A few moments later a party of arma tunat prevail. "They deny sightseers were also shown up the tower by the verger.
They saw the girl there, and one or two of them remarked that she their seemed perhaps a little excited.
That was the last time she was seen alive.
A brillant scholar, Miss Linton went to Durham University at the age of 18, but a nervous break down and her widowed mother's
need of help
newsagent's business soon caused her to return home.
Verdict of "Buicide while the
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they seem to beg one very im-wrong-doing nation. portant question, namely:
A steady stream of removal vans, motor-cars, rickshaws, wheel- barrows and coolles trekked south from Shanghal's northern area" as the rumours of impending war spurred on the exodus which started several days previously, states the North China Daily News. Groaning with furniture and other personal belonging and with com- mercial stocks in some instances, the vehicles moved along the main settlement, French Concession and, in rarer cases, towns and cities thoroughfares leading from Chapel, destined for the International south of Shanghal.
The bulk of the fleeing families, however, used rickshaws. Of twelve loaded vehicles that passed from Pashan Road into North Honan Road and Boundary Road in one minute at 6.45 pm, tem were rickshaws, one was a Chinese hire-car lled with household furnishings, and the twelfth was a perambulator pushed by a woman but holding beding and kitchen utensils. The stream of refugees at the crossing at that time was steady and gave trame policemen on both the Chapel and the Bettlement side a fair amount of special work. In most of the rickshaws a member of the famliy usually szt buried under boxes and bundles flanked by a bedstead or chairs or a small table. One hand-cart was stacked with bags of grain, on
top of which rested an enormous bundle of bedding,
FAREWELL @DINNER TO CONSUL
On Eve Of Leaving For Chicago
Mr. Leong Bin Nam, OBE, ME Chow Kok Thye, LF, and Mr. Wong Chin Thong were also among the guests. A
The Chairman of the Association," Mr. Low Wal Fan, who is president of the Koong Hip Cheong Mine, The question raised by the caNG
spoke highly appreciatively of the work of the guest of honour while was whether damages can be The Chinese Consul at Kuala Malays and wished him every swarded for breach of a condition Lumpur, Mr. Loo Chee Chuen, was success in the future. at promise of marriage made be the guest of honour at a dinner. further:
tween the date of a decree nisl and the date when the decree is made absolute,
what
There is every indication that is the estimate of the power of China is to-day so united and is
China united in ideals and led determined to
by idealists of proven practical desecrations ability? The Italian propagit sanctuary
resist of her
national
in running a diste of Fasciam, like the German For the first time in the his- might tory of the Republic, China in propagandists of Nazism well cast their minds back to presenting a united and popular those ys when idéaliam in front, to one of the most insolent spired them to acco
Mr. Justice Hawke's ruling in the King's Bench Division that Miss fender was not entitled to dam- ages was upheld by the Court of Appeal then reversed by the
nations of this generation. House of Lords.
von by the Engineering and Chee Chuen thanked all those Replying to the toast, Mr. Loo
Commercial Club of Perak, states the "Malayan Tribune".
The party was in the nature of a farewell to the Consul, who is being transferred to Chicago 28 Consul-General for
tral
Government of China.
present for the hearty farewell, Lawarded him, and for the kind?
words said about him, for
Mr Leong Bin Nam-accompanied Mr. Loo by the night mail to Kuala Lumpur after attending a party the Ipoh Club.