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BY AIR TO HANKOW
Douglas Machine" Leaves Friday
There is a possibility that the China National Aviation Corpora- tion, which had been running an excellent air service between Hong Kong and Shanghai, which they have been compelled to suspend owing to the Sino-Japanese war, may shortly inaugurate a service between Hong Kong and Hankow.
At any rate, on Friday they will 'run their Douglas D. C. 2 machine "Chengtu" to Hankow on an ex- perimental fight. The Journey from Hong Kong to Hankow in these giant modern air liners takes but three hours. Already this com- pany has a service in operation be- KNAVE OR FOOL?tween Hankow and Nanking four
HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 22, 1937.
AMERICA
times a week, namely, Tuesdays Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. They also have a service between Hankow and Changsu.
The Douglas machines used by
the C.N.A.C. are similar to the planes which the K.LM. Company have in operation between Amster- dam and Batavia, in the Nether-
Impatience at the attitude of the United States of America in Fonnection with the Sino
undeclared Japanese
war is simply dissipation of energy It must be obvious that a nation of the standing of America wouldlands East Indies, With a cruising not art in haste to repent at leisure,
History has shown that, where warfare is concerned," the United States of America can at least be relied upon to take very
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THE HONG KONG
"JOCKEY CLUB.
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Seventh Extra Rate Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Saturday, 25th September, 1937, commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
THE REGISTER OF DE Hong Kong, 20th Sept., 1937.
BENTURES will be closed from
THURSDAY, 23rd SEPTEM.
BER, 1937, to WEDNESDAY,
29th SEPTEMBER, 1937, both days inclusive, during which
TURES can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
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has been at least one instance
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where and when the action was so deliberate that it was almost too late.
we
"Cabled messages which publish to-day indicate that the decision of the Government of the United States as expressed by. the Ambassador to China is not quite in sweet harmony with the more venturesome and cour- ageous spirit of the nationals of that country-in, this part of the world. - Even the Admiral of their fleet is reported to be out of Synpathy with the policy of the
Government, which
ships he directa.
Owns
the
As far as American prestige is concerned it is a sorry state of affairs, and, we feel constrained to put the question--Knave or
period no transfer of DEBEN SONNE EFIMOVA-On September Fool? Even admitting the rea-"
2. 1937.
at Tsingtao, Miss Asonability of the Monroe "Doc- Efmova. the only daughter of late Mr. and Mrs. Enment, to trine, which is as doctrinaire as Mr. Noble Sonne. of San Fran- the facetious pronouncements of cisco, California.
George Bernard Shaw, surely it MILNE THOMSON-At 31. Berf's cannot be contended that America can apply her isolationist policy to the Pacific? The com mitments of that nation outside the boundaries of her States are great and far-reaching. It is un Wilson, eldest daughter of Mr. thinkable that America should
Secretary. Hong Kong, 16th Sept., 1937)
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POSITION VACANT.
Parish Church. Tillicoultry, on September 4, 1937, by the Rev. George Lyall, M.A., George. elder son of Mr. George Milne and the late Mrs. Milne. Mar- noch. Tillicoultry, to Edith
and Mrs. J. D. Thomson, 83 Waterloo Road, Hong Kong.
BIRTH
FERRAS.--On September 16, 1937. at St. Maric's Hospital, Shang- hai, to Mr. and Mrs. Mario A Ferras,
daughter. 7
Roza Maria.
fail to honour what are actually her honourable obligations in the Far East. Yet the plain fact remains, America has decided. for the rine being at least. to retreat before the increasing storm which is being made by
Wanted a Secretary of Chinese nationality with commercial ex- perience, knowledge of good English and type-writing neces sary. Address replies to Mr. STUDHOLME WILSON-On Sept. Japan in Asia. We feel that we 9. 1937, at 20. Devonshire are reflecting the opinion of
Tchen Ting Hoel, Room 110. Queen's Building.
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Place. to Joy (née Harris-Wal- American citizens domiciled in ker), wife of Geoffrey Stud-this part of the world when we holme Wilson--a son. HARGREAVES.-On Sept. 5, 1937.9ay that there is a definite feeling at Stonefield. Blackheath, to that their Government has let Phyllida (née Gowing), wife of them down. Eric Hargreaves, of Kericho, Kenya Colony-a daughter,
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IN THE SUPREME
COURT OF HONG KONG.
The
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
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speed of some 180 miles an hour, they are some of the fastest ma- chines in use in the East. In the
"Chengtu" there is accommodation for eight passengers.
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作
PORTUGUESE ACCUSED
OF ASSAULT
Chinese Woman Is
Complainant
"Joaquin Maria Gutierrez, appear- ed on remand before Mr. E. Hims- worth at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on a charge of assaulting 8o Shui Moi on September 18, at 575 Nathan Road, first door. De- fendant denied the charge.
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Giving evidence, Dr. Lo Cheun- sun, of the Kowloon Hospital, sald that he had examined the com- plainant and found marks on her left eye, jaw, arm and leg which
could possibly have been caused by a st..
Complainant said that she had known defendant for four years. On the night in question defendant came to her house and took her out for a car ride at 9 pun.., and sent her home an hour later."
Complainant went up to her fat alone and defendant left. At midnight defendant went to her
CANADA IN THE PACIFIC
Plea For Greater Co-operation
HONG KONG TRADE
STATISTICS
Increase In Visible Trade
"Canada, with 9,000 miles of sea
The Imports and Exports Depart- The following table shows com- front on the Pacific Ocean, feels ment (Statistical Branch) reports | parative figures of imports and ex- very near to Hong Kong and Sin- that the combined values of imports of Merchandise and Treasure George M. ports and exports of merchandise during the months of August, 1937 gapore," stated Mr. Murray, Member of the British as declared during the month of and July, 1938:- Columbia Parlament, at the course | August, 1937 totalled $93.9 millions of an address before the Hong (5.8 millions) as compared with Kong Rotary Club at tifan yester-
$57.8 millions (23.8 millions) in
day at the Hong Kong Hotel.
August, 1936.
"Eighty per cent, of the produc- tion of British Columbia goes out to the world markets," he said, "These days they go in ships directly guarded by the British Navy.
"I urge closer fellowship among' British peoples on the Pacific," said the British Columbian." In no better way can this be bullt up than in a business way' among British communities with a com- mon interest in the Pacific, Rud- yard Kipling said that "British Columbia "was born with the title
deeds to half the trade of Asia." ourselves as effectively as we might If so we have not been asserting have in the direction of enlarging
trade between the various British
communities on the Pacific.
"In our northern climate we pro- to duce food products essential good health in the south; and in return we need the tropical pro- ducts of the, south and lines of merchandise which can be pro- duced more economically in sister dominions and colonies,"
EXAMPLE IN GOVERNMENT·
|
In terms of local currency the total visible trade of the Colony increased by 63.0 per cent. in Aug.. 1937 as compared with Aug.. 1936, and by 61.1 per cent. in terms of sterling.
Imports of Merchandise totalled $55.7 millions (£3.4 millions) as
with compared
$32.1 millions £2.0 millions), and exparts $38.2 millions (£2.4 millions) as com- pared with $25,5 millons (£1.0 millions).
Imports increased by 73.5 per cent, in terms of local currency. and by 70.0 per cent. in terms of
per cent. In terms of local cur- sterling.Exports increased by 49,8
rency, and by 50.0 per cent. in
terms of sterling.
Merchandise Treasure
IMPORTS
July, 1937 July, 1936: $55,887,536 $32,095,219 10,928,618 2,439,346
Total $88,814,154' $34,534.565
(Importations of Treasure re- ceived late in August, 1937 will be included in the September, 1937 re- port),
EXPORTS
July, 1937 July, 1936 Merchandise $33,231,126 $25,500,048 Treasure
7.297.108 10,745.363
Total $45,528.234 $36,245,411
MONTHLY FLUCTUATIONS Since August, 1936 monthly values of imports of merchandise, into Hong Kong fluctuated from a low (32.1 During the first eight months Hong Kong dollar value of 1937 Imports of merchandise millions) in August, 1936 to a high totalled $392.3 millions (£242 | of 55.7 millions in August, 1937; millions) as compared with $280.8 | whilst export values fluctuated (£18.0 millions) in the correspond- from a low of $25.5 millions in ing period of 1936, and exporta | August, 1936 to a high of $40.7 Details $293.3 millions (£18.1 millions) as millions. In March, 1937. compared with $216.1 millions are given below, with the sterling
equivalents, at monthly average. rates of exchange, in brackets:-..
1936
(£13.8 millions).
1
Imports Increased by 39.7 per cent. in terms of local currency, and by 34.4 per cent. in terms of sterling; whilst exports increased August by 38.4 per cent. in terms of local currency, and by 31.2 per cent, in terms of sterling.
Mr. Murray stated that the early history of the colonies. In what later became the Dominion Canada, furnished a fine example to the world of good government, When French Canada Was con- The following table shows com- quered by the British troops. parative Imports and exports of liberty of language. "religion and merchandise during each of the Jaw was not taken from the French first eight months of 1937 as com- prospered with dual races, langu- months of 1936 in $'s and £'s in Canada. To-day the Dominion❘pared with the corresponding
ages and legal codes. An example sterling (in millions):- of the generosity of the conqueror to the vanquished which has been
Imports Exports
1936 1937 1936 1937
Sept.
October
Nov.
Dec.
Imports $32.095,219 (£1,980,877) (£1,573,831 > $38.224,377 $20,838,410 (£2,354,184) (£1,837,704 $32,728,905 $43,000,188 (£2,853,918) (£2,019,884)-
Exports
$25,500,043
$45,683,144 $38,385,557
(£2,824,218} [£2,374,107
$44,629,876 $34.783.585 (£2.764.841) (£2,151,328)-- 1937
$34,008,300 January $39,895,093
(£2,472,865) (£2,113,384)
$30,904,672 (£2,378,170) (£1,811,422}-
the inspiration of the entire British January ...... $33.7 39.9 23.6 34.1 February $38,451,281
·Commonwealth and the best exam-
ple to the world of a league of February sister dominions working together In goodwill and harmony. IN
BRITAIN AND THE U.S. "Our record of friendly later- course with the great Republic of the United States is further evi- dence of our ability to uphold the highest traditions of international good conduct. As we have inter- preted the idea of the safeguarding of the rights of minorities-in our Dominion constitution, we have, in
dealing with the United States, in-
that you
March
April
May
June
July
August
£3.2 2.5 1.5
$53,355.278 $40,685,991
1
(£3,290,968) [£2,516.386)
2.1 $30.5 38.5 24.9 30.9 March 1.6 £2.0 2.4
1.9 $94.1 53.4 27.5 40.7 April £2.2 3,3
2.5 1.8
May ... $38.2 54.8 27.6 34.1 £2.5 3.4 1.8 2.1 $38.8 49.8 30.0 40.1 June £2.5 3.1 1.9 2,5
July. $37.1 50.1 29.0 38.9 £2.4 3.1 1.0 2.4 $36.4 50.2 26.2 38.2 August $2.3 9.1 1.7 2.2 $32.1 55.7 25.5 38.2 £2.0 3.4 1.5 2.4
SHANGHAI SITUATION
REVIEWED
house again. After a conversation terpreted to them the meaning of a quarrel arose, Complainant the British Commonwealth: And locked the door of her room. De-I firmly believe that in any major fendant threatened to break the international outburst door it she did not open it. The would find the United States aup- principal tenant opened the door porting with every energy policies Shanghai, Sept. 21: Reviewing and defendant abused complainant which make for the safeguarding the latest developments in the and struck her on the eye and jaw. of that democratic form of govern-Shanghal-Woosung war front, 3 An alarm was raised and the ac-
ment which has made the British high Chinese commander told a cused was taken to the Yaumati Commonwealth what it is, and
Central News Agency correspon- which has been applied in a some- Police Station.
dent that the Japanese are expect what different form, in the govern-
ed to renew their "big push " ment of the American States.
sometime next week.
Miss E. Wong, principal tenant, testined that she saw defendant striking complainant with his st when she opened the door.
At this stage the case was ad- journed till 11.30 this morning.
FRENCH BUDGET
THE BRITISH NAVY "We in Canada can best help in preserving British security in the Pacific by, bringing to our seacoasts the unlimited products of our land, From the wharf to the market of consumption, those products KO under guard of the British Navy. Those products of our soil should be made available to the people everywhere. While our naval, and air power are not that of Hong Kong or Singapore, it is our duty so to co-operate with our brethren here that such power as our great
Facific land possesses may be pool
The Chinese first line of de- fence is so strong and well forti- fied that the troops will be able to carry on a long war with the Japanese in that area.
He disclosed to-day that the Chinese had reoccupied Lotienchen on the Woosung waterfront but did not state the time when the town":
was taken from the Japanese. He
also added that there were 10 Japanese forces in the Lluho re- glon.
The commander also ridiculed the foreign report that the Chinese
had no strong defences in Chapel
Paris. Sept. 21: The French Finance Minister, M. Georges Bon- What the Chinese feel about net, has submitted a draft of the budget which shows a surplus of the policy of the United States $11,000,000 which will be used and is even more detrimental to that reduced by next year's saving. He than the views of warned speculators that the engagement is announced nation between C. Neville Horton, only America's own citizens. Reduc- French Equalisation Fund would son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. led to ite logical conclusion, the He reiterated that France would of stress for the ultimate good of Japanese to penetrate Into that IN THE GOODS of and Eileen Anderson Chicken, only facilitate. Japan's dictatorial ter- Birkdale, Southport, U.S.A. policy is calculated to SUMRA ELIAS, late of 15, daughter of Mrs. Charles Chicken.
rorism rather than to help Seymour Terrace, Victoria, of Maxwelltown, Dumfries, and the in the Colony of Hong Kong, late Mr. Charles Chicken, of Jar- China's defence of Democracy in Widow, deceased.
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NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Or dinance No. 2 of 1897 made an order limiting the time for credt." tors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 11th October, 1937.
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under- signed on or before that date.
DEACONS,
Solicitors for the Executor, 1, Des Voeux Road Central,
Hong Kong
5507
Horton, of
dine Matheson and Co.. Kobe, Asia. Japan.
DEATH
H
It seems that the matter must go much further than merely YOUNG-On Sept. 8. 1937, at criticism of one nation. There Eagle Crag, Beaumont, Jersey, must be speculation about others, after a prolonged illness, Pau- and, from our point of view, line, the beloved wife of Cap-Britain is in the forefront. Now tain D. G. Young. of "The that Japan has succeeded in Japan Chronicle." WILHELM-Un
from the diverting America Thursday, Sep- tember 18, 1837, at the Faulun course of responsibility, it is to Hospital, Shanghai, of para- be presumed that similar efforts. typhold, Paul Wilhelm, aged 57 will be made by Japan in regard years: Formerly of Lucerne, to British policy. It is most HAROLD ROEBUCK-At Oldham, devoutly hoped by us that in this
Britain Roebuck, connection
crawl away from her obligations in Asia. China has every reason
Switzerland.
Lancashire, Harold
late manager of Oriental Cot- ton Mills, Shanghai,
will not
TOLLEFSEN-HARRING-On Sep to expect that Britain will do
tember 7, 1937, in Europe. Mrs.her duty
A. -- Tollefsen-Harring.. (By
cable).
She did in 1914.
be adequate to meet their attacks.
Tripartite Agreement.- continue to co-operate under the
Reuter's Bulletin Service
saying that the failure of the
ed with them in the Pactic in time
all nations and peoples.
area during the last month speaks Maj. V. E. Duclos proposed a vote well for the Chinese. of thanks to the speaker.
Chinese troops take time off" between fighting In the North,
The Japanese, he said, are rem organising their forces in the Woo- sung sector, waiting for further reinforcements from Japan and therefore no mafor hostilities will be expected before next week.
The fighting so far has been ex- tremely costly to Japan in men and material and no matter how much Japan is willing to sacrifice she will not achieve anything in the end, he asserted.
Questioned whether there is a possibility of the Japanese break- Ing through the Chinese lines and thus weakening the defences, the commander declared that the Japanese plan to end the war quickly has failed completely.
$54,839,318 (£3,391,755)
534,144.114 (£2,111,778)
$49,843,843 $40,116,383 (£3,076,300) (£2,475.933 - $50,064.336. 538,919.728 (£3,070.352) (£2.386.874) $50.189,072 $38,190,851 (£3.058,397) (£2,205,380) $55,887,536 $38,231,129 (£3.436,955) (£2,359,577) Mean
rate of exchange for August, 1937: H.K.S1a. 2.13/16d.
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A BOMBER'S STORY
(Continued from Page 2)
The instant we appeared over the Idzumo an incessant anti-
our aircraft fire started and bombs answered. At this mo- ment, an enemy pursuit i ne dropped out of the clouds and kept atop of my plane; covering, us with a machine-gun. We re- plied, but it is a common know- ledge that a machine-gunner. flying underneath his opponent, is much handicapped and I be- lleve that we were not able to do much damage to our enemy. After a couple of minutes of fighting. I discovered that my companion, Lieutenant Liang had been fatally wounded. More- over, I discovered to my horror. that the bomb-racks of my plane were badly damage by the anti-aircraft fire from the Japanese battleship; which re- sulted in the most regretful ac- cidents at the Cathay Hotel and Palace Hotel on Nanking Road as well as at the Great World Amusement Centre on Avenue Edward VIL The final unfor- tunate destruction in the, foreign area induced me to hasten to a safe landing behind the lines somewhere in Chapel, lest more damage should be done by my already badly loosened bomb- racks. It was only when I set the bomber on the ground.. that I felt a stirening pain in my left arm. I WAS hit by the Japanese plane's machine-gun known I bullets. The rest is belleve, to the public. A Red." cross va conveyed me to this hospital.
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He added that all along the op- posing forces have been merely He estimated that there are fighting for the control of several around 150.000 Japanese, taking small vilages around Shanghal, part in the hostilities around. The loss of a hamlet to the Japan-Shanghai, of which 150,000 have ese will not weaken, the Chinese been killed and wounded since lines in any section, the common- fighting started.--- der affirmed:
Gentral News.