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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1937.
REGISTRATION
OF FIRMS
Proposed F.M.S. Measure
on
is The F. M. S. Government
Ita sounding public opinion Intention to enforce the registra tion of business firms of various
kinds.
A draft of the proposed messure. labelled the "Business Registration Bill." is published in the F.M.S
together Government Gazette, with an appeal to public bodies to "comment on any of the provi-. sions in this draft Bill, or in these draft rules. and forward such comments to the Legal Adviser. Government 'Buildings. Kuala Lumpur, not later than Saturday. November 27."
NORTH CHINA WAR
BOMBERS RAID HANKOW
Hankow, Oct. 19. Twelve Japanese bombers raided Hankow yesterday afternoon and dropped five bombs in the vicinity of the Military Aerodrome, starting a fire which was visible for miles around. The raiders disappeared after ten minutes.- Beuter.
Nine Bombs Dropped Near
Park In Hankow
JAPANESE. ·
SURRENDER
||
Shanghai, Oct. 19: Sixty Ja- panese soldiers fighting along the north bank of Wen Tsao Creek surrendered to the Chinese follow- ing a bitter enagement yesterday afternoon in the vicinity of Chen- chinchin. it was disclosed to-day.-- Central News,
2)
FIERCE FIGHTING IN SHANSI
Nanking. Oct. 19: Fierce fight- ing on the northern and eastern fronts in Shansi is continuing on a large scale as the Japanese are throwing heavy reinforcements against the Chinese, in an attempt to smash the lines and push on towards Taiyuan, the provincial
Hankow, Oct. 19. The local au- thorities revealed to-day that nine bombs fell in a field near the Chungshan Park during the Japan- ese air raid over Hankow yesterday | capital. afternoon. Several small dwelling houses were damaged. Central New...
CHINESE MASSACRED IN RAILWAY TOWN
On the northern front 8,000 Japanese infantrymen have been pounding the Chinese lines for over T2 nours but the Chinese are still holding Armly to their trenches. A Taiyuan report.claims that the Japanese casualities in this section
alone are over 2,000.
Another despatch received here
The registration of companies. as in the Straits Settlements, is compulsory. but partnership, firms are free of such action. It is pro
businesses 3.3 posed that such mines, rubber
estates. coconut
Nanking, Oct. 19: According to estates, pineapple estates, tin ore.
a refugee who arrived here from rubber or copra dealers, money- northern Shansi, all the male lending. pawnshops. goldsmiths,
adults in Yangkao, an important Importers and exporters of general
town on the Pelping-Suyuan Rail-reports the re-capture of Panshih and Kungchlachuang. two small merchandise, wholesale dealers,
way in northern Shans!, were
towns, by the Chiness forces. motorcar dealers and stock and
massacred when the Japanese
From Oct. 15 yesterday share brokers shall be registered troops captured the town last
Japanese heavy artillery have been pouring tons of projectiles into the Chinese positions south of Kwan- tsun. Most of the Chinese defences have been destroyed and a whole company has been wiped out. General Chi Hsiu-min, a battalion commander, lost his life during this encounter while several other off- cers were wounded.
for a start.
LEGAL APPROVAL "This will be a very good thing. if made law." said -1 jegal authority to a "Times of Malaya" representative. "It will mean all partners in business will have to te registered. so that anybody dealing with a firm can look up the register and find out who the partners are."
A cause celebre who has occupi- ea the F.M.S. Supreme Court for many weeks was the Prince's Cabaret case, where there was a dispute as to whether Ong Be Lim WILS partner in the venture. There would have been no neces- ity for the case under business Arms' registration?
î
The Times of Malaya" under- stands that the Chamber of Com- merce is in faveur of the scheme.
THREE DEATH'
INQUESTS
month.
The informant revealed that the troops which entered Yankao in- cluded Manchukuo and Mongol forces.
!!
As soon as the invaders came into the town, they made a sys- tematic house-to-house search and. sc'zed all foodstuffs in the homes of civilians. The older people were forced to carry the foodstuffs out
to the Japanese camps.
The younger male were huddled wall together outside of the city and machine-gunned by the Japan- ese. The refugee estimated that at least 3,000 Chinese were killed at Yangkao
Central New8.
CHINESE PUSHING TOWARDS CIVIC CENTRE Shanghai." Oct. 19: According to a report received from the Kiang- wan front early this morning, the Chinese forces, launching a coun- ter-offensive last night, are slowly. pushing on
Civic towards the Centre along San Min Road.
The Japanese have rushed tanks to stem the Chinese advance. Fierce, fighting is continuing this morning.-
Cent: 1 News
Three inquiries into the deaths of prisoners were completed by Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central Magis- tracy yesterday, assisted by juries. Wai Yuk late prisoner No. 22553, was found by a jury comprising Messrs. S. N. Potouloff (foreman) Ng Yuk-shang and Tjing Del-you to have "died of natural causes. Dr. G. Ingram Shaw, Medical Officer in charge of Hong Kong Prison, Stanley said he first saw deceased on July 23 this year and found he was a chronic opium addlet, his condition- being very poor. He was admitted to hospital on September 4 and died on Octo- ber 14. A post-mortem examina-ferral News, tion revealed that death was due
to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Chief Warder H. Barrett also gave evidence.
Messrs. M. S. Cumming, I.. M. Alarakia and Ng Kim-chau re- turned a similar verdict in the case of Ko Keung, Prisoner 22097. Dr. Shaw said death was due to tuberculosis antaritis and cardiac failure.
In the inquiry into the death of Prisoner Leung Sik-to. which had previously been adjourned. Dr. Shaw said that though full re- ports on certain organs which had been sent to the Government Analysts had not been received, he was prepared to say death was
due to urimea. The jury returned
a natural causes verdict.
CHINESE YOUTH
SENT TO GAOL
Three charges were preferred against Chan Kau, 25, when he appeared before Mr. S., F. Balfour at the Central Magistracy yester- day. For two of these, larceny of clothing from houses in Con- naught Road West, he was sen- tenced, to three months' hard la- bour each. The third charge was. one of lottering on the third floor
of the Hong Kong Club Annexe
at 4 a.m. and on this he was given another three months.
RETURNED
BANISHEES
IN COURT
Two banishees appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday. Lee Hung. 23, sent away for ten years in Oc- tober 1933, was sentenced to nine
hard months'
labour. Tsang arrested on informa- Queen's Road West
Yam-cho,
tion in
ou October 17, after he had been
sent away exactly two months ago
for five years. was given four months' hard labour."
During the fighting on Oct. 14a 10-passenger Japanese bomber was forced down near Hsinhsien. The machine, which is undamaged, is reported to be worth-$500,000..
On the eastern front the Chinese are continuing to hold back the Invaders and the Japanese offen- sives in this area have proved most costly in men and material. The Chinese claim to have seized- huge quantities of Japanese, munitions, two radio sets and numerous maps and documents.- L'entral NeIDE.
JAPANESE PLANES OVER SHENSI
Sian. Oct 19: Continuing their drive into the hinterland provinces In west China, a lone Japanese bomber scouted over Star and 3 number of other districts in Sherisi provlare yesterday.
The plane was sighted coming" from Shansi and later few over Rucheng, Sanyuan, Chingyang and Helenyang.
JAPANESE PLANES CONTINUE TO BOMB SHANTUNG Tsinan, Oct. 19: Japanese bomb- The plane, which was apparently ers are continuing to raid the cities trying to get acquainted with the in southern Shangtung. During geography of the province, new the attacks yesterday the Japan-at a height of over 3,000 metres ese planes released bombs on Yen- above Slan and disappeared to- chow, Nany, Talan and Tachukow. wards the east without dropping Details are lacking.-
any bombs-
Central News
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STILL FIGHTING MALARIA
Sir M. Watson In Central Europe
RELIGION AND SCIENCE
Dr. Jones Addresses Rotarians
renowned
the
world-
gave
sun
OCTOBER 20,
1937.
SEEKING GIANT PANDA
One Of The World's Rarest Animals
Dr. Stanley-Jones, Mr. Floyd Smith, a noted Amer-
evangelist, ican animal collector, who is now Bir Malcolm Watson, who did so inspiring address to Hong Kong in London, is making further much towards making Malaya a Rotarians at their weekly tiff efforts, despite previous set-backs, world example of the eficiency of meeting yesterday at the Hong to bring the giant panda, suld to British tropical hygiene, is still m❘ Kong Hotel, harness. At the request of the Walker, President of the Club, was at which Major be the rarest animal in the world,
Eritish Selection Trust, which con- In the chair. from Western China to England.
trols numerous concessions and Dr. Jones took his subject "A He hopes to leave for China mines in Yugo-flavia, he quietly judgment bourin History." He said shortly and to bring back a healthy slipped away from London recently that at various times in history the specimen to the London Zoo next to investigate the Malaria problem feeling that a change in the affairs spring. Hundreds of native medic- under which the whole of Bouth of the human race was coming ine collectors, charcoal burners
suffering severely, about feeling that a period of In some areas 80 per cent. of the transition was at hand-had been participating in a search which children have had the disease. A evident. But nobody living to-day as taken Mr. Smith four years to message from Belgrade states that, could look upon these present organise.
Serbia
is
a
time
what
had
and
bamboo
cutters
are now
after a fortnight's exploration Bir times without feeling that this Mr. Smith, who tor 19 years has Malcolm Watson has worked out period was particularly so.. And collected in China. for the Field a scheme for the complete ex- particularly was this so in regard Museum of Chicago, succeeded in termination of malaria in the next to religion. trapping two adult panda near
few years. At such a religion | Chaopo, in the Szechuan province, to say? asked Dr. Jones. Was it to near the Tibetan border, and The measures are to be applied retreat behind its Cathedrals and trekked for Shanghal. Unfortuna- immediately to the immunisation churches and let the tragedy gotely the male died after a few of the mine workers and following on? That would amount to ab- days from the effects of a poisoned the traditional Unes of improved dication There were the great foot, and later the female died sanitation and health supervision, forces of Fascism and Communism from digestive trouble. will be extended throughout South contending against each other.
The alternative was the of the Kingdom of God in the nature of an order against man's system.
Serbia.
doctrine
DIET OF BAMBOO STICKS He said that the giant panda: Is classed zoologically as car-"
nivorous, but now eats only ham- boo sticks, which it holds in pre-. henslie paws.
Has the strongest jaws in the
warld, but is defenceless.
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where to go-and how; then she Speaking of science in the light
BIRTHS told the signatories to the Nine of religion, Dr. Jones said there Power Treaty what to do with was no clash between the two be- GRAY,--On October 12, 1937, at the that sacred document to which cause they realised their own pro-
Country Hospital, Shanghai, to she had officially, publicly and vince. But behind the science they had to have religion Doreen, wife of C. J. A. Gray, on oath appended her signature, and the spirit of religion. If the KRULAK. On October 18, 1937, at thereby demonstrating her ear-two were put together, he thought,
Manila, to Mrs. V. H. Krulak,estness of Likes to be petted like a lapdog
purpose the they could remake the earth. He after a few days in captivity, and.
wife of First Lieut. Krulak, trusting nations. Then, in the thought religion' was giving that
face of such a brilliantly stage spirit to science and that Is found only in dense bamboo thickets never ordinarily pene-
was thereby getting the power of managed act of loyalty and devo-religion. It was essential that the
cargo" at our Yard, North Point. HARTLEY-On October 10, 1937, at tion to the glorious cause of peace two must come together.
the Country Hospital, Shang- hai, Robert Hartley, aged 70 on earth and goodwill towards Rotarian Ingram proposed a vote
all men, Japan flagrantly be of thanks to the speaker trayed the trust of the high contracting parties to the treaty Talk On Discipline And in her complete disregard for the Conduct
basic principles motivating the other Powers in making this very of peace. worthy contract for the promotion
doctrine of
Is Incredibly slothful and has
never been seen to run or jump.
to
science
trated by the natives; is wary and difficult to trap.
A fully-grown male weighs about 3001b, and is the size of a large hog. He 18 an attractive animal, a mixture of bear and racoon in appearance, with a white face body, black legs, black rings around the eyes, and black ears and collar. |
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At the St. Andrew's Church Hall
last night, a large assembly listen-
For unadulterated ed to an enlightening talk by Dr. E Stanley Jones. It was one of a' series of lectures and discussions Japan enjoys undisputed supre which the eminent preacher and acy in that inomally dark and author is conducting during his
one is visit.
dismal sphere where no trusted and every generous, im- Dr. Jones spoke of the need of
discipline in life and
pulse is suspect: conduct. Discipline did not restrict a man,
Taking the matter by and said the speaker; it taught him
Mrs. W. H. Harkness, wife of Mr. Smith's former partner, recently bought a baby glant panda from the natives at Chappo and trans- ported it to New York. It proved fairly easy to diet the baby, the only giant panda in captivity,
since it has never eaten bamboo.
FISH EATS ITS SWALLOWER
HONG KONG CRICKET
The Daily Press.
友之國中
Large, we recognise
lay
ourself
open
to
a
BONG KONG, Octoɛɛn 2, 1837.
of
hypocricy
if
we
that we would the path to real
grave charge unde-believe of
freedom.
A man
who
knew
not
the
fundamentals
music
and
who
sat
down
to
that
we are in
any
way
surprised would
play
at random
matre
од
the plano
chaos,
but
A. K. MACKENZIE, Hon, Secretary. Hong Kong, 16th October, 1937.
the must- Aquarium Study By
JAPAN TELLS THE WORLD WHERE
56774
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or shocked at the policy of Japan clan who first disciplined himself
as indicated in that suspiciously in the rules could later find crea-
.
extrême
tive freedom in his art Spiritual discipline was vitally
necessary: * man without
it
might be compared to a wayward swamp, whilst he who possessed it was like a river which had a
course.
a
fuller
Professor
Merit
4
The opening of the Gloucester's new season on Friday night will be marked by the appearance of the Worth Sisters (above) and a hand-picked, eight-piece European orchestra.
CHARMING
thi
ARTISTES
The Worth Sisters
GLOUCESTER DEBUT ON FRIDAY
will
The Worth Sisters. who make their local debut at the Gloucester on Friday night, are two of the most charming artistes that I have met. Virginia, the blonde, is "Cherub" Lilian, the redhead, is "Snug.". They address each other by these pet names, even in front of a strange news-
paperman. which shows how natural they are. In fact, they are in all respects completely de- vald of that affectation of speech and manner which makes many an entertainer and lifeless. This singularly admirable trait
aloof
in their character is reflected in stage no showy and enjoy themselves incidentally, giving
their work. They
numbers, much more no small measure of enjoyment to their audiences) in intimate songs and dances. How great has been their success may be judged by
the fact that for, the past two years they have been known to all diners-out from Shanghai to Delhi. Speaking of Shanghai, it is in- teresting to note that they were war evacuees from that port. On "Bloody Saturday," when carnage reigned in Shanghal, they were at Casanova's just a block away from the Avenue Edward VI and Yu Ya-ching Road junction, where a bomb fell and claimed hundreds of lives. With their mother, they were sent by the President Hoover Manila; and their mother was
For his study of a fish which allows itself to be swallowed in or- der to eat the bigger fish from the inside. Professor Ernest Gigoux, It was not an easy thing Curator of the National Museum to do, said Mr. Jones, but it was of Natural History in Chile, has the only way to reach been awarded the Order of
spiritual life. by the Chilean Academy of Na: tural Sciences. Myxlme Dembeyssy is the name of the fish which Professor Gigour has been studying in his private to aquarium. When It has been on board the same steamer on The was
swallowed, it hides itself in the trip to the States when it organs of the larger fish and then begins to gnaw at them. Before long it has crippled its
ARMY
CALENDAR
inspired the
newspaper,
Asahi Shimbun." Japan's
TO GO isclationist policy is mediaeval in conception and feudalistic in Frankness, and thoroughness the very vital matter of its
THE HONG KONG in being frank, is a highly com-adainistration by class interests. mëndable feature, but there are It cannot hold. It is by now a
JOCKEY CLUB. times when frankness can be generally accepted fact that there so thorough that it is shoer is considerable unrest within the
Ninth
The Extra Race brutality. islands' Empire,"
Meeting will be held (weather Credence-must” by given to the Perhaps the Japanese isola- A ROMAN
Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY sally well inspired political tionist, policy in its complete on Saturday, 23rd October, 1937, we which is published in the selfishness might be carried to a commending at 2:00 p.m. un-logical, if somewhat
"Asahi Shimbun,** tlant *The First Bell will be rung at pleasantly affluent section of the conclusion by the complete with?
1 flunkey Press in Japan. A badly-tattered sheet of pa-
That drawal of all that nation's u-ucp- newspaper being a servitor to ing troops to confines within pyrus less than a foot square, unwilling host and finishes by de- found on an excavated sile known vouring it entirely.
section of the community keeping of the Imperial heritage as Dura-Europus on the Euphrates Professor Gigoux, who is of servant „of all | That would, of course, presume was described at the arth Inter- French descent,, is married to a regardless of fear or favour, luas the evnegation by Japan of national Congress of Papyrologists member of the James family on the best "authority that Manchuria" and Korea ;. at Oxford by Mr. A. S. Hocy, a which came to Chile from Glasgow junior, research Fellow of Balliol in the days when British engineers 5676 Japan will refuse to attend the speaking quite bluntly, if the College, who, with Mr. Fink were building the first Chilean
Nine-Power Conference at Brus-territory filching Japanese do not Mr. Snyder, of Yale University, sels for three reasons, namely, get our of those zones which they has pleced together the main por- that Japan is fighting a war of are occupying without any other tion of the papyrus and over 60 self-deferre; Unt she refuses to regson éxcepting the unjustifiable co-operate with the League of one of might, then they will be | Nations, and, lastly, because sla forced out. It can only be n will not tolerate any interference matter of time. Therefore, in by other nations in her war of order to save themselves a grent representative that new evidence China, deal more pain and suffering and ¦ of the official military religion in
1.30 p.m.
By Order,
До
C. B. BROWN. Secretary.
Hong Kong, 18th Oct., 1937.
rather tha
it
NON-INTERVENTION COMMITTEE
French Proposals Before
Meeting
London, Oct. 19.
combatants will be discussed at the meeting of the Chairman's sub-
against
but.
and
fragments.
It proved to be a list, set out
in four columns, of Roman army festival days,
Mr. Hoey explained to a Press.
railways.
LONGEST POEM
“It' Runs To 260,000 Lines
Part of the world's longest poem,
published by the Literature Publishing
Soviet State
House
In
not
accidentally bombed. They say that they do blame the Chinese at all for that event, for the Japanese had no right to be firing at the Chinese planes whilst they cruised so close to the Ameri- can ship.
the corps
The Elsters began their training with Andres Pavicy and Serge Oukrainsky, two of America's best dance directors, and have subse- quently studied under other mas- ters, Lilian was once a leader of due ballet at San Francisco Opera. and has also played dramatic parts on the stage with the. Pasadena Com- munity. Players. Virginia danced and sung her way in many films. fond of their
They are work, and consider that they have
1135
present tour. Their greatest am- bition at the moment is to gD home for Christmas." After that, a few weeks of idleness and then off to fulfil their contract
non-aggression The French proposals for the This would appear to be the the world on appalling blood bath the Third Century provided by the which runs to 200,000 lines, is, to be picked up plenty at ideas on the
document contradicted the accept withdrawal from Spain of foreign attitude of Japanese officialdon if she decided, before it is, acted view that military religion was and it as obvious that this partially too late, to retire with what something apart from the rest of
committee of the Non-Intervention ular newspaper in Tokyo has grace she can and leave the world the public religion, Committee this afternoon at which been very well primed--in the a little more hopeful for pence for first- tline the Foreign Seere journalistic sense, of eporse-to and mankind a little more hope the document, entitled "Feriale carly unwritten folk epic of the Chicago-A, G.
(Governments represented on the Eden will preside. All feature a policy which the nationful for
sub-committee have been consulted will be forced to follow..
tary.
Mr.
on the plan but present indications
ings
In the
posterity.
honour of the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution. The poem is called "Manas," an extant people of Kirghiz in the Soviet, and
with its 43 entries, was by far the longest of
In his paper, Mr. Hoey said that,
Duranuni'.
is ascribed to the XIIth centuries. It is the tale of the campaigns,
We feel, however, our hope is its type. From the second half of
querer, Khan
The eple is still alive to-day amongst the Kirghiz people and is
However, there is one rather rain. Japan is not great enough the First Century to the middle adventures and heroic exploits of a of the Fourth there had "not been great legendary Kirghizian con-
proving. conclusive. offer little prospect of the proceed salient point about all this, to admit her folly. However known a single Roman calendar. Manas,
absence of Herr Von Ribbentrop.mely, Japan has not as yet the world is showing increasing The "Feriale Daranum," dated by ho flew from London to Berlin been invited to attend the don signs of impatience at her trucu-internal evidence to the reign of esterday, and later to Berchtes-ference, in Brussels. She cannot flence. It seeras to ns. that it is Severus Alexander, was thus the
gaden for consultatior only piece of evidence
th Herr with any reason or moral justi- now the world's turn to do some official character in calendar from
presented by the Charge D'Amires, the German ew
Butler,
Dr. Woermann.—-
British Wireless Service.
tin
The Chinese Consul-General (Dr.
C. J. Pao) at Sydney, has present-
ed the national flag of China and a message of goodwill from its Government to the Premier of Wales "as tokens of the whole-hearted congratulations,
to them what the "Illad" was to | New South
ar
134
the ancient Greeks.
be fication claim that she has been of the "telling off" to Japan. for the religion of the Roman
or is being snubbed. Japan first We have indicated above where of all told the League of Nations we think she should
people
centuries.
throughout
The part which is now to be pub-
Ushed in Moscow is called "Chon- those three | Gazat" (The Great Campaign) and
consists of 40.000 lines.
LORD MAYOR
WHO WENT
TO GERMANY” "Nazi Convert" An Insult
The Lord Mayor or Stoke-on-
Trent (Alderman J. A. Dale recently replied to critician on his recent visit with mayors of four other towns to Germany.
He declared at a meeting of the City Rotary Club that to say they bad come back converted to Nazi
ism was an insult to their intelli- gence. The visit was made to gain peace through friendship, and to
Germany's
compare municipal
undertakings with their own. Mr. Eric W. Pidduck, the Pre- sident, said that however strong
might
views Nazi
Bome
Germany,
Ex-
the
be them "held on
and its
particularly traordinary attitude towards the.
movement. they should
Rotary
do all they evald, compatible with national honour, to find a basis for pence and co-operation Germany and Great Britain
between
NO COSMETICS:
powder or
.
Five hur dred girls employed al a Mansfield radio factory dare not arrive at their work-benches with rouge on their faces. Their employer. Mr. A. H. White- ley, explaining the ban, said that It was imposed not for puritanical
for technical
reasons, but ones "We manufacture delicate wireless parts, and it is essential that the atmosphere should be as dustproof as possible," he stated. "Obvious" ly, we can't allow the girls to have their faces coated: They are quite happy without cosmetics. and doe'z mind the ban a bit.”
AUSTRALIA'S AIR ADVANCE
The remarkable development of
civil aviation in Austraila in
past few years has, according to the acting Minister for defence (Mr. Thorby), "placed Austraila among the leading nations of the world in travel"
Australian internal services now.
operate regularly 23 176 miles of route, or of double that 1935. Their machines fly nearly 6,000,000 miles a year, compared with little more than 3.000.000. ago.
There
are
two
years
now 1,027 Ilcensed private and commercial pilots. 248 registered aircraft and 203 com- mercial and private aerodromes, as well as 159 emergency landing grounds. It is now possible to fly the
32.000 miles right round
Australia on regular routes. Thr Commonwealth Government spent £681,000 on civil aviation in the 1936-37 year.
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Sydney or Melbourne will be the terminus of the new Dutch ser- vice from Holland which scheduled to begin before the end of the year. The journey from The goodwill mess- Amsterdam will occupy only eight
of the Republic of China towards
the 150th anniverary of the Com- monweath."
nge was written on silk,
days to Australia,
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