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MR. NAKAMURA `ANSWERED
[To the Editor, "The Hong Kong Dally Press"]
Sir,-Why does the Japanese
15-19, Queen's Road Central. Success Of Coronation consul-General, Mr. T. Nakamura,
Tel 30251
Night Editor (Wanchai Omice):
Tel. 24511.
London Office: 53. Fleet Street
E.C.4
Hoyo Koso, APRIL 19, 1898.
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insist on taking sheer nonsense? Why can be not honestly face
The 12th annual general meeting facts? Why does he insist on trying of Illustrated Newspapers Ltd, was to convince the public that the held recently at Connaught Rooms, magnificent Chinese victory at Great Queen-street,
Talerchwang was purely legendary Kingsway,
the when he must know for a fact that W.C, the Lord Southwood
the myth that the Japanese arimles chairman), présiding.
The Chairman said, in part:— During the coming year it is
DEATH-DEALING the intention of your directors to
PROPAGANDA
| "which would put those of Napoleon to shame" were invincible has been
exploded?
I read with interest this morn- consider the advisability of incaring a statement which is attri ring exceptional expenditure upon buted to the worthy Japanese some form of publicity campaign, Consul-General from Shanghai to COMPLETE BEWILDERMENT (of with the object of developing and the effect that "Hong Kong is less COM
themselves) at the unsuccess- building up of the company's anti-Japanese than was generally fulness of their efforts, as we various publications. In this event believed but it is true that most have remarked before, is the sole they will resolve to appropriate, Chinese in Hong Kong are dancing result achieved by the Japanese say, a sum of £20,000 out of the to the tune played by the Chinese propagandista: in their desperate balance now carried forward on propaganda pipers..... Foreigners and costly attempts to convince profit and loss recount, which sumare coming to appreciate Japan's the world of the "sincerity" · of {will be expended as and when the their motives in invading China. directors think desirable and for Surely Mr. Nakamura cannot But now they are using a much the purpose they have in mind. seriously believe what he anys. Let more deadly weapon than mere words.
stand."
We have during the past two him make a closer study of the years been greatly benefited from situation than he has and he will For the past two week-ends national events, which have enab-And that the anti-Japanese spirit Canton, has been subjected to led the company to, publish a among the local Chinese populace massed attacks by Japanese planes, number of special issues, which is quite as strong as in any other many bombs have been dropped, naturally added considerably to place in China, though the Chin- hundreds of Innocent civilians the profits.
ese, instead of resorting to boy- have been killed or injured...
Perhaps one might specially cotts, are well aware that they are. ilving here' by courtesy of the Bri- Speaking dispassionately. the mention the apecial numbers
deplor-published by The Illustrated Lon- tiah Government and, are abiding able-resulting from such air-Con News." I am sure you will agree by the laws of Hong Kong. They ralds cannot possibly be high that those productions are equal are not letting their feelings get enough to warrant the Japanese to anything of a like nature that the better of themselves by resort- repeating these attacks just for has ever been produced. The sales ins to lawless" acts and are trying the, sake of the casualties.
cf "The Illustrated London News" to set an example to others in good Coronation Number reached
citizenship. Were the Japs here ACTUALLY 1 is another form of
propaganda.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. death-roll-none-the-less
CHINA PROVIDENT
LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD
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in as large number's as the Chinese, I'm sure that even Mr. Nakamura
very large, figure indeed, and, 1 think am right in saying, conatitu During recent weeks the Japaulted a record even for "The Thus could not keep them under con-
trated London hear.)
conceivably suffer.
News." . (Hear
trol
Miss Pamela Potter, daughter of Mr. Eldon Potter, E.C., and Mr. Donald Harley, of the Union Insurance Society, who were mag- ried at St. John's Cathedral yesterday morning. The Esv. H. W. Baines officiated and the best man was Mr. T. A. Pearce. (Photo, A.C.P.).
Chinese Guerillas Menace Japanese Communications In Shanghai And Environs
NOTICE.
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.
ese have been meeting with severe NOTICE
HEREBY reverses In 18
the north-reverses
The simple fact that the Chinese During the absence of Mr. 0. GİVEN that an Extraordinary which, in their smug manner, they
have been behaving themselves All our other papers produced does not at all indicate that they Eager. Mr. B. C. Field has been General Meeting of the Members would have us believe the forces of
His Imperial Majesty could not special numbers In connection are not anti-Japanese at heart. appointed ACTING SECRE of the China Provident Loan &
with the Coronation which were If the Japanese Consul-General TARY. and is hereby authorised Mortgage Company, Limited will
»Shanghai, April 18. At home, also the people are be-equally deserving of praise. The thinks that the Chinese feelings to sign in that capacity.
be held at the Jacobean Room,
editors, as well as the printing and here are
Gunfire was again heard in the western districts last night, in- coming more and more vehement
in sympathy with his process departments, deserve the country's cause, I am afraid that 1st floor, Hong Kong Hotel in their condemnation
dicating that Chinese guerilla forces were again active nearby. The highest tribute.
highways in the neighbourhood are closed to ordinary traffic, and are Victoria, Hong Kong, on Wednes.
unwarranted. acts
he is sadly mistaken. If he thinks that "the Chinese people can be ce
used exclusively for Japanese lorries laden with soldiers. Aggression in "J. J. PATERSON, day, the 20th day of April, 1938, AGGRESSION of
CONDEMNED China. But of
moralised by the inhuman and Japanese scouting planes con- . SHARP ENGAGEMENT, Managing Director.a1 12.15 p.m., or so soon there
course, the 131-
barbaric tacties of his countrymen. | tinued to dy over western Shang- A message from Hankow after as the Annast General tarists would never admit to such Hong Kong, 19th April, 1938.
6698 Meeting convened at the same a state of affairs.
place on that day at noon shall be concluded, for the purpose o
By Order of the Board of Directors,
of the
Nevertheless. by their merciless. attacks on the civilian population
THE HONG KONG. CANTON AND MACAO considering, and, .thought fit. of Canton, it is quite obvious that passing the following Resolutior the Japanese are trying to provide as Ordinary Resolution's:
STEAMBOAT CO..
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE is hereby given that the ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEENTH- ORDINARY MEETING of Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, Queen's Building, Victoria, Hong Kong, on THURSDAY, the 28th April,{ 1938, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a State- ment of Accounts, and re-electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 22nd "April to the 28th April, 1938, both days Inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
X
H. DA LUZ,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 15th April, 1933.
6694
THE CANTON INSURANCE
OFFICE, LTD.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
The Fifty-Seventh Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the under. signed on Friday, the 6th May, 1938, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the] General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December. 1937.
The Share Register and TranÀ» fer Books will be closed from the 22nd April to the 6th May, 1938, both days inclusive."
JARDINE, MATHESON &
CO., LTD General Agents.
Hong Kong, 13th April, 1938.
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a "counter-attraction" to the fighting in the north, which, from
the Japanese angle, cannot bear
too close scrutiny at the moment.
men
and
Bays
OLD MEN'S ARMY he is wrong, Japan's barbaric cam hal early this morning in an effort that Chinese mobile units had a
ADVOCATE
Soochow Patriot In Shanghai
Hankow, April 18:
increasing the is now in Shanghal
palen of carnage will never win. to locate the Chinese irregulars lover the Chinese people, who will be stronger than ever in their de-
sharp engagement "with Japanese- forces yesterday on the outskirta of Thing, southwest of Lake Talho, in
termination to continue the war of JAPANESE RAID Chekians, while con chains-
resistance to the end and to prove that Might is not Right.
The section of Consul-General Nakamura's letter concerning the Chinese propaganda pipers is surely a feather in their hat. That com-
it does. from an enemy
China's spokesman. but·
cause
of innocent women and children
CHUNGSHAN DISTRICTS
ilons between Wuhing and Chang- hing, also on the west shore of the Lake, have been cut off,
Fighting also broke out yesterday' at Ealyen and Haining, north of Hangthow Bay.
Japanese reinforcements have arrived at Wuhu, where fighting was in progress over the week-end, casualties. (International News), re- both
sides sustaining heavy
CHINESE PLANES OVER SHANGHAI
Hankow, April 18.
Chinese
A squadron of foar planes
again reconnoitred the
1. That the Capital of the Company be increased from
The Chinese are at last reaping Mr. Chang I-sze, well-known pliment is indeed a high one com-
Shekki, April 18. $2,210.917.50 divided into
the rewards of their excellent plan scholar of Soochow, who at the ing 15
Four Japanese bombers raided 834,367 shares of $2.50 of campaign-drawing the enemy beginning of the current hostilities
Chienshan and other districts in $2,210,920.00 further and further inland, there-advocated the organisation of an needs no propagandists: Japan's leased more than 10 missies, which each to
Chungshan yesterday. They divided into 884,368 shares by lengthening the lines of com- "Old Men's Army" to fight Japan, campaign of carnage and slaughter set many houses on fire and des- of $2.50 by the creation of munication one new share al $2.50 costs for the Japanese, both in
Speculation as to Mr. Chang's has done more for it than an en-troyed one small steam launch. and money. Indeed, the whereabouts has been rife since tire army of propagandists.
Chinese anti-aircraft guns went and that such new share Japanese are finding it most dif- the fall of Soochow into Japanese be issued at such time and cult to carry on
As to "foreigners coming to ap. into action, forcing the raiders to hands last winter. Some even preciate Japan's action" I would depart in a hurry. upon such terms and con- IN THEIR foolishness, the Japan- said that the aged scholar had prefer to leave that to the foreign Near Kongmoon, a ferry boat western districts of Shanghai early ditions as the Directors ese, think that by bombing Can-drowned himself in a well when public themselves to judge, as they was hit by shrapnels of a bomb on the morning of April 16-Cen-
dropped by the Japanese plane. irai News)." may determine.
Lon they can show the world that the Japanese entered his home are in a better position to do so they are still invincible and, by town.
Two passengers were klied and
TROOPS FROM MANCHURIA® | seven wounded.
Shanghai, April 18. Throughout yesterday, Japanese
In view of increasing guerilla planes circled over Kanwoo dia- activities in Quinsan, Chinking.
in Chungshan doing
re-Chuyung, Boochow and Wusih. Mr. connaissance.
Liang Hung-chi, acting president Two Japanese bombers raided of the Executive Yuan of the Nan- Talin and Hsiaolin Islands of the king puppet regime, who has been Chungshan coast early yesterday staying here for the past week, bas morning. They dropped 12 bombs, requested General Shunroku Hata, walch demolished several farm Japanese commander-in-chief, to houses.(Central News).
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2. That upon allotment of the exaggerated reports in the home
press as to the extent of the des-. truction, tull the people into a false feeling of confidence in the in orowess of their troops.
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WORK FOR REFUGEES new share aforesaid, the shares in the Capital of the
Actually, however, he has been
Scochow all the time giving! Company be consolidated
relief in such manner that every
to 5,000 refugees. He ta But the whole subterfuge is so Chinese chairman of the
Inter- two shares of $2.50 shall
transparent that national Rellet Commission and constitute one share of TRANSPARENT one would think the Boochow Refugees Relief As- $5.00 credited as fully SUBTERFUGE that even Asociation. paid; That the existing
Japanese geheral could see through it.. certificates of shares be
Air raids
undoubtedly 3 called in by the Directors
|frightful development of modern and cancelled, and that
warfare and can greatly demoralise new certificates be issued, the civilian population. But, as subject to the provisions carried out by the Japanese, these of the Company's Article raids have the opposite effect.
are
of Association; AND that These cowardly attacks, far from simultaneously with such shattering the spirit of the Chi- nese and forcing them to surren-. consolidation as aforesaid
der, make them more than ever the nominal Capital of the determined that the invaders shall Company be increased from be driven from the land. $2,210,920.00 divided into EACH BOMB dropped, each child 442,184 shares of $5.00 killed, leaves the possibility of each to $4,000,000.00 China's subjugation remoter than divided into 800.000 shares ever but adds another mark to the Tong. List of black deeds for which of $5.00 each by the creathe Japanese will pay a hundred- tion of 357,816 new share fold
4.
in
of $5.60 each, and further As regards the question of quiet- that such new shares: belak
ing the rumblings issued at such times, and DISSENSION of dissension apon such terms and con.UMBLINGS" Japán, it is also ex- tremely doubtful if ditions and with such rights the celebration of, another "vic and privileges as the Directory" will have much effect. tors may determine,
By Order of the Board,
N!
J. C. GUTERRES,
Secretary
Hong Kong,
7th day of April, 1938.
What the Japanese wala to know more than the latest news from the front is when the ever- increasing inroads by taxation into their incomes is going to cense?
Carnage may be wrought in Canton, but in wresking it the Japanese are only sturing ope greater measure of destruction for 6675] themselves.
Constantly threatened by the Japanese, he constantly changed his abode while in hiding in the vicinity of Boochow. He has been in Shanghai since March 17-— (Central New).
BIRTH
GRAHAM-On March 15, 1938, at Brook House, Warsash, to Helen Ethel (nee Marshall) wife of Command H. R. Graham, a son,
DEATHS
than Mr. T. Nakamura or myself, WALTER HANMING CHEN, Hong Kong April 18. 1938.
ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT
[To the Editor, "The Hong Kong Daily Fress"] Bir-Paragraph 3, of
Point Three, appears in your Sunday special as follows:-
The agreement, moreover, pro- vides that neither of the two contracting parties shall annEX Islands in the Red Bea or (italics mine), build fortifica- tions in these islands. Was the alternative written in was it
ignorance of English or meant for a loophole?
The average Briton possesses only a rudimentary knowledge of English grammar, bat one expects something better from one of the "High"Contracting Parties" which
JAPANESE RAID SIAUKAN
Hankow. April 18, Japanese planes raided
detail more troops to maintain communication along the Shang- tal-Nanking Raliway.
Several hundred Japanese troops. Slackan, forty, kilometres north of arrived here over the week-end Hankow on the Pelping-Hankow from Manchuria and were imme- Railway, at 3 p.m. yesterday.
Six
A few civilians were wounded (Central News)."
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diately ruled to the Shanghai-". Nanking and Shanghai-Hangchow areas. (International News).
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
ED ON MAJORITY
WASTED ON
(BY AIR MATE
A leading article, that may more
What is the use, it is asked, of
is, I believe, an expression so be- than ruffle the calm of University the soul-destroying procedure of loved or the very important circles is published in the student, attending lectures at stated hours..
NDEWIT
the lecturers, and then of rushing home to try and make the most of these noteá?)<
"It is, to our mind, a scandal
OHLWEILER-Or Monday, April 11, 1938, at Bethel, Connecticut.
| the' magazine of Edinburgh Univer- of copying down the uterances of USA. Louis Ohlweller, aged 80 [At least one average Briton has Įsity siddents, years, father of Mr. R. O. Scott only a rudimentary knowledge of
That the writer does not mince English grammar. If Nitwit read his words is seen from the opening DOWNS. On Monday, April 11, more closely. the, paragraph to sentence: We have come to the
1938. at the Country Hospital, which he refers, he will find that conclusion that a University educa- that many professors and lecturers Shanghai, Dr. William Horn grammatically it is quite correct-tion is wasted upon the great ma, are drawing" "big, salaries in the "Downs, aged 38" 'years, the
Editor.1 dearly-beloved husband of Mrs. Phyllis Downs.
fority of us.”
University and are not taking the slightest interest in the welfare of This frank admission leads to the the students," continue the writer. The National Government, by a scathing comment"Let us pot No man should draw something BRYANT-On March 27, 1938, at mandate issued recently, post-blind ourselves to the fact that our over £1000 a year for delivering Shoshing, Reginald Arthur humously promoted Brigade Com- University, educationally speaking, one lecture a day for three days a Bryant, of the Pacile Coast mander Chao Hsi-chang to the is a bogus institution."
week during "" six months of the Missionary Society.
rank of Lieutenant-General, says a⠀⠀ It is maintained in the article year.". MALLECK-On February 26, 1938, message to the Morning Leader. that most students, would obtain | The constructive duggestion is that the University of California Commander Chao fell in action in far more benent from a competent made that set lectures should, be Hospital, San Francisco, Call- the battle for the defence of correspondence course, than they abolished and a new system of fornia, Nicholas Malleck, aged Esihsten and Yangtsum in South dó from matriculation at‹ Edín- tutorial groupe put in their piste. 34 years.
Shansi some time ago.
to give a personal touch:
tugh University.
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