HONG KONG" DAILY PRESS
Chinese Diplomat Sees
Intensification Of War
Hankow, May 28.
Asked his opinion regarding the now Tokyo Cabinet by a Cen- tral News correspondent today, a well-known Chinese diplomat forecasted the possibility of the intensification of Japan's military offorts in China: «
With three generals (K. Ugaki, 9. Araki, and H. Suriyaïua) and one admiral (M.Yonal) the reconstituted Cabinet is dominated by the militarists, he pointed out.
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America, and Soviet He expressed surprise at the Britain, appointment of a military man in Russia and strengthening of the the person of General K. Ugaki, Italy - Germany - Japan axis, who has been previously Minister meant to be 1 renewed effort for War on four occasions, and to better Japan's foreign relations succeeded Admiral Salto as Gov-In view of Mr. Hirota's fallare. ernor-General of Korea in 1922, With Mr. S Ikerà, a prominent as Foreign Minister. substituting industrialist as Minister of Fin- Mr. K. Hirota. the veteran Jap-
lance. Commerce and Industry anese diploma: Recalling that
so far Japanese military men as much friction between the Cabinet premlers bave held the post of and the financial circles may be smoothed over, he predicted.
Foreign Ministers' in a concurrent
The appointment of General capacity and therefore of a tem-
Minister of Education porary nature, he said that the Araki as present appointment of General was characterised as "strange" by Ugaki as Foreign Minister solely the diplomat, pointing out that General Araki holds an extremely is unprecidented.
In his opinion the appointment. conservative view in education to either forecasted a stiffening of the extent of eliminating Euro- Japan's atiltude toward Great pean influences (Central News).
Naval Reliefs Only A
For North
Figure-Head
KONOYE. AND THE
NEW CABINET
DELAYED DEPARTURE FROM KOWLOON
The concensus of opinion of the Delayed on Saturday when the
leading local vernacular papers train in which they were to have regarding the Japanese Cabinet left was forced to remain at the reshuffle is that Japan is Kowloon Railway station awing under an Army Dictatorship which to extensive bombing of the line will probably pursue a more 'post- between Hong Kong and Canton, tive military policy vis-a-vis the contingent of naval rellefs
China. for the Yangtze gunboats depart-
дот
The Wah Tsz Yat Po remarks
ed at 10.25 yesterday morning. The that Prince Konoye is merely a Union Jack was prominently dis-ngure-head in the played being tied on the root new Cabinet. The
of all the coaches.
It was at
first thought that reason why Jap
repairs would take some days to
militarists anese still recain him
complete but the damage Waa and have not ex- found to be less severe than fear-tended their con- ed and providing no further
trol in all port- bombings occur, it is anticipated tollos in the gov
GENERAL
CANDID CAMERA AT THE RACES
Snapshots taken at the Fifth Extra Race Meeting held at Happy
Valley on May 21.
MUSICAL REVIEW OF THE WEEK
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By Allegro Moderato`
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Percy Guntrip
Now for this business of the We have had the pleasure of
For a newcomer meeting somebody who thinks the critique'.
re- Percy Guntrip. baritone, shows the fusion ! all the great promise. All he needs is to element of this fair fortify his top register, bring it for- city. We discussed all angles, all ward a little, and "he will, to our as good as алу pros and all cons and decided that conception, "be
He has a free, effortless
gards artistic
that the run as far as Canton will
we could go ahead and start loan-other. ernment is be be a clear one,
ing a committee. In the meantime style all his own There is no need cause there are "Conditions beyond that, how-
we found another friend. of our to comment on Anne Winter's re- some thorny in ever, are hone too sure, and.
problems Prince Konoye idea, who told us he knew a gentle-cital of Thursday night. Of a de- ternal though, the local authorities be-
man who trac already started lightful programme we particular- which may require solution by the
the Gounod· Berenade. leve the line is intact
that we ly liked at the
something in the lines Prince
Given time Ruth Litvin will be moment, they cannot язу for
The appointment General speak of... The Harmony Club.
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counted among the great. The certain that they will remain so.
The question remaing now whe- Lewis-Pellegatti-Lafford.. combine A smaller contingent of the 300 Ugak as Foreign Ministers seen an indication Teliefs, of which the party just by this journal as
that Japan may henceforth pursue departed was part, and which arrived on the Enterprise on Fa more vigorous foreign policy to
wards Great Britain and Soviet day, left by the Adventure on
Russia Saturday for ships below the boom in the Yangtse.
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SAFE IN CANTON
Canton. May 29. The party of 200 British naval officers and ratings arrived here this afternoon by train from Kow- loon en route to lankow, although on the way the train encountered ali raid alarms and had to stop. (International),
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DINNER AT THE
great. We also hear that the Z.B.W. Orchestra will be a per- manent feature. Good worki
ther to resusitate the Harmony performing Arensky's THO WELS club, or rather to awaken it from its hibernation, or, with the nucicus thereof, start a new concern and call it the Four Arts Club: With genuine sponsors, who must be
CHINA NOT PERTURBED "As far as China is concerned, artists themselves, there are tre- the paper says, she will not bemendous' possibilities that the Club coming will grow into something like their perturbed by Japan's
every city drastic military policy towards forbears which grace her: The harder Japan's of-almost of the artistic world. fensive is the firmer will become China's resistance, it says. The Tin Yin Yat Po' doubts the
The Kowloon Football Club held already
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DOCTOR WORKS, WHILE
BOMBS FALL'
Bombarder, a newly born Chinese twin baby, is doing well in spite of the clatter of exploding shells and the drumming of airplanes around the war-scarred mission hospital in Chengchow.
Dr. S. E. Ayers, an American physielan directing the hospital staff, delivered the baby recently. during a raid of Japanese air- planes, and named the child Bombarder.
It is a pity that the Hong Kong Singers performance of the Can- terbury Pilgrims will only be partly broadcast, but it may be a boon in disguise as it will cempel many to make an effort to listen to them
best in person. No music lover should
"Bombarder is my miss Tomorrow-Night at the Uni-
baby," the" physician told an inter- versity Great Hall. It is seldom
viewer, proudly exhibiting the in- that any choir should attempt
fant. Bombarder's mother" had given birth to the twins the pre- Singers are doing justice to Dysonvious day at her home, and was
brought to the hospital.
Great Progress
Perhaps we may suggest a little action to promote the movement, That each branch have a repre- success o! the дет Japanese sentative attend a meeting in the Cabinet. It questions the ability near future to discuss the question. of the new Japanese Minister of Those who are interested may serc Finance and Commerce, Mr in their names to this paper and anything, so amitious, and the KOWLOON.F.C. Ikeda, to find a way to relieve the
see about arranging a we shall meeting. This will definitely get the spade work done and then de- on ball- talled work will follow bearings.
The Choir of St. Teresa's Church The bards who extolled light are making great progress, we hear, and we think they should have a summer zephyrs.. gentle as a chance to broadcast more often,
touch, cooling as the
and when they do, not from their woman's winds blowing from snowcapped
Studio but we suggest the-Radio mountains. have never been to Committee have a land line con Hong Kong. Our thermometer.
so that they may nected there has refused to work any more
pleasant very smoking concert
drained finances as а and result of the hostilities in China. dinner
wonder It also
expresses the Saturday оп night, presided over by Major whether Japan's two largest poll- tical parties, the Minselto, and items. Selyukai, and the Japanese people
C. M. Manners.
Contributing several
among
them
a song which he in general will tolerate the Army sang, at the same Club Afteen dictatorship without a struggle
ago,
Labrum (Central News).
years
Mr. V.C. received the hearty applause of
those present.
P.O. MacArthur of H.M.S. Tamar JAPANESE SHIPS
refidered his version of a one man band. in which he played the
drum, mouth organ and accor- deon. all at one time.
1.
OFF MACAO
Shanghai, May 28. A total of 38 Japanese warships
Other contributions were by have gathered on the south coast of China off Macao according to rumours in circulailon bere vester-
David Kossick, P.O. Heraper and W. Mackle.
Mrs. A Spary accompanied on day. Although no confirmation of the piano.
these reports has yet been oblain- able the conclusion is drawn that the operations indicate that Japan is preparing a great military action against the important port of
COCKTAILS AND PICTURES
Mr. Li Chor-chi, the well-knova | Canton. ·' local tenor, gave a Cocktail party It is believed that this active in the Jacobean Room of the Hong move of the Japanese in South Kong Hotel on Saturday when he China bears out the political and introduced Mr Yes Bori foremost military views of how the cam-
Church itself.
we do not even know the tempera- benefit from the acoustics of the ture...
if we did we would pro- bably have convulsions anyway.
S.M.I.L.E.
The RAMC. Players gave the
MONK CHOOSES public something to make them
EXILE IN HIMALAYAS
A hearded ‘old man in the, white robes of a monk and a team of st. Bernard dogs sailed from Marseilles„recently,
selves happy when they presented S.MILE, at the China Fieet Club Theatre. We liked the breezy de- Hvery of the entire show and, with Ja bit more "experience, will 'go places. The only fault, it fault there is, lies in the conglomeration of individual items during the first half with hardly any relief, and the slowness in the Romany" num-' as a climax, should have been more lively,
The lighting effects and the scenes were excellent,
He's brother Cyril, gardener of her, which
of modern Chinese artists, to anaign in China should be conduct- the St. Bernard Monastery, large number of friends.
ed as shown by the reconstruction
con-
The dogs were last year demned to death because one of them mauled a girl, but were
A number of Mr. Yee. Bon's ple- l'of the Japanese Cabinet. tures were on display, among them The Japanese spokesman being the recently completed por- Shanghat discussing the meaning later reprieved and imprisoned in of this Cabinet transformation a huge enclosure in the monastery
trait of Mr. Li Chor-chi
CAVE. MURDER.
**SEQUELS
Lau Kwong-fal, one of the two youths convicted in the Bay View Murder Case at the April Crimizial Sessions, was hanged in Stabley Gaol on Wednesday morning.
stated that the new Government now had all power at its command for bringing the conflict in China
to a speedy end--(Transocean)..
CHINESE COUPLE
MARRIED
The ensemble singing in spota could have been done with a little more zeal. We would certainly like to see this company of artists again next season. There are Brother Cyril, watching his dogs several new additions to the cast trow more and more listless, hum-who are distinct asseis. self became gaunt and fl
garden.
But, one day an idea strack him.
He visited the Prior and got permission to carry it out.."
Harry Ore
Harry Ore will be leaving, for
Mr. Joe Kie-min and Miss Fisio He is leaving his native moun- singapore where he will be giving The other condemned man, Ong were married at the Registry,tains, for the first time and taking a concert on June 4. after he has Leung Kam-ki, has been reprieved, Supreme Court, on Saturday Mr. his dogs to work in a pass in the had his pupil concert. We with the sentence of death being com- W. Aneurin Jones, Deputy Regis- Filmalayas where French priests him godspeed and that he will TE-
have built a refuge for travellers. turn to us soon. mnted to one of life imprisonment.trar of Marriages, omciated.
war
Dr. Ayers skilfully performed the second delivery during the height of an airplane raid: Anti-aircraft guns roared on all sides of the hospital.
Dr. Ayers has remained at his job here, disregarding frequent! ralds, on the theory that "it's part of the day's work.
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"I HAVE A JOB"
"I had a job here," he explained. smiling, and I wasn't sure where
I could get another, so I've stay ed."
He has 33 Chinese nurses who work unceasingly caring for the stream of stretchers bearing pitt- fui remnants of what were once healthy Chinese. Many of them are beyond hope when they arrive but they are given what relief is possible.
Dr. Ayers said the majority have no first aid treatment on the Aeld, and infection. has set in by the time they reach the hospital Many die, of tetanus en route.
OPERATED 48 HOURS
There are no heating facfülties in the flimsy annex, and Dr. Ayers constructed stoves made of gaso- line cans. He also set up a small windmill to operate a generator, which provides a small amount of electric power. ·
During one 48-hour stretch re- cently Dr. Ayers operated practical- ly without stopping on the shatter- ed victims of war.
A further case of cholera was reported by the Medical Depart ment on Saturday. The victim came from the Victoria registra... tion: district, det end No further cases of small-pox I have occurred in the last 24 hourr
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