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Local Journal's Appeal
Measures for further Ce- menting Sino-British friend- ship are suggested by the local Ta Kung Pao in an editorial yesterday.
Firstly, the Journal says, since a friend in need is a friend indeed, Britain, which had hitherto extended sym-.. pathy and help to China in her distress, i) should now increase her assistance to a greater ex- "tent.
Secondly, China hopes for imme. diate assistance from Britain so
as to bring hostilities to an early end. Procrastination on the part
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HONG KONG, SEPTEMEZE 6, 1938
EDITORIAL
Prince To Wed INTERNATIONAL
Daughter Of PARLIAMENTARY
Tailor
SULTAN'S BAN
DEFIED
A Malayan Prince aged 20, and # 20-year-old English chiropodist are the central Agures of a drama in which the Prince is defying the Crown: Agents for Malaya and his family in a bid to marry the riri of his choice.
COMMERCIAL CONFERENCE
Warsaw, Sept. 5.
The 23rd Congress of the Inter- national Parliamentary Commer cial Conference opened here today in the presence of the President
tires
Lieutenant Knows No Danger
Second-Lieutenant Humphrey Edgar Nicholson Bredin is one of four officers awarded tha Military Cross for “gallant and 1. distinguished service in Pales-
tine."""
of the Polish Republic, representa- On April 16 Second-Lieutenant from Belgium, Bulgaria, Bredin was in command of the China, Denmark. Egypt, Esthonia, advance. guard" of "D" Company, United States, France, Great 2nd Royal Uister Rines. Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, On the Tulkarm-Nablus road he Japan. Lithuanta, Luxemburg. Hol-heard firing coming from bandits land, Poland, Rumania, Yugo-
in the hills. The advance guard The Prince is Prince Mahmud slavia. Czechoslovakia, Turkey and
opened Lewis-gun fire and Second- brother of the Sultan of Treng the South African Union being ganu, Malays, and son of the late present. Sultan. The girl is Joyce Bien- cowe, daughter of an Oxford out- Atter,
The Prince received this sage:
mes.
The Sultan forbids your mar- He rlage and is much displeased. says that unless you return imme- diately unmarried you can expect nothing from Trengganu."
The Prince's cominent to was: I have no intention or turning home without Joyce."
2
this
The
discussions will continue until Thursday.-(Transocean).
17
13 JAPANESE WAR VESSELS HIT
leutenant Bredin led an attack up
"
the hill, *!
The speed with which the attack was carried out scatter- ed the bandits from their firing positions. Second Meutenant. Bredin followed in pursuit.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1938
EARL BALDWIN ON “CLEVER
FOOLS"
WORLD'S NEED OF WISDOM
GOOD. JUDGMENT A RARE THING"
Earl Baldwin, at Chelten- appeech Ladies' College ham day recently said that be bad wide experience of speaking to all kinds of people bat he addressed had never before
They an audience of girls. might well ask what it was that moved a septuagenarian to undertake much a task
What the world wanta” Lord Baldwin mid, “is wiadom and not cleverness. Wisdom is found in all' ranks; it la found among the educated, an is absence of it, and also
among
the uneducated, and
It is what is wanted.
"There is an old xatirical verse
or phrase abort the time of the
He was going to refuse as he clever being taken up in correct- mistakes. of the wise. bad refused more than 100 invi-ing the tations during the winter to make Some of the biggest fools I have élever as speeches. but when he met Miss ever known were as
Principal, monkeys. It was not the clever Popham. the College there was a look in her eyes that virgins who put oil in their lamps made him realise that she would but the wise."
never leave his library until he·
The official account says of him: consented.. "Second-Lieutenant Bredin's quick- In her opening address Miss
CHANCES OF SERVICE
Real education only began when
ness of appreciation, speed of move- Popham had struck a chord that they went into the world of men ment, and personal gallantry in-always appealed to him when she and women. The youth of today fluenced very considerably the suc- said that what the world wanted had opportunities of service that Tunki Sept. 5.
cess of the operation.
was good judgment. That was awere denied to all generationis be- fore the time of their parents and "This is the second occasion on rare thing anywhere.
grandparents They owed much re-.Thirteen Japanese war vessels.
including eleven transports and two which this young officer has shown
to those who had gone before, but gunboats, were hit and damaged by his mettle. He shows complete dis-
they also owed a great deal to a Chinese battery when steaming regard of danger."
countless people they did not close to the Chinese pasilians near... CAPTAIN HELPS TO SAVE
know. here on September 1(Central
PRIVATE News).
"Joyce and I love each other. She is willing to give up her out life in England to come with me to Malaya. We are determined that noting shall stand in the way of our mar- rlare."
The Prince. who has been in England for ten years, became in engaged to Miss Blencowe February, nine months after they were introduced.
Their friends declared that the
The three other officers to re- ceive the Military Cross are: Cap-
CHINESE KILLED AT tain M. F. Kelleher, M.B., Royal!
HWANGMEI
Haishui, Sept. 5. Military information from the front reports the massacre of more
civilians
·500 Chinese than
at
wangmel by Japanese troops on Prince's family and the Crown September 3.
Agents for the Colonies--Treng-
ganu came under British protec-
were determined to end their
Whole rows of thatched houses
Army Medical Corps: Lieutenant R. and G. Hooper, Royal Artillery; Lieutenant J. H. H. Whitty, 2nd Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
Captain Kelleher and Lieutenant Whitty both showed their bravery in an action at Tamra on May 14. They went forward under fire to
tion by treaty with Siam in 1909 at Szeklakiao and Huangshu, two search for a private, found hima small villages on the outskirts of severely wounded and carried him Hwangmel, were set on fire and back to cover. completely razed by the Japanese.
(Central News),
romance.
"The Prince was due to return to Malaya to enter an agricultural college. He was very upset. and when he reached Marseilles hel he took a sudden decision to return, and flew back to London.
ALLOWANCE WITHHELD
MONGOLIAN MERCENARIES DESERT
Stan, Sept. 5.
Lieutenant Hooper has three times "been conspicuous for his outstanding devotion to duty, correct tactical decisions and gallantry."
In July 1936, he drove an armed band from the town of Bisani.
DEATH OF MR. G.H. LONGMAN
Publisher And Cricketer
14
Mr. G. H. Longman, a meIL –
of
well-known) ber.
the pablishing house bearing his name, and in his younger days
a prominent cricketer, died in the early hours of August 19 at the age of 86.
George Henry Longman was
They were getting much more dependent, one on another, in the complicated form of civilisation. into which we had been born.
Dealing with the question of. voluntary service, Lord Bald- win said it was voluntary' VI- Fanisations and voluntary propaganda that brought to an end the slave trade, began education, started the friendly. societies and started the trade unions.
He knew of the feeling there bad been in certain classes' about
born in 1852, the second son of trade unions and industrial trou- Longman IV (of Farn-bles, but as an old employer of labour and ar a retired statesman Hill Hampshire), who,
Thomas borough
chaos.
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trade unions, ke the Govern-
with the late Thomas Longman. he told them that in the present the destinies of the state of industrial evolution it controlled historic publishing house of Long. there were no trade unions there On March 1 of this year he was mans. Green and Co. during the would be industrial slavery and Neither could be tolerated in in command of a half squadron Macaulay epoch.
After being educated at Eto this country for one moment, but "Back in Oxford he is penniless.
Over 30 Japanese-employed Mon- which occupied the village of Raba and possesses only the suit he gokan "regulars" at Paotow, ter- after house-to-house fighting un-where he was in Mr. Oscar Brown
ing's house, and at Trinity Col- stands up in. He formerly owned minus of the Pelping-Sulyuan der heavy fire.
At Yamoun on March 4 his half ledge, Cambridge, he joined the ment, like a school, like every- a powerful sports car. but the Railway in Sulyuan, surrender
where there their leaders, and to the Chinese querillas squadron helped to surround an firm in Paternoster Row in 1875. thing else, required ́wisdom
before his
was wisdom all would be well. sold it on his behalf.
operating there on Friday. armed band and captured four That was four years
death, when his elder When disaster came, it was always "The authorities have forbidden is learned here today.(Central) prisoners, four rifles and 197 rounds father's
of small arms ammunition. the Prince to marry, but have given News), no definite reason,.and until Prince Mahmud agrees to abandon his in- tention, the Crown agents have de- elded to withhold his allowance."
OUTRAGE UPON Crown Agents are sald to have ed
OUTRAGE
MOST eloquent demonstration of the sincerity of Japanest
CHINESE RETAKE TACHENG
Hankow, Sept. 5. The recapturė of Tacheng, a small district south of Tientsin, by Chinese guerilla troops two weeks ago was reported in a belated mes- sage received here. (Central Newsi.
of Britain. to help would result profestations of eagerness the destruction of her market in safeguard the lives of neutrals and this country.
to respect the interests of Third Thirdly, in view of the siniste? Powers was provided yesterday Japanese designs to wipe out. Bri- morning by the airmen of three
on them, have now been practiced tish interests and influence it the Japanese punsult planes who were Far East, Britain, for her own so anxious to set the seal to official for months but protests have been sake, should resolutely shatter her assurances and promises that they of no avail.
a defenceless illusion of a rapproachment with swooped down on Japan and, instead, direct her transport plane, belonging to the whole attention to fostering closer Eurasia Aviation Corporation, and BUT TO return" to the attack on
so that it machine-gunned it
authoritative source it is learned BRITISH TRAIN'S paper also, expresses the nearly met the same fate as the that assurances were given by the
125 M.P.H. hope that Britain will not shrink China National Aviation Corpora- Japanese Consul-General, the Jap- tion plane, attacked with such anese press and the German Con-
friendship with China.
Της
-:
from the responsibility of proposing tragic consequences by the Japan- means to check Japanese invadon ese on August 24.
in China at the forthcoming meet-
ing of the League Assembly- (Central NewI).
FOREIGN
EXCHANGE
the "Eurasia plane.
FUTILE
That the Eurasia plane was able ASSURANCES
to continue on its way and land
the plane
From an
sul-General (there
is German interest Yested in the Eurasta Company) would not be
WORLD RECORD
CLAIMED
ONE RIFLEMAN BEATS 5 ARABS
brother, Mr. Thomas Norton Long- man, succeeded as head of the the work of fools. house,
On The award of Military Medals to
the death of Mr. Robert George Long- Private L. E. Sparkes, 2nd Battalion Dyer in 1884 Mr.
took charge of the financial the Queen's Royal West Kent Regi-man ment, and Rifleman A. Kittle, 2nd side of the business. He married. Battalion the Royal Ulster Rifles, in 1880. Mary Frances. daughter
Gazette recently.
and had issue two sons and one Also announced in the London of admiral Lord Frederic Herr. Rifleman Kittle, during an action daughter: His second son. on April 16, attacked five Arabs Robert Guy Longman, entered the single-handed, and captured two firm in 1908. rifles, two bandollers full of am-. munition and one revolver.
The official report says: "He displayed the utmost coolness, bravery and dash throughout the whole action, and showed every determination to close with the enemy. He set a fine example to the younger sol- diers."
Private Sparkes dressed a com-
CAPTAINED
Mr.
GERMAN SHIP LOST
iza
Berlin, Sept. 5. The German sailing ship Admiral
Hamburg-Amerika Line, missing Karpfanger, training vessel of the for several months must now be definitely considered lost, accord- ing to an official announcement last night.
ETON XI
Mr.
for George Longman was many years an enthusiastic cric.
All German merchantmen will fiy keter, and retained a close inter pass at halfmast on Monday in est in the game, until the end of token of mourning for the crew of
At Eton he was in the 60.-(Transocean).
We have long since learned to CONTINENTAL SPEEDS rade's wounds and carried him for "Pop"). He was Master of the
safely at Lluchow without grave that disaster was extremely fortunate attacked.. but it was through no fault of the Japanese airmen. That much we will say for the Japanese they were quite facere about it all..so cere, in fact, that no less than ten bullets found their mark on
MARKET the commercial aircraft that was on one of its routine flights from Hong Kong to Yunnan, and the Japanese terrors of the heights must have known that as much as anybody else.
General Demand. For Dollars
י,
The claim is now unofficially 200 yards under, fire.
made that the speed of 125
Nis
PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT
London, Sept. 5.
It was stated this morning at his residence, that' Prince Arthur of Connaught passed a fairly com-
his like. XI for four years. 1888 to 1871, and was captain in his last year. He was Master of the Beagles, and president of the Eton Society
Trinity Beagles in 1873-74. take all assurances from the Nip-
At Cambridge Longman got ponese with a very generous pinch
his Blue as a Freshman and of salt, but when the German
miles an hour by an L.N.ER.
played against Oxford four Consul-General gave the assurance
It prints an authoritative state- express train on July 3, which
times from 1872 to 1875. he must have had very good
ment that no serious attempt has was described at the time as a grounds to do so, and apparently
With a score of 80 he helped to fortable night and his condition British record, is a world re... yet been made o ascertain the
unchanged. (British he must have been badly let down. cord for a steam locomotiye. maximum speeds of engines of the beat Oxford by an innings and remains
first Unversity Wireless). what excuses he will be furnished
The train concerned was the French Chapelon Pacific type, the 166 runs in his with we do not know, nor do we
highest so lar being 108 m.ph.match. Longman and A. S. Tabor, streamlined express care. What we do want to know, Coronation however, is this: What is going to with a dynamometer car attached. down a 1 in 200 grade with a load another Freshman, put up the
GENERAL ASTRAY It reached a speed of 125 m.p.hof 393 tons and 102 m.ph. on the hundred for the first wicket, then
a record for his engagement. ** be done about it?
Burgos, Sept. 5. -.. Afterwards he met with less It is no secret that Germany is for a distance of 300 yards near level with 206 tons. THIS latest exhibition of modern
General Millan Astray, who was Little Bytham Station, and had to
success and was three times on the savagery by the diabolical a friend of Japan's, as witness the slow down on approaching the of that journal adds:-
to head the Spanish delegation to side, when Oxford were ! Japanese airmen should waken the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis, but when world in general, and Germany in Japan deliberately attacks a plane
Before attaining this maximum
cialist Party at Nuremberg. Is pre friendly Power,
captairied his XI.- particular, to the fact that unless partly owned by
vented from making the Journey, it PLAYED AT LORD'S
Was learned here today. The something seems to be radically it had maintained a speed of 120 many to the effect that the high very strong. In 1874 and 1875 he the Congress of the National Bo-
m.ph for approximately three est speed yet attained by one of the streamlined 4-6-4 locomotives on a wrong somewhere.
miles. While making the record a darty of rallway engineers on test run between Berlin and Ham- Longman played for the Gentle General is at present suffering PERHAPS the Japanese feel they board were being served with tea, burg. measured with the extremely men at Lord's in 1875 and sub from the painful after-effects of his
have a score to settle with and observers reported that the accurate appliances of one of the sequently. He was described then war wounds-(Transocean).
Reichsbahn dynamometer cars. as an excellent batsman possess- Eurasia, for when the Kwellin was running was so smooth that none was 200.4 km.p.h.. which works outing a beautiful style. Very keen shot down Dr. Sun Fo was supposed was spilled. a factor la marking for. a "frmal declaration of war, but due to to have been
The locomotive of the train was at 124,5 m.p.h. and not quite the on Belding, he enjoyed the reputa dollar and international political the fact that no direct intervention
he actually left No. 4468 Mallard, one of the type 123 m.ph. that has been quoted, tion of having greatly improved "This was on the level, but we this important part of the game an hour earlier of streamlined Pacific locomotiyes considerations continue to drive has been made by the other Powers, WHAT IS THE
A Eurasia European funds to America, 13, is
Japan is doing as EEAL REASON? by
designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, ave no information as to the when at Cambridge. He was Miss- tricreasingly apparent that since TIME NOW she likes in China.
emphasized that the extremely 14.
it looks suspiciously like it.
It was built at Doncaster last approximate methods of suced es- If a Japanese pursuit patrol is March, and on the record run was timation of eariler days put such suspicious of another aircraft, sure-tiriven by Driver J. Duddington figures as the American 127 mph. played cricket for Hampshire for
London, Sept. 5. A general demand for dollars marked this morning's dealings on the foreign exchange market and with the British authorities staging only BORS-. modië intervention" the, dollar appeciated against sterling to 4.8225 as compared with 4.8431-
According to International Law at the close on Saturday.
Japan is not even at war with While commercial buying is stili China... there has been no form-
a stop is put to the terrorism prae- ticed by the Nippons in China, there is no saying what their next move will be.
sterling fell below the former pari-To CALL
1y of 488-2/3 there has been a STOP! sizeable expansion in speculative buying of dollars.
*
on board whereas
plane.
unction at Essendine..
A statement in the current issue
"We have also received an om-losing ciat communication from Ger-
QUEEN MARY
London, Sept. 5..
Her activities have not say this is the real reason, but Chief mechanical engineer of the load hauled, We have previously iter of the Trinity Beagles in 1873-holiday in Scotland, spent the day":
assumed such wide
proportions that the
We do
LNERA
Queen Mary, who is spending her
motoring through the border coun
Yesterday, the Queen, attended
After he left the University he ties.
time has now coume that a united The lethargic manner in which "Stop" is called by all the Powers ly the obviously decent military and Fireman T. H. Bray, of Don-of 1505 out of court as records, some years. He joined the Surrey service at St. Jiles Cathedral, Edin teh British control is countering who have interests in China, and method is to approach the suspect caster, with Locomotive Inspector even if the technical development Club in 1894 became president in burgh-(Reuter Bulletiny. the dollar's strength is arousing even those who have not, for this in formation. It would not takeį7. Jenkins, of London. on the foot. of Ibcomotive design at that period 1926, an office he held for three
considerable comment
in
civil aircraft, with its markings in
Dermitted such a speed, which years, after which he exchanged
with Mr. ED. G. Leveson-Gower. For stealing a gold chain, a gold. mass murder of innocent non- a simple idiot to recognise, from plate city
extremely doubtful?? circles and some are wondering combatants cannot and must not 500 yards, that the suspect is a GERMAN ACHIEVEMENT The London and North Eastern and his name remains in the locket and other gold ornaments
be allowed to continue.
137, Johnston Road on September whether this may reflect on a virtual agreement between London It is not difficult to see what le large characters, large enough, The Railway Gazette has ob- Rallway, therefore appears fully county handbook as hon, treasurto a total value of $80 from No. From 1900 to 1904 he was Master 3. Chan Eung, 31, unemployed, and Washington to allow the behind Japan's dastardly attacks indeed, for even a short-sighted tained figures of French and Ger- entitled, with Mallard's maximum sterling and dollar rate to find a on the civil air lines: their great Japanese to see, but of course man express train speeds for.com-of 125 m.p.h. (actually for a very natural level prior to signing the desire to sabotage everything. The Bushido and the many vagaries it parison with the British, and short distance 128 m.p.h. was of the Surrey Union Foxhounds, was given four months imprison-
to claim a world record for steam keen golfer. Anglo-American Trade Agreement bombings of passenger trains, even engenders makes anything svour-comes to the conclusion that the found on the dynamometer chart) and in his later years he was a ment, at the Central Comet vesler-
LNER. holds the lead. those with foreign flage marked ing of logic quite untenable (Reute),
·day.