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EDITORIAL
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1938.
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HONGKONG, 'ECEMBER 19, 1938.
Hongkong, 28th December, 1938. FRANCO-ITALIAN
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG
.. KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of Mary Mensor, late of 10B, Gledhow Gardens, Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, Eng Jand, Widow, deceased.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, made an Order limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 25th day of January,
1939.
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date,
-Dated the 28th day of Decem. her, 1938.
JOHNSON, STOKES &
MASTER. Solicitors for the Administrator, Hong Kong & Shanghai
Bank Building, ·
Hong Kong.
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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION.
HEREBY
NOTICE IS
that the Certificate GIVEN 6/NS.4430 dated Hongkong, 18th January, 1936 for Sixty shares
TENSION
TENSE RELATIONS between Italy and France have become the cause of serious misgivings and some circles even go so far as to express the fear that Rome's warlike preparations may lead to hostilities between the two coun- tries.
BY A.W. HYER
Sailing the seas and enjoying lazy days on the water in a com- fortable de luxe ship is not always the pleasure and enjoyment many travellers describe. During the holiday season steamship companies do their best in providing the voyagers with the accessories and en- tertainment which accompany Christmas and New Year celebrations.
In Wild Party At West Point
(Special to the "Hongkong Daily Press")
The Day After.. About two o'clock on the morn- Ing of Christmas Eve police were called to a restaurant in West
However, many drarmas Bud Many members of the Standard Point district where it was report- tragedies take place on the sea and Vacuum Ou Co,, here were downed that a party of newspapermen at this particular date of the year to greet their General Manager, had got out of control.
M.V. Nell Maersk
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Konoye's declaration is notice served upon foreign Governments so that, there shall be no doubt, as to the aims of Japanese Im- perialism. Special facilities for Japanese exploitation of North China and Inner Mongolia will take the place of the Open, Door in those area's. The right of Japanese to reside and trade in all parts of: China, and with this goes the right of the Japanese gendarmes to protect the residents on the precedent of the system in vogue in Manchuria, will effectively give Japanese traders, and merchants, as: well as industrialists, an overwhelming advantage over Western com- mercial and industrial firms,
less under the control of Japanese General Fu Tso-yi," was governor It will place 'Chinese economy no, nor of Shansi and whose protege. nnance, thereby reducing not only of Sulyuan. The proposal was in
agree to this we will give you 300-
it is sad to find these overshadow- 'Mr. II. L. Schultz,' who returned From meagre details to hand, It ing the festivities.
from a pleasant siz months of appears that a local Editor, who holidaying in Americu via Europe. Presided at the party. insisted on making a speech but while he was From this gentleman's expres-speaking about twelve reporters SAD NEWS FOR many friends is sien as he peered through the set on him. Walters and waitresses the death several days ago in binoculars from the deck of the joined in and a genera) furore
the workers but also Chinese effect, what the Japanese now Manila of the Chier Steward on Potsdam as she swung alongside ensued.
It is not known whether the capitalists into subjection to Jap-demand, namely, the designation the "motorship Nell Maersk. Mr. The pier, he was very glad to see
anese economic organization.
of Inner Mongolia as an anti-Com- V. D. M. Jorgenson, who had re- his many friends and Hongkong Editor was struck or not but the
From being formerly mere Inten-munist special area. casualty list is known to include tion the military occupation of They told General Yen: "Let us'. eved Mr. 8. Glinsing on the last again.
Police effected outward trip from New York, sud- A very courteous and charming seven waitresses.
parts of China by the Japanese build a railway from the Peiping- denly died in the southern city, gentleman, Mr. Wen Chi-chu ar- several arrests among whom were and the creation of Puppet regimes Suiyuan Rallway northwards to the from heart failure.
rived on the German boat. He re-
Sub-Editors, who
may enable the programme out-frontier of Outer Mongolia and we Well known in lokal shipping ported in French that his two escape, and they will appear be-lined by Konoye to be initiated. also want to maintain an air patrol And continued resistance by the of the Outer Mongolian border circles, the deceased had frequent-wecks call is not for business, but fore the Magistrate charged with
disorderly conduct.
Chinese Government will for some from Jehol to Sinklang. If you ly been in and out this port in the a visit to his relatives and friends
In the Colony.
time be the ex- past years.
cuse for "station- And then we found Mrs. F. Innes
ing troops in arriving from Manlia. This dash-
and advisers for with the result that "military "use against the Communista in the specified points"
necessity" will keep the Chinese North-West." market closed to the Westerner in I happened to have been there favour of the Japanese.
at the time and the venerable There is no doubt that with the Governor of the Model Province of
me establishment of Puppet Govern- Shansi asked what in my ments in Peiping. Nanking, and opinion was the idea of the Com- Hankow attempts will be made to munist armies invading Shansi. carry out the terms of "Peace."
I told him that they probably But even in those territories, in were out of food and supplies and which the Japanese claim control were raiding his "province for the hatred of the invaders by the them.
absolutely unsafe for Japanese to ing in the North-West. These in- clude not only his own troops. but also the redoubtable Eighth Route Army.
M.V. Potsdam
THOUGH THE WORLD sincere- ly Joins in the hope that open, warfare may be avoided, the question is whether France can restrain herself in the face of the constant sabre-rattling of Signor Mussolini and his Fascists. whose press has been doing its utmost to THE MV. POTSDAM aritved in ing lady was greeted by her hus- the harbour on Wednesday band and before the gangway was afternoon at 3 o'clock, several hardly secure, away she departed hours behind her schedule.
Mr. John Turton, who confines of the motorship's his business hours, to insurance. The cause late arrival was not learned until was destined for the Colony but she
docked
from Journeyed to Shanghai for a week's in Kowloon
him before the end of Jâänuary.
Another popular resident who returned was Mr. J. B. Harrison; of Astatic Operations Manager
breed -feeling between the two countries just at a time when every effort is being strained to bring about appeasement."
COUNT CIANO. Italy's Foreign Minister, who is the son-in- law of Il Duce and formerly Italian Minister to China, recently in formed the French Ambassador, M. Francois
1935 ACCORD INOPERATIVE
Manila, and here again we found visit. However. Hongkong will see tragedy.
The Casualties
Later. Of the seven waitresses admitted
from injuries of a personal nature. to hospital, three are suffering It is now established that the Editor was also taken to hospital suffering from concussion. He was struck on the head with a bees bottle which, of course, was empty.
Latest flash, Two reporters are known to have escaped and a police net has been thrown in all districts.
One of the reporters was found
still at large. Police search is continuing unabated.
Stul Later.
"reside or trade."
BY PERCY CHEN planes with pilots
"
- General Yen is now the-
Mr. and Mrs, James Williamson Poncet, that Italy no and their two children were longer considered travelling from Southampton to the Franco-Italian | Singapore in the Potsdam. Late Petroleum Company, and though in an opium, divan, The other is Chinese population will make leader of the armed forces operat- agreements of in the day while the vessel was we could not get past the van- 1935, which relate passing through the Red Sea, Mr. guard of business men" down to
noticedį.. mainly to Tunis and North Africa Williamson was reported to be great this executive, we generally, as valid and, therefore-overboard.
0. Captain
Prehn from the
distance that he ap- fore, never operative, and the turned his ship around and spent peared well and pleased with the was unable to make coherent "Giornale D'Italia" mouthpiece of three to four hours crossing and world in general. the Fascist Party, criticizes the recrossing his path in an attempt Imperial Airways proposed journey of M. Edouard Daladier, the French Prime Minis-
to locate the body of Mr. William-
son but met with no success.
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Hospital Bulletin The Editor has revived but he
statement. Four of the waitresses have been discharged.
Arrest Made The missing reporter has been He will. THE ELEMENTS HAVE been play- located in Gage Street. ter. to Corsica and Tunis as factor which must be regarded as
Mrs. Williamson and the children ifig havoc with Imperial Air- with the other man, be charged provocation by Italy." The "Gior-left the vessel and proceeded back ways' plane schedules during the with disorderly conduct and re- hale D'Italia," Incidentally, con- to England where Mr. Williamson past week or so.of winter in Cen-sisting arrest. veniently overlooks the fact that, had been connected with the Ber-tral Europe. However, the planes only a few days ago. Bignor Musso- nard Macfadyen Publications of from this end have been leaving lini, visited Sardinia, making the America,
per timetable. Journey in an Italian warship, ac-
Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock:
companied by a destroyer squadron MEANWHILE, the Qual d'Orsay has issued a statement re-
However, all was not tragedy on
the pier here.
That hatred among the Chinese People is no more anti-Japanese feeling but the Intense hate of an outraged people, embittered by the brutalities and inhumanities perpetrated upon them by the Japanese.
In proposing that China ad- here to the anti-Comintern Pact and join the Fascist bloc of aggressive Powers. Kunoye obviously does not expect me- It is to be expected that the
cess for his "Peace terms." Japanese will solve this difficulty
among the Chinese People. by taking over the policing of the Railway arteries and at first, con- !
Two years ago almost to the Counsel Engaged
fine the places" of residence for date, I had occasion to write in the Eminent counsel have been engaged for the defence. It is their "people to the "protected "China Press" in Shanghai after learned. Copyright.
areas." It is clear that Konoye my return from the battlefront in may well concede giving up con-i Sulyuan that it was then the time cessions and settlements" when he: to consider reaching an agreement
the German ship as she tied up to Captain 8. H. Davis departed with WHOLESALE PURGE w obtain a far wider sphere for with Soviet Russia since war with
Front Government
on
and the
mall and me
passenger. Mr.
Japan was only a matter of. Back home with a couple pounds Horace Kadoorie. Though we did!
IN CHILE
the operations of his nationals..
months. Jecting the Italian press argumenter added weight, and a pleased ex- not brave the cold early hours, W? Santiago de Chile. Dec. 28. that the Franco-Italian agree-
This co-operation with Soviet pression on his face, arrived Mr. did have the report from this nice The wholesale purge of Govern- A certain foreign Ambassador, Russia, I wrote at the time, should of this Bank numbered 954077ments have never been ratined by
1. W. Lang, of the Canadian Pac-gentleman that he is on a business ment officials and high army who has sinte been recalled, once be subject to four conditions. The 95466 Inclusive registered in the Italy and points out that, though
Le Steamship Company. This nice journey to London and expects to officer is taking place, following told the writer that the upshot of first, that it should have the good ratification documents have never name of Mr. Vivian Geoffrey been exchanged, the agreements gentleman in the Traffic Depart be returning before February. the installation of a Popular the Liukuchlao Incident would be will of the main powers in the Far Smyth has been Lost or Stoleri
Italian were approved by the and should this certificate not he Senate on May 29, 1935, by 238 produced to the Bank before the votes to seven. and also by the 14th January, 1939, a new certi-Italian ficate for the shares will be earlier. Issued, and the aforesaid Certi ficate No. 6/NS.4430 will be thereafter treated by this Cor poration as Null and Vold.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager.
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ENGAGEMENTS
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Chamber several days
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THE CONSENSUS is that France has shown herself faithful to the spirit and the letter of the agreements and made appreciable concessions with a view to restor- ing friendship between the two countries. It was only a few weeks ago that she went so far as to accord recognition to the Italian conquest of Abyssinia and to ap- point an Ambassador to Rome In the person of M. Poncet. This step toward appeasement apparently did not satisfy
ment of said Company has been away for several months on a year- ly inspection visit of the southern countries. And he is glad to be back home for the 1939 arrival.
OFFICIAL VISITS REFUGEES AT SHUMCHUN
Mr. Hsu Shih-ying, acting Chair- man of the National Rellef Com- mission, again visited Chinese re- fugees in Shumchun on Tuesday.
Due to winds, storms and gales,is. the air mail from England will not be arriving until this Saturday via Imperial Airways,
CHINESE PILOTS REFUSE TO SERVE JAPANESE
December that there would be a demilitarised
East, Britain,
U.S.A.; zone along the Yellow River, a secondly, that it must be on the The reorganisation involves the semi-independent government in basis of absolute equality in which resignation of eight generals, and North China under the aegis of the normalization of Chinese the dismissal of most heads of Japan. I disagreed with the diplo-sovereignty over our outlying ter departments and permanent
mat and suggested that it was ritories should receive the benevo- der secretaries.
more probable that we were in for
encouragement ¡lent
of Soviet Seventy-five per cent of the prolonged hostilities. diplomatle corps will be replaced. -Reuter
un-
FIRE DESTROYS
· N.Y.K, GODOWN... Chungking, Dec. 28. Chinese pilots on the Yangtze
Fire almost completely destroyed River are unwilling to serve the a godown of the NYK. Wayside Japanese. ·
Wharf at Yangtzepoo. Shanghai, He told pressmen later that half Recently, it is learned, the Jap-on the evening of December 29,
in of the civilians in Shumchun have anese
Hankow approached Harbour firefighters and various returned since the Chinese soldiers Messra. Jardine, Matheson and Co.. units of the Shanghai Fire Brigade re-occupied the town. There are and Messrs. Butterfeld and wire rushed to the scene, but it was about 700 refugees accommodated for 15 pilots for their vessels inmidnight Before the blaze was un- in a theatre. and scores of sick the Yangtze River. The request der control. neople in the Casino. They are was rejected by the British..ship- Cargo stored in the building was under the care of relief workers ping companies.
believed to consist mainly" of sent there by the rellef units of The Japanese later asked puppet phosphorus, matches, cll and cot- the Hongkong University, the Wah officials to seek pilots, but none ton. No one was hurt and the Yen College and other schools. could be found willing to serve cause of the fire is being in-
vestigated. them.-Central News.
the Italian press STEP TOWARD MAYNE-WEBB., The
engage and scre sec- APPEASEMENT ment is announced
between tions of the Fas- George Stuart Otway, elder cist public who insisted on de- son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Ot-manding that Tunis and. Corsica
of Mayne,
Shanghai, be coded to Italy. In his campaign and Beryl Joan, daughter of for the Italianization of Tunis, Mrs. R. N. Bryson, and the Mussolini has followed the Czecho- late Mr. W. 8. Webb, of Bris-slovakian technique faithfully. He tol, England.
has kept in the background while At Yi Kong, 200 war walts are Count Clanc has assured the accommodated in a railway coach, LEES SCOTT MORRIS,The
engagement is announced be- French tween Frank Lenthall Lees, demonstrations by Italy's Deputies younger son of the late Mr. was not official policy. J. P. Lees and Mrs. Lees of Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire; and' Lorna Letitia, cider daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Scott Morris of Foochow, China
BIRTHS
December CHISHOLM.-On
15, 1938, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Chisholm. a daughter, Phona Stuart.
ALDINGTON; At
Chungking.
and British that
the where they also receive schooling. MADAME CHIANG DISTRIBUTES
CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO ORPHANS
MUSSOLINI'S "HEINLEIN" in
Tunisa is 38-year-old Signor Santamaria. Old-guard Fascist who Joined Mussolini in 1919, and is editor of the focal Fascist news- paper "Unione." He demands that Italians in „Tunis be given equal rights, a proper number of schools. and freedom as Italian nationals. We want our rights inside the protectorate which is French now," ITALIAN BOMBING PLANES are said to have been concen-
GIFT FOR STREET SLEEPERS
The "Hongkong Daily Fres" has received from an anonymous donor the sum of $20 for the Street Sleeper' Shelter Society.
AIRPORT MOVEMENTS
arrive.
Chungking, December 28.
"All women of China are your mothers," Madame Chiang Kai- shek told 350 orphans of 12,000 for whom committees, of which she is head, are at present caring, when distributing Christmas gifts and oranges during an inspection visit at one of the homes not far from Chungking yesterday. "The people of China and our foreign friends are responsible for providing means for caring for you to-day" she went on...
Asking the orphans what they
new to China where the old tradition is breaking up under stress of the war.
Russia.
The Japanese thesis concerning |
Thirdly, it must be based North China and its economic ex- ploitation was carefully explained
upon the absolute principle of non-interference in the In- to Sir Frederick Leith Ross by the
ternal affairs of each other. Japanese during the visit of the former to Japan in 1938. The Fourthly, that the co-operation shall be within the framework Japanese retterated their claims to special interests. They stated that
of the League of Nations. these special interests could only Konoye has stated his demands. be realised by the exclusive econo- They are the demands of subjuga- mic exploitation that development) tion. They are bait for the credu- by Japanese after the control of lous or those who are defeatists North China had been assumed and have no faith in the might of Such dew either openly or through puppet the Chinese People. organizations.
featists will desert China. It is merely to our gain.
No concealment was made that the Open Door of equal opportunity was to be shut in North China. And that any "third Power capital that was to be used must be employed through Japanese Anancial or-
gans.
But China is certain of being victorious in this struggle in which all classes and strata of the popu- lation are freely and voluntarily united for the maintenance of the integrity of our motherland; for the development of Chinese indus- The Japanese referred to their try, Onance, and agriculture, and declaration of April 1934, in which for the guaranteeing and protec" they served notice on third Powerstion of the legitimate personal pro- that no financial assistance could perty rights of all individuals by be given to China without the the development of democratic assent of Japan.
government based upon the actual needs and experience of the Chin- In 1936, before the invasion of ese people as the most ancient cul- Bulyuan by the. Japanese, one of tural and national unit in the
offer to world's history. their agents made an
(CONCLUDED). General Yen Hsi-shan, the gover-
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TELEGRAMS.
COLONY HEALTH
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REPORT
The Imperial Airways plane intended to do in return for this which was to have arrived yester- assistance the youngsters, led by
The children at present being Szechuen, on November 30,trated in the fortified island base day was held up at Bangkok owing one little urchin, yelled loudly
cared for in these homes repre- to a delay on the main route, and "Serve China." of Got Pantelleria, within easy bomb- 1938; to Bobble, wife
The Great Northern Telegraph During the four days ended Asked how they were going to sent a small fraction of those who W. Aldington, H.M. Consularing range of Tunts and the French will now arrive on Saturday after- Service in China, a daughter. naval base at Bizerta on the noon. At the same time, the redo this the orphans replied, "By last their parents and are home- Company (Limited) advises that midnight Tuesday, there were re-
cases each mainland.
small-pox, four
of The Libyan garrison, Bular Saturday plane will also teaching other people to read and less, through the hostilities. The the following unclaimed telegrams ported in the Colony five cases of
fate of thousands of these un- are lying at their offices- DEATHS
cholera and cerebro-spinal men- strengthened months ago to about
A plane will leave for Bangkok The home visited was situatedfortunates are not known.
From Shanghai: Sterz, Glouces-ingitis, three cases each of measles CARION. On December 16, 1938,100,000 ment. line the frontier op-
at Shanghai,
Racial admixture induced by ter Hotel; Cho Sul Sun, c/o Sank and dysentery, two cases each of Hilda Carion.
posite France's second to-morrow at 7 a.m.
picturesquely on a hill-top amid aged 8 months, infant daugh- | ITALY "Maginot Line" of pill-
The Air France plane from Hanol airy surroundings where the in- scattering these children through- Tal Hong, 68 Lower Lascar Row: diphtheria and enteric fefer and ter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. MOVES boxes, while in Spain is due at Kal Tak this morning. fanta, who lost their parents as a out China is one result of the war | Li Muk Sang, c/o Ching. Sun one case of chicken-pox.
The China Clipper will arrive on result of the hostilities, are fed and, it is considered here, may Boarding House: Luk Kin Fat, 23 Carion. GIELS. On December 16, 1938, at ligingly massed his Italian "volun- Saturday, and will leave on its and clothed and taught by groups ultimately beneat China-Reuter. Tungchow Street (2nd floor), Kow. return flight on Sunday about 8.30, of women, who volunteered for this
the Russian Orthodox Hos- pital, Shanghal, Jahnts Giels, aged 49 years,
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Gen. Franco has ob-
tecrs" near the French frontier. Not forgetting his role as "Protec- tor of Islam," Il Duce caused his
3.m.
BROWETT.-On December 14, 1938, | radio station in Libya, to pump out at 81 Gascogne Apartments, to the Arabs a strident welcome to 1202 Avenue Joffre, Shanghat, rise up and throw of the French and demonstrations were ordered
to be quelled. Harold Browett, aged 76 years, yoke. In all this, the French were husband of Kathleen Bro forced to play the part of the wett.
Czechs and all provoking incidents
A TENSE PEACE reigns at pre-
..sent but for how long?
write."
work.
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Efforts are being made to Introduce foreign methods of child welfare : work, despite difficulties caused by the tre- mendous demand. The spirit of co-operation which is being manifested in this work la
U.S.S. AUGUSTA
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Shanghai, Dec. 28. The U. 8. 8. Augusta, flagship of the United States Astatic Fleet, which has been here since the middle of October is leaving for Manila to-day-Rueter,
EASTERN HEALTH
"
The Health Bulletin of Eastern loon; Orman (Mrs. D. O. Munzo)Ports for the week ending Decem- Wong Chuen Kwai, c/o Empress ber 17 13 as follows:- Hotel: Chan Shing Tak, Luk Kwok Cholera-Calcutta 20, Madras Hotel, 510; Maitland Standvac: 1, Hongkong 1 death... Laborne, Premiere Class, ss. Jean Laborde, Messageries Maritimes: Johnstone.
From Tientsin:"5563; 9128.
Small-pox: Delhi 3, Bombay 1. Calcutta 30, Madras 32, Saigon Cholon 3 deaths. Hongkong. 9. Shanghal 339.