HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS
CHINA'S PROBLEMS: FOREIGN NEWS
A NEW STAGE OPENS
(BY FREDA UTLEY)
CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S STRENGTH, ALTHOUGH » IT HAS ALSO BEEN HIS WEAKNESS, IS THAT HE RIDES UPON THE SUPPORT OF THE MOST DIVERSE SOCIAL ELEMENTS
POLITICAL
GROUPS.
AND
There is probably no one in any of the factions who does not regard him as the only possible national leader.
IN BRIEF
"Admiral Sir William James has been appointed Commander-in- Chief of Portsmouth in succes- sion to Admiral of the Flest the
Earl of Cork and Orrery (William Henry Dudley Boyle) June 30.
from
GENERAL
Library, Supreme COLE
THE SERVICES
ROYAL NAVY
others failed to notify extensions of leave given them by their over- DIDO "CLASS CRUISERS sea commanders, a number failed Five out of the 10 cruisers of the to bring uniform; some did not. Dido class now under construction notify their address sa ne United
are due to be launched during the Kingdom; and few reported their next three months. The Nafad date of sailing,
was put afloat from the yard of These breaches of regulations The resignation of the Gov-Hawthorn, Leslie and Co.. Ltd., were discovered during the crisis,
ernment of Burma- sequel
Hebburn-dn-Tyne, an Feb. 3; and when it was necessary to comTM the long and continued riots and the Phoebe will be launched from municate orders to officers at disturbances-was tendered
on the works of the Fairfield Ship home on leave. Commanders of Feb. 16. to the Governor, who is building and Engineering Com-units are to bring these points to proceeding immediately to form pany. Govan. Glasgow, on March the notice of officers leaving for another Government, The Op25. During April they should be home. position accused the Government followed by the Dido, Bonaventure. APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA
law and and Hermione.
The Commander-in-Chief in This applies to Communists and peace terms. His expulsion will of falling to maintain
The report of the Com~ National Salvationists on the Left strengthen, not weaken. China.order,
These are the first of a new class India has made the following ap- and to the so-called "C.C. clique" For the retention in office of amittee of inquiry showed dissatis-of light cruiser, or 5.450 tons de-pointments on his staff;-
(led by Chen man known by the Japanese to be faction over land tenure, Indian signed, to work with the principal -fu, the Minister of Education, in favour of surrender always immigration, marriage of Burmese deets. The vessels all bear the and his brother) on the extreme gave grounds for the suspicion that women, with foreigners and In- names of famous frigates of the
· Right.
Chiang Kai-shek, In spite of his dians, the attitude of the press
of reactionaries
It applies to the Army officers as bold words, might be thinking pt and other political influences.
LOYALTY TO CHIANG RAI-SHER
in
estrange
old salling Navy. The 10 ships in hand will be sufficient to form two complete squadrons, of which the first should be ready for service early in 1940 and the second in
PRIZE AWARDS
The Ryder Memorial Prize for
Colonel L. B. Grant, C.I.E, T.D., The Simla Rifles, as Hon. A.D.C.
Captain W. P. Careless, ist Bat- talion, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, to be AD.C. (from an officiating appointment).
Major F. R. Gifford, O.BE 10th Gurkha Rifles, to be secretary to the Board of Examiners and Ad- viser in Languages, in place of Colonel C. A. Boyle, CLE., D.S.O.
Major M. Henry, 5th Mahratta other Lieutenant RA. St. C. Sproul-L.I., vacated his appointment as said! Bolton, of H.M.S. Medway, who ob- Assistant Military Secretary on of tained the highest marks in the February 14 and will come home the Evian, Committee on Re-examination in French in the act-on eight months' leave.
also claimed that ing sub-leutenants' courses (one trade would benefit
+
1}
by terms) held at the RN College. ROYAL AIR FORCE
Greenwich, 1938-37.
INTERPRETER'S EXAMINATION The next preliminary and final examinations of naval officers in modern foreign languages will begin in Tuesday, April 4, and will be held in London
a whole. It applies to. Li Tsung-surrerider.
The termin Government's latest 1on and Par Chung-hal, the
MILITARY INTRIGUE
of famous Kwangsi, generals who un-
Power in China cannot be proposals for the migration til 1938 maintained complete in-
grasped by men who have no non-Aryans would result in the 1941.
orderly dependence in the South-western armies behind them. Hence Wang
migration of refugees Province, which they had reform- Ching-wet could only hope to oust from Germany over a period of ed on semi-authoritarian lines, Chiang Kai-shek, or to bring pres-ve years and would ameliorate 1937 has been awarded to Sub- and whose excellently trained and sure to bear upon him, if he could the lot of the Jews and politically conscious troops Chiang gain the support of someone with -Aryans in Germany, Kal-shek "showed a disposition al- an army. This would explain his Lord Winterton. Chairman ways to place in the forefront of reported conspiracy to the Yangtze battlefelds. It ap-from Chiang Kai-shek the Gov-fugees. He plies, even to the Cantonese
ernor of Yunnan Province, who British pite of their resentment at the controls the Burma
route into this step.. neglect of Canton's defences.
China which is now of such great importance. This is but the final M. Berard, France's Emissary example of the manner in which to Nationalist Spain, leaves for A Communist will tell you of his during the past year Wang Ching- Burgos to-day (Feb. 18) with two conadence in the Generalissimo's wel, although he professes himself members of the Diplomatic Corps. leadership and belief in the lata liberaj in polities, has joined President Azana has already left ter's determination to continue the hands, or attempted to Join hands, for Madrid by air. war until Japan. collapses, al-with the most backward and dis- though he will at the same time ruptive forces in China. vigorously criticise the manner in His "peace group" tended to act which the war is being prosecuted in co-operation with the "C.G.
Even Wang Ching-wel, whom I clique." which, although determin- batteries bombarded the city in- Interviewed at Hankow at the end led to prosecute the war, still re- cessantly with high calibre shell1. 1938, receive provlalon allow-i of July, denied that he was. Ingards the Communists as enemies at the rate of ride every half favour of reace. "especially since and attempts to suppress them in hour. Prince Konoye's declaration of those provinces where the reac- January, 1938. This in effect tionary elements have power. Owing to the Illness of one of meant until the Japanese ceased Wang Ching-wel and the Com-the defendants, all the defendants to demand the elimination of munists were naturally at daggers in the explosions conspiracy case Chiang Kai-shek and could only drawn since the latter were the at Bow Street were be meant as an assurance of his most set on war to the pitter endmanded without any fresh evidence personal loyalty to the Generalis-against Japanı.
simo.
When
one asked why Wang Wang Ching-wei's expulsion ap- pears to mark the refusal of the
·
The inhabitants of Madrid had a nerve-racking experience all night on Feb, 16 when Nationalist
being taken. ~
further re-
The Governor of Jamaica stated
A new Flert Order states thas officers appointed for hangirage study abroad, with the exception of those studying Japanese, to whom a consolidated allowance is at present payable, will as from Aug.
¡ance.
COMMAND OF THE PUNJABI Commander J. T. Lean, of the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert. Year list, has been selected for the who was promoted in the New
command of the destroyer, Pun- Scotts jabi, completing at the yard of the Shipbuilding 'Company, Greenock, for service in the Home Fleet.
CADETS TRAINING CRUISE HMS. Vindictive. Captain H. C. Bovell. cadet training cruiser,
Ching-wel and his "peace group extreme Right in China to follow that there could be no settlement whose negotiations with the
with the Germans his line of surrender to Japan, of the labour disputes until the Japanese or and Italians were an open secret. For if the "C.C, clique," which still orders given" for a general strike after being delayed-England for were kept in high office one was has a powerful grip on the party had been withdrawn told that Chiang Kai-shek consi-machine, had supported Wang the dered they could do less harm in- latter would never have been ex-
pelled. Hence side the Government than out.
one car surmise
a fortnight. left Portland for Bago where she will stay till Four Arabs, who were captured Fella 20. Her projected Wang was not expelled from the that in spite of all the loss of to the south of Bethlehem a week visit the Grenadine Islands has Government and the Kuomintang wealth and revenue there is as yet! 250 by detachments of the Wor- been cancelled. party until, at the end of last year, no important social element incester Regiment, have been sen- he openly proclaimed himself in favour of surrender, favour of acceptance of Japan's
CREDITORS TOLD MAN WAS DEAD Riding School That Never Opened
OWNL
Letters announcing his death were stated to have been sent out by a man who was sen- tenced recently at Essex Quarter Sessions; Chelmsford, to four years" "penal servitude.
George Miller, 47, a salesman, pleaded guilty to nine cases of
(To be continued)
AN ACTRESS SHOULD KNOW HERSELF
Loretta Young, who man- ages to combine an age of 24 with 19 years' experience in movies, has
ideas her own
about the acting business And, coming from B young Woman whose · TRIG trips Ughtly to the -tongue -- when glamour girls Bro spoken of, these Ideas axo startling enough,
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tenced to death by A military
.
RED SEA DIVISION
The new escort vessel Egret, court in Jerusalem. This makes Commander A., N. Grey, will leave passed by Port Said for Jeddah, where she
seven death sentences
the court in two days,
.
聯
will relieve the Weston, Comman- der H. Lovegrove, and that ship
A claim for the establish- will proceed to Malte to reduce to
ment of an independent Arabj two fifths complement, afterwards state" was submitted when the returning to England to relieve the Arab Delegation met the British Alresford"as attached ship to the delegates on Feb. 16. Mr. Malcolm Navigation School, Portsmouth. MacDonald enunciated general The Egret will then go on to | suggestions of alternatives to the Aden where she will become | proposal and Jamal Hussein, in re- the ship of the Benfor Officer of ply, gave reasons why such a state the Red Sea Division, Captain W. should not be considered
incom-K D. Dowding. D.SC. in suc- patible with the existence of the cession to the Fleetwood. Jewish minority in Palestine.
▸
THE ARMY
A White Paper announces that the British Government has in- formed the League of Nation
LT.-COL" G. W. MILLER Lieutenant-Colonel G. W. Miller,
Miss Young sticks to her guns that it cannot in future be bound D.8.0., M.C., who has asumed com- obtaining credit by frand and and maintains her position stout-in wartime by the general act for mand of the 1st Battalion. The obtaining credit without disclosing ly. "You've got to know your the paclic settlement of interna- King's Regiment, is 43, and has
he WILS AD undischarged stock and know it well; and good tlonal disputes which had been served since August, 1914.
business judgment" is as essential drawn up by Geneva on Sept.
- that
bankrupt.
OFFICERS ON LEAVE
Mr. George Pollock, prosecutng,
to a good dramaile performance 25, 1938, but will continue to sub-The War officer has recorded. said that in July Miller rented as histrionic talent or beauty of scribe fully to it in peacetime. certain contraventions of the premises at Childerditch, near Bu-
face. Glamour, and beauty and Similar communications have King's Regulations on the part of lericay, and announced that he wan starting a riding school. He order perhaps a spot of ability were once been sent to the League by M. omcers returning to this country ed large quantities of material, in- enough to carry a player far, but Benet, of france, and the New on leave last year. Some falled to cluding steel water tanks, an Army those days are gone forever. Now Zealand High Commissioner in report their arrival in writing: hut, a tractor, rake and a motor- an actress has to know what she's London.
car, for none of which he paid.
----The riding school was not 'open-
doing and why,
QUALIFICATIONS
et, and Miller put of his creditora. "With the growing importance by sending them letters purporting of the story in pictures a player know something about
to be signed by his son, and saying must
cident."
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KULING FOREIGNERS
KIPLING'S FORMER HOME
Wing
WING COMMANDER R. M. C.
MACFARLANE « The retirement is announced because of ill-health of Commander R. M. C. Macfarlane, M.C.. recently employed on staff duties with No. 2 (Bomber) Group at Wyton, Hunts.
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SHANGHAL, Feb. 17. BLACK-EDGED NOTEPAPER tations to guard against being It is understood that the Chl-servation of The Elma, Kip-
ling's former home When the demands became more talked into roles for which she nese authorities in Kuling an dean, has been reached between at Rotting- pressing, Miller sert out letters can is not fitted. Similarly, it isn't nounce that only one foreigner the owner. Sir Roderick Jones, black-edged notepaper, purporting enough to trust to makeup artists will be allowed to proceed up and Brighton Corporation. to be signed by the wife, and an- and studio costumers without the mountain to arrange for the was announced at the resumed nouncing “the death of my husband, thought.
evacuation of foreigners.
Ministry of Health inquiry on in Ireland as the result of an ac÷ "An actress should know quite a Lieut. Comdr. Jeffa, captain of the town-planning at Rotting-
bit about things herself so that the US. gunboat Oahu will go dean and surrounding districts, Counsel said that Miller acquired she can be sure of looking her up on Feb. 17,to escort down any It was stated that Sir Roderick": premises at Writtle, near Chelms part. She should know some who wish to leave before the Jap-desired to preserve the property. ford, and at Romford, saying that thing
camera technique anese warning expires on Feb. 20. but, in case changed circumstan- he was going to set up in business so that her gestures and actions
A Transocean message states ces might arise in future genera- He never did so, but continued to or photography. And, of course, that a message which reached tions, he wished the property to order goods. The total (amount she should
Nanchang and Chungking before be zoned as for residential proper- understand the Involved in the charges was £524, mechanies of recording: so that being picked up by the UB, gun- ty at three houses to the acre but goods to the value of £359 she may study her defects, which boat Oahu, stated that foreigners and that the Corporation had ac
everybody has and which the Kuling had received the Jap-cepted his proposal.
anese suggestion" which was Mr. 7. G. Drew, the Town Clerk/ to on behalf of Brighton Council, evacuate the town. Some-foreign-welcomed Bir Roderick's
abont
as a contractor, and coal merchant, may conform with the limitations
had been recovered.
Miller, he saidę was adjudicated sound track magnifies, and modu- broadcast trom Shanghai
bankrupt in 1920, with a deficiency late her voice accordingly.” of £2,214,
express?
Det. Harvey said that up to Je meeting with an old friend of hers are willing to leave provided ed intention to provide, not only Miller tried to go straight. He at reputable character. There were the necessary arrangements; can in his lifetime but in his will, for tributed his downfall to a charice nine previous convictions,
be made.
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