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- FRIDAY, FEDruary 26, 1992.
'JAPAN'S LOST TRADE.
or
"Twenty-One Demanda” China was able through another boycott to force Japan to give up Shantung. Japan not only lost Shantung but nino £25,000,000 in trade. Since 1927 China has had an almost con- tinued boycott, in one degree of intensity
another, against Japan. It is the one thing that China does unitedly as a whole uation. The present boycott is being taken up by the Chinese in every corner of the work, and especially in America, where the Chinese population, of cities like San Francisco, New York, and turning Newark have united in down any and all goods bearing # Japanese mark.
Whilst it is perfectly true, as Sir John Simon sat in the House of Commons a few days ago, that Britain does not want to get trade through the boycotting of other remains that nations, the fact -Japan's losses in past boycotts have
bron to the gain of nallons. The gaina may have been been temporary, but they have *considerable. On the political as- pect of the matter, Japan or any other country would be perfectly right in protesting against organin.
DAY BY DAY.
"I MAKE IT A BULE ALWAYS TO LEAVE WITH A GOOD IMPRESSION,” SAID DISRAELI. HE OFTEN DROKE OFF A VISIT ABRUPTLY, BUT WHILE A GOOD IMPRESSION WAS UTTERMOST
Kowloon residents are reminded of trial meeting of the which taken place at 6 p.m. today at the St. Andrew's Church Hall.
A REAL
By Sir MALCOLM CAMPBELL.
TREASURE ISLAND.
"My greatest adventure." So Sirithe Virgin and Child fashioned of Malcolm Campbell, famous for his solid gold, from Lima's cathedral, perilous 'exploits on motor-racing! But Thompson was never to be tracks, has described his treasure- any the Hcher for it all; his ship seeking voyage some years ago to was captured soon after he sailed Cocos Island, in the Pacific. An-¡from Cocoa, every man of the crow. other attempt, but, to his great save one, was executed, Bonito regret, without him, is to be made committed suicide, and Thompson to discover the treasure supposed was taken back to the island to to be buried there.
reveal where he had hidden the
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a perfectly prosaic mood I sat treasure. before the fire in my country| Once on Cocoa, however, he The engagement is announced of Mr. Ng Sze-kwong, for many years home the other night, and thought managed to escape from his cap- singles tennis champion of the Colony, of nothing but motor-cars, while tors, and eluded them until they to Min Leung, younger daughter of my fingers Idly licked the pages tired of searching and went away. leaving him with his secret stili Mr. and Mrs. Leung Yue-tat, of of a book they had chanced upon. Hongkong.
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Detective-Inspector K. W. Andrew, who has been acting in the absence af Detective-Inspector W. Shannon, to Yaumati has boon transferred Western
following upon the return of Inspec- Lor Shannon yesterday by the P. & O. steamer Rajputana.
Another Chance.
Suddenly a name sprang from unwrested from him. Eventually that book which sent my thoughts he was taken off the leland by a careering down the paths that lead ship which put in for water, and to the destination of every school-he ended his misspent daya in
| Newfoundland. boy's dreams-adventure.
Magically, the sound of the moonlit wind rushing over the
Not long before he died he..im- countryalde became the voice of the surf foaming along a lonely parted his secret to a man named trople shore. It wafted me across Keating, who went to Cocos and thousands of miles of ocean to an actually found the treasure. But Shareholders of the Hongkong and island of mystery in the Pacific once more overpowering greed He and the captain to Shanghai Banking Corporation are where no man dwells but which my proved fatal.
of the ship that carried him that the Bank's meeting memory is for ever haunting.
Cocon fled from the crew when they clamoured for "shares,” and hid on the island.
reminded
el boycotta supported by the Chi-taken pince to-morrow (Saturday) at 11.30 a.m. at the Head Office of the
No. Queen's Road j Corporation, Central, Hongkong.
nese governmental authorities, but the fact must be recognised that even when boycott organisations are broken up, the ban on inter- course may still continue if national feelings Are strongly
aroused. Japan is conscians of that fact to- day; and she will certainly find it impassible to get back her trade by the use of force.
Work on Sundays.
en-
Road.
The Spolis of Lima.
For the name that leapt to my casual glance was Bonito, and in) a flash was thinking of that}
more
Keating got away in a whater. but there was never any trace of It is believed that
If ever I go again I shall
Yesterday afternoon, at the Kow-Benita Bonito of the Bloody his companion. loon Magistracy, before Mr. Friser, Sword"--a pirate and buccaneer Keating shut him up in the cave Mr. Borovaky, of No. 26, Hankow who, records nuy, hid an ill-gotten and left him to a horrible fate. was fined $10 for having a hoard on Cocos, and had a hand His ghost, it is said, guarda the broadcast receiver and failing to re- also in hiding there the great and treasure of Lima to this day.
It was with the elue given to new her licence. Mr. E. W. Hamilton, dazzling treasure of Lima.
For a century and
that Kenting that 1 and a few friends the Postmaster General, prosecuted.
treasure has lured the adven- set out six years ago to find the turous; and about six years ago I treasure. I have said that we An exceptionally entertaining oven myself, crazy with the fever that failed-but there is nothing I more ing is promised by the Chief Engine burned in their blood, was follow-deeply desire than another chance Room Artificers of the 4th Submarine Ing in their truck. And, like most to succeed. I would set sail again As the result of a decision taken
Flotila on Friday next, March 4. by the Governing Body of the In-
when a dance organised by the E.R. of them, I failed to find the merest now, if circumstances made the adventure possible; but they do ternational Labour Office of the A.'s Mess, attached to H.M.S. Med. speck of gold.
Yet I am convinced that Cuennot: League of Nation, workers
way, is to be held in Lane, Crawford's
riches 18 would
be Restaurant. Dancing will start at conceals such gaged in glass manufacture will
8 p.m. and will continue until early make a dozen men millionaires far better prepared for the quest: he the subject of special discus-Saturday morning. It is the intention Apparently I am not alone in bold 1 shall take up-to-date machinery sion at the International Labour of the organisers to make this one of ing this belief, seeing that at this with me to make the gruelling task very moment a big expedition to of excavating coaier-and I chail Conference of 1933, The special the outstanding dances of the year.
Cocos is being organised in Van-certainly take that most essentini problem to be discussed is that of
thing of all-electrical, metal- providing rest and alternation of
Advice has been received that Cam-
How did the vast riches of the divining apparatas. Even with <hifts in thone glass factories mander S. M. C. Curtis B.N., Staff capital of Pera come to be dumped the best of clues you do not know is continuous. The Officer for the Commodore, will pro-away from sight In this uninhabit, how deep to dig; you might well get where work
ceed to England shortly, on transfer. problem to be solved is in The
Commander Curtis will be relieved by ed istand of Cocos, four hundred within a foot of the treasure and main part connected with auto-Commander J. E. Sinsmore D.S.C., miles off the coast of Colombia? then give up. The divining ap- matie sheet glass works which RN., who leaves England in the first In 1821, when the curtain was fall. paratus will tell you exactly how cannot be stopped for 24 hours week in April. Lt-Comdr. H. Sing on the final scones of Spanish far to go.
I should take with me men who Squance, Stair Officer, Naval Intelli- dominion in South America, and ach week on account of the diff-gence, has also been advised that his Bolivar the Liberator was march were prepared to "rough it?" to the ruly in restarting them. The relief, L.-Comdr. G. J. M. Lang, willing on Lima, the governor and inst degree, and who would stick leave England by the same steamer bishop had the contents of the to the search without losing heart manufacture of plate Kias,
city's coffers and the treasures of and until the treasure came though not gailing for great skill.
the entherdral stowed away in the light or it became roanonahiy requires such endurance since it
British merchant ship Mary Dier, evident that It did not exist. entails the manipulation of large
tying in Callao harbour. and heavy sheets, Much ingenuity has, therefore, been exercised in
The effect of the practical sever-dispensing with human labour as ance of economic relations between China and Japan, so far as it con- cerns South China. is indlented in the latest trade statistics issued in Hongkong. These show
that
As
WYK
process
WAR
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED
QUOTATIONS. ·
Landon Terminals. March 6/1, up 1d. May 6/4 up 1840. August 6/7 up 11⁄2d. Decomber 6/10% up 1.d. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking. d-d more.
couver.
Maddened by Gold.
Ready to Try.
to
There is no dearth of such men
That vessel's Scots master, Cap in this country. A short time tain Thompson, was transformed ago, when it was reported that 1
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far as possible; a rudimentary
The following cable at the close from an honest mariner inte was thinking of organising an- grinding machine made its ap-
er the sugar market yesterday ruthless demon by the sight of so other attempt to plumb the golden earned as early as 1768 but it was not until 1921 that a continn-has been received by Messrs. Pen- much gold, and, in the night when mystery of Cocas, I received hun- the ship sailed away, he and his dreds of letters from all classes of ous manufacturing
treath and Co.
Blit equally maddened men
the men pleading to be allowed to imports from Japan into Hongkong, evolved. When the fusion of the
throats of Lima's govertior and accompany me-some at their own effected by
church dignitaries, and of the expenses.
I wonder whether they intended, of course, for the South raw materials
chief offcials of the city and their would have been so eager for the China market, ahrunk in January wood, the work of glass workers
wives and daughters, who had venture if they had had my ex- from over five million dollars in a was not continuous but the work-
entrusted themselves to his care, perience on Cocos. ing day was long and very fer little more than one million, compared with the same month in gularly distributed because all
A study of the figures re-
the later operations depended on 1931. yends that some lines of business the time required for fusion which One first have totally.censed, whilst piece was extremely variable. goods faneles shrunk from nearly consequence of the adoption of three millions to $203,000. These coal for melting facts show the extent to which the process Chinese have united in having more
Le eut practically nothing
could to
with working
automatic manu. Japanese products. The loss to down. When
intro- tremen-facturing priceSSES were Japanese trade must be dogs.
duced the employers demanded that --The boycott, an we all know, han the work should continue over
to
been the traditional weapon used by China for many long years ngainst countries with whom she has been at variance. It is In teresting to note in this connexion that within the past twenty years it has been directed no fewer than Beven Limes against Japan. In 1908 a Japanese bont carrylar Leuntraband bound for China was arized by the Chinese. The Manchu Government was power- less and granted indemnity to Ja- pan. The Chinese people objected and were strong. For nine months they refused to have any thing to do with the Japanese. Japanese trade losses of over £2,500,000 far exceeded the #1=
hecame
rapid,
Ro
day
WOM that the
siendier
and
that
the
Sanday. The necessity for this demand was very thoroughly din- cussed at the International Labour Conference of 1924 and 1926. 'It was agreed that on account of special, and, technical reasons,
it was impossible to suspend manu- facture of sheet glass works and, that therefore, gloss works must be treated as an exception to the general rule of one day's rest fu seven. Reports and statistics have now been collected by the Inter- national Labour Office from all countries. They
concerned with the various systems of shifts which would enable work in sheet glass works to be continued over with regular
ure
demnity. The second boycott was the week-end yet ovor Manchuria. Corrupt Chinese periods of rest for all workers. It of work olhelals were granting Japanese is felt that continuity railway rights against the objec. may be ensured by systems of shifts tion of the Chinese people. In and efforts will be made to secure 1915 Japan presented the "Twoty. this relief for the workers, One Demands." Politically China was helpless, Economically the
The annual meeting of the Hong Chinese people put in action
kong Auxiliary of the British and power which was heard round the Foreign Bible Socisty will be held in world. Eventually the Chinone the Helona May Institute Mon- people were forced to give up this day, March 7 at 5.30 p.m. Tes will boycott because they could not Victoria will be the Chairman and the be served at 4.45 pm. The Bishop of necure manufactured goods from speakers will be Dr. W. P. Merrill, the countries gripped in the World who is the Minister of the Brick Pres- War. After the war, however, byterian Church New York, and Dr. Rufus M. Jones, who la the Profes- when Japan demanded that the restor of Philosophy at Haverford of the world recognize her College.
New York Terminals,
March 85 up 2 pts. May 94 up 3 pts.
July 1.01 up 3 ptx. December 1.12 up 2 pts.
as they had entrusted the golden
I spent nearly three weeks With Bloody Bonito he the island-the most exhausting, go,
buried sailed to Cocos and
his body-breaking time of my life. gore-stained booty in a cave. Picture the scene: forbidding There were boxes packed with bills covered with well-nigh im bars of gold and silver; chests penetrable undergrowth, and stuffed with gorgeous jewels; rising almost from the verge of sacks of pleces-of-eight; nearly the shark-infested sea: a- สบ 300 jewelled swords, and--nost whose fierce heat sickens you, and wonderful of all-acred vessels you are slowly tolling higher of gold, and two great images of and higher seems to be melting
"Now, I've always contended that Greek philosophy suffers from translation-what do you boys think?"
you as if you were a candle before in fire.
Burrowing in the rocky ahore is little short of agony. The offort of digging in such dreadful 'heat which no white man can stand for long-is utterly exhausting.
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and my two companions were ao completely "played out by it that when we returned to camp In the eveninge we were too weary to cat. We lived. almost entirely on water. Merelfully, there is an unending supply of fresh water; but for that no one would over be able to stay long enough to look for the treasure.
An Exciting Gamble.
Fish, too, is plentiful, and there are wild pigs. But on its lower levels the place in aswarm with insects that bite with peculiar savagery—and generally the back of one's neck! And there are armies of land-crabs which would cat you alive if you made no pro- test
However, coconuts abound—as they did when Lionel Wafor visited the island with Davia and their mon drank so deep of the milk of the nuts that they were half-paralysed for days after- wardal My task was exceptionally aimcult because my expedition was a hasly and very l equipped-and therefore fairly doomed to fallure.
one
None the less,' and in spite of the fact that I am convinced that the treasure of Lima still remains hidden an Cocos, i am not prepared to say that a parfectly equipped expedition would be bound to succeed. So much, I must confess (Continued on Page 7