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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932.
JAPAN'S LOST TRADE.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932.
"Twenty-One Demands" Chinn was ablo through annther boycott in force Japan to give up Shantung." Japan not only lont Shantung but alan £25,000,000 in trado. Since 1927 China has had on almost con- tinued boycoll, in one degree of another, against thint Japan. to the one thinge China does unitedly naa whole uation. The prenent boycott Is being taken up by the Chinese in every corner. of the work, and
DAY BY DAY
VEMIEREN
"I MAKE IT A HULE ALWAYS TO LEAVE WITH A GOOD IMPRESSION,”
SAID. DISRAELI. HE OFTEN BROKE OFF A VIFT ABRUPTLY, BUT WHILE A GOOD IMPRESSION WAS UPTEENOST
A
REAL
By Sir MALCOLM CAMPBELL.
TREASURE ISLAND.
"My greatest adventure. So Sir the Virgin and Child fashioned of Malcolm Campbell, famous for his solid gold, from Lima's cathedral. tracks, has described his treasure- any the richer for it all; his ship perilous exploits on motor-racing But Thompson was never to be
nçeking voyage some yours ago to was captured soon after he sailed Cocos Island, in the Pacific. An- from Cocos, every man of the crew, other attempt, but, to his great save one, was executed, Bonito
Kowloan residents are reminded of the annual meeting of the K.R.A., especially in America, where the which takes place at 6 p.m. to-day at regret, without him, Is to be made committed suicide, and Thompson Chinese popalation of elties Ilke the St. Andrew's Church Hall.. San Francisco, New York, and Newark have united in turning down any and all goods bearing a Japanese mark.
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the
to discover the treasure supposed was taken back to the island to to be buried there.
reveal where he had hidden TN a perfectly prosaic mood 1 sat treasure.
Once on Cocos, however, he
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The engagement is announced or before the fire in my country Mr. Ng Ste-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 o Miss Leung, younger daughter of my fingers idly flicked the pages tired of searching and went away. Mr. and Mrs. Loung Yue-lat, of of a book they had chanced upon, leaving him with his secret atili- Hongkong.
Defective-Inspector K. W. Andrew, who has been acting in the absence of Detective-Inspector W. Shannon, has been transferred to Yaumati, following upon the return of Inspec- tor Shannon yesterday by the P. & O. ntenmer Rajputana.
the
Another Chance.
Whilst it la perfectly true, na Sir John Siman said in the House af Commons a few days ago, thai
Suddenly a name sprang from unwrested from him. Eventually Britain does not want to get trade
that book which sent my thoughts he was taken off the island by a
· through the boycolting of other
carvering down the paths that lendship which put in for water, and to the destination of every school he ended his misspent days in nations, the faci remains thing
boy's dreams-adventure.
Newfoundland. Japan's losses in past boycotts have
Magically, the
of Round Leen to the gain of Western nations. The gains may have been
wind rushing over the moonlit countryside became the voice of Not long before he died he im- temporary, but they have boen
the surf foaming along a lonely parted his secret to a man named considerable. On the political as-
tropic shore. It wafted me across Keating, who went to Cocos and pect of the matter. Japan or any
thousands of miles of ocean to an actually found the treasure. But other country would be perfectly
·Shareholders of the Hongkong and island of mystery in the Pacific once more overpowering greed right in grotesting against organis. Sharghat Banking Corporation are where no man dwells but which my proved fatal. He and the captain reminded that the Bank's meeting memory is for ever haunting.. of the ship that carried him to Led boycotts supported by the Chi-takes place to-morrow (Saturday) ni
Cocoa led from the crow when nese governmental authorities, but 11.30 h.m. at the Head Omce of the
they clamoured for "shares," and Queen's Rond the fact must be recognised that Corporation, No. 1
Central, Hongkong.
For the name that leapt to my hid on the island. even when boycott organisations
ensual ginnce was Bonito, and in
Keating got away in a whaler, are broken up, the ban on inter-
a flash I was thinking of that but there was never any trace of course may still continue if national
Yesterday afternoon, at the Kow-"Bcuito Bonito of the Bloody his companion. It is believed that feelings. are strongly aroused, con Magistracy, before Mr. Fraser, Sword”—a pirate and buccaneer Keating shut him up in the cave Japan is conscious of that fnet to Mrs. Borovaky, of No. 20, Hankow who, records say, hid an ill-gotten and left him to a horrible fate. Resuel was ford $10 for having ahourd on Cocos, and had a band is ghost, it is aald, guards the day; and she will certainly find it broadenst receiver and failing to re-also in hiding there the great and treasure of Lima to this day. bapossible to get back her trade | new ber licrace. Mr. B. W. Hamilton, dazzling treasure of Lima.
It was with the clue given by the use of fore
The Postmaster General, prosecuted. For century and more that Keating that I and a few friends treasure has fured the adven-set out six years ago to find the that we turous; and about six years ago treasure. I have said
Work on Sundays.
the
As the result of a decision tuken by the Governing Body of the In- ternational Labour OMee of League of Nations, workera сл gared in glass manufacture will be the subject of special discus-
The Spoils of Limn.
to
An exceptionally entertaining even-myself, crazy with the fever that falled-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 track. And, like most to succeed. I would set sail again Fotilin on Friday next, March 4,
the when a dance organised by the E.Rof them, I failed to find the merest now, if circumstances mads
adventure possible: A.'s Mess, attached to H.M.S. Med. speek of gold.
but they do way, is to be held in Laric, Crawford's Yet I am convinced that Coco not. Restaurant. Dancing will start at conceals auch riches по Woult If ever I go again I shall be 8 pm, and will continue until early make a dozen men millionaires far better prepared for the quest: Saturday morning. It is the intention Apparently I am not alone in hold shall take, up-to-date machinery of the organisers to make this one of ing this belief, seeing that at this with me to make the gruelling task the outstanding dances of the year.
very moment a big expedition to of excavating easier and I shall Cocos is being organised in Van-certainly take that most essential thing of all-electrical metal- Advice has been received that Comi- How did the vast riches of the divining, apparatus. Even with mander S. M. C. Curtin R.N., Stafcapital of Peru come to be dumped the best of clues you do not know Officer for the Commodore, will pro-
couver.
sion at the International Labour Conference of 1933, The special problem to be discussed is that of providing rest and alternation of shifts in those glass factories where work is continuous. The problem to be solved is in the
reed to England shortly, un transfer. away from sight in this uninhabit. how deep to dig: you might well got Commander Curtis will be relieved by ed island of Cocos, four hundred within a foot of the treasure and main part connected with aute-Commander J. F. Siamore D.S.C., miles off the const 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
week in April. Lt. Cmdr. i. Sing on the final scenca of Spanish far to go. (ennnot be stopped for 24 hours
Squance, Staff Officer, Naval Intelli- dominion in South America, and I should take with mo man who each week on account of the digence, has also been advised that his Bolivar the Liberator was march-were prepared to "rough It" to the eulty in restarting them. The relief, Lt.-Condr. G. J. M. Lang, will
leave England by the same stanmor. ing on Limn, the governor and tast degree, and who would stick manufacture [1 pinte Klass.
bishop had the contents of the io the search without losing heart though not enlling for great skili,
city'a coffers and the treasures of and until the treasure Came to requires auch endurance since it
the catherdral stowed away in the light or it become rensanably entails the manipulation of large
British merchant ship Mary Dier, evident that it did not exist.
ying in Callao harbour. and heavy sheets. Musck Ingenuity
Rendy to Try. has, therefore, been exercised in
When
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
Maddened by Gold.
There is no dearth of such men
An-
That vessel's Scots muster, Cap-in this country. A short time tain Thompson, was transformed ago, when it was reported that I The following cable at the close from an honest mariner into a was thinking of organising of the sugar market yesterday ruthless demon by the sight of so other attempt to plumb the golden has been received by Mesars. Pen-much gold, and, in the night when mystery of Cocoe, I received hun- the ship salted away, he and his dreds of letters from all classes of equally maddened men slit the men pleading to be allowed" throats of Lima's governor and
was treath and Co.
Wan
that the stendier and that the
automatic manu-
The effect of the practient sever-dispensing with human labour as ance of ermomie relations between far a possible; a rudimentary China and Japan, so far as it con- grinding machine made its ap cerns South Chinn. is indiented pearance as early as 1768 but it in the latest trade statistics issued
was not until 1921 that a continu- in Hongkong. These show
on manufacturing process that imports from Japan into Hongkong, evolved. When the fusion of the intended, of course, for the South raw materials
10.5 effected by China market, shrunk in January wood, the work of glass workers from over five million dollars to n was not continuous, bat the work- litt mo than one million, as
ing day was lant and very 'irre- compared with the same mouth in gularly distributed heranse all 1931. A study of the figures re The later operations depended on Iveals that some lines. of business the time required for fusion which have totally ceased, whilst piece was extremely variable. One first ponds fancies shrunk from nearly | consequence of the adoption of three millions to $268,000. These coal for melting facts show the extent to which the process thevame Chinese have united in having more rapid. 30 practically nothing to do with working day could be eut Japanese products. The loss to down Japanese trade must be tremen- facturing processes were intro- clocs.
duced the employers demanded that The boycott, na we all know, has the work should continue over beon the traditional weapon used Sunday. The necessity for this by China for many long youra demand was very thoroughly dis- against countries with whom she cussed at the International Labour has been at variance. It i in- Conference of 1924 and 1925. It teresting to note in this connexion
was agreed that on account of that within the past twenty years special and technical reasons, it it has been directed no fewer than
was impossible to suspend manu seven times against Japan. facture of sheet glass works and In 1908 a Japanese boat carrying that therefore, glass works must. contraband bound for China was be treated as an exception to the
by the Chinese. The
general rule of one day's rest in Manchu Government was power-
seven. Reports and statistics have tess and granted indemnity to Ja-
now been collected by the Inter- The Chinese people objected national Labour Office from and were strong. For nine moutha they refused to have any with the various systems of shifts countries. They are concerned
thing to do
with the Japanese. which would enable work in sheet Japanese trade losses of over £2,500,000 for exceeded
glass works to be continued over
with demnity. The second boycott was
the week-end yet
regular over Manchuria. Corrupt Chinese periods of rest for all workers. It officials 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 dapan presented the "Twenty this relief for the workers. One Demands." Politieally Chin
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Chinese people put in action a The annual meeting of the Hong:
kong Auxillary of the British and Foreign ble Society will be held in the Helena May Institute un Mon- day, March 7 at 5.30 p.m. Tea will Victoria will be the Chairman and the bo served at 4.45 p.m. The Bishop of speakers will be Dr. W. P. Merrill, who in the Minister of the Brick Pres. byterian Church, New York, and Dr. Rufus M. Jones, who is the Profes- of Philosophy at Haverford
power which was heard round the world. Eventually the Chinese people were forced to give up this boycott because they could not secure manufactured gonds from the countries gripped in the World War. After the war, however, when Japan demanded that the rest of
world recognize her College. the
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church dignitaries, and of the accompany me--some at their own expenses. I wonder whether hey chief oficials of the city and their would have been an eager for, the wives and daughters, who had venture If they had had my CX- entrusted themselves to his care. perience on Coco
as they had entrusted the golden I spent nearly three weeks on With Bloody Bonito, he the island-the most exhausting. targe sailed to Cocos and buried his body-breaking time of my life. gore-stained booty in a cave.
Picture the scene: forbidding There were boxes packed with hills covered with well-nigh im- bars of gold and silver; cheats penetrable undergrowth. stuffed
with
gorgeous jewels; rising almost from the verge sacks of piecca-of-eight; nearly the shark-infested sea; 300 jewelled swords, and-most whose flerce heat sickens you, and wonderful of all-sacred vessels as you are slowly telling higher ļuf gold, and two great images of and higher seems to be melting
"Now, I've always contandled that Greek philosophy suffers from translation-what do you boys think?"
and
at
11
Bun
you as if you were a candle before
a Are.
Burrowing in the rocky ahore is little short of agony. The effort of digging in such dreadful heat --which no whito man can sland for long-le utterly exhausting.
I and my two companions were RO completely "played out" by it that when we returned to camp in the evenings we were too weary to eat. We lived almost entirely on water. Mercifully, there is unending supply of fresh water; but for that no one would evor be able to stay long enough to look for the treasure.
An Exciting Gamble.
an
Fish, too, is plentiful, and there But on its lower are wild pigs. levels the place is aswarm with Insects that bite with peculiar anvagery-and generally the back of one's neck! And thero are nrmies of land-crabs which would eat you alive if you made no pro- test.
However, coconuts abound-as they did when Lionel Wafer visited the island with Dayla and their men drank so, doap of the milk of the nuts that they wore half-paralysed for days after- words! My task was exceptionally difficult because my oxpedition wasa hasty one and vory ill. equipped-and therefore fairly doomed to, failure.
None the less, and in spite of the fact that I am convinced that the treasure of Lima still remains hidden
on Cocos, I am not prepared to say that a perfectly equipped expedition would be bound to aucceed. So much I must confess (Continued on Page Ti)