THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1936.
JAPANESE IRKED BY BRITISH SWAY
BRITISH SHIP BATTERED IN TYPHOON
HELPLESS IN STORM
Showing signs of the ter- rific battering she received in a typhoon a few weeks ago, the Ovington Court arrived in Sydney recently. For 16 hours the ship was helpless.
The typhoon struck her between Manila and Moji,▾ Bunker batches were smashed in, the engine room Wooded, and the fires gutted. ··
Half the bridge was carried nway, and the wireless appara tus was carried away, making it impossible for the ship to ol tain help.
The pantry luy, H. Janez, wh almost washed overboard. He *just managed to retain his bold of
the ralling.
Twenty_eanuries in their cages were washed overboard, and the ship's dog was battered. Bfeless against the bulkhead.
20 WORDS-
can
YOUTHS FILL DEATH HOUSE
Young men they look hardly out of their teens-fil the death house at Aritona State Penitentiary. Florence Sontenced to denth. In the lethal gas chamber, ali have appeats pending netore, the State Su- preine Cour!, Left to right: Ronald Cochrane, Jack Sullivan, Trank Rascon and Frenk Duarte
How Many of them
you
define?
Anthropology--the science
of man
Iristory.
and man's natural
Atomiser-Instrument
for
discharging medicinal faids
In a fine spray.
Bailie-a municipal officer In Scotland,
Baroque-applied in art generally to extravagani de- signa.
Bibliophil a taver of books.
Chicanery trickery
artifice.
Consanguinity relation
ship by blood.
Decalogue-hr Tea fines
mandments.
Exegesis--the
of
interpretation, especially f
the Scriptures.
Flaccid-flabby, soft, and
weak.
Redonism - the doctrine that happiness is, the highest good.
Holograph - document in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds,
Incubus nightmare: the demon of nightmare.
Macroscopic visible to the naked eye
Malienhle that max be shaped by hammering.
Patpute--to examine by
touch.
Ricochet--a reboite-elome the ground, as of a ball fired at a low elevation.
Sampan-small boat used in China and Japan,
Therapeuticsthat part of medicine concerned with the treatment and eure et disease. Trilateral-hayfing three
aldes.
SEEKING NEW RECORD
Mins Betty Malcolm turning the propeller of her new neroplane
ut Brooklands, from where she plans to hop off for Australia in an attempt to break existing records.
FRANCE TO BUILD NEW NAVAL STATION
Françe
has decided take immediate steps
OVER
SHANGHAI
CONFLICT GROWING
Shanghai, Feb. 3.
Conflict between British and Japanese interests in the International Settlement of Shanghai, although over- shadowed recently by more dramatic developments in North China, continues to grow and, in the opinion of many well- informed observers, ultimately will lead to a showdown of power in the most important city of China.
·
From the early days the International Settlement, when the old British Concession was united with the Official "American Concession" and internationalised, British material interests have dominated the city.
The great trading firms of China which first tapped the resources of the rich Chinese hinterland and simul- taneously brought foreign products to the Chinese markets, were all British. The first schools were established on British lines, the first clubs were those launched by the British, the police force was closely modelled after the London system, and in almost every aspect of administration the British imprint has been unmistakable.
Other nationalities came to Shanghai, and several came to be represented by large interests, but British aptitude for colonial ad- ministration was recognised, and no attempt to change the control or the administration was for many years..
made
sufficiently represented on the Shanghai Municipal Council.
the
The latter complaint was most significant attack on British control of the settlement, since the council includes five Britons, two Americans and two Japanese. Japanese. This allotment of members accoril- however, raised new problems, ing to nationality is not fixed by Whereas the British financial in law, but is governed merely by con- terests remained predominant, the
The advent of the
com-
Japanese surpassed all other non-vention. Accordingly, euch Chinese nationalities in numbers.munity at olection time generally to After the Sino-Japanese hostilities nominates only as many candidates here in 1982 the Japanese popula- as it has seats allotted to it, and to tion increased sharply, As a result each voter is asked to cast his ballot establish a new naval base that part of the settlement known for enrididates endorsed by his own
diatrict the Hongkow in the Mediterranean at formerly known as the "American and other national groups, Mers-El-Kebir, in the de-Concession" (although the Ameri- euns never had an actual concession partment of Oran.
here) rapidly became a Japanese
as
This decision was taken follow-enlony. ing a recent tour of inspection in Northern Africa by M. Francois Pietri, Minister of the Navy.
France, so far, has only one big) nayal base of real Importance in North Africa. that of Bizerta, in: Tunisia.
and
Japanese Outnumber British For the past fow years the Japanese extremists have threaten.. To-day, its streets resembleed to nominatë
more than those of many Japanese cities, counel. candidates.
two and it is popularly known as Japanece voters outnumber the Since the "Little Tokyo,"
British, it would easily be possible
•
Japanese firms multiplied, schools for them to upset the domination were established, and organisations of the council. The move The decision to build new flourished. Friction Boon
to in- hase at an important strategic Japanese complained that
crease the number of Nipponfac point in the Western Mediterra- schools were
eandidates has been-side-tracked so not given enough
arose.
their
is considered, in naval money by the. Municipal Council, far by responsible Japanese lend- circles, as a move which will pro-thai Hongkew streets and parksers, but many observers predteti vide a bargaining point if the received scant attention, that vast that soon this discipline will be Anglo-Italian naval negotiations sums were spent on activities of no broken and that the Japanese will in London materialise, particular- Interest to the Japanese (such as capture three, four or even ly in view of restoring equili- the municipal orchestra, band and brium between the naval forces of library), that only a few Japanese
scats on the Municipal Council, Great Britain, France and Italy in were given municipal positions and the Mediterranean.
finally, that the Japanese were in-
Hollywood's Legs
LOVELY LIMBS LOSE THEIR APPEAL
Hollywood, Jan, 20. Hollywood is still littered with lovely legs, but their owners and the movie moguls have become so nice they won't let you look at them.
This apathy towards legs on the part of producers is un- explained from a box office angle. As far as statisticians can learn, public enthusiasm for well-turned calves and thighs is not qaly unabated, but rampant.
tho
Stars by the dczen -ased to hement, have been travelling under launched on tides of what news-wraps these many moans, papers call "leg art." To name a Claudette Colbert keeps few: Marlene Dietrich, Claudette | former "most beautiful legs on Colbert. Loretta Young. Janet Broadway" well draped. The
five
Japanese control of the council; it is believed, would be merely the prelude to the conversion of the settlement into a virtual Japanese: concession. The situation accord- ingly, is viewed with gravity. One of its lighter aspects is the altera- ate wooing of the American com- munity by both British and Japan- ese interests, as it is foreseen that at some time the Americans may hold the balance of power between the two groups.
A more serious development, in the opinion of many, is the seem- ing tendency of British leaders and officials to give Japan a free hand in the Hongkow district, withi the implied understanding that the Japanese will cease their agitation for greater control of the purely international area and leave mat- ters in status quo, which is to say.
in British handa-United Press,
Gaynor, Carole Lombard. Ruth audience gets the meres flush of Thursday Is.
Chatterton, Jean Harlow..
"The most beautiful legs"
on Broadway .. in Paris
Hollywood Rome... Berlin Viorna.. Ethiopia
the famous Colbert underpinning
in "The Bride Comes Home, her Needed No
latest.
"I want to make my way Rs 400 Pied Piper
actress." she explains,
WANDERING GRASS-HOPPER Dietrich; Inc., was said to have at the Colbert entry.
GOES GLOBE-TROLLING
Melbourne, Jan. 15. MARY, a full-grown Queensland grasshopper, is the weird pet of the British motorship Orari, which reached Melbourne from Liverpool to-day.
Cua
Thursday Island, off the Cape York finger of north-eastern Australia, was until recently, a tropical, palm-girt spot on the
"where
every prospect
Carole Lombard's limbs carried anywhere, used to be an indispensa her to stardom frem a Mack Sen- ble tag for a rising actress. At nett bathing beauty role, but now time the firm of Marlene they are seen almost as rarely as east two legs on the world trophy.
Loretta Young got a break in But to-day the best the movies the films because producers noticed
offer feature editors is ple- her photos advertising a national map tures of actresses hidden in slinky, brand of hosiery. To-day Loretta pleases and only rats are vile." expensive gowns Taweeping from doesn't have legs. Just feet pasted leer to pensive china.
on the hem of a ainuous gown. These rats have lately been∙A True, it has been impossible to Even the exclusive. Garbo used A timid, terrified creature when but Mary has survived fierce but chorus legs are not famous running equipment in news shots. shipping company which owns the delete logs from musical pictures, to make the most of her well turned perfect pest, especially to the she joined the vessel in June last tropical heat and the chill of the and they twinkle so fast you can't You can still find photos of Greta wharf and its store. Cats were at Gladstone, when the Orari was late English autumn, and is now properly observe them,
dressed as a truck athlete, and taken on the staff and were pald loading for the return trip to Eng- back in hor, native land as full of
kneeling on a chalked line in start. 38. 6d. a week in catsmeat cur land: Mary is now tame and confi-life as ever.
Cherubic Czar Will Hays has ing position. That was considered rency. They did almost Hamelin *dent.
"When she first joined, the fun-spolling, but it appears that
beon blamed for most of the film "hot" stuff some years ago. boat, sald Captain Allmond to the stars themselves must take publicity lad why, and got nowhere. News
Your correspondent asked service, but not quite, says Austral day, "we christened her Felix, but whatever rap may come from the One of the boys who used to high- before we had left the coast baby
disappearance of their alluring pressure grasshopper was
elty editors found legs. Best of the girls whose nouncements that alongside our pet. That's why we names decorate the theatre mar- Whoozis' shanks had been insured ing and other emoluments. By She was fluttering around minus call her Mary now." her: hind legs, and as an experi- The little grasshopper did not actress" doesn't wish to rely on that minute trying to peddle a story the store: by night they worked. quees explain that, "a great for $1,000,000 or more was at day they slept in the rafters of ment, the mastor of the 'Orari
take to the sea, and died. (Capt. J. G. Allmond) put the grasshopper in a cage and fed it all. She cats well on lettuce diaplay of stocking detracts atten- gown worth $1,000 (or
Mary's diet is no problem at simple a thing as her logs for about how Olivia de Havilland in audience appeal. They explain a "Anthony Adverso" would wear a to see how long it would live, leaves, and apple cores Whstortion from facial expression and just
Bunnpr. Youngster Died
she will yiold to homesickness and talented emoting, which it does. The whole, ship was confident desort. the ship in Queensland is
"I just haven't got the heart to that Mary would not survive the a problem worrying the Orarl's unveiled with only a little less care for leg art," he said.-United The Dietrich, Inc., legs, orginally ask a gentle, timid actress to pose trip round the Australian coast, crew now.
mony than the Washington monu Press.
She lives in state in the Orag's chart room, where she was found when the vessel put ouf from Gladstone.
the
with an-
Then two large carpet snakes Sally were appointed with board, ludg-:
unyway.
KING'S ALHAMBRA
℗ COMMENCING SATURDAY
SHE'S THE SWEETHEART OF THE SOUTH -AND THE
DARLING OF THE NORTH!
HING TEP
AINS ON HER CHEEKS, TOO
Shirley Temple
- in The LITTLEST REBEL
John BOLES Jack HOLT.
KAREN MORLEY
BILL ROBINSON
Associate Producer B«G. Dažytyè a Directed by David
From the Famous Stone Hay by Edwald Puntair
OXO
CUBE
Your
Cook
must use
Oxo
A few Oxo Cubes make appetising dishes from the simplest ingredients. Oxo dishes are wholesome as well as tasty and nourishing, for the rich beef-juices of Oxo are digestives of the utmost valúc..
Oxo
the
Essence
of
Goodness
POMMERY et GRENO
S.c. 1/35
kdaw of Reims
bottle of
CHAMPAGNE
The Wine of Kings The King of Wines
In an incredibly short time every
rat disappeared. So, now, have
the snakes. No one knows where.
the "only" from its pleasing. but Thursday Island has deleted
prospects.
Sole Agents
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR &
CO.,
LTD.