THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1937.
ENORMOUS GROWTH
SHIPPING
Lavish State
State Subsidies Responsible
SHRINKAGE OF
BRITISH
MERCHANT NAVY
THE disclosures regarding the encroachment on British interests by Japan's heavily subsidised mercantile marine, made recently by the Hon. Alexander Shaw at the general meeting of the P. and O. Company, are fully borne out by information from official sources, including a report from the British Commercial Counsellor at Tokio, writes Hector. C. Bywater in the Daily Telegraph.
Preacher Jilts Girl: Midnight Farewell JAMES
THIS reveals that Japan's mer-
cantile marine is now humer-
ically the third largest in the world. In point of modernity and efficiency probably it ranks second.
fut-
It has been but up by reaching subsidy schemes, including a comprehensive scrap-and-build policy. Inpin already owns 4,215,- 000 tons gross, and out of this total Ittle more than 200,000 tons wis idle when the report was compiled. Trade Lost By Britain
Every shipyard in the country is bonked up to capacity with orders ALEXANDER for new tunbage. As Mr. Show has stated. the new Shipping Routes GILLESPIE, lay pre- Control Act recently adopted by the acher, male nurse at
Parliament will inereuse
a Japanese
per cent.
hospital in Epsom, Surrey, the existing mercantlle fleet by 50 on July 14 was to have mar-
The Act is offeinlly described an ried Jennic Forest Allinson, being designed "Lo strengthen
Dar- Government thirty-three-year old
control over Japanese ships and to
extended turn this power to the direction of competi- On July 9 he went to Derling-ton with foreign countries." ton, stayed with relatives
lington shop assistant.
nf
When the Act has matured Japan times larger than is required for the carriage of her own seaborne trade. therefore, the surplus Obviously,
in to be employed to en- tonnage eroach on services hitherto operated He then caught a train back to by the shipping of other countries. Britain will be the chief London. Next morning. Miss Af-and Inson received a letter. She did sufferer. not ree Gillespie again,
Misa Allinson. On July 12, will possess a inercantile marine four Sunday before the wedding day, there was a family party.
The party broke up at midnight; Gillespie wished his bride-to-be "n very affectionate farewell,"
Last month, at Durbain Sheril's
Lavish Subsidies
:
OF JAPANESE
The new Parliament Building in Tokyo. recently
completed, teak oprued for the first time yesterday. The building cost 15 million yen.
1937's Cowboys Will
Use
'Planes
New York, Jan. 10.
YOU'LL hardly be able to recognise the 1937 cowboy of the Wild and Woolly West. The kind you know on the films is galloping into the past with the Old Year, closely pursued by his successor-in an airplane.
Mary Astor To Become A Writer
FORSAKING FILMS
There is still a herd of 2,000 wild horses in Idaho- one of the few remaining in America's wide open spaces. But many of them have learned how to stay wild, and know more tricks than their hunters.
It all seems rather sad,
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10 p.m. Big Ben, Gipsy Music. Geiger and His Orchestra, From Claridge's Hotel, London.
10.45 Variety,
Piano Solo-Melodies of the Month, No. 20.... Len Green; VocalI nearly let love go slipping through my and Angers....Sam Browne; Organ Solo hus-Free... Quentin M. Maclean; Vocal Instrumental-If you were the only
for
So the cowboy, stabling his mount and hurling aside his Hollywood, Jan. 1. Mary Astor, whose celebrated sombrero, is to leap into his air "Purple Diary" offered the film plane and fly low round colony some of its best reading round his quarry until he matter in years, has decided to tired them out sufficiently become a writer but she is the last round-up. going to do it the hard way.
who The slender Actress, authored her first literary "hil" almost by accident when her ex- husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, { turned over her "Tell All" diary to newspapers during their re- This enormous, growth of Japan-cent child-custody court wrungle,
duc ese shipping is
entirely to
has been deluged with offers system of invish State subsidies.
from publishers. July Nearly half the cost of many new affectionate the "very farewell" after the party on July 12;was defrayed by the Government. the-letter the following morning, July 13, which rend:
Court, she Was awarded £150 Even to-day about three-quarters damages in a breach of promise of the trade between India and action.
Japan is earried by Japanese ships, Stacked on the sheriff's table was Further, within the past 25 years huge bundle of love letters.
Japan has captured half the trade This In the story Miss Allinson between Calcutta and Japan via the told: Seven years ago Gillespie gave Strails and China, a traffic which her an engagement ring. This year and previously been 100 per cent. he wrote from Epsom to a minister British, frlend in Darlington 8xing the date
of the wedding for July 14.
"Better Now Than-"
ຍ.
He met in Darlington un
Came
Dear Jennie.You must cancel rements for the wedding. all arrangements I feel I cannot go on with it. I am really very ill with it and have neither slept nor eaten since arrived. It is very evident there
merchantmen recently built in Japan
of
Many of them are cargo motor.. ships of 10 knots speed, one which, the Akagi Maru, arrived in London last month.
Need Of Prompt Action
Japan's coastal trade is entirely You reserved for her own shipping, no fa little love left between us. have not and I have not shown foreign vessels being permitted to much affection since I arrived. It engage in l. Yel Japanese ships is better that it should all Enishire largely employed in the inter- now than that we live a life of hellport trade of the British Empire,
where they operate without restric and hypocrisy,
tion.
That is what it would amount to,
I am going away now. Jennic, In urging that prompt action must please try to forgive me, I realise be taken if the rapid shrinkage of the awfulness of what I do, but it the British merchant navy-now is better now than for life. Good-2,000,000 tons less than before the bye.Jim.
war-is to be arrested, Mr. Shaw is PS-Keep everything I have voicing the almast unanimous given you,
opinion of the Dritish shipping com- Miss Allinson continued that she munlly throughout the Empire. collapsed after receiving that letter,
care for under medical
was months..
two
The view in strongly held that un- less the process 1$ checked by at home and netion In contemplation of the wedding. Government she had given up a job she had held overseas a few years hence will and Empire desperately short of for nineteen years, had spent £25 the on her trousseau. At thirty-three merchant shipping. she had little chance, now of muking
a happy marriage.
Unwritten
Law Beats Girl 'Rebel'
New York, Jan. 10. SCHOOLTEACHER Edith Max- well to-day lost her second fight against the unwritten law of old Virginia that women must abey.
her father's Defying approval, she went to dances, came home one`night after her curfew-hour of nine o'clock, was beaten by her parent maddened by rum. She resisted, and In the scuffle killed him,
di-
Ealth was tried for murder. A jury of stald mountain folk found her guilly:, to them alte had not even the right to ques- tion her father's authority to chastise her, and they threw aside her ples of self-defence.
Public opinion forced a second trial, which ended to-day. Thara same mountain folk siened to weeks
of cloquent speeches. Then, in one hour and thirty- 'seven minutes, they upheld their verdict. So Edith Maxwell wan again 'led away to spend the youth she had fought for behind prison walls,
Duke of Norfolk
To Marry On January 27
THE marriage of the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and premier Duke of the Realm, to the Hon. Lavinia Strutt, daughter of Lord Belper is to take place at the Bromp- ton Oratory on January 27, It is announced.
Their engagement was made known Just month.
The Duke of Norfolk, who is 20, is the King's right hand man for all State functions, and is responsible for all the ceremonial detalls for the Coronation of King George VI, next
May
Miss Strutt is 20 years of age. Her mother is Lady Rosebery, whose marriage to Lord Belper was dissolv-
ed in 1922.
The Duke's full titles are: Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk, Baron Maltravers, Baron Fitzalan of Ciun and Oswaldestre,
As well as being Enri Marshal and Premler Duke, he is the Hereditary Marshal of England. He succeeded his father of the age of nine, Inherit- Ingan catate said to be worth roughly £5,000,000.
His possessions include about 50,- 000 acres of land, and Arundel Castic, Sussex; the home of his family for centuries.
One bid for Miss Astor's next
masterpiece ran to six figures, and made no specifications. The bidder, anews syndicate, was willing to take anything from romantic novels to poetry.
Shave In Court Costs Suspect
6 Years' Jail
Paris, Jan. 10.
A. SHAVE has cost Jose Pens six
years in jail. Pena disappeared last year from the Parls flat_of
friends nanied Barruco at the same Lime as £700. He was arrested,
In Jail he grew a moustache. When to trial wilnesses wero
Miss Astor turned it down. "There isn't any short cut to good he came writing," she explained. "It is hard doubtful if the moustached man was But if I ever the one they had seen fleeing from work and plenty of it. achieve success in writing, it is going the flat. to be because of what I write-nat because it has my name on it."
A month after the end of the child custody feud, in which Miss Astor's highly combustible note book nearly blew the lid off Hollywood's extra curriculor Rocial affairs, little Marylyn Thorpe, their 4 year old daughter who was the issue at stake, went to live with her father for a month under terms of a court'aprec- merl.
Miss Astor had time on her hands, and between work on "Lady from
her
for Nowhere"
Jatest Alm Columbia, she began to write.
Judge Sergence sent for a barber, told him to shave Pena in court. Pena, without moustache, was im- mediately recognised as the thief, convicted and sentenced.
DIVORCE BECAUSE HUSBAND PLAYED TRUMPET
Friends said the actress, working DECAUSE her
Chicago, Jan. 10.
husband played
granted
In the little clustered den which tunes on his trumpet when she Dr. Thorpe Alled out for her when he
was ., a Chicago Judge was her husband, planned to publish Mrs. Gladys Severt a divorce. a book under an assumed name.
Miss Astor scoffed at this notion.
"Why should I write under another name?" she asked. "I write because I like to write. I've always wanted tolt is not a new urge in my life."
WORKED FOR FAME Curiously, Miss Astor worked hard for iterary fame before her purple memory book ever got into print. But she never caught up with success. Since her legal row with her ex- husband, she has been showered with offers of ready-made success which might bring her more, for the time, than her $1,500-a-week salary from Columbia,
The
netress.
who "dislikes alm
people who talk about art, admic with a wan smile that her literary efforts to date have not met with much reward.
"While I was 1 bed and under
strict orders to remain quiet," Mrs. Severt told the court, "my husband come into my room and insisted on playing 'St. James's Infirmary Bluest on his trumpet. I asked him please to stop, but he sat down on my bed and played some more, played prac- tically all night".
The judge, granting her a divorce, said she might resume her maiden
name-Reuter,
"I knew the story was no good," she said. "It has been kicked around for months. So I'm going to learn to write stories that will be accepted for what they are-not because I wrote them."
There's a new world....Ike Hatch;
girl in the world..... Brian Lawrance and his Lansdowne House Sextet,
11 p.m. Close Down.
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Big Len. *John Londoner Home-1.
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7 p.m. Blz Ben. All at Fea, or "The True Story of the Helly Martină 7.30 p.m.
An Organ Recital.
W.IB p.m. “This is England.
8,30 p.m. The D.B.C. Dance Orchestra. 8.55 p.m. The News and Announcementa. Greenwich Time Bignel at 0.15 p.m. 9.15 p.m. Friday Midday Concert.
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11.30 pm. The Leille Bridgewater Harp
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TELEGRAM TO LONDON CHINESE URGE GOVERNOR BE
KEPT IN HONGKONG
Following the decision taken at the monthly meeting of the Hongkong Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday afternoon, the four Chin-
ese Unofficial members of the Coun- clis, the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kolewall (Executive Council member), the everything with an Astor tag attach-Hon. Mr. T, N. Chau, the Hon. Mr. ed, and Miss Astar's second story, M. K. Lo and the Hon. Dr. Lt. Shu- "The Orchid" was swept into prini. tan (Legislative Council members)
Miss Astor took the fint.
yesterday morning sent a direct tale- gram to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, London, in the name of the community. whole of the Chinese here, representing 97 per cent. of the total population of Hongkong, strong- ly urging the retention of Sir An- drow Caldecott in Hongkong.
The message urged this course in view of the political and economic situation, and because of Sir drew's long experienco in Chinese matters and his special qualifications for the promotion of friendship.be- tween Great Britain and China,
"Aboul two years ago I took my first real effort at short story writing Miss Astor has completed two new to a magazine editor. He did not pictures in the last six months- seem very charmed. However, Dodsworth," which astute. Samuel Leonard Lee who had done script, Goldwyn rushed through the mill on saw it and thought there were pos- the momentum of the Astor-Thorpe sibilities in it.
case and "Lady from Nowhere," the "He asked to
REC me at the second of three pictures she has con- Algonquin hotel in New York. We tracted to make for Columbia. worked over the story together. I There has been' a spectacular de never worked so hard in my life. It mand for Mary Astor pictures us well was only a short story, but it con- as her short stories since the "Purple vinced me there was no easy path diary" trial: but for-seeing crilles to success in writing."
have held up judgment
An-
Mrs. L. W. Amps gave an interest- ing talk to members of the St. An-
on the drew's Women's Fellowship in the The first story was accepted, and permanent effect until Lady from Church Hall, yesterday afternoon. she wrote another, again collaborating Nowliere" is previewed. If that rolls The subject of her talk was "Chnotic Conditions in the Modern World- with script writer Lee. It was not in gold the way. "Dodaworth" did, accepted-unti the
Astor-Thorpe Goldwyn will bite Miss Antor to do is there an answer to them?" Prior courtfight hit the front pages. Then a talking version of "Stella Dallas," to the talk, the members played muh-
jong.. a wave of newsworthiness engulfed United Press,
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CHINESE SCHOOLS
RECOGNITION FOR HELPERS
IN DRIVE FOR FUNDS ·
4
Educational Society, will make the awards...
Hongkong's Free Schools
of
of
The number of Free Schools main- tained by the Tung Yee Tong and In recognition of services resulting other public-spirited institutions hay in a sum of more than $3,300 being run up to the surprising total collected for the Maintenance Fund nearly 60, with a combined roll of the ten Free Schools managed by 3,000. The Tung Wah Hospital beads the Tung Yee Tong Educational So- the list with 27, the Confuelon So- waty a reception and entertainment cely 17 the Tung Koon Chamber be held at the Taiping Theatre 10, and the Chung Shing Benevolent. to-morrow for the dower sellers and and South China Athletic Associa
the tion two each; in addition to several
se Free Schools are other helpers associated with
These At others. drive held on December 30 Insi
be different parts of the Island and this reception the helpers will publicly thanked, and prizes will be mainland, and ore managed, accord- awarded to those sellers who secured ing to the groups in which they are
arranged, by Die different Educa the best results.
Llonal Sub-Committees appointed by
being
a special consolation prize for the of the Colour
in
Two cups and a shield for the the public Institutions to co-ordinate first three places have been donated this aide with the other charitable by Mr. Chan Keng-wu, in addition to works performed for the poor runner-up contributed jointly by Mr. Amongst these Free Schwelt there Lou King-tsing and Mr. Chon Lan-is a tendency to co-operate, in menes fong.
born
of one fustitution or educationat committee being represented on the The first prize will go to Miss Lau other boards a notable example Woon-to, the 18-year-old daughter provided by Mr. Lau Kingstaing, who of Mr. Lau King-sing, who has the besides being Chairman of the Tung distinction of having turned in top yes Tout, is Vice-Chairman of the results amongst the lower-sellers for Chung Shing. He is also
on the the fourth time in succession." Committee of the Tung Wah and of The Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, who is the Confucian Society, and organized chairman of the Tung Koon Cham- the recent Tung Yee Tong drive for ber of Commerce and Industry, the funds which had the highly success- parent body of the Tung Yee Tongful results noted.