THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY,
AUGUST
13,
1937.
MORE ACTIVE POLICY BY
BRITAIN IN
CHINA TO PROTECT HER
HER INTERESTS
AWAITING AN EVENING'S ENTERTAINMENT
After the Rotarian Dinner party last week given at the Isul Country Club, Shanghal, the guests enjoyed some community singing. Seen here is Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Falkner's party consist- ing of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Nutt. Mr. and Mrs. Pat Carey, Mr. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Reggie Meyer,
Mr, Phillip Ho, and Mrs, K. Friedman,
CAMELS OUSTED Modern Marcc Invention
BY CARS IN ARABIA Effect of Opening Of New Road
Polo Dies
To Aid Big
On World Trip Air Liners HAVING travelled over 2,000,-
1.-To Remain Friendly
With Nanking
2.-To Assist In China's
Economic Development
3.-Increase Financial
Stakes In China
By Henry Wood
United Press Staff Correspondent
San Francisco, Cal., for a number of railways. Further- Great Britain has determined more, British drms are likely to co- to adopt a more active policy in operate extensively with Chinese and China in order to protect and ex-of Hainan Island."
French Interests in the development tend the British stake there, ac cording to a survey of the in-
stitute of Pacific Relations.
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However, as regards trade in China,
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The new policy adopted by Great 000 miles in the past 27 Lewis W. Imm, young Department Britain, It is declared, will be mani- "The fature of Britain's export years, America's Marco Polo, of Commerce engineer, twirled the tested along three lines, as follows: trade to China, the survey finds, Aden, July 16.
Mr. Julius C. Brittlebank, who knobs of a 5-pound mechanical brain
A governmental policy that “depends upon the degree to which THE Governor of Aden, Sir was in Singapore 17 times, has and promised his invention will be will not sely consider any adjust British manufacturers can success-
Far East that would be unfavourable dustrial
Here the credit issue Bernard Reilly, accompanied died at Honolulu. He was on a major help in getting alrilners often of the political situation in the fully compete in the market for in
his the ground in scheduled time.
to the present Nanking Government. is of
and Ger- by the Air Officer Commanding his way to Singapore on
Second: Direct assistance to the many, rather than
Japan despite the at Aden, Air Commodore 18th trip round the world. McClaughry, is going on a fly. At the age of 79. Mr. Brittlebank
Chinese Government in its plans for latter's low priced is Britain's chiel competitor, German firms are ing tour of the eastern part of was 17 days older than his age, for
economic development.
exceptionally easy Increased participation by cach time he travelled round the
to while the facilities of the new Crown Colony of Aden. world he went in a westerly dire
economic projects, especially the con-ment of the British treasury to British British financial interests in various the export credits guarantee depart
terms.
time he
struction of railways that are calcu- firms exporting to China have been First stop will be Mukalla, some tiun, adding a day each 300 miles eastward from Aden, and erassed the international date line.
lated to yield an immediate return extended, this will not enable British thence about 30 miles on, to Shih-
and at the same thine increase Great goods to be sold at lower cost and both coast towns of the Hadhramaut,
Britain's anonciat stake in China. she will still have to compete with so-called "Arabin Fellx."
Germany and Japan."
KNEW THE WORLD
Imm invented a gadget he calls the "librascope" which calculates in two minutes how on airplane should be loaded; where the cargo should be stowed and the passengers seated, to avert pose heaviness" or tall drag Airport staffs normally spend a long as half an hour figuring this out, often with an airliner waiting past take-off time, he said.
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Third:
This change in attitude of Great Chinese develop-
In his 27 years of travelling after From Shihr Sir Bernard will travel retiring from the brokerage business some 100 miles inland by the newly-in South Carolina Mr. Brittlebank
One dial on imm's box of rods and Britain towards every country except Iceland completed road that leads to Tarim. Saw
levers tells to a fraction of a poundment and towards an increase in her in the country of the Kathiri tribe, and Siberia.
total weight of plane and cargo. A financial stake there is found to be Thence he will visit other places in
second shows the louded ship's centre in marked contrast with that of the the interior.
of gravity. This reading telis United States, which since the famous whether the plane loaded in in balance but ineffectual Stimson notes during for perfect light.
the Japanese Manchurian affale has shown a marked tendency to with- draw both her political interest and financial stake in China,
The Governor will formally open. the completed Shihr-Tarim road. Its completion is likely to have a pro- found effect on the life of the Arabs of the Interior.
Hitherto, by camel or mute caravan, they have been separated from the of several days. seo by Journey Now, with the new posal, they will be able to travel to Shihr by motor transport in a matter of a few hours.
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In that time he saw a world in ferment. He was on hand for the Russo-Japanese War, the Chinese of 1911, the Balkan Revolution War of 1912, Peruvian revolt and left Germany on the last safe day in 1914.
with me," Straits
"Sea air agrees
Mr. Tica Brittlebank fold the when he was last in Singapore, in October of last year.
If the Rbroscope shows the plane is nose-heavy, cargo may be shifted to the rear compartment or a couple of passengers moved to rear seats.
Various causes pre cited by thel Institute as having led Great Britain)
BRITAIN GETS U-BOAT SCARE
ADMIRALTY SCOTCHES DEPTH CHARGE YARN
London, July 26, DUMOURS reminiscent of the
"A plane flies mest efciently with to this definite change of policy as its centre of gravity coinciding exact-regards China. It is conceded that darkest days of the last war that with the point of the wings the new tendency is in direct con- German submarines operating sub- greatest lifi," he explained.
trast with the twenty year alliance
"I hope to complete my 25th cir-y cuit before retiring.""
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that existed between Great Britain merged off the naval harbour and
Japan, which ended, with the Portsmouth were forced to the sur- signing of the Washington Treaties, face when a British destroyer drop- them last and which served to protect British week have threatened an internation-
depth charges near and Japanese interests in Asia against al "incident." But the First Lord of Russian encroachments.
the Admiralty has scotched the yarn While Great Britain has endeavour-by stating
that
when the destroyer ed even since the abrogation of the Wolfhound was exercising with a Anglo-Japanese alliance to maintain British submarine off Portsmouth she the friendliest relations with Japan, sighted the German submarine U 34 it is now apparent, the Institute's on her way up Channel from Spain survey ands, that she is no longer dis- to Germany, and fearing that the sub- posed to do this at the expense of merged British submarine might China, or rather at the expense of her collide with the German visitor, Bnancial stake and future possibilties dropped a small depth charge to
signii har to the surface.
In China.
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the
crew
this was The only reason
Where, during the, crisis over the Another persistent tale, that H.M.S. question of Manchuria, England did Warspite, sistership of the Malaya, nothing positive to prevent the crea- was unable to put to sea from Ports-
because the tion of the new Japanese puppet state mouth recently
It ig of Manchukuo at the expense of refused duly, has proved false,
Was that there
mis- China, the Institute finds that at the admitted present time she is no longer disposed understanding about week-end leave
for to permit
of Far Eastern adjust-for lower deck, but ment that would be inimical to the speedily cleared up. Interest of a new and stable Chinn.. why the vessel is in dock still, instead
One of the things has
most
alarmed of in the Mediterranean, is that trials Great Britain and influenced her in after her "Large refit" revealed a de- formulating her new polley, the
the feet in the propelling machinery. Institute finds, has been the repeated- Bul one intriguing Service rumour ly manifest intention of Japan to end does appear to be well founded--that Suthe all western int
influence in China and the R.A.F. nre hoping to recapture leave Japan as
the controlling
Volce
world's long-distance the
Russia) in the regulation of all Chinese ques-record (held now by
a non-stop hop from tions, In other words, with the autumn with United States showing less and less Britain to Australia, It is calculated interest in the Far Eastern situation, that the night would last about 55 England has made it clear that she hours, at an average speed of nearly has no intention likewise of clearing
220 m.p.h. oul "Lock, stock and barrel" and leaving the Far East to the full con- trol of Japan.
A second thing that has alarmed
fying
this
WORK BEGUN ON
Great Britain relative to her position US. BATTLESHIP
In China, the Institute Ands, is the
alarm and hostility reflected in certain
sections of the Japanese Press re- PROOF AGAINST BOMBS
lative to every undertaking or cyld- ence of enterprise which England has manifested there.
OR TORPEDOES
WORK on the first United States battleship to be built since 1923, Finally, it is found, China's pro- gress towards stability and national has begun in the New York navy yard unification has created on the part of a Brooklyn employing 7,000 men, British financial circles an increased
She will be called Washington, and desire to find there a field for further will be of 35,000 tons displacement. Special features include lightweight investment. Recont currency re- forms, many of which were suggested construction by a special welding pro- by the Leith-Ross English Mission,cess designed so that the weight may and the readjustinent of defaulted be put into heavy guns, railway founs, also suggested by the same mission, have done much to of the plates, thus eliminating rivets. restore the confidence of English in- A new arrangement of a novel type of high-pressure boilers and turbines vestors and reawaken the conviction that China will remains one of the will be carried out, thereby saving great futuro markets of the world.
It is intended to weld 15 per cent.
400 tons.
Identical plans are being drawn for
As a result of this new change in the Washington's sister ship, North
nt
| British policy with regards China, the Carolina, which is being built
Institutë Anda that the whole future Philadelphia. The ships are expect- balance of political forces in the Fared to develop a speed ranging from East inny ikely undergo a complete 27 to 30 knots.
change. From a China left
entirely
They are theoretically proof against
to the mercy of the Japanese and nir bombs or torpedoes through a new with
a strong tendency on the part of method of sub-dividing wateright the latter to enforce a Japanese compartments.
Monroe Doctrine in the Far East, the The Japanese refusal to limit guns new British policy in China is calcu-to n maximum of 14 inches led to the lated to protect the latter from this decision to mount three 10-inch guns From the purely economic point of in each of the three turrets. The view, the survey finds
finds that "British secondary batteries will have right Arms are taking an active interest in or ten four or five-inch guns, and the programme for economic develop-anti-aircraft gust ment now being launched in
The vessels will also carry numer- China. British capital is to be invest ous machine guns, observation acro- ed in a large steel and fron plant near planes and dive bombers. They will Canton, and it appears probable that cost £12,000,000 each, and the plaus Beltial: credits will be granted for the require 14 months work before the purchase of materials and equipment{keels are laid.
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