BLOCKADE OF
HONGKONG
MÁY RESULT FROM CHINA WAR
Says London "Times"
An article in the London Timea on November 6 envisages a blockade of Hongkong as possible outcome of; the Sino-Japanese war.
The Tines Correspondent in Tokyo, states that many complaints are be- Ing received in Japan that munitions und war miterlul are reaching China through Hongkong, which at present
Hu Amin el Husseini, Mufti of
is exempt from the Inponese block-Jerusalem, who escaped from Jeru- ade of the Chinese coast.
The Times reports an authoritative Tokyo source ns stating that Japan may overcome the difficulty expr enced in preventing intuitions from reaching Ching through Hongkong by declaring war on Chign.
A forerunner of an offelni djecturn- tion of war would be the establish ment of Japanese Imperial General Headquarters. Japon, states the Timer Correspondent, may take this step if the various European powers sympathetic to China continue support that nation.
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The Times points out that a Jopa nese declaration of war on China would bring Hongkong within the scope of the Japanese blockade of the Chinese coust.
"It Inpan declares war en China the situation with regard to Hong-
says the Times.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19,
1937.
H.K. Scot Stow Away To Australia
ALLEGED TO HAVE BOARDED TYMERIC From walla-WALLA ·
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Wellington, NZ., Nov. 6. when the ship was lying. in mid- A Hongkong Scot named James stream in Hongkong harbour, bellev- Crowford appeared in the Police ing that it was bound for Newcastle Court at New Plymouth 10-day, in England. charged with having slowed" away from Hongkong to New Zealand in the .. Tytheric.
Crawford is alleged to have board- ed the Tymeric from a walla-walla
LOUDER
sutem to Syria, disguised as Z.B.W...
sant.
Australian Violinist
a pea-
To Play Here
POSSIBLE
Under Latest B.B.C. Scheme
Under Britain's new plan for "broadcasting news in foreign langu-
ages, it is possible that the power of ZUW, Hongkong, may be greatly in- creased in the near future.
Dairy Kennedy, the Australian violinist and widow of John Drink-į water, the port and playwright, will world tour IZN soon commence
Ila understood that the Secretary leader and conductress of male of State for the Colonies has, com- string quart t The quartet willmunicated with Colonies throughout visit Hongkong during the tour.
the Empire, advising them of the new policy adopted for British broad- casting.
The party will be drawn from aix English, Irish and Australian players, and will play light musle in a new
A powerful broadcasting station Is
for broadcasting in Arabic to the Mediterranean and the near East.
kong will be considerably changed way, eschewing Jazz and musical to be creeted at Larnoca, in Cyprus. ennedy, The impresario, Harold Holt, is supporting the venture. "Considerable inconvenience and} Miss Kennedy has recovered fully loss to British whipping trading to from a recent street necident and from Hongkong would almost London, which necessituted certainly to be one of the resuits." stitches in her face,
HEIRESS TO MILLIONS TO
VISIT HONGKONG
Plans for n Far Eastern cruise} having been abandoned owing to the Sino-Japanese dispute, Me, and Mrs. Jumes R. Croniwell are instead travelling to Hongkong by Pun- American Airways,
Mrs. Cromwell Is the famous Doris Duke, heiress to the Camel cigarette millions. She is the richest girl in the world.
year
Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell spent the major part of their honeymoon last at Repulse Bay. During the honeymoon
Mr. Cromwell would not allow his wife to spend a of her personal fortune. penny
trip,
The couple will leave San Fran-
Marcus Show
Returning To Colony
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Arrives In March
nov
Another transmitter will be erected injat Maita, for broadcasting in Halinn
and Spanish.
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Existing transmitters in India.
Wha
When the ship was two days of sen he came out of his hiding place and gave himself up. He chogtied
10 discover that the Tymeric was bound, not for New castle in England, but for Newensile in New South Wales, vin Nauru and New Plymouth.
After formal evidence to this effect was given in the Police Court at New Plymouth, Crawford was remanded at the request of the prosecution.
It was stated in rourt that the mill- tury nulliorities in Hongkong were seeking a deserter where descripilon tallied with Crawford. A remand was noted pending. Inquiries in Hongkong. Crawford emphatically denied that he was a military deser- ter, but admitted that he had smug- gled away from Hongkong in the be Hef that the Tymerke was en roule to Newenstle in England.
MERCY KILLING BY 70 YEAR-OLD MOTHER
FOR twenty years Mrs. Ger- trude Alice Hogg, aged forty-one, was an invalid. Ifer Singapore and Hongkong may have seventy-year-old mother, Mrs. their power greatly increased for Ada Walsh, devoted her life to broadcasting in Indian and Chinese. nursing her. A. short wave station at Bermuda will broadcast in Spanish to the South American republics.
The decision to enter Uie fleld of news and propaganda broudessting in foreign languages is the result of Since Christmas she had been in Jong consideration by a committee. bed, too ill to be moved. Strain of including representatives of the Foreign
Oce. Colonial Office and untiring nursing told on the mother. and she too had to be constantly other Government Departments, in under the care of doctor. addition to the B.B.C.
anti-British.
world.
Italian
Harold George Hogg, the daugh- ter's husband, went abroad, she did not know where, and she moved to her parents' home t Gloucester Road, Kingston, Surrey.
Mrs. Walsh realised that she was no longer able to give her daughter the attention she needed. She could not bear to see her suffer and she would not trust any one else to nurse
ber.
bear the
The proposed services will play a great part in countering foreign pro- paganda which at times is strongly propaganda from Bari has been particularly per- nicious of late, and a constant stream
When the old woman's husland, of propagando is being directed to
George Henry Walsh, retired postal Palestine and Indin. Japan, 100, has
superintendent, returned home one entered the field of propaganda in
night he found a note from his the Far East, and Germany constant- The famous Marcus Show, which ly broadensts national propaganda to:
wife saying that In view of the daughter's ill-health and her own playing in Australíu, is to¦South America and other parts of the cisco by Pan-American Clipper on visit Hongkong next March. The
age she had declded to end mat- December 15, arriving in Hongkong
icm. The foreign languages polley will five days later. They will probably cast will comprise 100 players, the
affect the Empire broadcasts not
She said: "I cannot remain in this Colony for a short largest troupe to visit the Far East.
B.B.C. while
fran Daventry. These the
thought of leaving her.", before proceeding ຢ່າງ
Mr. Marcus stated in Melbourne pot Europe.
only propose to continue bul Mr. Walsh told the coroner at the upstairs, last week that arrangements had to enlarge and increase to such an inquest that he rushed
extent that they will provide the bure open the bedroom door. nlready been completed for the Far Empire with a continuous 24-hour His daughter was in bed, dead. Eastern tour, and does not anticipate; of the service, receivable at maximum His wife was on the floor, dead. Be- that the Sino-Japanese Hostlities strength anywhere in the world. Italde her was a razor.
Is will
proposed to erect n new short Though the jury wanted to keep cause nny postponement, He
wave transmitter which will be the the word "murder" out, the verdict was "Murder in the ease of Mra. Shanghal and Japan before return- fund to its accounts, Commissioner |
A B.D.C. engineer who was en Hogg, ruleide while balance of mind P. H. Goggin said after an Chion to the United States,
route to Hongitong on a tour of Em-was disturbed in the case of Mrs. -women- mailed 25-cents. In postage | The Marcus Show fast played in pire outposts was suddenly recalled Walsh...... stamps to pay for flowers she re-longkong at the Queen's Theatre in from India to assist in developing the Coroner and jury expressed sym- moved from à city garden.
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