THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
JANUARY
21, 1938.
Japan Denies Starting Navy Building Race
INSISTS UPON THE RIGHT OF SECRET CONSTRUCTION
Policy Of Non-Menace And Non-Aggression
Tokyo, Jan. 21.
"If Third Powers are taking the Sino-Japanese hostilities as a pretext to build additional warships, it is purely due to a misconstruction and distortion of the situation," declared Rear-Admiral Noda, spokesman of the Ministry of the Navy when interviewed by Reuter - concerning Japan's naval plans.
Diplomatic Doyen Dies: Well-Known
In Hongkong
FORMER MINISTER
AT PEIPING
Paris, Jan. 20.
Peiping To
Have New
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Peiping, Jan. 21. Major-General Seichl Kita of the Army Special Affairs Department, A former French Minister to announced yesterday to Chinese China who predicted as early as pressmen that the new Reserve Banks 1930 the present upheaval in would issue their first batch of notes China has just died at Ismailiafe claimed that this was necessary. You were There.....
during the first ten days of February. a due to a shoringe of paper currency "caused by the large purchases of after an operation, states
cotton."
He announced that the new notes Minister as appointed Ambassador must be used everywhere as soon as
they are fasued. It is planned use the new notes and to withdraw to London.
The late Count
the Central Government and other Say well know the Far East is "im bank notes now circulating within Sweet M
an unspecified period.--United Press.
Reuter message.
Count 'de Fleuriau was French to China from 1920 to 1924,
de Fleuriau was und in Hongkong periai" beard and his flowing black
artist.
Japan, he added, was seeking only peace-in the Farsilic bow gave him the appearance East and throughout the rest of the world.
Questioned concerning the allega- flon that the Japanese navy might be responsible for starting the race in tonnages and gun calibres, he replied that, judging from press reports, the United States programme, as well na that of Soviet Russla, might be taken as initiating a naval race.
Rear-Admiral Noda declined to answer nll questions concerning Japan's capital ships
programme.
The strictest seercey, he said, was always maintained regarding Japon- ece naval construction plans, and he was not nequalated with them.
... NON MENACE AND
NON AGGRESSION
Ambassador's Medical Aid For China
Instruments From United States
sets
of
In his youth he was a keen yachts- inun and later he was an ardent bibliophile and a haunter at second- hand bookshops. His handwriting, of which he was rather proud and which looked beautiful at a distance. was famed in diplomalle circles in the East for its illegibility.
Court Story Of Alleged
Joss Healing
Woman Claims She
Was Swindled
6.0 to 7.0 Chinese Programme. 7.0 Dance Music. Foxtrots-Turn Your Face to the Orchestra; Jack Jackson and His Sun; Red Sails in the Sunsel. .... Waltz-The Family Album: Foxtrot The Phoenix Theatre Orchestra; Tangoes-Re-Fa- Sl; Response Malevo..... Juan de Dias Elliberto y su Orquesta Porten; to Dall; An Old Hlawalian Guitar
Foxtrots On the Beach at Ball- Roy' Fax and Ills Orchestra; Waltzes
that you will
will Not Forget; Rose... Bernhard
7.30 Turner Layton, Ette and His Dance Orch,
Lost (Mercer and Testors: Sweet- heart, Let's Grow Old Together (Edwards); The Night is Young and You're so Beautiful (Suesse).
The story of how one woman allegedly swindled another who was und was willing to try all means of curing her illness, was related be- Forrest at the
Central Magistracy this morning, when Li Tln, 47, was charged with the larceny by false pretences of a gold medal from Lo Kiu, 30, married
Detective-Sergeant J.
M. de Fleuriau was doyen of the Diplomatic Corps In London after his appointment there in 1924, and he remained in the British capital as French Ambassador for nine years. Most of his diplomatic career, in fact. was spent in London, to where he was first appointed as a young secretary to the French Embassy in 1800. He rose to the rank of Counsellor dur- ing the early years of the Great War A hundred
valuable when his task was to supervise the fure Mr. R. A. uf surideal instruments are being sent many complex questions-that arose The Japanese navy, however, he to China for the use of medical units between Britain and France-trans- added, adhered to a policy of non-through ilongkong from the Chinese port, tonnage, trading and Treasury menace and non-aggression. Reply- Ambassador to America, Dr. C. T. facilities. The result was that he Ing to the suggestion that Japan's Wang
nequired a knowledge of econ
economic secrecy in this connection wne in
Dr. C. Y. Wu, in reply to the problems that surprised experts and Itzeit a menace to Third Powers, Ambassador's letter, expressed his made him a rara avis among diplo whose building programmes were gratitude on behalf of the Chinese mats of the older school. This know- published beforehand, the spokesman Red Cross Society.
ledge led to his being sent to the agreed that this secrecy might cause This cquipment will certainly International Financiöl Conference uncastress to outsiders, but added: prove a godsend to our military and at Brussels. "We Insist that our policy of non-Red Cross surgeons who have hitherto His Ambassadorship to London, menace and non-agression should be
had to work under severe handicaps. after his return from China in 1924, trusled."
I shall do
your Excellency was one of the most potent factors Asited whether Japan's Ching policy was one of non-mennee and instructs immediately on receipt of in the improvement, of Anglo-French who overheard the conversation, told the consignment," the letter says. relations and he was very popular non-aggression, Rear-Admiral
Dr. Wang is the President of the in England. Chinese Red Cross Society and has On his retirement in 1933 he be done Tremendous work for society since the Sino-Japanese at the Catholic Institute in Paris. hostilities broke out.
Noda sald: This policy is the keynote of our entire military preparations. Even the present China affair was undertaken as a neccessary step, to establish peace in the Far East".
Questioned concerning Japan's at- titude towards 1 possible naval conference, Admiral Node pointexi out that the Navy Minister, Admiral Yonal, had already declared in the Diet, that Japan was always ready to participate in a naval conference "L Japan's just attitude is accepted."
The Rear-Admiral revealed that in view of the International character of the Panay and Ladybird Incidents contrary to all Japanese Service precedents, the disciplinary action Laken had been communicated to
Britain and America "so far na was necessary," with the request not to publish anything on the subject.
Japan, sald the spokesman, would not be invited to the opening of the Singapore base. He was unable to say at present where the nearest Japanese warships should be at the
time of the celebrations.
Alleged Fraudulent
Woman,
secuted.
ber,
Allen pro-
7-10
Itelas-"Food Lamdon
Three short topicul interest.
for
talks on matters of
3.0 Local Time Signal and Weather Iteport
senza
8.03 Studio Helen Lockhart (Con- tralto) accompanied by E. O'Neil Shaw.
Kurkdica Che Faro ("Orfeo") .... Gluck; 2. Micnefied, Brahms; 3. Cradle Song...... Schubert; 4. None But the Lonely Heart.... Tschaikowsky; 5. Where Corals Lle. Elgar: 6. Ships of Arcady.....
Michael Head. 6.23 Zino Francescat! (Violin). Rondino (on a Theme by Beetho ven).... Kreisler; Variations (on a Theme by Corelli) Tartini-Kreisler,
H.K.T.
8.30 p.m.
London Relay-"British Industries Fair 1939."
An Introductory Talk to this year's Fair by the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby K.C., B.C.B., c.c.v.o.
8.45 Studio Rev. C. B. R. Sargent 20th Series of Opera,
"The Force of Destiny" (Verdi). 9.30 London Relay The News. 9.50 Choir of the Temple Church and Organ Music.
Lo Klu said she suffered from pains in the chest, and had tried every means to cure herself, but was unsuccessful. On October 20, 1937, she was visiting a friend at No. 223 Des Voeux Rand West, und remarked that she had pains, when defendant,
I waited for the Lord; Q Come Ye, witness she would be able to cure Everyone that Thirstell (Mendels-
sohn)
Choir with soloists, Masters Defendant recommended witness to E.
certo in B Flat (Handel)....Dr. E. witness agreed to try the treatment. Bullock; Water Music Sulte, Move- On request, she handed defendant ment in D....Dr. E. Bullock; See $18.60 two days later, and a further Amid the Winter's Snow; Christmus $t to buy chicken, pork, eggs and
Lullaby: Lullay my Liking: There is ricc to worship the Joss. In
no Rose of Such Virtue. addition, she was asked for a further
$6.10, and this was given.
the came professor of diplomatic history swallow joss water and jass pills, and Lough & R Mallet; Organ Con-
Colony's Different
Use Of Money Kind Of
On two charges of fraudulent con version of money, an unemployed man named Chan Ling, 51, was re- manded for a week by Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
Chan is ulteged to have used a total sum of $330.60 which was given him by two countrymen to purchase passage tickets for Singapore on Rear-Admiral Noda agreed that no November 15 Inst. merchant vessels of Third Powers Chan pleaded not guilty, and had gone up the Yangtse since the February 3, is the day fixed for the Japanese occupation of Nanking hearing of the ease. "owing to military necessity". The Inhibition, he said, was likely to continue for some time-Reuter.
$5,000,000 INSURANCE PAID ON PRESIDENT
HOOVER
Black-Out
With the Colony blanketed by the heaviest fog experienced in
REQUESTED MEDAL FOR JOSS WORSHIP
Choir.
10.17 Arthur Rublastein. Liebestraum (No. 3) (Liszt); Valse Caprice (Rubinstein); Copriccio in B Minor Op. 76 (Brahms.).
10.30 Schumann-Symphony
No,
1 in B Flat Major Op. 38,
Played by the Chicago Symphony
11.0 Close down,
Witness still felt pains in her chest, and defendant then asked for gold medal, which she said she needed to Orchestra-conducted-by-Frederick- place on the joss altar to worship. Stock. Defendunt promised to return the medal to witness in iwo months. Witness bought the medal from 0 jewellery shop for $31, and gave it to. defendant on November 2. Later,
she found that defendant had moved to another address.
COW SHED
days later, witness again asked for WEST POINT
STRED 'FD STEAL JACKET cced with the utmost caution, sicer: put, defends had any quesions to of straw were destroyed, as well as
FROM CLAREMONT
For attempting to steal a jacket
over a year, shipping and On December 31, she asked for the BLAZE AT vehicular traffic in Hongkong return of the medal, and defendant was disorganised for over four promised to return it. Eight or ten hours last night.
the medal, and this time, defendant The grey mists that shrouded the denied all knowledge of it. The matter was then taken before the
A smail Gre broke out in a cow harbour and mid-level areas from 7 p.m. to midnight were heaviest when Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, and shed rented by the Tang On firm ut trans-harbour traffe was at its night witness was told to bring the matter the Kennedy Town slaughter-house
the attention of the police. peak, and ferries laden with cinema
about 11 o'clock last night. Two tons Asked if she and hotel parties were forced to pro-
alleged that the prin- 20 feet of the shed. Fire appilances ing by compass from the time they cipal tenant of No. 223 Des Voeux responded to the alarm, and soon had
Road
West had put witness up to left the wharves.
the flames extinguished. Visibility in mid-harbour was re- prosecute her. She alleged that both duced to less than 20 yards at one
this. Leung Shun-lan the principal small vessels were helplessly lost.
Conditions were equally chaotic on tenant, said that through a quarrel the Penic and many motorists return-between herself and defendant, che to West Point ing from their offees after 6.30 pm, reported the matter or proceeding to the city during later Station, and was told to ask defen- hours groped their way in second gear dant to leave. That matter had noth along
the winding
the ing to do with the medal, and wit- roads from lower levels. The fog was even more ness in fact knew nothing about it the police after opaque when after ticaire parties at- until informed by
ing reported defendant to the police on complainant's instructions, and also said she did not tell the woman to go to the S.C.A.
women
worth $15 from a ground floor room stage in last night's fog, and 'several i donen bore her a grudge. Wilness caused by a beggar who was sleepin
of the Claremont Hotel, Kowloon, yesterday, at man named Li Ming. 53, who has been in the Colony for San Francisco, Jan. 20. only two days, was bound over in Representing full payment of the $10 for a year and is to be sent out American, share of the loss of the of Hongkong. itner, President Hoover, the Ameri-
It is believed that the fire was
there, throwing a lighted cigarette on the inflammable material.
CHINESE REAP BENEFIT OF
can Marine Insurance Syndicate, has Li was arrested when he was seen presented the Maritime Commiss-standing outside a window of the ion cheque for G$2,500,000, hotel attempting to steal a jacket, tempted to return to the Peak dis- defendant's arrest. She denied hav- MOBILE TACTICS
The sum of G$3,000,000 was paid belonging to Mr. G. M. Cornfield,trict between 11 p.m. and midnight. on Tuesday to the London Insurance which was hanging up Inside the Market.-United Press.
room.
NEW AMBASSADOR LIKES
MODERN POETRY
SIR ARCHIBALD CLARK KERR READY FOR IMPORTANT DUTIES IN CHINA
London, Jan. £0.
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, the new British Ambassador to China, has altered his plans, and will fly to Baghdad on January 24 to wind up one or two affairs which were left uncompleted owing to the suddenness of his tranfers to China.
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VISITORS, TOURISTS CAUGHT BY STRIKE
The case was adjourned until
to-morrow.
Shanglial, Jan. 21. According to Chinese reports the future success of mobile tactics is made ovident by the fact that hund- reds of Japanese were killed in the vicinity of Taiyuan recently, in addi- tion to 1,400 Japanese casualties in
INDIAN R. C. TO HOLD recent battles in Tsining.
DANCE NEXT WEEK
Feeling a need for more social functions, the Social Sub-Committee of the Indian R.C. has arranged a dance to be held at the club-house at Sookunpoo on Saturday, January 20, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The Hunan Province is establishing a planning commission for the pur- pose of training the masses, while upwards of a million have joined the self-defence corps in Shensi Pro- vince-United Press.
ALLEGED ROBBERIES IN KOWLOON
Stockholm, Jan. 20. Visitors and hotel guests have This is the second venture in this been greatly inconvenienced here direction by the Club. The first was enjoyable affair; it is hoped that this by a lock-out of employees by held a few years ago and proved an restaurant and cafe owners.
will be just as successful. The ar- Two robbery cases were remanded The lock-out has occurred as a
rangements are in the hands of by Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kow- He, and Lady Clark Kerr who is He has a very attractive personality, result of the workers' demands for Messrs. A. Butt (Convener), H. Toon Magistracy to-day, at in Baghdad, will then dy on to with a simple and direct manner, and
Barron and A. A. Aziz. a wage increase. Bombay, and from thence will go by is physically active and vigorous. Viritors at hotels searched fruitless-
Tickols are available at $1.50 the P. and O. Kaiser-I-Hind toe impresses one as a man of keenly throughout the night for alternative head. and of resolute character. His insight Shanghai.
accommodation at boarding houses. Sir Archibald, in an interview with personal tastes are most catholic. He Many have been taken in by private
Is Reuter, said his first duly would be to equally an enthusiast for sport and familles.
Largo queues walted at restaurante present his credentials to the present shooting and also a devotes to litera- Chinese
being a a particular admirer of and cafes but were unable to get Repubile, probably at Chung-ture,
City workers who usually king. Ha could not say where he, the modern school of poetry, headed meals. would reside till he reaches China.
lunch. In town were forced to bring by T. S. Ellot and Edith Sitwell, Sir Archibald has devoted the last. He is keenly looking forward to his their own sandwiches when they. fortnight to an intensive study of the anxious, but stimulating duties in went to their emeus ils morning famous actor who died last Novein-armed robbery in ́s ́fat in-Po Kong.
Chiba Reuter.
Rouer
Far Eastern situation.
Fong Kin-fat, 19; unemployed, was per remanded for n week charged with robbery on the staircase of a house Street on January 18; Reclamation Asking for the remand Det.-Sergeant Forreat said complainant was in hos- pital suffering from shock.
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Cheung
Kwok-wing, 21, houseboy, Wong You, 23, carpenter, and Lin Tim. 30, efoctrletan, were remonded
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