THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1938.
Britain Faces Big Menace To Her Brighten your Summer Wardrobe
Foreign Trade In Far East
LOSSES ON CUSTOMS IN CHINA POSSIBLE
By Henry Wood
United Press Staff Correspondent
San Francisco, As a result of Japan's invasion of China, and her announced intention of staying there, Great Britain is facing the possibility of the greatest] menner to her foreign trade she hos eves yet encountered, according to
of the Institute of Pacine!
Larvey Relations.
This mepage lies in the possiblity of Japan securing for herself pre-i Irrenlin) treatment In customs on exports to China, thus wresting from 13 in her dominating position in one of the world's largest and most intertid foreign markets,
It was precisely iin tulon in! The War Enel, the Institute said, that andherd reluctant Britain finally
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engage in the present negotiations | with the United States for a bilateral Trade agreement.
Already, the Chinese puppet guy- establestred by Jiren for the af five Northern China provinces, now in the hands of the Japonese, has meile au
extensiv downward revision of Chinese cuis- Tomas favouring Jopus. These cuts; have ranged anywhere from 50 per i
1947 In complete abolition [ 10
LIST certais: categories of Japanese exparts, especially fast.
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The Usaka hanber of Commerce,
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organizations Hip throughout Batsın, also have adopted insolution recommending a revision of the Clunese custom "which_ay" terfere with Japan-Chuna-Many linafoties" cooperation.”
Should Japan sinceed in securing" for herself stili factior preferential treatment, or should she abitrarity abentate it to herself, by her own, 75. I would place British com mercial potty squarely at the crown= "
ads, the Tastitute said.
BRITAIN'S DREAM ABANDONED | Regarding this policy, the institute i sand already as a result of the great buronds Japan box made in world: textile and rayon murkets, Bellaki. has been obliged to abandon her golden dream, or rather that ofi Lancashire industrialists, of a virtual) world monopoly in the texile and rayon trade and share the latter with Japan,
To compensate for this Toss DI forrig rade, British commercial
markera polley
iramediately ca- visaged China as on the brink of
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developing into a great Industrial empire where there would be a vast; markel for machinery and ether capital goods. She accordingly up- pointed a pertinatent representative]
China in
1834
to capture this market
by opening to the Chinese all of the advantages of her 50,000,000
orts Credit Guarantee. Exports But the Japanese invasion put an ent to this dream of British trade In China in capital goods. expansion in and now the new menace of Japan securing preferential customs treat- iment there offsets largely the advan
pound
Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain recently told the house of Commons that while he want- ted to prevent Europe from drifting "toward the eaturaet of war." the Empire must arm for peace, Hence, he called for a reammėjo at programme of £343,000,000 for land and sea, with 60 naval vessels to be launched between April, 1938, and March, 1935, Vital in the plan was how to protect London against air raids, such as brought death, recently, to civilians in Barcelona, Spain.
Above are significant scenes. Top left, new multiple machine guns developed by the navy, rapidly being fitted to all ships, especially for defence against air attieks. Upper right, six-barreled peinpor machine-gim unit for ny use against low flying torpedo or bombing aircraft. Lower panel, recent King George, left, inspects a new 3.7 anti-alreraft gun at Woolwich Arsenal, London, on a visit there.
tuges that England may have to 500 Alien Maids In Aldershot
10 Nuin by her bu exports creat
guarantee,
To complicate the situation further,
It is pointed out that in all efforts
By Andrew KidⱭl
and negotiations Britain may under- ALDERSHOT, military centre of Britain, has a larger
take to arrive at an adjustment of this Far Eastern situation, the in-
proportion of foreign maids than any other part of
terests of the vast British dominions the country.
will always be just the opposite of I learned this when I came here to inquire into the allegations made those of the mother country. For by Mr. Geoffrey Mander (Lib. M.P. for East Wolverhampton) in the number of years past, Japan has be-House of Commons. came one of the greatest markets for
Mr. Munder said: “German girls who come to Britain as domestic the wool, wheat, lumber and pulp of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, helps and companions receive a special propaganda course before leaving and they do not want this market in Germany.
any way clored to them.
"Many of the girls are employed
They are declared to be watching In the familles of the armed forces
very closely the present
Anglo- at Aldershot and elsewhere.
The military authorities are said
American agreement negotiations to
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see that no concessions inade to the to be uneasy about the situation. United States in order to help British Morried officers have been warned industriniists may have a bad reper-nol to falk of military matters cussion for them on the Japanese their homes. market.
PRECEDENT'S REPERCUSSION
Another thing which makes the situation dificult for England is that she herself has set a precedent whereby military conquest b brought with it political ties that have permitted of preferential cus- toms treatment.
My Inquiries brought me to the Grosvenor Domestic Agency Inter- national Bureau in Aldershot.
"During the past year I have been responsible for bringing approximately 500 foreign malds to the district, the manager told
mte.
"Every precaution is taken to check It is not so long ago, the Institute
that British force of up the credentials of these girls before pointed out,
they are brought here."
orms in the world war forced an en- Inrged area of what is now Union of South Afrlen in which the) United Kingdom now enjoys pre- perential treatment for her exports.
Japan's action, however, in secur- ing for herself downward revision of tariffs in China, is taken as an indi- ration that the precedent only will be used in showing that she is doing what others have done in the past.
GAS MASKS FOR ALL
HOW MOTORISTS SHOULD ACT IN AIR RAIDS
"TAKE COVER OR SCATTER"
ADVICE BY CHIEF OF PRECAUTIONS
Bridegroom, 21,
Jilted, Says:
"Father Fell In Love With My Bride"
Shrewsbury,
TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD John Bilby, of Battlefield, near Shrewsbury, instead of being married at Gretna Green to his sweetheart, seventeen-year-old Rita Wilson, spent the day com- forting his mother. While he was staying at Gretna to secure residential qualification for his marriage he was recalled home.
He found that his mother was without her husband and that he was without a bride-to-be. Its father had fallen in love with Rits. Tho love was mutual. Mrs. Bilby atid: "There are some things that can never be forgiven.
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Wing-Cmdr. E. J. Hodsoll, This is one." Inspector-General of Alr-Rald Pre- "Ritu had been staying with cautions in England has given advice since Christmas-time. A week last to travellers who may be caught in Thursday, while John was at Gretna, tan air-raid,
my husband suddenly told me, 'Rita He was speaking at the Institute cuir't marry John. She won't.' of Transport, London, to members of "I was amazed. Then I had a curi- the transport Industries. People in ous hunch. I asked him if he loved stationary trains, he sald, might well the girl. He said, 'Yes, I do.' We had be advised to stay where they were. hours of argument, but nothing would
urban areas, road vehicles, niter their minds, pull to the side of the road, and the
"By the time my son came home, | passengers take cover. In country Rita had gone,
but John has seen his the passenger'R should father once since his return."
drivers would
John Dilby said: "I can only think night,
In spite of the open door policy VE
VERY one of the 50,000,000 men,
- 8 Hours districts
scatter.
AL
alned
use
in China, the Institute said that ever! women and children in Britain
ince the Treaty of 1842, at the clone will be suppiled with non masks with specially screened headlights, and it that, having given her heart to father. of the oplum war, England manngel in eight hours if war breaks out, the was of great importance that they Rita could not face the intolerable
should practise driving in such position of marrying me. 'secure very favourable conditions Home Office has announced.
"At first I felt rotten about the for her goods on
foods on the Chinese Thirty million marks are already conditions in time of peace. Special
mar- ket Uiat enabled her to build up a in store in eleven eitles in England routes would probably be designated. whole business; now I think I've had Largo petrol depots should be lucky escape. I was deeply attach-
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dominating position for herself there, and Scotland. They are In tour protected it only by sandbags. ed to her."
Although she lost some of this in sizes, the smallest for chlidren beforse transport was a difficulty, and recent years, she still under normal tween the ages of two and four,
the problem of protecting horses 36ft into virgin sol; 5ft 6in into conditions furnishes China with 12
In emergency the masks will be against gas was being investigated. concrete; and 4in into steel. A 2,- per cent, of her imports, ranks third distributed at depots handling about it was desirable that as few horses 000lb bomb would penetrate over din
will pre- among Chinese exports markets and 4,000 each. Every house 40 per cent. of all Chinese trade is viously have been visited by ale raid as possible should be used in time of steel and a proportionate depth of
earth and concrete. carried in Bellish steamers,
wardens, and every one will havo
Wing-Cmdr. Hodsoll seld à 800lb, He asked that transport industries The future of all this, the Insti- to try on a mask, so that the number armour-piercing bomb, dropped from should consider the problems now, tule sald, is now purely speculative, of nizes required may be ready. a heft of 10,000ft, would penetrate! and be prepared for any emergency,
of emergency.
AUSTRALIA WANTS FAR EAST TRADE
Sharp Decline In Recent Years
Canberra,
The Federal Advisory Committee on Eastern Trade has recommended to the Australian Government that the office of Trade Commissioner In Chinh, held by Mr. V. G. Bowden, be maintained at Shanghai,
It was considered that at pre- sent the situation in China, and particularly in Shangkal, was such that any transfer of the office was unwarranted.
Trade opportunities in Southern Asia, principally French Indo-China, the Philippines, and Siam are to be explored by the Commonwealth and the committee will recommend thot
a Commonwealth official be sent to these countries to survey the condi- tions.
This investigation will supplement one now being carried out by wo officers of the Western Australian Government. It is probable that Mr. Bowden will make a survey on his return to China
Figures wero submitted to the committee at Canberra showing that the general trade with eastern countries has declined sharply during the past three
years.
From alance in Australia's favour of 5,431,000 in 1935-8 IT dropped to an unfavourable balaner of £1,950,000 for 1936-7, and for the Brst half of the current financial year there was an adverse balance of £5.- 324,000,
Trade with the Netherlands East Indies, India, and smaller Eastern countries improved, the decline being due mainly to a falling of in exports of wheat to China and exports. to Japan. The Sino-Japanese war was largely responsible for a heavy drop In Japanese Imports from Australlà.
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