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Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 25, 1939.
Kilrarya
Shoruce Co
The Powers, Japan And Manchuria
Our Own Correspondent
London.
THE critics of the Government are still using on a wholesale scale the constantly repeated allegation that Great Britain refused to co-operate with America at the time that Japan commenced aggression against Man- churia.
I recently sent on an extract from a public speech by Mr. Wickham Steed to Sir John Simon and I have now heard from him in which he says:
"I am glad you have noticed my statement in the House on December 19 and I hope you-may have been able to make some use of it, as London correspondent to Far Eastern papers. The letter written by Sir John Pratt to the "Times" and published on November 10, was really quite conclusive. I am afraid there is no direct way of stopping irresponsible chatter in a con- trary sense. The only thing to do is to watch It and contradict it whenever possible."
I append this statement again in its compact form:
There is no truth in the statement that a Majesty's Government lagged behind the United States. One of the best and fullest statemu nis of the true facts was published quite recently in the "Time" at 10:1
November in a long letter sent by Sir John Pratt. Sir John Pratt, who is now a
a retired c.vil servant, was at that time in the Far Eastern Do- partment of the Foreign Office, and he sets out the whole story there with the greatest accuracy. He says that there l an nbsurd beller" in some quarters "that the United States actually proposed sanction or strong measures to check Japonezu aggres-) sion and that the British Govern-} ment refused."
There is not the slightest syllable
of truth in that statement. The letter also says:
"Mr. Stimson states thil in February, 1932, he put forward a
Potatoes Too Big, Fined £2
A SCOTTINI farmer was fined £2 at a Potalo Markeling Board inquiry in Edinburgh recently for selling potatoes over 1b, each in weight,
Captain J. Mølleil, chairman, said it was the first case which the board had been called upon to deal with under a recent regu- JdFo
This states that "no registered producer may sell for human con
umption any patata which rerds b. in weight."
ex-
The farmer was said to have had five pits conlalung large potatoes which he held back. These pits contained 25 tons, a against $5 which had been sold.
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£1,000 Spent On Search
BRISBANE
Henry Wilcoxan, 33, British flin actor, and Juan Woodbury. 22, film actress, after their wedding In a quiet ceremony in folly- wood. The marriage was on the bride's 22nd birthday, in keeping with the family custom of weddings on birthdays. She wore her mother's bridal gown.
Murderer Foiled By A Bottle
BOTTLES-und empty ones at that are treasures
to Mr. John M. Bacon, of Earl's Court, and at his house proposal for a joint invocation of the year-old State Public Service typist, in existence.
MISS MARJORIE NORVAL, 20-in Trebovir-road are to be seen some of the oldest bottles Nine-Power Treaty and he adds"-who vanished after being driven by a the letter than recites the statement man friend to Central Railway They date back to the time of Charles I, and many of them of Mr. Stimson. Sir Jolin Prall con- Station at 7 o'clock 01 Armistice have curious histories. inues--and know that this is ne-night, has become Queensland's most curate, because I was there at the expensive "missing friend." time:
In spite of the offer of £500 reward "In making this statement Mr. for Information leading to her ig- Stimson's memory has deceived him. covery or finding of her body, police The facts are that on receiving the are no nearer a solution of the draft of Mr. Silmson's proposed mystery than when she was first vocation the Foreign Onler tele-reported missing on November 10. phoned to Geneva
eva a paragraph
Since then, the police search has taining
cost more than £1,000.
the
[_hon-recognition doctrin
and this paragraph was embodied in
"Here is my Highwayman's Bottle," said Mr. Bacon, proudly holding up a rare specimen blow in the days of Dick Turpin. It was so made that it could be strapped to a belt and could be slipped from its place for a man to take a drink while in the anddle.
Another old bottle has an interest- ing history.
This is an armpit-boltle, so fashion-
that it could be concealed under the armpit of its owner, In this manner a person fearing poisoning
Almost every one of the thousand vers of the Council on 16th February, from the C.L.B. have travelled more could carry around with him his own the declaration frsued by the 12 mem-odd pollee in the State has been drawn into the search and patrol cars 1032. Al the ՌՈ tine a written answer was handed to the American than 5,000 mileg chasing ilkely clues.supply of drink which he could be Embrey
for transmission to Mr.
|sure had not bren tampered with. Stimson, stating that the British Governnual was
Another cost will be compensation anxious to
SAVED HIS LIFE co-operale with
In this for the three Air Force officers and i
were killed on This particular bottle was once the matter, and that, in view of their ad- the policeman who herence to this declaration, 3t
was;
most
Arrien
Powers who were signatories to the. Nine-Power Trea
Treaty might also asso- clate themselves with the proposed Joint Invoeat on."
for the
POLICE OPEN ROOM
Gracie Fields Says 'I'm Always Broke'
New York.
Gracie Fields le "broke." She sald
is being printed with the very neces- sary explanations about who Gracie Fields is.
a duty when an R. A. A. F. Seagull Property of a Miss Fionn Cameron, 01 so with great cheerfulness to inter- hoped that these of the League amphibien crashed while searching/Cornach, Lochiel, an aged fudy who viewers in Hollywood, and the story
can remember her great-grandfather tir last Monday
Uny girl of Inquires have led to but one con- telling her stories s body disposed of chon-Miss Norval is dead and her escapades as a Jacobite agent.
At one banquet this very bottle saved his life, for, suspecting
She is known here as the "British his
comedienne who earns $1,000,000 n glass had been tampered with. he
[year," but not one American cinema, accidentally" knocked it over, 10 stage or gramophone fan in a hun- iscover bottom.
R grim ediment
the red has ever seen or heard her. Then, under the balefui eye of his would-be murderer host, he called for a fresh glass and motioned to Als own servant to it from the Government in taxes and most of the efforts we were making and express-que of Nulions. There could
not, armpit bottle. Ing the gratification of the United; therefore, be a more ridiculous per- He continued to drink his States Government the action version of the facts than that which wine taken by the Assembly of the Lea-has ben referred to.
Sume police think it is possible she I myself, at Geneva, took this pro- might be found alive in a nursing posal of Mr. Sumron, brought it be hoine, but C... officials will be fore the appropriate body, and moved surprised if she is.
It should be adopted by the Ter room at the hotel where she 1bnt League of Nations. It was an adopt d.. stayed rimained locked until the and, as soon as it was adopted, a mes-police took charge of her belongings. snge came from the United States] Government banking us for thej
that night
wards!
and ever
at
Gracie's explanation of why she is "broke" goes this way: "Most of my income seems to go to the British
after
rest seems to go--you own 'family and friends and
have always been stoney." treem to matter much.”
know, my
charity, I It doesn't
His child's future nearly ruined
ву
by NIGHT STARVATION
OH, MR. JACKSON, I WANT YOU TO MEET MR. GRANGER, HE'LL BE WORKING WITH YOU
IN THIS DEPARTMENT.
AND SUTHORLICKS EVERY NIGHT,
M-M-M. DELICIOUS, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS MIXED WELL.
(THINKS)
A NEW MAN! THAT MEANS THEY ARE GOING TO SACK SOMEBODY AND IT'S BOUND TO BE ME. MY WORK HASN'T BEEN TOO GOOD LATELY.
TWO MONTHS LATER.!
CONGRATULATIONS, MR.
JACKSON, ON YOUR PROMOTION AS DISTRICT MANAGER. YOU HAVE DONE SPLENDID
WORK.
(THINKS)
MY WORRIES ARE‹ ALL OVER. THAT
HORLICKS IS WONDERFUL STUFF)
THERE IS
SARE NOTHING EXACTLY) I KNOW, MR.
JACKSONV COULDN'T AFFORD TO LOSE HIS JOB HE WANTED TO GIVE HIS BOY Psal
A GOOD [EDUCATION. IFS ONLY HE DIDNT "ALWAYS FEEL
TIRED. IN:
DESPAIR HE
DECIDED TO SEE
A DOCTOR.
WRONG WITH ME JACKSON, IT HOLDS DOCTOR BUT YOU BACK AT YOUR ALWAYS FEEL SO WORK WE CALL THIS TIRED EVEN WHEN NIGHT STARVATION I WAKE UP YOU SEE, YOU ARE NOT REPLACING USED- UP ENERGY DURING SLEEP HORLICKS REGULARY AT BEDTIME
FOR YOU.
If you wake tired, if you suffer from 'nerves' enervation and that dread- ful feeling of exhaustion GUARD AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION.
TAKE
HORLICKS
YOU SLEEP SOUNDLY. WAXE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAY
Horlicks is best made In the special Horlicks mix- er. Obtainable at all good stores-80 cts, large size and 40 cts. small size.
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