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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
DONALD DUCK
January, 26, 1939.
By Walt Disney
China Arms Case
CORRIGAN TELLS OF SHIPMENT OF "WAR" MATERIALS
LONDON, Jan, 25.
·COULD YOU STAND DRIED CODFISH AT EVERY MEAL?
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For my part I prefer aerial bombardment to shelling. Bom- bing does not last so long. The Madrid people hold a different| view. If a Madrid person de- cides to visit Barcelom every Jeflort will be made to stop him. "Barcelona is dangerous, you must not go there. It is bom-
HIGH-SPOT OF the Old Bailey trial to-day, in whichbarded from the air". three men, Frederick Willing, 50, a Dutch subject and
Madrid is badly damaged. The veteran survivor is the telephone
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25 YEARS AGO
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metal merchant of Tavistock Court, Tavistock Square, building. That is nearing its led for a fortnight, is increasing the Bloomsbury. Denis Michael Corrigan. 46, agent, of second century of shell hits. Park-lane, W., and James Oll Herbet Willing, 24, metal merchant of Dorset House, are charged with conspiracy by which to defraud a well-known Paris firm of armament makers of £7,250, was the evidence of Corrigan,
Corrigan, in the witness box,
said that a Captain John Ball introduced him to Shu, described in the earlier court hearings as the "Chinese mystery man," who was also said to have been con- nected with the Chinese Em- bassy in London, saying that Shu was in a position to place contracts for armaments and aeroplanes.
He was told that Shu was related to Dr. 1. 11. Kunt, and that he wite was related to Madame Chiang Kai- shek. Ti had no reason to believe that Shu was not officially connected with the Chinese Cavernment and Embassy.
"IN GRAVE DANGER"
Corrigan continuing said that he arranged a shipment at Shu's request. Sometime afterwards Shit told bir that the Ambassador had asked for He said that "Honchows" (permits). certain cables had been rent to China, and he was in grave danger, not only) of losing his job, but of going back to China and facing a etsange.
He mid that he could not get the *Inochowe back from France, and that an attempt was being made in after it for the purpose of getting this consignment of guns out of Marseilles. He niso rald that he had heard the goods were going to Spain Instead of to Chin. He then sald he would
send a dummy cargo."
There was no intention whatever
to defend Lafite, added Corrigan.
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1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather and Anncungements.
1.40 Dance Music Quicksteps-Sugar
Foot Stomp; Milenberg Joyslurry Roy and His Orchestra; Swing Step-Tears in My Heart; Slow Fox-Trol:-It's Won- derful ..Sld Millward and s
Radio Programme Brondenst by Z.B.W, on a Frequency of 845 k.ca.
Band with Vocal Refrain; Tango- and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m.
Cuore Vagabondo; Wallz-The Moon and 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.e's, perlof Manakoora (film The Hurricane')
second.
JLKIT.
12-12.20 p.m.
dral.
Relay of Service of
Mario De Pietro and His Estud- lanting with Vocal Refrain; Fox- Trot-No Name Ragi Rumba-The
Intercession from St. John's Cathe- Lady Likes To Love....Harry Roy and His Orchestra; Tangos-Jealousy; Hear My Song Violetta....Robert Renard Dance Orchestra with Vocal! Refrain.
2.15 Close Down,
6 Studio Children's Hour.
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7 Closing Local Stock Quotations, 7.02 Songs by Rickard Crooksi (Tenor). ****
The Inteuse cold, which has atrendy
12.30 Marta Eggerik: (Soprano) and hardships of the coal strike among the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. poor. Erang scenes are being wit-
Slavonic Dance No. 16 In A Flat nesned. Grenadier Guards and medicat MADRID people take students carting coal from the depots Major (Dvorak) .Czech Phii-
the shelling calmly, for the barracks and hospitals.
harmonic Orchestra conducted by Once they used to watch the builders lock-out began in the after- Love (Nick-Pinelli); Do You Ever The Industrial outlook is gloomy, A Vaclav Talich; Wonderful To Be In įshelling from the streets und betoon, but the number idle will not be Remember? (Vecsey-Bussmann)
on which house the shells would till Monday. Probably 10 Marta Eggerth (Soprano) with Or
will be out on, strike in the course of chestra (Sung in German); Slavonic Wood): For Love Alone (Seivier- The Unforgotten Melody (Lockton- hit. Now too many casualties the week,
"The military and police have pro- Dance No. 13 In B Flat Minor Thayer): If I Should Send A Rose have been suffered, so the treted the coal vans for the hospitals, (Dvorak). Czech Philharmonic majority take to their cellars, while Rugby football teams, In juracya | Orchestra conducted by Vaclav
(Shayon-Shilkret); Open Your Win- and "short" are shifting coal for the Tulich; My Heart Is Yours (film dow To The Morn (Royden-Phillips). One night I visited the tren-hospitals, for which the strikers have The Blond Carmen'); Lovely Like 7.15 London Relay-The Forest Or
refused to grant permiten. ches in the University City ac- companied by a priest. A major who had been a metal
Mr. Lee Temple, the first English worker nylator to ty upside down, was killed, before the war showed us round, while doing a spiral night at Hendon. The priest, to my surprise, was i well received by both oflicers and the most rigorous pruning the minimum The Daily Chronicle anys that after men. Our visit was short, for figure for the naval estimates will be the officer, while showing us the con
evitable.
trenches, was reminded by tele-i phone that the deadline he had set for the explosion of a mine under the enemy was but ten minutes hence.
The activity upon this sector|
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Members of the Cabinet think that after 1914 the naval expenditure wii says there is no very hopeful prospect tend to decline, but the journal named thereof, and meanwhile some other Department will be strived for the sakoj of the Navy.
England's First National Forest
The Dawn Of Spring (alm The Dea Blond Carmen') ..... Marta Eggerth (Seprano) with Orchestra (Sunt in Park? The establishment of a Na German); Slavonie Dance No. 10 Intional Forest Park in the Forest ef Dean, Gloucestershire, la rècom- E Minor (Dvorak); Slavonic Dance mended by the report of a Committee No. 12 In D Flat Major (Dvorak)... set up by the Forestry Commissioners ducted by Vaclav Talich. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra con-
and recently published. In this broadcast you will hear the views of of those concerned with this 1.03 Sydney Gustard at the Organ proposal and of the inhabitants of Funeral March Of A Marionette, the Forest. There will also be a (Goured); Nola (Arndt); Grass-speaker from Scotland where the Bears Pienie (Bratton). hoppers Dance (Bucalossi); Teddy Argyll National Park, opened in 1036, is the oldest In the United 1.15 Primo Scala's Accordcou} Kingdom.
1 Time and Weather.
Band,
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7.45 Studio-Z.B.W. Orchestra. A Gypsy Caravan (Damerell- 1. Le Ferninine Litigiose-Overture Kowloon met Staff and Departments Myers); Riding The Range In The (Cardoni); 2. Muselle for Strings is reduced to mining and counter-al Unpre Valles in the Second League Sky (Cariton); You Needn't Have (Flaccone); Interval, Beauty's Eyes mining. The trench system in on Saturday the result being a win for Kept it A Secret (Silver-de Murcia); (Tosti)....Alfred Piccaver (Tenor) In The Mountains Of The Moon with Pinno; 3. Elfengefluster (Max the University City is so strong
(Cox-Roberts): When The Swallows Rhode). that I believe it to be nearly
1. B. Deanne and Bartholomew Nest Again (Stevens-Edmund); 8 Time, Weather and Announce-
ments. impregnable.
9 J. Staker e Riley Walter- with Vocal Chorus: ......31: W. T. Elson 1.b.w. Davis,
Kowtout.
Kowlven
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This also applies to the Ebro F. Goldsith Walterson front. The original advance, in; A. R. Raven e vis à Walter CHINESE CUSTOMS July, across the river was made by the Government to relieve
Valencia. Now, Bayla pressure on according to plan, the Govern- Total ment forces are withdrawing to Total their well-prepared lines behind
Democracy the river.
LONDON, Jan. 25. OFFICIALS OF
8.03 StudioZ.B.W. Orchestra,
Serenata in F Minor (Marlo anezza (Pietri); Interval, Stara In Tareng); 5. Fantasia "Addio Glov-
orchestr
Suite 0: H. Overy Walterson Figures for Last Year
120; Staffs and Depts-
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Shanghai, Jan. 25.
My Eyes (lm The King steps out") .Grace Moore (Soprano) with Medioevale (Amadel): (a) Corteggio; (b) Can- zone del Pagalo; (e) Idillo; (d) Festa Nuziale.
8.30 London Relay-"At The Black The report of the Chinese Mori- Dog" 10 YEARS AGO
Lime Customs for 1938, which has Mr. Wilkes at home in his own The British Brendienstlag: Cerpara just been published shows that Im- bar-parlour. Presented by S. E. Rey- tion's decision to carry nut, in Febru ports were ary, experiments with the Baird system
£800,000,000 comparea nolds and Pascoe Thornton. $953,000,000 1937. Exports 9 Lendon Relay-Awstralia Day, levit ja regarded as marking an amourted to $702,000,000 compared 1939. important advance.
It is probable that sound and vision with $038,000,000,
A message to the Commonwealth will he transmitted from different The figures do not include the Na- of Australia by H. R. HI. The Duke tional Government's Imports since of Kent, K.G, Governor-General stations and synchronized.
with
carly last summer or Japanese in Designate. ports of milltary suppiles,
The only weakness in Madrid's defences in the shortage of food, the While the military are well fed Shu told him (Corrigan) that he Labour and Socialist Inter- the civilians have been existing had rume guns and munition for national, and the Inter- on a daily ration of bread and sate and he asked him if he could) find a buyer. He spoke to James national Federation of dried codfish by the name of Willent. It was not a bitte halls con Trade Unions, including the balelou. Beans have received the usual commission, Secretary of the French from Shu or Willing for the intro-Trade Union Congress, M. DOCTORS say that the
and codfish has reduced duction of Shu to Willing Jouhaux, and the Belgian the number of cases of indiges- bulf and ten per cent. for such an Secretary, M. Debrouckers, tion. For my part indigestion the China Station, is dismissed as trade.
Class of submarines would take post a considerable decrease in foreign in F Minor'-Bach (arr. Sziget);
in the contract, but he would
commission was between two and of
introduction.
Shu told him later that he had sold
duced.
are also pro-
held a secret conference at is way ahead of bakelou. While some guns and ammunition to Will-Transport House, Westminster I was in Madrid I could not consider stomach the bakelou, so I used ing, and that he was receiving £5,256, on Tuesday night, to Shu asked him to collect the money the situation in Spain.
to trade my portion of bakelou and to bring it to him.
Willing paid him £5,025 saying to They sat for four hours, and then for more bread. My lunch and Shu that there was a reduction for unanimously passed a resolution dinner diet for five days was a He gave the money to Shu appealing to the Democracies of the hunk of brend and half a bottle and rentinded Shu that he owed him work, even at the last moment, to of the remaining supply of the £2,000 or £3,000 on the "Hoochow rally to save the Spanish Govern-
Ritz Hotel champagne. transactions.
There are also complaints by the Madrid
women that they
expenses.
ment.
It is understood that the resolution is the strongest yet issued by the international Labour movement.
NEW YORK PARADE
5 YEARS AGO
Of the Chinese peris, Tientsin suf. The persistent rumpur, believed to tered the largest decrease of imports,
showed or and Britich battle squadron would leave for ex
bave emanated from Hongkong, that n export Ogares
the Far East in the spring, and in greatest decline in Shangbai
thr
addition that the whole of the Rainbow Tientsin. Tinging how foreign baseless by official quarters.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
9.15 London Relay "World Aftales."
A talk by H. Wickham Steed. 9.30 London Relay The News. 9.50 Josephi Sziget (Violin). Arloso (Largo from 'Piano Concerto
Concerto In D Minor (Tartini-arri (from Sziget!); Nigun The National Government controll- Pente and ed Customs stations cleared 23 per "Ban! Shem"-E. Bloch); Norwegian (Sigurd Lic-arr. cent; of China's
total exports, but Song "Snow" only rather less than 10 per cent. of Symphony Prokofieff, Op. 25-arr. Gavotte (from "Classical the imports.
Grunes).
10.25
Black both lipstick and powder. / D $1,365, with buyers offering $1,370, ports the most marked decline took For Plano, Violin and 'Cello, Op. 99.
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Shanghat maintained Arst placcj 10.15 Songs by Claudia Muzio among the ports, cienring 45 per (Soprano), cent. "foreign trade. Tientsin and "La Forza Del Destino"-Pence, The Hongkong Stock Exchange Teinglao ranked second and third Oh God (Verdi); "Norma"-Queen of official summary issued at 12.30 p.m. respectively.
Heaven (Bellini)....with Orchestra. decreased in practically (Sung in Italian). yesterday, says:
Importa hlm £1,300, shu RMS IN BELGIUM
Small sates of Banks were reported all classes of commedities, and in ex-
Schubert Trio In D Major
Counsel (to Corrigan): Were you
changed hands at $17.30/17.35 place in the volume of textile fibres
Played by the Elly Ney Trio, told anything of the whereabouts of
Close Down. and Chink Light Rights at $3.65/$3. nnd plecegoods.--Trans-Ocean, the actual guns and nmununition?
Much resentment is felt against Humphreys Estates have declared a Shu said that they were at Captain Simultaneously a New York mes-the Barcelona women, who have divident of 70 cents payable on Ball's place in Belgium.
sage reports that 5,000 paraded Times
17/2/30. Corrigan said that he paid about Square chanting "Lift the Spanish plenty of these commodities.
The Manila- market recovered £350 in connection with the ship-Embargo". There were no disorders, Back by airplane to Barcelona sigidly after the drop in ment of the dummy caro. He ex-but exten police were required to was the method of my return. yesterday. pected the money back from Shu, but control truite, ns the demonstration The woman in charge of the was held at the same time people Shu told him that he distrusted were pouring out of the theatres censor's office saw me off, with the Willings, and he thought they United Press.
these words: "Please when you woriting with Lafite with
BRITAIN SEEKS ASSURANCES get back to England do not vote regard to the "Honchow," That was
for Mr. Chamberlain, because
he never got it.
were
London, Jan. 20.
why Shu told him not to tell the Willings about the dummy empo.
The British Govertiment ins his policy of non-intervention Asked by Counsel whether he instructed the acting agent in Burgos,menna that my four-year-old trusted Captain Dail, Corrigan replied Mr. Cecil Serram, to convey to the child ia under-nourished in Insurgent Government the hope that
that he had no reason to distrust him. General Franco's troops will abstain Madrid."
most unfavourable impression
"Ile was a very clever man. The may from committing acts of vengeance have had his own axe to grind some- in the Catalan regions occupied by where."
Corrigan added that he thought the them, as such acts would create a evacuation of Barcelona by the Willings had had n raw deal on Great Bellain.
in Loyalist troops and offelals, with special reference to the position of account of Shu's suspicions, thus he
It is stated that the British acting the political prisoners in that city pald them back £3,800.
The case was adjourned--Reuter. "ncis of violence and reprisals would 2,000. Mr. Stevenson was given the ngent received the Assurance that who are callmated to number about
be incompatible with the character assurance that every possible measure of General Franco and with the aim would be taken lo ensure the main- pursued by him."
tenance of order and the safety of the The British Minister in Darcelona, prisoners. Mr. Ralph Stevenson, has made a The personnel of the Brilish Minin similar demarche and called theter's staff who is remaining in Barce- by Ministers of the Navy and Air, attention of the Loyalist authorities long for the time being "lina" böen and the chiefs of staff of the forces.to the question of the maintenance of reduced to a minimun-Trans- ---Reuter.
public order in the event of an Ocean.
Paris, Jan. 25.
M. Edouard Dalndler presided
à meeting of the permanent com mittee for National Defenco, attended
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