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"Racket - Buster," With Gun. Says, 'Japs or You!"
From DUNCAN McEACHRAN
"Daily Sketch" newsman who has flown 11,000 miles to tell the facts about the Orient.
HONGKONG.. 7AR IN THE EAST HAS REACHED STALEMATE.
HOW IT-WHLL END DEPENDS ON EUROPE.
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That is what China's great financial wizard, Mr. T. V. Soong, told me. I had the honour to be the first foreign journalist to whom he has granted an interview since long before the war.
He is China's "racket-buster”—has smashed the graft and corruption which have prevailed in the national administration from the beginning of history.
Brother-in-law of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, he is the financial "power behind the throne."
L. G. As A Lad Was Proud Of His Currants
He knows every move on the gigantic Asiatie draught-board. He has unified the nation's: £120,000,000 Gruners.
CARRIES A CUN
We met in shirt-sleeves, in the Dank of Canton. Humidity was ter- rife and the temperatures Was DO MR. LLOYD GEORGE told degrees. As Soong stripped off his Kentish fruit growers at jacket. I noherd he wore ammuni- Folkestone recently that he grew are like that, if you're a big Ilma-bril, bolster and loaded revolver black currants before most of nox in China. them were born.
He was opening the soft fruit
1 quickly realised his amazing
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August
14. 1939.
Princess Margaret Rose, strayed from her parents, the King and Queen, at ogricultural show in Windsor Great Park. When found, she was making friends with veteran mine ponies.
Blindfolded Man
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The hint given by Mr. R. G. GRIEC. Menzies, the Prime Minister, that GONDOLIERS. The Federal Government will DOHEME LA. formulate a wheat policy in August TRAVIATA, LA. In time to give people a chance to TOSCA, LA. PAGLIACCI. nccept or reject it la interpreted in Canberra as an indication that the MIKADO. Ministry is planning a general elec- YEOMEN OF THE GUARD.
tion in November.
The election, is expected, will | effect Life change in the representa- tion of parties, but there is a strong possibility that the Country Party will lose a srat or two as a censure for its failure to join the Menzies | Government. Suen a reduction in
strength might hasten a coalition,
The Ministry will seek only con- Brmation of te mandate at the Inst elections to go ahead with defence in support of Britain.
National Register Boycott.The Council of Trade Unions to-day, ignoring Federal and State Socialist political leaders' warnings, refusedi to withdraw the plan to boycott the national register. A conference ut key unions is even considering a motion in favour of a general strike if unionists are punished for not
ling up the register cards.
German Consul Rebukei-Sir Henry Gullet, the Commonwealth Mister for External Affairs, has rebuked in strong terins the acting German Consul, Herr Seger, for a the Danzig question made by the first secretary to the Consulate at Melbourne when he salt "Britain is pulting her finger into a pie which does not concern her."
Oriental blend of charm and brutal 66PHERE'S a blindfolded man to see you, Sir," Mr. J.refereby the
Garland, manager of a Southport hotel, was told
section at lie County Agricultural directness. So 3 asked him a point- Show-in which he has for long bren, blank question: a successful exhibitor.
"When will the War ne, and recently.
Herrenlled that as a village ladi how?" In Wales he had to look after thei Harden and went on:
“ཎཱ was especially proud of my blackcurrants but if anyone had told me then that the day would come when i
I would win a challenge cup
for blickcurrant in the Garden of England I would
sponer
have be-
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Into his office walked Mr. Be Kazed at
inserotably Oswald Rae, a bit bruised and through his thick. horn-rimmed
for two minutes without bumped, with eyes bandaged. me aking a word. uncomfortable.
1 began to feel
COUNTER-QUESTION Then he said: "I'll answer that
Followed by a huge crowd, he had made his unseeing way through several streets.
The hat walked into lamp-posts
lieved that one day I would be when you tell me if there's going to and stationary cars, but he found th Prime Minister of Englund."
be a European Win. and when!ote unaided.
WAR
China
can
hold out against
Japanse invader indefinitely.
the
was a
Urging the need for intensified
Me. 1. W. Barber, a town official, food production Mr. Boyd Grande
had given bim sealed packaup. said that in the Great War the Ger-!
conta, ning six unaddressed, sealed mans did not realise until 1917 that The position is stalemate. There envelopes. in one of them the submarine
such a potentia no more chance of Jagan advancnote addressed to Mr. Garland.
ng further than of China driving weapon for destruction.
Mr. Rao apparently has a knack ti Japatien earlier they!
out sittle-banded. Had they
done so
When Europe has settled its own might have starved this country.
a worked panee problem, the Western peoples Tu-day we were where there was every kind of perit will have to turn their attention to them right in the air and under watan, Japan's aim; to sweet
the
Chit
facinus
which surrounded our island, and we out of the Far East.
could not
assure. QUrselves
conditions
we, would!
wunder those have the same advantages and the same good fortune of being able to
pull through.
Kent visited
The Duke of show during the day.
IF JAPS. WIN-
of seeing through sealed packages and sealed envelopes.
He won't the only person doing odd things in Southport that day. IN another part of the town a 27-year-old Indian named
"It is a strange thought that the Lenz was being buried in nearly destiny of the Orient will not he de-3ft. of sand.
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vided here but in the countries of For 13 minutes he stayed) und Europe.
underground, with only a silk
Doctors To Advise
F.A. On Glands
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Tthe request of the Football Association, a special com- mittee is being appointed by the British Medical · Association to investigate the effects of gland treatment on professional foot ballers.
Severn leading professional clubs have adopted the treatment to "ginger up" their players. Among them were the last F.A. Cup finalists, Portsmouth Wanderers.
"If the democracles are victorious covering over his hend arr] and think they must be, whether | body. there is war Cit not-Japan int
withdraw in the face of the terrific
opposition which will have moved Fast against her,
Then Japan's dream of a great Asiatic, empire with have perished for all time.
"But if the Tokyo itarists have their way, there will not be an inch of the Orient for Westerners,
"And that includes Germany-in spite of the Anti-Comintern Pact and the rest of it. For the Axis turns only one way in the Far East. "The new suggestion that ultimate peace may be the outcome of the Tientsin-Tokyo talks. beginning to- morrow is, to my mind, ridiculous.
"Japan is in the grip of her and Wolverhampton rallitarist caste. They are unable in win any more spectacular victories The investigations, which will in our country.
probably occupy several months, may not be finished by the end of next season.
He was rather annoyed because refused to let him the authorities
stay in his sandy grave for at least half an hour.
When they dug him up he scerned quite right.
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JUDGE "CONVICTS
THE JURY"
Mr. Justice Stable at Man- chester Assizes found a jury guilty of "not listening to my summing-up with duc care,"
A man was charged with manslaughter after a road ac- cident. The jury's verdict was: Not guilty of slaughter, not guilty of dangor- cus driving, but guilty, of driv ing without due care.
man-
"You word not asked to say whether you thought the ac-. cused was guilty of driving without duo care," said the "Your verdict is one Judge.
of not guilty of anything."
The man was discharged.
with chains round her neck and legs.
Within 13 seconds she came to the surface with hands free, holding her| shackles.
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It was certainly a crazy day for SOUTHPORT bathers gasped Southport, but don't let these occur-
rences put you off the town. they, saw Miss Esme
The International Brotherhood of Levante, nged 17, jump into the Magicians happened to be holding bathing pool handcuffed and its convention there. That's all.
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He Went for a Holiday,
Returns a Film Star
Yorks, Now the world will hear him
German
NEW ZEALAND
COST OF UNEMPLOYED
RELIEF
AUCKLAND. Refering to the numbers em- ployed under the relief scheme, the New Zealand “Herald" states that the figures are apparently unchanged. despite the Inauguration of age benefit and also industrial absorp- tion. The Government faces the problem of providing a huge weekly relief wages bill.
tin,
Eritain's Import Policy.-—Mr. Mar- New Zealand Minister- of Agriculture, stated recently that he was rather apprehensive with re gard to Britain's restrictive impor! policy and the tugrenscal use of wool substitutes." The averige nutrition in Britain, particularly with re- gard to meals and fats, was for be- low the best. He was convinced that any policy restricting imports must be transitory
Jevel
GIBRALTAR
ARRIVAL OF NEW GOVERNOR
GIBRALTAR.
•Lt. Gen. Sir Clive Liddell, the successor of Gen. Sir Edmund Iron- side
Governor as
Gibraltar, of arrived recently from England,
The oaths of allegiance were nd- ministered at Government House in the presence of the principal naval, military and colonial officials and thei consults. Representative bodies pre- sented the custoinery addresses of welcome..
JAMAICA
WORKERS' REGISTER
SUGGESTED
KINGSTON:
-"But to keep up their prestige and
In an effort to-end the continued prove to their own people how
are, the rulers of Harry Douglas Taylor used to sing, fellow-directors and told them that trouble on Kingston waterfront, due Footballers who have undergone powerful they
the rivalry between the CX- treatment will probably be examined Japan are not afraid of annoying in his pleasant baritone, in the little he was going to resign to seek his to
Service men's and other unions, the Britain. and clinical tests made.
Theirs is a desperate game. Methodist chapel in Driffield, East fortune on the stage. "The Tientsin trouble cannot be "The making good by the glands
He studied under Sir Henry Wood, Labour Adviser, Mr. F. A. Norman, of any
deficiency of any particular solved until Europe's home problems for he has just been given the lead, then got a small port in Londen in of the British Ministry of Labour. substance is a recognised part of are resolved.
a B.M.A. offteinl medical practice,"
"Meanwhile China holds the fort,in Hollywood's new version of "The Ivor Novello's "Crest of the Wave" hos suggested the setting up of a
Desert Song."
To gain experience Harry deelded register of waterfront workers who will be entitled to work on the shed, "
awaits calmly the final reckoning,
His family intended sim to be a six weeks ago to take a holiday trip
wharves. "The
real question on which the Association's opinion has been sought
timber merchant. They gave him a to Hollywood. And there he found directorship in the family business, Luccess.
But hisi Mrs. Taylor said that she expected and later he took charge. heart was never in his work.
her "star overnight" husband home he called his shortly.. Four years ago
"But we will fight on-we are determined to resist to the end, to dictate is the advisability of administering Tokyo would like, now gland treatment to a collection of peace terms. But China will never presumably healthy and fit young accept them." Friery,"
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Sent Chocolates To. Injured Girl.
An injured cyclist was carried into court when Richard St. George Wi- cock, of Ashley Gardens, London, a former undergraduate, was at Cam- bridge recently fined £10 for driv- ing a car in o dangerous
ordered to pay wit- He was also nesses' fees and his licence was sus- nes pended for six months.
imanner.
Wilcock, who pleaded not guilty, said he skidded on a bend and in trying to avoid a crash his car comic into collision with a cyclist.
The cyclist, Ruby Madeline Ed- wards (23), said both her wrists and one leg were broken in the accident; Wilcock sent her chocolates and
KING'S Theatre flowers when she was in hospital,
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BRISBANE (UP).—Chorles Long- den, believed to be the oldest vetern elf the Crimean War, died, here at the age of 105. He served in the Crimen with the Royal Engineers.
The scheme is approved by the shipping companies and the labour unions. Details are to be worked out shortly.
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COMPETITION
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151. $30. 2nd, $15. 3rd, $10.
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