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No. 27,129

CHINA & JAPAN

FORMULA TO PEACE IS WANTED

THE PRESENT IMPASSE

LEZISHED

815

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1929., PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

HOTELS CO, AND 'BUS SERVICES

QUEEN'S-RD. ROUTE CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH AT ANNUAL MEETING

COLONY'S MONEY

BALANCE OF ASSETS OVER

One Needs Capital and the Other Peaceful Trade and robbed the occupant, the WHY NORTH BLOCK WAS BOLD 38,279,677.89, which sum included

"INSISTENCE ON PRECEDENCE & PRECEDENTS"

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"Your Eyes Are Safe With Us* LAZARUS

Hong Kong's Only European Optician. We grind our own lenses, Accar- ate repair work, highest gradé lenses, friendly, courteous service. Manager:

RALPH A. COOPER, Registered Optometrist (Canada) F.1.0. (London).

IS THAT SO?

Thoughts Terse, Perverse—and Worse.

SHROFF ROBBED LANE, CRAWFORD MAN'S

8 MILLIONS HOUSE ENTERED

KEY OF SAFE MISSING

COMPARATIVE STATISTICS

On November 30, 1928, the A "cat burglar entered the 2nd floor of No, 16c, Wellington-street,

balance of assets over liabilities in In the small. hours of this morn-

the Colony's financial statement was The chapple in Malay who once employed a rikisha puller whom he shroff of Messrs. Lane, Crawford's

$1,963,358.77 recovered from Loan fondly called "Horace". Is beaten restaurant; who lives in the flat

Mr. J. Scott Hareton (chairman)

by the Government Official here with his family.

who has the help of a Chinese presided at the annual meeting of Funds to the revenue. Entry is believed to have been Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, This recovery was put in the coolie "Hector" in "holding the obtained through 0 higher ad- Ltd., which was held to-day in the November revenue which amounted bridge." "A menace to the peace of the Pacific" is how Mr. George Ejacent flat which was vaca company's registered offices, Ex-in all to $3,834,839,51, the expendi- Sokolsky describes the present impasse between China and Japan.

whence the thief climbed down and change-building.

the His address to ture during

month being

It is suggested that the staff of across verandahs and then got into the shareholders la reproduced $1,615,562.64.

a public company accused at the the shroff's room.

Comparative statistics (actual The shroff's jacket was stolen, Gentlemen.The report of your not estimates) for the first eleven annual meeting of incivility and | also n gold wrist-watch, In the directors and statement of accounts months of 1928 and the same period rudeness were born on, Green Is- Unfortunately, that formula has not yet been arrived at. The jacket was a bunch of about twenty for the financial year ended Dec. of 1927 (in round Agures) are

1928 having been in your appended:- apparently, taken meticulous pains hands for the prescribed period, I consequence, Mr. Sokolsky says in the "Far Eastern Review," is koys on a ring. The burglar had. 91, that the outlook for the future of China cannot be optimistic.

to remove all the keys and extract will, with your pazmisaton, follow only one-that to the safe in the usual procedure, and taka Measra. Lane, Crawford's restaur them as read. ant.

China needs capital from abroad for industry and for stabilisa- tion and she is not likely to get either if there is a possibility of con- tinued disorder. Japan needs trade and peace generally in Asia for her interests. And so, it is pointed out, a formula to peace should be found.

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WEAKNESS OR CONCESSION?

The shroff's wife awoke, raised the alarm, and police whistles were between eignty of China over Manchuria, do town, but the burglar escaped. The present impasse

is a menace to all in their power for the preserva-All that could be seen of him was China and Japan

tion of the principles of the open that he wore dark clothing. These the peace of the Pacific.

door and equal opportunity and Needless to say, 'no attempt was two nations must not be permitted desire that the region be made amade on the office safe.

a condition of per- safe abode for both natives and to drift into

If there is manent embitterment.

foreigners. They are, at the same EXTRADITION LAW time, fully determined to take ap- a genuine will to peace and under-propriate steps when a state of standing, a formula can be found affairs arises in Manchuria which A BANKRUPTCY CASE FROM by men of the talent and ability of shall disturb the local tranquillity Dr. C. T. Wang, and Mr. Yoshizawa, and thus put their vital interests in jeopardy. This Government has

HAIPHONG

MAGISTRATE'S DECISION

herewith:---

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1927

1928

land.'

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The Chinese "boys" at the hotel

objected to being "fired" in such an abrupt manner.

D. D

The lucky helder of the hidden number at a local whist drive was presented with a pair of garters. -A leg pull?

To-morrow's sermons will all be preached in Irish.

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A Private of the K.0.8.B. Is tak- ing a Leaf out of the book of the Benedicks in the Battalion and tak- A new street in the Colony has been named Electric Street--Howing unto himself a bride to-morrow. Revenue

$19,208,495 $22,889,188 shocking!

The "catch of the season" should Expenditure $17,726,901 $18,545.222

be the prospective bride from ROYAL WEDDING

Beautiful Terrace, Hong Kong.

✪ Þ A great demand prevails for

of

*The

Polite Letter coples Writer" among the senior members of the P.W.D.

"Pass Along Quickly" at the Star Ferry is to be altered to "Don't Shove and Push."

Or, "Don't accelerate-there'll be another Ferry to-day."

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ES (even) 1

The auditóra report is as fol- lowsWe have audited the above account and balance sheet with the books and documents of the head DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK

IN BERLIN office and the accounts and balance sheet of the Shanghai branch rendered by Messrs. Thomson & VISIT EX-KAISER'S PALACE Co., as accountants to the company in Shanghai, certified by them as

Berlin, Yesterday, correct. We have obtained all the

The Duke and Duchess of York information and explanations we spent two hours at the ex-Kaiser's have required. In our opinion palice and wore very interested in Buch balance sheet is properly. Wlam, II's apartments. drawn up so as to exhibit a true Sir Horace and Lady Rumbold Monday's fire may be gathered

correct view of the state of acted as guides to the party. They from the fact that one gentleman School forgo a full day's holiday on

and

Poetical correspondent-The Lay of the Last Minstrel was not an

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The state of the excitement of

the company's affairs according to afterwards lunched at the Embassy refused his name to a contempor- and motored to Potsdam, inspected ary's reporter twice in the same Sans Souci and the new palaces. paragraph.

As they are travelling incognito there has been no official reception by the German authorities.

The Duke and Duchess will leave {** |cards on President Hindenburg be-

fore proceeding to Oslo.

The petty detalls, the fine points of always followed this polley in a

Decisions on various points sub- the best of our information and the diplomacy, the insistence upon pre-its dealings with Manchuria."

mitted by Mr. F. H. Loseby (of explanations given to us and sedence and precedents should not

Effective Friendship

Measra Ross & Co.) for the fugi-shown by the books of the com- impede the conclualon of a new

statement The

must be live were given by the First Police Baron Magistrate (Mr. E. W. Hamilton) agreement and the ushering in of taken at its face value. a new era of Sino-Japanese Amity. Tanaka offers the friendship of this morning in the Haiphong ex- But there must be a will to peace; Japan to the Chinese people, but he tradition case. His Worship said. guarantees of protection that he had been through the case there must be a decision that peace asks for

for the lives and properties of very carefully and he felt that should prevail.

Japanese subjects in Chian general there was a prima facie case ty and in Manchuria in particular. against Chan Hùng-chuen, a Chin-

How to make this friendship (ese

The Tsinan Affair has bitten into the psychology of both nations more deeply than appears on the surface. Just as in China there is undoubt edly а powerful anti-Japanese Movement, so in Japan, there is an antl-Chinese movement, patent and forceful.

effective is, of course, the question. Mr. Loseby reverted to his sub- of the day. How to carry a desire mission that he had been promis into a reality? How to bring the ed a copy of the charge and had two nations together, so that they never received one.

On his ap will not view each other with sus-plication for a definition of the picion and distrust?

charge, his Worship replied: "An When visited Japan in the It would appear that the Tsinan offence against the bankruptcy autumn, I noticed this tendency Incident is at the moment the crux|law."

of Japanese public opinion, but of the situation. If a solution can Mr. Loseby also argued that no when I described it in China, the be found then there is hope that an evidence had been submitted that Chinese refused to believe that atmosphere will be engendered Haiphong is within the jurisdiction Japanese public opinion demanded favourable to a consideration of of a French colony or protectorate.

THE HOTEL FIRE

In addition to the pictures of the King Edward Hotel fire appearing on page 7 of this ~~~issue* (in ville ikonser art supplement of the Colony), another lot will be published by the "Sunday Herald" to-

morrow.

A Home mail via Siberia leaves on Monday. To get a complete set for posting, make sure you see the "Herald" to-

morrow.

Excitement in Scandinavia

London, Yesterday.

And yet he was not in a state of com(m) al

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Supplementary Estimates are ex- pected to include ample supplies for the "Seniors" in certain other Departments.

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Will the kiddies of Yaumati

Saturday next?

Official minute: Mr. Henry Tom Brooks no fres on Wednesday, March 20,

Besides "rolling stones" there has been Mass at the scene of the There is at least, one enterpris-big fire every day this week-- ing insurance company in the plenty of him, too! Colony-they lost no time in cir

All Scandinavia is most excited cularislar everybody about the over the Royal wedding between marits of their policies fire and Crown Prince Olaf and Princess | otherwise. Martha of Sweden and Oslo is full- Ing up with Royal guests.

STOP PRESS

THE FIFTH TEST

AUSTRALIA 248 FOR 5 AT LUNCH

The Duke and Duchess of York breakfasted at the British Embassy in Berlin, and afterwards inspected the ex-Kaiser's palace. This was the first British Royal visit since the war. The Berlin public did not recognise them driving through the streets. They will proceed to Oalo to-night as the ice in the Baltic a stronger policy than the Govern other problems. If not, then the This was the first case, he thought, |—

will delay their arrival by one day. ment chose to take.,

relations will continue as they are, in which evidence of jurisdiction pany.--Percy Smith, Seth and A week's festivities are proceed.

KIPPAX RUN OUT Negotlators Attacked

the Chinese conducting a world-had not been given.

Fleming, Incorporated Accountants, ing at Stockholm where Crown In both countries, the Govern-wide propaganda against Japan,

When the lunch interval was Auditors, Hong Kong, 6th March, Prince Olaf has gone to fetch his ment would make compromises, but boycotting Japanese

Roods

His Worship said that he dis- 1929." and

brida. Neither the King nor Queen taken to-day at Melbourne, the the populace demands extreme mea- teaching their people to hate the agreed with Mr. Loseby on the lat-

Accounts

of Sweden will be present, being eighth day of the Fifth Test Match, sures, which neither of the negotia- Japanese.

on the Riviera and in Rome res- Australia's score was 248 runs for tors can obtain and which neither

pectively.

five wickets. She, therefore, need-

country can, with decency, impose.

Needs Defined

Habeas Corpus

ter's submission that "s manager Jeannot go bankrupt."

You will observe from the Profit and Loss Account for the year 1928 An order for committal to pri- that the balance of Working Ac- The festivities at Oslo include a led 38 runs more for victory with In both countries, the negotiators In Japan, on the other hand,

to $1,113,867.15 banquet at the British Embassy to half her wickets in hand. are constantly being attacked for hatred, bitterness, resentment will son was made, pending instruc- count amounted

against $1,102,659.48 for 1927 be attended by the King and Queen

The weather was bright and their weakness and their conces continue to strengthen popular tions from H.E. the Governor.

His Worship announced that he an increase of $11,807.72, which I of Norway, the Duke and Duchess breezy and the wicket hard, sion; yet neither of the negotiators antagonism to China and to make has been able to discover a formula it increasingly more difficult for any was not giving a written judgment, think under the circumstances may of York and the Norwegian Premier

To-day's scors (before lunch): be regarded as satisfactory, more and his wife-Reuter.

England which will bring an understanding Government to concede anything at going into the reasons.

Mr. Loseby Intimated that he particularly as during the summer with honour and fairness and yet all to Chinese public opinion. Such

1st innings in Hong months business both a situation cannot make for the would apply for Habeas Corpus. satisfy public opinion at home.

2nd innings an Mr. Somerset Fitzroy (Assistant Kong and Shanghat fell much be The formula of "mutual regreta peace of the world or for for lives lost and mutual reparations optimistic outlook for the future of Attorney-General) ant with M. Glow the average for that part-

Dufaure de la Prade (French Con-cular time of the year. for damages done" is so broad that China.

For, no matter how one views this sul-General in Hong Kong) but the You will observe also that the apparently each side seeks for a very much more specific statement problem, it is necessary for China latter was not called upon to give working profit for the year has and it is over the details of this to obtain capital abroad for the evidence as to jurisdiction, his been augmented by the sum of specific statement and the form in development of industry, means of Worship having given an undertak- 8974,169.75 in respect of the proft which it is to be presented to the communication and the stabilisation ing to the defence that, the Crown on the sale of the old Hong Kong

And such having closed its case, no further Hotel alte (North black) and No. The King has passed a good day. P. M. Hornibrook, b Hammond. world that, after an all-night of the Government. session and a hopeful outcome, the capital cannot come here, if there evidence would be heard. conference between Dr. Wang and is any possibility at all that there Mr. Yoshizawa ended in failure. may be a continuation of disorder. The Tainan situation, in its present

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APPOINTMENTS

Historic Significance Baron Tanaka, at the opening of state, affords ample possibilities of the Japanese Diet, commenting on being a source of continued dis- LATEST ANNOUNCEMENTS IN

order,

tion.

“GAZETTE"

KING'S HEALTH

MAKING GOOD RECOVERY AT CRAIGWEIL

OUTING WITH PRINCESS

London, Yesterday.

NEW ANAESTHETIC DISCOVERED

There is a Whiteaway School in Nathan-road- Should be plenty of good. "counters" there!

At least one member of the staff of the P.W.D. may be Cryan sut for a holiday next Wednesday.

With a King at their head the.. members of the Police Department may be found wrapped in the Tinion Jack nightly.

'Lifted from our evening con temporary:

A local prize-ghing gave a contemporary the opportunity to publish a picture of Sir Cecil Clementi. We understand that the editor relies on H.E. not having too many engagements 'on the same day. Ha-ha hallit

Noticed that the very intelligent diary in the "S.C.M.P"" daily gives Australia among the “Home mails"

-Is that so?

· - ·

A house is advertised to be let with "delivery on April 1.”—A portable dwoling, apparently.

Also advertised to be let is a house suitable for "married couple or two friends."—A___married. · couple, of course, are never friends.

519 257

776

Australla

1st innings...

2nd Innings:-

491

W. A. Oldfield, b Hammond.

48

18

35

· Local cub reporters should be la-

terested to hear that Mr. Lockhart

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28

has been appointed Inspector of

Juvenile Labour.—What' are

his

18

11

qualifications for sub-editing?

Total (for 5 wkts.) 204 Fall of wickets:-1 for 51 runs

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Less play, less drinking, and less: profits is the wail of a Kowloom Club.

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Mourning bands were ondered on Friday by local cricketera of English birth the while the kangaroos were V-wagging their tails.

To bat:-D. Bradman, A. Fairfax, R. M. Oxenham,. C. Grimmett, T. Wall.

(Full scores and a report of yesterday afternoon's play will be found on page 18.) --

16, Des Voeux-road, which pro- Despite the persistence of cold W. M. Woodfull, b Hammond perty was disposed of to the Heng easterly winds, brilliant sunshine A, Jackson, b Geary.... Kong Land Investment and Agency enabled His Majesty to go out in A. F. Kippax, run out Co., Ltd. on Nov. 10, 1928, and I the grounds of Craigwell although J. S. Ryder, not out

Extras propose to make. further reference the hour that the King was in the

house. to the subjent later.

Princess Elizabeth accompanied for boycotts and agitation the foreign relations of his country lead inevitably to popular excita

Properties Well Maintained Referring to the debt is aide of the him in his outing and walked besido said, inter alia:-

The following appointments ap-Profit and Loss Account, you will the bathchair for three-quarters of (Horalbrook), 2 for 80 (Oldfeld), "In speaking of our relationship tion of a nature unsuitable to the with China, I feel bound to say needs of a nation seeking stabilisa-pear in to-day's "Gazette

note that "Mortgage and Bank the grounds of Craigwell although for 129 (Woodfull), 4 for 158 few words about our position da

Mr. V. C. Branson, M.C., A.R.C.S., Interest" fa considerably lower grounds-British Wireless Service. (Jackson), 8 for 204 (Kippax). Wonderful Opportunity Manchuria as distinguished from

D.I.C., B.Sc, A.L.C. to be Govern- than last year. As my predeces-

" AVERTIN " the rest of China. In view of the Nor is it to the interest of Japan ment Analyst during the absence on sor in the chair explained to you at the last annual general meeting, political and strategie importance that there should be continued chaos leave of Mr. E. R. Dovey.. which it bears to Japan on account In China. Only fools and pro- Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith to be during the Military occupation of of its geographic contiguity with pagandists, who cannot see the Assistant Land Officer and Deputy the Peninsula Hotel interest ap- our territory and considering the woods for the trees, can assume Registrar of Marriages from March plying to "Construction in Fro gress, etc," was debited to Profit historie. significance which It that Japan can thrive best on a 12. possesses in that the region was re- chaotic China. Japanese statesmen Mr. H. L Lockhart (hitherto of and Loss Account, and, per contra, stored to China by Japan at the risk are sincere when they insist that the Sanitary Departinent) to be In- the Itent of "Rents" received the

A new anaesthetic, which is not; of her national existence from the they seek an orderly and stabilised spector of Juvenile Labour and benefit of the rental revenue derived aggressive grip of Tsarist Russia, it China, for it is obviously to their Inspector of Factories during the from the Maitery Authorities, yet on the commercial market, is is quite natural that the sentiment interests that China should be or absence on leave of Inspector F. whereas on the termination of our described in the current issue of the lease, with the Military Authorities by two distinguished of the Japanese people toward Man- derly and stabilised. Such condi-Mende. churia should be peculiarly keen tions will make, for trade and for His Honour the Pulsne Judge and consequent renewal of work anaesthetists, one of whom, Dr. and entirely different from that the general peace of Asta-Japan (Mr. Justice, Wood) and Mr. on the building the relative interest away, acted as anaesthetist to toward any other part of China needs both

Nellage S. Brown to be members of was again capitalized. Any the King in his recent operation. Furthermore, more than a million Who can find the formula to the Court of the University. Japanese subjects reside in the pance? Dr.. C. T. Wang and Mr. gion today and Japan has maty Yoshizawa liave a wonderful oppor KELLOGG PACT important rights and interests tunity before them. Will they serve there. The interest and concern both countries by Anding, the with which the Japaness people Irreducible minimum which both have come to regard the affairs of countries can decept and the broad that the Nat Manchuria should therefore not eat? maximum which both coun: ratified the

The Chine

cruse the least wonder. It goes trios can concede and incorporIt is understood that only. "Japan/ without using that the Japano Bea

Etreaty of amity and out of the original fifteen sign Government, will respect the sover, co-op

forles, has not rátffed - Ben

planation of the various other items comprising the Proft and Loss Ac count would appear

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self- lanatory would

GIVEN BY INJECTION.

London, Yesterday,

It is called "avertin and is given by Injection. In a record of 188 serious cases, in which it was used, there were only two deaths under the anaesthetic.

LATER. Australia's score at the lunch Interval was 218 runs for 5 wickets.

BRITISH BUILDING 1,230,000 NEW HOUSES SINCE

THE ARMISTICE WAY

What a waste of good whiskey en hotel fire causes.

The local branch of the Anti- Saloon League cabled the sad news to Pussyfool Johnson" "somewhere · in Ceylon."

With vialons of Sir A.`` G.. M. Fletcher before them many of the seniors in local Government Depart ments are training, their subordin mes In the use of Sir In office

conversatione.

London, Yesterday????

Four persons by the name of Few? The fact that 1.230,000 new arrived in the Colony yesterday houses, accommodating more than Not few But man, að pro5,000,000 people have

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