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SHANGHAI RELIEF FUND.

St. John's Hall- Concert.

In aid of the Shanghai Relief Fund, an enjoyable concert or ganised by the residents of St. John's Hall of the University, was held in the Lee Hysan Hall of the St. Paul's Girls' School, last night.

There was

a large audience and a handsome sum was collect- ed for the cause,

SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1932.

AMERICAN BOYCOTT OF

JAPANESE GOODS

SENSATIONAL REVELATION BY JUDGE LINEBARGER.

“Japan Is Going to Crash Against the Stone Wall of Honest World Public Opinion.”

Mr. Lo Chong-fie, the Chair- man, made speeches in both Eng- lish and Chinese, in which be ap-

Washington, D.C., April 1. pealed for support for the relief fund, and his words did not fall Adviser of China, at his office at Judge Paul Linebarger, Legal on deaf ears.

Refreshments were provided clared that no matter what the Washington, DC, to-day de- during the interval. The organ-American administration did in isers are holding another enter- the matter of the proposed boy tainment to-night, in aid of the cott of goods sent to America, same fund.

that the American people in very large part are determined not to buy any. Japanese goods whatsoever, until Japan has atoned for her invasion of China, and gives guarantees, that she will not renew her aggressions.

News in Brief.

The E. & A. s:s. Nellore will leave for Moji, Kobe and Yokohama on or about Monday, April 4 at noon.

The recent declaration by the Hoover administration against any boycott of Japanese goods, has had a bad reactionary effect as far as Japan is concerned, ac-

The s.s. Taiyuan left Shanghai on March 31 via Swatow with 35 cording to Judge Linebarger. bags of mail for Hong Kong, and; ía due here on April 4.

icle is too often scorned

this would happen, for certain of never would have believed that

are so much cheaper that 1. our ten cent Japanese articles should think that they would sell as readily as before"

"Hence,"

continued Linebarger, Japan is opposed by Judge a boycott which is more active than if it had been begun by a government Take for ex- ample silk Japan gella America ordinarily two hundred million dollars worth of silk an- nually raw silk to be manu- factured here in America. A man who sells women's stockings told me the other day, that women are beginning to ask if auch and such an article of women's wearing apparel has any Japanese silk in it.. Nearly every American woman

reads the daily account of the horrors of the Japanese invasion in China, and does not want to help contribute to Japan's Invasion, by buying even an article which has a small part of this Japanese silk in it"

"At one of my speeches he other day, one of the ladies pre- sent asked me, if there was any way, that she 'could find out when buying an article of silk, whether it contained Japanese silk or not... I told her, that I knew of no way except perhaps, by

"The Hoover administration made a big mistake in shaking the stick at Americans who de-, Choy Yuen, the coolie who was clare that they did not want any seriously injured by the mysterious Japanese goods.. The aver- bomb explosion in the compound of age American considers that he St. John's Cathedral on Wednesday is already too much bossed morning, died in the Government that he has at least the right to Civil Hospital yesterday.

buy what goods he will, and when and where he wishes... Hence

Not even excepting the waters of the lower Clyde and the West Coast of Scotland, and they are bad to beat.

And he can yacht all the The ship's company of H.M.S. far from helping Japan any ad- year round, and with a cruiser what Cumberland held a dance last night ministrative command or even days of sunlit joy, what nights of at the garrison lecture hall, Welling-request to abandon an American dream will be his.

ton Barracks, which was crowded. boycott of Japanese goods, has a Here we have our steep and rug- the music and

The ship's own dance band provided boomerang effect, which will ged peak always sentinel above our was spent by all until 1 a..

an enjoyable time count heavily in the trade statis- tics of Japan's budget, in the im- silver beaches; here we have un-

mediate future." numbered islands to give us shelter

"Just to-day," continued Judge

The Directora of the Rotary Club

J

"

Incidentally, he was also a million if we need it; here we have the open have notified us that the speaker at Linebarger, "I asked a clerk in a "Well," she responded, "If that's a costly laboratory analysis." aire. Yet for twenty-five years sea if we feel like a blow. Here the meeting of the Rotary Club on five and ten cent store how Jap- the case, I think that we Ameri- before bis dath his name figured in we have safe and beautiful anchor-Tuesday, April 5, will be Mr. J. P. anese crockery and table ware can women would do best to buy the news along with King Edward, ages, a new one for every night of Sherry, Manager of The Telephone and other Japanese products are

our lives. Here we have blue deep Company, and his subject will be selling

only rayon, for we certainly do the Kaiser, President Wilson,

"They don't sell at not intend to help furnish the water everywhere. Charlie Chaplin, Harry Lauder, and a radius of thirty miles.

And all within The Dial Switch in Automatic all," declared the clerk.. Japanese with bullets to murder

To any Telephony."

Frequently I am asked if such innocent Chinese, and He one who thinks of yachting in terms

thus the rest of the head-liners.

and auch an article is Japanese, break up American trade in the of the pea-soup of the Thames was not "news" because he was a

Mesars. A. Coeke & Co. Inform and of course I say, that I am not Far East." estuary, or the bleak slate of the us that the Societe International an expert in such grocer, grocers are common, nor yet North Sea, Hong-Kong'a yachting de Placements, Basle, have cabled Americans know pretty well now, admit that day by day, it is run-

matters."

"Japanese Imperialism will not becau be was a millionaire, mil-waters are an abiding wonder. that the official quotation in Basle what goods are Japanese because ning with greater momentum, to The non-yachting resident knows for one sub-unit of the Inter- they are always of a cheap, crash eventually against the days, but because he was a yachts-little of the Colony's scenery beyond national Investment Deposit Certi-breakable transient pattern, and stone wall of honest world public

what he sees from the motor roads. ficates yesterday was, $2 158. 64. hence sell much cheaper. Opinion." The fair play senti man, because he made umpteen at Through Hiking he can learn a lot, exclusive of dividend.

Now, however, price don't seem ment in America la all against tempts to win the 'America'

cup. but Hiking is not everybody's mut-

to count, and even anything Japan, and this Japan will learn And that his sportsman-like and ton. To know our scenic gems as

A memorial tablet to the late which looks like a Japanese arti- too late to mend. yachtsman-like try for the blue rib-they ought to be known you need a Mr. Charles Makeham is to be un- boat. What can he know of the veiled at the Wesleyan Church, bon of yacht racing did more to sell charms of Plover Cove with the Wanchai, by the Rev. Ernest his bacon and tea than any cam-Dragon Pools, of Double Haven, of Bastin, B.A., of Shiu Chow, during paign of advertising could have done the West Arm of Long Harbour, the evening service to-morrow. The Gretna Cei mony Declared Void. there is no doubt, for the great Harbour in its island girdle? What and all friends of the late Mr.

They were handed a certificate even of Port Shelter with Rocky service will commence at 6 o'clock

In the Court of Session at Edin- which professed to certify that they heart of the British public still can he know of the purple canyons Makeham are cordially invited to burgh, Lord Pitman declared nuil had been married in the manner of warms to a 'sportsman, and in of the North-West Coast of Lantaobe present.

and void a pretended marriage retumed to their respective homes, the law of Scotland, The parties ceremony performed by a shoemaker and had never lived together w {at Gretus.

man and wife. They both regard Plaintiff in the case was Kathed the ceremony as a means of mak- icen Waitame of Bockfoot, Helens with a view to persuading plaintiff's ing their engagement more definite burgh, and defendant'Alfred parents to agree.

yacht racing they knew they had a

with their smoking cascades? In fact, what does he know of Hong- clean game and a fair run for their Kong who paly Hong-Kong knows? money. And now that he has gone Now we learn that this finest, and to his account, if there is any rac-healthiest, and cheapest of all our ing on the Styx we have no doubt, sports is in danger, of its

existence. For reasons supposedly

gun go

very

Personal Par.

H.H. the Rajah ef Jubbal will be.

A PRETENCE OF MARRIAGE.

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marriage, in April, 1929, neither of them intending that it should be a real marriage.

he is well up to the line when the connected with finance the Au-arriving in Hong Kong on Thurs Theodore Koch, commercial travel- Lord Pitanm said he came to the

thorities are arranging to fill in the day, April 7, on the P. & O. liner s.a. er, formerly of Lillybank Gardene, conclusion that plaintiff and defen Now here in Hong-Kong it is camber of the Royal Hong-Kong Ranpura. Hie Highness will leave Glasgow.

dant did not mean what they said not given to many of na to be Yachting Club when the Club will here after a stay of two days, by

at the ceremony. Plaintif would It was stated that the parties by now have realised the stupidity grocers, and to stin fewer of us to and itself without a home. To en- the s.s. Empresa of Canada.

were in love with each other, but of her actions. She played with plaintiff's parents objected. To fire and very nearly got badly burn- overcome the opposition plaintiff ed If defendant had held her to and defendant motored to Gretna her statement it was difficult to see. and when through a ceremony of how she could have got out of it.

be millionaires. But if we love the lighten the yachtsmen a plan show-

terms as

A

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China Mall” of April 2, 1922.]

To-day's dollar is worth 2/5 18/16.

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sca and have the desire of it we ing. the proposed reclamation is now can all of us be yachtsmen. For bung up in the Club House. nowhere is this great sport to be yacht club without a Club House, indulged in on such reasonable without an anchorage for the in the waters of this yachts, would mean the end of Colony. For a capital outlay of a yachting as we know it. As for a few hundred dollars the novice can new alte, it is difficult to think of acquire a small racer, and join the any such on. the harbour with the | noble band of enthusiasts on Satur-advantages and amenities of the

day afternoons and Sundays.

If Present

position. We believe Hong Kong it seems is not yet cruising is more to his taste be may but the very fact that it is an Since the seamen's strike was Kellet Island has been suggested, out of the wood of industrial unrest. with luck pick up a nice little skip island, and so difficult of access, puts settled demands for increased wages with a cabin to sleep two in com-it out of court. And round Kellet is have been fort at a price which, compared with home prices, seems ridiculous. His poor holding ground, and the rock is stevedores; tally clerks, launchmen boat boy's wages and upkeep should the centre of a wind-pocket always, and native lightermen. This time not mean a monthly expenditure of No, let us hope that the scheme will the employers have taken prompt more than fifty dollars. If he never get beyond the paper stage, action to deal with the problem. has a chum to join in with him then and that a fine sport will not fall The Committee of the Hong Kong he has the cheapest thing in the another sacrifice to the spirit of General Chamber of Commerce dia- way of amusement this Colony materialism that at present seems to cussed it with the representatives of affords

rule the root.

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If he is content to race in Kow- loon Bay, with the sight of new the boating, and more particularly Parr, Mr. G. M. Dodwell, Mr. G. L. scenes that an occasional longer race the rowing, fraternity will be soen Young and Mr H. P. White were affords, well and good, but it is in a in all their glory. The lads from authorised to meet representatives cruiser that, if he is a nature lover, Manila, and Canton, and the V.R.C. of the men for a full discussion of he will really get his money & worth will all be there, and things will all demands, in conference with the For then he will be able to explore happen in boats as they ought to Mr E. R. Halifax (Secre our yachting waters; and it is our happen. The old blue dag will be for Chinese Affairs); Co Popinion, in which we are not flying; over the Clubhouse, “Ho

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