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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 23, 1939.

ELOQUENT APPEAL BY DR. WELLINGTON

Asks Committee To Co-Ordinate Sanctions Measures

Geneva, To-day.

In an eloquent appeal to the League Council yester- day, Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassador in Paris and chief delegate at Geneva, asked that certain recommendations be made to member States.

AXIS GREETINGS

Berlin, To-day.

The Japanese Government has telegraphed congratulations to the German Government on the sign- ature of the Italo-German ul. liance.

Hitler has exchanged telegrams with both Mussolini and King Victor Emmanuel-Reuter.

MYSTERY LOSS OF

Dr. Koo requested that these States be recommend- LEAD CONCENTRATE

succour re-

ed to extend financial and material aid to China to fortify her resistance and to fugees, and to refrain from anything which one-pound bags of lead concentrate might weaken China's resistance.

He asked that they withhold from Japan the sup- ply of instruments of war and raw materials necessary for the continuation of aggression, particularly aeroplanes and oil, and to restrict the importation of Japanese goods.

GRIPPING "MARCH OF TIME" FILM

Mystery surrounds the loss of 45

which disappeared while in transit from the Hong Kong Mines to the city yesterday.

The Hong Kong Mines'

KOO

BRITONS GO BY BUS TO THE SAHARA

Two travellers who had left Bri- tain in search of a holiday that would be "different," were walking in the streets of Fez, the famus Moroccan capital.

Suddenly a majestic richly clothed Moor, with servants tripping at his heels, stopped them with a hearty

greeting.

He shook their hands and welcom- In his dark eyes there flashed the light of friendship, In French, he asked them if they would honour him by visiting his house.

ed them to his city.

When he told them his name, the British visitors learned that he had the title of Sharif, and realised that tran- he was a descendant of the Prophet

sportation contractor, Cheung Ting- Mahomet. lee, reported the loss to the Police last night, but the goods have not yet been traced.

Secondly, Dr. Koo asked for the REGISTER OF

setting up of a body for the pur- pose of co-ordinating the forego-

ing measures already adopted or REFUGEE CHILDREN

to be adopted.

EFFECT ON EUROPE It did not require a fertile mind, he said, to imagine the effect upon the present tense situation in Europe and what would happen to the rights and interests of the De- East mocratic powers in the Far it

of

of of

Registration of from the Kwangtung

school children

war zones

At the Sharif's palace the two foreigners sat in a beautiful court- yard, drinking tea and eating sweet- meats, while a servant played the lute to them.

Then the Englishwoman was con- ducted through the harem by a negress, clad in a robe of spotless white.

In time, the couple were escorted from the palace to another of the Sharif's dwellings, to meet their host, And they discovered with a shock that he was only a subtle shop- keeper, and his "palace”—a shop!

There was the Shariff himself, with three servants to shame them into buying-to press upon them the costliest goods.

Charity schools will be opened for the

Not to buy would have been the children, which will be staffed by 300 refugee teachers.meanest abuse of hospitality. Central News.

GUNNER ON DRIVING CHARGE

Dr. Koo said that China, in her determined resistance to Japan, thereby impoverishing her stock of armaments and wearing out her now taking refuge in Hong Kong, potential resources both in man-

Kowloon and Macao is being held power and

economic wealth, had by the Hong Kong and Macao One of the most gripping "March been acting as the vanguard of the School Children Relief Commission under the Kwangtung Relief Asso- of Time" films ever to be put out

world peace front. will be shown at the Queen's Thea-

ciation. It will last until the end

tre to-morrow. Entitled "Refugees

of this month. of To-day and To-morrow," it was previewed by the press yesterday.

The "March of Time" needs little introduction. Its combination drama and straight fact make one of the finest developments the films known. In addition, course, the re-enactments of vivid scenes from actual life enable one to really appreciate the forcefulness

Dr. Koo made a brief survey of of this form of pictorial journalism.

the position. "Refugees of To-day and To- He said that the abandonment of morrow" is actually a sad commen-positional warfare in favour of mo- tary on present-day civilization. All bile operations had deprived over the world-in China, in Spain invading forces of fixed objectives and in Central Europe-are re- fugees from war and persecution, tack, and confused them where to on which to concentrate their at- hundreds and thousands of them, strike ́stumbling, hurrying away from the Chinese army.

a crushing blow at the

Terror. These scenes savagely hurt those of us who still believe in the basic principle of democracy tolerance.

if China had capitulated to the Ja- panese threat at the beginning, or had stopped resisting the invasion and had accepted Japan's domin- ion.

the

Gunner J. P. Smith, of the 5th A. A. Regiment, Lyeemun Barracks, was summoned before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy to the left side of the road, when this morning with failing to keep

on April 27, rounding a bend in Victoria Road,

Défendant pleaded not guilty. Traffic Sub-Inspector Clarke said that he went

to Jubilee Road on April 27, where an accident had. been reported. He saw private car No. "1381 had collided with a motor cycle No. 279.

Complainant Tam Kim, told the Dr. Koo pointed out that the Ja-Court that at about 10.20 a.m, on

JAPANESE FAILURE The new strategy had helped the Chinese to regain considerable ini- tiative in action, and enabled them The film does not stop here, how-to strike against the enemy in dif- over, for it then switches to Pales- ferent sectors at the same time. tine, to show how a people, accus-

They were probably the thousandth victims of this time-worn trick.

AMBASSADOR TO LEAVE FRIDAY

Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr, the British Ambassador to China, day from Chungking, via Kunming who arrived in the Colony yester-

and Hanoi, will be sailing from Hong Kong for Shanghai on Fri- day morning in the Canadian Paci- fic Steamships Limited liner Em- press of Asia.

No interviews will be given to the press during his stay in Hong Kong, the "China Mail" was in- formed by the Ambassador's secre- tary this morning.

tomed to years of industrial life in panese had failed in the operations April 27, he was driving along SHANGHAI ORGANS

cities, can yet turn to agriculture designed to cut the two principal Victoria Road and the land, turning a barreness routes of supply, from abroad.

towards Aberdeen. When rounding a-bend, two motor into "a land of milk and honey."

He commented favourably on the cycles were coming from the op- It suggests that some sort of action of American aircraft composite direction. The first cycle scheme such as this may yet solve panies, who had all responded to passed him, but the second cycle the problem, if only it is tackled the advice of the United States which was driven by defendant speedily and intelligently..

Government last July to refrain collided with him. from selling more aeroplanes to After hearing the evidence, Mr. Japan, and exports had stopped. Forrest adjourned the case to

Friday.

TRAFFIC OFFENCES Reuter."

limit, on April 80.

1

Mr. L. Landau, of Anderson Mrs. M. Johnstone, of No. 3, Meyer and Company, was fined $6 May Road, was fined, $10 for a by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, at the similar offence. Central Magistracy this morning, for parking his motor car No. 2724 in Queen's Road Central near the China Emporium, over the time

Mr. Ho Ka-lau, the well-known tennis player, was fined $5 for parking over time in Pedder Street, on April 29.

APPEAL

Shanghai, To-day,

The management of the “Ta Mei Pao," whose registration was can- celled by the Shanghai Municipal Council, has cabled to the American Government to instruct the Ameri- can Counsul-General in. Shanghai to Mrs. Wong, of No. 119, Prince take up the matter with the S.M.C. Edward Road, was bitten by a black without further delay. terrier, owned by Mrs. Glaser, of It is understood that although the No. 26, Kadoorie Avenue, yesterday American Consul-General has pro- and was treated at the Kowloon mised to take action, no protest has Hospital. The dog was sent to Ma-yet been lodged with the S.M.O.- taukok for observation:

Our Own Correspondent.