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Leave Arrive. H.K. Vane. Empress of Asia Sept. 15 Oct. Empress of Canada Sept. 29 Oct. Empress of Russia Oct. 13 Oct. Empress of Japan Oct. 27 Nov. 14 Air-conditioned equipment on C. P. R. Trans-Continental Trains. Frequent Canadian Pacific Atlantic sailings to European ports.

TO MANILA

Empress of Asia on Thursday, Septembar, 7th.

Passengers to Manila, any class, must possess Cholera inoculation certificates issued by the Hong Kong Govern- ment authorities dated not less than five days nor more than three months from date of arrival in Manila.

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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 5, 1939.

BRITISH OFFICER "WELL TREATED

Japanese Spokesman Denies III-Treatment

"The Japanese military authorities of the Tokyo Enbassy and Major surgeon, are according Lieut.-Col. Spear all Hennessey, a British Army the courtesies and good treatment. in he had not even been examined by Instead he had accordance with the principles of the medical man.

was in good 'bushido'." This statement was made | informed them that he at the Japanese press conference in health and did not require attention. Shanghai when a military spokesman denied reports, which had appeared in the foreign press describing alleged Japanese ill-treatment of the detained British Military Attache,

These reports, the spokeman said had alleged that Lieut-Col. Spear was in very had health and that he had

The two British officers, who had visited Col. Spear, had confirmed this and had expressed their thanks to the Japanese authorities for the treatment which had been accorded the detained officer, he said. He hoped that ports of this kind would not be taken advantage of in view of the interna- becoming tional situation which was more and more complex and delicate.

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been ill-treated. Information at hand, however, indicated that such reports

Answering a question, he said that were wholly unfounded. The report in question, he said, was issued by he was not in a position to state why

the Reuter. "Naturally

Japanese Col. Spear had been detained so long military authorities are not at all without a trial but he felt sure that should the authorities concerned would com- happy that such despatches

that news plete their investigations as soon as have been sent out by

possible. ." he added. agency,"

Dealing with the reports, he stated

that one had alleged that food sent to Lieut.-Col. Spear from Peking on July 5 had either failed to reach him or had only got there after a great delay.

"GOOD TIME":"

The fact was that the food reached him in good time and it had been learned that the Japanese authorities, who were looking after the detained officer, had obtained for him accesss to English language hewspapers by arrangement with the local military. authorities."

DIAMOND

HARDNESS ASCRIBED

TO METAL

New York.

Dealing with a report alleging ill-

A new metal that is within two- treatment, the military spokesman said that it was a fact that Lieut.-tenths of one per cent, as hard as dia- Col. Spear's meals were even better monds, the hardest known substance, than those.. provided for Japanese was announced July 22.

The report was made to the Ameri- military officers. And the authorities, feeling that he would probably appre-can Chemical Society by Phillip M. ciate some food in addition to the or-McKenna, of the McKenna Metals dinary Japanese ration, had made it a Company, Latrobe, Pa. The metal is practice to supply him with Russian made of tungsten, the material used in electric light filaments; titanium, a meals, the spokesman added.

metal that in one of its forms is used as a pigment for white paint; and carbon. These three are dropped into molten nickel at 2,000 degrees Fahren-

He continued that it had also been reported that Col. Spear had not been allowed any exercise by taking walks, While it was true that until the com- pletion of the investigations he would heit. not be allowed to move about outside. After cooling, aqua regia, the chemi- by himself, he had been given per- mission to take walks outside provid- ed that he went with an escort.

PRIVILEGE REFUSED

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At this point a pressman asked if it was not true that Col. Spear had refused to take a walk unless he was accompanied by an officer of the same rank as himself. "He was given freedom in, keeping with one who is under investigation," the spokesman said. He had refused to accept this.

Furthermore, the spokesman tinued, Lieut-Col. Spear had not suffered in health. When he had been visited recently by Comdr. Parker

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TRADE UNION CONGRESS

-LONDON, TO-DAY,

cal which dissolves gold, dissolves them out of the nickel. After separa- tion, the compound is ground to pow- der. The powder is heated in furn- aces and pressed while hot into piece of metal harder than the hard- est steel.

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It is used to make both cutting tools and for other metals and for making alloys to forin parts that are nearly as hard as diamonds.

The cutting abilities are so superior, the announcement says, that these new metal tools will finish or smooth the surfaces of monel metal at 90 feet a minute, compared with 15 feet by pre- viously available hard materials.

the Alloys have been made with new metal so hard that they withstand pressures of 300,000 pounds a square inch.

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The new metal has been used make valves for deep òllwell pumps WHEN DELEGATES REPRESENT- where there is tremendous wear. Two' ING FIVE MILLION - BRITISH such valves have been driven together TRADE UNIONISTS ASSEMBLED by a pneumatic hammer, 600 times a AT BRIDLINGTON FOR THEIR AN minute, at 25 pounds for each blow NUAL CONFERENCE YESTERDAY without showing appreciable wear after IT WAS DECIDED TO CURTAIL an hour and 45 minutes hammering. THE BUSINESS. TO TWO DAYS, THUS REFLECTING THE DELE DETER IMPLACABLE · GATES' |MINATION.

The president expressed the feel- ings and aspirations of the Congress when he declared that British Tab- our would stand four square no mat¬ ter how dark or difficult the days might be, until they had smashed Hitlerism for ever and created a world of true brotherhood.--Reuter,

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NINE NAZI SHIPS INTERNED

Landon, The Nazliner "Columbus" taken refuge in Vera Cruz.

There are now nine Nazi ships terned in Mexico.-Reuter.

WHITES' PRESTIGE IN

THE EAST

Addressing volunteers, the South African Minister for Defence, Mr. war, the Pirow, suld: “War or no white man's prestige in the East has already sunk to zero,

"Unless it is rehabilitated in the Pacißo it will link to the same levol in countries bordering the Indian Ocean, with disastrous repercussions in Africa

It is a pity that the European na- has tions are so blind with hatred that they forget that the whites" "prestige in-concerns the whole white race and

not any particularly nation.”