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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 6, 1940

PEACE IN FAR EAST Possible To Arrange, Declares Viscount Kano

SPLIT IN WANG RANKS RUMOURED

Reports

Shanghai, To-day,

were current last night that a split has occurred between Chen ́Kung-po, expelled Kuomintang Director of Publicity, and Wang Ching-wel.

Chen is said to be making pre- parations to leave or has already left Shanghai for Hong Kong. This, however, cannot be confirm- ed.-Our Own Correspondent.

DRIVE AGAINST S.A. 'NAZIS'

JOHANNESBURG, TO-DAY.

THE NEW YEAR HAS BROUGHT

JAPAN'S ECONOMIC

CLAIMS UPON

CHINA SATISFIED

London, To-day.

THE BELIEF THAT IT will be possible to arrange a satisfactory peace in the Sino-Japanese dispute within a short time was expressed to Reuter yes- terday by Viscount Kano, London manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank.

Viscount Kano said Japan had now reached a posi- tion where she could reasonably say her econo- mic claims on China had been satisfied.

If economic readjustment was maintained there was no reason why the two countries should not re- sume friendly relations.

access to raw materials

Japan had achieved the desired share AN INTENSIFICATION OF POLICE of China's markets for the Japanese ACTION AGAINST ENEMY SYM-output of manufactured goods of all PATHISERS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND kinds, and INVESTIGATIONS INTO

produced by China had also been at- THEIR

tained. ACTIVITIES ARE BEING EXTEND- ED TO THE MOST REMOTE AREAS.

Over 1,000 are now interned. Recent arrests include many Union nationals holding responsible posi-

tions.

Among the latter are the Lecturers in Afrikaans at the universities of Bloemfontein and Stellenbosch, senior engineer of the State Railways and an Afrikaans announcer of the South African Broadcasting Corpora- tion. Reuter.

THEIR HANDS TELL HER ALL

Most of the people in this world fall into five categories-fumblers jitter- jacks, wisecrackers, gallants and more rarely, those who know what they want.

That's the summing-up of Roberta Ritchie, who sits in the box office of a huge cinema on Broadway, New York.

For seven years she had handed out tickets and given change at the rate

of 1,000 an hour. In fact, she's given

£1,000,000 in change.

Most people are just pairs of hands

to her.

But there are the fumblers, mostly women. They make her

ADVICE TO NURSING MOTHERS

It is very important, doctors say, not to overtax your system immediately after the birth of a child. When you are feeding baby yourself, you should take plenty of easily digested nourish- ment.

For that reason, doctors throughout China recommend Horlicks. They have proved that Horlicks stimulates the appetite, promotes sound sleep and strengthens the whole system. Also Horlicks increases the supply of maternal milk and ensures the success of breast feeding.

Get Horlicks to-day from your store,

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In regard to China's iron and steel requirements in particular it was not possible for Japan to produce all China wanted, and China must there- fore continue to rely on Britain well as Japan for these materials.

WAR SHOULD CEASE

as

JAIL SCRIBE

RATIONING IN ITALY

Rome, To-day.

Italy is soon to have food ra- tioning, it was announced yes. terday.

Ration cards for coffee will be distributed by the middle of this month, and the same cards will be used for other foods later.

Coffee rationing will start on February 10-Reuter.

CSAKY IN VENICE

Rome, To-day. Count Csaky, the Hun- garian Foreign Minister, ar- rived in Venice yesterday morning for conversations with Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister.

begin

The talks are expected to to-day and according to the garian newspapers will European situation and, in particular, the position of the Danube and the Balkans.

Hu

cover

the

Venice received

was

New York, Dec. 23. About 1950-if his sentence

Count Csaky travelled to is commuted or by 1982, by special train and anyway, Louis Ethelbert with marked cordiality by high off- cials of the Italian Government and It was in everyone's interests that Whitsitt will emerge from the Army.

Southern Michigan State The station was decorated with the Prison as yet another news-

Italian and Hungarian flags.-Reuter. hawk at large.

the war in China should cease.

Asked whether some modus operandi

in

had been found between Lancashire and the Japanese cotton goods indus- tries, Viscount Kano replied that his view the two industries were not competitive.

Until then his news-gathering ap- prenticeship will be confined within the prison's bounds.

to the

when he became the prison's reportes, broadcasting daily prison items The type of goods which Lan- As a bright, brown-eyed lad of 4,100 of the 5,440 inmates over

Whitsitt, with a cashire produced was so much high- seventeen,

good gaol's elaborate cell-to-cell hook-up.

Warders and oficials are badgered er a quality than that furnished by schooling and job, seemed set in the the various Japanese export mar-right direction. Then, in 1933, he for the latest arrivals and departures, as Whitsitt comes and goes, more or kets that he believed each interest went dead wrong. would find itself complementary to

With his elder brother

two less as he pleases. Prison transac-

the other.

others he kidnapped and robbed ations such as swaps are aired for

one of Detroit man, watched

the offers, and even complaints and com- gang' shoot the victim and leave himments on prison routine receive

discreet place. dying in the gutter.

For that he got a life sentence. One front-page item was recently Three years ago good behaviour left severely alone. A fortnight ago

Both British and Japanese cotton goods might find a market in China, the former among those classes with a higher standard of living, and the latter among the masses.

BRITISH BLOCKADE.

and

*

earned him a break. He was allow-six men killed a warder in an at-

with

rumour,

the

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ed to sell a story he had written of tempted gaol break, and although the

persuaded prison prison buzzed prison life, then officials to allow him to ghost crime"Radio Gazette” stories for them. Last month he peep.

broadcast not

Said lifer Whitsitt: "I'm no Walter But life began for lifer Whitsitt Winchell.” ·

In conclusion, Viscount Kano paid an eloquent tribute to the working of the British Contraband Control and the enemy export seizure authorities.

He declared the treatment of Ja.learned £30 that way. panese trade had been entirely fair and had been much appreciated by Japanese commercial interests.

It was not the intention of the Ja- panese authorities to create any situa- tion which might embarrass the Allied Controls.

Viscount Kano is leaving England for Japan on Sunday and expects to be back in London in April-Reuter.

GENERAL: 'IT'S NOT WAR OF MONTHS'

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it

"This war is not going to be war of a few months. We hope may, but I do not believe it," Field- Marshal Lord Milne told a meeting of the British National Cadet Associa- tion in London.

"We are up against something that

FORTIFICATION OF

U.S. ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC

Washington, To-day. THE UNITED STATES will spend nearly £1,000,000 in fortifying islands in the North Pacific, the Navy Department announces. This is the first practical step in carrying out the new American defence programme announced by President Roosevelt on Thursday.

we have never been up against be- The two islands are Midway Island, about 1,300

fore in the history of the British Em• }} pire," he said.

"The cadets of to-day may be fighting for their country somewhere in the next few years, so we have got to gird up our loins,"

He said that application had been made to the War Office to raise the age limit for cadets from eighteen, to twenty to bridge the gap between the cadet movement and the mini- mum age for service.

miles north-west of Honolulu, and Wake Island, about 1,100 miles still further west.

The U.S. Army also announces that an air base is to be built in Alaska, construction starting immediately, while the Army budget also includes new barracks in Hawall; work on the Panama Canal; and other coastal de- fence work.

By the end of the financial year

ending June, 1941, the United States will have spent £450,000,000 on de- fence. The greater proportion of this will be for naval defences, including two battleships, an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, eight destroyers, eight submarines, five other vessels and 3,000 naval aeroplanes.--Reuter.