1936-01-18 — Page 8

HONG

KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JANUARY

18, 1936.

ADVERTISEMENTS. FOUR STUDENTS

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

A

(EXCHANGE BUILDING) ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1988.

ENTRIES for on SATURDAY,

NTRIES for the above will close

18th JANUARY, 1936:

By Order of the Stewards,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 15th January, 1996,

[4133

Editorial and Business Office: 11

Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Omes):

Tel. 24311.

London Office: 63. Fleet Strops

E.C. 4.

悲

The Daily Press.

Hosa Kota, JANUARY 18, 1936.

COMEDY IN NORTH

CHINA

Another act of the North China drama is over: but its close has left the audience-in China and els where a trife puzzled by the departure from some of the precedents set on previous ccca- slons. All the stock characters have appeared-the Japanese mill- tarists, "pride in their port, do

fiance

:11

their eye," insisting.

FROM CHINA

To Be Trained In

Engineering"

London, Jan. 17. Four. Chinese engineering #tu- dents have arrived by the P. and O. Ranchi for practical training in British engineering works on scholarships of the Federation of British Industrica,

H.K. ENGLISH

FORUM

Dinner And Dance" Well Supported

They had luncheon to-day with the members of the Federation of British Industries Committee.

The students will begin training on Monday in the works of leading firms in Manches.er, West Brom-attended.

ich. Thomby-on-Tees and Birm- ingčiam.

four more Chinese students sire due in February-Reuter.

RETENTION OF NORTH CHINA REVENUES.

* London, Jan. 17. Financial reles are not perturb ed at the prospect of North China's retention of evenues. It is anti- cipated that the only question in time is whether the Customs also will be retained. Nevertheless it

is opined that interest in Chinese loans is so widespread between the powers including Japan that it is fairly certain North China Will contribute the quota payment and interest.-Renter

COTTON SUBSIDY IN AMERICA

New York, Jan. 17.

According to the New York

LONDON NAVAL JOURNEY FROM PEIPING NEWS SUMMARY

CONFERENCE

Japan Only An Observer

London: Jan. 15, Following to-day's decision At the Navas Conference to invite the Japanese to continue te at- tend as observers, it was agreed that the status of the conference would not be changed.

by

TO KASHGAR

British Diplomat Relates

His Experiences

ई

to Japali, as much of the useful- He was unable to use motar | feet of, snow." mess of the delegates' work de-trucks beyond Kashgar, where the pended upon the attitude of the only means of transport is by pack Japanese towards it.

in

of

Eleven Chinese were charged be- fore Mr. E I. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with the theft of 16 gallons of diesel oll from the Government launch H.D.1, The prosecution failed to prove. that theft had been committed, and his Worship discharged the de- fendants.

Page 5.

While on patrol in Park Road near the junction of Breezy Path, on Wednesday night, Sergeant W. Sullivan, "elected the arrest of a Chinese who was tampering with the wooden gate of 2, Park Road. The man, Ho Ngau, 26, unlicensed hawker, appeared before Mr. Mac- fadyen at the Central Police Court yesterday, and pleaded guilty to charges of attempted theft and the possession of a screw-driver.

Page 6.

The First Anniversary Dinner and Dance of the Hong Kong English

and had New Delhi, Jan. 17.

wonderful views Forum was held last night at the

Sir Eric Teichman, who arrived Nangaparbat and other peaks on Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden

range the This function, the first of its kind,

here to-day by air from Rawalpindi | the Karakoram

It enabled The rea- after his adventurous journey from Western Himalayas was very well attended and many were the charming faces gathered son for this attitude was explain- Pelping to Kashgar on a special him to accomplish the journey to by Reuter, Rawalpindi by air in two and half grace the occasion, led to Reuter an eminent mission, interviewed together to The President Mr. J. Foon and his member of the British delegation, said he might have proceeded to hours whereas it would have Committee are to be congratulated who said the decision

expressed England from Urument by the, taken a pack animal sixteen days. for the arranging of the function the hope that the conference de- Siberian railway, but he was an- Moreover the Burall Pass was im

passable owing to thousands of which was enjoyed, by all who clalons would be acceptable later xious to visit India

During the course of the evening

Sir Eric expects to stay at Day a delightful surprise was accorded

until the middle of February ex- cept for a short visit to Bombay to the revellers when Miss Elsie

He regretted the Japanese de- He had a good journey from to meet Lady Teichman who is

"This appears to be a very bad Yuen, accompanied on the plano by Miss Julia Banker, rendered [parture, he said. particularly as Kashgar until he reached Gilgit arriving from England on January

case of dealing in human beinga,” several songs in a really charming with a Hittle less rigidity on the despite the extreme cold in the 24.

Japanese side they might have Pamirs where the temperature fell He is preparing a report dealing sald Inspector K. W. Andrew, of the voice.

Chinese Affairs, other questions those Secretariat for twenty degrees below zero at among done good work.

night time.

relating to the future of Anglo- when he prosecuted Sin Sze Mut, 43, married woman, and Ng Chan- He new "the Avro plane from Indian trade, in Sindang-

shi, alias Chan Sam, 58, widow, who Gilgit at a height of 15.000 feet' Rengo.

appeared before Mr. E. I. Wynne- Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday charged in connection with a transaction' concerning the sale of a male child three weeks old. at No. 859 Canton Road, third Acor.

Page 0.

The English Forum is an Associa- tion mainly composed of returned Chinese students from abroad and the education they have received has been put to good use during the past year in the form of de- bates, lectures and other social activities.

"

The British unofficial spokes- man declared the Japanese press had rightly emphasised that the country does not intend bark upon a naval race, "Noz does, anybody else," he added.

to em-

"Nevertheless, the absence ol almost agreements makes a race inevitable, and the most danger- ous race of all would be qualitative field," he asserted.

in

the

animals.

DELEGATES TO NANKING

SATISFIED

CHINA'S FOREIGN

POLICY

Nanking, Jan, 17 The Government will not agn

deroga- Reference to any agreement which is tory to - China's territorial

the antiquated or character of Queen's College build-

Following a very pleasant dinner the President addressed the gather ing and said that it was only a

Nanking, Jan. 17: year ago since the English Forum

BRITAIN'S SYMPATHY

Apparently satisfied with Ger was inaugurated at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. Meetings were held twice a month and during the past year Great Britain sympathises with eral Chiang Kai-shek's assurances, sovereign rights, nor will it con- ing was made at the annual prize- the three hundred student dele-sider signing any secret agree-giving this morning by the Head- the Forum had had the pleasure of the Japanese political difficulties.

Chemeral Chiangmaster, Mr. F. J. de Rome, who leaving the conference gates and educators assembled menta, declared listening to many talks by promini- but by

a statement on. for-stated that the school was not to discuss either ent local residents including Mr. R. Į and refusing

here during the last few days are Kal-shek in

eign policy made to educators and ideally situated nor was it suited to CH. Lim, Mr. George She and

departing to-morrow.

students attending a conterence the requirements of a modern Father . Byrne. Mr. Poon added that a debate was held against the

of 300 delegates yesterday after-school In his reply on the subject, His Excellency the Governor, Sir Canton English Forum and a re- turn' debate was scheduled to take place in February. He concluded expressing the hope that the

quantitative or qualitative limita- the plan tion of armaments or for an exchange of building pro

the grammes,

Japanese had brought the risk of this much- feared naval race rather closer.

Questioned on the likelihood of

spokesman declared

noon

The delegates this morning were taken to various strategic points around Nanking to see the capital's

The Generatissimo declared that Andrew Caldecott, who distributed defences. In the afternoon they he would not evade his respons bi- the prizes, said that anybody who proceeded to the

tombs of the

hand on hilt, on prodigious political Times," Congressmen from corton Second Anniversary Dance would an Anglo-American building race. soldiers killed in the revolütioners | lity and asked the public to have was studying the public Anance of

concessions; their subject-allies of the Japanese Foreign Office, bland- ly denying that their masters are doing anything abnormal, but tact- fully

assisting their, action, by diplomatic pressure an Nanking: their creatures the Chinese "autЛ- nomists" doing their • comic business" the wings; the spectator Powers, some mute as oysters, others muttering disan- proval-all these have followed the

in

campaigns

and

Sino-Japanese states have obtained a virtual pro-

be graced by an ever larger atten- the British

that Britain and America were at Shanghai hostilities where they subsidy. The dance than the present occasion. mise of a cotton

price to Programe "pegging. the.

Among the guests of the evening one in the desire to preserve the paid homage" ander the leadership twelve cents per pound will not be

were many members of the Cano-principle of parity, although thereof. Mr. Chang Po-lin. President of

Nankai University. abandoned fruter.

dian Chinese Club, on whose behair wasing' binding agreement.

I was aferred from this state- Free transportations for the re- Mr. George Chau spoke wishing the English Forum in Hong Kong every ment that the United States does turning delegates were arranged Dancing was then in-recognise Great Britain's.need for by the Government Railways and Chinese Steamship Companies.- - Reuter. The British «spokesman essert- dulged in to the strains of the larger cruiser strength. Hotel Orchestra and an amusing innovation was a balloon danceed that the British and American

Judging from the attendance last dulge in bl-lateral talks on

interpreted. There is something in the air of China, or at least of North China, that is adverse to precision Truces and pacts are

success.

conventions. But there has been | drawn up with a vagueness that which formed a diverting interlude. I delegations do not intend to in-

one important change. The Nan- lends itself to a variety of inter- king Government. Instead of suc-pretations. It is significant in this cumbing after a brief face-saving case that the Japanese militarists

night it will be safe to assume that the English Forum as a body is well

established

MR. RUDYARD KIPLING

resistance to the military and

profess their conviction that the diplomatic jiu-jitsu of its experPolitical Council which will ad- opponents. have reststed pressure minister the affairs of the two cvaded arm-locks and strangle. holds, and escaped on better terms provinces will be genuinely autona- mous, while some Chinese local than their friends or enemies could leaders maintain that there will be have expected.

no appreciable loosening of the ties

London, Jan. 17. Less than two months ago the with Nanking. The available evi- Mr. Rudyard Kipling is making ambitious chiefs of the Japanese dence of the intentions of the a gallant fight for his life since Kwantung Army were insisting on

Japanese Array is still contradic- | midnight: Last night his wife and the complete autonomy of five pro-tory. On the one hand the com- daughter have been at bis bedside. vinces in Northern China-in other words, on their detachment from the loose control of the Govern- ment of Nanking and their conver- sion into a sort of buiter-State under Japanese protection. The design was not very successfully camouflaged by an autonomist movement which, was described by Japanese diplomatists 29 purely "spontaneous," but WILS colefly supported by paid agitators or by members of the less reputable pro- fess'ons. The few Chinese officials in the ave threatened provinces who supported this movement took

The doctor attending him states

the

that It is recalled these two countries had long bl- lateral talks before the confer- ence was called and it is assumed that a satisfactory, tacit under- standing on these points reached then.-- Heuter

question of relative quantitative strengths.

*.

was

FIRST AGREEMENT

London, Jan. 18.

The Naval Conference reached Its arst agreement this afternoon

grames.

confidence in the Government and not hamper is work in dealing with difficult foreign problems.

General Chlang sad it became evitable at times for the Gov-

ernment to make sacrifices in or der to preserve the unity of the nation, and added that the Ce tral Government will not shrine

from making such sacritecy.-- Heuter.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The R.E.O.C.A. is holding a Dance at China Fleet Club 10-night at 8.30.

-

The forthcoming wedding is an nounced at Mr. John Erskine Yule Walker, assistant manager, Hong Kong Jockey Club stables, and Miss position of the new Hopel-Chahar

A bulletin was issued every hour when, without the Japanese de-Gladys Margaret Moore, nurse, of

"Enidville." Repulse Bay. Political Council has been Band at 6 a.m. this morning. His legates the first committee agreed #

greeable surprise to the people of condition is stated to be critical to the desirability, of exchanging Pelping (except the students), since and he has received blood trans-advance notification naval pro- After an absence of several years,

gives the impression that the fusion and also oxygen.

Mr, C. A. 8. Russ, the well-known Central Government have had a

has

the The committee drafted a letter solicitor, returned to

Mr. Russ was formerly say in some of the chief appoint that he still had a fighting chance.t"Admiral Osami Nagano, the re-Colony. ments On the other hand yester-Reuter's Bulletin Service.

Hiring Japanese spokesman, ex- connected with the firm which day's report from Kalgan that the

pressing regret at the decision to bears his name, Russ & Co., but he Japanese are attempting to secure

leave the conference and inviting has now set up his own practice the cession of six border districts

them to attend as observers.

in Bank of Canton Building.. of Chahar to Manchukuo suggests that their militarists confuse au-

The meeting adjourned unt'l to morrow to appoint a sub-com- Wong Fuk, driver of bus No, 659, tonomy with anatomy, Again.

mittee to assimilate the British. has reported to the police that while the salt and Customs re-

French and Italian plans and to.while driving in Prince Edwärd

I'mita discuss qualitative nava! venues are still being paid to Nan- pains to show that they were king, the Japanese military spokes- play: and, though the Japanese man at Tentain has prophesied made it clear that they would for and he may know that this prac- tice will be discontinued...a warn- cibly oppose any intervention on the part of the Central Governing that will not please the credi- ment, it became clear to them tors of China. The ultimate aim

under duress: most refused to

of Japanese policy in North China

FRANCE WARNS GERMANY

Demilitarised Zone Violation

Paris, Jan. 16.

A strong warning to Germany to keep her hands off the demilitaris- ed zone in the Rhineland, given by the French Ambassador

was

tion- Renter

BREEZY SCENE AT ARMS INQUIRY

од

Woman

Road

Thursday, "& passenger, Yim Ying, jumped off the bus while it was in motion and received injuries. She was admit ted to the Kowloon Hospital.

A

the Colony seriously would agree with him that the project of new buildings must be relegated for the present to the category of castles In the air.

Page 7.

An 18-year-old Hawalian, Roko Nakame, appeared before Mr, E. LY

at the Kowloon Wynne-Jones Magistracy yesterday and was fined a total of $300, with the alternative of four months hard labour for stowing away on the Empress of Canada from Kobe to Hong Kong. and with entering the port without a valid passport. “

Page 5.

well-equipped school for

Loars to public servants in con- teaching members of the Hitler travention of the Public Servants

of Ordinance

1917, Youth the rudiments of seaman Liabilities ship was opened on December 15 formed the subject of a case heard at Prieros on the River Dahme at the Central Magistracy yesterday. not far from Berlin. The course when three Government servants, 1s to last one month, and there is employed at the Crown Land Office, accommodation for 75 boys at a P.W.D., appeared before-Mr. W drafted into the mercantile mai obtaining money by false pretences time. The best of the boys will be Schofield on remanded summons of ine. "The school is conducted," 1 | from an Indian, described as a re- is stated, "In strictly military gistered form," Physical drill, bost drill, and lectures on navigation occupy the greater part of the boys' timɩ. Their day begins at 6.30 u.m. The opening of more schools of this kind is contemplated.

money-lender.

'Page 6.

LT. C. C. GARTHWAITE MEETS. WITH ACCIDENT

A nasty accident befella well- in the known local sportsman person of L, C. C. Garthwaite, of Interport Cricket fame.

Willingness of the American beer drinker to take his beverage out of a tin can instead of the tradition al glass bottle led to an import- "From report which came to ant industrial innovation in 1935, hand late last night; it appeared potentially of great benefit to the that Lt. Garthwaite was returning International tin trade, the Ameri- to Tai Lam camy on Thursday can Iron and Steel Institute re-night, and when nearing the Castle ported. Maintenance of tin plate Peak Road, 'a dog ran across his Lam Shun, aged 24 years, of production in the late autumn at car. In trying to avoid the animal, Stanley, was admitted to the Gov-60 per cent. of capacity, well above Lt. Garthwaite swerved his car, crnment Civil Hospital on Thurs-

the seasonal average, was au- which fell over a 20 foot bank and day suffering from severe injuries thoritatively attributed to the ris-toppled into the sea. F caused when he jumped on a tram- car in motion in Queen's Rond

**

1

ing demand for beer-containers, sale of which already has reached

immense volume, The American

Iron and Steel Institute estimated that 1,500,000,000 cans, will be used for beer in 1936.

The United States' sallor-Presid- ent is to have a new yacht. Mr. Roosevelt revealed that the con- verted houseboat Bequoia would be- turned back to the Department of Commerce and that in the future he would do his week-end cruising

Lt. Garthwaite, we understand, was somewhat badly injured in the neck, but fortunately not with any

serious consequences.

PARSEE COMMUNIST'S DEATH

Lonam, Jan.-16.

that there had been 교 miss-

is also uncertain. It may be purely fire. In the end the question was settled by a comprise, after military-the creation of a Bank-

Washington, Jan. 16. negotiation with delegates from Buard to cover Manchukuo in

Breezy scenes in the United Nanking, where the settlement of future war, or, again, it may be the dispute was followed by a simply designed to force China into

at Berlin to Herr von Buelow, the States Senate followed the ad- East. His condition is reported to change of Cabinet. General Chiangan alliance with the Japanese Em-

pire. More important, however, German Becretary of State, in the journment, for a week, of the be critical, Kai-shek has become President of

than these speculations is the course of conversations at the Senate Munitions Inquiry. Sena-

A dinner dance will be held at the Executive Yuan, a post cor- that of Fr'ma

attitude of the Japanese Foreign Witheimstrasse Cast Monday, it jetor Conally attacked Senator Nye's responding to

statement that the late" President Repulse Bay Hotel to-day and a tea was guilty of dance on Sunday, January 19. Minister; six of his nine colleagues Office. Last week its spokesman carned here to-night.

The French Ambassador declar-Woodrow Wilson

1919 Special extra bus service has been have, like him, been educated in delivered a severe criticism of the Japan, and one of these, Mr. Chiang Nine-Power Treaty guaranteeing ed that if Germany attempted to falsification in stating in

Patrons the the

attending dinner w divide territory between Tso-pin, was until recently Am- the sovereignty and integrity of multarise tha zone France would that he knew nothing of planes arranged for the convenience of bassador at Tokyo: and the com- China, which he concluded with be obliged to take military nua-

victorious Alles before he went to dance; in addition to the ordinary. position of the Ministry suggests the phrase: "the world is moving sures of the utmost importance.

time table-HKK: 8 pm, 8.30 assured von Buelow the Versailles Peace Conference. that the new Administration can and the treaty "does not move." He also

military Senator Conally hotly declared: pm, 9 p.m.; and RB.H; I am.. 1.15 Japan ff the He seemed indeed to contend that that the Franco-Brit sh co-operate with

only concerned the "Senator Nye has wantonly and a.m., 1.30 am... Japanese militarists do not alienate in North China at least the Treaty agreement

Zone, and that flagrantly insulted the memory of

There were 3 cases of Diphtheria It by further

The Is obsolete, an opinion which is Mediterranean bullying.

no question of any President Wilson.

who formerly sat as Communist com-certainly not yet accepted in Lon- there was arrangement reached is a

"This inquiry-be referred to and two of Enteric Fever reported in one of the new Coast Guard Shapuri Baklatvala, the Parsee promise, Two provinces, Hopei and don or in Washington. His state- Franco-British muftary agreement

to him is the "Electra," of steel M.P. for North Battersea. Chahar, are to obtain a fairly wide rent was all the more interesting contrary to the Treaty of Locar the Senate Munitions investiga- during the 24 hours ended on patrol boats The vessel assigned

tions--"Is an unsecinty effort to Thursday. -

Mr. Gaklatvala, who was born in construction, about 150 feet long measure of home rule; but the since it was expressed after reports no."

In reply to the Ambassadors besmirch America's record in the

The Health Bulletin of Eastern and powered with Diesel engines. Bombay, the son of a Parsee mer- Nanking Government will continue of Sir Samuel Hoare's and ME. to appoint their officials and to Cordell Hull's statements on the protest, von Buelow promised that Great War. The Committee of control their military, financial, Chinese situation had been publish the recent German prees campaign Investigation is prewing around ports for the week ending January The President observed that the chant, studied in Sngland, where noticable diseases: Plague 2 cases ing back to the Coast Guard of the for North Battersea from 1922 to and judicial administrations and ed in Japan, and shortly before the against demilitar'sation of the graveyard and attacking the dead 11 gives the following cases of change also would permit the turn- he was called to the Bar. He gat!

zone should cease, president, their relations with foreign Powers. opening of the Naval Conference. Rhineland

Mr. J. P. Morgan, the head of in Colombo, Cholera 36 cases in little patrol boat "Cuyahoga" which 1928 but lost his seat in 1929. For Such are the main lines of an It is at least conceivable that the though the promise has hitherini

the great financial and industrial Calcutta; in Negɛpatam," and 15 has been used as an escort ship his activities in the General Strike will certainly Japanese Government have some borne no trust. agreement which

French quarters understand that bouse which bears his name, vio-in Bangkok, while small-pox claims by the Secret Service men. He in 1926, he was sent to gaot for strengthen the Japanese position in bargain in mind, and that we shall Northern China, but does not hear more from its spokesman as the British Government is equal-lently resented the charge made 22 cases in Bombay; 105 in Calcut-" said that in peace times the "Elec- two months Latter he had not strengthen it nearly so much as soon as the discrepancy betweenly disturbed by the German atti-as the inquiry that the United ta; in Karach, 3 deaths in Mon-tra" would be the presidential been permitted to visit Indis, on

cases in Vizagapalam and 1 in wart to the Coast Guard for de- make inflaramatory, speeches.

Bouter the Japanese military chiefs had American naval policy and Japan-tude with respect to the demi-States had been "bought" into mein; 1 death In Negapatam; 10 yacht and in case of war would re- the ground that he was likely to the war with British money—--

Shanghai

fence purposes, hoped. It still remains to be seen. ese claims becomes obvious in the terised zone how it will be, carried out and how Locarno Room.

Router.

Reuter

1

The death has occurred of Mr.