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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1937.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS SHENSI REVOLT EXCLUSIVE FEATURE

HONG KONG/STRAITS

FREIGHT CONFERENCE.

FOREIGN SHIPPERS.

NOTICE is hereby given that as from the 1st MARCH, 1937, rates of freight from Hong Kong to "Singapore, Penang, Port Swettanham (direct and vis Singapore) will be increased 20 per ceat over current, rates,

Schedules showing tariff rates as from the 1st MARCH, 1937, are now in course of preparation and will be issued shortly.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Secretaries, Hong Kong/Straits Freight Conference. Hong Kong, 27th Jan., 1937.

NOTICE.

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The Offices of Messrs. Roza

THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS

SOLUTION DIVERTING ASPECTS

Complete Obedience Demanded

surte,

Shanghai, Jan. 28. The government is determined to NOTICE IS HEREBY admit no solution of the Shensi GIVEN THAT THE THIRTY- trouble except on the basis of com- NINTH ORDINARY YEARLY plete obedience of the rebels to MEETING OF THIS COM Goverment orders, according to which adds that, the present PANY will be held at the Once well-informed Chinese of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & negotiations are directed towards Co., Ltd, on Friday, the 5th obtaining a compromise only with- February, 1937, at 11 a.m., for in the framework of the Govern- the purpose of receiving the ment's terms which require, reten- Report of the Directors together ton of full military control over Northwest China. Above all, Com- with a Statement of Accounts munist participation in affairs of for the year ended 31st Decem the Northwest is unthinkable. her, 1936.

: If the negotiators in Tungkwan succeed in winning back the allegiance of sections of the rebels, the government task will be light- ened,' but in any case Nanking will not hesitate to deal forcibly with the recalcitrants if peaceful means fall

The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from Friday, the 29th January, 1937, to Friday, the 5th February, 1937, both days inclusive.

By - order of the Board of

Directors.

F. H. CRAPNELL,

Secretary.

Bros., Exchange Brokers, will Hong Kong, 22nd Jan., 1937. be moved from 'Exchange Bulld- ing to the Bank of East Asia Building, 7th Floor, Room 703,

as from the 28th of January,

· 1937.

CONVITE

www.

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As Direccoes ́e os Socios do Club Lusitano e Club de Recreio teem a honra de convidar A Communidade Portuguese para assistir a Recepção no Club Lusitano na Quinta feira, 28 do corrente, pelas 17.30 horas em homenagen dos Exmos. Surs. Jose Pedro Braga, membro transacto, e Leonardo D'Almada e Castro Jr, membro efectivo, do Conselho Legislativo d'esta Colonia.

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HONG KONG/CALCUTTA FREIGHT CONFERENCE.

FOREIGN AND CHINESE

SHIPPERS.

NOTICE is hereby given that as from the Ist MARCH, 1937, rates of freight from Hong Kong to Calcutta, Rangoon and Madras will be increased 15 per cent over current rates.

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Schedules showing tariff rates as from the Ist MARCH, 1937 are now in course of preparation and will be issued shortly.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

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Secretaries, Hong Kong/Calcutta Freight Conference. Hong Kong, 26th Jan., 1937.

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GOVERNMENT TRADE

SCHOOL WOOD ROAD WANTSAI

DEPT. OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

A course of Instruction for youths wishing to qualify as sea going wireless operators will open at the above School on Monday, 15th February.

The course will last approxi- mately nine months, the fee payable belog $10 per month.

Applicants for enrolment mast 'be British Subjects, and must have reached the Class II - stan.

dard of education. They should, in the first instance, apply at once by post to the Principal on Forms of Application to be obtained at the Trade School.

(No applications received after. 1st February will be considered.)

DEATH

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HONG SLING.-At his residence, 9. Garden Terrace, Hong Kong, on January 26, 1937, Hong Sling (Tong Shun) aged 81. Funeral on Saturday, January 30, leav- ing the residence at 1 pm, and arriving at the Yat Pit Ting at 3 p.m.

Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central Tel. 30251.

Night Editor (Wanchal. Ofice):

Tel. 24511.

London office: 53. Fleet Street

E.C. 4.

Asked whether the Government is really prepared to take military action on Thursday, the informant said that if the negotiation pro- mise success, the truce would con- ceivably again be extended, but there must be a limit to the Gov- ernment's patience.-

Reuter.

NANKING ULTIMATUM

Shanghai, Jan. 26. An ultimatum has been present- the Shensi rebels by the ed to

gives them Government which until noon of Thursday to accept or reject its terms, according to reliable Chinese reports.

This action follows the reported extension of 'the truce at the re- quest of Yang Hu-chen, which has exhausted the patience of the Government. The one hope for the peace at present rests upon result of negotiations between the representatives of General Ku chief in the Northwest, and the Tru-tung,

epmmander-in-

delegates from Siantu, who are meeting at Tungkwan:

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Meanwhile, the Chinese, press is reporting dissension in the rebel ranks over the question of amlia- tion with the Communists, which

regg threatens to split the ranks of

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, January 27, 1937.

Hussars And Horses

The parting which has lately been effected of the 10th

Hussars from their horses will

grieve others besides the 10th

Hussars.

Through the ages the horse has served mon 88 nother animal has done. In time of peace it has been the companion of his labour and his leisure in time of war it has shared with him the dangers of the battlefield. It has had a place in man's thoughts and in bis songs. It has played an honour able part in his history. From Fast to Weat, from North to South, every country that has known horsey has remembered some of them in ita legends.

For these reasons, man's fare- well to his steed must ever be Is sorrowful occasion, especially

Yang's forces, Chang Hsueh-liang's old army into two camps. Opposi- tion to the Communist union is reported to be very strong among the men Chang formerly com- manded.- Reuter.

LOYALTY DOUBTED

Nanking, Jan. 25. It is reported that the proposed assurances of loyalty aN

coming

from Generals Yang Hu-chen and Yu Hauch-chung are

unreliable

but the Central Government is ad¬

hering to its original policy and

has "sent Generals Mi Chun-lin. and Hsieh Ho to interview General

Koo Chuk-tung in Tungkwan.

General Shang Shen has left for Loyang to see General Lâu Chi in! connection with the negotiations.

The movements of these Generals

is proof that the situation in Sian is not very encouraging.

It is understood that the Central not accepted Government has General Yang Hu-chen's terms for a peaceful settlement.

The Central Government insists upon obedience to its order of January 5 last, demanding absolute control of the whole of the mili- tary forces of Shenai province, but General Yang Hu-chen is obstinate and refuses to obey the Central Government and surrender his authority.

General Li Chih-kang is return- ing to Sian shortly to announce sorrowful when, as in the case the Government's unswerving at of the 10th Hussars, o regiment titude, s and its horses have worked together for over two hundred years... ||

Chinese Evening Pres.

HEALTH RETURNS

One imported case of small-poz.

But there is more than the parting from an old friend in "The Tenth's abandonment of borses for mechanical transport six of diphtheria, and one of

There is a farewell to romance; and the farewell is symbolio of a time in which not man, but the machine, is the hero.

puerperal fever were reported for the 24 hours ended on Monday. The Health Returns for the week- ended on January 23, shows that there were four cases of small- pox, eight of diphtheria, three of It is improbable that war was ever the pleasant occupation scarlet fever, eight of enteric fever, which some poots and painters four of cerebro-spinal fever and have depicted. Bot at least war 61 deaths from tuberculosis. on horseback stirred the ua- gination; at least then, it waN

the activity for good or ill, of log of the machine, the passion living and sentient beings. Now has gone from war, as the art war is an affair of mathematics too often has gone from in and motor-cars, of bombe dustry. And all that remains is and Gatling guns.

the relentless purpose of civilised

gue

True, man directs these mon-man to kill as

A mowy, 45 possible |

| strous implements of slaughter. of his fellow men. Is it to be

But he directs, them with bis wondered that war

(Sd.) G. WHITE,

day, In

brain, and his brain must be abhorred as it was never 4974 cool and clear. With the com- horred before?

Principal

THE "GINZA” · -OF- TOKIO

BY

PHILIP NESBITT

The "Ginza" is to Tokio as Broadway is to New York. It is, a broad and elegant avenue; a Regent street. an Oriental Market street, a Champs Elayees or a Hollywood boulevard. It ertes aloud for a..ention with its blaring radios and innumerable printed placards. These placards reveal betray and advertise Japan's place in the sun. The Tokio townsfolk, the city-seekers, the beggars and peasantry (there are fewer beggars in Japan than in China) mili down its two-mile length with the greatest energy, more superb carelessness and grace than anywhere else.

. of Christendom, The manufactured goods of our world. copied to perfection by the artful craftsmen of Japan, glitter behind the plate glass windows of 40 score shops and stores.

THE MODERN MAN

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It was my habit. while in Japan... in Tokio, to see as much Re of this modern man, the "layman of Japan""as I could; strolls on the Ginza, so I too, took to strolling on the Ginza, with my bamboo cane and sketchbook I dodged millions of taxi cabs. Perhaps it may be cautiously said, that there are far more cabs in Tokio than in New York. It does appear that way. It also appears that all Japanese cab drivers are mad- a touch of re- fear. With

sense ticence, they drive with remarkable abandon; ready to hit or mias quite happily. At night time, no cab may drive passengers without the top light being on. This is because of the past fre- quency of "taxi murderers." Who would ever want to be done Also there exists a law in Japan away within a madman's ¡auto? which compels cab drivers to use only a soft throated horn. When heard in unison, the soft throated honking of 10,000 hys- terical taxis is not unlike a vast herd of alling cattle, mooing to move heaven and earth.

ARROGANT MALES

Along the Ginza I met more than once, violently, with that .mortal known as the "arrogant male." He is the die-hard of Japan. He is like led to the blunt and retrogressive American who refuses to recognize these changing times. He is always at- tempting to impede the progress of the Juggernaut, Humanity.

This arrogant Japanese male wears a fedora or a derby atop his dull coloured costame robes. His elbows, 'well hidden in the cloak, protrude like salis as he marches to, his mysterious destination. Beware the arrogant male,; for he is a rib-digger, a poker-in- the-middle-man, a swift bump!

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Contrasting to the slek cow sound of many taxi horns. on the Ginza is the shuffle-clatter of wooden shoes. Odd, is it not, that the two peoples wearing wooden shoes as part of a national costume, should be 12,000 miles removed from each other; the Dutch and the Japanese!,

Frequently the Ginza falla-silent; the troops are 'marching by. Not very different from the German goose-steppers, are with their bristling, Occidental these grim Japanese soldiers, styled tooth brush mustaches and stia shoulders The cavalry .prances down the well smallish horses, smallish men.. paved avenue, (American macadam process). No gentleness marks the set countenances of these grim platoons; instead, a Axed and ferocious expression calculated to kill at a glance. Ernest, energetic men. hell-bent to win or lose, sabers clatter- ing against saddles, the thump of heavy marching boots, the hooves of the horses and the weaving plane of glinting bayonets held high. The troops have passed. Suddenly then, the Ginza comes back to life. The aurging populace "forgets the troops from Northern Japan who enjoy war and conquest.

The Militarist party, consisting of arrogant males in high position, are they who hold constant images of fear of warring the rice eating folk of Japan issues before the simple folk

Dutch

Royal Wedding

A unique photograph, taken during the wedding of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard sur Lippe-Blesterfeld in the Charch of St. James The Hague, showing Dr. Weller, the 87-year-old clergyman, giving his blessing.

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Evening Teachers' Union

ANNUAL DINNER

DANCE

The annual dinner dance of the Evening Teachers' Union was held last night at the Hotel Cecil, which was attended by a fairly large gathering of members and guests, music being provided by Mickey's Melody Makers.

The amċial guests were Messrs. J. Ralston

and T. R. Rowell, Inspectors of English Schools, and Mrs. Ralston.

FUTURE MEMORIAL

FOR CHIANG Chung Ching Medical College

Nanchang, Jan. 26.

As a future memorial for Gen- eral Chiang Kai-shek, a planning committee met here to-day to dis- cuss measures for the establish- ment of the Chung Ching Medical College, which will be one of the

best schools in China,

are

*Beveral eminent doctors serving as members of the plan- ning committee, including Dr. Teo Wai-ming. FR.P.8., M.D. (Edin- burgh and Vienna) who was form- erly dean of the medical school, Sun Yat-sen University in Canton..

At the conclusion of the dinner, the Chairman of the Union pointed out that the Union was still in its Infancy, being in the third year-Union News. of its existence. He stated that its organisation served to provide a medium to bring together the teachers of the various schools at- tending lectures at the Institute.

Dancing followed the speeches, which lasted until the early hours of this morning.

LANCHOW TOWN UNEASY

City Gates Closed Most Of The Time

CHINESE PROTESTS

Nanking, Jan. 25. ̈ The Ministry of Foreign Affairs. lodged a protest with the Japanese Embassy with regard to the dis- covery of a Japanese espionage organ in Chengchow, Ronan pro- vince, uncovered about two days sgo.

According to the protest, the Japanese agente utilized Chinese mercenary to secure important in- formation to the detriment or Chias

There is yet no reply to the two Chinese protests against the fights

Loyang, Jan. 26. Reports from Lanchow, provin cial seat of Karisu province and headquarters of General Yu of Japanese army planes over Hauch-chung, stated to-day that Tsingtao. This incident was re- the town is in panic and that the peated yesterday when Japanese city gates were closed most of the machines flew over that northern port. A third protest was lodged to-day with the Japanese embassy here. Union News....

time.

With a state of panic prevailing in the provincial capital, the price of rice has risen to $14 a peck (about 18 pounds).

General Yu Hsueh-chung, a sub- SUICIDE IDENTIFIED ordinate of Marshal Chang Hsueh-

The unknown Chinese who jump Hang, appears to be sympathetic with the rebel leader Generaled to his death from the seventh Yang Hu-cheng. While Nanking floor of the China Building on Mon~- Police. official reports once claimed that day has been identified as Lau PD- General Yu's troops refused to cheung, M. unemployed. Join the rebel cause, the state of investigations revealed that the turmoil in Lanchow indicated that I man was a native of Hong Kong

death Chairman Yu's loyalty to Nanking and prior to his

alded at 43 Gough Street. is propaganda-Union Neur

No yellow peril, these simple people, but the Militarists, ah, they, like our own, threaten dire, calamity unless they are heeded, un- less they are treated properly. Well known it is, that he who kills most readily is the most sensitive of humans. They are the ones who place economic issue before life itself. To them, pro- perty is more precious than unspilt blood,

CAFES AND GIRLS

Near the Ginza, obscure in little, side streets and alleys are the cafes Badly made "whisky sodas" are given for a yon

rice water recently fermented aplece (15 centa). Saki ..

is served hot, like spiced wine, to guzzling, brain-weary students Improving their intellect for service to the Emperor. Each cafe has its quota of girls, not Gelshus, just girls, tired and still gay> little women, amoral as infants, ready to tickle or be tickled or play that curious musical instrument of Japan, and to smoke "American cigarettes."