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CHINESE ENVOY ΤΟ ΤΟΚΥΟ

Nanking, June b After a three-month leave in China, Mr. Hau Shih-ying, Chinese

·Ambassador to Tokyo, is achedul- ed to sail from Shanghai on June 29 aboard the President Hoover for Japan to resume his post.

When he returned here from Japan, Ambassador Hsu intended to resign "to make room for an sible man, but he is asked to carry on. This is his Arst "diplo- matic post.

Parties. The army is said to be

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Home Affairs, Dr. Elichi Baba, who was finance minister in the Hirota cabinet-

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BONG KONG, JUNE 10, 1937.

THE HOMELY" POLE

No one will seriously dispute

the "unnexation" of the North Rule by the U.S.S.R. There is something chimerical in the pos session of a great triangle of beu ive, the vast proportion of which is adrift over a thousand fathoms of water and will in the course of Lime pass beyond the nieridians marking the Soviet's Arctic "territory."

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1937.

WEATHER"

IMPROVES

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JAPAN REVIEW

Yuki's Warning To Bankers

The first meeting of the recently organized Provincial Bankers* Association was held at the Bankers' Club, Tokyo. It is reported in the "Japan Chronicle."

NEW AIR ROUTE INAUGURATED

Bermuda-New York

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New York, June 8.

** Speaking at the dinner following the meeting. Mr. Yuki, the The inauguration of an air ser- Finance Minister, expressed the hope that executives of rural banks vice between Bermuda and New 'will make redoubled efforts to consolidate their footing. Economic | York was accomplished when the affairs are now extremely complicated and changing constantly, the Imperial Airways liner, Cavalier, Finance Minister said, and banks must shape their polley in such | reached New York to-day, starting a manner as to cope with the change of the times, and for this pur- pose the strengthening of their footing is needed"

pleasantly on Goverment House. where HE the Officer Administer- |. ing the Government, Mr. N. L4 Smith and Mrs. Smith were hosts at a largely attended garden party.

To return to the subject

According to rainfall' ngures re- corded at the Royal Observatory. a total of 4375 Inches of rain "fell since Saturday when the "miser- able weather set in Of that total, -the heaviest fall was registered

In order to consolidate their finance and function properly, a merger is often considered desirable, but the Government will not take any coercive measures. Bankers should act voluntarily.

Provincial banks have special fields" of activities, viz. the finan- cing of farmers and that of small merchants and industrialists. between 10 p.m. on Tuesday night while urging the bankers present to make redoubled efforts in these and 10 a.m. yesterday morning, nefelds, the Finance Minister expressed the hope that they will always less than 2.53 inches being record-

ate to it that their funds are not frozen. He further appealed to the ed,

bankers to assist the Government in the sale of national bonds in rural districts.

The heavy fall on Tuesday night was accompanied by strong flashes | of Ughtning throughout the Colony,

and the mainland.

The total rainfall since January 1 this year is 24.56 inches against an average of 27.10 inches.

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Although rural banks naturally confine their attention to cer- tain particular districts, they must adopt such a polley as to pro- mote national interests, not simply to benefit a few parties. They should refrain from any loans for purposes which are not urgently required. The Finance Minister added that banks, should avoid any loans to those in need of funds för stock exchange operations.

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and on Judge In Witness Box

The maximum temperature on Tuesday was 85 degrees Tuesday night the minimum tem- perature was 76 degrees. "

The temperature at 10 am, yes- terday was 82 degrees and the humidity 87.

At 6 a.m. yesterday, the tedipera

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For the first time in the Court history of this country, a Pre- liminary Judge, Morozumi of the Tokyo Court stood in a witness box in the Tokyo Court when the 233rd hearing of the Teljin scandal case took place, it is reported from Japan.

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All the 15 accused including Baron Nakashima, former Minister of Commerce and Industry, charged with corruption, and Mr. Mit- ture in Hong Kong was 77 degrees.suchi, former Minister of Rallways, charged with perjury, appeared,

The forecast, as given by the Royal Observatory, was south-east winds, moderate. cloudy with showers, probably some improve- mant

together with their Counsel

The usual Court procedure over, Presiding Judge Fujii warned the witness, Preliminary Judge Morozumi, against" giving false evid- ence as he would then, be charged with perjury. The witness then took the oath.

The presiding Judge: "On about July 22nd, 1934, when you were in charge of the present case, did you receive a request from the procurator in charge to consent to an exchange of notes between the two accused, that is to say the handing of a letter written by COOLIE DEATHS

Baron Nakashima to Nagano urging the latter to confirm his state- ment to the procurator that he had the 200 Teijin shares (received The bodies of two Chinese coolles from the Bank as gifts) realized by him?"-The witness: "As the were removed to the Kowloon Pubquestion is very important, I would rather submit my answer in Hic Mortuary yesterday. One was writing." of Check Tee, aged 38, who dropped down dead while working ́-on board the Sekiho Maru anchored at Wanchal Bay.. It was reported that Check had been vomiting blood before his death.

The other was of Ma Cank who was working on the 8.5. Lyeemoon, and was believed to have been suffering from a long illness.

A third body, that of a Chinese was also picked up in the harbour by the police, and was also removed

to the Public Mortuary.

TRAM "JUMPER" IN

HOSPITAL

"Is it true that when the procurator confirmed the matter later on you denied having given auch approvals?"-"That too, I would uke to answer in writing."

Annoyed over the evasive attitude of the witness, the Presiding Judge reminded him that he had been summoned simply to make clear the point in question, (a point which is very important, inas- much as the exchange of communications between the accused is strictly forbidden). However, the witness refused to alter his stand, adding that apart from the question of giving an accurate answer he must consider the propriety or otherwise of his giving out any information regarding steps taken by him in the discharge of his

official duty.

Tax Assessment

in the maximum period of depreciation of "the fixed as- A cut sets of juridical persons in connection with the assessment of taxes has been definitely decided upon by the Finance Ministry, according to news received from Japan.

In the assessment of income tax, business pront tax and tem- porary profit tax, the amount used by juridical persons for depre~ ciation or writing off is deducted by the Tax Office as a dead loss. A Chinese man who falled to see within a certain limit. But as this limit was fixed in 1918 it does the danger of jumping off a mov-not sult the present day requirements, and a revision is demanded in ing vehicle paid dearly for his many quarters. folly when he attempted it on a moving tram car in Des Voeux Road

The man was picked up un- conscious and conveyed to the Government Civil Hospital where it was reported that his condition was critical

matter

According to the proposed revision, which will be retroactive to April 1st, there will be a fall of approximately Y1,000,000, in tax re-

venue.

Hitherto the writing off period of such fixed assets as offices, residential buildings, factories, warehouses and chimneys has been fixed at 100 years maximum and 25 years minimum, but this will be cut to 80 years maximum and ten years minimum. The writing off period for vessels at present fixed at 25 years will be brought down to 20 years. The new period has been fixed for such articles as auto- mobiles, motor cycles, rayon (inclusive of staple fibre) machinery, bleaching and dyeing machinery, engineering machinery, chemical machinery and electric bulb machinery..

Loans For Small Merchants

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LAST PLANE RETURNS

Research In Polar Regions

Moscow, June 9.

The last of the four aeroplanes. which left the polar ice floe has..., arrived at Prince Rudolf Island. The plane was in Latitude 85 when. 'it was refuelled by a plane from

a weekly air service between the two places. A 非

The" Pan-American Airways the base and both returned to- "Bermuda Clipper" will also begin | gether, a weekly service over the same route to-mEITOW."

The icebreaker Badko is now voyaging to Franz Joset Island to deliver wheels for the plane in substitution for skis.

The New York-Bermuda regular air service will start on June 18. according to an announcement by

The Sadko will also participate - Pan-American Airways, which is in an expedition to verify the co-operating with Imperial Air-existence of Sannikovland. north- west of Kotelny Island. reported to The Imperial Airways flying-boat, have been seen in 1310 and 1888- Cavaller," and the Pan-American Reuter. fiying-boat. Bermuda Clipper, will!! make their first regular flights on Saturday.

ways in this field.

Each plane will make one round SZECHUAN." MILITARY trip weekly. The flying time each

way for the 770 miles flight will be five and a half hours. Reuter.

FIRST STREAMLINED ENGINE

To Be Christened By Canadian Premier

London, June 9. The Arst streamlined engine named Dominion of Canada will be christened next Tuesday by the Prime Minister of Canada.

The engine will draw the "Coronation Express"

the London-Edinburgh run in six hours which will be the fastest time made by train over this distance.-

euter's Bulletin Service.

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ECLIPSE OF SUN PHOTOGRAPHED

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Washington, June 9. Observers of the eclipse of the sun from Canton Island, South Samos, secured excellent photo graphs and visibility was perfect according to wireless reports re- ceived here. The totality over the Island occupied until 8.06 p.m. B.8.T. Clouds swept the line or vision five minutes later.

Observers in Honolulu report that overcast skles obscured the vision part of the

Reuter's Bulletin Service.

during the first

eclipse.

THE CHURCH

REORGANISATION

Shanghai, June 9. General Liu Haing, Governor of Szechuan, is ready to carry out whatever plan is laid down by the Central Government for military and reorganization of Szechuan Sizing. This Important announce- ment was made by General Lu Han-ahens. General Liu Hsing's representative, on arrival at Nan- king to confer with General Ho ving-chin. General

Liu Han- sheng went to Nanking from Kuling where he was received by General Chiang Kai-shek- Reuter

MINISTERS', TITLES

London, June 8.

Sir Herbert Samuel has assumed. the title of Lord Samuel" of Mount Carmel and Toxteth in the city of Liverpool.

The Mount Carmel part of the title recalls Lord Samuel's days as High Commissioner in Palestine, while his family has been associated with Liverpool for 200 years.

The "Gazette" announces that Bir Stanley Baldwin has chosen the titles of Viscount Corvedale and Earl Baldwin of Bewdley-

Keuter..

ENGAGEMENT RING AS SECURITY

Miss Nuthall's Dilemma

Lichield Diocesan Conference:

Miss Betty Nuthall arrived, at at Lichfield was marked by a pre- the Chiswick Park Lawn Tennis sentation on behalf of the clergy Club recently to play in the Mid- and laity to the Bishop (Dr. Kemp-dlesex championships, and found thorne) on his retirement next that she had left her tennis kit at month. It consisted of a large home. and small portrait of himself, She had to return for it. On painted by Mr. Oswald Birley. On the way back her car ran out of behalf of the women of the diocese petrol, and, having forgotten her Lady Harrowby, presented to Mrs. purse too, she had to leave her Kempthorne a squirrel fur coat and engagement ring at the Alling a cheque as a token of their ap- station as security. preciation of her work in the diocese during the part 24 years.

Miss Nuthall eventually got back to the courts and won her match.

"Renounce War" Call To Churchmen

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Strictly speaking, that portion of the globe directly under Stella Polaris is on the high seas, far beyond the three or seven mile limit, so that its so-called "annexation" is, as far as inter- national maritime law is con cerried, a mere fiction. Never theless the Soviet scientists are the Fram will seem like mythical The return of Mr. Hau is due to being quite human in hoisting events. the statement of Japanese For their national Bags and pronoune- eign Minister Hiröta on June 7

While the Russians are putting saying that he planned to settle ing a few formal patriotic words. the Norbt. Pole to the domestic

Steady progress in the Y100,000,000 loan scheme for the en- outstanding Sino-Japanese zela-The cold ice-floe upon which

uses of civilisation 11 serious couragement of small merchants and industrialists is reported by the tions. Formal negotiations may they have to spend the next

concerning

Department of Commerce and Industry, states the "Japan Chronicle” Antarctic start early in July, provided the twelvemonths will be to them all waters is being discussed at a

"Of the Y100,000,000. fund. half the amount is to be raised by Konore cabinet can last that long. the homelier for the display of conference in

the Deposits Bureau and the balance by agent banks through which The new Tokyo government en-

London. (See the loans are to be granted. Any losses incurred will be compensated counters dificulties with Minseito, bunting,

Members of the United Free world economic conference to dis- cable on page 6.) The building for by the treasury. The scheme is to be pushed in conjunction with Belyakal and the Social Mass

pel the fear that oppresses all na- that the last veil of glamour catchers and increasingly com- lectures

The wide world is now aware of increasingly powerful whale the credit compensation schemes existing in various cities and pre- Church of Scotland are called on

to renounce all war under any tions.

Referring to the war in Spain, The Department of Commerce and Industry has already com- consideration in the report of the surrounding the North Pole has modious factory ships hus aug pleted the necessary arrangement with the Finance Department re- Christian Citizenship Committee the committee, state that it must been torn to shreds. A few mented the annual slaughter of garding the Deposits Bureau subscription. The Deposits Bureau will which will be submitted to the.

be kept in mind that the Spanish nights ago the first weather report blue whales, until their ultimate earmark Y10,000,000 each in the next five years. At the meeting of General Assembly in Glasgow Government was constitutionally elected; that it is not a Commun- from that spot was broadcast. extinction it within sight if a the Deposits Bureau Fund Employment Committee a final de- shortly. The Arctic's inner fortress las restrictive international agree. ciston on the defrayal of Y10,000,000 for the current fiscal year The Assembly will be asked to ist Government; and that it is not

renew their declaration renouncing | anti-religious, been caught up in the network ment is not immediately arrang- It is learned that the above loans will be granted to small mer- all war and that under no con- Strong support for the new Boote of civilisation. Empty meat tinsed. The "world without its chants and industrialists through special banks. (such sa the Insideration can they countenancé tish divorce provisions contained will accumulate round the rubber Leviathan would be an unfemi-dustrial Bank and the Hypothec Bank), ordinary commercial banks, recourse to the sword against a

in the Bill introduced to Paria ment by Lord Alness is given by the But where Professor Schmidt's liar place the words of Job and the "sangyo kumiai" depository and the "shoko kumlal" depository. fellow-creature. companions, are to shelter in the Jonah's escapade have endeared

The maximum amount will be alightly over 10,000. The rate of Advice is also given to congre committee, which states: intervals of reading instruments the creature to all while com payment will be ten years.

interest is likely to be axed at seven per cent, and the period of re- gations to form peace groups "The committee recommends ap- pledged to refuse to take part in proval of the Bill as a valuable and dredging the sea, and where, aarce would suffer loss with the

piece of remedial legislation deal. if Moscow commentators speak removal for ever of the source of

The armaments race is condemining with a considerable and very the truth, a permanent station valuable oil and other materials.

ed, and the Assembly is asked to distressing set of circumstances Speaking at the Gubernatorial Conference, Major-General recognise that precautions should for which some remedy has been on a transpolar air route will It is to be hoped that Japan, a Ushikogu, Director of the Military Affairs Bureau, said that in draw be taken to mitigate the sufferings long felt to be necessary. later be established. If the ice-newcomer to the whaling indus- ing up the Army estimates for the next fiscal year, the military at that must inevitably take place flocs do not play the traitor and try, will take part now or later thorities will do their best to economize and prevent the increase of when the industrial depression suddenly split open beneath the in the negotiations initiated by the burden on the nation as far as possible, states the "Japan that will follow the "mad race

Chronicle." He nevertheless, regretted that in the prevalling inter- occurs.

Church in Glasgow, also welcomes sleeping bags and the food dump, Britain and Norway, and so pave national situation, the Army is obliged to carry out the rearmament

The committee suggests that the most of the recommendations the North Pole may indeed the way for the necessary agree programme. While executing this programme, on one hand, the present British Imperial Confer made in the Morison Committee become a homely und" welcome ment. At the moment no gener- Major-General said, the Army is bending its whole energy to the ence might pave the way for a report on Scottish marriage. caravanserai in the wilderness, al agreement regarding the pre- expansion of productive power and the advance of the creative capa Kad Thus is the triumph of the aero-servation of wild life in the and he hoped that these dimculties will be overcome by the united abandoned the idea of national defence in a wide sense and de

city of the State. There are, of course, many ditáculties in the way, plane in the Arctic established. Arctic ontwith the confines of efforts of all circles in spite of all the efforts to keep them downverted to the principle of national defence in a narrow sense, and de- The pioneering flights of Byrd,Greenland and the Canadian it seems inevitable that the Army estimates for the next fiscal year clare that they are as keenly alive as ever to the need of nations! - Floyd Bennett, Nobile, and archipelago seems necessary, but will be bigger than the current fiscal year, and he solicited the co-defence in a witte sense. It is the unchanged policy of the Army to Vodopyanoff are bearing fruit in if the north polar basin is to be operation of the local Governors in fostering among the public the achieve national unity in order to overcome all crises besetting the to-day's exploits. Boon the dog-studded with air and meteorolo: readiness to bear the expenditure necessary to help forward the country at home and abroad and effect the necessary reform in

national destiny in the present dimcult situation, and domestic administration. It is firmly determined to carry out all, sledging of Peary and the tedious gical stations the need for it may The Director of the Military Affairs Bureau repudiated the al- necessary reform measures on due consultation with the Depart drift of Nansen and his men in arise.

legation being made in some quarters that the Army authorities have

ments concerned.

INJURED FRENCH

AIRMEN

Departure Homewards

Kobe, June 9: Doret and Michellett, the French airman who were injured when they crashed on the last lap of the Paris-Tokyo record attempt, salled

aboard the Felix Roussel for Saigon to-day from where they will continue the journey to Paris on a commercial airline. Reuter

CHINESE DIPLOMAT FOR BELGIUM

Shanghai, June 9.

It is learned that Belgium has accepted the nomination of Mr. Chien Tal Chinese Minister to Spain, as China's first Ambassador *ta Brusselä

Beater

The Army Estimates

The report of the committee which will be submitted to the General Assembly of the UF.

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