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NOTICE TO, CONSTUTEES,

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION Coa STEAMER BANGALORE.”

ARRIVED HONG KONG ON

19TH SPET,, 1937,

FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, GIBRA) - TAR, MARSEILLES, MALTA, PORTSAID, ADEN, COLOMBO AND TRAITS..

ONSIGNEES of Caryo by the

above-named Veanel are hereby in formed that their Goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR BISK in the Hang Kong and Kowloon Wharf, and Godown Company's Godowan at Kowloon where each Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and Delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed..

Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions have been given to the contrary Six Hours before arrival of the steamer.

Goods not cleared within 8 days in cluding date of arrival will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be affected by as in any cas whatever,

Damaged Packages must be left in

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES:

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL- STEAM NAVIGATION Co.'s STEAMER "CARTHAGE."

ALIVED HONG KONG, ON 29TH SEPT., 1937.

FROM ANTWERP.LONDON.GIBRAL TAR, MARSEILLES, MALTA, PORTSAID, 2 DEN, COLOMBO

:. AND STRAITS.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1937.

Japanese Government In PRESIDENT

Confusion

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navy in the Cabinet; and it is a ed excellent services to common Occurrence for the Cabinet in office to collapse merely because the warlords withheld TONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above their help. The Cabinet In Japan named Vessel are hereby formed is but a committee for handling that their Goods are being landed and civil affairs, while the command placed at Tax in the Hong Kong of the Army and the Navy is out and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Cou-of Its pale. As an intermerdiary pany's Godawas at Kowloon, where each Consignment will be sorted out Mark between the Emperor and by Mark and Delivery can be obtained Legislature, the Japanese Cabinet the Goods are landed.

also governs in + half-hearted

Optional Goods will be innded here] way. anies Lostractions have been given to the contrary Six Hours before arrival of the Steamer.

Goods not cleared within 8 days including date of arrival will be subject to Ront.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by as in any cass whatever.

Damaged Packages must be left in the

the

THE PRIVY COUNCIL Another

department exerting influence to shape the decision and policy of the Japanese Em- peror thus forming one of the various governments in Japan is Comprising the Privy Council

the

ROOSEVELT'S

ANCESTRY

Descendant

Of Swedish

Army Officer

army

Emperor are defied in the House of Generulissimos. Though they have never played such a pro- minent part as the elder statesmen in influencing the polities of the

President Roosevelt is a direct country, their advice is earnestly

a Swedish sought when Japan indulges in descendant of an aggressive war. The Military | officer, named Martin, who was Council and the House of General- borti 313 years ago in Revel, now issimas together with the high Tallinn, present capital of Estonia. military officials are the most loyal | Inquiries In Estonia and at the faithful servants of the public library here have revealed. Mikado. Living behind the shield' It VIS the President's great- that they are only responsible to greatgrandfather who married the Emperor, they seek to undo descendant of the Swedish soldier. what the Japanese statesmen Have

Resigning his commission in the for decades laboured for Japanese swedish army when still a young constitutionalism. On the pretext, of promoting" the prestige of the

and

to colonial expansion, and ter- ritorial annexation. :

man.

Martia

Hoffman

a

went to

Holland, and in 1457 at the age

his home in New York State.

the Godowns for examination by the 1.Godowns for examination by the Oop-experts in politics appointed by great Japanese Empire. they turn of 32 crossed the Atlantic to make Consignees and the Company'asurveyor, signees, and the Company's Surveyors the Emperor on the recommenda- Messrs. GODDARD & Dovelas, at 10 ation of the elder statesmen and Messrs. GODDARD & DOUGLAS, at 10a.m.

on Mondays and Thursdays, within the attended by all the ministers in on Mondays and Thursdays, within the Free Storage period.

the Cabinet,

advises Free Storage period.

the Consignees aro specially notified that Emperor in all matters of im- it is necessary for a Revenue Offer to

of portance. Especially in times of be present at the examination damaged dutiable cargo.

national emergency, or when the Diet happens to be dissolved. It

Consignees are specially notified that it is necessary for a Revenue. Officer to be prosent at the examination of damaged dutiable cargo.

All Claims against the Steamer qust be presented to the Doderrigned on or before 19th Oct. 1937, or they will not be recognized.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, li MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co.,

Agenu. Hong Kong, 20th Sept. 1937,

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All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on ot before 19th ct, 1937, or they will not be recognized.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co.

Agects.

15824 Bong Boor. 19th Sept., 1937.

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Whether they pursue the aggres- sive policies in the enhancement of their Majesty's honour, or for their own sake, is still an open question. Nominally all the great powers are supposed to be em-

Some years earlier a Dutchman named Claes Martenszen Van Ro- senvelt had migrated to America.

HOFFMAN AS COLONIST Though born in Revel, Martin

The children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of Claes and Martin pursued, their lives as advises the Emperor promptly. As bodied in the Emperor: actually British subjects in the colony at 1 is not responsible for its own they are taken over by the New York. In 1752 Isaac Roosevelt.

their advices. and it is free from the militarists. In

eyes, de-great-grandson ot Claes van censure of public opinion by rea-

mocracy is a farce, parliament is Rosenvelt. married Cornella Hoff- son of its secret and confidential but their bursar. When the time man, great granddaughter of

was not yet ripe for them to have Martin procedure, it is not held accoun-

Hoffman. Franklin D table for the consequences of its

their own way, they made use of Roosevelt, now President of the Ill-counsels. It is specially pri-

the political parties for their United States, is the great-great- vileged to thwart the Diet, while illegal purposes. Now they are grandson of Isaac Roosevelt and the House of Peers has to court its full-fledged, they find it more his wife, favour to keep the recalcitrant | expedient to turn them out. As a cabinet in check. In a way It re-step further, they are planning to sembles the British Privy Council set up the Japanese dictatorship Homan was Swedish. His father 113 a consulative body to the to the neglect of the sovereign Crown, yet in essence it remains power of the Japanese people. If served as a cavalry officer, in the a super-cabinet to the Diet.

there is such a thing called the army of Gustavus Adolphus and In selecting his Cabinet, if the Super-government in Japan, the migrated to Revel with a group of Emperor falls short of the Japanese militarists should be fellow Swedes. omnipotent ideal thus attributed,

given the first claim to be rank and he may full back on his elder file of it. statesmen for `recommendation. These elder statesmen, either by virtue of their honourable contri- button towards the Melli Reform or by their long and memorable service in the Government, have be consulted in forming the Cabinet. As they were very few in number, the only surviving political veterani in Japan 15 Prince Salyanji. Whenever he subraits his recommendations to the Emperor, they are bound to be accepted. So far, no Cabinet has been established without con- sultation with him,

to

||

TOO MANY PARTIES

In Americn Martin Houman eventually settled at Kingstowne the present small city of Kingston, New York, and was granted some land there in the name of James

·

To the lay mind Japan is at pre- sent under a united Government with its parliament, Cabinet, and political partles—a full-grown de- He served in the local militia. mocracy to be emulated only by rising to high rank and successfully Great Britain and France; while repelling hostile Indian tribes from In the eyes of the student of time to time. One such adventure government, the Japanese people cost him a rebuke from His are suffering from a great number Majesty's Government but earned of governments each of which Is him the gratitude of the local struggling for its own supremacy citizenry. in perennial Internecine. The Hoffman conducted a saddler's great assassination of high political business. Be also owned a amall leaders by the military men in trading vessel, and appears to have Tokyo two years ago signifies that indulged in numerous ventures of the power of the militarists are still various sorts. Among his properties is only one elder statesman

on the ascendant. in

The present were 10 negro slaves. existence. the method of choosing Sino-Japanese War is but the out- There was no issue of Martin the Cabinet may in all probability

come of the decision by the Japan Hofman's first marriage, but his be replaced by a new system more

ese Warlords that the policy of second wife bore him five children logical and efficient. But as long military aggression will ensure a --Annette. Marritje, Zecharias, as Prince Salyonjl still draws his greater success than economic ex-Nicolaes ald Taatje. It was last breath, the system will be left ploitation, the usual panacea held Nicolaes granddaughter Cornella Intact. In spite of his supreme by the Japanese statesmen to who married Isaac Roosevelt. power, Prince Satyöni has to cripple China slowly yet quite give due respect to the attitude of effectually.

In view of the fact that there

the militarists when he makes the

final choice. So the standing

and influence of the Japanese militariats should be worthy of a careful study.

DEEP-ROOTED DOMINATION

"INDOMITABLE COURAGE"

Apart from the deep-rooted Cornwall

domination of the warlords, the rule

Decoration For Crippled Boy Scout

Decoration, the highest Boy Scout in the face of great suffering." award, for his indomitable courage

of militarism still char- acterizes the present Japanese Government. The Japanese con- stitution explicitly lays down that there should be a separation of power

A 16-year-old Boy Scout. crip- between. the milltary leaders and the Cabinet Ministers.been awarded the Cornwall Scout pied in every limb since birth, has The Ministers of War and the Navy are outside the control of the Premier, while their initiations of appropriation should be passed by the Diet without the least

He is Scout William Monksfiela delay. Whenever

of the 14th Epping Forest (1st they want money, the Cabinet,

Highams Park) Group, attached in con- junction with the Dist, should

to Brookfield Orthopaedic Hospital, raise funds to their full satisfac-

The boy has spent all his life tion. Any military command if

in hospitals but is now able, with occasioned by national emergency

the aid of crutches, to, walk a little. may set aside, any statute of the

The honour, badge, 2. Little Dlet. Both the Ministers of War bronze "C" which was established and the Navy possess, the privilege wall, the boy hero of Jutland, In memory of John Travers Corn- of addressing the Emperor'direct- ly without securing the consent of the Prime Minister. Under the Japanese military system, power of military affairs is sharp ly distinguished from the power

ABLE TO DO HANDIWORK, of military command. The former

Monksield was transferred, to is in the charge of the Ministers Brookfield Hospital from Queen's of War and the Navy, the latter Hospital in 1931. He was then nine is the business of the Chief of the years of age, but could not read General Staff and Commander or write, having had no education in-Chief of the Navy. Strictly at all.

the

will be presented to Monksfield in hospital. The "O not only stands for Cornwall, but also for "cour- age, capability and character"

speaking, the power of the military At that time it was impossible command, which is concerned for him to hold à pencil, owing to with mobilization and tactics in

the crippled state of his hands. times of war, is decidedly, bigher His attendance at the Brookfield than the power of military affairs Hospital School has brought him which only relates to the scheme to a fair educational level. In spite of organization and military of his terrible handicap, he has routine. On the top of these is been able to do some good handi-, the Military Council. It advises work

the Emperor in military affairs in It still Lakes him three days to just the same way as the Privy write a letter but he does it. Council counsels the Emperor in political affairs. Beatdes, it is the court at which any dispute be tween the militarists is settled The old Marshala who have render

He is described as a "grand ex- ample of the Scout movement” and in spite of his deformity, always manages to look smart in his scout uniform.

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