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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1937.

REGISTRATION

OF FIRMS

Proposed F.M.S. Measure

on

is The F. M. S. Government

Ita sounding public opinion Intention to enforce the registra tion of business firms of various

kinds.

A draft of the proposed messure. labelled the "Business Registration Bill." is published in the F.M.S

together Government Gazette, with an appeal to public bodies to "comment on any of the provi-. sions in this draft Bill, or in these draft rules. and forward such comments to the Legal Adviser. Government 'Buildings. Kuala Lumpur, not later than Saturday. November 27."

NORTH CHINA WAR

BOMBERS RAID HANKOW

Hankow, Oct. 19. Twelve Japanese bombers raided Hankow yesterday afternoon and dropped five bombs in the vicinity of the Military Aerodrome, starting a fire which was visible for miles around. The raiders disappeared after ten minutes.- Beuter.

Nine Bombs Dropped Near

Park In Hankow

JAPANESE. ·

SURRENDER

||

Shanghai, Oct. 19: Sixty Ja- panese soldiers fighting along the north bank of Wen Tsao Creek surrendered to the Chinese follow- ing a bitter enagement yesterday afternoon in the vicinity of Chen- chinchin. it was disclosed to-day.-- Central News,

2)

FIERCE FIGHTING IN SHANSI

Nanking. Oct. 19: Fierce fight- ing on the northern and eastern fronts in Shansi is continuing on a large scale as the Japanese are throwing heavy reinforcements against the Chinese, in an attempt to smash the lines and push on towards Taiyuan, the provincial

Hankow, Oct. 19. The local au- thorities revealed to-day that nine bombs fell in a field near the Chungshan Park during the Japan- ese air raid over Hankow yesterday | capital. afternoon. Several small dwelling houses were damaged. Central New...

CHINESE MASSACRED IN RAILWAY TOWN

On the northern front 8,000 Japanese infantrymen have been pounding the Chinese lines for over T2 nours but the Chinese are still holding Armly to their trenches. A Taiyuan report.claims that the Japanese casualities in this section

alone are over 2,000.

Another despatch received here

The registration of companies. as in the Straits Settlements, is compulsory. but partnership, firms are free of such action. It is pro

businesses 3.3 posed that such mines, rubber

estates. coconut

Nanking, Oct. 19: According to estates, pineapple estates, tin ore.

a refugee who arrived here from rubber or copra dealers, money- northern Shansi, all the male lending. pawnshops. goldsmiths,

adults in Yangkao, an important Importers and exporters of general

town on the Pelping-Suyuan Rail-reports the re-capture of Panshih and Kungchlachuang. two small merchandise, wholesale dealers,

way in northern Shans!, were

towns, by the Chiness forces. motorcar dealers and stock and

massacred when the Japanese

From Oct. 15 yesterday share brokers shall be registered troops captured the town last

Japanese heavy artillery have been pouring tons of projectiles into the Chinese positions south of Kwan- tsun. Most of the Chinese defences have been destroyed and a whole company has been wiped out. General Chi Hsiu-min, a battalion commander, lost his life during this encounter while several other off- cers were wounded.

for a start.

LEGAL APPROVAL "This will be a very good thing. if made law." said -1 jegal authority to a "Times of Malaya" representative. "It will mean all partners in business will have to te registered. so that anybody dealing with a firm can look up the register and find out who the partners are."

A cause celebre who has occupi- ea the F.M.S. Supreme Court for many weeks was the Prince's Cabaret case, where there was a dispute as to whether Ong Be Lim WILS partner in the venture. There would have been no neces- ity for the case under business Arms' registration?

î

The Times of Malaya" under- stands that the Chamber of Com- merce is in faveur of the scheme.

THREE DEATH'

INQUESTS

month.

The informant revealed that the troops which entered Yankao in- cluded Manchukuo and Mongol forces.

!!

As soon as the invaders came into the town, they made a sys- tematic house-to-house search and. sc'zed all foodstuffs in the homes of civilians. The older people were forced to carry the foodstuffs out

to the Japanese camps.

The younger male were huddled wall together outside of the city and machine-gunned by the Japan- ese. The refugee estimated that at least 3,000 Chinese were killed at Yangkao

Central New8.

CHINESE PUSHING TOWARDS CIVIC CENTRE Shanghai." Oct. 19: According to a report received from the Kiang- wan front early this morning, the Chinese forces, launching a coun- ter-offensive last night, are slowly. pushing on

Civic towards the Centre along San Min Road.

The Japanese have rushed tanks to stem the Chinese advance. Fierce, fighting is continuing this morning.-

Cent: 1 News

Three inquiries into the deaths of prisoners were completed by Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central Magis- tracy yesterday, assisted by juries. Wai Yuk late prisoner No. 22553, was found by a jury comprising Messrs. S. N. Potouloff (foreman) Ng Yuk-shang and Tjing Del-you to have "died of natural causes. Dr. G. Ingram Shaw, Medical Officer in charge of Hong Kong Prison, Stanley said he first saw deceased on July 23 this year and found he was a chronic opium addlet, his condition- being very poor. He was admitted to hospital on September 4 and died on Octo- ber 14. A post-mortem examina-ferral News, tion revealed that death was due

to pulmonary tuberculosis.

Chief Warder H. Barrett also gave evidence.

Messrs. M. S. Cumming, I.. M. Alarakia and Ng Kim-chau re- turned a similar verdict in the case of Ko Keung, Prisoner 22097. Dr. Shaw said death was due to tuberculosis antaritis and cardiac failure.

In the inquiry into the death of Prisoner Leung Sik-to. which had previously been adjourned. Dr. Shaw said that though full re- ports on certain organs which had been sent to the Government Analysts had not been received, he was prepared to say death was

due to urimea. The jury returned

a natural causes verdict.

CHINESE YOUTH

SENT TO GAOL

Three charges were preferred against Chan Kau, 25, when he appeared before Mr. S., F. Balfour at the Central Magistracy yester- day. For two of these, larceny of clothing from houses in Con- naught Road West, he was sen- tenced, to three months' hard la- bour each. The third charge was. one of lottering on the third floor

of the Hong Kong Club Annexe

at 4 a.m. and on this he was given another three months.

RETURNED

BANISHEES

IN COURT

Two banishees appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday. Lee Hung. 23, sent away for ten years in Oc- tober 1933, was sentenced to nine

hard months'

labour. Tsang arrested on informa- Queen's Road West

Yam-cho,

tion in

ou October 17, after he had been

sent away exactly two months ago

for five years. was given four months' hard labour."

During the fighting on Oct. 14a 10-passenger Japanese bomber was forced down near Hsinhsien. The machine, which is undamaged, is reported to be worth-$500,000..

On the eastern front the Chinese are continuing to hold back the Invaders and the Japanese offen- sives in this area have proved most costly in men and material. The Chinese claim to have seized- huge quantities of Japanese, munitions, two radio sets and numerous maps and documents.- L'entral NeIDE.

JAPANESE PLANES OVER SHENSI

Sian. Oct 19: Continuing their drive into the hinterland provinces In west China, a lone Japanese bomber scouted over Star and 3 number of other districts in Sherisi provlare yesterday.

The plane was sighted coming" from Shansi and later few over Rucheng, Sanyuan, Chingyang and Helenyang.

JAPANESE PLANES CONTINUE TO BOMB SHANTUNG Tsinan, Oct. 19: Japanese bomb- The plane, which was apparently ers are continuing to raid the cities trying to get acquainted with the in southern Shangtung. During geography of the province, new the attacks yesterday the Japan-at a height of over 3,000 metres ese planes released bombs on Yen- above Slan and disappeared to- chow, Nany, Talan and Tachukow. wards the east without dropping Details are lacking.-

any bombs-

Central News

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY,

STILL FIGHTING MALARIA

Sir M. Watson In Central Europe

RELIGION AND SCIENCE

Dr. Jones Addresses Rotarians

renowned

the

world-

gave

sun

OCTOBER 20,

1937.

SEEKING GIANT PANDA

One Of The World's Rarest Animals

Dr. Stanley-Jones, Mr. Floyd Smith, a noted Amer-

evangelist, ican animal collector, who is now Bir Malcolm Watson, who did so inspiring address to Hong Kong in London, is making further much towards making Malaya a Rotarians at their weekly tiff efforts, despite previous set-backs, world example of the eficiency of meeting yesterday at the Hong to bring the giant panda, suld to British tropical hygiene, is still m❘ Kong Hotel, harness. At the request of the Walker, President of the Club, was at which Major be the rarest animal in the world,

Eritish Selection Trust, which con- In the chair. from Western China to England.

trols numerous concessions and Dr. Jones took his subject "A He hopes to leave for China mines in Yugo-flavia, he quietly judgment bourin History." He said shortly and to bring back a healthy slipped away from London recently that at various times in history the specimen to the London Zoo next to investigate the Malaria problem feeling that a change in the affairs spring. Hundreds of native medic- under which the whole of Bouth of the human race was coming ine collectors, charcoal burners

suffering severely, about feeling that a period of In some areas 80 per cent. of the transition was at hand-had been participating in a search which children have had the disease. A evident. But nobody living to-day as taken Mr. Smith four years to message from Belgrade states that, could look upon these present organise.

Serbia

is

a

time

what

had

and

bamboo

cutters

are now

after a fortnight's exploration Bir times without feeling that this Mr. Smith, who tor 19 years has Malcolm Watson has worked out period was particularly so.. And collected in China. for the Field a scheme for the complete ex- particularly was this so in regard Museum of Chicago, succeeded in termination of malaria in the next to religion. trapping two adult panda near

few years. At such a religion | Chaopo, in the Szechuan province, to say? asked Dr. Jones. Was it to near the Tibetan border, and The measures are to be applied retreat behind its Cathedrals and trekked for Shanghal. Unfortuna- immediately to the immunisation churches and let the tragedy gotely the male died after a few of the mine workers and following on? That would amount to ab- days from the effects of a poisoned the traditional Unes of improved dication There were the great foot, and later the female died sanitation and health supervision, forces of Fascism and Communism from digestive trouble. will be extended throughout South contending against each other.

The alternative was the of the Kingdom of God in the nature of an order against man's system.

Serbia.

doctrine

DIET OF BAMBOO STICKS He said that the giant panda: Is classed zoologically as car-"

nivorous, but now eats only ham- boo sticks, which it holds in pre-. henslie paws.

Has the strongest jaws in the

warld, but is defenceless.

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where to go-and how; then she Speaking of science in the light

BIRTHS told the signatories to the Nine of religion, Dr. Jones said there Power Treaty what to do with was no clash between the two be- GRAY,--On October 12, 1937, at the that sacred document to which cause they realised their own pro-

Country Hospital, Shanghai, to she had officially, publicly and vince. But behind the science they had to have religion Doreen, wife of C. J. A. Gray, on oath appended her signature, and the spirit of religion. If the KRULAK. On October 18, 1937, at thereby demonstrating her ear-two were put together, he thought,

Manila, to Mrs. V. H. Krulak,estness of Likes to be petted like a lapdog

purpose the they could remake the earth. He after a few days in captivity, and.

wife of First Lieut. Krulak, trusting nations. Then, in the thought religion' was giving that

face of such a brilliantly stage spirit to science and that Is found only in dense bamboo thickets never ordinarily pene-

was thereby getting the power of managed act of loyalty and devo-religion. It was essential that the

cargo" at our Yard, North Point. HARTLEY-On October 10, 1937, at tion to the glorious cause of peace two must come together.

the Country Hospital, Shang- hai, Robert Hartley, aged 70 on earth and goodwill towards Rotarian Ingram proposed a vote

all men, Japan flagrantly be of thanks to the speaker trayed the trust of the high contracting parties to the treaty Talk On Discipline And in her complete disregard for the Conduct

basic principles motivating the other Powers in making this very of peace. worthy contract for the promotion

doctrine of

Is Incredibly slothful and has

never been seen to run or jump.

to

science

trated by the natives; is wary and difficult to trap.

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perfidy

At the St. Andrew's Church Hall

last night, a large assembly listen-

For unadulterated ed to an enlightening talk by Dr. E Stanley Jones. It was one of a' series of lectures and discussions Japan enjoys undisputed supre which the eminent preacher and acy in that inomally dark and author is conducting during his

one is visit.

dismal sphere where no trusted and every generous, im- Dr. Jones spoke of the need of

discipline in life and

pulse is suspect: conduct. Discipline did not restrict a man,

Taking the matter by and said the speaker; it taught him

Mrs. W. H. Harkness, wife of Mr. Smith's former partner, recently bought a baby glant panda from the natives at Chappo and trans- ported it to New York. It proved fairly easy to diet the baby, the only giant panda in captivity,

since it has never eaten bamboo.

FISH EATS ITS SWALLOWER

HONG KONG CRICKET

The Daily Press.

友之國中

Large, we recognise

lay

ourself

open

to

a

BONG KONG, Octoɛɛn 2, 1837.

of

hypocricy

if

we

that we would the path to real

grave charge unde-believe of

freedom.

A man

who

knew

not

the

fundamentals

music

and

who

sat

down

to

that

we are in

any

way

surprised would

play

at random

matre

од

the plano

chaos,

but

A. K. MACKENZIE, Hon, Secretary. Hong Kong, 16th October, 1937.

the must- Aquarium Study By

JAPAN TELLS THE WORLD WHERE

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or shocked at the policy of Japan clan who first disciplined himself

as indicated in that suspiciously in the rules could later find crea-

.

extrême

tive freedom in his art Spiritual discipline was vitally

necessary: * man without

it

might be compared to a wayward swamp, whilst he who possessed it was like a river which had a

course.

a

fuller

Professor

Merit

4

The opening of the Gloucester's new season on Friday night will be marked by the appearance of the Worth Sisters (above) and a hand-picked, eight-piece European orchestra.

CHARMING

thi

ARTISTES

The Worth Sisters

GLOUCESTER DEBUT ON FRIDAY

will

The Worth Sisters. who make their local debut at the Gloucester on Friday night, are two of the most charming artistes that I have met. Virginia, the blonde, is "Cherub" Lilian, the redhead, is "Snug.". They address each other by these pet names, even in front of a strange news-

paperman. which shows how natural they are. In fact, they are in all respects completely de- vald of that affectation of speech and manner which makes many an entertainer and lifeless. This singularly admirable trait

aloof

in their character is reflected in stage no showy and enjoy themselves incidentally, giving

their work. They

numbers, much more no small measure of enjoyment to their audiences) in intimate songs and dances. How great has been their success may be judged by

the fact that for, the past two years they have been known to all diners-out from Shanghai to Delhi. Speaking of Shanghai, it is in- teresting to note that they were war evacuees from that port. On "Bloody Saturday," when carnage reigned in Shanghal, they were at Casanova's just a block away from the Avenue Edward VI and Yu Ya-ching Road junction, where a bomb fell and claimed hundreds of lives. With their mother, they were sent by the President Hoover Manila; and their mother was

For his study of a fish which allows itself to be swallowed in or- der to eat the bigger fish from the inside. Professor Ernest Gigoux, It was not an easy thing Curator of the National Museum to do, said Mr. Jones, but it was of Natural History in Chile, has the only way to reach been awarded the Order of

spiritual life. by the Chilean Academy of Na: tural Sciences. Myxlme Dembeyssy is the name of the fish which Professor Gigour has been studying in his private to aquarium. When It has been on board the same steamer on The was

swallowed, it hides itself in the trip to the States when it organs of the larger fish and then begins to gnaw at them. Before long it has crippled its

ARMY

CALENDAR

inspired the

newspaper,

Asahi Shimbun." Japan's

TO GO isclationist policy is mediaeval in conception and feudalistic in Frankness, and thoroughness the very vital matter of its

THE HONG KONG in being frank, is a highly com-adainistration by class interests. mëndable feature, but there are It cannot hold. It is by now a

JOCKEY CLUB. times when frankness can be generally accepted fact that there so thorough that it is shoer is considerable unrest within the

Ninth

The Extra Race brutality. islands' Empire,"

Meeting will be held (weather Credence-must” by given to the Perhaps the Japanese isola- A ROMAN

Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY sally well inspired political tionist, policy in its complete on Saturday, 23rd October, 1937, we which is published in the selfishness might be carried to a commending at 2:00 p.m. un-logical, if somewhat

"Asahi Shimbun,** tlant *The First Bell will be rung at pleasantly affluent section of the conclusion by the complete with?

1 flunkey Press in Japan. A badly-tattered sheet of pa-

That drawal of all that nation's u-ucp- newspaper being a servitor to ing troops to confines within pyrus less than a foot square, unwilling host and finishes by de- found on an excavated sile known vouring it entirely.

section of the community keeping of the Imperial heritage as Dura-Europus on the Euphrates Professor Gigoux, who is of servant „of all | That would, of course, presume was described at the arth Inter- French descent,, is married to a regardless of fear or favour, luas the evnegation by Japan of national Congress of Papyrologists member of the James family on the best "authority that Manchuria" and Korea ;. at Oxford by Mr. A. S. Hocy, a which came to Chile from Glasgow junior, research Fellow of Balliol in the days when British engineers 5676 Japan will refuse to attend the speaking quite bluntly, if the College, who, with Mr. Fink were building the first Chilean

Nine-Power Conference at Brus-territory filching Japanese do not Mr. Snyder, of Yale University, sels for three reasons, namely, get our of those zones which they has pleced together the main por- that Japan is fighting a war of are occupying without any other tion of the papyrus and over 60 self-deferre; Unt she refuses to regson éxcepting the unjustifiable co-operate with the League of one of might, then they will be | Nations, and, lastly, because sla forced out. It can only be n will not tolerate any interference matter of time. Therefore, in by other nations in her war of order to save themselves a grent representative that new evidence China, deal more pain and suffering and ¦ of the official military religion in

1.30 p.m.

By Order,

До

C. B. BROWN. Secretary.

Hong Kong, 18th Oct., 1937.

rather tha

it

NON-INTERVENTION COMMITTEE

French Proposals Before

Meeting

London, Oct. 19.

combatants will be discussed at the meeting of the Chairman's sub-

against

but.

and

fragments.

It proved to be a list, set out

in four columns, of Roman army festival days,

Mr. Hoey explained to a Press.

railways.

LONGEST POEM

“It' Runs To 260,000 Lines

Part of the world's longest poem,

published by the Literature Publishing

Soviet State

House

In

not

accidentally bombed. They say that they do blame the Chinese at all for that event, for the Japanese had no right to be firing at the Chinese planes whilst they cruised so close to the Ameri- can ship.

the corps

The Elsters began their training with Andres Pavicy and Serge Oukrainsky, two of America's best dance directors, and have subse- quently studied under other mas- ters, Lilian was once a leader of due ballet at San Francisco Opera. and has also played dramatic parts on the stage with the. Pasadena Com- munity. Players. Virginia danced and sung her way in many films. fond of their

They are work, and consider that they have

1135

present tour. Their greatest am- bition at the moment is to gD home for Christmas." After that, a few weeks of idleness and then off to fulfil their contract

non-aggression The French proposals for the This would appear to be the the world on appalling blood bath the Third Century provided by the which runs to 200,000 lines, is, to be picked up plenty at ideas on the

document contradicted the accept withdrawal from Spain of foreign attitude of Japanese officialdon if she decided, before it is, acted view that military religion was and it as obvious that this partially too late, to retire with what something apart from the rest of

committee of the Non-Intervention ular newspaper in Tokyo has grace she can and leave the world the public religion, Committee this afternoon at which been very well primed--in the a little more hopeful for pence for first- tline the Foreign Seere journalistic sense, of eporse-to and mankind a little more hope the document, entitled "Feriale carly unwritten folk epic of the Chicago-A, G.

(Governments represented on the Eden will preside. All feature a policy which the nationful for

sub-committee have been consulted will be forced to follow..

tary.

Mr.

on the plan but present indications

ings

In the

posterity.

honour of the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution. The poem is called "Manas," an extant people of Kirghiz in the Soviet, and

with its 43 entries, was by far the longest of

In his paper, Mr. Hoey said that,

Duranuni'.

is ascribed to the XIIth centuries. It is the tale of the campaigns,

We feel, however, our hope is its type. From the second half of

querer, Khan

The eple is still alive to-day amongst the Kirghiz people and is

However, there is one rather rain. Japan is not great enough the First Century to the middle adventures and heroic exploits of a of the Fourth there had "not been great legendary Kirghizian con-

proving. conclusive. offer little prospect of the proceed salient point about all this, to admit her folly. However known a single Roman calendar. Manas,

absence of Herr Von Ribbentrop.mely, Japan has not as yet the world is showing increasing The "Feriale Daranum," dated by ho flew from London to Berlin been invited to attend the don signs of impatience at her trucu-internal evidence to the reign of esterday, and later to Berchtes-ference, in Brussels. She cannot flence. It seeras to ns. that it is Severus Alexander, was thus the

gaden for consultatior only piece of evidence

th Herr with any reason or moral justi- now the world's turn to do some official character in calendar from

presented by the Charge D'Amires, the German ew

Butler,

Dr. Woermann.—-

British Wireless Service.

tin

The Chinese Consul-General (Dr.

C. J. Pao) at Sydney, has present-

ed the national flag of China and a message of goodwill from its Government to the Premier of Wales "as tokens of the whole-hearted congratulations,

to them what the "Illad" was to | New South

ar

134

the ancient Greeks.

be fication claim that she has been of the "telling off" to Japan. for the religion of the Roman

or is being snubbed. Japan first We have indicated above where of all told the League of Nations we think she should

people

centuries.

throughout

The part which is now to be pub-

Ushed in Moscow is called "Chon- those three | Gazat" (The Great Campaign) and

consists of 40.000 lines.

LORD MAYOR

WHO WENT

TO GERMANY” "Nazi Convert" An Insult

The Lord Mayor or Stoke-on-

Trent (Alderman J. A. Dale recently replied to critician on his recent visit with mayors of four other towns to Germany.

He declared at a meeting of the City Rotary Club that to say they bad come back converted to Nazi

ism was an insult to their intelli- gence. The visit was made to gain peace through friendship, and to

Germany's

compare municipal

undertakings with their own. Mr. Eric W. Pidduck, the Pre- sident, said that however strong

might

views Nazi

Bome

Germany,

Ex-

the

be them "held on

and its

particularly traordinary attitude towards the.

movement. they should

Rotary

do all they evald, compatible with national honour, to find a basis for pence and co-operation Germany and Great Britain

between

NO COSMETICS:

powder or

.

Five hur dred girls employed al a Mansfield radio factory dare not arrive at their work-benches with rouge on their faces. Their employer. Mr. A. H. White- ley, explaining the ban, said that It was imposed not for puritanical

for technical

reasons, but ones "We manufacture delicate wireless parts, and it is essential that the atmosphere should be as dustproof as possible," he stated. "Obvious" ly, we can't allow the girls to have their faces coated: They are quite happy without cosmetics. and doe'z mind the ban a bit.”

AUSTRALIA'S AIR ADVANCE

The remarkable development of

civil aviation in Austraila in

past few years has, according to the acting Minister for defence (Mr. Thorby), "placed Austraila among the leading nations of the world in travel"

Australian internal services now.

operate regularly 23 176 miles of route, or of double that 1935. Their machines fly nearly 6,000,000 miles a year, compared with little more than 3.000.000. ago.

There

are

two

years

now 1,027 Ilcensed private and commercial pilots. 248 registered aircraft and 203 com- mercial and private aerodromes, as well as 159 emergency landing grounds. It is now possible to fly the

32.000 miles right round

Australia on regular routes. Thr Commonwealth Government spent £681,000 on civil aviation in the 1936-37 year.

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Sydney or Melbourne will be the terminus of the new Dutch ser- vice from Holland which scheduled to begin before the end of the year. The journey from The goodwill mess- Amsterdam will occupy only eight

of the Republic of China towards

the 150th anniverary of the Com- monweath."

nge was written on silk,

days to Australia,

Le