1937-11-20 — Page 11

Once weak. and miserable

"NOW

full of Energy and Cheer”

>

"As for Sanatogen, it can never be beaten, it is just like drinking magic, and those who have had a nervous breakdown, like myself. please tell them to try Sanatogen. I can eat, sleep and enjoy life now. It is life, and life is wonderful when there is health, and there is health in every bottle of Sanatogen,"

writes an enthusiastic Sanatogen user. Take a course of Sanatogen and enjoy Youth and Health again. Headache, nervousness. anaemia, and fatigue after a full day's work will soon disappear, for Sanatogen gives your body and nerves the strength they need. SANATOGEN strengthens and soothes the nerves and revitalises the blood. Buy a bottle at once. You will soon enjoy work and leisure and not only feel young but look young too.

SANATOGEN

The True Tonic Food

Obtainable at all Chemists

50

Cents

LOCAL DIRECTORY

A

OF

HONG KONG

(Including List of Factories)

MID-SUMMER EDITION

COMPREHENSIVE & UP-TO-DATE

HANDY BOOK INVALUABLE FOR BUSINESSMEN IN HONG KONG

NOW

ON SALE

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, LTD.

Tel. 30261.

2

MARINA HOUSE

3BD. FLOOR,

154-19, QUEEN'S ROAD.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1937.

BRITISH INTERESTS IN CHINA

F.B.I. Letters To Mr. Eden

As a result of meeting con- should also be discussed with the vened by the Federation of British representatives.of the Powers can- Industries on September 29, it was cerned at the forthcoming Brussels decided to form a Halson com-Conference with object of formu- mittee representing the interests who attended the meeting, whose duty it would be to watch further developments in the situation and & deal with matters as they arose, says the ""Times.".

lating a common polley regarding the International Settlement, and avoiding any exploitation of the position by either of the belligèrent parties when hostilities cense.

CRANMER TO CAPTAIN WARWICK

Wyatt To Play For Surrey?

R. E. S. (Bob) Wyatt has been deposed from the captaincy of Warwickshire. At a meeting of the general committee of the county club. Invitation was.

extended to Peter Cranmer. the England rugby footballer, to cap- tain the team next season.

Ever since it was announced last week that the committee would be meeting to consider the captaincy, rumour

has been busy. It was stated that Wyatt had not seen eye to eye with members of the committee last year and that he bad at times not been on the best of terms with bis team.

ACCESS TO WHARVES This committee met for the first me recently under the chairman-The hope was further expressed ship of Sir George Macdonogh. that the Government would not in The following is the composition any way relax their representa

the committėė:-

tions to the Japanese Government Mr. A. W. Burkill, Mr. W. B. to provide reasonable access for Kennett, and Mr. E C. Behrens British and other foreigners to the China Association); Mr. S. Carr northern and eastern districts of and Mr. Robinson Bakes (deputy) the Settlement occupied by the (Bradford Chamber

Com-Japanese troops for the purpose of of merce); Mr. J. W. Nicolson and maintenance and reasonable ope- removal, of Mr. Aruthur G. Marshall (London [ration of plant and

from

the wharves and Chamber of Commerce): Sir Ken-cargo neth P. Stewart and Mr. Arthur godowns. Finally information is

Customs ad- Warwick was not one of the Rela (Manchester Chamber of asked in regard to Commerce); Lieutenant-General ministration in North China, more brighter counties last year and which quite П number of spectators Sir George Macdonogh, and Mr. particularly the extent to Guy Locock (F.B.I.).

Japanese authorities have assumed blamed this to Wyatt's handling As a result of the mecting, two

control and whether they have of the team. Wyatt's supporters. that he letters have been addressed to the given any official assurance that however, pointed out Secretary of State for Foreign

The obligations to British, and other made over 2,000 runs last season Affairs. In the first of these let-oreign holders of bonds secured and that on many occasions "his on the Customs revenues will be tactics were admitted by the fact ters the hope is expressed that the opportunity will be taken at the met, so far as many be necessary, that he had carried the team on forthcoming Brussels Conference from the revenues under Japanese his shoulders. of considering, in conjunction with control. représentatives of the- other Powers concerned, the principles n which claims for compensation for the damage arising from the Sino-Japanese hostilities should be based.

In the second letter grave con- cern is expressed at the continued encroachment of the Japanese in the International Settlement at Shanghal and their interference

with the services of the Shanghal Muncipal Council. Its suggested that these are "matters which

COMMITTEE'S STATEMENT

will continue to play for the county. The change, they say, in the captaincy, was made because

In addition to the matters re-

The county committee have ferred to in these two letters the

Lasued 2 statement expressing committee again considered the

appreciation of Wyatt's services questions of insurance rates and and expressing the hope that he shipping facilities. It was report- ed that certain reductions had already been made in Insurance rates and that the shipping com Danies concerned were anxious to their give all, the assistance "In power to British traders. Close co-operation is being maintained between the committee and the insurance and shipping interests.

JAPANESE SOLDIERS RESTLESS

Taxi-Dancers To Quell Unrest!

fight the Chinese, laying dowa their arms and declaring they would take the consequences,

Murmurings of protest, which the 22 men had openly refused to may be fanned into open rebellion against the Japanese war of ag- gression in China, are being heard in the ranks of the Japanese troops operating in the Shanghal area.

The 22 men, according to Osgood, insisted that they were but simple

It is declared by competent neù-farmers who had been forced to tral observers that thousands of Japanese soldiers are not at all in favour of the struggle but seek to return to their homes in Japan.

The anti-war movement in the Tarks of the Japanese is stated to he growing and the government is 80 already greatly concerned. much so, in fact, that hundreds of pretty Japanese girls and young women, the majority being former cabaret taxi-dancers in Shanghai and in Japan, have been employed by the government to entertain

the soldiers.

ANTI-WAR HANDBILLS The discovery of anti-war Land- bills in the pockets of a Japanese soldier who was killed in battle occasioned no surprise, as the ma- jority of the Japanese soldiers, in- tensely patriotic though they may be, are in the main simple country boys whose hearts are not with the government in this present strug-

found gle. Handbuils

10 the possession of slain OF captured Japanese of late have been printed and distributed by The Japanese Youth League.

ابر

The following is a translation of one of them!

arms against a country take up with whom they had no quarrel.

NOT FOOLED

In the vicinity of Shuchiamuchia, north of Miaochang, Chinese de- number of fenders captured a Japanese soldiers, among them being one Hideo Tanaka, a short, bald, middle-aged man, who in private life la the owner of a small shop dealing in flowers. Tanaka declared he was happy to have been made a prisoner, asserting that he and his companions have no desire to fight the Chinese peo ple, but were forced to so do by the Japanese militarists.

"Our commanders think they are deluding us when they keep from us the extent of our losses. But soldiers have their own methods of finding out things and we know that in

the Shanghal area our losses in lives were extremely heavy. Many high Japanese off- cers, were, to my own knowledge, killed," Tanaka declared.

Questioned as to the report that the commander-in-chief of the Japanese fighting forces in the Shanghai area, General Matsui, had been wounded, the "captive stated that the soldiers serving (1) Avoid bloodshed and do not

Japan in this vicinity had heard sacrifice your life or live "n life of hell" just because of reports to that effect but had been the ambitions of the mill-forbidden by their omcers to dia-

tarists and financiers.

(2) For what have 200,000 ves been sacrificed since the Manchurian Incident?

(3) Why should our parents and familles at home 'five a life of poverty and misery? 14 (4) War must have a real na-

tional objective.

"(5) China is not our enemy.

(6) Your slogans should be: (a) everlasting peace, and (by ask the militarists to re- turn" you your life.

REFUSE TO FIGHT Recently two foreign employees of the Public Works Department of the Shanghai Municipal Council, who have access to Hongkew, wit nessed a party of no fewer than

cuss the matter.

JAPANESE SURRENDER The prisoner was amazed over being kindly treated by the Chin- ese soldiers, declaring that their officer had solemnly informed them that to fall into the hands or the Chinese meant certain death by torture. The officers, in some instances, he said, frequently ex- hibited photographs allegedly de- pleting Japanese prisoners being burned to death by their Chinese captors,

Tanaka, told his captors of how a Japanese unit of nearly 45 men, ordered to attack B strongly- fortified Chinese position of Jakong Road, in broad daylight, approached the barricade, produced

22 Japanese soldiers, chiefy of the a white flag and surrendered in a peasant type, being taken underbody to the Chinese. strong guard to the Japanese mili- The infuriated senior officer tary headquarters. One of the communicated with higher officers foreigners, Mr. A. K. Osgood, who and the result was that a terrine spent 11 years in japan and who artillery and bombing barrage re- speaks the Japanese language duced the Chinese barricade to a fluently, ascertained from the com- | shambles, but the prisoners were versation of the armed guards that removed to safety.

was felt that the side had got into a groove. Wyatt has a birth qualification for Surrey and it has been suggested that he will play

for them next season. Colcur way lent to this by the fact that he visited Mr. H.D.G. Leveson-Gower. president of the Surrey Club. Mr. Leveson-Gower refuses to discuss the rumour and said that Wyatt had been a friend of his for many years and called on him as he was in London for the Motor Show.

"I consider him the second best hat in England,” said Mr. Leveson- Gower, "and if he came to Surrey

would be my county's gain.”

EVERYBODY'S

Favourite....

"PLACE

"BLACK&WHITE"

YOUR FIRST SIP TELLS YOU IT'S THE SCOTCH,

WINTER CLOTHES

Woman's, Men's & Children's

WANTED URGENTLY

COATS & UNDERS CLOTHING

HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

Monday & Thursday

ICE HOUSE STREET

10 to 12 Noon,

IF YOU WISH TO MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION

•

CONSULT

•

The Hongkong Daily Press, Ltd.

Marina House (3rd Floor)

15-19. Queen's Road Central

and

Have Your Visiting Cards

Copperplate.

Cards Engraved

on

Have Dies made for your office Letterheads.

Have Dies made for the address on your

+

Private Notepaper.

Stocks of Stationery and Envelopes, etc. on hand.

All this work carefully and promptly executed under expert supervision-reasonable prices.!