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No. 24807. #¶¤¤ ¤œÁÆ HONG KONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1938.

SEVERAL PEDESTRIANS

INJURED

SIR ARCHIBALD KERR CREATES

EXCELLENT IMPRESSION

New Ambassador Interviewed In Shanghai Hotel

NO

FUNDAMENTAL

CHANGE IN BRITAIN'S FAR EASTERN POLICY

Shanghai, February 24. EMPHATIC DENIAL of the,, reports that he had brought with him a "peace plan," were made by the new British Ambassador to China. Sir Archibald Clark. Kerr, when interviewed by the press in the Cathay Hotel this afternoon a few hours after landing In Shanghat.

Replying to a question. Ilis Excellency affirmed that like his predecessors he will continue to uphold British rights and interests in China which had always been the British polley.

SIR ARCHIBALD SAID that no fundamental change in Britain's Far Eastern policy need be Mr. Eden's resignation, he explained, expected as a result of the resignation of Mr. Anthony Eden. arose entirely from events in Europe and not the Far East.

The new Ambassador, sald be will be proceeding shortly to Chungking to present his credentials to Mr. Lin Sen. President of the Republic of China, but no definite arrangements were yet made. He *xpected to return to Hong Kong by sea and then fly to Chungking via Bankow.

34 CASES OF SMALL-POX

Vic-

During the 24 hours ended mid- night Wednesday, 34 fresh cases of small-pox were notined. tri district showed 23 cases, Kowloon nine, Aberdeen and New Territories one each.

Three cases of meningitis were one of puer- also reported and peral fever.

The St. John Ambulance Corp 1 vaccinating thousands of people, and it is hoped that every responsible person In the Colony will undergo-inoculation to stem the spread of this dread disease.

Sir Archibald Clark Kerr

ISLINGTON CORINTHIANS

FETED AT HOTEL

How Football Is Played

Visiting football teams have come and gone, all of them taking away with them happy recollections of Hong Kong but it will be perhaps safe to say that no team will carry away happier me- mories of this outpost of the Empire than the Islington Corinthians when the time comes for them to say goodbye to Hong Kong.

The Islingtonians have been here for almost a fortnight now and they have grown to like this place like we have grown to ke them and this fact was emphasised, if indeed emphasis was need- ed. at the dinner given at the Hong Kong Hotel last night by the Counch of the Hong Kong Football Association. in honour of the visiting footballers.

In the unavoidable absence of, F. C. Clemo, Lee Wal-tong. Mox

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Asked whether he intended to establish himself in Shanghal, the Aribassador replied "I'shall work wherever I find myself most use- ful-there I shall establish myself. In all circumstarices we are having part of the British Embassy in

Shanghat"

IN IN

SETTLEMENT BOMB

OUTRAGE

SAVED OVER 60 LIVES AT THROWER SHOT DEAD BY

RISK OF THEIR OWN Thrilling Saga Of The Sea

HONG KONG SAILORS' GALLANTRY REWARDED

A SELECT GATHERING at Government House was yester- day, privileged to hear a saga of the sea intimately connected with this Colony. Its details, although almost a year-old, thrilled the

fearless hearers story of gallantry ny thrilling and connected with human courage, as the result of which over sixty lives were saved.

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THE CENTRAL FIGURES in this ocean drama were three Chinese sallors each of whom had the honour of having His Excel- lency the Governor pin on his breast a medal of the Royal Humane Society,

HUMANE SOCIETY MEDALS

PRESENTED

a

The Hong Kong steam ship once lowered, they would have

not a chance of keeping Hopsang was slowly plodding her had

along the south Formosa afloat, much less reaching the way

of coast in the teeth

heavy shore. gale on the night of March 11. last year. It was pitch dark and the worst fears of her skipper were realised. After fighting the one

considerable period.

RESCUE PLAN

Rescue and safety lay only in

direction

CHINESE DETECTIVE

Missile Was Intended For Mr. Hal P. Mills

ACCOMPLICE IN CUSTODY

Shanghai, February 24. NINE CHINESE AND A DANE. Mr. Nielson, were injured by splinters this evening when a Chinese threw a bomb at the offices of the Hwai Mei Wan Pao on the International Settlement side of Avenue Edward VIL The bomb thrower was shot dead by a plain- clothes Chinese detective who had been wounded in the leg by a bullet, fred by either the man or an accomplice both of whom were apparently Chinese. The accomplice was arrested.

THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED at 6.50 p.m. and was heard throughout the central district where it was at first believed that a bomb had been dropped by a Chinese plane some distance down, the river.

The American publisher, Mr. Hal

P. Mills, for whom the missile was absent evidently intended, was at the time.

Five of the persons injured were on the opposite side of the road. They included a Chinese bar girl who was sent to hospital

LUFTHANSA

AIR LINE

Mr. Nielson was also conveyed Route To Baghdad

to hospital being rushed by an which reached the ambulance scene within a few minutes of the explosion.

Communication with the shore had to be means and the Captain gare instructions pedestrians.--(Reuter). accordingly to the Chief Officer. who decided there was only one way of doing that.

Most of the injured persons were

Sir Archibald emphasised that gale for a he was in no sense a special emis-the elements proved too formid- established by some

able for the efforts of man and sary; he was merely an Ambassa- dor taking the place of an Envoy the vessel loundered a mile east before him. His Excellency recall- of Garanblcint Light.

ed seeing his predecessor in Lon- don'. and sald that Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen's health was now almost normal and he was very sorry that he was anable to come back to China.

Replying to

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question & correspondent representing a Japanese news agency, Sir Archi- bald said that, as had been ex- plained in the House of Commons, Britain and the United States were working in the clasest co-opera- |tion.

His Excellency then said that he few from Baghdad to London where he spent nine days mostly in the study of Far Eastern ques- tions. He then returned by air to Baghdad where he spent four days before leaving for China,

Asked for his first impressions of Shanghai, Sir Archibald said, Shanghal is just as I expected to find It. I had the picture in my mind before coming here. The only one other place I know whten looked like the postcard pictures Itself is Monte Carlo."

Sir Archibald Clark Kerr created an excellent impression among the correspondents by his disarming modesty, and by his remark during the interview, "I at first was quite afraid of you all, but now feel

the president of the Association. Hirig. Lieut. Neill. A. S. Bliss and much better." the Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, C.M.G., many others.

the chair was occupied by Mr. J. Ralston and the gathering was re-

presentative not only of football

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Sir Archibald asked several members of the audience whom they represented, and turned to

but also of other forms of sport TOUR OF INSPECTION one or two persons to ask if they

in Hong Kong.

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had any questions for him. BY FOOTBALLERS There were both Chinese and among The Daily Press learns from a Japanese newspapermen On the chairman's right was Mr.

interviewers, and several Thomas Smith. manager and very reliable source that a party the secretary of the Islington Corin- from the Islington Corinthians will cameramen, who took many ple-

tures (Reuter). thlans and on his left was Mr. P. be conducted on a tour of inspec- B. (Pat) Clark, their very popular tion of the new power station of captain. Those present included the China Light and Power Co.. Messrs. Wong Ka-tsun. W. Pryde, Ltd., that is being erected at Hok-. C. D., Carter, W. 1 Alexander.iun.

TURNING THE PAGES

Page Huge heroin haul. Man-Page 9-Safeguard of Britain's

slaughter charge against detec- tive, Domestic case dettled.. Page 3-Ladies' page.

Page 4-New election

demand.

Ship disaster in Yangtse.. T. V.

Soong in, limelight.

Bupply in cables. Page 10-Sporting " notes

War

time.

Latest

and

newb.

Page 11-Home football forecast.

Louis Knocks out Marin.

THE DOLLAR

T.T. ON LONDON: 15 27/31. T.T. ON NEW YORK: 31-1/16.

London Silver Market

(Our Own Correspondent). London, Feb. 24. London silver prices today were unchanged for "Spot " and

down 1/16 for "For- ward"." as follow

Feb. 23. Feb. 24.

20-1/4 Spot............20-1/4 Forward....19-15/16 19-7/8

FOOCHOW AERODROME

*BOMBED

Shanghai, Feb. 24. Japanese planes, bombed the

Page 5-Cinema notices and news. Part 6-The Services. Refugees Page 12 New York: Quotations.

in China.

Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Page 7. Benevolent Society's Page 13-Radio programmes. Ep;

Year's Useful work: Ladies' R.C. som Tube plan opposed... A meeting. Lane Crawford' em- ployee freed Seaforths leaving Pages 14 and 15-Shipping news. Foochow aerodrome in the course arrivals and Clearances. Direcof aerial activities today accorting for North.

to the Japanese naval spokesman Tennis who said that there were no planes

on the field at the time-(Reuter)

Page 8-Leading article: New hope tory.

for China, Correspondence. Erfi- Page 16-Army boxing.

'draw. Hockey. llant performance.

ITALY'S DEMAND FOR PARITY

Heavy is vere, breaking over

The plan was to bend a line to [*the* ̈U-fated vessel threatening

an 18-foot awning spar and lower to pound it to pleces at any moment. The officers and crew it down level with the top of a cli on shore, The other end.

Paris, Feb. 24. of sixty on board would, in that

Madame, Tabouis, writing in event, have perished, for none was to be allowed to fall outward

to the cliff, the

Oeuvre, says it is learned that could have lived in such an angry sea. The use of beats was out of between ship and cliff being 18Italy is demanding caval parity

Not only was it the question. impossible to lower them, but,

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Britain Must Secure Food Supply Independence

London, February 24.

The question as to whether oil or foodstuffs would be more neces sary for Great Britain in case of war is discussed by Sir Henry Deterding. head of the Shell all interests, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph today, in which the petroleum magnate expresses the view that Britain should endeavour, in the first place, to increase her fond supply in order to render herself independent of imports from abroad.

Production or o. from coal by no food supply from outside, would the process of hydrogenation must be in a better position to assure according to Sir Henry, have the her independence in respect to oli effect of diminishing the importa-by its production from coal, but tion of oil, and this would in turn it would be unwise on the part c:. be detrimental to Britain's expert Britain to attach more importance trade.-

to her oil supplies than to her food Sir Henry goes on to say that France, which practically requires supplies.--(Transocean).

This Summer

Berlin, Feb. 24. The first passenger air line of the German Lufthansa to extend" beyond European frontiers will be established in the summer, when the Toute to Baghdad is insuget= ated. The airmail route to Baghdad had been flown since the autumn of 1937.

It is intended to extend the route with Britain lathe Mediter-beyond Baghdad to Siam and to ranean; the right of control on establish connections there with Jan International foothold in

Balearic Islands for many years the

the

German-Chinese company,

o come though the offering is Eurasia, to China. perhaps not to instal herself The opening of the passenger there alone; finally, she wants ane merely marks the beginning

oan of £30,000,000.

of the expansion of Lufthansa it "Anglo-Italian negotiations look is stated, and definite plans are as though it were as difficult as being made for passenger service could be expected," saya the

across the Atlantic in Lufthansa writer-(Reuter).

planes.(Transocean).

HANKOW REFUGEE

TRAIN

KOWLOON FIRE The refugee train from Hankow A fire broke out at 154, Yee Kuk did not arrive last night. It was Street, Kowloon, at 7.40 pm. yes- stated that heavy bombing had terday. The building was occupied occurred on the Canton-Hankow by the Chung Hai Mat Company. line and the local railway author- The fire occurred while the workers ities had received nö information were at meals and spread rapidly. from Canton as regards the ar-Two appliances were despatched to rival of the train there or other- the scene and the flames were soon wise.

under control,

RACING CARNIVAL SCENES AT HAPPY VALLEY MEETING

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