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SHORT- SIGHTEDNESS

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EDITORIAL

SIR ANTHONY JENKINSON INTERVIEWED

(Continued from Page 1)

"Where Seldom a Gun is Heard" being an account of his North American experiences.

CORRESPONDENCE

FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1938.

SCHMIDT'S CHARGES REFUTED

The Editor, Hong Kong Dally With reference to the alleged about it and never took part in

. Press)

*hysterical orders of Madame the raid. He never flew to Formo- Sir-I was astonished to read in Chiang Kai-shek." surely these sa or went anywhere near it, and

he never took the press yesterday of a bitter must be fertile imaginations of a certainly

part attack alleged to have been made diseased

Why Schmidt in the bombing, which was under- on the Government of China, by should attack "that woman." as taken entirely by Chinese pilota. Mr. Vincent Schmidt, a former he had previously described the because he always refused to go up airman. The statements attribut- lady, I cannot understand, seeing in a bomber.

brain.

stat

WALTER HANMING CHEN. Hong Kong, April 21, 1938.

Sir Anthony was educated at Eton and Baillol College, Oxford. AL Oxford he edited the "Iris, undergraduate newspaper. He visited the United States in 1934, ed to Schmidt, it must carefully that he was royally treated by her I suppose that Schmidt, who de- travelled 'from coast to coast, re- be "noted, come from, a Japanese and that the order for his dismiss-clined to make any statements to. turned to England and published source and, while we must assume ai came after Mr. T. V. Boong had the press in Hong Kong, thought in 1936"America Came My Way," that they are correct, we hope that assumed the post of Chairman of that any attacks which he made on China and the Chinese Govern- which, incidentally, "is in its third he has been misreported and are the Chinese Air Force. printing. This

book inclined to accept the Japanese Schmidt himself Interesting

realize ment, at Singapore, would go un- the Chinese Government | challenged. If my supposition is contained accounts of meetings report with the usual grain of salt. that wth Huey Long, President Roose- While I am not a servant of the treated him and his companions right, then he was sadly mistaken.

must velt, Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire, Chinese Government and hold no with great leniency. Ee

It is my sincere hope, however, Walt Disney Upton Sinclair and brief for the Chinese Government realize the penalty meted out to that Schmidt and his companions others.

and while I express observations men who, during times of war, will not follow the example set by..

of a certain southern He returned to America in April which do not in any way represent refuse to obey the orders of their airinen 1936, apent nine months in Canada, the views of the Chinese Govern-superiors, even though they may European country who, after being travelling through all nine pre-ment, I am.as a Chinese citizen, be volunteers. Surely he must dismissed by the Chinese Govern- vinces during which time he inter-

not inclined to "allow such state-know that he and his friends were ment, went over to the enemy and ilable to court-martial and the fir-more than 20 of whom were viewed such inquential personages ments to go unchallenged.

Prime Minister

As the result of inquiries, I find 'ng squad for rank insubordina- brought down by the very Chinese Mitchell

that the facts of the matter totion. A generous Chinese Govern- airmen whom Schmidt seeks to Hepburn, of Ontario, Prime Minis- ter William Aberhart, Social Credit which Schmidt refers are

ment, however, decided that it belittle. China welcomes the co- Schildt and certain fellow op-would be better simply to dispense operation of genutzte foreign Apostle of Alberta and others. He

ith their services and let them friends, but she does not want the re-visited Hollywood and spent a portunists came to China to volun- further six months in the United teer to fight against the Japanese.zo."

"help" of adventurers. Schmidt and States. In December 1937 he pub-Like certain Austrian doctors, they

his companions · Say what Schmidt will; China: lished another book

entitled put forward extravagant claims as came to China without passports-will fight on. We will resist with to their qualifications and, just ass volunteers it is true, but none dogged determination and will, I in the case of the Austrian doctors, the less as persons without nation-am confident, emerge lctorious. It was found that their claims wereality. By serving under "the At any rate. If we should be un- ill-grounded and their services Chinese fag at a time of war, they fortunate enough to go down, we SYMPATHY WITH CHINA

were rightly dispensed with by the forfeited their American citizen-will go down with our flag flying. When asked what his views were.

Chinese Government.

hip. They were, therefore, sub- Yours faithfully. - as to the Far Eastern hostilities,

Ever since joining the Chineselect to the laws of China. Had Sir Anthony unhesitatingly replied Air Force several months ago. they been shot, nobody, not even with a smile, "I am afraid that Schmidt sought publicity for him the American Consular authorities, am not yet qualled to broach myself by distributing portraits of t think, could have intervened, be- views on that subject, but I think himself and giving the presa cause they were no longer Ameri- I am right when I tell you that agencies glowing accounts of aerial cans. both the British and American combats and other exploits which peoples show strong sympathy for occurred only in his own mind.

By simply dispensing with their work was harder than their other Schmidt and his companions did services and sending them away, duties I do not know but suface When asked how long he intend-not come to China for their health. the Chinese Cravernment could not to say that their refusal to obey

They came out here to make hay have treated anybody better or the order was rank insubordina while the sun shone and to make more fairly. Is it conceivable that tion and, therefore, a punishable as much money as they could, so the Chinese Government would offence.] that they could clear out as soon begrudge the payment of $1,000 for as they possibly could. Does any each enemy plane brought down? body believe that they came here when one considers the immense and

gave vp their American cost of planes, one will readily troops drew on the enemy.

citizenship by joining a country realize that Schmidt's claim Is who both underestimated the

which was at war simply out of ridiculous. strength of the defenders and

love for our people, simply because overestimated their own power.

they wished to see Right prevall refused to obey orders from their Blindly the Japanese rushed an,

over Might? Does anybody really superiors to take to the air in

London, April 20. The Australian Test cricketers DI trap

imagine that the blissfully

they volunteered bombers, other foreign plots in arrived at Waterloo Station today their services free? that was prepared for

the Chinese Air Force actually at 5 p.m. IN TRAP CAUGHT them and which has

HIGHLY PAID

engaged in bombing activities and Barriers of mounted police sub- 716f boen sprung.

On the contrary, they were very in real combat against the Japan-dued thousands of cricket en- Caught like rats, Aght- a slagle beggar during his sojour highly paid for their services. ese, although their pay was less thusiasts who had gathered to ing desperately on all fronts and

fact, they were paid more than than half of what Schmidt & Co. meet the visitors meanwhile being taken in the

This was a noticeable feature to double the salary paid to other received.

Only privileged ones were allowed on the platform. him in that it appeared to him as foreign pilots in the Chinese Air rear and flanks, the sons of Nip-

As to the strength of the Chinese

The tourists were welcomed by pon must surely rue the day they being a dignified point of the Force. Their salary was $2,000 At Force, Schmidt's rures are Lord Hawke, Sir Pelhama. (Plum)

out บิด their "civilising" | poorer class of people—their ability | each a month and a bonus of mission.

wrong, "miserably wrong.

Warner and others. to look after themselves, help ex- $1,000 was to be paid to them for I refute mast emphatically On behalf of the Marylebone tended to one another and their each enemy plane they brought Schmidt's All efforts have been made to

assertions concerning Cricket Club, Lord Hawke, greeted good-naturedness. He had scen down.

the alleged inexperience and in-Don Bradman, the Australian cap- Chinese people cooking their After their arrival, they did a lot efficiency of China's pilots. Every-tain, "Welcome, little boy! How frugal meals on the sidewalk of of talking but their action so far body in the know pays the highest are the invalids?"

efficiency Hong Kong the while jovially chat- ting with one another,

In the early part of this unde clared war on China, we pointed out that the further inland the Japanese were drawn, the more difficult it would be for them to

maintain their lines of communica- tion and proper bases from which operations could be directed.

It was after the fall of Shanghai that the Chinese began their policy

of strategic retreat and that this has proved successful is borne out by the recent reports of the suc- cesses of China's fighting forces. ACCORDING to plan. the Chinese

set

unaware

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keep the news of the latest re- verses from the civilian population- of Japan but sumdient informa- tion has leaked through to create

considerable apprehension.

the Chinese."

ed to stay in the East, our repre- sentative was informed that his mission out here would take from four to five months to complete.

Asked what he thought of Hong Kong, our visitor replied that he was naively fascinated with the city. He had been walking through nearly all the little lanes and side streets in Hong Kong and had been greatly impressed by two things primarily with the over-crowding and poverty of the Chinese people, and on the other hand he had been very surprised, that in view of these conditions, he had not met.

kere.

FASCINATED BY JUNKS

"What interested and fascinated me most was the sight of hundreds of junks as we flew low into Macao

FAIR TREATMENT

Whereas Schmidt and his friends

as actual warfare was concerned tributes to the

[P.S.-I may also mention that Schmidt and his companions, when ordered to act as Instructors, re- |fused to do so. Whether this was due to the fact that this kind of

AUSTRALIAN TEST

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and Lord Hawke was referring to the was negligible. They demanded bravery of our war birds. Unlike epidemic of liness and injuries on all sorts of privileges, provisions the ordinary Chinese soldier, who the ship. and comforts, even to the extent has nothing whatever to worry of the brand of cigarettes they about, China's airmen all come at Lord's tomorrow.-(Reuter);

especially from good familles, especially those smoked,

Already many an anxious 'meet. ng of the Japanese Cabinet has been held, to which the military leaders have been summoned, but In spite of all the excuses the war before coming to Hong Kong. I ordered for them from 'Hong Kong from the overseas, who have done, am very fond of sailing and what and taken to Hankow by aero- and are still doing, most valuable

the steps taken to reassess

the amazed

lords have offered, in spite of a strength of the Chinese armies, the process of beating China to her knees is fraught with as many

difficulties as ever. APART from the weaknesses in the Japanese plari of campaign. the aggressors have, from the cut- set, been handicapped by the inability of Tokyo to control the actions of the Japanese officers at the front, and by the reluctance of these same officers to discipline their men.

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Irresponsible action taken in the exhilaration of temporary success bas not only

IRRESPONSIBLE. endangered the ACTION Japanese cam- paign but it has also imperilled Japanese relations with the rest of the world to such a large measure that it is almost beyond doubt that Japan will never regain the place she held among the Powers before she em- barked on this wholesale murde. of innocent Chinese..

But blundering has not been confined to the officers and men in China. The politicians have been equally at fault.

Realising the need, for a speedy solution to the problem with which they are

confronted.

were which

me was the way these plane. In spite of this, they were work and displaying a wonderful

fact that never satisfied and continued to junks are bunt. The

put out to

sea in all they can weather with their masts crudely raked forward and their rudders practically perforated with holes is a tribute to them."

Sir Anthony added that it was noticeable to him, having come from the United States, the num- ber of cars of British manufacture travelling on the roads of Hons

Kong.

Be

Asked what his opinion was of Jocal newspapers, Sir Anthony eagerly imparted that it was sur- prising to him to have noticed the excellent coverage of the journals, adding." "The Hong Kong papers

give one a marvellous service."

The Impressions he will take away with him of Hong Kong, when he leaves, will be the noise or the busy thoroughfares and sections, and the clatter of clogs, a con- trast to the clatter of carriage;

pontes' hools in Manlia,

ancestors.

The cricketers will be practising

HOME SOCCER RESULTS.

London, April 20," put forward all kinds of impossible spirit of loyalty in battling for the

The following are the results of demands so that it was utterly im-existence of the land of their possible for the Chinese Govern-

We have. I am told, all the pilots matches played in the Scottish ment to retain them, hence theiwe need: what we lack is planes. Football League today: services were dispensed with.

but I hope this may be remedied Morton

1 Queen's Park 2. 4 Ayr U.

They were ordered to go up in bombers and to take part in the bombing of enemy positions, but they refused to do so... In fact, their experience and enclenty St. Bernards 4 Dunfermline they refused to do anything ex- are concerned

the very near future. The re-St. Johnstore

SECOND DIVISION sults achieved by our aviators are a sufficient testimony so far as Albion

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VISITORS DEFEATED ** The visiting team from. Kladno,

two—(Reuter)

PERSONAL

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Mr. M. E. Arnold, of the Hong

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On Home

tept to go up in pursuit planes-

It is true that many of our air- related that he had been I suppose because they knew well men are finding difficulty in hand- Czechoslovakia played West Ham quite amused to watch the Chinese that in these they would be safe ling Soviet Russian aeroplanes be in a friendly match today and playing cards on the side-walks, in the event of their being attack cause these are intended for men were defeated by three goals to "and also to see small boys played by the enemy. They never

of a stature larger than the ing quolts with the tops of Coca- bombed a single Japanese position average Chinese, but, let it be re- and never brought down a single membered, Schmids could not even Cola bottles,"

Japanese plane.

When they went up in pursuit ft. one of them from the ground!

FORMOSA BAID planes, God only knows what they

After this experience, after the did. They would return with glow- ing reports of how they had met experience which China had with the enemy and engaged them in fairmen from a certain southern combat, but nobody had ever seen European country, and after her them engage in a fight and nobody experience with the Austrian doc-Kong Electric Company, left the had ever seen a single plane which tors, it is sincerely to be hopet Colony last Sunday

to have downed, that China has learned enough to leave. It is understood he will be they claimed

foreign legions" and to away for eight months. " Nobody knew if they had been in give up action or not: there was only their fight her own battles We have

had enough, too much, of them. The many friends of Mr. 28.” own word.

GOVERNMENT RIGHT

Our own pilots can do just as well. Abraham, the popular exchange This being the case. It was only if not better than they, in handling broker. will be glad to learn that his office right in the absence of procr, that European-made planes, so what he has returned to the Chinese Government should need is there for "foreign legions?" again after a lengthy illness. He confined indoors. for policy of these two great Powers refuse to pay them

Schmidt might have had the had been bonuses. the Japanese approached. Great for some considerable time." There was no reason to China to grace categorically to deny that some months but is now looking Britain to intervene with tho

With the situation as it is now, offer any pretexts, one kind or he took part in the air raid on perfectly fit again. object of starting peace negotia-it is not for China to sue for another," aa Schmidt pat It. As Taihoku. Formosa, especially ir.

peace. The JapI say, I hold no brief for the view of the fact that it was widely We learn from a reliable source only Chinese Government and am only published that he actually led the that Mr. Gilbert Harriman, the UNDERSTAND understand

which bombed the 'an ordinary citizen, but I believe squadron

the well-known

sharebroker, use of force, and that, if any money is legally due Formosan city and many people who is at present in Australia, will until the last one and owing to these men.. they were under the impression that the be returning to the Colony very NO AGREEMENT has been en- is driven out of China will they should be paid...

success of the bombing was largely shortly, being due here tered into but, it may be really belleve that China does not Nevertheless, so far as I have due to his emciency and bravers.month.

in matters need their "help." safely assumed that

been able to ascertain, they have It is not to be wondered, how

Mr. A. W. W. Slater, manager ** affecting the East. Great Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek been paid and paid amply-far ever, that he should have been re- Britain and America will act to has always made clear that he more than was due to them and ticent on this subject here and in of the Machinery and Contract- gether.

desired peace-but peace; with far in excess of their worth. There Singapore because he knew welling Department, Messis. Dodwell Mernories of the wounding of honour.

18, I am reliably informed, no truth that he could say nothing, except and Company, will be proceeding Bir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen Now It appears that he will not whatsoever in Schmidt's assertion in praise of the Chinese airmen on Home leave on Sunday. He could say nothing about will be away from the Colony til and the sinking of the Panay only achieve peace with honour that the salaries of these men had He

Formosa because he knew nothing early next year. nứt been pald have determined the future Joint hit also with "victory,

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