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Hong Kong, APRIL x, 1938.
JAPAN'S
DILEMMA
DYOUSLY the Japanese paraded Je streets of Tokyo and
the other cities of the Island Empire. Frenzied cries of "Ban- za", led the air, gay banners Auttered in the breeze. "victory" by the world-conquering soldiers of His Imperial Majesty was being celebrated.
That was some weeks ago and the Japanese still clung to the optimistic beller that the campaign to subjugate China, was near Its end, despite the broken promise that "the war would be over by Christmas."
Although nothing offcial has been announced, it is expected that Wethetwel will be chosen a 'the summer base for the China
Squadron, as in former years,
With the return of the Com mander-in-Chief, Vice Admiral Sir Percy Noble, from Shanghai yes terday, it is antlolpated that some pronouncement on this will hortly be made.
H MS. CUMBERLAND RETURNS
HMS. Cumberland returned. from Shanghai yesterday as scheduled, with His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of the China Squadron. Vice-Admiral Sir Percy
Noble, on board.
MOVEMENTS
(To the Editor, "The Hong Kong
Daily Press"}
Sir. In addressing this letter to you I am not acting only on my own behalf but also on behalf of the very many families who are in a similar position and whe are suffering silently.
It is hoped that this letter may attract the kind attention of HE. The Governor as I am aware of the great interest that, he takes in the, welfare of all the residents of this Colony, be they righ or poor, Euro- pean or Chinese.
I am sure that H.E. alone cân take the necessary action to avert what threatens to develop into a very acute situation, bringing in its train suffering and distress to a large number of permanent re-
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SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1938.
CHINA'S EFFORTS TO STRENGTHEN THE REAR
Development Of Industry And Agriculture In Szechuen
(FROM OUR CHUNGKING CORRESPONDENT) Szechuan, a vast, West China province Just immediately behind China's “life-line," is not only, actively preparing to dispatch its remaining divisions to; reinforce those already at the front but also. feverishly taking steps to do the next beat, the strengthening" of the rear by the development of man power and production.
At the same time, Szechuen is doing everything possible to main- tain its normal life so as not to interfere with trade abroad, one of the means to prolong Chinese resistance against their enemy'.
With the aid of Central authority
FINANCES SOUND the national banks, especially the Since the Sino-Japanese conflict, China Farmers' Bank and the notwithstanding the pressing need In addition to the return of the
Central Farm Credit Bureau, Aze- of the national treasury, nq finan- Cumberland, flagship of the Com-sidents.
chuen is to appropriate $10,000,000 | cial obligation of either the local to assist farms in 100 of its 150 or 'the Central Government, anch Another mander-in-Chief, from Shanghai The conclusions of the Renta
districts to increase their spring as reorganization and famine relief at 1 o'clock yesterday and the arrival of EMS. Birmingham from criticised both by the entire Press tries of Economics and Communi- The National Government is set- Commission have been, universally crops production, while the Minis-bond issues, has failed to be met. England today, several other move (and for this we are all truly cations will continue their scilting aside $28,000,000 of the local ments are taking place. HM.S
grateful) as well as by the entire survey. agricultural experiments receipts for 1938 to redeem all out- Daring, which was relieved at
Public.
and water route improvements to standing debentures, $4,000,000 to Amoy this morning by HM.S.
The conclusions have been ac- better economic conditions in every $5,000,000 monthly, in order to Dainty arrived in Hong Kong at 4
cepted by the Government. The way.
ease the financial market, which, p.m. today.
H.MS. Grimsby left Weihaiwe! Justice of our appeal. has also been
To ensure and make possible thus far, is quite stable, market for Hong Kong yesterday and
ably defended by Mr. J. P. Braga, rapid local communications and Interest rate. not running more the champion of every meritorious inter-provincia? travel and trans-than 44 per cent. HMS. Folkestone, which will be
portation, more than 50,000 able- To encourage ́ ́trade and the relieved at Tsingtao by HMS cause and of the under-dog.
The hardships suffered by every bodied men in Szechuen have been development of local industry with Decoy, now en route from Hong
class of refugees (the real ones) ! drafted to work on the Bachuen- the aid of removal of capital from Kong, is to go to Welhalwei,
HM8. Diamond left Swatow from the interior and from Shang-Yunnan Highway which must be the lower to the upper Yangtse yesterday and will arrive in Hongal meet with our full sympathy; finished before August 10. Simul- ports, the Szechuen, Government is Kons today. With her departure but this is no good reason why taneously, the highway to the pro- paying the premium of all marine local residents, law-abiding and re- vince of Hupeh, especially the insurance covering machinery 'to gular payers. of rents, should be section from Wanhsien onward, is be shipped from Ichang up to to be finished as soon as possible. points in Szechten where factories menaced with wholesale evictions. It is only wise and timely legisla- | For the Szechuen-Yunnan High- | may be established, while a provin- tion which can save the situation way alone, the Central Govern-cial board of appraisers will pre- and in this we all look to His Ex-
ment will grant a subsidy of vent possible, obstruction of pro- cellency.
$1.000.000.
fiteering landlords over desirable factory sites.
But that was some weeks ago. and now the position has changed At that time Japanese, chidren strutted round in milltary ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS, uniforms, waiting to greet their the "proper spint" when they return
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MARRIAGE RAWLINGS: LINDSAY.-On April
fathers and brothers in
ed from the front.
But no longer do the children
wear these uniforms:
there is A
look of tragic wonder in their eyes. то too many Japanese homes have returned not the loved urn receptacle ones, but just an for a handful of ashes.
NO LONGER do the Japanese war-lords ponder where next they shall advance, but frantically
they rack their brains for some
plan to extricate themselves from the present dilemma.
Bwatow.will have no British war- ship in harbour."
Disposition of British warships in North China, in addition to those mentioned above, is as follows:
Shanghai--HMS. Bandwich, Tsingtao.-H.MS. Folkestone. Welhalwel-HMS. Suffolk. Chinwangtao.-HMS. Lowestoft.
H.M.B. Capetown, which bas
been transferred to England after
We are all feeling the pinch owing to the excessive rise adding to the high cost of living. Nothing F-parently can be done about this. The Commision has stated its own spending most of her commission-potence, it makes its own re- commendations. It is left to em- ed life in Far Eastern waters, will ployers to implement those recom- By the paying-off pennant con Loss of lace is inevitable, but to
Tuesday next, when she is expect landlords feel it none of their busi- But will they? The these swashbucklers the problem
is whether to aghted to depart on the Homeward
ress to extend practical sympathy EXTINCTION it out on the bat-
and why should employing. frus CERTAIN
which have their own worries, seek to relieve tenants for the beneft of landlords?
tlefront with the certainty of ex- 1938, in London, George Shirley Rawlings, Malayan
tinction"or to beat as graceful a Civil Service. elder son of the retreat as possible and resort to a late Rev. G. W. Rawlings, of warfare of wordy blunt. Osaka, Japan, and of Mr. Relieved of the necessity of Rawlings, or 72. Westbourne having to defend any particular Terrace W.2, to Margaret town or to hold any definite fight- Elspeth Lindsay, only daughtering line, the Chinese Army is now of the date Hon. Walter and
make able to
full- use of its
Mrs. Lindsay.
mobility and to manoeuvre the invaders into positions where they find themselves at a distinct dis- advantage.
CHINA BOUND TO WIN
C
EIGHTEENTH ORDINARY Bishop's Confidence
MEETING of Shareholders In
"I am convinced, as the treat the Company will be held at the majority of the Chinese people Office of the Company, Queen's are, that the war will be conclud- ed with success for China.” said Building, Victoria, Hong Kong, Bishop Yu Pinx, Vicar Apostolle of on THURSDAY, the 28th April, Nanking, at a press reception in 1938, at Noon, for the purpose Londn recently. of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a State ment of Accounts, and re-electing Directors and Auditors.
The moral of the people was ex¬
cellent, he said, and optimism grew as the condict went on. No fewer
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After the occupation of Nanking, the Japanese attacked Hangchow In the south and Hsuchow in the
voyage...
ANT
FASCISM
COMMUNISM
A very interesting address was given by Professor S. Lautensch- and international Affairs of Che- lager. Professor of Political Science
foo University, before members of the English Discussion Club of the Chinese YMCA, Bridges Street last night.
mendations.
Most of th local firms have branches in Shanghai which are working at a dead loss and Prin- a position to increase salaries. cipals, though sympathetic, are not
Therefore, it behoves most of us to taghten our belts and do the best
we can.
We will even admit that land- Professor Lautenschlager, speak-lords are affected by the general ing of Fascism and Communism, rise in the cost of living and are said that he did not like Mussolint therefore entitled to a reasonable. as a dictator, but he believed in rise in rents. They are not, how- Mussolini's three point policy to ever, entitled to indulge in pro- the citizens of Italy, emphasising steering and to embark on a cam- the importance of work if the paign of wholesale evictions. country was to grow in prosperity and strength.
north, thinking that if they could cccupy that part of the Tientsin- Pukow railway to the south of the Yellow River, they would be able
The speaker said that although to assume control of a large region
Communism had its good points it along the eastern seaboard. HAVING achieved this, they
also had many bad points, such as. Would then, according to their the denial of freedom of speech. ambitious scheme, advance Wahan. simultaneously taking PROFESSOR'S Canton and pushing their way north along the Canton-Hankow rallway.
Hankow
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railways
DAUGHTER
LOCATED than 8,700,000 newly trained "sol- diers were ready to be called up,
The success of these operations
Missing from her home since The TRANSFER BOOKS of and military equipment was pour- would have meant the occupation April 1 and believed to have pro
of the whole of ceeded to Hankow to assist in re- the Company will be CLOSED ing into China, whose communica-
WOULD the Pelping-Han- liet work among the wounded from 22nd April to the 28titions with the outside world were
little hampered by the maritime HAVE MEANT kow, and Canton Chinese soldiers, the 19-year-old April, 1938, bath days inclusive. blockade. The
CONTROL present guerrilla
daughter of Professor Hsu Ti-sban tactics were proving very success-
and resulted in of the Hong Kong University is ul and would certainly lead to control of the entire region lying now, we understand, safe and the undoing of Japan.
sound in Wuchow, Kwangsi Pro- vince, where she arrived recently from Hankow, and has enrolled in one of the medical relief units.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
H. DA LUZ,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 15th April, 1938.
In the last aine months, moré
than 500 Japanese bombers had
been brought down and 100.000 of the enemy killed. The majority 6694 of Japan's forces
were middle- aged men, since 500,000 of her youth were required to defend the Manchurian frontiers against a
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to the east of these two lines.
To the power-crazed Japanese mind this looked all too simple.
but with their usual short-sighted- 1.€88 they filled to take the alightest precaution against the most obvious"smaga.
SZECHUEN'S ACTING
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TRADE ROUTES In the meantime, both the local COTTON AND TIMBER - and the Central governments are The Ezechuen Development and making clear the existing trade Finance Corporation, with $4,200, route and arranging for more 1000 of its $5,000,000 capital pald be enlarged to a outlets. Several items of Szechuen up. is to and West China commodities have $10,000,000 concern. so that, in been exported by the Canton- addition to cotton and timber, it The Annam-Funnanfu Railway has the present war-time, requirements Hankow Railway via Wuchang. "mày go into other lines helpful to
promised a rebate of 20 per cent. of the nation
on tariff upon the certification of Co-operating with the Central the French Consulate at Chungking|authorities, the Szechuen Govern- should goods be carried by that ment has formulated its policy in line, while Yunnan and Kwelchow dealing with the thousands of war local authorities are fast removing refugees coming into West China. all artificial, legal and tax barriers In providing for the temporarily along their boundary lines.
unfortunate refugees (in Chang- Kong and Haiphong as outlets for as well as Koreans) the provincial Not satisfied solely with Hong king there are now White Russians
West China goods, the authorities authorities in Chengtu have stress- have been working for sometime aled the necessity of looking after way out through Sinklang and their health and paying attention Tibet. and Szechuen roads to these to the sanitary condition of their. regions are fast being improved for lodgings. All refugees coming inte trade.
public care are carefully examined Realising that economic power is so that they may be assisted to as vital as military strength in the self-support and work best suited present life and death struggle to their ability. with Japan, both the Central and
KUNMING PROJECT the local government in Ezechuen While every effort will be made are working towards not only to distribute the refugees into greater but also better production. satisfactory positions in districts
SILK CROPS
most accessible and convenient. The Ministry of Economics of the they will be as far as possible, National Government is to spend located in places remote from $40,000 in trying to improve the danger.
I have been paying, my rent re- gularly in advance during the last year. Yet on the very day that the Rents Commission's decision was published (13th April 1938) received a letter from my landlady giving me notice to quit at the silk crops, while stations for Meanwhile, the public' is watch- end of my lease because, so it was sericulture have already been ❘ing with no little interest the pro- alleged, the house was required tor established in a number of districts Ject now being experimented at by the "Provinicial Government, Kunming, the provincial capital of working more or less in co-opera-Yunnan, whereby groups of 1,000 tion with the Scechuen Silk Cormen, are formed into an agricul- poration
tural battalions and stationed on Szechuan exporta more than a state farm where all food-stuffs $20,000,000 worth of silk a year. It may be raised for their own con- is reported that many: American sumption.
her own use.
We went to see the landlady who informed us that she really re-
consider an offer equivalent to a quired the house, but she might
cent increase, but that even this might not be sumclent inducement for her to give up her house. My experience la probably that of numerous other unfortun-
100 per
ate tenants.
As it is not only difficult but really impossible to find vacant houses or apartaments in existing, conditions, does it mean that we with our children and our farmi-
ture are to be forcibly evicted and
forced on to the streets and that our local Government is powerless to put a limit to the insatiable greed of some of our landlords.
China, instead of Japan if they
firms would have ordered from
had been able to find something Just ka ne. Lately some Szechuen it has gone to America and Eu- rope through Hong Kong.
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WEATHER CHANGES
Rain Brings Less Oppressed Afr
On Arbour Day In Szechuen, March 12, the authorities ordered
The rain that came down. late the planting of tung trees for on Thursday night and continued
wood ofl.
in spasms throughout yesterday While paying attention to foreign brought a slightly better, if still trade, the Central and the local not quite welcome change from the authorities are not neglecting do-sultry conditions of the past few
meatic commerce.
me I mean
...
days.
The atmosphere yesterday was, on the whole, cooler and less op-
As it. 18, the Japanese have fall-
GOVERNOR ed lamentably because, amongst
General Ho Kuo-kwang, Direc- other blunders, they neglected to At present there were 200,000 protect their long-drawn out lines tor of the Generalissimo's head- wounded soldiers and civilians in of communication and did not quarters in Chungking, has been
The Commission claims the hospitals in China. The financia! take into account the large appointed by the Central authori- landlords can expect nothing less aid of the Lord Mayor's Fund amount of energy which would ties as Acting Chairman of the than 8 per cent. on their invest- and the China Campaign Com- have to be expended in "mopping- Szechuen Provincial Government, ment. My case, and it is not an
a house all highly pressed, a dépression over Southi mittee meant a great deal to the 'up" operations in cccupied areas.
General Ho will succeed General isolated one, is of a round 100 pei į amusing if it were not so tragic. China and Tongking being respon The Fifty-Seventh Ordinary suffering Chinese, who were grate- TO GIVE some idea of the mag
Chang" Chun, who' was appointed cent, and nothing less, The Com- Cannot a Board of Arbitrattori sible for this.
Yesterday's conditions are Meeting of Shareholders will be ful for such work.
nitude of the task an attack to the Chairmanship a few months mission has stated that during the be set up including representative held at the Offices of the under- The bishop concluded with a on Wuhan would involve, it must ago but has never taken up the past years, owing to the fall in the members from Hong Kong and pected to last for a few days
to some political rents due to an abundance of] Kowloon with powers to stop evic- signed on Friday, the 6th May, strong denial of the report that be remembered that the Japanese post owing.
would have to make invulnerable difficulties.
vacant houses, the cominunity in tion and to limit the percentage tri 1938, at Noon, for the purpose of the Pope took the side of Japan.
because she professed to be aght- their lines
general were occupying houses of the increase of rents instead of His Excellency the Governor, Bir of communication receiving the Report of the ing a war against Communism in ❘ extending over seven provinces
a higher standard than they would giving owners a free hand with Geofrry Northcote, will be present General Agents, together with a China. Such reports were com- and covering a total área of
have occupied by rights and they only the sky as a limit
at the finals of the Open Tennis statement of Accounts for the pie ely untrue, and he, as a Chris nearly three and a hair million Hussein, son of the King of the turning to their correct standard the statistics of incoming and out on Wednestas. He will also at H. R. H. the Prince Self a Islam would not be the worse off for re- The Commission propose to study singles at the KC.C. Stand Court square miles! year ended the 31st December. tlan bishop, utterly condemned the
Yemen. will pass through the of living. war on grounds of morality and
The strategy of the Japancae is Colony aboard the ss. Conte Verde
going persons in the Colony-this tend the Open Doubles final on 1937.
to fight a few major battles and
As the lower category of houses, is the time for action and not for Friday at 4.30 p.m. humanity.
on Saturday· Apr!" 30. have the affair settled
which would normally be tenanted | statistics; if action is not taken by subordinate officials and em-¡ in time hundreds of victims will be JAPANESE as soon as possible.
His Excellency Sir Geoffry North- are absolutely and guerilla warfare in use, the ployees, are now being rented room thrown in the streets and I am HELPLESS They
helpless when they Japanese ena no longer concen- by room to numerous families from sure that everyone will join with cote will be present at Retreat by are called on, to combat the trate their mechanised units. the interior it would mean that in the writer in appealing to the only the Pipes, Drums and Bugles of In a nutshell, Japan has lost this gigantic game of Musical Chairs one who can extend his good and the ist Kumaon Rifles at Whitfield harassing tactics of the Chinese.
In major operations. Japan has the power of taking the inflative played to music supplied by the valuable inanence in a just cause Barracks on Friday next at 6 p.m. and is faced with the dilemma of Commission (with the landlords as the one I mean is His Excellency. been, alded greatly by her aero-
There will be an Official Dinner planes, heavy artillery and tanks not whether to advance but whe-highly amused spectators) the the Governor, anal,
st Government House next Thurs- but now, with her forces spread ther to try and hold on or to under-dogs would suddenly, and AWAITING EVICTION.
themselves without a chair-pardon
day at 8:15 pm out (and nearly spread-eagled) | withdraw.
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imposed.
Hong Kong, April 22, 1938,
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