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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

H.K. TRADE CONDITIONS DURING 1937 REVIEWED

Chamber Of Commerce Report Now Available

The Improvement in Far Eastern trade noted during 1936 con- tinued during the first half of 1937, but thereafter trading was made difficult by the outbreak of buktilities In China between Japanese and Chinese forces which have developed into a major. though un- declared war." states the annual report of the Hong Kong Chamber.. of Commerce, which is now available.

The report

mentions the devia-the hostilities, and fearing that tion of cargo to the Colony as a such a misconception might cause result of the hostilities and the further difficulties in trade, the increase in Hong Kong's popula-Chamber approached the Govern tion, which caused all empty ient in the matter ́and a state- houses to be taken up and im-ment was made that reports of proved business for local utility perilous conditions in the Colony companies.

"Nevertheless," says the re- -port. "In the long run," the Colony cannot but be adverse- ly affected by disastrous con- ditions in China, and the restoration of peaceful rela- tions between Japan and China is anxiously awaited."

MISCONCEPTION

Inward correspondence at one time showed that it was being assumed that Hong Kong was as much affected as Chira proper by

H.K. POLICE RESERVE

(Orders by the Hon. Mr. T. H. King

Commissioner of Police)

CHINESE COMPANY

·Strength. Constable R23 Kong Ka Yan has been permitted to re- aign from the Chinese Company. as from April 5, 1938.

were unfounded. The statement was widely circulated and broad-

ast by the BBC,

The report then' goes on to re- view other commercial, industrial' and social conditions in the Colony

·luring -1937)

MEMBERSHIP

Slice the last azinual report was issued, there was one resignation from membership "and 22, acces-

local firms to become members, as sions. The Chamber appeals to ail

they all should' as the Chamber is in essential organisation in the business community.

The report, which is a hand- somely bound volume of over 100 pages contains many things of dally interest to all bushessmen and observers of local trading cor- ditions.

Many pages are devoted to Im- perial Preference regulations and affiliated questions, Colony trade. statistics are given as well as other necessary information.

Businessmen here and abroad will find the report a valuable Training Course-Part II. The guide. It is obtainable at $2 per undermentioned members of the copy. Application should be made Chinese Company will attend Chi-to the Secretary, Hong Kong nese Company Headquarters for Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong Part II of Training Course on and Shanghai Bank Building. Tuesday, April 26 at 17.15 hours:-

Constables R72 Fong. Hing, R82 Stern Hà, R90 Yuen Sui Tang. R9+ Lau Hung Kam. R&1 Yu. Shiu, Tang, R80 Hung Woonman, R75 J. Anthony Yim, and R93 Shiu Hung Yuen.

Inspection Parade. All ranks of

POST OFFICE EXPLOSIONS

the Chinese Company will para Shanghai Director

on

at Central Police Station Thursday. May 5 at 17.30 hours for a general Inspection of equipment etc.. by the Company Commander. Dress White Uniform. Cap' with White Cover, Belt with Brace. Truncheon "Pocket Policeman" and note-book to be carried. The Equipment Officer will make point of being present.

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Here To Aid Investigations

As a result of the two recent ex- plosions, followed by fires at the General Post Office, M Chapelsin. Director of Postes of the Shanghai Post Once has arrived in Hong Kong in order to aid the Police in their-Investigations.----

INDIAN COMPANY Strength. The undermentioned members have been "taken on theeport has been received.

At the same time an analyst's

strength of the Indian Company. as from April 4, 1938:-

The Postmaster-General, Mr. E

GENERAL

Photograph taken after the wedding at St. John's Cathedral on Friday of Mr. Joseph Turner and Miss Geneva Margaret Dye. Left to right:-Mr. W. H. Beckett (best man) bridegroom, bride,

Miss Dorothy Hare (bridesmaid); Mayfair.

U.S.R.C. TO HAVE OWN BEACH

NAM TAU SHA SITE

FAR EASTERN CONFLICT

Mr. E. Haward On Effects In India

China

Mr. Edwin Haward, who returned The United Services Recreation early in the year from seven years'

editorship of the North Club are making special provisions Dally News. Shanghal, lectured to to cater for its members during the

the East India Association at Cax- bathing season, it was learned from ton Hall, Westminster, recently on Capt. R. Robertson, the Hon. Secre-India and the Far Eastern Con- tary yesterday.

flict. Sir John Anderson, M.P., Having secured a site on Namwas in the chair. Tau Sha Beach, 94 miles from the Kowloon Star Ferry Wharf, the Club has erected a matahed on, it and as this is one of the best beaches on the mainland the in- novation should prove a very wel

come one Indeed.

cal connexions between India and After tracing the many histori

the Far East. Mr. Haward, who spent many years in journalism

In Northern. India, dwelt on India's

sympathy with China in the pre- sent armed struggle. He said this sympathy was pronounced, despite the fact that the Japanese success in challenging Russia a genera-

As has already been announced the Club is having a swimming bath built on its grounds at King's Park at an estimated cost of $14,000tion ago gave a strong flip to and when completed it will be one ot the most modern swimming baths in the Colony.

NO SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENT

China Coust Officers

And War Risk

the cause of Indian nationalism,

Amiable folk in Great Britain had deluded themselves with the thought that Japan was the sta- blizing influence in the Far East against Communism in China and elsewhere. Japan had set up the bogey of Communism to justify the unjustifiable-hez. progressive encroachment on Chinese soil.

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India had firmly shown her Dual Nationality Case

sense of what Confucius described as the side of right. Japan's" de- velopment of the pan-Asian_doc- trine had lost its attraction, for it was obvious that pan-Nipponiam the proper style. It Was charitable to assume that Japan did not understand the new forces current in India.

WAE

GERMANS RELEASE

AUSTRIAN

A friendly gesture has been made of the part of the German suthorities towards the British in the case of a man of dnal nation-

The threatened strike amongst officers serving on vessels on the China Coast has been the Hong Dally Press understands, deferred again pending further negotiations with the shipping companies.

It will be recalled that the the China Coast made certain demands fiom their employers in view of the risk to their ves which are prevailing today owing to the Sino-Japanese She certainly could not appre-ality, who was both a British and hostilities. In short, these officers clate the steadfasthess which demanded, it is understood addi- enabled Great Britain in her tional salary which money they strength to proceed calmly with intended using for the purpose of

constitutional progress in India Insurance against injury or death when the rest of the world, in- cluding the Far East, was torn by by war risk

the ambitions of warlordism ram- Who could measure the pant. significance to the world of the present struggle?

I Wynne-Jones, stated yesterday officers serving on Constables R230 Balwant Singh,

that on this report there was no R232 Khan Mohamed, R235 AA evidence to show that a bomb or Fipe. R238 G. Mohamed, R243 Agnition apparatus was respon- the destruction of the Ghani, R249 S. Bingh, R252 F. Bible for Mohamed. R254 Mohamed Din, mall. The analyst had found con- R285 A. Singh, R283 H. Singh, siderable traces of caustic soda Singh, and R294 A. which led him to believe that pack- ages containing metallic sodium- Training Course-Part I. An a highly inflammable substance in examination in Part II of Training. a naked state-were contained in Course will be held at the Indian the mail and that this chemical Company Headquarters on Mon-started the fire. The proximity of day, April 25 at 17.15 hours under films in the first case added to the

flames. Chief Inspector W. R. Chester- woods. Principal. Police Training

R293 G. Rehman.

Regarding the Butterfield and School. The undermentioned mem-fire on Sunday, the cause was un- Swire's steamer Kwangtung's mail bers will attend:

Constables R297 Karam Khan, known but the mall on board had R211 8. Aras, R213 Nur Ahmed,been received from a variety of R229. M. R. Malik

R221 Hakim places.

AU. R242 A. Aziz. R215 Ferozz

!

CHEMICALS IN MAILS Khan, R223 Firdbs Khan. and With regard to the legality of

R279 Mir Wali Khan

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such articles as metallic

sodium

Training Course-Part I. All re- and films in the mail, Mr. Wynne- cruits of the Indian Company will Jones said that films were allowed attend No. 2 Police Station to be sent through the mall pro- Tuesday, April 20 at 17.30 hours vided they were in certain packing for Part I of Training Course un-

-tins within a wooden box. In this case. der P. S. R274 Mehdi Khan.

the Alms were in tins Inspection Parade. All ranks of but were not in a wooden box. As the Indian Company will attend regards chemicals, etc., it was pro- Central Police Station on Wednes-hibited to mall corrosive and in-

flammable substances. day, May 4 at 17.30 hours, for a general inspection of equipment

The responsibility for the pre- etc., by the Company Commander. sence of such articles in the mail Dress-White Uniform, Cap with rested with the dispatching Post White Cover. Beit with

Office, atated Mr. Wynnë-Jones. Brace; Trancheon, "Pocket

Policeman" He added that Hong Kong would and note-book to be carried. The not normally be concerned with these incidents since the mails Equipment Omcer will make point of being present,

would have gone straight through instead of being landed here for FLYING SQUAD Instructional Patrol An

re-transmission Hong Kong was structional patrol for members of acting as an exchange for mail be-

cause of the bonthifie.

A

MANA HONETA LORENA.

the Flying Squad will be carried 3925027 out on Friday. April 29, 1938. All members will parade at Central WEIHAIWEL WILL BE Police Station at 1.15 house.

Dress-White Uniform, and Cap

with White Cover."

EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE

SUMMER BASE

It was announced yesterday that the China Meet would leave Hong

1st Aid Instructions. First Aid | Könb för Wethaiwel on "or about› Instructions will be given by In-Jude 2. The decision finally puts spector (R) W. V. Field at the streat rumours that Weiḥalwei EUR, Club on Friday, April 29 at world be abandoned because of 17.30 hours. All members are re-Japanese occupation nearby. quested to attend.

The Commander-in-Chief, Vice

When these demands were pre- sented to the owners they at first refected them in their entirety but when the China Coast Officers Guild took the matter up on be half of those officers who were members of the Guild and who threatened a strike, the employers capitulated and put forward cer- tuin terms,"

These negotiations were opened but up till recently there has been no satisfactory settlement.

CAPITAL REDUCTION

Heung On Insurance Co. Application Granted The reduction of capital from $1,000,000 to $500,000 of the Heung

India's own march ta self- expression might be profoundly affected. She could not be blind to the lessons which China's physical weakness had for

any people erdeavouring to take their proper place in the ranks of civilization.

MECH IN COMMON

The Chairman said that In view of conceptions of China and Japan cng cherished in India many in that country must be at a loss to know what to make of the present situation. Quite apart from the consequences of the British con- nexion with India she had a great deal in common with China. On On Insurance Co., Ltd. was

con- the other hand, Japan was emerg- Armed by the Chief Justice, Siring as an aggressive imperialistic. Atholl MacGregor. In the Supreme Power, How the conflict raight end, Court yesterday.

and what rearrangements might result no one could tell.

The

of

Appearing for the Company, the Hon. Mr. Leo D'Anada, 'Jr., in

Maharaja Caerwar structed by Mr. Peter H Sin. sald Baroda said that, in India as it was clear from the petition and in China administrationï

wa

from the affidavit in support filed in the hands of the educated by Mr. Choy Hing, a director, that classes. But I conditions for were to be changed for better they the reduction sought was reasons connected with the de- must go to the village, and indeed. pression, epreciation in land to the family and each member value and capital. loss.

of the family, to give them that His Lordship granted the pet-outlook in life which would help tion and directed that adequate to raise economic and general publicity of it be given.

BABY'S BANGLE

THIEF

condition. India must continue to advance on the path of increasing freedom and independence along which the British Government had wisely led herg

For stealing a bangle from ai baby in the Yanmati market, Chau The forthcoming marriage Man-tran, 19, was sentenced to six announced between Mr. Eric monthe hard labour and placed Henry, Watts, merchant," residing

year by ML. 2, 4 A. Mactadyen at Miss Freda Priscilla Bummers; of the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday | London.

Austrian subject,

The man. Hans Herbert Kobier, aged 24,was born at Leigh-on-Sea,

·in Essex," was arrested by the secret police at Perchtolisdorf, south-west' of Vienna, soon after the Germans entered Austria.

FATHER ALSO ARRESTED

Kohler's father, an Austrian subject. and owner of a vinegar factory at Perchtoldadori, was also arrested. They were charged with being concerned with breaches of the currency regulations.

of an

Investigations showed that Hang Kohler was it possession Austrian passport which he had used in visiting Germany a month previously, His case was therefore held to be oné of dual nationality.

A British subject dual riational- ity is not, while resident in the country of his second nationality. entitled to protection against the authority of the country.)

CONSUL'S INTERVENTION

No further action was takeri until recently' when a letter was received by the British Consul in Vienna from a relative (of Hani Kohler enclosed a copy of a doct- Vienna in November last showing 'ment issued by the Municipality of

that Kohler had divested himself of his Austrian nationality,

Th

The British Consul personally Intervened with the competent au- thorities, with the result that im- mediate instructions were given for the release of Hans Kohler on the understanding that he would give evidence when required in the course of the Investigations into the financial transactions of his father's firm media

The British Consul later called on the Landeshauptmann of Lower

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Department

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