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HONO KONO, MAY 9, 1838.
EDITORIAL
UNREST IN JAPAN
HONG KONG, May 8.
At a recent meeting of the chiefs of the Gendarmerie Corps in Tokyo, the Procurator General (Dr. Motoji) stated that the develop- ment of antagonism and friction must be jealously guarded against in the present situation when the spiritual mobilisation of the nation was a matter of the most urgent necessity.
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„Dr. Motoji stressed that every effort must be exerted to suppress any movement. liable to cause a relaxation in the national spirit in Japan.
That, however, was not all, for the Procurator-General went on to say that anti-war movements, no matter what form they might take, should be stamped out." --
The above gives a very true picture of the conditions prevailing in Japan. Despite the many reports published in the newspapers and the statements made by the never-ending stream of spokesmen (official and otherwise) in Tokyo, all is not well in the Island Empire and the authorities are finding their time fully occupied trying to quell the unrest which grows in seriousness daily.
To the Minister of Justice (Mr. Shiono) the one big satisfaction that no serious trouble has occurred since the outbreak of the hostilities, except the round-ups of communists some time ago.
POSITION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA NOLLOWING the peaceful absorps tion of Austria, the next scene to the European drama is general- ly expected to be a German move into towards Czecho- slovakia. The precise nature of that move is unknown, but in the meantime the position of the German minority in Czechoslova- kla has become of increasing in- terest and concern.
.or
„Czechoslovakia is a product of the Peace Treaty, an artificial State formed of heterogeneous races, with artificial boundaries, with ho outlets to the sea and
owing its creation to the draughts
men's pens
So artificial is this State that. as part of the treaty, it was given
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS FUNERAL OF MR. its own docks and warehouses in
NOTICE
YIP TING-SAM
Hamburg through which its exports are river-borne along the
German Elbe.
Large Attendance And million Czechs. 3.216,000 Ger-
Many Wreaths
NOTICE is hereby given that LEO LANDAU of No. 4, Sbou. son Hill Road, Shouson Hill, in
The funeral of the late Mr. Yip the Colony of Hong Kong is Ting-sam, who died at his re- applying to the Governor for sidence No. 17 Borham Road, on naturalization and that any person Wednesday at the age of 69, took Who knows any reason why place at the Wing Pit Ting. Pck-
fulam, yesterday. naturalization should not be
The chief mourners were the ce- granted should send a written ceased's wife, four sons, Mr. Yip and signed statement of the facts Bing-feng, Manager of the Sam to the Colonial Secretary Hong Wo Hing, Mr. Yip Byng-sen, Mana- Kong.
ger of the Bam Wo Lung, Mr. Yip Bank-key, connected with Dover 6766 and Company and the Manufac-
CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED,
(Incorporated in Hong Kong).
turers' Life Insurance Company. jand Mr. Yip Bing-wah, and geven
daughters.
Pipes and drums of the Hong Kong Singapore Brigade, Royal Artillery, suppiled appropriate ¡music,
Among the large number of friends who attended were Mesars
This curious State consists of
mans, 2 million Slovaks, 700,000 Magyars, half a million Ruthenes,
100.000 Foles and a quarter million other races, including Jews.
The Germans are established in
* series of compact masses along the length of the German frontier known as the Randgeblete, form- frontler minority in the ing a shape of an inverted U. in the centre of which is the capital. Prague. They thus occupy an extremely favoured position on
the German frontier. THIS RACIAL confusion, exists
Chief
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The fact that such round-ups were' necessary should have con- vinced Mr. Shiono that the country was not quite as united as he and his colleagues would have, the world believe. But Mr. Shiono rather gives the show away when he says that the revised Military Secreta Preservation Law is being enforced with good results but, in view of the prevailing national situation greater efforts must be made to operate it strictly and properly.
To put the matter in a nutshell, the authorities in Japan are having a very anxious time indeed. The military leaders in China are continually asking for more and more, finances but, as though this were not enough, they follow each such demand with urgent requests for more men
The Chinese forces have depleted the invading troops to euch an extent that the Japanese war lords do not how know which way to turn. They have not enough men to force any major engagement and, even if they had sufficient numbers to do so, how can these men be sent to the front when no funds are available for their upkeep? ..
And while on the question of finance, Mr. Kaya, the Finance Minister only a few days ago said that a big increase in national savings was absolutely necessary for the successful absorption of national bonds and for the expansion of productive power." But Mr. Kaya forgot to state that it was the very issue of these national bonds that was eating up the nation's resources.
The defence contributions, Mr. Haya went on, have already amounted to Yen 34 million and donations towards military relief to Yen 16 million, but the public will not pay out any more. The above figures do not include the "loana" that have had to be made to the. Government or the money spent on the purchase of war bonds- bonds that may never be redeemed.
The Minister said that the expenditure so far approved by the Diet amounts to Yen 7.400 million, thus showing that the present air is the most serious one in the history of the country. Where is Japan to find more money? That is the one thing that the finan- cal experts in Tokyo cannot tell. They do not know they are merely hoping for the best!
ENGAGEMENT
along the Danube Basin which, from time immemorial, has been the theatre of invasions, migra-
The engagement is announced tions and resettlements.
between Dr. Hans Roeschelsen, of among the races were the great Shanghai, and Gwyneth Mary, groups of Germans and Slavs, the daughter of Henry and Hilda one from the north-west. the Herford, of Hampstead. other from the south-east, and meeting along a line of disputed the stretching from territory
NOTICE is bereby given that the Fourteenth Annual Ordinary Ngan-ting, Sam Pak-ming, Mr. and Yu Do-sang, Tong Hot-on, Chow General Meeting of Shareholders Mrs. Fan Kit-pang, Mr. and Mrs. of China. Underwriters, Limited. Chan Fo-chun, Messrs. Yul To- will be held at the Offices of the san, Lu Yan-sui, Chan Tu-tia, | LINGERING Company, 4A, Des Voeux Road Yu Chek-sam, Kwok Yun, Col. and Mrs. C. Y. Leung, Messrs. H. A.
Central, Hong Kong, on Monday, Laminert, A Silva, A. Morris, and the 16th day of May, 1938, a Lee Y. Tong. Members of the St. noon for the purpose of receiving John Ambulance Brigade attended the Report of the Board of Direc-in uniform.
tors and a Statement of Accounts. Over three. hundred wreaths for the year ended 31st December, were sent, among which were the
following:-
1937, and of electing Directors and Auditors.
re-
DEATH
Baltic to the Adriatic.
DUNCAN. On April 26, 1938, sud- Today the Budeten Germans dealy in London, John Duncan, represent a lingering fragment of late of the Chartered Bank of In-
the artificial
dia. Austràlia and China, younger settlement resulting son of the late James Duncan, from the Peace JP. of Dundee, and Kinnettles. corporated into a predominantly Treaty, forcibly in-
Slav State.
FRAGMENT
MONDAY, MAY 9, 1938.
MUSICAL REVIEW
IF GOSSIP WE MUST
(BY CELOE)
H.M.9. Medway was brilliantly illuminated for the dance given by Captain Barry and the Officers of the Submarine Flotilla last Fri- day evening.
OF THE WEEK
By Allegro Moderato""
The idea of the fusion of all ar- still with us more strongly than tistic element of this fair city is before, we are afraid. In a way it is feasible. If one is thinking It was an inspiration to have, the ship in the stream, for what
of the uniformity of the artists" breeze there was, blew cooly overformance, then it is
taking part in some particular per- a different matter. We mean, that a fusion should take place in the form of the arts, and the purpose of the a Bociety which will embrace all Society will be to foster
better understanding among the classes or even races and to promote more
the wide decks and made them an ideal place for dancing.
Mrs. Dicken was stately in a
white dress of sculptured lines and further emphasised the classical effect with a printed coronet of golden leaves.
Mrs. Barry wound a
multi-
coloured scarf round the waist of love of art, and the idea of Art her lovely creamy frock.
for the sake of art.
Mrs. Thompson was fresh and cool in a chintay dress with a design of small flowers.
Real art is sincere and unpre- tentious. It is the ability of a Mrs. Peter Fleming, that lovely sculptor to express harmony" in young London actress, who is bet stone, the painter in tone colours ter known to most of us as Cella 'on a canvas, the bard in rhythmic Johnstone was cool and ethereal melodious language. The real ar- as ever in printed silk, Mrs. Godbytist has to express his or her inner had arranged" white gardenias in self in some manner and when he her hair in an original fashion or she does that it is with the faintly reminiscent of the God Pau utmost sincerity. In the forming and altogether pagar and de- of the Society of all arts, therefore, lightful.
the ruling factor which makes it possible to be formed has to be Sincerity.
Mrs. Herlofsen was in black and Mrs. Stanton had chosen lemon coloured muslin for her summery frock.
Miss Simonds
Was
There must be real honest-to- in black goodness people who "indulge in topped with gleaming golden some branch of art and do not sequins.
care whether it is the fashionable Mrs. Jock Murray was danding thing to do. These are the peo- gaily in white embroidered muslin ple who will make the Society a over a black slip.
success.
EDWARDIAN NOTE
When people meet to discus art, all question of Mrs. Churcher -struck an
Race or Class amusing Edwardian note with her should fall away. They are meet- lawny coloured organza dress ar. on equal grounds. The art of ranged over
the Orient is the same as that of trailing slip of
the Occident. Men express them- golden brown.
selves in different ways but the Mrs. Skyrme, an attractive vial-
fundamental idea is the same. tor from Shanghai, wore a lovely
Oriental music, for example seems scarlet chiffon frock closely pleat- ed, and falling in draped "Unes strange to the ear of the Ocel- dental and vice-versa, but if the from a wide gold belt.
two got together and · explained their
of respective ways. self-
Mrs. Davies wore black and Mrs. Bousfield chose a clear print for
her tailored dress. Mrs. James expression in music the strange- Whitham was in a moulded dresses disappears.
Love conquers all......and the of mulberry coloured tafetta. Mṛa. Butcher's crisp organdi frock had Love of Art should conquer all
differences, and prejudices. cleverly pleated leg of mutton
CAREER OF THE graceful agure.
NEW G.O.C.
Brigadier A.E. Grasett
SERVED IN WAR"
IN FRANCE
| sleeves, very becoming to her
Miss Pestonji covered her white dress with a theatrical cape of pillar box red.
White was in great evidence. Mrs. McAvoy had long pale green draperies from the shoulders of her white crepe dress.
CLEVERLY DRAFED Mra Coppinger was in white Miss Maclay wore
and
satin a lovely white dress cleverly droped to leave one shoulder bare.
Wes in
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We have not been up to scratch of late and have not been able to listen to much local music. We mias- ed Mrs. Mathieson'a recital at St. John's with Lindsay A Lafford and also the Dumky Trio. But when an artist like Mrs. Mathiesen angs we may be sure that she did full justice to the programme. The same may be said of the Trio.
This afternoon there will be the meeting of the Philharmonic' So-
clety and it will be Interesting to know what they intend to pro- duce this next season.
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COM-
As announced оц Saturday, Mrs. Delaney, whose lovely na Brigadier A.E. Gražzit, D.S.0. M.C., tural tan is perfect with white, had has been appointed General wound a lei of white gardenias Officer Commanding British round and round her shoulders as
The RAMC. Players are pro- white withheld, so long will the struggle Troops in China, with the rank of an effective finish to a
at the On the day following the attain- continue.
Major General
taneta dress, Mrs, Wilson was inducing a Revue 'Smile'
China Fleet Club on the 27th and Below are further details of his white too, infinitely becoming to 28th inst The proceeds will go to- ment of Czechoslovak indepen- Henlein continued to accuse the dence in October, 1918. the Ger-Government of unfair political distinguished career:
her piquant dark beauty...
Miss Dodwell was in navy blue
wards the HK. Boy Scouta' Asgo- mans in Bohemia declared thein- and economic discrimination, and At the age of 49, Major General
ciation. From the manner želves to be part of the new on the relative proportion of Grasett will be the youngest with a long scarf wound round her Austria. It was not until a year population, claimed that the General Officer Commanding to throat; her sister was in black, which the rehearsals were"
ducted a really good show is pro- later.
Love Httle Mrs. Gray after
Germans were entitled to 31.000 have been appointed to the imm the Treaty of St. Germain was signed, that the new posts to the State.
|portant Far Eastern Command.. misty black and Mrs. Macdonald mised. Austria released the Germans The Government geplied that He was
born in Canada on had topped her frock with a capé from their oath of allegiance and the Party's relations with the October 20, 1888, and received his of scarlet ostrich feathers, -- the Germans desisted from open- Third Reich were suspect. and particularised military education Mrs. Hole was in an attractive
ployed in the Government.
Kingston, Ontario.
has a leading role in the next
WHEN DR. BENES
His career with the British Army 4.D.C. show. was in old rose crepe. dates from June 24, 1909, when he There
of other President, he attempted to The Sudeten Germans number introduce a more favourable at entered the Royal Engineers as charm trocks but it was dimcult almost quarter of the total popu-mosphere.
la Second Lieutenant.
racially, they form two political questions are a domestic concern,"
"But," he declared, "nationality on February 4, 1911, and was one
parties, опе known
and he denied of the Old Contemptibles who "Activists" and the other as the NOT FIGHTING the "Heimatsfront under the leader- ship of Konrad Henlein.
A we mentioned before, some
The Transfer Books and-Regis ter of Members of the Company will be closed from the 9th May, 1938, to the 16th May, 1938, both)chun, H. T, Lee, Mr. P. C. Kwok, y fighting against incorporation suspect citizena, could not be em-1at the Royal Military College in printed dress and Mrs. Prior, who open air and beach entertainments,
days Inclusive.
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in the new Czechoslovakia after the Peace Conference.
By Order of the Board of Chek-sang. Chan Foo-sheng. their claims had been rejected by
Directors,
HERBERT R. STURT,
Managing Director. Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1938.
6753
Sugar Merchants' Association, Mr. A. Morris, Major E E. Duclos, Canadian Trade Commissioner, Canadian Chinese Club, National City Bank, Messrs, Sam Pak-man, Tam Woon-tong, Dr. Lam Lu-
Mr. and Mrs. Chan Tit-yat, Mesars Kwok Chan, Tong Hot-on, Charlie Suen, Lindberg Cockson, Swan, Clubertson and Fritz, Emile Eseg. America Flour Co. E Christianson, The Flour Merchants' Association, Lee Whye-tong, Sam Wo Hing and Co. Ltd., Dover and Co., Lee Yau- chuen, and Col. C. Y. Leung,
·BOMB THROWN INTO YUNG PAO OFFICE
Hankow, May 8, A message from Tientsin states The Director of Medical Ser-office of the Yung Pao, s vernacu that a bomb was thrown into the vices, Hong Kong, Dr. Selwynlar paper, situated in the French Clarke, who is on a visit to Can-Concession on the night of May 6, ton, called on Govenor Wu Te-wrecking part of the building. The chen this morning.
thrower made good his escape.
DR. SELWYN. CLARKE
IN CANTON
Canton, May 1.
...
Dr. Selwyn-Clarke also met The paper, formerly owned by
„NEW, SZECHWAN GOVERNOR
various medical officers of the Chinese private interests, was Chinese Government, including bought over by the Japanese mill- the Director of Public Health in tary after the fall of Tientsin.- the Provincial Government, Dr (Central News). Teo Wel-min; the Director of Public Health in the City Gov- ernment, Dr. Chu; the Director If the National Quarantine". Ber- tice. Dr. C. Y. Wu, and the head
Chengtu, May 8. of the Canton, Quarantine Bervice,
General Wang "Chanyahu, and Dr. Chung, with whom he discuss General Pan Wen-hua, newly ap- ed various health problems of pointed Acting Chairman of the interest to Canton and Hong Szechwan Provincial Government, Kong,
and Deputy Pacification Commis
This afternoon Dr. Selwyn- sloner for Szechwan and Bikong Clarke visited various hospitals, respectively, assumed their new including the Sun Yat Ben Mem-posta today (Central Nows), orial Hospital and the Hackett |"}," Hospital for. Mental Diseases,
Mr. J. Campbell has been ap It is understood that he is also pointed Group Scoutmaster of the visiting the Shek Lams Leper Mia 3rd Hong Kong (1st Seaforth's sion(Reuter);
Group
lation but though homogeneous
the
FOR EXISTENCE
became
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He was - gazetted a «Lieutenant
were masses
to discern details in the crowd.
The beautiful bar maida in, the
enterprising person should start
and if some other enterprising person will arrange it so that ali the mosquitoes will take a vacation then the Great Public will most certainly be treated to something new for Hong Kong.
old English bar were a great at- traction. It was a marvelous party PALESTINE GANG
into a shore-going LEADER KILLED
went across to France to stem and was still in full swing when. right of
the initial German advance.
I clambered Germany to in-
As a Lieutenant, he was sent boat in the vicinity of 2 a.m. terfere. "The
to the Front on August 12, 1914, Sudeten Ger.
Transferred to India in April, eight days after Great Britain
for
Responsible For Terrorist Acts
Jerusalem; May, T... Issa Battat, the rebel "gang--
mans are not fighting for declared war on Germany. Within 1921 as Brigadier Major, he took existence," he said. "but
two months he was mentioned in part in the operations on the State. The problem can be solved war, promotion also came rapidly during which time he was appoint- political power and co-rule in the Despatches four times during the North West Frontier for two years,
Czechs and the Germans, without appointed Captain on only by co-operation between the to the young officer. He was ed' Colonel. He received the
1919-21 June 24. Waziristan pressure or threats from outside." 1915, and Major on New Year's clasp and the Waziristan 1912-24 the Hebron area for the past six medal and | leader who has been terrärising - Czechoslovakia has long been Day, 1918.
`clasp.. preparing for the expected move
months, was, killed shortly after Appointed General Star Omeer midnight in a battle with a party. 2nd Grade at the Staff College of British police near Hebron. on May 1, 1923. Major-General (then Colonel) Grasett remained
Battat is believed to have been
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the murder of the British archaeo-
It was this Party which thee years ago fought its first election with astonishing success, polling and winning 44 seats, forming the more votes than any other Party
EVER SINCE the Feace Treaty, largest single Party in the State, the Germans have complained of their treatment by the Czech Government.
The Minorities Treaty of 1919. provides full by Germany. It is one of the services from January 17, 1918 to Army Headquarters claimed. his guarantees of their rights as most heavily armed States in Armistice Day, in which connec citizens.
Europe. In the three years 1934-tion it is interesting to note that But the Germans complain that 37, £90 millóns sterling was spent Hong Kong's new GO.C. is one off there antal 1928, when he was responsible for most of the' acta':
·Czech, contractors and workmen į or frontier fortifications and the officers who served in France appointed 0.8.0.2 at the War of terrorism in this area, including
a.re called into military equipment, During the for the entire duration of the Office, EXCLUDED German districts current year, the defence estim-Great War.
FROM where there sates are £31 milions, now to be
In 1931 he was appointed to the logist. Mr. Starkey, on January
10-(Reuter). From January 17, 1916 to highly: Important post of General GOVERNMENT unemployment, increased as a result of the Aus October 10 in the same year he Staff Officer. Ist Grade, India.
that Germans "trian-crisia.-
Was General Staff Officer. 3rd remaining in that position will NOTED EDITOR DEAD Bre excluded from Government The future of these "Lost Ger- Grade with Army Headquarters December 27, 1934. He was ap posts: that so large a German mans" is thus a matter of vital and in the following three months pointed G.C.O. 1 at the Stan
"Vienna, May minority cannot be assimilated interest to themselves and to was Brigadier Major France, He College at Camberley on January. Dr. Stefan Mueller, former Chlet into a "foreign" State; that they, Germany. Their "reclamation" is was appointed G.8.0.2 in France 19, 1935, a position he will con. Editor of the newspaper, Nene are entitled to seek the support a vital point in Hitler's pro- from January 6, 1917 until April tinue to fill until his new Hong Frie Presse, is reported to have of the Mother Country; that their gramme.
30, 1918, when he was transferred Kong appointment becomes ence committed suicide.
Dr. cultural, economie and educa- It is the likelihood of further to the War Omce with the same tive on November 1
Mueller, who was hair tional rights are ignored; that the German attempts at expansion in duties,
About three years ago Major Jewish, was known for his pro- German language should be per- Central Europe and the stubborn. During the whole course of the General Grasett married Miss German sympathies in the days mitted in Parliamentary debates; strength of Czechoslovakia to Great War, in addition to being Joan Mary Foster, daughter of the of the Schuschnigs Government that the Government promises resist any such movement which mentioned in despatches five late Mr. J. K Foster of Egton and remained at his post for about much and fulfils little; and that form, the real danger to European times, Major-General Grasett re- Manor. Yorks. A daughter was a fortnight after the
(Reuter) so long, as complete, autonomy is || peace in the future.
ceived the D.8.0 and the M.C.born in 1936. --
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