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EDITORIAL

MODERN YOUTH DEFENDED

of Mrs. Cissy Priede- LORD TWEEDSMUIR

mann and father of Misses Gertrud and Marta Renate

Priedemann,

COSTA-On Wednesday. July 27.

1938, at his residence, 25 Rue

REACTION TO

WORLD PROBLEMS

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1938.

ADM. LE BIGOT GLOOMY ASPECTS OF THE

HONOURED

For Distinguished

Service Abroad

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The President of the French

Republic has conferred the Grand Lord Tweedsmuir Governor Officer's Cross of the Legion du Consulat. Shanghal. Rodol-General of Canada and Chancel D'Honneur, and Croix de Guerre. to Gomes da Costa, in bis lor of Edinburgh University, de-T.O.E. (for distinguished military 78th year. the beloved father livered a vigorous defence of me- services rendered abroad) on Vice- of Mrs. T. A.

de Carvalho, dern youth when he was installed Admiral Le Bigot. Commander of Professor L. P. da Costa (Boston, Mass.) and Mr. E J da Costa.

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as Chancelor at Edinburgh recent- the French Naval Forces in the Far East, for services rendered to his "I hear today from many quar-country during the present Sino- ters foolish Jeremiads about the Japanese conflict. younger Keneration: jeremiads

which are not deep calling to deer but shallow moaning to shallow."

he said.

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"We are told that they lack the enterprise, the stamina." and the fortitude of their fathers. That I believe to be wholly untrue. 1 have always regarded my own up- dergraduate generation as vigor ous and enterprising, but it seems to me that the present generation has a physical audacity which would have left us gasping."

SHANGHAI SUMMER

Terrorism And Epidemic. Rampant In

An Overpopulated City

(BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

Shanghai, July 28.

Shanghai's hot season, somewhat belated this year and merciful to us insofar as the rise of mercury is concerned, has surpassed its predecessors in the amount of discomfort caused to the weary Lopu÷ lation by terrorism and epidemic rampant, depreciation of currency and continuous fluctuation of prices of commodities.

Leaving aside its mental aspect, the atmosphere in which Shanghailander finds himself. today is that of a great physical in- convenience, caused by the present state of affairs, keeping Shang- bal 'strangely isolated even from its outlying roads and suburbs, which proves trying in summer.

If we add to it. the virtual im- ? possibility of balancing one's bud- get with the cost of living rising almost daily and the indescribable congestion of the International Settlement and

Сод- French cession, the picture of conditions prevailing now in Shanghai would be complete.

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the beginning of the month. There has already been an in- crease. In apartment rentals and an increase of estate rents ly to be expected in the near future. There is little wonder that de- spite the excellent cholera preven- tion campaign, carried on by both Municipalities, the epidemic is in After the Municipal Council had full swing, for thousands of people set a fine example, a number of limited areas can give little or no deprived of homes and crowded in

Shanghai's largest utility com-

Lord Tweedsmuir added thai youth was prone to extremes, and it was small wonder that the causes which appealed to many were the new, grandiose world re- constructions. I youth were not Interested in such creeds then it

Admiral Le Bigot

would no longer be young. Its in- clination towards extremes Was Born in 1833. Vice-Admiral Le due. he thought, not only to the Bigot began his naval career in fact that such causes demanded during the Great War. On October this trend, probably because the ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. DURING all these months of the sacrifices and an austere discip 15, 1932 he was appointed Contre- prospects of picking up bustness in announced their intention to as- Admiral, and named Vice-Admiral the near future have not been very with a view to inspecting both the

PROCLAMATION

issued by

THE TAX BUREAU of the First Area under

THE KWANGTUNG" FINANCE DEPARTMENT

THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT AND

AGENCY CO., LTD.

AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY FIVE CENTS per share for the six months ended 30th June, 1938, will be payable on MON. DAY, 22nd AUGUST, 1938, on which date Dividend Warrants

can

NO HEADWAY FOR JAPAN

undeclared

pantes took up the revision in consideration to what food they salaries of their employees paid in buy for the tle money they can spend. In the last few days the local currency. Other foreign

number of cholera victimas has

rhetorical turn of youth but to toe1904, and distinguished himself {firms have been slow in followiEs been so great that the Japanese

line.

Moreover, they were clean cut and confident, and, in the prevailing confusion, youth de- manded something, firm 'on which it could lay hold. It the universliles were to full their duty and marry the for- ward-looking spirit "to the. wisdom of the past, they must not be less bold and positive and.confident.

He hoped young men would

In the beginning of 1938.

The decorations are to be remit ted by Admiral Petit in Saigon, for which port Vice-Admiral Le Bigot recently salled from Shanghai in his flagship Lamotte Picquet.

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THE MORNING AFTER

I read that ivy leaves and white

War on China, Japan's leaders, especially those serving in the Army and Navy have carried on with a sublime fin- difference-R3 indifference which has turned out to be their greatest handicap. From that fateful day In July last year, till this April they laboured under two serious, almost fatal, misapprehensions they were positively sure that one or two crushing blows would be all that is necessaȚY to crush whatever military resistance the Chinese

offer. Then having accom-make scientific research their life wine can all but banish intoxica-

in increasing numbers. plished this they felt that China's work

tion, and hart's tongue helps hic- political unity would crumble and whether in the service of the un-coughs, writes a Bulletin corres-

China would immediately sue for State. It offered a life of per- peace regardless of what it may petual adventure, and it was cost the country.

feld in which every university This over-confidence on the part could do fruitful work. To pro of the Japanese received a severe duce minds which are not amuni- set-back when the Chinese, "after tion dumps but guns to fire of the fall of Nanking, continued to ammunition: to give these minds offer stout resistance stouter in a practical training for whateve fact, than that before the invaders vocation they choose, and a libera enabh took Nanking. And then when background which the Chinese emerged victorious them to use. the bequest of the from Talerchwang the superiority past: to inspire our youth so that complex nursed by the Japanese they may hall with enthusiasm completely deserted them and for the duties and the opportunities the first time they realised that the which await them-could a loftier task they had undertaken was an task be entrusted to any human extremely stupendous one. A long fraternity?".

We have received instructions; may be obtained on application that the majority of the. leaders inversities, of industry, or of the pondent. from 'the Kwangtung Finance at the Company's Office, 3, Department to the following Chater Road. effect:--

NOTICE IS HEREBY "In accordance with records GIVEN that the REGISTER on file, a transit tax should be OF SHARES of the Company levied on all goods passing will be CLOSED from MON the locality. It is our under DAY, 8th AUGUST, 1938, to standing that goods are some. SATURDAY, 20th AUGUST, times shipped to Huan and 1938 (both days inclusive), during Hankow direct from Kowloon which period no transfer of shares by train. On passing through can be registered. this province, a transit tax should be levied on such goods

in accordance with regulations

in order that a large amount

of revenue may not dwindle.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

B. C. FIELD,

Acting Secretary.

However, there may be consi. Hong Kong, 30th July, 1938.

derable inconvenience felt by

the merchants who are required

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series of "consequences" have al- ready flowed from this realisation..

IT is a well-known fact that the full detalls of the Talerchwang disaster were kept from the Japan- ese people though it created a

to pay the transit tax in Can- HONG KONG & SHANGHAI sharp inner confilet among Japan's ton, whereas these goods are

shipped by trains at Kowloon, BANKING CORPORATION.

For the sake of convenience tol the merchants, we have decided

ruling classes. One section stress-

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ed the tremendous, wastage of Japan's war materials and IN JAPAN man power and de- manded that the chun for the special purpose of £2.10. per share, subject to military campaign, if it is at all collecting this tax, so that deduction of Income Tax, has possible to go. on with the cam- merchants can pay it at the been declared for the RALFpaign, be restricted only to the spot. The rate of transit tax YEAR ending 30th June, 1938

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED CONFLICT 'to establish an office at Shum that an Interim Dividend of

function.

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on all goods will be 60% of the at rate of 1/2.7/8 per Dollar. Customs duty paid on such THE DIVIDEND will be goods."

payable on and after 8th August, Pursuant to the above, it has 1938 at the offices of the Cor. been decided that effective as poration, where Shareholders are from the 15th JULY, 27th Year, requested to apply for Warrants. of the Chinese Republic, our "THE REGISTER OF office at Shumchun will begin to SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from 25th JULY In addition to notifying all to 6th AUGUST. (both days concerned, this proclamation is inclusive) during which period -issued with a view to its being no transler of Shares can be noted by all Chinese and foreign registered. merchants as well. Should they lieve goods forwarded to Hunan! and Hankow by train from Kow- loon hereafter, after paying the Customs duty, they are requested to send their men with funds together with the Customs papers to pay the transit tax to our office at Shumchun....”

In order to ensure that there will be no delay, no objection to Py this tax shall be tolerated.

CHOW SING "NAM. Director of the Tax Burean of the First Area.

July 13, 27th Year of the Chinese Republic.

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By Order of the Board of Directors.

D. C. EDMONDSTON,

Acting Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 12th July, 1938.

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consolidation of the areas already occupied. Even then we are ex- tremely doubtful - if the invaders will be any more successful.

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will

To Remedy "Burning" Scandal

Having discovered that dur- ing the war a German Zeppelin was guided to its objective by a huge burning pit-heap In the North of England, the Air Rald Precautions Department“-has decided to make ́án aerial sur- vey of the whole of the Eng- Ush, Welsh and Scottish coal- fields to ascertain how many pit heaps are burning, and their visibility at night.

MP3 from the mining districts

Since Talerchwang some very important changes have been made have been pressing the Government in the Japanese Cabinet and a new to introduce compulsory powers so coalition of Japan's ruling groups, that colliery companies can be formed on a much more "overt made to extinguish these vast military-fascist basis, has taken smouldering heaps. They are said over the political helm. Its pro- to be a serious menace, to health. gramme was almost immediately In many mining villages windows made clear by the Japanese mill- and doors of houses have to remain tary moves in China and atrocity closed throughout the year because followed atrocity, but the Chinese of the danger to lungs and eyes.

The Premier, whose pet hobby is health, was appalled when he {heard of the burning, pit heap scandal, particularly in Lancashire and Yorkshire.

morale remains unshattered and unbroken.

AND these stronger and more aggressive tactics-what have

The aerial survey is to take place they achieved? The answer is the same; much less than the Japanese very shortly, and the Prime Minis- commanders had at first expected ter has asked for the report to be But one thing is sure. The bar-submitted for his personal con- barity of the indiscriminate bomb-sideration. ing of Canton's civil population

ANOTHER MARK AGAINST JAPAN.

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has placed..yet Unconfirmed reports state that another black the Japanese are forcing the Chi- márk against nese in Pootung to bear arms-for: Japanese mill- the Japanese Army, the Ta Mei tary-fascism in Pas' reported recently. ·· Male Chi- world public opinion,

nese whose ages range from 22 to 40 are being sought by the Japan- The months roll on but still there ese, and the recent exodus of Chi- |`is no decisive result for the Japan-

ese military. The Brat anniversary been due to this cause, the report nese from Pootung is said to have of the war has come and gone and

| déclates.": the Japanese are farther from their objective than ever. The only N change in the situation is this that the Chinese as a nation are more united than ever, and more certain of ultimate victory.

The central office of the Society for the Protection of Children, is now situated in the old, City Hall adjoining the Public Library,``

An infusion of eyebright, taken three times a day, alds a weak memory, and bolled lavender teaves are recommended as a. tonic for nervous subjects.

Considering the present state of the world, the last notion should be popular.

encouraging.

sume control over the markets

quality and prices of articles sold. " Ic the meantime the Power Company has announced an in-

PEOPLE SEEK RELAXATION crease of 24.45 per cent on their rates and the Gas Company and convey an impression of a

With all this, Shanghai does not de- Waterworks declared that it was pressed city." Whatever be in the imperative that... their rates be

minds of its inhabitants, in the raised also owing to the deprecia-evenings they all to capacity all tion of Chinese currency and the amusement places and spend the rapid rise in the cost of coal.

A comparison of rent rates and compradore price lists shows that the cost of living in Shanghal has gone up 15 per cent since May and appar- ently the mit has not yet. been reached as most, general stores are selling stock bought at the old rate of exchange and any new stock will surely be bought and sold at a higher price. The prices of some foodstuffs such as meat, but. ter. and vegetables fluctuate dally and have gone up ap- proximately one-seventh

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Plight Of The American Railways

POSSIBLE SUSPENSIONS OF

SERVICE

by

railways

So serious is the Anansial situation of the American that a special session of Congress may be called this autumn to cope with . It is often sald that "unless substantial relief comes before the end of this year perhaps three-quarters of the rallway companies may be forced into bankruptey. In some cases service might eyen be suspended.

The history of American railways|

As a result of subsequent de- is not a pleasant one. In the faults the Government now owns beginning they were subsidised by or controls a number of lines. It the Federal Government with enor~| did almost nothing, however, to re- mous grants of free land along the form the systems it aided, and as projected routes—in some instances a result the conditions are worse running to square milea on either today than they were five years side of the right of way.

ngo,

money needed for other purposes. with great ease, at least not worry- ing about the exchange. Roller- skating is a new sport in vorne here and almost every open-air restaurant is provided with a rink doing good business day and night. A new luxurious swimming-pool. combined with restaurant was re- cently opened and scores good patronage of the Chinese. There is little heard of people going on furloughs, the only accessible places being Hong Kong and Japan and even among those who can afford staying at either place there is a tendency of "outliving the strenuous

times right

the spot,"

On

ITALIANS TO BE REPLACED BY ARABS

General Franco's New Enlistments

Thousands of Arabs have crossed the Straits of Gibraltar from Morocco to Franco territory in Spain in the last few weeks to take the place of Italian "volunteer”. units "which may be withdrawn under the Non-Intervention plan

It is suggested that General Franco intends to mass 50,000 new Arab troops in Spain, sò that he Can maintain the strength of the Insurgent army without Italian units.

From two sources--Algiers and Gibraltar-have come these re-

Of the thousands of Arabs who

enlisted in Franco's "forces after

Because of this and other induce- CUSTOM PERMANENTLY LOST ports. ments far too many railways were Opinion is divided as to the best have crossed the Straits of Gibral built. duplicating one another solution of the railway problem. needlessly. In many Western States Some students want all the inestar to Spain, says the Algiers re- the rallway became and remained to be consolidated into a single port, many are believed to have gone from Tangler and from the chief political power, bribing system or a group of four or five, legislators wholesale, giving secret either under Government owner-French Morocco and to have been "rebate" to favoured customers, ship or with private ownership un-leaving those centres. and dealing ruthlessly with its ownder strict public supervision. employees and, with unimportant

The Gibraltar message confirms · individual members of the public. railway lines retained but

Others' would see 'the present that Arabs have crossed from their Spanish Morocco to Algeciras..and Many lines were heavily over-capitalisation scaled down to a Malaga at the rate of about 400 a capitalised, and shares were sold reasonable sum and economies, in day for the last four weeks: to the public millions of dollars instituted, ¦ Buch: as joint use of excess of reasonable earning power. terminal facilities in the chief

cities. In recent years these early sins have brought retribution." Railway 'stocks have been de- flated by vast sums. Excessive » rates forced the Government to · Interfere and order reduction...... which the; railway managers said were confiscatory. Mr. Justice Brandeli, before taking bis place on the Supreme Court, was famous" for "ob- serving that with reasonable economies the railways "could save a million dollars a day”.

a statement that is doubtedly still tene.

- Still others would like to see · the situation remain unchang- ed in general, except that the Government would lend the railway enough money to get > them out of their present dif-

culty.

BARRIE MUSEUM

PLAN DEVELOPS

The committee established some time ago for the purpose of found- ing a Barrie museum in Kirrie Sinair is again taking steps in the

of success.

The "committee has been, iri communication with the National

It seems clear in any case that matter, this time with every hope the_rallways are overequipped for future business" The population of the United States Is Increasing only slowly, and the curve will turn Trust for Scotland, which now downward in about another decade, owns the birthplace of Sir James," With 30,000,000 motor-cars in use Barrie in Brechin Road, and nego- (one for each family in the coun-I

tiations are going ahead "for the During the depression, which be try); millions of persons who for- establishment, there of a museum Ean in 1929 the United States merly travelled by train no longer of Barrie relics. The idea is to Government poured out/many do so. Vast quantities of goods use the two upper rooms or the millions of dollars to bolster up once transported by rail now travel cottage for the purpose, the weaker lines, most of which by lorry. Hydro-electric bower It is understood that Lady Cyn had been deliberately wrecked in makes the carriage of coal less this Asquith Barrie's literary ex- a financial sense, by their own necessary, and oil for petrol isecutor, is prepared to make avail- managers.

able certain manuscripts.

moved in pipe-lines.