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ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES

Fine Imposed At Rehearing

Chu Wan-sum, 42, master" of a timber yard, who had beer fon victed by Mr. Edwards at the Cen- teial Court on August 9 on charge of obtaining $40 by false pretences from Chung Cheung- chun, school teacher, appeared on remand before Mr. Butters at the Centdal Court yesterday when per mission has granted for rehearing of the case.

Defendant was alleged to have received $40 from complainant on the ground that he would lease permists for a school. After the money was handed to defendant, it was alleged, he could not be found at the addresses given by him to the complainant.

A few days later he was arrested- by complainant.

At the conclusion of the heartny Mr. Butters convicted defendant and sentenced him to two months' imprisonment with the alternative of a fine of $200.

man in the true Hussite tradition. He was professor of philosophy at Prague University and leader of

EDITORIAL

FAR EAST FLYING

Students at engine test bench.

BREAD PRICE INCREASED

Paris, Sept. a

will be three

The price of bread increased once more to francs per kilogramme effective on September 9 in accordance with the increase of the price of flour, the Paris police prefecture announ. cea.

the small Realist party in the A further increase of the bread' Austrian Parliament. Then, in price, to 3.06 francs become effec- three years of war, he organised ve

which he got Balfour.

the Czechoslovak Legions in Rus-ocean). A memorial service for the late

Me and Mrs. Sidney Hyala and a programme of Indepen- Yang who lost their lives indence. the shooting down of the Poincare, and Wilson to accept. CN.A.C. "airliner "Kwellin" by Japanese aircraft on Augus: 24, will be held at St. John's Cathedral on Monday. Sep- tember 12 at 5 p.m. Friends

are requested to watch for

MARRIAGE

DYER-BARRON-On Septembe

1938.

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Consulate

at H.B.M. General. Shanghal, before. Mr. S. G.

Eleen Mary. Beare, daughter of Mr. Sidney Blake Barron, and the late "M.S Barron, of Dover, England, to "Walter, Charles, son of Mr. and

Mrs. A. & Dyer, of Scar borough, England.

Novermber 1-(Trans-

The most difficult problem that and. of course, without separa- faced the new-borri state was the tion." presence of a minority of three and ទេ quarter million Germanis within its frontiers, and it is

sometimes argued that the peace

many. But the matter is far more

THEN CAME HITLER'S seizure of

Austria. The effect among the

OFF TO THE FRONT

Messrs. Leung Yam-cheung. Slm Khin-lin and Chan Shu Fatt are leaving the Colony next

Slan Wednesday for where they will join the 8th Route Army for active service.

These three patriolic Chinese youths are looking forward very much to take active part in China's war of resistance Japanese and against the

their many friends no doubt will wish them all good luck.

BUREAU FOR

Sudeten Germans was tremendous, RESTORATION

the Activitist parties left the Government in a panic. Many of

their members entered the Hen- OF SHANGHAI

PROSPERITY

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further announcements in the conference should have handed press.

the German districts over to Ger- complex than this would suggest. lein party. Henlela himself made During the forty years before a speech on April 24, in which he the war, at the height of Austria's openly avowed" "the principles and power, the idea of ideals of National Bocialism," de- DIVISION OF dividing Bohemia manded complete "national auto- BOHEMIA into separate nomy for the Germans on lines and Ger- that would create a state within. IMPOSSIBLE Czech

man provinces the state, and even demanded "s was discussed time and again, but complete revision of Czechoslovak It always proved unworkable, for foreign polley." By this he meant, i the simple reason that the two the abandonment of the French Inter- und Russian- alliances, which of 'races are Inextricably mingled, and no human ingenuity course would mean complete isola- in Europe and therefore,

Success of such a bureau is much Inevitably, surrender to Germany | doubted. The Japanese "puppet," can avall to draw a clear line betion tween them.

In these demands he naturally Chen Chun, has been appointed to The

head this new bureau which will

officially has the full support of Berlin.

established

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frontiera present Bohemia were accepted at Paris in 1919, not by ignoramuses, as is sometimes alleged, but after 'very careful study, by many competent experts and above all on the ground that there was no satis

Nanking, Sept. 8. The Department of the In-. ternal Administration of the Nanking Reformed" Govern-

to ment plans

establish. bureau for the restoration of prosperity in Shanghai, accord- ing to a well-informed report

1

this

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1938.

TRAINING SCHOOL

Ground Work Explained: What Engineers Do

Just because you are working at aviation, or connected with the flying business. does not mean that, you are .constantly up in the alt. A good job on the ground goes on each day.

At the Far East Flying Training School they have plenty of By- ing to do and with it goes an equal amount of work out of the air. In fact, if any of you followed in the footsteps of these industrious 'people your tongue would be banging out a mile by 5 på

The first business at hand ench morning at the School is a very thorough inspection and overhaul on each aircraft, Two highly qualified ground engineers tackle this job and are held responsible "for the fitness and airworthiness of the planes. Any serious' repair- ing is entered in various log books and a daily certificate of safety is signed by the engineer.

After all this going over, the planes are" then wheeled out on the tarmac. ready for the day's work.

ENGINEERS ON HAND

The engineers are on hand and inform the pilots flying the planes of any alterations. Each plat signs the dally safety sheet, mea- tioned above, before going into the air.

At this point everything is all set for the starting of the plane's engine,,"Contact" shouts the engineer."Contact" replies the pilot and the engine turns over, and roars to life.

Now for the ups and downs of a busy day. Landings. circuits, take-offs, turns and stunting, "and the big task of teaching the pupils what it is all about, step by step.

S. Chang, secured "A" Licence in aviation.

Mr. Chang will continue with. his advanced instructions in avia – tion and it is all in fun, pleasure and amusement. This Chinese gentleman is well-known in the Colony and his friends" will indeed Join in the good wishes.

A gentleman from Singapore is with the Far East Flying Training School for several weeks, Mr. Earl Wilde, "The Earl" will do. In- structors and B Licences is the CONTROL OF TEMPER

aim for this gent who is taking his Instructors and engineers, have tests out at the School, then back the perfect control of temper and to. the Royal Singapore Flying dispositions. No harsh words, no School he will go to teach peoples. snapping on nerves for them as what the flying business is about. they take pupil after pupil into

They say the ladies and gentle- the air teaching them aviation men in the southern city are very and the manipulation of airplanes, keen about aviation. From the Pupils to a certain degree do reports they will be ahead of all of make the same mistakes, some are you. up here. What is the matter?, And why should they, nothing like asinine and stupid others because they are not sure or do not quite a bit of down right competing. comprehend, but all these factors against the two villages when it are taken into consideration by comes to aviation. Now, you would And it the instructors" who ultimately have something there! make very good plots of all their would be great fun. pupils.

The instructors at the Far East Fising Training School make as many as 100 landings a day and can still smile and enjoy the later hours of the day.

MANCHUKUE MISSION

Rome, Sept. 8

The master of Bohemia is the be

CONGRATULATIONS master of Europe," Bismarck once month.

The Manchukuo Mission arrived said: and if Germany could add

Under the auspices of the in-

Congratulations are in order for here yesterday, and was met at the to her seventy-five millions the

Regime, control of a further population of ternal Administration Department Mr. S. Chang who has just secured beflagged station by Count Clano,

the Puppet

Police his A Licence at the Far East Fly-Italian Foreign Minister, Signor fifteen milloris, with their mineral of

and Officers Training School is also ing School. The Chang family is Achille Starace, Secretary of the But it is also necessary to face and agricultural resources

Chen certainly air minded, the older Fascist Party, and Signor Thaon de the fact that the Czechoslovak | with "the great armament in-formed at Nanking and state owed its "existence to the dustries of Skoda, and Witkowitz, Chun was appointed the principal brother having also passed his Revel, Minister of Finance (Reu- defeat of the two German powers.

"she would be irre-jo. the school.-Intémational).

Dress factory alternative.

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The German minority in Bohemia,

- sistible HITLER'S DREAM

having so long been "top dog," strongly objected to the whole COME TRUE settlement, and at first tried to

in the

basin. Danube Hungary, Jugosla. via and Rumania

boycott the new constitution, even would pass into her sphere; the: refusing to vote for President would soon control the Rumanian

London Office: 53. Fleet Street Masaryk, in spite of his moderate oil fields and would be ready to

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views on the minority question. apply Herr Hitler's famous anti-

HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER V, 1938,

CZECHOSLOVAKIA-

CHECKMATE?

»

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*

Russian

in

the programme THE CZECHOSLOVAK constitu- Ukraine.. Germany would be the tion of 1920 assured to the master of the Continent. It is minorities rights considerably be from this aspect that the Czech yond those given them by the problem must be regarded.

inority treaty of 1919, and it is

is It

the strategic key to the barest Justice to point out hegemony in Europe, quite apart CZECHOSLOVAKIA HAS LONG that while the minorities still

from

anti- the sympathles been in the forefront of the have certain just grievances which pathies which one may have for

news.

and is now becoming a require redress (and Magyars, cer- the only state in Eastern Europe familiar subject, but there are tainly more than the Germans which has been able to maintain

much gone many misconceptions which can Czechoslovakia has

Bystem of free democratic and only be cleared up against a his-farther toward implementing "her

representative government. torical background.

minority pledges than any other

It is sometimes said that the state.

of Czechoslovakia

It is natural that the German was

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offelally in the last few Reich should take a lively interest IT HAS BEEN repeatedly stated years in the fate of its kinsmen outside months that in the event of an German frontiers, and especially attack upon Czechoslovakia both The first answer to that is tha In what is now the largest of these France and Rušila will fulfill their Czechoslovakia came into existence į minorities. -

treaty pledges of assistance, and on October 28, 1918. as the requir The weak spot is that the Ger Czechoslovak opinion, while show- of a bloodless revolution, twelve mans are not properly representing exemplary calm has unani- NOTICE IS HEREBY days before what we call Arinistica ed in Government offices and mously endorsed the resolution of GIVEN that en Interim Day and two months before the

even in lesser Its Premlet, Dr. Hodza, to "Defend. official posts. but defend, defend!" Dividend

cents of 50

per contèrence began in Paris The NO GERMANS

IN OFFICIAL this must ·be. share has been declared for the new state afterward had to prove

traned back to POSTS its title to European recognition.

half-year ended 30th June, 1938, and had to give various pledges.

There are two points on which the period of the no Czechoslovak Government cen yield. It cannot give up the payable on Monday, 26th Sep such, for instance, as good treat- boycott. When the Germans op. tember, 1938, on and after which ment of minorities. It is essential posed the organisation of the new purely defensive alliances with date Dividend Warrants may be to bear in mind that when the State, all key posts were naturally France and Russie which are the obtained on application at the old Austro-Hungarian monarchy filled by Czechs, and now vacan- guarantees of its independence."

resounding fell with, a

crash, cies come only slowly by death or and it cannot surender to local. autonomous bodies control of the Registered Office of the Company: Czechoslovakia was able instantly retirement. 2, Lower Albert Road, Hongkong: to form by its own efforts an

In 1935 a new Budeten German state police. If is not quite easy The Transfer Books of the orderly, stable democratic state, Party (B.D.P.), was founded by to explain the function of a state

every Interior Min continental Company will be closed from cumbering today fifteen million Herr Konrad Henlein, till then a police under a Ministry of the Saturday, 10th September, 1938, inhabitants. This was possible, little known gymnastic Instructor,

because Czechoslovakia was not a and at the election it won 44 out country; but what happened in Austria last February when Dr. Saturday, 24th September.

new and haphazard creation, but of 72 German seats. 1938, both days Inclusive,

the heir of one of the most an- At, that time Herr Henlein deni- Schuschnigg surrendered police By Order of the Board of clent states in Europe, Bohemia ed all connection with the Hitler control to a National Socialist Directors.

was already an independent na- regime, condemned totalitarian-nominee will give the necessary tional state in the days of King ism, pan-Germanfam and anti- Alfred.

to

G. MILNE,

·Hong Kong, 31st August, 1938.

Secretary.

I the Budeten Germans are to Bemittism, and is reported to have made the statement that "an be the Trojan Horse admitted to THE QUINTESSENCE of the agreement with Prague could be the Bohemian fortress in a strug- modern Czach movement found reached on the basis of the exist-gle of major power politics, then 1748 expression in Thomas Masaryk, aing constitution, without autonomy Europe's future is indeed dark

Licence this summer.

ter).

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

Will You Help

CHINA?

·Today" the League of Nations' meets at Geneva. A memorable session is guaranteed, for China's delegates, according to official news, will invoke sanctions against Japan. The question arises: will sanctions be effective in stopping Japanese aggression in this country when there are states not members of the League which will be free to supply Japan with the needs for continuation of the war? There is also a certain legal point which will doubtless, according to the procedure at Geneva.. call for some committee to be set up to decide: as Japan has already resigned from the League of Nations, could sanctions be invoked against her?

It is not at all clear how the great Powers represented af the meeting will act, but there is at least ground for hope for China since Britain and Fragice, which are the only countries whose attitude 18 worth watching, have lately manifested a long-hoped-for identity of view towards inter- national problems and are de- solidarity monstrating their with impressive effect in the approach to the Czech-Sude- ten impasse.

SOVIET ATTITUDE'

It appears quite certain that Soviet Russia will not quarrel with any decision the effect of which will be to check the armed invasion of one coun- try by another. The Soviet, by the way, has risen to a great .extent in the estimation of democratic peoples by its strong insistence on the prin ciples of collective security... And there is little doubt that the United States, though not a member of the League, with collaborate wholeheartedly in any plan to restore peace in the world. Though let down In 1932 when she took the Initiative in an attempt to prevent Japanese annexation of Manchuria, she will never- theless subscribe to common action to check aggression and

lawlessness if she is satisfied

of the utter sincerity of the participating nations.

BRITAIN'S LEAD

The eyes of the world, and the hopes of China, therefore turn to Britain and France. French policy will to a great extent depend on the British lead. And so it is for Britain" to make the all-important decision.

B. S. Haldane, is starting on an air journey to China to- day. She said in an Interview that she had deliberately chosen to fly out in order to show that China is not such a faraway country. This is to affects "say that whatever

China will also affect Britain. And that is a great truth.

If China is allowed to bell uverrun by Japan, the most powerful potential force in a future. peaceful civillastion"

BY ALEC GREAVES will be destroyed.

two

He can.

Mr. Chamberlain has courses open to him. either take the short-sighted view of biding his time or he must make it clear that' inter- national anarchy and viola- tion of rights must end.

With regard to the Sino-

It can be. Japanese affair. stated that British public opinion is far ahead of the Government. British people, whether at home or in the Empire, are not only sincerely sympathetic towards China, but recognise that that sym- pathy should at the first op portunity be augmented by positive action,

_INTERDEPENDENCE

It is by a curious coincidence that a British woman leader, Mrs. Haldane, the wife of the eminent scientist, Professor 3

A

Britain should make an im- mediate bold decision to help China regain peace and inde-. pendence. It is ap to Britain to discover which is the most effective line of action-whe- ther by the application of sanetions, by individual action based on collective under- standing or by purely indivi dus! assistance.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Those who are inclined to place little faith in the policy of strictly British assistan must take into consideration this fact, that if Br nothing more than China financial assistance that the might develop the rast resources in the Interior, where the Japanese can never hope to penetrate, she will be laying the foundations for China's recovery.