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To elect Committee and Officers for the ensuing year.

For the transaction of any other business as laid down in Role 28:

Hon. Treasurer.

M. A. CAIRNS,

Hong Kong, 28th October, 1938.

DEATH

1957

and Honorary Lieutenant, 5th

Bth

Rides, .. Bn.

Rajputana

of Napler's on the 10th November, 1938. at Hongkong. suddenly

failure, heart of deeply mourned by all ranks of the Battalion.

1953

The Daily Press.

報西剌孖

EDITORIAL

CORRESPONDENCE MAN AND TWO WOMEN GUNNERS LAID

ST.

ANDRE BOBOLA

[To the Editor, "The Hongkong Daily Fiess"

Bir-Under "Catholic News and Notes" in your last Saturday's en Live there was published account of "A Polish Saint" in St. canonisation of which the Andre Bebola, the Polish Jesult Saint, in the past year was men- tloned. A short time previous to the canonisation ceremony, which took place in St. Peter's in Rome last Easter Sunday. Pope Pius XI received the Primate of Poland, Alexander Cardinal Kokowski, and told him that he was proclaiming St. Andre Bobola, the Protector of Poland.

slan

man

Orthodox

"

monks

In hostile Moscow. Father Walsh prowled around hunting the body.

was once within a few feet of it

ACCUSED OF ABDUCTION

Girl Sold Into Family For

$175 In Chinese Territory

TO REST

Full Militäry Honours

G.O.C. PRESENT

Charged with the abduction from out of the possession of her The funerals of the late Gunners parents of a 15-year-old girl, Ng Yap-mui, à man named Chia David Benson and Arthur Sutton, Chung, 38, his wife, Lam Tsat, 27, and another, woman, Chan Ho, of the 5th A.A. Regiment, R.A., who alias Pat Kwa, appeared before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kow-were killed in a traffic pccident on Customs Pass on Saturday, took loon Court yesterday.

place at the Protestant Cemetery.

Dei. Sub-Insp. C. Mottram, prosecuting, stated that at 7 pm Happy Valley, yesterday morning. on April 9 the girl was sent by her mother. Lau Fung-ngo, collect a debt of $5 from a woman known to her as Ah Tsat.

her.

$80 was mentioned.

to

at

The Rev. 8. Hinchcliffe, S.C.F. (C.E.), officiated at the gravesides,

His Excellency the 0.0.0., Major-

by:-

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1938. MR. WANG CHING-WEI

AND

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PEACE

(SPECIAL TO THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS ")

Action as

To-day, words are not enough to create confidence. well is necessary. And all of us who strive for the victory of China, and particularly Young China, are watchful of the actions of others so that nothing may be done which would result in a weakening of the United National Front which we are so determined to bulid.

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Others than ourselves understand the structure of the body peliile in China. In "The Times," London, we read that Mr. Peter Fleming, one of England's most promising young journalista, state's that Generalissimo Chiang stands between a "flabby Right and an uncompromising Left." And the common denominator on which Left and Right is being based is not a social point-but the ques- tion of Pence or War.

was

who

amateur Marxist.

TENDENCIES'

of

outlawed

Ah Tsat led the girl to a house They did not take the girl with in Portland Street, which the two them, but had given her two dol- General A. W. Bartholomew at-

Even for us this is a convenient demonstrated its desire for peace of them entered by a back en lars. telling her to take care of ended, accompanied by Capt. P. J.;

а scavenging lane. herself. This was on November 2. Howorth, A.D.C.. and among the manner in which to classify the with Japan, it was at this time. ruth- Andre. Bobola. a Jesuit teacher trance from

The girl walked home to her officers present were Brigadier A tendencies in China to-day. For Anti-Japanese feeling was of noble Polish birth, was scourged. The woman left the girl in a

the people's parents, and report, the first re- Burrows. Commander, Royal Artil- the terms "Left" and "Right" do sly suppressed: beaten. fayed

and scalped by room, and went away.

lery: Major P. S. Whitehead. not have the same content which freedom was curtalled; the free Shortly after Ah Tsat had left, port of the url's disappearance. Brigade Major: Major B. L. de they would have when used in re movement of Japanese troops in Cossacks, who, put him to death. near Pinsk in 1857, The neigh her husband. Chiu Chung."came was then made to the police. Robeck, O. C. 5th AA Regiment, ference to politica in Western North China was acquiesced in: bouring shrine in which he was in. The girl alleges that he had It appears that on missing the and Ocers. Warrant Officers and countries. Michael

patriotic elements buried was successively guarded by threatened her with a weapon, girl the parents thought she had men of the 5th A.A."Regiment and Borodin,

were Jesuits, Greek Catholics and Rus- which weapon she could not des- left for the country. The mother-detachments of all Regiments In.

BY PERCY CHEN at best an

In North China: before cribe. He told her that she must had gone to the country on April the Colony.

Sino-Japanese Bobola's relics, now a remarkably obey him. He was going to sell 9 and remained there until No- The remains of the late Gunner had suficient acumen

to ask. co-operation was, encouraged in 'Right of what and Left of North China by the Hopel and SRIBAKSH SINGH. Subedar Major well-preserved mummy, were taken her... but would get her back in vember 2. Although she did not Wilfred Ross, of the 5th A.A. Re-

In Bolshevik hands few days. to Polotsk.

Ng Yap-mut further and her daughter, no report was giment, who also met his death in

Charhar Political Council under a what?" they ended up in a medical claims that she was kept in the made to the police.

the Customs Pass tragic (mishap,

Japanese returned student, Mr. In China, "Right" ces not con- museum in Moscow-although Re- house for three days.

The mother, however, on the were laid to rest in the Jewish Catholics

not were

then

afternoon. note the Industrial bourgeoisie, nor Huang Fu: an economic mission yesterday A woman named Pat Kwu, the girl's return, led the police to a Cemetery

a formpla aware of their whereabouts.

third defendant, then came to see house in Reclamation Street where Rabbi Eleazar officiated at the does "Left" connote the industrial was sent from Shanghai to Japan

proletariat. So "Right" must be in an attempt to find

extension She had heard Chiu speak Chi and his wife were arrested, service.

Japanese In the "Time" magazine (Aprli 25, 1938) the following is givent with this woman when a sum of They gave Information leading to The escort.. firing party

and taken to denote the tendency to-fer the AA. Wards pence as a means for end-economic influence into the Yang- "In 1922, within a month after

the arrest of the third defendant, buglers were from the 5th he became Pope: Plus XI ordered

Later, a woman named Ng Ma- Chiu Chang, the first defendant, Regiment. Three volleys were fired in the struggle for existence. Valley,

In 1934, in European capitais, it u US. Jesuit (Rev. Edmund Aloy-

tendency towards ending the was openly conjectured when a stus Walsh), director general of taas came, who took her away by stated from the witness-box that and the "Last Post" and Re. And "Left" must be taken as the

High Commissioner his Papal Mission in Russia, to train to Tin Ta-vel, Chinese ter- the girl had come to him on April veille," were sounded.

begging that he protect! Many civilian friends were pre- struggle only with the defeat or 'Japanese

The uncompromising left would take up residence in Nan- "seek and find the body of Andre ritory. There the girl claims, she 9.

had been sold into a family for her from her mother who would sent and floral tributes were sent Japan.

-must be limited to those too king, for the Japanese Govern- Bobola....

kill her if she returned home.

to see that China's ment had means of making Itself $175.

H.E the General Officer Com- egotistic AIR RAIDS

Further hearing of the defence manding: C.R.A. and Headquar- destiny is to-day bound up with felt even within the Nationalist Government and particularly in Constant air raids led to the was adjourned, to to-morrow

ters, R.A.: one each

the Chiang Kai-shek. from

the Chinese Foreign Office. At away to Taipo., noon,

Officers... N.C.O.'s "and men, W.O.'s without being permitted to go family moving

that time, advances by Soviet and Sergeants. 7th A.A. Battery. further. Finally In 1923 he asked

Even Mr. Tang Leang- must Russia for #pact of non- R.A.; one each from the officers. outright for it, argued that Its

W.O.'s and

Sergeants, "N.C.O.'s. realize that Mr. Wang Ching-wei aggression between the two coun- continued Joss made the Poles hos-

Gunners, of the 9th A.A. Battery, is articulate, not for himself alone. tries were rejected, and considera tile to Russia. Soviet authorities

R.A.: Married Families at Lyecmur nor for Generalissimo Chiang, He tion was given to the "advice" of took him to the medical museum.

Barracks; RA. Sergeants Mess, is articulate for a tendency within the Japanese Embassy in Nanking showed him a body which he idea-

Lyeemun: Junior N.C.O.'s Mess, the body politic of the Chinese on matters touching the internal ined by reading his breviary's

Lyeemun: Sergeants' Mess. H.K.S.R.' people. In the same way am I affairs of China, particularly as account of the martyrdom of

A.: one each from Officers and articulate for a tendency within regards suppressing "Communism." Andre Bebola.

Because

As far back as 1933 warning the

feared

olher Ranks, 12th Heavy Battery, that same, body politic. Mr. Wang Russians

of the danger of mosquito- 124th Heavy Battery, 20th Heavy expresses the tendency that lays plous demonstrations in Poland.

borne yellow fever being spread Battery: HQ. 8th Heavy Regiment, n'ore emphasis on peace and the Father Walsh was invited to take

In spite of the wholehearted And I ex- by aeroplane from West Africa RA: All Ranks, H.KSRA: Of possibilities of peace.

efforts made by Mr. Wang Ching- the body to Rome by any other

eers. 8th Heavy Regiment; WO's press the tendency that lays more rei's Cabinet to co-operate with He took it by way of Anglo-Australian, 5,456 tons, which

was published. It came from Ross Institute's eminent Tro- Odessa.

and disappeared in March, with a crew

8th Heavy Regiment: All Ranks, emphasis on continued resistance Constantinople

pical Hygiene Director. Sir 30th Heavy Battery: All Ranks, because to seek peace now would Japan, the demands of the Japan- Brindisi. Suspicious lest the Bol-1 38, after passing the Azores, were!

more concessions never Royal Scots; one each from be tantamount to surrender. Malcolm Watson. to switch put forward at the renewed Board.

Jarge alice of Hopel bodies, and thus hoax the Roman of Trade inquiry, held at the In-

By means of dialectical induc-Province. called the East Hopel Recently. nearly four months Officers. WO's and Sergeants, and

Region. Was then LARMING RUMOURS of the Catholic Church, Father Walsh statute of Civil Engineers recently after the Public Health (Aircraft) All Ranks, Middlesex Regiment; tion, social scientists are able to autonomous

observations and activities of took pains to pack the body The ship was owned by the

Ranks, R.A.O.C.; Major and Mrs. de Wang has with his friends sand perial Airways' medical officer,

a puppet of the Kwantung army: Ambassador to the Court of St.

hear that the conversations turn Gen. Yu Hsuch-chung. a valiant on questions of peace and how to and loyal soldier, was removed James have spread, something akin

The body of Andre Bobola ar-

The inquiry was conducted by the Colonel Frederick Percival Mackle, Robeck; Mrs. Whittle.

achieve peace with Japan.

from his post; Gen. Sung Cheh- to panic among all those who rived in Rome on All Saints' Day Wreck Commissioner. Mr. K. S demonstrated the result of his ex- stand to lose by the total loss of 1923. was unpacked in the pre- Carpmael, K.C., who sat with four 'periment with Headley Stibston British positiers in the Far East.

sence of cardinals, physicians, assessors, Capt. W. J. Elford, Capt. Crabtree to enable mente varer MAYO'S SHOP "graver Vatican of the

Father T. W. Hanney, Eng. Cmdr. T. A device is a portable electric vapor- ising machine which means doom authorities" most closely asso Walsh. The false screws, the Red Pearson, and Mr. A. M. Robb. ciated with the Prime Minister. Mr. Cross sheet which Father Walsh

Mr. G. St. Clair Pilcher, K,C. for to any stowaway mosquito. With Neville Chamberlain, are seeking. had sewed up and sealed these the Board of Trade, sald the Board it they quickly gassed and killed somewhat desperately, to convince were intact, and so was Father had no criveisin regarding the way, 200 specimen mosquitoes.

The insecticide was pyrethum, people that the whole thing is just Walsh's calling care which, as a in which the vessel was kept up. "Japanese, bluff."

last precaution, he had placed in Andre Bobola's scalped skull.

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Hosuxana,, NovEMBER 16, 1038,

TOKYO

ENVOY'S

route.

MACHINATIONS sheviks might seek

LOST STEAMER MYSTERY

Three Theories At Inquiry

Three alternative theories to ac- count for the loss of the steamer

Lethal Flower Kills Fever Menace

ese for

teased. A

BITTER PILL

Mr. M. Shigemitsu; new Japanese against tampering. His pains were Nitrale Producers Steamship Co Regulations came into force, Im. All Ranks, Royal Engineers; All tune in on the conversations Mr.under the control of Yin Yu-keng.

though some

Mr. Shigemitsu. to all intents and purposes. was sent to Britain not by the Tokyo Foreign Office- which maintains a sort of under- cover line of friendship towards

YOUNG OFFICERS'* ENVOY

rewarded."

oficials and

Macau, Nov. 13.

H

JAY MARTIN

KING CAROL LEAVES

Ltd., London.

THREE ALTERNATIVES.. FOR LONDON

London, Nov. 14. |

"Nothing further has been seen Mr.

Bucharest last night on an official

King Carol of Rumania "left or heard of her since," said visit to England.

"All the Board of Trade can

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and

4

If these same social scientists yuan was grossly insulted; five

were seized by tuned in on a conversation which hsien

Japanese

1 have with my friends, they puppets and Japanese penetration

DRESSED ANEW would hear us discussing how we into Suiyuan was ordered not to

shall be able to achieve peace by jhe hindered. Then, in addition, imposing our will upon the the

strategic Japanese seized Japanese army in China. And at points in North China, constructed the same time, if an analysis could jaerodromes. and claimed rights be taken of the conversations of along the raways which were Generalissimo Chlang. it would be dangerous to China's sovereignty. round that the percentage of the

Mr. Wang Ching-wel's policy of concerning peace "Conciliation by Concession". was

sent." And that proved too big a pill. for the Chinese people to "NO PEACE TALK

swallow. Mr. Wang Ching-wef's The dominating percentage Cabinet fell. would be on the question of con- war of resistance. Indeed, I would go so far as to say

The well-known women's specialty shop, Maya's, in the Gloucester Arcade, has been The ship lett Cardiff on March 8 distilled from a wild flower grow-

enlarged and renovated for the winter. season. and the last wireless message, re- ing in Southern England and. It is toxic to all flying! ceived from her was on March 18, Kenya.

Hat cases are now divided into non-inflammable when she was passing the Azores. Insects. She gave her position, and conclud- does not injure passengers' health, mail sections, all enclosed, and conversations ed her message. "Rough weather. I comfort or clothing... Any flying two new hat booths have been add- I would certainly be less than one developing Into "Conquest by Con-

boat can be treated in 55 minutes ed. The maple woodwork against per cent. of the whole. All well"

the dead white walls gives the ef during flight.

Before this device was found, fect of spaciousness and provides a better light in which to view the Imperial Airways disinfected Its planes on the two-day Khartoum-new chapeaus. The lighting fix

KINDS OF PEACE Accra stretch, which crosses a veures are on the indirect lighting tinuing the

Peace with Japan at this stage. low fever area. The new medium principal.

A new shipment of hats for win-that, on October 20, there was no has conquered once and for all

whether achieved through media- ter to match the sport, dress and conversation concerning peace. the, mosquito's flying menace.

Ition or by surrender. cannot find evening ensembles are expected

So much for Mr. Wang Ching our country in a better position. this week,

wel and the tendency for peace than that it held during the time which Mr. Peter Fleming describes

Mr. Wang Ching-wel was President as that of the "abby Right."

of the Executive Yuan, from 1933 Why dces the Generalissimo to 1935. On the contrary, laying sometimes speak of peace, and down our arms would And us in what sort of peace does Young an even worse position than before China want?

the Lukiuchiao incident.

Pilcher.

the British--but by the Tokyo Ministry of War, and not only by the Ministry of War as such, but by the Young Officers' Party within the Ministry...which controls both

him are Crown Prince Michael and is to put before you various alter -the Kwantung Army in north

China and the Japanese forces in the Foreign Minister, M. Commen, native possibilities which may, per-

'Manchukuo." His reports are Transocean.

haps, enable you to say what was sent at least as much to the War

the most prolable cause of her Office as to the Galmusho..

loss."

Accompanying

do

(1) Fallure of the structure or equipment of the vessel;

(2) "Internal damage by boiler explosion or gas explosion in bunkers; and

City of London that his govern- ! Mr. Pilcher said that the alter- MR. SHIGEMITSU has instruc-ment would feel disposed to favour, natives were:

tions to "frighten the British" with some minor but reasonably and he is doing it. He is following Juley pickings, any firm or firms the example of Herr von Ribben- who might either directly or in-. trop. German Foreign Minister. directly or by pressure upon the who was at one time Reich envoy British Government, contribute to- "stabilization” in A to London, who had instructions towards the

He financial and commercial sense of "treat the, British rough." waited for the publication in a the Japanese Empire in the Far The form of such favours German paper of an interview with East.

which

(3) Contact with some external object, or being overwhelmed by

EPISCOPAL

APPOINTMENTS

SPECULATION NATIONAL

اہر

J

SERVICE PROS

AND CONS

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means.

There is considerable specu- lation over the appointment of successors to the Bishop of

At the risk of discrediting him- Mr. Wang should himsel know London

of and the Bishop

Experts on the British Gover-self in the eyes of Young China, from bitter experience that con- Durham.

ment side state that in their view Generalissimo Chiang. trom 1933 (cillation towards Japan Never before has a Prime Minis-voluntary National Service," plus to December, 1936, sought, against conquest by consent. And while bad weather in phenomenal seas. ter been confronted at the same conscription of workers in and for his experience and knowledge as a we are not re-assured yet that Mr. Having pointed out that no wire-

time with appointments to the particularly scheduled branches.tf Sun Yat-sen Nationalist, to be-Wang Ching-wet is finally con- the Japanese Ambassader in Rome would be an exceptionally favour-less message was received after the two Secs which, next to the Arch- the armament industry, is a good leve that Japan and her leaders vinced of the need for continued declaring that the British in the able treatment of those interests, vessel passed the Azores, Mr. Pil- bishoprics, are the most important thing as a police and social mea desired co-operation with China struggle for victory in the field Far East were finished and done despite the general exclusion of cher caid: "One must find a cause in the country.

sure, but warn against any expec- "on a basis of equality. To give the over the Japanese invaders, stili ' they might lend the non-Japanese interests for but

1s of the loss of the vessel, which was Many ecclesiastical prophets tation that it will in the slightest bellef a "free test, Mr. Wang we do not expect "that Mr. Wang

so swift and overwhelming that favour the appointment to "Japanese some money to continue contemplated."

the degree increase armament output Ching-wel was entrusted with the will make any other pubilc state- The first fruits of Mr. Shigemitsu she never succeeded in getting Into London Bishopric of the Bishop On the other hand, it is felt by leadership of the Nationalist Gov- ment either to Chinese or foreign the process if they liked, before

are already beginning to be ob wireless communication with any of Chichester. Dr. Bell was really going into action.

re- some of the Government experts i ernment. Then began the policy journalists concerning peace until Remembering the successful ex-servable. The first reaction of Mr. of the vessels which were in a fairly sident Chaplain and eventually that while the above facts are of "Conciliation by Concession," twe can have peace in which perience of von Ribbentrop who, Chamberlain and

ncar vicinity.".

biographer to Randall Davidson: true, the idea of "national service" on the basis of which appeasement Young Ching can live and create was, of course, to while the Foreign Office sniggered

MINE THEORY IMPROBABLE who preceded Dr. Lang as Arch-is of great value from a political was Bought and Fino-Japanese a New China in freedom-In other "SINCERITY “* seek to at him and explained that "Britain

find in

Mr. Pilcher described the pos-bishop of Canterbury,

propaganda point of view, and of friendship was to be established. words the kind of peace Generalis- what way Tokyo can't stand to be bullied," builled, DEMANDED

The Bishop of Durham is auto-value in a practical sense too, not

simo Chiang is striving to win might be induced sibility of coal gas explosion in the and blasted his way to success (with the

to be kinder to the British, and Anglo-Australian as "extremely re-matically the head of Durham In the increase of armament pro-

Mentioned 15 the duction, it is true, but in BRITISH the Japanese envoy is stated to mate." Even if there had been an University.

it seemed improbable name of the assistant Bishop of breaking of the power of the Trade MISTAKEN have replied that the first thing explosion.

This is Dr. Edwin Unions within the armament in- the British Government could do, that the ship would have been lost Gloucester, as "an earnest of its sincerity," without being able to call assist-James Palmer, a former Bishop of dustry.

Bombay and Lord Selbourne's would be to "counsel moderation "ance. in Washington, and to try to bring pressure

the on

Americans

aid pt

Lord Halifax

..

several of the. wealthiest interests In the City and the West End), Mr. Shigemitsu has in- formed the British Government

It seemet "improbable but not cousin. and anyone else' who may be in terested that the Japanese are now

to impossible" that the ship struck a of self-drifting mine. * top-dog in "East Asia. that they reverse their attitude

"Mines have been laid of the intend to remain so, and that, if defence rudely expressed in

0%

M.C.C. MATCH AT CAPETOWN the British think they are in a their recent-note-tó Tokyo. This coast of Spain," he said. The spot

Captown, Nov. 14.-- position to lift a finger in anger, the British Government may or where she was lost is 2,000 miles

scores in the cricket may not do.

from the coast of Spain, and it Launch they are very much mistaken.

Should Mr. Shigemitsu be suc- would take a mine, under the most match between the M. C. C. and cessful in his machinations, how favourable conditions, at least 100 the Western, Provinces were as ever, British prestige and British days to get, from the place where it followe rights in the Far East will end-for was laid of the coast of Spain, M. C. C..-163 for 6 wickets

to this position.”.

Western Provinces 174-Reuter, eveER.

HAVING SCARED EVERYBODY with this line of talk, Mr. Shigemitsu has informed a number of persons of “importance". In the

RESUMPTION OF AIR SERVICE

"CONCILIATION"

If ever the Chinese Government for us.

the

PONTOON RETURNED FOOTBALL MATCH AT

With

" Hanko, Nov. 14.

KAI TAK After a strong protest had been

In a friendly game of football at -registered

the Japanese authorities by the British Con- Kal Tak yesterday, a Royal Air Shanghai Nov. 14sulate General here the confiscated Force team defeated a European the YMCA eleven by three goals to The air mail service will be pontoon was returned to resumed, between Shanghai and owners, Messrs Butterfield and one. The "y" led one-nil at the Nanking to-morrow. Only letters Swire this morning The neat interval and postcards will be accepted and was commandeered and towed the planes, will make one round up river by Japanesé yesterday,

Reuter. itip daily-Reute

Scorers were Curt YMC.A., and Morrat, Bessant and Etward for the RAE