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EDITORIAL

$3,717,200 H.K. PRESENT-DAY CHINESE

ESTATE

WINDFALL FOR GOVERNMENT

Local estate to the value of $3.- 717,200, was left by the late Mr. Yong Nee-chni, nilas Yong Teck- chong, alias Yong Lan-shing, alias Yong Ngce-chal, alias Yong Ngi- tsad alias Yang Tsoong-tet. alias Yong Chin-ol, formerly of 20 Caine Road, who died at St. Paul's Hos pital, Causeway Bay, on April 23 last

The late Mr. Yong was a pro- perty owner and it is learned had also vast mining holdings in the Federated Malay States.

Mr. Yong Joo-lin, merchant, Mr. Yong Shook-lhi, advocate, both of Kuala Lumpur, and Dr. Yong Loo-

December, 1938, and of electing MR. ROOSEVELT'S of 64 Bonham Strand East, who

Directors and Auditors.

The Transfer Books and Re- gister of Members of the Com pany will be closed from the 21st April, 1939, to the 28th April, 1939, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

HERBERT R. STURT,

Managing Director. Hong Kong, 17th April, 1939.

ה

CHALLENGE

are the sons of deceased, are exe- cutors of the estate. Their app!!- cation for sealing certified copy of.

THE CHALLENGING action probate of the will has been grante

PRINCIPAL WIFE

In his will, the late Mr. Yong

LITERATURE

Defence Of Culture And Spiritual Freedom

BY JACK CHEN

:

Modern poetry has more than held its own against the invasion, continues Jack Chen in his article on Chinese National Defence Literature in the February issue of "Life and Letters To-day," the first part of which appeared on this page on Saturday. Even in the.. days immediately preceding the evacuation of Shang- hai a new poetry magazine appeared, the Chung Kuo Shih Tang (Chinese Poesy) with a 3,000 circula- tion. Following the evacuation this reappeared in Canton as the Shih Tao (Current Song) with a slight- ly increased circulation.

Other magazines appeared but were short lived. The ambitious 5,000 subscribed edition of the Wu Yueh (May), with 150 pages lasted one number; this how- ever was an important event since it contained the first Chinese translation of Pushkin's Gypsies rendered by Chu Chu-pel, former education Commissar of the Kiangsi Soviet Government, who met an untimely death in 1936.

TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1939.

M. Cosme ziving a talk at a receptidh givea in his honour in Chungking by the French-Belgian-Swiss Returned Students Club. (Central News Photo).

FRENCH AMBASSADOR:

OLD FRIEND OF CHINA

M. Henri Cosme, the now Freach Anibassador to China; creat- ed an intensely favourable impression among Chinese government officials and others who had, the privilege of meeting him during his short sojourn in Chungking, China's wartime capital. Wher ever he went he won for himself considerable affection by virtue of his own friendliness to China and the Chinese people. It is probably a direct ex-He calls for the defence of this

The diplomat dew to Chungking pression of the tremendous new freedom of contact with the ΟΣ masses of the people, this revolu- spiritual regeneration

tionary spiritual regeneration, that on March 5 and five days later

BESTIAL MILITARISM

of

National Government. This was

H.K. POLICE RESERVE

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Franklined. of President

Estate duty amounting to $500,- Delano Roosevelt cannot but

universal 336.90 has been paid to the Hong- with be greeted

kong Government. from the support except

It is a dictatorial powers. splendid effort to avert war- fare and a catastrophe in bequeaths $10,000 cash and $500 Europe and it is to be hoped per month to his principal wife. that the totalitarian leaders Lam Tlap-ngong, the latter for the I will not entirely close their whole of the time she remains his / China that at this time there he seeks to express and spread by he presented his credentials to Mr. | 311 doors to the President's elo-widow. If she is still alive at the is an increased interest in his work. He calls for the de-In Sen, Chairman of the Chinese!

quent appeal. With a world end of ten years and still his wdow poetic expression and song fence of the most powerful up-

(Orders by the Hon. Mir. C. G. and she will receive, in addition, the Canton, for example, was pro-surge of creative vitality that has followed by a round of dinners and

Perdue. Commissioner full

"ducing more poetry than any stirred the millions of China dur receptions given by Generalissimo of uncertainty

Chiang Kai-shek, Dr. Wang Chung-

of Police) hui, To vach of the four sons by his other city just before it was ing the last three hundred years. is also important that

the Foreign Minister, and It NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. tenseness. Mr. Roosevelt is sum of $30,000,

the oft-repeated plurase

cultu.al groups, and on March 22

CHINESE COMPANY thoroughly justified in ap- principal wife, the late Mr. Yong abandoned and destroyed be-

he left for Kunming en route to pealing to the better instincts bequeaths $20,000 in cash and the fore falling into the hands of

literature"

Death-The Commissioner and "anti - Japanese S.S. FRANKEN" ARRIVED

of Herr Hitler and Signor sum of $600 per month. At the the Japanese. At the same

should not be misunderstood. Indo-China and then to Shanghai. Deputy Superintendent of Police

M. Ccame gained his first per- Reserve regret to

announce the Mussolint but, from reports and of ten years each of these sons time Hankow and Kunming

"In no sense is this propaganda HONG KONG 14.4.1939.

had their own poetry organs,

directed against the Japanese which have been received from wall receive $100,000 in cash.

sonal knowledge of China in 1927 death of Constable. R64 Yam Ping" To each of h's five secondary the Shih Shih Ti (Poetic Age):

when he was counsellor to the Yue on April 10, 1939. people.

French Embassy then in Peiping. Training Course-Part I: The Consignees of cargo ex above Berlin and Rome it would

the reception wives, the late Mr. Yong bequeaths and Chang Ho (War Songs) appear that vessel are hereby notified that an from those quarters will be the sum of $150 per annum for sc

It is directed solely against the The following year he was made undermentioned members of the respectively,

Three new genres of poetry have bestialities of Japanese militarism the Charge d'Affaires. That is why Chinese Company will attend Chi- outbreak of fire occurred on board wholly negative, in which long as they remain, his widows.

emerged. S.S. "Franken Haiphong case, the two

First poems for de- that are as repugnant to the Jap-in his speech at the tea reception nese Company Headquarters for European providing they agree to reside in

(when given in his honour in Chungking Part I of Training Course on Tues- After the expiration of clamation by the poet himself or anese people themselves harbour on the 9th of April, 1939, dictators will be held fully his native village of Taipoo, near

Swatow.

for elocutionists, that are particu- they realize it) and to their true by the French-Belgian-Swiss Re day. April 18 at 17.30 hours:--

Constables R9 Wang May On.. any disaster in consequence of which a Gen-responsible for

ten years each of his seven sons. and five daughters by his secondary larly designed for the mass meet interests as they are to the Chi-tuned Students' Association, he

Secondly. Street Poems or nose. The

to announced himself as an old friend R31 Bau Ka Ying, R128 Chan Yu. ing.

Hung. R27 Wong King Luk, R105- eral Average has been declared,

COMING as it did at the wives. in addition to two adopted Poems of the Market-place. These Sino-Japanese problems is

not of China.

CHINA PRAISED

Lam Kwok Y!u. Ri06 Tang Khu. are usually in folklore style, al-negative as this phrase implies. ways simple in form and rhythm. but positive and creative. It is In that speech which won ham Woon, R112 Chan Ching Man, R113 moment the U.S. Administra-sons, will receive $10,000 in cash tion saw ft, without any

and are postered on street walls generally

understood that peace no Uttle good-will of the Chinese Tang Chung Fui, R114 John Simon order to explanation,

wall-newspapers, These are can only be brought to the Far people, M. Cosme paid a high Au. E116 Ka Kar Ming. R122 Fok. American Fleet to the Pacific,

widespread in Yenan, centre of East (and to the world for that tribute to China's progress during Wa Hol, R123 Ho Tai Wing. R124 Mr. Roosevelt's message to

the North-West Special Region, matter) if it is based on equality the time of war. This progress, he Peter Francis Lee, R125 Yuen Shing the dictators is not without

and the popular doggerels of and co-operation between nations said, has not only been demon-Luen. R126 Ng Shew Man, R127 its significance. The naval Five robbers, armed with re-

Vladimir. Mayakovsky and Demand not. on force and coercion.strated in things material. For Philip Tani Pak Hing. R131 Lam

Chinese defence literature. yan Bedny offer a direct parallel

is there exists in China to-day a Kwok Fee, R132 Law Man Cho, and. order came entirely as a sur-way into an unnumbered house at prise but it is believed in Sau Tin Village, Lok Ma Chow. in Soviet Russia at a similar stage dedicated to national and inter-vigorous spirit. He firmly believes R133 Chan Cheong Shing..

Such a that a bright future is beckoning 310 Washington that it was pre-early yesterday morning and, after of mass literary interest. "

the place for The third new genre is a rein- steadfast adherence to these to China and he considered it as 20.00 hours and midnight hy mem- cautionary inasmuch as there having ransacked

decamped with Is a belief that the axis pow-nearly an hour,

folklore epic. One of the most anti-Japanese feeling as carnation of an ancient form the ideals and a rejection of jingoistic his. rare privilege ard profound 'bers as detailed by the Officer in '.

a basis pleasure to be in China at this Charge of Company. ers are about to act in concert money and gold ornaments to a

famous of these is the North-West of patriotic propaganda, is a mea-particular moment charged with and the American Govern-total value of $150.

The inmates were Chau Lin, 45. Partisans, written by a folklore sure of the political sanity of the duty of promoting the welfare ment does not intend to be

famous Eighth china, after 18 months of war. of the two great republics. caught. Therefore, the Fleet widow, her two daughters and two minstrel of the

robbers is being moved into the Pacific young girls. Three of them at Route Army.

of tempted to prevent the to restore the balance

from entering the inner room, but power, against the Japanese were forced to give way to the in- danger,

No cash deposit will be collect. ed by us, but consignees are re. quested to sign General Average Ronds prior to taking delivery of the goods.

MELCHERS & CO., Agents: Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen.

HONG KONG & YAUMATI FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS The fifteenth Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Company's offices, at the Jordan Road Ferry Pier. Kowloon, on Wednesday, the 26th April, 1939, at 12 Noon, ter the purpose of receiving the re port of the Board of Directors ¡together with a statement of Ac

counts for the year ended 31st December, 1938.

The transfer books of the Com pany will be closed from the 15th April to 26th April 1939, both days inclusive.

LAU TAK PO, Managing Director.

THE HONG KONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO.. LIMITED

that may come.

the

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ROBBERY IN VILLAGE

Volvers and torches, forced their

truders.

PRESIDENT Roosevelt's initiative in statesmanlike

taking the step he did by SEARCH FOR SEA

DRAGON ASKED seeking assurances from Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini

Friends of Richard Halliburton,

or

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No less than five epics cele- brate the "Battle of Pingsing- kwan" and, recited to dram or. orchestra accompaniment, one or the other version with many extempore Interpola- flons is an indispensable part of every popular concert. It is naturally not surprising

b

Chinese attitude

national democracy.

CHINESE CAPTURE OF

·TSENGSHING

Japanese Counter Attack Envisaged

Patrol Duty-Nightly

between

INDIAN COMPANY Lesve.--Mr. Abbas Khan. J.P., Hon. Commissioner of Police Re- serve, Indian Company has been granted 3 months' leave of absence from the Colony, as from April 10, 1939.

Patrol Duty-Nightly between 20.00 hours and midnight by mem- bers as detailed by the Officer in. Charge of Company.

FLYING SQUAD

Patrol Duty-Nightly between 20.00 hours and midnight by mem- bers as detailed by the Officer in Charge of Company.

The most characteristic genre in modern writing is the reportage sketch. The short story--in which China has already made notable contributions-holds its own however. This reportage (of which "Incidentally Miss Agnes book, China Sraedley's recent Strikes Back, is, a typical example) has been stimulated by the news- that comparatively little lyric or paper demand for vivid material to refrain from aggression have appealed to the United States sentimental poetry is being pub-from the various fronts,

In order to Systematize the against independent nations Coast Guard to send a cutter to lished nowadays.

covering of all important fronts an appearing the area west of Midway Island UNITY OF TOLERANCE should have

Magazines

democratic the writers have themselves: or- the effect, but it is a great pity in search of the missing American

Left had long and consistently ganized a Literary Correspondence that he did not see his way adventurer and author.

Halliburton, salling from Hong- striven for a unity of tolerance in centre (In Changsha), maintain- to going a step further by

Francisco in a literary circles. It was an import-ing direct contact with 300 writers including the Far East, where kong for San

Dragon, ant day when the Kuomintang and volunteer correspondents in the valiant Chinese forces are Chinese junk, the Sea

The Yenan (Special Region) fighting against a barbaric disappeared near Midway several magazines, particularly the official different parts of the country.

heavy storm. literary monthly Wen I Erh Kan. aggressor.. Had he done so, days ago during a

His radio went dead and the junk edited by Wang Ping-lin, opened branch of the Federation recently

Patrol Duty-Nightly between Japan would have been given

its pages to all writers, irrespec-sent five writers on a reportage tary significance to the return of had not been heard from since.

tive of party afiliations who sup- tour of all important areas where Tengshing into Chinese hands, as 20.00 hours and midnight by mem food for thought for, without

ported national unity and defence, the Eighth American ald in one form or another, Tokyo's military

a

of

Latin-hua

Route

Army

was

on

CHUNGKING, April 17 (Cen-

EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE the tral)--Commenting

Strength. Constable R407 L. W. Chinese recapture of Tseng

Tipple has been permitted to re- shing, a military expert pro-.

sign from the Emergency Unit phesied an early counter-attack

Reserve, as from April 10, 1939. by the Japanese forces to re-

Leave Constable R416 A. Ho- gain bold once more of this im-

ward has been granted 10 months* portant East River city.

leave from the "Colony, as from The expert attached great mill-April 10, 1939.

"

west, and the. Canton-Howloon Railway to the farther south. In describing their journey,

-The expert believed that the Jap- in a captured Japanese truck

anese at Sheklung, Canton, and running on Japanese gasoline,

other points around a wide areń to within fifty miles of Peiping

between the East River and the they showed the mythical na-..

Canton-Hankow Railway will now ture of the occupation, its real

experience great dificulty in main- character ass glorified bandit

taining their positions, but said raid.

that it is but natural, that they GENERAL TRENDS

Such are the general trends in will make a serious attempt to re present-day writing in China and gain their lost ground,

DSP. (R)..

C. CHAMPKIN,

Hongkong. April 17.

"SHINING HOUR”

·AT QUEEN'S

and for the first time printed the operating: the reports of this the city holds a commanding posi-bers as detailed by the Officer in clique would find it impossible transmitting peace assurances stories and commentaries of Fa brigade covering kep points in ave on over Sheklung to the southi-Charge of Company.

provinces, supposedly "occupied east, the southern section of the to carry on their depredations with view to beginning Chin and Mac Tun

The writers have founded the by the Japanese were later print-Canton-Hankow Railway on the and carnage in China as they negotiations looking towards have been doing since the disarmament and opening up Society for Mass Literature. This ed in dozens of papers.

has issued over 300 pamphlets in which start of the Sino-Japanese trade channels, in

simplified characters with editions war on July 7, 1937. Never-America is prepared to take ranging up to 100,000, at a few

apiece. The theless, it is not too late to part, Mr. Roosevelt stressed cents mend and it is generally that there is now a general (Chinese in an alphabetic script| NOTICE to SHAREHOLDERS hoped that the U.S. Neutrality fear of war throughout the of 28 letters) continues to spread, Act will be so amended as to world and "because of that particularly in the Special North- West Region former Bovlet this may be the oppor- NOTICE is hereby given put a stop to Japanese pur-

of munitions and tune moment for me to send areas). that the ONE HUNDRED chases

you this message." President.? and NINETEENTH ORDIN. planes from American firms. ARY MEETING OF Share EFFORTS are now being Roosevelt emphasized that, in holders in the Company, will be made in the United States to making his statement, Ameri-}~ held at the office of the Company, amend the neutrality law to carts do not speak through President wider selfishness, fear or weakness, Queen's Building, Victoria, Hong give the Kong, on Friday, 28th April. powers by which he may, in- but with force of strength

to the literacy. 1939, at noon, for the purpose of stead of referring to Congress and friendship for mankind

before he makes a declaration Bluntly remarking

This is not regarded as a rival for the old characters. It is conceived as a substitute for the old characters till thay are mastered by the student with the aid of the latinized phonetics. Thus the writers lay the basis of literature

Joan Crawford's Fine Acting

In this M.GM

production at

Chinese defence in that sector, the Queen's Theatre, Joan Craw-| If the writers have risen ably to the demands of the times it is however, are strong enough to ward ford appears at her very best. She largely due to the four writers off any Japanese attacks and to takes a role different from any success which gained of her many former enterprises. As a who have carried on the leader repeat the

them Tsengshing on April 14, the and is most successful. ship of Lu Haun

dancer, we do not recall ever hav Ting Ling, in the North, leads expert stated.

ing seen her before, but she the literary movement of the Special Region, with 1 Be-chi, a ballads, and reportage. She is proved to be imminently suited

as editor-in-chief of the great collec-for the part, t

Ably supported by Margaret receiving a Report of the Direcof war, take such a step on dictators that they have re- DOMINANT THEME

The dominant theme of present- young Marxist philosopher, tors, together with a Statement his own initiative and it is peatedly expressed that they of Accounts, and re-electing belleved that advocates of this have no desire for war, Mr. day literature is, of course, the chairman of the Yenan Cultural tive History of the Long March, Directors and Auditors.

measure will be successful. Roosevelt lays the onus on national deferice. To the creative Society. She herself avers that the epic march of the Red Army Bullavan, Robert Young. Melvyn.

is synonymous with the defence of permanent artistic mérit during times. The TRANSFER BOOKS Great as Mr. Roosevelt's pow-the Dictators. "If this is true," artist in China, national defence she has produced little work of that is unparalleled in modern Douglas and Fay Bainter Miss

without think that she under-estimates "the be war." In other words, he and spiritual freedom the Company will be CLOSEL ers are at present, it must be he says, "then there will not culture itself and the intellectual the last year, but I am inclined to

remembered that, in United States, there 18 at calls upon Hitler and Musso-which a progressive culture is as a the value of the spadework she

It would not be fair to attempt In the South, Pa Chin and Mao present a strong peace group lini to prove their desire for plant without light. Do not let it has done in the cultural recon-

be thought for a moment that this struction of the North. which is opposed to giving the peace..

is literary jingoism.

She has led her North-West Tun have made their jointly edited in this short review to give an ON THE President discretionary pow-

WHOLE the

Those who miss the picture, ers and it is predicted that message is a powerful and The Chinese writer to-day lives. Front Service Corps through 400 Literary Front the most important outline of the story.

and nights with the armies, the villages of Shansi and Shens, literary periodical in China, with there will be a stiff fight be magnificent appeal to reason partisans, he is a pioneer of new taught hundreds of thousands of its circulation of 18,000, and yet however, may rest assured that fore such powers are granted. and Mr. Roosevelt deserves hinterland cultural centres, he is people the basic ideals of the re- and time to carry on their writing they are missing something really

Shining Hour."Pearl Chen. IN OFFERING to act as great praise for his frank and educating thousands of villages onvolution, and written thousands of of novels. The title of Mao Tur's good. We highly recommend” “The friendly intermediary in courageous outspokenness. the tours of the propaganda corps words of effective plays, sketches, latest work is Quo Vadis?

from 22nd April to 28th April, 1939, both days Inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directori

H. DA LUZ,

Secretary Hong Kong, 14th April, 1939.

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Kuo Mo-jo L the gulding spirit of the cultural life of Central China, as head of all official art propaganda.

Crawford's part in "The Shining Hour is by no means an easy one. and she fully rises to the occasion and, the result is an excellent picture.