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NEWS FOR A NEUTRAL: ENTHRONEMENT PRIVILEGE OF AMERICA OF DALAI LAMA

IN THE LAST DECADE NEW YORK CITY HAS BECOME AN INTERNATIONAL CLEARING HOUSE OF EUROPEAN AND » ORIENTAL FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE, and this development has already had, and will have, the most telling effect on Ameri- can sentiment and policy in Europe. It is no casual develop- ment, and to appreciate the scope and method of the present American coverage of the war one has to go back to the Ameri- can journalism, of the early nineteen-hundreds. Says The Times.

In 1914 the continental Amert-'womankind, cannot read a quarter can was uninterested in and com- of what is so diligently printed paia:ively uninformed about for them. But they have the European andirs. In domestic means at their elbow to opinions affairs a whole school of critical more distracting than a belligerent publicists had stirred the civic con- can aftera.

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science and secured many reforms. Partisanship is therefore The World War gave them larger so fractious and dogmatic as it opportunity. Their first service to can be in countries at war. Ameri. a neutral United States was to can readers receive a daily re- inquire thoroughly into, "and soon minder of the danger of generaliz- to discredit, the 1814-15 atrocity ing, a daily testament to the awful complexity of war moves

motives. While the

were and belligerents

They know, handicapped in their repardng by better than some belligerent such considerations

moral, propaganda departments seem to national interest. and inac-think, that the benevolence of cessibility, the Americans found all American opinion is the ultimate doors open. As anybody can testify propaganda prize of this conflict. who has examined those groan- Coveting.

that prize. the ing files, the New

York and belligerents approached the task Chicago dailles kept, until the, with characteristic methods which spring of 1917. a War record that have been handsomely analysed was unique. The volume of cor- and reported on. with some respondence from Europe, hamper-interesting results. ed at first by censorship, mounted

ORIGINAL POLICIES

month by,, month. The trad!- A the outbreak of war the tion took root of treating the dis-American Press was ready for the patches of correspondents as the censorship restraints of 1914. It conscientious findings of men on did not expect the original policies the spot, strictly immune from of the British Ministry of Informa- editorial doctoring, though

not on, from editorial disclaimer.

Berlin was quick to ft its Perfected in following years, this censorship on outgoing American tradition persisted through the dispatches, and tell into line with the Roig and Moscow in instituting Spanish rebellion, and has con- the responsibility rule," whereby tinuously flooded the big city correspondent could table papers with an immense history anything he pleased and take the of the repercussions of Adolf risk of being expelled. In the firs: Hitler in a Scorn of European week the only, prompt and detailed capitals.

first-hand dispatches were, alas,

Ethiopian

adven mure and

The scope and conunuy of this all from these three capitals. service advanced in the nineteen-j Unexpectedly, Paris tightened is thirties to the point where the existing peace-time control. Lon- reading of the daily dispatches don was the most drastic censor from Europe came to bea of all, whole-time job.

MOST DRASTIC CENSUR To-day the full resources of this news machine are available to

ON FEB. 22

LHASA, Feb 10 (Central)-The “enthronement of the 14th re- incarnation of the Dalai Lama

GENERAL

NEWSETTES

It is notified that the name of Mr. William Dodd, former United

will take place on Feb. 22, it has Tal Mee Company. Ltd., has been been officially decided upon. .

struck off the Register.

Gen, Wu Chung-hsin, Chairman.

states Ambassador to Germany, died or pneumonia at his country home at Roundhill, Virginia. Mr.

of the Mongolian and Tibetan Henry Charles Eardley has been Dodd was famous for his out- Affairs Commission, and special appointed to be Acting Sub-spoken attacks on the Nazi system,

in the Hongkong Says Reuter. envoy of the National Government Lieutenant "to attend the enthronement Naval Volunteer Force with effect ceremony, has been busy receiving from Jan. 17, 1940. oficials and religious leaders and lamaseries visiting the various since his arival here on Jan. 15.

He was honoured at a luncheon given by the Reding Hatuketu, the Regent on Feb. 3.

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name of Dr. James Smalley, M.R.C.S.

Governor Excellency the has appointed Messrs. Percy (Eng). LRCP. (Lond) has been Smith, Seth and Fleming Equida- added to the Register of Medical Dr. Smalley Was tors of the affairs of Mr. R. Practitioners. Unmuss, formerly of the China formerly in the Medical Depart- ment and at the time of his re- Export Import and Bank Co..

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Chen, Wu has visited Ling-Erh La-Mu-Teng-Chu, OT "Divine

A Kwangtung War Areas Reha- Medical Officer. Child", who has been, chosen as

Committee the 14th Dalai Lama and is greatlybilitation

has been Impressed by his remarkable formed and an appropriation of

Collingwood characteristics.

$3,000,000 has been made from the Roberts and Mr. Chau Tsun-nin, provincial treasury for rehabilita- CBE,

have been nominated tion work.

Members of the Court of the JAPANESE TROOPS

University of Hongkong vice Mr. SHORT OF FOOD

In a circular telegram denounc- Walter Heathcote Lock and the ing Wang Ching-wei, the China tate Mr. Bum Pak-ming, respec- YUNGYUN, Feb. 19 (Central)--Youth Party declared that any actively, each for a period of three Three hundred Japanese troops tivity of: Wang in its name has years, with effect from January from Sunkal, the Canton nothing to do with it and will not. 1940. Hankow 17 miles north of Canton, affect its consistent policy of sup- attacking Lunghowhu to setze food parting the National Government have been driven back,

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The death is announced ΟΙ Japanese forage parties have Messrs. C. G. Smith; of Durban, Hamedad Baseer Pasha, noted also been sent to Fatshan, 10 miles have offered the Royal Navy 950 Bedouin chief who was formerly southeast of Canton Annoyed by tons of refined sugar, valued at exiled to Malta with the late the frequent Japanese" visits, the £20,000. The sugar will be mostly Egyptian Nationalist leader, Zaghl Chinese peasants in the villages used for ships on the Africa Sta- | Pasha. Hamedad devoted his later there have organised themselves tion although some will be brought years to fostering a political and for aclf-defence.

to England for use by the Home economic rapprochement among A so-called chairman the Fleet.-(Reuter),

the Arab countries-(Reuter). peace maintenance committee at Tsengshing. East River town, 35 Mr. Harry Pollitt, the former miles northeast of Canton. Is re- Communist leader, is to contest a Gaston Facros de Martin, M.B.E., Mr. Benjamin Wong Tape, Mr. ported to have been executed by by election in Bilvertown, West and Mr. Ts'c Seen-wan, the Japanese, because of his failure Ham, caused by the resignation of

C.B.E.. to commandeer 10,000 cattles of Mr. Jack Jones, Labour. The Members of the Court of the LL.D. have been nominated rice every ten days,

University of Hongkong for further period of three years each with effect from Dec. 8. Dec, 22, 1939, and Jan. 27, 1940. respec- rively.

COMMITTEES FOR CHINA - BURMA ASSN. FORMED

Labour candidate will be Mr. J. H. Collins while the Conservative Party will not contest the seat (Reuter).

Reception stations for overseas Chinese returning to China have CHUNGKING, Feb. 10 Cengal beer established by the Kwang-

-The Education and Culture, tung Provincial Government along UNCLAIMED

Chi-

TELEGRAMS

The two chiet American news agencies were compelled to ask Economics and Communications, the East River. which is now an their hundreds of European cor- Social Service, Publicity, Editing important communication route in respondents to Ale thir dispatches and Women's Committees of the Kwangtung. The overseas "trom anywhere but London.".

China-Burma Cultural Relations nese may register with any station

The following unclaimed "tele- New

York newspapers that Association have been organised. which gives them full facilities and grams are lying at Cable & Wire-

Chairmen of the different com- protection for travelling to the in- the early summer had made in

less Ltd. shrewd arrangements for careful mletees are: Mr. Yu Chun-hsien. terior. Statistics place the number Evee Denton Harbour View coverage found themselves Education and Culture Committee; of overseas Chinese who have re-Hotel Kowloon from Bombay, 1939 there are nearly 800 confronted with expensive bills for Mr. Francis K. Fan, Economics turned to Kwangtung in the last Dir Liberty Manufacturing Kow-

the cabling of news dispatches and Communications Committee; two months at over 6,000.

loon from Earenbelgique, LC which were being held up by the Mr. Hung Lan-yu, Social Service

Overseas from Manado, Walling- London censor by 10 or 15 hours.

Committee; Mr. Tseng Hsu-po.

ton Cathay Hotel from Tientsin,

newspapers · who want it. from coast to coast. In 1914, there wer about a dozen fully fledged special American correspondents in Europe.

or

In American.

American-trained, correspondents, resident European correspondents bringing the total to nearly 9,000 available sources of news. In the last week in Augus: they cabled

war

They arrived in New York as American radio chains had given garrulous echoes of what "the

for

ou to listening millions half a day use over. a million words, Of the three continen al earlier. They were hopelessly too late to print, but the bills had to be paid.

American

services

news

ure cables an average of 50,000 words a night.

On its way across the United States some of this is skeletonized, some

elaborated into series of articles from signed military, economic, and political specialists. It is cbvious that people who have other work to do. that is, the mass of American man

and

STOLEN FROM THE SOUTH SEAS MAIDEN

THE ARK ROYAL Again when the American news offices were ticking monotonously with reports of the Ark Royal, a New York foreign news editor, declaring flatly that "denials are BO use to neutrals," cabled a photographic department (of 11 men) which had been specially added to the newspaper's English cffice for such agonizing crises. He asked for a picture of the Ark Royal to be cabled immediately.

He was thunderstruck to receive the reply from his London office that the Admiralty would release

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