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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

U.S.A.-JAPAN WAR

INEVITABLE

NEW YORK, Aug. 1. (By Clipper)"War between the United States and Japan is just as Inevitable as was war between Great Britain and Germany, and for the same reason it is impossible in definitely to maintain good relations with a bad neighbour."

This is the prophecy made in a widely publicised article by MR.

the correspondent of

NEW HALLETT ABEND, former Far East YORK TIMES, which appeared yesterday in the magazine LOOK,

For a week in nightly nation. It also charges that when the time wide broadcasts Look has been seems opportune, Japan advertising Bats feature.

break which carelessly

ber

WILL WIN CONFLICT

will

All Aboard For S'pore

With his latest book "All Aboard For Singapore" (published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd., Sydney, avail- able locally from Messrs. Kelly and Walsh; price $3), Mr. Frank Clune, the noted Australian writer, com- pletes a travel trilogy of which "Sky-High to Shangha!" and "To The Isles of Spice" are the other

two.

of

FINANCE & GENERAL

North Borneo Chamber Of Commerce Meeting

Minutes of Proceedings at the thirty-first annual general meeting of the Chamber held in Sandakan on Wednesday, Aug 6, at 11 a.m., state:- Mr. J.. K. S. Malcolm man) said, in part:--

(Chair-

Regular steamer communication. between North Bornen and Singa- Hongkong has been

and

at Freight rates the end of showed the following

To United Kingdom ports 70 per cent. on pre-war rates.

To UB.A. Atlantic ports 40 per cent. on pre-war rates.

To Singapore 20 per cent. pre-war rates.

on

To Hongkong 40 per cent, în pre-war rates.

To Local Coastal ports 20 per cent on pre-war rates,

in

FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1941. -PAGE 9

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JAPAN'S GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY IN FAR EAST HAS VANISHED

Since last we met, we have seen, pore the tragic spectacle of further maintained. peace loving countries being ruth- "All Aboard for Singapore" is not lessly invaded, without the slight-last year

the barbaric Increases. treaty of merely a travel book; Mr. Clune's est provocation, hy

of Germany and Italy. has been termed the most blight-friendship, neutrality and non-racy narrative style, coupled with hordes

tyranny ing indictment of Japan yel to aggression concluded with Soviet that flair for rekindling interest in Thile further spread of appear in any Americat: periodical Russla on April 13 of this year. But the countries and towns he desert and wanton destruction by Nazism,

will not artack Mr. Abend a particle says that, Japan

Russia bes by recalling their romantic as supported by its equally contemp- broadly speaking, the fact of Herr until Hitler has first broken the sociations down the ages, lifts it tible Italian satellites, has caused Hitler being a bad neighbor is the Soviet power of resistance, it is from the mediocrity of travel books-and unfortunately is still cans- misery. particularly cause of

to the aristocracy of class tera-ing-untold the present chaos in prophesied.

Japan's military clique, trying ture. The book, woleh describes in in the invaded and oppressed Europe, and that Japan's being a bad neighbor 15 responsible for clumsily to play at diplomacy, vivid detail, in Mr. Clune's own in-countries the inevitable drift toward war by have brought the Empire to the imitable style, a four-day journey Standing between this horde of the United States. Japan is termed pasa where its whole future is tied from Sydney to Singapore (4,876 barbarians and world domination owing to increased running costs the prototype of Nazi Germany up with the hope of a German miles) by Qantas Empire Airways, the unbreakable bulwark of the due to war conditions. GENERAL "arrogant, greedy. scornful of the victory, and if Germany loses, Mr. serves to redirect attention to a British Empire and how magni-

We have been fortunate solidly the fort of with the Abend says.

will Japan rights of others, and

be 80 new and more intimate link that ficently and soundly

has North Borneo in so far escaping beaten by the United has been forged by the presence in righteousness temperament of a bully."

and freedom Listing specific causes for a war States that her naval forces will Malaya of the Australian Imperial been held against the fanatical any distress and having suffered challenge of unprecedented armed only minor inconveniences on the which he says cannot be avoided, be gone and her merchant fleet Force.

might. But for this hernie and whole from the European апс Mr. Abend names Japan's viola. fast. She will then be an Impover-

Despite the brevity his successful defence of tion of treatles concerning China, 1shed and embittered second or

freedom, Sino-Japanese hostilities.

Almost assuredly, the tline 18 and then argues that even aside even third class power.

visit. Mr. Ciune gives a fairly ar- there seems Bttle doubt that we

how have been per-fast approaching when the weight from ethical reasong the United

curate picture of Malaya. He how would by

import and export States cunnot permall Japan to be Under no illusions concerning ever. badly trips up when he says manently shackled to indescribable of necessary

restrictions for maximising the permanently successful In her the possibility of a quick easy

that the Sultan of Selangor's pal-slavery.

While the British Empire has war effort will begin to make it- campaigns of aggression and ex smashing victory for the United ace "was guarded by Punjabi sol-

bolted the sell more felt in the trade of the pansion Success. he forecasts States, Mr. Abend is nevertheless diers tu khaki, tall bronzed men manfully barred and

world domina- State than has been the case in would make Japan so powerful confident that America will win with clean shaven faces and alert door against Nazi within two decades that American the conflict. Victory will be follow-eyes. The unshaven physiognomy tion, we must not be forgetful of the year under review: It, there-

The 90-called “golden opportunity" for Japan in the Far East stand made by the fore, behoves all concerned to geographical safety would be ed by transferring most of the of the Punjabi is а national the herole

has disappeared as a result of the Gorman Invasion of Soviet Rus- making endangered, "the Japanese tem- United States Fleet

Clane Greeks in deletice of their country sateguard the future by фар the characteristic of his. Mr.

sla, declared DR. SUN FO, President of the Legislative Ynan, who terrible odds both as provision out of the existing com. perament being what it is"

Atlantic. Possly 30 submarines was apparently referring to the face of

bas been in Hongkong for a visit during the past few weeks, in a mechanica) and man parative prosperity against the will be left in the China Seas to Malay Constabulary. Then again, regards

speech at a meeting held in his honour by Kuomintang members It is now Impossible for Japan prey upon Japanese transports elsewhere he speaks of "dogs and power, and the magnificent and possibility of bleak times

in Hongkong and Macao on Aug. 18. the successful resistance against Rg the inevitable transitory stage of to reverse ner policles, the article and supply ships bound for China. children playing naked

With the German army now led difficulties, he said, is political, gression being displayed by the post-war reconstruction. argues, not only because of the, This will so seriously cripple the dust-of Singapore!

I will not attempt to make any up in Soviet Russia, Dr. Sun said. arising from the disorders created Army un the Asiatic question of "face, but because no Japanese

It is quite amusing to read Chinese and Russians

There is no knowing now

far prophesy as regards the future. Britain is now given a breathing by the Communist Party and the would

that appeasement

then General what the author thinks of those

war Admittedly, there are more diffi- time to consolidate her home de 18th Group Army. He advocated ravages of America and Great Britain which, Chiang Kai shek's armtes Can aspects of Malayan life which the devastating

of cult times ahead, both commer-fences on the one hand and pay the adoption of stern measures did not include the withdrawal of stage a gigantic counter-offensive. struck him most. He describes life will spread before the Battle

Freedom is won Bd world wide chilly and individually, but, being closer attention to the Far East on against them so as to unhold law Japanese armed forces from all of and drive them into the sea.

as he sees it without fear of favour.

and order and military discipline. prevails, but the imbued with the righteousness of the other. peace again Although the United States will For instance, he wonders whether China, and the desertion of Ju-

The recent freezing of Japanese Another difficulty low confront pan's puppet regimes there For be seeking no territorial gains by the Sultan of Johore's palace was writing is clearly on the wall that our caust, we shall willingly and

Nazism is doomed to rightful ex cheerfully bear what further de-assets, the embargo on petrol anded by the nation, Dr. Sun sald, is economic and political reasons warring against Japan, the author

not the original of the story of

lung mands are made upon tinction however hard and

us for the abrogation of the commerciw the economic problem arising from Japan does not dare to call home closes by urging that at the fal Arabian Nights, but he laments the road sul to travel may be directing our energles and re-treatles with Japan indicate Br- the skyrocketing of food prices and her army of more than 1.000.000 peace conference Japan be per- that the stair rods of a state room

articles of RUBBER

promoting tain's and the United States' de- scarcity of men. Its stated for she could manently deprived of some of that he describes in great detail werei

prosecution of the termination to check Japan. Whe-kinds. However, he said, this can The State's prosperity is close:y the successful them employment. nor long chain of islands extending

brass. How Plebeian, he com-linked

welfare of the war,

ther she with the

moves northward orbe overcome if we ractice strici afford

the dole, and the returned down the Pacific and into

rubber industry which enjoyed an Mr. Boyer served the she

Chamber southward. Dr. Sum stated, Japan economy. armies might easily be stirred to South Seas, for a long as

At a time like this when the increased restriction percentage faithfully and ably in the dis- can not now avoid the joint sane- a revolution.

holds and can fortify those is- The Look article

spotlight is again focussed on the throughout the year, in addition charge of the none too easy duties tions against her by the Demo DIRECT THREAT TO

the cradles and becoming a commun Far East. Mr. Clune's book acquires to remunerative prices. The quota of Secretary extending over

DUTCH EL great topical interest, "Now we are at the beginning of July 1940 was long stretch of 12 years.

enemy of China, Britain, the Italian Axls pact would not deter from eastern Asta.

in another war," he writes, "and 80 per cent. compared with 55 per Our grateful thanks go out to (United States and Soviet Russia. LONDON, Aug. 21 (Central)---It Tokyo's opportunist statesmen 14 "The bad neighbor should be

July both Gentlemen for the valuable at the beginning of

MANY DIFFICULTIES

learned from well-informed they thought they could appease: made to put up at least that much Singapore is in the boom, in the cent

forefront of Australian thoughts, 1939 and has been fixed at 96 per and unsparing service they ren- While stating that the interna- Dutch circles that in spite of America and Britain, and still of a bond to keep the peace," Mr.

the Chamber, coupled tional situation is turning greatly Japan's continual toning down re-* keep what they have conquered. Abend concludes (Central News), as the uneasy Pacific swells and cent for the third quarter of this dered to

Burges. Raffles's outpost is brought year. The commodity price for with the hope that they will enjoy in China's favour, Dr. Sun remind-garding the impressions created by nearer to us in the Air Age, and R.86. in Singapore on July 1 this a long and happy retirement seed his audience that the country the freezing of Japanese assets nearer still now that Australian year was 381 cents per lb, on a 98 companied by a full measure n1 is yet beset with many difficulties. and the economic blockade, off- soldiers and airmen are garrison per cent assessment compared good health and prosperity. The Arst and foremost of these cial Dutch circles regard Japan's ing the fortress and its outposts in with 37 cents per lb on 80 pet

occupation of French Indo-Chins Malaya."

cent. assessment at the corres- Messrs, Drummond & Co. agam Chairman proposed that the ite as a direct threat to the security ponding date last year. The quan- kindly audited our accounts, and port of the Committee and of the Dutch East Indies. most interesting tity of rubber exported from the the Chamber is grateful to Mr. L. Accounts of the Chamber for the Consequently such exporte as part of his book is that in which State during 1940 totalled 38,474,- C. Anderson, CA, for his volun-year ended June 30, 1941, as pre-would materially reinforce Japan's he relates a memorable Interview 026 Ihs, compared with 26,575,427 tary assistance. he had with Air Chlef Marshals. in 1930, being an increase of

CANNOT REVERSE

not give

argues

satisfy mainland,

that lands, he argues, Japan will be in Japan's adherence to the German-a position to bar American trade

Use Of Kallang River: Important Judgment

A judgment of considerable importance concerning the right of use of a branch of Kallang River waterway by sawmill own- ers and others was delivered by Mr. Justice Altken in the High Court, Singapore.

and Yim

Sub-division XVII.

ments!

Perhaps the

in

Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, whom 12,808,569 lbs. These statistics

te describes as the new C.-in.-C. clearly show that the rubber m- who does not suffer from the jdustry enjoyed more favourable | Maginot mentality,

trading during 1940 than had been To Mr. Chine Sir Robert out its lot for some years past lined his task in these words: “The

LABOUR

¡ British Cabinet has instructed The greater measure of pros me that, in any emergency, there perity enjoyed by the rubbe

sources to

channels

AUDITORS

during

15

various

*sented, be adopted, which was ear-war economy will not be per- There being no questions, the ried unanimously.

mitted

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His Lordship held: "It appears to me that the branch of Kallang River' is a navigable and tidal waterway, and that the publice have a right of navigation over it extending from the main channel of the Kallang River to places several hundred yards to the west and north-west.”

"From the agreed correspondence will be adequate reinforcements timber and firewood industries This decision is the sequel to a dispute between sawmill owners, I gather that various proceedings, and support for the territories un- daring last year resulted in labour the parties being Yim Yip Kae both civil and crimina, were taken der my command. My instructions being barely suficient for indua

Chan Kae (plaintiffs) by the plaintiff against the de-are to make Singapore as strong

This brought trial requirements. and Kwong Hock Cheong Sawmill fendants, with a view to putting and as well defended as is humanly its train a fairly general de

higher ad- &Co., Ltd. (defendants) in regard an end to any use of lot 171 by

mand by labour for possible."

rates to the use of a waterway comprised the latter, before this action was

This hook must serve to promote Vances and also increased in lot No. 171 of (Singapore) Town, launched. I have no information that greater collaboration between Day. The Chamber has given as to the exact nature or scope Australia and Malaya to which its special attention to both these im-

NEW COMMERCIAL CLASSES portant aspects of the labour The plaintiffs claimed to have of those proceedings, but they author looks

Subjects: become owners of the lot in ques- seem to have been uniformly which the presence of the AIF position and has urged employers begin September 3.

Mr. Justice went un

Typewriting,

Book on in the year 1933. It is more successful,”

in Malaya is a manifestation, J.J. generally to control advances in Shorthand, Altken

the best interests of labourers keeping, Business English, Business than seven acres in area and the

in the Malays Tribune. "From the evidence it this case,

and employers alike, and in order Correspondence, Card-Indexing & plaintiffs residence, warehouses

from what I myself have

- regularise the position. These Filing, Business Mathematica, Bual- and offices are situated on

that and

Hwang Lin, until recently mag efforts seem to have met with a ness Organization Business Ma am satisfied that this part of the lot which is above seen I

frate of Kungsi, Kansu Province. branch of Kallang River' water-

members of the Chamber, but I ministration Elementary Economics, could properly be described as dry way is used at least by six saw-was executed by a firing squad on good measure of adherence by chines & Appliances, Business Ad- mills, and one other mill, for the August 16 by order of the Kanu is known that other employers & Mercantile Law. Inclusive fees for

Provincial Government for cor- purposes of their businesses When the plaintins went tnto **Tongkangs

and twakows of ruption and extortion in connexion are still granting substantial ad-, tuition and textboks, Registration occupation of the dry part of the considerable size do undoubtedly with oplum suppression last win-vances in order to attract labour, from today. School of Accoun- which is regrettable. High ad- tancy & Commerce, Kowloon, vances particularly as an induce Telephone: 50855. ment prior to engagement gre

high water mark and which

land

some 300 yards measured from of the defendants premises. the western border of their own dry land.

ter

forward, and.

of

lot, they found no fewer than

navigate this waterway as far as three sawmill companies in active the defendants' wharf, and I have operation to the south-west of seen several at the wharves of the ed with water, which, for all prae- much to be deprecated, them, and all within a distance of other mills situate well to the westfoal purposes, forms a part of the The Chamber, after careful de liberation, repotumended the con

FOR SALE:—Robinson Plano, in "At high tide, the defendants' branch of Kallang River.

"Whoever may be the owner of tinuance of extra cost of living whart le washed by the

allowances on a graduated scale excellent condition and tone. Any the adil in these 'waterways' such three sawmill Coll-waters of this branch of Kallang ownership, even though vested in rather than increases in standard reasonable offer accepted. For full panies were using those parts of River waterway, and I hold that the Crown, is subservient to the rates of pay, and the recommen particulars, apply Box 398, H.K.D.F. lot 171 which consist of waterways they are riparian owners entitled

dations have been generally for the purpose of bringing unto the enjoyment of the water Pablo right, of navigation and sawn logs to their wharves and which washes their wharf in its must not be used in any way to adopted by employer members of

derogate from or interfere with the Chamber.

All these

dal

Aitken.

SHIPPING

WANTED TO BUY

WE PAY HIGH PRICES

for the purpose of exporting saw nacural flow and quantity and free that right." added Mr. Justice planks therefrom and for storing from deliberate obstruction." de-

Having regard to the tonnagu their loge until required for action clared his lordship.

T have no difficulty in hold-position, a drop of about 4 par in the milt.

40 YEARS!

ing went on his lordship, "that cent, in the total entries of mer- LED TO DISPUTES

Continuing, Mr. Justice Altzon the defendants, both as riparian chant shipping was less than "This practice in regard to the said: "I have found, san Tack, owners and as members of the could have reasonably been ex for all gold and silver articles. storage of their Togs very soon led that the defendants, and their general public are entitled to pented under the provalling ab-Jade, diamonds, jewels, watches to disputes between the plaintifs predecessors in title, have plied navigate their craft over so much normal conditions. The respective fountain pens. Apply Far East and these three sawmill noigh-their craft over both these water of both the "waterways' da He tonnage entries were 843,440 Diamond and Gold Refining Co., bours and one more further to the ways, openly and without inter- within the boundaries of lot 1040 and 866,098 In 1995, the prin Rooms 821, China Buildinig. Oth floor. Bundays and Holidays open.

south-west, and as the defendants ferotica, for at least qu' years batore| 171,5 | Va

I wore and are the nearest of those action was brought. The fact is Mr. N. A. Maial was for the neighbours, they soom to hayo that these areas are mostly fore- plaintina while Mr. Roland Brud- one the brunt of the plaintiffs' shure and, where not foreshore, doll; with Mr. C. 1 Omith, repré displeasure” stated his lordshin consist of land permanently cover, iented the defendants.

elpal flag distribution being

British 62.29 per cent Japanese 31.21 per cent Clutch 6,98 për- dent./" Worth Borneo 4.00 per cent.

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