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TOUNUKU 1801 NO 13.07

X# VEX SATURDAY, JANUARY 9,

1932. 日二初月二十

EN PER ANNEK

SINGLE CUFT 10 CENTS

UNITED STATES PLAYING LONE

JAPAN'S ATTACK ON JEHOL

RESISTANCE AT

PEI PIAO.

FALL EXRECTED.

Peking, Jan. 8. Hostilities between rapidly advancing Japanese troops and Chinese regiments are taking place at Pei Piao on the Fengtien-Jehol frontier.

The Japanese Are making

HAND.

Britain, France and the Nine-Power Treaty.

LONDON & PARIS STATEMENTS.

AMERICA IN DIFFERENT

POSITION.

London, Jan. 8.

fierce attempts to der AUTHORITATIVE statements have been

of the Manchurian regimentsi from South Manchuria, Fight- ing commenced on Thursday and was continuing this morning, with the Chinese suffering heavy casualties.

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The fall of Pel Pine, the gate way to Jehol. Is considered to be imminent

the Japanese invaders have been reinforced by tresh regiments from Chinchow. The railway districts between Chinchow and Chaoyang have alt been occupied by the Japanese A full regiment has been dele- nted to duty as Railway guards. for the protection of the Peking- Mulden Hallway from Chinchow to Shanhalkwan.

The

Manchurian Government

issued both in London and Paris, showing that neither Great Britain and France arc prepared to adopt the attitude of the United States in respect of Manchuria in invoking the Nine-Power Treaty.

Both statements stress that the United States is not a member of the League of Nations and is therefore in a different position.

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If we had a flag day, we might We once know a girl who make a city haul!

thought the Arctic Circle was the coldest seat in the cinema.

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GOVERNMENT OF LOSS TO BRITISH January bill the white

BURMA.

POLITICS.

Large Transfer of DEATH OF MR. W.

Responsibility.

LOYAL

MESSAGE.

London, Jan. 8. Except for the statement of Government policy, which the Premier will make on Tuesday,

ference concluded its work with the plenary sessions held to-day. A resolution was ananimously adopted expressing gratitude to the King stating:-

the Burma Round Table Cor

"At the conclusion of the Con-

GRAHAM.

PRIVY COUNCIL BEFORE 40.

London, Jan. 8. Mr. William Graham, Pro. sident of the Board of Trade in the last Labour Govern- ment, who has been gravely ill for some time, passed away this evening.

ference summoned to consider recovery ant a few days Yo

burden.

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man'A

The best thing to wear at a

of bridge party is a pair shin- Kuards.

What, and not when, they can get out of Manchuria is evidently the chlof concern of Japan's militarists.

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Half of Kowleon doesn't know how the other half lives-but it

Now that January is here, we can begin to reduce the cost of has its nuspicions. giving.

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Extra duties are being put an

Owing to the depression, we are playing cards at Home. This may told, more than the usual number be described as taxing the people's

of engagements were broken off patience.

in Aberdeen before December 26. ᄆᄆ

ឆ ជ

There's nothing particularly

new in Senator Borah's idea of A writer declares that presence paying debts in silver. It's quite

of mind prevents many an acel common in Hongkong.

So does absence of body.

dent.

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The fact that "mistletoo" casos

These people at Home who There were high hopes for his rushed to pay their taxes must of diphtheria were not so numer have heard at some time or other qua DA expected suggests that about how England expects every Hongkong went in for pecking man to pay his duty,

Instead of potting partics,

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the lines of constitution for when the pneumonia infection Burnin separated from India, the spread and developed into double Already weakened. delegates would wish to assure pneumonix. Your Majesty, if such assurances he failed to survive the crisis. were required, that they and the.

His death is, a severe blow 10 wants to know people of Burma yield to none in

British politics, to Your

youthful as leading Parliamen- the best thing and Majesty

Your Majesty's

The British statement recalls that Japan favours unfaltering loyalty the Open Door policy in Manchuria. The French state-Throne." ment says that France's "moderating influence" will be! exercised chiefly through Geneva:

troops who were concentrated at France, while not really unexpect-proposal

ed in the circumstances, comes communicated to Sir Ronald Lind-

I.wanchow,

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all

A resolution adopting the re- port expressed the hope that it recorded the opinions of the partius represented and regia- tered a substantial measure of agreement li would serve the par- рове for which the Conference was called,

Although

stile

A

reader

to take on a

tarians go (he was only 44), he had established an enviable reputation|ong hike.

in the House of Commons, where Money for the he was extremely

степ popular among his Party opponents.

His

Mr. Graham

the "indus AVAR trious apprentice" in politics. career would have rejoiced the heart of Dr. Samuel

The attitude of Britain and that the American Government's to send the Note was

K which

Mituated

the British Ambassador in of the State Washington, a few days ago and within the Great Wall, have now as rather a surprise in view of say,

tired to Peking and Tientsin.the announcement

Department that the "Powers had a copy was sent to him at the time: Reusda

agreed upon sweeping and un-of its despatch.

Concluding the general discus-Smiles, A boy mistakable action," leading to the

"It is understood similar action slon, the Chairman, Lord Peel, to clerk in the War inference that the other signa wan CONFERENCE OF tories to the Nine-Power Treaty Washington representatives of the whose services many appreciative Office

the

A:

GOVERNORS.

M. PASQUIER'S VISIT TO HONGKONG.

ANTI-RED MOVE.

of

visit

taken with the

had,

parties to the after conference with Mr. countries Stimson, agreed to adopt the Power Treaty.

United course proposed by the States.

It

A Conflict.

to

1 interesting, however, note that while Reuter's version of the British and French attitude indicates finnlity regard the Rions,

dise-

There is a suggestion in a British Wireless message that the question of invoking the Nine-Power Treaty may still be under consideration.

The message states:

Japan's Assurance.

other

Nine-

Enormous Transfer.

and A

reporter

Scottish

references were made by the junior delegates, expressed the view that on perhaps some of the delegates had country paper, he concentrated their attention too saved mirabile

Finuch on the safeguards and con-fictu-to support himself for six "It is recalled that at the re-trols reserved the Governor years at Edinburgh University, cent League Council meetings on and had not ently roulised where he had a brilliant curcer the Manchurian situation, the the enormous transfer of ths in arts and law, and laid the Japanese delegate gave a definite netual coa'eel of business which foundations of the career which assurance to the League that under the e notitution fore-led him into the Privy Council Japan would observe the principle showed

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bus fare back.

As we see

B

long beard

these days

ja

Officer: There are

stowaways

on board-four of them

*One trouble with the rising generation Ja that it doesn't do во early enough.

A B even greater mystory Captain: How do you know than who won the Great War what the winnings there.

only useful for there are four? cheating nt chess..

'Twas

Officer: They're singing "Sweet Adeline,"

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tall

and

building A stately, Where the Fathers met sedately, But it's gone to ruin lately, And it is our City Hall.

No more sounds the cheery

Inughter,

Ringing o'er each beam

raftor;

and

No more mornings which came. must come 10 the before he was forty.

after of the Open Door, to which the Burmese Government and people.

Academic Successcs.

Visiting our City Hall. The great range of provincial American note calls attention,

can't receive Now we The fact that he was medallist and central subjects involved a

tourista, tremendous

of weight fresh fa the history of economics, in and mathematical Burma's statistics

Whether they be prudes

purists,

Receiving Consideration,

An important political which is believed in well-informed circles to have a close relation to

"As she is not a member of responsibility upon the existing situation in the Far: East is foreshadowed by an official

the League, the United States is Legislature and Executive in com- economics, and in forensic medi- announcement that M. Pasquier, "In regard to the Note which the in a somewhat different position partson with which the so-called cine and administrative law, in-

Governor-General

Government has from the other interested powers. controls and safeguards shrank dicates that he was the United States French Union of Indo-Chin, is sent to the Japanese and Chinese shortly to make an official visit to Governments with reference to consideration Hongkong, in the course-of a trip the recent events in Manchuria, Secretary, and the French Am- to the Philippines to return the calling attention to the terms of bassador, M. Fleurian has called ace him in connexion there. visit made last year to-Indo-China Nine-Power Treaty and the Kel-to

logy Pact, it is stated in London with."

by Mr. Dwight Davies.

M. Pasquier is expected about the middle of the present month, and the manner of his arrival will partake of the spectacular, as con sideration is being given to a trip preference to by hydroplane, in transit by a man-of-war,

Meeting Admiral.

RESIGNATION OF M. BRIAND.

END OF LONG REIGN.

Paris, Jan. 8.

"The question in receiving the into leas importance.-British Wired at least in

of the Foreign|icss.

BRITISH BANK PROFITS.

BIG FIVE PAY BIG DIVIDENDS.

London, Jan. 8.

a serious- youth, and serious he Tho public. sense of fun, which enabled him to see the amuning side of the economic doctrines propound-

little vent leagues, found too when he spoke in the House or on the platform.

GENERAL DAWES ed by some of his Clydeside col-

RESIGNING.

PLANS TO RETURN TO BANKING.

He was rather ponderous in style, and his amazing fluency was

Perhaps

According to a contemporary, the St. Andrew's Society is holding a "Buous" Dinner on the 23rd Inatant. Maybe it'll be pronounc- ed something like that when it's in full swing.

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Japan is for peace. Yes, a big piece of Manchuria.

To achieve the bost results is boxing, a man must fight intelll-

grent gently, saya a sports writer. The trouble often is, however, to find a smaller man.

of course

or

our

Men of Letters, Princes, Jurists, For we've closed our City Hall.

in expansion, We shall build another mansion, Instead of wood each fron

stanchion

Shall protect our City Hall. Then we'll hear the bagpipes

wailing,

"Many people awake to find them- selves with bad colds,” anya a medi- cal writer. In the doze.

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Poultry Farm Note:-One way to get more eggo from your hens Is to buy more hens.

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Interviewed in the West Indies Highland flings and reels pre-

on how he felt after his recent ac- vailing.

La Auchtermuchty rev'lers hailing, cident, Mr. Winston Churchili

reported to have replied:-"Nassau Sampana at our City Hall!

-Cyn. bad!"

the

apt to be a shade monotonous. His hearers listened with amazed admiration as hia prodigious Washington, Jan 8. memory enabled him without a On arrival in Hongkong. His!

General Charles Dawes, the scrap of notes to reci oft without

Shopkeepers would like Excellency will meet the Com-

American Ambassador in Great pause, without a slip, stacks of inander-in-Chief of the French!

Britain, has announced that he is facts and figures, or to follow the public to know a little more about of the

discursive the relence of buy-ology, Forces in Far Eastern Waters,

tendering his resignation after intricacies

ឆ ជ Vice-Admiral Herr, who is expect-

Sometimes he gave, without ed at about the same time from

ference.

The atory of the watches shows On the eve of a series of im-STABILITY UNSHAKEN. serving at the Disarmament Con- debate to which he was replying. Shanghai with his flagship, the

has that oven Gandhi can't resist the portant international conferences,

General Dawes, it is learned, truth, an impression that he was

lesson he Waldeck-Roussenu.

The purpose of the visit pre-M. Briand, who has directed French

The last two of the "Big Five" proposes to return to Chiengo and repeating

ᄆᄆ viously reported of the Vice-foreign policy for many years in

hia flagship Admiral and

crushing retort, at length some- to successive governments, has re- of the British Banks, the Midland to resume itia activities in the laboriously learned by heart. But "Buy British" movement.

Bank and Lloyd's Bank, have banking business.-Reuter's Amer- he proved the contrary by a

Race Tip: The coolest way to times, to an interjection and then Manila, is now explained by the signed the portfolin of Minister inued their reports showing that

returning to the main thread of spot the winner is to get a good information that it will take M. for Foreign Affairs, on the grounds they have enjoyed a profitable year equally with Barclays, West-

the argument. Some time age he position near the finishing post.. Pasquier on board and proceed of 1-health.

☐☐ with him to Manila for the pur-

explained in a newspaper article that he improvised a system of

The Bridge Players' Lament:---- poses of the gubernatorial visit.

mnemonies as the debate went on."Oh for the trumps of a vanished But that wae one of his

rare hand" jokea.

General in Party.

accom.

M. Pasquier will be panted on his tour, it is further revealed, by General Billotte, Commander-in-Chief of the mill

The tary forces in Indo-China. Inclusion of this high military official in the entourage is further oxplained by the Information

ican Service.

It is presumed that he will re-minister and the National Provin VACANCY ON THE Lain, for the time being, his posi-icial. tion as President of the League of Nations Council-Reuter,

ELDERLY LADY GAGGED.

The

Midland Bank have de- clared a six-months dividend

nt

the rate of sixteen por cont, por Annum, making a total dividend

COUNCIL.

for the year of sixteen per cent. SIR HENRY POLLOCK'S

thirteen

TERM ENDING.

That ás is proceeding to the DISCOVERED BY BER third per cent. for the year, less sontative of the Justices of the

Civil Serviced 20

Philippines to view military and manoeuvres which are being

carried out towards the end of

China

to

the

GRAND-DAUGHTER.

When visiting her grandmother

at the

עם

At the Treasury. It should not be supposed that less tax.

he was a sort of young Sydney Lloyd's Bank have declared a

Allod with It is notified in the Gazette that Webb, his head half-yearly dividend of and a third per cent. per annum, the term of office of the Hon. Sirutatistics and his veins with red making a total of thirteen and a Henry Pollock, K.C., as repre- ink. His early training in the

tax-Reuter.

Peace on the Legislative Councii, University, and expires on the 18th instant.

politics had been Should more than one nominu-membership of the Royal Com tion be received for the vacancy, a mission on Income-tax, or Oxford meating of J.P.'s other than and Cambridge Universities, and Government officials will be held on many other problema, but, shove all, by the year he spent at the Supreme Court from noon a Secretary to the Treasury. to 1 pm. on the 16th inst,

Nominations must be sont in not That was a post after his own

heart. later than the 14th instant.

If Mr. Ramsay MacDonald (who

secret ambition he Graham's

THE REPARATIONS

PROBLEM.

the month.

the at 21, Sai Tau Village, Kowloon An official intimation to

City, yesterday afternoon, Chan Indo-China

to has this proas

visit Klu, a married woman, of 8, Takul- any of the visit: The of the Governor-General of Indo-bound and gagged.

ing Road, found the elderly lady Philippines

She immediately informed the BRITISH EXPERT RETURNS will be an occasion for important police, who, on arrival at the

tho exchange of views between chiefs of the colonics. It will be house, which was in great dieor concerned not only with the de- dor, had the woman removed to and hospital in an unconscious condi- velopment of commercial friendly relations, but also, above tion.

TO PARIS.

из

My knees are bare; my wind-

blown hair

Enjoys uncovered freedom; I'm fully geared with gadgets

weird,

Convinced that I shall need 'em.

One paint which the proposed

whether tips should be given to the Hiking Club should consider is

chauffeurs.

Madrid is arranging Parliament- ary broadcasts. This should 30 enough to restore the Monarchy.

A burglar was recently surprised at work in a Government office. Naturally!

☐ ☐ Probably what is needed is. more franc-ness and less pound- ing away at one another.

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Apparently when the two Staffs met at golf, the soldiers were all ses while the sailors found themselves, on Arm ground.

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My back Ja bant; it bears a tent; Another revoit le foreshadowned

A wisp of grass I'm chewing. from Madrid. Risings are be- From head to foot, I'm all coming to be an qld Spanish cus

complete

A biker, up and doing!

tom.

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Japan and China are not at war,

tion.

These floods in Scotland seem but all the same this Manchurian likely to increase the national business is a strenuous occupa,

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What we would like to know is, It's beginning to be realised in loved him) could have read Mr. America that what business most what Will Rogers say of Hong-

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London, Jan, 8. Sir Frederick Lelth Rons, of tho British Treasury, loft for The Governorin-Council has autho- could not have made a luckier hit.nceda is the command, "Cekong?

Firing!" Tho

woman WEB apparently Paris to-day to resumo his ex-rised a piece of land about 250 acres It enabled him to wallow in statis- all things, to improve measures al robbed, but the police have so far change views with French experts at Tai O to be used as a cemetery and tice and to wrestle with all no manner of financial conundrums. ready takon against political

reparations.urn cemetery, outside of which

(Continued on Page 19.) burials may ‘tako place. versaries common to all civilited not been able to obtain any infor- on the subject of

British Wireless. people."

ad-

mation from her,

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those diphtheria What lots of women don't know rumours were much exaggerated about a car would fill a hospital. a gargled version of the faste

Some