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Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1932.

RUSSO-JAPANESE TENSION

Sud-

by all that is best in humanity, by the tollers of the whole world, who know that the Soviet Union is fighting for the peace and wel.. fare of all mankind." This is a tvpical article. In line with much that is being sued at present from the Soviet press, reflecting an outlook which suggests that Russia is determined to resist any- thing which smacks of Japanese nygression.

DAY BY DAY

IN THE PRACTICAL WORK DONE IN MUNICIPAL LIFE A MAN GETS A QUIC-

DO NOT MEDDLE

IN THE FAR EAST!

KER RETURN THAN FROM WORK DONE A WARNING TO

IN PARLIAMENT.-Ronebery.

BELLIGERENT PACIFISTS

PEACE there will be in the Faris no Chinese Government with

our

Mra, G. S. Archbutt was among tho A.K. she left by the passengers When we take further into ae-Changte to-day.

a sort of a kind of al whom any ono-can treat.

Great Britain is Just now in a count the reported missing of His Excellency the Governor la hold-,... peace, which might be called

very precarious position. in the Soviet troops along the Maning an Investiture at Government Pax Japonica.

Bolligerent churian bordor.. and when it is House on Monday, May 2nd., at 10.00'

That le to say, the Japancae Far East, and generals will make many low bows paciflats had better be careful how stated that Japan is ready to make am

and civil speeches to the Lytton thoy lecture and provoke Japan, any sacrifice to retain Manchuria,

The P. and O. liner Chitral, which Commission; they will discuss the which hha the finest artillery at even war with Russin and the arrives here from Singapore at noon whole situation; they will oven the moment, and every branch of United States, it becomes clear to-morrow, sails for Shanghai at 19 withdraw their troops; they will army, navy, and air force highly that the situation is full of ugly a.m. on Thursday,

pay certain indemnities for proved trained, and concentrated in the damage. But--and this is the tiny sen of Japan within 48 hours' possibilities. Both sides appear at

re-point-Japan will remain in pos- stenm of Shanghai. The British the moment to be suspicious of each other, and when relations beports that the situation there a quiet session of Manchuria to-day, to- forces by land, sea and air are

A number of refugees have arrived in Amey from Changchow.

H.M.S. Devonshire, at Amoy,

a For p.m.

morrow, the day after, and until scattered all round the world, while tween countries assume that com-

Rome stronger military Power dis- the forces of the other Powers are plexion, it does not require a great

negligible. The Mikado is absolute lodges her. The final dance of the season will! deal to fun the embers into fire. It

To Japan the League of Nations master of the situation.

The Americans hate and fear the would be a world calamity were be given by the Cheoro Club at Lane stands for Europe, and Japan hasi Crawford's Restaurant, Exchange Ragain and Japan to cross words, Building, on Monday, April 26, at 8.30 not forgotten how Europe, robbed Japanese, who dislike and despise her of the fruits of victory in 1895. the Americans. Japan is the one yet further complicating

Manchuria. was a part or append-country upon whose policy America Eastern situation which is already

The Central Fire Brigade received ango of the Chinese empire, and has falled to Impress its will and

vapouring call about 2 p.m. yesterday from the gave its name to the dynasty which prestige. Colonial Secretary's Office, which fell in 1912. The year 1895 saw scurrilous American Press and its proved to be a false alarm, as the the victory of Japan in the Sino- hectoring politicians merely excite ringing of the C.S.O. fire alarm bell in Japanese war, and Manchuria was the smiles of the Japanese, who are fatuous enough to consider their the Brigade office was due to a fault taken by the victor. in the electrical mechaniam.

But to Russia this seemed too Emperor a greater man than the rich a prize for the contemptible President of the United States.

The Guam Incident.

Aufficiently threatening and acute. But history shows that mutual suspicion and recrimination often lend to graver developments. Let us hope that in this instance there will be no such upshot. Peace, and not war, in what the East and.

indeed, the whole world, has need to pray for.

ngo,

hnd gives

The

and

Mr. Charles Chaplin and his bro ther, Mr. Syd, Chaplin, are expected little nation that inhabited a small to return to Singapore from thele island. With the help at any

In 1918 the Americans took over visit to Java and Ball on the 22nd rate, with the benevolent ne and will leave for Hongkong and quiescence of France and Great the island of Guam, about the size Japan by the Hakozaki Maru on the Britain, Russia proceeded to take of Malta, where they intended to away from Japan. make a harbour big enough to take 24th inst. Mr. Charles Chaplin was Manchuria so interested in Bali that he declded Then the Japanese, with that in the entire American Navy. to spend an extra week there.

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of the

Lamont

HONGKONG SHARE

MARKET.

OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY STOCK EXCHANGE.

am the dull side.

Sales,

Hongkong Banks $1550. Union Insurances $470. Evo Cottons Ths. 1514/15,16, Hongkong Trams $21.85/21.00. Hongkong Electrics $74. Constructions (New) $1.85. Govt. Loans 4% Premium.

Buyers. Hongkong Banks $1540. Union Insurances $165. Douglases $26,

Soy

Not To Be Fooled Again,

the

According to all accounts The so-called Chinese Empire is Chinese has many likeable and nit-

He loves broken up, and has politically mirable qualities.

All the king's laugh, and you can do much with ccused to exist. horses and all the king's men can-him by appealing to his sense of not set Humpty-Dumpty together humour. His power of work i again; for 97 per cent. of the Chi- very great, he never grumbles, and nese people are illiterate, though within limits is a valuable servant. they are industrious and ingenious The educated middle-class China- workmen. There are more than 70 man, the cashier, the contractor. war lords all over China, fighting is among the most competetent and one another for loot. Chiang Kai- honest in the world. shek, the self-elected President of the so-called National Government

Straight Lines in Furniture By report from France, all is not well with the furniture in-

tense patriotiam and tenacity of But Japan was clever enough to years

purpose which are their charac- carry a resolution at the Washing- dustry, which, some went "modern" in style and is now: What was described as an unserviceteristics, set to work for ten yeara ton Conference that there should navy and be no more constructional activity dubious about the economic result. alle revolver was produced before Mr. to build up a strong

in the Pacific; so Guam had to be A new unornamented and geome-Fraser, at the Kowloon Magistracy army.

inorning, when Detective Ser-

scrapped. They tried to get us to trically designed kind of furniture geant Lamont applied for the con-

atop our work at Singapore. There Bald was produccil, attracting the atten- fiscation

application, Son. In making

By 1905 they knew themselves are no spots on Japanese diplomacy. tion of household decorators the the revolver was found by a scaveng-strong enough to challenge the Now I hear, on good authority. world over. inspiring illustrateding colle in a site channel at

news-Street, and handed over to a Chinese bully of the East. Japan crumpl- that the United States has made up ed Russia up, and retook Man-its mind to get out of the Philip- articles in magazines and

was passing at the detective, who papera, outmoding carlier styles, time. His Worship ordered the wes-churia, whose enormous agricul- pines. Will Japan take them? tural and mineral wealth the And if that should lead to war be- and promising happy days for pan to be confiscated.

ever tween America and Japan, will not Japanese have developed furniture makers, The oddity.

since. Japan will not be fooled Great Britain be forced into it on

time: and often the charm, of the new

beaten the side of the United States? a second

having

It is a terrible contingency, but Russia, she is not likely to be furniture stirred early enthusiasm,

remote wheedled or frightened out of not so improbable or but here comes the rabits essen-

Mancharin by the League of Na- might be thought by those who tinis consist in materials and com-

tious. Should the gem of the Far have not watched the decline of bination. By adopting pinin sur-

Enat be internationalised and England and the rise of Japan in Whatever may happen in Shang-

faces and straight lines the new

divided up between the Western the Far East. Sasebo, the Japanese hai-and the portents at the no- furniture climinated much of the

Powers, when Japan has fairly Portsmouth, is 1,500 miles from ment

triffe brighter-craftsmanship that seem a

The fall in the sterling value of the acquired the country by her own Guam, and there is no restriction there seems every probability, as

France the world's leadership in dollar failed to act as an incentive valour and intelligence, and done of naval activity in those dock- a foreign traveller just arrived in

the making of furniture. There is towards more liveliness in the market, for it what China has failed to yards.. Shanghai from Harbin suggests, no further need for the wood carver and conditions this morning were still do? that the Far East spotlight will and the cabinet-maker,`amil shortly be switched to Manchuria.

writer in Le Figaro has predicted The chaotic conditions prevailing that several trades hitherto largely there, coupled with mutua} picions on the part of Japan and dependent on the furniture Indus- Russia, do seem to indiente that try will presently vanish. Criti- cism comes, Inwever, from more we are on the eve of serious de- velopments. Indeed, there is, in widely diffused sources than any some quarters, open talk of the single observer composing an

ú Russo-Japanese ticle for a magazine. Many dire possibility of conflict, which, if it came, would events have been prophesied in such completely overshadow anything articles that happily did not come T!A0 But complaint is that has occurred in the Far East to pass. for many years past. Whilst there reported from the Chambre Syndi- of furniture, is, so far as the hyman can see,cale (trade union) no real reason why these two na- from the Chambre Syndicale of to war, the bronze workers, from the manu- tions should resort fact cannot be overlooked that the facturers themselves, and from the tension between the two-bas lat-ngociation of apprentices in the terly increased to a marked degree, furniture industry. It is easy to understand that the manufacturers: accompanied by a deal of sabre-

are seriously disturbed by a falling rattling which bodes no wood.

off in the exportation af furniture Apart from any other causes for which, when analysed, indicates friction, it cannot be doubted that that the new furniture is all too conveniently easy for foreign Russia is jealous of Japan's grow-manufacturers to produce by im- ing hold on Manchuria, apparently porting and copying French models. fearing that she has territorial am- The art and mystery of fine furni- bitions which may be prejudicial ture work, not easy to imitate, and to the Soviet's interests. There now so largely abandoned, are constant references in the what had given the French product

n commanding pesition. The Soviet press, also, to Japanese in-sociations of workers see the situa trigue with "White" Russians,, tion from another angle, and are and, turn where one will, there is apprehensive of being compelled to apparent an obsession that Japan choose between unemployment or a has evil designs on Russia. Only different means of livelihood. a few days ago, there appeared the other hand, and this is of hope to the workers, there are signs of in Invealia, the official Soviet or-

reaction against expression gan, an article warning "Japanese modernism, already described Imperial adventurers" of the folly some critics, as an "excess of sim of aggravating Russla. The wri-plicity" which is no more desirable ter of this article asserted that than excess of anything else.

ar.

Was

ag-

DOLLAR DOWN A FARTHING

SILVER DECLINE

REFLECTED.

On

of

by

those Japanese who are plotting to strain relations between the two countries will involve their coun- try in a struggle in which it will inevitably meet defont. "The U.S.B.R.", said this writer, "will, in case of danger, place under arms sufficient millions fully to protect all its frontiers......We

The Hongkong dollar continues know that a war would cause the to be erratic, moving in sympathy greatest distress to our own and with- silver variations. This the Japanese people, but we also morning it

a farthing to know that in such a struggle the 1s. 21⁄21⁄2d. Intor-bank business has Japanese ruling classes would find been done at about 1s. 2.7/8d., but their grave ......The road of the U.S.S.R. is clear and simple. As the representative of the interests and China sold, while the Contin-

the market has an easy undertorio.

Silver declined 5/16the in Lon

don. spot and forward. America-

market ruled

of the toflors, it does not wantent and speculators were buyers on a quiet market. After the war. If challenged to battle, It will have the right to seek temomcial fixing, the porary allies among those capi- quietly steady, with America not

operating. tallat Powers which at the pre- New York reports a drop of a sent stage do not threaten its bor-quarter in silvor, with the market abso ders, and ita interests. The U.S.S.R.steady. Sliver futures are will fight, and it will be supported down..

Benguets 14.

Wharves $1.434-

Providents

(New) $214. Chinese Estates $95%.

Denguet Explorations 25 cents.

longkong Trams $21. Yaumati Ferries $35. China Lights (Old) $20. Macao Electrics $244. Cements (Combined) $18. Lane, Crawfords (Old) $5.60. Amusements $22.

Constructions (New) $1.80. Govt. Luans 34% Premium.

Sellers. S. C. Enterprises $10. Constructions (Old) $5.80.

Ancestor Worship Ideala

of China, has his headquarters at Per contra, the Chinese ronSECH Nanking, which has a population are detestably cruel, and they have of seven millions, about a sixty-no sense of national unity, organi- fourth of the total population of Bation, or partiotism. They are

China.

100-miles Radius of Power.

JL

the con-

quite contented to live ns their ancestors have lived for the Inst 3,000 years. They envisage The radius of the National Gov- future world as a place of re-union crnment's power is about 100 miles, with their relatives, and Chinese. and although Chiang Kai-shek is ancestor-worship has always seem- for the time in alliance with Feng, ed to me a more respectable and the so-called Christian general, amiable delusion than no one can tell how long the con- tempt for their predecessors affect- bination will last. To talk of the ed by Western democrats,

Whether the Chinese will ever tiny republic of Nanking as the capital of China is ludicrous. There break through the cake of custom it is impossible to say. As things look now, the best thing for the civilisation and commerce of the world, in my judgment, would be for the Japanera to develop, or- ganise and administer China, England has organised and ad- ministered Indin. The difficulties would not be so great, as, though they speak different language, Chinese and Japanese are both of Mongolian stock.

"I can see the boss' point. His son's funt boen married and boods that Job aż much as I do.''

as

Such a policy would be a check- mate to Bolshevism. Whether it is feasible or not, nothing can be more foolish than to quarrel with Japan to please. America; or more odious than to raise the colour bar In order to support the tyranny of trades unions in the Antipodes.

A.. A. B.

SUGAR MARKET.

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

The following cable at the close of the sugar market yesterday has been recolved by Mesaro. Pon- troath and Co.

London Terminals August 1932 4/7 down 11⁄2d. December 1982 4/111⁄2 down 1d.

March 1933 5/24 down 1d. May 1988 5/4, down 1d. Buyers at above prices, sollors asking d-d more.

Now York Terminals. May 1982.59 down 4 pts. July 1932 .67 down 4 pta. September 1982 74 down 8 pts. December 1982 .81 down 3 pts. March 1988 .88 down 4 pts.

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