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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER

TRADITIONAL "PRESTIGE" OF WHITE

MAN IS THING OF

THE PAST

East is East and West-

Tientsin, Doc. 15.

The traditional "white man's prestigo" is rapidly becoming a thing of the part in North China those days under the influenco of the Japanese militarlits,

There was a time when Orientals jumped to one side and gaped in awe as the important white man walked down the street with his nose high in the air. This was the way of the "Old China Hand" 30 or 40 years ago. The new generation of foreigners sought to meet their Chinese equals on equal terms and voluntarily eschewed the lordly, grandiose manner of the oldsters: This is the custom in other parts of China to-day."

From Gallipoli To Ethiopia

WARIP PASHA, the Turkish gener-

al who was chiefly responsible for forcing the Allies to evacuate Gallipoli in the great war, in forcing the Italians to retreat in Ethiopia to-day.

"SPANISH LENIN" ON TRIAL

ACCUSED OF LEADING OCTOBER REVOLT

Madrid, Dec. 10, Francisco Largo Caballero, the “Spanish Lenin," who is charged with having led the abortive re volution of October, 1934, faced the first phase of his trial before the Supreme Court. here this

morning.

But in North China most for- eigners think there is a deliberate attempt by the Japanese militarista [to discredit the foreigners in the eyes of the Chinese and make him "lose Ince" whenever the chance prosents itself, white Japan's "face" rapidly mounts, until to-day "every Japanese is king".

Every foreigner la this part of the country who mixes much with Chinese and Japanese has had ex-

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Few white people wander into the part of China where this photograph was taken. The people shown here belong to a nomadic tribe living in the Jargo desert districts where Klangal, Turkestan and Tibet meet. These people are always wandering from place to place with their camels and their belongings.

Famous

Novelist

periences which have literally Leaves

"burned him up" and left him quivering with impotent rage.

Hoi, E. HI, II. Ward, newspaper correspondent in Tientsin, son of

A Fortune

a British curl, had such an experi- ence when Chinese constable In Mr. Silas Kitto Hocking, the the Japanese Concession spat in his novelist, who died on September face while a mob of coolics and beg-15, at the age of 86, left £19,830

Hars stood around and laughed. gróss (net personalty £19,741). He would have been torn to pieces had he protested with. physical

"Old Chinese Custom"

violence. He took it up with the

British Consulate General and the Japanese Consulate General but of course nothing was ever done about It nothing ever is. "Oh, that's only an old Chinese custom," was the nearest to an answer he re ceived from the Japanese employ- vrs of the crime was that his chauffeur turned policeman. Ward's

a corner Improperly.

A Japanese army officer tore at the clothes, pushed and pulled Hewitt F. Mitchell, American pilot of the China National Aviation Company, who, declined to allow Japanese soldiers to climb all over the plane. A Japanese-speaking foreigner intervened as peace- maker and while they talked, Mit- chell started up the plane and re- turned to Shanghai.

Major G. A. Herbert, British Superintendent Consul in Tientsin, was pushed off British property in Tangku at the point of a Japanese bayonet when he went there to in- vestigate Japanese acizure of British land. Later the Japanese recognized the British claim to the land and offered to buy it at their own price.

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Newspaperman Questioned

A United Press staff corres- pendent and an American Govern-

Intense excitement prevails, ment official were summarily and police have taken all pre-ordered off the Peiping-Liaoning cautions against disorder, for Raliway platform by a Japan- ose army offeer because they Caballero is the most popular happened to be present when a the Spanish Labour leaders.

of

The prosecution demands a sen- tence of 30 years' penal servitude, evidence certain und citos as

speeches made by Caballero during the electoral campaign of 1933.

-Defending counsel contends that

any such utterances-even if proved

trafnload of Kwantung Army troopa arrived in Tientsin. As they were

Mr. Hocking lived in Avenue- road, Highgate, N., and was formerly a Methodist minister, holding pastorates at Pontypool, Spalding, Manchester, Liverpool and Southport,

WOMAN TOLEADSONG

TOUR ROUND THE WORLD

Thirty-three pretty Welsh girls sit singing in a London music room. As they sing they knit, and many weep, moved by the beauty of their own

song.

The Royal Welsh Ladies' Choir starts this week on a singing tour of the world. The most brilliant singers that Wales can provide them are all inspired by one idea--to

ing the hymn of peace to every country.

NEW JAPANESE C. IN C.

Courtesy calls on the Shanghai Municipal Council by Vice-Ad. 'miral K. Oikawa, new Commander of the Japanese Third Fleet, and

Rear-Admiral M. Hibino, Commander of the Eleventh Squadron.

£4,000,000 Fortune

Nobody Claims

The "fortune which nobody owns" has to-day reached

about to leave, they were recalled the astonishing total of £4,000,000. and questioned lengthily regarding their motives, purposes, intentions.

That is the huge sum of money which lies unclaimed

age, citizenship and whether native under the care of the National Debt Commissioners. born citizens or naturalized, etc.

Another time this correspondent'

The vast proportion of it is composed of tiny sums of

was cutting through a large gap ten shillings, half-crowns-even shillings and pence,

In a line of Japanese army artillery

to be incitements-would be cover-in the Chinese native city and he

ed by the amnesty granted by the Cortes (Parliament in April, 1934.

The result of the trial is certain to have far-reaching political porcussions.

PEERAGE GOES TO WOMAN

EARLDOM OF DYSART

re-

Every year the Treasury`reaps a profit of £100,000 in interest from

was nabbed by a corporal, bodily the marine explained apologetically the accumulated capital. In 1928 carried through the line again and to his friend. "We can't swat them the Chancellor of the Exchequer hurled with great force to the gut- ter. A protest in this case brought back even if they attack us firat was able to appropriate £1,000,000

No matte include in his Budget.

and without any reason.

the answer that the soldiers were ter how right we are, we will be Somewhere there are 100 inot permitted to allow any cutting

people with £10,000 due to each through the line and the soldier wrong for getting into trouble." was merely zealous In carrying That is the lesson foreigners are

of them-but so far they have out his orders.

learning in North China to-day. not come forward to claim it: Protests are worse than useless." "The sum of £1,000,000 repre- Most newspaper correspondents Meeting physical violence with sents the value of stock and divi- here, whose duties compel them to physical violence results only in a dends left unclaimed by the keep a close watch on Japanese broken head for the foreigner, owners," a National Debt Commis- army movements, have had bay-These typical incidents described sloner explained. onets stuck in front of their noses above may seem trivial to persons

POVERTY OF HEIRESS

so often they are all getting who have never lived in China but "Very little or it is in large slightly cross-eyed. Yet relations It is very difficult for the foreigner sums: The average holding is with the army staff and camman-who must live among Chinese who little more than a pound, and the dors remain on the utmost cor-|

Mrs, Wenefryde Greaves, aged forty-six, niece of the Earl of Dy-diality and all correspondents have take him at his face value.

sart, succeeds to the title on the death of her uncle at the age of seventy-six..

She is the wife of Major Owain Whitehend Greaves and they have three daughters, of whom the oldest, Rosamund, aged twenty-one, becomes the new heir.

been guests of Major General H. Tada and other staff officers for cocktails, dinners and timing,

"Humiliated"

bulk of the unclaimed money is In amounts of ten or fiftoon shillings, half a crown, in many cases even Teag."

Most Americans in North Chinn fool that the State Department's fortunes included in the total There are a few really large Three drunken Japanese marines foreign policy of "peace at any amount, although ons claimant was weaving unsteadily down a path in price leaves him wholly unpro- found to have a fortune of nearly a public park came face to face teeted, and that the Japanese may £60,000 with £20,000 in accumulated with an American marine and a humiliate them as much as they Interest. civilian who walked from the oppo- please and nothing will ever be done.

She was a woman who had con

sito direction. The Americans about it by the American officials. living in poverty for years, com The number of pecresses in their moved into sluglo file to let the Britons felt much the same way plotely unaware of the fact that

Japanese pass but the Japanese de-about it when Sir John Simon was she was an heiress. own right is now twenty-three.

manded the whole path-and they Foreign Secretary, William John Manners Tolle got it. The U.S. marine pulled his

Dividends not claimed for a mache, ninth Earl of Dysart, died at companion off the footpath with a That is why, when a Japanese period of five years are automatic- his home, Buckminster Park; Granhard jerk when the Japanese be tells an American or Briton to get ally transferred to the care of the tham, Lines. He had been blind came noley and threatened to fight. out of his way, or leave some public Commissioners. If these divid

premiaca, the American or Briton ends remain unclaimed at the end "We have strict orders to keep turns red in the face, swallows his of ten years the stock is also trans- out of trouble with the Japanese," pride-and gets out. United Press, ferred to them.

sinco 1005,

For hours every day they are rehearsing at 10, Stanhope Street, Park Lane, the home of Mme. Clara Novello Davies, Mme. Davies will take the choir on their tour. She is 74, but in this mission of peace she feels that she has realised her life's work.

When her original Royal Welab Choir sang the first words of "The Lord Is My Shepherd," to Schu- bort's music, in Chicago, in 1893, 25,000 people heard and fell silent,

Yesterday, listening to the same Paalm in the green and nlry music- room, I understood why Mme. Davies belleves that with her peace singing she will stir the world. She calls it the Welsh Houl, that makes Welsh voices .more beautiful than any others.

MORE SONGS WANTED Many of these singers are daughters of the original Welsh choir. Several are conductors of choirs themselves, who have ap peared before Royalty; others are winners at the National Eistedd- fod; and one has 280 prizes.

"It is wonderful how they are all willing to sink their identity and come and sing with me for peace," Mme. Davies told me. "Many have sacrificed engagements to come and rehearse,

"If we could sing before Mussolini, I am sure that we could not fail to

move his heart."

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