1935-12-23 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER · 23,

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 past in North China these days under the influence of the Japanese militarists,-*

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 oldaters. This is the custom in other parts of China to-day.

From Gallipoli To Ethiopia

WAHIP PASHA, the Turkish gener- al who was chiefly responsible for forcing the Allies to evacuate Gallipoli in the great war, is 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 deliberato attempt by the Japanese militarists to discredit the foreigners in the eyes of the Chinese and make h.m "lose face" whenever the chance presents itself, while Japan's "face" rapidly mounts, until to-day "every Japanese is king".

Every foreigner in this part of

1935.

Few white people wander into the part of Chian where this photograph was taken. The people shown here belong to a nomadic tribe living in the Inrgo desert districts where Kiangal, Turkestan and Tibet moet. Those people are always wandering from placz to place with their camels and their belongings.

Famous

the country who mixes much with Novelist

Chinese and Japanese has had ex- periences which "burned him up" and left him quivering with impotent rage.

have Iiterally Leaves

A Fortune

Hon. E. . H. Ward, newspaper correspondent in Tientsin, eon of a British car, had such an experi

Mr. Silas Kitto Hocking, the enca when a Chinese constable In the Japanese Concession spat in his novelist, who died on September face while a mob of coolies and beg-15, at the age of 85, left £19,836 gars stood around and laughed.gróss (not personalty £19,741). He would have been torn to places Mr. Hocking lived in. Avenue- And he protested with physical road, Highgate, N., and WZ6 "Old Chinese Custom" formerly a Methodist minister, holding pastorates at Pontypool, violence. He took it up with the Spalding, Manchester, Liverpool

British Consulate General and the of Japanese Consulate General but 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- ста of the policeman. Ward's crime was that his chauffeur turned a corner improperly.

A Japanese army officer tore at the clothes, pushed and pulled. Hewitt F. Mitchell, American pilat of the China National Aviation Company, who declined to allow Japanese soldiers to climb all over the plane. A Japanese-speaking

intervened foreigner

AH pence- maker and while they talked, Mit- chell started up the plane and re- turned to Shanghal.

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

Newspaperman Questioned --A--- United Pressstafi corres- pondent and an American Govern. [ment

were official Intense excitement prevails,

summarily and police have taken all pre-ordered off the Peiping-Liaoning cautions against disorder, for Rallway platform by Caballero is the most popular of the Spanish Labour leaders.

The prosecution demanda a sen- tence of 30 years' pehal servitude, ovidence certain speeches made by Caballero during

and cites, ag

the electoral campaign of 1933.

Defending counsel contends that

n Japan- army oflicer because they happened to be present when a trainlond of Kwantung Army troops. arrived in Tientsin. As they were and to love, they were recalled and questioned lengthily regarding their motives, purposes, intentions, age, citizenship and whether native

or naturalized, etc. Another time this correspondent was cutting through a large gap any such utterances-even if proved in a line of Japanese army artillery.

to be incitements-would be cover-

ed by the amnesty granted by the

Cortes (Parliament in April, 1934,

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

PEERAGE GOES

TO WOMAN

EARLDOM OF DYSART

re-

In the Chinese native city and he

and Southport.

PA 13:11

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WOMANTO LEADSONG

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 bring the hymn of peace to every country.

NEW JAPANESE C. IN C.

Courtery calls on the Shanghai Municipal Council by Vice Ad." miral K. Oikawa, new Commander of the Japanese Third Fiest, and

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

£4,000,000 Fortune

the

Nobody Claims

The "fortune which nobody owns" has to-day reached astonishing total of £4,000,000.

That is the huge sum of money which lies unclaimed under the care of the National Debt Commissioners.

The vast proportion of it is composed of tiny sums of ten shillings, half-crowns-even shillings and pence.

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-back even if they attack us first was able to appropriale £1,000,000 ter. A protest in this cang brought and without any reason. No matto include in his Budget.

the answer that the soldiers were ter how right we are, we will be not permitted to allow any cutting through the line and the soldier wrong for getting into troublo."

was merely zealous in carrying out his orders.

That is the lesson foreigners are learning in North China to-day.. Protests are worse than useless.

Somewhere there are 100 people with £10,000 due to each of them-but so far they have not come forward to claim it. The sum of £4,000,000 repro- Most newspaper correspondenta here, whose duties compel them to lecting physical violonce with sents the value. of stock and divi- physical violence results only in a donds 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 aloner explained. onets stuck in front of their noses above may seem trivial to persons

POVERTY OF HEIRESS

50 often they are all getting who have never lived in China but "Very little of it is in large slightly cross-eyed. Yet relations it is very dimeult for the foreigner sums. The average holding is Mra, Wenstryde Greaves, aged with the army staff and comman-who must live among Chinese who little more than a pound, and the forty-six, nieco of the Earl of Dyers remain on the utmost cor-take him at his face value,

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

She is the wife of Major Owain' Whitehead Greaves and they have three daughters, of whom the eldest, Rosamund, aged twenty-one, becomes tlie now hair.

The number of pecresses in their own right is now twenty-three.

William John Munners Tolle macho, ninth Earl of Dysart, died at his home, Buckminster Park, Gran tham, Lines. He had been blind since 1905.

"Humiliated!"

Most Americans in North China feel that the State Department's

bulk of the unclaimed money is in amounts of ten or fifteen shillings, half a crown, in many cases- even Ices."

diality and all correspondents have been guests of Major General H. Tadn and other staff officers for cocktails, dinners and tiffins. ---

There are a few really large Three drunken Japanese marines foreign policy of "peace at any fortunes Included in the total amount, although one claimant was weaving unsteadily down a path in price" leaves him wholly unprofound to have a fortune of nearly public park came face to face tected, and that the Japanese may £60,000 with £20,000 in accumulated with an American marine and a humillato 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 been site direction. The Americans about it by the American offleluis. moved into single file to let the Britons felt much the same way living in poverty for years, com Japanese pass but the Japanese de-about it when Sir John Simon was pletely unaware of the fact that

she was an heiress. manded the whole path and they Foreign Secretary.

got it. The US marine pulled his That is why, when a Japanese, companion off the footpath with a hard fork when the Japanese be- tells an American or Briton to get came noisy and threatened to fight.out of his way or leave some public preinisos, the American or Briton have strict orders to keep turns red in the face, swallows his out of trouble with the Japanese, prido and gets out. United Press

Dividends not claimed for n period of fiye yours aro automatic. ally transferred to the care of the Commissionera. If those divid ends remain unclaimed at the end. of ten years the stock is also trans- forred to thom.

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 Welsh Choir sang the first words of "Tho Lord is My Shepherd," to Schu bert's music, in Chicago, in 1893, 25,000 people heard and fell silent. Yesterday, listening to the aume Pealm in the green and alry music- room, I understood why Mme. Davies believes that with her peace singing she will stir the world. She calls it the Welsh Hwpl. that makes. Welsh voices more beautiful than any others.

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

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"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 wo could not fail to move his beart."

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