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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY

JAPANESE IRKED

BRITISH SHIP BATTERED IN TYPHOON

HELPLESS. IN STORM

Showing signs of the ter- rific battering she received in a typhoon a few weeks ago, the Ovington Court arrived in Sydney recently. For 16 hours the ship was helpless.

The typhoon struck her between Manila and Moji. Bunker hatches were smashed in, the engine room flooded, and the fires guited.

Half the bridge was carried away, and the wireless appara- tus was carried away, making it impossible for the ship to ob tain help.

The pantry boy, II. Jansz, was almost washed overboard. Ho Just managed to retain his hold of the railing.

Twenty camarles in their cages were washed overboard, and the ship's dog was battered lifeless against the bulkhead.

20. WORDS-

can

6, 19362

SWAY OVER SHANGHAI

BY

BRITISH

YOUTHS FILL DEATH HOUSE

Young men they look hardly out of their teena-fi the death house at Arizona Btato Penitentiary, Florence, Sentenced to death in the lethal gas chamber, all have appeals pending before the State Su- preme Court, Left to right: Ronald Cochrane, Jack Bullivan, Frank Rascon and Frank Duarte.

How Many of them

you define?

Anthropology-the selence natural of man and man's

history.

Atomiser-instrument

discharging

for medicinal Huicts

in a fine spray.

Bailie municipal officer

In Scotland.

Baroque-applied in arl generally to extravagant de-

signs.

Bibliophil

books.

Chicanery

artifice.

Consanguinity

ship by blood.

doctrine that happiness is the highest Kond.

Hedonism the

Holograph-a document in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds,

Incubus nightmare: the demon of nightmare.

Macroscopic-visible to the naked eyo.

lover

uf

Malleable that mag shaped by hammering.

bu.

Palpate-to examine

by

Frickery "

---relation-

Decalogue the Teu Com-

"mandments,

Exegesis-the,cience

of

interpretation, especially

of

the Scriptures.

Flaccid-flabby, soft, aul

weak,

touch.

Rieuckel-a rebound along the ground, as of a ball fired at a low elevation.

Sampan-small boat ased in China and Japan.

Therapeutics-that part of medizine concerned with the treatment, and cure cf disease. three Trilateral having sides.

SEEKING NEW RECORD

Miss Betty Malcolm turning the propellor of her now aeroplane

at Brooklands, front where she plans to hop off for Australia in an attempt to break existing records.

FRANCE TO BUILD NEW NAVAL STATION

France

has decided take immediate steps

CONFLICT GROWING

Shanghai, Feb. 3,

Conflict between British and Japanese interests in the International Settlement of Shanghai, although over- shadowed recently by more dramatic developments in North China, continues to grow and, in the opinion of many well- informed observers, ultimately will lead to a showdown of power in the most important city of China.

From the early days of the International Settlement, when the old British Concession was united with the Official "American Concession" and internationalised, British material interests have dominated the city.

The great trading firms of China which, first tapped the resources of the rich Chinese hinterland and simul- taneously brought foreign products to the Chinese markets, were all British. The first schools were established on British lines, the first clubs were those launched by the British, the police force was closely, modelled after the London system, and in almost every aspect of administration the British imprint has been unmistakable.

Other

came

;

on

the

to suficiently represented nationalities Shanghal, and several came to be Shanghai Municipal Couhell. represented by large interests, but

The latter complaint was the British aptitude for colonial ad- ministration was recognised, and most algnificant attack on British no attempt to change the control control of the settlement, since the or the administration was made council includes five Britons, two for many years.

Americans and two

Japanese.

The advent of the Japanese. This allotment of members accord- bowever, raised

new problems. Ing to nationality is not fixed, by Whereas the British Ginancial in-law, but is governed merely by con- terests remained predominant, the

cont-

Japanese surpassed all other non-vention. Accordingly, each Chinese nationalities in numbers.munity at election time generally to After the Sino-Japanese hostilities nominates only as many candidates here in 1932 the Japanese popula- as it has seats allotted to it, and to tion increased sharply. As a result each voter is asked to cast his ballot

establish a new naval base that part of the settlement known for candidates endorsed by his own]

in the Mediterranean at Mers-El-Kebir, in the partment of Oran.

AA the Ilongkew district and formerly known as the "American and other national groups, de- Concession" (although the Ameri- icans never had an actual concession here) rapidly became a Japanese colony.

This decision was taken follow Ing a recent tour of inspection in' Northern Africa by M. Francois Pietri, Minister of the Nayy.

France, so far, has only ono big naval base of real importance in North Africa, that of Bizerta, in Tunisia.

Japanese Outnumber British For the past few years the

two

Japanese extremists have threaten- To-day its streets resemble ed to nominate more than those of many Japanese cities, council candidates. Since the and it is popularly known as Japancae voters outnumber the "Little Tokyo."

British; it would easily be possible

Japanese firms multiplied, schools for them to upset the domination were established, and organisations of the council. The move to in-

a new flourished. Friction soon urosecrense the number of Nipponese The decision to bulk buse at an important strategic Japanese complained that point in the Western Mediterra- schools were

neau

their

not given enough candidates has been side-tracked go

is considered, in naval money by the Municipal Council, far by responsible Japanese lend. circles, as a move which will pro- that longkow streets and parksers, but many observers predict vide bargaining point if the received. scant attention, that vast that soon this discipline will be Anglo-Italian naval negotiations sums were spent on activities of no broken and that the Japanese will In London materialise, particular-Interest to the Japanese, (such as capture three, four or even ly in view of restoring equill-the municipal orchestra, band and brium between the naval forces of library), that only a few Japanese Great Britain, France and Italy in were given municipal positions and. finally, that the Japanese were in- the Mediterranean.

Hollywood's Legs

LOVELY LIMBS LOSE

THEIR APPEAL

Hollywood, Jan. 20. Hollywood is still littered with lovely legs, but their owners and the movie moguls have become so nice they won't let you look at them.

This apathy towards legs on the part of producers is un- explained from a box office angle. As far as statisticians can learn, public enthusiasm for well-turned calves and thighs is not only unabated, but rampant.

Claudette

the

Stars by the dozen used to be ment, have been travelling under launched on tides of what news-wraps these many moons, papers call "leg art." To name a few: Marlene Dietrich, Claudette former Colberi, Loretta Young, Janet Broadway" Gaynor, Carole Lombard, Ruth audience gets the mercat flash of the famous Colbert underpinning Chatterton, Jean Harlow..

"The most beautiful legs" on Broadway in Paris

Rome... Berlin

Ethiopia

Hollywood

Colbert keeps "most beautiful legs on

well

draped. The

seats on the Municipal Council,

five

Japanese control of the council, it is believed, would be merely the prelude to the conversion of the settlement into a virtual Japanese concession. The situation accord- ingly, la viewed with gravity. One of its lighter aspects is the altern- ate wooing of the American-com- munity by both British and Japan. ese interests, as it is foreseen that at some limo the Americans may hold the balance of power between the two groups. i

A more serious development, in the opinion of many, is the seem ing tendency of British leaders and officials to alve Japan a free hand in the Hongkew district, with the implied understanding that the Japanese will cease their agitation for greater control of the purely international area and leave mat- tera in status quo, which is to say, in British hands-United Press.

Thursday Is.

in "The Bride Comes Home," her Needed No

Intest.

"I want to make my way na an actress," she explains..

WANDERING GRASS-HOPPER Dietrich, Inc., was said to have at the Colbert entry.

GOES GLOBE-TROTTING

Melbourno, Jan. 15. MARY, a full-grown Queensland grasshopper, is the weird pet of the British motorship Orari, which reached Melbourne from Liverpool to-day.

Pied Piper

Thursday Island; off the Cape York finger of north-eastern Australia, was until recently, a tropical, palm-girt spot on the

"where

every prospect

Cats were

Vienna

Carole Lombard's limbs carried anywhere, used to be an indispensa-her to stardom frem a. Mack Sen- bie tag for a rising actress. At nett bathing beauty role, but now one time the firm of Marlene they are seen almost as rarely. na lenst two legs on the world trophy. Lorotta Young got a break in But today the beat the movies the films because producers noticed can offer feature editore is pic-her photos advertising a national map. tures of actresses hidden in slinky, brand of hosiery. To-day Loretta pleases and only rats are vile.” expensiva gowns sweeping from doesn't have legs. Just foot pasted

on the hom of a sinuous gown.. These rats have lately been floor to pensive chins.

Even the exclusive Garbo used perfect pest, especially to The True, it has been impossible to

bo make the most of her well turned delete legs from musical pictures, running equipment in news shots. shipping company which owns the A timid, terrified creature when but Mary has survived fierce but chorus legs are not famous, You can still find photos of Greta wharf and its store. she joined the vessel in June last tropical heat and the chill of the and they twinkle so fast you can't dressed as a track athlete, and taken on the staff-and were paid knodling on a chalked line in start-38. Gd. a week In catsmeat cur- at Gladstone, when the Orari was late English autumn, and is now properly observe them.

Czar Will Hays has ing position. That was considered rency. They did almost Hamelin Cheruble loading for the return trip to Eng-back in her native land as full of land, Mary is now tame and conflito as ever.

been blamed for most of the film "hot" stuff some years ago.

a service but not quite, says Austral. Your correspondent asked "When she first joined the fan-spolling, but it appears that dont.

She lives in state in the boat," said Captain Allmond to the stars themselves must take publicity lad why, and got nowhere. News Orari's chart room, where she day, "we christened her Felix, but whatever rap may come from the One of the boys who used to high-

Then two large, carpet snakes was found when the vessel put before we had left the coast

city editors with an- disappearance of their alluring pressure

that the Sally

wore appointed with board,"lodz- out from Gladstone..

baby grasshopper was found legs. Most of the girls whose nouncements alongside our pet. That's why we names decorate the theatre mar Whoozla shanks had been. Insured ing and other emolumente. By call her Mary now."

"a great for $1,000,000 or more was at day they slept in the rafters of quoos explain that The little grasshopper did not across doesn't wish to rely on that minute trying to peddle a story the store: by night they worked. take to the sea, and died.

so simple a thing as her legs for about how Olivia de Havilland in

In an incredibly short time every Mary's diet is no problem at audience appeal. They explain a "Anthony Adverse" would wear a

She was fluttering around minus her hind legs, and as an experi- ment the master of the Orari (Capt. J. G. Allmond) put the grasshopper in a cage and fed it to see how long it would ilva.

Youngster Died

all. She eats well on lettuce display of stocking detracts atten- gown worth: $1,000 for anyway rat disappeared. So, now, have leaves and apple cores. Whether tion. from facial expression and $600), sho will yield to homesickness and talented emoting, which it does.

"I just haven't got the heart to the snakes. No one knows where,

The whole ship was confident desert the ship in Queensland-is The Dietrich, Inc., legs, orginally aak a gentle, timid actress to pose but Thursday Island has deleted;

that, Mary would not survive, the a problem worrying the Orarl's unveiled with only a little less cero- for leg art," trip round tho 'Australian const, ¡crew now..

mony than the Washington monu- Press,

he said,United the "only": from its pleasing

prospects.

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