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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1936.

JAPAN WOOING CHINA BY GENTLER METHOD: -MONEY TO INVEST!

Relations Likely To Be Normal If Industrialists Get Their Way

away.

Tientsin, Feb. 19. The Dove of Peace seems to have settled more or less permanently in the Tientsin-Peiping area and no storm clouds appear on the horizon to frighten the bird This state of affairs is the result of a definite Japanese policy aimed at restor- ing conditions to normal and clarifying the political situation as quickly as possible in order to attract the large Japanese investments which were expected to follow successful conclusion of Japan's "bloodless invasion" of North China.

Scorca of Japanese industrinkets, financiers and business leaders

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fall to look over the field with a

view to investment or expansion. The political situation at that time was in such turmoil, however, that they returned to Japan and re- ported that it was no time to think of investing any money in Hopel while conditions were so embroiled and uncertain.

Since then, millions of Japanese yen that had been ripe for invest

inent in North China has found an

outlet clac where; in Manchuria, Formosa, East Indies, Slam and even the-off Brazil. Not one! Įsingle project involving Japanese capital has been undertaken here.

With this diversion of capital, local Japanese authorities began to realize

that all their fue hopes and plans were being decimated by disturbed conditions caused largely by their own militant, fierce attitude towards the Chinese.

POLITICAL KISSING

Political kissing between

the Japanese and the local Chinese began in early winter and there has been no cessation of the love making since then. All summer

By EARL H. LEAF United Press Staff Correspondent

traine. Any

incident peewee caused by some nitwit who happened to be Chinese was magni. fled into the proportions of a world- shaking challenge to Japan. Every trickle of water was n deluge, Every minnow was a whale,

EXPLOSION

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WATCHING RONINS

no

The Japanese authorities adopted atriet watch on the Japanese ronin element and have since then deported many who went about] from place to place stirring up trouble. The arrest of Chinese newspaper men, minor officials and other Chinese who wandered or were lured into the Japanese Con- cession has ceased entirely. Silver smuggling was stopped within 24 hours. Commodity smuggling has been reduced.. Japanese are longer allowed to cripple or maim railway conductors who ask for tickets.

The

Japanese have allowed Feveral months to pass without sending fresh demands to the Chinese Authorities, Chinese district in the Japanese Conces feel they can go to the pleasure sion without being pounced upon by Japanese gendarmes lurking in the shadows. Japanese ronin are going into the heroin, opium and morphine business, leaving the political situation to their betters. All's quiet on the northern front.

But all that changed in accor dance with the desire to clarify the situation. The first real hint of this change came when the bomb exploded to the rear of Major General Tada's house. The Japanese press had already set its stories in type, declaring that the bomb was the work of Chinese officials and that the Japanese Army would seize Tientsin, etc, etc.

Japanese capital is still coy but On direct orders from the Japanese sprinkled over the political situa-, the altar of roses which has been military, however, the ineldent tion during these past two or three WAS "played down" and Japanese press were instructed to Men of Dai Nippon to dream of the months may yet induce the Money: say it had no connection with the North China in the spring. political situation.

On that day

long ganga of Japanese ronin went about from district to district em- brolling the rural areas in so-called nutonomy movements and engaging the local Japanese papers appeared in similar practices. Japanese with large black smudges through- criminals rode the trains with- out their pages, where the stories. out tickets and beat up the cohdue- had been censored and the type tor who demanded tickets. Silver turned upside down so that the Bmugglers and commodity smug- "scare" stuff would not appear in glers took complete charge of many legible print.

Cagney, Tough Guy Does Not Want To Be Tough

Hollywood, Feb. 8.,

hankering

JAMES CAGNEY, "tough guy" of the screen, has a

after something more gentlemanly. Britain has got into his blood so

much that he is considering break- FILM STAR FLIES TO

ing with Warner Brothers, the men who made him a star.

"Tough guy' roles are un- popular in Britain," he anys. "They alienate British audiences. I doinitely will not continue to play them."

So what?

HIS WEDDING

IN AMELIA EARHART'S:

FAMOUS PLANE -

Hollywood, Feb. 3. Robert Armstrong, the film actor, married to-day at Yums, The answer came to-day from Arizona, Miss Gladis Louise de his manager-brother William: Bois. He flew with his bride There is a possibility of a con- from Hollywood in the aero- tract with Zanuck if Warnera plane in which Amelia Earhart release him."

imade her solo flight across the Cagney was discovered on the Pacific a year ago. Now York stage by Warner In New York, Mias Kathryn Car- Brothors scout, and was sent to ver, labe wife of Adolphe Menjou, Hollywood. He made his film was married to-day to Mr. Vin- debut in "Sinners' Holiday" in cent Hall, a well-known New York 1930.

broker.-United Press.

Robert Armstrong was born in Five years of being a screen Michigaır in 1896. First ho tough is too much for him. studied law, then became a play- Britain liked him as Bottom in "A wright, and then an actor. Ho Midsummer Night's Dream." That made his film debut in 1927. broke the tradition. He

now Among his chief films are "Boys wants to be something more will be Boya," "The Man who Came gentlemanly.

Back" and "Is Zat So?"

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DANGER POINTS

IN LIFE

-London, Feb. 10. There are three five-year period in a person's life when the risk of death is greatest, according to statistical review by the Registrar-General of the 40,350,000 people of England and Wales.

Between five and ten years when children became pedes trlans but have no experience as to unfety.

Between

20 and 25 when young people get behind the wheel of an automobile and drive at top speed "without being restrained by a sense of responsibility,

Between 70 and 75 when old people are physically unable to

• escape traße dangers,

Curiously, the risk of death for ivonien from motor accidents re- mained unchanged over a three- year period, despite a large in- crease in the number of women motorists on the highways. At the same time the risk of death for boys between the ages of ten and 15 fell from 122 to 108 per million of population. This was counter- balanced by the risk of young mon batween 20 and 25 increasing from 356 to 393 per million-United Press.

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

18

123

1397

1 Here a town in India is, pro-

minent in enormity, 9 Sally references to Union Castle

bonts?

10 This is by the sea.

11 Epithet for literary darkness? 12 A forceful meeting.

13

The staff?

15 Fish.

16 The Abyssinian without arms can hardly be expected to stand

this, 10 This with 10 down could make

-big-Island 21 One who does his best to make

fun of his tongue,

22 Part of the first-aid outfit. 24 Fish for the baby? 26 Ridiculous.

29 A bit of 31 Confidence. 32 The child of envy.

teazer, this.

34 Reverse an insect. 36 The man who did this at the salo found it expensive to be caught napping

36 More unfeeling as a figure. 37 The inconclusive end over worked officer.

DOWN

of the

2 This aide 2 man to turn n smooth face to the day' troubles. 3 Epithet for that Crystal Palace

look.

4 Flery.

5 This war was in part a "frost" 6 A country summer operation. 7 Peaceable but impracticablo nd- vice to the Government at pre- sent.

8 This vessel contains an ancient

city.

Sometimes a help to winter pro-

NOVEL!

an envelope. most effective.

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WHOOPS!

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gress.

14 This would be a change to ar Eastern land (but really plenty falls).

17 A destroyer of life and a crea- tor of money combine to make plant.

18 Drawn, with the central region. 19 A apongo is, absent about this. 20 This in the wing holpa a duck

to swim.

23 Heathen god aften mentioned

in Christian churches. 25 Visible penetration.

27 Behold in the same.a.notorious

dancer.

29 This may eliminate the danger Brising from petrol, scattered awing to a spill. 20 Quite the smallest teams. 30 This in France may be grave or

acute.

33 Part of 17 down.

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