1936-02-24 — Page 2

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Old English

Lavender

The lovable sweet perfume: how

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY

24,

1936.

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

Relations Likely To

Just Received.

A Fresh Shipment of VIOLINS, VIOLAS AND CELLOS.

To Be Normal Also VIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO, DOUBLE-BASS,

If Industrialists Get Their Way

Tientein, Feb. 19. The Dove of Peace scems to have settled more or less permanently in the Tientsin-Peiping area and no storm clouds appear on the horizon to frighten the bird

away.

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 possiblo in order to attract the large Japanese investments which were expected to follow successful conclusion of Japan's "bloodless invasion" of North China.

Scores of Japanese industrialists,, financiers and business leaders;

*securely it holds its rank in the visited Tientsin anti Peiping last

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fall to look over the field with a

view to investment or expansion. The political situation at that thine was in such turmoll, however, that they returned to Japan and re-

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The Rannymede Restaurant has undeniable pride of place among holela of the East with its enfsins, and justly claima by šta association to offer the traveller such as, la not to be found elsewhere.

of investing any money In Kapel while conditions were so embroiled; and uncertain.

even

Since then, millions of Japanese yen that had been ripe for invest- ment in North China has found an outlet elsewhere: in Manchuria. Formosa, East Indies, Siam and far-off Brazil. Not one single project involving Japanese capital has been undertaken here. With this diversion of capital, local Japanese authorities began to realize that all their fine 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 and the local Chinese Japanese began in early winter and there has been no cessation of the love- making since then. All summer long gangs of Japanese ronin went about from district to district em- broiling the rural urens in so-called nutonomy movements and engaging! in similar practices. Japanese criminale rode on the trains with out tickets and heat up the conduc- tor who demanded tickets. Silver smugglers and commodity nuk glers took complete charge of many

By EARL H. LEAF

WATCHING RONINS

United Press Staff in element and have since then

Correspondent

лате nitwit

who

The Japanese authorities adopted strict watch on the JapaneRO

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 Jored into the Japanese Con- | cession has ceased entirely. Silver

trains. Any peewes incident

by caused happened to be Chinese was magnl.muggling was stopped within 24 hours. Commodity smuggling has fled into the proportions of a world-

been red need. Japanese are· shaking challenge to Japan. Every longer allowed to cripple or maim trickle of water, WAS a deluge. railway conductors who ask for

tickets... Every minnow was a whale.

EXPLOSION

But all that changed in recor- 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 II. Tada's house. The Japanese press had already act its stories in type, declaring that the bomb was the work of Chinese feials and that the Japanese Army would seize Tientsin, ele, etc. on direct orders from the Japanese military. however, the incident WAH "played down" and the Japanese press were instructed to say it had no connection with the political situation. On that day the local Japanese papers appeared with large black smudges through- out their pages, where the stories had been consored and the type turned upside down so that the "scare" stuff would not appear in Ingible print.

Cagney, Tough Guy Does Not Want To Be Tough

Hollywood, Feb. 8.

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

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 says. They allenate British audiences. I definitely will not 'continue to play them."

So what?

release him."

HIS WEDDING

IN AMELIA EARHART'S FAMOUS PLANE

10

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

the attar of roses which has been Japanese capital is still cay but sprinkled over the political situa- ion during these past two or three months may yet Induce the Money Men of Dai Nippan to dream of North China in the spring.

DANGER POINTS

IN LIFE

is

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

Between Alve and ten years when children became pedes- trians but have no experience as to safety,

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.

Hollywood, Feb. 3. Robert Armstrong, the film actor, married to-day at Yumu, 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- Between 70 and 75 when old tract with Zanuck if Warners plane in which Amelia Earhart people are physically unable to

made her solo flight across the escape traffic dangers. Cagney was discovered on the Pacific a year ago.

Curiously, the risk of death for New York stage by

In New York, Miss Kathryn Car- Warneri

women from motor accidents' re- Brothers scout, and was sent to ver, late wife of Adolphe Menjou,mained unchanged over a three- Hollywood. He made his film was married to-day to Mr. Vin-year period, despite a large in- debut in "Sinners" Holiday in cent Hall, a well-known New York crease in the number of women 1930.

broker-United Press.

motorists on the highways. At Robert Armstrong was born in the same time the risk of death for Five years of being n screen Michigan in 1896. First ho boys between the ages of ten and tough is too much for him. studied law, then became a play- 15 fell from 122, to 106 per million Britain liked him as Bottom in "A wright, and then an actor. He of population. This was counter- Midsummer Night's Dream." That made his film debut In 1927. balanced by the risk of young men broke the tradition. He now Among his chief films are "Boys between 20 and 25 increasing from be something more will be Boys," "The Man who Came 366. to 303 per million.-United

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HONG KONG

OUR BRITISH crossworDS

ACROSS

24

Here a town in India is pro- minent in enormity.

Salty references to Union Castle boats?

10 This is by the sen.

11 Epithet for literary darkness 7

A forceful meeting. 19 The staff?

15 Fish.

16 The Abyssiniari without arms ean hardly be expected to stand this,

10 This with 19 down could make

big-istand.----

21 One who does his best to make-

fun of his tongue.

2 fart of the first-aid outfit,

24 Fish for the baby? 20 tidiculous..

20 A bit of a tenzer, this, 31 Confidence.

32 The child of envy. 34 Reverse an inscet. 35 The man who did this at the wale found it expensive to be caught napping.

38 More unfeeling as a gure. 37 The inconclusive end over-worked offeer.

DOWN

of the

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

look.

war was in part a "frost"

û A country summer operation. 7 Peaceable but impracticable ad- vice to the Government at pre- sent.

This vessel contains an ancient city.

▷ Sometimes a help to winter pro-

NOVEL!

an envelope. most effective.

WHOOPS!

THE MACON- WUPEY

OPEN

ALL DAY

Kress.

14 This would be a change to an 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, 10 A sponge is absent about this. 20 This in the wing helps a duck

to swim.

23 Heathen god batch mentioned

in Christian churches. 25 Visible

penetration. 27 Behold in the same a notorious

tancer

28 This may diminate the danger arising from petrol scattered owing to a mill.

29 Quite the smallest tennt. 30 This in France may be grave or

ncute.

33 Part of 17 down.

Saturday's Solution

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