1937-01-22 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1937.

ENORMOUS GROWTH OF JAPANESE

Lavish

SHIPPING

State Subsidies Responsible

SHRINKAGE OF BRITISH

MERCHANT · NAVY

THE disclosures regarding the encroachment on British interests by Japan's heavily subsidised mercantile marine, made recently by the Hon. Alexander Shaw at the general meeting of the P. and O. Company, are fully borne out by information from official sources, including a report from the British Commercial Counsellor at Tokio, writes Hector C. Bywater in the Daily Telegraph. THIS reveals that Japan's mer Jupin is ried by Japanese - ships, cantile marine is now numer- Further, within the past 25 years ically the third largest in the Japan has captured half the trade world. In point of modernity between Cakulta and Japan via the Straits and China, a traffic which and efficiency probably it ranks

had previously been 100 per cent. British.

second.

.It has been built up by fur- reaching subsidy schemes, including

This enormous growth of Japan-

11 comprehensive scrap-and-build ese shipping is due entirely ++1 polley, dopun airendy owns 4,215,- ja system of lavish State subsidies. 600 tons grows, and out of this total |Nearly half the cast of many, new little more than 200,000 tons Wus (merchantzuen recently built in Japan' Idle when the report was compiled, was defrayed by the Governinent,

Trade Lost By Britain Every shipyard in the country la booked up to capacity with orders for new tonnage. As Mr. Shaw has stated. the new Shipping Routes Control Act recently adopted by the Japanese

Parliament will increase the existing mercantile fleet hy 10 per cent. The

being

Act in officially desertbed as

designed

Many of them are cargo motor iships of 19 knots spec, me <!

which, the Akagi Maru, arrived in

London last month,

Need Of Prompt Action

roostal trade is entirely

Japon's

reserved for her own shipping, no foreign vessels being permitted to engage in it. Yet Japanese ships are farely employed in the inter- strengthen Cavernment control over Japanese port trade of the British Empire.

extended where they operate without restric ships and to turn this power to the dirretion of competito tion with foreign countries."

In urging that prompt action must

When the Act has matured Jupan wl possess & mercantile marine fourbe taken if the rapid shelakage of thnea larger than is required for the carriage of her own seaborne trade.

Obviously, therefore, the surplus

Lonnage

is to be employed to en- crotch on servires hitherto operated by the shipping of other countries, und Britain wilf bo the chief sufferer.

of

Lavish Subsidies Even to-day about three-quarloes

the trade between India

and

the British merchant navy---now 2,000,000 tons less than before the War-is to be arrested, Mr. Shaw is volcing the Almost unanimous pinion of the British shipping com- munity throughout the Empire.

by

The view is strongly held that un- Jess the process İş ebecked

Government action a! home and oversens a few years here will find Empire desperately short of the. merchant shipping.

Swatow.

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL HERDS, HAVE GRACE, GREAT ILM.S. Grimsby was returned from WEEDS DO GROW APACE.-Shakespeare. a trip to Shanghai, Weihaiwel and

Suffering Irvin the effects of opium poisoning, said to have been self- administered, a man named Chin Sang-wai was taken to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital yesterday,

A shop foki numed Lo Chui-sui was removed to the Kowloon Hospital yos- terday from self-inflicted injuries

to his throat.

An unknown Chinese, about 35

The French gunboat Argus came -years old, was taken to the Govern-out of dock this morning and fired a ment Civil Hospital yesterday when salute to the Commodore, which was he was found sick in Wanchal Road, replied to by the Tamar, The on the man's U.S.S. Tulsa similarly saluted on her There was also a cut head, believed to have been caused return to harbour after a routine

a fall. by a

cruise.

*

On completion of her anmaal over- haul, the Empress of Canada will leave Taikoo Dock at 10 am, and berth at Kowloon Wharf at 11 aan. on Saturday, January 23, prior to salling for Vancouver vin ports at noon on Tuesday, Jar

January 20.

A meeting of shareholders of the Hongkong Brewers and Distillers Co., was called for noon in Rution Building to-day and was followed by

meeting of Creditors. Only oilcinis attended, and the Anal accounts were approved.

Two women, named respectively

Li Kwai, aged 46, unemployed, was Lai Funk-bing and Lai Fung-ting rentenced

to twelve months' hard were taken to the Government Civil abnur when he admitted a charge of suffering from returning from banishment before Hospital yesterday scalds received when a pot of bolling Mr. J. A. Fraser at the Central Magis- water was accidentally upset. An-tracy this morning. lie was sent other woman named Ko Yee was re- away for 10 years on July 20, 1930. moved to the same hospital also suf- Sub-Inspector C. S. Mudgwick pro- fering from venkis,

secuted.

The following forthcoming wed-

A 70-years-old mendicant, Mak dings are announced: Mr. Douglas Luk-fung, was brought before Me. Nairn Parsons, advertising manager, J. A. Fraser at the Central Magis- of 11 Kent Road, and Miss Betty tracy this morning on a charge of Jean Spaulding, residing at 4 Lincoln begging in Hennessy Road. Defen- Rood, Kowloon Tong Dr. Wing dant's record showed twelve previous Kwal-chong, of 130 Queen'e Rond convictions for the same East, and Miss May Chee, of 400 Un when he received short

offence, sentences. Chow Street, Kowloon.

This time he was given a monilt's hard labour. He was further sen- tenced to six months' harti labour on admitting having returned from banishment for 10 years' imposed on June 24, 1932. Acting Sub-inspector Macdonald prosecuted.

Stopped and searched by a police man in Jordan Road on Thursday, Chan Fuk, 33. unemployed, was found to have 100 Hongkong po piu tickets concealed on him. Appearing before Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowlooti Magistracy this morning, he was fined $25, or one month's hard inbour Inspector Shannon pro

non prosecuted.

Sentence of three months' hard labour was imposed on Li Sam, aged 34. unemployed. when he admitted the larceny of a handbag containing The wedding took place at the $2.22 and miscellaneous articles from Registry this morning of Mr. Chung a widow, Lui Wal-fong, aged 46; Tuck-lum, a student of the Flying before Mr. J. A. Fraser ni the Cen- School, and Miss Lily Ang. The tral Magistracy this morning. Acting bridegroom is the son of Mr. Chong Sub-Inspector D. Macdonald said the Cheon, planter and miner, and the complainant was walking along Yiu bride

is the

merchant.

Mr. J. P. day when defendant came up behind Murphy, Deputy Registrar of Mar-her, snatched the bag and run away. ringes, affietated, and the witnesses He was chased and arrested in were Mr. Tao Yuk-sok and Miss Matheson Street by Wong Fang, a Chong Cheng-inn

motor-car driver

LUGA

The new Parliament Building in Tokyo, recently completed,

opened for the first time yesterday. The building cost 15 million yen.

1937's Cowboys Will

Use

'Planes

New York, Jan. 10.

YOU'LL hardly be able to recognise the 1937 cowboy of the Wild and Woolly West. The kind you know on the films is galloping into the past with the Old Year, closely pursued by his successor in an airplane,

Mary Astor

To Become A Writer

FORSAKING FILMS

Hollywood, Jan. 1. Mary Astor, whose celebrated "Purple Diary" offered the film colony some of its best reading matter in years, has decided to

become a writer-but she is going to do it the hard way.

The slender actress, who authored her first literary "hit" almost by accident when her ex- husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, turned over her "Tell All" diary to newspapers during their re- cent child-custody court wrangle, has been deluged with offers from publishers.

One bid for Miss Astor's next

masterpiece ran to six figures, and

made no specifications. The bidder. a news syndicate, was willing to take anything from romantic novels to poetry.

Miss Astor turned it down,

RÁDIO BROADCAST

Gramophone Recital by The Rev. C. B. R. Sargent LONDON BROADCASTS

Andio Programme Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 .cs.), 31.40 (9.52 megacycles).

metres

4-7 pm. Chinese Programme.

K

for

Quality

SHOES

7 p.m. Duke Ellington and Its Comfort and

Orchestra.

7.30 Stock Quotations,

7.35 Arthur Young and Re- Durability

ginald Foresythe (two planos). with Len Bermon (Vocal).

Plano Duct-Rumban on tonat; Vocal-Robins and Roses; Pluno Duct-Roberta" Selection; Vocal- Medley, Leave the pretty girls alone: Plano Duet Sweet Adeline" Selec- tion; Vocal-I'll bet you tell that to all the boys.

8 p.ro.

Time,

nouncements,

Weather and An-

8.03 The J. H. Squire Celeste Octet.

A Venetian Barcarolle-Serenade; (arr. Willoughby): Valse Bluette Air de Bailet" (Drigo); Serenade (Moszkowski).

5.15 This is England." Talks by representative English people. (3) Driver A. Dart, of the Great Western Railway Introduced by Anthony Weymouth. (Electrical Recording).

8.20 The B. B. C. Dance Orchestra, directed by Henry Hall.

8.55 News and Announcements,

Orchestral Overture. p.m. "Carmen" (Bizet)-Prelude to Act 1......

Philadelphia Symphony

Orchestra, Conducted by Leopold

Stokowski.

The

9.20 From the Studio. 2nd of a Second Series of Gramo-

phone Recitals by The Rev. C.

B. R. Sargent.

10 nm. Big Ben. Gipsy Music. There is still a herd of Geiger and His Orchestra, From 2,000 wild horses in Idaho Claridge's Hotel, London.

10.45 Varl-ty. one of the few remaining in

Piano Solo-elodies of the Month, America's wide open spaces. tet love B

No. 20....Len Green; Vocol-I nearly slipping through my But many of them have Angers....Sam Browne: Organ Solo -Free. Quentin M. Maclean; Vocul learned how to stay wild,There's a new world... Ike Hatch: and know more tricks than Instrumental-If you were the only their hunters.

So the cowboy. stabling his mount and hurling aside his sombrero, is to leap into his air- plane and fly low round and round his quarry until he has tired them out sufficiently for the last round-up,

It all seems rather sad,

'

Shave In Court Costs Suspect

A

6 Years' Jail

Paris, Jan. 10.

SHAVE has cost Jose Pena six

years in fall. Pens disappeared last year from the Parks at of friends named Barruco at the same tine as £700. He was arrested,

were

In Jail he grew a moustache. When "There isn't any short cut to good he came to trial witnesses writing," she explained. “It is hard | doubtful if the moustached, man was work and plenty of it. But if I ever | the one they had seen fleeing from nehlove success in writing, it is going the flat.

to be beenuse of what I write-not because it has my name on it".

Judge Sergence sent for a barber, told him to shave Pena in court.

A month after the end of the child- | Pens, without moustache, was im- custody feud, in which Miss Astor's į medlately recognised as the thief, highly combustible note book nearly convicted and sentenced. blow the lid off Hollywood's extra- curricular

-Witth social affairs, Marylyn Thorpe, their 4 year old daughter who was the issue at stake, went to live with her father for a month under, terms of a court agree- ment.

DIVORCE BECAUSE

HUSBAND

girl in the world.. .Brian Lawrance and his Lansdowne House Sextet.

11 pm, Close Down.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

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Frequency Wavelength 4,600 k.c. 40.50 metret 9,010 k.e. 81.58 D.LAS

21.60 k.u. 11,750 .c. 25.62 retros 26.28 meltes 10.82 metres

GSA

GRB

63C.

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CSE

11,968 k.c.

CHF

15,140 k.c.

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17,700 kc

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0,110 k..

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18.180 k.c.

12,78 metres

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18,410 3.2. 15.00 rut:r

16.200 .c.

13.97 motres 10.64 mcites 19.05 metres €9.19 metres

Transmission 1

(0.8.3, 6.8.0. G.B.G.)

Higen. desig Landsner #t

Home-J.

1.3 p.n. Beethoven String Quartets--2.

p.m.

'Suggestiorm for your Book Litt

-2.

5.15 Shantiem,

6.40 p.m. The News and Announcementa, Greenwich Time Signal at .45 1.0,

Transmission ̄2,

(G... G.S.G., G.8.H)

7 p.m. Hig Ben, All at Sex, or The

True Story of the letty Marlin 7.60 11.215. An Organ Recital.

H.1b .m.

"This in Kealand."

2.90 The 1.1.C. Datice Orchestra, 8.65 pm. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 0.15 p.m. 9.16 p. Friday Midday Concert,

Transmission 3.

(0.8.1, 0.9.F. GAII) 10 pm Big Ben, Glony Music. 1945 pm. A Pianoforte leelta),

Under Iti Ber.."

11.15 p.m.

11.30 p.m. The Leslie Bridgewater Harp

Quintet,

12 a.. Butter Wostiln't Suit the "Works." 12.30.m. The News and Announcements.

Greenwich Time Signal at 12.45 am, 13.50 .m. Baner Munte.

PLAYED TRUMPET Preacher

Chicago, Jan. 10.

Miss Astor had time on her hands, and between work on "Lady from Nowhere" her latest Alm for Columbia, she began to write.

Friends said the actress, working | PECAUSE her husband played

den in the little clustered

which tunes on his trumpet when the Dr. Thorpe fitted out for her when he was , a Chicago Judge granted was her husband, planned to publish | Mrs. Gladys Severt n' divorce.

boolt under an assumed name. Miss Astor scoffed at this notion. "Why should I write under another name?" she asked. "I write because I like to write. I've always wanted to-It is not a new urge in my life,"

WORKED FOR FAME Curiously, Miss Astor worked hard for literary fame before her purple memory book ever got into print. But she never caught up with success. Since her legal row with her ex- husband, she has been showered with offers, of rundy-made success which might bring her more, for the time, than her $1,500-a-week salary from Columbin.

"

"While I was in bed and under strict, orders to remain quiet," Mrs, Severt told the court, "my husband came into my room and insisted on playing 'St. James's Infirmary Blues' I asked him please on his trumpet. to stop, but he sat down on my bed and played some more, played prac- tically all night".

Jilts Girl:

Midnight Farewell

The judge, granting her a divorce, JAMES

said she might resume her maiden name.-Reuter,

everything with an Astor tag attach- cd, and Miss Astor's scound story, "The Orchid" was swept Into print,

Miss Astor took the hint.

"I knew the story was no good,"

she said. "It has been kicked around

ALEXANDER

GILLESPIE, lay pre- acher, male nurse at a hospital in Epsom, Surrey, on July 14 was to have mar ried Jennie Forest Allinson, thirty-three-year old Der. lington shop assistant.

On July 9 he went to Darling-

Geek-bek,ghter of Mr., Ang Wah Street about 7,30 p.m. yester- with a wan smile that her literary for months So I'm going to learnton. stayed with relatives of

瘦

much reward.

The purly broke up at midnight: Gillespie wished his bride-to-be " very affectionate farewell."

The actress. who "dislikes Alm people who talk about art," admitted efforts to date have not met with to write, stories that will be accepted

for what they are not because I Miss Allinson. On July 12, "About two years ago I took my wrote them."

Sunday before the wedding day, Arst real effort at short story writing Miss Astor has completed two new there was a family party. to a magazine editor. He did not pictures in the last six months- Walking Into The Pharmacy In Lom Ching, aged 26, Unemployed,

scem

However, "Dodsworth," which astute Samuel very, charmed. Queen's Road Central yesterday and was brought before Mr. J. A. Fraser

Leonard Lee who had done. script, Goldwyn rushed through the mill on stealing three packets of mycolnetine, at the Central Magistracy this morn- saw it and thought there were pos- the momentum of the Astor-Thorpe while the salesmen

albilities in it.

He then caught a train back to cane and "Lady from Nowhere," the were engaged, ing, charged with the theft of an caused the appearance of a 30-year- abacus, valued at $1, from Yip Chan, Algonquin hotel in New York. We tracted to make for Columbia,

"He asked to see me at

London. Next morning, Miss Al- the second of three pictures she has 'con-

Inson received a letter. She did Keen at the Central Magistracy this Stres of returning from a yours old unemployed man before Mr. I shop foki, of No. 3 New Market worked over the story together. I

not see Gillespie again, ground

There has been a spectacular de-` neor. An additional

Last month, st Durham Sherlit's morning on a charge of simple lar-

never worked so hard in my life. It mand for Mary Astor pictures na well

awarded are charge of ceny. Defendant admitted the charge perlo of banishment was preferred

was only a short story, but it con- as her short stories since the "Purple Court, she was and pleaded for leniency. Sergeant against him and

vinced me there was no easy path diary" trial; but far-seeing critics damages in a breach of promisc to this, defendant

have held up judgment on the action. to success in writing."!! pleaded guilty. Sentence of a

Stacked on the sheriff's table was rested near the Hongkong Hotel month's hard labour was passed on

The first story was accepted, and permanent effect until Lady from

n huge bundle of love lettera. while trying to

she wrote another, again collaborating Nowhere" is previewed. If that rolls escape. Defen- the charge of larceny, while Lam

This Is the story Miss Allinson with script writer Lee. It was not in gold the way "Dodsworth" did. dant, who had no previous convice was given 11 months for the breach accepted-until the Astor Thorpe Goldwyn wili bire Miss Astor to do teld: Seven years ago Gillespie gave. tions, was sentenced to three weeks' of the Deportation. Ordinance, In- hard labour.

courlight hit the front pages. Then a talking version of "Stella Dallas.her an engagement ring. This year spector Hourihan prosecuted.

a wave of newsworthiness engulfed United Press.

he wrote from Epsom to a minlater

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of the wedding for July 14.

"Better Now Than-"

July He met in Darlington on 9. Came the "very affectionate farewell" after the party on July 12; the letter the following morning. July 13, which read:

Dear Jennie. You must cancel all arrangements for the wedding.

BRITISH WAGE

INCREASES

MARKED ADVANCE

LAST YEAR

London, Jan. 21.

The Minister of Labour informed

I feel I cannot go on with it. the House of Commons at question- am really very ill with it and have time that in.those industries for which neither

slept not eaten since 1 statistics were regularly complied, arrived.

It is very evident there changes in the rates of wages reported is little love left between us. You during the year just, ended were have not and I have not shown estimated to have resulted in a net much affection since I arrived. It increase of £487,000 to workpeople. is better that it should alb. Anish It was estimated that in the now thun that we live a life of hell | Industries for which information was and hypocrisy.

available the average level of wages That is what it would amount to, rose by about threa per cent. during am going away now. Jennie, the period, the largest proportional please try to forgive me, I realise increase in any year since 1924.-—--- the awfulness of what I do, but British Wireless.

H

is better now than for life. Good- bye-Jim.

P.S.-Keep everything I have given you.

Miss Allinson continued thai she collapsed after receiving that letter,

LEAGUE MEETING'

London, Jan. 21. Anthony Eden arrived in

Rapporte Con the

was under medical care for two Geneva "this morning. The League

Council will meetin months.

In contemplation of the wedding bvening to disquse i

had

given up a job she had held the days the for nineteen years, had spent 226 Alexandretta

on

her trousseau At thirty-three: Foreign St

she had little chance, how of m Year with the

a happy marriage, tiss

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